Re: qemu redirecting guest output in terminal

2018-10-26 Thread john doe
On 10/25/2018 8:55 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:20:46PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install Debian, it works if I do use the below command: >> >> qemu -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-9.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d -m 1024 >> >> I'd like to redirec

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:17:31AM +, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Reco! You're welcome. > intel get higher mark than amd That's expected. You need raw CPU power - you buy Intel. > but could you explain a little about your command and bogomips? > i can't find manual about such in

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
There is a "perf" package complementing the linux kernel package, for example if the kernel package is linux-image-4.17.0-3-amd64 the perf package is linux-perf-4.17. Also, take a look at this web page http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html about profiling by Brendan Gregg. Re

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread arne
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:26:13 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:17:31AM +, Long Wind wrote: > > Thank Reco! > > You're welcome. > > > > intel get higher mark than amd > > That's expected. You need raw CPU power - you buy Intel. > You need power buy AMD thr

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:42:53AM +0200, arne wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:26:13 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:17:31AM +, Long Wind wrote: > > > Thank Reco! > > > > You're welcome. > > > > > > > intel get higher mark than amd > >

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread arne
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:54:26 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:42:53AM +0200, arne wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:26:13 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:17:31AM +, Long Wind wrote: > > > > Thank Reco! > > >

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 25/Oct/2018 20:30:27 +0200 Brian wrote: > On Thu 25 Oct 2018 at 19:53:26 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > >> Hi all, >> early this morning a network card burned out. A few hours later, the server >> was not responding on any network address, nor on the system console. I had >> to >> pow

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:23:39AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Thu 25/Oct/2018 20:30:27 +0200 Brian wrote: > > On Thu 25 Oct 2018 at 19:53:26 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> early this morning a network card burned out. A few hours later, the > >> serv

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:36:21PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I put the router back on pool.ntp.org, but had to reboot it to take effect. > > Now this machine shows for ntpq -p: > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ===

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:05:36AM +, Long Wind wrote: > any package that test cpu/system speed and report benchmark? > i have 2 old pc: intel pentium D 2.8 G and amd athlon 64 3800i bought them > from 2nd hand dealers for about same priceso i think they're about same speed The performance of

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Curt
On 2018-10-25, Gene Heskett wrote: > Now this machine shows for ntpq -p: > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter >== > +159.203.158.197 45.33.103.94 3 u 59 643 19.551

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 October 2018 08:26:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:36:21PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I put the router back on pool.ntp.org, but had to reboot it to take > > effect. > > > > Now this machine shows for ntpq -p: > > remote refid st t when pol

Re: qemu redirecting guest output in terminal

2018-10-26 Thread john doe
On 10/26/2018 9:16 AM, john doe wrote: > On 10/25/2018 8:55 PM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:20:46PM +0200, john doe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to install Debian, it works if I do use the below command: >>> >>> qemu -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-9.5.0-amd64-netins

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 October 2018 09:01:50 Curt wrote: > On 2018-10-25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Now this machine shows for ntpq -p: > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay > > offset jitter > > > >==

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:29:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > and it goes out on the net and checks > all servers before ntpq -p is completed, take 5 or 6 seconds to do that, That's DNS resolution. It's looking up the IP addresses so it can report names to you. If you want to skip that, you

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:32:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > I did Fortran programming on VAX/VMS machines back in the 1980's. Its > file versioning feature was a godsend [1][2]. I want that on my Debian > machines. > > 2018-10-25 17:28:29 dpchrist@vstretch ~ > $ apt-cache search vers

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:57:29AM +0300, Reco wrote: Why would you need a *program* to do that then you have Linux kernel already? grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo Anyone reading that advice: ignore it. You cannot use bogomips to meaningfully compare processors. Mike Stone

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-26 06:57, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:05:36AM +, Long Wind wrote: any package that test cpu/system speed and report benchmark? i have 2 old pc: intel pentium D 2.8 G and amd athlon 64 3800i bought them from 2nd hand dealers for about same priceso i think they're

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:44:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: As I'm fond of saying TANSTAAFL. If we all, with multiple machine sites, did this it would make a measureable difference in bandwidth used If people want to set up local ntp servers, great. But just configure the clients with a ser

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:57:29AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Why would you need a *program* to do that then you have Linux kernel > > already? > > > > grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo > > Anyone reading that advice: ignore it.

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:21:41PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-10-26 06:57, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:05:36AM +, Long Wind wrote: > > > any package that test cpu/system speed and report benchmark? > > > i have 2 old pc: intel pentium D 2.8 G and

Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

2018-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 October 2018 09:53:39 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:29:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > and it goes out on the net and checks > > all servers before ntpq -p is completed, take 5 or 6 seconds to do > > that, > > That's DNS resolution. It's looking up the IP addr

Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Many man pages end with: The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command info XYZ should give you access to the complete manual. I have problems with that. 1. I don't want to install unneeded

Re: qemu redirecting guest output in terminal

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:34:55PM +0200, john doe wrote: > >> Run QEMU this way: > >> > >> qemu -hda debian.img -m 1024 -nographic \ > >>-kernel vmlinux -append 'console=ttyS0,115200n8' \ > >>-initrd initrd.gz > >> > >> Replace -kernel, -initrd and -append with '-boot c' after

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 09:41:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Many man pages end with: > > The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the > > info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command > > > > info XYZ > > > > should give you access to

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:34:26PM +0300, Reco wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:57:29AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Why would you need a *program* to do that then you have Linux kernel > already? > > grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo Anyone rea

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:41:54AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Many man pages end with: The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command info XYZ should give you access to the complete manual.

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 09:41:54 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Many man pages end with: > > The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the > > info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command > > > > info XYZ > > > > should give you access to

Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Richard Owlett
*Are online copies of textinfo content available?* Many man pages end with: The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command info XYZ should give you access to the complete manual. I have pro

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 10:46:12 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > *Are online copies of textinfo content available?* https://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.en.html -- Brian.

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Joe
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:27:36 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > > > > The problem is that the server froze. I don't think that's what it > > is supposed to do when a card fails. > > It's my impression too. > A bad peripheral can cause almost any problem. If the bit of the card connecting

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:46:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I posted this question to debian-user@lists.debian.org . The replies totally ignored my primary question and reason I asked [emphasized in this copy]. You seemingly ignored answers which addressed it. Side question: Could I have

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 October 2018 10:41:54 Richard Owlett wrote: > Many man pages end with: > > The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If > > the info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the > > command > > > > info XYZ > > > > should give you access to th

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Long Wind
Thank Greg! is there any general-purpose testing utility? i remember in  early days some program for DOS can report benchmark, (maybe made by nordon?) .  and intel 486 always seems faster than 386. On Friday, October 26, 2018 8:40 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:05

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 26/Oct/2018 11:27:36 +0200 Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:23:39AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> The problem is that the server froze. I don't think that's what it is >> supposed >> to do when a card fails. > > It's my impression too. In general, it is too difficult to know

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/10/2018 à 16:34, Reco a écrit : On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:57:29AM +0300, Reco wrote: grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo Anyone reading that advice: ignore it. You cannot use bogomips to meaningfully compare processors. The re

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:19:58PM +, Long Wind wrote: is there any general-purpose testing utility? i remember in early days some program for DOS can report benchmark, (maybe made by nordon?) . and intel 486 always seems faster than 386. Try something like http://www.cpu-world.com/Compa

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 26, 2018 01:20:36 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > Agreed, a good man page is the best. I've no clue why there seems to be > an aversion to a man page that has to be scrolled to read it all. All of > us have up/down arrows on our keyboards, and 99% have a mouse wheel, so > there is no ex

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:51:16PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 26/10/2018 à 16:34, Reco a écrit : > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:57:29AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > > grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo > > > > > > Anyo

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 13:20:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2018 10:41:54 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Many man pages end with: > > > The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If > > > the info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the

Re: Heck, why did the server freeze?

2018-10-26 Thread Reco
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:38:56PM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Fri 26/Oct/2018 11:27:36 +0200 Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:23:39AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > >> The problem is that the server froze. I don't think that's what it is > >> supposed > >> to do when a card

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 02:12:29PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Just to chime in, my problem with the bash man page is knowing whether a > given > command is a bash built-in or external command -- if built-in, I'll find > information within the man page. > > I usually first look for a sta

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 02:02:06PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:19:58PM +, Long Wind wrote: is there any general-purpose testing utility? i remember in early days some program for DOS can report benchmark, (maybe made by nordon?) . and intel 486 always seems faste

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 11:04:48 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:34:26PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:57:29AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > Why would you need a *program* to do that then

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:47:19PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 11:04:48 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: FWIW, even the kernel doesn't use naive busy loops anymore on newer hardware. (TSC or MWAIT is used, depending on what the processor supports.) I've programmed a "busy loo

make check nested variables

2018-10-26 Thread mlnl
Hi, when i compile something in a tmux or rxvt window, sometimes i get: $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 26, 2018 02:22:32 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 02:12:29PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Just to chime in, my problem with the bash man page is knowing whether a > > given command is a bash built-in or external command -- if built-in, > > I'll find info

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:33:57PM -0400, songbird wrote: what i really need to do is trust and use git commits more but i have a block about some things... *sigh* That's certainly the best way forward in your case. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:32:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Has anybody tried copyfs, fsvs, or anything else with file versioning? I haven't, but I would postulate that if they worked as well as you might hope, we'd all already be using them. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/25/18 7:33 PM, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: ... I did Fortran programming on VAX/VMS machines back in the 1980's. Its file versioning feature was a godsend [1][2]. I want that on my Debian ... what i really need to do is trust and use git commits more but i have a block

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:16:47PM +0300, Reco wrote: As far as I remember, the bogomips number has consistently been twice the current clock frequency on any x86 PCU I have ever run Linux on. Either your math is off, or they've changed it. $ lscpu | egrep '(Vendor|MHz|MIPS)' # This PC Vendo

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > Many man pages end with: >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly >> installed at your site, the command >> >>     info XYZ >> >> should give you access to the complete manual. >

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > sudo apt show XYZ For the record, you don't need to be root to use apt show, or apt-cache show.

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/25/18 7:45 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:32:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Has anybody tried copyfs, fsvs, or anything else with file versioning? In my experience, I have only found a need to version /etc and $HOME (and really only parts of $HOME, as opp

Help with gitlab

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; So far everything I have wanted to get from git has had a button for "download zip file" and everything worked great. I am trying to get a package that doesn't have a download link. Anybody know the secret command to get the source in some usable format? I have tried the regular rt-clk

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/26/18 3:16 PM: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> sudo apt show XYZ > > For the record, you don't need to be root to use apt show, or apt-cache show. > > > Right you are! I guess it has become such a habit I just do it automatica

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Dennis Wicks writes: > Another thing you can try is > sudo apt show XYZ > That will give you a bunch of info including a few lines of > description. Usually enough to decide whether to pursue that > package further. That will give you the complete package description (and sudo is not neede

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/18 6:57 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:32:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I did Fortran programming on VAX/VMS machines back in the 1980's. Its file versioning feature was a godsend [1][2]. I want that on my Debian machines. 2018-10-25 17:28:29 dpchrist@vstret

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > > Many man pages end with: > >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo > >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly > >> installed at your site, the command >

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/18 12:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:32:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Has anybody tried copyfs, fsvs, or anything else with file versioning? I haven't, but I would postulate that if they worked as well as you might hope, we'd all already be using them

Re: Proof of concept: Mailing list "software" without MTA

2018-10-26 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 26, 2018 01:50:22 AM Reco wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:57:04PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: < darn, I lost one of the "citations" -- can't think of the right word -- I think it was Reco who wrote:> > > > It says here what you've used Google's MTA. > > > It even has c

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 26, 2018 05:39:55 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > > > Many man pages end with: > > >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo > > >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 18:02:39 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, October 26, 2018 05:39:55 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > > > > Many man pages end with: > > > >> The full documentation for

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread David
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 at 08:23, David Christensen wrote: Hi, I've noticed that you give a lot of good advice on this list. Now, I hope to return the favour :) ... > When I'm working on a file, I can do ten edit/ saves, or more. With a > versioning file system, the original file plus all the saves

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread David
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 at 06:50, wrote: > On Friday, October 26, 2018 02:22:32 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Use the "type" command to see. > > > > wooledg:~$ type cd > > cd is a shell builtin > > wooledg:~$ type ls > > ls is hashed (/bin/ls) > > Ahh, wonderful -- thank you! See also 'help type' for

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > I'm not the OP, and I don't have an example at hand, but I can vouch > for the same thing, man pages and info containing the same > information, modulo looking a little different. Not always. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: versioning file system

2018-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/18 3:26 PM, David wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 at 08:23, David Christensen wrote: Hi, I've noticed that you give a lot of good advice on this list. Now, I hope to return the favour :) ... Thank you; I try. When I'm working on a file, I can do ten edit/ saves, or more. With a versio

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 26, 2018 06:10:13 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 18:02:39 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > It's probably been 15 years since I bothered looking at an info page -- > > maybe there are no more duplicate man and info pages -- but I don't > > believe that. > > You can v

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 10:46:12 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > *Are online copies of textinfo content available?* > > Many man pages end with: > > The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the > > info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread David
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 at 02:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Side question: > Could I have made any clearer what information I was looking for? Yes. 1) Regardless of your expectations, experience repeatedly confirms that readers of large volumes of email messages are very likely to read and process t

Re: Help with gitlab

2018-10-26 Thread John Crawley
On 27/10/2018 05.20, Dennis Wicks wrote: Anybody know the secret command to get the source in some usable format? I always use 'git ' directly. Install it from the Debian repos if necessary. On GitLab there's usually a box with the git url, but it's probably just https://gitlab.com/username/re