Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-21 Thread Barry Miller
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:09:49AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > >> ?Talk about learning C Programming and the K&R book being a good one. ?Is > >> this the book? > >> > >> http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/0131103628

Re: Differences between www.openbsd.org and openbsd.org

2010-05-19 Thread Barry Miller
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:16:54PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > [...] > The server openbsd.org is actually cvs.openbsd.org, > that is the main machine in Theo's basement. > Nobody should ever use that one for anything. > It has whatever data Theo sees fit for whatever > purpose, sometimes for test

Re: /usr directory: a system or user place?

2010-05-01 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:52:54PM +0200, Harrell wrote: > Is "usr" an abbreviation of "user"? ... just for curiosity, what is > the origin of this directory name? Your question has already been answered, but in case you are looking for documentation, here's Dennis Ritchie (as in K&R C)in the 197

Re: [OT] making Firefox respect telnet:// URLs

2007-11-11 Thread Barry Miller
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:32:05PM +0100, ropers wrote: > xterm -e "telnet ${1##telnet://}" > > When I click a telnet URL that does not specify a port, it works, > xterm launches with telnet, which duly connects to the port. > > However, if I click a telnet URL that *does* specify a port, it does

Re: Any Ethereal, Wireshark related software in 4.2 ports?

2007-11-11 Thread Barry Miller
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:13:42PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Both > > http://www.wireshark.org/ and http://www.wireshark.org/ > > are not found in ports. Could somebody recommend any softwarew in 4.2 > ports that has related functionality? > If you don't mind building wireshark yourself, one w

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Barry Miller
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:42:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: > > I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in > > the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. > [...] > So, it may be worth someone with an affected

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:51:25PM -0700, kim wrote: > When the CD that I burned booted up, I got a message at boot: > "/etc/boot.conf too large" But that came from cdboot, right? I don't think the rest of us in this thread are getting that far.

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:01:04PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > > Has anyone else had problems booting the 4.2 CD? Here's another "can read the CD but not boot from it" machine: OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #1435: Sat Mar 10 19:07:45 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:01:04PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > A couple of friends have been wanting to try out OpenBSD 4.2 on their > machines, but the 4.2 disk will not boot whereas the 4.1 disk will. [...] > Has anyone else had problems booting the 4.2 CD? And is there a workaround? I have the