Re: Using Which Version of Linux

2005-11-05 Thread Rod Haper
Dan M wrote: > > Personally I would recommend staying away from Fedora unless you have a > friend who is well-versed in it and willing to help. I like the > distributin ok (I run it on the laptop I'm writing this from) but it uses > RPMs for package distribution, and the rpm tools don't know how t

Re: Best book on Python?

2004-12-12 Thread Rod Haper
Michael McGarry wrote: I have many years of programming experience and know a little bit of Tcl. I am looking for a book to detail on the features including GUI in a reference style. Given that you have some acquaintance with Tcl, if you want a reference that caters toward GUI programming in Pyt

Re: Viewing Binary Data

2006-01-08 Thread Rod Haper
Paul Watson wrote: > Cuyler wrote: > >> I would like to display a file in its binary form (1s and 0s), but I'm >> having no luck... Any thoughts would be most appreciated. > > > If you are on a UNIX system, or on Windows with Cygwin, you can use the > 'od' command to dump a file in hex or octal