On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:33:16PM -0700, Lothan wrote:
> I just wanna know which marketeer came up with the nondescript term "biscuit
> jack" for a simple surface-mount phone jack. It doesn't look anything like a
> biscuit to me.
I dunno, that doesn't sound like marketer-speech to me. That so
I have a problem that is driving me up a wall.
It's not Linux-related, or even FreeBSD. It's actually on my Solaris
box, which runs on Sun hardware, a Sparc Classic.
I have two identical keyboards for this thing. They both have this weird
caps lock problem. It's not normal caps lock - the lig
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:17:07PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Amanda Babcock wrote:
> > Does anybody know how to make vi pass control characters through instead
> > of showing them as hex numbers?
>
> IIRC, type ^V before the character. (EG: ^V^C)
>
&g
Does anybody know how to make vi pass control characters through instead
of showing them as hex numbers?
Thanks!
Amanda
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I'm getting jealous of all the folks on Motley Fool that use Quicken.
This is the first time that missing out on something Windows-ish has
actually made me seriously reconsider my Unix-only lifestyle. Actually,
it has only driven me far enough to consider running a windows emulator :)
Or, one of
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Lilly S. wrote:
>Does anyone know of a good website/tutorial and/or books for how to make
>CGI/PERL talk to a MySQL database? I don't need to do any complicated
>things right now just add records, delete records, and do some basic
>searching.
I love the tutorial on http://w
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Sean McAfee wrote:
>Allow me to suggest a much shorter alternative:
>
>perl -i -pe 'tr/\015//d' file1 file2 ...
Actually, the key part of Christian's script is even shorter:
>> then cat $1 | tr -d "\015" > $1
In other words, cat file1 | tr -d "\015" > file2. I think this
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Deb Richardson wrote:
>It appears that someone has subscribed techtalk to a moderated list at
>egroups.com.
I thought that someone had subscribed the moderated egroups list to
techtalk. As evidence, so far only people who have posted to one of the
linxchix lists (techtalk I
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Phil Savoie wrote:
>I have a question with regards to od. In Solaris, the command "od -c ."
>will give ascii representation to the file names that are held by the
>directory. In RH6.1 this same command does not work the same way. I have
>to use the following "od -c *"
