RE: [techtalk] KFM weirdness.

1999-12-06 Thread Ian Phillips
>>Slightly dissapointingly, it actually stands for "Kool". >You mean the K in KDE or KFM? It doesn't stand for anything... I meant the K in KDE, which origonally stood for Kool back in the very early days of the project (version 0.1-ish), shortly after this, way before 1.0 came out, the "Kool" w

Re: [techtalk] Bourne Shell Programming and Awk

1999-12-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Cat wrote: [snip] > LIST=`ls -l $DIR | awk '{print \$9}'` I think you'll just have to leave the backslash out. The awk command is already in single quotes, so the $9 will go to awk unencumbered. That's my guess at least :-) Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Strasse 39 / D

Re: [techtalk] Slackware and RPM

1999-12-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~ > > extract packages. > > Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM archives. > >

[techtalk] file transfer question

1999-12-06 Thread Emily Cartier
Ok, this is a case of "I know what I want to do, so what is the best way to do it?". I'm up to two machines that run linux at least some of the time. Neither can do 'net access under Linux at the moment, but one can do it under Win95. I have a nice long list of things that need to be updated, and

[techtalk] Fw: Modprobe soundcore

1999-12-06 Thread Scott Howell
- Original Message - From: Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 12:21 PM Subject: Modprobe soundcore Dear all; I want to get sound running on my notebook computer, and I found this page at http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/ that had a

Re: [techtalk] Slackware and RPM

1999-12-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] Slackware an.. by Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unless you count perl as a normal unix tool. On > http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio you can see how to grab the cpio.gz > out of the rpm in perl -- rpm is just a cpio.gz with a header. Well, technical

Re: [techtalk] Fw: Modprobe soundcore

1999-12-06 Thread Tamara Thompson
I've got RH too, look in /sbin for modprobe. when you get the command not found message, you can try find / -name command-name -print do it as root for access to all directories you can type /sbin/modprobe from your current directory to run the command. >>> "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [techtalk] file transfer question

1999-12-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Dec-99 [techtalk] file transfer qu.. by Emily [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, this is a case of "I know what I want to do, so what is the best way > to do it?". I'm up to two machines that run linux at least some of the > time. Neither can do 'net access under Linux at the mome

Re: [techtalk] Fw: Modprobe soundcore

1999-12-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Scott Howell wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^ I knew the .com domain would be confused with us sooner or later. [snip] > tar -zxf ~/maestro-*.tar.gz > cd maestro-* > modprobe s

[techtalk] Reminder

1999-12-06 Thread deb
=== The LinuxChix List Reminder === This is my standard "form-email" that I post to the LinuxChix lists every so often. The following are descriptions of the various mailing lists that are part of the LinuxChix community. I ask that everyone scan