Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:10:51 +0100
Once again, apologies for replying to a thread over a week late. :-|
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor)
Did you read the first post of this thread? Three hours spent
fighting with Unix to do something exceedingly simple and
straightforward,
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:42:20 +0100, Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[snip]
You might also want to change your shell to something less
squirmily haveanicedayish than tcsh. chsh is the command to
do the change; bash is pretty reasonable though my fave back
when I was using Unix a lot
I. Oppenheim writes:
| On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote:
|
|PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
|export PATH
|
| No Jack, that's bourne shell syntax!!!
| A day ago I gave the correct solution for tcsh in a
| separate posting.
...
| At the moment, bash is the de facto
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:29:11PM +, John Chambers wrote:
This is much of why unix users haven't generally switched
over to full-time GUI use. Pretty pictures are fun and
flashy, but if you actually want to accomplish something
without constantly gritting your teeth about the
[attempting to housetrain a Unix system]
So I type
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
echo $PATH
and it says
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:
No good.
Try
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
You might also want to change your shell to
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote:
Try
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
No Jack, that's bourne shell syntax!!!
A day ago I gave the correct solution for tcsh in a
separate posting.
You might also want to change your shell to something less
squirmily
A little light entertainment...
I thought it was time I installed abcm2ps on my Macs. I already
have it on a PC, but I don't often use that machine, and it would
be much nicer to have it where I work.
Downloaded it and double-clicked the .pkg file, went through the
installer without any
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Phil Taylor wrote:
So, you guys who choose to work in unix, what do you
do when faced with a task where you know exactly what
you are trying to do, but nothing works, over and
over?
Then you ask one of your friends on the internet for a
little guidance!
So hear it
I. Oppenheim wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Phil Taylor wrote:
So, you guys who choose to work in unix, what do you
do when faced with a task where you know exactly what
you are trying to do, but nothing works, over and
over?
Then you ask one of your friends on the internet for a
little
