> I also TRY to alias ls -la to dir and it IGNORES me. <G>
In BASH, this should work:
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alias dir='ls -al'
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> I have Pygmy06 also, which has pine. I would like to
> transport pine to Pygmy07, but I have no idea how one
> determines what files belong to what application.
Most systems keep a record of where a package's files
were installed. In Slackware it's in /var/log/packages.
I don't know whether Pygmy does this, but it's worth
a look.
My installation of pine installed these files:
/usr/bin/pine
/usr/bin/pico
/usr/sbin/imapd
/usr/sbin/ipop3d
/usr/doc/pine/brochure.txt
/usr/doc/pine/mailcap.unx
/usr/man/man1/pine.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/pico.1.gz
/usr/man/man8/imapd.8.gz
/usr/man/man8/ipopd.8.gz
However, you can't simply transfer these files from
Pygmy06 to Pygmy07 and expect them to work. You need
to check that Pygmy07 provides the libraries that your
version of pine (in Pygmy06) requires. To find out:
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ldd pine
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and check that the listed libraries are available in
Pygmy07 (probably in /lib).
> rcs (what's that?)
They are like the config.sys and autoexec.bat files in
DOS.
> So, how does one a) delete an application, and b) transport one ?
If your distribution has a package manager, just tell it
which package to delete and it will remove all the files.
If you don't have a package manager, then you will have to
manually remove each of the files.
The simplest way to transport files from A to B is:
(1) boot A
(2) mount B (use NFS if A and B are on different computers)
(3) copy from /xxx/yyy/zzz to /mnt/xxx/yyy/zzz
Alternatively, you can copy from A to temporary storage
(eg. floppy disk) and then to B.
> I have loaded Arachne1.66 into Pygmy07
> and it (Arachne) has accepted it's surroundings.
> Any idea how I might invoke it ?
All my systems use libc5, so I have never had Arachne
running on Linux. Normally, I would expect 'arachne'
to invoke it, but that's up to Michael.
Cheers,
Steven
