On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Edenyard wrote:
> Thanks for the clues, Steve. 'reset' certainly seems to work in
> clearing the screen, but it doesn't change the @s back into spaces or
> the box-drawing characters back into text that I can read.
Did you try the RH/SuSE version of reset? That works for me
when the screen is full of garbage.
> However, I
> discovered this morning that if I get xterm up in X and type
> 'shutdown -r now' in that, then X shuts down and there's normal text on
> the screen while the system is going down. That isn't the case if I come
> out of X by ctrl-alt-BS and then type shutdown at the normal prompt.
Strange.
> Anyway - this may all become history soon. I've taken on board your
> comments about the age of Slackware 3.5 and acquired Redhat 7.1 to try.
> I have another machine to install that on, so I can compare the two side
> by side.
I generally run the last version of a series.
I don't know if RH 7.1 is quite ready for prime-time
yet, so I'm sticking with RH 6.2 at least until RH 8.0
comes out. At that time I'll probably upgrade to
the last RH 7.x.
> > Usually people on alt.os.linux and/or comp.os.linux are pretty
> > decent. Depending on your news server you can also find one or
> > more which are specific to Slack, for instance, my news server
> > carries these:
> > alt.os.linux.slackware
> > mailing-list.slackware
> Unfortunately, of course, Arachne doesn't do newsgroups, so I'm a bit
> stuffed there. I'll look forward to the luxury of those when I (finally)
> get Linux conected via netscape or something.
I use fetchnews to grab the newsgroups I want via nntp,
and then slrn is my client of choice for reading and
writing.
You CAN use Arachne, at the very least, for READING
newsgroups, and Arachne SHOULD be able to post via google.
Start at http://groups.google.com/
I've gone through the registration process, and it
seems to have gone as expected, but I haven't gotten
a return e-mail yet with details on how to post.
- Steve
