Bastian, Thanks for the response. I have actually pulled down the printtool utility to see about doing some Man pages for it. I will also take a look at the xt package you suggest, thanks. I hope this isn't the wrong way to go about things but interests here are two-fold. By doing grunt work, programming, man pages whatever, I hope to improve my Linux skills in general. I also hope to become a useful member of the open-source (Debian in particular) community. Unfortunately I "grew up"/work in an M$ environment so my exposure to Linux is limited to what I do on my own. Added some other comments inline just FYI...
Thanks again! >Barry, I don't know exactly your programming experience, but to develop >something useful in Unix/Linux, and especially developing packages >for Debian you must at least be familiar with the following tools: > >- - the 'bash' shell Definetely need more work in this area. >- - the 'man' program to read documentation (lots of documentation) No problem here. >- - the 'make' utility for Makefiles (for example the debian/rules file > is a Makefile) Definetely need work here. >- - the programming language (Perl, C, etc) in which the package is written I have been looking at Python in the last few days but C still remains the language I most want to get a firm grip on. Unfortunately I work in an M$ world so the majority of my experience has been in VB, ASP, VBScript, and some Javascript. I have done some Cobol, Fortran, and RPG on the AS/400 but C/C++ has always been where I want to go. Unfortunately I'm a tactil type of person so I don't learn well by reading, taking classes etc. I need to dig in and see what's going on so it becomes somewhat of a double edged sword!! :-) >If you dont know one of the above points, start learning them. >There are numerous tutorials about these tools on the web, and >it is always good to ask a local (ie. in your office) Linux guru for >help. Unfortunately I AM the Linux guru in my office!!! :-) > >> this might be difficult to do. id say just try something, and if it is >> too difficult, ask for help, or move on to something else. > >I am suggesting the xtraceroute package 'xt'. It is written in >C and has some bugs to fix, notably catching error conditions. > >Cheers, >- -- > Bastian Kleineidam Thanks again for the suggestions!! Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell
