Linux-Misc Digest #395, Volume #20 Sat, 29 May 99 09:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluat (NEWS)
Re: choosing an OS for a (NEWS)
fetchmailconf stopped wor (NEWS)
Re: first/second/third wo (NEWS)
Re: Help changing video d (NEWS)
Re: Large CD-ROM file err (NEWS)
Re: Memory Allocation Iss (NEWS)
Re: Iomega products and L (NEWS)
Real Player G2 (NEWS)
Re: RPM Libraries/CVS Que (NEWS)
Re: Large CD-ROM file err (NEWS)
Re: Netscape crashes and (NEWS)
Re: RH6.0 & General Linux (NEWS)
kernel error at boot (NEWS)
Re: Starting X at boot-up (NEWS)
Re: core dump (NEWS)
Re: Large CD-ROM file err (NEWS)
NFS Server in Linux 2.0 (NEWS)
Re: Commercially speaking (NEWS)
Re: awk in vi on Redhat 5 (NEWS)
LOCAL: Linux User Group o (NEWS)
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluat
Date: 27 May 1999 17:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris Aiken wrote:
> >>
> >> I downloaded 4.6 from Netscape in the form of a gzipped tarball file.
> >> I installed in my /opt directory w/o any problems at all. I edited the
> >> /bin/netscape script to point to my new version being careful not to
> >> destroy the old version. It works great! No problems so far. It
> >> seems to be a bit faster that 4.51 but who knows. I did pick up
> >> new bookmarks and address books from my .netscape directory.
> >>
> > You must not have gone on java sites yet!
>
> > My netscape goes in a warp hole here, I have RedHat 6.0
>
> I've been to all the java sites I used to visit with netscape 4.51 and
> there were no probs with 4.6
>
> No considerable difference though. I just like to keep to the latest
> version although sometimes that's not necessarily a good idea.
>
> What problems are you having with java sites?
>
As soon as it is to start loading java stuff netscape vanishes and leaves only
a lock file. It basically kills netscape. If I go back to Netscape 4.5 it loads
the java stuff but eventually crashes netscape.
I have RedHat 6.0 with 40M of RAM, two swap partitions of 64M and lotsa hard disk
space.
300-400M, I have a Cyrix 686 230Mhz.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a
Date: 28 May 1999 04:47 GMT
Did RedHat fix mouse support for ELCs? I successfully loaded RedHat 5.1
Sparc but the mouse never worked (tried both model 4 optical and model 5
mechanical) Is it worth it to move to 5.2?
Kevin C. Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Pete ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
> : Sound like a Sun Sparcstation ELC or SLC. Recommendable:
>
> : - RedHat Linux 5.2 Sparc
> : - or older Solaris Relase (2.5.1)
>
> : I would take RedHat Linux into closer consideration. I am using it on my
Sun
> : Sparcstation 2 and my ELC. Runs fine, but 32 megs are recommenable,
> : espacially if you want to run Netscape which is a real memhog
>
> I am also running RedHat 5.2 on my ELC with 16MB. I can't complain, I'm
> running afterstep at a usable pace. Although, netscape does indeed tend to
> be slow, but I can live with it.
>
> Just be weary of RedHat's Sparc docs, they don't appear to have been
> updated in a while. Also, there's a definate possiblility that the NVRAM
> has gone dead on it (like mine). If this is the case, you can get around
> it without actually replacing the nvram. You can find out how to do this
> somewhere in www.sunhelp.com, or just ask me.
> --
>
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fetchmailconf stopped wor
Date: 27 May 1999 07:02 GMT
I have been having some weird problems recently, one of which is man
<cmd> spitting out that groff is not a directory and such, explained
further in (two :( previous posts..
I've also noticed that fetchmailconf does not work under my normal
userid, but it does work under root.
python </usr/bin/fetchmailconf does indeed work under my normal userid.
The error reported is:
env: python: Not a directory
Under root it executes fine, but only if root is the login, su doesn't
change the problem.
Perhaps this will lead to a fix to my other problems.. I can't begin to
imagine what I've done to make this stuff break. I have a pretty clean
install of RedHat 5.2, and I've certainly not done any big chmoding of
files, no rm -r's in the wrong places, etc..
I'd really like to get my system working properly again!
Thanks!
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat 5.2
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: first/second/third wo
Date: 28 May 1999 10:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Richard Kulisz wrote:
> >>And no, the USSR was never a first-world nation. It used to be third-
> >
> >'Second-world'? Surely that would be the same as 'new world', ie
> >America?
>
> US, Western Europe and Canada are First World. East Block (including
> Italy IIRC) used to be Second World but they're now back to Third World.
^^^^^
Was Italy supposed to be part of the East Block or of the second
world? :)
Besides, I'm not sure that, say, Slovenia or the Czech Republic could
be considered third world.
Why are we having this discussion?
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help changing video d
Date: 28 May 1999 10:47 GMT
On Thu, 27 May 1999 13:34:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As you can tell I am very new to Linux. I originally had a 2MB S3 video
>card in my Linux machine. I have up graded it to a 4MB S3 video card.
>How do I change the driver? Currently, I am difficulty exiting X
>Windows and my boss thought it might be due to the new video card. When
>Linux starts up, no problem, all the words seem fine. If I go to X
>Windows everything is still fine, even in XTerm. But once I exit from X
>Windows, all the words on the screen are "garbled" up. The letters are
>out of order but linux is still working fine. If I type telnet or
>startx, those respective programs run fine. If I use telnet it will
>work however the words are still garbled. If I return to X Windows then
>evrything is fine, even in XTerm, until I exit again. So the only way
>for me to work in a true linux environment without X Windows, is when I
>first start up. I apoligize for the length of this message and will
>truely appreciate any advise on my problem, be it a video driver or not.
Do you mean you see strange characters instead of the normal text?
After you get back to text mode, try typing in - very carefully
(since you cant see what you're doing):
echo ^V^O <enter>
where the ^V is a Ctrl-Vm the ^O is a Ctrl-O.
If this doesnt fix it, I have misunderstood your question.
If it does, I dont really see how a video card upgrade should
cause this problem!
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large CD-ROM file err
Date: 28 May 1999 11:17 GMT
Mark Tranchant wrote:
>
> I got a friend to burn the StarOffice 5.1 download onto a CD-R for me
> rather than taking it home on 51 floppies. This CD-R was burned under
> Windows 95, with a file name of so51_lnx_01.tar (note: a long file
> name!).
>
> On getting home, I booted up Linux (2.2.9, with full CD support
> including Joliet compiled in) and tried to copy the 70.6MB file.
> However, Linux could only see the first 16MB or thereabouts. The copy
> succeeded and tar de-archived the file fine up to the truncation.
>
> So I tried DOS (7.0), which saw it as many files of about 650KB each,
> all with the same name. Argh!
>
> Windows 95 read it correctly and copied it fine, although it took *ages*
> (about 20 minutes on a 486DX4/120 with 24x EIDE drive).
Was this done on the same machine (i.e. the same CDROM drive)
as the one running Linux? The fact that it takes a long time to
read this cd in windows might suggest that it
is more or less defect. Maybe some drives are better for error
correction,
maybe windows allows for more retries...
I have seen many examples of problems with homeburned cd's, some won't
be read by some cdrom drives, and some will.
Mogens
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Allocation Iss
Date: 27 May 1999 09:17 GMT
In article <095r5y6p#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Stefan Knabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I had a similar problem (kernel 2.2.5, SuSE 6.1) when I ran the
> QT-example-program dragdrop.
> This program contains an infinite recursion. This caused the X-Server
to
> crash and I couldn't shutdown Linux anymore.
Yes, although my particular problem was data, I can see it would apply
equally well to stack space. I tried your code and my little patch
seems to solve that as well, you can still login as root and kill the
process.
>
> Well, one can avoid this by delimiting the stack via ulimit -s .
> But it means, that Linux doesn't handle memory shortage gracefully.
I also tried using ulimit -d, but as you say, this is far from ideal.
> Overcommited memory seems to be disabled, because cat
> /proc/sys/vm/overcommited_memory says 0, but I'm not sure that this is
> really the case.
Allowing memory overcommit makes the problem worse, because an
application can allocate memory but then find it is not actually there
when it tries to use it. If you want to set this option, you can simply
perform:
echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommited_memory
Paul.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega products and L
Date: 28 May 1999 04:32 GMT
ljb> I did a search on www.iomega.com for "linux" - one hit, a document which
ljb> said something like: "The backup software is not available for Linux..."
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Real Player G2
Date: 28 May 1999 02:47 GMT
Have downloaded and installed Real Player G2 . The program opens up
but it does nothing. I even tried Real Payer 5.0 and that program
insisted on saving a file. Am I doing something wrong ? or it the
program that is not configured to run properly without missing with it.
Any replies would be appreciated.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM Libraries/CVS Que
Date: 28 May 1999 13:32 GMT
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm thinking of installing a CVS version of a program...and this, in
> general requires the absolute latest versions of sets of libraries (not
> in general supported but the actual developers?...or am I off on
> this?). Are these daily newest libraries a good idea to install or are
> they considered dangerously unstable?
I doubt anyone can answer this in general since it depends on the quality
control of the library's author.
> Secondly, when one tries to install a given RPM file and it
> comes back saying:
>
> libORBit.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9beta1.1-19990519cvs1
> libORBitCosNaming.so.0 is needed by
> x11amp-0.9beta1.1-19990519cvs1
> libart_lgpl.so.2 is needed by x11amp-0.9beta1.1-19990519cvs1
> libgnome.so.32 is needed by x11amp-0.9beta1.1-19990519cvs1
>
> etc., say.
>
> How does one know where to get the rpm's that contain
> these libraries (or at least the names of the rpms that contain
> them)?
A good place to start is an RPM archive that uses rpmfind, for example:
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
When you select a specific rpm it shows you Provides and Requires lists
which are hyperlinked. Click on a dependency and it shows you what
packages provide it. For example:
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/libORBit.so.0.html
I don't know if this will get you everything you need but it's a lot better
than archie searches.
-Tom
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large CD-ROM file err
Date: 28 May 1999 07:17 GMT
[Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > Well, thanks for the effort, but to quote myself: "I booted up
> > Linux 2.2.9, with full CD support including Joliet compiled in)"
[brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> And precisely how does Joliet handle such things as owners,
> permissions, symlinks and other features of a typical Unix
> filesystem? We won't even get into how device files would work on a
> Joliet CD.
Of course. You wouldn't expect Microsoft to come up with something as
useful as Rock Ridge, now, would you? *They* don't have any use for
symlinks....
> You don't want to burn it in Joliet: sure, Linux will read it, but it
> will be missing important things like symlinks and (probably why it
> doesn't work) device files.
Bzzzt ... he burned a single 70MB tarfile, not a whole directory tree.
(Read the original post.) The issue is that Linux shows a truncated
(16MB) file instead of the whole thing. Needless to say, Windoze sees
the CD the way it wrote it.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes and
Date: 27 May 1999 17:32 GMT
"Ahh Umm..." wrote:
>
> Well I'm not using RH 6.0, but you're probably better off unistalling
> Netscape 4.6 and using something like 4.08 which is known to be more
> stable. Also, by default RH configures their systems to trap the
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combinations. Look at
> /etc/inittab for instance.
> To allow/disallow networking connections you usually have to edit
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. They should already exist and have
> explanatory text on editing them.
>
Hi,
Thanks for you reply.
I have all the above items configured right as a matter of fact and I'm
sure that it's not netscape directly responsible for the hang. It might
have
triggered it, though.
I mean a *complete* lockup. No response to keyboard, mouse, net
connection,
etc. It even doesn't response to ping.
Come to think of it, I don't think I had this kind of lockups before I
added
a second NIC. Beginning to suspect tulip driver.... or my cheap PNIC
cards...
Thanks.
Do-Hoon Kwon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0 & General Linux
Date: 28 May 1999 02:32 GMT
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Michael Olsen wrote:
> Since 6.0 and GNOME has a warning about using the ROOT account I decided
> that I will try to create an account for myself and stop using the root
> as my primary login acct.
Good idea.
> Now I know to do some functions you have to do the su from the prompt
> but what I can not figure out is why from a prompt I can not do
[snip description of /sbin not in path]
Add /sbin to the PATH environment variable or prepend the program name
with the full path.
> I have noticed a lot in linux that you have to do the ./ before the
> command/program.
This is because . [current directory] is not in the PATH environment
variable. This is for security reasons. (Say your in /tmp deleting some
files with rm and someone has put a trojan horse in /tmp called rm then
that rm may be executed. This is most critical for root users. For
ordinary users it might not matter.)
> Why is this/how do I fix it.. and can ANYONE point me to some good FAQ's
> about why to use an account rather than the root acct and how to get
> around without using the root acct.
The PATH variable needs to be set in configuration file that is run for
interactive shells otherwise it gets clobbered everytime you start new new
shell (eg when you use su or start an xterm). The configuration file is
/etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc.
David
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel error at boot
Date: 28 May 1999 12:17 GMT
Hi,
at boot time I get this kernel message:
May 26 12:17:47 [hostname] kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
May 26 12:17:47 [hostname] kernel: Error adding kernel module table
entry.
My kernel is a custom 2.2.3 on a redhat 5.2 installation. I have had it
since two months but I don't remember seeing these errors. I also use the
smbfs and 3c59x loadable modules. These services work correctly.
The system comes up and seems to work as it should, but only apparently...
some operations as root do not work (possibly other stuff). For instance,
httpd does not seem to respond to connections. Nothing in the log files.
If I open an xterm, su root, then open another xterm, this hangs. All
programs that need to open a window hang likewise if run as root, but
otherwise seem to work fine (e.g. emacs -nw works but emacs does not).
When such things happen I see a "[date] [hostname] kernel: khm" in the
logs and on the console. I had no luck in finding out what this error
means.
On possibility is that I screwed up permissions on some files, I did a
"chmod [something] /* " instead of "chmod [something] ./*" roughly when
the problems first appeared, and it went on a few seconds before I
interrrupted it. Then I did a rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` to repair the
thing. This wouldn't affect my kernel since it is not installed as an rpm
package. But I don't know where to start to find out is some permissions
are wrong, given the symptoms I see and the fact that I don't understand
the boot and log errors...
I would really appreciate some help since I pretty lost here.
Thanks to everyone,
Stefano
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting X at boot-up
Date: 27 May 1999 16:32 GMT
Mei wrote:
>
> Michel wrote:
> >
> > Matthew Bafford wrote:
> >
> > > : 3. Are there any potential security compromises associated with booting
> > > : directly into X.
> > >
> > > This just gives an graphical login prompt.
> > >
> >
> > + give you the opportunities to have a rich vocabulary of swear words when
> > it dies and you can't load another X. The safest way is to boot on the
> > console. It just take a few seconds to run startx
> >
>
> ...you can't load anoter X?!?! What does it mean? If X dies you can
> however restart it. You can also start more X at the same time.
>
> Ciao Mei
KDE has always refused to load if it thought that it was still running which happens
if it has a little shit around that just won't die. It was perhaps a bug in KDE or
X not setup correctly. Rebooting was the only alternative I've found. I think it's
the graphic login program of KDE that caused the problems I had.
Anyhow what is so hard about typing startx?
On the subject of X, how do you load more than one instance. I've been told to stick
it when I try.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: core dump
Date: 28 May 1999 12:17 GMT
On Fri, 28 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Getting familure with Linux (RH 5.2), tried to
> look at the memory allocation in memory. I found
> "/dev/mem" and tried to read the file with 'joe',
> It was unreadable. Exited 'joe' and got a report
> of 'dump' or core dump'. I found "core" file in
> my root directory. Illedgable with any editor I
> use. "core" file is greater than 5 megs.
>
> Question:
> 1. What did I do wrong?
Don't look at /dev/mem. It's a device file, not a real file. What you
are trying to to is load the contents of memory into an editor, which
will, of course, change those contents...
The core dump is a copy of the important bits of memory dumped by the
kernel after joe went haywire. Just delete it.
If you want memory information on a high level, use the command "free".
On a per-process basis, look at the manual for "ps", or run "top".
If you're just looking around do this as a normal user, not root. You'll
save yourself grief.
Mark.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large CD-ROM file err
Date: 28 May 1999 12:17 GMT
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Was this done on the same machine (i.e. the same CDROM drive)
> as the one running Linux? The fact that it takes a long time to
> read this cd in windows might suggest that it
> is more or less defect. Maybe some drives are better for error
> correction,
> maybe windows allows for more retries...
>
> I have seen many examples of problems with homeburned cd's, some won't
> be read by some cdrom drives, and some will.
>
Yes, all read attempts were on the same machine. Linux read the
truncated first 16MB very quickly (for my machine) to disk, with no
problems and no apparent retries. tar unarchived it quite happily up to
the cutoff point, so there was no data corruption.
It didn't sound defective. I have had disks that force retries, and you
can hear the lens tracking backwards and forwards. This disk just read a
bit, waited for a bit, read a bit more, etc. I monitored the file system
read/write with System Monitor - it was "pulsing" at about 500KB/s
briefly about once every two seconds, and eventually (20 minutes later)
completed successfully - StarOffice installed perfectly. CPU utilization
was at 100% throughout the operation. My Windows CD-ROM performance is
usually better than that, holding a steady 800KB/s or so, rather than
the 60KB/s of this transfer.
Mark.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS Server in Linux 2.0
Date: 27 May 1999 18:32 GMT
I'm not sure if this is right forum but:
I'm trying to set up a NFS server on my linux machine for AIX users to
access.
I've set up my hosts.deny and hosts.allow as per documention. I've also
inserted the two lines according to the nfs howto doc into inetd.conf like
this:
mount/1-2 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd rpc.mountd
mount/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd rpc.mountd
I've created my export file that looks like this:
#
/home/public (rw,insecure,all_squash)
#
note: I only made one entry now for testing and i'm not worried about the
security as yet until I get it working. (our system is inside a tight
security firewall) I will change this as soon as I see it working.
Portmapper runs and I do get a list with rpcinfo -p. Which is:
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
100005 1 udp 747 mountd
100005 2 udp 747 mountd
100005 1 tcp 747 mountd
100005 2 tcp 747 mountd
now, I get this, when I issue the rpc.mountd with the -P 747 for port and
the command line (doing this manual, for inetd doesn't seem to want to work,
even with running the exportfs file).
If I issue both rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd after portmapper is installed
without any port designation it assigns the mountd randomly and never at 745
udp and 747 tcp. Is there a way to do this?
Regardless of having the ports assigned, I get an RPC error (connection
refused) when trying a local mount (I added localhost:/mnt/test (rw) to my
exports file and killed the processes and restarted them manually).
I have gone to a unix machine as root (hosts.allow is set for net address
level like 192.168.0.0.), and tried to mount also with the scenarios
mentioned above. I've read and read documents, so is there anyone out there
that may help me out on this?
thank you much if you can.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking
Date: 28 May 1999 02:32 GMT
gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is nothing wrong with writing commercial applications for linux
> just so long as you do not copy / use / base any code on the *source*
> *code* of a GPL program. There is *nothing* wrong with using a GPL
> program for what it is desiged for.
Be careful here ...
A library, if under GPL (not LGPL) can not be linked with a commercial
app - yet linking with it is exactly what every library is designed
for, and does not require source code (except headers).
Of course, you were talking about programs only, which libraries
aren�t.
I personally think that libraries under GPL suck - simply on the
basis that linking with libraries is just normal use of libraries
(there�s simply no other use for libraries than linking an app with
it). I can see the "eithical", "GNU/FSF enthusiast" point though, but I
think LGPL was good enough.
Kind regards,
--
Thomas Boroske
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: awk in vi on Redhat 5
Date: 28 May 1999 14:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Phil Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone explain what is failing to happen here?
>When I try to edit a DOS file -- ie one with \r\n at the
>end of each line -- in vi I do not see the ^Ms at the end
>of the line, but I know they are there! This is presumably
>a vi issue. However, when I use this command at the
>colon prompt:
This is a vim feature.
try do:
:set ffs? ff?
You are supposed to be able to set file type to unix and store the
file contents without trailing ^M characters. Or add the ^M character
if you set file type to dos.
Villy
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux User Group o
Date: 28 May 1999 10:17 GMT
WHAT:
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LUGOD: The Linux User Group of Davis
WHEN:
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Monday, May 31st, 1999
6:30pm
WHERE:
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Roundtable Pizza
2151 Cowell Blvd., Suite A
Davis, CA 95616
530-753-1883
WHY:
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Topics will include:
* Introduction to new members
* News and open forum
* Committess:
UCD RESNET HOWTO: Final Draft
UCD-PPP HOWTO: Final Draft (again)
Social Tax Exempt Group Status
Highschool Project
LUGOD Logo
Ambassador to other LUGs
* SPEAKERS:
Zach Johnson
Hardware/OS in the UC Davis Mathematics Dept.
Peter Salzman
Hardware/OS in the UC Davis Physics Dept.
* Topics:
Installfest Aftermath
Linux Demo Day
Changes to the Constitution
WHO:
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LUGOD is open to all members of the public.
HOW:
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For more information about LUGOD, please visit our website:
http://www.lugod.org/
If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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sys (Vice Chairperson) Bill Kendrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lugod.org/ http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
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