Linux-Misc Digest #41, Volume #24 Tue, 4 Apr 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Samba not showing up WinPopUp messages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
silly question (John Roberts)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Leonard Evens)
Re: bash prompt (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Word documents viewer? (Bob Tennent)
Re: silly question (Dances With Crows)
fmirror MDTM message (John Congson)
Re: WHAT DOES FOO MEAN???? ("Jeff Susanj")
RedHat 6.1 vs Redhat 6.2 ("Couch, George (EXCHANGE:CAR:SC11)")
Re: fetchmail does not work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WHAT DOES FOO MEAN???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: finger
Q-Mail's Most Recent Download (Raul Trujillo)
Which best way to sendmail? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to make Suse instalation CD? (Rafael Przybyszewski)
Re: Q-Mail's Most Recent Download (Raul Trujillo)
Re: Newbie - distribution question (Steve)
Re: bash special characters (Steve)
Re: flaky dialup connection (Steve)
Re: Adding an external modem problem!!!!! (Steve)
Re: Newbie: PING problem (Steve)
Re: Have linux installed now what? (Steve)
Re: Word documents viewer? ("Matt O'Toole")
booting (william hoerman)
Samba printing problems (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: Rockwell Riptide = WinSoundcard + WinModem ? (aflinsch)
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? (aflinsch)
Re: bash special characters (Robin Becker)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Samba not showing up WinPopUp messages
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:04:36 GMT
Hi
You may want to try linpopup. go to www.freshmeat.net and
search for it
Mukunda
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> WinPopup messages (they do it by "net send"). Now I can
> send message to other machines by "smbclient -M" but
> whatever they send I can't see (no window pops up). I've
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From: John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: silly question
Date: 4 Apr 2000 16:19:06 GMT
Just read a HOW_TO file. It said to change the ownership of a file to
4755. What does the 4 stand for? 7=owner, 5=group, second 5=global.
TIA
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John Roberts
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 11:29:32 -0500
Alexei Gromov wrote:
>
> Hi, All!
>
> Are there any viewers for MS Word documents for Linux?
> And I do not mind StarOfiice or starting Word in Wine (and
> variations...) :)
>
> Bye.
> Alexei Gromov
The main problem is that Word by default stores files in an
internal format that is not easily read by other programs
including other versions of Word. It can be told to store
things in a format such as rtf which can be read by other
things.
I've had good but not universal luck reading MS Word files
with an earlier version of Applix, and I think Star Office
may be even better.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash prompt
Date: 04 Apr 2000 07:20:52 -0800
James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson wrote:
>>
>> >> PS1="\$PWD $"
>>
>> Reading the documentation (listed by at least two other responses) would
>> be an *excellent* idea.
>
><<<<<<<<<<<<<Deletions of details>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Sorry to sound like an old curmudgeon (even if I am one!) but I used to
>think that finding out how to do things like changing the shell prompt
>was half the fun of UNIX. Sometimes people seem to miss out on
>interesting things by asking too soon!
I tend to agree. Poking around in various docs always teaches me
far more than just what I went looking for too.
However I'll also admit that I learn just as much (less volume
perhaps, but things of more import) by reading the "dumb"
questions that others ask. Sometimes the answers knock me over,
because I'll have read the docs more than once and the potential
just never sunk in until someone else asked the dumb question
and got the "obvious answer", which I had never thought of.
Floyd
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Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: 4 Apr 2000 16:24:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A very convenient solution to this problem (beside complaining to
the rude and/or ignorant person who sent it to you) is to
use the following conversion service:
http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: silly question
Date: 04 Apr 2000 12:38:57 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4 Apr 2000 16:19:06 GMT, John Roberts
<<8cd4lq$1nh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Just read a HOW_TO file. It said to change the ownership of a file to
>4755. What does the 4 stand for? 7=owner, 5=group, second 5=global.
The first digit here refers to "special" permissions.
4=Set UID upon execute
2=Set GID upon execute
1=Sticky Bit (usually only used for directories.)
A program owned by root that has the SUID bit set will execute as root and
have all of root's power. /tmp is usually set to 1777, so that anyone can
write to it. The sticky bit on /tmp makes it so that people can only
delete files that they own, and not delete every file in the directory, as
they could if /tmp were 0777.
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: John Congson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fmirror MDTM message
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:37:54 GMT
I am running fmirror 0.8.4 and I'm trying to ftp from an NT box. I'm
receiving the following error when I try to retrieve the data:
10:52:08 Connecting to [insert hostname here...]
10:52:08 Connected.
10:52:10 Remote does not support MDTM, turned off.
10:52:11 Lost link to server on control connection: Connection reset by
peer
Is there any documentation on this? I tried messing around with the -M
option but nothing has worked so far. If anyone has any information,
I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
Regards,
John Congson
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES FOO MEAN????
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:21:34 GMT
Note that plugh and xyzzy were also magic words in Adventure.
Jeff S.
Robert Heller wrote in message ...
>
>foo /foo/
>
>1. /interj./ Term of disgust. 2. Used very generally as a sample name
>for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files).
>3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax
>examples. See also bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo,
>fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud.
>
>(There is more, including several paragraphs talking about the etymology
>of foo -- visit the URL above.)
>
>
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From: "Couch, George (EXCHANGE:CAR:SC11)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1 vs Redhat 6.2
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 12:46:22 -0400
What's the difference between RedHat 6.1 and RedHat 6.2? Is it worth
upgrading?
Thanks!
George Couch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fetchmail does not work
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:03:03 GMT
And verily, didst George Bell hastily scribble thusly:
> Certainly, my little old PC does not have a nameserver. Of course I want my
> machine to query a DNS server at my ISP. I do not know why it does not.
You need to put the nameservers you want to query into your /etc/resolv.conf
file...
This is mine, just to give you the idea.
search freenet.co.uk
nameserver 212.1.128.40
nameserver 195.188.107.42
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WHAT DOES FOO MEAN????
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:03:05 GMT
And verily, didst CG hastily scribble thusly:
> I sort of gather that it's a made up word, but sometimes I see
> instructions or commands in documentation such as
> .../foo/something
> is foo used here like some kind of variable?
It means 'substitute for something meaningfull'.
It's generally used as examples for login and password.
e.g. "When you telnet to your account, type your username and passowrd.
for example
login: foo
password: bar
foobar comes from the acronym FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) and
it's just become traditionally used as syntax examples where the actual
content of the parameters passed by the syntax don't matter...
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: finger
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:06:09 +0100
On Tuesday, April 4, 2000 2:00 PM, winpic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
from the cfingerd.conf manpage :
USERLOG is the optional file in which all attempts to fin�
ger a user are logged for the users own reference. If
ALLOW_USERLOG is not enabled this file is completely
ignored. If ONLY_CREATE_FINGERLOG_IF_FILE_EXISTS is
enabled cfingerd will only document finger requests if
this file already exists in the users home directory. The
default name is .fingerlog.
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From: Raul Trujillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Q-Mail's Most Recent Download
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:09:50 GMT
Where can I find Q-Mail's most recent download?
Thanx...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which best way to sendmail?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:56:59 GMT
I'm using a Linux box (PC) with Red Hat 6.2 PIII 700Mhz, 512meg Ram,
lots of storage. This is my problem:
Our website sends out about 100,000 emails a day. I use sendmail to do
it, and it takes some time. Is there any other method to send a
massive amount of email at once, on person once suggested connecting
directly to the smtp port, but I'm not sure how to do it.
Any suggestion?
Many Thanks,
Remy.
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From: Rafael Przybyszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make Suse instalation CD?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:15:11 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I downloaded whole Suse 6.3 directory by ftp. Together is more then 2
GB. How to devide it to make instalation CD, like you have in commercial
version where you have 6 CD's. Which rpm on which CD etc. Please help.
Rafael
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From: Raul Trujillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Q-Mail's Most Recent Download
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:14:52 GMT
D-u-u-u-m-m-m-b-b
It's at www.qmail.org
I couldn't think of it. Sorry about that.
Raul Trujillo wrote:
>
> Where can I find Q-Mail's most recent download?
>
> Thanx...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Newbie - distribution question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:22:02 GMT
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:23:53 +0200, Igor Novitzky wrote:
>Hi
>
>I've had linux (suse 5.3) on various occasions on my pc here at home. I've
>upgraded to athlon-600 + k7m and would like to run it again. Only thing is,
>I'm not sure if 5.3 would support all this new hardware. I can't really
>afford to buy 6.3 at the moment, and I'm wondering if there is any
>distribution for me to download (up to 400mb is ok i guess) which would work
>on the new system and have a few basic utilities, apps and programs +
>drivers like suse has (on 5 cd's!). Any suggestions?
Use the Suse distro that you have on CD, and just upgrade the kernel.
That way you'll have all the apps that you know and love, plus the
most up to date hardware support.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: bash special characters
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:22:03 GMT
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:35:19 +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
>In an older version of bash I was able to use auto completion of paths
>with the colon character in them eg /c:/Program Files etc. In the
>version of bash in Suse 6.3 I find this is no longer true.
>
>I looked through the man page, but couldn't find out what affects the
>auto completion so that /c\: auto-completes, but /c: doesn't.
>
No I'm not a bash guru.
But : is a special character, it is used in bash as a seperator, so
using c\: would tell bash to treat this as a character rather than
an operator.
Can't really see why you asked the question when you answer it
yourself right there in the question.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: flaky dialup connection
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:22:05 GMT
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:48:20 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>For about a year I've been able to connect to my dialup ISP without any
>problem. About three weeks ago I started having occasional problems. I
>would seemingly connect ok, which is to say 'ifconfig' would return a
>temporary address for me, but I couldn't go anywhere with the connection.
>I couldn't even ping my own ISP. This is now happening about one attempt
>in three or four.
>
>If I do a 'route -n' command it all looks ok, If I do a 'route' command
>without the '-n' switch it hangs.
>
>Most of the time I can just hang up, redial, and get a good connection.
>
>As far as I know I haven't made any configuration changes at my end, but
>the ISP is not admitting to any changes at their end either.
I've seen very similar symptoms and have managed to track it down, but the
problem in this case was at my end. I looked in /var/log/messages and saw
that the times when the connection was bas my machine was trying to connect
me via ppp1 rather than ppp0, the problem being a failed connection earlier
in the weekend, when I tried to reconnect before the modem had dropped the
line. Restarting inetd didn't help neither did killing pppd or any other
such approach, the problem was only resolved when I rebooted. But your
problem could well be something else at your ISP's end.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Adding an external modem problem!!!!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:22:06 GMT
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:43:12 +0100, Paul wrote:
>I`m trying to add an external modem for my linux box as i have a
>winmodem!
>I`m trying to set it up from windows to make sure the modem works!
>The problem is simply that i have COM1(mouse) COM3 (modem)
>LPT1(printer) but i do not appear to have a COM2 to which i beleive i
>needs to be attached!
>How can I overcome this??
>Any help at all would be appreciated!
>The twomodems i`ve tried are Microlin fax modem by PACE and a V34 by
>cybertec!
To avoid confusion take the winmodem out and stamp on it. Why does
the modem need to go on com2?
If the modem is on COM3, in linux do:
# ln /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem
then try to connect with "/sbin/ifup ppp0" or whatever you use.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Newbie: PING problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:22:04 GMT
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:18:10 +1200, Ashwin N wrote:
>The situation :
>
>I 'm a new linux user who has just set up
>Redhat Linux 6.0 machine in a NT network. Using DHCP for IP assignment.No
>WINS/DNS .
^^^^^^^^^^
That's your problem, if you want to ping by name, the machine has to know
what that name represents as a network node, if you don't connect to a
DNS server then the machine will never know what the names mean.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Have linux installed now what?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Apr 2000 18:22:06 GMT
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:30:02 GMT, Phillip Sebree wrote:
>i am trying to learn to use linux. I have a pc which the installation was
>sucessful. Now i need so directions on what to do with it.
Just find out how to do the things that you would normally do in windows
such as connect to the net, print, whatever.
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word documents viewer?
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:28:21 -0700
"Leonard Evens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Are there any viewers for MS Word documents for Linux?
> > And I do not mind StarOfiice or starting Word in Wine (and
> > variations...) :)
> The main problem is that Word by default stores files in an
> internal format that is not easily read by other programs
> including other versions of Word. It can be told to store
> things in a format such as rtf which can be read by other
> things.
> I've had good but not universal luck reading MS Word files
> with an earlier version of Applix, and I think Star Office
> may be even better.
This reminds me of several years ago, when I first started using Windows.
People were sending me Postscript files, and there was no way to open them
without spending big bucks for an Adobe program. One of the things I loved
about Linux at first was free Postscript support!
In my experience, there's always a risk you won't be able to open a file
with another program, even with supposedly "universal" formats like *.rtf.
However, I do find that the simpler the formatting, the more reliable the
files are. Staroffice works at least as well as anything else. I have it
on my hard drive just for that purpose, which is overkill if I ever saw it.
Perhaps Sun will treat us to a Word viewer, which they could use as a hook
to get people to try Staroffice.
If you can, you should discourage use of non-universal file formats, and
especially those lazy-ass Word attatchments. I get Word attatchments all
the time when a simple text file would have been fine. People open Word to
write little notes and memos, which is realy stupid.
Matt O.
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From: william hoerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: booting
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:30:08 GMT
Have installed mandrake 7 booting with options but would prefer floppy boot
how do disable?
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba printing problems
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:57:36 -0600
OK, I don't get it.
I have had this problem repeatedly, not being able to
print to a samba printer. I have Mandrake 7.0, kernel-2.2.14,
samba client (and server) 2.0.6-1, and lpr-0.50-2. I can
connect to the samba share in a terminal and get a list of
shares, including the printers I want to print to.
I then run printtool and enter the samba printers using
the SAME username, password, workgroup, and server as I
did to get the list of shares. When I try to print test
pages to the samba printers, nothing happens. No error
messages of any kind, nothing in the logs, no printout.
If I run lpr <filename> with the default printer one of
these same samba printers, nothing happens. No printout,
no error messages, nothing in the logs.
I have checked, rechecked, rechecked again and again the
printer settings and they are correct. The printers are
postscript printers. I can even connect to the printer
itself from the command line using smbclient. WHY WONT
THE PRINTER WORK?
I have, with help of a friend, managed to get samba printers
to work - but it was a major pain in the ass, was trial and
error, and I don't recall what we did...besides it was
trial and error so it could have been many things. We tried
changing ownerships and groups for several files in the
/var/spool/lpd printer directories, we tried printing as root
and as user, tried reinstalling lpr and samba, etc. I have
tried these things myself but haven't been able to find the
magic that makes the printers work. There is something wrong
with the Redhat/Mandrake(/SuSE?) samba/printer setup which
makes samba printing not work out of the box.
I can print to the shares from windoze. I can print to them
under linux using CitrixICA and windozeNT. The printers are
fine, samba is dicked.
Does anyone have any ideas as to a fix or things to try?
patrick
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rockwell Riptide = WinSoundcard + WinModem ?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:50:52 -0500
S�bastien Cottalorda wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just bought a HP Pavilion 8675 in which I've a Rockwell Riptide
> card (Modem + Soundcard)
I have a 4450 with the same modem/soundcard combo. A true engineering
marvel (it sucks big time).
> I know that the modem is a winmodem (fortunately, I've an external one
> that works perfectly).
That is is.
> But concerning the Soundcard, I've tried to configure it with sndconfig
> --> sound card not supported.
>
> I've then tried to configure it as a SB card using the Win98 parameters
> (IRQ, DMA, E/S, ...), but it didn't work : "sound device busy".
>
> If someone as succeed in configuring this card, please mail me how I can
> do.
>
AFAIK, it is not a true sb combatible card. I think the sb
compatibility
under windows is a software solution, just like the modem
capabilities. Under
Linux it isnt worth anything.
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:53:04 -0500
Rob Tolman wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestions guys, this will at least cut down my chase a bit.
> So far looks as if I'm going to look at w3m, opera, arena, chimera, MMM,
> qtMozilla, and maybe a couple more I saw on freshmeat.
>
You might want to give grail a try also.
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From: Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash special characters
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:01:40 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:35:19 +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
>>In an older version of bash I was able to use auto completion of paths
>>with the colon character in them eg /c:/Program Files etc. In the
>>version of bash in Suse 6.3 I find this is no longer true.
>>
>>I looked through the man page, but couldn't find out what affects the
>>auto completion so that /c\: auto-completes, but /c: doesn't.
>>
>
>No I'm not a bash guru.
>
>But : is a special character, it is used in bash as a seperator, so
>using c\: would tell bash to treat this as a character rather than
>an operator.
>
>Can't really see why you asked the question when you answer it
>yourself right there in the question.
>
In the previous bash : wasn't special, I'm asking if that is user
settable or not.
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