Niclas, Here's something I just learned yesterday (using Linux for about a year): To copy and past from any term, hold down the left mouse button and highlight the area you wish to copy (slide over it with the mouse cursor). Release the mouse button (don't click on any other mouse button). The text is automatically copied when you highlight it. Move the curser to where you wish to paste the text (you can change terms by holding down "Alt" and simultaneously pressing the left or right arrow button. Click the right mouse button (or middle one if you're set up for a 3 button mouse), and "Voila!" See?: tty3 glenlee@mpls [Thu Feb 17 11:58:41] Directory: ~ $ dir t* -rwxr-xr-x 1 glenlee glenlee 100 Feb 16 18:53 test.cgi -rwxr-xr-x 1 glenlee glenlee 91 Feb 15 21:00 test.cgi~ -rw-rw-rw- 1 glenlee glenlee 0 Feb 16 18:46 test1 tty3 glenlee@mpls [Thu Feb 17 11:58:51] Directory: ~ $ Cool, huh? Glen On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > >This is for all you out there who are struggling with Linux mixed with >Windows. > >Cortez was a bright man. Burn the ships. No turning back. > >I was also very scared to leave the well-known home of Windows, and kept >a dual-boot system for quite a while. But the result of that was; >a) I didn't use Linux much, because I did not even know how to do simple >things. >b) I didn't take the time and download the applications I needed, making >me use Windows just about all the time. >c) I didn't realize what I was missing, in form of scripting >capabilities, time driven events, multi-host interoperability, mail >processing, and many other things. > >In my case, I had a NT hardware crash, or so it seemed. The 6GB drive >started to make a massive amounts of noise, and I was sure the drive >died. It was not the boot drive, and NT told me after reboot, that the >drive was no longer there. >At that point, I burned MY ship. Decided to go 0% Windows, and take the >time (painfully) to learn even simple things, and get the applications >running that I need. (Just to figure out which one to use will take >time.) >I took the easiest route. Got a distro, RedHat 6.0 in my case, installed >ALL, and after a couple of days I was recompiling the Kernel to get NTFS >support, to read the crashed disk. To my surprise, recompiling the >Kernel was a lot easier than I expected, and even better; The drive was >OK and all data was copied out, and the drive was reformatted and is >still being used. > >I have never regretted it. 2 weeks of hard work to get the basic stuff. >Another 2 weeks to get reasonable productive. And every now and then a >post to this list to proceed further. > >Linux has always been "accused" of NO Support. >I tell you what; There is more support from the Linux community than >Redmond could dream of providing. As a programmer, we have never ever >got anything useful out of MS. It is trial and error, and building up >your own communities to share the experience of binary code. Here, as >the ultimate resort, I can locate and look at the actual code. So far >only happened once, and it was a matter of, I know what I am looking >for, so don't bother the Mailing list. > >And to the core "Answering Machines" on this list; >"You guys are remarkable!!! So many people owe you so much... THANKS." > >Niclas > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
