On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:22, Rob Wood wrote: > Hi > Woodsey here. Thanks to Chris and Steve for the recent help. np.
> Could anyone throw some light on the following > > I am fairly convinced that my Xtinybin.tar is well mangled as Winzip won't > look at it either so I had a look through all the directories on my linux > box (Tiny Linux on 486) and found the directory /usr/X11R6/ I downloaded it to see if I could get the file in question. You might find it easier to go to:- http://berty.dyndns.org/Xtinybin.tar.gz to get the file. to check that it is in order you should be able to list it thus:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] html]# ls -l Xtinybin.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543742 Dec 14 23:06 Xtinybin.tar.gz Check that the file size here ______^^^^^^ is identical to your copy. Then to extract it:- cd /usr; tar xvzf Xtinybin.tar.gz > Would this be a window manager directory? More to the point it's where the X Window System lives. The window manager which uses the X facilities could well be elsewhere. > Within this directory are sub directories bin lib man Indeed there are. > Within /usr/X11R6/bin are the files XConsole* asapm* xapm* does anyone know They are executables. 'bin' above is short for 'binary'. XConsole gives you a terminal The one and only Wonderful Google tells me that:- xapm xapm. xapm-0.1.tar.gz, 11 May 2004, 6.8k. Description. Displays the status of the battery power in a tiny X window. It is really just ... www.adaptive-enterprises.com.au/~d/software/xapm/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages and asapm 2.13 Laptop battery status display for X11 'asapm' is an X11 client which displays a battery status of your notebook computer equiped with APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS. The status displayed consists remaining battery life, an AC line status, a charging status and a digital readout with (a) Percent battery remaining and (b) estimated time to dead. The * in a directory listing means that the marked file is executable, i.e. pa program. In order to discover the gory details about a program you can use the unix manual. You can get the page for a particular program with the simple command:- man program Provided the manual system is installed you will get the guff straight from the horses mouth on your terminal. ( I trust that passes muster for the Manners Police. :-) -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
