On Tuesday 09 May 2006 18:13, you wrote: > > May's meeting will be tomorrow - Tuesday 9 May 2006 - > > After saying I would come, I discover I have an early start tomorrow > morning, so at my age I need an early night.
At your age? - a mere spring cockerel - nonsense. :-) > > The program is: > > > > Christopher Sawtell > > =================== > > > > I will be giving a half-hour talk on a few command line commands. > > Darn --- I _so_ wanted to hear that one. > Now I'm going to miss another good presentation. Here is the one liner which will re-iterate more or less everything I said and more. Paste it into a Konsole and press ENTER. for u in more less cat cut expand fmt head hexdump join nl \ paste pr sed sort split tac tail tr unexpand uniq wc ; do konqueror man:/$u; done; Open another Konsole and play with the command at the same time. Next time I'll try to remember to take my microphone and record the talk. I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to speech system, and demonstrated it. http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ I ran the script program too, the resultant typescript is at: http://shell.clug.org.nz/~chris/typescript-09-Aug-2000.txt This records everything which appeared on my computer screen while I was talking. > On a happier note --- I've started learning PostScript and I'm > delighted to find the syntax is almost identical to my trusty HP48s > calculator I've been carrying around for the last 14 years. What a > perfect language for my needs. In that case you'd enjoy FORTH too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix forth * dev-lang/bashforth Available versions: 0.54a Installed: none Homepage: http://www.forthfreak.net/index.cgi?BashForth Description: BashForth is a string-threaded Forth interpreter in Bash. * dev-lang/gforth Available versions: 0.6.2 0.6.2-r1 Installed: none Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gforth Description: GNU Forth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANSI Forth language. Have fun. -- CS
