Re: what is frcode?
I wrote: But why is it undocumented? Philippe Troin writes: This file is in /usr/lib, it's an internal command. It's most likely you'll never have to use it by hand. It's hence undocumented. Not a good reason. It should be documented somewhere, even if only with a line or two in the updatedb man page. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: what is frcode?
On 21 Mar 1997 18:31:00 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: But why is it undocumented? Philippe Troin writes: This file is in /usr/lib, it's an internal command. It's most likely you'll never have to use it by hand. It's hence undocumented. Not a good reason. It should be documented somewhere, even if only with a line or two in the updatedb man page. Do you also want every package to document why every file it installs is there, and its meaning ? [[[BIG SMILEY :-) ]]]. Phil.
Re: what is frcode?
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: you'll never have to use it by hand. It's hence undocumented. Perhaps it could be used for other purposes, By us non-gurus... or gurus-to-be. Do you also want every package to document why every file it installs is there, and its meaning ? [[[BIG SMILEY :-) ]]]. No, just the good ones :) -- Walter L. Preuninger II waldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://walterp.rapidramp.com L I N U X Where You Will Want To Be!
Re: what is frcode?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote: But why is it undocumented? Philippe Troin writes: This file is in /usr/lib, it's an internal command. It's most likely you'll never have to use it by hand. It's hence undocumented. Not a good reason. It should be documented somewhere, even if only with a line or two in the updatedb man page. locatedb(5) has the following: updatedb runs a program called frcode to compress the list of file names using front-compression, which reduces the database size by a factor of 4 to 5. Front-compression (also known as incremental encoding) works as follows. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all else fails, read the instructions. -- Cahn's Axiom Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L Ash
Re: what is frcode?
Philippe Troin writes: Do you also want every package to document why every file it installs is there, and its meaning ? [[[BIG SMILEY :-) ]]]. Yes (no smiley). Readable files such as configuration files and shell scripts can be largely self-documenting, but yes, I think every file should be documented. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: what is frcode?
Raja R Harinath writes: locatedb(5) has the following: ... ... Ok. IMHO it should be mentioned in updatedb(1L) since updatedb calls it, but that's nitpicking. At least it is documented, and updatedb itself provides a usage example. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: what is frcode?
Sorry I asked! :-) -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE...
what is frcode?
Walked up to my machine to find the disks crunching merrily along, so did a ps and found that updatedb was running; no problem. But I also saw this entry: 398 ? S 0:00 frcode Can anyone tell me what that is? There is no man page for it. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE...
Re: what is frcode?
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 06:46:22 PST Ken Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Walked up to my machine to find the disks crunching merrily along, so did a ps and found that updatedb was running; no problem. But I also saw this entry: 398 ? S 0:00 frcode This command is used by updatedb to compress the locate database. Don't worry about it :-) You could have done: $ dpkg -S frcode findutils: /usr/lib/locate/frcode Phil.
Re: what is frcode?
Phil. writes: This command is used by updatedb to compress the locate database. Don't worry about it :-) You could have done: $ dpkg -S frcode findutils: /usr/lib/locate/frcode But why is it undocumented? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: what is frcode?
On 21 Mar 1997 14:48:27 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil. writes: This command is used by updatedb to compress the locate database. Don't worry about it :-) You could have done: $ dpkg -S frcode findutils: /usr/lib/locate/frcode But why is it undocumented? This file is in /usr/lib, it's an internal command. It's most likely you'll never have to use it by hand. It's hence undocumented. Phil.
