Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? Why

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:18:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:51, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what | is 'normally' installed on a Linux

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:44:40PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface | | (which you'd [expect] it to print if it supported printing). | | Maybe, maybe not. What data is this, exactly? | |

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? Why would you want to do this, when the command prompt

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread David Pye
Make yourself a script :) Then give it an icon and you can run it from the desktop. Try something like: #!/bin/bash dirname=`kdialog --inputbox Please enter dir name` if [ ! -d $dirname ]; then kdialog --error Directory does not exist exit fi #Directory exists ls $dirname

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Ron Johnson wrote: Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Stephen L. Scott wrote: specifically - the instructions are as follows below... ... top active screen: -- [ctrl]+[alt]+[prnscr]copy to clipboard [shift]+[insert] paste from clipboard - or any program paste option You mean window. Doesn't that only copy the

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Lindsley, Chris
: Victor R. Cain Subject: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ? Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Mental Patient
Daniel B. wrote: When you're looking at a directory using a graphical interface, a lot: - You have to open or at least switch to a different window. - You have to type or copy and paste the directory name. - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface (which you'd expected

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? Why would you want to do this, when the command prompt is exactly what

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:11, Mental Patient wrote: I found myself using imagemagic often to manipulate photos taken with a digital camera. I use nautilus/gnome as my desktop environment. After a while it got annoying to have to keep dropping into a shell to rotate, scale or montage the

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread James D. Freels
Windows. RW -Original Message- From: Lindsley, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:56 AM To: Freels, James D.; ORNL Linux Users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Victor R. Cain Subject: RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Mental Patient
Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:11, Mental Patient wrote: I found myself using imagemagic often to manipulate photos taken with a digital camera. I use nautilus/gnome as my desktop environment. After a while it got annoying to have to keep dropping into a shell to rotate,

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:54:55AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: | Ron Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: | Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in | Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? | | What's wrong with

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:43:12AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: | The one thing perl has on python is that there's an imagemagic | module for perl. My python scripts are doing lots of os.system() | calls :) Perhaps the PIL (Python Imaging Library) package would be more suitable for you? Even

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:08 pm, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? I was about to pooh-pooh this a bit, but in fact, he's right: both Konqueror and Mozilla (at least) lack

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:43 am, Mental Patient wrote: it. The one thing perl has on python is that there's an imagemagic module for perl. My python scripts are doing lots of os.system() calls :) Look for PythonMagick (caps may be different). There was one, then it died and lost

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread ornl
, October 24, 2003 9:56 AM To: Freels, James D.; ORNL Linux Users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Victor R. Cain Subject: RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ? The following article looks promising for windows. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:57 am, Craig Dickson wrote: Presumably because he normally uses a GUI file manager (Konqueror or some equivalent) and it would be convenient, if one already had a window open on some directory, to simply select Print from the menu to get a hardcopy of the directory

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 18:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the clipboard contents into

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:58, Terry Hancock wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 10:43 am, Mental Patient wrote: it. The one thing perl has on python is that there's an imagemagic module for perl. My python scripts are doing lots of os.system() calls :) Look for PythonMagick (caps may be

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:31, Terry Hancock wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:08 pm, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? I was about to pooh-pooh this a bit, but in fact,

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:54:55AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: - You have to open or at least switch to a different window. - You have to type or copy and paste the directory name. In konqueror, right click away from an icon and select Actions, then

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please quote interspersed. http://learn.to/quote/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:11:59AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Does this not require installing some additional software other than what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:11:59AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Does this not require installing some additional software other than what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or Linux w/Gnome ? Why does it matter? If you can get it done, why moan? Not to

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what is 'normally' installed on a Linux machine. Ohh, ooh! I got it! The kernel. Everything after that comes

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... | - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface | (which you'd [expect] it to print if it supported printing). Maybe, maybe not. What data is this, exactly? Whatever the graphical interface is currently set to display. (That is,

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:51, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what is 'normally' installed on a Linux machine. Ohh, ooh! I

classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread James D. Freels
Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the clipboard contents into another application, then print. Any other ideas ? -- James

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong with the command

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong with

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:53:17PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it,

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Stephen L. Scott
specifically - the instructions are as follows below... James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:11:15PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: it's kinda funny that while e.g. konqueror makes it possible to browse file:// it doesn't allow printing (at least the version I just tried it in) I just checked, and mozilla-firebird allows me to print a file://. listing. --