Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread Ken Gaugler
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..."

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread jghasler
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 publi

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread jghasler
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

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread Raja R Harinath
[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, eve

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
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 ? [[

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread Philippe Troin
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

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-22 Thread jghasler
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 update

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-21 Thread Philippe Troin
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?

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-21 Thread jghasler
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. [

Re: what is frcode?

1997-03-21 Thread Philippe Troin
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 upd

what is frcode?

1997-03-21 Thread Ken Gaugler
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, C