Re: [OT] symlinks to symlinks

2001-02-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
s absolute or relative) And then you can test that (and work your way along the symlink chain, but make sure you put a trap in after a some large number of steps else you will be gotcha'd by symlinks looping back to themselves) Nicholas Clark

Re: upgrading, and modules

2001-03-29 Thread Nicholas Clark
ens. Sarathy has said on p5p that there's going to be very little changed between TRIAL3 and the real thing Nicholas Clark -- ENOJOB: http://plum.flirble.org/~nick/CV.html

Re: Test

2001-04-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
rnative, which is fine IMO. > People with broken mail clients may disagree :-) I have a non-broken client which copes with multipart/alternative and I still disagree. For a text message the text part carries all the information, and the HTML hanger on serves no purpose except to consume my dis

Re: Test

2001-04-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:58:32PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:09:02PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > [...] the HTML hanger on serves no purpose except to consume > > my disk space at 4 times the rate. > > You mean you *archive* this bollocks?

Re: Test from uuencode boy

2001-04-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
rom an ubsw.com address has that sort of disclaimer on it, wouldn't it be easier to obtain an address outside ubsw.com so that you can avoid having the disclaimer in the first place? Otherwise at least 17 lines of on-topic discussion per message is going to unacceptably increase the signa

Re: Beginners Guide

2001-04-18 Thread Nicholas Clark
y Overflow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) And there was me thinking that Chris was going to say that he doesn't have a TV either. But he didn't. I don't have a TV. But I'm currently camped out in my parents house, and they have 2. But I learn that they will both be obsolete in 5 years when we all the analogue TV transmitters are turned off. Is that relevant? :-) Nicholas Clark

Re: putting escape characters in files

2001-05-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
reak, because emacs interprets every character) Nicholas Clark

p5p drinking games [ilya@math.ohio-state.edu: [PATCH 5.6.1] build bugs OS/2]

2001-05-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
do we drink extra for each that doesn't? [This is perhaps the hardest question] Nicholas Clark - Forwarded message from Ilya Zakharevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list-unsub

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
e should be shipping the DeCCS perl code around in .sigs rather than the perl RSA code, as the former seems to be much more successful at getting up people's noses these days. Nicholas Clark

Re: Grammar -> Class creation

2001-05-29 Thread Nicholas Clark
ntion. Is this the "new" bit? Not sure if it will catch on. Nicholas Clark

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
saying that my lightning talk had been accepted. I don't know anything further Nicholas Clark

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
rse they > deny all responsiblity for it as well... Are these e-mail addresses? If so, does it make it possible to forward all 4 denials in 1 message To: all four and ask for one "joined up government" answer? Nicholas Clark

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
#x27;s the not the end of the world. Just the beginning of the end. Nicholas Clark

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
t; > Curses! That was my cunning plan to acquire more victims for the Sun god, > why'd you have to go and spoil it? I need a sacrifice to get this VT320 > working. I think I can see where you're going wrong. It's the DEC god you should be making your sacrifices to. The Sun god will only help for Sparc 1s, 4/110s etc Nicholas Clark

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
re either on May 3rd or May 2nd. Now, as the poster had a nice big picture of London Pride on it (IIRC) it is unlikely that I would have walked past it for even 1 day without noticing it. So I wonder if the cheeky buggers only put the posters up after the event. Nicholas Clark