Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-21 Thread Barry Miller
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:09:49AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote: ?Talk about learning C Programming and the KR book being a good one. ?Is this the book?

Re: Differences between www.openbsd.org and openbsd.org

2010-05-19 Thread Barry Miller
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:16:54PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: [...] The server openbsd.org is actually cvs.openbsd.org, that is the main machine in Theo's basement. Nobody should ever use that one for anything. It has whatever data Theo sees fit for whatever purpose, sometimes for testing.

Re: /usr directory: a system or user place?

2010-05-01 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:52:54PM +0200, Harrell wrote: Is usr an abbreviation of user? ... just for curiosity, what is the origin of this directory name? Your question has already been answered, but in case you are looking for documentation, here's Dennis Ritchie (as in KR C)in the 1978

Re: Any Ethereal, Wireshark related software in 4.2 ports?

2007-11-11 Thread Barry Miller
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:13:42PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Both http://www.wireshark.org/ and http://www.wireshark.org/ are not found in ports. Could somebody recommend any softwarew in 4.2 ports that has related functionality? If you don't mind building wireshark yourself, one way you

Re: [OT] making Firefox respect telnet:// URLs

2007-11-11 Thread Barry Miller
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:32:05PM +0100, ropers wrote: xterm -e telnet ${1##telnet://} When I click a telnet URL that does not specify a port, it works, xterm launches with telnet, which duly connects to the port. However, if I click a telnet URL that *does* specify a port, it does not

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Barry Miller
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:42:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. [...] So, it may be worth someone with an affected

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:01:04PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: A couple of friends have been wanting to try out OpenBSD 4.2 on their machines, but the 4.2 disk will not boot whereas the 4.1 disk will. [...] Has anyone else had problems booting the 4.2 CD? And is there a workaround? I have the

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:01:04PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Has anyone else had problems booting the 4.2 CD? Here's another can read the CD but not boot from it machine: OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #1435: Sat Mar 10 19:07:45 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Barry Miller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:51:25PM -0700, kim wrote: When the CD that I burned booted up, I got a message at boot: /etc/boot.conf too large But that came from cdboot, right? I don't think the rest of us in this thread are getting that far.