Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Mike Litherland
Hi all, I've been lurking for a bit until I'm up to speed enough to help out. I'm glad to see a glossary is forming of some of the terms newbies need, but there are some things I think are missing. First is that COW was discussed a few days (weeks?) ago, but doesn't appear to have made it

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Melvin Smith
At 11:13 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, Mike Litherland wrote: I've been lurking for a bit until I'm up to speed enough to help out. I'm glad to see a glossary is forming of some of the terms newbies need, but there are some things I think are missing. First is that COW was discussed a few days (weeks?)

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:01 PM -0400 7/12/02, Melvin Smith wrote: At 11:13 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, Mike Litherland wrote: Next is that garbage collection should probably be listed under it's acronym GC. Probably with a description of what it is and how it works under Parrot. Did you check docs/ and docs/pdds first?

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Robert Spier
I've heard reports of rsync not working. I don't use it, so I dunno there. If someone's got the proper incantation, or follows the directions and it doesn't work (when you're *sure* you know what you're doing) I'll update it appropriately. Yes, this seems broken at the moment. I've opened a

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Robert Spier
Correct, I don't maintain the site, but I believe Robert has said he would accept patches. Yes, if people send me updates/diff/new content's, or just replace this paragraph with this, I'll do the merges. -R

Re: Glossary Requests

2002-07-12 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Spier) writes: I've heard reports of rsync not working. I don't use it, so I dunno there. If someone's got the proper incantation, or follows the directions and it doesn't work (when you're *sure* you know what you're doing) I'll update it appropriately. Yes,