Michael A. Stone wrote:
>
> others have given the basic answer to this one.. i'm just here for the
> color commentary.
Yep, thanks to John and Guido for posting the solution so rapidly. (At
least, I hope it's the solution. I'll try it at my next Linux play
session next weekend :-) )
And thanks Mike for another piece in the great Unix computing puzzle.
Actually, I'm pretty proud of myself for figuring out what the problem
was. Only took 3 Sundays <g>.
> 2: you're using vi.. *snif*.. i'm so proud. ;-)
Well, I took a look at vi and emacs...and vi seemed to have the shorter
learning curve. I'm sure I'll get into them both, though.
>
> well, you had all the pieces right..look for references, play with a few
> things, and if necessary, say "okay, i've RTFM and it didn't help.. how
> make do/go?"
>
> you'd be surprised how often this is the correct method. ;-)
>
As I've said before, when my first DOS box arrived some 10 years ago, it
was delivered in a case without any operating system or software of any
kind. I plugged it in and it just kind of sat there looking at me.
Remember, I'm a writer/marketing person. I bought that box as an
electronic typewriter. Come a long way since then. I learned DOS well,
switched to Windows v1.0, hated it and threw it away, looked again at
v2, hated it and threw it away, same with windows 3 until I discovered
Norton Desktop, which I used until I finally converted to '95 back in
'96 or so. But I'd still rather have a mac for work.
Linux takes me right back to those first DOS days, and the pleasure of
discovery. It makes computers fun again, instead of just a tool.
Regards
franko
_________Frank Lee, Information Architect_________
Member: Aust DM Assoc., Market Research Soc. of Aust., Web Consultants
Assoc.,
HTML Writers Guild, Internet Professionals Association. Assoc. Aust.
Marketing Inst.
Interactive Strategist,IBM Australia Ltd & Managing Director, Wired
World Consulting.
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/franko/
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