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X for Win95, etc. (was Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sun, 4 Oct 1998 06:23:37 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm=stopspam=.org
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
> Nah, I don't like to mess with demos that I know I'll never pay for.
> I've got a lot of friends who do shareware programming, so I kinda feel
> guilty using something I'm supposed to eventually pay for when I know
> going into it that I never would.
I generally feel that way too, but this isn't really shareware; it's a free
demo version of a commercial product. Which, ethically speaking, seems miles
away -- you're licensed to use the free (but slightly crippled) version as
long as you want with no obligation, moral or otherwise.
> I might give that a shot. I'm going to try something called VNC as well.
> I've used it to link two Win95 machines over a lan, but it also can be
> used as a pseudo x-server, sorda, it seems.
Yeah, I've thought about looking into that, but haven't tried yet...
> Well, no, I *want* to be limited. I just need to figure out a way to
> make pico automatically wrap at about 72 columns. Need to find the right
> FM so I can R it. That's my problem most of the time - I *love* reading
> manuals when I can't figure out something, but in cases like this I don't
Try `man pico`. The -r option, I think is what you want.
> You know, what I need is a great big book on Linux, preferrably one that
> deals with whatever might be specific to Redhat 5.1, since that's what I've
> installed. I looked on both www.bookpool.com (great cheap book prices) and
> amazon.com and couldn't really find much of anything. The book people
> seemed to like most was one of the Unleashed books by Sams, but it was
> published when Redhat 4.2 came out.
Anything O'Reilly makes is good. (Although I wouldn't recommend their
"linux in a nutshell", as that's just a collection of man pages.)
I was flipping through "A Practical Guide to Linux" at a bookstore the other
day; it looked pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201895498/qid=907481905/sr=1-52/
002-2978605-6733663
(ooh, see, that's where i'd like to post something wider than 80 chars...)
> Then again, for all I know the only real differences between 4.2 and 5.1 are
> fat-32 support - which I don't even need since the machine this is running on is
> all Linux all the time.
There's a lot of differences between 4.2 and 5.x, but none really affect
basic functionality much. Mostly updated versions of things, a few new
tools, but really if you're just learning things, the differences don't
matter. Don't get anything earlier than 4.2 though....
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) Yeah, I hear you. To be honest I'm not sure what I would run at home over ISDN that I couldn't just run in Win98 anyway. I think I'll do it more at work and then if I make another box for home, do more then. (...) Nah, I don't like to mess (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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