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(...) Caveat lector, although '..' works great 99.9% of the time, be careful in the presence of symbolic links! --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: t7po autopick
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(...) (1)---^^^...^^^ (...) 1. For things like this, for example. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :-D No no no, a "bot" like a script or agent of some sort. I was thinking something along the lines of a script which scans LUGNET messages and generates a report based upon possible typos. A sort of Kibo thing. I know I would use one just to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) easily (...) In this situation, to access technica you would use: ../../filename To access something in header you would useL ../../header/filename you can use as many .. as you want - each time you use it, you go up one step in the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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OK, here's one that I cant figure out but is probably elementary to you guys. I am working on my next Lego site and need to create a directory structure like; ---technica | -header | -index | | | 8800 | | If I am in the 8800 directory I know I can (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ?? are you asking me if I am a bot? (1) ?? is ther a word missing there somewhere? 1 - people accuse me of being inhuman but I'm just as human as the next guy, maybe a bit more if he's irrational at the time. (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've been mulling over the fact that the term "t7po" is awfully close to "C3P0". And you're using "auto" here. Do you some form of bot (other than an automatic tendency to find typos, that is) or script? Assuming access to a decent spell- and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Microbuilder
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, Jonathan, but I personally probably never will install it. I have tried a 1/2 dozen times over the last few years and it always hoses something up. I was holding off on sounds too, but finally relented and installed (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Datsville overview
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(...) Got it. I couldn't figure out how to add a swap *file* in Free BSD, so I'm rendering it on a Sparc5. It's still parsing... It's hovering around 820MB right now. I'll probably try it on the rs/6000 (much faster) if I can get povray to compile (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Oh; wasn't paying attention. If you've actually got an unused partition, skip the dd stuff, and just mkswap it. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You can do it this way: dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=768000 mkswap -v1 swapfile sync swapon swapfile Note that on a 2.0 series kernel, the max size of a swap space is 128M. You'll need something 2.2 or so. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Datsville overview
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Kevin Loch: (...) Roughly the same would work in Linux. The problem is to format and mount the partition. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:FI2Iy0.n4r@lugnet.com... (...) I added a link to the Datsville page: (URL) don't have an ftp utility yet. -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I forgot a footnote: [...] (...) 1) Unless NT counts. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FI2I4t.LI4@lugnet.com... (...) I changed my swapfile disk to one with 1 Gb free space, so maybe that will work better. -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In solaris: If foo is a 1G *filesystem* then: mkfile 768m /foo/swapfile swap -a /foo/swapfile would give you an additional 768 MB of virtual memory I'm not sure about linux Also, That zip file wasn't accessable, could you upload it to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [...] (...) I found out how to solve the PNG problem - and that I only have memory+swap space for the first 65608 lines of the (65649 lines long) POV file. I have an "unused"[1] 1 Gb partition on my disk. Can anybody suggest how I can format (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Go blowhole! (1) Cheers, - jsproat 1. Another "name that reference"... :-, (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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