July 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by doug waud

Hi desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: > > yeah.... > I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, > and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done > while I'm out pounding pavement. > Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? > I tried Another Story on Stafford St., but he didn't have anything for pascal. :( > > Any help is appreciated, I have a couple of Pascal books (forget which specifically, I'm up at the cottage and they are down in Mass) which you are welcome to borrow as long as I have a fighting chance of getting them back some time (no rush at all). If you are interested, let me know fairly soon since I shall be coming down to Shrewsbury tomorrow (Friday evening) for the weekend (the kids in our house are coming up here). doug

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by Charles R. Anderson

I have an old book on the USCD P-system... :) -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

July 26, 2002

Pascal madness?

by desdinova＠soupforare.net

yeah.... I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done while I'm out pounding pavement. Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? I tried Another Story on Stafford St., but he didn't have anything for pascal. :( Any help is appreciated, Thanks James KB1FJQ

July 26, 2002

NFS, anyone?

by Skip Gaede

Hi, I have a server running Mandrake 8.2. I had a problem unmounting a CDROM (I hate supermount!), so I rebooted the server. On the way back up, the NFS service hung. This is now the second time this has happened. (The first time, I attributed it to students messing with the server, and reinstalled everything.) Now, after two days of getting things back to normal, it's happened again, this time sans students. I'm writing this from home, as the school's link to the Internet is down. Anyone know where the relevant state data for NFS is stashed? Thanks, Skip

July 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Shell Script Question

by Gary J. Hanley

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Pro: You don't need to use extra resources to get the job done Right. I guess that was obvious but I thought I'd ask anyway in case that wasn't as apparent as I saw it. > Con: It's not directly portable to other platforms Good point. I do most of my shell scripting at work on Solaris and portability isn't an immediate issue, but something to be aware of anyway.

July 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Shell Script Question

by Theo Van Dinter

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:05:27AM -0400, Gary J. Hanley wrote: > Can anyone tell me the pros & cons of coding your shell scripts to > stay in-process instead of spawning a child process when needed? The ones that immediately come to mind: Pro: You don't need to use extra resources to get the job done Con: It's not directly portable to other platforms /bin/sh on Linux is really bash. /bin/sh everywhere else that I know of is just sh and doesn't have the capabilities. If you want to be portable, don't rely on built-ins. If you don't care, use built-ins. For example: T=/path/to/file echo $T ${T##*/} Linux: $ sh t /path/to/file file Solaris: $ sh t t: bad substitution -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside" (By Linus Torvalds)

July 23, 2002

Shell Script Question

by Gary J. Hanley

Greetings! A shell script question: Can anyone tell me the pros & cons of coding your shell scripts to stay in-process instead of spawning a child process when needed? For example, ${VARIABLE##*/} instead of `basename $VARIABLE` I'm trying to use the former as much as possible now but I wasn't exactly sure if that is better, not so safe or just doesn't matter. Thanks! -- Gary

July 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Chuck Haines

You guesses it. Acutally I haven't even booted the thing up yep, but when I get back to school and start getting the lab in order I will. Anything is appreciated. Thanks, Nate Godin wrote: >On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chuck Haines wrote: > > >>WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun >>keyboards at the least. >> >> > >Playing with my old SparcStation? I used to run it headless, no >keyboard... need the root password or IP address? > >Nate > > -- ------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | WPILA Lab Manager | ICQ: 3707881 | | GDC Webmaster | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | ------------------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice."

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by stoffel＠lucent.com

Chuck> WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use Chuck> one of the sun keyboards at the least. Sure, I can give you a pair of keyboards without a problem. The Classics are spoken for though.

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Nate Godin

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chuck Haines wrote: > WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun > keyboards at the least. Playing with my old SparcStation? I used to run it headless, no keyboard... need the root password or IP address? Nate -- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley

July 22, 2002