From: reavey <reavey@nep.net>
I'm a new member. I'm an elem. librarian in NE, Pa. near Binghamton,ny
Are you really a Worcester Linux UG member from PA? Why? Well, you're not asking me to smuggle diamonds, and nobody else is answering your question, so I'll bite the big bait.
I just got approval and installed a linux box in our library to run a couple of demo programs worldwatch clock simulator and kstars. In screen saver I now run phosphores, which I have written text for using echo and printf in a bash shell.
I am glad that Linux is spreading to new places, but I hope you find something more impressive to do with it than run a screen saver and a $1000 simulator for a $5 clock.
I would like to use noseguy but don't understand how it works??
Though I have been running Linux almost exclusively for more than six years, but I have never heard of 'noseguy' and have no idea what it is supposed to do. Where did you get it and why do you want it?
I have read it likes to run fortunes, and yet when I use either the text files or .dat it won't read.Permission denial, chmod 777== can't execute binary?? Regular text files are not parsed and it deadlocks. What do you think?
Your description is too sketchy for anyone to think much, except "some file mode is wrong somewhere maybe". If you want help, you must say exactly what you did and what was the error message.
Should I write a program in python to parse a text file(out of my ken). There is probably something stupid I can't see
(-: Who is Ken, and why won't he let you parse your file? :-) -- Keith