From: UnixOS2 Archive
To: "UnixOS2 Archive" <UnixOS2_Archive at unixos2.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 04:53:07 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 38

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Friday 07 February 2003
 Number  38
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Perl LWP Question : Henry Sobotka <sobotka at axess.com>
2  Re:  HOMEROOT : Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
3  Re:  HOMEROOT : Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
4  Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT : email at eracc.hypermart.net (ERACC Lists)
5   command history was - HOMEROOT : Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com>
6  Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT : email at eracc.hypermart.net (ERACC Lists)
7  Re:  TeTex 2.0 released : John Poltorak <jp at manninghammills.org>
8   TeTex 2.0 released : Christian Hennecke" <christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
9  Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT : Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com>
10  Re:  HOMEROOT : Adrian Gschwend" <ktk at datacomm.ch>

**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:22:31 -0500
From:  Henry Sobotka <sobotka at axess.com>
Subject:  Re:  Perl LWP Question

The link386 warning suggests that u32align.exe gets built successfully.
Is it there in the build directory? If so, running it should print "No
restriction".

Don't know about the "ÇÇ", but it could be coming from your
lib/5.8.0/os2/Config.PM.

Can't say anything about libwww as I haven't tried it.

h~

**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:29:41 +0100 (CET)
From:  Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject:  Re:  HOMEROOT

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Dave Saville wrote:

> user. It could be as simple as adding a line to /etc/passwd. In which
> case he would have to specify it *and* set it up, together with
> *that* systems setup scripts for whatever shell(s) the user was
> expected to use - the default shell also being specified in
> /etc/passwd.
> 
> Don't make any assumptions about *nix from AIX - its a very strange
> animal :-) 

Well, yast on SuSE also seems to autogenerate /home/username as the
suggested home directory, once you entered a username - but I'm too
lazy to reboot and check...

	Stefan


**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:41:36 +0100 (CET)
From:  Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject:  Re:  HOMEROOT

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Steve Wendt wrote:

> > "~" expansion is a shell feature (csh/tcsh, ksh and its clones).
> 
> Interesting... it works with bash, which shells don't support it?

The answer is the same as for any question starting with "which shells
don't support ...": simple stupid bourne shell.

BTW, while talking about shell features: Is there a way to page through
all commands in command history starting with a specific combination of
letters? In cmd.exe I can enter say "less" and page through all my old
commands starting with "less" via repeatedly pressing <F1>. With e.g.
bash I currently am either using "!less" which will repeat exactly the
last command (but I might want to get at the one before it), or I'm
paging through hundreds off commands (by arrow keys) to find the right
one. (Or I grep a command history file and use Cut&Paste, but that's
still way to complicated for my simple mind).

	Regards,
		Stefan


**= Email   4 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:21:25 -0600
From:  email at eracc.hypermart.net (ERACC Lists)
Subject:  Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT

 In: <20030208114633.FKVO4022.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com at pooh>
 On: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 11:45:43 +0000 (GMT)
 Screaming:  command history was - HOMEROOT
 "Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com> did rant:

+On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:07:27 -0800 (PST), Steve Wendt wrote:

+>On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Stefan Neis wrote:
+>
+>> BTW, while talking about shell features: Is there a way to page through
+>> all commands in command history starting with a specific combination of
+>> letters? [...]
+>
+>I'm interested in this too - if you hear something from elsewhere, please
+>pass it on.  ;)

I believe 'fc' is an internal bash command that will do this but I
have not used it. If it doesn't do what you want there is more than
likely an internal shell command that will. If you have a man page
for your shell try looking up 'HISTORY'.

+Well I never new you could do that! If we are talking OS/2 shells I
+normally use YAOS which goes one better in that, for the example above,
+tying less and alt-h gives a popup of all the history starting with less.

+ksh you can scroll back if you know the right key combo - I always forget
+it :-)

ESC k

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**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 11:45:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:  "Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com>
Subject:   command history was - HOMEROOT

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:07:27 -0800 (PST), Steve Wendt wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Stefan Neis wrote:
>
>> BTW, while talking about shell features: Is there a way to page through
>> all commands in command history starting with a specific combination of
>> letters? In cmd.exe I can enter say "less" and page through all my old
>> commands starting with "less" via repeatedly pressing <F1>. With e.g.
>> bash I currently am either using "!less" which will repeat exactly the
>> last command (but I might want to get at the one before it), or I'm
>> paging through hundreds off commands (by arrow keys) to find the right
>> one. (Or I grep a command history file and use Cut&Paste, but that's
>> still way to complicated for my simple mind).
>
>I'm interested in this too - if you hear something from elsewhere, please
>pass it on.  ;)

Well I never new you could do that! If we are talking OS/2 shells I
normally use YAOS which goes one better in that, for the example
above, tying less and alt-h gives a popup of all the history starting
with less. 

ksh you can scroll back if you know the right key combo - I always
forget it :-)
csh can remember n commands but asking for history you get the lot. 
csh can run the *last*  command by !! last but one !-1 etc or the nth
command by !n - the history numbers the commands.
You can also modify the last command if you mistyped a little bit:

^foo^bar^ will change foo to bar in the last command and run it.

My favourite though it !$ which is the last string of the previous
command so:

cp foo.c bar.c
vi !$ gets bar.c

HTH 


-- 
Regards

Dave Saville


**= Email   6 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:07:32 -0600
From:  email at eracc.hypermart.net (ERACC Lists)
Subject:  Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT

 In: <20030208180817.HISM22267.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com at pooh>
 On: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:04:30 +0000 (GMT)
 Screaming: Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT
 "Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com> did rant:

+On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:21:25 -0600, ERACC Lists wrote:

+>+ksh you can scroll back if you know the right key combo - I always forget
+>+it :-)
+>
+>ESC k

+Ah but it depends if you have emacs mode set and then its different :-)

Emacs? Pah! I'm a vi/vim man. I set 'VISUAL=vi' in .kshrc or .profile
when I use ksh. ;-)

Gene <gene at eracc.hypermart.net>
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 Sysinfo: 40 Processes, 154 Threads, uptime is 2d 17h 45m 17s 216ms  


**= Email   7 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:01:02 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at manninghammills.org>
Subject:  Re:  TeTex 2.0 released

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:29:16PM +0100, Christian Hennecke wrote:
> TeTex 2.0 has been released (see announcement below). Would be nice to
> have this on OS/2 too.
> 
> ========================================================================
> ===
> The files /
> installation
> ========================================================================
> ===
> 
> You can get teTeX-2.0 from the following server:
> ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/
> (UK)
> 
> Other servers will follow shortly:
> ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/
> (GER)
> ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/
> (US)
> 
> A full list of mirrors is available here:
> ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites
> 
> From these servers, you need the following files for teTeX-2.0:
> 
> sources of the programs (required):
> ==> tetex-src-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> support tree with fonts / macros (required):
> ==> tetex-texmf-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> sources for parts of the texmf tarball (optional):
> ==> tetex-texmfsrc-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> The installation instructions are included in the tetex-src.tar.gz
> archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
> (short version).


Hmm... I wonder how far things would get with the UnixOS/2 Build System...

Maybe I should give it a try.


 
> Christian Hennecke
> 


--
John



**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 15:29:16 +0100 (CET)
From:  "Christian Hennecke" <christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject:   TeTex 2.0 released

TeTex 2.0 has been released (see announcement below). Would be nice to
have this on OS/2 too.

-----------
Well, a long time has been around since teTeX-1.0 ... I hereby
proudly
presend:

========================================================================
===
teTeX
2.0
========================================================================
===

This is the announce of teTeX-2.0, a TeX distribution for UNIX
compatible
systems.


========================================================================
===
Main features of
teTeX-2.0:
========================================================================
===

- included files reviewed for license problems; teTeX now is free
software!
- program packages: web2c 7.4.5, pdfTeX 1.10a, e-TeX 2.1, Omega
1.23.2.1,
xdvik 22.40v, dvipsk 5.92b, dviljk 2.6p2, dvipdfm 0.13.2c, ps2pk 1.5,
makeindex 2.14, texinfo 4.4, texconfig 2.0, updmap 2.0, texdoctk
- main TeX formats:
plain.tex 3.14159265, LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>, ConTeXt 2003.1.31
- TDS (TeX Directory Structure) compliant support tree
with fonts / macros / documentation: 150 MB, >11000 files
- easy to install and to customize, even for a multi-platform setup
- ready for producing resolution independent (bitmap free) postscript
or
pdf documents (including thumbnails, hyperlinks and bookmarks)

For release notes, please look at ./NEWS inside the tetex-src
tarball.


========================================================================
===
Legal notice /
license
========================================================================
===

teTeX is free software. Individual files and sub-packages are
copyright
by different authors, but I have taken care that everything is free
software as defined by the free software
foundation:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


========================================================================
===
The files /
installation
========================================================================
===

You can get teTeX-2.0 from the following server:
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/
(UK)

Other servers will follow shortly:
ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/
(GER)
ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/
(US)

A full list of mirrors is available here:
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites

From these servers, you need the following files for teTeX-2.0:

sources of the programs (required):
==> tetex-src-2.0.tar.gz

support tree with fonts / macros (required):
==> tetex-texmf-2.0.tar.gz

sources for parts of the texmf tarball (optional):
==> tetex-texmfsrc-2.0.tar.gz

The installation instructions are included in the tetex-src.tar.gz
archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
(short version).

Christian Hennecke


**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:04:30 +0000 (GMT)
From:  "Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com>
Subject:  Re:  command history was - HOMEROOT

On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:21:25 -0600, ERACC Lists wrote:

>+ksh you can scroll back if you know the right key combo - I always forget
>+it :-)
>
>ESC k

Ah but it depends if you have emacs mode set and then its different
:-)

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville


**= Email   10 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 08 Feb 2003 20:38:36 +0100 (CET)
From:  "Adrian Gschwend" <ktk at datacomm.ch>
Subject:  Re:  HOMEROOT

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:41:36 +0100 (CET), Stefan Neis wrote:

>BTW, while talking about shell features: Is there a way to page through
>all commands in command history starting with a specific combination of
>letters? In cmd.exe I can enter say "less" and page through all my old
>commands starting with "less" via repeatedly pressing <F1>. With e.g.
>bash I currently am either using "!less" which will repeat exactly the
>last command (but I might want to get at the one before it), or I'm
>paging through hundreds off commands (by arrow keys) to find the right
>one. (Or I grep a command history file and use Cut&Paste, but that's
>still way to complicated for my simple mind).

Hit ctrl-r in bash and start to write the first few letters, after some
letters hit ctrl-r again for page through the commands. It does not
work exactly like F1 but you will get the trick fast.

cu

Adrian


-- 
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 at  netlabs.org

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