Hey Danny!

Feb 26 23:48 07, Danny Ceppa wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 DC> I'm gonna have to start studying up on this stuff.  Is there a good 
 DC> reference book for that?  

Tons of books written on the subject.  Any old reference is a good starting
point.  The one downloadable one I ALWAYS recommend is "Advanced
Bash-Scripting Guide".   Cut and paste of the HTML/index.html yeilds;

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

   Version 4.2.03

   15 January 2007

Mendel Cooper

   thegrendel{at}theriver.com

   This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming,
but progresses rapidly toward an
   intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking
in little snippets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It
   serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and
source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques.
   The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to
   really learn scripting is to write scripts.

   This book is suitable for classroom use as a general introduction to
programming concepts.

   The latest update of this document, as an archived, bzip2-ed
"tarball" including both the SGML source and rendered
   HTML, may be downloaded from the author's home site. A pdf version is
also available. See the change log for a revision
   history.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Again, sorry about the formatting above but in my defense I tend to set up
everything to my needs terminal-wise, including we browsers.  Currently I
use lynx for reading html documents since it is more condusive to that need
given it is purely text based and doesn't require more then a keyboard and
display which works out perfectly methinks.  Also if I switch to a higher
resolution I can load a larger font that is readable to these tired old
eyes.  ;-)

Again, again, the display of this particuar message in the console it is
running in is perfect.  No DOS-think in the Fido stuff here and thus none
of the DOS-think limitations.  Someone has to do this right.

 MK>> I believe you.  Never been an issue with any machine I have had.  The
 MK>> 486 (33MHz) keeps up.  I use the EM64T (3GHz dual core) to develop

 DC> If you are doing text only, just about anything works.   

Once I am finished with it they do, if they didn't already that is.  :-)

 DC>> I understand NASA is worried about it getting in the path of 
 DC>> orbitting sattelites...  

 MK>> Huh?  How low are they orbitting?

 DC> The GVT's LEOs have to dodge the one you are building!  

That is the neighbour.  I just get them to work is all.

Life is good,
Maurice

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