[ale] smart media card problem RESOLVED

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 07 November 2002 07:37 am, John Wells wrote:
> Scratch that.  The inability to search on a current page in the Gnome
> Help Browser makes it a useless, albeit pretty, man-page viewer.  I
> can't believe they've not added this feature yet.  I remember being
> frustrated by this two years ago.

Hell, xman can't search, either.  Sounds like the Gnome Help Browser 
wins over xman.

--Michael

> John
>
> John Wells said:
> > Michael,
> >
> > The Gnome Help Browser allows viewing of man pages and lists
> > commands in multiple columns.  However, it has the annoying absence
> > of any print functionality (I occasionally like to hold the dead
> > tree version in my hands).
> >
> > For browsing, it does the job.  I still find xman to be very useful
> > though.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Michael D. Hirsch said:
> >> On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:41 am, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> >>> ALE, 11-05-02 2318
> >>> Remember the deal with the Smartmedia Card getting read on Linux?
> >>> Well, thanks to Calvin H. the problem has been resolved. After
> >>> running a series of tests, he found that the only problem that I
> >>> was having was the one I forgot to mention: Specifying the
> >>> filesystem type as "msdos" when mounting. It seems as though I
> >>> really "lack" when it comes to Linux. Can anyone recommend a book
> >>> that would gets into the more esoteric details of Linux.
> >>
> >> The best stuff is probably on your hard drive.  Check out the
> >> HOWTOs--they are chock full of great information.  If you didn't
> >> install them, you can get them at tlpd.org (The Linux
> >> Documentation Project).
> >>
> >> Also, read every FAQ you can find.  I don't know if they are still
> >> there, but there used to be a lot at rtfm.mit.edu.  I'm sure that
> >> good can find FAQ repositories.
> >>
> >> Another thing I recommend is the browse the manual.  Now it used
> >> to be that in every computer lab there was a 4 foot long manual on
> >> a table in the corner with printouts of all the man pages.  (Can
> >> is still be called a manual when you can't hold it in yours
> >> hands?)  The great think was that you could idle browse the manual
> >> while waiting for your compile to finish.  Nowadays you can't do
> >> that because compiles don't take so long, usually.  You actually
> >> have to set aside time to browse, but it is  great thing to do.
> >>
> >> I only know of one decent manual page browser: xman.  It can brig
> >> up a list of all user commands.  See one that looks interesting
> >> and click it.  Read it and go back to the list.  Do this for 15
> >> minutes every day.
> >>
> >> Does anyone else know a a good man page browser?  Xman works, but
> >> it is very old fashioned.  I think it is Athena widgets, which are
> >> nearly obsolete.  Konqueror can do it but is lists the commands in
> >> a single column rather than multi-column.  Any others?  Does tkman
> >> still exist?
> >>
> >> --Michael
> >>
> >> ---
> >> This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion
> >> list. See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info.
> >> Problems should be
> >>  sent to listmaster at ale dot org.
> >
> > ---
> > This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
> > See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems
> > should be sent to listmaster at ale dot org.


---
This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be
sent to listmaster at ale dot org.