[ale] smart media card problem RESOLVED

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Thu Nov 7 07:37:30 EST 2002


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.

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
>>
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