<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Well I am running the minimac which has unix and having a ball with it! <div>I only used command prompt until now just to do bits of things like finding address and mac date and one or two other things. NOW at last I can glimpse the power that it gives me!!</div><div>Dominic has opened up the lid of the notebook to me..wow wow!</div><div>Frank<br>--- On <b>Sat, 28/5/11, frank james <i><frank.james4@btinternet.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: frank james <frank.james4@btinternet.com><br>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux as a developer's environment"<br>To: "Fay Zee" <sussex@eglug.org.uk>, "Sussex LUG" <sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Saturday, 28 May, 2011, 13:43<br><br><div id="yiv1601459503"><table
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Hi Fay!<div>Do you by chance have Diminic's e-mail address, and if so would you be able to let me have it please. I have a number of queries and I hope that he won't mind me bothering him. Paul Keith and I very much enjoyed the moot and it has spurred me into violent "command prompt" activity.</div><div>We have 2 new members one keen on "cloud computing". </div><div>Frank<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 27/5/11, Fay Zee <i><sussex@eglug.org.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><br>From: Fay Zee <sussex@eglug.org.uk><br>Subject: [Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux as a developer's environment"<br>To: "Sussex LUG" <sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Friday, 27 May, 2011, 23:26<br><br><div id="yiv1601459503">It was very interesting from start to finish. Thank you,
Dominic.<br><br>It was nice to see a new face at the moot - welcome to Paul Willis, from Rustington LUG, introduced by Frank James. With Alex that made seven of us.<br><br>I took away lots of little commands, and especially enjoyed the demo of the screen command. I'll be using the caption facility regularly from now on.<br><br>Dominic gave Frank and me a screen command file to make coloured, tabbed captions at the foot of the console, numbered so as to switch easily between them.<br><br>.screenrc:<br>############################################<br># An alternative hardstatus to display a bar at the bottom listing the<br># windownames and highlighting the current windowname in blue. (This is only<br># enabled if there is no hardstatus setting for your terminal)<br>caption always<br>caption string "%{.gb}%-w%(.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %u"<br>hardstatus string "yourname (%n %t)"<br><br># Turn off the splash screen<br>startup_message
off<br>############################################xx<br><br>This works well on my Eee PC, which had screen installed but didn't have a .screenrc.<br><br>However, on my main machine there is already a lengthy .screenrc, and although I appended the new code and checked for earlier conflicting commands, it puts an extraneous "(.rW)" before the caption. Still works just as well. I've been practising the other screen commands.<br><br>I've yet to implement the other CLI bits and bobs.<br><br>Thanks again for the talk.<br><br><br>
Best Regards,<br>Fay<br>East Grinstead Linux User Group<br>www.eglug.org.uk<br><br><br>
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