Re: [SLUG] Copy and paste???

From: Andrew Wyatt (awyatt@fewt.com)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 08:49:48 EST


On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 08:34, Frank Robers _ SOTL wrote:
> > Get my "traveler" script. I can't recall the last time this has been a
> > problem, and I've been a Linux notebook user since 1996.
>
> It was not an issue before RH 8.0 and MD 9.0. It seems that RH and MD decides
> to replace Usenet with something else with a lot of GUI stuff which for some
> reason I can not get to work correctly.
>

You've lost me.

> This basic issue is what has sowered me so on RH, SuSE, and Mandrake. They fix
> something, make it work great, and then break it in the next publication and
> the deny that it is broken with the excuse that you can always write a script
> to do what you want as if everyone knew everything. I may be a very good

Who's denying anything? I wrote a script and published it so "non
computer engineers" can enjoy the same experience that I do. :-)

> power systems engineer but I am not a good computer engineer. so writing
> scripts to fix what worked in one edition and is broken in sequential
> editions is not highly feasible. In fact the evasion of writing these scripts
> and the ease of configuration is the only reason one would purchase RH, MD,
> and SuSE instead of downloading Debian or installing Gentoo.
>

I pointed you to one that already exists so you do not need to do
anything more than install it and go. There are such tools that also
exist for other OS's to fill gaps that exist there as well. There's no
avoiding it on any platform. ;-)

-Andrew

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Andrew Wyatt <awyatt@fewt.com>
FEWT Software - http://www.fewt.com



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