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Moi aussi. I usually launch my xterms from icons on the panel/taskbar/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. Doing that actually launches scripts that use whole sets of
by simonblack 4y ago
Moi aussi.
I usually launch my xterms from icons on the panel/taskbar/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. Doing that actually launches scripts that use whole sets of specific parameters for the new xterm window.
Thus, 'goroot' sets a largish xterm (115 x 58) with a right-hand scrollbar and reverse color and logs into the 'root' user. If you don't enter the root-user's password it will abort and disappear.
And 'read.news' runs nothing but a text-based usenet-reader in an xterm, and has extra code to prevent more than one instance running.
- smabie 4y agoYou actually use usenet? why?
- simonblack 4y agoOnce upon a time, Usenet was THE reason I was connected to the Internet. These days, Usenet is a mere shadow of itself but many of the purely technical newsgroups still survive. Because I am an 8-bit CP/M enthusiast, I obviously subscribe to comp.os.cpm, but I also subscribe to some 'newer' active newsgroups like alt.os.linux.mint, and comp.os.linux.misc. Unfortunately, the other eight newsgroups I am subscribed to might have only one or two posts per year, if they're lucky.