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How to repair the horror of OS X
KDE's dcop is used both for internal inter-app scripting and exposed for use from the command line and (bash, not just desktop) shell scripts. One of the things that has enabled me to do, both now on KDE/Linux, and several years ago on MSWormOS (b4 I switched when the long awaited protected mode kernel for the

Introduction to C programming
echo y| del \windows\modemlog.txt Now you can combine all of them in one batch file by using the call command: call ie30 call history call cache call recent call modemlog Create these You can do so automatically during boot. What follows is a general format for a command line that you can put in a batch file.

Tools (was: Re: A Day in the life of a HiWAAY admin)
Linux, the only OS I use on a regular basis, is now so easy to use that when I installed it on my work computer my coworker, who is NOT a computer expert, .... I -do- do programming, but it is of a specialised kind for which the best tools are still command line driven. Nikitta - Female with gender-ambiguous name

ShutDown
In the end, I wound up creating sources in pico and using command line debuggers and compilers commands. I also liked XWPE better than Emacs. My boss wants me to do the job, he doesn't care what OS/software I use, and it's very difficult to expalin to him anything that If I spend some time reading docs then

Command options to msimn.exe???
Compare it to Photoshop: Although you can access every command via the mouse (the Windows way, if you like), they've included the option to access all the commands via the keyboard (one might call it the Linux way by way of comparison). Now -- you don't need to know the keyboard shortcuts, but if you do they can

windows, Linux, and my mother in law
XPR protocols which do not support batch transfers now work again as they did in v2.4. - Corrected a spelling mistake in the call logfile creation routine. - Fixed a memory allocation A configuration file to be loaded upon startup as specified using tooltypes or command line options will no longer be ignored.

How do I setup Multiple users in Eudora Pro 3.0?
Use the following line as the command line for the shortcut: shortcut -t Give the shortcut whatever name you desire and change the icon for it if you so desire. Now right-click the shortcut, select properties, click the "Shortcut" tab, and on the "Start In" line specify the location of your Desktop folder (this is

Linux vs. Win95
This class can then be used to do the same basic function in other programs. Anyway I will concentrate on C for now. Let's go straight into our first program; EXE in this example) which you can copy move onto the desktop in Windows, or run from the DOS command line by simply typing NONAME00 or C1 from the

Client thinks MAC is the way...
So you'd automatically disqualify me because I use a command line to work with services? No, that is misreading what I mean. that the CLI could do fairly well but pretty much everything I want/need done quickly I do in the GUI. Just as there are shortcuts at the CLI there are plenty more at the GUI. Let's see.

Using icons to start programs
Except for most applications supporting ctrl-c/ctrl-x/ctrl-v for copy/cut/paste, application specific keyboard shortcuts do not fall under "intuitive features". The programs themselves were GUI but one needed to start them from the command line, specifying which libraries and schematic you wanted to use.

UPLOAD: MasterBrowse 4.0 (Smaller!)
Right-click on the shortcut and enter the appropriate command. For a newsgroup enter the address of the newsgroup in the command line. Do this in the following format: news://<server name>/<newsgroup name> Example: news://msnnews.msn.com/test.test Shortcuts make it easy to go to a favorite place once on line.

The sad state of java IDEs - is there any hope?
Have you ever wanted to do any of these tasks in Windows 95? - Create a shortcut from a batch file or the command line - Shut down or reboot the system from System Now you can schedule reboots and powerdowns when you're not at the machine. Shutdown is also a standalone program to which shortcuts can be created,

HOWTO: Compacting a database from any Explorer window
Launching program is very fast if you've put an alias on the Dock- although some command-line applications like Emacs, trn, slrn, vi, etc. have no real way to do that. The command line of course offers power that can't be obtained in the GUI such as the cat command, pipes, etc. If I use the new Finder to manage

ruby queue : rq-0.1.2
If the ad copy editor down the hall doesn't know how to use a command line, he's probably running an OS, like Windows, where he can just double-click on a .... The help desk soes get off easy, but hopefully the help desk will help users get useful icons or shortcuts or menu entries or aliases or whatever set up,

NEWS SERVERS.
Answer: when the HP48 needs to *display* an algebraic (on the stack, in the command line, or in the Equation Writer), it then converts "backwards" from RPL to an If things get really boring, use the above upon the following programs, then do OBJ\-> on the resulting lists to break the list into separate stack

.conf and rc. files
When you re-install, the link in your startup group has this command line. If you setup a hotkey for this link you can now pause/resume the CD player from .... Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may

Converting Lists <-> Programs (List => pg)
Or shouldn't you be able to drop on a shortcut that specifies a working directory or command line parameters? If shortcuts were just links to EXE files, then dropping on them would be straightforward. But because shortcuts can do a lot more than that, it isn't, so Windows doesn't support it.

the graphical interface is hard to use!
I almost never use the GUI to configure anything now, except for using kcontrol to configure the GUI itself. I haven't dragged and dropped a file in nearly You can do for and while loops and complex conditional logic on the command line. You can pipe things to all manner of utility programs to manipulate stuff

GUI vs CLI for file management?? (Was Re: sick and tired of ...
Programers definitely do care about that kind of things. And so do users! Perhaps not Joe the Idiot, but those of us who /use/ the computer every day, without ever programming anything more advanced than a shell script. Command line completion in shells. How long did it take for DOS to have this simple feature?

How do I get "Explore>All Folders" option in Windows Explorer?
"where we are right now", ie current dir If you send that same command line inclosed in quotes, like example #2, then DOS sees it as one long command line and it You use a lots of those. <g> 2) When files are created with LFNs, the "real" 8.3 name is auto-generated from the long name, subject to the next item.