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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Just trying to find out a few things .... Post 302211424 by Tiramisu on Thursday 3rd of July 2008 10:01:43 AM
Old 07-03-2008
Just trying to find out a few things ....

Hi everyone

Just a couple of quick questions if I may.


Can I ask what is meant by "flavours"?? I've come across it many times in the forums and I'm guessing that it is a variery of either Linux or UNIX (I know nil about either) which has developed but not really got a clue.

Secondly, does anyone know how to find out how long it takes to download a file off the internet? I tried to download one of the free Linux trials off one of the forums and I just can't stop everything and wait for it to finish when I don't know how long it will take. Is there a way?



My total knowledge of "programming" comes from Excel and Access so be gentle!


Many thanks in advance.

Terri
 

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UPDATE-BGOFFICE-DICTS(1)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  UPDATE-BGOFFICE-DICTS(1)

NAME
update-bgoffice-dicts - automate updating of bgoffice dictionaries SYNOPSIS
update-bgoffice-dicts [option...] DESCRIPTION
update-bgoffice-dicts automates the downloading and updating of bgoffice dictionaries. It uses debconf(7) to ask the user which dictionaries to download, then invokes bgoffice-dict-download(1) to download them, and finaly extracts the files in the right directory, so that bgoffice can find them. The last part will fail unless update-bgoffice-dicts is run as root. OPTIONS
--no-ask Normally, debconf won't ask the questions that are already seen by the user. That behaviour is disabled by default, as it is quite useful to be able to change your dictionary selection when invoking update-bgoffice-dicts. If you want to simply re-download and unpack the dictionaries, based on a previously made selection, use that option. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright: (C) 2010 Damyan Ivanov dmn@debian.org Permission is granted to use this work, with or without modifications, provided that this notice is retained. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. perl v5.14.2 2010-12-16 UPDATE-BGOFFICE-DICTS(1)
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