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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Entering directories structured above user. Post 60946 by zazzybob on Tuesday 25th of January 2005 05:41:26 PM
Old 01-25-2005
Hi Frank,

Which OS (Operating System) are you using here? Please post the output of the "uname -a" command.

Within UNIX, everything "hangs off of" the root directory, which is represented by a single slash, / - this is the "Top" of the directory heirarchy. This is opposed to Windows where each Disk/Partition has it's own "root" directory, C:, D:, etc - with the concept of "My Computer" being a container housing these drives (I'm trying to be as conceptual and less technical as possible here!)

For example, my home directory might be /export/home/zazzybob (or /home/zazzybob), the path to the "foo" command might be /usr/local/bin/foo.

A path such as Frank Hunter's Computer/Main/Users.Frank Hunter doesn't look too UNIX like to me?! If you are in your "home" directory (i.e., you've just logged on, and haven't cd'd anywhere), type "pwd" and let us know what the result is. For example, on one of my systems.
Code:
$ pwd
/some/path/here
$ cd ../../..
$ pwd
/

Here you can see I've moved right up to the top of the directory heirarchy to the "root" directory.

Cheers
ZB
 

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AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::MUC(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::MUC(3pm)

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AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::MUC - MUC error Subclass of AnyEvent::XMPP::Error METHODS type This method returns either: join_timeout If the joining of the room took too long. no_config_form If the room we requested the configuration from didn't provide a data form. subject_change_forbidden If changing the subject of a room is not allowed. message_error If this is an unidentified message error. If we got a presence error the method "presence_error" returns a AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::Presence object with further details. However, this class tries to provide a mapping for you (the developer) to ease the load of figuring out which error means what. To make identification of the errors with XEP-0045 more clear I included the error codes and condition names. Here are the more descriptive types: password_required Entering a room Inform user that a password is required. (Condition: not-authorized, Code: 401) banned Entering a room Inform user that he or she is banned from the room (Condition: forbidden, Code: 403) room_locked Entering a room Inform user that the room does not exist and someone is currently creating it. (Condition: item-not-found, Code: 404) room_not_creatable Entering a room Inform user that room creation is restricted (Condition: not-allowed, Code: 405) use_reserved_nick Entering a room Inform user that the reserved roomnick must be used (Condition: not-acceptable, Code: 406) not_on_memberlist Entering a room Inform user that he or she is not on the member list (Condition: registration-required, Code: 407) nickname_in_use Entering a room Inform user that his or her desired room nickname is in use or registered by another user (Condition: conflict, Code: 409) room_full Entering a room Inform user that the maximum number of users has been reached (Condition: service-unavailable, Code: 503) The condition and code are also available through the AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::Presence object returned by "presence_error", see below. text This method returns a human readable text if one is available. presence_error Returns a AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::Presence object if this error origins to such an error and not some internal error. message_error Returns a AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::Message object if this error origins to such an error and not some internal error. AUTHOR
Robin Redeker, "<elmex at ta-sa.org>", JID: "<elmex at jabber.org>" COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2007, 2008 Robin Redeker, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-01-23 AnyEvent::XMPP::Error::MUC(3pm)
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