11-20-2005
printf "Enter disk list: "
read a
set "$a"
while [ -n "$1" ] ; do
echo Working on $1; shift
(...do whatever work you need to do...)
done
-Mike
P.S. Don't make the user do too much work. They should be able to enter "1", "2", "3", etc. You can do the rest; example...
printf "Enter disk list: "
read a
set "$a"
while [ -n "$1" ] ; do
disk="disk$1"
echo Working on $disk; shift
(...do whatever work you need to do...)
done
Last edited by mschwage; 11-20-2005 at 01:24 AM..
Reason: Another thought...
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mdbFontSize(5) The m17n Library mdbFontSize(5)
NAME
mdbFontSize - Font Size
DESCRIPTION
In some case, a font contains incorrect information about its size (typically in the case of a hacked TrueType font), which results in a
bad text layout when such a font is used in combination with the other fonts. To overcome this problem, the m17n library loads information
about font-size adjustment from the m17n database by the tags <font, resize>. The data is loaded as a plist of this format.
FONT-SIZE-ADJUSTMENT ::= PER-FONT *
PER-FONT ::= '(' FONT-SPEC ADJUST-RATIO ')'
FONT-SPEC ::=
'(' [ FOUNDRY FAMILY
[ WEIGHT [ STYLE [ STRETCH [ ADSTYLE ]]]]]
REGISTRY ')'
ADJUST-RATIO ::= INTEGER
FONT-SPEC is to specify properties of a font. FOUNDRY to REGISTRY are symbols corresponding to Mfoundry to Mregistry property of a font.
See m17nFont for the meaning of each property.
ADJUST-RATIO is an integer number specifying by percentage how much the font-size must be adjusted. For instance, this PER-FONT:
((devanagari-cdac) 150)
instructs the font handler of the m17n library to open a font of 1.5 times bigger than a requested size on opening a font whose registry is
'devanagari-cdac'.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
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