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Three typing tutors and a boy

09-08-2008 01:00 PM
I recently sat down with my 12-year-old son Ian, who agreed to sit still long enough to try a few typing teacher applications on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Ian has a lot of experience on the computer but, until now, he has subscribed to the hunt and peck typing philosophy. Fortunately, we found a number of open source typing tutorial programs to download and test. Ian and I looked at three GPL-licensed apps: Klavaro, TuxTyping, and KTouch.



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COMEDI_CLOSE(3) 						 Comedi reference						   COMEDI_CLOSE(3)

NAME
comedi_close - close a Comedi device SYNOPSIS
#include <comedilib.h> int comedi_close(comedi * device); DESCRIPTION
Close a device previously opened by comedi_open. RETURN VALUE
If successful, comedi_close returns 0. On failure, -1 is returned. AUTHORS
David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> Author. Frank Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net> Author. Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be> Author. Bernd Porr <tech@linux-usb-daq.co.uk> Author. Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Author. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 David Schleef Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2005, 2008 Frank Mori Hess Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Herman Bruyninckx Copyright (C) 2012 Bernd Porr Copyright (C) 2012 Ian Abbott This document is part of Comedilib. In the context of this document, the term "source code" as defined by the license is interpreted as the XML source. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.1 of the License. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Comedi 07/06/2012 COMEDI_CLOSE(3)