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.
Reading replies to questions, as an amateur, I have learnt a lot from you pros on here.
The shell in any of its guises is serioulsy poweful.
With so many transient and resident commands at one's disposal is there anything,
non-GUI, that cannot be done inside a default shell and terminal?
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H,
I
I have this below script for removing the full path from a string which is indeed a filepath location if windows.
It converts input
\abc\asssh\abc
To
abc
But if filename has 0 like:
\abc\abc\00000Hgg
Then its typing
abc00000Hgg
PLEASE note that its solaris.
Script is:
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Hi
As a dummy my question is very simple. When typing cw I've read (many times) that a '$' should appear at the end of the word I'm about to change. However, it doesn't, and in my case the word is instantly deleted and so ready to be changed!
Can somebody tell me why this is, or maybe I... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Yes, it's me again. Running around getting this done! My current problem is I'm trying to image one drive 0 (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) to drive 1 (/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0). I know that drive1 came out of a Sun Server and it is a Sun drive. Solaris 10 recognized drive1 after the devfsadm command. The... (8 Replies)
Hello all,
I am in a terminal on Solaris and something weird is happening...
When I am typing I can't see what I am typing, although what I am typing is working. As is if I type the command and hit enter, the command runs.
Anyone have a clue why or how I can make it display my typing?
Is... (2 Replies)
UNICOVERAGE(1) General Commands Manual UNICOVERAGE(1)NAME
unicoverage - Print coverage of each Unicode BMP Script.
SYNOPSIS
unicoverage [-iinput_file] [-ooutput_file]
DESCRIPTION
unicoverage reads a GNU Unifont .hex font and uses data in coverage.dat (which must reside in the current directory). The output is the
percent coverage of each script in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
OPTIONS -i Specify the input file. The default is stdin.
-o Specify the output file. The default is stdout. Sample usage:
unicoverage < unifont.hex >coverage.txt
FILES
coverage.dat, *.hex GNU Unifont files.
SEE ALSO bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1), johab2ucs2(1), unibmp2hex(1), unidup(1),
unihex2bmp(1), unipagecount(1), uniunmask(1)AUTHOR
unicoverage was written by Paul Hardy.
LICENSE
unicoverage is Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Paul Hardy, and is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, or (at your option)
a later version.
BUGS
No known real bugs exist, except that this software does not perform extensive error checking on its input files.
2007 Dec 31 UNICOVERAGE(1)
