Re: Informix documentation annoyances and complaints...

Posted in 1999

Obnoxio The Clown — Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:41:34 BST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > >Obnoxio, > 15 years on IT and you missed the obvious. Leave the cryptic >names but link (ln not ld ;-)) the cryptic filenames to normal filenames. >Then you can find your starting place easily and the PDF links will still >work! As I said to Art off-line, I use the Spawn of Satan's "operating system", which doesn't support ln. Just in case (ha! ha!) any of you really thought I *was* a complete idiot. Ha! Ha! (Paul, Jo, you shut up! In fact, you can _all_ shut up! :-) > Now don't you feel like sending Sujit a nice appology? You'll >feel better if you do :-) Nope. :-p ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Rob Wilson — Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:53:03 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Obnoxio The Clown (obnoxio@hotmail.com) wrote: : From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> : > : >Obnoxio, : > 15 years on IT and you missed the obvious. Leave the cryptic : >names but link (ln not ld ;-)) the cryptic filenames to normal filenames. : >Then you can find your starting place easily and the PDF links will still : >work! : As I said to Art off-line, I use the Spawn of Satan's "operating system", : which doesn't support ln. Just in case (ha! ha!) any of you really thought I : *was* a complete idiot. Ha! Ha! (Paul, Jo, you shut up! In fact, you can : _all_ shut up! :-) I believe the djgpp package has a ln.exe program. Check out simtel.net and poke around there for the unix utilities that run on win32 systems. : > Now don't you feel like sending Sujit a nice appology? You'll : >feel better if you do :-) : Nope. :-p Maybe if you find ln.exe? -- Rob Wilson rwilson@ntsource.com

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Art S. Kagel — Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:48:47 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Rob Wilson wrote: > > Obnoxio The Clown (obnoxio@hotmail.com) wrote: > > : From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > : > > : >Obnoxio, > : > 15 years on IT and you missed the obvious. Leave the cryptic > : >names but link (ln not ld ;-)) the cryptic filenames to normal filenames. > : >Then you can find your starting place easily and the PDF links will still > : >work! > > : As I said to Art off-line, I use the Spawn of Satan's "operating system", > : which doesn't support ln. Just in case (ha! ha!) any of you really thought I > : *was* a complete idiot. Ha! Ha! (Paul, Jo, you shut up! In fact, you can > : _all_ shut up! :-) > > I believe the djgpp package has a ln.exe program. Check out > simtel.net and poke around there for the unix utilities that run on > win32 systems. It does but that is only useful for executables. It creates a DJGPP DOS extender header that opens the real executable. It will not work for "data" files. Love DJGPP, BTW, for anyone who has not met this beast it is a full port of the GCC development suite to DOS and WinDoze. Art S. Kagel