Re: daft question

[Ian Wright <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Oh shit, I knew I shouldn't have asked. Now I'm even more confused than I
was at the beginning - perhaps I'd better go back to dos, at least I
understand the autoexec.bat file ;o) .

Does all this mean that I need to :-
a:- create a new file...
b:- add to an existing file ...
c:- do more than one of these or other actions or
d:- give up and go to the pub ?

If a: what should the file be called and what should it contain? Presumably
there needs to be some reference to the program name and the location of its
various files - or is the location of just the main binary enough?
If b: which file and what should the addition look like?
If c: I mean do I need to set up a file specific to this application and
then put some kind of pointer to it in an initialisation file or something?
If d: which pub?

I said I was new to all this and I often have difficulty understanding 'the
idiots guide to .....', but maybe that is just because even these are
written by people who are so steeped in their subject that they don't
realise that we mere mortals are struggling with the stuff they assume was
genetically implanted in their brains at birth. Now what we really need is a
'Janet and John do Linux' !

Thanks,
Ian
--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
To: sheflug <sheflug [at] listbot.com>
Sent: 17 January 2000 15:06
Subject: Re: daft question

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Al> Nowt wrong with setting xterm as a login shell ;)
> > It clutters up your finger display and confuses talk quite a bit.
>
> This is true, but it doesn't affect most users really. I've seen more
> people confused from wondering why commands in the 'global' file weren't
> executed, than those confused as to why finger had so much stuff in..
>
> > Al> The general rule is, of course, that /bin/sh will only read
> > I dunno about /bin/sh, I haven't read the POSIX spec, but ...

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