[ale] smart media card problem RESOLVED

[Geoffrey]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 07 November 2002 07:37 am, John Wells wrote:
> 
>>Scratch that.  The inability to search on a current page in the Gnome
>>Help Browser makes it a useless, albeit pretty, man-page viewer.  I
>>can't believe they've not added this feature yet.  I remember being
>>frustrated by this two years ago.
> 
> 
> Hell, xman can't search, either.  Sounds like the Gnome Help Browser 
> wins over xman.

My xman under options has a search option.

I don't use xman, but I just had to look.

I use cli/man, searchable, fast, what more could you want? :)

> 
> --Michael
> 
> 
>>John
>>
>>John Wells said:
>>
>>>Michael,
>>>
>>>The Gnome Help Browser allows viewing of man pages and lists
>>>commands in multiple columns.  However, it has the annoying absence
>>>of any print functionality (I occasionally like to hold the dead
>>>tree version in my hands).
>>>
>>>For browsing, it does the job.  I still find xman to be very useful
>>>though.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>Michael D. Hirsch said:
>>>
>>>>On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:41 am, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>ALE, 11-05-02 2318
>>>>>Remember the deal with the Smartmedia Card getting read on Linux?
>>>>>Well, thanks to Calvin H. the problem has been resolved. After
>>>>>running a series of tests, he found that the only problem that I
>>>>>was having was the one I forgot to mention: Specifying the
>>>>>filesystem type as "msdos" when mounting. It seems as though I
>>>>>really "lack" when it comes to Linux. Can anyone recommend a book
>>>>>that would gets into the more esoteric details of Linux.
>>>>
>>>>The best stuff is probably on your hard drive.  Check out the
>>>>HOWTOs--they are chock full of great information.  If you didn't
>>>>install them, you can get them at tlpd.org (The Linux
>>>>Documentation Project).
>>>>
>>>>Also, read every FAQ you can find.  I don't know if they are still
>>>>there, but there used to be a lot at rtfm.mit.edu.  I'm sure that
>>>>good can find FAQ repositories.
>>>>
>>>>Another thing I recommend is the browse the manual.  Now it used
>>>>to be that in every computer lab there was a 4 foot long manual on
>>>>a table in the corner with printouts of all the man pages.  (Can
>>>>is still be called a manual when you can't hold it in yours
>>>>hands?)  The great think was that you could idle browse the manual
>>>>while waiting for your compile to finish.  Nowadays you can't do
>>>>that because compiles don't take so long, usually.  You actually
>>>>have to set aside time to browse, but it is  great thing to do.
>>>>
>>>>I only know of one decent manual page browser: xman.  It can brig
>>>>up a list of all user commands.  See one that looks interesting
>>>>and click it.  Read it and go back to the list.  Do this for 15
>>>>minutes every day.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone else know a a good man page browser?  Xman works, but
>>>>it is very old fashioned.  I think it is Athena widgets, which are
>>>>nearly obsolete.  Konqueror can do it but is lists the commands in
>>>>a single column rather than multi-column.  Any others?  Does tkman
>>>>still exist?
>>>>
>>>>--Michael
>>>>
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