[ale] smart media card problem RESOLVED

[John Wells]

Michael,

When viewing a page under xman, you should have the "search" option under
"Options".

John

Michael D. Hirsch said:
> 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.
>
> --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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