Text 15874, 85 rader
Skriven 2012-06-02 10:58:00 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
  Kommentar till text 15869 av Ed Vance (2292.fi-linux)
Ärende: Thanks Again!
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Hi! Ed,

On Thu, 31 May 12, you wrote to me:

 PQ>>I am confused reading that.  Talk of mail 'spool files' is ancient
 PQ>> talk.

 EV> I suppose U'u uses a Print Spooler too?

Yep.  Though printing from U'u is a weird science.  My workaround evolved to
printing to my wife's printer attached to her PC, via USB.  To re-state her
situation: her PC runs U'u as the host system, and she uses XP as her OS of
choice in a vBox.  The printer is configured in her U'u+vBox to passthrough to
XP, so that any Windows workstations on the LAN actually see the printer as a
LAN share.  Linux systems have their own linux drivers to access that Windows
printer on the LAN; even her host U'u does this.

Conversely, I have a Linux vBox server that runs a print-to-PDF printer so that
any LAN workstation, be they: real; virtual; Windows or Linux, can send work to
be converted to a PDF doc.  Those jobs end up in an outbound spool in one of
the server's LAN shares.  :)

 EV> I didn't try to print anything yesterday when I was using U'u 7.04 .

That's what I like to hear.  ;-)

 PQ>>Unzip.  Enter that at a terminal prompt and you get a screenful of
 PQ>> help.
 EV> Thanks again. that is the same way PKZIP and PKUNZIP works too.
 EV> And a lot of times I need help.

Yeah, it turns out to be Zip & Unzip without the PK.  That's fine if you know
what you're looking for; I appreciate your 'poking around in the dark' as I've
done the same in the past.

 EV> I used to use the -& option when I wanted to ZIP (a) file(s) larger
 EV> than 1.44MB on to several floppy disks when I was using the 486 box.  
 EV>  ;-)

Although I use archives in Linux scripts I don't ordinarily use them at a
terminal prompt.  You may recall that I'm somewhat addicted to using
"Commander"-style GUI tools?  I use the "Tux Commander"(TC) all the time, in
all our linux systems.  It's the first util that I download from the U'u
"Software Centre" in a new install.

With TC, I just double-click on a ZIP and it opens like a directory.  If it
contains further ZIPs or directories, I just double-click on them to navigate
deeper.  From there, I can view text files in the archive or copy files out,
etc.  Working with ZIPped (& other types of) archives is a piece of the
proverbial, using TC.

 EV> I followed the instructions at Yahoo.com help page to set T'bird (TB)
 EV> up and did't have any trouble doing it at all.

Neat.

 EV> I haven't been invited to my neighbors computer room so I can't be of
 EV> much help just trying to talk about something that I don't know
 EV> about.

I prefer to 'play dumb' in such situations too, like you.

 EV> I don't know if he was trying to get any UUCP stuff or not.
 EV> UUCP I think means UseNet??? I thought he was asking me about using 
 EV> TB for email not UseNet.

Yes, though it used to be used for both.  Back in the old days UUCP was used
for a lot of things, originally using analogue modems.  Pretty much like
Fidonet.

 EV> I tried once using Outlook Express to get FIDO messages from a
 EV> hub2000.darktech address but didn't care for it so went back to using
 EV> SLMR and .QWK packets.
 EV> I never thought about trying FIDO messages on TB, I just use it for
 EV> email.

That's about the same as I do though, as you may recall, I have three NNTP
servers to pick (mail) from as well.  Just like you, I've gravitated to
something I'm more comfortable with than anything else.

Cheers,
Paul.

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