Hi,
I noted the expression of interest in GNU Emacs, Lisp etc. I too wanted to master Emacs, so I dowloaded the tex source on my Windoze office machine last week, ran MikTeX over it, converted it to a PDF file and printed out all 526 pages of it, since we plan to use Emacs on Win NT at work to edit sundry TCL/Tk scripts.
The upshot of this is that I have made a photocopy of the manual for myself (copied back to back, it comes in at a manageable 270 odd sheets, spiral bound). This cost me around two hundred and sixty rupees, at fifty paise per page. If anyone is interested in a copy, I can either give them my original printed sheets to photocopy, or else the PDF file to print out (1.7 MB). If anough people are interested, maybe we could negotiate with a Xerox offset print facility to deliver even cheaper copies. Incidentally, I used the photocopy shop in St. Andrews College, Bandra (West).
Let me know if anyone is interested.
BTW, Philip, what text editor do you use?
Cheers,
Krishnan
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Sometime Today, S. Krishnan assembled some asciibets to say:
sheets to photocopy, or else the PDF file to print out (1.7 MB). If anough people are interested, maybe we
I'd actually prefer the info files for it, but I think I already have them. If you can put the PDF up on the net, I could possibly download it.
BTW, Philip, what text editor do you use?
vim on linux, vi on solaris, gvim on windows.
Philip
--- Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote: If you can put the PDF up on the net, I could
possibly download it.
Sure, I'll pass it on to Nagarjuna when he returns to put it up on the ILUG-BOM website.
Krishnan
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Hi Folks, While doing Shell Scripting, If i need to alter/delete a line or a part there-of, is there any direct way, or do I wite all the contents into a new file, ignoring the "to-be-deleted" line / write the modified line....
Also can someone direct me to some sites with free scripts for download , which I can refer to gain a better understanding on scripting.
sandeep
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Linux @ Ramshyam wrote:
While doing Shell Scripting, If i need to alter/delete a line or a part there-of, is there any direct way, or do I wite all the contents into a new file, ignoring the "to-be-deleted" line / write the modified line....
This is not a shell script problem, but a standard file IO problem (when I say problem I mean the kind that you get at the end of a chapter in a text book). The only way to do it is to transfer everything to a new file, ignoring what is to be delted.
Editing however is easy to do in a single file if you use fixed length records. Just overwrite from the correct place with the exact number of bytes. Remember that you cannot insert into a file, only append or overwrite.
Philip
Sometime today, Linux @ Ramshyam wrote:
While doing Shell Scripting, If i need to alter/delete a line or a part there-of, is there any direct way, or do I wite all the contents into a new file, ignoring the "to-be-deleted" line / write the modified line....
While doing Shell Scripting, you shouldn't bother about these issues. It's not worth it. Simply do what comes easier and seems more natural. You ought to be enhancing _your_ productivity.
Manish J.
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