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Access to files by group owner 1 97 (3/19/2012 11:14:26 AM) comp.unix.solaris chl% cd /tmp chl% groups chl bin uucp mail news src sysadmin uk-answers chl% touch foo chl% ls -l foo -rw-rw-r-- 1 chl chl 0 Mar 19 11:03 foo chl% echo FOO > foo chl% cat foo FOO chl% chmod 00... Charles

Where is 'swaps' 2 73 (6/10/2011 7:30:12 PM) comp.unix.solaris In Solaris 7, or therabouts, there was a utility 'swaps' which could tell you what swap spaces you had, and how near they were to being full. But I do not seem to be able to find it in Solaris 10. Is it still ... Charles

Bug or Feature? 'tr' 2 76 (6/24/2009 8:37:22 PM) comp.unix.solaris First my system: chl% uname -a SunOS clerew 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 It seems a common practice to write tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' in order to convert the whole of some text to all-lowercase... Charles

HSFS vs ISO9660 4 72 (5/22/2009 3:45:18 PM) comp.unix.solaris I had always supposed that HSFS filesystems and ISO9660 file systems (both including the customary Rock Ridge extensions), were the same thing, but seemingly not so. I run a Sun Sparc machine using Solaris-10... Charles

SPARCs, Creator Graphics and Opera 1 21 (8/22/2008 8:24:25 PM) comp.sys.sun.hardware Note the crosspost between opera.os.solaris and comp.sys.sun.hardware, since although this is a problem in Opera (and maybe also in QT, but I can't find any Trolltech newsgroups), it may be that someone with kn... Charles

The Great SPARC Floppy Muddle 11 20 (5/21/2008 10:16:27 AM) comp.sys.sun.hardware Having attempted to relocate a Flopy Drive from a SPARC-5 to an Ultra-2, and encountered all sorts of misfeatures, bugs and incompatibilities, I have written it all up on my website at http://www.cs.man.ac.u... Charles

Switching FFB between linear and gamma modes 0 62 (11/16/2007 3:47:40 PM) comp.unix.solaris I have an Ultra 2 with Creator (FFB) frame buffer, running under Solaris 10. Xdpyinfo shows that it has four visuals for TrueColor and another four for PseudoColor. I gather that one (maybe two) of these puts ... Charles

Changing fonts with the style manager 2 167 (7/19/2007 8:05:23 PM) comp.unix.solaris I use the CDE style manager to change the size of the fonts used by default in windows. It brings up a nice window, which shows that I am using the Default Font Group, with size medium. So I change that to siz... Charles

GIMP help 2 53 (3/21/2007 7:31:41 PM) comp.unix.solaris Has anyone out there got the GIMP that's bundled with Solaris 10 working? If so, does the 'help' feature work? If so, then you presumably have the file /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html and lots of o... Charles

ufsdump and inodes 5 72 (3/8/2007 5:17:21 PM) comp.unix.solaris I had always understood that the essentail difference between ufsdump and other archiving tools, such as tar, was that it dumped inodes rather than dumping files. And so I had assumed that if you 'mv'ed a file... Charles

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Case insensitive ls - want case sensitivity 14 172 (1/10/2012 3:18:13 PM) comp.unix.solaris My customer upgraded to Solaris 10 in November. Since then ls is no longer case sensitive e.g. B sort the same as b. Now I know they should be able to fix this but despite my reporting this several times noth... ramwater (7)

Where is 'swaps' 2 73 (6/10/2011 7:30:12 PM) comp.unix.solaris In Solaris 7, or therabouts, there was a utility 'swaps' which could tell you what swap spaces you had, and how near they were to being full. But I do not seem to be able to find it in Solaris 10. Is it still ... chl (40)

The Great SPARC Floppy Muddle 11 20 (5/21/2008 10:16:27 AM) comp.sys.sun.hardware Having attempted to relocate a Flopy Drive from a SPARC-5 to an Ultra-2, and encountered all sorts of misfeatures, bugs and incompatibilities, I have written it all up on my website at http://www.cs.man.ac.u... chl (40)

Free Ada83 compiler for older Solaris/SPARC or IRIX? 21 40 (2/20/2008 7:41:06 PM) comp.lang.ada Hi, does anyone out there know/have an older Ada83 compiler which runs on SPARC/Solaris (e.g. 2.6) or SGI/IRIX(6.5) which he is able/willing to share? I have a piece of Ada code I want to make run on these ... erik29 (27)

Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? 24 30 (7/30/2007 10:52:26 PM) comp.lang.ada Here's something confusing I encountered: with Ada.Strings.Unbounded; function Xyz (Left, Right : in Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String) return String is function "+" (Right : in Ada.Strings.Unbounded... spam.jrcarter.not1 (143)

USB and printing options 5 20 (12/18/2006 8:51:57 PM) comp.sys.sun.hardware Having just had my printer die on me, and finding that printers with good-ol' parallel interfaces seem almost to have vanished (everyone uses USB, apparently) I was wondering what my options were (I have an Ult... chl (40)

OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'?... 15 29 (8/18/2005 9:18:55 AM) comp.lang.ada ....and were they called 'generics'? Not Ada but I just know /someone/ here will know this! ;-) ... martin.dowie3 (207)

Ada syntax patents 15 38 (2/22/2005 4:04:50 PM) comp.lang.ada Reading "http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?" & "Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html" & "&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR." & "&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN... bauhaus1 (655)

Why let when you can just letrec? 40 26 (1/16/2005 7:02:32 AM) comp.lang.functional In section 3.2 of _The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages_ (thanks SLPJ), the lambda calculus is augmented with both let and letrec constructs. Lisps also seem to have these two different form... marsh73 (3)

What is a monad 119 17 (1/1/2004 7:54:27 PM) comp.lang.functional Hi, Could someone please explain to me what a monad is ? A ... aarongray (8)