On 02/11/2015 02:07 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Ahh... Memories of installing Slackware from floopies 20 years ago.
> READMEs warning that bad xfree86 settings could burn your monitor...
> Those were the days.

Heh, yeah. I think the whole "burn your monitor" thing is just people 
wanting to cover their butt; I've never heard of anybody actually 
breaking a monitor this way. Sometimes you get some rather weird video. 
Sometimes the CRT makes that weird sound. (Pro-tip: You shouldn't be 
able to *hear* what your CRT is doing!) But mostly you just get a black 
screen.

> Depending on the length of the file, cat can be easier as you don't have
> to hit spacebar to get out of it. Also, on some systems, Gnutils may not
> be installed for various reasons.

Also, less is an EXTREMELY ANNOYING "feature": When you exit it, the 
screen reverts to what was there before, so you can't copy out any 
information that was in the file. As if not being able to copy and paste 
text just because it's a terminal wasn't bad enough...

> Yes, knowing what's the best tool for the job helps, but sometimes you
> need to be resourcefull.

My fingers keep wanting to type "less". Whenever I try to type "cat", I 
end up typing "cd" instead.

It's fine. I'll just define an alias to... oh, wait.


>> last time you got multiple hours of gameplay out of 100MB? ;-)
>
> POVRay3.7
> ;)

Oh, well played sir.

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