From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 5 18:48:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA15956 for current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 18:48:30 -0700 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA15950 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 18:48:25 -0700 Received: from freebsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11407; Thu, 6 Jul 95 03:48:16 +0200 Received: by freebsd.first.gmd.de (EAA02333); Thu, 6 Jul 1995 04:52:14 +0200 From: Gerd Truschinski Message-Id: <199507060252.EAA02333@freebsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: A new utility To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 04:52:13 +0159 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1954 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, what about a new utility: the 'guru' ? A collections of 'fortunes' designed for the FreeBSD environment. BACKGROUND: About two month ago I saw that ATS (one of the core team) used the command 'script'. That was the thing I am missing the last eleven years. But I didn't see an advertisement anywhere. And from the man page I saw that ' The script command appeared in 3.0BSD'. There was the solution, but I didn't recognice it. The other example is the command 'ls -lrt' to see files and their age. I.e do YOU use the 'rt'-flag often? If you know this examples, you use them. But there is more in FreeBSD that most people didn't recognice. SOLUTION: A 'fortune'-like database with little hints from people who had just discovered a new feature of FreeBSD. Or even know about it several years. That means: Nothing you invoke in your .logout, like 'fortune'!r Something you invoke in you .login. Then you could play a little bit with this feature. OTHER HINTS: In FreeBSD there is a base set of commands and there are the packages. The problem is: DID YOU NEED THEM? And WHY?? Normaly there are small hints in the 'xxx/pkg/DESCR'-file. But noone tell you why you need i.e. 'gmake'. We have 'make'. What make 'gmake' superior to 'make'. Only a small hint will suffice. So, all of this packages need a better description. One, which shows you the advantages of this tools. And may it be only one samm point they get. Tell the other people where to get this point!!! THE GERMAN WAY: we nedd a maintainer of all the stuff.... Ok, I collect all things that people send me with the 'Subject:guru'. If it will be to much: I cry as loud as I can! So; start sending your samll hints. /gT/, also maintainer of the crossgcc mailing list -- Gerd Truschinski | Yes, this is the sort of scenario I gt@freebsd.first.gmd.de | think up to amuse myself in the evenings. emma@cs.tu-berlin.de | -- with confirmation from Larisa