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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:13:04 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading x.org to 7.2 (to make other ports happy)
Message-ID:  <4677BA40.9080309@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540706181140xc38d64fp8956f85351045334@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <340a29540706150835k27bc59f0wdfc326a08958410e@mail.gmail.com>	 <4672B61F.2080603@dial.pipex.com> <340a29540706181140xc38d64fp8956f85351045334@mail.gmail.com>

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Andrew Falanga wrote:

> I just read my reply to this from the weekend.  Wow, it sounds like
> I'm a complete idiot.  Ok, what I meant to say (had other things on my
> mind this weekend) was that being unfamiliar with 'script' I thought
> it was some sort of interpreter through which I had to run this
> "xorg-upgrade" script mentioned in the UPDATING file.  As you can see,
> my lack of understanding for script lead to a bad assumption.

The big clue is in the text description where it refers to script(1) 
i.e. a command with a manual page in section 1 of the manual!  It's 
always worth a quick man or apropos if you come across something you 
don't recognise.

--Alex




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