Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:35:37 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions... Message-ID: <9604191433.AA04800@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199604190652.QAA01500@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> (message from HMG coA reductase on Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:52:36 %2B1000 (EST))
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>>>>> "Ivan" == HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
Ivan> G'day, does anyone have the answers to below?
Some of them, yes.
Ivan> 1. is there a way to access the FreeBSD file-system from
Ivan> DOS?
No.
Ivan> 2. is Motif Window Manager (mwm) available for FreeBSD?
Ivan> Seems available linux... Both run XFree86...
I've seen commercial versions of mwm available with a couple of Motif
1.2 kits. I'm not a fan of Motif (it's rather ugly, actually) so I
can't help any further---except to say that you might check the
commerical resources under the FreeBSD home page
(http://www.freebsd.org/) ... I remember seeing a vendor listed who
sells Motif with mwm.
But, you might want to consider fvwm over mwm. It's free, it's
compatible with mwm, and can be configured to look like mwm. Heck,
even its default configuration looks very much like mwm.
Ivan> 3. why do i get this error: gzip: pipe broken (where gzip
Ivan> could be col or zcat) usually when pressing `q' while
Ivan> reading manpages.
Because the gzip process writes to its standard output, which is a
pipe connected to teh standard input of your pager command, `more'.
When you press `q', the `more' command closes its standard input and
exits. This causes the pipe to close. The gzip process doesn't know
you pressed `q', and since the pipe to which it was writing was
closed, it gets notified via a signal (SIGPIPE). gzip just wants to
tell you what happened, so it prints ``broken pipe.'' Just ignore the
message.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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