WAY OT - A bit stuck!!! (Linux)

My C is a bit rusty, but is it not something like this that you are after (unless i misunderstand your aims)

system("cp a.file b.file");

Ive got a big fat book on C/C++ somewhere from when i was tought it at uni. I was using it as a doorstop the other week but i cant find it now!

Well done that man! 10 Jolly Junior points and a gold star.

Cheers Richard

Hi Richard:

I know of only one Linux "GOD" (compiled his own unique version) and he has been a Linux advocate for as long as I have known him.

Try gently introducing your enquiry (with appropriate grovelling :-)) to: snipped-for-privacy@witness.com

Dave Williams is the most erudite programmer I have ever met (across so many languages he is a marvel to behold).

If you want to get on his right side just mention Noble cars (he has an M12) and you are IN! :-)

If Dave don't know, then it can't be done. Ho-ho.

Regards,

Dan.

Thanks for that. I'll keep a note. When system was mentioned the 15 years since I last programmed on Unix just melted away................. and then came back again with a bump.......... sodding file permissions........ which bit does what...... arrrrggghhhh! Anyway, all sorted, prog No.1 is nearly done now ..... oh, the bloody time again!

Richard

Yes I noticed your timezone was a bit whacked, 8 hours before GMT! You really have wound the clock back..

Trying to get Microcat running under wine - not much joy yet!

Richard

Should work under vmware, although that would mean you'd be running it under a full copy of Windows! VMWare Server is free.

Oh bum. I'll get a cheap s/h pc for it then..... Richard

VMWare has its advantages over a real PC, and you can run windows 2000 in a 2-gig partition quite easily. Then you can back up the whole shebang by shutting down the virtual machine and just copying the files. You can also take a snapshot at a point at which the windows box is working, so when it borks up you can just hit "revert" and it'll instantly work again, albeit in the state it was in several weeks in the past. Performance is usually pretty good provided the host PC isn't totally s**te, a 1.8GHz laptop hosts several windows machines without breaking sweat.

I'll stick with s/h pc, I think. The thought of doing another re-partion on a "live" disc....... Plus I really want to be Mickysoft-free again as far as possible, and not having said pc anywhere near a network appeals!

Richard

You don't need to re-partition, windows lives entirely inside a few files on a normal linux filesystem, all contained in a directory that you specify. This means you can experiment with it without impacting the system other than installing vmware server.

If you don't want networking, you just select "no network" from the setup box and the PC won't even know there is a network, it will have no way to connect at all. Or you can set up a network that isn't connected by default so you can connect it to the net by selecting a single menu option and suddenly it'll think you've plugged a network cable in, once finished you just deselect the option and windows will think the cable's been unplugged.

You can even set it up so the windows box is frozen in time, get it to the state you want it in, then set it so that any changes made are thrown away when the system powers down and next time it starts, it'll be exactly the same as it was the last time you used it.

ah, I thought you meant partition as in, er partition! I'll have a look this evening, er tomorrrow - pool tonight.

Richard

Of course not ;-)

Get your priorities right man! Go and play pool ;-)

Works fine with Wine on Kubuntu. What problems are you having with it ?

Neil

Neil Wilson uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Red ball corner pocket I'd guess at the mo :-)

Lee D

Loads of DLL errors and then the install falls over!

Richard

Well, after having had a go at Templot intstallation, I went back to Microcat and it worked..... except the dongle!

Richard