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From: "Littlefield, tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Trying out Slackware
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:11:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002101c7b6de$eeee2d50$6c01a8c0@tdsportable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467F3C6A.4060206@clearwire.net>

that's not a very hard program to write...
slackware requires some coding at times to.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Trying out Slackware


> Zachary Kline wrote:
> > What is the method for installing stuff that isn't in the Slackware
>> package lists?
> 
>     On the install DVD/CDs, you'll find a directory named "slackbook." 
>  Not only does it teach you something about Slackware, but a little 
> about Linux itself.  Use your web browser and load the index.html file. 
>  It sounded like a pretty well written pamphlet on the system.  I'm 
> used to books being a little larger. <grins>  I assume you'll have to 
> visit Sourceforge for additional packages and install them into 
> /usr/local.  How they missed dos2unix I don't know, but the 'tr' command 
> should do for removing carriage returns.
> 
>         Michael
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Zachary Kline
 ` Littlefield, tyler
 ` Doug Sutherland
 ` Gaijin
   ` Littlefield, tyler [this message]
   ` Adam Myrow
     ` Gaijin
       ` ace
         ` Deborah Norling
 ` Ralph W. Reid
   ` Steve Holmes
     ` ace

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