Re: [tlug] SuSE 9.1 - 9.3 Upgrade Saga

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Scott Robbins wrote:

>>.bash_profile... how do I alter that?  If it's too much trouble to explain, 
>>never mind, but if not, I'd smile at my computer screen to see how it's 
>>done....
>>    
>>
>
>Do you mean, how do you change things in your .bash_profile?  It's a
>simple text file, you open it up and put things in there.  For instance,
>you can have what Jonathan (sigh he's too busy to read this list these
>days, I think, so it's no fun trying to annoy him) calls a girly-man
>prompt with pretty colors.  (For examples, see 
>http://qnd-guides.net/qnd-prompt.html)  This includes some stty type
>settings--for instance, something like stty erase2 ^H
>
>How to set various stty things is a different subject, start with man
>stty and take it from there.   (Not sure if the Linux man page is as
>clear, at least to me, as the BSD one, but you can always read the BSD
>man pages online at their respective sites, that is www.freebsd.org,
>www.openbsd.org, etc.  
>  
>

Thanks!  I immediately had a look at the man page by typing in:
man stty

I have a question about the man pages though - although each screen 
copy-pastes out well enough (as below), as I'd like to view them in a 
text editor where I could save the bits I find most of interest in a 
separate file without having to go back and forth from the man page to 
the editor.  (That's not clear - what I mean is I want to be able to 
have a huge block of text in the text editor, and then trim out the 
stuff I don't want from that.)

If it's not possible, then never mind.  In the meantime, I'll have a 
look at the websites.

Lyle



STTY(1)                          User Commands                         
STTY(1)

NAME
       stty - change and print terminal line settings

SYNOPSIS
       stty [-F DEVICE] [--file=DEVICE] [SETTING]...
       stty [-F DEVICE] [--file=DEVICE] [-a|--all]
       stty [-F DEVICE] [--file=DEVICE] [-g|--save]

DESCRIPTION
       Print or change terminal characteristics.

       -a, --all
              print all current settings in human-readable form

       -g, --save
              print all current settings in a stty-readable form

       -F, --file=DEVICE
              open and use the specified DEVICE instead of stdin

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

       Optional  -  before  SETTING  indicates negation.  An * marks 
non-POSIX
       settings.  The underlying system defines which settings are  
available.

   Special characters:
       * dsusp CHAR
              CHAR will send a terminal stop signal once input flushed

       eof CHAR
              CHAR will send an end of file (terminate the input)
 Manual page stty(1) line 
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