[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V2 #122

En réponse à Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> [Testing File System]
> Thanks for the information on creating images, that's cool.
Be sure to create the mountpoint, as in 
mkdir /image
then
mount ... /image
or it will fail

> 
> [Applications]
> A clarification: I think we should call things like ls, cat, grep etc
> applets.
IIRC applet mean "small" application... try to compare the Clock application
with awk, or vim... not sure those are really small.
In fact there already exist a name for this:
command-line applications, or just "commands". Even M$ figured this (wow :))
and have a COMMAND folder in WINDOWS/ (they took time however, it was caled 
DOS before 95 :)))

> 
> I don't have copious amounts of time or energy, but I thought I could do
> a
> little. So, I wrote 'alert', then I put it on a disk and promptly left
> it at
> home, oh well. So knowing Murphy controls the universe, I will assume
> alert's
> source is already available. If not the code was done from scratch. 
I don't remember comming across this one anywhere, but I may be wrong.
Again, if you find any source for a command in a mirror, tell us :)

> 
> I thought 'alert' would be simple and fun, nut it was annoying in the
> detail.
Eh :-)

François.

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