Minor problem : Pine colors

[beartooth]

On Wed, 04 May 2005 11:15:20 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> On Wed, 04 May 2005 12:43:38 -0400, beartooth wrote:
> 
>> I'd try just replacing the .pinerc with one from Fedora -- YDL4 is
>> essentially FC2 ported to Apple hardware -- but the confounded iBook has
>> no floppy drive!
> 
> Why not just transfer the file over Ethernet?

Attach it to an email and mail it to myself, you mean? I don't have a homw
LAN -- I'm not savvy enough to set one up.

>> I don't fancy myself at burning CDs under any linux. If I manage to get a
>> usable one with the .pinerc on it, is the iBook going to be able to read
>> it? I notice that Fedora when formatting a floppy gives a choice of
>> several file systems; is there something like that for CDs?
> 
> You don't "format" a CD. Under Linux, you usually use mkisofs to create a
> CD image, and it has loads of different commandline options you can use.

Well, until I got rid of it, OSX of evil memory used to greet every new CD
by asking me if I wanted to format it. So I let it do a few, to have
handy, like formatted floppies. And now they're all coasters, afaict :
linux doesn't even recognize that there's anything in the drive when I put
one in and try to mount it.

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Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist
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Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.