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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.mrtc.org!news.he.net!nr1.scn.co.jp!news02.so-net.or.jp!news01.so-net.or.jp!sinfony-news01!wnoc-tyo-news!news.imnet.ad.jp!newsfeed.kreonet.re.kr!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion. sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] Few Questions Date: 1 Feb 1997 14:44:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5cvksl$ll3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32F0949E.167EB0E7@pobox.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34880 Wouter de Boer <wouter.de.boer@pobox.com> wrote: > Can I only change the date when I give also the time ?? Example: Yes, at least with date(1). > Why ?? Because apparently, somebody thought that date(1) is more often used to make small corrections to the clock (setting time only), as opposed to large corrections (date). So a short number will be interpreted as a new time, and a longer one as time + date. > about screenmap > > What does this option ?? Map the characters as they go into the video buffer. This is e.g. required to display a non-IBM437 characterset on an MDA display where you can't load fonts. > about fonts > > I have intalled iso-8x*.fnt in my "/etc/sysconf" file. But I can't see > any changes when I didn't use this option. Can anybody explain when this > function is used and when not ?? Basically, they add support for: . non-IBM437 charactersets (preferably over a screenmap, but requires at least an EGA adapter), . use of a different number of lines per screen than 25. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)