Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Mailing list redirection etiquette? Message-ID: From: Fred Kulack Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:29:07 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-IsSubscribed: yes On 10/06/2004 at 04:30:02 AM, cygwin-owner wrote: it's shouting "TITTTL" at the top of your voice while running round the room flapping your arms like a chicken! --- end of excerpt --- 8-) Oh yeah.... That'll help, near as I can tell there's 95 acronyms right now. there's just "Nothing Quite Like Geeks Going Over Board" (I think I'd pronounce that one 'nickel gob') And just to make this post more on topic (which topic, I don't have a clue), here's one for you that you don't want to live without. From your command prompt, use: > google cygwin acronym list If that doesn't work, setup this function: > typeset -f google google () { url="http://www.google.com"; separator="/search?q="; for i in $@; do url="${url}${separator}${i}"; separator="+"; done; echo "Starting: $url"; ~/bin/firefox "$url" & } "The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human society is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and something like mathematics, and something like language, and something like thought, and art, and information... but software is not in fact any of those other things." Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown Fred A. Kulack - IBM eServer iSeries - Enterprise Application Solutions ERP, Java DB2 access, Jdbc, JTA, etc... IBM in Rochester, MN (Phone: 507.253.5982 T/L 553-5982) mailto:kulack/us.ibm.com Personal: mailto:kulack/magnaspeed.net AIM Home:FKulack AIM Work:FKulackWrk MSN Work: fakulack/hotmail.com (replace email / with @) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/