Re: How To Run Mixmaster Under Linux

From: George Orwell (nobody_at_mixmaster.it)
Date: 10/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:21:37 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:31:24 +0200, Herbert Logan wrote:

> Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-200510.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
> wrote:
>
>> You should then see a file called .bash_profile. Open it. Somewhere in
>> there are a bunch of lines beginning with 'export'. Insert a line among
>> them and type: export EDITOR="/usr/bin/kwrite"
>
>> Reboot the computer.
>
> You never heard for typing .<dot> before $HOME/.bashrc ? Or command
> 'source' ? Or at least 'login' again right from the shell ? Read "man
> source" for your own good. And, please don't instruct people to do
> something unnecessary and waste time.
>
>> Run mixmaster again, using its gui, and when you choose 'e' to
>
> Mixmaster has no any kind of GUI, it is called a 'screen oriented program'
> with ncurses interface. "G" in GUI stands for graphics which has nothing
> to do with ncurses. Even 'newt' interface has nothing to do with gui
> although it's mach closer to it than ncurses.
>
> Go ask questions in comp.os.linux.help, and leave such faqs to somene who
> knows what he's writing about. Get a job.

You sound like a typical Linux snotnose. The instructions, for all their flaws, are the clearest explanation I have seen of how to run mixmaster under Linux.

If some Linux guru who can write instructions in English wants to give it a try, more power to him.

What we don't need is some nit-picking idiot like you.

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