Charlie Summers wrote:
At 4:39 PM -0400 7/29/02, Anne Judge is rumored to have typed:
I had this problem when I started with Smartlist
It is NOT a "problem."
If something isn't working the way you want, it IS a problem until you figure out what it's doing and fix it.
and I didn't use the unix delinking to fix the problem.
I'm afraid you DID use "unix delinking."
Strictly semantics. *I* did not type the unix command - I told my GUI FTP program to delete the file (by highlighting the file's name in the program's window & hitting command-delete), and *IT* sent the appropriate Unix command. OK, maybe I should have stated "type the unix delinking command" (which is what I actually meant) instead of "use the unix delinking," so I'm guilty of sloppy wording. As for comments about my attitude, I see no need to learn something just to show what a macho computer jock I am, when X-commands and my FTP program with the GUI front end have done EVERYTHING I have ever needed to do in setting up & administering Smartlist lists. I don't believe the vast majority of people can remember a command used only a couple times a year. I can't, and I'm generally considered to have above-average memory. And looking things up every time you need them, when you have an instant but different method of accomplishing the same thing, is a waste of time, in my opinion. Some people like to do their word processing and page layout in latex for the control it gives them; I prefer Word to do the dirty work. On the other hand, I still program HTML because I haven't found a WYSIWYG editor in my price range (really cheap) that gives me the control I want. If you like that level of immediacy & control in dealing with the remote computer (unix box), fine, or if like my husband the commands come so naturally from decades of use that you don't have to think before typing them (15 years ago I was like that with the Apollos' unix-like OS), then by all means use it since it's efficient and fast for you. [At this point I should interject that if you're *not* working remotely, then you probably use unix on the computer in question already, you're in the unix-jock - nicest sense possible - class with my husband, and you're in a completely different situation than the one I'm addressing.] But don't rag on people who have found a way that works better for them - a buffer between them and the actual (rarely-used, therefore forgotten) commands - and have the temerity to offer it as a suggestion to others. This list should be to help others use the software, not to enforce orthodoxy in the approach used. Or am I wrong there? Anne