fedora 16

Bill Cunningham

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Jan 22, 2012, 7:57:12 PM1/22/12

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I have gcc install with this fedora 16 and tried man fread and get no
manpages. Also grub seems to be different. I want to change the defaults to
boot my windows by default.

Bill

J G Miller

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Jan 22, 2012, 8:39:19 PM1/22/12

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On Sunday, January 22nd, 2012, at 19:57:12h -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote:

> I want to change the defaults to boot my windows by default.

Why?

So you can post to UseNet using

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180

???

Bill Cunningham

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Jan 22, 2012, 9:05:32 PM1/22/12

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Well yeah that's one reason. I do all my networking with windows. I use
linux for development.

Bill

Dan C

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Jan 22, 2012, 9:16:59 PM1/22/12

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:57:12 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote:

> I have gcc install with this fedora 16 and tried man fread and get no
> manpages.

"No man pages", or "no man page for 'fread'"?

> Also grub seems to be different.

Different..... from what?

> I want to change the defaults to boot my windows by default.

man grub

HTH.

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Bill Cunningham

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Jan 22, 2012, 11:41:32 PM1/22/12

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Dan C wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:57:12 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
>> I have gcc install with this fedora 16 and tried man fread and get no
>> manpages.
>
> "No man pages", or "no man page for 'fread'"?

For fread. I installed an rpm called man-pages and it has C's functions
and such. I was only getting bash's printf man page too and now I get C's.

>> Also grub seems to be different.
>
> Different..... from what?

fedora 15 it seems to me.

>> I want to change the defaults to boot my windows by default.
>
> man grub
>
> HTH.

Thanks.

Bill

Gordon

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Jan 22, 2012, 11:52:46 PM1/22/12

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ROTFL. Oh dear the troll bell has gone off. I do find it hard to believe
that you you Linux for development and yet can not get to read the news with
it. Sorry

Bill Cunningham

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Jan 23, 2012, 12:17:52 AM1/23/12

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Dan C wrote:

[snip]

> man grub

Well I guess I don't have a grub man page. Or info pages. Commands like
'help' 'root' and so on don't work at all with grub. I have no idea what to
type in the CLI.

Bill

Ivan Shmakov

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Jan 23, 2012, 12:22:34 AM1/23/12

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>>>>> Bill Cunningham <nos...@nspam.invalid> writes:
>>>>> Dan C wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:57:12 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote:

>>> I have gcc install with this fedora 16 and tried man fread and get
>>> no manpages.

>> "No man pages", or "no man page for 'fread'"?

> For fread. I installed an rpm called man-pages and it has C's
> functions and such. I was only getting bash's printf man page too
> and now I get C's.

It's not Bash's, it's "command line" printf(1), which is indeed
different from C printf(3). Consider, e. g.:

$ man 1 printf

$ man 3 printf

[...]

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Richard Kettlewell

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Jan 23, 2012, 4:19:07 AM1/23/12

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"Bill Cunningham" <nos...@nspam.invalid> writes:
> Well I guess I don't have a grub man page. Or info pages. Commands
> like 'help' 'root' and so on don't work at all with grub. I have no
> idea what to type in the CLI.

You don't say what version of Grub you have (I don't know Fedora at all)
but the current documentation can be found at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/

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Dan C

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Jan 23, 2012, 8:29:15 AM1/23/12

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Then go look it up somewhere. Have you never heard of Google? You can't
do a little (simple) research on your own?

Who wipes your ass for you? Maybe you could ask them.

Sheesh.

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philo

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Feb 6, 2012, 5:11:00 PM2/6/12

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I don't usually post here
but have been following this group for years...
the guy is not a troll but yes, I think he might have tried a Google
search first