On Tuesday 20 July 2010 17:52:57 Dattatray Kamble wrote:
Hi,
I agree with you i but haven't done this before...And JTD's response somewhat negative....So..i posted my query once again.
Oh God. My reply was a semi humourous barb to make you aware that you are top posting and not triming your mails. As you can (hopefully) see in this mail (and the previous ones), my reply is posted interleaved, that is, my reply lines are directly below the relevant lines of the mail i am replying to. Also I cut of all the parts not relevant to the reply.
One of the requirements of a succesful linux app deployment is following simple tasks. The simplest tasks being searching google, reading manpages. Asking for help and replying to mails on a mailing list will also qualify as a simple task preceded by reading the list guidelines.
http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List_Etiquette
So IMVVHO you should follow these guidelines.
Btw in the GNU/Linux world what works for 500 also works for 1 and for all whole numbers inbetween. I am not sure about 0, -1, 3.1414....