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smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2740 Location: South Australia

Yeah the original version menu wasn't in a very logical order and the terms used didn't make much sense, not to me anyway, so I changed it.

6502coder · Posted: Mon 14 Aug 2017, 17:51 Post subject:

greengeek · Posted: Tue 15 Aug 2017, 03:46 Post subject:

6502coder · Posted: Tue 15 Aug 2017, 16:04 Post subject:

Well, first off, touch simply changes the timestamp on a file -- it doesn't matter whether the file already exists or not -- so there shouldn't have been a permissions problem, unless maybe some of that shady spot/fido business was involved.

Secondly, the shell provides mechanisms for making unique temporary file names, and that's what I always do. The mktemp command is probably the best way, but being old-school I usually use the classic method of including $$ (the process ID) as part of the file name.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 17 Aug 2017, 16:59 Post subject:

Hello everyone.

Have we forgotten that all Puppies have on board THE very powerful
sqlite3 database processor? Wink

Now that we're reminded, the next thing we lazy bones must do is learn
the sqlite language! Laughing

This one-liner will call it as a stand-alone window, like in the attached pic.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2740 Location: South Australia

Thanks musher. I hadn't forgotten about sqlite but last time I looked it nearly did my head in. I'm currently writing a small database similar to awk. Maybe I should re-visit sqlite.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 17 Aug 2017, 23:15 Post subject:

Hi Smokey01.

You're brave! I wouldn't even think of trying to emulate awk!

Best of luck!

Pelo

SQLite Manager 0.8.3.1 available as addon in Firefox and Seamonkey 290kb
Easy to create fields, and to fulfill, but so boring !
When you must create your reports, that will get everybody giving up.
Downloads : 5.000.000 (more)

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2740 Location: South Australia

SQLiteStudio doesn't look too bad but much bigger than I want. I might try and wrap a gtkdialog around sqlite one day.

@musher0 I'm not competing with awk, using some awk, grep and gtkdialog.

Only a few more hurdles to jump.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 18 Aug 2017, 17:52 Post subject:

@ Smokey01:
I still think you're brave! Smile

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2740 Location: South Australia

musher0 · Posted: Fri 18 Aug 2017, 19:40 Post subject:

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2740 Location: South Australia

CatDude and myself have been working on a little database application written in gtkdialog. It's small, fast and simple to use. It's based on Ian R. Forsyth's fields.awk database with some serious modifications. It should run on any Linux OS, 32 or 64bit with bash, sed, awk, gawk and gtkdialog2.

There are a lot of things going on under the hood. We even changed the colours to make it easier on the eyes, especially when using it late at night.

Thanks to some1, MochiMoppel and musher0 for a little guidance along the way.

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 326

For the novice of the world and group.
I am using fatdog64-710, put both the pet and the Txz on a stick.
Inserted stick into the computer with Fatdog clicked on, asked to extract txz file. OK, created files on the stick. Guess wrong location.
Next extracted to running fatdog location sda. What next?

Ran pet, same situation- no obvious actions. Some of us do not know how to run things without a menu entry or at least instructions.

Please a few instructions.

Thanks.

Is the comment regarding dependencies relevant to Fatdog64-100 or are they included in the base or pet?

musher0 · Posted: Sat 02 Sep 2017, 12:28 Post subject: