Re: [Trinux-talk] Undocumented Trinux Tidbits

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> I'm no expert with trinux, but I can answer one or two of your questions:
> At 03:57 AM 28/03/2002, you wrote:
> >Hello all, after my initial testing and experimenting with Trinux, I have 
> >a couple questions that I could not find documentation on.
> >
> >1) On the toos section of the main website 
> >(<http://trinux.sourceforge.net/tools.html>http://trinux.sourceforge.net/tools.html) 
> >there is the quote:
> >    "bash.tgz - you will probably want this, because ash leaves a lot to 
> >be desired."
> >After using both, I was unable to tell the difference.  Does bash need any 
> >other initialization other then to add the package?  What are the 
> >advantages that I am obviously not taking advantage of?
> 
> Type "bash" and press enter.  The you will be using bash rather than sh.
> Advantages: tab completion (yay) and history (yay) - there are probably 
> others, but I've used bash for so long, I couldn't really say what else sh 
> is missing.

It is bash v1 from slackware 7.1. Unless bash is listed in your pkglist then
it will not get run automatically from the linuxrc.


> >
> >2) Is there a way to get color highlighting?  For example, `ls` used to 
> >allow `ls --color` to add highlighting, is there a way to do this with the 
> >current version of Trinux?
> 
> Commands like ls have been stripped down to make more room for "stuff" on 
> the disk - the --color switch isn't absolutely necessary, so it's not 
> here.  Don't quote me on this, but I think that ls under trinux is actually 
> part of busybox, if you want to get a hold of it and recompile it with the 
> --color switch.

Yes ls is from busybox.

> >4) I couldn't find a tool/package that would allow me to manually controll 
> >NULL Sessions like Windows net.exe.  Is there a tool existing for 
> >Trinux?  Does anyone even know of a similar LINUX based utility?

smbclient should be able to do this. I think the smbclient.tgz package
requires smbcore.tgz.

 
> What do you want to do?
> 
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ben
> 
> James Shuttleworth
> 
> 
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