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Linux vi Buffer Sort Primer Tutorial

The Linux (or unix) command vi is a powerful command line editor tool which has a long history with unix, may have a long learning curve for beginners, perhaps. Our last tutorial about the vi command line text editor was … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Users and Groups Primer Tutorial

Underpinning a Mac OS X MacBook Pro laptop’s workings is a Linux or Unix-like BSD operating system. This operating system, like a lot of others, uses files that have permissions and ownership. If you have file permissions they are for … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer ActiveX Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial

Hope you don’t find “intellectual exercises” a waste of time? If so, you may need to tune out now, from our HotKey Quiz web application (building on yesterday’s Windows Command Line Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial) discussion below. There are occasions … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial

Readers who found Assembler Primer Tutorial interesting may well be interested in today’s tutorial where we construct a simple quiz made up of questions suiting a hotkey answer on the Windows command line, written in DOS (or Windows Command Line) … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line C Filespec Tutorial

You may recall from our previous Windows Command Line Batch Filespec Tutorial as shown below a solution we developed using a Batch file, but we did say at the time … To get small desktop jobs with ascii files done … Continue reading

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Windows Command Line Batch Filespec Tutorial

To get small desktop jobs with ascii files done on Windows, you may laugh at the suggestion to do it in DOS (or Command Line), but the fact is that you can do an amazing amount of the things you … Continue reading

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PHP Port Process Primer Tutorial

When there is a concept that somehow links hardware to software things fall into place better for me, personally, with understanding. For me, this is because hardware is that interesting thing out there that is more unknown, and so much … Continue reading

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Linux Disk Usage Statistics Primer Tutorial

There are occasions when using a Linux or Unix operating system when it is gobsmacking how a two letter command can do so much. And so it is the case with our use of the “du” to display disk usage … Continue reading

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