Please Post Your Forums Successes - May 2005

[Cheryl Griffin]

Hi Everyone,

Please submit your highlights and successes you have had while participating in the ITRC Forums community. Your feedback helps convey the positive influences the forums have had on your IT life. For example, have you:

1. Posted a question and received a key answer that solved your problem?
2. Have you viewed a message thread that had a solution to a problem you were trying to solve?
3. Found the Forums to be of particular help in sharing information, exchanging best practices, or saving you time?

I'd really like to hear from everyone -- your circumstances, the issues, the outcome, who was of help, time saved, etc.! If you have examples to share, please provide the URL of the thread if possible.

You can also post your forums **issues** for May at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=868794

Thanks in advance for your input!

Best Regards,
Cheryl and Dan

[Steve Post]

Oh I think the forums are great. I don't know if I have been any help, but it has helped me.

I couldn't figure out why tail would fail but head, sed, and awk would give me what I wanted. The forum folks told me about the memory limit on tail. If I try to tail too much info, it will truncate.

I have a hp700/96 console that is just BURNING an image onto the screen. And the screen is reversed imaged. I got the info on what buttons to press: to change make the terminal look normal, and blank the screen after 10 minutes.

I needed to have two different versions of sybperl perl module running on one version of perl. I IS possible. Use the PERL5LIB variable.

Besides getting help from others, the forums actually help me help myself too. As a result of writing up my question, I have sometimes thought through the problem enough to solve it myself. To me, writing a question in the forums forces me to organize my thoughts to try to be clear on my question. Also some suggestions bring to light new ideas that weren't thought of before.

[Cheryl Griffin]

May