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Simone Feudo-Probst says,
Will you Please GET OUT OF THAT COMPUTER ROOM!!!! NOW!!!!!!

l_danner@library.FANDM.edu says,
Just showing Ron around the WWW. Your page looks great!

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Bill Hagarty says,
Doug, Nice job! It looks professional but not cluttered. how do I download and print the article "Your First Cigar" on Dave's homepage. In case you didn't know, I tried to access your page by going to http://www.ede.vill.edu/tildadoug and it said it did not exist. So I just went to http:/www.ece.vill.edu and it directed me to the Engineering Departments Student Home Pages list and picked your name from the list of students. It brought me to your home page and loaded very quickly. The address I got was http://www.ece.vill.edu/user/doug Send me a response at : pcrepair@msn.com Bill

Nirat Shah says,
I went through the entire Unix guide built by you. I really enjoyed the session. It was very informative and it is just the right material required by a programmer. A suggestion is that u add the questions asked by the readers which u feel appropriate in your home page. These questions should not be the more common ones. Thankyou very much

jim probst says,
Just searching the Web, and noticed the similiar name!!Greetings from Denver!

Michelle Heavrin says,
I wanted to know if you live in Germany I live in the U.S. and a few years ago, we had a foreign exchange student come to our school from Germany and his name was Helge Probst. Is Probst a very common name? Do you know of him? Please E-mail me at eheavrin@raven.tach.surf.net Thanks
Doug says,
I sent mail but it bounced! Anyway I live in the US near Philadelphia. Not many Probst's around here but I think there are a few in the Lancaster area.

Shel says,
Thanks for visiting my page.
But yours is more informative.
Very nice job.

Suzanne Cottrell says,
Thanks for the beginners info on UNIX! Do you know of any other sites that might be useful to UNIX beginners? What books would you recommend?

Suzanne says,
Thank you for the UNIX beginners info. I printed each page. Do you know of any other UNIX sites which would helpful for beginners? Do you have any books you would recommend?

Doug says,
I think that everyone should have a copy or Unix in a Nutshell, Learning
the VI editor and (I still don't own it, but have check it out a couple of
times at the books store) Portable Shell Programming by (I can't remember )
Good luck and keep on plugin, it gets easyer every day!
See Ya!

Christopher Olcott says,
Got the address from my Guest Book.. Thanks for stopping by.. Also, as a new unix user I love the Unix Page you have!!! It will help! Best of luck to ya! Chris

Trevor North says,
Thanks for the solution to my posting regarding obtaining the exit status of a remote shell command Trev.

Julie Probst says,

Alex Heath says,
Dear Doug - your vi stuff and the most used Unix commands have saved me a lot of pain and suffering. The Scottish folds sound pretty neat althoguh I'm a dog person myself...

jonwil@primenet.com says,
The UNIX primer is a nice feature. Thanks

Christine Probst says,
Great Cat!

jos essers says,
saw, your comments in the comp admin news group, will further react on it, there. For the time being, I am just trying to have some fun on the Internet, however, find the level of discussions still too much on Citizen Band level. For that reason, I was pleased with your contribution, and I will try to contribute as well on a regular basis, although I am not yet that advanced like having my own homepage. But we'll see. From Holland, a rainy sunday morning, wish you luck. Jos.

Joe Viau (JoeViau@ids.net) says,
This is a good page! I am just starting out in Unix, and found some good shell script stuff here. I have a question. I would like to take your shell script "rename files with names that are similar" one step further. I would like you to consider the following functionality: 1. I would like to take the script, and change it into a daemon. I guess I could wrap the whole thing in a "while" clause, and wake up every five or ten minutes. Why, you ask? Heh, heh. 2. At intervals, a file will land in a sub- rectory, say INPUT.DAT. I would like to rename the file to INPnnnnn.DAT, where nnnnn=a sequence number, but there are other INPnnnnn.DAT files in the sub-directory. I would like to get the highest occurrence, add 1 to it, and rename INPUT.DAT to this INPnnnnn.DAT sequence. Is this possible? I know it's a little convoluted, but it would make a good example. If you don't wish to make this an example, could you at least point me to some of the shell commands necessary to do this? I appreciate your time in reading this, and hope to visit more as this page grows. It's got a lot of nice potential. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Joe

fastbob@erols.com says,
Hi Doug I just wanted to say I like your web page . the information on it is very usefull to me . Thanks bob wiegand ps : Happy Thanksgiving

Pete Probst Cornwall UK says,
probsty@rmplc.co.uk

Joe McCaughan says,
Good stuff in the /bin/sh section Doug. I've been doing sh hacking for almost 11 years now. Even wrote a program that plays chess in it!! :) I agree with your assertion that /bin/sh is the only Unix shell to program in for portablity reasons. Here's a recent post of mine to the Unix shell newsgroup... Subject: Re: What shell for beginner writing scripts Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell References: 01bbd62b$86e1bfa0$05f7face@tech4.monmouth.com 56te5e$j0r@tiptoe.f hda.edu slrn5964g6.6i.psci@teleport.com : I know this is a touchy subject, however, I need input from experienced : users that can still remember being a newbe. I strongly recommend /bin/sh. Plain old vanilla Bourne Shell. There are good reasons to use it for programming. 1) It is the only *totally* portable shell for all Unix's(sp?). I have never seen a Unix version that does not support it. (Inluding HPUX, WYSE Unix, Solaris, SunOs, A/UX(Apple) SCO, AIX(IBM), Sequent, Altos, Ultrix, MICROPORT, Ctix(Convergent) SVR[234], BSD & others...) 2) All Unix startup scripts are written in it (AFAIK). Why? It's portable I suppose... 3) The oldest versions of Unix use/support it so you can be fairly sure your programs will be backward compatable. Please dont use csh. --Joe McCaughan ============ end snip ============ Cya Doug! --Joe McCaughan shiloh@best.com

Mark Probst says,
Hello from Appleton Wisconsin. Although we share the same last name, I'm betting we're not related.

Jallie Beans says,
Hey, Doug! We need new car tips... keep up the good work.

David Mitchell says,
Do you know a guy named Hilton Robinson? stu450@unit.coco.cc.az.us

jim says,
Hey where am I? and how did i get here

Grace says,
Nice page.

J. Wetzel says,
Just browsing to more learn UNIX / Shell tricks so the other engineers stop making fun of me! Great page. Very Cear.

cdfano@aol.com says,
Hi, I just got back from having dinner. Guess what I had........ EGGPLANT Parmesian

Bob Dunbar says,
You got me out of nasty UNIX hole I'd dug myself into and for that I'm most grateful. Liked the page on the cats to, especially as they come from the same place as myself.

Pete says,
Doug, you have a LAME web page.... http://www.pete.dickson.org

Toyia says,
Keep up the good work. I found your page very helpful.

Ali says,
Please try to post more scripts examples. Directory hierachy is one of a good example for beginners.

mthomas@ops.cogniant.com says,
Really nice site. Now I am learning shell scripting. regards, MANOJ THOMAS, COGNIANT Inc.

Test says,

Dan Newman says,
I was pleased to find your web page on GOOGLE.... Hope all is well...

James (Jamie) Dennis says,
Hi Doug, Nice web page. Never heard of a Scottish Fold, but they're cute. Later, Jamie A HREF=http://www.netset.com/~jdennis My Web page /A

none says,
nice website

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