[plug] KDE on Mandrake some questions

[Innis Cunningham]

Thanks Onno

  Onno Benschop writes
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>Innis Cunningham wrote:
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>>Hi All
>
>Hi yourself.
>
>First off the bat, it's considered bad form using an email from someone 
>else and replying to that and changing the subject if the email you're 
>replying to has nothing to do with the email you're writing.

Ok.
>
>The reason this is the case is because many email programs are able to 
>track which messages belong to which discussion and can show the email in 
>the appropriate thread - as do many archiving programs.

You learn something new every day
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>So, next time, just start a new message and send it to the group.

Will do I am sorry for any inconvenience.
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>>Running KDE on Mandrake 10.
>>Two questions
>>1)Where are the KDE files on my system?.
>>I have looked in USR and other places but can't
>>find them.
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>Well, there isn't really a concept of "KDE files", because KDE is really 
>more of a framework that allows you to run programs. It's like asking where 
>are the letters "a" in this email. You could point to each one, but it 
>wouldn't actually help you, so instead, what question are you really asking 
>here?

Thats a good question.I assumed KDE was an application and as such
would have files somewhere

>>Also I have tried using the CP command to move directory files
>>on my system but each time I get a "omitting directory" warning and
>>nothing gets copied.What am I doing wrong?.
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>You are likely trying to copy a whole directory, not files, the copy 
>command does this only if you ask it to, using the "-r" option. Before you 
>use it I *strongly* recommend that you use the command "man cp" to read the 
>appropriate manual page.

Ok thank you
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>>And if I change the permissions for a directory will this change the 
>>permissions
>>for all the subdirectories and files in the main directory or do I have to 
>>go and
>>change the permissions of every file separately?.
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>No it won't change the permission for each file, but you can use the "-R" 
>option, or a wild-card, like this:
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>    chmod -R +r fred
>    chmod +r fred/*
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>Which both would set the read flag on the files inside fred, but they do 
>change different things, the first command would change fred and all the 
>files and directories below it, the second one would only change the files 
>inside fred and the directories inside fred, but not the files inside the 
>directories inside fred.
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>Again the "man" command is there for assistance: "man chmod".

Thank You
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>--
>Onno Benschop

Cheers
Innis