Re: settrans

[cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org]

On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 16:21:26 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>  said:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:49:51PM -0500, cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a decent set of documentation on settrans out there?
> 
> Note that settrans does almost nothing. It simply writes a STRING to an
> INODE. Syntax is "settrans INODE STRING". There are some options that
> specify what to do if a translator already exists (passive or active), but
> this is "advanced" usage.
> 
> For translators in general, see
> 
> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-translator
> 
> a 12kB piece I wrote on translators.

Looks useful.  Thanks!

> For individual translators, check their documentation.
>  
> > I've been trying to get a Hurd instance to speak to my network; it
> > has not been terribly successful thus far, and I think what I'm not
> > properly understanding is settrans.
> 
> So you should be muhc more concerned with the pfinet translator than with
> settrans.

That should help further still.  Thanks again.
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