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@ 2004-07-08 08:00:00
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sl - Correct you if you type `sl' by mistake
Sl is a program that can display animations aimed to correct you if you type 'sl' by mistake.

I simply can't resist sharing this one. I had never heard of sl until my friend El [info]jope Magnifico brought it to my attention. He says:
It serves no useful purpose. But it sure is fun!
No kidding. Just in case you don't want to install it, I'll go ahead and reveal a screen(1) shot:


                          (@@) (  ) (@)  ( )  @@    ()    @     O     @     O      @
                     (   )
                 (@@@@)
              (    )

            (@@@)
          ====        ________                ___________
      _D _|  |_______/        \__I_I_____===__|_________|
       |(_)---  |   H\________/ |   |        =|___ ___|      _________________
       /     |  |   H  |  |     |   |         ||_| |_||     _|                \_____A
      |      |  |   H  |__--------------------| [___] |   =|                        |
      | ________|___H__/__|_____/[][]~\_______|       |   -|                        |
      |/ |   |-----------I_____I [][] []  D   |=======|____|________________________|_
    __/ =| o |=-~O=====O=====O=====O\ ____Y___________|__|__________________________|_
     |/-=|___|=    ||    ||    ||    |_____/~\___/          |_D__D__D_|  |_D__D__D_|
      \_/      \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/      \_/               \_/   \_/    \_/   \_/


I love trains!

Ever since posting that "list empty" a couple days ago, at least 18 people have already written in with great suggestions. Many people suggested several packages. I still need to get them all queued in the system. But the load is helping encourage me to put some work into how I managed the queue and make it easier to use. RSN...

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[info]jope
2004-07-08 10:07 am UTC (link)
Don't forget to try all the command-line options!

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This is something they do to you in hell....
(Anonymous)
2004-07-08 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Nothing is worse than getting up to speed, doing a lot of stuff, and in the middle of it you misspell a 'ls', and wham - a lot of traffic to your not-that-fast-connection to a site on the other side of the earth... The author of this should be prosecuted ... :)

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Gentoo's version
(Anonymous)
2004-07-09 04:09 am UTC (link)
I've been installing sl since about 2000 and I just love showing it off. The other day, a friend was installing gentoo, which I had never seen. Well, "emerge sl" did the obvious, only when I ran it, me and my friend starred at 15 long wagons, for over a minute with no way (well, another console would have let us killed it, but I was too curious) to break it, and just as long for the train to finish its round trip. I notice -e isn't a normal ls option, perhaps we could update the sl package with the gentoo source and run that when provided the -e option?
You can simply leave me a comment on any post here: http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/ - I'd love to hear more ideas on this excellent piece of software :)

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Re: Gentoo's version
(Anonymous)
2004-07-15 03:05 am UTC (link)
You're looking for "ls-h" (no spaces)?

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missing footnote ?
(Anonymous)
2004-07-09 04:12 am UTC (link)
This little bit cought my attention:
"I'll go ahead and reveal a screen(1) shot"
Did you intend to write a footnote about screen ?

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Re: missing footnote ?
[info]rfunk
2004-07-09 07:18 am UTC (link)
screen(1) means that screen is a command described in section 1 of the Unix/Linux manual. So to find out about it you type "man 1 screen".

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Re: missing footnote ?
(Anonymous)
2004-07-09 09:33 am UTC (link)
duh! Sorry about that, silly me :)

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Re: missing footnote ?
[info]ydna
2004-07-09 12:05 pm UTC (link)
No. That's the man page section for the screen program.

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[info]k8to
2004-07-13 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Feeling pretty stupid here... Why does 'sl' produce a train?

-josh

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steam locomotive
(Anonymous)
2004-07-14 02:28 am UTC (link)
steam locomotive

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Re: steam locomotive
(Anonymous)
2004-10-29 01:29 pm UTC (link)
I WANT IT FOR MY RED HAT!!

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