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I can't find a charter or FAQ so are Auctions allowed ?

Thanks

Neil

Quote:> I can't find a charter or FAQ so are Auctions allowed ?

As long as they're speccy related, I don't see why not.

Oh, and one more thing...

http://www.sinclairfaq.com/

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It's better than your auction....

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Ahem. comp.sys.*sinclair*

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s/speccy/Sinclair :P

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It's better than generalising....

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:47:28 +0000, Neil Maynard

Sinclair FAQs at http://www.sinclairfaq.com/

comp.sys.sinclair FAQ at http://www.sinclairfaq.com/cssfaq/index.html

...which doesn't seem to mention auctions any more.

Wouldn't it make more sense to do auctions via Ebay?

Matthew

2003:

Quote:>> Ahem. comp.sys.*sinclair*

> s/speccy/Sinclair :P

Eh? All I was saying was that Sinclair does not consist exclusively of
the Spectrum.

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On 17 Feb 2003 23:01:47 GMT, David Buttery

Scribbler (aka Jamie Percival) was correcting himself.

If you enter  s/speccy/Sinclair  in Linux[1], it does a
'find-and-replace' operation.

[1] (I can't believe you're daring to talk about this subject again. -
Ed)

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I have no problem advertising auctions for sinclair stuff on
comp.sys.sinclair, but I agree the actions themselves should be held
on ebay.

otherwise, you'd just be getting offers in Rolo's

how much for a * key 48k

1 pack rolo's

do I hear 2 packs......2 packs of rolo's to that speccyfreak in the
corner....
do I hear 3 packs........ on and on...

l8r

andy

Actually you would enter it in something like ed (text editor) or sed
(streaming text editor) amongst other things, which are available on pretty
much all unices and plenty of other OSes as well (including DOS and
Windows). If you just typed into something at random on Linux you would be
quite unlikely to obtain the desired effect.

Quote:>[1] (I can't believe you're daring to talk about this subject again. -
>Ed)

That's the thing about unix geeks, we don't stand for incorrect usage (maybe
it comes from having to enter all the commands properly, or maybe we just
have USENETFLAGS="-pedantic -Wall" ;0).

Frink

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And while we're being pedantic, it should have a / on the end. Or, to put
it another way, s/s\/([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)/s\/\1\/\2\//.

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Must build that new version of sed for RISC OS...

Quote:>> [1] (I can't believe you're daring to talk about this subject again. - Ed)
> That's the thing about unix geeks, we don't stand for incorrect usage
> (maybe it comes from having to enter all the commands properly, or maybe we
> just have USENETFLAGS="-pedantic -Wall" ;0).

So how come you missed that missing trailing '/'? :-)

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I'd like to, but I'm going to count the bristles in my toothbrush.

I demand that Matthew Westcott may or may not have written...

Alternatively, s%(s/([^/]*){2})%\1/% (if you're feeding that to sed, you'll
need either -r or to \-escape braces and parentheses).

But what about \-escaped /s? We need to trap odd numbers of \s...

  s%(s/([^/]*(\\(\\\\)*/)?){2})%\1/%

Which, like the others, doesn't work as intended when given input like
"s/foo/bar/".

  s%(s/([^/]*(\\(\\\\)*/)?){2})/?%\1/%

And for the not-/-delimited regexp, it becomes interesting...

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Quote:>   s%(s/([^/]*(\\(\\\\)*/)?){2})/?%\1/%

> And for the not-/-delimited regexp, it becomes interesting...

And these are the people who bang on about how much nicer Linux is to
use than Windows...

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On 19 Feb 2003 19:05:50 GMT, David Buttery

As I already pointed out regexps are not the sole preserve of unix software.
Plenty of people use them on other OSes, including the highly 'popular'
Windows in a variety of programs and languages.

Yes, they're mental, yes they're extremely useful, but no you don't *have*
to use them. I tend not to cos as you can see they're melon-twisting.

Frink

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2003:

Quote:> As I already pointed out regexps are not the sole preserve of unix
> software. Plenty of people use them on other OSes, including the
> highly 'popular' Windows in a variety of programs and languages.

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Such as Xnews, now I come to think of it.

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