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Hi... trying to install Codeweavers-wine-20010305, which is the latest stable build I understand. It configures and then informs me that it'll compile but that building without the Xpm development files won't work. Sure enough... they were right...<grin> So I go get the latest Xpm stuff and they turn out to be libxpm4-3.4 and libxpm4-devel-3.4. Got them in .src.rpm and

I've now got scripts that correctly backup all my primary partitions to a second drive. The original problem was that I copied them over without a time stamp, so that the first rsync run found no timestamps and wanted to copy them all over again. So I used: 'rsync -r -t -v --size-only $SOURCE $TARGET' My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has the

I'm just starting to learn about rsync. My use is to backup one hard drive to another (newer) hard drive. I've read through the man file, the rsync site, several googled posts, and have read this forum for a few days, and I still have some questions. The initial copy over was simply 'cp $SOURCE $DESTINATION &'. Then I figured out that rsync was what I needed to update the