On 2014-05-15 03:06, fsheeran wrote:
>
> Thanks all for your feedback.
>
> Henk,
>
> Henk, you’re right to hector me for not including the tcsh version. But
> I can’t believe you’re hectoring me for not showing the command that
> produced output in a format anyone would recognize as uname -a.
>
> tcsh --version
> tcsh 6.17.02 (Astron) 2010-05-12 (x86_64-suse-linux) options
> wide,nls,lf,dl,al,kan,sm,color,filec
A comment: When pasting here computer commands and such, please use a
CODE BLOCK, so that the forum software doesn’t do silly things like
converting URLS to tiny urls or otherwise hide or alter the commands you
entered. You get them by clicking on the ‘#’ button in the forum editor.
See photo
And… We also like to see everything, from the command prompt with the
command that you are running and the complete output to the next prompt
- so that we know exactly what your are doing

> uname -a
> Linux slim.site 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-02-21 10:34:10
> +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What Henk says is that we prefer it like this:
> cer@minas-tirith:~> uname -a
> Linux minas-tirith.valinor 3.11.10-7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 3 09:41:24 UTC 2014 (750023e) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> cer@minas-tirith:~>
Because it avoids misunderstanding. With the prompts and commands used,
complete 
> I don’t have an /etc/os-release .
Because you are using an old release, maybe even obsolete. Please use
instead "/etc/SuSE-release/. If you are not using 12.3 or 13.1, you have
to upgrade your system (exception: 11.4 has maintenance till about June
with Evergreen).
https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
https://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen
…
> I’ve been using it since 1995 pretty much daily) then its perfectly
> valid to ask why one can’t even see ones’ own command line editing even
> in a 3-year-old release.
… because the problem may be a bug that was solved “recently” 
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))