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ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]>
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ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:32:12 -0800
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On 11/03/2014 05:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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>
> On 3 November 2014 17:51, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>     On 11/03/2014 04:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
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>         On SL 7, I installed xterm-295-3.el7.x86_64
>
>         What happened to "-exec"?  This broke a ton of my
>         script launchers!
>
>         On SL6.5, I am running xterm-253-1.el6.x86_64
>         Do have to revert to get -exec back?
>
>
>
>     By any chance was"-exec" replaced with "-e"?
>
>
> -e has been around from primordial times. I am guessing that either
> xterm ignored the xec on -exec before.. or it was a hidden feature not
> in the man page.
>
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
>


Hi Steven,

Thank you!

When I am writing these things, I prefer to use the long names
over the short ones as it makes life easier when you are trying
to figure out what you did years later.  :'(

-T

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