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[lojban] Re: samselpli ?
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:34:33AM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >Unfortunately, I think you're right. I sometimes forget the paucity
> >of computer knowledge of the average user; if I found other things to
> >put in a generalized lujvo for "program" (say, required operating
> >system or processor, just to pool a couple of possible places out of
> >my ganxo), the average user would literally have no idea how to fill
> >them.
>
> I don't see anything so unfortunate about it. I don't think places
> for OS and processor are appropriate for the lujvo we're talking
> about.
I was pulling those out of my ganxo, as I said. I don't think they are
either.
> >And sysadmins, like me, prefer samru'e.
>
> That would be a "process" in the Unix sense?
That's how I often use it, but it's much more general than that. It
just means "running program".
-Robin
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