Which linux works best on Compaq Proliant 5000 and 6500 server series

[James Mendez]

 Has anyone installed linux on the above server and have it working. 
Please let me know your experiences. I have the above server and I would
like
To know if it works. First just tell me which linux and what version works.
The above processors are IntelPro PII

Thanks
James
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of William
O'Higgins
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:08 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Removing junk characters from text files?

I now have a solution that works (well, two), so thanks to all who helped my
out and stuck with this thread.  What follows is a quick recap.

Problem:  Windoze put formatting characters from the upper reaches of the
8859 charset in my csv files, and I wanted them stripped.  I didn't know
what to call them, and TLUG came to the rescue.

Henry Spencer's solution:

>        tr -cd '\n\040-\176'
>
>That gets rid of everything except newlines and the printable ASCII 
>characters.  (\177, aka character 127, is not printable.)

That worked great, but it took me a while to remember how to put that on a
command line, like so:

cat filewithcrap.csv | tr -cd '\n\040-\176' > crapfree.csv

Lennart Sorenson's solution:

>#!/usr/bin/perl
>while(<>) {
>        @chars = split(//);
>		foreach $c (@chars) {
>		#print "$c" if (ord($c)<128);
>		print "$c" if (ord($c)<128 and ord($c)>31 or ord($c) eq 10);
>		}
>}
>
>Just pipe the file through that perl script and see if that does it.  I 
>think characters 32 to 127 and linefeed are all that you would want in 
>a unix text file.

This also works, so that's two ways, which never ever hurts.  One very
thorough-looking solution that didn't work but which I need to spend some
time with to better understand (it could be user error) was Devin Whalen's.
Here's the response to his message:

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:18:38PM -0500, Devin Whalen wrote:
>Can you send a file with some examples?  I am pretty sure the perl 
>script I sent will work.  I used it on getting junk characters from a 
>file from an AIX server.

I'll put in some example text under my .sig.  Running your script on my csv
file worked like "touch" for me - harmless but not functional.  I dunno why
yet, but I should get some time to look at it soon.
-- 

yours,

William


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