Inserting the output of a shell command into the current buffer in Emacs

Simple:

do: C-u M-!
then enter the shell command in the mini-buffer.

e.g.: C-u M-! date inserts the current date and time if you're on Linux. If you're using Windows, it inserts a lot of crap because that's the command to set the date.

Creating PET Packages for Puppy Linux

It's pretty simple, just the usual configure, make, make install process, but with a couple twists, you can make the package work on older processors and still perform well on new ones:

• Untar the source
• cd into the extracted directory
• do ./configure --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu
• do make CFLAGS="-march=i486 -mtune=i686"
• do new2dir make install; follow directions
• exit and cd up one directory; clean up the directory as needed
• do dir2pet; follow directions

That's all it should take.