Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 08:12:07PM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > > - moonlight and GLspace: 3D modellers (which also export to VRML) ^ Is thsi "Moonlight Creator"? Moonlight Creator is already packaged under the name moonlight. It is also not listed on the WNPP ..so

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 09:30:17AM -0400, Ray Kinsella wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > > * Michael Dietrich (Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:31:52AM +0200) > > > if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy > > > to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybod

Re: Base system tarball Q [XTerminal]

1998-06-18 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 03:26:11PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > You might want to look at the Linux Router Project: > > http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ > > which is building a Debian-ish single floppy router. > > Also, it's worth noting that you can format 3.5'' floppies to contain up t

Re: Base system tarball Q [XTerminal]

1998-06-18 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 01:52:17AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 01:23:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > connecting to a host, once I have the IPs needed, what is the nameserver > > needed for? > > Well, you could have a nameserver entry for "xdm-server" (or some

Re: Base system tarball Q [XTerminal]

1998-06-18 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 02:08:05PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:49:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I also found out that I hafta do a chroot . bash --login > > once to get it to configure the base system (ie keymap stuff) > > You could copy /etc/resolv.con

Re: Bug#23457 acknowledged by developer (xexec is not present in menus!)

1998-06-18 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 11:54:34AM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> ?package(splay):needs=X11 section=XShells\ > > ^^^ This looks suspicous to me > >I read the documentation on the Menu Package a whil

Re: xftp: in main but no source??

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:42:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:41:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that > > I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work) > > xftp, s

xftp: in main but no source??

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work) xftp, so I thought I would grab the source. xftp is in main in both hamm and slink, but the source code is nowhere to be found! I looked in hamm, I looke

Base system tarball Q [XTerminal]

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
I have been tossinbg around the idea of using Linux to take a small PC (like a P100 or a 486) and setting it up as a glorified X Terminal. I decided that since debian is clean, and what I use...I will base it on debian. I want to be able to have the system be diskless, and get its entire running f

Re: Bug#23457 acknowledged by developer (xexec is not present in menus!)

1998-06-16 Thread sjc
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 08:27:47AM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Francesco Potorti` wrote: > > > Look again. It's under XShells, and has been since 0.0.3-4. > > > >I do not see it in my wmaker menu. I also looked under /etc/X11 in >

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-15 Thread sjc
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 10:27:52AM -0400, Z-Y [Jerry] wrote: > greet all, > > I am no guru. But let's stop this war! yes...wars are unproductive..and in the case of this type of war doesn't even have the benefit of getting rid of some people off the planet. > To me, choice of editor depends on

Re: Propersel for standerd configuration system.

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:29:41PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:23:28AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > > Second off > data will be regually exported to text based backup files (say like > every hour) so if something goes wrong it ca

Re: Propersel for standerd configuration system.

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:23:28AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > One of the major problems with unix is that, for new users, > it is a bear to configure. I definitly agree (and am glad im not one of those "new users"). In fact most "new things" that one has never configured before take a while

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-08 Thread sjc
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 11:07:47AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Stephen" == Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> I was hacking around on xfstt earlier today. > > Neat. I packed up the ttf files from the Windows[1] that came with > my Laptop, and am going to

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-08 Thread sjc
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 11:03:35PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > > > More incentive to do it in a signal handler, tested code: > > > void sig_handler (int i) { > > > if (i == SIGCHLD) { /*

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-07 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 06:26:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > This turned out to be almost trivial...simply a few mods, instead of > > servicing > > requests after connect, it fork()s and lets the child service that > > connection > > while the parent loops and waits fo rthe next connec

Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO.

1998-06-04 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > Hallo all, > > as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would > like to start this (hopefully) littly project. This sounds like an interesting idea. > I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which migh

Re: GNU protocol

1998-05-09 Thread sjc
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 10:03:03PM -0700, Darren wrote: > This might not be the right place, but I figure it's a good place to start... Usually is I have found :) > What is considered polite with packages that don't (seem) to be maintained by > the original author... say a package that came from

Re: bug #21739 - xfstt -- comments?

1998-05-05 Thread sjc
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 10:56:43PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 11:28:20AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > I have been working on the xfstt package to take it over. Until a few > > days ago there was only one bug of "Wishlist" priority filed against > > it which is