Re: ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-31 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi again... It seems that the buster login for mirrors on ftp.debian.org has been moved to the root directory ( / ) of debian.org. Now to get to the Debian distribution we have to go into "/debian.org/ftp/debian". Could someone try to correct the buster login before the mirrors delete everything

Bug#2032: 2036. Printer stuck #4.

1995-12-31 Thread Eddie Maddox
Bug# 2032: Printer stuck. Bug# 2036: Print screen button non-functional. This posting: Bug# 2032 only. Bug# 2032: Printer stuck. Presenting symptoms: "bash: /dev/lp0: No such device", also lp1, lp2. At boots, the AMIBIO

faulty mirror of Debian Linux at tsx-11

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Swift
The stable, recommended components of Debian Linux are available in the directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93 but neither this directory nor its sister symbolic link "stable" are properly mirrored at tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian, and this has been the case for I'd

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-31 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
> Package: man > Version: 2.3.10-6 > > I can't seem to find a way to set MANOPT to change the default pager for > displaying man pages to "less -s". > > I want to do this: > > MANOPT='-P "less -s"' > > But man apparently doesn't parse the double quotes, and treats the -s as a ne w > man option. T

Bug#2032: 2036. Printer stuck #4.

1995-12-31 Thread Bruce Perens
Eddie, Did something else change? You had better results before. Bruce -- Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pixar Animation Studios

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-31 Thread Bruce Perens
A work-around would be to construct a shell program that evaluated to "less -c" and pass the name of that program in MANOPT. An alias won't always be expanded where you want it to be - it depends on how the program executes a command line - it has the option to not use the shell to do that at all.

Re: ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote: > Hi... > > Just logged into ftp.debian.org with my mirror script manually and it was > about to delete ALL my files. I manually ftp'd in there and the only > directory under there was "ftpadmin" with a few files in it. Where has > the whole of the Debi

Re: ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote: > Hi again... > > It seems that the buster login for mirrors on ftp.debian.org has been moved > to the root directory ( / ) of debian.org. Now to get to the Debian > distribution we have to go into "/debian.org/ftp/debian". Could someone > try to correc

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [unnecessary kludge deleted] Bruce> By chance, does man evaluate the $PAGER variable? I don't Bruce> have man working at the moment on my own system due to an Bruce> ELF library conflict. You're right, man evaluates $PAGER (I'

Re: ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-31 Thread David Engel
> On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote: > > Just logged into ftp.debian.org with my mirror script manually and it was > > about to delete ALL my files. I manually ftp'd in there and the only > > directory under there was "ftpadmin" with a few files in it. Where has > > the whole of the Debian

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-31 Thread Jeff Noxon
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : It doesn't really matter if a 152X gets detected before a high-power > : whiz-bang SCSI-matic 2010 PCI adapter, because you can still put root > : on any SCSI controller you like. > > You are correct, of course, Jeff, but the problem with having a

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-31 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
> less(1) shows that the program takes options from the $LESS. Thanks for the hint. Setting LESS to "-c" makes less work the way I wanted within MH. > (As always it pays to RTM, just couldn't resist :) > Yes, you're right. But the problem (and I think this is an interesting problem) is to figur

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-31 Thread Jeff Noxon
> I think the real solution lies elsewhere; I am developing a > configuration tool which will allow us to choose the order of the > devices without editing hosts.c. It may take some time to surface and > you may beat me to it, but that's OK. I'm not sure if that's the right solution either. I t

Bug#2077: mdir says "fat_read: Wrong FAT encoding?" on valid dos partition

1995-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Package: mtools Version: 2.0.7-12 With the following /etc/mtools.ref A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0 B /dev/fd1 12 0 0 0 C /dev/hda1 16 0 0 0 either with or without the additional line #CHK_FAT=FALSE I get: # mdir c: fat_read: Wrong FAT encoding? Exit 1 The kernel handles the partition fine: /dev/hda1 on

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-31 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens), in a magnificent manifestation of deity, wrote: >A work-around would be to construct a shell program that evaluated to >"less -c" and pass the name of that program in MANOPT. An alias won't You could also set the LESS environment variable. i.e. LESS=-c, personall

Bug#2032: Printer stuck #5.

1995-12-31 Thread Eddie Maddox
I've narrowed the search as far as I am able. The rest is up to youall. It seems that leaving my '500's power ON during Linux boot triggers the bug. When I boot Linux with the '500 powered OFF, however, then power it on after the login prompt appears, I can print. -

Bug#2073: assembler problems in asm/io.h during build of kernel

1995-12-31 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens), in a magnificent manifestation of deity, wrote: >There was a change in the way that GCC handles embedded assembler that >made new compilers incompatible with the old kernels. Ugh. The io.h file >in the new kernel is similar enough to the old one that it may be a d

what do the X11R6 virtual package names *really* mean?

1995-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
standards/virtual-package-names-list.text lists: X11R6 XFree86 R6, including base system xR6shlibXFree86 R6 shared library only I've put together a package of xterm_color (an xterm that supports ANSI color) and used a "Depends: xbase"; it appears t

packages that replace files in other packages

1995-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Should packages ever replace files in other packages? This would make uninstalling the later package more complicated, although I could imagine a design where preinst renamed foo to foo.old, and postrm renamed it back. This would require that the dependencies introduced an ordering to package inst

Bug#2077: mdir says "fat_read: Wrong FAT encoding?" on valid dos partition

1995-12-31 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Mark W. Eichin wrote: >[...] > I'll note that while the man page suggests a #CHK_FAT=FALSE option, > the strings appear nowhere in the executables, leading me to suspect > that it isn't actually recognized. > > Release information: debian 0.93r6 Thanks for reporting this.

Bug#2077: mdir says "fat_read: Wrong FAT encoding?" on valid dos partition

1995-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> and will also provide a mtools-2.0.7-15a package to be > retrofitted into the 0.93 a.out distribution. Great; I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks for the detailed response... > This problem generally shows up on DOS partitions which have > been shrunk with fips.exe. The shrinkage leaves the