Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Marek, Please contact Unisys and report back to us. Welch Patent Licensing Department; Unisys; Mail Stop C1SW19; P.O. Box 500, Blue Bell, PA 19424. Via the Internet, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or use a form available on the Contact Page of the Unisys Web Server to request follow-up informa

Re: Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Dale Scheetz writes: > >I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a good idea >to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex which among other >things declares a dependance on metafont. I can find no metafont package. >I assume it is a virtual package? Which *real* packag

Re: SCSI tape not detected

1996-05-23 Thread Pino Smith
>The tape is probably NOT detected because you forgot to compile SCSI tape >support into the kernel. Do that and it should work. >-- >---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) >Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly I have SCSI disks and t

Find+rm security hole in debian?

1996-05-23 Thread Billy Chow
I received the following concerning a security problem with clean-up cron jobs that use find+rm. Any comments from gurus? -Billy - -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:10:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Zygo Blaxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Rob Browning
> "D" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a D> good idea to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex D> which among other things declares a dependance on metafont. I can D> find no metafont package. I assume it

Re: lynx.cfg?

1996-05-23 Thread Fundamental
On Thu, 23 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: thanks to everyone who pointed it out! __ __ __ __/\_\ .

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-23 Thread Yves Arrouye
Stephen Early writes: > > Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there > > may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate > > to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use. > > If this is possible I'll make a package for it. >

ELF emacs and libtermcap

1996-05-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
I recompiled emacs 19.30 on my debian 1.1 system so it would be elf. It complained that it needed libtermcap, so I did the trick of linking libtermcap to libncurses (libtermcap.so -> libncurses.so.3.0 in /lib). It linked and runs OK under X, but in the console (with TERM=vt100 and TERM=linux) the

Re: SCSI tape not detected

1996-05-23 Thread Marc A. Volovic
The tape is probably NOT detected because you forgot to compile SCSI tape support into the kernel. Do that and it should work. -- ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly

Re: problems with psnfss and (separately) bind

1996-05-23 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> travis wrote: > The problems I have are with psnfss-5.2-1.deb and the > bind-4.9.3-P1-2.deb during the dselect installation. psnfss-5.2-1.deb > throws out at me the following lines during unpacking: > > Unpacking psnfss (from .../debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb) ... > dpkg - warn

Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a good idea to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex which among other things declares a dependance on metafont. I can find no metafont package. I assume it is a virtual package? Which *real* packages provide metafont? TIA,

Re: NE2000 compatible card problem

1996-05-23 Thread John T. Larkin
> Dear Linuxer, > > I have try with several NE2000 compatible cards with 10BaseT and BNC > autodetected. None of them works with the 10BaseT interface but works > fine with the BNC interface. What kind of cards are these? Do they support _both_ 10base-t and 10base-2, or do you have 2 cards, e

Re: netbase: ifconfig error messages

1996-05-23 Thread Michael Meskes
Derek Lee writes: > > When I use ifconfig, I get the error messages: > > May 22 01:18:19 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 > May 22 01:18:19 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-3 > May 22 01:18:20 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5 > > Is something m

Re: problems with psnfss and (separately) bind

1996-05-23 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> On Tue, 21 May 1996 16:00:51 -0500 (CDT), travis breaux > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: travis> [...] psnfss-5.2-1.deb travis> throws out at me the following lines during unpacking: travis> [...] corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive I got the same problem. Just g

Re: lynx.cfg?

1996-05-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 23 May 1996, Fundamental wrote: > where is this file kept? /etc/lynx.cfg Craig

Re: kernel headers

1996-05-23 Thread David Engel
> disagree on this issue. I still don't feel it is right to put kernel headers > anywhere except with the kernel (or perhaps as their own package). If people So just think of them as libc headers instead of kernel headers. That's really how they are being used when referenced as /usr/include/*. >

Re: lynx.cfg?

1996-05-23 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
You asked: > where is this file kept? The "Contents" file indicates that lynx.cfg is in /etc. Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My complaints

1996-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
When I'm not working on Debian, I make special effects for a movie studio. There are a lot of high-powered people like me working for free here. All we are asking for is people to run our software and be reasonably nice to us :-) . Ian Jackson raises a valid point in that he is an unpaid volunteer

RE: ping!

1996-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Simon Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes, very much so, but moved several months ago to lists.debian.org. > Pixar does not want the indecency law implications, I think. Actually, I didn't want the indecency law liability directed toward me as moderator - the list was just something I did on m

Re: Compiling the kernel..

1996-05-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 22 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This appears to contain the standard kernel release source tree but > has a number of additional things (such as a nifty Tcl/Tk GUI for > kernel configurations). "make xconfig" and "make menuconfig" are a standard part of the linux kernel now...has

Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
> I've tried to install quotas but I've got a little problem. > When I make an 'edquota someone', I get : > > Quotas for user someone: > > and I don't know what to write after this. > > I've found no informations in the man, or in the docs. So, if someone has > managed to do that or possesses a

lynx.cfg?

1996-05-23 Thread Fundamental
where is this file kept? __ /_/\ _\_\/ 've seen things u ppl wouldnt believe ... attack ships on fire / /\off the shoulder of Orion... i watched C-Beams glitter in the / / /darkness at Tan Hauser Gate ... all those moments will b lost / / / like tears in the rai

Re: Where are the new packages put?

1996-05-23 Thread Christophe Le Bars
**Le 21 May, Dans l'article Where are the new packages put?, ** Yves Arrouye (Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) écrivait: YA>I'd like to know if new packages (like dpkg 2.0, xtel, etc) go: I can't YA>easily find them on the ftp.ibp.fr mirror, for example. YA>Is there a list of newly released p

NE2000 compatible card problem

1996-05-23 Thread Sin Hang Kin
Dear Linuxer, I have try with several NE2000 compatible cards with 10BaseT and BNC autodetected. None of them works with the 10BaseT interface but works fine with the BNC interface. I did not find information in the Ethernet-Howto. Does anybody know the problem and solution? Thanks, Kent S

Re: nvi segfaults

1996-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Someone reported it segmentation faulted in the ncurses library when using the vt100 terminal type logged in from a serial port. I would assume it is getting a null return from tiget*() and not checking for that, etc. Bruce

Re: My complaints

1996-05-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Warning: this is a flame. It's quite a long time since I've been quite so angry and upset at something someone has mailed me. Alan Eugene Davis writes ("My complaints"): ... > What happened to me with dselect _really happened_. What almost certainly happened to you was that you pressed `-' on th

SCSI tape not detected

1996-05-23 Thread Pino Smith
Hi all, I have a system with SCSI disks and an HP DAT drive. I have successfully installed 1.1 base from floppies. Now I would like to access my tape drive but I get "no such device" when I try to tar from /dev/st?. My SCSI adapter is an Adaptec2940 Ultra. At boot I get a bunch of messages from

Quotas problems

1996-05-23 Thread Hugo HAAS
Hi. I've tried to install quotas but I've got a little problem. When I make an 'edquota someone', I get : Quotas for user someone: and I don't know what to write after this. I've found no informations in the man, or in the docs. So, if someone has managed to do that or possesses a good document

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Perhaps we can fix the font-file compression issue instead? Under older releases, the X server actually ran a seperate program (so having uncompress->gunzip did the right thing) to handle both uncompression and bdf conversion. If XFS doesn't already have gzip support it should be easy enough to ad

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Kai Grossjohann writes ("Re: dselect complaints"): > [Ian Jackson:]> On Sun, 19 May 96 14:34 BST, Ian Jackson > > I know that there are many people who don't like dselect. > > [...] > > Suggestions for improvements that don't involve a complete > > restructuring are still welcome. > > I don't

Re: more trouble with 1.1 upgrade

1996-05-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Scott Barker writes ("more trouble with 1.1 upgrade"): > I got a message from dpkg when installing cron: > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/savelog', which is also in package debian-utils > > Is it the same savelog? Yes. cron needs t