Netscape3.0 'ERASER' ?

1996-09-08 Thread Stoyan Kenderov
I started updating my old netscape3.0b5 today with the 3.0 linux-elf binary released recently on their FTP server. Relaying on my experience with earlier versions I proceeded with the update assuming that netscape WILL INCORPORATE MY OLD BOOKMARKS into the new configuration. In vain! It deleted

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-09-08 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi Susan, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would probably be a good idea to remind folks (in the FAQ or wherever) > about the rationale for using curses vs. termcap. I tried to find one > using AltaVista and DejaNews, but I'll bet you can guess what a snowstorm > of "inform

missing 'savelog' command

1996-09-08 Thread Matthew D Moss
After installing debian recently, I've started getting messages from the cron processes that it cannot find the 'savelog' command. I looked for it on my system and cannot find it. Anyone know which package this belongs to? Thanks...

Splitting up the list.

1996-09-08 Thread Shaya Potter
Splitting up the debian-user list is a good idea, but all those groups should probably mirrored on a debian-user type mailing list, for the people who do want to be getting all the mail. Just my $0.02 Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape

1996-09-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
"Brian C. White" writes: -> > Found to my great surprise that netscape now doesn't default to ghostview' ing -> > a .ps file --- could you post me your /etc/mailcap file to overcome this? -> -> It's a bug in Netscape that causes it not to poperly evaluate the test -> condiditon. I have reported

Re: seeking WWW browser (smaller than Netscape)

1996-09-08 Thread Boris Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Bill Roman wrote: roman>I refuse to believe that it takes a 4.5 MB executable (no, it's not roman>statically linked) to have a useful X web browser. roman> roman>I've tried Mosaic (2.7 beta), but it's rather dated (no frames, for roman>one th

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-08 Thread Bruce Perens
> I choose CDU-31-A as CD drive module and tried to install it with the > parameters "0x340,5". Oh darn. I gave the wrong advice. Try: modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 If you use "modconf" (the module configuration menu) use the arguments cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_

Re: Problems with Base Install Disks.

1996-09-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Rosenberg Yigal wrote: > > > What's wrong with base14-3.bin ? It's been on the FTP site for at least > > a month with no other complaint. > > > I don't know whats wrong with them . But : > 1) > when I created the disks , I could not install the "base " pkg. > 2) >

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-08 Thread Brian C. White
> (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian > > The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? > I'm using TCSH shell You need to tell Netscape how to find the XKeySymDB file. Try this: setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Or, use the Debian package.

Re: Emumod & Dosemu 0.63.66

1996-09-08 Thread Shaya Potter
Just wondering, are you using the load_module.sh script or trying to insmod the modules plainly. Dosemu comes with a special version of insmod. When I run it from the script, it runs perfectly, only when I run insmod plain does it fail like that. Hope this helps, Shaya Potter -- Shaya Potter

Re: netscape

1996-09-08 Thread Brian C. White
> Found to my great surprise that netscape now doesn't default to ghostview'ing > a .ps file --- could you post me your /etc/mailcap file to overcome this? It's a bug in Netscape that causes it not to poperly evaluate the test condiditon. I have reported this bug to Netscape, so hopefully it will

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-08 Thread Shaya Potter
netscape is a motif application, and all motif application will show that behavior, there is a program written by one of the people at netscape that is included in some X distributions. If you want it look at the netscape faq at netscape site, it will give you a link to the program. Hope this

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-08 Thread Shaya Potter
If you think about it, c.o.l is really a misnomer. Linux is not really the operating system. Debian is the operating system. Linux is just a kernel, that many operating systems have based themselves on because it's freely available and it has a lot of support on the net. In that light, pu

Re: Emumod & Dosemu 0.63.66

1996-09-08 Thread Bruce Walzer
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: > While on the kernel subject, I'm having problems insmoding the > emumod module of dosemu. After a successful compile, emumod > won't load, saying: > > undefined > (repeated fifteen or so times) > Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-09-08 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Bruce -- You said: > Supporting two terminal management mechanisms would not be a good idea. It would probably be a good idea to remind folks (in the FAQ or wherever) about the rationale for using curses vs. termcap. I tried to find one using AltaVista and DejaNews, but I'll bet you can guess

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-08 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > You may be giving the module the wrong argument (for that version, at > least). Try "modprobe cdu31 cdu31a=0x340,5" . Also, add ",PAS" to that > if you are using the CD connector on a Pro Audio Spectrum card. > Until n

Quitting Debian mail-list

1996-09-08 Thread Philip Jin
How do I get off this mail list . Anyone please help. Quit Thank You

Quit mail list

1996-09-08 Thread Philip Jin
Please help me. I wish to get off the mailing list. How can I do this? Thank You

Debian files

1996-09-08 Thread Philip Jin
Please help me . I wish to download Debian 1.1 from ftp://ftp.debian .org . What files must I download for an IBM 486 computer. Thank You

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-09-08 Thread Bruce Perens
Tell me where the source for "scilab" is, and I will remove its termcap dependence. I'm a reasonably competent ncurses programmer. Supporting two terminal management mechanisms would not be a good idea. Bruce

Files for Debian

1996-09-08 Thread Philip Jin
Please help me locate all files needed to download Debian 1.1 . Thank You

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-09-08 Thread REMF
Hello, Actually this termcap thing is beginning to get annoying. There are at least two other packages I want to add that are not supported by anyone yet. The most important being scilab, but it won't compile the way debian has changed termcaps. I must have spent a day trying to redo the makef

seeking WWW browser (smaller than Netscape)

1996-09-08 Thread Bill Roman
I refuse to believe that it takes a 4.5 MB executable (no, it's not statically linked) to have a useful X web browser. I've tried Mosaic (2.7 beta), but it's rather dated (no frames, for one thing). I also tried arena (beta-3), but it seems, well, like there's substantial room for improvement in

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-08 Thread Jim Worthington
Vadik Vygonets wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > > > It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. After several hours of floundering, I got xdm working. xdm was not running, I believe because some of the xdm startup files including /etc/X11/Xsession were not

Re: seg faults with majordomo

1996-09-08 Thread Richard Kettlewell
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >help help :/ > i've been tring to setup majordomo and have done the following: > >1 made '/etc/smail/lists' dir >2 did ln -s /var/lib/majordomo/lists /etc/smail/lists >3 added to /etc/smail/directors: > aliasinclude: > driver=al

Re: eepro.c

1996-09-08 Thread Jan Ramon
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > [Question about how to neatly change the eepro driver CSR address] > > If it's a module, try "modprobe eepro io=0x230". If that works, add it > to /etc/conf.modules . Otherwise, just add 0x230 to eepro_portlist. > Adding 0x230 to eepro_portlist doesn't

Re: Problems with Base Install Disks.

1996-09-08 Thread Rosenberg Yigal
> What's wrong with base14-3.bin ? It's been on the FTP site for at least > a month with no other complaint. > I don't know whats wrong with them . But : 1) when I created the disks , I could not install the "base " pkg. 2) So I downloaded the files again -> the same bug. 3) For l

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-08 Thread Juri Pakaste
> "DG" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote: >> Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be >> better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to >> have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with

Re: gcc can't find termcap library

1996-09-08 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Danny-- In what are by now prehistoric times you said: > I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed, > complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap. Bill Mitchell bequeathed to me the kermit package, and building a new one is on my list of todo's. I'm hoping I get organized to do thi

Re: aout/elf

1996-09-08 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Susan G. Kleinmann, you wrote: > > Hi Tim-- > You asked: > > Can some kind soul tell me if there is a libg++ for the aout compiler, > > I have an old a.out system on a disk partition that I mount once in a while. > It has all the libg++ files on it. However, I do not have th

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-08 Thread Bruce Perens
You may be giving the module the wrong argument (for that version, at least). Try "modprobe cdu31 cdu31a=0x340,5" . Also, add ",PAS" to that if you are using the CD connector on a Pro Audio Spectrum card. Thanks Bruce

Re: aout/elf

1996-09-08 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Tim-- You asked: > Can some kind soul tell me if there is a libg++ for the aout compiler, I have an old a.out system on a disk partition that I mount once in a while. It has all the libg++ files on it. However, I do not have the old libg++ debian package. I can make you a tar file using the

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-08 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Jim -- You said: > I tried adding the line to /etc/X11/Xmodmap -- It didn't work. > I also tried creating ~/.Xmodmap and ~/.xmodmaprc files with the > same data. These did not work either. Did you run xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc after you changed it? If not, then the edits you made wouldn't have a