Package: emacs
Version: 19.34-2
Package: ncurses
Version: 1.9.9e-1
System: Linux sphinx 2.0.6 #2 Sun Jul 14 18:49:25 PDT 1996 i586
Debian: 1.1
When running on the console, Emacs does not respond to several keys.
For example, the following keys have no effect when the ALT key is
used as the meta mo
Hi,
My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less
standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation
(export TERM=amiga) is not present.
Does this have something to do with the fact that in "/etc/terminfo"
only "ansi" is present? However, in "/usr/lib/terminfo/a
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> Err, imagemagick has never been placed in the 'stable' tree. It used to
be (and will be until the next version) in the non-free directory which
has no distinction between stable and unstable.
> Maybe we should address this...
>
non-free has always b
I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
quick method or command to do this?
Thanks,
John Roesch
> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?
There is a command called 'rename' that comes with perl. You can find
it as:
/usr/doc/examples/perl/rename.gz
Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> David>What don't you like about it? I haven't really looked into the
> David>problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the
> advantages/disadvantages of
> David>his proposal.
>
> John proposed to change the way the auto_path is used. He did no
>Hi Richard --
>
>You said:
>> After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that
>> after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I
>> best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is
>> it set anyway?
>
>In looking
Philippe Troin wrote:
>
>
> Err, imagemagick has never been placed in the 'stable' tree. It used to be
> (and will be until the next version) in the non-free directory which has no
> distinction between stable and unstable.
I experienced the same problem with gs. As a new user not very famili
John D. Amidon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: vtcs-cvs# ifconfig eth0:0 136.0.0.1
: SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
It means you have no "eth0:0". Probably you didn't load the "ip_alias"
module; just issue "insmod ip_alias" and it should work. A good idea
would be to run "kerneld" (he manages things
usubscribe debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?
If you are using bash as a shell, or you switch into bash, you can use
the following:
for i in *;do mv $
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to
: install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design.
I did not look into the new 0.4-release, but there was no
upgrade-mechianism in the past.
And if several users
> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?
Not a single command, but a small combination of utils will do.
[Solution for use with a Bourne shell, e.g. bash;
Fundamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Okay, how do people add virtual domains using apache, i tried the following
> - i added this line to the S20apache runtime file;
>
> ifconfig eth0:1 servername up
>
> but this didnt work.
ifconfig eth0:0 111.111.111.111
route add -host 111.111.111.111 de
Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on
my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only
problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to
type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a
>Has anyone else out there had trouble with ncurses? I've now run across at
>least four separate failures, all related to using ncurses instead of
>termcap:
>
>I have heard of a couple of other Debian users having similar ncurses
>problems, but I've never heard of anyone having trouble with ncurs
> "JR" == John Roesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JR> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
JR> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
JR> quick method or command to do this?
If you installed Perl:
perl -e 'for $file
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
Ciao Fabri'
> German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian (manpages-it).
> (just to be precisian :-)
Oh! where the italian one?
> ciao
> Fabrizio Polacco
Bye, Ezio Escape the Gates of Hells, use Linux! ***
Ezio Manini fidonet:
Gerry Jensen:
> While it may be untrue that you *need* twice the physical memory size, I
> believe it's true that twice the physical memory size is about the limit
> of what you can effectively use if you need it.
It depends on what you do.
Operating system theory has a concept called "working se
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Greg Smith wrote:
>
>
> For some reason, XDM never blanks the screen. I would like to use
> xautolock to either run xlock as a screen saver or maybe even apm -S
> to suspend the machine.
>
> How would I do this? can I put it in one of XDM's configuration scripts?
The co
> 1. "tar cvf var.tar /var/*" to have a backup of the current contents of
>/var.
> 2. "tar cvf home.tar /home/*" to have a backup of home.
Just make sure that there are no files or directories in /var or /home
that start with '.'. I made this mistake when I tried to backup a user
and lost all
The lyx auxiliary directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 all have their permissions
set for owner and group access only in lyx_0.10.3-1.deb. They need to made
"other" readable for lyx to work properly.
-Randy
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Hi all,
I might not be a UNIX (Linux) guru yet (if ever), but I do know a thing or
two about OS handling.
As someone (sorry I dumped the mail so I can't use your name) pointed out
correctly:
Swap partition=Total memory requirements - Available memory
Now if anyone can tell me the correct val
Pedro I. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two
: primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third
: partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in
: /dev/hda in the same partition of /
Ezio Manini wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> > German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian
> > (manpages-it). (just to be precisian :-)
>
> Oh! where the italian one?
>
I wasn't so precisian, uh? :-)
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/development/binary-i386/doc/
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, John Roesch wrote:
>
> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?
Have you the "python" package installed?
Cd's where the files are and e
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> From: Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is compress ?
> Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 11:20 PM
>
> I'm trying to compile a X-Window program which provides a new set of
fonts.
>
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:
> Boris Beletsky wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > dwarf>If you only installed the base system then the only editor
> > dwarf>availabe is AE (Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is
> > dwarf>small enough to fit on the b
I did put
eval `tset -sQ -e 0x7f`
in my /etc/profile (/etc/csh.login) file and never had any problem.
Yves.
i tried using apache_1.1.1-2 and 3 from the Incoming directory and we
started having problems viewing gzipped postscript files with both
netscape and mosaic. i don't know if this is a bug in the apache
server itself or just in the debian distribution. also
/usr/lib/apache/modules/mod
Problem: The system hangs when the SCSI bus is reset.
Config: Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller
Two different motherboards
Three different versions of Linux
More specifically, I cannot perform a soft reboot from Linux. If, for
example, I run 'shutdown -r now' the system will sh
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Ed Down wrote:
> I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the Serial-HOWTO,
> I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that /dev/ttyS1, which
> is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only allow root access. Anyone
> recommend a fix? Also any tips o
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John D. Amidon) writes:
>
>My hardware is a Gateway 2000, 3c509 ethernet card, and Debian kernel is
>2.0.6 built to include `ip_aliasing'. I see `/proc/net/alias*' files so I
>take it the kernel was built correctly.
[...SNIP...]
>The NET-2-HOWTO makes it
> > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
>
> The terse form of the formula is:
>
> swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
>
> (Forget everything about "twice physical
Hi folks,
a whole bunch of my packages got updated to the new packaging standard
and is in the incoming area of master:
cflow 2.0-5
csh 5.26-5
lsof3.65-3
ptx 0.4-2
sysnews 0.8-2
vgrind 5.7-5
vlock 1.0-2
I didn't bother to
Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run dosemu, version 0.60.3-1. However, whenever I go to
I haven't been able to get dosemu to run with Debian 1.1.4 (kernel 2.0.6)
either. Both systems I installed it on (completely different hardware)
die after the following output:
--
I'm not sure you can call it a bug, (maybe it's a feature ;) ) because it
is a well-known behavior of less (and some other pagers from what I have
heard) that they don't work well with files of length 0. This is mostly
seen that you can't less any of the files on the proc filesystem because
t
Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there are French manpages coming up somewhere
> in the pipeline?
>
I have no news of French manpages on the table of translations that I
have on
http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/en/docs.en.html
this is probably my fault, because I don't speak
Hi,
After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as
root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect.
However, when dselect started, it gave the message:
error opening terminal con80x25
and quit, leaving me with an almost empty system.
The TERM variable was indeed
Hello all...
The FHF has struck again...
Someone has dropped off a sound blaster card on my desk, and I'm about
to install it in my debian box. It is an original Creative labs Sound
blaster. oh yeah - speakers and a microphone also.
--
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Third scenario:
[snip]
> This time the differences between the currently installed and
> the new app-defaults file are huge. The output of `diff' is not
> easy to understand, and the admin makes a mistake and assumes
> that nothing important has changed,
Hi!
I've got problems with TeX->DVI-Postscript. Small characters are cut off
at the right hand side if I use gs-4.01. This doesn't occur with the old
gs-2.62.
It would be nice if someone else could try this out and report if this is
a specific problem of my configuration or a general one (in whi
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.23 1996/09/20 15:15:46 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) said:
David> What don't you like about it? I haven't really looked into the
David> problem yet, so I'm not fully aware of the advantages/disadvantages of
David> his proposal.
John proposed to change the way the auto_path is used. He did not
define an additiona
Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) said:
> David>Aside to Juergen. What do you think of Dr. Ousterhout's
> proposed
> David>improvement to package loading? I will probably add it, or
> something
> David>similar, to the Debian version of Tcl 7
> I installed Debian for the first time two weeks ago and didn't even bother
> to install the Debian LaTeX system because i already knew teTeX from
> another platform and installed this instantly in the /usr/local/*
> hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to
> install an
Hi,
I didn't succeed yet to share my portable 1GB SCSI-HD with Debian 1.1
(w/updates up to 1.1.8) to run Linux on two different boxes:
Box 1) Non-internet connected (although planning and intranet).
clone PC w/ i486/DX33 + 16MB RAM + 540MB SCSI HD (SCSI ID-1)
+ NE2000 NIC clone
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Behan Webster wrote:
> Martin Budsj| wrote:
> >
> > >My /var/log/nmb* log files are a mixture of the following lines:
> > >
> > >more than one master browser!
> > >connect error: Connection refused
> > >Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.16alpha10]
> > >Domain=[wor
>From archie.sunet.se:
Host sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk(155.198.1.40)
Last updated 10:36 30 Aug 1996
Location: /computing/information-systems/WWW
DIRECTORYdrwxr-xr-x 512 bytes 11:35 6 Jun 1996 man2html
Host ftp.fi.upm.es(138.100.8.6)
Last updated 22:01 31 Aug 1996
Loc
Ed> I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the
Ed> Serial-HOWTO, I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that
Ed> /dev/ttyS1, which is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only
Ed> allow root access.
Add yourself to the "dialout" group in /etc/group.
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D
Duh...
I really hate to ask this, but can someone PLEASE tell me how to unsubscribe
from this list?
Thanks!
ps. ok, I'll go back to trying to find my car now...
Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even easier - I just downloaded the new 3.1.2F server, named it
> XF86_Mach64 (I think it already was..) and overwrote the old 3.1.2
> debian server. Hey presto, no changes required.
But there is a better method: Place the new server in /usr/local/bin and
chang
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (2) I am having trouble with the WAV files from CNN interactive.
> Sox just produces noise... [The AIFF files has problem (3).]
I'm working on the wavplay package--that's actually a small program that
lets you play (and record) WAV files. I only have one prob
> I maintain a mirror of ftp.debian.org for internal use (we've got several
> linux machines), however, the last several times I've started to run
> mirror its reported:
>
> compare directories (src 8356, dest 32957)
>
> I'm not too keen on letting 3/4 of the mirror get toasted, so I've
> killed
Sven Rudolph wrote:
> We could use the uni-mainz server. Dominik, what do you think about
> this ?
Fortunately i do no longer work for the Computing Center of U-Mainz and
unfortunately the new FTP-Server i am in charge of is behind the firewall
of the Medical Center and it will take some time unt
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