Re: Reading news with Emacs

1996-10-14 Thread Rob Browning
Here's an example of part of my setup. Yours should be similar: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "newshost.cc.utexas.edu")) (setq gnus-asynchronous t) (setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-zombies) (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server) (setq gnus-save-newsrc-file nil) ;; S

Reading news with Emacs

1996-10-14 Thread Johann Spies
Hi, After a few weeks trying out Linux I decided to downloaded Emacs and sofar I am impressed with Emacs. I have not succeeded in getting Emacs Gnus to read news, however. I did put export NNTPSERVER=news.ilink.nis.za in my .bashrc file but it did not have any effect on gnus' behavior I ge

LaTeX problem

1996-10-14 Thread James W. Lynch
As some of you might remember I asked if there were any LaTeX problems a week or so ago and received a few responses that indicated that it was working for them. So I discarded my old reliable 1.2.13 system and installed 2.0.6 with all of the new elf software and mostly all is well, except LaTeX

Re: Installation manual and dpkg document available in French

1996-10-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:22:00 PDT Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't read French, but I think this says the dpkg manual and my installation > document are available in French under the following URL. I checked the URL > and yes, that's what it looks like. Actually, it says: === Th

Confused about networking..

1996-10-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
Ok I installed the pcmcia_cs support and I believe I have /etc/pcmcia/network.opts set up correctly and ifconfig reports the right addresses but netstat -rn is showing 0.0.0.0 for the gateway. netstat -rn shows 192.42.172.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 2

support for USRobitics modems under mgetty

1996-10-14 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, the debian version is not copatible with US robotics modems, since it is not compile with the USRobotics flag set. Is there a way to fix that. Thanks Oz -- < NAME Oz Dror, Santa Monica, California EMAIL [EMAIL

Re: Boot disk SCSI kernel panic

1996-10-14 Thread David_Oswald
Hello ... I have the same identical problem as you. And unfortunately I have not figured out a cure either. I had to resort back to using an older AHA 1542c controller.(which gives me no problems). I also have experimented with the slakware distribution and found that the

Re: PGP and ELM

1996-10-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have noticed that my elm package has some support for PGP, that is it > recognizes it at least. I have been searching the FTP site for a package, > but without success. The ELM documentation does not even mention PGP, so I > am a bit lost. Can

Re: Where is pgp?

1996-10-14 Thread Sven Rudolph
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > J.H.M.Dassen: > > To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the > > PGP packages were moved outside of the US. > > > > Currently, you can find them at > > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.

Re: gcc linker-error's

1996-10-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
[linking C++ code with gcc fails]: >gcc -o test test.cc > > both give the following (linker) errors: > > /tmp/cca001121.o: In function `main': > /tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to `cout' > /tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to > `ostream:operator<<(char co

Re: Where is pgp?

1996-10-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
J.H.M.Dassen: > To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the > PGP packages were moved outside of the US. > > Currently, you can find them at > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.html Those packages are experimental versions, and have at least one problem: they d

gcc linker-error's

1996-10-14 Thread Niels Bo Johansen
I have tried to compile the most simple C++ program whith the gcc compiler (2.7.2). I do not have the exact source code, but it's something like: #include void main() { int i = 9; cout << " write a some text.\n"; } saved in a file called test.cc. Trying the following: gcc -c test

Re: Where is pgp?

1996-10-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> In an old package list, I have copied in August, the debian > pgp packages (US and international) were in non-free. To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the PGP packages were moved outside of the US. Currently, you can find them at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/d

Where is pgp?

1996-10-14 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
In an old package list, I have copied in August, the debian pgp packages (US and international) were in non-free. Nowadays, there does not seem to be any pgp package available. I have scanned the ls-lRs at Debian and some mirrors, but NO pgp. I desperately need pgp since I have created some new d

Re: Glimpse search?

1996-10-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Is it common knowledge that the search engine isn't working on > www.debian.org? It should by now be common knowledge that no CGI script whatsoever is working on www.debian.org. Explanation: www.debian.org has moved to another machine. In order to make mirroring it easier, it has been decided t

DOC DEBIAN FRANCAISE

1996-10-14 Thread Joel Bernier
Voici l'adaptation francaise du manuel utilisateur de la DEBIAN 1.1. Ce manuel est en deux parties. -Installer la distribution Debian a partir de disquettes. -Gestion des packages avec dpkg 0.93.42. Ce manuel est disponible au format HTML.Vous pouvez le trouver a l'adresse ci-dessous.

Installation manual and dpkg document available in French

1996-10-14 Thread Bruce Perens
I don't read French, but I think this says the dpkg manual and my installation document are available in French under the following URL. I checked the URL and yes, that's what it looks like. So "Bruce" is "Bruces" in French, I guess. Thanks Bruce Perens From: Joel Bernier <[EMAI

Accelerated X with an AST Ascentia 950N notebook?

1996-10-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Hi, is there anybody using Accelerated X 1.3 with a 950 ascentia? I don't know how to get it to support my mouse nor 800x600 x >=8bit Pointers to any linux laptop lists welcome. -- They pay homage to a king wh

OFF TOPIC [was]Re: FTP/NFS install via 3COM 3C589C?

1996-10-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote: > > Just copy the pcmcia-cs packages on a floppy, install them from there and you > can access the network, but beware: NFS might still not work due to a bug > in the kernel package, the versions didn't match the last time i tried... :( > I used FTP to i