Re: problem with man2html

1997-03-23 Thread Marcia Takagui
> > Hi, > I have some problems with man2html, it doesn't appear to work correctly. > The cgi script seems to be unable to display most of the man page. For [...] > Dany Dionne When I installed man2html, netscape was unable to find the stuff needed, because netscape expected them to be in so

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-23 Thread bruce
Never mind. I see the cast patch and I'll make sure that gets included. Thanks Bruce

Re: where is:

1997-03-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Jon Phipps writes: > I have asked this before but got no response to it: if any one knows > where I can find the PGP-US || PGP-I files please let me know. If they > are supplied by some other package(s) please let me know that also. I > have several *.debs that depend on them and have been unable

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-23 Thread bruce
You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 . Bruce

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-23 Thread Stelios Parnassidis
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote: [spip] referring to cfdisk w/ disks > 2G > > FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive > After a suggestion on the BUG report system i have put the cast (ext2_loff_t) at two places in the source file. It seems to work now. Specialists please verify th

Debugging cvspserver

1997-03-23 Thread Douglas Bates
I am using cvs with the file repository on the machine in my office. I would like to be able to manipulate these files from the machine at home. Both are running Debian Linux and both have the cvs package installed. The machine at home will communicate via a PPP connection and will have a dynamic

Re: Zmodem recovery

1997-03-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Jeff Shilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Minicom doesn't recover when I have partial files. Well, technically, it's lrzsz that acts that way. This is because there is no recovery code in lrzsz (at least, there wasn't any last time I looked really hard---however I no longer actively use zmodem, and

Re: gpm, X-Windows, MS Serial mouse

1997-03-23 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote: > Before I changed to Debian, I could swear that under Slackware I was > able to use my MS serial mouse in X-Windows without first killing gpm. > No more. X refuses to start, complaining "device in use." > > I've tried everything I can think of bas

Zmodem recovery

1997-03-23 Thread Jeff Shilt
Minicom doesn't recover when I have partial files. It sees it and skips to the next file or stops the download. I'm usually downloading from my school shell account. I type sz files and minicom automatically starts download. In the setup it says it's running rz -vv for zmodem downloads.

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-23 Thread Douglas Bates
> "Michael" == Michael Iles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I have only one physical drive, a 3.8 gig Quantum Fireball Michael> that Linux = correctly detects. (At least I think it does; Michael> I can see its name go by = in all the hardware information Michael> that Linux prints

Re: g++ file doesn't run

1997-03-23 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
>Thanks for the help - it does compile with g++ instead of gcc, but the >executable produced isn't doing anything. Here's what i'm doing: > >//test.c >#include > >main(){ > cout << "Hello there."; >} > >The test file doesn't print out anything when I run it. Append a \n to your string. Or inc

Re: Other Than FIPS

1997-03-23 Thread bruce
Non-destructive partitioning is more difficult to do for ext2 than for MSDOS as ext2 distributes blocks across the entire partition rather than building linearly from zero. This is done for rotational efficiency, and is a discussion in itself. FIPS works because it's possible to squeeze an MSDOS pa

where is:

1997-03-23 Thread Jon Phipps
I have asked this before but got no response to it: if any one knows where I can find the PGP-US || PGP-I files please let me know. If they are supplied by some other package(s) please let me know that also. I have several *.debs that depend on them and have been unable to find them anywhere. Hel

gpm, X-Windows, MS Serial mouse

1997-03-23 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
Before I changed to Debian, I could swear that under Slackware I was able to use my MS serial mouse in X-Windows without first killing gpm. No more. X refuses to start, complaining "device in use." I've tried everything I can think of based on the documentation for gpm, including invoking the -M

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-23 Thread bruce
> As root, what if I want to keep a file in someones directory without them > deleteing it ? Using conventional Unix permissions, that is indeed the case. Note that this so for all Unix-like systems, not just Linux. Root generally keeps important files in root's own directories. Using ACLs you mi

Re: problems with shmget

1997-03-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Ran into this error when trying to use the GIMP: > shmget failed: Function not implemented > gimp fatal error: shmget failed! > Is there something I need to configure to get the function shmget > working? It's your kernel compiled with SYSV IPC support?

Other Than FIPS

1997-03-23 Thread Gregory Vence
Hello, I'm looking for an FTP'able partitioning tool that handles Extended partitions and is non-distructive. What could I Use? Thanx -- Greg.

problems with shmget

1997-03-23 Thread Ken Gaugler
Ran into this error when trying to use the GIMP: shmget failed: Function not implemented gimp fatal error: shmget failed! Is there something I need to configure to get the function shmget working? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.

Where is oldmitpthreads?

1997-03-23 Thread Josip Gracin
Hi! Two weeks ago there was an announcement of oldmitpthreads package which contains MIT Pthreads library. I haven't been able to find it since then. I have seen the recent list of packages still in Incoming but oldmitpthreads is not there. It just disappeared. Where is it? Thanks! Josip P.S.

problem with man2html

1997-03-23 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, I have some problems with man2html, it doesn't appear to work correctly. The cgi script seems to be unable to display most of the man page. For example, if i try with ls, i receive the error message from netscape : Documents contains no data However, it's false, if i try a man ls on the u

Re: Emacs-based mail programs with IMAP

1997-03-23 Thread Mark Plaksin
> "bates" == Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bates> Are there any such emacs-based MUA's that support IMAP? Does gnus bates> do so? There will soon be IMAP support in Gnus. The Gnus FAQ has a pointer to the alpha IMAP code. Gnus FAQ: http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html

Re: How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mar 03, 1997 at 05:54:28PM -0800, Thought wrote: > If your old drive was for DOS, does DOS see the partition anymore? For > example, is there still a C: but it's unreadable (Invalid Media), or is > there just no C:? I've accidently been in a fdisk (I think it was linux) > and deleted one of my

Marimba II

1997-03-23 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, I got Bongo running - but the tuner does not. JDK is jdk-static-1.0.2-7. Bongo and Tuner are 1.0 (available at www.blackdown.org). Hints welcome! By Töns

Re: to xlib6 or not to xlib6?

1997-03-23 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: [snip] > > I am not worried about gwm: I don't use it anyway. But I am > worried about trashing all my other X stuff if I install this > package. > > Is it OK to upgrade to xlib6 and let the chips fall where they > may with respect to elf-x11r6lib, or w

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > But that still doesn't solve the problem of viewing the Unix print > queue from within Windows. That works with regular lpr, but not lprng. i had no problems with the print queue when i used it on my system. this was with win95, not win3 if that makes a

parport patches.

1997-03-23 Thread adavis
I would like to find out how to get the ZIP drive drivers running that will enable sharing of the parallel port. I have tried to download the parport patches for 2.1.29 from http://www.cyberelk.demon.ac.uk, but cannot get them to patch the kernel sources (original) cleanly. I would be interested

quality of development tools

1997-03-23 Thread butch
Hello, I have just started using debian and there is an area of interest to me, learning basic programming. i have used some of the borland products and now have an older version of visual basic. my question is how does the combination of x and the native packages available for debian compare

to xlib6 or not to xlib6?

1997-03-23 Thread Ken Gaugler
Still trying to get gimp-smotif to run. However can't install gimp until I have xlib6 installed. When trying to install xlib6 I get error messages: bash# dpkg -i xlib6_3.2-1a.1_i386.deb dpkg: considering removing xlib in favour of xlib6 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib (--auto-deconfigure will h

Re: How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-23 Thread Thought
If your old drive was for DOS, does DOS see the partition anymore? For example, is there still a C: but it's unreadable (Invalid Media), or is there just no C:? I've accidently been in a fdisk (I think it was linux) and deleted one of my DOS partitions on accident, and got REALLY lucky because I

Re: How to get dir colors to work?

1997-03-23 Thread Thought
ls --color=auto will do it. man ls On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, johannes martinez wrote: > What files does one have to edit to get ls to display colors? And as a > total aside, how do you get xdm working? It says starting xdm at the > end of my boot but all i get is a nice console prompt. > > johanne

Re: How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-23 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Nick Cropper ) > > Help! > During a long and complicated floppy installation (trouble due > to DOS's fdisk -- not debian) I managed to initialise my old > harddisk (containing all my files) instead of my new one. It > was just an initialisation (no surface/low-level scan) which

How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-23 Thread Nick Cropper
Help! During a long and complicated floppy installation (trouble due to DOS's fdisk -- not debian) I managed to initialise my old harddisk (containing all my files) instead of my new one. It was just an initialisation (no surface/low-level scan) which is why I'm still holding a glimmer of hope t