Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> (defun open-paren () (interactive nil) (insert "("))
> (global-set-key [f5] 'open-paren)
>
> I'm sure there are even better ways to do this...
You mean something like (global-set-key [f5] "(")?
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Hi,
I'm upgrading 1.2.x to Frozen. Here's a log of some trouble I had, in
case anyone's interested:
* I had to rename 'unstable' to 'frozen' in the packages list for any
of the files to be found.
* The group permissions on /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2 are '6000' (not in /etc/group).
* fvwm2 blew away my
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> [ all my config info deleted ]
Let me comment: Except for one minor flaw, those configs are working. The
only flaw in there was, that in the setup for icemark, the route to
firefranc needs to be a host route (root add -host ${FIREFRANC} eth0)
in
Lamar Folsom writes:
> Does this mean that each package will have to list the space it requires
> in every directory...
It would be sufficient to provide the complete path and size of each file.
> ...and the packaging software will figure out if each of those
> directories is on a separate partit
I have 128MB RAM and 256KB cache. My machine has been up 32 days. For
the first 3 weeks it went really nicely, didn't get anywhere near using
any swap. However this week it's usage has got over 100MB (now up to
120MB, after deducting buffers and cached, i.e. the second row of "free"
output) and
Alan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Another thing that would help would be to HAVE ALL FILES IN
>/var/lib/dpkg/info IN GZIPED FORMAT. My little system now has 893KB in
>that directory, and I have gziped almost all the postinst scripts by hand.
The vast majority of the files in this directory
Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote:
>How does one extract a .zip archive in unix??
Besides the "unzip" that people mentioned, if your .zip archive is very
simple (contains only one file), you can use gzip to uncompress it. "gunzip
something.zip" should do it.
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Hi,
> Did you take a look at either /debian/bo/binary/net and
> /debian/non-free/binary? I installed ncftp today so there
> obviously is a similar package. :-)
Nope. I was looking at Rex. I'll look at bo and non-free this time.
Regards,
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On 16 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> If I understood right, this is known bug on which order the packages are
> installed and has being worked. You can solve this by choosing 'install'
> again
> in dselect.
>
> BTW, put /usr/X11R6/lib in yout /etc/ld.conf and run ldconfig if
> you hav
It seems to still work.
joe
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Does the list still work, or have I been cut of for some reason?
John Foster
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> .deb is a very simple ar archive. You can use ar to display its
> contents and to extract data.tar.gz which contains the package,
> control.tar.gz contains the pre/post inst/rm scripts.
> (filenames from memory, might be called slightly different)
>
> > Using the universally (well, Unixversall
Try doing a keyword search through the man pages for the word zip:
man -k zip
Maybe a custom utility has been installed.
-Rajpaul
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote:
> Unfortunatly I'm away from my linux system right now, and the computer I'm
> on dosent have unzip installed. Is t
Unfortunatly I'm away from my linux system right now, and the computer I'm
on dosent have unzip installed. Is there anything else I can use than
unzip??
joe
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Hi,
I am a beginner in C/C++ and i search a book on numerical analysis. Anyone
know a book accessible for me? I have the Numerical Recipies and i woulk
like to have a book in C/C++ training me in numerical analysis.
Thanks,
Dany Dionne
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"Th
On Apr 17, Raymond A. Ingles wrote
> Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package
> format, as opposed to, say, a "debian_control" file inside the .tar
> archive? So far as I can see:
>
> PROS:
> ".deb" format allows easy ID of packages that can be installed on
> Deb
Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package
format, as opposed to, say, a "debian_control" file inside the .tar
archive? So far as I can see:
PROS:
".deb" format allows easy ID of packages that can be installed on
Debian systems.
CONS:
Cannnot use the Debianized
Is it my imagination, or does the NIS included with Debian not pay any
attention to the services map? I've got an application (DQS from FSU)
that won't run on a Debian box running NIS because it can't find the
services entry that's in the database, but runs just fine on a RedHat
box using NYS...
I was about to recompile the kernel to add support for the soundblaster 16
and wondered should I remove any modules and rebuild them even though I
am only adding one module ? Can I run make modules only ? Or do I have
to do make dep;make clean;make zImage;make modules;make modules_install ?
Adv
Hi there !!!
I installed Linux in my system but i can't run dselect to install all the
packages.
Please help me what to write when dselect asks me for the locations and
some blocks, what I have to type there. I have Pentium Pro (686) with to
HD controllers on board. So my 2 HD's are conected to fi
One more idea to throw in the pot:
How about including smbfs in the base kernel and allowing installation
from a Win95 or NT share? Almost every office is going to have one
of those around where you can share out a CDROM with a couple of
mouse clicks. You could even do from with Windows-for-Work
Hi,
If you already have compiled the Kernel yourself, just do
make *config; make modules; make modules_install
and perhaps depmod -a;
After that the modules can be inserted automatically by kerneld. No need
to recompile or reboot.
If you still run the kernel from the distribution floppy,
I **
Hi there,
After some very successful tests with UAE I`ve decided to strip
my A1200 drive out and shove it in my PC. I`ve recompiled my kernel with
both affs and loop device support (not moduled, compiled straight in).
But I`m still unable to mount this drive.
The drive is a 420 Con
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Lamar Folsom wrote:
> > Francois Gouget writes:
> > > Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space
> > > availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib
> > > yet somewhere else.
> >
> > Should be doable. "df" to get all the parti
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>
>> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain
>>
>> How do I bind a server to ?
>
>However, it seems that ypbind can't find a server in your case. I have
On Apr 17, Eloy A. Paris wrote
> is there a package of the FTP client ncftp? The one that comes standard
> with Debian isn't as nice as ncftp.
Did you take a look at either /debian/bo/binary/net and
/debian/non-free/binary? I installed ncftp today so there
obviously is a similar package. :-)
Re
> My nis server crashed yesterday. I have re-set it up, following the
> nis.debian.howto documantation, re-added my users, and ran make in the
> /var/yp directory. Yet when a user tries to login from the client machine,
> they get this error:
>
> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain
>
My nis server crashed yesterday. I have re-set it up, following the
nis.debian.howto documantation, re-added my users, and ran make in the
/var/yp directory. Yet when a user tries to login from the client machine,
they get this error:
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain
How do I bind
Hi.
Hey, you shouldn't begin with 'I have a PPro ...'. It make me jaleous and
I don't want to help you ! ( the 486 is great, but still...)
I suppose your CD-rom is IDE, so your block device name should be
/dev/hdc1
I'm not sure because mine is different.
hda is the master on the first interfa
I will try to address your call for comments, though it will be a
matter of several responses, and not one.
My machine is minute (though I hope to replace it fairly soon). I have been
running a Debian system for well over a year. All my maintainance has been
done using FTP to get the packages.
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there a package of the FTP client ncftp? The one that comes standard
> with Debian isn't as nice as ncftp.
Check in non-free. It's there.
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Hi,
is there a package of the FTP client ncftp? The one that comes standard
with Debian isn't as nice as ncftp.
Thanks,
E.-
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I bet your problem is that one of that package that you installed
killed your /etc/inetd.conf file. At least that's what happened to me
last week. I never did figure out who did it. Check to see if it's
there.
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Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
[ all my config info deleted ]
>
> The only problem with this is that neither machine will be able to
> communicate directly with other machines on the 193.135.252/24 network -
> with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 they will
A previous version of "at" started its at-jobs with a nice of 2 and its
batch-jobs with a nice of 4. The latest doesn't nice at-jobs at all and
only has a nice of 1 on batch-jobs. I quite liked having these jobs
put somewhat in the background. Could this be reinstated?
Also, batch jobs are now
After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on EQL;
however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved alternative.
However, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in any of the HowTo's, etc.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or, is it not yet available o
Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote:
>
> > I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they
> > have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users
> > and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian
> >
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
[ a bunch of correct things about emacs and vi]
An anecdote regarding vi and emacs use:
We had a whole department who were using vi under System V.2 on
3b2/400s back in the middle 80s. I installed microEmacs (whatever was
current at the time). By the m
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes:
> Anyway there should be sufficient documentation about LaTeX across
> the net. I just re-read the german lkurz alias LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung.
> I'm sure that a similiar english document does exist, too.
>
Actual
> I just checked again. It's not there. I get all the other directories but
> nothing under Debian.
>
> I just got a msg from Christian saying it may be an ftpd error.
>
> What did you use to check this?
I logged on to master directly and checked.
Bri
What would be the best way to mount a floppy drive and have it
readable and/or writable by ONLY 2 users ?
I notice that after I mount the floppy I can't change the mode to
have it readable by a group. I'm probably doing something wrong,
or not understanding something..
Thanks,
Matthew
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
> Please help me to get started !!!
> I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated.
> I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit.
> But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a:
> command)
To begin, there's nothing like a good
> The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someone
> expect to find on a system's boot/rescue disk? That someone
> presumably being a person with enough unix experience to recover
> from the usual problems that can make your machine fail to boot.
> The lastthing you need at that poi
> Francois Gouget writes:
> > Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space
> > availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib
> > yet somewhere else.
>
> Should be doable. "df" to get all the partitions and their capacities, "df
> /var", "df /usr", et
"Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
> > Have a good one.
>
> You can find a really old version of wine in project/experimental.
> I have a newer version compiled on my machine and will be uploading
> a new package before the re
On 17 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> Neither do I. Even in X, I almost do not use the mouse. Indeed, inside a
> console or inside an xterm (emacs -nw) I could only use the mouse if I have
> done
> some non-standard configuration. Just don't use the mouse if you prefer. You
> can do e
> On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > Here is an extract from my /etc/X11/XF86config:
> >
> > # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
> > # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:
> >
> > LeftAlt Meta # this line was commented out bef
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I
> chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The
> installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages
> for things that depend on them.
>
>
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> why not just use the arguments passed to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} by pppd?
Sure, I could do that, but suppose pppd changes the order in which it
passes parameters with the next pppd upgrade... I'll still be running, if
I used $4, and didn't know about the
On Apr 17, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote
> Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I
> chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The
> installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages
> for things that depend on them.
AFAIR Debian cam
val.tamarov writes:
> Please help me to get started !!!
> I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated.
> I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit.
> But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a:
> command)
> how to go to cd-rom, how to distinguish executable f
Andreas Tille writes:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people
> > tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they
> > stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are
> > going
[ I do not like this kind of discussion but I thing some things could be
helpful to some people. Indeed, I have been using emacs for a long long
time and I started to read this trhead because I would like to learn some
things about vi. Perhaps I will stop writing in this thread. ]
Vadi
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
> Please help me to get started !!!
> I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated.
> I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit.
> But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a:
> command)
You have to either mount the floppy und
Ok. Try reading the man page XF86Config. It explains those settings.
If you run xf86config (note the syntax) it will configure this file asking
questions. It will also ask if you want to map the meta key etc...
I don't use the meta key otherwise I could tell you more.
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Andr
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote:
> If you type ping -c 5 www.microsoft.com
> how long does it take before you see the first
> line ?
>
> This almost sounds like a DNS timeout.
Here is the output:
bridge:~ ! ping -c 5 www.microsoft.com
PING www.microsoft.com (207.68.137.59): 56 data
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Apr 16, Rick wrote
> >
> > There is nothing listed under /pub/Linux/Debian any more. Did you hide the
> > directories for some reason? Is this a, dreaded, file system problem?
> >
> > What happened guys?
>
> This sounds like a ftp daemon problem
On Apr 17, Mark Phillips wrote
> I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people
> tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they
> stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are
> going to work properly?
>
> Is the teTeX distribution co
Has anyone had any success getting this to run with the svga server in
Xfree86 3.2A ?? I tried it, but it puked on me, gave me a screen full of
garbage. when i ctrl alt bkspace to kill the server, I seem to lose all
signal from the card, because my monitor goes into powersaving mode. I
was then
Hi,
I just downloaded Debian but wasn't able to correctly configure
the X server.
Does anybody have a working XF86Config for a
Matrox Millenium 4 MB PCI with a
Sony Multiscan 300sf
?
Thanks,
Markus Diesmann
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rajpaul Bagga wrote:
> Summary:
> Have base packages installed. Need to install pcmcia packages so that
> ethernet card can be used for the remaining packages. Can't get pcmcia
> packages to install.
>
> Background:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Aero 4/33. I c
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
> Activating meta in X is in the XF86Config file.
Here is an extract from my /etc/X11/XF86config:
# To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
# RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:
LeftAlt Meta # this line was comm
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wow, you guys sure think fast :) But I know where you are coming from. I
> am a pretty speedy typist and have often been annoyed by odd keys. Now I
> am wondering: is there an easy way with emacs or some other editor to
> assign a short string to a 'wierd
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people
> tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they
> stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are
> going to work properly?
While installing it is
Please help me to get started !!!
I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated.
I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit.
But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a:
command)
how to go to cd-rom, how to distinguish executable files out of regular
ones, somebody tol
"François" Gouget writes:
>
> robert havoc pennington wrote:
>
> > When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
> > the disk, and so I ended up with tons of "broken packages" and had to
> > install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people
tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they
stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are
going to work properly?
Is the teTeX distribution complete, or is it missing a few things?
Tha
Summary:
Have base packages installed. Need to install pcmcia packages so that
ethernet card can be used for the remaining packages. Can't get pcmcia
packages to install.
Background:
I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Aero 4/33. I can get the base
installion just fine (version 1.2.9). I
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On 17-Apr-97 Christian Hudon wrote:
>On Apr 16, Rick wrote
>>
>> There is nothing listed under /pub/Linux/Debian any more. Did you hide the
>> directories for some reason? Is this a, dreaded, file system problem?
>>
>> Wh
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I just checked again. It's not there. I get all the other directories but
nothing under Debian.
I just got a msg from Christian saying it may be an ftpd error.
What did you use to check this?
On 17-Apr-97 Brian C. White wrote:
>> I was downloading bo from fr
On Apr 16, Rick wrote
>
> There is nothing listed under /pub/Linux/Debian any more. Did you hide the
> directories for some reason? Is this a, dreaded, file system problem?
>
> What happened guys?
This sounds like a ftp daemon problem on master. The files are still there
when I log in to maste
> I was downloading bo from frozen on master. It should have taken about 4 - 5
> hours. I reduced my terminal and did other things. about 18 pkgs were
> recv'd when, evidently, the entire Debian directory tree disappeared.
I just checked...
master:8 - ~/Debian/frozen/binary> find . -type f | w
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What happened?
I was downloading bo from frozen on master. It should have taken about 4 - 5
hours. I reduced my terminal and did other things. about 18 pkgs were
recv'd when, evidently, the entire Debian directory tree disappeared.
I thought it was the pro
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jason Ish wrote:
> To fix this I have starting using pine, I start it using sudo as user
> jbi130 on my home system but these becomes a pain (as far as file
> permissions) are concerned when add folders and deleting stuff and so on.
>
> Is there a better way to go about this.
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
> I agree with Joey's original message: let's let the editor debate rest a
> bit, folks, or give it focus and a new thread name.
i disagree. I see two valuable results from the thread:
1. people get to show off neat tricks that they've learnt/figured o
> I use that fun awk stuff since my dialup is a dynamically assigned IP
> address.
>
why not just use the arguments passed to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} by pppd?
They are documented in the comments at the beginning of the scripts
included with the ppp .deb package:
# $Id: ip-up,v 1.1 1996/01/31 21:
Francois Gouget writes:
> Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space
> availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib
> yet somewhere else.
Should be doable. "df" to get all the partitions and their capacities, "df
/var", "df /usr", etc to get the f
> I have investigated exim ... I am part of a 50+ site uucp network with 6
> uucp neighbors of my own. If each site changes connectivity only once per
> year, that is one change per week. smail's usage of pathalias uucp
> routing is great. Exim is fine if you have only smtp or maybe one uucp
> s
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > > lisa.thenet.ch icemark.thenet.ch firefranc
> > > > ppp0193.135.252.75 193.135.252.47
> > > > eth0192.168.101.1 192.168.101.2
> > [...]
> > > > The new setup should look like:
> > > >
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someone
> expect to find on a system's boot/rescue disk? That someone
> presumably being a person with enough unix experience to recover
> from the usual problems that can make your machine fail
On Apr 17, Martin Schulze wrote
> > Is there a version of xlock with shadow passwords?
>
> Use xlockmore instead. It comes with a newmail binary
^^^
Errr... I meant an xlock binary. Sorry, should go to bed...
> which is aware of shadow passwords.
On Apr 16, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote
> Is there a version of xlock with shadow passwords?
Use xlockmore instead. It comes with a newmail binary
which is aware of shadow passwords. It's quite nicer
than the original xlock, too.
Regards,
Joey
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I have investigated exim ... I am part of a 50+ site uucp network with 6
uucp neighbors of my own. If each site changes connectivity only once per
year, that is one change per week. smail's usage of pathalias uucp
routing is great. Exim is fine if you have only smtp or maybe one uucp
site.
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