Re: ICQ

1997-08-02 Thread Dima
>>Travis Cole wrote: ... >> >>Have him run a finger daemon on the Win95. I think those already exist; at >>least I've heard of one. (I don't use Win95, so I don't know for sure... But >>fingerd is easy to write.) >> > >I will have to look for that. But I will run into that dynamic IP proble

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Dima
>>Alex Yukhimets wrote: >> It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the >> debian-user list into several lists: >> >> debian-user: user discussion >> debian-install: installation problems >> debian-novice: newbies are intimidated by other lists, so here's

xemacs20 won't start

1997-08-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
I just loaded xemacs20 and tried to run it. It fails before any window appears. There is no core dump; this is the error output: === Fatal error: assertion failed, file elhash.c, line 111, gc_in_progress Fatal error (6). Your fi

Re: block device name (Easier installation questions?)

1997-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Patrick Dahiroc wrote: >the following screen asked for the CD and > the block device name. I have no idea what this means. The system > recognized my CD during the reboot as hdd 655A ATAPI IDE. What do I > have to type in as my block device name? Jean Pierre L

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread joost witteveen
> > It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > > debian-user list into several lists: > > > > debian-user: user discussion > > debian-install: installation problems > > debian-novice: newbies are intimidated by other lists, so here's > > one of their own

Re: NFS

1997-08-02 Thread joost witteveen
> > Restarting /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs still shows old connections when I > do a showmount or showmount -a > What do I have to restart to have showmount display the correct info ? Depends on what you see as "correct" info. nfs is "stateless", i.e., when a client mounts something from the server, o

Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence

1997-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Franck LE GALL wrote: > For example it could have: > > - Only base [] > - Xwindow [] > - LateX [] ... This easier interface is why I think Slackware is easier to install. Once Installed, I Debian is more stable, richer in features and much more up-to-date (not to menti

Re: Where is libX11

1997-08-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: > I tried to compile some programs for X11 with: > > gcc prog1.c -lX11 > > The compilation went O.K., then the linker complained that it couldn't find > X11 library. > I have installed almost every -dev package but I still think that the right > one is mi

dpkg man page omissions

1997-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The dpkg man page doesn't mention --get-selections --set-selections and possibly other options mentionned in `dpkg -h` Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Where is libX11

1997-08-02 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi, I tried to compile some programs for X11 with: gcc prog1.c -lX11 The compilation went O.K., then the linker complained that it couldn't find X11 library. I have installed almost every -dev package but I still think that the right one is missing. Can anyone tell me what should I install in

Recording sound

1997-08-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
What package do people use to record .au audio files? Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > or power users "on duty" or something so that we are sure every message > > To be honest, I would think that something like debian-help and > debian-install might make better newsgroups under linux.* than ma

Re: ICQ

1997-08-02 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- First off, thanks. You brought up a lot of points my limited knowlege did not allow me to see. On 31-Jul-97 Riku Saikkonen wrote: >Travis Cole wrote: >>On 30-Jul-97 Riku Saikkonen wrote: >>>To tell if someone is online: >>> - finger >>> - rwho (but rwhod isn'

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > > debian-user list into several lists: > > > > debian-user: user discussion > > debian-novice: newbies are intimidated by other lists, so here's > > one of their own. >

RE: Accessing NTFS partition.

1997-08-02 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I think there is a utility to do this in linux but it may be alpha code. Look around on sunsite for it. It think it would be in some directory named filesystems. Also there are some utilities that allow you to have read only access to NTFS drive from DOS/Window

? boot from CD?

1997-08-02 Thread Paul Tanner
What's the magic incantation? My machine finds the CD, gets to the " boot: " prompt. Then it reboots (after each of my many guesses). I have sucessfully installed by booting from floppy, but I'm still curious. BTW I have an Intel Zappa board, and my CD is /dev/hdc. Paul Tanner -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread George Bonser
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > I am afraid that we have to get organized about this - have maintainers > or power users "on duty" or something so that we are sure every message > gets handled. I could see one additional list at first, something like debian-help for people that have pr

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> In your email to me, Alex Yukhimets, you wrote: > > > > > It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > > > debian-user list into several lists: > > > > > > debian-user: user discussion > > > debian-install: installation problems > > > debian-novice: newbies are i

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And who's gonna answer their questions? I don't think many maintainers > will sign for this list. I am afraid that we have to get organized about this - have maintainers or power users "on duty" or something so that we are sure every message gets handled.

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Alex Yukhimets, you wrote: > > > It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > > debian-user list into several lists: > > > > debian-user: user discussion > > debian-install: installation problems > > debian-novice: newbies are intimidated

Re: On the BOCA 2016 and ttySx

1997-08-02 Thread david
> I've never passed my insights on regarding the BB2016, of which I've > installed a few recently. I'll send this message to you and CC the mini > HOWTO maintainer. If he doesn't add my comments to the mini, maybe I'll > update it. ?? The version I've got (from Debian 1.3.1) was last updated >

Re: Debian-lite

1997-08-02 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 01-Aug-97 Paul Wade wrote: >A single CD that allowed a wide range of installation types should have a >powerful name. > >Debian Complete? >Debian Universal Linux? >Multiple Personality Debian? :) > >+

Re: On the BOCA 2016 and ttySx

1997-08-02 Thread Kevin Traas
I've never passed my insights on regarding the BB2016, of which I've installed a few recently. I'll send this message to you and CC the mini HOWTO maintainer. If he doesn't add my comments to the mini, maybe I'll update it. ?? The version I've got (from Debian 1.3.1) was last updated more than

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the > debian-user list into several lists: > > debian-user: user discussion > debian-install: installation problems > debian-novice: newbies are intimidated by other lists, so here's >one of their own. And