Re: StarOffice Install

1998-04-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I am in need of some help installing StarOffice 4.0 > SInce I have a great setup at work and not at home.. (network wise) > I downloaded the staroffice 4 and gunzip'd and untar'd it > then I burnt it onto a CD

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On 24 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My advice would be for the maintainer of the pine package, > > (or whoever it was George is accusing of changing the > > interpretation of the copyright) to answer George's >

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :) > > just installed the debian package and now i get this message... > > badger(larry)> tkman > Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0. > You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebui

StarOffice Install

1998-04-24 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am in need of some help installing StarOffice 4.0 SInce I have a great setup at work and not at home.. (network wise) I downloaded the staroffice 4 and gunzip'd and untar'd it then I burnt it onto a CD (with a bunch of other stuff) to bring home and have. I can

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > i think there other thing to play as well but dont know what. Oh. Too bad that it didn't help you then. What version of grep do you have there? Version 2.1-7 is broken, that might also be the cause. In any case, you can always look at /var/log/xdm-er

KDE Wallpaper & Backgrounds

1998-04-24 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Hi: Is it just me, or does anyone else have trouble setting their backgrounds and wallpaper in Beta4? I've installed it on 2 seperate machines, and can't get the backgrounds to appear on either one. The jpg and gif files are there and selectable, but won't take. Sometimes my display properties win

Re: How to use accents in StarOffice4.0?

1998-04-24 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo Debora, On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, you wrote: > I supose it should be very easy to configure accents > in StarOffice4.0 (it is made in Germany, right?). > But I could not find out how to do it! Could someone > help me? Why not use the compose key in X? On my configuration I press Ctrl-Scroll-L

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-24 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > hi, > > I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom > for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages > that you know of? I am using Staroffice 4 on my 486DX40. I mainly use the spreadsheet, bu

mpeg player

1998-04-24 Thread Geza Gyorgyi
Mpeg_play does not play The 'mpeg_play' command from the Debian 1.3 package ucbmpeg complains about missing libm.so.4 and does not start. The package required xcompat, I installed it, but this contained libm.so.3. The libm.so.5 resides on the system by default. Where can one find version 4

Re: none

1998-04-24 Thread Patrick Duvaud
Am 25-Mär-98 schrieb Brederlow: >Patrick Duvaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Please tell me wehre cane i have this CV64/3D driver for Linux Amiga >> >> Patrick Duvaud >> Clarahofweg 23 >> CH-4058 Basel >> Switzerland >> >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Have a look at ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/

Re: linux diald -> linux mgetty

1998-04-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Pete Templin wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > "name " can be passed to pppd on the command line or in an options > > file. How do you start pppd? > > Ummm...I'm assuming that diald is starting it for me. Is that a bad > assumption? Oh, yeah, forgot about that. In your

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Yes, although I don't know which version of Excel was used. All I > had to do was to click on the 'file type' button and select excel. It > didn't preserve the column width format, so I had to adjust that in Star > Calc itself (StarOffice-3.1). i have another question,where do i find this butt

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > on the subject of Star Office,does it can open XLS files (M$ excel),i > needed to open one and it hasn't worked,does anyone here has been able to > do so ??? I use StarOffice 4.0 exactly for this purpose. Works like a dream. Open Excel sheet, save as

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > on the subject of Star Office,does it can open XLS files (M$ excel),i > needed to open one and it hasn't worked,does anyone here has been able to > do so ??? Yes, although I don't know which version of Excel was used. All I had to do was to click on

Re: SGML, Jade, Docbook -- HELP!!!

1998-04-24 Thread David S. Jackson
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Is there anywhere some documentation that enables someone to > > understand SGML, DSSSL and so on from scratch? > > There is very little, really. Try to search for "tutorial" and "d

Help with Backpack

1998-04-24 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I am running debian 1.31. I have a parallel port Backpack CD-ROM I am trying to mount it. I know that the device is /dev/bpcd but it claims that I have not loaded the module yet. What module do I have to load? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: src-packages and package manager

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 09:43:31AM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote: > (Not wishing to contribute further to that pine thread...) Agreed, I think it's time to kill that one. > So, since we've got to have some packages distributed only as sources, how > about a little bit of extension to Debian's pac

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Rick Younie
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > > Hello to the list > > I must stand by the Pine package maintainer on this issue. > The maintainer should not be expected to put himself in a bad > legal position for anyone just so they can have a convenient > installation package. > >

Re: linux diald -> linux mgetty

1998-04-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Pete Templin wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > What are your options to PPP? You need to specify your "name" so that pppd > > will > > look up the right entry in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. > > Where/how do I set that? "name " can be passed to pppd on the command line or in

Re: PINE Debian Package (maildir support)

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:07:44PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the > > > procmail in slink, which is cool by me. => > > > > you got me again... what is slink? > > > > Next release of debian... bo--> hamm --> slink

Re: PINE Debian Package (maildir support)

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 01:51:06AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the > > procmail in slink, which is cool by me. => > > you got me again... what is slink? That's the new unstable. There was a request for objection to the patch g

Pine w/ maildir (Was: PINE Debian Package)

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:55:08AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: > : I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool) and have never ever > : experienceed corruption and mail loss due to pine. message loss to me is > : more of a mta problem, but that's beside the point. > > Yes, it is more of an M

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Roberto Magana
>From the Ethernet-HOWTO 3.6. Problems with 3Com cards Problem: The 3c503 picks IRQ N, but this is needed for some other device which needs IRQ N. (e

Re: COMPROMISE? PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:40:43PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > For the point of the approval of patches to make a binary image, it's > > almost a non-issue with the src package because the src package will > > always be preferred for reasons of the bugs fixed and features added. If > > you're

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
on the subject of Star Office,does it can open XLS files (M$ excel),i needed to open one and it hasn't worked,does anyone here has been able to do so ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux diald -> linux mgetty

1998-04-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
What are your options to PPP? You need to specify your "name" so that pppd will look up the right entry in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Pete Templin wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to configure a dial-on-demand Linux box to dial into a > Linux dialin server with a Cyclades multiport card and the

Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Hans Ehrbar
Thanks to Ossama's and Gilbert's advice, I could fix my problem by adding a line consisting of the string 3c509 to the /etc/modules file. Apparently the install program never wrote this string into the file because I had failed to install a network card altogether when I originally built the base

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Have you guys already tried Debian's "xbase-configure" yet? It is > normally run during the xbase package install, but I believe that it will > setup xdm to start at boot if you haven't already done so. > > -Ossama i'll check into this. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
> # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > ---cut--- > > Look at the last line, I bet it is missing on your system. It tells xdm > which xserver to run on what display. If there is no such line, xdm will > still be running, you'll just not notice anything you wou

Re: legal issues (suing debian, pine, et al.)

1998-04-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > Also, the fact of incorporation does not protect the individual who > > causes the liability. If someone, for example, places copyrighted > > material into the debian distribution, both the person and debian > > are liable. Keith Beattie wrote: > Uhm, I don't mean to dump on lawyers here,

linux diald -> linux mgetty

1998-04-24 Thread Pete Templin
Folks, I'm trying to configure a dial-on-demand Linux box to dial into a Linux dialin server with a Cyclades multiport card and the standard mgetty "AutoPPP" stuff. Since it's AutoPPP and hence PAP authentication, I need to disable the script. I've done so, but I don't seem to

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread dg
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Hans Ehrbar wrote: > Thanks for the quick response, Ossama. > I did configure the network and I do have a file > /etc/init.d/network which has my IPADDR and NETMASK etc. > but I haven't found any files with any of the information > about the network card specified during insta

Re: Bash help

1998-04-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:23:13AM -0400, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: > I am trying to tell if a program is passing back an error in a Bash > script. I would like to branch on receipt of the error to a wait > statement that will give me about 20 seconds and then retry. > > My trouble

Help with X

1998-04-24 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I am running Debian 1.31. I have a Novell 4.x server that is running Novel's IP system on it. I can telnet to the server but it comes up and asks me if I want to use the default X console display to work with. I have tried the default, and setting it myself to no avail.

Re: help w/ ttysnoop

1998-04-24 Thread Shaleh
Sorry, yes I have done both. (-; Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in > > inetd.conf. > > > > /etc/inetd.conf > > telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > > /usr/sbin/in.t

Segmentation Fault

1998-04-24 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I have a 3.2 GB Seagate master with a WD 2.5 slave. I have Windows 95 on the Seagate and am trying to setup Debian on the WD slave. As I go through the setup utilitity, I get to initialize and mount my swap partition, but when I try to initialize the LINUX partition I get the following message.

StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread tko
Disregard my previous request for help. I figured it out. 1) un-tar the files in /usr/local (as root), 2) cd to the new directory "StarOffice-3.1" and run : ./setup /net as your normal login account. When prompted for a directory to store the files, use the default. Worked slick as a button and t

Re: legal issues (suing debian, pine, et al.)

1998-04-24 Thread Keith Beattie
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > greq wrote, > > > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > > It's not that simple. FIrst of all, didn't debian incorporate about two > > > years > > > ago? IIRC, it was "Software in the Public Interest" (SPI) that incorporated, not Debian.

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Gilbert Laycock
(The subject line is a bit misleading, don't you think?) Hans> loading device 'eth0'... Hans> eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 e7 06 66, IRQ 3 Hans> 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hans> But when I boot the machine it says: Network is unreachable Is your network

Re: help w/ ttysnoop

1998-04-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in > inetd.conf. > > /etc/inetd.conf > telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L/usr/sbin/ttysnoops > > /etc/snooptab > * socket

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Hans, > Thanks for the quick response, Ossama. No problem. :) > but I haven't found any files with any of the information > about the network card specified during installation. > Where should it be? I'm not sure what you mean so I'll try to answer several questions: - If you mean during in

Re: legal issues (suing debian, pine, et al.)

1998-04-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
greq wrote, > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > It's not that simple. FIrst of all, didn't debian incorporate about two > > years > > ago? > > > > Secondly, without being incorporated, it wouldn't be just the individual ^^ > > mai

Re: Thinkpad installation question

1998-04-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Janos A Csirik wrote: : Hello, : : I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my new TP 560 and I ran into some : trouble! I successfully shrank the M$ Win partition, but when I try to : boot from the rescue floppy (date 1997-10-13), things don't work. If I : try to boot without

Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Hans Ehrbar
Thanks for the quick response, Ossama. I did configure the network and I do have a file /etc/init.d/network which has my IPADDR and NETMASK etc. but I haven't found any files with any of the information about the network card specified during installation. Where should it be? > On Fri, 24 A

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:00:06PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: : I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool) and have never ever : experienceed corruption and mail loss due to pine. message loss to me is : more of a mta problem, but that's beside the point. Yes, it is more of an MTA problem. P

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > loading device 'eth0'... > eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 e7 06 66, IRQ 3 > 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But when I boot the machine it says: Network is unreachable It sounds like your gateway hasn't been configured. Have you configured your gate

Thinkpad installation question

1998-04-24 Thread Janos A Csirik
Hello, I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my new TP 560 and I ran into some trouble! I successfully shrank the M$ Win partition, but when I try to boot from the rescue floppy (date 1997-10-13), things don't work. If I try to boot without any options, it seems to go through a complete power-cyc

Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Hans Ehrbar
I just got through the ordeal of installing debian linux from floppies on an older computer, but linux cannot find my network card. When installing the device drivers, the menu first told me that I did not have any network cards, i.e., there was a - sign in front of the line for my 3C509 card. Af

How to use accents in StarOffice4.0?

1998-04-24 Thread Debora Y C Brandt
I supose it should be very easy to configure accents in StarOffice4.0 (it is made in Germany, right?). But I could not find out how to do it! Could someone help me? Thanks in advance, Debora -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: staroffice

1998-04-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > 2) There are instructions for a multiuser install out there. Check out the > newsgroups on the server starnews.stardiv.com, or maybe someone around here > knows. I didn't bother, since noone else needs it here. http://www.waldherr.org/soff

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-24 Thread harlan woodring
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wore his fingers to nubs typing: > I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom > for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages > that you know of? Have a look at http://www.32bitsonline.com for a fair ove

staroffice

1998-04-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
to respond to a couple at once: 1) I use it sporadicly. When I need to open an ms file, or print one (iffy at times, especially on complicated forms), and when I need a spreadsheet (named arrays get screwed up on reopening the file or creating another name[actually the formulas, not the named

can't load shared libraries

1998-04-24 Thread David B Wilson
I installed tcl and tk with shared library support, and then compiled a program (rcsh) using the tcl & tk libraries, but it complains rcsh: can't load library 'libtk.so' libtk.so is in /usr/local/lib, and is a sym link to libtk8.0.so, which is readable. What am I doing wrong? David -- To UNSUB

Re: SGML, Jade, Docbook -- HELP!!!

1998-04-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Is there anywhere some documentation that enables someone to > understand SGML, DSSSL and so on from scratch? There is very little, really. Try to search for "tutorial" and "docbook" in the web. Or for "tutorial" and "sgml". You'll

legal issues (suing debian, pine, et al.)

1998-04-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
remco writes, >[1] You can't sue Debian at all, actually, since Debian is not >incorporated in any way so legally Debian doesn't even exist. You'd have >to sue the indivudual maintainers. It's not that simple. FIrst of all, didn't debian incorporate about two years ago? Secondly, without bein

Pine & wold domination

1998-04-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
manoj writes, > Us ``zelots'' are content. Unlike brother bill, we are not in > it for world domination or market share. But world domination would be a nice fringe. Awe, c'mon. Just two or three little countries? please? :) rick, who doesn't seem likely to take much of anything se

Perl Crypt Modules for SCO & SG Unix

1998-04-24 Thread Benjamin Cant
Hi, Has anobody compile the Perl 5+ Crypt::IDEA modules for SCO or SG unix? Cheers, Ben. Benjamin Cant Aegis Integrated Solutions 6 Sun Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND, SG5 1AE Tel: 01462 438938 Fax: 01462 451755 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

src-packages and package manager

1998-04-24 Thread Thomas Lakofski
(Not wishing to contribute further to that pine thread...) So, since we've got to have some packages distributed only as sources, how about a little bit of extension to Debian's package management to handle it nicely? One of the major reasons I use Debian is because I can make sure I'm up to date

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If the binary isn't up to date, it defeats the idea of providing it. And > > seeking out permission to distribute specific binaries is not what Debian > > is in the business of doing. Please, read > >

Re: `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Is it correct that mailers aren't supposed to change the header line > except to add `Received' line? > > I assume that my `corporate' NT servers between my Debian box and the > debian mailing lists server is at fault. Now, who do I convince them

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Have you guys already tried Debian's "xbase-configure" yet? It is normally run during the xbase package install, but I believe that it will setup xdm to start at boot if you haven't already done so. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EM

Re: `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > But I still get messages from the Debian mailing list that fail > these tests from: > > Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > However, the full headers don't look like they came from the mailing list!

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > i was surfing on the internet and viewed some comments on enabling X at > boot,i tried the trick down there ( modify /etc/X11/config so the line > no-start-xdm look like start-xdm,backup /etc/inittab and modify so when > booting,it load into runlevel 5

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Mike Miller
> "Michael" == Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My advice would be for the maintainer of the pine package, > (or whoever it was George is accusing of changing the > interpretation of the copyright) to answer George's > question about why it was done That was done

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-24 Thread Bob the Geek
' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > > hi, > > I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom > for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages > that you know of? > > allan bart > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsu

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > i was surfing on the internet and viewed some comments on enabling X at > boot,i tried the trick down there ( modify /etc/X11/config so the line > no-start-xdm look like start-xdm,backup /etc/inittab and modify so when > booting,it load into runlevel 5

starting X at boot

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was surfing on the internet and viewed some comments on enabling X at boot,i tried the trick down there ( modify /etc/X11/config so the line no-start-xdm look like start-xdm,backup /etc/inittab and modify so when booting,it load into runlevel 5) but this hasn't worked,is there some document i cou

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi guys, Perhaps a "debian-pine" list is in order. :) This whole PINE issue is getting blown way out of proportion. Debian's policy is clear. Both sides have points but I agree more that Debian should not interpret PINE's licensing in a way that would obviously be "pushing things" and that may

Re: A poppassd client

1998-04-24 Thread Adam Shand
> Can some point me in the direction or tell me where I can learn about a > poppassd client for linux/unix, Mac and wincrash95. poppassd was designed to work with eudora's 'change password' feature. as far as i know no other application supports poppassd. there is also a web form designed to i

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-04-24 Thread Adam Shand
> Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :) just installed the debian package and now i get this message... badger(larry)> tkman Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0. You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebuild wish. See the Makefile for more information. is this

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:20:09AM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > If you try to view an encrypted PDF file with Ghostscript (using gv or > ghostview as a front end) and get an error message, see > http://www.ozemail.com.au/%7Egeoffk/pdfencrypt/. There are now PDF decryption patches for xpdf. I

Re: How to send files over uucp

1998-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:36:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > George Bonser writes: > > You should probably do doing something like: > > uucp remote_uucp_node!/full/path/to/file /path_to_local/destination > > No, he should be doing something like: > uucp local_file remote_uucp_node_name\!us

Re: xconsole question

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I could have swonr I rea dthe man page > > course I can't read it here (the linux machine I have here > > at work is strictly text-only...so no X stuff) > > errr, you don't need X to read the man pages... in fact i hate xman. > yick. just type 'm

Re: PINE Debian Package (maildir support)

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the > > procmail in slink, which is cool by me. => > > you got me again... what is slink? > Next release of debian... bo--> hamm --> slink 1.3.1

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-24 Thread Bruce Jackson
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following > > annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured: > > > - If the X server fails to start, xdm seems to be restarting it > > indefinitely. I'd say that if the

Re: How to send files over uucp

1998-04-24 Thread john
George Bonser writes: > You should probably do doing something like: > uucp remote_uucp_node!/full/path/to/file /path_to_local/destination No, he should be doing something like: uucp local_file remote_uucp_node_name\!user_name\!remote_filename '!' is special to the shell. Try 'echo !qwerty'.

Re: More KDE problems

1998-04-24 Thread Stephan Kulow
Oz Dror wrote: > > > kmail should be in the package kdenetwork, which somehow didn't make > > its way into hamm, yet. You can get a copy from > > ftp://julia.exp-math.uni-essen.de/debian/kdenetwork_980328-1_i386.deb > > for the time being. > > > > Thank you, I have installed kmail, two problems w

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 07:41:37PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If the binary isn't up to date, it defeats the idea of providing it. And > > seeking out permission to distribute specific binaries is not what Debian > > is in the business of doin

A poppassd client

1998-04-24 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Can some point me in the direction or tell me where I can learn about a poppassd client for linux/unix, Mac and wincrash95. Thanks in advance Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PINE Debian Package (maildir support)

1998-04-24 Thread Adam Shand
> Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the > procmail in slink, which is cool by me. => you got me again... what is slink? > not sure, check www.qmail.org, they list most of the patches there. ya ... nothing for cucipop though ... have to keep searching. adam.

Re: xconsole question

1998-04-24 Thread Adam Shand
> I could have swonr I rea dthe man page > course I can't read it here (the linux machine I have here > at work is strictly text-only...so no X stuff) errr, you don't need X to read the man pages... in fact i hate xman. yick. just type 'man syslog.conf' and you should be away laughing. adam

can't installing Debian with my CD-ROM drive

1998-04-24 Thread skong
Hello, I am trying to install Debian 1.3 by CD-ROM with my Philips/LMS CM-206 CD-ROM drive. When attempting to load the proper module from the drivers disk to complete the installation, I get the following message: /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom/cm206.o: unresolved symbol(s) /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread pignon . p
Andreas says : >oooppssforgot to say there's a package for acroread ( the acrobat reader) on >the debian ftp server,but i think you should be better to use a >mirror from France,check in the contrib section,it's there: >*** Opt contrib acroread 3.0-1 3.0-1 Adobe Portable >D

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SNIP Hello to the list I must stand by the Pine package maintainer on this issue. The maintainer should not be expected to put himself in a bad legal position for anyone just so they can have a convenie

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hello again, Correcting myself ... I just noticed that I was talking about packages in the unstable distribution. The same readers are available for the stable distribution but in different locations. For the stable (1.3.x) distribution, see text/xpdf-0.6 for xpdf, non-free/gs-aladdin-4.03 fo

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi, There are several PDF readers available. I have Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10, xpdf 0.7a and acroread (Adobe Acrobat Reader) 3.01 installed. They are all available as Debian packages in non-free/text section at the Debian mirror sites. If you try to view an encrypted PDF file with Ghostscript (

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Hi ! > > Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? > > Thanks. oooppssforgot to say there's a package for acroread ( the acrobat reader) on the debian ftp server,but i think you should be better to use a mirror from France,check in the contrib section,it's there: *** Opt

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Hi ! > > Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? > > Thanks. adobe has one for X,you can get it at: http://www.adobe.com/ Alain > > -- > > Andreas Saudemont > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "u

Re: Bash help

1998-04-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I am trying to tell if a program is passing back an error in a Bas= > h > script. I would like to branch on receipt of the error to a wait > statement that will give me about 20 seconds and then retry. > > My trouble is I cannot remember how to detect the error and how to

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Art Lemasters
> Hi ! > > Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? C' est acroread. Follow the "packages" link from the Debian LINUX front page at http://www.debian.org/ It is in "text processing," non-free. Arthur ***Reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] until I get my MX-er going.***

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Tim Metz
> Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? > > Thanks. > > Andreas Saudemont > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Andreas, I use gv for viewing pdf (and postscript) files. I believe it is under the "text" directory of the debian distribution. - Tim .-/\/\/\/\/

Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Andreas Saudemont
Hi ! Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? Thanks. -- Andreas Saudemont email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Britton wrote: > > > Geez you sound like an agitator. > > No, I am done with the subject but I will make it clear that I am not > anti commercial software. Would you like a shovel? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:33:47PM +0200, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > > > I contacted washington.edu and they really do not want binaries to be > > distributed if they do not "approve" the patches *first*. > > > > If we do not have the freedom to app

Re: COMPROMISE? PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:41:15PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > I believe the package maintainer has commented on this thread already and > > seems at least interested in the prospect of a pine-src package which > > would probably end up in slink and hamm-updates. This may not be the > > simple

Re: More KDE problems

1998-04-24 Thread Oz Dror
> kmail should be in the package kdenetwork, which somehow didn't make > its way into hamm, yet. You can get a copy from > ftp://julia.exp-math.uni-essen.de/debian/kdenetwork_980328-1_i386.deb > for the time being. > Thank you, I have installed kmail, two problems with kmail 1. It freezes when a

boot errors!

1998-04-24 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I just compiled a new kernel and I get the following error messages on boot. I can't decipher them. If some knows what is wrong I appreciate your help. --- 4>] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 0010 ebx: 05cec018 ecx: 0680c5da

StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread tko
I know that this has been asked before, but how does one install StarOffice for multiple users? I've downloaded "common", "english", and "statbin" tarballs of StarOffice. Thanks! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for corre

need help with lilo

1998-04-24 Thread Marco Frattola
Hi all, I tried today my first install of debian 1.3, and I'm really impressed (positively impressed, I mean). Many thanks to all developers and testers. GOOD Job! I only have a 'small' problem with lilo I'm not able to iron out. Some background: machine: IBM 325 server (i.e. adaptec 2940

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > > hi, > > I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom > for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages > that you know of? There just happens to be a comparison being made this week: http://www.32bitsonline.com/ --

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