hostname 'linux1' bad. How to correct this??

1998-06-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, After upgrading to hamm I'm having some troubles to configure my linux box. My linux is connected to the dept's server (another linux). I use reserved class C IP number. The conection is ok, but every time I try to print something, lprng reports: Get_local_host: hostn

auctex not happening

1998-06-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've recently upgraded to hamm. The auctex package installed fine, but it doesn't seem to start up when I use emacs! Previously when I loaded a latex document into emacs, it would automatically go into auctex mode. Now when I do it, it goes into a non-auctex, tex mode. I can do a M-x late

Where can I find some .deb packages ?

1998-06-03 Thread Shaul
I am using Debian 1.3.1. Can someone tell me where (on which ftp site) can I find: 1) A debian installer for netscape 4.05 (communicator) ? 2) The last Linux Gazzete issues ? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 02:28 PM 6/3/98 -0400, you wrote: Interesting, Testing on the suggestion about upper/lower case sensitivity, (which was not a problem here, the file and boot.ini agreed), I copied the file from my workspace on D:\...\bootfile.lin to C:\bootfile.lin, and it works! Apparently having it on anothe

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JBJ" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JBJ> Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup JBJ> home.netscape.com' JBJ> but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' JBJ> prompt type your JBJ> query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Mayer
That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com on my latest hamm machine. On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem you list (the dropping to the nslookup prompt). Upon further investigation, nslookup is a symlink to nslookup.sh which seems t

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember but no, I haven't logged a bug report.) Jay Barbee wrot

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into > > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think > > it comes in dns-utils. > > Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean

New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO.

1998-06-03 Thread Jens Ritter
Hallo all, as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would like to start this (hopefully) littly project. I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be send to authors of software, which a) do not state what copyright is associated with their software and b) w

Re: Red Hat 5.1

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 01:59:02PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0... > Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a > comment... Have you been watching the erratas mentioned on Freshmeat? THAT bothers me

Getting $PPP_SPEED to report 33600, not 115200

1998-06-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all I am using a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to echo $PPP_SPEED amongst other things to /dev/tty12. However, at the moment it is echoing 115200. I had this problem in Windows 95 as well and the solution was to put w2 in the "extra commands" area. How do I do this with pppconfig (my current ini

Re: FW: about K6 bug

1998-06-03 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > >(ex: Office Max here in Anchorage has > >Packard Bell 200MMX's with 32MB SDRAM, 3GB HD's, 56k modems etc. for $699. > >The demo at the store has been running for over a month solid now with no > >problems...). > > Yep,

HELP needed w/ libtool using compile

1998-06-03 Thread Shaleh
I am trying to install several programs from source that use the libtool program to compile. The compilation goes through without a hitch, however the libfoo.so files all say "statically linked" when looked at by ldd. Has anyone looked into this? What can I give to help debug this? It is a FRES

cat's got my lp1

1998-06-03 Thread
The only way I can print is with cat > /dev/lp1 If I use anything other, I get: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice Operand stack: --nostringval-- followed by lots of hex addresses, offsets, names, permissions and more hex addresses. (I think they are addressses) I recently chm

Encoding multiple files into a MIME message

1998-06-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I need to write a script to send multiple files in a single MIME message. - mpack: would seem to be the answer, but it will strangely only attach a single file. Syntax: mpack -s "Mail Subject line" -d descrip-file.txt file-to-encode address - mhn: I can't figure out how mhn works fro

Re: kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-5.deb

1998-06-03 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 10:16:54AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Can I download kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-5.deb from the frozen > directory and use it on a bo system? I think I've seen messages that > 2.0.32 is more stable than 2.0.33 (available in bo). Well, I'll answer my own question. The ker

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jay Barbee
> Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think > it comes in dns-utils. Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean by "broken". Is it some problem with they way I

Netscape Mail problem

1998-06-03 Thread Matthew Myers
When I try to send mail to this list server using netscape mail, it never gets here. I sent this using pine. I have tried this before and after a complete Debian re-install and always have the same results. What's the deal with netscape mail? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 05:36:49AM -0400, John Kloss wrote: > > > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > > > now? > > > > If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, > > LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this o

Re: Hard drive compatibility with Linux

1998-06-03 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jacob E Goodman wrote: > I just placed an order for a Dell Dimension XPS R400MHz system, which > includes a 16.8GB EIDE Ultra ATA hard drive, factory installed. > > Will I be able to use Linux on this system, or is the disk too large? > I plan to partition the disk and install

modem response problem

1998-06-03 Thread G. Kaplan
I have a 56k/x2 modem which is recognized on a w95 system as com2 port 0x2f8 irq 3 , This port does not apper in the dmesg output. setserial report for ttyS1 shows : uart unknown. I would like to use minicom (or an equivalent ) to echo to the console screen values stored in the internal registe

Hard drive compatibility with Linux

1998-06-03 Thread Jacob E Goodman
I just placed an order for a Dell Dimension XPS R400MHz system, which includes a 16.8GB EIDE Ultra ATA hard drive, factory installed. Will I be able to use Linux on this system, or is the disk too large? I plan to partition the disk and install both Linux and Windows. Jacob E. Goodman -- To UNS

Re: Boot problems: PCI device(s) unrecognized..

1998-06-03 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Gregory: I got the same thing on my system. I ran it for months with no problems with 2.0.32. When I upgraded to 2.0.33 the messages went away. Regards, Bernt. > When I boot, I get: > > > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f9a20 > > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Dire

Boot problems: PCI device(s) unrecognized..

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
When I boot, I get: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f9a20 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf04e0 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0510 Probing PCI hardware. Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7180). Please read include/linux/pci.h Warn

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think it comes in dns-utils. Jay Barbee wrote: > Hey all, > > I have kind of a strange situation on my home system. > > I have named running for my home ne

Re: Red Hat 5.1

1998-06-03 Thread Dale Smith
On Wed, 03 Jun 1998 13:59:02 -0400, you wrote: >So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0... >Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a >comment... > >(Not that *I'm* doing anything to further Debian progress, so I cannot >complain! I just wonde

1 SCSI & 1 IDE hdd w/LILO

1998-06-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I just added a SCSI drive to my computer. I now have a 4.3g SCSI and a 2.1g IDE. I have moved Debian to /dev/sda1 and I have installed Winblows on the IDE (/dev/hda1) so I can play StarCraft and Unreal. I have had no luck with LILO. It will boot to Debian no problem but I can't get Windows

Red Hat 5.1

1998-06-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0... Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a comment... (Not that *I'm* doing anything to further Debian progress, so I cannot complain! I just wonder if that bugs developers a little) Peter -- To UNS

nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jay Barbee
Hey all, I have kind of a strange situation on my home system. I have named running for my home network and all lookups and queries run just fine. The odd part is, if I type 'nslookup ' it then gives me the ">" prompt. I will enter the address again and it errors out because the system at i

mounting remote file systems...

1998-06-03 Thread The . Sage
I recently installed Debian 1.3 and have a few questions. I boot to DOS and use loadlin to boot Linux. Linux begins its startup and continues fine (although I do see some notes about no PCI Bios not being present..how do I skip that check?). Linux mounts my local file systems fine, then I get th

Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem

1998-06-03 Thread John Kloss
I had this problem when I changed my file system on nt from fat to ntfs. my boatloader line read something like Linux: ... c:/BOOTSECT.INI but the actual file was c:/bootsect.ini and it wouldn't load because the nt boatloader was looking for the file to be all caps (whic

Off Topic - Open Source Code

1998-06-03 Thread Harry Kniznik
Hi, There is a series of articles on open source code issues being run on CMPNet. The series contains interviews with Linux originator Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond. There is also an article that contains insightful commentary from Richard Stallman; the founder of the Free Software Foundation

Re: X windows?

1998-06-03 Thread Jens Ritter
Mikhali Mifsud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone point me to a Xwindows Howto? thanks. install doc-linux-text, read /usr/doc/HOWTO/XFree* (screen /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini and unmaintained, too) HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key finger

Re: something like easy cd creator

1998-06-03 Thread Jens Ritter
Benoit Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, is there any apps like easycd creator, who dont need to make an image?, > just dragging files or wav songs to the destination before burning? AFAIK all applications need an image, because cdwrite or cdrecord who actually do the burning do not support

Re: My network script running before eth0 is created

1998-06-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: > >: >: Hi all! >: >: I am having a problem with setting my network up. >: I basically want to run the following commands at bootup: >: ifconfig eth0:0 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broad

Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem

1998-06-03 Thread aqy6633
> I setup my machine with NT and Linux, and followed the instructions in "NT > Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO". > > As per their instructions* I used bootpart to make the NT loader adjustments. > > When I boot, indeed I get the option for Linux from the NT loader > (boot.ini), which points to the boot

Boot to Linux from NT; problem

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I setup my machine with NT and Linux, and followed the instructions in "NT Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO". As per their instructions* I used bootpart to make the NT loader adjustments. When I boot, indeed I get the option for Linux from the NT loader (boot.ini), which points to the boot file made by

PPC linux

1998-06-03 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
There are five PPC subarchitectures of Linux: * CHRP-compliant PowerPC machines * PCI-based Power Macs * PReP-compliant PowerPC machines * Amigas with PowerPC upgrade cards * 8xx embedded systems PowerPCs ---

Re: slackware from Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-03 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 08:16:26PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > It seems Slackware is often slow to adapt to new things... > (e.g. FHS!) Well, we are not even running the FHS yet so that's a bit unfair. hamish ___ ___

Re: init scripts using ipchains..?

1998-06-03 Thread Michael \[badpixel / bad sector\]
> netbase 3.09-1 (in hamm) includes ipchains, including all documentation > (and /etc/init.d/netbase has a spoof protection setup) oki doki .. i guess i missed that.. but what about ipmasq? i guess im not smart enugh ;) i need to masq packets from eth0 (192.168.0.x) to ppp0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PC Opinions (was RE: FW: about K6 bug)

1998-06-03 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I'd normally agree, but just as a note here, if you get a Dell, Gateway, Compaq, IBM or NEC you get the same non-standard m/b's (boards with i/o ports on the m/b and cases custom-made to fit). Packard Bell also switched to IBM's MWave sound/modem cards, so they actually have a little quality in the

Re: Drive proving stubbornly unmountable

1998-06-03 Thread Witwerg the Sage
Damon Muller wrote: > > G'day, > > > Possible error sources are : > > -the partition was never made a vfat partition by > > Windows95, but is still a fat partition > > Sort of don't think this would be it, as it had files with long file > names in it. I don't think

Re: LINUX Newbie

1998-06-03 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I have never used LINUX. What do I need to download/purchase >> to get started on my learning journey? Read some install documentation, until you know something about what you are planning to do. For Debian you can find them at least from www.debian.org. If you have fast net connection (I

Re: X windows?

1998-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > Can someone point me to a Xwindows Howto? thanks. $ dpkg -S XFree86-HOWTO.gz doc-linux-text: /usr/doc/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.gz Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Query

1998-06-03 Thread Robbie McGarrigle
Do you have the make & model number of the Intel Ethernet card? Could you please reply with that information? Thanks & Regards, Robbie McGarrigle SAP Infrastructure Team Digital Equipment (Scotland) Ltd, Ayr. > -- > From: Sagar Bhate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > now? > > If not does anyone know who to make netscapes fonts bigger, in areas > such as > the message list. That would be very useful. There are a few of us here who have reach

RE: FW: about K6 bug

1998-06-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>(ex: Office Max here in Anchorage has >Packard Bell 200MMX's with 32MB SDRAM, 3GB HD's, 56k modems etc. for $699. >The demo at the store has been running for over a month solid now with no >problems...). Yep, that's about how long that brand will run :) More seriously, I'd avoid packard bill u

RE: Query

1998-06-03 Thread Robbie McGarrigle
Do you have the name/model number of the Intel ethernet card? Thanks & Regards, Robbie McGarrigle SAP Infrastructure Team Digital Equipment (Scotland) Ltd, Ayr. > -- > From: Sagar Bhate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 2:44 PM > To: debian-use

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Christian Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 03 Jun 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote: >Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are >now? > >If not does anyone know who to make netscapes fonts bigger, in areas >such as >the message list. > >My major complaint about debian is th

Re: Query

1998-06-03 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Sagar On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Sagar Bhate wrote: > sir, > I am installing Debian Linux1.3 on my Pentium 200MMX 32MB RAM >PCI VGA CARD >COLOR MONITOR(15 inch) >

kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-5.deb

1998-06-03 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Can I download kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-5.deb from the frozen directory and use it on a bo system? I think I've seen messages that 2.0.32 is more stable than 2.0.33 (available in bo). Thanks, -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PRO

Query

1998-06-03 Thread Sagar Bhate
sir, I am installing Debian Linux1.3 on my Pentium 200MMX 32MB RAM PCI VGA CARD COLOR MONITOR(15 inch) INTEL 10/100 Mbps ethernet card(eth0) C

Re: Strange man behaviour

1998-06-03 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > When I am looking for the manpages of an X11-related topic as a user, I > get an error message. The same does not happen when I do it as root. > > eg. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](2)$ man xkeycaps > No manual entry for xkeycaps > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](3)$ apropo

PCMCIA problems for Thinkpad

1998-06-03 Thread Jay Barbee
I tried to setup a Debian on a ZIP disk connected to an IBM Thinkpad 750 with a PCMCIA ethernet credit card adapter. I have installed the latest PCMCIA cs, and modules (2.0.29) DEB packages. The card manager detects both the 14.4k modem and Ethernet card, but the module 8390 has a slew of prob

Re: How to account CPU idle time waiting for I/O?

1998-06-03 Thread Igor Mozetic
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Fernando Fernandez wrote: > Can anyone point me to some info about how to find how much > time the CPU is wasting waiting for disk I/O? There is /usr/bin/vmstat from the procps package. -Igor Mozetic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

1998-06-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:36:41PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 07:07 -0700 1998-06-02, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called > >OpenPIC or similar. Cyrix use the same spec. Intel use a different spec > >though and no motherboards availa

RE: Linux Man => DOS Text

1998-06-03 Thread Ted Harding
On 03-Jun-98 Tomas Petersson wrote: > Hello, how can I convert man pages to DOS-text > so I can print them from my NT. > If I just pipe to a file I get a lot of unwanted > characters, is there a utiliy for this? man whatever | col -b > filename will output the man page for "whatever" as very plai

Re: Linux Man => DOS Text

1998-06-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Tomas Petersson wrote: > > Hello, how can I convert man pages to DOS-text > so I can print them from my NT. > If I just pipe to a file I get a lot of unwanted > characters, is there a utiliy for this? You can turn a manual into a postscript file with the -t option: man -t ls > ls.ps gives you a

Re: Available devices?

1998-06-03 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi! On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > > > Is their a command I can execute that will show me all available > devices? I think on solaris its something like dmsg (?) Linux has a command called dmesg, It will give you the kernel output, from the startup and show you the devices while

Re: How to account CPU idle time waiting for I/O?

1998-06-03 Thread Fernando Fernandez
Ulisses Alonso wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Fernando Fernandez wrote: > > Can anyone point me to some info about how to find how much > > time the CPU is wasting waiting for disk I/O? > > maybe this is Ok if you want to do some "benchmarks": > > try it with the time command, for instance: > > ti

Re: hard disk restarting a couple of times an hour

1998-06-03 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> I've noticed that even when I'm not using it, my hard disk is re-spun a time >> or two an hour. THere's a brief slowing, followed by the click & bt as it >> restarts. >> >> I originally assumed a looze cable, but I'm reasonably convinced that the >> power & ribbon cables are firmly

Re: How to account CPU idle time waiting for I/O?

1998-06-03 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hello Fernando! On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Fernando Fernandez wrote: > Hello! > > Can anyone point me to some info about how to find how much > time the CPU is wasting waiting for disk I/O? maybe this is Ok if you want to do some "benchmarks": try it with the time command, for instance: time cp some

Linux Man => DOS Text

1998-06-03 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, how can I convert man pages to DOS-text so I can print them from my NT. If I just pipe to a file I get a lot of unwanted characters, is there a utiliy for this? /Tomas Petersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

keyboard problem in X

1998-06-03 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I recently edited my .xinitrc to start a few programs when startx is run. Since then my compose key does not always work in X and I have to run xkeycaps, restore defaults and then it works again. Today my scroll_lock indicator stayed on after I ran xkeycaps and I could not get it of again.

Strange man behaviour

1998-06-03 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, When I am looking for the manpages of an X11-related topic as a user, I get an error message. The same does not happen when I do it as root. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED](2)$ man xkeycaps No manual entry for xkeycaps [EMAIL PROTECTED](3)$ apropos xterm xterm: nothing appropriate. [EMAIL PROTECT

How to account CPU idle time waiting for I/O?

1998-06-03 Thread Fernando Fernandez
Hello! Can anyone point me to some info about how to find how much time the CPU is wasting waiting for disk I/O? I used to do this with sar but it seems it's not available. vmstat only displays idle time, not distinguishing real idle time from "waiting for i/o" idle time... Thanks in advance, F

X windows?

1998-06-03 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
Can someone point me to a Xwindows Howto? thanks. == On the plains of hesitation lies the bones of countless millions who, on the verge of victory, sat down to wait and in waiting died. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com a

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread John Kloss
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:22:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > > now? > > If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, > LET ME KNOW! I ca

Re: How do you connect one computer to another

1998-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SM" == Shanta McBain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SM> How to I get access to the Win95 tcp/ip SM> drives from the linux box and vise versa? Sorry, but what is a "tcp/ip drive"? Maybe you could explain what you want to do. If you want to access your linuxbox via the network neighborhood, you

svgatextmode and the Matrox Mystique II

1998-06-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
Would any kind person with the above combination running let me have a copy of /etc/TextConfig? I really miss my 100x40 screen with my new card. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:22:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > now? If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a bigger m

Re: Q: sbpcd CD-ROM problem

1998-06-03 Thread deans
Phlip wrote: > > deans wrote: > > > I am having a problem mounting my Sound Blaster > > CD-ROM. When I built the installation, I selected > > the sbpcd drivers, then I typed in "sbpcd=0x250,1" > > as parameters. > > > Hello Dean > have you tried "mount -t iso9660 /dev/sbpcd /cdrom"? > I ain't no

Re: PATH problem

1998-06-03 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Tue, 2 Ju, 1998, Tomas Petersson wrote: > > Hello, I have installed JDK1.1 and written a small testprogram. > The compiler works fine, I can compile programs which run > fine on my NT but in Linux it says "Class XXX not found.". > I suspect the the problem is my PATH, but I can't find the >

How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are now? If not does anyone know who to make netscapes fonts bigger, in areas such as the message list. My major complaint about debian is that it doesn't provide any real eazy way to customize X-Windows. Thanks. -- To UNSUB

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

1998-06-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 07:07 -0700 1998-06-02, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called >OpenPIC or similar. Cyrix use the same spec. Intel use a different spec >though and no motherboards available support the open one. No motherboards for x86 processors that is.

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

1998-06-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:12 -0700 1998-06-02, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >Or going Alpha or PPC. Cost effectiveness seems to indicate PPC to me, >though there are 1,000,001 different PPC for Linux branches it seems. There are five PPC subarchitectures of Linux: * CHRP-compliant PowerPC machines * PC

Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 08:16:26PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > It seems Slackware is often slow to adapt to new things... > (e.g. FHS!) Well, we are not even running the FHS yet so that's a bit unfair. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: Text to Speech?

1998-06-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote > What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a > SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware). If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by on the debian-devel-changes mailing-list recently. You might want

Debian gnu/linux & x on laptop

1998-06-03 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings all ok i have started x on a compaq presario laptop 1680 pentium 200 32 mb sdram neo geo 128 vid card w/4 mb and synaptics ps/2 touchpad.. i have started x although it is at a VERY low resolution at 8bpp i was using the svga serverand the mouse does not work. i was

Re: libc5 applications (Netscape, StarOffice, WordPerfect) segfault

1998-06-03 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Tor" == Tor Slettnes wrote: Tor> It seems that if I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my Tor> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, libc5 applications such as Netscape, Tor> StarOffice 4.0 and WordPerfect causes segmentation fault Tor> right awa

Re: "rdir" directory graph util for Linux?

1998-06-03 Thread Noel Yap
the lone gunman wrote: > > In my DOS days, I had this program called "rdir." It displayed a > "Relative Directory size" for first level directories off of the > root in the form of a pie graph. [SNIP description] > Anyway, it was great when it came time to clean up my harddrive, > because I co

Accessing html forms...

1998-06-03 Thread jim
It's relatively easy to write a program to do this, although you might need to scroung around for routines to do the "URL Encoding" of the post data. However: Perl is your friend. look at the LWP module. If you can get it, O'Reilly has a "Web Client Programs with Perl" book that covers this topic

Re: Q: sbpcd CD-ROM problem

1998-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
I found that I had the best results when I compiled the sbpcd driver into the kernel and eliminated all autoprobing, etc. You will need to edit /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sbpcd.h, which has sufficient comments to tell you what is needed. I had even better results when I replaced my CD-ROM with

Q: sbpcd CD-ROM problem

1998-06-03 Thread deans
I am having a problem mounting my Sound Blaster CD-ROM. When I built the installation, I selected the sbpcd drivers, then I typed in "sbpcd=0x250,1" as parameters. It has mounted just fine a couple times as: mount /dev/sbpcd /cdrom but all other times, it locks up with this command. Tha

Re: changing networks?!?

1998-06-03 Thread the lone gunman
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 04:40:55PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: > hello everybody, i have a question, who doesn't on this list right? ok > here it goes. I have a computer at work connected to the net via > eathernet. I have all of my networking working great. My question is > when i bring it ho

Apache virtual hosts problem

1998-06-03 Thread Derek Tam
Sorry, don't have the original message, hence the subject change. Hey, funny. I just started experiencing the same problem with Apache 1.3, although it was working correctly when I first implemented it last month. I had set up my regular host, plus two virtual hosts on top of that. I looked

Re: mode select keys in Xwindow

1998-06-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
Phlip wrote: > > Well the install of Debian Linux went well and I've learned quite a bit > but I am having a problem with the keys that change modes in Xwindow. > They have no effect. The combo I use is cntr-alt + or -. Is this > correct? I have Xwindow running pretty darn good but those mode keys

Re: Bug in Gnome panel command?

1998-06-03 Thread Shaleh
No, the panel is compied against an older gtk/gdk. Those packages are rather out of date. Mike Orr wrote: > > I just installed Gnome (0.12-1), and when I try to run panel it says: > > _kruto[p1]:~/exp% panel > panel: error in loading shared libraries > /usr//lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: X

Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-03 Thread the lone gunman
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 07:56:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > which I got out of a book on Linux networking. Previously I was using > /dev/ttyS1 for outgoing connections. Is there any reason to use the cua > devices? > >

Re: File-system on tape

1998-06-03 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Somebody wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:15:58PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > >> Is it possible to create a file system on a tape drive ( like on > > >> mainframes) and use it as a disk? I know it

"rdir" directory graph util for Linux?

1998-06-03 Thread the lone gunman
In my DOS days, I had this program called "rdir." It displayed a "Relative Directory size" for first level directories off of the root in the form of a pie graph. For instance, if I have a 100mb drive, with three directories as follows: \dos\, 25 MB; \apps\, 50mb; and \util\, 25mb; and I used "rd

Bug in Gnome panel command?

1998-06-03 Thread Mike Orr
I just installed Gnome (0.12-1), and when I try to run panel it says: _kruto[p1]:~/exp% panel panel: error in loading shared libraries /usr//lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: XListInputDevices libgtk.so.1 is in package libgtk1 (1.0.3-1). I tried reinst

mode select keys in Xwindow

1998-06-03 Thread Phlip
Well the install of Debian Linux went well and I've learned quite a bit but I am having a problem with the keys that change modes in Xwindow. They have no effect. The combo I use is cntr-alt + or -. Is this correct? I have Xwindow running pretty darn good but those mode keys don't do anything. The

Re: telnet port 25

1998-06-03 Thread the lone gunman
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 08:41:17PM +0800, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: > Hello all, > > I try the command to test my email connection 'telnet localhost 25', but > it gives me the error: > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > However, I have '127.

Re: [hacker@brightok.net: ] -- ppp help

1998-06-03 Thread the lone gunman
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > - Forwarded message from cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Ok I got debian running but I want to get ppp working I have a modem on com 2. > I type pon and it wont do anything I tried reading the man pages but they > just didnt help

How do you connect one computer to another

1998-06-03 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a linux running on a 386 connected to a Win95 system via ether net ne2000. If I attempt a dns search from linux will launch the proxy dialer on the Win95 system. How to I get access to the Win95 tcp/ip drives from the linux box and vise versa? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Hardware

1998-06-03 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 2 Jun 98 18:15:05 GMT, (Timo Pettersson) wrote: >Hi I sent a mail 6 mounth ago asking if Debian Linux suported my Riva128 >chip in 3D and it didn't. Is it doing it now? As far as I know, the 3dfx is still the only supported 3D card. So no, Riva128 won't do 3D under Linux. You can now get an

Text to Speech?

1998-06-03 Thread Marc Lepage
What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware). I tried Festival, but it seems to pause a tiny bit every few seconds, and frankly I was hoping for better. I'm looking for a package that is not just adequate for reading

Re: Accessing html forms...

1998-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Chris wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > "POST" requests should be quite simple to do in perl. Here's what a post > > request > > looks like from the client: > > > > > > POST / HTTP/1.0 > > Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > > Content-length: