IRQs and memory addresses

1998-07-09 Thread Paul M. Foster
Scenario: I install a Linux system, and then later decide to add (for instance) a sound card. But when I do that, I have to move something else (like an ethernet card) to a different IRQ/Memory address. Question: How do I tell the system I've made this change (other than manually entering paramet

Re: Problem installing a package with dpkg

1998-07-09 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Katharine Osborne wrote: > > I've been through all the man/--help pages and I > have no idea how to fix/avoid this. If you have > any suggestions, please email me. > > thanks in advance. Download the package and install it manually with a --force overwrite option like this:

Looking for a counting (x)biff

1998-07-09 Thread servis
Hi all, I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would like to use this to keep track of all the mailing lists that I subscribe to and are filter

Re: locally mounted files and dselect or dpkg?

1998-07-09 Thread servis
Ed, Dselect is just a front end to dpkg. So dselect knows everything dpkg does. So just execute: dpkg --install .. and you should be set. If you don't have a package file that is needed then dpkg will tell you when it installs the packages. This is the way to go for files that you down

Re: Parallel drives

1998-07-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: : Will Debian 2.0 solve the problem of not being about to have a parallel : removable drive and lp drivers loaded at the same time? I was under the impression that this was a kernel limitation; I believe it's being addressed in the 2.1 kernels. -- Nat

Parallel drives

1998-07-09 Thread Robert Henry Rati
Will Debian 2.0 solve the problem of not being about to have a parallel removable drive and lp drivers loaded at the same time? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: > Just try to use apt and observed it is missing something (at least this > is how I see this): it doesn't have a [scan] facility. In other words, > it will not let you install packages if you do not have a Packages.gz > file and if the files aren't placed where Pack

Exim queuing/retry problem.

1998-07-09 Thread Dominic J. Davidson
I am using Exim 1.92, configured with option 2 (SMTP, smarthost). Receiving mail works fine, but if I'm offline and I try to send, I get this bounce: ---cut here This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipien

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Joey Hess wrote: > > If you use apt with dselect, this is no longer a problem, apt fixes it. Hi, Just try to use apt and observed it is missing something (at least this is how I see this): it doesn't have a [scan] facility. In other words, it will not let you install packages if you do not have

locally mounted files and dselect or dpkg?

1998-07-09 Thread Young, Ed
I want to install some debian packages which I downloaded. I used the Debian packages area of the Debian web page and ftp'd all the files which were indicated as necessary or recommended. I'd now like to copy them to a machine and install them. An example is Midnight Commander and there were 4

Re: No automatic recognisation of ISDN card after update to hamm

1998-07-09 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:57:37PM +0200, Karlheinz Nolte wrote: > Hi all, > > some days ago I made the update from bo to hamm. Most things work fine, > but I have a problem with my ISA PNP ISDN card (Teles 16.3c). During > bootup the kernel doesn´t recognise the card and the initialisation > fail

Windows 98 Killing Linux Partitions?

1998-07-09 Thread Pure Energy
Hiya all I just read this artical at slashdot.org that stated that it moves the save 2 partition it rewrites the partition (if i read it correctly). They state that anything using a LILO boot WILL break. The article is at this URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/9807082141244.shtml

Pine 4.00 for Debian.

1998-07-09 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. In case someone is interested, I have just uploaded the source for Debian pine to Incoming (i.e. .orig.tar.gz, .dsc and .diff.gz). (Yes, unfortunately, it is still non-free software, and the license has not changed at all from pine 3.96). It will appear in

Re: Wget like with cookies

1998-07-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ooops, sorry. The syntax for a *Request* header is simply 'Cookie: NAME=VALUE'. Shoulda looked over my response and thought for a second before I sent it! Mario Filipe wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know if there is a wget like package that allows us to "send > cookies"? thanks -- Jens B. Jorgensen

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-09 Thread Shaleh
If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that -- a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a chatscript. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

man-db config problems

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Schreiber
I keep getting this error whenever I try to configure anything through dselect: Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sb in/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--conf

Re: Wget like with cookies

1998-07-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, cookies are simply sent as header values. wget supports sending additional headers with the '--header=' parameter. For example: wget --header="Set-Cookie: foo=bar" http://www.blah.org/index.html For detailed information about the syntax of the 'Set-Cookie' header go to http://developer.nets

Repost: problems with xqf

1998-07-09 Thread Eric
Since nobody replied to this (probably because it was sent during the evil list feedback), I'm reposting it. I'm having problems getting xqf (the GTK quake server browser) to work. Whenever I attempt to run it, I get the following error: xqf: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol:

Repost: Problems with my mutt

1998-07-09 Thread Eric
Since nobody replied to this (probably because it was sent during the evil list feedback), I'm reposting it as it is a fairly urgent question. My e-mail account is with my ISP, meaning I dial-up using PPP and use an smtp host provided by my ISP to send mail. I use smail as my MTA. I used to use p

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial > up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so > appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an > account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Carl Fink wrote: > Well, Debian is in the process of switching package managers (apt), > and supposedly there's a project called "deity" that will supersede > all that has come before, but the current manager, dselect, can do > anything rpm can (including installing rpm files) and some other > thin

Re: Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-09 Thread chrislee
> "I" == Ionut Borcoman at debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I> The package 'cfortran', sugested by Christopher Lee I> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> looked more appropriate for what I'm I> needing. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for matrixes bigger I> than 14x14. Or maybe I've done aga

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-09 Thread Shaleh
Xconsole reads what you tell it to read. Normal setup has it watching the equivalent to syslogd's output. This is set up in the syslogd.conf file in /etc. Xconsole can be set to watch what ever file, fifo, stdin you set it to watch. So if you like you can make it xconsole -file /var/log/message

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial > up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so > appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an > account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your I

RE: REPOST where is /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd?

1998-07-09 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have a 1.3.1 cd and rpc.bootparamd is not in the Contents.gz file. I'm not sure what it is supposed to do. Do you have any more details about this file? jim -- From: Hilton Fernandes[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 7:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org C

RE: SyQuest

1998-07-09 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
My SyQuest 270 (internal IDE) is detected as HDC1 just fine... As far as supporting the removability factor - no idea. I use it mostly for trash storage, downloads, etc., so I don't pull the cart's much. >>--<< > -- > From: Taren[SMTP:[EMAIL PRO

Wget like with cookies

1998-07-09 Thread Mario Filipe
hi Does anyone know if there is a wget like package that allows us to "send cookies"? thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ ->| http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf | <- Nova Pagina (New) +---+ --

Smail Configuration

1998-07-09 Thread vaidhy
Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with that. (I did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail out of it)

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I'm new to Linux and wavering between going with Red Hat and Debian. Could >anyone comment on the strengths/weaknesses of the Debian package manager >vs RH's RPM system? Also does Debian provide some kind of Uninstall-type >manager? Well, Debian is in the proce

Re: Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: > > Drake Diedrich wrote: > > > >Lapack++ hasn't been packaged yet, but would be welcome. The successor, > > NTL, might be a better time investment. http://math.nist.gov/tnt/ > > After some strugle, I've managed to compile Lapack++. The tests included > in th

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Shaleh wrote: > > I never assume how much of a newbie you are (-: Ok, step one. Go to > www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software and get the imlib packages, you only > need the -dev ones if you intend to compile things. Install them in > this order: imlib-base, libimlib, libgdk-imlib, imlib-progs (then

Re: high end SCSI card recommendation

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:10:08PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > Allen Ahoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway, if this is a controller issue, whats the best controller for busy > > web servers running Debian LInux 1.3, kernel 2.0.33 and apache? > > I can just get one and be done with it,

Re: high end SCSI card recommendation

1998-07-09 Thread Jens Ritter
Allen Ahoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, if this is a controller issue, whats the best controller for busy > web servers running Debian LInux 1.3, kernel 2.0.33 and apache? > I can just get one and be done with it, recompile and that particular one, > and ... I heard a rumor that busl

Re: More repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Eric
True, Partition Magic can create any type of partition, but it cannot resize, or do much else actually, an ext2 which is what would be needed in this particular case. On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Hank Fay wrote: > Ivan, > > PM does both types of partitions. > > Hank --

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-09 Thread Mark H. Mabry
Thanks, to all for the help with the irq conflict. I switched the slot of the ethernet card and it got a different irq number and all is well. Mark Mabry Tel: (978)250-3344 x264 Avici Systems Inc. Fax: (978)250-3377 12 Elizabeth Dr.,

Re: Advice on a new system

1998-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:47:29AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am going to help one of the engineers at my company to build a personal > system. He has expressed interest in learning about linux and would like to > have a system that will dual boot in both windows 98

Re: More repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: > Sorry for the brevity of my last message ! > > The answer I received is to use Partition Magic and hope for luck but I was > under the impression that this applied only to windoze partitions. > > On my system I have a windoze part. & a Linux part. > > Linux cur

Advice on a new system

1998-07-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello everyone, I am going to help one of the engineers at my company to build a personal system. He has expressed interest in learning about linux and would like to have a system that will dual boot in both windows 98 and linux. I have read several messages on this list talking about problems w

Re: SyQuest

1998-07-09 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: > Will the release of Debian 2.0 support SyQuest removable drives in any > way? I know there is a way to make the Iomega parallel port version of > the zip drive work in Linux, but not the SyQuest EZFlyer. Is there going > to be any support for the Sy

Re: xfstt

1998-07-09 Thread Bill Bell
>Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:36:01 -0400 >From: "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: xfstt > >On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 07:54:55AM -0700, Bill Bell wrote: >> >> Will there be a more current version of xfstt in Debian 2.0? I have >> been staying

Re: SyQuest

1998-07-09 Thread Taren
> Will the release of Debian 2.0 support SyQuest removable drives in any > way? I know there is a way to make the Iomega parallel port version of > the zip drive work in Linux, but not the SyQuest EZFlyer. Is there going > to be any support for the SyQuest parallel port drives and/or any other >

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)

1998-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 09:25:39AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jul 1998, Tim Buller wrote: > >I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to > > Is there any truth to the rumor that Debian's dist won't include pine because > of some restrictions in the license p

RE: SyQuest

1998-07-09 Thread Evan Van Dyke
> From: Robert Henry Rati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 11:19 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: SyQuest > > > Will the release of Debian 2.0 support SyQuest removable drives in any > way? I know there is a way to make the Iomega parallel port > version

Re: xfstt

1998-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 07:54:55AM -0700, Bill Bell wrote: > > Will there be a more current version of xfstt in Debian 2.0? I have > been staying out of slink until I have a better handle on everything. > xfstt 0.9.7-1 is the version I am seeing in Hamm today. I am sorry but no. I became the

Re: Parameters for kernel

1998-07-09 Thread Will Lowe
> Is there any document describing all existing command lines which can be > passed to kernel using LILO's "append" parameter? Or do I just have to sniff > it out from the source codes of the kernel and from docs? Try the bootprompt howto: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html

/dev/fd0 not configured?

1998-07-09 Thread Oscar D. Knight
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to install Debian Linux on a PS/2 Model 35sx, w/ 8Meg RAM and 40Meg hd. I know this is a VERY small and slow machine. I want to use it as a print server. I've researched it both on the web and looked, this machine has an AT bus. As you might have guessed it does not

RE: More repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Hank Fay
Ivan, PM does both types of partitions. Hank -Original Message- From: Ivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 10:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: More repartioning Sorry for the brevity of my last message ! The answer I received is to use P

Unsubscribe list.

1998-07-09 Thread Carlos Castrejon
DELETE ME FROM YOUR LIST. At 03:03 PM 9/07/98 -, you wrote: >debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 630 > >Today's Topics: >Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation >Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation >

Re: Question about debian sources and dh_testdir

1998-07-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PF" == Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PF> I really searched for this 'dh_testdir' on debian.org and also PF> asked Archie but did not find it. Could someone please reveal to PF> me in which package I can find it? It is part of the debhelper package. A convenient way to f

Parameters for kernel

1998-07-09 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello friends, == Is there any document describing all existing command lines which can be passed to kernel using LILO's "append" parameter? Or do I just have to sniff it out from the source codes of the kernel and from docs? Oh, and one more question. Does pppd work with shadow passw

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)

1998-07-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jul 1998, Tim Buller wrote: > >I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to > > Is there any truth to the rumor that Debian's dist won't include pine > because of some restrictions in the license put out by Washington

SyQuest

1998-07-09 Thread Robert Henry Rati
Will the release of Debian 2.0 support SyQuest removable drives in any way? I know there is a way to make the Iomega parallel port version of the zip drive work in Linux, but not the SyQuest EZFlyer. Is there going to be any support for the SyQuest parallel port drives and/or any other SyQuest re

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)

1998-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jul 1998, Tim Buller wrote: > >I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to > > Is there any truth to the rumor that Debian's dist won't include pine because > of some restrictions in the license put out by Washington

Re: netscape 4.05

1998-07-09 Thread Taren
> KYL> I had installed Netscape 4.05 and setting up things but I cant > running > KYL> netscape to excute itself. it looks nothing > > KYL> How do user run the netscape to execute? > > You also need to be logged in on a regular user account. Netscape 4.05 > won't let you run it as root. > > Ste

Re: Question about debian sources and dh_testdir

1998-07-09 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi [snip] > No actually it is not. The correct way is to use dpkg-source. The > command is 'dpkg-source -x .dsc'. This will recreate the > maintainers build environ completely. That's what the documentation says. But have you tried it? I did not succed unpacking a souce this way: pfrauenf:/

Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2 >> separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the >> partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in >> Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space. First, I don't think

Re: AWE Kernel Patch Troubles

1998-07-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I have an AWE64 and I've been using the kernel patch for it ever since >> I've had Linux. However, with my upgrade to hamm and the 2.0.34 >> kernel, I had to repatch and recompile my kernel. Along with that >> upgrade, I got the newest version of the AWE patch, 0.4.2d. I >> followed the direc

Re: Needed: NEC CDrom drive info

1998-07-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> G'day -- >> >> I am happily running a 24x NEC CD-Rom drive 464 (as reported in my >> /var/log/messages) alongside two SCSI-2 HDs on a NCR53c815 based card. Now I >> am trying to use a souncard (FWIW, Ensoniq soundscape, *non* PnP one...) and >> am confused as to which audio cables to use betwee

Re: xforms replacement

1998-07-09 Thread Darren Benham
On 09-Jul-98 Shaleh wrote: > At one time fltk was to be a XForms replacement. This changed. Darn > shame. Seems the Windows support helped make it less X complaint. I agree. I like the XForms look and feel. As it stands, most of my programs will recompile under fltk. I just have a few that

REPOST: where is rpc.bootparamd?

1998-07-09 Thread Hilton Fernandes
REPOST: Sorry to insist, but it is very urgent, and besides, maybe i was not very clear. Thanks a lot! -- Dear Debian users, I'm installing Debian Linux 1.3.1 the hard way, package by package, floppy by floppy. Yes, i'm a masochist! :-) But it is very instructive, since i have ne

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)

1998-07-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jul 1998, Tim Buller wrote: > >I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to > > Is there any truth to the rumor that Debian's dist won't include pine because > of some restrictions in the license put out by Washington

Re: [off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2

1998-07-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > I needed to create some new CD images, because enough new bug fixes had hit > the archive to make it worthwhile, and if I do that I have to differentiate > the versions somehow: hence a directory name of 2.0beta1 for the first lot, > and 2.0beta2 for the

Re: xfstt

1998-07-09 Thread Bill Bell
>Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:33:39 -0400 >From: "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: xfstt > >On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 07:16:45PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> >> I have xfstt font server thing installed and functioning. I was just >> >> wonderi

Re: xfstt startup issue

1998-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:57:13PM -0700, Bill Bell wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry I do not have the original message to respond to. I have just > moved from debian-user-digest to debian-user. I may have missed the > last day of this thread. It is ok :) > I also am using xfstt to serve my TrueTyp

REPOST where is /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd?

1998-07-09 Thread Hilton Fernandes
REPOST: Dear Debian users, I'm installing Debian Linux 1.3.1 the hard way, package by package, floppy by floppy. Yes, i'm a masochist! :-) But it is very instructive, since i have never installed any Linux in my life. :-( The PC i'm trying to do this is a dusty 486, w/o any network connections

More repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Ivan
Sorry for the brevity of my last message ! The answer I received is to use Partition Magic and hope for luck but I was under the impression that this applied only to windoze partitions. On my system I have a windoze part. & a Linux part. Linux currently occupies ~1G which I want to split into tw

Re: xterm-debian exported as terminal type

1998-07-09 Thread joost
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I'm not sure exactly when this started, but it seems to have been shortly > after the freeze. Since the latest XFree86 packages to be more precise. > When I telnet to another machine with an xterm (e.g., "xterm -e telnet > abc.def > &"),

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)

1998-07-09 Thread Mark Mealman
On Thu, 09 Jul 1998, Tim Buller wrote: >I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to Is there any truth to the rumor that Debian's dist won't include pine because of some restrictions in the license put out by Washington state? Washington's license doesn't seem any more

Re: xfstt

1998-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 07:16:45PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> I have xfstt font server thing installed and functioning. I was just > >> wondering if I can have that load on boot. If so which file do I edit. > > Check that you have '/etc/init.d/xfstt' and appropriate links pointing in > /et

Re: unsubscribe "helper line"

1998-07-09 Thread Marsh Ray
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > >>> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >> Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the >> former "mail a message with the subject "unsubscribe" to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap

1998-07-09 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 09:13:29AM -0500, Tim Buller wrote: > I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to > link in libtermcap.a, which is not a part of the termcap-compat package. libtermcap is obsolete for about three years now. libncurses should be used instead (repla

Re: FIXED IT! - IDE stopped working

1998-07-09 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) Some CDrom drives prefer to be slave drives and do not properly respond > to the kernel's inquiry when jumpered as a master drive (again, an unknown > fact) Humm, that explains ... thanks Jon. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap

1998-07-09 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to > link in libtermcap.a, which is not a part of the termcap-compat package. > A quick search on the web interface shows no libtermcap.a for hamm, but > usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libtermcap.a in the devel/libc4-dev package for bo.

Pine 4.00 termcap

1998-07-09 Thread Tim Buller
I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to link in libtermcap.a, which is not a part of the termcap-compat package. A quick search on the web interface shows no libtermcap.a for hamm, but usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libtermcap.a in the devel/libc4-dev package for bo. Is the

FIXED IT! - IDE stopped working

1998-07-09 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: > Check that you did include support for IDE/ATAPI cd-roms and enchanced > IDE/MMF/RLL support. Also check that did you include support for SCSI- > emulation. > > One thing could be that some card goes to irq 15 in boot and messes things > up. > > If those do not help

xterm-debian exported as terminal type

1998-07-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I'm not sure exactly when this started, but it seems to have been shortly after the freeze. When I telnet to another machine with an xterm (e.g., "xterm -e telnet abc.def &"), it informs the remote machine that terminal type is "xterm-debian" rather than "xterm". Other machines do not recogni

Re: File managers ??............

1998-07-09 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Try the midnight commander I think the current version is mc-4.0.5.tar.gz or more > Hi > >Im wonder the power of my linux system. But Im still browsing my > computer only with the "ls" command. Can you people recomend me a good > file manager ??? > > > > > > Thanks, Phillip Neuman

Re: unsubscribe "helper line"

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the >> former "mail a message with the subject "unsubscribe" to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" message? I'll grant you that >> people screwed that up too, but this seems to be asking for people

Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation

1998-07-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: >Several documentation files on the 1.3.1 distribution contains text >like this from the Afterstep FAQ: >--- >11.. GGeenneerraalliinnffoorrmmaattiioonn ... >Is there a quick way to correct this? sed -e '

Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation

1998-07-09 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 03:01:43PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Several documentation files on the 1.3.1 distribution contains text like > this from the Afterstep FAQ: > --- > 11.. GGeenneerraalliinnffoorrmmaattiioonn This is *roff-s

Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation

1998-07-09 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, Several documentation files on the 1.3.1 distribution contains text like this from the Afterstep FAQ: --- 11.. GGeenneerraalliinnffoorrmmaattiioonn 11..11.. WWhhaatt iissAAfftteerrSStteepp?? AfterSt

RE: Another dselect FTP problem

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Len Cumbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Use passive mode [n]: BTW, what is passive mode? FTP by default is in non-passive mode. When a data connection is setup between the client and server, the client sends a request to the server to connect to a specific po

RE: netscape 4.05

1998-07-09 Thread Steve Rothanburg
KYL> I had installed Netscape 4.05 and setting up things but I cant running KYL> netscape to excute itself. it looks nothing KYL> How do user run the netscape to execute? You also need to be logged in on a regular user account. Netscape 4.05 won't let you run it as root. Steve -- Unsubscrib

RE: repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Evan Van Dyke
> From: Ivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 5:23 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: repartioning > > > Hello, > > How do I repartition my Linux partion without disturbing the existing > installation ? > > Thank you. If you have Partition Magic, _AND_ a

RE: lilo & lilo.conf

1998-07-09 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I don't believe that it is required for any of the MS operating systems. I don't use it in my lilo.conf file and everything works. Have you tried omitting it? Tony Richardson -Original Message- From: Nathan E Norman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 7:17 PM To: deb

Re: File managers ??............

1998-07-09 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu which appear on the left of the screen. -- >I tried explorer. It runs OK, but you can't do a whole lot with it yet. >Looks promising though. > >For now, the best two I've used are Midnight Commander and the TkDesk. > >

[off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2

1998-07-09 Thread Philip Hands
Here's a comment I tried to post at slashdot, but slashdot is a bit broken, so I'll mention it here before people get overexcited: I seem to have caused a little confusion here. I needed to create some new CD images, because enough new bug fixes had hit the archive to make it worthwhile, and i

Urgent, please ! (was: HELP: Setting up TeTeX)

1998-07-09 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I've reinstalled the TeTeX packages (Debian 1.3.1) and have noticed that 'dselect' seems to be facing the same problem I'm facing: no way to locate "language.dat", "*.fmt" and "modes.mf" files. I've browsed the TeTeX docs and the Configuration HOWTO. According to what I've read, I

Urgent, please ! (was: HELP: Setting up TeTeX)

1998-07-09 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I've reinstalled the TeTeX packages (Debian 1.3.1) and have noticed that 'dselect' seems to be facing the same problem I'm facing: no way to locate "language.dat", "*.fmt" and "modes.mf" files. I've browsed the TeTeX docs and the Configuration HOWTO. According to what I've read, I

Re: AGP Graphics Support?

1998-07-09 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The latest version of XFree86 has support for several AGP cards. Mine (ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is supported and works well. You can find out which are supported at the XFree86 site: http://www.xfree86.org/ Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey all, > > Does anyone know if there is suppo

Re: File managers ??............

1998-07-09 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I tried explorer. It runs OK, but you can't do a whole lot with it yet. Looks promising though. For now, the best two I've used are Midnight Commander and the TkDesk. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You have got one with staroffice 4.0 (www.stardivision.com) > Another package is explorer (a wi

RE: File managers ??............

1998-07-09 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
You have got one with staroffice 4.0 (www.stardivision.com) Another package is explorer (a win95 like). I didn't not tried it. I think it is in the contrib directory Franck >Hi > > Im wonder the power of my linux system. But Im still browsing my >computer only with the "ls" command. Can you

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repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Ivan
Hello, How do I repartition my Linux partion without disturbing the existing installation ? Thank you. Ivan. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Patrick Olson wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I think you need to somehow ensure that tail isn't used until > > that line isn't written in the log; -f will get it to wait, but will > > never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file. > > That makes go

[Debian] tar => can't resolve symbol 'mkfifo' ?

1998-07-09 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hello again, I'm trying to install identical Debian PC's. Therefor I created a large tarfile from one working system consisting of the whole filesystem except for the /home, /proc and /tmp directories and put this on a CD together with the tar utility. Unfortunately when I create a filesystem

Re: xforms replacement

1998-07-09 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 05:07:03PM -0700, The Gecko wrote: > What is a "Free" graphics/windowing/x library out there? Check out http://www.theoffice.net/guitool ; it lists numerous GUI libraries and includes licensing information. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages

Re: unsubscribe "helper line"

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:22:47PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the > > former "ma

Re: ctrl-z weirdness

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:58:58PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > : *-Nathan E Norman ( 8 Jul) > : | I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no > : | longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
I have been getting the same thing but from every mailing list I'm on. And it's going around for the second time now. John Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:59:05 -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > >Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? > > It is

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