Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-03 Thread Peter Granroth
> > I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to > stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail > can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the > POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. > > I just d

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread mwb
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I > really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like > this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to choose > which one they are going to buy

CAP for libc6

1998-08-03 Thread Chris
I was wondering if anyone has compiled CAP for libc6? I am having some troubles getting it to compile - so if someone has any ideas (or would like to help) I would appreciate it. Also, if there is a debian package for it (wish list) that would be unreal. Thanks, Chris -- Unsubscrib

messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-03 Thread Patrick Olson
I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. I just deleted the fir

how to direct received mail directly to the home dir??

1998-08-03 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I'd like to set things up so that incomming mail goes directly to the user home dir, instead of sitting in /var/spool/mail. How can this be done? Can sendmail do it directly or I have to use deliver/procmail for this? Carlos -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Jim Foltz
I would suggest you try LyX again. I didn't like it when I first tried it and quit using it. After using LaTeX for for a time, I tried LyX again. So far, there hasn't been any document I couldn't write with it. Reports with tables, letters, resumes. It's really a superb application. LyX (LaTeX) kno

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Taren
There's no need to do that. Just cd /dev (or wherever your dev dir is), and type "./MAKEDEV *". That should recreate almost all the devices, with the correct permissions, afaik. > Perhaps I should just cd /mnt/dev; rm * and then remake the device > files. I've read about a command to make

Strange floppy

1998-08-03 Thread Shiraz Sayani
[Maybe off-topic alert] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try copying it on my Debian 2.0 box with something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/

Re: Palm Pilot software

1998-08-03 Thread Joerg Plate
http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/> -- "i'm working on it" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

partition table erased! POSSIBLE RECOVERY??? (urgent..)

1998-08-03 Thread Carlos Carvalho
A problem with our disk erased the partition table (at least). Is there a way to recover the info, if it's still there? Maybe with some ext2 utility trick... I don't remember the partitions exactly; I tried to create the first (root) one with the probable sizes with cfdisk and mounting but each ti

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> The bottom line is this: George> If the Linux distributions do not share a common filesystem George> layout and to some basic degree a common set of libraries, George> software vendors will simply pick one distribution as the

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard George> headed. I really do not think there are that many dummies George> here. Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides George> to spend about 30 mi

Re: Debian and TV

1998-08-03 Thread F.P. Schuurmans
I use xawtv (http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/linux/#xawtv) version 2.19. The (latest) bttv driver is included. It works fine. I've a Hauppauge PCI TV card. Also I've tried xtvscreen-0.4.3 with no success. Regards, Frank Michael Beattie wrote: > > I am nearly at my wits end. Who has got a TV

Lowmem laptop installation

1998-08-03 Thread Simon Holgate
Following the successful installation of v2.0 on an 8MB desktop, I've been attempting to do a low memory install on a 4MB IBM Ambra BAM2401 486sx sub-notebook (170MB HD). Despite playing with endless changes to the BIOS and power management, I am unable to activate the swap partition after initiali

Re: Diamond Supra Express PNP internal modem , Linux , and you.

1998-08-03 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone please tell me if it is possible to use above modem > with Linux. Thank you for your assistance. Works for me. I`ve only changed /etc/rc.boot/0setserial, due to IRQ conflict. Just uncommmented the automatic configuration line with the tty

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 > minutes to choose which one they are going to buy. These are sysadmins, > not kernel programmers. They take a quick glance, note that Red Hat is > 5.2, Debian is 2.0 and all the co

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: > I explain to them that it is like SVR4. There are SEVERAL different > versions of SVR4 put out by several companies each with their own version > numbering but they are all SVR4. Once I do that, they question how > protable applications are from one distribution to another an

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:39:26AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > good point...and who even says version numbers have to work in that way > > anyway? > > Many individual programs have versions like "19980420" ...or what > >

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, in make menuconfig, turn off anythig you do not need immediately, like any unknown drivers. (look at makefiles and .config to know what to turn off). I too have a hinote vp 575 laptop and a Xircom ehternet/modem card, but I have not yet loaded Linux on the laptop -- I'sd a

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:27:47AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > Brian, these people do not use Windows, they want to use Unix because that > is what they know. They are just not familliar with Linux in general. They > never touch the internet after work and in general, have lives. They are > no

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 05:58:46AM -0700, Taren wrote: > > > VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > > thenUnable to open an initial console > > > > > > > Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there. > > > > Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy > > devices

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote: > Taren wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Or the permissions aren't set right. I've found that when copying files > > from /dev, the permissions rarely stay the way they were originally > > They should with tar. e.g.: > > tar cf - . | (cd

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:58:58PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote: > G. Crimp wrote: > > > > I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was > > fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions, > > ownerships, links and other special files between the two fi

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I don't uderstand. The are Linux illiterate, and they display all the discerning qualities of 2 year olds, they do not want to shop around and learn about the merits of the distribution, and they do not want to spend time because they are no hobbyists. Why do I want them th

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> Jeez, I never said I had trouble with it, only that it is George> confusing to people in the real unix world that have not been George> exposed to it. Get it through your head that not everyone George> that uses Unix has ever

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
> > Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! > > The blurb I saw leading up to this discovery lead me to believe that Star > Office had seen the light - it seems I was mislead :( There aren't .debs for it, but you can go ahead and d/l it from their ftp/web site and it installed

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
> >Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going > >commercial. > > > And I've always thought that Star Office *is* commercial... If I can legally d/l it, install it, and use it, and pay nothing, it's not commercial. :) [Well, not commercial for me.] ;) StarOffice costs

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
Oops, that's what I meant...StarOffice. Jason On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going > commercial. > > > On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: > > Any other options - should I go commercial ??? > >

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
I haven't used it all that much yet (can't stand the idea of coming home and typing MORE documents) but SmartOffice seems just fine. Jason On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Ivan wrote: > Hello, > > I am seeking a WYSIWYG Word Processor - I downloaded and > installed lyX today - pretty good but not quite what

troubleshooting with bonnie

1998-08-03 Thread Pat Legg
Hi Folks- I am trying to use bonnie to do a little troubleshooting and could use some help interpreting the results. As you can imagine machine #1 is a real dog. Machines #2 and #3 seem fine and are included just for comparison. machine #1: AMD 5x86-133, Shuttle hot-433 MoBo, 64M ram, WD

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 10:41:42PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > Some of these people are highly skilled Solaris system administrators that > do not understand the concept of the different distributions and > versioning until I explain it to them. Al

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > Moral of the story, version numbers are specific to the product, don't > > bother comparing. > > Jeez, I never said I had trouble with it, only that it is confusing to > people in the real unix world tha

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
You can get it by ftp from narnia.mit.edu in /pub/Office40/01 (english) or /pub/Office40/49 (german). Please note: 250-NOTE: This Version is free for personal non-commercial use only! No 250-commercial use is permitted. You can order StarOffice for OpenLinux 250-for commercial use either from Sta

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They should with tar. e.g.: > > tar cf - . | (cd somewhere; tar xvf -) > >Of course, you must set umask to 000 beforehand Or use the "p" option with tar when you unpack i.e. tar xpvf - Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: > At 12:55 PM 03-08-98 -0400, you wrote: > Maybe after 11 August ... the site at the moment makes no mention of it > being available and the Caldera site still specifies a price for it - - any > wonder I'm confused ??? :) I just got down browsing their site looking for

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: > At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote: >>Try Star Office. <<<- COMMERCIAL > > Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! > Close.. it may only be distributed with Caldera (ie, not with Debian, SuSE, Red Hat, Slackware). It can still be downloaded

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
--- Begin Message --- Ivan writes: > At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote: > >Try Star Office. <<<- COMMERCIAL > > Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! Not at all. You can download staroffice 4.0 and install in your box, if you don't use it commercially (I think ed

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor ( A Million Apologies !)

1998-08-03 Thread Ivan
At 02:09 PM 03-08-98 -0300, you wrote: >Ivan writes: > > At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote: > > >Try Star Office. <<<- COMMERCIAL > > > > Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! > >Not at all. You can download staroffice 4.0 and install in your box, if you >don't use it

Re: Install 2.0 via FTP: doesn't like a 28.8 modem the OS/2 partition likes.

1998-08-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Landley wrote: > > Brief summary: > > In installed from the boot disk, booted to the linux partition, but > "pon" can't create a ppp connection to my ISP to install the rest via > FTP. > > My system: > > 486DX75, approx 800 meg IDE hard drive (western digital I think), local > bus, IDE CD-R

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Ivan
At 12:55 PM 03-08-98 -0400, you wrote: >> Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! > >??? >Go ahead and download it from www.stardivision.com Maybe after 11 August ... the site at the moment makes no mention of it being available and the Caldera site still specifies a price fo

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread aqy6633
> Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! ??? Go ahead and download it from www.stardivision.com Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Ivan
At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote: >Try Star Office. <<<- COMMERCIAL Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! The blurb I saw leading up to this discovery lead me to believe that Star Office had seen the light - it seems I was mislead :( I *might* do what you're look

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
The Linux port is "free" -- not as in DFSG but as in: the Linux port is free for non-commercial use... hence the "*might*" On 03-Aug-98 Robert Claeson wrote: > Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going >>commercial. > >

Re: bad backspace

1998-08-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just recently got X working moderately well on my computer. I can't > seem to get the backspace or delete key to work though. > When i type them it only beeps and complains and doesn't let me erase anything > Does anyone have any fixes or ideas what might be wrong?

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Claeson
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going >commercial. And I've always thought that Star Office *is* commercial... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Gnome 0.20 is great

1998-08-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
whooopeee!!! got all gnome-apps working, gnome-panel works great!!! Gnome_0.20+E14 rocks!!! Thanks and congratulations to the debianizers of these packages and to the Debian-Developers. Hope to be a Debian-Developer someday! Ciao -- /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I didn't ever notice an announcement of the release of Debian 2.0 on Linux | Announce (apart from the beta announcement). Maybe I just missed it --- | did someone see it? | | Just thought I'd mention it because we do want people to know about it I | th

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:39:26AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > good point...and who even says version numbers have to work in that way > anyway? > Many individual programs have versions like "19980420" ...or what > if I want to start with 100 and count down ;) or increase it by powers of

2.0.34 error: Freelist block not free

1998-08-03 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! I just upgraded this machine to Debian 2.0 a few days ago. The kernel (2.0.34) was untouched and had been running smoothly for months. This machine runs diald/pppd/IP masquerade as a corporate gateway to the Internet. Over the weekend, The following errors started showing up: --

Re: emacs !!

1998-08-03 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > To edit faces in xemacs, not sure about emacs. > > M-x edit-faces > (I haven't used it but it looks pretty easy.) The recommanded way is M-x customize-faces. Which has the advantage that it will still works in 21.0 and also works on both Emacsen. It is less WYSIWYG.

Re: modprobe error

1998-08-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Rati wrote: > > I added sound to my /etc/modules file so it would load at boot time, but I > get this error: > modprobe: no dependency information for module: > "/lib/modules/2.0.34/misc/sound.o" > > I've done a make modules and modules_install as well as install when I > compiled my ker

Re: help rescuing a crashed hard drive

1998-08-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, JonesMB wrote: > Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the > BIOS reports as dead? > > This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB > Seagate drive I upgraded to about 6 weeks ago. When you hear strange soun

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going commercial. On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: > Any other options - should I go commercial ??? -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>+++

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : > : I would like a 56k but am not sure what to get. I do NOT want to be : > : stuck in a winmodem hell. Have the problems with 56k modems been : > : resolved (ie is there a standard yet?). What is good to get : > : (ie it must not need a

? release nomenclature

1998-08-03 Thread G. Kaplan
What is the significance of the release codes or where would this information be annotated? for example: Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3 is a change from a.out to elf ? what does the change from Debian 1.3 to Debian 1.3.1 signify? etc -- Unsubscribe? ma

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Mark> I am at a loss to know what to try next. > > Me too. I can only tell you what works for me, which is: I > unpack kernel sources in /usr/local/src/kernel; I ignore the bit > about symlinks, and I use make-kpkg; but it has been a while since I

help rescuing a crashed hard drive

1998-08-03 Thread JonesMB
Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the BIOS reports as dead? This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB Seagate drive I upgraded to about 6 weeks ago. I had an xconsole up and messages in there indicate that the messages w

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > : Ok... > : I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem > : is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and > : it can get

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Mark> I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is Mark> not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the Mark> upstream version, unpacked it into /usr/local/sr

Files for Installing Hamm on Toshiba Libretto CT-70

1998-08-03 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Debian Fans, I want to install Hamm on my laptop - Toshiba Libretto CT-70, but this model do not have a standard floppy drive, and it does not supported by linux. so I want to download the necessary files (by MS Explorer ) of base system of hamm on the partition of MS Windows, and then in

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Dirk Bonne
Taren wrote: > > > > VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > > thenUnable to open an initial console > > > > > > > Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there. > > > > Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy > > devices correctly, use tar or cpio). > > Or the

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Robert" == Robert Claeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> If Informix was to create a Debian package of their Robert> database, would they be prohibited from doing so? By no means. Third party vendors are encouraged to make Debian packages, even if the terms under which they

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:55:00AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > : George Bonser wrote: > : > No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that > : > Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might > : > see tha

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:25:30AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote: > >Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the > MB > >swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on > the > >other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor > >dif

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-03 Thread Kent West
I'm too new at this to be much help, but I ran into similar problems running apps as root outside of X. A friend told me that root doesn't have the current directory in its path, (unlike DOS). So in order to run an app that is in your current directory, you have to specifiy the entire path on the c

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 12:20:59PM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: > > On 03-Aug-98 Ana Graca Silva wrote: > > > > Hello All > > I was trying to upgrade my installation of debian, using apt. When I do > > apt-get update it gives me the folowing output : > > Really! You shouldn't do that it's

WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Ivan
Hello, I am seeking a WYSIWYG Word Processor - I downloaded and installed lyX today - pretty good but not quite what I am looking for. Maxwell seemed an option but I couldn't get it installed (probably my fault but still, on some things, I give up easy !). Any other options - should I go commerc

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:57:46AM -0400, David Parmet wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > (since this is not really "on topic" (not that this list has much of a topic > > as it is just general for al "debian users" private replies are ok... > > I really have no

Re: dists/sid subdirectory?

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 09:14:12AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > Does anyone know what the sid subdirectory in dists is? > > I'm guessing that this is the follow-on version after slink, but that > idea seemed a bit strange as slink is unstable. Anyone know for sure? no... sid is for "non-mature"

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Marsh Ray
>I would like a 56k but am not sure what to get. I do NOT want to be >stuck in a winmodem hell. Have the problems with 56k modems been >resolved (ie is there a standard yet?). What is good to get >(ie it must not need any special "windows" driver but...they ALL say >"made for Windows 95" so..its

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: : Ok... : I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem : is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and : it can get bogged downa bit by us... : I want to alleviate this abit by getting a 56k

Re: Stuck In Limbo

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: : already posted that question and got no response. If someone could : show me where to look for bo that would be more than acceptable right : now since I would have something instead of nothing and I can figure : out hamm later. ftp://ftp.infodrom.nor

Re: Install 2.0 via FTP: doesn't like a 28.8 modem the OS/2 partition likes.

1998-08-03 Thread Kent West
I don't know enough to really be of help, but one test that will at least let you see if the system is seeing the modem is the following: echo ATDT > /dev/ttyS where is a valid phone number, such as maybe a cell phone you've got handy, so you can see if it rings, and is the terminal number yo

Stuck In Limbo

1998-08-03 Thread Cristov Russell
Hi all I recently tried installing hamm and unfortunately failed. The base install is fine but I can't install any packages. I decided that I would go back to bo and learn with it since I'm new to Linux and I did not have as much problems installing packages with it. I no longer have the inst

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread David Parmet
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > (since this is not really "on topic" (not that this list has much of a topic > as it is just general for al "debian users" private replies are ok... > I really have no preference to private or public) I'm interested in this as well so "keep it

Re: "printop" problem....

1998-08-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard Evans Hartman wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am running debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) > > I have been having some problems printing (I have an HP Officejet 600) > > I am using the "deskjet" filter in magicfilter, and it works okay, but > still not perfectly... > > I

Re: whiptail

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- C.J.LAWSON wrote about "whiptail" | Hi, |Someone just referenced a package called whiptail as a replacement to | dialog .. Could you please let me know where I can pick up the sources? I | would like to take a look at it also | Package: whiptail Priority: optional Section: base Installed-S

Re: eth0 and ppp0 routing issues

1998-08-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
ppp will not set a default route if a default route currently exists. Next time try this:- route del default route add -net 172.16.x.x (172.16.0.0 if your netmask is 255.255.0.0) pon This time ppp will set a default route for you. The above may not be exactly right as it makes an assumption o

hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
Ok... I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and it can get bogged downa bit by us... I want to alleviate this abit by getting a 56k modem. I plan to do this within the next month or so...abou

RE: installing adbbs

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Mickan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Try installing the libterm-readkey-perl package. If you're using the Debian package of adbbs and it doesn't depend on libterm-readkey-perl then this is a bug in the package, and can be reported as such with the bug program (from the bug package). HTH, Mark On

RE: only root can hear sound..?

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Mickan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Any users that need to use sound should be added to the audio group with the command 'addgroup audio'. Do not change the permissions on /dev/dsp to world readable/writable as another poster said --- anything world writable is generally a bad idea. HTH, Mark O

[ivan@vianet.net.au: WYSIWYG Word Processor]

1998-08-03 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. --- Begin Message --- Hello, I am seeking a WYSIWYG Word Processor - I downloaded and installed lyX today - pretty good but not quite what I am looking for. Maxwell seemed an option but I couldn't get it installed (prob

Re: emacs !!

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- C.J.LAWSON wrote about "emacs !!" | Please could anyone tell me how to get emacs to wrap at column 132 .. | also, where exactly does one change the color coding for the keyword | highlighting? | Interactive: M-x set-variablefill-column132 elisp: (setq fill-column 76) To edit faces in xemac

Palm Pilot software

1998-08-03 Thread Tim Sailer
Is there any other software available like the KDE's kpilot? I'd love to convert the use of my Pilot to pure Linux, but the KDE stuff is questionable, and kpilot in Debian is broken due to libs. I'm looking for something that will sync the Pilot, backup/restore, install new software, and have a wor

Re: strange Cron emails?

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- M.C. Vernon wrote about "strange Cron emails?" | | shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent | directories | Hmmm, I have been getting these randomly at the prompt, not in emails from cron jobs. I haven't been able to trace the source of these. Anyone else se

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Paul
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Why do you expect non-geek will know what version of LSB his system complies > with? LSB isn't something innately easier for non-geek to comprehend than > the libc or kernel version. Remember that the concept of standards is just > as foreign to non-geeks as

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-03 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard Evans Hartman wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) > > When I login as "me", I can access the KDE games > > However, when I login as "root", and try to run a game, I get the message > "could not execute program __

CPAN modules

1998-08-03 Thread tko
Quick question - Where is the best directory to locate the modules to? I have the CPAN library on CD and would like a pointer on where to put them. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ..

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: : George Bonser wrote: : > No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that : > Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might : > see that it, too, is LSB-1.2 compliant and get the idea that both are : > roughly eq

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 03-Aug-1998, Robert Claeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong or too phragmatic, but I just don't see much of a > problem with using free and non-free code in the same system. If > Informix was to create a Debian package of their database, would they > be prohibited from doing so? T

Re: Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5

1998-08-03 Thread Erv Walter
Robert Lyonnais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I > figured it was time to try something new :-). > To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When > attempting to start this beast, I now receive the error "can't

Re: Going back to slackware...

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 01:56:00PM +0100, Peter Weiss wrote: > Hello, > > sorry, but that debian 2.0 with the apt-package isn't quite the thing for > me. > > I upgraded to an early pre hamm using a self burned cd round about in > april this year. Some packages needed a configuratio

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mark> /usr/include/sys/types.h:45: conflicting types for `mode_t' > Mark> /usr/local/src/linux-2.0.31/include/linux/types.h:12: previous > declaration > Mark> of `mode_t' > > Something is

Re: Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Lyonnais
Oops, make that Netscape 4.05. Cheers, Robert On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:00:21 + (GMT), you wrote: >I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I >figured it was time to try something new :-). > >To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When >attemp

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- George Bonser wrote about "Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?" | | I have had people tell me that they are using Red Hat because it is at 5.2 | while Debian is still only at 2.0. The perception is that Red Hat is I'm sorry but those people are ignorant then. Tell them to

eth0 and ppp0 routing issues

1998-08-03 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Greetings, Being new to Debian (as well as Linux in general), I've been suffering for a short while and was hoping you folks might be able to assist me. I have successfully installed the rescue, drivers, base 1-5 diskettes, and was attempting to setup the debian box to dial my ISP and download th

dists/sid subdirectory?

1998-08-03 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone know what the sid subdirectory in dists is? I'm guessing that this is the follow-on version after slink, but that idea seemed a bit strange as slink is unstable. Anyone know for sure? -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Mark> I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is > Mark> not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the > Mark> upstream version, unpacked it into /usr/local/src, created > Mark> links > > What links did you cre

simple Q.

1998-08-03 Thread Eugene Sevinian
HI, I downloaded one of the CD images and now I would like to check CHECKSUM. sum&cksum commands give definitly another values, not hex but decimal. How should I check it? Thanks, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian

Re: netinit headers

1998-08-03 Thread Dirk Bonne
Azog wrote: > > Hello! I'm in need of netinet/ip_tcp.h, netinet/ip_udp.h, > netinet/protocols.h. Which package are these in? TIA > They are called tcp.h udp.h and in.h. They are in kernel-source package. Dirk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

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