printer setup for hp laserjet 6L

1998-10-01 Thread Mrpeabody
I just got a hp laserjet 6L and I'm trying to set it up I got it to print by doing a cat > /dev/lp0 ,but the printing is sloppy, how do I further configure my printer? I got gostscript from debian is there anything else I can get to make setup easier. -jeff

Re: Dewbie Question: How can I install rpm package

1998-10-01 Thread Mike Carter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:08:36AM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > > I just download sybase ase, it is in rpm format. I do not know how to > install it in Debian. I am using Debian 2.0. Any help would be highly > appreciated. There is a debian rpm package but...it doesn't work on its own (

Re: A True newbie here

1998-10-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > I'm trying t figure out how I can install Debian Linux so that I can get > it to receive the IP address and all the other jass automatically (just > like Win95 does here [I have boot manager software] ) I'm

A True newbie here

1998-10-01 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
Hello there. I'm a college student who's trying to install Debian Unix, and I'm trying to figure some things out (most of the people here use Red Hat) I'm trying t figure out how I can install Debian Linux so that I can get it to receive the IP address and all the other jass automatically (just l

time under Hamm

1998-10-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
The recent flurry of messages re time problems reminded me that although I recently, with the help of the list, got my system time working fine, one minor anomaly remains. If I type date in an xterm, it shows the correct time. But if I look at the clock on my fvwm95 toolbar or the little box at t

Re: debian as secretary?

1998-10-01 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I didnt understand very much what xringd do (i have read the man page...). So far i understood that xringd whatch the ring and if that match a sequence tha t it knows => take a given action. If that is what it does, i have a question for the config file. There are come e xamples: R 1-5 R

help

1998-10-01 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi I need a utility that will automatically dectect my modem. How can I do it manually. I am totally at a loss about what to do. Thanks

xntp problem....

1998-10-01 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, my debian2.0 system has complete crippled time date Thu Oct 1 15:54:33 MST 1998 whilst my DCF77 module beneath reports: 00:54 an since its after midnight its the 2 Oct how do i get the system to show the correct time??? and is there a way to connect the xntpd to this DCF77 module

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread servis
*- Christopher D. Judd wrote about "Re: What causes single user boot?" | |This happens on my system since upgrading to Hamm. The problem seems | to be that fsck -A tries to check /fd0 (since I have entries for /fd0 in | fsab) and fails since no disk is in the drive. If that is the case then

rsync problems

1998-10-01 Thread justin honold
after many broken pipes on gzip, bad file descriptors, and corrupted downloads i've decided to switch from fmirroring debian to rsyncing it (from debian.midco.net). i am having a totally unexplainable problem with my configuration, and i hope somebody out there can help. i've attached a copy o

Re: Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: >Hi all: > >I have had a problem ever since I installed Debian on my Dell P60 computer. If I cold boot (power on) the computer Linux starts up with no problems. But, if I perform a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del etc.) my hard drive isn't recognized. It is

Quake2

1998-10-01 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I am having problems with running Quake2 (v 3.14) under Debian. Quake2 running under X-Windows runs fine, but the version running under SVGALIB segfaults. I am running a MACH 64 video card. Haven't changed anything to the standard Hamm setup, except installed the netscape wrapper. Anyone a idea?

Re: An at question

1998-10-01 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > What I am wondering is if at will wait for one job to finish before > starting the next or will it start them at the appointed time? What these > are are a series of jobs which start and stop a process at appointed times. > One at to start the job, one

An at question

1998-10-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Ok, I currently have a series of jobs queued up with at. Here's the current list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus}atq 42 1998-10-02 04:00 a 25 1998-10-01 15:30 a 26 1998-10-02 12:55 a 27 1998-10-02 15:30 a 28 1998-10-02 20:55 a 29 1998-10-02 23:30 a 30 1998-

dselect error

1998-10-01 Thread Leon Breedt
hi am getting weird error messages with dselect under hamm: --PASTE--- internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. --END PASTE-- erm, anyone know wot i'm doing wrong? i've recently migrated from slackware,

Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-01 Thread Jeff Miller
Hi all: I have had a problem ever since I installed Debian on my Dell P60 computer. If I cold boot (power on) the computer Linux starts up with no problems. But, if I perform a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del etc.) my hard drive isn't recognized. It is almost as if the drive has been dismounted by t

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread Christopher D. Judd
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago > >we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. > >(side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) >

Re: tin charset problem

1998-10-01 Thread shaul
> Has anyone ever seem this error from tin? > > Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii) > > I consistently get this error and it won't let me post because of it. > I am getting it, and I still hadn't look into it. I am not sure but I think that in the last few weeks thi

Re: GCC profiling

1998-10-01 Thread Jimen Ching
On 1 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Jimen Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | I can't seem to get profiling to work on hamm. Do I need to do > | something special to get profiling to work? Thanks in advance. > It should be just a matter of compiling and linking with -pg > (and running gprof aft

RE: Can't resist

1998-10-01 Thread Person, Rod
My 20 month old daughter has done the following. totally erased my hard drive... attempted to compile her own kernel...i left the room to answer the phone and she start to answer the question in make config.. continues to unclean mount my file system...it hard to teach here to exit wmaker an

printcap entry for HP LaserJet 4000

1998-10-01 Thread Jeff McWilliams
Here's mine - it looks a bit hacked but it works fine. lj4000|lj5-remote:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sh:\ :rm=lj4000.acetech:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj5-raw: lj4000.acetech resolves to the IP address of the printer on our network. Ours has a duplexer on it

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! > >I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago >we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. >(side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) > >Well, after t

printing problems

1998-10-01 Thread Bradley Bell
I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to a netware network, Can anybody point me to any resources on printing to netware printers? I've studied and tried every trick in the IPX- and Printing-HOWTO, and the instructions there are pretty insufficient when it comes to this

Re: Another Dewbie question

1998-10-01 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > John Watts wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm trying to do a stealth installation of Debian 2.0.34 on an old P75 > > system at > > work and am having some problems. > > '2.0.34' refers to the version of the Linux *kernel* being used, not > the Debian distribution

dpkg trouble...

1998-10-01 Thread Michael Stutz
My dpkg is broken: # dpkg -S /usr/bin/brec dpkg: fgets gave an empty null-terminated string from `/var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.30.list' # It first started the other day, when I tried to unintall Netscape 4 and then install Netscape 3; it happened when during the install of netscape3_3.

Re: PS/VaulePoint Problem--Can't install.

1998-10-01 Thread Cap'n Fred
Actually my machine is a 486DX2 66, as far as I know it is not a MCA. The Adaptec card is AHA 2840VL, whis is the VESA model I think. I've opened my computer up a couple times and have yet to find a MCA. Thanks for the response though. Just incase some one needs additional info, I have got it r

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-01 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 1 Oct, Paul Reavis wrote: > My latest motherboard has a CPU temp sensor and fan tachometer feature. > Are there any linux drivers/programs for reading these? > Try lm_sensors. http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/ -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics gradua

cdrom: "hdc: unexpected_intr: status=0x80"

1998-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
For the last two days I get the message in the subject line from time to time. /dev/hdc is my cdrom. Those "unexpected" signals interrup any program whether I am listening to music on cd or whether I am reading data from cd or even when the cdrom is empty. Does anyone know what can cause this?

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-01 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I think I have one listed on my page somewhere. http://www.linuxapps.com/ Matthew On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Paul Reavis wrote: > My latest motherboard has a CPU temp sensor and fan tachometer feature. > Are there any linux drivers/programs for reading these? > > -- > > Paul Reavis

Re: Help ppp

1998-10-01 Thread john
Kent West writes: > If you've only installed via floppy the base system, and don't have a CD, > I'm not sure what you need to do. My guess would be that you'd have to > download the pppconfig package to floppy from another machine that is > networked, and then use the floppy method. Or perhaps you

CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-01 Thread Paul Reavis
My latest motherboard has a CPU temp sensor and fan tachometer feature. Are there any linux drivers/programs for reading these? -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner Software, Inc.http://www.partnersoft.com

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: > Hi! > > I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago > we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. > (side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) > > Well, after the reboot the system st

Testing -- Ignore waste of bw

1998-10-01 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: printcap entry for HP LaserJet 4000

1998-10-01 Thread Max
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:50:52 +0200 > From: "Tomas Petersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: printcap entry for HP LaserJet 4000 > > Hello, can anyone help me with a correct printcap entry for HP LaserJet > 4000? I have a 4000N, but it's close enough. Here's mine: breeze|breeze :lp=b

Re: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread servis
*- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: X server problems" | *- Stefan Nobis wrote about "Re: X server problems" || Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: || || > Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? || > I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try

Re: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread servis
*- Stefan Nobis wrote about "Re: X server problems" | Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? | > I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it. | | No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xd

Re: Supra 56K PNP Modem Not Working

1998-10-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > Are you logged in as root? pon/poff do require that, i seem to remember. > > --Evan > With the correct file permissions, pon/poff *can* be run by a normal, non-root, user. -- Ed C.

Re: Another Dewbie question

1998-10-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Watts wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to do a stealth installation of Debian 2.0.34 on an old P75 system > at > work and am having some problems. '2.0.34' refers to the version of the Linux *kernel* being used, not the Debian distribution. The most recent offical Debian is v

Re: Can't resist

1998-10-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
peter wrote, > Whenever I'm at the computer at home and my 14 month-old is around, she'll > walk over and press the Control key. Always the Control key. > She does like to be in control... #flasback on . . . . The old keyboards, with reset buttons . . . The reset on the apple was bad enoug

talk

1998-10-01 Thread Default Debian Reader
I recently upgraded my talk and now it seems to be broken. Whenever i try to talk to someone on my machine it says waiting for [No connection yet] then sits for a bit then says [Checking for Invitation on caller's machine] then never moves. Can anyone tell me what is the problem?

Re: problems with finger

1998-10-01 Thread dsb3
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote: >Hi! > >$ ps ax | grep S1 > >11680 S1 S0:00 /sbin/getty -L -f /etc/issue.ttyS1 ttyS1 9600 vt100 > >$ finger > >castor25 Jose Castor pbOct 1 17:40 (minxo.upc.es) >ceo Cercle d'Estudis Orien S1 2 Oct 1 13:57 >david25 David

Re: Can't resist

1998-10-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Whenever I'm at the computer at home and my 14 month-old is around, she'll walk over and press the Control key. Always the Control key. She does like to be in control... Peter

problems with finger

1998-10-01 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! $ ps ax | grep S1 11680 S1 S0:00 /sbin/getty -L -f /etc/issue.ttyS1 ttyS1 9600 vt100 $ finger castor25 Jose Castor pbOct 1 17:40 (minxo.upc.es) ceo Cercle d'Estudis Orien S1 2 Oct 1 13:57 david25 David Moya Rubiop1 6 Oct 1 13:52 (dttix14.

Re: Supra 56K PNP Modem Not Working

1998-10-01 Thread joseph evan porter
It seems that I am to be the doomsayer of Diamond modems. Folks, if you plan on using Linux, don't buy one! You weren't very specific about your modem. Some of the older Diamond Supra modems are actually accessible to Linux, but it's not easy to set them up. The newer PCI modems are memory-mapp

Re: Help ppp

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
At 04:52 PM 10/1/1998 +, you wrote: >Hello again.. More problems, i have tried to solve this myself but >things isnt getting any better :(. > >1. "pppconfig" doesnt exist, but "ppp" exists.. > >2. What access method shall i choose? > Since you presumably don't have any network connection (no

Re: Printing Problem

1998-10-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:20:20AM +, Kent West wrote: > So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version > of lpr? As Spock might say, "that is by no means certain." lprng has one feature I would like -- bounce queues. lpr can accomplish this, but uses messy scripts to

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-10-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 05:22:51PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > This can be an impending failure of a power supply or it could be another Indeed. Once when working IT someone called to report their screen had wavy scrolling lines; when I saw it, I brought a replacement monitor in but found their

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
At 01:27 AM 10/1/1998 -0400, Phillip Neumann wrote: >Kent West wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: >> > >> > 1) ponok. (connecting) >> > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) >> > 3) pon

What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. (side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) Well, after the reboot the system stopped at the prompt: Press Ctrl-D or give root password

Re: Can't resist

1998-10-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Congratulations. I can even spare some virtual sleep, since mine have been sleeping through the night for months. And infant girls like debian. But only choose two of the set {girl,laptop,beer} at anyone moment, or (girl) giggles at display on (laptop), kicks in delight, hitting (beer), whic

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kendall P. Bullen wrote: : On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: : : > Could someone please tell how can I insert under : > Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? : > I mean what sequence of keys ? : : Er, insert it where?! In EMACS, you w

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JK" == Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JK> Could someone please tell how can I insert under JK> Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? JK> I mean what sequence of keys ? Control D is eof. Ciao, Martin

Re: [Debian]: Filesysteme bei make config bzw. make menuconfig

1998-10-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "WF" == Werner Fluegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WF> Habe versucht, unter Hamm einen neuen Kernel zu kompilieren. Wo WF> sind neuerdings die Filesysteme versteckt? Kein Iso9660, kein WF> msdos, kein Vfat. Wie zum Geier soll man dann mit einem neuen Du mußt zuerst die NLS Unterstützung einsc

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-01 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > Could someone please tell how can I insert under > Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? > I mean what sequence of keys ? Er, insert it where?! In EMACS, you would press control-Q control-D (^Q^D) to insert a control-D into th

JDK1.16v4 Java.util not complete?

1998-10-01 Thread Mrpeabody
I recently download netbeans and when I tried to do the tutorial I ran across the error that the Class GregorianCalender did not exist when I tried to import it. Furthur more I tried to compile another program from the command line with GregorianCalender (make sure the paths weren't just screwed u

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:39:48PM -0500, dsb3 wrote: > > [...] > > > > Unless my memory fails me, I've formatted a zip disk in ext2 complete with > > swap partition and installed linux. I did this at the beginning of the > > year when I had access t

Re: Time is fouled

1998-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Steven Udell wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I am having a difficult time with my system displaying the > current time. I have checked my main boards bios and that > has the correct settings. I have used hwclock & date settings > to bring the correct time to Linux, its ok

Re: Intel 740

1998-10-01 Thread Jim Crumley
> Bonjour, > > Je possède une carte graphique AGP Intel 740 > Est-ce que Debian supporte cette carte ? > > Cordialement, > Laurent HUSSENET : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Je ne sais pas. C'est une list anglaise. Essayez la liste [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon francais est pauvre. -- Jim Crumley

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-01 Thread Jeff Miller
Ctrl-d >>> Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/98 9:24:42 AM >>> Could someone please tell how can I insert under Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? I mean what sequence of keys ? Thanks Jan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Tin hangs on Debian 2.0

1998-10-01 Thread Niccolo' Rigacci
I installed a fresh Debian 2.0 system via FTP. The tin newsreader shows the groups available, but when I press Enter to see the headers, the program hangs. I found this problem on two different systems. I fixed the problem by purging tin_980226-3.deb and installing the old version from a Debian 1

printcap entry for HP LaserJet 4000

1998-10-01 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, can anyone help me with a correct printcap entry for HP LaserJet 4000? /Tomas Petersson

Re: keyboard issues

1998-10-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> The automatic key repeat rate is a little > too slow to my liking. It's not an X issue: $ /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 This annoyed me enough to add this to my boot-up sequence: /etc/rc2.d/S30keyboard -> ../init.d/keyboard where the /etc/init.d/keyboard script is as

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Could someone please tell how can I insert under | Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? | I mean what sequence of keys ? Under most circumstances ^D is considered the EOF mark. Gary

how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-01 Thread Jan Krupa
Could someone please tell how can I insert under Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? I mean what sequence of keys ? Thanks Jan

RE: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing once the xdm process started. --- Braden N. McDaniel writes: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is b

Re: Partitioning programs

1998-10-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> Could someone send me the recent post(s) with URLs about partitioning > programs? I seem to have deleted them in a fit of incompentency. Both fdisk and cfdisk are in the util-linux debian package, available at ... www.debian.org. If you reinstall this package, you should have them. By the way

Re: Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-10-01 Thread Stefan Nobis
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, one other question. Is it possible to start two seperate X > sessions, so that you could say have one X session running WindowMaker > and the other one running E or something else, and switch between them > via control-alt-fn or whatever? If y

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-10-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:36:54PM -0500, Kent West wrote: [...] > > 10.8. Running an if for remote printers > > > > One oddity of lpd is that the if is not run for remote printers. If > > you find that you need to run an if, you can do so by setting up a > > double queue and requeueing

Partitioning programs

1998-10-01 Thread AJT60
Could someone send me the recent post(s) with URLs about partitioning programs? I seem to have deleted them in a fit of incompentency. Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" |___ http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html |~~~

emacs-20.3 and leim files

1998-10-01 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Hi! Does anybody knows something about leim/* files in emacs20_*.deb ans emacs20-el*.deb packages? I've got emacs-20.3.tar.gz and leim-20.3.tar.gz and emacs20_20.3-1.diff.gz emacs20_20.3-1.dsc (from slink) and then built both packages and then installed them. And found none of leim files, so I i

Thank You All - Ulisses, Wojciech, Johann

1998-10-01 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Thanks very much for helping me get my HP5L working! finally I used the script provided by Wojciech, and everything is fine now. Thanks again. Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 Victoria

Re: differences/similarities between two files..

1998-10-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On 1 Oct 1998, Peter Makholm wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lets say I have two text files... Both having several quotes, one per > > line. Each file has unique quotes, but both also have some quotes which > > are the same. What is a method to get from these two text f

Re: Help

1998-10-01 Thread Peter Granroth
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:51:37AM +0200, Wilson Tuma shared with us the following words of wisdom: > Hi > > Which command do I need to to make my system recognized my > 1. the ip address > 2. Default Gateway > 3. broadcast address > and how do I go about doing that. these are set in /etc/init.

Debian & Chinese & Netscape!

1998-10-01 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I have downloaded the chinese package xfntbig5p-cmex24m_0.1-1.deb. I then installed this package, and used the following commands to set font: xset fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/chinese xset fp rehash Now, my crxvt is working fine! But I still c

Re: differences/similarities between two files..

1998-10-01 Thread Peter Makholm
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lets say I have two text files... Both having several quotes, one per > line. Each file has unique quotes, but both also have some quotes which > are the same. What is a method to get from these two text files, a third > file, which has all of the uniq

differences/similarities between two files..

1998-10-01 Thread Michael Beattie
Sorry about the slightly off-topic question, but sometimes people need a good practical problem to keep them on their toes. Lets say I have two text files... Both having several quotes, one per line. Each file has unique quotes, but both also have some quotes which are the same. What is a method

keyboard issues

1998-10-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I've got a PC with an ASUS BX motherboard, a diamond viper 330 AGP, and a PS/2 style connected keyboard. The automatic key repeat rate is a little too slow to my liking. I have tried to change this using the Keyboard section in /etc/X11/XF86Config, and with the xset command. Neither see

Help

1998-10-01 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi Which command do I need to to make my system recognized my 1. the ip address 2. Default Gateway 3. broadcast address and how do I go about doing that. How can I get debian linux to use a 2gif iomega gaz drive. I would be using this to install the packages I downloaded from the internet usin

non-root xcdroast?

1998-10-01 Thread Ferdinand Schinagl
Hi, there is a non-root version of xcdroast available now. Is there anybody working on this? Regards, Ferdinand.

Time is fouled

1998-10-01 Thread Steven Udell
Hello Debian Users, I am having a difficult time with my system displaying the current time. I have checked my main boards bios and that has the correct settings. I have used hwclock & date settings to bring the correct time to Linux, its ok if I keep the machine up, but If I shut down over nig

Intel 740

1998-10-01 Thread Laurent HUSSENET
Bonjour,   Je possède une carte graphique AGP Intel 740 Est-ce que Debian supporte cette carte ?   Cordialement, Laurent HUSSENET : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Color and Fonts Loss

1998-10-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
If I run netscape (or any color or font intensive app) I have problems starting other applications. I have to restart my Xserver to be able to start other applications. Does anybody know of a painless solution? /--/ Danie

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kent West wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: > > > > > > 1) ponok. (connecting) > > > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) > > > 3) pon NOT ok (*) > > > > > > For pass

Re: GCC profiling

1998-10-01 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Jimen Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi, | I can't seem to get profiling to work on hamm. Do I need to do | something special to get profiling to work? Thanks in advance. It should be just a matter of compiling and linking with -pg (and running gprof afterwards). What exactly have you don

Re: debian as secretary?

1998-10-01 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I want to access my pc from univerisy. Of course i can, i have done it. | But I can only if my pc is connected to internet (obvious). I just | cannot getup on 8:00am, turn pc on, connet go to univ. and then back at | 5:00 becouse the phone-line must be paid

Re: Installing Xfree86 in debian Linux

1998-10-01 Thread Peter Makholm
"BALAJI VENKAT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hence i get a feeling that i am loading a wrong binary of xfree86 ( ie i > dont know if i have to take a.out binary or whatever ). Where did you find the binaries? Was it the official debianpackages from ftp.debian.org (or a mirror thereoff), or was

GCC profiling

1998-10-01 Thread Jimen Ching
Hi, I can't seem to get profiling to work on hamm. Do I need to do something special to get profiling to work? Thanks in advance. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Michael Beattie
> > Just a guess, and probably not a very good one, but maybe you need to add > > an initialization string to your script that resets the modem? > > > > Hello, > > such as ATsomething?? and where? in /etc/ppp/peers/provider ??? > > [i forgot all the commands used by and files runned by pon. (c

debian as secretary?

1998-10-01 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Im getting some work to do from university. I have my works in my pc with latex or others. Now, i hate floppies, they allwais crash with the information inside I want to access my pc from univerisy. Of course i can, i have done it. But I can only if my pc is connected to internet (obv

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Phillip Neumann
Kent West wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: > > > > 1) ponok. (connecting) > > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) > > 3) pon NOT ok (*) > > > > For pass stage 3, i must put a stage 2.5 that

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. Just browsing through the list and found the following > excerpt from your message: > > >It's like the input filter is never being called. If I set the printcap > >entry so it remote prints to our network printer, like so: > >beeper:\ > >:

Re: Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello, > > > > > I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: > > 1) ponok. (connecting) > 2) poff ok (deconnecting) > 3) pon NOT ok (*) > > For pass stage 3, i must put a stage 2.5 that said `reboot'... and i > dont like t

Re: unable to connect to ttyS1

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps your modem is a PLUG and PLAY modem or a winmodem of some thought ? > > > Hi. I'm currently running a Debian 1.3 system, and I'm working on putting > > together a Hamm system to replace it. I'm trying to get a ppp connection > > running on

Installing Xfree86 in debian Linux

1998-10-01 Thread BALAJI VENKAT
Sirs, Can you please help me in installing xfree86 in my linux system. I have taken the binaries xfree86 version 3.3. My problem is as follows 1. I already took one xfree86 v3.3 from a ftp site and installed it when i ran startx i got an error message as follows" /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 66:

Re: Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-10-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > >*-Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >| > >| I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can > >| switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and > >| thought "cool,

Re: unable to connect to ttyS1

1998-10-01 Thread Packy Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Perhaps your modem is a PLUG and PLAY modem or a winmodem of some thought ? Sigh. What's frustrating is this isn't the first person to ask this question. As I said in my post: > > I'm trying to get a ppp connection running on an external modem > > plugged into COM2 o

Re: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread Stefan Nobis
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? > I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it. No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xdm, xdm starts the X-Server. The Server exits at once and returns

Re-`pon'-ing

1998-10-01 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I have reinstall debian and now im in troubles with pon: 1) ponok. (connecting) 2) poff ok (deconnecting) 3) pon NOT ok (*) For pass stage 3, i must put a stage 2.5 that said `reboot'... and i dont like to reboot linux. How can i fix that?? (*) when runnig plog: bla,, bla

_POSTSCRIPT_ versions of the GNAT documantaion

1998-10-01 Thread shaul
>From where can I download _POSTSCRIPT_ versions of the GNAT documantaion (such as the GNAT User's Guide, GNAT Reference Manual) ? Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to connect to ttyS1

1998-10-01 Thread shaul
Perhaps your modem is a PLUG and PLAY modem or a winmodem of some thought ? > Hi. I'm currently running a Debian 1.3 system, and I'm working on putting > together a Hamm system to replace it. I'm trying to get a ppp connection > running on an external modem plugged into COM2 of the Hamm system a

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