Re: unix/literature people article

1998-12-18 Thread Curt Daugaard
The article can be found at: http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:52:05PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Several months back a webzine (maybe they did print also) has a great >

Re: Can it be that mail that is saved in my home dir is world readable ?

1998-12-18 Thread shaul
> shaul wrote: > >I am using exmh as my MUA. > >Can it be that my saved mail is world readable, or did I managed to change > t > >he > >permissions without being aware of that ? > >Can an exmh user send me the correct permissions ? > > > >[14:20:13 shaul]$ ls -l ~shaul/Mail/hard

unix/literature people article

1998-12-18 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Several months back a webzine (maybe they did print also) has a great article on the writers findings to why people who were very good at writing, etc used unix so much (because unix is a language, as he explained with an example of two unix people gre

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 06:59:28PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > >Neither "Scheme" nor "Lisp" is in any way standardized. > > Common Lisp was standartized by ANSI in 80es. I believe > standard was revisited in 1994 and Lisp ot some OO features. > Anyway, document number is ANSI X3.226-199

Re: Compiling Netscape with LessTif?

1998-12-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:28:38PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > I vaguely recall some-one talking about compiling Netscape with > lesstif, saving a lot of memory. Is this possible, and how would it be > done. I searched in the debian-user archives, but all I found were > some generic advice on c

Compiling Netscape with LessTif?

1998-12-18 Thread Daniel Elenius
I vaguely recall some-one talking about compiling Netscape with lesstif, saving a lot of memory. Is this possible, and how would it be done. I searched in the debian-user archives, but all I found were some generic advice on compiling with lesstif.

Re: Netscape instability (hangs, crashes); is netscape4-4.0_12 installer compatible with 4.05?

1998-12-18 Thread Colin Boyd
> >I tried installing 4.5 using the packages from slink(?), but they depend >on the slink version of libc6 and who knows what else, which I don't want to >mess with before slink is deemed stable. > I installed 4.5 with the Hamm packages and haven't had any problems. It seems stable enough, certai

Sound problems

1998-12-18 Thread Patrik Magnusson
When I play wav-files, espescially short ones, there seems to be a delay to get it started - I rarely hear the beginning. 1. Why? 2. How to fix? TIA Patrik

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Colin Boyd
>Sorry, but I didn't experience ANY of the problems you're having... > Me either. I downloaded the whole 23M in just under two hours. On a 33.6 conenction no less! >2) My download took all of 2 hours for all 7 parts - and then I downloaded the >full version for grins. NO problems at all. > >3) T

WP8 - Lots of Joy and some grumbles

1998-12-18 Thread Richard Lyon
Hi all, I see this latest version of wordperfect is causing some excitement. Has anyone checked to see how the micrsoft share price is faring? Before I can consider downloading this software I would like some hear some slightly more objective reviews. Would anyone be prepared to use wordperfect f

Re: Netscape instability (hangs, crashes); is netscape4-4.0_12 installer compatible with 4.05?

1998-12-18 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > I tried installing 4.5 using the packages from slink(?), but they depend > on the slink version of libc6 and who knows what else, which I don't want to > mess with before slink is deemed stable. For what it's worth, I've installed

Re: Trouble with diaresis and ssharp key

1998-12-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mike Touloumtzis dixit: > > > > > > This is my /etc/.profile file configured for the Spanish keyboard (ie. > > > dieresis, accents, n~,...). All you should do is changing: > > > export LC_ALL=es_ES > > > for: > > > export LC_ALL=es_DE > > > > > > > Shouldn't it be d

Netscape instability (hangs, crashes); is netscape4-4.0_12 installer compatible with 4.05?

1998-12-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
AAGGHHH!! How you get Netscape to work reliably on a hamm-based Debian system? Things were fairly stable for me a while ago. (I think that was with Netscape 4.05.) I tried upgrading to Netscape 4.07 and now to Netscape 4.08 (libc versions, I think). Netscape would frequently hang. I tried

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem Date: Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 02:27:28PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In a message dated 12/18/98 1:08:53 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Well I agree with Riccardo! It

Mail message...............

1998-12-18 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I want to make this message ``You have new mail'' NOT apear anymoreWhere is that configured? Insthead of that, i want debian to notify me playing a sound-file instead, or better, running a text->spech program with the From: header an play it to the sound card. How should i do that?

Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 09:47:39AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to > partition > it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and > Linux > bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( > >

Re: Corel WP 8.0 Floating Point Exception

1998-12-18 Thread Ashok Gopalakrishnan
I had the same problem with WP 8.0. When installing the first time, I had not selected any printer, because I did not find a printer driver that matched my printer (BJC 4200). The installation completed without any problems, but on trying to run xwp, I got the floating point exception message. Wel

P/S 2 Mice

1998-12-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: "Jeff Browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey all, My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? TIA! ==

Backup recommendations

1998-12-18 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, After quite a few disks died on me I start to realize that backup may be worth the effort :) There are several backup programs in Debian, so could someone recommend one for our case: 4 computers serving like X-terminals with no users (yellow pages + /home area is mounted from another comp

RE: netscape install

1998-12-18 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Dec-98 Tom Ahola wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've recently switched to Debian from slackware. > Tons of problems appear. But I'm not giving it up yet. > > I'm trying to install netscape 4.5 (non-debian package > with manual install). When I try to run netscape > it complains Cannot load libX

netscape install

1998-12-18 Thread Tom Ahola
Hi All, I've recently switched to Debian from slackware. Tons of problems appear. But I'm not giving it up yet. I'm trying to install netscape 4.5 (non-debian package with manual install). When I try to run netscape it complains Cannot load libXt.so.6. The library is correctly installed beacu

Kayak/CLGD5465 chipset x configuration

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
We've found the chipset for this thing--it's the Cirrus CLGD5465, mounted on the motherboard. But which driver does this use? the chipset is listed in XF86Setup, but i can't tell if i should be choosing something other than the regular svga driver. At least we've determined that it's not bringi

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 12/18/98 1:08:53 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well I agree with Riccardo! It took me 18 hours to _finally_ get all > 7 parts of the software. I found that there readme was written by > someone that didn't even try to load the 7 parts. I then found t

Installing over PLIP?

1998-12-18 Thread Vincent Murphy
Hi. I'm interested in installing Debian on a stand-alone machine. This machine is connected via a parallel cable to a machine on a LAN, in a university. This machine does not have external firewall access, but apt via a http_proxy works just fine. I want to install Debian on the standalone mach

Re: Tohsiba Satellite - screen size in text mode

1998-12-18 Thread MallarJ
I know this isn't of any help, but I have the same machine - and don't experience the problems you're having - I have full screen in DOS, Win95 and Linux. Although I do wish it support 800x600 resolution instead of 620x480 in 800x600 virtual screen mode. -jay

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem Date: Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 01:22:54PM + In reply to:Dave Swegen Quoting Dave Swegen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: > > I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who released

Tohsiba Satellite - screen size in text mode

1998-12-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have a Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT (TFT screen). In text mode only the middle part of the screen is visible, though in graphics mode the whole screen is used. There is an option in Hardware Setup to stretch the screen, but this gives the same number of lines, with double spacing. This isn't reall

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: > > > What do you mean useless? If you want a fully functional word processor with > > all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find > > it > > rather amazing that people complain abo

killing off the *)&@ NT bootloader

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half a dozen times, and the thing still comes up asking which NT configuration to use . . . It needs to be able to boot NT at least for a little while . . . --

Re: Bash question/problem.

1998-12-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jim Lynch wrote: > I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured > it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've > still got it. I'm running > > ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell > > I'm trying to get my command re

Re: Corel WP 8.0 Floating Point Exception

1998-12-18 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, buns wrote: > I am getting the Floating Point Exception error message when I try to > run xwp. Any idea why? As I told some time ago I had the same problem with the earlier demo version. Anyone has any idea, why? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread Jim Russell
Been there, done that. You have to tell Linux pretty early about the over 8Gb drives. I was installing Debian 2.0 (hamm) to an 11Gb disk. You know on the install disk boot, where it stops to ask about extra parameters that you normally don't need? Well, you need one, roughly of this form: hda=

Bash question/problem.

1998-12-18 Thread Jim Lynch
I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've still got it. I'm running ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell I'm trying to get my command recall to work in vi mode for roo

Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | From: | David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi all, | | I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to | partition | it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and | Linux | bootup sees it as 17

8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( Running 2.0.36(my

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > In netscape something popped up and disappeared so fast I was unable to > read it. I kept trying and eventually got there. I assume it was a > message saying that the maximum number of users had been reached. The > site must be VERY busy as I'm getting

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere!

1998-12-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Now what we need is a debian installer package for this just like the one for netscape or star office. Something that will set up the menu system, environmental variables, paths etc (I ended up with /usr/local/bin/wpbin/) _ DO YOU YAHOO!?

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-18 Thread Clyde Wilson
I really do like both distributions. They both have different things to offer. Maybe it's because I'm still new at it...having to install the base system, and then come back to install X just doesn't seem right to me. And Netscape is a bit of a nosebleed! I'm using Debian 2.0.2. On Thu, 17

Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks

1998-12-18 Thread Ian Stuart
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all > > requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic > > is routed via eth0 > > > >

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
have you tried a fairly recent lyx? It is very stable (there's only one or two ways known to crash it), and the equations are very easy. I bought a mac 128 in '84, and several more until I saw lyx's equations. It also has a patch for mail-merge, which I wrote after realizing that that would b

Re: P/S 2 Mice

1998-12-18 Thread John Stevenson
You probably have all the right stuff installed: * A Kernel (bit obvious this one) with ps/2 support though !! This is default in the Hamm distribution unless you roll your own kernel, then just make sure that you select it. * X (xbase package) needs to be configured by running xf86config and se

RE: P/S 2 Mice

1998-12-18 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Dec-98 Jeff Browning wrote: > Hey all, > > My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It > wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S > 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? > TIA! > One) you need ps

Re: Still problems with my Xemacs compile

1998-12-18 Thread Daniel Elenius
>It looks as though you don't have audio header files on your system, >or the XEmacs source is looking in the wrong place for said audio >header files. From your prompt, do the following command: > find / -name "soundlib.h" -print >If find shows you that you do in fact have "soundlib.h" on y

P/S 2 Mice

1998-12-18 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? TIA! Jeff __ Get Y

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: > I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who released > a real Fully Functional version of StarOffice, and Corel, who simply > made us lost our time to download a useless SW. What do you mean useless? If you want

Re: [SuSE Linux] Re: Failover / clustering for Linux?

1998-12-18 Thread John vanVlaanderen
Erricson is just too cool !! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
At 09:35 18.12.98 Richard E. Hawkins wrote:> >> But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing. >> indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work >> I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is >> "fully functional", equations and graphics are

sb awe 64 value isa-pnp and wavetable-midi problems

1998-12-18 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, after trying some hours and some hours more ;) I just staying on problems with getting the wavetable-midi of my soundblaster to produce some "loudness", that means: I can't hear any song during play a midifile but no error-message comes up I can use tkmidi or drvmidi (the don't crash like y

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
riccardo wrote, > But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing. > indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work > I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is > "fully functional", equations and graphics are enabled only in > commercial versi

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
kenneth collaborated, >> The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign >> new to do if you say yes. If you say no, it untars, but still doesn't >> do anything. The executables end up in ./linux/bin >> I assume there's some option i'm missing to figure out to tell it t

Re: Problem installing WP8: missing library

1998-12-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:37:08 +1100 (EST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Enve

Re: Problem with 3C905-TX Network Card

1998-12-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Hello All, I've got a problem with the Network Card in my PC. It's a 3COM Fast Etherlink XL 100 Mb or short 3C905-TX. The problem is that I can't find a driver for this card. I couldn't find this card in Debian Setup. It's my office PC, so I don't have a clue about this card.

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread stick
Hamish Moffatt said > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > > once.) > > > > > > > > > Ok. I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!! > > > > This shows your disk is severly scre

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread stick
Mike Touloumtzis said > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 03:56:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > > > once.) > > > > > > > > Ok. I like a good challenge

Re: Problem with 3C905-TX Network Card

1998-12-18 Thread José
Hi, The driver which you are looking for i 3c59x Regards, Esper -- José Luis Rivas López Dpto. de Diseño en Ingenieria Área I.P.F. E.T.S. Ingenieros Industriales. UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO Campus Universitario s/n, 36200 Vigo, SPAIN Phone: +34 986 812 602 Fax: +34 986 812 180 e-ma

Intel eexpress 10M eth0 istall Q.

1998-12-18 Thread zhaoway
I've got 2 ether cards for my box. one is ne2000 clone non-pnp, io=0x300 irq=9; one is eexpress isa pnp io=0x200 irq=7 according to the floppy diag porgram. I did the following following the releavant HOWTOs: add to lilo.conf append="ether=7,0x200,eth0 ether=9,0x300,eth1" add to conf.modules al

Re: ??? upgrade to slink - recompile kernal now ???

1998-12-18 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 08:21:39AM +, Rich Hartman wrote: > Hello all, Hi Rich, > > I'm getting ready to upgrade from hamm to slink... (standard > packages, etc) Do I need to recompile the kernal or anything like > that... Make a new boot disk (how?)? What about LILO? What about You may

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
didier declared, > Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: > Richard> No, it's that their full extent is a pita (hmm, i don't mean to speak > Richard> for manuel). > Really, I don't see why. --help is 4 more keystrokes than the standard -h > >> From a command line, -h is quicker & easier than --h

Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread David Puryear
On 18-Dec-98 Steve Hsieh wrote: >> I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to >> partition >> it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and >> Linux >> bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( > > How about using fdisk inst

??? upgrade to slink - recompile kernal now ???

1998-12-18 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello all, I'm getting ready to upgrade from hamm to slink... (standard packages, etc) Do I need to recompile the kernal or anything like that... Make a new boot disk (how?)? What about LILO? What about those "obsolete packages" - veto them or keep them? Any other suggestions, comments? Than

Re: GUI development application

1998-12-18 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 01:50:19PM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any good GUI development application for using C language ? try using gtk if You have expirience with c++ also You eventually should have a look to qt(actually version==1.42) cya -- Peter

GUI development application

1998-12-18 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Is there any good GUI development application for using C language ? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ¨¨¨

Re: Problem with 3C905-TX Network Card

1998-12-18 Thread patrick ouellette
There is a driver for this card in frozen. I forget the name of the driver, but it also supports another 3Cxxx card. The driver works well on the machine I use it on (a Dell GX1p). Pat On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hello All, > > I've got a problem with the Network Card in my

Re: WP 8 Download and Installation - my expiriance

1998-12-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AT" == Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> Last time I got the Demo version in Win95 file system ( downloaded AT> by Netscape through Getright ). After finished downloading I boot AT> to Linux and mount the vfat file system to access the file. From AT> there I extracted the file and run

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:09:36 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." > Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on > Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few > hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... > If anyone manages to get it

Problem with 3C905-TX Network Card

1998-12-18 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hello All, I've got a problem with the Network Card in my PC. It's a 3COM Fast Etherlink XL 100 Mb or short 3C905-TX. The problem is that I can't find a driver for this card. I couldn't find this card in Debian Setup. It's my office PC, so I don't have a clue about this card. Does anybody know wh

Re: Unwanted apostrophes with X11

1998-12-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > I have a weird problem with X11: every so often I get an unwanted > character ` when I press some other key, followed by the character I > actually pressed. Where should I look to try and fix this? > > Also the server is prone to crashing (/dev/psaux busy) when I switch > back from

Unwanted apostrophes with X11

1998-12-18 Thread mark . lake
Hi, I have a weird problem with X11: every so often I get an unwanted character ` when I press some other key, followed by the character I actually pressed. Where should I look to try and fix this? Also the server is prone to crashing (/dev/psaux busy) when I switch back from a Linux console to

getty source

1998-12-18 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, where can I find the source of (a)getty? Thanks, Eugene Sevinian

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
At 11:12 18.12.98 +0100, you wrote: >On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Cleto Pescia wrote: >Yes, but this is explained at Corel's site: >http://linux.corel.com/linux8/highlights.htm > Hi Cleto, at the Highlights from corel, no mention about equations or graphics is given. This is an extract from that page:

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Cleto Pescia
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: > You have to register at http://linux.corel.com. > > But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing. > indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work > I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is

Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread Steve Hsieh
> I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition > it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux > bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( How about using fdisk instead? In the worse case, you can manually spec

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
You have to register at http://linux.corel.com. But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing. indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is "fully functional", equations and graphics are enabled onl

WordPerfect: a Joke?

1998-12-18 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is "fully functional", equations and graphics are enabled only in commercial versions of the software!!! Is this a Joke Does anybody have an explaination? ric

Corel WP 8.0 Floating Point Exception

1998-12-18 Thread buns
I am a bit confused here. I downloaded the single file GUILG00.GZ from download.com and it is 27Mb instead of the stipulated 23Mb. I then execute tar -xvf GUILG00.GZ and ./Runme. Everything went ok except for the fact that it complained about a missing xpm4.7 oldlibs which I subsequently installed

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-18 Thread Didier Verna
Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: Richard> No, it's that their full extent is a pita (hmm, i don't mean to speak Richard> for manuel). Really, I don't see why. >> From a command line, -h is quicker & easier than --help, etc. And I'm Richard> not even going to start on the info rather than m

Re: Syntax highlighting in XEmacs (was [X]Emacs vs. vi[m])

1998-12-18 Thread Didier Verna
Mark Phillips writes: Mark> How do you get colour highlighting for syntax in XEmacs - eg for latex Mark> using AUC-TeX? M-x font-lock-mode Mark> Also, do you have any other nifty setups for XEmacs. A good way to start in XEmacs in going to the HELP menu in the menubar and grab

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

1998-12-18 Thread Evgeny Roubinchtein
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Eric House wrote: >My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemacs and then >switched to emacs. My primary reason for doing so was that so many >more people are using emacs that it's a lot easier to get help, and >the contributed packages I wanted to use tended

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

1998-12-18 Thread Evgeny Roubinchtein
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: >What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over >[x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear >from both sides. This isn't as complete an answer as some other posts I've seen, just my $0.02. I am teaching mysel

Failover / clustering for Linux?

1998-12-18 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, we are looking for software (pref. commercial) that will implement complete failover between two Linux servers (incl. filesystems). Does anybody know of any server that can do this? Thanks in advance, Nico -- --- system failure ... hit any u

Home for the Holidays (to install Debian on my Dad's PC)

1998-12-18 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I am going to install Debian on my Dad's PC over Christmas. I've been telling him how great it is and now I will finally get a chance to show him. I wanted to get a jump on his Internet connection. He as a @worldnet.att.net address and lives in the Detroit Michigan area. I think he has a 3

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 00:23:52 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Neither "Scheme" nor "Lisp" is in any way standardized. Scheme is a > derivative of Lisp, So? That doesn't make it not standardised. R5RS (see http://www.schemers.org/Documents/) defines standard Scheme. Ray -- Obsig: developing a

Re: Can it be that mail that is saved in my home dir is world readable ?

1998-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
shaul wrote: >I am using exmh as my MUA. >Can it be that my saved mail is world readable, or did I managed to change t >he >permissions without being aware of that ? >Can an exmh user send me the correct permissions ? > >[14:20:13 shaul]$ ls -l ~shaul/Mail/hardware/1 >-rw-r--r-

8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( Running 2.0.36(my own roll) and mostly Debian 2.0 with few updates.

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partiti

1998-12-18 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17-Dec-98, Peter \(Troff\) Petroff took time to write : > > to check error logs and suprise, it said that ServerName wasn't set. But the > > thing was, Apache WORKED for a few days before it failed to start up and I > > made NO repeat NO changes to ANY Apache configs.

Re: SCSI isn't recognized

1998-12-18 Thread iodine
I believe.. try this... go into card bios for the SCSI card.. and on each ID device.. turn UW negotation for those ID devices that don't require it.. and if say ID #0 is a UW scsi drive.. then leave UW negotation on.. once you done that save the settings to the UW card.. and retry linux.. I think

RE: Problem installing WP8: missing library

1998-12-18 Thread Mario Bertrand
On 18-Dec-98 Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I just downloaded WP8 and when I tried to execute it complained: > > Can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > I am using Debian 2.0 , kernal 2.0.34, xlib6 and xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 > > Is this alright? Do I need to install a new pkg or manipulate an old

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 03:56:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > > once.) > > > > > > > cd /usr/lost+found/ > > > > ls -l > > > total 176014862730 >

Problem installing WP8: missing library

1998-12-18 Thread Shao Zhang
Hey guys, I just downloaded WP8 and when I tried to execute it complained: Can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I am using Debian 2.0 , kernal 2.0.34, xlib6 and xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 Is this alright? Do I need to install a new pkg or manipulate an old one? Thx, ShaoZ

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > once.) > > > > > cd /usr/lost+found/ > > > ls -l > > total 176014862730 > > b-w-r-xrw- 1 1259717448199, 228 Jun 6 2010 #85683 > > sr-x---r-

WP8 experience

1998-12-18 Thread Tadeusz Bak
I have downloaded WP8 (from ftp.download.com, file /pub/win95/business/GUILG/GUILG00.GZ) and installed it in my Debian (hamm) system under /usr/local. The whole process was very easy: gunzip, untar and run 'Runme'. However I am a bit disappointed. When I tried to read a RTF file I got some corrupt

Re: Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

1998-12-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:47:37AM -0800, Mike Schmitz wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:23:40PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > > Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it. > > > > I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three > > machines: home, old office, new ISP

SCSI isn't recognized

1998-12-18 Thread The Sutherland's
Dear Users,     I just tried to install Debian 2 from CD-ROM on my machine, I got the Debian boot prompt, pressed enter without parameters, linux began to load then I kept getting the following messages repeated over and over (one hour) until I just shut the computer off:     SCSI host 0 abort (p

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 11:29:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The funny (if that's the word) thing is, I once had a few errors on this > drive but WD's Tech Support walked me through test/diagnostics. The number > of errors then was "too low" for a warrenty repair. Thoug they said if I >

Re: WP 8 Download and Installation - my expiriance

1998-12-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Martin, In what directory or file system should the guilg00.gz ( I downloaded it in a whole unit ) resite. Last time I got the Demo version in Win95 file system ( downloaded by Netscape through Getright ). After finished downloading I boot to Linux and mount the vfat file sy

Can it be that mail that is saved in my home dir is world readable ?

1998-12-18 Thread shaul
I am using exmh as my MUA. Can it be that my saved mail is world readable, or did I managed to change the permissions without being aware of that ? Can an exmh user send me the correct permissions ? [14:20:13 shaul]$ ls -l ~shaul/Mail/hardware/1 -rw-r--r-- 1 shaulshaul3321 Dec 9 01

WP 8 problem

1998-12-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
I downloaded it and ran the installation program, but the first time I tried to actually run WP 8 (yes, it was on the same day I installed), I got a message that the demo period had expired (it's supposed to be 90 days) and asked me to enter a serial number. Subsequent tries give the message: An

Re: Syntax highlighting in XEmacs (was [X]Emacs vs. vi[m])

1998-12-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mark Phillips wrote: > How do you get colour highlighting for syntax in XEmacs - eg for latex > using AUC-TeX? Some people like font-latex.el, which comes as a contrib add-on with AUC-TeX, which in turn is bundled with XEmacs. (The primary font-latex support is for Emacs, so XEmacs bugs turn up

WP 8 Download and Installation - my expiriance

1998-12-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I did the download from ftp.funet.fi (actually any www.cdrom.com mirror should have it by now I guess). I got the multipart version, and also run into the problem, that Runme said there is nothing to do. The problem is, that the files havo to be all lowercase. gunzip GUI* #convert the fi

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Gary Singleton
For me somewhere between downloading the files on an NT system, burning them to CD over the network on a '95 system and then copying them to my Debian system the filenames became all caps. I had to rename all the files to lowercase i.e. GUI00 to gui00 (after they were gunzipped). Then I tar -xvf

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