Re: Magicfilter and Stylus Color 640

1999-03-12 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I have an old Stylus 500 colour (and love it! great printer) but when I first tried to get it setup with magicfilter and ghostscipt I could only make it print text, not postscript (blank pages came out). I found that installing Aladdin-ghostscript 5.1 from the gs web site sorted it for me. If

Re: Dual channel ISDN with Debian ISDN scripts

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > When you configure, using isdnctrl, your isdn card for use ippp0 make a >copy from the same line but with ippp1. What do you mean by this? (I am using the isdnconfig script from the isdnutils package). -- Ian Lynagh - [E

Re: fstab question

1999-03-12 Thread shaul
I am using sudo for doing it. Perhaps the automounter can also help, but I have not tried it. I do not know if there is a way to do it with groups permitions and fstab. If there is I would also like to know. hope this help. > Isn't it poss

Re: fstab question

1999-03-12 Thread shaul
> Is there a way for me to be able to mount both /a and /floppy on the KDE > desktop (no, not at the same time)? It seems I will have to mount /a from the > command line only, when I need to mount a dos floppy (not often). > Using mtools can save you the trouble of dealing with fstab when dos/vf

Re: size of swap

1999-03-12 Thread shaul
> Armin Wegner wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Armin > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > hi, > the usual recommendation is to have the swap at 1.5 times

Book on Xwindow

1999-03-12 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and they seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for Motif. I have no idea which one I should get so if anyone can recommend a book I would appreciate it. And also, if you could clarify about that MIT

Re: Someone please help me understand dselect ot Dpkg

1999-03-12 Thread shaleh
> > Hi - > I want to install X and I everthing I do with dpkg and dselect will > not work, I get an error every time. I downloaded Debian so I cannot > acsess all of the packages directly. Someone please help. > We can help when we know the problem. "I get errors" is like saying my car mak

cdrecorder

1999-03-12 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I want to buy a CD-R drive, and I'm between these two: Panasonic CW-7502-B 4X Recorder / 8X Reader TEAC CD-R55S 4X Recorder / 12X Reader TEAC CD-R56S 4X Recorder / 24X Reader What's best supported? Does anybody around have anything to say in favour/

Someone please help me understand dselect ot Dpkg

1999-03-12 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi - I want to install X and I everthing I do with dpkg and dselect will not work, I get an error every time. I downloaded Debian so I cannot acsess all of the packages directly. Someone please help. Thanks in advance -James

Re: segmentation errors in APT-GET

1999-03-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I wanted to upgrade to slink but there were some broken packages (including > for some reason libc6) which I opted to fix with apt-get -f install and now Oops. You broke your system at some point. This means all bets are off. > Does anyone know

Re: setup.sh

1999-03-12 Thread Pollywog
I wrote: > I just ran update-rc.d but it has options I don't understand. It seems I > can't win with this. I will try to find a man page for update-rc.d. I read the man page and then ran: update-rc.d local defaults(I believe that was it) It did appear to work. I rebooted after removing t

segmentation errors in APT-GET

1999-03-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Has anyone had the following problems with apt-get: I wanted to upgrade to slink but there were some broken packages (including for some reason libc6) which I opted to fix with apt-get -f install and now I am geting the following message: Fetched 2038k in 0s (4561k/s) Updating package file cache.

INstallatuion

1999-03-12 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Can someone tell me where I can find pictures of the Debian installation screen I am writing a installation manual for my comapny and I would like to use examples

Re: nfs

1999-03-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
You also might try specifying the nfs version in your mount command. In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Howdy: > Make sure that the DNS is active on one machine or the other, and that the > names are > still set up properly... I'm assuming (should I?) that you are running a > tcp/ip based > net..

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-12 Thread John Galt
That's a kludgy version of the MacLaurin Series for arctan x= sum (n=0 to infinity) of (-1)^n *x^(2n+1)/2n+1 where x=4 to solve for Pi. Most any Calculus text should have an explanation of it in its section of Power Series, or at least in its Index under Maclaurin series or Taylor series (a more

Re: setup.sh

1999-03-12 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Mar-99 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > It's like Miquel says: it might work, but it's wrong. Don't do it. > > Just create a file in /etc/init.d; call it anything you want. > /etc/init.d/local would be appropriate. Put in it the stuff you want > to start during boot. Then run "update-rc.d" to se

Re: Slink and Hamm?

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
Shawn Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry if this is a dumb question but I am new to Debian, what is the > slink > and hamm dist. everyone is talking about. I think that I have the hamm > version because when I installed Debian on my CD it says /hamm/hamm or > something like that. Is there

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-12 Thread John Galt
Solipsistic Nazisim promulgated by Hitler. There, three keywords that immediately kill a thread. This thread is now officially dead, further messages on this thread are subject to the author being smacked with a week-old herring :) On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Edward Kear wrote: > At 10:19 PM 3/11/99

Problems with ide-scsi emulation

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Panzer
I recently compiled a 2.2.1 kernel, (as per the cd-writing howto) and I cannot get my ide cd writter (HP 8100i on /dev/hdc) to map to any scsi device. When attempting to mount it as almost any scsi device I recieve the following error: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sr0 as a block devic

Slink and Hamm?

1999-03-12 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Sorry if this is a dumb question but I am new to Debian, what is the slink and hamm dist. everyone is talking about. I think that I have the hamm version because when I installed Debian on my CD it says /hamm/hamm or something like that. Is there some kind of significant differen

Re: Dual channel ISDN with Debian ISDN scripts

1999-03-12 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Ian Lynagh wrote: > > [CC'ed to debian-user and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all > > I have an ISDN card which connects to an ISP single channel just fine. > In Windows it can connect bonded to this same ISP. My question is > simple: How do I make it use dual channel in Linux? When you configure,

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-12 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:07:08 -0500 (EST), Michael Stenner wrote: > >>These are safety issues. I am all for users being educated in computer >>related safety issues, like hmmm... can't think of any. > >They drive the point home that any tool you are

enviroment variables

1999-03-12 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Hello al I just notice that when I do a env I get this MACHTYPE=i486-pc-linux-gnu MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root LOGNAME=root SHLVL=1 SHELL=/bin/bash HOSTTYPE=i486 OSTYPE=linux-gnu Why is my MACHTYPE set to i486 the reason I ask is because I have a pentium II processor and I compiled into the kenerl a

Re: Okay to remove obsolete required packages like "base"?

1999-03-12 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > I've just done an upgrade to slink, but when I go into dselect I > observe that there are a number of obsolete packages: > > --- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- > - Obsolete/local Required packages - > --- Obsole

Installing X using dselect

1999-03-12 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I downloaded Debian 2.1 recently and did not install X when I originally configured the OS although everyone I have talked to says I should have. If someone could tell me what packages to download that would be great. I do not have any files on the system so I could easily reinstall it if s

Re: nfs

1999-03-12 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy: Make sure that the DNS is active on one machine or the other, and that the names are still set up properly... I'm assuming (should I?) that you are running a tcp/ip based net... Also: You may want to try to issue the mount command using the command line option for IP address (I may be

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-12 Thread Bruce Sass
I recall hearing that dark text on a light background was best in most situations... easier on the eyes when you are going back and forth between printed and displayed texts. dark gray on light gray is better than black on white, IMO. -- On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Aside fro

nfs

1999-03-12 Thread shashi
Under hamm, I could successfully export a file system from a i386 machine running hamm to a SGI running IRIX 6.5 so that the command mount debian:/home /mnt issued on the IRIX 6.5 machine worked giving output something like this. kakapo 16# mount blitzen:/home /mnt mount: blitzen:/home server not

RE: suaths question

1999-03-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: > Does /etc/suauths work on a Debian system? > It is the file that determines who can 'su' > oops that should have been /etc/suauth -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

suaths question

1999-03-12 Thread Pollywog
Does /etc/suauths work on a Debian system? It is the file that determines who can 'su' -- Andrew *happiness is a clean pond* [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:07:08 -0500 (EST), Michael Stenner wrote: >These are safety issues. I am all for users being educated in computer >related safety issues, like hmmm... can't think of any. They drive the point home that any tool you ar

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: P> of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also P> good ICQ clones for UNIX and Linux. My suggestion is gtkicq. Relly nice thing. It is packaged for slink. Ciao, Martin

Re: PS/2 mouse problems

1999-03-12 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, did you check that your file /etc/X11/XF86Config specifies the correct mouse device? I have : Protocol"IMPS/2" (XF86Config produced by XF86Setup, with some help of xf86config). Also, do you manage to have gpm running? Etienne

Re: what is texinfo?

1999-03-12 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, if you are using emacs, try C-h-i (Control-h-i)("h" like "help", "i" like "info"). Etienne

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Frankie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says > it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect. > Can anyone point me to the true type fonts package(s)? > > TIA, > Jay > > -- Hi, I recently installed xfst

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Justin Akehurst
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says > it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect. > Can anyone point me to the true type fonts package(s)? Go to a Windoze box, and copy the C:

Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-12 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:17:23PM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: Hi David, [..] You can create a boot-floppy by doing the following steps: 1. format a diskette, under hamm: fdromat slink: superformat /dev/fd0 (:mformat -s18 -t80 -h2 -S2 -M512 a:) 2. cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 /dev/fd0 (n

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-12 Thread steven walsh
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] > Is a lot faster to just apply the 2.2.2 & 2.2.3 patches. About 350 K > for the 2 or > 12M for 2.2.3 Kernel. Your choice. > On the other hand, i like having the full tgz around Just In Case. "See you on the flip side" - Steve Walsh (E

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay. I've got xfstt, I've got my .ttf fonts from the Windows dir. Now what? > Do I just move them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and I'm done? > No, you need to tell the X server that they're available. I sugg

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/12/99 12:52:57 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Your right it is .ttf, and they are normally found in the windows\fonts > directory. > Okay. I've got xfstt, I've got my .ttf fonts from the Windows dir. Now what? Do I just move them to /usr/share/font

slink and XFree86 3.3.3

1999-03-12 Thread Ben Cornett
I'm thinking of wiping my current RH dist in favor of slink. However, I noticed that slink comes with XFree86 3.3.2, and I need the SVGA server from 3.3.3 for my Matrox G200 card. I know that debs exist for 3.3.3, but I was wondering if I can expect to just drop them onto the slink release withou

Where to now?

1999-03-12 Thread wlovett
I installed Debian, and it dropped me into deselect. Deselect what?  Is the question? Are the packages additional software that needs to be down loaded or is it talking about software included within the distribution. I installed from floppies; I could not get the loadlin program to work for DOS.

Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-12 Thread David B. Teague
Folks: I installed Slink on my system but had not installed LILO to make it bootable directly from the HD. Someone swiped the boot disk. Question: Is it possible, given the contents of the /etc/fstab file and a knowledge of where the kernel is located (/boot/vmlinuz-2.036) to run LILO from

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Greg Starkes
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Noah L. Meyerhans dixit: > > > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package > > > says > > > it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via >

Re: IRQ of NICs

1999-03-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
The IRQ of the card is normally set in eeprom memory by a DOS configuration program on the floppy which comes with the card. Linux will normally only recognize one card. With more than one, you should set the parameters of the both of them in /etc/lilo.conf or (if the drivers are compiled as mod

Re: Problems with .tar file

1999-03-12 Thread Greg Starkes
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think it should be qt-1_42.tar (or qt-1.42.tar), not qt-1_42_tar.tar. Try > renaming it ^^ ^ ^ > > If this doesn't work, may be it's a .tar.gz, rename it to qt-1.42.tar.gz, and > try: Was this downl

RE: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Mar-99 Brian Clark wrote: > > Greetings: > > If anyone makes it through this email, I'd be very happy if you could help. >:) > > I am a fairly new Linux user, trying to go static after many years of being > dynamic. Of course by the Subject, I'm talking about my IP address. > > When I fi

cdu33a

1999-03-12 Thread Keith E. Richards
hello, I am not on this mailing list. I am trying to install debian linux 2.0 for the first time to see if this would work better than dos. My problem is this I have a soundblaster 16 card along with a sony cd (cdu33a) with a Creative Labs front. I need to know how to get Linux to read it.

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.3 Date: Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:20:04PM -0600 In reply to:Faton Useni Quoting Faton Useni([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When i updated slink from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 i got a kernel source package > from the debian ftp site. It was a debian package. I read that ther

Re: NLS charset error

1999-03-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: NLS charset error Date: Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 10:22:46PM -0600 In reply to:Craig T. Hancock Quoting Craig T. Hancock([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What it means is that you don't have the iso8859-1 filesystem install you > have to > configure that option in your kernel under

RE: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-12 Thread Shaleh
a) be simple, leave ppp thinking you have a dynamic account, when you login you get the same IP and no one is the wiser. I have an IP (and name in DNS) assigned and you can hit me when I am logged in however you please. Even have a MX record so mail sits and waits for me. If login by dns name fa

Re: Packages for icons

1999-03-12 Thread servis
*- On 12 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Packages for icons" > > Could anyone suggest how I could find out where specific icons came > from, so that I can replace them (and put them somewhere where they > won't get upgraded away). Examples include: > mini-folder.xpm > mini-cat.xpm >

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-12 Thread Jeff Katcher
> > > We all, I feel, need to bear in mind that Joe Average really does want to > > sit down, turn on and work right from day 1. > > Windows in every experience I've had from 3.0 or earlier offers this. > > Problem is that some of us like our systems to keep working after day 1. > I, However

Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-12 Thread Brian Clark
Greetings: If anyone makes it through this email, I'd be very happy if you could help. :) I am a fairly new Linux user, trying to go static after many years of being dynamic. Of course by the Subject, I'm talking about my IP address. When I first dove into Linux land, I started out with RedHat,

Dual channel ISDN with Debian ISDN scripts

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
[CC'ed to debian-user and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all I have an ISDN card which connects to an ISP single channel just fine. In Windows it can connect bonded to this same ISP. My question is simple: How do I make it use dual channel in Linux? I don't mind whether it connects the second channel aut

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-12 Thread Jeff Katcher
Tommy Malloy wrote: > > In regard to debian's install being difficult for newbies, there seems a DIFFICULT??? I find the install for Debian to be one of the easiest around. If it boots, it will install! I have had more trouble installing M$ products than I have had installing Debian. > simpl

RE: IRQ of NICs

1999-03-12 Thread Shaleh
alias eth0 options eth0 irq=??? io=0x??? alias eth1 options eth1 irq=??? io=0x??? On 12-Mar-99 Ferenc Kiraly wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Debian machine with two network kards installed > that use the same driver (3c59x). They both use the same > interrupt (11). Is that ok/wrong/the way it m

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread homega
Noah L. Meyerhans dixit: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says > > it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via > > dselect. > > Can anyone p

IRQ of NICs

1999-03-12 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have a Debian machine with two network kards installed that use the same driver (3c59x). They both use the same interrupt (11). Is that ok/wrong/the way it must be? How do I set the IRQ of one of the card to something else. I know how to do thes, when the cards use different drivers.

Re: HP deskjet 695c

1999-03-12 Thread steven walsh
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > I have been recommended this printer (HP dj 695c). However, the vendor > does not know about linux support. He claims that it is the same > printer as the 690C (which is listed as supported ing the linux hardware > howto), just with a restyled casing.

Re: Booting linux with a file as root??

1999-03-12 Thread Michele Bini
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:06:25PM -, Andrew Holmes wrote: > I configured my new machine to dual boot DOS and > NT, but I can start BeOS using loadlin.exe from DOS. I know I can boot the > linux kernel like this but how do I make it use a file on the DOS filesystem > for the root filesystem. If

Re: System trashed

1999-03-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Rich Harran. wrote: > Ok, I just upgraded to slink, and thought everything was ok, but that was > before I rebooted. My system rebooted, and started xdm (or whatever), > which I don't want, and the keyboard seemed to be locked up. I could

Re: System trashed

1999-03-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/12/99 11:25:06 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ok, I just upgraded to slink, and thought everything was ok, but that was > before I rebooted. My system rebooted, and started xdm (or whatever), > which I don't want, and the keyboard seemed to be locked

System trashed

1999-03-12 Thread Rich Harran.
Ok, I just upgraded to slink, and thought everything was ok, but that was before I rebooted. My system rebooted, and started xdm (or whatever), which I don't want, and the keyboard seemed to be locked up. I could move the mouse, but couldn't attempt to log in, or even switch to another virtual te

Packages for icons

1999-03-12 Thread Richard Harran
I have just upgraded from Hamm to slink. Mostly, everything seems to be ok, but I have lost some icons. I use fvwm95, and have got a completely customised menu, with lots of mini-.xpm icons on. These were in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps, but some of them have gone, and my menus look rubbish (p

Magicfilter and Stylus Color 640

1999-03-12 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I purchase a new printer (above model) and I'm having some troubles to get correct settings for it. I tried to use the magicfilter options (stcolor 360 and 720dpi) but the 720dpi always fails to print. Trying uniprint (the driver fo

RE: Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread servis
*- On 12 Mar, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote about "RE: Is slink done?" > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Shaleh wrote: > >> Once released, only absolutly necessary updates are made, i.e security >> issues. >> All new packages go into unstable (currently potato). >> > > I

Re: Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread servis
*- On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Is slink done?" > > Reason I'm asking? I want to make a debian CD. > See http://cdimage.debian.org/ -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoe

RE: Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Mar-99 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Shaleh wrote: > >> Once released, only absolutly necessary updates are made, i.e security >> issues. >> All new packages go into unstable (currently potato). >> > > I am curious: > What if a se

RE: Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Shaleh wrote: > Once released, only absolutly necessary updates are made, i.e security > issues. > All new packages go into unstable (currently potato). > I am curious: What if a security problem is found with the kernel that ships with,

file permissions while FTP-ing not right

1999-03-12 Thread Brian Morgan
Using slink, apache, proftpd. When I ftp files to my /var/www directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? Debian? The specific user? Thanks, Brian

Re: Problems with .tar file

1999-03-12 Thread homega
Jose Luis Guerra dixit: > Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World. > > I have a problem processing .tar file. When I write command "tar > xvf .tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer > return then next error message: > > tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look

RE: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Mar-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says > it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect. > Can anyone point me to the true type fonts package(s)? > There is no ttf package. Most of them h

Re: Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 11:33:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, now that slink is marked as stable, does this mean that it will never > be updated again? No. Updates to "stable" can happen, e.g. in the case of security issues. > I'm confused about new packages - do they get added to exist

RE: Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Mar-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, now that slink is marked as stable, does this mean that it will never be > updated again? I'm confused about new packages - do they get added to > existing releases or only to unstable ones? > > Reason I'm asking? I want to make a debian CD. > Once

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says > it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect. > Can anyone point me to the true type fonts package(s)?

Is slink done?

1999-03-12 Thread MallarJ
So, now that slink is marked as stable, does this mean that it will never be updated again? I'm confused about new packages - do they get added to existing releases or only to unstable ones? Reason I'm asking? I want to make a debian CD. -Jay

true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread MallarJ
Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect. Can anyone point me to the true type fonts package(s)? TIA, Jay

Re: network help

1999-03-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following your suggestion I pinged my gateway by IP rsther than name. The thing hang after printing a line. So maybe what you say about the card not working correctly is right. I was wondering: Win98 has no problem with recognizing and using the card. Why should Linux ? As this is not my compu

Re: Problems with .tar file

1999-03-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World. > > I have a problem processing .tar file. When I write command "tar > xvf .tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer > return then next error message: > > tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file >

cdu33a

1999-03-12 Thread Keith E. Richards
I have a soundblaster 16 card along with a sony cd (cdu33a) with a Creative Labs front. I need to know how to get Linux to read it. In my Dos system, the address for sb16 was 220 and the cd-rom was 230. Can you tell me how to do this? Thanks, Keith Richards

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-12 Thread Odin
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Aside from personal preference, does anyone know if a certain combination > of colors is better to stare at than others? I can guess, from my own > experience, that white text on a black background is better than black on > white. Does anybody have

Problems with .tar file

1999-03-12 Thread Jose Luis Guerra
Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World. I have a problem processing .tar file. When I write command "tar xvf .tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer return then next error message: tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file tar: Skipping

Problems with .tar file

1999-03-12 Thread Jose Luis Guerra
Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World. I have a problem processing .tar file. When I write command "tar xvf .tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer return then next error message: tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file tar: Skipping

ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Aside from personal preference, does anyone know if a certain combination of colors is better to stare at than others? I can guess, from my own experience, that white text on a black background is better than black on white. Does anybody have any input on this? I would like to use the one that i

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-12 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:40:35 -0500 (EST), Michael Stenner wrote: > >>But it shouldn't be an "exclusive or". As time has passed, I have come >>to respect the people who view computers as tools. They don't want to >>have to learn, they don't want to have to c

fetchmail and ssh

1999-03-12 Thread Phil Nitschke
Hi fetchmail/ssh guru's, I connect to work with a ppp session from my Debian/GNU Linux box (running potato), and need to fetch my mail from my mail-server there (named "harpo"; running SunOS 4.1) using IMAP. Previously I have had this working like so: /usr/bin/fetchmail --invisible --syslog --

Re: Wierd KDE Library error...?

1999-03-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1/distribution/deb/hamm/source > and > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1/distribution/deb/slink/source > > and both directories were empty. Where should I be looking? I did m

RE: HP deskjet 695c

1999-03-12 Thread Mathieu Legrand
HP670C and HP690C printers use HPPCL3 language: http://www.pandi.hp.com/pandi-db/dds_data_sheet.show?p_model_no=C5884A&p_mod el=DeskJet690C the new remplacement products are HP695C and HP697C: http://www.pandi.hp.com/pandi-db/dds_obsolete.obsolete_list?p_pgrp_name=#Pri nters They use HPPCL3 too: h

Off topic posts (OFF TOPIC)

1999-03-12 Thread Ali Graham
Please, people, is there a debian-political mailing list where posts that don't specifically relate to *using* debian could be directed? Threads that mainly consist of pointless pedantry or marketing schemes could be profitably removed from this already high volume mailing list, IMNSHO. ali. :)

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-12 Thread Ares
It is a well known fact in Mathematics that Pi is 4*arctan(1). arctan(x) is the integral from 0 to x of (1/(1+x*x)) or, if you're not mathematically inclined, it is the area between the x axis and 1/(1+x*x) and between the y-axis and x. So, the for loop is simulating this integration. Of course, th

Re: HP deskjet 695c

1999-03-12 Thread ktb
Hmmm, I guess not, I don't see the printer listed there. Maybe you could add it to the list when you find out. Kent ktb wrote: > This link should help, > > http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi > > Good Luck, > Kent > > Richard Harran wrote: > > > I have been recommended t

Re: HP deskjet 695c

1999-03-12 Thread ktb
This link should help, http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi Good Luck, Kent Richard Harran wrote: > I have been recommended this printer (HP dj 695c). However, the vendor > does not know about linux support. He claims that it is the same > printer as the 690C (which i

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-12 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I encountered following program in one of the Linux Howtos. This calculates > the value of pai. But how does it do this? I am not asking the programming > details, but on what theory the formula is based on. Can anybody help? Is > there any better place to look for help? First of all, remove ';'

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-12 Thread Ali Graham
George Bonser wrote: > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of > living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the > discovery of the "Edison effect" which led DeForest to do s

C Program confused me

1999-03-12 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hello Friends, I encountered following program in one of the Linux Howtos. This calculates the value of pai. But how does it do this? I am not asking the programming details, but on what theory the formula is based on. Can anybody help? Is there any better place to look for help? -

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-12 Thread Tommy Malloy
In regard to debian's install being difficult for newbies, there seems a simple solution. At the beginning of the install process have a menu that asks what competency level the user is. (beginner, intermediate, advanced) Then have an install procedure suitable for that level. Some menus could a

HP deskjet 695c

1999-03-12 Thread Richard Harran
I have been recommended this printer (HP dj 695c). However, the vendor does not know about linux support. He claims that it is the same printer as the 690C (which is listed as supported ing the linux hardware howto), just with a restyled casing. Does anyone know if this printer will work with de

Re: Upgrade to 2.2.1 kernel, sound problems

1999-03-12 Thread Antal Ritter
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 05:32:04AM +0100, Mark Panzer wrote: > I upgraded to the 2.2.1 kernel (it should be somewhat stable being an > even release number) and my AWE 64 sound card now fails to work. I have > isapnp installed to configure the soundcard on bootup, that works fine > (prints out

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: > > > please let this thread DIE! > > I'd agree with that too. Yeah, let it die! Anyone agreeing with this? :) Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. la

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