Potato install problem

1999-07-24 Thread Andrew White
I must be doing something wrong. I downloaded the entire pototo dist main/binary-i386 main/disks-i386 contrib/binary-i386 non-free/binary-i386 And installed it via install.bat from dos. When after going through the initial base install to I reboot and dselect runs. I just choose Workstation insta

allow access from only specified MAC addresses

1999-07-24 Thread Kent Andersen
anyone know how to allow access from certain MAC addresses and deny all others?

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Andrew White
I was intending to install debian pototo in addition to my normal slackware system, and as I just want to install debian so as to play with the latest release I was going to setup a separate user in /home say /home/debian (not my normal slackware user account.) Would this be ok? Do you see any p

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-24 Thread John Hasler
Algernon writes: > I send the actual log as attachment. I hope you can figure something out. That looks normal. What are the DNS addresses? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread peter karlsson
> Then run "apt-get source " to grab the source for a package, > or "apt-get -b source " to grab the source AND recompile it. Well, it's just that fpc seems to have been dropped as of Debian 2.1, and it isn't in 2.2 either. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Please Cc replies to me

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread Stephen Pitts
> Where can I find the source .deb from Debian 2.0 to recompile (can I get > dpkg to automatically recompile from a source .deb?) Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main Run

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> You know, I don't mean to rain on your parade too > much, but I've read 2 > messages from you on different subjects talking > about Potato being > released "soon"... > > Let me start by saying whoever told you this was > POSSIBLE is on crack. > Why can we not release "soon"? > > * Our boot

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-24 Thread Algernon NG
John Hasler wrote: > > I looked into my ppp.log and it says the local ip is x the remote is y. > > Please post actual log entries. > > > Ok. netstat -r: > > Please post the complete output of netstat -rn . uhhh. I don't have it. maybe later (I have 1 modem, and that is in use :) > > > > ...but c

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1999-07-24 Thread RUSSELL SATTER
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Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-24 Thread John Hasler
> I looked into my ppp.log and it says the local ip is x the remote is y. Please post actual log entries. > Ok. netstat -r: Please post the complete output of netstat -rn . > ...but can't ping the nameservers. Can you ping anything else? Try 207.211.168.81 . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-24 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 08:27:32PM +0200, Algernon NG wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm sorry, but I still can't get my connection to work. Can anyone tell > me what steps do I have to make, to be able to access the net? > > I looked into my ppp.log and it says the local ip is x the remote is y. > Ok. net

Re: error messages in dselect and xterm

1999-07-24 Thread egm2
On 24 Jul, pplaw wrote: | hi debian community, | | i'm a newbie who would like an internet box running debian linux. i've | gotten a successful install, but i get error messages in dselect and | xterm: | | 1. re: dselect's install. "installation script returned error exit

Re: To: Looking for good HTML editor

1999-07-24 Thread egm2
On 24 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: |I agree, but my frames option and script option in the | toolbar isn't working. Do you know what causes this problem. | Or is it just not implementated jet. | | Cuno | | I think they're not implemented yet :( After all it's not yet to

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs? Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 12:27:41PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Quoting Andrew White([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >> In addition to this, Is there any problems sharin

re-worded(newbie) Need help on Static IP

1999-07-24 Thread Bill
Thanks for all your info. I don't think I worded my request correctly, I need to setup the server to allocate an IP for a user whom is dialing in, so each time they dial in they get the same IP number. Thanks in advance Bill

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread peter karlsson
> You'll have to recompile the programs to work with glibc2.1. If they're > leftovers from Debian <2.x, you could install libc5 and see what happens. Hmmm, I think I installed fpc initially with Debian 2.0 (which was what was stable when I first installed). It worked fine with 2.1, but broke now w

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread Alec Smith
You'll have to recompile the programs to work with glibc2.1. If they're leftovers from Debian <2.x, you could install libc5 and see what happens. I'm no expert in this stuff... I'm still a little green myself. On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, peter karlsson wrote: > > I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before

Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-24 Thread Algernon NG
Hi all! I'm sorry, but I still can't get my connection to work. Can anyone tell me what steps do I have to make, to be able to access the net? I looked into my ppp.log and it says the local ip is x the remote is y. Ok. netstat -r: gateway: 0.0.0.0 ... defaultgateway: In ppp.log it s

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-24 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
I get this, :/boot # grep APM config-2.2.10 CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE is not set CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_G

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Jul, Mark Brown wrote about "Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?" > On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:22:26AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> Not for the _same_ distro, it isn't. I do share /home with hamm and >> slink. I tried it with Slackware and Slink and screwed Slink

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:22:26AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Not for the _same_ distro, it isn't. I do share /home with hamm and > slink. I tried it with Slackware and Slink and screwed Slink up > badly! Seems that slackeware starts their user id's at 500, whereas > Debian starts them at 1000.

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, peter karlsson wrote: >> I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before, but now it is listed as "obsolete" in >> Dselect. Has it been replaced with something else? No. This means that the original *.deb file is no longer available, which is quite natural if you don't keep Debian CDs i

Mysterious, spontaneous reboot trying to run e

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I compiled Enlightenment this morning from the tgz sources. All went well and I edited the /etc/X11/windowmanagers (is there a better way to do this? or am I okay with editing this file?) file to include enlightenment (+ the path) to run E as the first wm. Well X started and just sat there

Re: ps2pdf weirdness

1999-07-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ps2pdf is producing huge files, but only on one of my systems > on my work computer (PII 400): > lyx => ps => pdfone page is about 40k > on my home computer (486 33): > the same process with the same .lyx file results in a 180k file > Th

Re: A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > \documentstyle[a4]{article} > But I get the following: > ! LaTeX Error: File `a4.sty' not found. If you don´t have legacy LaTeX source, you shouldn´t be using \documentstyle! This will put you in compatibility mode to LaTeX 2.09. Nowadays, LaTeX is d

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Most of the time when I see this problem, it is because there is no > support for the drive compiled in the kernel. Did you check the > following under the Block Device section of menuconfig when compilinf > the 2.2.10 kernel? > > Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support > Include IDE

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Jul, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?" > > Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs? > Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:26:02PM +1000 > > In reply to:Andrew White > > Quoting Andrew White([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Khalid" == Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Khalid> does someone know how to see if the APM option are well Khalid> setting in my running kernel, because it's selected in : In /boot/ you will find the config file used for the kernel. $ grep APM config-2.0.36 CONFIG_APM=y # CONFI

Re: Networking ~ peer to peer

1999-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Walter" == Walter Logeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Walter> Currently I have an ethernet 10 base T connection I use to Walter> connect directly to an ethernet PCMCIA card in an ACER laptop. Walter> No hub, I use a crosslinked cable. I works well in Win98 >> If you are connected to a networ

Re: Gnome runs out of sockets without sound?

1999-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Graham" == Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Graham> All works great, of course, except Gnome seems to be trying to Graham> open some audio device (I haven't compiled any kernels and I Graham> don't think my Sound Blaster Pro compatible card is supported Graham> in the kernel I have?

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread peter karlsson
> I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before, but now it is listed as "obsolete" in > Dselect. Has it been replaced with something else? And, now that I upgraded to the version of libc6 (2.1) from potato (to be able to install some other development packages), all my Pascal programs causes segmentation

Re: Setting email message width in mutt

1999-07-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:52:16AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > If this causes a problem for anyone on this list, please let me know >and I'll gladly break my lines at C75. > Mea culpa, I only followed the 'pet peeve' thread as far as the bit about threading RFC Compliantly Yours, J

Re: Setting email message width in mutt

1999-07-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
HI, This isn't a complete answer but, it should show you where to look... Mutt uses an eternal editor (vim in your case) rather than a builtin editor like pine does, so you need to findout how to set line length in the editor of your chioce. To set the editor of your choice, you need to add a

A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Damon Muller writes: > Hi folks, > I start my document as follows: > > \documentstyle[a4]{article} > \documentstyle begins a document using the older LaTeX 2.09. If you want to use the standard LaTeX2e, you should be using \documentclass instead. Here's an excerpt from the LaTeX info page

Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before, but now it is listed as "obsolete" in Dselect. Has it been replaced with something else? I need to be able to compile Turbo Pascal like programs, that's why I installed fpc in the first place, because it's good at that. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwo

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs? Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:26:02PM +1000 In reply to:Andrew White Quoting Andrew White([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In addition to this, Is there any problems sharing the same /home between 2 > distros. > Not for th

(newbie) Need help on Static IP

1999-07-24 Thread Bill
Can someone please tell me how to setup up a static IP for a dialup account on Debian 2.0.36 not using GUI?? please E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread Marek Habersack
* Philip Lehman said: > >> I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape > >> Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. > > > >Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get > >bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i haven't gotten it to cras

Re: upgrade to latest Windomaker files under slink?

1999-07-24 Thread Brad
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Quoting Francis J. Bruening([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Is it possible to modify my sources.list somehow to know about the stuff in > > potato so I can pick and choose upgrades I want without going the whole > > shebang on potato? > > If you have a Line

ps2pdf weirdness

1999-07-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, ps2pdf is producing huge files, but only on one of my systems on my work computer (PII 400): lyx => ps => pdfone page is about 40k on my home computer (486 33): the same process with the same .lyx file results in a 180k file The only difference in software between the two systems is

Re: xfstt and ram

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:29:24PM -0700, richard wrote: > I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to > improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. > gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. > Is this normal? Apparently - mine is using getting on for 6 megs, althou

Re: modem line speed

1999-07-24 Thread ¯»¥Ö - Å]¤l¤p©j - [Agent 1.5 v32\ ]
in the chat session, it will say CONNECT 33600 ^ -- this one should be the one which is real... maybe.. ¦b Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:53:21 +1000, »Õ¤U¼g¹D... >Hi, > How do I determine what modem line speed I currently have. > > I have 33.6k modem, but windoze reports 567

Re: A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Are you using debian? If you are using debian, then try to install the package tetex-extra to see if it fixes your problem. Whenever you are missing some files, you can use dpkg -S filename to see if you have the corresponding package installed. Hope th

Re: Gnome runs out of sockets without sound?

1999-07-24 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Graham Williams wrote: >All works great, of course, except Gnome seems to be trying to open >some audio device (I haven't compiled any kernels and I don't think my >Sound Blaster Pro compatible card is supported in the kernel I have?), If it is a 100% compatible clone, it wil

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Andrew White wrote: > In addition to this, Is there any problems sharing the same /home between 2 > distros. yes, there are a lot of config files in /home/user. you can have a software with a specific config file in a distribution (slink) which is diferent in the other (potato)

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Andrew White
In addition to this, Is there any problems sharing the same /home between 2 distros. Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs? > Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 11:46:01PM -0700 > > In reply to:Francis J. Bruening > > Quoting Francis J. Bruening

Re: upgrade to latest Windomaker files under slink?

1999-07-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: upgrade to latest Windomaker files under slink? Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 11:49:46PM -0700 In reply to:Francis J. Bruening Quoting Francis J. Bruening([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is it possible to modify my sources.list somehow to know about the stuff in > potato so I can p

Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs? Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 11:46:01PM -0700 In reply to:Francis J. Bruening Quoting Francis J. Bruening([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However, when I try to boot into Debian, (my last boot up was from SuSE) I > get the msg >

Re: A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Damon Muller
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 20:46:21 +1000 Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't it be \documentstyle[a4paper]{article} ?? Well, the tutorial I was reading said [a4], but I tried [a4paper] and got the same error (that a4paper.sty wasn't found). Thanks anyway, damon -- Damon Muller

Re: error messages in dselect and xterm

1999-07-24 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
what method are you using with dselect : apt ftp ... ?

Gnome runs out of sockets without sound?

1999-07-24 Thread Graham Williams
I've tried on and off to figure this one out or to find some other posting with similar problems, to no avail. Debian 2.1 on a Notebook running xserver-neomagic (using XFree86 3.3.2 as comes with Debian 2.1 rather than the newer 3.3.3) and supplied kernel 2.0.36. I installed gnome 1.0.2 through th

error messages in dselect and xterm

1999-07-24 Thread pplaw
hi debian community, i'm a newbie who would like an internet box running debian linux. i've gotten a successful install, but i get error messages in dselect and xterm: 1. re: dselect's install. "installation script returned error exit status 1"; 2. re: dselect's configure. "dpkg--configure r

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 01:48:29AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to > > happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having > > it out by the holidays it could

Re: A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Shouldn't it be \documentstyle[a4paper]{article} ?? On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 09:32:38PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi folks, > > Down at this end of the world we like to put A4 paper in our printers - > just call it a cultural idosyncricty (sp?). > > I've be playing around with LaTeX, after hav

A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, Down at this end of the world we like to put A4 paper in our printers - just call it a cultural idosyncricty (sp?). I've be playing around with LaTeX, after having successfully avoided it for years, and I've run up accross a little problem. I start my document as follows: \documentsty

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1999-07-24 Thread Taufik
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Re: To: Looking for good HTML editor

1999-07-24 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
egm2@jps.net wrote: > I recently installed webmaker (a kde package). So far, it looks to be > an excellent web page editor. Some features: > > 1) Color Syntax highlighting > 2) Auto indent, lcase all tags > 3) HTML 4.0 compliance (so the docs say) > 4) TAGS list/insertion > 5) Standard file editin

Networking ~ peer to peer

1999-07-24 Thread Walter Logeman
Hi, I am preparing to put Debian 2.1 on a AMD K6 200. I intend to leave windows on a 6g HDD and have a second 2g HDD which I will use for slink. Currently I have an ethernet 10 base T connection I use to connect directly to an ethernet PCMCIA card in an ACER laptop. No hub, I use a crosslinked

potato was Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Debian is the last major distro on the 2.0.36 kernel. I like it because it loads, runs like its supposed to and its free as in free speech. Where is there some info on what potato is supposed to be? From the description of broken bits obviously its planned to be very different from slin

Re: Setting email message width in mutt

1999-07-24 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 04:47:00AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 07:16:59PM -0400, Frisco Rose wrote: > > > I have been following the thread Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists > > and decided to try using mutt instead of pine to read my email. However I > > cannot >

Re: Using debian

1999-07-24 Thread Phillip Deackes
RUSSELL SATTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I > have to start with a new hard drive, or what? Russell, I would recommend doing what I did some long time ago. I bought a book which came with Linux on a CD. As long as the book is fai

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to > happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having > it out by the holidays it could be done, however we've seen what happens Hey, I say we gun for a Christm

upgrade to latest Windomaker files under slink?

1999-07-24 Thread Francis J. Bruening
Hi, Just have installed slink via ftp. I'd like to upgrade the Windowmaker files to the lastest version (v6.0), which I think are in the "potato" directory. Is it possible to modify my sources.list somehow to know about the stuff in potato so I can pick and choose upgrades I want without going t

How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?

1999-07-24 Thread Francis J. Bruening
Greetings, I'm looking to play around with Debian based on a lot of the positive things I've read about it In various news groups. I have a LILO based dual boot system with win98 & my SuSE dist. I installed Debian on a spare 2G partition, (new HD from Costco, 8G ~150 bucks! :) and have configure

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-24 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hi, I rebuild my kernel with make-dpkg (as usual) but i get no better news. shutdown -h now or poweroff don't act to shutdown my box, just reboot. I have no "apmd" files. does someone know how to see if the APM option are well setting in my running kernel, because it's selected in : make

Re: Useing debian

1999-07-24 Thread Cheshire
egm2@jps.net wrote: > > On 23 Jul, RUSSELL SATTER wrote: > | I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I > | have to start with a new hard drive, or what? > | > | Russ Satter > | > | > No, if you have four gigs or more you can have good installations of > bo

Re: defrag

1999-07-24 Thread Cheshire
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:05:51PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > > I wanted to defrag my file system but on the command 'defrag /dev/hda5' > > and 'e2defrag /dev/hda5' I get: [e2]defrag: bad magic number in > > super-block > > > > Feedback welcome and appreciated. > > > > Are

Re: apt-get bails with this error...

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > This will only happen if APT went to download a package and what it > downloaded was the wrong size - ie your mirror is busted. If you run > apt-get again then it will perform a resume operation, assuming that the > mirror you are using is in the process of downloading i

Re: apt-get bails with this error...

1999-07-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I was installing upgrading one of my machines to potato, and > apt-get did what I thought was its business, but it seemed too > short of a period of time for it to finish. I did an apt-get > upgrade (assuming I was officially at the potato level) and > ap

apt-get bails with this error...

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I was installing upgrading one of my machines to potato, and apt-get did what I thought was its business, but it seemed too short of a period of time for it to finish. I did an apt-get upgrade (assuming I was officially at the potato level) and apt-get gives me this: E: Size mismatch f

Re: defrag

1999-07-24 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:05:51PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > I wanted to defrag my file system but on the command 'defrag /dev/hda5' > and 'e2defrag /dev/hda5' I get: [e2]defrag: bad magic number in > super-block > > Feedback welcome and appreciated. > Are you sure you need to defragment your par

Re: Solid Web Browser for Sparc

1999-07-24 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 10:20:47AM -0600, Mike Lieberman wrote: > I have 'arena' running on the Sparc station, but is clearly a browser of > limitted capability. > > The netscape4 base package doesn't seem to provide a runable binary and the > Netscape Java packages need a netscape 4.5, which does

Re: ttyp0 permissions

1999-07-24 Thread egm2
On 23 Jul, richard wrote: | I'm running potato and modemu has developed a problem. I start it with | modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -o -p tty%s" . | The tty%s always translates to ttyp0. Recently the permission | on ttyp0 has become | crw--- 1 root tty3,

ttyp0 permissions

1999-07-24 Thread richard
I'm running potato and modemu has developed a problem. I start it with modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -o -p tty%s" . The tty%s always translates to ttyp0. Recently the permission on ttyp0 has become crw--- 1 root tty3, 0 Jul 23 21:37 /dev/ttyp0 I hit it with chmod go+r

Backup software/Aiwa8000?

1999-07-24 Thread tjm
Hi. Looking for a recommendation for tape backup software using an Aiwa TD-A8000 atapi tape drive. Nothing too fancy needed but I would like to backup selected directories from win95/nt machines also on the network. Using slink and 2.0.36. thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xfstt and ram

1999-07-24 Thread richard
I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. Is this normal?

my SB16 can't play midi files

1999-07-24 Thread a
I have Debian 1.2 and compile the kernel for SB16. Below is a section of .config CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SB=y CONFIG_ADLIB=y CONFIG_AUDIO=y CONFIG_MIDI=y CONFIG_YM3812=y SBC_BASE=220 SBC_IRQ=5 SBC_DMA=1 SB_DMA2=5 SB_MPU_BASE=330 SB_MPU_IRQ=-1 DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536 Now I can play wav files and CD but c

Re: Useing debian

1999-07-24 Thread egm2
On 23 Jul, RUSSELL SATTER wrote: | I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I | have to start with a new hard drive, or what? | | Russ Satter | | No, if you have four gigs or more you can have good installations of both. You will need to have your Win

Re: Setting email message width in mutt

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 07:16:59PM -0400, Frisco Rose wrote: > I have been following the thread Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists > and decided to try using mutt instead of pine to read my email. However I > cannot > seem to find a way to set the default line length when composing a mes

Useing debian

1999-07-24 Thread RUSSELL SATTER
I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I have to start with a new hard drive, or what? Russ Satter

Setting email message width in mutt

1999-07-24 Thread Frisco Rose
Greetings, I have been following the thread Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists and decided to try using mutt instead of pine to read my email. However I cannot seem to find a way to set the default line length when composing a message. I have tried the following; man mutt less /usr/doc/m

To: Looking for good HTML editor

1999-07-24 Thread egm2
I recently installed webmaker (a kde package). So far, it looks to be an excellent web page editor. Some features: 1) Color Syntax highlighting 2) Auto indent, lcase all tags 3) HTML 4.0 compliance (so the docs say) 4) TAGS list/insertion 5) Standard file editing capabilities 6) Spawn external bro

Re: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in "potato"

1999-07-24 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 24-Jul-99 Kain wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Netscape 4.61 as packaged in "potato" dies intermittently around window >> > destroy events. Does anyone know why? > >> We can only guess it to be glibc rel

Re: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in "potato"

1999-07-24 Thread Kain
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Netscape 4.61 as packaged in "potato" dies intermittently around window > > destroy events. Does anyone know why? > We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-24 Thread egm2
| Where can I Find APM option | in menuconfig. I can't find it. | I'am using kernel 2.036 | | Cuno | | APM is under general settings. You also have to specify power off at shutdown further down the list. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread wim
Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it reappeared a while later, just like the original. Where did it get that info from? I have had the problem in Netscape Mail before, where you collapse the toolbars, but they won't un-collapse. Deleting th

Re: slrn - posting to newsgroup rejected

1999-07-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 02:50:39PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Aah! I found a log in /var/spool/slrnpull containing log entries since > June 1998. Shouldn't it be in /var/log? Probably should - it would certainly be more intuitive. > 07/20/1999 21:57:39 ***Article > /var/spool/slrnpull/out.g

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread wim
> > I have found that the cookie file tends to loose new-lines for some of the > entires and then when you attempt to access that site that has the line too > long > -- there goes netscape. > > Basicly what I mean is that you will get two sites (or more) that should each > be > on a seprate lin

RE: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in "potato"

1999-07-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Netscape 4.61 as packaged in "potato" dies intermittently around window > destroy events. Does anyone know why? > We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0 not 2.1 ).

Re: xcircuit's troubleshooting page answer this.

1999-07-24 Thread shaul
Answering my own mail after I remembered that xcircuit has a helpful home page: bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/trouble.html says that " 3.Problem: The main window won't accept keyboard input even though the buttons and menus all work. Solution Try version 2.0a8 or later (from 2/2

netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in "potato"

1999-07-24 Thread bruce
Netscape 4.61 as packaged in "potato" dies intermittently around window destroy events. Does anyone know why? Thanks Bruce

Re: shell script to run dns (TZO) signon client when ppp redials

1999-07-24 Thread John Hasler
Nate writes: > I put the shell script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/, but it will not update > dns to my dynip. Is the script executable? Post the script. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread Gregg Berkholtz
Adam Shand wrote: > > > Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a > > "bus error." This usually happens when I close a Netscape window > > (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape > > window), which is painful because I have to either liv