On 13-Jan-2000 Bob Nielsen wrote:
> After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows
> up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as
> "essential" which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion.
> Should I force the removal?
>
it is safe
Shawn wrote:
> I am installing Debian on an Alphastation 255 and am
> having problems getting Debian to boot from MILO.
> The error messages of interest are as follows:
You might get more/better help on debian-alpha list, I usually subscribe to
that and
not this because of the traffic here, and
Unable to handle kernel pageing request at virtual address e2092040
Printing eip:
c0127339
*pde =
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: c20b4de0 ebx: c106acf0 ecx: c20b4e40 edx: e209220
esi: c20b4e40 edi: c20b4de0 ebp: c20b4e40 esp: c1179ee0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 00
sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing
list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the
kernel or upgrade your JDK.
this bug only affects older JDK with newer kernels, JDK tries to call an
undocumented /proc file and pukes when it can't fin
hi "wireless"
strange this emails popped up...
i need to install a wireless between two bldgs in SF tooo...
( never done that or know what to doany input/horror stories/success
stories is helpful
I've checked the yahoo listings and found some comparasons and
availability of equipment etc
H Huang wrote:
> produces one directory under test: test/{usr,bin}
>
> Note that /bin/sash also has the same problem, while /bin/bash,
> /bin/tcsh, and /usr/bin/ksh do not.
>
> Any comment?
Yes. {foo,bar} is a bashism. Do not expect any shell except bash to expand it.
--
see shy jo
I recently installed jdk onto my potato box - one of my classes this
semester is programming in Java. The problem I am having is that every
time I try to run javac to do the byte-compile I get the message:
Cannot open /proc/04505 for GC
The number here ^ is different every time. I even trie
I wrote:
|> Until recently I had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on
|> Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was
|> detected in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing
|> in long Netscape sessions and so on. But
|>
|> If I leave the machine up overnight
pplaw wrote:
> debs,
>
> anyone have luck using themes from themes.org?
>
> using icewm in my slink box, i downloaded the theme"blueheart,"
> gunzipped it, and moved it to the directory with the other icewm
> themes.
>
> how do i actually get the "theme" (blueheart) to come up?
>
> thx.
>
> ben
I've been recommending the purchase of CyberPower UPSes on this
list for use in dumb-mode with the powstatd package.
Mary Honeycutt posted here a few days ago about getting powstatd
to work with the new line of UPS from CyberPower, the PowerSL.
It appears that the new model doesn't run their Powe
After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows
up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as
"essential" which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion.
Should I force the removal?
Bob
--
Bob Nielsen, N7XY (ex-W6SWE) (RN2)[EMA
I wrote:
> I'm therefore thinking of buying a removal disk for offsite
> backups. My current backup needs are 1.9GB after full
> compression, although this will likely grow (doesn't it always).
Mistake on my part... it's 2.9GB compressed, so already bigger
than one Orb disk.
> I am considering
Philipp Braunbeck wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'd like to connect a PC running Debian ("zaphod")
> to our server ("trillian") running Suse 6.0. Trillian
> connects to an intelligent Specialix SIO multiserial
> board. Zaphod should connect to this board via ttyS0/1
> using telnet.
Uh, using telnet?
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:35:25PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote:
>
> look at a network monitor like iptraf when transferring files and look at
> how many bytes are transferred during file copy with NFS, are you using
was looking for such a beast, but didn't kno
Hello-
Thanks first of all for not being daunted by the subject.
I am installing Debian on an Alphastation 255 and am
having problems getting Debian to boot from MILO.
The error messages of interest are as follows:
Warning: Unable to open initial console /dev/console
Kernel Panic: cannot open in
I've been experimenting using /bin/ash as /bin/sh recently. No big
problem so far. However, a couple of debian/rules failed to
build. Further examination shows that:
#!/bin/ash (1)
and
#! /bin/ash (2)
behave differently. Note that
Paul McAvoy wrote:
> I personally run into problems with samaba when a user will create a dir and I
> want to put/remove files into it and have problems. I then have to telnet
> into my linux box and fix the permissions. Kindof a bummer, but at least the
> unix box is visible from windows.
It is
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:57:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote
> On 12/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote:
>
> >But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can
> >someone tell me how to do this? All the explanations I've found go into
> >gorey detail about compiling it, then say som
Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered.
> But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still
> wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent,
> then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the o
On 13-Jan-2000 Darxus wrote:
>
> They don't keep old versions around. If you install your packages via
> apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> Check there first. There's a command "apt-get autoclean" that deletes
> everything but the most recent copies of all p
Hello all;
How do I get the 'alt xxx' (xxx = 0-255) combination used in Micro$haft
products to give me an extended key code? I'm running potato and would
like to know how to do this in X and on the console if possible? This is
on a US based system using whatever keyboard map is default for the US
unsubscribe
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, aphro wrote:
: it is in there, i use it currently...enable support for i "PCI VLB and
: onboard adapters" i think the option is and a new set of NICs will show
: including the rtl8139.
It's also necesary to choose "Y" when asked about Experimental drivers.
--
Nathan Norma
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> It seems to be still in the netbase package. I can't find a separate
> portmap package. Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood you. Yeah, there are
> different scripts that separate the networking stuff, but the
> portmap binary still comes packaged in the netbase de
> Hello. Just set up a potato box to drive my HP6200C scanner. I installed
> the SANE package, but it seems as though the sane-hp driver isn't there,
> and I can't seem to find a Debian package for it. Am I just missing
OK, so I'm an idiot -- the sane-hp driver is there as libsane-hp, and I
was
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote:
> Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > DeltaForce2 and winmine work on my machine with wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb
> > & libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb, but not with wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb &
> > libwine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb (the latest).
> >
>
>
Is it possible to change the package list so that only
the packages who are currently installed on the system
are left in their state? If so how can I do that?
many thanks,
S. Massy
note: please reply directly as I'm not a member of the list.
__
Do Y
Charles O. Hartman said:
> (My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
> 10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.)
Welcome!
> I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
> (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However,
Can leafnode (well, fetchnews) be configured to retrieve message bodies
immediately in some groups, but not in others?
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Hello. Just set up a potato box to drive my HP6200C scanner. I installed
the SANE package, but it seems as though the sane-hp driver isn't there,
and I can't seem to find a Debian package for it. Am I just missing
it, or do I need to download it from SANE and put the *.a and *.so* files in
/usr/
This is really odd.
I finally fixed my PPP server this morning(/etc/mgetty/login.defs had bad
permissions) and I wanted to change the IP address that the DNS is but
pppd kept saying "too few arguements" and would disconnect immediately, it
would only work with the original IP(which is on another n
On 01/13/00 04:12AM, Jim B wrote:
> slink right?
sorry, potato.
> I commented out the lines that start it in /etc/init.d/netbase. I think
> that's as close as you're going to get as a "best way" to do it, because
> it unfortunately is crammed in there with the rest of the stuff.
This will proba
debs,
anyone have luck using themes from themes.org?
using icewm in my slink box, i downloaded the theme"blueheart,"
gunzipped it, and moved it to the directory with the other icewm
themes.
how do i actually get the "theme" (blueheart) to come up?
thx.
bentley taylor.
//
unsuscribe
Kent West wrote:
> However, here's perhaps your best bet. Don't install Linux on an
> Intel box. Grab a copy of LinuxPPC or YellowDog Linux and install
> it on your Mac. I've even heard rumours of a Debian distro for
> Mac; hmm, think I'll go check on that now.
Yes: for the M68K series of Mac (pre
I have an HP DJ 697c currently setup to use dj550c driver. It works,
but is very inky. Also, the color prints quality doesn't seem to be as
nice as under win.
I have heard that gv comes with more drivers for deskjets, including
one for dj-690 series. Is anyone using it, and where would I read
abou
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed
> back to the wine project?
>From the wording at http://www.winehq.com/who.html, I'd guess so:
Corel Developers
| Not much is kn
Hello folks,
I'd like to connect a PC running Debian ("zaphod")
to our server ("trillian") running Suse 6.0. Trillian
connects to an intelligent Specialix SIO multiserial
board. Zaphod should connect to this board via ttyS0/1
using telnet. I did actually read all those fine manuals
and HOWTO's but
Blazej Sawionek wrote:
> What does that mean?
In Emacs, M-tab means pressing the [Meta] and [TAB] key
simultaneously on your keyboard. The [Meta] key is often bound
to the [Alt] key. If you don't have such a key and don't want to
create one (e.g. using xmodmap), then you may use [ESCAPE]-[TAB]
"Charles O. Hartman" wrote:
>
> (My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
> 10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.)
>
> I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
> (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, th
"Christopher S. Swingley" wrote:
>
> > rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to
> > get it to work.
>
> To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for
> that matter):
>
> * The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a
Evan Moore wrote:
>
> there is the problem, xanime can not play Sorenson Video because apple
> will not release any docs on it.
It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson
Vision (www.s-vision.com)
jpb
--
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CREOL System Administrator
Soc
> I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300".
> Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it?
>
> Phil
This card uses the 3D Labs/Permedia II videochipset, which is supported via the
XF86_3DLabs x-server.
_Exactly_ what problems are you ha
You can teel vmware to install in /usr/local, there is no need to install
in /usr.
Regards JohnG
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
_/ John Gould _/
_/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/
_/ Power Innovations Limited
Hello all,
I'm currently backing up my workstation data to a spare internal
disk. This is nice because a few cron tar scripts do the job
every night without my intervention. A spare IDE disk is very
cheap, and I don't keep the partitions mounted so nothing happens
to them. The downside is that
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:15:15AM -0500, Charles O. Hartman wrote:
>
> I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
> (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive,
> and no net connection yet.
>
> 1) Is it reasonable to try to install a begi
modify the perl install script(s) ?
i just let vmware go wherever it wants :)
nate
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alberto Brealey G. wrote:
albbre >
albbre >I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that
albbre >they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything g
i think it would be worth while to ask a linux-ppc or mklinux mailing list
how they would make boot floppies from macos, im sure there is a way,
rawwrite for mac maybe? im not sure.
6MB of ram will be very tough to get linux installed on, running it won't
be too hard but actually installing it is
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jack Morgan wrote:
yojack >I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and
yojack >possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU
Debian 2.1
yojack >(slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -)
yojack >
I would STRONGLY suggest
Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed
back to the wine project?
...RickM...
it is in there, i use it currently...enable support for i "PCI VLB and
onboard adapters" i think the option is and a new set of NICs will show
including the rtl8139.
nate
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Tim Nicholas wrote:
tim >Hey there all,
tim >
tim >I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2
Task selection in Debian 2.2 will be done by
$ apt-cache show tasksel
Package: tasksel
Version: 1.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: base
Maintainer: Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0)
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/task
I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that
they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on
/usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails.
Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuf
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:48:10AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
>
> --- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which
> > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installe
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then
> split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around
i've been using Lucent's WaveLAN products to setup a 'WISP' for a month now,
and even wi
Good day all
I am running a fairly recent potato, with Gnome and IceWM. When I
updated, the task list that the middle mouse button on the root window
used to bring up stopped appearing. This seems to have something to do
with the Ice Gnome integration, because if I turn this off, I get the
middle
--- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which
> mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks.
>
> No, not in Debian 2.1
> It will be possible in Debian 2.2
An
* "Blazej" == Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Blazej> When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost
Blazej> their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is
Blazej> `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very
Blazej> difficult to read and practical
* "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which
mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks.
No, not in Debian 2.1
It will be possible in Debian 2.2
Ciao,
Martin
Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which Tasks or
Profiles you want installed.
Thanks.
Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for
10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.)
I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine
(AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive,
and no net c
I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and
possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1
(slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -)
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:33:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in
> > Windows 95.
> >
> > + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with "gpm -k" and removed the startup
> > file from /etc/rc6.d.
>
>
Hi *,
I have a problem with console fonts display. The scenario is as follows: I
load a font from /usr/share/consolefonts (namely iso02grf.psf which comes
with embedded SFM), load the appropriate keyboard map (pl02.map) and expect
to see the Polish diacritics on the screen. However, this is no
Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> DeltaForce2 and winmine work on my machine with wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb
> & libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb, but not with wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb &
> libwine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb (the latest).
>
Do you know where I can get wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb and
I agree completely.
Sean
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
>
> Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my
> > machine to be making decisions as to whether it is
> > appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be
> > making those decisions because t
Joakim Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers
> etc.
> Something like Adress book in netscape.
>
> Any suggestions what to use ?
I've been using bbdb (available with [x]emacs) for a year, and am very
satisfied. The recor
Try reconfiguring X...
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my
> machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec
> xdm, it just logs me out.
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
>
Hi list,
I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers
etc.
Something like Adress book in netscape.
Any suggestions what to use ?
Best regards
Joakim Svensson
Under potato, after dselect upgraded ncurses to 5.0-X, one of the
older ncurses packages was left behind (ncurses-base 4.2). It now
shows as obsolete, but I'm a bit uncertain as to whether I should just
go ahead and remove it by brutal force. Can something break if I do
so?
,[ Dselect buffer ]
I got a problem to setup x-window with video card
"WinFast 3D L2300".
Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip
should be choose for it?
Phil
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or
> other CA but without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first
> time they visit your site about the certificate being signed by an
> unknown party. If they choose to kee
Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my
> machine to be making decisions as to whether it is
> appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be
> making those decisions because the machine is
> unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as
Old log files get gzipped (/var/log/*.?.gz).
When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost their format. All
end-of-lines are removed and the text is `justified' to approx. 80 columns.
This makes the logs
very difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the files and
vi
What does that mean?
B.
I worked out why X wouldn't start (had my XFree86 config wrong).
Thanks anyway.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they
> range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in
> /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there
> a way to keep it from starting in the first place?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> --- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package?
>
> Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald?
> ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend.
>
> > > 1. I ha
Tim Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not
> find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards.
> They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the
> source but not the option to select in
Let me comment on two different posts in one:
--- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get libXpm.so.4?
--- Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory
> jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [
--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package?
Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald?
;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend.
> > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything
--- Gerhard Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable,
> but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not
> listet at all.
As someone else has already said, it's provided by zlib1g.
APT would have sorted thi
The keymaps for loadkeys on my system (debian) are in /usr/share/keymays/i386/
You can also just do a 'loadkeys us' to reload the map if you are using the us
map.. or 'loadkeys dvorak' if you prefer a dvorak keyboard. The path to the
loaded keymap will be displayed.
- Paul
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000
I can't seem to figure out how to keep portmap from starting when I
reboot. I've changed all references to portmap in the rc*.d
directories from the S##portmap form to a K##portmap form. That
doesn't seem to keep the portmapper from starting.
I have to kill it each time I reboot. Just in case I fo
Using 'cat' probably opens the port in buffered mode.. where the contents of
the buffer are not outputted until a \n is seen. I may not be correct about
this, but I have played around with writing some serial apps and doing the
same thing you are doing.. hooking up my multimeter to the serial port
On 13.01.2000 08:38:00 AM matthschulz wrote:
>The permissions are: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Dec 28 21:00
>/dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the
>settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial.
>
So you tried with setserial, too ?
B.
Don't know too much about rsh, but you would probably be better off with SSH
as it is (more) secure and offers the same functionality.
- Paul
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:07:10PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it
> i
If you are copying between two unix machines it might be easier to just use
NFS to mount the drives and copy the files over via cpio or something similar.
I think that since samba is based in windos without much in the way of
permissions, all the permissions get lost.
I personally run into problem
Hi all,
After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my
machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec
xdm, it just logs me out.
Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks!
Hey there all,
I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not
find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards.
They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the
source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'mak
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
>
> In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot? Something odd
> has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap
> than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other
> keys change as
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> |> i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it
> |> on my wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself,
> |> the problem is turning it into a pdf.
>
> The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply run
I have a customer who runs a van distribution system.
He wants his drivers to use handheld computers or barcode readers
when they visit shops, to pick up the list of items needing to
be replenished. He then wants to print a delivery note on the
spot for the customer and transmit the details by
Disregard, I've stumbled back on to the bash-doc .deb, and now
understand that dpkg-dev is needed to extract files :)
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Patrick Walsh
Edmonton AB CA
I've installed Breezecom for the San Francisco Zoo in several locations and
it has performed very well. Unfortunately, the Access Point is around $1250
wholesale and the Station adapter is around $650. Your 300 ft line of sight
is well within specs, and you would probably see around 3Mbs between yo
> rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to
> get it to work.
To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for
that matter):
* The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a
~/.rhosts file with the address of the l
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady
stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows)
When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen,
can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0
w
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:43:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote
>
> |> I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile
> |> source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The
> |> process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on
> |> how can I compil
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