Re: Strange behavior of magicfilter configurator

1998-09-16 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
>> I tried installed magicfilter under debian2.0 > and could not configure it. Namely when I choose > the option to create a configure file (printcap) it asked me for > one printer name,...,filter and then for second, third and so on. > I could not to stop the configuration script and to > create

Re: c/c++ to LaTeX?

1997-09-23 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
First off thanks to everyone for there suggestions. I have since found what I was looking for. It is a package called "listings". I got it from my local CTAN archive. I have yet to use it but the docs seem to show that it will do what I want. The package is copyrighted and I see no mention th

Re: vga.h

1997-09-21 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
It is contained in one of two packages. svgalib1-dev or svgalib-dummy1 One way of finding this out yourself is to get the Contents File from the stable directory and grepping for the file you are looking for. This file contains all the files from all the packages from stable. A. Paul On Sun, 2

c/c++ to LaTeX?

1997-09-21 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
Some where I once saw a c/c++ to LaTex tool that would take as input a source file and produce a .tex file. If I remember right it would do some pretty formatting of the syntax. Does any one know what this package might be and where it might be found? I have looked in a couple of archives and

Help with info2www

1997-09-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
I am having a problem using info2www to view the emacs documentation. When I first execute the info2www script I am given a top view of my /usr/info directory. One of the items in this list is Emacs, which corresponds to http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs). Following this link brings me to

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port -> n x (text dumb t

1997-09-15 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
One device only... the Wyse's have _two_ serial ports, but maybe to just switch from one host to another, don't know whether or not the second port can just be used as auxiliary input... but why not keybord "emulation" as done by most barcode scanners I saw? Do credit card scanners hav

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port -> n x (text dumb t

1997-09-15 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
Yes, that's not a bad point, surviving machines in case of a crash... provided the software on the 386's is designed not to necessarily send everything immediately to the main dbase... ... but also PROVIDED there is no need to consult the main dbase, which is much likely

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port -> n x (text dumb t

1997-09-14 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
:-) I put my hands on some SCO systems at some customers' and I think Linux is quite _another_planet_ (and among every distribution Debian, also used Yggdrasil, Slackware and RedHat). Could not agree more. I don't think SCO, even Open Server, is in the same solar system :). Yes but

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port -> n x (text dumb t

1997-09-14 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
> Why did you move to networked 386's? What's running on them? The system that we use is provided to us by True Value. The backroom system is a SCO 3.2V4.2 box. The registers are simple 386's, 4M ram, 10Mb hard drives, simple ethernet cards. They run some old version of DOS, and a custom wri

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port -> n x (text dumb t

1997-09-14 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
Why did you move to networked 386's? What's running on them? The system that we use is provided to us by True Value. The backroom system is a SCO 3.2V4.2 box. There where a couple of reasons for getting rid of the WYSE terminals. There were emulation problems with the terminals, SCO uses a

How to turn off ICMP message logging

1997-07-09 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
Hi, I connect to the internet through a ppp dial-up using Debian 1.3. I have just noticed that while connected and moving any information ( a mirror run at the moment) that the messages file in /var/log/ is growing at a high rate. It is full of : Jul 8 21:04:44 bugs kernel: ICMP redirect from 2

Re: libXt.so.6

1996-12-26 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
t; [2:201/262.37] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Add /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.config and run

Re: Debian 1.2 install problem - short memory

1996-12-25 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
enough to get the machine up and running and allow me to build a new kernel on it with what I needed. If you want to try this kernel mail me and I will send you a copy of the kernel and the steps I used to get it to work. A. Paul Heely Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PG

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-20 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, David Puryear wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to connect two computer with serial cable but I couldn't find > the cable long enough. So I went to electronic store and bought cable > without plugs and plugs. I ask them which wire went where, but they had > no idea.:( I think

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Anthony Thompson wrote: > > Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of > install it). > > Away im having a problem getting the ppp link up and running. Im able to > establish the ppp connection ok. I check it using the ifconfig command > and

Re: Console blanks trying to install 1.2 from floppies...

1996-12-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > John C. Ruttenberg wrote: > > > > ... on a Micron Mellenia Transport notebook. > > > > It gets as far as probing for a Sanyo CDROM and starting to initialize it > > and > > then the screen goes blank and seems to relight it. > > > > Has anyone

Re: X clients problem

1996-12-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Olivier BOUSQUET wrote: > I've just installed the Debian 1.2 distibution with X11 packages, including > xlib6, xbase, xcompat, and a few others. Everything is going ok when I > start the X server but when I try to run programs such as ghostview or > fvwm, I get the error mes