RE: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Alec Clews
Maybe you should use 'dpkg ' in this situation.   Yes deselect is awkward   And I'm using Windows 2K and MS Outlook :-(((   -Original Message-From: hzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:03To: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Dselect - a diffi

RE: uuencode/uudecode?

1997-09-09 Thread Alec Clews
ally I don't' think this will work. tar cannot be used as a pure filter. Try this tar -cf - FILE | gzip -c | uudencode file.tgz | mail . or even tar -czf - FILE | uudencode file.tgz | mail . (I don't have a Linux box handy to test this, but it looks about right :-). ) Regards

RE: upgrade tip

1997-08-26 Thread Alec Clews
to install nothing and then add stuff in by hand. YMMV Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Synergo Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD =

RE: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-08 Thread Alec Clews
te is not until 1Q98 Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD == Usual Disclaimers Apply =

RE: oracle & debian questions

1997-08-06 Thread Alec Clews
le will work under Linux using iBCS module, there are detailed instructions somewhere on the Web. The bummer is that you can use ESQL/C. Have fun Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New

RE: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-06 Thread Alec Clews
ess that may be a little late. We could hack together some scripts before then as a bridge. Thanks Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St Thomas Street, Lon

Debian-Desktop

1997-08-05 Thread Alec Clews
profiles 2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. Anyone have an inside track on the Deity delivery schedule? Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 Ne

RE: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread Alec Clews
not have to throw everthing else off. A friend has suggested that the size of a Jazz drive (96Mb) is a good target. Apart from that you are correct. It would be unfortunate if CD vendors started offering multiple versions of Debian. I think there should only be one Official CD set with tools to al

RE: Debian-lite

1997-08-04 Thread Alec Clews
> >That's why the name Debian-lite makes me sick. It reminds me of those >commercial products where you have to pay for a full version of the >product. OK. How about Debian-Desktop? (Debian-BBS, Debian-ISP etc) Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

RE: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-01 Thread Alec Clews
> >On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Alec Clews wrote: > >> +To provide tools to extract the files required to create Debian-lite as >> a subset (100Mb?) suitable for inclusion on a CD with other software > >I think should be better that the user installation option produces the >

Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-01 Thread Alec Clews
this functionality in the Official Debian distribution? Does the SPI board have view on any of this? Comments please. Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St

RE: Debian-lite

1997-08-01 Thread Alec Clews
p in the Official CD set and add stuff as they need to. i.e. the only thing special about Debian-lite is that you don't get get much choice when you first install the system. Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)17

Debian-lite (Was Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence )

1997-07-31 Thread Alec Clews
be clever and call it Debian-lite :-). Please email me if 1) You are intrested in *using* such a (free) product. 2) You can help or have already done some work on this approach. If this is already a work in progress please let me know. If there is enough interest I will see about setting up an infra

[no subject]

1997-07-31 Thread Alec Clews
. Please email me if 1) You are intrested in *using* such a (free) product. 2) You can help or have already done some work on this approach. If this is already a work in progress please let me know. If there is enough interest I will see about setting up an infrastructure. Regards, Alec

RE: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Alec Clews
27;t work for all stuff so some thing will need to be excluded) and some extra setup scripts. I noticed on the LDP a reference to a Simple Entry Level Linux, I will look into this. Other people must have done similiar work for other distributions and there must be an awful lot already in the Debian

Making a CD for a Magazine

1997-07-29 Thread Alec Clews
this before 2) Does anyone have any opinons 3) Is anyone intrested in the results Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Brita

RE: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Alec Clews
ascii characters put it back. > I think /etc/issue might be a better choice 'cause it gets displayed by getty I believe Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TCA Consulting Ltd Tel:44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 New

Re: Debian 1.2.5: Configure PPP

1997-04-10 Thread Alec Clews
s now running 2.0.27 and is back on the net! Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TCA Consulting Ltd Tel:44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 New City Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD ===Usual Disclaimers Apply==

RE: pgp-i or pgp-us ?

1997-04-09 Thread Alec Clews \(S\)
link it with the RSAREF library rather than MPILIB. Note that RSAREF is NOT included in this distribution, so if you are a US user, it is probably easier to get a copy of the original MIT 2.6.2 release." >From your email address I am guessing that you need the US version

Debian 1.2.5: Configure PPP

1997-04-04 Thread Alec Clews \(S\)
ppp' gives me an error of 'device unavailable'. Is there something I need to do to get ifconfig to recognize the PPP device? When dummy and ppp were compiled as modules I couldn't even configure the dummy device:-(. Any advice gratefully received Thanks Regards, Alec --

CD-ROM IRQ Timeout

1996-11-13 Thread Alec Clews (S)
Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TCA Syntec Ltd Tel:44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 New City Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD ===Usual Disclaimers Apply== Intel