anyone using inews?

2001-01-20 Thread blair . kelly
I am having trouble posting a news article from my home computer over a ppp connection to my ISP's NNTPSERVER. I can read news fine; it is only posting with which I am having a problem. I believe the problem is that my /etc/news/sys file is not set up correctly. When I installed inews via apt-g

trn posting problem

2001-01-15 Thread blair . kelly
/home/bfkelly/dead.article Here is what I see in dead.article : Newsgroups: misc.test : Path: not-for-mail : From: Blair Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Subject: test : Date: 15 Jan 2001 08:24:19 GMT : Organization: home : Lines: 2 : Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

How do file transfer with minicom?

1999-01-30 Thread Blair Kelly
Would a kind person give me a simple example or point me at documentation with same that describes how to do a file transfer using minicom? I am unable to get kermit to work, and I have no experience with zmodem. I have been trying various combinations of commands with the zmodem download program

Trouble compiling C-Kermit

1999-01-09 Thread Blair Kelly
I am trying to compile C-Kermit (6.0.192) for Debian 2.0.34 and have run into a problem. I have made the obvious changes from curses to ncurses and also removed the makefile reference to termcap. Now I get: : Making C-Kermit "6.0.192" for Linux... : make[1]: Entering directory `/root/kermit/orig

Re: debian nubee-man pages dont work?

1999-01-06 Thread Blair Kelly
You need to install the debian man package before you can use the man pages. You can get the man package from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/main/binary-i386/ See the Packages file and search on "Packages: man". You install by 'dpkg -i [packagename].deb. Blair rnc wrote: > Any tips f

Re: Meaning of "Failed Intel bug check"?

1998-12-26 Thread Blair Kelly
t;? Date: 21 Dec 98 03:22:40 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Holliday) Newsgroups: linux.debian.user >Hi, >That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to >www.intel.com and download the fake Pentium test software. And verify it. > >Mike H. -Orig

Meaning of "Failed Intel bug check"?

1998-12-21 Thread Blair Kelly
I have installed Debian 2.0 on a SONY Vaio PCG-505F. Upon boot, I see the following line ppa: Failed Intel bug check. (Phoney EPP in ECP). Does anyone know what the line means - or what program is causing this message so that I can investigate further? Blair

Re: How download linux install kernal?

1998-12-15 Thread Blair Kelly
Andrew Ivanov wrote: > No special instructions, just > Shift+Left button to save it on disk. I thank you for your suggestion. Yet when I tried it, I got a file that is 689K long while the file while downloading says it is only 688K long. (Should I be worried?) And it still appears as a Netscape

How download linux install kernal?

1998-12-15 Thread Blair Kelly
I am having difficulty downloading the Debian linux install kernal. I am using Netscape 4.5 under Windows98. I have been able to successfully download the other installaion files: root.bin, base2_0.tgz, drv1440.bin, resc1440.bin, and loadlin.exe. Yet, when I have Netscape download from ftp://ft