Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-02 Thread Brian Butler
e*making _old_ ones? Thanks for all the help... have gone from a hopeless and especially painful (the data's on the disk, and we can't get at it!) scenario to serious hope for this box in < 24 hours thanks to debian-user! --Brian Butler

Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-01 Thread Brian Butler
up fdisk or cfdisk and go to town? The owner of the box with the problem does have his copy of Norton Utilities from years ago, no manual readily available. Is there a good way of getting this done with that tool? Thanks to everyone for all the help. --Brian Butler

Re: partition table lost

2000-02-01 Thread Brian Butler
e blocks. IOW, mostly free space. The owner of the box indicates that there was NO partition that size, but he thinks "C:" (the fat16 partition) was /dev/hda1 as the "new" one is shown to be. Thanks for your help, --Brian Butler

partition table lost

2000-02-01 Thread Brian Butler
ixed" ("cleaned") by McAfee. TIA, --Brian Butler

Re: html -> text

2000-01-08 Thread Brian Butler
Brian Mc Namara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any command to convert html files to plain text? Yes. $ lynx -dump file-or-URL.html > textfile.txt Then do any 'cleaning-up' of the target textfile. --Brian Butler

Re: Subscribing trouble.

1999-11-24 Thread Brian Butler
Eric G . Miller : > No I just resubscribed after being away for a week. Make sure when you > reply that the subject line doesn't have a "Re: " preceding the CONFIRM > part, otherwise it fails. I was bitten by that a couple times until I > realized the listserver didn't like that. What? I've n

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Butler
imit of 10 URL's reached." This is a strange one. Lynx is so configurable, I couldn't fathom this being a static setting... Thanks much for taking a stab at it. Any other guesses? TIA, --Brian Butler

lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Butler
(man lynx) and searching some lists and newsgroups have yielded close but no exact information. I suspect it's a lynx.conf thing, and just need a pointer to the variable to set or the command line switch to throw. TIA, --Brian Butler

gpm not working with all virtual consoles

1999-07-17 Thread Brian Butler
Greetings... I have recently developed a liking to using 'open' to launch apps on extra virtual consoles. I'm a fan of gpm to select and paste text on the _first six_ consoles. Works *exactly* like it should. On the "extra" consoles I can select text fine. I cannot paste it onto any other co

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Butler
image(s) you ask for on a new virtual console. As for finding it debianized, you're on your own! Good luck. Brian Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED]