Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

Some time ago it was rumored that cp cannot copy files with holes, it just fills the holes :-( There's even a package to work around this, perforate. Is it still true that cp -a cannot preserve holes? Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?

Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 1 May 1997 11:38: >deluser and adduser try to do everything themselves, but we now have > > useradd and userdel > >which are standard (well, on sysv systems anyway) and documented. The >scripts and all your homemade scripts should call

xbuffy 3.3

Some people want to try xbuffy. It can be downloaded from tigger.itc.virginia.edu:/pub/src Carlos

Re: biff(1)

Biff may be obsolete, but if you use X try xbuffy. It's VERY nice. I use procmail to automatically sort mail to a set of folders (currently 36), and xbuffy monitors them all continuously, showing in inverted video those who have new msgs. and the number of them. If you click on the box of the folde