Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-28 Thread David Pfitzner
e to missing functionality in fdos. It could be a bug report that the debian package makes it look like it should work. -- David Pfitzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread David Pfitzner
> ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your > mail reader? Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig The digest separator is 28 dashes. Anything over that seems to cause a problem. It probably has to start at the start of a line, too. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-12 Thread David Pfitzner
of dashes, which are not escaped in the digest. (So can everyone stop using rows of dashes!! :-) -- David Pfitzner -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

debian meta-help?

1997-06-11 Thread David Pfitzner
all? (I don't have dwww since I don't have any other need for a local web server, and setting one up just for dwww seemed like overkill - especially since dwww just(?) provides alternative access to docs I already know how to get to.) Anyway, an idea... -- David Pfitzner -- TO UNSUBSCR

netscape disk cache woes; more info and workaround

1997-05-05 Thread David Pfitzner
m. - Different configuration? Nothing that I've been able to think of has helped... - Something really silly and trivial? Probably... - My computer has become sentient and is out to get me... I have lots more info and strace output if anyone is interested :-) Anyway, based on the above st

Re: netscape won't use disk cache?! (Solution) (for some)

1997-04-25 Thread David Pfitzner
sing non-free software I guess; if I had some source I could at least have fun _trying_ to find something out... -- David Pfitzner -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-25 Thread David Pfitzner
have problems with partitations where are not _entirely_ within 1023 cylinders, because the kernel image could happen to be in that part of the partition which is past the 1023 cylinder. But I could be wrong, and/or this could have nothing to do with your particular problem... -- David Pfitzner --

netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-18 Thread David Pfitzner
netscape-installer. Any ideas? I'm using a modem, so it's rather annoying to wait to download files which should already be on my hard drive... -- David Pfitzner -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Emacs keys differences between console and X

1997-04-17 Thread David Pfitzner
I think the main thing I had to do to get the behaviour I wanted was to uncomment "XkbDisable" in my /etc/X11/XF86Config. (I had guessed wrong when the setup had asked about xkb...) -- David Pfitzner -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian

1997-03-20 Thread David Pfitzner
er (less sophisticated, less capable) than those of Debian or Redhat. Also Slackware _does_ have interim upgrades, both for new software versions and to fix security holes. However with more limited packaging and versioning etc, these are much less convenient than, say, Debian. -- David Pfitzner [EMAIL PROTECTED]