Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-07 Thread Doug Hespe
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 09:55:18PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Try overwriting LC_MESSAGES, ie > > LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt . > > mutt should speak English again, while showing German characters. > Aha! Thanks Victor. That works well if I launch mutt from the command line (I s

Characters shown as ? in mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Doug Hespe
Hi J?rgen, I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as "J?rgen". The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where it is shown as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=". There was some discussion on the list a while ago about this sort o

Re: custom spam file (ala rbl)

2001-06-30 Thread Doug Hespe
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:18:40PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > is there a file that i can drop IP numbers in to keep exim from accepting > email from those sites? > > kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file. > > i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd li

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
> > You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help > my nightmares go away. > Yes! It worked-- thanks again fellows! Cheerio, Doug.

Re: Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
> You need the xpm4.7 package. Or you could forget about wp8 and help > my nightmares go away. > Thanks Bently and Alan: I will give that a try. Sorry, Alan, but until I can learn to use LyX, troff, or LaTeX, the maths papers I have to write for my students need Wordperfect8. The latest version

Wordperfect8 missing libXpm.so.4

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Hespe
Hi, I'm having trouble reinstalling Wordperfect8 on a Potato system. It was running fine a couple of months ago after I installed libc5 and xlib6 but it is now complaining /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' When I try ~#locate libXpm.so.4 I get /us

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Doug Hespe
Thanks, Bob. When I looked at modconf it indicated that the lp module was now in the kernel--probably because I followed Sebastiaan and Mike's suggestions. My next task will be to reboot and see if it stays there. Regards, Doug. On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: >

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Doug Hespe
Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick. My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts. regards, Doug.

printing broken in potato install

2001-01-17 Thread Doug Hespe
I have just installed potato on a machine which happily ran slink before. During the install it refused to load the lp module--- >Error installing lp module >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy >Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including

X window lockup

1999-04-15 Thread Doug Hespe
I have just (4 times so far) installed Debian 2.1 on a PentiumII 400 with 128M Ram and an S3 ViRGE/GX2 video card. There are, however, a couple of problems. (1) After loading X windows with startx the windows are generated as expected and everything runs as it should for a minute or two but