Xdvi & Imagemagick both lockup system.

2003-03-21 Thread Douglas Hespe
Hi all, When I run texdoc I can read a page or so and then the system locks solid. Xdvi (which texdoc calls) has the same problem, as does Imagemagick which must call some common subroutine to xdvi. The only way I have found to avoid the problem is to unzip the tex dvi file and then read it with

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:28:10PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 13:43:53 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, > > but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making > > pretty FSA diag

Re: sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-23 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:09:02PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > The non-US archive contains things Debian wouldn't be allowed to export > from the US if they were stored there - mostly cryptography. You can > import them into the US yourself without any problems, as long as you > don't export th

Re: .xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-23 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > I think the xplanetbg command should also have a & at the end. > Yes, of course! This is embarrassing-- I thought I had done that but, as you have politely pointed out, I forgot. Thanks, I think that should fix it. Doug.

Re: .xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-21 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:20:44PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Are you saying some of the commands are executed, but others are not? Yes, and your supposition below looks very probable. > If so, it would appear that some command is not getting backgrounded, > or returning. The only candida

.xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-19 Thread Douglas Hespe
Something odd here: I upgraded to Woody using dselect and everything went swimmingly. I then added in the X11 stuff (version 4, not the old 3.3.6) ran startx and again everything looked good. Even after rebooting to get the new 2.4.17 kernel to be used things still looked good. But, after turning

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote: > > where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down under there, i > mean. where, as in vendor outlets, can it be bought? and which version of wp > is available? > Hi Ben, In Sydney there is a place called Basement Books

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source > software that did what it does. > Kent, Here in Australia you can pick up remaindered copies of _WordPerfect_for_Linux_ for about AU$20 (~US$10). This has th