Re: Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Ian Peters
ots to screen. When I exit, there is and outfile.ps, but it is > zero bytes. Try "help term" inside of gnuplot. Short version: gnuplot> set term post Options are 'landscape noenhanced monochrome dashed defaultplex "Helvetica" 14' gnuplot> set out "outfile.p

Re: Screensaver in X

1999-05-07 Thread Ian Peters
at the output near the bottom, about the screen-saver; or, try man xset. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: [debian-user] configure a printer

1999-05-07 Thread Ian Peters
the right port in /etc/printcap? Otherwise try sending more information. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: Can't get fetchmail to fetch.

1999-05-07 Thread Ian Peters
ail that is doing it or if it is Exim. Any > solutions. /etc/exim.conf local_domains = localhost This is all over the list in the last week; next time try the archives. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: Can't allocate DMA buffer

1999-05-06 Thread Ian Peters
ade your RAM. But you do also have this improper solution as well. Use it wisely. Documentation is nifty. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: printing permissions?

1999-05-06 Thread Ian Peters
rk because you're trying to use a pipe. Try redirection like this: cat /tmp/r > /dev/lp1 I don't know why lpr isn't working for you; you sure /dev/lp1 is correct? Did you recently change to a 2.2.x kernel? -- Ian Peters "I

Re: filtering of text files

1999-05-06 Thread Ian Peters
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 08:22:40AM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:12:37PM +, Richard Harran wrote: > > I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same > > case, and to remove punctuation. I guess I should use 'sed'

Re: filtering of text files

1999-05-06 Thread Ian Peters
rse, to go from uppercase to lowercase, switch the upper and lower in the command above. Roughly, tr just translates from one set to another. lower maps to upper well, and punct maps punctuation to the nothingness at the end of the second string, thereby removing it. -- Ian Peters

Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?

1999-05-05 Thread Ian Peters
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > What command do I need to use to find out how much free disk space I > have left? df -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education."

Re: kernel compile error-help

1999-05-05 Thread Ian Peters
mplete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries). -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: eth0, etc..

1999-05-03 Thread Ian Peters
ie you forgot to compile in networking support, ethernet, your card, whatever. Fix this and you will have working networking. Those devices, however, don't exist -- there's no such thing as /dev/eth0. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-04-30 Thread Ian Peters
d explore this issue more? For instance, how do I find out what the pre-remove script does? How do I find out what's broken? BTW I have tried to use the man pages and internet references. I would have thought that --force-remove-reinstreq would help, but it hasn't. -- Ian Peters

Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-04-28 Thread Ian Peters
it, upgrade it, anything. Any suggestions? -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: strange sendmail error msgs

1999-04-28 Thread Ian Peters
As to where it comes from, here's what I get on my potato system: $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/sendmail exim: /usr/sbin/sendmail It's a compatability wrapper, since many things just assume that sendmail exists. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with

Re: Testing sub directories using perl AGAIN

1999-04-28 Thread Ian Peters
er a '.', a '..', or other, construct $ndir2 ] } if ($ndir1 == $ndir2) { do some foo; } else { do some bar; } If you've got any questions with the above, drop me a line and we'll work on it. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Ian Peters
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 11:03:25PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote: > Ian Peters wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 15:45): > > > > wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making > > > that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper > >

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Ian Peters
Uhh ... it's not supposed to be. It's not smaller, just contains logic to handle loading the bigger kernel. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-20 Thread Ian Peters
/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz by default. Jut sit down and read it, or at the very least read through the section on configuration variables. It'll give you a much better idea of everything mutt can do than getting random tidbits of advice here and there. -- Ian Peters "I never

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread Ian Peters
Could someone give me a good suggestion what should I try? I love Mutt. It's almost infinitely configurable, prides itself on its small memory and hard drive footprint, and is fast. Give it a try. > Thanks for any suggestions > Wojtek

Re: more Mutt question

1999-04-18 Thread Ian Peters
, there are lots of ways, either with mutt or with mutt in combination with other tools, to do this without copying the messages over and then deleting. Hope I've been of some help. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: Mutt question

1999-04-18 Thread Ian Peters
tly like this, it works, and it means we don't have to inflate the mail client anymore." So basically, just set up a quick monthly cron job that moves your sent-mail folder out of the way and touches a new one. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling int

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Ian Peters
ompiling a list of grevious errors in this study. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

invalid preprocessing directive name upon startx

1999-04-14 Thread Ian Peters
of this, so I'm not excessively worried, but I just thought I'd mention it to see if anyone else has seen this. I have no idea what package to file a bug report against. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-13 Thread Ian Peters
attachment messages. Read /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz > 4. Rather than reading the message page by page, I would like to > read the message by scrolling it down. Can I configure mutt to do that? Your're looking for the command bind and functions like next-line and previous-line. Read

Where to enable MTRR's?

1999-04-11 Thread Ian Peters
RedHat background, so I looked for an rc.local file, but didn't find one. Thanks for your time. -- Ian Peters "The farther you go, the less you know." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching"

Re: Windows 49er Bug

1999-04-09 Thread Ian Peters
know how long it had been up. Like I said, though, I could be wrong. -- Ian Peters "The farther you go, the less you know." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching"

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-07 Thread Ian Peters
there's > no way for me to resize them. Other programs that I'm > experiencing the same with are Rosegarden, a music program > and Blender. Just FYI, in WindowMaker, by default, if you hold down ALT and click the left mouse button on a window, you can move it, even if you can't

Re: vim/ctags problem: Java keywords not highlighted

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Peters
on"? - Does coloring work in a console? In an rxvt? Experiment and see if you can narrow it down to a vim problem, or an xterm problem, etc. FWIW color hilighting is working fine for me. -- Ian Peters "The fa

Re: no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Peters
filename as is the susal custom. The > installer will not work on a file that does not have glibc in the name. It is indeed a glibc binary. I had to rename the file to put a glibc in the name, and then all worked well. -- Ian Peters "The farther you g