> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?
If you are using bash as a shell, or you switch into bash, you can use
the following:
for i in *;do mv $
> On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
> > The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem?
>
> Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap:
> keycode 22 = BackSpace
I've found that I need to do a bit more then this because I use
emacs.
.Xmodmap
keycode 22 = BackSpac
It seems like most ppp interface programs expect ppp-on and ppp-off or
up/down to be around. Since I assume this can be just like
/etc/init.d/ppp start|stop, would it be bad for me to create a C
wrapper program (suid root) to call start-stop-deamon on pppd? What
things do I have to watch out for
> Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the
> issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif?
Motif is a set of "proprietary" libraries licensed by OSF. So it
costs money to get them. I've bought them for $99.00 at InfoMagic
(http://www.infomagic.c
> Background: Got and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and
> netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the right tar.gz file off of Netscape's
Well, you need libXpm. Which you can get in the xpm4.7 package.
netscape should probably be fixed to depend on this package.
Jim
> I am looking for the correct syntax for the $mailer option in the
> majordomo.cf file for Smail
Make sure there is a link /usr/lib/sendmail that points to
/usr/bin/smail, and then put this in as the $mailer:
$mailer = "/usr/lib/sendmail -f\$sender -t";
Jim
> Does someone have a netpbm package for debian? I just found the pbmplus
> package that looks pretty old.
Two people had volunteered to set up new netpbm packages, one of them
was going to make it a shared package. Since nothing has been said,
and nothing was produced, I've gone ahead and uplo
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