Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread James LewisMoss
Any thoughts, no matter how off base they may Colin> seem to be, are welcome. Cheers, Colin. I'd use qddb. Is a flat text database based on tcl/tk. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.dimensional.com/~dres | Linux is cool! @"Argue

Re: popclient .poprc file

1997-05-09 Thread James LewisMoss
decide to ignore the above. :) Make sure that the last line in the file is a blank line. I.e. make sure there is a return after the last command line. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.dimensional.com/~dres | Linux is cool! @"Argue for your

ctype.h

1997-04-30 Thread James LewisMoss
like? Is there a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/*/*/include/ctype.h? Thanks for any help jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.dimensional.com/~dres | Linux is cool! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: globally override/fool dpkg dependency mechanism?

1997-04-26 Thread James LewisMoss
ave perl installed (as far as dpkg knows). But just a dummy version. (What I did for ntex when I installed it do dselect would stop telling me that package so and so recommended latex. Just grabbed all the provides out of the standard tex packages, and put them all in one line for ntex). Jim

Re: Critical "Times" article on Linux

1997-04-24 Thread James LewisMoss
gt; that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition. Nico> Is there any place on-line where I could read that article, I'm Nico> getting curious :-) ? Yup. Go to yahoo. look for 'The Sunday Times'. go to that site. fill out the info they need. do a search for

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-05 Thread James LewisMoss
quests. Easier running modification of the daemon. Better support for filters. (I switched a bunch of machines over from different printing systems lp, lpr based. The users were a little thrown off by the different output format, but it made dealing with the printers from machine to machine m

Re: xemacs is ignoring my tab key

1997-02-26 Thread James LewisMoss
for one reason or another. Try this: (setq-default c-tab-always-indent t) Another thing to look for when you are having problems like this is to do C-h a . This will give a listing of all functions and variables that contain . Helps me greatly when something is working the way I expect. J

Re: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-25 Thread James LewisMoss
anyone wants to tackle making a package out of it (i might if anyone is interested (fvwm2 not fvwm95)). Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough,

Re: X window problem

1997-02-24 Thread James LewisMoss
m root I can not open windows unless I do one of two things: 1) do 'xhost +localhost' (not in the root window, but in another window) 2) If I am using XAUTH style authorization I can do 'XAUTH=/patch/to/user/.Xauthority ' and that will work (because of course root

Re: FTP problems (not DSELECT)

1997-02-24 Thread James LewisMoss
he third or fourth time I've seen you needlessly flame someone. And if it was covered in the telnet or login man pages (which I don't know if it is actually, and it seems neither do you since you didn't say definitely) why would you expect someone to go look in those for info on ftp?

Re: sysklogd 1.3-13

1997-02-20 Thread James LewisMoss
is it Mikael> just to downgrade it to the one in section stable so that I Mikael> can get sysklogd working?? I was wondering that as well. I just forced it to install (dpkg --force-depends -i sysklog...) and everything seems to be fine. :) Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL

Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy

1997-02-20 Thread James LewisMoss
el. The kernel should then sense when a user requests a disk eject (of course this doesn't work on floppies since it isn't a requested eject rather a forced eject (one nice thing about Macs IMO)) and umounts the disk. Of course this is much easier in the Dos/Win(3.1|95) world since you

Re: fetchmail

1997-02-19 Thread James LewisMoss
with sendmail I assume smail is the same) Heck I have sendmail on my machine translating both hostname and usernames to different ones and there is no problem. Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...

1997-02-19 Thread James LewisMoss
packages retrieved?' or some such. Just type n and hit install again. It'll reget the partial file and continue on. When you got them all install them. :) (Happens to me all the time) Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~m

Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like "WTF"?

1997-02-19 Thread James LewisMoss
ary that can now be obtained. I find myself using the online computer dictionary quite often. The word list site is great for creating really huge ispell lists. I also use the webster emacs interface frequently when I'm in emacs. The last I don't know much about other than it was

Re: Where can I find xterm_color?

1997-01-21 Thread James LewisMoss
> "Carl" == Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carl> I have XTerm handling colors, and 'ls' will also generate Carl> colors, but only for file types such as directories and Carl> executables. The 'dircolors' executable just sets up Carl> "LS_COLORS=''", which isn't very useful. The

Re: Where can I find xterm_color?

1997-01-20 Thread James LewisMoss
check earlier in the file to make sure I'm on a terminal that can deal with ansi codes. At the moment I just hard code the terminals I know won't work. Anyone know a better way?) And as to xterm I just added (as someone on this list suggested) the line: XTerm*customization: -color to my