Re: Testing sub directories using perl AGAIN

1999-04-28 Thread James M . Mastros
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:42:48PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > But it is still not exactly what I want. All the answers used the > idea to compare the string, but what about > the following case: > > dir1 = "/www/info/world"; > dir2 = "/www/info/world/usa/../../../." > > Now, clearly dir1 is a

Re: Compiling xfstt

1999-04-28 Thread James M . Mastros
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:52:00AM +, Greg Scharrer wrote: > xfstt.cpp:38: X11/fonts/FS.h: No such file or directory > xfstt.cpp:39: X11/fonts/FSproto.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [xfstt.o] Error 1 > > The xfstt FAQ says that a package "xdevel or something similar" must be > instal

Re: Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread James M . Mastros
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:02:14PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available > because there was a backup. Wouldn't running apt-get update remake that file anyway? > But some other files was ruined, such as emacs19.list > and ed.list dpkg would not run because o

Re: Hard drive problem -

1999-04-27 Thread James M . Mastros
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:50:57PM +0300, Gal Shalif wrote: > my system has two IDE controllers with a cable each, one cable has > connections for two devices and the other has a connections for one > device only. > When I connect the disk with the cable that has connections for two > disks, I get

Re: X woes

1999-04-25 Thread James M . Mastros
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 12:20:51PM +0100, David Leal wrote: > I also tried to change the config like this > > XkbKeycodes "xfree86" > XkbTypes "default" > XkbCompat "default" > XkbSymbols"en_US(pc105)+pt" > XkbGeometry "pc(pc105)" or "pc(pc101)" or "pc(pc102)" > > and I get no er

Re: Sound

1999-04-25 Thread James M . Mastros
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 08:51:15PM +0930, Trevor Glen wrote: > I got it to work, after I reset the computer! I think that it is a problem > with gnome. After I ran the Gnome Control Centre it seemed to lock the > /dev/audio device, and even after I killed, or exited the program it still > returned

Re: Hard Lock-Up Problems

1999-04-25 Thread James M . Mastros
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 09:23:08PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > I'm suspecting something doesn't either like a specific disk position or > consecutive positions, or a specific stream of bytes. I'm looking at > either hardware, kernel or cmos settings. Having had problems like this before, I'd ask:

Re: CR-563b

1999-04-22 Thread James M . Mastros
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:48:40PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: [...] > and burned a cd image of Slink with my CD-R. [...] > The problem is that the PB's CD-ROM fails intermittently. I randomly get > errors extracting the base system. Of the 5 times I've tried to install, > several times I've gotte

Re: Potato

1999-04-21 Thread James M. Mastros
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:01:25AM -0400, Madel, Kurt wrote: > For those of you using Potato, I was wondering how unstable it is. I have a > Zip Plus drive and know that it is naturally supported by the 2.2.X kernel, > so would like to move to a 2.2.X distribution as soon as possible and would >

Re: hard drive test

1999-04-21 Thread James M . Mastros
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 08:33:51PM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of > my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has > happened. You could try: 1) Compiling the kernel with "make -j" (I think you need to change t

Re: S.M.A.R.T Support?

1999-04-21 Thread James M. Mastros
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:27:34AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My harddisk has the S.M.A.R.T feature, Would someone mind telling me > whether or not linux harddisk driver support it? My kernel version is > 2.0.36. I don't know if 2.0.36 does, but 2.2.x does. If you have not upgraded yet, it'

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-20 Thread James M . Mastros
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 08:44:45PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > documentation another go. 99.99% of all mutt questions are answered > in the mutt manual, /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz by default. Jut sit I'd absolutly agree. Also, never underestimate the importance of grep . The reason I write this,

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-20 Thread James M . Mastros
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:36:05PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > but the only thing I don't like is that it keeps moving my read mail (granted Try "set move=no". (Default is ask-yes, meaning that it should ask first, with a default of yes.) > In doing some reading, I've found the 'mbox-hook' comma

Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread James M. Mastros
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:41:39PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and > because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like > to switch to another mailer. Mutt -- it's bar none the best mail client I've ever used

Re: SIOCADDRT error

1999-04-18 Thread James M . Mastros
Well, let's see. You're looking for somthing that you know was said on this mailing list recently. Dosn't that suguest to you that you want to look at the mailing list archives? So you go to "www.debian.org" in your favorite web browser, and find "Mailing List Archives" on the map to the left.