Re: Bar code scanners

2001-01-01 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 1 Jan 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Dear all! > > I have been asked to start looking into providing an EPOS system for the shop > that I work at. I am hoping to be able to develop all the software myself > (using Perl and the GTK+ bindings). However, I have no idea about how well or > otherwi

Re: xfce

2000-12-06 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jesse Goerz wrote: > Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some input > on how it is. Yeah. It's a not bad to use, and it blows GNOME and KDE away as regards speed, but it's ugly as hell compared to both GNOME and KDE. It looks like CDE. > > Jesse

Re: MSaccess to mysql in Linux

2000-12-04 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Fraser McAninch wrote: > Do you know of any convertor or way to convert MsAccess .mdb files from > Win98 to Mysql on Linux? I have tried all manner of conversions Look for mdbtools on freshmeat, and look for GNOME-DB/libgda. > > thanks > Fraser > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: what is > ?

2000-12-01 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, cls-c/s wrote: > debs, > > in bash, i sometimes hit ' at the end of a command and i then get > on the > next line. what does > do? It's the secondary prompt ($PS2), which means it's waiting for you to finish your command (i.e.,close the quotes) > > ia, t. > > bentley taylo

Re: Why non-free (was Re: unzip - again)

2000-11-30 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > I knew I had seen a better copyright somewhere: > > -- > Latest Release > > New features in UnZip 5.41, released 16 April 2000: > > > new BSD-like license > Yeah, that's why zip is in main. Unzip, however, st

Re: Access under Linux

2000-11-29 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: >Do you know if there is wrote an Access (Wind 98) under Linux ? > Exist a program who can read .mdb (access) files ? Do a search on freshmeat.net for mdbtools. Gnome-DB/libgda uses it for access files. > -- "The Information Superhighway made it po

Re: Emacs shell with ^]]0m !!!

2000-11-27 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:17:27PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: > > :You can try installing the mule packages (mule2-bin, mule2-plain, > :mule2-support). It looks like mule (Multilingual enhancements to Emacs) > :detects "DOS files" (i.e. files with

Re: docbook-utils

2000-11-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:19:59 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm > > package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: > > docbook2html, docbook2ps, d

Mangled text in X

2000-09-20 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
I recently installed 2.2 on a machine, and X works fine, except the text is mangled. I installed task-gnome-desktop and gdm, switched to X, and everything was garbled, so then I installed xfs, xfonts-100dpi to see if that'd help. Same deal. Anyone got any ideas? -- "The Information Superhighway m