Re: A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Joseph Hartmann
n: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: > #!perl > while(){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";}; Change "perl" to the full path to

A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I created a file: /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filter This file consists of two lines: #!perl while(){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";}; I made it executable. It is owned by root. This file is an attempt to write a filter to eliminate the staircase effect (i.e. no CR after a LF) on my dot-matrix l

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I have run linux for years with just a linux native partition as big as I can make it, and a linux swap (= 2x my ram size) with no problem. I believe your approach is some kind of "protection" for runaway events, but in four years I have had no such event. I think the partitioning is not necessary

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-02 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Debian 2.0 (Cheapbyets CD) EZSTART does not recognize CD-ROM IRQ

1998-11-27 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I have a pretty standard 486 (circa 1995), and I am running DOS622, with my CD-ROM working fine under DOS, having installed the driver that came with the CD-ROM. But my CD Rom is not recognized by Debian EZSTART. EZSTART hangs after I tell it the color and it says something about examining my sys

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: linux operating system

1998-11-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: linux operating system

1998-11-17 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-17 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: in which directory does lynx.cfg belong?

1998-11-17 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work

1998-11-15 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:19:11 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: >

emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work

1998-11-15 Thread Joseph Hartmann
My "info" on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an "x" ? Control-m or Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a further command. This is emacs from the cheapbytes four

Re: dconfig for GNUbies

1998-11-10 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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where is "less" ?

1998-11-04 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I am a partisan of "less" -- the bidirectional "more". Where is it on the debian system? How do I install it? Thanks in advance. joeh

Re: Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I installed the SLACKWARE (2.0 I think -- about 2 years ago) on a 2MB-RAM, 40MB Hard drive system. It worked fine from the diskettes. (No CD-ROM on the 386SX laptop I had. After putting on emacs-nox I still had about 18 MB free. joeh

Re: mySQL

1998-10-24 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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Re: X and keyboard layouts

1998-10-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Hello, I use the DVORAK, and finally decided to get a hardware DVORAK keyboard to get rid of all the problems from myriad computers trying to give me a hard time about dvorak. So now all the machines think they are talking to a qwerty board and my config problems are a thing of the past. But I