status of libc5 in unstable

Hi I was wondering if there was any reason why libc5 in unstable is at a lower revision level than in stable. This sort of thing makes tracking the status of debian a real pain. Joe. -- === in real life: Joseph Skinner

problem with subscribing to groups

it seems to be broken as whatever you do with it you get an error. Any sugesstions Joe. -- === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own bus

how to disable netscape 4s mail program

still in it. Joe. ps. are there any other known dangers with this interesting program -- === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own bus

use of the numeric keypad under X

manager may react differently yet again. This sort of thing in my view is stupid and makes me long for even dos where at least things of this sort work in a cosnistant manner. Joe. -- === in real life: Joseph Skinner

status of the new version of procps

using the 2.1 series and would like to have free and top report memory used correctly :-) -- === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own bus

Re: Programming languages: where to start?

e to learn simply because in learning it you get a head start on learning most of the other languages which have grown up in the unix environment. Joe ps. I also use python to access SQL databases :-) =========== in real life: Joseph

Re: problems with update announcements

ments as at present it can be very hit and miss trying to use them. Joe. =========== in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own business [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Bereng

problems with update announcements

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Re: Missing packages

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Apr 1, Joseph Skinner wrote > > Hi > > > > I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found > > after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there. > > > > The miss

Missing packages

replaced are not there either. Is there soemthing wrong with ftp.debian.org at the moment. Joe. === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own bus

Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?

so it should be easy enough to find. Joe. ======= in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own business [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Berengis t

Re: Powermanagment

tor into standby mode after about 1/2 an hour if your card supports it. Joe. ======= in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own

problems with the new libc6 packages

Joe. === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own business [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Berengis the Black http: www.earthlight.co.nz/users/joe| Court Mage to

problems with posting in exmh

following error. post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone Pine works fine. Any suggestions. Joe. === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing

Many thanks (was Re: setting up authentification for reading news)

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setting up authentification for reading news

Hi my news server requires that I use authentification to identify myself. I've been told that a number of windows news readers will do this. Any suggestions on how to set this up under linux. Thanks in advance Joe. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: X11 bashing

> > > > Personally having looked at Qt and KDE I am waiting to see what comes > > out of the Hyperion project. > > > > For those who haven't heard of it, it is a multi platform development > > system written at the NCSA as is going to be used in the latest version > > of Xmosaic among other th

Re: X11 bashing

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >--==_Exmh_2037100310P >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] > >"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner": >> I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt. > >It looks better than Athena

Re: find question (and xargs)

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On 14 May 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > It's find that does the replacing. None of the {}s are in the find > > arguments, however. (And rm is not even in the xargs arguments!) > > > > Personally, I'd probably make a script for the split-and-rem

Re: uninstalled packages in 'dpkg -l'

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > If you do this a lot, write a shell alias (bash aliases can't handle > arguments, unfortunately), function or shell script to do it for you. > > NOTE: be wary of shell functions (and aliases too)...even if you define > them in your ~/.bashrc so

problems with mailagent

Hi I just installed mailagent and ma having problems setting it up. I followed the directions in the faq and it appears to work for mail sent locally but all the filters appear to be ignored for mail coming in from outside the system. Also I am using smail rather than sendmail for mail handlin