CAD/walkthrough software for debian?

2000-02-15 Thread Mark W. Eichin
There are a bunch of cad-like packages in debian; I'm hoping that people have tried enough of them to make a recommendation: I'm looking for something to do a house-walkthrough, with enough detail to show (for example) if a given size of book case will really fit in a particular location (so 1cm r

Re: Help with kernel log

1999-11-15 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> I'm connected with the cable modem. This thing is not coming from inside for O, you should have said that first. When a cablemodem powers up, it does a dhcp and net-boot; for diagnostic reasons, many of them seem to try the ethernet first, then the cable net. You might also be seeing boot

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my > user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler scripts... just as they should avoi

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm not sure I've seen this reported before (but I'm way behind on list mail, and haven't checked the bug system for this specific thing) > Cannot open load file: bytecomp Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp sho

Re: How do I find out who's using port # xxxxx

1998-05-26 Thread Mark W. Eichin
You can *also* do this with lsof: % sudo lsof -i tcp:25 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE NAME sendmail 239 root4u inet 0x005bc810 0t0 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) % using -i tcp:smtp works as well, "lsof -i :domain" is an example of finding either... -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Mark W. Eichin
actually, something like dpkg --remove smail dpkg --install exim*.deb --auto-deconfigure is more likely to work safely - force-depends really should only be a last resort, *and* should usually be accompanied by a bug report... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Sparcs

1998-01-01 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> available on a name-brand workstation, such as a SPARC. Assuming you're > using Linux, do commercial SPARC software packages work with Linux? Well, sunos ones appear to; on my SS1+ here, which is booting sparc-linux off of a zip disk, but still mounts the original SunOS 4.1.3 disks under /sd/

Re: thread support?

1997-11-21 Thread Mark W. Eichin
well, the important parts of that patch appear to be standard part of 3.3.1: #define HasPosixThreads YES #define ThreadedX YES #define HasThreadSafeAPIYES #define ThreadsLibraries-lpthread #define SystemMTDefines -D_REENTRANT in the config file... a q

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-18 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>> Though I have not tried this yet (the machine with the >> development environment has not yet been upgraded) but I >> presume that by "... first purge all the '-dev' packages >> ..." he is referring to using dselect or dpkg ... Yes, exactly. Dselect handles this directly (though I'm the wrench

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> I have used --force-depends now quite a few times without being Not to pick on you in particular, but I can't emphasize this enough: if you use --force-depends while doing an upgrade from libc5 to libc6, you *will* hurt yourself. Practically guaranteed. Really, honest! :-) There are *other*

Re: user questions

1997-11-16 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>The best chance of an answer is probably to post the questions >to one of the developer lists, if that is where the experts are Actually, I've always made a point of ignoring user questions on the developers list, but I've *also* started putting more time in on debian-user. (I've also gotten a

Re: case statement question again...

1997-11-16 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>>[10-31]) SearchStr="$Month $Day";; That means "a single character in the set 1, 0 through 3, and 1", so it will match any of 0 1 2 3 and nothing else. >># [12][0-9]) SearchStr="$Month $Day";; >># 30 | 31 ) Day=02; SearchStr="$Month 9";; That's more like it; the [12][0-9]

Re: perl_5.004.02-1 & libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21

1997-10-12 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21 conflicts with ligdbm_1.7.3-19 (that came with my Debian So get libgdbm_1.7.3-21 from the same place you found libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .