Re: printing and .profile problems

1996-08-08 Thread N. Salwen
>2. another problem, which I didn't have under Slackware, is using a .profile >in the user's home area. I have just one line in it, "alias 'lo'=exit" which >has always worked before but the lo commanded doesn't get recognized. I also >tried renaming the file to .login but still no luck. Any ideas?

Re: LILO boot problem (still!)

1996-08-06 Thread N. Salwen
You are probably way ahead of me but I remember getting that error under 2 conditions (I think). 1. If the geometry of the disk didn't match its real geometry or the boot partition went past the 1024 sector (although it is supposedly possible to fake out the boot proms according

Re: Help wanted :-)

1996-06-11 Thread N. Salwen
>I think it would be sufficient for people to list their qualifications >and let the customer decide. The Better Business Bureau approach of keeping a file of complaints might also be useful.

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-03 Thread N. Salwen
Sorry for the confusion. It turns out that more is not the same as less on slackware but man automatically uses less without a variable set. I'm pretty sure it is not using a temp file. Is there any reason the default PAGER on Debian should not be set to less out of the box? Nathan

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-03 Thread N. Salwen
Guy Maor wrote >> While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page >> by using "b" or "^B". Has anyone else experienced this? My current >> version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use "more" to read a text file, >> everything works fine. > >more can't go backwards on uns

does dselect give package sizes?

1996-05-10 Thread N. Salwen
I installed 0.93r6 but did not see where dselect gave the disk space used by packages. This is obviously a very important piece of information. If it was obviously right in front of me I am sorry for wasting people's time. Thanks Nathan Salwen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])