Re: CVS for debian?

Chris R Martin writes: > Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the > Packages files but didn't see it. Yes, I use stable/binary-i386/devel/cvs_1.9-4.deb -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubs

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

cii file, which would be useful for people who hadn't yet worked out how to use tex. The file local.tex just includes that file in some verbatimtext environment. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

'm not sure. Yes. Two of these are fixed, the third you can configure to your own liking. For that option, I picked low brightness (the greatest powersaver AFAICT) with fast CPU but the "silent" cooling method. This gets me responsiveness with a reasonable battery life for

Re: xemacs and mail

themselves. And so on: make sure you read the entire section. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: LaTeX, docstrip, ntg brief.dtx

work for many packages these days, as the documentation system has changed considerably. If you latex the .dtx file itself, you get a formatted and (hopefully) commented source code listing. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: laptop resume and apmd

suspend happens during the write to disk. (Not using apmd means that the disk isn't sync'ed at all.) A possible solution might then be to get the sources of apmd and make it sleep longer before suspending. The relevant sleep call is found in the apm_suspend function in apmlib.c. -- Ola

Disk spindown: what is the best setting for 'update'?

not retained after an apm "suspend" operation. I hacked apmd to call /etc/rc.boot/hdparm so that those parameters are again set when a resume is received.] -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: uuencode/uudecode?

ip -9 | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or even tar cfz - FILE | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Date in mail headers

ate-time = [ day "," ] date time; dd mm yy ; hh:mm:ss zzz day = "Mon" / "Tue" / "Wed" / "Thu" / "Fri" / "Sat" / "Sun" So

Re: newbie question,

e precise, if you use ~/.Xdefaults, you have to use xrdb, but if you use ~/.Xresources, they should be included automatically at the start of your X session. (See the /etc/X11/Xsession script.) -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

kes to compile them (gcc + ?). Another package that might be popular is leafnode, for maintaining a local news spool over a dialup line. (Or something similar.) This particular package is small, although its implications for disk usage are not. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: Some teTeX PrOblEms

robably better to direct teTeX specific questions to the teTeX mailing list. (FAQ #1 tells you where to find it, FAQ #23 tells you what kind of information you should supply.) -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Running Netscape Communicator

ing that the standard debian /etc/X11/Xsession script will source /etc/environment if it exists. If you symlink that to /etc/profile, you can guarantee a proper environment even for users who do not have their own ~/.xsession file. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Re: PCMCIA problems with Debian 1.3

version of the kernel sources (2.0.30). Later I applied the e2compr patch to the kernel, and this did break the pcmcia modules. Recompiling them solved that. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PD: VERY BIZARRE Xperience...

;re prompted whether to start it now) I switched consoles and executed the "shadowconfig on" command (as recommended for the 1.3.0 distribution). Then I allowed xdm to start. X has been running flawlessly since. My none-too-informed best guess is that if you fail to install X correctly the