[Story part, you can skip this if you want]
I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives
(ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem.. My
external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged. The damage
doesn't affect the card'
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:36:09AM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
> I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest
> libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for
> something >= 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being
> "greaterthan or equal to".
>
>
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote:
> Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought
> you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story
> came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft "winning one" in the DOJ
> battle. Sounds lik
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 04:22:55AM +1000, Chris wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What happened to afterstep? I just installed afterstep for my newly
> upgraded hamm box, expecting to see my setup just as normal, however it
> appears that afterstep has been replaced with something else - GNUStep.
> To be h
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:15:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> dpk wrote:
> > I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast,
> > slick, and easily configurable wm?
>
> WindowMaker. As a bonus, it's similar to afterstep in look & feel.
>
> To be fair, the config file for wmake
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Carlos Figueroa wrote:
> Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator? E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
There is one, xgs. At this time, there is not a .deb of it and you need a
ROM image for it. It will take 00, 01, and 03 ROMs which can be found
places you would
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:19:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast,
> >slick, and easily configurable wm?
>
> Why not just stick with the 1.0 series?
Upstream bugs, no libc6 version, the package was upgraded kinda by accident
(wa
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:31:59PM -0700, Phlip wrote:
> I got this version ooff your site and installed it but had problems
> making it the default manager. Also, is the file .steprc included in the
> package? I can't seem to locate it on my system and would really
> appreciate knowing where it is
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:01:32PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote:
> hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was
> doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where
> I ran into trouble.
> These are the versions of procmail and smail
>
> smail
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:33:40PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote:
> I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95
> and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same
> partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32
> partition?
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
> I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but
> without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf
> package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is wit
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 06:30:55PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> I read on the list a while ago (I may have misinterpreted) that there was
> a configuration utility written in tk or tcl for afterstep. is this true?
> where can i get it?
For 1.0, yes.
For 1.4, not yet. =<
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De
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nick Gillam wrote:
> I have successfully installed Debian 1.3.1 onto several PS/2s thanks to
> help from users on this list.
>
> However, I have not been able to determine the device name for the PS/2
> mouse.
/dev/psaux
> Also, what Debian package is r
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 01:59:02PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0...
> Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a
> comment...
Have you been watching the erratas mentioned on Freshmeat? THAT bothers me
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 05:36:49AM -0400, John Kloss wrote:
> > > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are
> > > now?
> >
> > If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly,
> > LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this o
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:22:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are
> now?
If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly,
LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a bigger
m
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:07:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I think I heard at some point that you can't have two K6's on the same
> > board is that true?
>
> This is my understanding [could be wrong]:
>
> K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called
> OpenPIC o
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Alan D. Post wrote:
> > >ANy suggestions on how I can get PPP to recognize my com port? I just
> > installed linux on my
> > >system. I set pgm to tty1 (com2) (it was orignally on tty0) which is
> > where my mouse is. It
> > >it working. Neither PPP nor
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:42:01PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote:
> Can anyone verify this.. I don't wanna waste disk space if it's not gonna be
> used. Thanks to you George.
It was at one point 16 megs, but it's been 128 for some time now.
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On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 10:24:33AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> The last thing I remember doing as root is fiddling with the sysclock
> (hence a previous posting here yesterday afternoon). At about 7pm (BST) I
> logged in from the console, read news and mail and logged out again.
> I then got back h
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:55:22PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > > What is the best way to get the current console's tty? I know tty does the
> > > job, but how do I find the name WITHOUT the /dev/ ?
> >
> > basename `tty`
>
> [etc]
>
> Thanks to all for replies... I have lots of options
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 06:49:38PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> What is the best way to get the current console's tty? I know tty does the
> job, but how do I find the name WITHOUT the /dev/ ? i.e. tty1, tty2, tty3
> etc? I want to use it with bl in a script.
Whelp, here's a thought:
~$ tty
/d
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 05:19:16PM +1000, Rafal Gasiorek wrote:
> I need to be able to access data from Linux, Win95 and NT running on
> the same machine. Currently I can only do this with Slackware...
> I tried RED HAT, very nice - good installation and easy setup of X,
> however no support for UM
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:02:51AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just installed mutt on my computer and it is not in color. Here is
> an output of "mutt -v":
Did you install the debian package mutt?
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On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:10:30AM -0400, John Kloss wrote:
Your name seems familliar to me from the days when I used DOS to access the
net more frequently than anything else.. Admittedly that was long ago so I
could be wrong.
> so I'm thinking about hosting a web site to do e-commerce (selling
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:19:22PM +0200, Karl Laping wrote:
> I still have some fights with DSELECT. When I call SELECT I am told: Since
> you do not hve the privilegy necessary to update package you are in the
> read-only mode. Thus, I cannot use '+' or '-' to select.
dselect must be run as root
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 08:14:39AM -0500, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> > Impatience, lazyness and hubris. Always remember these three great virtues
> > (© Larry Wall)
> >
> > Do not program something which has already been programmed several times.
> > You have the choices to do what you want without an
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote:
> Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort
> of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95
> with a 14" monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would
> fatigue
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote:
> >> but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT!
> >
> >Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't
> >bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an
> >upstream issue.
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote:
[..]
> Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I
> downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup
[..]
You need 3.3.2 for the the Mystique 220. That means hamm or finding bo
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> MF> I am tring to change my default screen manager under X.
> MF> It s on a server and i am using it throuh a terminal (on a PC),
> MF> so i need to change it only for me.
>
> Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al
> to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are no
> fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al bec
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote:
> I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now
> and
> have always wondered if there is some way to make it use dynamic fonts - or at
> least make its fonts look better. I always figured there was no offic
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 10:22:15AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
> Unless you don't like "less" for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less
> ontop
> of /bin/more and use less, instead.
Nononononono...
more works on ANY terminal. less does not.
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On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:02:43PM +0200, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote:
> Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is?
Attached to email.
> Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling?
Unless you have a reason to reinstall, ie I plan to reinstall at some point
so I can
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 05:40:59PM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote:
> I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32
> support is because they are just the standard default bins. They are not
> configured to run on your system. They therefore are not very high
> performance. The
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> George> It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a
> George> newsreader than it is a mail reader.
>
> Yes. I agree. What does this have to do with gateways, though?
> Why *don't* people just read mailing list
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 03:28:43PM -0400, Bonard B. Timmons III wrote:
> > The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri=
> > pts
>
> "Proprietary" -- what in the heck could possibly be proprietary about
> Debian? We need to clear this confusing mess up NOW!!!
As I m
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:33:15PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri=
>
> Any particular reason you have Quoted Printable on?
Not really. Other than that it's the default and is more or less considered
standard so I left i
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >The "other data" in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information,
> >installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address.
>
> Proprietary to Debian...
The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =p The install
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 09:52:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:40 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> >(Oh, and the nice thing about having an ar of two tar's rather than a
> >tar with some extra stuff tacked on the end is that you can get to *all*
> >the information in the fo
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again.
>
> Get some real filters in place, then.
Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters
because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters.
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Peter Paluch wrote:
> in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server
> box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it.
> It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000
> compatible, I
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote:
> My local news server does indeed have linux.debian.user; I'm headed that
> way now. Those of you staying email can argue about whether you want
> posts gatewayed back to the list. ;-)
I don't want news posts gateway'd back
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a
> newsgroup more convenient.
>
> 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access.
Mutt does this with mail.
> 2) the linear, header and
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:10:29PM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote:
> > (1) What is the graphical configuration utility for Xfree86
> > called ( and
> > where is it)?
>
> It's "XF86Setup". I don't recall where it lives offhand (and my
> computer is in an odd state at the moment, needing re-i
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 11:44:47AM -0700, The Gecko wrote:
>
> On 21-May-98 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > Is there a specific reason that you need to build PGP yourself? It's
> > available in .deb format at
> > ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/bo/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-1.deb
> None, exc
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:08:11PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> > Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies?
> >
> This is readily available from their web site.
>
> SLP Version 2.1 int value of 4. (Production release)
[..]
That is gross and at best hard to use by the end users
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:42:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 1. Does anyone else have a motherboard baised on a VIA Apollo 3 AGP
> > chipset with 1Mb cache RAM? Or do I need a Intel 430TX type for
> > absolute reliability/compatability? I'm looking at Biostar, DFI, and FIC
> > brands.
>
[This thread prolly belongs on -user more than -devel]
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 02:54:38AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> This is what I got from the Stampede's FAQ:
>
> How is Stampede Linux better than Debian Linux?
>
> + glibc2 in the standard distribution
We're closer to standard
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:40:37PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> hmm interesting...I have always used mbox format...I think I looked at maildir
> once...
I like maildir because I occasionally lost mail with mbox.
> I have a much more simple setup :)
> I just have ~/mail for all of my incommin
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:41:16AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> Pine does not do this by itself. The docs state that Pine will support
> this, by allowing you to define multiple folders for incoming mail, but it
> won't do the filtering for you. You need to use something like procmail,
> whi
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 11:10:15AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> "From" had weird charicters...8 bitters)
> anyway..there is then a program on the net somewhere (search for it)
> that converts from MSIM to Eudora...which uses the same mailbox format as
> Nutscrape
> (which is standard maildir f
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 01:01:50PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
>
> Where is configuration files for afterstep_1.4.5.3-1???
>
> My ~/GNUstep doesn't work now.
> Moreover, there is no /usr/share/GNUstep.
>
> In /usr/doc/afterstep/README.debian :
>
[..]
mkdir ~/GNUstep
mkdir ~/GNUstep/Library
c
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:54:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is
> > looking for it from Me?!?!
>
> um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me know where!
www.linux-howto.com has it.
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On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hmm. if you use -I/usr/src/linux/include, then as far as I can
> see; it should link with those files (as you state further, it is
> linked to kernel-source-2.0.33). What toerh files you happen to have
> elsewhere should n
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 04:49:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would like to try a 2.1 kernel. Which do you recommend/Which one is the most
> stable?
At this point, the latest is probably stable. I use 2.1.101 and it's more
stable than 2.0.33---which on some systems isn't saying much.
p
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:03:24PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote:
> > I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages
> > for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking
> > the
> > "interesting groups" directory found that they were in fact listed.
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:46:48PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally got my sound enabled in the kernel. On to the next
> problem. Whenever I try to use something like workbone, or anything that
> needs to use a device such as /dev/audio, or /dev/dsp, or even /dev/hdb (my
> cdrom)
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:51:02PM -0600, Chris Betz wrote:
> My mouse is currently a "Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel", at least
> according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my
> computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my
> mouse even if I go thro
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:21:23AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote:
> Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when
> subscribed to more than one Debian list).
man 5 procmailex
There is such an animal to be found there. =>
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On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 02:22:27PM +, Ferenc Kiraly wrote:
> A friend of mine was a bit too brave using `rm -r` and lost
> about 50M of important files. When he noticed what he had done
> he turned the computer off and now we have that computer's
> disk in a different computer. I was hoping I c
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 08:45:59AM -0400, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> i was reinstalling all the app needed in my system and installed kde
> too,but i want to know if kde need any of those files:
>
> stable/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3-4.deb
> stable/binary-i386/x11/xfnt75_3.3-4.deb
> stable/binary-i386
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 02:21:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
>
> I don't know if I just plain don't understand what the docs are saying
> or ...
>
> I use procmail to sort & 'deliver' mail to mailbox folders in directories
> called ~/Mail & ~/Mail/Deb
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> I have a simpler one: where do i get apt? And is there docs w/ it or
> somewhere else?
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/deity/
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On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:01:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses?
> Are
> we just out of luck if the default one goes down?
/etc/apt/sources.list man 5 sources.list for info on how to do this right.
> 2. Could I make
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Actually fips is on the cdrom in /tools. If the Win95 system is OSR2
> (4.00B) with FAT32, you will need to get fips15c, which is available from
> ftp.debian.org in /pub/debian/tools.
>
> Another choice would be the commercial Partit
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 12:42:38PM -0400, K. Claussen wrote:
> 3. I was wondering if anyone knew of any COBOL packages available for
> Linux?
You are a masochist. =p =>
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On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 07:01:44AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> How can I bounce mail with procmail? I've tried using |exit 111, but it
> complains about not being able to open the exit mail file... Here is my
> current .procmailrc:
>
> LOGFILE=$HOME/mail.log
> :0
> * ! ^(FROM|TO).*tcimet.net
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 11:14:06PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> > > /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my
> > > /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating
> > > abnormally, and perhaps by other events.
> >
> > I knew it, I knew it, I knew it
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:40:35PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my
> /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating
> abnormally, and perhaps by other events.
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! heh
Sounds like
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:48:23AM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote:
> I think you can compile back in name completion. I got a bug where it
> would resume files improperly and append MORE data than the original file was
> supposed to have. (ncftp 3.0 beta 9)
Yes, it did have that problem..
p
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 12:30:33AM -0500, Ted Cabeen wrote:
> >I think this is because you had NcFTP 3.0 (which was in non-free),
> >and have now upgraded to NcFTP 2.4.3 (now GPL).
>
> Yup, that's it. And its a good thing too, because 3.0 sucks. (No completion,
> no paging of long directory entr
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Petra wrote:
> > No, it's just that rpm is prevalent. There are at least 2 or 3 other
> > distributions that use it.
>
> As I understand it, Dpkg and the deb format where "a day late and a
> dollar short" meaning that it hit the masses just a little to la
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 12:37:17AM +0200, Mauro Sanna wrote:
> I am searching for the latest versions of the QT libraries. (version 1.32
> and version 1.33).
> I have found only the .rpm packages.
> Where can I find the .deb packages?
Look in hamm, they are there.
> I need the qt libraries for D
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> My new computer has the 440LX chipset, and it seems that there are alot of
> pci devices that are unknown to Debian 1.3.1 and 1.3.1.r6
>
> I can begin to load linux by booting the CD, and everything works fine, even
> the h
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 09:43:31AM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> (Not wishing to contribute further to that pine thread...)
Agreed, I think it's time to kill that one.
> So, since we've got to have some packages distributed only as sources, how
> about a little bit of extension to Debian's pac
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:07:44PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > > Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the
> > > procmail in slink, which is cool by me. =>
> >
> > you got me again... what is slink?
> >
>
> Next release of debian... bo--> hamm --> slink
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 01:51:06AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> > Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the
> > procmail in slink, which is cool by me. =>
>
> you got me again... what is slink?
That's the new unstable. There was a request for objection to the patch
g
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:55:08AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> : I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool) and have never ever
> : experienceed corruption and mail loss due to pine. message loss to me is
> : more of a mta problem, but that's beside the point.
>
> Yes, it is more of an M
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:40:43PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > For the point of the approval of patches to make a binary image, it's
> > almost a non-issue with the src package because the src package will
> > always be preferred for reasons of the bugs fixed and features added. If
> > you're
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:41:15PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > I believe the package maintainer has commented on this thread already and
> > seems at least interested in the prospect of a pine-src package which
> > would probably end up in slink and hamm-updates. This may not be the
> > simple
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 08:19:03PM -0400, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> i'm writing this list because i want to know if there's someone using KDE
> on a bo system and i'd like to know if it's good to try the binary
> available or i'm better to compile the sources ??
afaik there is a beta4 for bo, just
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:29:01PM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote:
> > > That's the proposed solution right now.
> >
> > Yeah, and I like it. =>
> >
> > Despite the millions of compiler warnings pine compiles cleanly enough.
>
> You've obviously stumbled upon a new meaning of the phrase "cleanly
> en
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:30:28PM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> Does anyone know of a large, nice looking, fixed-size font for X?
> With my poor vision, I need something slightly bigger than the
> standard 10x20 font for extended use. The 12x24 font is about the
> right size (maybe a tad too large)
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:12:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> But I still get messages that fail these tests from:
>
> Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
&g
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:54:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[..]
> Like Qmail. There are lots of packages in
> non-free as .deb files. We even make it easy to install qmail on your
> machine, compiling during the install.
[..]
When did that happen? qmail-src for me just dropped the .dsc
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:48:17PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Should we get a petition and a nice request letter going? :-)
>
> RMS has tried it several times, I think, without any success.
> Do you really think we would succeed? Any special reason why they would
> hear us now but not before
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 01:48:40PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > When you know complain about the removed pine package, then you have two
> > direct solutions (beside the solution to make your own pine package and put
> > it on a derived distribution, as you are describing below):
>
> Why do you
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 02:19:47PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> I got mutt and installed it about a week ago...along with pine. I
> really like pine so...it will take some convincing to get me over to
> mutt there are a few features of pine I like and if mutt has them then I
> would be happy
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Adam Klein wrote:
> > How about a pine-src package with the patch included, which patches the
> > original sources in the postinst script, builds the binary package and
> > then installs it?
>
> That's the proposed solution right now.
Yeah, and I like it.
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:28:54PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> > > As for the source package thing, if the binary generated by the user is
> > > exactly the same as the binary that would be provided in a .deb, what is
> > > the point? It seems like a lot of extra work that changes absolutely
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:38:19AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> > Currently the only way to use maildir with sendmail is via the (excellent)
> > procmail patch.
>
> hi,
Hi back =>
> do you (or anyone else) have link for the maildir patch for procmail? i
> am in the process of tuning a nfs moun
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:06:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > Currently the only way to use maildir with sendmail is via the (excellent)
> > procmail patch.
>
> Or you can use exim but that is a whole other thread.
>
> Also, what about systems where the spool and the home directory are BOTH
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:06:25AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> > > 6) Support for threaded discussions (great for mailing lists!)
> >
> > I'll reserve judgement about this being a good or bad thing. It's been
> > handy for mailing lists yes, but I would like to disable it other places.
> > It's
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:00:06PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote:
> > Yes. I'm one of those nuts who believes in reliable delivery with an NFS
> > mounted mail spool. :-) Also much more resilient, and less prone to
> > corruption and message loss.
>
> I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 08:00:12PM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> : Mutt is, at best, a very weak replacement for Pine. As for text email
> : clients, Pine has no equal and is "free enough" for most uses. If Debian
> : is going to start producing a crappy distribution just because it is free,
>
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> I need to install the new source-only pine package ... I've got the
> .orig.tar.gz, the .dsc, and the .diff.gz, and can't seem to get patch
> to install them. How to I go about this? Is there a dpkg option for it?
Move the three fil
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:42:16PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You
> > get the idea.
>
> The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the
> lines of:
>
> "This software is owned by Microsoft, not you.
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Heiko R. Selber wrote:
>
> I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems that
> the .deb packages exist only in hamm. Is that true, or did someone make
> new KDE packages for bo? If so, where can I get them?
I saw a bo directory on
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