Where is Pretty Good Privacy

1998-01-05 Thread Richard Heestand
I am reading the O'Reilly book "PGP: Pretty Good Privacy" by Simson Garfinkel and am wondering if there is a Debian distribution? Or, must I download a version as discribed in appendix A and compile it myself? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Is there documentation for SUCK other than the man page?

1997-09-24 Thread Richard Heestand
I installed the package "suck" and am looking for information about how to set it up. Is there information other than the man page? If so, than where? In general, where can I look for documentation under debian? For instance, I know I can save news articles to folders in nn, but can not find

Which news reader to use?

1997-09-24 Thread Richard Heestand
I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it takes about 5 minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms windows trumpet by about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn. Should I be using another newsreader? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Netscape bus error

1997-09-24 Thread Richard Heestand
I installed netscape using the debian package, but when I start netscape I receive: bash-2.00# netscape Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ Nets

Re: Where should I install non debian software?

1997-09-08 Thread Richard Heestand
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Where should I install non debian software?

1997-09-07 Thread Richard Heestand
I remember reading guidlines for installing non debian software, but I can't seem to find them again. Any pointers where to find them? The software is WINE which doesn't seem to exist in package form. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setserial problem - Why does IRQ get reset to 4?

1996-12-28 Thread Richard Heestand
I have edited /etc/rc.boot/0setserial removing the autodetect of interupts for /dev/cua* and replacing it with a manual call for /dev/cua2. This is intended to set the IRQ for /dev/cua2 to 5 instead of 4. However, after booting I find through setserial -v /dev/cua2 that the IRQ is 4 (as if 0se

PPP Chatscript problem

1996-12-25 Thread Richard Heestand
I am trying to create a working chat script so I can proceed with my installation of debian 1.2. However, after a day of trying variations of chat scripts, I am stumped. What should I do to fix this script? Where am I going wrong? I have included my chat script, a sample of how I can log into m

Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable? Question solved!

1996-09-21 Thread Richard Heestand
>Hi Richard -- > >You said: >> After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that >> after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I >> best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is >> it set anyway? > >In looking

How can I set the TERM environment variable?

1996-09-19 Thread Richard Heestand
After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is it set anyway?