Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so
>that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC
>format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word
>on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, althou
Thomas Halahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, USM Bish wrote:
>> I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the
>> command "ls -d */" on my home directory. Only the
>> sub dirs are displayed.
>your solution is more elegant than what i have put together with a
>find call.
André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>This actually varies a bit depending on which character I try to insert,
>if I try to write é the cursor jumps a few positions as if I had typed a
>tab. When I insert ö it beeps, and when inserting å or ä abolutely
>nothing happens. Remember that all of
Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anybody know where I can find a good Java compiler and Java Virtual
>Machine for Debian/Linux?
Install the packages jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev to get Sun's JDK 1.1.
There are also some free solutions packaged in Debian: jikes is a
pretty nice Java compil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Which java development tools should I get? Debian have anything for
>java 2? I looked at Jbuilder foundation, but that puppy is *huge*.
>
>how 'bout emacs support?
Emacs itself has quite a lot of support for many languages, including
Java. Some Java-supporting things t
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
>don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
>globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered one
>big compressed file. If something happens to th
"Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
>for binary file?
There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first
differing byte (if any).
As for why not:
* diff is helped a lot by the fact that the input is li
Atila Nemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Are there some good texts (tutorials, faqs, anything?) on web about
>how to write terminal independent programs? I need to a make a very
See /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/ncurses-intro.html on your Debian
system (in the package libncurses5-dev, which you n
>Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/06/2000 (18:36) :
>> I'm having trouble finding some action/adventure games for
>> Linux that don't require an OpenGL-able graphics card where
>> I could play against at least one other person online. Can
>> anyone recommend any?
Browse through the "ga
Mithrandir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I got a simlpe question, does anybody known wheter there is a
>Foiltex-Package for Latex as debian package?? I don't find it, and
>it would be very important for me. The standard Latex don't seems to
>include this package but it exists.
The foiltex package h
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I used to have sendmail used as my MTA, and had it setup to use an upstream
>smartmailer, i.e. all non-local mail went there.
>
>Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have
>as my new mail program.
Run "eximconfig" (the n
Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I later tried to change it to be empty, like this:
>
># passwd
>Enter new UNIX password:(here I just hit the Enter key)
>Retype new UNIX password: (again, I just hit Enter)
>No password supplied
Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>too. I set the follwing variables in my ~/.gnus-file to use the local
>spool, rather than use nntp to localhost
>
>(setq nnspool-spool-directory "/var/spool/news")
Leafnode is supposed to be used via its NNTP server, and doesn't work
very well, if at a
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides?
>
>Something like seminar.sty (latex) would be ideal, but thats in
>tetex-nonfree.
Quoting from the start of /usr/share/doc/tetex-nonfree/copyright.seminar.gz:
#With the agreement of Timothy Van
"Bruno Van de Casteele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>probably a general question, but I have an ISA card with a parallell
>port on it. Do I just add it to my configuration and will Debian 2.2
>recognize it (there are jumpers on it, I will set the correctly)? Or is
>something more needed?
If you us
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>this appeared when exchanging files with windows-users. they are able to
>use the full isolatin charset when creating filenames, i can't... quite
>frustrating, i looked at the bash manpage, but could find nothing about the
>ability to use the iso-lat
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Riku Saikkonen wrote:
>> You could try running XFig with "xfig -xrm '*customization: -color'",
>> just in case that helps. If it does, there is some sort of problem in
>> your X startup scri
Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[about xterm function key bindings, ^[OP vs. ^[[11~]
>I just tried the terminfo approach and that seems to work! So I guess I
>solved my problem, but I still don't really like it. However I now
>understand that it's not a Debian problem, but a general X pro
Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In an xterm the function keys produce the following:
> F1 -> ^[OP
> F2 -> ^[OQ
> F3 -> ^[OR
> F4 -> ^[OS
> F5 -> ^[[15~
> F6 -> ^[[16~
>...
>
>On a different system (I tried SuSE) they produce:
> F1 -> ^[[11~
> F2 -> ^[[12~
> F3 -> ^[[13~
> F4 -> ^[[14~
> F5
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Unfortunately this didn't solve my problem. I have all the files as you
>describe but still xfig shows up in monochrome. By the way, this is
>happenning in a fresh Potato install done about a month ago which I'm
>upgrading to the latest every weekend. Xf
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm setting up a Linux box as an MP3 jukebox for a (technically
>non-sophisticated) friend to use at her dance studio. We've decided that
>we'll want to have separate login accounts for each instructor, but I don't
>want passwd forcing them to come up wi
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Why is xfig monochrome-only for menus? I can add colors to my drawings
You should have, among others, the following lines in the file
/etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common (or /etc/X11/Xresources on an older
system):
! load color-specific resources for cli
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote:
>> On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote:
>>> ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a
>>> /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't ha
Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>So I could scan /dev/tty[1-9]* to make sure nobody has typed anything
>recently, then run this from the background. Or something. If nobody
>else has written it I'll do it over Christmas.
A possibly slightly easier and more complete way to check for conso
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Are there any telnet clients available other than the one that comes in
>the telnet package?
There is telnet-ssl (aka ssltelnet), which supports SSL encryption but
should work without it too.
I've also heard of a Telnet client that supports ZModem file
tr
Godric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi. Anyone know if there is a deb package (I'm using Slink still with
>2.0.36 kernel) for converting ordinary dates into Julian dates (as used
>in Astronomy)? Or if no debs then any GNU/Linux package which I could
>use alien on?
The "date" command (in the shellu
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Is there a Debianised program to capture the contents of a window to a BMP or
>jpg file? If so what package should I install?
The programs xwd, gimp, display (from ImageMagick), and quite a few
others can do this.
>If there is none, is it possible to ge
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
>> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
>> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb.
>> Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted?
Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would love to set a (large) default scrollback buffer for a decent
>terminal application -- something like rxvt or kvt. Is my best option here
>to find and compile the appropriate sources, or does someone know of a secret
>environment vari
Nidge Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>However, if I then Maximise the CRT window (or resize by dragging the edge
>of the box), to get a bigger display, Linux still shows the out put as
>80x25?
I'll try to explain how this thing should work. (Correct me if I'm
wrong, anyone, this is mostly from
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin
>mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got
>the bad .deb
Does apt check the MD5sum of the package against that in the Packages
file? Does dpkg do that (I
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Sounds like bad terminal emulation. I find that NCSA (and the related
>Clarkson CUTCP) telnet have pretty poor terminal emulation. I run CUTCP
...
>I can't suggest a better DOS telnet though. I'm used to the Lan Workplace
I remember liking the DOS versio
Is there a good tool to split debian-user digests into invidual
articles?
I'm currently using "formail +1 -ds" (formail is from the procmail
package), but it has the following problems:
* It includes the digest boundary line (a line of dashes) in each
message.
* It seems to break MIME message
Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>I'd like an app that will announce to a central server that I'm online (or
>maybe distributed servers that communicate with each other for better
>stability), and that my client can check to see if my friends are logged
>in, where they're logged in, etc.
>
>Then it
Travis Cole wrote:
>On 30-Jul-97 Riku Saikkonen wrote:
>>To tell if someone is online:
>> - finger
>> - rwho (but rwhod isn't installed in most places)
>> - talk (try to talk...)
>Now if my friend runs Win95 and his ISP doesn't support shell accounts or
>
Travis Cole wrote:
>If they are going to charge that much, then I don't really care for an ICQ
>version for Linux. But I still would like a program that allows me to tell if
>my freiends are online and then message or chat them.
To tell if someone is online:
- finger
- rwho (but rwhod isn't ins
> When groff formats a man page file like 'bash.1',
> the formatted main text will be centered.
>
> Do you know how to change this so I can wrap the text
> at a certain column (e.g. at column 75).
...
> But when printing it on paper I'd rather save paper
> and not hold a heavy stack of paper!
(I'm Cc:ing this to debian-devel in an effort to get it fixed. :))
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to debian-user:
>When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys:
>
>F1 gives P
>F2 gives Q
>F3 gives R
>F4 gives S
>
>F5 - F10 work just fine.
This is an old bug in the terminfo entry for xterm.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>authority for our network. Regarding the SSL itself and secure server I've
>succeeded, I've set it up and working. But I'm not able to set up a CA.
>I've read documentation for SSL and a lot of WWW pages regarding SSL, but
>can't catch the point.
>
>Does any of you have an
Mathieu Guillaume wrote:
>Since then, S3 relaxed the specs to allow a rate of 94.5MHz in this mode,
>so I wondered if a package would soon come which would allow this. If not,
I read from comp.windows.x.i386unix a few days ago that new XFree86 beta
versions allow it. So either wait for the beta ve
Chris Brown wrote:
>325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series
>2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This
...
> Is there a hard limit on GostScript in this area that I'm not
>aware of? Would it be a better bet to try to change to
>magicfil
Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote:
>How does one extract a .zip archive in unix??
Besides the "unzip" that people mentioned, if your .zip archive is very
simple (contains only one file), you can use gzip to uncompress it. "gunzip
something.zip" should do it.
--
-=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PRO
Something I've wondered about for a long time (ever since I first installed
Debian 1.1), and thought I'd finally ask...
When I run less in an xterm, it seems to save the image of whatever is in
the window, display whatever it's displaying, and then restore the image. On
the Linux console, when I e
joost witteveen wrote:
>> Would:
>> dpkg --force-depends --purge svgalib1
>> dpkg --install svgalib-dummy1_1.2.10.deb
>> be the right thing to do?
>I just tried it (I needed a "dpkg -r svgalib1-dev" in between, BTW),
>and it worked OK. (and, gs 3.33 still runs afterwards).
Ok. I just did it, a
How do I replace an installed svgalib1 with svgalib-dummy1?
Running "dpkg -i svgalib-dummy1_1.2.10.deb" says this:
dpkg: regarding svgalib-dummy1_1.2.10.deb containing svgalib-dummy1:
svgalib-dummy1 conflicts with svgalib1
svgalib1 (version 1:1.2.10-4) is installed.
dpkg: error processing svgal
Felix Almeida wrote:
>/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0
> Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory
...
>"mount /cdrom" works fine but "umount /cdrom" gives the error message:
>umount: /cdrom mount disagrees with the fstab
I had this problem
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) wrote:
>> Riku Saikkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Can X be set to read app-defaults
>> > files in /usr/local/X11/app-defaults/ (or whatever) in addition to the
>> >
Where should I put the app-defaults files of locally installed (non-Debian,
in /usr/local/) X applications?
Thus far I've just put them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/, even though
/usr/doc/xbase/debian.README says I shouldn't do that... (I don't really
want to cat them all to the end of /etc/
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Any recommendations for Cd tools?
>I want something that I can set up the tracks with.
>cdplay in cdtools doesn't let me do that.
It does, but you have to manually edit the ~/.cdtooldb. WorkMan uses the
same format for its database, so if you have that, a
>is the source of your greaf, your 'struct tm' is not properly initalized
>before a call to strftime(). You don't dynamically allocate your
>structure, but it is allocated on the runtime stack, therefore it most
>likely contains rubbish data, that breaks strftime().
Oops. Yes, you're right. I did
[I'd submit this as a bug report, but I'm not sure which package has the
bug, or even if it is Debian-specific.]
[I posted about this a week ago to comp.os.linux.development.system; no one
replied. Later I got a chance to test it on a Slackware system (with libc
5.2.something, I think), and the bu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Thank you for the suggestion. this is what I got so far. I repartitioned
>the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc
>friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with
>two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>(--) SVGA: There is no mode definition named "800x600"
>(--) SVGA: Removing mode "800x600" from list of valid modes.
... [XF86Config:]
>Section "Monitor"
>HorizSync 31.5 - 35.1
>VertRefresh 50-70
Here is the problem; the HorizSync range is too
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> installation...:-)) I think installing and upgrading under X by just
>> using the mouse pointer should be possible...and BTW other so called OS
>Well, instead of X... something like SVGALib would be better... because
>its less
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