Re: Form XSB, take some load off LSB.

1998-11-27 Thread Scott McDermott
imrana on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:39:12PM +: > >I totally agree... If I may suggest, I would say that maybe a "XSB" > >should be formed, separate from "LSB" and the "XSB" can be a "layer" > >added onto the top of the "LSB" at a later date. > > By the help of this thread it is becoming more cle

Re: ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread Scott McDermott
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 01:39:59PM -0400: > Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory > and shouldn't there only be one of them? I'm not certain, but I don't think that the end result (ld.so.cache?) is in any way affected by parse order

Re: Packages

1998-03-30 Thread Scott McDermott
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 03:43:58PM +: > I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the differences are in these > three > formats. They are not different formats. They comprise the same package. > .dsc Obviously, a descrip

Re: Netscape 4 not working

1998-03-30 Thread Scott McDermott
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 08:37:18PM -0600: > >Yet I get "Bus Error", when i start netscape. > > > do you have the latest awe-netscape installed? i had to remove it to > get netscape to work again. Don't mind me, but what is "awe-netscape" ? I also have this bus err

Re: Heavy X11 and SVGATextMode and SVGAlib error

1998-03-30 Thread Scott McDermott
Florian Attenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 08:01:58PM +0200: > X11 Version 3.2.2:Segmentation fault > SVGAlib:Segmentation fault > SVGATextMode:Dont know (Display crashes totally :- ) > XF86Setup: Same as SVGATextMode > > My kernel was compiled with gcc 2.8.1 from the deb

Re: keyboard config - what's with in OOTB bash ?

1998-03-28 Thread Scott McDermott
kurt klingbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 12:32:45PM -0700: > What I'm really dying to know, is why the Home, End, and Del keys > are not config'ed, out of the box, to do the right things in bash. Respectively, these keys are mapped to the keysyms, Find, Select and Remove. I'm no

Re: Linix

1998-03-26 Thread Scott McDermott
SKILLS123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 06:27:46PM -0500: > Hi, I am new to this Linix thingy I am interested in Debian, because I > heard its very good. I want to know, can I have Win95 and Debian on my > computer? And how, do I install and download the file(s)? Please advise.

Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread Scott McDermott
David Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: > A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of > users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and > was disappointed to discover that GUI support was not enabled, as it > had been in th

Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)

1998-03-16 Thread Scott McDermott
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 12:31:56PM +0100: > > the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont > > remember the URL of the page in question),does there is a way for > > configuring lynx so that after a time it say an error message that the > > serv

Re: "Cannot find map file"

1998-03-16 Thread Scott McDermott
"DAVID B. TEAGUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 06:52:34PM -0500: > "Cannot find map file" This usually means that the kernel you are running is not the same as the kernel that you have most recently compiled. It refers to the file, `System.map' which is usually in the root of

Re: [hamm] backspace not working in bash in xterm

1998-03-14 Thread Scott McDermott
Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:26:19PM -0500: > I also had problems with the xsuse matrox server. I ended up switching > to the new Xkbd method and removing stty erase "^H" from my .bashrc > file. I still have some problems with backspace when I telnet/rlogin? > to ot

Re: glibc2 (libc6) and an extended character set.

1998-03-12 Thread Scott McDermott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 09:10:07PM +: > I heard that glibc2 (libc6) supports an extended character set. > Is it correct ? > Where (www.where) can I learn more about this support ? Are you refering to glibc-localedata? An external tar that is a compile time option to glibc for

Re: VIM 5.0

1998-03-08 Thread Scott McDermott
Martin Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: > Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has > been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update > announcements. Does it currently have a maintainer? It is in beta, and the r

Re: The net

1998-03-07 Thread Scott McDermott
Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 09:15:59PM -0600: > P.S. I knew a lot about computers 'till I wondered what Linux was Hehehe ain't that the truth. You will eventually come fill circle though :) -- Scott -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: where can i find 'crond' for win95/nt ?

1998-03-06 Thread Scott McDermott
Won-Ho Kye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:18:40PM +0900: > Hi! friends > I need 'crond' for win95/nt. > Where can I get it? You can't be serious. Try upgrading your OS to an environment in which crond runs natively without hideous alteration. -- Scott -- E-mail the word "unsub

Re: Full /usr/ partition

1998-02-22 Thread Scott McDermott
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 09:02:33PM -0500: > I'm running out of space on my /usr partition (500 megs). I have another > 300 megs of unpartitioned space I could add to it, but I haven't got any > idea where would be a logical place to split /usr -- I'd prefer not to >

Re: BASH question

1998-02-14 Thread Scott McDermott
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 09:50:28AM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > 1) /bin/bash : No such file name > 2) /bin/bash : Invalid file or directorypr <<--where part of the error > message includes the last few characters of each line in the shell > script. /bin/sh is not linked to /bin/bash correc

trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Scott McDermott
How do I delete older sections of wtmp? I wouldn't mind leaving it there to gather size but it's getting very large and eating up alot of space. If it were a text file it would be easy to keep it at a certain size but it seems to have some sort of binary format with which I'm not familiar. Does an

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-07 Thread Scott McDermott
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 10:42:48PM -0800, Steven Morrill wrote: > Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for > archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go > back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... > How do I accomplish this? an

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-06 Thread Scott McDermott
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 12:24:16AM +0200, impale wrote: > What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? I believe the former is for callout only which the latter is for callin/callout. Whether this refers to traffic or connection I don't know, just remember gleaning this from making m

Re: sendmail HOWTO?

1998-02-06 Thread Scott McDermott
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 09:16:24AM -0600, Charles Read wrote: > I cannot find a sendmail-HOWTO on the web? > What's the next best resource for sendmail? www.sendmail.org Scott -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

Re: fetchmail 4.3.6 vs. m$ exchange

1998-02-05 Thread Scott McDermott
On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 01:59:16PM -0600, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: > I am trying to run fetchmail in imap mode with a m$ exchange server. > > Does anybody know if this a bug, or am I doing something wrong, like > failing to bow toward Redmond? I'm not sure about your problem, but I can tell you tha