stat and fstat undefined references

1997-12-23 Thread Stuart Lamble
I recently upgraded my system to libc6, with most of the other programs going with it. Now I'm trying to compile the Modula 3 bootstrap compiler (to try to get the whole shebang going under libc6), and I get a heap of undefined references to stat and fstat. Before anybody starts jumping up and dow

Re: lock a pentium for fun!

1997-11-09 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : > Ted writes: : > > Someone wondered (as one does) what might possibly happen if you tried : > > the unassigned codes. : > : > It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes. : : In what way is it a bug? If all the

Re: Help Kernel Oops!

1997-11-06 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Sorry, there's little to be learned from raw kernel OOPS messages : without seeing the full system and kernel configurations and versions. : (As far as I know.) There's some detail in the kernel documentation about reporting OOPS messages.. I can't remem

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-10-20 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Why the heck doesn't Debian use the release number (e.g., 1.3, 1.3.x) as : the primary (canonical) name? Then when you seem 1.2 and 1.3, you can : tell which is newer and which is older. That was done one time: whilst 1.0 was being developed, it was stored on the archiv

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-20 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. : Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the AWE64 is the same as the 32, except for the extra 32 voices. Oh, and the

Re: Applixware

1997-08-27 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install : > difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away from msoffice and : > use linux exclusively if

NFS mounting /usr

1997-06-17 Thread Stuart Lamble
The situation: here at the Monash library, myself and a colleague are setting up three or four Debian systems. The intention is that, by NFS mounting /usr, the space required to hold the binaries (not insignificant at the best of times :-) should be greatly reduced, along with the redundancy of th

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: [...] >> There shouldn't be. Which version of vim do you have installed? When I >> changed the compilation procedure to configure vim with X support, I >> created two

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging : system, one with and one without X support? There shouldn't be. Which version of vim do you have installe

Re: Some thoughts for Debian.

1997-01-22 Thread Stuart Lamble
Matt Kracht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >have no idea whose idea it was split every library into two (or more!) >packages, either. As a developer, this can, I suppose, be a little annoying. The whole point is that if you, a _user_ (note the emphasis) require a shared library to _run_ a program, y

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-09 Thread Stuart Lamble
[Fun. The spamfilter rejected my email. Musta forgot to register my silas account.] : To the other newbies out there, this mailing list somehow ends up : archived as a newsgroup. I've found lots of help by searching : problems at : http://www.dejanews.com/ There's a mail-to-news gateway, I t

Re: VIM questions

1996-12-12 Thread Stuart Lamble
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1) Will there ever be a debian version of Vim which supports -g under X, >or will I have to compile my own? 4.5-4, in bo. (This has been the cause of a couple of bug reports from people who believe there should be a separate version without X suppor

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Stuart Lamble
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stephen Early wrote: >> Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just >> a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to >> the same policy. I wish you luck. > >I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian d

Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road

1996-10-11 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
Bruce Perens wrote: [...] (: NIST decided to make the suite available without charge. The Debian (: Project most heartily applauds this decision. In fact we most heartily (: jump up and down with glee and cheer unabashedly. I'd probably go a bit further than that :-) (: My plan is to package the

Re: "Extended" memory?

1996-08-26 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bhaskar wrote: : I see that the Debian installation instructions contain the following. : >Extended vs. Expanded Memory : >If your system provides both extended and expanded memory, set it : >so that there is as much extended and as little expanded memory : >as possib

Re: "Netiquette" of requesting package updates

1996-08-25 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
Brian C. White wrote: : >> I spend close : >> to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and : >> a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian version : >> is several months out of date. [...] : I was being purposely vague because I didn't want to single anyone : out, but no, th

Re: XServer for ET4000/W32p hangs!!

1996-08-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: : On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: : : > Hi, : > : > I have a friend who I am trying to help install debian 1.1. He has an : > ET4000/W32p graphics card. I installed the appropriate server, went [snipped] : : There are many problems with the ET4000/W32 cards.

linux.debian.user newsgroup (Re: printing and .profile problems)

1996-08-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Susan Kleinmann wrote: : : Hi Chris -- : : You said: : > I tried to post to the linux.debian.user newsgroup without success. : There isn't any newsgroup -- just this mailing list. Actually, linux.debian.user exists, but it appears to be a gateway from the mailing