OT: Re: Need witnesses

2002-09-19 Thread Timothy Coggins
Jeff Maxson wrote: >So for those of us who don't have OO or MSWord, what is the letter >about? Why the exitement? > Nothing really. Try 'strings WordDoc.doc | less' which usually works for me when I want to read bits of a word document. If the whole point of this is to prove that someone else

Re: Fonts in GNOME badly broken!

2002-04-23 Thread Timothy Coggins
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 05:09, Pollywog wrote: > No, it is a problem with the packages. Downgrade them to the stable > versions and put holds on the fonts packages. > They have been broken for months. I have been told that the problem is > actually in Gnome and not the fonts packages, and I don'

Re: ISDN Auto Dial

2002-04-22 Thread Timothy Coggins
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:37, Oliver Elphick wrote: > You have to have some means of translating a host name to an IP > address. You don't have to have bind running on your desktop, but you > do need to specify a nameserver; if there isn't one running locally you > can point at your ISP's nameserv

ISDN Auto Dial

2002-04-22 Thread Timothy Coggins
I have just installed unstable on my new machine. I have set up an ISDN link to my isp with the standard isdnutils package. It autodials out when an ip is specified (eg. 'ping 66.218.71.113') but not when a host name is specified. I have tried this with and without the 'nohostroute' option in /etc/