Backspace/Delete irritation

1997-03-11 Thread Tom Fawcett
I'm having trouble getting a useful mapping of Backspace/Delete. I've read the Key-Setup mini-HOWTO and the xmodmap documentation and I'm still at a loss. Under X I'd like to use Backspace normally, but I'd also like to rlogin (from an rxvt terminal) and run emacs on a remote host. With the xmodma

where/what is libdl1 ?

1997-01-18 Thread Tom Fawcett
I tried upgrading to 1.2 this morning, and I ran into this problem. perl-base pre-depends on libdl1, which doesn't seem to be defined anywhere (none of the lib* packages look like they provide it). Dselect doesn't complain about this, but dpkg says it can't satisfy libdl1 and aborts the upgrade. I

Info sought for libc5-pic package

1997-01-12 Thread Tom Fawcett
Can anyone give me information about the libc5-pic package? There appear to be no docs distributed with it, and the FAQ for libc5 doesn't mention it either. The few lines that describe it say that it's useful for creating customized versions of libc.so (like libc-lite.so, I assume). Thanks, -Tom

Re: Running Debian

1996-11-03 Thread Tom Fawcett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) writes: > George Bonser writes: > > One of these days I will write a version of dselect in tcl/tk that will > > use colors to denote the state of different packages and be just plain > > nicer. > > I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge

Graphical package management tool

1996-09-25 Thread Tom Fawcett
I'm interested in writing a graphical package selection program for Debian. Something that runs under X Windows, maybe written in tkperl. I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already written anything like

Re: Filename case

1996-09-21 Thread Tom Fawcett
> "JR" == John Roesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JR> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a JR> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a JR> quick method or command to do this? If you installed Perl: perl -e 'for $file

latex: can't find default format file

1996-08-21 Thread Tom Fawcett
I installed Debian just last night (coming from Redhat) and I'm impressed with it so far. One trouble though: I installed latex and related tex packages, but when I run latex I get "can't find default format file". AFAIK this indicates the kpathsea path information wasn't set up correctly. The con