Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-05 Thread Yann Dirson
ls to do these > "different things", or does "different things" just means it does the > same things differently? On next console-data upgrade, the debconf-based stuff will be used. New console-tools depending on new console-data this should work fine. Regards, -- Yann Dirso

DO NOT UPGRADE TO PLAN 1.6.1-4.2 ! USE -5

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
suffered from this. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Yann Dirson
lowed app to be launched, and seem not to like it when one hides the other... > Also, the BTS's primitive brain cannot comprehend MIME, so this message > will have to be manually assigned to the fvwm2 package. That's a know limitation, isn't it ? ;) -- Yann Dirson<

Oops - ignore (Was: latex: Problem with special char & in macros)

1998-05-07 Thread Yann Dirson
Oops... please ignore my previous request for help - it does not contain enough information - the given example code works - I finally found the real-code error (but maybe a (La)TeX as well, we'll see). -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & ri

Re: perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-05-04 Thread Yann Dirson
t; $str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION}ee; >and > eval {$str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION}; }; >are faster than: > eval "\$str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION}"; Good thing to know. Thanks. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer &

Re: perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-05-02 Thread Yann Dirson
; construct yet? I think that should make it work. I had not, and it works. $TRANSLATION = '\$1;\$2'; $str = "ab"; eval "\$str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION}"; Thanks to Joost and Qrczak for their help ! -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop

perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-04-30 Thread Yann Dirson
for this. It seems a similar phenomenon occurs in the left-part of s///: a variable contaning eg. "$1" will have problems as well, though in this case "\1" will work: $DUMMY = '$1'; $str = "aba"; $str =~ s{(.)(.)($DUMMY)}{$1;$2}; print $str . "\

Re: Legal -> A4

1998-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
for standard LaTeX doc-classes, and seems to me more portable than any "a4" package that may be around. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email:

Linux is damn robust !

1998-03-25 Thread Yann Dirson
, interrupted in the 95th iteration, on this machine: Linux bylbo 2.0.33-std #2 Wed Dec 31 16:38:10 CET 1997 i486 unknown Quite proud about the Linux hackers community, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EM

Re: Unicode Support

1998-03-06 Thread Yann Dirson
this respect. You may want to have a look at console-tools, at sunsite in linux/system/keyboards/, to get better command-line support for unicode. I wrote a little primer about unicode, which is included in console-tools. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bi

Re: Mailinglists documented

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
27;s currently subscribed to. Is there such a mechanism, or is there only this stuff (what's its name, anyway ?) to be run on master to get the info ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | sup

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-10-06 Thread Yann Dirson
) It was one of the systems I had planned to package when I joined Debian at first, but I never found enough time to start it. In case anybody wants to take a look at it, primary site was <ftp://ftp.khoros.unm.edu> last year, I think it would have stayed the same ;) -- Yann Dirson &