getty blocks dialout. mgetty just plain loopy.

1996-05-07 Thread birkholz%dagobah
I am trying to set up a modem for both dialin and dialout use. I have been unable to do this with either getty or mgetty. If I run "getty -h -w 38400 ttyS1", I cannot dialout. Kermit says Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua1: Device or resource busy If PPP is up when I start the getty (i.e

smail ignores visible_name and from_field config settings

1996-05-07 Thread birkholz%dagobah
I have a home machine on which I would like to send mail to local users as well as the Internet (when a PPP link is up). I used to do this by telling smailconfig that I am an "Internet site" with visible name "primenet.com" (my Internet Service Provider's domainname). This produced from fields li

/etc/papersize?

1996-05-07 Thread birkholz%dagobah
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org [...] /usr/bin/gs reads /etc/papersize, possibly adds the correct papersize to the argumentlist, and then executes /usr/bin/gs-papersize. I do not have an /e

/etc/papersize?

1996-05-06 Thread birkholz%dagobah
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org [...] In order to process your /etc/papersize, I had to add a wrapper programme to the gs package (and call this wrapper programme "gs", so that it gets ex

gs-papersize?

1996-05-04 Thread birkholz%dagobah
BTW, what is gs-papersize? I found neither manpage, nor Info node. Matt Birkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key ID = 74305425 Key Fingerprint = B3 34 FB 3E 3C FE E8 57 AA B4 B2 95 A7 C0 1E AF