Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread henrymar
Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do the following: Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of desired smaller files so that the smaller files can fit onto mul

printing

2000-08-19 Thread henrymar
Dear list: I have debian/gnu linux 2.1 setup on my i-486 machine but I don't have a printer yet. I want to make sure that the printer I get will work, but since I've never even had anything connected to my parallel port, I'm not even sure if that is even working. I've read a little on printin

pppd error

2000-07-18 Thread henrymar
After I finished reading the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and making sure all my files were as the HOWTO instructed I did this from the bash command line: exec pppd connect \ 'chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript' \-detach crtscts modem defaultroute \ user (myusername) \ /dev/modem 38400 Then I got the following

Database program

2000-07-08 Thread henrymar
I'm looking for some sort of database or spreadsheet application to use as a personal filing system. I'll be organizing a lot of different things that I own and so I anticipate that the file may become extremely large. I'm running debian on an Intel 486 with 16mg RAM. I worried that if I don

Where is module_file?

2000-06-14 Thread henrymar
I need some help with the modinfo program. When I run lsmod I get: Module Pages Used by serial 8 2 (autoclean) cdrom 1 0 linear 1 0 So this means that I have 3 different modules installed in my kernel, right?