X session dies when I'm not looking

1997-10-24 Thread mark powers
Hi. I'm running into a problem with bo and XFree 3.3-3, I can't quite figure out where it's coming from, but here's the gist of it. I haven't had anything out of the ordinary happen when I'm working but if I leave for awhile without logging out, I sometimes return to find the session's died and

Re: easy script question

1997-08-04 Thread mark powers
needs a single dot, i.e. : ". $HOME/.sd.sh" (without the quotes). I believe this is refered to as : sourcing the file. Bash man page should have more on this. Yep, it's called sourcing the file, in csh it's done as "source $HOME/.sd.sh" :) - Mark Powers --- [EM

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-28 Thread mark powers
y and X-URL headers and launching a w3 browser accordingly, provides handy UI for MH pick and for searching all mails in all folders with Glimpse, etc. Cheers, - Mark Powers - "living inside the system is like riding through the countryside in a b

Re: exmh mail?

1997-07-28 Thread mark powers
ent (don't think it can do multiple POP boxes), but it runs as a daemon, and can use procmail directly for mail delivery. I start it up from my .xsession... fftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/mail/pop/fetchpop-1.9.tar.gz if memory serves. :) - Mark Powers ---

Re: "ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-19 Thread mark powers
, logically enough, with the picture of the popup menu on it) gives M-x. So apparently this is a feature, as it were. :) -Cheers, - Mark Powers - "living inside the system is like riding through the countryside in a bus driven

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread mark powers
ve in its simplicity - any thoughts on a "Debian PPP setup script" along the same lines? - Mark Powers - "living inside the system is like riding through the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac be

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread mark powers
ly distributor to package either of them with the distribution. Thanks much, foax.. :) Anyhow. *ahem* I'll get offa my advocacy soapbox now. :) George> George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Mark Powers - "living inside the system is like riding

xemacs with auctex

1997-06-27 Thread mark powers
e trouble, as far as I can tell, is that AUC TeX is there, but the menus are broken. I built XEmacs 19.15 from a source tarball and found exactly the same problem with the LaTeX menus, and with the Hyperbole menu. I couldn't figure it out. :/ However XEmacs 19.14 did seem to work fin

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-17 Thread mark powers
try); and was wondering how Manoj> XEmacs improves on that. Unless I'm mistaken, Xemacs 19.15 uses the current version of the standard PSGML-HTML package, which I use under GNU Emacs 19.34... ? --- Mark Powers --- 'Language was universal before Coca-Cola w

Re: ntalk ??

1997-06-12 Thread mark powers
> Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the > web site and searched the ftp site with no luck... I don't think so but there's a ytalk deb. I'd recommend ytalk anyhow.. if I remember right ntalk is a fairly old Berkeley program and can't talk to machines using a d