Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread rdm
Stephen Early wrote: >>> Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just >>> a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to >>> the same policy. I wish you luck. Herbert Xu wrote: >>I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers >>should

cdu31a

1996-11-14 Thread rdm
Package: disks-i386 Version: 1996-07-14 A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation boot disk to recognize his cdu31a. At the lilo prompt, he's type linux cdu31a=0x230,0 This lilo parameter worked f

Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?

1996-09-16 Thread rdm
Jonathan, writing from vega.netg.se: > Believe me, if you want to make sure that an upload from you is > untracable... It can be done .. Untraceable is a matter of degree. Forging someone's pgp signature is about as difficult as breaking into a commercial software publisher's office and replacing

Python, minicom problems

1996-06-12 Thread rdm
Paul Kautz: > Some packages seem to 'require' things they shouldn't need. For > example, gnuplot can run (believe it or not, I've used this) > with a terminal of 'dumb,' outputting text graphs etc., but > needs xlib. I solved this last time by just installing xlib, > even though I wasn't running

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-04 Thread rdm
Ian Jackson: > How about having each pager program use update-alternatives to provide > a possible variant of /usr/bin/pager, and then having man configured > by default to use /usr/bin/pager ? Another possibility would be to fix more so that it can scroll backwards. This shouldn't take more than