Re: both vi and vim hang when I type CTRL-X,CTRL-S

2000-06-07 Thread Wan Hing Wah
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Saisanthosh Balakrishnan wrote: > > > When I am using vi,I careless type the emacs Hotkey for saving > > file. (CTRL-X,CTRL-S). But then the vi hang. > > Scroll Lock is turned on when you press Ctrl-S. Switch it off. > > -- > saisanthosh > NO..the scrolllock led havn't tu

both vi and vim hang when I type CTRL-X,CTRL-S

2000-06-07 Thread Wan Hing Wah
Hello, When I am using vi,I careless type the emacs Hotkey for saving file..(CTRL-X,CTRL-S)..But then the vi hang... I first think is it related to X Windows so I goto the console and try vi again...but still hang too and the terminal freeze.. I need to kill the vi and bash to make it wor

Re: What happen if two host forward email to each other?

2000-06-05 Thread Wan Hing Wah
What if some crackers try to send large amount of email to hang the system? On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > They'll send mail to each other all the time. > > Ron Rademaker > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, hingwah wrote: > > > For example,a user have a username of foo in 2 host,host1 and > >

RE: about X Windows Programming

2000-06-02 Thread Wan Hing Wah
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Mark wrote: > > Hello Wan. > > Do you mean : ? Does X Windows have MDI forms? (MDI= Multiple Document > Interface), in a sense that when you maximize one of the child windows it > only covers the area ocupied by the parent (the MDI form). > > As in windows all widgets and

about X Windows Programming

2000-06-02 Thread Wan Hing Wah
Does the X Windows have a parent window-child windows concept? What I mean is like in windows.. In a program,there can be a parent windows having a title bar... and within the windows there can be several windows ,having a title bar too .An Example is just like PhotoShop...when you open several fil

Re: Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread Wan Hing Wah
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Is it any method that I can check whether the user is a local user > try "man utmp". > > for scripts: the output of "who" has a non-empty last field, if the user > is non-local. however, this may vary from configuration to configuration. > >

Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread Wan Hing Wah
Is it any method that I can check whether the user is a local user (that mean use the computer by sitting in front of the computer physically).It maybe useful so that I can make a program which is setuid to root and check whether the user is local and grant permission to some physical device... P

Re: XF86 configuration problems

2000-03-14 Thread wah
On 13 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > You may have to change the default resolution for the Xserver. First > off, when you are in X, try pressing --+ or > ---. This doesn't work > This should change the resolution, if the problem is > what I think it is. If it changes, then you'll

XF86 configuration problems

2000-03-13 Thread wah
Hi all, I've had one out of two problems successfully dealt with by the collective knowledge on this list, so here come some more... I finally found a video card that works with XF86. I went through XF86Setup, this time with no problems. ...but after XF86Setup is finsished and successfully st

procmail help

2000-02-27 Thread wah
of print commands, which should send the text back to procmail, right? Thanks in advance, wah

redialing ppp on busy

2000-02-25 Thread wah
How do I get ppp to redial on BUSY? Do I use the chat script? I read something about chat returning an error code of 4 on the chat man page, but I wouldn't know what to do with it! Any ideas?

Re: Changing keyboard from qwerty

2000-02-24 Thread wah
nothing. still confused as ever, wah

Changing keyboard from qwerty

2000-02-24 Thread wah
I have been trying to set my keyboard to be configured to German. I loaded the keymap (de-latin1*, or de.map) with loadkeys, but some of the keys, namely the non-english chars, don't work. But when I run showkey, they do work. I don't know what is wrong? Anyone have any ideas?