xntp ?
I'd like to set a computer's hwclock periodically using NTP. I've installed the xntp .deb. Now what? (Yes, I've read the docs.. :( ) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian2.0 and tetex
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/tex/ Just right-click on the tetex-base0.9 directory, and select 'save as'. It's not particularly stable, however. What is unstable about tetex? I am just about to upgrade to Hamm but given that fully functional latex2e is vital to my work, does this mean AFAIK the teTeX included with hamm is 0.4, the last known stable one. (notice he is talking about dists/slink). teTeX 0.9 is still beta, and has been for a long time. I have used teTeX 0.9 for a while, but not under Debian, and I find it as stable as 0.4 but YMMV. The unstable things in 0.9 are probably things not present at all in 0.4 (like omega and pdflatex). // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AccelX on Debian
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts. Did xdm work with your configuration? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting transparent xterms
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not mistaken). It implements just juch a feature and is a pretty pretty wm I am sorry but it does not. This question is so common its even made it to the Enlightenment FAQs! It is not possible with X (yet), without using enourmous amount of computing (first getting screen, then transforming, then using as a background pixmap). Using semi-transparent windows will not be practically possible until we have a system using alpha-channels. Berlin (berlin-consortium.org) will be such a system... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting system time?
How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AccelX on Debian
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote: 3) Buy the complete package 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package I'm sorry, but I can't get this to work either. XiGraphics does not answer my emails. I've tried experimenting with this over and over again. Now all programs using X (including xterm) keeps divding-by-zero-faulting on me. I can't anything to work.. Is there anyone out there running Accelerated X on Debian? HOW do I do it? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing with Debian?
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: The usual timeout for ARP entries is 30 seconds IIRC. That doesn't mean that some hardware might do something different. I went home unsuccesful and then returned today, two days after I fought with this, because I had some ideas I wanted to try. So I booted the system and -whoa- worked perfectly without a change. I don't know what kind of router we have but it obviously keeps ARP values cached too long. I'm a bit happy though, as the problem turned out to be exactly what I had expected the whole time. But one question remains: I changed Ethernet cards in a workstation earlier the same say, and at that time I could access the net right away. Why did it go so fast that time? Why did I have to wait many hours when working on the laptop? What was the difference? I don't expect you to know these answers :) as I don't know anything about our router. But it's interesting to notice that this timeout obviously is *very* random. Unless there is some sort of inverse ARP which lets the workstation broadcast that I am xx.xx.xx.xx with MAC xx:xx:xx:xx You can't force the router to forget. This is surely something that is badly needed in IP. Be careful about assuming routers will do the right thing or even a sensible thing. ;-) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing with Debian?
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: The router finds the hardware (or MAC) address by broadcasting a request to the network. It basicly asks Does anybody here know what the MAC This is the ARP request described in the NAG. But there is also some kind of cache which can be viewed with `arp -a'. What causes the router to ignore the cache and send out an ARP broadcast (again)? As for your routing problem ... do you have a real IP address assigned to that laptop? If you are using something like 192.168.x.x it is not Yes, I understand that. The IP address is on the Internet. The workstation that had it before (turned off to prevent conflicts) is sitting next to the one which is PLIP-connected to the laptop, so they are definitvely on the same router. This must be something a lot you guys do on a daily basis? I mean it should be nothing strange about it. I believe my problem is how to force the router to forget what MAC this IP has. (But I'm not absolutely sure..) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Routing with Debian?
Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's): on laptop: route add workstation-ip plip0 route add default gw workstation-ip on workstation: route add laptop-ip plip0 arp -s laptop-ip workstation-hw-addr I can ping any host on the LAN from that laptop now (including our router), but I can't access the outside world. This is the first time I do this and I have probably understood something wrong. A question: How does the router know that the hardware address of the laptop's IP (which normally belongs to another workstation that I have turned off) has changed? Previously I have switched Ethernet cards in a workstation and I had no problems accessing the Internet. How did the router find out the address had changed? Is there some sort of broadcast protocol that works the other way around, like: i am hw-addr and I have IP ip-addr? Is this the key? The laptop is running bo and the workstation a mix of bo and hamm. Thanks for any explanations here (I've read NAG and NET3-HOWTO)... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cloning workstations
With a lot of luck I've succeeded in putting up a hamm system from scratch. Now I want to make identical installations on a couple of machines with almost identical hardware. What is the easiest way? Can it be automated (I bet many people has done this before..)? If I have to do it by tarring the disk to an NFS-server and then booting on a floppy an tarring up to the target, which files do I have to change with system-dependent info? Another question: I am going to transform some half-useless Pentium60- based win95 systems into UNIX workstations :-), but they only have 400MB-disks so I thought I'll have to put some stuff (perhaps /usr?) on NFS. How well does this work with Debian's Package System? It would be nice to fill the 400 MB with at least the most important stuff (editor, TeX and stuff) so they'll be at least partially useable even if the network goes down. So perhaps I could install that barebones system on the workstations and a complete install on the NFS-server, but I can't (can I?) force the installation of certain programs to /usr/bin and some just to /bin. Of course, I still want to take advantage of Debian's excellent upgrading system. Thanks to everyone who put time and effort into this excellent OS! // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hamm state
How can hamm go into frozen when dselect-over-FTP hasn't been fixed yet? When will it be fixed (I recently tried the 98-03-29 disk set)? Also, selecting keyboard layout (swedish) does not work (says it can't find the keymap-file). Sometimes it complains about the user 'root' not being found, but it doesn't seem to lead to any trouble. Adding a user (after setting root's password) does still not work. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Banco de Dados
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still You might want to check out mySQL too. I do not know of its functionality but I've heard some good things. I think they have a web server on www.mysql.org. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AccelX on Debian
I previously posted a question on the list if anyone had good or bad experiences from running Accelerated X with Debian. The only replies I got were positive. I decided to evaluated it before actually buying, so I downloaded it and installed on a fresh bo (stable) with XFree installed. After the AccelX installation however, none of the previously installed X-programs works. Upon startup they give a `floating point exception' and then dies. Not even xdm works. I think the problem is related to X-lib, because running the programs without a valid $DISPLAY will *not* cause the error. Compiling programs from scratch does not work. I mailed a copy of this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] last thursday, but I haven't received anything from them yet. Thanks for any help on this. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: opendos fdisk *shifted* my partitions?
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Getting the bootable flags back wasn't the problem; they're set that way now. But it litterly shifted the partition names; hda1 became hda2, and so forth. Is there any way to change them back? This is exactly what OpenDOS did with my Linux system too. I fixed the problem by using Linux fdisk. I noted all the start and end cylinders of all partitions, then I removed them all and recreated them at their proper places. No information on the partitions were lost in the process, but don't take my word for it. You should always have backups. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell XPS/60
I have a PC machine here on which I have installed Debian stable. It is an early Pentium, a Dell XPS/60. It is giving me a lot of problems. When it has been on for a while, it starts giving me floating point exceptions in several programs (including troff and fvwm2). What can be the cause of this? Does it have to be a hardware problem, and if so, can I do anything to get around it (FPU emulation etc.)? Thanks for any ideas on this.. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM HD Powerdown
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself down at a specified timeout (if the drive supports it). This is not what I want. That way the disks spin down too often. What I was looking for is a way to spin them down when unmounting. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pine From: address
I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define. Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine. It'd be great if Debian's pine was compiled with this. You still have to add 'From' to the user-changeable fields in pine's setup, so a 'From' dialog does not show up unless you want to. IMHO its safe enough. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AccelX
How well does Accelerated X (a commercial X server from www.xig.com) work with Debian GNU/Linux? Is there a Debian installer for it? Can I skip installation of XFree if I buy AccelX (if so, won't Debian dependencies of XFree give me problems)? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
APM HD Powerdown
I would like my IDE disks (I'd very much appciate a general solution too which can be used on SCSI systems) to spin down when unmounted. Mounting them would cause them to spin up again. Is this possible and how? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hamm bugs
I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation. Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems during installation which might be of value to someone: * The disk partitioning program did not work. When I created a maximum size partition it said it was 1 MB large. It also said that the previous partition (which I deleted) was 1 MB (it was not). The disk is 500 MB. I used the original `fdisk' program in another console and it worked. * The `adduser' program doesn't work. When I specify a user name and hit enter it responds with an error message that no user name was specified, and asks me for user name again. I had to kill the script. * Install by FTP did not work. It says Perl 5.002 required--this is only version 5.00404 ... stopped /usr/lib/perl5/vars.pm line 3 ... BEGIN failed...FTP.pm line 14 ... exit status 2. NFS seems to work though (tried ftp.leidenuniv.nl). * Gives me some error messages about broken pipe when I have specified the NFS server and directory, but I don't think they are serious because installation continues. * There are very strange dependencies. libc5 depends on libc6 (=2.0.4-1) and libc6 conflicts with libc5 (5.4.33-7). Does this mean that it's impossible to install libc5? However, many programs depends on libc5. Installation aborts at the [I]nstall stage from dselect because of this (I believe). * dselect is weird. Sometimes it unmounts the NFS-directory, sometimes not. If it is already mounted, [I]nstall compains that the directory already is mounted and won't continue. After trying a few times and getting stuck on the libc5 depencies, now it gives me internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 16.. Is hamm installable or should I stick to that old version? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ethernet card (hamm)
I have decided to install something unixish on an old 486/33 which just sits in the lab, which has a crashed MSwin311 installation and no one uses it. I don't have much info on hardware but I've figured out most of it. The network card has `SMC' printed on it so I choose the first SMC driver (I think its called `ultra') and it detects the network card at 0x220 IRQ 10. I installed hamm and it went very smoothly to just after the base disks unpacking, where the machine locked up. Or at least I think it locked up, it just sat silently with no `dialog box' on screen and appearently did nothing for ten minutes, so I rebooted. I think this was the `configuring modules' phase of installation. I just skipped this step and went on with the configuration and installation of LILO. Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `route' displays: Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localnet * 255.255.0.0 U 0 02 eth0 127.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0U 0 01 lo default correct 0.0.0.0 UG1 00 eth0 Where `correct' is the correct IP of my gateway (I choose not to write it down here of various reasons). It takes rather long time before the third entry shows up, not minutes perhaps but many seconds. What does the flags, metric, ref and use columns mean? I've compared the values with other working installations so I suppose they are correct. `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP, Bcast and Netmask -- but the wrong base IO address. It says 0x230 and the module when loaded says 0x220. However, when I try `ifconfig eth0 io_addr 0x220' it answers `SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported'. How do I proceed to locate the actual problem? (I mean: how do I find out if the hardware is malfunctioning, if the module doesn't work with my card or if there's a configuration problem?) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: claimed that Apache was used in about 50% of sites and Netscape/MS were barely more than 10 each! That jibes with the O'Reilly article; apache 60%, Netscape ~25%??, MS ~10%, the rest 7%. A pity not too many people has discovered Roxen (www.roxen.com). // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: emacs and xemacs
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and it wouldn't let me install emacs AND xemacs... one or the other. How can I get both on my system? Most probably you don't want both of them. XEmacs has more features than GNU Emacs (if running under X), but hogs system resources even more. In text mode, they're equivalent. Personally, I have a Pentium with 32 MB RAM so I use XEmacs. Makes the GNUSCAPE (w3el) browser very good. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: emacs doesn't use AUC TeX
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I have installed the auctex package, but when I use emacs to edit a file with a .tex ending, AUC TeX is not invoked. Why isn't it working? You have to put it in your .emacsrc-file. I believe its all in the AUC TeX documentation. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: General colorization question
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, David R. Kohel wrote: I'm looking for the equivalent of the /etc/DIR_COLORS in Slackware, from where it is read, and where to specify that users' ~/.dircolors Have you actually read the 'ls' manpage ? man ls (you can search for 'color') // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF_SVGA depenpencies
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Should it not require xbase, or something like that? That DOES seem silly. No, why? They _DO_ require xbase to work, don't they? Also, should we not have a RECOMMENDATION that the user installs the 16-color X server whenever installing X (otherwise xf86setup is not I believe that Xbase requires XF86_VGA ... I think the packages are set up No it does not. Also, a requirement is rather hard. A recommendation should be enough. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab for Debian?
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is Matlab is supported only my The Mathworks (I think that's the name of the Consider OCTAVE as well. It is free. Personally, I love it. I prefer it to MatLab. (..looks exactly like MatLab, too, although uses gnuplot for plotting) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XF_SVGA depenpencies
A friend of mine made the mistake of only installing an X server during a fresh Debian 1.3 installation. He had no dependency problems. Should it not require xbase, or something like that? Also, should we not have a RECOMMENDATION that the user installs the 16-color X server whenever installing X (otherwise xf86setup is not installed!)? All the people I know who has installed Debian has made that mistake (not installing the VGA16 server). // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gs-aladdin pdf files
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: I'm trying to print/view a pdf encrypted file without any success. The US Government imposes export restrictions on crypto-related stuff, so you will have to get the files from: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/ .. to make ghostscript able to process encrypted files! // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PDF Writer
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote: Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux? pdftex, is program that makes (La)TeX output PDF files instead of the standard DVI. It's still in Beta though, but will probably be included in the next teTeX-release (which Debian now uses). Pictures are troublesome, except PNG's and JPEG's which are easily included. ghostscript, can convert postscript to PDF. However, it outputs everyting as a bitmap, which makes it practically unusable. Adobe Acrobat is not available for Linux, though it is available for other unices. Maybe you can run it under some sort of binary compatibility package? I propose that you at least write a complaint letter to Adobe for neglecting to port Acrobat to Linux (after all, the *have* ported Acrobat Reader, so there should be no problems for them). // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PASCAL for Linux
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been unsuccesful. Every site I've gone to either has the wrong link on their The two major FREE Pascal compilers available are GNU and FPK Pascal. I've tried them both, and IMHO GNU works much more reliable. See for yourself. Their respective web pages lists FTP-sites and mirrors. (btw, did you actually web search for this?? that is a very effecient method which should not be underestimated) GNU Pascal web page: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/ FPK Pascal web page: http://tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/~michael/fpk.html // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5). I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks serial number. A very good solution, however, you get away from this sort of problems. This is a good reason the Linux kernel should have a dev-filesystem, much like the proc-filesystem is implemented in the kernel. I've seen it has been on the 'Linux Kernel Wishlist' for a while, and I have heard that its being worked on FreeBSD. So, start kernelhacking :) ! // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ryan Shaw wrote: i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm If you want if for every login, put a `clear screen' in your /etc/issue like this: clear /tmp/banan cat /etc/issue /tmp/banan mv /tmp/banan /etc/issue and don't forget to change the issue.net too, if it isn't a link to issue! Alternatively, you can use `mingetty' instead of whatever getty you use on local logins. Something like this: in your /etc/inittab change the gettys to something like: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 and so on for as many virual consoles you'd like (not more than are compiled into your kernel though..) mingetty clears the screen before displaying the login prompt by default. To learn more see `man mingetty'. I use mingetty for my local console. Its advantage is the screen clearing but also it uses less memory than the other gettys. Its disadvantage is that it is only for local logins, you can't use it for serial lines (modems and such..). I hope this solves your problem. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Change Keyboard configuration after installation???
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Hong Huang wrote: I remember Keyboard got configured during installation. My question is: is it possible to change the keyboard configuration after installation? Yes, it is. By using the 'loadkeys'-program. Use it to change your keyboard layout. Put in somewhere in your boot files, preferably in: /etc/init.d (as it should be executed no matter what runlevel you are using) Either make a new file there (it will automatically be executed if it has its executable attribute bit on), or better yet, insert the command in the file 'boot'. It is always executed. The command should look like: loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map The .map-files are keyboard layouts. You can find a lot predefined in: /usr/lib/kbd/keytables but you can use any text editor (I myself prefer 'joe') to edit a file to suit your needs... I have, I use my own keymap where the keys are where I want them to be. Feel free to ask if you need more help (just don't forget 'man loadkeys') // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Any recommendation about a good 3D video card?
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: I'll buy a 3D video card this summer and i can expense 750$ (1000$ Canadien). This card is to use in the developpment of a 3D environnement in OPENGL on PC. Do you have any recommendations? I don't know if it's a I'd settle for those S3 based cards. S3 has 3D accelerators available nowadays.. They have a good profile against software developers, and my experience is that support is added to their products first. XFree has always had good S3 support. But you'd better check out whatever OpenGL library you are going to use first. Mesa (for Debian Linux) is going to include some hardware support soon, but you'd better check out their WWW page first. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: The problem is that the scripts only work with bash in sh mode and not with sh-compatible shells such as ash. Try making /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/ash and reboot. You'll get error messages from the startup So if these script doesn't work with ash nor zsh in sh-mode, then shouldn't they be changed to #!/bin/bash ? Most people have no problem using ash or zsh for /bin/sh. But most people are not Debian users. :-/ I'd like to have zsh as my *only* shell on the system. Apparently, this is not possible with Debian. What are those bash-specific options you refer to? Could the scripts be changed to work with ash zsh's sh-compatible modes? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: LARRY ELLISON
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Britton wrote: Annoying isn't it? Browsers can do a lot of things like this apparently, a fact which their makers arn't advertising. Profiling = big money I Of course their makers are advertising! They say that it conforms to the CGI 1.0 specifications. Now what that is, is up to you to find out. And it's not hard, Yahoo has every link you need. Ignorance is no excuse. Would any of you mind telling a clueless person like myself, who this Larry Ellison is? And what is so special about this page? There was mostly links to itself... I didn't run that Java program though.. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: zsh vs bash
On 8 Mar 1997, Richard Sharman wrote: [completion control] compctl (completion) has been setup to complete for a variable name if the command is export. While the zsh seemed easier, I guess the bash approach allows you to control it more.) I hope that's a typo.. The zsh way is more powerful. looking in /usr/doc/zsh/examples there are several examples of how to use zsh's advanced completion control. Example: if i type kill -Htab, zsh fills in UP. Next, I type systab, and zsh fills in klogd. The hyphen tells zsh that I want a signal to be completed, and the kill starting the line tells zsh I want a job to be completed. [bash] * Ability to interactively define keyboard macros (similar to within Tried the 'bindkey'-command yet? I use zsh to have alt-d mapped to direnter, I also have alt-z mapped to ../enter (making zsh go to parent directory). I have alt-l mapped to pipelistenter. They prove very useful. I also use bindkey to get INS and DEL keys working properly in the shell. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: teTeX kind of broken
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the preinst script it is to late. Isn't this something that whoever it is maintaining dselect should fix? I don't think this approach (instructions how to remove...) is enough user-friendly to include in the next Debian release.. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Carl Privitt wrote: How did [EMAIL PROTECTED] become _the_ Linux group? These guys don't even have a web server or actual hosts in their domain. Now if Has linuxnet stepped forward somewhere and declared what they will do with the money when (if) they win? Are we sure that all of the money will go to Linux-related projects? I really don't know what linuxnet *is*, except the second-hand information on this list that it's an IRC-network. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: teTeX kind of broken
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Marcelo Magallon wrote: The wierd thing is that dpkg --remove latex works... That didn't work for me. I had to remove my previous Debian TeX installation by *hand* (that is, using rm and not dpkg) because dpkg just gave me script aborted with an error when trying to use it. (After that, installation of teTeX went well...) I've had this problem with other packages too. It is caused by bad packaging, or what? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: Debian on the shuttle
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote: Unless massive action is taken to avert this ominous development, the Personally, I hate the Penguins, except the ones that are the outline. I I think there should be RULES declaring that if any logotype for the Linux project is present in the Debian logo, so should the GNU be! // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Marimba - Bongo - Debian ...
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Toens Bueker wrote: Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread I have installed jdk-common 1.0.2-4 and jdk-static 1.0.2-4. I had the exact same problem when trying to run HotJava (a WWW-browser from Sun). Someone around here told me that this was because I had an old version of JDK. (I also have 1.0.2.) Too bad there is no Linux port of any newer JDK. But hang around www.blackdown.org (home of Java on Linux), and just wait... and wait... :) (or help?) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Hayao Nakahara wrote: Yes you can. The followings are some of my /etc/adm/amd.xxx files. On such configuration, I can mount cdrom by accessing /l/cd, mount floppy with ext2 format by /l/fd mount floopy with fat format by /l/msdos. and explicitly umount cdrom by amq -u /l/cd, and so forth. What I and many other DOS - Linux migrates wishes for, is a driver with which I can remove my floppy at any time. This would require that the floppy never is write cached. Once I heard of a program called SuperMount which could do this, but I never got it to work (it was old, and required kernel patching). What I really don't understand is if your amd stuff here is a solution to this problem or not? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tips
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote: Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it... Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these. I still think that the Microsoft-like tips is a good idea, it gives the newbie some good information that normally is hidden inside the deep deep manuals. Like the 'find' command, a terrific utility, always what the newbie wants. I also think that these tips is not *instead* of the manual, it is a complement. Something like: ls can display different types of directory entries in different colors, just type 'man ls' to see how. is a good tip in my opinion (referring to a man page) So, we'll see where this ends... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Tips
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote:
I've been meaning to look at fortune to see whether it can easily handle
or be adapted to handle different databases of fortune cookies - such as
tips. I'm running low on free time just now, so does anyone have the
Don't know about fortune... it is a simple program to write though...
The below one prints a random cookie from a text file, in which the
cookies are separated by a blank space. I use it to print a random
Linux Cookie upon login and when someone views my Linux WWW Page
at http://es.matematik.su.se/~p96job/linux.html.
Takes its input from standard in, like in cook cookiefile.txt.
Does only 1 pass though file, so it need not be seekable.
Feel free to find bugs... I have limited C skills...
-- cook.c --[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#define LF 10
void main() {
char c;
unsigned char skriv = 1;
unsigned int nr = 1;
unsigned int i = 0;
char s[1024];
srandom(time(0) + getpid());
while ( (c=getc(stdin)) != EOF ) {
if (skriv)
s[i++] = c;
if (c == LF) {
c = getc(stdin);
while ( (c == 32) || (c == 9) )
c = getc(stdin);
if (c == LF) {
if (random() % ++nr)
skriv = 0;
else {
skriv = 1;
i = 0;
}
}
else if (skriv)
s[i++] = c;
}
}
s[i] = 0;
printf(%s, s);
}
-- cook.c --[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--
// Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
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Re: X windows
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote: I am running X using xdm. Is there a more elegent way to go to the full screen consoles than kill xdm. When I try to exit fvwm, on the middle I don't know if I misunderstood your question... how about just switching virtual console (ctrl-alt-f1) ? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
runlevels and modules
I have two small questions today ;) : a) where can I find information about what the different debian run-levels are used for? 0 is halt, 6 is reboot, 1 is singleuser, but what about the rest? Are there an multiuser with X and one without X? b) when I do an 'lsmod' it says that appletalk, ipx and serial modules are installed. They are used by 0 (autoclean) or 1 (autoclean). What does autoclean mean? I think I should get rid of appletalk and ipx as I don't use them and they're just wasting my memory... Thanks in advance... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tip of the day (was :Re: Documentation)
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: What about a Tip of the day package in place of fortune Just kidding!? Hey, this idea is not so bad actually! It may be a nuisance for experienced users but for newbies and stil not very experienced users I think it is a great idea. As long as it is an Optional package, I don't think anyone will complain. Shall we begin collecting Tips? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: You're really losing the point here... what is in your mind, an EASY installation? A brain dead program, that does all your thinking for you? Come on!!! All I was saying was that it is not CONSISTENT of dselect to start a XF86Setup during the config phase if installed, but no xf86config, not even a word about it. Not good for new users. If only the documentation was good enough so you could read it there but it's out of date. I was merely pointing it out. Look at Windows... and all the users running it, with its idiot proof user interface? You want to make a Debian shot at where Microsoft is failing I stopped reading here, and I hope I will not receive any further replies from you. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote: No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior I disagree. You should understand what you are doing. If you don't even want to know what is going and how you are to use it, what is the point of having it? Bragging to your friends? I guess you people are right about that of course any user should follow instructions. But that is no reason why installation is harder than it has to be. Then why do we have dselect in the first place? Just supply dpkg and a complete manual and we would not have any problems? Right? No! Installation should be as easy as possible. Our goal should be to make it so easy that no one has to look in the manual. And we're not far from there. I gave my two friends rex and told them to install it, after having saying good things about it for several months. Neither of them have used any unix before. Both made very few mistakes. I see this as a success for Debian, BUT, both made the mistake i posted about. So making this clearer would make installation easier, at least for some people. Easier installation is Good. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: Then I don't think it can be considered a bug per se. If XF86Setup is Neither do I. not on your system, you are not expected to run it. You must come across XF86Setup from some other documents and from the same source Yes, but as a totally new user, how am I expected to know. I propose any of the following solutions: 1) Put some notice in the installation process, making the user aware that he/she *must* install vga16 if he/she is a newbie. Maybe in the configuration script (sorry, but if you wish to configure this you need to install vga16). 2) Create some sort of dependencies to force the inexperienced user to install vga16. 3) Run xf86config instead of XF86Setup during configuration, if the XF86Setup isn't available. There should also be a notice like you'll get a much nicer graphical setup if you install vga16. serious one. How would you know that you can use XF86Setup and that vga16 has to be installed without consulting docs. The same applies No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior to installation. The configure scripts which runs directly after the installation should make reading docs unnecessary. My totally-newbie friends were both given rex of my HD. They both called me after installation and asked how to get X started. Neither had configured X in any way. How are they supposed to know? The post-install configure script should take care of it. What we can do, I think, in Debian is that in each of the post-install scripts of xservers (except vga16 obviously), check the existance of XF86Setup. If it is not found, offer an option to users to install vga16 and get the nice XF86Setup ``or'' start xf86config if the user A very good idea! But it the user hasn't got XF86Setup he should be told so, and told what it is and how to install it. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: In concept, dselect is great. It's an attempt to create a user interface that's not based on the window/pulldown menu interface that (I believe) is I totally agree with you. What often confuses me about dselect is that it sometimes when running into dependency conflicts changes my tagging (which packages to install). This takes control from the user, which should be avoided. About what could be made easier in Debian: I gave Debian 1.2 to two people who has little or no experience with Linux. They both made the same mistake, not installing the 16 color X server. This should be clarified, that you will need it because it provides things essential to configuring X. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: motd
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? or, How about editing /etc/issue? (and issue.net, which I think is a symlink to issue in Debian) failing this, is there any way of adding a message before the login: /etc/motd ? I think these files contains some Debian copyright messages by default. Edit freely... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interviews...
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: Yes indeed! Fresco is the replacement for interviews. The development is sponsored by the X consortium. It breaks new ground by providing distributed graphics using the CORBA model. That wounds interesting. Do you think you can tell us more? Why is the X consortium sponsoring Fresco? What is CORBA? my debian system. Once I find some time, I plan on producing a debian package. Good idea! // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is that it is complete with all bells and whistles described in the LaTeX Book and the LaTeX Companion and that it is an implementation which adheres to the TDS (TeX Directory Then I guess I should be installing teTeX as well. I need to do some TeX'ing but the standard Debian TeX package always seems to come up with a new problem once I fixed one. The standard TeX package in Debian, is it a completely new TeX distribution or is it based on some other? Do you know what NTeX is? I was told it was a good TeX distribution, but maybe I should try teTeX instead. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: ping reply without OS
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Huh? Linux will issue HLT instructions when not doing anything else. However, HLT does not really halt the machine, like when you're finished using it, but only until the next interrupt. Yes, HLT does lower power consumption. On a Cyrix 6x86 CPU, with suspend on HLT enabled, power consumption changes from 24W to 0.3W. This is enough to hear a difference in CPU fan speed. (I am running this hardware here.) I heard something on comp.os.linux that enabling the CPU suspend on HLT crashed someone's system. Do you know anything more about this? Have you experienced any problems? (I am running C-6x86 as well.) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about If it is just a week or two I'll rather wait. I like what I hear :) Someone actually told me that I should install teTeX maybe a month ago when I was running 0.93R6 but then 1.2 came and I tried its TeX instead. It is better, but not good. Looks rather like a basic LaTeX/TeX system tailored especially for Debian than a distribution of some sort. But OTOH i never tried it out giving it Well... Maybe there should be put together a Debian teTeX package. The maintainer of the current Debian TeX package maybe should spend his time helping teTeX instead of his own stuff. But I suppose he's got a reason not to do so... What is better about Debian TeX, anyone? NTeX is a very large TeX distribution which was usually provided with Slackware and which is not as well designed and maintained as teTeX. If i Then I will go for teTeX instead. I tried searching around for teTeX whis morning, and I found a lot of FTP-sites carrying the files, I also found the maintainer's address and the mailing-list. BUT do you know if there is a teTeX web-page somewhere, where some general information, maybe some installation help and useful links exists? Anyone? thanks... // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Problems with Talk under Debian
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. Otherwise, thank you for this information! I've had this problem too ;) And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux. So, if you're trying to At least on my schools sun's running SunOS, they've got at least two, but I think three talk-clients. Maybe you should try some other.. When someone requests a talk with me when I use my school's sun the talk daemon tells me which talk-client to use. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libXt.so.6
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, James W. Tucker wrote: I've installed Debian 1.2 from scratch but dpkg indicates that it can't find libXt.so.6 when I try to install the texbin package. I did I've had exactly the same problem, so it might be common. I don't know how to fix this (I used dpkg to force the install, but I guess not that is not the wat to fix this problem..) So I am very anxious to find out what the problem is?? someone? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 release?
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: The distribution has gotten so large that 1.2 barely fits on a CD, How can you say that? I downloaded the whole rex (1.2) yesterday, including contrib, non-free, and non-us. Also all the disk images. This was in total just above 300 MB. Did I miss something? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. Is this right? Which one should I be using? 1) That is completely right. 2) The i-version since it is better, unless you live in USA *and* you are an extremely law-abiding person (no matter how stupid the laws are) who never used pirated software or music. If you want to know more about the i-version, look at: http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: Heard about this client... Those someone if there are a Linux equivalent of this telnet-with-zmodem client? Can be really cool. A Linux telnet-terminal (and serial too) with zmodem? I think 'ecu' does this. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and 6x86
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it I am running Debian GNU/Linux on an Cyrix/IBM P-150+ and it runs like a charm. No problems (yet). I am sporadically running maybe an hour a day for three or four months now. X works as well. I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). What?! Could you please post me more info about this. Which ones? I know Quake runs a little bit slower on Cyrixes because of the slower fpu (but still a lot faster per dollar than the pentium!!), and NT 4 has somewhat degraded performance which can be fixed with a patch. But so far (until now :) ) I haven't heard of *anything* that doesn't run at all on a Cyrix. If it is supported, does everything run OK. AFAIK yes. I have seen some Cyrix kernel patches (on the Linux v2 info HQ), but I don't know what they actually do as I haven't tried them. There is also some programs which can view some Cyrix-specific registers but I haven't looked at them since I don't understand its uses. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LaTeX question?
I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I need to do. I installed almost everything on the TeX disks. When I try to run latex it just complains that it can't find the default format files (or something). I found out from reading the man-pages over and over again that if I run amstex instead, it doesn't complain about that. But it still doesn't work. It doesn't recognize most of my commands, for example \documentclass or \usepackage. Why is this and how does this work? There is some information in the doc directory but I can't typeset it! Any help is appreciated.. // Jonas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, William Burrow wrote: While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. This is not the whole story, since it is only their X version that is free for non-commercial use. Porting your free app to, say, MSwin just isn't possible, and porting is the whole point of using GUI libraries. V is free under the GPL (that is, not only for non-commercial use!) for all its platforms and should be preferred. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to wait or not to wait
When can we users expect to see the newly released XFree 3.2 in the Debian distribution? I need it for my virge-card to work, and I wonder if I should download buzz-fixed and then XFree 3.2 separately or wait until it is included in rex ? BTW, how unstable is rex? Should I download it instead of buzz-fixed? or is it really unstable?? thanks.. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
