Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This past weekend, I experienced a partial hard-drive crash. I've managed to
reinstall and recover most of my stuff, except for one thing. I used to have
several fonts, which came with Debian, but I have been unable to figure out
what package they are
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure if it will help you, but check your /etc/X11/Xresources/*
files, and your ~/.Xresources. If you have something very long like a
complete netscape language localization in it, xrdb -merge can take a
very long time, esp. on slow machines.
-- Andre
an idea about
the underlying concepts.
For now I'd take a look at lyx, a graphical frontend to LaTeX. It's
_very_ easy to use, and has g-brief set up in the way you're probably
looking for (Layout - Document - letter (g-brief, german)).
HTH
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Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Bonn, Germany
Sorry for this followup to my own posting.
Manuel Hendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi All,
I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for
business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by
myself. Can anyone give me a hint.
room (if you can), and use an old (or Apple-, a cheap 68k model with
color display will do) laptop without fan to display the server's X
output via ethernet.
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Anyone with the following segfault problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gedit
Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeApp'
I thought the potato version 0.5.4-1 was stable?
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Björn Elwhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please check the mailing list archives. If i don't remember wrong
i've heard about a package that breaks after a certain time, a bug
that is resolved now. I don't remember which package it was but you
could at least try to find something about it.
On
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i dont know whether the word DIAL-BACK really exist,i need this
function: when i dial to a ppp server,and the server can dial
back to my pc,so i can use less telephone fee,can anyone tell me
how to config the ppp server to implementation this function
//bow
Aaron Brashears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been running my server for 89 days now, on potato for the whole
time. It's been quite stable and happy for a while now. However,
without an update to either the server or my portable machine, ssh
began refusing connections all of a sudden.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vee-Eye) writes:
Very short: There is a Gesamttext zum Herunterladen, in the case you
missed it.
I think it's a normal directory, where you are not allowed to cd to.
read: to list the contents ...
Another solution would be a shell for-loop with wget, because it
Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and
make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me
can use the same bookmark file.
the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, the
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the
IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at
one.
Of the three, IIIP/4MB (I think this is the maximum it can take?).
My LaserJet IIP PS/4MB works
I have a very annoying problem. My system is potato with helix-gnome,
gpm, and a Multi-I/O card the mouse is attached to. Now every now and
then, after hours of working, the mouse pointer freezes. I found out
if I don't reboot, the system locks up completely after some time and
I have to reset it
I'm trying to download documents from
http://www.textkritik.de/bka/dokumente/dok_buelow/
With Netscape I have access to the .htm files in that directory, 'wget
-r http://www.textkritik.de/bka/dokumente/dok_buelow/' doesn't work,
probably because the site is obviously databased. Is there a way to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ faxspool 0 testfax.ps
cannot write to /var/spool/fax/outgoing!
is the error I get when I try to send a fax via mgetty-fax as
user. andre is a member of groups fax and dialout, permissions for
/var/spool/fax/ are
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 31 20:09
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:46PM -0500, chudpi wrote:
Also, could anyone tell me how to activate the locatedb so I can use locate?
Thanx.
XsX
don't turn your computer off at night.
(the locatedb is rebuilt in a daily cron job run at 06:25)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
The code then compiles fine - well, there are a few warnings
(two-digit years - I can only hope this is just something that the Psion
link protocol requires), but nothing fatal.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no
Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find
out who's the author.
Where can we get the source code?
Sorry, it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no
Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find
out who's the author.
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ingles, Raymond wrote:
From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics)
may fit the bill,
Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document
format, so that the students on
Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no
Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find
out who's the author.
I get this error on my up-to-date potato system:
Making all in plpftp
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andre/plptools-0.6/plpftp'
g++
Philipp Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just upgraded a machine from unstable potato to stable potato
and among other things, I recompiled the PCMCIA modules provided
by pcmcia-source.
Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod
-a'. This is merely a cosmetic issue
I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on
my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was
'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps'
But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have
gs-aladdin, potato.
-- Andre
Error: /undefinedAladdin
John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 01:20 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on
my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was
'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps'
But I can't use the .ps file! Can I
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on
my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was
'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps'
But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have
gs-aladdin
Michael Epting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find.
You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use
--dummy-run to do a dummy run).
I didn't know
Chris Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's that, a comment or do you just have problems to unsubscribe?
May I quote from what's been added to your msg automatically:
mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
-- Andre
Please remove me from this list.
Sanjeev Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BTW, does anyone know how to run Navigator full screen (no icons, no menu
bar). I want to ensure that the user cannot close the window.
Don't use a window manager, put netscape run into an infinite loop
that keeps restarting it.
I assume you want some
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody
packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use
woody
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody
packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use
woody
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it
comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc,
75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas?
Maybe the gsfonts package isn't installed?
-- Andre
Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be
hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint. There must be a /cdrom
directory, and an /etc/fstab entry for the
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
emacs fans, please turn the other cheek--
how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog?
which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth
whiter?
Is there anything like reftex for vim?
-- Andre
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody
packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use
woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version!
Any help will be appreciated.
-- Andre
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody
packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use
woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version!
I have downgraded my libc6
Cavaiani, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Someone told me yesterday that I have lousy modelines and that I should
run Xvidtune. My problem is that I navigated through many directories to
get to that, but then it doesn't execute when I type in that name? Says
command not found.
'xvidtune',
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Richard Jeantheau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new
to the list and to Debian.
I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx.
Go to debian-68k@lists.debian.org, you'll find the right kind of
people there :) (But of course also stay subscribed
David Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
been having loads of problems getting a printer to work in debian. i keep
getting this. i have apsfilter loaded right now (as opposed to
magicfilter)...and lpr. the printer is an hp 4L laserjet.
i am using printtool to configure everything.
ObeseWhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I let users run X and mount drives? Thanks in advance.
Matt ObeseWhale Grinshpun
Tkdesk, set the Directory options (near bottom) to your mount
points.
But, more important, automate the unmounting of drives! E.g. in
Molnar Imre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I found in internet several files Netscape.ad for diverse netscape versions,
bat not for the version 4.73. Netscape accepted only the same version of
Netscape.ad! Please help.
copy Netscape.ad (for exmaple to be found at SuSE's ftp site ) to
Aaron Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the best way to downgrade from woody to potato?
I've never done it, but I think just editing /etc/apt/sources.list to
point to 'potato' instead of 'woody', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will do
it. apt-get friends just know that woody and
umount /mnt/$i 2 /dev/null
done
for i in $( ls /amnt/ )
do
umount /amnt/$i 2 /dev/null
done
Does GDM have PAM support so I can use LDAP authentication or if I'm
feeling lazy and not security conscious, a mysql table of users?
No idea, sorry.
-- Andre
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Aaron Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This kind of question is pretty hard to answer, since it depends very
intimately on your situation, what you use it for, your skill and comfort
level, etc. Probably the answer is, it isn't a big deal either way.
Maybe the best thing is to just try it;
William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi guys,
I found this little bit of trivia interesting but I cannot figure out how it
is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will
change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool,
however, when
I have a Psion S5 and would like to mount it on my potato box, which
sould be more elegant than minicom/Comms single file ymodem
transfers. p3nfsd should do, but I can't get it to work. I simply
don't understand the documentation. I'm even unsure if I would have to
install nfs in order to use
Bryan K. Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp
directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it
again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as
root, but I
Is there anything like apt-get dist-downgrade?
-- Andre
Is there a way to print to low memory laser printers? My LaserJet
Series II has 512k (or is it only 384k?) RAM, I would like to use cups
but can't print the test page at 150dpi. The 'laserjetlo' 150dpi
option from the magicfilter package works better, but the character
spacing on the second half
Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Due to hardware problems, I've had to reinstall. I've lost the
configuration that was semi-working.
Fetchmail is now eating my mail. It retrieves the messages, deletes
them from the server, and yet I have no mail. /var/spool/mqueue is just
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andre Berger writes:
I had pretty much the same symptoms. It happened because fetchmail didn't
know where to deliver the mail because localhost was unknown.
That should result in the mail being left on the server.
Right; I don't know what went wrong
James Waterhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everyone,
thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm a new user of debian
and I seem to be having troubles. I'm running ypbind on a mac (running
debian-68k 2.2) and I cannot get it to bind to my nis server (I've had
no problems with any
Richard Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know if the Debian 68k version of Linux will work with a Mac
840AV?
I almost had it running from the files I downloaded from the Debian site, but
the penguin would hang on what seemed to be the final step in the install. So
I bought
Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote:
In /etc/ppp, there are scripts ip-up and ip-down, which, in turn,
call programs and scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d, in which you
can put some script that echoes a connection
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and
CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was just wondering, what are the differences (if any) between using gpm
and the x-mouse?...and what are the advantages?
gpm will give you a mouse cursor on the consoles, so you have the
ability to paste selected text with the middle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) writes:
it as on a marketing/support factor. If any of your customers would come to
you and say hm... I would switch to Linux, but I kinda like the M$ Outlook.
If Linux had something like that Now you will be able to say Voila!
Evolution - right here
'man ps2ps' in this respect, and I'm not sure where to
put the pipe into my /etc/printcap.
Andre
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Barry Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when
using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my
ISP pop3 accounts.
I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the
background,
will _definitely_ compromize security.
btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?
Can't help you in this respect.
HTH
Andre
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the default configuration.
Andre
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No computer was harmed during the making of this message.
Sven Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you if there is any way to say them that my scanner is a MUSTEK ? (a
configuration file)
Try man sane-mustek
Andre
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:27:17PM -0500, Philippe wrote:
also, do you know how to configure an X manager so that a 1 button USB
macintosh mouse can copy and paste in xterminals? (it is able to select
text in emacs currently but not to paste by a click of a
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus 5.8.0, right
Dinesh Nadarajah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am looking for a window manager for debian that will
not soakup the system resources. Which one would you
suggest?
Thanks.
-D
My favourite combo is sawfish (CoolClean Theme) with tkdesk (Be'ish
style) instead of gnome-panel. Sawfish is not
Stefan Nobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Missing files in the compile.
The log follows. Snipped out all the good makes. This was a second run.
If you got postgresql with apt-get source... then there are 3 files:
*.orig.tar.gz
*.diff.gz
*.dsc
I get this error when I try to decode an attachment I received.
application/x-gzip; base64 - /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz
/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found
Process tm-file exited abnormally with code 127
How can I get rid of it? I'm using potato/PPC and
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
application/x-gzip; base64 - /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz
/usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found
Try putting /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/i386-debian-linux/ in your $PATH
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus 5.8.0, right? You
should upgrade.
I did, and the problem is gone. But I get errors on startup
I would like to add a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone which looks for a
file MAILONLY in the Home-directory of the non-root user who invoked
pon, and if this file exists, terminates the PPP session of this
user.
How can etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone know which user started pon?
The pppd process is owned
Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:
From man 1 bash:
Command Substitution
Command substitution allows the output of a command to
replace the command name. There are two forms:
$(command)
or
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, use
kill -9 $(pidof communicator-smotif.real)
or something like that.
Andre
Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:
From man 1 bash:
Command Substitution
Command substitution
I'm using Xemacs21.1.10(nomule)/GNUs 5.6.45 and I would like to filter
out all duplicate messages (the ones GNUs warns about).
I will have to set up a global kill file with a regexp, won't I? (It
would be great if someone could provide an example.)
Andre
Christopher Splinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using Xemacs21.1.10(nomule)/GNUs 5.6.45 and I would like to
filter out all duplicate messages (the ones GNUs warns about).
See section 6.3.11 in the Gnus manual:
Sorry, I have overlooked
Please: Avoid mails with subjects like Re: your mail and responses
like What version of windows. Respect the public character of this
mailing list.
Andre
Arthur H. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What version of windows?
Arthur H. Edwards
712 Valencia Dr. NE
Abq. NM 87108
(505)
server for the use with exim? How
does e.g. GNUs spool to exim and can I adopt this for Netscape?
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system
and use exim and fetchmail instead? Background: I have a dial-up
connection and a few
Your newsgroup is debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org.
Use a meaningful subject line, please.
Andre
Harold G. Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I'm shopping for an Apple PowerBook 500MHz 128MB 12GB hard drive.
1- can anyone suggest where to buy it at lowest cost?
2- any
Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system
and use exim and fetchmail instead? Background: I have a dial-up
connection and a few users (my family) with www-based free mail
accounts (gmx) who are used to Netscape, but want to write their mail
off-line. It would be much
Does anybody know the trick to turn off the Multipart Mime splitting
of messages with larger attachments in Xemacs21-nomule/GNUS by default?
Andre
I would try to remove the line
repeat_type=ms3
first.
Andre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have this with XF86 4.0 (compiled locally) but not with 3.3.6 installed
from Potato. I'm using a Logitech multiprotocol ps2 mouse in ps2 mode.
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Craig McPherson wrote:
Sorry for my quite unprofessional posting. The problem has been
solved now; my ISP's dialin-server had a wrong configuration.
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can you take a look at the syslog of the other host??? Maybe that gives
you some
I had a functional ssh (potato/ppc), but now it has stopped
working. The error message I get is
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
when I try to connect to the same hosts as before. I have no idea why.
(ssh is already purged and reinstalled.)
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poll mailin.uni-bonn.de with protocol POP3, with options
user myname there with password mypass is andre here
I'm absolutely clueless.
Andre
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