Re: ncurses3.4

1997-07-05 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: You can get it from ftp.i-connect.com, in Incoming, and info, et al will run again. That's ftp.i-connect.net I believe. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet to see a dupe. It's probably based off the MAC address, and therefore probably is unique. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

SUMMARY: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-05 Thread Douglas L Stewart
The easiest thing to do is just to add this in your XF86Config in the section for your video card: DefaultColorDepth 16 I wish xf86config had this as an option. Here's an example: Section Screen Driver svga # Use Device Generic VGA for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device

file-rc in debian 1.3

1997-06-03 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Anyone have an idea what went wrong here? I'll probably just copy the file from my laptop (which is already 1.3 and has the file), but I'm just curious if this is a bug or not. What now [?,d,r,q,fd,fc,p] (defer): (Reading database ... 34666 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 1 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and remove all the other modes. Actually, this is what I tried originally and it doesn't work. If you are running

making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-01 Thread Douglas L Stewart
What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards..

1997-05-30 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Thu, 29 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone out there has gotten any of the PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem cards working under Debian/Linux on a laptop? I'm looking at buying one.. but, of course I would like to buy a brand that I should be able to get to work under Debian.

printing to a NeWSprint 2.5 spool from emacs

1997-05-27 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Hi, At work I print from my Linux box to a Sparc that has a Sparc Printer attached to it. The box runs NeWSprint 2.5. When I do do M-x print-buffer from emacs, it puts a date and time and a page number at the top of the page (which I don't mind that much, but I wouldn't mind knowing how to turn

bind output in /var/adm/debug

1997-05-27 Thread Douglas L Stewart
I'm seeing a lot of warnings in /var/adm/debug because NS and MX records are pointing to CNAME's. Is this not allowed? If it's not, could someone point me to a reference that says that it's not, so I can point it out to the ISP that's got things set up this way. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

ftp.debian.org (ftp.cc.gatech.edu) should work now

1997-05-12 Thread Douglas L Stewart
I just exchanged some e-mail with [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the connection limit. The first thing he asked was which files I was trying to get ahold of. I felt kind of sheepish saying the Debian files, expecting *grumble* *grumble* another Linux user wasting our University's bandwidth but the guy

PLEASE HELP! debian apache package wiped my /etc/httpd!

1997-05-12 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Argh. I have an old Redhat system (3.x) that I've been converting to a Debian 1.2 system. Everything's been going okay... until now. I just installed the apache package and it _WIPED_ my /etc/httpd directory calling it obselete, without prompting me to do so, and withing saving the contents

another apache package problem

1997-05-12 Thread Douglas L Stewart
The release of the Apache server you are using supports dynamically loaded modules providing its functionality. Please wait while the modules needed by your configuration are determined... Checking for available modules. done. Checking for needed modules...

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-11 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sat, 10 May 1997, W.D.McKinney wrote: Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? Just signed up on the is list. I've used RedHat 2.x, 3.x, and 4.0, and I'm running Debian now. What's your question? -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: FTP down?!?

1997-05-10 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: What's going on at ftp.debian.org? You can't tell me they've had 100 anonymous users logged on for over 13 hours now. Do they put this up when mirrors are updated or something? I had the same problem last night. I managed to get in now and then, but

Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?

1997-05-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. I

slackware,redhat-debian

1997-04-20 Thread Douglas L Stewart
I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box and installing from scratch really isn't an option. Does anyone have any

ftp.debian.org - cannot assign requested address

1997-04-20 Thread Douglas L Stewart
get frozen/binary-i386/Packages.gz frozen/binary-i386/Packages.gz 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't build data connection: Cannot assign requested address. get contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't build data connection: Cannot

Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-19 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Finally! Someone with the same problem I've been having. I just figured it was a problem I'd caused, rather than a problem with the package... No one has answered this one yet though. :-( On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: The problem: netscape seems to be refusing to use disk cache.

problem with kernel sound configuration

1997-04-16 Thread Douglas L Stewart
into the shell script/program? I've got bash 2.0 installed. Is this the cause? --- Douglas L Stewart | Currently at Hughes in El Segundo, CA: Pencom Systems Administration | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bi

1997-04-15 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 14 Apr 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: Well, vi is not the only choice. If they're using X, why don't you tell them to use xedit? It's about as braindead as pico but can do search and replace, so it should be very easy to use. To take this silly editor thread a bit off-topic (and away from

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v11)

1997-04-14 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: Why does your page still have this comment: (There once was an official logo with a baby gnu on it (see above), but it has been dropped with the separation of Debian and the FSF.) We kissed and made up long ago. Below I've quoted this page:

Re: dselect replacement project (deity)y

1997-04-14 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, P.A.M. van Dam wrote: It would be really nice to have some highlever package order, like some commercial UNIX vendors have. For example one might have the choice to install everything as it suits himself or choose some highlevel packages like a KDE environment using Dutch

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). Is there a tool for this? I don't believe there

perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc. server mail.foobar.com \ proto pop3 \ user douglas\ pass sekret \ mda /usr/bin/procmail -f- \ fetchall

Re: IBM PS/2 computer

1997-04-07 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, System Account wrote: i have just recieved an old IBM PS/2 Model 80 computer (8580). I would like to install debian on it but when i boot with the rescue disk for the install it starts loading then uncompresses to this point: Don't these things have an MCA bus?

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
been modified and added over the past few years. It probably includes code from lots of places. --- Douglas L Stewart | Currently at Hughes in El Segundo, CA: Pencom Systems Administration | [EMAIL

Re: lilo.conf--vga=ask doesn't; APM

1997-04-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 4 Apr 1997, Carey Evans wrote: APM support can be in a 2.0.27 kernel if it's compiled in. Recompiling your kernel isn't too bad, if you make sure you have all the information about all your hardware and use make menuconfig or make xconfig. make-kpkg is supposed to make it easier too,

Re: code-names

1997-04-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but.. libc 6 hasn't been officially released yet and

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

1997-04-03 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Would anyone be interested in working on a GPL-ed clone of Qt? This would make KDE entirely free. I'd like to hear sentiment on this before I take any more steps. I think this is a good idea, but I don't see it gaining a whole lot of momentum anytime

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

1997-04-03 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Someone suggested that if we cloned Qt, we should do it using the Lesstif widget set rather than the one that Qt is presently using, and this might be an improvement on the present Qt. I've tested parts of KDE and it looks a lot better than any Motif

improving pine speed when using remote smtp server

1997-04-01 Thread Douglas L Stewart
I have a pretty unreliable internet connection to the SMTP server I have pine configured to use (and to anywhere else on the internet, because I use uu.net). Anyway, ISP ranting aside, I get really frustrated when I'm zooming through my mail and I send a quick reply but I have to wait 5 minutes

Re: RPM

1997-03-31 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Yes.. but... * Windows users probably don't need dependencies. Programs doesn't usally depend on external libraries... Ever heard of a DLL? :) All windows programs depend on them, and manually keeping up with the correct version

Re: RPM

1997-03-31 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Yes, not many programs use DLLs... And how many Windows programs do you know that can share a DLL's that provides some funcionality? In Linux there are lots of things using libraries like libjpeg, libtiff, libvga, etc... I was

Re: Pentium GCC

1997-03-30 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 30 Mar 1997, Siggy Brentrup wrote: I don't know to what extent it has been integrated, eventually using the -m586 flag in conjunction with -O? on gcc should optimize for pentiums. IMO there's no need for a special compiler version. Correct me if.I'm wrong. Apparently the gcc people are