Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they sort of work in 2.2 kernels, but I wouldn't count on it). Even if they work over NFS they may not work with other networked file systems or on non-Linux systems. So the fix is actually complicated, libPropList needs to

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I understand that fcntl locks don't work over NFS, but apparently fcntl used to set errno to ENOLCK if you tried it, while now it sets it to EACCESS. That's apparently why the same code worked fine on slink. libPropList will work fine if it's

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-14 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, As someone who's written lots of code toward making free Unices easier to use, let me just say that I think this supposed conflict between power and ease of use is total nonsense. Even if a tool is for power users, it can be pleasant for those users to learn and use or it can have an

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper circumstances. Was there? Hmm.. Yeah

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been having just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the ?.deb?s, and then just beeps and goes back to the initial window... Sure enough...

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Where do I get a working version gnome-apt ? Since about one month when selecting Complete run apt prints Start Stop to the console but does not do anything. It shows the progress window for about half a second so I can read nothing.

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly but nothing works with gnome-apt :( It only shows the progress-window for about half a second but does nothing. I use potato and run an update every day. My

Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming

1999-08-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c to complie it and get the following message: /tmp/cca002281.o: In function `main': /tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay' /tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

1999-07-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
Basically, X has an additional layer of abstraction; apps aren't talking directly to the hardware or even using a relatively low-level interface; instead they have to talk to X via a special protocol. This means that X applications can be run over the network (network transparent). Another

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things as the current GTK theme; OR No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're root. You could set the theme for the root user though. 2) Is there

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Leen Besselink wrote: Maybe it's a reason to change it's behavour, maybe we could have it ask for a password and do sudo in the background or something, when installing. yeah, it will be fixed eventually. We might need to wait for Debian to have PAM. Patches gladly

Re: gnome-xml for Slink?

1999-06-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote: interface.c:28: gtk-xmhtml/gtk-xmhtml.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [interface.o] Error 1 Which I think means that I am missing gnome-xml. Problem is I can't find it on the ftp site, only a cvs module. There is a libxml-dev in the

Re: How to set default resolution in XF86?

1999-06-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote: Whenever I start X, it comes up with a default resolution of (I think) 640x480. I normally run at 1280x1024, which means I have to hit CTRLALTKP+ two or three times to select the correct resolution. Is there any way I can specify that as the default

Re: apt-get didn't automatically install dependency

1999-06-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: I thought that apt-get was supposed to automatically install dependency packages--is this true? Does this problem indicate a bug in apt-get, or a bug in the karpski package definition? Should I report this to someone? It's a bug in the

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
First of all, calm down. Debian is produced by volunteers, on their own time. It's not a company and no one is being paid. So if you aren't willing to work on the web site, at least be polite! On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Hall wrote: Webmaster at Debian, How in the world do I download Debian?

Re: Abiword space-bar weirdness

1999-06-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed abiword 0.5.5-1 It works OK till I use one of the pull-down menus (for example the font point size menu). Therefater every time I hit the space bar, that menu appears again! This is fixed in newer versions, which will

Re: KDE's delay time.

1999-06-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: I find that after clicking on buttons in the control panel there is a considerable delay before KDE comes up with the application or menu. I doesn't matter that much, but I was wondering if this is because of my system, or a general quirk of

Re: GNOME problems

1999-06-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Some programs take up more than the screen, and I can't see all of the program. How can I fix this? I've gone through XF86config and XF86setup, using 800x600, and saying I didn't want virtual desktops. It depends on the window manager -

Re: Mozilla is..errm..slow?

1999-06-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I installed Mozilla today on my potato system. It was very slow. I don't know how to say this, but if this is how it is supposed to perform it is no better than it's dad Netscape. In fact, it is worse. I really hope it is my system, but then

Re: c++ docs

1999-06-01 Thread Havoc Pennington
The standard string streams stuff isn't supported yet in egcs, I don't think. To find out if something is supported, see if it's there. For docs, read Stroustrup. :-) There's also: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/ which is helpful. Havoc

Re: Netscape Issues

1999-05-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Kent West wrote: Is there something wrong with my Netscape, with my system, with the way I'm doing things, or what? Sounds like bugs in Netscape - not much you can do about it except report them to Netscape. The next generation of Netscape will be free software so

Re: C function manpages

1999-05-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Alec Smith wrote: On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc' for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which package might I install to get

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Jim Foltz wrote: There are times when I need to cut and paste the output from a command line program into a graphical program. The problem occurs when the output is more than one screen long. I just thought it would be quite nice to be able to redirect the output into

Re: programming X

1999-05-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
Assuming you have the X devel package as others have suggested, you may also need to tell the compiler where to find the headers: -I/usr/X11R6/include #include X11/Xlib.h should then work. Xlib is beastly and nasty, so if you aren't very familiar with C (especially if you're easily

Re: Emacs and the ALT key.

1999-05-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Allen B. Riddell wrote: the ALT key (on my PC keyboard) doesn't seem to work in emacs.. It works in netscape -- and aside from that, I have absolutely no problems at all with anything... Probably the Windows key (if you have one) is bound to the Meta keysym, which

Re: Smooth, Fast Mouse Motion

1999-05-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jerry Gardner wrote: I've been trying for several months now to get smooth, fast mouse pointer motion in X without luck. I've tried various 'xset m' settings, and I can either get smooth, slow mouse motion, or fast, jerky motion, but not fast, smooth motion. There

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp on it. Now it is running Debian

Re: What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error

1999-05-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Min Xu wrote: I tried that. It gives me: ... Core was generated by `a.out'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.

Re: bash functions

1999-05-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 7 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While doing some reading, I came across a section regarding adding functions to .bash_profile like this tarc () { tar -cvzf $1.tar.gz $1 } but whenever I try to source the .bash_profile I get syntax error, unexpected EOF messages. Just move the

Re: gshutdown

1999-05-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to my panel. I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root, You should know that this is a *huge* security hole. You're welcome to have such a hole if your system

Re: What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error

1999-05-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried several utils to debug one C program ( hoc from Software Tools ) which gives me segmentation error but got no clue from them. gdb is the tool, but you will need source code and a binary with debugging symbols to get anywhere. gdb comes

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Thanks for all that responds to my questions. I believe the reason why X server crashes on my system is a minor configuration problem. Here's the error message. I'd appreciate it if anyone can direct me to fix this problem. Thanks in advance!

Re: X eating all my memory!!

1999-05-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote: This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has only been up just under 2 days. Remember that applications can allocate server-side resources, such as

Re: Switching windows managers

1999-05-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I was wondering if there is any software available that makes it easy to switch window managers without having to edit too many ini files. You just have to edit ~/.xsession, change exec foowm to exec barwm. If you get Gnome 1.0 though, it will

Re: X, netscape

1999-05-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
You almost certainly broke something. Netscape works fine on several different systems here. In fact it works great because of the magic wrapper scripts Debian installs. I suggest reading: http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/ch-docs.html#s-docs-support then asking again. In

Re: Debian, laptops, and X

1999-04-25 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Will Lowe wrote: I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot Windows and Debian. I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use emacs and font-lock

Panasonic CF-M32 install

1999-04-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, I just got one of these; it's a cute little subnotebook. Naturally I want to put Debian on it. Problem is that the 2.1 rescue disk doesn't quite work. The boot screen comes up, I press return, it loads the kernel off the disk; then when I'd normally expect the kernel messages to start

Re: Panasonic CF-M32 install

1999-04-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Of course, I'm a moron and this is one of the few questions in the FAQ. Thanks, Havoc

Re: Should I be worried about this?

1999-04-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Nope, that just means one of the list subscribers has a full mailbox. They'll probably get removed from the list automatically after a certain number of messages bounce (if the list is configured to do that). Havoc

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, virtanen wrote: in a dos-machine to make them smaller and 'unzip' them in the debian-machine? Debian packages are already compressed, so you can't really make them significantly smaller via compression. What about dividing deb-packages into smaller pieces? Which kind

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote: 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video Apt will not downgrade any package, I don't believe. You mean that the X package overwrote your manually installed copy. (Not to nitpick, just trying to clarify so we are all

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-01 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files.

Re: Latest Versions of Gnome

1999-03-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Rootguru wrote: ...where are they? I haven't seen a new gnome .deb since 1.0.1. Have a look at http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2, but be aware that these packages are not yet in the distribution for a reason (they will be moved once they're better tested). You

Re: X11

1999-03-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
When Linux boots up xdm is automatically started (which is fine). The GUI login screen appears. When I login in as root or any other user X11 seems to try to start but then flickers and returns to the login screen. If any one knows how to correct this I would be grateful. In the

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb suffix slightly frightens me from

Re: is this normal ? (on my debian)

1999-03-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, mao jud wrote: i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem, but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that. there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ... is this normal or can someone pls

Re: help with GNOME

1999-03-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, John Finlay wrote: I upgraded my debian installation from 2.0 to 2.1 using dselect and ftp. I figured I'd try GNOME so I installed most everything I could figure out that was GNOME related. (I find this installation process really clumsy and error prone. Is there any way

Re: segmentation errors in APT-GET

1999-03-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I wanted to upgrade to slink but there were some broken packages (including for some reason libc6) which I opted to fix with apt-get -f install and now Oops. You broke your system at some point. This means all bets are off. Does anyone know

Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya know, I don't want to offend any of the developers or anything, but I'm curious about something... Why is it that Debian is always the last to get packages for any given product? When KDE came out, rpms were right around the corner. This

Re: Debian/RedHat at our university

1999-03-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: I would like my uni to distribute Debian in stead of RedHat and for this, i would like some people to give reasons for this. It is a potential of 30.000 users, so i find this quite important. I wil bundle the answers and send them to the chairman

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, P Asokan wrote: If I want to write an install program, whom do I get in touch? I do know C fairly well and I would give this a crack. Will someone point me to areas of study, persons to contact? There is already a big plan for this, you might start with:

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: On the basis that linux is soundly based on ideology and a belief that the internet should remain free, debian may well be the best distribution, and on that basis, redhat the worst. Just for perspective: Red Hat is by far the best commercial

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: I strongly agree. I have personal convictions that debian is the higher quality dist, but I cannot reccomend it to the corporation I work for simply because of the install process and dselect issues. The install is actually quite easy in

Re: APT - Uninstall Leftovers

1999-02-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems with apt and it's removal of packages. I tried to install xrn (the x news reader) and it installed cnews and inews removing my leafnode. I then had it reinstall leafnode, since it was properly configured and working. Of

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Kirk Hogenson wrote: good. Someone (in fact, it is the same person who wrote QtC (Roberto Alsina, who I quoted above)) is starting wxQt, a wrapper around Qt for the wxWindows library. This would allow developers to sit on the fence in the gnome-kde wars -- compiling

Re: QT1.42 Errors....

1999-02-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Brant Wells wrote: I'm trying to write some QT apps, just really toying around with C++, but when I try to compile ANY of the QT apps, using the command line: g++ -I/usr/local/qt/include -L/usr/X11R6 -lqt filename.CC I get an error message about a whole bunch of

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do? This is my first attempt at compiling a kernel. I thought I would go ahead and try 2.2.1 instead of the one I have 2.0.34. It was my understanding that dselect would download, place the new kernel in the

Re: is there a trick to removing emacs?

1999-02-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: I want to remove all the emacs stuff and use vim as my editor. Can I safely remove emacs without doing something special first? You can safely remove any Debian package, just type dpkg --remove emacs20 (or the name of whichever Emacs flavor you've

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other

Re: Gnome and dependencies

1999-02-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: I also show libglib1.1.5, libglib1.1.6, libglib1.1.9, libglib1.1.11, libglib1.1.12 and libglib1.1.13 as well as libgtk1, libgtk1.1.12, libgtk1.1.13, libgtk1.1.14 and libgtk1.1.15 as being available. Are these all independent libraries or are they

Re: Debian locks up after short time

1999-02-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Mike Archer wrote: Hello everyone. I have a newly setup Debian Linux box running only Debian. My problem is that anytime i let debian sit for more than a minute or two, the system totally locks up. the keyboard doesn't respond at all, not even NumLock or anything. I know

Re: Why WordPerfect won't run....

1999-01-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Brant Wells wrote: My WP8 installed correctly, but I am unable to execute it for some reason... If I start an X-Term session, I get a command not found error... :( The following works for me: $ cd whereveryouinstalledit/wpbin $ ./xwp (or just: $ wherever/wpbin/xwp

Re: About Gnome Panel and KDE applications

1999-01-01 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I installed gnome-panel and gnome-session in my home computer (a mix of hamm and slink) and the panel has n menus with all the applications of KDE. Very ugly. Anyone know how to fix this? In the new Gnome .99 (which isn't

Re: Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

1998-12-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Ryan King wrote: Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? Terminals can be modified in various ways by sending them special command sequences (control characters). You can tell the terminal to use boldface, change size, and lots of more arcane things.

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: This bug is 100% reproducable. Sugestions? Email Corel. It's almost certainly a WordPerfect bug, and since WordPerfect is not free software there's nothing anyone else can do about it. Havoc

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that apt would replace dselect and provide a more user friendly package manager. But so far I've just heard about apt-get which sounds like just a script for installing debian packages

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: I would love to package this as soon as dependencies are packaged. When do you suppose that will be? (I'll be on vacation from 12/23-1/3) Hey, great! I don't really know - I think Jim is working on the Gnome stuff (it's a huge job), I don't know

Re: What does this mean with dselect

1998-12-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text I believe it means that there are newer versions of these packages, but for whatever reason Apt is not going

Re: Beginning C

1998-12-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: I'd like to start learning C (I know a bit of latex and enough basic/newtonscript to do simple math stuff, but that's about it) and was wondering what a good book would be to serve as in intro to programming c on linux (and as an intro to programming

Re: dselect uses

1998-12-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Tom wrote: If dselect is replaced in the install process could dselect still be used as a way to give users information about what applications are on the system? It's being replaced with a new program or programs. The GNOME Apt frontend is coming along well:

Re: KDE 1.0.....

1998-12-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: Is KDE 1.0 available anywhere in *.deb format - does anyone know if debian is going to continue releasing KDE? I have the old KDE installed, and it's a little buggy - if debian is vetoing them, maybe I should think about switching to Gnome? But is

Re: Piping unpipable output.

1998-12-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Christian Lavoie wrote: I need to write down the output (actually, I need the error message) that the startx command gives me. (The nice 'startx err' doesn't work...) Try: startx err 21 That should be the correct magic incantation. :-) Havoc

Re: latex.....

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. Tabbing in LaTeX is almost always the wrong thing to do. LaTeX handles all whitespace for you if you use the correct semantic commands, and the results are very nice. Tabs are for typewriters. :-)

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
(hacky and kind of lame) latex macros, perhaps they will give you some ideas (ignore the m4 stuff, just extract the latex): Havoc m4_define(R_HEADER, ` \documentclass[10pt]{article} %\title{TITLEHERE} %\date{DATEHERE} \author{Havoc Pennington} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.3in} \setlength

Re: Ports

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Rino Mardo wrote: Almost all new PCs nowadays come with a PS/2 connector for the mouse. For your attempt, use the device/port /dev/psaux. This is the PS/2 equivalent in Linux. This is if your mouse plugs into the little round socket. If it goes in the trapezoid

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Richard Lyon wrote: Huh... Latex can do what Shao wants without too much fuss. Tabbing environment seems like fuss to me, compared to normal latex. It's just the wrong way to look at latex; even if this is relatively easy, it's a bad approach in general. You might as

Re: Gnome Panel.

1998-12-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: I just downloaded and installed the new Gnome debs from slink, and tried to run gnome-session, but the Gnome Panel applet loads, but doesn't finish drawing itself. it eats up however much processor time is availiable, but even after sitting for 15+

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

1998-12-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote: Please help me for the right understanding: the /root contains only the kernel and the device drivers, the /home is the working area / space for the user (with space for store of their own data?), the /usr is the main area comparable to

Re: Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop environments, window managers, etc.? Check out the tutorial on this - http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html/ it should give you at least a partial answer. 3. I currently

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: main() A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do: int main(int argc, char* argv[]) then return something from main, or call exit(). maybe the lack of a return or exit call from main prevents the io buffers from getting flushed?

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: int main(void) is also correct, and until ANSI C90 comes out, main() will do. You're right, I'm a dork, or at least my memory is foggy :-) then return something from main, or call exit(). maybe the lack of a return or exit call from main

Re: Dialout within X

1998-11-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Kenneth K. Ho wrote: I have just installed hamm distribution (kernel 2.0.34) onto my system, and X won't let me dial out. Even worse, to dial in, I have to reboot the system! There are no error messages, just that the modem won't respond (tested it myself). X has

Re: Debian GNU/Linux question

1998-11-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, cyberjackz wrote: Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product?? Yes, it should. (Debian isn't a product tho in the traditional sense, it's a totally free volunteer effort. So you might as well try it and see if it works.) Havoc

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

1998-11-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: if (x) { x = 0; } How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about this? M-x info m xemacs RET should be helpful. (well, I don't use XEmacs, but this

Re: C++ header for 'push_back'

1998-10-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: reverse(s.begin(), s.end()); s.push_back('\n'); cout s; } The compile complains that: /home/bernie/cpp/stl.cpp: In function `int main()': /home/bernie/cpp/stl.cpp:17: no matching function for call to

Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
There's a dos2unix command, looks like it's in the 'sysutils' package; just 'dos2unix *' if they're all in the same directory; if they're in different places you can do an appropriate find, like: dos2unix `find -name *.cc` or something like that. You might want to read the dos2unix man page,

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Independently of the KDE issue, there's a question I've wondered about for some time. Has the GPL ever been tested in court (i.e. has there ever been a case that turned on it)? No, I've never heard of that. It's been successfully used to get

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? Text terminals do. But there's a way around it - from the Emacs manual's discussion of keybindings (which you may find interesting, btw): TAB, RET, BS, LFD, ESC and DEL

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi, I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all keys except for u-umlaut which would end up

Re: accessing Win95-hours50-to-load filesystems

1998-09-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, spOOL wrote: I have mounted my dos partition in Debian and can see all of the files but can't use any of them. I should be able to use Wordview to view Word docsright. Someone said that I need to have fat/vfat compiled into the kernel.how do I do this??

Re: GTK-- development

1998-09-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking at gnome, and programming in GTK. I would like to try GTK--, but the GTK-- devel package is dependant on the gtk1.0 devel package, which conflicts with the gtk1.1 devel package, which gnome wants. If that makes any sense :)

Re: Gnome/GTK

1998-09-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: 1. I happened to have both 1.0.5 and 1.1.x installed on my system. This is the first part that really confused building with gnome because they require the 1.1.x now, but for some reason my /usr/lib/libgtk.so and libgtk.so.1 pointed to

Re: Gnome/GTK

1998-08-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. Try doing this. If you don't understand config.log send a copy to the list (gnome-list@gnome.org is probably a better

Re: debian book

1998-08-29 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Zheng Wang wrote: Is there a published book about debian linux, or online material? Thanks. There is an unfinished one at http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html/ Havoc

Re: Trying to get started in the Linux world

1998-08-29 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: I would suggest simply creating a swap partition of about 128MB and put the rest as one partition to start with. Play with Linux for about 6 months, then look to see how much space you are using in /var and /usr then back the system up, repartition

Re: Gnome

1998-08-22 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Yesterday i upgrade my old version of gnome (0.25) to the 0.27 version. Now i cannot put any of this `application-icons '(such as cdplayer, ppp-dialer, ...). What is happened? Hi, Basically the applets are broken in 0.27. Hopefully there will

xterm-debian

1998-08-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, I just upgraded to 2.0, I was running an old pre-2.0. Now when I ssh to a remote server I get complaints about the lack of a terminfo entry for xterm-debian. Isn't there a way to add a terminfo entry in my remote home directory? How? Or is there a better solution? Thanks, Havoc Pennington

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
.. surely there is an equivalent? I just cant find the package :) Well, the 'strcpy' man page is in the manpages-dev package, that sounds like it might be what you want. The gcc docs ought to come with the gcc package. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
be some free stuff on the web though, try www.infoseek.com. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
issue, not the compiler. You could look at the kernel console code and some X server code, and the specs for the hardware you want to program. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp

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