Re: horrible single `quotes' in font fixed

2000-11-11 Thread Vee-Eye
Vi scribis: Hello all, Hi! I've used the font `fixed' as long as I can remember and I liked the What's THE font fixed? Checking out xfontsel, there are 3 fonts named fixed and a few other ones, which are fixed fonts fact that the backtick (`) and the single quote (') had a symmetrical

Re: To print to hpdeskjet 840C

2000-11-05 Thread Vee-Eye
Vi scribis: I want to print to a hp deskjet color printer... You know which filter I must to use? ¿Que tal? Your choice depends on what you want to print: ( from http://www.linuxprinting.org ) mn magazine c't - Magazin fuer Computertechnik (21/2000) recommends for

Re: Migrating mail from Outlook Express

2000-11-01 Thread Vee-Eye
Vi scribis: I am in the process of migrating from Windows to Debian and am gradually setting up all the bits I'm going to need in order to dump Windows entirely. [...] Does anyone know, is there a utility for converting OE5 files to something Linux can read? Or a way of automating the

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-28 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi, cool - i'd like to do this until i get a chance to sit down and learn netfilter. i assume i can simply cd into /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/wherever and do a modprobe -a ipchains.o? what is the appropriate module? If you want to stay with iptables you have to compile a module for your new

Re: wget can't find remote directory

2000-10-27 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: 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

Re: wget can't find remote directory

2000-10-27 Thread Vee-Eye
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 seems, that the links are simply numbered

Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: Hi, I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas with tabs. I tried using: sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving the rest of the

Re: Installing tar files

2000-10-22 Thread Vee-Eye
Ok, I've run the tar tzvf filename.tar.gz command.. what's next??.. isn't there some kind of an 'install' command?? ^^^ Normally there isn't an unique install command, like unix isn't unique ... Change to the newly created directory (cd xxx) and read the README

Re: HP 4L

2000-10-16 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: Hello. Hello! I've tried to make my HP Laserjet 4L to work for two nights now, and I am in I've no personal experience with that printer, but we'll see. need for some help. The problem is: gs prints ps-files so that only one fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed

Re: Mutt's alias file

2000-10-13 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: I have the following in my .muttrc : set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases and the following in my ~/.mail_aliases : alias debian-user Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org You have to source that file, too, IIRC: source ~/.mail_aliases Now, when I fire up Mutt and send an

Re: Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: Hi all. I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I had used Redhat with rpm. Where can I find information about package manager on

Re: procmail postfix

2000-10-04 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:27:27PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hmm, when i used postfix some time ago, i had to enable procmail in the main.cf. search in the main.cf for procmail or command or something... :) I found that one but it

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

2000-09-30 Thread Vee-Eye
Can't offer copious elucidation, but Can somebody explain the subject line to me please. I have read it in a linux training document and it is not doing what the document says it should do. What I do not understand and do not know where to find documentation on it is the '\verb|\|000'

Mer: VI Band Ispell

2000-09-28 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: How cn i use Ispell in VI? I'm using VI as my editor for Mutt and want to be able to check my spelling. I'm a VI newbie so any help is greatly appreciated ;-) ^^ nvi/elvis or, of course, *vim* I recommend using aspell instead of ispell (replace

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-09-28 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: Is there an address book for Mutt? I'm running woody. Have a look at abook From the man page: abook is a simple text-based address book program. It contains Name, Email, Address and Phone fields. It is designed for use with mutt, but can be equally useful on its own.

Re: My internet!

2000-09-26 Thread Vee-Eye
Do you know where I can try and configure the ip/subnet/gateway for the card? /etc/network/interfaces (man interfaces; man ifup) with some clear examples HTH MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510

Re: EPSON-EPL-5700L

2000-09-21 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: hi, can you tell me how I must configure debian to use the the printer. If I use magicfilterconfig it doesnt work. Perhaps I have the wrong filter...? Marc Hi Marc! Bad news, though. According to www.linuxprinting.org the EPL-5700L doesn't work (Known not to work). But

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Vee-Eye
No problem. It isn't for me either ... Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) I suppose you are aware of the thread, hence you know what has been tried and I suppose it didn't work for you ;-) If you could describe your problem more

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: What's the output of lpr -V -V your-file.ps? That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I don't see -V listed in lpr's man page. From man lpr (woody): -V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity. Use debug flags for

Re: mutt macro syntax

2000-09-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Hello, In my Muttrc i have the line: bind pager - delete-thread I tried: macro pager - delete-thread exit but that doesn't work. Does somebody know the right syntax ? The manual is not particularly helpful. egbert delete-thread is already bound to ^D (Ctrl-d) from:

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi Tom! So I tried switching to lprng to see if that would fix it, but no: it won't even configure, dpkg tells me: Setting up lprng (3.6.24-2) ... Starting printer spooler: dpkg: error processing lprng (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: And, like I said, I can print plain text files fine with lpr... also I noticed that I can print in Abiword (but it's not suitable for me because of the other problems I mentioned). So I don't know what's stopping me from being able to print in gv and kword. You are able to

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line breaks after each line. It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, with a guideline that the text be only left-justified. If you could

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
And then select the old uid with uid and delete it with deluid. Hubert But there is a problem with publically distributed keys, as someone (Ethan, I think) pointed out in the previous (Nietzsche: Die ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen ...IIRC) thread. Here is the gnupg-handbook speaking: For

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-17 Thread Vee-Eye
Hello people, Hi Carlos, The question sounds quiet familiar to me; I think you asked that one a couple of days before and got some answers already, but anyway ... 1) Why don't you generate a new key (gpg --gen-key)? 2) You could add an uid to your key (gpg --edit-key your key and then with

Re: keyboard setting? (debian hates me part II)

2000-09-12 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: Hi all. I can not set the keyboard map in my debian 2.2 (potato). Symbols do not corespond with keyboard!. I try to 'loadkeys es' it responds 'Loading es.kmap' but it seems to do nothing (yes I have a spanish keyboard!:). And the 'Ctrl-C' sequence does not send an

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-10 Thread Vee-Eye
I never had to set those (locale environment variables) to get the german keyboard to work (I set them to get german messages, though), but it's quiet interesting to know more about internals. My question is now: When you are prompted to choose a keyboard, you could suppose it working after the

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Vee-Eye
The keymap that should be loaded is /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz Normally with kbdconfig you can browse through the directory of /usr/share/keymaps/ and choose the one you need. If you are using console-tools after the installation it should get your

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Vee-Eye
thats what i have done. sveral times, with several latin-1 packages. Everytime the same: The testing works o.k. but the console doesn't want it.. What does that mean? When configuring the keymap with kbdconfig

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-08 Thread Vee-Eye
Though quiet obsolete, just to be complete I didn't get this right in the second mail, it must be, of course: spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs? :!expand -t tabwide % | lpr

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs?

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Vee-Eye
Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? No, because normally I typeset my documents with latex ... I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the spacing was terrible. It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim what's about expanding the tabs?

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-06 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: On 05-Sep-2000 Carlos Laviola wrote: Hello people, I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I am using a

[OFF TOPIC] Postscript Printer

2000-09-03 Thread Vee-Eye
I'm looking for a reliable and affordable postscript printer. I heard Lexmarks Optra series could do the job. Does anyone has experience with those or could recommend me another one that fits in the nice reli- and affordable category? Thanks in advance, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto:

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-30 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi Owen! Why don't you use junkbuster as filtering proxy? There you'll have a blockfile that works with regular expressions (ad*.*.* for example): dpkg -s junkbuster: Package: junkbuster Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Paul Haggart

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone unzip this type of file? Just unzip and untar it with tar: tar xIf x.tar.bz2 ^ If you only want to unzip it, if this is of any

Re: Inetd problems?

2000-08-17 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: After upgrading to woody, I now see these messages: Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: smtp/tcp: bind: Address already in use Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: ftp/tcp: bind: Address already in use Aug 15 04:03:41 pedgr634 inetd[3373]: time/tcp: bind: Address

Re: port sentry

2000-08-16 Thread Vee-Eye
There is a (non-free) package for woody: dpkg -s portsentry: Package: portsentry Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/net Installed-Size: 121 Maintainer: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.0-1.4 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2), netbase, sysklogd, procps, debconf,