indeed be my cue to do something positive.
Thank you for your superb reply!
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Don't know exactly what did it, but I started xscanimage as sudo root,
then started Gimp as sudo root, then did 'ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sga' and
somewhere along the line it all worked and I can now use the scanner as
a regular user
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something going but never know what actually did it. Can you still
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is a guide to getting the Psion to link with a Linux box so
that would be *very* useful!
Note that my experiences have been with the Series 3 and 3a - I have
never used a Siena so it may be different.
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up the next time i have re-booted.
Only ever happened with a RedHat system - don't know why.
What kernel are you using? There are a couple of AMD K6-2 patches
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patches to the 2.0.35 kernel to enable UDMA in the past and noticed only
a *very* small increase in HD transfer speeds.
I for one am thrilled with the new kernel! (Using 2.2.1).
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/ttyS1 -o1 -t T12345678 letter.001 to actually send it.
I tried setting up a printer queue but got confused with exactly what to
put into a filter.
BTW, I use magicfilter to print.
Any ideas?
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the process to add a 'phone number might be a problem.
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George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available
disk
space in an msdos floppy format.
That is exactly why I use the minix filesystem. Maybe that's the
compromise you need!!
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connection, try adjusting the TCP window for
that interface. If I remember correctly, on Redhat 5.2 (at least) you
do that through an ifconfig option (ifconfig ppp0 window 8000?).
Try setting it to 8000.
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specify AF: -A af1,af2.. or --af1 --af2 or af_route
I do not have the technical expertise to work out what I am supposed to
do now.
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mail with Exmh and Debian? If so, please tell me
how to do it.
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This is the first I have heard about the problem, though I have noticed
a lot of mail on my system for root originating from the cracklib cron
entry.
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* and it has always performed
flawlessly. I am using version 24b-2 and junkbuster 2.0-7 -- both Debian
packages.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me!
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to the correct port at all, then I decided to
downgrade from the unstable version of Junkbuster I had been trying to
use to the stable version (2.0-4) and this worked. I then added the line
you suggested to /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile and wwwoffle kicked in too.
Very nice!
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to the 2.2 kernel, oh hell!!!
Incidently I booted into Windows 98 and the scanner worked perfectly
well.
Any help would be *very* much appreciated.
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and directories involved.
The programmers out there will see all this as incredibly clumsy, but
as a non-programmer I am just pleased it all works so well!!
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Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a really simple matter then of having an executable script for
each provider which copies the files around. Here is an example for
one
IP, eidosnet:
cp /etc/resolv.conf.eidosnet /etc/resolv.conf
cp /etc/chatscripts/provider.eidosnet /etc
reports about the Moneydance installer -
it is patently not working on many boxes regardless of distribution.
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I use icqnix ans can easily get it to start up when logging on to my IP.
I do not know how to get it to close when I log off however. Can anyone
help, please?
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will always
terminate when I log off whithout having to find out what pid it is
using before I can kill it. If I do that I might as well close it
myself. 'terminate' does not exist on my system, according to locate.
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I have only tested it so far with Moneydance, and this works fine.
Hope this helps someone.
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to get broken apps working - but apart
from the apps mentioned above all is well.
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Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while
looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted
a fix ..
http://www.stardivision.com
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Hi Will. If you go to http://www.stardivision.com and click on 'Support'
then in the left-hand frame click on 'Download' you will see the fix.
I just checked again and it is still there!
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to have been cleared.
I know about the recent decision by Debian not to distribute KDE debs,
but surely there are some debs somewhere?
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of software appear?
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will
eventually fill this role, but it does seem a long time coming!
Take care.
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( 2.90.29-2)
libstdc++2.8 (version 2.90.29-1) is installed.
dpkg: error processing libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing libc6
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb
What should I do?
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Many thanks to all those who posted replies to my plea for help. I
downloaded the newer libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb and installed it. Once
this had been done, I was able to install libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb without
problems.
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Colormate PS. This will produce a nice colour postscript
document which your usual printing system can process. Don't forget that
the object of the exercise is to simply produce a good ps document - the
actual printer make you select in WP does not matter.
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the kernel a few times because,
apparently, this will show up an unstable configuration re. CPU speed
etc..
Just make sure you get a good super socket 7 motherboard and 128 pin
memory which runs at 100 MHz. I have a GigaByte GA-5SG100 with the SiS
chipset.
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It also resumes broken downloads.
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introduced a new model, the Palm IIIe which
is a cheaper version of the IIIx. They will soon cease manufacture of the
Palm III. The IIIe and IIIx have better screens. The V is a different
beast, to my mind more of a designer toy.
Get back to me if you need more help/advice.
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differences between distributions. The book I originally
bought came with a distribution by Caldera, I have since moved through
Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera Lite and eventually to Debian.
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domains to show correctly, but haven't had to
change a username before.
Thanks for your help.
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. Somehow I realised that a recent apt
session had not completed. Can't remember what caused the problem, but I
cleared it and apt started loads of configuration. After that I had my
system back to a functional state.
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for inexpensive Slink CD-ROM's,
http://www.cheapbytes.com makes a nice Official Debian distro that
comes
in at a very low price.
I have used Cheapbytes before when I used RedHat. Excellent company.
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?
Thinking about it, there are not that many choices available for Windows
either - I was investigating some for use by my students and it appeared
most 'alternatives' were based on IE and just provided a different front
end.
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will not attempt to upgrade packages dependent on the package
held back. Perhaps someone else can verify this?
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the tar.gz source, compiled
and installed it surely all sorts of dependencies on my system would be
broken?
Any advice would be gratefully received. RTFMs also gratefully received
if they also point to the correct FM!
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Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use
ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is
to
compile ppp with ms-chap support.
Sorry to reply to my own post but I manged to sort it out. I did
recompile ppp
] to the outside world. I
am using Exim 3-02.5 on my Potato system.
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George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
I have made sure I have localhost in the correct place in exim.conf,
I
have checked the fetchmail.FAQ (section T3) but still can't work it
out.
TIA for any help.
Do you see Exim's greeting message
, but naturally can
be used alone.
Hope this helps. Just grab it and install and see what you think.
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Thanks, guys, for the input. It certainly looks like they don't use
MS-CHAP despite references to it all over the place.
Looking forward to the free access at the weekend :)
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1999-08-06 09:03:20 connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] (gsmh) refused
-
There is nothing at all in paniclog.
Thanks again for your help.
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: \
*
No idea why it is there, but I remmed it out and now exim works fine
Thanks a lot for all your help, George.
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on this system' which makes things a lot easier if your
username on your Linux box is not the same as your email name.
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mail collected will be processed by your box as if it were for user
gsmh.
Sorry if I have misunderstood what you needed to know.
Take care.
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(genuine) motif on their system, I would be happy to pay
you if you could compile it for me if you haven't used it yourself :)
Thanks very much.
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thing happens. It looks like the
problems is not with Window Maker. Anyone else seen this?
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then my password. *All* mail for that hostname
is then downloaded by fetchmail - the problem is that any mail for other
users appears in *my* mailbox (/var/spool/mail/gsmh).
How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the
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/Mail/School
elif $h_x-mailing-list matches ^debian-(.*)@lists\\.debian\\.org
then seen save $home/Mail/Debian
endif
I have a good few more rules in .forward, but these will suffice for
illustration purposes.
Hope this helps.
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is closest to
the solution - see my other message in the thread.
Thanks again.
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not read the documntation.
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successfully created dozens of kernel images this way,
including the latest 2.2.12
Having said that, I am concerned I am not using a necessary command.
What effect would me not using it have?
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Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*- On 27 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12
Oh, I didn't realise you needed make-kpkg clean -
What effect would me not using it have?
On a prestine source it is not needed. But if you have used make-kpkg
in the past
time ago.
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what the heck!
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matches ^debian-(.*)@lists\\.debian\\.org
then seen save $home/Mail/Debian
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) *or* since I compiled and installed kernel 2.2.12
Any ideas?
Thanks very much.
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to root.root?
Thanks again.
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If you are not using exim, you can add something to your .fetchmailrc,
but I am not sure what. In my case I do not need to run fetchmail as
root, just as my normal self.
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id QAA13856
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:31:46 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Pamela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Pamela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fw: re MS Office
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:20:48 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
dselect before. Everything is
working as it should.
Just though someone might be interested!
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the previous fix of adding a spurious directory to the
config file
in /opt/applix/axdata/fontmetrics/gallium/fs/ unnecessary.
Hope this helps someone.
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* that! You could, of
course, change that manually.
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, or that it is an obsolete package.
E: Package mutt has no installation candidate
Whatever package I try, I get the same response. If I access the hensa
site manually via Netscape, all the packages are there and accessible.
Any ideas?
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absolutely loads of things - much more than I could with an inkjet
cratridge costing nearly twice as much.
At the end of the day, do you *really* need colour?
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directory which was pre-potato
and a few weeks old, so I reinstated it then went to
/var/cache/apt/archive and did dpkg -i *.deb. Not very elegant, but
after a few blips and tinkering I got a working /etc directory with
everything where it should be.
Phew!!
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in the Linux community will take on board the source code and do
something with it. Unfortuantely my programming skills are non-existant
or I would have done it.
The file you need to download is less than 1.5 MB and works great here.
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is that it is now free. HL are folding and are
inviting applications for the source code.
Let me know how you get on with it!
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machine) as a local domain? That will be unique
to me.
Many thanks. Sorry if I have not given enough info. You can probably
tell more from my headers than I can give!
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038 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:15:57 +0100
My hostname is scgf, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a little confused now. The above mail went out via smtp and so far,
it hasn't come back to me.
Any further ideas?
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now.
Thanks again.
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point me to an appropriate document, FAQ, whatever which
would explain what I would have to do to set it all up?
Many thanks.
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sure how
to put the whole file together. I didn't realise that each filter
statement starts with elif (if for the first) and the whole lot
ends with endif. Now that shows the lack of programmer in me!!!
Thanks again.
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! Mail is getting sent and
received (using fetchmail == exim) from my IP's POP server.
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George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
Looks to me like you are trying to start an exim daemon when one
already
exists.
Thanks George. I looked in /etc/init.d and found the expected 'exim'
file which starts the exim daemon if it hasn't been
a glibc2 version!
Does the Motif license allow someone else to compile a dynamic or static
version of a Motif app to redistribute to others?
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this: rwxr-x - in other
words, dip has read access to the directory and files therein.
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I have recently started using wdm (a variant of xdm) and am finding that
environment variables I put in ~/bash_profile are not picked up. Where
do these variables go?
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easy to add future IPs
too.
If you would like me to send other examples please get back to me.
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I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I
might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this
other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and apt-get man
pages and can't see a way to do it.
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Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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= Here's a nice little script. It would be nice to have it added to a
= package somewhere, but I'm not sure which one it should go into.
Thanks, Jim. Exactly what I needed!
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packages. Painlessly and flawlessly. Brilliant!
In all, Debian is well worth the effort. It will be interesting to see
what Corel do with the install routine.
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= appreciated.
I upgraded too and had all sorts of problems. Apparently my eximconfig
file was updated automatically during installation, but there were still
problems. The answer for me was to downgrade to version 2.11-4 and put
that package on hold. If it works .
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fault, and as root it does nothing. Manual changes to
/etc/menu have no effect. It used to work fine.
Is there a bug? I do apologise if the topic has already been mentioned
in the group.
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Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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= You may need to restart windomaker to get it to notice the changes.
=
Thanks, but that doesn't work either.
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letter.001 | lpr -Pprint_queue_name
I use r600 because my laser printer is capable of this resolution. YMMV.
If you use Applixware, I have a macro which will allow faxing directly
from the app, just like with Windows.
Hope this helps.
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for you that you found it all so easy.
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and leave it a few days.
Take care.
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upgraded. Thanks for that, too!!! Apt-get is truly remarkable.
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Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are a number of programs that do the job. Another (the nicest
in my experience) is mtr.
Wow just got it with apt-get. Mtr is nice. Never heard of that one
before. Cheers.
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