Re:rm'ing directories

I was installing a few programs on my system (hamm) and now that I have tried them out I don't really want them I tried to rm them off of the system rm -rd directory but it will not remove them. I tried as a normal user, as su, and as root. I get an do you wish to remove mode 0755 and then

Re:dfm

i have icewm and dfm running on my system at home and i am now trying to get DFM set up so that when I view a directory I can assign icons to files depending on the icon. The man page for DFM tells how to do this using a .dfmext file in my home directory but when I do this all of the icons

Re: Netscape mime type links

I would like to set up my Netscape v4.5b2 so that when I get a WordPerfect attachment in email I can just click on it and it will open WP. The edit..preferences..applications..Wordperfect box. I set this to the path where WP resides and tell Netscape to use this application to open files

Re:KDE 1.1 and libstdc++2.9

I would like to upgrade to the KDEpre1.1 and this requires that the libstdc on my machine be the version that is in slink and I have a HAMM machine. Will this break anything if i upgrade to this version and fulfill the dependencies? I looked at it in dselect and the dependencies seemed to be

Re: Search and Replace

I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If this is possible it

RE:LD_LIBRARY_PATH and andrew

I installed the Andrew word processor on my linux box last night and I followed the INSTALL instructions that said if I was not installing into /usr/local/andrew I would need to define the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I did this in my .bash_profile and it works if I run Andrew first after I log in

Re: GhostScript and Magicfilter

using is a Panasonic 1124 (dot matrix) I used the epsonlq-filter in magicfilter. I also would like to not have it print the header page. Thanks! John Greer Information Systems Specialist Mansfield Library The University of Montana (406)243-6063 Knowledge is the only fountain both

RE:Adding memory

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RE:Picture display in netscape

I have a Debian 2.0 system with KDE 1.0 installed my video card uses the clgd5428 chipset so I am stuck with running the system in 8-bit color mode for the time being. The question i have is that it seems that when I am using Netscape (4.5b2) for web browsing the images that it displays do

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RE: X colors

on memory right now- 16MB could that be the problem?? I know that my monitor and the video card settings are correct in XF86Config. TIA. /\ /\/\ /\/\ MONTANA- Home of the Reasonable and Prudent John Greer

RE:Short scripts

I know that there has to be an easy way to do this but i thought that I would ask anyway. How do I create a short script file similar to a DOS batch file? I would like to be able to have a link to pon that would run pon and then run another app if pon is successful. Is there a simple way to

RE:XDM questions

I recently ran dselect for the first time and it found that xbase was not fully configured on my system. Funny that I have been running X with no problem. Anyway it asked if I wanted to use xdm and i foolishly said yes even though I already was using kdm. The result is that on boot up the

Re: mouse work

I have my mouse set up so that it seems to work without X under GPM. I can block text etc. but what commands do I use to cut, paste, etc?? I find that it does not seem to work with the built in ae commands. Do I not have it fully configured?? TIA John

Re: KDE

Could you just install the RedHat package using alien??? I would think that that would work. I am a newbie though and so could be wrong. John John Greer Information Systems Specialist Mansfield Library The University of Montana (406)243-6063 Knowledge is the only fountain both

Re: Word Processor

I have a Debian (2.0.34) machine set up at home that will be used for Internet browsing and word processing. I have installed KDE (very nice) and am working on Netscape. I now would like to install a word processor that is preferably (gui) and free. I have looked at KOffice, WordPerfect,

RE:Plug and Play

I have a Plug an Play modem that the BIOS does not recognize and so Debian does not see it either. Is there a way for me to configure the system so that the modem will be available to me? I can probably set it up so that I can configure it from DOS and then use loadlin to switch over. I

Re: Netscape install

I was setting up Netscape last night on my machine, 2.0.34, X- Windows, KDE. I got libc5 installed and then when I tried to install the motifn I got a dependency error stating that I need to install xbase. This is obviously installed. Then when I tried to dpkg the netscape.deb file I got

RE:KDE and kppp

. Does anyone have any clues on this??? John John Greer Information Systems Specialist Mansfield Library The University of Montana (406)243-6063 Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty. Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843

RE:Serial port problem/modem

that there is anything in COM2. The modem is internal and not a WinModem. The /dev/ttyS0 is the only COM port that the kernel sees on boot-up. ANy hints out there?? TIA John Greer