---------- From: Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]Dan's text based computer system Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:20 AM
>> I doubt there'll be any problem. Where can we connect? Do you come to clincs, or live in downtown or near a bus line. I can make other arrangements if you don't. >I do; I am the one with the white hair and beard with my nose most likely buried in a shiny laptop. I'll plan on me and my CPU, keyboard, money etc. being there Thursday. Anything else special I should bring? >=) Unless I'm busy telling everyone how absolutely awesome The Two Towers was, since I will be seeing it Wednesday at its second showing. =D I'll be seeing it sometime soon. I'm also waiting impatiently for Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, documentary about gun issues. What this = stuff? >I live a block from UO near Sacred Heart, so you don't get much more bus line than that. That's close enough that I'd walk instead. >My number is 302-4295, I check messages often though I am seldom here to receive them when they're left. >> >More information is required really. What exactly does he need? > More detail means better ability to do what is needed quickly, > efficiently, and cheaply. ;) > >> The basics, for a start. I don't know enough about what else is > available. >Well, to start with you need a way to get mail on your system from EFN or wherever else. The standard issue program for this is fetchmail. Once set up, you never need to worry about it again unless you change ISPs. The syntax of the config files is simple enough that I can include a comment line explaining how to add a new ISP or edit an old one. I may make use of that soon. I think I have the programs, just a matte of getting them working together. >Then you need to get mail from your system to your ISP. There are a number of programs for this, some simple and most not. I have yet to find the ideal mail server for a single workstation talking to an ISP, but most of the full-featured ones can be made to do only that much. I use postfix which has served me well enough. >You can use whatever editor you prefer for writing your mail. I guess you already have a favorite? I use vim, which works for me but is certainly not for the faint of heart. Debian now uses nano as its default editor because of its onscreen commands which are very simple. I think I've heard good things about it. I didn't care much for emacs, but maybe someone can explain some things about it. Otherwise, I haven't tried enough to know. >You then need a mail reader program. The two most common choices are mutt and pine. I found pine's license to be annoying and moved to mutt a few years ago. We think alike. >If you want to spell-check your mail, you'll need aspell or ispell. Dexter seems to think I need it. :) And I'm not disagreeing. >If you want your mail to not all wind up in your main inbox, you will want a procmail setup. I can walk you through the mail filter FAQ and help you get messages filtered. >Also, if you have not discovered screen and minicom, the former I've used quite extensively and the latter behaves an awful lot like Telix for DOS did. Sounds good, though I was hoping for something a bit more advanced than Telix, eventually. I'd like sending new or updated files to my web site (which badly needs some) to be as easy as sending email. I could store files in local directory tree equivalent of my site, and when I log on it would automatical send them to the proper place, replacing as needed. Is that possible? Then there's also my printer, which in Linux still prints in "stairsteps". Someone gave me script for that, but I think I didn't know what to do with it. Dan _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
