On Mar 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have been running Mandrake 6.1 (my first try at Linux) for
> approximately two weeks now and have enjoyed learning about it. I have a
> printer that has recently
> gone berserk and starts printing a preloaded text from somewhere. I don't
> know what "pool, queue,stack,buffer, or list" it is reading from, it has
> survived many bootup cycles and always comes up printing this text. Where
> might I purge this print job?
lpq shows the current print queue; lprm %n deletes the printjob with job number
%n (ok, just in case you're a total computer newbie: %n is not to be typed
literal; it stands for a number. Like "x" in math ;)
You might also check the directory /var/spool/lpd to see if there are still some
printjobs scheduled, but lpq should do the trick.
> I'm back to using Micro$haft Outlook Express because I have three POP mail
> accounts and have failed to find anything in Linux that will manage all 3.
> Netscape will only allow multiple email accounts if they are IMAP and not
> POP. So the transition is taking a while to get going.
Try fetchmail. You can search it on http://freshmeat.net, but I think it came
included with the 7.0-2 CD. Not sure since I don't use it. Don't know if it
comes on the 6.1 CD as well.
> I did manage to get
> "X" going after collecting all the parts and pieces from Intel to use the
> i810 chipset. I still have a wheelmouse and a sound card to configure,
> probably have to buy a "real" soundcard since my modem/soundcard "unit"
> won't work. I did breakdown and buy a "real" external modem since Hewlett
> Packard didn't include any ISA slots on their ASUS "Hawk" motherboard. It's
> been a long expensive ride so far for my free OS.
Yup, well. The OS is free; the CD it came on, and the hardware it runs on are
usually not. Fact is that when you intend buy a new computer to run linux on,
you better check if all hardware is supported.
> I did get about $80.00 of
> books to document the features of this OS. I had all the computerized
> documentation available on my hard drive, CD, and online. But none of that
> is available when you are staring at a command prompt, I needed something in
> print to refer to when conversing with the penguin!
Uhhm... At the command prompt you can use 'man' to check the manuals (for
example: "man X", to see the X manual) and there's a console webbrowser for the
html-help as well: it's called lynx. Ok, you'll miss out on the pictures, and it
doesn't handle frames (and probably never will) but to view the html-docs on a
CD it usually works nice enough.
> Thanks for listening to the rantings and ravings of a newcomer!
> Vern
No problemmo. At least you're to-the-point, unlike my mom. *grin*
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or idiot-friendly.
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