Linux-Misc Digest #725, Volume #19 Sat, 3 Apr 99 16:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: New Microsoft News (Brian Huffman)
Re: Encyclopedia Brittanica ("Martin Ozolins")
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Michael Powe)
Re: New Microsoft News (Walter Strong)
Re: Help ! How do I mount audio cdroms ? (Walter Strong)
apache+ssl ("Doug Owings")
Give it a rest! (was Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0)
(John Thompson)
Binary compatibility (Michiel Perdeck)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Todd Knarr)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Adam P. Jenkins)
Re: RPM Catch-22s? (Jon McLin)
About Redhat Distribution ("���@�@")
Communicator 5.1 will not run with AccelX but works fine with XFree???? (Eric Skup)
Re: New Microsoft News ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: can't be excuted by typing its name ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: backup .tgz file > 2gb (John Thompson)
Re: High resolution printing under Linux. (Grant Taylor)
Re: FTP uploads (Juergen Heinzl)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Brian Huffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 16:27:15 +0000
Mykool wrote:
>
> Someone finally needs to say this. This is not an anti-microsoft
> newsgroup. This is a linux group!!! I could care less about the new
> things microsoft does to "screw up the computer industry." I have no
> real problem with microsoft or microsoft products. I dual boot RH and
******
BLAH-BLAH-BLAH sniped.
> sum up my rant here, keep the microsoft bullshit out of these groups.
> These are forums for linux!!!
>
> --
> Michael Barnhill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
> ICQ 13526262
Please read and adhere to your last line, this Group is for linux setup.
Uh, your the one that brought it up???
------------------------------
From: "Martin Ozolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Brittanica
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 02:00:25 -0800
I've got the 97 version it's netscape.
Shimpei Yamashita wrote in message ...
>Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>In article <s2joc7.651.ln@son-of-bofh>, Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
>>
>>>EB 99 (regular edition) uses Netscape. I don't know about 98. It comes
>>>with Communicator 4.07, and I have also gotten it to work with 4.5.
>>
>>Do you mean you have it working with Netscape under Linux?? If so please
>>tell me more!
>
>Um, no. (I wish.) EB 99 uses Netscape on _Windows_, as opposed to EB 98
>which--according to earlier posts--uses IE.
>
>--
>Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
------------------------------
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 03 Apr 1999 09:48:34 -0800
=====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE=====
Hash: SHA1
>>>>> "marek" == marek jedlinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
marek> Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> People who come to linux newsgroups complaining about how
>> difficult it is to learn to use are, well, simply
>> unimaginative. They can't imagine doing anything `not Windows'
>> -- they're like Americans studying the French language and
>> complaining that the grammar `just isn't natural.'
marek> Um, not necessarily. I have a fresh (and problem-free)
marek> installation of RH 5.1. But when I typed my first command
marek> and needed to correct it, I tried the 'delete' key, which
marek> surprisingly produced a tilde instead of erasing the
marek> character under cursor. I don't know if it's necessarily
marek> unimaginative to expect that under normal, default CLI
marek> environment, keys such as delete, insert, end and home will
Default? For which OS? I'm so used to C-d for deleting single
characters that I do it on my Win 98 machine at work.
marek> In pico, which is probably the simpelst editor under
marek> unix/Linux, the 'home' and 'end' keeys produce a nice
marek> little beep. Is it unimaginative to expect they might just,
marek> well, move cursor to start and end of line, respectively?
marek> You may say that it's indeed unimaginative. A programmer
marek> may bind any odd feature she wants to a 'delete' key - why
marek> not 'save file', for instance, or 'quit without saving'?
Most of this behavior comes about from the fact that these programs
are not native PC programs. They're ported from OS that have
different keyboards (yes, amazingly, not every keyboard looks like
yours) and therefore different keys generating different keycodes.
marek> I'll risk saying this: while newbies get bashed for
marek> complaints such as mine, above, because they're
marek> unimaginative and don't want to learn, very often what's
marek> meant by 'learning' is simply 'memorizing' lots of
marek> counter-intuitive stuff. Like the rpm vs. Setup, or Ctrl-A
marek> vs 'home'. Remembering all the -SwitcHes and unhelpful
marek> program names doesn't prove your knowledge or intelligence,
marek> just good memory.
Why is it `counter-intuitive'? What is intuitive about a HOME key
going to the beginning of the line? Is that `home'? `Intuitive'
would seem to me to be that a HOME key would take you to the beginning
of the document.
marek> As an aside: look at Perl. I am not a programmer, but I
marek> have written several programs in Perl that are very useful
marek> to me under Win95. Of course I did study the documentation
marek> a lot, but it takes under a minute to write your first
marek> 'hello world' in Perl even if you've never written a .bat
marek> file in DOS. You can make progress at a comfortable pace,
marek> and there's plenty of stuff you can figure out even without
marek> the docs - that's because Perl *is* intuitive, in the way
marek> that "Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C" somehow ain't.
It seems that your only gripe is that linux isn't `more like Windows.'
That's the wrong attitude for learning a new OS. The purpose of linux
is not to be `just like Windows,' it is to be different from Windows.
mp
powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
=====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE=====
Version: GnuPG v0.9.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Encrypted with Mailcrypt 3.5.1 and GNU Privacy Guard
iD8DBQE3BlRu755rgEMD+T8RAn7tAJ9dRozHJN1hcNy+IyYb3PTP6XidngCfbSuA
DVKSFqEQSlj5WvdoT7KbC/E=
=uh9l
=====END PGP SIGNATURE=====
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: 3 Apr 1999 16:50:51 GMT
Mykool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Someone finally needs to say this. This is not an anti-microsoft
: newsgroup. This is a linux group!!! I could care less about the new
: things microsoft does to "screw up the computer industry." I have no
: real problem with microsoft or microsoft products. I dual boot RH and
: NT. If I want to hear bitching about how microsoft is a bad company and
: how much their products suck, I would read
: comp.os.microsoft.bitching.from.linux.users.who.have.nothing.better.to.do.
: Personally I think microsoft was good for the computer industry. If
: there were no microsoft, there would be no real standard in computer
: software and in some ways hardware. Stuff would cost more because the
: manufacturers would have to make versions of the product for god knows
: how many different platforms. True, the identifier stuff they are using
: now isn't a good thing, but it also isn't a totally bad thing. I'm all
: for anonimity and everything, but I also don't do anything that would
: matter if it could be traced back to me. Hell, I read how they've
: traced to origin of the Melissa virus because of this ID stuff. And
: when some asshole posts some stupid "Linux Sux" stuff, be a damn adult
: and ignore it. I hate seeing threads that are 100+ posts just to say
: "linux is good and microsoft sux." I use Linux on a daily basis, but I
: still use NT for certain things that. I like microsoft and linux. To
: sum up my rant here, keep the microsoft bullshit out of these groups.
: These are forums for linux!!!
: --
: Michael Barnhill
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
: ICQ 13526262
Well, I'll never knew you felt that way. Maybe what we could do is first
send our posts to you for approval. You don't mind MS? Good for you.
You don't like reading long threads that slam MS? Then don't read them.
You don't like seeing subject lines that slam MS? Filter them out, or
unsubscribe. You think that others should care what you want to see or
not see? Get some help.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: Re: Help ! How do I mount audio cdroms ?
Date: 3 Apr 1999 16:58:25 GMT
Eightfold� ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm running the KDE desktop. There is a "CD Player" . I've read
: the docs and "HOW-TOs" and can't find anything about mounting and
: playing audio cdroms.....
: thanks for the help
: *****Microsoft Windows.... a VIRUS with mouse support*****
There's got to be a an elegant way to do this, but what I do is
umount and eject any nonaudio cd and drop in the music cd. Don't
try and mount unless there's something in your fstab about mounting
audio cds (I suppose this is what you really want). Just launch
your cd player and everything should be fine. Might want to
chmod 666 /dev/cdrom (as root) to enable non-root access to cdrom.
This all works with Workman.
ws
===========
My computer is faster than your computer because I use flwm.
------------------------------
From: "Doug Owings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: apache+ssl
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:08:32 -0600
redhat 5.0 / 2.3.x
apache 1.3.6 + Ben/SSL 1.2.6 patch (with php3 module)
openssl0.9.2b
I compiled from source -- great.
1. I tried to run the httpsd binary, it doesn't complain but doesn't load.
ran a syntax check and my conf files are ok.
2. I got a test certificate from verisign but I can't figure out how to
install it (verisign gives little instructions).
I'm not sure I have the config files set up right, and am a little confused
about setting this up. I'm majorly pressed for time. Assistance may be
rewarded!!
Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance!
Doug
------------------------------
From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Give it a rest! (was Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux
6.0)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 22:37:03 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Bill Anderson wrote:
>
> >> To ignore these facts, and claim they do nothing other than
> >> collect stuff, is to appear foolish.
> >>
> >Are you suggesting that the Redhat sysadmin apps, install process
> >etc are *essential* to run Linux? If so you are wrong. All they do
> >is tie you in to doing it the Redhat way!
>
> Are you saying that emacs is a worthless piece of software, because people
> could as well use vi?
This thread is a perfect example of the postulate that given
suffficient time, any thread in a *nix discussion group will
eventually degenerate into an "emacs vs vi" polemic.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michiel Perdeck)
Subject: Binary compatibility
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 19:29:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To what extend are the different Linux distributions binary compatible
meaning that applications can be exchanged as-is, without
recompilation?
I am first of all just curious, but also I believe that the lack of
binary compatibility is the MAJOR obstacle to the broad acceptance of
Linux (in fact, of Unix in general) as an alternative to Micro$oft.
Possible answers are:
1. Not at all; you must recompile each time.
2. Software written for the same kernel version are compatible.
3. Other answer, please explain.
Regards, Michiel
===========================
Michiel Perdeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 3 Apr 1999 19:57:20 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Most have been spoonfed on DOS/Winblows for years and that little
> thing with a tail is called a "mouse" by us. Who would guess to look
> in the manual for pointer rather than mouse? Why doesn't the index
> include mouse and refer us to pointer? After all, this is an operating
> system which is made for Intel machines which has heretofore been
> a Microsoft domain.
Probably because the terminology came mostly from systems _other_ than
Intel machines, over the decade or so when Unix typically ran on systems
other than Intel. In XFree86, for example, the pointer on the screen can be
generated variously by a mouse, a joystick, several varieties of touchpads
and digitizing tablets and ELO-hardware-based touchscreens. In fact, you
can have several such pointers on the system at once. Calling the pointer
the "mouse cursor" would be terribly confusing on a system that didn't
have a mouse attached at all, or on one that did have a mouse but where
the mouse wasn't controlling the pointer you were referring to.
--
All I want out of the Universe is 10 minutes with the source code and
a quick recompile.
-- unknown
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 11:39:43 -0600
Walter Strong wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Distribution:
>
> Steve Wolfe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [snipped]
> : Silly question, but how do I emulate 3 buttons with a two button mouse?
> : --
> : -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> : Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> : Posted via Redhat Linux 5.1 - because that's where I want to go today
> : -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Well, Redhat probably has a gui config thing to take care of that, but
> adding "Emulate3Buttons" to the "Pointer" section of /etc/XF86Config (or
> whatever the script is called in RH) will do just that.
>
> I can't resist...
>
> In vi, open XF86Config, hit / then type "Pointer", hit return and bingo,
> the section you're looking for. For those readers disenchanted by the
> complexity of this vi routine, shutdown -r now, boot to dos98, open
> Word, pulldown menus until you find search, type in Pointer, edit, save
> as ascii text, accept Word's warning that this might lose the special
> formatting that Word would like to give it. Oh, almost forgot, you'll need
> to move the file to someplace dos98 can find it first. Reboot.
While I find this humorous and am no fan of Bill Gates, I find this to be
a little less than ingenuous. What we newbies are suffering from is not
a lack of intelligence, but rather ignorance.
Most have been spoonfed on DOS/Winblows for years and that little
thing with a tail is called a "mouse" by us. Who would guess to look
in the manual for pointer rather than mouse? Why doesn't the index
include mouse and refer us to pointer? After all, this is an operating
system which is made for Intel machines which has heretofore been
a Microsoft domain.
Having used unix for about 5 years, I understand we are talking about
a different language, but if Linux truly wants to kick Microsoft's ass
fast (and no on is cheering louder than me), give us a book which gives
PC <=> Linux translations. While we are at it, give the new user a hint
as to what stuff like 'dot clock' (etc) is so we can actually build our own
drivers or at least have some hint as to what information we are looking
for.... arrrgggghhhh!!!! :^)
I haven't tried the Redhat distribution yet but SuSE seems to think that
just putting 5.2 on the cover of an old manual is sufficient to support
the 5.2 product. It would be nice if the pictures and menus options
called out in the manual actually matched what's in the software. I have
yet to figure out how to set up my sound card or modem. The only
thing I can find in the manual when I look up sound in the index, is
the mention of a brand of sound card. The modem stuff goes on for
a couple chapters and is so cryptic, I can't figure hide nor hair of what
is going on. Maybe if I had specialized in computer communications
rather than analog circuit design, I would have a chance. :^) Actually,
it's not that I can't figure it out, it just doesn't seem worth the effort to
purchase a dozen books (which books?) and spend hours and hours
trying to decypher the instructions I currently have just to get my
system up and running. I'd much rather just pay some Linux guru
$100 to do the installation and get on with using it. I can then learn
as much or as little as I need as I go along.
I firmly believe that once people get over the installation woes and
get use to the ability to go back and forth from the ease of GUI to
the power of the command line, they will soon forget the name
Microsoft. I also feel that now that Linux is being supported by
'big name' companies, morons like Trident will stop emailing us
the Windows drivers when we ask about Linux drivers. Yep, they
did this 4 times in a row and every time I told them I *had* the
Windows drivers and needed to either get Linux drivers or data
necessary (like what is the dot clock, etc.) to create my own Linux
drivers.
Rick
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Jenkins)
Date: 03 Apr 1999 12:39:43 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne) writes:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $EDITOR = "jed";
> $xemacsps = `ps aex | grep gnuserv | wc -l`;
> $xemacsps --;
> $xemacsps --;
> $emacsps = `ps aex | grep emacs | wc -l `;
> $emacsps --;
> $emacsps --;
> if ($xemacsps > 0) {
> $EDITOR = "gnuclient";
> } elsif ($emacsps > 0) {
> $EDITOR = "emacsclient";
> }
> $command = $EDITOR . " " . $ARGV[0];
> print $command, "\n";
> exec $command;
This is completely off-topic, but a couple of things about your script
confuse me. I use something similar to this on my computer.
1) Why do you use the 'e' option to ps? (This doesn't hurt anything
though.)
2) Why do you decrement $xemacsps and $emacsps twice?
3) If you run 'ps ax |grep gnuserv', sometimes grep will find two
lines; itself and the actual gnuserv command, and sometimes it will
only find gnuserv. At least it's that way on my system; it's
non-deterministic whether grep will print 1 or 2 lines. A trick to
make grep never find itself is to write 'ps ax |grep "[g]nuserv"'.
This avoids having "gnuserv" in the grep commandline.
So I would rewrite the above script as
#!/usr/bin/perl
$EDITOR = "jed";
$xemacsps = `ps ax | grep "[g]nuserv" | wc -l`;
$emacsps = `ps ax | grep "[e]macs" | wc -l `;
if ($xemacsps > 0) {
$EDITOR = "gnuclient";
} elsif ($emacsps > 0) {
$EDITOR = "emacsclient";
}
$command = $EDITOR . " " . $ARGV[0];
print $command, "\n";
exec $command;
Adam
--
Adam P. Jenkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:41:51 +0000
From: Jon McLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM Catch-22s?
Ouch!
Thanks for your response. I did RTFM, by the way, and I gave up on glint a
year ago. The real issue: RPM is a very powerful tool. However, it's
utility is greatly degraded by the lack of widespread standard policies for
use. In effect, there are now tens of thousands of kinds of RPMs available,
rather than a few. This is fine for old Linux hackers, but I want to see
Linux used by people other than technophiles. I've convinced many people to
give Linux a try, and they are always happy UNTIL they try to use rpm.
A pity.
------------------------------
From: "���@�@" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: About Redhat Distribution
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 01:14:12 +0800
Hi,
After you install RedHat, is it a must that rpm should be use to install all
other software?
Thanks.
------------------------------
From: Eric Skup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Communicator 5.1 will not run with AccelX but works fine with XFree????
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:43:44 GMT
I have redhat 5.2 running kernel 2.2.4. I was running XFree86 for a
while and I had no problems running Netscape Communicator 5.1. I
recently installed AccelratedX 5 and since Communicator will not start.
I have tried with different windows manager and I get the same problem
(enligtenment, motif, kde, etc...):
Netscape first gives me a message about /nls/ and that it may crash if
text is pasted into it and the it gives me a Bus Error.
It never gave me a message about nls/ before. I do have the nls dir in
..../lib/X11/nls/
Has anyone ever senn this before? Is there a fix?
Any help would be appreciated,
Eric Skup
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:09:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone finally needs to say this. This is not an anti-microsoft
> newsgroup. This is a linux group!!! I could care less about the new
> things microsoft does to "screw up the computer industry." I have no
> real problem with microsoft or microsoft products. I dual boot RH and
> NT. If I want to hear bitching about how microsoft is a bad company and
> how much their products suck, I would read
> comp.os.microsoft.bitching.from.linux.users.who.have.nothing.better.to.do.
I can agree with that in principle.
> Personally I think microsoft was good for the computer industry. If
> there were no microsoft, there would be no real standard in computer
> software and in some ways hardware.
Proprietary standards are not real standards. They are a mean for one company
to exploit their customers, who are entirely depandant on their products.
> Stuff would cost more because the
> manufacturers would have to make versions of the product for god knows
> how many different platforms.
No, stuff would cost alot less because of *competition*. Look at what linux
costs: next to nothing. That is the true market value of on OS, because
software is so easy to reproduce.
> True, the identifier stuff they are using
> now isn't a good thing, but it also isn't a totally bad thing.
It's a totally bad thing when there's no choice. Everybody's needs are
different. MS products may be good for some. They may be good for many. For
for those who they are not good for, it is *totally* bad to not have a
choice.
> I'm all
> for anonimity and everything, but I also don't do anything that would
> matter if it could be traced back to me. Hell, I read how they've
> traced to origin of the Melissa virus because of this ID stuff.
People have a *right* to *know* when they are being traced in this way.
> And
> when some asshole posts some stupid "Linux Sux" stuff, be a damn adult
> and ignore it.
And *you* live up to your own standard: *you* be a damned adult and ignore it
when some asshole posts some stupid "Microsoft Sux" stuff.
Perry
============= Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ============
http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: can't be excuted by typing its name
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 11:49:15 -0600
C Sanjayan Rosenmund wrote:
> John Rowe wrote:
> >
> > Surely this must be second only to "how do I remove a file beginning
> > with a -" for generating a spew of wannabe answers. Do people put
> > these questions in here as a troll for their kill files?
> >
> how about
> rm -f ./-file
> ( I *hate* those. . . .)
Or how 'bout:
rm -i *
and then answer yes to the file you want removed (and
no to all the others).
Rick
------------------------------
From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: backup .tgz file > 2gb
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 12:03:39 -0600
Jens Albrecht wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i want to copy the content of one hardisk to another harddisk, the
> second disk is smaller than the first one, because of this i have to
> compress the files. the problem with gzip an tar is, that the .tgz file
> will become bigger than 2gb and linux can't handle this (the system runs
> with an intel cpu). i think the easiest way ist to copy and gzip the
> files the same time, but i've no idea, how i can do this. i've tried
> afio -cZ, but i've got only errors.
> any ideas?? or knows somebody a packer for linux like arj, that can
> start a new file after a specified size??
Hmm.
I'm certainly not a tar expert, but the "-L" switch comes to
mind. From "man tar:"
-L, --tape-length N
change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
------------------------------
From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: High resolution printing under Linux.
Date: 03 Apr 1999 12:33:37 -0500
Mario Miyojim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am familiar with the ghostscript capabilities to address most
> printers. We know that Aladdin developers provide a driver named
> 'uniprint' that could define high resolutions on Epson inkjet
> printers utilizing their weaving and pixel resolution of 720x1440.
> The RedHat distribution allows us to set up a "Epson Stylus Color"
> option with resolutions of 360x360.
Red Hat has not yet shipped the latest version of Ghostscript with a
distribution; if you upgrade gs, rhs-printfilters, and printtool,
you'll get the uniprint driver choices.
> However, it seems that our resolution limitation is not on the
> printer driver, but in the file formats accepted by ghostscript:
> postscript and pdf.
No, Postscript has no such limitation. There are two types of data
that can be expressed in a Postscript file:
- Resolution-independant ("vector") data like lines, circles, fonts,
sentances, etc.
- Resolution-dependant ("raster") data like bitmaps, bitmapped fonts,
etc.
Vector data gets rendered at the resolution of your device, and raster
data gets rendered at whatever resolution it is, scaled, usually, to
some specific size. In neither case is there any particular limit to
the number of pixels involved.
> When I use 'xv' to convert a tiff file to postscript, it cannot give
> me a resolution higher than 72x72 ppi.
Then that is the fault of xv. A tiff file is merely dots; you can
massage them into any shape or size you wish and then print them. I
would try using ImageMagick's "convert" program to do this; man
convert.
> Would it be any different if one uses 'nenscript' to generate the
> file?
I don't think nenscript will know what to make of a tiff picture.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: FTP uploads
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:41:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Farley wrote:
>Does anyone know how to allow users to upload to a particular directory?
Yes ... crisp and in short, what do you mean exactly and what
kind of setup, anonymous ftp and uploads to incoming only,
uploads for Joe Sixpack to foo only and with which ftp daemon
might be helpful too, it depends.
Cheers,
Juergen
--
\ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
\ Phone Private : +44 181-332 0750 \ /
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
