Linux-Misc Digest #299, Volume #19 Thu, 4 Mar 99 15:13:16 EST
Contents:
Re: StarOffice anyone?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: equivalent of edit? ("Mr. Tinkertrain")
Re: Printer problem with form feed (Thomas Neilson)
DNS problem (Raj Rijhwani)
Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX (John Fieber)
100/10 EtherJet PCI Adapter(IBM) (Jadu Patel)
New questions..bochs, rendering, VideoRAID, etc. (NeoSoftSys)
a2ps 4.12 -- Any to PostScript filter (Akim Demaille)
Re: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP under XFree86 (Kyle Fink)
Re: More bad news for NT (Mark Metson)
Strangness in bootp (Greg Law)
Re: Will ORACLE8.05 install without kernel recompile ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: printer accounting (Grant Taylor)
Re: [Q] fancy fonts for the console (Alex Yung)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: StarOffice anyone??
Date: 4 Mar 1999 18:27:29 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst chips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
scribe:
: Peter Buelow wrote:
:> Add some of the output from when you try and run the script. What
:> happens. Can't solve a problem without any info.
: When I enter '/root/Office50/bin/soffice' the output is - 'bash: soffice: command
: not found'.
Check the file permissions. If it has no executable permissions, it won't be
considered as a command.
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From: "Mr. Tinkertrain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: equivalent of edit?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:48:15 -0500
use pico or vi. in x11 use emacs.
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From: Thomas Neilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Printer problem with form feed
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:18:44 GMT
"Tobias Reckhard (jester)" wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:02:52 +0100, "Frank Stiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >My printer (HP Deskjet 895 Cxi) always prints another blank page after he
> >did the normal print job. I think, this is a form feed based on linux. My
> >printer is connected with my server where linux is installed. On my computer
> >Win98 is installed and the RAW data is send to the server and the server
> >send the data directly to the printer port. Someone says, that you can
> >deactivate the form feed option in linux, but where?
>
> In /etc/printcap, disable the input filter for the printer. The
> options are separated by colons and in my printcap, on several lines
> linked by the Unix 'soft-line-break'-character "\", so I just put a
> hash mark in front of the line starting with ":if=/usr/lib/apsfilt..."
> and that was enough.
>
> Tobias / jester
Hum ...
Might want to open your printcap and add " :sh: \" This suppresses form feed or
extra page eject.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Rijhwani)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: DNS problem
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 99 22:42:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precis:
TCP/IP network (one of the 192.168.x.x segments), all machines looking
to one running full DNS within the network (with full authority for the
internal addresses) for service. This machine is not the gateway which
is a separate machine which masquerades for the network. When DNS is
started and the gateway is online, all is dandy. However, the moment
a request is made of the server for external resolution once the gateway
is down, it seems to lock out and won't answer external addresses even
when the gate comes back up. Resetting it (with "kill -HUP {pid}") gets
it up and running again.
Ideas on how I could stop this locking out would be appreciated,
because it means that my automated dialup procedures (for collecting
news etc.) are to no avail.
--
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http://www.courtfld.demon.co.uk/raj/ (demon, and gods, willing...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Fieber)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX
Date: 4 Mar 1999 19:03:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jagdis) writes:
> In article <7bgvl5$1tvt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Sexton wrote:
>>
>>FreeBSD already runs linux binaries. As executable formats get
>>hammered out, the converse will probably become true.
>
> Actually the iBCS module for Linux ran all the i386 *BSD*
> flavours many years ago but there was *zero* interest from
> users (except as a curiosity by a couple of people). As a result
> it hasn't been maintained for something like half a decade :-).
The only reason for an emulation module is to gain access to
proprietary technology. Linux is attracting vendors of proprietary
software, FreeBSD isn't so much. Why do you need BSD binary support
if you can build everything from freely available source?
-john
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From: Jadu Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 100/10 EtherJet PCI Adapter(IBM)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:07:05 -0500
How should I configure IBM 100/10 Ethernnet and where shoud I find the
driver. I have already configured Token-Ring 16/4 ISA Token Ring card
while installation.
Thankyou
Jadu Patel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NeoSoftSys)
Subject: New questions..bochs, rendering, VideoRAID, etc.
Date: 4 Mar 1999 19:05:26 GMT
Some more questions..
About a year ago at work, we tried installing Bochs, then Windows95. We had
some form of win95 up and running, but this was on a Linux/Alpha system. I do
not plan to run Win95 through Bochs, but other OS's. Has someone tried
installing anythign other than Windows(3.1/95/anythign sub-3.x). Maybe even
BeOS, or NeXTSTEP, SCO, etc.
I think I will definitely need a dual P-II now. So, with a dual P-II, will I be
able to run bochs on one cpu, and the other cpu for Linux, etc.?
Any type of Renderman engine? If so, any type of front-end to renderman? Does
Pixar sell PRMan for Linux?
Does VideoRAID(pci/scsi) work on Linux?
thanks again.
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From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,alt.sources.d,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: a2ps 4.12 -- Any to PostScript filter
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 03:46:47 -0500
Description
===========
GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Of course it processes plain
text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular languages.
Its slogan is precisely `` Do The Right Thing '', which means that
though it is highly configurable, everything was made so that a novice
user can do complicated PostScript manipulations. For instance, it
has the ability to delegate the processing of some files to other
filters (such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip etc.), what allows a
uniform treatment (n-up, page selection, duplex etc.) of heterogeneous
files.
As an example:
| ubu $ a2ps mill.1.ps.gz a2ps.gif NEWS a2ps.texi index.html -o demo.ps
| [mill.1.ps.gz (compressed, delegated to Gzip-a2ps): 17 pages on 9 sheets]
| [a2ps.gif (gif, delegated to ImageMagick): 3 pages on 2 sheets]
| [NEWS (plain): 12 pages on 6 sheets]
| [a2ps.texi (texinfo, delegated to texi2dvi): 89 pages on 45 sheets]
| [index.html (html, delegated to Netscape): 13 pages on 7 sheets]
| [Total: 132 pages on 66 sheets] saved into the file `demo.ps'
Want to print a LaTeX file in Duplex?
| ubu $ a2ps paper.tex -s2 -P margot
| [paper.tex (tex, delegated to texi2dvi): 33 pages on 9 sheets]
| request id is margot-129 (standard input)
| [Total: 34 pages on 9 sheets] sent to the printer `margot'
(Bibtex, makeindex, and latex were run as many times as needed.)
Or maybe you want to print the documentation as a booklet?
| ubu ~/src/a2ps-4.10 $ a2ps -P margot -=book doc/a2ps.texi
| [doc/a2ps.texi (texinfo, delegated to texi2dvi): 109 pages on 109 sheets]
| request id is margot-128 (standard input)
| [Total: 109 pages on 109 sheets] sent to the printer `margot'
It supports a wide number of encodings, and a very good handling of
Latin 2-6 should be noted, thanks to Ogonkify (by Juliusz Chroboczek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). Needed fonts are automatically downloaded. The
interface is internationalized, the output is customizable and there
are as many options as users had wishes (table of content, headings,
virtual page layout etc. etc.).
The documentation has been carefully crafted for both novices and
experts. It is meant to bring light on most questions you have, and
includes a glossary.
Contributions
=============
Some goodies are provided in the package:
- card pretty prints `--help' from programs
- fixnt fixes Windows NT PostScript files (thanks to Holger Bauer)
- fixps fixes most common problems in PostScript files
- pdiff prints a comparison between two files
- psmandup eases Duplex printing on Simplex printers
- psset inserts special PostScript requests (ManualFeed etc.)
The full distribution of Ogonkify, by Juliusz Chroboczek, is also
included in the package. Ogonkify let's you fix deficient Latin 2-6
support in popular applications' PostScript (Netscape, StarOffice...).
Downloading
===========
GNU a2ps is under GPL and can be found on its web page:
http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/
or on the main GNU ftp site ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/a2ps/ and its mirror
sites (see the end of this message for a list of ftp mirrors).
There is also a mailing list set up to discuss around a2ps. To
subscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with `subscribe' in its
body. Contributions of any kind are most welcome!
Please do *not* use this address to report bugs, but write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version 4.12
============
The version 4.12 supersedes all of the previous versions (which are no
longer maintained). People still using versions prior to 4.10.4 are
*strongly* encouraged to update before, say, 2000 Jan 1st (*blush*).
Here is the top of the NEWS file:
Version 4.12 Feb 16, 1999
* Configuration Files:
- Quotation is fixed, and works as in a shell. It is no longer
required to write:
Options: '--stdin=A Title With Spaces'
since one can write:
Options: --stdin='A Title With Spaces'
- `Options:' entries now report the file and line where the error occured.
- Define a variable #{lp} in a2ps.cfg that is system dependent, but
allows for system independent definition of printers in a2ps-site.cfg.
- `Printer:' can specify a PPD only, in which case the `UnknownPrinter:'
command is used.
- configure allows --without-extensions
Install a small a2ps (fewer library files). Discouraged for non
ASCII or Latin 1 users.
- `Include:' includes another configuration file.
- a2ps.cfg now includes `a2ps-site.cfg' which allows easier
upgrades of a2ps without losing previous configurations.
- Now parsed using gperf.
No speed up really noticeable :(, but cleaner :).
* PPD files:
- supports `*Include:'.
* Options:
- --medium supports case insensitive matches.
- -S formerly --statusdict is now --setpagedevice
- -D formerly --setpagedevice is now --define.
- --toc with no argument uses the default Table of Contents layout
(#{toc}).
- -s, --sides
Now admits 1, 2, simplex, duplex, and tumble.
- --file-align=MODE
Replaces (generalizes) --compact. MODE can be:
+ `virtual', put as many files per sheet as possible
+ `rank', never allow two files on the same row (or column)
+ `page', never allow two files on the same page
+ `sheet', never allow two files on the same sheet
+ an integer NUM, specify that files must be aligned on NUM
- -A
is now exactly the short option for --file-align.
- Output of --list=features is much more pleasant to read.
* Contributions:
- fixps
If a file seems really very very bad, asks gs for a full rewrite.
Therefore there should no longer be *any* (valid) PostScript file
refused by a2ps for delegations.
- psset inserts PostScript requests for special features (ManualFeed,
Duplex, DuplexTumble etc.).
- psmandup
+ Now uses psset
+ New options --back and --front. --back gives another chance of
printing the second half if the timeout expired.
* Style Sheets:
- Fortran
Major clean up thanks to Alexander Mai.
+ fortran.ssh remains the generic style sheet for unqualified
Fortran.
+ (for77|for90)-(fixed|free).ssh for more specific dialects.
- REXX scripts, thanks to Alexander Mai.
- dc_shell, thanks to Philippe Le Van.
- Mixed Style Sheets.
Mixed sheets are sheets defined by ancestors only. To build a
mixed sheet, just specify a comma separated list of ancestors
anywhere a style sheet key can be given (-E, sheets.map etc.).
- Visual Tcl, thanks to Phil Hollenback.
- Extended Tcl, thanks to Phil Hollenback.
* Bug Fixes:
- The long standing bug of user options (user options could not
be used *after* an argument) is fixed. Now it is safe to run
a2ps file1 -=lp file2
(before, only file2 was printed). Algorithm suggested by Tristan
Gingold.
- Version control works also for to-file printers (e.g., -P file).
- Temporary files are correctly removed even under abnormal conditions
(broken pipe, C-c etc.).
* Delegations:
- Now outputs the setpagedevice requests in delegated jobs. It is now
OK to run
a2ps foo.dvi -s2 -P duplex-printer
- LaTeX.
Needed calls to makeindex, bibtex and latex are run.
* Predefined User Options:
- `manual' for -SManualFeed:true
- `book'. This is experimental. Allows for printing booklet on
*printers* only (no way to save as a file).
* Variables:
- user.login, user.name, user.home, user.host, user.comments
are now predefined and, of course, can be change as regular variables.
Weird escapes such as
`%a{USERNAME}'
the localized equivalent for `Printed by USERNAME'
`%A{USERNAME@HOSTNAME}'
the localized equivalent for `Printed by USERNAME from HOSTNAME'.
are no longer needed, and therefore removed.
* Fonts:
- .gsf fonts supported.
- At configuration, a2ps looks for ghostscript fonts
- PC Line Drawing fonts is fixed.
- Russian fonts/afms are no longer distributed in the core of the
package. Another package, i18n-fonts, contains them all.
* Translations:
- Norwegian, thanks to Jon Ross.
- Slovenian, thanks to Igor.
* Support of libpaper.
the special medium `--medium=libpaper' let a2ps pick up the choice
given to libpaper. Disabled if libpaper was not available at
configuration.
* Environment Variables:
- A2PS_VERBOSITY is equivalent to --verbose, but is consulted
since startup (long before command line is read).
* Error Signaling
Now a2ps makes visible the invisible characters when reporting an
error (it helps a lot!).
* By default liba2ps is built static only.
Authors
=======
a2ps is written by [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We hope you'll enjoy it!
--
Akim & Miguel
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From: Kyle Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Matrox Mystique G200 AGP under XFree86
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 07:46:38 -0700
If you are interested in a commercial solution, Xi Graphcis'
Accelerated-X supports the Mystique G200 AGP in all modes and
resolutions fully hardware accelerated. The server auto detects all the
hardware, monitor, graphics card, mouse, and keyboard. Try our free
demo at: http://www.xig.com/support/demo2.html.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kyle
Sean Prest wrote:
>
> I'm using a Daytek DT-1731D Monitor and a Mystique G200 AGP video card and now am
> running 3.3.3 of X and it still refuses to work. I've attempted to mess around
> with the XF86Config file but to no avail. If anyone could send me or post a
> config setup that works with either my monitor type or video card it would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> -Sean
--
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Account Executive
Xi Graphics, Inc. http://www.xig.com
1801 Broadway, Suite 1710 Denver, CO 80202 USA
Voice: Toll free: 1-800-946-7433, World wide: +1.303.298.7478
Fax: +1.303.298.1406
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From: Mark Metson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:56:28 -0400
Mantikor wrote:
> that application. None of this is intuitive, and if they dont
> understand some of the basic concepts, they will need the same
> coaching in every single app they use.
Which is why the whole life-strategy of
trying to remain as ignorant as possible
of as many things as possible is an
inefficient means of attaining its very
own goal. In order to avoid having to
learn new things, it is actually more
efficient to learn a few meta-things,
and a primary skill of geeks is they are
just so darn cunning at figuring out
what those meta-things are. Once you
know a meta-thing, you can forget all
the things that derive from it, because
they are all blindingly obvious in the
light of that one metathing. Thus it is
that a geek, armed with only the knowledge
of how a thing works, can look at a
marketting effort's pretty glitzy outre
attempt at hiding how it works, and
nonetheless see how they did and hence
how to work around the arbitrary barriers
the marketters try to impose to Prevent
Those Evil Geeks Putting Them Out Of
Business By Educating Their Customers.
As to the use of the automobile as an example:
notice that at nearly every gas station,
ongoing efforts are constantly being made
to educate the public as to how to
release the hood, along with the
(entirely superflous to a user who wishes
to remain ignorant) information as to
why anyone would ever open the hood:
"so I can check your oil".
This subversive information is just
the lead-in for any user who is attentive
and curious. "How do you do that?" or
"what the heck is under there anyway"
is often precisely what the mechanic is
waiting to hear...
>
> >The simple fact, whether the computer community likes it or not, is that
> >that terribly nice Mr. Gates has been a boon to computers - by providing an
> >OS which the non-nerd can use.
>
> Again, the non-nerd can use Linux, BeOS, whatever with the right setup
> and support. Same as windows.
>
> >I don't know exactly how my car works, but I
> >can drive to Milan.
>
> My car would get waterlogged if I tried to drive to Milan...
>
> >W95 DOES MAKE COMPUTING EASIER FOR THE MAN IN THE
> >STREET. Fact. Simple as that. Why argue about it?
>
> Yet again, this is not a fact, merely a perception. Linux in its
> default configuration is cryptic and strange. So is Windows.
> Pictures dont make it any easier on the computer illiterate. How are
> they supposed to know you should click twice in rapid succession on an
> icon to start it up? The first impulse is usually "move mouse over
> word icon, click once, nothing happens, click again, nothing happens,
> call tech support".
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From: Greg Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Strangness in bootp
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:44:44 +0000
Hello,
I'm trying to set up my linux box to act as a bootp server. All seems
to be well from the bootp side of things, except no reply packets arrive
on the ethernet :-(
So my /var/log/messages file contains the lines:
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: recvd pkt from IP addr 0.0.0.0
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: bootptab mtime: Tue Mar 2 18:43:16
1999
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: request from Ethernet address
48:4C:00:00:72:CA
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: found 138.40.91.35 (buttmunch)
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: bootfile="/tmp/null"
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: vendor magic field is 0.0.0.0
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: sending reply (with no options)
Mar 4 19:26:54 jupiter bootpd[381]: setarp 138.40.91.35 -
48:4C:00:00:72:CA
which looks as if all is well, but my machine sends no packets at all on
to the ethernet. Has anyone any idea what might be going on?
Thanks in advance,
Greg.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Will ORACLE8.05 install without kernel recompile
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:02:11 GMT
Hi Scott!
Yes. This is one of the errors I got too while trying to make any change to
the kernel on a laptop, and even without compiling. It was enough only to
install the needed kernel patches for informix from red-hat to "lose contac"
with all the pcmcia devices on a laptop.
I guess you have to uninstall all the latest kernel patches to bring it to a
stable status. The problem is probably a result of the pcmcia modules not
compatible to the kernel any more.
Since every computer is installed and configured differently, I can't figure
out what exactly went wrong in your case, but the key in your case will be to
look at the boot messages and see if the modules are loaded correctly or you
get some messages that some of the modules are not loaded due to
incompatibility to the new kernel. You will need then to recompile them too.
But just to let you know, I gave up this adventure. Since I use oracle for
demo and some sort of experimental development issues, I installed it on
RedHat 5.2 without modifying the kernel, and so far so good - it works
without any problems.
Cheers
Shay Tochner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi mates!
> >
> > Fighting with recompiling kernels on Linux laptops is a real hessle.
> >
> > Does anybody know if ORACLE8.05 will install and run (not in big volumes,
just
> > for demo purpuses) on REDHAT Linux 5.2 (kernel 2.036) without kernel
> > recompile and relink??
> >
> > I would appreciate your comments.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Shay Tochner
> > International Systems Support Specialist
> >
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> I have been fighting the same battle. I have re-compiled the kernel
> twice to set the appropriate variables. Now when I try to read the
> CD-ROM drive, it says iso9660 fs is not supported. I recompiled
> specifying Yes to iso9660 support, but it didn't help. Now I have to
> figure out how to have the proper module loaded. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Scott Webb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Shay Tochner
International Systems Support Specialist
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer accounting
Date: 04 Mar 1999 14:46:28 -0500
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I set up printer accounting? I need to start charging users
> and departments per page. I've looked at the stuff in printcap, and
> while i have af defined, ghostscript seems to use if (the input
> filter) for its own stuff.
> Where can I find the file format for the pac command and get some
> examples for setting this kind of stuff up?
One Ghostscript driver, hpdj, includes the ability to report the
number of pages, and apparently comes with an example implementation
of accounting using this feature.
The hpdj driver is at ftp://ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj.html
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
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Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: [Q] fancy fonts for the console
Date: 4 Mar 1999 19:42:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
giacomo boffi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: it seems to me that an archive of "fancy" console fonts was hanging
: around near utilities/console on sunsite, but i had a look and found
: nothing!
: if someone understands what i'm talking about, and knows where the fancy
: fonts are archived, please drop a line in the ng
Try "system/keyboards/fontpack.tar.gz"
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