Linux-Misc Digest #888, Volume #19 Sun, 18 Apr 99 18:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: X-CD-Roast Problem (jik-)
Re: Virutal console control from a telnet session (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
Re: SHAREWARE: POSC Units Converter v1.01 (Richard L. Hamilton)
Re: problem with my soundblaster AWE64 (CIMEBOAT)
Re: VMWare speed (Alan Fried)
Web Mail Server for Linux? ("Gray McCord")
Re: Virtual Host Query (Benjamin Smith)
Re: Ghostscript - Do I need it if RH5.2 already prints (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Boot problem (kernel 2.2.6) (Bob van der Poel)
Re: gcc problems (Matthew Slowe)
Re: linux being user-friendly (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: linux being user-friendly (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
StarOffice on SuSE 6.0 ("Mark Detwiler")
Uptimes (Zmooc)
Re: gcc problems ("David Z. Maze")
Slow Clock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: exec 'as' when CONFIG_SOUND ????? (Chris J/#6)
Re: Internet site grabber for Linux? (Jens Sigersted)
Re: StarOffice and fonts -help!!
KDat restoring wrong files--What's happening? ("Low, Kuan Loong")
Looking for a small footprint distribution with X Window ("Low, Kuan Loong")
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 12:52:57 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-CD-Roast Problem
Steve wrote:
>
> Hi Tonny,
>
> Actually, I have been trying to burn music CD-ROMs, and most of the time
> I have been trying to burn fairly small amounts (say, half a disk) of
> comilations of my favorites.
>
> I have not yet tried burning data CD-ROMs; I don't know if they are that
> much different. Do you need different burning software to burn data
> instead of music?
>
> Sorry about the delay in replying, but I have been away.
Well, first about the coasters....why not get a CDRW disk (about $6-10)
and save yourself a lot of money. You get to play with the layout, and
make sure the burning process is working correctly before you burn a
CD-R disk. You can then erase the CDRW and start again if something
gets fucked.
The only thing different you need for data CDs is the filesystem.
mkisofs and mkhybredfs for normal CDROM filesystems,...and any of the on
board filesystems and dd for the rest. Read the CD-Writing howto, its
out of date but still has a lot of good info.
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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virutal console control from a telnet session
Date: 18 Apr 1999 23:18:19 +0300
"REDSHIFT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> or at least be able to see what a user is doing.
Try reading the vcsa devices.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard L. Hamilton)
Subject: Re: SHAREWARE: POSC Units Converter v1.01
Date: 18 Apr 1999 20:28:11 GMT
Interesting. It doesn't suffer from the usual units(1) limitation:
units only does multiplicative scale changes; thus it can
convert Kelvin to Rankine, but not Celsius to Fahrenheit.
However, a lot of obscure but still occasionally encountered units
are missing. It's sad not to be able to obtain C in furlongs per
fortnight. :-)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dan R. Schenck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>
> POSC is pleased to announce the availability of the POSC Universal Units
> Converter v1.01, a units conversion program built with Tcl/Tk 8.0 and
> BWidgets.
>
> You may download the software at http://www.posc.org.
>
> Changes from v1.0 are as follows:
>
> 1) Reworded the calculator buttons to improve understanding of their
> function.
>
> 2) Made changes to accommodate UNIX installation as follows:
>
> a) Shipped proxy.dat file defaulted to "no proxy."
> b) Changed Readme to alert sysadmin to a) above.
> c) Changed the program to disable update of units data and edit
> of proxy data if user does not have write permission to the
> UConvert directory.
> d) Corrected an error where certain binary image files in the UNIX
> distribution were corrupted.
>
> See the Readme file below for additional details.
>
> Dan Schenck mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> POSC http://www.posc.org
> Houston, Tx
>
> =================================================================
> 03/31/1999
> POSC Universal Units Converter 1.0
> Copyright (c) 1999, POSC. All rights reserved.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> WHAT IS THE POSC UNIVERSAL UNITS CONVERTER?
>
> It is a units conversion program that easily and quickly shows
> equivalencies for everything from common units such as feet in a
> mile to obscure units such as therms in a joule.
>
> A calculator function is included with the converter to allow
> easy conversion from any number of units to the equivalent
> number of "other" units.
>
> Units are indexed by categories. This lets you find all the
> valid units for a specific category. For example, for the
> category "frequency," you can easily see the valid units are
> cycles/second, Hertz, radians/second and revolutions/minute.
> (The converter then lets you convert any of these units to any
> of the other units.)
>
> The POSC Universal Units Converter is based on POSC standard
> reference data for units conversion. It comes preloaded with
> the current units reference data as defined in the POSC
> Specifications V2.2.2. Using a menu option of the program, a
> user connected to the Internet may request the latest available
> reference data to be downloaded from the POSC web site at any
> time.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> VERSION
>
> This is Version 1.0 of the POSC Universal Units Converter.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
>
> The POSC Universal Units Converter is written in Tcl/Tk and runs
> on either UNIX or Windows 9x/NT. To use the program therfore,
> you must have first installed Tcl/Tk 8.0 or newer on your system.
>
> The latest version of Tcl/Tk 8.0 is available from Scriptics
> Corporation at the following URL:
> http://www.scriptics.com/software/8.0.html.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> INSTALLATION AND USE
>
> - - On UNIX:
>
> 1) Uncompress the file UConvert.tar.Z in a directory of your
> choice. This will result in a new subdirectory called UConvert
> which contains the executable, UConvert, and all other necessary
> files.
>
> e.g. - % cd /myprogramdir
> % uncompress UConvert.tar.Z
> % tar -xf UConvert.tar
>
> 2) You may need to edit the second line of the executable file
> UConvert to point to the Tcl/Tk 8.0 version of wish on your
> system.
>
> 3) The program is set up to assume no proxy is needed for web
> access. If you use a proxy server, the system administrator
> should run the program as root and edit the proxy
> information prior to general use.
>
> To execute the program:
>
> % cd /myprogramdir/UConvert
> % UConvert&
>
> - - On Windows:
>
> 1) Extract the files from UConvert.zip into a temporary
> directory.
> 2) Execute the program Setup.exe in the extract directory and
> follow the installation instructions.
>
> To execute the program, either:
>
> 1) Double click on the UConvert shortcut on the desktop, or
> 2) Select the UConvert program from Start/Programs/UConvert
> menu or
> 3) Double click on the UConvert.tcl file in the installation
> directory specified during setup (e.g.,
> C:/Program Files/POSC/UConvert).
>
> Note: For the above to work, you must have associated the
> .tcl file extension with a version of wish 8.0. The
> default installation of Tcl/Tk from Scriptics does
> this for you automatically.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> UNINSTALL
>
> - - On UNIX:
>
> 1) Remove the directory you initially uncompressed the files in.
>
> - -On Windows:
>
> 1) Go to the Add/Remove Programs function from the control
> Panel and select POSC Universal Units Converter for removal.
>
> 2) Select the Uninstall option in the Start/Programs/UConvert
> menu for the POSC Units Converter.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> ISSUES
>
> All calculations are done using double precision math. This
> causes some loss of precision for certain conversions. A higher
> level of precision for calculations is possible using a Tcl
> extension. If you have an interest in seeing high precision
> calculations added to UConvert, please contact Dan Schenck at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> LICENSE
>
> This program is distributed as shareware. If you find it useful
> and use it for more than a trial period of 30 days, you are
> asked to pay POSC a fee of $10.00 US. The fee is payable in US
> dollars drawn on a US bank. See the file Registration.txt for
> details on how to pay the shareware fee and register your usage
> of this software. See the file License.txt for the software
> license agreement.
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------
> HOW TO CONTACT POSC
>
> POSC
> Suite 275
> 10777 Westheimer
> Houston, TX 77042
>
> Voice: +1 (713) 784-1800
> Fax: +1 (713) 784-9219
> Web: http://www.posc.org
>
> To report bugs, provide suggestions for improvement or ask
> questions about this product, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CIMEBOAT)
Subject: Re: problem with my soundblaster AWE64
Date: 18 Apr 1999 15:45:52 GMT
Get your soundcard parameters from windows device mgr(i.e. I/O,IRQ,DMA,etc),
then at your root lilo prompt type sndconfig --noprobe and enter the correct
parameters.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Fried)
Subject: Re: VMWare speed
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:23:49 GMT
mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed to us that -
>>Just wanted to know if anyone has any spex as to how fast vmware runs? For
>>instance I have an AMD K62 300Mhz machine with 64 mb RAM and I just wanted to
>>know if programs will run fairly equivalent to just running one OS. I know
>>that it will run a little slower, but how slow?
>>
>
>My Pee 2 350 with 64 Meg of ram runs the virtual Windows 95 at a
>tolerably fast speed, not much more slowly than if I was running Windows
>itself. The only noticeable speed difference was with screen refreshes,
>but I was not using the vmware x server.
>
>It works quite well, give it a try. The only reason I stopped using it
>was because I didn't want to become dependant on it and then find that
>the license stops being free.
>
>--
I had a problem on the virtual disk. I kept getting monitor errors to
which I sent an incident report that they still haven't answered.
The raw disk option completely sucked. It was too slowwwwww and in addition
it screwed up the win 95 configuration.
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From: "Gray McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Web Mail Server for Linux?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:59:28 -0500
I run sendmail and Apache on my 2.0.35 Linux server and was wondering if
anyone knew of a solution to permit viewing users' email via a web
connection to the Apache server. For those that have seen it, I'm looking
for something similar to the MS Exchange Server facility that lets users
access their Exchange mail via IE instead of using the Outlook client.
Thanks,
Gray
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:39:45 -0400
From: Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Virtual Host Query
Kurt wrote:
> Hi guys,
> i was wondering if it is possible to create a virtual host without
> requiring another ip address. For example, my address is
> www.myserver.com and i would like to create a pages.myserver.com which
> will link to www.myserver.com/~pages.
> Is this possible?
>
> k
Yep. No problem. It tells you all about it in the Apache Documentation
that (should have) been installed along with Apache.
It does require that the browser used to view the web page is HTTP
version 1.1 compliant, however, but most modern browsers are. (Netscape
3.X and IE 4, I believe that Operah is as well)
-Benjamin Smith.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghostscript - Do I need it if RH5.2 already prints
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:24:44 -0500
Jeff Peterson wrote:
>
> I just installed RH5.2 and was having problems setting up my Okidata 6e.
> I finally figured out that I needed to configure it for a HPLaserJet 4.
> While searching for answers, I came upon Ghostscript.
>
> My question is:
>
> Since RH 5.2 is currently able to print (did a postscript test), will
> adding Ghostscript help at all or improve the printing capability?
>
> Thanks
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
IF it ain't broke, don't fix it! ;-)
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:43:08 -0600
From: Bob van der Poel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot problem (kernel 2.2.6)
zImage is too big for a floppy boot. You need to use bzImage. (well, at
least I think this is the problem...)
mox wrote:
>
> I updated everyting
> and on www.kernel.org, there is not a lot of infos..
>
> Killingtime @drum14.freeserve.co.uk> <"matt<NO SPAM> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Check the site where you got the kernel from. You may find that there are
> other
> > dependencies that need updating, such as gcc, and the bin utils.
> >
> > mox wrote:
> >
> > > I don't use lilo, my HD don't support it.. maybe because it is too big
> > > (20gig)
> > > I boot from a floppy made by (cat zImage > /dev/fd0)
> > > My old kernel version (2.0.36) works fine like that.. I think the
> problem is
> > > more with configuration
> > >
> > > Killingtime @drum14.freeserve.co.uk> <"matt<NO SPAM> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > If you recompiled the Kernel and then moved it to /vmlinuz did you
> type
> > > 'lilo'.
> > > > This may solve your problem. You will need to use your boot floppy to
> get
> > > > access to your partition.
> > > > mount root=/dev/hxx
> > > >
> > > > mox wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Anyone have an idea why my system halt right after the boot disk
> says:
> > > "Ok,
> > > > > now booting the kernel..."
> > > > >
> > > > > I just installed the kernel v2.2.6..
> > > > > I don't know why.. many ppl said to me to remove some things into my
> > > config,
> > > > > I made what the asked me to remove, but I have no results... the
> problem
> > > > > can't be my system.. (p2 333 / 20gig / 96 ram)
> > > > > I think the problem is my kernel configuration, cause the v2.0.36
> boot
> > > fine.
> > > >
> >
--
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/ ) / Bob van der Poel
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From: Matthew Slowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc problems
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:04:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joy Hendrickson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
> I have installed RedHat 5.2 on a 486, and I was just getting in the
>swing of things until I tried to compile some c code, It dosent matter
>what progrma I try to compile I alwasy ge tthe same errors which are
>(some are different according to the program I am trying to compile but
>all are basically the same they cant find some *.h file):
>sys/types.h no such file or directory
>stdio.h no such file or directory
>sys/files.h no such file or directory
>
>Now I cant program in C (I'm learning Pascal in school) so I have no
>idea what is wrong, any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
If you get a whole load of what look like system header files, then I
have the same problem! Help please!!!!
--
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux being user-friendly
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:33:08 -0500
root wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Linux HAS to change its command-line interface for a graphic interface. Now,
> > only the experts can use Linux, but it is made for everyone. We can make it
> > attractive to the users by changing its interface.
> >
> > JORRAMI
>
> I heartily disagree. Linux has GUI and command line for a reason. This is the
> best of both worlds. It does *not* take an expert to use Linux. It only takes
> an expert to set it up. After that, it is a very easy operating system to use.
>
> RedHat et al are changing the setup problem. Pretty soon, it will be as easy
> as Windoze to set up. After that, you will see a lot less bitching and a whole
> lot more enthusiastic "Hey, how do I do this? I saw it on Joe's computer and
> it's great. I want to learn how to do it. What manual did you say that was in?"
>
> Rick
I disagree also. Windows allows a "command line interface" - it's
called a DOS box, or you can boot to DOS from the boot menu. One still
has to use it at times, regardless of what Bill says.
You can make Linux fire right into a GUI front end if you want, but I
prefer booting to the command line. I'm not afraid of the power, and
I'm certainly not a Linux expert.
SuSE already is as easy to install as Windows, but a year ago, when I
first installed Linux, the RedHat 5.0 CD from the back of the "Learn
Linux in 24 hours" book cold booted my Sony VAIO and installed without a
hitch. I had installed all versions of Windows hundreds of times and
the RH 5.0 install was as easy as any Windows install.
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux being user-friendly
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:39:12 -0500
peter wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
>
> if a os can be user-friendly it should be userfriendly !! of course !!
> (I think there is no need for mystery-monger at the beginning of a new
> millenium)
<snip>
> I played around with redhat-linuxconf a while. it suggest that you can
> easily setup a network with it in not time. but it didnt work. (It tried
> to assign both network-cards to eth0 ;)
Let me get this straight: you tried to assign two ethernet cards to
eth0 and you are blaiming the redhat-linuxconf program because your
attempt didn't work? And you excuse that ... stupidity ... with a smily
face? You HAVE spent too much time in the Windows environment.
<snip>
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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From: "Mark Detwiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice on SuSE 6.0
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:21:21 -0700
Has anyone out there tried to install StarOffice 5.0
on the SuSE 6.0 distribution? StarOffice 5.0 is included
in the distribution, but the intallation requires a media key!
Where is it found?
Mark
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From: Zmooc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Uptimes
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:52:47 +0200
Hi,
I just ran into a neat site that keeps track of uptimes. It's on
http://uptime.hexon.cx. It's is a client-server system, and clients are
available for a lot of OS's. It's very nice to see that Linux is doing
really well; the box on the first place is a Linux box that has an
uptime
of more than 2 years!
You can download the client from http://uptime.hexon.cx. To get your
host
in the list you will have to register first.
Zmooc
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc problems
Date: 18 Apr 1999 17:45:07 -0400
I can readily confirm that, for me at least, admin@localhost is an
invalid address. Please post with a valid mail address that you can
recieve mail at. Citation corrected.
Matthew Slowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MS> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joy Hendrickson
MS> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
JH> I have installed RedHat 5.2 on a 486, and I was just getting in the
JH> swing of things until I tried to compile some c code, It dosent matter
JH> what progrma I try to compile I alwasy ge tthe same errors which are
JH> (some are different according to the program I am trying to compile but
JH> all are basically the same they cant find some *.h file):
JH> sys/types.h no such file or directory
JH> stdio.h no such file or directory
JH> sys/files.h no such file or directory
MS>
MS> If you get a whole load of what look like system header files, then I
MS> have the same problem! Help please!!!!
On Debian, libraries and their associated header files and other
tidbits that are only useful to developers are separated into separate
packages. If you had a Debian machine, I'd say you were missing the
libc6-dev package. Red Hat splits libraries and headers in the same
way, so you need to install the "development" package for your libc.
On RH5, I believe the relevant package is glibc-devel.
MS> To Reply by email, click on the mailto link below...
Not everybody uses a mail reader where "click" has any meaning. This
would be far more useful if it were in a From: or Reply-To: header.
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"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slow Clock
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:58:09 GMT
I've noticed that my system is loosing time, about 2.5 minutes per hour. I
can correct the problem with a cron job that runs `hwclock --hctosys`, but
that isn't a fix, it's more of a kludge. I have experienced said clock drift
with kernel versions 2.0.34, 2.2.5, and 2.2.6 . I have a Celeron
300A(actually running at 300, not overclocked). I know this has to be
software related for two reasons, first `hwclock --hctosys` sets the correct
time, and second it doesn't happen in NT.
-Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Subject: Re: exec 'as' when CONFIG_SOUND ?????
Date: 18 Apr 1999 19:57:25 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as is the assembler - part of the GNU bintils package. On my machine its
installed under /usr/bin.
Chris...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to include sound support in my kernel. I'm using SuSE 5.2.
>When I make config, I get this problem. I can find no reference to as
>in any book I have or the HOWTO. Can anyone help?
>
>
>Sound card support (CONFIG_SOUND) [M/n/y/?] y
>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.33.SuSE/drivers/sound'
>gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.33.SuSE/include -o configure configure.c
>gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
>make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.33.SuSE/drivers/sound'
>make: *** [config] Error 1
>
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From: Jens Sigersted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet site grabber for Linux?
Date: 18 Apr 1999 21:32:16 GMT
Matthew Bafford wrote:
>
> On 9 Apr 1999 13:32:09 GMT, Jens Sigersted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> lucked upon a computer, and thus typed in the following:
> ) Is there an Linux application/program to grab a internet site of the
web?
> ) Any suggestions welcome.
> )
>
> Perhaps wget is what you're looking for.
>
> ) Regards
> ) Jens Sigersted
>
> --Matthew
Yes! wget was what I was looking for. Simple, yet
sufficient for my needs. Thanks.
Regards
Jens Sigersted
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice and fonts -help!!
Date: 18 Apr 1999 21:34:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Dr Ian Vince McLoughlin wrote:
:> I've got SO5.0, and the fonts are awful
:> --if I'm doing a presentation with 100 point text, I don't want such blocky
:> letters,
:> in fact I don't know why it's so bad.
:>
:> Does anyone have any suggestion? How to fix the blocky characters etc...
:>
:> Please also send my any reply directly;
:> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:>
:> Thanks in advance and regards,
:> Ian McLoughlin
: I've got a similar problem, and I know how you feel. Especially when using
: the spreadsheet, if I change a font, the screen won't refresh with the new
: font, even though everywhere it says I've changed it. But there's much worse
: that comes from this... If I print it (and I presume it will do the same for
: presentations), the old fonts remain, no matter what I do. So far I haven't
: found a run-around to this solution, even with 5.0.1, but I'll keep working on
: it and let you know as soon as possible.
: Paul
Changing the font only operates on SELECTED area. I have had no problems
changing fonts on spreadsheets imported from Excel. The quality of fonts
I won't comment on.
Brian Baulch.
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From: "Low, Kuan Loong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDat restoring wrong files--What's happening?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:17:36 +0800
This is the first time I've installed Linux Mandrake
(KDE1.1/RH5.2) on a system with a tape drive, so please bear with
me. I've got the backup utility, KDat, to *seem* to work by
pointing it to the device st0 (also tried nst0 -- same thing).
Tested the system by backing up a directory. No errors were
reported. Verify function reports everything backed up correctly
as well. When I try to restore the entire directory, there seems
to be no problem. However, when I try to restore a particular
file, the wrong file gets restored! In fact, no matter which file
I select to restore, the *same* wrong file gets restored.
To make things worse, repeated attempts sometimes hangs the
program. The next time I start it up, while it recognises the
tape, all the files seem corrupted (verify reports "xxx not
found" or somesuch).
Can someone please tell me what I did wrong?
My system:
IBM PC Server 320
w/ DAT DDS2 tape drive attached to a Adaptec 29XX SCSI
running Mandrake 5.3 (no patches installed)
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Low Kuan Loong /____ FINALIST: Most Boring Signature
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \~~~~ Of the Year Award
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From: "Low, Kuan Loong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,jaring.os.linux
Subject: Looking for a small footprint distribution with X Window
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:33:36 +0800
Yo peoploids
Can anyone suggest a Linux distribution/Window
Manager/application suite combination which can run on very low
end Intel boxes? I'm trying to put together a proposal for my old
high school to refurbish old donated corporate PCs to become good
"first time" PCs for students as well as to expand the computer
lab. Needless to say, the penguin came to mind.
The PCs need to have X running as it need to at least *look* easy
(& familiar). We need it to have at least a word processor &
spreadsheet running on X as well.
For the "higher end" PCs which are connected to a
network/internet/ intranet, a browser would also be very
necessary.
Hardware specs: Varies, but the bulk are expected to be 486
machines with 8Mb RAM, with 500 Mb HDs.
Suggestions/pointers, anyone?
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Low Kuan Loong /____ FINALIST: Most Boring Signature
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \~~~~ Of the Year Award
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