Linux-Misc Digest #931, Volume #19 Thu, 22 Apr 99 22:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Re: kppp zonder KDE? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: wine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Opinions on KDE? (Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: Mail server for Linux (Horst von Brand)
Re: word processing, what to use? ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: epson stylus 600 printer driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cdrecord problems (jik-)
Re: GET REDHAT 6.1!!!! (Muzh)
printer problems
Re: CD-R filesystems (brian moore)
vendors with nfs (rodney)
Re: From RedHat to Slackware ("Tony Aguila")
How to create ISO compatible ROM for linux ("Tim Underwood")
Re: SOS: Switching Ethernet Card IRQ Settings? (Brodo)
Re: word processing, what to use? (Rod Smith)
Re: Acrobat Reader 4.0 is out... (Don)
Re: Opinions on KDE? (Christopher Browne)
Re: CD-R filesystems (Rod Smith)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kppp zonder KDE?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:34:28 GMT
In article <7fnjmr$o1v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I am using redhat 5.1 (kernel 2.2.5). I want to make use of kppp, but I don't
> want to install the complete KDE. Is that possible and if so, how?
Please reply to my email address, thank you.
>
> Bert
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wine
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:28:28 GMT
In article <7fnkhm$op2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I am really interested in wine (http://www.winehq.com). I have a problem with
> configuring wine in a way that I can work with it (I want to run word 6.0 on
> it). It runs, but it is too slow and the letters on my screen are far too big.
> Who can help me?
Please reply to my email address, thank you.
>
> Bert
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Opinions on KDE?
Date: 22 Apr 1999 01:02:43 GMT
Charles Coombs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I just installed KDE (building from the source, took 6 hours!) the
: 1. Do most of you use it? If not why?
Only for demonstration purposes: To convince my little brother (non-technical
"afraid-of-change" kind of person :-) to switch his computer and to show off.
For _real_ work I rather use WindowMaker, since it's leaner and faster.
Of course, WM is _not_ a desktop environment, just a Window Manager; but then
again, I type ten times as fast as anyone could work with a mouse
(two, even :-), so I rather have a shell prompt.
: 2. Is the Q library on which KDE is built used for much else?
Yes. You can use it for whatever is it you want. IIRC, there's a Mozilla
port using it, and I personally use QtNetHack. I like the Gtk toolkit
better, but only because I've programmed a little with both.
Just my 2 cents.
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Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker running Linux 2.2.5
One thing is to be the most popular, and another is to be the best.
Unix: Live free or die! What would yo do without your freedom?
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From: Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Mail server for Linux
Date: 22 Apr 1999 18:40:35 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
> What program do I use and can someone point me to a FAQ or something so I can
> learn how to do this?
Mail-HOWTO, should be under /usr/doc/HOWTO in RedHat. Root around there,
there is much useful info nearby.
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Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: word processing, what to use?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:27:55 -0400
If all you need is a word processor (no spreadsheet, etc)... than the best
option out there right now would probably have to be WordPerfect
(http://linux.corel.com).
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: epson stylus 600 printer driver
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:50:27 GMT
In article <7fnoaa$k0i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Tennent <rdt> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:38:10 GMT, carl wrote:
^^^ My mistake in the post, should
have been [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Run the command gv -h and see what the available devices are. (I think
> >your epson is stcolor).
> >
>The uniprint driver is better for Epson Stylus printers. And the
>command to use is gs -h.
^^^^^ I meant 'gs -h', and I'll have to give that
uniprint driver a try myself. Thanks.
-Carl
>
>Bob T.
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:32:24 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cdrecord problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've experienced a few problems with cdrecord. First of all I'm not able
> to use it as a normal user because I always get this error:
>
> Operation not permitted. Cannot do mlockall(2).
right neither can I, don't know if there is a fix besides setting up
sudo to allow you to run commands with root access...here is my sudoers
file which lets me do this.
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
# (oops :P I didn't do it that way :P)
#
# See the man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
User_Alias FULLTIME=jik-
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
FULLTIME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
then you simply run like
bash$ sudo cdrecord -eject dev=/dev/sga speed=2 -data track1 -audio
traks
and all will work.
>
> Furthermore I can't manage to make "on the fly" copies because when I
> force cdrecord to get its input from a pipe it writes all data to a
> single (enormous) track.
>
from the CD-Writing-HOWTO:
4.7. Is it possible to make a 1:1 copy of a data CD?"
Yes. But you should be aware of the fact that any errors while reading
the original (due to dust or scratches) will result in a defective
copy.
First case: you have a CD-writer and a seperate CD-ROM drive. By
issuing the command
cdwrite -v -D /dev/sgc --pad -b $(isosize /dev/scd0) /dev/scd0
or
cdrecord -v dev=3,0 speed=2 -isosize /dev/scd0
you read the data stream from the CD-ROM drive attached as /dev/scd0
and write it directly through /dev/sgc to the CD-R.
Second case: you don't have a seperate CD-ROM drive. You have to use
the writer to read out the CD-ROM in this case:
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdimage bs=1c count=`isosize /dev/scd0`
This command is equivalent to the result of mkisofs, so you should
procede as described in chapter 3. Please note that this method will
fail on audio CDs!
So, _I_ gather that your trying to do something which will not work.
Maybe there is another way of doing it, I don't know. I suppose it
might also fail on Multi-Session CDs.
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From: Muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: GET REDHAT 6.1!!!!
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:44:21 +1200
Yes -- you must upgrade to 2.2.69
**Nick Brown wrote:
>
> Do I need an upgrade to my kernel to see the teen pictures ?
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
>
> Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer problems
Date: 22 Apr 1999 23:32:21 GMT
hi. we have just bought a canon bjc 4310sp printer. we are running rh5.2,
with 2.2.1 kernel. soeone recommended installing LPRng by rpm, instead of
the standard lpr program.
our computer's name is hal, on localdomain. we have two on our network, but
the printer is connected to hal. printer is called min.
we used printtool, to detect lp0, and use the canon bj600 drivers, as
recommended in the printing howto database.
having done all of this, we can use printtool to test by sending ascii
directly to the port..
but
test ascii gets the message:
jobcf A639hal.localdomain transfer to min@localhost failed
test postscript:
al: lpd:min:your host does not have lineprinter access
jobcf A639hal.localdomain transfer to min@localhost failed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: CD-R filesystems
Date: 23 Apr 1999 00:08:31 GMT
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:47:57 -0700,
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to have the long filenames work in linux AND win95. I know
> Joliet will do it for win95, but I see other CDs accomplishing it on
> iso9660...ie the Debain CD.
That's not plain iso9660, though: it's the Rockridge extensions.
> Slackware CD seems to use the RR extenstion to give linux the long
> names, and uses the 8.3 in win95, but Debian just has long names in both
> (package.this.that.deb) I managed it with my website using the -l
> switch, but then I tried to make a CD of XFree86 source and it did not
> work so well. I also had to use the -D switch or mkisofs segfaults.
Nope, ISO9660 doesn't support long filenames. (Well it sort of does, up
to 32 characters, but no one uses them.)
Both 'joliet' (the Windows method of long filenames) and 'rockridge'
(the Unix-and-everyone-but-MS-format) are merely extensions of iso9660:
the disk is still readable on a iso9660 system, just without the
advantages the extensions provide.
If you turn up verbosity on mkisofs and build a disk with a lot of
similar filenames, you'll see much the of the trickery going on (I see
this a lot when I rip a bunch of CD's onto a CD-R of MP3's, since the
filenames tend to be longish): basically, it's much like the "~1" stuff
that Win95 does with "long filename" support. A shortened version of
the name is written on the disk to appease iso9660, and the full length
is written in another directory for systems that can handle it.
And, yes, this means that you can use both Rockridge and Joliet on the
same disk, making the long file names available under both Windows and
other systems.
Try http://www.cd-info.com/ for details on things.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: rodney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vendors with nfs
Date: 22 Apr 1999 19:32:19 GMT
are there any vendors (or various other linux sites) that have full linux
distrobutions available thru nfs?
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From: "Tony Aguila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: From RedHat to Slackware
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:47:35 -0700
I agree Slackware is more true Unix config then RedHat. I have had problems
with RedHat with the wrappers for its network process, and had no problems
with Slackware. All in all both are cool, but Slackware is better if you are
a developer writing Unix code. Have fun and good luck.
Michael Powe wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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>>>>>> "Jason" == White Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Jason> I recently installed RedHat but am wanting to give
> Jason> Slackware a shot. The machine I have can read a CD while
> Jason> running the RedHat. I also have access to Windoze machines
> Jason> to use rawrite if I need to. The slackware install isn't
> Jason> quite as simple as the RedHat, all the same, I'd like to go
> Jason> ahead with it. The RedHat is simple enough to go back to.
> Jason> Any pointers for good resources on installing slackware.
>
>Just stick it in the drive and go. Read the documentation that came
>with the CD, that's all you need. It's that basic. You don't need a
>manual and you don't need 5 trips to the web site to d/l patches.
>
>I dumped Really Horrible for Slackware 3.5 & am I ever glad I did.
>Finally, everything works the way it's supposed to.
>
>mp
>
>- --
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From: "Tim Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to create ISO compatible ROM for linux
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:31:06 -0500
I have been trying to create a compatible CDROM for linux that supports long
filenames. (Testing with CDRW at the moment).
I am creating the ROM on a Win98 PC, and have tried the NTI CD Maker Pro
3.1.730 program that came with the unit, as well as Adaptec Easy CD Creator
Deluxe 3.5b.
I have tried the Joliet format, as well as the ISO 9660. While 95/98 can
see long filenames with either format, as soon as I mount it on linux, I get
8.3 names.
For the time being, I am using CDRW, as I keep downloading more programs or
updated programs, and don't really want to burn them as of yet.
Any ideas???
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From: Brodo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: SOS: Switching Ethernet Card IRQ Settings?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:04:39 +1000
dagger wrote:
> I have been told that it is possible to change the IRQ setting of the
> Ethernet card by passing the kernel something macabre at startup, can
> anyone please give me details of how to do this?
Isn't there a 'setup' program on the disk that came with your NIC (or
from a drivers site like http://www.driverguide.com/drivers.htm ?). This is
what you should use to change the IRQ settings of the card. You pass the
kernel parameters to tell it to look at different places when trying to
detect the cards (mainly usefule for multiple NIC's), not for configuring the
hardware - though it is getting much more PnP, so you may be right!
Brodo
--
I have a problem with a revolution in that if you have a
revolution, then afterwards you become the establishment.
We should not try to dominate. --Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: word processing, what to use?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 01:29:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7fnkcc$ond$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> My quastion is simple. What is a good word processor under linux? Please take
> into account my configuration. I have an AMD 486dx4-100 with 32mb ram and 4 mb
> S3 Virge videocard.
> Something like star office is too heavy.
My impression is that WordPerfect is the best of the "big three" Linux
word processors (WordPerfect, Star Office, and Applix Words) in terms of
useability on a low-memory system, though I've seen some posts that
suggest it may not be the greatest for a weaker CPU (which yours is, by
these standards). Still, you can try it for free (assuming no cost to
download it), so you can evaluate it yourself without a major investment.
You might also want to look at Maxwell and LyX. These are both freeware
word processors (though LyX stretches the definition of "word processor"
a bit; its authors refer to it as a "document processor"), and they're
both relatively simple compared to WP, SO, and AW. LyX is a front-end to
LaTeX, though, so if you're willing to learn a bit of LaTeX, it can
become quite powerful. You could also look at using raw TeX/LaTeX, using
the text editor of your choice (Emacs, Nedit, vi, whatever) for actual
text entry.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
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From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 4.0 is out...
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:13:33 GMT
Gisbert Berger wrote:
>
> There is acrobat 4.0 out. There is only a prerelease for linux
> available now, but it works more or less. Hopefully they will make a
> full realease (with language support). Maybe, if many enough
> downloads of the prerelease will occur :-) ?
> http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/acrrwhatsnew.html#linux
What is the difference? I mean, what is new or better than the older
version?
Thanks
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Opinions on KDE?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:11:54 GMT
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:39:02 GMT, Roberto Alsina
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7flh0p$i36$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> K Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One reason I don't use it-it's a memory hog. Afterstep has just as much
>> functionality and is just as configurable and uses perhaps third the
>> resources than KDE does and I should add takes up far less disk space as
>> well.
>
>That may be correct if you are confusing KDE with KWM, but saying Afterstep
>has as much functionality as KDE is simply wrong.
>
>KDE is not a window manager: it includes a application launcher, a file
>manager, a web browser, text editors, terminal emulators, games, mail
>clients, IRC programs, and so on.
People keep on making this mistake; I think you might want to put in
your .signature (or some other prominent place) something reading
similar to:
"KDE *IS NOT A WINDOW MANAGER.* It is an application framework that
consists of libraries to assist in application development and a set
of utilities and applications that use those libraries."
>On the other hand, Afterstep draws little things around applications and some
>square thing with pictures on the side of the screen (just kidding ;-)
That's less far from the truth than you're implying...
--
"And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug
reports on it, you know they are just evil lies." (By Linus Torvalds)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: CD-R filesystems
Date: 23 Apr 1999 01:37:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:47:57 -0700,
> jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would like to have the long filenames work in linux AND win95. I know
>> Joliet will do it for win95, but I see other CDs accomplishing it on
>> iso9660...ie the Debain CD.
>
> Both 'joliet' (the Windows method of long filenames) and 'rockridge'
> (the Unix-and-everyone-but-MS-format) are merely extensions of iso9660:
> the disk is still readable on a iso9660 system, just without the
> advantages the extensions provide.
Actually, Joliet is a completely separate filesystem that can coexist with
ISO-9660. It doesn't rely upon ISO-9660 for anything, at least not the
way Rock Ridge does. There are commercial CD-ROMs that come up showing
all files in Windows (or other OSes that support Joliet), but that display
only a README file in DOS or other no-Joliet OSes. This is done by
de-synchronizing the ISO-9660 and Joliet filesystems. Most CD-R software
that creates Joliet automatically synchronizes it with the ISO-9660
filesystem, so they show precisely the same files, just with different
filenames.
> And, yes, this means that you can use both Rockridge and Joliet on the
> same disk, making the long file names available under both Windows and
> other systems.
Correct. To be more precise, you need to use both the -J and -r or -R
switches to mkisofs to create both Joliet and Rock Ridge. GUI front-ends
to mkisofs, such as X-CD-Roast, may include point-and-click switches to
burn both Joliet and Rock Ridge. A handful of commercial CD-R packages
may support this, too, but I don't know what they are, offhand. Certainly
the most popular ones on Windows, like Easy CD Creator, don't (they lack
in Rock Ridge support, for the most part).
FWIW, if you use mkhybrid rather than mkisofs, it's also possible to
create a CD that includes Joliet, Rock Ridge, and MacOS's HFS, all in one.
This can be very handy sometimes.
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