Linux-Misc Digest #867, Volume #21 Sun, 19 Sep 99 08:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: Star Office v Applix Office 99 (Dennis)
Programs (SASKATOON)
Re: Loadlin nukes APM BIOS save-to-disk feature (Villy Kruse)
Re: how to know my own IP? ("Dr. Thomas Bengs")
Diamond Viper V770 16MB ("boothie")
WAVs playing slow with sblive driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: databases on linux? ("Jill")
Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!! (Darren Winsper)
Re: WAVs playing slow with sblive driver ("Terence Parker")
Please Help with RPM ("Jill")
Re: Can Linux read Mac files? (Peter Caffin)
Re: LILO and WIN98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please Help with RPM (lawick)
installation question (lawick)
Re: Exceed & Linux: Configuration Problem (Charles Mulks)
Re: A simple way to upload multiple files per ftp (Henrik Becker)
Re: Diamond Stealth 64 (Mark Andal)
Re: Please Help with RPM (Anita Lewis)
Re: Xircom Modem (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: Adding swap space to drive with data... easy? (Artur Swietanowski)
Newbie...Is my modem working? (BLAB)
Re: Please Help with RPM ("Jill")
More Newbie Info (SASKATOON)
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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Star Office v Applix Office 99
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:57:54 -0400
I have a coulpe of questions for Star Office 5.1 users. First, can the
Linux version read both the Windows version and MS Office files
directly, or do you need to use a filter?
Star office 5.1 comes with a database. Does anyone know if it can
read/write MS Access files? What other db files can it read/write?
Thanks,
Dennis
Adrian Dimulescu wrote:
>
> First, the StarOffice can be used freely, unlike Applixware which has an
> evaluation edition that makes ApplixWords only edit 2-page documents and
> so on.
> StarOffice tries to emulate as much as possible the MSOffice look and
> feel and it succeeds to a certain point but it is no small program.
> About VBA, I haven't checked it but I do not think that any of the two
> implements it.
> The moral is, I suppose, try them yourself as they're both available on
> the Web one way or another.
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: SASKATOON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Programs
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:35:03 GMT
I'd like to try installing some games and other programs. As I'm new to
Redhat, I think I'll stick with RPM's for now because even they can be
tricky. I set up Sabre and it just isn't running, it's not in the menu,
in its folder, clicking the icon does nothing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,tamu.unix.general
Subject: Re: Loadlin nukes APM BIOS save-to-disk feature
Date: 19 Sep 1999 11:02:44 +0200
George R. Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have Linux (2.0.36) and DOS on an NEC Versa-SX
>laptop. If I boot either of these systems (using either
>lilo or Partition Magic's boot manager) things work well.
>I can suspend the laptop, and after 30 minutes it flushes the
>memory to a disk file (on the DOS partition) and shuts down.
With some BIOS you can allocate the 'save-to file' as a separate
partition, and if you do so, this save to disk feature doesn't
depend on the DOS/WIN partition and file system remain intact,
including the active boot partition flag.
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From: "Dr. Thomas Bengs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to know my own IP?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:46:49 GMT
Bob Tennent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:34:51 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >I am using a dialup account to access Internet, ie. my IP is different
> >everytime I dialup. So how can I know my IP address? What kind of
> >software can return my IP to me when I dialup?
> >
> ifconfig
OK, I know it. But how can I get the IP address alone, to use it in
other scripts, f.i. to lock ports for the Internet with ipchains?
ifconfig diplays
isdn0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:35:C2:A1
inet addr:193.174.8.136 Bcast:193.174.8.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11903 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x300
Thanx,
Thomas.
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From: "boothie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Diamond Viper V770 16MB
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:06:47 +1000
It's my first attempt at setting Linux up. I have Caldera's Open Linux 2.2
and can't seem to get it to work with my graphics card (Diamond Viper V770
16MB). Should I download the Nvidia X server stuff?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WAVs playing slow with sblive driver
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:10:40 GMT
Hi
When playing a wav file manually using "cat file.wav > /dev/audio" it
seems to be playing about 20% (my guess) too slowly. Has anyone else had
this problem with an sblive card? I'm using driver 0.3 with kernel 2.2.11.
NJR
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From: "Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: databases on linux?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:41:51 -0700
Oracle 8i is resource intensive as well as full of bugs. I run Oracle 8.0.5
on a Dell Pentium 90 with 48 MB and performance is not a problem. I just
use it to study for the OCP since we only have Oracle 7 at work. For a
production environment my setup would be woefully inadequate.
Son Trung Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyone got much experience with the big guys database eg Oracle,
> Informix, DB2, Sybase on Linux? I am really thinking of using
> one but wonder which is a good effient one that will run relatively
> good with 64MB of RAM? I heard oracle is good but it's a RAM guzzler.
> How are Informix and DB2 ?? I would love to hear from folks who
> is running them and how you think of it.?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Winsper)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!!
Date: 19 Sep 1999 11:01:08 GMT
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:47:58 -0500, Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Winsper)
> spake unto us, saying:
> >> Buy another computer...;-)
> >
> >Oh yeah, I forgot, us poor students are rolling in so much cash these
> >days :)
>
> Pentium-class machines can be obtained from sites like uBid or eBay for
> under $100 (no monitor).
Don't you need a credit card for places like that?
> Heck, the last two PPro/200s I purchased were
> $209 apiece on uBid.
I presume you're talking systems. A PPro 200 just isn't suitable for
me since they lack the power I want, and EDO RAM is damn expensive
these days.
> I could have afforded one of those when I was in
> college -- sadly, Pentiums or PIIs didn't exist in 1981. :-)
Remember, the UK doesn't have the same education system as the US.
Our university is essentially your college I believe.
Besides, after spending 300 UKP upgrading my current machine, I'm
skint.
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From: "Terence Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAVs playing slow with sblive driver
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:05:23 +0800
> When playing a wav file manually using "cat file.wav > /dev/audio" it
> seems to be playing about 20% (my guess) too slowly. Has anyone else had
> this problem with an sblive card? I'm using driver 0.3 with kernel 2.2.11.
>
I never actually tried playing a wave file using cat - but I do remember
when I installed the 2.2.10 kernel initially I had many problems with my
soundcard. Sometimes the SBLive didn't even load at startup - and at others
the wave files were very slow.
I went back to 2.2.7 and have no problems. My guess would be the SBLive
drivers - they are still beta and I can only wait for a better copy really.
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From: "Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help with RPM
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:38:42 -0700
I installed only the command line version of RH 5.2 with the purpose of
running Oracle 8. I ommitted some packages due to disk space limitations.
I now find that I have enough diskspace to add the windowing environment and
apache.
But I am totally confused as to how to go about doing this. The RPM
syntax confuses me. Could someone explain to me, at least in general terms,
or even better, specfic terms, what I am doing?
Thanks for your time.
Jill C.
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux read Mac files?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:55:12 +0800
Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can it mount and read Mac formatted floppies?
Yes. All Mac floppies apart from those written by the really old
Mac clunkers from the Mac Plus generation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LILO and WIN98
Date: 18 Sep 1999 15:21:20 GMT
Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that ends below cylinder 1023.
> Cameron
Thank you for your answer, but i managed to make it work after asking on
#debian . The problem was that the Windows partition was marked as ACTIVE and
Linux one wasn't. So, i used linux fdisk, to set windows partition to
non-active, set linux partition to active and run lilo again. It worked like
a charm!
Cheers,
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:32:52 +0200
From: lawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Help with RPM
rpm -qa gives you all installed packages on your system
rpm -qi <package> provides detailed information on specific package
rpm -i <package> installs package
rpm -U <package> upgrades a package
See info pages for more detailed information or RPM-HOWTO.
Joost
Jill wrote:
> I installed only the command line version of RH 5.2 with the purpose of
> running Oracle 8. I ommitted some packages due to disk space limitations.
> I now find that I have enough diskspace to add the windowing environment and
> apache.
> But I am totally confused as to how to go about doing this. The RPM
> syntax confuses me. Could someone explain to me, at least in general terms,
> or even better, specfic terms, what I am doing?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Jill C.
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:32:55 +0200
From: lawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installation question
Hi,
I have to install Linux (Red Hat) on 8 PC's for teaching purposes. Also,
after each course, I want to re-install everything from scratch. I am
talking about 8 identical PC's. When I install red hat, I have to answer
all sorts of questions. Is there some way or another to automate this
process?
Joost van Lawick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Mulks)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Exceed & Linux: Configuration Problem
Date: 19 Sep 1999 11:42:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Hi All
>
>I have been stuck on this problem for months!
>
>I got two PCs one running linux, other win98.
>
>On the win98 pc, I got exceed installed and I want to run e.g. xf86 or the
>CDE from the win pc. I start exceed Xstart with command parameter:
>
>xterm -display 192.168.0.1:0.0
>
>I get the xterminal on the win machine with no problems. When I start
>netscape/ghostview etc.. (any application the output is ok and it appears on
>the win98 monitor).
>
>when I type startx, it starts on the Linux PC.
>
>Could someone PLEASE PLEASE help me out with this. I am not sure if the
>problem is from exporting DISPLAY (shouldnt because it works ok with other
>progs). I dont know if its an exceed configuration problem.
>
>Thanks
>Chris
>
>
startx starts an X server on the linux box - just what you are seeing
you have to have xdm (or kdm or gdm) running on the linux box and set up
an XDMCP session in your win9x x-server (exceed) to do what I think you want
take a look at
http://www.msu.edu/~mulksc/LinuxHints/win95xserv.html
for complete details as to how I did it using X-Win32
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.servers.general,redhat.general
Subject: Re: A simple way to upload multiple files per ftp
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:33:12 +0200
> Can somebody tell me a simple way to upload a filesystem tree with
> multiple files. I have to do it periodically, so I wan't to do it with the
> help of cron.
Check out _sitecopy_ and look for it via freshmeat.
It mirrors whatever you want over ftp. Use it myself ... GREAT!
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From: Mark Andal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 64
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 07:33:46 -0400
Leroux wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a Diamond Stealth 64 with 2 megs of ram, s3 vision 968 with TI
> video 3026 and DAC. My mointor is a Mag Innovision 720v2. I can't get X
> windows to work. I only get a gray screen.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Leroux
Just wondering what version of linux are you running. I have the same
exact
card and everything is running smoothly.
>From the command line type Xconfigurator
pick the video card and the settings and voila.
It's been there since Xfree86 3.3.1 (possibly even earlier)
Mark Andal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Subject: Re: Please Help with RPM
Date: 19 Sep 1999 11:17:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put the cdrom in and as root type mount /mnt/cdrom. Then cd
/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
ls XF* to see what packages there are.
Hopefully you will have already looked to find what Server your card
needs. You can find that somewhere in the docs, but I'm not sure where.
You can also find a list at www.xfree.org. Because you do not want to
install ALL of this stuff. You want XFree86-3.3.2...rpm for sure. Also
75dpi and 100dpi. I'd recommend getting XF86Setup too. XF86Setup
is a nice tool for configuration of X. Oh, you will need the libs too
So that's XFree86, 100dpi, 75dpi, libs, XF86Setup, and of course the
server you need like SVGA or S3 or whatever. I don't see docs listed in
my RH5.2 manual in the back. If that is there, I'd take it too.
rpm -ivh XFree86..whatever.rpm It will probably have to be done in some
order and you will know because it will give failed dependencies and you
will have to go do another one first - like maybe libs will need to be
first. I'm not sure what the order would be.
I don't know Apache, but all I see in the book is apache and apache-devel;
so that one will be either just the one or possibly devel is required for
what you will be doing.
Anita
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:38:42 -0700, Jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed only the command line version of RH 5.2 with the purpose of
>running Oracle 8. I ommitted some packages due to disk space limitations.
>I now find that I have enough diskspace to add the windowing environment and
>apache.
> But I am totally confused as to how to go about doing this. The RPM
>syntax confuses me. Could someone explain to me, at least in general terms,
>or even better, specfic terms, what I am doing?
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Jill C.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xircom Modem
Date: 19 Sep 1999 00:03:17 GMT
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:27:00 +0800, Stephan wrote:
>Anyone with experience install a xircom modem card (cm56) on their Linux??
>Would appreciated if someone willing to sharing their knowledges with me,...
>
>Thanz,........
I've got it working w/o problem. It works with RH 5.1/5.2/6.0, so I guess it
should works with kernel 2.0.X and above (may be older kernels should work too
because it doesn't depends on the kernel but with the PCMCIA-CS package).
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From: Artur Swietanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adding swap space to drive with data... easy?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:59:26 +0200
Chris Gregory wrote:
> did you consider using a swap file?
Swap files are slower to use. There's no need in this case (see my
other reply in this thread).
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From: blab@@nbnet.nb.ca (BLAB)
Subject: Newbie...Is my modem working?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:58:01 GMT
Hi,
Thanks in advance for your assistance. I'm a newbie, but onboard with
ditching windows.
I just installed Mandrake 6.0 & need to get on the net with my linux
machine. I tried using KPPP & switched the path? to the modem to all
the available options. /dev/modem, /dev tty0 etc. I still get
nothing. The message comes back that the modem can't respond or that
its busy. Please help. I learn a lot myself if I can just get
connected. Please keep in mind. I am a total newbie!
-Steve "Kervorkian" Mallett
blab@@nbnet.nb.ca
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From: "Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Help with RPM
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:07:34 -0700
Sorry for my newness at this. I entered 'rpm -ivh
apache-1.3.3-1.i386.rpm' and it flashed a bunch of '#######' on the screen
and then quit. I interepreted it as a positive sign, but any idea where it
installed it, if it actually did?
Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Put the cdrom in and as root type mount /mnt/cdrom. Then cd
> /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
>
> ls XF* to see what packages there are.
>
> Hopefully you will have already looked to find what Server your card
> needs. You can find that somewhere in the docs, but I'm not sure where.
> You can also find a list at www.xfree.org. Because you do not want to
> install ALL of this stuff. You want XFree86-3.3.2...rpm for sure. Also
> 75dpi and 100dpi. I'd recommend getting XF86Setup too. XF86Setup
> is a nice tool for configuration of X. Oh, you will need the libs too
>
> So that's XFree86, 100dpi, 75dpi, libs, XF86Setup, and of course the
> server you need like SVGA or S3 or whatever. I don't see docs listed in
> my RH5.2 manual in the back. If that is there, I'd take it too.
>
> rpm -ivh XFree86..whatever.rpm It will probably have to be done in some
> order and you will know because it will give failed dependencies and you
> will have to go do another one first - like maybe libs will need to be
> first. I'm not sure what the order would be.
>
> I don't know Apache, but all I see in the book is apache and apache-devel;
> so that one will be either just the one or possibly devel is required for
> what you will be doing.
>
> Anita
>
> On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 06:38:42 -0700, Jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I installed only the command line version of RH 5.2 with the purpose
of
> >running Oracle 8. I ommitted some packages due to disk space
limitations.
> >I now find that I have enough diskspace to add the windowing environment
and
> >apache.
> > But I am totally confused as to how to go about doing this. The RPM
> >syntax confuses me. Could someone explain to me, at least in general
terms,
> >or even better, specfic terms, what I am doing?
> >
> >Thanks for your time.
> >
> >Jill C.
> >
> >
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From: SASKATOON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: More Newbie Info
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:45:01 GMT
I think that Linux and Redhat due a bad job of supplying new users with,
particularily Windows defectors, with the info to run these machines.
I've had Redhat 6 for a couple of weeks now and still can't get some
basic stuff figured out. Very frustrating at times. But I hate Bill's
Box so bad that'll I'll stick it out, I just wish it were easier is all.
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