Linux-Misc Digest #694, Volume #23 Sun, 27 Feb 00 20:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: LINUX GAME: Circus Linux! initial release (v 0.0.0) (Ken Moffat)
TNT2 problem ("StyX")
is there libplot version working with g77? (Jan Krupa)
Where are printer drivers located? (nldgr)
How do I fax staroffice document?
Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (nldgr)
No Print Previews? (nldgr)
UT Tourney install (Robert Thomas)
Cosing, minimizing buttons stop working (nldgr)
Re: Disk Striping/Concat... (Andy Harrison)
Re: How do I fax staroffice document? (Grant Edwards)
Is there a trick to starting gnu emacs? ("Lord Petrosky")
Re: tasks on shutdown (Dances With Crows)
Re: TNT2 problem (Dances With Crows)
How2 set X11 8 bits/pixel ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ASF and Linux? (Evan Dower)
opening archives (Marc)
Re: Xcdroast and SuSE 6.3? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: xsession MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 problem (Caddis)
Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (Hans Dumbrajs)
Re: Modem (Hans Dumbrajs)
"conf:8: missing module argument" ("Freggle")
Re: Hard disk space expansion for RH Linux ??? (Steve)
Re: Good place to learn? (Steve)
Re: opening archives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
rec.games.video.atari,rec.games.video.classic,alt.games.video.classic,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: LINUX GAME: Circus Linux! initial release (v 0.0.0)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:54:19 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> And verily, didst Rodrigo Andrade hastily scribble thusly:
> >>If these are the types of games I would play if I installed Linux... no
> >>thank you. I'll stick with windoze and play Half Life
>
> > Chill out, Linux will be dead after Windows 2000 and its consumer-oriented
> > counterpart start flying off the shelves. Remember OS/2?
>
> Yeh, right. I really see home users forking out hundreds on buying win2000
> when linux is available for free...
>
> Any schmuck that falls for the Windose millenium crap deserves everything
> they get.
>
> Now begone troll, I banish thee.
> --
Why bother with these types. If they want to play the windows upgrade
game, too bad for them. They pay $$ for something they will just
complain about, while linux buffs pay nothing and learn something about
the workings of a computer operating system. You won't convince the
gamers anyway. Talking to them just encourages em.
--
Ken Moffat
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "StyX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TNT2 problem
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:18:39 +0100
I've just installed RedHat linux 6.1 on my system, and I have a problem with
my TNT2 drivers (I think!). When I try to start X, my screen goes black and
turns it self on and off! I have 32 MB of memory on the card, and when I
installed Linux, it counted 4 megs! There is something very wrong here, and
can only run text-based Linux, which I almost don't know at all... If any of
you ever experienced the same problem or have a solution to it, please
contact me!
StyX, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is there libplot version working with g77?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:03:40 +0100
There is a nice C/C++ function
library for vector graphics libplot:
http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html
Is there a version of it (or something other but
similar) working with fortran 77 (g77) ?
I have found DISLIN http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/
but it would be nice to have libplot working for C/C++
and g77.
Jan
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where are printer drivers located?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:34:29 GMT
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I fax staroffice document?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:30:13 GMT
I have both Mgetty-sendfax ,efax installed.I am stuck on howto convert a
.sdw staroffice document to G3 file as any attempt to send this file gives
me unknown file format error.
Thanks in advance,
chirag
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:40:31 GMT
I can print from the command line, Corel WP7, and Xess; but can't print
in Navigator or Acroread.
I put the same command in them that I used in WP and about five other
variances, but alas, a no-go.
Why?
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Print Previews?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:41:18 GMT
Why Leenux got no print previews???
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From: Robert Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UT Tourney install
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:30:05 GMT
Whenever I attempt to install UT Tournament on my Linux system I get the
following error:
./setup.sh: line 5: syntax error near unexepcted token `then'
./setup.sh: line 5:`if { ldd ./setup.data/bin/x86/glibc-2.1/setup.gtk |
grep -Ei "notfoundlmissing" > /dev/null }; then'
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cosing, minimizing buttons stop working
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:57:45 GMT
After starting an x-windows session, the minimize, maximize, and close
buttons on the various windows work fine; but after a while, they don't
respond.
Also, clicking on the title bars transfers me from one window to
another; but after a while that too ceases to respond.
Reminds me of windows and having to restart to get things going again.
Why? Why? Why?
Gee sus!! I'm going to be an old man by the time I figure this
*!@#$%^^%#@ OS out! (and I'm halfway there already-maybe that's the
problem)
I could have started a business and run it, made a fortune, and sold the
business at a profit with MS Windows by now. What's the gig with
Leenux?
It's suppose to be more stable, yet I have to restart just like windows
to keep things going.
Ya, it's faster if you don't count the time mounting and umounting every
time you want to look at a freaking drive.
More stable? How? On huge international businesses? I only have one
computer.
Good for networking? I'm not setting up a network.
Good for security? What's wrong with Conseal PC Firewall for windows?
Good for tracking where the hack is coming from? Can this be done
successfully all the time?
Maybe Linux is good for NASA, but how long did those guys maintaining
over there study computers before they got things going? Did their
families raise them in a computer programming based enviornment?
Maybe if I had taken a class at college in Unix or something first, it
might have been a good idea
Then I hear about grade and high school kids hacking like old pros. Do
they figure all this out on their own? Maybe I'm just too dumb for this
OS.
I really can't see the advantage of spending so much time on learning an
OS. What's the point?
What's the advantage; the gain? Free software? Shoot, if I counted the
hours I spend learning it, the whole show is costing twenty times as
much.
What's wrong with OS2, MacOS, BeOS?
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From: Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Disk Striping/Concat...
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:04:11 -0500
Thanx for the help. That led me to this link, which really made it
pretty painless, especially since I don't need to boot from the raid.
The only thing that was different than what it said, presumably since
I'm not booting from the raid, was that I set my persistent-superblock
to 0.
http://www.ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.txt
--
Andy Harrison
ICQ: 1467660 AIM: AndyHarrisonRR
Peter Eddy wrote:
>
> Take a look at:
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/raid/RAID-INDEX.html
>
> Peter
>
> Andy Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I've only begun to look, but I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to do
> > this under Linux (running rh6.1 sparc). I'd like multiple hard drives
> > to appear as one drive similar to the way I can in Solaris Disk Suite
> > and Veritas volume manager.
> >
> > Tips or links appreciated. Thanx!
> >
> > --
> > Andy Harrison
> > ICQ: 1467660 AIM: AndyHarrisonRR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: How do I fax staroffice document?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:08:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have both Mgetty-sendfax ,efax installed.I am stuck on howto convert a
>.sdw staroffice document to G3 file as any attempt to send this file gives
>me unknown file format error.
Print it to a file in postscript format. Then use Ghostscript to convert it
to g3 fax format.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. my NOSE is NUMB!
at
visi.com
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From: "Lord Petrosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Is there a trick to starting gnu emacs?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:02:38 -0500
hey,
after using redhat's rpm on emacs and emacs-nox and verifying they are
installed i check whereis emacs and i get a few paths. after exporting them
to my PATH typing emacs doesn't give any result except a msg stating no
command found. i installed another app from rpm just to make sure my method
was sound and that one worked. my emacs version is 20.13 release 9 i
believe. i tried from two separate cd's with the same result.
any ideas?
LP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: tasks on shutdown
Date: 27 Feb 2000 19:18:43 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:00:16 -0600, Tyler Moon
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a duel boot system Linux Mandrake7/win98.
^^^^
Funny, they usually don't fight with each other *that* much :-)
>I would like to automate some commands on system bootup and shutdown.
> What files could add some tcsh commands to?( the commands would be
>like cp -u /dev/hda1/somefile.o /home/user/somefile.o)
>Also I would like to do the same for login and logout.?
The file you want to edit is /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt . This file is
executed when the system shuts down or reboots... and it uses bash, so
forget that tcsh-specific stuff. Login and logout are controlled by
several files in ~, or if the files in ~ don't exist, by the
files in /etc/skel . The files are .bash_logout and .logout (for tcsh).
/etc/profile and /etc/bashrc are read for all users at login time.
>And also how can I add a directory to a the path of all users?
>I installed a program in an odd place
Why? Programs that everyone should be able to execute go in
/usr/local/bin ; this makes many things easier, including backups. If you
must edit everyone's $PATH, try the files in /etc I mentioned above.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: TNT2 problem
Date: 27 Feb 2000 19:25:02 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:18:39 +0100, StyX
<<dhiu4.1449$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I've just installed RedHat linux 6.1 on my system, and I have a problem with
>my TNT2 drivers (I think!). When I try to start X, my screen goes black and
>turns it self on and off! I have 32 MB of memory on the card, and when I
>installed Linux, it counted 4 megs! There is something very wrong here, and
>can only run text-based Linux, which I almost don't know at all...
Time to start learning text-mode Linux, then, eh? (If your system ever
goes seriously arse-up, you certainly won't have X...)
6.1 shipped with Xfree86 3.3.5 IIRC, which supports the TNT2 right out of
the box. First thing to try is boot into runlevel 3, log in as root, and
enter "Xconfigurator". That might help; for whatever reason, the
installer might not have written a sane /etc/X11/XF86Config and
Xconfigurator can fix that.
If that doesn't help, you may need to upgrade your X. I put together a
guide at the URL below, and the official notes are below that.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html
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Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How2 set X11 8 bits/pixel ?
Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:27:53 GMT
Hi,
I've got an X11 application (oberon under Linux) which on startup,
opens a 'window' and writes 3 'help prompt' lines, and then
appears to wait.
The log file shows:-
.....
GetConfig: DWidth=""
GetConfig: DHeight=""
GetConfig: DVWidth=""
GetConfig: DVHeight=""
GetConfig: DColorSync=Y
GetConfig: DebugX11=""
So it's waiting at ' GetConfig: DebugX11="" . Why ?
I'm told:
> It seems that you have an unusual display depth or bitmap
> layout ( grayscale?). Try to use X11 with 8 bits per pixel.
How do I do that ?
Email advice also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please.
Thanks, Chris Glur.
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From: Evan Dower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASF and Linux?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:26:18 -0800
Is there any way to play Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) on Linux?
Evan Dower
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: opening archives
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:35:13 -0600
Can anyone help me? I've downloaded jdk118_v1- glibc-2.1.2.tar.bz.
The question I've got is, what opens it? I've tried to use gunzip, but
that doesn't recognize the "bz" file format.
I've also tried to use "bunzip" but that gives the message "not a bzip
file".
Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Xcdroast and SuSE 6.3?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:36:18 GMT
In article <89bbk6$iel$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Did a secure on the executable with chmod +s. Xcdroast starts as nonuser now,
> but there's a new error that happens down the road. When I start to read tracks
> as a nonser, I get the message:
> Some error occurred!!!
> open: permission denied
>
> Ever seen this before? I thought it might have to do with the user
> accessibility of the directory used to store the image files, but all users
> have access to this directory.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken
There are a few more executables that go with xcdroast, in a 'lib'
directory somewhere. You will have to make them suid as well.
>
>
>
>
> (remove "nospam" to reply via email)
>
>
>>>
>>>I'm having problems running Xcdroast under non-user mode, and I'm not
>>>sure what additional measures should be taken.
>>> I got the Suse6.3 binary from Thomas Niederreiter's site and installed
>>>it without a problem. Xcdroast now works as root. However, even after doing
>>> chmod +s xcdroast-0.96ex-1.suse63.i386.rpm
>>>as root, the program won't run as nonroot and gives me the error:
>
>>You've made the .rpm SUID, when you wanted to make the xcdroast
>>*executable* SUID. Do this:
>
>># chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/xcdroast
>
>>I think you'll find that works much better... Also note that SuSE has a
>>"paranoid permissions" setting that checks for non-official SUID programs
>>and changes their permissions. If you've set the "paranoid" option using
>>YaST, you may have to fiddle with the /etc/permissions.paranoid file to
>>prevent the nightly cron job from thwacking your xcdroast binary....
>
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From: Caddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xsession MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 problem
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:30:28 GMT
Chien,
I probably doesn't have to do with Windows or your partitions at all.
It has to do with Gnome. I recently starting getting these problems after
I upgraded my glib and gtk libraries. If you have recently installed
anything that may affect any of your libraries, you may need to reset your
Gnome settings for your user account by removing the .gnome directory in
your home directory. It will be rebuilt next time you log in and you will
have to re-configure your desktop settings. Go to www.gnome.org if you want
to know more about Gnome or try to update it.
Just an FYI, I tried that dual boot a single HD and had about a week's
worth of nightmares. I broke down and bought another hard drive (go to
www.pricewatch.com if you want a good deal on hardware) and now windows is
amply segregated from my Linux setup, but I can mount my Win drive from
Linux as long as the file that I am looking for is not in a directory that
has a space in the name (ie. Program Files). I haven't seen the latest
version of Partition Magic, but I had lots of problems with my MBR and my
partition tables when they were on the same disk. If you have little
experience, with either OS, I would recommend that you read up on which one
suites your needs and pick one, instead of trying to learn both on top of
fooling around with the dual boot stuff.
C
Chien Peng wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> recently I've been getting xsession errors in Redhat 6.0 when I log in.
I
> would appreciate any help you can offer.
>
> In the past, the window manager I use (Gnome) would come up as soon as I
> entered my password. But recently, it could take upwards of 30 seconds.
The
> following error message occurs in my ".xsession-errors" file, which is
> repeated several times:
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
> gnome-smproxy: unable to connect to session manager
>
> Eventually, the window manager does come up. But when this happens the
only
> way I can log out is to kill all processes or issue a reboot command.
> Interestingly enough, after the reboot, everything goes back to being
fast
> again, and the error message goes away.
>
> The problem seems to come and go, and may be related to the fact on the
same
> disk I also have Windows 98 partitions. I first noticed the problem soon
> after I installed a few things in Linux (netscape, newt-0.50.1-14) and
Win98.
> I'm not sure there's a causal connection with Win98, but I've had
problems in
> the past where Win98 somehow invaded Linux partitions -- so I've become a
bit
> suspicious. (I took care of that problem by zeroing out the start of
Linux
> partitions.)
>
> Does someone have theories on the cause and what I can do to get around
the
> weirdness? As I have little experience with Linux and Win98, I'd
appreciate
> any suggestions.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Chien
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 02:46:39 +0200
nldgr wrote:
> I can print from the command line, Corel WP7, and Xess; but can't print
> in Navigator or Acroread.
> I put the same command in them that I used in WP and about five other
> variances, but alas, a no-go.
> Why?
What command do you use?
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 02:50:45 +0200
Marcus, H., Russell, "P.E." wrote:
> I built a box from parts from
> computersurplusoutlet.com. Modem is from an old
> 486 that was ok in OS/2 and runs in the new box
> when running under W98 but Caldera Linux will not
> "find" it. (It is set for COM3) Do I need a
> newer modem? (by the way it is NOT a win modem)
>
> --
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You don't need a newer modem.. Check that the output of "setserial
/dev/ttyS2" shows the correct info. Also have a look at "man setserial"
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From: "Freggle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "conf:8: missing module argument"
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:27:06 GMT
Hello,
I have the file modules-info removed in the /boot directory. But then I
start Linux or ip_masq_* I get the following message form Linux:
"conf:8: missing module argument"
What thit I wrong and how can I fix this problem ?
I am using RedHad 6.0
kernel 2.2.14
Thanks Freek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Hard disk space expansion for RH Linux ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:58:05 GMT
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:34:27 +0800, Benson Lei wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to know if I have a existing volume space( say, Vol1) in RH
>Linux V6.1 System already:
>
>1) Can I add an additional volume space( say, Vol2, 3 .... ) without
>re-install the OS ?? and How ???
>
>2) Any document support Linear mode for Linux since I do not how to
>implement ???
Sounds like you've used Novell (vol1, vol2).
Just set the jumpers on your new HD, boot the machine, then
with fdisk create the partitions etc. You'll need to put
the appropriate lines in your /etc/fstab file to ensure
that these partitions are mounted at boot time.
If your new disk is the second HD, it'll probably be
called hdb and the partitions will go hdb0, hdb1, hdb2
etc. Your existing (or first) HD will be hda and partitions
will be hda0, hda1, hda2 etc.
Have a look around in the HOWTOs they give lots of good
information on this type of thing, complete with the comands
you'll need to use and instructions on the changes that you
need to make to system files such as /etc/fstab.
Gool luck.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
6:45pm up 1 day, 14:36, 7 users, load average: 2.08, 2.11, 2.09
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Good place to learn?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Feb 2000 00:58:06 GMT
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 20:43:52 -0700, Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I installed red-hat about 10 times and suse about 5 times today, ended up
>with red hat right now. Wow is Linux a pain in the ass to install.
>
>Where is a good place where I can find out how to set up my soundcard,
>network card, change video modes, etc?
>
>I did the modprobe thing for my SB 16 but it doesn't work.
>
>Wow, good thing I am only experimenting because of all the Linux fuss. This
>stuff is a pain.
Should have read the book before you decided to star in the movie.
All the questions that you ask are answered in the HOWTOs, these are in
a few different formats on my distribution of RH6.0, and are located
in the directory /usr/doc/HOWTO. They are also stored in an uncompressed
format on the instalation CD so that you can read them before you
install linux. They cover almost everything.
I had quite a time of it myself when installing and getting everything
up and running, it's a very steep learning curve but you'll get there.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
6:45pm up 1 day, 14:36, 7 users, load average: 2.08, 2.11, 2.09
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: opening archives
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:05:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone help me? I've downloaded jdk118_v1- glibc-2.1.2.tar.bz.
> The question I've got is, what opens it? I've tried to use gunzip, but
> that doesn't recognize the "bz" file format.
> I've also tried to use "bunzip" but that gives the message "not a bzip
> file".
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>
man bzip2.
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