Linux-Misc Digest #885, Volume #23 Sat, 18 Mar 00 17:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: compiling C++ programs with g++ (Steve)
Re: streaming audio/video (Sacha Kaercher)
Re: SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0 ("Dave Stanton")
Re: How stable is gnuCash 1.3.5? (Rusty Lingenfelter)
Re: Which ISPs support multilink PPP? (Rusty Lingenfelter)
Re: Help needed. Trying to use a WIN98 as gateway of a Linux in a LAN. (Raymond
Doetjes)
Re: telnet, keyboard-mappings, emulations.. ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Linux keeps crashing...? (long) (Jehsom)
Configuring Linux for Internet connection sharing. ("Simon Roockley")
Re: pdf-files too big (Grant Edwards)
Re: help with serial port settings (Grant Edwards)
Re: telnet, keyboard-mappings, emulations.. (Patrick Erler)
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (RST)
StarOffice 5.1 does not print ("Andreas Meile")
Re: How Do Daemons Get Loaded? (David Steuber)
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (David Steuber)
Re: Salary? (Stewart Honsberger)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: compiling C++ programs with g++
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Mar 2000 18:29:11 GMT
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 06:30:04 GMT, Roland Josefek wrote:
>Can anyone direct me to a website that gives step by step instructions for
>the use of g++ to compile programs in C++?
>From the G++ man page:
The C and C++ compilers are integrated; g++ is a script to call gcc
with options to recognize C++.
man g++ and man gcc are good sources of information. For the howto,
in ASCII format go to:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/
and in HTML format:
http://ftp.linux.org.uk/~barlow/howto/gcc-howto.html
The complete gcc documentation suite can be found at:
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/GCC/
But this last source isn't always the latest version available.
--
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
5:48pm up 1 day, 6:00, 2 users, load average: 1.22, 1.25, 1.17
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sacha Kaercher)
Subject: Re: streaming audio/video
Date: 18 Mar 2000 18:23:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:27:57 -0600, David Mehringer wrote:
>Anyone know a good application for playing streaming audio/video from the
>web? Real player (rvplayer-5.0-8rh6.i386) isn't working for me on my
>K7/Athlon 700 MHz machine. While I'm on the subject, has anyone had luck in
>getting real player to work under linux?
>Thanks and please eamil.
>Dave
>
Yes. RealPlayer 7.0.0.170 works well on my K6200 with RH6.1.
Just downloaded it yesterday, and it works very well with both video
and sound. At least much better than the previous version.
- Sacha
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 18:34:45 -0000
Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8avbbj$s8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, there,
>
> Just want to tell you my recent experience with this hopeless card. I
> have tried XFree86 3.3.3, XFree86 3.3.6 and this XFree86 4.0.
>
> I let the tar balls of XFree86 4.0 to overwrite my old XF86 3.3.6
> because I have made back up of it. So, I began my painful ordeal.
>
> It turned out that the introduced tool called XFree86 -configure did
> not work well with my on-board SiS6326 card. It gave me a blank screen
> with some meshed background. It was just like the background when GNOME
> in RH 6.0 starts. I guess that it was part of a whole Xwindow.
>
> So, I turned to the old RH6.0 setup. I used "X configuration" in the
> setup. But it turned out that it could not test X-window. It told me
> that "there is a problem with your Xwindow...". So, I have to change
> again.
>
> Finally, I used xf86config. It gave me the Xwindow with the new Xserver
> using 8 bpp. But I can not start Xwindow with 16 bpp, not to mention 24
> bpp.
>
> With 8 bpp, there were still some problems. I could not find the
> pointer of my Logitech Serial mouse. It is Microsoft compatiable.
> Although there was no pointer for the mouse, I could switch from one
> xterm to another by moving my mouse. So, it was kind of a game in which
> I had to guess where was my mouse actually pointed to.
>
> Also, there seemed that it still had the same glitches as the previous
> x server to SiS6326, such as the shades on the items after the
> highlight moved away.
>
> So, I don't know what is going wrong. Especially for my mouse. It was
> said that XFree86 4.0 supports SiS6326 better than ever. But...
>
> BTW, my hardwares worked just well in XFree86 3.3.6 except the slow
> refresh rate in 24 bpp.
>
> If there are anyone else who has done some work with XFree86 4.0 on
> SiS6326, could you share your experience?
>
> Davis,
> --
Go to the SuSe web site and dl XSVGA 3.3.5 as rpm. Install. Have done this
on 2 installations so far and both sis6326 working fine.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Dave
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From: Rusty Lingenfelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How stable is gnuCash 1.3.5?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:09:19 GMT
I am using 1.3.1. I don't recall that it has crashed on me yet. I have=20
logged an hour or two with it entering account info. I downloaded the=20
rpm and am using RH6.1. YMMV
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/17/00, 9:08:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Loukidelis)=20
wrote regarding Re: How stable is gnuCash 1.3.5?:
> I've got 1.3.0. Check out the web site for details, but I didn't have=
> to load any special libraries to run it under gnome. OTOH, this is
> the version described in my previous message that conked out on me and=
> trashed my data.
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:07:29 -0500, Armond Perretta
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >x-no-archive: yes
> >
> >Is there _any_ version of gnucash that does not require certain files=
> >from Motif (or LessTif)? I loaded LessTif in order to have
> >"libXm.so.1" but have not had luck getting the right version, the
> >right associations, the right symbolic links, etc.
> >
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From: Rusty Lingenfelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which ISPs support multilink PPP?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:24:14 GMT
If there was, it was not apparent.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/16/00, 10:34:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) wrote regarding=20
Re: Which ISPs support multilink PPP?:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:53:59 -0500, Avram Dorfman wrote:
> >Does anyone have or know of a list?
> >
> >I'd appreciate an email if possible!
> There's a list of Linux friendly ISPs and info at
> http://ispcentral.tucows.com/index/
> --
> 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
> 2:41am up 2 days, 7 min, 5 users, load average: 1.41, 1.21, 1.12
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed. Trying to use a WIN98 as gateway of a Linux in a LAN.
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:57:24 +0100
The software tgat you use on your Windows is a SOCKS5 proxy. SOCKS 5 has the
disasvatnage that you need socksified client software. (so other versions of
software for, telnet, DNS, ping etc etc etc)
You should run a NAT application that whay you ar queasy transparant. Linux has
this feauture called Masquerading.
Raymond
Reverendo wrote:
> Hi out there.
>
> I have this setting.
> Two PCs in a TCP/IP Ethernet LAN.
> One of them a Pentium 90 with Linux and #IP 192.168.100.100.
> The second with Win98, CProxy, an ADSL netcard that is permanent
> conected to internet with a permanent #IP. And of course an ethernet netcard
> with #IP 192.168.100.101.
>
> I try to use the Win98 as a gateway for the Linux or use the ping
> command with internet #IPs and the DNS of my ISP but I haven't managed to
> work it out.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Reverendo. From Spain.
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnet, keyboard-mappings, emulations..
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:57:43 GMT
Patrick Erler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>the numeric keypad's 'w' stuff is the keypad-application mode (that's
>>vt220 - doesn't have arrow keys, which are really PC-keyboard).
> ok, changed that by redefining it in CRT... but what is the escape-sequence
> for ENTER?
in keypad application mode
<esc> O M
otherwise, control/M (carriage return). I checked this with vttest, which
walks through the different keypad modes.
>>sounds like a font problem - there are only a few Windows fonts that
>>are useful for this (try 'terminal').
> tried this, no success. it looks for me like a 7bit/8bit problem... with
> terminal the supposed lines are down-arrows, charachters wich don't appear
> in the charcter-map application in windows and so probably are below ASCII
> 0x21...
well, I'd have to reboot to verify - for TeraTerm (which uses Windows fonts),
I see in my notes that 'terminal' did work. (I don't have a copy of CRT
currently, did download it a while back to evaluate it).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jehsom)
Subject: Re: Linux keeps crashing...? (long)
Date: 18 Mar 2000 20:41:38 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BM> > Sound Blaster PCI128 w/commercial OSS drivers
> BM> > (tried disabling sound and it still hung, eventually)
> Did you remove the card?
No, the system drives a stereo, and is sorta important to have...
> SCSI Termination?????
Aha... hm. yes, this drive is not properly terminated! However, when I
had both the cd-r and this cdrom drive on, the cd-r was last on the
chain, and was properly terminated, and it still crashed. But yes, I
will check anyway, to see if it's a termination problem. Good call.
> What is the 'hard drive light' wired to: the IDE or the SCSI board?
The IDE controller.. The motherboard pinouts for HDD LED.
> BM> What about logs ? any error messages ?
No messages. It just locks.
Thanks for the suggestions,
Moshe
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From: "Simon Roockley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring Linux for Internet connection sharing.
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:47:14 -0800
I'm trying to configure a linux box to go through a Internet connection
controlled by windows 2000 unsing internet connection wizard. It's a work
machine so comments like install linux on the main server won't help. Does
anyone have any Ideas.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: pdf-files too big
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:07:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Zak wrote:
>I print a one-page-text document to a file. Then I convert it with ps2pdf,
>but thif pdf-file is too big, about 10 MB! Why? What do I wrong?
There are two things that will cause large PDF files to be generated by
ps2pdf.
1) Bitmapped graphics (JPEG or GIF or EPS or whatever). Unless you have
the latest version of ghostscript, it will not compress the bitmapped
files and stores them in hex-ascii. This results in huge files.
2) Use of non-Postscript-standard fonts will cause ghostscript to have to
place copies of the fonts in the PDF file. Solution: try to use fonts
from the base Poscript set (Times, Courier, Helvetica, ...).
In either case, make sure you have the most recent version of ghostscript.
It does a much better job of compressing PDF files.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I think I'll do BOTH
at if I can get RESIDUALS!!
visi.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: help with serial port settings
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:12:29 GMT
In article <8ao4t1$rl4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harry Overs wrote:
> How do I set the serial port /dev/ttyS1 to so that it recognises the nl
> newline ) character as the eol character. I have tried to use stty but that
> does not seem to work.
Serial ports don't handle that, the tty driver does. To what do you refer
when you say "the nl newline ) character"? By default the linefeed should
be recognized as the eol character.
In any case, stty should be able to do what you want. What exactly did you
try, and what happened?
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! UH-OH!! We're out
at of AUTOMOBILE PARTS and
visi.com RUBBER GOODS!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Erler)
Subject: Re: telnet, keyboard-mappings, emulations..
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:12:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (T.E.Dickey) wrote in
<XcRA4.148$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Patrick Erler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>sounds like a font problem - there are only a few Windows fonts that
>>>are useful for this (try 'terminal').
>> tried this, no success. it looks for me like a 7bit/8bit problem...
>> with terminal the supposed lines are down-arrows, charachters wich
>> don't appear in the charcter-map application in windows and so
>> probably are below ASCII 0x21...
>
>well, I'd have to reboot to verify - for TeraTerm (which uses Windows
>fonts), I see in my notes that 'terminal' did work. (I don't have a
>copy of CRT currently, did download it a while back to evaluate it).
thanks, i suspect its a CRT problem.. in all other terminal-applicatins it
works..
but, what i wonder everytime, what is different at the linux-side
(environment-variables?) when i log into the box with different terminal
applications? maybe something strange gets set when i log in with CRT?
PAT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RST)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:49:49 GMT
Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack) writes:
@
@ > Emacs is simply the MS of Unix - the line between OS and app is totally
@ > blurred. And everything is fine as long as you do everything their way.
@ > Which is fine, ... for most people.
@
@ ITYM "killer app". HTH.
@
@ > But not for hackers/Chinese restaurant types - who like to pick and
@ > choose their tools.
@
@ Cut the crap. Whatever a 'Chinese restaurant type' is I dunno, but maybe
@ they're suited to the pick-&-choose approach. Real hackers write their
@ *own* tools.
@
@ In Emacs Lisp.
in C.
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From: "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice 5.1 does not print
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:57:22 +0100
Dear Linux users
In a school network, I have the following situation: There's a 486 system
running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with a locally connected HP DeskJet 500
printer on LPT1 which is defined as \\SCHULPC4\DESKJET printer share. On a
second box (Pentium 120 MHz), I installed S.u.S.E. Linux V6.2 on which I
configured this printer as "Samba printer".
Now my problem: When I want print something a text document in Star Office
to this printer, I only get a A4 side with a "STOP robot" - see
http://catty.ch/~dreael/Stop_Fehler.gif where I documented that page with my
scanner. In /var/log/warn and /var/log/messages I cannot find any further
messages about a problem.
Important note: A simple ASCII print using the "a2ps" command works fine
without issues, so I'm sure that the network and printer queue specific
configuration should be correct. => I suppose a problem in the "aps" filter
where StarOffice produces a PostScript command sequence which "aps" does not
understand.
My questions:
- Does anybody known this error picture as shown in
http://catty.ch/~dreael/Stop_Fehler.gif ? (Which system part produces that?)
- Is there a way to get more verbose log output inside the "lpd" daemon as
well as the "aps" filter itself?
- Does the "aps" filter package or StarOffice 5.1 contain any known bugs so
I should install some upgrades?
Note: I set up the printer using YaST (no hand-made modifications in
/etc/printcap or in similar places).
Any hints to solve this problem are appreciated. :-)
Greetings from Switzerland
Andreas
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Subject: Re: How Do Daemons Get Loaded?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:00:07 GMT
Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' note the process: inetd. It is a daemon that (based on /etc/inetd.conf)
' spawns other daemons as needed.
The devil is in the details.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you
really care to know.
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:00:08 GMT
Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' On 17 Mar 2000, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
'
' > Don't get me wrong, I love vi/vim (easily the best text editor I've
' > ever used), but I find the complaint that EscMetaAltCtrlShift is
' > bloated increasingly lame.
' >
'
' You're quite right. I need to start brainstorming for better excuses. How
' about... "I was once assaulted by a rabid street Emacs, and I've been scarred
' for life ever since"?
It makes my complaint of CTS seem so pedestrian.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
This is the LAST time I take travel suggestions from Ray Bradbury!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:09:01 GMT
On 18 Mar 2000 17:57:31 GMT, Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>>I have the same stand-point on this issue as Howard Stern. I heard him, one
>>morning, talking about the Bill Gates scholarship for "minorities". Howard
>>complained that this was rediculous, and that some minorities had more
>>money than they knew what to do with so "Why not just give it to poor people?
>>There are poor white people out there too, y'know!"
>
>Howard Stern is an ass.
How very tactfully put.
>You would have been wiser not to cite him.
Why, because you don't agree with him?
>I won't flame the illiteracy in this post
Again, quite tactful.
>I will assume that you are merely faithfully conveying Mr Stern's ignorance.
You mean you disagree? You believe that advantages should be given to
a person merely because of their skin colour? Isn't that the basis of
racism in the first place?
>Helping poor white people isn't going to help minority communities obviously.
When did I say that poor white people are the only ones who should be
helped? I was merely stating that assistance should be given to those
in need, rather than those with a particular skin colour.
Racism, just as sexism, are both two way streets. It is my belief that
we as a society are over-compensating for years of injustice. I say the
playing field should be leveled - and those with the ambition to succeed
in life should be helped along the way; irregardless of background or
skin colour.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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