Linux-Misc Digest #923, Volume #23 Wed, 22 Mar 00 12:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Please Help: reading a macbinary file under linux (James Pearson)
Using 2 ppp channels (Yan Seiner)
Re: Please Help: reading a macbinary file under linux ("Adam C. Emerson")
Re: Please Help: reading a macbinary file under linux ("G. Roderick Singleton")
Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sed and substitute newline--how? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't Download Tar Files (Yan Seiner)
I get LILO prompt but not LILO boot: (Lou Hevly)
configurations for FVWM2 and Afterstep?? (Davis Eric)
reading binary file format (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't Download Tar Files (Ron Gibson)
IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication? (Steve D. Perkins)
Help with root (Swami Chandrasekaran)
Re: staroffice running slowly (Karel Jansens)
graphic file viewer & popmail client for CLI? (Bill Berry)
Re: reading binary file format (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Installing RedHat 6.0 with a non bootable CDROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SuSE won't let me login as root segmentation errors and other faults (Bill)
Re: How can linux display the long filename in DOS and CDROM? (Michael Pronath)
Re: I get LILO prompt but not LILO boot: (Bastian)
Missing folders in CD rom. (Myint)
Re: Do you hate vi? (termite)
Re: Partitioning Again-Newbie (Myint)
Re: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication? (Jon Skeet)
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From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Please Help: reading a macbinary file under linux
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:58:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dean S. Messing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here is my problem: I have received, in an e-mail attachment, a
> document written under MacOS using MS-Word for Macs. After the mail
> is decoded with metamail I'm left with a "macbinary" file of the Word
> doc. I know this because
>
> i ) in the doc I can see (with emacs) the string "Microsoft Word 8.0"
> ii) the mime header in the e-mail says:
>
> Content-Type: application/x-macbinary; name="elomdyn"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="elomdyn"
>
> StarOffice is unable to read the doc and I suspect it is because
> it is in "macbinary" format, whatever that is. Ordinary MS Word 8.0
> files are not a problem for StarOffice.
>
> Can anyone give me some help here. It is quite important that I read
> this doc quickly and I'm really in the dark here. I'm running SuSE 6.3
> on an Intel Pentium Pro platform.
Get "macsave", part of the "macutils" package. RPM's can befound via
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using 2 ppp channels
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:30:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to increase my bandwith and unfortunately I do not have access to
ISDN or any other higher speed technology than dial-ups.
I have 2 dial-up lines - one is a persistent internet dial-up via an ISP
and the other is a modem line.
I's like to set up the system so that my backup server at home can dial
in at night and rsync all the files that changed, and I'd like to use
both lines.
Is there a multi-line pppd available?
Thanks,
--Yan
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From: "Adam C. Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Help: reading a macbinary file under linux
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:30:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Dean S. Messing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snippety]
> Here is my problem: I have received, in an e-mail attachment, a
> document written under MacOS using MS-Word for Macs. After the mail
> is decoded with metamail I'm left with a "macbinary" file of the Word
> doc. I know this because
[snappety]
You just need to get mcvert, that'll handle all your Macintosh
conversion needs.
--
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They offer minimal melody, minimal harmony, minimal orchestration, and
altogether minimal enjoyment." -- Fred Flaxman
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From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Please Help: reading a macbinary file under linux
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:54:31 GMT
"Dean S. Messing" wrote:
>
> Here is my problem: I have received, in an e-mail attachment, a
> document written under MacOS using MS-Word for Macs. After the mail
> is decoded with metamail I'm left with a "macbinary" file of the Word
> doc. I know this because
>
> i ) in the doc I can see (with emacs) the string "Microsoft Word 8.0"
> ii) the mime header in the e-mail says:
>
> Content-Type: application/x-macbinary; name="elomdyn"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="elomdyn"
>
> StarOffice is unable to read the doc and I suspect it is because
> it is in "macbinary" format, whatever that is. Ordinary MS Word 8.0
> files are not a problem for StarOffice.
>
> Can anyone give me some help here. It is quite important that I read
> this doc quickly and I'm really in the dark here. I'm running SuSE 6.3
> on an Intel Pentium Pro platform.
>
> Thanks for your help. Please use the e-mail address below,
> as well as replys here since my connectivity to USENET is spotty.
>
> Regards,
> Dean S. Messing
> Digital Video Processing & Analysis Grp.
> Remove digits to get my Sharp Laboratories of America
> e-mail address E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A quick search via lycos for macutil produced the following"
ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/linux/utils/compress/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:44:44 -0600
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a basic printing question with Linux. I am running Slackware 7.0
> and am trying to set up a DeskJet PLUS. I have read all the
> tutorials/HOWTOs, but they describe how to get lpr working. I am
> wondering how I can get /dev/lp0 to work.
>
> I have read on other postings that you should be able to do "cat
> file.txt > /dev/lp0" and it prints something. I can't even get response
> to it.
>
> This isn't a problem with the printcap or with lpr, but I'm wondering
> about how to set up /dev/lp0 and parallel ports in general.
>
> I did read through the parport howto, and got some response by loading
> some of the parport modules, but that is a bit over my head, and was
> wondering if someone could help explain some of this to me. (:
have you tried /dev/lp1 instead? Most documentation says that a
DOS/Windows port of LPT1 corresponds to /dev/lp0, but this is not always
true. (I once saw an explanation, but it escapes me at the moment)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sed and substitute newline--how?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:01:19 -0600
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ron wrote:
> How do you put in a newline character in a sed substitution? I'm doing
> something subtly wrong, and haven't figured it out from the man/info
> pages.
>
> Here's one of the many ways I've tried:
>
> sed s/this/"\n"/ <input.txt >output.txt
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Ron from Michigan
sed does not recognize '\n' as replacement text. Replacement text is raw
text with two exceptions, '&', which represents the RE that was matched,
and '\d', d an integer, which is a back reference.
To substitute a newline you need to put your command on two lines, ie,
you're putting a real newline in your replacement text.
sed 's/this/\
/g' input.txt > output.txt
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Download Tar Files
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:42:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape automagically (and silently) un-gzips tars....
This may be your problem.
--Yan
Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
> Binyomin Kaplan wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone think of a reason why an http download of a tar
> > file on a computer running windows would change it in some way,
> > making it unusable? I have a computer without a modem running
> > linux. Sometimes I download files for it on the windows computer,
> > and it doesn't seem that it was ever a problem to then
> > use the files on my linux computer, but now I don't seem to be
> > able to untar the files. Winzip doesn't seem to be able to do anything
> > with them under Windows either.
>
> Maybe file-naming conventions on Winblows interfer?
> Just save as foo.tar or foo.tar.gz (ie, short name), and it should
> work...
>
> -Jan
> --
> Jan Schaumann
> http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net
>
> Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
> -- Hector Berlioz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lou Hevly)
Subject: I get LILO prompt but not LILO boot:
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:25:45 GMT
Greetings:
I've installed RedHat 6.2 BETA x86 on a partition. My lilo.conf looks
like this:
----
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=50
timeout=50
other=/dev/hda1
table=/dev/hda
label=w98
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-2.5.0
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
----
Running lilo -v gives me this:
----
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
Added w98 *
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-2.5.0
Added linux
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
----
When I boot, I only get LILO at the prompt; not LILO boot:
Hitting tab does nothing, nor can I type 'linux'.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
Lou Hevly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.visca.com
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From: Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: configurations for FVWM2 and Afterstep??
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:46:30 GMT
Hi, there,
I just jumped into the configurations of FVWM2 and AfterStep. But I was
not successed on this. I use RH6.0. The problems I met:
1. For FVWM2, I copied the system.fvwm2rc to my home directory and
renamed it as .fvwm2rc. Then I tweaked this file, such as changing the
background of the xterm and something like this. But it seems that each
time fvwm2 starts, it bypassed my .fvwm2rc. It was the same if I change
the system.fvwm2rc itself. It seems that FVWM2 still bypassed this
config file. Not sure while file should be tweaked then.
2. For AfterStep, I copied the contents in /usr/share/afterstep to my
home diretory under GUNStep/Library/Afterstep/redhat. And then tweaked
these files. But the problem was each time, AfterStep recreated GNUStep
directory and deleted all the old files there. So, it ended up by
tweaking the files in /usr/share/afterstep by suing to root. Not sure
how to configure afterstep by usual users.
Any hints?
Thanks,
Davis
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: reading binary file format
Date: 22 Mar 2000 16:01:49 GMT
Hi,
I would need to write a file converter from a binary file whose format is
not known. I would like to hear from anyone with experience about reverse-
engineering file formats.
Details: the ReferenceManager program is a bibliographic database manager
for Windows (maybe Mac also). I work on linux but need to collaborate with
people using ReferenceManager and it would be helpful if we could merge
our bibliographic databases. ReferenceManager is a big product and
it would be nice to have free software able to read and write that format.
I plan ro release the code under the GPL if I succeed.
Thanks for your help,
Stefano
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Printing with DeskJet PLUS
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:02:24 GMT
Yup.. tried all the lpX's
> have you tried /dev/lp1 instead? Most documentation says that a
> DOS/Windows port of LPT1 corresponds to /dev/lp0, but this is not
always
> true. (I once saw an explanation, but it escapes me at the moment)
> --
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Subject: Re: Can't Download Tar Files
Date: 22 Mar 2000 16:26:07 GMT
Me either :)
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From: Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:24:52 GMT
I've stumbled across a need lately that I'm SURE other people are
having, and was wondering if anything was out yet that fills that need.
I have my personal domain hosted with a company several hundred
miles away, which in the past wasn't a big deal at all. However, spam-
fighting efforts eventually led to almost all ISP's adopting POP-before-
SMTP authentication... you have to check mail through POP before you
can send mail through the server, to ensure that you're authorized to
use their SMTP resources.
The problem is that I prefer using the IMAP protocol to check my
email... and there doesn't seem to be an IMAP-first authentication
scheme to compliment POP-first. As such, if you're not able to use POP-
first authentication... then you need to use your own LAN or dial-in
ISP's SMTP server for outgoing mail. If you bounce around between
multiple offices and home, then changing your profile or account
settings every time you want to check mail can be ridiculous.
What I'm looking for is some kind of email client that can use IMAP
for message retrieval... and then a quick POP-authentication (not
actually downloading any messages) before sending with SMTP. Anything
cross platform, "Linux and MS-Windows" (Java-based?) would be lovely
icing on the cake... assuming that such a solution exists in the first
place.
Anyone know of an email client that flexible?
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From: Swami Chandrasekaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with root
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:18:04 -0600
Hi,
Last night when I was trying to install the Newtwork Simulator (ns from
UC Berkeley), I had to update my .bashrc file. After I updated it,
nothing seems to work on the root shell (maybe the problem is due to
something else).
Whatever command I type, it says "command not found". But I can log into
my other user accounts and the commands work fine there. What is this
problem. Please help me solve this.
//Swami.
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: staroffice running slowly
Date: 22 Mar 2000 16:36:18 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Karel Jansens <jansens_at_ibm_dot_net> wrote:
> : Edward M Grill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Are you on some kind of drug? Or maybe running Windows?
>
> Gimme some (of the former).
>
> : X will run smoothly in as little as 16 MB RAM or even below. In fact,
>
> True.
>
> : when properly set up, KDE runs without hickups on 24 MB of RAM
> : (version 1.0). I know, because I've done this (even worse, I've done
> : it on a Pentium 60!).
>
> That's difficult. You'd have to be very careful. I reckon that it
> probably needs about 24MB to itself avoid touching swap. At 64MB ram
> you're singing.
>
OK, so it will swap, aspecially if I load Applix. Then again, it has
been my experience that Linux has a way of its own when it comes to
swapping, and that the amount of RAM installed does not have a
one-to-one relationship to the amount of swapping. In favour of Linux:
it swaps _extremely_ efficiently and will go out of its way to prevent
performance deterioration.
> : Granted, StarOffice is not modest in its memory requirements, but 48
> : MB should be sufficient to make it workable. And it is by no means a
>
> Not so. It is converted from NT. It doesn't know too much about
> sharing. On a 1GB ram machine I saw staroffice using 500MB! I am
> feeling more comfortable now I have upgraded my portable 300MHz to
> 128MB, but I still don't like using staroffice on it. Too slow.
> It takes my 450MHz workstation and lots of ram to make it feel anything
> like snappy.
>
I had (the OS/2 version) running acceptably on 40 MB. Upgrading that
machine to 64 MB didn't do very much performancewise, I found.
> : "Buy more RAM" is the standard advice to anyone running whatever
> : flavour of Windows, but thankfully other operating systems give the
> : user more (and saner) options...
>
> Sure. Don't use staroffice :-). Or buy a faster disk.
Both very sound pieces of advise, if you ask me <G>.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Berry)
Subject: graphic file viewer & popmail client for CLI?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:32:28 GMT
Well, either until I get a new computer, or my emachines eOne (don't laugh!)
is supported by XFree86 or MetroLink I guess I'll have to use the CLI...sigh.
Cool. I'm up for learning the command line! Now, can some of you out there
suggest some command line apps? Or point to howtos for using common tools? I
don't know how to use command line tools to look at graphic files, or decode
uuencoded files (uh, I collect images of the, uh, Eiffel Tower, uh, yeah,
that's it!) on USENET. I like elm on my school unix server, how do I set that
up at home? Etc.
Thanks.
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reading binary file format
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:31:44 GMT
In article <8baqpd$mc6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would need to write a file converter from a binary file whose format
is
> not known. I would like to hear from anyone with experience about
reverse-
> engineering file formats.
>
> Details: the ReferenceManager program is a bibliographic database
manager
> for Windows (maybe Mac also). I work on linux but need to collaborate
with
> people using ReferenceManager and it would be helpful if we could
merge
> our bibliographic databases. ReferenceManager is a big product and
> it would be nice to have free software able to read and write that
format.
> I plan ro release the code under the GPL if I succeed.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Stefano
The simplest way would be to write to the makers of ReferenceManager and
ask them. That would also show if you may use the format at all in any
private/GPL code. There could be legal problems.
/A
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 6.0 with a non bootable CDROM
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:35:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?=
Cottalorda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anybody help me to solve my problem ?
> I've an old PC that is not able to boot from his CDROM (only HD or FD ar
> allowed by the BIOS)
> I've a RedHat 6.0 install cdrom.
> How can I run the install program that is on the CDROM ?
>
> (I've partitionned my 10Go Hard Disk in two parts : one for Windows 98
> (yet installed) and another one for Linux)
>
In the CD there should be a directory called images, and a little
utility called rawrite, if they're there you use rawrite to write the
raw image onto the floppy (hence the name), it'll prompt you for the
image name and you say 'boot' no quotes. Then boot using the floppy.
But then you have Windows, can't be sure how it goes from there
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From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE won't let me login as root segmentation errors and other faults
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:40:07 GMT
I have repetedly (tried to) install SuSE and RH6. The main problem I
am getting is SuSE won't let me login as root. I can't even SU to
root. It would appear that this only hapens when the X setup (I can't
remember what prog suse uses in its install procedure) fails. As I
have had it working once but when I rebooted I got A segmetation error
during unmount and bye bye filesystem. (NB I was at the login screen
when I did my Crtl Alt Del and not logged in as anyone could this be a
bug?)
I have tried to reinstall but still can't login as root. I can login as
a user though. ( I had the root login prob before I got a working suse
as well)
On the redhat front It seems to mess up with the X configuration I
can only load X if I run Xconfigurer first and then not always and I
get lots of Seg errors's with redhat. (Oddly the only seg errors I
have got with SuSE is when rebooting.)
Does anyone have any ideas? I have also got SaX running once (the time
I got a working SuSE) however if I leave X Configuration till later sax
gets so far then just seems to sit there. How long does it take to
detect your system settings? maybe I am not leaving it long enough (my
system will work "normally ish" If I don't setup X during the install.)
One cause of concern is that in the Sig11 faq the author mentions that
some AMDk62 450's were faulty (I have checked this out with the RED Hat
compatability list and it only mentions probs with 400's not 450's) Has
anyone else had probs with this. Also my graphics card is a voodoo3
2000 AGP I was thinking that this could be the cause of some of my
probs with X . But again Suse worked at 800*600 with the standard SVGA
driver
Thanks and sorry for the length of this post.
Ian
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From: Michael Pronath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How can linux display the long filename in DOS and CDROM?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 17:53:03 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francis Lam the Bert in Sesam) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed linux for some time but I don't know how to make linux
> display the long filenames in DOS and CDRom. Should I begin with changing
> sth in the /etc/fstab file?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francis.
I've got a somewhat related problem, perhaps could anyone comment on this:
A set of HTML documents that refer to each other by links was burned on
a cdrom. This was obviously done under old Windoze, as all filenames are
8.3 lower case. Unfortunately, all links in the HTML-files are 8.3
_upper_ case. Like '<A HREF="METATOC.HTM">', but there is a file
'metatoc.htm' on the cdrom. Result: No links can be resolved, no images
are found.
I didn't find any mount option for that.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: I get LILO prompt but not LILO boot:
Date: 22 Mar 2000 16:53:26 GMT
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:25:45 GMT, Lou Hevly wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>I've installed RedHat 6.2 BETA x86 on a partition. My lilo.conf looks
>like this:
>----
> [lilo.conf goes here]
>----
>
>Running lilo -v gives me this:
>----
> [lilo output goes here]
>----
>
>When I boot, I only get LILO at the prompt; not LILO boot:
>Hitting tab does nothing, nor can I type 'linux'.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Try pressing the Shift-key.
Bastian
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From: Myint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Missing folders in CD rom.
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:31:10 GMT
I did not succeed configuring modem. So I downloaded under Win95 OS various
Linux distributions to see which one I like to learn from. Under Win95 OS
all down loadded files are saved on cdrom.
I can boot up Win95 or one of 3 other Linux OS that are installed on 13gb
IDE.
Umder Win95 OS all files and folders on cdrom are visible but not under
Linux. Some folders or files are not vissible.
Under any Linux OS all files including Win95 IDE are vissible.
I am a newbie, 3 months old. Can some one tell me why!
Thanks,
Myint
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (termite)
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Crossposted-To: comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Date: 22 Mar 2000 16:59:35 GMT
There are a billion stories in the Naked City. From the pen of
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Heiner Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this is one of them :
> Matt Chiglinsky wrote:
>> I write my C and lisp code in "emacs".
>> I write my Unix config file in "vi".
>> I write my DOS config files in "edit".
>> I write my Windows config files in "notepad".
>> I write my large (heh) Windows config files in "wordpad".
>
> You didn't say *why* you use "wordpad": because limitations
> of "notepad" force you to do so. Did you have the same
> problem with "emacs"? "vi"?
>
There's a program called Notepad Plus that one can subsitute for the regular
Notepad and it eliminates any size limit. Free, too.
However, in emergencies, I have a DOS boot floppy with vim on it - and in
my linux system, I vote for vim every time. I can write a file with only a
few (around 10) commands and don't get a headache from trying to remember
C-x C-@#$% C-AARGH!!
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From: Myint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning Again-Newbie
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:32:40 GMT
I read some where, that Linux and Windows are not good neighbours, do not
talk to each other in LILO environment. One is honest and other is crook.
If I were you, I put NT on 2nd. drive. I use LILO rather than Boot magic.
Partioning with Partion magic is great. That way you use full linux and
don't have to reinstall NT.
Good luck.
Myint
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From: Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:06:19 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've stumbled across a need lately that I'm SURE other people are
> having, and was wondering if anything was out yet that fills that need.
>
> I have my personal domain hosted with a company several hundred
> miles away, which in the past wasn't a big deal at all. However, spam-
> fighting efforts eventually led to almost all ISP's adopting POP-before-
> SMTP authentication... you have to check mail through POP before you
> can send mail through the server, to ensure that you're authorized to
> use their SMTP resources.
>
> The problem is that I prefer using the IMAP protocol to check my
> email... and there doesn't seem to be an IMAP-first authentication
> scheme to compliment POP-first. As such, if you're not able to use POP-
> first authentication... then you need to use your own LAN or dial-in
> ISP's SMTP server for outgoing mail. If you bounce around between
> multiple offices and home, then changing your profile or account
> settings every time you want to check mail can be ridiculous.
>
> What I'm looking for is some kind of email client that can use IMAP
> for message retrieval... and then a quick POP-authentication (not
> actually downloading any messages) before sending with SMTP. Anything
> cross platform, "Linux and MS-Windows" (Java-based?) would be lovely
> icing on the cake... assuming that such a solution exists in the first
> place.
>
> Anyone know of an email client that flexible?
Well, you could adapt the example client in JavaMail...
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