Linux-Misc Digest #83, Volume #24 Sat, 8 Apr 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Mouse focus question (Edward L. Hepler)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Gerald Willmann)
Re: MySQL question (Patrick M. Geahan)
Re: installing linux on umsdos (David Turley)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Good way to copy my system (Gerald Willmann)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Grant Edwards)
printing in word perfect (David Turley)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Janet)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Pjtg0707)
Noisy recording with MM256AV (Sean Harding)
Re: Autofs does not work as expected (ljb)
Re: What is the best way to create 500 users in linux (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Why wont init start??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cannot connect to leafnode server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why linux will never go beyond geekdom (Mark Bratcher)
Reading parallel port ("willclifford")
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (L.J. Wischik)
Re: News Readers for Linux (Michael Powe)
Re: slackware - sendmail (Michael Powe)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (L.J. Wischik)
WP8 d'load install to Linux? (Trawler)
Kernel Panic ("Dr. Darren M. Crotchett")
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Jonathan Baron)
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Juerg Tschirren)
Re: printing in word perfect (Carl Fink)
Re: Tape drive write errors using TAR cmd. (Leonard Evens)
Re: Less Memory Use After startx (Tony)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward L. Hepler)
Subject: Mouse focus question
Date: 8 Apr 2000 20:04:42 -0400
I am running RedHat 6.2... Under Gnome, using the Enlightenment window
manager...
Is there a way to change the focus, such that the window the mouse is
in has the focus (versus having to click the mouse)?
or alternatively
Is there a way using the Sawmill window manager, to adjust window width?
I can only seem to stretch windows vertically using this window manager...
(But focus can be changed to allow the active window to follow the mouse)...
Thanks...
Ed Hepler
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:13:52 -0700
On 8 Apr 2000, Janet wrote:
> Well, maybe. In my experience, PDF looks a lot better when Acrobat churns
> it out (at least on the screen). However, ps2pdf definitely works. As
> for whether it is worth the money...depends on how much you need to put
> our your documents in PDF and what quality you need them to be.
worth the money ??? - AFAIK ps2pdf is free and Adobe Distiller not even
available for Linux, no matter how much one would be willing to pay for
it. Or has this changed recently?
Gerald
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From: Patrick M. Geahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MySQL question
Date: 9 Apr 2000 00:13:47 GMT
Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: sounds like you should buy a book on it instead of using it blindly
: what do you think?
Sounds like you're offering to buy me one.
If not, sit on it.
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=======Patrick M [EMAIL PROTECTED]=======ICQ:3784715==========
Quote of the Week: "It looked just like Schindler's List out there!" -
lady on WGN TV News describing a house explosion.
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: installing linux on umsdos
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 23:25:40 GMT
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 01:44:27 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently wrote:
> how do i do it?
>
> i want to install a copy of linux from scratch, directly on dos. In
> other words, i dont want to install linux on an ext2
> partition and then set it up to use umsdos.
http://www.slackware.com
get zipslack or bigslack
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David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:22:55 -0700
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Pjtg0707 wrote:
> Actually, Adobe does have a version of Acrobat for Linux. I am running one
> right now.
Adobe's webpage says otherwise (Current version: 4.05, Platforms:
Macintosh, Windows) so where and how did you get it. Thanks,
Gerald
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good way to copy my system
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:23:46 -0700
read the harddisk upgrade howto or mini howto
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 00:39:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric G. Miller wrote:
>On 8 Apr 2000 21:33:54 GMT, Jonathan Baron
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf
>>
>>This works beautifully.
>
>No it doesn't. It mangles fonts.
If you stick to standard Postscript fonts, it works quite well.
I find that the "times" package results in pretty decent output.
If you do a lot of math, then there's extra work in getting the math
stuff done w/ standard PS fonts, though...
>The only drag is you can't use eps graphics. They have to be converted
>with epstopdf or you can use png, tiff, and a few other bitmap type
>formats. So if your graphics have text, their fonts still get bitmapped
>- sucks for display, but still prints okay.
Being able to use eps graphics is the main reason I stick with
LaTeX->dvips->ps2pdf.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I know how to get the
at hostesses released! Give
visi.com them their own television
series!
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printing in word perfect
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 23:29:05 GMT
Printing works just fine, from the command line, in netscape, star office,
anywhere I try except Word Perfect. I can find no place to enter the
lp command line. WP has a list of printers in a dialogue box but mine
isn't listed. Most apps let you enter lpr, and WP even talks about this in
the help file, but darned if I can find any way or place to do so.
Any ideas?
--
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: 08 Apr 2000 17:46:57 -0700
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 8 Apr 2000, Janet wrote:
>
> > Well, maybe. In my experience, PDF looks a lot better when Acrobat churns
> > it out (at least on the screen). However, ps2pdf definitely works. As
> > for whether it is worth the money...depends on how much you need to put
> > our your documents in PDF and what quality you need them to be.
>
> worth the money ??? - AFAIK ps2pdf is free and Adobe Distiller not even
> available for Linux, no matter how much one would be willing to pay for
> it. Or has this changed recently?
> Gerald
> --
Oops, I was talking about Acrobat, and you're right, it probably isn't
available for Linux. Although they are supposedly trying to port it to
Linux; maybe someday it will be.
Janet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:05:37 GMT
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:22:55 -0700, Gerald Willmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Pjtg0707 wrote:
>
>> Actually, Adobe does have a version of Acrobat for Linux. I am running one
>> right now.
>
>Adobe's webpage says otherwise (Current version: 4.05, Platforms:
>Macintosh, Windows) so where and how did you get it. Thanks,
> Gerald
>--
>
at www.freshmeat.net
Do a search on acrobat and the first one on the list is the acrobat ver 4.05.
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From: Sean Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Noisy recording with MM256AV
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:19:50 GMT
I'm having horrible luck recording from line in on my laptop with a NeoMagic
MM256AV card under linux. It has static and generally sounds horrible. I
posted a small sample mp3 at http://dogcow.org/eat.mp3 (the mp3 compression
added little if any noticable artifacts; it sounds that bad in the wav
too). Recording from the same source using the same program on my desktop
with a soundblaster pci128 works beautifully. I'm guessing that it's a
driver issue with the neomagic card.
I'm running linux-2.2.13 with:
NeoMagic 256AV/256ZX audio driver, version 1.0
NM256: Found card signature in video RAM: 0x27ec00
NM256: Mapping port 1 from 0x266c00 - 0x280000
Initialized NeoMagic 256AV audio in PCI native mode
On a Dell latitude CPI A366.
Anyone successfully recorded with this card?
sean
--
Sean Harding |"art may imitate life
http://www.dogcow.org/sean/ | but life imitates t.v."
Address in header *is* valid | --ani difranco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: Autofs does not work as expected
Date: 9 Apr 2000 01:36:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I tried to use autofs to mount my zip drive but I can't access any file
>on it. It's probably just a configuration error.
>
>I have the following auto.master file:
>------------------------------------------------
>/zip /etc/auto.zip
>
>and the following auto.zip file:
>------------------------------------------------
>zip -fstype=vfat :/dev/sda4
>
>mount tells me automount on /zip is okay but when i try to access
>anything on /zip no file is found. If stop automounter and use mount
>/zip everthing is okay.
You know that you are asking it to mount the zip at /zip/zip, right? You
didn't just "ls /zip" - that should be empty. You need to access /zip/zip
to get it to mount. What mount is telling you is that automount is ready
to mount stuff under /zip.
Hope this helps.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the best way to create 500 users in linux
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 21:45:04 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm new with linux, and I'm in charge of a server that has OpenLinux, and
> I need to create 500 users and create their passwords in Samba. What would
> be the best way to create them and to backup the users accounts...
>
Yikes! 500!
OK, a general stab at this would be to use the command line tools and
set up a text file that contains your list of user names. Write scripts
using the command line tools that read the text user name/password files
and call the appropriate command line tools to create the accounts.
I know this is just a general stab at it, but I hope it helps.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why wont init start???
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:51:12 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Bob Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 23:19:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>kernel panic: init not found. Try passing init= as kernel parameter.
>>
>>I thought the kernel automatically looked for init in /sbin
> On Caldera OpenLinux 2.3:
> [bobh@nebo bobh]$ ldd /sbin/init
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40019000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> In other words, init is dynamically linked so you need libc and the
> loader. Could be that your error message really means "got an error code
> back when I tried to start init".
The root partition needs to be specified in lilo.conf.
If it's wrongly specified, as far as the kernel is concerned, the /bin,
/sbin, /lib and /etc directories don't exist, and thus, neither does init.
You need to boot up a rescue system, mount the correct root partition on
/mnt, and edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf to reflect the changes that need to be made
and then
/mnt/bin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
Then reboot, and everything *should* be hunky-dory...
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| Andrew Halliwell BSc | |
| in | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
| Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cannot connect to leafnode server
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:51:13 GMT
George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Replying with own solution.
> Mystery sovled.
> It was not the leafnode config file that was parsed incorrectly, it was the
> inetd.conf file. The entry
> for nntp was incorrectly formatted.
> I ran inetd -d again and took a closer look at the output. I noticed that
> nntp was not on the list of things running(along with time, ftp, telnet,
> shell, pop3, finger,...). I had to place the line nntp stream tcp....
> beginning on the first column, and all other fields had to begin one
> tabspace over.
Strange... On my SuSE system, the line for leafnode in inetd already exists.
All I ever needed to do was remove the '#' from the beginning of that line
(uncomment the line) and edit the path to where leafnode actually was on my
system.
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| in | get out the puncture repair kit!" |
| Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf |
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|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why linux will never go beyond geekdom
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 21:55:36 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Purely because it sucks the big one, no games !
Huh? Do you live under a rock? Besides, if games are the most important
thing to you, you should purchase a Sega Genesis or something like that.
> no word !
Try StarOffice. It can read/write Word97, Excel97, etc, almost
flawlessly and has its own format as well.
> KDE....it stinks....Gnome.....amateur hacks with pretty graphics
GUIs are a matter of taste, I guess. How many choices do you have under
Windows? One I think. You have many more than you listed for Linux.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: "willclifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reading parallel port
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:58:21 GMT
Does anyone know how I can read the parallel port from the command line?
I will be using the parallel port for inputs to an alarm and need to be able
to get the status of the pins.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L.J. Wischik)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: 9 Apr 2000 02:15:31 GMT
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, Adobe does have a version of Acrobat for Linux. I am running one
>> right now.
>Adobe's webpage says otherwise (Current version: 4.05, Platforms:
>Macintosh, Windows) so where and how did you get it. Thanks,
Adobe's "acrobat for unix availability" is at
http://www.adobe.com/support/salesdocs/d6b6.htm
* Acrobat is the graphical wysiwyg editor for PDF documents
* Acroread is the graphical viewer. (or you can use ghostview)
* Distiller converts ps to pdf
Version4 of Acroread and Distiller are available for unix.
Only version3 of Acrobat is available.
--
Lucian Wischik, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET. www.wischik.com/lu
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: News Readers for Linux
Date: 08 Apr 2000 18:22:28 -0700
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>>>>> "J" == J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 23:22:43 GMT, Bit Twister
J> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here is a reason
>> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html
>>> Seems like no one is using Netscape 's Mozilla.
J> I *never* use the composer/email/news capabilities of
J> Netscape. So why do I have to load them up every time I want to
J> browse a web page? Does Mozilla fix this?
You don't. Just download Navigator instead of Communicator.
mp
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BOYCOTT AMAZON http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html BOYCOTT AMAZON
"For example, I've always liked PowerPoint, and I've always thought
that Visual Basic was a good product." -- Linus Torvalds
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slackware - sendmail
Date: 08 Apr 2000 18:37:49 -0700
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>>>>> "Luc" == Luc Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Luc> i just installed slackware 7. I changed the settings in the
Luc> HOSTNAME and hosts files to set my own demain name
Luc> (vortex.computer). Now, when i'm booting slackware, sendmail
Luc> takes about 1 min to load !!!
Probably because it's trying to connect to a DNS server. Check your
/etc/resolv.conf and make sure you have the correct entries in there.
mp
- --
BOYCOTT AMAZON http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html BOYCOTT AMAZON
"For example, I've always liked PowerPoint, and I've always thought
that Visual Basic was a good product." -- Linus Torvalds
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L.J. Wischik)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: 9 Apr 2000 02:24:32 GMT
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>worth the money ??? - AFAIK ps2pdf is free and Adobe Distiller not even
>available for Linux, no matter how much one would be willing to pay for
>it. Or has this changed recently?
Distiller Server is available for linux:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrdis/main.html
Distiller has been announced for linux as '1st quarter 2000':
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/pdfs/199912/19991215linux.pdf
Distiller already exists for other unix platforms.
--
Lucian Wischik, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET. www.wischik.com/lu
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From: Trawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WP8 d'load install to Linux?
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 02:31:21 GMT
I am a very big newbie trying to install Corel WordPerfect 8 to Winlinux
(pausing for laughter to die down) and I need detailed instructions. I
downloaded the full file butI just don't think I unzipped or tarred it
right and I don't know where to put the files to run install. As I am so
new to Linux I need very simple and thorough instructions as you would
give to a child or maybe a clever pet.
Thank you,
Trawler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Dr. Darren M. Crotchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Panic
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:30:30 -0500
Brief history. I am/was running Mandrake 6.1 and was dual booting Windows.
I have a large HD but I had made my partitions too small. So, using
Partition Magic, I increased my Mandrake and Windows partitions by 1 gig
each making them 3 and 4 gig, respectively. But, in order to allow room for
these increases, I was forced to move my Linux Swap partition "to the right"
(looking at it on the GI of Partition Magic). But, Partition Magic wouldn't
allow me to move the swap, so I deleted it. I figured it would be easy
enough make another one. Now, I'm getting a kernel panic when I try to get
into Mandrake. So, to have access to my Mandrake files, I installed another
distro on the same HD. I used it access the /etc/fstab file in Mandrake and
commented out the reference to the swap partition. I also commented out the
part about swapon -a in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
I am getting the following error:
After loading the network card,
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw=0, want=33, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:05, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic (ask Bob): VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
Any ideas how to correct this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Darren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Baron)
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: 9 Apr 2000 02:41:07 GMT
I must admit that, when I use ps2pdf and say it "works fine,"
I also use
\usepackage{times}
But the math looks fine, such as it is. Maybe my math isn't
sophisticated enought to notice the problems. Jon
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From: Juerg Tschirren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 02:48:37 GMT
J Bland wrote:
>
> >>Recent versions of ghostscript (such as 6.0, which just came out
> >>recently, but also 5.5) include ps2pdf as well as pdf2ps. So you just
> >>install ghostscript (probably installed already) and say
> >>
> >>ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf
> >>
> >>This works beautifully.
> >
> >No it doesn't. It mangles fonts. I've had the best luck using the
>
> Ditto, highly embarrassing to recommend ps2pdf to a colleague and then find
> the output is highly irregular. It just doesn't work properly. The font
> problem is a bad one. (How often do we here that in Linux?)
>
> JB
With using
dvips -Ppdf -G0 foo.dvi -o foo.ps
ps2pdf foo.ps foo.pdf
I get perfect pdf files with type 1 fonts only.
Juerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: printing in word perfect
Date: 9 Apr 2000 02:38:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 23:29:05 GMT David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Printing works just fine, from the command line, in netscape, star office,
>anywhere I try except Word Perfect. I can find no place to enter the
>lp command line. WP has a list of printers in a dialogue box but mine
>isn't listed. Most apps let you enter lpr, and WP even talks about this in
>the help file, but darned if I can find any way or place to do so.
I'm assuming you mean WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux? When you start the
program, two windows open, a small one and a larger one with a blank
document in it. The smaller one has a "Program" menu. Open the
Program menu and choose "Printer Control...". In the Printer Control
dialog, at the top you'll find "Available Destinations". Okay, it's
a stupid choice for the label, but nonetheless click on "Lpr". Then
choose "lp" from the list. Now all print jobs will be sent to the
Unix "lp" device.
Now switch to the document. Hit F5 to bring up the Print dialog. In
the "Current Printer" group at the top is a "Select" button. Click
that and choose "Passthru PostScript" and set it up. Assuming you
have MagicFilter and GhostScript installed, you're now set, and on my
box it prints perfectly with those settings.
>Any ideas?
Not that I wasn't glad to help, but you might be interested to know
that Corel has a news server for free support, at cnews.corel.com.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Tape drive write errors using TAR cmd.
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 22:28:39 -0500
"Keith M. Smith" wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I've actually narrowed down the problem to the mt comand. I can
> repeatedly store tar files to the tape. However, as soon as I issue an
> mt command to move around the tape, then I can no longer write tar files
> to the tape. In order to correct the problem, I must rewind and start
> over.
>
> It concerns me that mt doesn't recognize the tape drive type however
> (see previous email). Note that even though I cannot write to tape, I
> can still use tar to read from the tape. So, I can recover my backup at
> a later date.
>
> Keith
I'm not sure your situation is exactly the same as mine, but
let me describe what I've discovered. I have an HP 2.5/5 GB
drive which also uses /dev/ht0, /dev/nht0. I find that I
can't seem to get out of file 0. I can write succesive
tar archives to the tape if I don't rewind first, but mt fsf n
does not skip past n. For example fsf 1 skips past all of
them. The only way to position the tape at the end of some
specific archive is to use tar with the t option to read all
the previous archives. (The same thing happened in our department
using and internal SCSI Travan drive and /dev/st0, nst0.)
I found the following solution. I write and archive with
tar and then I do an
mt -f /dev/nht0 weof
That way I have two records for each tar archive. Then mt... fsf
using twice the number of skips desired seems to place the tape
where I want it. In particular it does allow me to do what
you say you want to do which is to add another archive at the
end.
I not sure of all the details since I haven't done it for a while,
so do some experiments to see if something like this works
for you.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony)
Subject: Re: Less Memory Use After startx
Date: 9 Apr 2000 02:56:33 GMT
6. Not to mention, if you have a lot of crap compiled into your
kernel that you don't need, and/or a bunch of modules loaded that
you don't need they are hogging up memory even though you are not
opening any "additional programs".
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