Linux-Misc Digest #328, Volume #25 Thu, 3 Aug 00 10:13:03 EDT
Contents:
system includes after kernel update ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mail problems - procmail + sendmail address re-write (Steve Maughan)
Re: Windows too big... (Leonard Evens)
Re: Flash Plugin for netscape+xmms = Netscape freezing? (Fung Wai Keung)
Re: 3D Hardware Acceleration Not Working for One User (Benjamin Goldsteen)
Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released (Matthias Nutt)
NFS server fails: [nfssvc: Function not implemented] (Nicolas Anquetil)
Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: system includes after kernel update (Bob Martin)
Re: SuSe 6.1 questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: How to insert degree symbol in Linux? (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening! (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Windows too big... (Foo Kwong Lee)
StarOffice 5.2 Install Problem (root)
Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Re: Changing LILO in Mandrake? (Nathaniel Jay Lee)
Re: StarOffice 5.2 Install Problem (Davide Bianchi)
PhD position developing Linux/Beowulf (Phil Williams)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Bernd Paysan)
Answer machine s/w (Vasilis Serghi)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: system includes after kernel update
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:22:47 GMT
I have just updated the kernel on my REdhat 6.2 system from the stock
kernel (2.2.14) to the latest update from RedHat (2.2.16).
I followed RedHats kernel update howto and everything seemingly went OK.
However I can no longer compile any packages that require system
include files (.h files in /usr/src/linux/include) without adding
-I/usr/src/linux/include in the Makefile.
This may be relatively innocuous but it is annoying.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem so that it finds them
automatically (as it did before).
Thanks
Andrew Sharff
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Steve Maughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail problems - procmail + sendmail address re-write
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:28:13 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Before I ask my tell everyone my problem, I'll briefly explain my setup
(which is causing the problem):
I access the internet via a dial-up modem line. The modem is in my
headless network server (called k5 - a AMD k5 based system, origional
name, huh!), which also acts as a mail/DNS/IP-Masq machine (and lot's
more services, but they're irrelevant here). My workstation, called k6
(yes, a AMD-K6(2) based machine) acceses the net though the k5 - and
they're connected via 10Base-T, if that's important.
I've setup fetchmail/sendmail/pop3 access on the k5, getting sendmail to
re-write the "from" address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the e-mail
address I use on my local network) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my
public e-mail address) for outgoing mail, and using fetchmail to pick up
incoming mail from my isp and put it into my (dinger) mail spool on the
k5.
This has all worked fine, till today - I decided to use procmail to put
a send a copy of all my personal mail to dinger@k6. I got this working -
all my mail goes to dinger@k5 - where it can be retrieved by a pop3
client (kmail) - and a copy of my personal mail goes to dinger@k6 -
where I can read it with pine or mutt.
The problem is that, as I get sendmail to re-write the outgoing address,
when sending a copy of the personal mail from k5 to k6, it tries to do a
mx lookup on bigfoot.com - as it re-writes the address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The mail system works when I'm online, but
when I'm offline, because it can't do a mx lookup on bigfoot.com, the
mail sits in the mail queue on the k5, and doesn't get forwarded to the
k6 till I'm next online.
If anyone knows a way to fix my problem, maybe you could enlighten me?
I've been thinking about looking up bigfoot.com's mail exchanger and
adding the IP to my own internal DNS, but I don't know how well this
would work...???
Sorry if I babbled a lot in this post....
--
Steve Maughan
Don't run away from your problems...
Riding is much faster.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows too big...
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 05:30:14 -0500
Hiawatha Bray wrote:
>
> I'm using Gnome and Enlightenment, and a 15-inch monitor. Some of my
> windows don't fit on the screen. They spill over. But it's not one of
> those virtual screen deals...I can't scroll down past the bottom of the
> screen to get to the rest of the window. How can I set it so all my windows
> are sized to fit inside my monitor? Thanks.
You don't say which windows are so effected. It might help if
you did so. Different applications which produce windows may
have their sizes controlled in different ways.
Often you can control the size that a window for a given application
comes up with by putting an appropriate geometry statement in
.Xdefaults in your home directory.
To adjust the size of a window after it comes up, you can use the
mouse on the bottom or a corner. The problem is that you can't
get access to that part of the window if it overflows the screen.
One way to handle that is to use Alt-Left Click in the window
to move the window. That way you can get access to the appropriate
boundary of the window, change its size, and then move it back to
where you want it.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Flash Plugin for netscape+xmms = Netscape freezing?
Date: 3 Aug 2000 11:06:02 GMT
Hi all,
The problem is solved with the recent netscape 4.74 mdk packages.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Automation and Computer Aided Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Benjamin Goldsteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Subject: Re: 3D Hardware Acceleration Not Working for One User
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 07:18:25 -0400
Kevin Brown wrote:
> Does anyone know why acceleration would stop all the sudden for just one
> user, and keep workin for everyone else?
I had one user who rewrote their DISPLAY to always be, hostname:0. The
result was that even when they were sitting at the console, X/OpenGL was
going over TCP/IP through the loopback interface. Anyway, I would start
with their .login and .cshrc files.
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
Physiology & Biophysics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
212-241-1614 / 212-860-3369 (FAX)
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From: Matthias Nutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:20:09 +0200
there are rumours that it takes up to a week until SuSE answers
your question. So you will not gain much support time.
But your are right. SuSE is good and cool. But I am not willing to
pay this price. Its too expensive.
Bye Matthias
remove _ANTISPAM_ from email address to contact me.
http://feiern.freepage.de/messias
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From: Nicolas Anquetil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: NFS server fails: [nfssvc: Function not implemented]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:31:19 -0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI,
I am trying to setup a NFS server. I installed knfsd-1.2.2-4 on my
RedHat 6.0 box (kernel 2.2.16).
However, when I boot or try to run rpc.nfsd I get the message:
nfssvc: Function not implemented
The NFS-HOWTO says very little about how to setup the server.
Any hint would be appreciated
nicolas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening!
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:26:32 GMT
Hi,
As i really don't solve that probeme and noone has help until now, i'm
trying again....
The system don't boot !
I want to install linux RedHat 6.0 on a 486 DX2 66 Mhz with only ISA
slots and 16 M0 of memory.
I had an old 450 Mo harddisk in it and added a 1 Gb disk too.
I reached to install Win95 on it as a test for the configuration.
It seems to work properly.
When i'm trying to install the RedHat 6.0, I can boot with the install
disk, do the partitionning and format each partition (No pb with the LBA
mode for example).
Than i can install everything and make a boot disk too, following the
normal process.
The problem is that when i reboot, the system starts and uncompress the
kernel correctly.
Firts boot messages seem correct (except "keyboard not fournd" but it
is'nt a PS/2 type keyboard so i suppose it's normal as it works anyway).
Then is have something like theses:
Ram disk driver initialized : 16 RAM disks of 4096 Kb
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080 .... drive
hdb: ST34... XR drive
then the system hangs ....
This is really strange. With the boot disk it's the same problem. I just
can boot with the install disk.
On an other hand i tried to remove the second disk but it hangs anyway
(when detecting the first one).
I also tried the LILO noprobe option and neally all HD option possible
but it hangs anyway.
Could it be a memory problem ?
Do i have to reinstall linux each time i'm trying to remove one of the
harware boards to tests if it's a problem with it, or is'nt it necessary
to be sure that the kernel is no more looking for it?
Is the line "RAM Disk Drive initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096 " normal
as this PC only have 16 Mo of RAM (45 Mo of SWAP)?
Thanks a lot for anything that could help !!
Christophe
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system includes after kernel update
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:44:05 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have just updated the kernel on my REdhat 6.2 system from the stock
> kernel (2.2.14) to the latest update from RedHat (2.2.16).
>
> I followed RedHats kernel update howto and everything seemingly went OK.
>
> However I can no longer compile any packages that require system
> include files (.h files in /usr/src/linux/include) without adding
> -I/usr/src/linux/include in the Makefile.
>
> This may be relatively innocuous but it is annoying.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem so that it finds them
> automatically (as it did before).
>
Sounds like it broke the links in /usr/include for asm and linux.
--
Bob Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSe 6.1 questions
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:55:38 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 19:52:49 -0700, blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>Don't expect you can see beautiful colour with a 4 MB video card. ;-)
>
>And probably KDE needs at least 8MB of Video RAM to show everything at a
>very low colour depth and resolution.
??? On a 15" Monitor you will have a screen resolution of 800*600. Even if you
use 24bit color, 2Mbyte is enough. Even with 1024*768 there should be no problem
with 4 MB.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:06:58 -0400
blowfish wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> >
> > blowfish writes:
> > > I did have many of my work copyrighted (not computer related, but in
> > > arts.)
> >
> > No. You have _all_ of your works copyrighted. Copyright is automatic.
> >
> No. You have to file for copyrights on each piece of work, or as a
> batch. It's NOT automatic.
>
> I've been doing this for ages.
>
> > Go study up a bit on copyright.
> After you.
Things may have changed again, but when I did study up on copyright, an
author owns a copyright in anything he produces at the time of creation.
However, if the copyright is not asserted by registering it with the
Copyright Office (and payment of necessary fees), you can recover much less
in the case of infringement.
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /V\
Registered Linux User 85642. /( )\
Registered Machine 73926. ^^-^^
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to insert degree symbol in Linux?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:16:40 -0400
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:04:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I would like to insert a degree symbol in a text line in Linux.
>
> <COMPOSE>,0,*
>
> The COMPOSE key is usually mapped to the right-hand Ctrl key on a PC
> keyboard. If pressing Right_Ctl,0,* doesn't give you a � symbol, then
> execute the command
> xmodmap -e 'keysym Control_R = Multi_key'
>
> I got this info from the Keyboard-and-Console HOWTO, the man page for
> xmodmap, and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose ...just in case
> anyone wants to find out more.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
Your message is really funny! (Not really your fault.) When I read it using
Netscape Communicator's news reader, the degree symbol came up as a plane
space. When I pressed "Reply", I get this composition window, where the degree
symbol is displayed correctly. I will now enter a degree symbol using
Tools->Character Tools->Insert Special Character between the two asterisks here
*�*. It looks like it went in. We will all see if it appears when we read it.
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /V\
Registered Linux User 85642. /( )\
Registered Machine 73926. ^^-^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening!
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:29:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:26:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>As i really don't solve that probeme and noone has help until now, i'm
>trying again....
>
>The system don't boot !
>
>I want to install linux RedHat 6.0 on a 486 DX2 66 Mhz with only ISA
>slots and 16 M0 of memory.
>I had an old 450 Mo harddisk in it and added a 1 Gb disk too.
>I reached to install Win95 on it as a test for the configuration.
>It seems to work properly.
>
>When i'm trying to install the RedHat 6.0, I can boot with the install
>disk, do the partitionning and format each partition (No pb with the LBA
>mode for example).
>
>Than i can install everything and make a boot disk too, following the
>normal process.
>
>The problem is that when i reboot, the system starts and uncompress the
>kernel correctly.
>Firts boot messages seem correct (except "keyboard not fournd" but it
>is'nt a PS/2 type keyboard so i suppose it's normal as it works anyway).
No, this is not quite normal. I had the same configuration some years
ago, and never had such problem. The keyboard MUST be found...
>Then is have something like theses:
>
>Ram disk driver initialized : 16 RAM disks of 4096 Kb
>hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080 .... drive
>hdb: ST34... XR drive
>
>then the system hangs ....
<ZAP>
Seems a problem with the ide controller/driver.
In my opinion, the kernel on the HD try some "tricks" with the IDE
controller, and it don't like them. If you can boot with the boot
disk, try recompile the kernel excluding all the useless stuff
(like the RAMDISK support), and configure the IDE disk support
correctly, then try boot with the NEW kernel.
Davide
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From: Foo Kwong Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows too big...
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:25:07 -0400
Some programs have a minimum window size and if your monitor is 15 inch
and set to a low resolution, the window will spill over. To move a
window that spills over, you can right click on the border of the window
and drag.
flee
Hiawatha Bray wrote:
>
> I'm using Gnome and Enlightenment, and a 15-inch monitor. Some of my
> windows don't fit on the screen. They spill over. But it's not one of
> those virtual screen deals...I can't scroll down past the bottom of the
> screen to get to the rest of the window. How can I set it so all my windows
> are sized to fit inside my monitor? Thanks.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: StarOffice 5.2 Install Problem
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:40:27 -0400
Hi,
I am trying to install StarOffice5.2 on my Mandrake box, but I keep
getting this error of bash command not found. I read the install
instructions off of sun's web site and I put the install into my tmp
directory with plenty of room for the install. I am quite new to
linux and this has me confused. Can anyone give me some help on this
install.
TIA,
Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:02:37 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Nutt:
|> there are rumours that it takes up to a week until SuSE answers
|> your question. So you will not gain much support time.
Odd. I had an overnight email reply on a SuSE 6.4 question just yesterday and
that, emailing my question only 15 minutes or so after web registering. In my
book, for $US30, a 480+ page excellent manual, six CDs, and actually the most
troublefree X install I've ever witnessed: well, excellent service and value.
[Snip...]
--
Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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From: Nathaniel Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Changing LILO in Mandrake?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:23:27 -0500
Andres Soolo wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Tim Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ...accept UNIX like dum abbriviations and call it LILO.CONF.
> lilo.conf , not LILO.CONF . The spelling is not the only thing
> that matters.
>
> By the way, if you don't like abbreviating then why don't you
> try to write `GNU/Linux' without abbreviating as a little home
> assignment? :-)
Hehe, you are expecting TIMMAY! to actually be able to complete what is
essentially a spelling assignment. And that little bit of thinking
required before the spelling begins should pretty much finish him off.
>
> --
> Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it
> from charity, or revenge?
> -- Gustave Vapereau
I love that quote, how 'bout this:
Women often inspire men to create masterpieces, and then prevent them
from finishing them.
--(I believe it was Oscar Wilde)
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathaniel Jay Lee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.2 Install Problem
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:33:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:40:27 -0400, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to install StarOffice5.2 on my Mandrake box, but I keep
>getting this error of bash command not found. I read the install
>instructions off of sun's web site and I put the install into my tmp
>directory with plenty of room for the install. I am quite new to
>linux and this has me confused. Can anyone give me some help on this
>install.
Remember that in Unix/Linux the commands (what you type in the
command line) are NOT researche outside the path. Prabily your
path DOES NOT CONTAIN the ./ directory.
Try recall ./<command> when you start the configuration/installation.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Williams)
Subject: PhD position developing Linux/Beowulf
Date: 3 Aug 2000 13:40:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a PhD position available from October 2000 developing and applying
computational chemistry software under a 64-processor Beowulf Linux cluster
on a gigabit Myrinet network.
For details please see http://pharm6.pharm.nottingham.ac.uk
Phil
============================================================================
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EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow fax: 44 (0)115 9515110
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============================================================================
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:21:37 +0200
From: Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> this always happens. many people say that the united states of
> america is a free country yet there are many things which are
> illegal. you can't just go around killing people wantonly. you
> cannot use many drugs. the first infringes upon other people's
> freedom. the second, however, does not yet it is still forbidden.
> free doesn't necessarily mean anarchy.
In fact, anarchy often means the contrary of freedom. You may do what
you want, but in fact, you are at war with your neighbours (or some
boons who want to make the best out of this "freedom" by enslaving poor
suckers that can't defend themselves). And being at war isn't exactly
"freedom".
BTW: Drugs do impact others. Many violent crimes are performed under
influence of alcohol, so are many traffic accidents. Passive smoking
causes cancer. Hard drugs such as heroine or cocaine make people unable
to earn their live for themselves, and therefore creates thiefs and
prostitutes (although being illegal is one of the main causes that these
drugs are so expensive and have such an impact).
We are now in a society that allows proprietary software. For our all
freedom, this is no good. The FSF wants to get to a more free society,
where there is no proprietary software anymore. They do so by using
copyright to protect their software from being "enslaved" again. Some of
the BSD whiners tell us that making derivatives proprietary isn't
"enslaving" the original software, which is still free. This is like
saying (in the south states, 150 years ago): "If you give your niggers
(TIC!) freedom, ok, but if they can't sell their childs as slaves, they
aren't really free".
--
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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From: Vasilis Serghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Answer machine s/w
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:47:09 +0100
Is there any s/w available for use as an answer machine?
I have Mandrake 7.0 with Kvoice, but it won't work properly. Just
wondering if there are any alternatives.
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