Linux-Misc Digest #959, Volume #25 Fri, 6 Oct 00 14:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Whats identd in Redhat 7.0?? (-ljl-)
Re: Inkjet Printer CYMK Colorspace Correction (Kevin Adams)
Re: Fetchmail suddenly running very slow (Dave Brown)
Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Chetan Vora)
Re: Microsoft owns a piece of Corel (John Jordan)
Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question (Sean Akers)
Re: Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Re: Best Linux? (Rod Smith)
Re: Whats identd in Redhat 7.0?? (Rod Smith)
Gnome drag-and-drop on desktop (Scott Miller)
Re: Fetchmail suddenly running very slow (Anthony Campbell)
Re: Java Crash in RedHat 7.0 (Bill)
Re: Help !! Why does changing the hostname cause so many problems ? (Matthew Haley)
Re: Linux: Freeing Memory
Re: I admit defeat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Strange memory behavior... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Charles Sebold)
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Whats identd in Redhat 7.0??
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:01:26 GMT
In article <8rkkj1$6p7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Whats identd in Redhat 7.0??
>
> I did a ps -aux and I see 5 copyes of identd -e -o running. what is
> identd for??
Check out the following URL:
http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.html
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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Before you buy.
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From: Kevin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sci.engr.color,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Inkjet Printer CYMK Colorspace Correction
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:40:56 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Again... :-)
When I print using Windows 98SE, and the drivers as provided by Epson, I do not
have [most of] these color matching problems.
Under Windows 98SE, Red from the inkjet printer very closely matches the Red
area as depicted in the Source Graphic (Image #3A, c.f. URLs given below). In
general, Windows printouts are well-matched to the screen...
But under Linux, I need to make some adjustments to the Uniprint parameter
file; specifically, I need to modify the entries in the CYMK density table
listed at the beginning of this (Usenet) thread.
Compare the following; this time, a Windows 98SE printout is included:
Set #3:
3A.) Source Graphic (Control Image):
http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/screen-color-mix.gif
3B.) Linux Printed Graphic (Scanned Image):
http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/screen-color-mix-print.gif
3C.) Windows 98SE Printed Graphic (Scanned Image):
http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/screen-color-mix-print-windows.gif
As you can see, the output from my printer using Windows 98SE (Image #3C) is
much more "screen-accurate" than the output from my printer using Linux (Image
#3B)...
So again, I know that I need to adjust the color densities for each of the
colors in the Linux Uniprint parameter file, I just don't know which colors,
and in which direction...
Thank You and Best Regards,
Kevin Adams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
My apologies to www.efg2.com for borrowing the screenshot of the Color Mix
program.
Tom van Rijswijk wrote:
> The Yellow, Magenta and Cyan also are darker on the print.
> I think that for some reason the gamut of your monitor is bigger
> than that of the printer.
> see: http://www.xrite.com/HelpDesk/DocDetail.ASP?DocNr=243
> for a mapping of both gamuts on the CIE colorspace (page 15).
>
> This would mean that the triangle of that figure contains the
> other gamut-mapping of
> the printer.
>
> Do you have the same problem when you use windows-drivers?
>
> Tom
>
>
> Kevin Adams wrote:
> >
> > [View this message in a fixed-width/monospace font like Courier
> > for best results.]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use an ADi MicroScan 6P Monitor, and a Microtek ScanMaker E3.
> > The monitor has been brightness/contrast (black-point/white-point)
> > calibrated as per the procedures given here:
> >
> > http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/index.htm
> >
> > In answer to your question (reply):
> >
> > The problem is not with my scanner, it is with my printer. The
> > scanned input - on screen - of the printed page from my inkjet
> > printer looks very, very much (almost exactly) like the printed
> > page itself.
> >
> > I have found a new "control image." I have also printed it out,
> > and scanned it back in. Perhaps these are better examples:
> >
> > Set #3:
> >
> > 3A.) Source Graphic (Control Image):
> > http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/screen-color-mix.gif
> >
> > 3B.) Printed Graphic (Scanned Image):
> > http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/screen-color-mix-print.gif
> >
> > Adjust your monitor so the Red, Green, and Blue areas in the
> > Source Graphic actually look red, green, and blue.
> >
> > Then take a look at the Printed Graphic. Notice how the Red
> > area actually looks orange. The Green area appears a dark
> > green, and the Blue area is a dark blue. If I take the Source
> > Graphic and print it, that is what it looks like...
> >
> > I want to make the output from my printer match, as closely as
> > possible, the Source Graphic.
> >
> > What is the cause? Too much yellow? Too much black? Not
> > enough Magenta? Etc...?
> >
> > Thank You and Best Regards,
> > Kevin Adams
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > My apologies to www.efg2.com for borrowing the screenshot of the Color Mix
> > program.
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Fetchmail suddenly running very slow
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Oct 2000 10:53:17 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down
>dramatically.
>
>At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens:
>
>Fetchmail starts to read the first message and says it is rewriting
>various addresses. It then hang for about 3 minutes before starting to
>collect all the mail. This goes normally but the same thing happens at
>the next ISP.
I don't know about the multiple ISP situation, but I've encountered an
occasional problem when fetching mail from my ISP. Several times, I've
received spam with bogus addresses, and either fetchmail or my ISP's
popserver apparently tries to do name resolution on the message-- at
least, that's my suspicion. Usually, this times out. But I've even had
this hang fetchmail. Since my ISP also has web-mail, I can go there
and delete the message.
I contacted my ISP about it, but didn't get a straight answer. It hasn't
happened for several months now.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:51:33 -0400
Hi all,
I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my search provided no
such query before. Basically, I installed XEmacs21.1 binaries for Linux
(RPMs which I converted to .deb and then used Corel Update to install
them). It complained it needs libdb.so.3 which for some reason is not
there. So I went and downloaded glibc21 RPM after doing a search on the
web. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to convert that RPM to .deb. Could
someone tell me where I can find a "glibc21 version" for Debian Linux ?
Or am I doing something wrong when doing the RPM->DEB conversion ? I'm
using "alien" command to do the conversion and it gives the following
error:
# alien --to-deb glib...
"alien: error querying RPM file
Only packages with major # <=3 are supported by this version of RPM
query of glib... failed"
Appreciate any help from you,
Chet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jordan)
Subject: Re: Microsoft owns a piece of Corel
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:28:53 GMT
Thomas Armagost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo a todos por la internet:
>Corel just released WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. Here's a
>product review. "WordPerfect 9 [is] an almost seamless product."
><http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1855/1/>
>"All of the major features you have come to expect from a mature word
>processing program: paragraph and tab formatting, spell checking,
>table tools--they're all there."
Yeah, I have it installed on my Linux machine. It is extremely
powerful. Not even terribly buggy, considering it's a Corel product.
But it runs slower than the second coming. Don't plan on using it
unless you have a 400 MHz machine minimum, and preferably 500 MHz
plus.
And CorelDRAW Suite for Linux says right on the box "minimum 200 MHz."
It runs even slower.
The problem is that these programs are all running under WINE, which
adds a layer and slows everything down.
NOTICE: I don't publish my e-mail address. Post in the
newsgroup only.
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From: Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:37:08 +0100
My company is about to set up a Linux Internet gateway/firewall. We
have a dialup PPP based ISDN connection. We have one static IP address
for our connection to the Internet.
The internal network is M$ based and our e-mail system is Lotus Notes.
Currently our Notes server is our gateway machine and connects to our
ISP's SMTP server to download/send e-mail.
We will be keeping the Notes server but will be putting our Linux
gateway between it and the Internet.
This is the state or our network now:
|
Notes Client Machine
|
Notes Client Machine
|
=======================Notes Server===================Internet
|
Notes Client Machine
|
This is how it will be
|
Notes Client Machine--------------------
| |
Notes Client Machine---------------------
| |
===========Notes Server========Linux gateway===========Internet
| |
Notes Client Machine --------------------
|
My question is how best to deal with our SMTP mail delivery.
Would it be better to:
1) Try and set up sendmail on the Linux box to act as a mail relay
which downloads mail from the ISP and configure Notes to connect to
the Linux box to retrieve mail. (Any sample configs here would be fab)
2) To not have sendmail running on the Linux box and have the Notes
server connect directly to the ISP SMTP server using IP Masquerading.
i.e. the Linux box is transparent to SMTP.
Any suggestions and examples greatly appreciated. It is unlikely that
we'll invest in Domino server for Linux at this point. We need to keep
our NT Notes server and use it through the Linux gateway.
Cheers,
Sean.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Linux gateway/router and Lotus Notes mail server question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:42:17 GMT
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:37:08 +0100, Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2) To not have sendmail running on the Linux box and have the Notes
>server connect directly to the ISP SMTP server using IP Masquerading.
>i.e. the Linux box is transparent to SMTP.
This is the route to follow.
--
Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: 06 Oct 2000 18:48:30 +0200
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Chetan Vora wrote:
> It complained it needs libdb.so.3 which for some reason is not
> there.
Sounds like Berkeley DB.
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Best Linux?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:54:34 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8ri6rj$7sh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Glen Stromquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After a bad experience with installing Corel linux, (it over wrote my
> WIN 98 partition on my C: drive even though I pointed it to install on
> the D: drive) I plan on re installing linux - again on it's own
> separate physical drive with a dual boot option... the things I am
> taking in to consideration are:
>
> 1. which one has the best GUI
>
> 2. best dual boot capability (I may just use XOSL)
>
> 3. best for accessing WINxx data
>
> 4. free version
>
> 5. best application suite available
Fundamentally, all Linux distributions are identical on all these
characteristics, although some may require more or less work to be
brought "up to speed" in one area or another -- for instance, you might
need to download or buy an application suite for one distribution that's
included with another (especially if you buy a boxed set). Also, out of
the box, they do differ in how well they work with other OSs. In my
experience, Corel Linux 1.2 is pretty awful in this respect, but most
others do fairly well with other OSs. For my comments on assorted Linux
distributions, check my web page on the subject:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Whats identd in Redhat 7.0??
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:58:05 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8rkkj1$6p7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Whats identd in Redhat 7.0??
>
> I did a ps -aux and I see 5 copyes of identd -e -o running. what is
> identd for?? Do I need 5 copys??
I just answered this in another newsgroup. In the future, please:
1) Post to as few newsgroups as possible. Normally, just one or two
should suffice.
2) If you must post to more than one group, cross-post, don't multi-
post. That is, enter two or more newsgroups on a single message's
"Newsgroups" line. This way, the SAME message, and all replies, get
posted to all groups, thus reducing wasted bandwidth as different
people post the same replies to different groups, and saving
bandwidth for sites and individuals who retrieve multiple groups (as
you've done it, they download the same message twice; but
cross-posting, they download it just once).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Scott Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome drag-and-drop on desktop
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:49:16 GMT
I just started running HelixCode's Gnome 1.2 on Mandrake 7.0. I would
like to know how I can create an icon on the desktop that accepts
drag-and-drop files from gmc, similar to KDE. I know this is possible
in some sense, because icons have already been created on my desktop
that do this, e.g. the printer icons that link to g-print. Yet I cannot
figure out a way to create one of my own. Selecting New->Launcher from
the root menu doesn't do it.
This raises a larger question. Where are the properties of those icons
(and other file icons in gmc) really stored? Is it in
~/.gnome/metadata.db? Is there a way I can modify these properties
"manually", since I can't seem to get what I want through the GUI?
Thanks to anyone who can help me understand how this works.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: Fetchmail suddenly running very slow
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:56:22 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Oct 2000 05:18:41 -0400, Robert Kiesling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down
>>dramatically.
>>
>>At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens:
>>
>>Fetchmail starts to read the first message and says it is rewriting
>>various addresses. It then hang for about 3 minutes before starting to
>>collect all the mail. This goes normally but the same thing happens at
>>the next ISP.
>
>I would look for host name resolution errors in the system logs. The
>relevant program sounds like it is timing out while waiting for a
>domain address. It would seem that the error is occurring on the
>local host... if it has an internal DNS, then the lookup problems
>might be there. It's possible that another name server that yours
>connects to changed its configuration, and that's affected yours.
>
>
>--
>Robert Kiesling
>Linux FAQ Maintainer
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Many thanks for the reply. You were right: I had an extra unwanted host
in /etc/hosts.
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/
Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/
"Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb)
Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
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From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.help,comp.lang.java.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Java Crash in RedHat 7.0
Date: 06 Oct 2000 12:24:59 -0500
"Kevin Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I've installed RedHat 7.0 and found that whenever I used
> any programs from JDK1.2.2 or J2SDKEE1.2.1 core is
> dumped!!! I've tried to uninstalled any Java related
> components, say libgcj, however, the problem persists!!!
>
> Anyone can solve it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kevin
This has been reported as a bug - see bugzilla.redhat.com. FWIW,
upgrading to JDK1.3 made the problem go away here.
bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Haley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Help !! Why does changing the hostname cause so many problems ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:24:51 GMT
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 08:51:35 GMT,
Phil Hedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a Redhat 6.2 workstation setup.
>If I change my Hostname using Linuxconf or Netcfg and re-boot, I find that I
>cannot start the Gnome desktop and the system seems to be working extremely
>slowly.
I add a line to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.2 distraction.homeip.net distraction
--
1 out of 6,000,000,000 CAN be wrong!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux: Freeing Memory
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:30:06 -0000
sounds like you need to do some more homework to. The solution to your
problem is not finding a way to clear the system memory after running this
program - you need to find the memory leak and fix it. Also what do you
mean when you say the "system hangs" - are you sure that its not just this
one app? Also remember this is not a windoze box - do not treat it like
one this is the biggest mistake of new admins.
Jason M wrote:
>
>
> We have a server running linux which has 2Gb of RAM running Red Hat 6.2.
> When an application called 'fluent' (extremely memory intensive) is run
and
> completed, linux fails to free the memory that was used by this process.
>
> 'top' shows the process is definitely dead so kill -9 is useless and we
> only know that we are running out of memory because 'free' says so. Also,
> the system hangs after running fluent a couple of times requiring us to
> reboot.
>
> If anyone knows a command to clear memory that DOES NOT involve
rebooting,
> I would love to know so we don't have to reboot the server twice a day!
>
> Thankyou,
>
> Jason M
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I admit defeat
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:43:59 +0100
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..resending this, could not find it in the ngs:
Now the big question...
WHY did you resend it when it shouldn't have been sent in the first place.
There's a place for international political debates, and this isn't IT!
This is a linux newsgroup, for linux discussion. There's nothing for you
here.
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| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange memory behavior...
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:02:28 +0100
Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with my Linux Box :(
> I installed 512MB of RAM, but only 64MB was detected, so i modified
> lilo.conf adding append="mem=512MB".
> So when i reboot linux see 512MB. But the strange behavior is that there is
> 300MB cached (what does it mean ?) and i can allocate more than 1GB in my C
> program with intensive malloc, without errors !
Cache. The OS assigns most of the unused memory to disk cache. This speeds
up reads and writes to the disk by a significant amount, and also stops the
system from leaving valuable resources unused.
As for the malloc, that's simple. You may have 512Meg of actual, physical
RAM, but you also have swap. This adds to your virtual memory total, which
is the actual amount used by the kernel to determine if a malloc is "legal"
or not.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
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|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
| in | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
| Computer Science | - Father Jack in "Father Ted" |
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From: Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: 06 Oct 2000 12:12:06 -0500
>>>>> "Chetan" == Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chetan> Hi all, I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my
Chetan> search provided no such query before. Basically, I installed
Chetan> XEmacs21.1 binaries for Linux (RPMs which I converted to .deb
Chetan> and then used Corel Update to install them). It complained it
Chetan> needs libdb.so.3 which for some reason is not there. So I went
Chetan> and downloaded glibc21 RPM after doing a search on the
Chetan> web. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to convert that RPM to
Chetan> .deb.
I'm sure a few people have already chimed in, but in case I'm the first,
DON'T DO THAT! Believe me, upgrading your glibc binaries in
mid-distribution can be hard on you, and I can't imagine the problems
you might have if you successfully converted an RPM glibc to a deb.
If you're not comfortable with compiling the source (and believe me,
it's not hard, assuming you have the compilers etc. installed,
particularly in the case of XEmacs), keep looking for .deb's of XEmacs;
they are almost certain to be out there somewhere. But honestly, you
may want to consider compiling it yourself; it only takes a few steps,
the developers have gone out of their way to make it as painless as
possible.
--
Charles Sebold
--
7th of Tishri, 5761
--
Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of
Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes.
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