Linux-Misc Digest #866, Volume #26 Sat, 20 Jan 01 11:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Martijn)
Re: How do I change cd-rom from d: to e: (Jerry Kreps)
Re: Kdevelop not working (Jerry Kreps)
Re: Linux not free anymore? (John Hasler)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Jerry Kreps)
Re: cups printing and staroffice (and gv) ("G Pollack")
installing gtk (Matt)
Re: shell script online docs ("William Shotts")
Journaling filesystems. Where can I find a comparison? (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Parallel ZIP 250 + Plextor CD-RW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What distribution seems the most popular and easy to work with?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? ("Cameron Jay Erens")
Re: what is the "daemon" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/* (Raymond Li)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Doug O'Leary)
Re: pkgadd, pkginfo, ... (Doug O'Leary)
Re: bad printing quality (Rod Smith)
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:08:28 +0100
From: Martijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Flacco wrote:
> > I don't want to offend you, but why not use something nice with all those
> > coloured <TAG> like webmaker, or do it like a
> > "real man" and create your HTML with vi, this way your HTML gets much more
> > clean and you learn about HTML.
>
> I appreciate the thought, but I'm looking for a Linux-based WYSIWYG HTML
> editor.
>
> Thanks.
An WYSIWYMG HTML editor is incorporated in netscape.
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I change cd-rom from d: to e:
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:11:29 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the control panel click the system icon.
Under the hardware tab find the CD-ROM and choose
properties. Set botht the starting and ending letter to "E"
, or some other letter, if you don't want it to be "D"
J. Brock Angelo wrote:
> I've got Win95 and have just installed a very minimal version of Red
> Hat 7 to try it out. I'm running a dual-boot. Win95 runs off my C:,
> while Linux runs off a second hard drive (not just a second partition)
> D:. The problem? When I go into Windows, it is not seeing the D-drive
> and is calling the CD-Rom "D".
>
> I wouldn't think that calling the CDRom D when in Win95 should cause
> any problem, since Win95 is completely separate, but it does. When I
> put CDs in the drive, it will read the folders but none of the files in
> the folders, then it crashes Win95. I've run the boot disk with the CD
> drivers on it, and each time it reassigns the CD-Rom as D. It seems
> that since it is a Linux partition, Win95 thinks that there isn't a
> drive there at all and so uses D.
>
> Nothing seems to be working.
> Any help?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical
history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kdevelop not working
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:18:39 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, Doc, my guess would be that you 'copied' a cpp source to main.cpp
and didn't start a project by using the framework. If you go to the
"project" menu option and click 'new' you will be faced with several app
frameworks, Choose one that suits you and let it generate the complete set
of required project files. Then edit the resulting 'main.cpp' source file
to say 'Hello World" and click the build menu option.
JLK
Roy F. Cabaniss wrote:
> Was just starting to use kdevelop and got it fired up. Copied the
traditional
> c++ hello world program. Tried to compile. Tried to build. When I
tried it,
> what follows was the message.
>
> gmake ***No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop
> ***Failed***
>
> I tried it with the make also. So, any ideas why kdevelop, when it is
trying
> to run a make, is not working on the code in it's editing winndow?
>
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical
history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:29:22 GMT
Peter Mitchell writes:
> The BIG question - what makes a tax fair?
'Fair tax' is an oxymoron.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:23:41 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you tried "Quanta+" (Quanta Plus)?
It has about everything you want and it will upload your pages to your
website, too.
JLK
Flacco wrote:
>
> I seem to have no luck finding a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux. In
> particular, it must be good with frames and tables (so Mozilla's out).
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment.
Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology
were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: "G Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cups printing and staroffice (and gv)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:25:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ralf Rinne"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i don't know the applications 'gv' and 'staroffice' (shame on me), but
> i've had several troubles with printing with cups... maybe you should
> try the following print-command: lp (or lpr) <your options> -oraw [-l]
>
> this options cause the lp(r) not to filter the printjob, but send it
> directly to the printer.
>
> hope to help you Ralf
Thanks, but my printer is not native postscript, so I have to go through
a filter. BTW, staroffice is an office suite (like MS Office), and gv is
ghostview - a postscript viewer.
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing gtk
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:30:03 -0000
i'm trying to install gtk on my linux machine, and everytime i ./configure,
it says X libraries or include files not found. I know i have X windows
(if that what the X refers to) installed, and glib is configured correctly,
but i ahve no idea what to do. I tried using the disable xim command when
configuring, but it says there was a configuration error. someone please
help me with my problem. thank you.
--
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From: "William Shotts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell script online docs
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:43:11 GMT
In article <91oki9$1t8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to learn writing shell scripts. Where can I find recommendable
> online docs to this topic ??
>
> thank you
>
> Tom
I am presently contructing a project on SourceForge for that very
purpose. It centers around bash. http://linuxcommand.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Journaling filesystems. Where can I find a comparison?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:44:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am upgrading now from ext2. I would like to know what filesystem
best suits my need. Reiserfs is supposed to be what's in now, but I
hear good things about xfs. Does anyone know where I can find
comparisons of various journaling filesystems?
alt.os.linux.mandrake
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP 250 + Plextor CD-RW
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:48:39 GMT
> Based on the following output:
> > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: K.47
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > scsi : detected 3 SCSI generics 2 SCSI cdroms total.
> > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>
>
>
> It looks like your Iomega zip 250 is being identified as /dev/sr1 not
> /dev/sda.
>
> Now the line:
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> > sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>
> doesn't really make sense but maybe Linux just doesn't identify it
> right. Try mounting /dev/sr1 and see what happens as that is what Linux
> is assigning to the Zip it seems.
Put a disk in the ZIP drive and a CD-ROM in the CD-RW drive and mounted
/dev/sr1. Nope, it is detecting the writer and assigning it to /dev/sr1.
/dev/sr0 is the ATAPI CD-ROM that I just let run as SCSI emulated since
it works that way. Any other ideas on what my ZIP drive is being
assigned to? If you need more info from my system, just tell me what you
need.
Mitch
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What distribution seems the most popular and easy to work with?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:01:57 GMT
"jt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Okay, going to take the Linux plunge...
>
> I'm looking at all distribution packages, pluses and minus on all of them
> for sure.
>
> My main purpose is to do C development....
>
> What would you recommend and why?
This is more or less an equivalent question to: "I'm planning on
having a beer. Can you suggest which company makes the one with the
nicest can that tastes best?"
[Or perhaps "Which Canadian beer does this taste like? OV? Blue?
50? Ex? Brador? ...]
About the only one that I would _not_ recommend as being "broadly
acceptable" would be Corel Linux, and as Corel's selling their "Linux
business," it won't long be an option that people would think much of
under that name.
Basically, _ANY_ of the major distributions provide the _SAME_ set of
development tools for working with C:
-> GCC
-> Text editors such as vi, Emacs, depending on your "editing religion"
-> Development tools like "make" and "RCS" and "CVS"
Anything that wouldn't be termed an "embedded" distribution ought to
provide the same basic set of stuff.
One person recently "flamed" Red Hat 7; while I'm not a big fan of RH,
I'd suggest the thought that if you're writing C code to be
_compiled_, it should be no big deal if you wind up needing to
recompile it to run it somewhere else. The issues with RH7 are
largely with the C++ support, which is something that is certainly in
flux with GCC. I'd expect to need to recompile C++ software from
scratch at the drop of a (red?) hat or at the release of a new version
of GCC/G++.
Realistically, the answer to the question is "You need to make your
decision on some other basis than that of support of compiling C code,
as they _all_ do that eminently well..."
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "ac.notelrac.teneerf@" "454aa"))
http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxdistributions.html
Q: Can SETQ only be used with numerics?
A: No, SETQ may also be used by Symbolics, and use it they do.
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From: "Cameron Jay Erens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:15:43 -0500
Then try Evolution after it's final release...try it now if you don't really
need a 100% bug free email client.
www.helix-code.com
"Dave C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:LVL96.51064$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Spruce! (Gnome email client). Been using it for as long as I can
remember.
> Runs great on KDE, if Gnome is also installed. That is, you don't have to
> run gnome if you don't want to, but Spruce kicks butt as far as email
> oes. -Dave
>
> --
> On linuxfreemail dot com, I am user "spamfilter".
>
> <markbilk> wrote in message news:93l3gv$mcm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'm running SuSE Linux 6.4, and the KDE 1 and kmail 1.0.28 that came
> > with it. kmail (but nothing else) crashes every few days when fetching
> > POP-mail, freezing X(-windows) and requiring a reboot and fsck; none of
> > the escapes to text mode work. It often crashes when fetching spam
> > containing Big-5 (Chinese) text, but can be killed and restarted. Worst
> > of all (in addition to a few more failure modes) it sometimes deletes
> > mail on its own initiative. I'd upgrade kmail to its latest version,
> > but, according to the kmail website, to do that I'd also have to
> > upgrade to KDE 2, which I'd rather not take the time for at the moment.
> >
> > I'm seeking recommendations for a POP-mail client that has the features
> > of kmail -- multiple mbox files ("folders") into which I can move a set
> > of selected messages from inbox with only a few key- or mouse-strokes,
> > address book, spam filters, multiple sort modes, attachment and MIME
> > capability, and compatibility with KDE 1. It doesn't need a builtin
> > editor -- I'd be happy to use the one in Midnight Commander. Most of
> > all I want it to handle my mail safely, not discarding anything I don't
> > tell it to (and even having a "trashcan" where it puts mail I do tell it
> > to discard, so I can change my mind). I'd like one that can check at
> > least one POP-mail account automatically every few minutes (without
> > crashing, of course).
> >
> > I'm very leery of kmail at this point, but I guess I'd be ok with a
later
> > version that's known to have fixed these problems, and works with KDE 1.
> > Eudora or Pegasus Mail would be great, but they've not been ported to
> > Linux. I used to use Elm with Unix, but it doesn't have the features
> > and convenience of kmail or Eudora. I don't care whether it's X- or
> > curses-based (I still use lynx when I don't need the features of
> > Netscape), but I'd rather, e.g., select a destination mbox file from a
> > menu than type in its name each time.
> >
> > I could spend a week trying every MUA in linux.davecentral, but
> reliability
> > would still be a question. So I'm asking for recommendations from folks
> > who've been using a program for at least a couple of months and who know
> > that it fulfills the above (admittedly long and picky) wishlist.
> >
> > Heartfelt thanks in advance!
> >
> > Mark S Bilk, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
>
>
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From: Raymond Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is the "daemon" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/*
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:59:51 +0800
Thanks all for your reply!
I did notice the "functions" line. But I was too lazy to read through
it. Well, I 'd better read it in details now.
Yours,
Raymond
Sean wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> You will notice at the start of these scripts you will have the
> following line at the start of the script
>
> .. /etc/init.d/functions
>
> This basically imports a script which defines functions such as daemon
> which can be used from the calling script.
>
> If you look at that file and understand shell scripts you will see what
> it does.
>
> My shell scripting isn't upto much but what I can figure out, I think
> the daemon function starts a program and does various other small things
> such as checking if the program is already funning and printing a nice
> message to the standard output etc.
>
> Sean
>
> Raymond Li wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> When I try to setup or amend scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ to let my
>> program startup automatically, I found the scripts there often use
>> "daemon foo". I tried to man the daemon, but found nothing. And it
>> doesn't seem to be a command. What is it? Is it an alias?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Yours,
>> Raymond
>
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From: Doug O'Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:54:39 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I don't want to offend you, but why not use something nice with all those
> coloured <TAG> like webmaker, or do it like a
> "real man" and create your HTML with vi, this way your HTML gets much more
> clean and you learn about HTML.
Damn; and here I thought I was the only one creating/editing my pages
with vi (and/or perl)!
Doug
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Douglas K. O'Leary
Senior System Admin
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From: Doug O'Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: pkgadd, pkginfo, ...
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:56:23 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I've got a question realted to installing packages with pkgadd,
> pkginfo, etc... (no (s)rpm's)
pkgadd/pkginfo is stricly solaris. You might be able to extract the
packages on a solaris box, copy code (if present), and recompile on the
linux box. Probably easier to go find an rpm or oriignal source though.
Doug
--
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Douglas K. O'Leary
Senior System Admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: bad printing quality
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:04:52 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <94bv3u$cr6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a printing problem with Suse 7.0 distro. When I want to print a
> picture, the generated postscript file is in a very bad quality. Very low
> resolution and maybe 16 different colors, and this is not enough :-). The
> printer resoltion is not the problem (I tried it with 720x720 as with
> 1440x720, nearly the same results). So my question is: where can I change the
> quality of the generated postscript file?
This is handled by the application doing the printing.
> As far as I undestood the Linux
> printing concept, the file is send to a2ps. There it will be converted to an
> .ps file, then it is send to gs, to change it to the appropriate printer
> language. After this, lpr sends it to the printer. Is this correct?
Not quite. I don't see any utility called a2ps on either of my
currently-booted systems, but I believe that's an ASCII-to-PostScript
utility used only for raw text files. In the case of graphics printing,
that's irrelevant. For graphics, the graphics utility you use (xv, The
Gimp, etc.) creates a PostScript file and passes it through lpr. lpr
passes the file on to Ghostscript to convert to a format your printer
can handle and then sends it on to the printer itself. There are
exceptions to this, though; for instance, a few programs can generate
printer code directly, bypassing the PostScript format and Ghostscript.
Ghostscript also isn't necessary when printing to a PostScript printer.
As to your specific issue, it's hard to say whether the problem lies in
the application that's generating the PostScript or in the Ghostscript
configuration; it could be either. Try changing to another graphics
program. If you get better results from it, then the problem's in the
program; if not, chances are it's in the Ghostscript configuration
(which is part of whatever smart filter package your distribution uses).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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