On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:21:09PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is not a question related to debian, but...
> Which are the differences between bash and tcsh (instead of scripts
> :) ?
>
> Another question:
> tcsh isn't gnu, is it ?
>
I used to be an avid tcsh user a
Hi all,
I'm doing an atricle on installing various OSs and need a way to take
screenshots of the installation process. Any suggestions on how this
can be done under the various Linux dists? (Debian, RedHat, etc.)
Thanks,
Keith
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 01:53:51PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> ==
> How does it look like:
> cd ~
> du -sk .
> 151081 .
> du -sk * | sort -nr | head
> 11447 charm
I think that using `-a' instead of the `-s
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:29:18AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Keith Beattie wrote:
>
> > Another invaluable NT setting is:
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse/ActiveWindowTracking
> >
> > set to 1 - This gives you focus
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:45:48PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Matthew Dalton wrote:
> >
> > Me neither. It's a pain in the arse to have to go back to a Windows box
> > and use the feature-void dos command shell.
> >
>
> Whenever I have to navigate around in DOS, I'm always hitting tab try to
>
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:32:11PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 15 Jun, Keith Beattie wrote about "Re: shell programing"
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:09:12PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there any good online document for shell programing und
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:09:12PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)?
> i need bash and cshell.
> Thanx
My favorite reference for bash is http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash/
ksb
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>
> Please tell me I am wrong! :)
>
Not that this is any real consolation to you, but pessimistically
speaking, everyone takes the same risk when depending on any piece of
technology. Unless you are the maintainer of that techno
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:52:30AM -0700, Britton Kerin wrote:
> When the leader or
> representative of a group is stigmatized as a dangerous gun nut this rubs
> off on the rest of the group, so please be careful what you say.
Ah, but this is one of the reasons why the open source / free software
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 03:46:27PM -0600, Craig Hancock wrote:
> Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht
> talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks
The definitive reference for bash can be found (among other places)
at: http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bas
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 04:40:57PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
>
>
> On 29 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since Eric Raymond has expressed a desire to retire as Open Source
> > evangelist,
> > I've written an article "Do We Need a New Evangelist?" discussing how he
> > sh
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:18:01PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no
> cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find
> something like top. So we can find out which process is trying to
> kill the machine here at wor
Kent West wrote:
>
> Anyone know where I can fix second and third and etc xterm windows to look
> like my first one?
>
I believe that the "correct" way to do this is to add xterm resource
settings to your ~/.Xdefaults (which some people preferr to call
~/.Xresources) file. This is a method of s
Marc Barnett wrote:
>
> What I need is a lists of reasons, logical supportable reasons, that I could
> use to convice a change of standardization. Quite literally, this will decide
> what the next 50-100 systems will look like. DO they run Redhat or Debian...
>
Did you search the mailing list arc
Jens D. Baumgartner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote:
>
> > Well, I disagree. Personally I dislike massively integrated
> > applications like Outlook and Explorer. They are too big, too slow
> > and too complicated (to
Kent West wrote:
>
> Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web
> browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could
Uh, isn't "console-based graphical " an oxymoron? How could
your ever expect to see graphics on a text-only display? (Unless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've seen this before, but don't remember what I did to make it work.
> Have a remote user wanting access to a Linux system. That user used
> to just telnet with no problem.
>
> Now they are getting:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: telnet 205.242.10.73
> Trying 205.242.10.73..
Christian Lavoie wrote:
>
> Actually, I think more and more people are wanting Microsof-like
> applications, because the Microsoft philosophy has some good ideas,
> especially when you are a end-user.
[...]
> Let's take the Windows' IE and Office integration as an example. In the
> basic, it's a g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Just to let you know all that i've started a project called Linux Tips and
> Tricks (http://www.patoche.org/LTT) in which i'm collecting tips i find.
> Since i use Debian and read this mailing-list i will put tips sent here.
> In fact there are the majority of tips i al
David Warnock wrote:
>
> PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been warned that US citizens
> are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats why so many Americans use M$
> software.
>
Hey, maybe that's what M$ software *is*: American sarcasm! :)
Keith
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic
> vi that would handle multiple buffers and color & indent his programs
Being an Emacs fan myself, I believe what you asking for is an
oxymoron. :)
I don't use vim (obviously) but using one
Darxus wrote:
> >
> > Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
> > had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
>
> fat32 filesystem.
[snip]
> Well, I think more than that, the assignment of the pointer to the file
> probably failed, before it eve
Liran Zvibel wrote:
>
> I would like to do some RTFMing about security, and would like to have
> some pointers.
>
> Thanks,
> Liran.
> ---
> http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/
>
Well, if you can understand everything the ssh man page has in it,
then you'll have a much better understanding than m
Carl Vilbrandt wrote:
>
> Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ?
> . . . for ACT, a contact management software ?
>
> without creating one in linux.
>
gnucash - http://www.gnucash.org/
ksb
shaul wrote:
> > There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a
> > security risk.
>
> Why ? How it can be exploited ?
>
A somewhat related story:
When I was taking CS classes in college there was this one student who
many of us suspected of not being entirely honest about the
DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
> Horacio writes:
>
> > > This maybe a stupid question, but i want to change my password. When
> > > putting `passwd' linux askme for the new password. I put it in, and
> > > linux said it is too simple what can i do for linux dont say me
> > > that? Currently i have NO
Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote:
>
> I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who might
> i talk to in order to get an official statement concerning debian linux's
> y2k compliance?
>
You can always looks at the source code, you'll find no other
statements more "official
the lone gunman wrote:
> Now, the handles resize the window. For instance, if I display an
> image under xv that is big enough to push the title bar off the
> screen, I really can't move the window. I would like to go back to my
> old setup, but I do not know which fvwm2 command to use in the co
David B. Teague wrote:
>
> The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently,
>
> shutdown -h now
>
> will stop before unmounting drives
>
> The correct answer is to upgrade, but is there anything I could
> do in the interim?
>
> I have a draconian set of deadlines, and I don't want to do
Guenther Koerbler wrote:
>
> Who has a description or documentation about pathchar, the program from Van
> Jacobson ?
> Especially what means the last output: pipes ?
>
I don't know the answer specifically to your question but I remember
attending a talk which Van gave on pathchar last year. I'v
Rich Hartman wrote:
>
> Is this a problem with my version of gunzip? OR did I download 38MB
> worth of corrupted file?
>
Uhm, I hesitate to even ask this, but did you specify binary mode
(typing "bin" at the ftp> prompt) when you ftp'd the file?
I'm not aware of anyway to convert a binary file
Patrick Olson wrote:
>
> P.S. Is there such a thing as a scripting how-to? If so, I missed it.
> Either way, it would be great to know where I can read about it, either
> from a how-to or something else. It might even save me the embarrassment
> of asking an incredibly obvious question.
I don'
Paul Sellers wrote:
>
> All I wanted was info on installilng Linus on a Win95 system. A search on
> "Win95" got 18 hits, none of which (summary) mentioned Win95.
> Most everything I clicked off the main page didn't load (quickly).
>
> I was perusing the bootDisk #15 with Linux as the main item.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have two questions regarding Xemacs ..
There is a wealth of information in the Xemacs sample files
(sample.Xdefaults and sample.emacs). These can be brought up in Xemacs
via the Help->Samples pull-down or can be found in the Xemacs' etc
directory (e.g.
the lone gunman wrote:
>
> Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I
> can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer
> one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :)
My favorite is asclock. I believe it comes with afterstep or whatever
Keith wrote:
>
> Also I was wondering if I can have emacs be the program that I use
> to type my letters in elm, instead of vi.
>
If you are using X and want to use a currently running emacs to compose
messages, look into the gnuserv package of emacs.
IIRC, it is as simple as adding
(gnuserv
fyi,
http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
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Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
>
> I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is
> too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :)
> There is a way to view this file?
>
If you simply want to view the file and not edit it, I'd try something
like "more
C.J.LAWSON wrote:
> I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to
> backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing
>
Here's a wild shot at it...
Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable
solution, is there some way of capturing the ima
Dennis,
First, when you have this many (likely unrelated) questions, it is
probably best to make separate posts so they can be handled one at a
time by those who might be able to help. You risk your X questions
going unanswered since the subject only mentions jdk. :)
Here's my attempt tho...
D
Ian Keith Setford wrote:
>
> I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a "dvorak" type
> keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config?
>
If your "Dvorak" type keyboard is one that was made specifically to
have the Dvorak layout, then there shouldn't be any problems - the
keyboar
Paul Miller wrote:
>
> I often telnet to my Linux box from a win95 machine. Does anyone know of
> a nice win95 telnet program that supports ssh and ANSI (preferably free)?
>
Take a look at http://fox.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ci2/ssh/
Keith
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Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > Also, the fact of incorporation does not protect the individual who
> > > causes the liability. If someone, for example, places copyrighted
> > > material into the debian distribution, both the person and debian
> > &g
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> greq wrote,
>
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> >
> > > It's not that simple. FIrst of all, didn't debian incorporate about two
> > > years
> > > ago?
IIRC, it was "Software in the Public Interest" (SPI) that
incorporated, not Debian.
dobrin wrote:
> Sorry about this, but I was out and missed the beginning, How do you
> disable Autologout in tcsh (which I MUST use to be script compliant with the
> rest of the facility). I tried login.defs and a few other things. NADA.
>
This is funny. I just resisted the temptation to
Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > While there are still a few things I prefer about tcsh, I figure bash
>
> can you expound? i'm curious.
>
Oh, minor stuff really. The completion stuff mentioned earlier in
this thread, prompt settings (~ when in your home dir, a shorter HH:MM
time format), other little
Adam Shand wrote:
>
> >
> > Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts).
> >
>
> running a couple of days behind here but ...
>
> are there reasons for your personal bias? i definately agree with using
> ssh for connecting to hosts (auto setting of display variable,
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > By the way, how can I tell the aliases in my .bashrc to work only when I am
> > using X (I don't need xemacs -geometry 87x28 when I am not using X) ?
>
> Use a function such as
>
> xemacs()
Tristan Day wrote:
> I've got xemacs installed on my stable Debian 1.3.1, and it works just fine,
> but I want to use emacs for file viewing and manipulation in a normal
> console because I don't like vi. I tried to install emacs in dselect but it
> tells me I have to take components of xemacs out
Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I would like to know if there is a way to customize emacs-vc to use by
> default the master files (,v files) in other directories. I would like to
> keep all master files in a /
> directory
>
This doesn't actually answeer your question and perhaps you've
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I diable autologout in tcsh? The man page tells me how I can enable
unset autologout
> it. The problem seems to be that even under X my DISPLAY is not being set
I don't see how these two problems could be related but...
If your DISPLAY is not
Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:48:48PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> : Hi,
> : >>"Jason" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :
> : Jason> Indeed. However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking
> : Jason> keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what wa
David Stern wrote:
>
> I've tried a lot of editing apps (and conversion utilities) in hamm,
> but I can't find one that edits postscript or acrobat files. Does
> anyone know what package I can use to edit a ps or pdf form that uses
> Times-Roman fonts in a variety of point sizes, with some lin
Christopher J. McNicholas wrote:
>
> 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows
> managers?
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ is a pretty good site.
> 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my
> mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anythin
Brian White wrote:
>
> Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically got focus
> if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option could be tri-state:
> never, always, if-parent-has-focus.
^^^
This is an excellent idea. It would solve both our
Brian White wrote:
>
> Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get
> focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to
> move the mouse to that window.
>
If you have any windows that pop up automatically, like calander
reminders, error wind
Michael Agbaglo wrote:
>
> is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to
> the host from where I logged in ?
>
Obviously ssh appears to be the preferred answer but if tcsh is
available on the remote host, check for tcsh's REMOTEHOST environment
variable. It should have e
Catalin Popescu wrote:
>
> I have Debian Linux 1.3. running on a 486-66Mhz with 32 Mb RAM with me as
> a single user. Until recently emacs was starting in about 2-3 seconds. In
> the last few days I've noticed that it takes about 12--15 seconds to
> start. What could possibly have happened? It seem
Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> Your article inspired quite a lot of traffic on this list so you do seem
> to have made a significant impact and brought in some fresh blood. Well
> done.
Thanks! It's nice to be able to contribute!
>
> How did the project work out from the magazine's perspective?
>
Hi all,
I thought the list might be interested to see that my buddies at Boot
Magazine finally posted my 12-Step article on the Web:
http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/12step_installinglinux.html
This article came into existence after I had been bugging my friend
who works at Boot about how th
Ossama Othman wrote:
>
> P.S.: I noticed alot of you use "IIRC." Since I only found out about the
> Jargon file last week, I don't know what this means, and it doesn't seem
> to be in the jargon file. What does it mean?
IIRC = "If I Recall Correctly"
Here, learn to fish :)
http://www.ucc.ie
Adam Shand wrote:
>
> A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working
> fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X.
How did you do that?
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as
> well?
>
One way is to use xmodmap, t
Robert Smith wrote:
> drive. The reason I can't install is because I can't
> put anything decent on my work computer, HR thinks
> that would make me less productive, and my home
> computer has some propriety hardware. Also I can't cd
I'd consider searching for an old 486 (or even a 386) "beater"
George Bonser wrote:
>
>
> You are, of course correct, but we should give them some idea of how
> many of their subscribers they have offended ;)
Yea, I see what you mean but I'm a little concerned that Linux, and to
a larger extent free software, will be damaged by people taking a
"religious" a
Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>Please excues the question, but as a matter of interest, where are the
>names for the Debian releases derived? i.e. bo, hamm etc??
>
> Characters from _Toy Story_ by Pixar.
>
Does this mean there is going to be a "Mr Potato Head" release?
:)
Keith
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George Bonser wrote:
>
> Agreed, cancel all subscriptions to ZD magazines. Badmouthing Linux
> could be a career limiting move for an editor.
>
Well, if Linux is ever going to establish itself as more than a
"hobbie OS", it (the Linux community and the free software community
in general) needs
Bruno Simoes wrote:
>
> Hi all
> Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or
> directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs.
> Thank you
> Bruno
(Hmmm, I smell DOS.)
The command:
mv old new
won't do what you want? (Make sure "new" doesn't al
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into
> linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it
> rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I
> can re-direct it to a file for perusal?
> Th
Tim Thomson wrote:
>
> A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the
> same system?
>
> I said it would probably be better for somethings, and maybe slower than
> others, but I wasn't sure - so I though to ask you people.
>
> Anyone done any benchmarks???
>
This is no
Krio wrote:
>
> I got Linux of the Boot magazine CD and since I had read about it here and
> there I decided to try it. It looks great but it takes a while to get the
Might you (or others on the list) tell me where you heard/read about
the Boot Magazine CD/Article? I'd like to see what kind of
Tim Sailer wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any software out there that would do
> the job of the microsoft ils servers that netmeeting use. We have
> a very small group that wants to set up a semi-private network
> and use netmeeting for documentation purposes..
>
Severs? We don't need no
Lawrence wrote:
> what is mrouted? where to get it?
>
mrouted (multicast router daemon) is the daemon you run to enable your
machine to be a part of the MBONE. It forwards IP multicast packets
via a unicast "tunnel" past non-IP-Multicast-aware routers to another
machine running mrouted or a ro
Zouave wrote:
>
> | To install Linux Debian 1.3.1 on my system (now running windows 95) I
> have
> | to do 2 things:
> | 1) FORMAT my HDD and create 2 partitions, one for W95, one for Linux
> | 2) Split my actual partition, without erasing anything, with the
> | application FIPS.EXE
> |
> | I pre
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
>
> Right. And, make sure you use a kernel that has PS/2 mouse support
> compiled in. Preferably, you would not compile it as a module.
>
Great. I'll give that a try tonight.
Thanks all,
Keith
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
>
> What kind of mouse do you have? (What brand? What does is the adapter
> shaped like, etc?)
>
Sorry, should have included those details...
It's a two-button Logitech. (It has MicroSoft printed on it but I
think that's just for marketing.) It's got a small round
Martin Schulze wrote:
> >
> > What's the strategy for determining which device is your mouse?
>
> Did you try different drivers? There are some different mouse protocols
> out in the pampa. E.g some LogiTech mice need "logitech", but the
> TrackMan needs 'mman'.
>
Yea, I did. The mouse says
Hi all,
I'm doing a vanilla install of Debian 1.3.1 and I'm having trouble
configuring my mouse. The problem (I believe) first comes in the
Install phase of dselect when gpm is being installed The gpm install
uses /dev/ttyS0 as the default device for my mouse. I've tried taking
stabs at all four
Hi all,
I'm in the process of writing an article about installing Linux (using
Debian) and hope to have a compatible mini Debian distribution on the
CD that comes with the magazine. I've looked, but can't seem to find
info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions.
This is
;out of
the box" for me.
(Yup, it was written by one of the netscape developers. Check out
netscape's "N" icon after hitting his page. Now think about what else
might be slipped into that ever-so-prevelant "client". :) :)
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ing these files to dos friendly names or creating similar
links would help the likes of myself.
Thanks,
Keith
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hangs.
On the Win 95 machine I've tried it in both a DOS shell and after
"rebooting to dos mode". It will boot fine when it formats the floppy
itself.
Any suggestions?
(I'm using version 2 of rawrite)
Thanks,
Keith
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