Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Ted Harding
ht justified. The typical use for such a thing is three-part running headers on successive pages, which is a very basic need, and there must be some way in which TeX does this layout for this purpose, which could be borrowed. Ted. ---

RE: roff / tex comparison (was Re: OT: Rant)

2002-01-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Jan-02 dman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:25:32PM +0000, Ted Harding wrote: > >| I'd like to suggest giving 'groff' a try. > >| I reckon it's well up with TeX, and better in some respects. > > > Can you provide a list of the tradeo

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Ted Harding
right-aligned. As its name suggests, its main usage is for running headers, but you can use it anywhere on the page. "X", "Y" or "Z" could be empty. e.g. .tl ''Header'page_number' (This is as easy as any way of doing it in WP). Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 16-Jan-02 Time: 20:08:12 -- XFMail --

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Ted Harding
rol this can give you over appearance and layout. Basically, groff is a fully-functional document preparation and typesetting package. As well as designing layout and appearance, (including tables, equations, diagrams and graphical content) you can also prepare tables of contents, indexes and biblio

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-26 Thread Ted Harding
-write the music, nor that I need a "piano locale" on my computer ... Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 26-Dec-01 Time: 09:41:17 -- XFMail --

RE: man v. info

2001-12-25 Thread Ted Harding
who do disagree should say so. After all, it'a a Free and Open World, isn't it? Happy Christmas and New Year, and best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 25-Dec-01 Time: 17:00:36 -- XFMail --

RE: Man pages to PDF or RTF?

2001-11-17 Thread Ted Harding
man -Tps ls > man_ls.ps and you will have the man page for 'ls' in PostScript (view it with say 'gv' or print it as a PS file). You can then convert it to PDF with ps2pdf (part of 'ghostscript'). Also, if you want DVI output, you could use "-Tdvi" instead

RE: acroread,xpdf hassle

2001-11-15 Thread Ted Harding
, click on the "File" button, then "Preferences" then "General"; then uncheck (disable) "Smooth Text and Images". I don't know what the underlying explanation is, but there is an interaction between acroread's antialiasing algorithm and certain X displays

RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Ted Harding
sites certainly could if that happened to their own advertising content). Hmmm. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 15-Aug-01 Time: 10:07:59 -- XFMail --

RE: Long route delay after PPP connection

2001-08-05 Thread Ted Harding
ption -ipx-protocol which turns off IPXCP. So I changed the contents of /etc/ppp/options from defaultroute to defaultroute -ipx-protocol and now, lo and behold, no delay! (and all those entries in /var/log/messages are not appearing any more). Good luck, Ted. -------

Re: fixed frequency monitors

2001-07-29 Thread Ted Harding
On 29-Jul-01 Sam Varghese wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:02:48AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: >> On 29-Jul-01 Sam Varghese wrote: >> Red, Green and Blue, the synchronisation signal >> goes on the Green channel, and the resolution is >> fixed at 1280x1024. In this case

RE: fixed frequency monitors

2001-07-29 Thread Ted Harding
nitor switched off, start X "blind", and then switch it on; or I can telnet in from another machine. Possibly some other card may allow sync-on-green to be set by jumpers. The other thing to bear in mind is that the Apple Mac monitor works exactly the same (sync-on-green), but you can

RE: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread Ted Harding
about 2 failures in 5 -- but it also didn't properly locate the start of the CD when writing). As a result, the shop changed it for an LG CED-8989B which seems to work perfectly well in both directions. Hope this helps, Ted. ----------

Re: Anyone got acroread working on potato?

2001-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
-> General uncheck "Smooth text and images". I don't know why this happens -- it seems to depend on the X display you are using (it doesn't seem to like 24bbp -- OK in 8 or 16 -- on some graphics cards). Hope this helps, Ted. -----

Acrobat Reader & Linux distributions

2001-07-08 Thread Ted Harding
Linux distributions? With thanks, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 08-Jul-01 Time: 14:18:46 -- XFMail --

Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jun-01 Rick Pasotto wrote: > In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line: > > if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --date=tomorrow` ]; then exit; fi About as neat as you can get!! Ted. E-Mail: (Te

RE: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

2001-06-25 Thread Ted Harding
which contains if [ 30 -eq 25 ] ; then ls ; fi (and, by changing "-eq" to "-ne", you can get it to actually do something today). Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 25-Jun-01 Time: 23:10:12 -- XFMail --

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Ted Harding
mply typed it once I had worked out what to type. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 20-Mar-01 Time: 00:04:11 ---

RE: Drawing diagrams of servers

2001-02-26 Thread Ted Harding
then I suggest that a good way is to learn to use groff with the "pic" preprocessor. "Pic" was tailor-made for exactly this sort of thing, and is quite easy to use once you have got the hang of it. Best wishes. Ted.

Re: PS to HTML?

2001-01-24 Thread Ted Harding
ich can be "macros" that print out as blocks of text) would work too.) Best wishes to all, Ted. Topical Thought: It is better to arrive, than to travel hopefuilly. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 24-Jan-01 Time: 17:44:01 -- XFMail --

Re: howto tell cron run last day of month

2001-01-04 Thread Ted Harding
e Friday preceding the last Saturday of the month" -- now that's the _next_ exercise for the reader! Ted. A Topical Thought: It is better to arrive, than to travel hopefully E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 04-Jan-01 Time: 10:25:57 -- XFMail --

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-14 Thread Ted Harding
. In particular, the fonts are different from Adobe's (unless you install Adobe's separately, with payment), and it can show. Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email:

Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-07 Thread Ted Harding
is.net/~frank/pstill.html It is not totally straightforward to get this program set up, but once you have it running it does a good job. I don't know of any way to get ps2pdf to rotate the output. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) &

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Ted Harding
e good old WP5, but maybe it is simply WP8 with all its disadvantages and none of its advantages ... Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 01-Sep-00 Time: 18:29:07 -- XFMail --

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Ted Harding
(if it works at all). A candy GUI is no substitute for doing a proper job (though I have to admit that the WordPerfect GUI is better than the Word Imperfect one). If I could get WP5 for UNIX up on Linux I'd run for it! Ted. -------- E

RE: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Ted Harding
And I suppose that one could envisage an option for the "login" entry in /etc/inittab which could suppress the behaviour. But it's hardly worth it: if it happens, just press ^D and log in again. Ted. -------- E-Mail: (

RE: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Ted Harding
uld have the effect of executing the attachment as a program. I hope this helps. Olaf's situation is not as straightforward as he might wish! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 18-Jul-00 Time: 10:55:45 -- XFMail --

Re: mutt and Turkish

2000-03-25 Thread Ted Harding
sh fonts for X at ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr and ftp://compclup.ceng.metu.edu.tr/pub/linux/turkce and, if you poke around there, you may also find fonts for character consoles (VCs). Good hunting! Ted. ------------ E-

RE: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Feb-00 Ted Harding wrote: > On 03-Feb-00 Kent West wrote: >> >> What this boils down to is: Is there a program for Linux >> that will do essentially the same thing as Schedule+? > > I don't know if it will meet your needs, but have a look at "plan&q

RE: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread Ted Harding
h is configurable within plan, but I'm not sure. Hope this helps, Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04-Feb-00 Time: 01:00:38 -- XFMail --

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Ted Harding
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Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Ted Harding
ge on more than one laptop, in those cases where the config program refuses to come to terms with the hardware itself, and drops you back without having set X up (and, of course, having by then deleted its temporary Config file ... ). Hope this helps. Ted. -

RE: presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread Ted Harding
ot; 18.0 "midget" 5 "didget" 10.2 8<--- cut here - Then run groff -Tps -p -ms barchart > barchart.ps and see what you get. (One advantage of doing it this kind of way is that it's much easier to add complications to the figure using PIC than it is by modifying PostScript such as Joost's). Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24-Nov-99 Time: 13:34:47 -- XFMail --

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-23 Thread Ted Harding
ion. With thanks, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23-Nov-99 Time: 10:19:46 -- XFMail --

RE: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Oct-99 Ted Harding wrote: > On 12-Oct-99 Cyrus Patel wrote: >> Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? > > I don't know the answer to that (and I wish I did). > > Hope this helps, > Ted. Which reminds me -- I have a related query of my own. If

Re: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Oct-99 Kristopher Johnson wrote: > "(Ted Harding)" wrote: >> When you get the ".ram" file from the supplying site, this usually >> has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file) >> itself, similar to the following: >> >&g

RE: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Ted Harding
know the answer to that (and I wish I did). Hope this helps, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Oct-99 Time: 14:00:09 -- XFMail --

RE: Fax format TIFF files (www.efax.com)

1999-10-04 Thread Ted Harding
ch can each be viewed stand-alone by any standard viewer. According to Carl, "apt-get install imagemagick" is all you need to know ... Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04-Oct-99 Time: 14:47:12 -- XFMail --

RE: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread Ted Harding
etc. > > thanks a lot Try enscript (also variously known as nenscript, genscript). Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29-Sep-99 Time: 00:00:27 -- XFMail --

RE: Virus protection by unix (was Re: To the Debian Project... )

1999-09-21 Thread Ted Harding
hoices as well. You can also use this software to scan directories containing Word documents etc, if you keep such stuff. I also set up my mailer (XFMail) so that I can pipe an email to the scanner if it has an attachment which contains MS files (in fact I don't otherwise bother with rout

RE: 8N2 communication?

1999-09-21 Thread Ted Harding
eady tried it and it doesn't work) that you try 8N1 anyway. It is possible, however, that if a device has been set up to insist on 2 "Stop" bits, then it won't start looking for a "Start" bit until it has clocked at least 2 bit-cycles a

RE: reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size

1999-09-04 Thread Ted Harding
part of the 'pstools' or 'psutils' package, but I'm not sure where these can be found. Try searching a Linux ftp site, if you haven't already got it. Best of luck, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[

Partitioning and symlinks

1999-08-12 Thread Ted Harding
r who know what to watch out for if you do go down it. It strikes me that the method can be useful, but needs using with great care. Are there, for instance, directories for which it should never be used? So, over to you! Best wishes, Ted. --

RE: Console Word Processing

1999-08-12 Thread Ted Harding
w Document', equation editing, WP graphics). In some respects WP lost functionality when 5.1 was "windowised" for WP-6, and this has persisted into WP-7 and WP-8, in both Windows and UNIX versions. However, this will do only for word processing. It has no pretensions to be an offic

Partitioning and symlinks

1999-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
ad before, or who know what to watch out for if you do go down it. It strikes me that the method can be useful, but needs using with great care. Are there, for instance, directories for which it hould never be used? So, over to you! Best wishes, Ted.

RE: no fixed disk

1999-08-07 Thread Ted Harding
ailable. Then have a look at the BIOS, especially the boot settings. If the BIOS looks normal, then start looking at hardware. Motherboard? paper-clip fallen in there? ... Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dat

RE: Microphone input in X.

1999-07-22 Thread Ted Harding
too. Hope this helps, Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22-Jul-99 Time: 16:50:49 -- XFMail --

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

1999-07-07 Thread Ted Harding
; want an ack!!! ;) Best way -- person-to-person! But, if you think you'll ever need the automated version, XFMail can do this (both request and give acknowledgement of receipt or of opening or of both), automatically or after user confirmation (according to how you configure it). Ted. --

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-05 Thread Ted Harding
mewhere. I didn't stumble over any of the alleged bugs (though I got a segfault the first few times I started it up); but I think it has a good way to go before it has the very useful functionality of XFMail. Worth watching, though. ------

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-18 Thread Ted Harding
at the wall socket). That should stop it dead ... Hope this helps, Ted. (Fondly remembering my first car and its trusty crank-handle) E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 18-Jun-99 Time: 11:38:42 -- XFMail --

RE: Upgrading My Encarta Encyclopedia 99

1999-06-14 Thread Ted Harding
s mean you have got Encarta to run under Linux??? If so, many of us would be grateful to learn how to do it! With best wishes, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14-Jun-99

RE: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread Ted Harding
/public/prods/xum4.htm and http://www.unix-systems.org/unix98.html respectively. Sorry about that! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Jun-99 Time: 19:26:41 -- XFMail --

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Ted Harding
ff. Comparatively, CDs are cheap, very fast, and easy to go back to many times. That's why we use them! Best wishes, Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Jun-99

Re: HELLO

1999-06-05 Thread Ted Harding
bilities are too serious and too sad. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Jun-99 Time: 00:04:53 -- XFMail --

RE: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Ted Harding
achieving it simply by changing permissions is going to be simpler than fiddling deep inside the boot-up initialisation scripts. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-May-99 Time: 10:34:17 -- XFMail --

RE: 150K=?iso-8859-1?Q?_=B6W=B0=AA=B3t=A9=F3=BA=F4=A4W=B9=A3=B8u=ACO=A6=F3=B5=A5=A7=D6=B7P??=

1999-05-14 Thread Ted Harding
On 14-May-99 Eric wrote: [a lot of Japanese accomanied by a 150K advertising GIF] This bomb from "Eric" was out of order. I hope steps have been taken. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Compaq Elite 4/75

1999-05-06 Thread Ted Harding
Hi all, Anyone out there using Linux on a Compaq Elite 4/75 model laptop especially with Graphics: WD 24A who would be willing to get in touch with a friend of mine about X problems? With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

1999-04-19 Thread Ted Harding
ese days, any competent MUA should be able to cope with these basic MIME issues, and quote-printable should be abandoned. Since you ask, that's how I feel! Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Apr-99 Time: 18:32:26 -- XFMail --

RE: XiG Accelerated-X v.5

1999-04-19 Thread Ted Harding
o cards: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/boards//.xqa (For instance, when using an S3 375-4 card I found that the XiG max pixel clock was too low, so upped it from 56.6 to 65.0 in the file s3/375-4.xqa with satisactory results). AT YOUR OWN RISK. Ted. -------

Re: www.debian.org

1999-04-18 Thread Ted Harding
uot; says Werner von Braun. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 18-Apr-99 Time: 19:46:32 -- XFMail --

YARD users list??

1999-04-17 Thread Ted Harding
Does anyone know of a mailing list for users of the YARD RDBMS? ( http://www.yard.de in case anyone's wondering what it is). With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date

RE: Should I be worried about this?

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
x of the user is full. > ~~~~~~~~~ Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Apr-99 Time: 23:51:46 -- XFMail --

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
you should try his suggestions. Best of luck! Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Apr-99 Time: 15:48:40 -- XFMail --

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
rdware-equivalent, but if I'm not mistaken using the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which you might want for a modem). Hope this helps, Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Apr-99

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread Ted Harding
ople handled it. Best wishes to all, Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Apr-99 Time: 10:02:00 -- XFMail --

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread Ted Harding
I guess, a MIDI-knowledgeable user could use to improve that, but I'm not so can't comment. MUP is shareware: to register a copy (and get a key to enable removal of the "Unregistered Copy of MUP" watermark from everything it prints) you should (and I have been happy to) send t

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Ted Harding
wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03-Apr-99 Time: 16:04:38 -- XFMail --

RE: Epson Stylus Color 640/slink+potato

1999-04-02 Thread Ted Harding
I could do to fix the > problem? This could be a paper-size problem: If the software thinks it's formatting for A4 size but you're printing to US Letter size paper, than exactly that will happen. Check the settings! Ted. ----------

RE: -HUP question

1999-03-31 Thread Ted Harding
should restart it. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 31-Mar-99 Time: 22:56:47 -- XFMail --

RE: 386/4MB RAM?

1999-03-29 Thread Ted Harding
is very compact. Sláinte, and the best of luck! Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29-Mar-99 Time: 11:33:20 -- XFMail --

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Mar-99 Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "(Ted Harding)" wrote: >> and it does seem that the accounting/finance area is thinly served. > > This is the primary "missing piece" for me, at least in terms of a > home, desktop system. While there are some personal financ

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
unity ... to help define, in the minds of our customers, what an operating system can be." One feels that the parallel with Heinz should not be taken too literally. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTE

What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
t of stuff I lose" would be empty because it would all still be there! Comments, info, contributions, anyone? Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28-Mar-99 Time: 12:49:27 -- XFMail --

RE: what is flex ?

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
ex" (or "man lex" which gives the same), and also "man yacc". Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28-Mar-99 Time: 02:06:43 -- XFMail --

Re: interesting

1999-03-16 Thread Ted Harding
f (or state clearly how it may be obtained). Best wishes, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Mar-99 Time: 11:59:39 -- XFMail --

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
Mathematica, SAS, maybe also Statistica, and so on) and many of them have been ported to Linux as well (MatLab being early on the Linux scene). Regards, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-Mar-99 Time: 15:36:55 -- XFMail --

Re: what is SGML? [long]

1999-03-11 Thread Ted Harding
it with great interest. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Mar-99 Time: 22:48:10 -- XFMail --

RE: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter

1999-02-26 Thread Ted Harding
of the body of the message (as sometimes happens), then you have to save the message and edit out by hand everything except the encoded block. Hope this helps. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Feb-99 Time: 17:40:14 -- XFMail --

YARD DBMS

1999-02-23 Thread Ted Harding
has even started to use it). If anyone has been here before me and found a way round it, or can assure me that it's not worth trying, I'd be pleased to hear. I'm using a 5.1 SuSE system, kernel 2.0.34 With thanks, Ted. -----------

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-20 Thread Ted Harding
Keynes, England, MK7 >> 6AA >> Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not >> signify >> official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or >> plagiarised. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < /dev/null > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20-Feb-99 Time: 19:50:43 -- XFMail --

RE: Which mail system?

1999-02-19 Thread Ted Harding
set up on your own machine, then you can read and write mail "in the background" whether or not you are connected to your ISP. As I am doing at this moment. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Feb-99 Time: 14:45:06 -- XFMail --

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Ted Harding
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RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Ted Harding
== so it looks like a really bad idea to delete it (unless you have no other mail in your folder). And it's not created by netscape, but by the mail software itself. Ted. -----------

Re: Network Not Working!

1999-02-10 Thread Ted Harding
s it make to change from 192.168.0.xxx to 192.168.1.xxx? Or is it a Windows thing? Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10-Feb-99 Time: 11:54:30 -- XFMail --

RE: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-09 Thread Ted Harding
du/software/xmx/ Good luck, Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Feb-99 Time: 23:44:38 -- XFMail --

RE:

1999-02-07 Thread Ted Harding
will just about run in 4MB but will be impossibly slow). Hope this helps, Ted. PS the above does not apply to "ultra-compact" Linuxes which can fit on a 1.44MB floppy, but these are so limited you probably won't want to use them. ------

Test -- please ignore

1999-01-31 Thread Ted Harding
Please excuse this -- I need to test what our local mail-router is up to (or not, as the case may be!). Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 31-Jan-99 Ti

RE: CR key broken ?

1999-01-17 Thread Ted Harding
n the relevant terminal, and compare the output with what "man stty" says. God luck, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17-Jan-99 Time: 12:04:44 -- XFMail --

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-28 Thread Ted Harding
r-old SuSE-5.1 Linux system (with of course libc5 libraries). Maybe some interaction between WP-8 and the Linux distribution you use; in which case it's not necessarily a WordPerfect bug at all. Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted H

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Ted Harding
do it ... Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that there is one other desktop in the house. It runs Windows-98, and it is heavily (almost exclusively) used ... ... for games. I hope this throws some light. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Dec-98 Time: 00:08:14

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Ted Harding
if you use these apps and want more than 8bpp (and there is a hell of a difference between 8bpp and 16bpp) then you have to use 24bpp. Ted. ------------ E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20-Dec-98 Time: 19:21:29

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Ted Harding
ecent benefits to modern civilisation which we in the UK can claim is the concept of being "economical with the truth"; it seems we have managed to convey it to others ... Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20-Dec-98 Time: 17:51:59

8-bit X cut&paste problem

1998-12-03 Thread Ted Harding
2 : FU (8th bit stripped) Can anyone (a) explain why this happens? (b) suggest a cure? With thanks, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03-Dec-98 Time: 18:00:01

RE: Can I start X while other stuff going on?

1998-11-11 Thread Ted Harding
X is running) press Alt+VT1, Alt+Vt2, etc. You'll find that everything that's running on any/all of the VTs, and also in X, just keeps running even though you're not looking at it. Welcome to the world where things happen. Cheers, Ted. -

RE: [SuSE Linux] "bitmap" to outline postscript

1998-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
h unwanted results. After these changes were made, I got a clean compilation. Now I only need to find out how to really use the fontutils! Best wishes to all, Ted. -------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28-Oct-98 Time: 12:37:22

"bitmap" to outline postscript

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
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Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Oct-98 Ted Harding wrote: > On 18-Oct-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: >>> A while ago, there was a buzz about Corel releasing a WP Suite 8 for >>> Linux. It was slated to come out mid-summer...I can't find any >>> m

Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
38MB tar.gz file, or several files less than 5MB each. Also note what it says about unpacking the file[s]). The directory /pub/linux/corelwp/ itself contains the files for WP7. Hope this helpes someone! Ted. --------

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Ted Harding
Independently of the KDE issue, there's a question I've wondered about for some time. Has the GPL ever been tested in court (i.e. has there ever been a case that turned on it)? Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Hardin

Re: being dropped from the list

1998-09-17 Thread Ted Harding
; on the list and all is well. Otherwise, in due course the list server removes the address (or sends a message to the list-owner requesting approval for removal). Either way, however, junking users who become unmailable for very short periods (such as the above) is definitely unr

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