Re: Reading news with Emacs

[Rob Browning]

Here's an example of part of my setup.  Yours should be similar:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "newshost.cc.utexas.edu"))
(setq gnus-asynchronous t)
(setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-zombies)
(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server)
(setq gnus-save-newsrc-file nil)

;; So the server will accept me
(setq gnus-local-domain "cs.utexas.edu")

;; So the from field will be reasonable.
(setq gnus-user-from-line "Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>")
(setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
(setq gnus-local-organization "The University of Texas at Austin")

You might have to delete your existing ~/.newsrc.eld file if things
still don't work.  Sometime in the past I had Gnus get confused when
it had saved bad info to the file as a result of a misconfiguration on
my part.

Hope this helps.  I have long mini-HOWTO about using Gnus, in all it's
glory, for mail and news.  I'm going to try to set up a web page soon,
and put the file there.

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Reading news with Emacs

[Johann Spies]

Hi,

After a few weeks trying out Linux I decided to downloaded Emacs and sofar I am 
impressed with Emacs.  

I have not succeeded in getting Emacs Gnus to read news, however.  I did put 
export NNTPSERVER=news.ilink.nis.za in my .bashrc file but it did not have any 
effect on gnus' behavior

I get the following error message: 
Johann (My computer name) open error:''. Continue?

If I answer yes then the following message appear: 
Auto-save file exists. Read it?

After that  "no news is horrible news" in the minibuffer and on the status bar 
"Gnus: *Group* {nntp:Johann}

I do not understand the documentation in this regard.  It talks about a 
DOMAINNAME - variable but I do not read where I can find or change this 
variable.

Can somebody help, please?

Thank you to everyone who patiently answered my questions on LaTeX and smail.


Johann Spies
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LaTeX problem

[James W. Lynch]

As some of you might remember I asked if there were any LaTeX problems
a week or so ago and received a few responses that indicated that
it was working for them.  So I discarded my old reliable 1.2.13
system and installed 2.0.6 with all of the new elf software and 
mostly all is well, except LaTeX is giving me a litle problem.

The following sample input  and resulting output demonstrates my
concern.  The line in the output that reads "JL" should be my name
and the next line ("O") should be the date.  Even if I stick a /date
line in the input, I get the "O".  

Would someone kindly run this through LaTeX and see what you get?

I used dvi2tty to generate the output, but since the PostScript
output looks the same, dvi2tty isn't generating the
errors.

 
---   input 
\documentclass{article}
\title{This is the title of a new and revolting development, Version 2.3}  
\author{Jim Lynch}
\begin{document}   
\maketitle 
\section{Introduction} 
This is a test.
\end{document}
end of input--
-output---
 
 
This is the title of a new and revolting
 
 
 development, Version 2.3
 
 
 
 JL
 
 
 O
 
1Introduction
 
 
This is a test.
 
 


---end of output

Thanks,
Jim.

Jim Lynch, System Engineer,  SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Installation manual and dpkg document available in French

[Philippe Troin]

On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:22:00 PDT Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I don't read French, but I think this says the dpkg manual and my installation
> document are available in French under the following URL. I checked the URL
> and yes, that's what it looks like.

Actually, it says:

===
This the French translation of the Debian 1.1 user manual. This manual is in 
two parts:
  - Installing the Debian distribution with floppy disks
  - Handling packages with dpkg 0.93.42
This manual is available in HTML format. You can find it at the following 
address:
 http://www.linux-kheops.com/debian/dbia_doc.htm

I hope this file will help the numerous Debian 1.1 users. For remarks upon this 
translation, please send email to:
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===

And, no Bruce doesn't take an ending s in French...
Well, I think so.
Phil.


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Confused about networking..

[Robert Nicholson]

Ok I installed the pcmcia_cs support and I believe I have
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts set up correctly and ifconfig
reports the right addresses but netstat -rn is showing
0.0.0.0 for the gateway.

netstat -rn shows

192.42.172.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0  0   eth0
127.0.0.1   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U   35840   0
lo

NOTE: the 0.0.0.0's for the gateway. 

Confused.

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support for USRobitics modems under mgetty

[Oz Dror]

Hi,
the debian version is not copatible with US robotics modems, since it is not 
compile with the USRobotics flag set.

Is there a way to fix that.

Thanks
Oz
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Re: Boot disk SCSI kernel panic

[David_Oswald]

 
Hello ...

I have the same identical problem as you. And unfortunately I have not 
figured out a cure either. I had to resort back to using an older AHA 1542c 
controller.(which gives me no problems).

I also have experimented with the slakware distribution and found that 
the darn thing worked nicely. (but that was several moons ago and I'm just not 
sure If I tried that experiment on my current hardware ... I say nicely, but I 
should say that it was actually impressive. At the time I had mount a 10mb/sec. 
drive and I liked the way this machine performed.

Good luck ...

__ Reply Separator _
Subject: Boot disk SCSI kernel panic
Author:  Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at INTERNET-PUB
Date:10/13/96 2:06 AM


Package: boot1440.bin / aic7xxx
Version: Debian 1.1
 
I get a kernel panic on SCSI probing on attempting to boot from the standard 
Debian boot disk and can go no further.  My system is a 486 DX2/80 with an 
Adaptec AHA2842 VL Bus SCSI card.  boot1440.bin was obtained from 
\buzz\disks-i3\current on the 3 Oct 96 Debian CD from iConnect.
 
On looking up the SCSI driver in the F4 help, I see that aic7xxx may receive 
the options "extended,noreset".  On checking the README for the driver on 
another Linux system, I see no reference to "extended", and the correct 
syntax for "noreset" is "no_reset".
 
The latter portion of the boot sequence output is as follows (close, I hope, 
since I copied it by hand):
 
aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered Spurious Interrupt 
qlogicisp : PCI bios not present
PPA: unable to initialize controller at 0x378, error 2
scsi0: Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 3.2/3.1/3.0 
scsi : 1 host
aic7xxx: Scanning channel A for devices 
aix7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) BRKADRINT error(0x1):
  Illegal Host Access
Kernel panic: aic7xxx (aic7xxx_isr) BRKADRINT, error(0x1) seqaddr(0x0)
 
I had exactly the same difficulty with the Slackware 96 boot disk, write 
Patrick Volkering and Walnut Creek about it and never heard a word from them.  
 
It is worth noting that this same system is successfully running Slackware 
Linux, manually upgraded from kernel 1.2.18 which boots from a zImage 
bootdisk (kernel 2.0.12, or some such) made with "make zdisk" and the SCSI 
boot operation is executed with no problem.
 
I don't know if this is a bug, a configuration problem, or a startup 
parameters problem, but I assume the former since I can find no 
documentation which might direct me to appropriate config or startup param 
solutions.
 
Has anyone any knowledge of this problem and if it can be solved at my end? 
I'll be happy to supply additional information if necessary.
 
Lindsay Haisley   (__)
FMP Computer Services   (oo)"The bull 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/--\/stops here!" 
Austin, Texas, USA   / |||  
512-259-1190*  ||---|| * * * * * *
   ~~   ~~ http://www.fmp.com
 
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Re: PGP and ELM

[Dale Scheetz]

On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Erik van der Meulen wrote:

> I have noticed that my elm package has some support for PGP, that is it 
> recognizes it at least. I have been searching the FTP site for a package, 
> but without success. The ELM documentation does not even mention PGP, so I 
> am a bit lost. Can anyone give me a pointer? 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
I am in the process of taking over the maintainance of the elm package.
Carl Streeter was the previous maintainer and added the pgp patches. Here
is a quote from the copyright file:

"
This is the README for Debian's prepackaged version of the elm
mail package, originally put together by David Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and later bug fixed and PGPelm patches added by Carl Streeter 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This was put together from elm-2.4pl24 from dsinc.dsi.com:/pub/elm
There are some patches added for PGP-elm from 
ftp.viewlogic.com:/pub/elm-2.4pl24pgp3.tar.gz
"
However, although the site exists the path/filename given doesn't seem to.

Alta-vista gave me: www.hath.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elm/

which netscrape reports has no DNS entry :-(

I'll keep looking and let you know if I find anything.

Luck,

Dwarf

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Re: Where is pgp?

[Sven Rudolph]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> J.H.M.Dassen:
> > To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the
> > PGP packages were moved outside of the US.
> > 
> > Currently, you can find them at
> > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.html
> 
> Those packages are experimental versions, and have at least
> one problem: they don't provide the package "pgp". They're
> better than nothing, of course.

I placed them on the server mentioned below in contrib. Is this ok?

> > I expect there'll be a centralized FTP site for non-US debian packages
> > (pgp, ssh, ssl,...).
> 
> Yes.

ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/os/linux/debian-non-US should serve this
purpose.

Sven
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Re: gcc linker-error's

[J.H.M.Dassen]

[linking C++ code with gcc fails]:
>gcc -o test test.cc
>
> both give the following (linker) errors:
> 
> /tmp/cca001121.o: In function `main':
> /tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to `cout'
> /tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to 
> `ostream:operator<<(char const *)'
> 
> does anyone have a solution to this problem.

Use 'g++' instead of 'gcc' when compiling C++ code; it'll tell the
linker to link with the correct libraries for C++ code 
('iostream' or 'stdc++', I believe).

Now for the next error you'll probably experience.

"test doesn't produce any output".

That's right... if you call it with simply "test", you'll start
"/bin/test" instead of "./test".

Hope this helps,
Ray
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Re: Where is pgp?

[Lars Wirzenius]

J.H.M.Dassen:
> To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the
> PGP packages were moved outside of the US.
> 
> Currently, you can find them at
>   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.html

Those packages are experimental versions, and have at least
one problem: they don't provide the package "pgp". They're
better than nothing, of course.

> I expect there'll be a centralized FTP site for non-US debian packages
> (pgp, ssh, ssl,...).

Yes.

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pgpUcifF0rZc3.pgp
Description: PGP signature

gcc linker-error's

[Niels Bo Johansen]

I have tried to compile the most simple C++ program whith the gcc 
compiler (2.7.2). I do not have the exact source code, but it's 
something like:

#include 

void main() {
  int i = 9;
  
  cout << " write a some text.\n";

}

saved in a file called test.cc. 
Trying the following:

   gcc -c test.cc (works fine indicating the the compiler accepts 
   the input)
   gcc -L test test.o (assuming test.o made as above)

or simply

   gcc -o test test.cc
   
both give the following (linker) errors:

/tmp/cca001121.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to `cout'
/tmp/cca001121.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to 
`ostream:operator<<(char const *)'

does anyone have a solution to this problem. Besides gcc and binutils 
I have installed: libc5-dev-5.2.18-9.deb, libg++27-2.7.1-2.deb. Also I 
have tried with: libobjects-0.1.19-1.deb but it didn't help.

thanks in advance, Niels Bo Johansen

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Re: Where is pgp?

[J.H.M.Dassen]

> In an old package list, I have copied in August, the debian
> pgp packages (US and international) were in non-free.

To prevent problems because of US export restrictions, the
PGP packages were moved outside of the US.

Currently, you can find them at
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.html

I expect there'll be a centralized FTP site for non-US debian packages
(pgp, ssh, ssl,...).

Hope this helps,
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Where is pgp?

[Volker Ossenkopf]

In an old package list, I have copied in August, the debian
pgp packages (US and international) were in non-free.

Nowadays, there does not seem to be any pgp package available.
I have scanned the ls-lRs at Debian and some mirrors, but
NO pgp.

I desperately need pgp since I have created some new
debian packages (xvmount and xcolorsel) but I cannot
submit them without pgping them (until now I never saw
a real reason for pgp signing or encrypting anything.).

Where can I find the debian pgp packages now?

Hoping for help -- Volker


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Re: Glimpse search?

[J.H.M.Dassen]

> Is it common knowledge that the search engine isn't working on
> www.debian.org?

It should by now be common knowledge that no CGI script whatsoever
is working on www.debian.org.

Explanation: www.debian.org has moved to another machine. In order to
make mirroring it easier, it has been decided to implement a "cgi.debian.org"
to execute CGI scripts. The HTTPD on cgi.debian.org has not been set up
yet.

> I'm trying to search the mail archives.

I've updated the root document to include a link to Brian C. White's "InSite"
search system. www.debian.org has not mirrored this yet.

Try http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple

Hope this helps,
Ray
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DOC DEBIAN FRANCAISE

[Joel Bernier]

Voici l'adaptation francaise du manuel utilisateur de la DEBIAN 1.1. Ce
 manuel est en deux parties.
 
   -Installer la distribution Debian a partir de disquettes.
   -Gestion des packages avec dpkg 0.93.42.
 
 Ce manuel est disponible au format HTML.Vous pouvez le trouver a
 l'adresse ci-dessous.
 
 http://www.linux-kheops.com/debian/dbia_doc.htm
 
 Je souhaite que ce fichier puisse aider les nombreux utilisateurs de la
 Debian 1.1. Pour toutes les remarques sur cette adaptation, vous pouvez
 envoyer un Email a l'adresse :
 
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Cordialement
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Installation manual and dpkg document available in French

[Bruce Perens]

I don't read French, but I think this says the dpkg manual and my installation
document are available in French under the following URL. I checked the URL
and yes, that's what it looks like.

So "Bruce" is "Bruces" in French, I guess.

Thanks

Bruce Perens

From: Joel Bernier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Voici l'adaptation francaise du manuel utilisateur de la DEBIAN 1.1. Ce 
> manuel est en deux parties.
> 
>   -Installer la distribution Debian a partir de disquettes.
>   -Gestion des packages avec dpkg 0.93.42.
> 
> Ce manuel est disponible au format HTML.Vous pouvez le trouver a 
> l'adresse ci-dessous.
> 
> http://www.linux-kheops.com/debian/dbia_doc.htm
> 
> Je souhaite que ce fichier puisse aider les nombreux utilisateurs de la 
> Debian 1.1. Pour toutes les remarques sur cette adaptation, vous pouvez 
> envoyer un Email a l'adresse : 
> 
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Cordialement
> 
> ___
>   
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>  
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Accelerated X with an AST Ascentia 950N notebook?

[Robert Nicholson]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

Hi, is there anybody using Accelerated X 1.3 with a 950 ascentia?

I don't know how to get it to support my mouse nor 800x600 x >=8bit

Pointers to any linux laptop lists welcome.

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OFF TOPIC [was]Re: FTP/NFS install via 3COM 3C589C?

[Richard G. Roberto]

On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> 
> Just copy the pcmcia-cs packages on a floppy, install them from there and you 
> can access the network, but beware: NFS might still not work due to a bug
> in the kernel package, the versions didn't match the last time i tried... :(
> I used FTP to install enough to recompile the kernel, after the installation
> i use dselect to get the rest via NFS.
> 
> There are so many notebook users around that a PCMCIA install disk might
> be a good idea.
> 
> Dominik Kubla

Dominik,

Sorry to bother you about this, but I haven't had too much
luck at Kingston.  I have a kingston KNE-PCM/M PC Card
ethernet card I'd like to use with Debian.  The pcmcia-ps
package seems to support it and recognize it, but I'm unable
to get the card to work.  I was using a Xircom, but that's
not supported under Linux.  I'd like to switch, but can't
get the Kingston to transmit.  I have Win95 (unfortunately)
instaled on the first partition, and the kingston doesn't
work there either, although Device Manager reports all is
well.  Do you have any experience with these cards?  Do you
have any idea what may be wrong?  The Xircom card works in
the same slot, with the samce network cabling.

Thanks in advance

Richard G. Roberto
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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