Re: libfreetype6 or pango broken
Hello all, On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:48:02AM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:39:24 +0200, DO == David Odin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOI can confirm: I've just rebuild pango from source, and the problem DO disappear. So rebuilding the pango package with the new libfreetype6 DO should fix the whole thing. Sure. I'll rebuild against new libfreetype6 and upload it ASAP. I'm wondering why the upstream doesn't change the soname. I wonder if the error is related to the following note in the FreeType 2.1.1: CHANGES file - The cache sub-system has been optimized in important ways. Cache hits are now significantly faster. For example, using the CMap cache is about twice faster than calling FT_Get_Char_Index on most platforms. Similarly, using an SBit cache is about five times faster than loading the bitmaps from a bitmap file, and 300 to 500 times faster than generating them from a scalable format. Note that you should recompile your sources if you designed a custom cache class for the FT2 Cache subsystem, since the changes performed are source, but not binary, compatible. Anyhow, should I change the version dependency from libfreetype6 (= 2.0.9) to libfreetype6 (= 2.1.1) and rebuild libfreetype6 before you rebuild Pango? (I think I had better go upload libfreetype6_2.1.1-2 right away.) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg: Update failures
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:57AM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote: Dear Debian users, Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. Actually, not to /etc/environment, but to /etc/apt/apt.conf. For example, I used to use this: Acquire::http::proxy http://nocache.srv.ualberta.ca:8080/;; Please let me know if that solves your problem. Regards, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]University of Alberta, Canada Debian GNU/Linux Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/
Re: Questions
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 07:16:50PM -0700, Chris Nelson wrote: Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. My first problem is what file do I need for the Linux operating system? The file I thought was it was had a suffix of gz and if i was correct with that being the file, then how do you install it? Is it a compressed file? What is used to decompress it. I hope this doesnt sound too stupid but I have never worked with Linux and I feel lost. I hope you can help and hope to hear from you soon. Thanx for your time and effort. Also check out http://www.linuxpress.com/ and read the Debian Users' Guide on-line, or better yet, buy a copy. :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problem with RealPlayer 5
Nin hao! :-) On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 12:10:39AM -0500, Xiaonan Ma wrote: I just updated the system to hamm and tried to install rvplayer5.0, however I can't make it work. After dpkg -i rvplayer_5.0-2.deb and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH virable, first I tried to run rvplayer directly with the included welcome.rm, but no sound was played out (I can cat *.au /dev/audio and it's fine). Actually it only showed a few images after I clicked some menu button (such as preferences). When I chosed File-Open Location-pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm, it said playing 19.1 Kbps network stream ... but did nothing. Sorry, I have no idea. I also tried to use it in netscape(4.04) following the instruction, however, it was even worse, I got error messages like sh: rvplayer/tmp/MO35BAB6600D010B.ram: No such file or directory, which This is probably the command line for running rvplayer is set incorrectly in Netscape (probably in your ~/.mailcap file). Start Netscape, open menu Edit / Preferences, then open up Navigator / Applications, scroll through the list and find RealPlayer 5.0 or audio/x-pn-realaudio, then click the Edit... button, then, at the Application: field, change rvplayer%s to /usr/X11R6/bin/rvplayer %s. Note the space before %s. Hope this helps! :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: cyrillic fonts in netscape?
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:20:12PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: Hi, I recently got some Bulgarian collegues who like to read cyrillic texts on the web. Does anyone know who to make netscape use cyrillic fonts (and where to get them)? Install the xfntcyr package. It provides provides a set of Cyrillic fonts for X servers. Netscape can then probably use them automatically. If not, play with the menu View/Encoding setting, or set the fonts in menu Edit/Preferences..., Appearance, Fontss. Something like that? :-) Hope this helps. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: off topic: gimp
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:37:36AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: GIMP is a really cool graphics program, and lets you do a lot of the same things Photoshop does. A good place to get started would be the official website, gimp.org. Alexander Gutfraind wrote: Hello Fellow Debian Users! I've noticed that many sites promoting linux and free software point that their site was built by GIMP. can anybody tell me what is GIMP? Where can I get it for a test drive? Of course, GIMP 1.0 is already included in Debian 2.0 beta (Hamm), so for those installing Hamm, you could install gimp at the same time without compiling it yourself. :-) Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 11:47:27PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: I would like to put egcs on this Debian 1.3 system (which, with the imminent release of 2.0 CD's will most likely become my next experimental victim) but it now occurs to me to ask what caveats I should observe upon accomplishing that. Should I rename /usr/bin/gcc (the GNU gcc) and then put a symlink in that dir to point to /usr/local/bin/gcc? Perhaps there are other changes I ought to make? Well, if you are patient (to wait for the CD), or if you don't mind downloading Debian 2.0 Beta: Debian 2.0 Beta already comes with both gcc and egcs. ;-) I'm lazy, so I never compile egcs. ;-) When I want to use egcs instead of gcc, I just use CC=egcc. :-) $ ls -l /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/gcc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root60320 Jun 17 03:04 /usr/bin/egcc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root49460 Jun 15 00:48 /usr/bin/gcc* Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Fat32
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 01:05:48AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Phlip wrote: I've seen where Debian has a Linux Kernel 2.0.33 that will allow access to Fat32 partitions but I can't find the Debian package. Is it available yet? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.33_2.0.33-9.deb There's also a prebuilt image package in .../binary-i386/base/. Note also that the standard (non-debian) 2.0.34 kernel now has the FAT32 support in it too. Actually, kernel-source-2.0.34 Debian package has been available for a week now. It might be still sitting in Incoming though. (Or has it made it into slink yet? :-) Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How stable is 2.1.103?
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:41:19PM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I want to upgrade to the development kernel so I will be able to use CDs from NT. If you want to play it safe, and by CDs from NT you mean the Joliet file system, then check out the kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-9) package in hamm and slink: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/ kernel-source-2.0.33_2.0.33-9.deb I guess. :-) (Of course, try to a mirror that is closest to you. :-) kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-9) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Disabled certain MCA NIC drivers (fixes #22254). -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 10 May 1998 15:59:32 +1000 kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Disabled experimental drivers. * Reapplied joliet patch (fixes #19160, #21537). * Built with kernel-package 4.07 (fixes #21229). * Replaced NO_PCI with !CONFIG_PCI in 3c59x.c (fixes #21916). -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 1 May 1998 18:29:03 +1000 kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-7) frozen unstable; urgency=high * Applied IP fragmentation patch from Alan Cox. -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 18 Apr 1998 12:57:56 +1000 kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-6) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Disabled scc since we don't support ax25 by default (fixes #20307). -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:21:05 +1000 kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-5) unstable; urgency=low * Turned rst cookies off. -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:41:27 +1100 kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-4) unstable; urgency=low * Applied patch from Paul Slootman (fixes #18787). -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:30:44 +1100 kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-3) stable unstable; urgency=low * Built with new kernel-package (3.61). * Added support for fat32 (fixes #14042). -- Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:33:40 +1100 -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Python-base bug in Hamm
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:34:29PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 17 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: I do not know what the trouble is with this, exactly but in the postinst script the lines that are supposed to pass the -q to the compileall.py script get interpreted as python opions and not passed to the script. I simply deleted the -q in the offending lines in /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-base.postinst and it appears to be working fine ... though probably a bit more verbose than intended. AFAIK, the maintainer has fixed this in 1.5.1-2. :-) It has something to do with getopts? :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE Debian Package
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:33:47PM +0200, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: I contacted washington.edu and they really do not want binaries to be distributed if they do not approve the patches *first*. If we do not have the freedom to apply whatever patches we like, including security or bug fixes, without an approval from the University of Washington, then we will have to distribute the patches without the binaries. I wonder: Could we all band together and complain *loudly* but *politely*? ;-) This is very very frustrating, and it is giving both Pine and Debian a bad reputation. They are going to keep losing users if they keep this stupid No patched binaries thing up. It does nothing but to show how stubborn, non-trusting and non-free (libre) they are, and it has become so much of a frustration that many of us here choose to use mutt instead. Should we get a petition and a nice request letter going? :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 09:01:17PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: At 12:17 -0400 1998-04-20, Peter S Galbraith wrote: $ cd [tab] - shows and completes to directory names only $ latex [tab] - shows and completes to .tex files only $ emacs -[tab] - shows and completes to available options for that command. Who would want to live without it? Can bash be taught to do this? It would be great. bash can't, but zsh (a bourne shell derivative like bash) has programmable completion that is even more powerful than what tcsh has. bash can't do it yet (as of version 2.01.1 or 2.02); however, according to to their recent posting on comp.os.linux.announce: A Peek at the Future Things under consideration for bash-2.03 (or whatever the next version is named) are o An implementation of programmable completion for the bash readline interface So, there is hope yet! ;-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian2.0 and tetex
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: I tried to install tetex today but one package (I think it was tetex-base) still had the wrong version-number :( Anyone working on this? It is stuck in Incoming. Get the latest tetex-* packages from: http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming orftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian packages : DESTDIR
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:43:55PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: unfortunately I just got married That's not what I meant Your wife didn't read that, did she? ;-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free Linux
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 08:05:09PM -0400, George Gunther wrote: I have been looking for a FREE LINUX Operating System. Does your company sell it or what? I and my company need Linux. Could I download it or send away? Please Help me. Thank you for your time. 1. We are *not* a company. :-) We are a volunteer organization with over 300 dedicated volunteers who work very hard grin to create the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. :-) (among other things) 2. Yes, please do! Download it! Send it away! Or even use Debian as a base to build your own distribution! Help spread our good work! grin 3. And of course, you could order Debian GNU/Linux on CD-ROMs too. :-) Have fun! :-) And tell your friends too! :-) Let's tell the whole world about Debian and Linux and all the free software! (Open Source Software). :-) http://www.debian.org/ http://www.opensource.org/ http://www.fsf.org/ or http://www.gnu.org/ http://www.mozilla.org/ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 04:06:13AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? Well, it depends on a few choices: 1. Do you want colour or black and white? 2. Do you want an inkjet or laser printer? 3. Price? 4. Desktop space. ;-) My recommendation? EPSON Stylus COLOR 800! :-) Why? Because I have an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here and I *absolutely* love it! It is fantastic! Its bw and colour print quality is awesome! It works great under Debian GNU/Linux with Ghostscript 5.10 (gs-aladdin), i.e. you probably don't need EPSON's PS level 2 option. (I have no idea what if the option is hardware or software based.) I want colours and I love colours, and EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 creates superb text and photo printouts. Ghostscript 5.10 even supports 1440x720 dpi mode! :-) You can't go wrong with EPSON Stylus COLOR 500. :-) But then, if you prefer a laser printer instead, go with HP LJ 4L or other fine printers. :-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Banco de Dados
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 02:42:49PM -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run third part apps that will expect to find a 100% compatible DB w/ transactions. PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still improving. Even though it may not be 100%, I would say it is at least 99.9%. Try it out before judging it. Afterall, it is *free*. :-) They recomend (obvius) Oracle 8. But it's no so cheap. And I've heard that the version for SCO runs SLOW. SCO version can run as well on Linux packages. Can I substitue the MS SQL Server by PostGreeSQl without re-writing code? MS SQL Server [Anthony fainted...] Please try out PostgreSQL first. It is full-featured and support transactions, etc. You could also try MySQL, which is very fast, but lacks some functionality in PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL rivals Oracle 8 and MS SQL Server in functionality. It is a professional RDBMS. Go visit http://www.postgresql.org/. Read the site. Subscribe to their mailing list. Ask questions. I'm sure there are lots of gurus there happy to help you in your decision. Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fat 32 and Linux.
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 08:05:57PM -0500, Dr Zap wrote: Currently I am using Windows 95 OSR2 with fat32 enabled. I do have the utility that will allow Windows 95 to read the Linux partition and it works great. My question, I have been trying to set up the Debian version of Linux (kernel 1.30 I think) to read the fat32 partition. I have configured the drivers for this about four times with the same results. When it gets to vfat, it hangs. Before this it would say that it couldn't recognize the partition. Here's my current config; The old Linux kernel does not support FAT32. Note that VFAT and FAT32 are different; VFAT is only 16 bit. If I am not mistaken, the FAT32 patch is already applied to the latest Debian kernel-source-2.0.33-6 package. Go grab it! :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 08:35:36AM -0500, Carroll Kong wrote: Wow.. is mozilla the web browser of choice for linux? (like... less bugs?). Hm... I do not have a lot of those libs you mentioned, can I install them without replacing my libc5 libs? Or will I definately get a conflict? The site is down now... :( at least for me, do you know of any mirrors with ISO images?!?! Hm... when you say glitches in html rendering is there any glitches like netscape' dreaded 'bus error'? (critical fatal errors?) No, nothing like that. :-) One minor glitch that I noticed is Mozilla's table handling. For example, when a web page put a table within a table, both with different bgcolor (to create a solid frame effect, for instance), the colours are not rendered correctly. Just really really minor things, but I am sure they will be fixed soon enough. :-) Besides, Netscape Communicator 4.04 and Mozilla Navigator 5.0b1 can both co-exist nicely on the same system. :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are the slink sundirecrories all about?
---BeginMessage--- On Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 08:02:26AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I noticed on my local mirror, that some subdirectories called slin: are being created. Is this new, or have I just not noticed it before. What are these for? Yes, this is new. :-) Hamm (the toy piggy bank from Toy Story) is the code name for Debian 2.0. Now that Hamm is frozen, Slink the dog (also from Toy Story) will be the future Debian 2.1. (i.e. the new developmental or unstable tree. :-) -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ ---End Message---
Re: Best Book for Linux/Unix
---BeginMessage--- On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 10:13:42PM -0600, Mike Acklin wrote: What is the best book to learn Linux/Unix as for overall basics. I am not into programing yet, but would like to learn as much as I can about running a system. Like how to set my system for every day use. Editing the .bash_profile to make it usable. How to set up at and crontab. Directory sturctures, etc, and I know the list could go on. Take a look at the _Debian_Linux_User's_Guide_ at http://www.linuxpress.com/ It is written by Dale Scheetz, a Debian developers. :-) The book looks really interesting. Besides, you could also view the on-line version for free. :-) -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ ---End Message---
Re: AMD K6 233
On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 01:18:08PM +0100, M.C. Bezemer wrote: PS I also heard that linux also doesn't work 100% correct with a Cyrix P166+ (messing up disks etc) . What is true about that? I have a Cyrix 6x86 P166+ chip and it works just fine here. :-) (Have been using it with Linux for one and a half years now. :-) -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New (hamm) afterstep info
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 11:28:13AM -, Kevin Traas wrote: I'm running the new 1.4 on a few machines here and it's great! Many changes from the previous version. ftp the tarball and untar it. The README/INSTALL provide info on changes from the original - however, these files are themselves a little dated Anyway, works great and no complaints from my end! Just like to let you know that there is already a Debian package for AfterStep 1.4. That is, if you are using a hamm (pre-2.0, i.e. unstable) distribution. :-) It works great here too. I love the speed! :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: POP3 Client..
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:35:04PM +0400, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps. Awww, don't be shy! :-) Actually, fetchmail is quite easy to setup. And once you've got things set up nicely, it is a breeze. I am happy using fetchmail and mutt. (I was using Pine but now I am switching to mutt. grin) I also run fetchmail in my ip-up script to fetch mail automatically every time I dial in. :-) Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: elm-me+ doc Exasperation
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Let me rephrase that. I am looking for *configuration* info for a dialin setup in particular. E.g., should I get fetchmail? Thanks. Yes, you'll need fetchmail. ELM is simply a mail reader with a set of neat utilities. You will need fetchmail to receive mail from your ISP, and a local mail server of some sort to send your messages to your ISP. You probably have smail installed already. Other alternatives are sendmail, exim (my favourite), qmail, etc. It might take some time to get everything set up, but once it is set, it is wonderful. :-) I can read and write e-mail, on-line or off-line. Whenever I dial in to the university server, the computer automatically sends and receives my messages. :-) (Check your ip-up and ip-down scripts that comes with either the ppp or diald package, if you use the latter.) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What happens with bo when hamm becomes 2.0
Hey, you don't need to send the same messages three times! :-) On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Gunnar Isaksson wrote: I noticed that the old rex release disappeard from the debian ftp site and it's mirrors soon after bo was released. Will bo also end up in /dev/null ? Not immediately, but eventually. Personally I would like to continue with bo until debian 2.1 get's released but if there is no ftp site that carries updates on bo packages I don't know to do. I have become so spoiled by the stability of bo that I believe anything else must be inferior. I'm using hamm right now, and it has been almost rock-solid. It is very stable. On the other hand, if you want to continue with bo, there will be lots of old Debian 1.3.1r6 CD-ROM available. Check out www.lsl.com or www.cheapbytes.com. You can get a Debian 1.3.1 Official 2 CD-ROM set for less than US $5.00. :-) You might also find the CD-ROM available through other outlets in your country. Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pentium compiler
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: I don't know. I seem to remember seeing a request for an egcs package on the WNPP list, but I could be wrong. In the unstable distribution (Debian pre-2.0, a.k.a. hamm), egcs is already available as gcc! :-) $ dpkg -l gcc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii gcc 2.90.23-1 The GNU (egcs) C compiler. Note that there is a slight incompatibility problem with the libstdc++-dev library stuff that would be fixed in the next release (egcs 1.0.2?). Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: On the fly compression with ext2
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and an update chattr. Hello Torsen This is a great notice for me! thanks for your info! It will help me a lot! However, just a warning that the e2compr package is very outdated. There have been many revisions of e2compr since then. Check the web site that another fellow posted for more information. :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail is Slow to send
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I use smail/pine for reading mail. When I send out a message it can take a couple of minutes before pine lets me do more reading. Is this normal, or do I have something misconfigured? I chose option 1 on the smail config, but do not have a smart host. Besides Will's excellent suggestion, please also try the following: In your /etc/pine.conf.fixed (or /etc/pine.conf or ~/.pinerc), your smtp-server setting is probably blank; set it to localhost: # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail. smtp-server=localhost Please let me know if it works. :) (I had this trouble a long time ago, and took me a long time to figure out how to fix it, on my computer anyway. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Epson Stylus 400
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Anthony Fok wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400 is a Windows-only printer. Are you sure? A search through usenet yields this: [snip] (Instructions for using Ghostscript with EPSON Stylus COLOR printers, esp. for SC500, SC600 SC800). I got a 400 for Christmas and will be trying soon on Linux... I'm pretty sure, but you might like to ask for a second opinion. I've got an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here, and it works great. SC600 and SC800 work with Ghostscript 5.x too. AFAIK, the SC400 is one of those Designed for Windows printer. It doesn't work with the Macintosh either. However, don't quote me on this. :) Try a second opinion. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /sbin/clock missing?
On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote: Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it? Yes! :-) /sbin/hwclock is the new program that replaces the obsolete /sbin/clock. The syntax is different too, so make sure you read the manpage. :) Happy New Year! Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Epson Stylus 400
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. I can force it to do normal text, but I can not get it to do anything when in X, such as printing in Netscape or StarOffice. I installed the apsfilter, but I fear It does not work right for me. Any suggestions, help or direction would be appreciated. Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400 is a Windows-only printer. Part of the printer code (ESC/P2, I guess) is in the software instead of in the printer hardware. Unless EPSON provides those source codes (highly unlikely) and someone bothers to write a Linux driver for it, this printer won't do much good for you. If it is not too late, return the SC400 and exchange for a SC600 or SC800. GhostScript 4.03 and especially 5.x support SC500, SC600, SC800, etc. Hope this helps. Anthony (who is happily using the SC500 here, although I wish I had waited another half a year to get the SC600 instead. grin) -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, James A.Treacy wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 Heh, I'm about to buy a printer too. Those are the same two I'm considering. The Epson 800 isn't enough of an improvement to warrant an extra $190 Canadian. I'll probably go with the Epson as I want to be able to do at least 600x600 in color (HP 694C can only do 600x300 color). I'm using the EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here happily. :) Ghostscript 5.03 comes with uniprint (?), the unified printer driver. It supports EPSON Stylus COLOR 500, 600 and 800 very well. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xlib6g version 3.3-5 !!! where is it??
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Niklas Hoglund wrote: Hello! I'm trying to install gimp, wich depends on gtk which depends on xlib6g version 3.3-5, and theres the problem - I cant find it On ftp.debian.org there is an old xlib6g 3.3-1 =( Where can I find xlib6g 3.3-5 xlib6g 3.3.1-1 is out! Try looking on llug.sep.bnl.gov! :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: Dave, trust and respect don't come freely. You have to work for it. Show your integrity and respect others, otherwise don't expect others to respect or trust you. Anthony On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:57:18 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Because you didn't contribute anything accept noise and dissent. I've yet to see Bruce refuse to allow someone to work on Debian, who actually had something to contribute. From Ian to me, and Bruces interjection 2 days ago: -- On Thu, 23 Oct 97 23:33 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) You might also find that becoming a developer would enhance your credibility. There's a little trust issue standing in the way of that, I fear. -- I have Bruces previous posts saying he would not allow my work as well as his post from months back to myself and Paul Wade saying he didn't need us anymore in his project. I can post them if people wish. I'm not going to get into arguing all this. It's happening and you're free to deny it if you can't deal with it. Bruce: Don't back down to this paranoid jerk. Just hope he goes away. Obivouly you've gone into this with an open mind. As usual Bruce couldn't possibliy do anything wrong. You are the third guy to call me paraniod yet I am staring at Bruces various posts and emails on this from months back, so I know what I'm saying is true. Unfortunaty you find it most important to attack me then admit to what is actually happening. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:24:17 -0700 (MST) From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Marco Pistore [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Users Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Upgrading ghostscript? Resent-Date: 9 Oct 1997 17:25:30 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and I could managed much resolution out of Debian 1.3's installed ghostscript. I'm seeking advice here. Any pointers appreciated. Has anyone setup a Stylus 800 with gs-aladdin 4.03-7? What's the max you can do? How do you do it, since magicfilter is also too old to know about this printer? Using EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here. Love it. ^_^ (I wish I had waited longer to get the COLOR 600 though... But STC600 wasn't out until half a year later, and I needed the printer, so... ^_^ Hey, STC500 is quite nice, you know... -- self-consolation... smile BTW, STC500 works great with both Ghostscript 4.03 (stcolor) and 5.03 (stcolor or uniprint). With gs-alladin 4.03-7: Available devices: x11 x11mono x11alpha x11cmyk lvga256 vgalib ap3250 appledmp bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500 cdj550 cp50 declj250 deskjet djet500 djet500c dnj650c epson eps9mid eps9high epsonc ibmpro imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq jetp3852 laserjet lbp8 lips3 lj250 ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 lj4dith ljetplus lp2563 m8510 necp6 oce9050 paintjet pj pjetxl pjxl pjxl300 r4081 sj48 st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 ^ tek4696 dfaxhigh dfaxlow faxg3 miff24 faxg32d faxg4 tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tiff12nc tiff24nc tifflzw tiffpack bit bitrgb bitcmyk bmpmono bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m cgmmono cgm8 cgm24 cif mgrmono mgrgray2 mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgr4 mgr8 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw psmono sgirgb pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m pdfwrite nullpage Thus, the st800 is supported. Yes, but not exactly. There's an older model called EPSON Stylus 800, which is a B/W printer, i.e. no colour. It has been out for probably quite a few years now. The hot new model is called EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 and is very different from the old B/W 800. One can use Ghostscript 4.03's stcolor driver for STC800, except that it can only go up to 720x720 dpi, not 1440x720 dpi... (But who needs that high resolution in day-to-day printing? ^_^) Also, the colour map is not optimized for STC800. With the uniprint driver in Ghostscript 5.03, however, some people have contributed wonderful colour map/matrix (?) files for STC500, STC600 and STC800. I am not familiar with magicfilter, but getting apsfilter to work with the bjc600 driver was simply a matter of renaming several filter files, since there is really only one filter and it captures the driver name from the filter ame. Possibly the same approach would work with magicfilter. Yes, exactly. I have set up magicfilter to work with my EPSON Stylus COLOR 500. Maybe we should add more printer filter files so new users don't have to set up things from scratch. (Actually, I am quite guilty as I speak, because I didn't bother to send any suggestions to magicfilter's maintainer or upstream author... ^_^) Too busy (and lazy) as always. ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
(Hello Britton, sorry, I had been really lazy and didn't reply your e-mail about your STC600 problem about a month ago... ^_^) On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: Actually, I think the st800 supports an older Epson printer. They have been just brilliant about naming them. Incidently, I bought there reference book, which contains info on color settings to use for the new printers. This may be moot with GS 5, but it could be useful to someone wanting get GS 4 working optimally. Actually, it would probably be useful for getting GS 5 to work with transparences and what-have-you. I couldn't figure how to convert the specs to a color adjust matrix, but if anyone with more experience is interested, let me know. Actually, there is some kind of colour adjust matrix settings that come with Ghostscript 5.03. They basically made stcolor into a generic printer driver, with setting files for STC500, STC600 and STC800 etc. There's a set of colour adjust matrix in stc800??.upp files. (? I'm at school, so I am guessing ?) I am not familiar with magicfilter, but getting apsfilter to work with the bjc600 driver was simply a matter of renaming several filter files, since there is really only one filter and it captures the driver name from the filter ame. Possibly the same approach would work with magicfilter. That is pretty much it, in theory at least. Rename the files there and int the /etc/printcap magicfilter generates for you, and away you go. Actually, I get endless strings of printer resets (visable in /var/log/messages) which I thought were due to gs, but apparently someone else has the stcolor driver working via direct invocation of gs, so mayby magicfilter is at fault. It prints a text file though. Wierd. BTW, do you have Windows 95 or 3.1 on your computer? If so, does the EPSON printer works well under Windows? The reason is that I had experienced a minor problem in the past when I set the parallel port to be ECP. ECP doesn't seem to cooperate with the printer, but when I changed it back to EPP, it worked fine. The printer command set, ESC/P2 (?), should be pretty much the same for STC500, STC600 and STC800. Ghostscript 4.03's stcolor should be able to support your STC600, except the lack of 1440x720dpi mode and sub-optimal colour adjust matrix setting. Hmm... Have you tried invoking gs directly (i.e. by-passing magicfilter) to print a Postscript file to your STC600? -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo-Hamm was Re: ghostscript problem
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Dave Restall wrote: .. but that's hamm only. Please enlighten me as to the meaning of hamm ? Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't the people who decide these things be thinking Hey perhaps we're doing something wrong here ?. Hehe, I like the name Hamm. I finally watched (part of) Toy Story on TV (CBC) a few days ago. Although I missed the first half, I love it! Hamm is the cute little toy piggy, and it is the code name for the upcoming release of Debian 2.0. ^_^ -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Urgent!!!
Hello Leslie, First of all, (as a Chinese myself), I would like to remind you that re-posting the same few messages many times to many people doesn't work. Don't be so impatient, it takes time for people to sit down, read and reply to your e-mail, and it often take up to a few days before anyone can reply your message. Posting the same messages numerous time not only gets people's attention; it also annoys people. It is the best way to turn people away. Please observe proper netiquette next time you post. Also, please try to limit your message to less than 80-characters per line. (Check your mail reader/composer's setting.) I am no expert, so I can't help very much. But read on anyways... On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Leslie Chan wrote: Dear sir/madam, I have already downloaded and installed Debian Linux. I have some trouble when setting up my Linux. I have a trouble on setting up my CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is a ATAPI/E-IDE CD-ROM. When I select to install driver, my systems ask for: [ENTER COMMAND-LINE Arguments] [] [Please enter any command-line argument for the aztcd module ] Can you please tell me what to enter for the command-line argument. Nothing. You have chosen the wrong option. You have an ATAPI/EIDE CD-ROM, not an Aztech CD-ROM. Another problem is when every time I start Linux, it will stop for a long time (around 15-20 minutes) at : [While configuring BusLogic Host Adapter at I/O Address 0x230: ] [ ] [HARD RESET DIAGNOSTICS FAILED - DETACHING ] [HOST ADAPTER STATUS REGISTER = 06 ] [HOST ADAPTER ERROR CODE = 76] Can you please tell me what is Host Adapter and what I have to do to solve this problem? Sorry, I have no idea. Did you install the BusLogic Host Adaptor driver by mistake? Or do you have the BusLogic adaptor in your computer? (I'm not sure what it is, but I guess it is either an Ethernet card or a SCSI card. (I might be wrong). Beside, can you please tell me what should I start with my Linux. Where should I start to learn? How to setup printer driver,modem driver, Internet connection and etc. Where can I get info for Linux command such as change drive, dir/w and etc? Should I install X-Windows? Why Unix and Linux is Hacker's prefferred O/S? Your help will be appreciate. Thank you I consider you look for a Linux user's guide on the Internet, or buy a book about Linux for these questions. There are lots of excellent user guides, FAQ's etc. on the Internet. Otherwise, a book on Linux will help you get started. Go to http://www.debian.org/ and go to both Documentation and Related Links. I'm sure you'll find something to get started. Hope this helps. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SB AWE 64 versus Soft. Syns. for making midi... Also, midi keybo
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 03:15:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed there are a couple of soft. syns. available for Linux, including KMidi, TiMidity, etc. Has anyone been able to compare the quality of these to the AWE64? I haven't tried out the AWE64 (I have a SB16), but I highly recommend TiMidity. It is *excellent*! It can also handle (up to 48-voice?) polyphonic music very well, especially if you have a fast machine. On my Cyrix P166+ with 32MB, it plays the MIDI file without interruption unless I'm doing too many CPU- and disk-intensive stuff. ^_^ Sound quality? Excellent! ^_^ The patch files included in the Debian TiMidity packages are quite quite good. smile Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printer Advice: HP 870C or Epson Stylus 800
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote: I'm contemplating buying one of the two subject printers. Has anyone out there used either of these two printers under Linux? Easy to use under Linux is the key criteria. Color printing is nice to have but most of my important printing needs are black and white. Will use ghostscript. Epson has optional postscript. Anyone know what this is? Appears to be software (like ghostscript) that emulates postscript. Is it OS dependent as I suspect (resides on my computer) or is it actually installed into the printer? I have a EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 at home, and it is just *wonderful*! ^_^ I love it! And the EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 is even better, faster, and prettier! ^_^ I highly recommend EPSON Stylus COLOR 800! ^_^ (BTW, EPSON Stylus 800 without the word COLOR was an old black and white version. Don't get them mixed up. ^_^) Ghostscript 4.03 and 5.0x both work well with EPSON Stylus COLOR 800. In Ghostscript 5.0x, it supports 1440x720dpi printing too. The print quality is excellent under both Windows 95 and Debian GNU/Linux. Colour is really nice too! ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: magicfilter and Stylus 600
Hello Britton! ^_^
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Britton wrote:
If anyone has the Epson Stylus Color 600 working with magicfilter, I would
love to hear what you did. I did plain vanilla installation of gs,
magicfilter, and magicfilterconfig, but I can't ever print plain text. It
just scoots the paper back and forth for a while, sticks it in the middle,
and then the power light keeps blinking forever (supposedly indicating
data is being sent to the printer, even though lpq shows 'no entries'.
I have an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 working perfectly with Debian GNU/Linux,
magicfilter, Ghostscript 4.03/5.0x and lprng. ^_^
Hmm... Which printer driver did you choose with magicfilter? There is no
specific configuration for EPSON Stylus COLOR printers in magicfilter
(yet). I guess you can pick something like epsonlpc, and then make the
changes.
Okay, let's begin. ^_^
I have several entries in my /etc/printcap file, for different
resolutions. ^_^ For examples, I have the following entries in my
/etc/printcap file:
lp|lp360|ij|epscfh|epsc500|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (360 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp180|ij180|epscfhlo|epsc500_180|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (180 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter_180:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp720|ij720|epscfhhi|epsc500_720|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (720 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter_720:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
Feel free to adapt it to your tasting. ^_^
For my epsonsc500-filter* files, I think I just took the
/usr/sbin/epsonlqc-filter file, copied to epsonsc500-filter, then edit the
settings. For example, I have changed the first few lines to:
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360
-sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix={1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8
-0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1.0} \
-sDithering=fscmyk -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360
-sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix={1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8
-0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1.0} \
-sDithering=fscmyk -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
I also changed the resolution from 180 to 360. You may do something
similar for epsonsc500-filter_180 and epsonsc500-filter_720. (BTW, the
file names that I made up are not consistent and definitely non-standard.
Feel free to name them to your own tasting. ^_^
Note that the -dColorAdjustMatrix setting listed above is specifically
tailored for the SC500. For SC600, your colour printout might not look
very good with these settings. You might be able to find something on the
Internet. ^_^ Also, the file stc500pl.ps is, again, designed for SC500.
It might work well with SC600, but I am not sure. I will attached it in
another message. I hope it works. ^_^ Note that, however, the EPSON
Stylus printer driver in Ghostscript 4.03 only supports up to 720x720 dpi.
Better yet, use Ghostscript 5.02 (or the latest version) which comes with
uniprint which provides excellent support for SC600 and SC800, including
support for 1440x720dpi printing. It will be Debianized soon, but I guess
the package maintainer has been very busy and he experienced some problems
compiling the new Ghostscript with glibc 2 (libc6) and svgalib or
something like that? ^_^ (I forgot)
Anyway, please read /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz for more information about
the EPSON Stylus printer driver in Ghostscript 4.03. ^_^
Hope this helps! ^_^
Anthony
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Re: Tcl/Tk 8.0
On 30 Aug 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libtcl.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libtk.so (No such file or directory), skipping Run ldconfig again. If the error doesn't reappear, you're ok. Also, tk8.0_8.0-2.deb depends on xlib6g, which doesn't appear to be available. Where can I find it, and how does it differ from xlib6? xlib6g presumably would be xlib6 linked against glibc. It may not be up yet. Has anyone else seen it? No. xlib6g isn't out yet, but will be real-soon-now. The maintainer has been very busy lately, but it seems the new glibc X packages should be here very soon. ^_^ tk8.0 can be installed by using dpkg -i --force-depends tk8.0_8.0-2.deb (It is mentioned in the message in debian-devel-changes). It seems to work okay with the current (old) xlib6. ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and I'm afraid the task fell on me. Feel free to call me up if you need a longer explanation. Phooey! I like the naming scheme, and the system for updates. When I am using something Debian I want to know if it is 1.3.0 or 1.3.1, not 1.3 Rev-Guesswhatchangeswe'vemadewiththisrun. (debian_version should also reflect this) (The following are how I see this is. If I am incorrect, please correct me. :) New revisions are still distinguished. There is nothing hidden in anyway. For example, if there are some security fixes needed for a new release, it will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1, Debian 1.3.1 Revision 2, and so forth. This is to indicate that the changes are small. (Usually just minor bug fixes, perhaps just a few megabytes which only takes a few minutes to half an hour for people to download from an FTP site.) The next major release will be Debian 2.0. If *small* revisions are necessary, they'll be called Debian 2.0 Revision 1, Debian 2.0 Revision 2, and so forth. When there are major changes for a major released, it will be called Debian 2.1 or something like that. I like this idea. It is a very good compromise, and indeed, nothing is hidden. You may think of Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1 as 1.3.1.1; Debian 2.0 Revision 1 as Debian 2.0.1. It is up to you. ^_^ -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debugging pine sessions
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: I could see your point about -DDEBUG not being appropriate for a production program if the resultant output was only useful for debugging Pine. However, the principal use of this information is for debugging pine /sessions/ (and the default debug level can be set accordingly). Again, there must be very few people interested on this. I disagree. The debug feature is a standard Pine behaviour. I was very surprised disappointed when I discovered that I couldn't use the debug option at all (I was having some problem with Pine and the SMTP server (exim), and I would like to check the .pine-debug? files to see what was going on.) Therefore, I think the -DDEBUG flag should be turned on by default. If some user is annoyed with the .pine-debug? files, they can always use the -d 0 option. At least, let the user make the decision instead of eliminating the -d option entirely. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A quick question
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: Hi Where do I find libncurses.so.3.2. In my system I have the 3.2 version. Is it in some directory of ftp.debian.org? Thanks in advances. I have the following files on my system: /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 $ dpkg -l \*ncurse\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii ncurses-base1.9.9g-3 Video terminal manipulation - Minimum termin ii ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-3 Video terminal manipulation - associated pro ii ncurses-term1.9.9g-3 Video terminal manipulation - additional ter ii ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-2 Old libc5 curses - shared libraries pn ncurses3.0-altd none (no description available) pn ncurses3.0-dev none (no description available) pn ncurses3.0-pic none (no description available) ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-3 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari pn ncurses3.4-dbg none (no description available) ii ncurses3.4-dev 1.9.9g-3 Video terminal manipulation - Developer's li pn ncurses3.4-pic none (no description available) I don't think ncurses 3.2 is available on Debian. However, you can use the newer 3.4. It should be available in the unstable distribution (i.e., Debian-2.0-in-development version. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: copying text files (unix to dos)
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: Paul Miller writes: UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? cat unixfile |recode latin1:ibmpc dosfile cat dosfile |recode ibmpc:latin1 unixfile Or, if your document doesn't contain high-bit characters, you may simply use fromdos/todos (or dos2unix/unix2dos). Read their manpages. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pgp 5.0 for Linux beta 11!
Hello Paul! :) On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: PGP 5.0 for Linux is available.. anyhow, I'm tring to edit the pinepgp files to work w/ 5.0.. if anyone has already done this, please let me know. Awesome! :) Can't wait to see PGP 5.0 on Linux! :) I was really surprised they legally exported the codes out of the U.S. by mailing a huge stack of printed source codes, and then used a scanner to scan the code in! (Wow! :) Gotta thank all the volunteers! :) Also, does anyone know how to attach a [signiture] file to an outgoing message? (I want the signiture to be attached instead of part of the message) You're using Pine, right? If so, press M, S, S (Main, Setup, Signature), then edit your signature file to your heart's content! :) This will create ~/.signature, i.e. your signature file. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape plugins don't work
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, James D. Freels wrote: Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I haven't seen it yet in this news group. It seems that starting with v 4 of Netscape, the plugins no longer work. For example, when clicking a .pdf file, the script will no load [...] sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ';' sh: -c: line 1: '((acroread file.pdf);rm file.pdf)' You are using bash-2.00, right? :) Upgrade to bash-2.01 in unstable, that should fix the problem. :) Is it a bug in bash-2.00 or Netscape? I have no idea. Perhaps bash-2.00 was too strict. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Which Debian bundle should I get?
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: OK, I'm almost ready to go for Debian 1.3.1. I would like to get a CD bundle with more stuff in it (like ftp sites archives). Who sells such a beast? I need delivery to the LA area. Check out Cheap*Bytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com/) or Linux Systems Labs (http://www.lsl.com/). They are both selling the Official Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 for under US$4.00 (or you may donate $5 more to Software in Public Interest. grin) They seem to have other great bundles too. I haven't tried them myself though because I downloaded Debian via FTP about 9 months ago. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Loading Software
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: Hi I have a gzip tar copy of The Dotfile Generator that came on a dos formated floppy. I tried to load this through dselect but as I scrolled down the list of programs I could not find the dotfile program. Could someone send me instuction on how to install it. By the way, there is already a Debian package of the Dotfile Generator. It is in unstable (codename hamm). I am not sure whether it has reached the stable distribution yet. Check it out at one of the Debian FTP mirrors. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape beta install package gone... Re: Comunicator 4.02b7 is out
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: Strange, when I look all I see is an empty directory at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix It's only on some ftp servers. I found it on ftp25; others gave me the same empty directory as what you found. I was able to grab itover 9mb!!! What happened to the netscape beta install package? I went to install it, and even ftp.debian.org doesn't have it in contrib. Check in unstable, contrib, web. :) The netscape beta install package has been replaced by the package netscape4. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Some teTeX PrOblEms
Hello Alan! :) On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Hmm... Did you run texhash to update its search file /usr/lib/texmf/ls-R (or $TEXMF/ls-R) after you added the files? :) BTW, it might not be a good idea to put your own custom files in $TEXMF/tex/latex/misc. Put them in $TEXMF/local/tex/latex/misc or /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc (same thing, because /usr/lib/texmf/local is a symlink to /usr/local/lib/texmf) Also, there seems to be no provision for placing new files in /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a major weakness. Yes, there is. :) Try putting your local files there, run texhash, then see if teTeX can find your *.sty/*.tex. :) You might like to check out the files in directory /etc/texmf. Also, check out texconfig. :) Also I am having a similar problem as with NTeX, though it might be an emacs problem: when running latex from latex-mode in emacs 19.34, if latex is restarted, core is dumped. This is something new with emacs 19.34, I think, and a nuisance. How can I get rid of this? Sorry, I have no idea. (I haven't experienced this problem before.) Another teTeX problem that many people have possibly given the wrong answer for: there are no page numbers in the article style, as far as I can tell! This isn't an xdvi problem. teTeX is just a TeX distribution. There shouldn't be any changes to how LaTeX work. Also, page numbers seem to work fine here. :) So far, I don't see the significant benefits from using teTeX, and there have been a lot of users' complaints. Actually, I find teTeX to be an excellent TeX distribution. It is up-to-date, integrated, fast, TDS (TeX Directory Structure standard) conformant, etc. AFAIK, Debian, Red Hat and Slackware include teTeX as the standard TeX distribution. (or does Slackware still use NTeX? I'm not sure... :) Anyway, I find it quite organized, and works very smoothly. I had quite a few troubles with TeX/LaTeX on Debian before teTeX was packaged, but many problems disappeared after I upgraded to teTeX. I'm a happy user! :) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: metafont/dvips problem
Hello Oliver! :) On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: I installed MusixTeX from sunsite and tried to print the documentation. BTW, there is now a MusiXTeX package for Debian. :) Check out musixtex_t.75-2.deb in the unstable distribution! :) (It is still sitting in master.debian.org incoming though, but you might be able to find musixtex_t.75-1.deb or musixtex_t.74-1.deb in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/tex/ So, make sure you give that a try! (Shameless plug here... I was the one who packaged it... grin) I get the following error, and the document does not print. (Something goes to the printer, but nothing actually gets printed.): $ dvips -A musixdoc.dvi This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software ' TeX output 1997.07.25:0901' - |lpr dvips: Checksum mismatch in font I get the same error here (I think), but that should be pretty harmless. The Checksum mismatch error message happens with the mflogo font, which is simply the font used to display the METAFONT logo. BTW, I recommend that you modify the configuration of dvips. Personally, I find it much easier to use dvips to convert musixdoc.dvi to musixdoc.ps and then use GV to preview the file before printing it. Also, GV lets you print selected pages (print all odd pages, print all even pages, etc.) so you don't have to play with the options with dvips. :) If I delete the pk file mentioned in the error message, the same thing continues to happen. It also happens with xdvi, which shows: Checksum mismatch (dvi = 3369601584, pk = 4170477374) in font file /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/mflogo/logo10.720pk Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. Can anyone tell me what is causing this error and how to cure it? Hmm... can you see *anything* on your page? Do you mean all you see is a blank page? Can you see the text? Can you see the music notes? I am using Debian's teTeX and MusiXTeX packages here, and everything works well here. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: audio files
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Jason Westervelt wrote: There is a program that comes in RedHat called showaudio. Does anyone know where to snag this for Debian? I can't figure out how to install a RedHat package through Debian, and would prefer not to. If I could just find the source, that would be good enough. No showaudio that I know of under debian, but there is a playaudio that is part of the mime-support package. If you have that installed, you'll find it at /usr/lib/mime/playaudio. I have a symlink to it from /usr/local/bin so that I can use it without the absolute path. However, it is nothing like showaudio. It's just a simple script that cats a file to dev/audio and therefore doesn't do any conversion. You may want to look at the bplay package. Cheers. Actually, there is a /usr/bin/showaudio. It is in the metamail package. Is that what you want? :) I wonder what exactly it is for though. It can play *.au files, but it seems it is intended to do more than that. (It is a sh script). Hope this helps. :) However, as Colin suggested, you might like to look at bplay, sox etc. sound software. :) (For MPEG audio files, splay and mpg123 are great! :) -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gzipped fonts..
Hello! On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that the majority of the X-windows fonts are gzipped. Has this always been the case?[...] gzipped fonts support was added in XFree86 3.3. XFree86 (= 3.2) could not handle gzipped fonts. I don't know about other commercial X-servers though. ^_^ I wonder if the gzipped font support is from XFree86 only or from X11R6.3? :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: just how bad is Fortran?
Sorry, I can't resist either! grin (BTW, the following are just my personal opinion, and I hope I'm not starting a language war. :) And the following might be off-topic. (sorry!) On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: Sorry, I can't resist ;-) fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing students to use it!) You will be much better writing your code in ANSI C (pointers aren't difficult once you get to know them). I don't know much about Fortran, and only basic C, but from what I've read, while C is a wonderful language, there are also many pitfalls, and in some ways this make things really ugly and dangerous, especially when someone mess up the pointers, etc. It is not type safe, and it puts a lot of burden on the programmer to be careful and exercise discipline to avoid errors. I said that because I have tried to debug some really obscure bugs in a relatively large C program written by previous students (Borland C++ 4.5), and it took me a really long time to do so. It was partly due to bugs in Borland's C compiler, but some features in the C language didn't help either. This is where languages like Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3 Oberon-2 come in. In perspective, they have much cleaner syntax than C, and they enforce strict type checking and other safety features which prevent someone from shooting oneself in the foot. (Is that the right expression? ^_^) Also, I have read messages from people who program in Modula-2 (etc.) claiming that they spend much less time debugging thanks to the clean and safe design of the language. I think there are some truths to their claim. So, in some ways, comparing C and Fortran 77, Fortran might not be so bad after all. At least, my former employer/supervisor really likes it and uses it often to do engineering calculations. The C program (a coal proocessing graphing software) that we were working on? It gave all of us students and our supervisors big headaches due to the obscure bugs and mysterious crashing that took us a long time to find and fix. To be fair, the program had been worked on separately by many student, and not all of us practised good programming style. However, my opinion is, while C is a great language for many tasks, it requires great discipline (and a lot of time) on the part of the programmer to keep the code clean. It is not the best candidate for every task. ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape communicator error
Markus M. Schneider wrote: Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this english language version of communicator. all encryption and decrytion will be disabled. I copied the file policyMoz40P1.jar from the communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz file into my ~/.netscape/ directory. I think there is a better way. I had installed both 4.0b5 and 4.0b6, and after upgrading to 4.0b6, I got the same error message about no valid policy file was found. I then went and checked the ~root/.netscape/policyMoz40P1.jar, but it seems that 4.0b6 doesn't even have this file. It now uses /usr/local/netscape/moz40p3. (BTW, you can use unzip -v /usr/local/netscape/moz40p3 to see what is in it. ^_^) No, you don't have to copy that file into your ~/.netscape/ either. Rather, as recommended in README.install, set the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME to /usr/local/netscape. For convenience, you may leave the main binary netscape in /usr/local/netscape, and use the following script as /usr/local/bin/netscape: #!/bin/bash EXPORT MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape or, you may prefer #!/bin/bash MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape (I am kind of new to shell programming, so I don't know which one is better. ^_^) Anyway, after doing so, the error message about encryption went away. ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cp command
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote: Syd Alsobrook wrote: Really easy The best way to copy a directory tree from one drive to another is cp -pr /usr /hd Hmm... The _best_ way? I not so sure. Like most things in *nix where there are lots of ways to get the job done there is usually not a _best_ way. A major problem with cp -pr is that linked-files, both hard and soft, are broken and all links are copied individually as regular files. This can cause MAJOR problems as well as consuming more disk space. Try:cp -a /usr /hd where -a stands for --archive. It *does* preserve links! ^_^ (According to cp --help, it says -a is equivalent to -dpR) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: OK. Remove /dev/printer and start lpd. It'll probably create the socket on its own. See why it doesn't start from one of the /etc/rc.d files. Bruce Hmm... How come I don't have /dev/printer? :) What is it for? I have been printing to /dev/lp1 with no problem, but I'm just curious what /dev/printer is all about. I installed Debian 1.1 and is now living on hamm, using LPRng. ^_^ Thanks. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printer question
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer. I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text . I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap I have triad the if statement and it didn't work. ( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be grateful if someone could send me their printcap file to see how it is done. Also I would like o know the appropriate name e.t.c. for my printer. Any help will be much appreciated Have you tried running the program /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig? It is supposed to configure the printer for you automatically. Is your printer compatible with BJ-10e? Magicfilter comes with a configuration file for it. BTW, I think your setting in printcap failed for two reasons. First, you used \ for the pathnames. This is UNIX, not DOS, so you should use / instead. :) Second, you do not call /usr/bin/magicfilter directly from /etc/printcap. Instead, when you use magicfilterconfig, it will create the /usr/sbin/bj10e-filter, which runs magicfilter and parses the configuration in bj10e-filter. For example, I have the following in my /etc/printcap: :if=/usr/sbin/epsonstc500-filter: Good luck! Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: epson Stylus 600
Hello Phil! :)
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
I've got a postscript initialization file to feed gs to correct colors
for Stylus-500. Just in case you're interested :-)
Thanks! :) A while after I wrote that message, I read Andree
Leidenfrost's message about Stylus, and decided to check out the link he
provided, and soon I found stc500pl.ps and the -dColorAdjustMatrix={}
settings for SC500 in http://www.pe.net/~williams/Stylus/. Is that the
same file that you have? :)
Thanks for the note! :)
Anthony
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Re: GS mode for Epson Stylus Color 800 ???
On 4 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I just recently got my new printer. It was easy to set up the
magicfilter so that I can print anything I want. But the highest
resolution I got was 360x180. Like this:
/usr/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epsonc
Check out /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz. ^_^ There is a driver for
EPSON Stylus printers. Although it was written for older models, it works
on my EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 too. :) For example, I use the following
command for the Postscript filter (magicfilter):
/usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360 -sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix={1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8 -0.5
-0.5 -0.5 1.0} \
-sDithering=fscmyk -sOutputCode=runlength -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
for the past few days. Some great people on debian-user listed a link to
information about EPSON Stylus on Linux, from which I found another link
specifically about the Stylus COLOR 500, so I copied all the extra options
like -dColorAdjustMatrix and got the file stc500pl.ps, a drop in
replacement for stcolor.ps from Ghostscript 4.03 for SC500. :) These
fix the minor colour and bleeding problems which occurs when using
stcolor.ps, which is for older models. ^_^ Check out:
Epson Color Stylus 500, Ghostscript, and Linux
http://www.pe.net/~williams/Stylus/Stylus.html
Anyway, if you are only printing black and white with your SC800, the
following would work fine. Colour is okay too but might be too dark.
Play with other options. Oh, almost forgot: stcolor in GS 4.03 supports
up to 720 dpi, not 1440 dpi.
/usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360 -sDEVICE=stcolor \
-sOutputFile=-
Anyway, I couldn't wait to try Ghostscript 5.01, so I finally managed to
compile it this morning. It comes with uniprint, the new
Ugly- - Updated- - Unified-Printer-Driver. ^_^ It is an update of
stcolor, but much more versatile and is intended to become THE unified
printer driver. :) Anyway, it comes with a set of configurations for
Stylus COLOR printers, including the 500, 600 and 800. So, in my
magicfilter config, I am now using:
/usr/bin/gs -q @stc500p.upp -sOutputFile=- -
for printing at 360dpi. For SC800,
stc800pl - Epson Stylus Color 800, 360DpI, 32Bit-CMYK, 64 Pin, plain paper
stc800p - Epson Stylus Color 800, 720DpI, 32Bit-CMYK, 64 Pin, plain paper
stc800ih - Epson Stylus Color 800, 1440DpI 32Bit-CMYK, 62 Pin, inkjet paper?
So, when GS 5.01 is Debianized, your colour printout might look better.
Wait and see. :)
If I write anything higher than that, like -r360x360 or so, the
printer output is distorted or completely garbled. So I am wondering
whether it's at all possible to get it to print at a higher resolution.
The printer supports up to 1440x1440.
The epsonc printer driver is for Epson LQ-2550 and Fujitsu 3400/2400/1200
color printers, i.e. dot matrix colour printers, I guess. :) They
probably also use ESC/P or ESC/P2 for printing, so they worked at lower
resolutions for the EPSON Stylus, I guess. :)
BTW, isn't Stylus COLOR 600/800 max resolution 1440x720 dpi? :)
Anthony
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Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. [deleted for brevity] Communicator 4.01b6 works great here too! However, it seems to be a memory hog, and the memory usage just keeps growing, sometimes up to 40 MB virtual memory (?) (and X was taking over 30 MBs by then too) and by that time I would just quit and restart Netscape so I wouldn't run out of memory. Maybe part of the reason is that I am using some big Chinese fonts? :) But other than that, it is one of the most stable release! The response was fast and quick too! The thing that slows it down was all the swapping and grinding that my hard drive makes. (I have 32 MB RAM and 64 MB swap; Netscape and X together use over half of that... :) Anyway, for some reason, 4.0b5 was very unstable on my computer. It crashed very often. Maybe it wasn't built for libc 5.4.33? ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: memory. Maybe part of the reason is that I am using some big Chinese fonts? :) But other than that, it is one of the most stable release! The response was fast and quick too! And they include a dynamically linked version too. Oh yeah! Thanks! :) No wonder the download was over 9MB! :) Too bad I don't have Motif... Maybe some day. ^_^ Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: epson Stylus 600
Hello! :) On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Britton wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: Hello, I m a new user of linux and I have a question I bought an Epson Stylus 600 and I have now idea how to print with it I would like to print both ascii and postscript files. [snip] ^_^ their old versions to the public. I have heard that this version has some trouble supporting the new breed of Epson printers, which is too bad. I don't know off hand who is working on our version of gs. This might be a case where going with the commercial version would be worthwhile. It is presumably more compatible with modern printers. I have the EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here, and after spending some time experimenting and tweaking (Hey, I was a newbie a few months ago too! :), my printer is working great under Linux. :) It prints all files (LaTeX, *.ps, Netscape print, xv (*.gif,*.jpg) etc.) with virtually no problems. :) As Britton mentioned, there might be some problems that GNU Ghostscript 3.53 might not support the new printer well. (I don't know. :) I haven't tried the old version. So, make sure you install the following with dselect: NameVersionDescription ===-==- gs-aladdin 4.03-7 Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib gsfonts 4.01-5 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter lprng 3.2.6-1lpr/lpd printer spooling system magicfilter 1.2-11 automatic printer filter. enscript1.5.0-1Converting ASCII texts to Postscript gv 3.4.3-1A PostScript and PDF viewer for X... You'll need to spend some time to configure for various software to work with your printer. For starters, read /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz (compressed) using the command: most /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz which describes the EPSON Stylus COLOR printers support in Ghostscript 4.03. The Stylus COLOR printer driver was written for older models, but they work with newer models including COLOR 500, 600 and 800, up to 720x720 dpi. (No, not 1440x720dpi with gs 4.03.) Also, the colour setup was probably optimized for older models, so they might not look good (too dark or too bright?) on your COLOR 600. (At least it is so on my 500) But worry not. Ghostscript 5.01 comes with uniprint, as well as settings for the newer printer drivers, so when the Debian package for gs 5.x comes out, colour printing under Debian will be a lot better. Also, the new uniprint supports 1440x720dpi. :) Anyway, after installing the packages, you'll need to configure /etc/printcap, magicfilter filter file, etc. If you use LaTeX, it is also recommended that you configure it to generate 180dpi, 360dpi and 720dpi fonts for printing. I think teTeX generates 300dpi fonts by default. Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.01b6 for Linux is out! :)
Hello! Probably you all know about this already, but anyway: Netscape 4.01b6 is out! It is in: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.01/4.01b6/english/unix/other I am downloading it right now! Wow, over 9MB? It looks big. I sure hope it works great! Crossing my finger! (Still an hour to go before the download is completed. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why is pine so slow?
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: I did this and it works fine. I didn't want to change to a smarthost because smail is set up for my needs. Thanks. On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi This made my pine lightning fast without the possible problems of using the background sending option. Alternatively, as some others have suggested, you may configure smpt-server instead to make Pine send the message to your SMTP server instead of waiting for sendmail. I used the following in my /etc/pine.conf and /etc/pine.conf.fixed (I couldn't decide...grin): # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail. smtp-server=localhost This fixed the problem for me. It works great with both smail and exim. BTW, I found the following in /usr/doc/pine/tech-notes/config-notes.html: SMTP Servers It is sometimes desireable to set smtp-server=localhost instead of setting sendmail-path to overcome the inability to negotiate ESMTP options when sendmail is invoked with the -t option. Sendmail can also be subject to unacceptable delays due to slow DNS lookups and other problems. Hope this helps. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs and tex
Hello! :) On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and xemacs became 19.14.1. I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years, and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on the menu bar. Do you know if there is an adaptation of the equivalemt emacs file (which do not work with xemacs) that is more recent? Or must I try to adapt it ? Is XEmacs 19.15 in Debian 1.3? I am using the unstable distribution and it comes with XEmacs 19.15. AUC TeX is included with 19.15, but I am not sure about 19.14. Try the command locate auctex and see if you find the AUCTeX files with XEmacs. I found a bunch of them in '/usr/lib/xemacs-19.15/lisp/auctex'. However, I had the same problem as yours when I first used XEmacs. For some reason, it loaded the old TeX mode by default. I had to add the '50tex-site.el' file in '/etc/xemacs/site-start-19.d' to make it load AUC TeX by default. Try the following: # cd /usr/xemacs/site-start-19.d # ln -s /usr/lib/xemacs-19.15/lisp/auctex/tex-site.el 50tex-site.el (Of course, in your case, you would probably use '/usr/lib/xemacs-19.14/lisp/auctex/tex-site.el' instead. :) Since I know little about Emacs, it took me a while to figure out how to do it. It wasn't until I found the file '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50tex-site.el' from GNU Emacs that I found out I could do the same with XEmacs to make AUC TeX work in XEmacs also. :) If you have any hint on what to do or who to ask I would be very pleased. thank you and sorry for disturbing with perhaps trivial questions. Hey, this is not a trivial question! :) I had that very same problem and it took me quite a while to figure out what was going on. :) So don't apologize, because this is what this list is all about! :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-interactive modem hangup
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and hang up on me). It might or might not suit you, but the _diald_ package is EXCELLENT! It automatically monitors the network traffic, and when it will log out automagically for you when you are done, say, surfing the web. :) You can also force it to stay up or block connection by using the _dctrl_ utility (which runs under X). You can also write some small scripts to send signals to _diald_, accomplishing the same things. :) When you tell diald to go down, it will hang up for you. :) I *love* it! :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(
Hello! :) On 23 May 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: Paulo Ramos writes: Paulo Anyone know how to make this?? Kai But there are quite a few people who opt to use SGML because it is a standard and thus has some amount of interchangeability. Also, it allows you to do `semantic tagging' which is already possible with LaTeX to some extent. I would be interested in any ideas anybody can contribute, too. There are some LaTeX -- MS Word converter on CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network??? (I forgot what the acronym stands for exactly... :)) I haven't tried them myself, and some of them are old, so I don't know how well they work. I remember surfing some pages (was it the LaTeX or TeX FAQ?) comparing the pros and cons of some of those converters. I haven't tried them yet though, because I have been too obsessed with LaTeX. I don't know why; perhaps I have spent so much time learning LaTeX that I would have wasted all these months if I go back to MS Word. (I must have a weird mentality. :) One interesting (and encouraging) note is that Corel WordPerfect 7 comes with some utilities to do SGML. Haven't looked into it yet. :) Another note: I found the following paragraph in the Colophone of Programming Perl, 2nd Edition (the Camel book) : The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman, Jennifer Niederst, and Nancy Priest. Text was prepared by Erik Ray in SGML using the DocBook 2.4 DTD. The print version of this book was created by translating the SGML source into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at ORA by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU gtroff -gs macros; Lenny Meullner adapted them to SGML and implemented the book designed. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.09 was used to generate PostScript output. Before I read the above, I thought/hoped the book was typeset with LaTeX, but now I suppose there are other alternatives too. :) Interestingly, one of the Debian packages comes with DocBook 2.2.1 DTD: /usr/doc/sgmlspm/examples/docbook/docbook.dtd.gz :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Location of sc spreadsheet
Hello Brian! On Fri, 16 May 1997, Brian White wrote: Does anybody know if the sc spreadsheet is available for Debian? I cannot find it anywhere. You may take a look at the package Xspread, Spreadsheet for X. It is a modified version of sc 6.22 that runs under X. :) Hope this helps! :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: one thing latex is better than tetex
On 29 Apr 1997, Philip Rangel wrote: I could not reproduce this bug. try to reconfig your divps, running texconfig. I had to make a symlink ln -s /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config /etc/texmf/dvips Just like to add that teTeX and dvips are working great. GV shows the page numbers perfectly. :) Hope you can solve the problem soon! :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: depmod 2.1.34
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: After installing depmod from modules-2.1.34, the modules.dep in my 2.0.30 was empty. It looks like the depmod isn't working correct. Just to let you know.. (I fixed it by downgrading to modules 2.0.0) Same problem here. Running depmod -a gives modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory and with my newly compiled kernel 2.0.30, the modules were not working properly. I am now using my previously-working kernel 2.0.29. depmod worked okay that time. Hmm... :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wine dor Debian ?
Hello there! :) On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Stan Brown wrote: Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a month or so ago I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my finger on it at the moment. Thanks. I think WINE is currently in the debian projects/experimental (?) directory. The package is still in experimental stage. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TCSH - escape character
Hi there! :) On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: kaneda On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: kaneda kaneda ahhh, ok, thanks. I didnt think pine could do it by default. kaneda kaneda It's just script i wrote, it's running as an alternative-editor, kaneda and when it finishes formating the text, it launches jed, thats all. kaneda kaneda borik kaneda kaneda -- kaneda _[_]_ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaneda (O-O) For pgp public key, email me kaneda =(_)= with subject get pgp-key Hey, actually, your messages prompted my curiosity! :) I am using Pine, and I found the following in the Pine setup configuration menu: ==---== OPTION: Reply-Indent-String This variable specifies an aspect of Pine's Reply command. When a message is replied to and the text of the message is included, that text usually has the string prepended to each line to indicate quoting. This variable specifies a different value for that string. If you wish to use a string which begins or ends with a space, enclose the string in double quotes. You can also include the sender's name in the prepended string. The first occurrence of _FROM_ in the reply-indent-string will be replaced with the username portion of the address being replied to. The normal default is . ==---== I tried setting my Reply-Indent-String to _FROM_ , and the quotes in this message are the results. :) Well, this Pine feature is not as versatile yet because it doesn't take the actual name, but hopefully in the next release... :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't type eight-bit characters in tcsh_6.06-9
Hello all! I used to be able to type Chinese (which contain 8-bit characters) in tcsh in X. However, about a few weeks ago, perhaps after upgrading to the latest package, tcsh seems to strip off the 8-bit characters that I type to 7-bit. I have set the environment LANG as: setenv LANG en_US and it worked fine in tcsh until recently. The current tcsh seems to strip off the high-bit from what I type, but it display 8-bit characters fine when I set the LANG environment properly. After reading lots of manpages, READMEs, HOWTOs and FAQs, I still couldn't figure out the problem. (But thanks to this problem, I finally figured out how to make bash (with the proper settings in ~/.inputrc) accept and display 8-bit characters! :) Puzzled, I went and look for an older tcsh package. I went and downloaded the file tcsh_6.06-3.tar.gz and compiled it... and it worked! I also tried entering latin1 characters using compose, e.g. the key sequence Ctrl-. ' e gives the e with an acute accent. It worked in bash and the tcsh_6.06-3, but not in tcsh_6.06-9. So, the question is: Is it a bug in tcsh_6.06-9, or do I have to configure the NLS (Native Language Support) properly to make tcsh_6.06-9 work? Did anyone experience the same problem I had? Thank you very much for your help! Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 28 Dec 1996 22:24:04 - Received: (qmail 13372 invoked from network); 28 Dec 1996 22:19:25 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 1996 22:19:25 - Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 16:17:14 -0600 (CST) Sender: Roy C Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Roy C Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Poppasswd In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: 8ddEO1.0.pU.QoPno@master.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/2057 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcb My configuration is Debian 1.2 stable (poppasswd_1.2-4) and Eudora Pro v. rcb 3.0 flailing away on Windoze '95. The connection just hangs after I rcb specify the new password for the second time. The Eudora dialog box just rcb sits with a 'newpasswd' text. If I look on the server, there are idle rcb 'poppasswd' and 'passwd rcb' processes running. Also, as expected, typing rcb in my original password incorrectly will cause Eudora to abort the rcb operation. It really appears as if 'poppasswd' itself is just hanging rcb after it receives the 'newpass' command - this is what I got if I 'telnet' rcb direct to port 106 and go through the protocol sequence. I solved my problem by getting the 'poppassd.c' source from ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/password/linux.tar and compiling. It works with no changes. FWIW, I did notice that the Debian package has a 'shadow password patch' included and the qualcomm version does not. Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing pdf files
Hello Lars! On 21 Dec 1996, lars wrote: I know how to view pdf files now, and like to use gs... which happens to be the main filter in apsfilter... however, when I try to print pdf files with something like lpr filename.pdf i get an error message. I want to modify apsfilter to recognize PDF files, but can't figure it out. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks I noticed a few days ago that there is a program called ps2pdf on my hard drive. I just did a quick check, and lo and behold, there is a pdf2ps too! :) I guess they both come with your GhostScript Debian package. I am using Aladdin GhostScript 4.03, so I don't know whether the GNU GhostScript v3.x has it yet or not. But anyway, to print your .pdf file, I think you must first run the pdf2ps utility (there is a manpage for it too), and then you can print the resulting .ps file. Of course, if you know the PDF file format, you may add your own filter for your apsfilter to do pdf2ps conversion automatically, so you can print your .pdf files without having to convert the files manually. :) (Sorry, I haven't typed e-mail for a while, so I know I was really wordy and I kept repeating myself. :) Merry Christmas! :) Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
