CDROM music read
Hi, I own a Dell D820 with a SATA disk (but ATA CDROM handled through the sr_mod and cdrom modules) and a HDA audio card: ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 Vendor: SONY Model: DVD+-RW DW-Q58A Rev: UDS1 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) I can mount CDROMs and burn them. However, when I try to listen to a music CD (say with xmms or amarok), I get: - no sound if I try to play it directly; - some sound but that comes and go if I play it through the PCM card. With amarok, I have the following message in the console: sr: Current: sense key: Medium Error Additional sense: L-EC uncorrectable error or sr: Current: sense key: Medium Error Additional sense: No seek complete If I try to extract the sound (say with grip), the system even crashes! I first thought it was a kernel thing -- I am now running 2.6.18.2 -- but older kernel display the same problems. It used to work though! Any help in what direction to look (e.g. CD driver or sound driver?) will be appreciated. Thanks, ChriS --- P.S. Cc me your answer as I am not subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a2ps - gv font
Hi, When I do a2ps -Pdisplay file (but not when I send the job to a printer), the font is not right (going over the right margin, superimposing the text in the next column). Is there a way to correct that? ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla print with openoffice fonts
Hi all, When I print with mozilla to a PS file and then view it with gv all the characters are replaced by boxes. After investigation, it turns out that it is due to the openoffice fonts (if I remove the openoffice packages, everything is fine). Any explanations and workaround would be nice. Happy new year to all, ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell Inspiron 5100
Hi, I am thinking to buy a Dell inspiron 5100. If you own such a machine, can you tell me * does everything work? * are you happy with it? Thanks for any information, ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logiciel de mail ?
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003, ludovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (j ai mon pc en dual boot et j aimerais que tout mes fichiers mail soient partagés) Pourquoi pas Mew (http://www.mew.org/, apt-get install mew) qui fonctionne sous Emacs, donc partageable entre Win32 et Linux (et aussi avec toutes les facilités d'édition d'Emacs [M-q,...], avec les documents doc en « inline »,...). ChriS
Re: Commandes périodiques mais pas cron ...
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:14:25 +0400, Philippe Monroux wrote: Le ven 24 jan 2003, à 06 h 02 min 15 s (UTC +0100), Olivier FONTES a écrit : Fait, je veux lancer la commande fetchmail 5 fois dans la journée et uniquement les jours de semaine (pas le samedi et le dimanche) ... Ben il me semble que cron le fait non ? (man cron) Directement, ça m'étonnerait. man 5 crontab Exemple de crontab (à vérifier) en supposant que la « journée » soit de 9h à 17h (et donc que le courrier soit rapatrié aux heures 9 11 13 15 17) : # min hour dom mon dow command * 9-17/2 * * 1-5 fetchmail --interface eth0/0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 /dev/null La commande « fetchmail » n'est ici exécutée que si « eth0 » est « up ». On peut aussi facilement exclure les vacances si vous les prenez a des dates fixes... ChriS
Re: RAID EXT2-fs error
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am copying pasting their post: post I've written a doc on how to install a Debian with root file system over LVM and RAID. If it's of any interest it can be found at this URL: http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.html Any suggestion/criticism/correction is welcome. Thanks. With that document I got my RAID system working! ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAID EXT2-fs error
Hi all, I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID 1 following the instructions given at http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ Everything works fine until I add the initial install disk into the RAID array (http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/node26.html). The RAID 1 then start reconstructing (as it should) but when it reaches the root (on an ext2 fs) I see the following message on the console: eth0: Too much work at interrupt; IntrStatus = 0x0001 Moreover, the logs seem to point out the problem (how the two are related I don't have a clue! :-( ): kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,1)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #487195: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 No need to say, after that the system goes berzek and most of the commands stop working. However, if I reboot, the problems seem to have disappeared (the reconstruction restarts from scratch with /home, on reiserfs, and all is fine until it reaches / ...). Any help is very welcome. Cheers, ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cmpci driver (CM8338A card)
Hi all, I have been switching from 2.2.x kernels to 2.4.19/20 kernels in part for DRM and support for SIS5513. However the sound card, an on board CM8338A based, stopped to work properly with the 2.4.x kernels. It is detected by the cmpci driver (here is the startup message cmpci: version $Revision: 5.64 $ time 20:16:24 Oct 6 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0 cmpci: found CM8338A adapter at io 0xde00 irq 10 ) but when I try to play a sound, what I hear is a loud noise with the distorted sound the the back. I haven't find any solution on the web for this (only reports of the same problem dating from January). Anybody has an idea ? Cheers, ChriS P.S.: - $ cat /proc/pci ... Bus 0, device 12, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8338A (rev 16). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24. I/O at 0xde00 [0xdeff]. ... $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 374251 XT-PIC timer 1: 1175 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10: 1610 XT-PIC cmpci 11: 4381 XT-PIC eth0 12: 27802 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 17861 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DMA woes
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# hdparm -i /dev/hda | grep -i dma
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
^
Just a thought: should you not select e.g., udma4 in your BIOS
settings?
ChriS
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Re: Magic with make install
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Eduardo Rocha Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new on Debian, and I was wondering if a magic command exists in deb.. like this: Let's suppose that I want to compile the program foo. before I run make install, I run this magic command, and it gather every information about the installation process. After, when I do not need the foo program anymore, I would be able to remove this program with apt-get -remove foo I don't think so. For what you seem to want to do anyway, stow is your friend. ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation troubles (Was: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update)
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems like an excellent opportunity to do final testing of woody. It would be great for peace of mind to see some successful installation and upgrade reports. Well, I hope it is the right place to post this. I just made a fresh installation of testing with the i386 1.44 floppies (the default ones) and I got two problems: * The choice of the kernel modules is difficult because the frame characters are not correct (and so moving up and down make the screen crappy and difficult to read) -- but it works. * A more grave problem is that, after rebooting, the system configuration does not work fine: it loops asking again and again the timezone (after one creates the accounts). Eventually I had to kill it and to finish by hand. The second issue should be solved before release I think. My 2¢, ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WindowMaker 0.70.0-1
Hi, The lastest version of wmaker in testing/unstable (0.70.0-1) has the following bug: when Option - Onmipresent from the title bar is checked, the CPU runs into highs (because of XFree86 and WindowMaker processes). If Option - Onmipresent is then unchecked, everything go back to normal. ChriS
Re: Determining IP address of my pc (dial up and/or cable modem)
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this must be a very stupid question (+/+) flaming myself Any way: I am not sure how I can determine the IP address of my machine after I have a dialup connection established. Will the first ip given by mtr be mine, or first machine connected to in network? Type (as root) tail -f -n50 /var/log/messages before you launch the dialup connection. You will see the entire process, including all the info your provider is sending to you. After that, you can decide the best way to go depending on the use you want to make of that IP address... ChriS
Freefonts - LaTeX
Hi, Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. It seems technically possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the Web) but bit tedious to do -- especially considering somebody else probably got the same idea... :-) Any help will be greatly appreciated, ChriS
Re: TTF problem in X
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christophe TROESTLER wrote: * With xfstt, I succeeds to see the fonts with xlsfonts but when I try e.g., xfontsel -pattern -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-regular-*-*-*-*-p-0-iso8859-1 I only get processing fonts... and nothing appears... You don't specify what Xserver are using. If you are trying to set the 4.0.x version, searching the debian-user mailing list you will found useful info. Anyway, the xfs-xtt/xfstt (correct me if i'm wrong) are only useful with XServer 3.3.x. I remember that you need to run a command in the font dir with xfstt (but don't remember what), you will find explained this in the manual... Thanks, for your help. That works now. The reason was that the TTF files were available through symbolic links but the file themselves didn't have the necessary permissions (even though the --sync could be done, probably because it is done as root xhile xfstt runs as `nobody'). Thanks for taking the time to reply, ChriS
TTF fonts : Missing charsets ...
Hi, I use wfstt to get TTF available to X. I can see the fonts with xlsfonts | grep ttf but when I try for example xfd -fn -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 I get Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Cannot convert string -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct xfd: no font to display I am a bit lost about what to do. Does somebody have a clue what to look for? ChriS P.S. I run xfree86-common 3.3.6-11potato
TTF problem in X
Hi all, I have been trying to set up a way to get TTF fonts on the X display. * With xfs-xtt, I configured the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ (put symlinks for the fonts and made mkttfdir) and added FontPath unix/:7100 to /etc/X11/XF86Config but I don't even see the fonts with xlsfonts. * With xfstt, I succeeds to see the fonts with xlsfonts but when I try e.g., xfontsel -pattern -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-regular-*-*-*-*-p-0-iso8859-1 I only get processing fonts... and nothing appears... Any help will be very welcome, ChriS
modeline - sony A220
Hi, I am trying to run Debian Potato on an AMD K6 with a Sony Trinitron A220 (http://www.sony.be/wa/showroom/computerapparatuur/monitor.html) monitor. I was wondering whether somebody could help me with setting the correct modelines for this monitor. The specs say 1024 x 768 à 88 Hz Vertic. 48 - 120 Hz Horiz. 30 - 70k Hz * Are the new monitor protected against incorrect frequencies (the out of sync. message) or is it possible to destroy them ? * Does somebody have experience with this monitor ? How do you set the modelines (for XFree 3.3.6-11) in a way to make sure the monitor is not damaged? Thanks for any help, ChriS
Synchronizing the files on two machines
Hello, I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. More precisely, I have to transfer data daily between two machines and the only convenient way to do that is through floppies (ZIP / rewritable CDs). Do you know a program that would keep a set of files/dirs (with recursion but with possible exception of some subdirectories and files given by regexps) synchronized on the two machines. That means in particular that files/dirs created/deleted on some host should be having the same treatment on the other host. Preservation of permissions and uid/gid is important (with provision if the numeric uid/gid differ for a given symbolic uid/gid on the two machines ?). Ideally, it would keep a backup copy on the floppy (in case I do something really wrong!). It would also detect if a file has been modified on the two machines and prompt for what to do. If the first disk is full, it should be able to `span' the data on other ones. A report of every session would be nice. Well, you get the idea. If you know of an utility more or less fitting the description above, I am really interested! (I suppose I am not the only one with such a problem.) Thanks, ChriS
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Hi, I've got a funny thing with Potato. When it has been running for a while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to launch an X client, I got the error message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 The crazy thing is that it is enough to issue export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 to get things working again from a shell (DISPLAY used to be only :0.0). The errno=111 seems to happen while I connect the web, but how can I know for sure? Thanks for any help, ChriS
Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix xhost xauth list and post the results if you need help with their output. The latter two need access to the X server, so you probably should apply your workaround first. Well, in the meantime I restarted the X server -- needed to do some real work[tm]! I send nonetheless the info -- if you can spot something wrong... $ ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix/ total 0 srwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Aug 16 14:47 X0= $ xhost access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect $ xauth list aiglenoir/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 17afba42b84d5952fce82446e7c3698e aiglenoir/unix:0 XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ac717264e0f5775dbd46e0d077fc jedi.bxlug.be/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7d266805540e68476949767906173b49 aiglenoir.linkline.be/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 0f16461a07352472131746616c611009 212.35.0.45:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 4f12270b6423265d2d7e0946651b1a57 localhost.localdomain/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 b8c32f12b2647caeba036f823fcfe0c6 aiglenoir:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 c65f970f57b10a2767d8a0ef360f31b2 Thanks, ChriS
Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I should have told you to censor the keys, because they are sensitive info. :-( For your safety, I strongly recommend restarting the X server on *all* machines mentioned in your listing (if you haven't done yet after xauth list). It's Ok -- I'm not permanently conncted to the net... But however, how do you disable all X connections to my box (from outside, not another local user)? Some names are really old names for this machines that are no longer in use. Does it matter that they are listed? I'm still using slink, but I had a similar problem with some unofficial X packages. I wasn't able to figure out what the problem was, so I reverted to official slink X packages. I suppose it had something to do with confusion about plaintext (MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1) vs. DES (XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1) authorization. Well, these are the official X packages (of potato test 1, I have to ugrade to potato final still). Are you using xdm? Then you might also want to check xauth -f /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/YOUR_FILENAME list and compare the key(s) to your xauth list output. You can find out the filename this way: ps auxw | grep X.*-auth it's after the -auth command line option to your X server. Well, the key are a subset of those given by xauth list (the ones I am currently using I guess). The important diagnostic info is whether keys are the same, not their actual value. Thanks, ChriS
C programming
Hi the list,
I apologize if that is a little bit off topic but I am a bit puzzled
and I know there are experts on this list. I would like an
explanation on why the two for below give different results.
Thanks,
ChriS
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#include stdio.h
main()
{
double x, y, z;
int t;
for(x=.5, y=1./4., t=1; z= x + y, z x; y /=2, t++)
;
printf(t=%i\n, t);
for(x=.5, y=1./4., t=1; x+y x; y /=2, t++)
;
printf(t=%i\n, t);
}
Re: C programming
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, John Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) This is NOT for a programming assignment. ;-)
Ho, no! :-) These are just some experiments.
2) Using the comma within a condition is treated as AND (). That's
messier code than I usually create.
Well, this is uncorrect. Execute
main()
{
int i;
for(i=1; 0, i 10; i++)
printf(%i\n, i);
}
ANSI C states:
A pair of expressions separated by a coma is evaluated left to
right, and the value of the left expression is discarded.
Thanks for taking the time to reply,
ChriS
cos() in math.h ?
Hi all, According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the error: /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I got the necessary packages to compile (e.g., libc6-dev). Any idea what is the cause ? ChriS
Re: cos() in math.h ?
Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is there any info on that subject you can refer me to? Thanks from a C newbie, ChriS
Re: SGML beginners question
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:18:27AM +, Tony wrote: ^ ^Eric G . Miller wrote: ^ ^ really slick and well formatted documents. And for writing something ^ like a thesis, using BibTeX makes it easy to handle citations. ^ ^Yes. ^ ^Latex + bibtex + Emacs + AUCTeX + bib-cite + RefTeX + font-latex ^ ^Good stuff. ^-- Yes, I basically agree with that, but getting the document into html as well as ps I have found to be a bore. Lat time I tried latex2html on a 100,000 word tex document, it died miserably. Are there better alternatives for producing html from complex latex sources? You can also look at tex4ht. It is a debian package. It works well on most of the documents I tried. But I had some trouble sometimes with \maketitle. In such cases I just commente it out when making the hmtl-file. The .deb is a bit outdated. Dowload it directly (with the updates) from `http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html'. Also, don't hesitate to write your questions/suggestions to Eitan Gurari -- my experience is that he is very responsive. ChriS
Re: Nouvelle version
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: [And how do you type accented characters on an English keyboard?] Use Emacs. « C-x RET C-\ » and select « latin-1-prefix ». Another solution is to redefine the keymap (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/). I have done it for easier access (plus I want both hard and soft « ^ », « ¨ »,...) Chriß
netscape 4.73 su -
Hi, I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have two accounts prem and sec. Do - log in as prem - launch netscape - xhost +local: - su - sec - export DISPLAY=:0 - launch netscape The second netscape I got is the one of prem, not the one of sec as expected. If I don't launch netscape as prem, i.e., if I do - log in as prem - xhost +local: - su - sec - export DISPLAY=:0 - launch netscape everything is fine. If somebody know why this happens and a workaround, I will be glad to hear them. Thanks, ChriS
Re: mounting cdroms
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I give normal users permissions to mount cd-roms? Do I add them to a group?? Which one? Please 'CC' me in a reply. man fstab /user My /etc/fstab line: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 00 ChriS
Re: no ppp after update potato
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a potato update on my notebook and afterwards I couldn't connect to my ISP with pon/poff. pppconfig doesn't recognize my cardmodem anymore which used to be /dev/ttyS1. I reinstalled pcmcia support, but to no avail. I noticed setserial was updated, so what's up with that? Or is it something else? Please help because without my modem I can't install new software. Thanks, Hans Yes, it seems to be kind of a common problem -- I hope it will be fixed for the final release of potato. After loading your card, execute (as root): IRQ=$(setserial /dev/$DEVICE | sed -e 's/^.*IRQ: //') setserial /dev/$DEVICE irq 0 setserial /dev/$DEVICE irq $IRQ If that works (i.e., your modem is detected -- use minicom), I suggest you modify /etc/pcmcia/serial accordingly or (easier) update to pcmcia-cs 3.1.14-1 (in woody). Good luck, ChriS
PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols
Hi, I needed to recompile a kernel to support some hardware on my laptop. Thus also the PCMCIA modules needed to be build. I issued: make-kpkg modules_clean make-kpkg modules_image and installed. All went fine. Except with depmod (in the postinstall script or otherwise) which gives me `Unresolved symbols' for the PCMCIA modules (even for PCMCIA_core). I compiled from the Debian packaged kernel PCMCIA sources, namely: kernel-source-2.2.15 1:2.2.15-2 pcmcia-source3.1.8-13 Any help would be very much appreciated --- especially as I have to reboot with the old kernel to get connected.. Thanks, ChriS
Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process, but I don't know an easy way to determine which file or process. lsof | grep usr is a start, but provides too long a list. Is there an easier way? man fuser ChriS
Options for automatic recompilation
Hi everybody, I know apt-get --compile source pkg will download and recompile the package for me but I was wondering if there is a standard way (i.e., not modifying debian/rules but changing a config file for apt-get) to pass optimizations for i586 processors? I indeed like to optimize e.g. computation intensive packages... ChriS
Re: xterm xterm-debian
On Thu, 18 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best the best way to avoid having ot reset my terminal variable everytime I telnet to a site that does not know what xterm-debian is? Since this happens quite often it is getting a little tedious. Make a script. For example I use the following: -- #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin ALLARGS=$@ ## Only the last part of the options, the host TELNETHOST=$(echo $ALLARGS | sed -e s/^.*[[:blank:]]\+\([[:alnum:].]*\)[[:blank:]]*$/\1/) ## The machine name (no domain): SHORTHOST=$(echo $TELNETHOST | sed -e s/\..*$//) exec rxvt -bg Black -fg White -cr Red -font fixed \ -name remotexterm -T Telnet: $TELNETHOST -n $SHORTHOST \ -e sh -c export TERM=vt100; telnet $ALLARGS -- You use it like telnet. This is bind to menu entries on my system, so it opens a new window (with a red cursor to indicate telnet is fundamentally unsecure). ChriS
Re: Creating booklets with Latex
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once upon a time, I heard Nils-Erik Svangård say I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using either lpr -Cduplex or using a program called psbook. But I havent figured out how to print it on A5 paper (A6 booklets). Does anyone have experiance makeing booklets? I did sth like this a while ago. What I did was, fist use psresize to resize A4-A5, then psnup to fit two A5s into one A4, then psbook to split them in booklets, and viola print them. I guess that you might need psnup to fit two A6s into one A5, then psbook and print it Depending on what you aim to, resize may not be the answer because it will shrink the chars (and is unecessary here). Rather, create A5 (or A6) documents directly in LaTeX, psbook and psnup them, then print. I had to make booklets in a very different context a while ago. Maybe the files at http://cantorumh.dyndns.org/preprints/index.dir/index2.html may provide you with some inspiration. ChriS
Re: ICQ
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and won't let you create new accounts. I personally use gnomeicu (http://gnomeicu.gdev.net/) which is well featured but I heard some people like ICQnix (http://icqnix.linuxave.net/) whose look is closer to the Windows client. ChriS
Re: Mail/news software
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Kovacs Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What mail and news software do you recommend? The ideal software would be able to handle both mail and news in an integrated manner, place incoming and outgoing messages into folders automatically using header info, integrate with PGP/GPG, handle UU/MIME attachments, thread messages, fetch using POP3 and send via SMTP, would have a GUI that allows multiple windows to be open for composing and reading mail/articles, and would be easy to use and free of charge. Mew http://www.mew.org/ has all that (plus much more, particularly important for me is the ablility to manage several identities with associated headers, signature,...). But I won't hide that it is still under heavy development and _some_ of the more advanced features are still implemented rather crudely. ChriS
Re: Scrolling with a Wheel Mouse in Netscape
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Eric Hagglund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got on Collas Nahaboo's Wheel Mouse web page. I was able to use the information on it to get my xterm to scroll previous output, but I'm still having problems getting Netscape to work. The information on Collas' page said to add some lines to /.Xdefaults, but I find no such file on my system. I tried creating an .Xdefaults in my user directory, but this had no effect on Netscape. After creating ~/.Xdefaults you have to issue xrdb ~/.Xdefaults to update the database. ChriS
