Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:20:19PM -0700, Jack Lee wrote: Hi: Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second IDE HD (/dev/hdd) is the slave drive on second IDE controller. Try putting lilo on floppy, and boot from A: Also, use 'liloconfig'... it has nice menu.
Re: Logitech Mouseman / X
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:55:59AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:47:48AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: boot, 'Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.' Yes, I see this on bootup and the mouse does work with gpm so I think the problem is related to X only. Protocol MouseMan Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggested I try MouseManPlusPS/2 but this had the same effect ... mouse jitters around the screen and ends in top left corner. As an experiment I plugged on a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and this does the same as the logitech ... left corner. Device/dev/psaux Yes that's what I'm using. I have noticed one thing though. There is an error in X's startup messages: /dev/mouse Unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device) I'm not sure why X is even looking for /dev/mouse since I tell it /dev/psaux so I removed /dev/mouse and linked it to /dev/psaux but still get the same error. I will for now just use a serial mouse ... must get back to work :-( Fraser Try Protocol PS/2 Device/dev/psaux (or /dev/mouse if you link it)
Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 09:12:16PM -0700, André Bell wrote: Thanks Aaron, Crazy as this may sound, I'm trying to simulate a local connection to my hosted domain so I can see how different perl scripts will react _before_ I add them to my hosted domain. I know i could simply ftp them to my hosted domain and then test them but that is a pain because it takes soo long to ftp files, access them with a browser to see if there are errors, edit the scripts, and re-ftp them all over again. Of course instead of connecting my two os's I could run netscape on my linux system as http://localhost and see how the scripts handle with netscape, but there are other browsers, etc that function differently. I want to to see how the other browsers respond to the scripts. Some scripts work just fine on one browser but return blank pages on another. Since not all perl instructions work in a win95 environment I can't test them on my win95 pc. Instead I have to run them on linux to get them to work locally, then ftp them to my domain to see how they respond to different browsers by accessing them with my win95 pc. At 56k connections FTP'ing files to test them online is a very slow process. I wish to avoid these hassles of ftp'ing the files to my hosted domain to find out if the scripts work properly with a variety of browsers when I can simply g connect my win95 pc to my linux pc and go for broke locally. I've considered purchasing that $299 software that allows me to virtually run multiple os's on the same linux platform and at the same time but I haven't found a recommendation from an actual user. Oh, m linux pc also has win95 installed so once I have networked the two pc's together I can hopefully play head-to-head games once in a while with the kids :) Andre' Answer to the subject heading: yes. Standard solution is to mount Linux drive in Win95, after which you can excess your files using file://. Telnetting to your hosted site is another idea that I saw in this thread. Here, I have Win95 and Linux connected using 10base2 (coax); and, my Linux can mount Win95 shared drive, but Win95, as yet, refuses to see anything under Linux. Yours truly, William Park
(3c509) Selecting 10baseT or 10base2 ?
Hi, My 3Com509B ethernet card uses 10BaseT (twisted pair) port by default. How do I enable 10Base2 (coaxial) port instead? Yours truly, William Park
Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 11:24:46AM -0700, Chris Beaumont wrote: Hello, I'm just curious what people are using to write HTML with on Debian, The available editors ive tried so far all seem *so* clunky and unsuited to the task... cut and paste works irregularly if at all, no facilities for previewing.. etc. Am I missing some obvious choice? Ive used Gxedit, nedit, thisedit, thatedit.. Basically what I'm looking for is a workhorse editor that I can use as my main HTML tool. I use 'vim' but others use 'emacs'. Syntax coloring looks cool at first, but after awhile it gives you headache. On Linux, you are pretty much limited to either vi-clones or emacs-clones. Is there anything Linux-friendly with anything approaching the feature set of the program that I am used to, BBEdit on the Power Macintosh... Any suggestions are welcome.. I'm also looking for HTML template and preprocessor solutions... Thank you!* Chris Beaumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xdvi problem after upgrade
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 02:36:44PM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi all, After upgrading the system from Debian2.0 to Debian2.1 (slink) something strange happend to the fonts in xdvi. The letters are colored a bit and look like doubled. Can someone please give me an advice what files should I check? I use the standard Debian tetex. Thanks! -- Tad Try removing all the old .pk files, and run 'xdvi' again. I never had any problem with teTeX-0.4, 0.9, or 1.0.5, so I can't say exactly what's wrong. William
Re: need monitor specs.
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:16:58AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My SVGA monitor is rapidly losing all contrast (I expect it is about to fail). I have two older SVGA monitors and I'd like to be able to use one of them until I get a chance to pick up a new one. They work fine in console mode, but I don't have the manuals or any other information to set them up for X. If anyone either has the correct XF86Config entries or a reference to where I can find the specs, I would appreciate the information. The monitors are: IBM 8512-001 Samsung CVL-4951 Bob Here is where I found specs a while ago. Site for checking CRT Specs: http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/monitor.html Also, http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz/monitor-timings.html http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html http://www.amsinc.net/ http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitor.html William Park
how to burn CD with IDE/ATAPI CD-RW burner?
Hi, I am trying to burn CDs using Mitsumi CR-2600-TE which is IDE/ATAPI cd reader/writer. 1) ISO-9660 image is made with mkisofs -r -D -o /tmp/local.iso /usr/local -x /usr/local/lost+found which produces CD image file 'local.iso'. 2) 'SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices' is loaded during boot with /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi as 'CD-Writing-HOWTO' says, since I don't have SCSI machine or kernel. 3) But, I can't seem to get my CD-RW recognized by the system. Trying cdrecord -scanbus produces Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. If anyone successfully used IDE/ATAPI cd-rw device with basic IDE/ATAPI kernel (+ whatever modules), I would appreciate very much if you could give me some pointers. Yours truly, William Park
Re: LaTeX
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 07:05:46AM -0700, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
Hello,
I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was wondering
whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does
mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to LaTeX
(understatement), so a GUI-based version would be cool.
thanks for any help!
-lev
Judging from the question, you most definitely are newbie... heh, heh.
The basic steps in using TeX/LaTeX are
1. type/edit ASCII file, say 'test.tex'
2. run 'latex' to get 'test.dvi' containing all the font references
3. run 'dvips' to get Postscript file 'test.ps' or run 'xdvi' to
preview the .dvi file
You can also produce PCL file for HP Lasejet printers.
As for the integrals,
\int_{0}^{\infty} -- produces integral from 0 to infinity
William Park
Re: How do I access dos partitions?
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 10:01:44PM -0400, hammy wrote: Hi, as a novice linux user, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to access my dos partition from within linux. My computer is setup with a linux partition, a linux swap partition and a dos partition. mount -t msdos /dev/hda? /dos where /dev/hda? is your DOS partitions /dos is any directory that must be exist (if not, create it) Also, is there any program that will let me choose which operating system to boot up with? Any help is greatly appreciated. It's called LILO. Run 'liloconfig' to configure it, or run 'man lilo'. William Park
Re: Netscape 3.
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:07:22AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: FC == Fu-Dong Chiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FC Can anyone tell me where I can find Netscape 3? I remember older FC versions of Netscape are stored in an archive, accessible via FC browsers, but can't remember the URL now. Thanks! Check dpkg --print-avail netscape3 Ciao, Martin Netscape 2 and 3 can be found at http://www.netscape.com/download/archive/index.html William
Re: Partitioning hard disk
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: snip.../snip This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: /hda1 40MB swap hda2 8MB /usr hda3 68MB swap hdb1 8MB /usr hdb2 250MB where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 partitions or will X complain? Thanks, Michelle No, you cannot do that --- one partition, one mounting point. Also, try to increase swap size to 32Mb. Why are you making 2 8Mb swap partitions, when single 16Mb will do? My recommendattion is use 116Mb hard disk for / and swap use 258Mb hard disk for /usr, /home/, or whatever.
Re: Space in Linux Partition
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: How do I check the space I have left on the partition? Regards, Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page me at : http://wwp.mirabilis.com/361853#pager SBN Level 2 Member HTML Writers Guild Member Try 'man df'.
Re: simple graphics in latex
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 03:17:49PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I need to include some simple graphics(boxes, triangles, similar to a flow chart) in my latex document. I am wondering: Will it be easier to use gimp and xfig to draw the chart first and then include it in latex as a picture, OR use some sort of latex packages to do it straight in latex. Which method will you recommand? And How do i do it?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ Well, it depends how complicated your drawing is. My solution would be to use PiCTeX; LaTeX's picture box is available, but it's pain. Draw your graph on paper first, then translate the coordinates to PiCTeX. Your graph would be something like $$\beginpicture ... \endpicture$$ I also wrote a PiCTeX extension to use relative coordinates. But, you have to know PiCTeX in order to use it. William Park
Re: Fax software
On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:47:34AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: I'm running a Debian 2.0-based system (with some newer packages installed as needed). My CD-ROM contains these fax packages: 1)Hylafax/tkhylafax 2)efax 3)mgetty-fax I will primarily need software to *send* faxes, as I have set up an account with www.efax.com to receive them. (I only have one phone line and my system isn't always turned on, so receiving faxes via my modem would be problematic.) Which of the three programs/suites above do you folks recommend? I don't need anything very elaborate, because I rarely have occasion to send a fax. (Which is, of course, why I don't own a fax machine.) Thanks for any help. If desired, I can digest personal replies for the list, but that custom appears to be dying out. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun I have efax-0.8a, and used it to send text and postscript files. I chose it because it's small. William
Re: cut paste using mouse
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 08:29:28PM -0800, mao jud wrote: hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting. any help (or pointers to the right HOWTO's to read) will be very much appreciated. thanks, mao click and drag left button - cut highlighted text double click left button- cut word triple click left button- cut line middle button - paste click left and click right - cut region Just curious, since I'm thinking about moving from my current Slackware 3.3 to Debian 2.1. Why did you switch to Debian? William Park
Re: Screen capture program?
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:42:03AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: I'm putting together a Linux presentation for a communications class, and I'd like to be able to show some images of my desktop running several different apps. Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's on the desktop? TIA -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org xgrab
Re: Latex -- Plz help
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:08:41PM +, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I know that I should not fight the layout against latex. But I
really like to do the following in latex for my resume.
I tried to use the tabular environment and not very pleased with the
outcome...
I want to do something like this in latex:
University Courses:
First Year
-Computing 1A(Functional Programming)
-Computing 1B(Procefure Programming)
-Higher Mathematics 1A
-
Work Experence:
-Programmer
at
-Administrator
at.
-help desk at the university of
New South Walesl
and ..
I use the following code in latex to produce the about format:
\begine{supertabular}{ll}
University Courses: \\
First Year \\
-\hspace{0.5cm} Computing 1A \\
..
Work Experence: \\
-\hspace{0.5cm} Programmer at.. \\
I cannot use the tabular with {lll} because I actually want the second
and the third column overlap. Also, with the above code, latex does not
automatically break the line for me it writes everything in one
line
Please help me
Thanks for any advise in advance(PS. I do have the latex companion
bood, but could not find anything useful to above)
--
Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _
Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _
University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` |
Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, |
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|___/
_
Why don't you use list? Eg.
\begin{description}
\item[University Courses:] \\
\begin{description}
\item[First Year] \\
\begin{itemize}
\item Computing 1A (Functional Programming)
\item ...
\end{itemize}
\end{description}
\item[Work Experience:]
...
\item[at..]
...
\item[at..]
...
\end{description}
Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:26:12PM -0600, rich wrote: I don't know what kind of statistics you do, but try Octave which is GNU clone of MatLab. For graph, I use Python to analyze the data, and PiCTeX to plot and typeset the graph. Yours truly, William Park Actually, I looked at Octave and it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for (or maybe it is and I just don't know it?)... I need a program that can handle statistical tests such as ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, MRC, t-tests, chi-square... that type of stuff (used mainly for determining statistical differences between groups of subjects)... Can Octave do that stuff? Someone mentioned that SPSS was ported to Linux - this would probably be appropriate (although I really can't stand that program) Thanks again, Rich Try - GNU's software page http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html - Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/ - ftp file searcher http://filewatcher.org/ - http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml - http://net.indra.com/~sullivan/q10.html
Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote: Hello all, I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing my data, I use SigmaPlot for windows. A call to all scientists out there - are there any native X-based programs that are as good as these? Although these programs are excellent, I would rather not trust my dissertation to the OS I have come to call Sir Crash-a-lot... My only other option is to use a windows emulator (like WINE)... Thanks in advance, Rich I don't know what kind of statistics you do, but try Octave which is GNU clone of MatLab. For graph, I use Python to analyze the data, and PiCTeX to plot and typeset the graph. Yours truly, William Park
Re: problem sending mail...
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote: Folks, Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I know I'm able to get out of my ISP's domain. However, other addresses get bounced back almost immediately with the follow header: mail failed, returning to sender From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jesse |- Failed addresses follow: -| [To: address snipped] ... transport smtp: 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must exist |- Message text follows: | Received: by debian via sendmail from stdin id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for unknown; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:41:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [To: address snipped] Subject: Re: visiting CA Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:35:01 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: (I've snipped out the address of the person I'm mailing to for the sake of maintaining their privacy). My own machine is named 'debian' and I'm 'jesse' on that machine. I connect to the Internet via Earthlink. I can mail this message ok, so what's up? -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse It looks like the recipient's mail server insists on legal sender's address on email envelope. For example, your envelope From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 1 23:47:45 1999 is rejected because '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is not legal internet address. I had similar problem, some time ago. My solution was to re-generate /etc/sendmail.cf from /usr/src/sendmail/cf/cf/linux.smtp.mc: include(`../m4/cf.m4') VERSIONID(`linux for smtp-only setup')dnl OSTYPE(linux) FEATURE(nouucp)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(better.net)dnl-- my ISP FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl -- my addition FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl It turned out the following section controls how sendmail writes an envelope: ### ### Ruleset 94 -- convert envelope names to masqueraded form ### ### S94 R$+ $@ $93 $1 #R$* @ *LOCAL* $* $: $1 @ $j . $2 --William.
Re: Minicom Help
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:44:20PM -0700, BOHICA wrote: OK, silly question: How do I tell minicom to connect to a serial port (i.e. /dev/ttyS0) so that I can talk to the serial terminal of a 3Com hub? I have had no problem setting up and configuring minicom for the dial-in modem for the main hub bank, but currently I have a need to pre-configure some hubs for a standalone lab, thus the serial port connection. I read through the man pages as well as doing a search on the FAQ-O-MATIC and list archives, but didn't see anything relating to this in particular. Any and all help is appreciated. - BOHICA 'minicom -s' (or Alt-o or whatever), 'Serial port setup', then 'Serial device' (option A)
Re: lynx + cookies
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:59:25PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! What do I touch in order to have lynx accept all cookies always? I've looked at the /etc/lynx.cfg file, and the cookies options looks like it makes lynx 'ignore' cookies. TIA! Look into ~/.lynxrc or 'o' option
Re: latex
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 07:38:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode.
This is what I have done.
\paragraph { hello world\footnotemark }
\footnotetext{hello world}
what did I do wrong??
There must be a reason for not writing it as
hello world\footnote{hello world}
isn't there?
Also, how do I break text into paragraphs without any white
spaces at the beginning of each paragraph. I am using paragraph within
section, but even if I use \noindent, it still put some white spaces at
the beginning of each paragraph. This is what I did:
\section{...}
\paragraph\noindent { ... }
'\parindent=0pt' would do it. Now, you won't be able to tell one
paragraph from another, unless you put extra vertical '\parskip'
between them. Again, why are you using \paragraph? I never ever use
it.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Shao.
Re: latex
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:45:18PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, William Park wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 07:38:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode.
This is what I have done.
\paragraph { hello world\footnotemark }
\footnotetext{hello world}
what did I do wrong??
There must be a reason for not writing it as
hello world\footnote{hello world}
isn't there?
Well, that is what I read from the book. It says if you want to
use footnote within {...}, then you will have to use \footnotetext
\footnotetext to overcome this problem.
Usually, \footnote is designed to work in paragraph mode. So,
\paragraph{...} is not really necessary.
Also, how do I break text into paragraphs without any white
spaces at the beginning of each paragraph. I am using paragraph within
section, but even if I use \noindent, it still put some white spaces at
the beginning of each paragraph. This is what I did:
\section{...}
\paragraph\noindent { ... }
'\parindent=0pt' would do it. Now, you won't be able to tell one
paragraph from another, unless you put extra vertical '\parskip'
between them. Again, why are you using \paragraph? I never ever use
it.
Thanks. I will try that. I don't know why I am using it. I just
want to break them into paragraphs, so what command should I use
instead??
Paragraphs are delimited by one or more blank lines. A blank line is
composed of spaces, tabs, or no characters.
I bought the book Latex Companion, I read a bit of it already, but
I still don't have an idea, when should I use what command. I guess I
must
be learning in a wrong way.
I have the book, but it is difficult to digest for a beginner. I
recommend the original book by Leslie Lamport (2nd edition).
Thanks again for the help! :)
Thanks for any help in advance!
Shao.
Re: Tex
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:27:34PM -0600, David Webster wrote: Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? teTeX is TeX/LaTeX distribution for Unix. TeX/LaTeX is computer typesetting software usually used for documents containing text, graphic, and math (a lot of math). TeX is basic engine, and LaTeX is macro package on top. They are another markup language like HTML, in that you concentrate on document structure (eg. title, section, list, ...) and the program implements the formating (eg. font size, style, reference, hypenation, ...) William Park.
Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how to do this, or where I can find out how to? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a (assuming MS-DOS floppy) 2. Is there a way to show only on screen at a time using ls (like in DOS dir/p)? ls | less 3. I type mount --help and the help scrolls by so fast I cannot read it. How can I change this? mount --help | less (or mount --help 21 | less) man mount (better) JAK Knowledge is power __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: How do I change to a color monitor?
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ls --color displays, and also Lynx screens, are still using underlining high-intensity, instead of real colors. I assume you are in shell console, not in xterm. The color support should be on by default. In any case, edit /etc/DIR_COLORS (for ls) ~/.lynxrc (for lynx) -- From: Shaleh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: How do I change to a color monitor? Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 10:06AM On 12-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I replaced my mono VGA monitor with a color monitor. Now what do I change in Debian (2.0, from Cheapbytes cd)? What needs changing? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fax software?
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Daryl Williams wrote: does anyone know if there are any fax server software that will run on linux? I use efax for sending. I never tried receiving.
Re: Removeing N lines from a file
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines from a file but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any part of the file. The top 10 lines from each of these files vary in what they may contain so I need to indiscriminately delete them. I figured gawk is what I would need to use to perform this task but if someone ones of something else that might do this that would be fine too. To remove top 10 lines, tail -n +11 To show only top 10 lines, head -n 10 To show only lines [11,20], tail -n +11 | head -n 10
Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this behavior configured? Christopher -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Commands are set -o emacs set -o vi Now, as far as where this is set... try to look into /etc/profile ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bashrc To find other files, try man bash
Re: minicom config
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get away from my modem failing to hang up properly and am attempting to install mimicom. I went through the configuration process and as root, the program at least starts the dialup process. I aborted because I didn't want to be on line while in root. I then switched over as regular user and got the following message: ~$ minicom d minicom: there is no global configuration file /etc/minirc.d Ask your sysadm to create one (with minicom -s). Well I used minicom -s at the command line which takes me to the main configuration screen. I assume the file /etc/minirc.d goes in Filenames and pathsthe problem is I don't know which line to put the file in from the choices below: A - Download directory : B - Upload directory : C - Script directory : D - Script program : /usr/bin/runscript E - Kermit program : /usr/bin/kermit -l %l -b %b I would guess Script directory but I really don't have a clue and I don't want to screw this up. I am also assuming that I put /etc/minirc.d in either A, B, or C, as root and the program will make the appropriate file for me? I have been through the minicom man page and don't see anything about /etc/minirc.d. I tried messing with the minicom.users file to see if that would help, but it didn't. I would appreciate your help. Thanks, Kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null When you save from minicom -s as root, it will save to /etc/minirc.dfl; so, rename it to /etc/minicom.d.
Re: .fvwm2rc
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, ktb wrote: Hi, I'm following the directions of the X Window User HOWTO at The Linux Documentation Project and trying to get my window manager fvwm2 to read the file .fvwm2rc. I moved /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc to my home directory as instructed. I used: cp -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc /home/kent The manager doesn't seem to be reading this file as the article said it would. I know that /home/kent is set in the path variable. I noticed that the file's group permissions and owners changed even though I used -p with the cp command. Here is the file before I copied it: ~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 12 13:34 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2/.fvwm2rc - /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc Here is the file in my home directory: ~$ ls -l .fvwm2rc -rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent10883 May 2 1998 .fvwm2rc I may be wrong but I'm thinking the reason my windows manager isn't reading the file is because the file in my home directory has the wrong permissions, owner and group. I tried to find info on the .fvwm2rc file about this but couldn't find any. Anybody know how I can get fvwm to recognize .fvwm2rc? Thanks, Kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Permissions, owner, and group are as expected, and I don't think they would matter as long as you have read-permission for ~/.fvwm2rc. Maybe 'fvwm2' is looking for '~/.fvwmrc'?
RE: Learning more/Linux programming books
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:01:35 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: You can start with any language. For a complete beginner, I would advocate Scheme. Even if you don't want to do big projects in Scheme, you can start very fast. A good book on programming (using Scheme) is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson/Sussman. I don't know, I think if there were a language to start newbies out on, it is perl. Don't have to worry about many of the things that other languages force upon you yet gives you a good gounding in how those other languages work. How does Python rate as a beginners language? I would recommend Python www.python.org.
