Re: unix locate cmd

2002-10-01 Thread Frank Heitmann


 The file is called xinitrc not .xinitrc
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc if user has no .xinitrc file
which would reside in ~  (so it's ~/.xinitrc).

See startx(1) - and my system were it works with ~/.xinitrc :)

Cheers,
Frank

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Re: xterm and colors

2002-09-28 Thread Frank Heitmann

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote:

 How do i set the colors so when I just use ls I get the color
 directories and the rest of colors? I just want the basic colors
 that I can get without having to do alot of configuring.
Have you set your TERM environment variable to 'xterm-color' ?

The way to do this differs depending on the shell you use, if it's
bash just type:
export TERM=xterm-color

if it's csh type:
setenv TERM xterm-color

(There are more shells, look at the man page of your shell for more
details!)

Hope that helps,
Cheers and Good Morning :)
Frank

P.S. I have read that in new versions of FreeBSD the TERM variable
is set to xterm-color by default, but I have forgotten if this is
already done in -stable or if this is done in -current - and I
don't know which version of FreeBSD you are running :)

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centericq and xterm

2002-09-27 Thread Frank Heitmann

Hi.

Yesterday I posted a message describing a problem with centericq
and X (running centericq in an xterm console did not work at my
system, because the arrow keys did not work right from the start).

Today I was able to solve that problem by changing ESCDELAY=0 to
ESCDELAY=1 in conscommon.cc and compile it again.

Anyway, I still wonder if anyone has had the same problem and
has maybe solved it? Tommorow I will read further in the curses
documentation to find out more; maybe there is a better way to
tweak it, but maybe I am going in the wrong direction?!

Cheers - and good night :)
Frank

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Re: there must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread Frank Heitmann


 Did you never consider that FreeBSD is a server system?
I use it as a desktop system, I hope that's also ok :)

And to the original poster: I have used Windows all my life
(ok, it's not that long, because I have just become 22, but
in computer-years it's a lot :)   and have just started to
use FreeBSD two month ago, and I won't deny if someone says
it's hard to learn (Unix in general), but if you spend a
lot of time reading and learning and practising then you
will notice what a great system it is.
Also as a desktop system :)

Cheers,
Frank

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xterm and centericq

2002-09-26 Thread Frank Heitmann

Hi.

I have just installed centericq from the ports but
when I execute it I am not able to use the arrow
keys in the configuration screen.

I try to run it under X in a xterm console with
TERM=xterm-color (when I am not running X and have
TERM=cons25l1 everything works fine).

I have read the readme and the FAQ, but haven't found
anything - any ideas or hints ?
Maybe I have to tweak some X keyboard configurations?!

Greets,
Frank

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Re: xterm and centericq

2002-09-26 Thread Frank Heitmann

 I have just installed centericq from the ports but
 when I execute it I am not able to use the arrow
 keys in the configuration screen.
 
 I try to run it under X in a xterm console with
 TERM=xterm-color.

One more thing to add: In programs like mutt, slrn
and midnight commander the arrow keys work fine.

Cheers,
Frank

P.S. Sorry for reply instead of a new post.

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Re: gethostbyname

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Heitmann

 Anyone have a simple example of how to use this function..

This should work (and is really reduced to a minimum)

=

struct hostent *hostentry;

if ( (hostentry = gethostbyname(localhost)) == NULL) {
// Error handling
}
printf(Name: %s; Alias: %s\n,
   hostentry-h_name, hostentry-h_aliases[0]);

=

At my system the output is just:
Name: localhost; Alias: (null)

Note that gethostbyname tries to get information from the nameserver
or /etc/hosts. (I don't know if the order in which these are accessed
depends on /etc/host.conf and I also do not know if the lookup in
/etc/hosts only occurs if the local name server is not running - it
seems so to me, according to gethostbyname(3))

Cheers,
Frank

--
Be aware that this message has been written by a FreeBSD newbie!
Using FreeBSD for approximately 6 weeks and 3 days now :)

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