Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Jim Pick
Which leads on to the question: which one of the Windows emulators available does Linus Torvalds actually use? Does anyone know? He has contributed to the wine project in the past. WABI and TWIN are fairly new developments, maybe he uses those too. I use wine here to run a solitaire game I

Incorporation and Version Numbering

1997-08-28 Thread shawn . fumo
Hello everyone. I don't want to start up this big thread again in a list it doesn't belong in, but I thought I should write something First, to Dave on the incorporation, I might not agree it is as bad a thing as you think, but I can see where you are coming from. The thing is, though, is

java/c++ ide

1997-08-28 Thread Craig Sanders
somebody was recently asking about an IDE for java. I just found the following on comp.os.linux.announce, dated 28th June (i don't have time to read it regularly any more) From: Falko Braeutigam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: WipeOut 1.07 - C++/Java Development

The GNOME Desktop project (fwd)

1997-08-28 Thread Craig Sanders
here's an alternative for all those who like the idea of KDE, but don't like the fact that it's based on a non-free GUI toolkit. this one's based on the Gimp's GTK, which *is* free. enjoy -- Forwarded message -- From: Miguel de Icaza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups:

Re: reading mail locally

1997-08-28 Thread Debian mail-lists receiver
Hi. I don't know that much about delivery, but you might want to check out if your remote server supports a post-office-protocol (like POP3?). I use this to download my mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my remote mail server (mail.strhg1.mi.home.com), specifically I use the fetchmail package to do

RE: Win 95 + Linux

1997-08-28 Thread wb2oyc
On 05:51:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to connect a win95 machine to a linux with a serial cable using PPP? -- The question in my mind is why you'd even bother? Just use slattach. On the Win95, the SLIP support is there, but its hidden. You'll have to get it off the CD

Re: Incorporation and Version Numbering

1997-08-28 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm not posting any more messages about this on debian-user. Take it up on debian-devel or in private mail if you wish. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP

[QF] fetchmail

1997-08-28 Thread kestrel
I ran fetchmail -a -v -k and got the following: fetchmail: 3.8.0 querying orion (protocol POP3) at Wed Aug 27 21:46:49 1997 fetchmail: POP3 +OK QPOP (version 2.2) at orion.aye.net starting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 USER kestrel fetchmail: POP3 +OK Password required for kestrel.

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-28 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I have need for something to show me the load on an interface and so far I have not been able to find anything. tcpview looks promising but there is no binary. Any ideas? I'm interested in both eth0 and ppp0 interfaces. Check out http://www.chariot.com/linapps.html there might be help

Need pppd/PAP guru!

1997-08-28 Thread Kevin Traas
Just recently, I've implemented an ISDN connection to my ISP. However, I've never been able to use more than one of the B channels at a time - i.e. no MPPP. I'm using a Hayes Accura ISDN External TA attached to a Hayes ESP running at 460Kbps. I've only been able to get the connection working

adding users with samba

1997-08-28 Thread Jason Killen
I have just dpkged samba and I am trying to set up users. I need to create a samba login for everyone in /etc/passwd. I haven't found an easy way to do this, or any way that actually worked. When I run addtosmbpass it just sits. I guess my question is what is the syntax for running

Errors from make config

1997-08-28 Thread Steve Mayer
Manoj, Here are the error messages that are referenced to stdlib.h: gcc -o configure configure.c In file included from configure.c:21: /usr/include/stdlib.h:333: parse error before `*' /usr/include/stdlib.h:336: parse error before `wchar_t' /usr/include/stdlib.h:345: parse error before `*'

Re: sendmail/smail and off-line mail

1997-08-28 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
[This may have been sent twice. Sorry if that is the case.] On Aug 25, 1997, at 12:41, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Apparently I have found that sendmail is easier to setup, than smail. I might be wrong but the horrible sendmail setup stories seem to originate before the use of m4 macros. I

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Ted Harding wrote, :The first sentence I heartily support: when you need to get work done :you are likely to be forced into running an MS-Win application at some :stage and, if you can't run it on Linux, too bad. I would not agree fully with you. I have been off MS-Win for more than 2 years now

Help with EQL

1997-08-28 Thread Rowan Deppeler
Hi All, Could anyone point me towards documentation or help me with setting up EQL? I have installed the module in kernel 2.0.30 without problems but do not know where to go from there? thanks Rowan - Rowan Deppeler System Administrator Cybernex Networking

Re: CDROM death

1997-08-28 Thread tko
Bob Nielsen writes: On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Carl Flippin wrote: Every time I try to access my cdrom under any distribution of Linux, the entire system goes into limbo. My drive is connected to a PAS 16 and it appears that autoprobe is finding it since the light on the drive flashes.

network monitoring program

1997-08-28 Thread Paul Miller
I'm looking for a program that will log when the network goes down and possiblely create a summary file. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

fsck from cron?

1997-08-28 Thread mfrattola
Hi all! I had a problem on a debian box (not related to debian, I think it's hardware) but I'd like to ask here anyway. It's a 1.1 debian box with some upgrade to 1.2, pentium 166/64MB ram, ide disk and aha2940+dat tape (I know, I know server should never use ide - I'll switch to SCSI as soon as

pgp and mail readers

1997-08-28 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have enabled pine to use the alternate editor hack, but was wondering what mail client is primarily used? I have some friends that use mutt, and if I use pine to send encrypted mail to them... all they see is the encrypted data (Something to do with the mime

Re: network monitoring program

1997-08-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : I'm looking for a program that will log when the network goes down and : possiblely create a summary file. You might to want to have a look at BigBrother. URL: http://www.iti.qc.ca/iti/users/sean/bb-dnld/ Remco -- // Remco van de Meent //

Re: [QF] fetchmail

1997-08-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hmm, I think we need a smail expert here. (I run sendmail, and have never run anything else) I also think that that (null) should have been your hostname, or your fully qualified domain name, and for some reason it is not set. Have you set up /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf? What

imake

1997-08-28 Thread Casey Feskens
I have recently discovered that imake and therefor xmkmf does not appear on my system. Since these are frequently used commands, I was wondering if anyone knows which package imake is part of. I must be missing a package somewhere, though I thought I had everything installed that I needed.

Re: imake

1997-08-28 Thread Bruce Perens
I think they are xdevel. -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Errors from make config

1997-08-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is quite wierd. I can't duplicate your results, since I have a fully libc6-dev setup, but I lokked at configure file, and all it does prior to the error is include stdio.h and unistd.h, which should not cause a problem. It compiles just fine for me, alas. Try and see

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-28 Thread Rob Browning
Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: problems. 1.2 worked fine, but I upgraded to 1.3.1 and now my monitor does not do 800x600. Did you try su mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.old # Just want to make sure there aren't any old ones lying around to # confuse XF86Setup.

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Tan Wee Yeh ) Ted Harding wrote, :The first sentence I heartily support: when you need to get work done :you are likely to be forced into running an MS-Win application at some :stage and, if you can't run it on Linux, too bad. I would not agree fully with you. I have

GNUS ??

1997-08-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
In some newsgroups about Linux and in the Debian mailing lists I have read some positive remarks about the GNUS mail and news reader, but I can't find it in the Debian distribution. I would like to try it, so: - is it in a Debian package? - if not, from where can I get it? - what else do I need

Re: GNUS ??

1997-08-28 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Gnus is a mailreader that comes with Emacs and XEmacs. I usually start my Gnus session with 'emacs -f gnus' or 'xemacs -f gnus'. See http://www.gnus.org/ for more info about Gnus. Basically if you get either one of the emacsen you get everything that's needed for Gnus too. Gnus has lot's of

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Fredik Ax
On 28 Aug 1997 00:25:53 +0200, Ted Harding wrote: And in this article is stated: However, Microsoft's huge installed base of users and wide range of applications is unlikely to be surpassed, despite what believers in the Linux magic might hope. Linus has no illusions on the

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Ted Harding wrote: However: what about clients who send you data on floppy in MS-Access format, who send you documents, or who expect you to send them documents, in Word format so that they can use them on their own machines etc? Excel spreadsheets? In real life,

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
That sentence: Microsoft's huge installed base of users and wide range of applications is unlikely to be surpassed, despite what believers in the Linux magic might hope is depressingly accurate. There's an awful lot of people out there using a wide range of MS software, and if your living

Re: q-mail: setup problem

1997-08-28 Thread dada
dada wrote: Hi. I just installed qmail in my system to replace smail. When the configurarion script runs, here is that it return me: ** qmailconfig Your hostname is antinoo --here the script stop for a while-- soft error

Re: Changing mouse buttons in Xterm

1997-08-28 Thread Bob Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one change mouse button assignments in Xterm? Is there an initialization file somewhere? I have read the man page, but couldn't figure this out. The default for the paste function for selected text is mouse button # 3, but I only have a 2 button mouse

Debian 1.3 / Adaptec 284x VLB - problem

1997-08-28 Thread Benjamin de Coninck Owe
I am trying to install debian 1.3 om my pc: ALI motherboard Phoenix BIOS 4.03 I486 DX4 - 100MhZ Adaptec 2840A / 42A I am having trouble. Booting the rescuedisk at boot prompt I write: boot: linux aic7xxx=no_reset loading the kernel the computer writes: ... (aic7xxx): Encoutered

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Marc W. Brooks
At 12:35 AM 8/28/97 -0400, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: Maybe its becuase all my presentations to date are quite technical and there is no need for flashy stuff. I would think that XFig, gnuplot and LaTeX could produce all the flashiness that one would need. Later, Marc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
Well, Folks, I found the answer to my question (which emulator does Linus use to run PowerPoint?). Found it on http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue29/interview.html which is an interview with Linus Torvalds. The answer is: Wabi is a nice program (I've been using it to make slides with

Re: Changing mouse buttons in Xterm

1997-08-28 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default for the paste function for selected text is mouse button # 3, but I only have a 2 button mouse and would like to set the paste function to use button # 2. Actually default is 2, however on a 2 button mouse, the button on the right is rigged as button #3.

Re: imake

1997-08-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Casey Feskens wrote: I have recently discovered that imake and therefor xmkmf does not appear on my system. Since these are frequently used commands, I was wondering if anyone knows which package imake is part of. I must be missing a package somewhere, though I thought

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Fredik Ax wrote: I disagree! The office suits for Linux (e.g. StarOffice and Applixware) are starting to get really good. I can't really see any need to run this kind of applications on a windoze system. Can they import and create Word documents? That's *my* problem. The rest of the

Re: Lists of Maintainers

1997-08-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello, Manoj very kindly delegated this job to me. I take it that a few more days will not matter unduely, so I will have a think about what is required and maybe even do a dummy run with half a dozen developers to see what sort of problems appear. Any comments and hints along the way will be

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Andy Kahn
- At 12:35 AM 8/28/97 -0400, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: - Maybe its becuase all my presentations to date are quite - technical and there is no need for flashy stuff. - - I would think that XFig, gnuplot and LaTeX could produce all the - flashiness that one would need. - - Later, - Marc - i

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello, Many thanks for those hints. Ask and it shall be given! I used ethload in my Novell days but had not noted the netdiag and procmeter tools. This really is a wonderful list when free of political junk mail. So thank you Joost, Hamish, Lawrence, Joey, Jim and Rob. Wish me luck while I

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Andy Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: have loads of features. however, i recently took the same data that i was pumping into gnuplot and plopped it into MS Excel, then made terrificly beautiful graphs (multi-column, bar, 3d, etc) with un- believable ease, and then sent them into a PowerPoint

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Scott Hanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) writes: Can they import and create Word documents? That's *my* problem. The rest of the Department expects me to provide Word documents. If I could do that in Linux using StarOffice or Applixware, I'd never need Windows. Applixware can import and

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Scott Hanson ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) writes: Can they import and create Word documents? That's *my* problem. The rest of the Department expects me to provide Word documents. If I could do that in Linux using StarOffice or Applixware, I'd never need

Re: [QF] fetchmail

1997-08-28 Thread G'razel
I ran hostname and hostname -f and got what I had set them to which is just an internal network name, my ISP smtp is orion.aye.net and as far as I can tell my setup is the same as it was before except that now smail seems to not have an SMTP variable, could this be set in the bash profile and

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-28 Thread Clint Adams
gum# depmod -av | less modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory TYPE /lib/modules/boot TYPE /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs etc etc Try this and attempt depmod again: rm `find /lib/modules -name *_MODULES` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-28 Thread Clint Adams
Hmmm, not to my knowledge. Using modutils_2.1.34-5a and tried 2.1.34-5 before that. /etc/conf.modules is substantially the same as the one on my hamm box. Think I'll make a kernel-source-29-deb and let it install itself. You're probably using an older version of kernel-package that

Apache 1.1 docs

1997-08-28 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:27:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) said: jim writes: And more broadly speaking, it seems that the documentation actually needed to run apache was not included in the distribution. There is a apache-doc package containing the documentation. Not for 1.1,

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.1, August 22, 1997 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will utilize the new

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-28 Thread Bart Schuller
On Aug 28, Scott K. Ellis wrote Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.1, August 22, 1997 You might also want to mention perl and libgdbm. I can't tell you exactly what went wrong, but both machines I upgraded had a core-dumping perl. With lots of install

Motif for Linux..

1997-08-28 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello all! I'm looking at buying a copy of Motif for Linux. I've tried lesstif and unfortunately for my current needs it isn't yet stable enough (though, hopefully that will change with time). A friend of mine sent me the following information he gathered up on the web about some of the Motif

Re: Help with EQL

1997-08-28 Thread Jim Pick
Could anyone point me towards documentation or help me with setting up EQL? I have installed the module in kernel 2.0.30 without problems but do not know where to go from there? There is some documentation in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.eql that you might have missed. (from the Linux

dhcpd

1997-08-28 Thread KeyStone Network Sys Admin
Hi, Could you please tell me where i can find documentation on dhcpd installing and setting up on debian. Thank you Lakshmi *** KEYSTONE NETWORK, INC. Tel: (610)431-1995 Internet Service Provider Fax:

Re: GhostScript problem

1997-08-28 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
AK == Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except AK for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line cut AK off. How can I stop this? I'm using a Canon BJ-200e printer. Are you using the same paper

Re: fsck from cron?

1997-08-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: ... I was wondering if/how was possible to do some kind of scheduled-fsck checks for those machines that never reboot (well, almost nev er), something done weekly, monthly .. That would not eliminate fs errors (I have never seen fs errors on a

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-08-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Bart Schuller wrote: You might also want to mention perl and libgdbm. I can't tell you exactly what went wrong, but both machines I upgraded had a core-dumping perl. With lots of install scripts written in perl that makes a fine mess.

Re: Need pppd/PAP guru!

1997-08-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: Just recently, I've implemented an ISDN connection to my ISP. However, I've never been able to use more than one of the B channels at a time - i.e. no MPPP. I'm using a Hayes Accura ISDN External TA attached to a Hayes ESP running at 460Kbps. I've only been able to

Re: Motif for Linux..

1997-08-28 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hello all! I'm looking at buying a copy of Motif for Linux. I've tried lesstif and unfortunately for my current needs it isn't yet stable enough (though, hopefully that will change with time). A friend of mine sent me the following information he gathered up on the web about some of the

quick question/answer need.

1997-08-28 Thread dpk
Do to politics at work, I have been thrown into a mess a lab installation. The Dean would like to have dual boot NT and a i386 unix variant. Linux seems to be the only platform to support our hardware. I have no time to research, only time to do... So I'm asking if Debian linux can do this for

Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Keith Beattie
Hi all, I'm doing a vanilla install of Debian 1.3.1 and I'm having trouble configuring my mouse. The problem (I believe) first comes in the Install phase of dselect when gpm is being installed The gpm install uses /dev/ttyS0 as the default device for my mouse. I've tried taking stabs at all

Re: fsck from cron?

1997-08-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: ... I was wondering if/how was possible to do some kind of scheduled-fsck checks for those machines that never reboot You can run 'fsck -f -n. This will (according to the man page) do nothing to the

Re: Need pppd/PAP guru!

1997-08-28 Thread Dave Cinege
Also you may need the following in /etc/ppp/options: # force pppd to use your ISP user name as your 'host name' during the # PAP/CHAP authentication process name dcinege.! (with you user name) And if you experence machine gun redialing, comment out: lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Keith Beattie writes: I'm doing a vanilla install of Debian 1.3.1 and I'm having trouble configuring my mouse. The problem (I believe) first comes in the Install phase of dselect when gpm is being installed The gpm install uses /dev/ttyS0 as the default device for my mouse. I've tried

Install problem

1997-08-28 Thread Volker Bauer
Hi, just recieved Debian 1.3.1 and tried to install. I have done it with loadlin under dos and got no problems until dselect. I don't know how to go further. If I try to use access and then cdrom, it is asked for a block device and I really didn't find a clue what to put in there. If I tried

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote: I'm doing a vanilla install of Debian 1.3.1 and I'm having trouble configuring my mouse. The problem (I believe) first comes in the Install phase of dselect when gpm is being installed The gpm install uses /dev/ttyS0 as the default device for my

Re: Install problem

1997-08-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Volker Bauer wrote: just recieved Debian 1.3.1 and tried to install. I have done it with loadlin under dos and got no problems until dselect. I don't know how to go further. If I try to use access and then cdrom, it is asked for a block device and I really didn't find a

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Keith Beattie
Martin Schulze wrote: What's the strategy for determining which device is your mouse? Did you try different drivers? There are some different mouse protocols out in the pampa. E.g some LogiTech mice need logitech, but the TrackMan needs 'mman'. Yea, I did. The mouse says, both

Re: Applixware

1997-08-28 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install : difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Keith Beattie writes: Martin Schulze wrote: What's the strategy for determining which device is your mouse? Did you try different drivers? There are some different mouse protocols out in the pampa. E.g some LogiTech mice need logitech, but the TrackMan needs 'mman'. Yea,

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Keith Beattie
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? (What brand? What does is the adapter shaped like, etc?) Sorry, should have included those details... It's a two-button Logitech. (It has MicroSoft printed on it but I think that's just for marketing.) It's got a small round

Problem with Xemacs 20.2

1997-08-28 Thread AUBORD Alain
I just installed new version of XEmacs under debian and I get almost immediately a crash which let my screen with only garbage. A short analysis with gdb give me the following diagnostic: GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type show

[Fwd: Patch troubles]

1997-08-28 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
---BeginMessage--- Thanks for your post. After starting with a clean kernel source and following your instructions, the patch attempt still results in scads of skipped hunks and .rej files. It seems clear there is a major problem somewhere. I'm sure I haven't looked far enough to learn how to

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote: Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? (What brand? What does is the adapter shaped like, etc?) Sorry, should have included those details... It's a two-button Logitech. (It has MicroSoft printed on it but I think

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Kirk Hogenson
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote: It's a two-button Logitech. (It has MicroSoft printed on it but I think that's just for marketing.) It's got a small round adaptor that plugs into the back of the tower. I assume this all means it's a serial device on the bus, right? It doesn't

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Kirk Hogenson wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote: It's a two-button Logitech. (It has MicroSoft printed on it but I think that's just for marketing.) It's got a small round adaptor that plugs into the back of the tower. I assume this all means it's

newbie question,

1997-08-28 Thread lc29b50
Does debian use .Xresources or .Xdefaults at all? If not, what is the debian equivalent? ( I tried to put some options for xemacs in .Xdefaults, but nothing happens when I do so..) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Keith Beattie
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Right. And, make sure you use a kernel that has PS/2 mouse support compiled in. Preferably, you would not compile it as a module. Great. I'll give that a try tonight. Thanks all, Keith -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: newbie question,

1997-08-28 Thread Jim Pick
Does debian use .Xresources or .Xdefaults at all? If not, what is the debian equivalent? ( I tried to put some options for xemacs in .Xdefaults, but nothing happens when I do so..) You have to use the xrdb command to load those files in. ie. xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults (I have this in my

[OFF TOPIC] What happened to spam,abuse.org?

1997-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
Anyone know what happened to abuse.org? Were they attacked? They seem to be removed from DNS ... at least, my servers think so. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem Test?

1997-08-28 Thread Britton
Unless you mispoke, I believe you may be misusing /dev/modem. /deb/modem is not a device itself, only a sym link (the wisdom of which is frequently disputed) which points to the serial device your modem is connected to. You want /dev/modem to be a sim link pointing to /deb/ttyS0. As people have

Re: [OFF TOPIC] What happened to spam,abuse.org?

1997-08-28 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: Anyone know what happened to abuse.org? Were they attacked? They seem to be removed from DNS ... at least, my servers think so. abuse.net. ^^^ ciao -- Dalla Silvestra

(fwd) [IXA Outage Alert] InterNIC fell off the 'net

1997-08-28 Thread Timm Gleason
From our upstream provider here in Seattle On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:53:47 -0700 (PDT), Ryan Smith-Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to make sure everyone knows it's official, recognized, and that there is, unfortunately, nothing we can do about it, this outage message is just to notify you

Unidentified subject!

1997-08-28 Thread moi
Hi gang... I'm trying to install Debian 1.2.6 from a SCSI CD (using Adaptec AHA1522 controller and SONY CDU8003 cdrom drive)...I seem to have problems mounting the CD on the linux side (I already got the base up and running), the cd-rom drive shows up at startup so it is there...

3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-28 Thread Darin D.
Hi. I will try and make this as brief as possible while trying to explain everything I have tried. Simply put, I cannot get my 3Com Etherlink III (3C509B) to work with Debian Linux 1.3.1 kernel 2.0.29. (i486DX4 VLB w/16MB) Before I go on I should add that I have not used this in any other

Re: [OFF TOPIC] What happened to spam,abuse.org?

1997-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: : On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : Anyone know what happened to abuse.org? Were they attacked? They seem : to be removed from DNS ... at least, my servers think so. : : abuse.net. : ^^^ : : ciao : :

ftp: how to continue downloading?

1997-08-28 Thread dada
hi... how can continue downloading an file, when the i lost the conexion to the server,from the file point where I am before I lost the conexion? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ftp: how to continue downloading?

1997-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
dada writes: hi... how can continue downloading an file, when the i lost the conexion to the server,from the file point where I am before I lost the conexion? reget file Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

Xemacs: strange errors

1997-08-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
Today I tried to install xemacs, but I haven't been successful in running it. First, I tried to install the packages xemacs19_19.15-3.1.deb and xemacs19-support_19.15-3.1.deb from hamm, since I have been following the hamm tree for a while now. But instead of a nice program, I got this: $ xemacs

Re: pgp and mail readers

1997-08-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 01:24:27AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have enabled pine to use the alternate editor hack, but was wondering what mail client is primarily used? I have some friends that use mutt, and if I use pine to send encrypted mail

Re: Xemacs: strange errors

1997-08-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Today I tried to install xemacs, but I haven't been successful in running it. First, I tried to install the packages xemacs19_19.15-3.1.deb and xemacs19-support_19.15-3.1.deb from hamm, since I have been following the hamm tree for a while now. But

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-08-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, moi wrote: Hi gang... I'm trying to install Debian 1.2.6 from a SCSI CD (using Adaptec AHA1522 controller and SONY CDU8003 cdrom drive)...I seem to have problems mounting the CD on the linux side (I already got the base up and running), the cd-rom drive