MS-DOS Long Files Name

1997-09-20 Thread Leslie Chan
Hi there, I have a problem with MS-DOS long files name. I download from idisk but the files cannot be use when copy to 1.44 diskette. The rescue also cannot be use, my computer tell me that the files is too large to copy to 1.44 diskette. Anyone can help me on this? Thank you. Leslie -- TO

Help with info2www

1997-09-20 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
I am having a problem using info2www to view the emacs documentation. When I first execute the info2www script I am given a top view of my /usr/info directory. One of the items in this list is Emacs, which corresponds to http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs). Following this link brings me

Re: MS-DOS Long Files Name

1997-09-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Leslie Chan wrote: Hi there, I have a problem with MS-DOS long files name. I download from idisk but the files cannot be use when copy to 1.44 diskette. The rescue also cannot be use, my computer tell me that the files is too large to copy to 1.44 diskette. Anyone

Re: how many account?

1997-09-20 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone actually having that many. Bruce Just to give an idea it is a little over that .. at last check the university systems here have over 80,000 users ... mainly a sun server

Re: 1st install, dselect error on at package, can't go further

1997-09-20 Thread Martin Str|mberg
[Posted and mailed. Eh - mailed and mailed.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Subject pretty well says it all... even tried both mini and full : installs. Yes but not in any way near enough to make us able to help you: you say what goes wrong but not the error messages. : Installing

Setting up X

1997-09-20 Thread Farhad Manjoo
Hi. I'm new to Linux/Debian. Everything was going well until it came time to set up X windows. The trouble is I can't get X to install my mouse. I know that it's a ps/2 mouse and that there's something called gpm also running. I don't know what this is. gpm says that my mouse is

Re: Setting up X

1997-09-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Farhad Manjoo wrote: I know that it's a ps/2 mouse and that there's something called gpm also running. I don't know what this is. gpm says that my mouse is on Hmm, I don't know if you can run gpm and X at the same time. Gpm is a mouse driver for text terminals. I

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-20 Thread Carey Evans
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Now the user can log in,,, but which is IP address that client must put in his Netscape to see pages in my Apache server?. pppd will work out the IP address your box has on its local network. For instance, the dialin server at work is called prgsrv1 and

fdisk vs cfdisk to partition 3.1G drive

1997-09-20 Thread adavis
Hello. This is a query more out of curiosity than a need. I just received a 3.1GB Western Digital Caviar EIDE drive. I slapped it on as Master of the second IDE channel of my motherboard, and after a bit of messing around with the BIOS (leaving the configuration in automatic mode, but

Re: MS-DOS Long Files Name

1997-09-20 Thread Wiria Atmadja Kusuma
HI again, you supposed to use rawrite to copy the drv1440.bin and resc1440.bin to the floppy, not the usual copy command,:). this has nothing to do with the long filename.I will send u the install debian documentation attached. Hope this will help you. good luck wie -Original

Re: Setting up X

1997-09-20 Thread Britton
You probably want to try 'gpm -k' before starting X. I understand that gpm interferes with the operation of ps/2 mice under X. I have no idea why this problem should be confined to ps/2 mice. Good luck. On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Farhad Manjoo wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux/Debian.

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread bhaal
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Ms. Geek wrote: Are there still any pitfalls to using Debian Linux with the K5 chip or any of the other hardware I mentioned above? Eventually I plan on upgrading to I dont know about any other hardware, but I am running Debian on my AMD 586/133mhz motherboard and it works

Re: MS-DOS Long Files Name

1997-09-20 Thread Dima
Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote: ... 56 KB snipped ... You gotta be kidding! Did you HAVE to CC install.html to the list? Please consider sending a URL next time. TIA -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread Dima
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Ms. Geek wrote: Are there still any pitfalls to using Debian Linux with the K5 chip or any of the other hardware I mentioned above? Eventually I plan on upgrading to I dont know about any other hardware, but I am running Debian on my

Newbie going crazy........

1997-09-20 Thread Lawrence Lucier
Howdy all...:-) Picked up the following files: 9-18-97 2:24p 1474560 42 base14-1.bin 9-18-97 2:28p 1474560 42 base14-2.bin 9-18-97 2:27p 1474560 42 base14-3.bin 9-18-97 2:23p 1299456 42 base14-4.bin 9-18-97 12:05p 1474560

Re: Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:36:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Kevin Traas wrote: Hmmm. What's the netmask on the ethernet interface? If it's set to 255.255.255.224 then everything should work fine even though Yes, it is. Then NT's routing algorithm is wrong or there are other routes

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to be getting a Seagate [Conner] 800MB Tape Drive) and am tweaking Windows95 into submission. ^ I thought you didn't want to quote: line Bill Gates'

Keyboard trouble

1997-09-20 Thread G. Crimp
I am trying to use a French-Canadian keyboard with Debian 1.1. During the Debian install I asked to use cf.map as the default keyboard which is indeed loaded at boot. However, it does not work marvelously well. I have been through the keyboard manpage, the keyboard HOWTO, and

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

1997-09-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sep 19, Lazaro Salem wrote FYI, I also had several primary DOS partitions. MS-DOS sees them all. I've done it on my system with both versions 5.0 and 6.x of MS-DOS. If your unseable DOS partitions were primary (just check what cfdisk sees as DOS partitions: if they are on /dev/?daN with ?

Greek and Hebrew in Latex

1997-09-20 Thread Johann Spies
I know this is not Debian-spesific, but there are a lot of LateX users on this list. So please be patient with me. Can somebody help me with the following problem please? How do I use Hebrew and Greek in Latex documents. I know a limited range of Greek characters is available with the

Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, I'm using the standard debian PPP stuff (pon, poff plog) to my ISP provider. I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I do a pon I connect with no problem but drop the connection after a few seconds. pon automatically redials and this sequence keeps

Re: Newbie going crazy........

1997-09-20 Thread Jose Oncina Carratala
Lawrence Lucier wrote: Howdy all...:-) Picked up the following files: 9-18-97 2:24p 1474560 42 base14-1.bin 9-18-97 2:28p 1474560 42 base14-2.bin 9-18-97 2:27p 1474560 42 base14-3.bin 9-18-97 2:23p 1299456 42 base14-4.bin

sendmail errors on console

1997-09-20 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've been seeing many message pairs of the form: sendmail: /etc/smail/transports: check_path: unknown attribute sendmail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/)xCNcr-0003CsC on my console. It's a bit annoying (I avoid tty1 and work tty2-tty6) and I'd like to make it stop. Can anyone advise me

xlock's bomb mode

1997-09-20 Thread Paul Serice
The xlock man page talks about a bomb mode which can be used to autologout X sessions. Can someone tell me if this mode has been compiled in? If not, can someone tell me how they manage to autologout X sessions? Thanks, Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: fdisk vs cfdisk to partition 3.1G drive

1997-09-20 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit fdisk vs cfdisk question.] : Now I have /home on a very large separate primary partition, and /usr/local : on another fairly large partition. However, I linked /usr/src to the : directory (in a logical partition mounted as /usr2)

netscape 4.0

1997-09-20 Thread Lawrence
In the netscape ftp site, other than the communicator, I found the following two files. Does the netscape4 installer require these two file? Do I have to download them? HOD3270_unix.tar.gz autoadmin-v403.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: KDE

1997-09-20 Thread Synergistic Effect
Yes, I succeeded in compiling KDE, but I needed to download the latest release of Qt from Troll-tech and compile it from source before I could get it to work. I found that the current qt-dev package cannot be used with my mixed libc5/libc6 system. When I tried using the Debian qt-dev, kpanel had

Unidentified subject!

1997-09-20 Thread Jim Archer
Has it been determined (or guessed) when debian release 2.0 will be completed? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
Hi folks! I've just finished the hardware part of building my very own PC Compatible (AMD K5-166, Amptron PM8600 motherboard, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64+ 2MB video card, Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra16 audio, Hitachi 7730 IDE 4X CD-ROM, Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to be

Re: 'tell' is missing from libc6

1997-09-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus, I think libc6 should include it. It appears that libc6 now includes a manpage for ltell (which, I agree, is what the function should have been named in the first place). However, for compatibility reasons, there should be a #define tell(a,b,c)

Re: TeTeX question (newbie)

1997-09-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Daniel Doro Ferrante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I would like to install some new TeX packages to my system, mainly those distributed with TUG/CDROM. What do I do to install it? Is it only copping to a directory and updating the paths, or is there anything

Re: awe-drv package

1997-09-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think something has changed since I last used the awe-* packages. I am runing the install.sh like instructed but even after that I am not getting any prompt about awe32 support in low-level on sound. Any ideas why not or if I can just add the line to the .config

Re: Mouse?

1997-09-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everybody, Unfortunately I have got this question about mice... I have a 3-button Microsoft mouse and it works fine in text mode. But I could not get it to work under X-windows. Left and Right buttons seem to be O.K., but middle one. I

Re: sendmail errors on console

1997-09-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've been seeing many message pairs of the form: sendmail: /etc/smail/transports: check_path: unknown attribute sendmail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/)xCNcr-0003CsC on my console. It's a bit annoying (I avoid tty1 and work tty2-tty6)

Re: MS-DOS Long Files Name

1997-09-20 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
Ha ha, sorry mate, I don't even realized that I attached an html instead, supposed to click the other file below it, sorry again. I'll check it over the next time. still laughing wieYou gotta be kidding! Did you HAVE to CC install.html to the list?Please consider sending a URL next

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread Ms. Geek
I had to respond via the list because of a munged mail header...person who wrote this message is Benoit Goudreault... Item per item: Processor: OK motherboard: No idea, probably fine. video: OK. I've heard of some problems with the latest XFree and the S3 server,

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Is it possible you installed diald? I installed diald and changed the /etc/diald/diald.options so the connect option pointed to pon. That is a big mistake because the pon script has the persist option. If you would like to use your existing pon script you can modify the /etc/ppp.options_out and

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread john
Victor Torrico writes: I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I do a pon I connect with no problem but drop the connection after a few seconds. Has your isp made any changes lately? Mine recently made an unannounced change which required me to insert a pause at

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 12:11 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor Torrico writes: I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I do a pon I connect with no problem but drop the connection after a few seconds. Has your isp made any changes lately? Mine recently

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 06:50 AM -0500, Ricardo Muggli wrote: Is it possible you installed diald? I installed diald and changed the /etc/diald/diald.options so the connect option pointed to pon. That is a big mistake because the pon script has the persist option. If you would like to use your

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 13:55 PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote: Victor Torrico writes: On 97/09/20 at 12:11 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor Torrico writes: I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I do a pon I connect with no problem but drop

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-09-20 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Has it been determined (or guessed) when debian release 2.0 will be completed? I am in no way authorized to do this, but I would say that hopefully by the end of the year. There are still many obvious problems with the release and noone yet counted critical bugs I guess. Alex Y. -- _

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 13:55 PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote: Victor Torrico writes: On 97/09/20 at 12:11 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor Torrico writes: I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I do a pon I connect with no problem but drop

getty question

1997-09-20 Thread Shaleh
What is mingetty useful/used for? How do you install it? I have tried; dselect and dpkg will not let me remove or exchange agetty. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xlib6g experiences

1997-09-20 Thread Paul Serice
When installing the packages, I was getting the following errors: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file or directory),

Re: Greek and Hebrew in Latex

1997-09-20 Thread ioannis
If you are facing problems with using/typesetting Greek with TeX, you may join the ELLHNIKA list. To do this, just send an e-mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBSCRIBE ELLHNIKA your 1st name your last name Alternately, write to Angelos Haritsis [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask him to fwd your

The Value of TEX

1997-09-20 Thread butch
hello, I am a newbie to linux and i keep hearing all of these postings to the groups about tex. my question is just how long would it take to be proficient and is the program really relevant at this period of time? allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: The Value of TEX

1997-09-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, butch wrote: hello, I am a newbie to linux and i keep hearing all of these postings to the groups about tex. my question is just how long would it take to be proficient and is the program really relevant at this period of time? To produce simple documents (letters,