How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread ImmortaL
Hi, I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself i would press the alt key and the F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 to open a new window is there a way to do this in X? Thanks in advance [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

flip binary

1997-10-01 Thread Akbar Jaffer
Hi I am including this binary which flips the screen on an xserver for a few seconds and then sets it back to normal. I was wondering if you have seen this before and if you know or can point me to the right person to find out what exactly this binary is doing as in the guts of the program? thank

Re: flip binary

1997-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Akbar Jaffer wrote: Hi I am including this binary which flips the screen on an xserver for a few seconds and then sets it back to normal. I was wondering if you have seen this before and if you know or can point me to the right person to find out what exactly this binary is doing as in the

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-10-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On 30 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] yep, i read that. i even read the rest of the gnus docs on handling mail. it seems like it's not going to be any good for me because it doesn't want to read an mailbox which has new mail being

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread L. L. CoolAid
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: My printer prints all formats (ok, a printer is supposed to print ;) Thanx to all who replied. Especially Pat, Will and Lawrence. If others have the same problem: read the howto in /usr/doc/ (Printer-HOWTO), install magicfilter and run

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: : I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself : i would press the alt key and the F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 to open a new window is : there a way to do this in X? Uh, open another xterm. -- Jason Costomiris

SVGALIB and S3 Virge.

1997-10-01 Thread Andrew Keen
Hello, I'm a _relative_ newbie to Linux. I'm a competent enough to get Debian 1.3.1 CD (from LSL) installed. I've gotten the kernel recompiled, and have gotten diald sound options compiled. My question, my only problem, the fly in the ointment of Linux, the black fly in my Chardonnay is that

Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Michael Manlief
Hi, I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating system, and just use debian when i want to run unix based software. Is this possible?

Re: Announcing TIND: This Is Not Dselect

1997-10-01 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Richard Kilgore wrote: It uses a /usr/bin/tixwish -- what package is this from? tix41 in section libs. Ahh yes, found it. The problem is that it depends on xlib6g, which conflicts with xlib6. Is there a bad side to removing xlib6 in favor of xlib6g?

Re: problem installing debian

1997-10-01 Thread Hasibul Haque
Hi, I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt. I am able to boot the rescue floppy but at the menu when I choose 'partition hard disk' I am

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: Hi, I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating system, and just use debian when i

Re: Diald problem

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Serice
Michael Legart wrote: Well, I just use the things scripts in /etc/diald. Not long ago, it worket fine but it looks like my isp has changest something... Before, the first question was : Annex username:, then Annex password:, and then at last: annex. The last one is now removed, but have have

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread stick
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: Hi, I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating system, and just use debian

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-10-01 Thread Steve Hsieh
The zip IDE is not a scsi device; the scsi driver won't work with it. However, I believe there is support for it in the new developmental 2.1.x kernels, something having to do with having full IDE ATAPI support. I don't know what the status of it is though. On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Chad D.

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-10-01 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Actually ... it is a scsi... parallel port is a kind of scsi and under linux is seen as a true scsi device (and is faster than in dos) Here is how it comes up: scsi0 : PPA driver version 0.26 using 4-bit mode on port 0x378. scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IOMEGA

Re: bo-updates

1997-10-01 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi! I may be wrong, but: When bo-updates had the same structure as stable, non-free and contrib, one could in fact use dselect to install the bo-updates, just by typing Enter space seperated list of distributions to get [stable non-free contrib]: stable non-free contrib bo-updates

ssh going nuts!

1997-10-01 Thread Peyman Gohari
Hi, In our group we have a single Debian machine surrounded by a bunch of Redhats:( We have secure shell installed on all, but it behaves weird on Redhats from time to time. The problem is that when you try to get a remote shell using ssh, you may be denied access to the remote host and get the

email to pager software???

1997-10-01 Thread Pete Templin
Hello, I'm working on a project to handle email-to-pager service. I found a software tool to do so, but the C program segfaults. Can anyone suggest a software package, and/or volunteer to help me debug the problem? Thanks, Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr.

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:04:53 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: : I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself : i would press the alt key and the F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 to open a new window is : there a way to do this

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-10-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Actually ... it is a scsi... parallel port is a kind of scsi and under linux is seen as a true scsi device (and is faster than in dos) Are you talking about the same thing as everybody else? (Hint: look

Re: mrouted?

1997-10-01 Thread Keith Beattie
Lawrence wrote: what is mrouted? where to get it? mrouted (multicast router daemon) is the daemon you run to enable your machine to be a part of the MBONE. It forwards IP multicast packets via a unicast tunnel past non-IP-Multicast-aware routers to another machine running mrouted or a

Re: Announcing TIND: This Is Not Dselect

1997-10-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Ahh yes, found it. The problem is that it depends on xlib6g, which conflicts with xlib6. Is there a bad side to removing xlib6 in favor of xlib6g? Yes, you'll break all your X packages. The proper solution is to upgrade to a version of xlib6 that

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, L. L. CoolAid wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: My printer prints all formats (ok, a printer is supposed to print ;) Thanx to all who replied. Especially Pat, Will and Lawrence. If others have the same problem: read the howto in

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: : On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:04:53 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: : : On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: : : I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself : : i would press the alt key and

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: Hi, I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating system, and just use debian when i

Re: mono monitor with x (fwd)

1997-10-01 Thread Lawrence Lucier
Addressed to: Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:16:14 -0600 (MDT) I have an old Hercules card and monitor. (I do not know whether being old matters). In /etc/X11/XF86Config

Re: Disapearing /dev/tty0's

1997-10-01 Thread tko
Chad D. Zimmerman writes: I have had an interesting problem rear it's ugly head two times now .. my /dev/tty0's get SNAFUed for some reason. This is what they look like normally: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3)

Enlightenment setup

1997-10-01 Thread Adrian Monk
When firing up X (startx) with Enlightenment as wm the following error message appears: Cannot load root image: /usr/local/enlightenment/images/default/background.jpg Quitting... Any ideas, anyone? Background.jpg is in the specified directory. Both ImageMagick and Imlib are on the system (which

pascal

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios

wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

1997-10-01 Thread Timothy G. Wells
Greetings, Does the compiled version of wu-ftpd have support for shadow passwords. For some reason, as soon as anyone tries to log in (not anonymous) it says there are too many users and dumps you. I recently switched to shadow passwords and didn't know if there was a known problem. Also, I

Re: Enlightenment setup

1997-10-01 Thread Frank Barknecht
Adrian Monk hat gesagt: // Adrian Monk wrote: When firing up X (startx) with Enlightenment as wm the following error message appears: Cannot load root image: /usr/local/enlightenment/images/default/background.jpg Quitting... Any ideas, anyone? Background.jpg is in the specified

where is libjpegg

1997-10-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Where I can found libjpegg (I installed the glibc compiled xv and I can' use it without these libs :). Thanks. Andreas Arcangeli -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Miller
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Dr. Daniel Mashao
I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? //

Re: ssh going nuts!

1997-10-01 Thread jdassen
On Sep 30, Peyman Gohari wrote In our group we have a single Debian machine surrounded by a bunch of Redhats:( We have secure shell installed on all, but it behaves weird on Redhats from time to time. The problem is that when you try to get a remote shell using ssh, you may be denied access

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Paul Miller wrote: I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? -Paul The sticky bit allows a UID to be the owner of a file while that file is being accessed by that user. In essence if a user opens a file, that user will be the owner of that file until it is

Re: SVGALIB and S3 Virge.

1997-10-01 Thread Carey Evans
Andrew Keen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question, my only problem, the fly in the ointment of Linux, the black fly in my Chardonnay is that when I want to run a svgalib program (X works) at the console it doesn't recognize it and then -screws- it up.. basically, it runs, but it doesn't

problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I can't find anthing in the docs about this, and I'm sure it's something simple I've just overlooked... When I post news from my machine, I get mail back with inews: No valid newsgroups in misc.test The setup is my local machine, with: ii nntp1.5.12.1-1 A NNTP

Re: wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

1997-10-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy G. Wells wrote: I recently switched to shadow passwords and didn't know if there was a known problem. Also, I noticed the shadow file had a different group then root and I changed it ... perhaps that had something to do with it but I forgot what the group was. The

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Jan Ramon
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? text: some printers (e.g.

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread Marco Pistore
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: I am presently using a2ps and gs-alladin to format text files into postscript and then print them using gs. If I create a script containing the gs command, this could be my print filter in the printcap file (don't remember if it's if or of). My problem is

Re: bo-updates

1997-10-01 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: ... This would be a good solution, stable stays stable! And creating these sub-directories wouldn't be _that_ hard... or am I missing something? Yes, you are :) You don't need those subdirectories, but just one plain Packages.gz file in

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? a2ps and dvips will do the

Re: pascal

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
c Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? devel/gpc-doc_2.0-3.deb@ devel/gpc_2.0-3.deb@ -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1

Re: ifconfig

1997-10-01 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
At 12:51 PM 9/30/97 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Jimmy Lu wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address? FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows: ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.2

Re: wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
Greetings, Does the compiled version of wu-ftpd have support for shadow passwords. For some reason, as soon as anyone tries to log in (not anonymous) it says there are too many users and dumps you. ii wu-ftpd 2.4-27 A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd Works OK

X and gpm mouse problem

1997-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I'm not sure if it's a bug, but it is an annoyance: When xdm is launched, and I do not move the mouse, i have no pointer on the virtual console. In fact, gpm is not working. When I switch back to X, I have to move the mouse. At the first time, there is a shortdelay, then the pointer follows.

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 09:09:08PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: Hi, I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not simultaneously, of course). I would like

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? Well, if you can print postscript, you can - use a2ps (from

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
HI! I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? Convert anything you want to print to PostScript first, then

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread ImmortaL
Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape,i tried it only with Xterm

pascal (cont)

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Thanks to all who replied to my question. I have juct installed gpc on my system . However, it requires gcc 2.7.2.2 So I downgraded gcc to 2.7.2.1 I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the newest gcc ( 2.7.2.3 ) together with gpc . Does anyone know if this is possible or

Re: X And Video

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed (misc. characters, garbage, and general bad

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to format /dev/sda16 and message says: debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, David Stern wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why does mke2fs think /dev/sda16 is the entire drive?

RE: problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread George Bonser
On 01-Oct-97 Tim Bell wrote: Do I have to have an up-to-date /var/lib/news/active file? I guess I'd rather that the server looked after all that, since I have no local newsgroups (as yet...). Yes, you will need an active file. Inews can not post to a group that is not found in the active file

/msdos partition

1997-10-01 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi I'd like to know is it true that read/write file on a /msdos partition is slower than on the linux partition? I've a 60MB tar file that I tried to untar under both /msdos and linux ext2fs and the /msdos was extremely slow. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread TENCC01.LEWIS01
Forwarded with Changes --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at ~AMSCCSSW Date: 10/1/97 9:57AM To: James M. Lewis at ~TENCCT1 *To: debian-user@lists.debian.org at ~AMSCCSSW Subject: Re: what is the sticky bit?

PVM packaging

1997-10-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm interested in packaging PVM for Debian. First, let me say that I'm aware that Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on it, but I've had the intention to package something big for Debian for couple of months (I've packaged small stuff locally) and I think this is be a good

Re: losing keys in fvwm2

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Rightley
I have found that, whenever I exit Netscape (3.01 in my case), I cannot alt-arrow to shift virtual screens. However, if I user the page and click into another virtual screen, the alt-arrow keys will again work. I have not tried other fvwm2 keystrokes and I am sure that I only see this happen when

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any

xdm problem

1997-10-01 Thread Christopher Judd
I recently installed 1.3.1 from CDROM; this is my first linux installation. Most of it went pretty smoothly, but I still have a couple of problems. One of that I can't get xdm to work. (If I reconfigure to use startx everything works fine). Running xdm -debug 2 gives the following output and

Pascal question

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage .Now I am getting the following errors garfield:/usr/home/guest$ gpc

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? It's the tenth bit of the 12 bits of permission flags that are part of an inode (or file, though they're not really interchangable). The bits are Set uid, set gid, Sticky,

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From TFM: File: fileutils.info, Node: Mode Structure, Next: Symbolic Modes, Up: File p\ ermissions Structure of File Permissions = [...] A file's permissions have three special components, which affect only executable files (programs) and, on some

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think the company/ group of people who are supposed to create this distribution are called the quality control/testing group. This is theoretically composed of people who are not necessarily maintainers, so they do not have to worry about new software. Maybe this should

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paul Miller wrote: I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? The sticky bit overcomes a problem with file permissions in Unix. Specifically, the ability to create/delete a file in a given directory depends on the *directory permissions*. When the sticky bit is

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-10-01 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, I think the company/ group of people who are supposed to create this distribution are called the quality control/testing group. This is theoretically composed of people who are not necessarily maintainers, so they do not have to worry about new software. Maybe this

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Wright wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, David Stern wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern wrote: I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why does mke2fs think /dev/sda16

Xntp and GMT

1997-10-01 Thread mike
I'm looking for advice on how to set one of my Debian 1.3 servers to GMT time. We are a smaller ISP and recently we've had a problem with theft of service. The clock on our RADIUS accounting needs to be synced with our telco's clock in order to make tracking of this sort of thing

Re: Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines

1997-10-01 Thread John Lines
I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available. Any help will be appreciated. Tnx, Nick Gilliam Lockheed Martin For the IP configuration BOOTP is very useful

GCC setup problem

1997-10-01 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Hi, My GCC setup doesn't appear to be correct on my Debian 1.3.1 and 1.2 system. Initially after installing it, whenever I tried to run it, the message: GCC installation problem: cannot find cc1: no such file or directory cc1 (and cc1plus, and libgcc.a...) were in

RE: pascal

1997-10-01 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Isn't gpc in the optional development section gnu's pascal compiler? Martin Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? Thanks very much George

Re: problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread john
Tim Bell writes: When I post news from my machine, I get mail back with inews: No valid newsgroups in misc.test ... and I'm trying to send news to an nntp server. Are you trying to post directly to a remote nntp server, or are you trying to post to your local server and have it feed the

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread David B. Teague
Hi ImmortaL: I have your problem with Netscape. I hope we both get an answer. I hope this helps part of your other window problem: It sounds a little like you have a 'focus' problem. I can click the mouse and create X windows that work if I move the mouse pointer into the window to get focus in

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Jack Holt
If you're starting a new xterm from the shell, type xterm instead of just xterm. This will run the new xterm in the background, so you will be able to execute more commands in that same window later. Many window managers allow you to start a new xterm from their menus, too. At 10:06 AM

Re: problem installing debian

1997-10-01 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt. I am able to boot the rescue floppy but at the menu

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Brian K Servis
ImmortaL writes: Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape,i tried

Re: PVM packaging

1997-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: I'm interested in packaging PVM for Debian. First, let me say that snip * Directory structure This thing wants to be installed with a tree structure like this: $PVM_ROOT +- bin/LINUX +- console/LINUX +-

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant enter any commands

Re: Pascal question

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage .Now I am getting the following errors garfield:/usr/home/guest$

Re: xdm problem

1997-10-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Christopher Judd wrote: I recently installed 1.3.1 from CDROM; this is my first linux installation. Most of it went pretty smoothly, but I still have a couple of problems. One of that I can't get xdm to work. (If I reconfigure to use startx everything works fine).

midi software

1997-10-01 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do

Deity Access

1997-10-01 Thread Brian White
Thanks to Jason building a libc5 verison of the new CVS (with read-only patches), I've now made the Deity source archive available to everyone. To get it, go to the directory you want to place the source and do the following: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs login (password:

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Ted Harding
( Re: Message from ImmortaL ) Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant enter any commands its locked until i kill

fw:[oclug] moving an open file

1997-10-01 Thread Todd Harper
I'm forwarding this question from a local linux user group list. I thought someone could help. -- Todd Harper4 out of 5 dentists agree that 1 out of 5 dentists [EMAIL PROTECTED]is an idiot. ---forwarded-message In Slackware, I could be downloading a file in minicom then

Re: Menu errors [fixed]

1997-10-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sep 29, Will Lowe wrote On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that are executable (and file bugs on the packages that placed them there.)

Re: Menu errors [fixed]

1997-10-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Sep 29, Will Lowe wrote On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that are executable (and file

Debian 1.3 problems

1997-10-01 Thread bao . ha
I installed Debian 1.3. Now, I am having problems logging in as a normal user. When logging in root, I got a message about delay bypassed, root allowed to log in. Also, when I shutdown, I got a prompt about logging in for maintenance mode, or control-d to shutdown. Pressing control-d does not

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1997-10-01 Thread JACE159
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Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread R Chris Ross
I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites too? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Lee Bradshaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape,i

Multiple PPP Configurations

1997-10-01 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is there a way to have more than one pppd configuration? Getting another modem is not an option. What I would like is something along these lines: pon work poff pon internet where work has the ppp options/chatscript for dialing up the

Re: Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread m*
R Chris Ross wrote: I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites too? yup. try wget_1.4.4-6.deb ! m* -- The Shining One --

Iomega Ditto Tape drive on parallel port?

1997-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
I want to by an external tape drive and am considering an Iomega Ditto that connects to the parallel port. However, the Howto's say that such drives (that use the parallel port) are unsupported. Is that also the situation with the 2.0.30-kernel? I do not have space in my computer box for another

Re: fw:[oclug] moving an open file

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
why you need this capability??? Todd Harper wrote: I'm forwarding this question from a local linux user group list. I thought someone could help. -- Todd Harper4 out of 5 dentists agree that 1 out of 5 dentists [EMAIL PROTECTED]is an idiot. ---forwarded-message

Re: Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
yup...install the mirror package. R Chris Ross wrote: I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites too? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
Oops...please ignore my previous post:) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yup...install the mirror package. R Chris Ross wrote: I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is only for FTP from what I

man pages...

1997-10-01 Thread jd?
Greetings all, two quick questionsi installed debian on my box and when i'm running a shell trying to look up stuff on man pages, i can not. Did i miss something in the installation process How can i remedy this And how can i get a standard ppp-connectioni've downloaded all

Re: midi software

1997-10-01 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box

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