Re: dselect mystification (fwd)

1998-03-12 Thread Travis Cole
Try a hitting Q that should make it ignore any errors it is having. On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: This message didn't make it to the list first time so I'm trying again. Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm in the middle of upgrade from 1.3.1 to hamm upgrade

Re: dselect mystification (fwd)

1998-03-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Travis Cole wrote: Try a hitting Q that should make it ignore any errors it is having. And after that, don't install anything but first run 'Access' from dselect. Be sure to only install from the 'unstable' distribution, not 'stable'. After that, run 'Update' in dselect.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 11 Mar 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote: In debian-user, Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the example above, I suppose I could write some kind of macro, opening shell output, but it gets much more interesting when I am looking at program | less and I do not want

Sendmail setup....

1998-03-12 Thread Chris
Hi all. I was hoping that someone could help with a rather obscure techinique I'm trying to implement with sendmail. Basically our network has two different mail servers - one for a student network, and one for administration staff. They both accept mail for the same domain address. Now all

xisp concatenates the user chat script.

1998-03-12 Thread shaul
xisp looks very nice. However, I can't use it becuase it concatentes its own chat script to mine. I want to initialize the modem before giving it the atd... command. And I can't get it done in minicom before dialing becuase: 1) I run mgetty which will change the modem settings immediately after

Re: Windows 95 and Debian

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On 11 Mar 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: :Bruce Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Can someone please tell me how to connect my newly loaded Linux machine to : my small LAN in my apartment? I am running two Windows 95 machines as : well. I believe I selected the IPX/SPX option when I set it up.

Re: Mon

1998-03-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Roderick Schertler wrote: 1) Is df.pm debianized? Nope, and it's my fault. I posted my intent to package it to debian-devel, found that the module has a copyright which accidentally prohibits anybody from distributing it at all, then forgot to contact the author about the copyright! I'll

broken lan

1998-03-12 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello All, Last night I upgraded a number of packages on my Hamm system. While resolving dependencies, I believe I downloaded and installed dip. I don't think it was previously installed. As a result, I can no longer connect to my ISP. Also, my lan is now broken - I can't ping my

FW: broken lan

1998-03-12 Thread RUSSELL COOK
I forgot to mention in my previous email, that when executing pon, the script in /etc/chatscripts/provider runs, but /var/log/ppp.log shows that ppp fails with the message peer failed to authenticate. I apparently have two different programs trying to connect to my ISP. One at system boot

tiff to rla?

1998-03-12 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi All, Anyone out there know of a good Linux program that converts Tiffs to Rla's. Porting the one we use on the SGI is being rather unpleasant. Thank you Bruce Dobrin Multi Media Dept. Sony Pictures Imageworks 310-840-8412 Never hit your Grandma with a shovel, it leaves a bad impression

Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread zhang xu
hi, how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my Debian box? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: :hi, : how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my :Debian box? Quick answer? Use the 3c509 driver ... it's on the modules disk. However, you may need to grab the 3C5X9CFG.EXE utility from the 3com website (www.3com.com) and reconfigure the NIC so it

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: hi, how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my Debian box? The simplest approach is to use the program 3c5x9cfg.exe that comes with the DOS drivers to disable PnP support and then use the standard driver for this card that comes with the kernel. If

Re: FW: broken lan

1998-03-12 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 08:52:20PM -0700, RUSSELL COOK wrote: I forgot to mention in my previous email, that when executing pon, the script in /etc/chatscripts/provider runs, but /var/log/ppp.log shows that ppp fails with the message peer failed to authenticate. Try adding the word

syntax error in cron start-up file at boot-time

1998-03-12 Thread James Dietrich
The subject fairly sums up the problem: Below is a snip of the messages that are displayed upon booting. [snip] Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: ` ; cron reloads automatically' [snip]

Re: glibc2 (libc6) and an extended character set.

1998-03-12 Thread Scott McDermott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 09:10:07PM +: I heard that glibc2 (libc6) supports an extended character set. Is it correct ? Where (www.where) can I learn more about this support ? Are you refering to glibc-localedata? An external tar that is a compile time option to glibc for

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread zhang xu
---Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: hi, how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my Debian box? The simplest approach is to use the program 3c5x9cfg.exe that comes with the DOS drivers to disable PnP support and then use the

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-12 Thread Ian Perry
If your ISP requires pap authentication, you need to uncomment the +pap line in your options file. Also he may not require you to run a script.. You might try taking out the login and password references in your script, as ppp authentication should take care of it. My ISP does it this way. Try

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: :---Remco Blaakmeer :[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: : : hi, :how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my : Debian box? : : The simplest approach is to use the program :3c5x9cfg.exe that comes with : the DOS

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote: : No, I'm just telling them that the mail originated in my isp's domain. : The HELO supposedly tells them who I am. : : Yes! ... HELO/EHLO your.domain.org : then smail (with some switches on)

SANE AfterStep

1998-03-12 Thread Matt Thompson
Hi, all, Updated hamm recently, and when attempting to configure SANE, got: running dpkg --pending --configure ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sane: sane depends on libgtk1 ( 1:0.99.4); however: Version of libgtk1 on system is 1:0.99.5-1. dpkg: error processing sane

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-12 Thread mfrattola
Hi! mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header This is possible by a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-12 Thread mfrattola
mfrattola Thank you for your answer. It seems to me (from other mfrattola messages) that smail is easier to manage WRT this problem mfrattola (with routers, directors and the like). Problem is I don't mfrattola like smail (and recent problems with newer smail don't make mfrattola me like

Re: possible network attack question

1998-03-12 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'G. Kapetanios' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, 12 March 1998 01:05:pm Subject: RE: possible network attack question George, [humor mode on] To do a

pcmcia modules ... unresolved symbols

1998-03-12 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Hi, I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card. I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules however if I insmod the precompiled modules '8390' and pcnet-cs I get

pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Where are the pthread manual pages for hamm? the Contents search on www.debian.org says package libpthread0-dev, but that's for libc5 and conflicts with libc6-dev. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Michael == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Where can I get/read/find/download/whatever the RFC's? package=RFC # comment=Mirror the Internet Requests For Comment # # specify remote host and directory site=ds.internic.net

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-12 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Sorry not beeing able to help you directly, but: I installed Linux on a Computer with no floppy, only a LS-120 drive without any problems. I put a custom kernel with atapi-floppy support on the boot disk, put this in the LS-120 drive from where it booted correctly and showed me the install menu

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 04:55:08AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my Debian box? The simplest approach is to use the program 3c5x9cfg.exe that comes with the DOS drivers to disable PnP support Why is this

More Install problems...

1998-03-12 Thread Michael Beattie
Actually, it's not a great deal, I have acquired an old 386 with 4 meg RAM, and am going to install linux on it as a router for my small home network.. When I tried to install off of my trusty 1.3.1 CD, I get the message: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 right after the partition

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 06:18:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Where are the pthread manual pages for hamm? pthread/LinuxThreads is a part of libc6; you'll find the manpages in libc6-doc. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO

Re: Recommend an ODBC-compliant database for Linux?

1998-03-12 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Does anyone have experience with anything else? I.e., Empress, others? | What's out there? I really need some ideas. If you plan to run it on a Debian system, I'd like to suggest MySQL. It's available as a Debian package and there's a Win32 ODBC driver

POP3 server

1998-03-12 Thread Rob Goodwin
hi folks, can someone tell me where i can find the information i need to set up a POP3 server. First I guess i should ask if there is even one out there freely available? I imagine there must be though as there seems to be everything else. rob -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: POP3 server

1998-03-12 Thread John Paul Lorenti
Have you taken a look at the qpopper package? On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: hi folks, can someone tell me where i can find the information i need to set up a POP3 server. First I guess i should ask if there is even one out there freely available? I imagine there must be

Libc5/libm undefined symbol

1998-03-12 Thread Stefan Ratschan
Hi, after an upgrade to Hamm I get the following undef. symbol error: Error in startup script: couldn't load file libpgtcl.so: /lib/libm.so.5: undefined symbol: __getfpucw while executing load libpgtcl.so (procedure main line 3) invoked from within main $argc $argv

Re: POP3 server

1998-03-12 Thread Ian Perry
There is a package called qpopper in mail -- From: Rob Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: POP3 server Date: Thursday, 12 March 1998 20:06 hi folks, can someone tell me where i can find the information i need to set up a POP3 server. First

Domain name

1998-03-12 Thread maor
In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of your hostname and domain name right? In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ??? Where is this (none) coming from? Pure interest here, I have just been playing with it Michael Beattie ([EMAIL

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-12 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Mar 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote: In effect, I want to put an egrep filter in less, with a regexp that could be modified without restarting less or re-reading file. I think I'll be forwarding this to markn, less author. Should be

SSH - need libgmp.so.2

1998-03-12 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, A quick and (hopefully painless!) question: I downloaded the ssh deb package from ftp.replay.com (ssh_1.2.22-1.deb) and installed it, but it says that it needs libgmp.so.2. I have libgmp.so.1, but not .2, I believe. Couldn't find it in any of the usual locations (well, not that I could

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:29:12AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 06:18:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Where are the pthread manual pages for hamm? pthread/LinuxThreads is a part of libc6; you'll find the manpages in libc6-doc. Thanks. Weird about the contents

netscape4

1998-03-12 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi I'm using a bo system with netscape 3.01 gold. I now want to upgrade to netscape 4, using the installer package from hamm. Now my question is, which of the files from ftp.netscape.com should I use, and where exactly I can find them. Thanks in advance, Maarten Bezemer -- E-mail the word

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 10:53:13PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Weird about the contents search on www.debian.org though. http://www.debian.org/packages.html contains: :Note: substring searching currently isn't implemented. This can cause :problems. For example, you need to specify libgtk1 to

Re: SSH - need libgmp.so.2

1998-03-12 Thread Greg Norris
According to the Packages page (http://www.debian.org/packages.html), it is included in devel/gmp for bo, and oldlibs/gmp for hamm. On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:08:56PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi Folks, A quick and (hopefully painless!) question: I downloaded the ssh deb package from

Re: dselect mystification (fwd)

1998-03-12 Thread Henry Hollenberg
That's what I ended up doing but I'm not sure what or why I forced something to happenI've run the install part of dselect about 3-4 times now and keep getting some sort of install error on the kbd package. I guess I'll keep running install till I'm bored with it! I wonder if it would have

Re: dselect mystification (fwd)

1998-03-12 Thread Henry Hollenberg
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Travis Cole wrote: Try a hitting Q that should make it ignore any errors it is having. .And after that, don't install anything but first run 'Access' from dselect. Be sure to only install from the 'unstable' distribution, not 'stable'. After that, run 'Update' in dselect.

Boot Installer can't read HD... Help!

1998-03-12 Thread Andre M. Czausov
Hi All, I've been struggling as a newbie both to Linux and programming to prepare adequately to install Debian without too many tears. Been at at it for four days days now, reading docs/faqs, preparing my fully-functional (at the moment Win95 based) Quantum 3gb hd for a new Linux partition,

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 01:15:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 10:53:13PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Weird about the contents search on www.debian.org though. http://www.debian.org/packages.html contains: :Note: substring searching currently isn't implemented.

Re: SANE AfterStep

1998-03-12 Thread Jens Ritter
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, all, Updated hamm recently, and when attempting to configure SANE, got: running dpkg --pending --configure ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sane: sane depends on libgtk1 ( 1:0.99.4); however: Version of libgtk1 on

X Window - help!!!

1998-03-12 Thread Tristan Day that's you!
Being *completely* new to Linux, I thought the Windows-like environment would be part of the Debian Installation. I guess what I was after was Xwindow/Xfree or something. I looked all over the site and searched for both, but can only find reference and packages that run ON it rather than xwindow

Re: X Window - help!!!

1998-03-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Install the xbase and related packages in the X11 sections when you run dselect. -Ossama -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect mystification (fwd)

1998-03-12 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Oh Yeah, I'm now left with a few packages that don't want to installbeen thru the install section of dselect several times with them: kbd_0.95-4.deb sysvinit_2.73-2.deb gcc_2.7.2.3-3.deb libc6-dev_2.0.7pre1-4.deb should I go back to the top of dselect and do ftp again. Also can I save

Re: pcmcia modules ... unresolved symbols

1998-03-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card. I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules however if I insmod the precompiled

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-12 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header This is possible by a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-12 Thread john
Ian Perry writes: If your ISP requires pap authentication, you need to uncomment the +pap line in your options file. Don't do this. '+pap' tells pppd to require that your isp authenticate himself to you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- E-mail

[Q] XDM -- how to reconfigure

1998-03-12 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, When installing debian I was suggested by the installation program to use XDM to start X windows. I now understand that I do not want that. However I can only use startx command (what I was using before the new installation) if logged in as root. I would like to use startx command to

What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ Requirements: Linux compatible (ofcourse, he is an

Serial Ports.

1998-03-12 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, Does anyone know why on boot up my Serial ports are displayed as /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01? I have tried running the 0setserial script from /rc.boot/ (i think thats correct) and that says they are /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 but it also produces a wierd error, something like; cannot

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ The only semi-viable choice

debian menu bug???

1998-03-12 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, Some days ago i updated my hamm to the latest available packets. Now update-menus creates the menu-directories in the root (/) directory and I dont have menus any more in my window-manager. Is this a bug or my fault Thanx florian attenberger -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread dpk
I have Adaptec 2940s in two of my Debian machines (one is our Debian mirror) and have never had a problem. My cohorts at work use them in a variety of situations with cd writers, scanners, etc. running Windows 95 and NT. No complaints here. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ The only

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Howdy, a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ Requirements: Linux compatible

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Ossama Othman
I have a 2940UW SCSI controller onboard (built in my motherboard) and it works fine with Linux 2.0.33. I assume that the 2940UW card will work just as well. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public:

netstd won't upgrade

1998-03-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
I tried to upgrade to the latest hamm netstd 3.01-1 with dselect and got: Preparing to replace netstd 3.02-1 (using .../net/netstd_3.03-1.deb) ... Stopping remote filesystem services: mountd nfsd. Unpacking replacement netstd ... dpkg: error processing

Re: X Window - help!!!

1998-03-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tristan Day that's you! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Being *completely* new to Linux, I thought the Windows-like environment would be part of the Debian Installation. I guess what I was after was Xwindow/Xfree or something. I looked all over the site and searched for both, but can only find

Re: [Q] XDM -- how to reconfigure

1998-03-12 Thread Alex Yukhimets
xwindows for regular users. Is there a way to reconfigure xwindows or xdm to ask me that question about whether I want to use xdm again so I can answer 'No'. You can modify /etc/init.d/xdm script to meet your requirements. Another question is: I would like to know whether it is possible

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ The only semi-viable choice is the 2940UW.. The Buslogic cards are my current favorite. Yep, BusLogic 958 is a very

Re: [Q] XDM -- how to reconfigure

1998-03-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, When installing debian I was suggested by the installation program to use XDM to start X windows. I now understand that I do not want that. However I can only use startx command (what I was using before the new installation) if logged

Re: [Q] XDM -- how to reconfigure

1998-03-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:23:05AM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: Hello, When installing debian I was suggested by the installation program to use XDM to start X windows. I now understand that I do not want that. However I can only use startx command (what I was using before the new

Re: Boot Installer can't read HD... Help!

1998-03-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 11:51:57PM -1000, Andre M. Czausov wrote: My system is a GW2K Pentium II 266, 3.2gb IDE Quantum UDMA Fireball, Promise PCI UDMA controller Do you have a standard controller to try? You may want to check if UDMA is supported yet. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL

old versions of mutt

1998-03-12 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
Dear all, Does anybody of you know where to get old version of Mutt, which does not depend on libc6 - if this kind of it exists, of course. Thanks Arunas -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-12 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, Lorens Kockum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I'll be forwarding this to markn, less author. Should be rather simple, and ... is there anyone else that thinks it might be useful ? The discussion has been forwarded, I am awaiting a reply. Bw, I have less-321. the author's

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: [ snip ] :My sincere apologies for an absolutely STUPID question, But I have :absolutely NO idea. No such thing as a stupid question :) :Where can I get/read/find/download/whatever the RFC's? Install the package doc-rfc, if you want them

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: :On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 04:55:08AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: : On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: :how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my : Debian box? : : The simplest approach is to use the program 3c5x9cfg.exe that comes with :

long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
Dear list, Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos... Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. -- greetz... Arunas

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, I have bought the advansys cards and i must say that they are excellent in terms of value for money, support, and features. you can also get them at a growing number of places on the web. on the diamond unit, it is my understanding they only support win 95 and nt. regards, allan th

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos... You are probably mounting the drive as `msdos' instead of

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Steve Hsieh
Mount using filesystem type vfat. On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: Dear list, Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files

Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. Thanks Jonathan -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. Use the `gimp' program. It's better than Photoshop. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. The gimp (non-free in bo; free in hamm) is almost certainly what you want. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. why non-free and then free? The gimp people stopped using Motif and

Re: Serial Ports.

1998-03-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Does anyone know why on boot up my Serial ports are displayed as /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01? Don't know about the /dev/ but my kernel (serial built-in) says: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, finn wrote: Well, it's not _strictly_ necessary, unless you dual boot to Win95. Win95 seems to get some sort of perverse pleasure out of reconfiguring the 3C509 every time it boots up ... and this drives Linux absolutely nuts (as it should). In addition, I've run into

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: : Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why : when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This : causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files : between linux and dos... : : Any

viewing binary files

1998-03-12 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone:

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread servis
On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such thing as a stupid question :) Will Richard Stallman ever work for Microsoft? Sorry, couldn't resist. Brian -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: viewing binary files

1998-03-12 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. Issue command reset. Suonpää... -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: viewing binary files

1998-03-12 Thread servis
On 12 Mar, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. Type reset (w/o quotes) on the keyboard without regard for what the screen is showing and hit return. Brian -- E-mail

kde

1998-03-12 Thread Richard Sevenich
I have tried to install kde on a debian system, but get error messages such as the following: dpkg: error processing kdesupport-Beta3-1.i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/opt/kde/lib', which is also in package kdelibs dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. Three packages come to mind immediately: The Gimp, ImageMagick, xv These are for images in general - I don't think there's anything special about a scanned image; what matters is the

Re: kde

1998-03-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I have tried to install kde on a debian system, but get error messages such as the following: dpkg: error processing kdesupport-Beta3-1.i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/opt/kde/lib', which is also in package kdelibs dpkg-deb:

OFF: Re: viewing binary files

1998-03-12 Thread Justin Liu
I know this is unrelated, but does anyone know how to do the same thing under other Unices? More specifically SunOS/Solaris? Thanks, - justin On 12 Mar, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console.

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-12 Thread finn
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : No such thing as a stupid question :) : :Will Richard Stallman ever work for Microsoft? Yikes!! I take it all back :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone:

EXMH can not send e-mail

1998-03-12 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, All I have problem sending e-mails from EXMH, but I can receive them succesfully. It looks like ordinary Mail program works fine (I can both send and receive e-mails). Here is the message from EXMH: post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 550 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' sender address target

Slow keyboard and mouse response in TkDesk

1998-03-12 Thread Albert Hurd
I am a newbie who just downloaded the recent version of TkDesk. I notice that the computer will not respond to keyboard or mouse input for up to 3 or 4 seconds and then it will catch up. For example, if I am in the editor and hit a key 5 times per second, then fairly regularly the letters will

Tar

1998-03-12 Thread Pete Poff
I've got a bunch of files and dirs in one dir that I would like to use tar to make it into one file. Could someone tell me how? I know that tar -xvf will decompress it, I just don't know how to make one. Thanks, Pete Pete Poff E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Tar

1998-03-12 Thread Shaleh
$pwd /home/shaleh/files $tar zcvf ../files.tar.gz * ... $cd .. $ls files.tar.gz files.tar.gz $_ zcvf creates a gzipped tar file. c == create. Make sure you put the new tarball outside of the directory you are tarring or it will try and include the tar in itself creating a nasty loop. -- E-mail

Re: Tar

1998-03-12 Thread David Z. Maze
Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PP I've got a bunch of files and dirs in one dir that I would like to PP use tar to make it into one file. Could someone tell me how? I PP know that tar -xvf will decompress it, I just don't know how to PP make one. SUGGESTION: man tar HINT: tar cvzf

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Carroll Kong
Did you try mounting as vfat? Carroll Kong On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: Dear list, Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
I agree with everyone else's statement that BusLogic is Good, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with Advansys. Advansys maintains the linux driver and it should be a good one. Adaptec and Diamond will work at the expense of some robustness. I'll never buy them. On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at

  1   2   >