strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Phil
I'm using libc6 2.0.7pre1-4 and strcpy gives me a segmentation error! I've attached my C test program for inspection(source only). I only do a few things. malloc memory for a variable(forgot a corresponding free) copy a string in this varible, copy this string to another string, print both on

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-17 Thread Mark Phillips
tzconfig - sets your timezone date - sets your system clock hwclock - sets your hardware clock xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference to Internet timeservers What is the difference between hwclock and clock, between xntp and netdate? And which

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:11:43AM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package,

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Normally, all directories that are not needed anymore are removed. In this special case, they are not. Marcus It's not a bug, it's a feature! ... but about a dozen bug reports are open against dpkg for this particular feature at the moment, and I hope one day it

Re: strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
This is your fault. You need to allocate memory for temp2. void main(void) { char *temp1, *temp2; temp1 = malloc (10); insert `temp2 = malloc (10);' here. strcpy (temp1, high all); strcpy (temp2, temp1); printf(%s %s, temp1, temp2); } -- To

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-17 Thread john
Joseph Carter writes: Congratulations, you're now part of dialout and can now .. dialout! The bad news is that SOMETHING at least on my machine keeps changing it back to mode 640! This is naturally QUITE annoying. Seems the only one that gets changed back is ttyS1, which leads me to

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...but... you have make a mistake ;-) in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools Yes, silly me. I knew that, I just didn't think of it. I

Re: Apache tilde question - Solved

1998-04-17 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:28:01AM -0700, Tim Metz wrote: : Thanks to those who replied regarding the apache question on : tildes/ScriptAlias. I upgraded to Apache 1.3b5 and that seemed to fix the : problem. : : ScriptAlias /~smith/cgi-bin/ /home/smith/public_html/cgi-bin/ You've got a

Re: strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-17 Thread aqy6633
#include stdlib.h #include stdio.h #include string.h void main(void) { char *temp1, *temp2; temp1 = malloc (10); strcpy (temp1, high all); strcpy (temp2, temp1); printf(%s %s, temp1, temp2); } /* error --- program recieved signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation Fault. *

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: tzconfig - sets your timezone date - sets your system clock hwclock - sets your hardware clock xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference to Internet timeservers What is the difference between hwclock and

Re: Newbie question (long)

1998-04-17 Thread shaul
I just recompiled my kernel using kernel 2.0.32, and everything seems to work well, except when I boot I get the following error messages which I take it means I screwed something up. (Is this because I configured serial support as a module?) Any help would be appreciated. Apr 15 21:03:05

Re: Rookie trying to install 1.3

1998-04-17 Thread shaul
From what I know, laptop installation, and ThinkPad in particular, is a bit harder then regular PC instalation. Try to see if the HOWTO's on the CD may be of any help. Another pointer might be the documantaion in www.debian.org. Not much, but hopefuly it will help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

xclock -sticky ?

1998-04-17 Thread shaul
I am running fvwm2. I want that xclock will stick to the screen while I am moving to a different part of the screen (My screen is divided into 3x3 parts). How can I accomplish it with xclock command line ? How could I learn it without someone telling me that ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-04-17 Thread shaul
One warning, Running Linux is a *little* RedHat-centric. Shouldn't cause too much trouble tho... There is a new version in the LDP, about 2 months old. It attempts to cover all the popular Linux distributions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Newbie question (long)

1998-04-17 Thread Alain Toussaint
I just recompiled my kernel using kernel 2.0.32, and everything seems to work well, except when I boot I get the following error messages which I take it means I screwed something up. (Is this because I configured serial support as a module?) Any help would be appreciated. Apr 15 21:03:05

Re: xclock -sticky ?

1998-04-17 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running fvwm2. I want that xclock will stick to the screen while I am moving to a different part of the screen (My screen is divided into 3x3 parts). How can I accomplish it with xclock command line ? How could I learn it without someone telling me

X video problems

1998-04-17 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
Thank you to every one who helped me out with the mouse/modem problem, both now work. :) I now can get into setup for X, I ran SuperProbe, which returned my card as Trident gui 9680 (with 2048 ram) so in the setup I picked Trident gui 9680 (generic) I took the default settings for

RE: strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Scott D. Killen
Phil, You are copying the string to temp2 which has not been initialized and is a NULL pointer. You need to allocate memory of at least the same size as temp1 to temp2 and this will solve your problem. Scott D. Killen Scott Killen Software http://www.skillsoft.com -Original Message-

RE: strcpy HELP!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Lee Brinton
Scott D. Killen writes: You are copying the string to temp2 which has not been initialized and is a NULL pointer. You need to allocate memory of at least the same size as temp1 to temp2 and this will solve your problem. When using C library string functions always allocate memory of at

Re: Using tix AND Blt with hamm system! HELP

1998-04-17 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Cormac McGuinness wrote: Now, after upgrading to hamm on one machine, it appears that tix41 requires tk8.0, but blt4.2 (actually BLT v2.3) requires tk4.2 ... A raw 'hamm' install will not fully support BLT. You will have to upgrade to the latest 'bacon' snapshot, and make

Re: Apache tilde question - Solved

1998-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:39:50PM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:28:01AM -0700, Tim Metz wrote: : ScriptAlias /~smith/cgi-bin/ /home/smith/public_html/cgi-bin/ You've got a bigger problem at work here. Your cgi-bin dir is potentially readable by HTTP clients.

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-17 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom as their current directory. You can't unmount until you cd out of there. (I'm sorry if that

X11R6.4

1998-04-17 Thread Oz Dror
Is anyone going to port the X11R6.4 as a non-free package? -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2

ISDN , Debian and MS Chap.

1998-04-17 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I'm currently accessing the net with a regular modem, but want to switch to ISDN. The ISP uses the M$ Chap protocol (Did Micro$oft developed that protocol, or just gave it its name?) I know that KiSDN (of KDE) can connect, the problem is I don't have KDE installed. Someone told me that

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-17 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Jim, I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No,

RE: strcpy HELP!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Scott D. Killen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You are correct. I was making specific assumptions based on the code snippet shown. - -Original Message- From: Lee Brinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 12:40 AM To: debian-user Mailing List Subject: RE: strcpy HELP!!! Scott

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-17 Thread Mark Phillips
Re-arrange your drives like this and let me know if it fixes the situation: HDA - ok HDC - Set as HDB HDB - Set as HDC (Linux does not care where additional partitions are) I did almost this, except instead of swapping hdb and hdc, I simply detached hdb temporarily. Low and behold it

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mark Phillips wrote: What is the difference between hwclock and clock, between xntp and netdate? Remco answered that. And which package contains hwclock and xntp? hwclock is in util-linux xntp is in xntp (This is on hamm.) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-17 Thread Gernot Bauer
I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No, unfortunatly

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-17 Thread Gernot Bauer
Thanx to all who replied. Its working very well now!!! Gernot -- -- Gernot BauerSalzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

www.debian.org

1998-04-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
FYI, We are aware that www.debian.org (va.debian.org) has gone missing - it is being worked on. An up to date mirror is at http://ftp1.us.debian.org Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strcpy HELP!!!

1998-04-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Lee Brinton: Scott D. Killen writes: You are copying the string to temp2 which has not been initialized and is a NULL pointer. You need to allocate memory of at least the same size as temp1 to temp2 and this will solve your problem. When using C library string functions always

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote: I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do

AccelX on Debian

1998-04-17 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts. Did xdm work with your configuration? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

more on emacs and version control

1998-04-17 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all I would like to know if there is a way to customize emacs-vc to use by default the master files (,v files) in other directories. I would like to keep all master files in a ROOT-MASTER-FILES/PATH where the real file is directory Thanks in advance,

bash_2.01.1-1 segfaults

1998-04-17 Thread ramin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! I have problems installing this version of bash: postinst-script segfaults. Other scripts using /bin/sh also get segfaults now and loggin in with the new bash isn´t possible :-( . I am currently logged in as root with an old (bo) bash, so the system is quite

Re: strcpy HELP!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Scott D. Killen writes: You are copying the string to temp2 which has not been initialized and is a NULL pointer. You need to allocate memory of at least the same size as temp1 to temp2 and this will solve your problem. When using C library string functions always allocate memory of

Re: AccelX on Debian

1998-04-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts. Did xdm work with your configuration? Yes. Actually I used X only via xdm. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

Debian2.0 and tetex

1998-04-17 Thread Gernot Bauer
I tried to install tetex today but one package (I think it was tetex-base) still had the wrong version-number :( Anyone working on this? -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2 problems : one with the numéric +, and one with emacs !

1998-04-17 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Hello, I'm still expecting a problem using my numéric + key, i can change my window configuration with ctrl + alt + (+) because in the xterm, + is , ; ihave tried a lot ok keymap configuration but no one is ok ;(( I also expecting another problem when i want to start emacs ans error occured :

zlib1g/xpm4g problem

1998-04-17 Thread Adrian Monk
I have upgrade using autoup, and am now having some problems installing zlib1g (required by rpm and other progs) and xpm4g (required by icewm, fvwm2 etc.), using dpkg -i, as: xpm4g confilicts with xpm4.7 (=3.4j-0) zlib1g zlib1 (=1.1.0.4.7) I am hesitant of removing xpm4.7

newbie boot ?

1998-04-17 Thread Gil Nielsen
Hi, Am real new to this. Just installed debian base system from floppys. it went fine. I am booting with the custom floppy and it hangs at md driver 0.35 MAX-MD-Dev=4 MAX-REAL=8 for about 10 min. before it continues booting. Is there a way to delete this line? or should'nt I? Thanks -- To

kde : using kdm instead of xdm

1998-04-17 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login it just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I am wondering if it is because I have shadow passwords installed. Has anyone else had this problem? Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Printing to Windows 95

1998-04-17 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi I've looked in the How-to's but i still don't think that things are going to work. First the Printing Howto mentions a mini howto (couldn't find it). Second it mentions smbprint wich I couldn't find in my debian installation! So the questions are : where

Re: Debian2.0 and tetex

1998-04-17 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: I tried to install tetex today but one package (I think it was tetex-base) still had the wrong version-number :( Anyone working on this? It is stuck in Incoming. Get the latest tetex-* packages from: http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming or

Re: kde : using kdm instead of xdm

1998-04-17 Thread Colin Telmer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login it just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I am wondering if it is because I have shadow passwords installed. Has anyone else had

Re: Printing to Windows 95

1998-04-17 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 17-Apr-98 Paul McDermott wrote: hi, the mini howto's are at the linux documentation project under a Looked over there, could find it :( directory called mini. you can get to the lpd website from debian's. smbprint program is in the samba

Re: Edit Program

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Try jed.. -Jon. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth. --anon On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote:

Re: kde : using kdm instead of xdm

1998-04-17 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login it just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I am wondering if it is because I have shadow passwords installed. Has anyone else

pppd flakines and hamm CDs

1998-04-17 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I finnally resolved my computer problems (thanx to everyone who helped) by getting a nice new motherboard Now I have reinstalled debian and have upgraded to hamm before my crash I had a bo system, which I upgraded to hamm... but I had set up PPP to work to my ISP under bo... with this installation

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-17 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) writes: On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom as their current directory. You can't

Re: How to recover???

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
When I get these kind of panics, the first thing I reach for is my 'Installation' diskettes!! ... I suggest you try that and see.. -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: bash_2.01.1-1 segfaults

1998-04-17 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I have problems installing this version of bash: postinst-script segfaults. Other scripts using /bin/sh also get segfaults now and loggin in with the new bash isn´t possible :-( . I am currently logged in as root with an old (bo) bash, so the system is quite

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-17 Thread Graham Pople
Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE ones and nas. Have you recompiled your kernel with audio support? It's not enabled by

Re: Debian2.0 and tetex

1998-04-17 Thread Graham Pople
I tried to install tetex today but one package (I think it was tetex-base) still had the wrong version-number :( Anyone working on this? There is a version of tetex-base 0.9 to go with the available version of tetex-bin 0.9. It's somewhere on Debian's FTP server, here:

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I simply do NOT agree with that .. from my own PAINFUL experience P90's are not worth their weight in worthlessness!! Other points taken J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: X11R6.4

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: Is anyone going to port the X11R6.4 as a non-free package? I don't think so. X being big as it is, you'd need a large group of developers to maintain and develop an XFree86-like port of X11R6.4. Those people could spend their time much better and would

problem with security fix bind (bo-unstable)

1998-04-17 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I installed the security fix bind from bo-updates. I think this caused nslookup to disappear. freefall $ locate nslookup /usr/bin/nslookup.sh An old contents file shows: usr/bin/nslookup net/bind usr/bin/nslookup.sh

ISDN , Debian and M$ Chap.

1998-04-17 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I sent this msg yesterday, but my server had some problems and I don't know whether it reached you. If you already read this letter, I'm soryy. TIA, Liran Zvibel. Here is the old message: Hello, I'm currently accessing the net with a regular modem, but want to switch to ISDN. The ISP

Re: How becoming a Super User

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
issue the command 'su root' and login as appropriate ... beware!! -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I agree with you the man is not a Titan ... I once read somewhere '.. On no account should anything [or person] be worshiped, be revered or be venerated. However if it is a thing done with all the skill of a master craftsman [or is a master craftsman ] it [they] should be emphatically respected

Re: AccelX on Debian (a summary)

1998-04-17 Thread Chris
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts. Did xdm work with your configuration? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash_2.01.1-1 segfaults --SOLVED

1998-04-17 Thread ramin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 17-Apr-98 Daniel Martin at cush wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I have problems installing this version of bash: postinst-script segfaults. Other scripts using /bin/sh also get segfaults now and loggin in with the new bash isn´t possible :-( . I

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one. The question is, has it be implemented? -J.

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Holliday
Check out OpenDos, by Cadera, it is a full multitasking OS. -Original Message- From: C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user mailing list debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is

NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Holliday
Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100mb bus-master pci adapter? Mike

where is tetex-base 0.9-1 ?

1998-04-17 Thread Steve Hsieh
For awhile now, tetex-bin in frozen has been requiring tetex-base =0.9-1 to install. But that version of tetex-base doesn't exist in frozen. Anyone know where it currently can be found? dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin: tetex-bin depends on tetex-base (= 0.9-1);

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 03:41:45PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Steve Hsieh
What do you mean by a .deb package for a NIC? If you want networking support for the 3com card, you should be using the 3c59x module or building it into the kernel... On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100mb

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100mb bus-master pci adapter? You don't need a .deb package for that. The driver is in the kernel. If it is not in your kernel, you should compile your own kernel to get support

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, that is what I did use, but it refuses to accept it as my NiC, and it is the right card Mike -Original Message- From: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Holliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 10:07 AM

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-17 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos No. A program becomes an operating system when it installs it's own interrupt servicing routies. Win95 does this, and though it kicks back to DOS's

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: : Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink : 10/100mb bus-master pci adapter? : : Mike : Cool, hardware debian packages! The Free Hardware Foundation, hmmm -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue -

Re: MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Can anyone give me a short and sweet rundown of what I need configured to get a working fetchmail system running? I have SMail set up and working (I can send E-mail from my system, and I can send/receive email between different accounts on my system). Now I want fetchmail to grab mail

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Holliday
Thats fine and all, but seeing as I don't have any driver codes from 3Com how would I go about writing a driver for it? Mike -Original Message- From: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Holliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date:

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: : Hi, : that is what I did use, but it refuses to accept it as my NiC, and it is the : right card It would be worth trying the 3Com diskettes and running 3C90XCFG.EXE ... take the card out of PnP mode, try changing IRQs/IO ports ... the number 1 problem

emacs and color-coding-code

1998-04-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hmm. I have the f90.el module for fortran 90. On digitial unix, it happily color-codes my source. The debian install seems to have a f90.elc which doesn't do the coloring. I also tried switching that for the f90.el, but no dice. any ideas on how to get the color? rick -- These

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I'm missing something here. Are you saying that you added 3c59x (yes, 3c59x) to /etc/modules and your NIC wasn't found? I have the very same card (3C905) on two installations and they work fine. However, I do not have any AUI port on any of mine, as Nathan does. Does the 3c59x module

Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-17 Thread Paul Rightley
I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting into and Windows product). However, when I create large text (like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if the image itself has a much higher resolution. Is

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: Thats fine and all, but seeing as I don't have any driver codes from 3Com how would I go about writing a driver for it? I thought the driver code is already in the standard kernel source code. You only need to turn on the support for your card, check

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting into and Windows product). However, when I create large text (like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if the

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Please drop personal attacks, especially vapid ones, from the lists. Supported!! -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: have any AUI port on any of mine, as Nathan does. Does the 3c59x module exist in /lib/modules/2.0.x/net? If not compile it as a module, install it and reboot. No, the whole point of it being a module is that you can just use insmod to insert it, and

Re: emacs and color-coding-code

1998-04-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: hmm. I have the f90.el module for fortran 90. On digitial unix, it happily color-codes my source. Do you have font-lock minor-mode turned on? M-x font-lock-mode The debian install seems to have a f90.elc which doesn't do the coloring. I also tried

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Ossama Othman
exist in /lib/modules/2.0.x/net? If not compile it as a module, install it and reboot. No, the whole point of it being a module is that you can just use insmod to insert it, and you won't have to reboot at all. Yes I know it isn't always necessary to reboot. However, I just like to keep

Re: emacs and color-coding-code

1998-04-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
In your .emacs file you need: (load-library hilit19) Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: hmm. I have the f90.el module for fortran 90. On digitial unix, it happily color-codes my source. The debian install seems to have a f90.elc which doesn't do the coloring. I also tried switching that for

win95 fat32 and linux on the same machine

1998-04-17 Thread Benjamin Cant
Hi, Is this a Windows95 FEATURE ;-) When running Linux(Bo) an a machine with Windows95b(Fat32) the next time I run Windows it complains that the filesystem is in 'MSDOS compatability mode' and will not load any virtual disk drivers (including my CD!). The only way I know to get Windows to use

DEClaser 2100 Plus

1998-04-17 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi It's me again. I'm now able to print to a windows 95 printer (sort of)! The problem lies within the printer (the one in the subject). First, when printing text the last page doesn't get ejected, i have to perform a manual form feed :(. Second I can't find

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: own interrupt servicing routies. Win95 does this, and though it kicks back to DOS's interrupt handlers for some things, it does this via calls from That is just the point! it's own handlers. DOS is merely used as a boot loader, and windows

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: DesQview, DoubleDos, NovelDOS, VM to name a few. I thought the context was W-95? Jonathan -- In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: win95 fat32 and linux on the same machine

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, I am also running windows 95's fat32 and linux on a single HDD, but I boot my Linux off of a diskette. The only difference between our install is that I used extended not dos on my linux partition when I first installed. Unless you have partition magic I doubt that could could format that way,

Re: emacs and color-coding-code

1998-04-17 Thread John Maheu
I don't use the f90 mode but I do use the f77 mode. In emacs you can turn on colours by ESC-X font-lock-mode (in the mini buffer) to turn on the f90 mode try ESC-X f90-mode and to turn on abbreviation mode ESC-X abbrev-mode To avoid doing this every time you can setup your .emacs file

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-17 Thread Paul Rightley
I am sorry if I am clueless... I installed xfntscl and looked in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo and Type1 for the fonts listed in fonts.scale (I assume that this is how one determines if a font is scalable). I then tried using these fonts in gimp. This worked the same way as before (strong

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-17 Thread Paul Rightley
I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there fonts of this sort that follow the DFSG (which I

Hamm Boot Disks

1998-04-17 Thread mike
Is there a semi stable set of hamm boot-disks out yet? About a month ago I tried them and ran into problems with missing perl libraries on my run of dselect. TIA, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- To

Permissions on /dev/ttyS1 (Was: Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles)

1998-04-17 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have been troubled with intermittently changed permissions on /dev/ttyS1, and have been searching for some cron job that might have caused it. Your comments about the pppd source gave me a clue. I thought that if pppd changes these permissions, then restores them on exit, an abnormal exit

afterstep-1.0 package somewhere?

1998-04-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Does anybody still have an afterstep_1.0 package lying around? I accidentally installed 1.4, and I hate it. Completely new configuration, which I don't want to learn right now (other than that it looks very nice, though I already noticed some problems with the pager after less than an

Re: Bad/Counterfeit memory? [Was: Upgrading to hamm]

1998-04-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
FWIW, I took the suggestion to try 2.0.32, and my system still acts up with 128M in it. 64M is fine. I think it's the new SIMMs. They don't fail memtest86, but gcc and dselect won't work... I haven't tried to test *just* the new SIMMs yet, but I'm suspicious of them simply because they have a

Re: more on emacs and version control

1998-04-17 Thread Keith Beattie
Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there is a way to customize emacs-vc to use by default the master files (,v files) in other directories. I would like to keep all master files in a ROOT-MASTER-FILES/PATH where the real file is directory This doesn't actually

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d dpkg:

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