Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Mark A. Zottola wrote: I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online documentation, FAQs, etc. I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software.

Re: Printing on the stairs

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: How do I prevent the stairstep effect when printing? Install magicfilter. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: VIM

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Timothy, The ~ files are backup files of the file that you just edited. To turn this ability off, edit your .vimrc file (or /etc/vimrc if you don't have a local copy) and change the set backup option to set nobackup. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I use

Re: gcc: libs/scicos.a: No such file or directory

1998-06-12 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
I'm using Scilab 2.3 (not 2.3.1!) on my two Debian boxes. It is compiled from the original scilab-2.3-src.tar.gz file (length 5186183, md5 sum: d4fc8537ffdb3b355841c737b26b4877). Just before a minute I've checked it once again - I've untarred the source file in the temporary directory, typed the

HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-12 Thread dave oswald
Hello all... Thanks in advance for looking at this - please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a log file that I need to extract some data from... the lines I am looking for; are the lines that contain the output from the command: date + %a %b %d | sed 's/ //' or Fri Jun 12 I am using sed

Re: HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Dave, Try grep `date \+ %a %b %d\ | sed 's/ //'` arch.log Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave oswald wrote: Hello all... Thanks in advance for looking at this - please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a log file that I need to extract some data from... the lines I am looking for; are

Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be able to use something that would be compatible with the upcoming release of GNOME for debian. (Midnight Commander?) Is gmc available for debian? (ref. to

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Shaleh
Debian GNOME packages are in the finalization process and will appear in slink RSN (Real Soon Now). This includes ALL GNOME apps we can get our hands on from CVS. If any are missed, I am sure the debian-user community will inform us (-: Brian Morgan wrote: Could anyone suggest some good

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get them? Well... I'd suggest you to use icewm... it is small, fast, and it will be one of the gnome-aware window managers. Version 0.8.16 is available in hamm, 0.9.5 in slink. 0.9.5

apt weirdness

1998-06-12 Thread timothy
I am doing 'apt-get update' and it dies saying: Get ftp://ftp.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 31% [Packages 2920/21.4k 13%]Uncaught exception from user code: Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 334 Carp::croak('Timeout') called at

RE: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Dennis Dai
For a good comparison of window managers, take a look at http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman. Dennis -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 1:38 PM To: Debian User group Subject: Windows Managers Could anyone suggest some good

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:38:03 -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be able to use something that would be compatible with the upcoming release of GNOME for debian.

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be I prefer Afterstep 1.42, I'm using it right now on a RH 5 system and it is very functional, plus it is

Silly little swap question

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but can bo and hamm share the same swap partition? My ISP has finally got a 56K connect up and running and I'm thinking of using a 300 meg partition on this machine (currently holding OpenDOS - which I haven't touched in months g) to take hamm for a spin, only I

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