Re: CD Debian 2.0

1999-02-04 Thread Vinicius De Mario
Alexander Gieg wrote: Ola'! Eu ate' ja' tinha esquecido que tinha assinado essa lista de discussao. E' otimo vela funcionando! Como primeira mensagem, entao, gostaria de perguntar-lhes: alguem sabe onde, no Brasil (se possivel em Sao Paulo / SP), e' possivel adquirir uma copia dos CDs

Até logo

1999-02-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi pessoal, vou estar um mês aproximadamente sem poder responder e-mails por causa da faculdade. Espero que vocês levem avante as idéias de nacionalizacão e distribuicão da Debian em português. Mês que vem espero voltar. Até logo, Paulo Henrique

Re: CD Debian 2.0

1999-02-04 Thread Ricardo Esparta
Vinicius De Mario writes: Alexander Gieg wrote: Como primeira mensagem, entao, gostaria de perguntar-lhes: alguem sabe onde, no Brasil (se possivel em Sao Paulo / SP), e' possivel adquirir uma copia dos CDs oficiais do Debian 2.0? Posso te fornecer (e a quem mais interessar)

Re: sugerencias

1999-02-04 Thread Antonio Ballesteros
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, TooManySecrets wrote: Felipe Sanchez el día Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:40:19AM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: Como nuestros estilos de trabajo son distintos yo no uso el tipo de software que él necesita, así que les escripo a ver si alguien me da sugerencias. [...]

Re: Borrar directorio

1999-02-04 Thread homega
Antonio Ballesteros dixit: On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jaime E. Villate wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ¿Cómo hago para borrar un directorio con todo su contenido? rm -r directorio (piensa dos vezes antes del enter, porque un error te puede costar caro) Sobre todo por una linea

Re: Query for dpkg.

1999-02-04 Thread benalb
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jose Albores wrote: Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:19:58 -0300 From: Jose Albores [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Subject: Query for dpkg. Resent-Date: 2 Feb 1999 22:24:20 - Resent-From: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient

Re: Query para dpkg.

1999-02-04 Thread Hue-Bond
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jose Albores wrote: Cual es el comando equivalente a: # rpm -qa Para saber cuales son los paquetes dpkg instalados ? $ dpkg -l|grep ^.i 'dpkg -l' lista todos los que están en la base de datos, estén o no instalados. Con el grep seleccionamos

CD 3: contrib

1999-02-04 Thread Marcelino Valles
¿Como puedo instalar el CD 3 de la distribucion Hamm?. Creo que con dselect no es posible.

X 3.3.3 en formato deb

1999-02-04 Thread Area Tecnica, Externo17
Hola a todos: ¿Sabe alguien si están las Xfree versión 3.3.3 en formato deb? He intentado convertir la versión tgz pero no los reconoce como actualización de los que tengo instalados (ver. 3.3.2) y necesito la 3.3.3 para usar mi Riva TNT. Saludos Pablo Villanueva

Usuarios plussed

1999-02-04 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos Perdonar por el mensaje, porque puede resultar un poco off-topic. He estado leyendo documentacion de sendmail, y me ha interesado el tema de los usuarios plussed, pero no veo como se lleva a cabo, me imagino que sera añadiendo en el /etc/aliases, pero solo me lo imagino. ¿Sabe

Re: X 3.3.3 en formato deb

1999-02-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:42:54AM +0100, Area Tecnica, Externo17 wrote: Hola a todos: ¿Sabe alguien si están las Xfree versión 3.3.3 en formato deb? Haberlas haylas, pero de momento sólo en la Debian japonesa. He intentado convertir la versión tgz pero no los reconoce como

Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Hola, Buscando entre los paquetes de slink no he conseguido encontrar el programa telnet. Este en bo se encontraba en el paquete netstd, sin embargo, este paquete de slink (o de potato) no contienen ese programa. Alquien sabe en que paquete de slink podria entrarlo? Hasta

Re: Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:18:33AM +, Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Hola, Buscando entre los paquetes de slink no he conseguido encontrar el programa telnet. Este en bo se encontraba en el paquete netstd, sin embargo, este paquete de slink (o de potato) no contienen ese programa.

Re: Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:18:33AM +, Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Sugerencia: En http://www.es.debian.org/distrib/packages (y demás réplicas) hay un fantástico buscador en el que pones el nombre del fichero que buscas y te dice en qué paquete está. Genial!

Re: Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola : Si estas tienes configurado tu navegador para mostra el documento en español, este buscandor no funcionara. Abajo, en las ultimas lineas tienes opciones de idiomas, esoje ingles, y veras que si funciona. On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:18:33AM +, Jose Luis Trivino wrote:

Re: tocando la cage

1999-02-04 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: ahora mismo mis variables de entorno son LANG=es_ES.iso8859-1 LC_ALL=C Cuidado, pues me parece que LC_ALL tiene preferencia sobre LANG y sobre todas las demas variables de entorno LC_xxx, por lo que te estas cargando el valor de LANG con

Re: Faltan ficheros.

1999-02-04 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Area Tecnica, Externo17 wrote: ¿Alguna sugerencia? (no vale que me corte las venas) En principio valdria con que renombras el directorio de fuentes del kernel /usr/src/linux a /usr/src/linux.old o lo que sea (o bien lo borras si ya no lo quieres), y luego instalas el paquete

Re: kernel 2.2.x acentos

1999-02-04 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: Buscando buscando he descubierto el fichero /etc/init.d/keymaps.sh en el cual se hace referencia a un fichero llamado /var/lib/kbd/kernel.map o /var/lib/console-tools/kernel.kmap ¡ QUE NO TENGO ! ¿Y qué versión tienes de Debian o del

Re: Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:19:06PM +, Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:18:33AM +, Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Sugerencia: En http://www.es.debian.org/distrib/packages (y demás réplicas) hay un fantástico buscador en el que pones el nombre

Re: Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:24:24AM -0200, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote: Hola : Si estas tienes configurado tu navegador para mostra el documento en español, este buscandor no funcionara. Abajo, en las ultimas lineas tienes opciones de idiomas, esoje ingles, y veras que si funciona.

Problema con el disco

1999-02-04 Thread Vicenç Masanas
Durante el boot obtengo este mensaje donde segun parece se desactiva el DMA: [...] PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings:

Re: Telnet en Slink

1999-02-04 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola : ¿Exactamente qué es lo que no funciona? Ya he hecho cinco veces la prueba, concetándome desde distintas máquinas, con Linux, Netscape Navigator 4.5 y negociación de contenido, y siempre funciona. Estamos hablando del buscador que hay al final de la página

Re: tocando la cage

1999-02-04 Thread Sergio Rael Gutierrez
Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: Pues eso intentando averiguar porque no tenia acentos en el kernel 2.2.0 o 2.2.1 me he quedado sin acentos . De esto se deduce que no era cosa del kernel, pero no se de que. Alguien tiene alguna sugerencia A mi me pasó lo mismo, sólo tienes que

RDSI Y MÁS PROBLEMAS.

1999-02-04 Thread Ángel Carrasco
Estimados amigos, Uso la debian 2.0 y tengo una tarjeta RDSI elsa quickstep 1000 la cual está ampliamente soportada. Desde el cambio a I+ me han comentado que hay que usar la conexión con isdnutils beta 3 y ipppd y chap. La verdad es que no tengo ni idea que significa esto y lo que hago es lo

Informacion: Acentos en emacs

1999-02-04 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Ya que se ha hablado tanto de los acentos ultimamente, les cuento algo que descubrí accidentalmente y que me resolvió un problema que me estaba volviendo loco desde hace varios dias: Cuando uno trabaja en emacs, si la fecha del ratón se sale de la ventana del texto, los acentos dejan de funcionar.

swap_free: swap-space map null (entry 0000c000)

1999-02-04 Thread homega
¿Alguien sabe qué significa esto? Apareció en pantalla nada más fetchmail acabó de bajar el correo: swap_free: swap-space map null (entry c000) -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodet? --

Re: sugerencias

1999-02-04 Thread TooManySecrets
Antonio Ballesteros el día Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:51:47AM + expuso lo siguiente: 2.- Corel Draw 3.- Textos, cálculo (Star office, creo) Tanto para el primero como para el segundo, el StarOffice 5.0. En el primer caso no llega a la potencia del Corel, pero bueno, ahí es nada...

Alguien sabe como añadir fuentes a Staroffice y que se impriman con Ghotscript?

1999-02-04 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Pues eso, estoy intentando añadir algunas fuentes a staroffice , el problema es que no me las imprime ghostscript en principio lo que hago es usar printafm para crear los ficheros de metrica y añadirlos con el psetup de staroffice el problema es que al imprimirlo me los sustituye por times. Esta

Creacion de ficheros .deb

1999-02-04 Thread Alvaro Alea
BUENOS DIAS!!! Pues estoy metiendome con eso de la creacion de paquetes, y cuando me pongo a crearlo me sale siempre ( y varias veces ): no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME (alvaro) at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. ¿es malo? ¿ la cuestion es que los .deb se generan sin

xserver-common_3.3.2.3a-9.deb

1999-02-04 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
The installation of xserver-common_3.3.2.3a-9.deb fails with this message: DPKG ERROR Do you wish to delete the installed package (.deb) files? [y]: And the installtion is stopped. How can I correct this problem ? -- \\|// VDB g (O O) OOO~(_)~oOOO~~~ :o) mailto:[EMAIL

Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
I had occasion today to be playing on a Sun Sparcstation which ran XDM with the chooser. Out of curiosity, I entered my machine's address, and whoa! it worked! So I was playing around on my own system from the Sun for a little while, complete with the Sun's Unix keyboard, and discovered that

Re: no improvement using buffer with tar?

1999-02-04 Thread servis
*- On 3 Feb, Jason Gunthorpe wrote about Re: no improvement using buffer with tar? On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I was a little disappointed with respect to its claims and its actual performance. I would like to speed up my backup, as it is now a backup of my

Re: Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I had occasion today to be playing on a Sun Sparcstation which ran XDM with | the chooser. Out of curiosity, I entered my machine's address, and whoa! | it worked! So I was playing around on my own system from the Sun for a | little while, complete with

(Fwd) Cron root@www run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly

1999-02-04 Thread Chris Evans
Why would cron do the following one day (in forty or so to date) then return to working fine the following day and since. df shows lots of free space around. Any thoughts? TIA, Chris --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 06:47:00 GMT From:

Setting up debian for ftp

1999-02-04 Thread Aaron Walker
hello, Just installed 2.0. I haven't used debian since 1.2 (been using RH), so I don't remember how to do all of this stuff... anyways, how would I go about setting up debian for regular non-anonymous ftp? and also, can someone tell me or guide to a doc how do setup ppp? thanks, Aaron

Re: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-04 Thread Carl Fink
Brian Morgan wrote: I've run ./Runme, full install (successful), and still can't find the xwp executable. The only things in my wpbin directory are Readmes. Should I run the installer again? I've even tried using the find command, but to no avail. I speculate that you didn't download the

Partioning HD with more than 1024 cylinders

1999-02-04 Thread Gerald H. Ristow
Hello everyone, we just bought a brand-new computer which has a 18 GB (!) EIDE HD and I want to put Linux on it. It seems to have 2028 cylinders and I chopped of the space for Linux after the 1020th cylinder to stay under the 1024 cylinder limit for booting Linux directly from HD. When I

Re: How to force re-installing a package?

1999-02-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mamoun Alissali wrote: Hello, I've done a very stupid thing taht removed the /bin/cat binary, so I think I have to reinstall the textutils package (is there any other/better solution?), but can't do it since it is marked installed/up-to-date. How do I force dselect to reinstall it?

Minicom problem

1999-02-04 Thread ktb
Hi, I'm trying to use minicom to dial up my isp. It dials and then asks for a login and password. After I do this I get the following error: login: x Password:xx PPP session from (12.13.120.16) to 207.140.121.113 beginning~y}#.!}!}!}~ NO CARRIER If I put an S in front of my login

Re: Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I think it would be really handy to change my keymap (either in X or the | console, or both) so that Alt is an Alt key and the useless Win95 Start key | is a Meta key. Hmm, I thought

Re: Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Mahurin wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I think it would be really handy to change my keymap (either in X or the | console, or both) so that Alt is an Alt key and the useless Win95 Start key | is a

Re: Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-04 Thread servis
*- On 3 Feb, Rob Mahurin wrote about Meta and Alt keys How would I do this? This also seems like something which would be helpful as a system default, since so many newbies (me included) are putting Linux on a 3 year old Windows system. My keyboard section in my XF86Config is this and

Re: WP_8 find no X11R5

1999-02-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Helge Hafting wrote: Hello all in LinuxLand I've tried to install WordPerfect 8 No success. The installation program from WP tells me, that it's based on kernel 2 (that's ok) and X11R5 (not ok). I use X11R6 and when I try to launch the program, it says that a file in the R5

Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I just d/l'd the samba packages from the stated directory and installed/configured them with dpkg. But it appears that sambaconfig was removed. What am I supposed to use to configure samba? Chris Remco van de Meent wrote: Björn Elwhagen wrote: I'm interested in knowing wheather there is a

S1 Spawning problem ..

1999-02-04 Thread john.d.smith
Very new to Linux, Have loaded onto a Toshiba Satellite 110CS Laptop, with two PCMCIA Cards, 1 A CNET NE2000 Compatible, and the other a Motorola Montana, 33.6 k, I appear to have a problem with cardmgr as periodically i.e. every 5 minutes I get a cascade of bad command faults and the last line

RE: S1 Spawning problem ..

1999-02-04 Thread Shaleh
What is happening exactly, is it because the PCMCIA manager does not support the modem card? Possibly. Try grabbing the latest from potato and using it.

Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-04 Thread Alec Smith
Use 'swat'. Look in path to top of samba source tree/swat/README for the documentation on setup... Basically you have to edit /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf to make this new tool work. At the moment I have Samba 2.0 on 2 Debian machines and have had no trouble... Its actually a very nice

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-04 Thread ivan
Mmmh. What do you need this for? Primarily learning but I would like a few very simple highly optimised graphics routines for my machine. Line, circle, box and fill for e.g. I have looked several times at svgalib but all I want is the simple functions - it seems like overkill to include

xbase Depends on nmh xmh?

1999-02-04 Thread Art Lemasters
I ran dselect for a slink upgrade tonight, and dselect told me that xbase depends upon nmh and xmh. Has xbase always depended so? This seems odd from a user standpoint. Can anyone enlighten us on this? Art

Install to disk w/school's NT present??

1999-02-04 Thread kaynjay
I'm fighting the system at my community college to get Debian installed on five (of 20) lab computers which are maintained by the school's Info. Tech. group. Windows rules. The lab computers are occasionally wiped clean and a fresh image of NT installed off the LAN. I want to repartition the

Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-04 Thread Josef Moffett
I had something similar happen to me. What i found was the problem was that the xinitrc file was setup incorrectly. Basically i had to correct a line i had mistyped to do with xinitrc. (Although this, it must be said, gave the problem both with XDM and startx). I don't know if this helps

Re: LPRNG BUG? (WAS: truncated printing)

1999-02-04 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Harrison, Shawn wrote: night I removed lprng (using dselect) and installed lpr (cd /cdrom/.../net dpkg -i lpr_*.deb), and now the problem is gone. I'd be Replaceing lprng with lpr solved my problem too. For the Debian List: Is this a bug with LPRNG? Or could it be a configuration

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-04 Thread Helge Hafting
In a message dated 2/3/99 12:54:34 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's just not possible with a multi-user multi-tasking OS, particularly one like unix which has to present the same abstract model on completely different hardware. If one program messes

Modules and kmod - I'm confused

1999-02-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel. I'm pretty sure I've not got modules sorted properly yet tho. I'm using kmod, so the kernel should load modules on demand. Do I need to add the rmmod -a line to root's crontab, or do the debian scripts put it somewhere? Also; I got a

Copying CDs

1999-02-04 Thread Tom Lear
-- Please CC: me, I'm not subscribed -- My friend has a CD of his music he needs copied and I have the equipment to do it but I haven't used the tools yet. I need to do this soon so I'm asking for help. I essentially need to do dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/cdr.

[debian] debian.org gone?

1999-02-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'm having troubles contacting www.debian.org for the last few days. Is anything wrong with the server? Nico -- --- system failure ... hit any user to continue ... --- Nico De Ranter Sony Service

Re: [debian] debian.org gone?

1999-02-04 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm having troubles contacting www.debian.org for the last few days. Is anything wrong with the server? It's been working fine for me... Try running a traceroute (or mtr) to www.debian.org or 209.81.8.242 it could very well be something that is

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-04 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | You could also write your own (dirty!) kernel | device driver module which allows you to access hardware directly. This is | not too hard. | | | Thanks - I'm thinking about this now. Are there any references other than | the kernel hackers guide on writing drivers ?

Unidentified subject!

1999-02-04 Thread Pedro Jose Oliveira Sebastiao
Hi, Many thanks for all of you that made Linux (and Debian) a reality. It is perhaps not worth mention but I wrote a simple perl-Tk script (based on the widget script) easily configurable which generates X-windows GUI interfaces for user/shell commands. It is not bullet-proof but I find it

dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this package may not be installed on the system. Thanks. Regards, Shao.

logo-contest

1999-02-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I suppose everyone knows there is a gimp/logo contest for debian (http://contest.gimp.org/rules/). I find this a bit strange. On the one hand, the logo must be easily scalable, on the other hand, the gimp contest demands that it is totally developped in gimp. These are conflicting

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-02-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, This might be an ideal solution for you.. 2.2. Script to view those compressed HOWTOs. Didier Juges, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a newbie to another, here is a short script that eases looking for and viewing howto documents. My howto's are in /usr/doc/faq/howto/ and are

Re: Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I suppose there are cases where this is valid, but for my original point about communciations - it just isn't feasible to use IRQ4 (the first comm port) by more than one program concurrently, is it? In my case, I had reprogrammed IRQ4 so when

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I'm trying to use minicom to dial up my isp. It dials and then asks for a login and password. After I do this I get the following error: login: x Password:xx PPP session from (12.13.120.16) to 207.140.121.113 beginning~y}#.!}!}!}~ NO

Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-04 Thread Björn Elwhagen
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:39:55PM -0600, Mike Merten wrote this: I had the same problem... check your ~/.xsession-errors file. It probably indicates a syntax error in the /etc/X11/Xsession file at line 47. I added a line immediately before the 'default)' case containing ';;' and

Re: Re: [whine] Power down. vs System halted.

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): *- On 3 Feb, trio wrote about Re: [whine] Power down. vs System halted. On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut

PCMCIA 3.0.8 (was Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #198)

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rune Linding Raun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): well will pcmcia-cs 3.08 soon be ready so we can use pcmcia under kernel 2.2.1? its a very important package and iam disappointed that it takes so long before its bugfixed From http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/updates/17.html

wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try. But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will wine support this?? Thx. Regards, Shao.

Re: dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:55:10PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this dpkg -S file should show this. package may not be installed on the system. In this case

Re: Partioning HD with more than 1024 cylinders

1999-02-04 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Linux fdisk can partition disks over 1024 cylinders - at least the version I have (2.9g) can. Cfdisk (v0.81) also can. These are the current slink versions in the util-linux package. Another option is the DOS-based Ranish Partition Manager, which you can find here:

Why use xterm-debian?

1999-02-04 Thread Björn Elwhagen
Hi! I've been annoyed for a long time now with the fact that Debian uses xterm-debian as the TERM-variable. It can't surve any purpose for all i know, if the purpose isn't to be as incompatible with other *IX standards. Why not only use xterm-color instead? I could always set TERM=xterm myself,

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-02-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello there, if these are in text format you could use zless or zmore. Paul On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, This might be an ideal solution for you.. 2.2. Script to view those compressed HOWTOs. Didier Juges, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a newbie to another, here is a

Re: wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Lars Steinke
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:48:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try. But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will wine support this?? Wine is a Windoze emulator for 16bit applications and I do

Re: Copying CDs

1999-02-04 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Tom Lear wrote: -- Please CC: me, I'm not subscribed -- My friend has a CD of his music he needs copied and I have the equipment to do it but I haven't used the tools yet. I need to do this soon so I'm asking for help. I

Re: Why use xterm-debian?

1999-02-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 13:38:49 +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote: I've been annoyed for a long time now with the fact that Debian uses xterm-debian as the TERM-variable. It can't surve any purpose for all i know, RTFM. In this case, http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html , or (depending on

Matshita CR-585 module?

1999-02-04 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I have a machine with an ATAPI CD-ROM the MATSHITA CR-585. Does any body know wich should I use in order to support it and then wich device in /dev will represent it. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Help with smbfs?

1999-02-04 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want to use a debian box to open a share in a win95 machine. Someone told me that in order to open shares I do not need samba, that I only need smbfs. I already instaled this module but know I do not know how to use it. Can somebody helpme or at least point to a web site with somekind of

Re: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-04 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's aren't helping. See /wp8/bin/ or was it /wp8/wpbin ? but however there is a file called xwp. Run ./xwp as

termcap...

1999-02-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I was trying to compile some program. In the Makefile, it has the following line: LIB = -ltermcap But when compiling, it said not found. So what package am I missing? But I thought this termcap is old, and is now replaced by something else, which I cannot recall the name...

Re: minicom config

1999-02-04 Thread William Park
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get away from my modem failing to hang up properly and am attempting to install mimicom. I went through the configuration process and as root, the program at least starts the dialup process. I aborted because I didn't want to be on line

Re: termcap...

1999-02-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 00:23:22 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: I was trying to compile some program. In the Makefile, it has the following line: LIB = -ltermcap Termcape is obsoleted by ncurses. Change the line to LIB = -lncurses HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer

Re: XDM with chooser; WAS: Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:08:19PM +0100, Karl Erik Øyøygard wrote: Hi! I've been trying to get a choice of wich display manager i should connect to on login on a SGI. Is this possible? Could You give me a hint on where I should start to look? The info I find for chooser here seems to be for

Re: wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:40:21PM +0100, Lars Steinke wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:48:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try. But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will wine support

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1999-02-04 Thread Phil Myers
Hi,I am interested in the Linux operating system, but need to know more!I have a Dual Pentium II 400Mhz, 256Mb RAM, Windows NTv4.0 (SP3), 54GbUW/SCSI AV Harddisc array which we use for television and filmpost-production.We have a Pinnacle ReelTime Nitro NLE editing card installed, will

dpkg, apt, ftp

1999-02-04 Thread David B. Teague
Hi I want to install slink on my personal machine. I want to use dselect with apt and ftp access; however, our line to the outside is small and loaded. There is a very recent (1 or 2 days old) mirror of slink on a local server that is available only using ftp, but _not_ anonymous ftp.

Re: Copying CDs

1999-02-04 Thread Odin
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: [snip] or use sdd (scsi dd) to do a bit-for-bit copy of the source. Note though, that the last option does actually do a bit for bit copy, meaning even things such as scratches will show up on the copy (the other tools would normally fix these problems).

more dumb WordPerfect ???s

1999-02-04 Thread Brian Morgan
Since I was having so much trouble finding the xwp executable (not in /usr/local/wp8/wpbin directory -- see previous posts), I removed the wp8 directory, and all its subordinants. I'm now trying to re-run the Runme script, but I get an error: nothing new to install. How do I get around this so I

RE: wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Dan Willard
There is a tool/program that allows linux to read ntfs (and dos to read it too). I need to check around to find it again. I've never used it so I don't know how well it works. --Dano -Original Message- From: Rob Mahurin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:52

Re: wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Dale E. Martin
Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, you must be able to access your windoze partition to run wine; mine is vfat, so I'm okay, but I was under the impression that NTFS was unreadable to Linux and that this is the source of many pains in many butts. 2.2.1 can definitely read NTFS, and I

Re: Matshita CR-585 module?

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Eliezer Figueroa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a machine with an ATAPI CD-ROM the MATSHITA CR-585. Does any body know wich should I use in order to support it and then wich device in /dev will represent it. This is a totally standard drive, so it's /dev/hdx where x is a primary master,

Re: netscape library dependencies?

1999-02-04 Thread Tim Heuser
Hi, I went ahead and got the newer version. I installed it and it seems to be working now. it's at... ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupportedlinux20 glibc/complete install/ and then you're in the dir. with the newer version and instructions. Good luck! Chris Ryan

Re: wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 13:40 +0100, Lars Steinke wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:48:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try. But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will wine support this??

Re: Why use xterm-debian?

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Björn Elwhagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've been annoyed for a long time now with the fact that Debian uses xterm-debian as the TERM-variable. It can't surve any purpose for all i know, if the purpose isn't to be as incompatible with other *IX standards. Why not only use xterm-color

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-04 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, David Wright wrote: I don't think it would be sufficient to be root. AIUI, when any non-kernel process is running, its privilege level is set so it can't do any I/O etc. itself. The root setuid programs in Linux on Intel x86 may perform I/O, however they may not use

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-04 Thread Frederick Page
Hi kaynjay, you wrote on: 02 Feb 99 at 20:11 (received 03.02.99) about : _Re: Goodbye, people!_ will get there. What I do have is a system that doesn't crash every five seconds, it is fast and very configurable I guess what I'm trying to say is if I can work with this O/S anyone can. It

Re: more dumb WordPerfect ???s

1999-02-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
I think that the WP install script cleans up after itself when it's done; I had to abort my first install and then had to re-unzip and -untar all the installation files i had downloaded. Try that. Rob On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:34:12AM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: Since I was having so much

Re: [debian] debian.org gone?

1999-02-04 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/4/99 2:53:12 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] imaging.com writes: I'm having troubles contacting www.debian.org for the last few days. Is anything wrong with the server? It's been working fine for me... I've seen the same problems - I've gotten onto

Re: dpkg question

1999-02-04 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/4/99 4:52:10 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this package may not be installed on the system. Search the

mgetty: AutoPPP Failure

1999-02-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hello Debianites, I am struggling to get the AutoPPP feature of mgetty to work. I want to connect two Debian Maschines running (mostly) Hamm. In /etc/mgetty/login.config of the PPP-Server maschine I have tested the following lines by uncommenting each in turn: #/AutoPPP/ - a_ppp

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:51:28PM +0800, ivan wrote: Mmmh. What do you need this for? Primarily learning but I would like a few very simple highly optimised graphics routines for my machine. Line, circle, box and fill for e.g. Well, if you don't need them for some very special purpose,

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