Re: xemacs y del

1999-09-15 Thread RESET
A .emacs: (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) (que por cierto, está en la FAQ, Q3.5.9 ayayayayayay :-) En cuanto al asunto de las versiones: la razón es que hay mucha gente que lleva usando XEmacs desde el Paleolítico Medio o poco menos (sí, se ha confirmado que en Atapuerca han descubierto un

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato? - ya vale ;)

1999-09-15 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mar, sep 14, 1999 at 04:55:41 +, Gustavo CR wrote: Sin animo de ofender tampoco, para los pocos mensajes que quedan sobre Debian en la lista también los prohibimos, pues nada. ¡Un momen Gustavo!, te doy toda la razón y te pido que no te vayas con el thread a otra parte pues me

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato? - ya vale ;)

1999-09-15 Thread Ricard P.G.
--- Gustavo CR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:06:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sin ánimo de ofender a nadie, vuestra discusión ya no es sobre Linux, podríais llevarla al privado, buen royo ante todo. :) Sin animo de ofender tampoco, para los pocos

Off-topic Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato? - ya vale ;)

1999-09-15 Thread dfm
A todos los aludidos, quizás la respuesta que yo di sobre YA VALE llegó algo tarde, con ese comentario me refería a dos personas, las cuales saben bien quienes son, que habían cambiado el tema de la potato por una discusión personal. Susceptibles abstenganse de responder a este mensaje, jejejjee

Leafnode-1.9.4 y libc6 (= 2.1)

1999-09-15 Thread Barbwired
Hola Estoy usando Slink y necesito actualizarme a la última versión de leafnode, por un problema muy molesto que tiene (cuando una línea de un post comienza por un punto la omite directamente). Como la versión de Potato me pide libc6 (= 2.1) y ya me cargué mi sistema una vez por actualizarla con

Re: Make xconfig

1999-09-15 Thread Barbwired
RESET decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] decía: Barbwired:: Intento hacer un make xconfig, que nunca me ha dado Barbwired:: problemas, y me dice: Barbwired:: make: wish: Command not found Barbwired:: make: *** [xconfig] Error 127 La manera más fácil es: [- p0 -] % dpkg -S wish

Re: Procmail y mi torpeza

1999-09-15 Thread Barbwired
Hola Santiago Vila decía: A ver, en cuestión de listas de correo yo llamo mensajes originales a aquellos que provienen de la lista, y las copias personales que a veces me envían con Cc: (que normalmente agradezco) las acabo borrando al final, porque sé que ya están en la lista (aunque las de

Re: Ni idea de cómo empezar

1999-09-15 Thread Barbwired
Barbwired decía: Lo primero, ten cuidado al responder a los mensajes de la lista, porque me temo que éste sólo me ha llegado a mí :) Mil perdones, no tuve en cuenta que la copia de cortesía llega antes que el mensaje a la lista. De nuevo perdón. -- Mind-affecting chemicals are tools like

RE: Make xconfig

1999-09-15 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Barbwired [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 15 de septiembre de 1999 2:32 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Re: Make xconfig [Problemas con tcl/tk] Perdonad que retome el thread tan tarde, pero sigo sin arreglar

Necesito el source de GDB

1999-09-15 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Hola. Para compilar un programa (el RHIDE, en concreto), necesito el código fuente del GNU DEBUGGER 4.16 o GDB (supongo que una versión mejor también vale) Lo he buscado por los paquetes de la slink y no encuentro nada. ¿Ha cambiado de nombre? Porque con la Debian 1.3 me compilaba todo sin

Escribir libros con software libre

1999-09-15 Thread lfuertes
Hola a todos, Necesito escribir documentación técnica, parecido a como se hace con linuxdoc en sgml, pero también necesito incluir imágenes (en concreto, pantallas de ejecución), tablas i todos los elementos que se suelen incluir en los manuales que nos encontramos por ahí. Realmente el formato

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-15 Thread J. Carlos Muro
RESET escribió: : En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. Carlos Muro [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [...ver mensajes anteriores...] Esta es una de las eternas discusiones de Debian. En mi opinión, aunque es cierto que otras distribuciones RedHat en particular, tienen el aliciente de

RE: Make xconfig

1999-09-15 Thread Manuel Trujillo
2) No tengo a mano mi linuxcete, pero creo que el ejecutable del wish es /usr/bin/wish8.0 y no /usr/bin/wishstep4.2 :-?, igual tienes una versión rara :-? Este wish es uno con el look-feel del NextStep, la incongruencia que veo (seguro que a lo mejor me equivoco, no tengo mi linux

Re: Make xconfig

1999-09-15 Thread Barbwired
Tejada Lacaci, Antonio decía: 1) ¿Tienes /etc/altenatives en el path? No lo tenía, lo he puesto y nada. 2) No tengo a mano mi linuxcete, pero creo que el ejecutable del wish es /usr/bin/wish8.0 y no /usr/bin/wishstep4.2 :-?, igual tienes una versión rara :-? Jeje, ya está.

Re: Leafnode-1.9.4 y libc6 (= 2.1)

1999-09-15 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Barbwired wrote: Estoy usando Slink y necesito actualizarme a la última versión de leafnode, por un problema muy molesto que tiene (cuando una línea de un post comienza por un punto la omite directamente). [corte] Jeee... pues yo no sé como se hace eso que

DWN 33 y 34

1999-09-15 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Han aparecido hace un poco en el sitio de Debian las noticias semanales de Debian en español correspondientes al [1]29 de agosto y al [2]7 de septiembre. Incluyo ambos en ASCCI más abajo. Algunas cosas interesantes... * Se mantiene por ahora

Re: Escribir libros con software libre

1999-09-15 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, Necesito escribir documentación técnica, parecido a como se hace con linuxdoc en sgml, pero también necesito incluir imágenes (en concreto, pantallas de ejecución), tablas i todos los elementos que se suelen incluir en los manuales que nos

RE: Escribir libros con software libre

1999-09-15 Thread lfuertes
P.D. No crees que te has pasado un poco con el crossposting? Hacer esta pregunta en 6 listas diferentes es un poco exagerado. Hubiera bastado con una lista sobre linux en general o en news:///es.comp.os.linux.misc Me he pasado y desde aquí pido disculpas LO SIENTO

Re: Make xconfig

1999-09-15 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Barbwired wrote: Tejada Lacaci, Antonio decía: 1) ¿Tienes /etc/altenatives en el path? No lo tenía, lo he puesto y nada. 2) No tengo a mano mi linuxcete, pero creo que el ejecutable del wish es /usr/bin/wish8.0 y no /usr/bin/wishstep4.2 :-?, igual tienes una versión

Re: Porque veo Mc en B/N en la Xterm?

1999-09-15 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Xose Manoel Ramos wrote: El Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 01:10:44PM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas contaba: cuando lanza el `mc' en una Xterm aparece en banco y negro, no con el típico fondo azul y letras amarillas. ¿Por qué? La `xterm' en Debian se llama `xterm-debian' y el MC parece que no se entera

Re: Leafnode-1.9.4 y libc6 (= 2.1)

1999-09-15 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 15 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 02:20:14 +0200, Barbwired contaba: Como la versión de Potato me pide libc6 (= 2.1) y ya me cargué mi sistema una vez por actualizarla con faldas y a lo loco, estoy intentando solucionarlo de forma creativa. Y cuando vosotros tenéis que hacer estas

[iso8859-1] Encuentro Linuxero en Arroutada Party VII - A[iso8859-1] coruña (fwd)

1999-09-15 Thread siae0080
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:20:49 +0200 (MEST) From: Juan Ignacio Llona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [iso8859-1] Encuentro Linuxero en Arroutada Party VII - A[iso8859-1] coruña (fwd) Hola a todos! Para quien pueda

Caracter `

1999-09-15 Thread Emilio Hernández Martín
¿Cómo puedo conseguir que salga el caracter ` en los ficheros editados con joe? Muchas gracias.

dudas con rsync

1999-09-15 Thread Antonio Castro
Estoy bajandome imagenes de CDs de Debian y estoy usando rsync por aquello de que Debian lo recomienda. Confieso que no lo conocía y me parece una maravilla aunque la verdad para bajar Cds creo que puede usarse muchas cosas y lo único importante es poder continuar bajando un fichero que se quedó a

SIOCADDRT

1999-09-15 Thread Joaquín García
Hola a todos: Estoy recién incorporado a la lista. Creo ser un principiante veterano (empecé con la Debian 1.3.1) y, aunque no muy experto, me defiendo. Hace poco he instalado la slink 2.1 Citius que regalaba la revista Linux actual, sin apenas problemas salvo los ya comentados en la lista sobre

SIOCADDRT

1999-09-15 Thread Joaquín García
Hola a todos: Estoy recién incorporado a la lista. Creo ser un principiante veterano (empecé con la Debian 1.3.1) y, aunque no muy experto, me defiendo. Hace poco he instalado la slink 2.1 Citius que regalaba la revista Linux actual, sin apenas problemas salvo los ya comentados en la lista sobre

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-09-15 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Joaquín García wrote: Hola a todos: [...] He compilado el kernel 2.2.4 para soporte de la tarjeta de sonido etc. Desde entonces me aparece en los mensajes de arranque, después del fsck esto: ... Mounting local file system... not mounted anything

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-09-15 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On mié, 15 sep 1999 22:23:02 Joaquín García wrote: Hola a todos: Estoy recién incorporado a la lista. Creo ser un principiante veterano (empecé con la Debian 1.3.1) y, aunque no muy experto, me defiendo. Hace poco he instalado la slink 2.1 Citius que regalaba la revista Linux actual,

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-09-15 Thread Joaquín García
Jon Noble wrote: Hola, On mié, 15 sep 1999 22:23:02 Joaquín García wrote: Hola a todos: Estoy recién incorporado a la lista. Creo ser un principiante veterano (empecé con la Debian 1.3.1) y, aunque no muy experto, me defiendo. Hace poco he instalado la slink 2.1 Citius que regalaba la

Re: SIOCADDRT

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel
El mié, sep 15, 1999 at 10:23:02 +0200 Joaquín García va dir: Hola a todos: Estoy recién incorporado a la lista. hola y bienvenido He compilado el kernel 2.2.4 para soporte de la tarjeta de sonido etc. Desde entonces me aparece en los mensajes de arranque, después del fsck esto: ...

Re: Porque veo Mc en B/N en la Xterm?

1999-09-15 Thread Juan Ignacio Llona
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Enzo A. Dari wrote: Con este método tengo otro problema: anda cuando no tengo creado el ~/.mc/ini Cuando el archivo existe toma precedencia sobre el del sistema... Y cuando no existe se crea automáticamente ! ... sin incluir las líneas referidas a las color_terminals.

Re: Escribir libros con software libre

1999-09-15 Thread Juantomas Garcia
Hola, veo que te lo has currado un monton. No soy especialista en sgml pero creo que deberías tener en cuenta algunas cosas: - El libro gtk+ y gnome aplication develoment (creo que es asi esta en docbook. La version en html esta online en http://developers.gnome.org/doc Ya te puedo confirmar

dpkg-dev / dpkg broke?

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
I get this error on my potato i386: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz', which is also in package dpkg-dev dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were

top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
Ok, top was in the unstable yesterday. Today it is not? I miss top. I liked top. It might not have been the best, nor the prettiest, but I liked it. Does anyone know more about it? :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm

ftpd disabled after potato upgrade

1999-09-15 Thread Kristopher Johnson
I recently upgraded from slink to potato. At some point, my inetd.conf file got #off# prepended to the ftp line, disabling it. A comment at the top of inetd.conf says Lines starting with ... #off# should not be changed unless you know what you are doing! As I have apparently have no idea what

Re: dpkg-dev / dpkg broke?

1999-09-15 Thread David Z. Maze
Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SRA I get this error on my potato i386: SRA dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb SRA (--unpack): SRA trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz', which is SRA also in package dpkg-dev Among the packages

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, where can I found a document describing the differences between emacs and xemacs ? Thanks. Check the XEmacs web page: http://www.xemacs.org/ You might also look at the Emacs web pages:

Re: /var/log

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:46:28PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, is it a good idea to clean completly /var/log at every boot (or each week, etc) ? I'm a single user in my computer. nah, hold onto them. You can gzip them (the logrotate package does this automagically... :) if

RE: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: Ok, top was in the unstable yesterday. Today it is not? I miss top. I liked top. It might not have been the best, nor the prettiest, but I liked it. Does anyone know more about it? It is in procps -- has been for some time.

Re: ps, free. etc...

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
My potato has them -- try apt-get update; apt-get install procps On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:02:45PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I seem to have lost ps, free, uptime, etc when I upgraded to potato. Did these commands get moved out to aa separarte package or something?

Re: logging within shell scripts

1999-09-15 Thread Gregory T. Norris
That appears to be EXACTLY what I'm looking for... Thanx much! On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Quant-X UNIX and Linux Support wrote: Not sure if I understood your question. Anyway, if you want to redirect a particular file in a shell you don't have to know where it's been directed

amd and security

1999-09-15 Thread Obi
Hi all, some of the debian machines here have been broke into. The sysadm told me that amd is the culprit (I think amq). Have you heard anything about it? How can we secure them? Is the amd version into slink secure? thanks graziano

DnD file starter

1999-09-15 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a program that will function something like a mac program I've seen: It has a folder with programs in it, at the bottom of the screen. When you pull a file over it, it opens up and you can drop it into one of the programs there for them to start with it. Does any program like this

Re: DnD file starter

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:54:45AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I am looking for a program that will function something like a mac program I've seen: It has a folder with programs in it, at the bottom of the screen. When you pull a file over it, it opens up and you can drop it into one of the

Re: eth0 to tr0... files/other stuff to change?

1999-09-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Installing a 2.2.9 kernel in place of 2.0.36 kills my network card and : connections, since the card is a token ring (Olicom). This card is ID'd as : eth0 under the old kernel, but the 2.2.x kernels use tr0. So the problem : doesn't surprise

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
Then why is it not on my system today, but yesterday it was? :) Since then, the only thing that I can account for it, is running apt-get update; apt-get upgrade (I run this pretty much every day, sometimes even twice... :) $ locate top | egrep top$ | grep -v desktop /usr/bin/cdstop /usr/bin/gtop

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
geisha [~] $ dpkg -S top|grep bin xpdf: /usr/bin/pdftops procps: /usr/bin/top snipped and yes, that command actually runs. I maintain a absolutely current potato box so I can compile packages.

Re: eth0 to tr0... files/other stuff to change?

1999-09-15 Thread kvaughan
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:05:25PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Installing a 2.2.9 kernel in place of 2.0.36 kills my network card and : connections, since the card is a token ring (Olicom). This card is ID'd as : eth0 under the old kernel,

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Ok, seems the new version of procps (which my mirror did not have) does indeed lack top. This fix is on its way to the maintainer. Sorry for the confusion.

Re: glimpseindex

1999-09-15 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Mon, 1999-09-13 18:03:35 +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: I thought I'd give glimpse a whirl to index a bunch of email archives, but I get a segmentation fault: % glimpseindex -o -B archive This is glimpseindex

Re: eth0 to tr0... files/other stuff to change?

1999-09-15 Thread Gregory T. Norris
/etc/dhclient-script Just in case you aren't aware of it, don't expect dhclient to work with TR on a 2.2.x kernel...

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: geisha [~] $ dpkg -S top|grep bin xpdf: /usr/bin/pdftops procps: /usr/bin/top snipped and yes, that command actually runs. I maintain a absolutely current potato box so I can compile packages. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tdyc.com ready yet?

1999-09-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: I still cannot get apt-get updates for tdyc.com. Was the distribution directory for KDE changed? Will I need to modify /etc/apt/sources.list? You might want to try using yuma.tdyc.com - kde.tdyc.com doesn't work anymore (doesn't resolve to an IP#). I got

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
I do. Why? Mostly don't know. Just familiar with it. At one time it was impossible to get both to work properly on the same system. I did not want to give up emacs for XEmacs. There were several things that did not work in XEmacs, when I first installed and I did not have the patience to find out

Re: latex: how to output the ¢ (cent) symbol - solved

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Laing
Michael Laing wrote: I have a potato system with all the usual latex stuff on it. I am working with a lot of latin1 (ISO-8859-1) text and need to output the ¢ (cent) symbol, which is latin1 character number 162 (0xa2). How can I do that? Almost all other characters work fine with the

mc error message

1999-09-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, after the latest upgrade of mc in potato I have noticed an error message every time i start it: oddbird:/home/cdysthe# mc.real params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file /etc/smb.conf: No such file or directory Can't load /etc/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it

Re: amd and security

1999-09-15 Thread Marcin Kurc
Dont know about amd, but are you sure it wasn't something else? like ftpd for example, there was quite some public available ftpd exploids. On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:48:29PM -0700, Obi wrote: Hi all, some of the debian machines here have been broke into. The sysadm told me that amd is the

dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
G'day, all. How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already installed, merely because the Debian version has changed? Really, it is intolerable that that happens. It can cost a lot of money in download fees. I have attepted to defeat it by general freezes, but that makes

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Guilherme Soares Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I decided to try using mutt as my console-mail-reader because of pure lazyness (I was used to Pine, but I'd have to grab and compile it, so... ;-), and I'm quite disappointed with the lack of 'easy-configurability' of it (compared

Re: /var/log

1999-09-15 Thread ragOO
Seth R Arnold posted: nah, hold onto them. You can gzip them (the logrotate package does this automagically. The logrotate package does this automagically if only U have uncommented the 'compress' in /etc/logrotate.conf ragOO, VU2RGU. PGP Key 1024/1A747CB1

Re: /var/log

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:46:17AM +0530, ragOO wrote: Seth R Arnold posted: nah, hold onto them. You can gzip them (the logrotate package does this automagically. The logrotate package does this automagically if only U have uncommented the 'compress' in /etc/logrotate.conf while

kde's high color icons?

1999-09-15 Thread NatePuri
Do the KDE1.2 high color icons come with the regular install of kde or are there separate packages for this? Where are they? Thanks. -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already installed, merely because the Debian version has changed? Put them on hold. Really, it is intolerable that that happens. It can cost a

Re:

1999-09-15 Thread Taupter
Ton Hamerslag wrote: Dear debian-user. I have a IBM 386sx 55 machine with 4 MB RAM and a harddisk of 80 MB. I want to make a linux server of that machine. The only thing this machine also has is a floppy drive, no cd-rom. Which software must I download and what needs to be done to install

RE: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Bryan Scaringe
OK, If you wish to get a new package that is released WITHOUT updating all existing packages that have new versions, just use apt-get to install tha package directly. apt-get update #update the package DB apt-get install package Note, this WILL download and install updates to

Re: tdyc.com ready yet?

1999-09-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 14 Sep, Phil Brutsche wrote about Re: tdyc.com ready yet? On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: I still cannot get apt-get updates for tdyc.com. Was the distribution directory for KDE changed? Will I need to modify /etc/apt/sources.list? You might want to try using yuma.tdyc.com -

Re: portmapper

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 01:40:57PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: The security consultant here would like me not to run the RPC portmapper. I suppose this is a known security issue, and I'm not actually using the services that depend on it. It seems to be started in /etc/initd/netbase, but

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:56:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Info keybindings are virtually identical to Emacs, and thus don't feel at all stupid to this Emacs user. In fact, I would be VERY annoyed if But consider what it used to be like - the curses info browser was very confusing because

Re: Uninstalling gnome

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:18:25AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: [Please keep your lines under 80 characters - put line breaks within paragraphs] What's the best way to uninstall gnome and its associated packages? I think all I downloaded was task-gnome-desktop, but I'm not sure. Should I let

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:53:52AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: 1) Allow quick install from floppies It'd be really nice to have a system for having a single package installed on a floppy, or set of floppies in a way where a user can stick the disk in, and dselect

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Gareth
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: G'day, all. How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already installed, merely because the Debian version has changed? The way I use is apt-get instead of dselect that way only the packages you want get upgraded and/or

Re: amd and security

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:48:29PM -0700, Obi wrote: some of the debian machines here have been broke into. The sysadm told me that amd is the culprit (I think amq). Have you heard anything about it? How can we secure them? Is the amd version into slink secure? See

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread Stefan Nobis
I think most people miss some important points: - A text or graphic mode UI is some times the most effective user interface, some times a command line driven interface is more effective. - Even the best of the experts is very happy if a good tool is easy to use, so it costs less time to

Re: latex: how to output the ¢ (cent) symbol

1999-09-15 Thread Stefan Nobis
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ML \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{letter} ML \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Try using \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} ML \usepackage{times} You are using times, which is postscript, which uses T1 encoding. So there should be no

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Gareth wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: G'day, all. How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already installed, merely because the Debian version has changed? The way I use is apt-get instead of dselect that way only the packages you want

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread mmiller
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:19:37AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: It would also be sad to leave behind the Unix heritage of simple utilities that can pipe to each other to do useful things. This is more than a heritage, this is a cornerstone of a useful computing environment. I thought VMS was

Re: what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread rich
Thanks Seth! It seems lately that many questions go unanswered, much less answered in such a thorough manner... I'm sure that your advice will help me... Howdy everyone, I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would consider part of the standard toolbox of a

Fonts

1999-09-15 Thread Craig B
I really like the way X works on my Hamm system. The only complaint I have is with the font quality. Sometimes they look fine for example as I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The biggest problem I have is with Netscape Navigator. Sometimes the fonts are too small

Debian terminfo's (was Re: xterm/rxvt screen clearing / restoration)

1999-09-15 Thread Benjamin Low
T.E.Dickey wrote: it's an faq (the alternate screen behavior) ... I wrote: I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm and rxvt where often the screen fails to be restored properly after running vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily restores the terminal

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Tue 09/14/99 12:48PM, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: I don think it's a good policy to have the 'down' key to move you to the next message... sometimes we only want to go down a single line... What about using 'n' for 'next message' and 'p' for 'previous message' (and the cursor keys for

SWAT: How to do it right

1999-09-15 Thread Craig B
I was reading one of the replies to another thread about ease of use v.s. power and flexibility. The author made an example out of SWAT. Since I run Samba and have never activited it, I figured I would fire it up and check it out. He was absolutely right...its beautiful. I'm really impressed.

Re: what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:39:23PM -0500, rich wrote: Thanks Seth! It seems lately that many questions go unanswered, much less answered in such a thorough manner... I'm sure that your advice will help me... Well, many are above my head, so I let them lie rather than give patently wrong info.

Re: Fonts

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
I am not sure how to change that on Hamm, but see if you can't get xfstt working under hamm -- and find some nice truetype fonts to use with it. My netscape experience because MUCH better when that worked. (And I never got it to work under other distributions... this debian thing is nice. :) Of

Re: need some help

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:52:59PM -0400, Bill Goudie wrote: Rob -- Tonight when I tried to load a web page with java on it I think it locked up my computer. Or at least I could not switch to another virtual desktop nor could I get back to the console. My mp3s were still playing and I

Re: Fonts

1999-09-15 Thread Vaughn J Lujan
xfstt is definitely the way to go. It makes truetype fonts available to all X apps, (at least it did on my system) including netscape. Craig B wrote: I really like the way X works on my Hamm system. The only complaint I have is with the font quality. Sometimes they look fine for example as

Re: need some help

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:59:46AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:52:59PM -0400, Bill Goudie wrote: Rob -- Tonight when I tried to load a web page with java on it I think it locked up my computer. Or at least I could not switch to another virtual desktop nor

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:32:22PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? I use emacs when I'm in a text terminal (like right now) because I haven't figured out how to use

Whay can't GDB or DDD find my source code?

1999-09-15 Thread rich
I am compiling a C program like so gcc -o -g foo foo.c alternatively gcc -o -ggdb foo foo.c When I run gdb, I get (no debugging symbols found) When I run ddd, I get GDB cannot find the source code of your program I'm running everything from the same directory, and have tried gdb

Re: Whay can't GDB or DDD find my source code?

1999-09-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
Do you even have an executable file called 'foo' there? The -o option should be immediately followed by the name (which, by your examples is either -g or -ggdb). Try compiling with: $ gcc -g -o foo foo.c Matthew rich wrote: I am compiling a C program like so gcc -o -g foo foo.c

Re: Fonts

1999-09-15 Thread Benjamin Low
Craig B wrote: ... I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The biggest problem I have is with Netscape Navigator. Sometimes the fonts are too small and sometimes they are just distorted. I have tried all I believe the problem arises due to the good old HTML H tags,

Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
I've set up one of my headless machines to use ttyS0 as a serial console, and I've also set it up to run getty on that port after it finishes booting. Using minicom from another machine, I can monitor the other machine's serial port and see that everything works fine. After it boots, I can log

Re: script command question

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cool. Thanks. I needed an example of how to get the script to receive the text to be filtered. This'll help a lot. Thanks again. You might also be interested in the filterm program from the konwert package. I came across that today and from a brief

Re: what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread venu
as for other bits of the toolbox, you need to use manpages, (perldoc has perl info, the C ones are harder to find; I don't think there is one manpage that lists all the other C-based manpages..) grep, find, and maybe other bits too. For C/C++ man pages beautifully organised ... tried

Re: KDE 1.1.2

1999-09-15 Thread Peter Weiss
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:37:25 +0300 (EEST), Heikki Ylipiessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Heikki Yes .. there is 1.1.2 for slink allso .. Heikki dep http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde Heikki go and grap it Hello, how do I get this stuff when apt-get does not have a direct internet connection?

cannot connect to win98 using samba

1999-09-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have installed the latest samba from potato. when I do something like this: smbclient -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xx I got the following: session request to xxx.xxx.xx.xx failed session request to *SMBSERVER failed where xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is the ip

a sendmail puzzle

1999-09-15 Thread Adam Shand
hey. we've recently decided that it would be a good idea to build a new shell box and isolate it a bit more then our current one is (keep the hackers a little farther away from where anything important happens). this box will also handle uucp mail because our uucp customers need to log in to a

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1999-09-15 Thread tf
hey list, I got carried away and got gnome. put the url in my /apt/sources list, and got the task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-apps task-gnome-net task-gnome-wm packages. But the included wm's (enlightenment, windowmaker, and ice) all have corrupted displays. trying to start gnome-session

Re: Debian terminfo's (was Re: xterm/rxvt screen clearing / restoration)

1999-09-15 Thread Sam Vilain
Benjamin Low [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but I can find no reference to untic. Can tic 'untic' given appropriate arguments? infocmp is the command you're after. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hydro.gen.nz/~sam/

printcap has gone!

1999-09-15 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Who zapped my /etc/printcap? I make a daily update of my shiny potato and one day ... ... ZAP!!, /etc/printcap disappeared! Any idea? a.

Re: what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:52:24PM +0530, venu wrote: as for other bits of the toolbox, you need to use manpages, (perldoc has perl info, the C ones are harder to find; I don't think there is one manpage that lists all the other C-based manpages..) grep, find, and maybe other

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