Latex stops working (TeX Live installation/Sid)

2001-08-15 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Last night there were three or four power outages on this island, in the middle of a storm. Afterward, latex doesn't work. I have recently upgraded by apt-get dist-upgrade, and wonder whether the problem is due to an upgraded library. The error messages given by LaTeX are as follows (with

Re: Latex stops working (TeX Live installation/Sid): FOUNDIT

2001-08-15 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Ok, I see a posting about the texit problem. I am now upgrading. Sorry. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any

X11 stopped working on my machine

2001-07-15 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Some time after apt-get dist-upgrading my sid machine yesterday, suddenly X11 stopped working, right in the middle of some work. I haven't been able to get X11 since. The machine has a Matrox G450, single head. This problem exists with or without matrox's own drivers. I have reinstalled,

various selection/clipboard mechanisms in X

2001-05-16 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Greetings to everyone. May I ask where I may find a tutorial or explanation about the use of the mouse under X? I am puzzled by the variations. Some programs can cut and paste into others, while others cannot. Reading mail in Sylpheed, I just noticed, I was able to just highlight a URL (left

Problem dialing in via mgetty.

2001-04-22 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am putting together a four machine (Debian) GNU/Linux network in my HS classroom. It's substantially working, and, I might add, much to the credit of the Debian team and the excellent install setup. I am running 2.2, pretty much out of the box. Tonight I dialed in to my home machine, a

Parallel ports nonexistent

2001-04-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am setting up two essentially identical machines using a three CD Debian 2.2 set from Linux Central, about two months old. Parallel printing won't work on either machine. Today I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with lp and parport (three different settings) all compiled in (not modules). One other

libungif version (unstable)

2001-04-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Trying to compile a package flounder I have encountered a message that libungif (on a more or less up to date sid machine) is an old version, needing to be upgraded. This is my output from dpkg: synapse:/usr/local/incoming/flounder# dpkg -l libungif* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

New hardware---PCI modem, G450; Adaptec 19160, etc.

2001-04-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have been granted the parts to build four machines for a GNU/linux network in my classroom at Marianas High School. One of the machine is built up from rather up-to-date parts, and I'm having/anticipating some trouble getting it all to work together. I am installing Debian stable for now.

apsfilter prints multiple copies

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I prevent apsfilter from printing multiple copies of everything? I like this filter alot. Magicfilter doesn't even come close, in being easy to use. My HP870 has been a problem I lived with for years; now I am able to get decent color printing with little pain. I never had such a

Gimp1.1 and xsane*

2000-12-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
When upgrading to Gimp1.1 1.1.32-1 (Woody), apt-get removes xsane-gimp1.1. However, xsane is also removed. Is there any way to get them to coexist? Right now I am alternatively installing whichever program I am using. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they

Re: postscript printing through magicfilter fails

2000-02-15 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I had a similar problem. I ended up compiling gs6.0 and gv (unstable system), and editing the magic filter for the postscript lines. I'm not sure I did the right thing, but with the changes I did, it worked. I tried this: change the filter in /etc/magicfilter/(whatever) for the postscript

libc6 upgrade fails on unstable: devpts.sh error

2000-02-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
the file /etc/init.d/devpts.sh in the new libc6 on unstable has a syntax error that halts installation. I changed an unbalanced left { near the top of the file to } and the installation proceeded fine. make_devpts() { [ -d /dev/pts ] || mkdir --mode=755 /dev/pts { ^ This bracket should

gs-aladdin 6.0 debs? rpms?

2000-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
If there are no debs for the newly released gs-aladdin 6.0, would the rpms install cleanly with the help of alien? TIA Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt),

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
finn : in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific finn : extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever finn : reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. I have compiled 2.2.14 with vendor specific extensions, and all is

Unidentified subject!

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
subscribe alan davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.

SCSI detection problem

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Suddenly, when I am adding hardware to the system, the SCSI CDROM is giving problems. Of late, when the kernel boots, at the point where it is detecting my SCSI CDROM, this is the message sequence I see: Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter found

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have three kernels in my lilo configuration. The original debian 2.2.13 kernel seems to deal with this ok. The other two kernels are 2.2.13 and 2.3.35, both without sound devices, but with sound turned on, so I can install the creative sound blaster live module.The two kernels I compiled

SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Recently, I shuffled some hardware on my working new Potato system; mainly, I installed an SB Live sound card (compiled Creative's source with both 2.3.35 and 2.2.13, and both worked, _nominally_). Now I am having some trouble with the SCSI CD. The kernel reports the SCSI adapter and the CD

Re: mail ?

1999-12-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
From the uuencode manpage: The following example packages up a source tree, com­ presses it, uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system. When uudecode is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be created which may then be

Keyboard on console; and base files

1999-12-19 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
On my machine the keyboard on the console is seriously deranged, so that typing an a gets a q on the screen, and so on. X11 is fine. In trying to upgrade, I am running into the base files message about /etc/inputrc, but I have deleted the messages and cannot get onto the archive since the

Re: arithmetic

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Have you tried teapot? It's rudimentary; outputs ok latex, not sure about ps. I'm not sure where to get it. I had problems compiling it on debian systems over the last year and a half, but my older binaries are still ok. If you cannot find the source, I may be able to get a URL for you.

More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high. I am now trying xpdf and gv also. Thanks for the

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The problem seems to be with a compressed or encrypted PDF format, which xpdf and gv have failed to read. I believe there was a plugin type of package that would enable reading encrypted pdf in one of the above, but it wouldn't work for me. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of

PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? I have often if not always gotten a message that Acrobat on this system of mine (Potato) cannot grok\footnote{understand} the file, because it's a compressed(?) format .pdf. Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood by

acroread broken? (potato)

1999-10-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I try to follow links, I

Data Aquisition Cards?

1999-10-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A shot in the dark. What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple hundred bucks to buy some hardware to enhance my science classroom, but

xpdf doesn't work for me---fonts

1999-10-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
xpdf. The dpkg blurb says that xpdf uses X fonts. But xpdf needs t1lib0, which is a type 1 font rasterizer. When I installed xpdf, I can't see anything, so perhaps the type2 fonts are not working? (I have had trouble too with xtide giving empty windows. I don't understand this.) The

runq messages

1999-10-03 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted

gnome without sound?

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I haven't got a sound card working right. Is it possible to start up gnome panel without sound, and it works? Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh

Printing restart (lpr)

1999-09-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My printer is an HP DJ870. I use lpr, have not made the change to lprng. When I have a long queue, as well as perhaps for other reasons, the output stream goes garbage, perhaps skips some bytes. I have tried turning off the printer, deleting jobs, but cannot get back normal output from the

Mail isn't working

1999-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
For me this is deja vu, all over again: I had similar problems two years ago, getting mail up. Smail doesn't seem to want to work. This system has just been brought up, using a hamm CD, and upgrading twice by apt, first to slink, then to potato. Hope that provides a clue. This is the kind

Deleted menu in Wmaker

1999-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
While trying out the spiffy wm configurator, I seem to have eliminated all the debian menus. How can I get back the menus? Meanwhile I have just inserted my own menu entries for the few programs I use all the time. By the way, since this little flub none of the newly installed packages has

Re: Deleted menu in Wmaker

1999-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Alan == Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan While trying out the spiffy wm configurator, I seem to have Alan eliminated all the debian menus. How can I get back the menus? right-click and insert debian menu. Beware there's a bug : when you restart

Saytime stops saying the time.

1999-09-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Using Potato, keeping up to date. Saytime now says, the time is and nothing more. I reinstalled, but no changes. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan,

PPP speeds; nice-ness

1999-08-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Whenever apt-get is scarfing files by ftp, it seems to take much of the bandwidth of my 33.6 modem. Fetchmail is often running very slowly, while apt may run at 2K or even 3K, according to it's own reports. This prompts me to ask, is there a concept of niceness for TCP/IP connections? How

US Robotics/3 Com Upgrade to v90?

1999-08-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I purchased a USR Sportster 33.6 about two years ago, at what now looks like a premium. I have tried several times to upgrade to v90, with results leaving a bad after taste. As I informed 3Com, at my salary, I have wasted over 2X the *considerable* cost of the modem trying to flash upgrade. I

Lost directories.

1999-08-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
In the past three weeks I have lost three directories. Just disappeared. I lost /usr/local/bin and had to start recompiling years's of work. Sure, it's my own fault, but in the several years I have been using Debian GNU/Linux, I have never had this happen. I can't believe I was doing anything

printing fails after upgrading to new potato libraries.

1999-07-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
After upgrading to potato's new libc62.1.2 -pre libraries, printing isn't working properly. Although lpq sees nothing in the queue, the printer continues to psew out pages like broken postscript. There have been a few other minor glitches with printing, using lpr. Is this library problem?

Netscape 4.6, receiving message: Your browser sent a message this server can't understand.

1999-06-13 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Is there any way I can find out which server didn't understand? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern

How to find and install Gnome .debs?

1999-05-29 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I had Gnome working pretty nicely (installed using apt). I have been using apt-get to upgrade my system regularly; one upgrade broke Gnome, and I couldn't figure out which. So I have purged all Gnome packages. Are step my step instructions available somewhere for getting and installing Gnome

GNOME not working anymore

1999-05-22 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have lost gnome. It was really working well, and I like it alot. I have been upgrading weekly with apt-get, and somewhere a couple of weeks ago, gnome started losing it. FIrst, I am getting messages, /bin/sh: esd: command not found Then, soon after the panel comes up, when I

Lock file and .seq problems after apt-get upgrade

1999-04-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have now been unable to run apt-get update as (su) root. I receive these messages: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory /var/lib/dpkg/, are you root? - Open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)

Re.: Lock file and .seq problems after apt-get upgrade SOLVED

1999-04-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This was my own problem, now solved. I found that apt-get had not finished the installations. Once I got through that, printing is also normal. I am sorry to bother anyone who tried to solve my problems. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
a similar problem. Try adding the line 'smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0' (no quotes) in the MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS section of your exim.conf file. (This solution courtesy of another reader on this list.) HTH On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:26:01PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I have

new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have been having a problem that when I fetch my mail using fetchmail, the new messages do not always appear, at least immediately. Sometimes, I have to run fetchmail a second time, then a few messages appear, and as I delete messages, new messages begin showing at the tail end of the buffer.

Freaky keyboard.

1999-03-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My keyboard started doing somthing wierd. Maybe hardware? I dunno. I am using emacs, keyboard macros with searches and moves. Suddenly, the keyboard starts acting up, trashing the file. Moved to the console, and get combinations of characters for each keypress: for l I get lo; for k ki, etc.

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:16:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also look at installing the gs-aladdin package from the non-free part of Debian. It has a special HP Deskjet driver compiled into it. You can specify lots of features such as print quality, color mode, paper type,

X11 upgrade---error using xdm, Xsession?

1999-02-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
After upgrading to potato X11, as root I can startx. But when I run xdm, and log in as a user, I get this: electra:/etc/X11# less /home/lex/.xsession-errors :16: invalid preprocessing directive name :33: invalid preprocessing directive name /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator

[marwin@localbar.com: Re: X woes (potato)]

1999-02-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This is the same message I got. I fixed this by using a former version of /etc/X11/Xsession - Forwarded message from Björn Elwhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator expected What is wrong? That's what I want to know. Alan -- Alan E. Davis

Netscape 4.5 mail server messages

1999-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This message may better be posted to another list, but I don't know what list. Anyway, I am using netscape 4.5, installed via the installer that came with the tarball.Im pretty sure this is the glibc version. I keep getting annoying messages about the mailserver, telling me to set a user

XF86Setup doesn't run (windowmaker?), with error opening terminal

1999-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Having upgraded xfree to new packages on Potato, I have tried to run XF86Setup from the virtual console, xterm and rxvt. In each case, I get the message. To wit: electra:/usr/doc/xf86setup# XF86Setup Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal:

libstdc++2.9: include files not seen

1999-01-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My system has been updated from hamm to slink, then partly to potato. Trying to compile xtide some files, including the following, are not being seen by imake: stream.h iostream.h iomanip.h I am now going to try to upgrade totally to potato, using apt-get. What's wrong with my

mutt trashes mail

1999-01-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am afraid to try mutt again. After a long hiattus, I tried mutt again after some version changes. I lost a large slug of mail. Just gone. I have just been leaving mail in the mail spoon. Mutt has a habit of trashing that file. Can anybody corroborate this behavior? Has this kind of

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-23 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am writing this off the top of my head, without digging up any more specific information. If you want more information, please contact me and I will dig around in the next day or two, and perhaps even go to the trouble of getting the set up right. In the ftp archive, in project/experimental

af uses nvi as a viewer?

1999-01-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I change or disable the frequent startup of nvi by af, perhaps as a viewer? I am using af 2.0-4. This behavior is irritating, as I must quit vi in order to continue reading mail. This only happens on certain messages. May mailbox has many messages about files (the files displayed by

Apt rocks; Gnome rocks.

1999-01-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The following is a copy of email I have sent to a friend who has been working with Debian. I have expressed doubts to him many times concerning the problems I had been having with my own Debian system. I had been having trouble compiling 2.1.X kernels, and in other ways too the system was

man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages

1999-01-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? Any clue? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED]

SOLVED: man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages]

1999-01-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This was caused by a broken installation of X11. Now, amazingly, at least the obvious things all work. Alan Davis After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School

Is there a hamm to slink HOWTO?

1999-01-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have at last found time to reinstall hamm, and mounting the same /usr/local filesystems with few problems. My system has been out of sync for quite some time. Now I am able to compile C++ ok (wasn't able to for a while). I want to upgrade the packages necessary to compile newer

Problem installing packages that use install-info

1998-11-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am having trouble installing packages that use install-info in their installation scripts. Now I have some cruft building up on my system due to the impossibility of purging or removing certain packages including now shellutils_1.26-6.3.deb. I have not been able to cleanly remove lg* packages

reinstallation of system with full complement ...

1998-11-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My system is pretty richly endowed with installed software, but is in need of some rejuvenation---a reinstall from scratch. Two or three possibilities have occurred to me. 1. Install a new debian right over the old one, letting the chips fall where they may. 2.

Mutt and exmh not talking?

1998-11-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am losing mail. I have the following installed. ii mh 6.8.4-25 Rand mail handling system. ii mutt0.93.2-1 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME and th ii exmh2.0.2-2An X user interface for MH mail. Recently I have been losing mail.

mutt trashes mail

1998-11-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I upgraded mutt to v 0.93.2-1. Now all mail that has been read is deleted from my inbox. Is there a configuration issue? alan davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Termcap vs. Terminfo---Redhat vs. Debian

1998-10-24 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I found an old friend on a Red Hat CD---ephem, predecessor and sibling to xephem. It was time to try alien. Interesting. Installed the package. The binary doesn't work---termcap libraries are missing. Can I overcome this problem? (I like xephem LOTS better. My machine at school is running

modutils --- why m68k files ?

1998-09-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have been getting streams of messages as follows: Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times The only mention of char-major-14 I have found with grep is in /etc/modutils/conf.m68k.atari I cannot find any

X is hosed

1998-09-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes.

installing current disks---old machine

1998-07-29 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have tested the current resc1440-fast.bin rescue disk on a 386 motherboard with no hard drive.(Another garbage can PC for my classroom.)There isn't any hard drive yet in the system, but I thought I'd try to boot the rescue disk. After loading the linux kernel and uncompressing, the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #637

1998-07-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How is it that digest v98 #637, dated 9 July is a digest of messages from 27 June? I don't know to whom attention should be called. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED]

MCA support?

1998-07-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Does the upcoming distribution support Micro Channel installations? On the MCA Linux page, at http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ is made the statement that the next debian should include MCA support. Is it? Alan Davis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

synchronizing console, xterm and rxvt using bash.

1998-06-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A recent blow up with new xtide version not working as I expected led to the revelation (should I have known?) that rxvt is not sourcing /etc/profile. This led to one of the environment variables being set not as usually, and the program acted like it was broken, when it wasn't (a tribute to Dave

which C compiler?

1998-06-27 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm distribution. Which ones are recommended? Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: System.map

1998-05-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I accidentally ran across this one when compiling the kernel: make install This isn't documented, AFAIK. It installs the system map, and offers to run lilo or make a disk. Why isn't this documented? Did anyone anwer the question what is the system map for? I'd also like to know the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #344

1998-05-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Look at the linux laptop web site. You may be able to find it through http://www.linux.org, or you may be able to use an altavista type search. I ran two laptops---you wouldn't believe it, the T1800 and the T1850C. Both worked well, with the exception that X wasn't much use. I eventually

STARTING UP EMACS

1998-05-02 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
If you contact me I will send some more information. I have me .emacs stuff all byte compiled. When I edit .emacs.el, the compiled file is .emacs.elc. There are two ways to have this loaded. I used to just link .emacs to .emacs.elc. That doesn't sit well with some things that emacs20 does

MCA Debian questions

1998-04-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This is not a question of the mainstream debian distribution, but it involves a MCA debian boot disk, so perhaps this is the best place to go. It's a good one, anyway. I have just tested a debian boot disk off the MCA linux web site. It works on this machine---an IBM MOdel 65SX donated to

Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations

1998-04-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have a large netscape bookmark file of several hundred bookmarks. Manipulating these has become a pain. Whenever I edit bookmarks---in either Netscape 4.03 or a Mozilla package from a couple weeks ago---and try to change to sort by last access, Netscape goes berzerk. The graphics on the

exim 1.90-2: eximconfig doesn't work.

1998-04-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I had to back out of exim 1.90-2 because the eximconfig script bombed. I don't know why, but when I installed 1.89.1-1, the script ran perfectly. This is by leaps and bounds the easiest mail transport agent I have yet to install. I don't know yet whether it works: I'm encouraged. Eximon

exim for intermittent ppp connection? Also fetchmail bombs out.

1998-03-31 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I'm wondering if exim can solve my problem with mail. I am having some trouble with fetchmail. I posted to this list previously, But am uncertain that my message got through. I installed sendmail, and am uncertain I have it right. Smail worked will for quite a long time. After a recent

fetchmail doesn't work for me either

1998-03-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I upgraded fetchmail, smail, and some other packages at once, and immediately begin having trouble with fetchmail. The problem is exactly as discussed by A. D. Y. Chang. I'm at a loss, with all the discussion of smail on this list. Fetchpop works ok, and with fetchpop -ar, I get a running list

Fvwm95 new version---is it a bug?

1997-10-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Is it a bug? I spent a couple of hours the other day learning how to edit the config files for fvwm95, and got some nice features working, when... Lo and behold, I found a NEW version of fvwm95 in hamm... When I installed it, it stomped on my newly edited config files. It didn't ask. The

Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)

1997-10-05 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do something interesting? Like act as a compose key? a meta key? Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School

umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.

1997-10-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This happens to me quite often: a floppy or a cd isn't being accessed, but I cannot unmount it: umount gives the error I have indicated. Is there any way to find out what process or which xterm might be accessing or sitting on a certain device? Thank you to all who have made my computing

Re.: Re: umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.

1997-10-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
/cdrom/* In other words, if you are IN the directory in question, it is busy. Happens to me all the time as well. Same with any mounts, or if you try to rmdir a directory you are in. cd /;umount /cdrom should work -dh Alan Eugene Davis wrote: This happens to me quite

X Fonts and Emacs

1997-09-25 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Does emacs know about all the fonts available on the system? Are there other fonts around? there's a gulf of difference bwe excuse me... there's a gulf of difference between 9x15 and 10x20, but I don't see any fonts in between them. Just wondering. I apologize, as this is undoubtedly not a

DONE: Re.: Re: Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system

1997-09-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Once more. I actually did the change you indicated (to /usr/bin/emacs), in the midst of debugging this situation. It turned out, I think, that the weird messages were from an editing error I made in editing the config file, tex-site.el, for auctex, which I had been running for only one day.

Re.: RE: uuencode/uudecode?

1997-09-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Thanks for the pointer. Looks like I overlooked at least one package. Also, thanks for the lesson in shell syntax. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

uuencode/uudecode?

1997-09-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any file in uuencoded format. Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now? The command I am

MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have installed both the ucbmpeg player and mtv player, and set up netscape for each. I have consistently not been able to view mpegs. Each time an mpeg file comes over the line, this message is displayed in a dialog box, from Netscape as well as from Mosaic: Using private color-map Bad

AUC TeX: is it safe?

1997-09-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
There was a posting that the AUC TeX in the debian package crashes emacs. Is it now safe to install the AUC TeX on the FTP sites? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Star Office segmentation faults, and other failures

1997-08-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I was able to install Star Office. I was able to print a WinWord 2 document, and happily it looked much as it would originally. However, when trying the Thesaurus, and worse, when trying to convert the Winword file to any other format, a segmentation fault was experienced. There has been some

Can you give a clue how to get this realaudio for linux?

1997-08-16 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have not seen this real audio for linux. Where and how can this be found? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Icons disappeared on fvwm2 menu, netscape doesn't display.

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I recently posted that netscape 3.01 doesn't display, and I will take the advice to upgrade. Meanwhile, it occurs to me that this problem may be concurrent with a problem with fvwm2: the icons diappeared from the menu. Does this will suggest something? Meanwhile, thanks again for the

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Possibly the need for Debian Lite would be lessened with completion of a friendly dselect or replacement for dselect, that would present some reasonable options. My biggest worry is the multiplication of packages. Perhaps it is an inevitable situation with the kind of distribution that

Some teTeX PrOblEms

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I don't understand why latex of teTeX can't see any files I have placed into /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. Also, there seems to be no provision for placing new files in /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc. If this is true, this is a major weakness. Also I am having a similar problem as with

sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Netscape 3.01 won't start. It ran fine for a week or so, then it started balking. The disk lights up for a few seconds, but the window never opens. The PID is still there, and a second effort results in a message window informing the user that there is a lock file in ~/.netscape.

Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a message that it is already running. If I start it as netscape -iconic it establishes an icon, and I can now open. Does this ring any bells? Alan Davis [EMAIL

Re.: Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Thank you for your response. It is this: Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp. Alan Brian White writes: Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape

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