dosemu without dos being installed?

1997-07-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Setting up mail.

1997-07-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have given it another shot. Mail escapes me. I now have to ask for help on this. Mail must be my nemesis, as it took six months to get it right on my now defunct former system (as some readers may remember?). I have run the smail setup script, a couple of times, and think I have more or

plip and other modules give error messages.

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
or more modules have unresolved references. One of these is plip.o. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Looks like my library upgrade broke those modules. I need/want plip to network this machine with the planned new one. Can I repair this short of recompiling the kernel? Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis

updating existing partially hosed but working system.

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
might just say that I am clueless. It's one more level of kludges I don't need to deal with. Thanks for the many times I have received helpful advice on this list. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
advise whether there is some file that may have become corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its cool? This system has been working reliably for over six months. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL

compiling C source for HP850C ghostscript driver from OS/2 or DOS on Linux

1997-04-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
chars and all backslashes at the ends of lines. Even this wasn't enough. Thanks for any clude. Any. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E

DEITY TEAM -- Response to call for comments

1997-04-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I will try to address your call for comments, though it will be a matter of several responses, and not one. My machine is minute (though I hope to replace it fairly soon). I have been running a Debian system for well over a year. All my maintainance has been done using FTP to get the

Problems compiling gnuplot---Followup

1997-03-18 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I reported that in recent beta gnuplots, a core dump occured in response to set locale After installing the debian package locale-bin, the problem has apparently been solved. Even if I use the configure switch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure doesn't see -lvga. Alan Davis

Good cheap source of hardware?

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
; and (2) advice on the numerous existing motherboards. Thank you for any advice. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950

Good cheap source of hardware?

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
; and (2) advice on the numerous existing motherboards. Thank you for any advice. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950

PPP: won't disconnect.

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
. This persists until the internet service provider issues a max idle time disconnect. This troubles me, because I have a 5 minute max idle time disconnect on my end, but I am getting billed for 45 minute max idle time disconnects from the ISP's side. Any suggestions? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis

PPP: won't disconnect.

1997-01-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The system log, messages, can fill up to 3 to 5 megabytes in a session. Yet when I delete it, the space does not show up, at least not consistently, when I issue a df. Any suggestions? Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene DavisMarianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL

Some notes on Debian experiences

1996-12-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
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syslogd appears to be greedy

1996-10-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
According to top, syslogd is using over 80% of cputime. When I run another memory-hungry application, this immediately drops. This was never noted until recently. I now note syslogd, which was to have been replaced by the sysklogd package, is still installed. Using sysklogd 1.3-11; don't

Suddenly: Can't locate module net-pf-4

1996-10-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
developed a need for it, or suddenly gotten verbose about it. I have been installing and uninstalling some mail software, and perhaps some net software, but I cannot get a fix on this. Does this mean something to anyone? A clue for the clueless? -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School

Suddenly: Can't locate module net-pf-4 revisited.

1996-10-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
-pf-4. I therefore installed the package maintainer's new configuration file. But the message persists. I will try again after rebooting (obviously). -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001

more on dselect.

1996-05-20 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
On Sun, 19 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: I got a message from dpkg when installing cron: dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: This exact message was given by dselect when it stomped all over my system. I figured --force should __NOT__ be enabled by default. Alan

dselect is uncontrollable

1996-05-19 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
ncurses-base wouldn't install, because of a fairly knotty series of depends and conflicts with ncurses-term and ncurses-runtime, and I didn't know what, really, to do about it. I decided to see what dselect would do. I got lost, couldn't restrict the activities of dselect to the business at

Two X questions

1996-05-17 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
There has been some helpful discussion of the setting up of X11. Perhaps this is a good time to ask some of mine. 1. How can I get the command C-g in emacs to work under X11 the same as it does in a console? Several times my machine or screen seemed to lock up when I used this command three

dpkg help screen: may I suggest?

1996-05-02 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
For your interest, I would suggest that a help screen along the lines of the following would be more helpful, at least to myself, and perhaps others. This file is to be considered bogus, however, unless someone corrects and extends it. Mainly, I don't understand most of these parameters; in

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