Re: Linking c programs?

1999-07-05 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I'd like to say thanks to everyone who replyed to my question. It's working great now :-) Now I can get my maths c/w done :-) -- Best Wishes, Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. -- Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates

Linking c programs?

1999-07-04 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've been trying to compile a c program which uses maths functions like pow() and cbrt(), I've included the #include math.h and it compiles to an object ok. However when I try to compile it to a program I get: /tmp/ccc13322: In function `difi': /tmp/ccc13322(.text+0xea): undefined reference

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-29 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, That sounds great, at the moment te tracks I've been reorganinsing have been copied of a few iffy cd-rs but I have quite a few CDs that I'd like to convert. Thanks alot :-) On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:00:34AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Debian has two wrapper-scripts that get CDDB info off

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-26 Thread Andrew Holmes
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:52:50AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. Have a look at the 'mp3info' package (which gives

Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-25 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. I have quite a few mp3 files with unhelpful filenames, I want to write a script to rename all the files according to the names of the groups and song names

Re: ISPs

1999-06-10 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I'm with Force9 and although they don't officially support Linux, they do have an FAQ and several of the users are using Linux. They also have a linux server where you can get a shell and you have a cgi-bin directory to play with. The address is www.force9.co.uk, give them a go. -- Andy

Re: Binary Newsgroup extractor?

1999-06-01 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, How do I make AUB download single messages with attachments? AUB seems to do filtering OK with the 'hook' keyword but it wouldn't get images from single messages when I tried it :-( TIA -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own

Binary Newsgroup extractor?

1999-05-31 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, Maybe this is a pointless question, but. Has anyone found a program for linux that will look through binary news groups and download/decode all of the images/attachments according to a filter? I have AUB which works for multi-part messages, but I can't find a way to do single-part

Re: PCI Soundblaster card?

1999-05-08 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Thanks, I've still got the 2.2.0 archive so I'll just get the patch. A 13 meg download would give me a headache :-) -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!, Edmund Blackadder

PCI Soundblaster card?

1999-05-06 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, I'm probabily missing the obvious here but is it possaible to use a Soundblaster AWE64 PCI soundcard. I have read in the docs that the AWE64 is supported by Linux, but I can't seem to make it work and I can't find any mention about wether the PCI bus makes a difference. I managed to get

Re: PCI Soundblaster card?

1999-05-06 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Thanks, I'm using 2.2.0, so I'll recompile and keep my fingers crossed. Thanks for the info -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!, Edmund Blackadder

Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but with the recent converstaion about latex I was wondering if someone could help me? I'm writing a document in latex and I can use \ref and \label to identify figures fine. So if I put \ref{something}, it will print the number of the figure called using

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
, John Maheu wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: It's hard to know what the problem is unless you show us some code or the log file. Is the label inside the table environment? Check to see if the label definition is unique, ie. you didn't use it for the section label also

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Thanks for the help. It's working fine now :-). Should I nest the labels like this when I do figures as well, or is it not important? -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!, Edmund Blackadder

Re: Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I'd like to say thanks for all the great info I've had in such a short space of time. It seems to work fine when I embed the \label inside the \caption, but I'll try with the \label afterwards to see what happens. Back to writing bad maths coursework :-) -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-15 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Thanks for the advice, changing the Muttrc has fixed it up. Now I can get back to reading the list :-) Cheers -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!, Edmund Blackadder

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-14 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, While on the subject of mutt, yesterday I upgraded to slink from hamm using cheapbytes CDs without to much trouble, however. Now when I try to change mail-boxes in mutt I have to type the 'd' in debian twice to get it to appear on the screen. For instance if I want to change to the mail

Re: cfs???

1999-04-12 Thread Andrew Holmes
Thanks Caffeine, There was an rpm with compiled binaries at ftp.replay.com so I got that and used alien to make a deb. I have a bad history with compiling things :-( It's working great now. On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:33:06AM +1000, caffeine wrote: You can find the CFS source (as well as

cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've been trying to install cfs1.3.3-1 from the deb package and the install goes fine. I can mount it and I get a line in mount that says:- 'localhost:/null on /crypt type nfs (rw,port=3049,intr,addr=127.0.0.1)' However I can't create any cfs directories. When I try to use the cmkdir

Re: cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Andrew Holmes
Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the system. -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I doubt that my ISP would agree to that :-) But I could ask. On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:33:31PM -0500, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to automatically bounce messages over a certain size

junkbuster???

1999-04-05 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've been trying to use internet junkbuster and have it setup on port 8000 on localhost. Netscape works correctly now I have set the proxy information as does wget. However Lynx doesn't use the proxy. I have the env variable http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8000, and I have also tried with

Re: junkbuster???

1999-04-05 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi again, Sorry to waste bandwidth with this :-( I've now figured that I should have used http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8000/; for Lynx to work with the proxy, wget doesn't seem to mind but Lynx is more fussy. I'm not sure if it's just that I wasn't looking properly but the documentation didn't

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at the ISP :-) I doubt I'd get so many large attchments if I could do that, actually it's only one person who regularly sends me large attachments and I'm going to

Spliting messages between different mail-boxes?

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, For the last few weeks I've been following the list and have messages from the list going to a seperate pop-mail box at my ISP. At the moment I'm reading the list from Outlook Express and have a filter that puts all messages from this mail-box into a seperate mail folder in Outlook. I would

TIOCSER?WILD ??????????

1999-03-18 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, Having upgraded from Kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.3 I get a mesage that says TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored. when the machine boots. The message is printed twice and I can see it with dmesg. I thought it might be an option in a config file so I searched the whole harddrive for files

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi Rich, There is a program called ATP(ascii to postscript) which I use to format ascii documents when printing them, it supports lanscape, portrait and different numbers of columns. As well as differernt fonts and sizes, etc. Give it a go. You'll need to have a working postscript filter for your

Re: fstab question

1999-03-13 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, When I use the 'auto' filesystem type in fstab, my vfat floppies are detected as umsdos and I lose the long filenames. Is there a way around this? Andy Holmes West Sussex, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!, Edmund

Re: Magicfilter and Stylus Color 640

1999-03-12 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I have an old Stylus 500 colour (and love it! great printer) but when I first tried to get it setup with magicfilter and ghostscipt I could only make it print text, not postscript (blank pages came out). I found that installing Aladdin-ghostscript 5.1 from the gs web site sorted it for me. If

Booting linux with a file as root??

1999-03-11 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I'm new to this list, and to debian/linux in genereal. I installed debian from a CD and am having a great time, mainly due to the amount of great documentation available from the cd and on-line. Anyway what I wanted to know was if there was anyway to boot a kernel (using loadlin.exe) and