Re: VCG Visualization of Compiler Graphs?

2000-08-26 Thread Bruce Stephens
Gregg C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone used this program and/or has it ever been packaged for debian? It's in unstable. Along similar lines is graphviz. It's in non-free, but the new license may well be an open source license (i.e., it's probably in non-free more because it hasn't been

Re: Staroffice

2000-08-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is it not GPL'd? Source isn't available yet. It's due in the autumn, and presumably once there's something that works, someone will package it for Debian. I'm not quite sure whether

Re: Wacom Graphire?

2000-08-07 Thread Bruce Stephens
Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone used the Wacom Graphire tablet successfully? It would be a slick addition to Corel's PhotoPaint. I noticed there's a serial/PS2 connection available as well as the more common USB stuff. Does that make a difference (presuming, of

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-31 Thread Bruce Stephens
the 128bit version, even though the changelog implies that they do (or so it seems to me---am I misreading it?).. It means that (for non-US people) there's no apt-get way of getting a 128bit Netscape 4.73, whereas there is for 4.72. Presumably there's no change for US people? Bruce Stephens

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Bruce Stephens
Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 128 bit encryption is not available directly from installing Debian packages. There's a few options as far as getting the 128 bit encryption: Is there some reason for this? It seems at odds with the Debian changelog (see 4.73-17)

Re: S/MIME MUA

2000-07-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 13:17:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: I am actually using mutt but I just discovered that it handle PGP/MIME (rfc2015) and not S/MIME (rfs2633-4). What is the difference? I thought that there was only one standard...

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

2000-07-23 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andreas Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attempting to print a simple text file with lpr filename on my Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line: Unknown device: escp2 Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and over again, so that I

Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?

2000-07-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andreas Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've grown a long grey beard (no, not really :) ...) about the following problem: Attempting to print a simple text file with lpr filename on my Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line: Unknown device: escp2 Then it prints the

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-18 Thread Bruce Stephens
Pavel M. Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent for binary file? What do you want to do? If you want the following: Given a binary (or text) file A and a variant of it A', generate a patch delta(A,A')

Re: Installing an earlier kernel?

2000-05-26 Thread Bruce Stephens
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dumb question time, I'm sure. I've been running 2.2.15 for a while, but in a desparate effort to get a modem that works on this laptop before next Wednesday, I've built 2.2.12 (so I can run the damn Lucent binary winmodem driver). You probably don't

Re: what happened to wmaker-gnome?

2000-04-28 Thread Bruce Stephens
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Did wmaker-gnome get pulled while I was sleeping? BTW this is a potato system (Alpha). I don't think it's required any more. I think Window Maker is configured with support for both KDE and GNOME, so just install wmaker and it'll all just work.

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz and patching

2000-04-23 Thread Bruce Stephens
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I was puzzled, however, by the fact that the unpacking created the directory /usr/src/linux instead of /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.xx. I thought the latter was correct for Debian. But since I had a kernel I could compile, I continued. (My earlier

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Bruce Stephens
William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You can download a patch from Microsoft that will fix the problem, but to install it you will have to drop your system speed down to slow. Try setting your system multiplier

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Bruce Stephens
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The problem with shutting down Debian still remains. APM now works with Windows, so I presume it must be something to do with the M'board as you suggest. My knowledge is very limited - any suggestions as to where I should go from here. You may be able to

xfs on unix domain socket

2000-04-11 Thread Bruce Stephens
The example config file /etc/X11/xfs/config has the comment that TCP port listening is switched off by default, but that unix domain connections are still permitted, which seems reasonable. However, what's the syntax for this? xset fp+ unix/:-1 and variants don't seem to work: they just report

Re: Where is KDE?

2000-04-08 Thread Bruce Stephens
J. Hartzelbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel dumb for asking, but . . . where do I find a Debian package of KDE? I have looked and looed. Obviously I'm looking in the wrong places URL:http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-17 Thread Bruce Stephens
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And thanks again, Colin, Bruce Sean. I still can't get XFree86 3.3.6 to do the right thing, but I now have XFree86 4.0 running successfully at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 32bpp. It will run 1600x1200 at 32bpp but my monitor starts to get wierd. However,

Re: Voodoo3 at more than 8bpp?

2000-03-16 Thread Bruce Stephens
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a Voodoo3 card that they're running in 16bpp or 24bpp mode? I bought one yesterday and couldn't get X 3.3.6 to come up even in 8bpp. I get characters written all over the screen as though something's not setting the card mode

Re: recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
Paul Kallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an easy way to recursively remove files with specific extensions? I need to go through several ncpmounts and recursively remove all *.bak files. Thanks! find . -name '*.bak' -print0 | xargs -0 rm Please check the documentation for find and

Re: Newer cvs (1.10.7-5, unstable) will cause apt to hang?

2000-03-03 Thread Bruce Stephens
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe that apt hang when the newest cvs (1.10.7-5, unstable) is one of the packages that it has to install. Package: cvs Version: 1.10.7-5 Severity: normal Yes. It's been reported as a bug, and from the explanation it's easy to find a temporary

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The concept seems very interesting to me, although I wonder if it is within the scope of LSB; I had the notion that its effort was concerned with standardizing existing development approaches. Probably it's not [it being TenDRA]. On the other hand,

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we say a library is a collection of functions which have a signature and an implementation, the notion of change becomes: 1 - an implementation change which preserves the signature; 2 - a signature change (which may be construed as a deletion