Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-23 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Hello Karl, hello everybody, thank you Karl for this script. Am So Mai 22 2011 schrieb Karl Vogel: > >> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive > > >Try this version of mkdir earlier in your PATH

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Am Fr Mai 20 2011 schrieb Karl Vogel: > >> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > > H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive > >What does "strace mkdir /some/directory" show? > > $ strace mkdir two execve("/bin/mkdir

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Am Do Mai 19 2011 schrieb Tom Grace: > On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > > I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 > > drive, > > especially the first directory. > > What could the reason be? > If this is a data drive, has i

first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-19 Thread Hartmut Niemann
data drive, 500 GB ext3 without LVM as well. Any ideas? Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105191801.12315.hartmut.niem...@gmx.de

Re: initex and virtex

2010-10-31 Thread Hartmut Niemann
itex are "personalities" of the tex typesetting core engine. They used to be symlinks, but I don't know why they aren't on my system. What is the reason for your question? Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

OpenOffice crash: what to do next?

2010-10-31 Thread Hartmut Niemann
embedded graph. deleting it and creating it new worked. So this bug might be related to some very old (ooffice 2.x) graph that isn't handled properly? How can I translate that into a reasonable bug report? Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

How to debug a boot problem?

2010-09-10 Thread Hartmut Niemann
lprit? Or the kernel based mode setting? As far as I remember both were new in this kernel? What do you suggest to try next? With best regards Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Problems with CUPS Error 401

2008-08-09 Thread Hartmut
Hi, I have the following config file and got the followed error. Has anyone a clue what the problem could be? The .15 IP is a Windows XP Client. Why is the client not authorized (cupsdSendError: 8 code=401 (Unauthorized))? Printing works perfect. Thanks a lot, Hartmut --[cupsd.conf

Debian repository server

2006-11-10 Thread Hartmut Tigges
debian/ and ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ did not offer these packages at all. Please check, if this is an internal debian problem or an illegal upload into the official debian server. For the time being, I will not perform this update. brgds Hartmut Tigges -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Xemacs menubar font

2001-10-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Damon Muller wrote: > A quick question for all the Xemacs gurus out there. by no means. i´m looking at gnu and seems to be condemned to emacs. > The Xemacs FAQ suggests the following lines: > > Emacs.default.attributeFont: -*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-*-* > Emacs*menubar*font: fix

Re: kernel compilation and ncurses problem

2001-10-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Bambang Purnomosidi D. P." wrote: > I already have (from unstable) libncurses5, ncurses-bin, ncurses-term, and > ncurses-base. > > DId I miss something?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l \*ncurses\* | grep ^ii | cut -b -70 ii libncurses4 4.2-9Shared lib

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing wrote: > Yepp, I already hav'em (dselect) and did a apt-get right now on > perl-doc. But this package (if it expands to /usr/share/doc/perl-doc) > only contains a changelog between the dedicated perl versions and > contains some examples scripts plus some very tiny docs. Wh

Re: anyone for masqmail?

2001-10-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
andrej hocevar wrote: > is anyone here using masqmail? yes. a good choice for an dial-up account. > i've installed masqmail on my potato and it works okay as far as > delivering mail to myself (localhost) is concerned. it also stores mail > that's meant for any outside connections and silently w

Re: OT: ACPI, 2.4.9 & CPU Temp

2001-08-27 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: sorry, wrong list. Should have been debian-user-de :( cu -- hafi

OT: ACPI, 2.4.9 & CPU Temp

2001-08-27 Thread Hartmut Figge
gruss, mag sein, dass es fuer einige interessant ist. hier ein auszug der ausgabe von 'sensors' mit ACPI enabled mit kernel 2.4.9 auf einem abit kt7: SYS Temp: +33.3°C (limit = +45°C, hysteresis = +40°C) CPU Temp: +37.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +55°C) und so war es vorher mit kernel 2.

Re: [OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-25 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that > attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some > of the dirty work as I begin translating some previou

Re: Upgrading from Hamm to Potato

2000-05-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to upgrade my system from Hamm (2.0) to Potato (2.2), using CDROMs. I > tried to first install apt, but, not surprisingly, I got all kinds of > dependency errors. http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/ cu -- hafi

Re: Latin-1 characters in X, how?

2000-05-14 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On the Linux virtual consoles I can enter Latin-1 characters into any > program using the Compose key sequences, provided these are defined in > the loaded keymap. For example, here's a piece of my > /etc/console-tools/default.kmap: > The question is, how can I do the

Re: Compiling New Kernel

2000-05-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > procps has what you need. To get the versions 2.2.15 wants, you need to > upgrade your system to debian 2.2 (potato). potato is currently frozen and in not necessarily. on my system: ii procps 2.0.6-6The /proc file system utilities. ii util-linux

Re: man pages!!

2000-05-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Brown wrote: > > If you've got man pages in /usr/share it's probably because you've > already done a partial upgrade and have potato's libc6 alreay (certainly > in this case where dpkg and apt seem to have been upgraded). umm, i have dpkg 1.6.12, apt 0.3.18 and libc6 2.0 7. i've tried to 's

Re: How to change Netscape Menu fonts?

2000-03-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I want to make Netscape use a smaller font for it's menus and buttons. > However, when I played around with setting something like: > > *font: -adobe-helvetica-*-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 > > in ~/.Xresources, netscape complains about not being able to crea

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-03 Thread Hartmut Figge
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use >wget instead yes, i've tried since netscape 4.6

Re: kernel panic on hda

2000-01-30 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hi Steve, it looks like you might have misconfigured the kernel. did you > include ext2 filesystem in your configured kernel. and, steve, the ext2 should no be compiled as module :) -- hafi

Re: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Hartmut Figge
Todd Suess wrote: > > Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get > dist-upgrade, this was the result. > > tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > communicator-base-4

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file' i would would view this file with mc, switching to hex-mode and look for suspicious characters. -- hafi

Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

2000-01-08 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? yes iirc, fortify must be pointed to the executable file 'netscape' whose location may vary. to find out i use always locate Netscape.ad which gives me the path to that file. -- hafi

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Hartmut Figge
"AU,SCOTT CHUONG" wrote: > Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 > second pause) etc. > > I'm running on a old 386-33Mhz with 8megs RAM so is it possible my that probably means, that you dont't have a 16550A uart. try dmesg | less and watch the lines beginning with

Re: slink leafnode and y2k???

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Surchi wrote: > Now I don't use leafnode, so I couldn't try, but someone told me that leafnode > has problem with the state of messages after 31/12/99... :o according the leafnode mailing-list that's fixed since leafnode 1.9.5. current release is version 1.9.7 -- hafi

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried > looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file > for dselect or apt, but alas... how about the status* files in /var/lib/dpkg ? -- hafi

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Re: insert a blank page in a ps file

1999-09-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > Is there any easy way to insert an extra blank page after > each page in a PostScript file? > > Say I have a ps file with pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > I want to format it to a new ps file with the following pages: > 1 blank 2 blank

Re: reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size ?

1999-09-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
shaul wrote: > Can I change the postscript files (and not the source file) so that it will > have a reasonable setting on a a4 paper ? yes man pstops, at the end you can see other possibilities. -- hafi

Re: printer setup

1999-09-04 Thread Hartmut Figge
sdoerr wrote: > > I am a new Debian user and one of the things I haven't been able to set > up yet is my printer. I don't have a printcap file yet and I am not i would try to run magicfilterconfig. there`s a lot of such helpful configuration programms in debian, but i`ve never found a helpfull

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 22 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: uploads over modem are SLOW!" > > On 21-Aug-99, you wrote: > > > > HF> Lee Elliott wrote: > > HF> > > HF>> screen? Do pppload and wmppp show only data successfully > > HF>> transferred? > > HF> ^^^ > > HF>

Re: Can't boot from hard disk

1999-08-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Lawrence wrote: > The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: > > boot=/dev/hda1 perhaps boot=/dev/hda ? -- hafi

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
Matthias Murra wrote: > If anyone out there is running a slink system, has the version of "most" > installed that came with it (or could install it for a few seconds :->) and > would be so kind to tell me if "most .gz" works, that might help. :) i haven't seen a reply yet, so ... no problem here

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-02 Thread Hartmut Figge
Brian Servis wrote: > If you want something that is only available in the unstable tree you > can always build the source archive against your current setup, it is > fairly straight forward with the Debian source archives. but there are problems with some packages, e.g. postfix-0.0.19990627 refus

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Dysthe wrote: > Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for ^^ could you be a bit more precisely? -- hafi

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-21 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > > My memory fails me (and I don't want to reboot into Windows :-(), does > > PM 4 resize ext2 partitions? > > not only that. i`ve done some incredible things with it. > but - as you wrote - windows :( a

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-21 Thread Hartmut Figge
Stephen Pitts wrote: > My memory fails me (and I don't want to reboot into Windows :-(), does > PM 4 resize ext2 partitions? not only that. i`ve done some incredible things with it. but - as you wrote - windows :( -- hafi

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
Stephen Pitts wrote: > Look at ext2resize on freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net..the search box is at the > top). > Although it says that it is ALPHA, you might try it. should i mention partition magic 4? on a debian list? blushing -- hafi

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > [root:/tmp] # cat xnetload.error > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: xnetload: not found > > So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now > xnetload loads on ppp up. well, looking into /etc/ppp/ip-up: # The environment is cleared before executing this script

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > i`ll think about the problem and will write if i find a solution. well, i`ve found the evil-doer. i copied your script into the file affe, created a directory called affe-dir and put affe in that dir. permissions, owner and group like ip-up.d et al. then i executed

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:40:47AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > yes, bash will expand the `*`. > > um, possibly, but the command still works when i execute > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load, so i don't think it does. > > > you need

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > #!/bin/sh > xnetload -geometry 200x48+0+0 -fn > -schumacher-clean-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -fg white -bg black -nc -if > ppp0 & > > and /etc/ppp/ip

Re: dpkg-database damaged.

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Johann Spies wrote: > > After trying to use dosemu, my computer stalled and I had to press the > reset button en the end. After rebooting, I wanted to remove dosemu and > reinstall it and to my amazement dpkg reported that it was not installed. > When I ran dselect, it showed about a quarter of th

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
David Wright wrote: > To leave "Select" you have to press . If you unintentionally > press it twice (eg the keyboard double-strikes, or a slow 386 makes > you think you might not have tapped the key hard enough) > dselect goes straight into "Install" whereas you might want "Remove" > or, even wor

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Hartmut Figge
Joel Keating wrote: > > My netscape fonts seem to be way too small. Most of the pages i go to > i can hardly read. I'm using communicator 4.5 and kde. Any help > would be great. go to http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html hafi

Re: Device Driver Problem Again

1999-06-22 Thread Hartmut Figge
Phil Wu wrote: > > I still haven't got the answer about how to configuring device drivers > for my computer. > Could anyone tell me how to chose the modules when I run "modconf". Or > where to get the install guide for this problem. > > Thanks! > > My hardware as below: > > quantum 7.4G IDE HD

Re: X-Windows running automatically and not working. :(

1999-06-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
> the keyboard. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace just flashes back to the shell for > a fraction of a second then back into X-Windows. > > Worst of all, X-Windows runs automatically when I boot so I can't get have you tried ctrl-alt-f1? this should give you a textconsole. then you should deinstall xdm. then

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > to boot dos (or win) this hd must be the first. how about the exchange > of the hd´s? or, maybe, if you make your hdb bootable... i just looked into /usr/doc/lilo/manual.txt.gz and found MAP-DRIVE= Instructs chain.b to installs a resident driver that re-maps the

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Sander Balkenende wrote: > table=/dev/hdb hm, hm, i try to remember and... yes. to boot dos (or win) this hd must be the first. how about the exchange of the hd´s? or, maybe, if you make your hdb bootable... good luck hfi

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
> I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start > win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my > lilo.conf: > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=dos a look at my lilo.conf reveals: other=/dev/hda1 label=DOS table=/dev/hda could it your missing ´table´? sorr

Re: Emacs, Netscape and Apache - together?

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Wyn Snow wrote: > So what I want to do is get a Netscape Navigator (or Communicator) > that > will work with Debian Hamm 2.0.34. Since I make web pages for a > living, i suspect, you´re trying to run a glibc2.0 netscape on libc5 system. if you have a glibc5 based system, you must download a ver

Re: Bug in slink's dosemu?

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Johann Spies wrote: [about dosemu problems] don´t know, what´s going wrong. but i wouldn´t bother. i´ve just ´slinked´ dosemu 0.98.7, installed and am on the way of customizing. i recommend that you forget your version and get the new stable one. hafi

OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm? Ed Cogburn wrote: > A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The > i

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Realplayer G2

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
Peter Ludwig wrote: > > I've been looking for Realplayer G2 all over the place (including at > Real-Audio's website), and I cannot seem to find it for any unix-like > operating systems... fast ftp search shows ftp://ftp.linux.hr/pub/realplayer/ there _seems_ to be the linux version, but i haven´

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > > > > another version, which will download a file _unchanged_

[Fwd: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: moira.debian.org: host not found)]

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
hm, sorry for the annoyance, but this mail has bounced. perhaps eric is not knowing that his mail-address is not working and can investigate further with the knowledge of this message. hafi Original Message Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: moira.debian.org: ho

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: [interesting things about the subject] assuming that the list isn´t much interested in the question i´ll answer ed per pm. hafi

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Yes the file is 17428 bytes. Hold down the shift key when > clicking on a file to download; this will cause Netscape to > download 'as-is'. so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the search for a version, which will do, what should be expe

communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
greetings, well, now it´s me who have to whine. firstly, a hearty gghh. my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded. could som

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > i found 4.6.1 even more unstable than 4.08. at least i know that, if > i don't close windows, 4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all > the time. well, then it seems, that the poor glibc2.1 people should go to the libc5 version. hafi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
thomas lakofski wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: > anyone have libc5 debian packages for 4.08/51/6? get the files from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.08/english/unix/supported/linux20/ and use the debian installer. hafi

Re: soundcard too silent

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Lex Chive wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > > > how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? > > > > try xmix > > and aumix on the console. Dont forget to change the volume of the PCM channel

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Kent West wrote: > > I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I > reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the > documentation to see how to test the sound. > > "The Linux Sound HOWTO; Installation (p15 of 26)", section 4.3 states > that there shou

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Craig McPherson wrote: > > I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, > because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even > more often than it crashes under Windows. since you´re using glibc2.1, the best way would be - imho - either to use the libc5 version to

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
n't know how to delete lines, eh? Geez. > > >> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:08:34 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > >> > >> >yeah, but why so complicated? > >> >mc is just wonderful for things like that. > >> > >> Because mc isn&#

Re: Where is /usr/bin/file?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greg Starkes wrote: > > I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able > to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned > it, and found nothing. Is this not a part of the debian distribution? I > noticed that RedHat has it. just fired up dselect ->

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 11:01:26PM +0900, OhkumaTadayoshi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files. > > zgrep > zless > zmore > > all work on gzipped files. yeah, but why so complicated? mc is just wond

Re: Still Trying [WAS: Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration]

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wagnon wrote: [about sound problems] > Looking at the first line, I'm wondering if my isapnp stuff is okay. to exclude this possibility i would initialize the card under dos. a few days ago, i switched to kernel 2.2.9. yesterday i felt something was missing - i wanted back my sound. first

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, there. > > Anyone know where to get the debian package for xemacs21.1? hm, not to be found on debian.org, but use http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium and search for xemacs21, sorted by date/host. i´ve just done that and found the packages. hafi

Re: PPP

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andy Bottman wrote: > > Thanks, I have done this at least 10 times in the last 2 days, I > don't think I am missing any prompts. I am looking for more than the > obvius, is there somting that I could not recognize as related to PPP. ok. i´ll send you my .config per pm, so that you can co

Re: PPP

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andy Bottman wrote: > > How do include PPP support in the kernel when I compile? I have > been using 'make config' and 'make menu config' to configure the kernel and > even though I thought I have been choosing ppp support under networking I > am still without. > This whole issue

Re: How to get stats on modem?

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Jonathan Lupa wrote: > > What program/package can one use to see the current flow rates of their > modem? Any pointers to docs would be much appreciated! =) i´ve used iptraf for that reason in my suse-days. hafi

[Fwd: Re: netscape status?]

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
hi, the following mail should be interesting for glibc2.1 netscape users ... hafi Original Message Subject: Re: netscape status? Resent-Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:35:21 - Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: recipient list not shown: ;recipient list not shown:; D

Re: i want a copy of netscape 4.51

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Adam Shand wrote: > > > i suspect, that you have switched to glibc2.1 and fear, that netscape > > 4.5 now would be unstable also for you. my communicator 4.6 (linked to > > glibc2.0) is not more unstable as my formerly communicator 4.5. > > all i did was upgrade netscape. i didn't upgrade my lib

Re: help! i'm drowning!

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
jeff k wrote: > my modem-card (Megahertz XJ1144). > I do know that it is not a winmodem, but it doesn't show up you´re really sure about that it isn´t a winmodem? a modem problem i would investigate with minicom. there you can send commands to your modem and watch the answers. hafi

Re: i want a copy of netscape 4.51

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Adam Shand wrote: > > hi. > > netscape 4.5 had the bug where it disappeared whenever you clicked on a > mailto url, and netscape 4.6 is *HIDEOUSLY* unstable and just cores all the > time. i suspect, that you have switched to glibc2.1 and fear, that netscape 4.5 now would be unstable also for you

Re: slink with glibc2.1

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Raj Manandhar wrote: > > Is there any way of trying out the libc2.1 package from potato without > upgrading everything to potato? I tried a simple dpkg -i on the .deb, > but one needs apt>0.3, and that apt requires libc2.1. on 06/03/99 i downloaded apt_0.3.6.1_i386.deb for slink. the url(?) was i

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wright wrote: > > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover m

Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have a AWE 64 that's PNP. From Windows, the resources it's using are: oh, you´re a lucky guy. i myself own a terratec maestro 16/96 and there is no chance of cooperation with isapnp. you could do as i do: intialize the card under dos and boot linux with loadlin, or, prefer

search results

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
... in the packages search of the debian web-server gives the results under three headers: ´Release´ and ´Package(size)´ are clear, but what´s the definition of ´Quality´ ? e.g., a search for alsa shows for alsalib0.1.1-1 a quality of 33% and for alsalib.1.3-dev0.1.3-2 a quality of 99%. curious h

Re: XFS XFree86 3.3.3

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Patrick Colbeck wrote: [helpfull hints to xfs and xfstt] hi, thx for this info. i´m sure it will be very helpfull for others. hafi

Re: netscape with vi's keys

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > Is it possible to bind the netscape's scroll up, down keys to the > same as vi's, > just like what we can do in mutt! hi, take a look in Netscape.ad. there are a lot of key-translations, which can be customized. hth hafi

Re: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul Seelig wrote: > Please note that it was not me writing this message. I use Debian but you decided to tease the list ... hafi

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i can > get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I can find a utility > that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) > > Colin Winters well, you _could_ use rar. but it´s shareware, yo

Re: Netscape.ad ... solved

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > > ... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. > > > > a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: > > "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search

Netscape.ad ...

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search and replace, 2 occurences) gives the expected change in the File menu of the communicator. but not in slink. perhaps someone can save me from diving int

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Serge Gavrilov wrote: > > Hello! > > Does anybody know: is (unoffficical) netscape 4.6 packed for Slink system > exists somewhere? in order to keep my slink clean from the ´horrible´ glibc 2.1, i also had to found a way. i decided to download the tarball from netscape and to use the debian-insta

Re: Getting Netscape to use my mailer

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not able to make Netscape open and use my email program when I click on > an > email link. I have tried all kinds of commands, but no go. I use XFmail, but > it > should be a "standard" way to do this? i have collected an url from some messages, because

Re: fetchmail won't work in slink

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
hi, $ locate fetchmail | grep bin /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/bin/fetchmailconf have you tried fetchmailconf ? hafi

Re: Ability to read MS Word files

1999-06-03 Thread Hartmut Figge
Supriyo Sircar wrote: > IS there something similar to convert from PDF to text or to HTML. well, let´s see: $ locate pdf2 | grep bin /usr/bin/pdf2dsc /usr/bin/pdf2ps $ locate ps2 | grep bin /usr/bin/ps2ascii /usr/bin/ps2epsi /usr/bin/ps2frag /usr/bin/ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pk /usr/X11R6/bin/fig2ps

Re: Netscape 4.6 crashes

1999-06-01 Thread Hartmut Figge
Matthew Gregan wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote: > > The faulty behaviour is most obvious if you've got more than one > > Navigator window opened. Instead of closing the selected window only > > the whole application crashes sometimes. > > I've been havin

Re: Help!!! Linux plus IBM! again :(

1999-06-01 Thread Hartmut Figge
Gancho Tenev Tenev wrote: > > Hi !!! > I did not speak about Debian Linux Instalation ! :) > ( nor for rescue nor bootup diskette !!! ) > Some IBM computers ( may be all ) have got setup ( for their hardware ) on > their HDD > ( on separate hdd partition ). > On other computers I press "DEL" and e

Re: dselect woes

1999-05-26 Thread Hartmut Figge
Kent West wrote: > > On Tue, 25 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Can it be! CAN IT BE!! > > > > Am I a complete idiot or is Deselect one of the most diabolical > > programs ever? > > > > > > > Donald MacDougall > > USC School of Medicine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > AMEN! (for the re

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Hartmut Schmude
>From hschmude Mon Apr 12 19:47:49 1999 Subject: Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:47:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] Hi, I had the same problem when I bought an ATI 3D Charger with the RAGE II C chip. It was solved when I upgraded to xmach64-3.3.3.1. I got

DEBIAN 2.0 and old 386 machines

1999-03-19 Thread Hartmut Schmude
to reinstall the old system, a SuSE-Slackware with kernel 1.2.13, and - it worked! Why the [EMAIL PROTECTED] the Debian System is unwilling to do the job? Is it a matter of kernel/lib versions? Any hints? TIA Hartmut Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REQUEST

1999-03-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
"m.nau" wrote: > After starting dselect as / , it is asking for a "block device". > But it does NOT accept any HD!!! > PS: > The installation took place at /dev/hdc2 (whitch is not accepted /dev/hdc ? hafi

Re: installing debian

1999-03-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
mike shupp wrote: > Try the MS-DOS fdisk. Think of it as a professional courtesy: fdisk > programs are reluctant to remove partitions put up by other OSs. MS-DOS, the rescuer of Debian ... SCNR hafi

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