Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
the behaviour of man to do: 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems to be 80 chars wide even when I run SVGATextMode and get 132x60. I have no idea about this one, but do let me know if you find out, as it's a problem I have as well! // Heikki -- Heikki

Re: Unarj

1997-03-20 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
that there is only ARJ for MS-DOS. I have gotten unarj, and can't find out how to unarj it. It's in 10 different files, and I need to put then into one again, how do I do this? If I try to unarj each file at a time, it says that file is already there. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen

Re: Ethernet not found

1997-03-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
it with dselect? // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I just tested my xterm and didn't get color either. However rxvt works justs fine with colors. Why not change to rxvt? This might not be exactly what you are looking for but it works :) // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology

Re: X crashes when switching from VC

1997-03-12 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
) I'm sorry I have no explanation or solution but I think we have something in common going on. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: rsh don' t work?!?

1997-03-10 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
/files | rsh host2 'cat cd.image' The image data from mkisofs was piped to rsh and over the network to host2 where it was put in the file cd.image. The '-quotes are necessary to keep the shell on host1 from seeing the redirection character . // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL

Re: X

1997-03-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
shall I do to get a higher resolution? // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: Executing java applications

1997-03-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Ok, the story goes like this: You compile your applet with guavac/javac and run it with kaffe/java. Here's an example which uses guavac as a compiler and java as an interpreter. Kaffe didn't work for me for some reason but the procedure should be pretty much the same. All these are already

Re: Locate

1997-03-08 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
what ever. Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell me why? And is there a command to see how much disk space I have left? // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
There are two things you might want to do. First check http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html for the info about XFree86 Matrox server. This info is made by the authors of the Matrox code in XF86_SVGA server. The second is that you should try XF86Setup which comes with the

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
: Could someone give me a pointer to an explaination of this bug. May be I also run in trouble while using dpkg-ftp caused by this bug. I hope this helps // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: ?Audio Group?

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
the premissions in /dev/audio or ??? //Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: no CDROM

1997-03-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
mention of IDE hard drives in the BIOS. I am able to 'mount' a file system of type 'proc' on /dev/hda but I'm not sure of what this means - yet. (this is my first real try at Unix etc). I need access to the CD to install the packages. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen

Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
from e.g. stable to unstable? // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Yes sir, that's it. I did associate the starnge behaviour with dselect even though it's dpkg-ftp working under the hood. I forgot to check the bugs this time but I'm not sure if I would have found it under dpkg-ftp. Thanks for clearing this to me. Guy Maor wrote: Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL

Successful step from stable to unstable

1997-03-05 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
with only a few packages in each round. Keep up the good work guys! Heikki, the happy Debian user. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland

Re: Procmail recipe.

1997-03-03 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
in for it. The procmailrc file looks like [most of the correctly looking procmailrc cut] :0: ^ Maybe the lock file needs to specifed correct name? Just guessing... * ^X-Mailing-List: .*debian-user.* $MAILDIR/deb // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere

Re: Procmail recipe.

1997-02-26 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
me a wee favour and write out a simple procmail recipe for filtering this mailing list to another folder? (~Mail/deb) Been playing around for ages and can't seem to get it to filter on the To: header. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University

Re: OFFTOPIC rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
The sources are now in portal.stwing.upenn.edu and ftp.genx.net. I saw someone mentioning it in the linux-kernel mailing list. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: 3comm 509b

1997-02-23 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
the Ethernet-HOWTO and the Hardware-compatibility-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO after installing the doc-linux package. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: What is the trick to scroll back up and see boot messages?

1997-02-23 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
? // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

From stable to unstable, your advise needed

1997-02-23 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
) and I would be very grateful for any feedback before that. Thanks in advance. PS. When I pointed dselect back to stable all the new packages are still hanging there. Is this a bug or a feature? Otherwise things are back to normal, no updated packages are shown anymore. // Heikki -- Heikki

Re: New user: Trying to get xserver running.

1997-02-20 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Debian. I hope this helps, // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need /usr/lib contents

1997-02-19 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
starting with .) Does X keep any libraries there? I don't think X has any libraries there. As far as I know, they can be found from /usr/X11R6/lib. There is /usr/lib/X11 but it's a symlink to ../X11R6/lib/X11 ( /usr/lib/X11 - ../X11R6/lib/X11 ). // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen

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