Re: How to print on a Win3.x/Win95 machine ?

1998-05-26 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, I was able to mount other Win3.x and Win95 drives with something like the line below. Thanks. This, after I've recompiled the kernel with samba support. I will see when I have time to work for connecting the printers, as these weeks we have to prepare a local conference and my colleagues

!!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, It's a little bit humorous, but I'm unable to boot back to WIn95. And my boss is in a hurry ! I've played a little with the kernel and now it didn't recognize the vfat2 partition. Anything else is working, just this is not. I have installed the lilo and I cannot remove it. The method with

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, Unfortunately, I've panicked and reinstalled all Win95. Fortunately, all my personal data and files are on a different partition (sda5 and sda6) so nothing important was lost, excepting my time and yours. With this occasion I have also changed sda1 from FAT32 to VFAT as my newly 2.0.33 kernel

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, The lilo.conf it's working. So, if you have time, please just tell me how to configure the memory. TIA, Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?

1998-05-21 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, (Background: my home computer is connected via ppp to my isp; my home pc is debian.borco.net; the isp server is mail.mailbox.ro; i use fetchmail to get the mails after I connect to the isp via ppp. For reading and writing I use Netscape Mail, which reads from the local machine and sends mails

How to print on a Win3.x/Win95 machine ?

1998-05-21 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, My computer is in a Windows 3.x / Windows 95 local network. From time to time I can start it under Linux. I would like to be able to print or read files from the other computers which run MS Windows. Do I need Samba for this ? A client or a server ? On which machine ? Are there any other

Re: TeTex upgrade problems

1998-05-20 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Matt Thompson wrote: OK, multi-part question. 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this: running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in texmf.cnf. dpkg: error processing tetex-base

Re: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?

1998-05-20 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, Ok, it is solved. As Daniel said, I've found on the net a program to convert from Microsoft Internet Mail to Eudora Mail or to Netscape Mail. The program for this is at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9276/ie42nsc.html It's a small program that's doing all the job. Very nice.

How to promote debian ?

1998-05-20 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, I have chosen Debian for several reasons: 1. Unable to write a linux installation CD under Win95 from downloaded slackware and Red Hat. (I think Debian is the only that distribute the CD image). 2. Disappointment with Red Hat 5.0 because some packages which didn't install (or break the

Bug in su or mc ?

1998-05-20 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, If I do the followings in X: 1. start an xterm; 2. in xterm give an su 3. as root (under su) start mc 4. close the xterm I end up with a 100% CPU usage, even when I do nothing. If I give top, I discover that mc is still running and eating all the CPU power (say 98 %). The mc is owned by

Re: How to print A0 documents on A4 printer ?

1998-05-19 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
of the postscript file with the number of pages it needs to compose the final document (this is also stated in the man page of the program). Concluding: very nice program. Ionutz Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: Hi, Thanks for the http address. From the README and the documentation, it looks like

How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?

1998-05-19 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, As I try to move all my files from Win95 to Linux, I would like also to move my e-mails from the MS Outlook to Netscape Mail. (At the time I started to use Win95, Outlook from MS Office looked OK, but now I have a different opinion.) Outlook can import messages from Netscape, but Netscape

How to print A0 documents on A4 printer ?

1998-05-18 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, I have to do a poster for a conference. The poster should be A0 or something around. But we have only an A4 printer. In Windows, Corel can manage this: it splits the A0 on A4 so that you can print several sheets of A4 paper and then glue them together and obtain the A0 document. Corel also

Re: How to print A0 documents on A4 printer ?

1998-05-18 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
, 1998 at 08:09:10AM +, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: [how to make A0 poster from A4 files] At ftp://ftp.ics.ele.tue.nl/pub/poster/ you can find a nice little tool that makes posters from (encapsulated) PostScript files. Too bad there it doesn't mention copyright terms, so we can't make