Re: A stylistic question?

1999-06-28 Thread Jack Versfeld
Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: Hi. I finally worked out how to do the Linux equivalent of batch files (scripts) and was wondering if there was a generally accepted directory for keeping user (and/or root) scripts in. I don't think there is, but it is generally accepted that anything that

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-06-21 Thread Jack Versfeld
Joerg Ott wrote: Hi, how can I check if new mail has arrived on a pop server WITHOUT logging in? Netscape does smth like this, checks for new mail every n minutes and does not require a password before you actually download the mail. I want to do this directly from a linux terminal. Any

X server for SiS

1999-06-07 Thread Jack Versfeld
I've got a SiS on-board video card using shared memory. When I try to run the X servers, everything starts to go wrong. I've tried running both the XFree86-SVGA and the XFree86-VGA16 servers, but neither works at all. The computer crashes entirely when I start up the SVGA server, but the VGA16

PCMCIA modules kernel compiles

1999-06-07 Thread Jack Versfeld
I installed slink on my laptop, and compiled my kernel with everything I need. Now when I try loading my PCMCIA netcard, I get some unresolved symbols. I compiled the ne.o net driver as a module, and that reduced the number of symbols not found, but are still complaining about 2 functions it

Re: Laplink and DOS?

1999-06-02 Thread Jack Versfeld
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:45:49PM +0300, virtanen wrote I've got a Debian-box, a small laptop with DOS, and a Laplink cable. What is an easy method to connet the Debian-box and DOS-box with the Laplink-cable so that I could easily at least copy files from the othe machine to the

Laptop suspend to disk

1999-06-01 Thread Jack Versfeld
I'm running Debian Slink on my newly found laptop. Is it possible to enable the 'Suspend to Disk' option, and if it is, how should I go about it. I guess that I would probably create a dedicated partition the bios can use for suspend. I did not recieve any documentation with my laptop (since I

Re: ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Jack Versfeld
Subject: ipmasq package Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:42:32AM +0200 In reply to:Ries van Twisk Quoting Ries van Twisk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hai, I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. I now that this has something to do with the firewall

Latest GNOME on Slink?

1999-05-27 Thread Jack Versfeld
Where can I get the latest GNOME compiled agains the slink libraries, since I don't want to go to potato yet... Thanx... Jack