Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-11 Thread M.K.Pai
Thanks a million. A faulty .inputrc was the problem. PAI On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:02:51PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am facing a rather strange problem. I am unable to echo the character M on my bash prompt. I am able to get M by perl -e

Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-10 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, I am facing a rather strange problem. I am unable to echo the character M on my bash prompt. I am able to get M by perl -e 'print chr(77);' I am even able to put it in an email. Note the M right here. But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M. Most important, other users on this

IP aliasing on loopback ( Slink )

2000-01-28 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, Please help me. I am trying to do IP aliasing on loopback, i,e create lo:0, lo:1 etc. The steps outlined in IP Aliasing mini-howto don't seem to work for me. Step 1 : I do /sbin/ifconfig lo:0 192.168.0.1 Now 192.168.0.1 appears as lo:0 in ifconfig Step 2 : Then I do

SSH deb for slink

1999-12-13 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, I can't find a deb for the slink ssh on the debian site. Any pointers ? PAI

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-25 Thread M.K.Pai
Just my $ 0.02. Use xf86config. I like it more than tha xf86setup. Use the most generic freqs. It always works. The reason I started to use xf86config was that I was using a lousy no-name cheap cheap b/w monitor from an Indian company that had gone out of business. And believe me, I was pleased

Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-23 Thread M.K.Pai
Dear Manuel, If you want to take prints of books put out on the web, I would recommend is using netscape with a -remote option. Check out man netscape. PAI

Funny quote about linux

1999-10-20 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, Some NT guy I know has this as his signature. Hope you find it funny. LINUX is like a wigwam. No windows. No gates. Apache Inside !! PAI

Slink wine not working

1999-10-20 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, I am on Debian 2.1.2 ( cheapbytes ). It contains wine-19980413. It does not do anything. It runs nothing and generates no error messages. I have OpenDOS mounted on /opendos. I have made a windows\system directory on it and 'touch'ed a win.ini file in it. The win.ini is empty. I do not

Why sendmail rather than qmail

1999-05-01 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ? Further, why is only the src pkg of qmail supplied ? Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ? I'd appreciate any insights. M.K.Pai