Re: Which browser ?

1997-11-06 Thread Mark Eichin
I personally use emacs w3-mode, and lynx. qweb is nice, but has the significant flaw of being Qt base (KDE isn't the only cool program that fell into the Qt license trap after all.) I've heard some good things about the W3C arena/amaya programs as well, and there was a web browser written in

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-30 Thread Mark Eichin
I'd have to double check, but I suspect that none of these were ever bugs... just confusion among people as to what the difference between application mode and the default mode is, wrt cursor and keypad keys; there are sequences that change these. I'm pretty sure xbase itself hasn't changed at

Re: emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-07 Thread Mark Eichin
I don't see any need to post that restriction on dpkg. dpkg is just a Uhh, it's not a *restriction on dpkg*. It's an *extension* to dpkg to make it more aware of a site's policy. We've already got a policy that says packages (ie. those part of debian; what you do with your own is up to you)

Re: emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-05 Thread Mark Eichin
what needs a review are the outstanding inconsistencies between dpkg and the policy guide. (The guide should of course win :-) I understand Klee has put some effort into this though probably hasn't gotten around to this particular one; the simple approach is for the installer to tell dpkg

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

1997-04-07 Thread Mark Eichin
From: Lars Hallberg Micro++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to write code that runns on diferent widget sets? Don't forget OI (there was an interface builder based on it that was free-of-cost for linux, a while back, but I forget the name.) OI

Re: xscreensaver and Motif...

1997-04-06 Thread Mark Eichin
I'd prefer there were still a free version (even a static motif version has to go in non-free, right?) although I usually use xlockmore instead...

Re: Bug#8119: e2fsck should be linked with -static

1997-03-25 Thread Mark Eichin
Put root.bin from the rescue disk under /boot. Add a rescue option to the lilo.conf that boots your regular kernel with INITFS=/boot/root.bin . You can now type rescue at the LILO prompt and boot into the rescue disk without a floppy. Total cost in disk space: 700K. This is less Hey, that's a

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-26 Thread Mark Eichin
subtle, but correct. I've switched (my not terribly significant) machines over... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please use V

1996-11-26 Thread Mark Eichin
It's difficult enough to promote freeware in industry with the common lack of support misperception. Combine this I'd suggest that rather than fixing that with wierd licenses, you just do better marketing. Works for us :-) _Mark_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: g77 failure

1996-11-18 Thread Mark Eichin
The Ada package as shipped from NYU includes a replacement gcc binary for the matching release; I was going to avoid the problem by shipping it as ada-gcc instead of the redirected gcc (I didn't really expect 2.7.2.1 to come out, and 2.8 will have all the changes built in...) The GNAT package has

Re: installing emacs 19.34---is this a bug?

1996-09-29 Thread Mark Eichin
could you be more specific about what you're actually seeing? The postinst script does not, in fact, delete anything... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.

1996-09-14 Thread Mark Eichin
doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls?

Re: Debian Logo?

1996-09-14 Thread Mark Eichin
Logo. (And before people complain that Logo is too frivolous a language to have in the distribution, remember we have an Intercal package already.) If there's a decent unix logo out there, point me at it and I'll take a look... _Mark_

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1996-09-11 Thread Mark Eichin
dselect should have shown you that the xlib package now provides elf-x11r6lib.

Re: seeking WWW browser (smaller than Netscape)

1996-09-09 Thread Mark Eichin
don't forget amaya, w3c's replacement for arena. (Then again, if I want *information* I use lynx or emacs w3. emacs w3 is often more convenient in conjunction with gnus and All Things Emacs; lynx is a lot faster and easy for standalone use... and it's a rather nice ftp client :-)

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

1996-09-05 Thread Mark Eichin
and note that unlike tar, cp -a will actually *handle* pathnames over 100 characters (of course, dpkg won't have installed any, but they may be around for other reasons...) I used the tar approach for years, but cp -a turns out to be much more reliable (and I can fall back to tar if I have to --

Re: emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread Mark Eichin
yes, just install the xlib package -- it's small, just enough shared libraries to let the program run. It won't actually *use* the X code if you don't have $DISPLAY set, and it is in the end cleaner than having seperate packages for X and non-X versions...

Re: Cross posting per request

1996-09-03 Thread Mark Eichin
On a debian system I am looking at has a /usr/local/lib/emacs which I consider to be stranded. Please check that the _current_ Emacs package still does this. Current emacs does *create* the directory (ie. it is in the package contents), as recommended by the debian packaging guidelines, as a

Re: Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?

1996-09-01 Thread Mark Eichin
I use SLIP because I have been using it for years and would need to reconfigure things to use ppp. Also, SLIP is easy to set up: you set five parameters, and it works -- with PPP, it only really needs one (the phone number) but if it doesn't work, the debugging problem is harder. (SLIP is also

Re: How to debianize packages?

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
While it is considered a little crude, it is possible to convert tar files into debian packages... You should look at the debian packaging instructions for how to do it right (which will fill in the gaps in this explanation) but then you'll find that if you do: mkdir x cd x

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
Last time I ran into it, it turned out that for *legitimate* salts, the linux crypt() was compatible, but for out-of-range ones, there were differing results. An easy way to test is to use perl. For example: solaris2.4+% perl -e 'print crypt(pass, ab).\n' abccBcrPOxnLU solaris2.4+% perl -e

Re: UPDATE: deb-view.el 1.2: emacs tool for browsing deb files!

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
w3 can be found via anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/elisp/w3. More usefully, w3 can be found in the binary-i386/net/w3-el_2.2.25-4.deb on any debian mirror...

Re: Extended memory?

1996-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
limit on 8086, 8088, and 80186-based systems. (yes, there _was_ an 80186 chip; it just wasn't widely used in the same way that the 8088, 80286, 80386, and 80486 were.) ... Actually, the 186 is probably *more* used than the others, just not in home-user pc's: * many X terminals used

Re: floppy set

1996-08-14 Thread Mark Eichin
The way I've found to do a PCMCIA install most easily was 8 floppies: 2: standard boot+root 3: base.tgz 3 disk set 3: pcmcia-2.3.18_2.0.7.deb, then dpkg --split kernel-image_2.0.7 You can probably fit the last 3 onto 2, the pcmcia code is small and kernel-image is only a

Re: dump for a.out?

1996-08-10 Thread Mark Eichin
the sources to main (ie. not non-free or contrib) debian packages are *always* in source on the mirror site... mirror/binary-i386/admin/dump_0.3-6.deb mirror/source/admin/dump_0.3-5.diff.gz mirror/source/admin/dump_0.3-6.tar.gz (odd that the diff and tar are out of phase, but that could just be

Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work

1996-08-10 Thread Mark Eichin
This did not work, however - the make failed (after the best part of an hour had elapsed) when it was unable to find as86. I could not find as86 anywhere on my system, and so was stuck. Hmm. Perhaps kernel-package should depend on bin86? You definitely need the bin86 package to build a

Re: The * character (was: Latex )

1996-08-09 Thread Mark Eichin
if you prefer the bash behavior of ignoring the pattern failure, just set nonomatch in tcsh or csh.

Re: Re^2: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work ? (fwd)

1996-08-09 Thread Mark Eichin
on the other hand, most laptops with builtin mouse or trackball or force stick or glidepoint seem to use the PS/2 interface... which is an argument (polite request :-) for having it in the default kernel. Can't free up the IRQ in that case either...

Re: Cannot compile mouse support - help!

1996-08-09 Thread Mark Eichin
The file /dev/inportbm clearly exists, it is character special (10,2) and it does have appropriate ownership and permissions. So what does the error No such device mean? No such device means that while the name exists in the filesystem, the kernel doesn't have any idea what c/10/2 actually

Re: Ught Oh =O

1996-08-09 Thread Mark Eichin
note that some anti-virus software will decide that lilo *is* a boot sector virus :-) so you may want to just give up and use loadlin...

Re: Compose characters in X

1996-08-08 Thread Mark Eichin
which puzzles me. Why does the order differ? (BTW, in a mono xterm it works like under Emacs.) I'm even more surprised, as color_xterm maintainer -- because color_xterm should only differ from mono xterm in, you guessed it, color features... as far as I can tell I'm building it with the same

Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts

1996-08-07 Thread Mark Eichin
without the -R option. However, -R does seem to be needed for bus mice and in some cases it seems to be needed even for serial mice. I It *used* to be needed for busmice and in particular ps2 mice. However, many of the busmouse drivers (and definitely the ps2 mouse driver) were fixed to

Re: linking with termcap under 1.1

1996-06-19 Thread Mark Eichin
you'll also have to toggle the setting of HAS_SETUPTERM (if telnet crashes in an infinite recursion, it's set the wrong way) in config/mt-linux.

Re: linux v2.0: networking sendmail changes?

1996-06-13 Thread Mark Eichin
problems. The dbm library must have been compiled to use fcntl (or lockf). gdbm, as shipped by the FSF, compiles for fcntl or flock, depending on which it finds. I'd taken over maintenance (though lacking bug reports haven't uploaded a new package) but for my own use, built a version that did no

Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1996-06-12 Thread Mark Eichin
:o GNAT (GNU Ada Translator) : I believe this was released the other day, too. Cool, I didn't even notice that it was on the wanted list when I uploaded it. (I better put together -2, since -1 is missing a few files...)

Re: security hole in X????

1996-06-05 Thread Mark Eichin
If you share a home directory on both machines, and you're using xdm, then the access is based on the .Xauthority file in your homedir. xauth list should show the same thing on both systems, if this is the case. (Generally this isn't much better -- it means you're still vulnerable to the magic

Re: problem with traceroute

1996-06-03 Thread Mark Eichin
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting. I've had no problems at all with BIND... If you're running a 1.2.x kernel and an unstable bind, zone transfers from your machine will fail (because it attempts to get the ip options, something not supported in 1.2.x, and on failure drops the

Re: problem with traceroute

1996-06-02 Thread Mark Eichin
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: traceroute: IP_HDRINCL: Protocol not available I've also noticed this under 1.2.13. (the same package works fine on my 1.3.79 machine, and I should really update both kernels...) There are actually a number of unstable packages that don't work under 1.2.13

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-24 Thread Mark Eichin
they often come without a C compiler. And it's more than just compress Often? Solaris is the only unix I know of that doesn't come with a compiler that can build gzip. (Note I did not say a C compiler -- HP/UX ships with a toy for building kernel config files, that is still enough to build

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Perhaps we can fix the font-file compression issue instead? Under older releases, the X server actually ran a seperate program (so having uncompress-gunzip did the right thing) to handle both uncompression and bdf conversion. If XFS doesn't already have gzip support it should be easy enough to

Re: which..

1996-05-22 Thread Mark Eichin
I would just like to add, as which is originally from tcsh (IMHO), why not use tcsh to run which and we'll have the same behaviour in bash as in tcsh. *Actually*, which comes from the BSD shell script /usr/ucb/which. Using it as a usage example would probably be poor, since it did things like

Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

1996-05-03 Thread Mark Eichin
This is probably the most frequently asked question over on the wu-ftpd list :-) Easy way: compile ls from sources, but use gcc -static at the end so it doesn't need shared libs. Works on all systems. Hard way: update a *lot* more of lib, you need ld.so and/or ld-linux.so, and you need to run

Re: strange message

1996-05-01 Thread Mark Eichin
It's a new log message (umm, why are you running 1.3.96 if you're not reading [EMAIL PROTECTED] it's been hashed to death there...) to catch a certain usage of flock in libc, which should have been fixed around 1.3.10... Apparently the 5.3.x libc has the fix now, but you'll only get that message