Re: dosemu and OpenDOS

1997-05-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > So, how do I create a larger hdimage? I do not have MSDOS or any other > Microsoft software. > /usr/sbin/mkhdimage ? Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig

Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed

1997-05-10 Thread Paul Seelig
ut Debian's package management. Not that i don't appreciate Christoph Martin's fine work in making a "teTeX" package for Debian! Only fools (like me obviously) wouldn't want to use his fine packages! ;-) Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seel

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: > >> consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the >> state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. >

Afterstep and Debian: WOW! (fwd)

1997-04-21 Thread Paul Seelig
--- Begin Message --- I just installed Afterstep, and I love it. Kudos to the authors! My only complaint goes out to whoever is managing the Debian package. The package available on ftp.us.debian.org is very outdated, and doesn't work well at all. I would be willing to take over package maintene

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
of Debian is a major reason to consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Musi

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
y... ;-) So where is the problem, please? Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
page for "ar". cut-here Maybe this should be made part of the Debian-FAQ? Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institu

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Paul Seelig
Debian package management. I'm probably an idiot for not using Christoph Martin's really great prepackaged Debian version of teTeX. ;-) Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Insti

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Seelig
at an earlier stage. So where do "iostream.h", "ifstream.h" and "fstream.h" belong to? Which package did i miss to install? Or is it something completely different? I don't have no clue about all this... Cheers, P. *8^) --

Re: ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-10 Thread Paul Seelig
although QT is rather giving it a licensing problem as well. P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-07 Thread Paul Seelig
more than welcome. Check out the MC site at "http://mc.blackdown.org/mc/"; or write directly to "Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archi

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-29 Thread Paul Seelig
ll thought out default settings making it very easy to work for beginners. The Korn shell ksh in turn is probably good for shell scripts but i hate to work with iit under HP-UX where it is the default. P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-03-08 Thread Paul Seelig
http://www.kde.org";. Maybe they are offering what you are looking for!? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/

Re: lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Paul Seelig
ng the install-mime routine and reinstall them one after another with appropriate checking. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University

Re: lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Paul Seelig
ng the install-mime routine and reinstall them one after another with appropriate checking. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread Paul Seelig
in redrawing the screen and dragging windows seems to be less fluid. Will the SVGA X server from XFree-3.1.2 run flawlessly with all the XFree-3.2 clients? I'm considering downgrading my X server too. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig

How to compile XF86_SVGA on Debian-1.2.xx?

1997-02-23 Thread Paul Seelig
plete XFree86-3.2 due to space and computing power restrictions. Can someone please provide me with a straightforward description on how to only compile a smaller XF86_SVGA server binary, please? Thank you, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL P

Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy

1997-02-20 Thread Paul Seelig
ause of support of long filenames and the like. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Ou

Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?

1997-02-19 Thread Paul Seelig
n making it useable for your day to day reference. "Linux in a Nutshell" has the advantage of being very condensed and referencing almost everything you need to lookup once upon a while in a single source of information. Great book! :-) Regards, P.

[REVIEW] "Linux in a Nutshell" [was: Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?]

1997-02-18 Thread Paul Seelig
ell' about one year ago although it doesn't come even close for lack of covering GNU tools. I was so fed up searching command parameters throughout various Linux books and initelligibly large man pages. 'Linux in a Nutshell' puts it all in one place. I definitely would buy it again! ;-)

Re: ALT+CTRL+BS dangerous to X server

1997-01-21 Thread Paul Seelig
it: -cut-here-- # Uncomment this to disable the server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap -cut-here------ -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PR

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-20 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > Paul Seelig wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > > > > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > > > >

Re: Latex (Debian and Tetex).

1997-01-19 Thread Paul Seelig
unteers? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW

"Tip of the day" (was :Re: Documentation)

1997-01-15 Thread Paul Seelig
s is no bad idea at all! Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our WWW

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Paul Seelig
t the end of january or beginning of february. But they are still waiting until the first wave of bugfixing on 1.2 has been settled. Their email is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Their RedHat disk always looked very nice... Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seel

Re: WHY does xemacs CONFLICT with emacs?

1997-01-10 Thread Paul Seelig
o packages might be because i prefer usually GNU Emacs and therefore haven't used XEmacs very seriously. I'll probably deinstall it anyway to regain place on my hard disk... Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTE

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Paul Seelig
s well. In an xterm you can always fire up any console program but the reverse is probably not exactly true, isn't it? Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology an

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-06 Thread Paul Seelig
regard of the special TeX/LaTeX needs. Regards, P.*8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany

Re: Install problems - InfoMagic LDR

1997-01-06 Thread Paul Seelig
they'll let funds flow back into Debian development like I-Connect usually does. Their email is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnolo

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-06 Thread Paul Seelig
and provide it for the rest of the Debian user commnity. But that's probably too much strange magic for my small brain... ;-) Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
specially since it has earned itself the fame of being hard to administrate, a thing teTeX definitely has eased up a lot. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
tallation as long as you are able to follow instructions in written form. ;-) Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University

Buggy "mime-support" package? :-(

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
all-mime" program." Maybe one of these other packages using "install-mime" has a bug resulting in growing /etc/mailcap to such a large extent? Or maybe "install-mime" itself has a bug? Anybody had similiar experiences? I'll try it out by deinstalling and then rei

Re: Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
aries of "/usr/local/lib/teTeX/bin/" in the regular "/usr/local/bin". This teTeX really is selfcontained and is very easy to setup and maintain if you closely follow the provided READMEs! Dropping in new packages (i added TIPA and MusixTeX) is very well manageable because of the TDS

get-news.inn script in suck-3.3.2-1 package...

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
o the Debian stuff and didn't tinker with the provided scripts. Any ideas someone? Regards, P. *8^) PS: I sent a copy of this mail either to the maintainer of the original suck distribution as well as to the maintainer of the Debian packag

Re: get-news.inn script in suck-3.3.2-1 package...

1997-01-05 Thread Paul Seelig
I hate to follow up to myself but here we go anyway: On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > I just installed suck-3.3.2-1 at my Debian-1.2 system and noticed that > when i upload the messages from my own newsserver to our universities > newshost using the supplied get-news.inn script

Re: Disk partitioning

1997-01-01 Thread Paul Seelig
uld be updated sometime on the FTP master site? Happy New Year! P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 5509

Browsing *.deb files with Midnight Commander (was: Re: nis install question)

1996-12-30 Thread Paul Seelig
rs to FTP sites. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in

Re: loadkeys at boot

1996-12-24 Thread Paul Seelig
I hate followups to myself! Please disregard my former cry for help. It's a pity one can't cancel email messages! On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: > I upgraded all my base Debian-1.1 to 1.2 and it ran rather smooth. But > there have been some changes in /etc/init.d/boot wh

loadkeys at boot

1996-12-24 Thread Paul Seelig
r having booted which is rather annoying. Obviously there is a correct Debian way of ensuring the right keymap to be loaded but i still don't know how. Can somebody please enlighten me on this part? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig

Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

1996-12-10 Thread Paul Seelig
m for Debian on not even a whole disk. It had to share a single disk with some other stuff like a Wine mirror and JE (Japanese Extensions?). So it can't become worse than before... P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

1996-12-08 Thread Paul Seelig
are and as well as *.tar.gz as mirrored from various FTP servers. This is/has been schizophrenic to my mind... Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa

Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

1996-12-08 Thread Paul Seelig
Thanks, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSU

Re: MSDOS to LINUX ?? HELP!!

1996-12-08 Thread Paul Seelig
mation provided there: "http://www.debian.org";. Write me an email if you need further assistance. Maybe my small knowledge can serve you somehow. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Mus

Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-06 Thread Paul Seelig
r questions sufficiently. Or download FIPS and read the accompanying texts. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-Un

Re: Can't load cdrom module

1996-12-06 Thread Paul Seelig
cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 ---cut-here- It's that easy and it's actually a shame that it is not documented at installation time via some small online help... You'll find it later all well explained in "/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/cdu31a&qu

Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-06 Thread Paul Seelig
out doing harm to the data on it. Works well with Win95 vfat file systems. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-Universit

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Paul Seelig
difficulty to ask the average MS-Word user... \end{ignorance}. P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our A

Re: CD-ROM IRQ Timeout

1996-11-24 Thread Paul Seelig
African languages than about any programming language! ;-) I'm totally dependend on the benevolence of all you fine GNU programmers out there! > With a disc in the drive at mount time, it works fine. > Well, without accessing it, it works fine here as well. But that's

Re: CD-ROM IRQ Timeout

1996-11-23 Thread Paul Seelig
The effect is the same as described by the original poster. Any other ideas? Regards, P. *8^) - -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-Univers

Re: How do I use deb-make?

1996-11-23 Thread Paul Seelig
uild, but > without any success. > Better try installing the Debian native "rpm_2.2.7-5.deb" from the next Debian mirror site. Works fine here. Regards, P. *8^) - -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African

Re: kernel version

1996-11-18 Thread Paul Seelig
ust-in-time made CD-ROM from I-Connect. Or if you can't wait then at least buy the latest Debian-1.1.14 from them. You get more quality value for your money this way. Check "http://www.i-connect.net"; for more information.

Re: CD-ROM IRQ Timeout

1996-11-15 Thread Paul Seelig
seen this before please? > I have a Goldstar 8-speed CD-ROM drive giving me the same messages but i don't know how to handle/evaluate/change this. Any hints someone? Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: cdu31a

1996-11-15 Thread Paul Seelig
d in the setup configuration. Or is it already for "Debian-1.2" release? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 M

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Seelig
as one of the negative reasons not to choose RedHat BTW. Although the present 'dselect' is not cause for joy either... P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institu

Re: DOSEmulator for linux

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Seelig
he accompanying README by Linus? Links and all correct? If yes, then run compilation of your kernel once (no install needed) without doing 'make clean' and then try again with DOSEMU compilation. That's what i had to do to get everything going.

Re: DOSEmulator for linux

1996-11-13 Thread Paul Seelig
alled on your system? The compilation of DOSEMU depends upon their header files. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Foru

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-12 Thread Paul Seelig
ure? I've sporadically read about this in various Linux newsgroups this year but have never heard any substantially informative in this regard. Any information handy someone? Curious, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Emacs and XEmacs

1996-11-11 Thread Paul Seelig
s*.deb files with ar p packetname.deb data.tar.gz >packetname.tar.gz and install the wanted version manually under the /usr/local/ hierarchy, which is left alone for your private purposes. Works quite well here at my box. Ciao, P. *8

Fix for CDU31A driver in 2.0.23 and 2.1.5 (fwd)

1996-11-07 Thread Paul Seelig
Something went wrong with my posting which was supposed to include this message from c.o.l.a., so here it is again! P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa

mkwhatis?

1996-11-07 Thread Paul Seelig
How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6

Re: ETA of the new X packages

1996-11-07 Thread Paul Seelig
short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -------->8- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethno

Re: XFree86 3.2 is available

1996-11-07 Thread Paul Seelig
Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http:/

Just another dselect blues...

1996-11-03 Thread Paul Seelig
e dependency conflicts which is used with the dpkg command line. In the meantime i'll deinstall 'lyx_0.10.7-1.deb' and compile it for instal- lation under the /usr/local/ hierarchy as well <*sigh!*>. TIA, P. *8^) --

Just another dselect blues...

1996-11-03 Thread Paul Seelig
e dependency conflicts which is used with the dpkg command line. In the meantime i'll deinstall 'lyx_0.10.7-1.deb' and compile it for instal- lation under the /usr/local/ hierarchy as well <*sigh!*>. TIA, P. *8^) --

Re: Annoying package dependence concept

1996-10-28 Thread Paul Seelig
ore userfriendly than dselect is actually supposed to be. Regards, Paul *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 5509

Re: New Infomagic Release

1996-10-24 Thread Paul Seelig
al to be included. Regards, Paul *8^) - -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Home

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-23 Thread Paul Seelig
ocumentation directory delivered with the 2.0.x-kernel sources handy on my I-Connect CD-ROM. Regards, Paul *8^) - -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johann

Re: dselect sort by section

1996-10-02 Thread Paul Seelig
spective is definitely different. Cheers, Paul *8^) - -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Ger

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Paul Seelig
owed to root anyway and not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in this! Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies J

teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-20 Thread Paul Seelig
x27;s well thought out design. I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case Regards, Paul *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Jo

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Paul Seelig
tallation? A fine Linux system! I have a smoothly running system now and i am very pleased because of the packaging system. Well, there are some hassles but then, why not? Nothing is perfect! Regards, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-09 Thread Paul Seelig
these small details which make a debuting Debian user get stuck already upon installation and i'd propose to cover these topics in an "Debian-Installation.FAQ". Thanks a lot, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL P

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-09 Thread Paul Seelig
y Debian system up and running some time really soon. I depend on a Linux box and i definitely want it to be a GNU/Debian machine in any case! Good night, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive -

Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-08 Thread Paul Seelig
probe cdu31a cdu31a=0x340,5"? ^^^ I don't have a PAS and use the interface card provided by Sony. Maybe i should tell the kernel definitely that there is no PAS at all with something like "PAS=0"? Thank you, Paul *8^) __

Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-07 Thread Paul Seelig
e but i just can't figure this out. Do you need more information or is this sufficient for having an idea about what is possibly a solution? TIA, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institut

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