Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I still don't see a problem... Unless the problem is that dftp makes no
distinction between the different sections (i.e. doesn't allow people to
distinguish between non-free, unstable and contrib)... but that would be a
problem with dftp, IMO.
Ah,
Jim Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a
feature that I can turn on through a configuration file?
I would recommend that you investigate the sudo and super packages.
They will allow you to do exactly what you want much
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How many utilities would have to be changed to implement the
following password logic:
If the stored hash is 13 characters long, use crypt().
If it is 32 characters long, use md5sum().
Otherwise, fail.
This would allow us to retain backwards
Jan Ramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dvi to word seems difficult. I know a utility latex2wp (or wp2latex ?)
for converting between wordperfect (5.1 ?) and latex (.tex-files). Perhaps
you can use this in combination with wordperfect-word conversion ?
I believe that there are also tools to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups,
I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an
integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc).
That would be any recent version of Gnus. The
Tom Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and
Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already
written anything like this? Is anything planned or in the works?
Any warnings or encouragement?
I think that Ian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on
the end of a 50 pin ribbon?
Normally, there's a switch, or jumper you have to set that terminates
the drive. If the drive's not terminated, and is at the end of a scsi
chain. You'll most
Ervin D. Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I find that the clock binary in util-linux 2.5-6 still makes my real
time clock go nuts. The binary from 2.5-4 works fine.
Am I missing soomething?
It's broken.
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Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have the same problem here. I'm afraid it's a GIMP bug.
I'll see about forwarding it upstream, but there's a major upgrade the
works so chances are this would be wasted effort.
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Paul Christenson [N3EOP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could the list maintainer set up the list so that all subject lines
start with a unique string, such as [DebUser]? A number of other lists
I'm on do this; it would make automatic sorting a lot easier. (Message
number optional.)
You don't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes:
This problem goes away when you recompile your kernel *without* extended
Real Time Clock support.
Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Actually I believe that on the Dell portable we have here, it still
segfaults, even without RTC support. If we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
gimp-dmotif (dynamic)
Use this one if you have purchased and installed Motif on your computer.
gimp-smotif (static)
Use this one otherwise.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
(like RCS) on /etc . dpkg doesn't currently know how to check control files
in and out of RCS - is this a good idea? Currently, it will leave a
filename.dpkg-new file around for you to hand-edit if you decline to
over-write a control file.
This sounds
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or, if you prefer, you can use GNUS. For me, procmail dumps
debian-user into the file incoming/mail.lists.debian-user.spool, GNUS
automatically adds those messages to a special mail folder,
'mail.lists.debian-user', which looks just like a newsgroup. I
Dirk Bernhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ii perl5.003-2
ii perl-tk b11.02-2
What can I do?
I'm pretty sure you have incompatible versions of perl and perl-tk. I
believe that perl-tk b11.02-3 is the first version compatible with
perl 5.003.
You can get this version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ross) writes:
The chat program cannot find my modem, and as far as I can tell, there
are no command line switches to force it to use /dev/modem or /dev/cua1.
Chat only reads from standard input and writes to standard output.
pppd just launches it with it's standard
Mike Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bring the system down to single user mode and mirror/copy(how?) the
entire system onto the new partitions
There are many ways, but I'd suggest (assuming that you have the new
partition mounted on /mnt, and assuming that you want the entire old
drive on that
Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If anyone really knows how to get cron to stop pestering me, let me =
know.=20
If the command has output, you will get the results mailed to you. I
don't know of any way to stop that, but it's easy to arrange for the
command to avoid sending results.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) writes:
Anyways, downgrading to the tar of the buzz release seem to fix this for
me. Is this a tar or a make-kpkg problem?
As I understand it, that upstream version of tar is broken. Debian
is going to revert to an earlier version until the problems are
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone
using it? Does the kernel support it yet?
I just started using one with my new machine, and it appears to work
fine. You might need to make sure you have a fairly recent kernel.
I will
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miroslav Ruda) writes:
Is any reason why not to use this schema in Debian too?
Read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz
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Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am I right in thinking that the cua devices are now obsolete and that
ttyS devices are the way to go?
That's what I was told. I found that switching solved my modem
problems.
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Rob
Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(a) packages which control superuser execution are not generally
found in distributed commercial UNICES (and how many sysadmins
have the time or the inclination to seek out these packages?);
Hmm, I hadn't thought about that. Ok,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes:
I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
if it is anything other than a joke?
Well, I'd like to see the code for the infinite loop that'd melt down
my
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Few questions:
1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both?
The linux md driver is software, so it doesn't care what the
underlying block device technology is. You just give it block-device
partitions to turn into a RAID device. These
Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the current version of the libwww-perl package is incomplete. In
particular, it does not install the HTML sub-package. After
obtaining the sources to libwww-perl and installing, I got past
the errors above.
Hmm. So did you have to do anything
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0?
Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping?
It also currently handles RAID1, and linear; higher levels have been
temporarily disabled because they are still too buggy.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but
su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd
call well documented.
su will only work if you want to give the users the root password (not
a good
Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is
quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control
characters and punctuation marks. Then, many people don't use the full 8
characters, so we have to reduce the
Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root:
chmod +s filename
Not to be nasty, but this is generally a *REALLY BAD IDEA* unless you
know *exactly* what you are doing. If filename was not designed with
extremely
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good point about RAID0.
I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you
know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for
it? How is it used?
I'm using it on two machines in the lab. One has two
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Ossenkopf) writes:
To maintain a well organized system I would like to install them
with the Debian package installation tools and not by hand or at
least to register them when being installed as debian packages.
To focus the problem: How do I convert tar.gz
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's wonderful!
Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0?
Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping?
How many drives can be striped?
That I don't know. I'm not sure there's a (small) limit. I didn't
Sherwood Botsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree that you can do this in the OS, but I don't think that it
*should* be done in the OS.
0.In general smarts should be at the point they are used. We had a
VAX that was about as speedy as a 12 MHz 286 with 287 co-processor.
However, that
Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry, I just had to get in my two bits about this...
No problem.
The drive's CPU can always make better decisions about reordering =
requests because it knows the details of the drive's parameters and
its = current state. A drive's CPU can reorder
Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my
soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it
stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet,
so I haven't the error message at hand but
Sherwood Botsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CAVEAT I'm an ignoramlepuss about Linux/Debian.
[ good info about serial ports deleted ]
I do recall a discussion recently where someone posted text from the
maintainer of the Linux kernel's serial port code that essentially
said that cua* devices
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
I didn't say wide fast. On my system I am getting about 5 MBPS on IDE from
a Quantum Fireball drive, which is as fast as my narrow fast SCSI drive
on a narrow fast Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI on the same motherboard (an IWILL
P54TS). The speed seems to be
So what was the decision about /bin/perl, and the packages that depend
on it right now (kernel-*, etc). Should it be a symlink, or should
these packages just be fixed?
Just wanted to know so know whether or not I should create the link or
patch the scripts on my systems.
Thanks
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Rob
Randy Gobbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed Debian Linux 1.1 on my new Pentium Pro a couple of weeks ago. so
far everything mostly works great, but I've noticed that the chat program
seems to have a number of problems:
Just a personal experience: I had all kinds of trouble with the
Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Started work on it last night - just a bit confused with libgr/libgr-dev
versus libtiff3/libtiff3-dev/zlib1 needed for building it.
libgr is dead. Use the individual libs.
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Rob
Sounds to me like you might have unseated one of the cards, most
likely SCSI, or loosened a SCSI cable. You might want to check that.
Also make sure all your termination switches (if any) are right.
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Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where is this info written ?
/etc/hostname at the minimum.
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Rob
Jimen Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone ever tried the -frepo feature? It is actually patched in?
Using the switch to g++ doesn't tell you anything since g++ ignores
arguments it doesn't understand. This feature is very important. I can't
continue my project without it. Please
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can really recommend emacs with the vm mode. Really.
My personal favorite is Gnus. It does a *wonderful* job with mail.
Threading, filtering, deleting duplicates, etc...
Getting it set up just the way I wanted was a little tricky, but
anyone who's interested can
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If it were that bad, why are there so many people using it?
I'm not commenting on anything but this line. IMO this may be a
reason why you have to put up with something, but it is never a good
argument for the merits of an item.
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Rob
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Several people have asked me for my Gnus setup, so I'll post it here.
Hope no one's offended, but it has a fairly high signal to noise ratio
if you're interested in gnus for mail with debian. This is stuff I've
sent to a couple of people before. Feel free
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you using STL? If so, I was completely unable to compile certain
bits of STL code until I modified the bottom of
/usr/include/g++/std/bastring.h like this:
#if !defined (_G_NO_EXTERN_TEMPLATES)
//#include std/sinst.h breaks stl (RLB) -- ambiguous
Martin Konold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
We suggest you use the same mirror script we use, and set it so that if
more than 10% of files go away at once it won't delete them.
Which one do you use? Where to get it? 10% seems reasonable.
Isn't it
Chris Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rather than install Debian 1.1, I would prefer to stay with Debian .93
because my reason for changing from Slackware is it's general unreliablity
(and I have already spent a lot of time getting this far!)
Don't take this the wrong way, but you are
Derek Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there some way ask the install scripts to do so? I cannot just go
This issue has been discussed, but not resolved. It was decided to
wait until after the 1.1 release to deal with it. For now you would
probably be better off to try and just live with the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
I work for two years to build the system and this is what people use it
for :-)
Who do you work for :
Anyway, what else would you do with a computer : :
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amos Shapira) writes:
Got the idea? Any comments about it?
This kind of thing has been discussed a little, but the discussion was
postponed until after the 1.1 release.
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Rob
Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have
one that looks like:
#! /bin/sh
sh $HOME/.xinitrc
Or just
ln -s .xinitrc .xsession
which has worked fine for me.
I do the same for .Xdefaults - .Xresources,
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and now emacs is telling me that it doesn't recognize a -geom option.
huh? so how do i get it to place itself automatically?
Are you using -geom or -geometry? I use the latter and it works.
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Rob
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now poke yer nose into groff.list and just see if you can find a directory
called /usr/doc/groff. Nope, hain't there.
Again, I'm using 0.93R6. If this has been fixed since, I'd love to hear
about it. I'm poor and would have to suck the new
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where is the option for this ftp method? I'd love to give it a try, but it's
not listed in the access methods of dpkg-1.2.6elf
You have to install dpkg-ftp.
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Rob
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) Are there Debian packages for the following (as of 0.93R6, there
weren't)?
kermit
Don't think so.
mpeg viewer
Yes, ucbmpeg.
pdf (acroread)
Yes, xpdf.
psfonts
Don't know what you mean.
vrml
Don't think so (feel free to make
Derek Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I saw some messages about kernel-package-1.01 in the debian-user list.
Where is it? I cannot find it in tsx-11.mit.edu or master.debian.org
I think it's in debian/experimental. Don't know why.
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Rob
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not sure about all your problems, but...
* Why do I automatically get an xterm coming up when I start X? It
didn't happen with Slackware.
This is the default for debian when you don't have your own
~/.xsession. /etc/X11/Xsession is where this happens.
Zachary DeAquila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
whatever) and then... it comes back to
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone have suggestions on
a) does this seem like a reasonable approach?
b) if so, what would be good tools for creating such a POP forwarder?
I have some experience with sockets under perl if that seemed to be a
good way or I could treat this
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it necessary to install lib5-dev in order to compile programs.
Yes
I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel,
it comes with its only kernel headers.
Install libc5-dev and read /usr/doc/libc5-dev/FAQ.gz.
Also, if I install
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This does work. Since I don't know how to find the configuration
programs for some package, I use dselect to remove the package and
then to reinstall it. I assume there's a better way, but this does
work.
There's nothing too terribly wrong with that,
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a nutshell: this is normal. You don't have a problem.
I'm not sure if this is related, but there was one problem with the
*configuration* of the loopback interface that was fixed in the latest
package.
The original /etc/init.d/network read:
#
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
Is it's executable bit set? /etc/X11/Xsession checks this to decide
whether or not to run the user's script.
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Larry Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm doing my first install of Debian Linux using the 1.1-Beta. I have
the initial system installed and now I'm trying to install the
packages that I want. When I tried I got many errors that say it
needs libc.so.4. Where is it?
Where did you get the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would the release of debian 1.1 use the new stable Linux (v2.0)?
I'm not sure if it'll be packaged in time for the initial 1.1 release,
but it'll certainly be available shortly thereafter.
Anyway, using the new kernel-package package, it's pretty trivial to
do it
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can point setserial at a particular port, but can't seem to tell it to
set the stop bits to two.
I can tell stty to set the stop bits, but can only seem to use it while on
the tty in question. Is there any way to point stty at the port I want
changed?
Derek Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am afraid I am not familiar with the kernel-package package.
Is this a package to build any kernel version and install it in
a debian way?
Bingo. I'm using it as we speak. I'm not sure if it has made it to
the unstable tree on all the mirrors yet, but
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have compiled the 2.0.0 kernel (successfully), but lost my routing
info in the process (coming from 1.3.95). route only shows the
machine itself.
If i manually add the missing router gateway, it works fine, but i
lose this on reboot.
I don't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) writes:
The MIT pthread library 1.60 beta2 seems to work. It passed most of tests
in the MIT pthread package. The pthread libraries are not installed by
[...]
Would someone like to test the pthread library that is built? You'll
need to get the libc5
Gerd Bavendiek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
on a quite recently installed Debian-1.1 box I sometimes encounter the
following.
koko:/root ping us1by-6
PING us1by-6 (156.53.107.26): 56 data bytes
--- us1by-6 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With a default installation (1.1 from scratch), I can't use auto-pgp as
documented. When I do C-x y s to sign, I get the following error:
/usr/bin/pgp-auto: connect to pass-socket for passphrase: No such file or
directory
Did you set the environment
D == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
D I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a
D good idea to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex
D which among other things declares a dependance on metafont. I can
D find no metafont package. I assume it is a
What can I do about this?
dpkg --list 'ncurses*' | egrep -v '^un'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersion
C == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
C I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to
C allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout
C with minicom or send faxes?
C I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't want to add users to a
C dialout group just to
R == Richard Dansereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
R Is the command which available in any of the debian releases? I
R haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything
R installed so I may have missed it.
I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
release is out
B == Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
B Is anyone out there using 3D graphics cards with Linux? The only
B one I know about is the Matrox Millenium that works with
B Accellerated X. I need X support and Open GL, and as much
B rendering power as possible.
I'm using the Millenium, but I
e == eckes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
e Actually if your modem is configured correctly (CD drop on Carrier
e loss C1), and if the pppd is given the option modem the Process
e will hangup if the line goes down. This is not the actual hardware
e handshake, but on of the RS232 signals.
Right, I
M == Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just have my ip-up script (it's a ppp config script, see man
pppd) touch a file in /usr/local/etc/ppp when I connect, and
ip-down remove the file when I disconnect. Then I can just check
for the existence of that file, and know if I'm
R == Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
R pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces
R and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter.
R Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root?
Right, pppd really needs to be run as root. You don't
K == Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] Keith writes:
K I don't think there is a .deb package for it but it compiled out
K of the box for me.
FYI: Actually, there is a debian package for xkeycaps.
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Rob
G == Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
G It's interesting that people are having problems now with Motif
G apps, because suddenly, my problems with Motif apps have been
G magically solved. That is, the backspace key now works correctly
G for both Motif and non-Motif apps. Previously, if
L == Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
L Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so
L that I only run popclient when it is?
I just have my ip-up script (it's a ppp config script, see man pppd)
touch a file in /usr/local/etc/ppp when I connect, and ip-down
M == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
M Hi, I am downloading debian 1.1 beta using ftp. I want to check
M that the files have been downloaded correctly. One way of doing it
M would be to manually do a md5sum on each file and check it against
M the Packages file, but this would take a
F == Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
F what package does uudecode come in?
sharutils
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Rob
A == Andreas Wehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A After searching a while for a program or script to completely
A remove a user I didn't found something and did it per hand. Is
A this neccessary? Thanks.
Right now, this is the only way to handle it. You need to remove
their /etc/passwd, and
M == Martin Rheumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
M Rob, Any hints on where I would find dftp
Check the contrib directory on your favorite Debian ftp site. It's
/pub/Linux/Debian/contrib/tools on the site I use. Contrib is at the
same level as the stable, unstable, etc. directories. I see
C == Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
C One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses
C ncurses is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no
C longer wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a
C character sequence that can be sent to
I == Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I I don't know if dftp (or dpkg-ftp for that matter) support
I dependencies and/or pre-dependencies (the latter are required for a
I smooth upgrade to the ELF system).
The current dftp doesn't (I haven't used dpkg-ftp). Currently dftp's
better for
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