Re: PGP

1997-12-05 Thread Curt Howland
Pete Harlan wrote: I notice that MIT now has a Linux build for PGP5.0 US version. I know that there is a PGP Debian package Does anyone know what's up with Phil, anyway? How can he, of all people, expect anyone to trust cryptography without source? Sorry for the off-topic. I hope

Re: Encrypting ISO9660 images?

1997-12-05 Thread Kevin Cheek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know there has been a bit of discussion about encrypting filesystems under Debian. From what I've seen, the ext2 filesystem can be encrypted with CFS. But, my question is.. is there any good way of doing filesystem encryption for an ISO9660 image that is later

Re: PGP

1997-12-05 Thread Curt Howland
Addendum: They DO have the PGP signature for the Linux binary. I agree that the source should be made available too Curt- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Where is font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both have the same fonts installed. So, what

Re: Removing libc4

1997-12-05 Thread ioannis
% dpkg --no-act -r libc4 Will not remove anything, but will warn you if other packages depend on it. On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:32:03PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: Well, my conclusion is that you've done something to the basic smail satellite option - specifically, your /etc/smail/directors file has something in it besides the smartuser director. What you appended of your configuration isn't enough to tell.

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: As long as the MX wasn't set up, I got a reply from the mailsystem (DNS lookup failed for internet-treff.uni-koeln.de) if I tried to send mail from the system. The same for mails to the system using the MX address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This

HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to

Re: Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that the reqd library is in /lib The linker is looking for /usr/lib/libnsl.so. This is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1.

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Orn E. Hansen wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be

Re: Philosophical question

1997-12-05 Thread Wintermute
Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: Hi all, I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would take a poll to see what Joe Debian User (or Jane Debian-User) thinks... So I bought a new machine in

Re: What I do now?

1997-12-05 Thread Wintermute
Dana Epp wrote: Ya... its one of those days, and the subject pretty well sums it up. I forced xlib6g over xlib6, so I could install the Gimp package. I later rebooted, and now I get this everytime I do a startx.. xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' xinit: can't load library

Re: Apache web editting

1997-12-05 Thread Wintermute
Randy Edwards wrote: What techniques do folks use for editting web pages? I use Netscape's Composer for editting and would like to let a couple of users edit the files under /var/www. I've thought about making /var/www group writeable (right now it's only group read and executable),

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Wintermute
Kirk Hilliard wrote: Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults That does the

RE: Apache web editting

1997-12-05 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 04-Dec-97 Randy Edwards wrote: What techniques do folks use for editting web pages? I use Netscape's Composer for editting and would like to let a couple of users edit the files under /var/www. I like vi for editing my web pages. I'm sure there are lots of people who prefer emacs/xemacs, and

RE: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 05-Dec-97 Orn E. Hansen wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL and have a perl program download

mount trouble with MSDOS fs

1997-12-05 Thread Charles Read
A while back, I reported that # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt was not working. Someone said that running Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1 (C:) from within Win95 resolved a similar problem. So I ran Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1. It corrected a minor problem, but the mount command *still*

Re: PGP

1997-12-05 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding Re: PGP of 03:37 PM -0800 1997-12-04, Pete Harlan wrote: Sorry for the off-topic. I hope nobody bothers to package this up for Debian unless source is released. There, now it's on-topic. And please correct me if source for 5.0 is available... It is

BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Hi, I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the same problem... No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt was changed, and the backspace stopped

hostname

1997-12-05 Thread Greg Green
I am currently working just fine on my LAN, however, I need to change my host name only. What files would I modify to do so? I know I need to change the /etc/hosts, but I do knot know what others need to be changed. Any input would be helpful. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: lilo to prepare new hd on floppyless system

1997-12-05 Thread Sen Nagata
does this help? -sen http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/mini/LILO-4.html at some point around Thu, 04 Dec 1997 16:48:57 +0600 Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: My new drive came, and i'm trying to do a fresh install, as some stuff got tossed in strange places a few months

life after fips?

1997-12-05 Thread Richard Sevenich
Is there an free version of some successor to fips that can do a nondestructive repartition of hard drive that is currently devoted to FAT32? I don't think fips evolved to this point and I could use some input before I purchase something like PartitionMagic. Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [Not a dumb Question!] [Q] Standard way to force libc5-compat?

1997-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Benjamin Redelings I wrote: Both of these are available as debian installer packages, you know. Actually, I knew there was one for netscape, but I couldn't find realplayer... It's still stuck in incoming. According to the documentation for the dynamic linker, this only works if

Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Jess Stryker
HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the hardware compatibility HOWTO.Is anyone using either of these printers or know if they work with Debian? The HP uses HP PCL level 3 language. The Epson uses ESC/P2 language.

Re: mount trouble with MSDOS fs

1997-12-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 09:00:21PM -0600, Charles Read wrote: A while back, I reported that # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt was not working. Someone said that running Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1 (C:) from within Win95 resolved a similar problem. So I ran Norton Disk Doctor on

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread richard
Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was returned: Hello Allen, Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any system

Re: Cron and find

1997-12-05 Thread Kevin Dalley
As long as nfs is included in PRUNEFS in /etc/find.conf, the nfs mount points should be excluded. However, I have heard of a few instances of complaints. I tested it again last night, with findutils-4.1-25, and it worked for me. If you experience difficulty, please email me. Kirk Hilliard

Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? Thanks, P.S. I love my new 'unSTABLE' debian box. Sweet. Very Sweet. Now for the

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Jess I have an HP OfficeJet Model 350. I claims compatibility with HP DeskJet models: 500, 510, 520 and uses PCL level 3 best, bill On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the

ati tv tuner

1997-12-05 Thread Benoit Joly
hi all, i wanna know if there is a driver (beta, alpha...) for the tv tuner, or in developpement?? i have this card and want to throw away my win95... thanks in advances (and thanks for answers that i received for all my prob in linux installation, now it's working good) Benoit Joly [EMAIL

Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!

1997-12-05 Thread Britton
They stopped the poll when redhat 5 was released, when redhat had about 50 to 100 more votes in the poll (1 or 2% more of the vote, in other words). The problem with that poll was, they basically stopped it when they felt like it. If they had stopped it a day earlier, debian would

Re: Another X problem

1997-12-05 Thread Noel Yap
On Thu, 04 Dec 1997, Paul Rightly wrote: I successfully reinstalled Debian on my Thinkpad 365XD. [...] Once I got a PCMCIA modem and got this laptop connected, I upgraded it to the lastest in stable (this moved X from 3.2 to 3.3). I cannot get X to work correctly now. When I startx I see

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Galen Hazelwood
I've been having all sorts of horrible troubles with rxvt. Every time I think I've got it working, something else goes wrong. At the moment, the problem seems to be that under rxvt, ncurses interprets backspace as KEY_DC, i.e. delete. This is because hitting backspace is sending ASCII 127,

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread James A . Treacy
HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the hardware compatibility HOWTO.Is anyone using either of these printers or know if they work with Debian? The HP uses HP PCL level 3 language. The Epson uses ESC/P2

Re: PGP

1997-12-05 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Curt Howland wrote: I notice that MIT now has a Linux build for PGP5.0 US version. I know that there is a PGP Debian package available internationally, but not on the US site. Anyone know if a U.S. PGP package for Debian will be created? You can find both the us and the

Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!

1997-12-05 Thread Sten Anderson
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: runs it on a Debian system, I will try to answer questions about it). Is there any central repository for archieves of all the different mailing lists/newsgroups related to linux? See: http://www.ssc.com/linux/resources/lists.html It is probably not

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, James A.Treacy wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 Heh, I'm about to buy a printer too. Those are the same two I'm considering. The Epson 800 isn't enough of an improvement to warrant an extra $190 Canadian. I'll probably go with the Epson as I want to be

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Marco Pistore
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Hi, i am very happy with my HP 694c. I am using gs-aladdin 5.03 with the cdj550 driver to print ps and pdf files. Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #1095

1997-12-05 Thread XRD Lab
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preparing a minimal system

1997-12-05 Thread Sen Nagata
hi- i am attempting to install a system that has as small number of files as possible (note: i am not necessarily trying to make an installation that will fit on a floppy). in addition, i would like to be able to perform the preparation of hard drives for target machines on a machine other

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Kirk == Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to Kirk read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ? Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because some X

Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Ana Silva
Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This is realy bugging me... :((( ). Thanks... --

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-05 Thread Sten Anderson
Subject: Re: emacs and .Xdefaults References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:17:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gilbert Laycock's message of 05 Dec 1997

pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl program

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Pancho Horrillo
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This is

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Pancho Horrillo
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This

How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I added the line: xterm.scrollBar:true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where can I read about these things? Thanks, Mark.

Anyone packaging new smail (to stop spam relays)?

1997-12-05 Thread Petri Wessman
The current version of smail in the 'unstable' Debian release is a bit old and doesn't have support to stop spam relaying. I have heard that version 3.2.0.94 has a new config variable (smail_remote_allow) for this. Is anyone packaging the new smail? There's a very real need for an MTA that blocks

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Sten Anderson
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added the line: xterm.scrollBar: true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? In Debian, the file .Xdefaults should be renamed to .Xresources.

Re: Where is -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I didn't receive any reply to the following. Does nobody know? On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
What type of network card do you have ? Also post your /etc/init.d/network, maybe theres a problem in there. No matter what the problem is, you really should re-compile the kernel with support added for only those features you want. Matthew On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: On Fri,

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl program

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-05 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Just to clear up some confusion about dunc, I realize the script has shortcomings and John is looking into taking over the package so it can get properly attended to. However, its really quite useable in its current state -- even on a bo system. It's just an ash script that uses dialog, so it

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I added the line: xterm.scrollBar: true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where can I read

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Ana Silva
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) You must first install the modules or recompile the kernel to support your ethernet (or whatever) card. You can

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) Maybe. I was copying another file. How did you find out about the correct format? On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I added the line: xterm.scrollBar:true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Dale Martin
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they

Problems with jdk1.1.3 and JNI

1997-12-05 Thread Richard A. Guay
Hi, I am not sure this is the right list for this problem, but I thought someone might be able to direct me to the right place. I was hoping the maintainer for the java package might be able to help. I am trying out JNI programming using the linux port for jdk1.1.3 and the new libjava.so file.

Re: mount trouble with MSDOS fs

1997-12-05 Thread Charles Read
/proc/filesystems shows that msdos, vfat are present. I definitely compiled them into the kernel sometime back. The error msg is: # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,uid=0, ...] [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2, ...] Translation block size = 512 VFS: Can't find a valid

Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending

Re: Problems with jdk1.1.3 and JNI

1997-12-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
gcc -shared -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/include -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/incl ude/genunix -o libGroup.so javaQ_groups_Group.c Hi. This is not the right way to generate shared library. What you got here is plain objet file (.o) named as shared lib. The correct way is: gcc -fPIC -c -I.

Re: hostname

1997-12-05 Thread Greg Green
THANKS!! Greg Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Greg == Greg Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg I am currently working just fine on my LAN, however, I need to Greg change my host name only. What files would I modify to do so? I Greg know I need to change the /etc/hosts, but I do knot know

MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Guido Bozzetto
How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? -- +++ | Guido Bozzetto | Office phone Fax: +39 432 548314 | Il sunadôr | \/ I | E-mail: :-) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was returned: Hello Allen, Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any

Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Installation Problem

1997-12-05 Thread Faiz ul Haque Zeya
Hello, I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from CD 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during installation but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots correctly but then it stopped displaying the following: VFS: Mounted

Re: Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? It was an intentional repeat. I haven't

command logging

1997-12-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? ttysnoop does not work all that great, .bash_history only logs AFTER the person logs off, not sure if I can alter bash to log everything... I looked at telnetd, but I'm not sure if any of the debugging features do this. Something where I

multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-05 Thread E Papantoniou
(this is a repost) Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
The one thing I like about Micron is that they have more options to pick from. I can almost pick all the hardware that will work with Linux. With Gateway I don't like the video cards, and sound cards they offer... I would probably buy from Micron in the future. On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D.

How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread John Bradley Fitzgibbons
I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy my system to do it... :) I have an admin level

Re: Where is font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*?

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark Phillips wrote: When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both have the

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Wintermute wrote: Kirk Hilliard wrote: Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
The Ghostscript printer compatibility web page recommends the cdj550 driver for the 694c and has some suggestions and further links for Epson Stylus printers: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: Hi, I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the same problem... No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt was

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to I've been running a mostly-hamm system since July, and haven't had any problems other than: At

Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? http://skip.incog.com/ I

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy

Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? I believe some IETF commitee is working on

Re: MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Rick Hawkins
How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the mac format. The solution is to use pc format disks, which both the mac linux can read write. rick -- TO

Re: KDE mismatched packages...

1997-12-05 Thread Igor Grobman
Hey.. Is there anyreason that some of the packages in non-free are beta2-1 and some are beta2-2? Very frustrating when there isn't enough of either of them for a full install. This is because some of them are stuck in the Incoming AFAIK. Our archive maintainer, Guy Mayor, has just

Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1

Re: ati tv tuner

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Benoit Joly wrote: hi all, i wanna know if there is a driver (beta, alpha...) for the tv tuner, or in developpement?? i have this card and want to throw away my win95... thanks in advances (and thanks for answers that i received for all my prob in linux installation, now it's working

PPP modem connection.

1997-12-05 Thread gustavoq
I´ve been trying to connect ppp using XISP and after giving the ppp garbage characters (and clicking on continue) it disconnects the line. I think I have PPP installed correctly, but how can I be sure? (I do connect with the same hardware under Windows 95 without a problem) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Philosophical question

1997-12-05 Thread tko
Larry G. Gariepy Jr. writes: Hi all, I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would take My two cents worth. Like yourself, I don't like rocking the boat either. My upgrade philosophy is -

(Bruce's New Venture (Was Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses)

1997-12-05 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Jens, I know just the right guy to do this...our soon to be departed project leader. Didn't he mention doing something similar as part of his life-after-project-leader? Something about taking service calls and stripping out company details, then providing that back to the Debian community.

Re: MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the mac format. This is only true for

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: : Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux : was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was : returned: : : Hello Allen, : : Thanks

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: [ problem snipped ] : : Man, this problem has come up on this list how many times now? : Hoow! (I'm not frustrated at you Marcelo.) Isn't it time we : had a decent search engine on the debian-user archives or some help : database that people

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: : On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: : : I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now : I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to : development. I'd really like to start

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Hi Mark; Well, I think that I got it from a couple of places but I seem to remember the man rxvt was about the more informative about XTERM resources (for my purposes anyway) than man xterm was. On the system that I am using right now the form of the entry is: xterm*scrollBar:yes but I suspect

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy my

Sound.o module / Dependancies

1997-12-05 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi there peoplewithsound, ok, here we go... Brand new fresh Debian 1.3.1 install from Infomagic 6 CD set. Apon installation I notice the sound module isn`t available in this release (something to do with non-free missing?) . OK.. so.. kernel source 2.0.30 installed. make dep make

Re: Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Hi Bob; In addition to what Scott said himself, I was told that he was sent a specific request to post it again (in multiple groups). However, like you (I suspect), I carefully read the whole thing (yet again to see if there was anything new. Thus, as a request to Scott: If it is not too much

PPP and Linux

1997-12-05 Thread Alistair Phillips
Hi there Linux users. I have installed Linux, and think that it is really great! There are a couple of things that I would like to do. Firstly, I would like to be able to get my Linux side to answer the phone, and if the user logs in OK, create a PPP connection so that they would be able to

release 1.3.1r6

1997-12-05 Thread Tom Derby
Help I can't get base 45 to download I've tried the mirror servers in japan and Germany in addition to the main site in the U.S. I am trying to get it down with Win95 all the other files i.e. base 1-3 and root all came through fine. Anybody else having a problem? thanks Tom Derby

Re: Installation Problem

1997-12-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Faiz ul Haque Zeya wrote: Hello, I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from CD 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during installation but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Dale Martin writes: I use snarf. It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. Let me know if it's not - I'll package it.

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Eloy A. Paris writes: Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and more. Tried it, it works great. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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