Re: Fuentes en WordPerfect8

1999-04-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 30 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 00:02:27 -0500, Ugo Enrico Albarello contaba: Alguien sabe como hago para agregar fuentes a WordPerfect8 para Linux? Abrí una vez un thread en es.comp.os.linux sobre las fuentes en StarOffice. La cosa quedó en que a StarOffice sólo se le

Re: Script para wwwoffle en ip-up.d

1999-04-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 29 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 14:28:19 +0200, Manuel Jiménez contaba: ¿Me podríais ayudar a realizar un script para que wwwoffle, trabajando offline, se baje de un tirón las www encargadas? En la 1.3 había uno bueno; pero, dejé de usar el proxy y no lo conservé. Ahora, la 2 sólo me deja un

Re: Script para wwwoffle en ip-up.d

1999-04-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 01 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 12:18:36 +0200, Hue-Bond contaba: Ya es suficiente. Yo ahora mismo si me pongo a navegar, el wwwoffle se guarda las cosas que le pido y cuando conecto, al hacer -online, se las baja todas sin más. Perdón, no es así. Para

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1999-04-01 Thread julio santisteban
hola me gustaria unir a esta lista de correo.

Re: Iomega ZIP 100

1999-04-01 Thread Conrado Badenas
Juan Valdemoro Saiz wrote: Si alguien pudiese enviar a la lista las conclusiones que se sacaron la otra vez, le estaría muy agradecido. He encontrado un mensaje, que puede ser el que tú recuerdas: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-spanish-9902/msg00291.html Allí (y en los

kernel unable to boot -- can't install

1999-04-01 Thread Christopher Burrows
hi, i recently got a motherboard, and i am unable to boot linux on it. this is very frustrating, and i am looking for someone to help me, if at all possible, diagnose what is going wrong. here is what happens: i am trying to boot off the slink rescue disk (1.44), and initially the welcome screen

Can't connect to display :0?

1999-04-01 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I was trying to run a setup program in X. I logged in as su and ran the script. This was the error message. The Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server error is the same message I get when I try to run rvplayer. What does the error mean and how do I fix it? Spawning X setup utility for

Re: dselect.... missing the obvious?

1999-04-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chris Brown wrote: Hello again and thanks for all the help this debian-newbie is getting! I've done several (custom) installs of slink using dselect, and each time I waste a bunch of time searching for certain packages I want for instance ntp, sendmail, snmp, pine, joe I am getting

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-04-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I donwloaded Netscape from the Netscape site. Ran the install script and everything works fine. This is version 4.03 so I had to install the appropriate oldlibs. Is there any benefits installing the Debian packages instead (except for the fact I get 4.08

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC No I don't have a registered name for my box, but my box's name GC doesn't appear anywhere, I have visible_name set to the name of my GC ISP. It is just the local user name that gets sent out (ie, my GC user name on my local box) and appended to my

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GC == G Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GC On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 07:32:52PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP envelope (it is not passed on final delivery). GC I am not sure about this, I can see the envelope From header on GC messages

Netscape plugins

1999-04-01 Thread wcaskey
Does anyone have experience with Plugger for netscape? I'm trying to get netscape to recognize it as a plug-in and failing miserably. I've put pluggerrc in /usr/local/netscape and my .netscape directory, and plugger.so in both plugin directories, but netscape starts up and doesnt acknowledge

Re: wine.deb

1999-04-01 Thread John Bagdanoff
Thanks, my memory is faulty. Too bad I just can't plug in another couple of simms into my head. So, then, does anyone know where I can d/l the 1/31 version of wine.deb? John James Dietrich wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 02:33:09PM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: Let me know how you fare with

Re: xntp3 on dialup - how?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Christian Dysthe writes: How do I best utilize xntp on a dialup box? Could I put something in ppp-up and ppp-down? If this is the case, what? Try the chrony package from unstable. It has all but the most esoteric features of xntp3 and is configured for dialup by default. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

sound device

1999-04-01 Thread wcaskey
I have a problem that is baffling me. It started yesterday when installing asmixer, which promptly failed to open /dev/mixer. The problem seemed to be solved when I deleted the file and linked it to /dev/audio instead; mixer ran fine, sound played as usual. However on reboot sound stopped

Re: What happened to put -C option in ncftp?

1999-04-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: In short, IF I understand the man page, ncftp does a reget by default, if a file has been partially fetched. I've noticed that it also does that even if the file has been fully fetched and you are trying to get a newer version with the same name,

Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Phillips
This morning I typed pon to dial up a ppp connection, only to hear noise on my modem to idicate that the line was already in use. I quickly typed poff, but it was too late --- I had already killed my father's connection to the internet. He was not pleased as I had killed his connection near the

Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM

1999-04-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: Hello guys. I need a little refresher here. I need to make a new device to hook up the CD to the fstab. Basically... I have 4 IDE Drives which is basically used by hdax, hdbx, hdcx and hddx. I have a old model LaserMate CD Drive

Re: Star office S3 server fix

1999-04-01 Thread dyer
Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, Does anyone know where I can download the S3 video server fix? I've been trying to look for it but didn't have any luck looking on the star office site. Thanks, Shawn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Go to

Re: What happened to put -C option in ncftp?

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Phillips
I used to be able to continue an interrupted ftp upload in ncftp just by typing put -C filename. It would continue the upload where it left off. But since upgrading to slink, ncftp no longer seems to have this option. Does anyone know what happened to it? From the man page for ncftp:

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bruce Sass wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: The issue is not that the Linux kernel would still be available as open-source, the problem is what happens when 85-95% of app developers are writing their software only for RH. The 'open source' community would not be

Re: Netscape Installer??

1999-04-01 Thread ktb
Opt contrib/ netscape4 or Opt contrib/ netscape3 in dselect hth, Kent Ian Keith Setford wrote: I'd like to re-install Netscape but I can no longer find the Debian installer script/package. Where did it go? What are all the other packages, now in Slink, that mention Netscape? I just want

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Brian Servis
I think the best way is to get a 'line in use indicator' box that plugs into the phone line. A little diode lights up when the line is in use. There are also devices that you can plug into the phone jack of each phone on the line that shut that jack off if any other jack is in use, great for

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Wed, 31 Mar, 1999 à 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc Why not do it with an alias ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU

[OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. -- Ed C.

Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM

1999-04-01 Thread Russell Rademacher
It uses the same Sound Blaster interface..which it is connected to Panasonic Interface. It is basically Model CR-563 CD-Rom Drive...which says LaserMate Found on x340 on the screen. So.. it does find the CD-ROM itself..but I cannot seems to mount it which is kinda of funny. :) Does the

Re: problem with xwindow

1999-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:35:48PM +0200, khadija.boumahdi wrote: when i try to execute startx; following message of errors occured: ld.so failed: can't find shared library libXmu.so.6.0; but ythis file exist in /usr/X11R6/lib what i can do? Become root. First, ensure that the line

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-01 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files.

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Mark Phillips wrote: This morning I typed pon to dial up a ppp connection, only to hear noise on my modem to idicate that the line was already in use. I quickly typed poff, but it was too late --- I had already killed my father's connection to the internet. He was not pleased as I had

Re: kernel unable to boot -- can't install

1999-04-01 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Christopher Burrows wrote: i recently got a motherboard, and i am unable to boot linux on it. this is very frustrating, and i am looking for someone to help me, if at all possible, diagnose what is going wrong. here is what happens: i am trying to boot off the slink

your comments on commercial x not-commercial

1999-04-01 Thread tarcisio praciano pereira
Dear Bruce I was worried with RH as MS-LinuX before I read your interesting note. I think that you caught the point, let the commercial world be. There will be people that will wait until free software get mature, then will switch to it for the obvious reasons. I am a LinuX user since 1.13 and I

'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread ivan
I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning wonderful world of windows but I can't remember the web address. Does anyone know anything about this ? Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Mark Phillips writes: Anyway, I don't want this to happen again, so I would like, if possible, to write a script which does nothing except listen to the modem line for a few seconds so that I can hear whether someone else is using it. I think I may have misunderstood you earlier. Your father

Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM

1999-04-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: : Hello guys. [ snip ] : by hdax, hdbx, hdcx and hddx. I have a old model LaserMate CD Drive hooked up : though the antique Packard Bell Sound Galaxy Sound Card which it is detected : and found the CD-ROM. : : But problem is... I

Apt 0.3.3 skipping files during transfer

1999-04-01 Thread Jim Gould
I'm having problems with apt-get retrieving files. While doing an upgrade with sources.list pointing to any given http site (for stable and unstable directories), apt-get will successfully pull in one file, and then show a '400 Bad request' for the next. Then the next file will come in just

kernel eats alot of memory

1999-04-01 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
First time I left this new installation running for about 6 days without rebooting, I notice two things though Thing1! after using and quitting X11 I would expect all memory that was being used by those hungry processes to be freed but it looks like this : Mem: 127216K av, 117296K used,

Re: Apt 0.3.3 skipping files during transfer

1999-04-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jim Gould wrote: I'm having problems with apt-get retrieving files. While doing an upgrade with sources.list pointing to any given http site (for stable and unstable directories), apt-get will successfully pull in one file, and then show a '400 Bad request' for the

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Ivan writes: Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose url begins 'www' ? No. Not even if the rumor is true. The most it would give them is the right to stop others from using 'www' to sell a product similar to the one they are using it for. A trademark is

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Robert V. MacQuarrie writes: Put this is /usr/local/bin and call it ispon It isnt anything fancy but it should work for you until ppp's maintainer, Philip Hands, has time to maybe add a check into ppp itself. when run it'll simply tell you if pppd is or isn't running. pppd already locks the

Advice needed on printing

1999-04-01 Thread Corey Ralph
Hello. I am in the process of rewriting some billing software and need some advice on how I should tackle doing bulk printing on linux. The thing I need to know is what format to use. HTML would be the easiest, can the print spooler interpret it? Can I get software to do convert it to

Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM

1999-04-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: It uses the same Sound Blaster interface..which it is connected to Panasonic Interface. It is basically Model CR-563 CD-Rom Drive...which says LaserMate Found on x340 on the screen. So.. it does find the CD-ROM itself..but I cannot seems to

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Phillips
Put this is /usr/local/bin and call it ispon It isnt anything fancy but it should work for you until ppp's maintainer, Philip Hands, has time to maybe add a check into ppp itself. when run it'll simply tell you if pppd is or isn't running. Woopse, I didn't explain myself clearly

emacs and autosaving

1999-04-01 Thread Angus Claydon
IMHO If there's one program that could firmly go into the Heinz category (in terms of it being better because its harder to get out of the bottle) my vote would be for emacs. Is it possible to turn off the autosaving feature? TIA - Angus ^..^

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Phillips
I think I may have misunderstood you earlier. Your father is using a different computer with a different modem? Yes. Different computer, different modem, different operating system, phone socket in a different room. I don't really see why your modem going off-hook should have killed his

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Bud Rogers
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope this explains now why I was trying to write a script that would actually allow me to hear what was on the phoneline, enabling me to determine if my father was actually using it. (At the moment the only way is to physically go upstairs and check

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread athos
Ivan wrote: ivna I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application ivna to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning ivna wonderful world of windows but I can't remember the web address. ivna Does anyone know anything about this ? ivna Does this mean that, in effect, MS has

Re: star office

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 31 Mar 1999, Bud Rogers wrote: setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true I read somewhere that using that fix caused problems with other programs. Have you seen this? None that I have seen. I also read the same thing but I have not seen any program that reacts badly to it. The other option is

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On 31 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Ivan writes: Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose url begins 'www' ? No. Not even if the rumor is true. The most it would give them is the right to stop others from using 'www' to sell a product similar to the

Re: xntp3 on dialup - how?

1999-04-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:10:20 -0600 (CST), you wrote: I have installed xntp3 (running slink). However, the daemon is stared from init.d and I am not yet online. The log tells me that the network is not available (what a surprise!;). xntp relies on the parent ntp servers being online. I use xntp to

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread ivan
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:13:26PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On 31 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Ivan writes: Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose url begins 'www' ? No. Not even if the rumor is true. The most it would give them is the

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Bud Rogers
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is already there. Here is the start of my chatscript: ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT NO ANSWER ATZ OK ATDT8222 CONNECT '' etc etc So why doesn't it work?? Hmm. Hmm. Good question. With those

Re: Can't connect to display :0?

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Harran
This is X-security mechanism - Magic Cookies. By default, only the person who started the X session can connect to the server. I'm guessing that you started X as a user then su'ed to root in an xterm, or that you started X as root, and then the script runs as a different user. There are two

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:51:23AM -0500, Jason Willoughby wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Hill wrote: After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help

Re: Mounting to Sun

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:54:36AM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to mount an NFS drive on a Sun (newest version) server with my linux workstation. I need to have full access to it. The Sun admin and I have been working on this for a while now and have had little luck. Has anyone

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: The technology is there to send large files easily. Embed a URL into an email message and most email clients will automatically launch either the FTP client to get the file, or the browser which has FTP capabilities to get the

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc Any files in /etc/skel get copied to any new user accounts you create, but not for existing

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:41:47PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope this explains now why I was trying to write a script that would actually allow me to hear what was on the phoneline, enabling me to determine if my father was actually using it. (At

Re: emacs and autosaving

1999-04-01 Thread Peter Weiss
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:28:10 +0100 (IST), Angus Claydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Angus IMHO If there's one program that could firmly go into the Heinz category Angus (in Angus terms of it being better because its harder to get out of the bottle) Angus my vote would be for emacs. Angus Is it

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Gary Singleton
Well, I don't really want to get involved in the large e-mail attachment debate but I saw a news item about this the other day. It's supposed to give you like 20M of internet storage - mostly for transfering files. I have no use for it but it _might_ work for something like that. Otherwise I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:22:47 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: This is the proper thing to do since it then lets the other end decide not only *IF* they want the file, but *when* then want

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Gary Singleton
I always forget the URL - sorry. http://www.mydocsonline.com/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:42:18 -0800 (PST), Gary Singleton wrote: It's supposed to give you like 20M of internet storage - mostly for transfering files. I have no use for it but it _might_ work for something like that. Most, if not all ISPs give

The newbie needs more help.

1999-04-01 Thread ruthurie
Hello. Ok, thanks much for the help last time. It seems I didn't include enough info with my previous post to get much help. Here is the rest of my specs: IBM PS/2, 386 6 megs ram 58 meg esdi hard drive MCA (ugh!) architecture 1 1.44 floppy Ok. I tried the fdisk fix. No good. I tried

Re: ISDN is still teasing

1999-04-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 09:07:18 +0200, you wrote: /var/log/isdn.log: Apr 1 00:09:13 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| 922918153| -1|O| 16| 0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| Apr 1 00:11:10 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| 922918270| -1|O| 16|

Left something out of the last post.

1999-04-01 Thread ruthurie
The last few lines output to the screen before it hangs are: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed Then I get the promptless hang. The three

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Phillips
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is already there. Here is the start of my chatscript: ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT NO ANSWER ATZ OK ATDT8222 CONNECT '' etc etc So why doesn't it work?? Hmm. Hmm. Good

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:41:47PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope this explains now why I was trying to write a script that would actually allow me to hear what was on the phoneline, enabling me to determine if my father was actually using

Re: writing c/c++ programs under debian

1999-04-01 Thread Martin Waller
I am looking to start writing c/c++ programs under debian. The question is what utilitys are availble to maintain and write projects. Make, Imake, autoconf also are there any online ducumentation about the options. Probably...possibly lots. Do a search and there'll be hits a plenty I fancy.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Mark Wagnon
Steve Lamb wrote: [snippage] Most, if not all ISPs give people space for the storage of incoming mail, web pages and anonymous FTP. This is exactly what I was refering to when I wrote my message to Hamish and is also the exact reason why large attachments are considered a DoS. This

need to scan drive thoroughly

1999-04-01 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, well, if any of you are wondering, I was able to get debian installed on the system by low level formatting the IDE drive from BIOS (LILO kept giving crc errors upon uncompressing Linux). Now I have another problem...anything that I download to the IDE drive (where the /home and /boot

Screen resolution

1999-04-01 Thread Doug Dine
Hi all, I have X set for 640 x 480 with 24 bit color as this was all I could get to work under X. In Windows I can get 640 x 480, 800 x 600 (which I use) or 1024 x 768. Probelem I run into with 640 x 480 in X is that some programs fall off the screen and are difficult to use. Is this a common

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-01 Thread Frank Barknecht
Daniel Mashao hat gesagt: // Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the

[Fwd: star office]

1999-04-01 Thread Shawn Nguyen
---BeginMessage--- I just have a question. I used the SVGA server but X frozed on me. Do I have to set that line down below in order for it to not freeze? The weird thing is that when I use the S3 server it doesn't freeze X, it only freezes StarOffice. So I went back to my S3 server. Also, I

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread homega
Laurent PICOULEAU dixit: how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc Why not do it with an alias ? Already thought of that, but hoped for a more standard solution. I wonder if I remove

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread homega
Hamish Moffatt dixit: On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc Any files in /etc/skel get copied to any new user accounts you

Kensington Scroll Mouse

1999-04-01 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I've got a kensington scroll mouse and was wondering if there's anyway to get it to work at all in X? If not, is there a mouse out there that I could buy which would let me use that feature on it in X? I guess I am too used to using the scroll mouse and I find it a little more than

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Carl Johnson
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Phillips wrote: This morning I typed pon to dial up a ppp connection, only to hear noise on my modem to idicate that the line was already in use. I quickly typed poff, but it was too late --- I had already killed my father's connection to the

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:10:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamish Moffatt dixit: On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread homega
Hamish Moffatt dixit: You could alias lynx to /usr/bin/lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynxrc in .bash_profile. That sounds like it, thanks. It might be better to rename lynx and create a wrapper script which adds this option. Perhaps you could add the wrapper script in /usr/local/bin and put that before

elm filter?

1999-04-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I am receiving mail on a SGI system, that has no procmail, but the elm filter program. I would like to use the same thing on debian, but I cannot seem to find it. Is it anywhere available in slink? Thanks, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab.

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:16:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamish Moffatt dixit: You could alias lynx to /usr/bin/lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynxrc in .bash_profile. That sounds like it, thanks. It might be better to rename lynx and create a wrapper script which adds this option.

apac i740

1999-04-01 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, My friends has got an APAC i740 3D AGP with 8MB. It seems to me that Xfree86 does not support this card. Has anyone been successful with this card? thx. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___

Re: emacs and autosaving

1999-04-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Peter Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:28:10 +0100 (IST), Angus Claydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Angus IMHO If there's one program that could firmly go into the Heinz category Angus (in Angus terms of it being better because its harder to get out of the bottle)

Re: Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:41:47PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope this explains now why I was trying to write a script that would actually allow me to hear what was on the phoneline, enabling me to

what's this: *** SECURITY information for gusp.infogroup.it ***

1999-04-01 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I've found this in my mailbox today: gusp.infogroup.it : Apr 1 10:10:10 : root : preposterous stampfile date; TTY=tty12 ; PWD=/home/jnos ; USER=jnos ; COMMAND=/home/jnos/jnos -f /home/jnos/etc/nos.cfg -C -g2 What does it mean? What package does generate it? User jnos is a fictitious user

Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]

1999-04-01 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Chris == Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone, Sorry about that last message, I had a little glitch with my computer. Anyway, my question has to do with mirroring. We are using slink's fmirror package to mirror ftp.us.kernel.org. We realize

Re: Partitioning help

1999-04-01 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
I am installing Debian and having problems partitioning the drive properly. During the bad block scan, it starts counting by '10' and is taking forever. Do I have my drive partitioned wrong? Is the drive bad perhaps? How should it be set in my bios? I'm not sure about this, but you might

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Stefan Nobis
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish reason); the technology should allow users to send huge email Hamish attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be fixed. OK, but then the user should be prepared to pay for it! And often people in the USA

(update) Re: working apt line for unoffical X 3.3.3.1 debs

1999-04-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Mar, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: working apt line for unoffical X 3.3.3.1 debs It doesn't work because there's no Packages file. You can still download all the debs and install them by hand. Well, I sent a note off to Vincent and asked if he could put the Packages file in the

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread John Leget
Simple solution, we have another phone downstairs ( i camp with the pc and modem upstairs). I bought myself a privacy adapter which is basically a phone splitter wich disables textension A if B is in use ( and vice versa), thus i do not get disconnected when they pick the phone up downstairs

Re: Screen resolution

1999-04-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Why don't you just increase the resolution? 640x480 is awfully small. I'm able to get 1024x768 out of my monitor (My S3 DX/Virge can do better, but monitor is stopping me), and I am already out of space on one screen. But switching between virtual portions of a desktop could be not very

Re: kernel eats alot of memory

1999-04-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: Q: Don't you think this is a lot of memory being used when I'm not running X11 ? So I'm afraid to compile a kernel right now, and thinking of rebooting the system... You don't need to rebuild your kernel; there's

Re: Screen resolution

1999-04-01 Thread ktb
Doug Dine wrote: Hi all, I have X set for 640 x 480 with 24 bit color as this was all I could get to work under X. In Windows I can get 640 x 480, 800 x 600 (which I use) or 1024 x 768. Probelem I run into with 640 x 480 in X is that some programs fall off the screen and are difficult

Re: Raid issues

1999-04-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
The maintainer appears to be Martin Schultze [EMAIL PROTECTED]. There are no bugs reported for this package which is impressive. I expected a please update to upstream release or something. The only thought I have is that raidtools has been replaced by another program or perhaps in the kernel.

Problem: NFSROOT with netboot and 2.2.x

1999-04-01 Thread Michael Maechtel
whenever i try to boot a 2.2.x kernel with netboot everything goes all-right until it starts to mount nfs. At this point I get on my client: Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.1.1 portmap: server 192.168.1.1 not responding timed out Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server,

Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]

1999-04-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I'm wanting to start mirror Debian here (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) since I have installed 10 box of Debian Linux around UFRJ campus. :) Anyone have the steps to use rsync (the best solution to mirror) or some conf file. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Quoting

Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]

1999-04-01 Thread eric Farris
see this script: http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I'm wanting to start mirror Debian here (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) since I have installed 10 box of Debian Linux around UFRJ campus. :) Anyone have the steps to use rsync

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread Ken Scott
Some sort of line in use indicator would be better. I presume you mean a hardware led indicator or something like that? I could do that, though I'd prefer a software solution if there is one. At your local Radio Shack, along with the LED line-in-use indicator, they also have a device that

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg - ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamish Moffatt dixit: On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc P.S.

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