problem with netscape and man2html

1997-03-24 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, i found a strange problem with netscape and man2html. If i used netscape (3.0 and 4.0b2 for win95) to access man2html, man2html didn't appear to work correctly. However, with internet explorer 3.01, everything run well, for example, i able to access the man page of the ls command. With

Re: gpm, X-Windows, MS Serial mouse

1997-03-24 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
My thanks to several of you who responded to my post. You all corrected my mistake of thinking I could not specify the (preferred) /dev/ttySx in both gpm and the X-server. After correcting the config and rebooting I'm able to start and restart X without killing gpm. Regards, -- C.L. Daugaard

no brushes available

1997-03-24 Thread Ken Gaugler
Installed gimp-smotif version 0.54.1-5 and gimp-plugins version 1.0-1, and when trying to draw something, I see the error message: gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. Is there a separate brush package that has to be installed? -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara,

Re: How to get dir colors to work?

1997-03-24 Thread François
Quoting my answer to someone else for this very question precisely in this mailing list (note that I myself got the answer by reading the mailing list so you're at least the third generation): dpk wrote: is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone know where it

ipfwadm rules question...

1997-03-24 Thread Jason Costomiris
Hey... So far, here's what I've got: ipfwadm -I -f ipfwadm -I -a deny -P icmp This is a non-masqueraded setup. It's my dialup machine at home. I'd also like to deny access to port 25 from remote sites. I've tried: ipfwadm -I -a deny -P tcp -S 0/0 25 However, this still allows remote

Re: Where is oldmitpthreads?

1997-03-24 Thread Tomislav Vujec
Josip Gracin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two weeks ago there was an announcement of oldmitpthreads package which contains MIT Pthreads library. I haven't been able to find it since then. I have seen the recent list of packages still in Incoming but oldmitpthreads is not there. It just

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-24 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 . Today I downloaded the 1.2 boot disks (dated Feb97) tried to install in a Quatum HD, and cfdisk has that problem `can't fseek...'. fdisk worked. The disk was in a LBA mode with

multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Bob Billson
Has anyone been successful using taper to backup to multiple tapes? If so, what is the secret? :-) I can't get passed the first tape. I'm trying to do a full backup of my system. My floppy tape drive is a Iomega Ditto drive (QIC-80). I am using it with zftape (v1.06) instead of ftape driver.

Re: lsof problem

1997-03-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, For the record, I too have the same problem with lsof, and I know the System.map is matvhed to the running kernel. Also, psupdate cerated the psdatabse correctly (so ps -l runs with out a problem). This is a bug with lsof, and I will file a report. manoj --

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-24 Thread Mike Orr
Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your login shell to exit immediately. I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script. I would get Script started, output file is typescript and then it would immediately exit with Script done, output file is

Re: A lot of errors while installing (dselecting) bo

1997-03-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Rick wrote: The files are dependant on order. To update properly you should put what are expected to be the most recent files at the end of the list. Otherwise you may not be shown newer files that exist in other tree's. [stable contrib non-free

afterstep 1.0pre5

1997-03-24 Thread Paul Chau
Hi, Could anyone tell me if the afterstep 1.0pre5 been debianised yet or not? Cheers. Paul

Re: g++ file doesn't run

1997-03-24 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Jeff Shilt wrote: Thanks for the help - it does compile with g++ instead of gcc, but the executable produced isn't d oing anything. Here's what i'm doing: //test.c #include iostream.h main(){ cout Hello there.; } The test file doesn't print out anything when I run it. Also, I was

Re: does debian 1.2.x support umsdos

1997-03-24 Thread Rick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have an ATT globalyst 362TPC comuter with a s3 trio 64 chip set. I am now using slackware 2.2 running linux 1.2.1 kernel as a umsdos file system. It is working fine except I can't get xfx86 running. I want to upgrade the linux kernel to 2.*. I am interested in

How to switch X modes on a laptop?

1997-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
When runnig X on a desktop, you can swithc between various modes (resolutions) using the + and - keys on the keypad. How can I do this on my laptop which has no keypad? Thanks. BTW it's a Toshiba Tecr 500CDT if it matters. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

changes in netpbm

1997-03-24 Thread Alfons Juan i Ciscar
Hi, I have found some unexpected changes in the last version of netpbm with respect to the previous one: - There is no netpbm man page. - pnmarith does not include options -minimum and -maximum. - pnmsmooth is a script without options, while the previous one was a C program with options -size

nis

1997-03-24 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I'm having consistent problems with nis and I'm beginning to think that my system configuration has been garbaged somehow. I'm running kernel 2.0.29 and I just recently tried to update to the lastest version of nis (2.10-1.2). On my slave machine, I get a message claiming that ypserv and

Upgrade to 1.2, Netscape Java solution, etc.

1997-03-24 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello: Before I talk about problems, let me say that the 1.2 release that the people here have produced is very impressive and fairly solid. Nice work! I've got an AST Ascentia laptop running with full X, mouse, sound, ethernet, ppp, and power management. All with just a few days of

gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Seth Reinosa
I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to extract data from a document into a program. Please help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.eznet.net/~seth Thanx and may God Bless you Seth R

tetex

1997-03-24 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hiya, I've had trouble replacing latex with the now available tetex. I selected (I believe) all appropriate packages and then tried to install them. The installation script said that I needed to do a dpkg --purge --force-depends on a bunch of files which I did. The result is the following:

Re: How to switch X modes on a laptop?

1997-03-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Most laptops have a key that toggles between the normal keyboard and a virtual keypad. Look for a key named Fn. -- Jean Pierre On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Stan Brown wrote: When runnig X on a desktop, you can swithc between various modes (resolutions) using the + and - keys on the

Suggestions on NFS strategy

1997-03-24 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'd like to have your opinions on an issue I have on the proper way to install NFS. I set up a Debian file-server with two purposes: - Provide file space to Linux and Win95 users (with NFS client software), and - Keep all Linux users with an up-to-date release of

Re: Debugging cvspserver

1997-03-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
This isn't a direct answer to your question but you may still find is useful. I've been using cvs with the pserve authentication. Several problems presented themselves: * I could not use the system /etc/passwd file for authentication as is supposedly possible per the documentation.

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to extract data from a document into a program. Please help. What do you mean? If you mean 1) To read data from a file. Then you need to buy a simple C book

Re: multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Bob Billson wrote: Has anyone been successful using taper to backup to multiple tapes? If so, what is the secret? :-) I can't get passed the first tape. I have had the same problem. Apparently, taper does not see the end-of-tape properly. I got around this by

Re: How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-24 Thread meierrj
Nick, Having had to recover disks in in the past (on Apples, Macs, IBMS, and SGIs) I offer the folowing hint. If linux fdisk is able to recover the disk, great! If not, and you must extract the files from the disk dump (from dd?), I have found the inode-reading features (-i -C -c -k) of

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-24 Thread Jason Killen
Ah, good call. I'll try it. Thanks On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Mike Orr wrote: Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your login shell to exit immediately. I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script. I would get Script started, output file is typescript

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 . I had it on 1.2.5 (LSL tri-linux cd-rom). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Seth Reinosa
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to extract data from a document into a program. Please help. What do you mean? If you mean 1) To read data from a file.

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Martin Stromberg
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to extract data from a document into a program. Please help. What do you mean? If you mean 1) To read data from a

slakware to debian.

1997-03-24 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi to all, I would like to translate the /etc/passwd of slakware to debian. But there are around 300 users, and doing it by hand is such a tedious thing! Someone could help? tia, andre..

Re: slakware to debian.

1997-03-24 Thread Pete Harlan
I would like to translate the /etc/passwd of slakware to debian. But there are around 300 users, and doing it by hand is such a tedious thing! Someone could help? Hi, I just did this myself. I wrote a Perl script to do it. It worked for us. When the script finds a file that it can't map to

lprm won't let user remove his own print jobs

1997-03-24 Thread Mike Orr
I seem to have the permissions messed up for lpd, because user's can't remove their own jobs. /var/spool/lpd and subdirs are set to drwxrwxr-x root.lp. I tried drwxrwxrwx, drwxrwsr-x and drwxrwsrwx but none of these helped. Script started on Mon Mar 24 11:29:48 1997 $ lpr Finding_Fonts.txt $

Re: multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Carlo U. Segre: I have had the same problem. Apparently, taper does not see the end-of-tape properly. I got around this by specifying the length of the tape in the options. This forced taper to ask for a second tape. I can reproduce this as well. This may be related to bug #7059 (taper

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: I have looked but have not seemed to find in the man gcc page how to extract data from a document into a program. [deletions] well there is a command in VMS that lets me do it for each run of a

Re: gcc

1997-03-24 Thread bruce
In that section 2 manual look for open and read, and in section 3 look for fopen, fread, and sscanf. Bruce

xsession-errors

1997-03-24 Thread R.M. Hinkley
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help, I get the following in .xsession-errors xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=painswik -DSERVERHOST=painswik -DSRVR_painswik -DDISPLAY_NUM=0 -DCLIENTHOST=painswik

Re: afterstep 1.0pre5

1997-03-24 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Paul Chau wrote: Could anyone tell me if the afterstep 1.0pre5 been debianised yet or not? Don't think so. The Debian package is still at 1.0pre4. If you want, email the maintainer (Neil A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and tell him that 1.0pre5 is out. Christian

Re: gcc stuff

1997-03-24 Thread meierrj
Seth, Based on your question, I am going to guess that you are not familiar with C, but are familiar with an object-oriented language (e.g. lisp) or a stream language (basic). If you will be using C or C++, I recommend reading a copy of The C Programming Language by Kerninghan

problem with one of the install images?

1997-03-24 Thread Ron Nelson
I have been having problems with one of the images used to install debian gnu/linux. when I try to install the drivers floppy, I get the following output: Installing the drivers floppy... floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1