Re: dselect

1997-04-11 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 11, Rick wrote > > I sent this a few days ago but got no answer. > > Does anybody know how to clear dselect status? I used hold to select only > the bo pkgs I wanted to install thinking I could reset the suggested status. > But it don't work. How do I reset the pkgs to the suggested sta

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Maybe you should upgrade your computer if your resources are that bad off. I do fifty things at once in X without a problem. Hmm? On 11-Apr-97 Ralph Winslow wrote: >Rick wrote: >> > >> My point is if Linux is moving forward in time why do vi-hards get up-in-a

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > I do search and replace in Xemacs all the time. I'm fairly sure that > regular emacs will do it too. > > My point is if Linux is moving forward in time why do vi-hards get > up-in-arms about it being left out. vi is good for what it is. I > think it should move

windows incompatibility

1997-04-11 Thread Jan Ramon
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I found a PNP FAQ and double checked at usr.com. It seems that PNP modems > with emulated uart's (what an idea) are totally incompatable. This > "Winmodem" will only work with windows (not even DOS). > > By the way. I d

Re: Journalling: Upgrades, Kernel patching, ...

1997-04-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > Great! I > > would like to see > > http://localhost/cgi-bin/dwww?type=dir&location=/usr/doc done as a > > multi-column table; it would look better and be easier to search with > > the eyes. You could add tags conditional on $ENV{'USER_AGENT'} being > > a t

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread mike horansky
Ralph Winslow wrote: > > Rick wrote: > > > > > My point is if Linux is moving forward in time why do vi-hards get > > up-in-arms > > about it being left out. vi is good for what it is. I think it should move > > into the GUI world since it is really too much for this application. > > What

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Ralph Winslow
Rick wrote: > > My point is if Linux is moving forward in time why do vi-hards get up-in-arms > about it being left out. vi is good for what it is. I think it should move > into the GUI world since it is really too much for this application. What would one need a real editor for in the GUI w

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > I get calls from users all the time asking "How do I search and replacein > my file?" 9 times out of 10, they are using pico, which has to be the > most brain dead editor ever created. Except ae (may Debian forgive me). Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets * [

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On 11 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > > Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. > > Teco. Heard of it, never saw it. Where can I find it? (Seriously, maybe I'm a pervert, but I want to see it -- please tell me where one can find it). Perversely yours, Vadi

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Ralph Winslow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > > ... > > THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! > > Teco. > When you've said teco, you've said it all! vi is superb, and emacs (for those who've spent the weeks required to master it) is way cool, but teco RULES!!! Anybody out there have the

Re: Netscape 4.0 b4

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote: > How does one get the Netscape install wrapper to work with beta 3 the > way it did with betas 1 and 2? I've had no success. > > Thanks. > The wrapper is packaged for specific versions. I installed it myself. I put it in /usr/src/netscape, gunzipped

Netscape 4.0 b4

1997-04-11 Thread C.L. Daugaard
How does one get the Netscape install wrapper to work with beta 3 the way it did with betas 1 and 2? I've had no success. Thanks. -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Advocacy and argument

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
I would like to create a chat site for topics such as "to vi or not to vi" It would be great if it worked well with lynx, and automatically deleted old messages to control disk usage. Does anyone have a favorite script set for this? +--

enscript package bug+fix

1997-04-11 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, In enscript_1.4.0-2, the file /usr/lib/enscript/simple.hdr has the line %Format: fmodstr$D{%a %b %2d %T %Y} This produces a date in the header where the day is always "d". If you remove the '2' before the 'd' then you'll get the correct date. Since this is a string that get

!!WARNING!! USR 33.6

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The US Robotics sportster "Winmodem" will not work with anything but Windows. It has something to do with it having an EMULATED UART (brilliant eh?!?). Run like the wind from this modem! Have a good one. - -- Rick Jones

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Greg Vence wrote: > Also, you'll want to make sure you are using the 1997-04-04 images. The > 1997-03-?? are broke. > > I'd hate to see you get the boot going and then fail at a known point > later. I picked them up from incoming and put them up at ftp.greenbush.com on 4/6/

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I do search and replace in Xemacs all the time. I'm fairly sure that regular emacs will do it too. My point is if Linux is moving forward in time why do vi-hards get up-in-arms about it being left out. vi is good for what it is. I think it should move into th

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > > > What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write > > them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? > > I get calls from users all the time asking "How do I search an

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Jason Costomiris
On 11 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! > > Teco. Bwah. Real men edit with cat, sed, awk, head and tail. Better yet, they write directly to the disk with a hex sector editor. Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write > them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? I get calls from users all the time asking "How do I search and replace in my file?" 9 times out of 10, they are using

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I found a PNP FAQ and double checked at usr.com. It seems that PNP modems with emulated uart's (what an idea) are totally incompatable. This "Winmodem" will only work with windows (not even DOS). By the way. I did do all that. I'm going to repost this under

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I > want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without > having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). > > Is there a tool for this? I don't believe t

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Bruce Perens
From: someone... > I've never seen a base-line Unix box w/o vi that was what prompted the > initial mail. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) > Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision [...] It's funny how often this comes up. The reason is that the base system is t

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread jghasler
Alexander writes: > When booting the floppy is accessed (*schrab* *schrab*) and then the hard > drive is read and my old lilo turns up. Well, I tried 4 discs that were > ok (Just checked at my other computer here, usual checks says nothing), 4 > new discs. I went through eight discs the other day

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread jghasler
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > Ed, man! !man ed > ... > Computer Scientists love ed > ... > RUNS ED!! > ... > ...the mighty ed... > ... > Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. > ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! > ... > THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! Teco. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I > haven't gotten any response. > > I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't seem to want to work no matter what > I do. > > isapnp seems to configu

"dselect" replacement team

1997-04-11 Thread Brian C. White
As part of the facelift for Debian 2.0, I'd like to offer an improved interface as an alternative for "dselect". To this end, I'm going to be putting together a team of people to produce such a product. If you would like to work on this, please let me know and tell me what resources you have (mac

Re: dselect

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There doesn't seem to be a --clear-status arg for dpkg. It gives me an error. And --clear-avail doesn't do it either. I can't believe that there's no way to clear this. From one site to another or one dir to another the status remains the same. On 11-Apr-

Re: vi

1997-04-11 Thread Philippe Troin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What I missed most, and missed on years of word processors, is the > trivially easy manner of making compound, repeated, commands. I > know it's possible in emacs, but i've found no-one whom I could ask > who could tell me. For emacs, C-x ( starts recording, C-x )

RE: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, actually the manual isn't wrong. AT&F does reset the modem but to FACTORY DEFAULTS. ATZ re-initializes the modem to the prior settings. If the factory sets the defaults to no compression, no error checking, and software handshaking for example and minico

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It's my understanding that /dev/cua* is outdated and only used for backward compatability. /dev/ttyS* is the correct usage. Which both belong to dialout. On 11-Apr-97 Greg Vence wrote: >Rob Browning wrote: >> >> "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: vi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I'm going to finally ask this question. > What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write > them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? > Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I > had no other choice. Is there

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
Greg Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't let me start another editor snowball here. What is the > difference between /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/cua0? I think this is (or should be) a FAQ somewhere, but the short story is that the cua* devices are only kept around in the kernel for historic

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, that's the port I configured it for. On 11-Apr-97 Nils Rennebarth wrote: >On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > >>I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I >>haven't gotten any response. >> >>I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that do

Re: vi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I'm going to finally ask this question. > What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write > them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? > Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I > had no other choice. Is there

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Rob Browning wrote: > > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which > > is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of > > which redial correctly. > > I may be mistaken, but I think that this

Problem on mounting CD... (SOLVED)

1997-04-11 Thread Felix Almeida
Hi folks! Thank you very much! You're right about the symbolic link, it was the problem... >-( I only changed my fstab to point /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/cdrom and everything works fine now. Thank you. :-) PS: Special thanks to Riku, Andrew and Bob. Felix Almeida.

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread jghasler
Martin Schulze writes: > ...there's already a notice that the only installed editor is called ae. Where? John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: bug tracking system

1997-04-11 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 12, Francesco Tapparo wrote > Hi all, > I have a proble with the Debian bug tracking system. > I have found a minor bugs in some packages, and I have used "bug" to > report the error. But I have not received the automatical answer from the > bug tracking system. I like to know what's is wron

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Alexander Koch wrote: > > Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > > My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) > > > and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda > > > (lilo) is taken. > > > > Is the floppy drive trying to read at

bug tracking system

1997-04-11 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Hi all, I have a proble with the Debian bug tracking system. I have found a minor bugs in some packages, and I have used "bug" to report the error. But I have not received the automatical answer from the bug tracking system. I like to know what's is wrong, and if the message has reached the bug tra

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which > is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of > which redial correctly. I may be mistaken, but I think that this can cause problems in some cases, esp

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the > persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it > would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it > attempts to dial and the

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: >I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I >haven't gotten any response. > >I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't seem to want to work no matter what >I do. > >isapnp seems to configure it. setserial seems to configure it. statse

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote: > The problem is that the users can mount the CD but cannot umount it! A few people already told you, the symbolic links were the problem. A further suggestion: Why not use the automounter, This is probably what you want, if users should be able to access

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> I'm going to finally ask this question. > > What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write > them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? It works from any keyboard, you don't need arrows, f-keys or other unlikely stuff. You keep your hands on th

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: >My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) >and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda >(lilo) is taken. According to your further mails, BIOS settings try the floppy first. Was the floppy written

RE: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Why don't you try adding a wait or sleep command to the chatscript just > before the dialout, or try a comma (,) between the numbers to see if it > helps. It may be just sending the data too fast. > > Also. Normally at&f

installation disks wanted for stable release

1997-04-11 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello, is there a chance to find a new installation disks set that is aware of bug #8313 regarding perl / perl-base in the stable release (1.2.9?) before 1.3 release date, or should I hack them for myself? I'll have to install 3 PC next week and need to put a stable release on them. Thanks in

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > I'm seeing things like this once and awhile. I just went to a serial port > that only provides Rx, Tx, RTS, and CTS. > > I have to set DTR ON all the timeon the modem, and it seems to work fine, > but sometimes it will not redial correctly. It also take

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Are you using cua for your modem? > You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of which redial correctly. -- Jaldhar

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote: > Hi! > > I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM > but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 > > Where /dev/cdrom is a symboli

Re: Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: > I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. > I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. These disks are obsolete. There is a newer set (1997-04-04?). There were many problems with those disks. The newest disk set

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11-Apr-97 Alexander Koch wrote: >Well, until now I used rawrite to produce about 4 rescue floppy disks. I >tried them all in order. I have the right order of booting. > >When booting the floppy is accessed (*schrab* *schrab*) and then the hard drive >is read

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > When I was in school, my UNIX teacher had one immutable law; > "Thou shalt learn vi". His argument was that no matter what > flavor of unix you happen to come across in your career as a > unix administrator, there will always be vi on the system. I > hav

Re: Matrox Millinium

1997-04-11 Thread Clint Adams
> Which xserver should I use to get the most out of a Matrox Millinium card > (presently I use xserver-svga) The best option is replacing the XF86_SVGA binary from xserver-svga with one from XFree86 3.2A -- it has less problems and also supports modes with more colors than 8bpp.

dselect

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I sent this a few days ago but got no answer. Does anybody know how to clear dselect status? I used hold to select only the bo pkgs I wanted to install thinking I could reset the suggested status. But it don't work. How do I reset the pkgs to the suggested st

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Are you saying that I should use vi all the time so I know what to do when I have no other choice? Or are you saying that vi is a solid standby editor to use in an emergency and you don't understand why ppl use it all the time? On 11-Apr-97 Rick Macdonald wrote

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > >> Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I >> had no other choice. > >That's it, exactly. When you have no other choice. Some people seem >to force them

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I > had no other choice. That's it, exactly. When you have no other choice. Some people seem to force themselves to use it _all_ the time, just they they know what to do when they have n

RE: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- By the way. Once you run xmkmf you have to run make install ; make install.man which you may already know. Just in case though. On 09-Apr-97 Tim O'Brien wrote: >I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary >form. I uudecoded, unzippe

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm going to finally ask this question. What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had no

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote: > Hi! > > I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM > but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 > > Where /dev/cdrom is a symboli

Re: ae (was: What editors are in base?)

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
> The only shortcoming I have run into with ae as a base editor is the lack > of a basic search command. I've also had screen freezes using it over telnet; i don't know if the new versions of ncurses have fixed this.

bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Apart from the fact that I need a vi, many new users won't ever use > vi if they find it. vi is a tool for freaks, hackers and gurus (therefore > it's a very good editor for us...). I only wish i could remember all the vi i knew , gad, 13 years ago? I got here, hit unxix again, but everyth

Re: 'Sun Java WorkShop on Debian' experience anyone?

1997-04-11 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
> jdk 1.0.2 with no problem, though I am not using it now. Did you need to install any patches to make it run? SuSE delivered a modified classes.zip along with jws, claiming the original wouldn't work... Benedikt signoff --- Benedikt Eric Heinen - Muehlemattstrasse 53 - CH3007 Bern - S

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM > > but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 > > > > Where /dev/cdrom is a sy

ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I haven't gotten any response. I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't seem to want to work no matter what I do. isapnp seems to configure it. setserial seems to configure it. statserial

Re: Boot problem

1997-04-11 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> "Daniel" == Daniel Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Now, I wanted to boot my machine in Linux. There's been no Daniel> problem with that until now. All that comes up is: "LIL-" And Daniel> then there's no response. This sounds as if you need to reboot with a floppy, then run lilo

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Felix Almeida wrote: >/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 > Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory ... >"mount /cdrom" works fine but "umount /cdrom" gives the error message: >umount: /cdrom mount disagrees with the fstab I had this problem

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, you should look at your bios settings. They can give you trouble when trying to install the base system. Specifically you should look at the memory (cache and video) and turn it off. The other thing that comes to mind is your rescue disk write pertected. If it isn't that is why it is tr

RE: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- If I'm understanding you right, you're saying that when you try to boot from the rescue disk it just boots your previous lilo. If this is true check your BIOS settings for boot order and make sure that it will boot from the floppy drive before it looks at the h

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
> "Chow" == Chow Chi-Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chow> Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for Chow> multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial Chow> up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually Chow> each time I have to switch)

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread tgakem
> > Hi! > > I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM > but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 > > Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Christian Leutloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: > Well, i too fiddled with path entries and some *.h files too commenting > out includes not found on my system like "iostream.h", "ifstream.h" > and "fstream.h". [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[leutloff] >dpkg -S iostream.h libg++27-dev: /usr/include/g++/iostream.h li

Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Felix Almeida
Hi! I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory has the following

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > > My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) > > > and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda > > > (lilo) is taken. > > > > Is the floppy dri

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I > > want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without > > having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). > > If your ISP is using dynamic IP address

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Ken Gaugler
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Greg Vence writes: > > > > ae is on board. > > > > > > > I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there > > > > anymore? :-) > > > > > > We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-( > > > There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-

ae (was: What editors are in base?)

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
The only shortcoming I have run into with ae as a base editor is the lack of a basic search command. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 11, Greg Vence wrote > > Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision > > I don't want to perform this fight a second time. This was the decision > > and now we should al live with it until we find a better solution > > (which could mean finding a very small vi or red

KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Snip for the sake of bandwith I must appolagise for the typing mistake it should be I can't get kdm to work when I type kdm >I can's get kdm to work when I type kde nothing happens ... no prosess >are spawned and no errors are given ... I also can not get xdm to work >... same deal as a

Re: Install of rpm pk on debian distrib.

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Eric De Vito wrote: > Is it possible to transform an rpm pk into a debian one ? Or at least to > install an rpm pk on a debian dist., this instal. being recorded by the debian > package management ? > Or is it necessary to get rpm and deal with debian and redhat pk managers ?

Re: Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hello, > > I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. > I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. > That set is a known problem. If you're using ftp.debian.org it's not up to date. On ftp.cdrom.com in the debian/frozen/disks-i386 th

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > Hi again. > > Well, since it is said and I experienced it several times the making of the > boot floppies is not that easy... > > My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) > and when it comes to boot it just does nothi

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Greg Vence writes: > > > > ae is on board. > > > > > > > I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there > > > > anymore? :-) > > > > > > We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-( > > > There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-

RC5 challenge up again

1997-04-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
A new home, with a sensible proxying setup: http://bovine.st.hmc.edu/ -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/>My PC page "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +-- "Tongue-tied & twi

Re: Matrox Millinium

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Karsten Bolding wrote: > > Hi > > Which xserver should I use to get the most out of a Matrox Millinium card > (presently I use xserver-svga) > > Karsten MGA -- Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install of rpm pk on debian distrib.

1997-04-11 Thread Eric De Vito
Is it possible to transform an rpm pk into a debian one ? Or at least to install an rpm pk on a debian dist., this instal. being recorded by the debian package management ? Or is it necessary to get rpm and deal with debian and redhat pk managers ? Eric

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Are you using cua for your modem? Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the > persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it > would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it > attempts to

Re: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
> I ran it because the INSTALL file said to do it as part of the installation > process. I wish I could give a better reason, but though I've been a Linux > weenie for about a year now, I'm just getting started with X and plowing up > the learning curve. I compiled my one from source and run fine.

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > > Dear all, > > Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I > want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without > having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). If your ISP is using dynamic IP addressing, you only

Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. After mounting several local disks via the install program I selected the entry to install base system. I have chosen /dev/fd0 as install medium (NICE TO HAVE THE NEW

Re: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Tim O'Brien
>> >Tim O'Brien wrote: >> >> >> >> I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary >> >> form. I uudecoded, unzipped, and un-tarred it, and rtfm'd. Following the >> >> instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told "can't find file > ^ >> 'Imakefile.

Re: CD-ROM Not Recognizing

1997-04-11 Thread tgakem
> > Is there any special configuration I must do for Debian to detect > my CD-Rom? If this is an IDE drive, as virtually all new CD-Rom drvies are that are not SCSI, you also need to watch the master/slave stetting. If your CD-Rom is connected to be slave on your 1st ide port, it should be jumpe

Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). Is there a tool for this? -- Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

MOXFM Imake fix.

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just d/led moxfm 1.0 and fixed the Imakefile so it installs correctly now. Here it is. Change XFMLIBDIR to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/moxfm even though it says that it's hard coded in. The program looks in this dir not the original. Which is right since /usr/X11 i

ppp - can't route with anything but ttyS1

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
If I set pppd to dial out on anything but ttyS1, it won't route. The modem will dial and connect, but the routing table is not updated. What have I forgotten to change? Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (aka Psychopath #3) --

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Greg Vence writes: > > ae is on board. > > > > > I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there > > > anymore? :-) > > > > We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-( > > There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This > > might be included in furt

Linux Journal, Letters to the Editor

1997-04-11 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Has anyone seen this month's Linux Journal yet? There's a man who wrote a letter to the editor, complaining about RedHat. I wrote a note to him, inviting him to try Debian. Maybe we'll see him on this list soon? It would be good, I think. Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ineta

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