PCMCIA 3.0.8 (was Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #198)

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
PCMCIA driver release 3.0.8 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:48:52 GMT If the bugs mentioned there are important to you, well tell the guy to get his butt in gear! ;-) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science

Re: Matshita CR-585 module?

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
, b primary slave, c secondary master, d secondary slave. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify

Re: Why use xterm-debian?

1999-02-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: Losing Linux

1999-02-11 Thread David Wright
to reformat the disk. That's because DOS is broken. You have to zero the first 512bytes of the partition (as DOS does) or it gets confused. It's all documented in cfdisk's man page. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: floppy disk multitasking problems

1999-02-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread David Wright
-listing the directory. Am I alone here? For example, just a few minutes ago, I could only see the READMEs and /hamm in /pub/linux/distributions/Debian, but everything is back now. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: latex

1999-02-18 Thread David Wright
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Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread David Wright
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Re: mgetty diald

1999-03-04 Thread David Wright
. Do check that you're using /dev/ttyS1 throughout, and you don't have a link called /dev/modem. The latter is a recipe for disaster. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: Hard Drive Question....

1999-03-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: RE: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive - Other Co-existi ng OS Problems...

1999-03-08 Thread David Wright
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Re: Re: Undersanding bootable media

1999-03-08 Thread David Wright
needs to contain a program to point to the OS, so how does a copied dos-boot disk work? Thanks, marlon [snipped the explanation] Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes

Re: xterm, xhost

1999-03-10 Thread David Wright
/Xsession file and insert line xhost +paladin in the beginning of it. Same can be done for discover as well. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: help! (root user)

1999-03-10 Thread David Wright
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Re: IP-aliasing scripts - in /etc/rc.boot?

1999-03-10 Thread David Wright
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Re: Help - a very little problem with latex

1999-03-15 Thread David Wright
, there is no need to do anything special. They're maths symbols so you need to write $$ and $$ to set them. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: Obtain hostnames from IP addresses

1999-03-18 Thread David Wright
. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own

Re: diff.gz file size

1999-03-18 Thread David Wright
, or, better, use mc which will do this magically on the fly. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify

Re: C question

1999-03-25 Thread David Wright
types of the arguments, which is where languages like perl and python make it so easy. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-26 Thread David Wright
NM2160 rev 1, Memory @ 0xfd00, 0xfea0 (--) SVGA: chipset: NM2160 (--) SVGA: videoram: 2048k Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: diff.gz file size

1999-03-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting XRDLAB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, David Wright wrote: No idea, but it's important not to unzip these files because the checksums don't work anymore. If you want to browse them, either make a copy before unzipping, or, better, use mc which will do this magically

Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread David Wright
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Re: emacs and autosaving

1999-04-01 Thread David Wright
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Re: Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-01 Thread David Wright
is busy, and there's nothing the software can do about it. Just a thought, but over here, a second line is quite cheap. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-12 Thread David Wright
can even recover information if the zipfiles break. Other reasons are, of course, preservation of long filenames and meta information as with .t{ar,gz} files. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

Re: latex cannot typeset a german \SS

1999-04-14 Thread David Wright
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Re: Printing specific pages

1999-04-15 Thread David Wright
pages if you can print in duplex.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views

Re: [Fwd: Re: mounting floppy disk]

1999-04-15 Thread David Wright
. This would have showed up as 2 fd. Possibly, no one pointed this out. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Installing slink from a Zip drive

1999-04-15 Thread David Wright
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Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-16 Thread David Wright
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Re: My (hamm) installation tale (long)

1999-04-16 Thread David Wright
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Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
and an attempt to compile it. I'm sorry I haven't found that, but only the 16 line message in http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01398.html which has the modprobe output. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: kernel question

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
locking up. I have a script to down the card, reload the module and up the card, restarting the print queues too. It rarely happens now, but could save a reboot. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

Re: LS-120 vs floppy

1999-04-21 Thread David Wright
. You need to copy the file atapi.sys from service pack 2. This fault has a very similar effect for NT - you can't make an NT rescue disk because it insists on formatting the disk first. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Re: Installing slink from a Zip drive

1999-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Santiago Vila Doncel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Wright wrote: The problem is that the ppa driver required to make the ZIP drive to work is now out of the kernel (i.e. as a module). [ This is a difference between Debian 2.0 and Debian 2.1 that I discovered

Re: Upgrading kernel of the same tree

1999-04-23 Thread David Wright
each time... :-/ So they thought of you! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery

Re: What are the Bogomips for a P166?

1999-04-23 Thread David Wright
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Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread David Wright
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Re: acct going berserk!

1999-04-26 Thread David Wright
. Are you runing hamm or slink (i.e. do I have to try again)? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-04 Thread David Wright
(and linux) was trivial. Takes up 1.6MB though :( (Why do I run it on the sun? Because I don't trust the file-locking in their IMAP server.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Leon Breedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Nov 04 1998, David Wright spake thus: Takes up 1.6MB though :( try 'strip' on the executable, or turning off the '-g' option to your compiler in the Makefile. my mutt executable is only +/-400KB. Thanks. I'll do that to procmail too! (I

Re: Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread David Wright
extreme, and using loadlin to boot linux, you can have a DOS partition of 504MB and all the linux partitions outside the pale. (Loadlin uses a copy of the kernel within its filesystem.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread David Wright
to the faulty one and you'll end up with a clone, partition 4 and all. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify

Re: Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-08 Thread David Wright
/network). Could ppp not do the same sort of thing? (and apologies if more knowledgable people have their thinking caps on about this). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

/var/log/kern.log is almost empty

1998-12-08 Thread David Wright
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Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread David Wright
question: What does mktimes mean? Could we have more context please? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Flavours of rebooting (was 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian ...)

1998-12-15 Thread David Wright
to an MSDOS prompt and run loadlin. To revert to W95, I Ctrl-Alt-Del which does (/etc/inittab) ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7

Re: Re: Syslog message errors!

1998-12-16 Thread David Wright
after the cron job rotates the logs at 0642. So perhaps it's worth looking carefully at what cron is doing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: strange modem behaviour

1998-12-16 Thread David Wright
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Re: PPP and mouse

1999-01-07 Thread David Wright
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Re: Re: compiling a kernel

1999-01-08 Thread David Wright
a kernel panic. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: Re:[Fwd: Installing debian with Win98][OT?]

1999-01-08 Thread David Wright
unintended smiley (albeit upsidedown) in the original posting: root directory (C:\). ^ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: hard drive

1999-01-08 Thread David Wright
, the output for the two disks differed only in their serial number. So what appears to be happening is that there's some sort of geometry conversion going on which linux is reporting on. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: System won't boot, lilo.conf problem and Re: hard drive

1999-01-11 Thread David Wright
mbr couldn't find /dev/hda2 because the BIOS which it was cooperating with did not understand the geometry of the disk. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
doesn't show in the group file (it should, at least in its own group, right?). Check man useradd and the switches you used. Then use adduser? I don't know about the oddly named file. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
space by setting HISTCONTROL (man bash). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
that this is due to my conf.modules file, which didn't appear to get changed during the upgrade. How can I find out what is supposed to be there and what isn't? It's /etc/modules which needs emptying. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
be charged for work that was never done and/or liable for abuse of the system. Perhaps you could mention this in /etc/issue or whatever (like stating that you're recording a telephone call). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): David Wright wrote: Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably elementary, but I can't find the right

Re: ARP difficulties with 2.2.x kernels and slink

1999-07-20 Thread David Wright
888.888.92.28 0x1 0xc 00:00:00:00:00:00 * eth0 In both cases, other machines show ? (888.888.92.28) at incomplete on eth0 So it appears that publishing the ARP entry kills the hardware address which negates the whole point of publishing it anyway. Quoting David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: There were two. You didn't leave one there, did you? Recently, i noticed a file setup-localhost showed up in /etc/init.d (and properly symlinked) that tries to configure the lo interface (which is already done

Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card working in Windows but not in Linux

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
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Re: My terminal is in a weird state - SOLVED

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
as mine). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
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Re: mc: How to terminate an FTP connection ?

1999-07-23 Thread David Wright
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Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card problem part 2

1999-07-26 Thread David Wright
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Re: bad login tracking

1999-07-29 Thread David Wright
is to check that bad logins are immediately followed by a good one. Everyone makes typos. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me

Re: Potato

1999-07-29 Thread David Wright
chose to download it, and the wisdom and luck with which you applied any upgrades. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me

Re: using AUI port of 3c529 (MCA) network card

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
for any advice or information on this setup and my difficulties. The best advice is probably still to set the card up with its own (dos) utility for a fixed transceiver. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: dselect woes

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Just an informational message, no worry. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: help with socket programming[OFF TOPIC]

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
processes, and so distinguishable. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views

Re: kernel read/write

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
value read/writes). WBTE (Wet Behind The Ears) ditto. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: kernel read/write

1999-08-02 Thread David Wright
I said before, it's definitely worth seeing if you can move on to 2.2 kernels (and Rubini's chapter 17) because many of the macros and functions have been made cleverer. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: wmcdplay and tray-locking

1999-08-02 Thread David Wright
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Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
~ could speed things up. Where the file name at least starts with printable characters, recognition (tab) can also help as it automatically inserts the necessary backslashes. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: Insmod ppa errors

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
kernels with parport can handle a printer connected through the zip drive like dos can. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
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Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
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Re: ppp fails LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
of braces {{{.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread David Wright
update-rc.d remove does nothing unless you've already removed the script itself. I believe the Right Way is just to unset the executable permission for /etc/init.d/xdm . Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread David Wright
xdm, and I actuly would not recomend it, who knows you might want it someday... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread David Wright
: \usepackage{portland} \begin{document} \landscape \end{document} But it does not work Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: How to put parport before printer at boot?

1999-08-16 Thread David Wright
lp Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own

Re: Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-16 Thread David Wright
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Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-17 Thread David Wright
1997 perlbug -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 11215 Jun 20 1997 perldoc Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-17 Thread David Wright
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Re: Debian with 2.2.x kernel?

1999-05-13 Thread David Wright
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Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
/spool/lpd/bar:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#72:pw#80:px#1440:mx#0:sh: plus /etc/hosts.lpd needs 192.168.100.100 All this is lpr-speak, not lprng. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: sshd

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
packets sent out, or strace it and see what it's just called when it pauses. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: Dumbterminal on network

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
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Re: /dev/ttyS1 already in use

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
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Re: zip and unzip not installed

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
(/zip may hit too much noise) and then dpkg -i filenames... to install them. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: Keyboard problems, LC_ALL, TERM

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
telnet to that host). My experience with SunOS is that if you put a ~/.terminfo tree on the sun with xterm-debian, everything works correctly. Just copy /etc/terminfo over recursively. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-17 Thread David Wright
. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own

Re: outb(9)

1999-05-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anyone know where I might find this manpage? No idea, but you might look at p164 of Rubini, Linux Device Drivers, O'Reilly, 1-56592-292-1. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science

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