Re: I Cannot upgrade with apt!

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 07:43:34AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either install

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 02:55:20PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Please read the original announcment as posted on the debian-announce mailing list and the website

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote: The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation fault at the mvwinch statement: Why are you rehashing this on -user? You've already reported this problem as a bug, and as you can check in the bug log

Re: A little question about Debian

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Redirected to -user; I don't see what this has to do with the development of Debian. Also, you get better answers if you ask more specific questions.] On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:43:48PM +, Matthias D wrote: I would like to know if there is anything like usable with API or Corba technology

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:25:28AM -0500, David Sherow wrote: Yes I have access to a machine that already has debian running on it, But I'm not to sure what to do with the patches I've downloaded. Not only that, but I'm really green on Linux. You might want to read the Kernel-HOWTO then (e.g.

Re: Running a libc5 binary - weird problem

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:36:28AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: Why does it try to link the libraries from /usr/X11R6/lib? When I try to run it it naturally segfaults. Are the paths hard-coded into the binary? Probably; check by doing objdump --allheaders mule to see if there's an RPATH entry.

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:27:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. anyone knows how to type the eszet with a none German keyboard? Using the compose feature of the Linux console driver, e.g. put include /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/vim-compose-latin1.inc in /etc/kbd/default.map.gz and

Re: Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:11:49PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM That depends on your definition of that term. The Debian project does not produce CDs. We produce Official CD images which several vendors use; some other vendors choose to use

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:30:28PM +0300, shaul wrote: It seems to me that hamm's version of gdb doesn't support debugging of ADA programs. Will that be changed in slink? From the changelog in slink's gdb: * re-integrated gnat support. (Was repported as a bug against 4.16, patch had

Re: debian latest version?

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Jason Herring Dale Davis wrote: what is debian's lattest version At the moment, 2.0 . I keep hearing about debian 2.1... We've just entered a code freeze for 2.1, meaning that we hope to release 2.1 in the not too distant future. and where can I

Re: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages on a Windows box? Probably, though I don't know how much work is involved. Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can I get at

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 08:21:26AM +0200, shaul wrote: I tried to look for slink's gdb. All I could find is some m68k staff. (I did find some relevant lines in Contents-i386.gz) What did I miss ? dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/gdb_4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.deb Note the gnat

Re: How to compile libc5 binaries?

1998-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:44:13PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: I want to build binaries of a c++ program which has to run on a libc5 based Linux. I installed these packages: libc5-altdev libdl1-altdev ldso because their descriptions say they are needed for this task. You'll need altgcc

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:27:55AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore was the same as my CD. This is not the case? Proposed security fixes (from proposed-updates) are moved into the stable tree at the request of the security team. Ray -- ART A

Re: heavy dpkg problem

1998-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote: My dpkg does not work any more: /var/lib/dpkg/status not available. I can't install any packages any more. If you're lucky, there are still backups of it in /var/lib/dpkg/ ; look for status-old, status.yesterday.0,

Re: How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger

1998-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:50:31AM -0800, Joe Smith wrote: Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent quality fonts and icons in terms of size. how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts and icons? I've not looked at icons. To make your font settings resolution

Re: SSH logon

1998-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 08:43:05PM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: I'm using: ssh -l root my host Add a -v to that so you can see what's happening more closely. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 334 Oct 30 20:21 authorized_keys SSH is quite picky about the permissions of ~/.ssh (is should be

Re: Gcc tries to compile C programs as C++ !

1998-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 05:50:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with gcc on my Debian 2.0 Linux system. I have the egcs compiler (gcc --version reports egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)). I can't think of anything in the packaging that might have caused this. On

Re: mozilla

1998-11-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 04:05:44PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: The nearest thing I could find was mozilla in slink, but this required some libs from slink, which in turn require some others, etc, and my installed system is from hamm. Should I install these now on my system, and if so

Re: can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 09:29:40AM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. There's a pine-src package you might want to look at. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap File or

Re: Postgres

2003-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 18:17:24 -0600, Dan Roscoe wrote: Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user dan in /var/www/boards/db/postgres7.php on line 79 phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database which would lead someone to

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 15:32:38 +0900, Bengt Thure'e wrote: I have a small girl at home (1 year old) who is fascinating with a Pippi Longstocking game (with loads of various sound and visual effects) which she loves, but it is for Windows. The highlight in this program is the room with

Re: default keymap

2003-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 16:25:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I change the default keymap to be loaded at boot? I tried to run dpkg-reconfigure console-tools and change from us to se keymap, but still I get the us keymap loaded during boot. Try dpkg-reconfigure -plow

Re: Gnome2 program requirements

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:00:34 -0700, Michael Montagne wrote: I'm recently running into issues with certain gnome2 apps (maybe all) installed from unstable (specifically gnumeric). I get an error that says an error occurred when saving my configuration information... The details portion of

Re: exim exposed to the internet

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 17:12:43 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: So I decided to run eximconfig and upgraded my mail server to not use a smarthost. Works perfectly! I still have port 25 closed on my server, however. Can I just open it Perhaps you should first ask yourself why you would want to

Re: mutt header display question

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:42:17 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: Just a minute ago, when I just catted a sample msg file in the shell it showed as AmikaGuardian (TM) Server [EMAIL PROTECTED] So now I understand why my filter wasn't working. Can someone explain to me why mutt's display

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the distribution prior to the current stable oen. Current stable (woody) supports installation on

Re: Pretty hard copies of info, man pages.

2003-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:56:01 -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: Could someone provide some example of the sequence to get some nice (dvi, ps, html, whatever) file of the info pages? There's an info2www CGI script to convert to HTML. For DVI and PS, info is not the appropriate format to start from.

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
[Please do not use HTML in email; see e.g. http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml] On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 13:54:07 +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: I have a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 on CD-Rom 7 discs in fact. Unfortunately my computer bios only provides boot

Re: Exim4 and MailDir

2003-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 00:07:53 -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to this poor soul. One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite of it's exim4 installation. That command can be used when creating

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 18:28:01 +0100, Pigeon wrote: They use exim 4.10... anyone got an exim.conf rule for 4.10 to block swen at SMTP time, so I can send them a prepackaged solution - Read this line, you can see it's not malignant, stick it in your exim.conf and make lots of people very

Re: Sarge release date

2003-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:10:56 -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Hi! When is sarge release date? When it is ready. For more information, follow the debian-release list and http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . This really ought to be in the FAQ. Ray -- Perhaps they spent some of the time

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:11:34PM +, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/{msdos,win32,nt} or any other CTAN site, methinks. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Chris Fury wrote: So, um, what would you people like to see packaged? :) See http://www.debian.org/~johnie/ . And I'm sure we'd be grateful if someone were to go over the list of ancient bugs to see if they're still present. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: Newer kernels

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:59:45PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ? No. There are no newer stable kernels than 2.0.35 at the moment (although the prepatches for 2.0.36 seem to be stabilising now); if you want to have packages for newer kernels

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:07:52PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. I don't know if it can

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [junkbuster] You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in ~/.netscape directory if I remember correctly) a symbolic link to /dev/null Aren't cookies

Re: compiling a lesstif program

1998-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 09:32:13AM +1100, Andrew Julie Daws wrote: I am just starting to play around with programming under linux, and am curious to know just what options I need to use with cc for it to find the lesstif libraries, header files etc. Currently I have tried

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 02:02:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [reformatted to 80 columns. *sigh*] The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by Xfree 3.3.2. The Neo magic card is supported

Re: Mail to News

1998-11-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:14:07AM -, Moore, Paul wrote: Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway the traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server? Filename: dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/news/newsgate_1.6-10.deb Description: Mail to News

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:46:29PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: My Debian system just crashed. [description] It sounds a lot like it may have been just a crash of the X server. Is your machine on a network? Could you still access it from the network? Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa,

Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0

1998-11-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:53:01PM +1000, Robert King wrote: Anyone had success with this installation? IIRC, matlab is still libc5; this means you have to install the libc5 versions of all the libraries it requires. I'm running into problems. Onep possibility is the the libraries matlab

Re: in which directory does lynx.cfg belong?

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 02:55:15AM -0800, David Karlin wrote: Does it go in /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg, or another location? Debian packages do not touch /usr/local, as that is reserved for use by the local sysadmin. dpkg --status lynx will tell you that /etc/lynx.cfg is the only configuration

Re: ssh

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Moved to -user. This does _not_ belong on -private.] On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:10:11AM -0300, Carlos Barros wrote: Is there any new version for ssh*.deb. There are no ssh 2.0 .debs. The current maintainer isn't interested (as ssh2 has even more restrictive usage conditions than ssh1),

Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 09:23:12 -0800, Eric House wrote: My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. Take a look at SVGAtextmode. HTH, Ray --

Re: how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 15:47:06 +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I need new fonts for console but I do not know how it is possible to create them. According to /usr/doc/kbd/README.consolefonts : A DOS-hosted PSF font editor is available on eecs.nwu.edu. [no further details of it are provided]

Re: how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 13:52:06 +0100, I wrote: [difficult approaches to create console fonts] I just looked in the available packages list, and found Package: fonter Section: editors Description: The new generation of font manipulation Fonter is an interactive console font (.fnt) manipulation

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 22:26:07 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it. That was an unofficial version; there's now an official version (2.0) which support it; it is available in the tools directory of Debian mirrors. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 13:06:22 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: [how to have user write access to a DOS/windows partition] You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 14:11:44 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following error: dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries libz.so.1: cannot open Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 16:37:48 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: I am trying to install NTFS driver on Debian 2.0 .The INSTALL sais to do ./configure which checks the gcc compiler (2.7.2.3-2): C-compiler cannot create executables What's wrong with gcc ?? That's difficult to tell.

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 17:02:27 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: configure:554: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:583: checking for gcc configure:660: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:674: gcc -o conftestconftest.c 15 ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file

Re: perl linked with gdbm?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 19:18:20 +, Marc Haber wrote: Should I try to shut the compiler up by installing gdbm? For now, yes. Quite likely perl's dependency on gdbm will be remove in a future version of the perl packages. |I suppose it's possible that the Debian crowd messed up their Perl

Re: Cyrillic input in X

1998-11-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:57:53 +0300, Vad Ivanov wrote: Could anybody share his(her) positive (and negative too :)) experience in setting up of cyrillic input in X? There's a Debian-derived distribution at http://eugene.mplik.ru/doc/lys/ which I suspect has improved support for Russian. It

Re: kde seems to be missing in slink?

1998-11-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 13:30:07 -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Someone may have asked this before (I did search the archives but couldn't find anything) but... Is there a reason there aren't any kde packages in slink? Yes. See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 . Note that the Qt

Re: how to decode quoted printable?

1998-11-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 11:46:08 +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: I was looking for a program/filter ... for an apparently simple task: convert a message from quoted-printable to 8bit (iso latin1 encoding) You sent your message with mutt; mutt can do it for you (go to the message; type v to list

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:41:53 +, Magnus Peterson wrote: On the Debian web-site you list four vendors of Debian CDs within the United Kingdom. Two of the sites listed are currently dead. They are http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ http://tree.home.ml.org/ IIRC,

Re: HAMM: libc5 based X application failures

1998-11-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 08:15:19 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: After upgrading from bo to hamm, xmaple did not work any more (the command line tool maple did work). The error message was Segmentation fault :-( Further I noticed, that netscape 4.07 did not work either (the same error message).

Re: Compiling with libc5

1998-11-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 15:23:27 +0530, XRDLAB wrote: I wanted to compile a program on my hamm machine and ran into some problems. I found that the reason for the errors were due to libc5 dependency of the program. I installed libc5-altdev package and tried to compile the program with the

Re: mutt vim

1998-11-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 15:08:13 +, Dave Swegen asked: I'm currently using pico as the composer for mutt, but would like to switch to vim. Problem is that I have vim setup for programming in .vimrc, and need different settings for mail composition. So how do I go about telling vim to use a

Re: Kernel compile problem

1998-11-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:05:24 -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:06:29PM +, Roger Franz wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: Program cc1 got fatal signal 11. Ohh, nasty. AFAIR this means you have some bad mem or cpu (more likely memory). Not necessarily,

Re: which package for C++

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 16:55:03 -0600, JonesMB wrote: I am trying to build kpilot for my Palm Pilot and I get this error when I run .configure configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH AFAIK I already have the gcc package. The following is listed by dpkg -l. I am able to

Re: Recommendation for PGP

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:15:04 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Could anyone help me in getting the right PGP. There seem to be two versions, 2.6.3i and 5.0i. It's difficult to tell which one is right for you if you don't state any criteria. For Debian development, you currently need an RSA

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 23:17:32 +, Richard Deighton wrote: Is anyone working on debs for gcc 2.8.1? There are debs of 2.8.1 in project/experimental. They're unsupported of course. It'd be nice to have soon. Why? We have EGCS. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:39:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting J.H.M. Dassen Ray([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [regarding gcc 2.8.1] Why? We have EGCS. Yep, and slink is screwed up because of it. Congratulations on succeeding to raise my blood pressure. The problems we have in slink

Re: Installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes?

1998-12-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 00:43:20 -0800, Swee Keat Sng wrote: Does anyone know how I can go abt installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes such as Redhat? Use Alien (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/). Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 06:10:44 -0500, David Randall wrote: Here are the broken packages: size broken Next unbroken release 93182 libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-1.deb ??? libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2, which should be on most mirrors by now has been recompiled with the fixed libc6.

Re: egcs 1.1.1

1998-12-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 21:20:51 -0600, Chris Frost wrote: Has anyone grabbed egcs 1.1.1 and compiled it? The last egcs 1.1.1 prerelease (which is identical to the release) is available in both frozen and unstable. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose

Re: Is ssh version 2.0.x going to be added to Debian ?

1998-12-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 14:14:18 -0800, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: Is this going to be put into Debian at some time ? Perhaps. If someone volunteers to package it. If not, what are the issue (not enough free time to do it, not-freeware-enough-license, etc) ? SSH2's license defines

Re: HELP: jikes libstdc++.so.2.8 probs

1998-12-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 15:56:15 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info what can i do to get this solved? Install libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2 which should be on most mirrors by now. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:52:33 -0500, AJ wrote: is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like: ssh -l login -p password host.com This would defeat part of ssh's purpose. or is there a way to specify the password for this host so it doesnt ask you? Look at the documenation

Re: new libc6 problem?

1998-12-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 16:48:06 -0600, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6 conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils including dpkg... anyone know what's up? More aftermath of the __register_frame_info problem.

Re: new libc6 problem?

1998-12-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:27:55 -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | More aftermath of the __register_frame_info problem. Joel Klecker has done | an NMU of libc6 (which is now installed in the master archive | I suggest postponing updating until

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:50:48 -0800, Martin Waller wrote: I am stunningly confused about the whole c and c++ suite thing that's going on (I'm still in HAMM - it's *not * the __register_frame_info stuff!). Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . Being naive enough to try anything, and having

Re: Old Packages?

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 14:18:51 +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old libc5 Packages I need? Quoting http://www.debian.org/ : :Old versions of Debian : :Debian 1.3 (codenamed Bo) can be found at

Re: ftp gone from dselect

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:15:29 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to restore it. Install dpkg-ftp. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te

ms-tnef garbage (was Re: How to set page size in GROFF?)

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:06:48 -0500, Richardson, Tony wrote: How do I set the page length of the ASCII device in {n,t,g}roff? I don't know. But frankly, When I see that your message has the following structure: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] [--

Re: new libc6 problem?

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:53:10 -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | There is nothing directly about ftp.debian.org. It's a mirror like any | other. (The master site is master.debian.org, which is only accessible | to developers) So what level

Re: bizzare mutt behavior

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 22:12:23 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Whenever I go to compose a message in mutt, I have a problem with the d key when mutt prompts me for the to: field. You are using a recent mutt with an old muttrc. Current muttrc-s need to have .. around multi-character keynames. So

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 00:13:16 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . It didn't say *why* we have an apparent fork in compiler development. It doesn't contain a full history of the free software movement either, as that's out of scope for that document too. Since the

Re: Continued libc6 problems....

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 15:21:33 -0800, Curt Howland wrote: [libstdc++2.8 upgraded, dselect still breaks] You don't mention what version of dpkg you have installed. The current version of dpkg in frozen is linked against libstdc++2.9, not 2.8, so it's quite likely that upgrading your libstdc++2.9

Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?)

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 08:06:23 -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: For the past few days everytime i post to debian-user I get this back. It has started to become very annoying :-( -- Forwarded message -- [A French mail delivery failure message] insert rant about why

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 17:36:32 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop a la Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) Take a look at MagicPoint (the mgp package). HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to

Re: floating point exeption?

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:38:33 +0200, virtanen wrote: 'floating point exeption' and what to do with it? On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 18:27:39 +0200, virtanen wrote: I used earlier suse 5.2. and installed the same program and it worked perfectly SuSE 5.2 is a libc5 system. Perhaps you

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:38:10 +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrated

Re: xterm-debian

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:22:00 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: What's the deal with the terminal setting xterm-debian? Read /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian in frozen's xterm package. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 20:12:48 +, Ted Llewellyn wrote: Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do that I have to

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 22:35:31 +1100, Damon Muller wrote: I don't know how or why, but when I try and run a ./configure script for a few different programs, it tells me c++ cannot create executables. You don't quote the relevant part of the config.log configure generates, so it's very

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 01:02:33 +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:11:52PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Debian is not motivated by profit, so when a new Debian release cometh, you can be sure it's been tested to a full extent. I think Sorry, but I want to disagree here.

Re: Help with libc6/libstdc++2.8

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 02:13:28 +, Charles Collicutt wrote: Any ideas anyone? Yes. Make a habit out of reporting precise version numbers when you complain about packages. The combination of dpkg 1.4.0.31 (or newer), libc6 2.0.7u-7.1 (or newer), libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-2 (or newer),

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 14:40:54 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:41:33PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: Take a look at MagicPoint (the mgp package). Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only `libmagick4g

Re: C++ include files

1998-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:52:37 +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: I using egcs1.0.3 (?) and libstd++2.9 (I think.) That may be your problem. For egcs 1.0.3, you need libstdc++2.8(-dev), not 2.9. 2.9 is for use with egcs 1.1 and 1.1.1 . Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 15:17:17 +, Stefan Baums wrote: STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx According to the file extensions list at http://whatis.com/ , that's BinHex encoded. The macutils package can convert that. Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 19:31:19 +, Stefan Baums wrote: My guess is that STEDT.bin is the font file. So I tried all the converters in macutils on that file, but I couldn't get the .ttf's out of it. Since I have no clue how Macs work, I'm at a loss what to do now. Run file on the extracted

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote: At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go with info pages instead of man pages? Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better, although there was no definitive explanation as to why (or

Re: Potato release?

1999-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:54:27 +0200, Johan Groth wrote: I wonder if there are any rumours when potato will be released? Whatever rumours there are, their informational value is most likely zero. Currently, we're not even in code freeze yet, and AFAIK, the release manager is not considering

Re: font conversion

1999-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:29:37 -0700, John Haggerty wrote: However when I try to export the font to something I can use (psf) it just fails. That's not a very informative description of your problem. Could someone recommend a fix for this Please submit a detailed description of the problem

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 20:24:52 +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: I haven't found any really good documantation about the rest of the C++ library. If you have a good net connection, http://www.dinkumware.com/htm_cpl/ is nice. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:25:15 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: A word of warning: In my (albeit limited) experience, C++ and the STL has been more of a pain than a blessing. I wrote several programs that used the STL for linked lists and sorting, and found out that FreeBSD is not up to par with

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