On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
Paul,
Try ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/LANMAN/
There should be four disk images there that give you a the DOS
LanManager client. This should work.
You can also use Lantastic 7.0 with the encapsulated NetBIOS and SMB
I was going to try and set up mgetty to allow me to call my machine from
elsewhere for either ppp or shell access so I could connect from pretty much
any machine with a modem. I need to also be able to locally initiate an
outgoing call from this machine on the same modem for ppp or dialup access
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:57:41PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before
the login
prompt appears.
Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't
work.
TIA.
Many folks suggested adding
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:36:57AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
Instead of all this futzing around, why not use a getty designed for
what you are doing?? I use mingetty. Not only is it smaller than
agetty, and a hair faster -- it also clears term. I have it display
linux_logo above my login prompt.
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Syed Huq wrote:
I have a Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg, parallel port). How do I make
Linux see all the files there ?
Do I need to mount that drive somehow ? Can you tell me the commands
to use ?
This really belongs in debian-user, so the To: header has
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by
default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that
says alias ls=ls --color=auto. This wll make ls give colored
output. You can also put that line in
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:24:48AM -0500, Eric wrote:
I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three
partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a really
silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and can't
figure
it out.
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:53:17AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
and the line 'source ~/bash_functions' in both .bash_profile and .bashrc.
I was using . ~/... I like that better, it seems more Righttm.
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On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote:
is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created
I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading
something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support
this.
They didn't
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 05:34:06PM +0200, Brederlow wrote:
They didn't have space for it anymore. It'd be an interesting thing to set
up to give people at LUG meetings. It's kinda what I wanted to do with a
Zip disk.. Bring me a Zip disk and I'll give you a working Linux system
that
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in
2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two
kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is
broken. As far as I know
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 04:45:44AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote:
I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as
root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root.
Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem.
The same modem works when i start it from win95
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:57:08PM -0600, Phil Humpherys wrote:
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a good policy for /tmp directory to have 777
permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on
that directory until even there's no more space on device,
rigth
Please forgive me for the crossposted reply, I've trimmed some addresses
out.
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future
of Linux IMHO. I2O also springs to mind, and Intel may help with
this. We've seen
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if
you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's.
I think bladenc is binary-only, but LAME is free though it has some assembly
required.
I believe source was
* Knghtbrd bops netgod for the subject line
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-- Richie Ryan, Highlander: The Series
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 07:15:55PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
Anyway, 4 PM is a bit early for me on Monday (have to work), but if
people would like to meet somewhere that evening, it could be fun.
How about it?
I'd recommend getting together with Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:37:13PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
Ok, so the consensus seems to be that everyone wants to meet near
where they live;-) It might be nice to carpool a bit further south, so
as to accomodate the people closer to san jose... Urk, I don't know
if I want to drive with
, there was a list on #debian in the topic, someone removed it.
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lux if macOS
to be correct.
Fair reply: non-us is _ALWAYS_ broken.
It's being addressed, but the end result is almost certainly going to be
that Debian will end up with a new non-us server in a new location and
the ftpmasters will actually have access to the new machine.
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On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:05:38PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
You'll find an up-to-date archive of both lists at
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/usenet/mailing-lists/debian-{devel,user}/
It's splitted by months and gzipped for older months.
Noteworthy is that this unlike the HTML
if we shoot for having
it out by the holidays it could be done, however we've seen what happens
if it's not done by December---everyone goes on vacation and nothing gets
done until February. =p
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On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 01:48:29AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to
happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having
it out by the holidays it could
they are who they say they are, can demonstrate control of
the email address they gave you, etc, AND can demonstrate they can use the
key, they're probably safe.
I love it, this is most definitely going into the HOWTO...
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On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:01:07AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
Format: 1.6
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:19:55 -0700
Source: epic4
Binary: epic4 epic4-dbg
Architecture: source i386
Version: pre2.004-19990618-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer
2
nameserver nameserver 3
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Techical solutions are not a matter of voting. Two legislations in the US
and
it will cooperate with gpm just fine!
Making it suddenly /require/ root to function?
Uh, no.
+set vid_svgalibgfx 1
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will NOT do that for a piece of GPL code. I flatly refuse, and it's my
package.
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to make sure my mirror
is legal and I want you to do it for me. If that's how it has to be,
that's how it has to be. You're better to stop mirroring.
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(that you have to bye on some
legal way) it is completetely useless.=20
quake-lib.
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machines and we have a _LOT_ of lists!) debian-user might be able
to help.
Good luck with Debian!
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Glumanda
Goldini
e.t.c.
;)
You know we have to kill you now, right?
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if there's some technical
how-to information presented. Also archives of this kind of stuff would
be great for new maintainers.
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That should do it, yes. And it'll remove exim for you, safely. You
could do exim purge above, but you are gonna want to keep a working mail
config around just in case...
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it.
All in all, a rougher upgrade than you'd expect to see from any debian
version to any other.
Possibly someone will post information on how to do this cleanly as we get
closer to a potato release.
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BenC -include ../../debian/el33t.h
BenC sendmail build
you via the lists. I will not attempt to do so in the
future. Mail me from an ISP with a clue in the future if you'd like a
reply.
Regarding your problem, epic4 pre2.507 (uploaded today) should fix it.
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useful. :)
The install does ask if MD5 is preferred, IIRC.
It does, and it has the (IMO preferred) default of yes.
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I mean, as long as I can make my rocket launcher
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 06:30:55PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
I read on the list a while ago (I may have misinterpreted) that there was
a configuration utility written in tk or tcl for afterstep. is this true?
where can i get it?
For 1.0, yes.
For 1.4, not yet. =
pgpf32IdMH2rK.pgp
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but
without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf
package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:33:40PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95
and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same
partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32
partition?
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:01:32PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote:
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was
doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where
I ran into trouble.
These are the versions of procmail and smail
smail
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:31:59PM -0700, Phlip wrote:
I got this version ooff your site and installed it but had problems
making it the default manager. Also, is the file .steprc included in the
package? I can't seem to locate it on my system and would really
appreciate knowing where it is
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:19:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast,
slick, and easily configurable wm?
Why not just stick with the 1.0 series?
Upstream bugs, no libc6 version, the package was upgraded kinda by accident
(was on
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Carlos Figueroa wrote:
Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator? E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
There is one, xgs. At this time, there is not a .deb of it and you need a
ROM image for it. It will take 00, 01, and 03 ROMs which can be found
places you would
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:15:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
dpk wrote:
I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast,
slick, and easily configurable wm?
WindowMaker. As a bonus, it's similar to afterstep in look feel.
To be fair, the config file for wmaker hasn't
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 04:22:55AM +1000, Chris wrote:
Hi all,
What happened to afterstep? I just installed afterstep for my newly
upgraded hamm box, expecting to see my setup just as normal, however it
appears that afterstep has been replaced with something else - GNUStep.
To be honest,
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote:
Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought
you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story
came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft winning one in the DOJ
battle. Sounds like a
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:36:09AM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest
libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for
something = 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being
greaterthan or equal to.G
[Story part, you can skip this if you want]
I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives
(ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem.. My
external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged. The damage
doesn't affect the
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:15:52AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
i install the base system yesterday , and i have one ethernet
board named
Novell NE2000 Compatible , but the install program can not detect this
hardware . i knew the card parameter is io=3D280 irq=3D3 ,
how can
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 03:42:12PM -0600, Tamas Papp wrote:
My problem was that I couldn't not substitute kernel-headers-2.0.32 with
kernel-headers-2.0.33 in the sense that libc6-dev depends on the former
but it doesn't accept the latter instead, so my problem was a dependency
problem.
I
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:20:00PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
kernel-source-version may not supply the same headers as
kernel-headers-version, especially on non intel hardware. There
fore the dependency in libc6-dev is correct.
manoj
The problems I saw were in installing
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 03:46:48PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Granted, OSS/Linux is an example of how NOT to write a driver for Linux,
and OSS/Free is worse, but.
Some day in the future, the ALSA (Alternative Linux Sound Architecture) may
take over. It is (L)GPL'ed software. Help is
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 07:01:46PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
I usually do not delete the package files after I download them in case I
need to re-install them. Because of this I have a lot of package files
from my bo system still crowding my hard drive. I would like to delete
the
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 08:14:02AM +0200, Franz-Gerhard Hoyer wrote:
Hallo, my name is Gerhard!
I installed the latest debianversion on my PC, and tried to install the
kde-beta3. When I try to install the kdelibs it breakes with the message
that it need giflib2. Where I can get it?
Please
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote:
About a month ago there were many people raving about deity, the replacement
to dselect.
Will it be in the Debian 2 release?
No, and it's called apt now. It's at (last look) 0.0.5 and is not
functional yet in and of itself. It
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 01:46:07PM +0100, Rick McKenzie wrote:
If you could choose one book to help you learn Linux, what would it
be? I'm looking for something that covers installation, use, and
administration. Oh yeah, and also how to format a floppy disk : )
I used and can reccommend
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:27:53PM +0200, Klas Lindberg wrote:
Namely that the package you're asking for doesn't exist. HOWEVER, there
is a libgif2 and that is what you want. Assuming of course that you're
willing to hack apart the .deb file, edit the dependancy, and put it back
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:58:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some 'mutt for pine users' documentation available somewhere?
Not that I'm aware of. There's a Pine.rc in /usr/doc/mutt*/examples that
gives you Pine-like keybindings though.
That's not enough. What I did was take
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
If youw ant the Easy way out check out
www.4front-tech.com they have the OSS/Linux sound card drivers
They work great and suport many cards. They have one advantage in being
comercial software (there is also OSS/Free...but it
Debian will not work with my mouse or modem. I installed several times and
the last time I left on the system, and wrote down what I did/ was asked to
do ect.
here is what I did on my final install:
okay, let's see here...
[..]
#chagned root password , created a user ryder made a pass
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote:
I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password. I also
added a line saying that I want mda formail -s procmail. I have a
.forward file in
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 07:54:40PM +0200, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
Does anybody still have an afterstep_1.0 package lying around? I
accidentally installed 1.4, and I hate it. Completely new configuration,
which I don't want to learn right now (other than that it looks very
nice, though I
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:05:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I have exim (1.90-3) and mutt (non-i, 0.91.1-1) installed here;
when I send a message, mutt sets the from address to just
hamish@@.
In .muttrc I have:
set hostname=earthlink.net# my DNS domain
set use_from
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:42:43AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
In .muttrc I have:
set hostname=earthlink.net# my DNS domain
set use_from# always generate the `From:' header
field
Thanks for your help. Although this will certainly work, I'd ideally
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 05:16:02PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
In .muttrc I have:
set hostname=earthlink.net # my DNS domain
set use_from # always generate the `From:' header
field
Thanks for your help. Although this will certainly work, I'd ideally
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 06:49:14PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
RANTThere is nothing Easy about OSS/Linux. OSS/* is an example of how
NOT to write good drivers for Linux. =p/RANT
Ok I will admit...it has its um quirks
reminds me..have to set mu /usr/include/
sym links back
I'd
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 05:00:51AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Whats ALSA?
A sound driver (very early stages) which many hope will replace OSS in the
kernel as a powerful and fully free sound driver.
For completeness:
Alternative Linux Sound Architecture.
Author Jaroslav
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:38:54PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
In .muttrc I have:
set hostname=earthlink.net # my DNS domain
set use_from # always generate the `From:' header
field
Thanks for your help. Although this will certainly work, I'd
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:43:51AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Hmmm. I consider it broken to have to specify the FQDN for the mail
sub-system in more than one location. mutt should either not need
to know (I prefer it did), or be able to determine it itself.
The FQDN for this machine is not
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:45:28PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
Oops, I thought I was on the mutt list. I guess you're using smail and
it is a nightmare on a dialup connection. I'm probably going to switch
to another mailer soon.
I happen to like qmail. It has the problem of needing a FQDN
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 05:46:10PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
I quote from the copyright:
...
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of
Washington is hereby granted, provided that these legal
I finally decided to give KDE another shot. I got the beta4 .deb files
and installed them and then went to go look at /opt---these isn't one.
The beta4 KDE package is policy-compliant for those who wanted it.
KDE looked nice--though I will spend weeks trying to sort out how to make
kwm work
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Heiko R. Selber wrote:
I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems that
the .deb packages exist only in hamm. Is that true, or did someone make
new KDE packages for bo? If so, where can I get them?
I saw a bo directory on
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:42:16PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You
get the idea.
The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the
lines of:
This software is owned by Microsoft, not you. You have
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
I need to install the new source-only pine package ... I've got the
.orig.tar.gz, the .dsc, and the .diff.gz, and can't seem to get patch
to install them. How to I go about this? Is there a dpkg option for it?
Move the three files
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 08:00:12PM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
: Mutt is, at best, a very weak replacement for Pine. As for text email
: clients, Pine has no equal and is free enough for most uses. If Debian
: is going to start producing a crappy distribution just because it is free,
: I
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:00:06PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote:
Yes. I'm one of those nuts who believes in reliable delivery with an NFS
mounted mail spool. :-) Also much more resilient, and less prone to
corruption and message loss.
I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool) and
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:06:25AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
6) Support for threaded discussions (great for mailing lists!)
I'll reserve judgement about this being a good or bad thing. It's been
handy for mailing lists yes, but I would like to disable it other places.
It's probably
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:06:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
Currently the only way to use maildir with sendmail is via the (excellent)
procmail patch.
Or you can use exim but that is a whole other thread.
Also, what about systems where the spool and the home directory are BOTH
NFS
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:38:19AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
Currently the only way to use maildir with sendmail is via the (excellent)
procmail patch.
hi,
Hi back =
do you (or anyone else) have link for the maildir patch for procmail? i
am in the process of tuning a nfs mounted
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:28:54PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote:
As for the source package thing, if the binary generated by the user is
exactly the same as the binary that would be provided in a .deb, what is
the point? It seems like a lot of extra work that changes absolutely
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Adam Klein wrote:
How about a pine-src package with the patch included, which patches the
original sources in the postinst script, builds the binary package and
then installs it?
That's the proposed solution right now.
Yeah, and I like it. =
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 02:19:47PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I got mutt and installed it about a week ago...along with pine. I
really like pine so...it will take some convincing to get me over to
mutt there are a few features of pine I like and if mutt has them then I
would be happy to
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 01:48:40PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
When you know complain about the removed pine package, then you have two
direct solutions (beside the solution to make your own pine package and put
it on a derived distribution, as you are describing below):
Why do you
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:48:17PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
Should we get a petition and a nice request letter going? :-)
RMS has tried it several times, I think, without any success.
Do you really think we would succeed? Any special reason why they would
hear us now but not before?
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:54:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[..]
Like Qmail. There are lots of packages in
non-free as .deb files. We even make it easy to install qmail on your
machine, compiling during the install.
[..]
When did that happen? qmail-src for me just dropped the .dsc
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:12:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
But I still get messages that fail these tests from:
Colin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, the full headers don't look like they came from
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:30:28PM -0500, David Engel wrote:
Does anyone know of a large, nice looking, fixed-size font for X?
With my poor vision, I need something slightly bigger than the
standard 10x20 font for extended use. The 12x24 font is about the
right size (maybe a tad too large),
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:29:01PM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote:
That's the proposed solution right now.
Yeah, and I like it. =
Despite the millions of compiler warnings pine compiles cleanly enough.
You've obviously stumbled upon a new meaning of the phrase cleanly
enough that I was
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 08:19:03PM -0400, Alain Toussaint wrote:
i'm writing this list because i want to know if there's someone using KDE
on a bo system and i'd like to know if it's good to try the binary
available or i'm better to compile the sources ??
afaik there is a beta4 for bo, just
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:41:15PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
I believe the package maintainer has commented on this thread already and
seems at least interested in the prospect of a pine-src package which
would probably end up in slink and hamm-updates. This may not be the
simplest
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:40:43PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
For the point of the approval of patches to make a binary image, it's
almost a non-issue with the src package because the src package will
always be preferred for reasons of the bugs fixed and features added. If
you're worried
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:55:08AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
: I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool) and have never ever
: experienceed corruption and mail loss due to pine. message loss to me is
: more of a mta problem, but that's beside the point.
Yes, it is more of an MTA
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 01:51:06AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the
procmail in slink, which is cool by me. =
you got me again... what is slink?
That's the new unstable. There was a request for objection to the patch
getting
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:07:44PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the
procmail in slink, which is cool by me. =
you got me again... what is slink?
Next release of debian... bo-- hamm -- slink
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 09:43:31AM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote:
(Not wishing to contribute further to that pine thread...)
Agreed, I think it's time to kill that one.
So, since we've got to have some packages distributed only as sources, how
about a little bit of extension to Debian's
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
My new computer has the 440LX chipset, and it seems that there are alot of
pci devices that are unknown to Debian 1.3.1 and 1.3.1.r6
I can begin to load linux by booting the CD, and everything works fine, even
the hdd
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