On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the
filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is
appreciated.
Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell:
export PS1='\h:\w$ '
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
I agree.
I agree too.
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I may switch from ISDN to a business class cable modem service that
routes packets between my home and office directly from the cable modem
head through ATM VPC. IE, this traffic is supposedly not at risk.
(I hope I have the above correct; it's not my area of expertise)
But I would also see the
Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32)
with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, or should I just get the
original source tar file and use that?
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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
Installed tkirc but when I attempt to run it I get this:
godzilla# tkirc
Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
environment variable
Just like it says. Try something like: export DISPLAY=:0.0
assuming that you're
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop?
xv has a grab function built-in. It can grab a single window or the entire
root window (ie the entire screen).
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Nico De Ranter wrote:
I need to be able to interactivly talk to a serial device. On
other UNIX systems I would use tip (SUN) or cu (SGI).
Is there anything like that for Linux?
minicom in the comm directory.
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Personally, I've always had enough local disk to mirror the entire
Debian distribution, so updating isn't a problem.
I have a few co-workers and friends that have installed the official CD
but they don't have any other local deb files. IE non-free and the
1.3.1.r1 to 1.3.1.r6 updates.
Searching
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on
'our' hands... and I mean that seriously) but it seems to me that by
choosing against something like KDE (which to all intents and purposes
*is* free software to the end user) we
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
is there anyway to make netscape use the system mailboxes instead of
moving all the mail to its own box? imap? anyone done this before?
In Netscape 4.0 (Communicator), the
Edit/Preferences/MailGroups/MailServer dialog has this option:
o IMAP4
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, dc wrote:
Enough is enough.
So that one might know who you are, what is your name, or have you always
just gone by dc?
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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
Samba, the standard set of net servers, and perhaps a POP server are all
SMBFS doesn't work as well as SMBCLIENT for sharing files from the 95
system on the Debian machine. At times, it's wedged on me and I have had
to remove and re-load its module to
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Debian mail-lists receiver wrote:
Does anyone know a fix for this? I have a 33.6 Modem Master 6000 fax/modem
which, in win-95 is configured for base address 0x2F8, irq 3. However, the
serial driver under Linux doesn't see it.
I helped a friend install Debian. He has an
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Lawrence wrote:
do you know their the www site?
i'll also vouch for BRU. its reliable and they have good support if
and when it's needed.
http://www.estinc.com/
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I have an ASUS TX97e motherboard.
So do I.
Will I be able to proceed with the Debian GNU/Linux install even though
I'm missing this driver? Is there a site I can find a list of hardware
supported by Debian GNU/Linux?
Just ignore the error message. I have no problems and get the message
The release notes for Communicator 4.04 say that Linux plugins only work
with the dynamically linked version of Motif 1.2.
Does lesstif provide this, and do plugins work?
I recall that bash 2.0.1 (or was it 2.1?) is also required?
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w3.el.
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:07:39 -0600
From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: deb-view.el: emacs tool for browsing deb files!
I've written a tool for emacs that allows one to browse deb files.
It's nice to peek at a package file and read the doc, man pages
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote:
Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the
Packages files but didn't see it.
Debian 1.3.1:
/binary-i386/devel/cvs-pcl_1.9-4.deb
/binary-i386/devel/cvs_1.9-4.deb
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On 25 Nov 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Witold Grabysz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: the following phrase doesn't work in bash:
: ((ls);(ls))
Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work:
( (ls);(ls))
Can anybody confirm if this is fixed in bash-2.01?
Try changing the definition
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Stephen Zander wrote:
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Witold Grabysz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: the following phrase doesn't work in bash:
: ((ls);(ls))
: Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it?
Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote:
Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote:
: the following phrase doesn't work in bash:
: ((ls);(ls))
: Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it?
:
: It is a little important for
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Alan Su wrote:
Rick Macdonald wrote (Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:27:13 -0700 (MST) ):
|
| Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work:
|
| ( (ls);(ls))
|
| Try changing the definition of the helper in Netscape to follow the
| above syntax.
|
|I couldn't find
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote:
After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine,
I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation).
Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to
be normal, but the
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be
enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if
there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code?
http://skip.incog.com/
I
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Carl Mummert wrote:
Summary:
1) foo
2) cp /dev/null foo
Problems:
2) cp /dev/null foo won't take multiple filenames as arguments
So the answer is that I do need a script or program to do the job.
What about:
rm -f {list of filenames}
touch {list of filenames}
I recently (finally) upgraded from lenny to squeeze. All seems well
except if I choose the sawfish window manager from the gdm3 greeter, the
dialog goes away and it just sits with the debian logo and the stars
background. I can't find any error messages anywhere (~/.xsession-errors).
If I
Frank Barknecht wrote:
I like cp -ax for this task, because of its shortness.
I told a friend to use cp -a. I forgot about -x, but he only has one
filesystem.
However, the copy hung on the file /proc/kmsg. Would the -x have avoided
this? In the end, he had to use tar.
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Nathan E Norman wrote:
: When you copy an entire file system with cp -ax it skips any
: separate file systems, and doesn't even copy the mount points. So
: after copying, you have to check the directories that contained the
: mount points, and create them in the new system. I prefer
How do I decide which POP3 server to run, qpopper or cucipop?
I'll simply be serving mail to my wife's Win95 machine over our lan at
home. I'll get her mail from her ISP over my cable modem or ADSL using
fetchmail. I don't have to _send_ her outgoing mail; the Win95 box will
continue to send it
How might I combine a wav file with a quicktime video to give something
that xanim could play?
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Robert Kerr wrote:
I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point
where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c:
prompt. From there I'm lost.
I started to try this awhile back. I loaded a dos editor by copying it
to a floppy first, then
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
We already *did* get rid of most of the bugs, otherwise we wouldn't even
release a beta. The point is that we think it is quite stable now, and can
be recommended to users who can't wait any day longer.
Here's a question for you. I'm running 1.3r8. I ran off the
Mark Panzer wrote:
While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after
two
hours.
You mentioned Java applets.
What if you fire up Netscape, and don't look at any web pages other than
whatever your startup home page is, and just leave it for an hour. Does
it
Rod Troch wrote:
Yes. It's not ready for Debian 2.0 (now in beta) but will be the new
tool for 2.1. I believe it will be _in_ 2.0 for people to play with;
just not quite ready for prime time.
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote:
Rick Macdonald wrote:
You mentioned Java applets.
What if you fire up Netscape, and don't look at any web pages other than
whatever your startup home page is, and just leave it for an hour. Does
it grow and die? Maybe it's the pages you always
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote:
OK, you seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that Java is at fault.
How about you find one Java page that will do this. Fire up a fresh
Netscape, open one browser window, go to that one page, and let it sit
there untouched and prove that it
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
dosemu uses a disk image that's been created before hand. To get dosemu
to use
another *dos than the one it's currently using.. build another/different
disk
image..
All you need to do is boot a floppy (you gotta make a image of
Mark Panzer wrote:
www.netbuyer.com
I noticed the memory usage jump by about 5Meg when navigator was started
and after just staring at the page for 5 min I noticed the memory usage
was once again starting to increase. Thanks for helping me out here.
OK, I see the exact same results. I
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
Actually, SyQuest hasn't released the SparQ in SCSI. Just Parallel
and Internal EIDE.
Right. Th 1.5GB SyJet comes in SCSI and IDE. The 4.7GB Quest will be
SCSI only, due out at the end of the year.
http://www.syquest.com/products/index.html
I've been thinking of getting
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
DB == Dirk Bonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DB I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross
DB virtual screens.
The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources for the
package (fvwm2*.{dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz} and unpack it
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Others may disagree, but I have found that it is best to disable Plug
and Play on 3C509 cards. You can do that with the drivers disk
available via ftp from www.3com.com . Unfortunately you must boot to a
DOS disk to use
I see a fairly steady stream of updates to hamm. Many more updates, it
seems, than the number of bugs that get closed.
I don't mind; I just don't understand. It doesn't look like a
deep-freeze to me. I'm not impatient either. The more updates the
better. I just thought I'd ask in case there is
Joey Hess wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
Also, it is not suitable for installing an entire system (you are
advised to install just the base system, then a few more packages,
then a few more . . .).
If you use apt with dselect, this is no longer a problem, apt fixes it.
Joey, don't you mean If
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb9493.html
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Steve Lamb wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:41:16 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb9493.html
Wow, same article that has been floating around for, what, the past year
or so?
Oh, sure, but I figure the more places people see
Steve Lamb wrote:
The problem, though, is that every article repeats the same thing over
and over and over again, and much of it is incorrect. They say that Linux
doesn't have top quality applications. They mean the *WINDOWS* applications.
There never is one that says While Linux does
the lone gunman wrote:
Hello:
Are there any folks out there using Linux to do sound recording?
As promised, here's a URL and the TOC from the page:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html
Some Interesting Sound MIDI Software For Linux
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote:
I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio
stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is
somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles
sometimes.
Russ Cook wrote:
I am running Netscape 4.05 (not 4.5) on my Hamm system. Certain web sites
consistently
trigger a bus fault from Netscape. Is this a known problem, or do I have a
config/library problem?
This might be the problem where Netscape's libnullplugin.so fails when
it hits a page
the lone gunman wrote:
Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I
can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer
one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :)
I use dclock. I got it off the CD that came with O'Reilly's X User
Tools.
Howard S. Ostrowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
About two weeks ago, something changed on my mostly Hamm system,
and Netscape stopped working. Since then, I get a SEG FAULT
every time I try to start Netscape.
I had this recently. It would come up with the main window and SEG FAULT
as soon
phillip Neumann wrote:
Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i
get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people
cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad.
PLEASE have a look at Dave Phillips's wonderful page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was just wondering if anyone had any expierence with using the Syjet (from
Syqest) drive with Debian Linux. I am currently considering buying a Syjet 2
gig
drive.
You mean Syjet 1.5GB, don't you? Or perhaps the SparQ 1.0GB?
I'm waiting for the Quest 4.7GB later
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
I'm not seeing repeated messages here. Sometimes people get them if their
site is accepting mail but not finishing the handshake for some reason.
If it continues (or if someone else sees it) please get back to me.
I'm seeing it too.
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On 20 Feb 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in unstable, isn't the
unstable stuff more stable than stable?
All the new bugs go into stable too. Sometimes they are very bad.
I live off unstable all the time, and seem
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, dpk wrote:
i just installed debian, and i can't seem find tcl.h
i checked where it normally is /usr/include/ but no such luck finding it
there and many other places. is /usr/include the default? i'm wondering
if my installation had errors (i used dselect but it
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
Here is some more information on my sad state!
Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions:
The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk:
c:\= fdisk /mbr
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote:
I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
I find this rather strange.
So did I until I RTFM.
You need /usr/bash in
Oops. I should have said tcsh, not bash, needs to be in /etc/shells...
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I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
I
Steve Reid wrote:
While spreading the news about the RC5 contest, I was asked the following
question about the 56bit key and I wonder how to answer:
What is the complication of this exhaustive search? I suppose it is
exponential, but to what number?
With a 56 bit key, there are 2 to
Joey, I'm a bit confused about your debian quake packaging.
When I first installed the debian quake (1.01), it wouldn't run with my
DOS lib that I patched to the 1.06 level. I think we even exchanged email
about it.
Anyway, along comes a debian quake lib 1.06, but no new quake itself.
And, the
I mirror debian on an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX64 6.2 IP26), and then from
there to my Linux box at home.
Last night, the timestamps at home all became 1 minute off and the whole
mirror retransfered (complete in several hours over ISDN :-).
Since the timestamps on the SGI in the office still match
[ This is a resend, now that the list seems to be working again ]
I mirror debian on an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX64 6.2 IP26), and then from
there to my Linux box at home.
Last night, the timestamps at home all became 1 minute off and the whole
mirror retransfered (complete in several hours over ISDN
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be
slower ?
I've noticed one area where X is now slower. I run 2 X displays, one at 256
colors, the other at 16bpp. I switch between then a lot. It used to be a
very fast
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
can minicom download files? If so how? I can't seem to be able to:(
Sure, with x/y/zmodem, kermit, etc. It comes with x/y/zmodem, called
rz and sz (or lrz and lsz). The lrzsz is also a separate deb package.
I've lost track as to whether lrzsz is
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
the problem I am having is this. When I try to download, it
gives the message, Press any key to download or Alt-C to quit. I do and
it lagges for about 1-2 minutes, then goes back to the site I was on. I
To download to your machine running
On 7 Mar 1997, marsh wrote:
I'm not
saying that the 286 is not a superneato processor which was quite
impressive (16?, 17? ) years ago, but there is a reason that The Great One
(LT) chose the 386 for his initial experiments.
So, is it true that there is nothing newer on the space shuttle and
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote:
I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are
designed within .fvwm2rc. In other systems, some X local features are
designed within a .Xdefaults file. I did not find any global template for
.Xdefaults in Debian.
On Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:55:46 CST Walter L. Preuninger II
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have been reading the gcc-howto and the elf-howto... and have made my
first shared library. My question is: does the code have to be
rewritten/redesigned to take care of any reentrantcy problems? I
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Christoph S.H. Martin wrote:
I haven't ever seen anybody mention what to do if you have Lyx
installed. Will TeTex replace everything that lyx requires?
Or maybe lyx users won't notice and don't need the improvement
in the TeTex packaging?
...RickM...
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
.fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? I have
Debian 1.2 going well, and I want to transition to fvwm2, but don't have the
time to recreate the
partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for
developing mainly and for internet connectivity. I will most likely also
be running X. Any answers to this will be really appreciated. I don't want
to put linux on one big partition.
I've got:
64 Megs /var
450 Megs
I had to link ld-linux.so.1 to ld-linux.so.2 in order to run
tcl7.6/tk4.2.
I got the message:
bash: /usr/bin/wish4.2: No such file or directory
even though the file was there and executable. ldd and strace gave
similar messages. I had to browse the file or run strings wish4.2
to see that it
The Packages file on ftp.debian.org has the date
214917 Mar 22 17:10 Packages.gz
but there have been many recent updates since then
that aren't in the Packages file, such as
binary-i386/devel/tcl76-dev_7.6p2-2.deb 323310
binary-i386/devel/tk42-dev_4.2p2-2.deb 524238
and lots more
Joseph Skinner wrote:
I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found
after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there.
The strange thing is that for the cases that I looked at the packages that
they replaced are not there either.
Is there
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error
messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a
copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this
is related to the problems with the
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
Two foreigners, George and Nick, are visiting the white dominion of
North Pole. This conversation takes place with one Eskimo in his igloo:
Well, if this doesn't divert the conversation from PPP, nothing will.
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Open up your info reader;
Gertjan Don't get me started on info!
Why not? Elucidate.
I think info sucks. It is obsoleted by html. Clear enough?
Same story here. The gnu info browser is too obscure, if you're
not an emacs user;
I thought it worthwhile to send this again with a Subject that might
attract the attention of more people.
Open up your info reader;
Gertjan Don't get me started on info!
Why not? Elucidate.
I think info sucks. It is obsoleted by html. Clear enough?
Same story here.
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun
system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't
expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which work on fvwm
for SunOS/Solaris cause a seg fault on
Not of all files. Of files searchable by `nobody.nogroup'.
You can run updatedb manually to get a list of all files. Look at the
options in the info page for more information.
Actually, you can run updatedb by hand and keep the database private to
root in some other protected
David B. Teague wrote:
On my stand-alone machine at home, I get all files by making this change
to /etc/cron.daily/find:
#cd / updatedb --localuser=nobody 2/dev/null
cd / updatedb 2/dev/null
BTW Please explain why the is present in the script! I have never
understood what that is
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd
file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting
syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message
-n unknown option and it still doesn't start.
Here are the
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Here's mine. I didn't change mine either!
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Starting system log daemon: syslogd
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- $SYSLOGD
Speaking of syslogd, when I boot the machine it hangs for 5 ro
Mark Eichin wrote:
From: Lars Hallberg Micro++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to write
code that runns on diferent widget sets?
Don't forget OI (there was an interface builder based on it that was
free-of-cost for linux, a while back,
Michael J. McCann wrote:
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote:
[... much deleted ...]
Ya can't be too paranoid!!
[ ... ]
Even paranoids have real enemies
- Attributed to Dr. Henry Kissinger
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean somebody isn't out to
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
I noticed the same problem with my machine. It said EDT when the date
printed, but was still an hour behind. I fixed it with netdate ;-)
I guess we should report it as a bug?
I'm
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 addressing,
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 no
that it gets included into the Debian distribution. This
was never done.
Here is the original announcement, modified to mention that it also views
HTML files using w3.el.
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:07:39 -0600
From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: deb-view.el: emacs tool
On 13 Apr 1997, Richard Sharman wrote:
Manoj is outlining a specification that would be great for the above
method. Standardized components could be tied into mc and similar
interfaces easily. I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc
on a .deb file and get a nice summary
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v11) today. You can have a
look at it via
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
Why does your page still have this comment:
(There once was an official logo with a baby
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
Why does your page still have this comment:
(There once was an official logo with a baby gnu on it (see above), but
it has been dropped with the separation of Debian and the FSF.)
We kissed and made up long ago. Below I've quoted this
Ralph Winslow wrote:
emacs:
M- ; go to beginning of file
C-x ( ; start recording kbd macro
C-s 129.168.1 RET ; search for 192.168.1
M-b M-b M-b ; go back three words
M-d M-d M-d ; delete three words
129.168.200
I might have to give my aging P133 to my wife and buy a new PC. :-)
I stopped keeping cuurent with these things.
Which runs Linux the best: 200, PRO 200, or MMX 200?
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Adam Shand writes:
This is *just* to get newbies installed and working. I'd do something
like have 3 options. A developement box (nothing but baisc utilities and
compilers),...
How many newbies are going to want this?
I suggest:
1) Basic Unix, with
I keep up-to-date with unstable. A few weeks ago I rebooted my machine
for the first time in ages (had to go to dos/win to do my income tax).
When I started up X, I found that I can still resize windows by dragging
the corners or edges, but I no longer get a window outline while doing
so.
It's
Tim O'Brien wrote:
I'm trying to get one of the Linux boxes I run to send me it's IP address
by Email every time it logs onto the Internet (it has a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dynamic IP
address). For some reason, the script doesn't work. It creates a file that
contains the data it's supposed to
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, LinuxBOX wrote:
My Debian box hangs on boot if you don't physicaly shut it of and on. The
reboot comand or even ctl+alt+del are a sure to crash when it reboots.
Any sujestions?
You don't say what kind of crash. Does it just hang?
A year or two ago some change to the
Rick Jones wrote:
No need to worry about the MBR. I have used linux and Win95 on the same
machine for 2 years now. I have always used lilo to boot them with 0
problems. If you like I can provide you with a copy of my lilo.conf file.
We bought Win95 last year but I'm afraid to install it
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