Japanese input method without Japanese interface?

2001-10-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi. I'm trying to set up X so that I can input Japanese characters (kanji, etc.) in applications like Mozilla, without the necessity to have the interface itself in Japanese. To this end, I used `set-language-env' from the `language-env' package to set up a Japanese environment in .Xresources

Re: french hyphenation patterns

2001-02-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jitse Niesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote: I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly [...] However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following output

french hyphenation patterns

2001-02-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
[CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.] I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly if I use something like the following for my LaTeX file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{t1enc}

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume that Bolan is on the list? And Ben, are you on -user? See, the thing is, I didn't start this thread of discussion and I'm not at all interested in a rehash of this topic. And what's more, I already asked on debian-user to be dropped from

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
Frankly, I'd appreciate it if you guys would stop CC:'ing *me* in this discussion, which is *way* sidetracked from what I wrote.

Re: Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I did the upgrade today to Emacs 20.6-2, this happens whenever I try to run Gnus: Yes, I got the same thing. A stopgap measure that worked for me was to go into /usr/share/emacs/20.6/lisp/gnus and delete all the .elc files, leaving only the

Re: scsi

1999-08-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this linux support the NCR 53C710 scsi chip ? Not in general. Only 53c8xx are supported on all archs. 53c7xx is supported on Linux/m68k in particular; ISA and PCI versions are definitely not supported.

Re: left hand mouse in X

1999-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the mouse under X? From xmodmap(1): Many pointers are designed such that the first button is pressed using the index finger of the right hand. People who are

Possible NFS/mountd compromise?

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
[CC:'s are appreciated; I am not subscribed to debian-user. Thanks!] I got the followed logged in my /var/log/syslog today. It looks to me like a buffer overflow attack of some kind (character  is `no operation' in x86 assembly language). Does anyone know of a vulnerability in mountd to this

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to Debian lists and give their feedback and advice, which developers are free to follow or ignore. But they do

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ChL == Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ChL Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled. What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute

Re: Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...

1998-12-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, how, if possible, can one get this binary running? I imagine that I need a libtermcap2 built/linked with libc6. Does such a debian package exists? Or do I need to go find the sources and built it myself? AFAIK there is no

Network latency?

1998-09-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
I've got two Linux boxes in my room here connected via the campus network, going additionally through a hub in the room. Both of the boxen are running kernel 2.1.122, although I've also tried 2.0.36 and the results are the same. Anyway, the problem is that one of the boxen, a 486/25 with an

Re: Compiling error

1998-07-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to compile some C program i got the following message: $ cc foo.c ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory $ I already installed libc5-altdev, cpp, libg++27-dev packages and I still have this message ! Install

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
(I didn't know until about a month ago that .deb files were just 'ar' archives -- where is this documented?) See deb(5). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm currently connecting to the internet from the Debian/Linux box. I'd like to know how would I go about access the internet from other PCs (windows/nt) which are on the same network as my Linux box. You should probably mention whether you are accessing the internet through

Re: Telnet Timeouts

1998-05-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing from work to my home machine and if I am compiling or getting News, it may take longer than what the session is set to time out (Default) and I get logged off the session. And have to

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was = thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks = that Intel is my only hope. I recommend AMD chips. They're at least slightly cheaper than Intel and just as fast, or faster, except for floating

Re: Swap

1998-05-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is = good to use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is = good to use that drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is = around 4GB so I could use the new drive for swap too and the old one

Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
This won't be in hamm so you can grab the latest deb-view from: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/deb-view.el http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/deb-view.el.gz Though it won't be in hamm, there's no reason you can't install the debview from slink on a hamm system, if you'd like to try out

Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I would like to install the X environment but so far I haven't been able of doing so. Is it possible to achieve this with this release of Debian ? No, not AFAIK. If so, how can I do it ? You should upgrade to

Re: Another tape drive question

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
First of all, check http://www.info-systems.com/ftape/. Normally every questions you may have should find an answer there. I thought that applied only to the ftape (floppy tape) driver. Does it cover SCSI tapes too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: HELP: Netscape and bus error

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
I want to bring up a Java applet at a website under Netscape 3.04. The applet seems to work ok, but when I close it, Netscape aborts with a bus error. I am using Debian 1.31. Can anyone help? Thanks. Probably no one can help. However, does the Java applet do the same thing under

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
This works for any filename which the kernel can recognize (that is, any filename except one with a '/' in it. If you have one of THOSE, good luck. Hint: `debugfs'. (If you do have one with a /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Web Browsers without xwindows?

1998-04-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am new to Linux and have installed Debian 1.3 without xwindows. I want to do as much if not everything I can without using xwindows or some other windows like interface. I would like to know if there is a web browser that I can use that does not require some type of Windows

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
does there is a a reference for this package (say a web page,manual,etc...)it's because i'm a bit nervous to try an unknown (by me) package and removing any root access (which i can do anyway using the /etc/login.access,take a look at man 5 login.access for information on that

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
this is a no go,i dont want to install this package because i dont want to give root access to my brother: Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as

Re: securing debian

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB. First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK.

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cat /dev/null -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm -i rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. [...] It took me some time to deal with it. There is a trick. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader. Hint: It is possible with rm. ;) rm -- -i

Re: pdf files..

1998-04-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
a friend has been shipping me pdf files. is there a viewer available (bo...) Use xpdf or acroread. I think both are available in bo. Unfortunately they're non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zip drive

1998-04-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
how do I use a zip drive with debian? Thanks Read the ZIP-Drive mini-HOWTO. It's in the unmaintained section, but still should be quite useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which emacs to install?

1998-04-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anyone point me to a document that outlines the differences between the various flavors of emacs? Read the NEWS file in emacs20. Invoke emacs20, then type C-h C-n. You could do the same thing in xemacs{19,20}, I assume. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
[...] However, the full headers don't look like they came from the mailing list! There's no X-Mailing-List line at all! [...] Can anyone compare this recent message and tell me whether it looks the same to them (no X-Mailing-List header)? My copy of it has an X-Mailing-List, just like

Re: Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Any ideas on what is wrong? You need to install the bin86 package, which contains the as86 program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I realize this isn't specifically a Debian question -- but which versions of emacs have postscript-mode? AFAIK no version of Emacs come with a builtin postscript-mode. I think you will have to look for one as a third-party package. Also, I have a large .el file that works great under

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I suggest you use the X-Mailing-List header instead. It's added by the mailing list manager, so it gets added to every mailing list message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
messages. Upon exploring around, I see that these messages are being caused when the file /etc/init.d/network is run the 2 lines are: route add -net ${NETWORK} [ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 You also need an ifconfig command. See the ifconfig man page

Re: Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe Pagemaker or QuarkXpress? xfig might fit your needs for a Corel Draw-like

Re: HP LaserJet 6Lse and Linux???

1998-04-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does nay one know if anHP LaserJet 6Lse will talk with Linux? Or better, do you know a a way to make it print postscript (in software) from Linux? It understands Enhanced PCL 5 printer control language. Yes, use Ghostscript, it translates PostScript = PCL quite well. My printer

Re: strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
This is your fault. You need to allocate memory for temp2. void main(void) { char *temp1, *temp2; temp1 = malloc (10); insert `temp2 = malloc (10);' here. strcpy (temp1, high all); strcpy (temp2, temp1); printf(%s %s, temp1, temp2); } -- To

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
DESTDIR should be debian/tmp and not `pwd`/debian/tmp no ? How can change it ? No, DESTDIR should probably be an absolute path, so `pwd` is correct. The likely cause of the error is that the program's Makefile attempts to install files into directories that it does not create first. You

Re: ficticious login

1998-04-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Occassionally running 'who' shows something like: nielsen ttyp1Apr 15 08:49 (:0.0) There have been no network logins, however. What would cause this indication? Running an xterm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations

1998-04-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Where would one report such a bug? http://www.mozilla.org/report.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
I saw the linux journals write-up on gimp, now i would like to ask the question, how does it stack up against commercial or established shareware products? It's as good as PhotoShop, and better than any shareware program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
The drive has a three year warranty. Will WD fix the drive or sent me a new one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad blocks, as long as I have warranty? If the drive is actively

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a device is

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi, Are the terms DFSG and Open Source completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. Yes, they are, AFAIK. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Open

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
To clarify, RedHat is DFSG-compliant (it's listed in Open Source products), and Debian is Open Source-compliant (Open Source definition is DFSG), but because DFSG targets non-commercial software (ironically the same software that appears on commercial Linux distros) and Open

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? It works fine on Pentium IIs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? Ctrl+Alt+Del works. If you want to restrict normal users from doing CAD, then put the allowed users in /etc/shutdown.allow. Of course, over the network, this doesn't work. You could use the sudo or super packages, though. -- To

Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Accelerator : Alliance Semiconductor's 128-bit ProMotion AT25 PC RAMDAC : 190 Mhz Where can I find a driver for this card ? There is a driver for AT25-based cards in the newest XFree86 3.3.2 SVGA server. If you are running bo, then upgrading to hamm will let you use this

Re: tm gone?

1998-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
What happened to the tm package (mail utilities for Emacs)? It seems to be gone from hamm now... I think that no one ever updated it to the new standard for emacs-related packages. There is a much newer version available, too. I was going to work on it but I never got around to it. --

Re: Best mirror program?

1998-04-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anyone recommend a mirror program that will try to reconnect if the ppp connection is dropped? If it can't reconnect, it should exit gracefully in a state that permits it to resume the next time it is called? Ideally it should do the equivalent or reget on partial files.

Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:

1998-04-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with

Re: missing features in new mozilla

1998-04-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
does anybody know of any hidden options or anything to get them back? or do I need to hunt down files to remove so I can reinstall 3.0? There's no reason you couldn't hack them in yourself. That's one of the beauties of open source--if it doesn't have a feature you want, you can write

[OFFTOPIC] Announce: Archive for Free Software in Real Life

1998-04-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
/fsr. * Free software introduction: URL:http://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/anp. * Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Join the mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Currently the list is manually operated, so subscription messages have no special format.) Thanks, Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken

Re: the Bill lover

1998-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
I thought it was funny that the Win95 lover even bothered to mail his stupid message. :) I think that it's funny that people took this April Fool's joke seriously. Troll! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HP DAT drives

1998-03-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does anyone out there have experience with Hewlett-Packard SCSI DAT drives, specifically the 12/24 GB models? I'm thinking about getting a backup system for my computer (which has 12 GB of HDDs), and this seems to be the best deal out there. Do they cooperate nicely with other devices (HDDs) on

Re: HP DAT drives

1998-03-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
Any, just a datapoint. If you want some pointers to cheap sources of used (have you looked at the prices for new DAT drives?) drives, let me know. Right: $881 is lowest I found for a 12/24 GB. If you'd pass along those pointers, I'd greatly appreciate it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
just a small question as i'm searching for the 'lowest-level' to use to programm under X-Win. Somebody told me that X-Intrinsics is this lowest-level, where other GUI's and lib's like OSF/MOTIF setup on. So, what's X-Intrinsics? It's a thin object layer over Xlib written in C (not

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
No, in one sense. Either you have to set up hostnames in the /etc/hosts file or run a DNS server for them to `know the others [sic] IP address'. So I will be able to ping/ftp/etc IP addresses without doing anything? Do I have to do anything special to be able to ping the Linux

Re: Setting up network on Hamm install

1998-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
The Bo install notes say I need to know the following. I assume Hamm will need it too. I have a LAN with Linux (none yet installed) and Win'95 boxes on and will also want to connect to the 'net. Since you are on two networks (LAN + Internet), your choices will depend on whether you have

Re: /etc/dhcpd.conf

1998-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
How would I set the domain search order in /etc/dhcpd.conf? I couldn't find it in the man page nor in my O'Reilly TCP/IP admin book. The domain search order is set in /etc/resolv.conf, not in a DHCP config file. See resolver(5) for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
is there a rumba (ramba?) package? ..a program that allows users to mount shares over SMB...? You're looking for samba. Yes, it's in the distribution, in the otherosfs section. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
Incidently, do you know what kind of performance hit I will get running X over 20m of BNC cable (there are 2 other (Win'95) machines on the network)? It won't be too bad. I used to regularly run Netscape remotely from an SGI halfway across campus, and the performance was quite

Re: Video card recommendations...

1998-03-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Currently i'm building a machine and am down to the last piece of hardware, the video card. i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the pro's/con's of the following cards: ATI all-in-wonder Diamond Viper Matrox Millenium II I love my Millenium II 8MB. It runs X

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can add some comment... Personally, I have the following setup: Adaptec 2940UW 3 x 4.3 GB UW SCSI HDDs 3 x 128 MB swap, one per drive 128 MB root partition on /dev/sda RAID-0 across

Re: smail postmaster messages

1998-03-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
My doubt: when moving the messages back to /var/spool/smail I need to do something more? Will smail take care of the msg and redistribute them? No. Yes. (AFAIK.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

1998-03-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live machine with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this way safe? Yes, from what I hear, it is safe, and works very well. But I haven't done it myself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fat - ext2

1998-03-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is there a way to retrieve the original filename when moving from a fat/dos filesystem to ext2? A script/command would be nice, if it exists. If not, is there an algorithm to extract this information? I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the

Re: fat - ext2

1998-03-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? Sorry, I have a file that started out as say 'filename' that

Re: Missing file for X

1998-03-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
It looks like I may have given you misleading advice, or advice that you have inadvertently misinterpreted. The Debian X Window System is set up slightly different from the standard XFree86 setup. The file /etc/X11/Xserver contains the full path to the X server as its first line;

Re: Twain Driver

1998-03-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
I think you must be mistaken as to the purpose of this list. TWAIN drivers are MS Windows-based, and thus have no relation to Linux. Helping with Linux (specifically Debian GNU/Linux) is the purpose of this list. You might try a comp.os.ms-windows.* newsgroup instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
* Install Hamm and, when prompted for IP addresses, give 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 (even though they may both be connecting to the 'net via a modem with a fixed IP address) * install X on the laptop only (?) * on the 486 type xhost + * on the laptop type DISPLAY=ip:0.0 ;

Re: Matrox Millenium II XWindows problem

1998-03-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
You need to upgrade to the xserver-svga 3.3.1 that's in hamm in order to use the Matrox Millennium II effectively. Even after that you should probably upgrade manually to 3.3.2 that you can get from ftp.xfree86.org. All that needs to be replaced is the one XF86_SVGA server file. I am unable

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Try this, which is slightly different: * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. * Install only xserver

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
This is where my problem starts. When I ping my ISP I get good pings but only 204.47.44.4, but if I try the name, dallas.net, I get nothing as I have not be able to establish a link to the DNS. I can ping my own machine and my ISP by IP numbers only. Can you ping any of your

Re: Is this list discontinued?

1998-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
What's happening with debian user list? Are you dealing with a major crash? I'm not receiving any message since 5th March. Looks fine to me. Maybe some messages to you bounced and you got unsubscribed. Try resubscribing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape 4.04

1998-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
is there a way to clear the cache of pages and images? Yes. There is a button to do this under Preferences in the same place you can set the cache sizes. Alternatively just `rm -r ~/.netscape/cache'. (I think that's the right directory. Take a look under .netscape.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Just thought you'd like tho know

1998-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Beleive it or not, pc magazine has a review of linux in which they actually say good things about it :) Didn't think that would ever happen, since the only software I've ever seen them talk about was windows stuff, anyhow, its at:

Re: telnet from linux to win95

1998-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I was wondering if there was a way to telnet from a linux box to a win95 box? No. Win95 does not have a telnet server. If you want to use Win95 remotely, you could try the vnc package if you are running hamm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: ppp problem

1998-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am now able to connect to my ISP. I was placing the 'noauth' option = in the wrong file! I finally figured out how to correctly place it in = /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Now, the link comes up, but I get this error = from pppd - pppd[158]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy

Re: telnet from linux to win95

1998-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Where can I read a description of vnc? I didn't get any hits on a debian package search :-(. There's a web page at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc. The Debian package is in the X11 section at the usual mirror sites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: cdrom gone after kernel compile

1998-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
After compiling a more modularized kernel today (using Debian 1.3.1 with kernel src 2.0.32) I've lost my cdrom- everything was working perfectly with the bloated standard kernel... When I try mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom I see something like fs type iso9660 not supported by

Re: Debian and Pgp w/ RSA support?

1998-03-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does anyone know if one of the newer versions of Pgp (like 5.0 or so...) has been complied with RSA key support for Debian? The international version of pgp5 is available at nonus.debian.org. I don't know about `RSA key support'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)

1998-03-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file /etc/ppp/scripts.d/packagename. In the postinst, run the command ppp-update.d. And in the prerm, presumably? I like the proposal, by the way. My only possible concern is that it is perhaps a little too complicated, but

Re: denying finger info

1998-03-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
How does a user deny the information given by the finger command? More concisely, I want the fingerd daemon running, but I do not want the no mail and .plan et al info shown. I just want to tell the client that the user is logged on. It would be better if this could be done at

Re: hamm woes...

1998-03-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I upgraded to hamm about 2 months ago. I *still* have the problem with last/wtmp after following the instructions for removing the libc5 files and rebooting. I cannot use man: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] man man man: can't open /tmp/zman07736aaa: Bad file descriptor No manual entry

Re: Linux

1998-03-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I cannot get a message to this [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Everything I send to debian-user@lists.debian.org bounces. No it doesn't. This message appeared on the list. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

1998-03-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Howdy, a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ Requirements: Linux compatible

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos... You are probably mounting the drive as `msdos' instead of

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. Use the `gimp' program. It's better than Photoshop. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing package emacs19

1998-03-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
After struggling to downgrade some packages I needed to fix a situation when I tried to upgrade w3-el, but cannot upgrade emacs to version 20, I found several messages where the package emacs19 is mentioned, as an alternative to emacs20. But I can't seem to find this package

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: This means that there is an upstream problem. If you do not sources, there is nothing you can do but complain. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I also cannot seem to find the old w3-el package (which would allow me to downgrade w3-el). Can someone help me? Use the w3-el from bo, which is in dists/stable/binary-all/web, I would guess. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: How do you e2defrag?

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could be more difficult than I first thought. You say you have a single

Re: Emacs20.

1998-03-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
I get the following error message when trying to install emacs20 from hamm: [...] Suggestions? --David You should probably just report this bug to the emacsen-common maintainer, who is Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE

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