Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 23-May-98 skrifar Ed Cogburn: I have to agree here. Remember, this mailing list is being used by people new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emacs with gnus. The

Re: Totally off-subject ( And now for something Completely diffe

1998-05-16 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 16-May-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is looking for it from Me?!?! um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me know where! I have it here, if you guys want it... I got it from the cnn site, somewhere in

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Manoj Srivastava: anal jokes? hots? What kind of deranged reality is this coming from? Look whose talking... the King of Geek world, as the magazines so well describe it :-) You want to continue to be a geek, be my guest :-)

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Manoj Srivastava: Frankly, most of us have sense enough not to tell people how their vbotes are wrong. It is one thing to campaign for a candidate, and urge and suggest where to cast ones vote, and it is quite another to say your votes are silly and must be

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Marcus Brinkmann: Yes, he is. I don't think that many of the voters take seriously what they're doing. :-) If the would, Bill Gates wouldn't get so many votes... You'd be surprised how many Bill Gates fans are out there. And then I mean _true_ fans.

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Manoj Srivastava: Frankly, most of us have sense enough not to tell people how their vbotes are wrong. It is one thing to campaign for a candidate, and urge and suggest where to cast ones vote, and it is quite another to say your votes are silly and must be

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 11-Apr-98 skrifar Marcus Brinkmann: [snip] I consider such voting as meaningless, unimportant and irrational. If it can serve to push Linux forward, it has at least one good effect. You say that you don't take this seriously, but non the less you expect to gain something by your

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-12 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Britton: I am not ashamed to admit that I think Linus and the system and philosophy he has come to represent are extremely important. Linux is more than a great OS, it's the largest and most advanced technological achievment of a group of volunteers in all of

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-11 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 10-Apr-98 skrifar Marcus Brinkmann: Total Percent richard rogers 636494 7.42 henry ford 555916 6.48 douglas macarthur 474770 5.53 bill gates 468605 5.46 --- We can beat this poor rating! howard hughes 351237 4.09 vehbi koc 350473 4.08 steve jobs

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is mul

1998-04-11 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 11-Apr-98 skrifar Tristan Day: 1. Win95 is designed to make the program that you have 'active' (the top program you are using at the time) work fastest and gives it max power while the background tasks (the ones you've got open but aren't using at the moment) have a very small amount

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-09 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 09-Apr-98 skrifar Matt Kennedy: PS/2 Mouse to Mouse Systems and change the location of the device to /dev/gpmdata. /dev/gpmdata is a file GPM creates and stores the input from the mouse to. This did the trick for me, so I hope it'll work for you. I recently got myself a Logitech

RE: Anyone got BTTV to work?

1998-04-07 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 05-Apr-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! Works fine here with 2.0.32, X 3.3.2 , Matrox MilleniumII. I had some problems with X 3.3.1 (screen locked). ATI Mach 64 was also OK, S3 Trio64 was not. I guess you have a problem with your X-Server or Card. Greetings, Ramin I was

Anyone got BTTV to work?

1998-04-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hey, I've been trying to get bttv to work on my Linux box, without any success. Whenever I start it, I get some snow and after a few seconds my computer locks. Furthermore, the lines that *are* displayed are only the first few lines, and it appears that the program is receiving SCERR (from

RE: the install that never was

1998-03-28 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 28-Mar-98 skrifar Wolf Logan: Any other options? Any possible leads on why this is going on? I don't mean to sound ungrateful (I understand this software is free), but it strikes me as a little unfriendly for the installation floppy to be completely unable to boot. I've scanned the

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Timothy M. Hospedales: My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I suspect that

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Ben Pfaff: I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull reponses to mine or anyone else's messages

Re: Trying to fix a mistake in upgrading Netscape...

1998-01-17 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 16-Jan-98 skrifar Richard E. Hawkins Esq.: err, I wasn't clear. The only netscape 3 that can be installed is 3.01. I haven't even considered 4, after watching it bring a 400mhz, 350meg alpha to its knees . . . I'm using Communicator professional here, 4.03, on a 486DX/2 66 with

RE: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 15-Jan-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer

Re: Announce: Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) Project

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 13-Jan-98 skrifar Matthew Majka: Please take Debian and improve the installation utilities (I'm a big fan of SGI's 'swmgr'. Anyone want to write a clone for dpkg?). I'm a big fan of SGI :-) and it is a good idea to provide a GUI software manager, preferrably written in C/C++. There

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar George Bonser: On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: This is somewhat incorrect, George. Yes. X uses a protocol called XDMCP to allow xfer's of information, as you have explained, between local and remote machines. And X uses sockets and protocols when used

RE: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar Herr Detlev Scholz \(ODIS\): Dear users, i m a novice user of debian-Linux. The installation was easy, and everythink works well :-). Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well, when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM,

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar Rick Jones: Not true. 1) X MUST be operating to benchmark CDE, KDE, or Afterstep etc. 2) To acurately benchmark the performance of software 'whatever' you have to include the processes that are handled by X. So you would have to benchmark the combnation X +

Re: PPP 2.3.2 and demand dialing

1998-01-07 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann Wed, 07 Jan 1998, skrifaði Jim Foltz:Hello, I am seeking assistance in configuring PPP 2.3.2 for demand dialing. My setup works up until I add the demand option and the remote ip to the options file. PPP will even initiate the link and will dial only when there is data to be transmitted,

KDE rough edges

1998-01-07 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, I just tried out an extremely good looking desktop environment, the KDE, but I've noticed some few rough parts, and would like to know if these were common problems. Whenever I start KFM the file manager, it seems to insist on having an attached terminal. When I start up the panel,

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net Upgrade the netbase and netstd packages.

Re: [fuzzy@ns.asarian.org: was wondering if you could help us]

1998-01-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
we so far have gotten xdm/xwindows running, but the type size is too small to be readable. I think its defaulting to 1024x768 how do I have it resize to 800x600, without losing the ability to switch to the I suggest keeping the 1024x768 screen size, and only changing fontsizes for those

RE: libc6-dev depends on kernel-headers-2.0.32-2

1998-01-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Jan-98 skrifar Tim Bell: Okay, I read the libc6 mini-HOWTO (thanks Scott), and it's worked until I got to installing libc6-dev 2.0.6-2, which depends on kernel-headers (or kernel-source) 2.0.32-2 or greater, which I can't seem to find anywhere. (ftp.debian.org only has 2.0.32-1, dated

RE: Best Dual PPro Motherboard?

1998-01-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Jan-98 skrifar Ian Keith Setford: Yo- I am in the market for a dual PPro board and I am looking for suggestions! I would prefer a board with on board UW SCSI and SDRAM but I'm not sure if the Natoma (440FX) chipset supports SDRAM. If you're looking for processing power, place

DOOM - broken pipe

1998-01-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Has anyone gotten DOOM to work? Here, the program starts, but when I try to move the cursor, or press any ke, after the Menu comes up the program stops with the message 'broken pipe'. Any ideas? Orn Einar Hansen

Re: DOOM - broken pipe

1998-01-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 01-Jan-98 skrifar Joey Hess: What version of doom are you using? Do you have doom-musserver installed, and if so, what version? Do you have a sound card? The problem was, that I am using NAS to network'ize my soundcard, and that meant doom couldn't acquire the card. Whenever I move

Re: DOOM - broken pipe

1998-01-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 01-Jan-98 skrifar Joey Hess: You can edit your ~/.doomrc, and there is a line in there that lets you configure the path to the sndserver. yeah, I took a peak at the source and found the M_LoadDefaults routine, and some of the keywords. The 'key_fire' is especially interresting,

Rocks'n'Daimonds

1997-12-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
This game just made it resently into Debian, and I tried it... but so far I haven't gotten past the level, has anyone else? There is one daimond at lower left corner, trapped behind three rocks, and obviously your supposed to snap it quickly before the top rocks falls on you. However, I'd

Re: Xfree86 question

1997-12-25 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? You do that with your monitor... it has functions on it, to make it

Re: a single command

1997-12-25 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but

Re: windows

1997-12-24 Thread Orn E. Hansen
The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. It's important, to be able to keep time in nanoseconds on a computer... and as we all know, 1601 is an important date ;-)

ppp 2.3.2 and diald

1997-12-23 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, I just tried ppp-2.3.2 and its demand dialing, only to figure out that it can't be used with an ISP that uses dynamic IP address for itself and my machine... bummer. Now, I have ppp-2.3.2 and diald doesn't work with it, has anyone been able to get diald to work with it, and then what

Re: ppp 2.3.2 and diald

1997-12-23 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, I just tried ppp-2.3.2 and its demand dialing, only to figure out that it can't be used with an ISP that uses dynamic IP address for itself and my machine... bummer. Now, I have ppp-2.3.2 and diald doesn't work with it, has anyone been able to get diald to work with it, and then what

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-20 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Peter Prohaska writes: I have no /etc/domain file on my system... could you please search for the package which installed the file? Or did you create it by hand? There is a file /etc/resolv.conf, and it has a domain and search part, it should contain your domain name, i.e. the tld to

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-20 Thread Orn E. Hansen
George Bonser writes: I assumed that file was created during the install process when it asked the hostname and domain. Probably created for convenience, in line with the /etc/hostname. The /etc/hostname file has no purpose but to store the hostname to be then read by the 'hostname'

looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-17 Thread Orn E. Hansen
cs51wcs writes: 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. If you use the tcsh as your shell... [1:42] Ørn:~ set addsuffix argv() cwd /home/oehansen dirstack

Pager utility or script?

1997-12-17 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Kevin J Poorman writes: Hi, I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package? Sam Leffler's program HylaFAX(tm) is supposed to

Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

1997-12-17 Thread Orn E. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any help or suggestions would be appreciated because otherwise I'm stuck and can't continue on with my software development. The version of g++ that is available at debian isn't thread safe. It *is* possible to have it work with threads, but as soon as you

SVGA (X) server stopped working properly.

1997-12-11 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Liran Zvibel writes: Hello! I accidently ran (the command) X (not startx) and the server showed up with no window-manager or anything else (just the dotted gray/white/black background and the x shaped cursor) I didn't know how to shut it down so I rebooted (since CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't do

56k voice modem for Debian

1997-12-09 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Randy Edwards writes: I've got to get a new modem for a Debian machine. My requirements are that it be one of the Rockwell 56k standard ones, of course, that it do fax, and I'd like it to be able to handle voice. What I'd really love is to set up a voice mailbox system on my Debian box.

GPC

1997-12-09 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Richard Davies writes: This is a request for some feedback from current and potential users of GPC. I have GPC 2.0 compiled for hamm, built using GCC 2.7.2.3. The next version of GPC (currently 971001) is in beta, but is already more stable than GPC 2.0. There seems to be a few

Re: Sound.o module / Dependancies

1997-12-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: Brian Skreeg wrote: Hi there peoplewithsound, ok, here we go... [snip] install. no dependancy information error. Add the following steps to the above: make modules make modules_install Doesn't help much... The only way

Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Christopher Jason Morrone writes: Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple questions/comments. The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second package,

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Oliver Elphick writes: In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never had to defragment a disk. This isn't a Micro$oft product... Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux? On a related issue... Doesn't Unix load data on demand? i.e. when you run a

HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Dale Martin writes: I use snarf. It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. Let me know if it's not - I'll package it.

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Eloy A. Paris writes: Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and more. Tried it, it works great. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Dale Martin writes: Are the latest libg++ and threads happy together? I have libg++272 version 2.7.2.8-0.1 installed, and I'm running mostly libc6 stuff. Here's my program, reduced to illustrate the problem precisely. If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads

teTeX packages

1997-12-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Ben Pfaff writes: I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all (can't find default format file from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. I

RE: allow mount to normal use

1997-12-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Bill Leach writes: The simplest and most direct solution is to add users to the list of options for each filesystem that you want your users to be able to mount (in /etc/fstab). So, your cdrom entry might look something like: /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users

Problem with keyboard

1997-12-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Witold Grabysz writes: Dear Friends, it happened to me to use Polish as my native language. In general we use Latin alphabet plus some unique letters (the same do the German and French). It seemed to me during configuration I set my keyboard to support Polish signs:

Re: Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-28 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Steve Kostecke writes: Here is my /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hdc1 /dev/hda1 = first partition on master disk on 1st IDE controller /dev/hdc1 = first partition on master disk on 2nd IDE controller If both of your disks are running off the 1st IDE controller

Q: SVGA X Server Fails w/16bpp

1997-11-28 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Dean C. Sullinger writes: I just installed debian on my home PC. I mirrored almost everything from debian on my Laptop. I couldn't mirror the X Server Config because of diff graphic cards. The SVGA X Server works for 8bpp, but fails for 16bpp. My cirrus logic card will support

Linux, a MicroSoft product? (fwd)

1997-11-28 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Pancho Horrillo writes: AAP Worldwide Wire Service11/21/97 06:00 GMT (Hirchsrgig, MS)-The computer world has been shaken to its core by a legal decision that has immense implications worldwide. In a ruling that is certain to become a hotbed of controversy, a US Federal Judge in

Diald

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
diald.telia Description: My diald.options file Chuma Agbodike writes: Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. So I can find out what is wrong with my setup or non-setup ? I think that's where the problem lies because when I disable diald and use pon

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Udjat the BitMeister... writes: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. There appears to be a problem with cfdisk... when it writes the partition information, it isn't 'sufficiently' done. Like, if I set a partition

Re: Switching keyboards under X

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Louis-David Mitterrand writes: Oh, I don't type the lines litteraly, they are bound to F2 and F3 respectively in my shell. It is xmodmap itself that I find slow (2 full seconds ;-) You mean you are looking for an MS-DOS function like, where you can press CTRL-F1 to switch between

Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there including the master boot record. This was ok, and all my files got themselves safely on their

Re: Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Luis Francisco Gonzalez writes: What's the lilo.conf? Which is the root partition? The way I see it, you should have something like: My lilo.conf file looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hdc1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz

Linux filesystem from DOS?

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Jones, David A \(CAP, ITS, US\) writes: Hi Team- I was wondering if anyone has a method of writing Linux / Un*x filenames from DOS apps. You know- where we have more than 1 period in the filename like x.yyy.zz? I have to move some files back forth, but DOS changes the name to

Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?

1997-11-21 Thread Orn E. Hansen
I'm looking for an application that will let me manage my bankaccounts and can draw some nice graphs to show what I'm spending my money on. No fancy features are necessary :-). How much features do you want in your package? To be able to record your income, spending and record your

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: Maybe if you'd tell us what is unstable for you it could be fixed. I've only experienced neglegable problems using hamm. Ok, here is my system (Just for an overview, the latest in hamm). kernel2.0.30 xbase 3.3.1 xlib6g

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: The problem is that linking a program with both libc6 and librarys linked with libc5 will produce problems. Programs that are linked this way should have bugs filed against them if they haven't been already. Yes you need to purge and reconstruct your

RE: Can I use Samba with dial-up?

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Oliver Elphick: I have to connect to a client through their Win/NT network to get to their Unix machine. They want me to use Dial-Up Adapter from Win95, but this means that I have to drop all other useful work while I boot up that abomination. I can't make it work

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: Yep, it's a bug in xaw3d. Not exactly making your system unusable, since it is easilly fixed. Nor was I saying that it was unusable... I was saying, that if one intends to upgrade to a libc6 system, one needs to upgrade the entire base system.

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Philippe Troin: Change the network: line of /etc/nsswitch.conf from files dns to files. That should make it. Now this is what I call a useful pointer! Thanks!, that did the trick... thanks a million!

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Daniel Doro Ferrante: After that email, I tried to upgrade 'tetex-bin' but I also got the same message: seg fault in the pre-inst AND pos-inst scripts !!! I can't figure out what is happening. I tried to use libc6 and libc5 in different ways in order to find out

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REPAIR! What you do need to do if you're upgrading to a full hamm (unstable) system is to use dpkg to purge

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar James Troup: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. I've been tracking hamm on several systems, ever since libc6 came out... and there is NOTHING

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: I beg to differ here. My machine runs sync'd to hamm, but I still use several programs that are only libc5 (including netscape). Everything works fine, although with Netscrape running my memory useage is a bit on the cramped side. The reason I say,

RE: procmail help

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Nov-97 skrifar Paul Miller: * All system mail programs should check for netscape's lock file if [ -L $HOME/.netscape/lock ]; then and not execute if it exists.. (netscape can't handle another program modifing the mail boxes). Are you sure it's Netscape? I've got

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Nov-97 skrifar Pere Camps: Ok. I've checked and it looks like everything's ok. In fact, after setting LC_ALL to es_ES, perl doesn't complain any more. That makes sense, LC_ALL will override your setting of LC_CTYPE. Now, it's bash. ;) Try converting to bash from

RE: Where is Navigator .deb file?

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Nov-97 skrifar Adrian Monk: I read somewhere in this group that there is a .deb file of Navigator 4.03, have hunted high and low at the Debian and Netscape ftp sites, but can't find it. Can someone give a pointer to where it is? The debian installer, is under contrib... I think.

RE: How do I set LOCALE?

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 01-Nov-97 skrifar Johann Spies: I have been reading the interesting discussion about setting locale. I could not see, however how do you do it. I have for instance tried set LANG='uk' in bash, and it have no effect on the LOCALE-settings. There are two locale packages,

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar Marcus Brinkmann: You are right in all points, although I don't know the meaning of legedly (my dictionary does not know it, too). legedly = according to legend :-) I would consider a script that depends on the setting of a locale as buggy, So I would encourage

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar Pere Camps: Orn, Perl doesn't complain anymour if I unset LC_CTYPE, but bash does. It doesn't let me put latin-1 characters. I have... LANG=is ...and just tried bash. It allowed me to enter accented characters. Even tried with LANG set to es_ES, no

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar Pere Camps: Andy, I only hace en_GB there, but in /usr/share/locale I have all the others. The thing is that -I think- I have installed all the needed packages for locale support, but perl is not getting it. Bash doesn't complain about LC_CTYPE. In fact, if I

RE: printing and samba

1997-11-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar Paul Miller: I have three questions: (2) How do I print in color? Netscape has the option of color, but it won't print in color. I'm using a HP DJ660C shared on a win95 machine with magicfilter's dj550c-filter. Use postscript printing, and pipe it

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-10-31 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 30-Oct-97 skrifar Torsten Hilbrich: Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Whenever I start perl, I get the following warning: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL =

RE: Linux as a Firewall

1997-10-31 Thread Orn E. Hansen
The issue of pros/cons of an operating systems are very biased, based on the person who is talking. So, I wouldn't expect anything else but a biased discussion on the matter. :-) Everyone's favorite horse is the best there is ;-) Just for a point of argument, on another list there were

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-10-31 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. Torsten Or just LC_ALL=es_ES (as I do it with de_DE). This sets all the LC_* variables. What LC_ALL variable will do, is *force* all variables to that setting, this

RE: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 26-Oct-97 skrifar Dave Cinege: Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the leadership of the Debian project. It happens everywhere, if you challenge the leader of a group. Personal attacks, compliants to your service provider, banishment from the project.

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 27-Oct-97 skrifar Gernot Bauer: Dave (dc) wrote: -- Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the leadership of the Debian project. [crap deleted] Can we please filter mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the debian-user-list (and the digest). It was funny in the

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 05-Sep-97 Buddha Buck wrote: [snip] Not really. The current -standard- for email transmission is RFC821 (also about 15 years old), and that explicitly states that SMTP is 7-bits only. ESTMP, MIME, and other standards-track protocols are designed to try to work around that problem, but

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 George Bonser wrote: I STRONGLY disagree. I want to know when you wrote it ... not when it arrived here. If a mail was delayed a day or two in route, it might completely change how I look at the information in the email. Example, a put-down of Princess Diana might be viewed in

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Olaf Weber wrote: RFC822 would be the appropriate one here, and it does impose some restrictions regarding what can and cannot be a date header: 5. DATE AND TIME SPECIFICATION 5.1. SYNTAX date-time = [ day , ] date time; dd mm yy

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Clare Johnstone wrote: If not sorted at all, listed as they arrive, the threads are in good order. For example the date on Orn's mail as received just now is: Date: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mi=F0,?= 03 Sep 1997 23:00:14 +0200 (CET DST) Which is: Date: Mið, 03 Sep 1997 23:00:14 +0200 (CET

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 04-Sep-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: The RFC are all the rules that actually apply to the internet. And if we all start ignoring the rules, the cooperative process that is the internet (and, indeed, Linux itself is the product of a similar cooperative process). If you must

RE: Printer Advice: HP 870C or Epson Stylus 800

1997-09-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote: I'm contemplating buying one of the two subject printers. Has anyone out there used either of these two printers under Linux? Easy to use under Linux is the key criteria. Color printing is nice to have but most of my important printing

RE: Mail Agent.

1997-09-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Eng. Jose Luis Faria wrote: Hello I'm looking for a mail agent like Eudora, ishmail but freeware. Please send me the some advices. Try XFMail 1.0... I definately recommend it. ...just me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 George Bonser wrote: Sure, I would like to have a look at it. The version that I currently have packaged is 1.1 which looks a lot smoother than the older version that I had and the newer versions are supposed to be even better from what I hear. What I like is to be able to

Date in mail headers

1997-09-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 02-Sep-97 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Orn, your mailer is formatting dates in a way that pine doesn't understand Ah, unfortunately that would happen... the header produced by my mailer reads: HReceived: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by oehansen.pp.se (8.8.7/8.8.7/Debian/GNU) id TAA11866;

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: The only official way sanctioned by the upcoming C++ ANSI/ISO standard to instantiate templates is to explicitly mention the types you want to use for instantiation. All of the repository techniques that exist, some better, some worse, are not standard and

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-03 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Hm, interesting thought.. Right now it does sort by the Date: line which is quite nice, it puts all the messages in thread order, unless people have mis-set clocks ; Sorting by the recived line would likely be the same as not sorting at all though. I am

RE: X-Server again

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 01-Sep-97 Volker Bauer wrote: Still my problem is my X-Server: Several time I tried now to config my X-Server without success. Both XF86Setup and xf86config failed. Always I get Error messages after finishing the conifguration like: Unable to connect to X-Server X11TransSocketUNIXconnect:

RE: Netscape installation problems

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 01-Sep-97 Dave Neuer wrote: Hi I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The machine running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer files to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my PowerMac, and then transfer them over my local network. The mac

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