Re: fetchmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread jason and jill
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: I had a similar problem with smail. I got around it by using specifying a MDA in .fetchmailrc. Bob I tried replacing smail with exim, and got same error message. Tried to designate exim as MDA in fetchmailrc and got: ..exim: neither action

Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread jason and jill
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:47:59 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux mail-out [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! Corel is pleased to announce that the Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for

Very very very sorry, but please help

1998-11-20 Thread jason and jill
Okay, this isn't directly related to debian, but I will be using debian to solve the problem. :) Last night I took over a listserv that basically had been left on cruise control without a list owner for over a year. Out of 1000 subscribers, a couple of hundred are deadwood set NOMAIL, some of

Re: Very very very sorry, but please help

1998-11-20 Thread jason and jill
Just wanted to say thanks. Got the needed script! (One C, one Perl). The first came 3 minutes after my post. Yup, there's just no reliable customer service with linux, is there? ;) Jason

Corrected Cheap*bytes autoup.sh script

1998-08-17 Thread jason and jill
Upon request, here's the updated script sent to me by Cheap*Bytes: [For anyone reading this in the archives: The original Official 2.0 CD-Rom distributed by Cheap*Bytes contained the cd_autoup.sh file included by Debian with the distribution. The script was broken at the time the dist. was

Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

1998-08-16 Thread jason and jill
I bought the $1.99 2.0 CD-ROM from Cheapbytes to do the hamm upgrade to my system. Got it in the mail Friday, brought it home, took my wife to see Saving Private Ryan, we got home at 1am, she fell asleep instantly, I couldn't so I tried doing the upgrade. The upgrade script on the CD was

Major problems--Cheapbytes Office 2.0 cd

1998-08-15 Thread jason and jill
Received today the Cheapbytes 2.0 install cd. I am attempting to do an upgrade from bo. Please, can someone for God's sake tell me how to get autoup.sh to work? I tried using the cd_autoup.sh included in the cd. It can't find debs, and debs seem to be all over the place where it isn't

Re: Netscape: Can't open display

1998-08-10 Thread jason and jill
-- I'm running X; however, I'm running it as root. When I try running Netscape in an xterm window, it tells me I can't run Netscape as root. So I try logging in as a normal user and I get the can't open display message. If I try netscape like you suggest above, I get a message like

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread jason and jill
: progressing (deciding to leaving OS/2 took a long time). Funny thing, : when I decided to switch my home OS silly me took a few hours and read : about various OSs. : : Missing the point again as all seem to be in this discussion. I think I : have seen maybe one post that got the

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
other than Red Hat, Caldera, or S.u.S.E. versions of their applications. Try to talk Debian to them and they dismiss it saying they just do not have the time. And your solution is what? Debian jump to 6.0 and always make sure to stay a version number ahead of Red Hat? Hey, Red Hat just

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
I haven't used it all that much yet (can't stand the idea of coming home and typing MORE documents) but SmartOffice seems just fine. Jason On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Ivan wrote: Hello, I am seeking a WYSIWYG Word Processor - I downloaded and installed lyX today - pretty good but not quite what I

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
Oops, that's what I meant...StarOffice. smack Jason On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Darren Benham wrote: Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going commercial. On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: Any other options - should I go commercial ??? --

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going commercial. And I've always thought that Star Office *is* commercial... If I can legally d/l it, install it, and use it, and pay nothing, it's not commercial. :) [Well, not commercial for me.] ;) StarOffice costs $$'s

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! The blurb I saw leading up to this discovery lead me to believe that Star Office had seen the light - it seems I was mislead :( There aren't .debs for it, but you can go ahead and d/l it from their ftp/web site and it installed on

Re: No PINE debian package?

1998-07-20 Thread jason and jill
s On Sun,

Re: procmail and .forward

1998-07-15 Thread jason and jill
I'm using hamm with: sendmail 8.8.8-20 procmail 3.10.7-6 It't not a bug...it's the way the packages are supposed to work together when installed system-wide. My isp has been set up that way since '94. When you need to use .forward is a bug occurring (more like an inconvenience

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread jason and jill
after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: Personally, I use loadlin to boot unix

Re: REALLY small machine

1998-07-14 Thread jason and jill
I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? you can get a bare bones linux onto it but you'll have to put more ram in it. you'll also have to do without