Re: Bar Ilan responsa database with wine? Unicode font encodings?

2002-02-24 Thread Efraim Yawitz
Hey! I know you from the Areivim/Avodah list! I didn't know you were also into linux. I've been trying to run Bar-Ilan version 3 (five years old) on wine, but I never get past the 'No response from NetHASP server' dialog. (It could be just a problem with accessing the parallel port itself from

mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut it above several hundred messages),

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about mua which handles very large mailboxes: ... anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). ... i'll be checking out mutt very

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). I'm using mutt. mutt supports many mailbox formats, but I use the

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive).

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
mulix [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). What do you mean by handle? Like actually reading mail using it? I use GNUS, which can

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: mulix [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). What do you mean by

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
mulix wrote: mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut it above several hundred messages), evolution, kmail, mozilla, any other x based mailer. i read my mail over ssh frequently, and an x mua is not feasible. Have you looked into IMAP? IMAP is a protocol that

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:20:37PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: mulix wrote: mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut it above several hundred messages), evolution, kmail, mozilla, any other x based mailer. i read my mail over ssh frequently, and an

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you looked into IMAP? IMAP is a protocol that keeps mail on the server. I never bothered exploring IMAP as an alternative to POP from my own mail reading. While mostly it was due to unwillingness to invest time and effort into this, part of

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? IMAP is just a protocol for remote access to mail messages (IMAP=Internet Message Access Protocol). These mail messages

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: I never bothered exploring IMAP as an alternative to POP from my own mail reading. While mostly it was due to unwillingness to invest time and effort into this, part of the reason was that I learned

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? IMAP is just a protocol for remote access to mail messages (IMAP=Internet

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Sun 2002-02-24, Nadav Har'El wrote: I use mutt too, by the way. It has no problems readying a 1000-mail folder, but it still takes quite a few seconds (because the folder is a sequencial file that needs to be read entirely - there's no index associated with the standard Unix mbox format).

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Orr Dunkelman wrote: I believe that mulix talked about encryption (plain text = not encrypted). Thus, all the messages can be understood by the entire network. It depends upon how paranoid you are. In some cases encryption is not need and it does slow things down a bit. If you want it, you

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: I believe that mulix talked about encryption (plain text = not encrypted). Thus, all the messages can be understood by the entire network. Oh :) Most IMAP clients/servers support SSL (including mutt

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text?

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? IMAP is just a protocol

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now,doesnt

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, imagine your mail not being on a sleazy ISP, but rather on a server you trust (your own Internet-connected machine, you company's server, etc.). I was thinking in terms of reading my mail off a server belonging to an ISP, hopefully not sleazy, but

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes: imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? Ah?

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands andtens of thousands

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: if you'll look at my headers, you'll see that i'm using mutt as well as of now. its handling of large mailboxes does leave something to be desired, but

Print font size in KDE

2002-02-24 Thread solomon
Hi, After several attempts, I haven't been able to set the printer font size on my box. I use CUPS and have an Epson 670 USB. The print quality is very good, but when I try to print a plain text file, the fonts are much too big. I think this is a KDE problem since it happens in KWrite and Kate

fonts in AbiWord 0.99.2

2002-02-24 Thread Itai Arad
Well here's another chapter in the endless pathetic saga of fonts/bidi in abiword... I have downloaded the latest source (version 0.99.2) and compiled with bidi and gnome support. To compile it, I used the instructions from the BUILD (not BUILD.TXT !) file. I did /autogen.sh /configure

Netiquette (was: Re: fonts in AbiWord 0.99.2)

2002-02-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Itai Arad wrote: [... complete and clear description of what he did - was snipped ...] P.S.: I am a semi-newbie. Please try to be as clear and as unambiguous as possible. No, Itai is not a semi-newbie, as far as Linux-IL netiquette is concerned. His question fully

Re: fonts in AbiWord 0.99.2

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Itai Arad wrote: Well here's another chapter in the endless pathetic saga of fonts/bidi in abiword... I have downloaded the latest source (version 0.99.2) and compiled with bidi and gnome support. To compile it, I used the instructions from the BUILD (not BUILD.TXT !)

TrueType fonts and ISO10646

2002-02-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, I'm re-installing my truetype fonts and mkfontdir doesn't give me a single ISO10646-1 line in fonts.dir or fonts.scale... Of course - I could add manually them, but I don't know which of those fonts actually has them and which one doesn't - which doesn't... Any suggestion? another

star office

2002-02-24 Thread tal amir
I'm wondering if anyone saw this coming : sun said that star office is no longer under GPL for linux\windows users. ver 6.0 final (upcoming in this may) will be distributed free only for sun solaris. back to MS office, anyone ?? http://whatsup.homelinux.com/article.php?sid=12 tal.

ANN: syscalltrack v 0.7 released

2002-02-24 Thread guy keren
syscalltrack-0.7, the 6th _alpha_ release of the linux kernel system call tracker, is available. syscalltrack supports both versions 2.2.x and 2.4.x of the linux kernel. The current release contains some major enhancements, and various bug fixes and code cleanups. See details below. * What is

Re: star office

2002-02-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Sun distinguishes between star office and open office. Is this just about the former or about both? Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: I'm wondering if anyone saw this coming : sun said that star office is no longer under GPL for linux\windows

correction syscalltrack's URL

2002-02-24 Thread guy keren
i made a mistake with the URL for downloading the file. it is: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/syscalltrack/syscalltrack-0.70.tar.gz (i.e. '70', not '7'). sorry, -- guy For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator. -- nob o. dy

Does www.linux.org.il again _not_ routed through IIX?

2002-02-24 Thread Shaul Karl
ftp.linux.org.il is terribly slow here. It was not like that in the last few weeks. Is there some temporary problem? Am I right that it is again not routed through IIX? It was not routed through IIX in the past and Amir has changed that. Until some time (days ?) ago it was routed through IIX.

Re: Gnome2beta

2002-02-24 Thread Oren Held
Still with Nautilus? Whats up with the gnome people Nautilus actually? from my tests on RH 7.2 and Ximian gnome - it took about 3 minutes to me to see nautilus crashes - and that with GNOME 1.4 latest stable from Ximian... I thought I was alone on this one, but amazingly enough, I