Newsreader

1999-01-03 Thread Yosi
Hello, I am looking for a newsreader for Linux, and I would be more than grateful if you can recommend me of one. These are the things that I need in a newsreader (from the most important to the least): 1. GPL 2. Secure. I don't like Java/JavaScript/JScript/ActiveX or all the rest of these

Re: Newsreader

1999-01-03 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:56:30AM +, Yosi wrote: I am looking for a newsreader for Linux, and I would be more than grateful if you can recommend me of one. These are the things that I need in a newsreader (from the most important to the least): 1. GPL 2. Secure. I don't like

Re: Newsreader

1999-01-03 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:56:30AM +, Yosi wrote: Hello, I am looking for a newsreader for Linux, and I would be more than grateful if you can recommend me of one. These are the things that I need in a newsreader (from the most important to the least): [...] Anyone who sees a

Re: Newsreader

1999-01-03 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: Anyone who sees a resemblence between these specifications and Mutt, is right :) The closest that I've seen to Mutt is slrn. I don't know whether it supports the above features, but I think that it's as close as you can get.

Re: hebrew in netscape

1999-01-03 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
Sorry I didn't answer this message before. It got lost in the shuffle. One question before I start: Can I keep both versions of netscape and choose between them, e.g. with an alias? Thanks Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: hebrew in netscape

1999-01-03 Thread dorit ben shalom
Hi list This is almost too much. I was wondering how to print hebrew. I said to myself: I know how to write hebrew in netscape. I know how to print ps files. Netscape knows how to print a page into a ps file. Nope. I get the latin codes. Any help before I lose my sanity? Thanks Dorit

Re: hebrew in netscape

1999-01-03 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
PS I know I am asking a lot, but will somebody also have the patience to explain to me why my logic was wrong? Thanks again Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body,

Tracking customizations (was: mail problem (summary))

1999-01-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
dorit ben shalom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (I like keeping all my modified rc and cf files at the user level so I don't need to copy more than my home directory when re-intsalling system etc) There are too many customizations that you can do to your linux system to avoid tinkering with /etc.

Re: OFF TOPIC - but importent, i think.....

1999-01-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Mike wrote: Hi. Lately there is lots of ppl that ask question (me between them) that might should not be posted to the whole list. Good to see that a constructive solution to the clueless newbies probem is being looked for. Is there an option to open a sub maling lists

Re: Is Linux on the way of getting too complicated?

1999-01-03 Thread Shaul Karl
Linux 2.0 1998229 The Windows platform with 3433 API calls (up to NT4 SP3) belongs to a different league; the associated problems are documented elsewhere [2]. Is it fair to count all the Windows API calls and omit Linux GUI calls ? I wonder what is the figure for Linux if I

telnet problem

1999-01-03 Thread dorit ben shalom
I used to be able to telnet from my home machine to my main telnet account. Now I can only do that from my other telnet accounts. It doesn't _look_ like a firewall problem. Any ideas? Thanks Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: [LINUX-IL] Re: new kernel compiling error

1999-01-03 Thread Mike
Ok, but instead to insult ppl you could simply ask nice. I don't think that my question was out off line, i tried to search deja.com and other places but maybe i am a clueless idiot as written here. BTW - i did used the Kernel-HOWTO. and even red it several times and made a hard copy of it.

Re: hebrew in netscape (printing solved)

1999-01-03 Thread dorit ben shalom
Thanks to tsafrir for suggesting dov grobgeld nsps2heb script http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/ns-heb-print/ It can be run using the syntax perl nsps2heb file.ps file.heb.ps Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

fribidi executable

1999-01-03 Thread dorit ben shalom
Hi list What is currently preventing me from testing matan's rtl support for hebrew is the fact that I don't have the right glib to compile dov's fribidi-0.1.6 Is there any kind soul out there who is willing to share their executable with me? Thanks again! Dorit

OFF TOPIC - but importent, i think.....

1999-01-03 Thread Mike
Hi. Lately there is lots of ppl that ask question (me between them) that might should not be posted to the whole list. Is there an option to open a sub maling lists about specific issues ? Or maybe we can build a page in the linux-il web page that will contain those who like to help on specific