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Hi Terrence,
apt-get update just concern the information about the Debian packages.
It does not upgrade your applications.
For more information, please read this paragraph from the apt Howto:
Yeah, it took me a bit to figure that out, because none of the other
commands were working. Now...to figure out how to set up my pop server
on VM so I can use
that instead of Pine, which doesn't seem to work well in emacs term. It
would be nice not to have to use 2 different desktops.
In my DOS modem software, I have the following four symbols in something
called cial init string or something. It is what the modem dials before it
dials the actual telephone number:
70 number-sign comma comma
that is,
70#,,
This prevents call alert from interrupting modem connections. I do not
Hmm...but I don't know if I totally want to disable call-waiting; I only
have one phone line, so I have a catch-call device that lets calls come
in. But if this is going to be a problem I suppose I might have to get a
second line or something. Broadband here is ungodly expensive or I'd
OK, so you're saying get all 3 of FSF, fetchmail, and view? Also, Gilles,
where in the .emacs file should I put the command for loading the bitlbee
thing at start-up? I put it at the end of the file, then restarted emacs.
Not a full reboot of the computer because I still don't quite have a
What I do is this: I simply use c-e ! and when I am prompted for the
shell command I just enter wvdial or wvdial which will put the
process in the background. Now, when I need to kill that process,
that is, the wvdial process, I just go into the buffer list and kill
the buffer with the name
Please, and I repeat, please, do nothing under emacs with m-x term.
This does not nor ever has worked properly since I have used emacs and
that is close to 3 years. They probably won't fix it so I wouldn't
use it.
If you want to use pine, use it under YASR. This frees you from emacs
and its
Does this need to go in a certain spot in the .emacs file, or would it fit
at the end?
Thanks,
Terrence
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Doug Smith wrote:
Ok, what I always do is just use c-c c-c and the message goes on its
happy way with the two messages: Sending and sending done. when
the process is
