Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-19 Thread Adam Heath
On 17 Jun 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. Is there any possibility we could get permission from

Re: GMT seems to have moved...

1998-06-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: On my bo system the GMT variable is set in /etc/init.d/boot, but my hamm system has no such file!. Where is GMT set now? /etc/defaults/rcS Would someple -PLEASE- put a comment to this effect in

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Dietrich
if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody, especially a beginner. also for professionals. :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

p2c 1.20-2.4 is now lintian-compliant and in Incoming.

1998-06-19 Thread Robert Woodcock
It's targetted for 'frozen unstable' - yes, this is for hamm. I did *not* fix the old source format, or edit it to use debhelper, or anything else drastic - it *only* (a). fixes all the lintian errors and (b). gives us a libp2c1 package. I've tested it with the example code that comes with p2c,

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl): to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance improved several hundred-fold. So I believe

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel functions. Whenever these functions are called (and Daniel assigned to a variable; if you

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel functions. Whenever these functions are called

Intent to package: MacGate

1998-06-19 Thread David Huggins-Daines
MacGate is a set of user-space programs for using the Appletalk-IP decapsulation driver in the 2.1.90 and later kernels (or 2.0 kernels with the Appletalk-Suite patch). It allows a GNU/Linux system with Netatalk to act as an Appletalk-IP router. The license is GPL. I've made preliminary source

Intent to package: lf (linuxfocus)

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Bramer
Hello I would package linuxfocus, a online linux-magazin. It is nice :-) , but non-free :-( see: http://www.linuxfocus.org There is NO copyright-file. I have mail to the main author. He write that in the next issue (July 1998) is a copyright file :-). I put the english part of lf to

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
* Michael Dietrich (Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:31:52AM +0200) if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody, especially a beginner. also for professionals. :wq Go ahead, it wouldn't hurt, would it? :-) -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread Ray Kinsella
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: * Michael Dietrich (Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:31:52AM +0200) if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody, especially a beginner. also for professionals. :wq Go ahead, it

Could we automate downgrade possibility by dpkg-repack?

1998-06-19 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, when I install a package from unstable it sometimes happens that something is seriously broken and I'd like downgrade the package again. But the last recent version of the package has already disappeared from all the ftp mirrors and it is not easy to go back again. Could one include the

Re: Bootfile locations for rbootd?

1998-06-19 Thread Peter Maydell
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [rbootd directory choice] the usual problem : you have an application and need an application home. with ftp it's /home/ftp, for web server /var/www, and for many other stuff it's currently /var/lib/package or /var/spool/package. but with

Re: Intent to package: lf (linuxfocus)

1998-06-19 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I put the english part of lf to /usr/doc/lf/en/199JMM/, the german part to /usr/doc/lf/de/199JMM and so on. Please use linuxfocus instead of lf to avoid namespace pollution... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1

Re: Intent to package: lf (linuxfocus)

1998-06-19 Thread Gerhard Poul
Hi, But please only package the german things as soon as they are completely translated because we have more than one version then... That's not very good I think... cu, Gerhard --- at-net and VBS - We support experimental data transport technology! Linux International Web

Help needed with libpaperg_1.0.3-10

1998-06-19 Thread Marco Pistore
Hi, a pair of days ago i have uploaded a new version of libpaper and libpaperg (version 1.0.3-10), to close a release critical bug: in the preinst of libpaperg i have added two diversions, since both libpaper and libpaperg contain the files /usr/sbin/paperconfig and /usr/bin/paperconf.

Re: Intent to package: lf (linuxfocus)

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:25:40AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: I put the english part of lf to /usr/doc/lf/en/199JMM/, the german part to /usr/doc/lf/de/199JMM and so on. Please use linuxfocus instead of lf to avoid namespace pollution... Ok. the packages are named like:

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Dietrich
if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody, especially a beginner. also for professionals. :wq Go ahead, it wouldn't hurt, would it? :-) OK, i would start if everybody promisses to stop the discussion if or if not a beginner

PGP: Key cross-signing in Hamburg/Germany

1998-06-19 Thread Florian Hinzmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! I am interested in getting my PGP key signed and signing other keys, especially from debian maintainers as I am applying to become one. I am living in Hamburg -- which is, as you might know, in Germany ;). If you are willing to sign my key, please send me

New gnome packages

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Meskes
Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. Also it seems some libraries/binaries are compiled with debug flags set. For intance I got this when using gnome-terminal: ** WARNING **:

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. Last I heard, the gnome team doesn't intend to have a specific window manager---instead they're

Re: Help needed with libpaperg_1.0.3-10

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Jason I have CCd you because this is what caused the apt/dpkg problem I mailed you about. Perhaps you can experiment. On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:10:05PM +0200, Marco Pistore wrote: a pair of days ago i have uploaded a new version of libpaper and libpaperg (version 1.0.3-10), to close a release

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19

1998-06-19 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Major changes: [snip] - Application moved out of main: sniffit, rat, crafty, kbd ^^^ I hope kbd has not been removed from hamm, it would be pretty bad for all the users _not_ having a US

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19

1998-06-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: I hope kbd has not been removed from hamm, it would be pretty bad for all the users _not_ having a US keyboard... I stand corrected. kbd should have been in the list of packages for which a fixed version was uploaded/installed. Wichert. --

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19

1998-06-19 Thread peloy
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to a nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List. Since Richar Braakman is currently on vacation, I will be maintaining this for the next two weeks. This is my first post, so please excuse any errors/oversights and report them to me. Wichert. Major

More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Troy Hanson
I am having problems on 2 machines (both upgraded from bo). with the utmp/wtmp. The output below is from a machine that never has had an Xterm running (telnet access only): $ last ;* *.*5 192.168.5.51 Wed Dec 31 21:26 still logged in wtmp begins Tue Jun 16 08:45:00 1998 I

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote: : I am having problems on 2 machines (both upgraded from bo). with the : utmp/wtmp. : : The output below is from a machine that never has had an Xterm running : (telnet access only): : : $ last : ;* *.*5 192.168.5.51 Wed Dec 31 21:26

Intenet To Package: Electric Eyes

1998-06-19 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yes, I did check the WNPP this time! ;) Thanks for pointing out my error, everyone on debian-private. - --- Aaron Van Couwenberghe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--- Debian

Re: Intenet To Package: Electric Eyes

1998-06-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did check the WNPP this time! ;) Thanks for pointing out my error, everyone on debian-private. Sorry to disappoint you, but: sh-2.01# dpkg --list eeyes Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread Will Lowe
I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html. thanks, Will --

gnome again

1998-06-19 Thread Meskes, Michael
Okay, I tried starting icewm and then some gnome applets resp. some of the desktop tools. But they all seg fault. And I get a message that imlib is lacking the file in /usr/etc. Do I have to set an environment variable? I think we should add a README explaining how to use gnome to the packages.

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Troy Hanson
yes, ssh is installed on both machines. I will try rebuilding it... I will post the results of the trial. :) thanks! troy At 09:05 AM 6/19/98 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote: : I am having problems on 2 machines (both upgraded from bo). with the :

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:50:46PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: I used Andreas' tarball v 0.12 (which contains mkisofs) on a machine running 2.1.103, using -J -r (and -b, too), and it works fine... both 2.1.103 and 2.0.33 seem to prefer Joliet over RR, but I can see and use the symlinks on

Re: p2c 1.20-2.4 is now lintian-compliant and in Incoming.

1998-06-19 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:36:17 PDT, Robert Woodcock wrote: It's targetted for 'frozen unstable' - yes, this is for hamm. I did *not* fix the old source format, or edit it to use debhelper, or anything else drastic - it *only* (a). fixes all the lintian errors and

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 09:30:17AM -0400, Ray Kinsella wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: * Michael Dietrich (Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:31:52AM +0200) if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody,

Re: libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread Steve Dunham
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html. They are in slink. The depends in gnome is screwed

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: Package: jde [...] Depends: emacs20 | xemacs20-bin ^^ Why? We run JDE on Emacs 19.34 here in the department just fine. Recommends: jdk1.1-dev \begin{just checking}You realise, of course, this puts it in

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread James Troup
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time around Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:07:24 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: elvis-tiny is small enough to fit on too (although that may have changed now that we use slang rather than ncurses - can elvis-tiny use slang??) and provides a

Re: libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread B. Bell
it needs a symlink from libungif to libgif3g... just do: (from memory, should be right) % ln -s /usr/lib/libgif3g.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libungif.so.3 % ldconfig and it should work fine. or, if you want libungif (which is free, libgif3g is not) it's in slink/graphics On 19 Jun 1998, Steve Dunham

Re: Username length inconsistencies.

1998-06-19 Thread Noel Maddy
On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 11:32:18PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Wow, I think I'm going to open a zoo for root-checking methods:) Okay, how about this: cat /usr/local/bin/getuid #!/bin/sh USERNAME=`whoami` IFS=: set `grep ^$USERNAME /etc/passwd` echo $3 -- Deep in the fundamental heart

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-19 Thread B. Bell
be sure to check out the panel... it's cool. -brad On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. Also it seems some libraries/binaries are compiled with debug

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote: : $ last : ;* *.*5 192.168.5.51 Wed Dec 31 21:26 still logged in : : wtmp begins Tue Jun 16 08:45:00 1998 Do you have ssh installed? (or anything else from non-US) ... I seem to recall some troubles with the libc5 version of ssh

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Troy Hanson
I rebuild ssh. Now last works: (no lost info) $ last troy ttyp0192.168.5.51 Fri Jun 19 12:40 still logged in troy ttyp0192.168.1.5 Fri Jun 19 11:00 - 11:00 (00:00) troy tty2 Thu Jun 18 09:03 still logged in troy tty1

RE: Intenet To Package: Electric Eyes

1998-06-19 Thread Florian Hinzmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 19-Jun-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did check the WNPP this time! ;) Thanks for pointing out my error, everyone on debian-private. Maybe you missed the packets that are available already? This is what my bash has to say: # [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Fate of binutils-m68k-palmos-coff

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I sent this inquiry to the current maintainer and the wnpp maintainer but haven't yet received any reply, so I thought I'd ask here. In a nutshell, the situation is this: There is a package called binutils-m68k-palmos-coff that is part of a cross-compiler to compile programs to run on a

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
It's probably going to stay like that until the upstream kpilot maintainer fixes the build process, which is a mess at this point. I spent a couple hours trying to fix it but got nowhere so I will just leave it as-is at the moment :-) John Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John ==

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Goerzen wrote: pilot-manager -- Perl/TK hotsync tool (waiting for me to download and try it out) pilot-manager is already packaged. In fact I've been using it for weeks already. I went back and ran a find in the main FTP

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
repoen 23618 stop I'm sorry, but saying that I should not use debmake because it is buggy does not fix the bug and the bug should not be closed! Corrupting files in packages that I am building is very serious indeed, and if I didn't set the severity to important or greater, I probably should

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Troy Hanson
After rebuilding, everything works, and I have the lost entries back. here is the output of ldd: $ ldd sshd1.old libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000) $ ldd sshd libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4000f000) libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40015000)

Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-19 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a
I intend to package several VRML tools I have found while doing an article on GNU/Linux and WWW/VRML browsers, they are (in no particular order..) - Viper, Vorlon, mcf and 'pw'; VRML 1.0/2.0/97 parsers - Libs por developping VRML apps: libJava, libC++ - FreeWRL, kwrl: VRML Browsers (kwrl is

Access to an Alpha for package compilation?

1998-06-19 Thread Douglas Bates
Is there a mechanism to request access to a Debian GNU/Linux Alpha system for compilation of a package? I am the maintainer of the r-base package which provides a language for statistical computing and graphics. I am also on the development team for the upstream sources. We recently released

Re: Access to an Alpha for package compilation?

1998-06-19 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On 19 Jun 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: I am the maintainer of the r-base package which provides a language for statistical computing and graphics. I am also on the development team for the upstream sources. We recently released R-0.62.1 which I packaged it up for slink (it was too late for

Re: Access to an Alpha for package compilation?

1998-06-19 Thread Douglas Bates
Christopher C Chimelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19 Jun 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: I am the maintainer of the r-base package which provides a language for statistical computing and graphics. I am also on the development team for the upstream sources. We recently released R-0.62.1

Re: Intent to package JDE (Emacs Java Development Environment)

1998-06-19 Thread Ruud de Rooij
On 1998/06/19, James Troup wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: Package: jde [...] Depends: emacs20 | xemacs20-bin ^^ Why? We run JDE on Emacs 19.34 here in the department just fine. According to the requirements as listed on

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I will repeat what I said: debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the remaining 5%,

Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 08:12:07PM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: - moonlight and GLspace: 3D modellers (which also export to VRML) ^ Is thsi Moonlight Creator? Moonlight Creator is already packaged under the name moonlight. It is also not listed on the WNPP ..so it

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
i was told, that a bug with joilet+rr in 1.12* was fixed in 1.12a4, but i would feel better with someone who has tested it. I used the mkisofs you included in the tarball... which one is it? It doesn't say... it should be 1.12a4, the newest release. it's static compiled (so bo system can

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
using mkisofs (the one Andreas includes) it worked just fine on a PC with a QDI MB (it says something like Titanium IB+ TX... it's a 430TX chipset). so the current mkisofs generates bootable cdroms ? (i have to admin, i think i didn't change the mkisofs in 0.12, but i'm not sure. maybe you can

Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 08:12:07PM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: - Viper, Vorlon, mcf and 'pw'; VRML 1.0/2.0/97 parsers - Libs por developping VRML apps: libJava, libC++ - FreeWRL, kwrl: VRML Browsers (kwrl is made as part of KDE so I'll have to contact kde maintainers as

Missing Documentation? (Bugs: Severity, debian/control: Priority

1998-06-19 Thread Florian Hinzmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! Maybe they aren't there, maybe I am too tired: I don't find to things: - - An explanation of the available severity levels I may use in bug reports and - - an explanation of the available priorities I may use in the debian/control file. I know I've

p3nfs - got it compiled with libc6 - what should I do?

1998-06-19 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just got a patch for p3nfs to make it compile with libc6 (had to apply a couple of tweaks to make it compile under Debian hamm). Can I help the Hamm Bug Stamp-Out effort by simply uploading my version? I'm an inexperienced debian developer (packaged c2ps) so any help about this

Re: Missing Documentation? (Bugs: Severity, debian/control: Priority

1998-06-19 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Florian Hinzmann wrote: An explanation of the available severity levels I may use in bug reports http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html and an explanation of the available priorities I may use in the debian/control file.

where is sed in slink?

1998-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian/home/ftp/debian/dists/slinkfind | grep sed ./main/binary-alpha/base/sed_2.05-22.deb ./main/binary-m68k/base/sed_2.05-22.deb ./main/binary-powerpc/base/sed_2.05-22.deb ./main/binary-sparc/base/sed_2.05-22.deb Available for all architectures but i386!? A lot of other

rsync vs. ftp usage

1998-06-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
is rsync realy so good ? if it is, and rsync can make sure that transmissions will be always correkt and complete, and it can continues transmissions, i will consider createing the cdrom disk images as one big file, not splitting them and distributeing them only via rsync. but only if rsync is

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
reopen 23618 reassign 23618 binutils quit Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debstd is not supposed to guess that your static library is in coff format, because normal libraries in Linux are ELF. stripping a library using just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is

offline till 24.6. evening

1998-06-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
will fix then some important stuff on the cdrom (easier access to the tools like rawrite etc.). andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-19 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- James Troup, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: Of course, I agree, but my point was that gdbm *Shouldn't* be required and although it will need to be made so in hamm as a kludge, I tried to get this fixed properly back in March. And the point that I

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals (writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, which somehow seems much longer. Well, I'll have my machine download

MetroX installer.

1998-06-19 Thread G John Lapeyre
Has anyone looked into a MetroX installer package, or the like? It comes tar'ed or rpm'd . I'm thinking of all the Thinkpads with a neomagic videocard. I was trying to help a friend install Debian on one. (The tecra boot disk didn't work, but who knows, maybe the floppies were