Fwd: debian 10-64bit fresh install - error messages

2020-04-09 Thread avraham rosenberg
-- Forwarded message - From: Shachar Shemesh Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 7:19 AM Subject: Re: debian 10-64bit fresh install - error messages To: avraham rosenberg Hi Avraham, I think you misdirected this email. I'm fairly sure you did not mean to send it to linux-il*-owner

Some problems with latex + Hebrew

2013-12-28 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I met of late, problems with using, with Hebrew texts, some latex commands which work perfectly in the context of English text. The first one was some time ago, when trying to make the text flow around an image (plain Latex). It warked smoothly with English text but issued an error

install console-only system]

2012-06-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I downloaded the debian-wheezy-DI-a1-i386-netinst.iso image and tried to install debian wheezy, as a console-only (no X) system. I chosed locale C, manual partitioning and ext3 file system. At the tasksel stage, I chosed the option basic system only. Everything went smoothly, except

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-18 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
. Regards, Dov On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:49, Avraham Rosenberg for.avra...@gmail.comwrote: ... Thanks Dov, but that seems to imply getting acquainted with two topics, for which I see no use in the forseeable future: the use of a web-camera and Google+. Until I find out what's wrong with my

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but that too seems to be ok in later versions. But perhaps your problem was input? Could you describe what annoyed you in more detail? Regadrs, Dov On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:46, Avraham Rosenberg for.avra...@gmail.comwrote: ... Hi

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:25:15AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Hi Avraham, In Linux/X11/Gnome/KDE the input method is typically application independent and there are various methods of inputting characters. If I need to input a fancy character, e.g. U+2646 Neptune ♆, I typically run

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-15 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Thank very much Guy, Shlomi and Nadav for their answers. I was very pleasantly surprized by Open Office draw, which is, probably the way I will go. The UTF8 capability of inkscape seems to be an afterthought. It it very inconvenient to use it for more that adding a couple of characters.

xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Dear all In an attempt to use xfig with Hebrew text, I started it with: xfig -international -geometry 1500x990+0+0 -metric -showlengths -startgridmode 1 -free 5 ₋-specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default The system answered with: xfig: this input-method doesn't support OffTheSpot

Hebrew in vim revisited

2012-03-07 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:19:34PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: I'm now using a slightly improved version: map F12 :set invrl invhkcr map! F12 C-O:set invrl invhkcr cmap F12 C-_ For UTF-8, you also need set aleph=1488 And I also like this font set

vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-02-14 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi all, I need, lately, to edit Hebrew texts with vim. As most vim commands, in normal and command modes use lower-case latin letter, which cannot be produced when the terminal is in Hebrew chars mode, I found myself switching all the time.. I started therefore to build a list of mappings, that

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-02-14 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:32:52PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012, Daniel Shahaf wrote about Re: vim mappings for Hebrew: :set keymap=hebrew Indeed. Vim has a very nice feature where it can emulate a

Re: init sequence

2011-11-21 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:06:36PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Can you send a pointer about e2fsc? Google'ing around for it and filtering e2fsck from the results the top link is the linux-il archive of the current thread :). Thanks, --Amos I apologize for the lack of clarity and for the

init sequence

2011-11-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I added a second hardrive to an existing system. I moved there three directories which should be mounted at boot, and I added the corresponding entries in /etc/fstab. Trouble is that during the e2fsc stage of the boot, I often get the message nonexistent device˝ for their mount points.

Re: init sequence

2011-11-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 01:51:35PM +0200, ronys wrote: Hi, I'm not familiar with 'e2fsc stage', but I solved a similar problem a while ago by labelling the partitions and specifying the mount command with LABEL=abc instead of an actual device name. UUID also serves the same functiuons.

Debian mirror?

2011-08-05 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Yesterday I tried to install two packages (Debian sqeeze) from http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/debian/ The site was unable to complete apt-get update or to find the packages. Is this a temporary hitch ? If not, are there active alternatives in Israel? Thanks, Avraham -- Please avoid sending

Re: Debian mirror?

2011-08-05 Thread avraham rosenberg
2011/8/5 Lior Kaplan kaplanl...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Avraham Rosenberg for.avra...@gmail.comwrote: If not, are there active alternatives in Israel? This is the mirror sites in Israel I'm aware of: http://wiki.hamakor.org.il/index.php/%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7

Re: hebrew utf8 tex examples

2011-07-14 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:34:16PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: ... The following seems to work for me: when I change \rmdefault (see the commented lines) the font changes. Does this solve your problem? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{ucs} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

hebrew utf8 tex examples

2011-07-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
text, but I was unable to find it. I would appreciate an advice, as well as a hint as where one can consult source (tex) files in Hebrew, or mixed languages. Thanks, Avraham Rosenberg -- Please avoid sending Excel or Powerpoint attachments to this address

pdflatex+vim

2011-01-22 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I am trying to switch pdflatex. With latex, I used to edit the tex file in vim, latex it using the macro defined in vimrc, and check the output with xdvi. If corrections were needed, I made them without closing the xdvi screen. After latex-ing again the corrected source the xdvi display

Re: A 12V *AC* power supply

2010-07-13 Thread avraham rosenberg
2010/7/13 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Hi list, I bought a USB connected logic analyzer for too much money (not that much). When buying, I did a mistake and not thought through the issues, and bought from a US supplier without telling them this needs to be a 220V country. As a

Re: [4SALE] Opteron machine

2010-07-08 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:20:01AM +0300, Marc Volovic wrote: Opteron 148 2GB RAM 250GB disk ATI 2400 1,200 ILS Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com Marc, You give very few details, but coming from you, I assume that all the hardware is linux-compatible. If this is so, I am interested in

Re: How to input non-printing characters in mlterm

2010-06-30 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:46:29PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:22:02PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: ... Actually answering the question in the subject line: can you try the command-line option --viaucs (or through the configuration window: Encoding = Process

How to input non-printing characters in mlterm

2010-06-29 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I need to get rid of a non-printing character in a Hebrew text originating from a doc file converted with catdoc. Receiving the output in vi, I can see that the offending character is xa0, and I can delete it with :g/Ctrl-Vxa0/s///g, but, unlike in the C locale, in the LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 locale,

Re: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-03-15 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:38:43PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: At 14:56:26 on Monday Monday 15 March 2010, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is any web site where one can find out

Re: Clalit members: please contact Clalit and demand non_IE support!

2010-03-08 Thread avraham rosenberg
Hi, Upon reading your letter, I checked if I am still able to check laboratory results: No special problem. Browser: Icweasel. Linux Debian squeeze/sid 32 bit. The only (recurring) problem: their mail program did not recognize my password, and I had to apply for a new one. But this is happening to

amd64 debian etch on a motherboard GA-k8ND-NForce3 chipset

2009-06-02 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I tried to install Debian etch amd64 on a computer with NForce3 chipset, using grml live CD (to keep a long story shorter, I won't explain why I could not use the regular installation procedure, unless it turns out that others had similar problems and we might profit by exchanging

Re: Join Linux Israel at linux.com

2009-05-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 02:43:11PM +0300, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Hi friends, Th Linux Foundation started new site on linux.com domain. I opened Linux Israel group: http://www.linux.com/community/groups/viewgroup/605-Linux+Israel Join! -- Constantine Shulyupin Embedded Linux

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-05 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f

bug in at ?

2008-12-31 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Here is the output of atq: avraham6e32:/tmp$ atq 48 Wed Dec 31 21:40:00 2008 a avraham 52 Fri Jan 1 06:00:00 2010 a avraham 49 Fri Jan 1 05:00:00 2010 a avraham 51 Fri Jan 1 06:45:00 2010 a avraham The command, corresponding to the last line was: at -m -f fvivaceRec-2

mail

2008-11-26 Thread avraham rosenberg
Hi Amos, Thanks for the feedback. It did not occur to me to check the linux archive, but I did check my folders before writing. For some time already, I noticed that the mail appeared in my mailer after a relatively large delay, but it is the first time that it did not appear at all. Apparently

Re: multimedia

2008-11-22 Thread avraham rosenberg
.VOB -o step2.VOB | | Alex Alexander | There's a way to do it better - find it. | | Gentoo'd | http://linuxized.blogspot.com \ On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 17:11, avraham rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. Thanks, Avraham Thanks Alex. With a very slight change it worked. The change

Re: multimedia

2008-11-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
/media/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB -o step1.VOB mencoder -endpos 00:39:55 -oac copy -ovc copy step1.VOB -o step2.VOB | | Alex Alexander | There's a way to do it better - find it. | | Gentoo'd | http://linuxized.blogspot.com \ On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 17:11, avraham rosenberg [EMAIL

multimedia

2008-11-19 Thread avraham rosenberg
Hi, Some problems related to multimedia. I wished to copy part of a DVD recording (on my home DVD, from the TV) for a friend. As my computer (Sempron AMD with 500 MB RAM and 1GB swap, running debian testing/unstable) is too modest for a non-linear editor. I tried to use transcode. $ tcccat -i

Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: portable scanner.]

2008-08-17 Thread avraham rosenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: portable scanner.] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I have a Canon Lide20 flatbed scanner

Re: Firefox conformity: fighting from within

2008-08-04 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:28:36PM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote: .. Can members of other health funds comment on website status of theirs health fund? Namely, Meuhedet, Clalit and Maccabi? No problems with maccabi, using Iceweasel. Avraham -- Please avoid sending to this address Excell or

Re: Firefox conformity: fighting from within

2008-08-04 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:19:34AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:28:36PM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote: .. Can members of other health funds comment on website status of theirs health fund

NIC replacement

2008-03-12 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Something is rotten in the kindom of Danemark. Monday evening there was suddenly no internet connection. Neither in my computer (Debian etch) nor in my wife's (Windows XP). After bypassing the router, I was able to connect my wife's computer, but not mine. Neither in Debian, nor in windows or

Re: NIC replacement

2008-03-12 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:43:47AM +0200, Meir Kriheli wrote: Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, Something is rotten in the kindom of Danemark. .. To complete the mistery. After reset to factory defaults, the router worked again as new. An this morning, after reactivating the on-board NIC

Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:59:11AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oren Held wrote: Hi, I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send Right-To-Left mails in plaintext? Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew? איך

Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-24 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oren Held wrote: Hi, I feel dumb.. Am I missing something, or is it just impossible to send Right-To-Left mails in plaintext? Must I use HTML mails when I write in Hebrew? Thanks - Oren Hi Oren, I use plain text for my E-mail in Hebrew

two questions on a new install of debian64

2007-06-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, After falling back to a 32-bit install, I renewed the attempt to work on a 64-bit distribution. Processor AMD Sempron System: uname -a Linux mavram 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 4 00:37:33 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux 1-Does anyone know how to get C as the default locale (I got it by inserting

Re: two questions on a new install of debian64

2007-06-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:58:45PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: ... # sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales the second screen lets you define default locale 2-Which packages are requested in order to configure printing (Printer Epson Stylus Color 670) ? It works allright on my old 32-bit

Re: two questions on a new install of debian64

2007-06-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:56:28PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: .. What do you mean by that - have you tried to create a new session (e.g. logout from X, login from another virtual console, or maybe even a reboot is required)? The settings can't affect existing processes as far as I can

Re: sed

2007-05-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:41:39AM +0300, Dotan Shavit wrote: Hi Avraham, I'd go for something more strict like: sed s/\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\)\([^\t]*\t\t\)\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1-\3 $1 \2/ Dotan On Saturday 19 May 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, The problem popped

sed

2007-05-19 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, The problem popped up in the frame of my attempts to switch to utf8. I opened a uxterm window with the command: LC_TYPE=he_IL.UTF8 uxterm -sb -sl 500 -xrm 'xterm*pointerShape: hand2' -geometry 100x40 -bg grey90 -fg black -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1' and

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:53:14AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value: After rereading the man page for bidiv, I cheched: echo $COLUMNS. As suspected, I got an odd number: 99. Question: Where is this value

bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-05 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, This is not a problen. I am just curious. In my system, whenever I use bidiv without giving a value to the parameter w, or when giving it an odd value, I get the error message: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b650 ***

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-05 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Good Morning Thanks for the prompt reaction. As it did not answer my question, I downloaded the tarbals for bidiv, versions 1.5 and 1.4, grepped -i for COLUMNS (found them only in the remarks) and compared (diff) the bidiv and Makefile files between the two distributions (none found). I guess

Re: strange behaviour of montage (imageMagick)?

2007-04-30 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Glad to hear that this might be of use to others. We moved to Jerusalem, some 9 month ago. For my orientation, I needed some maps on which I might scribble and which could be thrown away after that. For that I needed to find a set of maps covering the area of interest, a means to know their

Re: strange behaviour of montage (imageMagick)?

2007-04-29 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Good morning, Answering my own question: The use of the construct for i in .., when the order of execution is important is the mistake. I'll have to rewrite the script. Nothing like a good night's sleep, to discover such fallacies. Cheers, Avraham -- Please avoid sending to this address

strange behaviour of montage (imageMagick)?

2007-04-28 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I am building maps by collating minimaps downloaded from the site of mapa. I am using the convert and montage programs from imageMagick, within the following script (bbigmap) #!/bin/sh case $# in 0)echo Use: $0 number_of_cols_of_minimaps file_with_list_of_minimaps output_file

Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I use very often the traditional Unix tools (mainly sed and tr) for text processing from the command line. They work very well as long as the input is plain text in English. Question: Are there ways (please pointers) to use such tools with Hebrew text, html English text and maybe mixed

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Actually it can be done easily in WordBasic. If you really wanted to be spiffy, you could use WordBasic to propigate an Access database and then use Access to format the letters and email them with Outlook. WordBasic is

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:18:27PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I use very often the traditional Unix tools (mainly sed and tr) for text processing from the command line. They work very well as long as the input is plain text in English

Re: [OT] computer recycling

2007-02-26 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:14:57PM +0200, Jason Friedman wrote: Sorry about the off-topic post, but I couldn't find this information anywhere . . . Is there anywhere in Israel where one can recycle old computers. I have several non-working and very old computers, monitors and printers

script problem

2007-02-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi I have some 3000 minimaps which I wish to colate into bigger maps using ImageMagic's montage. Trouble is that some of the maps are missing. Until I obtain them, I'll put in their place blank maps of same size and shape. The names of the minimaps are of the form xxx-yyy_625.jpg, xxx representing

oops

2007-02-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Sorry for the bandwidth. I am an idiot! Cheers, Avraham = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

script

2007-02-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi Peter, Thanks for the quick reaction. Actually my blunder was putting a $ sign before list and fullist (another legacy from a previous attempt, but a harmful one, for a change). As to your remarks: 1-ls formats the output in severeal columns only when the output goes to a terminal, which is not

laptop

2006-12-29 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Please, your advice about buying a laptop, to replace my wife's desktop: two desktops are too much for our small appartment. Required: reliability, large and bright display, netcard (for connection with cable) a minimum of 512 MB ram, cpu better than Celeron (which , I was told, gives off a lot of

strange error message

2006-12-29 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Thank you very much for the good advices. Now, to a question more related to linux. I wrote this small script to get a more pleasing output from bidiv: #!/bin/sh case $# in 0)echo Use: $0 file_name width additional_options;; 1)echo Use: $0 file_name width additional_options;;

Re: Hebrew in gvim

2006-12-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:02:46AM -0500, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:47:21AM +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I never felt the need to use gvim. Till now. This morning, when trying to use it, I received the following error message: (gvim:19880): Pango-WARNING

Re: Hebrew in gvim

2006-12-14 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:41:36PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:14:48 +0200 Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:48:11PM +0200, ik wrote: .. I saw this problem when moving to a unicode system. seems that gvim inputs characters in iso

Re: Hebrew in gvim

2006-12-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:48:11PM +0200, ik wrote: Hi, What is the encoding of the Hebrew text file ? On my vimrc (I do not use gvimrc) I made the following statement: set fileencodings=utf-8,ucs-bom,iso-8859-8-i,iso-8859-8,iso-8859-1 Please note that if your text file does not contain

Hebrew in gvim

2006-12-12 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I never felt the need to use gvim. Till now. This morning, when trying to use it, I received the following error message: (gvim:19880): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 4097 which seems to be prompted by something in my .vimrc, as I do not receive it when I bypass it. When opening a

Re: ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ?????

2006-11-04 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Guy Sheffer wrote: ? ?? ??? ?? ?? ?? : 21/11/06 ? ? ?? ?? ?? ?? :

Re: Opera

2006-09-18 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:13:03PM +0300, Julian Daich wrote: Hi all, A pooling question. Do you have any experience on Opera? It does improve the surfing performance at the Israeli websites? It haves any advantage over Konqueror? It is not for me but for a newbie who is suffering from the

Re: making a sed recursive

2006-08-29 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:53:58PM +0300, Aaron Mehl wrote: Hi all, I have sed finding and replacing for me. Thanks to Alex and Tzafrir for your help :) but I need to do it for a whole directory of files. I found a script that uses sed for another recursive task and tried to

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: xv]

2006-08-10 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
- Forwarded message from Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: xv Hi Amit, I don't know if you got my (very long) letter that I sent you about one month ago, before we moved to Jerusalem. I

Re: strange error message

2006-07-31 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
:41:02AM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I use the following script to read simple Hebrew doc documents: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/antiword -w 70 $2 -m 8859-8.txt $1 | /usr/bin/bidiv -j -w 70 | sed 's/[ ][ ]*$//' | sed -e :a -e 's/^.\{1,69\}$/ /;ta' Lately (maybe this has to do

strange error message

2006-07-30 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I use the following script to read simple Hebrew doc documents: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/antiword -w 70 $2 -m 8859-8.txt $1 | /usr/bin/bidiv -j -w 70 | sed 's/[ ][ ]*$//' | sed -e :a -e 's/^.\{1,69\}$/ /;ta' Lately (maybe this has to do with the move to a 64-bit system) I get the

Re: apt offline

2006-07-18 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi Geoff, The reference I found in my notes is http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=text/plainlocation=/usr/share/doc/apt-doc Jason Gunthorpe: Using APT Offline Googling under apt offline, you'll find these instructions in a couple of places. If you read German, you can find a

Re: Where do I get a copy of Debian?

2006-07-15 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, As others already mentioned, you only need to burn the first CD for the initial install. In order to complete the installation, using the Wifi card, I remember a reference about using apt without an internet connection. I used it for a while, when I had internet only at work. It was pretty

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-22 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi Amit, First of all, thanks a lot for the patience you show in trying to help. I am especially indebted for the information concerning the incompatibility between the debootstrap of the stable distribution and the install of the 32-bit chroot system. As I know (some of) my limitations, I prefer

Re: amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-21 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi Guy, Thanks for the answer. Most of your remarks are answered by the sentence you quoted immediately after. In case this was not clear enough, I shall try to do better now. On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:57:22AM +0300, guy keren wrote: so dchroot is not found under /usr/bin/dchroot. did you

amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi experts, After leaving the 64-system for a while, yesterday when I returned to it, I found with displeasure that the script do_dchroot (I am refering to the Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO by Rosenberg, Iverson, von Brederlow, Schueler, Mills and Pariset) does not work any more. The error

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-19 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:43:56AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hmm... Seems that the amd64 version is only available for unstable (which is the flavor I use)... http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=octave2.9searchon=namessubword

Re: mailer

2006-06-18 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:39:57PM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:51:46PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: My (default) locale

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-18 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:44:38PM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Avraham Rosenberg wrote: ... But it seems that there's a ready-made amd64 Debian package for octave (defaults to 2.1, but there's also a octave2.9 package) too. Did you try using it? (I don't use it, so would not know

Re: mailer

2006-06-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:19:00PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: The following is NOT an efficient or recommended solution, but since you seem to be looking for a 1-time solution for clueless recipients, you could try this: -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail

mailer

2006-06-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I have to send a lot of letters and E-mails to announce my impending change of address and phone number. Usually I am using mutt, and I have no problem, when the recipients are linux users, or when the messges are in English. This time, the message has to be in Hebrew and some, if not most of

Re: mailer

2006-06-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Besides, you should send UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-8-i . Besides, this is a statistcs of one. Other ms-windows set-ups might behave differently. Even

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-10 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:50:59PM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: To avoid trouble, I try to run everything in the pure 64 environment, with minimal stuff on the 32bit chroot. Can you give the specific reasons why you need these apps to be 32bit? ImageJ: Can't it run on a 64bit Java (isn't

32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-08 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Still struggling with my new amd64 system and with its 32-bit chroot environement. I installed it according to the HOWTO, and installed a couple of programs (most notably xv, opera and ImageJ). While xv seems to work flawlessly, opera is only partly functional and ImageJ accepts to work only

Re: chroot 32-bit subsystem in an amd64-bit debian system

2006-05-31 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:29:07PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: about #2: apt-get install gnupg debian-archive-keyring it should be enough to verify your packages. Avraham Rosenberg wrote: .. 2-When installing packages in the 32-bit subsystem I keep receiving warning. Here is a quote from

chroot 32-bit subsystem in an amd64-bit debian system

2006-05-28 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi all, After having completed a working 32-bit system for the most urgent needs, I returned to the 64-bit system and started to build the chroot 32-bit subsystem for programs that exist only for this environement. I am following the The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO by Kevin M. Rosenberg, Nate

Re: usbkey

2006-05-24 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Amos Shapira wrote: Wouldn't a format of the media (or otherwise overwriting the offending byte) solve this problem without having to replace the media altogether? Just wondering, --Amos Hi Amos, It's crazy! I tried your suggestion and formatted the media, immediately after receiving it and

Re: usbkey, GCC version for kernel compilation

2006-05-15 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:31:23AM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: ... My recommendation: Exchange the usbkey for a new one. There is a 255 to 1 chance that the replacement, even the same brand, will be okay. You can also just recompile your kernel and remove the cumana support but one day you

Re: usbkey, GCC version for kernel compilation

2006-05-15 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:28:24PM +0300, Alexander Indenbaum wrote: ... Another advice is to reuse existing kernel configuration from /proc/config.gz, just change relevant kernel option and use 'make oldconfig' build procedure. -- Alexander Indenbaum Good morning, Alexander and

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8]

2006-05-07 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 01:46:19PM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Avraham Rosenberg wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:45:14PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: This sound very much like a problem I had/have. Does the dmesg show anything like this [CUMANA/ADFS] after connecting the disk

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8]

2006-05-07 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
mount the entire device? doesn't fdisk recognize partitions on this device? --guy On Sat, 6 May 2006, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: . -- guy For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator. -- nob o. dy Hi Guy, You are perfectly right: it should have been

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8]

2006-05-06 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
- Forwarded message from avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8 On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:45:14PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: This sound

Re: usbkey

2006-05-06 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 6 10:02:28 2006 Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 10:02:28 +0300 From: Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version

problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8

2006-04-26 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I found out that my Debian, kernel 2.6.8 which I installed lately, cannot handle my USB stick (fast, USB2.0 type). When I issue, as root, mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt, the system answers: wrong fs, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error No problem when mounting, with a

Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8

2006-04-26 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:57:11PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: .. How is the stick formatted? Are you sure it is sda? Send the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda ? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org Hi Oleg

Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8

2006-04-26 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:24:00PM +0300, shimi wrote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 14:46, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, Check out 'dmesg' output after the mount; If I guess correctly, you'll see an error relating to either Codepage or NLS. If I did guess correctly, your kernel does

Re: debian 2.6 install and adsl

2006-04-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:34:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Have you read the latest DWN? It could be that you can jump right to the 21st century, leaving 32 bit behind. Hi, Tanks for the tip. I would read it NOW if only I knew what DWN means, and where it is

debian 2.6 install and adsl

2006-04-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi All, Apparently, with some help from Bill I found a (ugly) solution to the question: How to bring up the net-card at boot, without asigning it an address: I recalled that in the old windows (maybe in the new ones as well), before configuration, one's IP address appeared as 0.0.0.0. That is what

debian-install kernel 246-8 + adsl + others

2006-04-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi hag sameiach to all I used the wait for the new computer in order to play with the instalation of debian sarge kernel 246-8. I started with an installation CD. Then, in the second stage, I configured pppoe, changed the definition of the apt sources and continued. Two questions: 1-I found no

Re: debian-install kernel 246-8 + adsl + others

2006-04-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi Tzafrir Thanks for the answer On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:14:54PM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: kernel 2.4.27 or 2.6.8? kernel 2.6.8, sorry. What happens when you run 'ifup eth0'? Is eth0 configured in /etc/network/interfaces? Is there any 'auto eth0' there? No, using the options of the

Re: debian-install kernel 246-8 + adsl + others

2006-04-16 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:21:31PM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:14:59PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi Tzafrir Thanks for the answer On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:14:54PM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: kernel 2.4.27 or 2.6.8? kernel 2.6.8, sorry. What

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