pointers for using an additional version of gcc

2003-03-23 Thread avraham . rosenberg
Hi, I intend to compile octave-2.1.44 on a celeron 600MHz running slackware 8.0 (kernel 2.2.xx, gcc 2.95). Most of the tools required by the package are compatible with my system, but it requires a newer version of the readline library (updated, without unpleasant side-effects) and gcc-3.2.2. I do

Re: A good Linux advocacy read

2003-11-14 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Gil forgot to mention that despite its German name, it is available both in German and in English, Avraham On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Gil Freund wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:24:47 +0200 From: Gil Freund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A good Linux advocacy read While I did

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2004-05-23 Thread avraham rosenberg
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2004-05-23 Thread avraham rosenberg
I apologize for the large number of messages sent to the list. The idea was to check if I managed to convince mut and pine to send the correct return address. I was too impatient when checking the mail and I was under the impression that the previous attempts did no get through. Sorry for

errors when starting X

2005-08-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, When I switched from slackware from debian, I did it in a hurry and, in many cases I ignored the debian way to do things. Therefore the upgrade to sarge was a rather long process. But I ended with a stable system. This time I made every effort to do it rightly and to pay attention to every

Re: xterm/mlterm

2005-08-21 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:59:17PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:05:01PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, Your problem with the mlterm settings, which apparently was not addressed in the answers you received, caught my eye, because I am also contemplating

Re: xterm/mlterm

2005-08-23 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:32:01PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: .. I thought to understand from the xterm man page that the behaviour of ALT is determined by the value of eightBitInput: when true, its association with a char key produces some 8-bit char (that is exactly what had happened

Re: Poweroffing/Supsending the Screen

2005-09-02 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:45:39PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to configure my computer so it will poweroff/suspend/etc. the screen after some inactivity. At the moment, it just keeps the display on all the time. My configuration is: * Mandriva 2006 Beta2 * Kernel

choice of font with a2ps

2005-10-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi to everyone, This maybe a very trivial question, but I only started to print (hardcopy) last week, or the week before. For my needs at the present time, the possibility to print by typing a command at the shell prompt is very convenient. Using enscape, it is very simple to chose the font (type

Re: Hotplug setup

2005-12-22 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:59:20AM +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: Hi, I've just been looking around the web for instructions on how to set up hotplug to mount and unmount my digital camera, but I don't find anything that looks standard and simple. I have nothing against copying some script

how to extract Hebrew text from a pdf/ps file

2006-02-12 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Good morning to all. Can anyone give me a pointer to a way to extract text (mostly Hebrew) from a pdf or ps file ? 10-th a lot, Avraham = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body,

Re: how to extract Hebrew text from a pdf/ps file

2006-02-13 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
for a search engine that way. http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Good morning to all. Can anyone give me a pointer to a way to extract text (mostly Hebrew) from a pdf or ps file ? 10-th a lot, Avraham

new computer

2006-03-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi linuxers, Yesterday, after installing a minimal version of kernel 2.6.8 - based Debian and playing a little with grub's automatically created mebu.lst (it is the first time I am using grub), the computer ceased to recognize the partitions on the first HD. As I had an uptodate list of the

Re: new computer

2006-03-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Thanks for the fast answer, full of information and common-sense. I'll insert a couple of words at the appropiate places... On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:50:26PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 12:15 +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi linuxers, Yesterday, after installing

new computer. Thanks

2006-03-17 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, Thanks to Gilboa, Didi and Alex for their answers. I think I got the picture. As the last time I bought a computer was three years ago (for my wife), the only information I had about the hardware available nowadays was from advertisments in the newspapers. These are mostly geared towards the

new computer-the saga continues

2006-03-19 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, First of all, thanks to Oded Arbel. A couple of new questions: 1-On the two quotations I received today, they propose SATA hard drives. Now, I know that less than two years ago, installing Linux, when the first drive (in this case the only drive ) was SATA, was a complicated affair, because

Re: new computer-the saga continues

2006-03-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi Oded, Thanks for the answer. 1-I did some web-search about the 1.5V question. If I understood correctly, there have been a change in the standard for the voltage of the signals used with the graphic cards: It used to be 3.3V and was now lowered to 1.5. Inserting an old-type card into the

Re: new computer-the saga continues

2006-03-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:01 +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: .. 3-I run smartctl on my hard disks. On the first one it failed 9 times ( I understand nothing of the accompanying text), but on the second it found nothing wrong

restoring boot sector

2006-03-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:47:54PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Monday, 20 בMarch 2006 11:33, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: 2-This 20Gb disk was brought to me by a windows user. His report: When I try to boot I get an unending row of 00 and 01 values. Suspecting a corrupt boot sector, I tried

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

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: 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

[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: 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

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: ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ?????

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

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: 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

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

2006-12-16 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

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;;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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