Nico Fritschi wrote:
> > > My next question is about Netscape 4.05 . When i set up my mail and news > server i always get the message "unknown host mail.gmx.de" or > "news.gmx.de". I tried that on- and off-line but both did not work. Do I > have to list them in a config file somewhere? > it could be that u haven't a resolv.conf file with the dns ; but it coul be that is a netscape bug .try to setup mail and news adresses while you're connected on internet ; in netsc 3.01 gold it works! > My last question is a bit off topic. I'm a newbie in the Linux world and > would like to change totally from this toy os Windoze to Linux. On both > systems I use Netscape 4.05 and i want to use my mail and news files in > my mail and news directories which i got from Netscape (windows) in my > linux Netscape. Momentarily a got a fat 16 partition which I mount and > on which i got my mail and news files, so i changed the directory setup > in Netscape (linux) to these dirs. But nothing happened. Has someone > done this already and can help me? > it's not as simple as u think 'cause file in ms-dos or w95 partition has the ^M .so the inbox in which u would like to append the mail and news is seen by linux with a lots of ^M which give problem to nets. on the other hand if u append to inbox-msdos some mail with netsc-linux u could have problems with netsc-w95 while reading mail u get in linux . i can suggest u to have 2 inbox one on linux and the other on fat 16 ... if u like to see under linux inbox-msdos type from linux tr -d '\015' < inbox-msdos >>/var/spool/mail/......your username usually root that's a filter which read the inbox-msdos and copy it without ^M on to the mail of linux .. after that u can use pine mail , elm to see your inbox-msdos . that's the only thought i can give u !! samuele tonon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
