Re: Xemacs menubar font

2001-10-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Damon Muller wrote: > A quick question for all the Xemacs gurus out there. by no means. i´m looking at gnu and seems to be condemned to emacs. > The Xemacs FAQ suggests the following lines: > > Emacs.default.attributeFont: -*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-*-* > Emacs*menubar*font: fix

Re: kernel compilation and ncurses problem

2001-10-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Bambang Purnomosidi D. P." wrote: > I already have (from unstable) libncurses5, ncurses-bin, ncurses-term, and > ncurses-base. > > DId I miss something?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l \*ncurses\* | grep ^ii | cut -b -70 ii libncurses4 4.2-9Shared lib

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing wrote: > Yepp, I already hav'em (dselect) and did a apt-get right now on > perl-doc. But this package (if it expands to /usr/share/doc/perl-doc) > only contains a changelog between the dedicated perl versions and > contains some examples scripts plus some very tiny docs. Wh

Re: anyone for masqmail?

2001-10-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
andrej hocevar wrote: > is anyone here using masqmail? yes. a good choice for an dial-up account. > i've installed masqmail on my potato and it works okay as far as > delivering mail to myself (localhost) is concerned. it also stores mail > that's meant for any outside connections and silently w

Re: OT: ACPI, 2.4.9 & CPU Temp

2001-08-27 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: sorry, wrong list. Should have been debian-user-de :( cu -- hafi

OT: ACPI, 2.4.9 & CPU Temp

2001-08-27 Thread Hartmut Figge
gruss, mag sein, dass es fuer einige interessant ist. hier ein auszug der ausgabe von 'sensors' mit ACPI enabled mit kernel 2.4.9 auf einem abit kt7: SYS Temp: +33.3°C (limit = +45°C, hysteresis = +40°C) CPU Temp: +37.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +55°C) und so war es vorher mit kernel 2.

Re: [OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-25 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that > attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some > of the dirty work as I begin translating some previou

Re: Upgrading from Hamm to Potato

2000-05-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to upgrade my system from Hamm (2.0) to Potato (2.2), using CDROMs. I > tried to first install apt, but, not surprisingly, I got all kinds of > dependency errors. http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/ cu -- hafi

Re: Latin-1 characters in X, how?

2000-05-14 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On the Linux virtual consoles I can enter Latin-1 characters into any > program using the Compose key sequences, provided these are defined in > the loaded keymap. For example, here's a piece of my > /etc/console-tools/default.kmap: > The question is, how can I do the

Re: Compiling New Kernel

2000-05-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > procps has what you need. To get the versions 2.2.15 wants, you need to > upgrade your system to debian 2.2 (potato). potato is currently frozen and in not necessarily. on my system: ii procps 2.0.6-6The /proc file system utilities. ii util-linux

Re: man pages!!

2000-05-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Brown wrote: > > If you've got man pages in /usr/share it's probably because you've > already done a partial upgrade and have potato's libc6 alreay (certainly > in this case where dpkg and apt seem to have been upgraded). umm, i have dpkg 1.6.12, apt 0.3.18 and libc6 2.0 7. i've tried to 's

Re: How to change Netscape Menu fonts?

2000-03-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I want to make Netscape use a smaller font for it's menus and buttons. > However, when I played around with setting something like: > > *font: -adobe-helvetica-*-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 > > in ~/.Xresources, netscape complains about not being able to crea

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-03 Thread Hartmut Figge
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use >wget instead yes, i've tried since netscape 4.6

Re: kernel panic on hda

2000-01-30 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hi Steve, it looks like you might have misconfigured the kernel. did you > include ext2 filesystem in your configured kernel. and, steve, the ext2 should no be compiled as module :) -- hafi

Re: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Hartmut Figge
Todd Suess wrote: > > Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get > dist-upgrade, this was the result. > > tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > communicator-base-4

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file' i would would view this file with mc, switching to hex-mode and look for suspicious characters. -- hafi

Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

2000-01-08 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? yes iirc, fortify must be pointed to the executable file 'netscape' whose location may vary. to find out i use always locate Netscape.ad which gives me the path to that file. -- hafi

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Hartmut Figge
"AU,SCOTT CHUONG" wrote: > Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 > second pause) etc. > > I'm running on a old 386-33Mhz with 8megs RAM so is it possible my that probably means, that you dont't have a 16550A uart. try dmesg | less and watch the lines beginning with

Re: slink leafnode and y2k???

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Surchi wrote: > Now I don't use leafnode, so I couldn't try, but someone told me that leafnode > has problem with the state of messages after 31/12/99... :o according the leafnode mailing-list that's fixed since leafnode 1.9.5. current release is version 1.9.7 -- hafi

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried > looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file > for dselect or apt, but alas... how about the status* files in /var/lib/dpkg ? -- hafi

Re: insert a blank page in a ps file

1999-09-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > Is there any easy way to insert an extra blank page after > each page in a PostScript file? > > Say I have a ps file with pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > I want to format it to a new ps file with the following pages: > 1 blank 2 blank

Re: reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size ?

1999-09-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
shaul wrote: > Can I change the postscript files (and not the source file) so that it will > have a reasonable setting on a a4 paper ? yes man pstops, at the end you can see other possibilities. -- hafi

Re: printer setup

1999-09-04 Thread Hartmut Figge
sdoerr wrote: > > I am a new Debian user and one of the things I haven't been able to set > up yet is my printer. I don't have a printcap file yet and I am not i would try to run magicfilterconfig. there`s a lot of such helpful configuration programms in debian, but i`ve never found a helpfull

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 22 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: uploads over modem are SLOW!" > > On 21-Aug-99, you wrote: > > > > HF> Lee Elliott wrote: > > HF> > > HF>> screen? Do pppload and wmppp show only data successfully > > HF>> transferred? > > HF> ^^^ > > HF>

Re: Can't boot from hard disk

1999-08-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Lawrence wrote: > The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: > > boot=/dev/hda1 perhaps boot=/dev/hda ? -- hafi

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
Matthias Murra wrote: > If anyone out there is running a slink system, has the version of "most" > installed that came with it (or could install it for a few seconds :->) and > would be so kind to tell me if "most .gz" works, that might help. :) i haven't seen a reply yet, so ... no problem here

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-02 Thread Hartmut Figge
Brian Servis wrote: > If you want something that is only available in the unstable tree you > can always build the source archive against your current setup, it is > fairly straight forward with the Debian source archives. but there are problems with some packages, e.g. postfix-0.0.19990627 refus

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Dysthe wrote: > Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for ^^ could you be a bit more precisely? -- hafi

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-21 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > > My memory fails me (and I don't want to reboot into Windows :-(), does > > PM 4 resize ext2 partitions? > > not only that. i`ve done some incredible things with it. > but - as you wrote - windows :( a

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-21 Thread Hartmut Figge
Stephen Pitts wrote: > My memory fails me (and I don't want to reboot into Windows :-(), does > PM 4 resize ext2 partitions? not only that. i`ve done some incredible things with it. but - as you wrote - windows :( -- hafi

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
Stephen Pitts wrote: > Look at ext2resize on freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net..the search box is at the > top). > Although it says that it is ALPHA, you might try it. should i mention partition magic 4? on a debian list? blushing -- hafi

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > [root:/tmp] # cat xnetload.error > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: xnetload: not found > > So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now > xnetload loads on ppp up. well, looking into /etc/ppp/ip-up: # The environment is cleared before executing this script

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > i`ll think about the problem and will write if i find a solution. well, i`ve found the evil-doer. i copied your script into the file affe, created a directory called affe-dir and put affe in that dir. permissions, owner and group like ip-up.d et al. then i executed

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:40:47AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > yes, bash will expand the `*`. > > um, possibly, but the command still works when i execute > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load, so i don't think it does. > > > you need

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > #!/bin/sh > xnetload -geometry 200x48+0+0 -fn > -schumacher-clean-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -fg white -bg black -nc -if > ppp0 & > > and /etc/ppp/ip

Re: dpkg-database damaged.

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Johann Spies wrote: > > After trying to use dosemu, my computer stalled and I had to press the > reset button en the end. After rebooting, I wanted to remove dosemu and > reinstall it and to my amazement dpkg reported that it was not installed. > When I ran dselect, it showed about a quarter of th

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
David Wright wrote: > To leave "Select" you have to press . If you unintentionally > press it twice (eg the keyboard double-strikes, or a slow 386 makes > you think you might not have tapped the key hard enough) > dselect goes straight into "Install" whereas you might want "Remove" > or, even wor

Re: netscape fonts

1999-06-24 Thread Hartmut Figge
Joel Keating wrote: > > My netscape fonts seem to be way too small. Most of the pages i go to > i can hardly read. I'm using communicator 4.5 and kde. Any help > would be great. go to http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html hafi

Re: Device Driver Problem Again

1999-06-22 Thread Hartmut Figge
Phil Wu wrote: > > I still haven't got the answer about how to configuring device drivers > for my computer. > Could anyone tell me how to chose the modules when I run "modconf". Or > where to get the install guide for this problem. > > Thanks! > > My hardware as below: > > quantum 7.4G IDE HD

Re: X-Windows running automatically and not working. :(

1999-06-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
> the keyboard. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace just flashes back to the shell for > a fraction of a second then back into X-Windows. > > Worst of all, X-Windows runs automatically when I boot so I can't get have you tried ctrl-alt-f1? this should give you a textconsole. then you should deinstall xdm. then

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: > to boot dos (or win) this hd must be the first. how about the exchange > of the hd´s? or, maybe, if you make your hdb bootable... i just looked into /usr/doc/lilo/manual.txt.gz and found MAP-DRIVE= Instructs chain.b to installs a resident driver that re-maps the

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Sander Balkenende wrote: > table=/dev/hdb hm, hm, i try to remember and... yes. to boot dos (or win) this hd must be the first. how about the exchange of the hd´s? or, maybe, if you make your hdb bootable... good luck hfi

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
> I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start > win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my > lilo.conf: > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=dos a look at my lilo.conf reveals: other=/dev/hda1 label=DOS table=/dev/hda could it your missing ´table´? sorr

Re: Emacs, Netscape and Apache - together?

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Wyn Snow wrote: > So what I want to do is get a Netscape Navigator (or Communicator) > that > will work with Debian Hamm 2.0.34. Since I make web pages for a > living, i suspect, you´re trying to run a glibc2.0 netscape on libc5 system. if you have a glibc5 based system, you must download a ver

Re: Bug in slink's dosemu?

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Johann Spies wrote: [about dosemu problems] don´t know, what´s going wrong. but i wouldn´t bother. i´ve just ´slinked´ dosemu 0.98.7, installed and am on the way of customizing. i recommend that you forget your version and get the new stable one. hafi

OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm? Ed Cogburn wrote: > A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The > important things ar

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Realplayer G2

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
Peter Ludwig wrote: > > I've been looking for Realplayer G2 all over the place (including at > Real-Audio's website), and I cannot seem to find it for any unix-like > operating systems... fast ftp search shows ftp://ftp.linux.hr/pub/realplayer/ there _seems_ to be the linux version, but i haven´

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use > > > > another version, which will download a file _unchanged_

[Fwd: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: moira.debian.org: host not found)]

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
hm, sorry for the annoyance, but this mail has bounced. perhaps eric is not knowing that his mail-address is not working and can investigate further with the knowledge of this message. hafi Original Message Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: moira.debian.org: ho

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: [interesting things about the subject] assuming that the list isn´t much interested in the question i´ll answer ed per pm. hafi

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Yes the file is 17428 bytes. Hold down the shift key when > clicking on a file to download; this will cause Netscape to > download 'as-is'. so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the search for a version, which will do, what should be expe

communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
greetings, well, now it´s me who have to whine. firstly, a hearty gghh. my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded. could som

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > i found 4.6.1 even more unstable than 4.08. at least i know that, if > i don't close windows, 4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all > the time. well, then it seems, that the poor glibc2.1 people should go to the libc5 version. hafi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
thomas lakofski wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: > anyone have libc5 debian packages for 4.08/51/6? get the files from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.08/english/unix/supported/linux20/ and use the debian installer. hafi

Re: soundcard too silent

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Lex Chive wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > > > how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? > > > > try xmix > > and aumix on the console. Dont forget to change the volume of the PCM channel

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Kent West wrote: > > I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I > reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the > documentation to see how to test the sound. > > "The Linux Sound HOWTO; Installation (p15 of 26)", section 4.3 states > that there shou

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Craig McPherson wrote: > > I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, > because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even > more often than it crashes under Windows. since you´re using glibc2.1, the best way would be - imho - either to use the libc5 version to

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
n't know how to delete lines, eh? Geez. > > >> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:08:34 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > >> > >> >yeah, but why so complicated? > >> >mc is just wonderful for things like that. > >> > >> Because mc isn&#

Re: Where is /usr/bin/file?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greg Starkes wrote: > > I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able > to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned > it, and found nothing. Is this not a part of the debian distribution? I > noticed that RedHat has it. just fired up dselect ->

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 11:01:26PM +0900, OhkumaTadayoshi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files. > > zgrep > zless > zmore > > all work on gzipped files. yeah, but why so complicated? mc is just wond

Re: Still Trying [WAS: Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration]

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wagnon wrote: [about sound problems] > Looking at the first line, I'm wondering if my isapnp stuff is okay. to exclude this possibility i would initialize the card under dos. a few days ago, i switched to kernel 2.2.9. yesterday i felt something was missing - i wanted back my sound. first

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, there. > > Anyone know where to get the debian package for xemacs21.1? hm, not to be found on debian.org, but use http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium and search for xemacs21, sorted by date/host. i´ve just done that and found the packages. hafi

Re: PPP

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andy Bottman wrote: > > Thanks, I have done this at least 10 times in the last 2 days, I > don't think I am missing any prompts. I am looking for more than the > obvius, is there somting that I could not recognize as related to PPP. ok. i´ll send you my .config per pm, so that you can co

Re: PPP

1999-06-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andy Bottman wrote: > > How do include PPP support in the kernel when I compile? I have > been using 'make config' and 'make menu config' to configure the kernel and > even though I thought I have been choosing ppp support under networking I > am still without. > This whole issue

Re: How to get stats on modem?

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Jonathan Lupa wrote: > > What program/package can one use to see the current flow rates of their > modem? Any pointers to docs would be much appreciated! =) i´ve used iptraf for that reason in my suse-days. hafi

[Fwd: Re: netscape status?]

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
hi, the following mail should be interesting for glibc2.1 netscape users ... hafi Original Message Subject: Re: netscape status? Resent-Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:35:21 - Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: recipient list not shown: ;recipient list not shown:; D

Re: i want a copy of netscape 4.51

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Adam Shand wrote: > > > i suspect, that you have switched to glibc2.1 and fear, that netscape > > 4.5 now would be unstable also for you. my communicator 4.6 (linked to > > glibc2.0) is not more unstable as my formerly communicator 4.5. > > all i did was upgrade netscape. i didn't upgrade my lib

Re: help! i'm drowning!

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
jeff k wrote: > my modem-card (Megahertz XJ1144). > I do know that it is not a winmodem, but it doesn't show up you´re really sure about that it isn´t a winmodem? a modem problem i would investigate with minicom. there you can send commands to your modem and watch the answers. hafi

Re: i want a copy of netscape 4.51

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Adam Shand wrote: > > hi. > > netscape 4.5 had the bug where it disappeared whenever you clicked on a > mailto url, and netscape 4.6 is *HIDEOUSLY* unstable and just cores all the > time. i suspect, that you have switched to glibc2.1 and fear, that netscape 4.5 now would be unstable also for you

Re: slink with glibc2.1

1999-06-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Raj Manandhar wrote: > > Is there any way of trying out the libc2.1 package from potato without > upgrading everything to potato? I tried a simple dpkg -i on the .deb, > but one needs apt>0.3, and that apt requires libc2.1. on 06/03/99 i downloaded apt_0.3.6.1_i386.deb for slink. the url(?) was i

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wright wrote: > > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover m

Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have a AWE 64 that's PNP. From Windows, the resources it's using are: oh, you´re a lucky guy. i myself own a terratec maestro 16/96 and there is no chance of cooperation with isapnp. you could do as i do: intialize the card under dos and boot linux with loadlin, or, prefer

search results

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
... in the packages search of the debian web-server gives the results under three headers: ´Release´ and ´Package(size)´ are clear, but what´s the definition of ´Quality´ ? e.g., a search for alsa shows for alsalib0.1.1-1 a quality of 33% and for alsalib.1.3-dev0.1.3-2 a quality of 99%. curious h

Re: XFS XFree86 3.3.3

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Patrick Colbeck wrote: [helpfull hints to xfs and xfstt] hi, thx for this info. i´m sure it will be very helpfull for others. hafi

Re: netscape with vi's keys

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > Is it possible to bind the netscape's scroll up, down keys to the > same as vi's, > just like what we can do in mutt! hi, take a look in Netscape.ad. there are a lot of key-translations, which can be customized. hth hafi

Re: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul Seelig wrote: > Please note that it was not me writing this message. I use Debian but you decided to tease the list ... hafi

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i can > get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I can find a utility > that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) > > Colin Winters well, you _could_ use rar. but it´s shareware, yo

Re: Netscape.ad ... solved

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Hartmut Figge wrote: > > > ... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. > > > > a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: > > "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search

Netscape.ad ...

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search and replace, 2 occurences) gives the expected change in the File menu of the communicator. but not in slink. perhaps someone can save me from diving int

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Serge Gavrilov wrote: > > Hello! > > Does anybody know: is (unoffficical) netscape 4.6 packed for Slink system > exists somewhere? in order to keep my slink clean from the ´horrible´ glibc 2.1, i also had to found a way. i decided to download the tarball from netscape and to use the debian-insta

Re: Getting Netscape to use my mailer

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not able to make Netscape open and use my email program when I click on > an > email link. I have tried all kinds of commands, but no go. I use XFmail, but > it > should be a "standard" way to do this? i have collected an url from some messages, because

Re: fetchmail won't work in slink

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
hi, $ locate fetchmail | grep bin /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/bin/fetchmailconf have you tried fetchmailconf ? hafi

Re: Ability to read MS Word files

1999-06-03 Thread Hartmut Figge
Supriyo Sircar wrote: > IS there something similar to convert from PDF to text or to HTML. well, let´s see: $ locate pdf2 | grep bin /usr/bin/pdf2dsc /usr/bin/pdf2ps $ locate ps2 | grep bin /usr/bin/ps2ascii /usr/bin/ps2epsi /usr/bin/ps2frag /usr/bin/ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pk /usr/X11R6/bin/fig2ps

Re: Netscape 4.6 crashes

1999-06-01 Thread Hartmut Figge
Matthew Gregan wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote: > > The faulty behaviour is most obvious if you've got more than one > > Navigator window opened. Instead of closing the selected window only > > the whole application crashes sometimes. > > I've been havin

Re: Help!!! Linux plus IBM! again :(

1999-06-01 Thread Hartmut Figge
Gancho Tenev Tenev wrote: > > Hi !!! > I did not speak about Debian Linux Instalation ! :) > ( nor for rescue nor bootup diskette !!! ) > Some IBM computers ( may be all ) have got setup ( for their hardware ) on > their HDD > ( on separate hdd partition ). > On other computers I press "DEL" and e

Re: dselect woes

1999-05-26 Thread Hartmut Figge
Kent West wrote: > > On Tue, 25 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Can it be! CAN IT BE!! > > > > Am I a complete idiot or is Deselect one of the most diabolical > > programs ever? > > > > > > > Donald MacDougall > > USC School of Medicine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > AMEN! (for the re

Re: REQUEST

1999-03-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
"m.nau" wrote: > After starting dselect as / , it is asking for a "block device". > But it does NOT accept any HD!!! > PS: > The installation took place at /dev/hdc2 (whitch is not accepted /dev/hdc ? hafi

Re: installing debian

1999-03-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
mike shupp wrote: > Try the MS-DOS fdisk. Think of it as a professional courtesy: fdisk > programs are reluctant to remove partitions put up by other OSs. MS-DOS, the rescuer of Debian ... SCNR hafi

Re: OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
" Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ares wrote: > > I would definitely try using memory from a different dealer, and failing > > that, I'd put a decent UPS on the computer. > At the moment I'm leaning toward bad memory, but it'll be a little while > before I can get my hands on

Re: Newbie having bad problems with EIDE drive

1999-03-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Leif Steinhour wrote: > I've been trying for the last week to get my new (3.2G) IDE hard > drive working properly. LILO will not load (for most configurations, I > get as far as "LI"), and I can't seem to edit lilo.conf: when I edit it > in "rescue" mode using the Red Hat 5.0 disks and then re

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 12:35:44PM -0500, William Schwartz wrote: > > That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont > > just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand > > shift key while starting and it will skip the

Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ted Rolle wrote: > > Mee, too. RH 5.1/2. Netscape 4.5. hm, all fine here. ns 4.5 libc5 on suse 5.3 hafi

Re: lpr and text formatti

1999-03-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Angus Claydon wrote: > > To hitch a ride on this thread, > can anyone please help me use the -COLUMN option for pr; > When I type 'pr -COLUMN 2 filename | lpr > I get > > pr: invalid option --C > > Did I miss something in the man page? you are not really missing something, but putting too muc

Re: ? Wordperfect use of TrueType fonts ?

1999-02-28 Thread Hartmut Figge
rich wrote: > Thanks to everybody who helped me to get TrueType fonts going... > Netscape is using them right now, and it looks MUCH better anyway, > the fonts are not "seen" ny Wordperfect... is there a way to get WP to > recognize / use my nice new Arial font? (does anyone else think that th

Re: leafnode expiring news groups

1999-02-25 Thread Hartmut Figge
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to change the default time period before news > groups are unsubscribed from fetch process? Look in /usr/lib/leafnode/config.example: ## timeout_short determines how many days fetch gets a newsgroup which ## has been accidentally opened. The d

Re: Loading 2 LinuxOS with LILO

1999-02-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge wrote: >image=/vmlinuz >root=/dev/hda2 >label=debian >... >image=/vmlinuz oops, should read image=/slack/vmlinuz >root=/dev/hdc5 >label=slack >... A similar configuration works well for me with DLD on hda and SuSE on hdb - a

Re: Loading 2 LinuxOS with LILO

1999-02-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to boot two Linux OS's with lilo, but with no success so far. [snip] > /dev/hda2 * 306 306 588 570528 83 Linux native [snip] > /dev/hdc5 *11 10951439+ 83 Linux native [snip] > /dev/hda2 is where the Debi