GS 3.33 vs. 2.61, weak rendering, WHY?
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying thing left: -> The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is -> unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61 -> (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in -> letters as "H", "f" and so on. No matter what resolution, these horizontal lines tend to be rounded off. How could we get a more readable rendering? Else we would have to switch down to the old version. Thanks, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11-font path (Bug?) solved
I spent many hours with the problem, that tgif breaks for it doesn't find its courier font in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi. It is a simple solution: the font path isn't set correctly. I don't know if I had replaced a file where the font path is set with xset fp= but think, someone please could check, if it includes all the installed directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*. I found that there was only 1 fontpath set pointing to misc fonts. -Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hint / Call to use emacs outline mode
"Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Where do you get 'Ctrl-C-keymap' from? I get an error when I try
: your .emacs code.
:
Oh, thank you! Excuse me for giving a too thin exerpt from
my ~/.emacs file. here it comes again, cleaned up a bit and
completele. Try the outline mode with the startup ~/.emacs
file and do a
"C-c r" (to init outline mode) and a
"C-c R" (to show all headers)
Have fun! Andreas
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below is added my complete ~/.emacs startup file:
-- snip -- snip -- snip --
;*_* file description, comment
; this is my ~/.emacs startup file, prepared to handle
; the GREAT emacs outline mode
; Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: +49 (0202) 439 - 3009
; Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
;*_* character set
;
(standard-display-european 1)
;*_* preselect a few emacs modes of operation
;*_** auto select text mode for these given files
;
(setq auto-mode-alist (mapcar 'purecopy
'(("\\.c$" .
text-mode)
("\\.h$" .
text-mode)
("\\.tex$" . text-mode)
("\\.pas$" . text-mode)
("\\.txt$" . text-mode)
)))
;
;*_** Ctl-C-prefix
;
(defun Ctl-C-prefix ()
Ctl-C-keymap)
(setq Ctl-C-keymap (make-keymap))
(global-set-key "\C-c" (Ctl-C-prefix))
;
;*_** enable narrowing og regions
(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)
;
;*_** enable upcase regions and downcase regions
;
(put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)
;*_* prepare outline mode
;
;*_** definitions/functions
;
;*_*** reset_outline
;
(fset 'reset_outline
"\C-[1\C-[xoutline-minor-mode\C-m\C-[xhide-other")
;
;*_*** show-all-branches
;
(fset 'show-all-branches
"\C-[9\C-[xhide-sublevels")
;
;*_** set outline regex
;
(setq-default outline-regexp ".[*]_[*]+")
;
;*_** self defined functions
;
(fset 'reset_outline
"\C-[1\C-[xoutline-minor-mode\C-m\C-[xhide-other")
(fset 'show-all-branches
"\C-cA\C-ca")
;
;*_** my preferences for outline mode keys
;
;*_*** show/hide headers without text
; ===
; C-c R show: all levels
; C-c r hide: all but level 0; init/reset outline mode
; C-c S show: subtree
; C-c s hide: subtree
; C-c T show: only this sublevel
; C-c t hide: only this sub level
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "R" 'show-all-branches)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "r" 'reset_outline)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "S" 'show-branches)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "s" 'hide-subtree)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "T" 'show-children)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "t" 'hide-subtree)
;
;*_*** show/hide text and headers
; ===
; C-c A show all text, e. g. everything
; C-c a hide all text, show only headers
; C-c B show subtree with text
; C-c b hide subtree
; C-c C show text of this sub level
; C-c c hide text of just this level
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "A" 'show-all)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "a" 'hide-body)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "B" 'show-subtree)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "b" 'hide-subtree)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "C" 'show-entry)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "c" 'hide-entry)
;
;*_*** Cursor movement within the outline tree
;
; C-c C-p previous header line
; C-c C-n next header line
; C-c C-f forward, same level
; C-c C-g dito
; C-c C-b backward, same level
; C-c C-u upward in the tree
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-p" 'outline-previous-visible-heading)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-n" 'outline-next-visible-heading)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-f" 'outline-forward-same-level)
; for some reason C-f doesn't work as expected, but C-c C-g does
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-g" 'outline-forward-same-level)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-b" 'outline-backward-same-level)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-u" 'outline-up-heading)
;
;*_** don't know, old default entries
;
; (make-variable-buffer-local 'outline-prefix-char)
; (setq-default outline-prefix-char "\C-l")
; (make-variable-buffer-local 'outline-regexp)
; (make-variable-buffer-local 'outline-level-function)
; (setq-default outline-level-function 'outline-level-default)
; (define-key Ctl-C-keymap "o" 'outline-minor-mode)
;*_* Tabulator
;
(setq-default tab-width 4)
(setq-default tab-stop-list
'(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44
48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 ))
;*_* email
;
(setq mail-default-reply-to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
(setq mail-self-blind t)
(setq rmail-delete-after-output t)
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Hint / Call to use emacs outline mode
When editing many resource files and regarding debian packages files
I thought, these lines could be of some help for someone. It is a
hint and a call for using the emacs outline mode, which is great in
folding any files in pieces of information of the desired level. All
sort of files that allow comments are comfortably managable in this
way:
Set the search pattern for outline headers with
"outline-regexp" such that:
- the very first character per line is ignored,
to enable any sort of comment lines
- the 3-characters-sequence "*_*" as the 2, 3. and 4. char
marks an outline header; this sequence is not likely to
be a regular piece of text or a program.
- the now following number of starts '*' gives the
level of outline header.
examples:
/*_* This now is regarded as a level 0 header for a C-source */
{*_** this is a level 2 header for a Pascal-Program}
%*_*** a level 3 header for a TeX-text
and so on. That way we manage all of our files of any sort,
including /etc/X11/XF86Config, ~/.emacs, /etc/profile and so
on.
Init the outline mode with: C-r, and then have fun. Hope it
helps.
-Andreas.
Here is an exerpt from my ~/.emacs resource file:
-- snip -- snip -- snip --
(setq-default outline-regexp ".[*]_[*]+")
(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)
(fset 'reset_outline
"\C-[1\C-[xoutline-minor-mode\C-m\C-[xhide-other")
(fset 'show-all-branches
"\C-cA\C-ca")
; show/hide headers without text
; ==
; C-c R show: all levels
; C-c r hide: all but level 0; init/reset outline mode
; C-c S show: subtree
; C-c s hide: subtree
; C-c T show: only this sublevel
; C-c t hide: only this sub level
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "R" 'show-all-branches)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "r" 'reset_outline)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "S" 'show-branches)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "s" 'hide-subtree)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "T" 'show-children)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "t" 'hide-subtree)
; show/hide text and headers
; ==
; C-c A show all text, e. g. everything
; C-c a hide all text, show only headers
; C-c B show subtree with text
; C-c b hide subtree
; C-c C show text of this sub level
; C-c c hide text of just this level
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "A" 'show-all)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "a" 'hide-body)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "B" 'show-subtree)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "b" 'hide-subtree)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "C" 'show-entry)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "c" 'hide-entry)
; Cursor movement within the outline tree
; ===
; C-c p previous header line
; C-c n next header line
; C-c f forward, same level
; C-c b backward, same level
; C-c u upward in the tree
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-p" 'outline-previous-visible-heading)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-n" 'outline-next-visible-heading)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-f" 'outline-forward-same-level)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-g" 'outline-forward-same-level)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-b" 'outline-backward-same-level)
(define-key Ctl-C-keymap "\C-u" 'outline-up-heading)
; my tabulator settings, every 4th character
; ==
(setq-default tab-width 4)
(setq-default tab-stop-list
'(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44
48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 ))
-- snip -- snip -- snip --
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Re: Debian vs. floppy install
: home PC. Now, with Debian there seems to be no information whatsoever on : how to choose the packages after you install the 4 or 5 base set : floppy disks. I know that if you use other methods like dpkg-ftp (I don't We considered too the floppy emulsion (it's not a solution). But who should make the needed decisions to build your needed set of floppies? My thought would be: Make a multivolume tar of your own, with a good selection of your favorite packages -- that way the number of floppies is tolerable and you don't need the whole, huge debian tree. Unpack your multivolume tar to your home PC into an adjaecnt partition and install it via moundet fs. : the Debian sub-directories (admin, text, tex, misc, etc...). When I tried : to install the 1.1 release I had often to go back to the Debian server to : get more packages that depended on the ones I got first. The needed information to select your packages should be in the Packages file, if you grep the names of the wanted packages. See also: following posting about outline mode! Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URGENT: tgif_3.0p5-1.deb is buggy
Just got a reply from Christian Linhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, that he is too busy at the moment to do any useful for the debian project. Here is my warning about tgif with respect to debian 1.2: : Thanks for maintaining the tgif package for debian. The tgif : version 3.0p5-1 has at least the fatal bug, that a drawing : disappears completely, if it contains one of the new attributed : objects which are accessible by the icon-menue in the upper : right corner (left from line type settings). : : We have updated to tgif_3.00pl7 since a few months and had no : problems sinces then. Would you please give an actual : version, if possible before the 1.2-release of debian? Thank : you! : : Greetings, : Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
video mode solved. cpp/gcc solved. kernel, X11?
Was: "Remarks, installing rex from scratch" : 1) Don't give an entry : vga=[any number other than normal] : in /etc/lilo.conf and launch lilo with that. It will : completely confuse dselect, and nobody is aware of this :-( Video modes are ok, forget about vga=... settings, use now a resolution of 132x60. I was confused about learning dselect, especially with cycling through the sorting options. cpp/gcc There is a dependency problem with cpp/gcc. gcc depends on cpp and replaces cpp! So I a) installed cpp, purged gcc; b) put cpp on hold and installed gcc. kernel sources The kernel sources aren't in rex, but dselect/dpkg didn't complain about that. It claims everything all right and nothing happened. Installed it per Hand from buzz, saying "dpkg -i ...". X11 The fight with xlib6-dev_3.2-1.deb, xlib and xlib6_3.2-1.deb is a mess. Did get through to start a SVGA server, with installing those per hand and setting them to "hold". They are "new unclassified without section" (?) X11 Common warnings ignored: . More than one copy of package xbase has been unpacked . in this run ! Only configuring it once. which came for many packages in the past. X11 Then this one: . dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xpaste: . xpaste depends on xlibraries; however: .Package xlibraries is not installed. .Package xlib which provides xlibraries is not installed. . dpkg: error processing xpaste (--install): . dependency problems - leaving unconfigured . Setting up xbase (3.2-1) ... Hope to get help or provide input for debugging at least. Tired greetings, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remarks, inst'ng rex from scratch
Several remarks. 1) Don't give an entry vga=[any number other than normal] in /etc/lilo.conf and launch lilo with that. It will completely confuse dselect, and nobody is aware of this :-( I got much trouble until guessing a screen of 100x40 to cause confusion. 2) Installing via NFS only allows you to accept a) the stable ditribution, b) the development distribution but c) not any other distribution, as "frozen". WHY?! So I have to copy the rex-tree to a local separate partition and redirect "stable" to rex. Not really?! 3) The new floppy set is GREAT. How can one access the first Menue from a booted HD? (to, e.g., change the net configuration / keyboard / ...) Greetings, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
endless loop in dselect
There is an endless loop with dselect: starting from scratch; mark: new required mark: new important find: at is important (was: remove) at depends on bsdutils libc5-dev (was: install) libc5-dev depends on libc5 (= 5.4.7-7) libc5-dev is marked libc5 is marked then, the same conflict screen occurs again and again Escaped it with "X". I was installing from a mounted partition containing the rex tree from ca. 2 weeks ago. So I'll see if a NFS-installation from our local debian mirror will do it. Q: Can one revert the data base to state (n-1); (n-2); ...? Or perhaps just in a "known to be good" state when thing at this point have run into an undesirable state? I've not passed the first select session and am curious about a friendly installation order. Greetings, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Turbo LED monitoring SCSI bus
This is just a hint about my nowadays low intensity Turbo LED :-) monitoring the SCSI bus. I find it a great help in determining the bottle neck of my system. SCSI with tape wasn't nice, but now... I'm happy. Greetings, Andreas -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install from Scratch, Optimum Order of Packages??
After marking everything I want and installing all these packages there were too many errors to proceed at the configuration tasks. The main problem seems to be a missing cpp, in spite of that package having been marked. So the question arises, in which order the packages should be installed -- base, devel, net, X11 and so on? This is my next procedure at least. Greetings, Andreas -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: first steps: Installing kernel failed - solved
: Hi, : : trying to install with special boot disk image-2.0.5-5 the : Installation of Operating System Kernel failed with: : "Error in archive format". : It is the very same floppy from which the first steps went through. ok, just cycled through kernels special_boot-[0-6].bin from debian/rex/disks-i386/special-kernels, and that last version did it. Did I miss the file where the configurations of these kernels are described? Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
first steps: Installing kernel failed
Hi, trying to install with special boot disk image-2.0.5-5 the Installation of Operating System Kernel failed with: "Error in archive format". It is the very same floppy from which the first steps went through. /dev/sda1 is set up as root fs, rex is copied to /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda2 is a happy swap partition. Any clues? Just wondering.. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD with code-freeze for 1.2
Would somebody please announce the most appropriate, foolproof CD-set for a frozen Debian 1.2, when it is available? And by the way, sorry that ... . Yggdrasil has shipped the 8 CD Winter 1997 edition of . Linux Internet Archives. The price is still $22.95 (under $3 . per CD now that the archives have grown to eight discs). It . is the first Linux product to include Linux 2.1 sources (2.0 . is included too, of course). . ... .Disc 5: Debian 1.1 and 1.1.1 i386 Linux distributions . ... ... that this CD-set doesn't come a few weeks later. Regards, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian with 4 MB?
Did somebody find an easy way to install Debian on 4 MB? We want use a cluster of 10 old PCs that way. After boot/root ths swap space has to be partitioned by hand and activated by the 2nd VC, and other problems follow, for the ramdisk steels too much of the valuable memory. (No, these old boxes should get no memory upgrade). Is it possible to put all of the ramdisk into a separate partition and reboot from HD? Thanks, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
