Compatibility Issues With Windows Files
Hey There, When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux utilities will not work, because it seems that MS-Windows allows for blank spaces within file names, whereas Dos, Linux and Unix do not. This would seem to be the case from my personal point of view based upon recent experience. I am attempting to extract a large number of rar files using "unrar-free" with no success. I understand that it might be necessary to rename each and every file and put some sort of filler in each blank space, such as a question mark or some other type of punctuation. I am not sure if this is the case or not. Ultimately this whole matter is nothing more than a product of the ever-present conflict/ difference between MS_Windows and other systems that lead to all manner of compatibility issues. Linux, DOS and Unix users are for ever trying to find work-around solutions to these compatibility problems. So, how would you Linux users go about processing "rar" files that were produced in Windows using Linux software? Would you try to do some sort of "unrar" or would you try to convert them over to some version of zip format? If so, would you try some variant of gzip? cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1110041331540.25...@server1.shellworld.net
RAR/ apt-get Question
Hey There, Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or something else of that nature has made this application unavailable via mainstream measures. I have several radio plays, books and documentaries that have been compressed using rar, so I therefore don't quite know what to do in order to process these particular files so they can be played by my media utilities. Here is the error message that the "apt" command returned. Quote On: apt-get install rar Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package rar is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'rar' has no installation candidate Quote Off: Since this is my first time encountering this particular problem, I will be more than open to and thankful for any and all suggestions concerning the matter. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1109142200070.26...@server1.shellworld.net
Re: Just a Quick Question
I use the gnome system; sorry I forgot to mention that. Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:53:19PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian system? Thanks so much in advance. It depends on which desktop environment you use (KDE/GNOME/XFCE/Other?). Each one has its own way. Alternately, if you run xscreensaver, xscreensaver-demo can be used to control the screen saver. HTH. Kumar -- Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null, oh no, it's full...). (Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker sound device) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110914015844.gb21...@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1109132234130.17...@server1.shellworld.net
Problems with Orca Cutting Out
Hey There, For some reason, I have had quite a problem with Orca cutting out when ever my system is in use. I have no way of knowing why this phenomenon occurs, so I am hard put to try and find a solution for the problem. I thought that I might have too many extraneous files or windows open, but I haven't been able to verify this hypothesis. If such be the case however, how might I go about ascertaining what I need to have loaded and what I don't? In other words, if there are too many things happening simultaneously, and my system's memory or bandwidth is consequently compromised, what might I do about the matter? More to the point, how would I go about ferreting out the source of my orca problem, assuming that the above scenario isn't the actual issue? As usual, thanks so much in advance. Before upgrading to the latest version of the squeeze disk, I did not have this trouble. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1109121316530.48...@server1.shellworld.net
In Need of Advice
Hey There, I have two computers, a DOS and a Linux box. Now then, I am wanting to access my Linux box via my DOS box. I would ultimately like to use my Linux box as my sole ISP. I do not believe that using my modem in order to dial up my Linux machine would work, but I also know that there is such a thing as a "NUL" modem cable??? How would you good gentles go about putting such a plan as mine into action? In other words, how would you go about accessing a Linux machine with a DOS system? Is there any special software? Would I have to use a USB port? If I am not mistaken, DOS doesn't work with USB ports??? Even more desirable would be the ability to use the terminal emulator "Commo" as my means of establishing contact between the respective systems. I would appreciate any and all advice I can get regarding this matter, so that I won't need to pay for an ISP when I already have one. Thanks so much in advance. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1109051253450.61...@server1.shellworld.net
Most Perplexing
Hey There, Well folks, in order to run the conversion suggested by Bob, I did the following. I first saved the script he outlined and called it cb.sh. I then tried to make the file executable with "chmod +x cb.sh". I then ran the file with "./cb.sh". I got the following response. Quote On [workshop] $ ./cb.sh '/cb.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `do '/cb.sh: line 1: ` for chapternum in $(seq 1 45); do [workshop] $ Quote Off I am sure that I have done something wrong, but I can't figure for the life of me just what it was. cheerio, Riv The script reads as follows. for chapternum in $(seq 1 45); do wget http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_$chapternum.html done Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108281842290.31...@server1.shellworld.net
Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation
Hey There, I wish to sincerely thank everyone who has responded to my queries concerning the Linux Cookbook. Very few if any of your instructions and/or descriptions have interfered with my screen-reader. I would have disclosed initially the fact that I was a speech user, but I honestly thought that everyone in the group was blind. This is chiefly because I tend to subscribe to blind user groups for technical issues. I have been disabused of the misguided notion that all sighted people use windows and to hell with everything else. Many blind computer users turn to Linux in order to escape the necessity of having to use MS Windows. If I am not mistaken, in order to run any script, it must be saved in a certain format. How is that done? cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: RiverWind wrote: You see, the files have a bit of an unconventional extension, to wit "cookbook3.html#SEC1 or cookbook14.html#SEC2" and so on. You see, the first number before the ".html" I believe designates the part, and the number following the "#SEC" indicates the different sections in the respective parts of the book. I see your problem now. You are being confused by the types of links used in the document. This is simply a misunderstanding. I think I can clear this up for you. When I look at this next URL: http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html I see a table of contents in 45 parts. But each link has an id tag associated with it to jump into the middle of the part. Each link jumps to the sub-section of the chapter. This is how it is making it convenient for readers to jump to the sub-part of the document. But you should ignore those. They are not separate files. They are anchor tags in the middle of the section. Let me dive into a little detail of the anchors. But do keep reading because after this I will show you how to solve your problem. Let me repeat the html of the very first link on the page. This might confuse your screen reader and if so give me a hint on how I should represent verbatim html text and I will be happy to do so. Preface That generates a link to cookbook_1.html#SEC1 as you already know. But that "#SEC1" part is simply an anchor with an id attribute to jump into the middle of a page. Here let me repeat the html of the part it jumps to: Preface Each sub-section is referenced in this way. You can read and learn more about these here at this URL to the World Wide Web Consortium reference documentation page. It itself uses an id anchor to jump to the particular part of the document that references these. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2.3 This would tend to make the use of wild cards a bit ticklish. Actually, no. Even if those were the filenames you could simply match them with a wildcard with no problem. But let's not talk about that for a moment since it isn't important. Let's help get you going in the direction of solving your actual problem and not the side tracking problem. If I could just figure around this problem however, I would be in business, because html2txt conversions would be easy, and the concatenation even easier. There are 45 links on the page. They are named and numbered very regularly. You can simply write a for-loop to walk over all 45 of them. Let me say a three line shell script snippet that will do this for you. for chapternum in $(seq 1 45); do wget http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_$chapternum.html done Let me describe it with some verbosity hoping that it will make it easier for your reader. The 'seq' command generates a sequence of numbers. Here I am calling "seq 1 45" to generate the numbers from 1 through 45 inclusive. Those are called within a dollar-parenthesis command substitution to place those 45 numbers on the comand line for the for-loop to iterate over. Then the for-loop walks through each in turn setting the variable named "chapternum" to the current index value. Then the wget command uses that dollar chapter num variable to create the URL to pull each chapter in turn. The "#SEC" parts are not really in the filename nor should they be in the filename. Running that three line shell script snippet should produce 45 files called chapter_1.html through chapter_45.html in the current directory. I think at that point you should be okay to convert each in turn to plain text. Hope that helps, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108260842030.37...@server1.shellworld.net
Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation
Hey There, When you talk about converting all of the small files from html to txt, and doing the concatenation, you are describing the most desirable course of action, actually the very first method I thought about. However, the file naming protocol doesn't at all lend its self to such a conversion, none that I can come up with at any rate. You see, the files have a bit of an unconventional extension, to wit "cookbook3.html#SEC1 or cookbook14.html#SEC2" and so on. You see, the first number before the ".html" I believe designates the part, and the number following the "#SEC" indicates the different sections in the respective parts of the book. This would tend to make the use of wild cards a bit ticklish. If I could just figure around this problem however, I would be in business, because html2txt conversions would be easy, and the concatenation even easier. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: RiverWind wrote: The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a pretty viable translation. If I were going to do that for myself I would convert each individual html file to text first and then concatenate the individual text files. The reason being that the individual html files are at that moment completely consistent. Individually they should be able to convert to text cleanly with no problems. And then the text can be concatenated. But once you concatenate the html then you have created a Frankenstein html file that is almost certainly going to be problematic to convert to text. Also, my naive experience with this is that converting html to text is a lot easier than converting pdf to text. With html it is already a text type. The mime type is "text/html" after all. But pdf has been less accessible for conversions for me. The mime time is "application/pdf" and isn't a text type. That introduces more room for error to be introduced. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108251811040.10...@server1.shellworld.net
Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation
Hi, The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a pretty viable translation. Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Curt wrote: On 2011-08-25, Jude DaShiell wrote: pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and I missed the part about screen reading, if it was included in the OP. I found the following for Gnome, with Orca: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Acroread#details I admit I don't understand the requirement of accessing the document as a single html file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj5ck34.2ng.cu...@einstein.electron.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108251343200.2...@server1.shellworld.net
A Bit of a Strange Situation
Hey There, I first of all wish to thank everyone who helped me out with my secure shell issues. It turns out that there was an addressing problem with my router, modem and my ISP, not to mention the fact that my linux box has a static IPP address. Things got a bit interesting, but the matter is about to be in hand. I have downloaded the linux cookbook, which consists of over five- hundred html files. I am wanting to concatenate them all into one big neat file, with all of the smaller files in perfect order. Now I know that "cat" can do this, but the file naming protocol is a bit strange. The names of the smaller files have to accommodate both "parts" and "sections", which makes for an interesting naming format. For instance, the first is named "cookbook1.html#SEC1." I tried the following command. cat *.html#SEC0* Now, were the files named something like "cookbook01-100.html", there wouldn't be a problem. However, how does one go about accommodating files that have two extensions? There is the standard ".html" extension, followed by the not so conventional "#SEC", and I am not sure how to work it into the cat command. Any suggestions will be highly welcomed, because I am wanting to begin learning linux in earnest. I am trying to use books and manuals before yelling for help, and I am very much looking forward to the time when I can start giving help instead of always hollering for it. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108241933070.67...@server1.shellworld.net
Followup With ssh problem
Hey There, I would first of all like to thank everyone who responded altruistically to my originally posts. I would say that I now have half a problem compared to the whole specimen that I had before. I do indeed have an "ssh" server installed on my linux box, and it seems to be working just fine. I am able to ssh over to my "shellworld" account without any problem. However, I am not able to ssh over from shellworld to my linux box. When ever I attempt to do so, I receive the following error message after several minutes of complete inactivity. QUOTE ON:** [~] $ ssh riverwind.dontexist.org ssh: connect to host riverwind.dontexist.org port 22: Operation timed out [~] $ For what ever reason, the system just seems to hang up and then time out. When once I get this problem taken care of, I will then be able to tackle my email problem. As always, any help would be highly appreciated. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108231518140.10...@server1.shellworld.net
Re: Just a Quick Question
Ok, so I do indeed have an "ssh" server, and I am able to ssh into my ISP's shell account. However, I can not ssh over to my linux box. In other words, I can get out but not in. Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: Including the mailing list back in the discussion... RiverWind wrote: I do not seem to have an ssh server installed on my system. How could I get one, and how extensive would the config process bee? Easy! # apt-get install openssh-server That is all that you need to do. The server will be configured and started automatically. Thanks so much for your first response; it was quite helpful to say the least. Glad to help. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110819232552.ga24...@hysteria.proulx.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108192327410.2...@server1.shellworld.net
Just a Quick Question
Hey There, I used to be able to "ssh" from my shellworld account into my Linux box before I got the latest version of the squeeze disk. I am not able to do so now. Exactly what needs to be set up or in place in order for me to once again be able to access my Linux box via "ssh" or "telnet" from another site? I need to be able to do this if I am going to be able to set up my email so that it will work with Alpine. This is because I am much more comfortable with using Jaws for DOS as apposed to using Orca's speech package. I really would need to know the entire procedure. After having a more comfortable work environment, I will then be able to work more freely with my Linux system, as I learn the os. As always, thanks so much in advance. cheerio, Riv Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108191420001.88...@server1.shellworld.net
Setting up Email on A Linux Box Using Alpine
Hi There, I would sincerely appreciate all the input I can get regarding setting up email on my debian system using alpine. At present, alpine is behaving very strangely, and it would require quite a lengthy email to this list in order to demonstrate the problems. I am wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to get rid of the version of Alpine that is resident on my system and just reacquire it and start over. The fellow who built the system for me did his best to get email working, but he was ultimately unable, and hence gave it up as a bad job. I know nothing about setting up email on my system, as I am a novice linux user who has of late had very little time to work on things. It has been a very busy summer, and I have only been on line once every week or two. I now have more down time to devote to learning linux and tieing up loose ends and setting up the system that I want to wind up with. I wish to thank any and all altruistic parties who are disposed to help me out. Ray Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1108161133300.50...@server1.shellworld.net
