[newbie] General Questions
open office handles most msoffice files well. i personally have some trouble with odd tables in word docs from time to time but othere than that fairly well. as for software, are you installing mandrake rpms? running kde? more info! -=-=-=-=-=-=- Running KDE and using RPS and sometimes GZ files which I cant seem to install at all. How do you uninstall something? This is OS is very daughnting at first. But I like it :) as for links, http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php and for general linux http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Support/ On Monday 21 January 2002 13:11, you spoke unto me thusly: Ok I need to be able to access / change MS Office Files. If I can do this accurtly then I can completely remove the need of Windows. Also there some kind of Term Emulator I can run? I need to attach to a unix host and have it support sco ansi ect. Any one have any good links to beginers info? I can get mandrake to run find now but I am very unclear as to what I am doing or why something worked. Installing software bewilders me. Rpm files install but then don't create any icons to load them. If I navigate to the bin directory I can find the executable but they are all in the directory. That seem rather troublesome when it come to organization. Thanks Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -- Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] General Questions
I need some kind of term emulater. I need to attach to unix box and run are distribution software. Thourghbred in case you wanted to know. But If i telnet I get this strange error which I have never seen. Currently we have terminals attached to the unix box that log in with no problem and we have windows machines running tiny term to attach form windows with no problem. Neither of these methods have caused any problems in the past. here is the error. wow that was really odd. I just went back into the software to regenrate the error and now it trys to let me in but the screen is jarbled but the error is missing. It was there yesterday also. I wonder if i will only recieve that error once each time i boot. But if that is true then I am very confused. I think because telnet doesn't support SCO ansi the screen gets garbled. I have tried to install minicom but I can't get it to work. Paul Kraus P.S. I am running evolve and I can't believe Microsoft hasn't sued. Its a 100% knock off of outlook. Down to the interface and right click menus. On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 11:15, shane wrote: generally the program has a text file readme or install instructions with it. there are also some packages needed to compile some things. if you post names/links to programs you are struggling with to the list it is likely someone can help you better than general vagueness like what i am providing ;-) On Tuesday 22 January 2002 07:29, you spoke unto me thusly: How do compile them manually? There are some gz files I can't find rpms for. I assume I can unzip them to any folder and then from what I read here compile them. What is the process for this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] General Questions
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: I need some kind of term emulater. I need to attach to unix box and run are distribution software. Thourghbred in case you wanted to know. But If i telnet I get this strange error which I have never seen. Currently we have terminals attached to the unix box that log in with no problem and we have windows machines running tiny term to attach form windows with no problem. Neither of these methods have caused any problems in the past. here is the error. wow that was really odd. I just went back into the software to regenrate the error and now it trys to let me in but the screen is jarbled but the error is missing. It was there yesterday also. I wonder if i will only recieve that error once each time i boot. But if that is true then I am very confused. I think because telnet doesn't support SCO ansi the screen gets garbled. I have tried to install minicom but I can't get it to work. Paul Kraus Paul, When you log into the Unix Box, what is TERM set to? At the Unix command prompt: echo $TERM, also run stty and see it that makes a difference. You could try setting TERM to vt102 or vt220, e.g. TERM=vt102; export TERM. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] General Questions
ok i tried logging back into the unix box. I attached fine. this is what I did $ echo $TERM xterm $ stty speed 38400 baud; ispeed 9600 baud; ospeed 38400 baud; rows = 24; columns = 85; ypixels = 0; xpixels = 0; -parity hupcl swtch = undef; susp = undef; brkint -inpck icrnl onlcr tab3 echo -echoe echok $ TERM=vt102 $ export TERM i then loaded my software -==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= $ sol4 Basic was unable to locate either the TERMINAL id or the MODEL code in the terminal definition file TCONFIGW. BASIC Windows can only be used if the TERMINAL id and the MODEL code are defined in TCONFIGW. Restart BASIC without using Windows and use *NPSD to define this terminal. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I have been administrating this server and this software for over a year and this is the only time I have seen this error. In linux. Also I can not use backspace when I telnet in. either with GTelnet or Console-telnet. Paul Kraus On Tuesday 22 January 2002 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: I need some kind of term emulater. I need to attach to unix box and run are distribution software. Thourghbred in case you wanted to know. But If i telnet I get this strange error which I have never seen. Currently we have terminals attached to the unix box that log in with no problem and we have windows machines running tiny term to attach form windows with no problem. Neither of these methods have caused any problems in the past. here is the error. wow that was really odd. I just went back into the software to regenrate the error and now it trys to let me in but the screen is jarbled but the error is missing. It was there yesterday also. I wonder if i will only recieve that error once each time i boot. But if that is true then I am very confused. I think because telnet doesn't support SCO ansi the screen gets garbled. I have tried to install minicom but I can't get it to work. Paul Kraus Paul, When you log into the Unix Box, what is TERM set to? At the Unix command prompt: echo $TERM, also run stty and see it that makes a difference. You could try setting TERM to vt102 or vt220, e.g. TERM=vt102; export TERM. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
