Re: printing .lj files

1996-06-07 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Richard Lovison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 7 June 1996 18:35: >Does anyone know how to prevent a blank page from being printed at the >end of the print job when printing a .lj file created using dvilj? >Couldn't find anything in the lpr or dvilj manpage. Any help would be >appreciated. We

printing .lj files

1996-06-07 Thread Richard Lovison
Does anyone know how to prevent a blank page from being printed at the end of the print job when printing a .lj file created using dvilj? Couldn't find anything in the lpr or dvilj manpage. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.---Richard

Re: Problem with telnet login

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Brian Sulcer wrote: > You must exec login from the lowest level shell. > Connection closed by foreign host. There appears to be some utmp corruption and login isn't checking for it. login-1.0.5 should fix this (it just checks if the entry is stale; there's still a race condit

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > This yields nothing. There is no BUGS file in and subs of > /usr/lib/terminfo.? I'm only assuming there is because of your weird error. I got the same error when I manually created a file called BUGS. > /usr/lib/termifo or /etc/terminfo? These are concid

Problem with telnet login

1996-06-07 Thread Brian Sulcer
I recently upgraded one of our machine's base packages and other packages to the latest 1.1 versions. Now when attempting to telnet to the machine, a connection is established, the issue file is printed and then we see this: You must exec login from the lowest level shell. Connection closed by fo

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: > >From bash or whatever shell, you can try saying > stty cs8 cstopb Ok! We are narrowing the field. The above command locks up the terminal big time, but... stty cs7 cstopb fixes it! Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits al

Re: Will Debian 1.1 have emacs-19.31?

1996-06-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
David> Where is the .deb file? Oh, sorry, I must have taken emacs-19.31 from the developers system. The public archive lags a little, mostly a day, sometimes a little longer. Expect to see emacs-19.31 in unstable/binary/editors any time now. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel

Re: Will Debian 1.1 have emacs-19.31?

1996-06-07 Thread David M. Cooke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > David M Cooke writes: > David> Will the officially release Debian 1.1 include emacs-19.31? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> emacs --version > 19.31.1 Where is the .deb file? I checked unstable/binary/editors and found: -r--r--r-- 1 daemon ftp-linu 5071046 Mar 7 0

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Here's the 'ls -a /usr/lib/terminfo' Ooops, how dull of me :-) > > Why did you send me that? The BUGS file is probably in one of those > subdirs. Since I don't want an ls -R /usr/lib/terminfo in my mbox, > I'l

ghostscript 3.53

1996-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
I know that gs 3.53 is out for a while but I couldn't find it in the debian ftp site. Since only version 3 or later supports my printer (canon BJC 600), can anyone tell me where to find the deb file?

Re: Will Debian 1.1 have emacs-19.31?

1996-06-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
David M Cooke writes: David> Will the officially release Debian 1.1 include emacs-19.31? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> emacs --version 19.31.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /etc/debian_version 1.1 Debian 1.1 is in official beta-test and can be installed safely.

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Steve Preston
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. > Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message > an

Re: ghostscript 3.53

1996-06-07 Thread dkklee
It is the Aladdin version of gs you want. It is in the non-free directory. --Derek Lee

boot floppy problems

1996-06-07 Thread Bruce Perens
I've refrained from getting into the internals of "dialog", but it does not look as if I have any choice. The core dump in "modconf" and the suppression of character echo in the boot floppy are both caused by a (reasonably simple) bug in dialog concerned with its trying to render a string that is t

Will Debian 1.1 have emacs-19.31?

1996-06-07 Thread David M. Cooke
Will the officially release Debian 1.1 include emacs-19.31? It would be nice since I've converted our SGI and Convex machines already and I'd like to run the same version on the soon to be installed Debian workstations. -- Da

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: > One explanation that would fit this behavior is that your terminal is > configured to expect more stop bits than the linux box is sending. > > When you are typing and the linux box is echoing, there are long > pauses (relative to a single bit time) betwe

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
> > BTW: When will 1.1 be released? > > I am uploading yet another pass at the installation floppies today. > We're also dealing with some FTP site problems. I'm going to make a new > "stable" archive this week, and will let that propogate out to all of > the FTP mirrors. We then will give it a fe

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Steve Preston
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: >> One explanation that would fit this behavior is that your terminal >> is configured to expect more stop bits than the linux box is >> sending. > This is a very nice idea, except that it ignores the fact

EMAIL! HELP!

1996-06-07 Thread Fundamental
Hi everyone, I am having terrible email problems. It seems my email works only 50% of the time, one of three things happen each time i send/receive an email (1) I get it (2) It disappears into oblivion (3)or i get this message Date: Sat, 8 Jun 96 01:57 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: 1.1 upgrade?

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > > Where are current instructions on upgrading > from debian 0.93 to 1.1 ? > The notes and upgrade script that I wrote will soon be available in debian/upgrade. Until then, you can find them at: ftp://dwarf.polaris.net/debian/upgrade This site is on

1.1 upgrade?

1996-06-07 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Where are current instructions on upgrading from debian 0.93 to 1.1 ? --Zachary

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Here's the 'ls -a /usr/lib/terminfo' Why did you send me that? The BUGS file is probably in one of those subdirs. Since I don't want an ls -R /usr/lib/terminfo in my mbox, I'll reveal the magic incantation 'find /usr/lib/terminfo -name BUGS'. > I looke

Re: F77 has gone missing?

1996-06-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dale> I ended up making a link to g77 and things work better. I wouldn't do that. Whenever I compiled octave here, ./configure was perfectly capable of working with either f2c or g77, maybe with the help of a --with-f2c argument, but that's about it. If you make a link f77, one program one day

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I installed ncurses-term-1.9.9e-1.deb but when I do the toe above I get: > > > > infocmp: can't open terminfo file BUGS. > > toe is Table Of Entries. It just lists all the available terminfo > entries with a de

Re: F77 has gone missing?

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dale Scheetz writes: > Dale> I just went back to working on Octave and don't seem to have F77 any > Dale> more. I have been keeping pretty up to date on the devel > Dale> section. Anyone know what happened to it? > > There never was one.

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I installed ncurses-term-1.9.9e-1.deb but when I do the toe above I get: > > infocmp: can't open terminfo file BUGS. toe is Table Of Entries. It just lists all the available terminfo entries with a description. If you ran it with no options and it gave

Re: F77 has gone missing?

1996-06-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dale Scheetz writes: Dale> I just went back to working on Octave and don't seem to have F77 any Dale> more. I have been keeping pretty up to date on the devel Dale> section. Anyone know what happened to it? There never was one. Take your pick among f2c with fort77 or g77

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > > still have problems. > > Install ncurses-term, and use one o

F77 has gone missing?

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
I just went back to working on Octave and don't seem to have F77 any more. I have been keeping pretty up to date on the devel section. Anyone know what happened to it? TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1

Re: 1.1-Beta install problem with Buslogic controller

1996-06-07 Thread Bruce Perens
Larry Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was surprised that it claims: > scsi0: Target 0: Synchronous at 10.0 mega-transfers/second > I thought the 956C was a wide FAST scsi controller that ran at 20 > megabits per second. The transfer number is correct. It does the same number of transfers per seco

Re: printing in debian/unix is hard...

1996-06-07 Thread Winfried Truemper
Carlos Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : using apsfilter. It's more flexible than magicfilter, btw. The config Please explain this. Last time I used "apsfilter", it was horrible to set up (that was more than 1 year ago). Winfried

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Eric Hoeltzel
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. > Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message > and prom

1.1-Beta install problem with Buslogic controller

1996-06-07 Thread Larry Loos
I was trying to install the 1.1-Beta of Debian Linux and my system hung during the intial boot. I was using the Jun 3 version of boot1440.bin. My system is a 100 MHz Pentium PCI box with 32 MB RAM. It has an Award Bios. I have a Buslogic BT-956C PCI Wide SCSI Host Adapter with a Fujitzu 2 GB har

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. Install ncurses-term, and use one of these terminal types. $ toe | grep -i 'data gene

login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I still have problems. Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message and prompt, just as it should. After entering a user name (ge

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-07 Thread Paul Schoenly
Hi, OK, haven't done much yet, but here's what I've done to check the getty/gzip/dpkg problem. On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > This is a bug in one of: > Your inetd, telnetd, rlogind, if you're logging in over the > network (some versions of the Debian netbase and/or netstd >

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-07 Thread llucius
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us > which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help > us a lot :-). > Well, I just checked and even the latest(?) version, 2.0.7i, of getty_ps sets the SIGPIPE signal

test

1996-06-07 Thread Mr. Fikre Berhane Deneke
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