Filename case

1996-09-22 Thread John Roesch
I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a quick method or command to do this? Thanks, John Roesch

Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-22 Thread Raymond Penners
Hi, My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation (export TERM=amiga) is not present. Does this have something to do with the fact that in /etc/terminfo only ansi is present? However, in /usr/lib/terminfo/a

Emacs on console: keys not responding

1996-09-22 Thread Raymond Penners
Package: emacs Version: 19.34-2 Package: ncurses Version: 1.9.9e-1 System: Linux sphinx 2.0.6 #2 Sun Jul 14 18:49:25 PDT 1996 i586 Debian: 1.1 When running on the console, Emacs does not respond to several keys. For example, the following keys have no effect when the ALT key is used as the meta

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

1996-09-22 Thread Greg Hudson
My simple formula swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size works much better than the twice physical memory one. Questionable. Aside from not being computable (everyone can easily tell what their physical memory size is, but few people know how much their total

Re: less displays help when invoked on an empty file

1996-09-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: I'm not sure you can call it a bug, (maybe it's a feature ;) ) because it is a well-known behavior of less (and some other pagers from what I have heard) that they don't work well with files of length 0. This is mostly seen that you can't less

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Vadik V. Vygonets wrote: But ae is somewhat broken -- it puts DOS-style CR/LF as EOL :( I had problems with /etc/modules until I installed vi and realized the problem. What version are you running? This have been fixed, as far as I can tell. The 962-9 version does not

Re: Filename case

1996-09-22 Thread Philippe Troin
No python, no fancy stuff, nothing but plain old bash: for i in *; do j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` if [ $i != $j ]; then mv $i $j fi done Or on a single line: for i in *; do j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]'

Firewall

1996-09-22 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, My thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his solution on setting up my PS/2 mouse. I eventually gave up on X11 though, never got more than a blank screen. I'll come back to it when I get a chance. Now for my next questions: 1) can anyone let me know there experiences with firewall software

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-22 Thread Boris Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- manini German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian (manpages-it). manini (just to be precisian :-) is there a russian ver. ? ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas

program cc1 got fatal signal 6

1996-09-22 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I just recently installed Debian from the August 96 release of Infomagic's 6 cd set. This is the best distribution, after trying the others on the cd set. I have this one problem though, I can't compile a kernel. I have tried both 2.0.20 and 2.0.21. Here is a paste of the exact place and

Kernel? Shadow?

1996-09-22 Thread John Goerzen
I am curious: Why hasn't the kernel source/image been updated since 2.0.6? Also, why is there not a shadow password package? Specifically, one that fixes problems with xdm and xlockmore? Thanks. -- John Goerzen | System administrator owner, The Communications Custom programming

Mouse problems

1996-09-22 Thread Scott Danzig
Honestly, I'll end up getting a serial adapter for the mouse if I can't get it working, but I was hoping not to have to. I own a Dell Dimension XPS P90 system, with a Logitech mouse. I'm honestly not sure whether it is a bus mouse or a PS/2 mouse, but when Windows 95 autodetects it, it registers

Re: Emacs on console: keys not responding

1996-09-22 Thread Pete Harlan
When running on the console, Emacs does not respond to several keys. For example, the following keys have no effect when the ALT key is used as the meta modifier: M-% M-! M- M- You can put this in your startup scripts somewhere: loadkeys EOF alt shift keycode 51 = Meta_less alt shift

How to stop lynx from checking mail

1996-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning folks, how do I stop lynx from checking mail on a per user basis? I know that I can set CHECKMAIL:FALSE in the global configuration file /etc/lynx.cfg, but as the default is TRUE I would like to configure this on a per-user basis, but neither CHECKMAIL:FALSE nor

Re: Firewall

1996-09-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 18:22 21-09-96 -0400, Simon Martin wrote: 1) can anyone let me know there experiences with firewall software (SOCKS, TIS, ...) as I intend to setup an Internet firewall now Maybe you'd choose another program, called ipfwadm. 2) can anyone let me know where to find the above software. It

Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).

1996-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Problem: The system hangs when the SCSI bus is reset. Config: Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller Two different motherboards Three different versions of Linux More specifically, I cannot perform a soft reboot from Linux. If, for Is this with Debian only, not Slackware,

Re: Filename case

1996-09-22 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ls | awk '{ system(mv $0 tolower($0)) }' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMkUGTCqK7IlOjMLFAQFGqgP+O+pLQX1HBwMbUPaPxBXdVMSkTwdGpZb4 IL77hnWsRsTl97W+O57/aRnLpL1jhQjTWo3Be/r0h/y6Doe3e87LtjV51G0XzCK4

Re: Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-22 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Raymond Penners wrote: Hi, My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation (export TERM=amiga) is not present. You should install ncurses-term to get /usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga You should also NOT have the

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems. Does anyone know how teTeX compares with NTeX? NTeX is what I have been using. How easy would it be to debianize teTeX? Mark

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Paul Seelig
On 21 Sep 1996, Winfried Truemper wrote: And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and therefore stucked with debian-TeX). Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway

Re: Mouse problems

1996-09-22 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Scott Danzig, you wrote: Honestly, I'll end up getting a serial adapter for the mouse if I can't get it working, but I was hoping not to have to. I own a Dell Dimension XPS P90 system, with a Logitech mouse. I'm honestly not sure whether it is a bus mouse or a PS/2

Re: PS color separations

1996-09-22 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, ciccio wrote: Is there a package that allows a device dependent and table-based conversion of RGB to CMYK? (to prepare RGB-graphics for output on a typesetter) I believe that Gimp has a plug-in that converts RGB-CMYK. Don't know if this is exactly what you want.

Re: Mouse problems

1996-09-22 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Scott Danzig wrote: it registers as a PS/2 type mouse, using IRQ 12. They all didn't work. Did you recompile the kernel with PS/2 mouse support? -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | |