On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Wieboldt, David wrote:
This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files
in linux?
Wow I have an answer!
Your choices are two: 1) xpdf or 2) Adobe acrobat. If you just want to
read single .pdf files, I would go for xpdf. If you have a tree
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Alexander Gieg wrote:
The only boot disk that I have is the one of Debian Installation.
Do you believe that its root disk hasn't the e2fsck program?
It's reasons like this that I keep a Slackware boot/'rescue' root disk set
in the disk box. I heard that there is now a
Hi,
I really miss the biff utility in my Debian system that is running sendmail.
After a long search I found out that is the local mail delivery agent
the responsible to notify comsat of the arrival of new mail. Then, comsat
displays asynchronously a notification of new mail.
Since I am using
I recently upgraded a debian box from stable 1.1 to the packages in
unstable. I don't recal if ncurses was updated, but I know nvi was.
Anyway, now, nvi is behaving wierd. Whenever I scroll down in a document,
I'm getting an extra linefeed with each line, so it looks like the
document is
Shalom
Once, in the dark ages of 1996. Daniel Stringfield wrote about PGP :
From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
Is this right? Which one should I be using?
Hmmm, as far as I know
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
alternatively, i believe there might be an option in the mirror config to
set the ownership permissions on files. see man pages for mirror and
mirror-master for details.
Exactly. See the user, group, and file_mode options.
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
[8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3
Now X won't run, of course.
Why not?
In debian, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link to the Xserver but its a wrapper
program...
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
All this introduction is to ask if someone knows a way of getting a
sendmail based system to notify comsat of new mail arrival. Does any
one know of a patch for deliver or another MDA that can work with
sendmail?
sendmail inconjuntion with
Forgive for asking a stupid qeustion, but here goes. . .
I am building a system from used parts to run debian on, and the hard drive
I have is DOS-formatted, but not as a system disk. Is there any way that i
can format that disk for Debian straight from the floppies without having to
find a
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
All this introduction is to ask if someone knows a way of getting a
sendmail based system to notify comsat of new mail arrival. Does any
one know of a patch for deliver or another MDA that can work with
sendmail?
You don't need to do anything like that. Just install
What should my /boot directory look like? I've been compiling
kernels without benefit of the Debian kernel-source packages, and am
now switching to it. I've made changes in /boot, and do not have a
symlink in / to /boot/vmlinux-x.x.x
(I've yet to RTFM, I am just about to now.)
TIA
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Farzad FARID wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Butch Kemper wrote:
I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on
the screent:
GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ...
GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 ..
GSCD: GoldStar
I'm trying to use amd (the automounter) on several linux boxes. I would like
to use it both for some home accounts which are not local to the machine and
for some specific directories. After having read the man page, the info doc
and /usr/doc/examples I'm still feeling uncapable of using the
Last night I tried to install Debian 1.2 to my new PC using the boot floppies
1996-12-8. I was going to install the packages over ftp either with dselect or
by first downloading them after the initial boot disk install. The
installation went smoothly until it was time to configure the device
Guy Maor wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes:
I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the
manual pages for X.
You probably have the MANPATH environment variable set. Unset it.
I wonder if someone might have the time to explain WHY one
Using the suggestion by Bruce that I boot the system with the command
linux cm206=0x350, the system now boots. However, the system now hangs
when it is loading the WD driver.
Booting from the Debian 1.2 disks dated 96-12-8, I get the these messages
before the system hangs:
Loading device
I'd submit the following as a bug report, but i don't know what
package/version to assign it to.
IMO that should be documented on the installation disks, a notice saying
if you find any bugs then send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
following details:.
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens
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