Re: All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-05-31 Thread Carey Evans
"Brian S. Julin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > So all we would need to do is write our own version of MakeMaker that, > in addition to the usual targets like "test" "dist" and "install", also > automatically created rules for construction of a "deb" and "dsc" > target. We'd really just

Re: faxrunqd?

1997-05-31 Thread Paul Serice
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Just a question, is anyone running faxrunqd from the mgetty-fax > package? > Yes. Why? Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

backspace/delete at the console

1997-05-31 Thread donk
Deciding to try out debian I installed 1.3 and recenly discovered delete doesn't work as I hoped. Delete is mapped as ^[[3~ which produces simply "~" and a beep. I finally mapped ^D to the Delete key which produces the desired results (deletes current char. over the cursor) but seems wrong to me. I

ppp problem

1997-05-31 Thread robert havoc pennington
Hi, I can run ppp as root, but as any other user it does this: (from the log) May 31 00:58:56 havoc pppd[468]: Serial connection established. May 31 00:58:57 havoc pppd[468]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted May 31 00:58:57 havoc pppd[468]: ioctl(PPPIOCGDEBUG): Operation not permitted M

Re: All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-05-31 Thread Jim Pick
Brian S. Julin wrote: > So all we would need to do is write our own version of MakeMaker that, > in addition to the usual targets like "test" "dist" and "install", also > automatically created rules for construction of a "deb" and "dsc" > target. This is a really cool idea. One concern is th

All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-05-31 Thread Brian S. Julin
Greetings fellow Debianites, Those of you who program in perl probably have a bunch of perl module source trees in /usr/src which you installed yourself. Although Debian developers have packaged the most essential of the Perl modules (the CGI ones, basically), with a couple hundred modules on

Re: Segfault with SVGAlib utils

1997-05-31 Thread Dan Everton
On Thu, 29 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Everytime I attempt to run some utilities (gs4.03, tmview, etc.) I get a segfault with signal 11. I have no idea what this means and I'm >>> >>> signal 11 is segmentatio fault, i.e. yor CPU

Kernel compilation errors

1997-05-31 Thread jhohm
I have Debian 1.3 with kernel sources 2.0.30-6. I am trying to recompile the kernel slim it down, add sound, etc. If I try `make zImage` or if I try `make-kpkg --revision custom.1 kernel_image`, I get the same results. Everything goes along fine, then, all of a sudden, these messages: cpp: ou

upgrading cmos of compaq 833 cds?

1997-05-31 Thread butch
Hello, I would like to upgrade my capabilities for running linux and win applications. i have purchased a fireball 1.7GB dirve and i would like to add it as a slave to the original pathetic 270mb drive. does anyone here know what software for setup i may need from the compaq web and ftp sites

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-05-31 Thread David Puryear
Hi, Look in the ~/non-free for gs-aladdin_4.0* Cheers, David On 31-May-97 Matthew Tebbens wrote: >Well, I did install GV and it does look good! >GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. >Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... >Time for an updated GS p

Re: Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > > > I'd like just to add one thing to it, it'll be confortable (at least for > > me) that the mirroring can be done from another computer. I'll explain > > better: you che the Packages file on a PC connected

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Well, I did install GV and it does look good! > GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. > Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... > Time for an updated GS package!? :) Oh, you want to install gs-aladdin_4.03-7.deb from non

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-05-31 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Well, I did install GV and it does look good! > GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. > Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... > Time for an updated GS package!? :) Go for gs-aladdin in non-free. It is 4.03 Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-05-31 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Well, I did install GV and it does look good! GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better. Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something... Time for an updated GS package!? :) On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > Debian ha

Re: PPP,Samba and Linux

1997-05-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Marc D. Jones wrote: > > Does anyone know how to setup linux so that when a Win95 machine dials > in you can see the linux and any other Irix, Unix, or other machines > in the Workgroup. > > Right now we've been able to dial in to the debian sys and in turn go > out to the ISP and access the web.