I have installed the xfig through dselect. It works fine except
for two things
1) in the option "Picture Object" I load an encapsulated
Postscript file. Everything works fine.
The next time I attempt to open this .fig file,
xfig quits without doing anything and gives the following
message in xter
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
>
> Where does one download StarOffice? Is Motif required or does Lesstiff
> do the job?
>
ftp.gwdg.de in /pub/linux/staroffice
Motif, but there is a statically linked binary available.
There are some icons for StarOffice in the contrib directory at
On 3 Jun 97, Joel C Wideman wrote regarding:
__ Re: LILO and Other Stuff? __
> BTW - I've reduced DOS to 150MB partition... and I've got 50MB free... if
> I can find free email using Linux, DOS is history :D
http://www.netaddress.com
free POP3 account, but you have to have access to the net t
These are from a YAHOO! search (the '+' in front of each word tells YAHOO
that these words MUST be in the returned links). Th first has 3 patches
available.
Found 51 matches containing +quake +linux +ip +masq.
Displaying matches 1-20.
Index of /ipmasq - Ter
>On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, stephen farrell wrote:
>>
>> I wrote:
>> >
>> >Normally there is a .so link, a .so.X link and a .so.X.YY dynamic library.
>> >The linker will sometimes not follow a symbolic link more than one link,
>> >so, if the .so link is to .so.X with .so.X linked to the actual library,
>
GET ME OFF THIS LIST !
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> Does anyone know how to use figures in 0.10.7 version of Lyx from the
> "frozen" and "contrib" directories? When I click on the figure icon on
> the menu bar, I'm not prompted for the filename of a fi
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, John Kintree wrote:
> It looks like a number of people are successfully running StarOffice on
> Debian Linux. Is someone working on a .deb package for beta4 with the
> statically linked Motif library?
StarOffice is set up to have a script run from the user's home directory
wh
Does anyone know how to use figures in 0.10.7 version of Lyx from the
"frozen" and "contrib" directories? When I click on the figure icon on
the menu bar, I'm not prompted for the filename of a figure to include. :-(
It WILL display a figure however, which I tested by editing the User Guide
(/us
Paul Serice wrote:
>
> Oh boy. I've downloaded and installed StarOffice. I can't believe
> they're giving this away.
>
> Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time
> creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes
> properly when I just type in "swrit
On Jun 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
: On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote:
: >
: > ps. Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke
: > around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how
: > that meshes with what's supposed to be going on.
: >
: Thanks for the suggest
I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running
to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem
and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night
and constant connection during the day.
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I
Sorry. It's a Maxtor 234MB IDE drive. I have installed Debian on other,
identical drives before and have never had a problem.
BTW, this is quite a new install (beginning of the week) and it's running
version 1.2.16.
Later,
Kevin
> hi I have a similar problem with a fijitsu 2.57gig drive. wha
Does anybody know if the package management system has been ported to other
platforms? I was thinking about doing it for Solaris but wanted to make sure
somebody else hadn't already done it.
Yeah... Department of Redundancy Department.
--
Paul Lange
University of Texas ECE LRC Unix Services
inter
I've recently installed the 3Com 3C595-TX Fast EtherLink PCI
10/100baseT card. Its known as "Vortex" under Linux. I did
have some trouble with IRQ conflicts on the PCI bus.
Otherwise no problems in installing or running.
--
Jean Pierre
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Linux dist. research wrote:
> Does an
I wrote:
> I realize that it would use more disk space, but I really think that the
> CD images should contain no links.
Francis C. Swasey writes:
> I hope you mean no links out of the CD image itself.
Yes, that is what I meant.
John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.
[E
Hello,
I was installing the new 1.3 version onto a 486 based PC when the
install stopped progressing. After formatting a second new floppy,
using rawrite2 again to create a second new rescue disk, then rebooting,
the exact same thing happened. I got as far as seeing a number of
screens of inf
hi I have a similar problem with a fijitsu 2.57gig drive. what kind of
drive do you have and any other information would be useful to help you out.
Paul
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> This is a first for me
>
> This has just started showing up on the console and in /var/log/m
It looks like a number of people are successfully running StarOffice on
Debian Linux. Is someone working on a .deb package for beta4 with the
statically linked Motif library?
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Greetings,
Does anyone have a recommendation for 10/100 net cards? The SMC 9332 has
now changed a bit, and currently I am unable to use it. I am exploring
other options, and finding another card type is one of these.
Thanks in advance.
Chip
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Here's the situation: sometimes I install a package and I override the
dependencies in dselect (for example, I'm running a headless server on
which I wanted to run some X based monitoring apps on a remote x term;
I needed the x libraries but I didn't need an x server.) It's easy to
override the box
>On Jun 5, stephen farrell wrote
>> Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library
>> is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.:
>
>> /tmp/cca027141.o: In function `main':
>> /tmp/cca027141.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `_stdprintf'
>
>OK. Linker errors. Pl
Hi, all. I'm currently running a version of Slackware Linux (3.2,
updated with the new kernel+libc and some other things). I'm still
relatively new to Linux, so my question may be something that's already
been answered or addressed. If so, please tell me where to look - I've
looked at the install.t
> I'm trying to change the ethernet card in my machine from a 3c509 to an
> SMC 9330 BDT, but during boot the 3c509 module gets loaded and the tulip
> module doesn't.
>
> My question is where are these modules loaded into the kernel during
boot?
> I thought they would be in the rc.* files, or et
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> > Another question. I know this might be a FAQ.
> >
> > If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian
> > distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios
> > here -
> >
> > * foo.tar.
Scott K. Ellis:
> It appears that that was a wierd glitch in the upgrade, purging and
> re-installing nethack fixed that for me when I encountered it.
I think I've found the cause of the problem. It only happens if you upgrade
nethack. Looking at the nethack postinst:
chown root.games /var/lib/ga
Marc D. Jones wrote:
>
> OK..here is what we have to date. I tried the winipcfg after
> connecting and the IP address is the same as the Gateway? In addition
> I checked for samba --list and it was there but just to be on the safe
> side I downloaded the newest version (which is the same as I
>
Greetings,
I'm trying to change the ethernet card in my machine from a 3c509 to an
SMC 9330 BDT, but during boot the 3c509 module gets loaded and the tulip
module doesn't.
My question is where are these modules loaded into the kernel during boot?
I thought they would be in the rc.* files, or e
There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect.
Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try
paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If
you do it "too fast", it will crash your system. There are other ways
to do it also, s
Disclaimer: it's my fault, I know.
On a stable (1.1.13) debian box I tried to upgrade the kernel from install
2.0.6 to a home-built 2.0.27. The home built kernel is known to work, so this
is not the problem. I built it via kernel-package, so I could install it with
dpkg. After that, I reboot to tes
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:
> That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify
> local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add
> an item if the package is not installed.
My preference is that a new test be added (or it might already exist, for
all I know),
This is a first for me
This has just started showing up on the console and in /var/log/messages.
Running fsck reported some "duplicate/bad blocks".
Any idea what's happening? Time to replace the drive?
Jun 5 23:55:00 selma kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:01):
ext2_free_blocks:
bit alr
OK..here is what we have to date. I tried the winipcfg after connecting and the IP address is the same as the Gateway? In addition I checked for samba --list and it was there but just to be on the safe side I downloaded the newest version (which is the same as I originally had) and reinstalled fr
> However: it does not seem to understand variable length subnet masks, as
> given to it by the BGP server? Instead it sets the BGP server as it's
> next hop for those nets. I would MOST like to solve this. Is it a
> problem with gated (I used "options VARIABLE_MASKS"), or is it a kernel
> featu
> Can anybody tell me what is the problem if the computer cannot
> receive packets from other computer? I set all the configuration
> file and IP address, hostname seems ok. I can 'ping' myself,
> but not other computers, also I can not ping from other computer
> to mine. I am sure the physical co
On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> . oving the NIC to
> IRQ 10 or something, or remove the serial port (this is not always
> possible).
>
On Jun 6, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> Does ifconfig shows errors? What media does it use (or try to use?)
> AUI, BNC, 10BaseT? This should be printed at load
> I'm not sure what the sequence was but I somehow have managed to get
> a version 5.4.23-6 of libc5 installed. Running dselect using the ftp
> method from ftp.debian.org and with the distributions as
> frozen unstable hamm/contrib hamm/non-free
> shows version 5.4.23-4 of libc5 as the available
I'm not sure what the sequence was but I somehow have managed to get
a version 5.4.23-6 of libc5 installed. Running dselect using the ftp
method from ftp.debian.org and with the distributions as
frozen unstable hamm/contrib hamm/non-free
shows version 5.4.23-4 of libc5 as the available version.
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> Does Linux support the new Universal Disc Format (UDF)?
>
> ISO9660 have several limitations:
>File names must be only in capital letters , A - Z.
>File names are limited to the DOS 8 + 3 format.
>No more than 8 directory levels.
>Only
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote:
:
:On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
:> For what it's worth, I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 about a week ago on a
:> server that is authoritative for a few zones ... no problems at all.
:
:I forgot to mention the following: I let the install script c
I was the author of the original DHCP client mini-HOWTO. I wrote it
last fall, but withdrew it this winter, because it had become
obsolete.
The HOWTO described a technique for using Win95 DHCP information to
give Linux its necessary IP identity and server information. It was a
stopgap, and did not
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have disabled the IRQ 3 from bios. this is what I saw in /proc/interrupts
> 3: 455 : NE2000
>Is this correct?
Apparently it receives interrupts. This is ok. A typical sign of a BIOS
robbing the interrup
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:>
:> ps. Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke
:> around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how
:> that meshes with what's supposed to be going on.
:>
:Thanks for the su
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote:
> I have not had good luck with this one. ( Netscape Communicator 40b3,
> 40b5 )
> Sometimes when it crashes, it causes a reboot! Not cool! I have never
> had a linux program bring linux to it's knees -- until now.
The last (and only) program that ever hun
Thanks for all the help answering my remote access questions. Up and running
now ... and am attempting to tackle XFree86.
1. I can start an X session but get an error ...
xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry
when trying to log in via X. I don't see any /etc/termcap file.
W Paul Mills wrote:
>
> Two things:
> 1. You could include the full path.
> 2. Environment variables. If you are using xdm to start X, you
> can "source sd.sh" (or whatever filename your use) in your
> $HOME/.xsession file to set the environment as you log in.
> Then your menu
Sam Ockman wrote:
>
> Message from Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 6-5-97:
> > On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> >
> > > Any debian package that support the Ricoh CDRW drive?
> > > Does Debian a stable platform to burn CDs?
> >
> > I'm not sure about the Ricoh drive. I use a Philips C
> > Hi There,
> > I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matrox
> > MGA Millennium PowerDesk video card and I haven't found any Matrox Video
> > Cards in the database provided by the linux. If you please tell me which
> > one in the closest match for the Matrox Video Card's
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
> On Jun 5, stephen farrell wrote
> > Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library
> > is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.:
>
> > /tmp/cca027141.o: In function `main':
> > /tmp/cca027141.o(.text+0xe): undefined refere
I believe that /usr/X11R6/bin/X needs to be suid root.
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote:
> hi, i am having some trouble (with permissions?) starting up afterstep.
> if i start it as root, there are no problems.
> if i start as a normal user, i get this:
>
> velcro# cat /home/brad/.xsession-
Two things:
1. You could include the full path.
2. Environment variables. If you are using xdm to start X, you
can "source sd.sh" (or whatever filename your use) in your
$HOME/.xsession file to set the environment as you log in.
Then your menu should work. Or if those variable
I have not had good luck with this one. ( Netscape Communicator 40b3,
40b5 )
I cannot get the news to work. It likes to crash fairly frequently.
Some are predictable, fumbling around with news/messages will do
it every time.
Sometimes when it crashes, it causes a reboot! Not cool! I have never
ha
> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote:
>
> > and put it in /etc/menu. anything that starts with 'local' is installed,
> > regardless of what debian packages are installed. this is an inadequately
> > documented feature of menu (buried in a changelog file... hmpth :P )
>
> whoops! i guess i'll
>> kayak2 /home/bradshaw/dnload # dpkg -i libc5_5.4.23-6.deb
>> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or
>> directory), skipping
>> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or
>> directory), skipping
>>
>> Afterwards,
>>
>> /usr/lib/libc.so -> /lib/libc.so
On Jun 6, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>
> Another one to test is
> cat /proc/interrupts
> Often, PnP BIOS'es need to be told to reserve certain IRQ's for non PnP
> cards, otherwise they won't ever see an interrupt coming in.
>
I have disabled the IRQ 3 from bios. this is what I saw in /proc/interrupt
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>>
>> ps. Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke
>> around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how
>> that meshes with what's supposed to
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On 6 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
>What I've been wondering about recently is under what, if any
>cirumstances it would be a good idea to disable modem level
>compression. If all your're sending and receiving is gzipped data
>(like running a debian mirror), the
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Gernot wrote:
>I am having problems upgrading to Debian 1.3 with the latex-packages. I
>know that I have to purge the old packages and it works fine despite for
>the babel-package. I get the following error-message when i "dpkg
>--purge --forc
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, the bsd_comp is link compression, it affect all traffic
> transmitted over the PPP link.
Ah, I see I should have read the man page before posting.
> Not all the many things support it. What you are thinking of is VJ
> Compression (Van Jacobson) which
On Jun 5, stephen farrell wrote
> Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library
> is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.:
> /tmp/cca027141.o: In function `main':
> /tmp/cca027141.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `_stdprintf'
OK. Linker errors. Please pr
Message from Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 6-5-97:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> > Any debian package that support the Ricoh CDRW drive?
> > Does Debian a stable platform to burn CDs?
>
> I'm not sure about the Ricoh drive. I use a Philips CD2000 with no
> problems.
>
> Mk
> This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought).
> I don't remember which files had wrong permissions, but here
> are the perms on the relevant files in /var/lib/games/nethack:
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root games1024 Jun 4 11:05 /var/lib/games/nethack/
Thanks Sue.
>
> Hi,
> I've asked this question a week ago already, but unfortunately
> neither my posting nor any answers appeared. Strange.
>
> In the docs I often read about a utility 'locale', but I can't
> find it anywhere. Everything that has to do with locale seems
> to work. Just this program is mi
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> For what it's worth, I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 about a week ago on a
> server that is authoritative for a few zones ... no problems at all.
I forgot to mention the following: I let the install script change my
existing setup, did you do this too?
>
> > How long would it have taken an experienced Linux user to do a quick
> > install of three different distributions just to make sure something
> > major wasn't missing? Maybe a day at most?
>
> W install all three distributions on our TRI-LINUX cd on two different
> boxes ...
> one that i
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote:
> and put it in /etc/menu. anything that starts with 'local' is installed,
> regardless of what debian packages are installed. this is an inadequately
> documented feature of menu (buried in a changelog file... hmpth :P )
whoops! i guess i'll have to retrac
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
> Oh boy. I've downloaded and installed StarOffice. I can't believe
> they're giving this away.
>
> Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time
> creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes
> properly when I j
Sorry, I have no idea about the Matrox Video Card. Your request for help
has been forwarded to debian-user list, the appropriate forum for
questions of this sort.
Could someone help him?
On Jun 5, coteau wrote
> Hi There,
> I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matro
> "Colin" == Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin> ... However, if I first load the latex file, and then load the
Colin> bibtex file, bibtex-mode is successfully loaded, but
Colin> font-lock-mode and auto-fill-mode are not. The *messages*
Colin> buffer gives me the following:
Colin>
Note that most modems these days make V.42 compression, which is LZW.
BSD compression would be redundant.
Van Jacobsen compression is, however, good to use on a V.42 connection.
It takes advantage of the redundancy of frame information in a point-to-point
connection from one packet to the next to
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
> Oh boy. I've downloaded and installed StarOffice. I can't believe
> they're giving this away.
>
> Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time
> creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes
> properly when I j
hi, i am having some trouble (with permissions?) starting up afterstep.
if i start it as root, there are no problems.
if i start as a normal user, i get this:
velcro# cat /home/brad/.xsession-errors
sh: /tmp/steprcX: Permission denied
Cannot open m4-processed config file
: No such file or di
Oh boy. I've downloaded and installed StarOffice. I can't believe
they're giving this away.
Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time
creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes
properly when I just type in "swriter3" in an xterm.
The entry in .f
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:
> > > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2
> > > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes
> > > with Debian. I tried the following -
> > >
On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> ps. Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke
> around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how
> that meshes with what's supposed to be going on.
>
Thanks for the suggestions. I check with all these commands.
Here is t
I have now compiled gated (tried on another machine and it went no
problems, thought they were the same configstrange), and got it
running---good. I have installed it on our internet exchange and it
listens to BGP nicely, including supernets---very good (no other OS's can
do that, that we have
IS the driver for the NIC actually working? Use ifconfig to see if
you're getting packet errors, or if the device is even configured. 0 RX
packets usually means something is bolloxed up in your configuration -
either the driver can't talk to the card because of a hardware conflict,
or it's making
I am not an expert here but I am pretty sure I am correct about this.
Please flame me if I'm wrong :)
>First off, it was my impression that bsd_comp only affects ppp (TCP?)
>headers. It doesn't do any general data compression (so it wouldn't
>try to compress the jpg data in a packet, just the hea
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Another question. I know this might be a FAQ.
>
> If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian
> distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios
> here -
>
> * foo.tar
Hi,
Can anybody tell me what is the problem if the computer cannot
receive packets from other computer? I set all the configuration
file and IP address, hostname seems ok. I can 'ping' myself,
but not other computers, also I can not ping from other computer
to mine. I am sure the physical connec
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was following the readme on the ftp site for upgrading. ldso upgraded
> with no warnings, but I got the following messages when upgrading libc5.
>
>
> kayak2 /home/bradshaw/dnload # dpkg -i libc5_5
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
>I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack
> -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write
> permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!"
>
>Has anyone els
Dig around for things with names like cron.daily and cron.monthly in /etc.
If you look at the scripts, you will see things such as umask settings and
paramaters passed to the savelog command that look like -m 644. These are
the permissions. Edit them (but save the original line commented out or
>I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack
> -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write
> permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!"
This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought).
I don't remember which files
Hello all.
How can i set my logs (/var/log/) so they are not world readable?
I have tried chmod o-r messages (and others including ppp.log and
daemon.log) but after a reboot or when cron.daily runs some are agian
world readable. Is there anything that this would affect, other than the
gene
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
> Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall
> a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a
> text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that
> Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there
> such a
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > I'm forwarding this to debian-user.
> >
> > - Forwarded message from coteau -
> > Hi There,
> > I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matrox
> > MGA Millennium PowerDesk video card
Joey Hess wrote:
> Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:
> > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2
> > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes
> > with Debian. I tried the following -
> >
> > * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
>
> Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall
> a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a
> text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that
> Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there
> such a standard utility or do I have to
> Jim Pick writes:
> > I believe Bruce has some "official" CD images that would better to use for
> > the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set.
>
> Francis C. Swasey writes:
> > If those are the "images" in the dist (or is it dists??) directory, the
> > unstable one points
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:
> I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2
> setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes
> with Debian. I tried the following -
>
> * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran
> update-menus. Then quit X
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I'm forwarding this to debian-user.
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> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 6 02:31:48 1997
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> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:33:51 -0600
> From: cote
I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2
setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes
with Debian. I tried the following -
* Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran
update-menus. Then quit X and restarted it. Don't find vim und
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl)
> I am running Debian 1.2 currently. My ASUS motherboard supports
> APM.
OK. First of all, you will have to build a custom kernel to get APM support,
as the generic kernel does not have it. Why? Because some machines have bad
APM BIOS and crash on installatio
There are 2 Netscape install packages, one for 3.01 versions, and one for
communicator BETA versions. I havn't tested the one for communicator.
Matthew
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > For the record and mailing list archive;
> > The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do w
> How long would it have taken an experienced Linux user to do a quick
> install of three different distributions just to make sure something
> major wasn't missing? Maybe a day at most?
W install all three distributions on our TRI-LINUX cd on two different
boxes ...
one that is all IDE and one
> > For the record and mailing list archive;
> > The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do work with
> > the currect Debian install package.
>
>Would you happen to know if the latest beta (communicator-v40b5*) will
> work with the *.deb install shell?
Apparently not. It's on my li
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> 2) According to the HOWTO, you need to get winipcfg (or what ever it is
> called the probes the cable modem server for an ip address) to write out
> it's information to file using some switch (specifics listed in HOWTO).
> The HOWTO then goes on to ins
Here's a sed script that I've used for years on my old SCO Unix box. I'm
not actually positive it works on Linux because I haven't tried it, but sed
is sed, right?...
It adds ^M's if they're missing and deletes them if found. (i.e. one
script that will do both conversions)
sed -e '
s-^M--g
t
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