On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 10:42:53AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:54:55PM -0800, G. Crimp@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
wrote:
Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as
well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I
Thanx to all of you for your help. I added a From: line to
~/.elm/elmheaders and all appears to be working correctly now.
I figured that it had to be something simple like that - it's
amazing how many obvious things one can miss while still learning.
Time for another swat with the clue club I
On Thu, 01 Jan 1998 13:59:21 CST, Greg Norris wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could help me with my email configuration
(hopefully, I haven't missed anything TOO obvious). I'm running a
standalone machine with a dialup PPP account to my ISP, using
smail/fetchmail to handle mail-delivery, and
On Fri, 02 Jan 1998 01:03:44 +0100, grin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
I recommend Best Power's products (I use their intelligent Fortress model
on my single-user sytem), see a recent copy of the UPS HOWTO. They are a
little more expensive than, say, APC, but my
I recommend Best Power's products (I use their intelligent Fortress
model
[...]
Yes, I strongly recommend AGAINST APC. I own one, it works but they keep
the interface secret, and they have minus one support. Of course if you
don't wanna have smart UPS (system load, voltage and freq
If the thinkpad problem persist, try the tecra bootdisk (in the special
directory I think).
Brandon
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Phone: (757) 221-4847
To get CD's for Linux I found a real good place to buy them. It cost me
under $2 for Debian. They even let you donate money to Debian Org. It
is www.cheapbytes.com.
Brian
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Here is my opinion on the different dist. of Linux that I have used over
the years.
Caldera Standard:
Great if you never need technical support, modifiy your system, or want
any documentation that is acurate. Since I do not know of anyone that
can say that, I would not recomend it.
Red Hat:
On Thu, 01 Jan 1998 08:29:22 PST, G. Crimp wrote:
OK, so I'm going to take one more kick at this. I almost returned the printe
the other day, but decided to check out this PCL thing. The manual says that
the NEC SS 860 has PCL emulation. Can anyone tell me if emulation means
more crap on
Okay, I read the libc6 mini-HOWTO (thanks Scott), and it's worked until
I got to installing libc6-dev 2.0.6-2, which depends on kernel-headers
(or kernel-source) 2.0.32-2 or greater, which I can't seem to find
anywhere. (ftp.debian.org only has 2.0.32-1, dated Dec 9.)
Any ideas here? (I was
I am subscribed to a mailing list that only sends out messages
in a digest form. I would like to convert the digest back into
individual messages. I use procmail to seperate out the digest
from the rest of the mail. The format of the digest is
Header stuff
Title of digest
misc info
subjects in
Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file /etc/news/server
would determine the NNTP news server for any news-reader. This would ideally
work for knews, netscape, pine, trn, ... . I believe one can configure the
traditional news readers like knews, pine, trn to use the variable
Take a look at the procmailex(5) man page.
Adam Klein
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 11:00:56PM -0600, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
I am subscribed to a mailing list that only sends out messages
in a digest form. I would like to convert the digest back into
individual messages. I use procmail to
I just bought a new hard Ultra-ATA hard drive for my system, which already has
a SCSI drive with Linux. I plan to format the new drive as an NTFS partition,
and to install Windows NT on it (the SCSI drive has a FAT16 partition on
/dev/sda1, which I'll use for transferring files between the two
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 12:04:46AM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote:
Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file /etc/news/server
would determine the NNTP news server for any news-reader. This would ideally
work for knews, netscape, pine, trn, ... . I believe one can configure the
John,
On the IBM thinkpad 760, you must use the tecra boot disk in the
special directory, and not the standard bootdisk. If you build your
own kernel, you must build it with 'make zimage' and not 'make
bzimage'. The thinkpad will hang as you describe otherwise.
The alternative, as you may have
On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote:
Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the
CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it?
Yes! :-) /sbin/hwclock is the new program that replaces the obsolete
/sbin/clock. The syntax is different too, so
hello,
has anyone had any success installing debian 1.3 on a dec ultra hinote
2 latop? trying to install w/ the vanilla installation disks left me
without pcmcia access (and hence no ethernet support in my case). could
it be that the tecra disks should be used for the hinote as well?
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 08:17:44PM -0800, David Stern wrote:
[snip]
Adobe markets PrintGear to the low end: primarily toward windoze and
mac, with some mention of os/2, no unix. One might conjecture that
PrintGear competes against Adobe's own PostScript at the low end, that
Ever since I upgraded to hamm, my ttys have been getting confused.
Once vi or less or man introduces reverse text or underline, all text
in my xterms is that way - it is as if the command to revert the text
to plain is never sent! Also, I have been having trouble with my
shell losing its stty
Ever since I upgraded to hamm, my ttys have been getting confused.
Once vi or less or man introduces reverse text or underline, all text
in my xterms is that way - it is as if the command to revert the text
to plain is never sent! Also, I have been having trouble with my
shell losing its stty
Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote:
Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the
CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it?
Yes! :-) /sbin/hwclock is the new program that replaces the obsolete
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back.
Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good
text and graphics output. Sigh...
So that we don't all have to learn from your mistake ... can anyone
suggest a good
William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back.
Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good
text and graphics output. Sigh...
So that we don't all have to learn from
William R Ward wrote:
So that we don't all have to learn from your mistake ... can anyone
suggest a good cheap laser printer that *will* work with Linux?
I use an HP Laserjet 6MP (Postscript). It won't be the cheapest, but it
is very reliable. In particular it has never given me any trouble
Hello !
I need some info about the possibility to read input from
a video camera. I know, there is support for a special
camera in the SANE-area, but it seems not to be a camera
using a standard frame-grabber, but this is what i will
have to use. So the questions are:
How can i get a picture
Jameson Burt hat gesagt: // Jameson Burt wrote:
Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file
/etc/news/server would determine the NNTP news server for any
news-reader. This would ideally work for knews, netscape, pine, trn,
... . I believe one can
Hello. I'm not actually subscribed to the list, so if you can help me,
please reply to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . That out of the way,
I need some help with CFDISK. What I did was I installed made two
partitions on a 2.1 GB drive, each the same size, 1.05GB. They both use the
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 03:05:18PM -0700, dave mallery wrote:
i have been lurking here for about a month and find this an amazing
list.
Welcome.
one simple question: is there any filter with some laserjet4 support
as far as point size and fonts in pcl?? am using magicfilter as was
Hello.Bob wrote:
What does 'cat /dev/sndstat' report?
Bob
Well, have a look at it:
---cat /dev/sndstat-
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Mon Dec 29 17:04:36 CET 1997 root,
Linux MAN_Soft 2.0.30 #13 Mon Dec 29 16:21:12 CET 1997 i486 unknown)
Kernel: Linux MAN_Soft 2.0.30 #15 Mon Dec 29
First, I'd just like to say that I am *very* new to Linux. I have web
accounts on to *nix systems, but that won't help me until I get
everything set up. :)
My current position: I have the base Debian Linux system installed
(with almost no problems). I have downloaded a few packages off of
Have you tried useing the tecra boot disks ... you might try these boot
disk ... try installing from there as it will add that kernel to the hard
drive ... I think that the tecra boot disks are made for the Laptops that
can't handle BzImages I think they can be found in the /disks
directory
Hi,
I was wondering if you all could tell me the pros and cons of some Mail
Packages: I was wondering about:
Fetchmail: I want to use this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me.
(can it do sorting of mail?)
Sendmail: I just wonder which is beter sendmail or smail
SMail: same as
Everyone that helped me on the network printing problem, thanks. I
have it working now and everything is working fine.
Thanks again.
Brian Schramm
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hello all...
got me one of those Dell latitude CP laptops. (apparently with an
attitude :)...
Tried to get it to boot Debian and after booting from the resc1440, I
press enter after the initial introduction the system starts to go
through the initial boot from the disk and then completely
Here is a good thought question on Debian.
I have a Slackware 2.0 system that has no capability of running a
floppy or booting from the CD-ROM (Sound Blaster Pro16). I would like
to update it to the newest (1.3) Debian release that I have so my main
machine and my server
hifolks '-)
I'm looking for a mail proxy (smtp and pop3)...where can i find it?
I need it to install a mail server.
regards
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
I was wondering if you all could tell me the pros and cons of some Mail
Packages: I was wondering about:
Fetchmail: I want to use this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me.
(can it do sorting of mail?)
Fetchmail will retrieve mail from a
Þann 02-Jan-98 skrifar Tim Bell:
Okay, I read the libc6 mini-HOWTO (thanks Scott), and it's worked until
I got to installing libc6-dev 2.0.6-2, which depends on kernel-headers
(or kernel-source) 2.0.32-2 or greater, which I can't seem to find
anywhere. (ftp.debian.org only has 2.0.32-1, dated
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Carl Nasal wrote:
My current problem: I want to install a package so I can connect to the
'Net (so I can download the packages right on to the Linux machine).
You don't need to install any package, as the minimum you need to
get PPP up is provided with the boot disks is
Hi, I was wondering if you all could tell me the pros and cons of
some Mail Packages: I was wondering about: Fetchmail: I want to use
this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me. (can it do sorting
of mail?)
I am lucky enough to have a shell account on my provider and use
procmail on
From the Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian? thread:
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
Wintermute wrote:
If you want to find the resource listing for ANY X program you can use
the tool 'resedit' which comes with a normal X install. Read up on it
first though, it's not the most
I recently discovered why the company had no problems when I asked for a
PC to use to install Debian and learn about it - they are planning (or
hoping) to use it as a dial-in server. They have a Megaport 24cs dial-in
board from Equinox; I checked it out, but the drivers provided are for
SVR3.2 and
Hey every one... Happy new year... (467 mails on my account...)
And of course a question: ;)
I´m trying to install debian on my computer, and all went well, but...
( It must be a but always... isn´t it? )
IN a little confused with the dselect program... I know is one of the
cool things
On Fri, 02 Jan 1998 10:31:37 EST, Carl Nasal wrote:
Basic Question: How can I get Internet Access on my new Debian Linux
machine so I can download packages via FTP right to my Linux machine?
This is how I was told to do it. There are security implications for
allowing regular users (in the
I recently discovered why the company had no problems when I asked for a
PC to use to install Debian and learn about it - they are planning (or
hoping) to use it as a dial-in server. They have a Megaport 24cs dial-in
board from Equinox; I checked it out, but the drivers provided are for
SVR3.2
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Brian Schramm wrote:
Here is my opinion on the different dist. of Linux that I have used over
the years.
Debian:
Installs well, has good doc's, and is very easy to modify. The upgrade
system works very well with the utilities available. I have upgraded
through
Hi there,
I am new to Linux and have a little problem with my kde desktop.
-How can I start kde without starting it from the X- Windows Desktop?
- I want to start kde while booting. How does it work?
What about the login ?
Thanks for your helping hand.
Bye
Yo-
I am in the market for a dual PPro board and I am looking for suggestions!
I would prefer a board with on board UW SCSI and SDRAM but I'm not sure if
the Natoma (440FX) chipset supports SDRAM.
Any suggestions and/or comments greatly appreciated!
-Ian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes:
Hi,
I would Like to set up My computer to be able to send and recive
mail (with a twist)... I would like to be able to upload and
download mail only once a day ... (around 2 in the morning) so my
mail would proably have to be up/downloaded to a
Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone tell me how to, (or just where to start looking in order to):
1. Turn up my mouse sensitivity so it moves faster.
xset m acceleration threshold
Torsten
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Dear Maintainer,
I tried asking this on debian-user but I didn't get any responses.
That's very strange. Maybe debian-devel might have given you
more responces, but I would have thought debian-user would be able
to answer this one.
Is it
possible to get menu's from the menu package in
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Doing this reminded me of a problem I had trying to defrag the drive. I
unmounted it and booted off a floppy, typed edefrag and :
stalin# edefrag -d -r /dev/hda1
edefrag 0.61
DEBUG: read_tables()
edefrag: bad magic number in super-block
What's going
I have a simple question:
Why does a proces turn into a zombie that can't be killed, and how can I
avoid those?
/Frock
Official Team K-net Denmark RC5 pages: http://www.ostenfeld.dk/~frock
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however when I su to root I get a path like this...
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
I am not modifying the path in any environment files such as
...bash_profile -- what is resetting my path??
i had the same problem on some of the machines here
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
I'm also looking for drivers for an APC UPS
go to sunsite, under /pub/Linux/system somewhere. There are a lot of UPS
daemons available, including at least one specifically for APC brand
UPS's.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735
Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does
not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux
system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only
console.
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
Hi Kevin!
Fetchmail: I want to use this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me.
(can it do sorting of mail?)
What do you mean with sorting? fetchmail can get mail from a remote eMail
account and can deliver it to a specific local eMail account
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jim Foltz wrote:
I use smail becasue it's what Debian wanted. The only issue I have is
that I want email sent from my pc to have my ISP email address as a
retuern address. This is done by configuring the email client
easily. I used smailconfig to configure smail, and I
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote:
I have a Slackware 2.0 system that has no capability of running a
floppy or booting from the CD-ROM (Sound Blaster Pro16). I would like
to update it to the newest (1.3) Debian release that I have so my main
machine and my server
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Carl Nasal wrote:
Basic Question: How can I get Internet Access on my new Debian Linux
machine so I can download packages via FTP right to my Linux machine?
(I love short quotes ;-)
Hi Carl!
I have found (with a little help of this mailing list) a good advice at
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jesús Antonio Santgos Giraldo wrote:
Hey every one... Happy new year... (467 mails on my account...)
Happy new year, too.
IN a little confused with the dselect program... I know is one of the
I was confused, too, when I see the dselect the first time. But you will
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does
not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux
system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only
console.
Hi Larry!
Does a PC work without a
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 10:06:00PM +0100, Frock wrote:
I have a simple question:
Why does a proces turn into a zombie that can't be killed, and how can I
avoid those?
You cannot kill zombies; they are already dead!
(from Unix Power Tools - a good book by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly and
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 10:16:39AM -0600, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
Hi,
Sendmail: I just wonder which is beter sendmail or smail
SMail: same as above
As others already pointed out: If you don't know which is better, you almost
certainly want to use smail ;)
You could even try exim.
Hi everyone,
Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a
gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line
programs only.
TIA,
Brandon
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does
not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux
system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only
console.
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 07:09:13PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one
console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X
sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-Fn (1=n=6).
Is doing this
Some PC's have an option in BIOS setup to allow the keyboard error to be
skipped. I'll attach a keyboard if necessary to avoid the error.
-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, January 02, 1998 4:50 PM
To: Larry Owens
Cc:
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 10:55:02PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
?? I thought that lesstif was supposed to do the same things Motif does.
Could I make a symbolic link from libXm.so.2 -- libXm.so.0 ?
Hi.
Well, of course you can make this link, but it won't work anyway :)
Lesstif is _FAR_
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while (it's
actually two questions, I suppose). Both questions regard using two mice,
one on /dev/psaux (Touchpad on a laptop) and one on /dev/cua0 (Kensington
serial mouse).
The first is with GPM: It appears I can do this with the -M
Installed Linux a couple weeks ago, all is going well.
But How do I insert escape characters in emacs or vi?
I can't seem to find any reference in the man pages or online help.
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
: Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a
: gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line
: programs only.
Didn't try this, but there is both giftopnm and pnmtops. They are in the
In vi I believe it is Ctrl-v then sequence. Same as on console.
Dean Somji wrote:
Installed Linux a couple weeks ago, all is going well.
But How do I insert escape characters in emacs or vi?
I can't seem to find any reference in the man pages or online help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
But How do I insert escape characters in emacs or vi?
In vi - use C-VEsq
C-V = Ctrl-V
Alex Y.
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Alex Maneu wrote:
Audio devices:
0: Jazz16 (3.1)
This would indicate that you have a Jazz16 card rather than a true SB. In
Readme.cards, it says:
MV Jazz (ProSonic)
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The Jazz16 driver is just a hack made to the SB Pro driver. However it works
fairly
Þann 02-Jan-98 skrifar Ian Keith Setford:
Yo-
I am in the market for a dual PPro board and I am looking for suggestions!
I would prefer a board with on board UW SCSI and SDRAM but I'm not sure if
the Natoma (440FX) chipset supports SDRAM.
If you're looking for processing power, place
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Paolo M. Pumilia wrote:
Hi all,
I have recently removed xlib and installed xlib6_3.3.1-2.deb. that
provides shared libraries required by libc5-based X clients and should
replace elf-x11r6lib and xlib.
As i try to install xforms0.86_0.86-2.deb, dpkg seems to check only
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
Some PC's have an option in BIOS setup to allow the keyboard error to be
skipped. I'll attach a keyboard if necessary to avoid the error.
There are some keyboard eliminators available, but they cost more than a
cheap keyboard.
Bob Nielsen
This may not be exact information you are looking for, but just my two
cents: WinNT will *not* destroy and/or damage any other partition. I
know there has been cases with different results, but I have at one
point had WinNT3.51 *sharing* (as in 'WinNT was a subdirectory' of the
OS/2 Warp) a *HPFS*
Hello.
1. Looking for a way to discuss the badmailfrom-list-problem I've
resubscribed the debian user list with my old uni accout. Guess
what happened: I'm getting all posting twice now since a while (no
prices).
2. If postings are not permitted, the T-Online account is useless
with respect to
Hi,
first: Thanks for all the help you all have given me.
Second ...
I want to have my mail sorted into differant folders ... IE all mail from
this list is placed into a folder.
I get the feeling that Fetchmail can't do this ...
Do I need to use BOTH fetchmail and procmail or just Procmail
Asher Haig writes:
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while (it's
actually two questions, I suppose). Both questions regard using two mice,
one on /dev/psaux (Touchpad on a laptop) and one on /dev/cua0 (Kensington
serial mouse).
The first is with GPM: It appears I can do
Hello
I have bought a Debian Linux before Christmas (a CD-ROM in the Dream
magazine) and I would like to have all the X11 features working
properly. So here is a brief description of my problem :
When startx is not launched, I can define with gpm a mouse on device
/dev/mouse. In this case, a
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 02:58:24PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
MV Jazz (ProSonic)
--
The Jazz16 driver is just a hack made to the SB Pro driver. However it works
fairly well. You have to enable SB, SB Pro (_not_ SB16) and MPU401 supports
when configuring the driver. The
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Rob S. Wolfram wrote:
Will Lowe wrote:
If you want a simple, powerful email/news client, I recommend pine.
It's nonfree because you can't redistribute it for profit, but works
good, and runs really well in an xterm ... I use it because it's what we
use at school,
Hi there,
I found the problem. It seems on of my links to a library had decided to leave
me problem is now fixed hopefully.
Thanks,
Robert.
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Hi there,
I have run into a few small annoying problems. At them moment I am trying to
figure out why some programs say they can't load certain libarys. In particular
on the Open Look side.
Everything installs nicely etc. All the libarys are there, but it gives me the
following error
I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is really
bugging me now.
I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it looks like.
I have got a local network running on and arcnet card whos address is
192.168.0.1, This works I and doesn't seem to stop
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