cross compiling from linux to dos

1998-04-07 Thread Rohit Mehta
hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different operating system?? any illumination would be a

Re: kernel 2.0.33

1998-04-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 10:56:09AM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I tried using my old .config file from 2.0.30 and menuconfig did not show > me the NLS and code page options. I had to use the default .config file > and go from scratch. Also, if you don't say Y to the NLS support, the > kernel

Re: something just sorta cool ...

1998-04-07 Thread Adam Shand
> This will make the viewer command work even if netscape isn't already > running. Basically, you're saying "run netscape -remote OR run > netscape". If the remote command fails (netscape's not already > running), then you'll fire up a new one! If netscape is already > running, then you'll open

Re: something just sorta cool ...

1998-04-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > text/html; /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape -remote 'openFile(%s)'; needsterminal; > description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html An even better way to do it is with the following: text/HTML; /usr/bin/X11/netscape -remote 'open

Installing debian

1998-04-07 Thread Edward Christopher Kern
In the middle of installing, I ran into a slight problem: Linux can't find my hard disk!!! Obviously this is quite a problem for me, although you guys could probably figure it out pretty quick. When I go to make a linux partition, I get the error message: -Problem---

Re: I need hellp installing debian....

1998-04-07 Thread Joel Klecker
At 09:35 +0800 1998-04-05, Lindsay Allen wrote: >I made a linux boot disk yesterday and linux spat out the first four >floppies. Linux is _very_ picky about floppies. Try some more disks. >Sometimes old floppies are better than the new ones which are very much >built to a price now-a-days. > >Tha

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-07 Thread Jeff Katcher
Dan Winkler wrote: > The mouse is a PS/2 mouse. It works fine under Windows 95. It does not > work at all under Linux. When I run XF86Setup, I select PS/2 mouse and set > the device to be /dev/psaux and "apply" the changes, but moving the mouse > does not move the cursor. Does the mouse work

19980407 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-04-07 Thread wnpp
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.9 1998/04/07 21:36:24 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It prov

something just sorta cool ...

1998-04-07 Thread Adam Shand
just found something that i thought was sorta cool ... so i figured i would pass it along. i had been wondering how pine knew to automatically launch lynx when it receives an html attachment ... and traced it down to a line in /etc/mailcap. next i decided that i wanted it to launch Netscape inst

Kernel

1998-04-07 Thread mike
Is there a way to find the .config of a pre-built kernel? I know with FreeBSD you can, I was hoping it could save myself some guesswork. Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Cloning workstations

1998-04-07 Thread Jonas Bofjall
With a lot of luck I've succeeded in putting up a hamm system from scratch. Now I want to make identical installations on a couple of machines with almost identical hardware. What is the easiest way? Can it be automated (I bet many people has done this before..)? If I have to do it by tarring the

Re: ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread Scott McDermott
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 01:39:59PM -0400: > Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory > and shouldn't there only be one of them? I'm not certain, but I don't think that the end result (ld.so.cache?) is in any way affected by parse order

Re: Help About SPARC

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Sailer
Pancho Horrillo wrote: > Anybody has tried hamm in a Sparc? If so, is it available in NFS > somewhere? nfs llug.sep.bnl.gov:/home/pub/debian Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Why am I soft in the middle, and the rest of my life is so hard

Help About SPARC

1998-04-07 Thread Pancho Horrillo
Hi! Does anybody have any experience with UltraSparc and GNU/Linux? I know bo is not made for Sparc, but i think hamm is. A friend of mine installed latest available version of RedHat for Sparc (4.2), and is having troubles adjusting keyboard layout (is an spanish version of keyboard). Ap

Re: Server(s) Needed=>DO NOT SPAM THIS LIST

1998-04-07 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
WHOEVR YOU ARE: DO NOT SEND BULK MAIL TO THIS LIST. THE MAIL SERVERS THIS LIST USES ARE DONATED FREE, GRATIS, SO THE MEMBERS CAN DEVELOP FREE SOFTWARE. YOU COST THIS PROJECT MONEY, REAL MONEY BY SENDING SPAM TO THIS MAILING LIST DO NOT SEND BULK MAIL TO THIS LIST. YOU HAVE GONE TO A GOATS HOU

Re: Linux freeform text database

1998-04-07 Thread dg
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > This isn't specificically a Debian question, but I'm hoping that the > combined knowledge locked up in this group might be able to point me in the > right direction... > > I've recently acquired myself a little old laptop, which, with help from > the grou

Re: ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 03:10:11PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > > > /usr/local/lib > > > /usr/lib/libc5-compat > > > /lib/libc5-compat > > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > > > > > Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib b

Re: Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-07 Thread Paul Huygen
Johan Wilhelm Kluwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to print DVI files? The printer I dispose of is an old Citizen > dot-matrix,[..] I'm confident that [using Ghostscript] > would be *very slow indeed*. I think so. I used to have a dot-matrix, and it could take up to 10 minute to print a page.

KDE

1998-04-07 Thread Graham Pople
There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there a kdebase one on the way too? -- Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To UN

EXT2 fs questions

1998-04-07 Thread shaul
Lately I was forced into single user mode while booting because e2fsck had discovered some problems with the HD. I was able to pass that after e2fsck -c. However, althought the fs is now states itself as clean, running e2fsck -f still shows some errors (problems ?). 1) Could it be that this is ha

Re: ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread Brian White
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 > > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > > /usr/local/lib > > /usr/lib/libc5-compat > > /lib/libc5-compat > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > > > Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory > > Not necessarily. As long as you don't h

Re: ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 01:39:59PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > I have the following ld.so.conf file: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > /usr/local/lib > /usr/lib/libc5-compat > /lib/libc5-compat > /usr/X11R6/lib > /usr/X11R6/lib > /usr/X11R6/lib > > Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/l

Server(s) Needed

1998-04-07 Thread servers
Hello, If you or someone you know has an available email server we are interested in renting it by the month. The server must be located outside of the United States and must strip all incoming headers. The server will be used for Bulk Emailing Purposes. We will pay $500 United States Dollars

Re: Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-07 Thread B. Bell
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Johan Wilhelm Kluwer wrote: > I have a problem that should have a really simple answer that I > nevertheless have not been able to find. I have an old, powerweak computer > into which I have just been able to fit emacs and latex. This works fine, > but: How to print DVI files? T

Netscape, the bus errors, and everything

1998-04-07 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Someday I'm going to learn to never upgrade netscape once I have it working. I had 3.0.1 quite happy, and I tried 4, which lacked the features I used. So i tried to go back, and got a usable but broken install. Then I tried mozilla 5, and everything broke. So after a couple of install/purge

ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread Brian White
I have the following ld.so.conf file: /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory and shouldn't there only be one of them?

Re: exim 1.90-2: eximconfig doesn't work.

1998-04-07 Thread Mark Baker
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 08:19:10PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I had to back out of exim 1.90-2 because the eximconfig script > bombed. I don't know why, but when I installed 1.89.1-1, the script > ran perfectly. eximconfig shouldn't run on upgrades, so I'm surprised it tried to run it

Object-Oriented Database

1998-04-07 Thread CANTRELL
Does anyone know of an object-oriented database that uses the odmg c++ bindings and run under Linux. I have been using poet and o2, but from what I can tell they have no Linux version available. Thanks in advance. --Aaron Cantrell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: awk or sed?

1998-04-07 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
george wrote, >> Wow, a question to an answer in 3 minutes! that's very fast thanks. >Can you get THAT from Microsoft ;) does getting to a device that will send you the wrong irrelevant fax and charge your credit card count? :) -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-07 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
> the problem: > > my X desktop is 4 time wider than my available space on the monitor and > the resolution is not good either. > > what i tried: > > i played a bit with XF86Config making only a change at a time (and keeping > a backup of the last configuration that worked too),this hasn't worke

Re: LibICE and general X install

1998-04-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > "Tristan Day" wrote: > >When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I > >keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got > >libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and ca

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-07 Thread Will Lowe
> > Does it print at 600 dpi, or at 300dpi ... the specs show 600 dpi with > > "REt", which I was afraid might be a Windoze sort of thing ... > > I am pretty sure that HP specifications refer to resolution before > their "REt" enhancements. This is unlike Okidata who often quote Great. I don'

kill top and ps

1998-04-07 Thread CHUCK
I have made a mistake with a floppy tape and am having trouble recovering. The tape works fine but I just did an mt command on an unformated tape and the process hung. I tried kill, kill -9, neither of which worked. ps and top both showed it as running. So I killed the xterm it was running in. Now

Re: awk or sed?

1998-04-07 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A. M. Varon wrote: > I have two files say, file1 and file2 > > file1 contains:file2 contains: > alpha alpha > bravo > charlie > > What I want to do is compare the two files, and delete the contents of > file1

Re: hamm state

1998-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
> On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > > : How can hamm go into frozen when dselect-over-FTP hasn't been fixed yet? > : When will it be fixed (I recently tried the 98-03-29 disk set)? > > It's frozen so those problems can be fixed. Frozen means "no more > changes other than bugfixes", not

patch for 2-step mirror-ing

1998-04-07 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Phone fees prevent me to mirror over my modem. But since I have access to a fast connection at my university, I practice a 2-step method: Make a list of files to get on my local machine runing "mirror -n | sed -n 's/^get file \(.*\) as .*/\1/' and use the fast connection to put them on a

Re: awk or sed?

1998-04-07 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 12:55:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > Hehe, try grep! > > > > grep -vFf file2 file1 > > > > should do it. > > For newbies: > > The original poster wants to filter file1 using file2. The output should > contain everything

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-07 Thread Mike Miller
I use Gnus - a powerful, customizable news- and mail-reading part of emacs (and xemacs). It will thread, score, sort and do just about anything you want to your mail. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux freeform text database

1998-04-07 Thread Mike Miller
I've used a thing called grok some, but not extensively. It may be just what you are looking for. From the help intro: > Grok is a program to present unstructured data in a > row/column format using an index card paradigm. Each > database row (line) is a card; each database column (f

Re: create a distrib using Debian

1998-04-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Julien Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to include in a debian distrib some programs, configs etc.. > If i can do that i would like to make an CD to install this version on > my computers. > Do you have HOWTOs, URLs or other that can explain me how to do ? Well, I suggest you look at w

RE: SyQuest internal IDE 1GB disk?

1998-04-07 Thread Jeremy Malcolm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > I imagine that SyQuest's external parallel port drive isn't supported > under Linux Actually, it is. See my earlier message. If you're using 1.3.1, you'll need to load kernel modules from http://www.torque.net/linux pp.html, if you're using anything more rec

SyQuest internal IDE 1GB disk?

1998-04-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
I imagine that SyQuest's external parallel port drive isn't supported under Linux, but what about the internal IDE version? Does anybody have experience with these drives? They're nearly half the price of Jaz drives. Seems like a good alternative to tape for backup, and a nice place to keep my Deb

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > >> As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone > >> would have bothered implementing RAID for Linux. :) > > It's already done. I'm running here with 2 0.5GB scsi disks as RAID-0 > with /var mounted there. Also something like 20+20mb swap partitions > on tho

Re: again: pdf to ps (gs-aladdin)

1998-04-07 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 01:07:30PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > Do you have a gs-aladdin compiled for libc5? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/bo-unstable/binary-i386/gs-aladdin_5.10-2bo3.deb HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying

Re: Where did my init.d/boot go?

1998-04-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:42:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system. > I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all > of my out-of-date packages. Last night I installed some of the new > packages, ( o

Re: cc:Mail Link to SMTP Undeliverable Message

1998-04-07 Thread Carey Evans
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everytime I send a message to the Debian list, I get the below response > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, in all cases I sent no Cc or message > to France (fr, right?) Suggestions? Most likely, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is subscribed to debian-user, but th

Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-07 Thread Johan Wilhelm Kluwer
Hello, I have a problem that should have a really simple answer that I nevertheless have not been able to find. I have an old, powerweak computer into which I have just been able to fit emacs and latex. This works fine, but: How to print DVI files? The printer I dispose of is an old Citizen dot-ma

Re: LibICE and general X install

1998-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Tristan Day" wrote: >When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I >keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got >libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and can't >find it. libICE.so is in xlib6 (for libc5)

again: pdf to ps (gs-aladdin)

1998-04-07 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all again! First of all thanks for your reply In a mistake I delete your last mail, so I'm not sure if you talked about 5.* version of gs-aladdin in bo distribution I have no found a newer version of gs aladdin than 4.03-7 from the non-free directory, this still have problems to handle dire

create a distrib using Debian

1998-04-07 Thread Julien Ortega
I want to include in a debian distrib some programs, configs etc.. If i can do that i would like to make an CD to install this version on my computers. Do you have HOWTOs, URLs or other that can explain me how to do ? -- Julien Ortega -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: weird menu problem

1998-04-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I just installed the fvwmconf package, which includes a menu > entry /usr/lib/menu/fvwmconf, which looks fine to me, but it hasn't > made it into menudefs.hook for fvwm2 or fvwm95. Just to be sure > I can update-menus again as root and it still didn't ma

Where did my init.d/boot go?

1998-04-07 Thread vandeveb
Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system. I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all of my out-of-date packages. Last night I installed some of the new packages, ( of which the only important one I remember was sysvinit ), and when I rebo

LibICE and general X install

1998-04-07 Thread Tristan Day
When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and can't find it. Also one of the packages says it needs ccp whatever that is. Also,

Debian-Announce gone?

1998-04-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo all, what has happend to the debian-announce-mailing-list? Since Bruce left, I have not seen any announcments made to this list. Is it dead now? Where then can I get the latest news about debian in a similar form ( = low volume list, only the important news, rumors 'n' stuff like e.g. "Nex

exim 1.90-2: eximconfig doesn't work.

1998-04-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I had to back out of exim 1.90-2 because the eximconfig script bombed. I don't know why, but when I installed 1.89.1-1, the script ran perfectly. This is by leaps and bounds the easiest mail transport agent I have yet to install. I don't know yet whether it works: I'm encouraged. Eximon re

Re: Problems creating a bootable Debian installation on a Jaz drive (fwd)

1998-04-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > > Hello all -- > > I have recently been trying to make a bootable Debian installation on a > Jaz drive. I did this by using 'cp -a' to transfer files from my scsi > hard drive to the Jaz drive. I then changed the Jaz drive version of > /etc/fstab so that it would mount /dev/sdb1 (the j

RE: mailrc and pine security holes

1998-04-07 Thread Andreas Mueller
hi only 4 info :) -Forwarded message from Michal Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Sender: Bugtraq List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Michal Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mailrc and pine security holes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many of mailcap-compatible unix mail clients have se

Re: awk or sed?

1998-04-07 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > What I want to do is compare the two files, and delete the contents of > > file1 according to file2. So, from the above, I'll have to delete the word > > alpha from file1. Can it be possible using sed? or awk? > > Hehe, try grep! > > grep -vFf file2 f

Re: pdf to ps

1998-04-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi! > > I have tried to print/convert to ps with acroread (levels 1 and 2) but it > generates a ps that is not understand by gs, so I can't view it or print. > > The documents looks good with acroread but with xpdf I can only see the > first page, If I print it it prints with a different pap

Re: pine

1998-04-07 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Usman Roshan wrote: > Hello everybody, > Does anyone know how to create filters in pine ? Thanks. use procmail, i.e. --- Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! Joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

awk or sed?

1998-04-07 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, [Sorry if this is off-topic.] I have two files say, file1 and file2 file1 contains:file2 contains: alpha alpha bravo charlie What I want to do is compare the two files, and delete the contents of file1 according to file2. So, from the abo

pdf to ps

1998-04-07 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi! I have tried to print/convert to ps with acroread (levels 1 and 2) but it generates a ps that is not understand by gs, so I can't view it or print. The documents looks good with acroread but with xpdf I can only see the first page, If I print it it prints with a different paper rather than a4

Re: HTTP mirror of non-us??

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/stable/binary-i386 Great, thanks! > Check the mailing list archives of debian-www for a more complete list. I've never heard of debian-www; is that also on lists.debian.org?

Trouble installing dump_0.4b4-6.deb

1998-04-07 Thread William R Ward
This is the error I get (Reading database ... 35660 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dump 0.4b4-4 (using .../utils/dump_0.4b4-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dump ... dpkg: error processing /news/debian/hamm/main/binary-i386/utils/dump_0.4b4-6.d (--install): tr

Re: HTTP mirror of non-us??

1998-04-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > The script I use to download .deb files uses libwww-perl, which is > apparently not very effective for FTP connections. I typically get > speeds of 2-2.5 kB/s using HTTP and 0.3 using FTP (this is over a 2.88 > kB/s connection). Is there an HTTP site

Re: Intallationproblems

1998-04-07 Thread Joop
> Hallo, > at first please excuse my very bad english, but i have a big problem > by installing the DEBIAN-Linux on my new Pentium. > > In the last years i have used a 486DX2/80 machine with 32 MB RAM. Its > works very good. There ar no problems with Linux. > > Now i have additional an Pentium 1

Re: Green Monitors

1998-04-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Here is a message on the subject which I saved some time back. > [snip] > echo -n "Setting DPMS for text console: " > setterm -blank 5 -powersave on # dpms on > echo -en "\033[9;8]"# suspend after 10 min > echo -en "\033[14;10]"

HTTP mirror of non-us??

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
The script I use to download .deb files uses libwww-perl, which is apparently not very effective for FTP connections. I typically get speeds of 2-2.5 kB/s using HTTP and 0.3 using FTP (this is over a 2.88 kB/s connection). Is there an HTTP site where I can download non-us packages? The only site

Linux freeform text database

1998-04-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Debmeisters, This isn't specificically a Debian question, but I'm hoping that the combined knowledge locked up in this group might be able to point me in the right direction... I've recently acquired myself a little old laptop, which, with help from the group, is now loaded up and chugging alo

Re: dselect-ftp Question

1998-04-07 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:20:05AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > Is there a way to configure dselect-ftp to automatically retry > downloading packages during an FTP error? > > For example, this weekend I did an install of hamm(frozen) using > dselect-ftp. Before bed I started thi

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi, >> >> IIRC, as long as you keep your boot sector/partition within the lower 1024 >> sectors of your hard drive you should be alright. I've got a 9.1 GB SCSI >> drive that works fine with my Debian system. >> >> As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone >> wou

RE: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-07 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Just try the Netscape Comunicator. It's mail (and news) program can order the messages by thread . I was very pleased by that, especially some time ago when I have had access to some news groups. Ionutz On Monday, April 06, 1998 11:58 PM, Ray Schultz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello

RE: dpkg: motifnls error

1998-04-07 Thread Ionut Borcoman
On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:56 AM, Gabrie van Zanten [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. I noticed on the CD I bought there is a dir called /bo/msdos-i3 full off > *.deb files of 0 bytes. This must be a mistake, not ? There's nothing wrong with those files. Actualyy, they're just links to the r

Installing on IBM Thinkpad 760E

1998-04-07 Thread Philip Jensen
Hello I was hoping someone out there has had success installing Debin v1.3.1 onto an IBM Thinkpad 760E. The installations seems to go ok, but the machine simply does not boot. Any help/instructions would be greatly appreciated. many thanks Phili

Re: pine

1998-04-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Usman Roshan wrote: > Hello everybody, > Does anyone know how to create filters in pine ? Thanks. > I get the feeling that most, if not all of the people who replied to this message mis-interpreted the question (but I guess I might be...

Re: What's latest libc5 Netscape?

1998-04-07 Thread servis
On 6 Apr, Devin Wong wrote: > I get digest, so can't quote, but in a recent message it was explained > that Communicator 4.05 is libc6 and won't work with bo (as luck would have > it, I had 5.5 megs d/led over modem at that moment!). I'm running bo; > what's the latest version I should be d/ling?

Re: Netgear 10/100tx nic

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I'm trying to use a few netgear FA310TX 10/100 cards ('cause they're cheap!). > Although they are based on the DEC 21140-AF chip (tulip) they don't seem to > work well (or at all) with even the most recent tulip driver. I tried a > Genuine DEC nic (500tx) with a 21140 and it worked fin

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro vx Xfree (and a comment)

1998-04-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Hogland, Thomas E.; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > I know this can be done, but can't find the answer in the old digests... > Have a Compaq Presario with the ATI 3D Rage Pro card. Installed from CD, > set up X, used the listed Mach64 servers (for the Rage and Rage II) and > X dies with th

What do I need in initrd to load kernel modules? [long]

1998-04-07 Thread Jeremy Malcolm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I sent this yesterday, but I wasn't subscribed to the list at that time so I am 90% sure the message didn't get through. If it did, my apologies. Short version of question: == How do I load kernel modules from an initial ramdisk? Long v

What's latest libc5 Netscape?

1998-04-07 Thread Devin Wong
I get digest, so can't quote, but in a recent message it was explained that Communicator 4.05 is libc6 and won't work with bo (as luck would have it, I had 5.5 megs d/led over modem at that moment!). I'm running bo; what's the latest version I should be d/ling? Thanks in advance! Devin -- Rep

RE: Anyone got BTTV to work?

1998-04-07 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 05-Apr-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hi! > Works fine here with 2.0.32, X 3.3.2 , Matrox MilleniumII. > I had some problems with X 3.3.1 (screen locked). ATI Mach 64 was also OK, > S3 Trio64 was not. I guess you have a problem with your X-Server or Card. > Greetings, Ramin > I was

Modem Help!!!

1998-04-07 Thread Brandon
Is there a way i can use my Zoom 56k flex external port 2...under linux.?? I use somethin like a 27 pin to 9 pin cable... thanx in advance... Please also include what i need to configurewhat i need to change etc... my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DECNET and Linux.

1998-04-07 Thread shaul
> > There was a Linux Journal article about this some months (years?) back. I > think it was IKEA that had somehow managed to do this. I also notice a > file in /usr/src/linux/net/decnet/README that says this: > > Yes.. it's being worked on. > > If you want to get involved email me <[EMAIL PROT

Re: libXmu.so.6 ....THANK you

1998-04-07 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Thank you Mr. Elphick. All I needed to do was install xlib6 It's always the simple things that inconvenience you, isn't it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gateway, Proxy, DNS Help

1998-04-07 Thread Ben Szyc
I'm tryin to connect my Win95 and WinNT machines across why LAN through a debian box and on to the NET. My debian box works fine on the net and i can use Lynx. I feel it's got something to do with the way or where i've configured my Gateway, DNS + Proxy server on all of my machines. Also how do i m

Re: tm gone?

1998-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
What happened to the tm package (mail utilities for Emacs)? It seems to be gone from hamm now... I think that no one ever updated it to the new standard for emacs-related packages. There is a much newer version available, too. I was going to work on it but I never got around to it. -- T

runaway processors

1998-04-07 Thread Chris
Hi all, I am having problems with user process's running away (taking up 99.8% CPU time) on our linux server (primary examples being elvis and netscape). Is there an easy way to get the server to recognise these - and kill them off? I know elvis runs away if you close the xterm (or window manage

RE: Netgear 10/100tx nic, never mind...

1998-04-07 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I got it to work, it was the fault of the HP Kayak, not the driver... Bruce Dobrin Multi Media Dept. Sony Pictures Imageworks 310-840-8412 "Never hit your Grandma with a shovel, it leaves a bad impression on her mind" -Tiny Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-07 Thread Dan Winkler
I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Gateway Pentium Pro and I can't get the mouse to work. I've received a lot of help from Rob Browning so I can supply a lot of information but we have run out of ideas and could use some help. Here's what we know: The mouse is a PS/2 mouse. It works fine under W

Re: ckermit gone?

1998-04-07 Thread Colin Telmer
On 6 Apr 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > Apparently ckermit is no longer provided - I believe it used to be in > either non-free or contrib. Why is this? I assume that it was removed from frozen due to outstanding bugs that were not fixed before the freeze but should be back at some point. Don't