Nuevo modem

1998-04-25 Thread J. Parera
Actualmente tengo un modem Mwave (no sirve para Linux) y estoy pensando en comprarme otro, agradecería que me recomendasen un buen modem, que sea externo. (o al contrario, una lista de los que no sirven) Grácias, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

FIPS tiene problemas con una particion 0B...

1998-04-25 Thread Markham
Hola ! Vereis, quiero instalar Debian en un ordenador que tiene W95 intalado. Para ello he intentado proceder a utilizar FIPS para separar en dos las unica particion que tiene el sistema. Pero el FIPS dice que no puede hacerlo con un particion de tipo 0Bh, es decir las WIN FAT 32. Por ello

Re: Nuevo modem

1998-04-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 12:37:06PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: Actualmente tengo un modem Mwave (no sirve para Linux) y estoy pensando en comprarme otro, agradecería que me recomendasen un buen modem, que sea externo. (o al contrario, una lista de los que no sirven) Cualquier cosa que diga

StarOffice Install

1998-04-25 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am in need of some help installing StarOffice 4.0 SInce I have a great setup at work and not at home.. (network wise) I downloaded the staroffice 4 and gunzip'd and untar'd it then I burnt it onto a CD (with a bunch of other stuff) to bring home and have. I

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-04-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :) just installed the debian package and now i get this message... badger(larry) tkman Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0. You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebuild wish.

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On 24 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: Michael == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My advice would be for the maintainer of the pine package, (or whoever it was George is accusing of changing the interpretation of the copyright) to answer George's question about

Re: StarOffice Install

1998-04-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am in need of some help installing StarOffice 4.0 SInce I have a great setup at work and not at home.. (network wise) I downloaded the staroffice 4 and gunzip'd and untar'd it then I burnt it onto a CD (with

Re: PINE Debian Package (maildir support)

1998-04-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:07:44PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: Emailled to you. I am guessing we'll soon see the patch applied to the procmail in slink, which is cool by me. = you got me again... what is slink? Next

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi guys, Perhaps a debian-pine list is in order. :) This whole PINE issue is getting blown way out of proportion. Debian's policy is clear. Both sides have points but I agree more that Debian should not interpret PINE's licensing in a way that

Re: help w/ ttysnoop

1998-04-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in inetd.conf. /etc/inetd.conf telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd

posting of a big document

1998-04-25 Thread Alain Toussaint
i'm writing this e-mail because sooner this week,i got to modify the layout of my filesystem (don't know how to call what i did) because of a lack of space on my hard disk and i've writen a document intended for newbie like me,the only drawback is that the document is 7 pages long,so i want to

Re: starting X at boot

1998-04-25 Thread Alain Toussaint
What version of grep do you have there? Version 2.1-7 is broken, that might also be the cause. In any case, you can always look at /var/log/xdm-errors i dont even have this file ( /var/log/xdm-error) and grep is version 2.0 thanks for your help. Alain Cheers, Joost -- To

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: Yes, although I don't know which version of Excel was used. All I had to do was to click on the 'file type' button and select excel. It didn't preserve the column width format, so I had to adjust that in Star Calc itself (StarOffice-3.1). i

Changing exports and restarting rpc.nfsd does not work

1998-04-25 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, when i change the /etc/exports file, i do a # /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload in order to take the modification into account. But it does not work. I even tried # /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs stop # /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start but it does not work either. Does somebody know why ? Should i

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-25 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi ' ALLAN W. BART; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: hi, I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages that you know of? allan bart I'm very happy with the features they have

NIS very slow (frozen)

1998-04-25 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, when i do a 'ls -l /var/mail' (directory imported with NFS), each line takes about 0.5s to appear. I think it is caused by very slow NIS requests. Is there a way to speed up things ? The server is a sunos4 machine. Is this related to this warning in one README file : Check your

X-Windows

1998-04-25 Thread Jario Araujo Silva
Hi I need your help. I don't know to config. xfree86. Anyboby, can help me ? thanks. Jario Araujo. /] (O)oo*===- == \] Instito de Fisica Jario Araujo

Re: X-Windows

1998-04-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jario Araujo Silva wrote: Hi I need your help. I don't know to config. xfree86. Anyboby, can help me ? short method: su - [now type in root's password] XF86Setup longer (lasting) method: cd /usr/doc/X11 less * (or more * if you didn't install

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-25 Thread The Thought Assassin
If we distribute a binary package that consists of the original source, the debian patches, and an installation script that patches, compiles, and installs, then surely we are not distributing a patched binary? Users are patching it for themselves :) Alternately, we could just make it an installer

Re: X-Windows

1998-04-25 Thread AJT60
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jario Araujo Silva wrote: Hi I need your help. I don't know to config. xfree86. Anyboby, can help me ? short method: su - [now type in root's password] XF86Setup also the text-based program xf86config

unresolved symbols during fresh Debian install

1998-04-25 Thread skong
Hello, I am attempting to install Debian 1.3 by CD-ROM using a Philips/LMS CM-206 CD-ROM drive. The drive is proprietary, thus requiring the use of the device driver disk. The following error message appears when attempting to load the appropriate module: /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom/cm206.o:

Modem Problems

1998-04-25 Thread Brent Wooden
When connecting to the internet via pppd, my connection is VERY slow, i average 400bytes/sec, ping time to my isp is ~.500ms. I am using an ACER 28.8 and the modem worked speedily in windows, but ever since the crossover to linux i have been plagued by this annoying problem, if anyone has had

Re: Modem Problems

1998-04-25 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 12:13:42AM -0400, Brent Wooden wrote: When connecting to the internet via pppd, my connection is VERY slow, i average 400bytes/sec, ping time to my isp is ~.500ms. I am using an ACER 28.8 and the modem worked speedily in windows, but ever since the crossover to

Re: unresolved symbols during fresh Debian install

1998-04-25 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello, I am attempting to install Debian 1.3 by CD-ROM using a Philips/LMS CM-206 CD-ROM drive. The drive is proprietary, thus requiring the use of the device driver disk. The following error message appears when attempting to load the appropriate module:

Re: Thinkpad installation question

1998-04-25 Thread Janos A Csirik
Use the Tecra boot disks instead. See the bo/disks-i386/current/special/tecra directory at your Debian Thanks Nathan, this does the trick. Janos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 11:37:31AM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote: If we distribute a binary package that consists of the original source, the debian patches, and an installation script that patches, compiles, and installs, then surely we are not distributing a patched binary? Users are

Re: SGML, Jade, Docbook -- HELP!!!

1998-04-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 03:09:14PM -0400, David S. Jackson wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: [ lots of useful pointer snipped ] Thank you for the resources, David! I'll check them out. Probably some of them could be packaged for Debian (most likely into non-free, because of

IBM PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter COMPAQ Contura

1998-04-25 Thread Jacek Pliszka
Hi! I've got Debian running (installed from diskettes) on Compaq Contura 400c and I want to get the network working with IBM home away PCMCIA Ethernet CreditCard adapter. I've installed packages: pcmcia_cs pcmcia_modules but if I put the card into any of the slots the system immediately

Mutt libc6

1998-04-25 Thread Chris
Hi, With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a look a mutt and see what people where on about. However, I am currently running a bo system (waiting for hamm to go stable) and I can't find a package for mutt. Is there one? The only package I could see was for hamm

Hamm installation problems

1998-04-25 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, I just got a new computer and I'm trying to install Debian on it. The computer is a Gateway E3110-333 with an Adaptec 2940UW controller and all SCSI devices. I currently have two problems: - I took the hamm install floppies but when I boot the root.bin floppy I get

how do I fix hamm and bo conflicts?

1998-04-25 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
I am reposting this because, I did not get any replies and I suspect that the listserv doesn't post messages from non-subscribers. I had bo installed. Then I tried to install hamm and my system became unusable. (The hamm installs disks were the old libc version.) I had files from hamm and bo on

can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was doing a bit of surfing when i run unto an article (on cnet section http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at: http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/unix.htm here's a part of the

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Rick
i was doing a bit of surfing when i run unto an article (on cnet section http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at: http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/unix.htm give em credit for

Re: Mutt libc6

1998-04-25 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:12:39PM +1000, Chris wrote: With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a look a mutt and see what people where on about. However, I am currently running a bo system (waiting for hamm to go stable) and I can't find a package for mutt. Is

Re: posting of a big document

1998-04-25 Thread Adam Shand
i'm writing this e-mail because sooner this week,i got to modify the layout of my filesystem (don't know how to call what i did) because of a lack of space on my hard disk and i've writen a document intended for good for you. it's always great when people write documentation! newbie like

Re: none

1998-04-25 Thread Brederlow
Patrick Duvaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Mrvn, i hope you can German, i'think Also, Es hat sich was getan mit Deinem Tip. Die CV64/3D hatte einen grauen Screen geoefnet, ohne text Wenn ich einen Kernel normal, mit multiscann oeffne, dann bleibt der Kernel v2.x bei Calibrating delay

440LX Support

1998-04-25 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
My new computer has the 440LX chipset, and it seems that there are alot of pci devices that are unknown to Debian 1.3.1 and 1.3.1.r6 I can begin to load linux by booting the CD, and everything works fine, even the hdd probe gives the correct information. After rebooting, the hdd probe returns a

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Alain Toussaint wrote: i was doing a bit of surfing when i run unto an article (on cnet section http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at:

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, Does it list 'Lotus', 'Lotus123', '123', 'WK?', or anything else that appear to be a Lotus file type? Bob Double-click the file folder icon or select file, open or type ctrl-o. At the bottom of the box which pops up, it says 'file type' with a button and the default type, Star

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Rick Macdonald wrote: http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at: http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/unix.htm I gave it a try but it doesn't seem to work. 1) When I click

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Merlin
You shouldn't try it For Bill it is just like pub !! BYe -- Pierre Dupuis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Music Review (http://MusicReview.home.ml.org) Rick Macdonald wrote: Rick Macdonald wrote: http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available for linux (among other

xisp

1998-04-25 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have tried to install both xisp from the stable and the unstable tree. Both seem to have dependency problems which I was unable to solve. Could anyone suggests how to het (any one) xisp up and running? Much apprecited, -- Erik van der Meulen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Fonts for Netscape 3

1998-04-25 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear Debian People, I have managed to set up Netscape on my machine. The layout of the pages is a little disapointing. Also, in the shell where I started Netscape (netscape), I receive messages like the following: $ Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859

Samba

1998-04-25 Thread Paul Miller
Does the latest version of Samba support user list requests? I was unable to find any information on it. If it does, where can I find information on configuring it? If not, is it something in which the development team is planning to add in a future version? Approximate time schedule? Thanks

Re: Fonts for Netscape 3

1998-04-25 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 04:49:29PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: So I am assuming that I am missing out on some essential fonts. I have installed a few: xfntbase, xfntil2, xfntscl xfntil2 is only useful if you want have fonts for Eastern European languages like Polish. but none

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: Hi, Does it list 'Lotus', 'Lotus123', '123', 'WK?', or anything else that appear to be a Lotus file type? Yes it does. Nothing about Quattro Pro however, in case anybody is about to ask. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

XFree 3.3.2 as a Debian package

1998-04-25 Thread Sergio Orsatti
I have the official Debian CD installed (1.3.1) and the XFree86 that comes with the CD (3.3) cannot work with my Matrox Millenium II. So I decided to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.2. I have searched the ftp.debian.org and the only debian package for XFree86 3.3.2 is located inside /hamm. Is there

Re: XFree 3.3.2 as a Debian package

1998-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Sergio Orsatti wrote: I have the official Debian CD installed (1.3.1) and the XFree86 that comes with the CD (3.3) cannot work with my Matrox Millenium II. So I decided to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.2. I have searched the ftp.debian.org and the only debian package for

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-25 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Hans Ehrbar wrote: But when I boot the machine it says: Network is unreachable Can you send the outputs of ifconfig and route -n These will show what your situation/problem is. 7~he 7~hought /|ssassin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Software for ISDN

1998-04-25 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Now that I had installed, finally, my ISDN card (PCBIT) on Linux I want to make a connection to my ISP but I don't know what program to use! Could someone help me !? Best regards, Nuno Carvalho --- Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Department of

[no subject]

1998-04-25 Thread FuzyBuny
I am integrating the different OS's on my office network... i think that the netatalk precompiled pkg i have is corrupt. If i download source and compile it myself do i need to use deselect and remove the old package first??? kernel version is 2.0.29. thanks for any info... Fuzy Thanks, Babs,

Display problems using Debian text console

1998-04-25 Thread Eytan Grosfeld
Hi! I've installed debian 1.3 on my PC and everything seems to be working fine, except for a couple of problems: 1. Using text console, I keep getting irregular dots on my screen (it seems as if the ASCII characters are all messed up). 2. I can't activate X windows - after I've finished

mutt+rxvt

1998-04-25 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Hi, I'm currently using Pine as my mail reader, but I'm considering switching to Mutt (or Rmail). I'm having a little trouble with mutt. First, I can't get it NOT to display characters with a bold font on an rxvt (on an xterm the colors are a total mess[1]). And second, I can't get the

pdf files..

1998-04-25 Thread Dave Mallery
hi a friend has been shipping me pdf files. is there a viewer available (bo...) thanx dave -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520; ramah nm 87321 505-783-4784 running Debian GNU/Linux.Free at last winNT: from the people who brought us EDLIN.

Re: pdf files..

1998-04-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
a friend has been shipping me pdf files. is there a viewer available (bo...) Use xpdf or acroread. I think both are available in bo. Unfortunately they're non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

man 2 intro - SVID

1998-04-25 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I have to hand in a CS (OS) exercise that uses the SYS V sys. calls. I tried the intro manpage that says: SVID System V Interface Definition, as described in The System V Interface Definition, Fourth Edition, available at

zip drive

1998-04-25 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
how do I use a zip drive with debian? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zip drive

1998-04-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
how do I use a zip drive with debian? Thanks Read the ZIP-Drive mini-HOWTO. It's in the unmaintained section, but still should be quite useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 440LX Support

1998-04-25 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: My new computer has the 440LX chipset, and it seems that there are alot of pci devices that are unknown to Debian 1.3.1 and 1.3.1.r6 I can begin to load linux by booting the CD, and everything works fine, even the hdd

Re: XFree 3.3.2 as a Debian package

1998-04-25 Thread Alain Toussaint
Well I had the same problem with an ATI 3d charger, and the quick fix is to pick up 3.3.2 from www.xfree86.org in a .tgz and drop the executable right into /usr/X11R6/bin (actually I left the old Debian one, added xfree's and suse's, and made .../XF86_Mach64 a link to the one I want). Just

Re: Looking for a PDF reader | gs-aladdin

1998-04-25 Thread shaul
non-free/gs-aladdin-4.03 for Aladdin Ghostscript ... I think that someone posted couple of weeks ago that he had debianized gs-aladdin-5 for Debian 1.3.x (I don't remeber the URL for it). If I am not mistaken, it was mentioned when discussing problems with xpdf and/or problems with printing