Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-22 Thread Joey Hess
Damir J. Naden wrote: > Sorry to butt in here, but just a quick question: I am using realplayer5.0, > installed with rvplayer package from hamm, on a hamm based system. It works, > and it worked first time I installed it. However, I can not for the life of me > play _two_ songs in a row, without re

Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-22 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Joey Hess; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > I take it you're not using the rvplayer debian package? You should try it. > It's only in debian 2.0pre, but it makes installing real player very easy > (and it should work on older debian 1.3 systems as well). > > -- > see shy jo > Sorry to

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Matthew Myers
Ok.. I found the key, I tried that and I also hooked up an external monitor to see if I could see something and it turned of the monitor like Win95 does when in the wrong video mode. I am running a Dell Latitude CP M233XT with the NM2190 chipset. I am very frustrated. I would really like to use

Re: Debian 1.3 & libc6

1998-07-22 Thread Shaleh
We have done all the work needed to support libc6 for you. Please do not make yourself go through more hassle than needed. apt has a upgrade feature which will update your system. We also have an "autoup.sh" script on the ftp site which will update for you as well. George Brink wrote: > > I ha

Debian 1.3 & libc6

1998-07-22 Thread George Brink
I have now Debian 1.3 and I want to install a libc6 manualy. Can anybody describe me how to do it? I try to install glibc-2.0.6, and don't receive any error message while compiling and installing, but no one programes can found libc.so.6 and other. Need I to delete bad library first? -- Unsu

looking for auction software

1998-07-22 Thread Shaleh
My day job is working for an ISP. We are looking into setting up a few auction sites and need software. Is anyone aware of any non-NT based software for this? I would obviously prefer free, but if commercial is all there is -- my boss could care less. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EM

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:33:04PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: > I am running a Dell Latitude CP M233XT, I have the XBF server, but dont know > how to tell X to use the LCD. How would I go about that? On my machine (a gateway solo 2300) there is a Fn key that says LCD/CRT. There is proba

Re: Where's apt-get? Correction

1998-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Kent West wrote: > Sorry for the stupid question, but I can't figure out how to get dpkg to > get the apt package. I assume I need to tell it what FTP site and directory > to look at, and what package name to get/install, but I have no idea of > what the syntax is for this com

Re: installing without a floppy?

1998-07-22 Thread Alan Su
ok, if i may be flippant for a moment, i had a thought about this. the installation instructions have this to say about installing from a DOS partition: 1.Get the following files from your nearest Debian ftp mirror and put them into a directory on your DOS partition: resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin,

Re: Where's apt-get? Correction

1998-07-22 Thread Kent West
Sorry for the stupid question, but I can't figure out how to get dpkg to get the apt package. I assume I need to tell it what FTP site and directory to look at, and what package name to get/install, but I have no idea of what the syntax is for this command. I've found the apt package (apt_0.1.3.deb

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Matthew Myers
I am running a Dell Latitude CP M233XT, I have the XBF server, but dont know how to tell X to use the LCD. How would I go about that? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-22 Thread servis
*-Patrick Olson (22 Jul) | | I'm trying to print from Windows 3.1 to an Epson Stylus Pro connected to | my Linux computer (using samba). | | Whenever I print anything very complicated (graphics, high-res text), it | comes out with blank spaces, pieces missing, etc. | | I know it's something on t

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Seth M. Landsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > Also, a more general question to everyone, can one, legally, >repackage the XBF servers in a .deb? I'd be interested in doing this, but >I'm not sure if it violates their license ... AFAICT you can, and I announc

Re: kernel-source-patch packages?

1998-07-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Shaleh wrote: > > [...] > > > 2.0.35 has various updates for non-Intel CPU's. Other little fixes. I > > would recommend at least going to 2.0.34. Grab the kernel source from > > ftp.kernel.org and use the debian kernel packager. It makes kernel > > compiling a c

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Vicent Josep Pla Bosca wrote: > Hello, > > I have got installed in my PC lib5. I need some other packages which > depend on lib6, then I tried to install lib6 but it interacts with > lib5. Uninstalling lib5 scares me, since there are too many packages > depending on this l

samba printing problems

1998-07-22 Thread Patrick Olson
I'm trying to print from Windows 3.1 to an Epson Stylus Pro connected to my Linux computer (using samba). Whenever I print anything very complicated (graphics, high-res text), it comes out with blank spaces, pieces missing, etc. I know it's something on the Linux computer because the printouts c

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting the lone gunman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have the following two lines in my ~/.emacs file, so that > font-lock-mode is always used, and emacs uses the most colors > possible: > > (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) > (global-font-lock-mode t) > > If only there was a way to colorize stuf

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 02:01:31PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: > I wrote earlier this week about having a neomagic video card in my laptop. > This card is not normally supported by X, however I have found via searches > an xserver for it. Here is my problem, I must have the xserver configured > wr

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread the lone gunman
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 12:32:54PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used > before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex > screens. Please could someone in the know aquaint me with the proceedure > for this or

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-22 Thread Shaleh
What ever happened to suggesting good old daliclock? Even written by a netscape coder. (-: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-22 Thread the lone gunman
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 06:30:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 21 Jul, the lone gunman wrote: > > > > Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I > > can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer > > one that does military time, and perhaps t

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I must have the xserver configured >wrong in my XF86Config file because when I start X the screen goes black and >stays that way. What sort of laptop do you have? Do you have the NeoMagic 2160 or 2070 or what? Describe exact

RE: "sys c:" doesn't work for me. Why ?

1998-07-22 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I'd guess you are trying to setup DOSEMU. I don't know why what you are doing doesn't work, but you might try downloading and installing the latest version of DOSEMU. It provides a much nicer way to create a bootable hard drive image. (You don't need a floppy anymore, just run the script setup-hdi

"sys c:" doesn't work for me. Why ? What to do ?

1998-07-22 Thread shaul
As is stated in the quickstart instructions, I tried to run 'dos -A', "dir c:" and "sys c:". Everything seems to be O.K until the "sys c:", when I got: ERROR: write protect! ERROR: write protect! What is wrong and how to fix it ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nul

where did cvs-pcl go?

1998-07-22 Thread Steve Hsieh
Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back soon? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Forwarded mail....

1998-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
David Parmet wrote: > > I guess email scams are the new universal language > Yeah, at least Esperanto or Ido have names I can pronounce... *sorry didn't want to waste bandwidth, but I couldn't resist this one* > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, ASHEESH RASTOGI wrote: > > > > > Dear All, > > > >I jus

Re: Forwarded mail....

1998-07-22 Thread David Parmet
I guess email scams are the new universal language On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, ASHEESH RASTOGI wrote: > > Dear All, > >I just received this mail from a friend of mine in my College. Please > respond to it. It will just mean employing a little bit of time and > won'tcost you a penny. All it

Forwarded mail....

1998-07-22 Thread ASHEESH RASTOGI
Dear All, I just received this mail from a friend of mine in my College. Please respond to it. It will just mean employing a little bit of time and won'tcost you a penny. All it needs is the heart for you to send this mail. PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the

RE [Fwd: gdk_imlib problems..]

1998-07-22 Thread Shaleh
Chiron, your mail bounces so I am sending this to the debian-user list. I have a new Imlib 1.7 package up on www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. This may help. If not, I will look into this when I get home and have a Debian box handy. Chiron wrote: > > I recently started trying to

X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-22 Thread Matthew Myers
I wrote earlier this week about having a neomagic video card in my laptop. This card is not normally supported by X, however I have found via searches an xserver for it. Here is my problem, I must have the xserver configured wrong in my XF86Config file because when I start X the screen goes black

Re: hdparm

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi... | | Well, that explains a lot, thanks. | | I'm not running RAID, this is just a single UDMA/33 disk. But... what | about that extra bandwidth helping with transferring data from the HDD's | own cache? Yes, the extra bandwidth can help there. But, for

Re: slink was (Re: Where's apt-get? Correction)

1998-07-22 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Richard L Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RLA> On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > DZM> apt-get is in the apt package, in slink. You shouldn't have any > RLA> > RLA> What is slink? Symlink? ftp site? > > The Debian release after hamm (presumab

Re: slink was (Re: Where's apt-get? Correction)

1998-07-22 Thread David Z. Maze
Richard L Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RLA> On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: DZM> apt-get is in the apt package, in slink. You shouldn't have any RLA> RLA> What is slink? Symlink? ftp site? The Debian release after hamm (presumably, Debian 2.1 when it gets released). Look at ftp.de

Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... Heh, yeah. Problem is, there almost always seems to be some new thing getting in the way of idle links I have to take care of. Sigh... Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:44:12 -0500 > From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PR

Re: hdparm

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... Well, that explains a lot, thanks. I'm not running RAID, this is just a single UDMA/33 disk. But... what about that extra bandwidth helping with transferring data from the HDD's own cache? And I have just heard mention of solid-state HDDs. What are those? Alex On 20 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hen

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... I think it's a data field in the inode that shows what time the inode was deleted. If it's zero then it's obviously wrong. (this is mostly just a guess though, take the word of some ext2fs expert) Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:16:57 -0600 >

Re: how to run binary prg?

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... Try ./Hello Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:13:30 +0100 (BST) > From: "K.Y.Lo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: how to run binary prg? > Resent-Date: 20 Jul 1998 13:13:46 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: hdparm

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... Isn't the buffer-cache the one on the HDD though? If so I still think it has to go through the UDMA interface... Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:53:29 +0200 > From: Mirek Kwasniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: deb

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... Try it on your own server and find out. ;) Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:35:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site > Resent-Date: 20 Jul 1998 08:00

slink was (Re: Where's apt-get? Correction)

1998-07-22 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > > apt-get is in the apt package, in slink. You shouldn't have any What is slink? Symlink? ftp site? > problems just downloading and installing the package via dpkg. In its > current incarnation, APT appears as an additional dselect method that > deals

MMX

1998-07-22 Thread Alexander
Hi... Does anyone have any ideas as to how to: 1) Make my system use the MMX features of my processor (besides the cache), and 2) Decompile existing binaries into assembly so I can run the `optimizer' program on them and see how that works. (available in the optimizer package; it optimizes as

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-22 Thread Keith Beattie
the lone gunman wrote: > > Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I > can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer > one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) My favorite is asclock. I believe it comes with afterstep or whatever

Re: Where's apt-get? Correction

1998-07-22 Thread David Z. Maze
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> I keep seeing references to using apt-get instead of dselect (or KW> maybe somehow in conjunction with dselect). I'm running hamm KW> (2.0.34), but when I type "apt-get" or "apt-get update" at the KW> prompt (as root), I get "command not found". When I try

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > > fyi, > > > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html > > If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head Linux the OS or Linus the per

Re: Can setup a signature on elm

1998-07-22 Thread Keith Beattie
Keith wrote: > > Also I was wondering if I can have emacs be the program that I use > to type my letters in elm, instead of vi. > If you are using X and want to use a currently running emacs to compose messages, look into the gnuserv package of emacs. IIRC, it is as simple as adding (gnuserv

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-22 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Vicent Josep Pla Bosca wrote: > Hello, > > I have got installed in my PC lib5. I need some other packages which > depend on lib6, then I tried to install lib6 but it interacts with > lib5. Uninstalling lib5 scares me, since there are too many packages > depending on this l

upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-22 Thread Vicent Josep Pla Bosca
Hello, I have got installed in my PC lib5. I need some other packages which depend on lib6, then I tried to install lib6 but it interacts with lib5. Uninstalling lib5 scares me, since there are too many packages depending on this library. To sum up, can anyone asure me that if I replace lib5

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > fyi, > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head screwed on right (apart from the "I don't think Microsoft is an evil company" bit which

Re: using NTFS partitions under linux?

1998-07-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 07:52:58PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:00:44 +0200 (CEST) > Jens Reinsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to know if there is a kernel module for Debian linux. > > Any hints/suggestions? > > There is a kernel module floating around somewh

Where's apt-get? Correction

1998-07-22 Thread Kent West
I'm a newbie, so please forgive for being ignorant. I keep seeing references to using apt-get instead of dselect (or maybe somehow in conjunction with dselect). I'm running hamm (2.0.34), but when I type "apt-get" or "apt-get update" at the prompt (as root), I get "command not found". When I try t

Where's apt-get?

1998-07-22 Thread Kent West
I'm a newbie, so please forgive for being ignorant. I keep seeing references to using apt-get instead of dselect (or maybe somehow in conjunction with dselect). I'm running hamm (2.0.34), but when I type "apt-get" or "apt-get update" at the prompt (as root), I get "command not found". When I try t

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used | > before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex | | Put (global-font-lock-mode t) in your .emacs file, prepare yourself | for a lot of colour, and restart emacs

Re: X display problem

1998-07-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I have recently installed debian on a laptop. It has the NeoMagic chipset, >and I have read all the files and tried numerous configurations. My problem >is, the screen comes up blank. X is running, because when I click wit

RE: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
Quicken almost works with the later versions of wine (but it's not exactly stable yet). On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > JonesMB writes: > > PS 1 - I embarked on a project to use a Microsoft-free Linux-inside > machine a > > couple of weeks ago. So far everything I do

RE: Long text file to edit.. (fwd)

1998-07-22 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
The file is an ascii text dumped from a database, and it have something about 3 million of registers. I have 1GB of RAM and 24GB of disk space in a Sun, and I'll try to use vim and jed to edit it. If it doesn't work, I'll try to split it. Thank's for the answers!

Re: Netscape 4.05

1998-07-22 Thread Russ Cook
I did restart Netscape after removing libnullplugin.so. I didn't have to stop it, because it had already crashed :) The problem persists. Do I need any special libraries (-dev)? I will make the change regarding LD_PRELOAD this evening when I get home from work. Thanks for the help. I greatly a

Re: Installing a single package using dselect.

1998-07-22 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > I want to know and learn more about > the apt-get, where are the resources? The apt package can be found in slink. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel ang

Re: Installing a single package using dselect.

1998-07-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Chris Russell wrote: > Is there any way to add a single package using dselect without updating > the Packages file. All I want to do is add the man-db and netstd > packages to the base system. > Seems like the deselect is overkill and dpkg is underkill. > ?Why wouldnt the

Re: Installing a single package using dselect.

1998-07-22 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I want to know and learn more about the apt-get, where are the resources? Alex >On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Chris Russell wrote: > >> Is there any way to add a single package using dselect without updating >> the Packages file. All I want to do is add the man-db and netstd >> packages to the base

eMusic .debs

1998-07-22 Thread Brian Almeida
Just a heads up that eMusic-DR0.6 .debs are in incoming. You can also grab them from my site: http://web.terminus.cicat.com/software/emusic/ Please let me know if you find *any* problems with them. I know a lot of you have been waiting for these..:) Cc me on any replies, as I'm not subscribed

Re: Netscape 4.05

1998-07-22 Thread servis
*-Russ Cook (22 Jul) | I tried removing libnullplugin.so, as suggested, but the problem persists. Did you quit and restart Netscape after doing so? | Also, I noticed a problem similar to one reported here a while back - | entering | info into a text box (such as a Yahoo search criteria) generates

Re: sendmail forward Virtual dom -> user accounts???

1998-07-22 Thread Pete Harlan
> is there anyone out there that can give me a little instruction as to how > to get sendmail to forward > wildcard mail for a domain to a user account? for www.sendmail.org is a good source of information about things like this. There's a FAQ there that I've found quite helpful a number of tim

more newbie questions: un(b)locking /dev/lp1

1998-07-22 Thread Chris Evans
Thanks for input on installation of XF86. Now another question. I have an HP LJ5MP attached to the Debian box via a t-switch as the bulk of my work has to continue to be from NT until I master this learning curve (feeble grin!) I got some output to the printer with a brief hack of /etc/printc

HTML HAMM Man Pages

1998-07-22 Thread Chris Russell
Anyone know of a link to the hamm man pages via a browser since man is not included in the base system? In particular apt-get. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

RE: Valid Baud Rate Values

1998-07-22 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Hello Patrick, The speeds listed in the ppp.options file are the speeds the port is opened with, and therefore the speed the local computer speaks to the modem with. Most modern modems have some compression hardware / software built in which allows your data transfer rate to be greater than th

Re: installation problem

1998-07-22 Thread Chris Evans
On 21 Jul 98, at 20:54, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> Problem is that nothing I am doing is getting me an XF86Config file > >> anywhere. > > Use the textbased xf86config instead of XF86Setup. > > --j > > For the record in the archives, this was just what I needed to be pointed at and solved the

RE: installing without a floppy?

1998-07-22 Thread Evan Van Dyke
> Hi- > > i'm kicking windows off my disk, and i'd like to put hamm in it's > place. currently, i'm dual booting between windows and bo, but i'd > like to keep it available, just so i can compare and fiddle with both > of them. > > My question is: what's the best way to do this? i've considered:

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread Pete Harlan
> I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used > before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex Put (global-font-lock-mode t) in your .emacs file, prepare yourself for a lot of colour, and restart emacs. (Assuming you're running it in an X window.

Re:

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Chiou, Violet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | I read the Debian announce title " Debian and the millenium bug" which | mentioned " If you expect to run your 1.3 system through the millenium, you | can get a copy of the 'hwclock' program from 2.0 and replace the 'clock' | program presently

installing without a floppy?

1998-07-22 Thread Alan Su
Hi- i'm kicking windows off my disk, and i'd like to put hamm in it's place. currently, i'm dual booting between windows and bo, but i'd like to keep it available, just so i can compare and fiddle with both of them. My question is: what's the best way to do this? i've considered: - somehow inst

Re: Netscape 4.05

1998-07-22 Thread Russ Cook
I tried removing libnullplugin.so, as suggested, but the problem persists. Also, I noticed a problem similar to one reported here a while back - entering info into a text box (such as a Yahoo search criteria) generates superfluous characters which mess up the search and cause error windows to pop u

GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!

1998-07-22 Thread Kevin Traas
Oracle has just announced that they're porting Oracle 8/8.1 to the Linux/x86 platform and that it should be ready and commercially available by early 1999. I'm sure some of you aren't happy with "commercial" applications, but I, for one, am very excited about this. Commercial support of Linux wil

Re: Unix commands on NT

1998-07-22 Thread JonesMB
In addition to the GnuWin32 that others have shown you, you can also find a tcsh.exe which runs on NT. That will save you from cmd.exe (aka DOS) For when you have to use DOS, these settings will give you command name completion like tab does in tcsh. I don't remember where I got the tcsh.exe f

rvplayer 5.0 with deb pkg

1998-07-22 Thread Mark H. Mabry
I have installed rvplayer-5.0 with the Debian package and it still does not seem to work correctly. (I have also tried it by hand and still no luck.) When I click on a link with RealAudio, I get a "Save As" dialog box rather than having the player launched. I have checked in the Netscape prefe

Re: Installing a single package using dselect.

1998-07-22 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Chris Russell wrote: > Is there any way to add a single package using dselect without updating > the Packages file. All I want to do is add the man-db and netstd > packages to the base system. > Seems like the deselect is overkill and dpkg is underkill. apt is for you th

Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-22 Thread Shaleh
Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload this to the main Debian archive. Enjoy (: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscr

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1998-07-22 Thread Chiou, Violet
Hi, I read the Debian announce title " Debian and the millenium bug" which mentioned " If you expect to run your 1.3 system through the millenium, you can get a copy of the 'hwclock' program from 2.0 and replace the 'clock' program presently on your system." Actually, that is the situation we

Installing a single package using dselect.

1998-07-22 Thread Chris Russell
Is there any way to add a single package using dselect without updating the Packages file. All I want to do is add the man-db and netstd packages to the base system. Seems like the deselect is overkill and dpkg is underkill. ?Why wouldnt these packages be part of the base ==The reason I wa

Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

1998-07-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared lib(s) you're missing and copy them into /lib/ after you boot the rescue disk, then run restore. My bo machine shows: chilin$ ldd /sbin/restore libext2fs.so.2 => /lib/libext2fs.so.2 libcom_err.so.2 => /lib

Re: XFree 86 on CL 7548?

1998-07-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
X on my laptop also broke with XFree86 3.2.2, with the CL 7548. I finally got it working after endless tweaking of the XF86Config file. I can send mine to you if you like. Matthew Ando wrote: > Hello, > > I've upgraded to Hamm beta from Red Hat 4.1. > I had X working with RH 3 and RH 4.1; 4.1's

Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

1998-07-22 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Ok... using my vast intellegence, or lack thereof, I set out to repartition my disk to remove the two [usr & var] partitions that I moved over to another disk, and resize my swap from 64 to 128, and resize my root to be the remainder of the disk. So I dumped the root partition

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-22 Thread servis
*-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (22 Jul) | *-the lone gunman (21 Jul) || || Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I || can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer || one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) || | | Well, the xclock pro

Sound Card, etc.

1998-07-22 Thread Joe Lillibridge
Okay, first of all, I posted a message a few weeks ago about noise and lack of mixer control... It turned out that some mixers (as compiled) don't work well with some MSS/WSS sound cards because of some weird settings (like on my card (a CS4231), line1 is my CD). I fiddled with the sources of xmi

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Babs wrote: > HELP! > > I have read every doc i can get my hands on, news groups, & more. I can > not figure out why my printer port is not opening. > I'm running an X86 based PC, Debian Linux Kernel 2.0.34, I am in the > process of integrating the internal networ

bad dynamic tag

1998-07-22 Thread Lindsay Allen
I'm doing fresh hamm install using the July 17 disk set and have a sea of errors from dselect. Even apt can not fix it. I suspect that there is something amiss with my mirror. All errors are like this: gum:~# dpkg --configure bc Setting up bc (1.04-4) ... BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-l

Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-22 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:07:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: >> > E is where you were told to find it. It will appear in slink within the >> > next week or so. There are some Redhat'isms to clean up. Apparently it >> > writes to your .xinit files and some such. Also the new Imlib (1.7) has >> > p

Qs from a newbie; broken hamm

1998-07-22 Thread Kent West
Thanks for the replies; when giving detailed info to Oliver Elphick, (who I thank very much for his help), I realized that my FTP-method dselect was looking to the stable distribution instead of the hamm distribution; so of course everything "broke". Being a newbie, I just took all the defaults tha

XFree 86 on CL 7548?

1998-07-22 Thread Matthew Ando
Hello, I've upgraded to Hamm beta from Red Hat 4.1. I had X working with RH 3 and RH 4.1; 4.1's version of X is 3.2.x I have a laptop (Samsung sens 810) with a Cirrus Logic 7548 chip. After installing XFree 86 3.3 from Hamm, I get the famous lines _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: e

Re: [?] 2.0.35 doesn't boot

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Steffen R . Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Don't have any info for Dirk, who has a different problem than the following] | You're using IDE hardware while mine is all SCSI using an Adaptec 2940UW. | When booting the kernel gets loaded and then fails on initializing the SCSI | devices (timeo

Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-22 Thread Ana Graca Silva
Thanks all Debian useres for the answers to my question! I've solved my problem making a substituition of the file default.map in /usr/linb/kbd/keytables by pt.map ... It was so simple ... |\___/| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graça Silva <> uuu uuu [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> <><><><><><><><><

Re: E

1998-07-22 Thread Stephen Mulcahy
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: GB> If the software is GPL, isn't debian free to change it in any way they GB> want and put things anywhere they want as long as they (debian) provide GB> the source code? Why is debian at the mercy of the author? I think the point is this can be done ..

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-22 Thread servis
*-the lone gunman (21 Jul) | | Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I | can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer | one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) | Well, the xclock program in the xbase package can be displayed i

Re: Can setup a signature on elm

1998-07-22 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 07:56:02AM -0400, Keith wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to set up a .signature file or something > similar to that which PINE using in order to put a signature at the bottom > of every message I send using elm. Yes. I haven't used elm in quite a while, but someth

Can setup a signature on elm

1998-07-22 Thread Keith
I was wondering if there is a way to set up a .signature file or something similar to that which PINE using in order to put a signature at the bottom of every message I send using elm. Also I was wondering if I can have emacs be the program that I use to type my letters in elm, instead of vi. Tha

Re: Unix commands on NT

1998-07-22 Thread Hannu Koivisto
"Adam Heczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Sometimes I have to use NT machine at work, but I miss UNIX commands. | Are there any shells/utils for NT which have similair interaction/syntax to their UNIX | protoplatst ? http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ There's a non-cygwin zsh port availabl

RE: Unix commands on NT

1998-07-22 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Check out the gnuwin32 project at the cygnus site. It includes win32 ports of most of the gnu software including bash, the standard file utils, gcc, etc. A lot of the X windows client stuff has been ported as well. (You still need an X server for NT but there are a couple of no-cost ones availabl

emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex screens. Please could someone in the know aquaint me with the proceedure for this or to where in the documentation I can find out about this. Th

Unix commands on NT

1998-07-22 Thread Adam Heczko
Hi ! Sometimes I have to use NT machine at work, but I miss UNIX commands. Are there any shells/utils for NT which have similair interaction/syntax to their UNIX protoplatst ? Thanks, Adam. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

RE: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-22 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
JonesMB writes: > PS 1 - I embarked on a project to use a Microsoft-free Linux-inside machine > a > couple of weeks ago. So far everything I do in MSWindows I can do in Linux. > > The only exception to this is Quicken and games. But I am amazed at the > amount of software that's outth

Installation problem

1998-07-22 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all   I have tried to install linux (RedHat 4.2, RedHat 5, Debian 1.3.1, SuSe) in a brand new Pentium 200, with 4,3 GB HD, 64MB memory, IDE hd and cdrom, but with none of the distributions have I been able to install it. With all of them it happens the same:   Boot up with installatio

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