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Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org Publicación de Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm' 24 de Julio de 1998 --- Noticias Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm'

Menus en AfterStep

Hola, utilizo AfterStep 1.4 (creo recordar) y Debian 1.3.1. En ella hay la utilidad menu que sirve para actualizar los menus de los gestores de ventanas (o eso tengo entendido) el problema es que a mi no me funciona. Alguien puede explicarme un poco que es lo que debo hacer para actualizar los

Suite ofimática

Hola, utilizando Debian 1.3.1 que me recomiendan: Applixware StarOffice Corel Office Que es mejor? Busco algo que no me de problemas con los acentos ni problemas con el teclado español. Un saludo, J. Parera P.D. lo que sea pero que no pase de 8000 pts :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Hora en pgp

Hola, Ahora son las 19:06 del 24/7/98 en Madrid, cuando ejecuto pgp me sale: Hora actual: 1998/07/24 17:06 GMT Efectivamente (o eso creo :-) ) estamos, por el horario de verano, 2 horas adelantados a la hora solar (¿=GMT?), pero.¿debo dejar la hora del pgp como esta o debo cambiarla para

Re: Hora en pgp

Hola. La hora GMT es la hora Greenwich Meridian Time, que es la hora que tienen en el meridiano de Greenwich. La hora buena es la GMT+01. Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hola, Ahora son las 19:06 del 24/7/98 en Madrid, cuando ejecuto pgp me sale: Hora actual: 1998/07/24 17:06 GMT

Re: Hora en pgp

Alex Maneu i Victòria decía: Hola. La hora GMT es la hora Greenwich Meridian Time, que es la hora que tienen en el meridiano de Greenwich. La hora buena es la GMT+01. +2 en verano. Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Hora en pgp

Es verdad no me acordaba :) Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Alex Maneu i Victòria decía: Hola. La hora GMT es la hora Greenwich Meridian Time, que es la hora que tienen en el meridiano de Greenwich. La hora buena es la GMT+01. +2 en verano. Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Porblemas con cron

Hola, ayer desinstalé, con dpkg -r, el uucp. Pués no lo utilizaba y solo me molestaba con mensajes hacia el root. El problema es que ahora, a partir de este cambio (que no sé si tiene nada que ver), el cron no funciona: al ejecutar, por ejemplo, cron root da un error (ver attachments) al apagar

Compra de Debian 2.0

Hola, como ya ha salido la hamm he empezado a buscar en varios distribuidores a ver que ofertas tenian y la que más me ha interesado (por recomendación) a sido la siguiente: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010280?khwscCSJ;;31 Catalog No.: 0070010280 Publisher: CheapBytes CheapBytes

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: 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

Re: Official 2.0 CD's available Friday??

Young, Ed writes: I received an email from one of the CD vendors on the Debian distribution network (www.netgod.net) that the Official 2.0 CD's will ship Friday, July 23rd. Friday is July, 24th Thursday is July, 23rd Is this correct? Does this mean that Hamm (2.0) has gone from beta to

elm still no signature file working

I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the these two lines: # local .signature file to append to appropriate messages... localsignature = .signature # remote .signature file to append to appropriate messages... remotesignature = .signature And I made a .signature file and put it in

Time is still not right.

My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 --- I don't

Re: Time is still not right.

'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get

Re: good digital clock for x?

On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:21:56PM -0500, 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 :) Try asclock,

trn newsreader

Thank God, my signature is finally working. Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working. Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it. In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an environment variable, how do I do that?

Re: elm still no signature file working

On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 08:00:56PM -0400, Keith wrote: I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the these two lines: # local .signature file to append to appropriate messages... localsignature = .signature # remote .signature file to append to appropriate messages...

more questions about time

I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? EST5EDT is my time zone. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

At 08:52 PM 7/23/1998 +1000, you wrote: It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330 Also you may want

linux on a gateway laptop

Greets, So I have this shiny new laptop running Linux flawlessly (X, pcmcia, cdrom, everything), but I can't get sound configured. Might someone have had experience getting sound working on a Gateway 2300 series laptop who might be able to lend a clue? -Seth -- It is by will alone I set

printing 2.0 beta

I just installed 2.0 Beta from CD ROM. I cannot print via the local parallel port. Printer works in that other OS - so hardware is OK. I must have gone astray somewhere in the install. Symptoms: lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file. cat filename

Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem to have hit a roadblock. I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc and the Fvwm2 docs--in the Debian

Re: more questions about time

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? EST5EDT is my time

Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

On 19 Jul 1998, Carl Johnson wrote: If I have a momentary power flicker, the odds are fairly good that the modem will be completely locked up. The only fix is to unplug the modem for a few seconds, and it will then come up fine. This wouldn't be a problem if I had a UPS, but it seems a

Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1 where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I know the link works ok, because I use it

Re: printing 2.0 beta

Richard Sevenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file. cat filename /dev/lp1 - produces message /dev/lp1: Device not configured. dmesg reports lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found.

Re: Time is still not right.

Keith wrote: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998

Re: trn newsreader

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Thank God, my signature is finally working. Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working. Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it. In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an

Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also have some packages from slink. Now my question is: What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup? /\ Richard

Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration

I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to select these options are greyed out. Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS aren't disabled... Is there anything else I have to do to enable these

Re: Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration

Michael Ziller wrote: I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to select these options are greyed out. Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS aren't disabled... Is there anything

Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Kent West wrote: Excellent! That did it. FYI, I couldn't just change the config; I had to remove the module and then add it right back in, changing the parameters at that point. One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system to see the

Re: Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

Richard Alhama hat gesagt: // Richard Alhama wrote: I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also have some packages from slink. Now my question is: What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? Do I have to buy

Re: HTML HAMM Man Pages

Chris Russell hat gesagt: // Chris Russell wrote: 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. The package dwww installs a cgi-script, that gives a convenient user interface to nearly all the documentation on a

Re: DVD support for linux

Shaleh wrote: Curt E. Spann wrote: What video card should I get? You ask later so I will kill two birds with one stone. AGP is both poorly supported and a waste of money. AGP cards can actually lessen system performance. System resources are stolen to give the enhanced video. Also

Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the customization

problems with anti-spam policies

Hi all I'm subcribed to some mailing lists with my real email adress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I read this email from pusa.eleinf.uv.es and from a non-permanent link (wich I named caligula. with no domain...) I always use pine, In caligula's pine setup I use the user-domain option set to

Re: Stupid unix

SVD == Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SVD (But just because I love awk, a perl hacker would surely give you a SVD different solution, and a Bourne-shell hacker yet another one, etc. :-). Here is the perl hacker ;-) perl -MFile::Copy -e 'for (@ARGV) {move $_, lc $_}' *.c mmv is

Re: [Debian]: das Systemupdate funktioniert nicht richtig

DM == Dirk Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM ich zum Systemstart immer folgende Fehlermeldung: DM /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token ';' DM /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: ' ;cron reload automatically' [...] DM ; cron reloads automatically ^ Das muß ein # sein.

Re: Time is still not right.

Keith writes: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998

Debian on Mac PPC

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to install Debian Linux on a Mac PowerPC? Thanks, Jorge Sousa -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

KW == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system KW to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know KW how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future KW reference.

Re: Stupid unix

*-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul) | | | mmv is cool, but has no lowercase function. | From the mmv man page: To convert the string matched by a wildcard to either low­ ercase or uppercase before embedding it in the target name, insert 'l' or 'u', respectively, between

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

Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa -Original Message- From: Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Stupid unix

s == servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s *-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul) s | mmv is cool, but has no lowercase function. From the mmv man page: [...] *blush* OK, just delete everything after cool. Perl rules anyway ;-) Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: linux on a gateway laptop

I've got a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 and have sound working. It mainly depends on what chips are used. My 2100 uses the ESS ES1688 AudioDrive. Check the info in Win95 or your manuals to see if you have this same chipset. Seth M. Landsman wrote: Greets, So I have this shiny new laptop

RAID controller dinstall

Hi all, Has anyone ever tried to install a Mylex DAC960 PL Raid controller? I'm trying to do so and ran into the following problem: I've got its driver from www.dandelion.com/Linux/ , re-built the rescue disk and set the rdev. The system boots up normally and it finds the

Dselect doesn't install from non-free or contrib

I am trying to install a 2.0 beta system from mounted filesystem, /usr/debian which has subdirs main, non-free and contrib. Dselect sees everything, even gives a reasonabe package count in each of the three areas ( 1500 in main, in the hundreds for each of non-free and contrib, as I recall).

Hamm not in Stable Dir

I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks.

Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I think

Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I would

startup info

Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 |

Xemacs help

Hi All, I have two questions regarding Xemacs .. 1. My delete key is acting as backspace. What should I do to make delete act as delete? 2. My toolbar buttons come in grey. How do I make them in colors? Thanks , Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

xview and xviewg in hamm

Hi, after the upgrade to hamm an old libc5-executable that depends on xview did segfault (I had both xview and xviewg installed.): # arb Program ARB will be startet in the background, please wait # /bin/arb: line 118: 946 Segmentation fault (core dumped) arb_ntree $args ARB done I tried

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

Jorge Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? Also, postgresql is a part of debian 2.0. [If you want high performance, you'll need to change /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init so that it has PGFSYNC=no]. -- Raul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM

Hi all, I'm a newcomer to the world of Linux and Debian and I want to get a CD-ROM copy of the just-released (today) stable 2.0 version to do my first ever Linux installation. I've been waiting for this release for quite some time and now I want to take the plunge. I'd like to do the

Re: startup info

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. see the files on /var/log /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support /

No Official 2.0 CDs yet?

I can understand that CDs aren't cut and available for purchase just yet, but I'd like to place an order before the weekend! No US or Canadian web pages that I've have updated their web pages to advertise 2.0. BTW, what does an official 2-CD set contain? main and source but not contrib? --

Re: Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM

If you are a newcomer, the source CD is not necessary. The source CD contains source code to all the applications, etc on the Debian distribution. All you really need is the binary CD. As for the most recent stable version, with this being the initial release, they will all be the same.

Advanced Power Management Linux

Hi all, I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called Advanced Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in sleep mode when

Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be

Re: Advanced Power Management Linux

Yo- I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called Advanced Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in sleep mode when

Re: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

With no X, 120mb is plenty of room for your needs. The 8mb of RAM will make it slow to use on a daily basis, but for travel time use it will not be too bad. I would recommend a 20mb swap and the other 100mb for the rest. If you are picky about what you install, you should be fine. My ful blown

DHCP and hostname

My linux machine is in a network where the IP addresses are assigned using DHCP. I use dhcpcd to get the IP address but it also mangles my machine's hostname (probably because the DHCP server is not properly configured). Is there a way to query the DNS server for the correct hostname from the

Re: Stupid unix

Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? 1 cat /usr/local/bin/rename #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use locale; # usage: rename perlexp [files] ($op = shift) || die Usage: $0 perlexp [filenames]\n; if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) { @ARGV = STDIN; chop(@ARGV); }

dot files

How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? Thanks. P.S. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o`

RE: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

On 24-Jul-98 Young, Ed wrote: I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly

Re: Stupid unix

On 24 Jul 1998, Joerg Plate wrote: Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? 1 cat /usr/local/bin/rename #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use locale; [...] Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i

Re: dot files

How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. If you're not a unix person, try Running Linux by Matt

Re: dot files

What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any Teach yourself UNIX type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to debian-docs and see what they have to say. The

Re: Stupid unix

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote: Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 morpheus users1024 Jul 24 11:22 .

Re: Time is still not right.

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the same thing as date. I have been following the discourse with interest. I have a Hamm system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a

Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

Most mirrors are still not caught up. I expect this to occure in two days time (for all mirrors) The only two mirrors that are up-to-date are http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian http://open.hands.com/debian And va's private mirror. All 3 are the only push mirrors an were uptodate about an hour

Re: Time is still not right.

Install timezones (hamm) or timezone (bo). These are flagged as required packages and should be installed by default. Bob On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, David B. Teague wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. I have the same problem as Keith, my

Re: dot files

What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? The gtk file selection dialogs don't show _any_ file or directory that starts with a dot, in any gtk-enabled app. Will -- |

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

On: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:42:36 +0300 Jaakko Niemi writes: I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable,

Re: dot files

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. If you're

Re: dot files

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? .directories As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any Teach yourself UNIX type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to

Previous posts

This is just to thank all of those who responded to my original post, and repost, about my problems with setting up ipchains... Your help was overwhelming. Taren -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: dot files

If you must get gimp to show a dotfile (or directory) just type '.' in the file blank and hit 'tab'. GIMP (and all GTK apps) work like bash does. Tab gives file completion. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Xemacs help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have two questions regarding Xemacs .. There is a wealth of information in the Xemacs sample files (sample.Xdefaults and sample.emacs). These can be brought up in Xemacs via the Help-Samples pull-down or can be found in the Xemacs' etc directory (e.g.

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when activating special features

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently

Re: Stupid unix

On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 11:20:19AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote: Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la

Re: Stupid unix

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:28:25 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: So what? Didn't you saw the -i option he supplied to the mv command? That's why Eric's solution works :P If that is the case then why not just do it all by hand in the first place? Sheesh. -- Steve C. Lamb

install help ?libc5?

I just down loaded and installed the 2.0 release. I got though the install and selected the standard package for dselect to install. After hours of down load time I get the message that perl cant be installed because of a libc5 conflict and shortly there after I got pages of similar errors

Debian 2.0 [beta or released on HP Kayak XU?

Has anybody installed Debian 2.0 (beta or released) on a HP Kayak XU? My Official CDs have not reached me yet. So I would have to do the basic installation via the dard disk and ask dselect to upgrade via FTP. There is a problem with the network / PCI cards on Kayaks that people have reported

Free Interbase

Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa It may appear free but you ought to have a look at the license agreement. It says RedHat

Re: Free Interbase

Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa Mike Barton wrote: It may appear free but you ought to have a look at the license

Re: hamm problem: X and backspace/home/end

I saw a message in another thread that stated the X keyboard extension had to be enabled for backspace to work properly. That was my problem; now I've gotten rid of the xmodmap statement to fix backspace. On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:48:39AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: I found the info on the bug

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in

Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian

Hi list! First i have to say sorry for the long posting ;) I'm receiving a used Sparc5 this weekend. So i have a few questions (of which some may be a little offtopic): 2GB SCSI-HD, 32MB-RAM, 2D Gfx card (fast for wireframe, i think), FDD and CD_ROM. I have a bunch of official CD's (including

[Re: The future?] User Documentation

On 24 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, what should I do with my packages for the next Debian release? I am kind of lost. What are the guidelines for Slink? The new file system standard? Can we please have contributors to the Debian Documentation Project, to write user documentation.