Manpages missing?

1998-08-01 Thread Paul Miller
I was wondering in what package I might find the man pages for the C subroutines, eg. strtol, isascii, and the like. I have the libstdc++-dev package installed but the man pages are not there. Thanx. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 08:52:52PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: The only problem along these lines with Windows is that it insists on rewriting the MBR when you install it. This can really throw someone who's not aware of it, and this practice is dead wrong - no OS should ever do that without

Re: Manpages missing?

1998-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 11:10:21PM +, Paul Miller wrote: I was wondering in what package I might find the man pages for the C subroutines, eg. strtol, isascii, and the like. I have the libstdc++-dev package installed but the man pages are not there. Why do you expect the C manpages in

Re: How do I mount a FAT32 partition?

1998-08-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: How do I mount a FAT32 partition on a hamm system? FAT16 has worked out of the box for years, and I know there is a way to mount NTFS partitions read only, but I havent seen anything on FAT32. Any pointers appreciated. Upgrade your kernel to

Unidentified subject!

1998-08-01 Thread Tim Christensen
How do I create or edit paths? For instance, how do I put the X window system directory in my path? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

1998-08-01 Thread Ted Harding
On 31-Jul-98 Martin Weinberg wrote: I used GIMP to view the original images and convert to postscript. They were both jpeg and gif originally. Similar results were obtained by converting with XV. Hm. Is there a better way to do the conversion? That is similar to how how I would do it

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 04:43:21PM -0700, Tim Christensen wrote: How do I create or edit paths? For instance, how do I put the X window system directory in my path? export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH for example. Put something to this effect in your ~/.bash_profile. See also /etc/profile.

X11 installation problem

1998-08-01 Thread jaechi
Hi! A few days ago I installed Debian 2.0 and today I tried to install X11R6 (3.3.2.3). When I started preinst.sh I get the message: You appear to have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release. Please help. I'm very new to this OS. Thanks a

Re: HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

1998-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 12:47:23AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: PS to all on debian-user: With regret, I do NOT wish to get involved in person-to-person discussions about the details of getting this right on each individual's printer etc. It is potentially an involved and drawn-out process and

Re: Is the diskless boot possible in debian ?

1998-08-01 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
Thank you VERY much for your help. I can now successfully mount my win98 partition (using the vfat type) which makes my like so much easier trying to debug the modem problem. OK, the error is: Jul 30 15:07:20 gunner pppd[801]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jul 30

Re: Minicom OK, PPP very slow!

1998-08-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 09:55:02AM -0600, Young, Ed wrote: Last night I did a brand new install of 2.0. All went well and I wanted to get ppp going. I saved the distribution ppp files and put in my old options, options.ttyS3, net-connect, and net-chat files. Back up the files you're

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-01 Thread George R
On 07/31/98 at 10:36 AM, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX* advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the OS, same as my Linux box. In

X server source code for ATI board

1998-08-01 Thread Ellanti Manohar Naidu
Hi, I want to know if Debian provides source code for X server. Specifically for ATI Rage Pro chip set. thanks in advance. Naidu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Backups

1998-08-01 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot get reliable backups using ftape and my Iomega Ditto 2Gb tape drive. While trying out the latest beta version of ftape, two of my tapes (one - 3.7 gig - was bought the day before) were rendered unusable. I am getting a CRC error in the header

Re: CD Creation in Windows

1998-08-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DN == Dinesh Nadarajah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DN Is it possible to create a debian CD under windows with the CD DN images posted on the web? Documentation discusses about changing DN the extension to .iso but my windows box would not recognize the DN format. Are there any freeware/shareware

Re: X server source code for ATI board

1998-08-01 Thread Ronn Pimentel
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 07:16:25PM -0700, Ellanti Manohar Naidu wrote: Hi, I want to know if Debian provides source code for X server. Specifically for ATI Rage Pro chip set. thanks in advance. Naidu I'm not sure by what you mean for source, but the ATI Rage Pro chip set is

Re: Backups

1998-08-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 05:02:59AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I have come to the conclusion that I cannot get reliable backups using ftape and my Iomega Ditto 2Gb tape drive. While trying out the latest beta version of ftape, two of my tapes (one - 3.7 gig - was bought the day before) were

Q:gs-aladdin/gimp printing (may not be Debian-specific)

1998-08-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- I apologize if this turns out to be non-Debian specific, but I was reading earlier on a thread in this group on printing under gs, and I have a couple of questions ( I am running Debian 2.0- just released and 2.0.35 kernel): 1) Has anyone gotten gimp to print freefont-supplied fonts

Re: Backups

1998-08-01 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Hamish. On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Most use ftape; I assume they all do. BRU2000 for example. I recommend subscribing to the linux-tape list to discuss this; write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text subscribe linux-tape. Claus, ftape's maintainer, is very helpful and

warning: bug#25261 in xfstt (upload last night)

1998-08-01 Thread sjc
I just replied to a bug report about xfstt which I uploaded last night and wanted to put out a quick warning just so noone else gets burned by it. (btw if your not installing packages from unstable you have no need to worry) As of this version /etc/init.d/xfstt is now a conffile... I added a test

Debian and TV

1998-08-01 Thread Michael Beattie
I am nearly at my wits end. Who has got a TV program for Linux working?? I have kwintv sources, xwintv sources and the bttv sources. the bttv stuff worked fine, kwintv has errors in the source, and xwintv doesnt like debian's qt packaging. HELP!! Please! Michael Beattie

installing adbbs

1998-08-01 Thread Eugene Sevinian
I tried to install adbbs on my Debian 1.3.1 at home. Here is what I got as a first message: $ adbbs Can't locate loadable object for module Term::ReadKey in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at

Which printer do you recommend?

1998-08-01 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hi all, I have one Linux machine and five Win95 machines networked. I want to attach a printer to my Linux machine and shared among them. Can someone recommend a printer for this configuration? A lot of thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Debian install problem

1998-08-01 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Gary S. MacKay wrote: Question: Is there any way I can either install via ftp or from my Win95 shared directory? If you've got an ftp server on your Win95 machine (and some way of connecting to it like TCP/IP), you can start up dselect, select Access, Ftp, and give it

Re: Which printer do you recommend?

1998-08-01 Thread Peter Granroth
Hi all, I have one Linux machine and five Win95 machines networked. I want to attach a printer to my Linux machine and shared among them. Can someone recommend a printer for this configuration? Depends on how much you want to spend, what performance you need and if you need color. If

X - Missing video card

1998-08-01 Thread Torbjorn . T . Friberg
I'm trying to install X. I've got something working but I think it could be better. The problem is that I have the video card STB 4 MB Velocity 128 AGP but can't find this among the more than 100 cards to choose from. So what do I do? There is an option for STB Velocity 64 ... which I've tried

Re: Which printer do you recommend?

1998-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Peter Granroth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have one Linux machine and five Win95 machines networked. I want to attach a printer to my Linux machine and shared among them. Can someone recommend a printer for this configuration? Depends on how much you want to spend, what

Re: Debian install problem

1998-08-01 Thread Damon Muller
Greets, If you've got an ftp server on your Win95 machine (and some way of connecting to it like TCP/IP), you can start up dselect, select Access, Ftp, and give it the information it asks for, starting with the location of your win95 machine. Otherwise, you can install via ftp from one

Problems with pslatex terminal in gnuplot beta347 (pre3.6) in Debian Linux 2.0 (hamm) (fwd)

1998-08-01 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! Last time I experienced several problems with gnuplot. It is very important for me, because I generate with the gnuplot a lot of charts for my PhD thesis. I've reported it as a bug to the gnuplot team, but now I remind, that similar problem (SIGSEGV after writing of 12288 bytes to the

Installation problem

1998-08-01 Thread Cristov Russell
I'm trying to use dselect to install packages from a mounted msdos directory but I keep getting an error that says it can't find dpkg-perl part 1. I looked in the directory where the other packages are and didn't find it. I went back out to the ftp.debian site and could not find it in

ASUS P2B-S and Debian

1998-08-01 Thread nebu .
Hello again, along with my video card upgrade, I want to get a new motherboard and am thinking of the Asus p2b-s (onboard scsi based on AIC-7890). Has anyone used debian with this board? Thanks again for any advice! Nebu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: ATI XPERT@PLAY AGP support

1998-08-01 Thread Liran Zvibel
At work I have ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used ATI XPRESSION instead and it works very well. (BTW: It doesn't have hamm on that computer, so hamm might have a driver for it). Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, nebu . wrote: Hi, I'm planning on going from 1.3.1 to

a couple emacs questions

1998-08-01 Thread Keith
I would like to know if emacs can automatically change the date and time of when I revise my html docs everytime I save? Also I was wondering if it is just me or is emacs easier and faster to operate in than xemacs? Xemacs seems kind of screwy. Everytime I go into it I spend most of my time

Indenting columns w/ LPR

1998-08-01 Thread Patrick O'Brien
I like to make hard copies of config files to refer to and print them out on 3-hole punched paper. However, I find that the printing starts at the extreme left edge of the paper and 4-5 characters worth get cut out by the holes. I've tried to use the -i switch but it doesn't seem to want to work

Re: Is this expected ssh behavior?

1998-08-01 Thread Pete Harlan
probably enough to close this bug report. You wouldn't happen to know how to get bash to read all of it's appropriate login scripts and then executing a command would you (this is for over an ssh connection)? From the ssh(1) manpage: Additionally, ssh reads /etc/environment and