Tk 8.0 y la eñe

1998-11-18 Thread Francisco Callejo
Hola, He comprobado que el comportamiento de Tcl 8.0 y Tk 8.0 (de debian hamm) es diferente en el tratamiento de la ñ y las letras acentuadas. Por ejemplo, Tcl cambia perfectamente entre mayúsculas y minúsculas, pero Tk no lo hace; tampoco admite títulos de ventanas con esos caracteres. He

Re: Impresora remota y PS

1998-11-18 Thread Jose Illescas
On 17-Nov-98 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:01:04PM +0100, Jose Illescas wrote: Por que en la impresora aparece lenguaje solicitado no disponible. Ah... es una HP LJ 5? Debería funcionar. La tarjeta es una JetDirect? Creo que hay un FAQ sobre eso... del

Re: INSTALACION DE DEBIAN

1998-11-18 Thread Raül Pérez Justícia
Instale el debian 2.0.? El problema viene con dselect aunque es poderoso le falta mucho pero mucho por depurar !! No ofrece unos buenos menu, la falla mas grave es cuando ocurre algun tipo de error termina y no ofrece de ningun tipo de opcion para reintentar Alguna

Re: Los tropiezos en la instalacion

1998-11-18 Thread Raül Pérez Justícia
[...] Cuando pregunte como instalar los paquetes manualmente me referia a instarlo y configuralo al mismo tiempo ( mostrandome informacion detallada de que esta haciendo ) se que dpkg -i nombre.deb se instala pero como realizo el resto ??? Veamos cuando haces un dpkg -i paquete.deb instalas

Re: AYUDA CON DPKG

1998-11-18 Thread Herranz Martin Rogelio
Bingo! Asi es. MadBit [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Lord of Linux wrote: Alguien sabe como instalar los paquetes de debian manualmente se que es algo como : dpkg -i nombre.deb Chao

Re: Impresora remota y PS

1998-11-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 07:45:07AM +0100, Jose Illescas wrote: La impresora imprime perfectamente. Cuando no imprime es cuando le mando ficheros postscript, evidentemente por que mi HP LJ 5N no tiene postscript. Por eso estoy sospechando que lo que no actua es el filtro

Re: Impresora remota y PS

1998-11-18 Thread Jose Illescas
On 18-Nov-98 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 07:45:07AM +0100, Jose Illescas wrote: La impresora imprime perfectamente. Cuando no imprime es cuando le mando ficheros postscript, evidentemente por que mi HP LJ 5N no tiene postscript. Por eso estoy sospechando que lo que

Problemas con el host

1998-11-18 Thread PERALVO MUnOZ MIGUEL ANGEL
Hace poco instale la version 2.0 de la distribucion Debian. Despues de configurarla, empece a probar, y me he encontrado con un problema. Resulta que al escribir en un terminal de xwindow xterm -display debian:0.0 no muestra ningun terminal nuevo el la pantalla. En cambio, si escribo xterm

Re: Impresora remota y PS

1998-11-18 Thread Fernando
Hola de nuevo: He modificado /etc/printcap como me indicabas en tu respuesta y ha quedado de la forma siguiente: lp|lj|hplj3|HP Laserjet III:\ :lp=lp:\ # He probado con esto y sin ello :bq=rlp:\

Linuxero entre infieles.

1998-11-18 Thread Jose Eugenio Marchesi Corcostegui
Saludos. Soy un linuxero que estudia en la Escuela Universitaria de Informatica de la Politecnica de Madrid (un nombre muy largo para tan poca cosa :-)). Como se lee en el subject, estoy entre infieles. Si, a la gente le atrae LiNUX, como una alternativa interesante, e incluso hay

Adobe Capture o similar ?

1998-11-18 Thread Juan_Carlos_Valero
Hola a todos: Pregunta de trivial... hay algun paquete en Debian/Linux que equivalga a Adobe capture en funcionalidad ? El proposito es el poder scanear una cantidad elevada de documentos y guardarlos como pdf ( o ps ), a fin de tener unos ficheros pdf ( o ps ) con las imagenes de los documentos

Problemas instalando Wmaker 0.20 de Slink

1998-11-18 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
He probado de instalar el WMaker 0.20 que hay en Slink (¿esta en HAMM?) instalando primero todas las dependencias correctamente. Pero al instalar el paquete wmaker_0.20.2-1.deb me informa de una viloacion de segmento ( Quien sera ese Segmento ? :-) ). Lo he probado con el

Ayuda sobre el Chooser

1998-11-18 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Con el xdm viene una utilidad chooser que si no me equivoco sirve para poder seleccionar a que servidor xdm desear realizar una conexion. Dode puedo encontrar info para configurarlo (no tengo ni la pagina man) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Debian en Venezuela

1998-11-18 Thread Lord of Linux
Donde puedo adquirir los CD de debian en Venezuela . No quiero molestar amigos pidiendome que me compren los CD Gracias por su ayuda Lord of Linux

Re: Linuxero entre infieles.

1998-11-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 02:42:04PM +, Jose Eugenio Marchesi Corcostegui wrote: poca cosa :-)). Como se lee en el subject, estoy entre infieles. Si, a la gente le atrae LiNUX, como una alternativa interesante, e incluso hay una asignatura en la que el primer ejercicio es instalar un

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-18 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:50:35PM +0100, Antonio Castro wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: When you install this package, it sets up a cron job that will anonymously e-mail the Debian developers periodically with statistics about your most used Debian packages. Los

¡PROBLEMO!, ¡La cagada del dia!

1998-11-18 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Agárrate los machos por que la cosa es larga. Esta tarde en un alarde de virtuosismo me he cepillado la configuración de las X que también me iban hasta ahora. Me baje todo lo necesario para que funcionara el Window Maker 0.20.2-1 que hay en unstable con todos los paquetes wm* y al darme un

Re: ¡PROBLEMO!, ¡La cagada del dia!

1998-11-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 08:25:15PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Pues bien, los programas que corren sobre X, no todos, pero si la mayoría, me dan mensajes de error y algunos ni arrancan o se cuelgan. Reinstala xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-7

Marcelo o Billy el Rápido: ¡GRAAACIAS!

1998-11-18 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
20:25:15, Javi tiene problemas y envía un correo a la lista de sus amores a ver que pasa, sorprendentemente, parece que le rebota el mensaje, ¿ha habido un error?, ¿me lo devolverá el mailer daemon del servidor por algo?,... ¡Spla!, ¡pero si es la respuesta a mis problemas! y me ha llegado a

Error al enviar correo desde Netscape a la lista

1998-11-18 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Cuando envío correo desde el Netscape Communicator 4.03 y Debian 2.0 los mensajes me rebotan y me dicen: You should not send mail from your root account. Our listserver ignores mail that comes from a daemon. Please use adduser and create a regular user account for you and send mail from that

Instalación de KDE y error

1998-11-18 Thread Gabriel B.
Hola. He puesto esto en las news, pero no me contestan mucho y estoy un poco inpasiente.. Distribución Debian 2.0 (completa) no la de LA. Serían dos cuestiones: 1) Al iniciar KDE, antes de cargar los iconos del escritorio me sale lo siguiente: Imposible encontrar el tipo mime application/x-tbz

Re: Linuxero entre infieles.

1998-11-18 Thread Antonio Castro
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 02:42:04PM +, Jose Eugenio Marchesi Corcostegui wrote: poca cosa :-)). Como se lee en el subject, estoy entre infieles. Si, a la gente le atrae LiNUX, como una alternativa interesante, e incluso hay una

Debian: Configuración del nucleo

1998-11-18 Thread fgijon
Hola: Quiero cambiar la configuración del nucleo para que soporte particiones del disco duro vfat32 y por mas que intento arrancar mediante el comando make xconfig o make oldconfig no hay manera. Tengo la distribución Debian 2.0 Hamm y he introducido los comandos desde el directorio

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-18 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:50:35PM +0100, Antonio Castro wrote: Los que si se ponen en el pellejo del prinicipiante son RedHat y Suse. Para ellos el número de usuarios es su razón de ser. Para Debian parece que no porque continuo pensando que la cantidad de fuerza bruta de Debian

Re: Linuxero entre infieles.

1998-11-18 Thread Lord of Linux
Estoy usando por primera vez debian. He usado otras distribuciones de linux la Slackware ( probe las distribuiciones lite de SuSe y Openlinux , Red Hat no lo he probado ni tengo mucho interes en instarlo ) tengo la version 2.0 hamm ( se que es inestable , tratare de conseguir la 2.1 , lo mas

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-18 Thread David Warnock
** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100 Let's not talk about the food :-) I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King. Dave David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread wb2oyc
If you need to use DOS you'll have to upgrade the BIOS, twiddle the BIOS to work (try something like CHS=1023/64/63), or use a hack like Ontrack Disk Manager. Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is completely within the limits of the 504MB. The problem comes from

Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I know there is a free program that can change the size of a partition without lose of data. Someone know how to get it? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: leased line problem again

1998-11-18 Thread john
Carey Evans writes: Presumably -ip disables TCP/IP over the PPP link. Yes, It is an undocumented synonym for 'noip'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Hi Rick if it is a original zi-medium try if scsii and You have 2 scsi-disks mount /dev/sdc4 -rw -tvfat /mnt often mount /dev/sdc4 /mnt works also on normal hds try mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt 4 is the partition of original zip

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/fips20.zip On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I know there is a free program that can change the size of a partition without lose of data. Someone know how to get it? __ Get Your Private,

Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?

1998-11-18 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Eric House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. try adding

Xircom RealPort anyone?

1998-11-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I was wondering if anyone knows what chip is used in the 10/100 Xircom RealPort PCMCIA adapter for notebooks. I read Donald Becker's page and it says that the card bus is unsupported but it has no mention of the adapter itself. Anyone using this with Debian? TTYL. -Ian

Re: Pre beginner

1998-11-18 Thread Kevin
You may also want to try using one of the Tecra boot images instead. Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Rombalski, Emmanuel wrote: I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel 166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Resent-Date: 17 Nov 1998 19:53:25 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue,

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:45:53 -0500 (EST) From: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0

Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

1998-11-18 Thread Ehren Wilson
Hello I just recently started running slink and I have run into a a problem with X or Windowmaker. XDM starts up fine, but when I log in, the screen goes black and then returns me to the login screen. I have included my .xsession-error file to see if anyone has the same problem or knows how to

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Joseph Hartmann
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libsvga

1998-11-18 Thread Phil Dyer
Hi all, Trying to upgrade to svgalibg1.0.3 or dummy but dpkg won't let me replace the current svgalib. Just trying to install gs, ghostview. How do I get around this? thanks, dyer

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber writes: The canonical way would be to pass them to /etc/ppp/ip-up. Yes, of course. The questions is what to do with it after that. Have ip-up call a setuid program to specifically edit resolv.conf or named.conf, if they exist. it could

Re: Retract stupid question about linux-java - a permission issue

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Chip Grandits wrote: A.P. Bell wrote: Don't know much about Java. You should temporarily change the permissions on /dev/audio and /dev/dsp to 666 and run your applet -- to ensure that your setuid trick has worked. Also, a method such as play() is likely

Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You can do this in a default mode if you use the 'append vga=x' in your /etc/lilo.conf where x is the mode you want Or put vga=x in the global section of lilo.conf Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: downloading kernel image

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
I had the same problem before. After that I used Getright (in Win95) to download it or as Bob said use an FTP client if you are familiar with the FTP software. Alan Mark wrote: I downloaded all the files necessary (from debian homepage) to install Linux on my computer, but when I tried to

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Joseph, Thank you for your suggestion. I've solved my printing problem from the hints given by Bob and Hernan. There is a dj550c-filter in the magicfilter package from Debian and replace the last command with ' default text ' as instructed by the installer and that is

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Hernan, Thank you for your info, but the command ' man printcap | /etc/filter.pcl /dev/lp1 ' didn't work. I got a permission denied error. With you and Bob's hint I tried ' man printcap|lpr ' it works. Printing perfectly without any stepping at all. Thank you. Alan

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Bob, Thank you for your info, but the command ' man -t printcap|lpr ' didn't work. With your hint I tried ' man printcap|lpr ' it works. Printing perfectly without any stepping at all. Thanks anyway. Since I am new to Linux, I don't know the command style in Unix/GNU/Linux.

RE: [Fwd: H E L P !!!!]

1998-11-18 Thread Leandro Dutra
Your Absolutely right !! If I had the CD I would of used it ! It was just a suggestion... it's so much easier, and many people do not know they can boot from it, so they install the operating system from floppies in order to be able to use the CD later. Anyway, there is so

Re: Sendmail configuration

1998-11-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have to do some tricky sendmail configuration. Can anyone give me a guide as to what to do with all those .m4 files? yep, choose the ones you want and stick them in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and then run /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig Like: FEATURE(genericstable)dnl ? The basic

Re: imap server and ssl

1998-11-18 Thread Carey Evans
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you set up an imap server so that the connections are encrypted with ssl? There's a program called stunnel at http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/ that might do what you want. -- Carey Evans

Re: Is the aladdin ghostscript 5.50 available as debian package?

1998-11-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:08:12PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi! I've just tested the aladdin ghostscript 5.50, and stated that it has fixed some annoying bugs in pdfwrite driver. I'm just wondering if it is available somewhere as the debian package? In slink: gs-aladdin 5.50-3

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you have to have that key. RedHat and SuSE probably don't enable their use. Under Debian you can disable them via the xdm configuration file in

Re: kernel 2.1.128 sound

1998-11-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio bash:

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:36:32PM -0500, Joseph Hartmann wrote: I know it is called fips, but I don't know where you can get it. Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools sub- directory... Regards, -- /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @

RE: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Waller
try: http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.framed.html This has lots of good X links, including beginner programming ones. Martin Actually, is there any good (beginner's) documentation on X (either online or in book form)? The only books I've ever seen are the O'Reilly ones, which seem to be

RE: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Moore, Paul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you have to have that key. That's a bit odd - I don't use xdm, just startx from the console... Nevertheless, thanks for

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Waller
Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools sub- directory... Does it work with fat32 partitions yet, or is it still only fat16? Martin __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Martin Waller wrote: Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools sub- directory... Does it work with fat32 partitions yet, or is it still only fat16? Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it.

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 22:26:07 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it. That was an unofficial version; there's now an official version (2.0) which support it; it is available in the tools directory of Debian mirrors. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: leased line problem again

1998-11-18 Thread fantomas
Hi all - Carey Evans writes: - Presumably -ip disables TCP/IP over the PPP link. - - Yes, It is an undocumented synonym for 'noip'. You are right, thankyou. But what is this ? # Disable IP address negotiation (with this option, the remote IP # address must be specified with an option on the

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 22:26:07 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it. That was an unofficial version; there's now an official version (2.0) which support it; it is available in the tools

/etc/ppp/options comment incorrect was: Re: leased line problem again

1998-11-18 Thread Carey Evans
Carey Evans: - Presumably -ip disables TCP/IP over the PPP link. John Hasler: - Yes, It is an undocumented synonym for 'noip'. Matus fantomas Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are right, thankyou. But what is this ? # Disable IP address negotiation (with this option, the remote IP

resizing ext2 partitions

1998-11-18 Thread Leon Breedt
hi apart from Partition Magic 4, are there any programs to resize ext2fs partitions? i recently did away with windows on my drive, and i dont want to backup everything/reinstall to make the whole drive ext2... thanks, leon -- Leon Breedt | Codewarrior | Debian 2.0 | Linux 2.1.128 PGP

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-18 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: Have ip-up call a setuid program to specifically edit resolv.conf or named.conf, if they exist. This is the obvious way to do it, but there is a policy question about messing with these files. Just an Idea. I'd have a go at it.. Anyone object? I'll have a go at the

Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I have a question about access permissions. I can access my vfat mounted windows98 partition as any user, however I can only get write access when I am root. My linux and win98 partitions are on the same harddrive. I used to be able to get the desired access by adding users

Re: [ale] /dev/audio: Device or resource busy

1998-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake Wandered Inn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Make sure you don't have an irq conflict. Shows below it's taking 7, isn't that what the parallel port normally takes?? Thanks for the idea. Hadn't thought of that. Um, I don't think I've got a conflict, but here's some /proc related

IPFW works a little to well...

1998-11-18 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Looking for a little help with ipfwadm. Got a good machine running 2.0, two nics and the system is passing traffic wonderfully. Now I would like to put in packet filtering. IPFW sounds as though it will fit the bill. The HOWTO regarding IPFW suggests a script, which I

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
John Stevenson wrote: I created a dos group and tried to assign the win98 partition as belonging to the dos group, but this did not work, only assigning the mount point to dos and not the file hierachy underneath that mount point. I even tried to chmod it, but no luck. I solved this at

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 13:06:22 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: [how to have user write access to a DOS/windows partition] You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: How to manually install minimal system Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:31:22PM + [..] Actually, I had decided to use Slackware for this project even before posting my original

Re: lpd problem

1998-11-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Remi Dumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've got a little problem, trying to use lpr with my HP laserjet 6L. Although I configured printcap and filters with apsfilter (the printing of the test page worked fine !), each time I try (as root or as normal user) to use lpr file, it

Default font specified incorrectly, where ?

1998-11-18 Thread Lars Steinke
Whichever X program you start, the system complains about a missing font: Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--* to type FontStruct Emacs: No fonts match `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--* It will occur to the enlightened reader that in both

Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2

1998-11-18 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following error: dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries libz.so.1: cannot open Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in /usr/X11R6/lib because it's not part of xbase. Also, just running

partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:57:44 -0600 From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: partition table on dos zip disks this may seem like an odd question, but could someone send me the partition table for a dos

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100 Let's not talk about the food :-) I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King. -- There was this scene in the movie 'time after

Re: Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 14:11:44 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following error: dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries libz.so.1: cannot open Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to have executable permissions? or is that the way

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos

Re: kernel 2.1.128 sound

1998-11-18 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
Leon Breedt wrote: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to have executable permissions? or is that the way the msdosfs filesystem

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread PERALVO MUnOZ MIGUEL ANGEL
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5).

Always my problem with X

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
I still got that problem running X : waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. immediately after the graphical screens comes up... and down ! according to some friends it's a matter of file references count - but I

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
Do you have gs (or preferably gs-aladdin) installed? That is necessary for the man -t output to print, since -t converts it to PostScript. Keep at it and you will soon learn the Unix/Linux commands. Most of us started from a DOS background. Bob On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: Hi Bob,

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The newer fips 1.5c and 2.0 supposedly handle fat32, but I haven't had any opportunity to try this. Bob On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Martin Waller wrote: Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools sub- directory... Does it work with fat32 partitions yet, or is it

Desktop Publishing.

1998-11-18 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian and what they recommend using. My wife has a home based business and I would like to create some flyers, tri-fold pamplets and such for here. So ideally it has to be easy for her to

Re: lpd problem

1998-11-18 Thread W. Paul Mills
Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remi Dumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've got a little problem, trying to use lpr with my HP laserjet 6L. Although I configured printcap and filters with apsfilter (the printing of the test page worked fine !), each time I try (as

Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-18 Thread Lahitte Paul
Hi everybody! I'm trying to install the Debian 2.0 on my laptop Toshiba satellite Pro 440 CDT and when I boot either directly on the CDROM or on the floppy with 1440tecra.bin I got the following messages: boot: loading root.bin .. loading linux .. and then the system reboot itself

startkde cannot connect to X server

1998-11-18 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi i have installed kde on debian linux 2.0. commands like startx or startkde return the error cannot connect to x server. what's wrong? steph

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by | xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you | have to have that key. | | That's a bit odd - I don't use xdm,

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want the cookie security so other users can't do anything wrong. I also want root to be able to use the X display no matter who is running x. What is the simplest way to achieve this? At the command line in the user's session, type: su -c

Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi there, I am trying to install NTFS driver on Debian 2.0 .The INSTALL sais to do ./configure which checks the gcc compiler (2.7.2.3-2): C-compiler cannot create executables What's wrong with gcc ?? Marc __ Marc Fleureck Ministry of

Re: Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting wb2oyc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If you need to use DOS you'll have to upgrade the BIOS, twiddle the BIOS to work (try something like CHS=1023/64/63), or use a hack like Ontrack Disk Manager. Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is completely within the

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 16:37:48 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: I am trying to install NTFS driver on Debian 2.0 .The INSTALL sais to do ./configure which checks the gcc compiler (2.7.2.3-2): C-compiler cannot create executables What's wrong with gcc ?? That's difficult to tell.

bash completion

1998-11-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
(using slink + some potato): I went through the X11 fiasco with the locales (fixed it for X, thanks!), and around the same time, had my file-completion under bash break (it completes with garbage). Has anyone had this problem? tcsh still completes well, so I was wondering if it was a bash

Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Kenneth wrote, Try to re-partition that zip disk again, but ONLY make a partition number 4. All zip disks are partitioned with one partition 4 and no partitions numbered 3,2, or 1. Why? This is a Mac thing. (Same for Bernoulli's too BTW). I'm probably not being clear enough here. What

Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Dont Panic !!! There is nothing wrong with your laptop, except that it has the same feature as all the other toshiba laptops (and a few other brands). The Toshiba laptops require special rescue and drivers and these are located in the tecra folder in the boot disk directory. If you

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 17:02:27 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: configure:554: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:583: checking for gcc configure:660: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:674: gcc -o conftestconftest.c 15 ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Joseph, I confess to my Linux typo when I meant Linus (Torvalds). By facts confused are you referring to this typo? If not, I would like to know to what. From what I understood from your message, you were implying that Richard Stallman started Linux. Looking back at your message it

Re: Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Kenneth wrote, Try to re-partition that zip disk again, but ONLY make a partition number 4. All zip disks are partitioned with one partition 4 and no partitions numbered 3,2, or 1. Why? This is a Mac thing. (Same for Bernoulli's

1st time configuring samba

1998-11-18 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, I am trying to configure samba following smb.conf comments but can not understand where should I look for BROWSING.txt according to which I have to set some parameters. I looked at w95 side by in vain, the same with linux. TIA, Eugene Sevinian CRD,

use a cd-r

1998-11-18 Thread cornette philippe
Hi,I`ve a PHILIPPS CD-R 2600 1.07,and i would like to use it under linux.But unfortunatly i don`t know,what to do.I mean i don`t know how to recognize my CD-R.I was about to forget,my CD-R is connect to my chipset is with a advansys scsi card on a pci port.So my questions are the following. How

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