Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

didier declared, > Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes: > Manuel> I don't like GNU either. They're unnecessary complex most of the > Manuel> times > That's because you don't use them to their full extent. No, it's that their full extent is a pita (hmm, i don't mean to speak for manuel). >Fro

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

peter piped, > I got it, installed it, and it's quite nice. The installer wasn't exactly > intuitive, but everything went in without a hitch. I downloaded it all in > one piece (the 23 meg bad boy), and untarred it. and that was the problem. IN spite of the claim above the link, it gave me

NIS/something equivalent + security

Hi! I now have 3 debian machines that have to share login/passwords. The straightaway solution is NIS, but I have some questions about it: 1) Is it difficult to install / maintain? 2) Will my ftp daemon work? 3) Most important: security. Is it safe? Will I be able t

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, virtanen wrote: > I tried to dowload it as well, but no success. Nothing happens, when I hit > the dowload button. it is tellinf that are two downloads. In netscape something popped up and disappeared so fast I was unable to read it. I kept trying and eventually got there

Re: ??? how to TOTALLY remove KDE ???

On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:19:01PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > > when I tried to remove KDE via dselect, > > > it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they "weren't empty" > > > or something) > > > > I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 07:42:59PM +, Manuel Gutierrez Algaba wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > But it comes down to "GNU/Linux" being a political statement, and one > > that I disagree with. > > I don't like GNU either. They're unnecessary complex most of

Thanks: Mail on computer with no users.

Hi, Joe! Thanks for your help. Both problems are happily resolved :) > >Questions: > >1. How should I redirect user's mails: > >For example I want mail to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname > > > Put: >sma

Re: Netscape graphics problem (scrolling down causes lines in the graphics)

Could this be a X server graphic problem? I have seen such stuff before and it turned out to the X server installed.. ie user was using a compatible bunch of libs/bins rather then the actually accelerated ones specific to the SVGA card they had? Michael -Original Message- From: Frankie <[

CCP compressors

Can anyone enlighten me on the use the the CCP compressors, bsd_comp.o, and ppp? I found some documentation, but not much. I have one Debian machine that tries to establish an unsuccessful ccp session/connection and it seems to affect the stability of the connection. Whether the module is loaded

Re: Still problems with my Xemacs compile

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > In file included from nas.c:65: > config.h:37: warning: `alloca' redefined > /usr/include/alloca.h:39: warning: this is the location of the previous > definition > nas.c:68: audio/audiolib.h: No such file or directory > nas.c:69: au

Re: SB AWE 64 value midi-problems

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 11:58:53PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: > > Hi, > I can't play midi-files > on my > SoundBlaster AWE 64 Value PnP(Plug and Pray) ISA You need not only isapnp but also the additional lowlevel awe driver or a newer kernel release. Please refer to my Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO on

SB AWE 64 value midi-problems

Hi, I can't play midi-files on my SoundBlaster AWE 64 Value PnP(Plug and Pray) ISA .wav files work fine also audio-cd's playing (xmcd) and recording connected to the line-in of the SB cat /dev/sndstat results: Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 2: Sound Blaster

Syntax highlighting in XEmacs (was [X]Emacs vs. vi[m])

In your message you say: > operating system ;-), the major functionnality of it is its incredible > editing > power. After some learning, you find a edition mode for amost any kinds of > files (programming langages, ChangeLogs, resources files ...) with keyboard > shortcuts, syntax highlighting,

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® i s here! (fwd)

> > > Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! > > > > > > Corel is pleased to announce that the Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® > > > free > > > download will be available tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 17), exclusively from > > > CNET at http://www.download.com! > > Its there. I am download

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

Subject: Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd) Date: Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:03:06AM + In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Dear Jason and Jill, > > Any idea what time it will become available? > > It's already Th

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.x undocumented feature?

> This is not a netscape special - it applies to anything. A > ppp problem *is* just a delay. Programs can decide to time out > or keep waiting, but there is no way they can know wheter it > is a slow server or a temporary hung-up phone line. > This is how networking in unix work - and it's nice

kbrequest

Hi, I have read that it is possible to run commands using kbrequest. However this does not work for me. Here is the corresponding strings from inittab: kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "abc" ... and keybinding from map file: keycode 103 = Up alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal Pressing (ALT-UpArrow

Re: question on hardware

Well, my system has a Tyan Thunder 100 motherboard with Adaptec 7895 SCSI chips (the common PCI cards 2940 uses older chips). Debian 2.0 recognized them without problems. NizzyNiz wrote: > well, this is my problem, i built a scsi machine with a asus 7890 > ultra 2 .. so far, no linux has been s

Netscape graphics problem (scrolling down causes lines in the graphics)

Hi, I am using NS 3.04, and whenever I scroll down a page, I get lots of lines coming across the screen (graphics AND text). This also happens when I scroll to the right. Now curiously, when I scroll back up the page, then lines go away. Does anybody have any idea what I can do about this? I shall

question on hardware

well, this is my problem, i built a scsi machine with a asus 7890 ultra 2 .. so far, no linux has been successful.. i tried redhat, slackware and neither of them worked. .it will not detect my scsi controller.. i'm wondering if your software will work with mymotherboard, and if not, what are your s

Re: Utility to set PC clock

Carl Fink writes: > Does anyone know a program that will get a time from some source on the > net and set the system clock based on EST? I could add it to my ip-up > script and the computer would never fall far behind. You might try the chrony package from unstable. It does pretty much what xntp

Re: New IBM sendmail replacement will be free and open source

shaul writes: > that is none other than Vmailer from Wietse Venema... > ... > ...his attitude and few errors I have seen him get caught in, pushed me > away from trying Vmailer. I don't know about errors, but I have been negotiating with him over the Postfix license on debian-legal and he seems ca

Re: Problems with ppp server

On 16 Dec, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > My only suggestion would be to try it without the asyncmap option (which > should cause ppp to use the desperate asyncmap of 0x... which you > could also try explicitly). If that works, start trying turning off a bunch > of the bits in the asyncmap to see

Re: XFree and the dead keys

Hi! }-> Hello }-> }-> don't know if this has been asked before: }-> }-> How do I set up my XF86Config-File in way that the german keyboard }-> produces a "plus asterisk asciitilde" instead of "plus asterisk }-> deadtilde" ? }-> }-> The following does not work: }-> }->

Re: Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

> There is an ssh client for Windows. Look around, you will find it. I might > start my search at rootshell.com since they seem to have a lot of links to > the manufacturer of ssh. Remember, do not use ssh-2.x, use 1.x. Look for teraterm and ssh ... works for me.

Re: Console

Hi! }-> man setfont }-> }-> }-> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: }-> }-> > Hi all, }-> > Is it possible to change the font size in the consoles(tty1, 2, 3, }-> > 4, 5,)?? }-> > }-> > Thx. if you are in an xterm use "ctrl"-"right mouse button" this will pupup a menu where you can ch

Re: Package install problem

Hi! [...] }-> > why aren't you doing this ? }-> > it's simpler ! }-> }-> Because... the Win95 machine is a laptop and consequently I would have }-> to tear that machine apart to get at the CDROM. }-> }-> There is method to this madness... I am not a newbie to computers of }-> even to Unix just a

Re: Mail on computer with no users.

>Questions: >1. How should I redirect user's mails: >For example I want mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname Put: smartuser: driver=smartuser; new_user="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in your /etc/smail

Re: HP Deskjet

*- Michele Bini wrote about "Re: HP Deskjet" > On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it >> prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? >> HP says they don'

Re: Short scripts

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 10:52:06AM -0700, John Greer wrote: > I know that there has to be an easy way to do this but i thought that I > would ask anyway. How do I create a short script file similar to a > DOS batch file? I would like to be able to have a link to pon that > would run pon and th

Re: screenshots?

There is also "import", included with imagemagick. -brad On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Henry Kingman wrote: > What's the best way to take screenshots in Debian? > > I work for a big Web site about computers, and we're starting to look at > and care about how our pages look under Linux/Netscape. > > T

Re: Problems running Netscape

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard Holden wrote: > The X system appears to working just fine. But, when I try to run Netscape I > get an error message saying that Netscape can't load "libXpm.so.4". I have > looked around and determined that libxpm.so.4 exists on my system as a link > to libXpm.so.4.10.

Re: Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : > Are you advocating that we _not_ follow pine's license and : > distribute modified binaries anyway? Thus breaking the law? : : No, I am advocating getting the binary approved. Go for it. Just

Re: How to find out what my modem connection speed is?

You can try the pppload utility. I am sorry, I don't remeber where I found it. I think it does exist as a deb package Franck

Problems running Netscape

I'm a long time DOS/Win user, but a new Linux user. I've installed Debian Linux 2.0 and Xfree86 3.3.2. I also downloaded and installed Netscape 4.5. The X system appears to working just fine. But, when I try to run Netscape I get an error message saying that Netscape can't load "libXpm.so.4". I h

Re: Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)

George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Are you advocating that we _not_ follow pine's license and > > distribute modified binaries anyway? Thus breaking the law? > > No, I am advocating getting the binary approved. That's likely not manageable. What happen

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

Tom Allard wrote: > > there's one thing missing: indenting code. > > I do a lot of Tcl coding, and so the C-rules mostly work for me. I do > believe that improving auto-indentation was high on the wish-list for > upcoming improvments. XEmacs has tcl-mode.el that interfaces with tcl's help fil

Re: How to find out what my modem connection speed is?

>I finally worked out how to pon to specific providers using > pon > >How do I find out what my connection speed is? Well, for *starters*, you need to make sure that your modem is reporting the DCE speed (the speed it's talking to the other modem at) and not the DTE speed (the speed it's talking

Mail on computer with no users.

Hi, We have 4 boxes working like Xterminals. There are no users, except for root of course. Any user login through NIS and his /home area is mounted from another computer (SGI). Questions: 1. How should I redirect user's mails: For example I want mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

> > Well, vim (and gvim) is actually quite powerful for development > > purposes. All the best (IMO) that emacs had was taken into vim already. > > there's one thing missing: indenting code. I had no real problem > producing a fortran-90 .vim for syntax, so the coding is nice. And > there s

Re: bitchy 486

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I thought about the disk being bad, but that same disk boots ok on > another computer. I'll try a few others anyway. Also I understand > there are several boot images available, each slightly different for > problem hardware. Hey I also might try swa

Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)

Oh boy, another flame war... George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > Please check out the mail list archives on pine. The pine people will > > not allow binaries of pine distributed with bugs fixed unless they > > officially approve. To approve officially m

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

I started with Red Hat. Next was SuSE and now I have got Debian hamm. In my opinion debian isn't so much more difficult to install that RH or suse. I had some quit big difficulties with it, but it was because of bad multi-cd-installation-package. Dselect isn't as good as 'yast' supplied with suse,

How to find out what my modem connection speed is?

Hi, I finally worked out how to pon to specific providers using pon How do I find out what my connection speed is? I had deleted /var/log/ppp.log earlier assuming that it will be recreated by what ever program but that didn't happen. Will creating a blank file do the trick. Sincerely,

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

> * I don't like mouses. I have 10 fingers and I like fast > keystrokes. It's amazing what you can do with 10 fingers, and at what > speed you can do it :-) This means that for instance, I prefer to type > `M-x man' and get a manpage with hyperlinks and all the stuff you want > in the same window,

Re:Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:58:31 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: >On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:33:00PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: >> Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured >> it was hard to find. > >The stats said that for me too, so something must be broken. I'm c

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on > > Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few > > hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... > > > If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (alon

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence > first. Go here to start with: > > http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 Even easier, just go to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/cn

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

tom told, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > On the contrary, Emacs is more suitable for developement purposes, and > > actually for many other things. > Well, vim (and gvim) is actually quite powerful for development > purposes. All the best (IMO) that emacs had was taken into vim already. there's

Re: Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is an ssh client for Windows. Look around, you will find it. I might > start my search at rootshell.com since they seem to have a lot of links to > the manufacturer of ssh. Remember, do not use ssh-2.x, use 1.x. I use (well, I set up for other peo

Still problems with my Xemacs compile

Hi! Thanks for the help so far with my xemacs+gpm problem. It still won't compile, though! I got rid of the ncurses error, and a couple of other things that I solved in similar manners, but now I get this: ---8<-- In file include

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

> I've got it, but I haven't figured out quite how to install it. > un-tgz'ing produces a handful of directories, a Readme, and a Runme. > > The Readme says to untar and ungzip everything, then run the Runme > > The runme asks if you've untarred things, and decides there's nothign > new to d

Re: "card" selection in X for HP Kayak XC

On 17 Dec, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I installed debian on a professor's machine yesterday, but have hit a > barrier: we don't know what the video "card" that it uses is. Unix/ > linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he > asked me for help). It can't eve

Re: "card" selection in X for HP Kayak XC

cat /proc/pci is your friend *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I installed de

Re: HP Deskjet

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: > Hey all, > > It's me again. I have a HP Deskjet 870Cxi. When I try to print to lpr it > prints off the page. Does anyone know where I can get Deskjet drivers? > HP says they don't have any for Linux. Thanks again! Please install

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

> Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on > Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few > hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... > If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a > number of other debian users) as to how good it is.

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes: Manuel> I don't like GNU either. They're unnecessary complex most of the Manuel> times That's because you don't use them to their full extent. It's hard to return to `standard' tools once you've tried the GNU version. Especially the fileutils, binutils, aut

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > john jabbed, > > > > ...on the other hand, every time I have "GNU/ Linux" shoved in my face, I > > > give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know how to remove it? I can't > > > find where it's coming from > > > /etc/motd, of course. You can

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Colin Boyd wrote: > learned to work with linux is > > 1) Develope a strong love for Linux. So strong that nothing will kill it. > 2) Make coffee, and stay up drinking it and hacking at linux until you can > no longer clearly see your monitor. Usually this is at about 4-5a

Re: xterm font is W I D E

Kent West wrote: > > Anyone know where I can fix second and third and etc xterm windows to look > like my first one? > I believe that the "correct" way to do this is to add xterm resource settings to your ~/.Xdefaults (which some people preferr to call ~/.Xresources) file. This is a method of s

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:33:00PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured > it was hard to find. The stats said that for me too, so something must be broken. (And I was so impressed by my own timing...) ;) Regards, Jeff

Re: Sendmail

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Benedikt Carda (Digiweb Austria) wrote: There's a good book of O'Reilly & Associates dedicated to sendmail! > Hi! > working sendmail scripts which I just have to copy and transfer to my > server? Manolo - My addresses / mis direcciones: www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

hamish harumphed, > Say what? I started on Slackware; Debian's installation is 1% better than > that. > > Redhat removes a lot of options to give you a working system without much > > configuration on your part. Later, when you are shooting for "guru-ship" > As opposed to Slackware and Fre

"card" selection in X for HP Kayak XC

I installed debian on a professor's machine yesterday, but have hit a barrier: we don't know what the video "card" that it uses is. Unix/ linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he asked me for help). It can't even tell us what card type to use in configuration.

Re: xterm font is W I D E

Having an xterm with widely-spaced fonts is usually an indication that you are trying to use a proportional font instead of a fixed-width font. This can confuse the X server if it can't handle proportional fonts or the fon't doesn't have the width information necessary. I don't think most xterms c

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

Tom Allard writes: Tom> Back in the days when I logged in over an HDS terminal, I could see the Tom> advantage of all this. But in a modern X environment I would rather not. Tom> Netscape is a fine browser, exmh is an excellent mail reader, tkman is Tom> the best man page browser I've seen, bash

[no subject]

I have a second linux box (running Red Hat 5.1) that I want to switch to Debian 2.0. The machine has some apps that I have never got running in Debian, but are running on this machine. Is there a way to change the base system and libs to Debian without erasing the existing apps. Any help would be

gpm segmentation fault

I'm resending this email as I've sent it during the 'debian-user-digest' outage, and i hope someone who haven't seen it already will give me an advice. Hi, I think i have something very strange with gpm handling my mouse. First: the mouse is working _correctly_ under X, so there is definitively

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (along with a number of other debian users) as to how good it is. John. Jo

Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

From: "Chris Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it. I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three machines: home, old office, new ISP hosted machine). Very, very impressed with Debian. The trouble is that I can't dit

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On the contrary, Emacs is more suitable for developement purposes, and > actually for many other things. Well, vim (and gvim) is actually quite powerful for development purposes. All the best (IMO) that emacs had was taken into vim already. > Personally, I practically

Re: New IBM sendmail replacement will be free and open source

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:59:32AM +0200, shaul wrote: > know what he's doing most of the time, but his attitude and few errors I > have seen him get caught in, pushed me away from trying Vmailer. Eh, gimme Exim. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence first. Go here to start with: http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 then agree to the licence and things should be okay... In for a few hours of reading while I wait for the down

RE:Short scripts

I know that there has to be an easy way to do this but i thought that I would ask anyway. How do I create a short script file similar to a DOS batch file? I would like to be able to have a link to pon that would run pon and then run another app if pon is successful. Is there a simple way to

Re: bitchy 486

-> I have put together a 486DX2-66 machine from old parts. It's a -> vers-local bus machine with 8M of dram, 200mb disk drive (I have a 2g -> I can swap in), an 8x ide cdrom drive, and a cirrus based vesa local -> bus video card (boca) with 1m on it (add two chips for 2m). I have -> tried to boot

Re: Utility to set PC clock

Subject: Re: Utility to set PC clock Date: Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 05:31:53PM +1030 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Does anyone know a program that will get a time from some source on > > the net and set the system clock based on ES

RE: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured it was hard to find. http://www.download.com/PC/corel/download/ Rod.

Re: Utility to set PC clock

> (Greenwich Meantime or however you spell it) on your system clock. > Then you can set the timezone in software so that time shows up > properly. Yes, this is generally considered teh "right" way to run a *nix box. > Secondly, I think there is some way of getting your machine to automatically >

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

Matt Garman writes: Matt> You can use the same .emacs file everywhere, with XEmacs and GNU emacs Matt> options defined. I have both flavors of emacs on my machine, and my Matt> .emacs file is setup such that GNU emacs ignores the XEmacs stuff, and Matt> XEmacs ignores the GNU emacs options. The XE

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

Hi! Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >are there any other tools that can do it? > > The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use > nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the > machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machine

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:05:26AM -0800, Eric House wrote: > > What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other > > way around)? I am using emacs at the moment. Is it worth me changing? > My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemacs and then > switched to

Re: xterm font is W I D E

At 09:43 AM 12/17/1998 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > >> I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, >> "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, >> the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the >> window is very wid

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

Chris Frost writes: Chris> What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over Chris> [x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear Chris> from both sides. It is a different philosophy. I think that using vi is suitable, for instance, for sysadmins.

Re: Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:23:40PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it. > > I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three > machines: home, old office, new ISP hosted machine). Very, very > impressed with Debian. > > The troub

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:26:25 -0600 (EST), Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Chris> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Chris> Hash: SHA1 Chris> What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over Chris> [x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 08:46:01AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > > I agree with you Kent. Debian is much too difficult to start out with. > > Say what? I started on Slackware; Debian's installation is 1% better than > that. > Sorry, I thought hi

Re: Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Evans wrote: > Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it. [...] > 'til then I want some secure way to get into my Debian > machines from that machine when I'm away from home. Does > anyone else face this? Is

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) said > > > > > > Howdy all! > > > > total 176014862730 > > b-w-r-xrw- 1 1259717448199, 228 Jun 6 2010 #85683 > > sr-x---r-T 1 382255288418446744073400402084 Jan 4 1966 #85688 > > cws--T 1 4753112439159, 161 Mar 19 2003 #85731 > > [...]

[X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over [x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear from both sides. Chris <- Visit Me At -> <-

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

> What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other > way around)? I am using emacs at the moment. Is it worth me changing? Another reply listed the advantages of xemacs over emacs. So I'll take the other side. My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemac

Re: Help installing Linux on a Toshiba laptop

Thanks to those that offered some help on this, but I managed to get it working yesterday. I'm not sure which item below was the clincher, but if it helps anyone else.. 1) I created install floppies using the normal binaries, i.e. NOT the tecra disks. 2) Boot from the rescue disk,and follow the

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

> > > Howdy all! > > Recently I attempted to install some .deb's when I received error > messages that /usr was mounted read-only. I know that this *is* > the desired state for /use, and will be once my system settles into > a pattern where I'm not always installing/de-installing packages. > In

RE: Giving recompile another try

That would be great except: 1. I'll have to wait for the new kernel to be released or use the development kernel. In either case, I still can't recompile the current kernel correctly so this option is no good until... 2. The next version of Debian is released with the new kernel already integrate

Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

Howdy all! Recently I attempted to install some .deb's when I received error messages that /usr was mounted read-only. I know that this *is* the desired state for /use, and will be once my system settles into a pattern where I'm not always installing/de-installing packages. In other words...RSN.

Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it. I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three machines: home, old office, new ISP hosted machine). Very, very impressed with Debian. The trouble is that I can't ditch Windoze from my portable for some time yet nor do

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice...

Jeff, At stardivision.com they have a patch for the S3V server. (This _is_ the problem) Go to support, download. (at least it used to be there). Switch to SVGA server on your machine, install SO5, install the patch, switch back to S3V. You should be OK. dyer >Peter, >I have a Stealth 3D 2000 a

Re: menus gone when upgrading WindowMaker

Hi Debian users, I have this problem to only with WindowMaker. What I can do? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Quoting Charles Collicutt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Max wrote: > > Greetings! > >I just upgraded to the latest version of Windo

Re: Problem with Compuserve and Fetchmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 Lee Bradshaw wrote: >> >> Is there a way to get fetchmail reading beyond those unqualified mails >> ? > >I had similar problems with fetchmail before upgrading to 4.6.4-1 (from >slink, I don't know what the current version is). What version

Re: Trouble with diaresis and ssharp key

Oliver Elphick dixit: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Shouldn't it be de_DE? > > > >Not sure, though I believe that ES (caps) stands for ESPAN~OL, whereas es > >(non-caps) is standard for... whatever, thus es_DE, es_EN,... > > The first part is the language and the second part is the co

Re: Trouble with diaresis and ssharp key

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Shouldn't it be de_DE? > >Not sure, though I believe that ES (caps) stands for ESPAN~OL, whereas es >(non-caps) is standard for... whatever, thus es_DE, es_EN,... The first part is the language and the second part is the country; so we get en_US or en_GB for Am

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