APM on Linux?

1998-12-21 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi, It would be very nice if we can leave the computer on without consuming too much energy. My computer has a CMOS option to turn the APM on system (doze, standby, suspend) and harddisk. If I disable the feature, no problem; but if I enable those features, the computer locked after some time: no

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Charles Collicutt, Stardate 201298.2155: > But for the home user, why bother? Linux is so much harder to set up > (it may not be incredibly difficult but it is still much much harder than > "stick the cd in the cd-rom drive and click on "next" until it's > installed, possibly ch

Setting screen back to B/W

1998-12-21 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi Guys, When I set my machine up, I had a VGA screen on it, and so selected a colour install. But now I have a monochrome screen, and would like to set the terminal type back to b/w. I am running a bo system still, I see that the hamm disks define TERM to be 'linux-m' or something similar, but my

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Karl B. Hammar
Check out: Goossens, Mittelbach, Samarin The Latex compnion Addison Wesley or experiment with \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{31pt} % default value for letter \setlength{\textwidth}{348pt}% default value for letter

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "REHE" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: REHE> Most latex documents can now be imported through ReLyX. REHE> However, if you really want to do that, you probably want to REHE> build 1.0pre4, rather than using the .12 that's in debian. Or I REHE> could email you a tarball.

Re: TCO on the desktop, NT vs Linux

1998-12-21 Thread Karl B. Hammar
On http://www.varesearch.com/ there is a link to a Datapro study where some 800 peaple was asked if they was satified with different OS's with regard to e.g. TCO. Also the Swedish networking paper "nätvärlden" quotes an unamed Dataquest report. The headline is "Windows NT the most expensive to ad

Re: vim and GTK

1998-12-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Hi there! > > Work on vim is progressing steadily, and a new alpha version has just > been released. One of the new versions is a GTK+ frontend. I would like > to include this frontend in the vim packages when a stable vim is > released. Unfortunately this will add to the

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >>Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. >>I downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file >>was saved in/root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz > > # cd /root > # tar zxvf communicator-v45-export

Re: vim and GTK

1998-12-21 Thread aqy6633
> Work on vim is progressing steadily, and a new alpha version has just > been released. One of the new versions is a GTK+ frontend. I would like If you read vim-dev, you should probably noticed that GTK+ support is probably not for long... The contributor does not like the way his code was re-in

Re: Tulip Network Card

1998-12-21 Thread Jeff Katcher
Jeff Beley wrote: > > I have a debian linux machine on my network with 2 tulip cards in it. > On boot up I get a kernel message (and the machine seems to stop dead): > eth0: 21142 100baseTx link beat good. > What does this mean? And how do i fix it? > It means it is working at 100ba

RE: vim and GTK

1998-12-21 Thread Shaleh
> > vim-tiny - will not change > vim-perl - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+ > vim-tcl - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+ > vim-python - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+ > vim - will stay with Xaw or drop X support. > vim-gtk

installing libpcap

1998-12-21 Thread Rich McHie
I'm new to Linux. I installed a Debian base system (2.0.34). I installed MAKE, LIBG++272, and other "deb" packages with dpkg. I haven't yet used MAKE. I'm trying to install "libpcap.tar.z" as a prerequisite to ipgrab. When I run the libpcap CONFIGURE script it says: Checking host system type...

Re: print in WP8

1998-12-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
With .ps documents generated by earlier versions of WP (including the 7.0 beta and 5.1 or 6.0 running in dosemu) I had a lot of ghostscript error messages printed out (after the job successfully printed). With the released 7.0 and 8.0 versions, I don't have any problems. I'd recommend using gs-al

vim and GTK

1998-12-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Hi there! Work on vim is progressing steadily, and a new alpha version has just been released. One of the new versions is a GTK+ frontend. I would like to include this frontend in the vim packages when a stable vim is released. Unfortunately this will add to the already growing number of vim varia

Re: Beginning C

1998-12-21 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
"D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't quite understand why the Kernighan/Ritchie book would be > recommended to a total beginner, but I liked Practical C programming from I found it quite easy, when I read it. Also the exercises are good. I had a little experience with basic and fortr

Re: ipfwadm ip packet filtering

1998-12-21 Thread iodine
Ideally.. I'd like to allow snmpd to work on my whole 203.41.122.128/26 subnet.. so that I can monitor a few other pcs... Thanks Michael > >Ok cool.. The script I got works ok.. few problems.. one of which I want to >solve ASAP is that snmpd doesn't work.. I run mrtg on the linux machine that >t

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Yes, that looks good, but I get 'Undefined control sequence'. Do I > need a '\usepackage' line for that or something? beats me :) But these come from the beginning: \documentclass{letter} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,tmargin=0.5in,bmargin=1in,lmargin=1in,

ipfwadm ip packet filtering

1998-12-21 Thread iodine
Ok cool.. The script I got works ok.. few problems.. one of which I want to solve ASAP is that snmpd doesn't work.. I run mrtg on the linux machine that the packet filtering runs on.. I tried several commands that deal with ports 161, 162. But still not managed to get snmpd to work. Anyone care to

Tulip Network Card

1998-12-21 Thread Jeff Beley
I have a debian linux machine on my network with 2 tulip cards in it. On boot up I get a kernel message (and the machine seems to stop dead): eth0: 21142 100baseTx link beat good. What does this mean? And how do i fix it? --Jeff

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I > downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was > saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz # cd /root # tar zxvf communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz this wil

dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-21 Thread Marc Haber
Is this so hard to solve that nobody has an idea how to do it? Hi! I think dwww is a good thing especially for those of us who don't have X running on their Linux router in the closet. Accessing documentation via the WWW browser running on the local desktop machine is quite convenient. I have

Re: [OffTopic] Remote machine support vt100 !?

1998-12-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 12:10:24PM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > - how can I do for not echo charaters to the remote machine(probabily > using vt100 escape codes) !? Jump the cursor to some realative position, ask for that position from the remote terminal. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Elenius
Christopher S. Swingley writes: >To increase the margins in LaTeX, try the following in the preamble of >your document (before the \begin{document}, after the \documentclass{}): > >\setlength{\hoffset}{-0.5in} >\addtolength{\textwidth}{1.0in} >\setlength{\voffset}{-0.5in} >\addtolength{\textheight}

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Elenius
>> Hi, I'm wondering if someone can tell me how I can change the width of >> the margins in a LaTeX document. I think I read about it somewhere, >> but I can't find it anywhere in the info file now. > >> /Daniel Elenius > >No promises, but reading from a the .tex of a lyx file, > >\geometry{verbos

HP 890

1998-12-21 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hello! I've switch distributions from Red Hat to Debian 2.0 (Hamm), and was wondering if anyone out there could give me a hand with my DeskJet 890C. With RedHat I needed to get the latest Ghostscript (5.10, at the time), and the use Red Hats printer tool to link the printcap file with the

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
daniel declared, > Hi, I'm wondering if someone can tell me how I can change the width of > the margins in a LaTeX document. I think I read about it somewhere, > but I can't find it anywhere in the info file now. > /Daniel Elenius No promises, but reading from a the .tex of a lyx file, \geomet

2.1.125 and lilo

1998-12-21 Thread Marten Berggren - LUB NetLab
Hi, I have been trying to install kernel 2.1.125 straight from the source into my Debian 2.0-based system. Everything went fine when I first installed it (I am typing this from that new kernel), but when I tried to install a version with somewhat tuned settings, lilo refuses to cooperate: > lilo

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
You are using the mv command correctly. (You should also be able to use cp). So that is not the problem. The most likely cause is that you are typing in the filename incorrectly. It is easy to mix up - or . with _. Also, the file name might have a space at the end. Try using "mv /root/comm* /

Re: kde can't find the library...

1998-12-21 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Where did you get the kde ? Is it the pre1.1 form ftp.timsnet.com ? If it is, you'd need to get these several files from somewhere else - these packages are broken. E.g. get an RPMs from ftp.kde.org and take required files from there. Sergey. On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: > Shao Zha

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
To increase the margins in LaTeX, try the following in the preamble of your document (before the \begin{document}, after the \documentclass{}): \setlength{\hoffset}{-0.5in} \addtolength{\textwidth}{1.0in} \setlength{\voffset}{-0.5in} \addtolength{\textheight}{1.0in} This increases the margins by

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread KTB
OK, I ran dselect and ran the Netscape set up program and the program tells me in order to work it needs the Communicator file to be in the tmp directory. While as root I tried to move the file again to the /tmp directory. I tried different variations I am entering, mv /root/communicator-'the r

Netscape 4.5 glibc dies!

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Elenius
The subject says it all: My Netscape keeps dying. Often when it stalls. If I switch virtual desktop (in fvwm2) and then go back to Netscape, most of the Netscape window will be "grayed out" (you know, it looks like a dying windows program). This has happened since a friend installed 4.5 glibc for m

Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Elenius
Hi, I'm wondering if someone can tell me how I can change the width of the margins in a LaTeX document. I think I read about it somewhere, but I can't find it anywhere in the info file now. /Daniel Elenius

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok. The installer from Debian site will look for the communicator file to be located in /tmp So, what you do is this: download Netscape commmunicator from Netscape site, and put it into /tmp with " mv communicator* /tmp" or whatever the name is. Then run dselect and install the netscape4.04 ( or wh

Re: kde can't find the library...

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Elenius
Shao Zhang writes: > >Hi, > for some reason, kde can't find the lib /usr/X11R6/lib... > > It complains something about: >kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries >libmediatool.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >directory >kfm: error in loading shared libraries

turning off X accelleration [wasRe: that hp kayak/CLG5465 again

1998-12-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I found a few messages on dejanews that suggests it becomes stable after turning off X acclleration. Maybe a dumb question, but how in the world do i do this? rick --

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > The package "anacron" provides this functionality. > > Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes > (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed

TCO on the desktop, NT vs Linux

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
We all know that Linux saves mega$ in the server environment. However, my boss brought back the idea from a conference (EDUCAUSE) he attended last week that Linux costs 3 to 4 times as much as NT in time spent setting up and getting a desktop computer productive. I searched the web for info on des

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
At 01:52 PM 12/21/1998 -0600, KTB wrote: >Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I >downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was >saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz >I'm thinking the file shouldn't be in /root w

Re: Linux Newbie Questions.

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
At 12:08 PM 12/21/1998 -0700, Holdsworth, Ed wrote: >I am getting ready to install Debian Linux on my PC. I'm pretty sure I >understand how to do this from the online instructions. I have have a >few other questions, however: > >1. What is the difference between X11 and Xfree86? Will either of t

How do I make CD's?

1998-12-21 Thread BOHICA
I currently have a CD-RW device up and running. I want to burn an RW with the slink dist while I'm at work and can grab the main, contrib and non-free over the WAN (T3 being _much_ faster than 56K analog). Problem is, the main/binary-i386 directory is over 800Mb, RW's only hold 650Mb. Is there a

Re: print in WP8

1998-12-21 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:15:54 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: [...] >> I am using HP5L. and I could't print from WP8. >> >> It prints something like: >> >> Error: /undefined in >> >> Operand stack: Execution Stack: %interp_exit --nostringval -- [...] >This is a postscript error mes

Problems with NIS

1998-12-21 Thread Ulli Hochholdinger
Hi, I located some strange things with nis: I set up a NIS-Server with Debian-slink. I've got clients with Debian 1.3 and one with 2.0. After creating new nismaps the clients with debian 1.3 are hanging, while trying to log in. But the hamm client works just fine. Even when I try to reboot the bo-

Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread KTB
Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz I'm thinking the file shouldn't be in /root when I try to install it, maybe it doesn't mat

Re: Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need a crash course on Linux drivers. > >I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't >allow direct access to audio tracks. Well, it does. I've created my own audio CDs under Linux. You just need the

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Jack A Walker
This is bull pucky of the worst kind since it is inaccurate and off topic. ;^) Take a look at http://linux.corel.com/linux8/highlights.htm. ;^) This includes a "Breakdown of Features for each Version" which very clearly spells out what is and what is not included in each version. The description

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Richard Lyon
-Original Message- From: Riccardo Tommasini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 21 December 1998 15:58 Subject: Re: WP 8 problem >Riccardo Tommasini > >University of Berne - Institute of Applied Physics - Laser Dept.

Re: Linux Newbie Questions.

1998-12-21 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Holdsworth, Ed wrote: > 1. What is the difference between X11 and Xfree86? Will either of these > be installed as part of the Debian Linux installation? Do I need to go > to the Xfree86 site and install it? I am assuming that the windowing > software typically reqires use o

vim syntax colors

1998-12-21 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started using vim a few weeks ago and really love it! Anyway, when I run vim in X (not gvim, just vim in an xterm) the colors are different than those vim uses when at the console. I like the color scheme of the console better (for example, the

that hp kayak/CLG5465 again

1998-12-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
With some help from Jens, we've confirmed that svga is the correct driver for this chipset, and after the holidays, someone is coming back who can provide a working XF86Setup file. But that's in a couple of weeks :) The problem is that launching X as XF86Setup configures it for this chip hang

Re: print in WP8

1998-12-21 Thread Jens Ritter
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I am using HP5L. and I could't print from WP8. > > It prints something like: > > Error: /undefined in > > Operand stack: Execution Stack: %interp_exit --nostringval -- > > > Could anyone plz hlep?? This is a pos

Re: gtkicq

1998-12-21 Thread Jens Ritter
"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a debian/frozen dist, and my gtkicq stopped working. I found > out that some of the libs that it needs are not present in the system > anymore. > > $ ldd -v /usr/local/bin/gtkicq > ldd: version 1.9.9 > (...) > libgtk

Linux Newbie Questions.

1998-12-21 Thread Holdsworth, Ed
I am getting ready to install Debian Linux on my PC. I'm pretty sure I understand how to do this from the online instructions. I have have a few other questions, however: 1. What is the difference between X11 and Xfree86? Will either of these be installed as part of the Debian Linux installatio

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread AJArmstrong
Don't forget - most people who work in the field would not characterise Win '98 as a new release of the OS - there aren't many features over and above what you find with Win '95 OSR2 and IE4. As one pundit put it - we waited three years and paid $100 for a big patch? P.S. - I run a mixed platform

RE: Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-21 Thread Shaleh
On 21-Dec-98 Eric House wrote: > I need a crash course on Linux drivers. > > I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't > allow direct access to audio tracks. Since my hardware supports > "ripping" running NT I'd like to modify the necessary Linux driver to > allow the

Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-21 Thread Eric House
I need a crash course on Linux drivers. I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't allow direct access to audio tracks. Since my hardware supports "ripping" running NT I'd like to modify the necessary Linux driver to allow the same thing on Debian -- or at least to unde

Re: Samba

1998-12-21 Thread John Stevenson
Has anyone got this going under debian. I followed all the instructions provided with smb2www but when I try an load the web page I get the following error. Not Found The requested URL /samba/smb2www.pl was not found on this server. Is there any undocumented tweaking needed?? "Jens B. Jorgens

Re: What does this mean with dselect

1998-12-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > Checking system integrity...ok > The following packages have been kept back > gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text > I believe it means that there are newer versions of these packages, but for whatever reason Apt is not g

StarOffice 3.1 setup

1998-12-21 Thread Stephen Turner
I'm trying to install StarOffice 3.1. I used the installation package in contrib/editors. That bit seemed OK. But when I run /usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup (or the file it points to inside the Linux subdirectory) as a user, I get StarOffice 3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault I looked in

Apache bandwidth module

1998-12-21 Thread Shane Wegner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Firstly, thanks for the help with the serial console under Debian. I got it working and did a full install over the serial port and it worked well. The dinstall program could use a refresh key though for this purpose. Like with pico's ctrl+l comb

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread tko
Charles Collicutt writes: [snip] > I'm going to wait a bit longer before I make up my mind, but the > temptation to let the Winborg empire assimilate me is getting stronger - > which is a shame because you guys are a hell of a lot nicer than your Thanks for the kudos. > average Windows luser :) I

Re: WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?

1998-12-21 Thread John Stevenson
"Chang, FKK" wrote: > > Hello all, > > All the ranting about Corel's misleading strategies aside, before I download > it (paying by the minute, you know), I'd like to know: > > 1) does it load Word 95 (or 97) docs *correctly* ? I would say 95% of the time I have a perfect copy of the word docum

Re: Can't get ghostscript to print.

1998-12-21 Thread virtanen
Have you got lyx? If so, read the file customization of lyx. It has got an exellent manual how to write the spooling system and ps-filter. I used that and got my old matrix-printer working excellently using ghostscript. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: > > > O

Re: Running two mgetty's on same line

1998-12-21 Thread John Forest
Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, > > I have mgetty running on my modem from inittab and it answers after 10 > rings, but I've set up xringd to dialup the internet and then run mgetty. > The second one complains about the first, and won't run. > > I would take the mgetty out of the inittab, but then when

Re: Diald

1998-12-21 Thread John Forest
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been able to configure diald to restrict dialing out at certain > times (like after I go to bed). However, if I have the connection up > when the restriction time comes, it will kill the connection. I'm > wondering if it would be possible for diald to prevent dia

floating point and wp8

1998-12-21 Thread virtanen
I managed to get wp8 up and running as well. I still don't know, why it gave that 'floating point exception' mesage earlier. What I made differently was that I run the ./Runme as su (instead of root), that graphical setup did't work, but in installed itself anyway. The first run of wp8 I had to

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread mhooper
Hi, everyone. My first post: I completely agree, Jay. I got Win95 not a month after it came out. I supported it from the beginning. Did M$ support me? No. I hate the "Hey we made the OS you bought better. Want a free copy? NOT! Want to buy a copy? NOT!" policy. I've never bought a new c

Debian Hanging on Serial Port config

1998-12-21 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, Has anyone had a problem with debian hanging when trying to configure the serial ports? I was installing Debian 'Hamm' on a third Dell Inspiron Laptop (the fist two caused no problems) and came across the problem. I got as far as the initial install from Cd, but when I reboote

Re: Memory Problem

1998-12-21 Thread Tom Allard
> I seem to be having a memory leak on my system, and I'm not sure how to > find out which program it is. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions > on how to find it? I find gmemusage to be particularly useful (assuming your in X). It will show a bar chart of memory usage of all your applicat

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 12/20/98 4:48:37 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > *) CDs from CheapBytes may be cheap - but they're not free and they get > > out of date very quickly. > > Cheaper than a CD from Microsoft? > One of the biggest beefs I have with Microsoft is la

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 12/20/98 11:53:29 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > files, viewed with xv. > > I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach64). The 24bpp implementation is > actually packed in 32bits, so the

Re: sb awe 64 value isa-pnp and wavetable-midi problems

1998-12-21 Thread Paul Miller
Peter Berlau wrote: > > sfxload synthgm.sbk only produces segmentation fault > with no file-argument it works, > message: > sfxload > > Hmmm...just a thought, but are you sure that the sound bank you are trying to load is a proper sound bank? Could it be too large to fit in the sound card's memo

RE: Postgres and php3 don't like each other

1998-12-21 Thread Shaleh
On 21-Dec-98 Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hi all, > I am playing around with Postgresql and php3 and I cannot make a database > connection this way. The most simple script fails: > > $database = pg_Connect ("", "", "", "", "template"); > ?> > Pass user and password in the pg_connect function. Lo

Re: startx

1998-12-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
No, that is the wrong way to do it. Configuration should be done in the /etc/X11 directory, not in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory. You will break the configuration scripts of subsequent Xserver installs if you do this. Shao Zhang wrote: > > or ln -s XF86_SVGA X > > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blev

RE: Good Linux Book For Christmas

1998-12-21 Thread Shaleh
I usually get flamed for saying this BUT, buy him a book on UNIX. Learn how it is supposed to be done from that. The linux specific docs included with a package will help span any gaps. This way if he is confronted with another OS at work or some where else, he has a better idea of where to star

kde can't find the library...

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, for some reason, kde can't find the lib /usr/X11R6/lib... It complains something about: kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries libmediatool.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory kfm: error in loading shared libraries libkhtmlw.so.0: cannot op

Procmail and relay host

1998-12-21 Thread Gianluca Della Vedova
I am setting up a Debian installation on 3 machines, one of which will be configured as a relay host for incoming/outgoing mail. I need to setup procmail as MTA (no .forward needed) I would like to know which MDA can be better integrated with procmail (and is easier to set up). I was thinking about

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ted told, >otherwise, what DO I do if I get a Word7 file by email? You tell the sender politely (the first time) to send it in a real standardized format. For email, this means plain text (not mime) unless there is content (equations, tables, etc., or if it is a file being sent for the reci

Re: hard drive error message

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, iodine wrote: > Just from memory.. next time you reboot that pc.. goto your bios setup.. and > make sure that you have IDE POWER DOWN turned off.. as if you have it on and > APM stuff not in your kernel, this will cause such problems I believe... > > Personally I not played a

Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-21 Thread CyberPsychotic
~ ~ I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login ~ and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine ~ when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( ~ ~ Could someone send me such part of code !? ~ Should IAC + DON

xdm under slink: no "/etc/X11/config" file???

1998-12-21 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello all, I just totally wiped out my hamm system and did a fresh install of slink (long story... and I must say the installation did not go as smoothly as a hamm installation, especially X...) anyway, I used dselect to download and intall "xdm"... it came up and running, but with 2 problems:

Re: how can I access an NT drive?

1998-12-21 Thread k e c h i e
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I have a two-drive system with NT on drive C and Debian linux on D. > I've got it set up to boot into Linux by default but I'd like to be able > to move files between the two systems. > > I found an ntfs driver > (http://www.inform

Re: Meaning of "Failed Intel bug check"?

1998-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: : Hi, : That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to : www.intel.com and download the fake Pentium test software. And verify it. : : Mike H. : -Original Message- : From: Blair Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: deb

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: : At 16:48 20.12.98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: : >We all *knew* it is commercial software, so why act surprised when : >Corel handles the WP8 free edition just like other commercial companies : >that release a 'free' or 'demo' version to potenti

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Christian Lavoie
> When I first bought a computer it had Windows 3.0 installed; I > too disliked it > and switched to DOS, before moving to Linux a few years ago. When > I bought a > laptop recently it had W95 preinstalled and I decided to see what > it was like. I > found it actually harder to install things in W9

Is "frozen" currently broken?

1998-12-21 Thread Ian Setford
Yo- I would like to run several packages that require library versions on ly available in "frozen." Are there any known problems with that tree right now? TIA. -Ian

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Christian Lavoie
> > > Yes, as a server, Linux is successfully competing against > > > WinNT and others. I personally don't believe Linux is ready for > > > Joe Blow the average Win user, however. > > > > Depends on your definition of a Joe Blow user. > > The definition of Joe Blow user I'm using is a

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 09:55:16PM +, Charles Collicutt wrote: >Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? I've been One brief answer: when was the last time your Linux crashed? Actually I can answer that: I had two crashes a couple of weeks ago, because it was 41 degrees

What does this mean with dselect

1998-12-21 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Can anyone tell me what messages like this mean when I use dselect with the apt access method. Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text Thanks Pat

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 12:52:06PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, Hi, I really don't know if apt will replace dsecelect, apt has(afaik) no user-interface like dselect. ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-=== ii apt

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread Patrik Nordebo
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 01:10:28PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > I understood that 32 bit graphics mode have 24 color, and 8 bit > transparancy levels. So this may be useful for something after all... For most graphics cards, the 32 bit mode doesn't use the extra 8 bits. They're just there to

Serial module hangs during installation

1998-12-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Hi, I have been using Linux for several years, but now I thought the time had come to get a new distribution; naturally, my choice was Debian. Unfortunately, I do have problems getting even the kernel modules installed even though everything used to work with Slackware and kernel version 2.0.30.

[offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-21 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( Could someone send me such part of code !? Should IAC + DONT + TELOP

Re: WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?

1998-12-21 Thread Anthony Wong
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 11:03:32AM +0100, Chang, FKK wrote: |Hello all, | |All the ranting about Corel's misleading strategies aside, before I download |it (paying by the minute, you know), I'd like to know: | |1) does it load Word 95 (or 97) docs *correctly* ? |2) does it write these *correctly* ?

Re: Adding users from a list or database?

1998-12-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 05:59:53PM -0600, Steve Phillips wrote: > What do you do if you have to add many users on a regular basis? there's a million ways of doing it...i usually write a little script to do it as i need it. try something like the following, which i wrote earlier tonight for someon

[OffTopic] Remote machine support vt100 !?

1998-12-21 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Could someone help me on: - check, using socket programming, if the remote machine support vt100! I'm trying on using escape codes sending a string ("\e[c") to the remote machine. Unfortunally it writes the result to the remote machine. Is there any way for I get the result !

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:34:31AM +0800, k e c h i e wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > > > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > > > files, viewed with xv. > > > > Try doin' some gradients in GIMP. > > Or some povray pictures.

Re: Can't find libttf.so.2....

1998-12-21 Thread UNO Takeshi
From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Can't find libttf.so.2 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:56:44 +1100 (EST) > ldd XF86_CHINESE > libttf.so.2 => not found > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4002b000) > libc.so

Can't find libttf.so.2....

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hey, I just downloaded the newest XF86 server with chinese patch applied to it... but it is not finding a library.. my ldd returns following: ldd XF86_CHINESE libttf.so.2 => not found libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:57:15 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 08:52:41PM +, Marc Haber wrote: >> How do I tell dpkg that mail-transport-agent is present even if I >> uninstall smail and that I take responsibility? > >Install and configure the dummy package which is there for this reas

  1   2   >