Re: Frontpage for Apache

1998-12-22 Thread Randy Cain
eric scroger wrote: > > Packy Anderson wrote: > > > Oliver Thuns writes: > > > Or are there good alternatives to FP for my customers (I don't know FP > > > and I don't need it). > > > > ... much deleted > > > > > > > As for other products, I'm sure there are lots (at home, on my Mac, I > > use

Re: Frontpage for Apache

1998-12-22 Thread eric scroger
Packy Anderson wrote: > Oliver Thuns writes: > > Or are there good alternatives to FP for my customers (I don't know FP > > and I don't need it). > ... much deleted > > > As for other products, I'm sure there are lots (at home, on my Mac, I > use GoLive Cyberstudio because the Mac MS FP *sucks*)

xbase-3.3.2.2-4 installation problems

1998-12-22 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi everyone, I have been trying to get a new system installed without much luck. I am bailing out of the installation before the standard package selection part and then just running Access -> Update in dselect before I quit dselect. Then I want to install all the .deb packages by hand. I check

Re: ftpd

1998-12-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 05:51:25PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > In my continuing struggle to get to know the debian distro i ran into another > problem. > I installed ham and anonymous ftp worked just fine. > > I then upgraded to slink and everytime I try to ftp into my home machine from

RE: Has dpkg been ported

1998-12-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Dec-98 Wayne Cuddy wrote: > Has anyone ported dpkg to different architectures? If so what is involved in > doing so? If not... why? dpkg runs on every hardware that debian suports -- alpha, arm, intel, powerpc, sparc, m68k. I feel like I left one out. Large parts of dpkg use perl so por

Re: Midnight Commander hanging

1998-12-22 Thread wb2oyc
> >I have seen a previous posting but no fix for Midnight Commander >hanging. > I'd bet its trying to find your DNS. Been there, done that. If you have a nameserver id'd in your /etc/resolv.conf if its not really accessible when you launch MC it'll do that every time. paul

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-22 Thread wb2oyc
> >You could also make a new partition and mount it as /home, or /usr, or >some such. > Glad to hear that suggestion as that is precisely what I would do! Actually, I never put it all on one partition anyway. Old habits are hard to break. I like to get /var and /home OFF the root if possible, a

ftpd

1998-12-22 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, In my continuing struggle to get to know the debian distro i ran into another problem. I installed ham and anonymous ftp worked just fine. I then upgraded to slink and everytime I try to ftp into my home machine from work i get connection refused. I can telnet and pop into it without probl

Midnight Commander hanging

1998-12-22 Thread Greg Frye
I have seen a previous posting but no fix for Midnight Commander hanging. I haven't been able to see any correlation with running other programs just before it starts hanging. I have to go to another VC and kill MC. The only way I have found to clear the problem up is to reboot. Is there a clea

Has dpkg been ported

1998-12-22 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Has anyone ported dpkg to different architectures? If so what is involved in doing so? If not... why?

apsfilter

1998-12-22 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying to set up apsfilter with my Hp 870Cse and have not been succesful with debian. I have used freebsd with apsfilter without problems. Here is a copy of my printcap. My problem is that nothing will print but when i check the que it is empty. My printer is /dev/lp1. ascii|lp1|cdj5

Re: WP8 Printer

1998-12-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok got wordperfect 8 installed.. gotta say i like heres my only > problem: > > i have an epson stylus color 800 printer.. my printer isnt listed with > the drivers.. > > so what one do i select and after that what do i fill in so that it > prints directly to the pr

Re: Why?! [even further offtopic]

1998-12-22 Thread Sean Johnson
First of all, NT is very stable in a workstation environment. As soon as you start using it in a server environment all bets are off. Also as soon as you slap IE4 on it all bets are off. I use NT on a pretty regular basis in a workstation environment, and it seems to me that as soon as you ins

Re: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?

1998-12-22 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Shaul! > I don't seem to have /etc/nmh/maildelivery. Should I be concerned about it ? I don't think so. I don't have it eather. But everything works fine. > > The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc method of my > exmh sometimes get stucked. To be more specific, It se

Re: Need some apps.

1998-12-22 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am in the process of trying to ditch window$ for Linux. There are > some apps I need for school, however, and I was wondering if you all > could help me figure out what they are. I need PSpice, Matlab (I assume > Octave is as close

Re: Netscape 4.5 glibc dies!

1998-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rafael Kitover wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:32:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > > But I have a 10Mbit ethernet connection for pete's sake! And it > > happens quite often (though usually only when connecting to > > transatlantic sites (that would be America for me)). Also, after I've >

Re: Netscape 4.5 glibc dies!

1998-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Daniel Elenius wrote: > > >> 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 happ

Re: Netscape 4.5 glibc dies!

1998-12-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:32:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > But I have a 10Mbit ethernet connection for pete's sake! And it > happens quite often (though usually only when connecting to > transatlantic sites (that would be America for me)). Also, after I've > killed it, when I run 'top', ther

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:16:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on / > I have a swap partition /dev/hda3 > I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root > directory. I also can > create a new

Re: Why?! [way offtopic]

1998-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 02:36:23AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > - M$'s decision to do the absurd merging of WinNT and Win95/8 into > > Win2000 will guarantee new refugees from the M$ world, along with > > Hmmm. Offtopic I know, but why do you think it's absurd? If they

limit of mutt

1998-12-22 Thread Peter Bartosch
hello debians! i ran into trouble with mutt - where is the maillimit? my situation: i rewrote my procmailrc, then i refilter my collected mail (mostly from debian ;-) with it -- that works great but than, i´ve wanted to view into my debian-devel-mbox mutt ran and ran -showing "sorting mail" (t

Re: can't use editor when su... why?

1998-12-22 Thread Tom Allard
> The problem is that "you" own the X session, "root" doesn't. > > The easiest way to get this to work is to type > >xhost + localhost > > before you do your su. This means that you'll let anyone > from the host "localhost" (ie, your computer) connect to your > X. > > However, I recall th

Vivo

1998-12-22 Thread AJ
hey i was wondering if there is a linux vivo player or if one is in the process.. can u let me know what the name of it is? thanx, AJ

Re: Need some apps.

1998-12-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:27:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am in the process of trying to ditch window$ for Linux. There are > some apps I need for school, however, and I was wondering if you all > could help me figure out what they are. I need PSpice, Matlab (I assume > Octave is as

Re: can't use editor when su... why?

1998-12-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 22 Dec, Kirk Hogenson wrote: > The problem is that "you" own the X session, "root" doesn't. > > The easiest way to get this to work is to type > >xhost + localhost > > before you do your su. This means that you'll let anyone > from the host "localhost" (ie, your computer) connect to your

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

1998-12-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
stefan stated, > > 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? > Simply add ´Option "noaccel"´ into Section "Device" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. yep, it's stable after this, a

Re: can't use editor when su... why?

1998-12-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
The problem is that "you" own the X session, "root" doesn't. The easiest way to get this to work is to type xhost + localhost before you do your su. This means that you'll let anyone from the host "localhost" (ie, your computer) connect to your X. However, I recall there were some security

Re: can't use editor when su... why?

1998-12-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jesse Evans wrote: > Hi, folks! > > I like to use fte as my default editor, however, when I su to modify > my system I cannot use it. I get the following messages: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Could not open display

can't use editor when su... why?

1998-12-22 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks! I like to use fte as my default editor, however, when I su to modify my system I cannot use it. I get the following messages: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Could not open display: :0.0 However, if I log

Re: Does Linux support Promise Technology Ultra33 Hard Disk Controller?

1998-12-22 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
1. I have been searching many Linux Web sites trying to find out if Linux supports the Promise Technology Ultra33 Hard Disk Controller card. I installed this card because my older bios wouldn't properly support large hard drives. I have found conflicting statements. Some documents

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

1998-12-22 Thread Stefan Hueneburg
Hi Richard! > 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? Simply add ´Option "noaccel"´ into Section "Device" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Probably you should add ´ClockChip "cirrus"

IDE RAID 1 Hardware - Experiences?

1998-12-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
I want to use a PCI RAID-1 IDE controller on a mission-critical Linux box. Are there any problems I'm likely to face? How will I know if a disk has gone bad? I want to avoid the software RAID driver because I need the system to be bootable even after a disk failure, without operator intervention.

Re: Why?!

1998-12-22 Thread Tom Allard
> I think I'll remove Linux and use just Windows on my home computer until > Linux gets the games support it needs to attract more people like me. Why not dual-boot? rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.

Does Linux support Promise Technology Ultra33 Hard Disk Controller?

1998-12-22 Thread Holdsworth, Ed
1. I have been searching many Linux Web sites trying to find out if Linux supports the Promise Technology Ultra33 Hard Disk Controller card. I installed this card because my older bios wouldn't properly support large hard drives. I have found conflicting statements. Some documents state that Ker

RE: Eterm 0.8.7 problems.

1998-12-22 Thread Shaleh
> > Thanks. Imlib is older than Eterm. Have to upgrade Imlib. How did this happen? Debian provides several tols to do updates that insure you get everything you need to have a working system. Dselect, apt, or a combination thereof can prevent problems like this.

Re: Custom kernel build question. Help !!

1998-12-22 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Toshiba laptop and I have Debian 2.0 R1. I also have a PC which > I wanted to use to build a zImage kernel for this laptop since bzImage > and the tecra rescue disk sends the Toshiba to continuous reboot. > > My question is: > 1)

Install Debian 2 on My ThinkPad

1998-12-22 Thread zhangyp
To anyone who can help me, I am new to Linux and Debian, now I try to install Debian linux on my IBM ThinkPad 560E, and config is : Pentium MMX 233, 40M memory, Floppy Driver, and IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 PCMCIA Net Card.(Windows 95 already installed) I installed Debian from My Harddisk, and there

Re: UNIX questions

1998-12-22 Thread aqy6633
> Where are defined daemon which are run at boot ? (I would like to run > fetchmail -d at boot) Just add these couple of lines to, say /etc/init.d/netstd_misc Or create your own file and add it with "update-rc.d" command. > Is there any bash command to wait for n seconds ? sleep n Alex Y. --

Re: supressing header page

1998-12-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
lewis lamented, > Does it have a "header" page that just prints a few lines in the upper > left corner, and does the header page follow the job? If it does, this > is printed by the network interface on the printer. The trick to the > jetdirect(?) cards is to telnet to them and turn off the banne

Re: Why?!

1998-12-22 Thread Charles Collicutt
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You say that you'd like to see more games (I assume in the caliber of Quake) > on Linux and that you are considering a career in game programming. I ask why > not Linux? Consider Quake - it's source is still hidden, but the binaries are > distributed.

Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 22 Dec 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option : >under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some : >maintenance the other day and foun

UNIX questions

1998-12-22 Thread frleg
Hi, I have got 2 questions : Where are defined daemon which are run at boot ? (I would like to run fetchmail -d at boot) Is there any bash command to wait for n seconds ? Thanks Franck --- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobi

Re: Printing on network printer with my own banner.

1998-12-22 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 06:28:57PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > QUESTION. Can I setup /etc/printcap or something else so that my printouts > would have distinguished banner page with BIG BIG LETTERS on it, that will > replace official banner (I don't want 2 banners too...)? I faced

Re: Custom kernel build question. Help !!

1998-12-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > My question is: > 1) How can I cleanly build a new kernel image (zImage) without affecting > the Debian installation on my PC ? Use the regular make commands (I think: make mrproper; make menuconfig; make depend; make zImage; But look at the docs t

Re: Diald

1998-12-22 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 dia

Re: FAQ (i guess): how to set up screen saver under X?

1998-12-22 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:58:39AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote: > > I guess this is a bit of a newbie question, but how do I get a > screensaver to come up under X instaed of the screen just blanking? > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9812/msg01163 -- Michael E. Touloumtzis <[

PCMCIA help!!!

1998-12-22 Thread Patrice Bertrand
Hi, I have installed Linux on a Winbook laptop. Everything works but my PCMCIA modem and I dont' understand why... My PCMCIA card is a made by Creative Labs and is fax-modem 28,800 bauds. I've tried to read the HOWTO-PCMCIA. It doesn't help and it is too complicated anyway... What I've done

Custom kernel build question. Help !!

1998-12-22 Thread Mahesh Padmanabhan
Hi, I have a Toshiba laptop and I have Debian 2.0 R1. I also have a PC which I wanted to use to build a zImage kernel for this laptop since bzImage and the tecra rescue disk sends the Toshiba to continuous reboot. My question is: 1) How can I cleanly build a new kernel image (zImage) without affe

512 node Debian CLOWN Cluster

1998-12-22 Thread David Stern
Hello, Anyone got some details about the 512 node Debian CLOWN cluster in English? I've seen it in the Debian news section for a couple weeks, but all of the hyperlinks are in German (at least the ones I followed), and was hoping there would be an english translation or summary. I'd like to k

RE: supressing header page

1998-12-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
Does it have a "header" page that just prints a few lines in the upper left corner, and does the header page follow the job? If it does, this is printed by the network interface on the printer. The trick to the jetdirect(?) cards is to telnet to them and turn off the banner. jim >-- >Fr

supressing header page

1998-12-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have found myself unable to supress the header/burst page on an hp5mp on the network. The print queue runs directly off my machine, but -h seems to be ignored. Ideally, i'd like to have a2ps supress burst pages as well; it's what I usually use for printing. rick --

zip disk eject (mzip)

1998-12-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
What's the trick to be able to use mzip as a user other than root? I have tried to set the suid and sgid bits as mentioned in the docs. That didn't work. I am using the version in slink on an up to date slink system. tia jim

Re: gtk program compile error

1998-12-22 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ gcc -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include > -ogtk > source/gtk.c Ahh, I forgot to include the gtklibs (I did a `gtk-config --libs`). Sorry to distrub everyone :) Chris <- Vi

gtk program compile error

1998-12-22 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm just starting to learn gtk and when I try to compile the below program, I get the below error message: - --- Program --- #include int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { GtkWidget *window; gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

Re: Getting mail

1998-12-22 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stardate 221298.0927: > Hi, > > Actually, to get mail from my ISP (POP3 server), I do > > pon > popclient -v mail.infonie.fr -u frleg > poff > > I would like my system to get automatically my mails : >every hours if I am not connected (so it will have

Re:Thanks re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> I am an idiot when it comes to computers. I wish I would have grown up with a > computer "in my hip pocket" like so many out there have today. Nahh, don't worry, it's a matter of practice. I wish I grew up with a computer in my hit pocket toobut unfortunately, I didnt. And my computer I hav

Re: how do i move all users from slakware to debian?

1998-12-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 06:36:19PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: : i am just moving our server on a new machine running debian, : unfortunately i do not know exactly on how to passon easily my users from : the old slackware machine to the new one, the new one having shadow : passwords thus

how do i move all users from slakware to debian?

1998-12-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am just moving our server on a new machine running debian, unfortunately i do not know exactly on how to passon easily my users from the old slackware machine to the new one, the new one having shadow passwords thus i assume i can't just copy the old passwd file to the new location...

Re: SIIG SCSI AP-10 PCI Adapter Debian Help?

1998-12-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
There is an Initio driver available on the Initio website. The driver is also in the latest kernel snapshots from Alan Cox. If this information does not help you, let me know and I'll get more specific. SIIG does not make its own cards. They just buy cheap ones and sell them with their name pas

Re: Meaning of "Failed Intel bug check"?

1998-12-22 Thread Mike Holliday
Seeing as Blair did not state what type of processor that he had was I took it to be a P II I see nowhere in his letter anything about him having a P Pro. In which case I would not of said that. Also I said to double check that infomation at Intel. Mike H. - Original Message - From: Sean J

Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option >under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some >maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running >system doesn't work v

Re: Safest way to SLINK

1998-12-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > I tried to upgrade to frozen Slink yesterday and it hosed my system. > (Could not find libncurses.so.4, which broke almost everything!) I spent > all day yesterday recovering but I would still like to use packages in the > slink tree. Has anyone else experienced this problem? What is the

Re: Why?!

1998-12-22 Thread Sean Johnson
I just set up a Linux partition for a friend of mine who is a dedicated WinBlows user, as he's been tinkering around with image editing stuff, and hasn't liked the software selection he's found for WinBlows. I mentioned the GIMP, and showed him what it looked like and some of the elementary stuf

Re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread Jim Crumley
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:06:49PM -0600, KTB wrote: > I did exactly steps 1 through 4 again and this time got an error message > saying the > file had to be owned by root. Does that mean I have to download the file > while signed > > in as root? I was in root during the attempt at installati

Re: vim and GTK

1998-12-22 Thread aqy6633
> > > If you read vim-dev, you should probably noticed that GTK+ support is > > > probably not for long...=20 > > > The contributor does not like the way his code was re-indented and > > > requested to remove it from further releases :) > > > He did not request it yet I think, but seeing his threa

Re: Getting mail

1998-12-22 Thread k e c h i e
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, to get mail from my ISP (POP3 server), I do > > pon > popclient -v mail.infonie.fr -u frleg > poff > > I would like my system to get automatically my mails : >every hours if I am not connected (so it will have to connect en

Re: Meaning of "Failed Intel bug check"?

1998-12-22 Thread Sean Johnson
Are you insane? That error does not have ANYTHING to do with the type of processor you have. I guess I have a fake PII chip in my PENTIUM PRO, as I too get that error. Sean Mike Holliday wrote: > Hi, > That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to > www.intel.com a

Safest way to SLINK

1998-12-22 Thread Ian Setford
I tried to upgrade to frozen Slink yesterday and it hosed my system. (Could not find libncurses.so.4, which broke almost everything!) I spent all day yesterday recovering but I would still like to use packages in the slink tree. Has anyone else experienced this problem? What is the "recommended

Re: vim and GTK

1998-12-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > If you read vim-dev, you should probably noticed that GTK+ support is > > probably not for long...=20 > > The contributor does not like the way his code was re-indented and > > requested to remove it from further releases :) > He did not request it yet I think, but seeing his threats it is ve

Re: mathpad bugs

1998-12-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On 22.12.1998., at 14:35, Erick Branderhorst wrote: >JR> There are two bug reports, and from what I can see, >JR> you are/were the maintainer of mathpad. But, now I >JR> can't find that package. Should the bugs (#2231 and >JR> #3312) be closed now? > >I don't maintain the package

How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-22 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't kill off the process u

Re:Thanks re: Loosing communicator file

1998-12-22 Thread KTB
Mark Phillips wrote: > > > It takes a while to get the hang of things, but you'll get there. > Have you had another go at getting X to work. It sounded before like > you were almost there. (You'll need to get X working before netscape > will work.) > I am an idiot when it comes to computers.

Re: Frontpage for Apache

1998-12-22 Thread Packy Anderson
Oliver Thuns writes: > Or are there good alternatives to FP for my customers (I don't know FP > and I don't need it). Actually, you don't need FP Extensions to use FrontPage; I'm quite happily using FrontPage for my day-job (my boss at the time _insisted_ that I use a tool of some kind, and I've g

Re: vim and GTK

1998-12-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Shaleh wrote: > Looks good. Keep the various Xaw based packages that way until gtk+ > 1.2 is final and happy. Then you should have a safe GTK+ for a while. > I really like the Xaw based one though. Sorry to see them switch. > Vim is fairly small and fast w/o any interpreters. I might

Re: vim and GTK

1998-12-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alex Yukhimets wrote: > 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-indented and > requested to remove it from further releases :) He did not request it yet I think, but seeing

Re: Frontpage for Apache

1998-12-22 Thread Robert Claeson
Oliver Thuns wrote: > Or are there good alternatives to FP for my customers (I don't know FP > and I don't need it). Netobjects Fusion comes to mind. I personally use Macromedia Dreamweaver, but it requires more knowledge of HTML than the former and Frontpage. Both NOF and DW uses normal FTP for

Majordomo and Exim

1998-12-22 Thread Randy Edwards
Is anyone successfully running Majordomo and Exim? I'm in the process of setting this combination up and am running into some major headaches; I was wondering if I could ask a few questions off-list to you if you don't mind... -- Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Linux: superior operatin

Need some apps.

1998-12-22 Thread mhooper
I am in the process of trying to ditch window$ for Linux. There are some apps I need for school, however, and I was wondering if you all could help me figure out what they are. I need PSpice, Matlab (I assume Octave is as close as it gets), LogicWorks, and Maple V. The PSpice has to be graphic.

Re: Frontpage for Apache

1998-12-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: : I have some customers who asked about Frontpage Extensions. : How could I install FP for Apache 1.3.3? : Do I have to patch Apache or could I build a FP module? Have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/FrontPage/wpp/SERK/a_source.h

Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?

1998-12-22 Thread shaul
I don't seem to have /etc/nmh/maildelivery. Should I be concerned about it ? [09:15:11 shaul]$ man slocal | grep -A 5 -B 5 /etc/nmh/maildelivery root, and must be writable only by the owner. If the .maildelivery file cannot be found, or does not perform an act

Moving partition

1998-12-22 Thread frleg
I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on / I have a swap partition /dev/hda3 I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root directory. I also can create a new swap partition (/dev/hdb5) Can I do this : 1 - Initialise /dev/hdb5 as a swap

Re: Netscape 4.5 glibc dies!

1998-12-22 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

Re: Why?!

1998-12-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 02:36:23AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > - M$'s decision to do the absurd merging of WinNT and Win95/8 into > Win2000 will guarantee new refugees from the M$ world, along with Hmmm. Offtopic I know, but why do you think it's absurd? If they actually go with the driver scheme

Frontpage for Apache

1998-12-22 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hi! I have some customers who asked about Frontpage Extensions. How could I install FP for Apache 1.3.3? Do I have to patch Apache or could I build a FP module? Are there security flaws with FP, what are your experiences? Or are there good alternatives to FP for my customers (I don't know FP and I

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
I had a weird experience when installing Netscape 4.5 using 'Hamm', in that I had to rename the netscape file that I downloaded before the install program would recognise it. When dselect trys to configure the netscape package it complained that it could not find the right file and gave a generic

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1998-12-22 Thread Oliver Thuns
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Re: \dev\psaux: operation not permitted and keyboard layout changing

1998-12-22 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Martin Waller wrote: > 1. The p60 has a ps2 mouse (at least, that's the connector type), but > gpm won't coinfigure it (it just gets stuck at trying ttyS0-ttyS3 at > various baud rates for ever), and when i try to force it to use > \dev\psaux i get an 'operation not permitt

Re: Printer configuration

1998-12-22 Thread Conrado Badenas
William R Ward wrote: > > I'm running hamm and wanted to set up a printer (HP OfficeJet). I > want PostScript files to be automatically filtered using ghostscript, > and text files to be printed in Courier. Have you tried package magicfilter? If you install it, you will have the following filter

Re: Margins in LaTeX

1998-12-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Dec 1998q, Daniel Elenius wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubs

Re: 2.1.125 and lilo

1998-12-22 Thread Marten Berggren - LUB NetLab
> I'll take a wild guess at this, although I've never seen the error message > before, so be warned... Warning taken... > My guess is that you kernel is above the cyl, sector, or whatever limit > that lilo has. As you said in your mail, if this were the case, it should be possible to revert to

RE: APM on Linux?

1998-12-22 Thread Chang, FKK
I'm experiencing the same. On my machine, suspend mode usually triggers a lockup after some while. Moreover, crontabs won't run and the system clock runs slow (well, not the system clock in BIOS but the Linux one); I also use the vgetty for faxing and that didn't work anymore either. So, I chos

FAQ (i guess): how to set up screen saver under X?

1998-12-22 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I guess this is a bit of a newbie question, but how do I get a screensaver to come up under X instaed of the screen just blanking? Martin __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

\dev\psaux: operation not permitted and keyboard layout changing

1998-12-22 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I've recently got a new 'old' computer (a p60) withy 2 ide channels instead of one where my secondary debian system used to live. So after recompiling the kernel to add pci bios support for the new 'old' p60, i threw the disks from the older 486 into the p60. Everything is fine and it work

Re: installing onto second hard drive

1998-12-22 Thread Andrew Catton
Thanks all for quick responses. Andrew Ivanov wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Andrew Catton wrote: > > > , but I am not sure if the > > instructions for installing Debian from a DOS partition apply if I would > > > > like to install it (exclusively) on a second hard drive from the > > download I ha

Getting mail

1998-12-22 Thread frleg
Hi, Actually, to get mail from my ISP (POP3 server), I do pon popclient -v mail.infonie.fr -u frleg poff I would like my system to get automatically my mails : every hours if I am not connected (so it will have to connect en disconnect by itself) every half an hour (for example) if I am

Re: Netscape 4.5 glibc dies!

1998-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Daniel Elenius wrote: > > 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

Re: WP8 Printer

1998-12-22 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:18:03PM -0500, AJ wrote: > > Ok got wordperfect 8 installed.. gotta say i like heres my only problem: > > i have an epson stylus color 800 printer.. my printer isnt listed with > the drivers.. > > so what one do i select and after that what do i fill in so that it > pr

Re: Is "frozen" currently broken?

1998-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ian Setford wrote: > > 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 > Talking about slink? No, I'm not aware of any problems with it now, but it w

ML.ORG replacement

1998-12-22 Thread John Fraizer
With the shutdown of ML.ORG, many users have been at a loss to find a replacement. I would like to announce that replacement. http://www.ez-ip.net EZ-IP is a free dynamic dns service that provides userid.dyn.ez-ip.net type addresses in much the same fashion that ML.ORG did. We currently have per

Re: Why?!

1998-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Lavoie wrote: > >[snip] > > The thing is that Windows 95 is NOT built to the 'standard linux user'. The > SLU often wants total control, doesn't fear command-line or 'error: 3' > things. Microsoft's way is evident. They wanted cash. So they needed to sell > as many copies as possible. To

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