Re: Audio CD & MP3

1999-02-03 Thread Eric
mp3info On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 06:26:56PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > So here's another similar question: what's a good utility for editing ID3 > tags? Or have I just not found it in bladeenc? > > Rob

RE: Pnpconf stuff

1999-02-03 Thread Shaleh
Installing isapnp is enough. You need to run pnpdump > pnpconf. Edit that and place it in /etc/isapnp.conf. On 03-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I have compiled a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel, and want to play with my > sound card :). To do this, I need (I think) to run isapnp befor

Pnpconf stuff

1999-02-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have compiled a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel, and want to play with my sound card :). To do this, I need (I think) to run isapnp before loading the sound module into the kernel (strictly, with the new kernel, kerneld will load it on demand, but that's another matter). So, I put the c

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread servis
*- On 3 Feb, trio wrote about "Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."" > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with >> >> APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut off. > >Has anyone else run into

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread homega
Diego Delgado Lages dixit: > > cat file-name | wc -l just tried it and it works, but: $ wc -l file-name works as well -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodet? --

Re: Audio CD & MP3

1999-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
So here's another similar question: what's a good utility for editing ID3 tags? Or have I just not found it in bladeenc? Rob -- Applause, n: The echo of a platitude from the mouth of a fool. -- Ambrose Bierce

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #198

1999-02-03 Thread Rune Linding Raun
well will pcmcia-cs 3.08 soon be ready so we can use pcmcia under kernel 2.2.1? its a very important package and iam disappointed that it takes so long before its bugfixed Graduate student Rune Linding Raun University of Copenhagenphone(home

Re: error with rescue disk

1999-02-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Aaron Walker wrote: > hello, > > When I try to boot the rescue disk (to install debian 2.0), > I get the following errors. > Anyone know what the problem is? Almost certainly the rescue disk is shot. Download a fresh copy, and write it to a new floppy. Matthew -- Elen sila

Re: netscape library dependencies?

1999-02-03 Thread Chris Ryan
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Chris Ryan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Further to this problem: I assumed that netscape is libc5 only, and > > There is a libc6 version of NS Communicator on ftp.netscape.com. > As you go deeper in the path, select the 'unsupported' branch when > you come to it. The

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread trio
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with > >> APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut off. Has anyone else run into this related problem? Basically i want to run server machines. That means i have them o

Re: netscape on Debian, libc5 or libc6?

1999-02-03 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi Phil, I finally got netscape going. It does use the libc5 libraries. I needed to install the xpm4.7 package to provide the missing libXpm.so.4 library (from /oldlibs/), and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to search /usr/lib/libc5-compat first. But it then worked fine. Cheers, Chris. Multi wrote: > > Chr

Re: exim and uucp

1999-02-03 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Carey, you wrote on: 03 Feb 99 at 23:51 (received 03.02.99) about : _Re: exim: I get mail but cannot send_ >>My responses are located with cryptic names in /var/spool/exim/input, >>obviously ready to be delivered but don't seem to get transmitted to my >>uucp provider. >/var/log/exim/*

Re: netscape library dependencies?

1999-02-03 Thread Chris Ryan
Johann Spies wrote: > > Hallo Chris, > > I am not an expert and Ed Cogburn's advice is more than I can give you. I > did not have any problem installing the Netscape Navigator with the debian > installation script. > > I hope you will solve the problem. > > Johann > > ---

error with rescue disk

1999-02-03 Thread Aaron Walker
hello, When I try to boot the rescue disk (to install debian 2.0), I get the following errors. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 crc errorVFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). init: error in loading shared libraries libnewt.so.0.21: cannot open

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:08:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my case, I had reprogrammed IRQ4 so when a char came in from the modem, I > could stuff it to a buffer for use later on, and send data to the buffer (and > ultimately use the IRQ to send it back out again when the buffer was fu

RE: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-03 Thread Brian Morgan
hmm .. . . I've run ./Runme, full install (successful), and still can't find the xwp executable. The only things in my wpbin directory are Readmes. Should I run the installer again? I've even tried using the "find" command, but to no avail. When I downloaded it, I put it in /usr/local/wp When I

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Wed Feb 3 17:18:14 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *- On 3 Feb, John Goerzen wrote about "Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System > halted."" > > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > >> I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by d

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:09:18AM +0800, ivan wrote: > > > > >If this code can work at all, then only if it is run as root, and even then > >I think you need a way to get permission from kernel (although I am not > >sure). Please check the source code of svgatextmode and svgalib. > > I tried che

SAMBA question

1999-02-03 Thread Daniel Elenius
Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: [Public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba/pub public = yes writable = yes printable = no write list = @staff (ie. the example in the smb.

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread servis
*- On 3 Feb, John Goerzen wrote about "Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."" > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >> I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with >> APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut off. > > My

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread Shaleh
> > My Alpha, which has zero APM suport either in the BIOS or in the kernel, > also displays that message. As Jason said, init defaults to signalling "Power Down" and not "Halt" in Debian's current setup. So if this matters, it is just an issue of changing this behavior.

Re: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-03 Thread Nate Mook
If you already ran ./Runme and installed it, then the executable is in /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/ and it's name is xwp. At least it was for me. Nate Mook [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. > Now what? What's the name of the executable and w

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread servis
*- On 3 Feb, Jason Gunthorpe wrote about "Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."" > > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I just did a little digging and found that the message is defined in the >> linux source in .../linux/kernel/sys.c. The message is dependent on >> how t

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread Nate Mook
> *- On 3 Feb, Navindra Umanee wrote about "[whine] "Power down." vs "System > halted."" > > Montreal Wed Feb 3 15:37:50 1999 > > > > My bo system used to say "System halted." everytime I halted the > > system but since I upgraded to hamm it sez "Power down.". Where has > > this changed? I gre

Re: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. > Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's > aren't helping. xwp PGP public key available at http://lynx.

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with > APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut off. My Alpha, which has zero APM suport either in the BIOS or in the kernel, also displays that message.

Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Mike Merten wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:47AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > After yesterdays X update to 3.3.2.3a-9 my system wanted to run xdm (I > > previously didn't use xdm). However, whenever I would log in, it would > > immediately return to the login screen.

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just did a little digging and found that the message is defined in the > linux source in .../linux/kernel/sys.c. The message is dependent on > how the system is going down. Somehow your system is triggering a > POWER_OFF rather than a HALT. Perha

dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-03 Thread Brian Morgan
I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's aren't helping. Brian Morgan

smbfs question?

1999-02-03 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I instaled smbfs module what I have to type in order to open a share in a win95 pc??? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread servis
*- On 3 Feb, Navindra Umanee wrote about "[whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."" > Montreal Wed Feb 3 15:37:50 1999 > > My bo system used to say "System halted." everytime I halted the > system but since I upgraded to hamm it sez "Power down.". Where has > this changed? I grepped for "Pow

[whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Wed Feb 3 15:37:50 1999 My bo system used to say "System halted." everytime I halted the system but since I upgraded to hamm it sez "Power down.". Where has this changed? I grepped for "Power" in /etc/init.d/* and /etc/*/* but couldn't find where to configure this. Please enlighten an

Re: Wierd Printer Problems

1999-02-03 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > My HP LaserJet 6L prints with very wierd characters. When you say "wierd characters" what exactly are you seeing? Does it print anything readable? What kind of a file are you using for your tests? Are you using a filters? I've seen magic filter dork the output when y

Vs: jobs don't seem to make it to printq while printing

1999-02-03 Thread SIITOIN PEKKA
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Re: no improvement using buffer with tar?

1999-02-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess I was a little disappointed with respect to its claims and its > actual performance. I would like to speed up my backup, as it is now a > backup of my system containing about 5.5Gigs takes almost 5.5hrs. That > is only about 275k/s transfer r

no improvement using buffer with tar?

1999-02-03 Thread servis
Has anybody used the buffer program to speed up tape backups? I have tried it on tar backups to my scsi-2 travan-4 drive and it either doesn't change the backup rate or actually slows it down. I am calling using a command like: tar --gzip --create --file - / | buffer -o /dev/nst0 I played with

Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-03 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:47AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After yesterdays X update to 3.3.2.3a-9 my system wanted to run xdm (I > previously didn't use xdm). However, whenever I would log in, it would > immediately return to the login screen. I decided to remove xdm, but now > when I try to

jobs don't seem to make it to printq while printing

1999-02-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've occasionally noticed this before, but rarely print multiple things at a time. my printcap entry is thequname:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :rm=itsinternetname:rp=raw: I'm using lpr if it makes a difference. However, on other occasions, things seem

fetchmail error

1999-02-03 Thread Ingo Hohmann
fetchmail ran well for some time, but now I get the error: skipping message 880 not flushed reading message 881 of 1261 (3233 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@public.uni-hamburg.de> : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: SMTP

Re: Slink CDs available

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, Will you be making CD images of the other architectures to be carried in slink as well, so those can be tested? Thanks, John On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:59:11AM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote: > > With the Bug count under 20 now, I figure it's time for some final > testing of Slink. > > For CD

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread William Schwartz
That worked GREAT. Thank you very much. will -Original Message- From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 2:20 PM Subject: Re: X problems after an update > >On 03-Feb-99 William Schwartz

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/3/99 12:54:34 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's just not possible with a multi-user multi-tasking OS, > particularly one like unix which has to present the same abstract > model on completely different hardware. > > If one program "messes with"

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread Shaleh
On 03-Feb-99 William Schwartz wrote: >>I just upgraded myself and have run into quite a few problems. First >>see if the file ~/.xsessions_errors (?) is produced. For me there was >>a shell programming error in /etc/X11/Xsession that needed to be >>corrected. > > > Yep. There are some reported

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread William Schwartz
>I just upgraded myself and have run into quite a few problems. First >see if the file ~/.xsessions_errors (?) is produced. For me there was >a shell programming error in /etc/X11/Xsession that needed to be >corrected. Yep. There are some reported. It says: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: et

OFFTOPIC: Linux Journal & changing adress

1999-02-03 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all anybody knows how many time does it needs to reflect an adress change in the "subscription info" page to be reflected? Thanks in advance, Ulisses - - "C

resc disk not recognized for install

1999-02-03 Thread Sean Gallaher
I am trying to install Debian Linux on a Compaq laptop with 4 MB of ram using floppies. The lowmem disk works just fine to partition my hard disk. Then the rescue disk boots up okay too. However, when I get to the "load Linux kernel" stage, it doesn't recognize my rescue disk. I have made 3 diff

Redhat Printer Configuration File For Debian?

1999-02-03 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello! I noticed someone mentioned about a printer configuration tool from Redhat under X Windows which got my interest. Is there a specific rpm or hopefully... a Deb version of it so I can get and install to see if I can get this stupid printer that is attached to the Win95 workable from

Re: Latex / TeTex Local Guide

1999-02-03 Thread Johann Spies
On 3 Feb 1999, Gossamer wrote: > Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... > > /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/base/usrguide.dvi > > /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.dvi > > /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.ps > > Odd. > > /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general doesn't exist on my box: > > > ls

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen). > And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I > didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but > now after doing the

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread David Wright
Sorry, forgot to do /group/ reply... Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 2/3/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > > The whole purpose of the Linux kernel is to protect the hardware from the > > user processes. > > I for one sa

Re: Slink Base Install RANT

1999-02-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 17:56 (+), Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:04:23AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > *** GET RID OF THE GODDAMN BLANK LINES IN THE MODULE DESCRIPTIONS! *** > > $ patch -p1 modconf < nice-rant > Error: Need descriptions. Send me patches. ;-) > > > Wh

installation using parallel port cd-drive

1999-02-03 Thread pizzinini
I want to install debian linux 2.0 on my computer. I have an HP omnibook 600c and a Microsolutions backpack cd-rom 16770. The cd-rom is connected to the omnibook over the parallel port. I also have -bootdisk (resc1440.bin) -cd rom "debian linux 2.0" -floppy drive for the omnibook I can boot from

X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread William Schwartz
Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen). And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but now after doing the update, it no longer works. The error I'm getting is

Cant get my mouse to work under X

1999-02-03 Thread David Peterson
Hi! I have a Genius Easy Mouse, and cant get it to work with X windows, is there anyone who knows how to config Xwindows so it works with this mouse? David

Wierd Printer Problems

1999-02-03 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
My HP LaserJet 6L prints with very wierd characters. For a brief moment, I could print quite well. Then I recompiled the kernel and now it prints gobblety gook. How should I configure my kernel so that I have all the correct modules? Which modules should be kept as modules, which should be b

dns/bind question

1999-02-03 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, I have a Linux box at home that isn't connected to Internet (i haven't a modem yet :-( ). I need to configure this guy so that I have a working dns that be able to answer correctly requests for its name (paracleto). Does somebody has a recipe about how to configure bi

Re: unzipping wp

1999-02-03 Thread Daniel ANDRE
Brian Morgan a écrit : > I've just downloaded wordperfect onto /usr/local/wp and am having trouble > unzipping it. Maybe it's just because I'm a newbie and haven't got the hang > of it yet. I type: gunzip -fd GUILG00.GZ and get the following error: > "gunzip: GUILG00.GZ: not in gzip format."

Re: Break Key

1999-02-03 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: > No, sorry but that does not work. When i start an traceroute > on a cisco and she get stuck, the send brk does nothing. My suggestion to this problem is to reconfigure the Cisco box a little. What I have done is I reconfigured the box a little so that it accepts Ctrl

Re: unzipping wp

1999-02-03 Thread wtopa
Subject: unzipping wp Date: Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:51:14AM -0600 In reply to:Brian Morgan Quoting Brian Morgan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I've just downloaded wordperfect onto /usr/local/wp and am having trouble > unzipping it. Maybe it's just because I'm a newbie and haven't got

Re: suggestion (was Re: 2.0 install problems)

1999-02-03 Thread Jeff Katcher
ivan wrote: > > At 01:55 PM 2/2/99 -0500, Richard Hall wrote: > >Sounds like he needs a boot floppy with iso9660 support compiled in. Why > >it's not there to begin with is beyond me. > > > >This seems like a really common problem with Debian installs. Someone > >needs a custom boot floppy in

Re: unzipping wp

1999-02-03 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/3/99 10:55:59 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've just downloaded wordperfect onto /usr/local/wp and am having trouble > unzipping it. Maybe it's just because I'm a newbie and haven't got the hang > of it yet. I type: gunzip -fd GUILG00.GZ and get t

Re: network question

1999-02-03 Thread shitsu
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wesley Simon wrote: >This isn't really a Debian specific question. > > >I'm running Debian 2.0 on a machine with 1 10baseT network card. > >I use this as a Quake server on my LAN. I would like to add a >10/100baseT card to it so that there are 2 network cards. I would >then l

Simple GUI to user/shell commands

1999-02-03 Thread Pedro Sebastiao
Hi, I wrote a simple perl-Tk script (based on the widget script) easily configurable which generates X-windows GUI interfaces for user/shell commands. It is not bullet-proof but I find it useful, since it avoids the overload of programing a new GUI for each program/script I write and use interact

[Debian] sid on PowerPC ?

1999-02-03 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'd like to install Debian on a Powermac. I found the base* and driver disks in the disks-ppc directory, but there is no boot disk and no info on how to start the installation. Any ideas how to do this? Nico -- --- system failure ... hit any us

Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-03 Thread Peter Granroth
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:47AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After yesterdays X update to 3.3.2.3a-9 my system wanted to run xdm (I > previously didn't use xdm). However, whenever I would log in, it would > immediately return to the login screen. I decided to remove xdm, but now > when I try to

unzipping wp

1999-02-03 Thread Brian Morgan
I've just downloaded wordperfect onto /usr/local/wp and am having trouble unzipping it. Maybe it's just because I'm a newbie and haven't got the hang of it yet. I type: gunzip -fd GUILG00.GZ and get the following error: "gunzip: GUILG00.GZ: not in gzip format." Am I doing something wrong? Is t

Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-03 Thread Eloy A. Paris
I uploaded last Monday to unstable the new Debian packages for Samba. They are waiting to be installed and will take a little bit longer because there are several new packages. peloy.- Bjorn Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm interested in knowing wheather there is a debian-pac

Re: Gnome-Panel

1999-02-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I think I've got a good guess. You've also got the kde installed, right? What's happening is that the kde has installed the 'Disk Navigator' which puts a hardlink from / in /usr/share/apps. The gnome panel recursively scans /usr/share/apps to build its directories resulting in an endless loop. Un

X woes (potato)

1999-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
After yesterdays X update to 3.3.2.3a-9 my system wanted to run xdm (I previously didn't use xdm). However, whenever I would log in, it would immediately return to the login screen. I decided to remove xdm, but now when I try to run X using startx, I get the gray screen and cursor (the window man

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/3/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > However I am stuck now on implementing interrupts - specifically int 0x10. > > Are you poking fun? Do you really think it should be allowed for any user to > program interrupts? > > The whole purpose o

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records > (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save > the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. wc -l will do one file. Either write a shell script, or have a look at man wc

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Diego Delgado Lages
cat file-name | wc -l On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jay Barbee wrote: > Hey all, > > I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records > (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save > the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. >

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
Are you in the CST time zone (6 hours from UTC)? If that is the case, you might be configured to use UTC but are net setting it that way. After you set the system clock, you need to set the CMOS clock with 'hwclock --systohc --utc'. Here is what I put in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/checktime: #!/bin/sh r

Re: How to force re-installing a package?

1999-02-03 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Mamoun Alissali wrote: > I've done a very stupid thing taht removed the /bin/cat binary, > so I think I have to reinstall the textutils package (is there any > other/better > solution?), but can't do it since it is marked installed/up-to-date. How > do I force dselect to rein

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Graham Ashton
On 3 Feb, Jay Barbee wrote: >>for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ >> echo -n $a >> seperate_file; \ >> echo -n ":::" >> seperate_file; \ >> wc -l $a >> seperate_file; \ >>done > > How would I gather a list of all TXT files in the directory before this and > pass each file to this script. replac

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread ivan
>Are you poking fun? Do you really think it should be allowed for any user to >program interrupts? No - not poking fun and I don't believe that any user should have access to interrupts. This programme is compiled/run as root. > >The whole purpose of the Linux kernel is to protect the hardware

Re: Tracking installs

1999-02-03 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/2/99 7:41:32 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpo.gc.ca writes: > > 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after > > dpkg does it's configuration. > > You can archive everything under /etc for that (config files). > Anything else done in pos

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 08:01:07PM +0800, ivan wrote: > Sorry again for the off-topic post - I've made what I think is quite a lot > of progress in as much as I can now get the asssembler compiled and > sometimes running. > > However I am stuck now on implementing interrupts - specifically int 0x1

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/2/99 6:54:59 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text > terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so on. Once I'm in X, this > doesn't work. It seems as if one has to quit X to return to o

LILO riddle

1999-02-03 Thread schulte
Hi, my little server at home (old 486, no floppy) gets a larger hard drive hdc (540 MB ;-). I copied partitions from old drive hda to the new one (cp -ax ...). I want to switch the drives, the new one becoming hda. Simply dd'ing the MBR from one drive to the other will probably not help, since th

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Ivan Sorry again for the off-topic post - I've made what I think is quite a lot of progress in as much as I can now get the asssembler compiled and sometimes running. However I am stuck now on implementing interrupts - specifically int 0x10. Everytime I run this code I get a

Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Björn Elwhagen wrote: > I'm interested in knowing wheather there is a debian-package of Samba > 2.0.0. If there isn't any and if there is gonna take time for it to be > available i might just install the tar-ball instead. Perhaps at bit more > hassle but... They are in the project/experimental/ di

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: : On 02 Feb 1999q, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: : > : > 'Fraid I can't help you with that. I usually just download the raw : > kernel source and use make-kpkg to get a kernel-image*.deb. I've never : > had a need to build the kernel-source and kernel-h

audio devices...

1999-02-03 Thread Alan Su
i just did a fresh install of slink, and for some reason, the audio devices (most notably /dev/audio and /dev/dsp) were not created. was this done by design? anyway, i created the necessary devices by doing '(cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV audio)' as root. the devices were created, but the ownership of the

Re: Break Key

1999-02-03 Thread Daniel Marquez-Klaka
Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > Press ctrl ] > > This will take you bake to the telnet prompt, the type > > send brk > > press enter > > That will do it (works for a 2503 via a Dec Terminal server anyway) > > Pat No, sorry but that does not work. When i start an traceroute on a cisco and she get

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Jay Barbee wrote: > >> I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records > >> (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and > >> save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. > > > >for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ > > echo -n $

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Jay Barbee
At 2/3/99 04:03 PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote: >Jay Barbee wrote: >> I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records >> (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save >> the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. > >for

Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-03 Thread Björn Elwhagen
Hello! I'm interested in knowing wheather there is a debian-package of Samba 2.0.0. If there isn't any and if there is gonna take time for it to be available i might just install the tar-ball instead. Perhaps at bit more hassle but... Regards // Marwin -- | Björn Elwhagen aka Marwin

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Dale E. Martin
Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > > I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records > (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save > the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. wc -l Later, Dal

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Jay Barbee wrote: > I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records > (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save > the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ echo -n $a >> seperate_file

try to find drivers for perl postgresql database

1999-02-03 Thread Douret Patrick
Hello I am trying to find in Debian's pakages the following drivers: DBD and DBI for perl postgresql database. Please, could you tell me wher I can get them. Thank you. Patrick. HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-02-03 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 03-Feb-1999, Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the Bug count under 20 now, I figure it's time for some final > testing of Slink. Should anyone want slink CDs in Australia, rather than download a few gigabytes of CD images or updates, you may want to grab them from me on a few b

Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread Jay Barbee
Hey all, I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. Thanks, --Jay

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-03 Thread Tim Heuser
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Tim Heuser wrote: > > > > I seem to be missing libxpm.so.4 or so my system tells me when I try to run > > netscape. While in Linux I can't download it from anywhere! Suposedly > > there is a ver. ...so.4.8, never saw it, but I did find a few places with > > 4.7, but I could

Re: minicom config

1999-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Feb 1999q, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I find I can't run minicom as user, because I get a message saying: > > "Cannnot open /dev/ttyS3: Permission denied." > > What am I supposed to do about this? Changing the permissions on /dev/ttyS3 > doesn't seem like a good idea. Sorry to foll

Re: LILO hassles

1999-02-03 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Wed Feb 03, 1999 at 07:34:08AM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just changed from suse-linux to debian. My installation is simmilar > > to the yours, only that my first hd has 1233 cylinders. If i start > > linux i get an : > > LILO > > UNCOMPRESSING KERNELOK LOADING LINUX

Re: LILO hassles

1999-02-03 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> Hello, > > I just changed from suse-linux to debian. My installation is simmilar > to the yours, only that my first hd has 1233 cylinders. If i start > linux i get an : > LILO > UNCOMPRESSING KERNELOK LOADING LINUX > > and than it hangs. > THats probably the kernel, since according to thi

Re: Break Key

1999-02-03 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Wed Feb 03, 1999 at 01:12:24PM +, Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: > Hello, > > How can i send an "break" through an xterm ?? > > Example: when i telnet to an cisco, the ctrl-D key don't work. > > Daniel Press ctrl ] This will take you bake to the telnet prompt, the type send brk press en

Re: on linux mail, dns, http server

1999-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
> hi ! my only experience w/ linux involves only machines w/ dynamic IP's > and i was wondering whether someone can help me w/ a few questions when you > really have a domain of ur own. > > 1. i am setting up a box w/ a static IP (say a.b.c.20). and w/ a just > registered domain (say kewl

Re: minicom config

1999-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Feb 1999q, Carey Evans wrote: > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ~$ minicom d > > minicom: there is no global configuration file /etc/minirc.d > > Ask your sysadm to create one (with minicom -s). > > Why "d"? Just "minicom" is all I've needed, except on the dialup > server with four m

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