Re: Envio da Debian em Portugu?s

1999-08-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, Quoting Gleydson Mazioli da Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ola pessoal, Eu fiz os testes com a Debian em Português e ela esta funcionando 100% !!! Passei o dia procurando um FTP para poder fazer os lancamentos dos discos de instalacao da distribuicao (boot-floppies) e consegui

Re: Envio da Debian em Portugu?es

1999-08-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
em quando (eles icentivam muito o uso do Linux e desejam ajudar no que for necessário!). Em troca, a única coisa que garanti a eles, terão o reconhecimento de ser o local onde serão lancadas as versões em Português da Debian!. Dessa vez eu fiquei chateado contigo. :) Você

Download da Debian em Português

1999-08-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Onde está, como pego, como uso? :-) Ola Lalo Paulo e demais participantes da Lista, O sistema de instalação da Debian em Português está disponível para Download em ftp://ftp2.escelsanet.com.br/debian Por enquanto enviei somente a versão para computadores x86(386,486,Pentium, Pentium II,

Download da Debian em Português

1999-08-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Onde está, como pego, como uso? :-) Ola Lalo Paulo e demais participantes da Lista, O sistema de instalação da Debian em Português está disponível para Download em ftp://ftp2.escelsanet.com.br/debian Por enquanto enviei somente a versão para computadores x86(386,486,Pentium, Pentium II,

Site do Linux Labs

1999-08-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ola pessoal, Alguém sabe o que está acontecendo no site do LinuxLabs? http://linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/debian-pt Tentei entrar lá para ver o andamento dos projetos mas estou recebendo a mensagem: A URL solicitada não pode ser recuperada. --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Manual de Instalação em Português nas Web Pages da Debian

1999-08-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Pessoal a última versão do Manual de instalação da Debian em Português foi incluido hoje nas Web pages oficiais da Debian. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br

Manual de Instalação da Debian em Português nas Web Pages

1999-08-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ah, só para completar: Como ainda não temos a página 'stable' traduzida para o Português, é necessário adicionar .pt na url do manual de instação (é mostrada a versão em Inglês como padrão) ou usar diretamente a URL: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.pt Pessoal a última versão

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
That's odd, considering i tried it just now and it worked perfectly. Make sure you use the search engine at the address i gave, and not the one linked from the search button on the main page. They are different. Yep, I used their search button (which doesn't work). The search form field works

Czech and emacs

1999-08-29 Thread mcclosk
Debian Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am desperately trying to insert a z with caron (it looks like | this: | . | | Could someone tell me what packages I need and what I have to do | then to insert this character into my emacs buffer? It wasn't clear to me from your message

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I came up with a better idea (I think). file, we all love file, right? file has a database of what various file types look like, so it will tell you if text is C code, html, text, a staticly linked file, or whatever. file rocks. All file is: a frontend to a database of file types. Get ready: 2

Re: Install problem: LI, than nothing else

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I've run into thsi problem when my bios was set for AUTO for teh HD, try each of the options, I think just plain 'NORMAL' worked for me. I've run into this a lot. Futz with bios setting for the HD type. --dave On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Walthier Mate Tamas wrote: Hi! I'm a real beginner so please

where's a good howto for dpkg?

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
I'm having issues trying to install single applications from the cdrom. For example I can't find xawtv using dselect on the cdrom so I can install xawtv to my harddrive. Using '/' with dselect doesn't find xawtv, and when I type dpkg -i xawtv_2.19-1.deb I get no such file or directory errors. I

how do I tell pine to use a custom reply-to address?

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I don't want it to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] my username is not my email address and my user-domain si not my mailserver. help? --dave (luckily it is the same as my suername @ school, so I can set it to that temporarily)

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
Greg Heather Vence wrote: How do I get apt to see it? Thanx again -- Greg. Sorry, I don't use apt. I just download the deb I want and then use 'dpkg -i deb_name.deb' John - Original Message - From: John Carline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian, User debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Aug, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)? How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost Not everyone has the telnet service open and the prompt is

Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
Using '/' with dselect doesn't find xawtv, and when I type dpkg -i xawtv_2.19-1.deb I get no such file or directory errors. I got the name xawtv_2.19-1.deb by doing a search for xawtv on debian.org. maybe the file name I'm using is wrong. Oh I forgot to mention, when I type apt-get install xawtv

gnome, soundcard... not working quite right

1999-08-29 Thread Jaron Abbott
I finally got my net connection up and running, and am most impressed at how easy it is to install new software using dselect! My GUI and soundcard, however, are still not working quite right. I have a SoundBlaster PCI128. I recompiled the kernel with the es1370 driver, which is supposed to

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... *- On 28 Aug, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)? How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost to find out info about the other

Re: gnome, soundcard... not working quite right

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackmad
Check if you *have* a /dev/sndstat, teh module might be loaded with no device to work with. If not, then (as root) cd /dev, ./MAKEDEV audio --dave On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Jaron Abbott wrote: I finally got my net connection up and running, and am most impressed at how easy it is to install new

FILER idea, futz with pine

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackmad
due to my futzing with pine, all of my mail has been directed to msotly bizarre non existant email addresses, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry for being so *stupid* --David Blackma aka dave aka Whizziwig

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote: I came up with a better idea (I think). [...] Get ready: 2 programs filer apt-get-filer [...] You know, this idea isn't bad :) I could honestly see this thing working out, though there would be some pathelogical cases.. $ filer

Re: gnome, soundcard... not working quite right

1999-08-29 Thread Jaron Abbott
Yup, it's there. MAKEDEV audio seems to run okay, cat sndstat still returns the same response. In case it's relevant, I don't think I mentioned that I'm running Potato. Thanks David Blackmad wrote: Check if you *have* a /dev/sndstat, teh module might be loaded with no device to work with.

Re: gnome, soundcard... not working quite right

1999-08-29 Thread Jaron Abbott
Yup, it's there. MAKEDEV audio seems to run okay, cat sndstat still returns the same response. In case it's relevant, I don't think I mentioned that I'm running Potato. Thanks David Blackmad wrote: Check if you *have* a /dev/sndstat, teh module might be loaded with no device to work with.

Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
André Bell wrote: I'm having issues trying to install single applications from the cdrom. For example I can't find xawtv using dselect on the cdrom so I can install xawtv to my harddrive. Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect from a command prompt; went

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackmad
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote: I came up with a better idea (I think). [...] Get ready: 2 programs filer apt-get-filer [...] You know, this idea isn't bad :) I could honestly see this thing working out,

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I can't compile Ted (richtext word processor) I keep getting the error ld: cannot open -lXm: No such file or directory Usually this means that the -L is set wrong but it says: (beginning clipped) -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:08:16PM -0500, David Blackmad wrote: I thought of this, heck what about an executable bash, tcsh, kernel-source, gdb... Heh heh -- I didn't even think about executables. Of course, for some java or other binfmt binaries, that might be sotr of nice. shrug But,

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackmad
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:08:16PM -0500, David Blackmad wrote: I thought of this, heck what about an executable bash, tcsh, kernel-source, gdb... Heh heh -- I didn't even think about executables. Of course, for some java or other binfmt

Re: StarOffice 5.1

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 28-Aug-1999, Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB system. But it does a decent job

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Is there any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? clear /tmp/clear.txt cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue HTH, Pete. PS. clear is in ncurses-bin

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:20:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Is there any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? clear /tmp/clear.txt cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue If memory serves, the redirection gets

Re: ICQ client

1999-08-29 Thread ferret
I've been a zicq user for several months. Works great, if you don't use -O or -O2 optimisation to compile it. : On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my

Re: What CD vendor ?

1999-08-29 Thread John Foster
Tony Schonfeld wrote: hello , I have become a unconditional user of DEBIAN and will not want to change for an other version. Each time that I have tried other thing ( Suse, mandrake ) I have found that there was a void . It is well true that when one has tried debian for a long

Re: How to get the good kernel from boot diskette to hard drive

1999-08-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for the info. I have some more info, for anyone who's following this thread, and some questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] : see questions 1+2 below--I wasn't sure exactly where to send this). Info: the site referred to in the release notes is

Re: ICQ client

1999-08-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Nathan Sandver wrote: This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my old I use MICQ. It's public domain and the latest version (0.3.4) is almost even stable - at least when it loses its

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 05:43:09PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: to find out info about the other machine... why not try the following ?? ( an expect script can gather the info quickly ? Is this not exactly the purpose of queso? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid

Re: Install problem: LI, than nothing else

1999-08-29 Thread KaHa
Walthier Mate Tamas wrote: I tought I've allready installed DebinLinux but I never got over the LI after several times. Try putting the line: linear in your /etc/lilo.conf, right below the line that says compact. Then run /usr/sbin/lilo, and reboot. An other problem: I created a bootdisc

RE: ICQ client

1999-08-29 Thread B. Szyszka
This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my old Win98 box, but I keep it around for just that one thing. Please keep me CC'd, as I don't subscribe to this list. Thanks. A great site on various ICQs for

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mark to find out info about the other machine... why not try the following ?? ( an expect script can gather the info quickly ? Is this not exactly the purpose of queso? donno i don't go poking around on other people smachines... but now I want to figure out how to do

Locking up X the debian way?

1999-08-29 Thread Chris someone
Hi there, thanks to every one who responded to my post to configure X, well I was editing the wrong file: /etc/Server and I should of been editing /etc/Xserver. I have X up and running fine now, and now I have a few qestions about locking up X. When I start X I have this command in

Memory management

1999-08-29 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. Ever since I went from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 (Still glibc2.0), my system has been having an interesting memory management. 1. When Iboot the syste up, memory consumed is right where it should be. Shortly after a startup, memory usage goes from 20M (Right after boot) to completely fill

Still can't get a DHCP address

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Lesage
Well, I'm still unable to get an IP address, using either dhcpcd or dhclient under slink. I'm using loadlin to boot the computer (LILO won't install on it). I'm including (1) the contents of my loadlin param file. (2) is a dump of dmesg. There's a number of errors in there (apache, for example)

finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect from a command prompt; went through the steps Access, Update and Select; and xawtv wasn't found listed under xtr x11? It should be there, at least thats where it is on my slink cheapbytes CD. dang, I thought debian

PCB DESIGN SERVICE

1999-08-29 Thread cad consultancy
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PCB DESIGN SERVICE

1999-08-29 Thread cad consultancy
CAD CONSULTANCY CAD CONSULTANCY (CADS) , India is a premier PCB design house providing high quality designs at affordable cost and with in short turn around times. We undertake designs from simple to very complex multilayer boards. Our customers include Defence labs, aerospace

PCB DESIGN SERVICE

1999-08-29 Thread cad consultancy
CAD CONSULTANCY CAD CONSULTANCY (CADS) , India is a premier PCB design house providing high quality designs at affordable cost and with in short turn around times. We undertake designs from simple to very complex multilayer boards. Our customers include Defence labs, aerospace

help

1999-08-29 Thread Beverley Eyre
Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. I got this addy from the debian webpage. Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend a hand? TAI Bev Beverley Eyre

Re: help

1999-08-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Beverley Eyre wrote: Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. I got this addy from the debian webpage. Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend a hand? TAI Bev Beverley Eyre If you are asking how to join the

Re: help

1999-08-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Beverley Eyre wrote: Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. I got this addy from the debian webpage. Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend a hand? ---end quoted text--- Hi Beverly, Second question first. Yes, this is a

Partitioning done. And then?

1999-08-29 Thread Hans van den Boogert
I have one of those bright days and for the life of me can't think of how to proceed. 1) I made the following partitioning. /dev/hda5 50M (for /) /dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP) /dev/hda7 250M (for /var) /dev/hda8 550M (for /usr) /dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local) /dev/hda10 1500M (for

Re: KDE doesn't start after crash

1999-08-29 Thread Gerald . Preissler
I'm not sure about this, but you might get around your problem by deleting or renameing your ~/.kde and ~/.kderc. You will lose the settings for your kde progs, though. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: Partitioning done. And then?

1999-08-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hans, the traditional way of tackling multiple filesystems is to mount all those filesystems *before* installing. I suppose after-the-fact isn't impossible.. A few notes -- each filesystem will have a lost+found directory. cp probably won't do such a good job of moving everything. One common

Re: Partitioning done. And then?

1999-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hans 1) I made the following partitioning. /dev/hda5 50M (for /) /dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP) /dev/hda7 250M (for /var) /dev/hda8 550M (for /usr) /dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local) /dev/hda10 1500M (for /home) 2) I installed the base on /dev/hda5 and I can boot with

Where to from here guys ... help next steps for newbie sprog, WINZ refugee

1999-08-29 Thread John D Smith
Hi all, I recently traded an older s Pentium machine, I have loaded and configured it as aWeb Server via the profile choiceduring installation, So far so good. I have one or two errors, like Apache not firing up. and lynx cant find my domain, my next comment may have been fielded here

[Debian: Install] SCSI-Controller with AIC 6x60

1999-08-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have tried it again to install the BASE of Debian 2.1 from Floppy. OK, it works. But now I must install the SCSI-Controller AH1502 (AIC 6x60). In the BASE installation is no option to select Adaptec controller. How can I install it ??? I have this question, because the controller is

Re: [Debian: Install] SCSI-Controller with AIC 6x60

1999-08-29 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
But now I must install the SCSI-Controller AH1502 (AIC 6x60). In the BASE installation is no option to select Adaptec controller. How can I install it ??? I searched through archives a few days ago about installing driver for adaptec ava-1505 (ISA bus). In one post, the author said that

How to kill a process (if kill -9 does not work)?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi there! I ran into a problem today where xcdroast crashed several times when reading a cd image off a cd and I wanted to kill it. No big thing I thought, send it a SIGTERM, if this does not work, use a SIGKILL. Well, I did so but after I sent it a SIGTERM using kill -s 9 processid `ps` still

nfsroot package (applying to become a maintainer)

1999-08-29 Thread Olivier Kaloudoff
Hello . the package nfsroot is in : project/orphaned/nfsroot_0.5.1.tar.gz (as of Debian 2.1), but i found some related tools which could me merged with nfsroot and provide a better tool. How can i become part of the Debian maintainers ? Olivier Kaloudoff

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 18:38:05 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Ted required statically linked versions of the libraries... You may want to use the source package from unstable then; it produces a dynamically linked Ted package. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: nfsroot package (applying to become a maintainer)

1999-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: How can i become part of the Debian maintainers ? Load package developers-reference and follow the instructions in chapter 2. However, ignore the bit about waiting 7-14 days; at the moment it's more like 7-14 months, because the new-maintainers team is

xcdroast and audio

1999-08-29 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I can mount both my cdrom and my cdrw with data cds. When trying to mount an audio cd I just get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems my fstab looks like /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto

xinetd vs rlinetd

1999-08-29 Thread meridian
Hi, I was thinking of changing inetd to something with a little more logging capabilites, however there seems to be two available alternatives, xinetd which appears to have bbeen around some time, and rlinetd which is new but admits it has been somewhat ripped off of xinetd. I havent done a

Need ä in a label, in a plot.

1999-08-29 Thread Patrik Magnusson
I've been using 'gnuplot' and 'gri' for a while to produce neat-looking plots. 'gnuplot' for the simpler stuff, and 'gri' whenever I needed greek letters in the labels. Last night I got stuck. I need an ä (a with two dots above) in one of the labels. In 'gnuplot' I tried to set label ...ä...,

Re: Need ä in a label, in a plot.

1999-08-29 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrik Magnusson) writes: ! LaTeX Error: Command \Diamond not provided in base LaTeX2e. Hmm, there is something annoyingly magical about this list: Whenever I write to it the answer sits staring in my face ten seconds later. All I needed

Re: Need ä in a label, in a plot.

1999-08-29 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Patrik Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run latex on this file I get a heap of error messages: ! LaTeX Error: Command \Diamond not provided in base LaTeX2e. My LaTeX Companion says on page 184 that \Diamond was defined in LaTeX 2.09, but it is no longer defined in the base setup of

Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Barry Rueger
Wow - linux is not for the faint of heart. After a number iterations of deselect I have both Xwindows and netscape happening. I have to say that dselect seems to be pretty good at keeping track of what has and hasn't been installed, and making sure that it gets fixed the next time around.

Re: http - telnet

1999-08-29 Thread Kris
Oz Dror wrote: The problem with httptunnel is that at work I have windows 95 computer and I am not alowed to install any software on it. In fact each night any installed software is erased. Do I have two problem 1. I do not know of htc for windows 95 2. I am not sure that I can get away by

Re: Locking up X the debian way?

1999-08-29 Thread Markus Fischer
Once upon a time (around Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:09:51PM -0700 i think) Chris someone told me : My next qestion is, is there any thing else I can do to lock up X? Can someone point me to X secure howto? Any help on this would be very help full. If I unterstand you, you want to lock

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Barry Rueger wrote: A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they likely to be kept? Config files are named however the

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread Greg Heather Vence
- Original Message - Greg Heather Vence wrote: How do I get apt to see it? Thanx again -- Greg. Sorry, I don't use apt. I just download the deb I want and then use 'dpkg -i deb_name.deb' John Could it be downloaded into the standard location for dselect to use and then

HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-29 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of capacity. The last time I was on the computer I had screen with emacs open, and TCD. I have not downloading any other information. Any suggestions on what I can check out to figure out how my harddrive reached this

Re: HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about HD full, 50% yesterday I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of capacity. The last time I was on the computer I had screen with emacs open, and TCD. I have not downloading any other information. Any suggestions on

Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
André Bell wrote: Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect from a command prompt; went through the steps Access, Update and Select; and xawtv wasn't found listed under xtr x11? It should be there, at least thats where it is on my slink cheapbytes CD.

Re: HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-29 Thread Andrei Ivanov
*- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about HD full, 50% yesterday I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of capacity. The last time I was on the computer I had screen with emacs open, and TCD. I have not downloading any other information. Any

Learning motif programing using lesstif?

1999-08-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to learn mottif programing using lesstif instead of motif? and if so, is can anyone recommand any good documentation? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

basic easy to learn x toolkit

1999-08-29 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for some basic minimal easy to learn x toolkit. What i need is to display some simple graphics on the screen. I am looking to do some simple mathematic algorithm checking, and i need to disply single pixles in a window with control of their collor, using c and c++. Is there a simple

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
Greg Heather Vence wrote: - Original Message - Greg Heather Vence wrote: How do I get apt to see it? Thanx again -- Greg. Sorry, I don't use apt. I just download the deb I want and then use 'dpkg -i deb_name.deb' John Could it be downloaded into the

Re: Learning motif programing using lesstif?

1999-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to learn mottif programing using lesstif instead of motif? and if so, is can anyone recommand any good documentation? Yes, the goal of Lesstif is 100% source compatibility with Motif. From what I've

Database Conversion questions??

1999-08-29 Thread John Foster
I have a series of large batabases that I need to be able to download from a website. They are in the MSDOS zipped format so I think the server and the system are managed using NT. The program that they are supposed to be used with is definitely Windows based (they are for an online ordering

Duplicate postings

1999-08-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I don't know if it's just me, but I'm seeing lots of duplicate postings from debian-user. The odd thing is that it is inconsistent: not every posting is duplicated. Naturally, I would love to see the problem fixed. Thanks.

Re: Where to from here guys ... help next steps for newbie sprog, WINZ refugee

1999-08-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
Well, there's no getting around learning the command line stuff. In many cases, the command line stuff is quicker and easier than any GUI. As far as the indexed help - that's a work in progress with dwww. However, you can find much info by using the 'man' command (e.g. man apache, man X).

Re: Where to from here guys ... help next steps for newbie sprog, WINZ refugee

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
John D Smith wrote: Hi all,I recently traded an older s Pentium machine, I have loaded and configured it as a Web Server via the profile choice during installation, So far so good. I have one or two errors, like Apache not firing up. and lynx cant find my domain, my next comment may have

Re: xcdroast and audio

1999-08-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Jocke wrote: | Hi all, | | I can mount both my cdrom and my cdrw with data cds. | When trying to mount an audio cd I just get ^^ You don't mount the cdrom when you're playing audio cds. | I can play for example wav

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread Greg Heather Vence
What do I get? I don't see an xfree86*.deb file I'd like to start from scratch if that's simpler. Thanx -- Greg - Original Message - From: John Carline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Heather Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian, User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999

Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
Yeah! Silly them they put it in the readme files :-) Windoze never uses them do they? Lost me on this one. There are 15 readme files on cd#1 and seven readme files on cd#2, I read them all. None of them tell me xawtv is on cd#2. I don't understand what you meant. BTW, since I couldn't figure

[stasiko@techst02.technion.ac.il: Question]

1999-08-29 Thread Hanno Wagner
Could someone please answer him? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #Electronic Mail. Fast,

Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread Tam Ma
Hi everyone, I didn't get much responses the last time I post this message, but probably because the people who know about this problem didn't have chance to read this. Anyhow I post this message up again and hopefully there will be someone out there who know how to solve this problem. (I am

How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including

Re: Database Conversion questions??

1999-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, John Foster wrote: online ordering system). I want to be able to edit and manipulat these files in Linux, Debian Slink. I think the problem that I have is that the windows ascii text format is somehow different from that used in Linux.

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:48:54AM -0700, André Bell wrote: When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Are you

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long You need to mount the floppy disk with filesystem type vfat, instead of filesystem type msdos.

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files

Re: Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I just looked in the CDROM HOWTO: that's not what teh device should be: you must go int /dev then ( as root) type mknod /dev/sbpcd b 25 0 also, in /etc/fstab, it's /dev/sbpcd, no partition number, it's a cdrom. make the devie, then try to install the module. for Howtos goto

Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
André Bell wrote: Yeah! Silly them they put it in the readme files :-) Windoze never uses them do they? Lost me on this one. There are 15 readme files on cd#1 and seven readme files on cd#2, I read them all. None of them tell me xawtv is on cd#2. I don't understand what you meant. You

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the floppy. I can view the files

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Keith G. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've heard vague rumors that it's some interaction between Netscape and the libc6-based X libraries and the egcs compilers used to compile them all... (which could explain why the libc5 version of Netscape doesn't show this problem?) For me, the libc5 version

Re: Time disparity between system time and netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all: I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it?

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Libc6 Netscape had been working great for me. On last night's potato update the dependencies were changed (adding libc5 IIRC). The _very_next_time_ I used Netscape it crashed on a pop-up window.. -- Regards, Steve

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread Greg Heather Vence
Which deb's do I need? W/o the dependancy thing, I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanx -- Greg - Original Message - dselect reads a package list and then allows you to install from that list. While there may be a way to update the list so that dselect can find it (someone else may know), it

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