Re: Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

1998-08-16 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
gt; problem...here's the fix." I agree wholeheartedly. I simply expressed concern regarding the comment on debian-user -- note that I haven't bought a single CD yet. They mailed me the script, saying "if you decide to buy it, this script should work". That's service! I

Re: The last latex2e question.........

1998-07-18 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
>>>>> "King" == King Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: King> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote: >> There might be a more straightforward way, but what I usually >> do is convert the .jpg to Encapsulated Postscript using

Re: Cross-compile to Windows NT

1998-07-18 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
w if it's still alive). -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Student, B. CompEng, Concordia University. PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: The last latex2e question.........

1998-07-16 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
gs to render, but it's too old). That's why I have a postscript printer. :{) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Student, B. CompEng, Concordia University. PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to recei

Re: Reader / Editor for PDF Format Documents

1998-07-11 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
editor (Exchange) tends to be overenthusiastic at changing the contents of the file. PDF is essentially read-only once it's generated. However, the .PDF files generated by the ps2pdf converter are pretty good. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group. Stu

Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation

1998-07-10 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
y through less and more. However, 1- To view it with emacs, use M-x Man-fontify-manpage (you may have to view a manual page first to load the function, but I'm not sure) 2- Filter the file through `col -b'. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond -- Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CoFounder, KMS Group.

Re: Linux Man => DOS Text

1998-06-04 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
or this? There's a nifty utility called 'col' which was designed just for that. Try piping the output from 'man' to 'col -b' before saving it, like: man man | col -b > man.txt Of course, 'man col' is somthing you'll want to do. :{) -- Benoit

Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))

1998-02-28 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
use any S3 based card in text mode at high refresh rates (you probably knew that, but one never knows). -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))

1998-02-26 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
your finger on the monitor's off switch. :) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))

1998-02-23 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
finger on the # monitor's power off switch (just in case you give bad settings) # "custom" 55 800 878 922 1042615 615 616 650 font 8x16 --- snip --- I hope that will be of some use to you. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fing

Re: Wanted: the TUTOR MC68K emulator??

1998-02-21 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
7;s the way DOS taught people to program, I guess). -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
ve to redo the whole thing (unless you manage not to touch the Linux parition). As for other distribs, I've only used Slackware, and it was much more of a pain than Debian. But maybe you should ask that on newsgroups or other lists rather than here ; understandably, we all think Debian is great

Re: Wow, and some questions

1997-12-15 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
ul productivity app _ever_ is emacs, the do-it-all text editor. That program alone can save you a lot of time if you use the add-ons supplied for it. I'm currently writing this message in it. :) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 1

Re: AMD K6

1997-12-14 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
might be due to the additional 16MB I put in there) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii

1997-11-24 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
roff-file is your troff-formatted file, and ascii-file is where you want to put the plain ascii output. The ugly $'\b' in the middle is a way to tell bash you want a backspace character passed. If you don't use bash, you'll have to take a peek at your shell's manual. I

Re: c/c++ to LaTeX?

1997-09-23 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
ted, I can send you the patched source or the binary, as you wish. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-21 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
.xx series, so it's possible the experimental PnP support in there caused the problems. I haven't checked myself (shame on me!) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my publi

Re: The Value of TEX

1997-09-21 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
TeX is a true typesetting system intended for use in typesetting full books, not just simple documents. -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
> Hi folks! > > I've just finished the hardware part of building my very own PC Compatible > (AMD K5-166, Amptron PM8600 motherboard, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64+ 2MB video > card, Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra16 audio, Hitachi 7730 IDE 4X CD-ROM, > Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to

Re: X screen position

1997-08-16 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
XF86Config file. --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm

1997-07-22 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
I'm sure this affects the .bash_profile file, I don't know about /etc/profile). --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

1997-07-22 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
NFS, and the manpages are on the server. However, I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to put the base manpages in their own, non-base package? Any thoughts about that? --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my empl

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-08 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
per to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^> dos2unix (in package sysutils) --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &q

Re: g++ file doesn't run

1997-03-23 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
;t print out anything when I run it. Append a \n to your string. Or include iomanip.h and use the "flush" manipulator. --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key.

Re: Problems after update from debian 1.1.3 to 1.2.8

1997-03-20 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
e in the /etc/X11/config file. >Second thing is that i can't access the audio device (which worked under >1.1.3) anymore. xmix just says that it can't find the mixer device. Kernel problem, maybe? Perhaps the sound module isn't there... --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL