Webinator 4 under Debian?

2001-11-05 Thread David Sewell
under Woody? -- David Sewell, Project Editor The University Press of Virginia PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 434 924 6066

Pitfalls of domain-name aliasing?

1998-06-11 Thread David Sewell
or an alias? DS -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Where the earth is dry, the Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | soul is wisest and best. WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | --Heraclitus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread David Sewell
program? Or include multiple versions of the binaries in a single package, and determine from the user during package install which one to copy to /usr/bin? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | (and fellow-workers

Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread David Sewell
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: David Sewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and was disappointed

Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)

1998-03-16 Thread David Sewell
, won't be interrupted unless Lynx was compiled with the --with-nsl-fork option to configure. Note that this may only be a feature of 2.8 . This feature is present as of the current Debian lynx package, 2.7.2-1. DS -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If all things should become Dep't

Re: VIM 5.0

1998-03-14 Thread David Sewell
the problem Galen alludes to still exist? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Hidden harmony is Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | better than manifest. WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/| --Heraclitus -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Old curses month program under hamm?

1998-03-11 Thread David Sewell
the source code to compile without errors. (I'm not much of a C programmer.) (Any pointers to strategies for tweaking old traditional C source code to Gnu-compatible would also be helpful.) -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Hidden harmony is Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona

Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-14 Thread David Sewell
a file that the package installer would be required to create (either by hand or maybe with a script that would pull in lists from given URLs--J.D. Falk's site has a couple of scripts like that). DS -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Where the earth is dry, the Dep't of Geosciences, Univ

cmsg cancel 5g1o8d$16e8@news.ccit.arizona.edu

1997-03-15 Thread David Sewell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was cancelled from within trn. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | (and fellow-workers) in WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | what happens in the world

Exim as replacement for smail

1997-03-10 Thread David Sewell
lacks.) I'm wondering if anyone who has converted from smail to exim could comment on how much reconfiguring is likely to be necessary after the conversion--I assume that the exim package won't use information from an smail install, since the two packages are defined as conflicting. DS -- David

Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

1997-02-25 Thread David Sewell
crashes, but have yet to play around with libraries in hopes of a fix. There's some disagreement about whether the fixes that work for NS 3 work for the new beta. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If all things should become Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona| become smoke

Problem with smail 3.2-3 and mutt 0.52 as configured

1997-01-14 Thread David Sewell
not a mail guru is which program is not behaving properly. Should smail be configured by default to resolve [EMAIL PROTECTED] correctly, or should Mutt not translate user to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? I'll send a bug report to the package maintainer once I know which counts as the bug. -- David Sewell

What's up with debian-user headers?

1996-09-27 Thread David Sewell
Are the mail headers for this list in flux? For a long time, I've been using procmail to filter on Resent-From: debian-user. In the last day or so some messages are missing that header. So I shifted to filtering on * TO: debian-user. Problem is, some of the messages are being sent to

Re: Netiquette of requesting package updates

1996-08-25 Thread David Sewell
Brian C. White writes: I spend close to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian version is several months out of date. Which editor and browser are you talking about? Are you looking at the stable or the development

Netiquette of requesting package updates

1996-08-24 Thread David Sewell
As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped back to earlier releases of certain programs. I spend close to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian

Fixing timezone info in Debian

1996-08-21 Thread David Sewell
my own??? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | (and fellow-workers) in WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | what happens in the world

smail upgrade from old Slackware - Debian?

1996-08-06 Thread David Sewell
. I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier, since I'm in for a reinstall anyway, to junk Slackware and try building on a new Debian system. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has taken a similar leap from an old Slackware setup, especially re: the smail configuration. -- David Sewell