Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Didier Verna
a powerfull toy to convert files between different charsets. This is obviously too much for just what you want (dos2unix is indeed the thing) but it's always good to know it exists. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T.

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-08 Thread Didier Verna
y-To: header, you're wrong. You can filter the messages so that only one copy is kept (gnus does this), or you can insert a `Mail-Copies-To: never' header in your messages (this assumes that your mail agent honors it). -- / / _ _ Didier V

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Didier Verna
ange it to a privat (only on one server available) Mosl> newsgroup? It might be possible to have a newsgroup mirroring the list, but even that, I don't like at all. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S

[Q] Automating the imm module

1999-01-05 Thread Didier Verna
en modules are in /etc/modules, they're not subject to automatic removal. So, does kerneld only manage modules loaded with insmod ? -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /

Re: AWE 64 Value

1999-01-04 Thread Didier Verna
c/modules. Otherwise, it will not work (this is true for all pnp cards). Secondly, check out if you don't have installed any other sound drivers (like NAS). Otherwise, you might see always busy audio devices. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp

Re: [PB] a quiet sound blaster

1998-12-30 Thread Didier Verna
rom it to the SB. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / /_/ / /__ /46 rue BarraultTel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19

[PB] a quiet sound blaster

1998-12-29 Thread Didier Verna
ure whether it is executed automatically at boot time or not. The HOWTO speaks about a /etc/init.d/boot file, which I don't have. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

AWE 64 setup ?

1998-12-28 Thread Didier Verna
ve to assimilate the whole pnp howto ? Thanks. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / /_/ / /__ /46 rue BarraultTel. (33) 01 45 81

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-18 Thread Didier Verna
;ve tried the GNU version. >> Especially the fileutils, binutils, auto*tools etc. Richard> It's also hard to go back to GNU once you've used the FreeBSD Richard> versions :) Fair enough. I don't know FreeBSD... -- / / _ _ Didier Verna

Re: Syntax highlighting in XEmacs (was [X]Emacs vs. vi[m])

1998-12-18 Thread Didier Verna
XEmacs about 4 years ago. Indeed I prefer it. There's a deeper integration with the different toolkits that one can find nowadays, and a more advanced multimedia support. Also, I switched for other more technical reasons. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-17 Thread Didier Verna
rancois Pinard who's so fed up with them that he's probably gonna turn GNU recode into Free recode, not to speak of others. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / /_/

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

1998-12-17 Thread Didier Verna
home, end and all the others. You Tom> *can* use those keys, but you can also just keep your fingers where they Tom> belong. All of this apply to Emacs as well, I think. What's funny about Emacs is that either you can't stand the appearant complexity of the keystrokes an

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

1998-12-17 Thread Didier Verna
der XEmacs which will take care of translating Emacs calls into XEmacs ones. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / /_/ / /__ /46 rue BarraultTel. (33) 01 45 8

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

1998-12-17 Thread Didier Verna
make your life easier and less to type. Footnotes: [1] I use `Emacs' as a generic term for all flavors -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / /_/ / /__ /46 ru

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Didier Verna
igurability is when a configuration interface is as clever for setting the parameters as for providing all the information needed to understand what's going on. But even this, is not necessarily what everybody wants. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~vern