>
> Michael
>
> I'm sorry not to be more prompt in my reply to this.
>
> Some have advised using the STL -- the Standard Template (not
> 'type') Library. That is sound advice.
Yep.
[... list of documentation ...]
I actually found the SGI html pages that are contained in the stl-manual
debia
>
> I have had this experience with two machines running Debian. While compiling
> some apps, during 'make install', I get an error about not
> finding "ginstall". I solved this by making a symlink:
>
> ln -s install ginstall
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
I take it this is not a deb
>
> > Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf
> > files? I only found a few that can generate them.
> Oh really did you? Could you please send me the names of those few...
There are latex2rtf (which converts latex), enscript (which can convert
plain text files) and t
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've got a PostScript doc, which is incorrectly formated - the usable part
> uses a small rectangle on each page (on each page the same, but not centered
> on the page), and the margines are sometimes occupied by random writings, and
> sometimes not. I have no sources, so I can't
>
> Hello,
>
> I just installed a new HP Deskjet 880c. I installed 'apsfilter' and chose
> the 'cdjcolor' driver. I can print from Lyx fine, but I can't seem to get
> nice output from the GIMP. How exactly does this work? Saving the same image
> and printing it in Windows (Photoshop 5) does work.
>
> "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf
> > files? I only found a few that can generate them.
>
> As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read them.
No it cannot
Hi.
Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf
files? I only found a few that can generate them.
TIA,
Eric
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
>
> Then ls is sensing its output device and works accordingly? How does it do
> that?
With the isatty(3) function.
HTH,
Eric
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:48:05PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet
> > > > 710C, whi
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet
> > 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows.
>
I wrote:
> The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that
> works very well for black and white for the
[...]
> > > In any case, there are hw K scripts:
> > > [18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw*
> > > /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh
> > > /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh
> > > [18:22:27 /tmp]$
> > >
> > > Note that your system somehow got S instead of K for rc0 and rc6.
> > > I am run
>
> Hello,
>
> I am looking at buying a new printer, and had my eyes on a HP DeskJet
> 710C, which I would definitely have bought if I only ran Windows.
The 710C is a Windows printer. Someone hacked together a driver that
works very well for black and white for the 710, 720, 820 and 1000
(which
>
> I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time
> after the system is shutdown?
The following happens:
I boot, find the time is lagging behind, and then do a
hwclock --set --date ...
This sets the BIOS clock (not the system time), as I can verify with
hwclock -
Hi all,
Since the BIOS clock in my PC at home is lagging behind more than 10
minutes per week, I looked into the correction mechanism of hwclock. I
am able to set the BIOS clock with hwclock --set --date, and get the
expected result if I try hwclock --show. The hwclock is called in a
script from
> Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install
> that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^)
It depends on what you call `view'. Our secretary sometimes insists on
sending lecture programs in powerpoint files per email (yuck, bleah),
and all that matters is the text.
>
> I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source
> code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it
> gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is
> no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for
> lib
>
>
> I found this file somewhere:
>
>
> c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts
>
> Can anybody tell me what that c is all about???
The c means that it is a character device, e.g. like /dev/tty or
/dev/psmouse. However, since the group and user owners of the file seem
u
[ about Ctrl-C having no effect ]
> So... in conclusion: Ctrl-C is working fine - the signal is being
> received. However, the shell isn't killing the running process
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Doesn't Ctrl-C work for any program at all? It does not work for a lot
of inte
>
> - To allow Windows to natively see Linux partitions on your local
> machine, use the "ext2fs" utility for Windows 95/98, or a similar
> utility whose name escapes me for Windows NT.
Just a remark: the utility for windows 95/98 is called fsdext2
(http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/). It
David Wright said:
>
> Bear in mind that du can also seriously underreport usage when run
> as a user because of permissions (whereas df is always right).
Besides files hiding `under' mount points, there is another type of file
that is invisble to du. If a file which is opened by a process is
re
>
> Hi all,
>
> df shows my main partiton to have 1.1 Gigs of data
> and du -x shows it to have about 650 MB.
>
> I think du is correct.
>
> df reads
>
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.1G 750M 60% /
> /dev/hda3 15M 1.2M
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:42:55AM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote:
>
> How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ???
> I tried:
>
> # g77 File.for
missing library
> # g77 -lliblapack File.for
wrong switch
> # g77 -L/usr/lib -lliblapack File.for
wrong switch plus superfluous optio
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
> a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;"
>
> will rm -r be as quick?
It will actually be much quicker (you may need to add a
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:58:36PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:36:26PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote:
> > > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think i
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:08:57AM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote:
> Brad wrote:
>
> > You do realize that if gif support were in the main gimp package, then
> > the entire thing would have to go into nonfree, right? Since The Gimp is
> > GPLed, Debian has every right to remove gif support and redistri
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 03:00:33PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking around for man package in www.debian.org to no avail.
> Would anybody please tell me the package where man resides?
In my version of slink, there is a man package in the doc section of
debian main. However, on ww
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:57:07AM -0600, Brian Boonstra wrote:
> > Ingo wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:33:29AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
[...]
> Enlightenment seems to be as fast as any other window manager on my
> P133/80Meg machine, and E is a quite a bit more attractive than any
> other WM I've seen (I should perhaps phrase this as `most of the other
> WMs I've seen are
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:29:45PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
> Hi,
[...]
> This leads me to ask if most people just backup their important
> files on linux, and if they lose their system, they reinstall from
> scratch, then restore just their important (user modified) files?
Not even that.
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:11:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system
> > to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really
> > appreciate an
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:11:45PM +, John Carline wrote:
> "Ingles, Raymond" wrote:
>
> > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote:
> > [...]
> > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C
> > > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote:
>
[cut again ...]
>
> After spending the last two days trying to convert a C program I
> wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I just have to
> echo this question. Is there no linux specific/best book that
> covers gcc an
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question related to installing non-debian programs:
>
> When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9.
> I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of
> course, the
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:11:38PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did not found anything about printing only certain pages.
> Is it possible? (I'd like to print odd pages, then even on
> the forms verso)
>
> I mean from the command line, not from a word processor.
If the postscr
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Shao Zhang wrote:
> >Hi,
> > I have very limited reg exp knowledge, but I need this badly...
> >
> > Could someone tell me how to write a sed script to replace the
> > following string?
> >
> > From string \text
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel
> messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls:
>
> Oct 18 16:28:38 Winona kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Oct 18 16:30:45 Winona
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 03:22:12AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I specified in Netscape's preferences disk cache of
> 1000kBytes. However, whenever I go and "du ~/.netscape/cache", I
> invariably get some huge number:
>
> 3,5Mcache
>
> And this is because I deleted its contents
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Istvan Benak wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> How can I view with my Linux box the somfile.prz file? Which program
> should I use? Or if someone have a program which can view this file and
> can convert it to an human format (i.e. pdf, or ppt, or anything else)
> plea
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:11:15AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote:
> er - who's been hacking into the Debian www site?
>
> The main page appears to be in elvish or something...
>
> ???
The main page of www.debian.org looks OK to me. The Dutch mirror
www.nl.debian.nl however, seems to be in Turk
Hi all,
I know someone who has a windows program that limits the speed of his
cdrom drive. Is there a way to do this in linux? Although it is a
nice idea that my ide/atapi drive can do 36-speed, it sounds like a
hoovercraft taking off when it runs that fast, and for most
applications 8-speed or
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:14:28AM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I'm writing an application requiring the exact knowledge of arrival time
> of serial data (resolution below 0.1 sec is desired).
> Is there any way to arrange it in the standard Linux kernel, or should I
> modify the
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:49:32AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Which package contain the following programs:
> xload
xcontrib
> xinfo
Hmm, I don't know this one, there is one in the non-free scilab package,
but maybe that is not what you mean. What does it do? I do know
x
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 07:54:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use
> 7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?.
Well ...
I remember doing an install on a system with a dodgy disk drive. Making
the in
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:03:21PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm having some problems converting my app to run under linux. It runs
> alright under SGI, HP-UX, Solaris and WinNT, but it crashes beautifully
> under linux.
>
> Anyway, I have a member variable called journalString of typ
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:37:35PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration"
> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> >
[ problems to get a pager with multiple desks in fvwm2 ]
> >
> > Probably the si
Hi all,
I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In
/etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with one
desk, after .fvwm2/post.hook is read. I like to start FvwmPager with
three desks, and do that in my post.hook file. As a result there are
always two FvwmPagers running, o
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 09:26:46AM -0300, JARDINE, Jeff wrote:
> I think you're absolutely right. I'm still working on my first installation
> (2 months and counting). Linux is *not* happy with a PnP soundcard and
> CD-ROM. From everything I've read, it appears to be necessary to recompile
> the
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 01:03:59PM +0200, Clemens Heuberger wrote:
>
> I have the following problem: I have a postscript-file which draws to
> lines, a thin one and a thick one:
>
> thue:~/test $cat simple.ps
> %!
> newpath 0 20 moveto 100 0 rlineto stroke
> newpath 0 50 moveto 100 0 rlineto 10 s
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 11:09:35AM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote:
> Okay, here's the situation.
>
> I'm porting a large project to Linux. Some of the libraries we have to
> use were compiled with an older version of egcs (I'm pretty sure it was
> 1.0.3). So, they expect the libraries (specifically lib
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:50:20AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> When I create a shell script how do I pass parameters to it? For
> example, if I want to create a directory based on a name I pass to the
> program with a shell script called mkmine the command would look like
> "mkmine Mydir" and
> > The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed
> > that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful
> > for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software.
> IIRC, the 2nd level cache of the Pentium III is running at the same speed a
>
>
> I wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz?
> > How does it compare to PII or Celeron?
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html
>
> says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when
> running business apps on Windows.
> If anyone has
>
> It's been a LONG time since I've use the authentic one-and-only
> Bourne shell. How many Bourne shell clones do we have floating
> around here these days?
>
> Mike
I don't know about clones, but I am typing this on an SGI box where sh
_is_ the Bourne shell, and I also have access to a Solar
Says Mike:
> bash shells can do:
>
> let a=$b+$c*$d
> let a=($b+$c)*$d
>
> but if you want to ensure compatibility with Bourne shells like
> ash, you should stick to:
>
> a=$(($b+$c*$d))
> a=$((($b+$c)*$d))
but if you want to ensure compatibility with Bourne shells like
the Bourne shell :), yo
> > Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject
> > Can't allocate DMA buffer
> > (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give.
> Hm, now I check the whole archive of 1999 and can't find it. Could
> it have been on a different list maybe?
No, it is there
>
>
> >> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Nathan> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Nathan> : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix
> will
> Nathan> : be likely to
>
>
> See if 'convert' in the imagemagick package will do. Note that this
> is non-free, so you need to check the license also.
convert is part of the imagemagick package, which is in main. The
license of imagemagick is very free. There are some related libraries
that also have non-free vers
Joop Stakenborg writes:
> Hi there,
>
> The upstream maintainer of one of my packages is having problems
> with his code. I thought it would be nice to use the debian mailing
> lists, to see if we can an answer on this. I will forward any solution
> to him.
>
> --
>
> Lee Elliott wrote:
[...]
> > Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for
> > installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged
> > in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and
> > figuring out the various things dselect was
> Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > If you wish to start a new thread on the list,
> > PLEASE send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > DO NOT just reply to any old message in your mailbox.
> > If you do that, then the threading gets messed up,
> > and it doesn't display right in th
>
> Hi All!
>
> I'm writing an application, which implements some terminal functionalities.
> I'd like to receive every keystroke, just after the key is pressed
> (like with vga_getkey(), but in text mode).
> The standard "fgetc(stdin)" receives the char only after the whole line is
> entered. Th
>
>
> What do I put in my fstab to be able to mount the floppy with just 'mount
> /mnt/floppy'? Currently I have a line, but that one makes the system try to
> mount it at boot, which fails...
If you add `noauto' to the options on that line, the system will not try
to mount it automatically at b
>
> I need a free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) I
> will prefer if the program is an X Window aplication, but I will be glad
> with a console application
I don't know the apps you talk about, but you could look at GNU Cash
(which I never used myself). See http://ww
>
> I forgot how to make a program start when the machine boots, but not have it
> start as root. I want it to start as another user. Any ideas, anyone?
Look at `su username -c ...' or setuid from the super package.
HTH,
Eric
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
[ my `debquery' script ]
Right, this is the first update... %)
[...]
>
> ex $STATUSFILE << _EOF_ | cut -d: -f2
> g/^$FIELD:.*\<$PACKAGE\>/ ?Package? p
The previous line works better if it replaced by these two:
g/^$FIELD:.*\<$PACKAGE\>[^-]/ ?Package? p
g/^$FIELD:.*\<$PACKAGE\$/ ?Package? p
Th
>
> Hi,
> How do I know if the package is no longer dependent by others?
>
> for example, if I have a lib-blah package installed, and I want to know
> if there are any other packages installed on my system that depends on
> this package.
>
> I don't want to try to r
>
> Hi,
> I once had a problem moving from bo to slink. Many packages were removed
> and had to be reinstalled. One of the things that got lost is the
> documentation on C functions. For example I used to run "man strcpy" and
> the documentation of the function "strcpy" will be displayed, now it
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to
> put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I
> created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory with the contents:
>
> ?package(local.soffice):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editor
>
> I was just poking around to see if anyone has gotten pbm2ppa working under
> debian. i had it working under rh5.2 a while ago...
Yes, I have it working, but not it is on my home PC, which is
unconnected to the internet. The author has developed it on debian as I
understood. There is a mail
>
> I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I
> make a connection, and then sent locally:
>
> - start script -
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456
>
> /usr/sbin/s
> > I just did a quick search on the debian web site with the keyword HOWTO,
> > this
> > is what I got:
> >
> > Search Results
> >
> > Release Quality Package (size)
> > stable100% doc-linux-es 1998.0
> Quoting Jeremy Taylor([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > It appears that the default behavior of debian systems is to print
> > "Segmentation Fault" rather than produce a core file. Can anyone tell me
> > how to change this behavior for debugging purposes?
> >
> > Appreciate any help!
> >
> > Jeremy
>
> I'm the guy that asked which package had the HOWTOs. I know it seemed like
> a dumb question, but I did try searching on "HOWTO" in both dselect and on
> the Debian web site, and came up with nothing. And I started paging through
> the 2700+ packages shown in dselect, but gave up after an ho
>
> Debian installation manual is not at all the worst one. It is quite good
> actually. But it definetely isn't easy to find on the website instructions
> how to get started...
This is getting on my nerves...
* go to www.debian.org
* note the section `Getting Started', which is the second below
>
>
> I am sorry to send this message again if you have already received it.
It already appeared on the list.
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to install the Debian Bo distribution on my 386 with only
> 2 megs of RAM without success. Some people told me that they have been able
> to
> install it even
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a
> > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ?
> >
> > Nope.
>
> I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would
> still be usable when I get a new motherboar
>
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Brad wrote:
>
> > Where are the docs for the c++ libraries?
>
> > More specifically, i have a copy of "C++ How To Program" second edition
> > here. It claims that #include will allow strings to be
> > manipulated as streams. "sstream: No such file or directory" g++ tell
: Roberto Jung Drebes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Solved (was: Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 problems)
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> MIME-
>
>
> On 18-May-99 David Z. Maze wrote:
> >
> > gcc isn't a C++ compiler, it's a C compiler. You should have g++
> > somewhere in your $PATH (if you install the Debian g++ package, in
> > /usr/bin). If you haven't yet, install the g++ package and its
> > dependencies.
>
> I realized later tha
>
> WTF?!?!?!?!?
>
> Please someone tell me that linux isn't limited to 8 scsi disks! If it isn't
> tell me how the FSCK to fix this. I'm trying to set up a raid array with 10
> disks after a couple crashes I read man MAKEDEV and found out that there is
> indeed a limit of 8 scsi disks. 8-(
>
I wrote:
> You are trying to create 4*400*400=64 files. You can check how many
> inodes are left using
[...]
> By default there are 4096 bytes per inode, which means that for the
> amount of files you want to store your partition needs to be at least
> 64*4/1024=25000 MB in size (neglect
>
> I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This
> directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400
> subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories
> I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough
> spac
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running the most recent kernel (2.2.7), and I also use a Crystal
> semiconductor sound card, so I have the cs4232 kernel module. Sometimes I
> get the kernel error:
>
> kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
>
> I have plenty of available memory left, so I don't u
>
> Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with
> applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The
> new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get
> by.
> Is there a simple way for that user to find every available app
>
> I'm configuring a print server for remote clients. I've set up a Debian
> machine
> with an HP LaserJet 4000 hooked to it via parallel cable. I've installed lprng
> and samba, and can print to it from two types of client:
>
> 1) From Linux using BSD-style lpr. Text (notwithstanding line feed
>
> I tried to add the gnome_xml libs to debian.
> Due to the fact that i couldnt find a .deb I compiled the package, did
> make install which copied the said libs to /usr/local/libs.
> I then added the directory to /etc/ld.so.conf (i hope i'm not getting
> the file name wrong) and then ran ldconf
[... please don't use mime on this list ...]
> I want to know if there is a way to clean out all of the
> copyright,copyleft,changelog, and other non-essential files in my Debian
> installation. i also want to clear out all of the non-English related
> stuff and the non-i386 stuff fron the tree. A
>
> I have Top loading in an Xterm window in Fvwm2. I set Top to display
> the command line instead of the command name and some of the command
> lines are well off the right edge of the Xterm window. I can resize the
> window to view these command lines but I was hoping I could find an
> option
[discussion about ddd problems...]
I wonder, does anyone use ddd in a serious way with C++? Everytime a
new debian release arrives I give it a try, and everytime it manages to
segfault within a few minutes. I suppose ddd should be nice for C++ if
it worked, but I never found one real life bug wi
>
> I was always under the impression that the SHELL envirinment variable
> was supposed to point to the _current_ shell. In my setup at least,
> it doesn't. It _always_ points to the login shell (I change to a
> different shell but the variable remains the same). Bug, feature,
> user error?
>
> I was testing a program and to see how it handled an invalid group I did:
>
> gr = getgrnam("bob");
>
> Now obviously this failed. However the string from perror() states:
>
> "Could not find file or directory"
>
> Why is this? Seems like a counter intuitive error.
I think the error is
>
> Personally, I don't even know what AGP video is, so I am
> forwarding this to the debian-user mailing list.
>
> Bob
>
> Erik Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > I was wondering if AGP video is supported by Linux yet. I did not see it on
> > the list of compatable devices/bus
>
> Hello,
>
> is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is
> partitioned, please?
>
> What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks)
> and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1,
> with others /dev/sda directly.
>
> Thanks for this response, but it doesn't apply in my case. I don't have a
> virtual screen set up, the only resolution mention in my file is 640x480.
> The laptop pages don't help - frankly because it isn't an issue with laptops
> - it's an X server problem. I get the same results using
>
>
> I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I
> don't need the screen locked necessarily.
>
> xlock does this for me:
>
> xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank
>
> but I have to run it manually. When I log back in, it does kill the
> running command
>
> However, vim is not standard. I routinely work on HP-UX these days
> and doubt that vim is installed there, for example.
It usually is not too hard to go to a debian site, download the original
source tarbal, and compile it for personal use. I just did that with
procmail on SGI.
HTH,
Eric
Hi all,
I am receiving mail on a SGI system, that has no procmail, but the elm
filter program. I would like to use the same thing on debian, but I
cannot seem to find it. Is it anywhere available in slink?
Thanks,
Eric
--
E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. f
>
> Hi,
>
> how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop
> opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of
> these programs open automatically with xterm?
xterm -e
This, by the way, is in the man page of xterm. If you'd type `man
xterm'
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Since I have upgraded to slink
> I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries
> seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't
> find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm.
> Has there been s
>
> How can I mount devices (CDrom / HD) as a normal user.
> For example :
> $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb
>
> mount: only root can mount /dev/hdb on /mnt/hdb
Normally the mount command checks if you really are root, and
disregards group membership. You can allow users to mount a certain
partition
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