On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 03:04:12PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> I need to export a variable called "SSI-HLM". It appears that the hypen
> causes problems. I thought the quotes would take care of it but they
> don't. Can someone help me?
Are you sure? At least in bash, variable names can't co
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:19:04AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> My spare box has this setup:
>
> hda1 dos
> hdb5 caldera
> hdb6 rh
> sda5 debian
>
> Is anyone willing to help me get it running? Perhaps give me a menu which
> will do the job. Or point me to a more suitable doc.
Try this
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>
> cat file |tr '\\' '/' >outfile
or even:
tr '\\' '/' outfile
which saves a process.
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>-Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> After upgrading to slink I'm getting undefined symbols in several programs
> (esp with Window Maker and related apps). Could I be missing an upgraded
> library or such?
Yes, it does sound like old/new libraries. I have no knowledge of the
packages in question
>-Anders Eliasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have Win95 on one partition, and have 1Gb left for Linux+swap, but i have
> never installed
> Debian on a machine with win to on it.. Can i have a bootselector insteed of
> using loadlin from windows?
Yes, for example lilo.
> Second Q, Im behind a fire
>-bob jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> #2: Unfortunately, a fiasco with some bad ram from a friend crashed my
> system and I was forced to reinstall. Furthermore, when I tried
> reinstalling Debian, my stupid cd drive screwed up and scratched the
> disk so it can't be read by the computer (everythin
>-Eber de Castro Diniz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi all
>
> I have tried to install the kdevelop, but when I ran the ./configure,
> the program showed me up the following message:
>
> checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
> your installation and add the correct pat
>-Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> when trying to compile a few programs writen for gtk (to run under
> gnome) i got mesages that /bin/sh: couldn't find no ...
Hm. That sounds like a mistake in the configuration scripts.
It seems like it couldn't find a program but then tries to
run it (with t
>-Johan Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to compile a simple program. I know
> it works under UNIX and now I will run it under linux.
> But it say :undefined reference to 'sigset', 'sighold'
> when I try to compile it! In which headerfile can I find
> them ? Or do I need some
>-Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi all,
> I installed a Debian Linux Sun Port in a Sparc 4 here at school, but
> some people have a .xsession file that is not executable because they use
> Solaris and some program set this file. But they cant log in xdm
>-Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The words include a character (octal 0267) that indicates hyphenation.
> I want to pull it out. If in the bash shell (either running in emacs
> via shell mode or in xterm; it doesn't matter) I type
>
> # tr -d "\267" < woor-den.max
>
> tr does nothing. But i
>-Tommy Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> What I want to learn to do is to make global font changes at the
> application level. Suppose the default font on most applications is
> difficult to see. So you want to change it to one that is easier. There
> should be a way to do that for all applications
>-Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I did something really stupid:
> #mv /usr/bash
> (don't ask). Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
> to fix it. I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
> script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work.
> Does
>-Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thank you James, March, Richard, Oliver and Jan for answering my questions.
> It seems indeed that the base system doesn't come with the man command. A
> bit strange, but who am I to comment on that :-)
Lack of space.
> BTW, Oliver, $ type telltime c
>-Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I cannot find the shadow passwd in slink, anyone know here it is??
> I need the function fgetspent, but man returns no manual entry
> found. I do have fgetpwent however.
>
> Could someone tell me which package I need to get in order to have
> this f
>-"Chris Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi all,
> I have a problem with du. When I do a "du * -sx" the "-x" flag
> should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was
> using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can
> anybody help?
With du 4.0 -x seems to w
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard)
>
> I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions
> now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some
For general C, try comp.lang.c. It's probably the wrong place
for these questions, since they are UNIX specific.
comp.unix.programm
>-Shawn Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and
> they
> seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for Motif. I have
> no idea which one I should get so if anyone can recommend a book I would
> appreciate i
>-"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I know that ip-up and ip-down are run by pppd when the link is brought up
> or down respectively. However, ip-down is run AFTER the link is brought
> down. What I'd like to do is run a script or two BEFORE the link actually
> goes down.
Make a script tha
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>
> Hi !
>im looking for a good email client (graphical and non-graphical) w/c can
> automatically sort out emails like put all mails where either the to: or the
> cc: fields contain debian-user@lists.debian.org etc etc. seems like there
> are just too many of them to try
>-David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 installed, but when I use dpkg -l
> I see this
>
> ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
>
> with the -6 at the end truncated.
>
> How can I list the full package name?
dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Vers
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>
> *- On 5 Mar, Ole J. Tetlie wrote about "ppp"
> > I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until
> > the line with "Hangup". I don't know why that happens. I made the
> > configuration with ppp
I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until
the line with "Hangup". I don't know why that happens. I made the
configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a
machine with working ppp. Could it be some other netconfig
that is making trouble. I'd appreciate a cl
>-Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> end i found that the given profiles were all useless to me BTW is there
> somewhere a system like the 'custom tags' in slackware? (i have some more
> installations to do and would like to completely automatise installation...)
I don't know what the sla
>-Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
> is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
> mouse under X?
Try
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
--
The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to its feet
in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linu
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>
> The file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options probably has the line
> run-xconsole
>
> which, when commented out (#) will get xdm (the program that provides that
> "login banner") to stop starting and running xconsole.
If you use hamm this would probably be /etc/X11/config. See
*-Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I need to start Abacus Sentry when my machine boots, but unlike other apps
| that will start from /sbin/setup.sh Sentry just crashes when I do it that way.
|
| Is there a way to start sentry after every other process has finished?
| Perhaps by using an 'at' comm
*-Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| What command-line options should I use to compile a qt program,
| e.g. the "Hello World!" example from the qt homepage. I get a lot of
| errors concerning qpushbutton.h, qapplication.h, etc. I tried
| gcc qttut.c -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt
| and other things bu
*-"Brant Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Howdy Y'all...
|
| I'm trying to write some QT1.42 apps; they won't compile when I issue
| the command:
|
| g++ -I /usr/local/qt/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt TestCalc.cc
|
| I get the following error messages:
|
| /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined
*-Robert King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I'm trying to compile pine 4.10 and having problems. The build fails with
| ld: cannot open -lncurses: No such file or directory
| I'm trying to work out if I'm missing a required library before reporting
| it as a bug, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
*-Kirk Hogenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Qt is a C++ library. (No wrappers that I know of -- it is much
| harder to "wrap" an OO-library, unless you're wrapping in another
| OO language...)
There are many wrappers for Qt. Since there is a C wrapper you
could also write a wrapper for almost any lan
*-Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I am really moving along with Debian, fixing one thing after another.
|
| What is missing here? I have never seen this error.
|
|
| /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pics/*.xpm /usr/share/apps/kxicq/pics
| /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav
| mkdir /u
I'm trying to set up my brothers computer so that it just
boots by itself, and then mounts /usr and friends from my
computer. The question is: Which directories should I mount
and what files need I take special care of?
Currently, I've tried to mount /usr /lib /bin /sbin and /etc.
I've also had to
*-Gregory Vandenbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi,
|
| Seems like there is no Corba package. Is there one ? I need to use
| Corba, and I have seen that there is quite a lot of free Corba programs
| to get. Do you have an advice about which one I should use ?
We have omniorb, tao, orbit, ilu* an
*-Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
| documents? 4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do. Is there
| a way to pipe 'find'? Or do I need to use gawk?
| When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multi
*-Tom Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
| correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
| any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is
| 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site
*-Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| No. It still didn't work for me. Oracle is still reporting that
| it hasn't been done. Thanks, anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with
| the Oracle oratab.sh script?
What does 'groups oracle' say?
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting cof
*-Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started
| when I startx.
|
| Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be?
Some things to check:
Does /etc/X11/window-managers seem good? Incidentally, the first
line in mine is bro
*-Darknight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I downloaded 2 IRC Clients off the web to see if they were any better
| than the others i've tried. The first one required gtk 1.1.8 i believe,
| so I blindly downloaded it from gtk.org. This just caused more
| problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the GTK
*-ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| You could also write your own (dirty!) kernel
| >device driver module which allows you to access hardware directly. This is
| >not too hard.
| >
|
| Thanks - I'm thinking about this now. Are there any references other than
| the kernel hackers guide on writing drive
*-trio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
|What happened?
|
|I installed linux v2.0.34 about a month ago. Everything was working
| fine. In fact, everything is still being served by apache just fine, but
| my telnet sessions get as far as logging me in, telling me that i have
| new mail and then clo
*-Emil Soleyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hello,
| I have been trying to install Window Maker on my Debian system but with no
| avail. It is recommended to install the following tarballs in this order:
| libPropList, WindowMaker-data, WindowMaker-0.51
|
| The problem that I am having has to do with
*-Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I just d/led and installed the latest xfree86 packages from
| http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86 in an attempt to solve a problem
| I had with X freezing my screen. It appeared to be pretty stable and to
| fix the problem, so I rebooted. After I boot,
*-"Tun Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| thanks for the input... I checked and I had those packages installed
| already... and I couldn't find any packages with the same name but without
| the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error...
| ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
If I re
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems
| with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything
| installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do?
This is potato, right? Fo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie)
|
| The maintainer of balsa and yagirc is a lazy bum, but he promises to
| release new versions before he leaves for christmas on Sunday.
Sorry, but he has to wait for new gnome libraries. :-(
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
*-Charles Collicutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
| > badger(larry)> gxsnmp &
| > gxsnmp: error in loading shared libraries
| > libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
|
| I thought that was just me, I get that too. Means I can't
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all
| working, where are the good window managers, etc.
There is a web page dedicated to window managers for X. There you can
see most of them in action. I don't have to URL handy, but a search
should find it.
*-"Rich Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X
| - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess
| xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but
| can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these
*-Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Why does the cursor changes its look when, i.e, changing from the root window
(X-like cursor) to a application (arow cursor)? Does the app say X to change
the cf (cursor font) from X to arrow and then when going back to the root
window it says X to chang
*-KTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| First I'd like to thank all those who helped me with the base
| instillation! I would now like to install X11 but when I am in dselect
| and have highlighted xbase and then try to install I get a message:
| dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile: Permis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I'm running 2.0.36 on i386, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 plugged into
| it, which is unconfigured.
|
| I used to use Red Hat, which came with a rather neat little utility
| called soundconfig (I think) that was capable of automatically helping
| you install a module for sou
*-Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| OK, I do appreciate that the whole thing is maintained by volunteers,
| and I am very grateful for the work they do. I am not moaning as much as
| wondering - it seems that Slink has been frozen, and Potato is being
| worked on - where do new releases of so
*-Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| How do i change the mouse pointer in X?
Two ways:
* Ask your window manager politely.
* xsetroot.
| I dont like that X cursor
Captain Blueeye is much better...
--
Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)
*-"Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| [1 ]
|
| [1.1 ]
| I finally was able to setup my Linux box to work with the NE2000 card. Now
the next question is: should I use fetchmail or smail to send/receive emails
from my POP account?
You should probably use fetchmail to receive and smail to se
*-Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I heard that it's now possible to do installation of packages on several
nodes
| simultaneously. In our case we have 4 linux boxes and would like to have
same
| packages on all of them, yesterday I spend a night jumping between 4 running
| dsel
*-Birgit Kellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Perhaps bizarre question: I installed debian, everything seems to be
| fine, but bash refuses to recognize the commands "man" and "info" and
| just returns "command not found". Any explanation?
Have you installed the packages "man-db" and "info"? They shoul
*-Mário Olímpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| The error is:
| gcc -O -I../inc -I/user/openwin/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o
| ../bin/Linux/hierarchy hierarchy.c ../lib/Linux/libIM.a
| ../lib/Linux/libFFT.a ../lib/Linux/libjpeg.a -lm -L/usr/lib
| -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11
| ld: ca
*-Andrea Novara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I have a small config feeling question?
| Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it
| would be more comfortable to have a constant string
| in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy
| filtering.
|
| If anyone have better suggestions or cat filte
*-"C.J.LAWSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi,
|Please could someone inform me as to the 'standard' way of generating
| glossary and nomenclature entries within a latex document
LaTeX has \makeglossary and \glossary{...} which are equivalent to
\makeindex and \index{...}. Could this be what you w
*-"Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this:
|
| $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]"
|
| in my /etc/profile?
Chuck explained what was going on. Your prompt could be:
PS1="[\[\e[31m\]\h\[\e[m\]:\[\e[34m\]\u\[\e[m\]:\[\e[31m\]\w\[\$\e[m\]
*-"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I've downloaded emacs and g++ and it seems to work fine. I've created a
| mytest program and it compiled fine. When I try to execute mytest I get
|
| bash:mytest: command not found
|
| So how do you invoke your c++ binaries? Thanks.
Is it possible
*-"Oliver Elphick"
|
| Messages from a Debian developer are messing up my combination of
| sendmail and fetchmail.
|
| His Sender field has an empty email address:
| Sender: "Ole J. Tetlie" <>
I have also been in touch with another person who have problems with
my h
*-Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
| > It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'.
|
| Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters,
| whi
*-Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote:
| >
| > main()
|
| A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do:
| int main(int argc, char* argv[])
It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'.
| then return something f
*-Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I am reading "XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO" and I would like to
| compute DCF/HSF but I do not know what DCF (dot clock frequency)
| is ? I mean I do not know where it comes from?
It's the number of pixels that the video card will send to the
monitor each second.
*-Ingo Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hello!
|
| I've some source-packages (mostly .tar.gz) that I'd like
| to install. Is it possible to do this in a way, that the
| system later on knows about the binarys, like, if it's
| been a debin binary package? (Things like automatic menus,
| eventual upd
*-Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:09 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes:
| >
| > Hi,
| > As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried
| > to use 'sort' for this purpose. From "man bash" I have read that the
| > LANG variabale is responsi
*-Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| c++ -o xtvscreen -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -L/usr/X11R6/lib xtvscreen.o
visual.o TVscreen.o channel.o callbacks.o allwidgets.o snap.o sound.o-ljpeg
-lXm
| -lXpm -lXext -lX11 -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXxf86dga -lm -lX11 -ljpeg -lXm -lXpm
-lXext -lX11 -lXt
*-"computer team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| cc -o ../nwbind nwbind.o emutil.o net1.o tools.o nwdbm.o nwcrypt.o
| unxlog.o sema.o -ldbm -lcrypt
|
| ld: cannot open -ldbm: No such file or directory
Try installing libgdbmg1-dev
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
*-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I've spent the last couple of days searching the web for this, but no
| luck.
|
| Does anyone know where I can find info to manually build a linux system
| (software, not hw) from scratch? I want to do this for the learning, not
| for usability.
I think you'll f
*-"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find
| the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but
| would like to run KDE if possible.
The runtime files are in:
dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i3
*-Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it
| in? I couldn't find one.
It should be in tetex-bin. I don't know if it's in unstable.
--
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly).
*-Vaibhav Goel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hello;
|
| I updated my hamm to slink yesterday. Everything seems to work
| fine except for X. I get the following error, when I type
| startx -- -bpp 32
|
| _X11TransConnect: Cant connect: errno=111
|
| My question is, that is X broken in the current sli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Ole J. Tetlie said
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > |
| > | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app
understands
| > | if its not listed in the man page?
| >
| > I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a pro
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app understands if
| its not listed in the man page?
I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called
editres.
--
Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)
*-Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi all, new to SQL and having trouble finding docs I need.
Hm. I couldn't find this either.
| I want to have a database that user a administers and users b, c, and d can
| access. How do I set this up w/ postgres? I am writing a web site and would
| like the use
*-tony mollica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi.
|
| Can't seem to find a way to change the
| configuration of my xterms in fvwm2. I
| would like to change the default scrollbars
| from the hatched display to a more solid
| type. I've been through a lot of
| documentation and I've either missed it
*-"Richard Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Somehow, I've managed to make the ftp option disappear from the access
| menu of dselect. I've no idea how this happened. Could anyone please
| suggest a fix?
|
| Luckly, I'd just about finished installing, and did the rest with dpkg,
| but that's too
*-"James Robert Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I'm lost here. I've read the docs that came with smail and fetchmail but am
| totally confused.
My first piece of advice is to replace smail with exim. Not everyone
will agree with me, but I think it is better.
| If someone could give me some poi
*-"Cristov Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find
| an answer in the documentation.
|
| 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can
| KDE be started from other window mangers?
Yes and yes. Kill kwm
*-Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Thomas Apel wrote:
|
| > I always thought there was a package called "dos2unix" to convert dos
| > text files to unix text files. But I can't find it anywhere. Is there
| > such a package somewhere out there? And if yes, what's its name?
*-"Alexander Gieg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hello!
|
| Today many users like to use StarOffice and/or other graphical WYSIWYG
| office suites. Is there any project to make a GPL package with all the
| "userlikeness" of these packages, with the same resources (and less
| bugs ;-)) that MS-Office
*-"David Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Greetings Debianites,
|
| I have a little nagging problem, that I decided to find an answer for.
|
| My example is TkCVS. I go to run the program from the X menu, but it tells
| me I don't have my CVROOT variable set. If I run it from xterm, everything
| i
*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find /fd0
in /etc/mtab
| or /etc/fstab
| I have edited /etc/fstab to include this line...
| /dev/fd0 /floppyauto noauto,sync 0 0
| as per the instructions I found at
www.de
*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
Hello, and welcome :-)
| I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
| ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
| and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
Tha
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|
| Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things
| like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as shell
| programming/scripting). While it will take me a while to get up the curve,
| it would be nice to have so good refernces around.
*-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| DEar all,
|
| I donwloaded a really simple GTK program, and tryed to build it:
|
| ld: cannot open -lXi: No such file or directory
|
| What is going wrong, please?
You probably haven't got xlib6g-dev installed. If you do, something is
boroken, but y
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| When I setup up Hamm I selected the 'Home-User' option believing that it
compiled the kernel with the sound drivers. I
| don't appear to have sound. How can I check to determine if the driver was
compiled in the kernel?
Try 'cat /dev/sndstat'.
--
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS
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|
| I could not figure out how to copy the contents from /cdrom to /target.
| The simple "cp" on the root image couldn't do it. The simple tar "star"
| I didn't know how to use (is there any documentation anywhere) and
| trying to use the cp command on the cd-image
*-"Jesse Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi, folks!
Hi
| I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC and
have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I grabbed all
the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the configuration steps, where I was
asked
*-"Christian Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| How can I configure the SVGA Xserver to use a 16bpp resolution by default?
| How am I supposed to switch to such a resolutio anyway? I haven't yet been
| able to use anything else than 256 colors res.
See in /etc/X11/XF86Config. In the Section "Screen"
*-Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I'm trying to get a BOCALANcard 2000 card to work. It's an ISA NE2000
| compatible card. The bios finds it. isapnp finds and configures it. I've
| compiled 2.0.34 with NE2000 builtin but when I boot I don't see any
| message that the kernel has found the card.
*-Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I'd like to develop a script that will automatically d/l the E cvs
| source each night. However, I have to login to the cvs server and
| provide it with a password (password is just pressing the return key).
| Is there a way to have the script send the return
*-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Dear all,
|
| Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for
| scientific writing...
For introduction and normal use: (the lion book)
Lamport: "LaTeX - A document preparation system", 2. edition, Addison Wesley
For advanced use and cust
*-"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi all ,
|
| After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste.
| I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for
| cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is
|
| sh: Error in loading share
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hallo again,
| during my fiddling this weekend trying to get Quake to work, I've
| changed some permissions
| somewhere and I don't know where. If I do "man smail" as root I get the man
| page. If I do
| "man smail" as a normal user I get the message:
*-Ruud de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Are there any Debian packages available for creating HTML pages? (I've
| just started with this and I would like some recommendations...)
Amaya (in package amaya) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
--
The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's
I have unfortunately come into possession of some files in
the rtf format. Is there any way to read these on Linux, or
even better, is there a cleaner to just extract the text?
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
(Martin
*-Rahul Sood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a
| host and retrieve a file?
If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be
used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script).
--
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