of this directory to root, and it was not able to write files to
/var/spool/mqueue until I changed its ownership from smmta to root.
Should I file this as bug or is it just me being stupid?
Thanks,
Paul Huygen
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ace. Installing the DHCP package with APT-get does not configure
DHCP.
The "Unix and Internet Fundamentals Howto" does not mention DHCP.
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> How do I get xdvi to display included eps graphics? [..]
xdvi has a button that toggles the capacity to show the
postscript pictures (one button above the lowest button).
HTH,
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(reg Dword) 1 in the following Registry location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSETUP
Notes: 1: Case is important in the previous line;
2: I have stolen this text from the Internet, but don't
remember from which locati
out. I was toot quick
and sent an unfinished example. The following example has actually been tried
and
works.
Paul Huygen.
The class:
---
%
% myletter.cls
%
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{hitlnl}[1999/10/31 Fist, beta, version]
%\Requi
Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, actually Latex isn't that easy, is it? [..]
> My problem is that I can write a letter with
> latex but I cannot find the right commands to insert the official
> colour logo of my firm (*.jpg,*.ps,*.pdf) into the header of the
> letter and other chats in
wrong. Can anybody help me and
tell me what I should do?
Thanks,
Paul Huygen
Details:
I run kernel version 2.2.17. The kernel sources have been patched to
enable win4lin. I downloaded lm-sensors version 2.6.2-2 and
i2c-sources 2.6.2-1. I have Debian version Potato, but download new
packages from
ut gnus, gnats and armadillo's. I wish that more handbooks were
written like the Lamport book. When I started with LaTeX long ago,
I read the first three chapters, and could then easily start. The book
seems terse because it is concise, but it is the conciseness that
helps you to make a quick start.
Paul Huygen
eed
to share information with people who unfortunately use e.g.\ Microsoft
Windows.
I think it a bit hypocrite to thankfully accept the document standards
from Adobe, and then spit on Adobe.
Best regards,
Paul Huygen
(who wants to express his feelings in this matter and not start a flame war).
Jeremiah Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> I want to use an application which requires the use of a middle mouse
> button of a three button mouse but my mouse only has two buttons.
> How do I get around this?
Usually by pressing the two buttons simultaneously.
Paul Huygen
ts of the files in those directories. When you put files in one of
the directories, you have to update the file lists with the command
mktexlsr
Greet
Paul Huygen
uments (the number of characters per
> column).
C-u 75 M-x set-fill-column
C-u means "control-u"
and
M-c means "Meta-x"
Paul Huygen
"V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the program to run to convert DOS text files to Linux text files,
> and vice versa. I.e., replace 0D 0A with 0A.
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> tr -d '\r'
> [..]
or, use do2unix, in package sysutils
Paul
would either
produce ghostscript error messages, or nothing at
all. Therefore, to me it looks like APSfilter is broken in your
installation, so that it directs the postscript code directly to the printer
queue instead of via Ghostscript. (Just my 0.02. I am not really an
expert in this matter)
Paul Huygen
dvips -f quantum |lpr
I cannot tell which of the three packages APSfilter, magicfilter or
CUPS is best. I use magicfilter and that works very well
Paul Huygen
heck out the book "LaTeX, a Document
Preparation System" (Lamport, publ: Addison Wesley), check out LyX
documentation and look for documentation about Babel (a kind of add-on
to produce multi-lingual documents and supports many languages. It
comes standard with almost all TeX distributions).
Hope this is interesting for you.
Paul Huygen
still needed. Sometimes I just put every
item labeled on a separate text line, like:
name : Janssen
street : Dilbert Street
etc, and an empty line to separate the records. This style is very
flexible, and allows to omit entries, and to add entries later without
problems for former versions of the scripts that handle the text
lists.
Paul Huygen
ed
environment for
(La)TeX, that knows the (La)TeX commands and compiles/debugs the
documents on the fly. Auctex is also available as Debian package.
I don't know about special TeX environments for VI.
Paul Huygen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
> what is this ide-scsi?
It is a kernel module with which an IDE drive can be treated as if it
is a scsi drive. The cd-burner program needs this for IDE CD-burners,
since it can only handle SCSI devices.
> how can i use it?
insmod ide-scsi. (See the CD burner howto).
>
that is suitable for your printer (eg PCL).
4) I have installed lpr and magicfilter and that runs fine. However, I
understand that CUPS is a modern alternative for the two (am I right?)
Paul Huygen
indows (BTW, suggestions of
Linux programs that are similar to ACT are very welcome).
Paul Huygen
in the end the ENWB had to change their name.
Paul Huygen
s? PDFlatex wants
pictures in PDF format, and these are hard to generate if the ps-to-PDF
converter is broken
Regards,
Paul Huygen
re more urged to do so,
because you also help the Debian community. Moreover, the burden to
manage your own documentation has been taken over by the database manager.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
So, if someone hacks into
your router, you can reboot the machine, and everything has been
undone.
Site http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/
provides a list of mini-linux distributions that are suitable for
running on old, small computers.
Good luck,
Paul Huygen
lation kit is necessary and must be installed.
I tried win4lin, found that it worked well, and decided to buy
it. An important consideration for buying was, that their E-mail
helpdesk provided prompt and adequate answers on questions.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
nux on a flop" (Linux Router
Project, kernel 2.0.16). Often data transfer rates have values like 30 kb/s.
>
> Any hints to speed that up?
>
No. sorry.
Regards,
Paul Huygen.
luating win4lin.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
gnumeric this way (in Potato), and had to
install only a few
extra packages (do not remember which ones, but less than five)
because of dependencies. Gnumeric runs fairly well now.
Paul Huygen.
t accented
letters are retained.
Cheers,
Paul Huygen
als. As its name
tells, it uses the dvi file as input. I use it
often to prepare manuscripts for journals that do not accept decent
manuscript formats.
Paul Huygen
ticipants of this list were not,
is, that you used Microsoft and Outlook. Therefore, if I were afraid
for this kind of viruses, I would choose the operating system that is
is less vulnerable (i.e. Linux)
I am sorry for the virus problems that you may currently have and wish
you good luck,
Paul Huygen.
mapped fonts, that result
in an ugly PDF. To prevent this (at least in my Potato system),
add command line option "-Ppdf" to the dvips command that generates
the ps file.
Greets,
Paul Huygen
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> how do I find out which IRQ [my internal PnP modem] uses
> using linux tools?
I think by typing:
cat /proc/interrupts
Paul Huygen
ts?
I don't know what Gabor spectrograms are, but I think you can use
Octave, or the commercial package
Matlab (The Math Works).
Paul Huygen
ists essentially as follows:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{hitlnl}[1999/10/31 Fist, beta, version]
\LoadClass[adresrechts]{brief}
\voetitem{Telefoon:}{1234567890}
\voetitem{Fax:}{0987654321}
\voetitem{\textsc{kvk} utrecht:}{6789012}
\voetitem{E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\setlength\footsep{30
ists essentially as follows:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{hitlnl}[1999/10/31 Fist, beta, version]
\LoadClass[adresrechts]{brief}
\voetitem{Telefoon:}{1234567890}
\voetitem{Fax:}{0987654321}
\voetitem{\textsc{kvk} utrecht:}{6789012}
\voetitem{E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\setlength\footsep{30
version from the
Web site, which is a PITA. I wonder whether it is a good idea to
incorporate Navigator 4.75 in some way into Potato.
Greets,
Paul Huygen.
r computer with magicfilter,
chances are that everything is going to work right from the beginning.
Anyway, the Magic-filter script for my Laserjet 5L printer issues for
PS files:
/usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- -
Regards,
Paul Huygen
uot;alphaholidays" sent a message to
this list (header: Linux on HP 9000 C-Class) that contains a kind of
virus or trojan horse.
Greets,
Paul Huygen
works.
Probably there are better ways, but at least this will help you before
your deadline.
Paul Huygen
urn-on-auto-fill)
But maybe, you refer to the way that the editor handles lines that are
too long to be displayed in the editor's window. My emacs displays
those lines wrapped, but does not necessarily split the line in the
text file. A backslash character indicates that the line is
continued on the next line. I don't know how to alter this behaviour.
Paul Huygen
essee*}
*text of the letter here*
\closing{*closing sentence here*}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Then, all you have to do to create a beautyful letter, is 1) activate
the keyboard macro to generate the letter frame, 2) replace the parts
between the asterixes by the actual texts and 3) LaTeX and print
the letter.
Paul Huygen
not double end-of-line characters with some scripting language like
awk.
Paul Huygen
t she can import it in Word by clicking [text
files].
Paul Huygen
.
With LRP you create a complete Linux OS on a single floppy disk, that installs
itself on a ram disk in memory. There is a howto that explains how to make a
firewall with IP masquerading. In my place this thing has been running for a
month without problem. Look at www.linuxrouter.org.
Succes,
Paul Huygen
media)
Is that a normal, full-functioning modem or a crippled, so-called "winmodem"?
The latter type is made to work under Windows, but not necessarily under other
operating systems. So, if the box or the manual says this modem is a
"winmodem",
then the best thing you can do
caps" might be
just an accident.
Paul Huygen
nters
that you mentioned. This seems to work at least reasonably well. I
have modified (hacked in a dirty way) a magicfilter script to get it running.
Paul Huygen
Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read [rtf files].
Sorry, I should not talk nonsense. I mistook "rtf" for "PDF".
Paul Huygen
"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.
Paul Huygen
it with
which you can do curve fitting. Furthermore, free "matlab clones" like Octave
and Scitech can generate gnuplot scripts. In that way you can do almost
anything
with numbers and plotting. A drawback for you might be that Gnuplot has the
advantages as well as the disadvantages of being CLI (and not GUI) oriented.
Paul Huygen
uot;seminar.sty" or upgrade to LaTeX2e.
2) There is a possibility that this file is not included in "database files"
called "ls-R", and on which TeX relies when searching for packages etc. If
your seminar.cls resides on a legal place, you can update the database files
with
Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last
> > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast.
> > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output pag
ot; or to
run TeX in a special way. Usually latex.fmt comes with the TeX
distribution or it is generated on the fly during the installation of the
TeX package. I suggest you to look at the documentation of your TeX
package.
Paul Huygen
Peter Eades wrote:
> Does anyone else use a HP DeskJet 880c, I have vanila slink with the
> proposed updates bits.
> Please tell me it is well supported by magic filter.
Sean Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use an HP Deskjet 890c [with] the 550c print filter, which tends to
> go a bit he
o a search engine that helps you to find the
items.
Paul Huygen
wers they got, and other people (i.c. me) might be interested
in the answers. Furthermore, Xwindows servers for Windows provide an extra
means
to use Linux systems.
So, thank you for your suggestion
Paul Huygen
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are the parameters [to make dpkg list ALL installed Packages] ???
$ dpkg -l
Paul Huygen
to a serial port in order to fax in the POTS
style. The main problem that I have with this situation is, that
we claim that Linux is a superior OS compared to Windows, but that
nevertheless Linux is not capable to handle faxes with ISDN, whereas
Windows is.
Paul Huygen
eze problem. However, if
your X-windows freezes, you can probably shut down X-windows only, by
pressing -- simultaneously. In this way you
don't have to reboot your system with the reset button.
Paul Huygen
Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it possible?
Probably. How to do it depends on the format of the pages that you
want to be printed. Are the pages in Postscript, TeX, Troff, Word,
Wordperfect, or something el
the archive. I have only a dutch adress of the CTAN
archives handy: ftp.cs.ruu.nl
4) Look again at your manuscript. Is it absolutely necessary, and not
ugly, to use numbered sections at five levels deep?
Regards,
Paul Huygen
ime Linux is currently in
development. A brief search on Internet delivers the following
resources:
http://luz.cs.mnt.edu/~rtlinux
http://wwwa2.kph.uni-mainz.de/ftp/pub/machines/linux/realtime-linux/
I hope this information is helpful for you.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
installed and the system is as mean and
lean as possible. On the other hand, I presume that it is very
complicated to write a program that tracks the actual use of each installed
debian package.
Paul Huygen
al{landscape}
\begin{document}
This document is in landscape. Look for yourself.
\end{document}
The \special{} is included tot tell dvips to print in landscape.
Paul Huygen
However, there is a dutch WWW
site from Paul Slootman (maintainer of the isdnutils package) that is
very helpful. It is in Dutch. Look at:
http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/i4l-howto-nl.html
Regards,
Paul Huygen
s:
HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf
So, you can e.g. store LaTeX files in ~/texmf/tex/latex/
Paul Huygen
Andr Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and
>sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's
>setup [..]
>do you know if there any dangers in me running dselect
>on emacs packages?
As far as I know, there
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (about my
suggestion on how to put a \label in in a table):
>> \label{tab:a-table}
>> \caption{blablabla}
>> \end{table}
>
>I think that's wrong. Have you tried it?
>
>The \label needs to be in a \caption.
Well, actually I haven't tried right befor
ble in a
"table float", e.g.
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular} ...
...
...
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:a-table}
\caption{blablabla}
\end{table}
Paul Huygen
used
a completely different language called Mint. Thus, the .el files
could not be used.
2) The files to be edited cannot be larger than 64 kByte.
Paul Huygen.
ditor (on the contrary, I
would say). Therefore I start Emacs routinely during login and use it
for everything that involves editing. It is only a pity that I have up
to now not been successfull to let Emacs mob my floor or wash my
dishes.
Paul Huygen
t Internet through ppp0.
Try Samba. Debian supports Samba. Samba supports the Windows
networking style via TCP-IP. Alas, I can't help you with the lack of
time you have. Recently I have set up a network with Samba and it has
cost me much time and many questions on a local dutch Linux mailing
list
"Harrison, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Much of what is "customized" or specific in the system is found in the
>/etc directory, and then all of your data files should be in the /home
>directory. So if you back up those two trees, you'll be mostly there, I
>would think.
You should also cons
s, the LaTeX Companion (Goossens, Mittebach and Samarin,
ISBN 0-201-54199-8) mentions a package named draftcopy that prints the
word DRAFT diagonally across each page.
Yours,
Paul Huygen
the package "seminar" to make overhead slides with
LaTeX.
Greetings,
Paul Huygen
kill-rectangle resp.
M-x yank-rectangle.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
kill-rectangle resp.
M-x yank-rectangle.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
cument}
5) dvips takes care for the uncompression. Most other device drivers support
the graphicx package too.
The graphicx package is very well documented in the book "The LaTeX
Companion" by Goossens, Rahtz and Mittelbach, ISBN 0-201-85469-4
>PS Just as an accademic question, can
npack this file.
>and more .. Debian linux have not X windows system ?
Look in "/debian/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11" of the debian distribution
Regards,
Paul Huygen
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. If I needed PCL then I removed the cartridge
(printer off, cartridge out, printer on)
Success,
Paul Huygen
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I think you need to give the following command:
/sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 3# my serial mouse
4) I think In Debian you have to put this setserial command in
/etc/rc.boot/0setserial
5) The boot procedure is described in de TeX-info that can be seen via
Emacs
I hope this
ree Software Foundation did not exist
when Linus developed the Linux kernel, Linux itself would not have
come into existence. Therefore, if I had to vote for the most
important person concerning Linux, it would be possible that I would rather
vote for Richard Stallman.
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does not matter for LaTeX2HTML).
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nute to print a page. If you only want to print draft, you may
consider using dvi2tty. This program translates the dvi file into
plain, neatly formatted, ascii.
Regards,
Paul Huygen.
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> such menu when editing a LaTeX file. How do
> I go about changing this?
The features that you refer to are supplied by the auctex package. It
is a good idea to install that package.
Regards,
Paul Huygen
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can be found at the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network (CTAN). Look in . This site
contains a Search Engine for CTAN. It gives two locations in CTAN
where you can find regmar.
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if I only run your upgrade script without
further upgrading?
Regards,
Paul Huygen
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;, then it asks where the distribution top level
is. I think it is "bo/binary-a" for you.
Then it asks:
Enter _contrib_ binary dir. [/contrib]
Enter there the dir where the "contrib" deb files are.
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erfull and
flexiable. Therefore, I think it would be possible to generate a page
layout program based on TeX (like Lyx is based on TeX).
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> I do almost everything with LaTeX via Postscript (Ghostscript). When I
> bought an HP LJ5 printer with 1 Mb of memory I soon discovered that
> that amount of memory was utterly insuffi
ith the most complicated graphics.
Regard,
Paul Huygen
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ferent, the uids, the gids, and the permissions. Anyone
>> know of a program to tell me all of this?
I believe that MC ("Midnight Commander") has this functionality
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ftp.tex.ac.uk /pub/archive/help/TeX-index in UK
and ftp.cs.ruu.nl /pub/TEX/DOC/TeX-index.gz in
the Netherlands
(The exact directory structures may be obsolete. I got them from
a book.)
P
ting /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, which is
self-explaining. Like you did, I put style files in
/usr/local/lib/texmf, and changed in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf the line
TEXMFL= $TEXMF/local
into:
TEXMFL= /usr/local/texmf:$TEXMF/local
Good Luck
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