Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-03-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
eric Farris wrote: > > So RH gets to "become the definition of Linux," so what? unlike the > current state of affairs with Windows, Linux is open, meaning, (and > here's where Debian comes in) it can be improved. If RH becomes the > definition of Linux, it will be Linux-lite. If Debian can somehow

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > > > I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > > > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals > > > or do everything under X. You didn't say what it is you need to do when you suspend XEmacs, so this may not help... Since you don't like mul

KDE: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual

1999-03-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
I get this error when trying to execute certain KDE programs from an xterm in KDE. /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual When I execute these programs from the KDE menus, nothing happens at all. I'm running KDE 1.1-19990207-2 on my slink system. timshel:~$ ls -al /usr

Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Are there Gnome 1.0 debs yet? I haven't tried Gnome yet. 1.0 seems like the place to start. -- ...RickM...

Re: wabi

1999-03-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
"Craig T. Hancock" wrote: > > Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine I bought wabi 2 years ago just to run Quicken 4.0. At the time I inquired about wine but it didn't seem ready enough. I couldn't risk years worth of financial data to it. Wabi has been pretty good; I haven'

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable, > > except for packages that are only in one or the other. The intersection > > of stable and unstable would jus

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Does it merge stable and unstable and just show the newest version of > > each package, > > Yes. > > or keep them separate so I can choose? > > No Hmmm, that doesn't seem muc

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > > been afraid to do that. > >

dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
Tommy wrote: > > When I upgraded the package lists of > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ... This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always been afraid to do that. -- ...RickM...

Re: Okay to remove obsolete required packages like "base"?

1999-03-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > What is "base"? I have three systems (hamm, slink and potato) and none of > > them list a package by this this name in dselect (I don't recall it from > > rex, either.) I do see base-files, base-passwd, xbase, etc. > > I thi

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > > files, viewed with xv. > > 24 color JPEG's or 24 _bit_ color JPEG's? You can get 2^24 colors with 24 &g

Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach64). The 24bpp implementation is actually packed in 32bits, so the xserver is actually called 32bpp. Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours wou

Re: xanim package?

1998-12-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
Richard Hall wrote: > > I've checked just about every directory at ftp.debian.org that makes any > sense at all. I give up. Where IS this package? hamm: non-free/binary-i386/graphics/xanim_2.70.6.4-9.deb -- ...RickM...

Re: How to test RAM?

1998-12-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ed Cogburn wrote: > So, how can > I check my RAM? > There was, a long time ago, a thread in debian-user about testing RAM. > Does anyone remember this? Does anybody know of a Win95/DOS/Linux > program (freely available) that does a thorough test of RAM? "memtest86" in the doc/hwtools pac

Re: UDMA Disk Errors Fixed

1998-12-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
George - with all those things disabled, does the UDMA disk perform faster than if you just don't use the UDMA in the first place? I'm assuming that you can choose a UDMA driver or the regular IDE driver? George Bonser wrote: > > Pretty tired at this point but I got it fixed. It is a combination

Re: wine problem in slink

1998-12-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded to slink. But I have problem using wine. > Everytime it starts, I see the message > > wine: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so.0: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info > > The lib in the system are >libwine0.0.97

Re: How to enable DPMS monitor poweroff?

1998-11-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Daniel Martin wrote: > > Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use > > setterm to enable support. > > > > but setterm insists: > > > > timshel:~$ setterm -powersav

How to enable DPMS monitor poweroff?

1998-11-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
The Hardware-HOWTO just says: 20.1. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use setterm to enable support. but setterm insists: timshel:~$ setterm -powersave on cannot (un)set powersave mode I can't find any

Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > Hi, > > It's a little bit off-topic. > > We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be > useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or > /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all t

Re: dselect taking a _looong_ time

1998-10-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
Erik Forsberg wrote: > > When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local > nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's > skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) > > I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just > ins

DOOM on hamm

1998-10-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
I just upgraded to HAMM, and would like to verify that my DOOM problems are expected and that my solution is the right one. HAMM seems to come only with X-doom (linuxxdoom). It seems to work OK but I have to start an 8-bit XServer (I have an ATI Mach64 Graphics Pro Turbo). I don't have a 320x200

Re: SyJet

1998-08-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone had any expierence with using the Syjet (from > Syqest) drive with Debian Linux. I am currently considering buying a Syjet 2 > gig > drive. You mean Syjet 1.5GB, don't you? Or perhaps the SparQ 1.0GB? I'm waiting for the Quest 4.7GB late

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
> > phillip Neumann wrote: > > > > > > Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i > > > get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people > > > cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. PLEASE have a look at Dave Phillips's w

Re: Netscape Dead -- forced into WinDoze!

1998-08-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
> "Howard S. Ostrowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > About two weeks ago, something changed on my mostly Hamm system, > > and Netscape stopped working. Since then, I get a SEG FAULT > > every time I try to start Netscape. I had this recently. It would come up with the main window and SEG FA

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
the lone gunman wrote: > > Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I > can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer > one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) I use dclock. I got it off the CD that came with O'Reilly's X User Tool

Re: Netscape 4.05

1998-07-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Russ Cook wrote: > > I am running Netscape 4.05 (not 4.5) on my Hamm system. Certain web sites > consistently > trigger a bus fault from Netscape. Is this a known problem, or do I have a > config/library problem? This might be the problem where Netscape's libnullplugin.so fails when it hits a p

Re: [off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
> On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: > > I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio > > stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is > > somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles > > some

Re: sound recording under linux

1998-07-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
the lone gunman wrote: > > Hello: > > Are there any folks out there using Linux to do sound recording? As promised, here's a URL and the TOC from the page: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html Some Interesting Sound & MIDI Software For Linux

Re: More Linux in the press

1998-07-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
Steve Lamb wrote: > The problem, though, is that every article repeats the same thing over > and over and over again, and much of it is incorrect. They say that Linux > doesn't have top quality applications. They mean the *WINDOWS* applications. > There never is one that says "While Linux d

Re: More Linux in the press

1998-07-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:41:16 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb9493.html > > Wow, same article that has been floating around for, what, the past year > or so? Oh, sure, but I figure the more

More Linux in the press

1998-07-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb9493.html -- ...RickM... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Joey Hess wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Also, it is not suitable for installing an entire system (you are > > advised to install just the base system, then a few more packages, > > then a few more . . .). > > If you use apt with dselect, this is no longer a problem, apt fixes it. Joey, don't you

Why so many updates to frozen hamm?

1998-07-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
I see a fairly steady stream of updates to hamm. Many more updates, it seems, than the number of bugs that get closed. I don't mind; I just don't understand. It doesn't look like a deep-freeze to me. I'm not impatient either. The more updates the better. I just thought I'd ask in case there is som

Re: Eithernet Cards on bo

1998-07-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Others may disagree, but I have found that it is best to disable "Plug > and Play" on 3C509 cards. You can do that with the drivers disk > available via ftp from www.3com.com . Unfortunately you must boot to a > DOS disk t

Re: fvwm2 behaves differently from bo --> hamm?

1998-07-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "DB" == Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DB> I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross > DB> virtual screens. > > The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources for the > package (fvwm2*.{dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz} an

Re: Syquest

1998-07-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Actually, SyQuest hasn't released the SparQ in SCSI. Just Parallel > and Internal EIDE. Right. Th 1.5GB SyJet comes in SCSI and IDE. The 4.7GB Quest will be SCSI only, due out at the end of the year. http://www.syquest.com/products/index.html I've been thinking of gettin

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-27 Thread Rick Macdonald
Mark Panzer wrote: > www.netbuyer.com > > I noticed the memory usage jump by about 5Meg when navigator was started > and after just staring at the page for 5 min I noticed the memory usage > was once again starting to increase. Thanks for helping me out here. OK, I see the exact same results. I

Re: dosemu

1998-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > dosemu uses a disk image that's been created before hand. To get dosemu > to use > > another *dos than the one it's currently using.. build another/different > disk > > image.. > > All you need to do is boot a floppy (you gotta make a

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: > > OK, you seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that Java is at fault. > > > > How about you find one Java page that will do this. Fire up a fresh > > Netscape, open one browser window, go to that one page, and let it sit > > there untouched and prove

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > You mentioned Java applets. > > > > What if you fire up Netscape, and don't look at any web pages other than > > whatever your startup home page is, and just leave it for an hour. Does > >

Re: Dselect: Is it being redeveloped?

1998-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Rod Troch wrote: Yes. It's not ready for Debian 2.0 (now in beta) but will be the new tool for 2.1. I believe it will be _in_ 2.0 for people to play with; just not quite ready for prime time. -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Mark Panzer wrote: > > > > > > While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after > > > > > > two > > > > > > hours. You mentioned Java applets. What if you fire up Netscape, and don't look at any web pages other than whatever your startup home page is, and just leave it for an

Re: 2.0 Beta Party...

1998-06-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > We already *did* get rid of most of the bugs, otherwise we wouldn't even > release a beta. The point is that we think it is quite stable now, and can > be recommended to users who can't wait any day longer. Here's a question for you. I'm running 1.3r8. I ran off the unst

Re: dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
Robert Kerr wrote: > I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point > where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: > prompt. From there I'm lost. I started to try this awhile back. I loaded a dos editor by copying it to a floppy first, then copy

Combining sound (wav) and video (quicktime)?

1998-06-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
How might I combine a wav file with a quicktime video to give something that xanim could play? -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Which pop3: qpopper or cucipop?

1998-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
How do I decide which POP3 server to run, qpopper or cucipop? I'll simply be serving mail to my wife's Win95 machine over our lan at home. I'll get her mail from her ISP over my cable modem or ADSL using fetchmail. I don't have to _send_ her outgoing mail; the Win95 box will continue to send it di

Re: copying root partition

1998-06-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nathan E Norman wrote: > : When you copy an entire file system with cp -ax it skips any > : separate file systems, and doesn't even copy the mount points. So > : after copying, you have to check the directories that contained the > : mount points, and create them in the new system. I prefe

Re: copying root partition

1998-06-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
Frank Barknecht wrote: > I like "cp -ax" for this task, because of its shortness. I told a friend to use "cp -a". I forgot about "-x", but he only has one filesystem. However, the copy hung on the file /proc/kmsg. Would the -x have avoided this? In the end, he had to use tar. -- ...RickM...

Re: mode select keys in Xwindow

1998-06-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
Phlip wrote: > > Well the install of Debian Linux went well and I've learned quite a bit > but I am having a problem with the keys that change modes in Xwindow. > They have no effect. The combo I use is cntr-alt + or -. Is this > correct? I have Xwindow running pretty darn good but those mode keys

Re: Partition MAX?

1998-06-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > What is the maximum partition size for an ext2 filesystem that linux can > : > handle? Is it limited to 2.1 GB like dos? > : > : Nope, it'll scale beyond 18G at least > We've got a 44G news spool that's ext2. I believe the limit lies in the > terabyte range. Matt W

SOLVED (partly) Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > |> tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt > > Seems to be broken here too. > > > > Ditto here. Note to previous thread respondant. The *order* of > arguments > makes *no* difference. This still fails: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar Thi

Re: ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > 2) How do we tell what options are compiled into the Kernel? What if you just try giving ipfwadm commands to see if they're accepted or not? -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Some Questions about KDE / Whereis / FVWM

1998-05-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
Stefan Kunkel wrote: > 1.) > When I am using Whereis , is it possible to see more than one > result ??? Searching for a file is not so good, if i ONly see the > first !!! Try the "locate" command. -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: faking the hardware address?

1998-05-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > You could try: > 1) > ifconfig eth1 1.2.3.1 pointopoint 1.2.3.2 > route add -host 1.2.3.2 device eth1 > > and as the 1.2.3.2 host is a win95 box, that certainly can't handle ethernet > in pointopoint mode, you need > > arp -s 1.2.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 pub > > I nev

Re: faking the hardware address?

1998-05-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 10:30:33AM -0700, Alan Su wrote: > > My linux box is connected to a campus network, and i'd like to provide > > access to that network to a machine connected over a serial/modem line > > via PPP. > > My question is: can I fake this? > Yes. In sh

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
Bill Leach wrote: > > The file '/etc/init.d/netbase' has the commands for setting up you > IP-Masquerading. The defaults that I have seen are always to deny. > I have looked and not found any reference to a configuration tool so > I just added the necessary commands directly to the file. admin/d

Help with IP forwarding [more info]

1998-05-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
This is a repost. I left out some important information. The question is how or if it is possible to set up a firewall when the local lan side is not a different network but just one or more hosts on the same subnet as the firewall and the firewall's gateway? The Win95 box below has it's gateway

Help with IP forwarding

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
I have a cable modem connection that is just being converted to a "business-class" connection, which means I get 5 statics IP addresses and my packets destined to the office are routed directly. I can't get IP forwarding to forward anything. The setup is simple: (I've disguising actual IP's in th

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Ok ...I installed StarOffice 4.0 a few weeks ago but... > it didn't work... > it would install (will hafta try that trick on the install) > but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING it exist with n error (I think it seg > faults) > did you do this on a bo system? > I am runnin

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Allan W. Bart, Jr. wrote: > could you tell a bit more about what it takes to install star office and how > do > you like the package. Really, the installation is simple. Just run it. I changed the installation location from ~/Soffice40 to /usr/local/bin/Soffice40, but other than that it was just

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Randy Edwards wrote: > >Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of > StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. I just installed it last week. The installation is just like a Win95 application: a big blue screen and you just click Next a few times and it's done. I seem to remember tha

Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Peter - thanks for the feedback! > > The new deb-find command is cool! > > I think it should start off configured with `locate' since I'd expect most > people to have it. The `find' default started out looking in the wrong > directory. I've been using an external scrip

ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs

1998-04-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
deb-view version 1.5 was just released to master today, but I thought that I'd announce the changes here. Here is the changelog. The new deb-find command is cool! 1.5 - added an auto-mode-alist and deb-view mode so that deb-view is launched from any find-file command. - added a deb-f

Re: Memory problem....

1998-04-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Oh! Sorry! My mistake. > I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that > again. > when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ > > 32MB. > >freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the > > first >

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available > > for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at: > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/unix.htm > > I gave it a try but i

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Alain Toussaint wrote: > > i was doing a bit of surfing when i run unto an article (on cnet section > http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available > for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at: > > http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/downlo

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > > hi, > > I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom > for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages > that you know of? There just happens to be a comparison being made this week: http://www.32bitsonline.com/ --

Re: xloadimage -delay

1998-04-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
G. Crimp wrote: > > Any xloadimage people on the list ? I'm playing around with the > xloadimage that came with the Deb 1.3.1 distro. According to the man page, > xloadimage -delay x image1 image2 imageN, should cycle through images > 1 - N leaving each on the screen for x seconds.

Re: dosemu - can't see other drives

1998-04-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
Jack Kern wrote: > > but when I try to look at the D: drive, expecting my Linux root > > directory, I get this: > > I don't believe the dos commands are pertinent to the linux filesystem. > On my dosemu setup if I type "unix ls /" at the dos prompt, it shows > me my linux root directory. I found

dosemu - can't see other drives

1998-04-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
I just installed dosemu (bo). I've made no changes yet. The config.sys looks like this: C:\> type config.sys rem this sets up the redirector to look at the Linux root directory. rem this is probably not a good idea once you have dosemu installed device=c:\emufs.sys / device=c:\ems.sys but when I

SyQuest internal IDE 1GB disk?

1998-04-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
I imagine that SyQuest's external parallel port drive isn't supported under Linux, but what about the internal IDE version? Does anybody have experience with these drives? They're nearly half the price of Jaz drives. Seems like a good alternative to tape for backup, and a nice place to keep my Deb

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
Matt Thompson wrote: > This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different > model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). > Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and > choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. Matt -

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
Johnie Ingram wrote: > > A Mozilla 5 package by Joey Hess is now in our master Incoming, and > will be soon at an Incoming mirror near you. :-) You can already get > it from: > And yes, its actually usable, and has at least one convenient new > feature in the Window menu. There are some glitche

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Scott K. Ellis wrote: > The graphical interface is coming along nicely, but we haven't quite bound > it to the actual package installation routines (although those are also > very close to completion). Scott -- are there screenshots somewhere that we can look at? -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSC

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Rick Macdonald wrote: > The latest version seems to be 0.6. I've happily been running a fixed > v0.4 for many months. A quick look shows that one of the fixes that I > had to make is now in v0.6. > > One that isn't, but may not effect everyone, follows. > > I had

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > dpk wrote: > > > I belive he is looking/needing the software package 'rumba'. > ftp://hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at/pub/NeXT/tools/rumba/ Also, this web page covers rumba and it's commercial successor, "sharity": http://www.Object

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
dpk wrote: > I belive he is looking/needing the software package 'rumba'. > Actually rumba is a software package for a *Linux* client to mount an > NT share via SMB. Samba is for a windows client to mount a drive from a > linux server. I don't believe there is a package for rumba yet. > I have s

Re: smbclient interface

1998-03-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > : > : Is there a smbclient interface that is something like mc's ftp interface? > > Nope, at least not that I'm aware of. I use "rumba" on top of samba. Its functionality is to mount drives such that

HP DeskJet 722c - samba attached - no color

1998-03-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
We replaced the HP LaserJet II on a Win95 box with an HP Deskjet 722c. Through samba from Linux, I can print text and greyscale PostScript (from Netscape) but when I try color from Netscape nothing prints. I see activity on the net (blinking lights on the hub) but nothing seems to happen at the Wi

Re: Netscape Mail

1998-03-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
> The netscape mail never download mail at the interval I specified in > the mail preference window! Is there a way to fix this? This interval if for a mail _check_, and all it does is set the little mailbox flag in the bottom right hand corner of the Netscape windows. It doesn't download your

HAMM kernel-source OK with libc5 BO?

1997-12-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32) with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, or should I just get the original source tar file and use that? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

Firewalling - has to be separate machine?

1997-12-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
I may switch from ISDN to a "business class" cable modem service that routes packets between my home and office directly from the cable modem head through ATM VPC. IE, this traffic is supposedly not at risk. (I hope I have the above correct; it's not my area of expertise) But I would also see th

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam > > and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? > > > > I agree. I agree too. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the > filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is > appreciated. Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell: export PS1='\h:\w$

Re: truncating files

1997-12-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Carl Mummert wrote: > Summary: > > 1) > foo > 2) cp /dev/null foo > > Problems: > 2) cp /dev/null foo won't take multiple filenames as arguments > So the answer is that I do need a script or program to do the job. What about: rm -f {list of filenames} touch {list of filen

Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be > enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if > there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? http://skip.incog.com/

Re: fetchmail problem

1997-11-30 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: > After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine, > I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation). > > Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to > be normal, but the d

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Alan Su wrote: > Rick Macdonald wrote (Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:27:13 -0700 (MST) ): > |> > |>> Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work: > |>> > |>> ( (ls);(ls)) > |> > |>> Try changing the definiti

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: > Remco van de Meent wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: > > > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > > : ((ls);(ls)) > > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > > : > > : It is a little

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > "Eloy A. Paris" wrote: > > Witold Grabysz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > > : ((ls);(ls)) > > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > > > > Yup, you're right; it's proba

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25 Nov 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Witold Grabysz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > : ((ls);(ls)) > Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work: > > ( (ls);(ls)) Can anybody confirm if this is fixed in bash-2.01? > Try changing the de

Re: CVS for debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: > Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the > Packages files but didn't see it. Debian 1.3.1: /binary-i386/devel/cvs-pcl_1.9-4.deb /binary-i386/devel/cvs_1.9-4.deb ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el [was: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package]

1997-11-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
lso views HTML files using w3.el. --- snip --- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:07:39 -0600 From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: deb-view.el: emacs tool for browsing deb files! I've written a tool for emacs that allows one to browse deb files. It's nice to peek at a pack

Does lesstif provide libXm.so.1.2 for Netscape?

1997-11-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
The release notes for Communicator 4.04 say that Linux plugins only work with the dynamically linked version of Motif 1.2. Does lesstif provide this, and do plugins work? I recall that bash 2.0.1 (or was it 2.1?) is also required? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Error: Unknown PCI file card adapter

1997-11-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
> I have an ASUS TX97e motherboard. So do I. > Will I be able to proceed with the Debian GNU/Linux install even though > I'm missing this driver? Is there a site I can find a list of hardware > supported by Debian GNU/Linux? Just ignore the error message. I have no problems and get the mess

Re: Are there any efficient backup programs for Linux?

1997-11-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Lawrence wrote: > do you know their the www site? > > i'll also vouch for BRU. its reliable and they have good support if > > and when it's needed. http://www.estinc.com/ ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: can't get serial driver to recognize my modem

1997-10-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Debian mail-lists receiver wrote: > Does anyone know a fix for this? I have a 33.6 Modem Master 6000 fax/modem > which, in win-95 is configured for base address 0x2F8, irq 3. However, the > serial driver under Linux doesn't see it. I helped a friend install Debian. He has a

Re: Win95 connected to my Debian box

1997-10-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Samba, the standard set of net servers, and perhaps a POP server are all > SMBFS doesn't work as well as SMBCLIENT for sharing files from the 95 > system on the Debian machine. At times, it's wedged on me and I have had > to remove and re-load its module

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, dc wrote: > Enough is enough. So that one might know who you are, what is your name, or have you always just gone by "dc"? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mailboxes and netscape

1997-10-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > is there anyway to make netscape use the system mailboxes instead of > moving all the mail to its own box? imap? anyone done this before? In Netscape 4.0 (Communicator), the Edit/Preferences/Mail&Groups/MailServer dialog has this option: o IMAP4

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