On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:48:58AM -0500 wrote
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YES, writing up a quickie install method would be greatly appreciated.
HOW about a quickie on installing from source, like CDROM #4 of the
6 CD Debian package. It is supposed to contain all the source for binary
disc #1.
selected. (Lesson 1: Don't ever trust
yourself at 1 o' clock in the morning!)
Have fun. -- Stephan
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condition within three hours. There's probably the odd
package still missing, but I am reinstalling everything by hand
intentionally, because it gives me a chance to clean things up a
little and get rid of unused packages.
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and deleting
the woody ones did not help. apt tells me that my system is up to
date ;-)
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in compiling Apache/PHP 4 on a Potato system?
Thanks in advance -- Stephan
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that /dev/sg0 would be a good place to start
looking :-)
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** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **
.stty stop ^s is a default setting. Check
stty's manpage for details.
Ragards -- Stephan
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Jaume Teixi writes:
thanks,
wget -r url
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for the console (or the xterm), my choice would be mutt.
As a matter of fact, I use XEmacs for editing and mailing on
console screen, too.
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*** Die Frauen haben es ja von Zeit zu Zeit auch nicht leicht. Wir Männer
and installation instructions list under prerequisites or
installation requirements?
I don't know cscmail, but often one or more of flex, yacc, bison, or
certain libraries are required.
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before it displays the first process list related output. On a
loaded sysetm, this may take a few seconds.
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this
list. Could a kind soul please supply me with this address again.
How does one handle the integration of the Debian configuration
modules into the new Perl tree? Or is there no possibility to
deactivate the system supplied perl?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards -- Stephan
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Regards -- Stephan
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center to
centrally configure everything. You should be able to use sawmill as
you Window Manager and have all the other neat stuff.
As usually, there's more than one way to do it.
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*** He's dead
of
using a plain window manager without too many bells and wistles,
like Window Maker or Sawmill.
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anything in the doc of leafnode
where it puts the active file. I am using the XEmacs 21.1.10 and the
Gnus version which came with it.
Could a kind soul please help me to straighten my setup?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers -- Stephan
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structures and file formats are somewhat generic for most news
servers. Oh silly me.
Thanks anyways.
Cheers -- Stephan
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for
the delivery of local error mails.
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? If it's not you, could this be a breach
in your system's securty?
Have fun -- Stephan
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the
forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom
/usr/local/packages/myprog1,
cd to /usr/local/packages and stow myprog1.
This will create /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/man/man1 (whatever is
underneat myprog1) and populate the directories with symlinks.
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Over
this out on my own, but I'm having trouble figuring out
what it is exactly that I'm looking for. :-)
find(1) is your friend.
Have fun -- Stephan
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*** I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. ***
of Wordstar- and Emacs-compatible keystrokes...
I'd probably try pico, but that's just personal preference for cases
like this.
Best regards -- Stephan
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*** I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. ***
Hi,
Timothy C. Phan writes:
Does 'potato' support netscape 4.7,
yes,
and where can I get the netscape? Thanks!
It's either part of the non-free distribution (check dselect for the
netscape packages) or grab one from www.netscape.com.
Cheers -- Stephan
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site
which rotates its syslogs - and under any kind of UNIX-dialect, too.
Personally I think it's a good idea to HUP your daemons after rotating
their log files. I just keeps this a little tidier.
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. I'd simply see if I can buy the CD..
TTUL8R -- Stephan
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*** ~, sweet ~ ***
distribution - maybe I just missed a command line switch?!
Thanks for any hints in advance.
TTUL8R -- Stephan
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*** ~, sweet ~ ***
whereas potatoe's
is 3.1.20-4. What is this suppoed to tell me? The basis for these
packages has not changes, has it?
What's the difference between these two?
Ciao - Stephan
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*** Hautpsache es geht
-- in my expeirience
it's just to errorprone.
Cheers -- Stephan
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*** ~, sweet ~ ***
long -- Stephan
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*** Y2K conversion simplified: Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June,
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Hi Tim,
Tim Bedding writes:
Is Perl 5 part of the standard Debian 2.1 installation?
Perl 5 is part of the standard distribution. Whether or not you
install it is up to you.
Check with dpgk -l or dselect.
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On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote:
Stephan Engelke wrote:
How 'bout Kerninghan, Ritchie: The C Programming Language. Sorry,
forgot the publisher.
There's a score of other good, allright, and bad books around. Check
your local bookstore.
After spending
Programming Language. Sorry,
forgot the publisher.
There's a score of other good, allright, and bad books around. Check
your local bookstore.
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*** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana
to the list (223, 252, 246, ...)
Hope this helps.
Cheers -- Stephan
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*** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the
end of the night you'll be eating Big Macs.***
-postscript printers and as a backend for gv/ghostview.
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*** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the
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rid of the software if you want to.
Possibly even consider using stow.
Mail me if there are any further questions.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the
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there is a .deb-package called xntp.
Next place a call to ntpdate servername in your ip-up.d.
This should do the trick.
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*** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the
end of the night
Hi Andrew,
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 09:50:48AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote:
Is there a debian metafont distribution?
Metafont is part of the TeX package (tetex-*.deb).
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- __o __o
dependent
config tools.
He got Debian up and running on the first try and is quite happy with it.
I do not think one needs to be intimidated by Debian because the
installation procedure is a little more complicated than SuSE's yast or
Red Hat.
Cheers -- Stephan
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Hi Alex,
the StarCalc part of the StarOffice-suite is able to import
Excel-files. Gnumeric also (partially) understands the Excel-format.
So long -- Stephan
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***Die 10 Gebote: 279
long, Stephan
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*** Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for poof ... ribbit. ***
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 01:28:28PM +0200, Jure wrote:
Is there any similar software for Debian?
wget.
It's part of the GNU progject and it comes with the Debian
distribution.
So long, Stephan
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*** Meddle
. This is a brutal way, but it should get rid of the X for
you.
Is it possible that only the Netscape hangs? This is a problem I
encounter once in a while.If you can find the netscape in the
ps ax-list, try killing it first.
So long -- Stephan
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and German)
and start using LaTeX.
Cheers -- Stephan
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];
if ( (($year % 4 == 0) ($year % 100 != 0)) || ($year % 400) == 0) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
---88-
So long -- Stehan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:56:01AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote:
is there any gif animator available for linux...if so
pls tell where to get...
try whirlgif, it should be part of the Debian distribution.
So long -- Stephan
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problem
is aparently not unique. Check the Debian web-site to download those
disks. Maybe they help.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and
hate leads
.
What happens if you try to recreate the X configuration file from
scratch using xf86config of XF86Setup?
So long -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and
hate leads
are common, too. Alternatively abbreviate your surname
or think of a creative way to assign user ids (ok - for use at hoem
this is usually overkill...)
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads
code, though.
You do not need the route commands in /etc/init.d/network anymore.
They will create a harmless errormessage at boottime. Comment them
out.
Have fun -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger
on a
slink system straight off the CD. I have not yet encountered any of
the potential problems mentioned in the document pointed to to the
above URL.
Sorry for creating confusion.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear
used only accepts Postscript files.
If so, try to run the text file through a2ps or enscript first.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and
hate leads
, since Slink comes with
Xfree 3.3.2.
where can I get mode lines up to 1600x1200
XF86Config should be your friend. I've got my card running at
1280x1024. No problem at all.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear
teams's site at cygnus.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and
hate leads to suffering. -- Master Yoda (more or less) ***
, then killall /usr/local/bin/foo would solve your
problem. This is probably what you wanted this morning.
If you are trying to kill off all processes started by a certain user
try somthing like
# kill `ps aux | awk '/userid/ { print $2 }'`
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tool and
(2) XF86Setup, which has a nice GUI and lets you click and point to
anything you need. The program needs to be run as root.
Hope this helps.
So long,
Stephan
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*** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger
nothing between beginning and
end (-v is grep's negation option).
So long -- Stephan
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*** Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of
the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works. ***
. Check /etc/init.d/network and comment out the route
commands, this should do the trick. I am not sure if you need the
gateway setting in this file either.
Have fun.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Plug-and-Play is really nice
, zcat usually is a link to gzip)
more filename
If the pager less is installed, replace more with less if you like.
Less also comes with a decompression-mode.
zless filename.gz
zless, gzip and zcat also operate on files created by compress(1) (i.e.
.Z-files).
So long -- Stephan
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uninstall solution of all times: use your favourite text
editor. :-)
So long, Stephan
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*** If only women came with pulldown menus and online help. ***
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*** If only women came with pulldown menus and online help. ***
Note that gzip understands both .gz-files (of course) and older .Z
(compress) files.
Newer versions of GNU tar (1.12) also support bzip2 compressed files (.bz2)
with the -I switch.
So long -- Stephan
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*** If only
of the global config-files.
Did you include support for the .htacces facilites? Is it configured?
So long,
Stephan
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drive a: file=/dev/fd0 exclusive
This defines a: to be your first floppy drive.
So long, Stephan
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*** Siehst Du die Gräber dort hinterm Strauch?
Sie rauchten nicht - und starben auch! ***
by himself.
Just my $.02.
So long -- Stephan
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(file formats) of the manual:
man 5 crontab
The basic format should be described in both the crontab(1) and the
crontab(5) manpages.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Siehst Du die Gräber dort hinterm Strauch
like having the option of doing everything by hand or by a specifig
configuration script (e.g. sendmailconf). I did not find a good way to
do something like this using SuSE.
So long -- Stephan
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. Check for the latest Qt 1.x to be sure.
Everything's running fine so far (I still like Window Maker better
though, but that's off topic.)
So long,
Stephan
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*** Siehst Du die Gräber dort hinterm Strauch
to stdout
(the pipe), tar -f - reads stdin (the pipe) as input.
This does not leave and uncompressed file around, the original
compresseed tar-archive is left untouched.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Spare
.
Number 2 : Is there any linux app capable of showing MS Media Player asf
files?
Dunno.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Spare in der Schweiz, dann hast Du in der Not. ***
.
So long -- Stephan
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or not. This way you could set up a queue which only accepts
certain file formats and ignores the rest.
Optionally you could probably add some code to create a message, if a
file was rejected, although this is usually not the filter's job.
So long -- Stephan
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to make good makefiles?
Stick to the info files and look at other people's Makefiles - just
remember to have your own idea about what's good for you and what's
not.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Spare in der
smart functions are disabled.
Has anyone notices this behaviour, too?
If so, what might cause the problem - what could I do to solve it?
Thanks in advance.
So long -- Stephan
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*** Spare in der Schweiz
Hi
I can not reboot
my computer every time i install something!
I did that in Windows for years.
that's one reason you're running Linux, isn't it?
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*** Life is not fair
).
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will not create any duplicate IP-addresses.
So much for a road-map. The HOWTOs will know more about you specific
setup.
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*** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***
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the ampersand-contruct:
Channel 2 is redirected to channel 1 which is redirected to /dev/null.
In short: all error messages go into the big bit bucket.
So long,
Stephan
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*** Life is not fair. But the root
= /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000c000)
As far programs go, you may be able to use dselect to resolve the
dependencies for you. Otherwise dpkg is your friend.
I don't have the exact options handy, since I only use Debian at home.
Hope this helps at little bit.
So long,
Stephan
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in emacs :-) ... Thanks to all those who pointed me to the
Coffee-mini-HOWTO. Has anyone actually build this?
So long,
Stephan
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go ahead and save (rename)
the directories and create the appropirate symbolic links. I've done
this on my hamm system during the first kernel upgrade and have never
expierienced an problems with software compiled prior to the change.
So long,
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is as lean or as
bloated as you make it! (It even includes your shrink; try M-x doctor :-)
So long,
Stephan
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*** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a specific Emacs major mode (matlab-mode).
I know there used to be an Elisp-archive - I just lost it´s address.
Could a kind soul please help me out and post the address?
Thanks a lot.
So long,
Stephan
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-dc filename.tar.gz | tar -xvf - to unpack
tar -cvf filename.tar ; gzip filename.tar to compress
So long,
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obsolete with the advent of the emulate appicon feature in
the attributes menu.
So long,
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On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 09:35:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
And the under-20 crowd says, What's a turntable? :)
Gee, I am getting old - I still USE one of those things once in a while :-)
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saw of GNOME (0.30 I think) was still too unstable to be
considered seroiusly.
Maybe you want to look at a regular windowmanager, rather than a desktop
environment. Window Maker 0.20.3, for instance, is what I am currently using.
Hope this helps.
So long,
Stephan
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for more details (search for PS1).
Also, check root's .bashrc, most likely the prompt variable is defined here.
on my Hamm-Systems .bashrc sources .bash_profile.
So long,
Stephan
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*** Coffee
Hi Arve,
the final message is:
make: wish: Command not found.
You need to install the tk packages (possibly even the tk-dev one, too).
So long,
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*** Coffee not found: Operator
on that.
So long,
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*** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***
.
How do I tell the Souldblaster NOT TO activate the IDE interface and thus
free irq 15? (Is there anything to read on this subject (manuals/HOWTOs))?
Thanks for thinking about this.
So long,
Stephan
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Hi there,
is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series notebooks?
I am thinking about getting one ...
So long,
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*** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***
help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
So long,
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*** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***
I get the message device or resorce busy. Mind you, this works fine under
2.0.34.
Is there anybody out there who has any idea what might couse this?
(I'll gladly supply further information if necessary.)
Thanks in advance.
So long,
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cards (check the manpages for isapnp and pnpdump).
So long,
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*** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***
IDE device support?
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
So long,
Stephan
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+++ Divide by cucumber +++ Out of cheese error +++ Redo from start +++
the Keyboard HOWTO but had no luck following
its suggestions.
Does anyone have any pointers for me?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
So long,
Stephan
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+++ Divide by cucumber +++ Out of cheese error +++ Redo from start +++
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