Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:48:58AM -0500 wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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.

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
selected. (Lesson 1: Don't ever trust yourself at 1 o' clock in the morning!) Have fun. -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. ***

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
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. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke

downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
and deleting the woody ones did not help. apt tells me that my system is up to date ;-) Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. ***

Installing PHP 4.0.3pl1 and Apache 1.3.14

2000-12-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
in compiling Apache/PHP 4 on a Potato system? Thanks in advance -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. ***

Re: making devices

2000-07-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
that /dev/sg0 would be a good place to start looking :-) Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **

RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze

2000-07-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
.stty stop ^s is a default setting. Check stty's manpage for details. Ragards -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **

Re: Which software to suck a whole website ?

2000-07-11 Thread Stephan Engelke
Jaume Teixi writes: thanks, wget -r url Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **

Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
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. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Die Frauen haben es ja von Zeit zu Zeit auch nicht leicht. Wir Männer

Re: make plus what?

2000-06-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
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. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: top

2000-06-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
before it displays the first process list related output. On a loaded sysetm, this may take a few seconds. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Die Frauen haben es ja von Zeit zu Zeit auch nicht leicht. Wir Männer

Perl 5.6.0 and slink

2000-06-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: Staroffice

2000-06-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
. Regards -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Die Frauen haben es ja von Zeit zu Zeit auch nicht leicht. Wir Männer aber müssen uns rasieren. -- Kurt Tucholsky ***

RE: dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
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. Have fun -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** He's dead

RE: dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
of using a plain window manager without too many bells and wistles, like Window Maker or Sawmill. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder. ***

leafnode and Gnus

2000-05-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: leafnode and Gnus

2000-05-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
structures and file formats are somewhat generic for most news servers. Oh silly me. Thanks anyways. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder. ***

Re: Remove Sendmail

2000-05-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
for the delivery of local error mails. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder. ***

Re: unknown file appeared in home directory

2000-05-07 Thread Stephan Engelke
? If it's not you, could this be a breach in your system's securty? Have fun -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom

RE: sources of debian apps: is there a standard place?

2000-04-27 Thread Stephan Engelke
/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. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] Over

Re: Finding all user files

2000-04-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. ***

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
of Wordstar- and Emacs-compatible keystrokes... I'd probably try pico, but that's just personal preference for cases like this. Best regards -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. ***

Re: Netscape

2000-02-15 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: logrotate

2000-02-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
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. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sound from cassete to mp3

2000-01-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
. I'd simply see if I can buy the CD.. TTUL8R -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ~, sweet ~ ***

Spell checker which understands HTML

2000-01-19 Thread Stephan Engelke \(Club Céronne\)
distribution - maybe I just missed a command line switch?! Thanks for any hints in advance. TTUL8R -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ~, sweet ~ ***

Re: Spell checker which understands HTML

2000-01-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Hautpsache es geht

Re: small lab

2000-01-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
-- in my expeirience it's just to errorprone. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ~, sweet ~ ***

Re: Emacs 20.4

1999-11-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Y2K conversion simplified: Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December. ***

Re: Perl

1999-11-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
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. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Stephan Engelke
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

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Programming Language. Sorry, forgot the publisher. There's a score of other good, allright, and bad books around. Check your local bookstore. Cheers, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana

Re: Emacs20: problem redefining umlaut-keys

1999-10-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
to the list (223, 252, 246, ...) Hope this helps. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the end of the night you'll be eating Big Macs.***

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
-postscript printers and as a backend for gv/ghostview. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the end of the night you'll be eating Big Macs.***

Re: Printable area for HP LJ 6L

1999-10-12 Thread Stephan Engelke
, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the end of the night you'll be eating Big Macs.***

Re: X, WindowMaker, and the such

1999-10-08 Thread Stephan Engelke
rid of the software if you want to. Possibly even consider using stow. Mail me if there are any further questions. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the end of the night

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
there is a .deb-package called xntp. Next place a call to ntpdate servername in your ip-up.d. This should do the trick. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Soft drugs lead to hard drugs: You start with Marihuana and by the end of the night

Re: metafont

1999-09-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
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). Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke o[EMAIL PROTECTED] - __o __o

Re: Brand spankin new user...

1999-09-16 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: Is there any way to view MS Excel files under linux?

1999-09-15 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ***Die 10 Gebote: 279

Re: Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Stephan Engelke
long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for poof ... ribbit. ***

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Meddle

Re: How do we restart X?

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Engelke
. 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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
and German) and start using LaTeX. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
]; if ( (($year % 4 == 0) ($year % 100 != 0)) || ($year % 400) == 0) { return 1; } return 0; } ---88- So long -- Stehan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads

Re: any gif animator for linux!!

1999-08-26 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
problem is aparently not unique. Check the Debian web-site to download those disks. Maybe they help. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
. What happens if you try to recreate the X configuration file from scratch using xf86config of XF86Setup? So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads

Re: user name lenght

1999-08-24 Thread Stephan Engelke
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...) So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear

Re: Printing problem

1999-08-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
used only accepts Postscript files. If so, try to run the text file through a2ps or enscript first. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads

Re: Creative Labs 3d blaster 16MB

1999-08-15 Thread Stephan Engelke
, 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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear

Re: egcs

1999-08-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
teams's site at cygnus. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering. -- Master Yoda (more or less) ***

Re: killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
, 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 }'` So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke

Re: [Debian: KDE] How to change the screen resolution

1999-08-12 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Engelke
nothing between beginning and end (-v is grep's negation option). So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works. ***

Re: Linux Kernel 2.2.10

1999-08-09 Thread Stephan Engelke
. 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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Plug-and-Play is really nice

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
, 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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: tail -f /var/log/messages and top

1999-07-29 Thread Stephan Engelke
uninstall solution of all times: use your favourite text editor. :-) So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** If only women came with pulldown menus and online help. ***

Re: tail -f /var/log/messages and top

1999-07-28 Thread Stephan Engelke
long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** If only women came with pulldown menus and online help. ***

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

1999-07-27 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** If only

Re: Apache and user cgi scripts

1999-07-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
of the global config-files. Did you include support for the .htacces facilites? Is it configured? So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** If only women came with pulldown menus and online help. ***

Re: Mcopy

1999-07-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
drive a: file=/dev/fd0 exclusive This defines a: to be your first floppy drive. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Siehst Du die Gräber dort hinterm Strauch? Sie rauchten nicht - und starben auch! ***

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
by himself. Just my $.02. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
(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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Siehst Du die Gräber dort hinterm Strauch

Re: Centralized script ...

1999-07-15 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Siehst Du die Gräber dort

Re: KDE 1.1.1 will it run under slink?

1999-07-06 Thread Stephan Engelke
. 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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Siehst Du die Gräber dort hinterm Strauch

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Spare

Re: 2 questions

1999-06-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
. Number 2 : Is there any linux app capable of showing MS Media Player asf files? Dunno. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Spare in der Schweiz, dann hast Du in der Not. ***

Re: DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

1999-05-31 Thread Stephan Engelke
. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Spare in der Schweiz, dann hast Du in der Not. ***

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: Making Makefiles

1999-05-27 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Spare in der

DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

1999-05-27 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Spare in der Schweiz

Re: man!

1999-05-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
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? So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair

Re: HTML formatter

1999-05-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
). So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***

Re: setting up a home lan

1999-05-12 Thread Stephan Engelke
will not create any duplicate IP-addresses. So much for a road-map. The HOWTOs will know more about you specific setup. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***

Re: filtering of text files

1999-05-06 Thread Stephan Engelke
long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***

Re: Writing CRON job to null.

1999-04-27 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root

Re: dependencies

1999-04-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
= /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 -- Stephan Engelke

new ATI graphics boards

1999-04-16 Thread Stephan Engelke
in emacs :-) ... Thanks to all those who pointed me to the Coffee-mini-HOWTO. Has anyone actually build this? So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***

Re: kernel 2.2.5 symlinks

1999-04-16 Thread Stephan Engelke
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, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke

Re: your mail

1999-04-12 Thread Stephan Engelke
is as lean or as bloated as you make it! (It even includes your shrink; try M-x doctor :-) So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***

Emacs-modes

1999-04-12 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL

Re: [Re: TAR command question ]

1999-02-02 Thread Stephan Engelke
-dc filename.tar.gz | tar -xvf - to unpack tar -cvf filename.tar ; gzip filename.tar to compress So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life is not fair. But the root password helps. ***

Re: windowmakers .0.20 and dockit.

1999-01-11 Thread Stephan Engelke
obsolete with the advent of the emulate appicon feature in the attributes menu. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Life isn't fair. But the root password helps. ***

Re: Chat scrpit trouble

1999-01-09 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 :-) -- Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain

Re: KDE 1.0.....

1998-12-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke

Re: ???current directory in prompt in bash???

1998-12-08 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee

Re: kernal building

1998-11-24 Thread Stephan Engelke
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, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator

Re: iomega zip (scsi)

1998-11-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
on that. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***

was: Network-card unoprational

1998-11-09 Thread Stephan Engelke
. 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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED

VAIO notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi there, is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series notebooks? I am thinking about getting one ... So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***

Network-card unoprational

1998-11-08 Thread Stephan Engelke
help is appreciated, thanks in advance. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***

Network/X-windows trouble

1998-11-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
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, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke

Re: ISDN Sedlbauer speed card

1998-10-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
cards (check the manpages for isapnp and pnpdump). So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***

printing trouble - operation not supportet by device

1998-10-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
IDE device support? Any hints are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ Divide by cucumber +++ Out of cheese error +++ Redo from start +++

German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
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 -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ Divide by cucumber +++ Out of cheese error +++ Redo from start +++