RE: Microphone input in X.

1999-07-22 Thread Ted Harding
. I use the OSS driver ( http://www.opensound.com/linux-x86.html ) with xmix, xmcd and xplay, and along with everything else microphone input also works fine (the recording to a .wav file is done via xplay). Setup of OSS was amazingly straightforward. Mine's an SB-16 too. Hope this helps, Ted

ethernet card probs

1999-07-08 Thread Ted Manka
I try to install the 3c59X and it just crashes!well it freezes. I have the 3com etherlink XL what should I do? ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Re: email acknowledging/confirmation

1999-07-07 Thread Ted Harding
request and give acknowledgement of receipt or of opening or of both), automatically or after user confirmation (according to how you configure it). Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07-Jul-99

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-05 Thread Ted Harding
over any of the alleged bugs (though I got a segfault the first few times I started it up); but I think it has a good way to go before it has the very useful functionality of XFMail. Worth watching, though. E-Mail: (Ted Harding

ethernet card probs

1999-07-02 Thread Ted Manka
I have a: 3com fast therlink XL NIC (3c905B-TX) network card when I go to install the 3c509 or 3com EtherlinkIII 3c509 ISA ethernet card I get this error: /lib/modules.2.0.36/net/3c509.o: init_module: device or resource busy Installation failed. what should I do, why am I getting this error?

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-18 Thread Ted Harding
well alone? If all else fails, once you have run shutdown -h now to take the system down to halt state, you could then simply unplug the power cable (or switch off at the wall socket). That should stop it dead ... Hope this helps, Ted. (Fondly remembering my first car and its trusty crank-handle

RE: Upgrading My Encarta Encyclopedia 99

1999-06-14 Thread Ted Harding
Encarta to run under Linux??? If so, many of us would be grateful to learn how to do it! With best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Jun-99 Time: 10:48:04

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Ted Harding
, and easy to go back to many times. That's why we use them! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08-Jun-99 Time: 13:09:50 -- XFMail --

RE: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread Ted Harding
would have to register it under UNIX95 or UNIX98: see http://www.opengroup.org/public/prods/xum4.htm and http://www.unix-systems.org/unix98.html respectively. Sorry about that! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HELLO

1999-06-05 Thread Ted Harding
. Even email messages can be risky though, in such cases, since there is a possibility of tracing them to the recipient. In any case, even if it's possible that it's a scam, it should not be laughed at thoughtlessly; the other possibilities are too serious and too sad. Best wishes to all, Ted

RE: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Ted Harding
. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-May-99 Time: 10:34:17 -- XFMail --

RE: 150K=?iso-8859-1?Q?_=B6W=B0=AA=B3t=A9=F3=BA=F4=A4W=B9=A3=B8u=ACO=A6=F3=B5=A5=A7=D6=B7P??=

1999-05-14 Thread Ted Harding
On 14-May-99 Eric wrote: [a lot of Japanese accomanied by a 150K advertising GIF] This bomb from Eric was out of order. I hope steps have been taken. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-May-99

Compaq Elite 4/75

1999-05-06 Thread Ted Harding
Hi all, Anyone out there using Linux on a Compaq Elite 4/75 model laptop especially with Graphics: WD 24A who would be willing to get in touch with a friend of mine about X problems? With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

RE: XiG Accelerated-X v.5

1999-04-19 Thread Ted Harding
/BRAND/BOARD.xqa (For instance, when using an S3 375-4 card I found that the XiG max pixel clock was too low, so upped it from 56.6 to 65.0 in the file s3/375-4.xqa with satisactory results). AT YOUR OWN RISK. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

1999-04-19 Thread Ted Harding
in clear with the appropriate charset header. But otherwise the same solution (encoded attachments) is good. These days, any competent MUA should be able to cope with these basic MIME issues, and quote-printable should be abandoned. Since you ask, that's how I feel! Cheers, Ted

Re: www.debian.org

1999-04-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Apr-99 Bill Bell wrote: It looks like this is the default I am seeing when I go to debian.org. I can't tell for sure though. This gives it away (view Doc Source): !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTML lang=zh Ted. In German oder English I know how

YARD users list??

1999-04-17 Thread Ted Harding
Does anyone know of a mailing list for users of the YARD RDBMS? ( http://www.yard.de in case anyone's wondering what it is). With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Apr-99

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which you might want for a modem). Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Apr-99 Time: 14:55:31

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
than a serial mouse. It could possibly be, but how would I tell. In that case you should have /dev/mouse - /dev/psaux and no conflict should arise; so probably Andrei Ivanov's diagnosis is correct; and you should try his suggestions. Best of luck! Ted

RE: Should I be worried about this?

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
couldn't deliver your message! The message sent to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] couldn't be delivered. The reason for the error: - The mailbox of the user is full. ~ Ted

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread Ted Harding
that they kept on regardless. If that had the effect that what was intended to be a useful thread was declared dead as a result, then as a final comment on that situation I wish to say that I feel very disappointed by these consequences of how some people handled it. Best wishes to all, Ted

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread Ted Harding
of the Unregistered Copy of MUP watermark from everything it prints) you should (and I have been happy to) send the authors $25. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05-Apr-99 Time

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Ted Harding
wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Apr-99 Time: 16:04:38 -- XFMail --

RE: Epson Stylus Color 640/slink+potato

1999-04-02 Thread Ted Harding
: If the software thinks it's formatting for A4 size but you're printing to US Letter size paper, than exactly that will happen. Check the settings! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Apr-99

RE: -HUP question

1999-03-31 Thread Ted Harding
On 31-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: I changed my /etc/inetd.conf and then ran 'killall -HUP inetd' but my logs don't show that inetd restarted. Will I have to reboot instead, or maybe go to single user mode and exit? If, as root, you simply type inetd that should restart it. Ted

RE: 386/4MB RAM?

1999-03-29 Thread Ted Harding
, where it is easier to copy the distribution components you need onto floppies and carry on from there (with 50MB HDD you're only going to be able to install some 15-20 floppies' worth of stuff), and the installation manager is very compact. Sláinte, and the best of luck! Ted

RE: what is flex ?

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
for it which generates the troff code which generates the formatting when processed by troff. See the man page man flex (or man lex which gives the same), and also man yacc. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28-Mar-99

What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
, it seems, losing much or indeed anything, so this could be the basis of another line of reply to Hewson's article: he can start up Linux and the list of stuff I lose would be empty because it would all still be there! Comments, info, contributions, anyone? Best wishes to all, Ted

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
be. One feels that the parallel with Heinz should not be taken too literally. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28-Mar-99 Time: 15:45:30

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Mar-99 Tom Pfeifer wrote: (Ted Harding) wrote: and it does seem that the accounting/finance area is thinly served. This is the primary missing piece for me, at least in terms of a home, desktop system. While there are some personal finance programs available such as Gnucash etc

Re: interesting

1999-03-16 Thread Ted Harding
this for quite some time. What you may not do is treat anything of GPL origin in this way: for that you have to make the source available and you have to include the GPL itself (or state clearly how it may be obtained). Best wishes, Ted

Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-14 Thread Ted Rolle
Mee, too. RH 5.1/2. Netscape 4.5. It happens regularly. I just keep plugging away until it works. Doesn't seem to matter which mirror it uses. Seems to help to go to a specific article in freshmeat (from, say, slashdot) first. Ted

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
being early on the Linux scene). Regards, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13-Mar-99 Time: 15:36:55 -- XFMail --

Re: what is SGML? [long]

1999-03-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Mar-99 Henry Kingman wrote: J.H.M. Dassen wrote: This might be a little off, as it was a couple of years since my SGML class, but here goes: SGML was created in the 70s by an IBM lawyer, Charles Goldfarb, ... Thank you for that story ... enjoyed it with great interest. Ted

RE: Decode mail attachements from Eudora via a filter

1999-02-26 Thread Ted Harding
, then you should be able to save the attachment and run mmencode -u on it. However, if the base64-encoded block is within the text of the body of the message (as sometimes happens), then you have to save the message and edit out by hand everything except the encoded block. Hope this helps. Ted

YARD DBMS

1999-02-23 Thread Ted Harding
it). If anyone has been here before me and found a way round it, or can assure me that it's not worth trying, I'd be pleased to hear. I'm using a 5.1 SuSE system, kernel 2.0.34 With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-20 Thread Ted Harding
I'm not sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is best for you to bother about this. I've forwarded this correspondence to the person who probably is best. Ted. On 20-Feb-99 John Stevenson wrote: I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk

RE: Which mail system?

1999-02-19 Thread Ted Harding
as part of its system administration utilities. Once you have you MUA and MTA set up on your own machine, then you can read and write mail in the background whether or not you are connected to your ISP. As I am doing at this moment. Hope this helps, Ted

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Ted Harding
could name one, but that might be flame-bait ;) As elsewhere in the message (and I'm not talking about the reference to MSWord) ... :-) Best wishes, Ted (aka groffer) Motto of the Day: Markup Languages Are GO!! E-Mail: (Ted

SOLVED: Diald obsolete error

1999-02-13 Thread Ted Behling
to debian-user and linux-diald) Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://webmeister.ml.org E-Commerce Specialist Monarch Gifts: What People *Really* Want - http://mgifts.com

Diald obsolete error

1999-02-12 Thread Ted Behling
to linux-diald and debian-user) Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://webmeister.ml.org E-Commerce Specialist Monarch Gifts: What People *Really* Want - http://mgifts.com

Re: Network Not Working!

1999-02-10 Thread Ted Harding
to change from 192.168.0.xxx to 192.168.1.xxx? Or is it a Windows thing? Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Feb-99 Time: 11:54:30 -- XFMail --

RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE

1999-02-10 Thread Ted Harding
to delete it (unless you have no other mail in your folder). And it's not created by netscape, but by the mail software itself. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Feb-99

RE: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-09 Thread Ted Harding
). Recent versions are straightforward and work beautifully. (You can elect whether or not the other displays are entitled to provide input). This is an X application though: I don't know of a way to copy a plain console. http://www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/ Good luck, Ted

RE:

1999-02-07 Thread Ted Harding
in 4MB but will be impossibly slow). Hope this helps, Ted. PS the above does not apply to ultra-compact Linuxes which can fit on a 1.44MB floppy, but these are so limited you probably won't want to use them. E-Mail: (Ted Harding

/usr vs. /usr/local

1999-02-05 Thread Ted Behling
What's the recommended usage difference between /usr and /usr/local? I understand that it's up to me, but what do most people use each of these for? To date, I've put a couple things in /usr/sbin and my source has gone into /usr/src . Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Thanks: Crypt Function

1999-02-02 Thread Ted Behling
Thanks to all who helped with my crypt() problem! As several people said, all gcc wanted was an -lcrypt paramater. Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://webmeister.ml.org E-Commerce Specialist Monarch Gifts: What People *Really* Want - http://mgifts.com

Crypt function

1999-02-01 Thread Ted Behling
with kernel version 2.0.34. Thanks! Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://webmeister.ml.org E-Commerce Specialist Monarch Gifts: What People *Really* Want - http://mgifts.com

Test -- please ignore

1999-01-31 Thread Ted Harding
Please excuse this -- I need to test what our local mail-router is up to (or not, as the case may be!). Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31-Jan-99 Time: 12:17

Solved: DOS and Win95 filesystem support

1999-01-31 Thread Ted Behling
tidbit, in case anybody else is having the same problem. Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://webmeister.ml.org E-Commerce Specialist Monarch Gifts: What People *Really* Want - http://mgifts.com

RE: CR key broken ?

1999-01-17 Thread Ted Harding
normal, and case B looks like a failure to translate LF-CR-LF on output. This is possibly an stty problem: try giving the command stty -a in the relevant terminal, and compare the output with what man stty says. God luck, Ted

Re: mounting W95 partitions

1998-12-30 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Thanks, that did it. _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: It sounds like you are trying to mount the extended partition itself rather than one of the logical partitions which it contains

mounting W95 partitions

1998-12-29 Thread Ted Llewellyn
drive letters on? I've tried /dev/hda1 and so on, and I've tried combinations from /dev, but nothing works. What's the secret password? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-28 Thread Ted Harding
and the Linux distribution you use; in which case it's not necessarily a WordPerfect bug at all. Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28-Dec-98 Time: 19:08:59

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Ted Harding
, I forgot to mention that there is one other desktop in the house. It runs Windows-98, and it is heavily (almost exclusively) used ... ... for games. I hope this throws some light. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Ted Harding
. Among the few recent benefits to modern civilisation which we in the UK can claim is the concept of being economical with the truth; it seems we have managed to convey it to others ... Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding

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

1998-12-20 Thread Ted Harding
(and there is a hell of a difference between 8bpp and 16bpp) then you have to use 24bpp. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20-Dec-98 Time: 19:21:29

SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
/libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb containing libc6: libc6 conflicts with libstdc++2.8 ( 2.90.29-2) libstdc++2.8 (version 2.90.29-0.6) is installed. dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/libc6_2.0.7u: conflicting packages - not installing libc6 Thanks, Ted

xterm key mapping problem?

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
it back... and it did no good. Any ideas, anyone, just what I might have trashed and should put back? Thanks, Ted _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/

Re: SANE install Catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Well, everyone has picked up on the date. Can anyone answer the question? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Your clock has the wrong date (1.1.1996) Alex

8-bit X cutpaste problem

1998-12-03 Thread Ted Harding
this happens? (b) suggest a cure? With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Dec-98 Time: 18:00:01

RE: Can I start X while other stuff going on?

1998-11-11 Thread Ted Harding
, and also in X, just keeps running even though you're not looking at it. Welcome to the world where things happen. Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Nov-98 Time: 02:34

RE: [SuSE Linux] bitmap to outline postscript

1998-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
a clean compilation. Now I only need to find out how to really use the fontutils! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28-Oct-98 Time: 12:37:22

dselect won't config emacs 20.3

1998-10-23 Thread Ted Llewellyn
before I had to go to bed because I just can't do this stuff all night anymore. By the way, xemacs seemed to install just fine. Can I get auctex and psgml functionality out of that application? Any help much appreciated. _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/

Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
unpacking the file[s]). The directory /pub/linux/corelwp/ itself contains the files for WP7. Hope this helpes someone! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Oct-98 Time: 01:30

Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Oct-98 Ted Harding wrote: On 18-Oct-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: A while ago, there was a buzz about Corel releasing a WP Suite 8 for Linux. It was slated to come out mid-summer...I can't find any mention of it anywhere on Corel's site. Did they give up

bitmap to outline postscript

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
0 000 is there a program which would take this pattern and produce an economical PostScript code which would operate by drawing two ellipses as smooth curves and filling the space between them? With thanks, Ted. E-Mail

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Ted Harding
Independently of the KDE issue, there's a question I've wondered about for some time. Has the GPL ever been tested in court (i.e. has there ever been a case that turned on it)? Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL

Re: being dropped from the list

1998-09-17 Thread Ted Harding
unreasonable, in my opinion. I hope this is a helpful contribution to the discussion. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Sep-98 Time: 12:06:23

Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-15 Thread Ted Harding
would now like to get in touch with him, and would welcome any information which would lead me to him (private reply or to the list, as you please). With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Sep-98

RE: Filenames with spaces in them

1998-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
them immediately: mv This is a Test.txt This_is_a_Test.txt Then your worries are over. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28-Aug-98 Time: 09:51:40

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
, not allowing for Timezone; if your Timezone has an offset, then when system time is re-read from the CMOS it will be wrong relative to local time) Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

RE: Typesetters?

1998-08-24 Thread Ted Harding
be grateful for info about this, if anyone can provide it) dvitype: .dvi file in human-readable form There is vast docmentation for TeX and LaTeX, including many books (set using TeX, of course). Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail

RE: time is off

1998-08-24 Thread Ted Harding
to GMT (i.e. UT or Universal Time). Alternatively, if you insist on your hardware clock being at local time: set your timezone to GMT0; but this is not pretty, in all sorts of ways. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem with MATLAB 5.2.1 and Debian 2.0

1998-08-17 Thread Ted Harding
, provided it's being used on a distribution they've checked it out on. This happens to be RedHat. MatLab might be *expected* to work on most, if not all, decent Linux distributions, but given the diversity of configurations around it's unreasonable to expect it to be *guaranteed*. Ted

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
-82376-4 Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Aug-98 Time: 19:01:22

RE: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-09 Thread Ted Harding
round (horizontally and/or vertically). Hope this helps, and I hope it actually proves straightforward! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09-Aug-98 Time: 10:41:34

RE: scripting help

1998-08-08 Thread Ted Harding
(and hope it works!) Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08-Aug-98 Time: 00:11:14 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

RE: Epson Stylus Color at 720 dpi ?

1998-08-05 Thread Ted Harding
1b2863 0400 -dupAdjustPageLengthCommand -dupAdjustTopMarginCommand -dupAdjustBottomMarginCommand -dupEndPageCommand=([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -dupAbortCommand=([EMAIL PROTECTED]Printout-Aborted\15\014) Hope this is useful! Ted

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Ted Harding
to find a way of running them. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Aug-98 Time: 13:15:38

Re: HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

1998-08-01 Thread Ted Harding
fiddling with the gs source code and recompiling ... When this is a problem I fall back on the older drivers, which don't seem to suffer from it. Good luck. Ted. PS to all on debian-user: With regret, I do NOT wish to get involved in person-to-person discussions about the details of getting

RE: HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-31 Thread Ted Harding
as recommended in the various gs readmes. What format were the original image files in? If not in PS, how did you get them into PS for gs to work on? Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Jul-98

RE: advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Ted Harding
On 30-Jul-98 Chris Evans wrote: I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am transferring from windoze/M$ to Debian. I think you're cured. You can go home now. Ted

RE: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

1998-07-24 Thread Ted Harding
with this (mainly with octave troff). (Mind you, a lot of stuff got archived to floppies, and there were periodic fierce deletion sessions). You might even find space for a minimal X: if you can get it on the HD along with your other stuff, it should run OK in 8MB RAM. Best of luck, Ted

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
## ## @@# # ## ## ### ##### ##QQQ# #QQQ ### ### # ## Q###Q ---see above Cheers, Ted

RE: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
for those quotes). Also, ABOVE ALL make sure that there are not two or more files in the same directory whose names differ only in the Case of some of the letters -- you'll end up zapping all but one of them if you use the above. Best of luck, Ted

RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-21 Thread Ted Harding
, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21-Jul-98 Time: 00:32:15 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

RE: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-19 Thread Ted Harding
. The above questions need an answer before any sensible advice can be given about how to handle such a file. Good luck, and best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jul-98

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Jul-98 Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 12:23:59AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: On 17-Jul-98 Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is too long, and xemacs tells that maximum buffer size something.. :) There is a way

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-19 Thread Ted Harding
in if (a) the username you give exists as an account on the remote machine, (b) the password that you give is the correct password for that account, (c) the remote site is configured to allow ftp access from your local machine But it is quite normal for ftp to ask for a password! Ted

RE: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-14 Thread Ted Harding
it should do what you want (tricky to fill the overlapping parts of Venn diagrams at different grey-levels however). You can output the result as PostScript and import it into your document later (unless you use groff for the document itself, in which case you can do it on-the-fly). Best wishes, Ted

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Ted Harding
is that tail -f doesn't send EOF, so although /home/pppusers/dynamic.IP gets opened the buffer doesn't get flushed, so the file doesn't get written to. Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08-Jul-98

Re: Newton connectivity?

1998-06-29 Thread Ted Cabeen
fine. Congratulations on getting a newt, I love mine. -- Ted Cabeenhttp://fnord.rh.uchicago.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or finger for PGP Public Key[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have taken all knowledge to be my province. -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Human kind cannot

Moving from Ethernet to modem

1998-06-26 Thread Ted Cabeen
. Which standard programs should I be removing or shutting down? Eventually, we're planning on setting up a system for ip masquerading and on-demand ppp dialing by a gateway for the entire apartment, and I don't want my machine starting or keeping that connection up too much. Thoughts? -- Ted

RE: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-24 Thread Ted Harding
increase the amount of garbage in the output but, so long as one was selective, perhaps by not too much. (If you're going to do this for Word, remember that there are two different encodings for accented characters: Win-encoding and Mac-encoding). The best of luck with the other options! Ted

RE: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Ted Harding
of a Word document containing plain English text, then this method works fine. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Jun-98 Time: 11:26:18

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jun-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the strings command: strings wordfile.doc wordfile.txt It's not quite so simple; Word's fast save mechanism actually appends

RE: Mysterious frequent crashes due to incompetence, lies, and h

1998-06-18 Thread Ted Harding
... Anyway, good detective work, in spotting the synchrony. We're all glad to have been of some help in resolving this threat to world peace. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18-Jun-98

RE: retrieving gifs through HTTP from script

1998-06-17 Thread Ted Harding
less pleasant alternative is to hunt for the gif in your Netscape cache treee: it'll be there, but good luck locating it!). Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Jun-98

RE: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Ted Harding
different absloute times (but with matching inter-reboot intervals)? If the former, consider your power supply. If the latter, then the Society for the Investigation of Paranormal Phenomena would like to hear from you. Best wishes, Ted

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