RE: Windows Managers

1998-06-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Jun-98 Dennis Dai wrote: For a good comparison of window managers, take a look at http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman The URL is in fact http://www.PLiG.org/~xwinman Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO. -Reply

1998-06-04 Thread Ted Harding
one of the lawyers in that group into loking over it real quick-like once it is finished. While this thread is running, it occurs to me to ask: Has the GPL ever been tested in a court case? If so, what was[were] the outcome[s]? Best wishes to all, Ted

RE: Linux Man = DOS Text

1998-06-03 Thread Ted Harding
and place in filename. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-98 Time: 13:39:43 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: File-system on tape

1998-05-27 Thread Ted Harding
, size, date and sequential position[s] on tape. You read this off first and use it to plan the rest of the operations. When you've changed the tape contents you update this directory and write it back to its old position. You could even organise fragmented storage this way ... Ted

Re: Another failure notice

1998-05-25 Thread Ted Harding
who post will get these messages. You just have to live with it. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-May-98 Time: 13:00:23

RE: mystery tape drive

1998-05-25 Thread Ted Harding
tapes (120MB), and not use the extra-length DC2120 XL (170MB). I have never persuaded the latter to work, but have never had trouble with the former (at any rate those manufactured by 3M). Best of luck, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding

Re: ssh telneting

1998-04-28 Thread Ted Cabeen
using it now), but I'm really looking forward to secureCRT, which is still in beta, but should be really cool. CRT is the best standard term for win95 I've found. Good luck. -- Ted Cabeenhttp://fnord.rh.uchicago.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or finger for PGP Public

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Ted Cabeen
too, because 3.0 sucks. (No completion, no paging of long directory entries. What is it good for? -- 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

Re: Hamm installation problems

1998-04-26 Thread Ted Cabeen
to fix it as it could probably change it to a regular DOS extended partition without losing any of your data. Anyways, good luck. -- Ted Cabeenhttp://fnord.rh.uchicago.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or finger for PGP Public Key[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have taken all

RE: Posting to the mailinglist...

1998-03-17 Thread Ted Harding
, since it's simply a matter of how XFMail displays the message list on your display. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Mar-98 Time: 19:07:35

TimeZone Date String conversion?

1998-03-06 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a utility which will take a time-zone dependent date string such as Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:33:00 -0500 Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:12:00 EST and convert either to GMT/UST? I need to be able to extract Date: data from a mailbox on a uniform time basis. With thanks, Ted

RE: zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Ted Harding
ppa seems to just sit there ... Any hints? I have zip only on the port; I don't want to use a printer as well. Hi Hamish All, I found that insmod ppa didn't work, but modprobe ppa worked immediately. (On was S.u.S.E., not debian, but maybe it comes to the same thing for this). Best wishes, Ted

RE: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Ted Harding
in /etc/fstab, a floppy in the drive, and people can learn to mount /A: very easily. Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Jan-98 Time: 02:33:18

RE: smartware from angoss

1997-11-30 Thread Ted Harding
you to look at its Linux version. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Nov-97 Time: 13:48:51

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-27 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Nov-97 Richard Ayres wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote: In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function. You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages

RE: multiple X sessions

1997-11-25 Thread Ted Harding
cumbersome and the previous approach is usually preferable, provided it is sufficient. Hope this helps. Ted. ** Actually, while this is a correct statement, you CAN run startx as a new user provided your xinitrc and wmrc are set up in a certain way: the attempt to start a new X session will fail

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-25 Thread Ted Harding
the symlinks from /usr you like -- they don't take up much space. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Nov-97 Time: 22:32:58

Re: Matlab5

1997-11-23 Thread Ted Harding
list for problems which arise if you try to do this. In particular, excerpts from MatLab code may not be published on the list. That being said, I heartily recommend octave. Excellent package! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: Ted

RE: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Ted Harding
the native code to the printer. One possibility is ghostscript, but this tends to suffer from font-rendering problems and can give disappointing results if you need good-looking hard copy. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Nov-97 Ben Pfaff wrote: Though everything that Ted says is true, I must note that an HP 6L is not a PostScript printer. I have a 5L at home with 1 MB memory and can say that, under PCL, that that is enough memory to printer anything but the most complex graphics at 600 dpi and I haven't

Re: lock a pentium for fun!

1997-11-08 Thread Ted Harding
, and one of them did the trick. After which you warn your friends, and pass it on to your enemies. b) Someone wondered (as one does) what might possibly happen if you tried the unassigned codes. Thereafter as (a). Cheers, Ted. E-Mail

Re: Taking diff of two directories recursively?

1997-11-05 Thread Ted Harding
then the above would get out of phase and fail. You could pre-empt this by some pre-processing, but then it starts to get hairy. Another much less controllable but much simpler option would just be diff temp1 temp2 Ted. E-Mail

RE: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-26 Thread Ted Harding
-= combination works even in xdos, and allows you access to most of the WP-5.1 functions via the menu, if you find that the usual keystrokes don't work. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Oct-97

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Ted Harding
clean (though it may zap some stuff in so doing); or else raw-backup (dd to another device) the bytes on the device and then either do fsck, or reformat the filesystem, or replace the hard drive. In any case it looks pretty dire from here. Sorry. Best wishes, Ted

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Ted Harding
in front of the machine. I'll back off now: I think it's time for any real filesystem experts reading all this evidence to give a considered diagnosis (and prognosis). I'm only speaking from memories of painful experience, and general knowledge ... Best wishes, Ted

Re: mounting /var/spool/mail

1997-10-25 Thread Ted Harding
/mail which is empty. Good luck, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Oct-97 Time: 10:29:12

RE: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
power management. This may solve the problem (as it has done on a different laptop that I know of). You will have to put up with the disks spinning up every so often when the system syncs. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
, it can take a very long time to find out how to do even something simple correctly. This is why people call for software admin tools: you can hope that the tool has the knowledge. If it was well written in a document, and easy to find, then you wouldn't need the tool. Best wishes, Ted

RE: Wordperfect files in linux

1997-10-11 Thread Ted Harding
is a must: George's own query is an instance of this. Sorry for the sermon ... Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Oct-97 Time: 00:05:54

Re: Wordperfect files in linux

1997-10-11 Thread Ted Harding
and ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/support/wp2latex-5_1 I can send a copy if required. However, I have yet to see a reader which does a clean job on a WordPerfect document. Similar remarks apply to MS Word readers (word2x, catdoc etc). Best wishes, Ted

Re: Monitor broke?

1997-10-02 Thread Ted Harding
was internittently on/off. I never managed to get it to connect perfectly. Not that I'm recommending you do this -- for safety, and also because you're under warranty and if that's the problem then it's the shop's problem and not yours. Best wishes, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Ted Harding
have it set to run gettys on /dev/tty[n] for [n] going up above 7 -- X runs in the first free VT, i.e. one with no getty on it). If it still doesn't work, then you might begin to think that your X installation is screwed. Hope this helps, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Tan Wee Yeh ) Ted Harding wrote, :The first sentence I heartily support: when you need to get work done :you are likely to be forced into running an MS-Win application at some :stage and, if you can't run it on Linux, too bad. I would not agree fully with you. I have

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
a subset of the market. Obviously, right now Wabi is a lot more advanced than Wine, but we'll see what happens in a year or two. Best wishes to all, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
like with like. However, I'd be most interested to hear of experience with Applixware (and what about StarOffice?). Cheers, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Ted Harding
finding out about it myself ... Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-27 Thread Ted Harding
available does Linus Torvalds actually use? Does anyone know? If it's good enough for him to run PowerPoint on it, it's probably good enough for me and I'd definitely like to know! Best wishes, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: I2O article

1997-08-26 Thread Ted Harding
to me, unless all the I20-specific code was wrapped up in the OS. Best wishes, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: .bashrc

1997-08-22 Thread Ted Harding
used to say Commands common to all logins. Best wishes, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pcmcia support for 3Com Etherlink III broken :-(

1997-08-01 Thread Ted Harding
. Once either card is properly recognised it works fine, including hot-swapping a card for itself (i.e. take it out and put it back in); but hot-swapping one card for the other doesn't work. Hope this is of some use. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

[Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]

1997-08-01 Thread Ted Okada
Hi.. After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly] in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660 and is readable except for the lock... POP3 mail is also not allowing mail to be pulled from the machine... is this

Re: Matlab for Debian?

1997-06-30 Thread Ted Harding
binaries are in ftp.che.wisc.edu:/pub/octave/BINARIES: I'm not sure whether the very latest (2.0.8) has yet been compiled up for Linux. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: pcmcia modem/fax problem

1997-06-09 Thread Ted Harding
power to the card, but the card is not configured first time, and is recognised as anonymous memory card. On the warm-reboot, the probe seems able to successfully find the now live ethernet card. I have no idea why it takes a further warm-reboot for the fax-modem). I hope this helps. Ted

Re: Postscript to ?

1997-05-02 Thread Ted Harding
and the rest is up to you; for drawing commands you take pot luck, and for imported graphics, EPS files etc, you have to make your own arrangemnets after the event. Best of luck, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Postscript to ?

1997-05-02 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: J.H.M.Dassen ) On May 2, Ted Harding wrote The closest you'll find to what you're looking for is in the pstools package, which at best will extract the text characters in the order of printing, but totally unformatted. It may, however, do a lot worse than

PGP setup question

1997-03-26 Thread Ted Okada
was located but none was found... How does one trigger a correct pinepgp configure in dselect? TIA amigos.. -- Ted --- \ o / _ o__|\ / |__o _ \ o / o | /\ __\o \o|o/o/__ /\ |/|\ ../.\...|.\../).|(.\../o

Re: How to uninitialise partition?

1997-03-23 Thread Ted Harding
have to to the whole disk (use /dev/hda). Then of course you have to try to pick the bits of real file out of the jumble you will get. Best of luck! Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
; } } ' Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Ronald van Loon ) In a message to me, Ted Harding, you wrote: |( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) | | Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line | of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the | line section[xyz] and above the line

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-06 Thread Ted Harding
really gets under way) then simply Ctrl-Alt-Del should do it. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-06 Thread Ted Harding
of users). In fact the scheme is a kind of infinitely customizable cron. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: how to type accents with pine in a msg? [OOPS]

1997-01-22 Thread Ted Harding
characters in ISO-8859-1 by typing Ctrl-K followed by two other characaters. E.g. e-acute is ^Ke'. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to type accents with pine in a msg?

1997-01-22 Thread Ted Harding
the pine editor to vim, and enable vim's digraph support. Then you can enter all the accented charracters in ISO-8859-1 by typing Ctrl-V followed by two other characaters. E.g. e-acute is ^Ve'. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Free space on Linux Drive

1997-01-19 Thread Ted Harding
apropos free disk space which will throw up summaries of all commands that have to do with free or disk or space, including the command df. df is on most if not all UNIX systems; apropos should be on all; I would expect these things to be known by most experienced UNIX people. Ted

Re: It happened again.

1996-12-27 Thread Ted Harding
be worth checking your hardware integrity in case it might be causing something analagous to happen. Best of luck, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah.... (fwd)

1996-12-23 Thread Ted Harding
Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope, however, that a.out libraries will continue to be available: they are important when certain software can only be obtained as pre-compiled a.out binary executables. Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

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