Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread gla2
I've used the plain netscape-navigator 4.51, with out email/news support... With java turned off... I hardly ever have it die. 99.9% of the time, I really see no need for java (esp considering that I used lynx exclusively until acouple of months ago, due to owning a 486) --George

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread gla2
I tried two of the posted suggestions, but I don't seem to get mail at all when the .forward was enabled, here was the one I was using (on someone else's suggestion ) .login: |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 and the .procmailrc: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread gla2
.login: uhm... I meant .forward

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread gla2
If you really want linux-in-a-file... I believe Slackware has a ZipSlack distribution... Slackware in one big ( 30something megs? ) Zip file you stick on your M$ partition unzip, and loadlin into... for this and lots of other Linux goodies try: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux Sorry to

Re: A couple of questions.

1999-06-08 Thread gla2
1. What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am trying to convince a potential convert to switch from windoze, but I need some jpeg pics to show her. I use KSnapshot, a

Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-08 Thread gla2
I moved to Debian from slackware... and have been very satisfied with it to date... I've done all installs via apt over the network, without cd's, and from ya'll discriptions this appears to be more straightforward than actually using a cd. My first linux install was about 4 years ago... I was

procmail pine

1999-06-08 Thread gla2
I have pine 4.10 sitting in /usr/local and was trying to get the following .procmailrc to work (it's almost straight from procmailex man page) PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional

Re: SV: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread gla2
I can't recall any ps/2 model being able to run a dual processor setup, definitely not the old ones. What the other socket is for is most likely a coprocessor, or FPU, which would speed things up a bit when running programs that have the capability of using an FPU, like CAD/CAM applications,