Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread rdm
Stephen Early wrote: Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to the same policy. I wish you luck. Herbert Xu wrote: I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers should do their

cdu31a

1996-11-14 Thread rdm
Package: disks-i386 Version: 1996-07-14 A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation boot disk to recognize his cdu31a. At the lilo prompt, he's type linux cdu31a=0x230,0 This lilo parameter worked

Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?

1996-09-16 Thread rdm
Jonathan, writing from vega.netg.se: Believe me, if you want to make sure that an upload from you is untracable... It can be done .. Untraceable is a matter of degree. Forging someone's pgp signature is about as difficult as breaking into a commercial software publisher's office and replacing

Python, minicom problems

1996-06-12 Thread rdm
Paul Kautz: Some packages seem to 'require' things they shouldn't need. For example, gnuplot can run (believe it or not, I've used this) with a terminal of 'dumb,' outputting text graphs etc., but needs xlib. I solved this last time by just installing xlib, even though I wasn't running X.

Re: Debian 1.1 man more

1996-06-04 Thread rdm
Ian Jackson: How about having each pager program use update-alternatives to provide a possible variant of /usr/bin/pager, and then having man configured by default to use /usr/bin/pager ? Another possibility would be to fix more so that it can scroll backwards. This shouldn't take more than