Re: Flow chart drawing program

I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing dependencies for program design. Any good programs available for the job? Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works well for many types of graphs. It also has a nice tutorial. Look at its

Re: A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

shaul wrote: Is there a driver for this chipset ? I assume you are speaking of the M-VIA version, as this is the only Linux version I know of. It only has support for Tulip, Intel Etherlink, Yellowfin, and Hamachi cards. What is M-VIA version ? I have a no name NIC. It works

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

I had a similar problem and I found the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO to be much helpful. I hope that such a reference is acceptable by you, though it is not a direct answer. Some few weeks ago someone replied to me quite rudely when I answered him this way. I find such references to be of much

Re: LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)

Okay, where can I find a good tutorial on LaTeX? I want to get started in it, but I don't know where to start. [10:27:15 /tmp]$ ls /usr/doc/texmf/latex/general/ a.ps guide.dvi.gz l2kurz.dvi.gz lshort.dvi.gz essential.dvi.gz guide.ps.gz latex2e.dvi.gz symbols.dvi.gz

A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

Is there a driver for this chipset ?

Re: Postscript Merging - psmerge ?

NAME psmerge - filter to merge several PostScript files into one SYNOPSIS psmerge [ -oout.ps ] [ file.ps ... ] DESCRIPTION Psmerge merges PostScript documents into a single docuAD ment. It only works in the specific case the the files were

Re: How to read the result of inittab

I think that booting into single state should enable by default for these messages to be read conveniently, but I do not know how this can be actually implemented. Do you think it is reasonable/acceptable/can be implemented ? Is base/sysvinit a reasonable package to file a wish bug with this

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, shaul wrote: I can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it. What am I doing wrong ? [03:41:08 shaul]# cfdisk -P

Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

I can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it. What am I doing wrong ? [03:41:08 shaul]# cfdisk -P s /dev/hda Partition Table for /dev/hda FirstLast # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

Thank you for your help but I am getting the same results as before. hi ya I can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it. What am I doing wrong ? try to put data ont your new disk partitions... shaul# mkdir /mnt/test_hda2 shaul# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem

I too gave /var 30MB when installing Debian for the 1st time. I think it is worth mentioning because I took this figure from the Debian-FAQ. I think it should be changed before potato is released. In view of today disk sizes I would change it to 100MB. Some other changes I would do for the

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

partitions... shaul# mkdir /mnt/test_hda2 shaul# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/test_hda2 - should work... if not, reformat /dev/hda2 again... mke2fs /dev/hda2 - if it still fails... - fdisk /dev/hda - check for overlapping boundries... - also

Modules source ?

Where can I find the modules source (*.c files) that were used to make the modules that are copied to /lib/modules/2.0.36/ by default ?

Re: Modules source ?

compile the source file and then cp ./fet916.o /usr/src/linux/modules/fet916.o. Should I change it to /lib/modules/2.0.36 ? On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, shaul wrote: Where can I find the modules source (*.c files) that were used to make the modules that are copied to /lib/modules/2.0.36/ by default

(I have a problem with my NIC) SCC home page ?

I have a problem with my NIC. ifconfig reports that HWaddr is 00:00:21:CE:18:CF http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/ says that this 21 is SCC (PAM SoftHardware also reported). Can you point me to their home page ?

Re: network card problems

If I managed to follow you I think that your next step is the route command. It is mentioned in the NETWORK-HOWTO. You might also want to take a look at the Ethernet-HOWTO just to know what is there. Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding! I've loaded the module (ne.o) and ran the ifconfig

Re: ttyS*--?

Is it a plug play modem ? Have you tried connecting to your ISP with minicom ? You might also want to look at the Modem-HOWTO. debs, 1. according to windoze, my lapbox modem is config'd for com5 @/on irq 10. the /dev file doesn't list a /ttyS4. how do i add it? 2. my deskbox modem

Re: PPPoE aka. PPP over Ethernet

You might try www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=linux-netm=93554017019744w=2 Have you tried to search the WEB ? So Sympatico, or Bell Canada, has decided to be a bitch and implement PPPoE or, as the title shows, PPP over Ethernet. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? And the main question

Re: Boot EPROM vs. floppy

What exactly do you mean by a booteprom ? I believe that if you'll manage to replace your PC bios with a boot EPROM then then the EPROM will be accessed first. The floppy might not be accessed at all, depending on what you have put on the EPROM. Hi! I have a question! If I make a booteprom

Re: download HTML Installation manual

Perhaps with a shell script that uses wget ? #! /bin/sh wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-partitioning.en.html wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-post-install.en.html etc. Hello, a very basic question: I'd like to download the whole

exim-doc: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.

texi2dvi can not handle exim-doc. Can you advise ? Package: exim-doc Version: 3.00-2 Severity: normal Attached output of 1) exim.log 2) texi2dvi --debug exim.texi - -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown

Isn't texi2dvi included with potato ?

I am not able to locate texi2dvi in unstable. Am I missing something ?

Re: daylight savings

With my potato installation, the East time zone is changing on Oct 10. There is no such info for the other Brazilian time zones. [14:55:13 /tmp]$ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Brazil/* | grep 1999 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Brazil/East Sun Feb 21 01:59:59 1999 UTC = Sat Feb 20 23:59:59 1999 BRST

Re: netscape killing my machine

Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is consuming too much memory. That one reason why I am considering to try the Mozilla deb (http://pandora.debian.org/~bfulgham) As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the past few days it

apt: conf file says: /tmp/cache/apt/. Apt insists on /var/cache/apt/archives/

How can I fixed it ? Package: apt Version: 0.3.11.1 [09:21:40 shaul]# apt-get install xbooks Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 120 not upgraded. E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt

Re: Modems, caller id, and init strings

Perhaps the Modem-HOWTO can help ? Hi all, I thought this list might be the best place to ask: What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want AT#CID=1 to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo

A simple program behaves differently under mc's terminal and a normal terminal ?

Package: mc Version: 4.5.1-1.1 I tried to run a simple program with mc's terminal (ctrl+o from mc) and a normal terminal and got different results. Is this expected ? When running under a normal terminal the program (pipe1) produces: [11:59:17 sigi]$ ./pipe1 [12:02:47 sigi]$ hello world But

Re: latex

Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? http://bluesky.ecas.ou.edu/~bfiedler/tips/latex.html http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/ http://la1ad.uio.no/lyx/ ftp://granroth.ml.org/pub/Latex/short_intro.ps

Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

If you really must do low level formating and the disk is WD then there used to be an appropriate tool (wd_diag.exe) on their www pages. This tool will also tell you if low level formating might help. On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have

Where is the http_proxy env var being documented ?

Can you tell me where is the http_proxy env var being documented ? Thank you.

Re: Modem connection speed

I believe the Modem-HOWTO deals with this as well. At 12:41 08.09.99 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello! I would like to see the modem connection speed after the CONNECT message in my logs; I use ppp 2.3.5-2 on a slink box. Depends which modem do you use. Look at your modems manual to see

Re: Problem with ISA Kingston ethernet card

The card is a KNE2021LC, ISA, made by Kingston. I use the normal NE2000 ISA drivers. The card appears to be detected correctly but fails to work if I try to transmit anything on it. I guess you did it but it never hurts to make sure: Are the modules get loaded/compiled into the kernel ?

Re: Zombie process using pppd

Is there a way to determine the neglecting parent of a zombi ? Such as to be able to kill the parent if it's not a necessary program and letting init inherits the zombi process. Doesn't 'ps l' displays the Parent Process ID (PPID) ?

A bug in a menu entry ?

My slink system has the following entry in its menu system: [07:49:18 shaul]$ grep pstree .fvwm2/menudefs.hook + pstree Exec /usr/bin/X11/xterm -T pstree -e /usr/bin/pstree [07:53:10 shaul]$ The problem is that the xterm that is showing the pstree is closed immediately after pstree has

Re: Ethernet

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a new computer and brought it to my college, and installed Debian on it. However, when i installed it, i couldn't get the module for my NE2000 compatible driver to install correctly. Does anyone know how to reinstall? I believe that insmod 8390; insmod

Re: Process Limits

Perhaps by editing sys/resource.h ? is there anyway of setting process limits to the users, like in +BSD's?

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

You can try: http://bluesky.ecas.ou.edu/~bfiedler/tips/latex.html http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/ http://la1ad.uio.no/lyx/ and ftp://granroth.ml.org/pub/Latex/short_intro.ps If you are more interested in producing some documents rather in

reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size ?

I am getting a very narrow, practically none, right margin for the ps files of ftp://athos.rutgers.edu/runet/tcp-ip-intro.ps and ftp://athos.rutgers.edu/runet/tcp-ip-admin.ps. (those files are recommended by the NET3-HOWTO as an introductory text.) The very narrow margin are created both by gv

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

I am new to this stuff but it seems to me that somehow I have to tell pppd that it has to use my Ethernet card and not a serial device. That is, I need the pppd output to go into my Ethernet network (which is only composed from my machine and the router), and not to a modem or other low speed

PPP over an Ethernet connection.

I want to set up a *dynamic* PPP connection over an Ethernet connection (at least, that is what I think). Can you tell me what are the available tools ? Can I redirect a terminal to the Ethernet device ? There does not seems to be /dev/eth*. Suppose I'll have to hack some package, which one

help with the interaction between the window manager and an application

I am a using the xcircuit package quite intensivly. It is a great piece of software IMHO. The Hamm version of the package (1.7) worked very nice for me under hamm with Hamm's fvwm2 version. However the slink version of the package (2.06) has the following problem under slink with slink's fvwm2

Re: update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ?

* shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic shaul entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where shaul should I look ? a) does dpkg -l mosaic show the package as installed? b) run update-menus with verbose

Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?

| less end quotation As far as I checked it still has the wrong entry (see www.debian.org/doc/pacaking-manuals/packaging.html/ch-binarypkg.html, just before section 2.2). On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul

update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ?

Hello, Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where should I look ? [12:21:20 shaul]$ cat .menu/mosaic ?package(mosaic):needs=X11 section=Apps/Net title=Mosaic \ command=/usr/bin/X11/Mosaic -geometry 627x468 [01

dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?

[02:26:37 shaul]$ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /cdrom/Debian-2.1/main/binary-all/x11/xfo nts-100dpi_3.3.2.3a-11.deb | tar xof usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright | less tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [02:27:08 shaul]$ dpkg

[Hardware] any suggestions for a frame relay frad ?

Hello, Can anyone suggest a frame relay frad other then Sangoma ? I prefer an internal ISA card, but stand alone units are also welcome. I have nothing against Sangoma, just want to see what are the other possibilities.

Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?

[06:18:44 shaul]$ dpkg -s Mosaic Package: Mosaic Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 1718 Maintainer: Gene McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 2.7b5-8 Depends: lesstifg (= 0.81-0.1), libc6, libjpegg6a, libpng0g, xlib6g (= 3.3-5), xpm4g (= 3.4j-0), zlib1g Description: Graphical WWW

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

Mosaic is in non free. Seems to me a nice browser. Am I missing something ? On 31 Jul, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have been following the threads about the instability of Netscape with great interest. I too suffer the same symptoms - the ones where Netscape disappears when a certain page

Re: setting variables under an X11 session

Perhaps by including the following in .bashrc ? tkcvs() { if [ -n $DISPLAY ]; then set CVSROOT=whatever; tkcvs fi } (Is that the correct syntax ?) How can i set an environment variable under an x11 session (not a specific xterm under x) so that they work for

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader in slink

Isn't the use of debian's acroread package might help a bit ? Matthew Edwards wrote: I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader for linux and installed it on my Debian 2.1 distribution (2.9.9 kernel). When I tried to run it, first it told me it couldn't find various libX... libs. After i put

Re: xcircuit's troubleshooting page answer this.

Answering my own mail after I remembered that xcircuit has a helpful home page: bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/trouble.html says that 3.Problem: The main window won't accept keyboard input even though the buttons and menus all work. Solution Try version 2.0a8 or later (from

xcircuit - it does not respond to the kbd.

Package: xcircuit Version: 2.0a6-3 From time to time xcircuit does not respond to the kbd. To be more specific, it seems to ignore it. It does respond to the mouse, though. I believe that this happens if I quit xcircuit and then activate it again, as if it remembers that it was running at least

mc: How to terminate an FTP connection ?

Package: mc Version: 4.5.1-1.1 I have another mc (midnight commander) question. How can I terminate an ftp connection made from within mc ? The fact that I can not terminate such a connection at will has 2 implications for me: 1) I am holding an unused connection to the server until its timeout

Maintaining a permanent connection to the net with pppd.

[03:44:27 shaul]$ zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz | head -4 Linux NET-3-HOWTO, Linux Networking. Terry Dawson, VK2KTJ, Alessandro Rubini (maintainer), [EMAIL PROTECTED] v1.3, 1 April 1998 Broken pipe [03:44:56 shaul]$ [03:46:24 shaul]$ zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz | grep -A27

cp: /MS/test.txt: Operation not permitted when copying to a vfat partition ?

Can you tell what cp complains about ? [01:54:40 shaul]$ ls -l t* -rw-rw-r-- 1 shaulshaul 0 May 24 01:34 test.txt [01:54:54 shaul]$ ls -l /MS/t* ls: /MS/t*: No such file or directory Now trying to copy test.txt to the vfat partition: [01:55:13 shaul]$ cp -v test.txt /MS

laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

I am considering what printer to buy. With today low cost ( $400) laser postscript BW printers, they seem appealing. But is there really a reason to spend 2 times the sum of money on this kind of printer ? Perhaps a $200 new ink jet, maybe a color one, should be preferred ?

slin, nmh and exmh

--- Forwarded Message On 1999/04/28, shaul wrote: I am having problems with inc in exmh. I understand that nmh 1.0.3 fixed that. However, the current deb package requires glibc2.1, which is in the unstable tree. Before trying to package the current nmh sources with glibc2 (never made

a reference to http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bashref.html on /usr/doc/bash ?

I think that /usr/doc/bash should at least mention http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bashref.html. Am I correct that there is no such reference ? What about including some (all ??) the stuff that is found on this URL with Debian distro ?

Re: ddd and glibc2.1

Perhaps using the smotif (or lesstiff) version will let you work with it ? Ever since upgrading to glibc2.1 my ddd has been segfaulting upon startup... anyone know how this is doing in the 'fix' line? I see that it's been reported to the buglist, but no recent info...

Re: Mount for normal user

Alternatively, use sudo. [02:39:19 shaul]$ grep cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 -oasync,noauto,ro 0 0 [05:31:13 shaul]$ grep cdrom /etc/group cdrom:x:24:shaul [05:31:59 shaul]$ su Password: [05:32:36 shaul]# grep cdrom /etc/sudoers /bin/mount

Re: Aliases

to specify the `-ls' option, otherwise your .bash_profile won't be parsed. There are other similar ways as well. For example, have your aliases in .bashrc but source by .bash_profile. [06:27:02 shaul]$ cat .bash_profile # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. if [ -f ~/.bashrc

A menu entry for a colorized Midnight Commander ?

What has to be written in .menu/mc so that mc will appear with colors when started from the menu in fvwm2 ? I currently have: [23:28:27 shaul]$ cat /usr/lib/menu/mc text Apps/Misc mc none Midnight Commander /usr/bin/mc [23:44:49 shaul]$ cat .Xresources ! ~/.Xresources XTerm*colorMode

Slink CDs.

1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required inspite the inclusion of apt ? 2) Some CD vendors say that their CDs include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free. Others only mention non US.

Re: size of swap

Armin Wegner wrote: Hi, I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Thanks, Armin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null hi, the usual recommendation is to have the swap at 1.5 times your memory, but at 128MB

Re: fstab question

Is there a way for me to be able to mount both /a and /floppy on the KDE desktop (no, not at the same time)? It seems I will have to mount /a from the command line only, when I need to mount a dos floppy (not often). Using mtools can save you the trouble of dealing with fstab when dos/vfat

Re: fstab question

I am using sudo for doing it. Perhaps the automounter can also help, but I have not tried it. I do not know if there is a way to do it with groups permitions and fstab. If there is I would also like to know. hope this help. Isn't it

(1) xcircuit's tutorial. (2) Adding more doc's to packages.

(1) Can a copy of http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/tutorial.html be added to the xcircuit package ? (2) There is a lot of info on the authors and others web sites that can help users. Further more, package developers are more aware to this info and its changes. There for, perhaps

Re: Modem Commands

Also, is there a page somewhere that lists the hayes/at modem commands? Try the modem manufacturers home pages. Even if they do not have hayes/at modem commands you can probably get it from what they do have. For example, I believe that www.zoltrix.com can help. Another option, which I never

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

I think that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is right. WD says my HD is 3249MB, and the kernel says its only 3098MB. But WD also have a remark that it sees 1MB = 100B. Now if the kernel treats 1MB as 2^20 = 1048576 then my HD is 3098 * 1048576 = 3248488448 which are, roughly, 3249MB. Trying it for your

Re: screen setup and vim

Oops, sorry about my lack of knowledge. Could someone explain to me what screen is?? screen - A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate screens on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:51:28PM +0800, ivan wrote: Mmmh. What do you need this for? Primarily learning but I would like a few very simple highly optimised graphics routines for my machine. Line, circle, box and fill for e.g. Although you have already decided to use svgalib,

Re: Intent to package mh-book. What PostScript version?

shaul wrote: I intend to package the html version of the book MH xmh: Email for Users Programmers Can you add the postscript version to the package ? What PostScript version? I _recall_ seeing that but can't find it now... [22:46:07 shaul]$ cat mh_book/README

Re: Intent to package mh-book

I intend to package the html version of the book MH xmh: Email for Users Programmers ISBN 1-56592-093-7, written by Jerry Peek, and published by and is copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly Associates, Inc. The book is under the GPL, so will go into main. I suppose I'll put

Re: dosemu and freedos

one more question about dosemu and freedos. It is maybe very stupid not knowing this... but wondered long time: If I run some dos-programs using freedos and dosemu, do I need to install my dos-programs on a dos-formatted partition It works this way. or is it possible to use my

Re: dosemu and freedos

big 8800 6e00 1a00 28160 Streamcache allocation problem:G 3 dasterdly:/home/pcolbeck/tsmain/USERS/PCOLBECK# [23:54:02 shaul]$ ls -l /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444544 Dec 31 19:24 /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first [23:54:13 shaul]$ su Password: [23:54:18

Re: New hard drive

You can keep your old drive installed, and have it function as a backup device. Or am I completely missing something ? I broke down and bought a larger hard drive for my system. My system contains windows and a partition for Debian. I would like to copy everything over and then remove the

Re: day planner/scheduler program

Hi, I'm looking for a simple program (like plan) that would send me reminders about meetings and things like that (paying apartment rent in time turns out to be quite challenging for me). I was using plan, but it's daemon can spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason. So

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. - More packages distributed with the base system. - I believe the dpkg package management is much better than RedHat (especially for

Reply... in my exmh is not working properly.

Package: exmh Version: 1:2.0.2-1 When using the Reply... in exmh, Reply all does not give me a Cc field and it does not list the one that the mail was sent to (only the one that sent it). This was not like this in the past so I probably was not aware to the fact that somehow I managed to change

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

But I think Pascal is somewhat easier language to start with. I am aware to the fact that this is the common attitude. But I wonder if this is still valid these days. I mean, today using the computer and even programming is much more embedded in every days routines, especially when young

C++ book.

Can you recommend a good C++ book ? How about the 3rd edition of Stroustrup's book ? Is it better then the new edition of the C++ Primer ?

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

i think the reason is the advertisement of redhat, i´ve never heard about debian until a fellow student points out (thanks rainer :-) that there other dists than redhat, suse or dld (german). - And i´m very satisfied with Debian (i´m a hobbyist ;-) What was the RH version that you used

Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)

If I understand what you want, you want to run an X client on a Windows box. This might give you a taste of the flavor of X, but the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations, so don't expect to get a true feel for it. To do this, you'll need an X Server on your Windows box. The

Re: Hamm beta upgrade to Slink

I want to upgrade my libc from 2.0.7t-1 to libc6_2.0.7v-1.deb too. Can I simply install the appropriate packages, even if during the process parts of the system will be broken ? Is there a possibility that my system will completely be useless so that I will have to reinstall hamm from scratch ?

Re: System won't boot, lilo.conf problem

by this problem for 2 weeks! Please help me to solve the problem. Thanks!!! My system is similar to yours (2 hd, Win95 on hda1, Debian on hdb). Perhaps my /etc/lilo.conf could help. [22:02:27 shaul]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b

Re: Search and Replace

sed was made for that. there are lots of other tools that are more programming-oriented (awk, perl, python...); sed is simple and a bit cryptic but good to get to know. Are there www sites from where I can download introductory level texts for these tools ?

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

I have found that there is much more packages available for debian than there are for Red Hat Isn't it odd ? Given that there are much more RH users then Debian users (3:1 ratio ?), how can it be ? Are there more programmers who use Debian then those who use RH ? Are all of this packages

Games, sound and multi processes OS ?

Since linux has many processes that are constantly switched by the processor, using the PC internal speaker is practically impossible. Isn't it ? Is there a similar problem with a sound card ? Assuming that a work station is interactively being used by one user only, Is there a possibility to

Re: Any good Debian books?

Try to look in debian's home page. I am searching for a good Debian Linux book. Does one exist? I tried meta keyword searches as above and didn't come up with anything specific to Debian. I have Using Linux published by QUE - Slackware and Linux Unleashed published by Sams - Redhat5.1,

Re: slink PPP hangup problem

is fully established. But I might be wrong. Even if I am wrong, posting a more detailed log + configuration files can help in solving your problem. Here is my log file: [01:00:52 shaul]# tail -n20 /var/log/ppp.log.0 Jan 10 01:50:24 rakefet pppd[3130]: pppd 2.3.5 started by shaul, uid 1000 Jan 10 01:50

Re: System won't boot, lilo.conf problem

My system is similar to yours (2 hd, Win95 on hda1, Debian on hdb). Perhaps my /etc/lilo.conf could help. [22:02:27 shaul]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=MS table

Re: slink PPP hangup problem

Isn't the failing of chat (2nd line of in your messages) means that you were connected at all ? Hello All I have been using Debian Slink Linux for a while now, but I have a problem hanging up (terminating) a PPP connection. I have the latest version of PPPD installed, I have edited the

Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

Thank you all. Replaced the speaker. Works fine. First time I noticed that my bash also uses the speaker to get the user attention. I still do not know which device is used for the speaker, if any. grep pcspeaker /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt gives noting with my Debian 2.0 (kernel

My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

) takes control over it ? Where the kernel is referring the speaker ? What about a /dev/speaker ? [21:19:22 shaul]$ grep -A4 speaker /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt 13 charPC speaker 0 = /dev/pcmixer Emulates /dev/mixer 1 = /dev/pcsp

dosemu: lredir difficulties

c_nice define c_x endif endif - --- End /etc/dosemu/conf - --- Begin /etc/dosemu/users (modified conffile) root c_all # root is allowed to do all weird things shaul c_all # root is allowed to do all weird things nobody guest# variable 'guest' is checked

Re: APM on Linux?

The following is taken from debian install instructions 4.7. Advanced Power Management If your motherboard provides Advanced Power Management (APM), configure it so that power management is controlled by APM. Disable the doze, standby, suspend,

Re: inc in exmh misbehaving (was: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery?)

by a commandline slocal sort, works fine. How exactly are you doing this ? [21:09:37 shaul]$ inc bash: inc: command not found [21:12:10 shaul]$ /usr/bin/mh/inc inc: no mail to incorporate [21:12:18 shaul]$ slocal bash: slocal: command not found [21:12:23 shaul]$ /usr/lib/mh/slocal Nothing

GNAT: 1) Debugging an ADA program. 2) ADA tasks do not run concurrently ?

This is a multipart MIME message. (1) I have managed to debug an ADA program that had no tasks with gdb. However, when I tried a program that contain tasks, gdb says that a SIGUSR1 was received whenever I am trying to run the program. Is this expected ? What should I do in order to continue the

Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?

I don't seem to have /etc/nmh/maildelivery. Should I be concerned about it ? [09:15:11 shaul]$ man slocal | grep -A 5 -B 5 /etc/nmh/maildelivery root, and must be writable only by the owner. If the .maildelivery file cannot be found, or does not perform

Socket programming

http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/internetworking/internet-theory.ht ml for a tutorial about unix sockets programming (including how to use select). HI Everyone, This is not a debian-specific question, but have no-one else to ask. I have been playing with sockets and can not seem

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