Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Sean Rima
Originally to: Bob Batson -=> Bob Batson wrote to All <=- BB> At 4:16 PM -0500 8/16/02, Ray Olszewski wrote: >Originally to: All > > >If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something >is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message >this

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2002-08-16 Thread Raghava Raju
Hi After doing stty erase "^B", it is not not erasing after I do ctrl-B. Is anything wrong the way I am doing, to set "^B" to be the erase key. Please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I didn't subscribe to this list. Regards Raghava. __ Do You Yahoo!

Re: [SLE] Changing Text

2002-08-16 Thread John Porter
James Hatridge wrote: > Rates as of 2002.08.13 20:25:28 UTC (GMT). Base currency is EUR. > USD United States Dollars 1.01756 0.982743 > GBP United Kingdom Pounds 1.56297 0.639808 > AUD Australia Dollars 0.54679

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Bob Batson
At 4:16 PM -0500 8/16/02, Ray Olszewski wrote: >Originally to: All > > >If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something >is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message >this morning. [snip] I too am receiving multiple copies of more than one

Re: gdict won't run as panel applet

2002-08-16 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry to follow up on my own question, but seems to have taken a strange root. I need to append something to my original query: > When I upgraded to RH 7.3, I lost gdict. I'd like to add it as an > applet to my panel. But when I try, nothing except a default icon on > the panel (black square with

RE: [SLE] Changing Text

2002-08-16 Thread Ted.Harding
On 16-Aug-02 James Hatridge wrote: > Hi all.. Hi Jim.. > OK, here's the problem I've got a file that looks like this: > > Rates as of 2002.08.13 20:25:28 UTC (GMT). Base currency is EUR. > USD United States Dollars 1.01756 > 0.982743 > GBP United Kingdom Pounds

Re: converting pdfs

2002-08-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Originally to: All Matthew Stapleton wrote: > How should I convert a pdf into individual image files? I do not care > what format the output is ...jpg...gif...pbm...tif Most linux distros come with a program called "convert". It's a program that is part of ImageMagick. just type convert .pd

can't open lp0 device file

2002-08-16 Thread Haines Brown
Originally to: All I'm no longer able to print to my USB printer because jobs get stuck in queue. I run printtool and print a test page, and nothing happens. Then run lpc status: Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Lexmark@hartford-hwp enabled enabled

Re: re[2]: Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-16 Thread grottoBoy rant
Originally to: All Hi, I just stumbled across this and thought it might help, it might do the same thing you're indicating below, but if your try doesn't work, then maybe this will help. from man perlfaq4 How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters? To turn `"abbcccd"' into `"a

shutting down screen power managment

2002-08-16 Thread Haines Brown
Originally to: All A silly little question, but when I upgraded to RH 7i.3, it seems screen power saving is enabled. How do I disable it other than enter a very large value in the screen saver capplet under Power Management time delay? Haines Brown - <-> Gateway Information. This message origi

re[2]: Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-16 Thread Alan Womack
Originally to: All This is "what" the line looks like: LLiinnuuxx--PPAAMM library there is a Ctrl-H between each duplicate pair of letters.. I think I can strip it with a perl script at work. $mystring=~/\cH.//g I think will do it, I'll read the whole file into an array and iterate through

Re: Port 20 blocked. How to unblock

2002-08-16 Thread Jim Roland
Originally to: All Port 20 is used for the actual data transfer (directory listings, files, etc) after you have authenticated with port 21 (ftp control). Port 20 will not be an open port and will not allow connections until port 21 tells it to (someone could hijack an active connection if port

Re: Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Originally to: All On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Alan Womack wrote: > I'm trying to download the text manuals for the linux pam modules to my palm pilot, but there is the appearance of old style double strike for emphasis text all over the docs. > > e.g. a L(backspace)Li(backspace)in(backspace)n > > W

Re: .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Originally to: All Me again. Whats the use of stripping object files of their symbols. Symbols reflect the functions in an object file, right? Axel - <-> Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) P

(fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Originally to: All Sorry, I haven't seen my mail get to the list. So here goes it again. - Forwarded message from Axel Siebenwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi, I have some stupid questions. What makes the difference between .o and .so files? What is their use? Is it just a naming conven

.so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Originally to: All Hi, I have some stupid questions. What makes the difference between .o and .so files? What is their use? Is it just a naming convention? When I want to link libraries to a program I am compiling, of what format do the libraries have to be? I have found out that .a files a

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All At 12:17 PM 8/15/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they > > were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They > > are kept around, at le

converting pdfs

2002-08-16 Thread Matthew Stapleton
Originally to: All How should I convert a pdf into individual image files? I do not care what format the output is ...jpg...gif...pbm...tif Thanks, Matthew Stapleton http://webpages.marshall.edu/~staple12 "What good fortune for those in power that people do not

gdict won't run

2002-08-16 Thread Haines Brown
Originally to: All When I upgraded to RH 7.3, I lost gdict. I'd like to add it as an applet to my panel. But when I try, nothing except a default icon on the panel (black square with gnome foot). whereis tells me that gdict is at /usr/bin/gdict. When root tries to execute it, a pop up window sa

Re: Port 20 blocked. How to unblock

2002-08-16 Thread pa3gcu
Originally to: All On Thursday 01 January 1970 00:00, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Originally to: Phillip Morgan > > Hello Phillip. > > 12 Jul 02 16:40, you wrote to all: Today its; Aug 12 and you posted this message on Saturday 03 Aug, seems something is wrong with your date(s) anyway most of the

Re: Mailer Connections

2002-08-16 Thread Peter
Originally to: All Thanks again Riley, apparently you are leaving in the UK. said: > The top "Received:" line gives the critical evidence when it reports > "helo=localhost.localdomain" as this states that your system's > hostname is currently set up as localhost.localdomain as stated, and > th

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Originally to: All On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they > were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They > are kept around, at least on full-size Linux installs, mainly for legacy > reasons

Want to strip some formatting out of a text file

2002-08-16 Thread Alan Womack
Originally to: All I'm trying to download the text manuals for the linux pam modules to my palm pilot, but there is the appearance of old style double strike for emphasis text all over the docs. e.g. a L(backspace)Li(backspace)in(backspace)n What utility to remove this backspacing and doubli

Re: Mailer Connections

2002-08-16 Thread Peter
Originally to: All Thanks Riley and Ray pfheiss said: >> How do I revert back that I can mail again with any mail program >> especially exmh and with any ISP? [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As a result, the solution may be as simple as setting the hostname for > your machine to match that of your

CD distributor info

2002-08-16 Thread neil t
Originally to: All Greetings- Has anyone on the list dealt with "Best Linux CD's"? I ordered the latest Debian Distro the other day and have not really heard anything from them about shipping. They did mention something after I made the purchase but that was to say something about an illness

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message this morning. Are you sure you are subscribed? Might your MTA or MUA be filtering out messages that are From: your own addre

Re: .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All At 07:25 PM 8/15/02 +0200, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: >Hi Ray! > >What is the difference between the linking that gcc does i.e. to link many >object files into an executable and the linking that ld does? >Is it really that gcc is just to link object files together to an executab

stripping flies (was: Re: .so, .a and .o-files)

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All I changed the Subject: line to refer to the question you actually asked. At 03:44 PM 8/15/02 +0200, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: >Me again. > >Whats the use of stripping object files of their symbols. Symbols reflect >the functions in an object file, right? Stripping makes the f

Re: RH7.3 keyborad lock-up

2002-08-16 Thread Peter
Originally to: All Hi, once more on this subject before closing it. Peter said: >>I made that switch with RH7.1 some time ago with no problems. >>7.1 runs on XFree86-4.0.3-5 and and 7.3 om XFree-4.2.0-8. Ray Olszewski said: > This move by Red Hat may be optimistic. Even Debian unstable (Sid)

Re: .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Originally to: All Hi Ray! On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Depends on how you link. Modern linking is done dynamically (only one copy > of the library is loaded into memory and shared by all apps that use it), > using .so libraries. Older linking was done statically (each app loa

Re: .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Originally to: All Hi Ray! What is the difference between the linking that gcc does i.e. to link many object files into an executable and the linking that ld does? Is it really that gcc is just to link object files together to an executable and ld is there to link object files to an shared lib

Re: .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All As I indicated in my message to Lawson, "static" is a tricky term, with an assortment of context-dependent meanings. It is messy enough that you should take what I write next with a grain of salt, since it is easy to get mixed up here. Both .a and .so libraries get linked

Re: Mailer Connections

2002-08-16 Thread Riley Williams
Originally to: All Hi Peter. Here's the relevant headers of your email as it came to me... > Received: from ppp12.pool4.mnl.skyinet.net ([202.78.107.12] > helo=localhost.localdomain) > by phoenix.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) > id 17eUmE-0008Fi-00 > for [EMAIL PROT

Query regarding linking...

2002-08-16 Thread Abhijit Vijay
Originally to: All Hi All, While on the topic of linking, could anyone tell me why a C source file compiles alright, but gives "Symbol not found" errors during linking? I mean, how is the error, "symbol _ABC not found" different from "function xyz not found"? Regards, Abhijit. ___

Re: setting up X under Slackware

2002-08-16 Thread pa3gcu
On Friday 16 August 2002 13:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > 3. What errors get reported when startx runs? > > To see these, you are probably going to need to do something like: > > startx >~/oops 2>&1 > > ~/oops should then give the X version, driver us

Changing Text

2002-08-16 Thread James Hatridge
Hi all.. OK, here's the problem I've got a file that looks like this: Rates as of 2002.08.13 20:25:28 UTC (GMT). Base currency is EUR. USD United States Dollars 1.01756 0.982743 GBP United Kingdom Pounds 1.56297 0.639808 AUD Au

Re: setting up X under Slackware

2002-08-16 Thread lawson_whitney
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > 3. What errors get reported when startx runs? To see these, you are probably going to need to do something like: startx >~/oops 2>&1 ~/oops should then give the X version, driver used, and some interesting error messages. If your shell is bash, you

Merging ps-files

2002-08-16 Thread Beatriz Botero H
Hi, I need for a special aplication to merge two or more post-script files to a resultant ps-one. I tryed "psmerge" but this program does not work at all. Including the author who aknowledged problems with his program, nobody seems to have been successfull with "psmerge". There must exist a way to