Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
I looked around for a bit to find a good HowTo or FAQ that addressed the distinctions among X itself, a Window Manager, A Desktop, and a Desktop Environment. I found nothing really good, though these links are the best of the lot I found: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-Overview-HOWTO/in

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-22 Thread James Miller
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote: > > I have RedHat8.0 ('tho I see that this distro is not liked! :-|). > I'll try a few GUI install choices and what I can learn. > > Although I am still confused about who is doing what, > with which, and to whom. > > IOW, I do not understand the differenc

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-22 Thread Chuck Gelm
Hi, Paul: Lovely. Your story sounds like what I want to do. :-) I have RedHat8.0 ('tho I see that this distro is not liked! :-|). I'll try a few GUI install choices and what I can learn. Although I am still confused about who is doing what, with which, and to whom. IOW, I do not understand t

Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources...

2002-10-22 Thread Robert Couture
Originally to: Bryan Simmons Hello Bryan! On 20/10/2002, Bryan Simmons was caught whispering to All about Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources BS> The CDs I'm trying to read were made in Windows (98, 2000, XP) with this BS> very same drive about a year ago. They all contain home-mad

Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources...

2002-10-22 Thread Bryan Simmons
You missed the part where I said the only way to retrieve the files was in Windows and that I wanted to enable whatever error correction or multiple read settings that Windows has but while I'm in Linux. Any ideas? On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 09:25, Robert Couture wrote: > Originally to: Bryan Simmons

Re: Mail

2002-10-22 Thread Carl
At 11:15 22/10/2002 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >I want to set up one of our servers as a mail server for internal mail >and external mail. But I wont external mail forwarded to our real mail >server which is hosted by a 3rd party. That part is easy. But I also >want all incoming mail to filter throug

Mail

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Kraus
I want to set up one of our servers as a mail server for internal mail and external mail. But I wont external mail forwarded to our real mail server which is hosted by a 3rd party. That part is easy. But I also want all incoming mail to filter through this server. Do I need to run fetchmail to hav

Term Font

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Kraus
I use an application called Tiny Term by century. I run this using wine. The default font is called TERM and is not a TTF. I have tried converting all of the fon files to bdf and the pcf but it still does not show up in the app as a choose able font. It is also in its native fon format in the fonts

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Furness
Linux is slowly getting better and easier for people who don't want to spend hours fiddling with it, but it isn't quite there yet. Ok, here's what I use: I currently have Red Hat 7.3 installed on my workstation. I have been using Red Hat precisely because the installation is pretty friendly - I c

More about Linux xbasic(s)

2002-10-22 Thread cr
I've lost the original of the thread, but I asked on the Xbasic list and got a reply from Steve Gunhouse, one of the maintainers, as follows: -- Forwarded Message -- On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:42:29 +1300 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been following a discussion on Linux b

Re: Line Length Help

2002-10-22 Thread Peter
Peter said: > Hi, > If I safe with Lynx a text in html format to a file.txt the lines are > at the most 60 col long. > How can I change that to let say 90 col in order to get more text on > one page for print-out? > Would sed do the trick, but how? > Since I did not get any answer I arrived w

Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...)

2002-10-22 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:02:33PM -1000, David Jones wrote: > No, it has 100% to do with the way you code. You can This is the criterion from the user/programmer perspective. It is well known that you can use almost everything in a bad manner... You can kill someone even using a pen, but it's k