Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-14 Thread jude dashiell
Any number of ways exist to do what you want in Linux. If you use pine, under setup and rules you'll find filters and you want to add a filter. Then name the filter and fill in your criteria. Save it and exit and the e-mail is gone. There's procmail but it like sendmail is a major bitch in terms

Re: C Programming Mailing list

2003-08-14 Thread jude dashiell
comp.lang.c moderated on the usenet newsgroups would appear to be a good place for you to be. You might also check out the rest of the comp.lang. hierarchy for other languages too. -- Registered as user #315636 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/! - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: weird keyboard problem

2003-07-19 Thread jude dashiell
antiword doesn't do that. -- Registered as user #315636 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [OT] Development workflow

2003-07-02 Thread jude dashiell
Also, remember structured programming is your friend! Many small files preferably with no more than one task in them each with commenting can be used to build large projects. The advantages of doing this are a few. First, you may be able to write a wrapper program that you can then use to test yo

Re: linux appears to be missing calendar program

2003-06-21 Thread jude dashiell
I found remind on the web at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind.html and it has both an x interface and a text interface. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d- s+:+ a+ C++ UL P+ L+++ E+ W-- N+ o+ K- w--- O-- M-- V PS++ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5++ X-- R* tv- b++ DI D--- G- e++ h r-- y* --

Re: linux appears to be missing calendar program

2003-06-21 Thread jude dashiell
Unix has a calendar capability. If you have a file called .calendar in your home directory on a Unix system, when dates and events come due that are listed in that file the system can be so arranged that a user will get email reminders about those events. That particular function of Unix most def

Re: linux appears to be missing calendar program

2003-06-21 Thread jude dashiell
I can't use any of the x applications. I'll find out what the interface status on remind is, thanks. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d- s+:+ a+ C++ UL P+ L+++ E+ W-- N+ o+ K- w--- O-- M-- V PS++ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5++ X-- R* tv- b++ DI D--- G- e++ h r-- y* --END GEEK CODE BLOC

linux appears to be missing calendar program

2003-06-21 Thread jude dashiell
Is there source for calendar for linux somewhere on the web? I'd hate to have it said microsoft outlook can do something useful linux cannot? -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d- s+:+ a+ C++ UL P+ L+++ E+ W-- N+ o+ K- w--- O-- M-- V PS++ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5++ X-- R* tv- b++ DI D---

Re: export variables

2003-01-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
use the ($) just in front of the variable when testing it in an if statement or trying to echo its value. -- Jude - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info

Re: linux and tag lines

2003-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks Lawson, as you can see it worked. Now I'll have a way in.On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:45:38 -0500 (EST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: linux and tag lines > >

disk partitions

2003-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
I forgot, I set a partition in primary as type 83 which makes it linux swap and gave it 128mb of memory since that's max memory on my computer. -- Jude - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

linux and tag lines

2003-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can any of the character-based email programs run a script and write output from that script onto the ends of outgoing messages? There's something some users are doing using perl and astrolog and outlook in windows I'd like to be able to get linux doing too. -- Jude - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Set the "mail system".

2003-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Sounds like both fetchmail and sendmail need configuring or alternatively to sendmail there's postfix or exim. If the system runs sendmail the package will have to be turned off and possibly uninstalled if you go with one of the alternatives. On this machine whenever I run as root one of the thin

Re: permission for alias file

2003-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
redhat 8.0 has much more conservative security settings out of the box than previous versions of redhat had. Reason is too many hackers had too much success knocking over systems that used those earlier versions. My system was one of those casualties when I had redhat 7.2 running. -- Jude - T

apsfilter problem

2003-01-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
The version of apsfilter supplied on slackware 8.0 failed to print a test page on an hp laser jet iii printer using lp0 the parallel port interface. The dpi was set at lowest level, and the problem appears to be with the font stack and times/roman font. apsfilter throws out lots of strange errors

Re: commport settings

2002-12-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
What's your modem environment variable like? It should read modem="/dev/ttyS2". -- Jude - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: starting a program in the background and terminating it later

2002-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
The at command allows you to specify a time and a program or script to run at that time. at 13:46 script & I think will get done what you need or pretty close to it. -- Jude - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: commport settings

2002-12-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
>From what I've heard of it, linuxconf has been depricated because it caused more problems when run than solved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htm

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

2002-10-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Do any of the Linux file systems use a tree rather than linked lists? On 24 Oct 2002, Bryan Simmons wrote: > Shows how much I know about basic system design... > > In fact, I was shocked to learn last night that ext2 uses linked lists > to keep track of files in a directory. Why is this? Did

RE: RedHat 8

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is redhat 8.0 able to make an iomega zip 650 usb cdrw drive burn as well as read? redhat 7.2 wasn't able. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

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

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Windows is a special case. With windows there's no good way to use anything. The code efficiency on windows would gagg any of the CP/M programmers that might audit it. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, David Jones wrote: > On 22 Oct 02, at 11:34, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 0

Re: Line Length Help

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think fmt and newfmt both have line length command line switches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-

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

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
No basic is not and never was #1 candidate for spaghetti code! That disgrace belongs to Cobol. On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:30PM +, Heimo Claasen wrote: > > Sorry, I should have made this a bit more explicit: as the sub-thread > > started

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

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well, obasic may be available. It costs about $100.00 for the registered version but I don't know if the company survived. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majo

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
al - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NON ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM > > On 10-19, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > The xbasic wouldn't help at all. The linux gui interface has a long way &g

Re: A few more things and I can kiss windows good bye.

2002-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Last year I read about a version of visualbasic available to run on linux and think it was put under the gnu gpl license. Thing is, I don't know if it runs only in the gui environment or can run in the text environment. If it runs in the text environment, the government could provide blind progra

Re: bash scripting help

2002-10-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
you want to read up on useradd program. You get to enter all information on command line for each account. You could use $1 for user name, and have password field filled in with starting password. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a mess

Re: Virus and HD checkers

2002-10-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Only antivirus program I ever found for linux was f-prot.rpm. The support has been discontinued for the program though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordo

Re: Automatic Updates

2002-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not necessarily, try http://updates.redhat.com/xxx where xxx is your version number. From what I understand, perl scripts are available once installed can do the updates for you. However krud is probably going to be a better value than rhns since both cost he same but krud provides a set of cd's

Re: Fetchpop Problem

2002-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
hmmm, mail coming from such sources usually contains the program identification string that wrote the mail in the first place if memory serves. Why not reject any email from a non-compliant mta attaching a message onto the rejected email stating x is a non-compliant mail transport agent and messa

Re: Command line questions

2002-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
sure, ls * | less - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: CD-ROM Hell

2002-10-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Unless you've already done it and it failed, you could try umount /mnt/cdrom. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http:/

Re: breaking up a zip file

2002-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
e: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > let's try zipsplit. It appears it's nearly time for a new keyboard. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > >>That would be ipsplit. > > I remember zipsplit from my DOS da

Re: breaking up a zip file

2002-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
let's try zipsplit. It appears it's nearly time for a new keyboard. On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote: > That would be ipsplit. > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a messag

RE: Tar Backups

2002-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
What you need in your listing is the tape offset address for the beginning of each file saved in that tar listing. I wonder if inodes would serve for this purpose. Actually, linux-tape list on [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have the answer for you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: breaking up a zip file

2002-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
That would be ipsplit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs