Re: Missing Library?

2006-10-03 Thread Ralph Stoker
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:48, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Thanks for the inputs... Installing the ncurses-devel package allowed the ./configure command to successfully complete. ~ configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: crea

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:54 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Private mailing on work time - oops... ;) Self employed and need to read business emails also. I am sure my boss will not mind. > > If you have your own laptop you're only up against the local net-Nazis, > otherwise, yep that's abou

Re: Apt-get - dumb question

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Swafford
Robert Fisher wrote: I have googled but not yet found the apt-get command to show the version of an installed package. Help please. Rob dpkg -l package

Re: Apt-get - dumb question

2006-10-03 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:56 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: > I have googled but not yet found the apt-get command to show the version of > an > installed package. $ dpkg -l -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer

Reminder: BSD-GNU/Linux Users' workshop tonite

2006-10-03 Thread Rik Tindall
Hi all, Tonight is the Freenix community workshop: 7.30pm, Wednesday October 4th, at the Sydenham Community Centre, 25 Hutcheson Street. Hands-on PC help session + LAN. Bring your computer along for install or repair, ask questions, meet other users, network. Install/liveCDs freely availabl

Apt-get - dumb question

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Fisher
I have googled but not yet found the apt-get command to show the version of an installed package. Help please. Rob

Re: Deathly quiet ...

2006-10-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> The next available slot is the December meeting which would be fine by > me. I'm happy to move the firewalls talk from Nov to Dec so you can have the Nov slot. I might not make the Nov one anyway. > What I would like to show is the system of prototyping an idea using off > the shelf components

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> >How else would you suggest someone like me, who visits up to 8 customers a d > ay, > > >read their mail at those customers' sites? Private mailing on work time - oops... ;) If you have your own laptop you're only up against the local net-Nazis, otherwise, yep that's about the only valid reaso

Re: Missing Library?

2006-10-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I am trying to use a freeware ballistics program and unable to configure it > due to a missing library...though it would appear that I do have such a > library on my system. > checking for main in -lncurses... no > configure: error: ncurses library is required This has nothing to do with yast

Re: Missing Library?

2006-10-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'll top post due to white space...??? You need to install yast2-ncurses-devel ( or something similar ). The devel installs the header files that you need to build your application. Steve On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:32:28 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/3/2006, "Ralph

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/3/2006, "Robert Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed Oct 4 9:37 , Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >Why people use webmail (shudder) >>instead of a decent mail client beats me, but that's a different topic. > >How else would you suggest someone like me, who visi

Re: Missing Library?

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/3/2006, "Ralph Stoker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to use a freeware ballistics program and unable to configure it >due to a missing library...though it would appear that I do have such a >library on my system. > >The program was a tar.gz and so has to be manually configur

Re: Missing Library?

2006-10-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:12, Ralph Stoker wrote: > I am trying to use a freeware ballistics program and unable to configure it > due to a missing library...though it would appear that I do have such a > library on my system. > > The program was a tar.gz and so has to be manually configured a

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/3/2006, "Volker Kuhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > What's the user agent Nick? > >Chris: see mail headers. > >> But I think the extra \n is being added by smething else, because it doesn 't >> happen on mail not sent through the canterbury server. > >It also doesn't happen w

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed Oct 4 9:37 , Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: Why people use webmail (shudder) >instead of a decent mail client beats me, but that's a different topic. How else would you suggest someone like me, who visits up to 8 customers a day, read their mail at those customers' sites? Ro

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:25, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: > > As far as I can see, after every line there is an aditional blank line. > > (Maybe a \r\n interpreted as two newlines?) > > Examining a saved file using the od uti

Missing Library?

2006-10-03 Thread Ralph Stoker
I am trying to use a freeware ballistics program and unable to configure it due to a missing library...though it would appear that I do have such a library on my system. The program was a tar.gz and so has to be manually configured as opposed to using YaST. On un-compressing and entering conso

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > What's the user agent Nick? Chris: see mail headers. > But I think the extra \n is being added by smething else, because it doesn't > happen on mail not sent through the canterbury server. It also doesn't happen with any other MUA on (long guess) any list, so the blame stays with Ilohadings

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:25, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: > As far as I can see, after every line there is an aditional blank line. > (Maybe a \r\n interpreted as two newlines?) Examining a saved file using the od utility with the -a option flag reveals a double \n ( new-line ) character

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Robert J. C. Himmelmann
As far as I can see, after every line there is an aditional blank line. (Maybe a \r\n interpreted as two newlines?) Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Hi Nick, you realise your quoting is now not only untrimmed, but also an empty line longer for each line of original text? Any chance of fixing that (prefe

Re: Ripping DVD Audio track?

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 18:25, Phill Coxon wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:55 +1300, Edwin F wrote: > > On 10/3/06, Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just mounted the DVD and there are two directories - AUDIO_TS (empty) > > > and VIDEO_TS (3.8G). > > > > > > I know nothing about D