Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 23:54, Tim Wunder wrote: I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can get it: http://freshmeat.net/releases/65197/ Is it anything like Checkinstall? Anyone on list use it? Yes, I do (SuSE 7.2)- it works well as far as I can tell, with the RPM

Euro:-C

2001-12-20 Thread Declan Moriarty
How does a guy get the euro out of the fonts? I have a pre windows 95 keyboard, and Mandrake 8.0. I'm going to be in the euro zone soon, and as I;m laid back with flu, so I can try things. I have a console mode and X-3.3.6 methinks. I've heard it's Alt GR-0217 - Bah, I can't even type:-((

Re: OT cool site

2001-12-20 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:45:33 -0500 Bill Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Someone has got way t much time on their hands... but pretty kewl.. This was my reaction. Too much free time... -- = Roger Oberholtzer

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Wunder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: % Tim Wunder babbled on about: % Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. % It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install % via tarball. Anyone on list use it? % % I use

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
Tim Wunder wrote: [clip] % Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what's strip executables mean? Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help. Kurt -- Hatred, n.: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's

Re: Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: % % Forwarded from a newsgroup, but I'd like to know what you all think.. I've % copied the author. Please continue to copy on replies... % % ,--- Forwarded message (begin) [snippage] % RH basically sets itself up, which is good. But having described

View automaticaly an URL in Opera from Pine

2001-12-20 Thread Zoran
Hello All, I've been away for some time suffering with W2k out of no reason at all if not because I seem to have masochistic tendencies... :-) Being late on a lot of things I started going through my setup(s) and noticed there's no talk about using Opera as the URL viewer from, in my case,

Re: koffice 1.1.1

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Collins Richey babbled on about: Well, half of the stuff in kword doesn't work, and they've enable lots of debug messages. Jeez, it was slow enough before. plonk - removing now. I'll stick with open office. from rpm or souce? no issues here from source.. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled on about: It certainly ruins debugging, but a lot of corporate IT shops strip executables as a matter of policy (such as making reverse engineering more difficult). I routinely strip the files on my system. however, the method that checkinstall uses to determine

Re: more rpm ooops ot

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Collins Richey babbled on about: Sorry, the comment about Doug's favorite wasn't from me. i know. just wanted to clarify that point. I haven't tried SuSE in years; do they still have the all-in-one mega-mondo-humonguous config file? I've always preferred adequate instructions for doing

Re: Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-20 Thread Lee
Collins Richey wrote: [ snips ] On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:06:27 -0500 Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarded from a newsgroup, but I'd like to know what you all think.. I've copied the author. Please continue to copy on replies... ,--- Forwarded message

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled on about: It certainly ruins debugging, but a lot of corporate IT shops strip executables as a matter of policy (such as making reverse engineering more difficult). I routinely strip the files on my system. however, the method that

What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Ian
I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky, GUI type) that can be used to edit UNIX text files without adding the CR/LF to the lines...but I can't remember what it was called. Anyone out there know of a freeware/shareware program the

Re: another rpm ooops

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
Tony Alfrey wrote: % On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:32 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % snip % % Refresh my memory, what was the problem you were trying to solve? If % memory serves, you were trying to install an RPM that uses a newer % version of RPM than that supported by the version of RPM

Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:34:21 -0500 Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky, GUI type) that can be used to edit UNIX text files without adding the CR/LF to the lines...but I can't remember what it

Filtrex wordperfect9 filter for word

2001-12-20 Thread Joel Hammer
Someone posted a reference to the filtrex wp8 filter for word documents recently. I've lost it. Would you please repost it? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Linux in German schools and elsehere, was: Linux takeup

2001-12-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Michael Scottaline am Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2001 21:00: = Verrry interesting, Mike. Thanks for the observations. I wonder what the feed back from our European friends on the list will be like. Do you happen to know what is used in their schools (or gymnasiums).

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Net Llama
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: [clip] % Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what's strip executables mean? Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help. Hopefully, Kurt won't mind if i expand a wee bit on this. Quite often, programmers compile binaries with

RE: Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-20 Thread Schmeits, Roger
I am a SysAdmin, but mainly management, and in an NT/Exchange environment. I manage about 10 NT servers running a variety of MS apps Exchange,DHCP,Wins, SQL Anywhere, IIS, Sybase ona Alpha, print server, etc. Linux is a totally different animal. At times I find the learning curve

Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Susan Macchia
I use nedit. http://www.nedit.org Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky, GUI type) that can be used to edit UNIX text files without adding the CR/LF to the lines...but I can't remember what it

Re: Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-20 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:54:33 -0600 Schmeits, Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Studying for my MCSE was a breeze in comparsion to really learn Linux. Sssh. Please dont tell anyone on the list. Won't tell a soul. My currently project is creating Linux from scratch which looks

test

2001-12-20 Thread David Aikema
Please ignore. David Aikema ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: test

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
David Aikema babbled on about: Please ignore. as if :) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net panic(Unable to find empty mailbox for aha1542.\n); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c

Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Ian babbled on about: I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky, GUI type) that can be used to edit UNIX text files without adding the CR/LF to the lines...but I can't remember what it was called. Anyone out there know of a

Re: Filtrex wordperfect9 filter for word

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Joel Hammer babbled on about: Someone posted a reference to the filtrex wp8 filter for word documents recently. I've lost it. Would you please repost it? Thanks, Joel Joel, use my new search engine at http://linux.nf/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi to search for it. just check the 'lists' box --

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Tim Wunder babbled on about: What version of Checkinstall? I'm wondering if it's a known issue that's been fixed. Current version is 1.5.0, released November 18th. The release notes don't mention anything explicitly, but not all changes make it to the release notes. I'm using 1.5.0.. but I

Re: another RPM ooops

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:21:09AM -0800 Tony Alfrey wrote: % On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:54 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % Tony Alfrey wrote: % snip % % (how do you know so much about this stuff??) % % I make my living knowing this

testing here too...

2001-12-20 Thread Bill Day
cant seem to get anything to lists... -- Bill Day ( a.k.a. BadMan )188133 http://counter.li.org irc.openprojects.net #linux-users ( Open 24/7 ) Our crystal tears now fall upon the ashes, but from the dust shall grow a spirit, to be in compassion for those

Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 20 Dec 2001 15:34, Ian wrote: I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky, GUI type) that can be used to edit UNIX text files without adding the CR/LF to the lines...but I can't remember what it was called. Anyone out

well its eems that I can post via...

2001-12-20 Thread Bill Day
Well my test is complete.. I can post via hunley.homeip.net but no via linux.nf... response from attempted delivery..(will check with ISP in morning...) Your message has encountered delivery problems to the following recipient(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery failed 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL

Re: another rpm ooops

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:21:09AM -0800 Tony Alfrey wrote: % On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:54 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % Tony Alfrey wrote: % snip

Re: test

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
David Aikema wrote: % Please ignore. Yah, right. Kurt -- Veni, Vidi, Visa. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-20 Thread kwall
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:16:41AM -0800 Net Llama wrote: % --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help. % % Hopefully, Kurt won't mind

Re: Filtrex wordperfect9 filter for word

2001-12-20 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:23 am, Joel Hammer wrote: Someone posted a reference to the filtrex wp8 filter for word documents recently. I've lost it. Would you please repost it? Thanks, Joel There is a pointer to the solution on http://www.linuxjournal.com Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)

Re: test

2001-12-20 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Tell me a bedtime story! On Friday 21 December 2001 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Aikema wrote: % Please ignore. Yah, right. Kurt -- Ronnie == Each days terror almost a form of boredom madmen at the wheel and stepping on the gas and the brakes no good and each day

Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
I use one called PFE, Programmers File Editor. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ On Thursday 20 December 2001 22:16, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 20 Dec 2001 15:34, Ian wrote: I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky,

Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread David Aikema
On Thursday 20 December 2001 02:57 pm, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: I use one called PFE, Programmers File Editor. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ I remember trying that program as it was the reccomended editor for a course that I was enrolled in... and found that I didn't really care much