Set WordPerfect to use Passthru Postscript. It will then hand it off to
lpr which does a wonderful job of rendering to the printer.
--
Steve Philp
[snip]
I've tried using WP8 with an Epson Colour 200 - one of those 1997 budget
printers that only ever appeared to be fast
Dear List:
I have noticed lots of individuals on this list who have had difficulties
getting their messages replied to, as there are so many messages which pass
through this list daily.
I have teamed up with an individual who owns a reasonably new chat server that
has a lot of potential for a
If you see something like the following:
username@localhost
on your screen along with the underline curser, you can use the command
"startx" to get the X-session running. To do this type in the word "startx"
and then the ENTER key. If you do not see something like the above, or
maybe
First question is: did you elect to start the x-server automatically, and if
so, are you sure that you installed the correct video driver for X? A little
information about your box, and the way you configured Linux would help to
limit the possibilities as well. Maybe someone else has seen this
Paul:
Type ifconfig at the prompt. This will spew out a bunch of information that will
indicate if your ppp interface is connected to the ISP. You will see the IP
address assigned to you by the ISP too.
Prabhakar
Ok, so I'm using the good old fashioned command line to try and
configure
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Executing binaries in Mandrake 6.1
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I have been trying to figure out how to set up games, etc on my computer
There must be a folder on the DOS partition (/dev/hda4) named in this case
"zip" since that is what you put in your fstab file, as that will be the
entry point for the partition, if I remember the post correctly.
Ernie
- Original Message -
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Or go spend some $70 smackers on Partition Magic, it'll run in Windoze, and
can be used to fix a bunch of HD problems. A cheaper alternative may be to
try the "format /mbr" command in DOS, you should be able to get there with
the F8 key when you see the "loading Windoze9x..." message, then select
Steve Philp wrote:
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
Steve Philp wrote:
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
BIG SNIP
Ah!
Look for a document called the Linux File Hierarchy Standard v2.0. It
lists the where and why of Linux. It should pop up in a web search.
--
Steve Philp
Network
Original Message
On 10/10/99, 9:50:53 PM, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re:
[newbie] OOP Programming in Linux - Questions:
[snip]
I'd recommend a different book for learning C and C++ though. "C: How
to Program" and "C++: How to Program" are published by Prentice Hall
Steve Philp wrote:
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
Steve Philp wrote:
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Mulvaney, Jerry wrote:
Everything works great under Mandrake 6.0, but I can't find out how to start
a dial up connection without starting X and running
Eric Mings wrote:
I never received any solutions or explanations for the difficulty I
mentioned in my prior post so I figured I would try again. I know that
with a high volumn list such as this, questions quickly become lost in
the pile if not addressed soon after posting. Anyways,
below is
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Hello all!!
I have been using linux at work for a good 2 - 3 months now and have been
loving it!
recently I have been required to use winblows NT (for lotus notes).
I do not want to give up my linux gui for the winblows gui etc..
What would be the procedures to
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
I have seen / had this happen to me b4
I emailed the support geeks at RH and they said that it was due to my MBR
being whacked
and lilo was pukeing (not thier exact words)
I ended up booting off a floopy, running fdisk /MBR and reinstalling linux
"Ernie" [EMAIL
I think someone else has already mentioned the solution. It refers to the
BIOS disk types being set to large or normal, when it should be LBA. I saw
the same problem, and the solution worked for me.
And for the other chap who said that they are LO's not 10's, they looked
suspicously like 10's
Ok, but I can't even get gAim to come up. HOw do I make it run the program?
Thanks.
From: PSM 0x2710 / PriFunct: Search Destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] gAim
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:27:23 -0700
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done...
so answer fast :)
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-)
so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to!
some ideas:
- pearl (perl+a, maybe too generic)
- cameleon (camel=perl,
Actually, it's Mongoose, not Mangoose. I Like Mongoose..
Thanks,
Donald D. Richards (Don)
Georgia Resource Center Administrator
Georgia Power Economic Development Organization
(404) 506-4054 (Office)
(404) 525-1021 (Fax)
(770) 660-2395 (Pager)
(404) 697-7037 (Mobile)
Georgia Power, A Southern
Aaron,
Thanks for the clarification of your question, which I think has now
been answered. I'm afraid you misinterpreted my original post. I did
not refer to you as a "Troll." I said it looked as if you were
"trolling" (ie. fishing) for damaging information.
My apologies for any offense taken.
Hello
How do I set the passthru postscript in Linux? I was unable to find it
anywhere I looked. Thanks!
Also... In Word Perfect I was unable to find the driver for my printer,
I am currently using a driver for the cannon bj 300, while I have a bjc 4200.
Is there anywhere I can get the
I am pleased to say that I seem to have solved the problems I reported.
I changed some nonobvious settings in bios and was able to get the
machine to boot from floppy (though I am not sure why the changes I made
were necessary). I then did an upgrade to Mandrake 6.1 and, lo and
behold, now
I vote for Houdini. A magicians theme in the names would be cool.
Brian
Y2K Flunky
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
%_Good day,
I am having a problem with Netscape while running Linux Mandrake 6.5. I
have set up my ppp and can connect to my ISP. After clicking to open
Netscape I get the nice "Welcome to Mandrake Linux" Screen, but when I
attempt to go to the Netscape
Since upgrading to Mandrake 6.1, I can no longer access any of my PHP
pages on Apache (Advanced Extranet Server?). I get the error:
Fatal error: midgard module not found in - on line 0
What is this about?
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
This is a test#2 pencils only!
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Hello again
I have recently set up my printer, and can print text fine, but my printer
(cannon 4200) is not supported in Word Perfect. Is there a place where I
can get this driver, or how do I get my printer to work?!? Thanks in advance.
I think you
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Second I have been trying to configure xcdroast with no success. I have
a Mitsumi 4801 IDE/ATAPI cd burner. The xcdroast program only recognizes
my scsi cdrom but will not let me choose the writer. I have read the faq
and the manual pages. I see where I can
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
There must be a folder on the DOS partition (/dev/hda4) named in this case
"zip" since that is what you put in your fstab file, as that will be the
entry point for the partition, if I remember the post correctly.
Err...actually, Ernie, I believe you have it
Houdini sounds good to me to!
Joe :)
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I vote for Houdini. A magicians theme in the names would be cool.
Brian
Y2K Flunky
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Just because it is not a Winmodem does not mean it is not a Windows modem.
Winmodem is a brand name of US Robotics.
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Under window my modem is known as:
Motorola Modem SURFR 56k internal
Input/Output range: 03e8-03ef
Hello,
This is my 1st post
I just installed Mandrake 6.1 this weekend on a PC with a Cyrix 333Mhz, 32Mb
RAM, 6.4 Gb HD, 44X CDROM, and 4Mb APG SiS 5597. When I select SiS5597 as
the graphic device during istall, the test of X displays graphics ok but
text gets displayed as black boxes and
Take a look at the following link which should answer all your questions
about printing in WordPerfect. Someone on this list was kind enough to send
it to me a few weeks and it's been very helpful.
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod/wpfonts.html
Scott A. Miller
- Original Message
First, let me apologize if this email comes out looking funky and you can't read
it. I am posting from my webmail at linux-start.com. In the past people ignored my
email because it only read as on long line. I don't know what causes this or how to
fix it.
Second, I am having
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done...
so answer fast :)
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-)
so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to!
- koala
Not bad, but the image it
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Also... In Word Perfect I was unable to find the driver for my printer,
I am currently using a driver for the cannon bj 300, while I have a bjc 4200.
Is there anywhere I can get the updated driver?
You don't necessarily need the driver for WP. It should
have
Tony
I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now
with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card
since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that
they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card
I might be missing something hereKen. I am running Linux on a my
slave drive.
I have 2 drives C,E-G on a 20gig and D on a 4 gig and Linux is on my D
drive setup as a slave on the primary. on the secondary I have 2 CDs
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:05:18 -0700 "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Sorry John but an ISDN modem is 64k/128k. The Motorla line of ISDN modems were
BitSurfer and BitSurfer Pro. (I've go 2 of them and KPPP works just fine.) The
Surfer 56 was available as a Modem Surfer and Voice Surfer both internal and
external models so I
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong but I believe Linux must reside on
a master drive, be it the Primary Master or the Secondary Master. If
you have two drives on the primary controller only one can be master.
I think you're mistaken. I can't prove it, mind
Ripcrd6 wrote:
I vote for Houdini. A magicians theme in the names would be cool.
Brian
Y2K Flunky
Houdini is a registered trademark of an FEA (Finite Element Analysis)
package. Sorry.
--
Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan Herbert wrote:
I set the BIOS disk type to LBA,Normal,and Large and the 10's still came up.
Also for some reason I can't set the drive to primary master I can only set
it to primary slave. I don't know if that would have an effect on it.
snip
There has GOT to be a jumper somewhere to
Are there going to be upgrade RPMs for Mandrake 6.0 users
to upgrade to KDE 1.1.2? Or should we just grab the new
RPMs from Cooker and use them? I just checked on
ftp.linux-mandrake.com in the /upgrades/6.0/ directory and
there were no new KDE RPMs for 1.1.2.
Thanks...
John
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John:
I got it working... without a manual (too lazy to print it I guess)
I got it figured out reading some of the stuff on the Newbie list. I
figured out that I could configure the boot and everything I needed with
linuxconf. However, the problem I
I didn't, but thanks to your help I do now:
# rpm -qa | grep telnet
ktelnet-0.61-2mdk
telnet-0.12-10mdk
telnet-server-0.12-10mdk
However, I'm still getting the same thing:
# telnet my_box_name
Trying xxx.xx.xx.xxx...
Connected to my_box_name.
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: All network
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. I found some Q/A on the internet stating that SiS
chips don't run with Linux. I'll probably just get another video card that
does work. I see 2Mb ATI PCI cards on eBay for $10.
How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything
else...I still
Never mindI just discovered that no SiS graphic chips work with
Linux...just my luck!
TZ
- Original Message -
From: Tony Zocolillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linux Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and
- mangoose (snake killer)
That's actually "mongoose", but "mangoose" is an interesting twist with
Mandrake in the name. Actually, it sounds rather homosexual, but I'd
overlook it.
- DragonFly
- Houdini
I like either of these, preference to Houdini.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Curiousity makes me ask what you changed in the BIOS... :)
Eric Mings wrote:
I am pleased to say that I seem to have solved the problems I reported.
I changed some nonobvious settings in bios and was able to get the
machine to boot from floppy (though I am not sure why the changes I made
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Just because it is not a Winmodem does not mean it is not a Windows modem.
Winmodem is a brand name of US Robotics.
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Under window my modem is known as:
Motorola Modem SURFR 56k internal
My dog ate my pencil.
Tony Zocolillo wrote:
This is a test#2 pencils only!
Ken Wilson wrote:
I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong but I believe Linux must reside on
a master drive, be it the Primary Master or the Secondary Master. If
you have two drives on the primary controller only one can be master.
Nope, Linux has no restriction on which drive you put it on.
John:
You mean get a menu at boot? Well, sorta. I think if you
hit "tab" it'll bring up the various things you have
configured in your lilo.conf.
Ya.. that is what I was looking for ... I know about the TAB to bring up
the options... but I was thinking that there was a message file you
Yes their is a jumper and I did hook it up as a primary master but the
computer didn't recognize it. It is a Caviar Western Digital.
- Original Message -
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] running
Thank you to everybody who replied to my call for help. So far, I haven't
had much success.
Jeremy wrote that he had the same trouble as me, and all the advice he
received didn't help him. That's about the shape I'm in. Jeremy also told
me that if my modem has jumpers, he might be able to
No harm done ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Frank Hilliard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
Aaron,
Thanks for the clarification of your question, which I
HELP!!! :(
I d/l'ed LICQ in RPM from the net...and installed it. How does a person pass
your personal info (read UIN) to the program. Is it a parameter/flag during
LICQ starting, or an OPTION somewhere
Get your own FREE,
"PSM 0x2710]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Picture this. . .you go to the airport to pick up a friend you havent seen
in
years, a relative that youve been dying to see, perhaps a child back from a
long trip. . .so you enter the terminal, look up to the arrival monitor,
and
what awaits you? How
Greetings all. . .can someone point me in the direction of finding some info
about setting linux environment variables? Thanks!
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
To paraphrase my friend stephen:
"life can be like ifs. . .random
I don't know about that because I installed Linux on my drive that was a
primary slave and when my computer booted up a bunch of tens scrolled across
my screen and nothing else happened. Then I changed my drive to primary
master and installed it the same way as the first time and Linux booted
- Original Message -
From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape
for Linux 2.0
Netscape is a bit behind the times, compiled gaainst libraries we have
passed
SUCCESS! I didn't realize the jumper comes off for a one drive system, i
kept trying to configure it to primary master and Bios couldn't reconize the
drive. Took jumper off, reinstalled Linux and Presto! Its always the last
thing you look for that fixes it! I really appreciate all the help i have
Ok so I'm running a dual boot win9x/Mandrake 6.1.
Mandrake is on its own hard drive, and im using LoadLin in my windows
initiation to avoid problems with LILO (cause i have to reinstall win9x
every once in a while. you know how it goes :P) So LILO is just on the
second hdd.
ANYway.
My
John Aldrich wrote:
Are there going to be upgrade RPMs for Mandrake 6.0 users
to upgrade to KDE 1.1.2? Or should we just grab the new
RPMs from Cooker and use them? I just checked on
ftp.linux-mandrake.com in the /upgrades/6.0/ directory and
there were no new KDE RPMs for 1.1.2.
I can, at
Hi,
I have just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on my
system. However, I was unable to configure my graphics card and therefore
cannot run X. I have an ATI Xpert 2000 card and an ADI 5P+ monitor.
Does anyone know if this card is supported? If it is isn't, are there
plans to add support for it
Original Message
On 10/11/99, 6:04:18 AM, Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
[newbie] panoramix must change its name:
YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done...
so answer fast :)
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were
only GPL ;-)
so
remove
Pixel wrote:
YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done...
so answer fast :)
OK i hope this is fast enough. ; )
the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-)
Good, i didnt like it anyway ; )
And my vote goes to:
- DragonFly
Mangoose also
"PSM 0x2710]" wrote:
http://www.3dshack.com/cgi-bin/pic.cgi?iotd/airport.jpg
Enjoy. . .i sure did!
IIRC, my compadre Miguel de Icaza (of Gnome fame) was the one to take
this photo. Anyway, this is a great example of why Windows doesnt belong
to mission-critical applications.
If it BSOD's on
Hi all. I would need some advice on the following questions:
(1). Do rpms/binaries for RED HAT run OK under Mandrake 6.1 ?; or
do they have to be recompiled ?;
(2). I have not been able to configure the soundcard through the
KDE control panel. How do I go about to get the sound working
You may want to avoid the name Houdini. It is a trade name registered
to a Canadian software company, Side Effects Software, and is the name
of their complete 3-D solution, encompassing modelling, compositing,
lighting, particle systems, texture management, rendering and animation
features.
- Original Message -
From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Manny Styles wrote:
big snip
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to
interject.
man bash
PSM 0x2710] wrote:
Greetings all. . .can someone point me in the direction of finding some info
about setting linux environment variables? Thanks!
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
To paraphrase my friend
I think that I have read somewhere on the Mandrake site that Mandrake 6.0 is
99% compatible with Red Hat 6.0. Given this is the case the Red Hat
hardware compatibility lists might well be a good place to check to see if
your hardware, or hardware you are planning to purchase, is supported. They
Curiousity makes me ask what you changed in the BIOS... :)
I changed several things numerous times in attempts to get it to work. I
believe the thing that finally did it was enabling a "swap" floppy
setting (though I had previously setup the boot sequence to start with A
and also enabled a
Richard wrote:
How do I do that? Would I have to go into the console? How to do that from
KDE? Maybe some keystrokes would put me in the console and I could run
XF86setup from console?
Richard
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
First off, let me say that I am not affiliated with this site in any
way; I saw the site and found it interesting. It's called XNOT, and
they host web pages, FTP, chat, message boards, and more for free if
it is an open source project. I've taken a cursory look at the main
site, and it looks
where can i change the display color of the monitor. now i use 256 color.
i want to use 16bits or higher.can anyone help? thanks a lot.
wangtao
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Richard" == Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Richard Have any idea where I can get a copy of Netscape for
Richard Linux 2.2 or is there such a place? I looked in the
[snip]
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/NByName.html
Find "netscape".
Or, ftp it from
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
features. BTW, this product is in the process of being ported to Linux.
It may already be.
.. . .and if the most recent issue of linux journal i think? is correct its
available to the tune of ~$!5,000. . .hehe i'll stick with Blender for that
price!
--
Seth
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