Salve, vorrei personalizzare il GDM per rendrelo piu' attraente, mi
piacerebbe mettere un immagine di sfondo e magari (se possibile)
applicarci un tema gtk, come si puo' fare?
Rosanna wrote:
--
Hai provato a configurarla come una SVGA generica?
ciao
Giovanni
Come si fa? Io ho fatto le mie prove durante l'installazione e non ho
fatto caso al tipo di server che veniva installato...
Prova a lanciare il programma XConfigurator.
ciao, andrea
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From: "malkavian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 5:53 PM
Subject: [newbie-it] Re: mandrake update non funziona
Salve a tutti: anch'io ho lo stesso problema di Federico Naddeo, cioè
posseggo la versone 7.0 di Mandrake e Mandrake
Qualche d'uno ci e' riuscito? Via Rete magari?
Le donne senza tette sono come i jeans senza tasche: non sai mai dove
mettere le mani.
[Un SMS anonimo]
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= Original Message from Michele Azzolari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
at 3/07/00 11.48
Ciao a tutti,
sono una new-entry della list e di Linux in generale.
Ho installato Mandrake 6.0 e non riesco neanch'io a usare startx. Ho
scaricato un rpm che dovrebbe configurare la mia scheda ma come faccio ad
Hello All,
avendo appena finito di scaricare la mandrake 7.0 per Alpha ho provato a
installarla
sul mio Multia ma sembra ci sia qualcosa che non va, ho creato i
dischi di boot e ho provato anche il boot dal cd rom ma nisba, appena
inizia a caricare il kernel di boot per l'installazione mostra :
I just tried to upgrade to XFree86 4.0 over mandrake 7.0's Xfree
3.whatever.
Xinstall.sh seemed to function correctly, but gave some guff about
"termcap" needing modifcation.
Anyhow, if I use "startX" I get a termination with the error:
"FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno =
Hi All,
I'm running version 7.02 (air) and can read from my ordinary CD-Rom
but not from my 2nd CD-Rom/Burner. Its not a permissions problem and
the second CD-Rom burns CD's OK. Its not a major issue but I do prefer
to use my 2nd CD-Rom as its less noisy and runs more smoothly. For
some
Victor/etc/X11
Alan
Victor Richardson wrote:
While trying to configure X with xf86config, I ended up with XF86Config
in both /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and wondered which directory is
the right one? I noticed somewhere on XFree86's website that while
XFC86Config used to be in
Hi! Why don't you try in /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount user,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
(Did you try : mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ? I suppose you
did...)
Didier
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De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Envoye : lundi 3 juillet 2000
Hello
I think you have to install the rpm doc-mandrake... (or something like this)
since the documentation (for the system; and the howto too) is not installed
by default. (reading back, I'm less sure of what I am saying, but check...)
I suppose you know that, but just in case... If you try to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PLEASE, I have registered my LINUX mandrake 7.0 and cannot access the support
email system. My question is how to install staroffice 5.1? Please help
or point me in the right direction. Thank you Manuel Desa
*.rpm or *.tar.gz install ?
For an rpm install:
I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot
find the references.
Attached is my /etc/fstab.
I need to ne able to:
A: Allow all users to access (read and Write) the Windows
drives. Currently they are advised they don have any
permissions.
B: Be able to read/write the
lsof /dev/cdrom will show who currently controls the cdrom (I believe it
stands for "list owner of" but might be wrong on that). For instance if
you get the result ttys1 mc blah blah it means MIdnight Commander is
looking at /mnt/cdrom
On Friday, June 30, 2000 6:07 PM, John Ward [SMTP:[EMAIL
Have e-searched, RTFM, begged, pleaded but no where can find how to determine
which RPM on CD2 of MDK 7.0 Secure Server edition contains the src that one
assumedly must have in /usr/src prior to patching kernel to activate rt18019.
If I can get MDK hooked to inet and on StarOffice 5.2, plan to
it points to hdc
Paul wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
I tried changing the auto to iso9660 and I still get the "mount: /mnt/cdrom is not a
valid block device" I tried all combinations (/dev/cdrom, /dev/hdc, /mnt/cdrom) and
still the same error message. I can mount the
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot
find the references.
Attached is my /etc/fstab.
Mine:
/dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb3 /d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
Yours:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0
I will D/L it after upgrading to 7.1..
MarkP
Holy Hanna! that looks absolutely exquisite!!! That's a keeper.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 1 ...it's not windows!
Registered Linux user # 1299563
I normally put tarballs in /usr/src/packages, but it's up to you where they
go. You have to make the distinction between binary source tarballs. With
a source tarball, leave it in /usr/src/linux, untgz using "tar xvfz
tarball name", cd to the directory created. Normally you then need to
type
yoppy wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:
I've been wondering. I like to the desktop "BlackBox", but I can't for the
life of me figure out how to switch workspaces. At the bottom of the
desktop there seems to be a switch with which one switches desktops from
#1 to #2 and so on, but it doesn't
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I still had to go into the XFS config file mentioned in the README for
the Mozilla-Fonts package and add the directory the Mozilla fonts got
installed to (look at the file list in the RPM, because it's not the
same directory as the readme says).
The rpm
Whatever I did I'm not sure, but now netscape loads up twice at startup.
Then I get some error about "netscape lock file or program loading twice".
Is there a startup config file somewhere? How do I set it up so that
netscape doesn't load at all during startup. Thanks so much.
What's the choice of Window's Manager?? Does anyone shine above the rest???
Alan Carpenter
PC Specialist
Department of Computer Services
Virginia Wesleyan College
1584 Wesleyan Dr.
Norfolk Va. 23502
Office (757)455.3267
Cell (757)449.0381
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I installed gcc from the Mandrake 7.0 CD and the
header files were put into /usr/i386-glibc-linux/include/
but when I compile a C program I get an error saying
"Cannot find stdio.h".
I have put /usr/i386-glibc-linux/include in my PATH
but it hasn't
i beleive if you use "chmod", you can change the permissions of all your
harddrives. but i'm not sure how to do it, at least for your computer.
hope i helped a little.
jd
From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Harddrive Access
You most likly have an on board video chip that uses your sys ram.
Decrease the ram you list by at least that amount .
The graphic install also hung most likly due to your vid chip.
Charles
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From: "Yusuf Goolamabbas" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:59:36AM -0700, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
I haven't installed LM7.1 but a 1.4GB /boot sounds a bit large. Is LM7.1 only using
three partitions?
If you let the LM7.1 installer do the partitiong, you'll end up with a /,
/usr, /home and SWAP partition. At least that's
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:52:41AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote:
it lets you decide what sizes you want. I use 40 for /boot so I
can save kernel source and headers there.
Kernel source on a 40 MB partition? Are you sure? My kernel-source RPM has
a installed size of 68449254 bytes.
Or what do
What's the choice of Window's Manager?? Does anyone shine above the rest???
IMHO I would have to say IceWM and Gnome. They're by far the easiest to
configure and use.
I tend to prefer WindowMaker. You can run Gnome or Kde within it, and it
seems to handle multiple desktops better. Just
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
it points to hdc
Paul wrote:
I tried changing the auto to iso9660 and I still get the "mount:
/mnt/cdrom is not a
valid block device" I tried all combinations (/dev/cdrom, /dev/hdc,
/mnt/cdrom) and
still the same error message. I can mount the
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Alan Carpenter wrote:
Whatever I did I'm not sure, but now netscape loads up twice at startup.
Then I get some error about "netscape lock file or program loading twice".
Is there a startup config file somewhere? How do I set it up so that
netscape doesn't load at all during
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Adrian Smith wrote:
other side of this -- if i open a terminal window under x windows can i
still do anything while x windows is running that i would be able to do
if it wasn't running? as an example -- what i am looking to avoid --
under windoze if you try to run some
Johnyes. However 'nuts' is not the word I would have
chosen to describe my state of mind. But I won't use anything
else but KDE.
Alan
"John T. Seebold" wrote:
What's the choice of Window's Manager?? Does anyone shine above the rest???
IMHO I would have to say IceWM and Gnome.
Dear all, Thank you very much for your help. Because of your help I have
Linux installed and I can actually login now as user and into the root
:). I have a few problems left and I am looking for answers on my own so
far. One problem that I have not found an answer for is this: I have 2
printers
Linux Friends, may I know why each of you like the window manager of your
choice?
Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager.
Thanks
Joe
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:24 AM
i suspect that with the coming of koffice in kde2, kde will
become the standard for businesses using linux...though
others will be popular with various individuals, the
maturity of kde and its melding with koffice give it a
tremendous advantage over its competitors...as MS has
shown, once a
Joe wrote:
Linux Friends, may I know why each of you like the window manager of your
choice?
Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager.
Thanks
Joe
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John T. Seebold wrote:
I tend to prefer WindowMaker. You can run Gnome or Kde within it, and it
seems to handle multiple desktops better. Just an opinion though, as I
imagine most of the window managers have avid supporters of them out
there. (is anyone really nuts about
My first installation of 7.1 went well. I selected the Automatic mode
and it had no problem finding my hardware. The only part that did not
execute during installation was the "Create a Boot Disk". After adding
the user, the screen flashed by until it displayed the "Configuring X"
screen.
I have Acrobat Reader on my 3rd CD of the Linux-Mandrake Complete set,
MacMillan Distribution. Only when I go to the tar.gz file on the disk to
install it it won't give me permission as root even. So, has anybody
had this problem and how do I instal AR so I can read the e-books on my
CD#3. I
Joe,
Mark from Pennsylvania sounding off here. I prefer Gnome 1st and 2nd IceWM
and 3rd BlackBox. Gnome for it's awesome functionality, (I cut my Linux
teeth on Redhat 5.2 and worked my way to 6.2 till finding Mandrake), IceWM
for it's great looks and functionality, and thirdly is BlackBox cause
Tell me...does koffice ship with KDE inside Mandrake 7.1? I don't use KDE
much, but from a non-techy user perspective my wife and youngest find KDE
a very driendly environment.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user #
I noticed that, too. I think it has to do with the Sawmill/Sawfish WM.
If there's a way of disabling/removing it to restore the alt-drag way of
moving windows, that would probably solve your problem.
Adrian Smith wrote:
okie dokie, now that i know the correct way to post to the list...
no...not out of beta quite yet, but progressing
admirably...if you've a yen to sample its current state,
try a download from:
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html
in either rpm or tar...new versions are posted there on
about a weekly basis, and users are encouraged to aid the
Paul wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
it points to hdc
Paul wrote:
I tried changing the auto to iso9660 and I still get the "mount:
/mnt/cdrom is not a
valid block device" I tried all combinations (/dev/cdrom, /dev/hdc,
/mnt/cdrom) and
still the same error
I was wondering if there is a way to keep GNOME and KDE from starting
opening up my directory when it starts. Thanks in advance.
John Ward
The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." I can't understand why it
won't work on my Linux computer.
John Rye wrote:
snip
B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems
Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This
includes the superuser.
Message returned is:
Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy
You might check out another: xfce. It's on the Mandrake
disks somewhere. It's always being upgraded. You can
download new updates at http://www.xfce.org. xfce supports
up to ten desktops, has a file manager with drag and drop,
and uses less memory than either KDE or GNOME. There is
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joe,
Mark from Pennsylvania sounding off here. I prefer Gnome 1st and 2nd IceWM
and 3rd BlackBox. Gnome for it's awesome functionality, (I cut my Linux
teeth on Redhat 5.2 and worked my way to 6.2 till finding Mandrake), IceWM
for it's great looks and
Paul where have you been? I have been yelling for a month because Mandrake
7.1 would not recognize my Creative CDRW 4224! I found a work around but it
isn't a pretty one. I have to install with my cdrom set as a slave on the
second IDE channel, and after the install switch it to primary on the
h...looks like someone has gotten new software!
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
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I made an fstab entry for my first SCSI cd-rom drive...which is a r/w
drive. I can mount it, however, whenever I have a cd in it, it is not
being read properly. Perhaps this is because I don't have the fstab
entry correct for the SCSI device. I copied the entry for the IDE
cd-rom drive I
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 03:19:01 +0800,Joe wrote:
may I know why each of you like the window manager of your
choice?
Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager.
===
Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:29:05
its the 4th there already?
Well Joe I have a P-166 with 24m
I have been trying to configure my Creative Soundblaster PCI512 with
soundconfig. It autodetects a soundblaster live. After I set it, I
have no sound. If I try to reset it, it can't find the drivers for the
other Creative cards.
Any info on this configuration would be helpful!
Thanks.
Harry
Phil,
Have you checked out MC? (Midnight Commander) That is one awesomely
powerful file manager that runs in console, but offers the user a
graphical interface. Extemely light and fast. You get a graphical file
manager that also allows you access to the command like all in the same
terminal
I use them each on their own. I've found things get convoluded when you
start running things like IceWM while running Gnome and the like. another
one of the nice things about Linux these days. You have the choice of
running these WM's all on their own, or using parts of them in another
desktop
Good grief! so many choices and desktops...so little time!
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 03:19:01 +0800,Joe wrote:
may I know
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Hi All,
I'm running version 7.02 (air) and can read from my ordinary CD-Rom
but not from my 2nd CD-Rom/Burner. Its not a permissions problem and
the second CD-Rom burns CD's OK. Its not a major issue but I do prefer
to use my 2nd CD-Rom as its less noisy
Type in ./INSTALL
Roman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What command are you using to install? You have to copy the
tar.gz to /tmp or somewhere, then # tar xzvf
filename.tar.gz. IIRC there is an install script in the
directory that the tar command creates.
Phil
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Dennis
Joewell KDE isn't a window manager, but KDE's default
window manager is KWM. I use it because its never given me
any reason to look for anything different and I'm comfortable
with it.
Alan
Joe wrote:
Linux Friends, may I know why each of you like the window manager of your
choice?
yup .. did that...
- Original Message -
From: "Didier Galland" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 3:13 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Cant Mount CD-ROM Problem...
Hi! Why don't you try in /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount user,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro
I know it has been answered before but please what is the best way to go if you
take a month of vacation without access to my e-mail??
My ISP provider will kill me if I accumulate 150 messages a day.
--
Windoze is a virus with a user interface.
This message was created with Linux
Hello,
I'm not very sure, but /dev/scd0 is a special device, so it must be mount on
a directory (mount -t filesystem /dev/scdo /directory and add the line in
/etc/fstab : /dev/directory ext2 noauto,dev=/dev/scd0,... or something like
this, look at the other lines ;-)).
Didier
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this list is sending duplicates of all messages, each
beginning with:
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i suggest that the trial be suspended, pending further
testing in a less intrusive medium...
frank
Alan, when you shutdown, do you have any copies of Netscape running? If
Netscape is running when you shutdown, it will be restarted the next time
you log back in. If two Netscape windows are open when you log out, two will
load when you come back. There is a Netscape lock file that sometimes
John
"Requires Windows 95 or Better" on the box refers to installing the Spec.
Ed. Partition Magic that is included on Disk 3
After I closed the My Directory window the first time it no longer auto
opened.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "John Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Barry
Use Drak Conf /DrakBoot to create a boot disk
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Barry Premeaux" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: [newbie] Boot Disk
My first installation of 7.1 went well. I selected the Automatic
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Barry
Use Drak Conf /DrakBoot to create a boot disk
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Barry Premeaux" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: [newbie] Boot Disk
My first installation
thanx everybody, It seems the 7.1 or 7.0 mandrake will run w/o problems on
my machine.
I ll try it and let you know how it is.
Thanx again
Pietro
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Szalay" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: [newbie] Linux
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Linux Friends, may I know why each of you like the window manager of your
choice?
Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager.
Thanks
Joe
Fair question...BUT it's gonna come all down to personal
preference. I use KDE, but
Mine comes up every time. It's not a major problem but it's sort of annoying.
John
At 09:35 PM 7/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
John,
After I closed the My Directory window the first time it no longer auto
opened.
Charles
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
John
"Requires Windows 95 or Better" on the box refers to installing
Linux!
sorry, couldn't resist
--
~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Barry
Use Drak Conf /DrakBoot to create a boot disk
Charles
even easier, stick a decent disk in the floppy drive and type
'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' in a console (as root)
- Original Message -
From: "Barry Premeaux" [EMAIL
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:52:41AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote:
it lets you decide what sizes you want. I use 40 for /boot so I
can save kernel source and headers there.
Kernel source on a 40 MB partition? Are you sure? My kernel-source RPM has
a
Hi...
I have question to you all the Mandrake'ers
My friend, he use debian distro for his computer. And after using pine
(quit pine), there's always some words above the prompt, just like this:
Pine finished -- Closed folder
yes just install the RPM for pine...then bring up a terminal
and type: pine
Pak Janggut wrote:
Hi...
I have question to you all the Mandrake'ers
My friend, he use debian distro for his computer. And after using pine
(quit pine), there's always some words above the prompt, just like this:
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Marcia Waller wrote:
This should be possible without a problem.
You need to define both printers. I am not sure if you need to set up each
of them to a different spooling directory, I would think not.
And then you can direct output to either one of them, through lpr
(standard
That statement "where the path will find them" might answer some anguish I've
had with tgz files.
Could you explain why you would place the src.tgz files in a directory
different from where you would put the straight .tgz files?
And is it possible that one could untar a file in a place where
That did it. I hadn't installed the glibc-dev library
when I install gcc.
So how come it wasn't installed anyway as there
certainly seems to be a dependency issue here.
Dana
- Original Message -
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Arkoulis wrote:
write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and in the body text you write
set newbie nomail
That's all
Paul
I know it has been answered before but please what is the best way to go if you
take a month of vacation without access to my e-mail??
My ISP provider will
Dear friends:
Just installed (once again) LM 7.1. Everything seems fine, at last, but
when I try to edit the menus in KDE, I get an error message that says:
"Menu Editor not installed." So, I logged out as user and went into KDE
as root. Same error message. How could the menu editor NOT be
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
I was wondering about that possibility, but upon checking the menu in
7.1 I haven't found anything to allow me to do that. I was going to ask
you if there was a configuration file somewhere that I could edit
manually. Much like the one that IceWM has.
The
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Alan Carpenter wrote:
Speaking of blackbox I would love to try it, but under window managers I
don't see it listed. Do I need to download it somewhere and install it?
Go to www.blackbox.org and download to your heart's content!
Paul
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
I have both the installation and extension CD's for Mandrake 7.1. During the
installation(expert), I choose that I have the extension CD. Then, it went
on with the installtion and everything looks fine until it asks me for the
extension CD - I can't eject the CD drive! So I had to abandoned the
Hi Linux friends,
Hope somebody can answer this question.
How do I add more fonts into KDE... especially the ones like in Win9x/NT like
verdana, arial etc?
Also, how to stop Netscape Navigator from holding the mouse when it is
downloading a page? You know, like IE5 even before a page hasn't
I was wondering. Does anyone have any info on how to use PGP encryption
with Pine? I was at the Pine site last week and saw that they had it for
download, but I didn't see any infomation about how to use it with Pine. I
have seen a few message posted to the list that were signed with PGP in
Pine
Under my user account i get this error... running morph3d, under root it works
perfectly. how do i fix this?
dave
gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board
fx Driver: ERROR no Voodoo1/2 Graphics or Voodoo Rush !
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL
I'm not sure if I've asked this yet or not, but here goes. I've got an
acer scanner sitting here on my desk that hooks up to the box via printer
port. I've been concentrating on getting all the priority stuff hooked and
debugged. i.e. the printer. (which was quite a challenge since it was an
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