Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
sh, up to and including replacing those portions of Win9x that have caused the most aggravation. Democracy in China may happen first. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://

Re: FW: Anyone using GIS with Linux?

1998-06-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
about that. Not to say that LessTif has anything to do with that. Still trying to find out if it is just an Adobe problem, or a misconfiguration that is hard to diagnose. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Re: word processor votes

1998-06-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
ot a Win95 partition just to use those apps. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubsc

Re: Anyone using GIS with Linux?

1998-06-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
/eogeo98/eogeoddn.html>. A number of us developers use Linux because we really like it, but activity in general is cross-platform. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARC

Adobe Acrobat Reader, LessTif, RH5.0

1998-06-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
Acrobat Reader, but that didn't help. I'm not sure if LessTif was really responsible for this. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /Red

what is easiest upgrade path 5.0 -> 5.1 ?

1998-06-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
se. Is there an upgrade path that is easier. I could upgrade by ftp, but I'd prefer working from CDs. I understand that RH 5.1 is needed for VFAT support. That's probably what I need most. The rest of the improvements are just icing. Thanks. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth

Re: Reading a Windows95 (DOS) floppy

1998-06-22 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
ndary and spill over onto the next partition. Win95 FDISK reports the partition info correctly, so I wonder why the Win95 OS doesn't know what's going on. I just want to be sure Win95 won't scribble on Linux the way it feels free to scribble on the master boot record as though other

Emacs on GNU/Linux, cursor hiding character underneath, workaround

1998-06-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
in ~/.emacs: (set-face-foreground 'default "grey90") (emacs-version) "GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux, X toolkit) of Fri Nov 7 1997 on porky.redhat.com" -- Geoffrey S. Knauth http://world.std.com/~gsk --