Wierd problem with enlightenment-0.16

1999-11-30 Thread John C. Craig
Hi, Folks Any thoughts/experiences on the following: I upgraded Enlightment to 0.16 and everything worked fine except... the Netscape Mail reader would crash upon launching. I could use Netscape Browser, Mail Manager, even Compose new message, but the Reader itself would immediately crash upon l

Re: scanner q

1999-11-23 Thread John C. Craig
Scanner answer. There are a few parallel port scanners that are supported, but many more SCSI scanners. Not all the drivers are created equal, either, some are much more developed than others, the Umax driver seems furthest along. You should check out the compatibility list at http://www.mostang.

Re: inkjet printer recom.

1999-11-23 Thread John C. Craig
Printers? HP makes a cute black one that seems designed for notebooks, and is somewhat portble. If portability is not an issue, but price is, go for a lower-end inkjet printer by HP, Cannon or Epson, as they can be configured for printing through Ghostscript. I don't know about Lexmark, there i

Re: SCSI Adapter Recommendation

1999-11-22 Thread John C. Craig
Hi, I just installed an Adaptec 2930U and it seems to work fine, using the aic7xxx.o driver module.. It has a scanner and a SCSI Zip drive connected to it at present, and is quite stable. You have pay attention to the type of scanner you use, since not all are supported by SANE. John Craig Pa

Re: Need a good vector drawing app

1999-11-20 Thread John C. Craig
Patrick, I am able to use monospaced fonts (eg. courier) in StarOffice5.1, but I have installed a zillion True Type fonts on my system, and StarOffice sees all of them. Why not obtain some monospaced True Type fonts and do that? John Craig patrick wrote: > I am having a HELL of a time with wha