Re: addendum Re: Real Audio (fwd)

1998-06-25 Thread argathin
Michael Jinks writes: I get an error saying that compressed formats are not supported, and a URL with instructions to check error #38: For more information, please see Error 38 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/error [...] Has anyone else had this problem? Do you know if the

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread argathin
Shawn McMahon writes: From: Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rest of the tags make extremely annoying messages. Also, it's funny that HTML proponents never address the addtional size of HTML mail. But I'll address it again the way we always do: Mail is tiny. It's a miniscule

Re: addendum Re: Real Audio

1998-06-24 Thread argathin
Michael Jinks writes: Oh, by the way, I have version 5.0-1 of the rvplayer rpm. Accordint to their web site, version 5 _is_ the latest version, so any idea why they would say that my version is out of date? I had the same problem - it was solved by the shell wrapper script someone metioned

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread argathin
Greg Thomas writes: This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books

Re: Getting around in Emacs

1998-06-19 Thread argathin
Brian Gorka writes: I should have been more clear. If you are using the X11 version of GNU Emacs, you can do pc-bindings and pc-selection mode. This has been present in 19.30 (pretty sure) up to the present set of 20.3 betas. AFAIK, XEmacs doesn't come out of the box with somthing

Re: HTML 2 TEXT?

1998-06-18 Thread argathin
wward writes: Hello, Is there program that will convert HTML to text? Lynx will do it, use: lynx -force_html -dump YOUR_FILE_OR_URL TEXTFILE I'm using that as a text converter in mutt (for those infamous HTML mails...) As an aside: If you want to keep the formatting and just want to get a

Re: SECURITY: new XFree86 packages now available

1998-06-17 Thread argathin
Dave Reed writes: From: Ron Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked what version of PAM I'm using since I am using XFree86 3.3.2 (see below) but I am using RH5.0. What is the reason for not using this version with 4.2? Is it a glibc thing? [root@ozenfant /tmp]# rpm -qvi pam Name

Re: sendmail aliases for outbound username?

1998-06-17 Thread argathin
Andy Lindeman writes: hoeteck- I already have the fetchmail part going. I want my outgoing email to look like it's coming from my ISP account [EMAIL PROTECTED], when it is really coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my own unregistered, always changing IP addr, not on the net 24x7 linux box).

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread argathin
Chris Humphres writes: If I remember correctly, the email in question only contained the html. I deleted it and yes I use pine. When you've got hundreds of emails to go through, you don't have the time to save to a tmpfile and browse with netscape or scan with a text editor. I agree with

Re: hmmmmm as subject line

1998-06-16 Thread argathin
Edward Scott Meadows writes: I'd like to suggest that writers to this list provide descriptive subject lines. I'm probably not the only one who gets a lot of mail and I usually scan subject lines. A message with a subject line of "hmm" is probably not going to be read. Let me second

Re: Scripts...

1998-05-29 Thread argathin
Zoki writes: On Thu, 28 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -On Thu, 28 May 1998, Zoki wrote: - - First mistake was because of a wrong statement in the script. Next problem - is that it still doesn't work - even with chmod 755 and the dir in the - path - I still have to type ./myscript. Then

Re: WWW - Any good WYSIWYG editors for linux along the lines of FrontPage98?

1998-05-29 Thread argathin
Iztok Polanic writes: Hello !!! On Thu, 28 May 1998, James Michael Keller wrote: So any sugestions, about all I use the /win drive for now is all the nice *.wav's bill and his friends put in with programs for KDE grin How about Netscape composer? This might well be a religious

Re: 5.1 installer broken on 8Mb machines?

1998-05-28 Thread argathin
Chris Evans writes: Hi, RH5.1 won't install from FTP on our 8Mb machine here. It gets to me inserting the supplementary floppy then just dies paging the floppy for ages, at a time shortly afterwards. The memory requirements of the installer perhaps need reviewing? Hm, I wonder if that

Re: Procmail setup

1998-05-13 Thread argathin
Matt Housh writes: Mine's set up a little differently. Here are the config files, and it works flawlessly. [...] From several hints I got from this list I gathered that filtering on "X-Loop" is a much safer bet for the Red Hat Lists. So this is what I use: # receipes for

Re: apple laserwriter iif printer/serial port

1998-05-13 Thread argathin
Christie Harper writes: i have been trying to get this printer to work with RH5.0. the postscript driver allows me to print text directly to the printer but the ascii test page is garbage. the postscript test page comes out as plain text. Hi Christie, I'using an Apple Personal

Re: init: no more processes left in this runlevel

1998-05-05 Thread argathin
Sean Brunnock writes: I upgraded from Slackware 3.2 to Redhat 5.0. I'm now seeing the following entry often in /var/log/messages: init: no more processes left in this runlevel Why is this? The default runlevel is 2. I haven't checked /var/log/messages for this, but I usually get these

Re: more in the Linux versus Micro$oft war .. news at 11

1998-04-30 Thread argathin
Joel Oliveira writes: more stuff to gobble up : http://www.msnbc.com/news/161590.asp " Dell spokesman T.R. Reid said ... [...] Though some estimates place the current population of Linux users at 5 million to 10 million, "I haven't been able to find any examples

Re: SOLUTION (was 01010101 again)

1998-04-29 Thread argathin
Ron Golan writes: Well, I just reinstalled everything and recompiled the kernel as before. The only thing I did differently was to shutdown, and to *remove* the IDE drive before compiling and running /sbin/lilo. This time I didn't get the warning regarding sda not being the first disk. It

Re: RPM woes

1998-04-14 Thread argathin
Brian C Hand writes: [...] failed dependencies: libm.so.6 is needed by tcl-8.0-12 libdl.so.2 is needed by tcl-8.0-12 libc.so.6 is needed by tcl-8.0-12 ld-linux.so.2 is needed by tcl-8.0-12 /sbin/ldconfig is needed by tcl-8.0-12 Looks to me as if

Re: Searchable list archives

1998-04-03 Thread argathin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me where these are?? They don't exist on the web - at least not at the moment. If you want to find anything between November 1997 and now, you can still use the archive search via mail. When you subscribed to the list, you should have got a mail