Damn ppp connection now no more

I run Redhat 5.0 with just the usernet patch so far. I have no idea what went wrong but...I HAD ppp set up to work last week. I setup netcfg with the proper info and was able to get to the web and telnet to my pine mailserver at my ISP (my university). Now, I can't get squat and I KNOW it is no

Changing the root window manager...how?

I am running Redhat 5.0 and not too long ago, I did...something (I do not know exactly what) such that now the default window manager when I "startx" is plain ole fvwm. I hate it. I would like to get back to, I believe, fvwm2 so I can use one of the alternative "flavors", ie, fvwm95, afterstep,

Re: Micro$oft "declaring war"?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/30/98 at 11:00 PM, Steve Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>How about a Win32-Linux Project? There is already a Win32-OS2 Project and >>it is producing a PE to LX converter (pe2lx.exe) that converts Win32 >>programs into native OS/2 programs...no recompile nece

Re: Micro$oft "declaring war"?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/30/98 at 03:09 PM, Kirk Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: >> Well, true, but without the emulators, Linux isn't a threat on the desktop. >> At least, not yet. >> >> If Microsoft could squash them, it'd pretty much rest

XFree86 for OS/2

This is only loosely associated with Linux but thus far I have failed to gain help elsewhere. Hopefully, there are some OS/2 users in this group who can help me out? I have recently installed XFree86 for OS/2 as well as emxrt. The XFree86 version is 3.3.1 and emx is 0.99c with fix 4. All seems

Re: FVWM...

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/31/98 at 04:40 PM, "Pork E. Pigg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Zoki wrote: [...] >> All my customisation is lost when I reboot. Even if I save it to >> new.xinitrc through the menu in X-Windows. >In a shell: > cp new.xinitrc .xinitrc -f >That will overwrite your

Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/01/98 at 01:38 AM, "Mat Serwas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >-- >| From: Patrick T. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >| Subject: Re: Sorry,,,SorrySorry >| Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 1:59 PM >| >| I found Linux in

tar problems

Related to a previous post about not being able to obtain read and write permission for a directory on an HPFS partition on one of my HDDs, I have been unable to decompress any tgz file I copy from this directory to my linux partitions. I have downloaded a number of *.tgz files via OS/2 Warp into

readonly filesystem

My primary os is OS/2. For this reason, practically all my internet browsing, downloading, etc, is conducted from Warp. When I download, it is to an HPFS partition. I have RH 5.0 installed as well. I would like to be able to access the download directory on the HPFS partition mentioned AND be

Graphics cards, RedHat 5.0, MetroX

In , on 03/11/98 at 06:44 PM, Paul Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Hi, >> I'm currently running linux with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 2MB and I >> would like to changed it. >> 1) because of the S3 Virge Bug in MetroX that keep messi