Hello. I can't answer all the question, but I'll do my best.
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Willi Schiegel wrote: > > Hello, > > o.k., I have to give up (sigh!) and ask some more experienced debianers. > I changed my distribution from SuSE to Debian and there are some > problems I can't cope with. > > When I try to run Knews or pine I get the messages > "Incomplete mail domain" (pine) and > "Couldn't determine domain name. POsting will not be possible." > Pine wants to see your entire name in /etc/hosts : #file /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 123.45.678.123 daddel.zedat.fu-berlin.de daddel other_alias # and not : # 123.45.678.123 daddel ... The first name must be the complete internet name. This is perhaps important for other programs, too. My latest installation did this correctly, though >... I skip some questions for which I have no clues > > Another question is: Where can I change the character set from > US-Ascii to iso-8859-1? > The character set for the console was configured at install time. But try kbdconfig (No manpage !), it proposes a de.map To make the programms use it, set your environment variable LANG to de_DE You will even get some error messages an man pages 'auf Deutsch' or just LC_CTYPES to de_DE , to keep english messages. (The doc for that is rather obsolete, (man locale) ) Now you have a decent character set for progs (but not the shell ?) Execpt emacs, that don't follow the rules, as ever. I simply put a ;; Use european character set (standard-display-european 1 ) in my .emacs > Thanks a lot. De nada > > --------------------------- > Willi Schiegel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------- Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
