pack/compress?

[Jonathan P Tomer]

(please cc: replies to me, i am not on this list)

it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the
pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly
obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they
still are mildly useful. am i blatantly wrong and there's actually some
package containing them, or should i just write my own copies?

--p.
"For a price I'd do about anything, except pull the trigger: for that I'd
need a pretty good cause" -- Queensryche, "Revolution Calling"
PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~jpt/pubkey.txt

termcap/info help

[Jonathan P Tomer]

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i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is
there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to
termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to
termcap but it doesn't work; even if it did it doesn't know how to convert
terminfo binary to source (i had to do it on the termcap-using other
system... odd, huh?).

are there any veterans in the battle against terminfo databases on this
list? if not, is there anyone who knows what list i should be writing to?

tia,
- --p.
The reader this signature encounters not failing to understand is cursed.
PGP 5.0 key available at http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~phouchg/pgpkey.txt


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unix98 pty system

[Jonathan P Tomer]

i'm about to switch to kernel 2.2.0pre6, and in the configuration i saw that i
can use the unix98 pty system rather than the old ptyxx/ttyxx. if i do this,
will important things (i.e. xterm, incoming telnets) break?

--jonathan 'phouchg' tomer

Re: unix98 pty system

[Jonathan P Tomer]

ok, so if i grab glibc2.1 i can use unix98 ptys? or will everything break on
glibc2.1?

--phouchg

xfree 3.3.4 debs

[Jonathan P Tomer]

does anyone know where i can get xfree86 3.3.4 debs? 3.3.5 is toast for
me, unfortunately.

(if replying to the list, please cc me, i am not subscribed.)

thanks,
--p.
"I can learn to resist anything but temptation" -- Rush, "Resist"
PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~jpt/pubkey.txt

network card problem

[Jonathan P Tomer]

i'm installing two new pcs at work, one with solaris x86 and one with debian
so that i can show my employer how much nicer debian is. unfortunately
there is one major problem: the hamm cd i have is not successfully detecting
the ne2k (well, encore enl832tx, which has a realtek chipset according to
the tech support guy) pci 10/100 ethernet card on the machine. i've read the
ethernet-howto and disabled pnp support in the bios in case it was causing
problems, but i can't directly disable pnp on the card. solaris did detect
it fine. any ideas as to how to get this working?

please keep me cc'd to the reply, i am not subscribed to -user.
tia,
phouchg
"For a price I'd do about anything, except pull the trigger: for that I'd
need a pretty good cause" -- Queensryche, "Revolution Calling"
PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~jpt/pubkey.txt

silly question

[Jonathan P Tomer]

(please cc: me to replies)

is it currently possible to do a straight potato initial install, or must
one first install slink's base system and then aptify?

--phouchg
"For a price I'd do about anything, except pull the trigger: for that I'd
need a pretty good cause" -- Queensryche, "Revolution Calling"
PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~jpt/pubkey.txt