Cross-platform XML editor

2002-01-07 Thread Douglas Bates
A two-part question: a) Can you recommend a cross-platform XML editor that uses the DTD? I use SGML in emacs but our data-entry people are not going to enjoy emacs. A GUI-based editor is preferred. b) If the answer to a) is Xeena http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xeena h

2.4.17 kernel compilation

2002-01-02 Thread Douglas Bates
tions? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/

Re: 2.4.0 kernel and the Toshiba 1715XCDS

2001-01-05 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so I configure the kernel with cd4281 support. However, the boot > log shows that the cd4281 driver is not being successfully > initialized. Sorry to follow up on my own message but I must have had my fingers on the wrong keys so I mis

2.4.0 kernel and the Toshiba 1715XCDS

2001-01-05 Thread Douglas Bates
This is not strictly a Debian question but it does relate to a computer running Debian 2.3. The computer is a Toshiba 1715XCDS laptop. I have been using the 2.4.0 testing and prerelease kernels on it and have been very pleased with the support for PCMCIA built into the 2.4.x series kernels. Today

Re: ITP: mp - an e-mail pretty-printer

2000-03-23 Thread Douglas Bates
The provisional package I uploaded to my directory on master doesn't work :-/. Turns out there is a bug in the configure script that was exposed by building a Debian package. The upstream maintainer has promised to fix it after he returns from vacation April 3. If you really want to use it befor

ITP: mp - an e-mail pretty-printer

2000-03-23 Thread Douglas Bates
master.debian.org for anyone who wants to take a look. The copyright file reads This package was debianized by Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:51:23 -0600. It was downloaded from http://java.sun.com/people/richb/RichApps/mp/mpdist-3.5.1.tar.gz Upstream Au

cvs-makerepos

2000-03-14 Thread Douglas Bates
The configuration script for cvs_1.10.7-6 mentions that you can create a repository with standard permissions using cvs-makerepos. Is that a program or an option to cvs or ...? I couldn't find anything like that.

login message on lully.debian.org

2000-03-09 Thread Douglas Bates
I'm not sure if this message should go to debian-devel or debian-project or ... For several days the login message on lully.debian.org has ended with *** This system is being repaired. Please refrain from using it for now. The system has been up for 14 days and /etc/motd was last modified on Jan

X on a Dell Inspiron Laptop

1999-05-23 Thread Douglas Bates
A friend recently bought a high-end Dell laptop computer. The model is the Inspiron 8000, if I recall correctly. It has a hard drive that is about 9.5 Gb (yes, nearly 10 Gb on a laptop) and fips20.exe seemed to have some trouble creating a second partition. We wanted to save the Windows 98 parti

cron has gone to UTC time?

1999-01-27 Thread Douglas Bates
On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to get the reports from the job a little after 16:40 my time which just happens to be 22:40 UTC. $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and

Status of Gnome libraries and applications?

1999-01-22 Thread Douglas Bates
Can someone give me an overview of the current state of gnome libraries and applications in the unstable distribution? I would like to try our gnumeric. If I try to install it with apt I get dependency problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install gnumeric Updating package status cache...done

Re: register_frame_info troubles

1999-01-19 Thread Douglas Bates
> "Ray" == J H M Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ray> On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:07:59 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: >> I'm currently creating a new upload of gaby, but lintian keeps >> complaining: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/todo/gaby-0.2.6$ lintian >> ../gaby_0.2.6-1_i386.deb E: gaby: com

apt-0.0.16 and libc6-2.0.7r2

1998-06-25 Thread Douglas Bates
I haven't been following the discussion on the libc6 naming (too little time, I'm afraid) so I may have missed any fixes to this. I have apt 0.0.16-1 and libc6 2.0.7r-2 installed. I installed apt before the upgrade of libc6. Now the first thing that apt wants to do when you run it is to commit s

location of 2.0.7 boot disks

1998-06-23 Thread Douglas Bates
I don't see the 2.0.7 boot disks for an i386 system on master.debian.org yet. Could someone please remind me where to get them from Enrique's computer? I don't seem to have that message any more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Access to an Alpha for package compilation?

1998-06-19 Thread Douglas Bates
Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19 Jun 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > I am the maintainer of the r-base package which provides a language > > for statistical computing and graphics. I am also on the development > > team for the upstream so

Access to an Alpha for package compilation?

1998-06-19 Thread Douglas Bates
see if Debian GNU/Linux on Alpha can compile and run R cleanly. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

apache_1.1.3-6 preinstall script giving errors

1998-06-16 Thread Douglas Bates
the world. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: ../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty

1998-05-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice that the Packages file for slink/main/binary-i386 on master > is empty ... To follow up on my own post - this was reported as bug #21025. In the bug report the date on the file was Apr 2. Now it is Apr 24 but it is still zero len

../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty

1998-05-04 Thread Douglas Bates
Sorry if this has already been discussed but I have been away for a week and off the list. I notice that the Packages file for slink/main/binary-i386 is empty whereas binary-alpha, binary-powerpc, and binary-sparc all look as I would expect them to. Is this a subtle hint that I should switch arch

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 > > Subject: NPR show on open source > > > > Eri

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 > Subject: NPR show on open source > > Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on > NPR's "Science Friday" today--looks like the segment's > from 12:30-1:00 pm PD

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, it has played here in the East. Those of you out west still have > some time to find a radio ;-) I think it is the second piece on "All > Things Considered" after the news. > > This was a very good presentation for a public forumn. They pointed to al

adopting xspread

1998-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
I am willing to adopt the orphaned package xspread. I have converted its debian/rules to use the debhelper scripts and compiled the package against libc6. I will upload tomorrow unless there are objections. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department

multiple jobs with buildpackage?

1998-01-02 Thread Douglas Bates
If I am running "make" on a multi-processor system I can use the -j switch to allow multiple jobs to be spawned. Is there a similar facility with dpkg-buildpackage or a way I can pass a '-j 4' option to calls to debian/rules? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-29 Thread Douglas Bates
Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: > > > Alan Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > f2c-960717-0 (Old source format) > > isn't this obsoleted by the f77 frontend to gcc!? I believe there are still some Fortran constructions that can b

Debhelper for a libc5-based system?

1997-12-23 Thread Douglas Bates
I just uploaded a libc6 version of r-base, a package for statistical computing and graphics. I would also like to create a libc5-based version of this package. Even if it doesn't get into the official Debian distributions it will be helpful for several people who run libc5-based systems. I used

/sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

1997-12-14 Thread Douglas Bates
I have the 2.7.1-2 version of util-linux installed. It appears that the /sbin/clock program is no longer available as it has been replaced by /sbin/hwclock. However, there is still a part of /etc/init.d/boot that calls clock to set up the hardware clock and system clock correspondence. # # S

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-12 Thread Douglas Bates
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags > > for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was > > in the discussion of b

Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-11 Thread Douglas Bates
/R/library directory and continue with the packaging. Are there alternatives that would be preferred? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bate

Intent to package R (the GNU version of S)

1997-12-11 Thread Douglas Bates
.60.1 were released a few days ago from http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/contents.html Since I understand a bug-fix version R-0.60.2 is imminent, that will probably be the first package that shows up for Debian. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#4348: smartlist.postinst fails

1996-08-30 Thread Douglas Bates
Package: smartlist Status: install ok half-configured Priority: optional Section: mail Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 3.10-1 Depends: smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent, procmail, libc5 (>= 5.2.18-1) Description: Versatile and Fast List Processor -- Clip here

Does kernel-package assume /etc/psdatabase -> /boot/psdatabase?

1996-08-17 Thread Douglas Bates
if /boot/psdatabase-2.0.12 exists. The documentation for psupdate indicates that it writes a new version of /etc/psdatabase. I checked and indeed that file was updated. Am I supposed to have a link from /etc/psdatabase to /boot/psdatabase? This sequence would make sense to me if that was the