slang, newt, whiptail

1998-06-24 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi all, i am about to write an easy to use editor, using slang ... (remember this ugly emacs/vi discussion) i started with slang and noticed that there is nearly no documentation and no good screen/kbd support at all. so i tried newt. this one seems to bring it everything. but there is no docume

xanim and the dotofiles

1998-06-21 Thread Michael Dietrich
no, that's not a new boygroup, it's a copyright problem. for special decodings xanim uses non-free software. i found the needed .o files for alpha. perhaps now is the moment to get xanim multi-platform ready. there is a server with a lot of objects including the missing for debian. the question now

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Dietrich
> > if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. > > easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody, especially a beginner. > > also for professionals. > > :wq > Go ahead, it wouldn't hurt, would it? :-) OK, i would start if everybody promisses to stop the discussion if or if not a

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Dietrich
if you all do not stop this discussion i start writing an editor. easy to use just as EDIT.EXE. for anybody, especially a beginner. also for professionals. :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Dietrich
> So, if you have them ready, please release 4.05 debs. I'm eager to test > them. :-) mee too, i would like to see it on alpha... -- see header -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xanim on alpha

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Dietrich
> Oops. I forgot to remove that evil archive from the source! > Technically, we are not allowed to distrbute those. The xanim > author got a permission to distribute them, but it's > non-transferable. I tried to contact the company that owns the > copyright, but got no response, and xanim author

access

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi, i copied a harddisk with tar (kind of tar -c -f - | tar -x -f - -C /copy...) and lost a lot of accessinformation. it seems, that the umask dropped all the rights for writing for group and other. shure i didn't read the manual and thi sbehavier may be a feature, not a bug. but now i've got a de

xanim on alpha

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi, i tried to get an alpha-binary of xanim. because i didn't find it on the mirror i got the source and tried to compile. everything worked fine but a wrong path in rules (that one for the dotofiles.tgz, no ../ necesary). but then the linker complained about wrong binary: the source package comes

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Dietrich
> > Absolute novices unwilling to learn should be lead gently to > > the nearest windows box. > How about something like: [..] > This editor has two modes, in Input mode you may enter text, > in Command mode you may alter previously entered text. > > To enter input mode from command mode, hi

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-11 Thread Michael Dietrich
> If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing > ae? i think it's not a good idea to put vi there. this editor can be used by a profi only and a prof can use any other editor too. a beginner won't be able to use vi but the easy to use small editor. maybe ae is bad, but it

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-11 Thread Michael Dietrich
> > path without saying what that set path should be. So, why do the > > vi users like _using_ vi? (Someone already said "it's standard"... > > can I get real reasons now? :) i'm faster with vi. that's all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-11 Thread Michael Dietrich
> > > Alright, the more I think about this, the more I think that James > > > is probably right. (NO flames, people can change there minds can't > > > they?) Mc doesn't belong in the base set. > > i agree to this. neither does vi or emacs belong there, even if emacs > > whould be an 30KB size

Re: mkdosfs

1998-06-11 Thread Michael Dietrich
> > > who maintains the mkdosfs package > > There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into > > 'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > And which I'm fairly certain I ported, since I used it to create the boot > partition on my alpha... > same to me. but why

Re: tools/ on ftp.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Michael Dietrich
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > > unz512x3.exe is a self-unarching zip, and can be unpacked with Linux unzip > > > > gzip124.exe is a self-unarching lharc file and can be unpacked with > > Linux lha > > It might be a good idea to add a note in the README to that

Re: tools/ on ftp.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Michael Dietrich
> b) are there tools for m68k or alpha ? linload, milo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mkdosfs

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi all, who maintains the mkdosfs package & why is there no alpha port? infact i tried to port it but it coredumps. i narrowed down the bug to a funny part of the code too long to explain here. so i would like to help here. -- see header -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

mutt & pgp

1998-06-09 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi all, why is mutt compiled without pgp-support as default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

deb and now?

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi all, i made my deb-package yesterday for i386 & alpha but now: what have i to do to release it? -- see header -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-07 Thread Michael Dietrich
> > I would like to have `mc' and the two packages it depends on placed > > into the base set. > I think this is a horrendously bad idea. agreed -- see header -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: first package

1998-06-03 Thread Michael Dietrich
> but the second error seems to be more serious. in line 1 of my > changelogfile is nothing wrong compared to the script. it just says: > z (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low > (my package is called 'z' for now) is the name a problem (too short)? renamed it to zet: that works. so debian package na

first package

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi, today i tried to build my first debian package but run immidiatly in an error. i did (nearly ;-) everything as told by the script 'making a debian package' but after the command build i got the messages: no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("mdt") at /usr/lib/dpkg/controll