Always in /etc? (was RE: configuration file placement)

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Shaleh wrote: > Personally I do not think EVERY package belongs in /etc. Sytem control, > sure. > But small things, no. I am aware of the current policy, but I think a strict > "everything goes here" is bound to have problems. I disagree. One of the good things about De

RE: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, > > Kent > > There's the newsgroup comp.lang.c, but I've never been inside there, so I > don't > know what its like. It's pretty good, though not reading the FAQ may well get you flamed. > I'm quite willing to answer C questions in pri

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 20 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote: > Are you *sure* you want to learn C? Why not take Eric Raymond's > advice at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html> and > learn Python? It's an easier language, the newsgroup > "comp.lang.python" isn't very busy, and it's useful on Mac on Win32 > *

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical > C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first program "Hello > World" fo

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > mcv21>I have to run dvips as root - and running latex2html as root worked > mcv21>fine > > Doesn't seem to make any difference for me. oh :( > mcv21> > mcv21>Does change my essay somewhat though ;)

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > Hi, > I never found a good solution to building html docs via > latex2html. The source path usually contains a ".", which causes > latex2html to fail. I have tried all kinds of things to get it work and > have not suceeded. Does anyone else know how to solve the problem ? > > H

Re: Contributing to Debian

1998-10-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I recently familiarized myself with the debian packaging system and > would like to contribute to the debian distribution. I figure reading > the packing/policy manual is a good place to get the rest of my info. > However when I look at the DDP site much of the information there is > listed as