Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread Sean Johnson
Actually, even the kernels up to 2.1.129 need the append line added to lilo.conf. I'm running a PPro machine with 128MB of ram, and unless I add the append line under kernel 2.1.129 top only reports 64MB present. Sean - Original Message - From: Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

Re: hard drive error message

1998-12-20 Thread iodine
Just from memory.. next time you reboot that pc.. goto your bios setup.. and make sure that you have IDE POWER DOWN turned off.. as if you have it on and APM stuff not in your kernel, this will cause such problems I believe... Personally I not played around with the new APM support in newer kernel

Re: installing onto second hard drive

1998-12-20 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Andrew Catton wrote: > , but I am not sure if the > instructions for installing Debian from a DOS partition apply if I would > > like to install it (exclusively) on a second hard drive from the > download I have stored on my first drive (which contains Win95). If > not, what

installing onto second hard drive

1998-12-20 Thread Andrew Catton
, but I am not sure if the instructions for installing Debian from a DOS partition apply if I would like to install it (exclusively) on a second hard drive from the download I have stored on my first drive (which contains Win95). If not, what might the such a task entail? Is there any risk to th

Re: Why?!

1998-12-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Charles Collicutt wrote: > > Hi, >Before I start I'd like to make clear that this is *not* a flame or a > troll, I genuinely want to know the answer to my question as I would quite > like to continue using linux. >Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? I've been > told t

hard drive error message

1998-12-20 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any advice of what does the following error message mean hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError} Is my hardrive dying? /--/ Dani

re: ipfwadm

1998-12-20 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Michael Fox wrote: > Anyone care to show me a quick and dirty ipfwadm script to allow > ftp/http/irc/mail/dns in/out from linux machine.. > > I'd like to enable ipfw filters.. but stuck on the writing of the ipfw.sh > script I would run.. examples would be great.. I'm using

Re: Why?!

1998-12-20 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> > Windows > --- > *) Complete ease of use - a GUI even an utter luser can understand. True. However, Linux was NEVER meant to be an utter luser toy. > *) Plenty of support for developers at MSDN - with plenty of free > downloads of SDKs. Tell me you arent getting support here? I've instal

Two Questions

1998-12-20 Thread David A. Lee
Does Debian 2.0 come with Netscape on the CD's, or do I have to download it? When do you expect Debian 2.1 to be released officially?  And Debian 2.2? Thanks for your help. Dave Lee   --  * * ** ** **  D

Re: Why?!

1998-12-20 Thread Allens
I won't say much on this, but a few points: First I do agree with you on the games thing. If you need new games *that* much, stick in a second hd or make a second partition to put windoze on. (As I think you already have done). Second, are you a developer, as that is IMHO where linux comes into

Re: how to put apache under hosts.{allow,deny}'s control?

1998-12-20 Thread Frankie
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Tim Moore wrote: >> "Jeff" == Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Jeff> On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:04:04PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: >>> Subject says it all. How can I put non-inetd services under >>> hosts.{allow,deny}'s control? > >Jeff> If you really wa

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 16:46 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: > Dave it seems you are really a funny guy! Not funny, just weird :) > Don't you aunderstand the problem? Ok, the problem is as follows: > > -Corel claims they release a fully fuctional release of WP. > Then, after installing what is

Re: startx

1998-12-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
Rick Knebel wrote: >How do i link my start x to XF86_SVGA? >What is the command for the synlink? There are two ways of starting X: the script startx or xdm. X itself is a little wrapper program that runs the correct X server for your video card. You need to install the correct Xserver packa

re: ipfwadm

1998-12-20 Thread Michael Fox
Anyone care to show me a quick and dirty ipfwadm script to allow ftp/http/irc/mail/dns in/out from linux machine.. I'd like to enable ipfw filters.. but stuck on the writing of the ipfw.sh script I would run.. examples would be great.. -- Michael Administrator maf networking services [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Samba

1998-12-20 Thread debian
http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/ -- Michael maf networking services Administrator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mafnet.com/ -Original Message- From: Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 21 December 1998 8:32 Subject: Samba

email

1998-12-20 Thread Rick Knebel
How can I get my email to say in the return to rknebel.uplink.net instead of just rknebel. I thought I took care of this on install but I guess not Thanks Alot Rick p.s. please be careful I donot think my reply to adress is right. -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why?!

1998-12-20 Thread Charles Collicutt
Hi, Before I start I'd like to make clear that this is *not* a flame or a troll, I genuinely want to know the answer to my question as I would quite like to continue using linux. Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? I've been told that linux is much better and I believed

Re: startx

1998-12-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
Rick Knebel wrote: > How do i link my start x to XF86_SVGA? > What is the command for the synlink? No need to symlink. Just edit the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver -Mitch

Re: xdm

1998-12-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
Frank Smith wrote: [re: How to stop an xdm that won't start properly and won't stop] >If you're on a network, telnet into the linux box (you have to log in >first as someone other than root and then su to root), then do a > ps aux | grep xdm >and then kill the process id. Then I would su

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > The "free" download version is in fact _very_ useful for anything > which > > is plain text/tables/etc so long as you don't need equations or > drawing > > capbilities. > > I couldn't have said it better myself. > > > However, it would have been fair dealing for Cor

startx

1998-12-20 Thread Rick Knebel
How do i link my start x to XF86_SVGA? What is the command for the synlink? Thanks Alot Rick

Samba

1998-12-20 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
Where can I get Samba? Regards, Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ 110 Heales Road, Lara, Geelong, Australia 3212 Tel:++(03)52742232 Fax:++(03)52742350 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xircom - Network

1998-12-20 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
I have a Xircom adapter attached to my laptop for networking in Windoze -- does Debian support this device and if so can anyone offer any help with configuring it? Regards, Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ 110 Heales Road, Lara, Geelong, Australia 3212 Tel

Re: Can't load library libXt.so.6

1998-12-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Marcus&Heléne" wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Which version of Netscape? > > 4.5 downloaded from netscape's site FYI: There are two versions of 4.5 on ftp.netscape.com, one is compiled with libc5 and the other with libc6. The libc6-compiled version has 'glibc' in its name a

RE: up and running

1998-12-20 Thread AJArmstrong
Does your colour problem "going magenta" mean the screen just turns purple, or is there sort of a purple wash which still shows the other things on the screen? If it is the latter, it might simply mean that your green colour gun for the monitor is not firing, which could range from a loose connect

Re: Automatic font-lock in emacs

1998-12-20 Thread Pete Harlan
> How do I configure my emacs so that it will detect the file > type(*.c, *.h, *.tex, *.pro ) and automatically starts the font lock... Add this: (global-font-lock-mode t) to your .emacs file. (This is for emacs 20.3; don't know about other versions.) For more on this, look for help(*) o

RE: XConfig

1998-12-20 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, J.T. Wenting wrote: > You need (or at least I needed) to manually set the server to use (I think > it is in the xserverrc file, or something like that), it took me quite a > while before I had figured out why X would not start in a high-res mode :) > What you mean by high-res

RE: XConfig

1998-12-20 Thread J.T. Wenting
You need (or at least I needed) to manually set the server to use (I think it is in the xserverrc file, or something like that), it took me quite a while before I had figured out why X would not start in a high-res mode :) J.T. Wenting [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9203

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:04:52PM -0500, AJ wrote: > hey > heres my question. > i have 2 32meg SDRAM and i am buying a 128meg PC-100 8ns SDRAM for xmas > i know its compatible in all but after i install it is there gonna be > any options or that ill have to change in debian so debian recognizes >

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 08:52:41PM +, Marc Haber wrote: > How do I tell dpkg that mail-transport-agent is present even if I > uninstall smail and that I take responsibility? Install and configure the dummy package which is there for this reason. -- --- - - -

Re: Memory Problem

1998-12-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I seem to be having a memory leak on my system, and I'm not sure how to >find out which program it is. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions >on how to find it? Try memstat, which reports the memory used by individual programs. -- Oliver Elphick

uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-20 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! After compiling my own exim 2.10, I'd like to remove smail that has been installed on my system. |=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root # dpkg --purge smail |dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of smail: | mailagent depends on sendmail | smail | mail-transport-agent; however: | Package sendma

up and running

1998-12-20 Thread Eric Drayer
GA586 dual pent "2 processors activated" IDE cdrom and hd Matrox millinium 4Mb my monitor is randomly going maginta...but it started doing that with NT. only one OS ...Debian Linux soon to have mathematica installed. X good. emacs good. no real work other than the kernal recompile for SMP. do not h

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours would > > _not_ look as good as 16M! > > 16M? That's ram, not sure what the conversion is to the number of colors, > but that depends on

Socket programming

1998-12-20 Thread shaul
http://www.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/internetworking/internet-theory.ht ml for a tutorial about unix sockets programming (including how to use select). > HI Everyone, > > This is not a debian-specific question, but have no-one else to ask. I > have been playing with sockets and can not se

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> The "free" download version is in fact _very_ useful for anything which > is plain text/tables/etc so long as you don't need equations or drawing > capbilities. I couldn't have said it better myself. > However, it would have been fair dealing for Corel to make the true > limitations clear bef

Re: XConfig

1998-12-20 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Tey, Chui CG wrote: > Hi, > > I am relative new to Debian, (1+ weeks). I tried to locate an XConfig > package from the ftp server at ftp.debian.org. Unfortunately there wasn't. > There was XSetup that came with XServer_VGA16 pacakge, but I believe you > require X running a

Re: xdm

1998-12-20 Thread Frank Smith
I just did that to myself last night (modified my Xsession to set -bpp 24 on a server that didn't support it for my sytem, that's what I get for not reading the documentation). If you're on a network, telnet into the linux box (you have to log in first as someone other than root and then su to roo

can I synchronize local mail w/netscape?

1998-12-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks, I recently installed Netscape 4.5 and I'd like to know if there is a way to read locally generated mail (such as system messages from anacron via SMPT) in addition to that which is fetched from my ISP POP account by netscape. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: WP and a Deskjet 870Cxi

1998-12-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I've noticed that there have been LOTS of posts for Word Perfect lately. > > > Well, here's another one. I downloaded and install

XConfig

1998-12-20 Thread Tey, Chui CG
Hi, I am relative new to Debian, (1+ weeks). I tried to locate an XConfig package from the ftp server at ftp.debian.org. Unfortunately there wasn't. There was XSetup that came with XServer_VGA16 pacakge, but I believe you require X running already (please correct me if I am wrong!). Please sug

Re: xanim package?

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Richard Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a Debian package for xanim? I have the source code > already, I'm just being lazy. It is in non-free/graphics, the current version is 2.70.7.0-3 Torsten -- Homepage: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/myrkr

Re: afbackup: comments and problems.

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WHAT DOES NOT WORK: > After reading documentation, man pages, mail archive I thought that > the program I should run is "afbackup", it seemed natural as that's > the name of the package after all. My idea was to run periodically > following prog

Debian 2.1 Slink

1998-12-20 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Are there any plans release 2.1 (slink) on CD or make iso images available?

xdm

1998-12-20 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am new to the debian distribution and have run into an install problem, sort of. I have installed redhat and caldera on my machine without difficulty including the Xserver. I set up X the sanme way I did the other distro's. The problem I having is that for some resson during the install

Re: Adding users from a list or database?

1998-12-20 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I made a set of perl scripts addapted to the organization I was sysadmin off, quite simple since they only read a text file and then: 1.- tried to find if user existed (give me quite a headache, since other sysadmins had used different abbreviations for full names, middle names...) 2.- if

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:33:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Dec, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > If you're using lilo you need to add to your lilo.conf the following > > line: > > > > append="mem=128M" > > > > I not sure if 2.1.x kernels need that ! > Yes, all kernels need it. The 64

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread wax_man
On 20 Dec, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: > >> i have 2 32meg SDRAM and i am buying a 128meg PC-100 8ns SDRAM for xmas >> i know its compatible in all but after i install it is there gonna be >> any options or that ill have to change in debian so debian recognizes >> it? >

Re: Adding users from a list or database?

1998-12-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Phillips wrote: > What do you do if you have to add many users on a regular basis? > > I would like to be able to add users from a list, to avoid the > interactive nature of adduser. Is there a tool that does something like > this? A couple of years ago I modified adduser to read entries f

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Dec-98 Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> >> Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours would >> _not_ look as good as 16M! > > Logic would tell you this, but in fact 16bit and 24bit isn't very > discernible from a hum

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: > i have 2 32meg SDRAM and i am buying a 128meg PC-100 8ns SDRAM for xmas > i know its compatible in all but after i install it is there gonna be > any options or that ill have to change in debian so debian recognizes > it? If you're using lilo you need to add to y

Re: Memory Problem

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to be having a memory leak on my system, and I'm not sure how to > find out which program it is. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions > on how to find it? First, try "free" to see how much you have, and especially, how much is being used

64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread AJ
hey heres my question. i have 2 32meg SDRAM and i am buying a 128meg PC-100 8ns SDRAM for xmas i know its compatible in all but after i install it is there gonna be any options or that ill have to change in debian so debian recognizes it? AJ

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours would > _not_ look as good as 16M! Logic would tell you this, but in fact 16bit and 24bit isn't very discernible from a human standpoint especially for simple photos.

can I synchronize local mail w/netscape?

1998-12-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks, I recently installed Netscape 4.5 and I'd like to know if there is a way to read locally generated mail (such as system messages from anacron via SMPT) in addition to that which is fetched from my ISP POP account by netscape. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Duplicate Packets

1998-12-20 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
Hello, when I ping a computer from my workstation the ping output shows duplicate packets are received. Also when I ping the workstation from another one it gives duplicates. Pinging among other machines works normally. The workstation has D-Link DFE-500 TX card installed and tulip driver ver. 0.8

Should I by an microtek X6 scanner?

1998-12-20 Thread Richard Black
HI all I am thinking of buying a SCSI scanner and am considering the microtek X6 (has nice features and is quite cheap). Has anyone had any experience with this scanner under LINUX (slink)? In particular, what I want to check is that I should purchase the PC (rather than the MAC) version and tha

Re: X help

1998-12-20 Thread k e c h i e
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I install X I configure it right and then it goes into X and the > resolution is way to big for my monitor > > Is there a way I can change the resolution so X can fit my screen Yup. It's on the FAQ's. also try to look for the line "Virtual" i

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread k e c h i e
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > files, viewed with xv. Try doin' some gradients in GIMP. k e c h i e

Memory Problem

1998-12-20 Thread wax_man
I seem to be having a memory leak on my system, and I'm not sure how to find out which program it is. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how to find it? Thanks

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > files, viewed with xv. 24 color JPEG's or 24 _bit_ color JPEG's? You can get 2^24 colors with 24 bit color. > Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours would >

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes > (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has > both cron and anacron running. Isn't this kind of pointless? Not at all. Anacron runs when you boot up to see if

Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach64). The 24bpp implementation is actually packed in 32bits, so the xserver is actually called 32bpp. Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours wou

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Dec-98 Riccardo Tommasini wrote: > Charles, > indeed I think all this satisfactory reports about WP8 and the fact > that one should not have complains about limitations of "free" a > software are an example of the "poor's man happiness". > > The points are: > - the cost it takes to dowload 2

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread Thomas Adams
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The package "anacron" provides this functionality. Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has both cron and anacron running. Isn't th

Re: WordPerfect: a Joke?

1998-12-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
patrik plead, > The Personal Edition includes only WordPerfect, not other > programs. And there probably arent't that many people who need the > equation editor that are allowed to use the Personal Edition, since > IIRC the license doesn't allow it to be used for education. Bt writing a paper for

Re: Serial consoles

1998-12-20 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > vt100 terminal. ... > in a dos directory. My question is will simply rebuilding that linux file > as a developemen

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
At 22:53 18.12.98 +, Charles wrote: >On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: >> all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it >> rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for. > >Paid nothing for?! We have per minute phone bills here -

Re: email

1998-12-20 Thread k e c h i e
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > k e c h i e dixit: > > > > On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > > > > > not exist." I also can't figure out how to bring up "Mailx." Under > > > dselect it says it is installed but when I type in mailx nothing > > > happens. I looked at the info pag

Re: X help

1998-12-20 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I install X I configure it right and then it goes into X and the > resolution is way to big for my monitor What you mean?Do you mean that when you move a mouse to the edge of a screen (left/bottom), you shift to another screen? It's called 'virt

Re: NIS/something equivalent + security

1998-12-20 Thread Pere Camps
Ben, > No they aren't sent clear text. IIRC, the client machine asks for the > encrypted password from the server, if the client is allowed to get it > the server sends it, Great. Then I only need to enforce 'secure' passwords. Thanks a lot for your help. -- p.

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
At 18:44 18.12.98 +0500, Wayne wrote: > >I find it a total waste of time and effort. I would not bother to >even download it now _even_ if they said it was totally FREE. > Dear Wayne, if you ever had success installin WordPerfect 8 you had found that it does not allow you to include equations an

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
Dear Richard, thanks for your suggestions about Lyx. I am starting to use and appreciate it. Until now I used XEmacs and I am always been happy about Latex. Of course I will appreciate the whole Latex package much more, with the capabilities offered by Lyx. Ric At 10:46 18.12.98 -0600, you wr

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-20 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
At 13:22 18.12.98 +, Dave Swegen wrote: >What do you mean useless? If you want a fully functional word processor with >all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it >rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for. >Granted they migh

X help

1998-12-20 Thread WuArMy490
When I install X I configure it right and then it goes into X and the resolution is way to big for my monitor Is there a way I can change the resolution so X can fit my screen Thanks

Re: NIS/something equivalent + security

1998-12-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 01:02:20PM +, Pere Camps wrote: > Ok. I didn't know you could make NIS only to listen requests from > specific machines. I guess passwords are sent clear-text, but then, we're > supposed to have an intelligent concentrator/hub so the machines only > receive packets

Case of WP8 installation file (was RE: WP 8 Problem

1998-12-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Guys (and gals,) I don't know what your problem is. Tar DOES NOT CARE in any way whether it extracts from FOOBAR.MY.FANCY.EXTENSION or GUIL001.GZ or GUIL001.TAR.GZ or guil001.gz or whatever. Just invoke it as tar xvfz and it will extract the "Runme" script and the other installation files.

Re: WP and a Deskjet 870Cxi

1998-12-20 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I've noticed that there have been LOTS of posts for Word Perfect lately. > > Well, here's another one. I downloaded and installed Word Perfect > > without any problem. Everything works fi

RE: WP 8 Problem

1998-12-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> > What? Do you mean you got gui00.gz, gui[1-6]0.gz and not GUI[0-6]0.GZ > > files? You didn't, like all the others who mentioned this, get Upper-Case > > files? > > > That's exactly what I mean. I downloaded gui0-6.gz AND guilg00.gz and got all > lowercase file names - using IE 4.01 (yah,

Re: Bad root partition :(

1998-12-20 Thread Michele Bini
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:40:28PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > after a powerdown, my root partition have the following errors with > the comand: > # e2fsck /dev/hda2 > Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > Uncorrec

Re: email

1998-12-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 08:43:15PM -0600, KTB wrote: > I still don't have X-windows. I read elsewhere you can see a black and white patterned screen with mouse pointer and a xterm. This IS X. :) You want to install a window manager, my choice is fvwm2 or enlightenment. Look for the various wind

Can't load library libXt.so.6

1998-12-20 Thread
resending this message this time not in html: Hi, I have a problem that some people have had before. Error message "can't load library libXt.so.6" when trying to execute for ex netscape. I searched the list and found previous messages on the problem, and also a solution: check to see if directory

Re: Can't load library libXt.so.6

1998-12-20 Thread
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Which version of Netscape? 4.5 downloaded from netscape's site > If it is libc5 perhaps you need xlib6 from the "oldlibs" section. > I could not quote your message because you posted in HTML. Please don't. ok Marcus

Re: Help! XFree86 and on-board video chip problems

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:07:37AM -, Frank Packer wrote: > A general HELP! to all. You don't need to cry for help on Debian mailing lists - we try to help everybody :-) > I am having a problem with XFree86 and its detection of my video card. > I cannot find a solution in any of the normal re

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 11:54:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, > "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, > the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the > window is very w

Re: Installing over PLIP?

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 07:19:35PM +, Vincent Murphy wrote: > Hi. Hi Vincent, > I'm interested in installing Debian on a stand-alone machine. No Problem :) > This machine is connected via a parallel cable to a machine on a LAN, in a > university. This machine does not have external firewa

Re: Problem with 3C905-TX Network Card

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:11:07PM -, Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hello All, > > I've got a problem with the Network Card in my PC. It's a 3COM Fast > Etherlink XL 100 Mb or short 3C905-TX. The problem is that I can't find > a driver for this card. I couldn't find this card in Debian Setup. It's >

Re: WP and a Deskjet 870Cxi

1998-12-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: > Hey all, > > I've noticed that there have been LOTS of posts for Word Perfect lately. > Well, here's another one. I downloaded and installed Word Perfect > without any problem. Everything works fine but printing. I have a HP > Deskjet 870Cxi. WP only

Re: email

1998-12-20 Thread homega
k e c h i e dixit: > > On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > > > not exist." I also can't figure out how to bring up "Mailx." Under > > dselect it says it is installed but when I type in mailx nothing > > happens. I looked at the info page and couldn't see anything about how > > mailx is a set of

Re: NIS/something equivalent + security

1998-12-20 Thread Pere Camps
Ben, > Make sure you add 'nis' as an option in /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd: and > group: and it will work with anything that uses the local libs (libc) for > getting local informations. Any program worth it's code should do this, I > don't know of any that don't. I hope that includes pi

exim mail to certain sites fails

1998-12-20 Thread prt
Recently I've been trying to get exim set up in the hopes of getting more versatility than can be had using Netscape for mail. However, I find that while choosing eximconfig option 2 worked fine with no tweaking at all, for mail to some destinations, mail to some sites disappears every time, wit

Re: Can't load library libXt.so.6

1998-12-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Which version of Netscape? If it is libc5 perhaps you need xlib6 from the "oldlibs" section. I could not quote your message because you posted in HTML. Please don't. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.

Re: Beginning C

1998-12-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 06:41:57AM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: > a little tip, if You never program before and You > not need to program especially in 'C' have also > a look to 'C++'. > I, personally, think, the programming 'feels' > more like natural thinking and the > Object-Oriented-Method is

Re: Package for C++ compiler...

1998-12-20 Thread Peter Makholm
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > what is the package for C++ compiler?? g++ -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenettere, og moderator på den eneste modererede gruppe i dk.*, so there. - citat RockBear

Can't load library libXt.so.6

1998-12-20 Thread
Hi, I have a problem that some people have had before. Error message "can't load library libXt.so.6" when trying to execute for ex netscape. I searched the list and found previous messages on the problem, and also a solution: check to see if directory /usr/X11R6/lib is present in /etc/ld.so.conf

metamail

1998-12-20 Thread Enrico Garavaglia
I really do not like how METAMAIL deals with DIGESTS (=multipart/digest or something like taht) Is there a way to use another program? It would be very useful to have a list of the parts presented, from wich to choose the single message, isn't it? Hope somebody has help on this... Thanks, Enrico

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-20 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well it's just gone from a weird, bothersome pain to a real problem. > I was upgrading some packages when I got some familiar error messages about > some file operations - "operation not allowed" or whatever... > > Anyway, upon closer inspection I know have this: > pr-

Re: Problem with Compuserve and Fetchmail

1998-12-20 Thread Dieter Jaeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 Lee Bradshaw wrote: >On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:15:51PM +0100, Dieter Jäger wrote: >> I am trying to use fetchmail to receive mail from Compuserve. >> Everything works fine except that sometimes, when I get a mail from >> the >> Compuserve Po

Re: email

1998-12-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
k e c h i e wrote: >On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > >>One problem, I can only use "pon" while signed in as >> root. I saw a post for someone who had this problem and tried the >> solution: "Do 'adduser user_name dip' but got "The command adduser does > >I think the correct

Re: email

1998-12-20 Thread k e c h i e
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > Well I have decided to stick with Debian. Thanks for all the > suggestions and insightful comments I received to "Debian too difficult, > Red Hat?":) I still don't have X-windows. I do have my mouse working > now:) I am kind of starting over here. I have deci

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