Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?

1999-08-10 Thread shaul
Kain is right. The correct switches are xO. As was mentioned in my message, I was trying to follow the packaging tutorial, which says that To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright | less As far as

Re: Dabian 2.9.4

1999-08-10 Thread Nathan Duehr
Last time I looked at the LRP project's stuff, they were storing everything on the floppy in a compressed format. Therefore you needed to do some extra work to get the files you're looking for to work with it. There was an HTML page written by one of their developers that helps you get the modul

get identity of qic tape?

1999-08-10 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to get the identity of a qic tape so it can be used in a shell script? Thanks -Paul

Installing admin packages

1999-08-10 Thread André Bell
For the past 12 hours I've been waiting for debian (slink) to install the admin packages to an ancient and very slow 486. Is there a way to make debian automatically install all of the admin packages without me having to answer yes/no to different applications as they install? It would be nice if

Copy, paste keys and clipboard like Mac/NeXT/WinNT

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi For better or worse, over the last 15 years, I've become accustomed to having a clipboard, with key combinations to access it. I can deal with Command-C, Ctrl-C, Alt-C, whatever. But despite my most enthusiastic efforts, I can't get used to the X-windows mouse-button paradigm.

lpr indentation etc

1999-08-10 Thread Jocke
Hi again, Some more printer troubles. Been spending quite some time trying to get my printer to work. Now I can print very nice post script files using gs-aladdin *smile* I dont know how to put it together with lpr though. Anyone got any ideas ? I have an EPSON Stylus Color 740 and currently tr

non-'us-ascii' characters again...

1999-08-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi I'm really puzzled this time... As I said in a previous message, when I try to enter non-'us-ascii' characters on an xterm all I get are escape sequences like \350 and such... Well, despite all the help I could get, this hasn't changed (even with my ~/.inputrc and ~/.bashrc including a

Re: Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Colin McMillen wrote: > I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through > Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem > to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong? > (The username and mail server ar

Re: read-only filesystems

1999-08-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike Wood wrote: > I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make > most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How > can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be > helpful. I went down this route

Problems with partition's

1999-08-10 Thread Matija Matijevac
Hi! Please help me! I have a computer running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (kernel 2.2.10), and i have a problem with partition's. In fdisk i made a partition /dev/sda10 with size 266 MB /dev/sda11 - 155 MB /dev/sda12 - 5111 MB But, when i type "df" i have a diferent partition's size. Thnx.

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Paul Huygen
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. > I use: [..] \usepackage{portland} LaTeX2e has the landscape option built in, so portland is not needed. You need portland if you want to switch between landscape and portland in a single do

Power management in Linux.

1999-08-10 Thread Rafael Eduardo Martín Candial
I have installed a distribution of Debian 2.0. I configured the power management of my mother board of this way: Doze: 12 minutes Standby: 20 minutes Suspend:30 minutes HardDisk standby: 15 minutes The monitor will be in state power saving if the mother board is s

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
> This made good sense to me, too. I set it to 20 with the command line > parameter, and it still barfed after ten redirections: > > "Redirection limit of 10 URL's reached." > > This is a strange one. Lynx is so configurable, I couldn't fathom this > being a static setting... > > Thanks much

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-10 Thread Andreas Piesk
On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 09:03:22 +0200, you wrote: >>Hi, I tried this now and did get the same error with gzipped files: >> >>$ most /usr/doc/lyx/README.gz >>/usr/doc/lyx/README.gz: failed to open for reading. >> >>I had version 4.8.1-0.1 of most. I upgraded most to 4.9.0-1.1 and now >>everything wor

change cursor

1999-08-10 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, How can I change my cursor. I've looked in /X11/cursorfont.h. And I've put something like this in bash_profile. xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr But that didn't work. Does anybody know how I can change the cursor from X to an arrow Cuno Sonnemans

Re: tar -I

1999-08-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 20:32:07 +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > tar used to accept the -I option to use bzip2 (instead of gzip with -z). > Now the option is still documented in the man page but it no longer works. > Why was the behaviour changed? It looks like the maintainer forgot to reapply the patch

Re: apache virtual hosting

1999-08-10 Thread Robert Jones
Quoth Bill West on 10 Aug, 1999: > Strange problem here. I just moved on of my machines at work to debian from > redhat. The apache server on that machine was doing virtual hosting of > several sites using the same IP via VirtualName directives. Worked very well > in fact. Now the debian apache wi

What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN

1999-08-10 Thread minxu
Hi, there: I have just bought another new computer and built a home LAN using two 10mbps NE2000-pci cards and a hub. It turns to be that the transfer speed between the two computer varies dramatically. Sometimes, it can reach 8mbps for few seconds, and then it slows to about 600kbps or even lo

Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
Sorry, I can't quote since I've deleted the original posting. All I used to do when I used Procmail was add a line to my .fetchmailrc so it looked like this: poll pop.ukgateway.net protocol pop3 username gsmh password mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d gsmh" The last line specifies the Mail Delivery

Re: scsi hd idle spin down

1999-08-10 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Eberhard Burr wrote: > > I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch > > that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when > > needed. > > what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? The reason that the fans to keep the disks coo

Re: V toolkit

1999-08-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Micha Feigin hat gesagt: // Micha Feigin wrote: > How is the V toolkit for writing graphical apps? > Is it better to use it to write apps under gnome to maintain portability? AFAIK gnome is not yet ported to Windows. So if you want your apps to run under Windows also, you will not gain anything b

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. > When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. > If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then > rotates my document 90 degrees... > If I lpr

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Colin Marquardt
* NatePuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory... > no video grabber device available. > When I did a ./MAKEDEV from /dev directory the proggy said > ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "video". >From the xawtv-README: | in b

tar -I

1999-08-10 Thread Lex Chive
Hi, tar used to accept the -I option to use bzip2 (instead of gzip with -z). Now the option is still documented in the man page but it no longer works. Why was the behaviour changed? Is there another letter assigned to bzip2? Thanks. Lex pgpTfSHxH9Rc6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: compiling pine [solved]

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Thanks a lot!!! I would think that packages file from non-free should state that it depends on patch or all packages from non-free depend on it? Thanks a lot again! On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > Look under the utils section. Patch is a 'standard' program according to > dselect. >

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Alec Smith
Look under the utils section. Patch is a 'standard' program according to dselect. On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > I do not use dselect, I use dpkg directly, because I could never > understand how to tame dselect and dselect knows no more than > package.gz for corresponding

Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > I thank everybody for their great help. > Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives > without the need for every user to have his .forward set to > |/usr/bin/procmail so only having a .procmailrc

Re: Sound module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running 2.2.10 here, and am having a few problems with sound - > whenever a program tries to access the sound device, logs show this error: > > Aug 9 11:00:10 aardvark modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot

Printer Questions - HP OfficeJet 600

1999-08-10 Thread Nathan Duehr
Hi all, I haven't done a whole lot of research, but so far I haven't seen any mention of one of my printers in any documentation for ghostscript or gs-aladin (did I spell that right?) and was wondering if anyone simply has one of these printers and has it up and running. I've been to a couple of

apache virtual hosting

1999-08-10 Thread Bill West
Strange problem here. I just moved on of my machines at work to debian from redhat. The apache server on that machine was doing virtual hosting of several sites using the same IP via VirtualName directives. Worked very well in fact. Now the debian apache will not do the same thing for some reason.

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:19:40PM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > > > ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video > > > > > > I don't have /dev/video0

read-only filesystems

1999-08-10 Thread Mike Wood
I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be helpful.

Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-10 Thread Lex Chive
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > > Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives > without the need for every user to have his .forward set to > |/usr/bin/procmail so only having a .procmailrc fur users that want it? > Of course, yo

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Lex Chive
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:31:25PM +, John Carline wrote: > Immanuel Yap wrote: > > > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > > > similar messages. For example,

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
I do not use dselect, I use dpkg directly, because I could never understand how to tame dselect and dselect knows no more than package.gz for corresponding tree.. There is nothing in the package file for non-free about any patch program... Could you tell me where to get it? > He means the pat

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Bernhard Rieder
NatePuri wrote: > Now the problem that I'm having now that it starts up, and I have > edited the .xawtv file with my channels in it, I just get a blue screen > and no video. Looks like you selected a wrong input source. Do You have a source= in your ~/.xawtv ? -- ~/.xawtv ---

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:09:55PM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > NatePuri wrote: > > > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. > If you did already MAKEDEV video and it didn't work > then you have to make your video device manually > > mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 Ok, I did this... > Also you should be

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you are running potato, upgrade netscape-base-4 to version 4.61-18. That fixed it for me. Bob On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:34:15PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote: > > Dan Everton wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Where do I get the patch from? And pine4.10 does not draw my signature right... there is a bug in it from my point of view :) On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I am experiencing a problem compiling

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Julian Stoev
You don't need to do this. Start dselect and install the pine package and whatever it depends on. It is in source form, not in binary form as other packages you see in dselect. Then look in /usr/src/pine* Then you have change in the pine directory and enter: debian/rules binary This will create

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to > handle it. > > I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable > and this is what I get: > > # dpkg-source -x p

Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)

1999-08-10 Thread Max Lawson
Hi John, Thanx for your answer. I'll try your tip. I can't access right now the box I'm puttind debian on. A question. You're talking about a Canon Installation manual. I would like to know if you're refering to the manual shipped with the printer ? I've received a response from

Re: Bizarre problem, at my wits' end

1999-08-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian Eure wrote: > I am having the strangest problem. [...] Okay, that's weird. > As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, > unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k > with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -

compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi Everyone, I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to handle it. I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable and this is what I get: # dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-2.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: e

Re: Kernel Header Files

1999-08-10 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! /usr/include/* are part of libc package. AFAIK you have to upgrade libc to have newer /usr/include/* I had the same problem several days ago and asked here if it is safe to upgrade to libc-2.1 from potato to have 2.2 kernel headers. The answers were, that in general with standard Debian softwar

Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Joseph Chung wrote: > if they were using Win9x. All the pieces are in place, expect for > those infrequent instances when my Dad forgets to shutdown before Tell them not to turn the PC off. Best thing to do is configure it to automatically turn off the screen and any surplus

Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?

1999-08-10 Thread Colin McMillen
I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong? (The username and mail server are correct, by the way)... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetch

Re: Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about "Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)" > Hi there, > > I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something > didn't come out so well as I expected... > > I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: > > ma

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 08/10/99 at 15:14:49, David Wright wrote concerning "Re: quick simple latex question": > I get the impression from the LaTeX Companion that portland > requires you to insert \special commands (after the \clearpage > commands) to turn the page. > > I use lscape myself which works fine. It'll ha

RE: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
cat --help cat -s temp > temp1 This will reduce multiple blank lines to 1 blank line, see the other responses if you want that line gone too. If you have a long file with a page of blank space, cat -s README would fix that for you. On 10-Aug-99 venu wrote: > hi all shell scripters ! > > if

Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)

1999-08-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something didn't come out so well as I expected... I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: make menuconfig (OK) make dep (OK) make clean (OK) make modules (OK) make bzImage ...and that's where t

Re: make slink SMP-clean?

1999-08-10 Thread Norris Preyer
> "Eberhard" == Eberhard Burr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went > smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP > kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for > some minor no-brainers

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > Immanuel Yap wrote: > > > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > > > similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to l

Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1

1999-08-10 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: > > I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long > > time to load it. Can it be possible that there > > is a conflict with shared libraries ? > > That is a possiblity, there are a number

Kernel Header Files

1999-08-10 Thread Smith, Tim
I have not been able to find any documentation on how to upgrade the /usr/include/* header files for the kernel after upgrading to the 2.2.10 version of the kernel. Any pointers to how and/or the correct documentation? I have already used make-kpkg kernel_install and make-kpkg kernel_headers, o

Re: Share a directory?

1999-08-10 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:15:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available > the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I > need to look at? I think Samba will do the job dennis > > Thanks Hope this h

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. > When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. > If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then > rotates my document 90 degrees... > > If I lpr

make slink SMP-clean?

1999-08-10 Thread Eberhard Burr
Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for some minor no-brainers on my side). But now some commands, namely top and ps show funny results like negati

Re: scsi hd idle spin down

1999-08-10 Thread Eberhard Burr
Weasel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch > that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when > needed. what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? > PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an A

Re: Share a directory?

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Share a directory?" > Hi, > > If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available > the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I > need to look at? > > Thanks > You want the Samba suite of packages. samba sa

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote about "Re: rc?.d policy?" > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is >> upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment >

SB Live and SMP machines?

1999-08-10 Thread Robert Rati
I got a SB Live sounds card for some reason (like there's a noticable sound difference) and found a driver for it on creative's site. Unfortunately, the module says it's for non-smp machines. I'm putting together a dual proc machine and was wondering if anyone has tried/gotten the module to work o

Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)

1999-08-10 Thread John Foster
Max Lawson wrote: > > Hello ! > > I've installed Debian-Skink on my friend box which used to run > under Win95. > The problem is that I'm not able to access the installed printer. > It's a Canon LBP 660, a M$-specific hardware !-( > And I don't know how to customize the printcap file. >

Partitioning and symlinks

1999-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
(I already posted this to the SuSE list, so apologies if you see it twice) A query/discussion-point for those of you who know their way around these things -- When you first set up partitions (for /, /usr, /home etc) you won't be sure how the takeup of space on these will turn out in the long run

Strange fetchmail/exim/whoknows behaviour

1999-08-10 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading. I have upgraded to some packages in http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the latest apt installed). Anyway, since that time I have started having problems

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Everton
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote: > Dan Everton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I'v

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is > upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment > tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated >

Share a directory?

1999-08-10 Thread jfoltz
Hi, If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I need to look at? Thanks -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Dan Everton wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed > > > that I > > > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mo

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote about "Re: rc?.d policy?" > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if >>you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing >>is stopp

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 .deb files for Debian 2.1

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:32 PM Subject: XFree86 3.3.3.1 .deb files for Debian 2.1 > I would like to install Xfree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1 and do not know which > .deb files to download. I would appreciate any help. > > > -- > Un

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk > browser and double click it then it starts. > > > I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to > > work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- > > unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.g

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:44:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed > > > that I > > > can no lon

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Everton
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I > > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work > > it's just

Re: Soundcard & Printer Hassles

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 05:05:52PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work > on the old motherboard ), and as such I'm having a few hassles with > Linux doing some things. > > The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it wa

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then rotates my document 90 degrees... If I lpr -Pprinter file.ps, it comes out in portrait

Re: Modem Problems

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:13:46AM +0100, Thys van der Merwe wrote: > Hi > > I hope someone can help me with this. > > I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the > packages off the net using dselect. > > At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got

Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > I think I will go for mutt since the PGP stuff works really fine now. > However, I have some questions regarding procmail. You have chosen wisely. I switched recently and can't imagine using anything else. > Is it poss

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work > it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This > include

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Butler
[regarding lynx limit of refresh URLs] Patrick Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think it is the DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE parameter in /etc/lynx.cfg for two > reasons: > > 1. It appears to default to 10 > > 2. It says the "minimum allowed value is 2, for the current document and > at least one to fetch."

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. > I use: > > \usepackage{portland} > > \begin{document} > \landscape > \end{document} > > But it does not work What do yo

Bootable Install CD ISO...

1999-08-10 Thread Umut Ceyhan
Where can I find Debian bootable CD ISO image for x86 ? Thanks lot...

searching for a file-please help

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello, folks! Could some of you please look for a file (I need it for compiling KOffice) named openparts.idl on your hard disk (porobably in /include/idl/)? I wonder if I have lost it, or if no one has got it and the KOffice development group has made some mistakes?? Thanks very much, Stephan Ha

Re: using 6 serial ports

1999-08-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I had the same problem. Then I have used for every Serial Port a seperatly pair od IO/IRQ and now it works. But you need a serial card where you have enough IO and IRQ's I can set up on my serial card 32 different IO's and all IRQ's. Webmistress Michelle At 10:09 10.08.1999 +0200, y

quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. I use: \usepackage{portland} \begin{document} \landscape \end{document} But it does not work Please help me... Shao. -- _

Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?

1999-08-10 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:39:15PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > What Windows NT does, that I'm sure I need, it's force both network cards to > 10Mbits FullDuplex. > I'm unable to get 100Mbits - still didn't test but it seems I've an UTP cat3 > cable. :-( > > So, probably, Linux is not

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1999-08-10 Thread Holger Leiser
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Modem Problems

1999-08-10 Thread Thys van der Merwe
Hi I hope someone can help me with this. I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the packages off the net using dselect. At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got Minicom and wvdial and found that after issuing ATZ to the modem that the modem wasn

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Bernhard Rieder
NatePuri wrote: > > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. If you did already MAKEDEV video and it didn't work then you have to make your video device manually mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 Also you should be shure that the kernel loads msp3400 and tuner. The depencies in the kernel seem to be broken so t

Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Everton
In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. I get this on the termi

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Merten wrote: >Ok, thanks for taking a look at it! (You didn't see anything >obvious that could be done simpler or more efficiently? I always >seem to do things the hard way :) Nothing obvious. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ==

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread NatePuri
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:19:40PM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > > ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video > > > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. > > Did you compile your kernel with suppor

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if >you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing >is stopping you from changing your own system around. But be aware that >whenever yo

using 6 serial ports

1999-08-10 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I added a board with 4 serial ports to my PC. I can access the first two serial ports on that board but I do not succeed in connecting to the other 2 ports. I added support for more then 4 serial ports to the kernel and I added some setserial lines to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial but it still

Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1

1999-08-10 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: > I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long > time to load it. Can it be possible that there > is a conflict with shared libraries ? That is a possiblity, there are a number of other things that affect the loading time of any ap

Debian and StarOffice5.1

1999-08-10 Thread Holger Leiser
I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long time to load it. Can it be possible that there is a conflict with shared libraries ?

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote: > hi all shell scripters ! > > if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i > remove the blank lines ? > > cherio > venu > Well, one way would be to 'cat | tr -s '\n' > ', IIRC. Mike [Private mail welcome, bu

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread venu
hey... that was quick !! thanks stephan... Stephan wrote:... >grep -v ^$ > >This gets you all lines with "something" between the line's beginning (^) >and its end ($). Or rather "without nothing" between beginning and >end (-v is grep's negation option). > i did it like this uing awk. ca

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote: > if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i > remove the blank lines ? grep -v ^$ This gets you all lines with "something" between the line's beginning (^) and its end ($). Or rather "without nothing"

Soundcard & Printer Hassles

1999-08-10 Thread Peter Ludwig
I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work on the old motherboard ), and as such I'm having a few hassles with Linux doing some things. The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it was all I could afford). Namely a soundcard and a video card. The video

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