Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-14 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
, eepicemu, ibmgl, latex, null, pic, pictex, ps, pstex, pstex_t, textyl, mf (META­ FONT) and tpic. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
q&O=T&P=1541> for a complete list of vulnerable systems. It includes *BSD, NT, SCO, SunOS but not solaris -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Pentium Bug Fix for Linux?

1997-11-17 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
in the latest 2.1.63 kernel, and hopefully will be integrated in > 2.0.32... It is present on 2.0.32pre4 -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: K56Flex Modems

1997-11-13 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
have preference to serial lines in the standard configuration. Perhaps, this should be automatically managed by debian. For instance, if I have loaded PPP. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Pa

Re: Emacs and Xemacs

1997-10-14 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
ot a real trouble. Install later the one you would like to be completely OK. In hamm, they do not conflict anymore. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: msdos file system

1997-10-14 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Mike Lucius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just loaded Linux for the 1st time. I would like to know how to create > an msdos file system. I think I need other files installed on my system > but have not been able to figure out what or how. mformat or mkdosfs -- A

Re: formatting logical partition

1997-10-14 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
mk2efs? As usual. For linux, there is no difference between primary or extended partition. You can prepare all partitions as being extended, if you prefer. Lilo, however, needs a primary partition if you do not want to put it in the master boot. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: reading excel documents?

1997-10-13 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
n instead of wine could also be used. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-10-06 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
ses.tgz ftp.uni-augsburg.de /pub/packages/wxwin/ports/curses/wxcurses.tgz ftp.pwr.wroc.pl /pub/wxwin/ports/curses/wxcurses.tgz ftp.fu-berlin.de /unix/languages/c++/wxwin/ports/curses/wxcurses.tgz -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Scien

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
the driver must be compiled inside the kernel, since some drivers have their parameters analised in boot time but not in loading module time. If there is some PNP card, you may have problems. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Sc

Re: emacs and xemacs

1997-07-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
l emacs with dpkg --force-conflicts and they will work (some bin utilities of xemacs will be overwritten, like ctags) -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-01 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
There is (or was don't know if it's still there) a version in > experimental. If there isn't will you debianise it? I've always wanted > to try it out. ... And if you wanna get a more recent version of wine, get the newest source, use the wine-alpha*.diff to debianize

Re: Pascal Compiler

1997-06-25 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
7; shows: Version: 2.0-3 Depends: libc5, gcc (>= 2.7.2.1-2), gcc (<< 2.7.2.2), libgpc2 'dpkg --listfiles libgpc2' shows /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8 /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2 You should have libgpc2 package installed. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.im

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
cos OS/2 and Win95 view the MBR > as their territory ... Many MSDOS viruses also do it. I also *prefer* this direction. However, if we do not have any linux partition as a primary partition in the first HD, lilo must go to MBR. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://ww

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-24 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
hy i think it deserved a bit more polish. After all, it's >the first reall interaction a user gets with Debian. There is a project which is working on replacing dselect. I'd like to suggest you to install/use packages like menu and dwww. You will see how powerful is the distrib

Re: Search results from dww [was: Re: debian meta-help?}

1997-06-12 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
cise diff between 'Manual pages' and 'Manual page search' fields in my results. Anyway, I would also try to reinstall dwww even if you are using the same version I am using. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science D

Re: debian meta-help?

1997-06-12 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
rpc.mountd(8) setup(2) showmount(8) smbmount(8) umount(2) ---- -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
You guessed wrong. Cheap-Bytes includes the whole contrib and selected files from non-free. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: Glitches during stable -> frozen transition

1997-05-26 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
and large enough to be required for other installations. If only jed had an ediff-mode... Perhaps something could be writen in perl. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSU

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-15 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
"W.D.McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? Me. I came from RH 3.0.3 and I am satisfyed. I also used RH 4.0 but I prefer Debian for my taste. You can configure and upgrade better. You also have much more official packages. -

Re: WINE

1997-04-17 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
uploading > a new package before the release of 1.3. You can always debianize a new version yourself. Get the .diff.gz file in the source, apply the patch to a new version of wine, and run debian/rules binary Perhaps you should do some small edition like in debian/changelog. -- Alair Pe

Re: bi

1997-04-17 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
IL PROTECTED] * Unix admin > If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected > abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was > the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990. > -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECT

Beta testing 1.3 installation

1997-04-16 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
intention to report the problems I find. Where should I report them? Debian-user? Thanks in advance. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: bi

1997-04-16 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: > > > I do not know vi well but I do not see how it could be simpler than > > ctr-alt-s > > in emacs. There, while you are filling the regular expression you can see &g

Re: 1.2.4 list of known problems

1997-04-16 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
ing it I should have anything working clean. If I understood right, this is known bug on which order the packages are installed and has being worked. You can solve this by choosing 'install' again in dselect. BTW, put /usr/X11R6/lib in yout /etc/ld.conf and run ldconfig if you have not done it

Re: bi

1997-04-15 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
ut one letter more and the matching you had does not match anymore, it goes to next ocurrence of that regular expression you have in the text. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: ANNOUNCE: Public Desktop Environment

1997-04-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
w.com/fdlite/index.html > > > Regards, > > > Freedom Desktop Team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.fsw.com -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: Debian's 'group' system

1997-04-09 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
+31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: xemacs and emacs

1997-04-08 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
> these two packages from Incoming and installed them without problems. It would be very nice if these packages reachs frozen. It is annoying that dselect reclaims both are conflicting every time I update my system. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime

Re: xemacs and emacs

1997-04-08 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
inaries of xemacs to some internal directory (like we have with movemail, hexl) and configure the specific variables in site-start if these is a problem. Perhaps renaming some bins like etags to xetags could be done. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.b

Re: Safer package installation

1997-04-07 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
om, say, > "/usr/lib/" to "/usr/packages//lib/". What about performance? I don't think a system full of symlinks would be so fast. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-02 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
non-free directory? I can see many packages which depends on Motif in contrib and I do not see why should Motif be more free than Qt. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: make-kpkg

1997-03-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
quot;$fileslistfile.new") It was published in this list somewhere around. BTW, Does anyone know wether this bug was fixed in some new package? -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-04 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
first pon, now my sound... I feel better now... Note: Last time I did such configurations, it was done over a RedHat installation and I did not start to compile the kernel in my fresh debian installation. I could even start to play some music in linux, hit ctr-alt-del, go to dos, and the music was

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-03-03 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
every old tex package. tetex-convertion conflicts with every old tex package. tetex-convertion is (pre)required by new tetexpackages Perhaps, one dummy package for each old tex package could solve the problem if the above approach fails. PS: I can't try myself these approchs. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: Lilo query

1997-02-28 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
the boot sector from a host non-linux primary partition which would not mind in having its boot sector borrowed. Perhaps a second MSDOS partition, for instance. At home, I have 10 partitions in my HD. My linux root partition -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: Dot-matrix printers

1997-01-08 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
n. 4) configure apsfilter for your port and the right device for your printer. It edits the printcap for you. 5) certify that lpd is installed and running (in the booting time it was usually started) -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair>

Re: How to override xlib6 dependencies?

1997-01-07 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
> that I already have a package which provides xlib6. > > That's because AcceleratedX does *NOT* provide the X libraries. > > Go ahead and install the new XFree86 3.2, including the VGA16 server, then > reinstall AcceleratedX. Does anyone know whether AcceleratedX 1.3 works

Debian security list (was Re: security)

1996-12-05 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
a debian-security-list or advice about security-hole updated packages in debian-announce. Furthermore, I suggest that, during the installation, there is an advice that people subject to security holes problems MUST sign this list. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http