Re: dvi with type 1 fonts

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:06:13PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have these standard lines in my latex files: > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage{pslatex} Ah, perfect! Thanks! -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.ad

dvi with type 1 fonts

With dvipk(k) 5.82 (the version with comes with slink), how do you tell dvips to use type1 outline formats instead of the type 3 bitmaps generated from mk? thanks, -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/> -+-- Public P

GNOME (slink) not working

p gtk-engines-metal and gtop. (I specifed specific apps because I wasn't sure if they were in the task packages, so I went ahead and specified them.) If it would help to see a log of the entire apt session I can post that too (I ran the install under script). thanks! (a /huge/ thanks!) -- C

Setting up mrtg (for a home)

which is present on every network, running debian and ipchains, which masqerades all outgoing packets through its ppp connection, which is what we would like to monitor (and the actual network interfaces as well if possible). thanks! -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.n

Undefined symbols (everywhere)

After upgrading to slink I'm getting undefined symbols in several programs (esp with Window Maker and related apps). Could I be missing an upgraded library or such? puzzled, -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.n

Re: Eterm

mail --icon-name 'm u t t' \ > --term-name rxvt -M menu -e mutt ) \ >> /dev/null 2>&1 & That did it (after moving it out of the config file and into a script called by the config file), thanks! Does Eterm eat 100% cpu when you try to exit it for anyone else? --

Eterm

m u t t' --name mail --icon-name 'm u t t' --term-name rxvt -M menu -e mutt > /dev/null 2>&1 & thanks, -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/> -+-- Public PGP Key: E

Re: Xsetlocale problem after hamm -> slink

I applied the diff done by Magallo at http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/wmaker/ and that fixed the locale problems, thanks! Now all I have to do is figure out why netscape dies with a bus error... :( -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/ch

Xsetlocale problem after hamm -> slink

ker-0.60.0/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 What lack in packages or conflict could be causing this? thanks! -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/> -+-- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the s

Upgrading with two cd's, at once?

hope not! :) thanks, -- Chris Frost | <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/> -+-- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "retrieve pgp key" or visit <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key

sshd stops working upon using 2.2 kernel

I just upgarded a sparc running slink to a 2.2.9 kernel (with pty's enabled) and now sshd has stopped working. When you try to ssh from another box to it you simply sit there. ssh'ing from the box back to itself yields the warning "Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty." (

Setting software clock (gmt)

I'd like to have a box setup so that it's hardware clock is set to gmt, while in software the box presents the time in the local time (central fwiw); how would I do this? Is there a pre-setup way to account for daylight savings time, or should I either do it manually or through cron? thanks! -- C

Debian cd cover

Several months back I ran accross a debian cd tray cover made in postscript by someone for slink but can't remember where it was (I have the i386 ps files, but didn't grab sparc images). Anyone know what I'm talking about, and what the url is? thanks! -- Chris <- Visit Me At

Re: free output vs. ps aux: not the same?

On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:52:24PM -, Ted Harding wrote: > "free" is misleading. After you've been running for a bit and several > processes have been run and closed, their code & data persist in memory > in case they are needed again. If anything new needs memory, then the > memory space of so

free output vs. ps aux: not the same?

I've been noticing a greater difference between the outputs of free and ps with regard to my used memory and am really beginning to wonder what's going on... Here's what's going on: I'm running 2.2.1 on an x86 box and as the system has been chugging away the amount of free memory has been dwindlin

Managing multi display hosts

I have a quick question that I hope ya'll might be able to answer for me... I'd like to setup a second box as an X server that would allow me to treat it like another desktop (ala workspace in window maker). I know of the -display flags and such, but would like to be able to move a running program

Printing to non-postscript printer via smb

I have a quick question reguarding magicfilters; I need to do a postscript to pcl (hp laserjet 4p) conversion and then send this to a printer resident on a win95 box via smb. How would I do this? About all I know how to setup is the printer while on my box through magicfilter's config utility... T

Re: XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

Reply-To: Ah, thanks; next time I'll remember to check the faq. -- Chris <- Visit Me At -> <--> Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with th

XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

Reply-To: I have a Matrox Mill II and am thinking of buying a Matrox G200 to add to my box so that I could use two monitors on the same machine. Does XFree86 support this yet? I've seen talk of it for AccelX, but not really any for XFree. tia, -- Chris <- Visit Me At

eterm and .bash_profile

Reply-To: Is there any way to tell eterm not to execute my ~/.bash_profile? I have several things ran by this script that only need to be ran when I login, not everytime I open up a term window. tia, -- Chris <- Visit Me At -> <--

mutt with pgp support?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or gpgp)? I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to compile on my boxes. :(

RE: Copying CDs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jon Burchmore wrote: > I have to disagree with part of what was said above. I use plain old dd to > grab > images off (data) CD-ROMs all the time. A simple dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image.iso > bs=8192000 > works for me. Of course, t

Re: Copying CDs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Odin wrote: > > [snip] > > or use sdd (scsi dd) to do a bit-for-bit copy of the source. Note though, > > that the last option does actually do a bit for bit copy, meaning even > > things such as scratches will show up on the copy

Re: Copying CDs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Tom Lear wrote: > > -- Please CC: me, I'm not subscribed -- > > My friend has a CD of his music he needs copied and I have the equipment > to do it but I haven't used the tools yet. I need to do this soon so I'm > asking for hel

Re: ipchains and /dev/audio

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Also, I use this WM dock-app called wmnet that used to use ipfwadm > which needed the "IP Accounting" kernel configuration option. I now > need to use ipchains to do this, but get always get an error l

Re: Problem with AudioPCI (ES1370)/ kernel 2.2.0

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI that used to work with Windowss NT. > I installed Debian 2.0 couple of months back and had not > made any attempts to get sound to work. Yesterday, I got > Ker

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After much work, I decided to give up on the upgrade from hamm's postgresql -> slink -> potato and just uninstalled postgresql and installed 6.4.2-3 which of course worked just fine. Also, thanks Oliver for python-pygresql! Seems to be working great!

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > If the files you need no longer exist on your system, you should reinstall > the old postgresql and libpgsql (versions 6.3.2-16, if your database > version was 6.3) and then load 6.4.2-3, which, as far as I

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > Two ways to find this: > > 1. grep or zgrep through Contents-i386, located in dists/unstable/ or > dists/stable; > > 2. use dpkg -S libpq.so.1 Guess I should have been more specific, but I'm trying to fin

What owns a piece of postgresql...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What package own /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/6.3/psql, libpq.so.1 and libpq.so.2? Reason being, I have the posgresql from hamm and am trying to upgrade to the version in potato (which has python support) and to dump my databases I need these files. ti

gnuplot in hamm and splot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evertime I try to run a splot statement in gnuplot (from hamm), it seg faults. I've tried everytime from examples in /usr/doc/gnuplot to the stuff I'm trying to plot, and no luck. plot seems to be working fine fwiw. tia, Chris <- Visit Me At

Print Quality Problem: HP 895C

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was previously using an hp deskjet 855c, and while it output medicore (in my opinion at least) quality, I'm having big troubles with my new printer. I just bought an hp deskjet 895Cse, and the output is aweful! I'm using magic filters and using the d

Re: Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We > plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day > occasionally. After reading ne

Re: Video card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, slack wrote: > If you are going to go with the PCI bus, you can't really go wrong with the > Matrox Millenium I or II. Both very fast cards and well supported. The Martox Mill II screams; I'm using it on my box now. The G200 costs

pygres in slink/hamm?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A saw a thread on this a while back, but never saw an answer: Is pygres (the python interface to postgresql) available in either hamm or slink? thanks, Chris <- Visit Me At -> <

postgresql: copy help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to populate a database by entering the info via a text editor in a tab/comma delimited file and import it into PostgreSQL using the copy command, but I can't seem to get it working. I've tried slight variants of "COPY weather FROM test.sql;" w

Re: databases and `mail merge'

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > Or python using pygres to communicate with Postgres and producing LateX > output. This is what I decided to do, thanks! Of course, I need to learn some python pretty quickly now :) Chris <- Visit Me At

databases and `mail merge'

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm setting up a database of prospective colleges and would like to be able to grab info from the database and somehow insert it into generic documents. Ideally, it would be inserted into latex documents and fetch the info from PostgreSQL, but if there

installing on cdrom-less box

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to install debian on a box which lacks a cdrom; I can export the debian cd's via nfs, ftp, whatever. I had heard that you could install debian with floppies and nfs, but haven't been able to find the floppy image(s) to do so. thanks, Chris <-

Re: gtk program compile error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ gcc -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include > -ogtk > source/gtk.c Ahh, I forgot to include the gtklibs (I did a `gtk-config --libs`). Sorry to distrub everyone

gtk program compile error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm just starting to learn gtk and when I try to compile the below program, I get the below error message: - --- Program --- #include int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { GtkWidget *window; gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

vim syntax colors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started using vim a few weeks ago and really love it! Anyway, when I run vim in X (not gvim, just vim in an xterm) the colors are different than those vim uses when at the console. I like the color scheme of the console better (for example, the

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

-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

Beginning C

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to start learning C (I know a bit of latex and enough basic/newtonscript to do simple math stuff, but that's about it) and was wondering what a good book would be to serve as in intro to programming c on linux (and as an intro to programming i

gnome 0.99 debs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anyone working (or already made) debs for gnome 0.99? Chris <- Visit Me At -> <--> Public PGP Key:

Re: unix/literature people article

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature > http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml Thanks, it's a really great article! (Thanks to Curt too.) Chris <- Visit Me At

unix/literature people article

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Several months back a webzine (maybe they did print also) has a great article on the writers findings to why people who were very good at writing, etc used unix so much (because unix is a language, as he explained with an example of two unix people gre

[X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over [x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear from both sides. Chris <- Visit Me At -> <-

latex2html and navigation buttons

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When running latex2html on documents, it complains about not finding many images (this is a very plain text document fwiw, no math; I'm trying to keep it simple), and a look at the output reveal that the links to the nav buttons are in reference to my

Re: latex.....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. For what purpose? Just the tab in the first line of a paragraph? The \ident. If you'd like to make a table, try using the tabbular enviroment. Chris <- Vi

ctx monitors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this is /way/ off topic, sorry if it offends anyone in advance. I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student on a budget and this will be m

latex2html image generation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When trying to run latex2html on a document, it complains that it can't find the images for gs to translate. Errors such as this: - --- Error while converting image: No such f

egcs 1.1.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone grabbed egcs 1.1.1 and compiled it? Does it do so cleanly? Chris <- Visit Me At -> <--> Pub

printing over smb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've setup printers using magicfilterconfig before, but how do I set the printer up to print using smb? thanks, Chris <- Visit Me At -> <

building pine 4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been trying to get pine 4.05 to build for a couple weeks now, and have gotten pretty close. The only thing stopping the build is pico, which gives this out as it builds: Making Pico and Pilot make CC=cc -f makefile.lnx cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -lnc

Re: setting up lprng

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > You have installed magicfilter and you did run magicfilterconfig --force > if necessary? > Is ghostscript installed? Yes, yes, and yes. GS works just fine, I can view the postscript files fine w/ gv (I'm running gs 5.10 btw). > Please post the printer ent

Re: setting up lprng

On 22 Nov 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > Install magicfilter and run magicfilterconfig. Ahh, very nice; thanks! When I print postscript files it still just sends text to the printer (using the deskjet 855c filter fwiw), any ideas? > P.S.: This will (hopefully) yield a running system. Later you can sc

setting up lprng

I'm farily new to debian and have been trying to find info on how to setup lprng (which is used instead of the bsd lp tools) and some filtering on my box (ps->dj conversion, and ps->lj over smb fwiw). Where could I find info explaining how to set this up (or if someone wouldn't mind helping)? than

Re: anon ftp problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > Hmm, there isn't even a lib or bin directory! I'm using ProFTP (just > : > noticed that the subject makes it look like I'm running anonftp). I can > : > copy these over from an old install, but what

Re: anon ftp problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Eric wrote: > The most frequent problem that causes this is that you need to have ls > in the /home/ftp/bin directory (or whatever directory you use for > anonymous ftp) and you also need ld-linux.so.2 and libc6.so.6 in > /home/f

anon ftp problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running hamm and when a user logs in as anonymous into my ftp box, they can't see what's in the directories; they can cd into them and grab files if they know the filenames, but can't see anything through ls. Everything in ~ftp/ is owned by root, a

Re: ipchains?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can get the source (or glibc binaries) from . This should be in linux/Documentation/Changes, I'll check to make sure it's still in there. Chris <- Visit Me At

where to get updated debs (for kernel 2.1)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm a debian newbie (veteran redhat'er) and was wondering if there is a place to get updated deb's for things that aren't up to date in slink. I need to update some things such as libc5, modutils, and procps and the versions in slink aren't new enough