On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote:
>If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect
>will offer to scan the .deb files that are actually on your disk.
But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists,
either. I kind of like that information,
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 02:59:43 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>Vi and clones aren't completely safe, either. In some circumstances, at
>least, they load a .exrc (and/or .vimrc or whatever) from the current
Well, I don't use vi under Linux; only under DOS and OS/2. The Linux
version (Debian installat
On Mon, 19 Aug 96 16:33 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> tar generates a single Tape ARchive (that's why it is called `tar')
> and knows nothing about multiple files or positioning of a tape, it
> just reads or writes from/to a device. mt knows everyting about moving
> the tape back and forth,
On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 05:47:04 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>However, stupid people can also write mail user programs that automatically
>run a program that comes in e-mail. Even more stupid people use such
UltiMail/2 Lite for OS/2 (comes with the Internet Access Kit) has such
a feature. However,
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:22:38 +0200 (MET DST), Heiko R. Selber wrote:
>Hi Net,
Hello!
> gcc-2.7.2-8 could not be installed (depends on binutils-2.6-2 which is
> not installed)
This is because binutils is not installed. It needs to be installed
first, as there
are utilities in there that are
I remember somebody saying something about a certain program being
removed when they ran dselect the other day?
Well, I found out what the problem was, by monitoring my installation
closely. The first time you run the 'remove selected programs' option
from the dselect menu, it removes that progra
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:31:04 -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
>/usr/doc/fileutils. You will see a file called "color-ls.gz" with more
>details. Briefly, you can simply execute
Ah...that might explain why I don't get the 'ls -o' ability. Didn't
realize
Debian just copied it in, and never bother
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +, Karsten Mueller wrote:
>I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07
There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly
for 2.0.8->2.0.9 and 2.0.9->2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is
the kernel
which the c
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:10:24 +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
>> 1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the
> |
>I guess you mean "./", don't you? ---+
Oops. :(
>Check your PATH setting: is "." part of the search path?
Ye
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:20:06 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>most cases hardware will be blamed, even though the problem appears on
>a variety of memory/CPU/motherboard/add-on configurations, and the same
>configurations can run other OSs (*including* older versions of Linux)
The external ca
Ok, I've got a few questions for problems that are for the most part
annoying the hell out of me.
1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the
executable name in order
to be able to execute the program (all programs in the /usr/games
directory).
2. I've created .bashrc, .bash_pro
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