Webinator 4 under Debian?

2001-11-05 Thread David Sewell
on...perhaps it will work under Woody? -- David Sewell, Project Editor The University Press of Virginia PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 434 924 6066

Pitfalls of domain-name aliasing?

1998-06-11 Thread David Sewell
under the canonical name or an alias? DS -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Where the earth is dry, the Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | soul is wisest and best." WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | --Heraclitus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread David Sewell
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: > David Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: > > A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of > > users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I inst

Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread David Sewell
multiple packages for the same program? Or include multiple versions of the binaries in a single package, and determine from the user during package install which one to copy to /usr/bin? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ.

Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)

1998-03-16 Thread David Sewell
stroke Commands". > > Z, or control-g. Stalled resolves, though, won't be interrupted unless > Lynx was compiled with the --with-nsl-fork option to configure. Note > that this may only be a feature of 2.8 . This feature is present as of the current Debian lynx package, 2.7.2

Re: VIM 5.0

1998-03-14 Thread David Sewell
e, is 5.0 now genuinely a release version without postfix letters, or does the problem Galen alludes to still exist? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED]| "Hidden harmony is Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | better than manifest." WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona

Old curses "month" program under hamm?

1998-03-11 Thread David Sewell
and now I can't get the source code to compile without errors. (I'm not much of a C programmer.) (Any pointers to strategies for tweaking old traditional C source code to Gnu-compatible would also be helpful.) -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED]| "Hidden harmony is Dep

Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-14 Thread David Sewell
on the individual user, maybe by getting addresses to block from a file that the package installer would be required to create (either by hand or maybe with a script that would pull in lists from given URLs--J.D. Falk's site has a couple of scripts like that). DS -- David Sewell * [EMAIL

cmsg cancel <5g1o8d$16e8@news.ccit.arizona.edu>

1997-03-15 Thread David Sewell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was cancelled from within trn. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | (and fellow-workers) in WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | what happ

Exim as replacement for smail

1997-03-10 Thread David Sewell
features that smail lacks.) I'm wondering if anyone who has converted from smail to exim could comment on how much reconfiguring is likely to be necessary after the conversion--I assume that the exim package won't use information from an smail install, since the two packages are defined

Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

1997-02-25 Thread David Sewell
se the program crashes, but have yet to play around with libraries in hopes of a fix. There's some disagreement about whether the fixes that work for NS 3 work for the new beta. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "If all things should become Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of A

Problem with smail 3.2-3 and mutt 0.52 as configured

1997-01-14 Thread David Sewell
What I don't know because I'm not a mail guru is which program is not behaving properly. Should smail be configured by default to resolve "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" correctly, or should Mutt not translate "user" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? I'll send a bug report

What's up with debian-user headers?

1996-09-27 Thread David Sewell
Are the mail headers for this list in flux? For a long time, I've been using procmail to filter on "Resent-From: debian-user". In the last day or so some messages are missing that header. So I shifted to filtering on "* TO: debian-user". Problem is, some of the messages are being sent to debia

Re: "Netiquette" of requesting package updates

1996-08-25 Thread David Sewell
Brian C. White writes: > >> I spend close >> to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and >> a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian version >> is several months out of date. > >Which editor and browser are you talking about? Are you looking >at the "stable" or the "develo

"Netiquette" of requesting package updates

1996-08-24 Thread David Sewell
As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped back to earlier releases of certain programs. I spend close to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian versi

Fixing timezone info in Debian

1996-08-21 Thread David Sewell
) and roll my own??? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | (and fellow-workers) in WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | what

smail upgrade from old Slackware -> Debian?

1996-08-06 Thread David Sewell
working but not incoming. I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier, since I'm in for a reinstall anyway, to junk Slackware and try building on a new Debian system. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has taken a similar leap from an old Slackware setup, especially