Re: Off topic - more assembler

1999-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
cludes somewhere but I don't know what to > include !!! I doubt that the presence or lack of include files would change the meaning of a piece of inline assembler that compiles without complaints (or any code that compiles without complaints, for that matter). -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Off topic - more assembler

1999-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
a significantly different notation for assembler instructions than the one suggested by Intel and used in Dos/win environment? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: What am i going to install?

1999-01-28 Thread Henning Makholm
27; selection -- these have been tested and proved to work well together before they were denounced 'stable'. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Problem with dselect, cant´t install things from cd , dont find directories

1999-01-28 Thread Henning Makholm
gestion dselect gave? What is the contents of that directory? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-01-28 Thread Henning Makholm
blahblah.gz | pager I think all of the pager packages include a 'zfoo' command that does this with a single command. Less does, at least: $ zless blahblah.gz -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Help! I can't partition my disk.

1999-01-28 Thread Henning Makholm
r it precisely). -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: converting numbers

1999-01-28 Thread Henning Makholm
de contexts where one KNOWS that this convention is or is not followed, it cannot be advised to write numbers with leading zeroes. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: insmod lp problems

1999-01-28 Thread Henning Makholm
st like you're trying to load a module that doesn't match the kernel you're running. AFAIK modules must be compiled to match a specific kernel binary. (I could be wrong?) -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Henning Makholm
ce the install program completed. Would instructions as to how to copy the .deb in question to a floppy and install it with dpkg before running dselect suffice? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: How to read Texinfo file format

1999-01-27 Thread Henning Makholm
For authoring, see Henning's message below. Given that Alfie has a texinfo source file, from a technical point of view he is authoring. He cannot use the info reader without running his source through makeinfo (which is in tetex-bin). -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: debian newbie seeks help

1999-01-27 Thread Henning Makholm
that it is a file that can be run as a program. > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No thanks. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: How to read Texinfo file format

1999-01-27 Thread Henning Makholm
the tetex-bin and tetex-base packages (at least in hamm, that is). The dvips program one need for making printable postscript from the .dvi is in tetex-bin, too. The stand-alone info reader (which is for making sense out of *.info if one hasn't any emacs) has its own package, in section doc. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: setting up Linux

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
e boot process and let you choose between Linux and Windows at boot-up time, or use a boot manager from another source and let Lilo live in your root partition, only to be activated when you choose to boot Linux. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
nnected with this. Try inserting (or removing it, if it's already there) that and see if it helps. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
st than usually, since the inode has already got marked as deleted. fsck then completed the deletion process. Indeed, probably nothing to worry about. lost+found is usually for inodes that look OK but happen to not be referenced from any directory, isn't it? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Self referencing

1999-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
to another without a reinstallation. Debian does a fine job of 'live' upgrades between versions of itself, but there is no hope that a live upgrade path from another distribution can be created. The differences in the critical basic details are too big. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: STTY and CRT

1999-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
and report the results). For me, it seems that the problem is with the autodetection of the terminal type at login What does that on a Debian system (I'm not using mine right now)? telnetd? login? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: GDB problems

1999-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
there is a 'teste' executable somewhere in your path that gdb finds before it looks for the one you just built. Try starting gdb with './teste' as the argument and see if it works better that way. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Next version of windows being debugged...

1999-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
"David Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Content-Type: image/gif; > name="monkeycomputer.gif" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="monkeycomputer.gif" Please! The volume on this li

Re: Help a newbie installing pine

1999-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Darknight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, whenever I try to build it using > the linux option, I get an error "ld cannot open -ltermcap: no such file > or directory." Do you have ncurses-dev (sp?) installed? AFAIR it installs libtermcap.* as symlinks to libcurse

Re: starting X apps as root

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Robert Vollmert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a comfortable way of starting programs as root when I'm logged > in as a normal user? Look into the sudo package. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Kernel compilation - niggling issue.

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
probable scenario that the program tries to open /dev/something which makes the kernel search for the appropriate module, fail, and return an error to the program which then decides it can do without it. At any rate, nothing seems to malfunction here save the error message. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: mount problems

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
x directory before you try mounting? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
n't C calling conventions and C struct layouts, etc. supposed to remain stable across compilers for the same architecture? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Deb...

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
he initial marketing boost. How would that become easier by turning the entire development structure upside down? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: rawrite for linux

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
don't understand exactly how this happens, like, where does the code that controlls this process come from when there is no file system yet?) -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: RPM under Debian?

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
an's native packaging system, .deb, is at least as sophisticated as RPM and will give you the same advantages. In fact we find deb to be a technically superior tool. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: g++ -- installation difficulties

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
() function in the program you're trying to compile? If so, see if you can reproduce your error with a small hello-worldish example and post your example code along with the exact command line you use to invoke g++ -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Emergency use of boot-rescue disk.

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
a new password for root. Of course this is highly insecure if the machine connects to a network automatically as it boots, so unplug any LAN connections you have while doing this, and preferably boot it into single user mode until you've created a new root password. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
tion -- but of course it may match more or less well your usual mixture of dependency on cpu/disk/RAM performance. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Is there document describing preposed Directory Tree structure?

1999-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
This is what Debian aims at complying to (AFAIK). -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Filenames vfat-fs

1999-01-17 Thread Henning Makholm
tried escaping the space in the shell? Either of cd "/mnt/win95/Program Files" cd /mnt/win95/Program\ Files cd /mnt/win95/Program' 'Files should work unless there is a bug in the kernel's long filename support. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Language

1999-01-17 Thread Henning Makholm
erally well documented in the on-line help. Contrast this to the situation on a windows box where the CONFIG.SYS file (not to mention the registration database) mostly consists of opaque entries that some automatic installation tool decided you want, without also deciding that you wa

Re: still fighting for normality

1999-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
ad it should be 'umask', not 'unmask'. Could it be that the parameter is misspelled and ignored so you get the default umask of 022? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
've never completely understood why managements think that way. A registered company can quit business, go broke, or simply decide to skip the product. A volunteer effort of individuals spread out over the internet is unstoppable as long as anyone, anywhere, thinks the product should live on

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Henning Makholm
he hardware specs. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-14 Thread Henning Makholm
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cat > $TMPFILE > is enough, so that the entire script becomes Hm, seemingly I assumed that the header the original poster spoke of had already been written to the tmpfile. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
I wrote: > There doesn't seem to be any way of turning this feature off in > standard bash. No, there isn't. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
n when it writes out the working directory. It assumes that when working somewhere deep inside your home you would rather see ~/foo/bar/xyzzy/grizzle:$ than /home/kent/foo/bar/xyzzy/grizzle:$ There doesn't seem to be any way of turning this feature off in standard bash. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-12 Thread Henning Makholm
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while read line; do > echo $line >> $TMPFILE > done Any special reason for not simply doing cat >> $TMPFILE ? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: GNOME, on floppy?

1999-01-12 Thread Henning Makholm
separate virtual console. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Help. I seem to have broken my machine.

1999-01-11 Thread Henning Makholm
e if one suspects library problems). -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-11 Thread Henning Makholm
asts. A strong desire to program is needed, along with infinite supplies of persistence and patience. That goes no matter how you start. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: kernel compilation and as86?

1999-01-07 Thread Henning Makholm
you might want to try to reinstall it. It not, install it. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Upgrading

1999-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
to contain a libc6 version of apt... -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
stalling the package maintainer scripts and wrap your self-built exim up as a debian package? You should be able to get the necessary debianizing magic from the package source for the debian exim. Or am I misunderstanding you, too? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: procmail can't lock mail spool?

1999-01-05 Thread Henning Makholm
er agent once having died a little too violently. Simply become root and delete the file. That should clear the error. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: Ram problem (i think) win/linux

1998-12-24 Thread Henning Makholm
e is 1024 kilobytes. That means, 192 megabytes is 196608 kilobytes. So if you just divide by 1000 you'll be telling linux that you have 4 megabytes that aren't there, which is asking for trouble all right! > now lets switch to windows95 shall we.. Hardly so on a debian mailing

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but the version > number that comes up at boot still says 2.0.34 (which I think is hamm). That looks suspiciously like a kernel relase number, not a Debian release number. slink uses kernels from the 2.0.x series. -- Henning Makholm http:/

Re: Sound, HELP!

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
jor and minor device numbers" by which the kernel knows the device. I don't have a reference at hand, but try to see if not 'man mknod' produces a pointer. Or else, there is a definitive listing somewhere in the kernel source tree. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: bison/ld problem?

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
X box I'm sitting at; it does not seem to be in the canon of "things one can expect do to portably on unices". bison.info contains source for a reasonable default yyerror() you could use instead of -ly. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

How to restore original conffiles?

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
ay to deal with such a situation? What have I missed - apart from backing up the file in question before hacking on it, but the original *was* there on the cdrom, right? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm