C.L.P.M. crashes Netscape 4.05 under Debian

1998-11-25 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi y'all: I have been having a strange problem for the past month or so: I've been using Netscape 4.05 under Debian with Kernel 2.0.34 (if it matters) as my Newsreader for a long time, with no problems. But whenever I try to read the group comp.lang.perl.misc, it starts updating the messages and

Why am I no longer on this list?

1998-08-16 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi As of about a week ago, I have stopped getting any new messages from the Debian-user digest, to which I have been subscribed for over a year now. I sorely miss my daily fix of information and interesting odds and ends. I tried to resubscribe a couple days ago, but so far I am still not gettin

Netscape Problem: SOLVED -- but now what?

1998-08-16 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi A couple days ago I sent a cry for help because my Netscape had suddenly stopped working. I got a number of helpful replies, for which I thank the writers. But I solved it myself. In case anyone else is having a similar problem, here's what I found: Some weks ago I had put a link in /u

new ncurses and loss of terminfo files

1998-05-22 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi: I recently updated to the latest set of ncurses packages in my (mostly) "frozen" debian system. When installation finished, my system no longer understood "linux" or "rxvt" as terminal types! A search showed that the directory /etc/terminfo had been completely gutted -- all the old files had