messages from xconsole

1998-07-12 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, Can someone please explain me these messages from xconsole: 1. Jul 12 15:55:47 debian in.qpopper[208]: connect from localhost Jul 12 15:55:47 debian in.qpopper[208]: @localhost: -ERR Too few arguments for the auth command. 2. Jul 12 15:56:31 debian in.qpopper[227]: connect from localhost

Re: Reader / Editor for PDF Format Documents

1998-07-11 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Alex Kwan wrote: > > My System is Hamm, which packages are the > Reader or Editor for PDF Format Documents? > Where can I download it? > I have the Acrobat Reader for Debian. It's in non-free/binary-i386/text/acroread_3.01-0.1.deb At least there I have it. You showld go to a debian ftp repos a

why kde doesn't load my Xresources or .Xresources ?!

1998-07-11 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I've recently discovered that my KDE doesn't load the Xresouces or my personal .Xresources. Is there a place to set this or is it a bug ? If I type 'xrdb -load /etc/X11/Xresources' the resources are loaded and everything works fine. icewm, on the other hand, loaded the Xresources from the beg

Re: Lost stdio.h

1998-07-11 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Craig Askings wrote: > > Hi all, > > During my upgrade to the Hamm distribution, I've managed to lose a > file called stdio.h. Could someone please tell me witch package it is in? > > I'm assuming it is in one of the packages releated to C but I don't know > which one. debian# dpkg -S s

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-11 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Joey Hess wrote: > > This "scan" functionality is in the program called dpkg-scanpackages. Use it > like > > dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages > Thanks. Now it works and I can use apt as the method for dselect. It is realy cool and this proves again that I've done the right thing be choos

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-10 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Do you perhaps have the debug option uncommented in /etc/ppp/options? > Or is there a "debug" in /etc/ppp/peers/provider? > It was a 'debug' in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider. I've commented it and password (with all the other debug messages) disappeared from the xcon

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-10 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Shaleh wrote: > pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a OK. I agree with that. I didn't give much importance to this, as I'm the only one here. However, who knows what my girl-friend will want to do some day, so better to protect myself. :) Where should I look ? In

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Joey Hess wrote: > > If you use apt with dselect, this is no longer a problem, apt fixes it. Hi, Just try to use apt and observed it is missing something (at least this is how I see this): it doesn't have a [scan] facility. In other words, it will not let you install packages if you do not have

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial > up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so > appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an > account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your

Re: Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: > > Drake Diedrich wrote: > > > >Lapack++ hasn't been packaged yet, but would be welcome. The successor, > > NTL, might be a better time investment. http://math.nist.gov/tnt/ > > After some strugle, I've managed to c

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Shaleh wrote: > > I never assume how much of a newbie you are (-: Ok, step one. Go to > www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software and get the imlib packages, you only > need the -dev ones if you intend to compile things. Install them in > this order: imlib-base, libimlib, libgdk-imlib, imlib-progs (then

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? > > --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *. /s msg before... > ---And the Gateway message... and others... > Me also. Very annoying. Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubs

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-08 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Will Lowe wrote: > > Go for "sudo". > Will Try using "ssh -l root localhost" to access the root. After connection, you'll be able to launch X apps. From a previous thread, I've understud ssh is the recomended way. Ionutz -- Unsubscribe?

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Shaleh wrote: > > I have a tk app which reads the currently installed packages list and > lists them alphabetically. It also shows the files that each package > contains. It is very handy. I have the tk source (obviously) I lack > the accompanying C source for its lib. I have contacted the aut

Re: Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-05 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Drake Diedrich wrote: > >Lapack++ hasn't been packaged yet, but would be welcome. The successor, > NTL, might be a better time investment. http://math.nist.gov/tnt/ After some strugle, I've managed to compile Lapack++. The tests included in the distribution (the netlib one) said it's OK. I

Question about debian sources

1998-07-05 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I have a bo source CD. From time to time I use some files from there. The problem is that it's still not completly clear to me how to apply the patches. For the moment I do like this: 1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory. 2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file. 3. Pacth the files with "p

.emacs configuration question

1998-07-04 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, Sometime ago somebody gave me some tips about how to do keybindings in emacs. They were for latex. Here they are (from my .emacs): (defvar TeX-command-list (list (list "LaTeX" "latex %t" 'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t) (list "View" "xdvi %d" 'TeX-run-command nil t)

Re: Lapack question

1998-07-04 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use the cfortran header file from this location > ftp://zebra.desy.de/cfortan > to build prototypes for BLAS and Lapack functions. I've finally understood how to make the headers. Now I can make them by myself. > I> A more general question: is there a way t

Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I've downloaded some time ago the hamm. Now I need the lapack-dev, but it is nowhere between my downloaded files. I do not have for the moment a full connection so I do not know if it is still missing or no. Can somebody be so kind and tell me if it is back and at what ftp address does it have

Lapack question

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, How do I use a function from lapack in a C program ? Where are the declaration ? Do I have to make myself the declaration ? A more general question: is there a way to find out what functions are in a lib and what argumenst do they need ? TIA, Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: LILO: Unexpected EOF?

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
SEGV wrote: > This used to work and bring up NT Loader. I know I have reinstalled since > then, > but why would I get this, and how would I fix it? The relevant conf entry is: > > image=/dev/hda1 > label=Microsoft > My lilo.conf says: other = /dev/hda1 label = dos table = /dev/hda for

Spelling in Netscape 4.05

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I have Netscape Comunicator 4.05 on a hamm system. The hamm is rather old (more than one month), I admit. At the office I have another computer with a similar system instaled from the same CD set. At the office I am able to use spelling in Netscape. Home I cannot do this. Any clue ? TIA,

What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I am working on a project that uses gtk+. I need some widgets that are found in gnome. However, I was unable to compile myself the gnome. Is the gnome available for hamm ? Or slik ? If for slik, can I install gnome on a hamm system ? Another question would be which are the debian gnome com

Re: Cannot link ossmixer (KDE application) on hamm

1998-05-24 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I've managed to cimpile ossmixer. The thing that was missing from my Makefile was the -lXext (I've seen this in the Makefile for qtez, a nice RAD tool for qt). So, my Makefile has these lines now: ### Makefile for ossmixer 1.0 KDE Version ### INCDIR = /usr/include/qt -I/us

Cannot link ossmixer (KDE application) on hamm

1998-05-23 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, This is a message that I've sent to the author of ossmixer. Maybe you can help me more. Please send CC to my home address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) not only to the debian-lusers, as I'm subscribed to debian-users only at office. Thanks, Ionutz Hi, My Linux is a debian hamm (debian 2 - frozen sta

Re: Problems with time settings and tzconfig

1998-05-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, Alex Romosan wrote: > >I have had the same proble with the time, both with bo and with hamm. > >I am from Romania which is GMT+2. I had set the PC CMOS time to GMT and > > > romania is gmt+3 during the summer (daylight savings time). Thanks for pointing this out. I did'n thought at this. 8-(

Re: How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?

1998-05-01 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, Thanks to all for the quick answer. The $ emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile is what I've wanted. But this leads me to another question: now, as a 'system adminstrator" of my own PC, I just wonder which is the right way to add files to emacs and to make them available to th

Problems with time settings and tzconfig

1998-05-01 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I have had the same proble with the time, both with bo and with hamm. I am from Romania which is GMT+2. I had set the PC CMOS time to GMT and try the Europe/Bucharest zone. It gave me an GMT+3 hour. I've try GMT+2 and the system returned me a GMT-2 hour. Now the system is set to GMT-1 and the

How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?

1998-05-01 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I ermember that I've read somewhere that, if you compile the .el files, EMACS will start more rapidly. But I don't remember where I've read that. :-( Can somebody tell me how to compile the .el files EMACS load at start-up ? Do I have to compile each of them by hand ? TIA, Ionutz -- To UN

My first steps (and problems) with Hamm

1998-05-01 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I was looking for more than a month to see the hamm in the stable. But this didn't happened so I 've taken a deep breath, downloaded the hole hamm from a local mirror and burned 2 CD with hamm, contrib, non-US and non-free. I've decided to make a clean install, especially because I have separa