newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Larry Huffman
I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway just to make sure. What is the proper way to obtain and install perl modules for a Debian system? Should one first see if the module has been packaged and, if so, install it via apt-get? If a module's not packaged, then I assume o

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Larry Huffman
Chris Beaumont writes: > Hello, > > Basically what I'm looking for is a workhorse editor that I can use as > my main HTML tool. I use Emacs with html-helper-mode (http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/tools/) > Any suggestions are welcome.. I'm also looking for HTML template and > preprocessor s

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-19 Thread Larry Huffman
Doug Young writes: > Would someone please tell me where to find info on the following can't > find > anything relevant in HOWTO's or MAN pages or that makes any sense to me > > (1) When I ping a remote site . how to stop the stuff ?? ctrl-C will stop the output and return you to

Re: Emacs Font problems

1999-07-16 Thread Larry Huffman
Patrick Beeson writes: > At 11:37 PM 7/14/99 -0400, you wrote: > >Larry Huffman writes: > > > Patrick Beeson writes: > > > > I figured out that when I run emacs with a font larger than height 15 > > > > then I have a text cursor, otherwise I don

Re: Emacs Font problems

1999-07-15 Thread Larry Huffman
Larry Huffman writes: > Patrick Beeson writes: > > I figured out that when I run emacs with a font larger than height 15 > > then I have a text cursor, otherwise I don't. Some other fonts like > > adobe-courier will give a text cursor at height <= 15. But m

Re: Emacs Font problems

1999-07-15 Thread Larry Huffman
Patrick Beeson writes: > I figured out that when I run emacs with a font larger than height 15 > then I have a text cursor, otherwise I don't. Some other fonts like > adobe-courier will give a text cursor at height <= 15. But my favorite > font is 9x15 (the emacs default). Any suggestions on

Need help installing Pine

1999-07-01 Thread Larry Huffman
After two years of using Red Hat, I've turned my attention to Debian (Slink), and am learning my way around the packaging system, apt, and dpkg. I'm now trying to install Pine. (This message, BTW, is coming from my shell account at my ISP, hence it being from Pine.) I've tried to install both of t