Re: fvwm95 & menus

1999-01-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
If you want to completely override the default values, just copy the default configuration file in full to the user's directory (as .fvwm95rc or whatever it uses) and edit it to remove the "Read" statements (for the hooks) and to change the menus to just the apps you want. miket On Sat, Jan 09,

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 01:09:59AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote: > > > I for one would no longer to be able to get the list. I access the > > internet through a firewall. The policy is restricted viewing only of > > some newsnet new

Re: version control systems

1999-01-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 03:59:07PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 09:22:26AM -0800, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: > > > > I use Perforce at work and have been happy both with its quality and > > with the responsiveness of Perforce support. Their softw

Re: version control systems

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 10:38:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system > with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, > which supports binary files? > > cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store De

Re: A few (simple?) questions...

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:03:12PM -0500, David Kennedy wrote: > Hi, I was able to get Debian installed and everything I need working but I > have a few questions: > > 1) How do you change the colours of xterm? Right now, when I click on it I > get a black on white window. I can type xterm -bg bla

Re: Vanishing commands.

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
I think hwclock supplanted clock. miket On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:28:42PM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > > Since upgrading to 2.0, I have lost some commands :-( > > /sbin/clock has vanished for starters ! Where did this go ! Have I missed a > package out somehwere - if so which ! > > ... (snip)

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Thomas Janke wrote: > > The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. > Is Debian ready for the new kernel? > Will Slink be? > I'm running 2.2.0pre4 on Slink right now with no apparent problems, so even though Slink won't likely ship with 2.2, you can upgr

Re: Background(color)

1999-01-06 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:16:05AM +0100, CUNO wrote: > Hello, > > Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. > > Thanx > > Cuno > Look at the files in /etc/X11/xdm/, especially 'Xreset' and 'Xsetup'. You can add e.g. xsetroot -solid aquamarine to one or both. Try experimen

Re: Winmodem?

1999-01-05 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 10:39:28AM -, eferen1 wrote: > > Hi. I had that problem too. If it's a winmodem, forget it! > > Get yourself a real modem. Debian people won't write a driver for it. s/Debian/kernel/ s/won't/can't/ Trust me, if hardware specifications for this WinModem were freely ava

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 03:56:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > > once.) > > > > > > > cd /usr/lost+found/ > > > > ls -l > > > total 176014862730 >

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 11:29:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The funny (if that's the word) thing is, I once had a few errors on this > drive but WD's Tech Support walked me through test/diagnostics. The number > of errors then was "too low" for a warrenty repair. Thoug they said if I >

Re: Giving recompile another try

1998-12-17 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:56:42PM -0600, Cristov Russell wrote: > > My take on RedHat vs. Debian > What I like most about the RedHat distribution is that it has a setup for > SoundBlaster audio cards (I also like the printer setup which was a piece of > cake with my networked printer). In fact, s

Re: Recommendations for Office...

1998-12-17 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
Not sure about spreadsheets (there are several that are fine on the computational end, but nothing has the scriptability, embedding capabilities, and feature richness of Excel). Look at www.gnome.org for gnumeric; it's still pre-1.0 and a toy compared to Excel but Gnome moves _very_ rapidly and M

Re: Trouble with diaresis and ssharp key

1998-12-17 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:57:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stefan Gundel dixit: > > > > Hello, everybody, > > > > I am presently experiencing the following problem: > > > > On my hamm installation I get only beeps when pressing the diaresis keys > > on my german keyboard (i.e. adiaresis

Re: missing header file

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 10:57:21PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to port a program from HP-UX to Linux, but I seem to be missing > a header file. This seems kind of strange to me, since the header file is > present in the gcc directories on the HP's, but nowhere is it to be found

Re: Presort my email messages when exmh is the MUA.

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:19:16AM +0200, shaul wrote: > > I am using exmh to handle my email (MUA ?). The MTA is smail (is it also the > MDA ? What are the differences between MDA and MTA ?). MUA: Mail User Agent: interactive mailer examples: mutt, pine, Outlook, etc. MTA: Mail Transfer Agent:

Re: X keyboard mapping

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > > I would like to switch between two keyboard mappings - us and german - > whenever > I need to. I've written two input files for xmodmap, accordingly. These are > correct. I typed > > xmodmap > > but nothing happend. I c

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-10 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:17:20PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: > > > 3) Set qualify_domain = ist.flinders.edu.au to make your locally > >generated mail appear to originate from that machine. This is > >p

Re: A few questions

1998-12-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:51:01PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: > Now that I got X up and running, I got a few questions. > > 4. If I'm idle for about 10 minutes, my screen turns black, how do I > turn that off or start a screen saver? > To disable blanking for the text consoles: setterm -blank

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
Hi Mark, Some answers are given below. I hope they're correct; they're based on my experience in a similar situation (although my machine is behind a firewall). miket On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:00:45AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I h

Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /

1998-11-19 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
FWIW, (getenv "PATH") doesn't yield trailing slashes for me with hamm and emacs20. So I don't think it's a simple hamm bug. Sorry I'm not more helpful. miket On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:54:49PM -0500, David S. Zelinsky wrote: > > Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variabl

Re: bogomips

1998-11-11 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:24:46PM -0800, Oz Dror wrote: > > Hi > I have a pentium-II 400Mhz and a pentium MMX 200Mhz > both have 400.59 bogomips > Why? > MMX doubles your bogomips. MMX CPUs are evidently great at running empty loops. miket

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
In addition, Shift+PageUp/Shift+PageDown will scroll in xterm, rxvt, and the console. miket On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: > > > Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to > > find a command shell (

Re: exim and bad Sender: header

1998-11-03 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 08:09:41PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > > > I ended up with the following fetchmail messages: > > > reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP er

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ? (the saga continues)

1998-10-29 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:39:59AM -0600, Mark Panzer wrote: > Darxus wrote: > > > > I installed Windows (see what you made me do??). > > I installed WinZip. > > I told WinZip to open my 2.6gb home.tgz file... it said okay... it said > > this file contains home.tar, you want me to extract it to a

Re: X and keyboard layouts

1998-10-16 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:42:47AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Bek Oberin hat gesagt: // Bek Oberin wrote: > > > One of the last remaining annoyances: I use a modified dvorak > > keyboard layout (ie: not-quite-dvorak, but close) and do most of > > my work in text-mode consoles. But sometimes

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:49:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > >If you can't umount it, take the system to > >single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck. > That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote > access to this machine. > Yeah, I somehow miss

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to > /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: > "No space left on device". > > I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: > > ... kernel: EXT2-fs err

Re: meskes@usa.net

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:51:08AM -0500, D'jinnie wrote: > > : Dell offers such a configuration (about $1500 with a 17" monitor). > :This is what my OM will probably get. This machine comes with windows > :98 and microsoft home office software and a winmodem. If you only want > :to install linux

Re: Setting size that windows start as

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:47:29AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear debian people, > > When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my > screen. Is there a command-line argument for setting the size of the > window, please? > > Thanks, > > Matthew > More info about the

Re: segfault: yes. what?

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 12:49:36AM -0400, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Hello Fello Users! > > I have a small completely newbie question: > What is segmentation fault AKA segfault? > > (I REALLY don't know) > > TIA for your help. > I see you've gotten some other replies, but I don't think this

Trouble with SB ViBRA16X PnP

1998-09-01 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
und code without asking a _lot_ of people first. Please, no "get a real sound card" responses. It's my work machine, so either I have sound or I don't. :-) thanks, Mike Touloumtzis

Trouble with SB ViBRA16X

1998-09-01 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
und code without asking a _lot_ of people first. Please, no "get a real sound card" responses. It's my work machine, so either I have sound or I don't. :-) thanks, Mike Touloumtzis