RE: Debian on a ThinkPad

>From: Matthew Tebbens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, 07 May, 1997 23:34 PM >To:debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. >Subject: Debian on a ThinkPad > >Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ? >I would like to install Debian on my ThinkP

procmail / smail problem

It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to "nobody." Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this: # This is the Smail transports file,

RE: improving pine speed when using remote smtp server

>From: Douglas L Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 1997 2:27 AM [chop] > >What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward >the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to >be an option to do this when the smail package is

RE: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

Yes! Put your windoze partitition in your /etc/fstab file. Something like this /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze vfat defaults 1 1 Note that I may not have this syntax exactly correct, so check it before you write it. Also you need to create /mnt/windoze before attempting to mount it. Ah, yes, your kerne

RE: pdf files

> >This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files >in linux? >Thanks >-lars >-- >My sig file is only one line long! > Wow I have an answer! Your choices are two: 1) xpdf or 2) Adobe acrobat. If you just want to read single .pdf files, I would go for xpdf. If you have

RE: Laptop and PCMCIA

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, 19 November, 1996 22:15 PM >To:Debian Users mailling list >Subject: Laptop and PCMCIA > > > I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian , and >the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop.

RE: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

> >> I would prefer a much improved dselect. >> Todays dselect is not convinient to be used. >> It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny >> keyboard accel keys, no menues...) > >Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any >documentation a