Anyone out there is using wml?
Why does the following construct print 'boo':
#if 0
boo
#endif
Here is the longer story:
wml is eating the #if stuff in the first pass (treating them as comment). If i
use wml -p3 directly then its ok, because eperl can see the construct. I can
use a with the sam
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:01:56PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Was wonder if anyone knows if Navigator can be configured to spawn
> another program when following a mailto: hyperlink? I suspect no. But I
> dumped Communicator 4.71 and retreated to Navigator 4.61 cause
> Communicator was bei
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:26:22AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote:
> What do people know about support for the Sound Blaster 128 PCI sound card
> in Linux? I'm helping my brother convert to Debian and he wants to know
> what sort of sound card he should get. Thanks :-)
>
I have that on my pc too. Ther
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 08:39:30AM +, Todd Suess wrote:
>
> Anyone have any idea what cc1plus is? I thought I had everything
> I needed on this system to compile, etc but apparently I am
> missing something?
>
cc1plus is the part of gcc that can compile C++ files. Did you install g++ and
re
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:50:20PM +0300, tf wrote:
> I hate to plug a windows app, but notetab pro is great.
> Sure would be nice if someone would make a clone for linux.
>
That notepad pro is an editor right? From the desc I got, nothing really
special? This my personal opinion but I dont thin
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:41:58PM +0300, tf wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've saved some up for ya.
>
> Ok, if I wanted to tell netscape mail to use this machine for a smtp
> server, how would I write the line? Instead of smtp.isp.com, what would
> it be? (I have exim)
>
Just use localhost as your s
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:57:16PM +0200, Joakim Svensson wrote:
>
> Alsa ? OSS ?
>
> or just recompile kernel and skip Alsa altogehter (soundblaster 128PCI).
>
kernel drivers will be lighter and more stable. On the other hand, you might
get some fancy features with Alsa (didnt try OSS since AF
Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. However
after the latest potato update I noticed this had changed to a pengouin, which
looks very ugly on my screen (the default is squeezed because of the
resolution, and the banner mode does not look nice because of my fonts).
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:45:28PM -0700, Forte, Gene L wrote:
> Is Java currently available on Debian? Which elements? Is it open? Where can
> I find info?
>
Sure, look at www.blackdown.org for generic linux info, or have a look at the
debian packages jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev. There are also extens
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:19:49PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm actually making many modifications of my system,
> so I'm used to open two consoles in root, and 3 as user.
>
> Is there a possibility, as soon as I open the first console
> as root, to automagically open the oth
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:06:16PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
>
> Instead of traditionnal compilation, use 'make-kpkg', which will build
> a package from your new kernel; install this package, dselect should
> not complain any
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:01:42PM +, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> Could someone give me a sample script (perhaps bash or sed) to change a
> group of filenames from their original name to the same name preceeded
> by an exclamation point.
>
for i in *; do mv $i \!$i; done
-Lex
pgpV1HB2FZu2D.p
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 01:58:36PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote:
> Where can I find the Motif software. I am aware that it is a commercial
>
> product but I don't know where to look for it. I am interested because
> the Netscape pkg that dselect has requires it for certain versions of
> netscape.
>
Y
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:20:18AM -1000, Tim Burgess wrote:
> The fix was to add the following to the preferences.js file
> user_pref("mail.suppress_sender_header", true);
>
I believe there is a menu in the preferences to change your email address as
well, but I am not sure of what exactly you'r
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> hello,
>
> i compile my kernel myself and would like to get rid of dselect trying to
> replace my custom kernle with standard one
>
> what options do i have and how to achieve this?
Set its status to hold, you can do this fro
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:39:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a Debian system off a hard drive that will no longer boot, not even
> from disc. It's copied entirely onto my current system under
> /usr/local/old
>
> Is there any way of reading the package selections off of it there
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:46:12PM +0300, tf wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> two problems that I've just been living with...
>
> 1. netscape won't open cgi pages. I have a message board and one of
> those fake chat rooms that come up pretty much blank. Could it be that
> I'm using somehow microsoft-spe
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 02:25:44PM -, Pollywog wrote:
>
>
> Seems there is a package called "ipmasq". I am checking it out now.
>
This is only a collection of scripts to set up the firewalling rules. Works
quite well for a basic setting but I found it hard to customize.
-Lex
pgplFuxkJhq
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:24:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Rookie question--how can I boot into single user mode... can that be done at
> the LILO prompt?
>
'linux single' at the lilo prompt. Under some systems this can give you
easy unauthorized root access, too ;-)
-Lex
pgpkPFLSU
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:20:31AM +0100, Simon Martin wrote:
> Hi I sent this message a couple of days ago with no answer. It seems like I
> have a problem with no /dev/mem device. MAKEDEV doesn't
> know this device so can anyone tell me what the major/minor node numbers are
> for this device (l
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:00:17AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:25:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have problems with PAM apps since the last upgrade forced them onto my
> > system.
> >
> Hmm...seems like you have basic functionality, just a few nitpicks. The
I have problems with PAM apps since the last upgrade forced them onto my
system.
First: pam_env.so outputs messages about non alpha-numeric variable names in
/etc/environment when i login. The funny things is, those variables are still
set (maybe by another mechanism?).
Then, more important: I us
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this
> kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade:
>
> Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb)
> ...
> Unpacking repl
Hi,
I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this
kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade:
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:16:09PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed the latest samba from potato.
> when I do something like this:
>
> smbclient -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
>
> I got the following:
>
> session request to xxx.xxx.xx.xx failed
> session r
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:37:20AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead
> of the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new
> kernel). Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the
> floppy
Im sure I missed something, somewhere... do i have to choose another server to
connect to? were the non-free archive moved to non-free.debian.org or whatever
finally? Sorry but its quite hard to leave for a week and find this.
Fortunately I was able to get the lists from a slow server.
Here's what
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:57:25PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> Thanks for bearing with me... there's barely anything in the whole package.
> If I may...
>
> dpkg -L alsa-modules
>
Sorry for giving the wrong package name b4... you need to install the
alsa-source package, and compile whats
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:24:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Did not do any good. I will try changing IRQ again... thats the most likely
> cause for this misbehaviour I think. Btw, when I said it worked for windows,
> thats not on the same computer (that one only has linux). I will try a
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:25:39PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:32:18PM -0500, David Cureton wrote:
> > Generally CD roms play audio cd's in the following way.
>
> That's the way I expected. My problem is that I a) saw them add the cable
> and b) it works under M$
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:49:32AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Which package contain the following programs:
> xload
> xinfo
> xman
> or should I compile them from source? :-)
>
xcontrib for xload and xman. dont know about xinfo.
-Lex
pgpQeWOLW8bPA.pgp
Description
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:12:08AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> debian:/usr/src/linux# echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0
> bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device
When you recompiled the kernel with parport support, did you also enable the
`Support for PC-style hardware' (or something l
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 06:27:17PM +0100, Andy wrote:
> hello, I was wondering if u could help me with Xwindows. My system is
> running redhat linux 5.1 (the free version) and is a pentium 90, 24mb ram and
> a 1mb ATI mach64-ct graphics card. The problem is this:
>
> I start Xwin through linux
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 04:33:51AM +0200, shaul wrote:
> >
> > The card is a KNE2021LC, ISA, made by Kingston. I use the normal NE2000 ISA
> > drivers. The card appears to be detected correctly but fails to work if I
> > try
> > to transmit anything on it.
>
> I guess you did it but it never hu
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:29:12AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote:
>
> I saw a situation with the LaserJet III where if the OS specified the
> number of copies, it would obey. If the OS does not specify, the printer
> uses its setting. I had a surprise one day because someone had set the
> printer t
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:50:55PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
>
> What am I missing? Where are the drivers? Is this usable at all or should
> I try OSS/Free again? (cursed miserable closed source drivers...)
>
Stupid question:
You did actually compile the drivers, didnt you? The alsa pac
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote:
> Anybody know where I can find in.rexecd? I just ran dselect this morning
> and after the 8megs of updates rexecd is gone. It didn't get split off
> to a separate package did it? I'm running Potato with a 2.2.10 kernel.
>
Seems it
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:03:58AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> I have just installed NIS on my network to keep passwords (among other
> things) in sync between machines. Users should now use yppasswd to change
> the passwords on the client machines. Would it be safe to rm
> /usr/bin/passwd
I was asked to install kerberos4 on our server, and I gladly noticed there
were debian packages for this. So far Im quite happy with it, except for one
thing: i cant find the pam_krb4 module. It is mentionned in both the
kerberos4kth doc and the libpam doc but is present in neither package. Do I
ne
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