Re: Mail Agent.

1997-09-03 Thread stephen farrell
"Eng. Jose Luis Faria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > I'm looking for a mail agent like Eudora, ishmail > but freeware. > Please send me the some advices. > You might also consider exmh. If you're an emacs-lover, nothing beats gnus, however. -- Steve Farrell -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: xforms, offix: what are they?

1997-06-12 Thread stephen farrell
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete. > They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and > whether it's safe to remove them? xforms is a toolkit for making GUIs. There are a few programs that r

Re: making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread stephen farrell
stephen farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm still kind of interested in any answers to why this has to be so much of a pain, but I just went back and configured the kernel from scratch the way I'm used to doing and so it's not such a big deal... > > > >On

stephen farrell: Re: making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread stephen farrell
> >On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > >> So I've got kernel 2.0.30 running[1]. And I've got the kernel sources >> & headers for 2.0.30 installed[2]. Now I cd >> /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound. I run make

making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread stephen farrell
OK--I've done this 1000 times... I'm building my sound module. I'm certain that if I d/l the normal kernel sources from ftp.kernel.org and build a new kernel that I'd get this to work no problem, as I have many times before moving over to debian. But I'm trying to do things the debian way b/c I

FIXED: hosed compiler

1997-06-10 Thread stephen farrell
OK... This was really getting me angry and now I've fixed it. My solution was to use glimpseindex on my entire /usr filesystem, and search for the damn _stdprintf symbol it was whining about. Turns out I had a bogus stdio.h in /usr/local/include! glimpse is *very* cool. Thanks again for those

still unhosing my compiler

1997-06-10 Thread stephen farrell
So my compiler is still hosed. I've written pretty detailed info to this list already about it, and got some helpful suggestions (thanks!). However, my compiler is still hosed. I can't link even the most trivial program--I get this sort of smack: /tmp/cca278371.o: In function `

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread stephen farrell
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > > > > > Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a > > > "Debian Success Story". So, here it is > > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linu

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread stephen farrell
W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For exampl

Re: unhosing my compiler

1997-06-06 Thread stephen farrell
>On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, stephen farrell wrote: >> >> I wrote: >> > >> >Normally there is a .so link, a .so.X link and a .so.X.YY dynamic library. >> >The linker will sometimes not follow a symbolic link more than one link, >> >so, if the .so link

Re: unhosing my compiler

1997-06-06 Thread stephen farrell
>On Jun 5, stephen farrell wrote >> Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library >> is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.: > >> /tmp/cca027141.o: In function `main': >> /tmp/cca027141.o(.text+0xe): undefined refere

unhosing my compiler

1997-06-05 Thread stephen farrell
Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.: #include int main() { #ifdef __GNUC__ #ifdef __VERSION__ printf("%s\n", __VERSION__); #else printf("%s\n", "1"

sparc port

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
What's the status on the sparc port of debian? Is there a mostly-stable-but-not-yet-released version? I'd hate to have to go back to redhat for that... --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
> >--n2rw/3z4jIqBvZU5 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote >> >> Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm >> missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow &g

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread stephen farrell
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just replace stable with frozen in dselect and things should work fine. I Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow passwords? --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread stephen farrell
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >And, speaking of that, can I ask a stupid question? Okay. > What/where/when is Debian 1.3 going to be released? I'm using 1.2, > getting upgrades through the net with dselect in its default setup > pointing at debian.org and the stable, non-free, an

Re: Motif, HP JetDirect?

1997-05-27 Thread stephen farrell
Mika Marjamäki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And does anyone have any experience on configuring Debian to use printers > that are attached to a HP JetDirect EX Plus3? I think it can share the > printers with lpd-protocol, but I didn't get it working..:( These printers need to be rarped in order t

xemacs-19.15p4 segfault on new frame -- xlib problem?

1997-05-26 Thread stephen farrell
I recently upgraded to debian from redhat, and an interesting new problem has surfaced with xemacs. I use a scrpt with gnudoit to create new frames frequently. now when I run this script xemacs coredumps frequently, especially after it's been running for a while. When I look at the back-trace, t

Re: [Fwd: Critical "Times" article on Linux]

1997-04-24 Thread stephen farrell
Walt Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i hope no-one takes this silly thing seriously -- this is what i'd call self-selective material. if you're going to listen to rubbish like this, then you're probably not the kind of person who'd be interested in linux anyway. in fact, i'd go so far as to s