Re: kernal-image-2.0.0-0 + stuff...

1996-06-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Andy Heroff wrote: > Okay, first off, thank you much for helping me out with the dselect probs I > was having. Mounting my D drive before running dselect worked wonders. :) > > Now, while configuring stuff, I ran into about 4 packages, including > kernal-image-2.0.0-0, that c

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1996-06-30 Thread Debian mailing list
Hi! On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Andy Heroff wrote: > > Now, while configuring stuff, I ran into about 4 packages, including > > kernal-image-2.0.0-0, that complained that while running --configure or > > whatever, that it couldn't find a directory or file. I

Debian 1.1 and the select system call

1996-06-30 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have have compiled (kernel 2.0 ) on debian 1.1 (libc libc5_5.2.18-9). In a program that I have written I am using a select system call. The select waits indefinitely on input from a serial line and a FIFO node. for (;;){ FD_ZERO(&readfds); if (fifo_fd != -1) FD_SET(fifo_f

gcc and libg++27

1996-06-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have been trying to use gcc to compile some C++ code. Libg++27 seems to be the supplier of standard headers for C++. I have both gcc-2.7.2-8 and libg++27-2.7.1-2 installed. When I try to compile something, I get: g++ -c -I./source/include -I/usr/include/g++/std ./source/parody2/tnode.cc In file

Re: gcc and libg++27

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Are you using STL? If so, I was completely unable to compile certain bits of STL code until I modified the bottom of /usr/include/g++/std/bastring.h like this: #if !defined (_G_NO_EXTERN_TEMPLATES) //#include breaks stl (RLB) -- ambiguous instantiations

Re: netpbm package?

1996-06-30 Thread James A. Robinson
> Does someone have a netpbm package for debian? I just found the pbmplus > package that looks pretty old. Two people had volunteered to set up new netpbm packages, one of them was going to make it a shared package. Since nothing has been said, and nothing was produced, I've gone ahead and uplo

Floptical disk drives: Valuestor (Sysgen)

1996-06-30 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi there, I have looked in the how-tos, and have also done searches on the web.. What I need to know, is whether Debian Linux supports 21Mb floptical disk drives such as those produced by ValueStor ? Is support for such devices in the kernel, or will I have to go and

Re: color_xterm?

1996-06-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote: > Is there a color_xterm in Debian 1.1 - or something similar? Right now, > I'm using the old color_xterm from Slackware. Yes. It's called xterm-color and is in the x11 section. Christian

Re: rev?

1996-06-30 Thread Tony Godshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear), 28 Jun 96] > Does anyone installed linux-source using dselect? I'm getting > error when I try. Oh well, this is not important since I have > downloaded and untared 2.0.tar.gz. Just want to mention it. I had a similar problem, and it seemed related to having do

Re: ZIP-drive [parallel port zip drive as a portable Linux

1996-06-30 Thread Tony Godshall
Aslak wrote... > > > > I have one of the IOMEGA ZIP-drives,100MB, parralell version, > > > > and was wondering if it is, if it can, and if it will be > > > > possible to have one's linux system one of these ZIP disks. It > > > > _is_ possible to have a system on 100Megs, and it would be > > > > ex

Re: Upgraded Motherboard

1996-06-30 Thread Tony Godshall
[Andrew Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > I have just upgrade the Motherboard in my Linux Box which is running > Debian 1.1 from a DX4/100Mhz to a Pentium 75Mhz. When I compare > /proc/cpuinfo it has dropped from 39.7 bogomips for the DX4/100 to > 29.79 bogomips. Any ideas why there is a decrease. "