Monitor?

1997-09-02 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I was checking out the values of the environmental values of my system and noticed that TERM=linux when I 'echo $TERM' is this the correct value or is this value dependent on my monitor. If it is dependent on the monitor how do I choose the correct value? My monitor is able to shut it self of

Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
There are really 2 issues: getting X to do power saving, and getting the text console to do power saving. This is how I set all my consoles to all have powersaving enabled: #!/bin/sh # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave # Turn on power-saving on the VC's test -f /usr/bin/setterm || exit 0

Re: Monitor?

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi > > I was checking out the values of the environmental values of my system and > noticed that TERM=linux when I 'echo $TERM' is this the correct value or > is this value dependent on my monitor. If it is dependent on the monitor > how do I choose t

Debian picon files

1997-09-02 Thread George Bonser
Now that I have a mailer that will display all those neat faces that come with the email, I thought it would be neat to download the faces and picons from debian. Trouble is that they are not very useful as they are all 56x56 files while my mail program woudl refuse to accept anything except 48x48

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-02 Thread Christian Leutloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with gs-aladdin 4.03 > on it gets sued (read the copyright on gs-aladdin), so that's the reason > it doesn't get included with debian: it's non-free. no, that's definitively wrong. The license

[OFF TOPIC] sig 14?

1997-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
where can I find a list of which signal numbers correspond to which error? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

RE: [OFF TOPIC] sig 14?

1997-09-02 Thread George Bonser
man kill kill -l will list them. On 02-Sep-97 Nathan E Norman wrote: >where can I find a list of which signal numbers correspond to which >error? > >-- >Nathan Norman >MidcoNet >410 South Phillips Avenue >Sioux Falls, SD 57104 >Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 >email: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OFF TOPIC] sig 14?

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > where can I find a list of which signal numbers correspond to which > error? /usr/include/asm/signal.h -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "mirror" regets whole Debian archive

1997-09-02 Thread Jameson Burt
> > You could have avoided the transfer with a "mirror -T". Whenever I > see it going haywire (usually because I did something stupid to my > clock), I stop it and try that first. Thank you very much. My computer's clock is off by 30 minutes, though on bootup Linux eventually accomodates that

*emacs*: Why 'Invalid format operation %l'?

1997-09-02 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, When I 'C-h v' for variables, or 'C-h f' for functions, etc. I often get 'Invalid format operation %l'. Do you know what happened? Using Debian 1.2, Emacs 19.34 thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [

I need your help..

1997-09-02 Thread Min-Woo Bahk
Hello. This is Minu, working in Nat'l University of mongolia as computer professor. We have freewave wireless modem to connect internet. The modem is connected to router that formed by debian linux system, and server is a sun sparc station5. This network system is consist of 20 computers via 3

Re: ppp connection

1997-09-02 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997 12:22:59 -0400 (EDT), Paul Miller wrote: >I have a cable modem that goes down once and awhile and I want to be able >to dialup when it is down. I have a ppp-on script setup and I can connect >(ppp0 is listing when I type ifconfig).. unfortchantly I can't do >anything through th

Re: Netscape installation problems

1997-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Dave Neuer wrote: > I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The machine > running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer files > to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my PowerMac, and > the

Clarification: Netscape install probs

1997-09-02 Thread Dave Neuer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Dave Neuer wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The > machine > > running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer > files > > to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my Power

Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Where do you do this? Bash_profile? > This is how I set all my consoles to all have powersaving enabled: > > #!/bin/sh > # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave > # Turn on power-saving on the VC's > > test -f /usr/bin/setterm || exit 0 > > echo -n "Turn

Re: Clarification: Netscape install probs

1997-09-02 Thread Brian White
> OK. I guess I should have been clearer; I HAVE renamed the file, and > put it in /tmp. I then run "dpkg -i netscape_3.01-4.deb" and get the > error above. I think that I may have in fact slightly misinterpreted > the error at first; it seems to be generated by the *post*installation > script.

Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread George Bonser
Hi all, I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the documentation that I need to learn to build debian packages. It seems that there are so many documents scattered about. Is there someone out there that has a web page other than the official documentation that might be a little clearer

Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > Where do you do this? Bash_profile? > > #!/bin/sh > > # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave > > # Turn on power-saving on the VC's Note: # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave So it's in /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave

Where is /usr/sbin/in.pop3d

1997-09-02 Thread Oz Dror
Where is in.pop3d? In Debian version 1.2.x I had in.pop3d program in /usr/sbin it was called whenever an outside popclient request came. I do not see this program in the 1.3.1 distribution. is there a different program that handles incoming pop3 requests -Thanks Oz Dror -- <

Re: Where is /usr/sbin/in.pop3d

1997-09-02 Thread Rolf Obrecht
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Oz Dror wrote: > Where is in.pop3d? > Look at /stable/binary/mail/qpopper_2.2-x.deb Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On 2 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > > > Where do you do this? Bash_profile? > > Note: > > # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave Oops, yeah, I found it. Thanks.

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-02 Thread Fredik Ax
In article , you wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > > Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of > > > iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start... > All you have to do is to compile the mod

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the documentation that I need > to > learn to build debian packages. Gosh, yes. At the moment those docs are so convoluted and contain so many references to other projects which don't exis

mke2fs with blocks other than 1024?

1997-09-02 Thread Tim Bell
mke2fs doesn't want to make a filesystem with block sizes other than 1024. It claims I have a bad block 0. For example: # mke2fs -c -b 4096 /dev/hda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 130048 inod

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread ioannis
One painless way to build a package is to use debmake (thanks Christoph), located in the utils section. Make sure to read file /usr/doc/debmake/HOWTO.first_time and chances are your package will be ready shortly afterwards. The mechanics of it all will become clear over time, but until then

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-02 Thread joost witteveen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with gs-aladdin > > 4.03 > > on it gets sued (read the copyright on gs-aladdin), so that's the reason > > it doesn't get included with debian: it's non-free. > > no, that's definitively

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the George> documentation that I need to learn to build debian packages. Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? Anyways, when I was starting out with Debi

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Dave Cinege
On 02 Sep 1997 03:21:39 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Hi, >>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >George> I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the >George> documentation that I need to learn to build debian packages. > > Umm, would debian-devel be a better pla

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The program compiles without errors, but when the linker is to link the > object files, it is persistent that the reference to 'something' within > the main program is undefined to 'ancestor<...>'. Every reference to > the object 'ancestor' is

UW SCSI Card

1997-09-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I am considering to buy one of these beasts and had thought about AHA 2940UW. I was wondering if people had experience with those and/or if there is another suggestiong (Buslogic?) Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: UW SCSI Card

1997-09-02 Thread Lawrence
go to buslogic, 2940uw is too cable sensitive. Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi, > I am considering to buy one of these beasts and had thought about AHA 2940UW. > I was wondering if people had experience with those and/or if there is another > suggestiong (Buslogic?) > > Thanks, > Luis. >

X11R6?

1997-09-02 Thread Horacio Suarez
Good morning. I'm a Red Hat and Slackware user moving to Debian. I have installed a Debian 1.2 from a Infomagic CD. It seems to be incomplete and I had a some trouble with some files. For example, I can only use TWM instead of Afterstep because (something) can't load a library. I have no idea how

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On 02 Sep 1997 03:21:39 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? > > Umm isn't that a private list? > I think you're thinking of debian-private. Debian-devel is open to _everyone_.

Re: Xemacs wont run under SU, is it normal?

1997-09-02 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
lc29b50 wrote: > > After I execute the su command to switch to root, when I run Xemacs, it > gives me an error message(something related to xlib6) and won't run. Is > this normal? > Try opening another window and typing "xhost +". When you su, you become a different user, who does not own the s

Re: ppp connection

1997-09-02 Thread John D. Amidon
> "d" == Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> On Mon, 1 Sep 1997 12:22:59 -0400 (EDT), Paul Miller wrote: >> I have a cable modem that goes down once and awhile and I want to be able >> to dialup when it is down. I have a ppp-on script setup and I can >> connect (ppp0 is listing when I

Re: UW SCSI Card

1997-09-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
AHA 2940UW works reliably here. Performance seems good though I haven't done timing studies. -- Jean Pierre On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > I am considering to buy one of these beasts and had thought about AHA 2940UW. > I was wondering if people had experience with those a

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread john
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? Why? Everybody there already knows how to build a package. This should be discussed where those of us thinking about becoming developers can see it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public d

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> >George> I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the > >George> documentation that I need to learn to build debian packages. > > > > Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? > > Umm isn't that a private list? NO! It is as free as debian-user. Alex Y. > > > -

Re: UW SCSI Card

1997-09-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
The BusLogic driver is faster, more reliable, and more robust than the Adaptec driver. BusLogic supports free software. Thanks, Jeff On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 12:40:27PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > I am considering to buy one of these beasts and had thought about AHA 2940UW. > I

Problem with ppp

1997-09-02 Thread Paul Rightley
Over the weekend I tried out a new external 33.6 modem (as an upgrade to my old 14.4 internal). It didn't take me long, before I had it working with my Debian 1.3.1 box - thanks Debian. The one major problem is that - when I down/up load relatively large things (like most web pages) - the modem e

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread George Bonser
On 02-Sep-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Hi, >>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >George> I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the >George> documentation that I need to learn to build debian packages. > > Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic?

Re: X11R6?

1997-09-02 Thread Joost Kooij
Horacio Suarez wrote: > > Good morning. That's a good afternoon here > I'm a Red Hat and Slackware user moving to Debian. Welcome! > I have installed a Debian 1.2 from a Infomagic CD. It seems to be > incomplete and I had a some trouble with some files. Yes, there are often problems with the

Re: Second Ethernet Card

1997-09-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
> I have recompiled the kernel to support IP forwarding. One of two 3C509 > Cards that I have on my machine works. What is required to get my second > Ethernet Card working? > I have tried to add the append="ether=11,0x320.eth1" statement to > lilo.conf but it doesn't make it work. Any ideas? > >

Re: Problem with ppp

1997-09-02 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > Over the weekend I tried out a new external 33.6 modem (as an upgrade to my > old > 14.4 internal). It didn't take me long, before I had it working with my > Debian > 1.3.1 box - thanks Debian. The one major problem is that - when I down/up > load >

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I'd reccomend the "Makeing a debian Package" page, which is pretty good > for small/single packages. It sure did help me understand the basics. If > you're compiling some humungous multi-package beast (;cough Xwindows) it's > probably not your first packag

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: > The documents go into very nice detail about what a control file is, etc, but > it never explains how these files get created in the first place, how the > package discovers where in the filesystem it is supposed to install the > pieces, > etc. I downloa

Re: Xemacs wont run under SU, is it normal?

1997-09-02 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: > lc29b50 wrote: > > > > After I execute the su command to switch to root, when I run Xemacs, it > > gives me an error message(something related to xlib6) and won't run. Is > > this normal? > > > > Try opening another window and typing "xhost +". >

Re: Xemacs wont run under SU, is it normal?

1997-09-02 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > The problem with this is, that 'everyone' is not limited to users logged > in on your computer. If you use it, and it works, this means that anyone > can access your display. This includes reading every key you touch on your > keyboard, so it will be easy for a hacker to c

fatal IO error 0 and no idea

1997-09-02 Thread Wolfram Blase
Hello, Before i came to debian i used the Suse 4.4.1 distribution and had no problems running my lesstif-0.76 and Mesa 2.1 using program. Now, having changed to debian 1.3.1, i get the following error message: XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0.0" after 901 requests (900 known

Re: Second Ethernet Card

1997-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > I haved two 3c509. > 1)To run with both you must compile driver into kernel (not > as module). though mine is a different model (3C590), I had no problem with modules. I have 3 (three) 3C590, with ip-masq, compiled as module, which are detected w/

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread David B. Teague
Hi Gilbert and Orn: Read info gcc: use the command control s template instantiation you will find a big section that explains how to do the template instantantiation with the template class and implementation in separate files. There are pragmas for this, and the technique taht Borland C++

RE: X-Server again

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 01-Sep-97 Volker Bauer wrote: > >Still my problem is my X-Server: >Several time I tried now to config my X-Server without success. Both >XF86Setup and xf86config failed. Always I get Error messages after >finishing the conifguration like: > >Unable to connect to X-Server >X11TransSocketUNIXconne

RE: Netscape installation problems

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 01-Sep-97 Dave Neuer wrote: >Hi > >I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The machine >running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer files >to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my PowerMac, and >then transfer them over my local network. Th

Re: Upgrading Netscape Installer

1997-09-02 Thread Brian White
> I really like the netscape installer package and used it many months ago to > get netscape working. I have 3.01-1 currently installed. > > So far, when dselect tells me there is an update available on the netscape > package, I've placed it on hold. However, I was wondering if it is > safe/needed

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
Gilbert Laycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe that this (and many other) problems have been fixed for > gcc/g++ 2.8 which is apparently nearly-but-not-quite-ready for release > (and has been for some time now). You can also solve this problem in 2.7.2* by using the repo patch (available

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-02 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Tan Wee Yeh wrote, :Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's :rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: : http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc :I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Bad news, this does not s

Problem with floppy install

1997-09-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I'm trying to install debian on a laptop system. I partitioned the lone 500MB hard drive and installed Win95 and that's up and running. Now I have a 20MB partition for swap and a 200MB partition for linux. I pop in the rescue diskette and it boots fine, the installation procedure sets up the partit

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Jim Pick
> > Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? > > Umm isn't that a private list? No. It is a public list. Cheers, - Jim pgpG6qjxFPR7K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xemacs wont run under SU, is it normal?

1997-09-02 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I'll add one more way how to su and get those X apps working. Lets say I'm running X as user 'hessu' and just did 'su -' so I could run xemacs as root. # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~hessu/.Xauthority # xemacs & // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-02 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! > Tan Wee Yeh wrote, > :Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's > :rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: > : http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc > :I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. > >

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-02 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Tan Wee Yeh wrote, :Bad news, this does not seem to be running. I checked the :process and the guy is kinda stalled. Anybody successfully :ran the client for an OSF?? Turned out to be my own mistake :P I had some wrapper around this so I have to resort to the telnet port before it works. Looks

Lost the POP in smail.

1997-09-02 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, While doing some software upgrades to my debian box I lost the POP3 ability. Tried to reinstall smail, nothing, sendmail, nothing. Eudora will connect to the box, but as it starts to log in it will just hang. Any ideas on what could have happened and were I could look t

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"john" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Manoj Srivastava writes: >> Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? john> Why? Everybody there already knows how to build a package. john> This should be discussed where those of us thinking about john> becoming developers

Re: Problem with floppy install

1997-09-02 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I've seen this error once but I'm not sure exactly what caused it. The hard drive had been partitioned in the following way (roughly): /dev/sda1/boot(20MB) /dev/sda2/(~700MB) /dev/sda3swap (whatever was left) where the /boot directory was specifically

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
I took your program example and compiled it, and it works... but here comes the groovy part. If you take the same program and split it... |---begin temp.C| #include "temp.h" template ancestor::ancestor(T x) { cout << "ancestor()" << endl; myvar = x; } template ancestor::~ancestor() {

Re: Lost the POP in smail.

1997-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > While doing some software upgrades to my debian box I lost the POP3 > ability. Tried to reinstall smail, nothing, sendmail, nothing. Eudora > will connect to the box, but as it starts to log in it will just

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread joost witteveen
> Manoj Srivastava writes: > > Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? > > Why? Everybody there already knows how to build a package. This should be > discussed where those of us thinking about becoming developers can see it. The way I see it: debian-user: For all questions

Re: internetMCI PPP, large packages

1997-09-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, George Cyriac wrote: > Hi, I have an internetmci PPP account. Unfortunately I don't think it is > possible to start a dial up on my linux box because when you just dial up to > the internetMCI # it gives me a weird prompt: (0121313249) and then asks me > to type something,

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO

1997-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.4 1997/08/28 22:02:32 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the D

.Xdefaults vs. .Xresources

1997-09-02 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
I am a little confused as to the difference between these two files. It seems that they are basically the same, or at least they contain the same type of information. Which is preferrable to use? Can I use one, and then "source" it from the other file (for programs which may use the other one)?

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 08:49:36 -0400 (EDT), Alex Yukhimets wrote: >> >George> I am getting a bit frustrated here in locating the >> >George> documentation that I need to learn to build debian packages. >> > >> >Umm, would debian-devel be a better place for this topic? >> >> Umm isn't that a priv

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
I tried using the 'template class ...' and that did the trick, but I agree that it is of limited use though. Kinda limits the generality of your code, if you have to know the type ofevery template class before hand. So, I'm going to look up the site you suggested and try their snapshot. Tru

Re: .Xdefaults vs. .Xresources

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Ray Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a little confused as to the difference between these two files. It > seems that they are basically the same, or at least they contain the same > type of information. > > Which is preferrable to use? Can I use one, and then "source" it fro

Netscape just bombed my files

1997-09-02 Thread jim
Netscape 4.01b6 just bombed my mail folder, newsgroups, and bookmarks. Those fuckers just wanted me to know that it was about to expire on Sept. 16 so they had me agree to their license agreement again! Well, that is a bug in their logic caused by their overzealous need to get people to upgrade.

Re: [OFF TOPIC] sig 14?

1997-09-02 Thread Randy Stocking
Nathan E Norman writes: > where can I find a list of which signal numbers correspond to which > error? > Try looking in signal.h. Signal 14 is ALRM (on Solaris anyway, but should be the same for Linux). Regards, Randy Stocking -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Dave" == Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Then why is it not listed on www.debian.org? Dave> "There are a couple of public mailing lists for all Debian Dave> users, together with several lists intended for developers Dave> only. The public lists are:" Dave> debian-devel is no

Re: .Xdefaults vs. .Xresources

1997-09-02 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
My .Xresources is a symlink to .Xdefaults and I've had no problems either. I just checked /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc script and it thinks .Xresources is the right file. Here's a small snippet from the file. The $userresources variable is defined as 'usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources' in the beginn

Re: Lost the POP in smail.

1997-09-02 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:40:35 CDT Anthony Landreneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > While doing some software upgrades to my debian box I lost the POP3 > ability. Tried to reinstall smail, nothing, sendmail, nothing. Eudora > will connect to the box, but as it starts to log in

Re: .Xdefaults vs. .Xresources

1997-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Look at /etc/X11/Xsession. It looks at $HOME/.xsession (startup file) and $HOME/.Xresources (user defined resources). The latter is merged, using xrdb -merge, the former is executed at start up (as long as the line allow-user-xsession is present in /etc/X11/config).

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-02 Thread Christian Leutloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > > > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with gs-aladdin > > > 4.03 > > > on it gets sued (read the copyright on gs-aladdin), so that's the reason > > > it doesn't get includ

Re: [OFF TOPIC] sig 14?

1997-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Randy" == Randy Stocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randy> Nathan E Norman writes: >> where can I find a list of which signal numbers correspond to which >> error? >> Randy> Try looking in signal.h. Signal 14 is ALRM (on Solaris anyway, Randy> but should be the same for Linux). __> kil

Re: Where can I find gs-aladdin 5.03?

1997-09-02 Thread joost witteveen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > > > > > Anyway, chances are, that anyone who sells Slackware CD's with > > > > gs-aladdin 4.03 > > > > on it gets sued (read the copyright on gs-aladdin), so that's the reason > > > > it

Re: Sparc Debian?

1997-09-02 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Michael" == Michael Solomani Mifsud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Where can I get more info on Debian Sparc? I had a quick Michael> look at the debian.org.au mirror and couldn't spot anything Michael> relative in the index. Also, does this build of debian have Michael> its own setup di

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread john
Jim Pick writes (of debian-devel): > It is a public list. That's not what the web page says. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elm

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning
I found the pointer to the template repository patch for gcc 2.7.*. It's ftp.cygnus.com/pub/g++/gcc-2.7.*-repo.gz. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

optimizing for Cyrix CPUs

1997-09-02 Thread Paul Miller
I was browsing around the rc5 site and noticed that the Cyrix-166+ chip out performed the Pentium 200 w/ or w/o MMX ... I was told this is because the Cyrix chip is optimized for interger calculations (better than intel) and the rc5 programs can be configured to be optimized for Cyrix. Is it possi

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 02-Sep-97 David B. Teague wrote: > >you will find a big section that explains how to do the template >instantantiation with the template class and implementation in separate >files. > >There are pragmas for this, and the technique taht Borland C++ uses for >this works (according to the info file

Re: I need your help..

1997-09-02 Thread ed slocomb
Min-Woo Bahk wrote: > > Hello. > > This is Minu, working in Nat'l University of mongolia as computer > professor. We have freewave wireless modem to connect internet. > > The modem is connected to router that formed by debian linux system, and > server is a sun sparc station5. This network syste

Re: optimizing for Cyrix CPUs

1997-09-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I was browsing around the rc5 site and noticed that the Cyrix-166+ chip > out performed the Pentium 200 w/ or w/o MMX ... I was told this is because > the Cyrix chip is optimized for interger calculations (better than intel) > and the rc5 programs can be

montage: can't resolve symbol 'compress'

1997-09-02 Thread Joerg Plate
1> dpkg -S montage imagemagick: /usr/X11R6/bin/montage 1> dpkg -l imagemagick ii imagemagick 3.8.9-1 1> ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/montage libMagick.so.3.8 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libMagick.so.3.8 (0x4000b000) 3.8.9 libdf.so.4.0 => /usr/lib/libdf.so.4.0 (0x4011f000)

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 8859 xxx 2001, Orn E. Hansen wrote: ^^ Orn, your mailer is formatting dates in a way that pine doesn't understand :< > On 02-Sep-97 David B. Teague wrote: > > > >you will find a big section that explains how to do the template > >instantantiation with the template class and implementa

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-02 Thread john
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Note it never says these are the *only* public lists. It says "The public lists are:", not "Some of the public lists are:". That clearly implies that these are all of the public lists. > In fact, there _are_ other lists. Yes, the web page says so (but does not name t

Re: Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: > Ok, folks, I have taken a stab at making a debian package and I will > admit that I cheated a bit :) > > I have been using the XF-Mail GUI email package and really like it. I > like it so much that I wanted to share it so I grabbed the .rpm and > built