Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-01 Thread Alan Tam
Hi dear Debian gurus, I am a home user running slink (Debian 2.1). I've installed the cups 1.0.5 deb package which overwrites my original lprng package. But when I try to do lpr ~/.bashrc it says lpr: error -- no default destination avaiable then I go through the web for cups rela

Re: cron.daily isn't

2000-03-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > Correct. "at" is an addition to cron, that makes sure that cron jobs > get run regardless of whether the machine was off during the time it > was supposed to excute the given job. If your box is up 24/7, all you > need is cron. You're overlooking at's abi

Re: Making choices with a script

2000-03-01 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-29 01:48:12, Cameron Matheson wrote: > How do I use dialog? rtfm (`man dialog`, /usr/doc/dialog). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) P.O. Box 2022 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woburn, MA 01888-0022 ICQ: 44214251 USA

Re: cron.daily isn't

2000-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: > Correct. "at" is an addition to cron, that makes sure that cron jobs get > run regardless of whether the machine was off during the time it was > supposed to excute the given job. If your box is up 24/7, all you need is > cron. Er, I think you meant "anacron", not "at". At doe

Re: Making choices with a script

2000-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Matheson) wrote: >I'm trying to make script that asks you what you want to do (and then >echo's a list of choices), but I need to know what the command would be >(like DOS's choice) to prompt the user, and how to use it. If you want something more lightweight than the al

Re: cron.daily isn't

2000-03-01 Thread kmself
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:30:07PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:32:41PM -0800, Ernest Johanson wrote: > > I had a similar experience recently on the alpha platform. If I added > > something to the crontab file, it didn't run. I had to stop and start the > > cron daemon to

Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato

2000-03-01 Thread kmself
I've got a similar problem, also one-way. Is either of your machines on a dynamic IP dialup line? One of mine is, one isn't. On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm sure it's just yet another one line config change to get my box working > the way it was before

Re: apt and kde

2000-03-01 Thread kmself
Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources file, then apt-get update: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:25:32PM -0400, Joe Gofton wrote: > is there a way to get KDE installed using APT. If so what woul

Off topic: Free POP3 email

2000-03-01 Thread Joe Bouchard
Hi, Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you. I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is doing pretty well. Until now she hasn't had her own email, but I guess it is time to set her up, so I'm look

Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast > > > > how do you pause the scrolling text? > > > > the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond > > i know this is a dumb question, but may

Base Install + SETI@Home

2000-03-01 Thread Brian
Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone setup a minimal Debian system (like the 9 base floppies) just to run [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason I'm asking is that I've only got a ~450 MB hard disk that I got for free. I've tried this before, but I didn't have the correct libs to run it. And, I couldn'

Re: Making choices with a script

2000-03-01 Thread erik
Hi, cameron, nice question; dialog is a really cool program - but rather than tell you exactly how to run it, I recommend you look in file:/usr/doc/dialog-0.X/samples (X being whichever version you have) --dialog runs from a script and this directory contains some examples of how to call it...NO

Re: Base Install + SETI@Home

2000-03-01 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:49:39PM -0500, Brian wrote: > > Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone setup a minimal Debian system (like the > 9 base floppies) just to run [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason I'm asking is that > I've > only got a ~450 MB hard disk that I got for free. > > I've tried this b

Re: Base Install + SETI@Home

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Brian wrote: brianj >I'm guessing I either already have them and did something wrong, or it's brianj >because I have a bar bones system and they usually get installed as a brianj >'depends' with something larger. i am using the staticalluy linked i386 version on most of my

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread Frank Copeland
John Bagdanoff wrote: >The current potato wine package worked flawlessly for me, so I didn't >save the previous version. I got the latest one in woody, but still >wine breaks. > >If you could, polly, upgrade to the latest libc6 (2.1.3-5). If wine >starts up for you, then I'll go to the wine news

ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-01 Thread fairfax
I am having trouble recieving files via PPP from certain sites. I checked the debugging log, and I am repeatedly getting a two-line error message from those sites: kernel: ppp: frame with bad fcs, length = 994 kernel: ppp: bad frame, count = 994 Can anyone tell me what this means? It seems th

RE: Off topic: Free POP3 email

2000-03-01 Thread Bryan Scaringe
You could look into mailandnews.com Bryan On 01-Mar-2000 Joe Bouchard wrote: > Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of > folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you. > > I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is > doing pretty well. Unti

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Mar-2000 Frank Copeland wrote: > John Bagdanoff wrote: >>The current potato wine package worked flawlessly for me, so I didn't >>save the previous version. I got the latest one in woody, but still >>wine breaks. >> >>If you could, polly, upgrade to the latest libc6 (2.1.3-5). If wine >>sta

check if the email address is valid

2000-03-01 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I need to write a program to check if a given email address is valid. I cannot simply send a message to the email address and waiting for a bounce. The only way I can think is to telnet to the mail server on port 25 and do a VFRY command. However, some m

Re: check if the email address is valid

2000-03-01 Thread Shao Zhang
Howard Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I need to write a program to check if a given email address is > > valid. I cannot simply send a message to the email address and > > waiting for a bounce. > > > > The only way I can think is

test - please ignore!

2000-03-01 Thread Bryan Scaringe
testing my mail filters. Bryan

Re: check if the email address is valid

2000-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) wrote: > I need to write a program to check if a given email address is > valid. I cannot simply send a message to the email address and > waiting for a bounce. > > The only way I can think is to telnet to the mail server on port > 25 and

RE: Two Questions...

2000-03-01 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP? Nope, you shouldn't. But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4). There

RE: Two Questions...

2000-03-01 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP? Nope, you shouldn't. But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4). There

RE: OpenSSH problem

2000-03-01 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Sorry for the delay. I just found this in my old inbox. I did solve this, by playing with hosts.allow and hosts.deny. hosts.allow: # Allow All Local Traffic ALL : LOCAL # SSH Server Access #sshd : ALL #uncomment to allowremote access hosts.deny: ALL: ALL Bryan On 17-Jan-2000 Dan Langille wr

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread John Bagdanoff
Frank Copeland wrote: > > wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to > implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6, > we'll see what comes of it. > > Frank Thanks for the verification, Frank. Guess I'll sit tight for a couple of days. John

RE: OpenSSH problem

2000-03-01 Thread Dan Langille
I have solved this problem. It was user error. I still had tcp_wrappers installed. For details see: http://www.freebsddiary.org/ssh_refused.html But thanks for getting back to me. On 1 Mar 00, at 0:30, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Sorry for the delay. I just found this in my old inbox. > I did

play program -- which package?

2000-03-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
What package is `play' program is in? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: play program -- which package?

2000-03-01 Thread kmself
# dpkg -S `which play` sox: /usr/bin/play You can also search packages at http://www.debian.org/ On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:57:37AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > What package is `play' program is in? > > Thanks! > -- > Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread Frank Copeland
John Bagdanoff wrote: >Frank Copeland wrote: >> >> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to >> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6, >> we'll see what comes of it. > >Thanks for the verification, Frank. Guess I'll sit tight for a cou

xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt. Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this. I tried getting mkttfdir, which is part of perlftlib-1.2.tar.gz, available from http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/#perlft

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:05:24AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt. > > Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf > fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this. it probably does, in japenese ;-) > I tried ge

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread John Bagdanoff
Yahoo!!, I'm back in business. Thanks John Frank Copeland wrote: > This issue is starting to get a mention on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. > The suggested workaround is to set LC_ALL=en before running wine, and I can > confirm that this works for me.

mmencode not included in metamail?

2000-03-01 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi debian users! I tried to install mime-compose.el to enhance Emacs20 in Slink, but in the comments it stated that it required mmencode and that mmencode is included in the metamail distribution. I did a "whereis mmencode" but it did not seem to be installed on my system. I do have metamail in

Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast > > > > > > how do you pause the scrolling text? > > > > > > the pause/ break button doesn't seem to resp

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

2000-03-01 Thread Chirag
Subject: Re: Movie Player for .dat files? > www.mpegtv.com has a good videoCD player,(.dat) can run full screen and is > multithreaded, runs great. kind of tricky to get fullscreen going though > took me a while. > Thanks, but I am not able to get te fullscreen mode. When I switch it on, th

xfs-xtt configuration

2000-03-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there is mkttfdir in fttools package. Thanks! My new question... After I successfully generated the fonts.dir file, and added FontPath"unix/:7101" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" to XF86Config, X no longer starts, and I'm s

RE: Problem with Linux PC getting at NT WINS server

2000-03-01 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Eric Hanchrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "Paul" == Moore, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> 1. The box cannot "see" these netbios names for other > Paul> machines on the LAN. I can ping machines with static IP > Paul> addresses by name, as (I guess) the names

Re: gcc problem

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Layton
> >But now I've downloaded some source code which I'm trying to compile, when > >trying to compile it became clear to me that something was defenately > >wrong: I got the error that gcc couldn't write any executables... > > Usually this problem is due to the binutils package not being installed. >

netscape -remote doesn't work...

2000-03-01 Thread Pontus Lidman
Hello, I've wondered why my gnome mini-commander can't open URL's, and I have tracked the problem to this point: willynilly:~% netscape -remote openURL http://www.av.com netscape-remote: not running on display :0.0 but I do have netscape up and running on this display. I start it using the defau

Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato

2000-03-01 Thread hawk
Karsten called, > I've got a similar problem, also one-way. > Is either of your machines on a dynamic IP dialup line? One of mine is, > one isn't. One of the three, but it's not the problem :) The offending machine (this one) has a static IP, and a fixed name (hawkins.cba.uni.edu). It's the on

Downloading with fetchmail

2000-03-01 Thread ulla . russell
I am trying to configure my Linux box to send and receive mail using: mutt fetchmail procmail and exim As yet I have not done anything about configuring mutt or procmail.I have run eximconf and have the following .fetchmailrc file. poll mail.inet.fi proto POP3 auth password user russir-1 pass

RE: Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-01 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi dear Debian gurus, > > I am a home user running slink (Debian 2.1). > > I've installed the cups 1.0.5 deb package which overwrites my > original lprng package. > But when I try to do > lpr ~/.bashrc it says lpr: error -- no default destination > avaiable > I found that it

fvwm95 and icons

2000-03-01 Thread Jose Alberto Lobo
Hi!, I run Debian slink and use fvwm95 window manager --I know it's a little primitive, but very robust and easy to handle. I have however a silly problem with the icons in the button bar: there are certain applications --netscape, xfig, xterm, etc.-- I launch by clicking on the correspond

Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

2000-03-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
There are two questions to this issue: 1: Do you trust your distro? 2: Do you trust your distro's ftp site. Question number two is really a matter of the site having been hacked and a trojan (or a coo-coo) being planted. I use debian, and I DO trust them. I would never have a problem downloading

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:05:24AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt. > > Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf > fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this. There's supposed to be a mkttfdir in a deb pack

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase file extention. Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem. Bryan > there is mkttfdir in fttools package. > >> Another question: Onc

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase > file extention. Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different > than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem. damn, t

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread Kent West
Frank Copeland wrote: > John Bagdanoff wrote: > >Frank Copeland wrote: > >> > >> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to > >> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6, > >> we'll see what comes of it. > > > >Thanks for the verification,

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Chirag wrote: mannan >Thanks, but I am not able to get te fullscreen mode. When I switch it mannan >on, the player mannan >takes the entire screen, but the movie itself is limited to the central part mannan >of the screen mannan >and is actually smaller than in the normal

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Bryan Scaringe
There was a discussion about this back on Jan 23-24. It's covered better than anything I could write. Check the archives. Look for a subject to the effect of: "Batch rename files" Bryan Below is the method I would choose (from 1 of the messages in that thread): --- A low-tech ba

Problem with sendmail

2000-03-01 Thread Roy Jr
I need to configure the e-mail for receive e-mail under the domain. Ex my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i need to receive also under [EMAIL PROTECTED] . How can i do that?   Please answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Thanks

samba

2000-03-01 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, I have just install samba on my potato box. Is there an addition setup that I need to do to browse my home directory on the potato box? Here is the sample setup: On potato box: user login: usera passwrd : passwda home dir : /home/usera On NT box: I also have the s

RE: xfs-xtt configuration

2000-03-01 Thread Paul Kallstrom
First, you may want to change "unix/:7101" to "inet/127.0.0.1:7101", if you don't have the unix ports module installed, or compiled in your kernel. On 01-Mar-2000, at 13:59:09, Arcady Genkin climbed upon the nearest soapbox, and shouted: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> there i

IBM NetFinity 7000

2000-03-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a client that bought two IBM NetFinity 7000 with a external storage. He wants that the two computers access the HD as it was from each computer. He says to me that NT has a solution for this: MCSS. How I can do this with Linux? Thanks. -- Abraços,

Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the admin tasks. H

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
fcs is Frame Check Sequence. PPP over an async link uses HDLC-like framing for each packet. The FCS is used to detect errors in packets which are received. Such an error could happen on a link which is not error-corrected. On a link which is error-corrected this probably indicates something is m

Kernel Compile

2000-03-01 Thread Sean McIlwain
I am attempting to compile the 2.0.38 kernel under debian using a 486 33MHz computer. I have tried kernel-package and make bzImage. Both give the same error as below. I have included all the packages that are currently installed on my system. If you have any hints to what is going on,

Kitchen sink is an essential part!, Powered by....

2000-03-01 Thread Chirag
Dear GNU/Linux user, Since the last discussion about whether the association with kitchen sink is desirable or undesirable to Linux , I have paid a visit to the kitchen and found that by consuming all the dirt it is the one that is actually safeguarding the house's hygiene. It may look dirty

Re: Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alan Tam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Then I followed the steps > 1. [bash] lpstat -o Enter ==> nothing comes out > 2. [bash] cupsd& Enter ^ The & puts that job in the background. See man bash, section called JOB CONTROL. >==> [1] 523 (I'

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Layton
I highly recommend cfEngine: http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/ It's a great tool for managing large heterogeneous networks. It takes a little forethought for the setup, but is well worth it once in place. -- Jeff On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I seem to have started a Debian thin

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

2000-03-01 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a client that bought two IBM NetFinity 7000 with a external > storage. He wants that the two computers access the HD as it was from each > computer. He says to me that NT has a solution for this: MCSS.

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

2000-03-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
What is nbd? Quoting Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > I have a client that bought two IBM NetFinity 7000 with a external > > storage. He wants that the two computers access the HD as it was

Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
i believe .deb's have checksums .. and at least as far as "official" packages go, using apt anyways, that usually grabs the 'master' package listing, does dpkg automatically check the checksum on installation or no? if not it would be a nice feature.. i know rpms have some form of checksum(pgp i th

RE: xfs-xtt configuration

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
while im sure inet/ works good i use tcp/ which also works. nate On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paul Kallstrom wrote: paul >First, you may want to change "unix/:7101" to "inet/127.0.0.1:7101", if you paul >don't have the unix ports module installed, or compiled in your kernel. paul > paul > paul > paul >

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

2000-03-01 Thread Chirag
Subject: Re: Movie Player for .dat files? > that is normal when you do not have a modeline low enough. what mpegtv > (and other fullscreen apps do) is get the closest resolution that is > possible(defined in XF86Config) for full screen mode. some games won't > even run if there isn't a 640x480 m

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
while i haven't tried this myself it may be worth a shot. make your own packages for the programs you use in .deb format point all the machines for apt to use http on the solaris box(or ftp, but http is probably easier to maintain) then put the packages on the solaris box. create a packages / pa

Re: Kernel Compile

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
can you attach/include a copy of your .config (kernel configuration) verify that the processor type in the kernel config is i486 or lower.. nate On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sean McIlwain wrote: mcilwa >I am attempting to compile the 2.0.38 kernel under debian using a mcilwa >486 mcilwa >33MHz compu

Quick & Dirty Guide to making your own apt source directories (was Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines)

2000-03-01 Thread Joe Block
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > > I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It > seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with > Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly > heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin

Re: Movie Player for .dat files?

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Chirag wrote: mannan >Yes In XFree86_FBDev no modeswitching is possible without rebooting the mannan >system since the calls to VIDEO BIOS does not support protected mode mannan >inteface mannan >for mode swtiching. The mode is decided at boot time by the kernel, but mannan >t

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 28 Feb 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > However, I'm not really happy with this way of doing things. I'd like > to hear about some other ways. I've toyed with the idea of using CVS, > archiving /etc and making a local package. Slightly related, I'm also > looking for ways to quickly clone a sy

Re: Is it possible to have isolatin on the shell?

2000-03-01 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >this appeared when exchanging files with windows-users. they are able to >use the full isolatin charset when creating filenames, i can't... quite >frustrating, i looked at the bash manpage, but could find nothing about the >ability to use the iso-lat

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:17:24AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > > Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase > > file extention. Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different > > than .jpg,

Applixware 5

2000-03-01 Thread Dr. Yasha Karant
I have downloaded the RPMs for Applixware 5 and converted these to .deb packages via alien. Unfortunately, Applix 5 does not run properly (Applix 4 is fine). I have been in email correspondence with Applix, and purportedly will get some information on a "fix". Meanwhile, I have heard that ther

*wham* there went ncpfs . . .

2000-03-01 Thread hawk
Potato seems determined to kill off my system piece by piece. Now it's ncpfs, which simply hangs. Has anyonw found the cuase of this yet? rick

ps2-mouse problem

2000-03-01 Thread Johann Spies
I want to replace my serial mouse with a ps2 mouse in order to make a second serial port available (I could solve the problems when I tried to use a second serial card to provide two extra serial ports). The ps2 mouse is recognized by the MSDOS-software. On Linux, I started by configuring gpm to

3COM Drivers-

2000-03-01 Thread Tom Warfield
Anyone know where i can find a driver for the 3COM 575BT card? I called 3COM and they said to try a site that wasnt maintained by them. Unfortuanetly i didnt see any drivers at the site for this card. Anyone have any ideas? Its a PCMCIA card and is a failry common card, so im sure that it probab

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase > letters in bash or some other way? i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF > this.tff 215 times You can use mmv utility: mmv '*.TTF' #1.ttf should do the trick. Note: it will only

Re: OFF TOPIC: Audio/Modem Riser (AMR)?

2000-03-01 Thread dan
I think last time I saw those kinds of slots, they were proprietary slots for onboard winmodem/audio that hold a winmodem/audio bracket. The rest is self-explanatatory. -- Windows NT: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system origin

Optic fiber to ethernet.

2000-03-01 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, I'm a networking neophit. Excuse me. What device do i need to link a optic fiber to an ethernet ?? Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Lin

how to change window-managers?

2000-03-01 Thread john smith
hi, before I used gnome I was using icewm and in the system menu I could choose whatever window-manager I like from fvwm,icewm,sawmill, etc now when I installed gnome, I had to edit my Xsession file to include one window manager or else there would be none. I was wondering if I could somehow

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2000-03-01 Thread dan
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 07:27:04PM -0500, addiction generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Hello.. > > Rather silly question but here goes: > > I don't have access to Windows or DOS and I need to extract the contents > of some .cab files. I was wondering if there is any tool I can use to do > this,

Re: How do I give a 'clear' command when leaving kdm/X?

2000-03-01 Thread dan
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:47:37PM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave > kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this > to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'cl

svgalib and ATI Rage 128

2000-03-01 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Hi! I have so far been experiencing erratic svgalib behaviour. Basically, if I call something like zgv, I get the following message: c172d Int 0x10 is not in rom (:) No VESA bios detected! Try running vga_reset. and zgv (or whatever) runs in VGA mode, instead of SVGA mode.

Re: ATI Video Card Support

2000-03-01 Thread dan
Simply don't get any ATI cards unless you have to. They're overpriced for their performance. They're slow in X compared to others. If you are going to be doing just 2D and want great performance and great 2D quality IMO Millenium G400 is the best choice right now. Strangely, but support for 3D acce

Re: ps2-mouse problem

2000-03-01 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-01 22:36:11, Johann Spies wrote: > I want to replace my serial mouse with a ps2 mouse in order to make a > second serial port available (I could solve the problems when I tried to > use a second serial card to provide two extra serial ports). Ok. > The ps2 mouse is recognized by the M

The perfect X text editor

2000-03-01 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, What the world needs is a text editor which has the following: 1. Designed from the start to run under X, preferably using gnome widgets. 2. Designed to be somewhat compatible with emacs --- where this doesn't impinge on utility. 3. Designed to be quick to start. It should do this by only

potato install issues

2000-03-01 Thread Kevin Conover
I'm trying to install potato to a new machine to be used as a squid box. (I know potato is beta/frozen). I'm having the following issues: 1) during the install, after the first reboot, I'm getting an error with init. Specifically, the install process puts a line in inittab that says to respawn

transfering to new HDD

2000-03-01 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hi, I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, symlinks, etc). I thought I saw a thread about this, but couldn't find it. Can anyone tell me what FM to read to get this going? TIA MaryK

module problem

2000-03-01 Thread Dale Morris
I've been trying to install debian 2.1. When I configure network modules and try to add the module 3c59x I get a fail message, ...init module, device or resource busy.. I'm using a cable modem to connect to my local Cox ISP. I have been able to install this module in both Mandrake and Redhat on my