Re: OT: Best PDA?

xes (PC, Mac). Nice, high ASCII chars are converted on the fly. You need a special cable, for modem connections also a special null modem adapter. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: language settings in command line and man pages

e command line? > 2) how to make man pages english? Change the locale environment variable. Example (bash): export LC_ALL=en_US For an explanation, "apropos locale" I hope this helps. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP has released DeskJet printer driver!!!

OW! I remember vaguely there's a way to print with this one. Check www.linuxprinting.org for a start. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian

bscribe > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- > > "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck > the societies in which they occur." > --Albert North Whitehead > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: Xvidtune

"Cavaiani, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone told me yesterday that I have "lousy modelines" and that I should > run Xvidtune. My problem is that I navigated through many directories to > get to that, but then it doesn't execute when I type in that name? Says > "command not found". 'xv

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be > > hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint. There must be a /cdrom > > directory, and an /etc/fstab ent

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth > whiter? Is there anything like reftex for vim? -- Andre

libc6 -- down to potato?

I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! Any help will be appreciated. -- Andre

Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > > packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use > > woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable vers

Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > >> > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > >>

Re: libc6 -- down to potato? [solved]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > >> > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > >>

Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it > comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc, > 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas? Maybe the gsfonts package isn't installed? -- Andre

Re: ELO Touch Monitors

Sanjeev Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, does anyone know how to run Navigator full screen (no icons, no menu > bar). I want to ensure that the user cannot close the window. Don't use a window manager, put netscape run into an infinite loop that keeps restarting it. I assume you want so

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #270

Chris Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What's that, a comment or do you just have problems to unsubscribe? May I quote from what's been added to your msg automatically: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre > Please remove me from this list. >

Re: Can apt be steered?

Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > > --dummy-run to do a dummy run). > > I did

pdf2ps problem

I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have gs-aladdin, potato. -- Andre Error: /undefinedAladdin Ghostscr

Re: pdf2ps problem

John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:20 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > >I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > >my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > >'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps

Re: pdf2ps problem [solved]

Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > > But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix

Re: Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just upgraded a machine from unstable potato to stable potato > and among other things, I recompiled the PCMCIA modules provided > by pcmcia-source. > > Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod > -a'. This is merely a cosmetic i

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > > > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics) > > > > may fit the bill, > > > > > Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document > > > form

(Psion) plptools compilation error

Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find out who's the author. I get this error on my up-to-date potato system: Making all in plpftp make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andre/plptools-0.6/plpftp' g++ -DHAVE

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no > >Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find > >out who's the author. > > Where can we get the source code? Sorry, it's

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no > >> >Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find > >> >out w

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >> The code then compiles fine - well, there are a few warnings > >> (two-digit years - I can only hope this is just something that the Psion > >> link protocol requires), but nothing

Re: X

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:46PM -0500, chudpi wrote: > > > > Also, could anyone tell me how to activate the locatedb so I can use locate? > > Thanx. > > XsX > > don't turn your computer off at night. > > (the locatedb is rebuilt in a daily cron job

Mouse freezes

I have a very annoying problem. My system is potato with helix-gnome, gpm, and a Multi-I/O card the mouse is attached to. Now every now and then, after hours of working, the mouse pointer freezes. I found out if I don't reboot, the system locks up completely after some time and I have to reset it (

wget can't find remote directory

I'm trying to download documents from http://www.textkritik.de/bka/dokumente/dok_buelow/ With Netscape I have access to the .htm files in that directory, 'wget -r http://www.textkritik.de/bka/dokumente/dok_buelow/' doesn't work, probably because the site is obviously databased. Is there a way to d

mgetty-fax: cannot write to /var/spool/fax/outgoing!

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ faxspool 0 testfax.ps cannot write to /var/spool/fax/outgoing! is the error I get when I try to send a fax via mgetty-fax as user. andre is a member of groups fax and dialout, permissions for /var/spool/fax/ are drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 31 20:09 inc

Re: wget can't find remote directory [SOLVED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vee-Eye) writes: > > Very short: There is a "Gesamttext zum Herunterladen", in the case you > > missed it. > > I think it's a normal directory, where you are not allowed to cd to. > > read: to list the contents ... > > Another solution would be a shell for-loop with wget, becau

Re: netscape bookmark.html

Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and > make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me > can use the same bookmark file. > > the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, t

Re: Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the > IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at > one. Of the three, IIIP/4MB (I think this is the maximum it can take?). My LaserJet IIP PS/4MB w

Re: ssh is refusing connections

Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been running my server for 89 days now, on potato for the whole > time. It's been quite stable and happy for a while now. However, > without an update to either the server or my portable machine, ssh > began refusing connections all of a sudden. '

Re: anyone knows DIAL-BACK ppp??

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i dont know whether the word "DIAL-BACK" really exist,i need this > function: when i dial to a ppp server,and the server can dial > back to my pc,so i can use less telephone fee,can anyone tell me > how to config the ppp server to implementation this function > /

Re: Debian crashes: sw, hw or malicious hacker/virus problems?

Björn Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please check the mailing list archives. If i don't remember wrong > i've heard about a package that breaks after a certain time, a bug > that is resolved now. I don't remember which package it was but you > could at least try to find something about it.

gedit/potato segfaults

Anyone with the following segfault problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gedit Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeApp' I thought the potato version 0.5.4-1 was stable? -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: Making the computer less noisy

shorten the HDDs' lifetime. Perhaps the best idea I saw was put the machine into another room (if you can), and use an old (or Apple-, a cheap 68k model with color display will do) laptop without fan to display the server's X output via ethernet. -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm not sure if it will help you, but check your /etc/X11/Xresources/* files, and your ~/.Xresources. If you have something very long like a complete netscape language localization in it, xrdb -merge can take a very long time, esp. on slow machines. -- Andr

Re: latex question

hould read the .dvi file that comes with packages like g-brief. I suggest you also read a book about LaTeX, Vol. 1 of Kopka's LaTeX book is very good, or the LaTeX Companion, to get an idea about the underlying concepts. For now I'd take a look at lyx, a graphical frontend to LaTeX. It'

Re: latex question

Sorry for this followup to my own posting. > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > > > > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > > > > myself. Can anyone give

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > > >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a > > >>problem to load http://

Re: need help locating a file

Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This past weekend, I experienced a partial hard-drive crash. I've managed to > reinstall and recover most of my stuff, except for one thing. I used to have > several fonts, which came with Debian, but I have been unable to figure out > what package they

Re: Num lock activated by default, at start

> > there is a X11 based version of setleds too but i can't remember what > its called (nor find the package for it...) > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ numlockx You can get it from freshmeat. But, the NumLock key has side effects on apps like acroread, so I've removed any automatic pushin' again. -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there! > > i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps > when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as > xterm... > > what am i missing? > > i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont), > /etc/consol

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

uot;killall acroread ; acroread $(basename $$FName .dvi).pdf" \pdf_mode true That way you'll only be able to print (to printer or .ps file) from acroread, gv or whatever you use to display .pdf files. Also interesting: \show_banner false. Hope that helps, Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I > > have (I believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to > > solve this problem? Thanks > > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. Good idea! > you need dvi2ps (or

NetBus?!

I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives me Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 9 opentcpdiscard 13 open

Re: NetBus?!

"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives > > me > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecur

Re: NetBus?!

"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > > > > You can find out what process has a particular por

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

em). > > > > Q> What software, from the debian distro, would you suggest which is > > easy to set up for sending PS files, for example. > > > > Thanks Tom > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: 386 install

he > floppy method. I have then created a set of boot floppies > with the "idepci" kernel flavour. > The boot process fails when introducing the root floppy. Take out the HDD and and install on another machine, or from another machine using chroot. -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: add new Tex packages!?

d > > asks for the path, when I insert the path it works. > > What do I have to do to get this running? > > > > Thanks, > > Manuel > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: Problems adding styles to Lyx...

Ignacio Más Ivars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi!! > > I am having a strange problem with Lyx. I have installed some local > packages > for Latex (IEEE styles...) and after running texhash, latex is able to use > them without problem, but Lyx does not find them. I have re-run reconfig

anacron wrote me

I (username: andre) had this in my mail: The date of the message is:Mon, 28 Jan 1980 05:14:21 +0100 The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/aliases (lsearch lookup): file mode 0664 should not contain 0020 This /etc/aliases, root.root,

Re: autosetting time

Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a > timeserver and autoset this on your machine. > I discovered that the time on my machice is very inaccurate (could > difference to 10 minutes per month), so I would like to know

Re: vanishing mail

Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:44:53 -0500, A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > It now connects fine, the mail is retrieved, or so I believe, at least > >that is what ius printed to the screen. Now, when I run mutt or mail as > >"tony", it says no mail for tony. W

Re: Office software - and printers

Tom Huckstep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they > expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. > > I am quite happy to set it up for them, I'm sure that they will have > no problems getting used to the Gnome desk

Re: Connection - Modem

Estêvão Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. ( ) text/plain (*) text/html ^please don't > >   I can't connect to the Internet with my modem, so you telled me to > use the pppconfig. THank you so much, but what do I do after I > configure my connection? On a shell, type 'pon' to

Re: Office software - and printers

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >[snip some advice] > Notes: > > [1] At some point after I die, I *will* write the oft-promised essay > "The Office Suite is Dead". Meantime, suffice to say that the office > suite was created to solve a marketing problem -- selling software > people didn't want to

problems after upgrade to progeny

I've just upgraded my potato box to progeny. There's a problem with xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-12), the mga driver, and geometry. Vertical window borders are partly gibberish, like waves, and the text of lines between these parts is slanted to the right or left. This may sound poetic, but makes things

Re: problems after upgrade to progeny

Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > I've just upgraded my potato box to progeny. There's a problem with > > xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-12), the mga driver, and geometry. Vertical > > window borders are partly gibberish, li

ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with ssh_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb ssh-askpass-gnome_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb but I can ping localhost, and I can still access other machines with ssh. Any ideas? I've just upgraded from potato and its ssh. Andre

Re: ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with > > > > ssh_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb > > ssh-askpas

Re: Unidentified subject!

> I ask to send me on the bank account [blabla] They've even run out of line breaks in Russia... -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > > > on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > &g

Postfix delivers more than once

I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone? -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > > I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more > > than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > Does this happen only fo

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ have finished. How can I resp. the script make sure Postfix isn't just in the middle of its job? -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wordperfect 8.0?

; > System is: AMD K6 266, 96 MB SDRAM, 2.2.18 kernel compiled without > module support, running KDE 2. > > Thanks, > > Colin Mattoon IIRC, it's xpm4.7 xlib6 But WP is very buggy, I'd go for StarOffice instead. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail

n and they work fine there: #/home/andre/.fetchmailrc poll mailin.uni-bonn.de with protocol POP3, with options user "myname" there with password "mypass" is andre here I'm absolutely clueless. Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

ssh stopped working

I had a functional ssh (potato/ppc), but now it has stopped working. The error message I get is ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host when I try to connect to the same hosts as before. I have no idea why. (ssh is already purged and reinstalled.) -- Andre

Re: ssh stopped working

Sorry for my quite unprofessional posting. The problem has been solved now; my ISP's dialin-server had a wrong configuration. Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can you take a look at the syslog of the o

OT: Xemacs21-nomule/GNUs: turn off split by default?

Does anybody know the trick to turn off the Multipart Mime splitting of messages with larger attachments in Xemacs21-nomule/GNUS by default? Andre

Re: Strange GPM behavior

I would try to remove the line repeat_type=ms3 first. Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have this with XF86 4.0 (compiled locally) but not with 3.3.6 installed > from Potato. I'm using a Logitech multiprotocol ps2 mouse in ps2 mode. > > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Craig McPherson wrote: > >

Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system and use exim and fetchmail instead? Background: I have a dial-up connection and a few users (my family) with www-based free mail accounts (gmx) who are used to Netscape, but want to write their mail off-line. It would be much chea

Re: Spelling for netscape.

launch the program with a single button, rather > than having to open the browser and then the mail client. netscape -messenger > thanks > Joshua -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

l Debian 2.2r0-CD-Set or what I've made wrong > according to the packageinstallion with apt-get? > > Thanks > > Christoph Walther > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Try # apt-get install communicator-smotif-475 netscape-java-475 or replace 475 with whichever version

Re: AW: Installing Netscape Communicator 4.7x from official Debian 2.2r0 CDs

"Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Andre Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 9. Januar 2001 12:08 > An: Walther, Christoph > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Installi

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may be a strange request but I'm trying to write a little > wrapper of sorts for Netscape that removes the lock file > automatically after killing the browser when it hangs. The > problem I'm having is finding a site that hangs Netsca

Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD space (on three HDDs). Is there still an older, smaller, desktop-free version of StarOffice around? I'd actually mainly need the StarWriter component. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proper, debian location of latex files

nstallation. Just run 'texhash' as root every time you've changed something. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

Veit Waltemath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 12 Jan 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > > > > > I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD space (on three HDDs). Is > > >

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:50:40AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > Veit Waltemath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > On 12 Jan 2001, Andre Berger

Re: 'autostart' hdparm

p script /etc/init.d/hwtools; else, /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh would be a good place. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

hine. > Here is a review of several Linux word processors; maybe you can find > what you need here. > > http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Word+Processors > > Good luck! > -- > Steve R. Hastings "Vita est" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blarg.net/~steveha Thank you. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing StarOffice 3.1.4 from rpms (libc >= 5.4.4; Motif 2.0)

Star-Office-dynbin-3.1.4.i386.rpm # Motif 2.0 My problem: alien doesn't produce a working something. The whole stuff is compiled against libc >= 5.4.4. Any hints, also about Motif (The documentation says it's faster with Motif)? My system: woody/progeny. Thanks in advance

Re: "wall" popping up?

tically being delivered > as mail to some local user? A shell script that takes the text as its argument should do (untestested). > Thanks, Ekkehard CU -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting locale failed?

x27; into /etc/profile and 'LC_ALL=de_DE' into /etc/environment. Remove LANG and other LC settings from both files, if existing. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting locale failed?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Korte) writes: > On 27 Jan 2001 17:10:59 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Korte) writes: > > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings

Re: fetchmail question

etchmail -q' kill -9 $(cat /home/$YOURUSER/.fetchmail.pid 2>/dev/null) 2>/dev/null Could also be put in a loop for more than one user. -- Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail question

Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hey, > > > > I would like to know how to configure fetchmail to run in the background > > when I connect to my isp and collect my mail and polls my

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

r command shell 'the next character is verbatim, > don't do whatever you normally would with it' and the ^O is a > standard 'reset the display character set' for ansi-like terminal > emulators. > > there's probably a sane modular/universal way of doing this... Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shell-script question

script is invoked from a command line within or outside X, it works. If it's invoked via "rxvt -e mailcheck" or "rxvt -ls -e mailcheck", everything looks normal, but nothing's dialed. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/sh # /usr

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

On 2001-02-11 14:02 +0100, Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > # bash > > > set PS1="^V^O whatever> " > > > > Huh? Do you mean "export" instead of "se

Re: Shell-script question

On 2001-02-11 15:16 +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > I wrote a shell script "/usr/local/bin/mailcheck" (/usr/local/bin/ is in > > $PATH of my potato bash) that gives a list of pon &qu

Re: Shell-script question

On 2001-02-11 16:48 +0100, ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:42:15PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > On 2001-02-11 15:16 +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:

Re: Shell-script question [solved]

On 2001-02-11 14:26 +0100, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote a shell script "/usr/local/bin/mailcheck" (/usr/local/bin/ is in > $PATH of my potato bash) that gives a list of pon "targets" (diff. > ISPs), and is owned by root., perms 755. I'

Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

* rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-06-16 22:23 +0200: > Howdy all, > > I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find > out which .deb package provides these? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rich IIRC, I also had to "apt-get install xpm4.7" to run WP8. A. B.

Re: dialing up my home box

* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-06-18 22:44 +0200: > Sebastiaan writes: > > If you are on a phone line, you need to install some dail-in server. > > You already have a dial-in server: pppd. Install mgetty and configure it > to use autoPPP to answer incoming calls and connect them to pppd.

procmail/proposed updates

I'm running potato and have just upgraded to procmail/proposed updates. Now I have errors of this type in my log file: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 03 09:44:41 2001 Subject: Re: How to generate set/get method pairs Folder: /home/andre/Maildir/new/994146292.834_0.mir 1702

Re: shutdown permission to users?

* Neil Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-08-14 22:36 +0200: > You may find this old trick works. Create a "captive account", one that > does not have a regular shell, rather runs a command - in this case > /usr/sbin/shutdown. The account name might be "shutdown". Give it a > password that makes sense

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