Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
e indication. Adding a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Arizona /etc/localtime fixed it. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just need to be reminded occasionally. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &q

Re: My trials upgrading to hamm/Bad bash 2.01-5 for bo

1998-02-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
he libc5-libc6 > upgrade howto, under something like "for the paranoid". I wish I would have thought of that! :^) Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.p

Re: connecting linux and win95

1998-02-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Another possibility would be plip, if there is a suitable Win95 driver for the parallel port (I don't know if it is supported by the install disks). Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd, hamm)

1998-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
tp> Am I missing something here? Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
-al /etc/alternatives/pager lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 27 21:17 /etc/alternatives/pager -> /usr/bin/less dpkg -S /usr/bin/pager doesn't return anything, so I don't know which package set this up, but you might try putting in the links manually. hth, Bob --- Bob Niel

Backspace in Netscape

1998-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
or other X applications. Any ideas? Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: Second Hard Disk

1997-03-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
;dmesg|more' to see that it is. Next, do 'fdisk /dev/hdb' to partition, run mke2fs to prepare the partition(s) for data, add it to /etc/fstab and you should be in business. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL

Re: Screen Saver

1997-03-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
= 0 to 60 (minutes.) 0 = no blanking. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Only ping works with slip.

1997-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
end your complete e-mail address as password. > Password: <-bacate@> > 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. > Remote system type is UNIX. > Using binary mode to transfer files. > ftp> > > > . . . > > On

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
see anything on the drive (there's nothing > in the /target directory). It did read the partition information _once_ > though, so I assume it can see the drive. Have you tried running Linux fdisk, rather than cfdisk? I had some problems with cfdisk, but fdisk

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 23 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 . I had it on 1.2.5 (LSL tri-linux cd-rom). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: problems with SounBlaster16

1997-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
onfigure the kernel to use non-scsi or ide cdroms (Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative) and edit sbpcd.h to specify the cdrom parameters. These cd-roms don't like to be loaded as modules, by the way. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
Hat shows (correctly for Arizona) MST. R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices, including various parts of Indiana. The files don't seem readable, so I don't know what to make of it. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AM

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

1997-04-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Roy C Bixler wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Hmmm, my Debian (rex) shows MDT, but my Red Hat shows (correctly for > > Arizona) MST. R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices, > > including various parts of Indiana. > >

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
t; works fine but "umount /cdrom" gives the error message: > > umount: /cdrom mount disagrees with the fstab I have the following for an IDE cd-rom: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdromiso9660 defaults,noauto,user 0 0 This works fine for me. Try specifying /dev/scd0 instead

Re: General help needed ! Linux

1997-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
showing Treat the cdrom the same as any other drive with the mount command, as above. To slim down the probing for nonexistent devices, you can recompile the kernel to remove support for anything you don't have. See the Kernel-HOWTO for more information on this. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: 16650

1997-04-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
FO trigger > * at 1 char, we'd probably disable at speed below > * 2400 baud anyway... > */ > fcr = 0; > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL P

Re: Newby: dselect failure

1997-04-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
tion. You might try repeating the step to see if that helps. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: what umask?

1997-04-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > what is the umask to mount a partition that allows user and group "rwx" > permission > and other none, i.e. "---". James Bond would know this: 007 Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson

How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
processing gpm (--purge) subprocess preremoval script returned error exit status 137 Starting gpm -m /dev/null -t bare Errors were encountered while processing: gpm Killing gpm before running dpkg didn't help. How can I get rid of it? Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROT

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
PROTECTED] . > > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > > > > > --Rick > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Tro

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
es for each o/s is probably a good idea. Bob On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: > Hello, > > Well, I looked at it already, but it caused my question: > > How to dual-boot reliably? > > Paul > > > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > Get the LILO+Win95 m

Re: How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
That took care of it. Thanks Bob On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote > > > I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was > > installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null, > > since there

Re: How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
gpm_1.10-2.deb from a Debian 1.2.5 installation. On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote > > That took care of it. Thanks > > Can you tell me which version of gpm you used? I just spoke to > James Troup who is the new maintainer. He has a

Re: dselect for X?

1997-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep it that way (I have both X and non-X machines). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: dpkg Question

1997-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
m Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oz.net/~jim/ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > Bob Nielsen Internet

debian mirrors

1997-05-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
What are some good up-to-date mirrors of ftp.debian.org? I am continuously having problems connecting because of the 100 anonymous user limit. I have tried some mirrors, like ftp.infomagic.com, but not everything is there. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson

gpm configuration and mc question

1997-05-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
but I get the message when trying to run it "can't load library libgpm.so.1". Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
ad it in Red Hat. One thing that irked me with Red Hat is that once I had customized my system, upgrading became a nightmare. I'm currently running both on separate partitions but once I migrate everything over to Debian, the Red Hat partition will go away. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [

Re: Problems with Frozen

1997-05-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
of a good > disk or bad disk, it might be fine for DOS but not for linux. Be careful when DOS formatting a floppy to see if format reports any bad areas. If so, toss the disk. Compuserve and AOL will be sending you an adequate supply for free in any case. Bob Bob Nielsen Int

Re: bus mouse not working under X

1997-05-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
Busmouse" I also have /dev/mouse symbolically linked to /dev/inportbm All works for me this way; X, gpm, dosemu, etc. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian 1.2 installed... Need internet access... now what?

1997-05-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
mateur radio applications and where to get them. There are a few available as Debian packages, but many more are available in source form. 73, Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Customizing environment

1997-05-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
What is the preferred method of customizing the boot-up login environment? I guess I could do it by adding lines to /etc/init.d/boot, but wondered if there is an "official" file to add site-customized parameters, things like 'setterm -powersave on' for example. B

lynx 2.7.1-1 update

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I checked for package updates and it showed lynx 2.7.1-1. The dependencies show that slang >= 0.99.38 is required, but 0.99.34 is the one available. Will 0.99.38 be added to rex? Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EM

deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
this message to suddenly start appearing. TIA, Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSU

Re: deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote > > Recently I have started getting the following message when running > > dselect: > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: > > LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE >

Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
In /frozen, the packages file shows: procmail_3.10.4-1.deb modconf-0.2.9.deb The actual files are: procmail-3.10.4-2.deb modconf-0.2.10.deb Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > In /frozen, the packages file shows: > > > > procmail_3.10.4-1.deb > > modconf-0.2.9.deb > > > > The actual files are: > > > > procmail-3.10.4-2.d

Re: localize problem after upgrading to libc6

1997-05-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
system. > > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > > > > The changelog says, that german locale was added, so it should work. > > Maybe I have to change some environmentvariables to work with libc6 ? > > > > I can't find any i

Re: DOSEMU & mtools

1997-05-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
nd don't see anything like that. setup-hdimage comes with dosemu, not mtools. It is in 0.66.3 and 0.66.4. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOSEMU & mtools

1997-05-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
dimage was not there!? > /usr/sbin/ has the following executables: > getrom > hdinfo > mkfatimage > mkhdimage > putrom > > /usr/bin has: > dos > dosdebug > xtermdos > and xdos as sym-link to dos > > But I found nothing named setup-hdimage. Wha

Re: Printing via TCP

1997-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
ter on one Linux machine and can print from my other Linux box with the following printcap: lp|rlp|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=office:\ :rp=lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: Where "office" is an entry in /etc/h

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > BTW, while I was waiting for the BSDI upgrade, I upgraded my secondary > DNS server (a Debian box). It took about an hour :) I'm still working > on BSDI ... You get what you pay for :-) Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
e and struggling with dependencies in the process, I am QUITE impressed. I had fewer problems than with my original Debian installation, since there were a few things (like gpm) in stable which seem broken. Installing updates is likewise a piece of cake. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: CAD package for Debian?

1997-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > Are there any CAD packages similar to AutoCad for Debian/Linux? > Please let me know. > Thanks in advance. Bentley has a student version of MicroStation for Linux. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
ion: 2.6.2 > > iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB > xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== > =YK4i > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [

orphan packages?

1997-06-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
to exist. Why does dselect show them as available (and know enough to not try to get them) I updated the packages list, but dselect still shows them. Is there a way to get dselect to agree with the Packages file? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: orphan packages?

1997-06-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
shows them. Is there a > way > > to get dselect to agree with the Packages file? > > Same thing goes for Pine and Pico from non-free > But Pine and Pico are on the ftp server. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?

1997-06-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
someone else. > > Their hot off the press is $35! > > That's expensive! > > I guess I'll stick to the Dec infomagic dev. resources and upgrade > from there... > > Ben > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: video card driver (fwd)

1997-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
, > Riaz Khan In /usr/lib/X11/Cards (bo), it indicates that the Matrox Millenium IS supported. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95

1997-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Office-3.1/linux-x86/bin/sdraw3 + "StarImage" Exec /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin/simage3 + "StarChart" Exec /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin/schart3 + "StarMath"Exec /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin/smath3 Bob Bob Nielse

Re: StarOffice and Debian

1997-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
s pretty straightforward however. I see that Caldera is now offering StarOffice and possibly alien will handle their version. Hopefully more complete english-language documentation and/or help files will be out soon. The latest 3.1 is no longer beta. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet:

Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95

1997-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
ib directory at the above site. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: console screenblanker?

1997-06-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
and not have to plug in a kbd just to be able to hit a key... setterm -blank 0 I made a script /etc/init.d/local to use with stuff like this and have it run when I boot. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
#x27;echo $LD-LIBRARY-PATH' to see if /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/-linux-x86/lib really is in that path. There is now a mini-HOWTO for StarOffice, based on beta4, but it is applicable to the released 3.1 version. It is contained in doc-linux_97.05-1.deb in /unstable and can also be found at suns

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
I saw in a recent message here that StarWriter had a filter for WordPerfect. I don't see that on the list when retrieving a file. Is it hidden somewhere? Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROT

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ed on Panix (Sun) and on my home machine > under OS/2. Sure, I could compile it myself, but I'm afraid that as > soon as I do, a package would be released and I'd have a hard time > upgrading. :-) ncftp is in the non-free directory at ftp.debian.org (obviou

slrn help please

1997-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
combinations of this, with and without quotes, various forms of HOSTNAME (isp, news server, my local hostname, etc.) and I still can't get things to work. The error message I get is: Server failed LIST ACTIVE Does anyone have any ideas on this? TIA, Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
rive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3478 USA > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
uld install LILO on the root partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made bootable, however). Then you need to configure Boot Manager to add Linux to the menu (pointing to /dev/sdb7) and configure /etc/lilo.conf appropriately to point to where LILO and the kernel, etc., are locate

Re: POP mail questions

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
I then use this to upload mail to Netcom? see above. You should be able to configure fetchpop easily. The smtp host to send mail to will probably require configuration of either your mail client or smail. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: POP mail questions

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > 2. If so what should I use for a POP clien? Remeber I want the mail > >to be downlaoded on demand and placed in my ocalk mail spool area. > > > 1.2 had popclient. I notice that dselect now shows this as obsolete and &

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the > > Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root > > p

Re: Upgradeing to 1.3 (fwd)

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
elect option. It compared my current installation with the available 1.3 installation and selected those packages which had newer versions available (~30 MB, YMMV). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet:

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
possible I doubt that any CDs will include non-free, as usually the stuff in that directory is there because there is a restriction on distribution. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: afterstep icons

1997-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
lease help me out. As I recall, when I switched to the reduced color icons, the top one magically appeared (and Netscape had colors again). Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:

Re: Long FAT filenames and Linux ?

1997-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
ns the kernel is compiled with ? > Look at /usr/src/linux/.config for the current settings. You must specify fat in addition to vfat: CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y I don't believe setting CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=n would be a problem, however. Bob Bob Niels

Afterstep sounds

1997-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
I notice that afterstep_1.0-1.deb only contains some of the sound files referenced in system.steprc. Is there a site which contains the rest? Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25

Re: How to set up packages?

1997-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
The first option on the dselect menu is [A]ccess. Select that, select cdrom and answer the questions which follow. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to set up packages?

1997-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ing this will actually read the packages from the cd-rom and install them into your system. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: X boot not automatic SOLVED--

1997-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
d/xdm S99xdm" and all was well. > The preferred method of creating these links is to use update-rc.d (included in the dpkg package). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: printing in netscape

1997-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
ndow which pops up in Netscape when you try to print? Just a simple "lpr" works fine for me. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBS

RE: [Q][Thanks] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
icfilter, so can't help you there (I had to rename the filters to reflect my printer, since it wasn't one on the built-in list in apsfilter). Configuring magicfilter should make the necessary changes to /etc/printcap. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: Infomagic LDR, & what's Bo and Hamm?

1997-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
hing > from a folktale, or, wasn't the tree the Buddha sat under called a "bo > tree"? Watch the movie "Toy Story" and look at Bruce Perens' e-mail address and you should be able to make the connection. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
he Linux C library version 4 (run-time libr ii libc5 5.4.33-3 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii libc5-dev 5.4.33-3 The Linux C library version 5 (development f Is this a problem? Should I remove libc4? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
tible. On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > > > > > nearly impossible to have both libc5 & libc6 version of the same package > > > unless everyone have 2 (1 libc

Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
21420160 16 Unknown /dev/hda4 216 216 620 16329605 Extended /dev/hda5 216 216 266 205600+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda6 267 267 610 1386976+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda7 611 611 620 40288+

Re: DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((

1997-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
le virtual memory before defragging. Other than that, the old DOS PC-Tools was pretty good at displaying hidden files, along with their attributes. I know Windows Explorer displays the file names, but I don't recall if it can also display attributes. Bob Bob Nielsen Intern

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
postscript to a > HPLaserJet 5L without gs-alladin? Does magicfilter create a new > /etc/printcap ?? It probably will create a new printcap, but magicfilter, apsfilter, etc., still need ghostscript. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPR

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
x+Win95 Linux+WinNT Win95+Win+Linux Caution, you may find yourself using Win95 less and Linux more as time goes on. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen --

Re: Bus-Mastered DMA support for Triton Chipset?

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
This option only works with a few combinations of drives and interfaces which support DMA and which are known to the IDE driver. In particular, the Intel Triton chipset is supported for bus-mastered DMA operation with many drive

traplayer?

1997-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Has anyone on the list been able to get traplayer (a non-X interface to Real Audio's raplayer) to work with Debian 1.3.1? I keep getting an "unexpected end of file" error with it. Could this be related to the bugs in bash-2.0? Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [

Re: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
he debian-generated stuff, I created my own script in a new /etc/init/d/local and ran update-rc.d to create the links. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielse

Re: Upgrading ghostscript?

1997-10-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
. I am not familiar with magicfilter, but getting apsfilter to work with the bjc600 driver was simply a matter of renaming several filter files, since there is really only one filter and it captures the driver name from the filter ame. Possibly the same approach would work with magicfilter. Bob

Re: Linking two computers through parallel port?

1997-10-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
and the other one Linux? Yes, for case 1 Configure your kernel to use PLIP. For case 2, if you have some a networking program which uses the FTP, Inc. type packet drivers in DOS, you can get a packet driver for plip from ftp.crynwr.com. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Upgrading ghostscript? [Stylus Color 800 works]

1997-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
lly quite a bit of new stuff appeared in bo yesterday (1.3.1r4 under the new numbering scheme). gs 5.x and a fixed bash aren't among the changes, unfortunately. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linking two computers through parallel port?

1997-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > WRT the DOS packet drivers, are there versions that will work for '95? I haven't heard of any, but I haven't looked for it either. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRn

Re: Upgrading ghostscript? [Stylus Color 800 works]

1997-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
fixed in gs 5.x (or if it is really a WP bug). It's fairly minor and results in an error page being printed after the document, which prints correctly. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wordperfect files in linux

1997-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
f WP7 for Linux. See www.sdcorp.com. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Printing is landscape

1997-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
change this if you want. What I do to get portrait printing is use enscript in a simple script: enscript -l $1 Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen --

Re: what is bzimage?

1997-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
started in 1.3.73. > > And is this documented somewhere? Bits and pieces in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes and the LILO and LOADLIN documentation. I believe it was more fully documented in the later pre-2.0 kernel packages. Bob Bob Nielsen Interne

Re: GIMP

1997-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
ts against the packages that do not declare it in their > dependencies. Or install gimp-smotif, rather than gimp-dmotif. This really can't be handled by dependencies unless someone came up with a motif installer package. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucso

Re: GIMP (fwd)

1997-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
imp dirs I don't have any .gimprc. When I installed gimp, it installed /etc/gimp/gimprc, which I haven't had to touch (gimp-smotif_0.54.1-6.deb). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tape Drives?

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
h Linux (compiling ftape into the kernel). I understand that there is now support for the 2 GB Ditto (and Sony) drive, but you need to get a newer version of ftape and add it to the Linux kernel. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ A

Re: staroffice and libc

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
you need please ask. > Paul The latest in 1.3.1 is 5.4.33-6 (remember that the numbering is not decimal (.33 > .4). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~n

Re: Sound problem

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
ething > deeper? I noticed this also and did 'chmod o+rw' on /dev/audio, /dev/audio1, /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1, which helped. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.p

Re: sound programs

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
ity, which actually converts the file to .wav and uses a library of sounds. playmidi is pretty good if you have a decent midi sequencer available. These are all available as debian packages. There are others, as well. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: a dummy question

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
ood documents on this in the HOWTO/mini directory. Of course, the usual warnings about backing up your software before repartitioning apply, although I have not *yet* had a problem with either fips or Partition Magic. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: Changing mouse drivers

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
will also need to reconfigure X, gpm, dosemu, etc. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &

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