Re: Problems

1997-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
t; for > information about "adding an existing user to an existing group". I had to exit and log back in after adding myself to the audio group before it took effect. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver

1997-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; reformatting of the HD. Eudora is very fine, but does not support > multiple users on one machine. The same thing for Navigator, if I have > understood rightly. I'm not sure but I think there is a non-shareware version of Eudora which supports multiple users. Netscape 4.0 does.

Re: man page for mkfs.ext2 ??

1997-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
> Does anyone know which package this belongs in? I thought I got all the > man pages... I don't know why, but try 'man mke2fs' instead. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. > > Any ideas? No, but it does work for me (except as a netscape plugin, but that's a bash problem). Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)

1997-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
questions. > > S'Okay. This one is a faq, but the faq is in the same place as the > howtos, so if you can't find the faq, the faq is useless ... > Also in doc-linux, if you install that package. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: PerfectBACKUP now free

1997-10-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
ill this work with lesstif, or is motif required? 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 "unsubscri

Re: PerfectBACKUP now free

1997-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
ys "this > >feature is disabled in PerfectBACKUP Personal Edition." So it _is_ a > >crippled PerfectBACKUP, though technically an uncrippled PB "Personal > >Edition." Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRn

Re: DMA with IDE on Triton II

1997-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
A=yes, LBAsects=6306048 >tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 > mword2 >IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAI

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
he tulip card? Is it recognized in dmesg or 'cat /proc/pci'? There are some configuration options for these cards which may have to be set. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
by the PCI stuff. There's quite a bit of information in the Ethernet-HOWTO and PCI-HOWTO which may be of help here. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~n

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
xpect it is in the WP postscript drivers. What sort of problems are you having? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Printing with gs

1997-10-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; > John Paul > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: StarOffice3.1

1997-10-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
an > package? 5.4.33 is newer than 5.4.4 (this is not a decimal number). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Large buffers entry in free

1997-11-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
^^^ Swap:30104144 29960 12876 Is there a bug somewhere? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Large buffers entry in free

1997-11-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I get an unreal buffers listing after running for several days (bo, > > kernel 2.0.31): > > > > $ free > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > M

Re: rvplayer installer

1997-11-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
really with bash-2.0 in bo. Would downgrading to the rex version of bash work without breaking something else? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~niel

Re: NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
it is somewhat different, pico is much more like NE than vi, emacs, etc. ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

RE: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
sharing > > /tmp with SCO Unixware's /var/tmp? 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 &

Sending mail to a local user

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
How do I send mail to a local user? If I address it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I get a message back from the daemon saying there is a loop. If I address it to 'user', Pine tries to send it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I am running pine and smail. Bob Bob Nielsen

savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
g -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 4 $LOG >/dev/null fi done # Restart syslogd # /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload It may be obvious, but I am a bit bash-challenged. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [E

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
all who responded. 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" to [EMAIL

Re: Adding users to groups

1997-11-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
t; at all? > > Just edit /etc/group and put the username you want at the end of the line > containing the group you want the name added to. eg: > > floppy:*:25: > > becomes: > > floppy:*:25:olive > You can also do this with adduser. Bob

smail locking

1997-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
, with the mail remaining in the queue. 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 "unsubscrib

Re: damn identity crisis

1997-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
ve the same results. > On the machines using masquerading, I use mirc (win95).. same results. > Are you loading the ip_masq_irc.o module? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.p

Re: [semi-off-topic:-] Reasons for Debian/Linux over FreeBSD

1997-12-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
, and from the commentss I used to see on their mailing list, it was somewhat lacking (like many commercial products). The real support comes from the Red Hat mailing list, which is quite similar to this one, including participation by the developers as well as users. ---- Bob Nielsen

Re: backup

1997-12-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
> If so, anyone know all the options to use with cp for this > to work ? (or a complete command line that worked) I've had pretty good luck with just 'cp -a'. You probably don't want to copy /proc, however. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to install when a Boot Manager is peresent?

1997-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
mage file so that I didn't have to move it after every compile (some folks probably won't approve of doing it this way, but it has worked so far for me.) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrading from popclient to fetchmail in 1.3

1997-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
fetching from pop.primenet.com here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file: poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD I don't understand the smtp error message. I am using the default smail installation as my MDA. Any suggestions are appreciated. Bob ---- Bob Ni

Re: fetchmail, procmail, mail reading, Gnus, XEmacs

1997-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
ion that will use your mail daemon is to put smtphost localhost in your .fetchmailrc defaults -- Neither of these helped, but thanks all for the suggestions. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
looks like they haven't learned Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: How to find out if sendmail has queued mail to forward.

1997-06-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
be queued there right now. All I need to > do is check the queue. What is the appropriat means of doing this > for mail to be forwarded? Try the command 'mailq'. If there is mail in the queue, 'sendmail -q' should send it. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
h as moving and enlarging a partition. It also comes with the OS/2 boot manager. I've used both, but prefer Partition Magic. Either will work reliably, but the usual caveat is to backup your files before using one of these. Partition Magic 3.0 will handle FAT32 partitions. Bo

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > >>>>> "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > BN> Two possibilities come to mind: > > > &g

Re: repartitioning

1997-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
#x27; (don't copy /proc, however). Of course you will have to edit /etc/fstab and probably /etc/lilo.conf plus run lilo before rebooting. I made a tape backup just in case, but didn't need to use it. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuc

Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
is it?) Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
ther message about ldd should also be looked into. ldd /usr/bin/slrn gives: ldd: can't execute /usr/bin/slrn (No such file or directory) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.9.3.2-2.1 Provides: news-reader Depends: perl, libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), slang0.99.34 (>= 0.99.38) I have the proper depends. I'm not sure of the procedure for a bug report. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, A

Re: Xprinter problem with StarOffice

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
rOffice installs. >From .sd.sh: XPPATH=/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/xp3 Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/

Re: Printing problems ...

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
/etc/printcap to be sure. > > Also if someone has a "lpd.conf" with one local printer and one remote as an > exa > mple I would appreciate it. I have no lpd.conf file. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet

Re: upgrading with Debian

1997-07-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
t's exactly why I switched to Debian. 1.2 to 1.3 to 1.3.1 was a piece of cake. (Actually Red Hat 2.1 to 3.0.3 went rather well.) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.2

Re: clock/time

1997-07-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
mple script could be invoked with cron to periodically update the clock. I have a call to such a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up to update my clock whenever I connect to my ISP. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ A

Re: upgrading with Debian

1997-07-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
g dpkg to install them before you could do the "big" upgrade. Folks who > didn't heed that warning had trouble. I upgraded one of my two debian computers from /frozen before the notice on those packages came out and had no problems whatsoever (YMMV). Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Newbie Question

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
on and /hdc, my cdrom. If your kernel doesn't support vfat, you can use type msdos for 8.3 filenames on the dos drive. > > Lastly, can anyone point me to a good Newbie FAQ? > I'd recommend a good book, such as 'Running Linux' by Matt Welsh

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
s the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am > > running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. Oops, let me rephrase that. It automatically created an unknown default password. I had to remove the password field from /etc/passwd as root and then add the password with passwd. Bob ----

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:41:04 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. > > No it does not. > > Check the files it copies from /etc/skell. Yep, it only copies the first >

Re: Smail configuration

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
to a central mail switch using SMTP. (4) Local delivery only: You are not on a network. Mail for local users is delivered. (5) No configuration: No configuration will be done now; your mail system will be broken and should not be used. You must then do the configuration yourself

Re: staroffice / netscape debian packages?

1997-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
e distribution describe the steps. I don't know if they are in the .deb package, as I have compiled and installed DOSEMU from the source. (I have NOT tried installing Win3.1 in DOSEMU, however. One of these days I'll get a round tuit.) There is an excellent DOSEMU mailing list, l

Re: debian + win95

1997-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
dnt find any. directions to documentation or suggestions would be > appreciated. I believe that fips leaves the new partition marked as MS-DOS, so you may need to delete it, which will leave empty space on the drive and then create new partitions (with Linux fdisk). Bob -

Re: A debian network

1997-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
s ftp install option when > you get back to school. That how I install, works great. I mounted my cdrom on my Pentium and did an ftp install from there to get debian on my 486 (over my local ethernet). It worked just fine. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

RE: Staroffice

1997-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
from? Any hints or specific gotchas I should > >know about? I just checked and ftp.gwdg.de is back up. StarOffice is in /pub/linux/staroffice. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How to find programs provided by package?

1997-07-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; documentation is VERY sparse... 'dpkg -L mctools-lite' should work. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: Star Office question

1997-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
/StarOffice-3.1/fonts/75dpi:/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/fonts/75dpi/bdf:$sd_fonts/type1 SVHOME=/home/nielsen/StarOffice-3.1 LANG=us export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH XPPATH HELPPATH XENVIRONMENT SVFONTPATH SVHOME LANG The next to last line should be: LANG=EN_us Bob ---- Bob Nielsen I

Re: RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm)

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
Debian does not and vice-versa. That's where alien should be a big help. One nice thing Red Hat has is the configuration tools. However, if you don't have X, you can't use them. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
r/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources: cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux

Re: Libc5

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
I force dpkg to > install this libc5-dev anyway? How Can I do this? 5.4.33-3 is the latest in /stable. You can get a copy from ftp.debian.org or one of its mirrors. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet:

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
it sure beats the Fortran II of the '60s. (Hey, there are still some of us old guys around who used to use that stuff.) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
ibr 5.4.33 > 5.4.4 q.e.d. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Problems with Liloconfig

1997-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
vmlinux is the uncompressed kernel. You want to copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:- > > > > smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > > > > /usr/sbin/in.

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
etchmailrc, which works: mda "formail -s procmail" After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf did NOT have smtp defined. Adding that also fixes the problem for me (without the need for the mda line). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Mail loop

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system. It was received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected for excessive loops: Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen via in.smtpd with esmtp id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <

Re: Mail loop

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Bob Nielsen writes: > > I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system. It was > > received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected > > for excessive loops: > > This excerpt doesn&

Re: kernel support to NE2000?

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
hen I frist install my Debian system (I used RedHat > before),during intallation procces I see support to my card and I > include it,but now, when I make "make xconfig" I don't see. Select the ISA ne2000 option and that should work fine. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Read/write VFAT filesystems?

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
at I have in /etc/fstab. Note the umask entry: /dev/hda5 /dos vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:

Re: questions on CD ROM

1997-07-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
s problems with the Creative drives. Good information on the address, etc., can be found in that file as well. BTW, I replaced mine with an ATAPI IDE drive and have not regretted doing so. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AM

Re: Colored ls output

1997-08-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > When I installed Slackware a year ago ls's output was colored. Is there > a colored version of ls for Debian or is it a switch for ls?? You can add the following to .bash_profile (or whatever). alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Word Perfect (was: Re: Applixware - off topic)

1997-08-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
er unices, and comparable with the list price for Win95 tradeups, however Win 95 has the full suite (I've seen version 8 for under $100 upgrade). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libm.so.4 -- what package?

1997-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > what package is libm.so.4 in? libc4_4.6.27-15.deb Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:

Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

1997-08-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
over in europe. Thanks in advance. > > Paul You can get StarOffice-3.1 from ftp.gwdg.de in the directory /pub/linux/staroffice. It is NOT a Debian package, however. It is easy to install, but carefully read the installation instructions. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: printers

1997-08-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
sc.edu/~ghost/printer.html Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: Help: How do I change my display mode

1997-08-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, T.G.H. de Grunt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm programming in C++ and I want to > change my displaymode to the 132 columns mode. > How do I do that ?! Get svgatextmode in /admin Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote: > > Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma > 1,16bit dma5 > > > I get messages that it is busy. > > I am using 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.30. I have the same setting except irq 7, no problems

Re: Printing to a HP Deskjet 870 Cxi

1997-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
b page is at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html) 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: Sony StorStation (Ditto 2Gb)

1997-08-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
orted by Linux. It uses a proprietary protocol which Iomega has not released. I think there has been some progress in obtaining the specs, so wait and see. Or you might want to consider exchanging it for one of the supported drives (see the Ftape-HOWTO). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen In

Re: CDROM death

1997-08-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
a Toshiba 2x. Has anyone heard of this > problem before? Do I need to get a new CDROM drive? I would strongly recommend that you compile the appropriate non-IDE driver into your kernel and avoid autoprobing. I had many problems with autoprobing a Creative Labs CD-ROM. -

Re: Where's my mouse?

1997-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
n Logitech. (It has MicroSoft printed on it but I > think that's just for marketing.) It's got a small round adaptor that > plugs into the back of the tower. I assume this all means it's a > serial device on the bus, right? It's probably either a busmouse or a ps/

Re: Netscape ?

1997-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
e README file, they tell howto > installed/configure it on Sun etc... It sounds like you don't have netscape in your path. Try './netscape' from the directory in which it is located. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMP

Re: Any Drafting packages for Linux.

1997-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
or .dxf (Autocad) formats would be especially nice. From > looking at the lists of Linux software around there doesn't seam to be > anything of this sort around. Possibly I'm just looking in the wrong > place. Bentley MicroStation is available in a student version. --- Bob Nie

Re: Again a stormix question

2000-08-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
(so far at least): deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
pored over so > many of'em lately;-), that the Realtek RTL8029 is a NE2000-clone, > and so should use the driver for same... Right?! > > Thanks > Vitux > > -- > "I'm not a crook" > Richard Nixon > > Debian GNU/Linux > Micro$loth-free Z

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
get dist-upgrade? > 3) then apt-get dist-upgrade? > > Do I need to change sources.list? (this would seem logical) > > A simple step by step explanation would be appreciated. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: procmail receipes

2000-08-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
27;s possible that 2 > or more lists could have the same return-path but unlikely. > > To see the return path you need to view the full header. If you use pine > enable 'view full headers' in the configuration menu, then hit 'h' when > viewing the piece of mai

Re: pkzip for Debian ?

2000-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
Install the zip and unzip packages (why they are separate eludes me). On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:52:45PM +0200, Petr Danek wrote: > Hi list, > exists some utilty which will work with zipped files in Debian ? > > thanks > Petr -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [

Re: Where is COM 5 ?

2000-08-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
ed to create a device called /dev/ttyS4, or is COM 5 > somewhere else? Thanks. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Potato or Woody

2000-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
cate that I have Ver. 2.2_r0 > uname -a displays: > Linux Debian 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
the text-based version working. The manual doesn't appear to mention it. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
f WordPerfect 8 on any > platform... If there is, I'd love to know how to make it work. Until then, > I'll stick to WP 5.1/DOS for my work. In a decade of use its never > crashed or otherwise let me down. :) -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbrid

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:03:33AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I recall that when WP 8 came out, Corel said the full version came with > a text-based version, but when I took a look at what is on the Corel > Linux CD-ROM (deluxe version with the full version of WP 8) I couldn't &

Re: Acroread not working

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
; window has to be closed using the x-window menu for acroread to continue. > > I did originally install acrobat reader in /usr/local, but removed that > installation due to the same puzzling behavior. Any ideas about what > could be going wrong? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
ew kernel seems to run fine in a text console, but if I start X, I get four tiled copies of my screen and the mouse cursor is a big smudge. Are there some new "features" in 2.2.17 which affect XFree86? I use xserver-svga. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
e some new "features" in 2.2.17 which affect XFree86? > > I have been running 2.2.17pre20 (which is the same a 2.2.17) for a > week on 3 machines - no problem under X. > > > I use xserver-svga. > > The same. > > -Igor Mozetic > > > -- &g

Re: Compiling VMware 2.0.2

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
rnel-headers-2.2.17pre-whatever (I expect that since 2.2.17 has been released, there will soon be a new version). Run vmware-config.pl and when it asks: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? Type: /usr/src/linux/include Vmware should then be hap

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
pchains): > > kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.14.17.1:513 > 192.14.17.255:513 L=136 S=0x00 I=244 F=0x T=64 (#30) > > I set my firewall up with PMFirewall supposedly to ignore my > internal network. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Purging and re-installing ipmasq resulted in networking with masquerading now working again (I still don't know how it broke). On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:06:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I rebooted today and started getting the same messages (lots of them!) > All networking ceased

Re: Proftpd situations

2000-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
ke that when I ifup the > 2nd NIC? Incidentally, I don't want to just give out the new IP address for > people to download from via ftp, I want all of our customers to use the > ftp.*.com address. And I don't want to have our ISP update the DNS yet as I'm > going

Re: apt-get pkg held-back?

2000-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
a new rev but > the author hasn't quite finished putting the package up? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

ipmasq problem

2000-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
e run by symlinks in /etc/rcS.d at boot time and dmesg verifies this. Does anyone know why they aren't working until I rerun them later from runlevel 2? I didn't have this problem with 2.2.16. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Re: ipmasq problem -- fixed

2000-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
2000 at 11:23:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I upgraded my potato system to kernel 2.2.17 and my networking (all > networking, not just masquerading) failed with messages in syslog like: > > Sep 7 22:55:11 bob kernel: Packet log: output DENY eth0 PROTO=17 > 192.168.1.1:513 192.168.

Incoming telnet not working

2000-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
normal to me. Am I missing something? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

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