stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to find one of these for my wie. A google search turns up a
> couple, but a quick atempt at compiling them on my "testing"machine fails.
>
> Cany anyone help out here?
Not if you don't tell us how the compiles failed! What error messages
did you ge
Tom Montroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get the same problem with or without a .emacs file in my home directory.
Well something is interfering here! On what kind of system are you doing
this? Stand-alone PC or as part of a site network?
What happens if you do
emacs21 -vanilla ?
If
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote:
>> Well everything works - I've got the 2.4.20 kernel and it runs and X
>> runs - but, it has this really weird 'rainbow' like color scheme running
>> through everything. The root window co
Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I actually find spamassassin runs pretty slowly on my K6-2/500MHz 384MB
> machine (I know it's not real fast but not a dinosaur either). It takes
> about 5-10 seconds per message, so before I started filtering my debian-user
> messages before processi
"Carlos Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm new and am trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN PC running a
> P-III(733MHz) processor.
>
>
>
> I downloaded 3 iso images:
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-1
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-3
>From the install ma
Ananda Kumar Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> can somebody help with me with said subject? Since I
> upgraded to Woody, my texmf tree in /var/spool has not
> been changeable by a normal user. So as a normal user
> I cannot generate new tfm or pk files. This is very
> annoying
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all
>
> [BRIEF SUMMARY - How do I segregate one mail stream from one mailbox
> at my ISP into different users locally?]
> What combination of programs do I use to get one mailbox successfully
> segregated when it hits my machine? I'm using fet
"Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> 6.Then build nvidia-kernel package:
> cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/Debian/rules
> binary_modules
>
> When I do that, I get:
>
> -bash: rules: command not found
Willem - it looks like you are missing the cd at the begi
peter hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my gentoo distro has the browser 'links' but no 'man links' page; how
> do i get a man page for a given program?
Install debian! WE get a man page on links ;-)
Might be worth asking on the Gentoo list ?
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"Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> USB modem uses device ttySL0 as default and Win Modem uses ttyLT0. I just
> want to ask whether wvdial looks in those device entries, because it finds
> no modems in my system when I make it search for a modem. Thanks.
No idea where wvdial looks by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Knop Jr.) writes:
> Can you recommend any good (not too expensive) quiet cases? I may build
> a computer soon to be my home grown PVR/DVD combo, and of course
> anything sitting in the living room on all the time needs to be quiet.
I've done some busness with the UK
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.1907 +0100]:
>> It may have something to do with your $TERM variable. Is it identical on
>> both machines? Is the terminfo database identical?
>
> yes, and yes. it's weird.
>
>> Anyways, just
"Irish, Jon D MEVATEC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a HOW-TO, or paper available that covers
> recompiling the kernel for Debian? I found the Kernel HOWTO, but it appears
> to be slanted more toward RedHat, and I am a 'newbie' so I want to make sure
> that I am doin
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a
> Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor
> with a large learning curve when there's work to be done.
Good plan! I noted at least one reference to a .ema
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Argh, how many times have I attempted this move!
>
> I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a
> Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor
> with a large learning curve when there's work to be done.
"Gilberto Garcia Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey,
Ho!
> I tried to install blackbox package from debian cd.
Good idea!
> after install i tried to run it, but I´ve got an error
> something like: X display not found, conect to X failed.
You were running X at the time, right? You have X
"Gilberto Garcia Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I´ve typed blackbox in console mode
In your ~/.xinitrc file (or ~/.xsession file)
put the line
exec blackbox
Then when you start X, blackbox should fire up!
Glyn
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Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Emacs... what else is there? (ducks)
Xemacs!! or for something lighweight, Jed/Xjed
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Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> anyone have any opinions / dogma to share on the use or omission of
> the second colon?
Below is a snip from the procmail mini-faq
8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--
Under Unix and other multitasking operating s
Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello all
>
> it has been almost a week since i shifted to linux and it has been
> wonderful.
>
> one thing that i am missing is a file manager like explorer. two
> paned. left side tree, right side contents of directory.
>
The Midnight Commander ca
Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The Midnight Commander can be set up to look like that ;-) It's
>> good!
>> Glyn
>
>
> well, i tried and could not. am i too dumb?
Highly unlikely!
>or just new to linux?
maybe - welcome!
Fire up mc
With your mouse click on the tab at the
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i know, it's not fresh news, but i'm about ready to jump from
> potato to woody.
Happy landings ;-)
I found the simple dist-upgrade just did it - have you any special reason
to be apprehensive?
Glyn
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>
>>Hello
>>I need to configure my X 4.1.0-16 in woody on x86 PC to switch between
>>different keyboard maps. I need standard us/uk keymap and cz_qwerty
>>keymap. So I change /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as follows:
>>
>>Section "InputDevice"
>>Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
>>Driver
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Debian seems like the center of a funnel; after hitting a few places
> on the sides, you eventually end up here;)
What a good way of putting it ;-)
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Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Here are the requirements:
>>
>> 1) Must be able to "maximize window to available space" a la
>>enlightenment.
>>
>> 2) Must support multiple sequence key bindings a la emacs.
>>
>> 3) Must be fast.
>>
>> 4) Must be faster.
>>
>> alex
>
> I use fv
Others have tried to help with the shutdown thing - and I hate to nag in
a moment of crisis. But could you turn off the html e-mail when you post
to the list? I suspect the htmp is broken - at least it comes out as a
real mess here.
Glyn
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Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any suggestions for client that reads mail *and* news?
>
> I currently use mutt, but then use gnus for newsgroups... briefly
> looked into vm and rmail... not exactly attractive...
>
> want to get away from the huge ness of emacs...
Yes it is big - on
Cyberthor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
use pppconfig
Glyn
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"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> The first thing I thought was that maybe the package name was
> wrong. Is there a simple way to view all the packages say via a file?
> If there were such a file, then I could pipe the result to grep and
dpkg -l emacs* will probably show you what yo
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What would be a good example procmail rule to automatically delete
> messages 72 hours old or more?
Don't know how to do it in procmail - the link below points to a perl
script which might help
http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse2htm
I'm running straight Woody - my wife is running (blush) Winders 98. I'd
like to link up the two without too many cables.
Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian? The
Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but
seem rather expensive...
(Ha
"Aedificator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've heard that Emacs is freely customizable so I was wondering if
> there's a nice way to turn it into an email client.
Well you could use the Gnus news and e-mail package, which is wonderful
http://my.gnus.org/
for advice on how to set up and a tuto
Can't help, I'm afraid, but _nice_ subject line!
Glyn
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Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Err, yeah, there's a way to run Emacs as a client/server. I think you
> start the original Emacs with something like "emacs -f server-start",
> and then you set your editor in mutt to "emacsclient" and it'll use the
> server process. It's been a whil
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about
> regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and
> various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want
> to make the PGP output (the lines th
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com
> for prices?). Mindlessly simple setup, great Linux support, and
> good quality/performance.
Mindless is what I need at the moment %-)
Many thanks for the pointers!
Glyn
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there actually any advantage to using post-mode over message-mode,
> other than having some magic that autoloads when composing with mutt?
> Assuming, of course, you're not using an older emacsen that doesn't
> bundle gnus and hence message-mode.
To be
Are you editing .muttrc while mutt is running? Does mutt lock its config
file when it is in action?
Glyn
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"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> $ apt-cache show peace_on_earth
>> Package: peace_on_earth
>> Priority: optional
>> Section: misc
>> Maintainer:
>> Version: 0.001alpha-1
>> Provides: utopian_society
>> Conflicts: human_nature
>
> Not reliable on military computing platforms...
So
iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> If your willing to change newsreaders you could try out 'PAN'. It's
>> great for binaries and quite good for text groups too. It supports SSL.
>>
>
> i'm very willing to change. :D
If I understand the man
Woody system with XFree 4.2.1
Sound card Soundblaster 128
My Christmas present was an nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 card. After much
fear and trembling I installed the relevant packages ie
nvidia-kernel-src
nvidia-glx-src
followed the instructions and everything went fine except that /dev/mixer
c
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington said:
>>
>> Woody system with XFree 4.2.1
>> Sound card Soundblaster 128
>
> look at the kernel log(usually 'dmesg' will do), does the kernel detect
> the soundcard? on my 2.2.19 system I
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone have suggestions as to the cause and solution to this?
No, but just a question - is there a reason for not using the debian
packages for the nvidia drivers and kernel support?
nvidia-kernel-src
nvidia-glx-src
If you haven't tried it, install these
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Whenever I have weird problems with Emacsen I always start by
> renaming/moving my ~/.emacs (or ~/.xemacs) to some scratch name and
> try whatever it is without an Emacsen init file. Does that show you
> anything? In other words, make sure you're not pu
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, the --description fiend does seem to exist.
^
Maybe an exorcism would fix it? ;-)
Glyn
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Adam Kao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I learned Emacs (almost 20 years ago) there was a nifty tutorial.
> Now I can't find it in the info hierarchy. Has it been retired? How
> should a novice start learning Emacs?
C-h t
hth
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"Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers
Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister!
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff.
To some extent it goes with the OS. Maybe a liking
Matthew Claridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first day using Debian and I've got everything installed
> and working and I've even found a load of the configuration stuff, but
> the one thing I can't fix is my soundcard.
>
> The permissions on /dev/dsp are fine:
> crw-rw
"Anna Lawless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've used Mandrake for the last two years, but always wanted to
> move to Debian.
Quite right too!!
> I'm using XF86-4 with the Vesa driver for a nVideo Riva2 card. My
> mouse is a standard ps2 wheelmouse.
Are you using gpm? (Have you use of the
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my xterm scrolled, and the clock started losing time. This finally
> became enough of an aggravation, that I just dropped back to 3.3.6.
> Of course this is an older version card with DRAM instead of VRAM, so
> this may not apply to you.
Sorry to be fe
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:52:09AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > my xterm scrolled, and the clock started losing time. This finally
>> > became enough o
Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours truly.
Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of
"modprobe can't find" messages.
But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be sending this
;-)
I suspect that this means that something from my
Nick Traxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of
>>
>> "modprobe can't find" messages.
>>
>> But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be sending this
>> ;-)
>>
>> I suspect that this means that something from my previou
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours
>> truly. Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list
>> of
>> "modprobe can't find" messages.
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:08:48PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> Is it, do you know, safe to remove this file altogether?
>
> I think the command you want is 'update-modules'.
OK - will investigate!Thanks for all the
Greetings. I'm running Woody with a 2.4.18 kernel.
Window managers - I've toyed with Windowmaker, stayed with Blackbox a
long time, but have come back to Fvwm - currently have the latest
unstable installed in /usr/local and it is wonderful!!
I want to do this in the Debain way though - What
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely
>> grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration
>> is done in
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn> Can anyone point me to a full sample configuration ? Or maybe share
> Glyn> their own ?
>
> You do not have to use the system .fvwm2rc file. Here is my
> setup http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/X.tar.bz2 (It is my
> complete X se
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> but instead to add user customizations via hooks in the ~/.fvwm
>> directory. Then the packaging system can update menus and the system
>> .fvwm2rc if it so wishes without codging up your customisations.
>
> Witch it can still do if you maintain your
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I use three of the hook files:
Thanks for these!
>> Can anyone point me to a full sample configuration ? Or maybe share
>> their own ?
>
> I'd be happy you to send you my config files if you still want them.
If you could that might be very h
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Many thanks for this. So I can read in the _system_ menudefs.hook and
>> the autogenerated menus will appear?
>
> Of course you can:
>
> ,
> | Read /et
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this:
Josef,
Alas I cannot answer you question. This is just to suggest that you
might get a response on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got XEmacs 21.4.9 running here. I acheived this by
1. Pointing sources list at a
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 3. Installed 21.4.6 from my cd, checked o the compile options used by the
>>debian compilers - saved the list as a file.
>
> Do I need to make this file into a executable file (like a script?)
Oh no! Use it to till you what options to feed to co
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Well why then did the Xemacs-version I pulled from _stable_ at
> start-up display this message : debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value
> as variable is void, while one from testing does not?
> Or am I the sole person who encountered this strange prob
Hi!
I've just (yesterday) migrated from Mandrake to Debian 2.2 -
so please bear with me, I'm trying to learn! It was, by the way,
the smoothest install ever.
What I want to discover fairly quickly is how to use pppd when
I'm a user and not root. At the moment I'm using wvdial (or pon
poff) as r
Just graduated to Debian Potato from Mandrake - it's a challenge!
Now I'm having fun with X... It works but the resolution is
dire.
I want to run XF86Setup to sort it out.So as root I type in
the command and I get a vertically striped box on the screen,
then a blank box, then. it just
Greetings. Before last Friday, when I installed Debian Potato, I
used Mandrake 7.1
I had it set up so that I could highlight something in Netscape,
with the mouse, and then by clicking the middle mouse button
could paste it straight away into, say, GVim.
Really useful!
Such is my memor
Hi folks - I'm on Debian Potato and I'm trying to set up for
sound. My sound card is a CMI8738. Has anyone managed to get
one of these working, and if so which driver did you use?
on related topic:- during boot-up I'm getting a "No CD-Rom drive
found" message, as below
> sn
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:46:06PM -0700, thus spake Gutierrez Family:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I tried to re-compile the kernel (to include generic SCSI support for my
> scanner) and ran into problems. Here's what I did - as far as I can remember
> (following the instructions in the README file foun
Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't
start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and
have tried
exec gnome-session
in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in
reposne is an X stuck at the corss-hatched screen and when I
Ctrl-Alt-BckS
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:11:11AM -0500, thus spake Will Trillich:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:27:32PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > ... this has nothing to do with Debian! Why aren't all
> > these non-Debian specific questions filling my mailbox sent to where
> > they ought to be s
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:56:45AM +1000, thus spake John Griffiths:
> At 10:52 AM 9/7/2000 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> >
> >Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't
> >start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:12:40PM +0200, thus spake Sven Burgener:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
> > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage?
> > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny chara
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:08:48PM +, thus spake Thomas Halahan:
>
> I cannot get kppp to work. After the handshake with my ISP, I can see it
> connect, but the pppd daemon dies immediately. I can connect with the 'pon'
> command.
>
> I get the following error with kppp:
>
> pppd: The rem
Hi!I want to begin installing KDE2 on my machine; and to
remove as much of Gnome as is possible. And for things to work
afterwards! So I have two questions
1. How can I get a minimal KDE2 - which packages do I ned tio
download for a KDE2 "base"? (If there's a doc. on this please
point me
Hello! I've been compiling a new kernel (2.2.17 on Potato)to
allow for sound support; I've done it three times and each time
it hasn't worked! The steps I've followed are these (having
unpacked the kernel source in a directory off /usr/local/src..)
1. make xconfig set up what I want includ
Many thanks for the help thus far - I was clearly mixing two
methods of kernel compilation! Now, I've compiled the kernel
yet again (8th try I think) and STILL the system can't find the
modules - that is I get lots of "can't find module" at boot
up time.
More symptoms...
1. In /lib/mo
Hey I've got sound!! But also another problem. APM seems to
have disappeared.
After my first install of Potato I recompiled the kernel trying
to organise sound and APM - simply clicked on the first "enable
apm" option and it worked nicely, powering down when we get to
the "power off" m
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:33:19PM +0200, thus spake Andre Berger:
> Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hey I've got sound!! But also another problem. APM seems to
> > have disappeared.
>
> Take a look at /etc/lilo.conf, make sure you
Hi!
This is totally off-topic, but here goes.
Can anyone recommend an HTML tutorial ? On line or off. I'd like
to learn how to do write it without relying on a program like
Bluefish.
Thank for any thoughts on this
Glyn M.
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:04:57PM +0300, thus spake Debian User:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following error message when starting pppd:
> /usr/sbin/pppd -detach
> /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> /usr/sbin/pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:00:34AM +0900, thus spake Jack Morgan:
> How cn i use Ispell in VI? I'm using VI as my editor for Mutt and want to be
> able to
> check my spelling. I'm a VI newbie so any help is greatly appreciated ;-)
Are you using Vim? If so, I've attached a good script by Claudio
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:02:52PM -0400, thus spake John Anderson:
> I thought that there was no sound available, but when I log in as root I
> have sound. I have tried adding my normal account into the audio group,
> but still I have no sound. Any suggestions?
>
> =
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:38:36AM -0500, thus spake John Hasler:
> Martti Hamunen writes:
> > How can I use pppconfig as user (not only as root)?
>
> By using the sudo command. man sudo.
>
> > I don't want to use the netconnection as root.
>
> You don't need to. Pppconfig is just for configur
Can you help me with a runaway printer? (Canon BJ200, using
Potato and with apsfilter). Somehow, being careless, I have
managed to put a huge (around 1mb) file into the printer queue;
and I cannot stop the SOAB from printing, reams and reams of
Postscript code.
I've switched it off and tried "l
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:03:08PM +0800, thus spake CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]:
> Have been following your threadwell here is what you need to do.
>
> Fire up dselect and select #1. Change the source to the cdrom...I think it's
> the last option
I think he said that he doesn't get a cdr
I'm just over a month into Debian and have hassled the list with
lots of my configuration problems. That being said, the
conversion from Mandrake to Debian was relatively painless and I
actually preferred the very interactive Debian approach; and am
slowly discovering that almost all the informati
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> there's another sig over four lines long. look out!
>
> :-)
> _
> |
> // G l e n n B e c k e r
Lars, I think we need more help to help you - what programme are you
using to bring mail down? Fetchmail? Something else? Can you put
up that information, maybe the last lines of any log you have from
fetchmail and exim?
Glyn M
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I'm having trouble with Leafnode - moving back from Emacs/Gnus to
Vim/Mutt/Slrn, I wiped out the /var/spool/news folder. Long
story! I've replaced the folder (as user news) and leafnode
has donme it's magic and set up subfolder for the groups I want
to read. But the articles aren't coming
Many thanks for advice received. Did a purge and started again -
everything is fine now.
Glyn M
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http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk
Running Debian/Gnu Linux
9:42pm
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:40:49PM +0100, thus spake Cseh Tamás:.
> Sajnos nem tudok angolul és még program nyelveket sem
> ismerek.(de ami késeik az nem mulik)
De ez egy angol "lista". www.debian.org - nal van egy magyar
"level (page?) Az hasnos neki.
Minden jot
Glyn M.(Felesegem magy
>I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find
>the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian
>install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it from
>command line if that would help. If I click on a .tar.gz file the O
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been getting the msg every two or three days now and know that
> it's origin is a program accessing an empty file. The questions are:
>
> 1. Does this happen on most systems? 2. Is it something particular
> to this system, and if so, h
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:45:25PM +0100, thus spake Jonathan Gift:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > >
> > >Put 'set shortmess=I' (or 'set shm=I') in your ~/.vimrc.
> >
> > Bah, turns out the default is 'shortmess=filnxtToO' (intuitive, huh?),
> > so you need to add to that, not replace it. 'set shortmes
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, thus spake Peter Jay Salzman:
> do you happen to know offhand how to change the default directory to look in
> for mail folders? if you know it offhand, cool. if not, i can RTFM.
Put this line in ~/.muttrc
set folder=~/Mail # where i keep
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just a question to the gnus-people: Can you use gnus to read
> newsgroups offline like I do with slrnpull and slrn --spool?
You certainly can - it's great!
Glyn M
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http://memb
On 06 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Would you mind to write a quick/dirty howto (I used to use leafnode,
> which works with gnus, but I want to try slrnpull)?
Well I've got it set up with leafnode here, and it works well. To get
you started, you need a .gnus file in your home directo
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi! When I send a message to myself (maurizio) locally exim passes
> the message correctly to procmail (I have a ~/.procmailrc) which
> moves it to ~/Mail/In which is read by Mutt. If I send a
> message to an e-mail address outside my PC world a
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> rxvt (in the five minutes I have played with it during the preperation
> of this email) lets both of keypad and home/end work, but boy I like
> the transparency options of some of the other terminal
> emulators... (nothing quite like cheesing off
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