Netscape Dead -- forced into WinDoze!

1998-08-14 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi All: About two weeks ago, something changed on my mostly Hamm system, and Netscape stopped working. Since then, I get a SEG FAULT every time I try to start Netscape. I have tried everything I can think of to fix this. I have downloaded three different versions of the Netscape or Communicator

glut + hamm = Failure

1998-03-09 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi: I have a mostly-hamm debian system with the latest gcc, glutg3, lesstif, etc. Recently I have tried to compile some of the example programs from the book "OpenGL for X" and found a problem. Typically, a session goes like this: gcc -o dials dials.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXi -l X

Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian

1998-01-26 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi all: I have recently acquired two obsolete laser printers which were destined for the garbage dump. I would like to use one or both of them with my Debian system, but I'm having some problems. The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and parallel interfaces. It works w

Magic Cookie???

1998-02-24 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi All: I have been gradually replacing the "bo" components of my system with the appropriate (I hope) "hamm" components. However, after a recent spate of changes I find that I get the following messages when I run a program which tries to open a window in X: Xlib: Connection to ":0.0" refu

Upgraded to libc6; Broke my system

1997-10-28 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Subject: Hi, all Recently I tried to upgrade my debian 1.3.1 system from libc5 to libc6, following scrupulously the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO. I had no problems using dpkg to install one at a time all the way through perl_5.004.02-1.deb and perl-tk_400.202-3.deb. I wish I'd stopped at that

Thanks and a question

1997-10-30 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Recently I did the libc5-to-libc6 install, and wound up with a broken system. *One day* after I had posted a question, Carey Evans had responded with some suggestions that solved my problem. For this quick service I thank him and this group. It turns out that my problem was due to the fact that I

Unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development

1997-11-06 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi all: I recently went through the process of upgrading from libc5 to libc6. After testing the resulting system for a couple days and finding it apparently ok, I went on to upgrade the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers and their associated libraries. At least, I thought I did. Now I'm not sure what s

Re: Unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development

1997-11-06 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi again: In my previous communication I described some of the problems I am having in taking the "next step" after adding the libc6 libraries etc to my Debain box: how to go on to configure the system to do development (i.e., gcc, g++, g77 work) using libc6. Whereas the first step is very clea

SOLVED: unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development

1997-11-21 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi, all: Earlier this month I recounted my sad tale of woe, when I tried to upgrade my development environment from libc5 to libc6. To make a long story short, I found that gcc, g++, and g77 all failed to work. After my complaint I received many helpful suggestions, but none of them solved the

Installed perl-tk-400.202-2; now perl-tk is broken

1997-07-28 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
I am a longtime Linux (Slackware) user who has recently switched to Debian. I had been using the versions of Perl and Perl-Tk which are in the 1.3 Debian release, and all was working OK. Then I decided that I wanted to upgrade to Perl 5.004 and Perl-Tk 400.202, so I grabbed the four perl*.deb fil

Change of E-Mail address

2002-01-20 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Effective immediately, my e-mail address is changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]