Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
g I don't know > yet is how to install local lisp stuff properly. stick them in /lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp Jan -- Jan Vroonhofhttp://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/ Mathematik, vroonhof @ math.ethz.ch HG E16, ETH-Zentrum,

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-14 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Min Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about the /etc/*emacs/site-start.d/* stuff? > > If I want to keep the xemacs20 style, i.e., automatically source these > starting up files, how can I do that? You need to copy the Debian specific code that does that (not sure where that is, I am not nea

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-14 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip > > >Of course, if he did this, he shouldn't expect the system to > >upgrade cleanly anymore, and worse, remocving the packages won't > >delete the uncompressed files. > > Hey, his system, he wants to mangle

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-14 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can use "see" from the "mime-support" package to view compressed/gzipped > DVI files. Sigh...A simple "xdvi" would be a lot nicer. Let me rephrase my wish then: I would if I could get some global option to get the documentation uncompressed. For

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-15 Thread Jan Vroonhof
org's Quick Start Guide > page, too, Doesn't surprise me as I wrote both :-) > but that didn't work here. It should. Could you please find out why? -- Jan Vroonhofhttp://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/ Mathematik, vroonhof

Re: emacs !!

1998-08-03 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > To edit faces in xemacs, not sure about emacs. > > M-x edit-faces > (I haven't used it but it looks pretty easy.) The recommanded way is M-x customize-faces. Which has the advantage that it will still works in 21.0 and also works on both Emacsen. It is less WYSIWYG.

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, Not only of yours. Some have even made it a reality. See http://www.heise.de/ct/schan/ That is german project supported by C'T. It allows schools to connect to the internet using a specially prepared lin

Re: gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I want to > do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some conf files. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /home/deniz/.Xauthority extract - :0.0 | xauth > merge - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

Re: What xfsft is.

1998-08-07 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as advantages of xfsft over xfstt go, The main advantage of xfsft for me is that it could be linked into the XServer so that I do not need to run a seperate fontserver. Jan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/n

Re: Found out how to get Xemacs to remember font and color changes....

1998-08-26 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After A LOT of Altavista searching and reading through quite a few > different emacs FAQs, Next time try looking closer to home :-) C-h F will het you the FAQ. It is Q3.0.7. (the faq also should be on www.xemacs.org). A dejanews search on comp.ema

Re: XEmacs on laptop BEEPING

1998-09-28 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Wayne Cuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have xemacs20.x loaded on my Toshiba laptop. First of all. 1. Questions like this are more likely to be answered in a more specific form, like comp.emacs.xemacs 2. Before you post, do some research using the FAQ and dejanews and you will s

Re: Xemacs question

1999-02-11 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Gunnar Schotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem using the ^-Key in Xemacs. When I use the key > there is a message in the status line "dead circumflex not defined". That is not the error messsage :-) There is a "dead_circumflex" in there. I know what you mean now but in general it i

Re: Xemacs question

1999-02-11 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is not the error messsage :-) There is a "dead_circumflex" in dead-circumflex of course > > (define-key function-key-map 'dead_circumflex compose-circumflex-map) Thus (define-key function-key-map 'dead-circumflex compose-circumflex-map)

Re: debian <- NFS -> Solaris

1999-02-24 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My experience is that the Linux NFS server is broken when working with > Solaris NFS clients. You are aware that there is a bug in the Solaris NFS clients when interacting with the Linux 2.2 NFS deamon? Sun apparently has a patch for that you shoul

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # Magic filter setup file for HP DeskJet 500 series color > # printers with only CMY cartridge installed. > and my printer has black & CMY cartridges. Is the filter using the > colour cartridge to make black, Probably not. The printer is i

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

1998-12-09 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm aware that Xemacs has problems with GPM (if you put Xemacs to > sleep while GPM is running, things turn ugly). Actually it is GPM (or better the libgpm library code) having problems with glibc2. A patch is being worked on by the GPM maintainers. >

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

1998-12-10 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah -- I actually recompiled today with egcc (enhanced GNU cc). You > want to use the "--with-nucurses" configure option (again, I don't > know how that translates to debian package building). In order to do > this, though, you need to install some type

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

1998-12-10 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not for me, it didn't! According to dselect, I have libncurses4 and > libncurses4-dev installed. If this happens with the pristine XEmacs sources then that would be a bug. From configure.in dnl Autodetect ncurses. if test -z "$with_ncurses"; then

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-12 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ I am reading debian-devel there occasionally and I can assure you this is NOT a viable alternative. 1. The software cannot handle multipart/signed messsages :-( 2. The threaded display does not contain date

Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?

1999-08-08 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes: > to take someone to court for violating the copyright. The FSF's > position in a court case (if it were to ever come to that) is immensely > strengthened and simplified by virtue of being the sole copyright > owner. As such, they have much more legal cl

Emacs copyright was [Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?]

1999-08-09 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes: > How do you determine this? The Mule people said so. It is kept pretty low profile > All the copyright statements I saw in 20.4 after a quick check were > merely by the FSF, including such docs as etc/DISTRIB. I don't have 20.4 here. But this is the to

Re: xemacs21 questions

1999-08-12 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed xemacs21. It's still running together with xemacs20 > untill it will work fine. (I Installed it because I hoped for some new > mule support which apperently isn't present yet). What new mule support had you hoped for? Jan

Re: xemacs at console won't suspend

1999-08-17 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to > either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before > starting xemacs on the console. See > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several > VERY

Re: xemacs at console won't suspend

1999-08-18 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've had some problems running xemacs20 (mule) on the console and it going > into an error loop of some kind when resizing the console or killing gpm. > I usually run my emaxen under 'screen', mostly because I switch around > terminals so often. The gpm part is fixed i

Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)

1999-08-18 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Prashanth Mundkur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** Variable reference to constant :buffer > ** Variable reference to constant :force > [...] > ** Variable reference to constant :get-descriptor-too The messages are nothing to worry about. They are caused when a package tries to be compatib

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-16 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to > > know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? I am trying to stay out of this thread (because discussions like this always become holy wars) but I couldn't let this one p

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-03 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > them. The reason I hadn't noticed them when they were happening because > I was in another workspace and was struggling to get XEmacs to compile > from source. What struggle? XEmacs should compile on a typical Debian system, just using ./configure mak

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-04 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then there was the issue with not getting found. It was located in > /usr/include/db1 but I had to explicitly specify that dir with > --site-includes, which I thought was a bit strange. That is because the glibc maintainers have decide to move to db2

Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?

1999-04-07 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) | gs-aladdin > > > > to > > > > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) > > > > Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far? > In addition, the packages in "main" > => * must not require a p

Re: What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?

1999-04-07 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me it is the addition by the gs-aladdin maintainer of the HP Deskjet > driver. But that driver is LGPL so it could also go into the free gs. > I use it with the 660c but it works great, much better than the dj550 > driver that is in the free gs. In

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Jan Vroonhof
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In dselect the Scanning available packages .. part puts out about > one dot every three seconds. Isn't this output from 'dpkg'?, it can build huge internal tables (or something like that at least it grew to a wopping 13MB RSS for me once.). How

Re: wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP > with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional > sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and therefore there > is this mess. Wouldn't this be s

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, kdm actually does offer a nice piece of functionality that xdm > doesn't. It allows you to choose an X session at login (kde, window > maker, afterstep, etc), by providing a combo box that lets you choose the > parameter that gets passed to

Re: Hamm & Dselect

1998-10-23 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 05:34:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time? > > I believe that there is no such way, unless you have several CD-ROM > drives so that you can mount

Re: Build of xemacs-20.4-7 fails

1998-11-03 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/src/XEmacs/xemacs20-20.4-5/lib-src/profile.c:51: too few arguments to > function `gettimeofday' This sounds like a configure failure. The source package is probably using some --with-bla-bla switches that are incompatible with your hamm install a

Re: saving font size in xemacs 20.4

1998-11-12 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes: > Whenever I change the font size in xemacs 20.4, and do a "save > options" my font change is always lost. I checked the faq, and made > sure that Options->Frame Appearance->Frame-Local Font menu is not > checked. I also have the following line included in

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console > that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console > somewhere? Just to be specific: Are we talking about XEmacs running on a true linux console (i.e. terminal type i

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-18 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Manoj, thanks for make-kpkg I like it a lot. Especially the fact that your own kernel a full fledged package. > > Disadvantages of using make-kpkg > - -- - - > > i) This is a cookie

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-19 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You may use fakeroot, so iii) is not really a limitation. > Aha..good. However I recall that make-kpkg puts explicit checks for root. Those should be removed then. Jan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-19 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The checks are needed, because you have to be able to do a chown to > root I still do not like checks like these, I'd rather have it bomb out at the chown. But that is just side-issue. > But if you use fakeroot, make-kpkg will really believe you are ro

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-09-28 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i guess what i'm looking for is a blend of xemacs/gnus and pine/elm. Use gnus. Gnus is not only a news reader but also a mail reading program. It excells at using mailling lists. Look in the info file under "Select methods" "Getting Mail". The only th

Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt

1997-10-28 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In xemacs for example I get "dead-circumflex is not defined" this makes > the use of the T-^ command ion gnus somewhat difficult :-) http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/emascs/x-compose.el.gz Jan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

/etc/crontab.daily and the security hole in find | xargs

1997-08-07 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[Sorry if this question has been adressed a zillion times but the search function of the archive seems broken] [Sorry again: I am reading this list through the web-archives and august hasn't appeared yet. Could you CC me] First of all let me thank everybody who has worked on Debian 1.3.1 for all

Re: incorporation

1997-08-22 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) Liability. The corporation is legally a person. If someone got >the bright idea to sue Debian (for whatever reason, including >frivolous), individuals would be liable without incorporation. >Incorporated, individual liability extends only t

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Andy Kahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > have loads of features. however, i recently took the same data that > i was pumping into gnuplot and plopped it into MS Excel, then made > terrificly beautiful graphs (multi-column, bar, 3d, etc) with un- > believable ease, and then sent them into a PowerPo