Re: Pine & Netscape

1998-12-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I > wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help I didn't even know this was possible. What version of pine are you running, and where are you config

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > gcc is not the c++ compiler used in Debian. Egcs (g++) is. > Change your configure.in (or just configure, if you wont/cant regenerate > it) so that it uses g++ as the c++ compiler. Also, change the Makefile > if needed to do the same thing. I think th

Re: Navigator standalone and pine [was: Re: Pine & Netscape]

1998-12-12 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 10 Dec 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kovacs) writes: > > Anybody figure out how to get navigator standalone to launch a pine > > session when you click on a mailto? With the help of Paul Seelig I figured this out. (It was pretty easy) If anybody else i

Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Kovacs
I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. Anyway, I just discovered that it existed last night, and I'm having a few problems starting it. In X, I start it with the -nofade option, and the load status bar fills up and the game apparently crashes. The window is still there

RE: Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > No, quite frankly, Maelstrom doesn't seem to be working for me, either. The > only way I can get it to work is to d/l pristine source and compile it myself I even tried that. I wouldn't compile for me, complaining about some function which didn't see

Maelstrom problem...FIXED!

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Well, I got the sources and compiled. I did an strace and got an endless loop of: select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 6}) = 0 (Timeout) So I figure there some sort of delayed loop that isn't exiting. Probably waiting for something like sound to start. Sooo...I started with volume=0 and it wor

RE: URGENT advice needed!

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: Actually, all the reviews say that the RIVA TNT is better than the Voodoo2, and as a side benefit, you get a 2d card as well. Peter > In truth -- none. Your best bet is to get a voodoo2 chipset and hold your > breath. > > On 14-Dec-98 Michael Meskes wrote: >

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't hold your breath. Netscape has taken the position that they are more > interested in providing new, esoteric features for it's browsers than in > fixing and enhancing the features that already exist. Welcome to the browser > wars. In fact, I

Re: Netscape Downloading resuming

1998-12-16 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: > Hey, > > You can resume downloads in Netscape? How do you enable that? Whenever I > have to cancel a download, Netscape deletes the partially downloaded > file. Thanks. I haven't quite figured out when it works. (It may only work for FTP downloads,

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Only problem now is that both the sites are full, 1000 user on > > Download.com and 3600 on ftp.cdrom. You may want to wait a few > > hours (weeks) until the rush quitens down... > > > If anyone manages to get it I would be interested (alon

Re: Automatic font-lock in emacs

1998-12-19 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > How do I configure my emacs so that it will detect the file > type(*.c, *.h, *.tex, *.pro ) and automatically starts the font lock... In my .xemacs-options: (setq-default font-lock-auto-fontify t) (setq-default font-lock-use-fonts nil

Re: WP Question

1998-12-19 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > but then I did this: > ln -s /usr/local/wp/wpbin/xwp /usr/local/bin/xwp > > and when I run it I got the following msg: > Error: File not found -- admintxt.us Same thing happened to me. For some reason it assumes you're going to install it dire

question about ip-up

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Kovacs
I've got a quick question... Do the scripts in ip-up.d run whenever the network goes up (say on boot with ethernet, or when I dial in) or only when I dial in. I'm trying to make the transition from campus ethernet to dial in over break. Thanks, Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs

Re: Problem from compiler !?

1998-12-27 Thread Peter Kovacs
> On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 04:30:49AM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > gcc -lcrypt -lcurses -o bbs menus.o autenticacao.o idioma.o extrainfo.o > > bbs.c I'm sure somebody else has told you this on linux-c-programming, but I'm not a member of that list... You need to put references to libraries aft

Re: system hang on boot

1998-11-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
> hi all ! > I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until > that > post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf > then run #lilo ... > When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part > where > Linux does p

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-17 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 17 Nov, ivan wrote: > The reason I ask is because Linux reports: > Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 > > which indicates a 2GB drive. CFDisk agrees and will let me partition to 2GB. > > DOS & BIOS on the other hand report only a 504MB H/D and so does the > Raneesh

Re: where should I put things for rc.local?

1998-11-22 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Martin Waller wrote: > I want to set up ip masquerading, but the docs all talk about other > dists and puting things in their /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. That's the BSD style init. Debian uses SysV style init. From what I can tell, you can put your local init scripts in eithe

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

1998-11-25 Thread Peter Kovacs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote: > Edward Ing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... > And Debian has no equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. That's not completely true. Debian has an /etc/rcS.d/ which is a general equivalent to rc.local. That's how I get a few

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [ Something about gpfs ] > > As I said later in my message, I'm not sure of the error messages > 'name' or origin, because I haven't seen one of these failures > recently. It can't be hardware though, these transient er

Re: Adding menu items in WindowMaker

1998-12-03 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 3 Dec 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I'd like to add a new submenu to the WindowMaker main pop-up menu > called "RemoteHosts" and each item in that menu would be of the form: > > xterm -e ssh What I did is: Create my own menu with my customizations.. Somewhere in that menu I created an "ex

Re: A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: > #!perl > while(){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";}; Change "perl" to the full path to perl. I don't think the shebang notation has a path associated with it. Peter - --- Peter D. Kovacs UIN:

Postgresql documentation/behavior inconsistency

2000-06-23 Thread Peter Kovacs
I've just installed the latest unstable release of postgresql (v 7.0.2) on my machine, and I'm a little confused with an inconsistency in the local documentation and the docs provided at Postgresql.org. On this page: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/tutorial/advanced.htm#AEN1494 it says that the "Se

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-23 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > for d in \ > /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d \ > /usr/lib/netscape/$VER \ > /usr/lib/netscape/$VER/$BIN ;do > for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do > . $d/$f > done > done I'm sure

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-23 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > What does "YMMV" stand for? YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary > An official fix has come through, and what it does is replace > > for f in (cd. > > by > > for f in $(cd From man 1 bash: Command Substitution Command substitu

Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Markus Fischer wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : > > > Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get > > > connected automatically to naur. All of the account info is (I presume) > > > stored on naur

Re: mutt editor

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Kovacs
Add this line to your .muttrc file: set editor='ee' Peter On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:05:40PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear colleages of list, > > how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to > ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an en

Re: debain on windows 2k

2001-03-05 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:25:42AM +0100, Peter Schnebel wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2001 09:35, Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS) wrote: > > can i go ahead with the insatllation or should i downgrade to windowsNT. > > one of my friend who was installing red hat had to first downgrade to > > NT. Also, t

Re: _Very_ strange problem with compiling

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Kovacs
I don't think this is a GCC error because gcc compiles this program successfully. The problem is: you're simply asking for too much stack space. On my machine, ulimit -s reports 8129 (that's in Kilobytes). When I write a seperate program such as: #include void main(int argc, char **argv) {

Re: Trouble with kernel stability

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
Does it always stop compiling at the same place? If not then you probably have faulty ram. Peter On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:17:47PM +0100, franck routier wrote: > Another point is I can't compiling kernel 2.4.1 any more. I get this error > message (after a make clean and make dep) : > > On the

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > Back to mutt and friends: > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14 or 7 days? Maybe it can move them > over to another mbox hierarchy for archive... Any ideas

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:42:28PM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > > Back to mutt and friends: > > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14