showing 'F' when I do dpkg -l slrn, for example.
How on earth do I change back to a command-line option? Has anyone else
had the same problem? Was I daft to choose the gtk option?
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nfigure debconf' again, but now it does
nothing at all - no options, nothing.
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stable. I have made no other changes to my
system.
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in:' 'sword:' format like most other IPs as well as
allowing perefctly standard PAP. I don't understand why you say they
don't accomodate Linux.
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/5.005/Term/Cap.pm line 284.
The last line is reteated a few times. Any idea how I can sort out the
problem? How do I 'configure' /dev/tty?
Many thanks.
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I am interested in trying out some of the new Corel apps like the file
manager. Is it possible to get hold of individual apps from the new
ditribution without downloading the whole iso file? I assume I would be
legally permitted to use individual components like this . .
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2.1 and debianise it a bit, but my pleas on the net and on this list
have remained unanswered.
Iahmail is highly polished and is more like what you might expect from a
commercial Windows app. I have tried other clients, but keep on using
Ishmail.
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something is not quite right here. I am running Potato, latest
upgrade performed last week. I am running leafnode 1.9.4-11 and slrn
0.9.5.7-14.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
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It would crash with an
'unrecoverable error' whenever I tried opening an existing document. I
can still create a new document, though.
I upgrade my potato installation once a week. The error occurred after
the upgrade I did sometime last week. I can't be more precise than that,
unfortunately.
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Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while
looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted
a fix ..
http://www.stardivision.com
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Debian Linux v.2.0
Hi Will. If you go to http://www.stardivision.com and click on 'Support'
then in the left-hand frame click on 'Download' you will see the fix.
I just checked again and it is still there!
Good luck.
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to have been cleared.
I know about the recent decision by Debian not to distribute KDE debs,
but surely there are some debs somewhere?
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Debian Linux v.2.0
sts/hail/main/binary-i386/admin/stormpkg_2.6.deb
The older package you were looking for (Slink) is at:
ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/rain/main/binary-i386/sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb
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John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phillip Deackes writes:
> > There is now an updated version suitable for Potato at:
>
> >
> ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/hail/main/binary-i386/admin/stormpkg_2.6.deb
>
> It requires gtksu. Where can I get that?
If y
unts' but it is
still a nightmare to set up. If any user downloads mail it ends up in
the Inbox (or other folder) visible to the user who instigated the
download. Maybe I have not understood correctly the complexities of
setting up Outlook . . . .
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es be otained dynamically with Linux? All the
documentation I have read points to physically adding the address to
/etc/resolv.conf
I use ISDN and have upgraded to Woody.
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ow to set it so that it raises on top? I am using
> sawfish as my window manager, but there doesn't seem to be anything
> there to help.
Yes. In the Gneme menu go to 'Panel / Global Properties / Miscellaneous'
and uncheck 'Keep Panel Below Windows'. I prefer the
.net (or gmx.co.uk in my case) would otherwise be seen
as a local domain and mail to other gmx.net users would not leave the
system.
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l address is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the line I needed to
add:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr
This means that when exim sees [EMAIL PROTECTED] it changes it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The line is added right at the end of /etc/exim.conf -
you will see similar lines commented out.
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;apt-get update' then 'apt-get install
stormpkg' will get you the Storm Package Manager *and* any necessary
dependencies.
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mail from my ISP, collected by fetchmail, is
detected by Exim and is delivered according to the filters in my
~/.forward file.
If you follow my example, your mail system should work OK.
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st messages are all caught by the x-mailing-list header and
the rather complicated formula I got from this group.
Examine the mailing list headers carefully - there is nearly always
something unique in the header. If not, have a couple of filters for
each list.
Note that the first recipe delivers mail for another user on my system
which arrives in my mailbox.
Hope this helps - though if you don't use Exim it won't
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es.list pointing to Debian and Storm as well as
Helix. Only the Strom apps are upgraded from the Storm site, everything
else comes from Debian's ftp sites.
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vant files etc. into /etc/X11/imwheel and /etc/X11/Xsession. Tried
to run 'imwheel' in X but without the mose couldn't open an xterm to
type it in!
Is there something I am not doing? Is IMPS/2 available in X or do I need
to compile it in/fetch it from somewhere?
Cheers.
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ways check for a Debian version of any software you want - only use a
tar.gz version if you absolutely must or need to.
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ll
accompanied by a steep learning curve so if you are one of these you
will not like Storm Linux ;-)
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happen to agree. The point I was making was that Storm does not deny
the user any of the traditional tools for configuring the system. It
simply supplies additional tools for those who want them. It is about
choice.
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.
#
# BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good.
if [ -z "$*" ] ; then
echo "Usage:"
echo " dpkg-hold "
exit 1
fi
for i in $@ ; do
echo "$ihold"
done | dpkg --set-selections
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variable
is set?
Many thanks.
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BTW, I am using JunkEx, your version of Junkbuster.
What is the difference between this and the original version? I can't
find it documented anywhere.
Thanks again.
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it is to set up squid using YAST in SuSE Linux.
Does anyone have any experience of setting up squid in Debian? Is it
harder?
I have no experience of Linux and networking, apart from connecting my
workstation to the Internet so it has to be relatively easy!!
Thanks.
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?
No problem. Have a look at this site for full instructions:
http://www.thennion.demon.co.uk/ISDN.html
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Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are a number of programs that do the job. Another (the nicest
> in my experience) is mtr.
Wow just got it with apt-get. Mtr is nice. Never heard of that one
before. Cheers.
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Storm's lilo on hold.
So, you can upgrade your Storm installation exactly as if were plain
Debian, without any problems, and can, if you wish, retain any Storm
features along the way. I really don't see why you have a problem.
Perhaps you could explain more.
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oblem. My /etc/apt/sources.list for Potato looked like this (I say
'looked' because I have since upgraded to Woody):
deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
Hope this helps.
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s. BUT you have the option at
the moment of upgrading Storm (or Debian) to the frozen distribution
(Potato) which will soon be released, or to the bleeding-edge, very
up-to-date Woody. I am using Woody and all the apps I use are very up to
date. So there we are, a bleeding edge Storm Linux. The choice is yo
there are also versions for Slink. The package you want is
sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb.
Maybe you would be better using apt-get. Add this line to your
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main, then do the usuals.
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Someone posted a very comprehensive apt sources.list over the past
couple of days. I meant to save it but forgot. It is not in the mailing
list archives yet.
Could whoever it was either repost or email me the file?
Many thanks.
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fetchmail to collect mail from my ISP's POP3 server and, if I have just
written an email, I can manually get Exim to send it which causes my
machine to connect.
Works very nicely here . . .
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get this right - Win4Lin is a virtual machine in which you
can run Windows. Or is it some sort of emulator?
Cheers.
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a try. Ishmail was a commercial app but is now in the public
domain and under active development. It is based on Motif and compiles
cleanly against the now free OpenMotif. An excellent, fully featured
product!
The new Ishmail web site is: http://ishmail.sourceforge.net/
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but I do have an internal zip100
drive. Is there any way I can create a bootable Zip disk using the BBC?
My motherboard will boot from the zipdrive. I know nothing about ISO
images, but there must be a way to write them to other media.
Cheers.
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Any email coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (generated automatically by exim) is
then re-written to show the sender as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use Ishmail as my mail user agent and can set up different identities
- say for work and personal use, but that is a different issue.
Hope this helps a little.
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pdated form elsewhere. Once I have installed a distro I
never use the CD to install anything else.
If you install the Storm CD you will end up with a nice installation,
including KDE and/or Gnome, Netscape etc. etc..
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Linux. Previously I just had to steer them
away towards Mandrake or SuSE because I knew they would not make it past
dselect. It will inevitable mean more people end up using Debian and the
Debian package format, to the benefit of us all.
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too - then, because of another Gnome-related glitch,
I decided to rename my ~/gnome directory. Afterwards I found Stormpkg
worked correctly and also displayed a message window telling me what it
was doing when it went on line - I didn't get this before with the new
version. I have since found quite a few Gnome things now work correctly.
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same ~/Gnome files so I am not surprised it was
throwing a few wobblies!!
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when I go to recompile. I am using kernel 2.2.15 and
Debian Woody.
Cheers.
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e Debian fold, apart from Debian itself, of
course, appears to be Progeny Debian. Beta 3 is available for free
download and is actually very usable indeed - maybe even for the new user.
The install is certainly very straightforward.
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hing
like that. They told me that it would not be a good idea to install the
1.2.2 iso and upgrade using apt-get. I wonder why!
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hanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't
seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it
backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0 /etc /home' and it ignored /home.
There is nothing in the man page to suggest how it can be do
nyone help? Hold my hand a little?!
Many thanks.
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ll 14 GB of space as reiserfs and copied the linux
filesystem back again. It appears to have worked flawlessly. I have done
the same with my data partition so am now running completely on reiserfs.
Thanks again. Take care.
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to copy the partition from hdb to hda
and rebooted. Everything worked fine. I then used PM again to resize the
partition to take advantage of the larger hard drive capacity of the new
drive.
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th a try.
The url is:
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/pro_e/pips_e.html
Fingers crossed.
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some reason, alien wouldn't convert it, but if you do
'rpm -i --nodeps whatever.rpm' it will install cleanly.
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/soffice but got the following error
message:
Application ErrorAborted
I am running the latest Woody, latest upgrade last night.
Has anyone else tried it?
Cheers.
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t facility of Star
Office in Open Office . .
Cheers.
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s
CD. The 'free' versions have all the Storm apps just like the boxed
version. Does $1.99 sound better?!
Try www.cheapbytes.com
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/ishmail.sourceforge.net/ - it
does need motif (or lesstif) to compile. Both are available free on the
'net.
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fully
received.
Many thanks.
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blisher - it runs it very well but can't yet do OLE services.
Hope this helps.
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u drag with the middle mouse button and then select 'Link Here'.
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cape appears on your Debian menus in whatever
window manager you are using - under apps/net. If you use Gnome you
could simply drag out the item onto your desktop. The actual command to
run it is (assuming you have version 4.75):
/usr/lib/netscape/475/navigator/navigator-smotif
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to be *the* best application on the OS.
Netscape is well known as being one of the worst Linux apps.
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have had a look at it when I tried KDE2, but I use Gnome so haven't
bothered much. Having said that, Opera might as well be a KDE app . .
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dwide web KDE-Konqueror seems
> to be fine, as well... :D
I shall have a look at galeon - I found skipstone too basic for what I
need.
Chhers Kristian. Take care.
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27;apt-get -u dist-upgrade' I noticed that
task-x-window-system-core was maked as held back. After the upgrade I
still had my v3.3.6 servers on the system. I did 'apt-get install
task-x-window-system-core' and the final part of the new X install was
carried out. After that everything
forewarned about the package split, but assumed apt
would sort it out correctly, maybe looking at what was
already running on my system or by downloading all parts of
the new package and later allowing me to reject what I
didn't need.
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"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> May I use the same sources.lists lines from my debian box to my
> stormix
> Linux box?
Yes. It would be advantageous to also use the stormix lines too. I have
the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Obviously if you are using
s
I am following unstable and currently have a problem with
9menu_1.4-10_i386.deb. It will neither upgrade with apt nor allow itself
to be removed with either apt or dpkg.
I get this message:
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Exec format
error
dpkg: warning - old pre-remo
dpkg complains about another package which refers to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults, and so on.
Is there a workaround?
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:40:05 +0100
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about beonex? I installed it yesterday on a friends system and it
> seems to work good.
What is beonex? I just did a search on Google and Freshmeat and found nothing.
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oilá - we're back to business.
And wasn't that bit of help from Alson so much better than the silly lectures
about running unstable. I *hate* the one-liner put-downs!
Glad it all works. Take care.
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Sylpheed allows collection and sending of mail through different accounts with
different ISPs. Sylpheed is based on gtk and also does news as well as mail. It
is available by apt-get so is very easy to install.
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> I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current
> potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same
> packages? How do I do this?
>
Easy. Just do 'dpkg -l > filename'
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rised and disappointed if debian-users are simply scanning
messages in order to receive help when *they* need it. I like to scan the
list to see if I can offer any help, as well as receiving it. The list
would collapse if it became a on-way street.
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s fetching of news
from multiple servers, and also allows you to create a 'local' newsgroup
from a mailing list. It is faster than leafnode at downloading news too.
The app is Simple News (sn) and is available from
http://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/sn/
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would get a recognisable sacn but with very bas colour fringing.
An old version (around v7) worked fine.
Any ideas?
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more
packages it has downloaded. There have been times when I haven't realised
what it has done (or not done) and I have had a half-upgraded system as a
result. Now I tend to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' more than once to assure
myself that it has indeed completed the process. You ca
he
Linux box has an ethernet card and is configured correctly to use it, the
Surfboard will work.
The latest version of the Surfboard has an alternative method of
connecting to the PC by using USB - maybe this is what you mean when you
say that Windows appears to have a Surfboard driver and no ethernet
driver?
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o and ftp, but not a lot else.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
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starts before ippp0 (my current connection to the Internet
is ISDN, my cable modem is to be installed at the start of January) and
throws up all sorts of problems. Starting it with X is fine, because if I
log out of X the script protecting my box is still effective.
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they appear during
boot up but they are not in /var/log/messages or /var/log/system.
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ke Adaptec's which allows you
to to use a CDRW disk as if it were a hard drive? ie. being able to add
and remove data at will?
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cable to the
new drive - one which isn't ATA 66 compatible. This will force the machine
to see the drive as, at most, ATA 33 and should work OK. Once the new
kenel is patched and build you should be able to switch cables again.
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or
anything like that - all I have which might be relevant is
/etc/init.d/networking.
Cheers.
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alise there was a
difference regarding networking configuration.
Take care.
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ISDN.html
I did these three things and ISDN worked first time. I have a BT
Speedway card, which is a re-badged Fritz AVM PCI card.
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are seeing.
I have enable UDMA on my system too - get back to me if you want to set
this us - it reuires a patch to the kernel and a recompile.
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too. I had always
assumed it was a RedHat/Caldera-only tool.
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lections | more
> --> get a list of package selections, and write it to stdout.
I always use dpkg -l because it gives a little more information:
dpkg -l | xless or
dpkg -l | gless or
dpkg -l | more
etc..
If you want a text file of installed packages:
gpkg -l | lpr
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will do
a similar thing.
I find thsi useful because it is easy to read docs etc. before the
package is installed.
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in a more traditional Windows style where it will fetch mail from
POP/IMAP severs.
I could go on, and on and on - I have tried a multitude of email apps
and always come back to Ishmail. All it needs now if for someone to take
on board the source code and maintain it properly.
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ed with:
"In short, Mew is a great MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs"
Ugh!!!
I am very sorry if I offend, but I find emacs/xemacs about the most
off-putting thing in Linux. Show a newbie that and you will see the dust
as he turns and runs back to the Windows camp.
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Exim, but am not sure what to
change to stop it. I collect mail manually using Fetchmail and have it
passed on to Exim for distribution using .forward.
Maybe the problem is not Exim.
Any ideas? I am using Potato.
Many thanks.
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ing an internal ISDN card.
Thanks again.
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e filter to snmail.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
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again. On a dial-up link this is
beyond a joke
Am I doing something wrong?
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the upgrade didn't install for me.
Helix Gnome is looking *so* cool - it makes Windows look very old and
clunky. I just love it.
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