Re: Modem pulse dailing?

2000-08-20 Thread bish
+FCLASS=0 -< snip >--- USM Bish On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, joost witteveen wrote: > I want my modem to dail using pulses, not tones (some phonelines in > Bulgaria need it). > > After setting `Pulse' in the pppconfig menu, chat seems to > use ATDP as dail s

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-20 Thread bish
take notice. Before somebody points out, why not do it yourself I have started on a hack of "pkgtool" today. I'll post it on this list once ready. I do not know enough programming to try fancier stuff ! Afterall, Computers for me is a hobby only. I am a full-time doctor by pro

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-20 Thread bish
n the connection is down ? USM Bish On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Bish writes: > > There is a need for something like gnorpm/ kpackage/ glint used > > in RH and other RH based distros. > > Have you looked at console-apt? > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command-lineMail Client?

2000-11-02 Thread bish
at it requires NO SPECIAL MODULES. It has a very simple interface, making it very easy to use. - HTH USM Bish

Ramen Net Worm alert !

2001-01-18 Thread bish
's some general info there without further technical details): http://www.zdnetindia.com/help/alerts/stories/12141.html?slink=nsl Apparently it targets RH-6.2 and RH-7 based servers but as of now does not seem to be destructive. Does anybody have any further info on this worm ? USM Bish

No available ptys

2001-01-20 Thread bish
This happens in "X" as well as in console mode. Any clues in this regard ? TIA USM Bish

Re: Win98 won't shutdown after Linux install

2000-08-23 Thread USM Bish
posession of the boot sector. If Lilo booting is the problem this may help Bish On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:29:37PM -0700, Jonathan Neufeld wrote: > I'm a casual user of Linux and have some familiarity with several > distributions. I recently bought a new computer and installed Win98 &g

Re: color in Emacs

2000-08-23 Thread USM Bish
List of colours to choose from is in a file called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. The combination of colours dependes upon your personal choice, and trial and error is the best answer. My personal choice is: emacs*background:DarkSlateGrey emacs*foreground:Wheat Bish On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:42

Re: Star Office

2000-08-25 Thread USM Bish
Try "abiword". The deb package is on the debian site. The official site for this is <http://www.abiword.com>. This is capable of reading/ writing on M$ doc format -Office97 Have not tried with more advanced M$-Word versions. Also capable of handling rtf format (both read and w

Re: xdm

2000-08-25 Thread USM Bish
o tty mode therafter, and would have to use "startx" subsequently to get into "X". USM Bish On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:28:53PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:29:56PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > > > > curiously, what makes it "su

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-25 Thread USM Bish
for an utility called "htmldoc". htmldoc-1.8.7 offers the following: a. Conversion of html to pdf b. Conversion of html to ps c. Joining multiple htmls to a single large html file Pretty nifty for a multi-platform app. USM Bish On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:26:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrot

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-26 Thread USM Bish
vert html files to pdf c) Convert html files to postscript. I have not come across any other 'converter' which can come close to meeting all your needs. USM Bish

Re: problem with debian user mailing list (Server)?

2000-08-26 Thread USM Bish
, and there are only ten new entries with no duplicates, nor any with boundary parameter errors. That is about the normal/ expected volume that pours in. Hopefully this is a sporadic episode by accident and not by intent ... Bish On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:22:30PM +0200, I. Tura wrote

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-26 Thread USM Bish
Since this program is version specific, it is better to download the one specific for ones kernel or compile from source. Since I am still on Slink, I have downloaded htmldoc-1.8.7-linux-2.0.36-intel.rpm and installed it with rpm. Works fine for me. Bish On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:31:19AM -0400

Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread USM Bish
left and right margins, text alignment (left, right and centre). Preferentially should be able to save text in pure ASCII. Additional features, if present, welcome. Anybody using one, or can guide me to any ? USM Bish

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread USM Bish
for LaTex for lazy bones)! Of late I have switched to a new wp called abiword ... does HTML, doc and RTF as well .. and prints fine without any further processing. All these still mean switching to "X"! USM Bish On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:09:53AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Sun,

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread USM Bish
various search engines. Not much joy. However, I do vaguely remember seeing a demo ncurses based wp in a Yggdrasil CD (Slackware distro) at a local vendor about three years ago. Hav'nt seen anybody using it though. USM Bish On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:19:56AM -0700, Mathew Watson wrote: >

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-28 Thread USM Bish
I am not quite sure why the binaries had kernel specific distributions, perhaps some header info needed for compile. Never investigated the issue further, never struck me ! Dumb bloke that I am! USM Bish On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:21:50AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > What does h

apt-get a trend setter ?

2000-08-28 Thread USM Bish
Placed below are two postings on http://freshmeat.org on 27 Aug 2000. May be of interest to this list. The apt-get team should get the kudos for starting the cloning trend. --- - --- -- - --- -- - - - -- - subject: fAPT 0.4 added by: iMil on Aug 27th 2000, 10:45 license: GP

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-28 Thread USM Bish
Wow ! That's news. Seems rather interesting. A console based frontend to LaTeX ! If you cannot recall the URL, is there any clue to the project/ program name so that one can search for it on one of the search engines on the net? USM Bish On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:27:43AM -0400, hawk

Re: LI after Install

2000-08-31 Thread USM Bish
MBR is back with DOS/ Windows.. You will be able to boot into DOS / Windows at least. Install Loadlin through DOS/ Win-9x and then boot your Linux partition via Loadlin. Please look at Loadlin docs for instructions about how to boot multiple OSs thru config.sys/ autoexec.bat USM B

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread USM Bish
"w3m" ! Is this a text base browser like lynx which you can work on console? How does it manage frames? I have w3mir installed, but that's not a browser. USM Bish On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:50:40AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. A

Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread USM Bish
way wherein I keep the log for the last seven days only, with some process at boot-up or cron ? USM Bish

Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-04 Thread USM Bish
--- rm -rf /var/log/messages.old mv /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.old touch /var/log/messages reboot For a quick hack, this works. I think I will keep a tag on fast growers in the /var/log subdir, and try to attack specific files rather than move t

Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-04 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:51:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a recommended way wherein I keep the log for the > > last seven days only, with some process at boot-up or cron ? > > Seems like logrotate will

Re: LILO-rific

2000-09-05 Thread USM Bish
need not use any of these and use a third party boot manager. The choice is upto you. USM Bish -

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-05 Thread USM Bish
already a news group for debian. Somebody has replied already <news:muc.lists.debian.user>. USM Bish

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread USM Bish
If you have Midnight Commander (mc) installed, you can see the contents of a tar.gz file natively. If you need to read a specific file, mc does a temporary extract of the same and displays it for you. If you have kde installed, kfm does the same. USM Bish On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:18:37PM

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-05 Thread USM Bish
gineer program... MCSE for Linux, > anyone? > MCSE ? In our part of the world that stands for "Must Consult a Second Expert" ! Does M$ have some other version of this acronym ? USM Bish

URL for mysql slink binaries

2000-09-06 Thread USM Bish
>From where could I download mysql server and client (binary distributions) for "Slink" ?The ones on the debian mirrors now, appear to be for "potato". USM Bish

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-06 Thread USM Bish
aspects. The default setup is: crw-r- 1 root dialout4, 64 Sep 6 11:20 /dev/ttyS0 This works perfectly fine for me. This has been the set up for all Linux boxes/ distros that I have used in the last four years+. No failures. I enable user-dial through a program called "sudo". Give it a try. For a stand-alone machine, you could dial with root privileges easily with "su", and "sudo" may not be needed at all. USM Bish

Re: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread USM Bish
I use elvis (not vim). There is no such problem. Incidentally, have you changed your tab setting to anything other than the default 8 ? USM Bish On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? > > I spend a

Re: "Joe" editor

2000-09-08 Thread USM Bish
or rescue disks is what is you need,look no further. THIS IS IT. It would be difficult to find a smaller one with all facilites expected of an editor. USM Bish PS: Binary tarball with man (6080 bytes)! Private mail only.

Editor for rescue disks/ floppy distros

2000-09-09 Thread USM Bish
rt for reminding me. USM Bish On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:58:31AM -0500, Debian Linux User wrote: > Thanks for this post. This editor is amazing. With the subject > line of the thread I just about missed reading it, however. You > might want to make your recommendation about inclu

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread USM Bish
other kde packages), gedit, gxedit, balsa etc. (gnome apps) on both these window managers. I thought all window managers would, if the necessary libs are installed. I notice here confirmation of the same with sawfish and icewm. Am I wrong somewhere and there is more to it ? USM Bish On S

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-12 Thread USM Bish
gzipped cpio archive. The cpio archive type used is SVR4 with a CRC checksum. For further details see /usr/doc/rpm/format.gz (in case you have rpm.deb installed). USM Bish On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:46:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:42:50AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-12 Thread USM Bish
driver in either magic/ apsfilter. If no joy you would have to settle for a generic driver but printing should not stop. Best wishes, USM Bish

Re: fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread USM Bish
this list) and jam his box so that he does not repeat this sort of stunt on us or any other list for that matter. Any other suggestions ? USM Bish -- Dear Mr Li, Ours is a professional list dealing specifically with issues rel

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-13 Thread USM Bish
merely a client of the new parport device. I need to gen up myself on this issue before I can say anything I do not think there should be any significant difference, as far as the lp device is concerned, but its better to be sure. Can anybody who has used kernels beyond 2.1.xx take this aspect on ? USM Bish

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread USM Bish
t the addressee. Just make sure that there is a space between the "To: " and the addressee. It should look like: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Complicated ? ;-) USM Bish On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:09:16PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Ooopss. I mistaked again of list. Sorry.

Re: [OT] Switching kernels without reboot

2000-09-14 Thread USM Bish
. Sounds interesting ! ciao USM Bish - subject: User-mode Linux 0.31-2.4.0-pre8 added by: Jeff Dike on Sep 12th 2000, 06:52 EDT license: GPL category: Development/Kernel homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/user

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-19 Thread USM Bish
mail. Too long to place here... USM Bish On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:49:40PM -0700, John Gilger wrote: > USM Bish wrote: > > > > 2. LINUX: > > > >a) Do a dmesg. Check which device your printer is polled > > EpsonSC800 at /dev/lp0 > > &g

Printing : Kernel 2.2.17 problems ?

2000-09-23 Thread USM Bish
imilar problems. Please confirm version of lpr/ lprng as well .. (Personal mails welcome). Are there chances of tcp/ip conflicts or conflicts with other software (excluding plip) ? USM Bish

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread USM Bish
Solution 1: I use a program called "usershutdown", which I am using from my Slackware days 2 years ago. Don't remember where I got it from. Can send the source as an attachment in personal mail. Solution 2: 3 finger salute ! [Ctrl-Alt-Del] ciao USM Bi

Re: lp module in Debian 2.2

2000-09-27 Thread USM Bish
e that Kernel 2.2.17 with lprng 3.6.12-6 or lpr has posed no problems. It appears that "CUPS" is okay with this kernel as confirmed by Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but that isn't the default potato / woody "lpr" or "lprng". It is somewhere between kernel 2.2.17 and the printer daemon where the problems lie. Or, could there be any other factor at play ? USM Bish

Re: mounting /home?

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
b, wvdial.conf etc before doing a re-installation. My /usr is a seperate partition. I always store my /usr/local subdir in another partition before doing a re-initialisation/ format of /usr, and copy this back later. HTH USM Bish On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
;\015' Solution 4: ~~ Use a dedicated program. Willing to mail you source tarball as PMO (Personal Mail Only) ciao USM Bish On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:48:23AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Are there any dos2unix and unix2

Re: Konsole session switching...

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
I don't know about switching between sessions, but you can switch between 6 consoles using Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 on the same machine on console. HTH USM Bish On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:44:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to switch between ses

Re: User privelidges

2000-10-02 Thread USM Bish
There is a program called "xusermount" somewhere on the net (don't remember where). Got it by going thru lycos over a year ago. No .deb available. Maybe on freshmeat, give that a try as well. Can mail it as an att (PMO). HTH USM Bish On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0

Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread USM Bish
. The BackSpace key needs fixing for "X". However placing xmodmap parameters in .xsessions or .Xdefaults does not seem to correct the problem, and I need to repeat the same over an xterm. Is there any way out? Thanx Dr USM Bish -- : - Its a BishMail :-) - :

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-09 Thread USM Bish
Just pull out the CMOS battery and refix it. Once the CMOS info is totally wiped out, the passwords would have gone too, afterall the info is kept in the CMOS and not the BIOS. It is admitedly a crude method, but works. Needs no tools besides your screw driver and nifty fingers! USM Bish On Tue

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Linux machine

2000-08-09 Thread USM Bish
Solution 2: Just mount your DOS/ Win9x partition as msdos or vfat to a mount point of your choice. All long filenames in this case would be 8.3 format. Just suitable enough for transfer of data, but not installing. USM Bish On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Matt Gagné wrote: > I need to transfer some

Re: wordvie

2000-08-09 Thread USM Bish
Try , and search for mswordview and wordview. II have seen two such utils in my freshmeat newsletters a couple of weeks back. I think mswordview is on the SuSE site as well. I vaguely remember as having seen it. I used to be on SuSE till a week ago. USM Bish On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Bipul Pal wrote

Re: Help - WordPerfect still doesn't work (nor does Netscape)

2000-08-09 Thread USM Bish
If it is WordPerfect8 that you are talking of, and Netscape 4.x then the most like;y source of problem is non-availability of xpm4.7 library on your system. Just install this library from the oldlibs section, and things should be fine. USM Bish India

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Li

2000-08-11 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > > I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this: > > > > Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7, > > and Win-98, (and BeOS ti

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Linux machine

2000-08-11 Thread USM Bish
some0ne who uses Samba can throw some light. I am just as curious to know about it as you. USM Bish On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, you wrote: > >%_I apologize, I may have not made it very clear that they are two, totally > >separate machines that I am trying to connect. That is what I meant by

Re: pgp

2000-08-11 Thread USM Bish
All packages of debian are listed at this URL: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/allpackages.html USM Bish On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Chris Nestrud wrote: > Greetings. I'm trying to find a Debian package for pgp. Other packages > requiring pgp have referred to such a package, but

Re: how to "remove" Xfree?

2001-02-16 Thread USM Bish
01xdm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc3.d/S99xdm /etc/rc4.d/S99xdm /etc/rc5.d/S99xdm /etc/rc6.d/K01xdm You will boot into tty mode therafter, and would have to use "startx" subsequently to get into "X". USM Bish

Re: real unsubscribing problems

2001-02-17 Thread USM Bish
I am leaving town for two weeks ... Unsuscribed about 20 min back using the usual blank message as described below all mails. Confirmation msg was received within 5 min .. No problems at the debain-user end .. at least for today. Will be with you again ... shortly USM Bish On Fri

Re: how to remove auto start to X

2001-02-17 Thread USM Bish
my personal views though. USM Bish On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:02:03AM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: > If you prefer a simpler method simply use dselect to uninstall xdm or > whatever X login you are using. When you come up in a console mode > launch X using startx. &g

Re: sis6215c

2000-10-15 Thread USM Bish
comment any further. HTH. USM Bish On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:33:30AM +0300, vivi wrote: > I need this driver for linux because i don't have it... and i hope that > you can help me > mail me >

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread USM Bish
d do your job ! USM Bish On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:36:05PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list > only the directories in a directory. It should have similar > functionality to the ls command. E.g. > &g

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-18 Thread USM Bish
ctory listings from the present working directory: a) alias lsd='ls -d */' b) alias lst='tree -d | less' Other options would be to use dedicated scripts for the purpose, or filter a ls -R output through grep or sed etc. Some suggestions have already come on the lis

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread USM Bish
ore than 1 year old!} [The above lines have been captured using script]. Interesting eh ? USM Bish On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:34:07AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > The format files should be in the texmf/web2c subdirectory. Have > you run texconfig? > > I

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-21 Thread USM Bish
.DOC format. > > What about LyX. > > -- Andre Lyx is only a GUI frontend to Latex and takes away the pains of hand coding all the Latex tags and keywords. USM Bish

Re: Introduction.

2000-10-22 Thread USM Bish
rogram,which gives you all the functions you need to monitor an ISP line. Features include connect notification, IP address, current speed, top speed, online time, Tx and Rx packets, bytes received/ transmitted and errors.You can have this running constantly either on a console or on an x-term throughout your net sojourn. I can mail the source tarball in personal mail (13322 bytes). USM Bish

Re: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address'

2000-10-22 Thread USM Bish
Check dmesg. Re-confirm where your lp device is polled. USM Bish On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:35:59AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', > > att

Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter

2000-10-23 Thread USM Bish
quot;/opt/bin" is on my default path set in /etc/profile of both systems. USM Bish On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:34:07PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Another question (It's half off-topic, I know): > I'm installing Red Hat. Is there anyone that has 2 different linu

Re: switching virtual terminals

2000-10-28 Thread USM Bish
Is it "konsole" that you are thinking of ? Just reconfirm this [Ctrl-Alt-Arrow keys] aspect, because I think konsole uses [Shift - Arrow Keys] for VT switching. USM Bish

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread USM Bish
000. Need to give this a try though. > You might even want to do a "chown" to a > dummy user for this purpose. > > Shandar > You need root privileges for this (I suppose). USM Bish

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread USM Bish
update-rc.d again ! (Pl check the man) HTH USM Bish On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:19:27AM -0800, Jim Merante wrote: > Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the > boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows > command? > > (BTW, if I have posted this on a non-

Re: man page question

2000-10-31 Thread USM Bish
May I refer you to Issue 32 of Linux Gazette for which there is a detailed description about how you can make one using pod2man (if you have Perl => 5.004). The URL is ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue32.tar.gz USM Bish On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:50:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-11-01 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:55:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > > Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards. > > Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_, > specifically those which ha

Opera for Linux

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
ource utilisation, speed, customisation, java support, plug-in support, glitches etc would be welcome. Thanks. USM Bish

Re: Printer & DOC's

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
and use a browser: > > lynx http://localhost/doc/ > > Luck, > Pann > -- With apache installed, dwww is another option where not only the /usr/doc, but also man and info pages can be viewed. USM Bish

Alternate method (was Re: Presentation software)

2000-11-03 Thread USM Bish
ng it to the list to generate a concensus for non-proprietary computing (regarding which all of us are aware) ... and with the hope that somebody with programming skills capable of taking on such a project is listening ! USM Bish On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:29:45PM +0100, Helgi Örn wrote: >

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-04 Thread USM Bish
irements even in the present state As the README file states "Expect these to be fixed soon" ! Once these rough edges are smoothened, may surely be worth it. Putting it to the list for general info ... USM Bish On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:11:02PM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: >

Re: Opera for Linux

2000-11-05 Thread USM Bish
WAP market! USM Bish - [LG Issue 59] -- Sept. 25, 2000: Opera Software, PalmPalm Technology Inc., and Trolltech announce the formation of a strategic alliance for the Asian wireless Linux market. The companies will jointly develop "Linux Total So

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread USM Bish
meone please point me to one? > Check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org, http://www.linuxstart.com USM Bish

Re: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version

2000-11-09 Thread USM Bish
-boot mail list ? HTH USM Bish On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:44:34AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > I am interested in creating my own boot-floppies > Primarily so i can change some of the text messages and > change some of the menu options. Ideally I would like > to create a single b

ISP accounting software

2000-11-13 Thread USM Bish
resource hungry on my anaemic system. USM Bish

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-17 Thread USM Bish
!!! Recommendation: Do an apt-get for efax. USM Bish On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:49:56AM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > dear deb-users, > > I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send > faxes from my box (but I don't really have to recieve them). >

Re: emai client

2000-11-19 Thread USM Bish
r processing the same. TkRat, postillion and balsa work fine for mail downloaded with fetchmail. USM Bish

Re: ISP accounting software

2000-11-19 Thread USM Bish
uccess so far. > > I have evolved my own over the years and intend to package it > one day. > Would love to give it a try. > --markc Thanks USM Bish

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-20 Thread USM Bish
-o1 \ -t T633222 letter.001 letter.002 And there are similar one liners which will retreive fax for you too . The man pages are adequate to get you going quickly .. HTH USM Bish

Re: No 's' key after logon

2000-11-20 Thread USM Bish
started going loco .. Tried a whole lot of keycode= and all sort of monkey tricks No joy. The good old screwdriver finally set everything right. Lessons learnt : 1. No smoking at the keyboard. 2. Hardware is just as flaky as software (specially if M$ came pre-loaded). 3. Screwdriver may work where fsck fails. USM Bish

Re: another modem question

2000-11-20 Thread USM Bish
there are no AT commands which can achieve this. In any case I am sending an attachment of all modem "AT" commands known to me in your personal mail (modem.gz). After gunzipping it is over 25k long. HTH USM Bish

Re: I want out!

2000-11-22 Thread USM Bish
ux) I am prepared to send you a perl script which can send such mail directly using your SMTP address and is independent of configured mailing systems, be it DOS/Windows or Linux. In any case you can always "unsuscribe" through the links at debian.org, Can't you ? HTH USM Bish

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-11-22 Thread USM Bish
anything else. HTH USM Bish On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:58:53AM +0100, Pierre Filippi wrote: > Hello, > I want to say that I don' t understand why I can' t go away, i must install > debian to > unsubscribe!!!:-) > I have never saw a list from which i can't go away, it

Re: Potato install termwrap problem

2000-12-02 Thread USM Bish
this termwrap issue ! Need some help in this regard. Thanks. USM Bish On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brian Lavender wrote: > I just installed the base system of potato from the binary-i386 iso > image disk 1. Once it goes through the install of the base system, > I get the following erro

Extracting .tar.gz from .deb

2000-12-04 Thread USM Bish
I am lookinf for an alternate method of extracting basic .tar.gz component from a debian package (.deb). Alien often fails in this process, though the reverse usually works fine. TIA USM Bish

Re: Extracting .tar.gz from .deb

2000-12-04 Thread USM Bish
Thanks Justin and Eric, ar vx FileName.deb works like a charm, a data.tar.gz is extracted to current dir, and can be renamed. Just learnt that dpkg --extract calls dpkg-deb. This needs a target dir ... works fine, otherwise. USM Bish On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:33:45AM -0800, Eric G . Miller

Unidentified subject!

2000-12-06 Thread USM Bish
KDE and QT libs, not installed in potato. HTH USM Bish

Re: No available ptys

2001-01-21 Thread USM Bish
oes one go about sorting the problem out ? USM Bish On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:20:40 +0100 "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 20:38:57 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The error message I receive is "xterm: no available p

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:29:09 -0500 (EST) "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for this post. Just downloaded it last night. Scarcely 70 kb. Excellent ! USM Bish > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > -|hi, how is it possible to tripple bo

What is bounce-debian-user ?

2001-02-01 Thread USM Bish
his bounce-debian-user is ? TIA USM Bish > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:14:27 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: External ISDN device > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > R

What is bounce-debian-user ?

2001-02-01 Thread USM Bish
his bounce-debian-user is ? TIA USM Bish > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:14:27 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: External ISDN device > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > R

What is bounce-debian-user ?

2001-02-01 Thread USM Bish
his bounce-debian-user is ? TIA USM Bish > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:14:27 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: External ISDN device > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > R

Re: Newbie vs Printer Setup

2001-02-01 Thread USM Bish
from the storm server or one of its mirrors. USM Bish

Re: SiS 5597/5598 Video Card

2001-02-04 Thread USM Bish
6 AGP, SiS 530/620, SiS 540/630 and SiS 300. The other SiS chipsets are supported by the xserver-svga X server. USM Bish On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 19:04:48 -0500 "Keith & Cecile Schooley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed Potato (first time using Linux). I

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