[techtalk] How to make man pages?

2000-07-06 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm working on a program and I would like to create man pages for it. Does anyone know where I could find a document that outlines how to create one (or several)? I'm totally lost. :^( Thanks in advance, Stephan ___ techtalk mailing list [

Re: [techtalk] 3Com OfficeConnect Card?

2000-06-08 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
odule is very easy to find, they are very common > cards. > > -nicole > > Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > > > > I'm setting up Red Hat Linux on a computer in my mom's > store, and > > I'm now trying to get networking setup. The problem

[techtalk] 3Com OfficeConnect Card?

2000-06-07 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm setting up Red Hat Linux on a computer in my mom's store, and I'm now trying to get networking setup. The problem, it's got a 3Com OfficeConnect Ethernet card (3CSOHO100-TX) and I can't find the driver for this card in the kernel or any reference to it in any howtos. Anyone know if I

Re: [techtalk] Linux Barcode Scanner & Printer

2000-06-01 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Thank you Mary, Magni, and Ian! :^) It looks like the keyboard scanner will do the job (and with the least amount of hassle, I hope ;^). I did a search on Freshmeat and found the GNU-barcode, but now my question is, what printer do I need to get so it will work with Linux? I could proba

Re: [techtalk] How to setup my own listserv?

2000-06-01 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 03:28:29 +1000, Jenn V. said: > > > Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > > > > I'm trying to setup a listserv using Mailman. Do I need to > > install some sort of sendmail type program, or can I just install > > Mailman? It's

[techtalk] How to setup my own listserv?

2000-05-31 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm trying to setup a listserv using Mailman. Do I need to install some sort of sendmail type program, or can I just install Mailman? It's a Red Hat 6.2 box connected to the Internet with it's own IP and domain name. Users on the box don't need e-mail accounts (they can ssh into another

[techtalk] Linux Barcode Scanner & Printer

2000-05-30 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Could someone please point me towards information on bar code scanners and printers that work under Linux? (Specifically Red Hat 6.1). A little while back I convinced my mom to have some of the computers in her store converted to Linux, and now she wants to start bar coding her invent

[techtalk] Linux Barcode Scanner & Printer

2000-05-24 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Could someone please point me towards information on bar code scanners and printers that work under Linux? (Specifically Red Hat 6.1). A little while back I convinced my mom to have some of the computers in her store converted to Linux, and now she wants to start bar coding her invent

Re: [techtalk] stuck with TCP/IP, win98 and linux

2000-05-14 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm not sure if this is the "proper" way of doing it, but I setup a Samba server and followed the instructions from that. (You can get the instructions from: http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelburns/samba.html Chapter 3 has info on how to setup Windows machines.) Hope this h

[techtalk] Good AGP Video Card?

2000-04-01 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm looking for a decent AGP video card that will work very well with XFree86 3.3.6. I currently have a Voodoo Banshee that is not fully supported even though the compatibility site says it's supposed to be. I've been fiddling with it for the past year now and I'm tired of it. I'm g

Re: [techtalk] xseti

2000-03-01 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
There are actually several 'xseti's (by different names of course ;^) Some of the seti distributions contain an "xsetiathome" program (e.g. setiathome-2.0.i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar has it, but setiathome-2.0.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar doesn't). Other choices are:

Re: [techtalk] Can I change my mind now??

2000-02-28 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Two ways (that I know of ;^) that you can do this. It sounds like you're booting into init level 5 (graphical login). (Note: These instructions are for Red Hat so they _should_ work for Mandrake) You can either edit /etc/inittab. Find the line "id:5:initdefault:" and change the 5

[techtalk] GMC won't open files (repost)

2000-02-18 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm sorry to re-post this, but it's very difficult working in Gnome without "double click" support. I'm sure it's a stupid configuration problem somewhere (that's what all of my problems so far have turned out to be), but I can't find it and no one else seems to know what I'm talking

[techtalk] GMC won't open files

2000-02-12 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm running Red Hat 6.0, October Gnome, kernel 2.2.14. For some reason, when I double click on a file (say a .txt file) in gmc (gmc-4.5.42-2) that file doesn't open in the program it's setup for (xemacs). If I go to the command line and type "xemacs file.txt" it works fine. Note, this i

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] CD-R Problems

2000-01-22 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
[grrltalk] First, sorry for posting this to grrltalk originally. :^[ It was late, I was tired and frustrated, and I didn't look where I was sending it. Sorry. [techtalk] Second, thanks for the help! :^) I added: append="hdc=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf and then I tried to ac

[techtalk] News Reader Question

2000-01-13 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I have just switched over to xrn as my news reader, but I had been using K-news (and before that X-News under Windows :^). Both news readers think my e-mail is login@localhost. How do I change this to my correct e-mail address? (And I don't want to re-type it every time I'm going to sen

Re: [techtalk] Samba question

1999-12-13 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
You might want to check in the Win95 Network properties that Client for MS Networks, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI, and your ethernet adapter are all listed under Network - Configuration and you might need to Primary Network Logon as Client for MS Networks. Also, if you haven't checked it out, try

[techtalk] Multiple Languages on one box

1999-12-11 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm running Red Hat 6.0, kernel 2.2.12, with October GNOME and XFree86 3.3.4. I would like to setup one user account that would be all French (I'm planning on learning it, currently everything is English). This would mean all display messages for all programs (if possible) would be in Fr

[techtalk] Thanks! and PDF files

1999-11-12 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
To all who helped on the GPL question, thanks!!! :^) :^) I presented the option today so now it's out of my hands, for a while anyway. Now I have a new question. (This one's for my own comp :^) Does anyone know where I can get a tool to (easily) create PDF files in Linux? (Not

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
At 03:09 AM 11/12/99 +, you wrote: >Um. How do you simultaneously use function calls to a piece of code and >not use that code? I mean no GPLed source code would be embedded in the proprietary code. I was thinking something similar to the Windows API. (Sorry for the analogy, but I've

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Cathy and Michelle, thanks for the help on this!!! :^) :^) Hopefully I won't be pushing my luck with this next set of questions. I read through the GPL and at the end it says that GPLed programs are not allowed to be incorporated into proprietary systems. I was planning on publi

[techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Ok, I'm not sure if this should be asked here or in issues I'm working on a project that will consist of a database (IBM-DB2), and some home-brewed Java 1.1 applets and servlet(s?). I'm interested in licensing these under the terms of the GPL, but I remember hearing somewhere that Ja

Re: [techtalk] partitions etc

1999-10-30 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
As far as the partitioning goes, I use Partition Magic 4.0. (5.0 has just been released) It's a win program, but it handles Linux partitions nicely (so long as you're not trying to modify the partition the kernel is on). (PM costs about $70 US or about $30 US for the upgrade) Product inf

Re: [techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel under RedHat 6.1

1999-10-26 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I guess I missed it. > > Norma >*Insert witty message here!* >- Original Message - >From: Stephan Zaniolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:34 PM >Subject: Re: [techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel u

Re: ethernet cable length [techtalk]

1999-10-26 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
A quote from : http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/400317a.html#graphic4 All OfficeConnect Fast Ethernet hubs are Class II. You can directly connect two Class II Fast Ethernet hubs (Class I hubs cannot be directly connected to other Fast Ethernet hubs). The total length of cable

Re: [techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel under RedHat 6.1

1999-10-26 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I once heard that you need to activate SCSI emulation in the kernel (I didn't see that in dmesg printout) to use the parallel port Zip drive. (I have a SCSI Zip drive, so I didn't have to deal with this). Caitlyn, is this is accurate or not? Good luck, :^) Stephan At 03:41 PM 10/26/99

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Hopefully this will help. I have Red Hat 6.0, GNOME, kernel 2.2.12, HP DeskJet 895cse connected to the parallel port. Because I upgraded my kernel, I had to compile in support for the parallel port. (Don't know if the rpm kernel has this built in). I ran the printtool and selected the

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...What's Your Favorite color??

1999-10-16 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Where can I find this RED BOOK? Thanks, Stephan At 07:54 AM 10/16/99 -0400, you wrote: >At 02:31 AM 10/16/99 -0400, you wrote: >>Has Anyone Read the RED BOOK (not the mag:) the DOD's read NSAs security >>manual, and does it have useful material better that the standard Network >>Security

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-13 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
I'm not sure if this will help, but I had this same problem (GNOME, RH 6.0, Netscape 4.61). After I installed the Blackdown 1.1.7 JDK (and put it in my PATH), Netscape now works flawlessly with Java. (Well, I haven't noticed any problems yet, and I develop applets as well). Hope this he