Re: [techtalk] POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Kudlak
"Jenn V." wrote: > Di Gregory wrote: > > > > SO how do I have a POP email account if I can't dial up into the account > > directly. I couldn't get the POP email to work when I set up my old > > roommate's I -THINK- because our dialup was a local provider, the pop > > email was through school (

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Tech Docs
yes I am typing pine in lower case only and I am able to locate pine as well. But, I remember someone using it with option "export pine" set and so on. I don't remember how he did it. I have mailed him several times and ever since he went to America, he has not replied at all :-) Cheers! Sriram

Re: [techtalk] POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Kudlak
Samantha Jo Moore wrote: > > First: > > My work email is irrevelant. > > Got that. > > > Second: > > It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP. > ... snip ... > > Does this make any more sense? > Yep, its what I should have said. When breaking the various things but setti

RE: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread Ian Phillips
> IMO, debian has a better package manager. It also has about 3000 What's better about it? I know (roughly) how RPM works and what features it offers, but what advantages does dpkg give me? Apart from better quality control ;-) Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include |

[techtalk] dosemu and KDE

1999-12-16 Thread Cathy James
Last night I attempted to use dosemu on OpenLinux 2.2 for the first time. Typing "dos" gives me a DOS window, but it isn't running DOS -- it's running some weird kind of cut-down DR-DOS 7.03, and it can't see my FAT32 drives, even though they are mounted in Linux. A documentation file was refer

RE: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread Theresa Radke
I've only been using it for a week or so, but I think $~ apt-get install is my friend!! _ SignUP For your CorelCity FREE email at http://www.corelcity.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: jokes!

1999-12-16 Thread Shirrell
DO NOT DO THIS --- techtalk is not for jokes -- PARTICULARLY STUPID BLONDE JOKES !!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > [1] I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there.. Yes, here. And it makes perfect sense to use UUCP on Linux instead of POP. With UUCP I have "my own" mail domain and can setup any number of accounts if I wish. If there are mails addre

[techtalk] Re: Distributed Projects + Jokes

1999-12-16 Thread coder
Allright, a few other distributed computing projects which may or may not be of interest: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: http://entropia.com/ips/ Distributed .Net (already mentioned, but they have other projects aside from RC5) http://www.distributed.net/ And of course, SETI: http://set

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: jokes!

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Kudlak
Shirrell wrote: > DO NOT DO THIS --- techtalk is not for jokes -- PARTICULARLY > STUPID BLONDE JOKES !!! > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org Yes! Please techtalk is so far (thank whatever beings) free from arguments! This is a major blessing. It is hard to be techni

RE: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Cathy James
Title: RE: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail >On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: >> [1] I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there.. >Yes, here. I ran UUCP for years on Linux.  It works fine.  Unless you need SLIP/PPP capability, there's little reason to upgrade.  

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: jokes!

1999-12-16 Thread J B
You must be blondeno offense, but did we hit a nerve?? DO NOT DO THIS --- techtalk is not for jokes -- PARTICULARLY STUPID BLONDE JOKES !!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http

RE: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Cathy James
>On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: >>I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there.. >Yes, here. I ran UUCP for years on Linux. It works fine. Unless you need SLIP/PPP capability, there's little reason to upgrade. --Cathy James [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [techtalk] update

1999-12-16 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Dec 15, Robert Kiesling conjectured: > I'm not sure about the masquerading because my systems are the proxy > server type. But I'm sure I could help config the ppp. Depends on > whether your using the standard /etc/ppp/ system-wide files or a > wrapper like kppp. I'm using the /etc/ppp stu

RE: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Cathy James wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > >>I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there.. > > >Yes, here. > > I ran UUCP for years on Linux. It works fine. Unless you need > SLIP/PPP capability, there's little reason to upgra

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Tech Docs
Friends... let me be very specific about my pine problem. On the machine things work fine and perfect. When I give a telnet and then use Pine it says ansi not set and Pine cannot run. I checked my Telnet mode and I do not find anything unusual. What could be the problem? How do I use Pine in this

Re: [techtalk] Suggestions Please

1999-12-16 Thread Tech Docs
Friends: I have registered a site - ConnectSolutions.net quite recently. I would like to dedicate this site for Linux. But, there are so many sites which give information on Linux. I would like to be a little different. I love this site linuxchix and the whole concept is so different. I welcom

Re: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:16:32 +0100 (CET), Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Anyway when I'm out of college I'm gonna have to find a provider that >lets me do UUCP instead of POP/IMAP. Not that it's of much help to you in Europe, but I've been VERY pleased with my UUCP feed from crnet.n

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:55:43PM -0800 or thereabouts, Tech Docs wrote: > Friends... let me be very specific about my pine problem. On the machine Good plan, cos I -think- I recognise the error message :) > things work fine and perfect. When I give a telnet and then use Pine it says > ansi not

Re: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:23:24AM -0500 or thereabouts, Cathy James wrote: > >On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > >>I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there.. [lost attribution, sorry] > >Yes, here. > > I ran UUCP for years on Linux. It works fine. Unless you need

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Dec 16, Tech Docs conjectured: > Friends... let me be very specific about my pine problem. On the machine > things work fine and perfect. When I give a telnet and then use Pine it says > ansi not set and Pine cannot run. I checked my Telnet mode and I do not find > anything unusual. What could

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Tech Docs
Thanks a million Telsa Your suggestion has worked for me. Cheers! Sriram - Original Message - From: Telsa Gwynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:55:43PM -0800 or the

Re: [techtalk] C and Perl Documents

1999-12-16 Thread Tech Docs
Any clues on best links for C and Perl programming? Cheers! Sriram __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.

[techtalk] Re: M$ Outlook Express Mail-- to Linux(?)

1999-12-16 Thread The Cat In The Hat
A friend of mine used the info he got from this link to transfer his mail over. http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/970709-1.html CatNTHat >Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:59:45 -0800 >From: "Jennifer Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: M$ Outlook Express Mail-- to Linux(?) > >Hi! I am currently

[techtalk] re: jokes

1999-12-16 Thread Kimberly Fish
Caitlyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but this *bothers* me. Does anyone else feel the same way? I wrote: No. The jokes may not be politically correct (ugh, I dislike that expression) but it was a mistake. Shall we leave it at that? Kimberly Fish Application Engineer Creative Shack P

Re: [techtalk] C and Perl Documents

1999-12-16 Thread Davida Schiff
http://www.perl.com/ http://www.perlmonth.com/index.html?issue=7&id=945373223 Here are 2 Perl Links. Also O'Reilly's Perl Cookbook is an excellent resource. -Original Message- From: Tech Docs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999

RE: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread sara korhonen
> > IMO, debian has a better package manager. It also has about 3000 > What's better about it? I know (roughly) how RPM works and what features it offers, >but what advantages does dpkg give me? Apart from better quality control ;-) i never got really convinced about debians package manager s

Re: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Jenn V.
Nils Philippsen wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > > > [1] I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there.. > > Yes, here. And it makes perfect sense to use UUCP on Linux instead of POP. > With UUCP I have "my own" mail domain and can setup any number of accou

Re: [techtalk] update

1999-12-16 Thread Jenn V.
Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > > On Dec 15, Robert Kiesling conjectured: > > > I'm not sure about the masquerading because my systems are the proxy > > server type. But I'm sure I could help config the ppp. Depends on > > whether your using the standard /etc/ppp/ system-wide fi

Re: [techtalk] update

1999-12-16 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Dec 17, Jenn V. conjectured: > Can you listen to the modem and watch the lights - do they > change? Does the modem react at all to the initialisation > string? Have you power cycled the modem a few times (leaving > it off long enough for its ram to clear - twenty seconds > should be enough

Re: [techtalk] C and Perl Documents

1999-12-16 Thread Tech Docs
thank you Daivda. Cheers! Sriram - Original Message - From: Davida Schiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] C and Perl Documents > http://www.perl.com/ > http://www.perlmonth.com/index.html?issue=7&id=945373

Re: [techtalk] dosemu and KDE

1999-12-16 Thread Cynthia Dale
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Cathy James wrote: > Last night I attempted to use dosemu on OpenLinux 2.2 > for the first time. Typing "dos" gives me a DOS window, > but it isn't running DOS -- it's running some weird kind > of cut-down DR-DOS 7.03, and it can't see my FAT32 > drives, even though they are

Re: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 16-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] X in Corel v.. by "Ian Phillips"@tibco.com > What's better about it? I know (roughly) how RPM works and what > features it offers, but what advantages does dpkg give me? One of the big things I like about debian is apt-get. No need to look throu

Re: [techtalk] M$ Outlook Express Mail-- to Linux(?)

1999-12-16 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Hi! I am currently running RedHat 6.0 on one computer, and Windows 98 on > another. I currently use Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 to check my mail. > > I'd like to change over to an email program on my Linux system--probably > Pine, for starters. I don't want to lose my folders in OE, however.

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Alain Toussaint
Tech Docs wrote: > > Newbie here. > > How do I invoke and start using Pine when I telnet to some server? Any > clues! telnet to server in question then run pine,that's it. > Cheers! > Sriram see ya Alaim [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] CDROM help

1999-12-16 Thread Geoffrey Makstutis
Hi, I've got SUSE6.3 on a KMD A-6 system with a Samsung DVD-ROM. Everything was working fine, but suddenly I can only mount CD's intermittently. Yast sometimes can find the source medium, but many times cannot. If I try to mount the cd manually (mount /cdrom) either command line or in KDE, the sys

[techtalk] Foreign keyboards in X?

1999-12-16 Thread Sunnanvind
Hello everybody (this might be a resend, my email program is superweird). My swedish keyboard works super in the text mode, but less grand in X. Can anyone please tell me how to remedy this? Needless to say, it is quite annoying to have ? at _, / at - and so on. Yours, Sunnan -- http://home.swip

Re: [techtalk] Foreign keyboards in X?

1999-12-16 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:29:43AM +0100 or thereabouts, Sunnanvind wrote: > Hello everybody (this might be a resend, my email program is superweird). My Didn't see an earlier one. > swedish keyboard works super in the text mode, but less grand in X. Can > anyone please tell me how to remedy th

[techtalk] forwarded bounce (was "Fwd: jokes!")

1999-12-16 Thread Deb Richardson
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:09:14 -0500 > From: Caitlyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: NetFerrets > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Fwd: jokes! > > IMHO, this is not appropriate (and way off topic) for techtalk. I get enough > garbage in my inbox now, and if I want mo

[techtalk] forwarded bounce, was "DVD-ROM on Linux"

1999-12-16 Thread Deb Richardson
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:16:13 -0600 (CST) > From: Di Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux? > > I have a question... > I have a compaq presario laptop, which came with a dvd player, and the > copy of windows + programs (junk) that comes

Re: [techtalk] Foreign keyboards in X?

1999-12-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:29:43AM +0100, Sunnanvind wrote: > Hello everybody (this might be a resend, my email program is superweird). My > swedish keyboard works super in the text mode, but less grand in X. Can anyone > please tell me how to remedy this? Needless to say, it is quite annoying to

Re: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jenn V. wrote: > Nils Philippsen wrote: > > Yes, here. And it makes perfect sense to use UUCP on Linux instead of POP. > > With UUCP I have "my own" mail domain and can setup any number of accounts > > if I wish. > > Ditto with SMTP, actually. Which is what Laurel had indica

[techtalk] Package managers, was: X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sounddriver)

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: [Talking about the Debian package manager(s)] > Of the things specific to the packaging system: > > divert: you can tell the package manager not to touch a file Neat. > old conffiles: dpkg asks you if you want to replace or keep an old > conffile (or diff

Re: [techtalk] update

1999-12-16 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Alas, tis an internal OEM with no documentation. It's an old USRobotics > Sportster 56K internal. i have an internal sportster 33.6 modem currently,would you like that i share my configurations files (but then,i dunno if they will apply directly since i'm on debian and you're using RH,but stil

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-16 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Correct. I have never understood why winmodems exist at all. They > make no sense at all from any standpoint I can think of, except > perhaps Intel's bottom line. and mickeysoft bottom line too (how many users of winmodem complain they don't work in linux and continue using windoze). Alain

Re: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread Alain Toussaint
Caitlyn Martin wrote: > > Hi, Theresa, > > > Oh, RH was not pre-installed, it came on a CD as the operating system for the box. > They said they could not install linux on the system as it was too difficult. > > With all due respect, Red Hat is not a terribly difficult installation, particular

Re: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread Alain Toussaint
Ian Phillips wrote: > > > IMO, debian has a better package manager. It also has about 3000 > > What's better about it? I know (roughly) how RPM works and what features it offers, >but what advantages does dpkg give me? Apart from better quality control ;-) > > Yours, > Ian. in that case,i th

[techtalk] The Case of the Accidentally Forwarded Joke

1999-12-16 Thread Deb Richardson
Folks, we all make mistakes. Please let this issue drop now, thanks. - deb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-16 Thread Cat
> > try 'echo $TERM' to see what your terminal setting is. > then try 'export $TERM=vt100' to set it to vt100. > If that doesn't work, try another telnet program or contact your provider. > Or use ssh. (A decent windows ssh app is 'secure crt.' I don't remember > where to find it, and I don't

[techtalk] what are all these forwarded bounces?

1999-12-16 Thread Deb Richardson
When I first set up these lists, I set the configuration so that any su*bscription or un*su*bscription request that was sent to the actual lists would be bounced to my inbox, rather than sent to all of you. That was all well and good. Some stuff on the server that hosts LinuxChix.org has recentl