Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Marie Fischer
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Cat wrote: > When I get that 'ansi' message, I type: > > TERM=vt100;export TERM > > This will change your term type to vt100 for the duration of your session, > and allow you to use pine. (At least it has always worked for me :-). And if it does work, you might as well pu

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
(just thought of something ;o)) If it's a constant nuisance you might also put it in your .profile or .bashrc. Works for me :o) I had to do it on my university's server 'cause it doesn't like termtype 'linux'. -nicole Cat wrote: > Anyway, the only shell account I log into that don't already have

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > (just thought of something ;o)) If it's a constant nuisance you might > also put it in your .profile or .bashrc. Works for me :o) I had to do it > on my university's server 'cause it doesn't like termtype 'linux'. > > -nicole Well, the better way is (or ask your sysadmi

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Not if it's not your server :o) -nicole Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > > Well, the better way is (or ask your sysadmin) to add linux in terminfo and/or > termcap databases. This is fairly simple. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
(and the sysadmin isn't responsive/conducive/says they have "reasons") -nicole (again) Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > Not if it's not your server :o) > > -nicole > > Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > > > > Well, the better way is (or ask your sysadmin) to add linux in terminfo and/or > > termcap databases.

Re: [techtalk] Foreign keyboards in X?

1999-12-17 Thread sara korhonen
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, 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 > have ? at _, /

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

1999-12-17 Thread Ian Phillips
> Could you specify what you mean with "more smoothly" -- I don't want to > sound hostile, I'm just interested. Hey, I upgraded a running system from > libc5 to glibc with RPM, if that isn't smooth, what else? Admittedly, I > had to reboot to get the glibc version of init running instead of the ol

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage) + new vi question

1999-12-17 Thread Cat
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Cat wrote: > > > When I get that 'ansi' message, I type: > > > > TERM=vt100;export TERM > > > > This will change your term type to vt100 for the duration of your session, > > and allow you to use pine. (At least it has always worked for me :-). > > And if it does work,

Re: [techtalk] Port Entender

1999-12-17 Thread Tech Docs
Folks How do I make the port extender work in Linux? I am running Linux on IBM Thinkpad I 1400 series. Any clues? I have just started off setting up Linux on laptop. Moreover any good documents on Satan? Cheers! Sriram __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousa

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage) + new vi question

1999-12-17 Thread Jenn V.
Cat wrote: > > Speaking of vi and terms, I have a question. What makes it so vi messes > up on some servers only some of the time? It /sounds/ like a termtype problem - curses misinterpreting your terminal window. Jenn V. -- "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.