I don't know whether newer distributions would work on a machine like yours (I'd recommend to upgrade the RAM if by any means possible). Red Hat, SuSE or...
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Peter Brayman
pete_emt
May 2, 2002 11:27 pm
Actually a big problem with Windows/Unix interoperability is the way they handle line breaks. Unix (vim/emacs) likes just a plain CR (but will deal with CR/LF...
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Cameron Simpson
cameron_simpson
May 3, 2002 12:00 am
... [... several likely answers ...] ... Dunno. Provided you had a meaningful subject line and clear queries, it's usually fine. But consider the possibility...
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Scott
catbit_1999
May 3, 2002 12:09 am
On 23:10 2002/05/02 +0000, horrorvacui1 wrote ... LOL--I don't know if you're very droll, or I'm simply suffering from lack of sleep, but that quite literally...
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Scott
catbit_1999
May 3, 2002 12:12 am
On 19:26 2002/05/02 -0400, Peter Brayman wrote ... Yeah, that's what I thought the other post was saying, I'll have to check it. The formula by the way (though...
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Matt Neimeyer
mneimeyer
May 3, 2002 12:53 am
Long story short... I need to edit the crontab on a basic RedHat 7.2 install... I know that I can do that using CRONTAB -e Great. Only problem (and I've...
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Brian L. Johnson
blj8
May 3, 2002 1:49 am
... Well, if you haven't specified otherwise, crontab's default editor is vi. The keystrokes to save and exit in vi are [esc] : w q [enter] -=Brian L. Johnson,...
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j
justo222
May 3, 2002 5:26 am
thanks to all who have responded. good to know i really haven't done s.thing in ignorance (at least to the list <LOL>). since i've got so many responses to...
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j
justo222
May 3, 2002 5:26 am
i have had a couple of people ask that i try re-submitting my question, so here it is. i've re-read thru the original post and didn't know how to re-word it...
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j
justo222
May 3, 2002 5:26 am
as w/my other question re: CUPS, i've been asked to re-post this question. i'm using suse 7.1 pro. using a GUI filemanager, i was looking at a directory that...
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Cameron Simpson
cameron_simpson
May 3, 2002 5:57 am
... Depending on the GUI, this may not matter. Supposing the file had mode 0444 (-r--r--r-- = read only). A simple piece of code which examined the file and...
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Godwin Stewart
grschinon
May 3, 2002 9:19 am
On Thu, 2 May 2002 19:26:54 -0400, "Peter Brayman" <peteb@...> wrote ... Actually it's a LF (0x0A) in the *nix world. It's a CR (0x0D) on a Mac platform,...
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Godwin Stewart
grschinon
May 3, 2002 9:22 am
On Thu, 2 May 2002 19:42:01 -0600 (MDT), "Brian L. Johnson" <blj8@...> ... Or [esc] : x [enter] IIRC... At least that's what worked with the vi in...
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horrorvacui1
May 3, 2002 11:45 am
... lack ... Yes, I was laughing out loud the first time I heard about it myself. You might find it even funnier that on many Linux conventions, Cult of Vi vs....
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Andres Rosado-Sepulveda
a_rosados
May 3, 2002 12:50 pm
... What's the actual processor. The fairly easy distros will not run on very old machines. ... Andrés Rosado-Sepúlveda Electrical Engineering Student ...
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Andres Rosado-Sepulveda
a_rosados
May 3, 2002 12:57 pm
... For Windows, several. Metapad can save as DOS, UNIX and Unicode formats. ... <joke>What's your problem with me? </joke> ... That's exactly what the EMACS...
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Joseph Barney
linuxalien
May 3, 2002 3:40 pm
If that doesn't work, try "Escape, :w <enter>" and then try "escape, :q <enter>". That's how it works in some distros like SuSE. Joe Godwin Stewart...
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Joseph Barney
linuxalien
May 3, 2002 4:11 pm
I don't know the answer, but if no one here can help you I would suggest trying www.linuxnewbie.org since they are pretty popular. Joe j <justo@...>...
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El Angel Gris
amgelgris
May 3, 2002 5:02 pm
... Just to add, [esc] : x [enter] does exactly the same. One character is saved. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
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Tom Alderweireldt
talderw
May 3, 2002 7:01 pm
Hello, On a RH 7.2 machine, I tried to set up a printerqueue with the X printerconfiguration gui in Gnome. That worked fine, I found my printertype and could...
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Jerry Stevens
acetoo2000
May 3, 2002 7:39 pm
The duplex option is greyed out because whoever wrote the driver knew about the option but hasn't implemented it yet. I have the same problem with my Epson...
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Jerry Stevens
acetoo2000
May 3, 2002 7:43 pm
First do a simple test. <crtl><alt><F1> login as root ls -l /etc/cups/printers.conf Do you have r/w access here? Have fun:-) Jerry...
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Chad Martin
tharasix
May 3, 2002 8:55 pm
... Did you set your printer to LOCAL or LPD? If you didn't set it to LOCAL, go back into the printer configuration and do that, then give it a shot. Chad...
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Cameron Simpson
cameron_simpson
May 3, 2002 9:49 pm
... And the reason cron does talk about specific editors is that the user can use any editor he/she prefers by setting $EDITOR. ... ZZ is even faster. -- ...
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Eric Levinson
elevinapa
May 4, 2002 1:14 am
Try checking the permissions on the file. Even if you are root, if the permissions are 000 then you won't be able to access the file. ... From: j...
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Eric Levinson
elevinapa
May 4, 2002 1:20 am
For your second question, check the path statement. If . is not in the root path then that will give you some strange results ... From: j...
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John G
dreamer012064
May 4, 2002 1:47 am
I saw your post and wanted to respond being a newbie myself. I have had the best luck with Suse Linux 7.3. I tried Red Hat and Mandrake, but found Suse to be...
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j
justo222
May 4, 2002 2:35 am
cameron and jay, the GUI file manager was the problem, not my OS or my config. i'da never guessed. thanks!! hey, since this is a religious group (aka, the vi...
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horrorvacui1
May 4, 2002 9:40 am
... never ... Guess next time. Every time you can't do anything as root, assume you're doing it wrong. Root is God, from the standpoint of the machine. It...
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Tom Alderweireldt
talderw
May 4, 2002 11:27 am
... back into the ... The printer was properly configured as LOCAL that was not the problem. It really seems to have to do something with network. It keeps...
