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twenex
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response 451 of 480:
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Dec 20 01:19 UTC 2003 |
Re: #443: I do like to tinker; Gentoo is off limits until i get
broadband; I get moaned at enough for taking up the phone line as it
is.
Re: #444: Slackware has no /usr/share? Hmm, have to lok at that again.
Re: #450. With lpd installed, you should be able to pipe ghostscripts
output to lp (a la "ghostscript somefile.ps | lp").
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keesan
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response 452 of 480:
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Dec 20 02:44 UTC 2003 |
So if I do that (pipe to lp) will it automatically print?
The format is gs -sDEVICE=deskjet -r300x300 filename.pdf
I wish people would send me gifs instead of pdf files as they are easier to
display and move around in and I don't need to print them. There is no point
that I know of in making an image into a pdf file when there is no text in
it.
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twenex
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response 453 of 480:
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Dec 20 12:27 UTC 2003 |
Yes, the lp command says "print this"
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keesan
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response 454 of 480:
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Dec 20 14:44 UTC 2003 |
Thanks.
Today I only woke up twice coughing and then slept 6 hours straight without
waking for anything but hot flashes and then even sneezed! This is the day
in the cycle that they used to test my blood and discover my blood counts were
back to normal. They could have been back for three days before that - no
tests then. So I am still hoping the cough will go away soon. My tongue
feels less slimy than it did. I noticed yesterday that there is a largish
area of numb skin where they did the spleen biopsy. I wonder if anesthetic
can have lasting effects?
I am told there is some disagreement between grex's vt100 and the vt102 used
by my xterm, which makes lynx display links double. Where might I go for
definitions of the two of them? When I run kermit from xterm lynx is not
usable, when I run it from console it is.
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gelinas
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response 455 of 480:
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Dec 20 14:55 UTC 2003 |
Your xterm may be using "vs100" instead of "vt100". If so, you can change
it with an option when the xterm you connect to grex from is started up.
Something like
xterm -tn vt100
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twenex
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response 456 of 480:
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Dec 20 14:57 UTC 2003 |
Hmm, interesting. what's a "vS100"?
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gelinas
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response 457 of 480:
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Dec 20 15:03 UTC 2003 |
Among other things, it uses an "alternate screen" for less, vi and the like.
so your command-line text is hidden while paging/editing, and the paged/edited
text disappears when the pager/editor exits.
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keesan
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response 458 of 480:
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Dec 20 15:07 UTC 2003 |
The xterm is defined with -tn vt102 - should I change to vt100? I am using
one that was supplied to us with a few modifications to make it full-screen
and have a scrollbar. I tried vt300 and it made things even worse - Pine
displayed the cursor one line or two lines down from where it should be.
In order to see things at grex without them wrapping I needed -geom 78x25,
anything narrower made it wrap. But 78 cuts off the vertical right line of
the terminal, not that I care. I can see all the characters. The scrollbar
takes up a space or two but I need it to scroll back when using kermit.
Kermit works fine without xterm but no scroll buffer that way.
A friend offered to drop us off some Christmas cookies, on the porch.
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twenex
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response 459 of 480:
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Dec 20 15:12 UTC 2003 |
AFAI am aware, if it has modifications then your terminal (a) only has
support for them compiled in for vt102, or (b) should present a
scrollbar with all vt types, so sswitching to vt100 would be a good
idea.
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gelinas
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response 460 of 480:
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Dec 20 15:22 UTC 2003 |
I suggest reading the man page for xterm, Sindi. You can probably find the
command line options you need, like "-geom 78x25". (I'm surprised your screen
can't display an 80-column terminal, though.)
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keesan
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response 461 of 480:
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Dec 20 18:21 UTC 2003 |
I fixed the problem with lynx by changing the font from 10x20 to linux8x16
but now bbs is messed up. Someone suggested specifying -fb (boldfont)
as well as -fn since the links in lynx are in bold. Will try that next.
To print I need to install lpr.tgz (contains lpd) and three parallel port
modules parport parport-pc and lp. Will be back when I fix my terminal.
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keesan
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response 462 of 480:
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Dec 20 18:43 UTC 2003 |
If I use -fn 10x20 the bold parts (links) in lynx are doubled.
If I use -fn linux8x16 lynx is okay but bbs is scrambled.
Someone suggested setting -fb (bold font).
I could not find 10x20 bold but I did find 9x15 bold and set
-fn 9x15 and -fb 9x15bold and it all works now but the print
is awfully skinny. I will keep experimenting. Maybe I can mix
10x20 and 9x15bold or some other bold?
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keesan
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response 463 of 480:
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Dec 21 04:49 UTC 2003 |
Today we learned to make mp3 files from Bach and Dvorak music CDs.
Roxio and RealOne both have audio to mp3 conversion programs. RealOne
converts at about 3 times as fast, Roxio at 1X but offers a few more sampling
speeds. We tried 32 (sounds really garbled with sort of a whirring sound)
48 (which I think was a bit buzzy on the violin), 64, and 128, the latter two
indistinguishable from the original to both of us. Jim now wants to record
10 CDs worth of music to one CD and play it all day long on the computer,
which he hooked up to the stereo system with a very long cable. A couple of
blocks from here we saw a discarded rubber thing that is used to go over
electric cords so you don't trip over them - might go look for it again.
Burn4Free free CD burning software, about a 1M download, will let you copy
tracks from audio CDs, rearrange the order, rename the tracks, and burn them,
and you can do almost all of this without a mouse (except for moving files
around into different orders). We will use this and RealOne.
I am putting ice cream on my oatmeal and eating it again for supper. The
coldness sort of numbs my tastebuds. Jim is eating the chocolate with soggy
rice crispy candy ice cream. The rice crispies taste sour to me. Anything
starchy tastes sour, including cookies. A friend brought us cookies. I put
cheese on the potatoes and managed to eat two bowls of them. I continue to
shed. Jim had some old photos of me in the hospital with thick hair and very
skinny arms. I would rather have thicker arms and thinner hair. I might try
some exercises from the library book tomorrow.
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keesan
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response 464 of 480:
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Dec 21 15:56 UTC 2003 |
Cough seems somewhat better this morning!
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twenex
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response 465 of 480:
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Dec 21 16:10 UTC 2003 |
Goody! ;-)
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keesan
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response 466 of 480:
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Dec 21 22:47 UTC 2003 |
It has changed into sneezing, hooray! I guess my immune system does not work
instantly. If it gets better by Tuesday we may take the risk and go to Jim's
sister's annual family get-together in Warren on Thursday. Jim is also
sneezing and he is supposed to have a normal immune system.
Today we went for a walk in the slush and looked at tree trunks. There was
a burr oak with some unusual thick bark that was peeling off it from the
bottom up, and the trunk of a huge willow (the branches fell through the
nearby roof and were removed) with large round gnarly areas all over it and
short skinny branches growing off the top in all directions. The lucky owners
put a bench in front of it. Two birches. A variety of evergreens. One
neighbor out shoveling slush for a 3-way shared driveway because one of the
other neighbors (that we know) was in the hospital with a really bad sinus
infection. We did not find the rubber thing to go over electric cords but
Jim brought home a somewhat droopy abandoned poinsettia plant. The adjustible
flagpole was still there next to it.
I have been translating, one page at a time because it still hurts to sit.
I think that is the symptom I would most like to go away, but it requires
eating more so I guess I need my taste buds back first. Jim kindly ate the
whole 2 half gallons of chocolate ice cream when I complained the first bowl
tasted funny (it was the rice crispies in it not the ice cream). It took him
under 48 hours. Not bad for a vegan out of training.
I am reading Chaucer in modern translation (all about sex and violence and
religion, with some drunkenness thrown in for laughs) and a good book on
medieval art. Clothing styles closely paralleled architectural styles.
People in the Romanesque period wore rounded hats, in the Gothic period very
tall pointy ones, and they tried to pose in ogee shapes, and then in the
Renaissance they tried to look short and squat and square with flat topped
hats and squared shoes and super-wide shoulders. I also noticed a lot of
parallels between 30s glassware and sweaters in two other books - both were
relatively plain shapes decorated with narrow stripes or other fine patterns,
as opposed to bicolor designs in the fifties.
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twenex
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response 467 of 480:
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Dec 21 22:57 UTC 2003 |
ogee shapes?
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keesan
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response 468 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:18 UTC 2003 |
The shape of the top part of a Gothic arch, somewhat S-shaped. They would
pose with their torsos bent backwards and their heads bent forwards.
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keesan
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response 469 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:21 UTC 2003 |
I have linux to the point where it sends the printer a page feed but it won't
print. I installed lpd, insmod three needed modules, typed lpd, changed sh
to bash in printcap for generic printer, and tried to print with
lpr filename.txt
Nothing appears to have gone to the print spool. lpq - no entries.
What did I miss? The book says to use Redhat printtool. I don't have that.
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twenex
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response 470 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:26 UTC 2003 |
Try rebooting; lpd should come on on its own. try lp instead of lpr.
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keesan
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response 471 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:42 UTC 2003 |
There is no lp command on my computer. I also tried another method of
printing that is supposed to send files directly to the printer and again I
got just a paper feed. I then tried to print a test line with Jim's text
editor and it printed the linux file I had been sending it instead. !?
Seems like the file was sent to the printer by linux, but did not print until
I tried to print something else. The printer works fine with DOS (unless
it was first sent a linux file, apparently).
I can print my files this way (typing lpr and then switching to DOS) but it
is rather time consuming. May as well just copy them to the DOS partition
and print from there.
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scott
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response 472 of 480:
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Dec 22 02:58 UTC 2003 |
cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0
do anything for you?
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keesan
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response 473 of 480:
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Dec 22 04:26 UTC 2003 |
I will check tomorrow on the linux computer. DOS is so much easier to use
for connecting to grex since you don't need to fiddle with fonts and xterms
in order to get a scroll buffer. Or change X resolutions and virtual screen
sizes..... Console C-kermit has no scroll buffer. I think I already tried
the cat to lp0 approach with nothing happening as it was in a book. I might
try a different printer next, dot-matrix instead of HP540 (DOS inkjet). The
latter might not be sufficiently 'generic'. I tried some other setup that
sends things directly to the printer and it also just put out a blank page.
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davel
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response 474 of 480:
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Dec 22 13:49 UTC 2003 |
Sindi, you probably need to set up a printcap file (/etc/printcap) with a
proper entry for the type of printer & some other stuff. (That's part of
what printtool does for you.) There also are other things, which depend on
what lpd you're using. (Likely alternatives include (but aren't limited to)
CUPS and LPRng.) This gets complicated & messy to debug. But quite possibly
some filtering is set up by default which assumes that the printer wants some
particular type of input (such as PostScript) and converts what you send to
that. Stairstepping text is also a likely problem. printcap & other
configuration files control all that kind of stuff.
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keesan
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response 475 of 480:
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Dec 22 15:04 UTC 2003 |
The problem might be that I was trying to print a DOS file with linux so I
will try printing a different file that I write with pico. There is a default
printcap file set up for generic printer that should have printed text.
Today I am coughing but much less. It would have been no fun to cough during
my CT this Wednesday because they make you lie down and keep still and lying
down is what made me start coughing. I also just realized that my breathing
has been okay for the past week and no rib pain, which means the fluid around
my lungs has finally gone away after four months. Now if only fruit would
stop tasting awful. Jim brought me frozen blueberries as a treat and I forced
myself to eat four of them. He had to finish my small orange, much too sour.
I think my sour taste buds must be the only ones not killed off. We might
get Jim a flu shot today if he is also sneezing less.
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