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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!news.onramp.net!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!pavanas From: pavanas@meridio.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FVWM, Elm, pop3, and lpd Date: 29 May 1997 05:29:51 GMT Organization: Aragorn Asteria Lines: 42 Message-ID: <1F4E1F74A57DCC1A.518DCC5C29841192.1878CA2AD4907E17@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <slrn5oq52i.1vl.pavanas@meridio.ccia.com> References: <slrn5omclk.s0o.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> Reply-To: pavanas@smalt.net NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42122 On 27 May 1997 19:14:53 GMT, pavanas abludo incusus <pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> hath written: > >Well, FreeBSD has been successfully installed the kernel re-compiled, pppd >works and most everything else. The /stand/sysinstall does work but not >consistently. Sometimes an operation needs to be repeated to `take'. > >But there are a few loose ends. 1) Where can the needed information be >located for having fvwm95rc actually start fvwm95 instead of fvwm? The >FreeBSD book is informative but lacks a few little details. > This is still mystifying. >2) When getting email via pop3 it downloads ok, but does not go into >my mailbox. Local mail does. > oops conflicting paths, corrected > >3) lpd works, but why does it take so long on a dot matrix printer? > omitted lptcontrol -p > Discovered a new problem, how to do you export/set ORGANZATION/organization to/for a newsreader? >What am I missing here? > > >btw FreeBSD appears to be quicker than Linux 2.0.27. > >Life is a learning experience. > > >if you can read a path you can figure out the address. -- IHS, pavanas I am not ashamed, as your friends are, to confess that I do not know what I do not know. Blaise Paschal 364