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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
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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