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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!plex-1!dhw
- From: dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (David West)
- Subject: more questions for the FAQ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.201333.14195@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway (Ann Arbor).
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:13:33 GMT
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- 1. On bootup, trying to select a non-default screen mode causes the system to
- hang. Why, and what can be done to get mode selection to work?
- [SLS 0.98.1; Everex EV-678 Viewpoint SVGA card]
-
- 2. I need PostScript and TeX previewers, but the only ones I know of under UN*X
- apparently require X. I barely have enough disk space to install X, or
- memory to run it, so:
- a) are there previewers which can drive a VGA or EGA directly under Linux?
- (GhostScript has a screen driver under MSDOS, but I don't know if it
- will work with the UN*X version).
- b) if not, are there any previewers which run under MGR?
- c) if not, what is the minimum subset of, say, the SLS X distribution which
- will suffice to run previewers?
- If it makes any difference, I only need mono, and my SVGA card may be too
- idiosyncratic to run X in the higher resolutions anyway.
-
- 3. Is there any way to get bash to recognise the arrow keys in vi-history-edit
- mode? (MKS ksh does so under MSDOS, and it's very convenient.) A quick scan
- of the history source code doesn't show an obvious way to do it, but most of
- the documentation is in TeXInfo form, which I can't read.
- Does the kernel convert arrow keys to ANSI escape sequences?
- Does vi-history-edit mode support the vi map macro?
-
- 4. I've run mkfs -c. If the partition has no bad blocks, should I get a
- .badblocks file of size 0, or no .badblocks file?
-
-
- --
- -David West dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
-
- "Ce n'e'tait pas un empire comme il faut, mais nous nous sommes diablement
- bien amuse's." -Col. Fleury, aide-de-camp of Napoleon III
-