DENNIS SMITH wrote to RENE LAEDERACH:
DS> I learned about Joe doing beginner lessons @ linux.org. I'm having
DS> difficulty coping with the overload of info for linux. 

Learn vi - it's easier, believe me. 

DS>  RL> UAE is a good emulator, but doesn't get everything...
DS> 
DS> There's somebody right now updating UAE for the A1. It'll be crap until 
DS> the
DS> JIT engine is running. Without it, it's like an 7mhz A500. :-/ 

This could turn out to be serious fun when we have it, I still have some
original games for my Miggies...
 
DS> as well as an Un/Installer. There's a prg. I haven't used yet called 
DS> "Alien."
DS> It converts Red Hat and Slackware packages into Debian ones.

I still have the good old RPM, it's actually quite well documented and I use 
it
 for software distribution as well.

DS> Question: how do I download in binary. Haven't found help on that yet. 
Can
DS> you tell by file suffix if it'll binary. I got segmented error on a 
down/l

When you're in a genuine FTP client, use the binary mode.

DS> for APC-UPS -- server daemon. I think it was a tar.gz (tarball?). Anyway,
DS> there are no readme's laying around for help. :-/

Doesn't it compile with ./configure && make && make install once you're in 
the
right directory?



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