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(several hours, occasionally 2-3 days) to reach some mailing lists. Inspection of the headers when the mails finally arrive shows pretty unambiguously that btinternet have sat on them for that time. I have no clue why this happens. When it does hapen, it tends to happen in clusters. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 04-May-04 Time: 10:08:11 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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producing accented characters is to use the 'compose' key. This is a generic X method too. What you do is hit the 'compose' key followed by two keys to make the accented character, e.g. for e acute you do:- Compose E ' (or you can do Compose ' E, doesn't matter) However this does raise some other issues:- You need to have a 'compose' key, this is a matter of setting up your keyboard map to assign 'compose' to some fairly easy key combination. On my Linux box at home I have it set to 'Shift Alt Gr', on my Sun box at work there is actually a Compose key. Some applications may insist that you have the locale set correctly to show the accented characters, otherwise they just show a '?' for any character with a value above 127 because in the default ASCII character set they are undefined. On the system I'm using to send this I just have "export LC_ALL=en" in my .profile and this suffices to say that characters >127 are valid. However this is a bit of a blunt instrument and some systems may need more subtle setting of the locale variables to work well. It's a bit of a black art and it may take you a while to get everything you want working properly but it can generally be done. (Having said that I still cant type accented characters from where I am just at the moment because I can't work out how to set up a compose key on the X server I'm using). -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run-time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/usr/lib and /lib). The cache mentioned above is very important to any program that uses shared libraries - It is this cache that is used to determine what libs are loaded and which paths are followed to find them. Regards, Paul. On Friday 06 February 2004 10:13 pm, Bryce Martin wrote: > Thanks for the tip Paul but I need to know how to run idconfig. I mean, I > tried typing idconfig as root and a user at the command line, but nothing > happens of course. What do I need to do? -- "To err is human...to really f*** things up requires the root password." From a collection of quotes at http://www.indigo.org/quotes.html

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