| LeRoy Cressy on 29 Mar 2004 14:22:02 -0000 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ed wrote: Dear Geoff, Thank you very much for your response. I'm not very experienced on Linux. I have been reading and gathering info for about a year. Everything I've learned so far about computers is self taught (never had a computer course), so I take my time until I think I understand what is going on. I'm 47 and grew up in the 70's when Fortran was the big thing, so (I apologize I did have one computer course in 1974-Fortran) that helped me to lose interest fairly quickly back then.
I also remember when FortranIV G and IBM System 360 was king. If you still want to write in Fortran Debian has several fortran packages. "apt-cache search fortran" reveals: g77 - The GNU Fortran 77 compiler g77-2.95 - The GNU Fortran 77 compiler g77-2.95-doc - Documentation for the GNU Fortran compiler (g77) g77-3.2 - The GNU Fortran 77 compiler g77-3.2-doc - Documentation for the GNU Fortran compiler (g77) g77-3.3 - The GNU Fortran 77 compiler g77-3.3-doc - Documentation for the GNU Fortran compiler (g77) g77-doc - Documentation for the GNU Fortran compiler (g77) gdb - The GNU Debugger There is the holy war about which editor that you want. I personally like xemacs21. Others have their favorites like vi vim nano and others. Anyway, I haven't decided on a mail client yet. Choosing a mail client is totally up to you. If you like a gui use netscape7.1 or mozilla. I have used Thunderbird but I do not think that it is stable enough. If you want a text mail client mutt is the choice. Elm and pine are still avilable, but it seems that everyone uses mutt for a mail client. I have 4 email accounts on Windows. 1 at Neumann College, 2 on Verizon DSL, and 1 on Netscape. So I don't know if I can hook up the Debian/Knoppix partition to any of them. I sent last nights email from the Verizon website (up on their server), because I can run my Verizon accounts from there if I need to (POP3 to IE6 on my computer). The Netscape is an IMAP account, so everything stays on the Netscape server, just viewed through Netscape 7.1 mail. That account is easyed422@netscape.net. So I'm not sure if I can hook up to that through Mozilla.
So any changes that you make in Mozilla or Netscape will be reflected on the other. Also it is easy to set up multiple pop and imap accounts with netscape7 and mozilla. Also I have written a howto paper on how to integrate enigmail gpg with mozilla and netscape. http://lrcressy.com/linux/mozilla.pdf One of the problems that you might have with apt is the configuration file. Here is mine: # Testing deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free # Added to make Java work with Mozilla deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ unstable non-free deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ testing non-free deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ woody non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org stable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US main contrib non-free Also apt-cache search is a big help I also look a lot of times on http://www.debian.org for package details. Or just pick one of the many already installed on the Debian/Knoppix and open up a new #5 email account. Any suggestions?
Have a great day :-) LeRoy - -- Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy mailto:leroy@lrcressy.com /\_/\ http://lrcressy.com ( o.o ) Phone: 215-535-4037 > ^ < FAX: 215-535-4285 gpg fingerprint: 62DE 6CAB CEE1 B1B3 359A 81D8 3FEF E6DA 8501 AFEA For info on enigmail: http://lrcressy.com/linux/mozilla.pdf For info on gpg: http://www.gnupg.org/ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAaDBeP+/m2oUBr+oRAk1HAJ4l1e5vuD1yGoRy21UQgrhU/c9h2gCfbVno lZXt33z/wsTyZTy7TGOX0iM= =0BzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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