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From: ak853@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Blade)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux/DOS How do I transfer files?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:24:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ak853@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Blade)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


  I have the Linux rootdisk/bootdisk installation.  I even managed to
get a 60Meg DOS with a 40 meg Linux partition running.  Now, how do I
get the files that I have on my MSDOS disks to my Linux partition?  I
realse that MTOOLS is out there, but how do I get MTOOLS over to the DOS
partition?, er, the Linux partition?
  Is there an image disk available for MTOOLS?  Or a communications
image?  My FTP access is very shaky, concerning large files (I have to
uuencode them and then ASCII transfer them to my DOS machine because I
am stuck in 7-bit mode with the host computer.  Kermit only runs at
about 30 cps and I'm connected at 9600 baud. :) ), so the SLS release,
being around 10 megs for the a1-a4 disks is practically out of the
question.  Can someone just e-mail me an image of mtools? I already have
a bunch of Linux programs and source code and stuff on my DOS partition,
I just need to figure some way to get it to the Linux partition.
  Please respon via email.  My chances to get into the usenet groups are
very few and far between these days...
  Oh.. would it be possible to null-modem connect my other computer (one
of them), uuencode something, then login to /dev/ttys1, and ascii upload
the uuencoded file to the 'cat' program?  If that's a workable idea, can
someone send me a uuencoded image of uudecode binary for Linux? (again
via email)
  Also, what is the status of the TCP/IP kernal for Linux?  How would I
go about adding TCP/IP services to a v0.98 kernal?  I think if I were
able to use TCP/IP (via slip) with Linux, it would probably be better
than the current connection I have with DOS... (just a terminal program,
no TCP/IP proto whatsoever...)
  Oh, yeah, one more question, sorry, I keep thinking of these things...
:)
  I have a modem on COM4 (0x2e8, int 3)... how would I get Linux to
recognize it?   When I boot Linux, it s ays there are only 2 com ports
available, and initilizes them as ttys0 and ttys1.  (what happens if I
move my mouse, does it try and login on ttys0? *grin*)  I've
experimented a bit with using setserial to switch ttys0 to 0x2e8/3, but
I have no way of measuring my success currently. :)

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From: rafal@utstat.toronto.edu (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: Re: ps for .99pl4 kernel
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:50:29 GMT

In article <1jupurINNi93@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (S.E.P. Brown) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I just compiled .99pl4. It compiled beautifully, and I have no bugs to report
>as of now.
>However, I attempted to recompiled ps, and have ahd no success. ps.0.99.2.tar.Z
>will compile but has version incompatibility errors.  Could someone point me
>the way to ps source that will function under .99pl4?
>
>Thanks
>
>----
>S.E.P. Brown              shawnb@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu
>"A programmer is a machine that converts coffee into code"


I use that, ie ps.0.99.2.tar.Z with .99pl4 no problems.
Just usuall ps -U and I was in bussiness. Also linux99pl4
works flawlessly. 
Thanx Linus

		Rafal

-- 
/|| " Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that
 ||  that _is_ number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor 
 ||  in some great museum of science, and past it would file a 
==== steady stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe. "
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From: dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty)
Subject: Re: Freeze up on X
Organization: Miles, Inc.  Diagnostics Divis.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:51:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.125247.7968@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.181502.23485@miles.com> dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty) writes:
> >
> >Here's another clue.  Try this: when your system freezes, running X, try
> >MOVING THE MOUSE.  It's weird!!  But moving the mouse actually makes the
> >system run!  Stop moving the mouse, and the system freezes again.  And
> >this only happens with 0.99.3, not 0.99.2.
> 
> Get pl4, and it should be gone.  
> 
> 		Linus

It's fixed with pl4.  Thanks Linus!

-- 
Dennis T. Flaherty       dennisf@Miles.com
Miles, Inc.              dflahert@chekov.helios.nd.edu
Diagnostics Division (Diabetes B.U.)
My doctor says Mylanta, but my boss says Alka-Seltzer!
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From: garyt@lgc.com (Gary Thompson)
Subject: Re: lfs 0.6 --> "xfs"
Organization: Landmark Graphics Corp., Houston, Tx.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:56:17 GMT

Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:

>qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) writes:
>[...]
>>BTW: due to the name conflict to "log file system", the name of lfs
>>is going to be changed. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) suggests xiafs 
>>(pronounced as sheaves) and I come out xfs. suggestion wanted.

>I *like* that idea.  "xfs" has a nice 'sound' to it.

It does, but there is already an "xfs".  There's a paper in the latest
issue of the X Resource which describes it.  Here is the abstract...

	An experimental pseudo-NFS server has been implemented within
	the MIT R5 sample X server that exports server resources into
	the Unix file system namespace.  X resources such as pixmaps,
	GCs, and colormaps appear as file directories in the exported
	file system and they contain files such as "width", "height"
	and "fill_style" that can be opened and read to obtain the
	values of corresponding attributes in the X resources types.
	As a special case, the window heirarchy appears as a directory
	tree under screen-specific top-level directories.  Other
	resource types are contained under type-level type-specific
	directories with names like "fonts" and "cursors".

	The resource usage of window server clients can easily be
	viewed and explored by listing client-specific directories
	which contain symbolic links to all resources created by a 
	particular client.  Exporting X resources as a filesystem
	allows developers to easily browse them using familiar Unix
	tools such as ls, find, and du as well as GUI-based file
	managers. 

Sounds like a "/proc" filesystem for X.  I haven't seen it, but it
sounds cool and since it's already called "xfs", maybe another
name should be chosen (I kindof like "yafs" :-)

Gary
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From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Neue Files bis zum 01/26/93 auf der mcshh
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Distribution: hanse
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:49:33 GMT

Hi,

Dies ist ein halbautomatisches Posting. Es zeigta alle neuen Linux-
Files auf der mcshh seit dem letzten derartigen Posting an.



Das wars. Happy downloading. Und wenn's mal ein ganzes Linux-System sein
soll, dann ruft einfach 7654276 an. Da geht die umibox dran, mit
guest-account und 24-Stunden Service. Und alles zum Angucken.....

Bernie
From: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Syslogd + /proc (not the version that runs together)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 21:10:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


	I am using an old syslogd, from before /proc was a part
of the kernel.  And if I try to view /proc/kmsg with more
or cat, syslogd becomes my number one process eating 98%
of the CPU time.  Is this a bug? or should I use the new
syslogd which watches /proc/kmsg?

			Scott
			sdh@po.cwru.edu
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From: ac999212@xs24g03.acslab.umbc.edu (ac999212)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS
Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:04:28 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Distribution: world
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I am about to dowdload the SLS package and have some questions?


I would like to run linux as a server or a x server and How would I go about doing this?   Also is Linux a good package for network?


-- 
Steve Lee
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Prob. w/ outbound mail, inbound ok
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:42:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshub.1993Jan24.214205.26233
Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto

In article <1993Jan24.210346.3548@src.honeywell.com> bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:
>
>I'm having difficulty with sending mail and news from my home machine.
>My news and mail feed is working perfectly; that is, I get anything
>sent from the internet nodes I have accounts on, but I can't send
>anything out. (It used to work, then I upgraded something - I don't
>know what- and it broke).
>
>I've installed the latest SLS smail.tpz as well as a series of older
>versions. 
>
>The /usr/spool/smail/msglog entry for each failed mail try is like this:
>  Xdefer: <srcsip!bergstro> reason: (ERR_127) router uucp_neighbors:
>  command `/usr/bin/uuname` returned exit status EX_256
>
	chown uucp.root /usr/bin/uuname
	chmod u+s /usr/bin/uuname

	At least that usually fixes it for me :)

marc
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From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Tcl and Tk, Wcl and Dirt, ...
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:15:42 GMT

In article <31861@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> ghart@ems.cdc.com writes:
>I'm interested in playing with any GUI builders that have been ported to
>Linux.  Has anyone ported any?
>
>I'm in the process of getting Tk/Tcl compiled, and wondered if someone had
>done it already (I searched tsx but didn't see any).

Tk/Tcl has indeed been ported to Linux. its on sunsite.unc.edu in 
/pub/Linux/X11/devel.

>
>A releasted question: is there a csh port for Linux?  I never use it, but
>the config script for Tcl uses it.  I tried using "zsh", but it didn't 
>quite work (what is zsh?).  I've heard of tcsh, is this what I want?

Noone knows what zsh is. :) 

there are two csh's available for Linux, the traditional Berkeley c-shell
(/pub/Linux/system/Shells/csh526a.tar.Z) and the enhanced csh, tcsh.
(/pub/Linux/system/Shells/tcsh-6.03*).

jem. 


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From: reward@eos.ncsu.edu (Robert E. Ward)
Subject: Linux installed... finally.
Followup-To: poster
Summary: WOW!
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:20:35 GMT

WOW!  That's as good as I can put it.  Linux finally installed on my
386/40, 4M, ST02, ST296N, Paradise setup.  One more for the books.
Many thanks and praises to all whoever contributed to this wonderous
beast.  Hope I can help along with the testing process.

Some things still confuse me:  setting up users other than root, ps
doesn't work and I still can't change my hostname,  but it's in the FAQs
somewhere (I think so... ;) ).  I'll find it sometime this year.

-rob

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From: fbrueng@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Frank Bruenger)
Subject: "??"setterm
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:01:27 GMT


How is setterm to use so it works for all virtuell consoles ?
Frank
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: santange@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (antonio santangelo)
Subject: renders & linux
Keywords: render
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:18:08 GMT

I'm interesting to all render programs working under linux
I know dkb (do you know where I can find bin for 387)
       povray (the best I think but where I can find it binaries or how to compi         le it
Do you know any other programs ?
I'm interesting on cad programs too if you have any information please send me
a mail at   rosa@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it


Thanks
From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: source for libm.a, where?
Keywords: source, libm.a
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:24:56 GMT
Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ

Im looking for the sources for limb.a under Linux 0.99pl4. Can someone
point me to the authors and/or location of the sources for this library?
Is it specific to Linux, or is it the same as the libg.a at GNU's prep site?
				Ron
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:24998 rec.games.mud.lp:4923
From: okolbu@ifi.uio.no (Olav Kolbu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,rec.games.mud.lp
Subject: Re: MudOS and Linux
Keywords: mud, lpmud
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:15:59 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: okolbu@maud.ifi.uio.no


Didn't realise so many people were struggling to get MudOS up under Linux,
or I would have uploaded version ages ago. I'll tar up my source directory
today, and make it available to the masses later this week. Note that the
version I have is 0.9.14.14, a pre-release of 0.9.15. It seems quite stable
though, and I haven't had any crashes I haven't been able to track down and
fix. You won't get a mudlib though, as the Basis mudlibs from TMI stopped
working with their drivers some time ago... :-) Blam them. 8-)
There are a few MudOS mudlibs out there, read a few of the .lp groups and 
you'll soon find them. I think there is one on orlith.bates.edu 
(134.181.1.12) called Nightmare, but I've never tried it.

The only other thing you need is loopback telnet to be able to connect
to your own IP ports.

As for the things I had to do to make it work, it wasn't that much. The 
usual #ifdef'ing in lint.h, and about 10-15 changes to the code. Mostly 
adding #ifdefs to places already #ifdef'ed out by other architectures. 
Nothing fancy (like you have to do when porting muds to MSDOS...*urg*)
Compiling with the -static flag is also a good idea...


				Olav Kolbu

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From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Compressed Filesystem? Interest?
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:37:34 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Originator: bush@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk

In article <1993Jan20.221858.1962@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
#The idea is that the anti-compressed file system would work in tandem
#with an ordinary file system.  For most uses, you would mount the
#system as, say xfs.  But for backup purposes, you would umount the xfs
#system, and remount >the same disk partition< as xfs-anti-compress.

This seems to be a very pointless thread.

Why not contact the GNU people and suggest another option whic, instead of
opening a file with fopen() or open() (whichever it uses), opens with:

  popen("compress -f < file");

or some such.  If you really want the whole thing compresses (gives better
compression overall), then a script around a `tar -Z' type thing should be
able to handle multi-volumes.

Someone mentioned that a mistake early on would corrupt everything else, but
this would be the same for a kernel level system.  It shouldn't take much to
do integrity checking of such a backup.

This kind of thing has no right to be any where near the kernel.

Mark
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From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
Subject: Re: CPP Missing?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:40:31 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jec@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jerry Chanek) writes:
: Any Idea why /lib/cpp is missing?

This is getting one of the most-asked-questions. This is just a missing
link (Peter, is this missing in one of the latest SLS-releases??).

Just do a ln -s /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.3.3/cpp /lib/cpp

and no more spooky messages about a missing cpp.

Hank.

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From: cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR)
Subject: LILO craps out on HD boot
Originator: cs911461@m04.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:27:11 GMT



Hello all.

Way back when we were still dealing with the 0.98 kernel, I had no
trouble getting LILO to write the /Image file onto my root partition
(/dev/hda4).  I would use the following line to do this:

/etc/lilo# ./lilo -i boot.b -c -i /dev/hda4 Linux=/Image

and I could then use the OS/2 boot manager to load Linux at boot
time.  This was very fun and I long for the good old days when 
this was possible.

What actually happens is I get a "can't mount root partition, kernel
panic" type message right after the "Partition table ok." line.  This
doesn't happen when I boot from floppy.  I'd rather not boot from 
floppy everytime because it's slow and the floppies I use are real
cheap garbage, etc, etc...

I've tried this with the LILO that comes with SLS.  I'm sure it's
0.7 something.  

Can anyone help!?!


cak
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek)
Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:23:58 GMT

jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) writes:

>>In article <727748701.AA34908@remote.halcyon.com> Chris.Bugosh@f340.n226.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Bugosh) writes:
>>>Can I have some horror/success stories on setting up Linux on either of
>>>these two boxes?  I'd also know what controller you're using...  I hear
>>>that the controller that comes with the Bernoulli from Hard Drives
>>>International doesn't work.  Is the adapter that comes with the SyQuest
>>>compatible?  Thanks for any/all info.

>>There are a couple of weaknesses in it though: (1) when a rather large
>>buffer cache is being flushed to the Syquest, interrupts are turned off
>>and the system in literally locked up until the write is done (which is
>>slow since this is a Syquest), and (2) although the Syquest is a
what do you expect a ST01 to be? Try an Adaptec and be happy ;-)
Its not the syquest to lock you system it's the controller!

>>"mountable" hard disk, the partition table on the cartridge is only
>>read once during boot up, so you are out of luck if you want to umount
>>and mount a different cartridge while the system is up and running.
Into what do you partition 44MB ? Ugh! Just put the file-system on the
device not a partition. sd1 instead of sd1a! Partitioning is for disk-sizes
that are really worth it! 
>>Not that I'm complaining, though.
If you'd complain, itwould be about your own misunderstandings! ;-) *flame*

prefect
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: valentm@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco valentini)
Subject: I need Xconfig's mouse settings.
Keywords: mouse
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:20:54 GMT
Summary: I have a microsoft connected with a ps/2 jacket How can I config.m it?

I have a Microsoft mouse connected with ps/2 minidin jacket.which device I have 
to use in Xconfig? Is it /dev/bmouseps2?At which baud rate?1200 don't works,
the cursor goes everywhere, never where I want.


thanks to everyone.

		Marco Valentini
		valentm.pippo.sm.dsi.unimi.it

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From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: Motif for Linux ?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:13:55 GMT

In article <KFOGEL.93Jan22212306@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel) writes:
>
>	Folks, what you want is the Free Widget Foundation. They are
...
>
>	THIS IS NOT VAPORWARE! There have already been FWF releases of
>widgets. You can ftp them, and I feel really embarrassed that I forgot
>the name of the site (I don't think it's one of the two up there).
>Contact the above people or myself if you are interested in
>contributing or using widgets.
>

You can see one of the FWF widgets in action in Seyon. The FWF
MultiList widget was used in the dialing directory instead of the
Athena list widget since the latter does not allow the selection of
more that a single item from the list (and hence implementing
multi-number dialing would not have been possible). You can get the
FWF widgets by ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu.

/Muhammad M. Saggaf                 | Stop the genocide
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu            | Save Bosnia
From: bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell)
Subject: Starting X11 - Theres got to be a better way!!!
Date: 21 Jan 93 02:27:32 MST
Distribution: w


Just have been playing with X11 .... and all I can do to start a decent
windows program is do the following:

	xinit

and it starts up with one xterm and then I have to start twm from the
command-line .... where the hell is the xinit script located anyway??!?
(tried to tweak every Xconfig/xinitrc and other files I could think of)

	HHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP!!

(I feel better now ..... venting is such a healthy way to go ....)

Thanks for any help.

-Bob-

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