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From: bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
Subject: Problems with tcp/ip Beta
Summary: Only use it locally
Keywords: tcp ip network bugs
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:13:27 GMT

	Due to the lack of slow start/rtt measurements, the linux
tcp/ip code does not play well with others.  You should avoid 
using it except on local nets (and preferably not overly crowded ones)
and over high speed links.  Theoretically if enough linux machines
try talking all at once a local net or two could be taken down.
	The next version (Probably in .98) should correct these
problems.  Sorry for the inconvience (and the spelling).

Ross Biro bir7@leland.stanford.edu 
Member League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
mail league@prep.ai.mit.edu for information
From: tgcpwd@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X386 says: "No screens found." Now what?
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:04:56 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Hello *,

While trying to get X to run I get the following: Startx goes fine,
it starts xinit ok (arguments fine), X (linked to X386) starts...
screen is blanked, and immediately it exits with essentially the
message:   "X386: No screens found"

I have made IMHO two good entries in Xconfig ModeDB using the extensive
info for the monitor, and clock.exe, and elaborate but immaculate
calculations. 

My setup: 386/33, 4MB RAM, 4MB swapfile, Oak Technologies OTI-067-B
graphics card with 512 kB mem, said to run 1024x786 well, with clock
25 28 45 65, and a EMC monochrome superVGA monitor with 31 and 35 (k?)Hz
hor. freq, and 40-85 (kM?)Hz vert. frequency. 

The Question: What is wrong: my Xconfig? the entries there? the other
setup stuff? a screen device missing or so? my monitor? my graphics
card (I saw a reference to OAK somewhere to be fine)? My memory shortage?

Any pointers, hints, advice will be much appreciated.
Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst
From: u9050728@cs.uow.edu.au (Shane Kelvin Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: beginner probs
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:43:43 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia


	Hello, I have just sucked out linux from a ftp site, and have
succesfully installed it. But I have some questions which I can't seem
to find answers for in the doco.

	(1) I sucked out a editor (which runs fine), the execuatble of
which sits in /usr/local/bin. How can I set it up, so that to all users
this appears ni their path. Do I edit rc? I tried doing that, but it
didn't seem to work.

	(2) in the installation, one of the things it explains is to
get a compressed tar to linux, rawrite this tar to disk and then, boot linux, and use
tar -zxf. Probldem is, tar doesn't seem to know about the flag 'z'????
Igot the 0.97 images from tsx, so I assume I would have the latest version.
 Do I have to install another tar, which handles compressed tar files or 
something?

	(3) I have had some probs installing the compiler. Question: Am I
meant to get compiler tar files, and untar them from the /usr subdir?
then go into the install directory, and run the install script? I tried
this, but then it said, somethine like, where are the tar.Z files?

	(4) Also, my reading of the doco: Is it the case that I need the
kernel source to install the compiler? Why?

	Wouldn't it e easier to say, have 2 sets of diskimages floating
around the sites. One with the compiler ALREADY installed, and one without.
The basic system that you install doesn't seem to have a editor on it?
(Well I couldn't find one). I suggest, if there really isn't a editor
on it, then it would be nice to provide one on the images. I got down
a editor (I think it was called "joe") which is quite small, and easy
to use. Just something to help people edit their files, and so things,
till they decide which editor they would prefer to use in the long run.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mike@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu (Michael A. Murphy)
Subject: Re: Want to buy a linux PC...
Keywords: Buy PC
Organization: Georgia College - Milledgeville, GA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:51:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.131307@tiger1.prime.com> cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.053121.21188@tamsun.tamu.edu>, n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor) writes:
>> I just read in the Houston paper that KLH has filed for bankruptcy.  If you
>
>Murphy strikes again!
>

Will you _PLEASE_ stop blaming everything on me!   :)  :)

Thanks,
Michael A. Murphy


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     ====================================================================
       Michael A. Murphy                   mike@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston)
Subject: Less gives false warnings
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:17:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

	When ever I use less, in either vga or svga modes, it warns me
that the terminal can't clear to line, move up, ...  But, once I hit
enter to continue, less is able to perform all of these functions.  I
am using the termcap from the 0.97.1 root disk.  Is there a way to
tell less that it really can perform these tricks?
--
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  Mark Alston        
  c-amb@math.utah.edu
       
       It is not just a riot of blots and blurs and 
      disjointed jottings linked by spurts of speed...
      it only looks as like it as damn it.
       
                          James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: questions: vi problem, make dep, filenames, libraries
Date: 4 Sep 1992 01:02:10 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu



I have several questions. 

First, my vi is not working. I get the following error message.
"This termcap entry lacks the :up=: capability"
I imagine this is just an initializtion problem. What do I need to change?

Second, I finished the GCC install script and it told me to do
a make dep with the kernel Makefile. What does make dep mean? Will
this recompile the kernel for me? How do I implement the patches in this?


Next, what are the limitations on filename lengths and is there a way
to change it????

Finally, after installing GCC I have all these libraries laying
around. Which ones do I need? It seems that /lib and /usr/lib are the
same. What is the deal?? 
Also, do I also have g++ now??? There is a g++-include directory.


thanx in advance

-- 
MaThiEu a. LeWis      "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For 
Thieves Like Us        us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
mal11@po.cwru.edu      side left or right/To love or to hate."
					-A Strange Kind of Love
From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: linux-0.97.pl2 speed performance
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:39:51 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: jon@diomedes.robots

There been various claims about the speed of the 0.97-pl1 and 0.97-pl2
kernel, so here are some of the results from the byte unix benchmark, for
the two kernels on a 486/33 16M ram 256K cache compiled with gcc2.2.2d.
These were all run with nothing other than update and the benchmark on the
machine.

	  BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11)

linux - patch level 1
  System -- Linux isabel 0.97-19 08/20/92 i386
   2 interactive users.
Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh)          60859.0 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
System Call Overhead Test                 19307.1 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching Test          4131.4 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Process Creation Test                        64.2 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Execl Throughput Test                        59.1 lps   (9 secs, 6 samples)
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                  6.0 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi              516.6 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)

--
linux - patch level 2
  System -- Linux isabel 0.97.pl2-13 08/29/92 i386
   2 interactive users.
Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh)          60478.0 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
System Call Overhead Test                 18995.5 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching Test          4051.9 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Process Creation Test                        57.9 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Execl Throughput Test                        55.0 lps   (9 secs, 6 samples)
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                  5.6 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi              512.5 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
--

They all show a slight slow down. I also compared these results with the
patch level 1 kernel and gcc2.2.2

  System -- Linux isabel 0.97-14 08/07/92 i386
   2 interactive users.
Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh)          61581.5 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
System Call Overhead Test                 19521.2 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching Test          4323.0 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Process Creation Test                       102.1 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Execl Throughput Test                       129.9 lps   (9 secs, 6 samples)
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                  6.0 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi              458.2 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
--


So it looks like Process Creation and Execl Throughput speed halved with
the change from gcc2.2.2 to 2.2.2d - These results are probably depend
very much on the process being invoked, but definetly for small processes
gcc2.2.2d has added a large overhead for my set up.

--
 Jon                    <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
			Dsylexics of the world, untie!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: help -- math functions not defined in GCC2.2.2
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:29:42 GMT

Hello there.  Could anyone give me some hint about what math functions
were implemented into GCC2.2.2 for Linux.  I have a random number
generator which I have been using for a couple years on both Sun SPARC
and PC without any problem.  But this time, when I tried to recompile
my applications, the GCC said _exp and _log not defined.  These two are
standard math functions and are defined in math.h.  What should I do to
call these functions?  Thanks!

Harry

ps.
The error messages are:
uxqbp91.o: Undefined symbol _exp referenced from text segment
uxqbp91.o: Undefined symbol _log referenced from text segment.

The compiling command line is:

gcc -m486 -lm -o uxqbp uxqbp91.c

The math.h is included in the main program:

#include <math.h>
From: lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tom Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: gnuplot under X for Linux
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:11:48 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
In-reply-to: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU's message of 30 Aug 92 13:22:22 GMT


Did you get a PC version by chance?  Try getting it from
a unix archive.  I got it from prep.ai, compiled, and used
it extensively with x windows and postscript.  I also 
put the binaries on Banjo incoming a long while ago.
Oh - also, don't forget to edit the files mentioned
in the documentation (such as term.h).

good luck

-tom Lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: QIC 40 / QIC 80 ?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:02:30 GMT
Keywords: streamer, linux, wanted

In article <1992Sep3.120139.24843@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
"In article <184jgbINN4o6@iraul1.ira.uka.de> s_baumgn@irau26 (Fred Baumgarten) writes:
[]
">As you can see in the subject line, I am looking for either QIC40/QIC80
">software for Linux or some detailed specifications to implement such stuff.
[]
"I'd guess that the really hard part to getting a tape driver up
"would be getting the vendor to part with sufficient documentation to
"write one. If anyone's trying to write such a driver and is stuck
"because the vendor is holding out, let us know and maybe (maybe) we
"can bring some pressure to bear. 
"
"I have a CMS DJ-10 which I'd dearly love to use with Linux. But I'm
"willing to junk it and buy from a vendor who will support the Linux
"community. 

i, too, have a dj-10 which i want to use with my system (not
linux...).  i called cms about qic docs and they pointed me to ray
freeman [&] assoc.  they're the official qic clearinghouse.  i don't
have their address/phone handy, but i called them and they sent me the
qic-40 and qic-117 specs (and maybe 1 or 2 others) for free.

-- 
		+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Andrew Hay	"Do not fraternize with that creature, I am trying to train him"
a_d_hay@att.com	"But that's a parrot!"		"I was TALKING to the parrot..."
		+--------------------------------------------------------------+
From: ee89mdw@lab11.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Marc Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: library problem
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:49:15 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I just installed the mcc-interim release and added the xwindows binaries.
When I do startx, xinit complains that I don't have libc.2.2.2 (or very 
similar name) and libm.2.2.2 in /lib.  Does anyone know if these are missing
from the distribution, and if so can I get them somewhere else?  I have looked
in loads of ftp sites but I can't find them.

Also, does anyone know the status of the Trident driver?

All help appreciated.

Regards,
Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: asmith@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (arthur.c.smith)
Subject: io.h/iopl
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:36:48 GMT

Hi,
 I have been working on an S3 driver for X and have an 80X86 asm program
under dos that will setup the S3 chip correctly (and uses the enhanced
rectangle fill command to clear the screen 8-)). I am trying to port this
over to Linux. I am having two problems. 1) In trying to use sys_iopl()
I tried to write it as _syscall1(void,110,int,3) and include unistd.h
(and __LIBRARY__ defined). I get an error when this compiles. Is there
a better way to do this? 2) Trying to port to C: When I include /usr/src/linux/
include/asm/io.h and use outb I get undefined _outb referenced in .text. In
looking at io.h it appears as if the outb function is defined as extern but
is also defined in io.h???
		Thanks for any help,
                       Art  asmith@cbnewsd.att.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler)
Subject: Re: getting "bogus do_no_page"; strange vi behavior
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:06:33 GMT
Summary: vi

In article <1992Aug31.195805.16530@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
> In article <1992Aug31.145123.20915@novell.com> bboerner@novdpd.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
> >   stuff deleted ...
> 
> >Also, after upgrading to 0.97, I noticed that vi has been acting
> >funny.  While inserting into a line, it starts adding spaces.  Using ^L
> >will redraw the screen and show that the spaces really don't exist.
> 
> I think this is due to an incorrect /etc/termcap: the correct fix is
> naturally just to dump 'vi' and start using some emacs-like editor :-)
                    ^^^^^^^^^
> If that isn't possible, try getting a new termcap from a newer rootdisk,
> and the problem should hopefully disappear. 
> 
> 		Linus

"Dump 'vi'?  Are you kidding????!!

Neville

-- 
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Neville H. Chandler           ||       AT&T Bell Laboratories
nhc@mtdcr.att.com             ||       Middletown, NJ 07748
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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: tsx-11.mit.edu
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:32:31 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
>Is it down?  I can't seem to reach it anymore...

Seems to answer ping from here and allow one to log in (didn't test more
than that).

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: transfering mtools from DOS partition to LINUX fs
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:59:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep03.173830.20648@microsoft.com> t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken) writes:
>
>What you can do is this.
>
>  ln /dev/fd1 /dev/fd1.Z
>Which will create a device suitable for use with zcat...
>then 
>
>  zcat /dev/fd1.Z | tar -xvf -
>will uncompress the floppy and feed it through tar, extracting as it goes.

That's really silly.  Do this:

    zcat < /dev/fd1 | pax -r -v
			(or tar xvf - if you want)

You don't need the little link if you do it that way.
-- 
                                    +      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
                                    |      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
                                    |   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
                                    + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a PC to support Linux and X386
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
	<6080@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:58:12 GMT

In article <6080@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:
	  avoid DTK motherboards

Do you know what is wrong with them? I have a DTK based machine, and I
keep getting unexpected hd interrupts a lot. Could the motherboard be
the cause?
--
Pertti Kellom\"aki (TeX format)  #       These opinions are mine, 
  Tampere Univ. of TeXnology     #              ALL MINE !
      Software Systems Lab       #  (but go ahead and use them, if you like)


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erb@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb)
Subject: Re: Microsoft bus mouse support
Organization: Institut fuer Nachrichtensysteme, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:25:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.143920.952@rock.concert.net>, cole@concert.net (Derrick C. Cole) writes:
|> Greetings!
|> 
|> After receiving only two responses to my previous post about Microsoft bus
|> mouse support under Linux/X11 (and those were requesting a copy of what I had)
|> I'd like to post the question again:
|> 
|> Does anyone have the Microsoft bus mouse working under Linux/X11?  If so,
|> please share your knowledge!
|> 

The driver doesn't find my Microsoft bus mouse while booting - all irq's 
are ok, no conflicts. I'm running 0.97pl1 with tcp/ip.8.

Any hints?

Olaf
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com>
Subject: Re: printing from IBM ProPrinter x24
Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:46:56 GMT

In regards to your question about LF's in Unix, there are a couple of options:
a full blown lpr/lpd combiniation will pretty much take care of it for you,
combined with a good printcap entry.  Another option is to run the code through
a sed script that appends a CR to each line and then pipe the output of the
sed script to the printer.

I wrote a program in C for my HP DeskJet that reads a file(s) or stdin and appends
a CR to each line and then writes the data to /dev/lp and it works like a charm.
Would have been quicker with a sed script, but I didn't have sed at the time :-(

-kwh-
-- 
Kevin W. Hammond
hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com

  CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: Re: Minicom and X?
Keywords: Minicom X Arrowkeys
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:07:48 GMT

In article <whitney2.715389864@husc10> whitney2@husc10.harvard.edu (Wayne Whitney) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm somewhat new to X, having run Linux a while without it, and I
>noticed a small discrepancy between Minicom's behavior running in an
>xterm and running not under X: mimciom doesn't recognize the arrow
>keys while running under an xterm (this makes it difficult to navigate
>the menus, as well as send the arrow keys to a remote host).  Just
>using the arrow keys at the command line bash prompt of an xterm works
>OK, though.  Does anyone know how to change this behaviour?  Thanks.
>
>Wayne Whitney
>whitney2@husc.harvard.edu
>
>-- 
>---
>Wayne Whitney
>whitney2@husc.harvard.edu

Yes, you need to learn using X. I suggest 
X window System User Guide by O'Reilly Associates.
For now, if you running TWM , hit control-middle
mouse key and "enable applications cursor keys".
Good luck.
				Rafal


-- 
/|| Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity 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.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: danielce@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel AMP Carosone)
Subject: more questions about dynamic buffercache (was: Up and Running linux)
Keywords: Up and Running linux info. needed
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:20:11 GMT

trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:

>    Well, actually I have 16 MB of RAM, and just for kicks since I have
>tons of disk space (envy me :)) I even put on an 8 MB swap partition.  As
>far as I know, I've never come /anywhere/ near even getting into the swap,
>with X running several (8-10) clients and doing kernel compiles at the
>same time.

I've been wondering about this.

I've just reinstalled my linux system on a machine with 12Mb of
memory, and didn't enable any paging space on disk.

However, with dynamic buffercache, would it still be beneficial to
have at least a small amount of swapspace, even if my memory
requirements don't exceed the capacity of silicon?

Will Linux (0.97.1+) page out old data pages in favour of buffer blocks?

I'm thinking of things like login shells that start up emacs and then
do nothing for the next several days, or processes that get left idle
on far-away, forgotten VC's. The text pages are quite possibly going
to be shared, and paged from the executable anyway, but what about
data? A large, forgotten emacs buffer? A memory-intensive program or
perl script stopped for debugging, while compilation goes on
elsewhere? 


_______________________________________________________________________________
Daniel AMP Carosone.      email: danielce@ee.mu.oz.au     snail: 37 Wandin Road
Computer/Software Eng,      IRC: Waftam                         Camberwell 3124
University of Melbourne.    Vox: +61 3 882 8910                       Australia