HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
Subject: Re: Possible Kernel bug
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:50:23 GMT

jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE) writes:


>Here is the problem:
>
>I will be typing along in any of the 3 linux windows on the DECstation end and
>periodically the shell seems to lock up.  By this I mean that you can hit return
>multiple times and nothing happens (No scrolling, no prompt, nothing).  You can
>wait for several (30?) seconds and nothing happens.  If you move to the other 2
>windows and press return in each of these windows, then the locked up window
>comes back to life.  When it comes back, it remembers everything that you typed
>into it while it was locked up.  Then you can type for a few minutes and the
>window locks up again.  Any of the 3 windows will lock up, not just the telnet
>windows.  If I logout of the telnet windows and leave the Xterm running, things
>seem to work fine.
>
>Thought someone might want to know
>
>Jim Nance

I have this exact same problem with 0.99.2.

   - David Summers

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                         "Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon
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dws@engr.uark.edu         - Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"
From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: UUGetty
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:25:15 GMT
Organization: WEFUNK, The Mothership Connection - Franklin Park, NJ


	Ok, I'm here to annoy again :-)

	I'm trying to get the uugetty that comes with SLS4 working
on my system.  Unfortunately, there is not a man page on it to be
found.  So, if there is a FAQ that includes this UUGetty, could 
some kind soul please mail it to me?

	Else, anyone who's gotten it working, could I get some mail?

Danke.

Mitch

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ludwig@wefunk.rent.com                   500,000 kilowatts of P-Funk Power!
Running Linux v.99
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From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Problem: ps/2 mouse
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:40:02 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <1993Jan11.041355.4284@e2big.mko.dec.com> pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau) writes:
>
>I've finally gotten X running under Linux 0.98pl5 on my wd90c30.  Now I'm
>having trouble with the mouse.
>
>/usr/X386/tst/mouse/mouse returns garbage as I move the mouse around.
>When X comes up, the mouse just jumps around, mostly along the top of the
>screen.  It doesn't respond to button presses.
>
>Anyone know what's wrong?

I saw this when I told tst/mouse/mouse or Xconfig that the mouse was
MouseSystems mouse when it was in Microsoft mode.  Do you have a
MS/Mousesystems switchable serial mouse?  I'm assuming you do.  Make sure the
mode of the mouse corresponds correctly!  If your mouse has a physical switch
to change its mode you're a really lucky person, and the procedure is obvious.
If not, then you will need to make sure you set the mode on power-up, usually
by holding down a mouse button.  On my system, I can also get the mouse into
MouseSystems 3-button mode by holding the middle button down while starting X.
In fact, I need to do this _every_ time.

For some mice, this can be done by a small program written by Rob Nation.
Plenty of people out there have this program (I don't, so don't ask me; it
didn't work on my system).

Hope this helps.

Tim.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:20:17 GMT

In article <C0BHKA.MKM@world.std.com> jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>In article <memo.837633@cix.compulink.co.uk> jburtona@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>>DOS emulation
>>Rather than running a copy of MSDOS in an virual 8086, wouldn't it be 
>>nice to have a free dos-like operating system that was capable of
>>running DOS programs?
>
>Part-II:  Why not think of the problem this way instead?
>
>Which programs from the DOS world are needed so that people will give-up
>MS-DOS?  I can think of these:
> [list of programs deleted]

Everyone has their own pet MS-DOS programs (WP and Quicken come to
mind), which is one very good reason for a DOS emulator.  The other
for for people such as myself who have to WRITE programs for MS-DOS.
Many of my clients are running DOS, and have no intention of
installing Linux.  What I want to be able to do is program for DOS
under Linux.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if TP 6.0 runs under the current
emulator? 

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 18:56:42 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

fingon@pcuf.fi (Markus Stenberg) writes:
> At first I tried Coherent. It looked nice, installed easily, but
> had some problems w/ my SCSI-drive. But then I tried to compile some
> of UNIX sources I've got. NO SUCCESS! I succeeded in compiling only
> really bare-bones software.

Until relatively recently, Coherent was a clone of *V7* Unix.  Needless to
say (I do hope!  --Perhaps V7 is unknown to anyone except us old fogies
nowadays) most modern programs require features missing from that ancient
system.

Recent Coherent claims to support at least SVR2 (still rather ancient, these
days) and 4.0 almost has to support SVR3.2 to some extent in order to run
SCO binaries.  But it still lacks (next version is claimed to have)
networking (sockets) and graphics.

++Brandon
(and no, I'm *not* a Coherent evangelist!  I'm just trying to set the facts
somewhat straighter than they have been so far.  Which is not to say that
I've had the final word from above on the matter.)

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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Adaptec 1542B config?
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:08:23 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Hello,

  Re: Adaptec 1542B

  1)  To use 1542B w/Linux 0.99pl2 kernel with SCSI support compiled in
      (1542B controller), should BIOS be enabled or disabled?

  2)  Are there ANY docs describing proper configuration of 1542B for Linux?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Subject: ANSWER/APOLOGY: (Was Re: how to set temp variable?
Organization: a2i network
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:56:39 GMT

In <1993Jan7.034504.27098@sfu.ca> wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:

>    Well, if I'm correct, linking /tmp to the new partition isn't gonna do
>you alot of good.  What you need to do is do a 'mount /dev/hd?? /tmp', 
>I think.  Right after you've done a 'mkfs -c /dev/hd?? <blocks>'.

>    Guys, am I correct on this matter?  Or did I screw up big time with
>that answer?  

that seems to be correct.  I however mounted a /dev/hd onto /usr/tmp, not
/tmp.  It seems to be working well; xv and cjpeg/djpeg can write their tmp
files no problem.  (I have a 5 meg partition mounted to /usr/tmp btw).

Sorry for posting Unix general questions to this newsgroup. . . I will post
future non-Linux related q's to comp.os.unix.questions (sic?).


-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: FP-emulator problem with smlnj-0.91
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:12:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.191838.10819@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
>
>  # smlnj
>  Standard ML of New Jersey, Version 0.91, October 26, 1992
>  This is an alpha version for Linux (built with Linux 0.98.1).
>  val it = () : unit
>  - 2.0; 
>  Unimplemented FPU Opcode at eip=0003B144 : dc d4 (d0+4)
>
>  uncaught exception Div

Wow.  What are you (or rather smlnj) doing that results in that
operation? The fp-operation DC D4 isn't a normal floating point
instruction, although it does actually execute the "fcom st(4)"
instruction on a real coprocessor.  The official code for "fcom st(4)"
is D8 D4, and the DC D4 sequence shouldn't be used. 

It sounds like either:
 - gas gives the wrong opcode for "fcom st(4)".  Not likely, as at
   least the gas I use gives the correct D8 D4 sequence.
 - the smlnj port doesn't know how to use assembler, and coded the
   instructions directly in binary, and used the unofficial opcodes.
   Does smlnj do this kind of thing?
 - smlnj just contains some bug and happens to jump to an address that
   countains garbage.  Unlikely, if this happened with different
   versions. 
 - smlnj does something else weird.

Anyway, it could be seen as a misfeature of the math emulator not to
emulate the unofficial codes, so I'll look into it anyway.  But I'd
suggest the smlnj people use the standard opcodes in any case. 

		Linus
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: need Xconfig for Diamond Speedstar
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:22:01 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov> writes:


>ok, I know you're out there.....
>seriously, could one of you with a Gateway2000, CrystalScan1024ni, and
>the Dreaded Diamond Speedstar video card email me your Xconfig file?
>Thanks In Advance,

>Alex.
>kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov

Sorry to have to tell you this, but as far as I know the Diamond Speedstar
is not supported. Nor, will it ever be supported in XFree86 because of
the way diamond acts about releasing specs.

I haven't heard any success stories about running one, so I'm not
real sure if it will. With the variable dot clocks, X can't seem to lock
down the screen correctly.

James
From: smp@myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: ka9q: ftp progress markers?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Proud Linux Site, Milwaukee WI
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 17:46:25 +0100

tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:
: I'm using ka9q to do SLIP (linux .99p2 kernel) ftp. is there a way to have
: ftp indicate its downloading progress as it goes along, in dos (which i dont
: use anymore) i could set it so a # was printed for every 1024bytes.
:   i'm using 19200bps with a mss of 1024 and window of 3072..works fine so
: far, havent tried to get any really big files. 
:   where is doc for some version of ka9q?

 You can do a "hash" at the net> prompt.  It's equivalent to "verbose 3".

--
Steven M. Palm
smp@myamiga.mixcom.com (LINUX SITE)
Milwaukee, WI
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:11:35 GMT

Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@lars.StOlaf.edu) wrote:
: In article <1iql03INNdm2@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rcopg@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Paul Gortmaker) writes:
: 	   Okay, it seems that the /proc based ps is the way to go. But what about
:    stuff like "top". Is it in the works for a /proc based version ??? Or will it
:    be okay with the previously posted patch? (Which BTW, I haven't tried yet... 
:    I'll brave it this afternoon.)

: Well, David Engel said that he'd do it as soon as he had time, and
: then it will be added to the procps distribution.

I am working on it, slowly.  The problem is that I haven't had a lot
of free time lately.  If somebody else wants to work on it, they
should go ahead.  I do have tload working though.  If anybody wants
it, they should send me email.

David
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david@ods.com                      1101 E. Arapaho Road
(214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault??? Just what is it?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:49:50 GMT

KK4D%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (me) writes:

>I compiled mpeg_play and it worked fine, at about 300+K, so I recompiled
>and relinked it with the shared libraries, 160ishK, but when I try to
>run it I get a segmentation fault. I've seen this before.  Pardon my
>ignorance, but what is it and why?  I have been able to compile and
>run other progs. with the shared libraries.

Be easy on me, guys, I'm no guru (yeah, I know it'll be answered by someone
more knowledgeable, but I thought I may as well anyway, just in case...)

A Seg Fault occurs when you try to access somewhere outside the memory bounds
of your process (usually a case of pointers being used incorrectly...:( )

In recent versions of Linux, the kernel checks against programs that try to
write to their code area, which is where string constants are held - some
programs will write to string constants, and can usually get away with it
(but not since 0.98p4 in Linux)

If this is the case, add -fwritable-strings to the gcc call and it'll be ok


But this sounds kinda weird if it only works statically....
I can't help you with that bit..

Happy learning !

Cos !

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Communications for 14.4k modem (kermit patch anyone?)
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:14:19 GMT

   From: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
   Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:09:22 GMT


	   Are there any Communications programs out there for
   linux which will let me set my modem speed to 57,600???  

Step 1)  Grab the "setserial.tar.Z" file from tsx-11, in 
	/sources/sbin/setserial.tar.Z.  (this is a relatively new
	version; if your version is more than a week or two old, grab
	this one.  :-)

Step 2)  Either compile setserial.c, or extract the included binary.

Step 3)  run "setserial /dev/ttysXX SPD_HI"

Step 4) Run any communication program which supports 38400 bps, and set
	the speed to 38400; the serial port will really be going at
	57.6kb.

If you want to use 115kb, type "setserial /dev/ttysXX SPD_VHI".  To
reset the serial port so that 38.4kb means 38.4kb, type "setserial
/dev/ttysXX SPD_NORMAL".

To set 38.4kb to mean any serial rate you want, calculate the divisor
for the uart as by dividing 1843200 by the desired baud rate, and then
type (substituting the divisor for dddd) "setserial /dev/ttysXX SPD_CUST
divisor dddd".

						- Ted

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: doni@netcom.com (Donald R. Ingenito)
Subject: [Q] Actix GE32 and XS3 server
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:37:15 GMT

    I am having no luck in getting the XS3 server to work with my new
Actix GE32. The card is brand new and I have tried v0.1 and 0.2b of
the Linux Xs3 server. This is not a timing problem. The server runs
and I get a crisp centered screen. Of course I've uncompressed my
fonts and made sure that virtual 1024x768 is all over my Xconfig :-).

    The problem is, part of the screen is corrupted. I know about the
cache conflict and my virtual is set correctly. When the server boots
up, the left side of the screen is okay, but the right side repeats
slices of itself. It looks sorta like a timing problem but everything
on the screen is steady and clear, and the mouse cursor does not
exhibit this problem. That is the mouse cursor does not get corrupted
and begin to repeat itself as it is moved to the right of the screen.
All other windows do.

    Furthermore, although the fist window to get put on the screen has
the correct title-bar font, subsequent windows have the font in the
title-bar corrupted *shrug*. In addition if I have two separate
1024x768 modes in my Xconfig, and I switch beetween them with
"ctrl-alt-+" I sometimes find that my virtual screen is now longer
than 768 pixels and I can scroll down and see what can only be the 
font cache.

    Also if I put the line "Virtual 1150x900" in my Xconfig I get an
error about how the screen must have a width of 1024 and cannot be
longer that 768. But I can put the line "Virtual 768x1024" and nothing
happens. In fact the program starts and I see the same strange
behavior on the screen. Perhaps the server is parsing the Xconfig
incorrectly? 

    I have tried many timing configurations, and I do not think this
is where the problem lies. I am using Linux 99p2, and the new shared
libs. Perhaps I should try a recompile with 2.3.3? Could someone point
me towards the source for XS3-0.2b? When I try to use 0.1, the server
freezes as soon as twm takes over. One strange thing tho. 0.1 produces
the X stipple pattern on bootup, 0.2b just gives me a black screen
with the mouse cursor. I am using linux on a 486/50 with 16megs of
RAM.

    Ahh well, this message got a little long. Thanks for reading if
you got this far :-). Any help would be greatly appreciated. I find
the whole thing confusing because as I understood it the Actix GE 32
was something of a de-facto standard amongst the people developing
X-S3. Perhaps the card has undergone some design changes? Anyway,
thanks again.
From: operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.99 patch 2 or GCC 2.3.3 problem?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 03:00:52 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

I recently patched my 0.99.1 source with the patch for level 2.  I knew I
was probably headed for trouble when I got the infamous "previously applied
patch" message in the middle of patching.  Anyway, I also recently installed
gcc 2.3.3.  When I made the kernel, I got an error in unix.c -- wrong number
of arguments to one of the functions.  Well, I examined the diff file and
my source file and discovered the problem and fixed it...I think.  When I
recompiled, everything went great down to the final link, where I got a
undefined symbol _read_exec in fs.o.  Now, is this a problem with my 
linux source, or is it a problem with my gcc 2.3.3 installation.  I am 
using the i486 libraries and binaries, which I'm not entirely sure I 
installed correctly.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Jeff Little
operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples)
Subject: Re: Root User ID
Reply-To: tep@engr.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas
Organiztion: University of Arkansas, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:32:44 GMT

albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:

>I have a program that checks for the "Root User ID" to make sure it isn't
>zero. (Dunno why, but...)    Anyway, in the standard SLS install, the root
>user was assigned the ID of 0, daemon 1, etc.. etc...  Is there any way
>that I can reassign the user ID of root or maybe give it a different number
>in /etc/passwd?  Or do I have to change my software to allow the root as 
>ID 0.
>  
>Thanks
>
>Albion
> .
>

   By definition, the account with user ID zero is the super-user account.
You can give that account any "login ID" you like, but if the user ID is zero
then that will be the "root" account.

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| tep@engr.uark.edu                    | to talk of many things,             |
| Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering| of simms and sockets and semaphores |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | of processes and pings....          |
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|    I need no disclaimer; nobody listens to what I have to say anyway!!     |
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From: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn T. Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Will Ghostscript do what I want?
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:52:21 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I would like to print postscript output on my Panasonic 24-pin printer.
Is ghostscript what I want? How does it work, is it difficult to install,
and what is its functionality? I guess what I'm looking for is the GS
FAQ  :).... can anyone tell me where to get it?

-Glenn

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
Subject: Backspace in EMACS under X11
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:22:37 GMT
Keywords: EMACS X11

I've just recently downloaded the version of EMACS for X11 and have a problem.
When I run EMACS under X, my backspace is treated as Control-h (EMACS help).
What is really strange is that my backspace works normally if I start EMACS
outside of X. I've have read FAQs, man pages, etc. with no solution found.
Any ideas?

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.std.c
From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: Library 4.1 bug/feature?  fopen("fifo","a") fails
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 07:16:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.020515.7341@ods.com> david@ods.com (David Engel) writes:
>H.J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) wrote:
>: Have you tried my test code? Some Unices just ignore lseek (). FIFO is just
>: one type of file, on which lseek cannot be done. We have char devices and
>: sockets. I prefer stdio should not know so much details about the kernel.
>
>I tried it under SVR4 and it also reports an error in lseek when run
>on a fifo.
>
>David
>-- 
>David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
>david@ods.com                      1101 E. Arapaho Road
>(214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081


I can fix stdio to handle fopen(fifo, "a") since lseek returns with
errno == ESPIPE on fifo and pipe. But how about tty and socket? I
prefer all of them return with errno == ESPIPE.

That is a known `featuree/bug' in stdio.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ppc1@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
Subject: adduser
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:57:54 GMT

hello,

can anyone tell me how to add new user?

i am trying to install X and it says in the FAQ that i need to make a Xconfig
in my home directory... so i think i need to create a new user.  i tried the
add new user option in the menu but it says it can't find adduser...

what should i do?

hope someone can help me out...

thanks!

peter


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stuart@bfsun1.eglin.af.mil (stuart shapiro)
Subject: Xconfig for NEC 2A and ATI Wonder XL24
Reply-To: stuart@bfsun1.eglin.af.mil (stuart shapiro)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:08:30 GMT


Hi,

Does anyone have a Xconfig for a NEC 2A with a ATI card with 1 meg of ram?

Thanks
Stuart
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux