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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: script for ttys modem call-in/call-out
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:57:01 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <1992Dec28.071555.7279@exucom.com> bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck) writes:
>
>  Since the Linux wizards can't seem to creat a uugetty that will work 
>for callin and call out use this script.  It will check if uugety has a
>lock, then kill the old uugetty & init, call kermit (or your favorite)
>and when finished reinstall uugetty and reinit back to call in mode.
>All it needs is a inittab.old in /etc which is just a copy of inittab
>without the uugetty of your ttys?.  You may need to change the ttys0 in
>the script to your ttys#.
>
>
>
>if [ ! -s /usr/spool/uugetty ]
>then
>  cp /etc/inittab.old /etc/inittab
>  kill -1 1
>  ps > xx
>  awk '/s1/ {print "kill "$1}' xx >yy
>  chmod 777 yy
>  yy
>  rm xx yy
>  kermit
>  echo ttys1:vt100:/etc/uugetty ttys1 2400 >> /etc/inittab
>  kill -1 1
>else
>  echo modem busy
>fi

"uugetty" from "getty_ps" package (sunsite and/or tsx-11) works great!
Uses file-locking to coordinate with Kermit & UUCP.
It is a Good Thing (tm)!

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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:31:15 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <1992Dec28.185020.27458@Princeton.EDU> bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
>In article <FURNISH.92Dec25222554@dino.ph.utexas.edu> furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish) writes:
>>In article ... (Stefano Ianigro) writes:
>>
>>   In article .. (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
>>
>>      In article ... tglovie@sail.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
>>      >Hello,
>>      >
>>      >I was wondering if there is such a beast as a postscript to ascii
>>      >converter?  
>>
>>      There's something called ps2txt.  The results are pretty ugly,
>>      but look better after piping through fmt.  Sorry, I don't know
>>      where to get it.
>>
>>      Barbara Vaughan
>>
>>   I think a better solution is to grab the psf-package. It can be
>>   used as a filter system for PostScript-printers and as a converter
>>   for ASCII->PostScript.  You'll find it on several ftp-servers. The
>>   current version is psf-3.5
>>
>>For another data point, I use something called a2ps.  Use archie to
>>find it, I can't remember where I got it.
>>
>
>Isn't the original poster asking for the reverse, i.e. PS to ascii?
>
>Barbara Vaughan


You can get ps2txt with SWI-Prolog.  Get IAFA-LIST* from sunsite.unc.edu
or ls-lR from tsx-11.mit.edu and fgrep for "swi".  That will tell you
name of swi-prolog package.  Download it, and locate the ps2txt program.
If memory servers, it is in a doc or man directory.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jdoss@jmd386.lonestar.org (Joe M. Doss)
Subject: Re: expr broken -> trouble with cnews
Organization: JD's home system
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:43:37 GMT

In article <BzIH6M.9Hv@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
>Hello!
>
>Expr have a problem with the command
>
>      expr <number> : '.*\(.....\)$'
>
>when the matched part of <number> start with the character '0'.
>This causes trouble with the cnews-scripts 'recovact' and 'upact'.
>
>For a temporary fix you can replace the offending lines with
>
>      min=`echo 00000$min | sed 's/.*\(.....\)$/\1/'` ;;  # upact
>
>and 
>
>      max="`echo 0000000000$new | sed 's/.*\('$dots'\)$/\1/'`"  # recovact
>
>Is there any patch for expr to cure the problem instead of the symptoms?
>
>Greetings
>    Sepp
>

This was fixed with version 1.7 of the GNU shellutils.  Just get the lastest
version (I think it's 1.8, now) from your friendly neighborhood GNU archive,
run config & make.

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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: serial ports - in/out
Date: 27 Dec 1992 10:42:44 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Use getty_ps' "uugetty"

marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
[...]
>	How can Linux do dialin/dialout on the same /dev/ttysX?  If
>you look in /dev, you will notice that there is only the one set
>of tty's (ttys1, ttys2, etc).  On the commercial Unixes(sp?) as well
>as after installing FAS, there are two, one for dialin and one for
>dialout (ttyF01&ttyFM01).  So, I have a getty running on ttyFM01 for
>someone to log in on, and I have my uucico's dialing out on ttyF01.

I've never heard of ttyF*...

You can use "uugetty" (in the gettyps package) for your serial lines
where you'd like to dial out.  It was designed to allow for outgoing
connections, and uses the same lock-files as the uucp suite.

Make sure you get the latest one, since the old one is broken under
any of the more recent kernels.  It's on tsx-11.mit.edu under (I think)
the directory /pub/linux/sources/sbin.

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: [BUG] with fdisk -l
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 09:08:46 GMT


I just noticed a bug in fdisk (comes from one of HJ's disks i think - it's linked with jump
tables 4.1) - when I did fdisk -l, I got the following (courtesy of those wonderful selection
patches) :


Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 17 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 255 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *       1       1     161   20519    4  DOS 16-bit <32M
/dev/hda2         162     162     362   25627+  81  Linux/MINIX
/dev/hda3         363     363     491   16447+   5  Extended
/dev/hda4         492     492    1001   65025   81  Linux/MINIX
/dev/hda5         363     363     427    8287   81  Linux/MINIX
/dev/hda6         428     428     491    8159+  82  Linux swap
Ignoring extra extended partition 2

Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 17 sectors, 755 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 272 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1           1       1     490   66631+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2         491     491     754   35904    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5         363     340     401    8287   81  Linux/MINIX
/dev/hdb6         428     401     461    8159+  82  Linux swap


-- Note that /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb6 are the same as the ones from /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6
 - that's because they ARE the ones from /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6
 - my REAL /dev/hdb partition table looks like this (from fdisk /dev/hdb then a 'p') :


Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 17 sectors, 755 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 272 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1           1       1     490   66631+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2         491     491     754   35904    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5         491     491     754   35895+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M


-- That's more like it !

Nothing serious, but I just thought someone might like to know...


Enjoy !

Cos !

 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: 890025d@dragon.acadiau.ca (Andy DeWolfe)
Subject: READING A STACKER DRIVE
Keywords: STACKER
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:41:43 GMT

	A while ago, I remember reading that someone had
been able to either mout a stacked drive, use mtools on it,
or get the dos emulator to work with it.  Can whoever that was
send me some info, or anyone else who can do it.
-Andy
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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: xload for SLS version .99?
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:20:28 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


 have gotten SLS Linux version .99 with xwindows running (twm) on my pc.
What I am looking for now is xload. I thought it came with the sls distribution
but I could not find it anywhere. I found an xload binary on wuarchive and tsx-11
but it wont run under my version of the X. I have the same problem with Xconquer
Is there a version either in binaries or source which will compile and run
under the SLS distributed stuff? PLease let me know. Thanks

Oh and how do I configure my twmrc file so both of my microsoft mouse buttons
can be used for menus? Can I use control , Land Alternate keys to give me four more
buttons also? Could someone send me a copy of there twmrc file that has at least
the two buttons being used for menus? Thanks 

Are there any good comm programs that support 14,400 bps and higher modem speeds
plus z-modem file transfers. Preferably one that is easier to use than kermit?
Thaks

Ed Boykin
ccasted@prism.gatech.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 19:28:09 GMT

In article <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu> dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry) writes:
>In article <marcf.725421090@yorku.ca>, marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>|> 
>|> 	We are fooling around with things right now, and have just
>|> noticed a weird problem...when you send email to a user, the
>|> ownership is incorrect, so that the receiver can not even read his 
>|> email :(
>|> 
>|> 	I just sent user from my account to another, and I am now
>|> the owner of his mail folder.  
>|> 
>
>I'm having the same problem, also after "fooling around".  Specifically,
>I moved several binaries between /bin and /etc/bin (after copying both
>directories to a safe place in case I broke something).  Mail broke,
>so I restored the saved directories.  Mail's still broke as Marc described.
>
>Sigh.  Did someone say something about not fixing what ain't broke?
>
>-- dlh


to set up user1 for mail try

	touch /usr/spool/mail/user1
	chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/user1
	chown user1 /usr/spool/mail/user1

Someday soon, a real adduser script will be crafted, to do this.
Do not use the old adduser.  Discard it now.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: splee@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Seng-Poh Lee)
Subject: Re: Can't get uucp working with 0.99p1/2
Organization: Alchemy International
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:02:17 GMT

ARIT ISMAIL (iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu) wrote:
> you might want to compile the code with 
> 
> -fwritable-strings

I did.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern)
Subject: Re: happy new year, 93
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 08:31:30 EST

In article <1993Jan1.070954.5564@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>Well, first happy new year (it's 11:00 pm here).  Thanks to all the
>posts and letters of support for SLS.  Just for the record though,
>more than anything else, I am acting as a system integrator, rather
>than a system developer.  I don't even compile it myself, if I can 
>find it already compiled on tsx or sunsite.   So SLS is really more
>a synthesis of many of your efforts.  I really only stoop to "doing
>it myself" when I absolutely have to.  So all of you who have 
>contributed to Linux and SLS to make it what it is, congratulations.  
>Keep up the good work.
>
>Peter

You're too modest, Peter :).  Seriously, your contribution to Linux has
probably been the most significant of all.  Happy new year.

						-Larry Stern

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: Screwy characters after accidentally typing a binary?
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:42:27 +0000

In article <1h31dtINN1gu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner) writes:
> 
> 	Every once in a while, I try to type a binary file
> and my charcters all get shifted to graphics.  Upper case
> is OK, and if I logout and login with ALL CAPS, it will
> run and I can read everything again (without lower case,
> of course).  Is there any way to fix this?  It only happens on
> one VC, the rest are fine.
> 
> 	I have had this problem with other unix systems
> and never learned how to fix it.
> 
> 				Scott Heavner
> -- 
> HELP! I'm being held prisoner in a .sig file factory.
> 

Yep, BTDT.  I don't know either, but I'd love to know the answer....

Alan.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: derry@beaufort.sfu.ca (Andrew Derry)
Subject: Re: Request: Need Xconfig for ATI VGA Wonder 512K
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:25:11 GMT

paul@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Paul Lalonde) writes:

>Subject says it all.  I'm a little bewildered by LINUX (SLS distribution)
>at the moment, and configuring X for my video card is just a little out of
>my league at the moment!

>If someone could Email a copy of Xconfig, it would be appreciated!

In the FAQ, you will find that the Xconfig for ATI is at :

ftp.cs.unc.edu in /pub/faith/linux/x386

Cheers

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
Subject: Re: "the `gets' function is unreliable and should not be used"??!!!
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:22:42 GMT

In article <C058sJ.Fuu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dld54032@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dave Dribin) writes:
>I was trying to compile some programs that I had written for class on
>a Sun Sparc and compile using gcc, and I kept getting this error that
>the `gets' function is unreliable.  How can it be unreliable!  It won't
>even work with this simple program:
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>main() {
>	char str[256];
>
>	gets(str);
>	puts(str);
>
>	return(0);
>}
>
>I am using SLS Linux v99.0.  Did I install anything wrong, or is the function
>really unreliable.  I would think that all the standard ASNI functions would
>be reliable!  Thanx in andvance, and happy new year...

    Well, it's reliable in the sense that it does what you want it to (get a
string) but it's unreliable in the sense that it can cause trouble. Basically
the gcc message stems from the fact that gets() just reads the string into
a memory location without any regard to how much can be fit there without
causing memory violations. On the other hand, fgets() has a handy argument
that lets you limit how many characters can be read. So as for your program,
you probably would rather:

#include <stdio.h>

main() {
       char str[256];

       fgets(str, 256, stdin);
       puts(str);

       return(0);
}

    With your original program, if I typed 1000 characters, it would probably
casue a SEGV and dump core. With the version I just typed up here, it would
just read the first 255 characters (it acutally reads n - 1, so there is room
for a '\0') and continue happily.

    I happen to think the gcc error message is a tad annoying, but it's
only trying to be helpful. I get the impression that once people saw the
problems gets() could cause they'd try to stamp out its use forever by
just reminding people over and over again why it is a bad thing. :)

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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SED is buggy (libc.so.4.2 bug ?)
Date: 24 Dec 92 12:11:56 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In the old SLS 0.98pl5 distribution, sed seemed to have hardware dependant
problems.  I was *trying* to compile the latest SWI-Prolog on both a 386
with '86 BIOS and a 486 with '91 BIOS, both AMI BIOS.  Sed acted quite
"weird" on 386, but ran perfectly on 486.  Only sed seemed buggy on the
386.  Everything else was OK.  

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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Bootable floppy
Date: 28 Dec 92 00:11:40 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Hi,
 
  Anyone out there know how to make a bootable Linux floppy?  I made one
according to the instructions that come with the GCC rootdisk, modifying
them as required for LILO 0.7.  It crashes as follows:

   LILO Loading Image...
      ...etc...
   Insert root floppy and press ENTER
   Linux version 0.99.pl1-47 (root@woody) 12/26/92 11:46:59
   init: exec rc failed     <--- Dies here!

Any ideas???

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: ne2000 packetdriver ?
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:32:12 GMT

I have a NS8390-chip-ethercard driver in alpha test.  This
driver supports the following cards:
	* 3c503 Etherlink II
	  3c503/16
	  National Semiconductor 8390x evaluation boards
	* NE2000 clones
	  NE1000 clones
	  Some Cabletron cards

	* I have access to these types of ethercards, and can test the
	driver with them.

It should be easy to modify to support HP cards, but I can only borrow
a 10BaseT HP card, and so can't test it.

This driver will only work with 8390-based ethercards.  It will not
support ethercards based on the following chips:

	AMD LANCE
	Intel 82586
	Seeq 8001 (the 3Com 3c501)
	3Com designed ASICs (the 3c509)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Graphics Ultra and Kernel modify
Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:29:44 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I2010301@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de writes:

>In article <axel.724948573@kaa>
>axel@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla) writes:
> 
>>I'am a (obviously little stupid) new user of linux.
>>
>Ok, first of all, don't post a long text like your Xconfig.
>It's no help to find out your problem - it only makes your
>posting unreadable.
>

I think this can be one of the worst attitudes to give people. If someone
has a problem setting up something like X, where the Xconfig has to be
exactly right 90% of the time posting the file sure helps.

Granted it makes for a longer post, but it sure clears up a lot of questions
for people wanting to help answer.

James 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler)
Subject: Useradd help in SLS ???
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:39:07 GMT

Hey,
	Can someone please help me figure out exactly how to use the useradd utility works?  I am using the SLS version with 0.99 kernel.  When I keep trying
to add names, I can't ever log into thems.  I hjust get an error message saying it can't change to password.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

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From: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ANSWER: Screwy characters after accidentally typing a binary?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 04:15:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


	Here is a summary of the responses I received when I asked
how to recover your original character set after accidentally typing
a binary or if Kermit spits something strange at you.  I've found
the _first_ one to be the best for two reasons:

	1) It works (not all the others worked for my terminal type
                     and I did not have the reset command which was
                     suggested)

	2) It's short + simple.

	Thanks to all who replied.

----------
From: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)
also From: "Richard D. Yentis" <ryentis@seas.gwu.edu>
>
>	echo "^V^O"
>
>	control-V should be the "literal next" character, and ^O is some 
>mystic VT100 control sequence that switches back int oalpha.
----------
From: nobody@Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley)
>
>When you inadvertantly screw up your CLI, type the command reset at the
>prompt.  This will reset your terminal settings (for a VC as well).
----------
From hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil Mon Dec 21 02:08:40 1992
>
>The escape sequence to reset a VC is ESC-c.  If you're running bash, 
>
> echo -e '\33c'
>
>will fix it.  I'm not sure about the syntax for other shells, but they
>all should have something similar.  This is a good candidate for an
>alias if you do it alot (like I do).
----------
From: Kurt Hockenbury <KHOCKENBURY@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU>
>
>This is a FAQ.  Under bash, try clearing the screen by typing "echo ^v<ESC>c", 
>where ^v is control-v and <ESC> is your escape key.  This is the vt100 clear 
>terminal sequence.
----------
From: ed@orca.wimsey.bc.ca (Ed Rodda)
>
>echo "\133\126\033\143"
----------
From: jsp@math.ksu.edu (Jeff S. Pihl)
>
>Try this:
>
>Save this to a file ( /usr/local/bin/reset )
>Edit it, and replace the ^O and ^[ with embeded control characters.
>(If you're using vi, type "i ctrl-v ctrl-O <esc>" to embed a ^O into the text)
>chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/reset
>run it when you need to.
>
-------8<-----snip------8<-----
#!/bin/sh
echo ^O^[[r
clear
-------8<-----snip------8<-----

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HELP! I'm being held prisoner in a .sig file factory.