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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: PC + DOS Emulator Source Code for UNIX
From: wrb@teal.csn.org (William R. Bishop)
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:52:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.msdos
Organization: William R. Bishop
Keywords: DOS, UNIX, Emulate
XPosted: ccdps@levels.unisa.edu.au
XNewsgroups: comp.unix.msdos


  Greetings DOS-doers:

  I worked on a project for over a year to develop a PC AND DOS emulator 
under unix.  This was supposed to be our "BIG" break (and it just about broke
John Stevenson-jks@nomadic.com and I).  We both had a lot to learn about 
marketing.  A lot of your potential buyers got the shakes when Microsoft 
announced their effort to bring a DOS emulator to every machine (for free?).

Please post all responses to comp.unix.dos-under-unix or Email wrb@wrb.com

  It only emulates an XT (or most of one) and a monochrome display adapter,
though it was designed to be extended.  The code traps interrupts and executes 
UNIX code for the DOS interrupts (thus obviating the need for DOS).  
Many of the important DOS calls have been emulated, but quite a few have not.
We figured to use the code as a "wrapper" around PC packages, thereby only
needing to implement the calls that a particular package uses (and what do
you know, just like most compilers use only a small subset of a machines 
instructions, most programs use only a small subset of DOS calls).

It was developed on an SGI 3030, 4D/35, and Indigo so the keyboard and 
display I/O is tailored to these machines (GL).

It runs Quicken, most of WordPerfect and Microsoft word as it sits.  The 
mouse stuff still has a few problems.

  The code has been sitting on the shelf for a year or so now, waiting for
its "BIG" break.  I am posting this notice to see how many people would be
interested in using and improving it.   Also any suggestions on how to 
support it would be appreciated (like pearl?)


                William R. Bishop (Bill) -<wrb@wrb.com>
From: msains@ibis.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mounting linux partition from DOS
Summary: Is it possible to mount a linux filesystem from DOS
Keywords: mount DOS
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:30:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: ibis.msains.21.719004608
Organization: BIS Department, Rhodes University

It is certainly handy to be able to mount DOS partitions from
linux.  I was wondering if anyone has written a driver or other
software which will allow me to do the opposite, ie read, edit, 
write or otherwise access linux files and file systems from DOS.
ie DOS able to reach into the linux partitions on my hard disk.

Regards

Malcolm
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: getting Ingres to work without TCP/IP??
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:41:37 GMT

I added TCP/IP 0.8 to my kernel, but ingreslock just exits, and ingres
times out trying to get to the lock server. :(

What kind of magic do you have to do to get it to work?  I'm running 0.98p1,
without a network card...
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                  erc@apple.com                     801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: tardieu@stheno.enst.fr (Samuel Tardieu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux new user
Date: 11 Oct 92 00:42:19 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, France

I am an user of Linux since yesterday. I have the 0.97.1 version, and gcc 2.2.2
installed. 

I want to upgrade to the 0.98 version, and gcc 2.2.2d.
Which of linux or gcc must be installed at first ? I tried to install gcc 2.2.2d,
but when I type gcc -v it gives me a core dump.

Is it a bootable disk for the 0.98 version ? How to make my hard disk bootable ?

    Samuel

PS: Please answer via E-Mail. The news in France are 3 days late due to a
problem in the major site. I'll have break my computer before :-)
-- 
     Samuel TARDIEU  -  Telecom Paris  -  sam@enst.fr  -  (1) 45-81-71-97
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel)
Subject: Re: XFree86, SpeedStar Plus & 1024x768?? --> HELP!
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:52:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.024524.6473@wam.umd.edu> loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org () writes:
>Hi,
>  Has anyone been able to get a SpeedStar Plus to work with XFree86 at a
>resolution of 1024 x 768? It works fine at 640x480 and 800x600, but I can't
>get it to work at 1024x768?  It used to work fine at that resolution with
>X386 1.2 though?  Thanks,
>
>Jaime
>

My Diamond SpeedSTAR Plus HiColor (1M) works fine at 1024x768x256 non-
interlaced with X11v2.0.  I just copied the dotclock and config from 
modeDB.txt and it worked fine the first time.

My friends still can't believe I have actual X11R5 running on my
386 box.  One guy spent $200 to buy DESQview/X.  I feel sorry for
him.  :-)

-- Todd



-- 
Todd Radel                   | "Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed
CIS/English undergrad        | my father.  Prepare to die."
University of Delaware       | "STOP SAYING THAT!" 
A.I. duPont Institute, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE  19899
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch (Petri Juhani Riipinen)
Subject: No swapping in 0.98
Summary: Can`t get Linux 0.98 to swap...
Keywords: swap
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 08:21:46 GMT

Hello there.

I ftp`d Linux 0.98 SLS release last friday. After installing it couple of
times, I got the configuration, which satisfied me. But I can`t get it to
swap...!

I do this:   mkswap /dev/hda2 8619  (I don`t remember the exact number,
				     but it surely is the number reported
				     by fdisk...)
	     swapon /dev/hda2

And then, if I see free, it only shows the amount of RAM. And if I do
free -s, it says "no swap device" (or something like it)...

Now, I remember, that I made the swap space 8M. But does it have any
effect, if the swap space is not a multiple of something (512 bytes?)...?
The swapping worked just fine with 0.96c SLS, where I remember having done
the same things...

And then also, I can`t compile the kernel. It always stops to and internal
compiler error, and free shows, that free memory is in (almost) 0. So, I
assume, that not being able to compile the kernel has something to do with
the lack of swapping.

Oh, and sometimes the compiling stops to an error like: "unable to
swap" or something like it, I don`t remember.

So, what gives...?

- PJR -
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From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: usleep().....does linux have it???
Date: 10 Oct 1992 00:26:14 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu




just wondering :)

thanx alot

-- 
maThiEu a. LeWis    "ask me why and i'll die/and if you must go to work
cyber-mercenary      tomorrow/well, if i were you i wouldn't bother/for there
Thieves Like Us      are brighter sides to life/and I should know because I've
mal11@Po.cwru.edu    seen them/but not very often/am I still ill?"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: Mount in rc
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 04:15:18 GMT

In article <Iep5SJq00WAJAR1G57@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU> writes:
|> Why is it that I have to have "mount -a" TWICE in my /etc/rc?  For
|> some *stupid* reason, only putting it in once will do absolutely
|> *NOTHING*!  Why?
|> 
|>                                   -Brian
|> 
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> | "Are they dead?"                                                      |
|> | "Does it matter?"                                                     |
|> |   - Pugsley and Wednesday in "The Addams Family."                     |
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------


Check your /etc/fstab. Get the one on my bootable rootdisk, which, BTW, is
on tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk, and modify it according to your hd.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Subject: Are the XFree archives corrupted?
Reply-To: hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:39:03 GMT

| From: ucosmo@mcl.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin)
| Date: 7 Oct 92 05:15:01 GMT
| 
| I just downloaded the XFree distribution from tsx-11, and a strange thing
| has happened.  Several of the files (xbina, xfontsb, xfontsc) don't want
| to uncompress.  The rest of the files uncompress just fine, though.  Has
| anyone experienced the same problem?
| 
| --
|      - Boris
| (cosmo@cs.ucsb.edu)
| 

No, the files aren't corrupt.  I didn't have any problems at all - just did
what the README said to do, and everything worked fine.  Please, folks!
README is not just a catchy name.  You really *are* supposed to read it!
If you didn't download it with the rest of the stuff, then do yourself a
big favor and get it before you try anything else.  This is just the
first of *many* questions it answered for me.

    -Hutch

--------------------------------------
Bob Hutchinson                            
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
(hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: AST Fourports?
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:27:08 GMT

   From: rchen@sfu.ca
   Reply-To: rchen@sfu.ca

   What should an AST Fourport set me back.  I have found them here in
   Vancouver for CAN $595 (around US $475).  They call it an
   AST Fourport/AT Plus.  Is that what I want?  I heard that the
   cards were cheap ($600 seems a bit much for a few UARTS).  

Eeek.  That's seems to be way too expensive.  I got mine from a salvage
dealer for US $25.  I doubt they retailed for more than US $150 or so.
Either that price is a complete ripoff, or it's not the same board.  At
that price, you can buy "intelligent" serial boards which require much
less CPU power --- they handle a lot of the I/O grunge work, and use DMA
to send data to the CPU.  They are typically used when you want one CPU
to support 8-16 timesharing users; thus, having sufficient I/O bandwidth
and not tying up the CPU with serial line management are a big concern.

						- Ted
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.3bsd
From: cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein)
Subject: Re: SCSI controllers supported
Summary: Always: NEVER!
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 17:12:18 GMT

In article <ZH1KMRL@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Is the Always Technologies IN2000 compatible with either 386BSD or Linux?

	I have one myself and I'm afraid the answer is NO.
Apparently the people at Always are treating their interface
as entirely proprietary and are not willing to give out
programming specs.

	Perhaps a concerted effort on the part of some Always
owners (me, you (?), others...) might change their tune.
Anyone interested?

>Peter da Silva, Houston, TX            `-_-'
>Segodnja volka obnimal?                 'U`
>Du er ikke min vejviser. Min vejviser var tobenet.

-- 
[ Caleb Epstein ][ Davidge Data Systems Corp, New York, NY ][ cae@davidge.com ]
[      Someone's definitely jumping into the tub ... with your brother!       ]
From: mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: At last: the media woke up
Summary: Linux ISN'T PD.
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:55:21 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, CCS Dept.


	One note, Linux ISN'T Public Domain. Linus holds the copyleft (legally
read copyright) and we shouldn't lose sight of that. As such it gives him sole
right to say it's his (at least that's my understanding of it). Not a major 
transgression, but please don't short-change Linus by giving someone the idea 
that  'Since it's PD I'll just clip large sections out & stick it into my
program and call it my own!'

						Mike Irons
-- 

                                  Mike Irons;
                       mirons@Dworkin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU	(School)
                 mirons%minix1.uucp@MecEng.COE.Northeastern.EDU	(Home)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Smail (from Mailpak 1.3) won't compile
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:18:40 GMT

Leon Dent (lcd@ais.org) wrote:

: Please consider just making a mailpak directory on tsx, and leaving the
: individual packages in there.  This would allow for updating just one
: part at a time instead of a massive new file every one and a while.
: Also, it is easier to obtain and archive individual packages than one
: massive file ( much longer than 2hours at 2400 bps).

I entirely agree, if Ted does...
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                  erc@apple.com                     801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: Joe.Klemmer@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Klemmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS v0.96 and passwd
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 21:45:00 -0800

MMTJ=>I just recently installed the SLS release after having been
MMTJ=>very impressed by Linux. The only problem is that only root can
MMTJ=>change passwords. Any other user receives the error: "Can't
MMTJ=>open password file." after the new password is retyped and it
MMTJ=>attempts to change the entry in /etc/passwd.

MMTJ=>I've tried setting permisions on /etc/passwd and also the setuid
MMTJ=>bit on passwd itself (chmod 4777).

MMTJ=>Any ideas what the problem is or how to solve it?

        Check the permissions on the /etc directory.  Regular users
need
to be able to write and read (and just incase, execute).
___
 X SLMR 2.1a X Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

 * Origin: Enlightened Board (703) 370-9528 (1:109/615)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nomad@castle.org (Lee Damon)
Subject: Re: SLS and privileges
Organization: The Castle, not-yet-Public Access Un*x Systems; Mahopac, NY
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:51:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.223446.6140@hellgate.utah.edu> bmidgley%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brad Midgley) writes:
>I just installed SLS .98 and I thought I'd make comments.
>The privileges on quite a few files don't work well for non-root
>users.  (setuid and directory/file privs don't seem to always
>be the way they were intended for things like the mail package, /dev/tty,
>some of the includes, etc.)

I've sent in some patches to sysinstall that should show up soon. The
problem seems to be that linux's default umask is 066, and sysinstall
doesn't try to override that with tar (it should have lp in the tar
options before the f option - fix every instance of the tar command you
find if you want to make the patch manually). You won't see this if you
installed the entire system from the A1 disk, because for some reason
the default umask under that is 022. (However, it will effect things
like /usr/spool/mail, which require that group have write, etc.)

The other problem _appears_ to be that the SLS distribution was built
with that umask in some major places (most notably /usr/src/linux) so
even if you set the extraction up right, only root can get at the
sources.

I haven't done a complete "audit" to see what else is effected. I
did get /usr/spool/mail, /usr/lib/uucp, /usr/spool/uucp and a few
other places fixed by adding the lp flags to the tar commands
and re-running sysinstall -disk on the b* and c* disks.

I'm having no luck with X, but I haven't ruled out my VGA card yet.

nomad
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: suopanki@zombie.oulu.fi (Heikki Suopanki)
Subject: Re: Use of zip instead of compress
Reply-To: heikki.suopanki@phoenix.oulu.fi
Organization: Unixverstas Olutensin, Finlandia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:54:59 GMT


I can't see any good reason why we shouldn't use a new and better
compressor for Linux. We have to choose one and make it a Linux standard. 
If it's a part of standard distribution there will be no problems.

I personally never touch 'compress' in my Linux system, I always use zoo.
When I get new stuff I always convert everything to zoo at university
before I download or move stuff with floppies.

I compared some of the programs in my 386SX-25 box:

program          size     time 

original file   496644         (emacs binary)
zoo ah          215966    79 s
zip             225533    67 s
zip -9          224018   107 s
lha             215847    92 s
freeze          218772    77 s
compress        275225    16 s
hpack           214492  1230 s 

As you can see 'compress' isn't very efficient. I personally like zoo
and lha seems to be good too. Zip is a bit worse, but the new version is
supposedly better. Hpack is only 3-4 times slower than zoo in Ultrix,
I have no idea why it's so slow in Linux  (maybe I goofed when I
ported it).  

-Heikki
--
Somebody mentioned to RMS that it's obscene to have an editor which is
larger than the kernel. RMS said he'd take care of it.
      ....that's how HURD got started
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hab@engr.ucf.edu (Hubert Bahr)
Subject: Re: I'd really like a *COMPRESSED* backup...
Organization: engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:01:15 GMT

In article <2935@nlsun1.oracle.nl> jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg) writes:
>haible@ma2s2.uucp (Bruno Haible) writes:
>: > I managed to get the multi-volume tar business to work under Linux.
>: > To back everything up, I do:    tar -cMvpf /dev/fd0 +same-owner +totals /
>: > I just can't seem to get the -Z option to work along with the -M option.
>: 
>: Try using tar twice: once for compressing, once for putting the stuff onto
>: your disks. For example:
>: 
>:      tar cvfz /tmp/usr.bin.tar.Z /usr/bin
>:      tar cvfM /dev/fd0 /tmp/usr.bin.tar.Z
>This will work, but you need temp. space when creating the archive, but
>when restoring it too! The last thing is not what you want!
>
>try:
>
>tar cvfz - <files> | fdio w /dev/fd0H1440
>
>and
>
>fdio r /dev/fd0H1440 | tar xvfz - <files> 
>
>
>fdio is a simple tool, just read/writes from/to the device
>mentioned and writes/read to standard output. It asks for
>floppies on /dev/tty.
>Someone posted the source a while ago, I will post it again if anybody
>wants too.
>
>
>--  
>   Joost Helberg                                Rijnzathe 6
>   jhelberg@oracle.nl                           NL-3454 PV De Meern
>   jhelberg@nl.oracle.com                       The Netherlands
>
>   Oracle Europe BV                             Product Line Development	
>   Phone: +31 3406 94211                        Fax:   +31 3406 65609

The main problem with the last approach is once their is any damage to
the compressed chain everything after it is lost.  Also their is no
method to access a specific item anywhere in the total archive without
running it from the begining.  It takes more time but I prefer to compress
in smaller packages.  Usually related objects and then use tar cMf to build
an archive that will allow me to read past errors and start at any disk in
the archive.  I have several archives over 20 disks long. One 87 disks.

Hubert Bahr	hab@engr.ucf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.coherent
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian )
Subject: Re: MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE under SCO UNIX ODT 1.1 and ANY OTHER 386 UNIX??
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:24:51 GMT

In <9210134441@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:

>H. Shrikumar (shri@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>: In article <1amfgfINNsr@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>: 
>: >SCO, however, does support process space up to 32 MB (8192 pages * 4096 bytes)
>: >with simple menu guided manipulation of system tuning parameters.
>: 
>:    I understand coherent 4.0 goes to 32bit addressing. How big a process
>: size does coherent support ? How big has anyone actually run it at ?

>With ISA boards 16MB ram are suppoted (because of the 24 bit DMA).
>Because 4.0 can't swap and/or page the largest process may be ~14MB.
>My largest so far was ~4MB.

well with some motherboards supporting 64MB and up i would venture
to gues that you also could go that high (assuming you had that much
ram plugged in)

bill pociengel

ps any dissatisfied users out there want to dump their copy of coherant?
just e-mail me, i've got a spare machine or 2.
--
llbi locgeenpi " i'm a little confused right now"
From: widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mount in rc
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:26:40 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <Iep5SJq00WAJAR1G57@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:

>Why is it that I have to have "mount -a" TWICE in my /etc/rc?  For
>some *stupid* reason, only putting it in once will do absolutely
>*NOTHING*!  Why?

I get the feeling that you have the root partition as the last entry in
your /etc/fstab file, thus the first mount -a only mounts the root.
Enter the partitions in a logical order i.e. / before /usr and /usr
before /usr/something.

--
widenius@cc.helsinki.fi "But now there was worse." -Bernard Levin
From: cblaine@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Jefferson Blaine)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Someone mail me their .olvwmrc please.
Keywords: olvwm
Date: 10 Oct 92 14:18:30 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: /etc/organization

I am having trouble comprehending the olvwmrc man page, could someone 
mail me their .olvwmrc file so I can look at it?

I keep getting an error when tryig to startx with olvwm, but twm and X 
works fine.

Thanks for your help.

-=Jeff

jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
cblaine@gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: fraley@barracuda.cps.msu.edu (Paul E Fraley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X-emacs
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:59:01 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University


	I have linux on my PC and I love it.

	I also have an assortment of GNU tools
	to work with, one of them being emacs.

	The emacs is cool but I would like to
	get a version that has a X-window interface
	that when I invoke emacs:
	     - an emacs window pops up
	     - I can place the cursor where I
		want it with the mouse.
	I use this particular version at school.

	I have olvwm running.  It would be neat to
	be able to select textedit in the pull down
	and have one of these emacs windows appear.

	This is easy to do (few additions to
	.openwin-menu) provided I have the
	X-emacs executable.

	Can someone tell me where I can get this
	or the source to compile.  Or can I modify
	my standard emacs to do something like this.

	Hope this is a valid question.

	Please send response directly to
	fraley@cps.msu.edu		THANX