HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Thomas Wuensche <tw@fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Suggest inclusion of the QIC-02 driver
Reply-To: tw@fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:59:53 GMT

As the subject says: I suggest the inclusion of
the QIC-02 driver in the standard release. The
new configuration script makes this easy (I hope).

Backup is something that should be supported
and I guess there are a lot of people with this
type of drives. So we should not only support SCSI
here. It is surely of more importance than the
sound driver (which I don't object being in the 
distribution at all).

Enough of the arguments now. Let's look for responses.

	- Thomas

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: Of c.o.l volume, split proposals and KILL files
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:19:55 GMT
Originator: janl@solva.ifi.uio.no

Yes, the volume on comp.os.linux is high. And splits have been
proposed numerous times. We even had a vote on splitting. All we voted
thru was the creation of comp.os.linux.announce (bug your admin if you
haven't gotten it yet). According to the usenet guidelines we will
have to wait 6 months (yeah, I think it was 6 months) before the next
split vote, so there us no use in proposing splits and complaining
about volume until then...

In the meantime I have put this in my c.o.l kill file: "/[Ss]plit/:j",
you can do that too! And use the kill/junk features of your news
reader liberaly, you don't have to read _all_ that passes thru c.o.l.

Thank you!

Nicolai, sick of endless split proposals...
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: /dev/lp1 (HP Deskjet 500) VERY slow in 0.98p6 and 0.99
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN  USA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:08:40 GMT


In article <1992Dec16.173907.10661@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:

   In article <BzD2oA.BL9@utdallas.edu> ramesh@utdallas.edu writes:
[...]
   >tunelp /dev/lp -w 0
   >tunelp /dev/lp -c 350
   >tunelp /dev/lp -t 5

   What do those lines mean?

To understand this, you need the tunelp package.  Unfortunately, all I
have right now is a stopgap package, soon I will make and put the real
thing on tsx-11 and sunsite.  In the meantime, if you printer is slow,
please send me mail and ask for the stopgap tunelp package, and read
cola for the announcement of the real thing.

michaelkjohnson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: FREDDY MERCURY <MC69686%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: trident8900c and X11
Reply-To: MC69686%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:48:55 GMT

I've just installed Linux 0.98, and configured the Xconfig, but once
i'm in Xwindows, i can't exit to a text mode.  It's supporting the graphics
mode, but went I exit, I'm stuck with a blank screen.  I can switch to
different terminals, but I don't see anything.  It does reboot, however, and
take keyboard input, I just don't see it.

thanks
The Wandering Minstrel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: CAN SOMEONE POST ME THE FAQs FOR THIS GROUP
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:39:47 GMT

In article <29610@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes:
>Please can I have the FAQs for this newsgroup and
>any info required to install Linux for the first time.

Once again... it's time for your favorite game show...

NEW USERS: WHERE TO GET THE LINUX FAQ (please read)

PLEASE: EVERYONE read the FAQ for this group before posting questions. Many 
people (myself included) worked hard to produce the FAQ to accurately answer 
all of your questions. The new version of the FAQ (with many updates, 
clarifications, etc.) will only come out every month! So you won't see it 
posted that often. In the meantime you'll have to get it in one of the
following ways:

1)  ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu. It's the file /pub/linux/FAQ. It's one big
    ASCII file (about 150k). 
or  ftp to sunsite.unc.edu. It's the file /pub/Linux/docs/FAQ. Again, one
    big ASCII file, same thing as on tsx-11.mit.edu.

2)  If you don't have FTP access, you can retrieve it via the mailserver at
    pit-manager.mit.edu. Send mail to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with the
    word "help" in the body.
or  If you simply can't find the FAQ, I will mail it to you myself. Just
    send me mail (mdw@tc.cornell.edu).

3)  The most recent FAQ will be posted to comp.os.linux and news.answers
    every month (if you want to wait...).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Read the "Meta-FAQ" posted weekly to this group.
It gives you all of the pointers on where to look for Linux information.

Thanks.

mdw

-- 
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  "Go on, emote! I was raised on thought balloons!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:14:07 GMT

jackson@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) writes:

>In article <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:

>>Since I see a large amount of disk thrashing, I assume that there is a lot 
>>of swapping going on. Since I have only 4 megs of RAM, and a ~6 meg swap 
>>partition, this is not surprising. But does it have to be this slow? I had 
>>thought that X was usable with 4 megs RAM -- was I wrong? Please say no!

>>My system is a 486 SX/25.

>Try the mono X server.  I have a 4 MB 486SX/33 and the mono server runs
>very nicely if I don't run too much other stuff.

>>Damien Neil   dpn2@po.cwru.edu

>Bruce  -  jackson@cs.unt.edu

Ditto. I have a 4MB 486DX/33 and the Xmono server runs fine as long I as don't
try and do too much at once. Then again, maybe Santa will bring me more memory
for Christmas!

Scott

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From: h235_003@ccvax.ucd.ie (ARE WE HAVING FUN YET)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Can't make 0.98pl6 kernel
Date: 13 Dec 92 14:57:49 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin


I'm having trouble making the 0.98pl6 kernel (I'm running SLS 0.98 with 
v2.2.2d libraries).  Everything goes great until near the end when it 
starts linking and I get a load of 'Undefined symbol' errors for routines
like put_fs_byte and set_bit.  I haven't been able to get past this - can
anybody help me out ?


Ronan Mullally
(year3-23@midir.ucd.ie, H235_003@ccvax.ucd.ie)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: umkirby6@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Chris Kirby)
Subject: What goes into shared and where do I get it?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:07:59 GMT

	While compiling the DOS emulator, I noticed that it links in the shared
libraries /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2d/shared. Having never seen this 
before I took a look and found out that I didn't have said libraries. I set
up gcc using the gccdisks on tsx-11 according (as I recall) to the instructions
provided. Have I done something wrong in the setup? Or, am I just missing
some extra libs?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rankin@ms.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.)
Subject: Re: Making a Terminal Server?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:37:40 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <1992Dec13.185451.4361@camaro> tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley) writes:
> 
>  I have noticed that people are using other systems for terminal servers 
>with other unix systems.  Any idea how I can do this with Linux?
> 
>  I have a nice huge Motorola SYSVR3 68K machine sitting behind me, with 
>about 20 serial ports, but its just sitting there....doing nothing....Linux 
>has too many more toys...but only two com ports....
> 
>  How can I turn this monster into a terminal server for my linux box?  
> 
>I take it some sort of tcp network with rlogin or something...could someone 
>please elaborate? 

In UNIX System Administration Handbook, there is a good program designed to
allow one host running TCP to act as a server for a secons host. You'd
need to connect the two via some TCP method (Ether is probably the best idea)
but after that, you could get that program a running, and you would be set.

The program I speak of is "remote', and is in appendix n. There is an FTP site
for these programs as well, but right now I can't remember the name. I'm
sure someone will be glad to refresh my memory. :)

Hope this helps,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Permission denied! for 0.98pl5
Reply-To: kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:29:21 GMT

Fello linuxers,
	I'm sure someone else out there has run into this problem.
when I try to g++ or ps or possibly a few other things from my user 
account, I get "Permission denied" msgs.  I can login, edit code,
and run gcc, though. I've only had linux installed for 2 days now
& except for these minor prob.'s it is great! Thanks to all who made
it possible for us regular folks to have real unix at home!
Also, thanks in advance for any help with my problem.
	alex.
kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov
From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Optimal Partition Sizes
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:39:55 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


 a safer way to use ext fs is to have one ext partition and symlink to it
when one needs >14char filenames. i use a 10M ext (40M root:basic & src;
64M /usr for TeX,X11,Emacs, etc)
  thomas
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jaa@mongoose.ess.harris.com (John Auer)
Subject: SLIP vs. PPP
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:26:42 GMT
Organization: Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

After reading some of the PPP propaganda^H^H^H^H^H info :-)
it seems that PPP is, perhaps, a better way to go than the
older SLIP protocol.  I got the ka9q distribution, and it
talks about SLIP only.  I am aware that some linux'ers are
working on an Alpha SLIP.

Is this a true SLIP product?  Is the newer SLIP competitive
with PPP?  Has someone hacked a version of PPP for Linux?

I'm getting ready to start bringing SLIP/PPP online, and
obviously want to do it right the first time.  I don't
want this to turn into a flame war between PPP and SLIP;
just want to know the rational for the SLIP choice.

And while I've got you here, thanks for the great OS,
Linus and co.!  3 months without a hitch...

John
From: wilhel@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Nick Wilhelm-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Newbie questions
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:50:53 GMT
Reply-To: wilhel@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Nick Wilhelm-Olsen)
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu
Originator: wilhel@studsys.mscs.mu.edu


	I apologize for the extreme lack of intelligence that this post must
demonstrate, but I have read the FAQ and have tried to keep up with this group
but I have a few problems that I haven't been able to answer.  I am currently
using linux 0.98p1.  

  1)  What is required in going to version 0.99 if I don't want to mess with 
the patches?  

  2)  I haven't been able to get the directory/file permissions correct yet.  
What should they be?  (i.e. could someone mail me a ls -lR output file?)

  3)  When I am running linux in a SVGA mode, and start Xwindows, once I exit,
the refresh rate hasn't been returned to the correct rate, so all I see is 
wavy lines.  Is there fix or do I just have to give up using the SVGA modes? 

I apologize if any of this is just blatantly obvious or stated in the FAQ and I
missed it.  I appreciate any constructive comments anyone has to make.
Please reply via email as I will probably miss your post. Thank you.

Nick Wilhelm-Olsen
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
Subject: Re: TCP and TIOC questions (please add to FAQ) [NORMAL]
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:51:59 GMT

kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:

>My code is looking for things like TIOCGETP...

I don't know the answers to your other questions, but I can answer
this one.

TIOCGETP is one of the ioctls for BSD-style terminal control.  The
other big one is TIOCSETP, and they both operate on objects of type
'struct sgtty'.

Unfortunately, Linux doesn't currently implement these.  Instead,
Linux uses 'termios' (struct termios, ioctl TCGETS, ioctl TCSETS) in
order to change terminal modes.

Usually, it is fairly easy to replace the sgtty stuff with termios
stuff, since the relevant code is usually quite short and simple.  In
fact, many packages have "ifdef" flags that allow you to choose
between termios and sgtty.

- Josh

PS.  Perhaps we should put this in the FAQ.  It comes up pretty often.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: How do I provide the floppys to normal users????
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:46:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.160121.10722@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> S_ESPENLAUB@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Klaus Espenlaub) writes:
>Is there any possibility to give normal users the right to mount
>floppy drives???? I've been trying it with different success (it works only
>when floppys already in at boot time........)
>

Doing so would be a BIG security hole.  An ordinary user could mount a
floppy with a setuid-root shell, for example.  Running the shell would
be the same as having a ``su'' command with no password.

Of course, if users already have access to the machine, and to drive
a:, they can just boot from their own floppy, so the security problem
is there no matter what you do.

-Joel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "Randall E. Breeden" <p00048@psilink.com>
Subject: HELP: keyboard not working for X
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 05:19:28 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

   I finally have everything working except the keyboard. Iam not 
getting any keyboard input into any of my windows. I will accept any 
ideas at this point.

      Thanks

        Randy

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sam@sam.b23b.ingr.com (Sam Coker)
Subject: olvwm problem
Keywords: olvwm
Reply-To: sam@sam.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: DAZIX, an Intergraph Company
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:10:07 GMT

 I am trying to run the olvwm window manager that I downloaded from 
 tsx-11. I compiled the olvwmbin_gcc2 version, distributed the files
 into their appropriate places and then cranked up X. The X server 
 starts up, but when olvwm executes - the server crashes. Any ideas ?

 
 Sam

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: additional features for linux
Keywords: virtual serial consoles, tcpip bootrom, streams, isdn-driver
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:13:06 GMT

to-pse@xfswob.han.de (Tobias Erichsen) writes:

>1) Virtual consoles for the serial ports

>    It would be very nice if someone could use more than one console
>    on a remote terminal.  I don't know if that is possible to imple-
>    ment.
Take a look at GNU's IScreen (well, it's called Screen, really)
 - it does just this (and a bit more...), at least until you run out of
PTYs...  :(    (yes, if anyone's got any further ideas, I'd really like to
know...X and Screen still don't want to know anout my ptyq0-qf / ttyq0-qf)

Enjoy !

Cos !
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From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ZModem comm: rz and sz (from CKermit)
Date: 13 Dec 1992 19:59:12 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:


>OK, I am a moron. But do you folks know how to  run rz/sz from Kermit?
>The OS/2 Ckermit+M2ZModem can send/receive files in cooperation with
>my school's sparc. When I use Linux+kermit+(rz,sz), things just don't
>work. I know I must forget something or do something wrong. So please
>enlighten me with your experience. Thanks alot.

Make sure you have the hacked rz/sz that allows you to send its
stuff/recieve to/from a /dev other than tty via environment var (should
be on tsx).

then if you do a
remote% sz foo.bar
ctrl \-c
C-Kermit>!rz
everything should work ok.

Note that sz sends an "rz" as the first thing, so all you have to do
is a !sz to upload stuff.

I'm in the process of hacking it further to accept a command line option,
also allowing status info to be printed on tty. Actually, I was thinking
of making a dsz clone with a terminal mode eventually,. but I don't want
to reinvent the wheel.. Anybody else playing with rz/sz?

Of course, if linux had PPP, all this would be moot ;-)
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
Subject: Whats this with the Maxtor 7213 drive?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 11:05:20 GMT

In the near future I plan on splitting linux and dos onto two drives.
Half of dos on one half on the other, half of linux on one and half on
the other.  Hopefully so when I am doing a make I dont have to compete
with the drive if doing another disk intensive task.

This is how I wanted it....

Linux /    of    35megs on SCSI drive (adaptec 1542b)
Dos D:     of    60megs on SCSI drive (adaptec 1542b) this is my personal area

Dos C:     of    150megs on Maxtor 7213  (this is my bbs)
Linux /usr of    60megs on Maxtor 7213

can I do this and not worry about having problems?  How about the
extfs, does this work with the SCSI drives?  Any thing I should know about
this, because in the future I was thinking of extfs.  Howabout this, can
I have say a /usr directory on two seperate partitions when my needs
grow?
From: nwha@eng.cam.ac.uk (N.W.H. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xega - problems??
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:26:57 GMT
Organization: cam.eng

Hi,
I'm running Linux SLS 0.98.5 on a Zenith MasterSport 386SL.
All works fine. No problems with X386mono, etc.

But I've tried and failed to get Xega working. Has anyone had
any luck running this? I'd like to get it up and going on the internal
LCD screen. Or an external. Possible difficulty is the VGA chipset is 
of undefined origin (X386mono finds it ok) and only houses 256k RAM.

Zenith quote the VGA board as `100%' VGA compatible. I've tried X386
colour but cannot get the right chipset specification (garbled screens
etc). Xega seems the best bet over mono for this VGA board.

Any comments. Help most appreciated.
Cheers

Neil Armstrong						Engineering Department
nwha@eng.cam.ac.uk					University of Cambridge
							Trumpington Street
"It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,..."	Cambridge, CB2 1PZ.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: Can we use LILO 5.0 with Linux0.99????
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:29:59 GMT

Can we use old version LILO to load and boot Linux 0.99?  I have problem
in using LILO 7.0 to load DOS and OS2.  Lilo won't give any prompt to
select OS other than Linux.  WHenever I press CTRL, TAB, SHIFT, LILO load
Linux right away.  No prompt at all.

Thanks!  

--Harry
From: fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Oops (Re: ALPHA Kernel patch: Fixes and enhancements to floppy code.)
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:34:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.If_Lboy00WB_4gfmg_
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


    This shouldn't have gotten to comp.os.linux, since I posted it to
both comp.os.linux and comp.os.linux.announce, and it hasn't yet been
approved by the moderator. Our "news" system must have a bug, since it
isn't handling the crossposting right at all, it appears. (posting here
is through a mail->news gateway, which could explain some messups like
this). Sorry about that, but I can't do much about the news software
here (until I get my own machine configured for news, that is :) There
is nothing "wrong" with the patch, but I'll post a better version soon
(like tomorrow) to both comp.os.linux and comp.os.linux.announce. (It
has an additional #define for different setups, and I'll document it a
bit better).
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: shen@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Yu Shen)
Subject: DOS emulator in linux?
Organization: Universite de Montreal -- Laboratoire Incognito
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:47:56 GMT

I would like to know if there is a DOS eumalator in linux. I have to
work with Turbo pascal 6.0 compiler.
If this is an FAQ, a pointer would be OK.

Thank you very much,
--
Yu Shen
Dept. d'Informatique et Recherche Operationnelle
University de Montreal, C.P. 6128 Succ. A.
Montreal, Que. Canada, H3C 3J7

(514) 342-7089 (H) shen@IRO.UMontreal.Ca
From: jdg00@ccc.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Prob: ELM from SLS.98p[56] = no password entry ?
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:03:14 GMT
Reply-To: jdg00@amail.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

acornwal@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James MacLean) writes:

>ELM was working fine for me with 98p5 + Image from 98.6 but now that I have
>added some more of the additional 98.6 benefits (shadow passwords,etc...),
>ELM states that there is no password entry for every user except ROOT. What
>gives?

The SLS distribution has an /etc/password file that is protected from all but
root.  Use "chmod 644 /etc/passwd" and your problem will go away.

(The SLS distribution also has a mail file for user1 that user1 can't access.)
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