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From: rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: getting ps working after compiled - SOLVED
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:34:03 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

hey,
	Thanks everyone for the quick responses to resetting ps after
compiling.  The problem is apparently solved.  The answer was simply 
getting system into the right place.
Thanks again,
Rob

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Subject: texinfo
Reply-To: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:39:22 GMT

Can anyone tell me where I can find texinfo files. The man pages for
gcc and bison both mention that they are not complete and to consult
texinfo files for full details. In particular I'd like them for
gcc and bison. In fact if there are some in postscript format that
would be even better, which makes me think is there a util for
converting tex files to ps? tex2ps perhaps.
Thanks x 1,000,000 in advance
JJ
P.S. I've looked at mcc,tsx,banjo. No joy.
:: Jon Jagger  asjrbj@oak.scp.ac.uk
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Subject: How do I get a new kernel?
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:42:31 GMT

I'm running the 0.96c MCC interim distribution, but apparently it doesn't
include support for my MicroSoft bus-mouse.  I've been told <*Thanks*>
that the 0.96c[patch 2] kernel HAS this support... how do I get it?

Is it just a file? What's it called? Where do I get it? Where do I put it?
Is it that mysterious "Image" thingy? Will I have to make a new boot-disk?

Obviously, I'm completely ignorant of this kernel business... but I'm
determined to get X Windows working on this machine!  Can anyone help me?
--
Rick Miller	<rick@ee.uwm.edu>
From: ajt@puffin.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: talk/ytalk
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:37:08 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
: Has anyone managed to find/compile a "talk" program to Linux?  I just
: made a valiant attempt at porting ytalk 2.0 to Linux, but it appears
: that we're missing some vital network kernel support (stuff like recv,
: sendto, gethostbyname, getservbyname).  Is there something out there
: that provides the same function (talking) that is easier to port?
: Thanks..

I'm using the talk posted to comp.os.minix a while ago which just needed
sgtty.h things changing to termios.h things for gcc 2.2.2 under Linux 0.96c

I can't remember the author or version, but it should be in your local
Minix archive.  I've used it to talk to people who have dialed in to my
PC over a modem and it seems to work ok.

	Tony

--
Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  Tony Travis
Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
From: gt7080a@prism.gatech.EDU (Nathan I. Laredo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: FAQ:  How to create a bus mouse device
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:37:13 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Jul21.130051.1@acad2.alaska.edu> axlas@acad2.alaska.edu (Leif A Sawyer) writes:
>Forgot to mention last time another problem.  Trying to get my
>bus mouse to work.  Have a logitech trackman, and linux kernel finds
>it correctly and init's it.  However, I don't seem to have a /dev/mouse
>to correspond to it.  Any suggestions?  I RTFFAQ but didn't see anything 
>on the bus mouse.
>

THE 0.96c-patchlevel2 KERNEL SUPPORTS LOGITECH AND COMPATABLE BUS MICE
----------------------------------------------------------------------

(you can find a patched kernel as /pub/Linux/Incoming/linux-0.96c-pl2.tar.Z
 on banjo.concert.net)

If you are unsure that you have a bus mouse or not, check to see if your
mouse card has a selection for a sample rate switchable between 30Hz
and 60Hz (or possibly 25/50Hz), if it does not, then it is NOT a true 
bus mouse (InPort mice for example will not work with this driver).

To create a bus mouse device:
mknod /dev/mouse c 10 0


Questions
---------
X11
--
What do I use in my Xconfig file to use the bus mouse?  Logitech doesn't
work.

Here are the mouse lines from my Xconfig:

BusMouse   "/dev/mouse"

You may add a sample rate if you want, but chances are, unless the model
number on your mouse matches mine: PC-93-9MD it probably will cause your
machine to lock up, as I've gotten several reports saying that.

According to the X386 documentation, non-logitech mice do not support
a sample rate.

--------
MGR
--
How do I make mgr use my bus mouse?

Well you don't have to.  Once you've created /dev/mouse you're set.

-------

Now you've got something that resembles a piece of a faq... maybe
it will make its way into the real faq... 
--
Nathan I. Laredo, gt7080a@prism.gatech.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Gif viewer for Linux WITHOUT X
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:35:05 GMT

loshry@wh.wuacc.edu (ryan losh) writes:

: 	I am looking for a GIF viewer that runs under Linux.  I don't
: have the right card to run X, so thats out :-(  Any suggestions???
: By the way, this is the only thing that is keeping me from killing
: my DR-DO$ partition, and letting Linux have the whole disk!!!

Me, too.  The only thing I use DOS for now is to view satellite GIFs.
I've considered writing one, since I have code lying around that does
all the decompression, etc. - it calls a user-supplied routine called
"outline()" that is supposed to do the actual output.  If I can figure
out how to do that, I'll have it made :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/269-8125
"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: jwaters@deepthought.unm.edu (Joe Waters)
Subject: Re: Ok. You Win. I give up.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 23:37:42 GMT
Organization: The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

I posted this a while ago...  Maybe it should be FAQ?  But I just symlinked 
tbl to *cat*.  That works fine for me.  Occassionally the format is a little
off on some man pages in a place or two, but it's nothing noticeable as far
as I'm concerned....  If you can't find tbl, just ln -s cat tbl will make
everything happy for the most part.

Joe
--
Joe Waters ("Falc")  [jwaters@deepthought.unm.edu]
"If brute force can't fix the problem, it means you're not using enough."
Linux is better.
From: doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Adaptek SCSI controller and a few other things...
Keywords: AHA-1542 com ports
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 00:36:06 GMT
Organization: Quoi! me organized?

Hi all,

I just recently acquired an Adaptek 1542 SCSI controller.  I installed
in the PC and Linux now tells me:

  0 hosts with 0 tapes 0 disks (or something quite close to this)

Am I to assume that it effectively sees the SCSI board?  My presumption
is that since it is _now_ telling me this (wasnt before) that it does 
see it.  Some clarification required here...

Assuming that it does see it, what would be this device name?  Would have
to create the new device?  If so, how would I go about it?  I am not 
familiar enough with *ix to attempt just anything.

A while ago, someone posted that he had been able to get 4 com ports
working under linux, but that some minor surgery had to be performed 
on the board (secondary I beleive) to properly handle the IRQs.  Would 
someone have done this already?  If so, could he/she post how to go 
about making the necessary changes to the board in order to get 
com3: and com4: to work?

BTW, I am running version 96c of Linux.

Thank you... Doug!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcain@copper (Michael Cain)
Subject: Re: yacc and lex
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:56:05 GMT

In article <WEILER.92Jul21213719@crabapple.cis.ohio-state.edu> weiler@crabapple.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jerry Weiler) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.164738.1@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> ramirez@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu writes:
>
>> I would like to know if anybody has ported yacc and lex
>> over to linux. If yes, please let me know where I can find it.
>
>You should use bison and flex. bison is the GNU replacement for yacc
>and flex is the GNU replacement for lex. They're faster, more flexible
>and all around better. Bison and flex should be able to handle any
>grammer yacc and lex do (any well written one, that is)

Flex does have one significant handicap when compared to lex: in lex,
the default i/o functions are actually macros, which can be #undef'ed
and replaced with real functions of the same name that can get input
from anywhere; flex has real functions that insist on reading from
files, and trying to replace these is semi-major surgery...

I regularly seem to want to parse stuff and don't want to let the
analyzer built by flex handle my low-level file i/o...

Mike Cain
U S WEST Advanced Technologies
mcain@advtech.uswest.com
From: wm0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Wayne P. Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tsx-11.mit.edu Linux
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:26:00 GMT
Organization: Comp & Comm - Computer Operations, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Is anyone else out there having problems ftp-ing from tsx-11.mit.edu?
I've been trying to get the newest release of linux, for about two weeks
now. When I issue the get, or mget command to pull a file/files I get
tranfer failed. Then when I do an ls I have to do it about three times
before it shows me anything. Now I've ftp'd from this site in the past
with no problems, and it works fine if I try it from banjo.concert, but
I can't find rootimage-0.96c at that site. If there is a problem that
exists, and will continue to persist at tsx-11.mit can someone give me a
couple more sites, besides banjo.concert where I can find everything.

Thanks in advance :)

Wayne P. Myers
(wm0i@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: D. "Maverick" Miller <dmmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Another FAQ I cannot find answer too...
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:10:14 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

Forgive me,
     Other than a lot of posts on where and what Linux is...there have been no 
posts on how big Linux is or what format it is in...tar.Z? .zoo? I need to know
this so I can get the files to take home w/me when I leave college(end of this 
week...)
     As I said forgive the FAQ but I looked thru about 1000+ posts on this 
newsgroup and did not find the answers...
     Email or post(Post flames...My account is small enongh and my luck they 
will come when I am trying to get the Linx stuff...).
     Thanks in advance..!

--
D. "Maverick" Miller
Ohio State University, College of Agriculture.
E-mail: miller.795@osu.edu(.us)  [this address forwarded to email in header]
My words are my own(nobody else would claim them)

PS: This account will be disabled as of Fri. Anyone w/ a spare account in Ohio 
that would be willing to let me use it (at your site) a few times over the next
month or so... I would be forver in your debt.  I am just trying to get the 
tools and files for Linux...after that...I am done untill I regain my school
account.... Thanks "Maverick"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: FAQ or DOCs on common tips for portint to linux available?
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:22:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.171548.12174@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>Hello again,
>
>Does anyone know of a good source of information, tips, FAQs, etc.,
>on how to port software to linux.  Specifically, I'm looking for
>tips on what has worked for others when certain problems arise.
>
>For example, while trying to compile tgif (an xwindows paint program)
>I got the message "file.c:1236: `SIGBUS' undeclared (first use this function)"
>Usually, I can get around this by adding -DSYSV to the CCOPTIONS line
>in the makefile generated by xmkmf.  In this case it didn't work, which
>indicates to me that a) I need to try adding other -D switches and/or
>b) I need to write the linux equivelent code by hand.  Tips on how to
>do both, or documentation (if it is available anywhere) would be greatly
>appreciated.  
>

I can usually get around it by commenting out the SIGBUS-related code.

>Another bit of strangeness occurred as I was trying to compile
>xfishtank.  This time, the make failed on an undeclared structure
>"vec", which was used in the following way:
>
>init_signals()
>{
>    struct sigvec vec;
>
>    vec.sv_handler = toggle_secure;
>    vec.sv_mask = 0;
>    vec.sv_onstack = 0;
>
>    sigvec(SIGUSR1, &vec, &vec);
>} /* I have removed the #ifdefed stuff for HP and MOTOROLA, leaving only
>     the code which, by implication, is supposed to be generic */
>

Sorry, haven't bumped into this one yet.

>Is anyone keeping a FAQ on such questions?  If not, I would be happy to
>volunteer my services as my contribution to the linux project.  A repository
>of "if this error occurs, common things to try (in this order) are ..."
>might be useful.

I think it is a very good idea.  You could ftp a weekly update to banjo or
tsx-11.  It could be something like a subdivision of the gcc channel, for
people that are only concerned with porting issues.


-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson                                 ujlh@sunyit.edu
* "Yet another Jim in the Linux world."  :-)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Subject: Project Registry
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:49:02 GMT

Well, since everyone seems to think it's such a good idea, I'm going to start
a Linux Ongoing Project Registry. I haven't heard of another such registry,
so I'll set up an account on my machine to handle it. (Someone suggested that
Linus run this, but I think he's got more important things to do (like work
on the kernel :-) than to keep track of everybody else.)

So, if you have a Linux Project-in-Progress, send a short message with 
	1) your Email address
	2) a short project description 
	3) the project status (eg, back-burner, alpha test, coding, etc)
to
	constellation!biglaw!registry@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu

or (if and _only_ if you can't use bang paths and @paths at once)

	callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

with the subject line 

	Linux Project Registry

To give you an idea of what I need, here's an example of the output:

	PROJECT			STATUS			ADDRESS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ATI Driver for XWS		Beta Testing		foo@nowhere.UUCP
Registry of Projects		(ongoing)		constellation.....edu

(of course, the final format will be slightly different...)

Hopefully, the bang-path address will go away when we get Telecom to run the
backbone out our way, but it's the best I can do for the moment...

				James

James P. Callison       Microcomputer Coordinator        OU Law Library 
Callison@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu   /\        Callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor
	constellation!biglaw!callison@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
DISCLAIMER: I'm not an engineer, but I play one at work...
	Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in 
		if there was no lawyers. -- Cowboy logic
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Does mtools and dosfs work for SCSI drives ??
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:37:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.021034.1867@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
>I have a IDE and SCSI drive on my machine. On IDE the first partition
>is DOS/pri. The second is DOS/extended for OS/2 HPFS.
>On SCSI drive first partition is a DOS/extended divided in two. First
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No publically available version of the SCSI drivers suports extended 
partitions.  My kernel does, and I'm looking at getting clean diffs 
against .96c "RSN".
From: hazen@budoe.bu.edu (Eric Hazen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Installing from 0.96c root disk(success)
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:38:57 GMT
	<1992Jul27.204146.35137@uservx.plk.af.mil>
Organization: Boston University Physics Department
In-reply-to: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil's message of 27 Jul 92 20:41:46 GMT


In article <1992Jul27.204146.35137@uservx.plk.af.mil>
simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil writes:  (Philip Balister) writes:
   > Hi,
   > 
   > I've been installing my second linux machine from the 0.96c boot/root disks.
[ stuff deleted]

   > 3) The kernel stuff goes OK, excpet when compiling build.c. It looks for
   > linux/include/fs.h, not around any more. After some research I patched it
   > to use <sys/sysmacros.h> (The cdiffs follow)
   > 
[ patch deleted ]

   I applied your fix to build.c with the following results:

	   in file included from tools/build.c:25:
	   /usr/include/stdlib.h:115: parse error before '*'
	   /usr/include/stdlib.h:118: parse error before 'wchar_t'
	   /usr/include/stdlib.h:121: parse error before '*'
	   /usr/include/stdlib.h:123: parse error before '*'

   (Note: I also changed one line in Makefilerror before '*'
     (Note: in Makefile:
	   HOSTCC	=gcc -static
   becomes
	   HOSTCC	=gcc -static -I$(KERNELHDRS)
   )

   Any suggestestions?  Thanks


I found that fs.h was in the kernel header files, in
/usr/src/linux/include/linux.   I symlinked to /usr/include/linux
[ ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux ]
and it worked fine.

Could someone more knowledgeable please comment if this is a good idea?
Is the directory /usr/include/linux supposed to point to kernel headers?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House)
Subject: groff/gtbl?
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:44:02 GMT



Hi, all!

I just unpacked man1.1 and tried to read a manpage and discovered that
man couldn't find /usr/bin/groff and /usr/bin/gtbl.

Does anyone know where I can grab these from? 

Thanks!


Doogie!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: find 3.7 and fileutils 3.3 uploaded
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:06:22 GMT

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
:   BTW: how much os a hit does the library take on using the jump table?
: Between the extra level of indirect, dumping the cache and pipeline
: twice as often, and paging on small systems, this looks like a potential
: 5% increase in clock time. Do you have numbers? I see people taking the

The very rough measurements I did a couple of months ago showed a hit of
about 2-4%.  The programs I tested were mostly I/O bound and the method
I used to time them was rather crude though, so I don't know how realistic
those numbers are.  If someone has any compute bound programs that exercise
libc, I like to know about it so I can try them.

:   Note, I'm looking for clarification rather than saying "this is bad."
: My guess of what it adds to small systems calls could be way off, etc.
: I'm well aware of the benefits of jump tables, just concerned about
: possible performance costs. Maybe the only hit is the extra pieline
: dump, I suspect the table would be memory, if not in cache, all the
: time.

Yes, if all or most all progarms use the jump-table libs (like they do on
my system :), the jump-table would almost always be in memory.

David
-- 
David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
david@ods.com                      1101 E. Arapaho Road
(214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081
From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: inb and outb
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:47:32 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder

In article <1992Jul28.152104.6530@b11.b11.ingr.com> tracyre@infonode.ingr.com writes:
>I am trying to figure out why linux-0.96c-pl2 does not detect the
>bus-mouse which is connected to my computer.  In order to debug this
>problem, I am trying to write some software which uses inb and outb to
>communicate with the mouse.  Are these routines in a library somewhere
>that I can access?

No.  Look at the include files in linux/asm, they have inline functions
for in/out.

Note that if you want to use in/out from user space, you'll have to use the 
ioperm() syscall.  Look in kernel/ioport.c.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: New version of the SCSI drivers
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:12:46 GMT

In article <b=mmp7q.sevenup@netcom.com> sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft) writes:
>
>
>	The new boot image finally detects my partitioning info
>correctly, but results in kernel panic :-(
>
>to wit:
>
>sd1:
>Partition tables ok
>bread(0301,1) failed
  ^^^^^^^^^^^

Ooops.  I forgot to change root dev to floppy - it's set to 
"first normal disk, first partition".  Change the bytes at offset 
508 and 509 into the kernel binary to wherever your root partition
is, 0,0 for "same floppy it booted off of"

I'll try to send something new up tonight.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jen@unixg.ubc.ca (Zhen Yu)
Subject: LINUX DISK AVAILBLE IN CANADA
Keywords: linux disks available
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:22:57 GMT

I came across an ad in August issue of Computer Paper (a 100-page, nation-wide
distributed, free, monthly paper. Circulation in Canada: 185,000). It reads:

AVAILLABLE AT LAST: LINUX, the free 386 Unix-like operating system that 
coexists with DOS and even runs X-Windows! Also includes: GCC/C, GDB, EMACS,
UUCP/MAIL, kernel source, and much, much more. Copy Service fee $4 per disk.
Base system: 10 disks= $40. X-Windows option: 5 dislks=$20. (address omitted)

(Note: 1 Canadian Dollar= 0.84 US Dollar)


It seems someone is filling the vacuum for those who want free-unix but have
no ftp access.
Comments, anyone?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux