HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Subject: Re: TCPIP and config.c
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 03:19:05 GMT

I apologize if I've confused anyone; further research (and gentle
correction from the NET list) indicates that the kernel is right,
config.c is wrong, and I'm wrong. The last argument to select is
either 0 (meaning figure it out from the type and domain) or the
protocol number (typically from a call to getprotobyname, though I
don't know if linux has that.) "6" in this case is quite correct, so
the binary patch in my first paragraph is alright...
	Oops :-} oh well, we keep trying...
							_Mark_

In article <EICHIN.92Oct15203806@charon.mit.edu> eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) writes:

   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
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   From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
   Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
   Nntp-Posting-Host: charon.mit.edu
   Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   References: <1992Oct02.084439.15589@infko.uucp>
   Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:38:26 GMT
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   >> socket: Protocol not supported
	   I was getting those too... didn't have config sources handy
   (I'd installed from SLS) so fired up gdb, set a breakpoint in perror,
   and sure enough, it was getting called from main with errno==93.
   disassembled main, saw the call to "socket" with 2,1,2 (which is
   pretty common, though of course everyone should be using the
   symbols...) Going in with emacs, and finding j^Bj^Aj^B and changing it
   to j^Fj^Aj^B made config work (well enough to telnet to the loopback
   port, anyway...)
	   Looking at all uses of IP_TCP in the kernel, sock.c, line 709,
   checks for protocol != IP_TCP when creating a SOCK_STREAM (in
   ip_proto_create.) This looks like where the error is -- IP_TCP is a
   value of a field in a packet (see how it's used in tcp.c) not a
   protocol family; it should be matching on PF_INET, which is in
   linux/socket.h (included properly via sys/socket.h.) [The use of
   IP_UDP a few lines later should probably be taken out entirely.]
	   I'll send this to the "net" channel and see if anyone
   disagrees, but since the arguments to the socket syscall are handled
   in socket.c and aren't translated before calling sock->ops->create,
   that the comparison is wrong... I haven't traced what happens to the
   value after it gets stored in struct sock though.
				   _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
				   MIT Student Information Processing Board
				   Cygnus Support <eichin@cygnus.com>

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: [Summary] Re: Can I use gcc to develop MS-DOS apps ?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:17:38 GMT

I wrote :
> Is it possible to develop an MS-DOS application on Linux
> using g++ 2.2.2d ? [No flame please].
> Like a -target msdos switch for cross compiling ?

Got several replies (thanks) and all of them suggested "djgcc".

Although that's not what I want though. I want to develop the application
using linux. If I use gjgcc (under MS-DOS) I can't compile in one 
screen (tty) while editing (or downloading program) in another screen.
I guess the UNIX multitasking environment makes me fell confortable.
I really like linux a lot.... It's wonderful. Now if I can only
develop MS-DOS application (text based not graphics) with it...

Thanks.
-- budi
-- 
Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Peter MacDonald <pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca>
Subject: SLS update
Reply-To: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:15:45 GMT

There will be a significant upgrade to SLS posted tomorrow.  It takes the
kernel to .98p1 as well as fixing most of the problems posted (permissions
notably).  Note that most of the problems resulted from people pressuring
me to release SLS *now*.  But take heart,  the HISTORY file will allow
you to just download the files that have changed, or download just the new
files and Zfix.taz which fixes permissions on most things.

Please observe that one of the most important skills in using Linux is
patience.  No one is deliberately withholding features, rather either
all of the technical problems have not been solved, or/and features have
not yet left beta and been integrated into the kernel.  Similarly with
the distributions, it is a monumental task to coordinate it all.  Sometimes
you have to spend an hour adding some feature that is not in SLS yet, simply
because I do not have enough hours in the day.   If you want to help,
add it yourself to SLS, and upload it, and I will add it if it works.
Just follow the instructions ins THEORY.SLS.

Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston)
Subject: [Q] x8514 with SLS?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:51:02 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

What are the various methods, if any, of running X8514 with the SLS .98 package?  I have tried grabbing the binaries but they require the old shared libs (which I cannot find).  Has anyone compiled this with the new shared (jumptable) libs or is this simply not possible?  I love SLS so far but would love it even more if I could get X to work for me.  

Thanks in advance,
--

  Mark Alston               U.S. out of North America!
  c-amb@math.utah.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.coherent
From: shri@nyx.cs.du.edu (H. Shrikumar)
Subject: Re: MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE under SCO UNIX ODT 1.1 and ANY OTHER 386 UNIX??
Organization: UMass, Amherst, MA 01002 + Temporal Sys & Comp Net, Bombay, India
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 01:27:03 GMT

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 ?

-- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in )

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: maniac@hammond.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Question about 4.1 Jump Table
Reply-To: maniac@hammond.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 23:53:12 GMT

First of all, what is it? :-)  I noticed that the HJ root system
mentioned that it had been compiled with it, but I don't know what
it is.  Is it a standard feature that all future linux versions 
will have, or is it a derivation of the current linux?

What are the pros and cons of using it?
-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: I'd really like a *COMPRESSED* backup...
Date: 8 Oct 1992 12:47:51 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: I've got it working otherwise.

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 /
and to restore TO THE CWD:	tar -xMvpf /dev/fd0 +same-owner

The -p option keeps the same permissions, and +same-owner is self-evident.
I *didn't* use the -P or -C options (absolute path-names and chdir) so that
it would be more flexible.  The problem is, I WANT IT *COMPRESSED*.

I just can't seem to get the -Z option to work along with the -M option.
So, I tried tar'ing everything up into one big file and piping it through
compress then piping it into another tar to put it onto multiple diskettes.
That didn't work... it stalled and then spit out dozens of "Prepare volume
#2 and then press enter..." messages and wouldn't respond to the keyboard.

I suspect this is because tar is looking for the 'enter' on stdin.
Is there a way to get around this...  should I be trying a "named pipe"???
Right now, I'm only using about 10% of my hard-drive's capacity so I
*could* tar everything to a file in /tmp and then tar it out to multiple
diskettes.  Once I've filled up more than half of my drive though, this
option won't be open to me any more.    ...help?

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: corywest@is.rice.edu (Cory West)
Subject: Re: Chicken and egg: How was the first linux gcc binary created??
Organization: Well, none really, but I know where my socks are!
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:59:32 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.124926.12423@engr.uark.edu> 
tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples) writes:

>  (I do my best thinking in the shower) "How did Linus generate that first
>  gcc binary?"  This was prompted by a newbie question about compilers
>  where he said something like "I can't compile a compiler until I have
>  a compiler to compile it."

	Well, I recently wondered about this myself, but my questions were
answered when I built the Linux cross-compiler on my Sun4.  The answer
that I have, unfortunately, won't completely answer your question:  I compiled
gcc with itself.  Well, actually, I used the sun version of gcc to build
the linux cross-compiler version of gcc (to a point) and then I used the
partially built linux cross-compiler to compile the rest of the distribution
and libraries.  

	I think the answer you're looking for is that it all started way back when :
a little assembler was written to assemble a better assembler which assembled a small
compiler which compiled a better compiler and so on, until gcc was built.

	As for Linux, I think that Linus built it using Minix tools.

P.S.  Yes, I have a working cross compiler for linux on my Sun4, but I don't have
a working linker.  I plan to complete the installation and write some docs
for everyone else interested, but school is keeping me quite busy right now
(as I'm sure many of you can relate). Mail inquiries are welcome.
	

--
Cory West    	  | School: corywest@rice.edu       | Rice University, '94
P.O. Box 2011     | Home: cory@lambada.hou.tx.us    | Team Wiess! 
Houston, TX 77252 | POP Mail: corywest-pop@rice.edu | Phone: (713) 630-8858
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ljarvie@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lee Jarvie)
Subject: Another Beginner Installation Question...
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 16:04:15 GMT



Hi there.

I have recently received Linux and have had success in running it via a
floppy.  I also received the instalation.notes file mirrored at
wuarchive.wustl.edu.  I followed this documentation as closely as possible
while installing with bootimage.98 and rootimage.97.  I repartioned my
harddrive to include the following:

 /dev/hda1  DOS 16bit <32M
 /dev/hda2  Linux/Minix
 /dev/hda3  Extended
 /dev/hda5  Linux/Minix
 /dev/hda6  DOS 16bit <32M
 /dev/hda7  Linux Swapping

This all went fine and Linux recognized all of the new partions.  I ran
the installation script, ran mkfs on hda2 and hda5 and ran mkswap on
hda7 and everything worked fine (no errors).

Finally, I designated /dev/hda2 as my root directory,
                      /dev/hda5 as my user directory and
                      /dev/hda7 as my swapping directory (excuse me,
partition is more appropriate)

This worked fine.  The script went on to mount the root and user
partitions okay, but from there, everything fell apart.  As it tried to
move binaries to my harddrive and mount them, I got MANY of the following
errors.

Unable to create symbolic link:  No space on device (or at least something
close to that) or
Unable to create directory:  No space on device.

There main operative here seems to be the lack of space on the device
since this showed up in every error message.

Finally, I left the install script and tried to mount the partitions using
'mount /dev/hda2 /mnt' as shown in the installation.notes file.  This
gives a segmentation fault: core dumped error.  

I'm not sure if this question has come up, but I've been through all the
documentation I can find, and I can't find this.  Please give me some
pointers if possible and I apologize if I am either doing something
incredibly stupid or if this has already been over-discussed.

Thanks for any help,
Lee

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Maxtor 7213a update 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:38:55 +0000


In article <ldajmvINNfm@ozona.cs.utexas.edu> jefftep@cs.utexas.edu writes:

>
>I've spent the last several days playing with componets, trying to
>track down the causes of my linux problems.  It seems it may have to
>do with my maxtor 7213a harddrive.  I've read everything through this
[ bits deleted ]
>
>I have a friend with a AMD 386/40 with an IDE drive, and he was nice
>enough to lend it to me, and even allowed me to repartition his harddrive.
>Good friend, eh?  Anyways, by swapping pieces, I've had the following
>successes and failures:
>
>My system:
>  linux 0.98 pl1
>  inter 386 33
>  maxtor 7213a PCBA 63p1
>  minix fs
>  5mb ram
>  7mb swap
>
>
>His:
>  linux 0.98pl1
>  amd 386 40
>  kalok 115mb hd
>  minix fs
>  4mb ram
>  9mb swap
>
>His Kalok drive gave me the nefarious Unexpected Interrupt messages,
>but otherwise worked fine.  I dumped a copy of my linux fs to his drive
>to test.  My testing consisted of compiling the kernel.  On his system,
>it worked fine.  On mine, gcc dies either because of a signal 11 or a
>text file looks corrupted (but isn't when I verify it).
>
>With his HD in my system, it worked.
>With my HD in his system, it failed.
>With 8mb ram in my system, my hd, and no swap, it worked.
>With both hd's in my system, mine used as root, his as swap, it failed.
>With either his or my 4mb, and my hd, it failed.
>With either his or my 4mb, and his hd, it worked.

Looks like you may as well use the maxtor as a doorstop it's no use as a
hard disc

anthony

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk          |   If at first you don't succeed
                                      | 
alovell@cix.compulink.co.uk           |   Get a Bigger Hammer 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sm7x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean E. Mccardell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Maybe I'm really stupid
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:01:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.oeow2PK00WBMM9S_Jz
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


I'm trying to install Linux from the SLS distribution. So far, I've only
copied the first four disks. I can get disks 1 and 2 to work without any
hassle, but when the installation program asks for disk 3, and I put it
in, I recieve an error message to the effect that it's the wrong disk,
try again.
What am I doing wrong? (Or am I just really stupid?)
Sean E. McCardell

"Ford's in his flivver, all's well with the world."
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Upgrading Linux
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:23:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Oct7.172308.12304
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1992Oct7.134631.16609@dgbt.doc.ca>, gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon) writes:
|> In article 29492@athena.mit.edu, oaa02@ttacs1.ttu.edu (HOPPER, BRANDON) writes:
|> > Being the novice Linux user, I've got the SLS Linux (.96c) up and running.  But to run Xfree86 on my Trident card, it says I need .97pl4 or higher.  Two questoins :
|> > 1)  How in the world do I upgrade from .96c to .97pl4?  I tried running the
|> 	...
|> 
|> Same here, I would appreciate knowing what is the simplest|most efficient|fastest
|> way to upgrade from the SLS 0.96c distribution to the current one (0.98.1 I think)?
|> Should I wait for an upgraded SLS distribution or do it myself?
|> 
|> On another matter, will Xfree86 work with an ATI VGAWonder XL board with 1MB RAM?
|> 
|> Thanks many times
|> 
|> ---
|> Gilles Gagnon     gilles@dgbt.doc.ca      | The Communications Research Centre
|> 					  | 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa CANADA
|> 

If you are comfortable with Linux, get my bootable rootdisk and the Linux Base
System. They are on tsx-11 under pub/GCC/[root|base]disk. Almost everything
is current.


H.J.
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: measuring execution time
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:26:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Oct7.172635.12408
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1992Oct7.141229.24893@puma.ATL.GE.COM>, wmitchel@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Bill Mitchell) writes:
|> Is there a C function available in the linux distribution for measuring
|> the execution time of parts of the program?  Such functions (like clock,
|> times, etime and dtime on SunOS) typically return the elapsed time since
|> the program started.
|> 
|> -- 
|>  -- Bill
|> 
|> William F. Mitchell           |  wmitchell@atl.ge.com
|> GE Advanced Technology Labs   |  na.mitchell@na-net.ornl.gov
|> 
|> Just the facts -- no opinion disclaimer necessary.

In zsh, `time' is a builtin function.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.perl
Subject: need perl4.035 config for Linux
Date: 10 Oct 92 19:13:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: none


I'm looking for a config.sh file to use with
the public domain unix 'linux'.  I have some
code that needs an up-to-date perl....

I'm looking for a config.sh for perl4.035
and am running linux 0.98pl1 and gcc2.2.2d
if that helps.

any help would be appreciated...

-- 
   ---------   Vince Skahan   -----------   vince@atc.boeing.com   ---------   
           "Speed costs money.  How fast do you want to go?"
                                                          - Bill Campbell
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: Zoom Modem probs? (WAS Re: New serial driver to try!)
Date: 08 Oct 92 20:12:57 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Oct8.022407.15199@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
 > 
 > . . .  Also, I'd appreciate it
 > if people with internal modems, particular Zoom internal modems, could
 > try it out and see if the kernel recognizes the modem now.

Just out of curiousity, what's the problem with Zoom internal modems. I
have a Zoom internal modem (VFP32bis - 14400 baud). The 16550A is
recognized properly and I have been using minicom on it just fine.

 > 						- Ted


-- 
Satish K. Chittamuru				satishc@microsoft.com
=====
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein, either stated or implied, are
solely my own and do not reflect Microsoft's views in any manner.
From: wow@cup.portal.com (wallace otis waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: High-Speed BBS for Linux community
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:21:04 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

See posting @ comp/os/linux for High-Speed BBS
From: ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux-0.98 booting problem
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:56:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: utdallas.1992Oct9.165635.12988
Reply-To: ramesh@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas, ACC

In article <1992Oct8.200344.14427@iitmax.iit.edu>, thssgxd@iitmax.iit.edu (Gautam Das) writes:
|> Hi fellow Linuxers,
|> 

  < stuff deleted which conveys 0.98 failed to boot>

|> gautam
|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> gautam@tellab5.tellbs.com  \"The Earth is but one country and mankind its
|> thssgxd@iitmax.iitedu       \ citizens." - Baha'u'llah
|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Along this line I would like to add this. I too tried the 0.98.1 bootimage
it simply comes up with general prtection errors:0000 on almost every
prgram in /etc/rc. So no mounting no update (danger sign) and no getty!?#*
I compiled my own copy of linuix-0.98.1, again the same problem.

Now I am back to a running 0.97pl4 kernel.

Could there be a problem with header files? I know that this is the area I am
really weak about. what header files are to be used? 2.2.2d7 + kernel asm and
linux - am I correct?

Ramesh
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder)
Subject: [Q] X11 Icon Manager: How do I display it by default?
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:47:46 GMT


	Hi...

	Does anyone out there know, how I convince X to display the
	Icon Manager without me clicking the "Display Icon Manager"
	field in the menu? 

	Any help is much apprechiated...

	...Wolfram
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Peter MacDonald <pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca>
Subject: SLS update
Reply-To: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:50:49 GMT

I believe that the last of the problems with SLS have been addressed
by the lasted Perms.fix file.  You can just execute it to clean up 
your system.  It is also put in x7/zxfix.taz, so that anyone 
who install the entire SLS distribution will have it run automatically.
Later when I get time, I will upload the fixed packages themselves to
tsx-11.mit.edu.

Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca

----------------Perms.fix------------------------------------------------
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/local/lib/menus/*
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/local/emacs/*
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/local/lib/perl/*
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/lib/X11
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/X386
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/include
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/g++-include
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/man
chmod ugo+rwxt tmp
chmod ugo+rwxt usr/tmp
rm -f usr/src/linux
mkdir usr/src/linux
(cd usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi; compress *.pcf )
(cd usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc; compress *.pcf )
(cd usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo; compress *.spd )
rm -f dev/ttys?
mknod dev/ttys0 c 4 64
mknod dev/ttys1 c 4 65
mknod dev/ttys2 c 4 66
mknod dev/ttys3 c 4 67
chmod ugo+rw dev/ttys?
chown root.root dev/ttys?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ewerlid@pinus.slu.se (Ove Ewerlid)
Subject: CLOCK placement in Xconfig - READ THIS! (Was: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: ET4000 clock timings and Xfree)
Organization: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:03:38 GMT


During the last days several people have reported having problems with
the explicit CLOCK specification keyword in Xconfig.  (In this newsgroup!) 
Well, since no one else seems to answer this and I stumbled in it myself
I might as well try to shed some light on this issue.

1) Recognition of reserved words in Xconfig is case insensitive.
   E.g. clock, Clock and CLOCK means the same thing. 

2) Since Xconfig is used to configure two servers, the mono and colour server,
   the CLOCK keyword must be put in the proper section.
   (Each server may need it's own unique clocks.)

	VGA256	starts the colour section
	VGA2	starts the mono section

   If CLOCK appears in a non server specific section it is rejected.
   If CLOCK is put in the mono specific section the colour server will not
   see it and thus ignore it until the end of time.

These comments apply to the latest Xfree86 server.
(Didn't check, but I don't think the 386 X server prior to this
 supports more than the colour server.  Hence the changes to CLOCK.)