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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AMD386 vs. Intel386 & external cache problems
Keywords: AMD 386 Intel cache
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:18:34 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Aug15.071904.27918@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:

| If it _is_ a problem with the AMD chips, it's only on their 40Mhz chips;
| I have a bulding full of PCs with AMD386 processors, and not a one of them
| has given me any trouble. Including the AMD386DX-33 in my machine (which
| has run everything from Linux to OS/2 2.0 to NetWare 3.11).

  I wouldn't run OS/2 on /my/ system, I'm afraid I'll corrode the bits!
-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rghuehn@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Huehn)
Subject: Why does scrolling sometimes mess up?
Originator: rghuehn@sunee.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:21:04 GMT

I have a problem with scrolling on the console screens that occasionally
occurs after exiting from elvis.  I'm not sure if it's a problem with
termcap, the console driver, or something else.

When it happens, only the bottom line of the screen gets updated, and
blank lines get scrolled up the rest of the screen.  Clear fixes the
scrolling, but setterm -reset doesn't.  

I'm using Linux 0.97pl1, setterm 0.96b, and the con80x25 termcap entry
from the setterm package.  (And Elvis 1.5.) 

Is there any way to fix this?

Rob
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rghuehn@sunee.uwaterloo.ca       Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: LINUX vs 386 MACH from CMU
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:37:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Aug13.213754.11916
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)




has anyone had any experience with this MACH  BSD version on UNIX???
especially the new 3.0 version.

I'm trying to decideif I should switch over to MACH since it already
support TC/PIP,etc.

Any ideas?????

Later

-- 
MaThiEu a. LeWis   
Thieves Like Us   
mal11@po.cwru.edu
From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Why GNU cp is flakey under Linux
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:36:29 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory

In article <JRS.92Aug12190300@lepton.world.std.com> jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey) writes:
>
>So if your cp is creating holes ROUTINELY then:
>
>* fstat is broken and returns incorrect values for st_blocks, or
>* you manually defined an incorrect value of DEV_BSIZE (i.e. too small)

	I noticed something else that may be relevant.  The du command should
always report blocks in 1K chunks or in 512 byte chunks, depending upon the
command line switches.  The way things work now, it effectively reports in 2048
byte chunks, perhaps because the du assumes that the block size is 512 bytes.

--
Eric Youngdale
eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux Diskette Distribution 
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:38:13 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <1992Aug11.152247.5160@cs.wisc.edu> djansa@aphrodite.cs.wisc.edu writes:

   Being a student, I know money is not that easy to come up with.  I would
   hate to see a student not be able to get linux because they can't come
   up with 60 bucks.  19 disks??  What on earth are you giving them?  I got
   the mcc release on 4!  5 more for X!!  I _know_ that doesn't cost
   $60 bucks.  Any student would be willing to pay for the disks, but 60 
   bucks??

   Let's keep Linux alive and well, and FREE!!

Excellent!  Anyone who wants a free copy of Linux should send 19
floppies to Dean Jansa.

NOT!

Lookit, Dean, $60 / 19 = $3/disk plus $3 S&H.  Sorry, but that's
about as close to free as *anyone* can get.  Just becuase *you* have
umpteen megabits per second access to the Internet, others of us
DON'T.  I'll be more than pleased to spend $60 on these guys...

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>  I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
Crynwr Software            Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.               315-268-1925 Voice
Potsdam, NY 13676          315-268-9201 FAX
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: Termcap for Wyse75 
Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:00:28 GMT


Hi Linuxers,

I recently acquired a couple of terminals....a vt220 and a Wyse75.

Does anyone have a working termcap entry for  a Wyse75? (it's
such a cute little terminal:-) It works "sort of OK" as a vt100
and I'm surprised that it can run stuff like tetris for terminals,
but it won't run stuff that uses curses.

Alternatively...does anyone know of some free network available
info I could snarf to help hack something together? I don't 
think I'm up for joining the "mad-monk squadron of termcap
entry writers" but .....it would be neat to have an entry that
would utilize the Wyses's capabilities. It DOES have a truly
wicked keyclick.
____________________________________________________________________
__________ Denise Tree
_________________________ tree@midget.towson.edu
______________________________________ ............ . .  .  .    .  .
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [misc.books.technical] A non-exhaustive list of Unix books ...
Keywords: books
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:49:32 GMT
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: Moria

Samuel Ko posted a long list of UNIX books to misc.books.technical.  I
think that might be interesting for new users who want some literature.

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: u31b3hs@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Re: can't compile texmgr
Keywords: TeX, MGR
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:31:07 GMT

meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman) writes:

>Well, I've been stuck on this for two days, so I'll try asking the net:
>I've installed both TeX and MGR from the stuff on tsx-11.mit.edu.  It
>all works pretty well, though MGR is a little buggy (it crashes if you 
>make the windows too big).  Now there's this program texmgr, which 
>purports to be a TeX previewer for MGR.  I'd dearly like to have it,
>but the make always crashes at the link stage:  it can't find the
>library libmalloc.a.  Hacking the makfile to leave it out doesn't work,
>so evidently it's essential.  WHAT IS IT?  I've never seen such a library
>anywhere.  Am I supposed to generate it somehow?  Any help is appreciated!

*sigh*

[flame on] What version of inux/GCC/MGR do you use?  How should I give
you any hints if I have no idea about the environment? [flame off]

If you are interested in MGR, you should forget about the US archive
versions.  They are old.  You always can get a current version from
ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de:pub/linux/beta/mgr/*

That version will be updated regularly, it is the definite version for
beta testers.  I appreciate that you compile things on your own, because
I don't release binaries for various reasons.  If you have any problems,
please *don't* post to comp.os.linux, but use the MGR channel of the
mailing list instead.  If you need information about that, I hope that
you find some in the FAQ, or ask me again and I will send you a short
introduction on how to use it.

The TeX MGR from that distribution compiles fine, but I don't have TeX,
so I can't say if it works.

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
Subject: Re: Linux CDROM (Was stabilizing Linux)
Organization: Wimsey 
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:29:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.095529.18687@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.164546.13304@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug12.020246.22166@wimsey.bc.ca>, bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) writes:
>>| 3.75Gb/process would be great! I am not likely to need that ofcourse, nor will
>>| I likely have a swap partition much greater than 10-20Mb, but fewer limitations
>>| are allways welcome.
>>| 
>>| Now if the number of processes are also increased from 64 to say 1024 that would
>>| be great! (yes, I can see running out of 64 processes)
>>
>>  I can see running out of 64 processes a lot faster than running out of
>>64MB address space. I certainly am not running that much memory and
>>swap.
>
>The things are related: the 64 process maximum will be gone the same day
>the 64MB limit is gone.  It will just take a bit of coding on my part,
>so don't expect it tomorrow.. 
>
>		Linus

I don't expect it tomorrow... whenever it gets here will be fine... I only
anticipate requering more than 64 tasks one I get more serial ports & kernel
ethernet support & I move my newsfeed to one of my Linux boxes...

Bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu)
Subject: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 19:38:38 GMT
Distribution: na

Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
partitions.  (Sorry if this is an faq.)
--
--
Ing-Tsau Chiu                       chiu@nas.nasa.gov
From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: fail to mount /dev/fd1
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:45:11 GMT
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

In article <1992Aug20.163351.14910@nas.nasa.gov>, chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
> I booted Linux from diskettes (Linux 0.97 boot diskette and root
> system) and was able to ran a few unix command.  Everything seemed
> fine except that when trying to mount /dev/fd1 (a 3.5in 1.44meg drive)
> using "mount /dev/fd1 /mnt", I got the following message.
> 
>   magic match failed
>   /dev/fd1 already mounted or /mnt busy
> 
> Can anybody tell me what's going on?  Thanks.
> --
> --
> Ing-Tsau Chiu                       chiu@nas.nasa.gov

What you told Linux to do was mount a linux file system on drive fd1.  
the disk isn't a linux disk.
The solution is to either:
   1.  mkfs /dev/fd1 1440  (make the disk a linux file system)
   2.  mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt  (mount an ms dos disk on /mnt)
(the disk in fd1 must be formated w/dos format or linux fdformat)
before any of the above allpies.
            

 siss fil
From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X questions: how to run x-program on other machine?
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:47:41 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:

>In article <zhao.713807106@unixg.ubc.ca> zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:
>>Hi, there,
>>I have X running, but still have some questions. 
>>know I am running X on a PC under L-I-N-U-X. Is it possible to dial-in and 
>>run x-program from my linux-X machine?

>Not yet.  To run the stock X server and clients, you need to have 
>either a unix domain socket (local machine), or a TCP/IP socket
>connection.  This means you need to have IP access to the 
>net on which the host computer runs.

The article goes on to explain what is necessary to set up a SLIP
connection.  It seems to be correct, but the statement that this is
not yet possible under Linux is wrong.  KA9Q supports SLIP.
ka9qbin.4.tar.Z should from TSX should be sufficient.  (Version 6,
which I have just put up, contains working Ethernet support.  It's not
necessary for SLIP usage.)  This version of KA9Q also supports X, by
the simple expedient of passage bytes back and forth between a local
Unix-domain connection to the X server and a TCP connection to the
remote host.  The main problem in using SLIP is that your university
must support SLIP dialups, and that from a practical point of view
you'll probably need the help of someone in your university's
networking group to get the configuration right.  I've tried to
explain what's needed in READ.ME, but most users don't know -- and may
find it hard to find out -- things like whether BOOTP is supported,
what the name server's address is, etc.
From: jwromei@cs.vu.nl (John Romein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Bug in mount + Mouse question
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:16:51 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

'mount' contains a small bug.  It accepts arguments like
'mount /dev/fd0//// /fd0' and if the filesystem is unmounted using
'umount /dev/fd0////' nothing goes wrong, but if another number of
backslashes are used, the entry in /etc/mtab is not removed and programs
like 'df' or 'mount' without arguments give incorrect results.  By the way,
I am using linux 0.97 patchlevel 1.

But now a question with respect to mice.  I own a Qtec QM-02 three button
mouse, which I can use only if I turn the switch to 2-button mode and have
the entries 'Microsoft' and 'Emulate3Buttons' in /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig.
Without the last entry and having the switch in 3-button mode, my mouse
cursor really does strange things.  Any solutions ?

John Romein
From: julien@incal.inria.fr (Julien Maisonneuve)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X11 and the joys of modes
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:01:24 GMT
Organization: Just me

OK, I grabbed X11 a bit late, but I just received a new video board (pvga based)
to replace my trident.

My problem is that I can't get my monitor to sync properly using the modes I
found in Xconfig and vga.dbase. Horizontally, things look right, but vertically,
I get flying superimposed pictures (Color is OK though :-). I can see xclock
jumping a bit (two superimposed pictures) but can't do any better.
The (numerous) changes I could make in the mode settings didn't do much, and the
mode I made using the video.tutorial doesn't seem to handle things better than
the others (not much worse either). Despite the tutorial, I figured out what the
mode values meant, but I can't find the proper values.

The clocks.exe reports only four clocks for my vga (something like 25 29 65 36)
and X11 does NOT find the same at all when I leave the clocks line out (reports 8
lower values, max is at 40). I try to use 65 (large values intuitively suggest
better resolution...).

My SVGA board & monitor can do a neat 1024x768x256 non interlaced picture under
DOS. Isn't it possible to write a DOS program that reads the vga registers in a
given mode (this very one) and tell the appropriate video timings ? That would
help a great deal the poor X11 installers with uncommon hardware.

That kind of help message seems to have disappeared from c.o.l, so most people
have likely solved the problem: I couldn't, someone please HELP !!!

Usual praises & kudos about Linux and X11...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: HELP! -- Internal Compiler Error
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:08:09 GMT

Jeffrey Grills (jefftep@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:

: >gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11

: This problem is not unique to you.  I have been attempting to solve it for about
: a week now, and am quite close to pitching linux in the trash because of it.
: If I can't develop software under this base, I have no interest in taking up the
: HD space related.  (flame off).  Any ways, this is what I have done, attempting

I don't have a solution for you, but...

:      they too have this problem, and would like it solved, but noone has
                                                                 ^^^^^

I hate to tell this to a college student, but I don't think that there *is*
such a word.  It's "no one".
-- 
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: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Logo
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:54:23 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

In article <1992Aug12.011236.8636@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) wrote:
> Well, someone axed why we don't gots one, so done drawed one.
> It's not a really catchy logo; it's rather simple, in fact, but then, linux
> is actually like that. It doesn't hit you between the eyes with bells and
> whistles: it just sort of sneaks up on you, and stuns you with its..its..
> come on, guys, what's the word I'm looking for here? 

ineffability?

*<8^)

	Mika
--
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Helsinki University			Mika.Liljeberg@Helsinki.FI
Dept. of Computer Science
From: cgwillme@cybaswan.UUCP (r b willmersdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: floating point in Linux
Keywords: pow()
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:56:59 GMT
Reply-To: cgwillme@cybaswan.UUCP (r b willmersdorf)

In article <1992Aug12.140106.3460@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> menes@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rainer Menes) writes:
>
>Hey Linuxer's,
>
>Rainer Menes
>Inst. fuer Angewandte Mathematik der TU-Muenchen
>Arcisstrasse 23
>8000 Muenchen 2
>Germany
>
>P.S: I report something simular one month ago in this newsgroup, but no replay.
>Does nobody care about numerics?????
> 

I do very much actually, and I was even thinking of starting a
channel on the mailing list for it. However, as I have to finish
my Ph. D. thesis and will be moving back home and losing this
connection soon , I sort of postponed it. I would still be
interested if someone else is :)
-- 
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Ramiro || cgwillme@pyr.swan.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: How safe is Mtools?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:05:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.125003.28405@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler) writes:
>	Can anyone tell me just how safe it is to use mtools on my 130 meg
>dos partition?

I'd say "quite".

I don't know of any major bugs in the current version(s) of Mtools.
However, there are a few possibilities to make your MS-DOS FS
inconsistent:

  - using an incorrect FAT type: Mtools complains if it detects that your
    choice may be wrong, but you can override that. Writing with the wrong
    FAT type is a reliable way to create many interesting inconsistencies
    that CHKDSK will just love to destructively fix (and possibly hang
    itself in the process).
  - you can interrupt Mtools by sending it a HUP signal or by sending it
    more than one ^C, etc. This may leave your FS in an inconsistent
    state. CHKDSK should be able to fix this. (This is the same situation
    as hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del or Reset while a program is running in MS-DOS.)
  - if more than one Mtool writes to the same MS-DOS FS at the same time,
    you also get some nice inconsistencies. CHKDSK may be able to fix
    them.

Having said this, let me add, that if you're aware of those problems, it's
easy to avoid them. I've used Mtools many times and it hasn't ever done
anything unhealthy to my files.

- Werner
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From: kevins@cae.wisc.edu (Kevin Schroedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: /lib/libc.2.2.2 problem resolved
Summary: Make sure that the X11 libraries are properly installed
Keywords: X11, shared libraries
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:17:42 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

Thanks to everyone that helped me get the problem with X programs dying
fixed.  Turns out that the X11 shared libraries were in /lib, /usr/lib
but not in the /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2/shared directory.
I properly installed the libraries and everything is AOK.

By the way, anyone still know where I can pick up lex/flex?

			Kevin
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius)
Subject: mj-release: new stuff
Organization: Communication Networks
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:44:41 GMT

The following new LINUX pieces made it to ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de:

    289284 Aug 19 16:46 pub/linux/mj-bin/mj-boot-0.97pl1-ger
    289284 Aug 19 16:06 pub/linux/mj-bin/mj-boot-0.97pl1-us

Kernel 0.97pl1 with German (-ger) and US (-us) keyboard.

   1126400 Aug 18 13:31 pub/linux/GCC/222ddb.taz
   1228800 Aug 18 13:29 pub/linux/GCC/222dlib.taz
   1126400 Aug 19 21:31 pub/linux/GCC/222dmisc.taz

RAWRITablE versions of the GCC 2.2.2d archives. When written 
directly to floppy disk, uncompress will die on at least two of 
the original .tar.Z archives.

If you want to install GCC 2.2.2d from disk instead from .tar.Z 
files on your hard disk, get this:

       564 Aug 18 14:43 README.2.x
     10493 Aug 19 16:48 install.2.x

A modified install.2.x, which untar and uncompresses directly 
from floppy disk (needs GNU tar).

Enjoy. The LINUX archive will get no maintenance during the next 
5 weeks, 'cause I'll be on vacation.

Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Subject: Where can I get linux-logo.gif or GhostScript(for Linux)?
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:22:26 GMT

I'd love to see the Linux Logo... but I get "Permission Denied"
when I try to "get linux-logo.gif" from tsx-11:/incoming.

Where and how can I get this file???

I don't have a PostScript printer, so GhostScript will probably come
in handy in the future as well... where can I get it for Linux (or DOS)?

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>