HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: new suite of networking programs available
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: tcp/ip, networking, binaries, sources
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:42:07 GMT

I uploaded a new suite of networking programs to
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming.  The files are:

* net-0.2.README        summary of distribution contents and notes
* net-src-0.2.tar.Z     BSD source for all programs and a BSD library
* net-bin-0.2.tar.Z     binaries and man pages for all programs

This distribution provides Linux-ready versions of most of the standard
bsd-net2 networking programs.  Included programs are:

ftp ftpd telnet telnetd inetd ping named named-xfer nslookup nsquery
rcp rsh rshd rlogin rlogind finger fingerd talk ntalkd tftp tftpd

The binary distribution is compiled with libc.so.4.2.  This means that
you *must* upgrade to the libc included with the latest gcc 2.3.3
before you can use them.  Also note that you must have the latest
Linux kernel 0.99 patchlevel 2 for rlogind to work correctly.

* the compiled ftpd does not use the shadow password library
* telnetd and rlogind require a login that understands the -h argument
* kerberos support is not yet compiled in
--
Rick Sladkey
jrs@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
From: "Hennus Bergman"  <S0356514@let.rug.nl>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: QIC-02 release-2d is out
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: QIC-02, tape, alpha
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:26:32 GMT

X-Mn-Key: tape

At last!

I have uploaded a new version of my QIC-02 driver to tsx-11.mit.edu.
It should be visible now in ALHPA/QIC-02/tpqic02-2d.tar.Z

You need 0.99.1 or something close to use it.


-- Hennus Bergman
s0356514@let.rug.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:48:09 GMT

In article <memo.837633@cix.compulink.co.uk> jburtona@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>DOS emulation
>Rather than running a copy of MSDOS in an virual 8086, wouldn't it be 
>nice to have a free dos-like operating system that was capable of
>running DOS programs?

Part-II:  Why not think of the problem this way instead?

Which programs from the DOS world are needed so that people will give-up
MS-DOS?  I can think of these:

	- Lotus 123.  Who wants to write and anonymously post a Lotus
	compatible UNIX spreadsheet?  Or at least one that could be
	configured to be compatible (thus you only have to anoymously post
	the Lotus compatibility settings).  :-) :-)

	- Wordperfect, or any WYSIWYG wordprocess for that matter. 
	Actually I'm thinking of doing this when I get around to making
	the X-windows version of JOE.

	- Dbase.  Yuck.  Actually does anyone have postgres working for
	Linux?  Is postgres in a complete enough form?  Is SQL really
	needed?  How hard would it be to make a Dbase to postgres
	compiler?

	- Desktop publishing.  I suspect that between interviews, X,
	ghostscript, and groff, this is going to happen.

If some form of the above four exist, and some better packaging and
advertising is done for linux, we could stamp out the evil scourge MS-DOS
and really complete the free-software revolution comrades!  ...Well it's a
neat thought anyway.  There's lots of other specialized programs for many
types of businesses.  I think the relatively small companies which make
these would be only too happy to get their programs to work on a free and
easily programmed OS which is almost as powerful as SUN-OS.  The only reason
they use MS-DOS is because it's there.  If Linux is going to be popular at
all, the above four things really need to exist.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G. Fournier)
Subject: APOLOGY...
Organization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:57:17 GMT

Hi...

	I wish to publicly apologize for my overuse of this 
newsgroup over the past two weeks...it was the first time 
that such has happened, and was a result of my having left
things dealing with Linux to the last minute, and trying to
get help, from the net, to bail me out.

	I would also like to apologize to Peter...the SLS
distribution *is* great, and if I  had followed this newsgroup
more closely, I would have noticed the already known problems
with permissions and such :(

	I do appreciate all the help received over the past
two weeks...and will refrain from asking the stupid questions
from now on

thanks to all..

Marc
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: Conflicting IRQs
Keywords: modem,mouse
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:06:36 GMT

Mouse (com1) and modem (com3) conflict when used simultaneously (e.g under X).
The mouse dies :-(  (can't do anything but re-boot). This will under X
either when I have a uugetty running on com3 or try to start seyon. 

There have been posts in the past that discuss how to handle situations
like this when two devices are used simultaneously which have the same IRQ.
e.g.)
	<wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu> posted about a month ago to
	change the line in the kernel (serial.c) from
	
	struct struct_ISR COM3_ISR = { 4, 0x3e8, UART_ISR_proc, 0 );
	to	
	struct struct_ISR COM3_ISR = { 5, 0x3e8, UART_ISR_proc, 0 );
				       ^

Before modifying and re-building the kernel, I downloaded setserial.tar.Z
from tsx-11, and decided to try it with the 'setserial' command.

Prior to modifying the serial ports, they had the following settings:
	/dev/ttys0, Type: 16450, Line: 0, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4  # Mouse
	/dev/ttys2, Type: 16450, Line: 2, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4  # Modem

Notice, same IRQ values.

So I thought I would simply change the IRQ on the modem from 4 to 5. e.g)
	/dev/ttys0, Type: 16450, Line: 0, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4  # Mouse
	/dev/ttys2, Type: 16450, Line: 2, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 5  # Modem
						             ^

What happens is when I go into X, and either try to start seyon -or-
have uugetty running, the mouse won't move (stubborn little thing).

Now, I tried many combinations of the above scenerio (i.e. chging the 
mouse's value instead, chging from 5 to some other IRQ value like 10, ...)

I'm kinda stuck right now (especially since I thought the above
scenerio would fix it), Could someone give me a helping hand up
and give me some insight (or lack of it)?

Thanks,

- Bill       wto@ihlpx.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Edwin Tisdale)
Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:48:04 GMT

In article <C0rAD1.9yH@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:

> My guess is there's still an awful lot of 3c501s out there.

There are indeed an awful lot of them here at UCLA.  Recent budget cuts
have left our department with absolutely NO money -- not even $79 --
for new equipment.

> If there's enough demand, a 3c501 driver for Linux will eventually appear.

A 3c501 driver for Linux would be a welcomed and appreciated contribution.
At least until we can find enough money to replace them all over the next
few years.  Bob Tisdale (edwin@cs.ucla.edu)
From: jeffreyj@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey John Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: make on lilo
Date: 6 Jan 1993 05:08:22 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu

     When I run make on the uncompressed and untared lido I get :


     In file included from boot.c:13
/usr/include/linux/config.h:4: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
make:  *** [boot.o] Error 1

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: KBDFLAGS=0x80 doesn't seem to work in 0.99pl2 (possible bug)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:27:20 GMT

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:

: All the flag handling in the keyboard was changed around 0.98.6 or so:
: this is one of the casualties.  The meta key handling bit is now a
: per-VC thing, and you can set it to be the default by changing the
: KBD_DEFFLAGS to also include the flag '(1 << VC_META)' in
: <linux/keyboard.h>.  I guess I'll have to make it a config option... 

I changed it in the Makefile.  Worked for me, so you wouldn't necessarily have
to change it in the header (yuck).
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and the world will follow our lead into the future.  --Adolf Hitler
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: Re: What is NFS server latest version? Having server problems.
Organization: The Internet
	<1ilbc9INNmau@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:12:44 GMT

>>>>> On 9 Jan 1993 01:56:25 GMT, operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU said:

Jeff> I have a quick nfs queston.  When I try to nfs mount a drive
Jeff> that has been made accessible to my linux machine, I get the
Jeff> following error:

Jeff> mount zeus:/clients/nadir denied by server, error=13

Jeff> what does error = 13 mean and how do I fix it?

error 13 == NFSERR_ACCESS == "Permission Denied."

The NFS RFC doesn't specify exactly what values the mount daemon
can return but I guess this answers that question.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock)
Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver 
Organization: Sewer of Source Code
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 00:23:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.174127.3075@super.org> becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
>The 3c501 is an ancient product with documentation that's no longer
>being printed.  It has a single packet buffer that is shared between
>transmit and receive.  By this I mean that when you have a packet it
>cannot receive another packet.  While you are offloading
>that packet it cannot receive a packet.  While you are loading a new
>packet to transmit it cannot receive a packet.  While you are waiting
>to transmit it cannot receive a packet.  While... well, you get the
>idea -- you miss most packets.  And I haven't even started describing
>the bugs.

I have used 3c501's for a long time, and yes they suck, but you are totally
full of crap.  They work fine for some applications.  People are giving
them away, and they beat the hell out of a SLIP line, which is what you
would probably be running if you didn't have ether.  Please just shut up.


-- 
Jeffrey R. Comstock 
HOME  jrc@brainiac.mn.org
CW    -. .-. ----- -..
From: ajt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS 0.99.pl1
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:03:36 GMT
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Philip H Jones (phil@plisgyn.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: [...]
:      I have already ftp'd disks  a1 and a2 from tsx-11.mit.edu in
:      /pub/linux/SLS and used rawrite as per FAQ and a1 fails to boot
:      with Load coming up on screen the 4***** and no further disc activity.
:      a2 is recognised as a 1.2meg Minix filesystem but is empty.

:      If 2/ is the best option where can I ftp 0.99.pl1 from as above a1 a2 
:      disks appear to be 0.98.pl6 according to History in directory.

Philip, the SLS distribution of Linux is available in a mirror of the
ftp'able parts of the tsx-11 archive here at src.doc.ic.ac.uk 

Look in /public/computing/operating-systems/Linux where you will find
a 'mirror' of the nic and tsx-11 archives.  I've installed SLS from the
files here and I must say how impressed I am with SLS - it really is good!

One problem I've not resolved yet, though, is that uucico core-dumps
and so my mailer is broken under SLS 0.98pl5, but I managed to
recompile a kernel with a UK keyboard ok, and the mono X-server works
on my Elonex PC320X (Oak VGA).

	Tony.
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From: bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben John Fornshell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X windows configuration
Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:21:02 -0500
Organization: Mary Washington College, CPSC Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: s850.mwc.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

	I've just recently installed linux and have been trying to
install X with little luck, I fear that the terminology used in
defining the scan rates and clock speeds changes between my monitor and
card user manuals and the documentation and was wondering if someone
knew, or knew of where I could find out what all the specs for both are
and what they mean, as well as alternate names they may go by?

					Thanks in advance,

					bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: System crashes
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:27:33 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:

>Ever since I upgraded to 0.99, I have been having strange and
>unpredictable system errors.  The *easiest* way for me to generate is
>to try to cd /usr/src/linux and make Image.  The system will compile 5
>or 6 files and then I will get an error of some sort.  I've seen *all*
>of the following (from memory, sorry):

[ .. Stuff deleted ... ]

>Also, if I open a shell in one VC, switch to another and do something
>that uses lots of memory, and then switch back to the first one, the
>first one will usually exit at the first keystroke and present me with
>the login prompt again.

>I *also* get unkillable processes which use up 98% of their CPU
>cycles.  Kill -9 doesn't do anything for them, and their state is R.
>Any pointers?

>Configuration:
>40MHz 386
>0.99p1 (trying to build 0.99p2, but it takes a long time a 5 files
>compiled per invocation)
>4MB Ram (70ns)
>2 80MB ST-296N HDs (SCSI)
>Seagate ST-01 SCSI Adapter
>/lib/libc.so.4 -> hard link to /lib/libc.so.4.2
>/lib/libc.so.4.0 -> hard link to /lib/libc.so.4.2
>/lib/libc.so.4.1
>/lib/libc.so.4.2 (from libc.so.4.2.Z on sunsite)
>gcc 2.3.3
>bash -> libc.so.4.1
>most things on my system use libc.so.4.1, some use libc.so.4.2

>                                  -Brian

You are running out of memory more than likely, so gcc is just dieing
when it can't continue. You should probably run some sort of swap partition
or file to increase total memory.

The FAQ should be able to tell you how to install a swap file or partition.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: w_stef@athalia.unibw-hamburg.de (Stefano Ianigro)
Subject: Re: problems with free
Organization: University of Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:49:12 GMT

>>In article <93011.141209K3010E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <K3010E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET> writes:
>>   Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
>>   Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:12:09 CET
>>   From: <K3010E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
>>   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
>>   Hello Linuxers ||
>>
>>   i have big problems with the command 'free'. if i login on tty1 and i try the
>>   command 'free' i get the error 'lseek kmem : error at 'nnnnnnnnn''. nnnnnn
>>   is a random number. if i make 'rsck' and then i try it again the error is
>>   away, but i get memory : 0 cache : 0 and so on.
>>
>>   What can i do against???


The solution is easy:
Grab the ps sources from sunsite.unc.ed:/pub/Linux/system and recompile 
the ps package. Remember: every time you have installed a new kernel
sources, you may have to recompile the ps sources! 

After you have installed the ps binaries (ps, w free, fstat,...)  do a
"ps -U" and you're done.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Stef

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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: LILO questions and more?
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:12:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

Hi,

I'm just bringing up Linux, I have the SLS .95p5 version.  All is well,
I finally got X-Windows running after a few rounds with the clock stuff!
I have yet to figure out how to get LILO to boot from the hard drive,
perhaps someone here could lend a hand.  Let me start by saying that I'm
a Unix neophyte, though I have lots of DOS & mainframe experience.  The
system I'm currently using is:

386DX-20, 8mb RAM, 80387, 100mb Quantum IDE drive, T4000 VGA.

I have the entire drive dedicated to Linux, split 50/50 since I was
limited to 64mb partitions.  With this rig, could someone step me
through what I need to do to get it booting from the hard drive?

Another question is about the file system, I'd like to get this thing
all in a single partition, is that possible with the enhanced file
system?  How stable is it, should I go with it, or stay with the
current one?

I'm also looking for the best backup alternative, I'd like to be able
to back this up with a reasonable procedure, what alternatives exist
for backup?

Any help will, of course, be appreciated.  BTW, the SLS distribution
is almost idiot proof, many thanks to the folks that put that together.
If I can install it, anyone can. :-)

Internet: john.will@satalink.com
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Subject: SysV Init Work with 0.99?
Organization: camaro
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:28:57 GMT


Does anyone have Miquels SYS V Init working with 0.99p1?  I just got it
and it looks great, I've been looking for a real INIT for a while now.
 
Also, Peter, What version of Init does SLS use?  Poegl?  And any idea whats 
the difference (Besides the Run Levels).
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: najem@cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad H. Najem)
Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:14:00 GMT

junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano) writes:

>In article <1993Jan11.203859.20237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:

>   Since people don't read meta-faqs, faqs, readmes, man pages, and
>   anything else that answers their questions, except for direct replies
>   to questions posted to comp.os.linux, why would they read about all
>   these new, wonderful ways to get answers to their questions?

>Here is a better and simpler way to do this.  Let's put the
>following sentence somewhere in the FAQ.

>	When you ask questions in c.o.l., put an extra `.'
>	(period) character after `?' in your subject line.  This
>	tells people that you _have_ read the FAQ, so that
>	helpful linuxers can ignore questions from people who
>	haven't even read the FAQ and don't follow this
>	convention.

Another solution would be to refer to people to the FAQ when someone asks
a question that is answered in one the FAQ. The answer might be even
more helpful by including a complete list of the FAQ's, where they can
be found, and who is the current moderator in case a correction or an
expantion is needed. I can come up with such a standard answer if you
think that is a good solution. 

>;-)
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 - Ziad
   najem@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
X-Aka: Upholder
Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:24:28 GMT

othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:

>It is a fully networking OS.
>It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
>387 emulator.

>20Mbyte for (networking)binaries only
>40Mbyte with X
>50Mbyte with Xview


Not to start a flame war, but does 386BSD now have shared libs as well?
Those numbers seem to be more what a linux system ends up using.. and I've
been told by local 386BSD users that their systems are much larger than
a linux system (due to the lack of shared libs).
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From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
Date: 10 Jan 93 06:51:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan10.065125.9007
Organization: Washington State University!

In article <1993Jan09.224846.12403@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.144510.9590@walter.cray.com> rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
>>I compiled the following program:
>>
>>main(int argc, char *argv)
>>{
>>  double f;
>>
>>  f = atof(argv[1]);
>>  printf("The answere is %f\n", f);
>>}
>>
>>The core dumps.  (passing an argument of "0.50").
>>
>
>I am running gcc 2.3.3 with all the new libs (gcc 486 binaries) and the
>new binutils, on an i486/33.  I compiled the same program and also
>experienced the "core dump" problem.
>
>Also, my kernel is compiled without math emulation, if that helps in
>narrowing down the possibilities ...
>

Does that belong to comp.lang.c? Please check

1. argv
2. atof ().

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:05:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.205455.974@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>
>One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
>386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
>at the time).  From what I hear from you guys, that big difference may not be
>justified by the features offered by both.  What may be behind Jolitz's
>thinking by assigning such an early version number to it?  What does he
>think he should have in addition to existing features to qualify for 
>version 1.0?

	You should ask Bill this question if you want a real answer.  I know
that 1 year ago, linux was at version 0.12 or so, and that the next release
after 0.12 was 0.95 because Linus felt that we were getting closer to a stable
system.   Still, this does not prove anything when comparing linux to 386bsd.

-Eric


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Eric Youngdale
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