HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation under PD unix..
Reply-To: alawrenc@sobeco.com
Organization: Lawrence & Assc.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 21:53:50 GMT

In <1992Sep27.035127.6838@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:

>In article <badger.717563481@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:

>>Does anyone really want to remember some obscure macro to do something like
>>create a footnote? Ancient PC software like PC-Write used to use imbedded 
>>commands like TeX does, but software in DOS-land has since evolved beyond
>>the Precambrian. I'm still amazed that UNIX which has such fine development
>>tools has such primitive applications... maybe because most UNIX users
>>write code but don't run apps? This is not a cut at the Tex enthusists out 
>>there - you have my admiration (& sympathy) to write your 500 page dissertationswith what is basically an expanded nroff :).
>>TeX does have a future - as an output format created by wysiwyg X editors...
>>.

>Under LaTeX, footnote is semi-automatic, you just say

>\footnote {
>This is footnote.
>}

>It will be placed at the buttoom of the page automatically.

>H.J.


Until the Unix people learn to use some to the more advanced applications
available in the PC/MAC market place they won't really know what they are
missing.  Until I can get Word Perfect running under Linux and find a 
spreadsheet capabable of competing with Excel I am going to have to keep
my business activities running under MS-DOS.

BTW: Is there any why to get DVI files output to a dot-matrix printer.  I'm
not overly  concerned about time, but quality  is very important.  Right
now I am unable to print anything except straight ASCII, and I have even
been able to determine how to create and use accented characters yet.
(Have my work is for French speaking clients :-) ).
-- 
If any given program runs correctly, it is obsolete.
=========================================================================
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3605 St-Urbain, #1605                            |  uunet!sobeco!alawrenc
From: davidho@dopey.rc.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q]: How can I download software to my Linux system?
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:56:04 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux,local
Organization: University of Arizona

Could someone tell me the answer to this basic question?
I just install Linux to my PC using SLS 15 disks that I download from tsx-11.
I have Internet access in work place but not at home where my PC located.
I usually use procomm and modem (2400 baud) remote login to my work place.
How can I install any other unix software or update my Linux?
Is there any method my Linux system can communicate to other system use
modem? Or how can I download the Linux-0.98.tar.Z to floppy and Linux can read
it. Does rawrite work? How should I change the name?
 
Thanks your help.
 
David Ho
davidho@dopey.rc.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rice@shaggyman.cis.ohio-state.edu (daniel rice)
Subject: Re: I'm new to this group
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:42:17 GMT

I also am new to this group could someone please tell me how to obtain
linux for my IBM PC.
I have a 486-33 with Trident SVGA and monitor 214 meg HD and 2 megs of ram
Thanks,
        Dan
rice@cis.ohio-state.edu
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: plotting data points in a window
Date: 30 Sep 1992 16:21:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu




i would like to display some data points that i generated with a
simple C code in an X Window. 

How would I go about doing this??? if someone could please direct
me in the right direction with email, I would be very appreciative.
I don't have enough money to buy a book and all the ones at
our library have been checked out for the last year :(

Thanx in advance

-- 
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Thieves Like Us      tomorrow/well, if i were you i wouldn't bother/for there
mal11@po.cwru.edu    are brighter sides to life/and I should know because I've
                     seen them/but not very often/am I still ill?"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: public S3 design (Was: Free software and ... Diamond products)
Keywords: Diamond, free-software, S3, VGA, SVGA
Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:20:02 GMT

In article <BvCyt0.JG4@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Torsten Duwe (duwe@informatik.uni-erlangen.de) writes:
[...]
>Doesn't performance depend solely on the main (bus/memory/whatever) clock ?
>... would be a bad thing if drawing speed was closely coupled to the pixel
>clock. 

With normal DRAM (i.e., not VRAM, not duel ported RAM) if the shifter needs
to output 65 Mega Pixels per second (assuming 8bits per pixel) 65 Mbyte/sec
of bandwidth is used to feed the shifter, which is 65Mb/sec you can't use to
transfer data to the DRAM.

[...]
>In my opinion local bus is unnecessary if you have an 'intelligent' SVGA to
>give complex commands to. Only memory to screen bitblt is an issue but that
>should be solved using more video RAM - hope the '928 is able to address more
>than 1 Meg.

Well please optimise copy plane of pixmaps with xor on and have enough RAM
that all of xtanks pixmaps can be resident (I think there is over 1M of them
once rotated out, if not I know there is over 500K of them).  [...]

>[...]
>>(4) S3 corportation provides a software development kit
>Yup! They're very DOS-infected but nice people.

I thought they had a windows bias, the 911 isn't very fast unaccel'ed
(isn't as fast as, say, the ET4000), and most DOS programs arn't accel'ed.
Not that windows is all theat diffrent from DOS...
[...]
-- 
           stripes@pix.com              "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Multitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
We all agree on the necessity of compromise.  We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise.       - Larry Wall
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Juergen Weigert (Inf4 - hiwi))
Subject: iScreen 3.2.9 available !!!!
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:01:03 GMT
Keywords: screen, linux

I just uploaded the current developement version of iScreen on 

ftp.uni-erlangen.de[131.188.1.43]:
-rw-r--r--   1 epixftp  ftpepix   188620 Oct  2 22:41 pub/Linux/bin/screen329b.TZ
-rw-r--r--   1 epixftp  ftpepix   252285 Oct  2 22:44 pub/Linux/src/screen329s.TZ

The binary was compiled with gcc-222d7, jump41, 
It was built and tested on a 0.97p5 system configured for 16 ptys.

I also noticed a flaw in the common console termcap entry  -
please apply the following patch, before running screen:


--- /etc/termcap.bad	Sun Sep 27 20:15:57 1992
+++ /etc/termcap	Sun Sep 27 20:16:35 1992
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@
 l0|con-unk|basic console:\
 	:is=\E[m\E>\E[4;20l\E[?7;8;25h\E[?1;5;6l:\
 	:rs=\E[m\E>\E[4;20l\E[?7;8;25h\E[?1;5;6l:\
 	:RA=\E[?7l:SA=\E?7h:\
 	:as=\016:ae=\017:\
 	:bl=^G:cr=^M:ta=^I:\
 	:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:ch=\E[%i%dG:cv=\E[%i%dd:\
 	:le=\E[D:ri=\E[C:up=\E[A:do=\E[B:nd=\E[C:\
-	:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:DO=\E[%dD:\
+	:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:DO=\E[%dB:\
 	:ho=\E[H:cl=\E[H\E[2J:ce=\E[K:cb=\E[1K:cd=\E[J:sf=\ED:sr=\EM:\
 	:ct=\E[3g:it=8:st=\EH:\
 	:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:ic=\E[@:IC=\E[%d@:al=\E[L:AL=\E[%dL:\
 	:dc=\E[P:DC=\E[%dP:dl=\E[M:DL=\E[%dM:\
 	:so=\E[7m:se=\E[27m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[24m:\
 	:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:mh=\E[2m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:\
 	:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:sc=\E7:rc=\E8:\
 	:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kr=\E[C:kl=\E[D:kb=^H:\

Happy linuxing!
	juergen.
-- 
 Juergen  >> jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de << irc: Ellrond
  Weigert >> The power cord is intended to serve as the main disconnect device.
Install the socket-outlet near the equipment and in easily accessible place.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
Subject: Re: Who will handle publicity for Linux 1.0?
Cc: fyl
Organization: SSC, Inc.,  Seattle, WA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:04:04 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I don't have a definite answer but I figured I should jump into the
discussion.  I work for SSC.  We publish pocket-sized reference cards for
UNIX, C, ...  I have Linux up and running and am very pleased with what I
see.

I don't have an official endorsement here but I think we could get Linux
at least mentioned in our catalog with a pointer of where to get it.  We
have just agreed to point people to FSF and this seems similar.

The catalog comes out twice a year and goes to about 20,000 people on our
mailing list plus at least 10,000 other people that we get from various
lists.  Thus, it is a fairly wide distribution and virtually everyone
receiving the catalog is a UNIX person.  The exceptions are usually MS-DOS
people who can probably spell UNIX.

As 1.0 gets closer there may be a better definition (from both ends) of
what needs to be done.  If, for example, there is someone selling the
distribution in some reasonable form and we could cover our costs of
taking their money, handling credit cards, etc, it is possible that we
would be willing to either resell the package or have the company that put
it together drop ship it.

Our next catalog will get put together in December for January mailing.
Hopefully the "right answer" will be more obvious by then.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
>>> Publishers of pocket references for UNIX, C, VI, Emacs, Ksh, MS-DOS, ... <<<
     ...!ssc!fyl or fyl@ssc.com            (206)527-3385

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Dumb idea regarding QIC-40/80 tapes
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 08:27:46 GMT

Here is a thought regarding QIC tapes:
if the floppy controller really is so timing-sensitive that it is not
practical to let the CPU buffer tape I/O and use an interrupt-driven timer
when to output the blocks, this might be an idea.

I admit the QIC-40/80 tape drives are generally not great, but they are
inexpensive and they do make people back up.  Maybe it would be possible to
construct an inexpensive, BUFFERING controller they could hang off rather
than the floppy controller.  (The knee-jerk reaction is of course "if you
can do the floppies why not the tape", but with the floppies a miss means
catch it on the next turn, on tape it means REWIND!)  Anyway, some QIC tape
vendors already offer dedicated tape controllers as alternatives to the
floppy.  Is is possible any of those are buffering?

	/hpa

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: public S3 design (Was: Free software and ... Diamond products)
Keywords: Diamond, free-software, S3, VGA, SVGA
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 22:34:31 GMT

In article <1992Oct3.145834.11008@kth.se> d88-jwn@jaws.nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct3.005854.28888@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>> ...
>>I  have a working 8514/A server with modifications for the S3 chipset.
>
>Does this mean you are using X with an S3-card. I'm about to buy a new card
>and are therefore very interested in this subject.
I am developing an X server for an S3-card. Don't want to mention the
name of the company till I  am 100% certain that the card works under
Unix. Under Dos, I wrote a small program to test the graphics and it
seems to initialize the S3 card successfully at least with 640x480 and 256
colors. Also, the program is able to draw rectangles, bitblts, and lines
all using the extendend graphics set in the S3 card. And, no vga banking!

>
>I also talked to a person at the company which sells this card. He said the
>card came with a driver for Unix. He just read it from some spec and couldn't
>specify it any more. I will will come back with more info when (if) I get it.

Could you name the company?
>
>> ...
>>Amancio Hasty
>-- 
>/Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))

Amancio Hasty
From: aml@surf.Berkeley.EDU (Arlindo Oliveira)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Begginer problems
Date: 28 Sep 1992 01:19:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: surf.berkeley.edu


 I'm a new linux user and, therefore, have the right to make three 
stupid question before I get flammed :-)

 After installing linux, GCC and X11 in a 486 with 8Meg without any
problems, I stumbled  in what should have been a simple task, the 
porting of my stuff from Ultrix to the linux box.

 When trying to make the package I got:

1 - Several errno 11 (try again) in GCC .The second try did indeed
    work, most of the time.

2 - After everything compiled smoothly, the ar program complained
    that:

> /usr//bin/ar: bad format (not an object file) in /home/aml/cad/mis/lib/libmisII.a(nodeutil.o)

 The names of the files it complains about change without any apparent
rule after I redo the one it complains about. The library I'm trying
to 'ar' is pretty big, about 3 Megabytes.

3 - When using a different approach (smaller libraries) I got:

>ld: malformatted header of archive member in ../lib/libmisII.a

 Again, this error shows up for different libraries, without any
special rule. When this error doesn't show up, the linker complains
that many symbols are not defined when they should be.

 I compiled it using GCC 2.2.2d without any special flags. The whole
stuff compiles without problems in my Ultrix machine.

 Any help in thie matter would be very much appreciated.

=:=:=:=:=:==:=:=:=:=:==:=:=:=:=:==:=:=:=:=:==:=:=:=:=:==:=:=:=:=:==:=:=:=:=:=

Arlindo Oliveira                 

207-194 Cory Hall         
UC Berkeley,     BERKELEY CA 94720         
Office: (510) 642-1462       Fax: (510) 643-5052
email: aml@ic.berkeley.edu
From: leet@acsu.buffalo.edu (Brian D. Leet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Tape Drive (help please?)
Keywords: tape, qic, archive
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:57:37 GMT
Organization: UB

Sorry, I had trouble getting this out to the tape mailing group so I am 
posting instead.  This is getting really frustrating, maybe because I don't 
know the first thign about tape drives :-). 

Hello,
  I have been experiencing a great deal of difficulty determining what sort of
tape drive I need to get so that I will be able to do tape back-ups under
linux.  After a bit of research and reading it appears that only QIC-02 and
QIC-36 drives are supported.  I am finding that actually locating such a beast
is remarkably difficult.  Many manufacturers do not explicitly state what
QIC is used.  I know to stay away from "floppytape" drives but what about the
various Wangtek drives?  They all seem to be SCSI to me but I thought i read
somewhere that they were supported.  Would someone mind explaining?
  On a more specific vein, are ARchive drives in general supported?  In 
particular is the Archive VP402 controller card?  What about the Archive
5580i drive?  Thanks for any info. choosing a tape drive is becoming a real 
chore.
							Brian
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: xv under Trident/X11v2.0 beta - anyone?
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:15:17 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.040525.19361@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
>
>Please don't do that. Please recompile xv with gcc 2.2.2d7.

There is a binary copy of xv that i believe was compiled with
gcc 2.2.2d7 (jump tables) on sunsite.unc.edu. it resides
in /pub/Linux/X11/viewers/xv-jmp.Z.

jem.

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From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Handy debugging feature request
Date: 5 Oct 1992 04:24:33 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lm@sun.com (Larry McVoy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slovax


SunOS has a nifty feature.  It's called trace and you say "trace a.out"
and it shows you all the system calls and their arguments as the
process executes.  The process need not be compiled with any debugging,
this feature is a mode in ptrace(2) that will stop the traced process
on entry and exit to/from the system when executing a system call.

For example, I've included  the output of "trace echo foo"; most of
which is handling the shared library stuff.  

I was wondering if there is any interest in such a feature in Linux?
It seems like a great way to get a handle on why your program isn't
working...  There is a public domain version called strace that is
nicer than trace; it might make a good starting point.

Once I break down and buy a 486 I'll wack on it if noone else does
but it might be a while.


    open ("/usr/lib/ld.so", 0, 04000000021) = 3
    read (3, "".., 32) = 32
    mmap (0, 40960, 0x5, 0x80000002, 3, 0) = 0xf77c0000
    mmap (0xf77c8000, 8192, 0x7, 0x80000012, 3, 32768) = 0xf77c8000
    open ("/dev/zero", 0, 07) = 4
    getrlimit (3, 0xf7fff738) = 0
    mmap (0xf7800000, 8192, 0x3, 0x80000012, 4, 0) = 0xf7800000
    close (3) = 0
    getuid () = 812
    getgid () = 10
    open ("/etc/ld.so.cache", 0, 05000000021) = 3
    fstat (3, 0xf7fff5d8) = 0
    mmap (0, 8192, 0x1, 0x80000001, 3, 0) = 0xf7780000
    close (3) = 0
    open ("/X/lib", 0, 01010525) = 3
    fstat (3, 0xf7fff5d8) = 0
    mmap (0xf7802000, 8192, 0x3, 0x80000012, 4, 0) = 0xf7802000
    getdents (3, 0xf78000d8, 8192) = 744
    getdents (3, 0xf78000d8, 8192) = 0
    close (3) = 0
    open ("/usr/mh/lib", 0, 06) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    open ("/usr/lib/libc.so.1.6", 0, 022750) = 3
    read (3, "".., 32) = 32
    mmap (0, 458764, 0x5, 0x80000002, 3, 0) = 0xf76e0000
    mmap (0xf774c000, 16384, 0x7, 0x80000012, 3, 442368) = 0xf774c000
    close (3) = 0
    close (4) = 0
    ioctl (1, 0x40125401, 0xf7fff704) = 0
    getpagesize () = 8192
    brk (0x6358) = 0
    brk (0x8358) = 0
    write (1, "foo\n", 4) = 4
    close (0) = 0
    close (1) = 0
    close (2) = 0
    exit (0) = ?
---
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gtb6038@sigma.tamu.edu (BILES, GREG THOMAS)
Subject: mtools config
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:45:00 GMT

I would greatly appreciate some help with setting up mtools to work with my
HD. The HD is hda and linux is hda1 and DOS is hda2 (type 6).  In /etc/mtools
it says C 16 0 0 0.  I assume that the 16 is 16-bits.  However, what are
the other three numbers?  (Linux is cylinders 0-730 and DOS is 731-988).

Thanks!
Greg

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: martin@cs.UAlberta.CA (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
Subject: X11v2.0 and ATI card, bus mouse - help
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:23:53 GMT

I'm having some difficulty coming up with a video mode that works
for X, with my video card.  If anyone has settings for an ATI VGA
Wonder Plus (chip version 5, 1Mb) I would appreciate the help.

Also my card includes a Logitech clone bus mouse.  What major / minor
codes do I use for a /dev/mouse to make this mouse work?  X doesn't
seem to respond to the mouse at all - that is, the mouse test program
doesn't work: I've never seen enough on the screen under X to know
if it is responding!  I have compiled Linux 0.98, with the logitech
mouse patch, by the way.

Tim.

 -------------------------------------------------------------
  Tim Martin                   *
  Spatial Information Systems  *   These opinions are my own:
  University of Alberta        *      My employer has none!
  martin@cs.ualberta.ca        *
 -------------------------------------------------------------
From: lairdt@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Tom Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: New installation patches
Date: 4 Oct 92 22:47:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Oct04.224758.11521
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Oregon State University
Originator: lairdt@storm.CS.ORST.EDU

I recently installed Linux .96c on my system. I would like to find out
what patches I should install on my system, and where I should get them.
I would like to run X, however I'm one of those fortunate people to have
a Trident card (an 8800CS at that), so I'm looking for Xfree or whatever
so I can run monochrome VGA (better if possible).

Things I'm after:
	patches to linux OS
	gcc patches
	X11 stuff for std VGA
	possible tape support?
	serial port stuff so I don't need to leave Linux to download

My system config:
	386-20, 120meg RLL drive (65520 blocks Linux, 31000 free),
	8megs ram, Trident 8800CS 512k card, NEC 3D, CMS120 tape unit,
	v.32 modem, Logitech Bus mouse.

Does anyone have a package to install all the needed patches and stuff
between the std. distribution on tsx-11 and the current stuff which seems
to be needed in order to do much of anything??

Thanks.
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FS corruption under 0.97pl6
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:25:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Oct5.182517.7905
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <AML.92Oct5110654@surf.Berkeley.EDU>, aml@surf.Berkeley.EDU (Arlindo Oliveira) writes:
|> 
|> 
|>  I'd appreciate any help on the following problem:
|> 
|> Environment: linux 0.97pl6, 8 Meg memory, 10Meg swap.
|> Hardware:    50MHz 486, 213Meg Maxtor HD.
|> 
|>  Symptoms:
|> 
|>   Arbitrary programs randomly break down with signal 11 (seg fault)
|> and dump cores of large size.  Programs more likely to break down 
|> involve intense disk access, like ld or make. Many times the FS 
|> is badly corrupted, with lots of 'block used before' messages. 
|> Several times, the root device seems to have vanished or have been 
|> umounted, i.e., cd / followed by ls gives nothing. Logins get, off
|> course, disabled since there is no root file system. After reboot from
|> the floppy, everything is OK.
|> 
|>  I understand the problem may be related with the particular HD I
|> have. Any fixes ? BTW, after a program breaks down once, further
|> invocations automatically fail.  I assume the file is in cache and has
|> something wrong with it. After a while, they will work again.
|> 
|>  Thank's in advance
|> 

If your hd is fine (don't tell me it works under DOS), please check the speed
of your RAM. If it is slower than 60ns. I am afraid you need a very big cache.
Or you have to turn off the turbo, or change the wait state of your RAM.


H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston)
Subject: Re: /etc/mount & DOS Partitions...
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:43:47 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah


	Hi there...

	A probably simple question: Can I mount a DOS partition, and
	-- if so -- is mount supposed to do the job? In the latter
	case: What options should I pass to mount?  Or is there
	something like "dosmount" around that I haven't seen yet...?

	...Wolfram

Try using: mount -t msdos /dev/XXX /foo/bar
--
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  Mark Alston        
  c-amb@math.utah.edu
       
"Never knew a decent man who liked mathematics."
			- Bonnie Abbzug-Sarvis
			  Hayduke Lives!
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