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From: kheldar@prism.gatech.EDU (Garner Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Error after successfully mounting msdos fs
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:19:34 GMT
Organization: College of Computing - Georgia Tech

I was successful in mounting the msdos fs, but I get this error when I try
to list files (or try anything for that matter):

COMPATIBILITY WARNING: reading directory

And then I get nothing.  I compiled mount using the mount-0.97 sources from
tsx.  I am running linux-0.98pl1.

Any help is appreciated...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
Subject: Scheme for Linux
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:33:01 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
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	I have SCM, a free, copylefted Scheme implementation that is
fully R^4RS-compliant, running on my Linux system. Is anyone else
interested? I can upload the necessary binaries to a Linux site if
wanted. Or ftp to altdorf.ai.mit.edu and get the source yourself and
compile. SCM's only major flaw (that I've found at any rate) is that
it doesn't support bignums. Then again, the source code is there :-)

	I would be very interested in hearing about MIT-Scheme if
anyone has compiled it and gotten it running. It's huge, and it would
be a major pain for me download (what with disk quotas and all), so I
am loathe to go get it and compile it myself, but they do have a
version that's supposed to compile for i386 machines (v7.2), and in
fact, Linux is specifically mentioned as one of the PC-Unixes
("Unices"?) it should compile on, in the readme files. Anyone out
there got it running under Linux?

	If you want me to upload SCM, then email me or post to c.o.l. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
Subject: Re: linux-0.98.3 termcap problem
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:43:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.111844.90524@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> apm233m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>In article <92308.071727NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>, Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
> [stuff deleted]
>> After logging into a couple of systems I suddenly noticed that the virtual
>> console was restricting itself to 24 lines.  For example if less is used
>> to view a file and the sh prompt is on the bottom line of the screen the
>> entire output gets displayed on the bottom line of the screen.  Using
>> less with the prompt at the top of the screen causes less to use the
>> console as if it had 24 lines.
> [stuff deleted]
>Have you also tried sending ctrl-O to the VT? (can be done by ^Q ^V ^O if
>using BASH) This fixes some problems, but not the 24 line problem for me.
>
> [stuff deleted]
>Actually, I can live with a 24 line VT. Unfortunately, what I see is
>in effect a split-screen VT: one window of 24 lines and one of 1 line.
>If the cursor moves into the one-line window at the bottom of the
>screen then it tends to stay there (some programs, such as emacs can
>still make use of the whole screen). A 1-line VT is very difficult to
>live with!
> [stuff deleted]
>---------------
>Bill Metzenthen

As a workaround, just use 'tput clear'
You can alias "clear" to this or make a shell script.  I find
it gets me out of the mode (maybe just to 24 line window), but
it works.
-- 
Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
From: andre@maties.sun.ac.za (ANDRE SKARZYNSKI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Anyone compile gwm-1.7 with Linux ?
Keywords: gwm, flex
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:37:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: maties.andre.53
Organization: Electronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Hi All!

I have trouble getting gwm v1.7 to compile. The problem seems to occur with
flex. There seems to have trouble getting the lex stuff processed correctly,
it might aslo have something to do with bison as well. I am afraid this is 
rather sketchy, but I am not near my linux machine. I did use bison -y, so 
the simple stuff is no problem, it is just when one compiles the proccessed
code it complains about yytext and other things not been defined.

Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.

Regards 
Andre.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: SLS available for 9600 baud dload 1-508-793-9568
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:12:10 GMT

I'm finally done setting up the download section, and have extended the
time allowed on so that someone can download the SLS release in one session
(at 9600 baud).
You can also order SLS and/or the current kernel sources on disk (inside the
US).


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From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Which is better for novice??? SLS or MCC-INTERIM!!!
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:13:37 GMT

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:

>In article <1992Nov10.200935.507@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>>my experience (for what little it's worth :-)) is that mcc-interim seems
>>more stable.  However, it's basically an o/s package and doesn't have the
>>extras (mail, uucp, gnu, x, etc...) that SLS has.
>>

>SLS may seem less stable because you see more posts about it, but there
>could be another reason: maybe more people are using it.

I didn't mean that as a knock and I don't want to start a RFD for
making a comp.os.linux.religion.favorite.distribution group either.

mcc-interim is further behind 'absolutely current'.  I sure hope it's 
more stable as a result :-) SLS is the swiss-army-knife-of-linux
and is somewhat more current as well.  both are great.

>It would seem that there are 50 times more traffic on the SLS than MCC.
>Not to knock MCC, its a fine package and SLS even contains some parts 
>from it.  And of course this could mean that most people get MCC from its 
>source archive than tsx-11.  Also SLS is bigger than MCC.

I got it from mcc directly (myself) then I built my systems from lots
(lots!) of additional pieces that are now generally in SLS.

When time came to upgrade (and I bought a new linux-only disk), I stuck
with my past good experience with mcc-interim and used it.  Also, I run a
different directory structure so I kind'a need to build in pieces anyway.
That doesn't mean I'm saying SLS wouldn't have worked.
 
>It should also be noted that SLS is also much more evolutionary.  Patches
>and new components appear regularly, so that people can stay current just
>by downloading the new components.  Unfortunately, not everyone is so 
>diligent about keeping up with the latest patches, so the result is that
>even a month after a problem is fixed, we keep seeing posts about it.
>Case in point:  "shell-init" and permission denied because no-read for 
>non-root users on /.

like I said, my opinion is that mcc-interim is rock-solid for what you
get, though SLS is far bigger and generally more current.  Both are great.
You have to work harder to build-your-own-SLS if you use mcc-interim, etc.

long term, I agree an SLS-like creature will probably become an anon-ftp
shrink-wrap linux, which would be wonderful.

(hell Peter, you know I'm trying to get 'newspak' into SLS...I wouldn't
try to kick something I'm trying to get my stuff into :-))

-- 
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    vince@atc.boeing.com (work)		    vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (home)
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From: dalew@twiki.UUCP (Dale Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drives with linux?
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:35:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: twiki.VHu5TB5w165w
Organization: Wafflemania Unlimited - Portland, OR USA

mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis) writes:

> Are their SCSI cards OK, or would it be better to just get
> one of the cards linux definitely has a driver for.

  I'm not taking a chance here.  My current Always Technology IN-2000 SCSI
controller doesn't work with Linux, so I am getting an UltraStor 14F which
is specifically mentioned as being supported.  The new controller is also
SCSI-2 and Fast SCSI, which my IN-2000 isn't.

  I think I have just found a use for my 286/20 system board - build it up
into a second system and network it to my main box (a 386/40) so I can play
with TCP/IP and other networking features of Linux.  After I get the new
SCSI controller and video adapter (next month hopfully),  I'll only need
another case, keyboard, monitor, and hard drive for the second system.  Of
course, I'll also need two network adapters to do this.  I've been wanting
to tinker with a LAN of my own for quite awhile and this should work out
pretty well with Linux.

  I need a bigger hard drive to replace my 200 Meg SCSI drive anyway so I
can make my 340 Meg drive the primary boot disk because I don't have enough
space for all the bootable OS partitions I need/want here at present.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kimj6@vccsouth06.its.rpi.edu (Jongwook Kim)
Subject: WD90C31
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:07:24 GMT

Thanks,

Jongwook Kim
From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux version 0.98-pl4
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:56:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: uservx.1992Nov11.125634.36441
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

In article <1992Nov11.121307.7872@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, Thomas.Peikenkamp@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Peikenkamp) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> After reading its init file, emacs is stopped by signal SIGIOT.
> 0.98-4 is the first Linux version showing this behaviour. Any clues?
> 
> Thomas
> 

I had the same problem.  Check the "Problem w/p4 and emacs "
thread.

The bottom line is recompile emacs.

(BTW: Where did Linus mention this problem.  I checked his announcement
of P4 and saw no reference to it?)
From: dalew@twiki.UUCP (Dale Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Removing Linux from Hard Drive
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:58:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: twiki.iss5TB2w165w
Organization: Wafflemania Unlimited - Portland, OR USA

mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (David Mulcihy [483-1884 coopes]) writes:

> Is there some way to remove Linux and regain the partition and disk space
> under DOS?

  MS-DOS FDISK will happily allow you to delete any partition you want.
Well, at least it allowed me to delete my OS/2 partition.  I'm getting
ready to install Linix SLS here as soon as I get my new hard disk
controller.

  8-Dale

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder)
Subject: Re: ghostview, part seventeen ;-)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:45:41 GMT


rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:

> On porting lpr:  I tried to port it from the BSD sources a while back.
> At the time Linux lacked file locking, tcpip, and syslog.  File
                                         ^^^^^
> locking and tcpip are now here, and syslog will be in the next
> libc.  I hope lpr will then be a pretty easy port and can be uploaded
> to tsx-11 and friends.

	I hope this doesn't mean I have to have an ethernet card to
	use it, does it? 

	...Wolfram

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR)
Subject: Dumb TCP/IP question
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:04:19 GMT


Can anyone tell me how to tell whether TCP/IP is compiled 
into the system?  I wish to eventually use SLIP (or something
similar) to connect to the school so I can get on the 
Internet (is this a naive pipe dream?).

I'm sorta ill-informed in this area but am willing to listen
to anyone who cares  :-)


C. Armour-Kidson
cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: 0.98p4 serial port detection...
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:41:45 GMT


I just compiled 0.98p4, from the full sources (sick of patching all the way
from 0.98p0 8-), modifying serial.c to default the third port to IRQ 5

And when i booted it, it doesn't spot "COM3", ie. /dev/ttys2 anymore

ie. you get only the first two ports getting spotted instead of four.

It still works (I ran setserial and it was still set to IRQ 5 and all)

It's nothing vital, I'm just wondering...

Cos !
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee)
Subject: "system()" bug?
Organization: University of Hawaii
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 13:28:52 GMT


Does anyone else have this problem?  Output
to the screen gets lost when the system() call
involves a pipe.  The following little program
"bare" exhibits the problem.  When compiled,
"bare >temp" works ok, but "bare" produces
no output.  The problem appeared somewhere between
version 0.96 and 0.98.1, and it's still there with
0.98.3, libc 4.2, gcc ss-921027.
-----------------file bare.c-------------
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	system("cat bare.c | less ");
}
--
Greg Lee <lee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: xsetroot and color with S3 server???
Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:26:51 GMT
Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
Distribution: world
Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
NNTP-Posting-Host: peaberry.doc.ic.ac.uk


In article <1992Nov6.140054.7180@odin.diku.dk>, dingbat@diku.dk (Niels
Skov Olsen) writes:
|> Hi, 
|> 
|> I can't make xsetroot color my root window. I have tried the
|> -fg <color> -bg <color> but to no avail.
|> 
|> I think my xsetroot is from the pre-release of Xfree86 1.1...
|> 
|> Any clues?
|> 
|> Niels

Use xsetroot -solid <colour-name>

Ari
From: zxmsu01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Joost Schuur)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Missing /usr/include/linux header files
Date: 9 Nov 92 10:23:19 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG


   I've installed Linux twice (first the hlu then the SLS package) but every
time I compile something a bit more complex than 'Hello world7 (i.e. use 
some more exotic header files) cc gives me error messages about not finding
header files in /usr/include/linux. There is a /usr/include/linux dir, but
only one file in it! (can't recall any specific file names right now, signal.h
e.g. is missing) They're all there in /usr/include, but include the same
file from the linux dir again. Some linux specific information there, I guess.
Am I missing something? A symlink? A compiler option? A define ?

Thanks,

-Joost Schuur

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: compiling ghostscript/view
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:31:08 GMT

I tried to compile ghostscript 2.5.2, and got:
echo -lsocket -lm >>_temp_
/bin/sh <_temp_
ld: No such file or directory for libsocket.a
make: *** [gs] Error 1
# 
Why this?

Someone told me it should "make" without trouble on linux.

Ghostview failed as well:
# make
gcc -fwritable-strings -fomit-frame-pointer  -O2 -m386 -DNO_ASM   -I/usr/X386/include  -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE      -Dlinux  -DFUNCPROTO=11 -DNARROWPROTO -DNON_BLOCKING_IO  -DSELFILE -DHOME_ON_DEMAND   -c misc.c -o misc.o
misc.c:61: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
/usr/include/errno.h:8: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
make: *** [misc.o] Error 1

So what?

Greetings, Michael Will
From: Michael_Kraehe@hb.maus.de (Michael Kraehe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Cobol
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 10:37:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.14

Hy folks,

in my opinion Linux ist the best *nix on market, I'm playing with it since
januar (0.12) and using it since Mai (0.96a+X11) for writing manuals and
mail/news with MausNet. It's the perfect programmers enviroment, small and
quick. I've all the languages I need (GCC, Tile-Forth, p2c) and an X11 witch
is much better than ISC or ODT.

But now I've a great problem : I've to support a programm witch is written
in Cobol :-( Even that I dont have any plan about cobol. I dont know any
cobol witch is for public domain, so a can only play with it when I'am
connectet via modem :-((((

So : Did anybody know a Cobol witch is written in C an is either PD or
     CopyLeft :-)

By Michael

PS : Please reply directly to <michael_kraehe@hb.maus.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: tip  and  cu  for  linux
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:42:48 GMT

Leon Dent (lcd@ais.org) wrote:

: If there was a mailpak directory, instead of a "file", all the pieces
: that are ready could already be made available.  Then just new and 
: updated programs could be uploaded/downloaded.

That's the plan for the next release. :)
-- 
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"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dseelema@zeus.UWaterloo.ca (Alek Seelemann)
Subject: IT WORKS!!
Keywords: new user
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:24:56 GMT

I've uploaded the SLS distribution onto my PC, along
with X and GCC.

Everything works great except Ican't compile anything:
GCC quites with a "linux.h" not found error. I've loaded
everything except the base system, is this file in that?
PLS e-mail me if you know...

Anyway, It's great to run a real OS on my limited PC!
Thanks a lot to Linus and everybody!

system: 386DX-25, 5M RAM, 7M swap, 32M & 15M minix partitions,
and 32M DOS partition. AAMAZING VGA1-300 256K vga running xmono
at 640 x480 ( the card does 800x600 but I haven't got that 
working yet.) (performance in X is quite a bit better than I expected,
also I show only 60% core use for most work, and about 50% CPU).

Alek Seelemann

PS Anybody in Waterloo, Canada who wants to borrow my disks rather
than ftp the whole mess themselves just drop me a line!
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 1992 23:40:10 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject:    lx98p4 & /bin & /usr/bin

i have installed lx98p4 right now, and got it to run without problems after
recompiling (cheers !)
but, when I type "man" or "file" or any / some other commands in /bin or
/usr/bin, I get something like "obsolete version, recompile the binaries".
First thing, the sources to the bin-files aren't distributed with lx98p4,
that's just the kernel, or am I mistaken ? Where can I get binaries for lx98p4?
I've installed the SLS package and dunno where to get a specific part. Also,
i got ps-0.98.tar.Z from tsx-11.mit.edu, since "ps" produce a funny result.
After "make install",shutdown, ps -U i still had the same funny result...

And: i couldn't get the wd8003 working with lx98p4...

I _DID_ alter Space.c to support my hardware settings, i.e.
  I/O-port 0x280, IRQ #3, mem-base 0xD000,

_AND_ i tried both, config -r 140.78.4.31 -n 140.78.0.0 -d eth0 140.78.4.41
               and  config -r 140.78.4.31 -r 140.78.4.0 -d eth0 140.78.4.41
(I think the last line is correct since this PC sits on a subnet within a
 local net)

Also, at reboot i really _DO_ get "Initialization ..... Family AF_INET",
so I have recompiled the kernel correctly. I hope so ...
Even the WD-card itself comes up, and says something like
"WD8013 32 page memory, etheradress 00:00:c5:?:?:?"

Well, the problem when telnetting is that the WD says to the console:
Wd8003 transmission timeout...

Here I notice something strange ... at bootup, the wd identifies itself as
WD8013, and later, when telneting, it says "WD8003" ?
Maybe this is a clue to someone of you ?

Thank you, Herp.

PLEASE: if anyone of you got wd8003 / tcpip working, could you mail me your
a) net/tcp/Space.c
b) /usr/etc/inet/hosts
c) /usr/etc/inet/rc.local

I really need to check where I have configuration differences.

Last I have to note that the wd-card _IS_ actually working with the above
mentioned hardware settings & gateway/net-definitions (submask: 255.255.255.0)
when I use CU/TCP for the MsDos.






Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey)
Subject: Re: Linux + X11 on PC notebook
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:07:47 GMT
Organization: Makkee & Oey

jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.162544.9239@news.uit.no> johnm@stud.cs.uit.no (John Markus Bjoerndalen) writes:

>>Installing went smooth. No real problems, except that I couldn't get
>>the trackball to work in X.

>>Note: The trackball is acting as a PS/2 mouse, so the only thing you
>>should need to do, is getting one of the PS/2 mouse patches, or wait
>>for 0.98.3 to be stable. (It correctly detected my trackball, and I
>>was able to get data from it. So the only problem now is to find out
>>what kind of mousetype I should tell X that it is. ) 

>Get the PS/2 mouse protocol converter from
>nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/tools/mconv.c, start it up in /etc/local.rc
>and then tell X you have a Microsoft mouse.

I just bought myself a Compaq notebook. First thing to do
was to erase DOS and MS-Windows and install Linux with X.
No problem. The builtin trackball acts as a Microsoft mouse
connected to COM2 (configurable). No need to fool with
busmouses or mconv.

Biggest disappointment is that standard VGA seems to be supported
by Xmono only. Even standard VGA should be capable to display
some colors at 640x480. Any alternatives to hacking the server?
--
Hans Oey
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