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From: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti)
Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:04:10 GMT

If anyone is interested, my 386/25 laptop, w/o 387, 4M ram and 16M swap,
compiled (make dep Image) my kernel (+tcpip -scsi -sound +nfs -isofs) in
45 minutes, running "alone" most of the time.

I think differences in processor speed become relevant only if you have 
sufficient memory. I mean, for a 2M machine you'll see few difference from 
a 486 and 386sx, but for a 8M machine... (I'm guessing it, I have tried 
Linux only on my own box).

                Romano.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: spierce@wam.umd.edu (Stephen Pierce)
Subject: Linux mud and file server.
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:13:39 GMT

   I've been experimenting with Linux, and I was wondering if this was 
possible/done/tried...

   I want to get a 486-66DX/2 with local bus, a FAST video card, and a
FAST network card. Now I want to do two things with this Workstation:

   I want to setup a file server w/NFS mounts for MS-DOS systems. Essentially
a shared database, shared program space, etc. Whatever we decide to use
it for.
   Second purpose: I want to run a mud on it. (Don't worry, I am crazy) I want
to run a LPMUD (MudOS or Lars 3.1.2), but I can't get the code to compile.
Anyone who has tried/done it, please tell me how it works...

Steve

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: meggin@epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:39:23 GMT

In article <TERJEVE.93Jan3211242@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no> terjeve@ifi.uio.no (Terje Vernly) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.143145.24737@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
>
>> Sorry to make you vomit, lads, but my 486DX/33 with 8Mb RAM did a
>> complete 0.99 compilation in the background in 11 minutes, whilst
>> running X! :-)
>
>My 486DX/50 also with 8Mb RAM completed the same compilation in only
>7 minutes and 10 seconds (with X and a few other clients running).
>
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>  | Terje Vernly                   "The dead know only one thing : |
>  | InterNet: terjeve@ifi.uio.no    It is better to be alive."     |
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Well, it used to take me a good 1/2 hour to remake the Minix kernel
on my old 8mhz Atari ST, but then again, I didn't spend 45 minutes
counting the seconds and composing postings about the time, so by
my reckoning, I was still at least 22.5 minutes ahead of either of
you. ;-)


David

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: degrant@seq.uncwil.edu (DeGrant, Kenneth L)
Subject: Video Card, Mode DB, Western Digital(Paradise)
Organization: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:16:54 GMT

 I am having trouble with my Xconfig.  I have a 

	486-33	with a Western Digital Chip WD90230-LR (Model 90C11)

	I have the 1 meg on the board video ram 256 color 1024-768 modes.

	There is also a Paradisee part number PBGA1C for it.

  	I looked in the computer manual, ( horrible at best ).

	It is a generic PC-Brand computer with WD video with no
	
	documentation that will help me out.

	Does anyone have a WD (Paradise) setup for X???

Many thanks...  ( Why did I want Linux????  XXXXXX-Windows )

Kenneth DeGrant
degrant@seq.uncwil.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam)
Subject: How to get correct ANSI under xterm?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:55:06 GMT

Would anyone please tell me how to get correct ANSI terminal emulation in
an xterm? For instance, I cannot get DOS box-drawing characters with Xc
running in an xterm, and the cursor positioning does not work right.
I've tried Seyon and there is similar problems. Do I need to modified my
termcap file and how?

Regards,
Savio Lam. 

email: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk
From: ewerlid@ida.docs.uu.se (Ove Ewerlid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: The 3c503-ALPHA-DRIVER (WAS: [NET]: Problems with 0.99)
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:20:33 GMT
Organization: University of Uppsala, Sweden
NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.csd.uu.se
In-reply-to: axi0349@ultb.isc.rit.edu's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:53:33 GMT


On the 3c503 side this problem may be due to a problem
I stumbled on.  Since Donald Becker (who wrote the driver)
seems to be away I might as well answer.
(A similar message has already been sent to the net-channel.)

The probe that detects the 3c503 card fails to properly check
the shared memory.  This means that shared memory is
detected and given an address even though it is disabled by the
onboard shared memory jumper.  There are MSDOS 3c503 drivers that can
use a 3c503 card with the shared memory disabled.
So things may work great under MSDOS.

This problem is detected by a header consitency check in the 3c503
driver and the result are card restarts.  In my case all headers
had all bits set to all ones.  E.g. the error status
reported by the consistency check was all 0xff.
(This may be different though.)

THUS, check the memory jumper on the 3c503 card and
make SURE it is positioned to select shared memory at an
address that doesn't collide with something else.
(I use 0xc8000.)
On the 3c503 card I use the memory jumper is the one
with 5 positions.  The IO-base jumper has 8 positions.
Disabled shared memory was indicated with the address 0
printed on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board).
(This may be different for you though.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Subject: Orchid Designer 800 VGA info needed
Reply-To: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:11:17 GMT

I was recently given an old Orchid designer 800 VGA card. It appears to have
an ET3000(AX) chip, 256K of memory (expandable to 512K), and 2 external
connectors (a 9 and 15 pin connector). No documentation. I'd like to use
it in my 40 Mhz 386 box upgraing from CGA. Some questions:

1. Can someone tell me what the DIP switches and jumper mean? There are
   4 DIP switches accessable from the back panel and a single jumper
   near the back panel.

2. Is there any way I can use this card with either a CGA or monochrome
   monitor? I'll be getting a VGA monitor sometime in Feb.

3. Will this card run X under Linux? Is there anything special I'd have to
   to do to get it to work?

Please send by Email. 

Thanks,

BAJ
---
Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel!
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332   Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jmh@doc.trent.ac.uk (John Haslam)
Subject: 3c509 Driver Required.
Organization: The Nottingham Trent University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:50:04 GMT

	I'm using a 3Com 3c509 Ethernet card and I seem unable to locate a
driver. Is such a driver available? In the SLS release that I have there only
seems to be support for a Western Digital card. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
-- 
Jonathan Haslam (jmh@uk.ac.trent.doc)
The Nottingham Trent University
Computing Department
Nottingham
From: jregehr@shadow.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS problem
Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:22:38 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: shadow.ksu.ksu.edu


I just tried to update my system from SLS 0.98p1 to the current 
distribution (as of the 27th, at least).  It installed fine, but when 
I tried to reboot from the hard drive I got the following output:		

Loading.....................	[21 dots here; is this significant?]
@X:1007	
AX:D212
BX:7E00
CX:0901	
DX:0000	
[repeating, with continuous floppy access]

My system is a 386/20 DX with 8 megs, a Cyrix 387, generic ET4000
video, and a Maxtor 7213A (trouble free, so far).

Any help is appreciated.

Also, thanks Peter for putting SLS together for those of us who don't
have the time and know-how to assemble such a complete system ourselves.		

John Regehr
jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu	
Kansas State University
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:21749 gnu.gcc.bug:3059
From: bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu (Jim Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: gcc-2.3.2 builds out of the box
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:04:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncsu.1992Dec23.000448.4988
Followup-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.gcc.bug
Distribution: world
Organization: wcuvax1.wcu.edu (CS Dept., Western Carolina University)
Posted-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:04:48 GMT
Originator: dbt@adm.csc.ncsu.edu
Apparently-To: gnu-gcc-bug@mcnc.org


  The problem I reported previously in making gcc-2.3.2 was caused by
a missing character in the gcc/install.sh file. gcc-2.3.2 makes and
seems to work well (compiles itself and the kernel) on my SLS (of
12/03) system with a 0.99.1 kernel. Users may want to consider
changing the linux-specific part of configure to install in
/usr/instead of /usr/local (change prefix to /usr from /usr/local),
and the system install program can be used instead of install.sh by
removing the "broken_install=yes".

--Jim Bray (bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu)
(Run Linux, the Official OS of the New World Order (just kidding))
(Please Support the League for Programming Freedom, and Boycott ATT
 because of their legal intimidation of BSDI, UCB, and CMU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:43:16 GMT

In article <2B3611DB.6CD7@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius):
>>In normal C programs, yes, but the kernel is a bit special.  Like, for
>>instance, who is going to do the initialization?
>
>Why couldn't the first thing in the kernel be a zeroing of bss?!

Well, how about the kernel runs in 32bit mode, while the init stuff is
done in 16bit mode.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
Subject: Re: Third button on a 2-button mouse
Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:57:07 GMT

>>>>> In article <1992Dec21.172243.15167@cc.umontreal.ca>, duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
LD> I have a two-button Microsoft mouse and I'd like X to recognize that when I
LD> push on both buttonsat the same time it should be interpreted a button 3.  How
LD> do I do this?  Is this an X-specific question or is it an os-specific
LD> problem?

Put this in your Xconfig and it will do just that.  

Emulate3Buttons

This is used by XFree86 on all the supported OSs.  See 'man X386' for
the details on Xconfig.  Rich
From: Randy.Edwards@f60.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Randy Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: pwd command missing in L
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:53:00 -0800

To: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) 
 On 12-29-92 Edmund Wong wrote to All... 
 
 EW>    HELP!.. I've been searching my system for the 'pwd' command,
[...] 
 EW>    Everytime I log on as a non-root user, I get the following:- 
 EW>     Welcome to Linux SLS .... 
 EW>     ....etc 
 EW>      Your password will expire in 0 days. 
 EW>      No mail. 
 EW>      shell-init: Permission denied 
 EW>      pwd: Permission denied 
 EW>      : Permission denied 
 EW>      # 
 
   pwd is the command for Print Working Directory.  I think what you 
want (but what do I know, I'm a unix-newbie :-) is "passwd". 
 
   Also, FWIW, you might want to look around for a file called 
"perms.sh" which is a shell script which purports to fix the permission

problems in the SLS release. 
. 
Randy 
 
... OFFLINE 1.44 * Fund the schools and our cities - not the Pentagon! 

 * Origin: The Programmers Playhouse (1:128/60)
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS 0.99 + patches 1 and 2 = cold boot
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 00:00:39 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

I just patched my SLS 0.99 kernel sources with the 0.99.1 and 0.99.2 patches
from tsx-11 and rebuilt the kernel.  I did make two source changes:  I
changed MOUSE_IRQ from 5 to 9 in <linux/busmouse.h> (my mouse being on IRQ2;
IRQ5 is either COM3 or a QIC02 tape drive, which is going to cause me some
problems!) and swapped the CTRL and CAPSLOCK keys in keyboard.c (this under
control of a #define, SWAP_CAPL_CTRL).  I then did a "make dep" and "make
disk".  (I had done a "make clean" previously, just before tarring off the
original kernel sources before installing the 0.99.1 and 0.99.2 patches.
I'm not a *total* idiot....)  I also forced the SVGA_MODE to default to
normal VGA.  I did not attempt to configure lilo.  ROOT_DEV was set to
/dev/hda2 (my Linux partition).

The resulting boot disk printed the usual "Loading..." stuff, then (at the
point that the SLS boot disk asks for the video mode, occasionally
indicating a "Wild interrupt? (IRQ9)" because MS-DOS doesn't deconfigure my
busmouse before a reboot...) it cold boots.

Assuming patch 2 wouldn't have gone out with such a bug :-) , I assume it's
my attempt to switch the busmouse driver to IRQ9.  Is this something to do
with the PC's interrupt chaining?  Should I have used IRQ2 instead?  Should
I give up on Linux kernel hacking?  :-)  I'm not much of a PC hardware guru,
so a failure that early in the boot sequence has me pretty well stumped.

++Brandon

He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery     NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Where are gethostbyname() & getservbyname()?
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:53:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan2.185307.26005
Organization: Washington State University!

In article <1993Jan2.144136.29452@athena.mit.edu> nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de writes:
>I have a problem with the new gcc-2.3.3 stuff: several packages won't compile
>anymore (e.g. plp) because of two missing functions: 'gethostbyname()' and 
>'getservbyname()'. ld claims about not finding these symbols.
>Where are these functions gone?
>
>Any hints would be appreciated.
>Please reply to: nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de
> 

Did you use -g? I forget to put ./inet in libg.a and libc_p.a. Please
use -static instead.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: PS/2 type mouse, device name, & Xconfig ?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:50:17 GMT

I have a PS/2 type mouse and 0.99 recognizes it during boot up.
The question is what is the device name for that mouse ? /dev/bm ?

What is the proper entry for this kind of mouse in "Xconfig" file ?
Thanks.

-- budi
-- 
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Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: Re: linux toshiba laptop
Reply-To: ted@nmsu.edu
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:39:52 GMT



In article <TED.93Jan2122340@lole.nmsu.edu> ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:


   i am about to install linux on my toshiba laptop (an 1850)

well, i did it, using SLS.  things went well, although i have a few
configuration bugs to report to softlanding folks.

   are there any problems with the power management hardware or the
   display? 

as i suspected, the disk doesn't power down, the display doesn't turn
off and there is no pop-up for the battery status and such.

does anybody have any more information on how to get these to work, or
how to get information out of toshiba about how these should be used?
From: andras@cyber.net (Andras Radics)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MPEG viewer??? Where is it?
Date: 3 Jan 1993 08:03:10 GMT
Organization: The Cyberspace Station
NNTP-Posting-Host: cyber.net

In article <9301012028.AA16955@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
>I saw a message a bit ago about the X Mpeg viewer and I swore it
>said in was on tsx-11, but I can't find it.  Can anyone tell
>me where it is? I just looked through a few hundred memo subjects and
>couldn't find mention of it...thanks...
>  -Dan

It's on toe.cs.berkeley.edu, in pub/multimedia/mpeg (or some such),
available via anonymous ftp.

Andras

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: Old Libc, can it be tossed?
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:46:46 GMT

Tim Foley (tfoley@camaro.uucp) wrote:

: Can the older libc.so.4.0 & libc.so.4.1 be deleted if you have libc.so.4.2?
: Also, do I have to link libc.so.4.2 to libc.so.4.1 & 4.0 if I do?

Yes, after you have installed libc.so.4.2 and changed the libc.so.4
symlink to point to it, you can delete the old versions.

David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Craig Metz <cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu>
Subject: Script for formatting msdos disks under Linux
Reply-To: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:08:27 GMT


	I'm not exactly sure when, but mformat got broken somewhere along
the lines for me, and probably for many others. Here's a quick little
script that will format a floppy disk and do the necessary things to make
it a msdos filesystem, all without having to resort to using a certain
defunct operating system to do it. The general premise of operation is
extremely naive, after all, it's just a hack. It may be/probably is 
possible to get this script to naively create other filesystems.

	Before using this script, one must do the following things:

	mkdir /etc/msdos
	chmod 700 /etc/msdos
	
	For each disk type in (360 1200 720 1440 or nonstandard) that you
wish to support, pop in a formatted DOS disk of that size and run:

	dd if=(disk device) of=/etc/msdos/(disk size).b bs=512 count=1

	i.e., to grab the boot sector off a 720k disk, pop one in and run:

	dd if=/dev/fd0D720 of=/etc/msdos/720.b bs=512 count=1

	The script simply does three things:

	1. fdformats the device
	2. Zeroes out the first 10k of the disk to make sure the FAT and
	   root directory contain all zeros 
	3. Copies a DOS boot sector image to the disk's boot sector

	It works for me, your mileage may vary.

							-Craig
----- mkdosfs -----

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 0 ];
then
	echo "usage: $0 <device> [bootsector]"
	exit 1
fi
DEVICE=$1
fdformat $DEVICE | tee /tmp/mkdosfs.tmp
SIZE=`head -1 /tmp/mkdosfs.tmp | cut -f8 -d' '`
if [ "X$2" = "X" ];
then 
	BOOT="/etc/msdos/$SIZE.b"
#	BOOT=`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/\/dev\/fd//g | cut -c3-'
else
	BOOT=$2
fi
rm -f /tmp/mkdosfs.tmp
echo -n "Zeroing ... "
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEVICE bs=512 count=20 &> /dev/null
echo "done"
echo -n "Writing $BOOT ... "
dd if=$BOOT of=$DEVICE bs=512 &> /dev/null
echo "done"
exit 0
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: List of Broken Bins under 0.99 [v1.2]
Date: 28 Dec 92 01:57:16 GMT
Organization: camaro

In article <1992Dec27.181854.5741@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.120724.535@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
>>
>> 
>>Below is an un-official list of programs which break under 0.99 (or 0.98.6)
>>and the method to get them running again.  I felt there was a great need
>>for such a thing.
>
>This is really strange.  I don't know where you got these binaries from
>that you say are broke.  Are they from SLS?  How does knowing this help
>people, if they don't know where and when you got your binaries.

  I plan to add this information if I post the list again.  And yes it
is from SLS, from 0.98, those programs listed did not work under 0.99.
 

>The official libc 4.2 is not released yet.  Do not use it, unless you
>absolutely have to.
 
 If you don't you have to hack around the source code of normally
working programs, with 4.2, you can leave things alone...great for us that 
just want to get the usenet feed going again with playing around with 
sigaction calls etc...   lazy way out...but quick

>
>
>Sigh.  Look you can do the same thing without all this rebooting malarkey.
>
>	ln -sf /lib/libc.so.4.2 /lib/libc.so.4
>
 
  Good point...but a few people posted they tried to upgrade to 4.2 and 
killed their link, which killed their system.  That paragraph was intended 
to help those people.
 
 
  The entire purpose of the list was to reduce the amount of traffic with 
questions about uucp, cnews, sed...etc...with 0.99....as it was getting 
ridiculous.
 
  That sed problem was a toughie...drove me nuts till I got it...   

 					Thanks for SLS Peter!
					   Keep it up




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From: tranter@Software.Mitel.COM (Jeff Tranter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X386 problem with TVGA8900
Summary: not working in colour
Date: 22 Dec 92 03:55:52 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

I am having a problem running X under Linux. It runs fine in
monochrome, but when using the colour driver the display is incorrect.
I get a stable image, and the colours are correct, but the display is
"mangled" -- as if the wrong pixels are being turned on.

I reported this before, and was told to upgrade to XFree86 version
1.1. That fixed the problem with restoration of text mode, but the
display problem persists.

The system is running XFree86 version 1.1 and the 0.98 pl5 Linux
kernel. The hardware is a 40MHz 386DX with 4MB RAM, a Trident SVGA
graphics card, and an AAMAZING SVGA monitor.

The output from startx is as follows:

Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
Trident chipset version: 0x13
VGA256: tvga8900 (mem: 512k numclocks: 8)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 45 36 57 65 50 40

I am using the standard VESA timings in Xconfig.
Presumably the hardware is good, since it works under MS-Windows
in 256 colour 640x480 mode.

Any idea what could be wrong?
-- 
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Mitel Corporation          uunet: uunet!mitel!software!tranter
Kanata, Ontario, CANADA      tel: (613) 592-2122 X3099
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Backspace Problems with 0.99 ?
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:10:25 GMT
Organization: camaro


Has anyone else had this problem with 0.99 with the backspace key not 
working properly?  It works fine with JOE and with the shell command line, 
but in any program command line inputs such as the subject line for TRN or 
ELM, it generates a bunch of '^?'....
 
  Is there something different with the getty 2.04 or with 0.99?
 
							
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