HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Subject: Modem control (was Re: uucico not hanging up the telephone line)
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:44:59 GMT

On a somewhat related subject, I observed the following glitch with my
now-antiquated Epic 2400 internal modem:

As soon as the CONNECT 2400 message came up, the modem would hang up
(on the local Linux end) and the modem would display "OK".

To diagnose the problem, I pulled out an even more antique Hayes 1200
modem and connected it to a serial port and put a Radio Shack RS-232
signal-display gizmo on the line.  Connections worked fine!

For some reason, it immediately occured to me to check the modem manual
for DTR handling.  I typed the following command to the modem:

	ATS25=50

This causes the modem to ignore DTR drop until it's been down for 500
milliseconds.  Sure enough, that solved my problem; the above command
has to be saved in the modem memory (not! on my old modem) or sent prior
to the ATDT command.

So apparently the Linux serial device driver drops DTR briefly when it
sees carrier detect, so briefly that I couldn't eyeball it on the
LEDs.  Didn't matter whether clocal was set or not.

Could this really be the case?

-rich
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: 0.99 problem
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:08:11 +0000

Help!

I upgraded to 0.99 with no problems at all, I'm using 2 extfs partitions
and yesterday I recompiled the admutils.  Now when I do a shutdown or reboot
I get an error message saying 'can't umount /dev/hda1:  device or resource busy'
(hda1 is my /usr partition).

Does anyone have an idea as to what I've done wrong?

Cheers,

- Alan.

+---------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Alan Charlton, Bristol, England | If B.U.R.D. doesn't spell Bird |
| agc@cix.compulink.co.uk         | - what the hell does it spell? |
| agc@weasel.demon.co.uk          |                                |
| Tel:  +44 454 202706 (after 6)  | ---  W. R. Hearst              |
+---------------------------------+--------------------------------+
From: mendels@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey Mendelsohn )
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xconfig help
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:44:12 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I am having trouble obtaining results with my configuration.
I have a Gateway 2000 with the Speedstar+ (1 MG) and
CrystalScan 1024 NI monitor.

I have been able to obtain 640x480 resolution with 25 MHz clock.
I can not obtain 1024x868 OR 800x600 at any clock speed.
I have read all the documentaion and tried all values found
in vga.dbase, the modegen1.sc "program", plus some random attempts
from calculations as per the documentation.

Please foward any results you have that - obviously - work.


						Thank you,
						Jeff Mendelsohn
						mendels@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: SLS .99. & such questions/problems
Organization: 3-B Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:11:25 GMT

I have a few questions/suggestions about the .99 release (which may
or may not have been approached yet for resolution); here goes...

1) boot off of the bootdisk created after the installation -- apparently
the system makes comment about the vga selections, as if to prompt the
user to select the appropriate one...but, it keeps on going (yep, i know,
this might be fixed by reading the FAQ and issuing the appropriate rdev
command).

2) When using 'useradd username', the command produces a line of info, and
says that the user id has been set to /home/username -- this directory
was not created and assigned appropriate ownership(s)!

3) sometimes trying to telnet back into the system results in a connection
closed message.  had this happen about 3~5 times.

4) I was not able to run elm as a non-root user.  got a message back from
elm about having no password...(where's the man page, by the way??? -- not
included/installed).

5) why, at installation time when i'm asked if i have a 486 or floating-point
unit, isn't an appropriate link created for lm.a?  (as in ln libsoft.a libm.a)
for the non-FP situation.

6 -- why isn't there a different prompt for a non-root user?  I'm getting
confused when i see that '#' prompt and not logged in as root...

-bob 


-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Bob Myers                        | You gotta watch out for those
Shyguy's AT&T SVR4 Unix/Uniboard | shy guys....you never know 
Email:bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org | what they're thinking..:)
From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: LPD: no daemon present SOLVED! (I wish)
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:59:19 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Dec18.153521.7462@netcom.com> qualtrak@netcom.com (Qual Trak) writes:
>>I still haven't gotten lpd going either with this LaserWriter on ttys2.. I snagged the cable
>>specs from a local hardware god (he swears they're right) and cat > /dev/ttys2 kinda works
>>if you keep it small.
>>
>>Ideas?
>>
>>Here's my entry:
>>
>>lp|LaserWriter:\
>>	:br#9600:lp=/dev/ttys2:\
>>	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd: lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs
>>-- 
>>nyet@cco.caltech.edu
>try adding a :ms=crtscts to the printcap.  I'm not sure what linux
>wants in the printcap but if it understands the ms entry then you should
>find that hardware flow control between your linux box and the
>laserwriter should help considerably.
>
>I imagine that on long files it prints a little and then goes catatonic.
>This would indicate to me that characters were dropped and the PS
>interpreter displayed an error message and then ignored all subsequent
>input until receiving a ^D.
>
>Just a guess.
>-----                                                              -----
>John Birchfield - QualTrak Corp (408) 730-2674 Home (408) 736-3852
>jb@QualTrak.COM
>-----                                                              -----
>
>
My setup is exactly the same as above, and I have the same problems.

The laserwriter does software flow control, and the printer
daemon certainly should to...?  When I cat to my laserwriter on ttys2,
I get a printout of the first three pages or so, and then nothing, and
then the printer finally times out (lights stop blinking).  However,
I would think that lpd takes care of software flow control?

On the other hand, lpd doesn't drop a thing down ttys2.  Not a page,
not a bit, nada.....  I used to have a problem that lpr couldn't
connect, but after getting /etc/hosts.lpr sorted out, this error
message never occurs.  The stuff is spooled, and the daemon never finds
the serial port, or somesuch.  I never get error messages in my lf= file.

I have discovered a socket called PRINTER in /dev, but that is all.  I don't
know the internals of lpd, and I can't figure this out....

Does anyone have a serial printer working with the BSD lpr port?????

Thankst'y'all
Johan
From: warb@faatcrl (Dan Warburton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: S3 Info Wanted
Keywords: s3 Question
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:38:00 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Pomona, NJ
NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.faa.gov


I am going to put together a 486 class machine and naturally I want to
run linux on it. I'd like to go Local Bus and have seen that ACTIX
makes one. My Questions:

1. What is the differences between the different S3 chips. Here's ones
I've seen in the Actix product line.

	s3 P86c805		Actix Graphic Engine 32VL (local bus)
	s3 P86c801		Actix Graphic Engine 32 (isa)
	s3 P86c911		Plain Jane 911 
	s3 P86c911a		Actix Graphic Engine 1280 TC (isa)
	s3 P86c924		Actix Graphic Engine VGA(isa)
	

2. And which can we expect to see supported by Linux?
-- 
Dan Warburton warb@faa.gov warb@tgf.tc.faa.gov warb@pilot.njin.net 
TGF (Target Generation Facility, an Air Traffic Control Simulator) 
FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ
08405  Mail Stop ACN-400c  Phone: 609-484-4480 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bergmann@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Ralph Bergmann)
Subject: SCSI interface on PAS16
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:13:33 GMT

I got the SLS distribution of LINUX and I have
a problem with the SCSI interface on an
Pro Audio Spectrum Plus card. 
Harddisks on that SCSI interface are not
recognized by LINUX.

Is there a new SCSI driver in one of the
newer LINUX distributions which supports the SCSI 
interfaces on the PAS+ or PAS16 card.

Thank you,

Ralph Bergmann
University of Kaiserslautern
Germany.



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arm@helix.nih.gov (Andrew Mitz)
Subject: Re: nubie: SLS: what is a1.Z & where is a1?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:56:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.170341@helix.nih.gov> arm@helix.nih.gov (Andrew Mitz) writes:
>
>I am trying to load SLS and am stumped at the start.
>What is file a1.Z?  Why can't I find file a1.
>I understand that I need to rawrite a1 to create
>a boot disk.  Help!
>
>Please email answer, since I am still catching
>up on the 2000+ entries in this news group.
>

Thanks to the people who responded.  Of course, a1.Z is a compressed file.
Not being a Unix buff (yet!) I thought of tar, but not uncompress.  It
threw me that on the MIT site a2 was not compressed but a1 was.  I'm not
sure of the thinking behind this, but maybe the non-unit novice should
be warned.  The beginner's notes mentioned rawrite, but not the PC version
of uncompress (I used another unix platform for uncompress).  

Anyway, thanks again to all who responded.  I expect to use the bandwidth from 
now on, for some more serious linux questions.


-------------------------------------------------
Andrew Mitz          |    NIH Animal Center
Biomedical Engineer  |    Poolesville, MD
-------------------------------------------------

All opinions expressed are my own.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis)
Subject: Problems with DOSEMU 0.4..
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 00:33:40 GMT

	Hello out there! Today, I picked up the dosemu0.4 package
from sunsite and tried it out.  I am using 0.98.6 w/10 tcp patches.
I followed the instructions, compiled everything, and copied libemu
to /lib.  Next, i typed dos > debug.txt, and the screen cleared
itself, and left me this in the file..


EMULATE
ISBLK
dev : 200
DISK /dev/fd0 removeable
ISBLK
dev : 201
DISK /dev/fd1 removeable
FLOPPY /dev/fd0 h=2, s=18, t=80
general protection
 cs    eip     ss    esp      flags    ds   es   fs   gs 
   0:00000000    0:00000000 00000000    0    0    0    0
  eax      ebx      ecx      edx      edi      esi      ebp
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
 e8 5b 02 00 00 b8 2d 00 00 00
booted

Can anyone shed any light on this?  I'm kinda confused.  Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: 0.99 SLS won't boot :-(
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:02:14 GMT

the fix is the new (again) kernel on the revised a2 disk that
includes linus's 2-line patch....

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
"USENET is not an obsession. It's just something I have to do all the time."
					quote from Jan'93 Unix World article
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: ZModem comm: rz and sz (from CKermit)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	<1992Dec13.035151.13123@cs.brown.edu> <1gg4mgINN52a@gap.caltech.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:07:10 GMT

>>>>> On 13 Dec 1992 19:59:12 GMT, nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) said:

nl> I'm in the process of hacking it further to accept a command line
nl> option, also allowing status info to be printed on tty. Actually,
nl> I was thinking of making a dsz clone with a terminal mode
nl> eventually,. but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.. Anybody else
nl> playing with rz/sz?

I have done that for both text-mode and X. The one for X is called
Xrz3D and is available from sunsite. The one for text-mode uses curses
and is a clone of gsz, with percentage bars and everything. It used to
be on sunsite, but I has disappeared, so I just uploaded it a few
moments ago as graphic_rz.diff. If you want to enhance it further, you
can start from there.

--
/M. Saggaf
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: taudas@ais.org (Tony Audas)
Subject: Re: Boca Sirrus Card?
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:27:54 GMT

the cirrus logic chipset in the boca card is not et4000 compatible.  the
word is that it is very fast (faster than the wd chipset in the diamond
speedstar24x)  i wouldn't buy a trident.  get a fast et4000 like the
speedstar vga 1m (about US$135).  an s3 based card will be more like us$240.
the cirrus logic chipset has integrated 24bit DAC for truecolor, and has
been chosen by ibm and compaq for some of their new systems.  it might not
be long before linux supports this chipset.  there is a new version of the
s3 chipset (89c928) that is _very_ fast (nth graphics advertises 40M
winmarks) don't know if it is shipping yet.  ati graphics pro is fast (27M


speedstar 24x)  
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: [Q] how to use uu{en,de}code ?
Keywords: uuencode uudecode
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:34:12 GMT

ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins) writes:
>2) When I try to use uuencode, I get error messages consistend with uudecode.
>Errors included, "No begin line" "No end line" ... Typical stuff if you are
>indeed trying to use uudecode, but I was using uuencode.

I do the following:
	uuencode filename.tar.Z filename.tar.Z > filename.uue

(uuencode the filename...so it decodes with the same name...stash the 
	uuencoded output in filename.uue)

>Is there a place where I can get a version of uuencode? I find that I can't
>transfer files from my SUN to my PC without using uuencode/uudecode. Binary
>kermit doesn't work for TAR files (compressed).

it does if you set file binary in kermit.
uuencode/uudecode is in SLS as I recall...look for bin.taz
-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
"USENET is not an obsession. It's just something I have to do all the time."
					quote from Jan'93 Unix World article
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: david@actsn.fay.ar.us (David Summers)
Subject: Re: TCPIP-config
Organization: All Church Technical Service
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:31:42 GMT

Michael_Kraehe@hb.maus.de (Michael Kraehe) writes:

>Hy folks,

>I think config is a bad name for that tool, after a find -name config
>i fount 3 executabels and 2 other files.

>Wy dont we name it ifconfig or sock_config, to avoid naming conflicts with
>BSD.

>By Michael.

On SunOS it is called 'ifconfig' and it is also able to report the current
settings of the Ethernet interfaces as well as set them.  Does anyone know
how to do this with the current (0.99) version of Linux?  

   - David Summers
   (david@actsn.fay.ar.us)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jackson@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson)
Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:28:47 GMT

In article <dpn2.193.724200652@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:

>took it about an hour to start up, mouse movements are recognized only after 
>a 2-3 minute wait, and it takes almost ten minutes for keystrokes to appear 
>in bash...

>Since I see a large amount of disk thrashing, I assume that there is a lot 
>of swapping going on. Since I have only 4 megs of RAM, and a ~6 meg swap 
>partition, this is not surprising. But does it have to be this slow? I had 
>thought that X was usable with 4 megs RAM -- was I wrong? Please say no!

>My system is a 486 SX/25.

Try the mono X server.  I have a 4 MB 486SX/33 and the mono server runs
very nicely if I don't run too much other stuff.

>Damien Neil   dpn2@po.cwru.edu

Bruce  -  jackson@cs.unt.edu



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: Re: Is XDR / RPC available for Linux ?
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:39:45 GMT

Yes!  Look in tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/NFS directory.  There is a file
called sunrpclib.tar.Z I believe (or something like that).  That is what you
want.

Jaime

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mhayashi@gus.ecn.purdue.edu (Mathew S Hayashi)
Subject: SLS: "fdformat" gives "ioctl()" error.
Keywords: SLS, fdformat, ioctl, floppy, 1.44, 1.2, format, low, level
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:03:18 GMT


When I try to perform a low-level format to a floppy, i.e.,

			fdformat /dev/fd0
I receive the following error:
			ioctl(FDGETPRM): No such device

I receive the error imediately, and the drive never "twirls."

Please help me if you can.
I would really like to be able to format disks from within Linux!


--
                            -------     
                           --/\-----    Mat Hayashi
                           | O   O |    mhayashi@ecn.purdue.edu
                           |   ^   |    
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: Help Wanted!  Minor/Major problems with miscellaneous stuff..
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: Simon Fraser University
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:56:37 GMT

     Hi, I have JUST recently flogged my way through installing Linux on
my 486/33mhz system, using my second partition as a linux/minux partition.

 i)  My first problem, which I encountered DURING the installation proccess
was that everytime I am asked to put a disk in, this message(after the 
[msdos...]) pops up: "no bmap support".  What does this mean?

 ii) Secondly, now that I've finished, and I log in as 'root', and
type 'startx' to run the X-Windows stuff, it gives me a bunch of errors:-

/home/wonge# startx

Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
XFree Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
(Protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers
 VGA256 (256 color SVGA);
     et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
VGA256: et4000 (mem: 0k numclocks: 16)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 36 27 30 33 20 24 50 57 72 45 60 65 40 47
VGA256: Too little memory for virtual resolution

        *** None of the configured devices was detected.***


Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

   ----------

   I'm using a Trident 8900C with 512k.  8 Megs of memory.  Does
anyone know what I 'could've done wrong?

   iii) Another question is, that am I supposed to be missing a 'man' entry
for "adduser"?  If not, how do I add a user, or what process do I need
to implement in order to add a user?

   iv) When I do a 'w' command at the prompt, I get the following:-

       User        tty     login@   idle    JCPU    PCPU     what
       LOGIN       tty1    6:09pm     23
       LOGIN       tty4    2:43pm   3:48
       cabralda    tty3    6:08pm     17
       wonge       tty2    6:08pm   
       LOGIN       tty6   21Jan80  14:48
       LOGIN       tty5   21Jan80  14:48
       LOGIN       ttyp1  16Nov92110days
  
        Why do I have an extra THREE LOGIN's (tty5,tty6 and ttyp1)?
  
    v) Is there some sort of textfile that I can find on "Unix 
       Administration" besides the mentioned one or two in the FAQ?

   vi) How would I be able to log on remotely and be able to fiddle with
       my system?  You know, the standard remote logins?

  vii) This question actually relates to iii).  In the passwd file,
       and the shadow file in /etc,  what do each colons and commas
       separate; that is, what are the parameters for each entry?
       I remembered reading this somewhere, but forgot.


    Hmm I think that is all..  I hope someone can help me, especially for
  number (ii), (v), (vi), (vii).

   Any help appreciated....Thanks
. 
     

-- 
InterNet: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca  |  "Fail not; Learn Not.
                               |  It is with failing, that one learns,
                               |  So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: GNU Make(file) question
Keywords: GNU Make
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:40:13 GMT
Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ


To any MAKE (GNU) experts out there. I have been using the following Makefile
under SUN/OS 4 for some time now. I have just tried moving some of my libraries
to Linux using GNU MAKE. I have two problems. First, when I use this exact
makefile, the only thing that happens is that all the source modules get
compiled. But nothing gets put into the library. The rules for making .a files
from .o files seem to not be working as I expect them to.
The second problem is that if I try to put explicit rules in the form of
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $@
and
$(AR) -rv $(LIB) $@
then the literal strings for the library name and object module are being
substituted for just the object module. IE. I get:
cc -C event.a(apodize.c       (first module in list)
and
cc -C AFWLread.c)             (last module in list)
for the compile line and, of course, it won't work. I ran make with the -n and
-p options and I can send the output to anyone who would like to take a look
but it seems that the rules are being interpreted and files are being looked
for with the prefix of event.a( for apodize.o and AFWLread.o) for the last.
The ones in the middle seem to be ok (as far as I can tell from the output of
the -n option. If anyone has any ideas, please write back at:
ron@argus.lpl.arizona.edu OR ron@hercules.as.arizona.edu
Thanks,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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931 Gould-Simpson bldg.                       /             /    /     /
University of Arizona                        /             /____/     /
Tucson, AZ. 85721                           /             /          /
(602) 621-8606                             /_____ unar & / lanetary /_____ ab.

BEGIN "Makefile"-----------------------------------------------------------
# Makefile for event.a library.
# written by Ron Watkins 21Dec89.

LIB	= event.a
INC	= event.h
SRC	= apodize.c asciiread.c decimate.c deionize.c domain.c dtiread.c \
	  guide.c lshift.c mamaread.c mkanalog.c paparead.c remap.c \
	  selread.c selwrite.c splotchread.c AFWLread.c
OBJ	= $(SRC:.c=.o)
CFLAGS	= -O
.PRECIOUS : $(LIB) $(INC) $(SRC)

all	: $(LIB)
	ranlib $(LIB)
$(LIB)	: $(LIB)($(OBJ))
$(LIB)($(OBJ))	: $(INC)
END "Makefile"------------------------------------------------------------
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