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From: myddryn@netcom.com (Adam Sussman)
Subject: SLS 98?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:39:49 GMT

Not to sound too pushy or anything, but when is SLS 0.98 due out?

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Subject: SCSI tape patches & Adaptec drivers?!?
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 07:17:49 GMT

I just grabbed the makeshift SCSI tape driver off TSX-11. I recompiled
my kernel (0.98-pl1) with the new drivers without incident.

I then made a new device: st0 major 9, minor 0. However, when I tried
to back up a couple of files to the tape drive with tar, somthing
died with a GP fault. The included mt program doesn't work either;
just hangs.

I'm running on the AHA1542 drivers, 0.98-pl1, 8MB ram, 1 Fujitsu
2426F, 1 Quantum LPS105 and a Wangtek 5150ES. Oh yeah, it's a
486/33. Has anybody else tried the tape drivers? Are they known to
fail on the Adaptec drivers?

-Chris


-- 
>>>> Chris Newbold <<<< * "If you fool around with a thing for very long you *
University of Rochester	*  		  will screw it up."		     *
Disclaimer: "All warranties expire upon payment of invoice."                
ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu * uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ctne_ltd@uunet
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: mount* paradox
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:00:42 GMT
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu



For those of you who have gradually recompiled your way up
to 0.98 and never use mount with floppy disks BUT would
like to some day, I have an interesting situaution to relate
to you.

H.J's new rootdisk supposedly has a new mount on it but i didn't
want to have to get his rootdisk. So I thought I would manually
copy stuff over after mounting the floppy. Unfortunately, 
my old version of mount didn't work and I got lovely core dumps.
(BTW, how does one look at a core dump to figure out what the hell
 happened????? :) )
So the program I need is on a disk but I couldn't get it because it is
the program I need to get itself. Weird.

The point is: you have to get mount.a from m-r.a.tar.Z in 
/pub/linux/mirrors/mcc-interim/0.97.2/files.a on tsx-11
use mtools or something to get it over to Linux and recompile
mount and put it in /etc

Hope this helps someone.

-- 
maThiEu a. LeWis    
cyber-mercenary         This sentnce has threee errors. 
Thieves Like Us      
mal11@Po.cwru.edu    
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davisdm@widget (Mat Davis)
Subject: Re: SLS install problems...
Organization: NASA/MSFC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:12:12 GMT

Hansruedi Heeb (heeb@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct15.111647.16836@athena.mit.edu> krouth@etcs03.eld.ford.com writes:
: >(2)	Some of the uucp files did not install either.  I believe
: >	there were three of them.  The rest installed OK.
: >
: 
: The problem here is that these files go into directories under emacs
: and emacs is installed later. The fix is to reinstall 'uucp' once
: you have installed emacs.

I noticed that and was wondering why tar didn't just create the
directories it needed.  I know that cpio needs a '-d' before it will
create directories, but I thought tar was supposed to create them.

So is this really a problem with tar, or am I mistaken?

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mat Davis				Boeing Computer Support Services
davisdm@widget.msfc.nasa.gov				  Huntsville, AL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mjalava@lk-hp-16.hut.fi (Mika Matti Jalava)
Subject: Re: ANSWER: (Re: GCC report segmentation fault and dump core.)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 08:54:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.170159.11640@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
(choices to get around the seg. faults with slow ram+fast cpu)

>1. Get fast RAM. (should always work)
>2. Get a big cache for CPU, like > 256k. (may work)
>3. Increase wait state of your RAM. (may work)
>4. Turn off turbo. (should always work)

I have a "real proplem RAM" in my machine - 4 M 100 ns simms, 4 M 70
ns 3-chip simms and a 386DX-25, no cache, supposedly hell of a lot of
wait states. I had these segmentation faults, and turning the turbo
off didn't help at all. Well, the only problem seems to be corrupted
program files. If I copy the files from a floppy, I just do it so many
times that diff doesn't report any errors. After that, everything
works OK.

I am quite sure this has something to do with the HD driver as it
hasn't occurred with old kernels, only after 0.95. I have absolutely
no problems with the memory otherwise, if the files are OK everything
works.

	Mika
From: jbuckner@lonestar.utsa.edu (James A. Buckner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Uncompress for DOS (ugh)
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:57:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Oct14.125744.3308
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <Bw3BKI.Htz@newsflash.concordia.ca> krus@cs.concordia.ca (Mike Krus) writes:
>In article <718937259.F00072@remote.halcyon.com> Eric.Eskam@f234.n209.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Eskam) writes:
>>can anyone point out some SPECIFIC places to find uncompress/compress
>>for DOS?
>there's a program called comp430d.zip which does that. But I don't rember
>exactly where to find it. You'll have to use archie for that. If you really
>can't find it just mail me and I'll mail you a copy.
>
>-- 
>Michael Krus.					 Email : krus@cs.concordia.ca
>Concordia University				Universite d'Orsay - Paris XI
>Montreal, Canada					        Paris, France
>A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

Now this is what I did.

I found a file on GEnie called COMP16.EXE.

The help files available told me how to create 3 files called
compress.bat
uncomp.bat
zcat.bat

I'll post these files when I get a chance.
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Favorite unix moments
Date: 8 Oct 1992 12:27:57 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

I'd have to say that the early part of this week has been a real eye-opener
for me, Linux-wise.  I just moved from the Customer Operations department to
the I.S. department (WAN group).  There was a hustle and a bustle to get me
a quick-and-dirty PC for my desk... *very* quick-and-dirty.

I got a 386/16 with only 2-M of RAM total, and a 40-M hard drive.  <Ptuey!>
What's more... it had previously been used as a router between two IBM token
rings, and that router stuff was pretty much all the software it had on it!

So... I did a ll format of the hard-drive (using the PC-vendor's hardware
setup disk, of course) and pulled out my boot/root Linux 0.97pl6 floppy!!

...eventually, I had to install MS-DOS <sigh>, but it was nice to know that
I could get along without it on a machine I've always associated with DOS.
It was just beautiful to see Linux running as the *only* OS on the drive...

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Subject: Distributing Linux With Less Money
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:21:15 GMT



Skipped about 800 article on this group, so if this is allready
recognized method to distribute Linux, then forget my article.

1. Distribution is done with disks.

2. We collect a list of people who would like to get new Linuxes, but
   have no access to FTP or such; or don't want use phone lines, or such.

3. The disks are sent from person to person; a person copies the disks
   and then send them via conventional mail to next person in the list.

Pros:
 -Less money is spend to disks.
 -Nobodys time is wasted by distributing disks to each person
  separately.
 -When new Linux version is ready, it is easy to get distribution
  project to run with previous distribution list and experiences.
 -If somebody keeps the disks or do something bad for them, we know
  the person.

Cons:
 -We should have a system which with everybody can verify that no
  viruses are added by previous person. I suggest that we have an
  extensive byte counting program, which counts verify numbers
  from the disks -- if numbers are ok, then it is safe to use those
  disks.
  Verifying program will be distributed here as a source.
 -Time used to distribute the disks maybe large; multiple distribution
  chains could help.


(Distribution chains are not my idea,
but use them to distribute Linux is :-)


Juhana Kouhia
From: ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Why is TCP/IP treated like it isn't really part of Linux som
Date: 14 Oct 1992 06:24:23 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


     Incidentally, does Linux support any of the following?
- domain sockets
- interproccess message passing
- shared memory
                                                      -- TTK
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: NJ/SML
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:19:23 GMT

   From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley)
   Date: 2 Oct 92 13:47:15 GMT

   Personally, I have no objection to keeping one Linux newsgroup. However, I
   *do* have a problem when I get email (albeit polite email) requesting that I
   limit my posts to Linux-specific topics.  If we have multiple newsgroups,
   those folks won't be upset to see articles like this. 

   I appreciate what the Linux gurus have to say.  However, splitting
   newsgroups for other systems/os's has been successful in the past,
   and I see no reason why it should fail here.

I think it is reasonable to request that all articles posted to
comp.os.linux be restricted to Linux-specific topics.

Whether or not we split the newsgroup is irrelevant.  If you're talking
about how fanatical Mac and Amiga users, then it doesn't belong under
comp.os.linux, whether or not we split the newsgroup or not.  It's all a
matter of being polite and courteous.  If people don't have the wit to
figure out whether or not an obviously non-Linux related posting should
go in comp.os.linux or not, how will adding 5 or 6 new groups help?

							- Ted
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bob@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Bob Green)
Subject: 2nd Hard-disk controller
Reply-To: bob@inmos.co.uk ()
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:24:08 GMT


Hi,

I have a extra hard-disk controller that I'd like to plug in to my
linux system (MFM). Has anyone got any experience with this and 
making linux see the extra disks ? My first controller is also MFM.
Both controllers can be jumpered to a secondary hard disk address.

Any ideas ? Thanks 

-Bob
| Bob Green          Inmos Ltd, Bristol       bob@inmos.co.uk
|                                         or  bob@inmos.com        
|The opinions above are the rantings of a madman and therefore could
|not possibly reflect Inmos policy.
From: Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Pt 1/4: Anyone interested in Linux Base System
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 08:11:02 -0800

Replying to a message by H.J. Lu of 1:343/94, Oct 02 08:57, to All:

 HL> I made a Linux Base System, which has 3 minix disks, to go
 HL> with my bootable rootdisk. It can fit in either 3.5"
 HL> or 5.25" floppy. Here is the list. I omitted C compiler and 
 HL> library since they belong to their own packages.

 HL> If there are enough interests, I will put them up for ftp.

Please do!  I'd like to make them available on my bulletin board system,
and could use them myself....


Rob L.

 * Origin: Via the Annex in Victoria, Texas (1:3802/217.13)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcampbel@ocoee.cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell )
Subject: TeX newbie question
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:12:58 GMT


What sorts of printers does the TeX that works on linux support?

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.sysv.r4
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: IN2000 support
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:53:07 GMT

I notice that few UNIX releases seem to support the Always Tech IN2000 SCSI
bus card. Why is this? It's the cheapest SCSI card I've seen with tape support,
so why is it not better supported?

Is anyone *working* on an IN2000 driver for Linux or 386BSD? Does Coherent
support it?

On another subject, what's a good cheap ESDI controller?
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Segodnja volka obnimal?"
  'U`  
Dette kan umulig vaere mitt rom, eftersom jeg ikke puster ammoniakk.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dlblack@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Black)
Subject: propagation of HUP to shell?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 21:45:49 GMT


HUP signals received by a running process spawned from a shell don't seem
to be propagated to the parent shell. This is true with bash and tcsh
at least... 

Is there any known fix?

--
David L. Black
dlbb0@amdahl.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: problems moving xfree86-1.1 to another dir
Date: 10 Oct 1992 17:50:38 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



due to personal preference, I would much rather have the X binaries
in /usr/bin/X11 than in the /usr/X386 heirarchy. However, I have run
into some problems when attempting to move all those files around.

First, in the Xconfig file, there is a path for rgb, the colors. After
moving the files to my desires and chaning the Xconfig accordingly, any
startx will fail to find the rgb stuff. I find this bizarre. Is the dir
somehow compiled into the binaries???

Likewise, Xdm searches out certain files when initializing. Where might
I set the path for these.

thanx in advance

-- 
maThiEu a. LeWis    "ask me why and i'll die/and if you must go to work
cyber-mercenary      tomorrow/well, if i were you i wouldn't bother/for there
Thieves Like Us      are brighter sides to life/and I should know because I've
mal11@Po.cwru.edu    seen them/but not very often/am I still ill?"
From: s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Peter David Cupit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Video card project for linux.
Summary: Information on video card project required.
Keywords: request for informtion
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:12:36 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

Hello,

   I am going to repeat myself, (running the risk of being boring).

   There was a suggestion that some people get together and design a video
   card for linux (and bsd).  IMHO post's on this topic belong in this
   group (esp since the card,  if designed in certain ways to be fast will
   not run without Linux).  

   This card might be designed to be useful in other areas because of fun
   things called standards.  This does not mean posts about it belong
   elsewhere.

   I resent being told (or ordered) not to post about this project.

   I would like to volunteer to work on this project in some capacity
   (to the limit of my humble abilities! :))

   I would be interested in knowing if this project is on-going and hearing
   from people who are still interested.

   Thankyou,

   Peter Cupit.


  s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
  s891961@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au
From: vitroth+@CMU.EDU (David M. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: major swap problem
Date: 12 Oct 92 06:30:51 GMT
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Or at least it seems like one...

I upgraded from 0.98 to pl1...  now when I run "free" it says that the
machine is using NONE of the regular memory... and like two megs of the
16 meg swap... which is interesting considering I only have a 10 meg
swap...   
then it says something like "kseek lmem: unknown error ##########" (I'm
not sure that's what the message was... but it was similar) 
also... when I run "ps" it lists NO process... and when I run "ps aux"
it gives the header then says "floating point exception" and I don't
remember what follows...   
ANY IDEAS??

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
        "David Nolan"       | Magic is just a manifestation of reality which
|  | ' _|_   _  _  _|_ | _  | we've never encountered before.  Reality is a
|  | |  |  |/  / \  |  |/ \ | relative term.  Relativity is magic, any way
 \/  |  \/ |   \_/  \/ |  | | you look at it. -- vitroth+@cmu.edu
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: LILO is cool, use it!
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 15:04:49 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

Wow!  LILO is really cool.  It lets you boot in a matter of moments,
as opposed to seconds when booting from floppy.  The biggest problem
with it is that it's so powerful, it takes a bit of time just to read
and understand the documentation.  However, the documentation is
complete and well-written.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
Crynwr Software           Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.              315-268-1925 Voice  |  LPF member - ask me about
Potsdam, NY 13676         315-268-9201 FAX    |  the harm software patents do.
From: hikaru@infodn.rmi.de (Walter Doerr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TCP/IP & Ethernet support in Linux. Does it exist?
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:02:06 GMT
Organization: infodn, Dueren, Germany

The subject line says it all:
Is there (kernel) support for TCP/IP and Ethernet? Which Ethernet cards
are supported?
There is nothing about this in the FAQ and yet some people seem to be
using X over Ethernet...
The German magazine "c't" did an article on Linux and they mention TCP/IP
support in their feature list.


-Walter

-- 
"Country music sucks. All it does is take precious airspace away from shock
 DJ's whose cruelty and profanity amuse us all."      - Bart Simpson [8F19] 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
Subject: ANNOUCEMENT: Sail 5.2 (Wooden Ships & Iron Men) Ported to Linux
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:09:39 GMT
Keywords: SAIL GAME PORT

I've ported Sail (Wooden Ships & Iron Men) version 5.2 to linux. This
is a game that was distrubuted with BSD 4.3. Basically, it is a strategy
game in which you control an 18th century ship and try to blow other
ships out of the water. The other ships can be controlled by any
combination of real users or by computer players. If anyone is interested,
I will upload it.
----Jonathan

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae J Won)
Subject: disk defragmentor
Keywords: Fragmentation.
Organization: Monash University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:21:14 GMT

Hi,

I am just querying if there is a disk defragmentor in linux for either minix
fs or extended fs(even though I only use minix at the moment) I have noticed 
that doing mcopy of any big files just take absolute years and seems to 
just run the disk out of its shafts. I can only attribute this to severe disk
fragmentation(I haven't remade my file system for about a month now...had no
need to. The things are very stable..:)
does fsch do defragmentation or is there a utility that I am not aware of...or
doesn't it need any defragmentation(I am not very informed about unix file systems except that it uses inodes and stuff like that.)
Okay, thanks very much for any help.

Jae

p.s. Now I get my text mode back when I quit X!!!!!  :) Thanks zorst.



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.3bsd,to.sugar
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: SCSI controllers supported
Summary: IN2000 supported on either?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:57:36 GMT

Is the Always Technologies IN2000 compatible with either 386BSD or Linux?
-- 
Peter da Silva, Houston, TX            `-_-'
Segodnja volka obnimal?                 'U`
Du er ikke min vejviser. Min vejviser var tobenet.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR)
Subject: Y.A.S.Q. (YET ANOTHER STUPID QUESTION)
Originator: cs911461@a10.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:01:02 GMT



Hey there.  I'm missing a piece of the equation here... I'm
trying to install the SLS package but I don't understand how
the install process can read MS-DOS files during install.

Am I doing something seriously wrong?


C. Armour-Kidson
cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca
From: simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: XFM 1.1: not work at all
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:00:40 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow) (Me) writes:

>It is quite possible that xfm has a weird bug that makes it
>particularly sensitive to the environment in which it is run, but my
>attempts to find it have failed so far. It's never core dumped for me :-)
>If anyone can reproduce this core-dump problem and send me some
>gdb output, I'd be very grateful.

OK everyone, the bug has been found. Many thanks to Bill Broadley for
finding it. It only shows up when your HOME evironment variable is
shorter than the name of the xfm resource file (~/.xfmrc).

Here is the fix:

  void fnSub(char *fn)
  {
!   register char *s = fn;
    int l = strlen(user.home);
  
    if (user.home)
      for (;*s ;s++)
        if (*s == '~') {
!       strcpy(s+l, s+1);
        memcpy(s, user.home, l);
        s += l;
        }
  }     

------------

  void fnSub(char *fn)
  {
!   char *s = fn, *t;
    int l = strlen(user.home);
  
    if (user.home)
      for (;*s ;s++)
        if (*s == '~') {
!       for (t = s + strlen(s); t > s; t--) /* have to copy backwards here */
!         *(t+l-1) = *t;
        memcpy(s, user.home, l);
        s += l;
        }
  }

Sorry for any inconvenience caused....

Cheers,
	Simon
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eb139@cs.city.ac.uk (MAHMOOD Z)
Subject: Beginner Enquiry on Linux
Summary: hjk
Keywords: jk
Organization: City University
Date:  7 Oct 92 12:40:56 GMT

Hello Linux enthusiasts everywhere,
I have been on the market for buying a PC for a long time and it looks like I
am now going to buy one with a spec to suit Linux as I wish to install both
Linux and X11 when I eventually buy the PC in a few weeks. I have settled on
the spec below :
	486SX 25 MHz processor
	SVGA Monitor
	ET4000 based video card with 1 Meg RAM
	4 meg RAM on the motherboard
	100MEg Hard disk

as I will be running both Linux and X11 with a text editor such as Emacs, and
Gcc as my minimum Linux set up, I was wondering if any knowledgable readers out
there could tell me how much diskspace this is likely to take and is 100Meg
Hard disk a sensible option when I will also be running Windows and Dos 5.0
(bleurgh!!!) with Word 2.0 for WIndows installed on the hard disk....
Thanks

ZM
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux