HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Trackball recommendations for Linux and X?
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:14:06 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In <9210083914@clifton.hobby.nl> baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst) writes:

>dhw@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (David West) writes:
>> I'm seeking recommendations for a trackball which:
>>  - is KNOWN to work with X under Linux
>>  - is add-on (not built into a keyboard)
>>  - is (preferably) small and cheap.

>There are no cheap trackballs (here in the Netherlands). I looked into it
>as the above is exactly what I wanted too. 

>I now have a cheapo 3-button mouse.

>-b-b-
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Blue Baron = Wim van Dorst, Voice (+31) 074-443937, (+31) 02152-42319
>(-:       baron@clifton.hobby.nl          tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl       :-)
>---------------------------------------------------------------------

I have been using Logitech Trackman with linux/x11. It works great. It costs
$110 (Can.) in Canada.

-- 
Jiansheng Zhao
Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Maxtor 7213a update 
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:06:53 GMT

In article <719002154snx@kerberos.demon.co.uk> alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:
>>In article <ldajmvINNfm@ozona.cs.utexas.edu>, jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey> Grills) writes:
>>
>>| If it were not for this little problem, I'd be such a happy camper.
>>| As it is, I'm going bald at the age of 21... (sigh)

Could someone recap the Maxtor 7213 problem? What's the problem, and what
causes it? Thanks.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "Yow! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!"
From: minyard@bnr.ca (Corey Minyard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XDM problems
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:54:53 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.

I have been trying to use XDM on my machine will little success.  I found
that you had to disable all /etc/inittab entries going to local consoles
or the keyboard would not work.  Anyway, whenever I start an xterm, it
gives and error, that after searching for a while I discovered meant that
it could not open "/dev/tty".

XDM works correctly if I start it from a TTY, it will not work correctly
if started from /etc/inittab or from /etc/rc.  What can I do to solve
the problem?


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

Corey Minyard
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: SCSI bug?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:24:32 GMT

I finally got ahold of an AHA1542A board. It worked fine under MESSY-LOSS
but when I booted Linux it would just hang during SCSI detection. Eventually
I discovered that it would work if the bios on the board was turned on. 
Apparently the BIOS does some initialization that the SCSI driver isn't.

I'm very impressed with the new Linux stuff, SLS is almost as
easy to install as any other PC software. The DOS file system doesn't
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: magnus@bark-fddi.ii.uib.no (Magnus Alvestad)
Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again
Reply-To: magnus@ii.uib.no
Organization: CE at UVBS / HOS / RNoN and CS-S at UiB, N.
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:52:10

In article <1992Oct16.230759.27186@infodev.cam.ac.uk> pc123@phx.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown on easton.cl.cam.ac.uk) writes:

   It makes me think that it is time to raise again the question of
   splitting comp.os.linux; last time I remember a lot of people seemed

I agree. It is impossible to keep up with this volume without using
more time for it than it is worth. I say we split, then take the
problems as they come.

-Magnus

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bmidgley%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brad Midgley)
Subject: Re: Trouble with Kermit as non-root
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:12:20 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

In article <1992Oct13.031425.15774@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>I've been running Linux for some time, and am now at 0.98-pl1.
>After messing around and rebuilding my /dev directory, I
>can no longer use Kermit unless I log in as root. I've checked
>all the permissions, I can't see anything wrong. Kermit says
>"Error opening /dev/tty / congm: Permission denied."
>
>/dev/ttys* are root:tty crw-rw-rw, and /usr/spool/locks is
>uucp:system drwxrwsrwt.
>
>Any ideas what could be wrong?

I had the same problem with SLS .98.  You need to

chmod 666 /dev/tty

There is, of course, no sane reason the /dev/tty device should have
anyone barred from its use.  I think SLS is a good way to collect 
files together, but I'm not incredibly impressed with its non-root
setup... I realize it's a lot of work to put together the set and
I'm sure these problems will be fixed in 1.0 though.

>
>-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














email:     bmidgley@peruvian.utah.edu
If life was like an interactive game, I'd lose because I didn't
pick up that pocketknife I saw on the side of the road when I was 9.
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 1992 06:24:06 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Need driver for archive sc400 sc499 (was Re: IN2000 support)

has any one got src or runtimes for the archive tape streamer qic 02 24
etc.. i have dos drivers for it.. and i want to use it with linux..
the scorpion version will run with scsi but i want to use the driver card sc499
or sc400 series card, this card is a dedicated driver card for the archive
corp. USA tape streamer type 6150 ,,
or does any one know if archive make a unix driver for it. ??
any help please..
barry..
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sthomas@worldbank.org (Sidney F. Thomas)
Subject: Re: Kermit5A, LINUX 0.98: 'set line' first
Reply-To: sthomas@nimbus.UUCP (Sidney F. Thomas)
Organization: World Bank
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:23:05 GMT


kermit under SLS 0.98 works fine for me.  The invocation I
use is "kermit -l /dev/ttys2 -b 9600" and I do connect at the
requested 9600 baud to the modem at ttys2.  I have not tried
the bare invocation followed by "set line" and "set speed".
Now, if only I could have the same success with X server and
the mouse, I would be a happy man! :-)

good luck and happy linuxing ...

--Sidney Thomas
sthomas@nimbus@worldbank.org
From: hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Hayes John H)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help needed to get top/ps/free working on 0.98
Keywords: kernel ps top
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:04:07 GMT
Reply-To: hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Hayes John H)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu

A FAQ or readme on some of the new features in 0.98 would be nice. It
took me quite a while to figure out that I didn't need to patch the
kernel to get it to mount the partion it booted from as root. I've
looked in several areas for info on tsx-11 concerning the 0.98 release.
How do you get it into  the various video modes, I like to see a few
more lines on the screen than 25?

One final thing, I've haven't set myself up to find this out yet under
0.98, however, it has been true under 0.96, and 0.97pl2 ( my last kernel
). I have one floppy disk, that when I tried to copy a specific file
from, I get a floppy reset error, that cascadesand can't be broken. It
spills over into the other virtual windows and leaves me with no
recourse but to do a hardware reset. I believe the problem is caused by
a bad sector on the disk. It produces an error condition that takes
control of the disk drive, aparently causing a contionuous head step and
access condition that linux can't recover from.

Thanks, John Hayes
email hayes@cps.msu.edu
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro)
Subject: man, mtools and seagate/fdc_tmc_950 driver
Organization: where did I put that (unlabelled) disk...
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:24:31 GMT

3 things:
1: man
If I use the section numbers, i.e. man 1 blah, I get
	No manual entry for blah
If I do man blah, it works.
This is on the mcc-97.2 release.

2: mtools
Mtools does not appear to talk to the dos partition on
a scsi drive - I have dos drive C: on /dev/sda1 and get
initialisation failed whenever i do mdir c:
mdir a: works for the floppy though.
Is this normal?

3: scsi driver
Is someone likely to produce add support to the kernel which will
recognize both the seagate ST-01 and the Future Domain TMC 950?
I have to patch the seagate driver to use the F-D, and I don't
think it will work with the seagate afterwards. This isn't a
problem at the moment, as I have access to an identical
machine with an IDE drive, but this may not be true forever.
I don't think I know enough to do it myself - anyway I'm not
a kernel distribution point.

Related to that, there were mutterings about new (faster) versions of
scsi drivers - does that affect the seagate driver?
The machine I'm running with the TMC-950 is so slow
compared to the one with the IDE drive - both 486-33.
I don't know what actual drives they use though.
Im running the 0.98.1 kernel - are the new drivers in that?
Oh, if there are enough people out there who are desparate to
use a FD TMC-950 and can't get started without it, I have
managed to create a bootdisk for mcc-0.97.2 (with ramdisk
etc - thanks Owen) and could upload it somewhere if it is really needed.

Thats all (for now...)
-- 
David Monro
e-mail: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "8-OCT-1992 14:42:58.39" <nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
Subject: Minor problems with xterm
Reply-To: nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:51:14 GMT

I have minor problems with xterm: how can I convince xterm to generate
the appropriate escape-sequences for the pos1- and end-keys?
xterm now generates just ^[[ for both of these keys.

Thanks.
Andreas Wacknitz
InterNet: nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de
From: idp3286@hertz.njit.edu (Ian Daniel Plotkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Logitech Mouse Problem
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:26:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: njitgw.1992Oct11.182615.7359
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
Originator: idp3286@hertz.njit.edu

We have installed Linux with X11 on my roommate's computer; the problem is
that X windows won't recognize the mouse.  It is a Logitech mouse, the wireless
type (I forgot exactly what that's called... MouseMan or something like that).
When the mouse is moved, the green light on the remote unit blinks, indicating
that there is a mouse driver of some sort activated.

When we ran the mouse test program that comes with X11, we got very inaccurate
results telling us that we were pushing button #6 when no buttons were
pushed.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks...
-Ian Plotkin
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: setroot help
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:38:39 GMT

hi again...

can someone explain (for idiots) how the setroot command works?

basically, i'm running 0.97.1, and i just downloaded bootimage.0.98 .
i would guess that somehow i have to setroot to tell the new bootimage that
the root disk is /dev/hda3.  i also guess that i will have to issue the command
dd if=bootimage.0.98 of=/dev/fd0

the question is, which do i do first, and how does setroot work?

thanx in advance.

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Subject: Re: EISA support?
Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:03:33 GMT

curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

>Does Linux support EISA yet?
>If not, are there any plans for it to do so, in the near
>future?

As far as I know, EISA machine are 'supported' to the extent that linux
runns happily on them... however, linux doesn't take adavantage of any
extra features that EISA machine have.

The problem runing linux on a MCA machine is the Harddrive driver... 
MCA machines apparently have an incompatible harddrive controlling
mechanism as opposed to EISA/ISA.

So, the answer to your question depends on your definition of 'supported.'
-- 
Upholder@uiuc.edu (ASCII mail)               THIS IS _NOT_ CCSO'S OPINION!!!
jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail)      If It were, It would've had a
anonymus+211@godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (anon)   more important name on it. =)
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: disk defragmentor
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:34:34 GMT
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Return-Path: <u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

In article <1992Oct7.042114.11444@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae J Won) writes:
> [looking for disk defragmention program]

Back in the old times, I can remember to have seen such a thing posted
for Minix.  I personally never used it.  It came with much documentation
and looked interesting however, I am just not the guy who lets any
program work my my fs, which exists since years now, has handmade
badblock entries and works so nice.  An image backup costs too much
diskettes and is only usable if the whole fs gets corrupted.  Usually I
do image backup of system binaries, header files and that, and backup
additional software source-only.

You can get that Minix defragmentation program from ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de,
path pub/minix/commands ... hmm, single-commands is next I guess, but
if you don't find it, I can look at the archive next days.

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: corrupt directory on efs partition
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:09:12 GMT

I've posted this to the mailing list, but got no replies, except a post by
Darren Drake of the same problem.

The efs driver is reporting a "bad directory entry", and gives the error
message:  "bad directory: rec_len(0) too short".  efsck will report it, but
not fix it.  Anyone know how to fix this?  I can't delete the directory in
question - do I have to zero out the inode for the directory, then run
efsck?  Anyone ported fsdb yet?? :) :)
-- 
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"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pek@logos.res.utc.com (Paul Kirschner)
Subject: SLS 0.98 / X11 / serial mouse
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:08:41 GMT


Greetings...

I installed SLS 0.98 on my Gateway 2000 ('386 33mhz).  It uses a
Microsoft serial mouse on port 1.  When I tried startx to fire up X11
(after editing Xconfig appropriately), I got the blue background and
several x-apps in various states on execution.  To make a long story
short - I suspected the mouse.

I tried the /usr/X386/tst/mouse code and nothing happens.  Well,
running the test causes /dev/ttys2 (the other serial port) to lock.
I found this out after reloading EVERYTHING, using kermit to verify
/dev/ttys2, and then trying the mouse test.  /dev/ttys2 locked
immediately!

What's going on here?  How can I unfreeze /dev/ttys2? (Reloading
everything works fine but not a real good answer!)  How do I get the
mouse to work?

Thanks in advance!


--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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pek@logos.res.utc.com
United Technologies Research Center
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: zip 1.9 p 1, unzip 5.0, tput 1.0 and file added into LBS
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 19:40:38 GMT

I have added zip 1.9 p 1, unzip 5.0, tput 1.0 and file to Linux Base
System. Please check oout zip and unzip. Please read README.basedisk.

BTW, I moved `clear' from /bin to /usr/bin.

------
This is the Linux Base System, HJ release. It is linked with jump table
4.1. You should use it with my bootable root disks since the Linux Base
System has no shared images, which are required by all the binaries in
it. It has 3 minix disks. It can fit in either 5.25" or 3.5" floppy. It
is great as the system backup.

It is on tsx-11.mit.edu under pub/linux/GCC/basedisk.


A. Disk 1 (base1.Z)

It has /bin, /dev and /etc. Since ps stuffs are kernel dependent, you
should use the ones come with my bootable root disk.

In /bin, there are fileutils 3.3, shellutils 1.7, textutils 1.3, gnu
tar 1.10, ldd 1.1, compress 4.2.4, bash 1.12, zsh 2.20, doshell, fdisk
0.93, admutil 1.3, poeigl 1.6 and setfdprm. clock is here.

FYI, compress 4.2.4 is here, which fixed a few bugs in 4.2.3.

Color ls is here :-).

Note: if you don't like the color ls, you can make an alias `ls -f'
as ls. For the recent disk, you can also use `ls --no-color'.

In /etc, there are init/getty and other related stuffs,
mount/umount/swapon and LILO 0.5.


B. Disk 2 (base2.Z)

It has /usr. There are diff 1.15, find 3.7, grep 1.6, fgrep 1.1,
gnu make 3.62, gawk 2.13.2, flex 2.3.7, bison 1.18, patch 2.0.12u7,
sed 1.09, elvis 1.6, minicom 1.3.2, rzsz (This one may only work with
minicom.), more, setterm, od, strings, uuencode/uudecode, clear,
tput 1.0, zip 1.9 patch 1 and unzip 5.0. The time stuffs are also on
this disk. Please read usr/lib/zoneinfo/time.doc for details.


C. Disk 3 (base3.Z)

This disk is basically a development disk without compiler and library.
It has /usr. There are crt0.o/gcrt0.o, gdb 4.6, as, ar, gprof, ld, nm,
objdump, ranlib, size and strip. It also has `file'. To fully utilize
`file', please use `as' on this disk. Older binaries compiled/linked
with old `as'/'ld' may not be recognized by this `file'.

To install them on your hard drive.

1. uncompress base[1|2|3].Z.
2. rawrite or dd it to a floppy disk.

Now you have made a copy of Linux Base System on floppy. To copy it to
your hd, you should mount the floppy first and copy the disk. That is

mount /dev/fd[0|1] /mnt
cd /mnt
for d in bin dev etc usr
do
  if [ -d $d ]; then
    cp -av $d /
  fi
done


Thanks.

H.J.
hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
10/02/09
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: keng@den.mmc.com (Ken Garrido)
Subject: SCSI hangs up after ident on boot
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:18:26 GMT



Don't know if this is FAQ.
I am brand-new to this, just subscribed to the group.
If I breach netiquette, please email me a FAQL.

HELP !

As I boot, I get a message that reads :

SCSI : detected 1 SCSI disk 0 tapes total
SCSI host 2 timed out - aborting command 

Then it hangs up. 

This is with 0.97 versions on 386/25 with 
Seagate ST0x family card and ST157N drive.
The system also has ST157A IDE drive. 
I'm going to try to boot 0.96, but then what do I 
do to go to 0.97 ?


thx
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb)
Subject: More on Ingres installation and problems.
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 06:43:27 GMT


sorry, I spoke too soon...Ingres doesn't actually work quite correctly.

I created the demo database, and then discovered that numeric data in
a relation is not printed properly from the interactive query system.

So, for example from the shell I can go (output truncated to save bandwidth)

$ printr demo parts

parts relation

|pnum  |pname               |color   |weight|qoh   |
|--------------------------------------------------|
|     1|central processor   |pink    |    10|     1|
|     2|memory              |gray    |    20|    32|
|     3|disk drive          |black   |   685|     2|
|     4|tape drive          |black   |   450|     4|
|--------------------------------------------------|
$ ingres demo
INGRES version 8.9 (6/12/88) login
Wed Oct  7 16:35:33 1992

Greetings and Felicitations!

go
* print parts
* \g
Executing . . .


parts relation

pname               color   
--------------------------------
central processor   pink    
memory              gray    
disk drive          black   
tape drive          black   
--------------------------------

continue
*  

As you can see, the three numeric fields are missing, and there are no
field separators.

I've had a quick scan through the source, but can't see anything
obviously wrong (apart from the complaints about mismatched pointer
types, and use of multibyte characters from gcc -- but I've gone
through and fixed them, with no effect on this bug!)


			Regards,

				- Peter Chubb

Softway Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 698 2322;       Fax: +61 2 699 9174;     Telex: AA27987
Internet: peterc@softway.oz.au	   UUCP: ...!uunet!softway.oz!peterc
From: dabdub@aeolus.caltech.edu (Donald Dabdub)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SOLUTION: TeX and xdvi for SLS distribution
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:10:50 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: aeolus.che.caltech.edu
Originator: dabdub@aeolus.che.caltech.edu

Hello world,

If you have had problems running xdvi that was distrubuted by the SLS disks
you might want to read this.

Special thanks to the people who helped:
	tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu
	dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
	ramesh@utdallas.edu

ASSUME:  You got the SLS distribution containing Linux 0.98 and you have it
	it fully installed.  You found that xdvi doesn't work.

SOLUTION:

1) Remove them!

	rm /usr/X386/bin/xdvi /usr/X386/bin/MakeTeXPK

2) Get the following libraries /lib/XawVen.so.2.1 /lib/XtVen.so.2.1 and
/lib/libX11.so.2.1 from sunsite.unc.edu.  You only need those files.
They are in /pub/Linux/X11/X-servers/xfree-1.1/xbin2.1.TZa

Again, pls note that xbin2.1.TZa is the only archieve you need to ftp.  It
contains (among other things) the 3 searched libs.

3) Get TeX binaries from tsx-11.mit.edu.  Just put them in / (root directory)
uncompress and untar.  It should be ok now.

4) Copy the xdvi that came with the TeX binaries:

	cp /usr/TeX/bin/xdvi /usr/X386/bin
	chmod og+r /usr/TeX/bin/xdvi
	chmod og+r /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/*

5) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP:!!!!!!!

	In your .profile include the following:

	TEXFONTS=/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts
	export TEXFONTS

	XDVIFONTS=/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts
	export XDVIFONTS

	PATH=$PATH:/usr/X386/bin:/usr/TeX/bin
	export PATH

-- 
Donald Dabdub
210-41 Chemical Engr
CALTECH
Pasadena, CA 91125
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