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From: pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Pereckas)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation under PD unix..
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:33:05 GMT

S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
>>  How about xdvi ?  Works ok for me.

>Ever tried dviscr? It's BEAUTIFUL... It does anti-aliasing with the
>fonts when shrinking so that you can have 2/3 of an A4 page on the
>screen and still well read 10pt fonts... no X thing I know does this.
>(And, btw, I don't have the necessary hardware for X and can well get
>along without it, if it were not for TeX...)

I liked dvisrc a lot.  I've just tried xdvi, though, and it is very
nearly as good.  (And it can do some sort of anti-aliasing, according
to the man page.)  It's fast, too, even on my system, which is much
too slow for X, for the most part.  I'm using the beta (alpha?) Xega,
and I have only 4MBytes, half on the (yuck) AT bus, with a very old 20
MHz 386 and an ATI VGA Wonder.

The only problem is that it takes forever to load, if you count
loading X11 against it....

It's a lot better than the dvivga port, although that is still in the
early stages.
-- 
Michael Pereckas     pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Have you used the term ``nasal demons'' today?
From: geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: combo MS/Mouse-Systems mouse
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:50:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Uemk8fe00WAJMBkJVc
	<JEM.92Sep30211910@vipunen.hut.fi>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Administrative Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Johan writes:
>Just a thought: the mouse checks the button press when power is
>applied. It has no way of knowing that you (warm) boot the computer;

Well, this is just my two cents worth, but how about just power
cycling the mouse?  (i.e. disconnect it from the port, and then
reconnect, or use an A-B switch)


                                  -Brian

You drop the bomb -more-
It goes off... -more-
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dmcquaid@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Devin Mcquaid)
Subject: libc.2.2.2 not loading
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 22:14:50 GMT

	I'm unable to boot off my hd,(/dev/hda2) when I try it says
/etc/init unable to load libc.2.2.2, I'm able to boot off floppy fine
and I WAS able to boot off my hd fine last night when I installed Linux
I have a 386/40 with 8 megs and 60 meg partion for Linux. It was working
fine I was using kermit.5A and untaring on a virtual console, then when
I tried to ls it told me it couldn't load libc.2.2.2 Since it was still 
downloading I let it finish then tried to reboot. Now I can't boot from my
hd. If I boot from a floppy I can mount my hd but cant copy on to it.
Almost forgot I'm running a .97 boot and root image.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


				Thanks for your time
						Devin
From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: QUIRK: floppy: unexpected interrupt
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:37:21 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Just build linux-0.98 patchlevel 0 with gcc 2.2.2d7.
Gee its great to no longer have to mess with include files !!!

If I boot from a floppy [always build a floppy as protection]
after message:

floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.2M, fd1 is 360k/PC

I get [repeatable] single line

floppy: unexpected interrupt

Then booting completes correctly.

Booting with bootlin4 I do not get floppy: unexpected interrupt.

Machine is 386 25 Mhz DX with slooow 100 nsec memories with wait states
with AMI NCS BIOS [of famous reset glitch].

Again, its great to be able to build kernel easily !!!

John
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hlu's bootable rootdisk
Date: 26 Sep 1992 15:01:26 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Great for Demo's!

I've been bragging on Linux here at Wisconsin Electric Power ever since I
tried out 0.95c away back when.  I can't believe to pace of progress!
I wish I had enough time to help out with more than P.R.

Anyway... Hlu's bootable root is a *GREAT* way to instantaneously show
people just how *neat* Linux already is.  Just pop it into the A: drive,
re-boot, and then "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt" for real thrills!

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help please: upgrading MCC Interim of some time ago to .97pl4
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:35:15 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:

>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.
>Please save any future annoucement about compiler and library even if
>you don't need it at the time unless you know what you are doing.

New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
New users won't have a saved copy.  Please put the necessary information
in some very obvious place on tsx-11.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
Subject: Curses nodelay() call missing?
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:30:03 GMT

I was trying to put together a little piece of code using
the curses library (GCC 2.2.2d and jump tables 4.1), but
can't seem to be able to use getch() without halting the
program until a key is pressed. 

I understand that usually you should use nodelay() to 
make getch() return ERR when no keystroke is available, 
but it doesn't exist in the curses.h include file. cbreak() 
and nocbreak() do exist, and are some sort of #defines, so 
I wonder if it'd be an easy job to add a #define for nodelay()... 

If this is a bug of some sort in the curses library, I hope
it gets fixed in the public release, though somehow I suspect
I've misunderstoor something... (I've been reading the SysV
manpages for curses.h.)

-- 
kennu@mits.mdata.fi
From: johnsonm@stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: change at tsx-11...
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:19:09 GMT
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Organization: The Internet

The person who uploaded tcsh to tsx-11 contacted me wondering why I
had put tcsh-6.02.src.T.Z in the *sources* directory, when it held
*binaries*...  Anyway, it is now available as
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/tcsh-6.02.bin.T.Z.
                          ^^^^^^^^                   ^^^
Sorry for any confusion...

michaelkjohnson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke)
Subject: Re: All this /usr/local flamage
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 15:23:48 GMT


In article <1992Sep22.010339.4598@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
:   For those of you who were interested, the following opinion was finally
:   reached:  The original purpose of /usr/local was a place where users
:   could put programs THAT WERE NOT ORIGINALLY PROVIDED BY THE OS.
:   /usr/local is a place for individual system administrators to install
:   programs such that they won't get nuked by an update.  

	TRUE.

	Companies like Sony are providing /usr/local stuff with
	their version of Unix. THAT'S WRONG. That's why HUT is
	having all kinds of kludges for local binaries, like
	/p/bin - it is not nice for crowding the root - Unix != MSDOS.

	I'm personally compiling/porting stuff in my /usr/local
	tree. I've selected /usr/contrib tree for binaries
	not proper in /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /etc (when I'm
	distributing my local stuff to other people).

	I do not like original OS binaries installed in /usr/local,
	really, keep that tree free for *local* stuff.

:							   - Ted

	arl
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: Linux vs. Dos Don't complain fix it : -)
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:13:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.051413.2066@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons) writes:
>
>	Really, I hardly call a bug report complaining. If someone adds a 
>feature to the kernel, and it won't work then it has a bug. If nobody says
>anything about it, it won't get fixed. 

I was replying to the people complaining about the lack of certain software
for Linux. I think I screwed up the reference line somehow.

Bug reports are welcome :-)
(-: Not having MS word isn't a bug its a feature :-)

BTW-My Xenix emulator will let you run alot of commercial software under
    Linux. (It only support .97 at this point, I will need to rework the
    kernel patchs for .98)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder)
Subject: Q: What is /usr/bin/doshell good for ???
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:43:20 GMT


	Hi folks...

	The subject says it all: I found /usr/bin/doshell, but I
	didn't find any manpage for it. What the hack does it do?

	...Wolfram
From: cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: NCR video chipset
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:54:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: davidge.1992Sep29.155419.10667
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY


	Greetings Linuxers.  A hardware question for anyone can
help: the new Zeos PCs are coming standard with a local bus
VESA video setup based around an NCR chipset.  This is
apparently the same video setup used in a recent Compaq
machine that blazed away in some PC magazine benchmarks.

	Can anyone tell me if this chipset would be supported by
Linux or, if not, would be tough to write a new video driver
for it?  Mucho appreciado,

-- 
[ Caleb Epstein ][ Davidge Data Systems Corp, New York, NY ][ cae@davidge.com ]
[      Someone's definitely jumping into the tub ... with your brother!       ]
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu
Subject: Top 10 List
Reply-To: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 06:27:29 GMT

Tonight's Top Ten List from the home office in
Tallequa, Oklahoma:
Top Ten Dumb Threads on Comp.Os.Linux:

10.	(No Subject)
9.	Calling your serial ports names.
8.	Useless Xterm tricks.
7.	How to remove Linux (ouch!).
6.	Calling your file system names.
5.	The folks at Diamond who bite.
4.	Newbie questions: FAQ unreadable.
3.	How to port software available at TSX and FUNET.
2.	Why it is impossible to write a QIC-02 driver.
(Drum roll please, Anton ...)
And the Number One Dumb Thread on Comp.Os.Linux:
1.	Religious OS wars (Was: Linux or BSD386).

Ooops, Ohmigod, I thought this was Alt.Fan.Letterman!
jim
i didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, nobody can prove a thing.
From: Joe.Klemmer@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Klemmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux activists unite al
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 12:42:00 -0800

LCF=>Is there an official Linux BBS list? This would be a good thing to
send
LCF=>them.

        Zane Healy put's one out.  It should be around here somewhere.
___
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 * Origin: Enlightened Board (703) 370-9528 (1:109/615)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: Linux FTP Site and BBS List #5
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:58:11 GMT

michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:


>In comp.os.linux I write:
>>GERMANY:

>I can offer another number: 
>				+49-40-735-5349		14.4k / ZyX16.8

>It is a bbs wich does have some files, for example the 0.97p2 disks
>and some small utilities, not to much yet, but one can upload as well
>as download ;-)

>The language I am afraid is german - in some parts. But if you are in the
>main menue (ASSIST) and chose "Datenbanken" (databases) you get a directory-
>tree with OS/2, MSDOS and... LINUX wherefrom you should be able to come
>through with english...

>The sysop wants to see 30.- DM / year, but he has promised to make a special
>user called LINUX which can up/download for free...
Yes, he has setup a user LINUX with the password LINUX which can use the
bbs for free - please do not change the password since we cannot take care
of such things as well ;-)

>Thanx for listening, Michael Will from HH92
From: mgream@acacia (Matthew Gream)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: top suid - security hole?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 03:58:21 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: acacia.ccsd.uts.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Rafal Kustra (summer student) (rafal@utstat.uucp) wrote:
: 
: My ps, top and stuff are suid. This is so they can read
: /dev/kmem. Now top allows you to kill. With suid set
: anyone can kill init ! Not a best sol'n. So where did I
: go wrong ?
: On my system at school top is also suid and kmem is 640.
: But their top does'n allow killing - of course (or the
: anarchist part of me would try kill -9 1 !)
: Please answer : should I change kmem 644 or what ?

No need to set it setuid, make it setgid, as example (dumps from
my system) :

-r-x--s--x   1 root     mem         17408 Sep 22 18:50 top
-r-x--s--x   1 root     mem         13312 Sep 22 18:50 tload
-r-x--s--x   1 root     mem         13312 Sep 22 18:50 free
-r-x--s--x   2 root     mem         13312 Sep 22 18:50 w
-r-x--s--x   1 root     mem         17408 Sep 22 18:50 ps
-r-x--s--x   2 root     mem         13312 Sep 22 18:50 uptime

-rw-r-----   1 root     mem         26900 Sep 26 18:59 /etc/psdatabase
crw-r-----   1 root     mem        1,   2 Jul 30 19:31 /dev/kmem
crw-rw----   1 root     mem        1,   1 Jul 30 19:31 /dev/mem

     ^ not sure if I need that however.

Works fine me :-) [ I try not to make anything setuid, setgid if 
possible]

--
Matthew Gream    - The future has a bad attitude -    M.Gream@uts.edu.au
Computer Systems Engineering, University of Technology. Sydney Australia
From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Hyunday 421E monitor in 1024x768 under Xfree86?
Keywords: X11, Trident, 1024x768 interlace mode.
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:04:34 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

I just installed Xfree86 on my 486 with trident card. However I can't
get it into a stable 1024x768 mode. 

The manual states the timings:
              display  front  sync  back   total
              time     porch  time  porch  time
Horizontal     22.22   .67     2.0   3.56  28.44     microseconds
Vertical       17.07   .03     .06   .6    17.28     milliseconds

for the 800x600 mode. This can be easily converted to timings for X:
 "800x600"    36     800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  633
This works like a charm. 

For the 1024x768 mode the manual reads:
Horizontal     22.8   .018    3.92   1.25  28.15    microseconds
Vertical       10.81  .014   .113    .563  11.5      milliseconds

I converted this to:
 "1024x768i"  45    1024 1040 1216 1264    768  769  773  817 Interlace 
This in contrast to the one I found in the Xconfig.sample file:
 "1024x768i"   44     1024 1040 1216 1264    768  777  785  817  Interlace

the difference seems to be a subtle clock difference and a slightly 
longer and later vertical sync. 

However both of them seem to "not work". I get a stable horizontal picture,
but the interlace doesn't really work.

Now to try to get it to work anyway, I tried a few things. First of all
I know for a fact that the interlace keyword does make a difference.
I also tried changing the sync polarities. This didn't work either.

I also tried changing a few of the numbers in the timing, however 
unless I get a stable picture I don't really know what to change.

Does anybody else have a Hyundai 421E monitor and got a correct set of 
timing specs for the 1024x768i mode? (this is the "best" that this 
monitor will do).

Oh. One more thing: I hacked myself a 752x553 mode that runs at almost
70Hz.  However I only get a partly filled screen:
#vertical 68.2Hz
 "752x553"    36     752  768  904 944     553 555 557  559

Any help appreciated.

					Roger.
-- 
****   a 486 in V86 mode is like a VW buggy with a 6 litre V12 motor.  ****
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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Writing style on c.o.l (was Re: Instead of breaking c.o.l)
Keywords: c.o.l news
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:13:04 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

kenney@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Kenney) writes, in response to
Johan W}hlin's suggestion about keywords on subject lines:
>[ 13 lines of quotes deleted ]
>Sounds like a great idea.  I would add a fourth standard keyword, BUG_REPORT.
>[ signature deleted ]

Actually, I think a lot of the volume could be reduced if people
wouldn't quote entire articles, but would edit away all the unnecessary
things.  It seems to me that this problem, which plagues the whole of
Usenet, is worse than average on c.o.l.  Cutting the quotations down a
bit would make it easier to read articles, even though it doesn't reduce
the article count.  Too often one has to wade through a zillion lines of
quotes to get at the one added line.

Oh, and Mike, please don't get offended because I used your article as
an example: I don't think that this is something that anybody in
particular is doing wrong, but something that the whole group does. 
It's not that I want somebody or somebodies in particular to change
their ways, but I would like _everybody_ to change.  (Besides, your
suggestion was a good one.)

BTW, does anybody know how one gets down from a soapbox?

Flames via mail, please.  (And make them hot.)

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker)
Subject: Re: Porting X11 contrib stuff
Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:20:35 GMT

jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
: In article <jb&vHkb&?9@atlantis.psu.edu> donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) writes:
: >Is anyone out there having trouble porting the X11 contrib stuff?  I think
: >that so far the things that did work were xantfarm, xdaliclock, and
: >unclutter.  I have tried vtwm, ctwm, xfishtank, olvwm, p3d and more.
: >Could this be a problem with kludgy source (the contrib stuff) or a 
: >problem with the GCC?
: >
: 
: hmm. I know that vtwm and olvwm are on sunsite (both in
: /pub/Linux/X11/window-managers) so their ported source may be
: a good place to start to see what had to be changed.

I tried to compile the source that came with vtwm on tsx-11, and it
puked in the same place as the source from export.lcs.mit.edu.

--
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-----------------------| peace of mind, is waiting there--And the time will
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: emacs question (ispell)
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 21:57:21 GMT

In article <1a26o4INNlha@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bx516@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Victor Charles Zandy) writes:
|> 
|> Has anyone managed to compile and install and use ispell (any version) for
|> emacs under linux?  I got the sources and am having problems compiling (i.e.
|> I don't understand what needs to be changed about the makefile and config file,
|> when I compile it as it stands, I get errors, I don't know where to obtain and
|> where to install dictionaries).  I'm pretty interested in making linux my
|> full time os; but to do that I need to get Ispell running so that I can do
|> a reasonable job on all these papers I need to write this semester.
|> 
|> Thanks in advance for any offerings,
|> Victor Zandy
|> vzandy@occs.cs.oberlin.edu


My ispell 3.09 should work with emacs. But I haven't run emacs yet. So
I didn't both with emacs support when I put it in my bonuses with jump table
4.1. Get ispell-3.09.tar.Z from sunsite.unc.edu under pub/Linux/Incoming.
Please tell me your story.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux