HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Transferring files over a serial port
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:57:58 GMT

Prasad B. Gharpure (prasad@cc.utah.edu) wrote:

: 1)	Is it possible with linux to login from another pc connected
: 	to the linux machine by a null modem cable.

Yes.  I've done it at up to 38.4KB.

: 2)	How can I transfer files from the linux machine to the other pc
: 	using a null modem cable ( I have used kermit for dos on both
: 	machines to achive the above ).

There's kermit.  It's got a high packet overhead, since the packets are
small, but it's got the advantage that you can do something like:

tar cvf - /|kermit [options] -l /dev/ttyN

and on the other machine...

kermit [options] | (cd /;tar xvf -)

Works pretty cool!

You could also use uucp (from mailpak or get taylor-uucp from convex.com
and port it yourself; it's also on prep.ai.mit.edu).  If you drop in the
zmodem patches, you'll get (at 38.4KB) over 3700 CPS throughput.  Amazing!
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
"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: huisken@prl.philips.nl (Jos Huisken 42824)
Subject: ATI Wonder XL24 SVGA
Originator: huisken@serpent
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:40:59 GMT

I have an offer for an SVGA card ATI Wonder XL24.
Could you tell me if drivers exist in X-windows or
within linux?
Hopefully I get linux up and running this week, but I need
to know if I can take this SVGA card...

Thank you for any replies.

Jos Huisken
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: X-Windows Spreadsheet Program Uploaded
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:05:57 GMT

I've uploaded xspread1.1 to tsx-11 and sunsite. It is a spreadsheet
program for X-Windows based on the text-based sc. It has many graphics
types and is menu-driven. The best Unix spreadsheet yet. This version
is linked static. A dynamic version will be made available when x11v2.0
is released. The original sources can be found by archie.

/M. Saggaf
alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu

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/M. Saggaf
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler)
Subject: gcc 2.2.2d installation woes
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:57:21 GMT

Hi,

I'm currently trying to install gcc 2.2.2d and ran into a few major problems;
this is what I did so far:

- got 2.2.2d{db,lib,misc}.tar.Z
- untarred the install-directory from ...misc.tar.Z
- read README
- ran sh install.2.x 2.2.2d /usr/src/linux
- it didn't find the tar-files, so I copied them to /usr/install/gcc2
- !sh
- after some time, the script told me that it couldn't find .../shared/libsoft.a
 (and - surprise,surprise - I don't have it; it's not in any tarfile)
- so I copied the shared/libsoft.a from my gcc 2.2.2-release
- !sh
- after some rumbling it says 'installing jump tables' and then: 
  'mv: libc.so.2.2: no such file or directory'; same for libsoft.so.2.2.
  but continued by asking me for the kernel sources
- it then issued some complaints about chmods ('no such file or directory')
- finally, the script choked on '/usr/bin/gcc -dumpspecs'
  ('can't load library /lib/libc.so.2') and died on me with 'Error during
  installation ...'
- with a pleasant smile, kicked the PC through the window

So: anybody knows a good book on hardware repairs ? :-)

Kolja
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: William.Ehrendrich <William.Ehrendrich@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: HEEEEELLLLPPPP need to copy files over to linux from dos
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:13:53 GMT

I am looking for a way so I can get a few of the things from dos copied over
to linux I have 0.97.1 I need to just port one package....then I can call
using the linux side.

-- 
William Ehrendreich     William.Ehrendreich@Mixcom.com      President
Metro Communications                                Network Developer
2707 N. Carmen           
Milwaukee, WI            "The one who runs a communications company..
1-414-377-8906            is always the hardest to communicate with!"
From: ilan@huji.ac.il (Ilan Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.97.4 kernel doing mischief! (some more info)
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:57:57 GMT
Reply-To: shum!ilan (Ilan Horn)
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In article <5592@shum.huji.ac.il> I (ilan@cs.huji.ac.il, Ilan Horn) wrote:
>I just compiled the 0.97.4 kernel at home. After booting it starts complaining
>that my root fs is read-only (?!). That causes /etc/mtab, /etc/utmp not to be
>created and some more mischief (use your imagination.. :) ). 0.97.2 works
>great (still does..).
>
>Anyone has any idea what is going on??
>
>			Ilan
>
>P.S. I installed the newest and greatest mount/umount/swapon/swapoff (for
>     0.97.3) so the problem probably is *not* an old mount program..
>

Due to a few questions I got regarding some more info I'm reposting
the question with some more info:

I'm using the 2nd partition on my first hard-disk as the root
device (/dev/hda2). The disk is a 120MB Maxtor IDE one (Maxtor
7149 if I'm not mistaken). The computer is a 486DX/33 with
4MB of RAM.

Thanks..

			Ilan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: u9050728@cs.uow.edu.au (Shane Kelvin Richards)
Subject: X11 probs
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:43:19 GMT


	I have also had problems with X11. I attempted to install the base
X11, but it kept wanting libc.2.2.2 and libm.2.2.2, so what do I do, where do
I get these libs from?


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From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.97pl5 and cdrom
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:24:41 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory


	The 0.97pl5 kernel now contains the scsi code that is needed for the
cdrom, but the filesystem is not yet a part of the kernel because it is
eventually envisioned (by Linus) that this will be installable at run time once
the installable driver/filesystem code is working in the kernel.  Until the
loadable filesystem stuff is ready, the filesystem will have to be installed
the old-fashion way.  Thus I have prepared cdrom-0.5.tar.Z, and put it in the
ALPHA/cdrom directory on tsx-11.mit.edu.  This new file contains *only* the
filesystem, as that is all that you will need for now.  There are no functional
changes to the filesystem since 0.97 pl4 was released.

--
Eric Youngdale
eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
From: kb3e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin R. Bronke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X clock settings, timings
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:08:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4egZl3W00WB_ESCGVK
Organization: Junior, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I have been trying to get X to run; I tried the MSDOS clock.exe program,
and got some clock settings, then ran startx without clocks specified
and got different clocks in the error message each time.  It also can
not resolve some modes; 800x600 (I think because I don't have a listing
in Modedb for the timings.)
X starts up, but the screen is completely messed.  I think that either
the clocks are completely wrong AND/OR the list of timings in ModeDB are
wrong.
I have a Paradise card, 512K extra memory.

I get clocks like:
    clocks    25 28 0 0 24 0 31 0

and each time I run startx 2>clock.log with clocks line commented out; I
get different clocks for all but the first two values (25 and 28).

I didn't alter the ModeDB entries from the original.

Please help!!!

                                           -- Nivek
From: mmannan@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Mohammed Mannan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Adding Users
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:17:01 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston MA. USA 02115

Well, I am having problem adding users. Currently, I can only login as
root. I have edited the /etc/passwd file and added this line at the end:
	mmannan:*:100:6:Mohammed A Mannan:/u/mmannan:/bin/sh
However, when I issue " passwd mmannan " at the shell prompt, I get
permission denied message.

I have tried silly stuff like changing modes on the passwd file and the
/u/mmannan directory (I cannot change ownership).. nothing works. What
am I doing wrong? somebody help me out please :(

Thanks,
    
mmannan.
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From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: lilo problems
Summary: lilo works with SCSI
Keywords: lilo, SCSI
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:49:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Texas A&M University

In article <1992Sep6.155231.23223@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>In article <JUH.92Sep5001557@lazy.qt.IPA.FhG.de> juh@qt.IPA.FhG.de (Juergen Henke) writes:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:14:34 GMT, c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) said:
>>
>>
>>Mark> No, you are doing everything as expected.   It's just that you
>>Mark> need this patch for lilo to work correctly with 0.97p2.
>>
>>
>>I've tried to install lilo.4 on my home system (486/33/16/AHA1542B), but
>>the only response i get is an 'L'. I've tried lilo with the original MBR,
>>with the BOOTAUTO-MBR and with lilo as the MBR: every time lilo steps in,
>>i get this 'L' and the system hangs...
>>
>>On my linux system in the office (486/25/16/AHA1542B) lilo works fine...
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the AHA1542B a SCSI controller?
>Doesn't the LILO documentation state that it doesn't work with SCSI?
>

Lilo does work with SCSI.  I have been using lilo since version 2 with
my UltraStor 14f with no problems.  I am now using lilo version 3, which
works with SCSI "out of the box" (I had to modify geometry.c in v.2); I
would expect version 4 to work even better.

>-- 
>Jim H.
>*
>* James L. Henrickson
>* ujlh@sunyit.edu        "Some day I might have a real .signature!"

Scott Taylor
n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Monochrome 1280x1024 screens?
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:07:39 GMT

In <lba068INNfel@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>Does anyone make a high res (normal res by Sun standards) black & white
>screen?  I could care less about color I just want a sharp screen and

Sigma Designs make a LaserView monochrome system. Resolution is
1600x1200.
-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

ISO? Nicht immer, aber immer M-vfter.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wolff@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Distribution sugestion for gcc.
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 17:03:44 GMT

Hi,

I have been thinking about the method gcc is being distributed.
(partly because I had problems myself, and I seem to be not the only
one)

Anyway, how about creating a tar file with EVERYTHING in it. This could
be done in two ways: 
1)   all the files that are in there now + an install script.
2)   ALL that gcc needs. Even the links etc that the install script makes.

Option one simply guarantees that you have all the files necessary.
Option two even eliminates the install script. (Tar should be capable
of tarring and restoring symlinks and hardlinks. right?)

Now by this time everybody will be screaming that this will result in
a very large file. This can be accomodated by providing two versions:
one in a large file. The second split into chunks of about 1.2 megabytes.
People can then split the large file into pieces if they want, or
keep it in one chunk if possible. The smaller files can easily be transported
on floppies.

-- 
Ok. Suggestions? pro's con's?

					Roger.

-- 
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(stolen from  kadokev@iitvax.iit.edu, who got it from brydon@asl.sinet.slb.com)
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From: pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Installing gcc
Date: 5 Sep 92 13:13:39 GMT
Reply-To: pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: pgr@pierrot.comlab

In <bjl.715689694@freyr>, B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl writes:
> If you still use the minix fs, you can't have filenames > 14. But this is
> not a problem when installing GCC. The kernel automatically chops off
> all characters > 14. So even if your real filename is 2.2.2dmisc.tar
> and in the install script it is 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z there should be no problem.

Unless, of course, you happen to have copied the files onto a Minix
FS first, and then moved them over to an ExtFS when wanting to do the
installation... (not a completely impossible scenario, really).

I think the simplest solution would be to make sure that the next release
of the files (2.2.2e, or whatever) keeps to under the 14 characters...
it would certainly have cut down the amount of noise, and would probably
have stopped some people's confusion...

pihl "adding to the noise"
--
phil richards -- pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk
From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Bash Info files uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu...
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:02:49 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


	The info files on Bash have been uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu,
where they hopefully soon appear in the linux/info directory. After
some thought I decided not to turn them into pure text, as info format
itself is quite readable and this way those who do use Info will be
able to use them to the best advantage. There are three files and a
readme, all stored in one tar.Z. If there's a problem with them,
please send mail to kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu.


--


			-Karl Fogel
			("Leg of Lark")
		  (kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu)
		   (fogel@antares.mcs.anl.gov)

       	    "I'm not lost... I know exactly where I'm not!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.97pl5 and who
From: tomlin@betelgeux (Mark Tomlinson)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:02:37 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I just got the 0.97pl5 and compiled it under 2.2.2 no problem. I had to do a
make depend first - but I was kinda expecting that. It also booted up OK.

The problem I'm having is with the utmp (or is that wtmp) file. "who" no
longer works for me, but "last" is still OK. I looked at the utmp file (yes,
I know it isn't plain text), and it looked a mess. It also seems to grow
very quickly to large sizes....

I am using GCC 2.2.2, kernel 0.97PL5. The init, getty and bash are all from
the 0.96 root disk.

Thanks in advance... Mark

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke)
Subject: Re: Is it time to subdivide this group?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:54:07 GMT


In article <1992Sep8.145702.20027@samba.oit.unc.edu> cptully@med.unc.edu (Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,62699) writes:
:   I have 50 messages in the last 12 hours...

	Many (not most of the) articles I read could have been sent
	to other newsgroups than to c.o.l. remember (ALL) there are
	newsgroups like comp.windows.x, gnu.utils.bug, comp.lang.c,
	gnu.gcc.bug, gnu.gcc.help etc.

	107 articles within a day ... d key has a meaning ;-)

:   Chris(topher) P. Tully				<cptully@med.unc.edu>

	arl
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stud07@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Dussart)
Distribution: world
Date: Wednesday, 2 Sep 1992 18:43:26 +02
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Subject: problems getting 800x600 out off an ET-4000

        Hi,
  I'm having serious trouble getting 800x600 ( or any other SVGA resolution )
out off my Tseng Labs ET-4000. After experimenting with the Xconfig file in
usr/lib/X11 I've found out that xinit ( or startx ) isn't poking the clock
( this the dotclock ) into the right register on the ET-4000. But  xinit
states after exiting X11 that it has used the clock from my Xconfig file
( i.e. 36 or 39 ). All other parameters in modeDB of Xconfig work ! I can set
linelength, imagelength, frontportch, backportch and synclength both horizontal
and vertical. They all give results on the screen, but with the clock  still
set on 25 ( i.e. from the 640x480 res ) this gives an unreadable, flickering
rubble on screen. I think it's a clock problem because my bash has the same
horizontal size in this rubble mode as in the normal 640x480.
  I'm reworking Xconfig as stated in the FAQ  i.e.
  .
  .
  clocks   36
  .
  .
  modeDB
  # "640x480" 25 ......
  #
  #
     "800x600" 36 .....
  #
  #
  #


  and I don't have any problems running MSWindows in 800x600....
                    can anyone help ?  please....
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 15:11:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.225138.11383@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>I said that children shouldn't be killed when their parent dies.

That depends, see below...

>
>person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) asks in reply:
>>Why is it done this way?  This is kinda sloppy.  I know that
>>somethimes unix will forget to kill one of my processes, but it
>>doesn't seem to happen very often.  Why would linux be designed this
>>way?   
>
>As far as I am aware, no Unix kills children when the parent dies.  I
>see no reason why processes should be killed for arbitrary reasons like
>some other process dying.

That depends on the shell you are using and NATURE of the process.  It
should be up to the forked process whether or not it dies, not the OS. 
The DEFAULT action needs to be death!

What SHOULD happen in my experience is the CHILD process should receive
a SIGHUP when the parent dies.  The DEFAULT action for SIGHUP should be
death.  This is VERY important from a minimal security standpoint.

The child process can dissassociate itself from it's parent with the
setpgrp() System call.  Alternately it can also choose to trap the
SIGHUP signal and continue on accordingly.

In SCO ISC and SVR4 a standard forked shell job dies when you log out
unless it is 'nohup'ed:

someprog < /dev/null >$HOME/someprog.out 2>&1 &

someprog:
-------
: # For SCO
#!/bin/sh for other stuff

while true
do
	date
	sleep 600	# 10 Minutes
done
-------

>
>Also, do you think that the following should work:
>
>	#!/bin/sh
>	(sleep 10; echo 10) &
>	(sleep 5; echo 5) &
>
>A similar thing happens with some program, e.g. some mailers leave a
>background child process behind to do the real work, so that the user
>doesn't need to wait as long for a prompt.  Should this be impossible?

No,  The script would need to 'nohup' the background children, *OR* the
script itself could be nohup'ed, *OR* the program if written in 'C' can
setpgrp or trap SIGHUP.  Most mailer type jobs will fork and spool the
work, otherwise the set the signal or process group to protect
themselves.

>
>Note that doing nohup isn't the answer: it could still be a good idea
>for some leftover child processes of this kind to be killed on hangup.
>

Now,  also note that certian shells (tcsh for 1 and I THINK ksh will
warn you at logout, but I'm not sure on this one) Automagically nohup
all the shells doing a signal(SIGHUP,SIG_IGN) before forking it off.

>--
>Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi


-- 
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Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HD-timeout problems
Date: 5 Sep 92 20:19:20 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

I'm experiencing enough "HD-Timeout/HD-controller reset" messages to
have become frustrated (irritated?) with it. This occurs both with
the MCC release (.97p2) and the SLS release (.96c I believe). The
SLS kernel has the "static int reset = 0" code in it. (I built a new
kernel just for kicks. And The problem occurred BEFORE and after I
built the kernel.  ;-) ) The problem doesn't appear to happen when I
crank the clock back from 33MHz to 10Mhz.  Needless to say, that's
not an acceptable solution.

These messages occur mainly when I start emacs the first time, or
start X windows. They also occur when I'm in X doing stuff (mundane
stuff). 

My hardware is a 386@33, no 387; a Technology Power Sonic-386
motherboard (with 8 Meg RAM), a Kouwei KW-556A controller (multi-I/O
card), a Quantum LPS-105 (master) and a Maxtor 7213 (slave), a
Diamond Speedstar Plus (1Meg), and a Zoom VFP-32bis modem. The
Quantum is dedicted to DOS, the Maxtor to Linux. At the moment I'm
using SLS with a 32 MB root(/), a 64 MB /usr, a 43 MB swap
partition, and another 64 MB partition for experimentation.

I'm still in the experimental stages with Linux; trying to decide on
a configuration, base level of software, disk partitioning, etc. So
it's no big deal for me to scrap my current setup to try some
experiments if anyone has any ideas. I'm thinking about setting up
the MCC dist again and adding extended fs to see how that goes. (With
an eye towards getting X11 up on that base.)

Thanks.
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Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])