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From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: lucid emacs
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:20:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: samba.1992Nov13.182029.23026
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

In article <GAUDERER.92Nov13165654@t524i0.ira.uka.de> gauderer@t524i0.ira.uka.de (Patric Gauderer) writes:
>Hello !
>
>I'd like to know if anyone out there has tried to
>port lucid emacs to linux.
>

Yep.  I don't remember who did the port, but it is most likely in the
docs of the lucid emacs package that sits on sunsite.unc.edu in
the directory /pub/Linux/X11/lemacs.

jem.

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From: ramirez@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XDTM
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:54:15 GMT
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA

Hello all,

	Has anyone ported XDTM to Linux?  If so, is it uploaded somewhere?

Thanks in advance
Edwin
ramirez@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
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          That's a Zero
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X11 w/ 2Mb --> Don't bother...
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:58:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: sol.1992Nov7.035819.7571
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA

In article <1992Nov6.072532.13203@cs.umb.edu> cteague@ra.cs.umb.edu (Charles F. Teague II) writes:
>
>  This is a quick note to anyone who is interested enough at the idea
>of being able to run Xwindows on their PC, but who only has 2Mb of RAM:
>
>  "Don't Bother."
>

Let me add to that.  Using SLS with <= 2Meg is probably not great.
SLS is designed to assemble a reasonably complete Unix system. 
GCC, X11, TeX, and few other things are not really practical
in under 4Meg.  If you have a low memory system you are better off
using one of the other packages out there.  They are smaller and
more appropriate for those systems.

Nevertheless, some day I will look at using a bootable root disk
with lilo to optionally do the install.  

Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca

PS: Ted, please remove all traces of shoelace from tsx-11.  It's day is done.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: afgun@engin.umich.edu (Andrew F Gunnesch)
Subject: Looking for Jim Wenzel
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 12:38:48 EST
Organization: CAEN, University of Michigan
Summary: Need email address for Jim Wenzel
Followup-To: poster

I've been going through some data and found that I lost Jim's
email address.  I need to contact him.  Jim, if you're reading
this or anybody else who knows his email address, please let
me know asap.

--andrew
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From: younus@iona.uk.sun.com (Younus Nabi - Sandwiche Student - Tse Edinburgh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X and Trident
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:09:14 GMT
Reply-To: younus@iona.uk.sun.com

Gurus.
I issued a plea a few days ago about getting X running on a Trident 8900 card. Many kind people replied and I followed their advice but I am still unable to get it to run. The following is a transcript of the attempt to run X via startx.
Can anyone spot anything obvious which may point to the fact that I have not configured it correctly? I am hoping that it is I at fault rather than the card not being able to cope. :-( 
On boot up the video card professes to be a Trident 8900C, is the message below about the chipset version significant? I get about half a dozen  mode options when Linux first boots.


******************************** begin startx output ************************************************
Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
Trident chipset version: 0x03
Trident driver only supports TVGA8900C

        *** 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.
********************************** end startx output ************************************************

If the Trident is not going to do the job in colour can it do it in mono? 
I also have an Orchid Farenhite 1280 direct bus video card with 1Mb ram, is there any hope of useing this. (Please say yes someone!)

If neither of these work then I will just have to wait for X. :-((

Thank you all for  patience and understanding..

mail is preferable.

Younus Nabi				younus.nabi@uk.sun.com
				younus.nabi@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler)
Subject: Re: Ooops: compiled 98.3, now can't be root
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:41:52 GMT

did you try 'su' ?

	Kolja
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From: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: COM4, IRQ2 ....?
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:45:46 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Does anyone know how I can make Linux recognize my modem at COM4: and IRQ2:?
That's 3E8 and IRQ2... when it boots, it still shows my previous configuration
(Which was a conflict with COM1 and COM3 on IRQ4).

How can I change this?

-Glenn

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From: kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: RE: linux
Date: 12 Nov 1992 02:51:37 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Distribution: world
Reply-To: kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account)
NNTP-Posting-Host: manager.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1992Nov11.121003.25691@gold.sub.org>  
Rudolf.Boettcher@bbs.gold.sub.org (Rudolf Boettcher) writes:
> deine mailbox ist einfach super !
> bin frueher schon mal drin gewesen (juni 91), da
> sah sie noch anders aus !
> ich interessiere mich fuer linux - gibt es
> eine andere moeglichkeit um an linux zu kommen
> als einen tag vor dem modem zu sitzen ?
> 
> vile gruesse aus vienna
> 
> 
> 
>                rudi


gesundheit!!!



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: BBS software for linux?
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 19:00:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.225709.25324@iitmax.iit.edu> thssgxd@iitmax.iit.edu (Gautam Das) writes:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I recall reading news sometime back about a bbs software source
>available for linux. I can't remember what the name of the package
>was. Can any one tell me what the name of this package is and 
>where it is available (ftp site)?

Tom Dell's 'waffle' bbs works perfectly with Linux.
$120.00 for the sources.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lpickup@xanadu.btv.ibm.com (Lance Pickup)
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 57 486SLC2
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:08:47 GMT
Reply-To: lpickup@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Technology Products

In article <1992Nov13.092816.28740@aston.ac.uk>, evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
|> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
|> : pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez) writes:
|> : >I have read the FAQ list and it talks alot about the 386/486 AT-bus but
|> : >doesn't rule out MCA machines.  SO will LINUX run on an IBM PS/2 MCA 386 or
|> : >higher?
|> :
|> : No.
|>
|> Well it is more a sort of yes and no
|>
|> Linux will run, it just won't talk to anything in the MCA slots.

It won't even get that far on my Mod 70.  I get very strange results like
having to hold down a key to get it to do anything, and the screen blanking
every second.  I do make it past the printer check now, but I never make
it to the hard disk check.

|> Which for all practical purposes means you can't get very far
|> unless you just want to play with a floppy based unix :-)
|> :
|> : Using the harddisk with MCA is different than using it with ISA, and
|> : it seems that there is no documentation available on how it is done.
|> : Which means that people with MCA machines who wish to use Linux
|> : continue wishing.
|> --
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|> +(44) 21 565 1979 (Home)                     |evansmp@cs.aston.ac.uk
|> +(44) 21 359 6531 x4039 (Office)             |

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From: englmaie@vati.fmi.uni-passau.de (Hubert Englmaier)
Subject: Diamond Speedstar 24
Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:27:38 GMT

Hi,
  I suppose my problems are not new in this group, but I have over 800 unread
articles and simply cannot search in all of them for a solution.
I have installed linux using the version on forwiss passau with good success,
i.e. there were no error messages. Problem is, how to get X11 started. My
VGA-adapter is Diamond Speedstar 24, that means Tseng ET-4000 chipset with
true-color DAC. After several tries i got a useable image on my screen (no
good quality, because old and no docs for the monitor). But now startx ends
upon an error message: "Fatal error: Couldn`t open default font `fixed`, 
giving up." and several error messages by the xinit process (I suppose those
are caused by the missing font). I tried to copy an other font to the name
of `fixed`, but this did not change anything.
Question: What file is accessed by fixed, must I change the path for the
  fonts? Has anyone had the same problems? Are they caused by the hardware
  (well, I suppose not...)?

Thanks for your help,
BYE...
G.H.E.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: COM4, IRQ2 ....?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:55:07 GMT

glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes:

>Does anyone know how I can make Linux recognize my modem at COM4: and IRQ2:?
>That's 3E8 and IRQ2... when it boots, it still shows my previous configuration
>(Which was a conflict with COM1 and COM3 on IRQ4).

Well, you can do one of two things....
i) Use the program called setserial to tell it what IRQ and Address
    your COM2 is set to
ii) Modify /usr/src/linux/kernel/chr_drv/serial.c
     Near the top, you'll find a struct or something with all the hardcoded
     defaults for the com ports and their IRQs...Changing COM3's IRQ to 5
     works fine for me here, but if you don't have the source you can't do
     this, of course...

Enjoy !

Cos !
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			ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler)
Subject: Re: Anyone knows what BSS stands for? (was Re: Does Linux use segmentation?)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:41:16 GMT
Summary: "bss"

In article <1992Nov11.021246.3563@news.acns.nwu.edu>, hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:
> In article <1dpov0INNqcu@agate.berkeley.edu> of comp.os.linux,
>   curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> > In article <1992Nov11.011359.27473@cbnewse.cb.att.com> sph1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (stephen.p.hill) writes:
> > >

	[ stuff deleted ]

> Agreed.  "Text portion" would be more accurate, but I assume this term came
> to UNIX from Multics, which *did* support segmentation.  By the way, does
> anyone know what BSS stands for?  I have only seen "for historical
> reasons"...
> 

A footnote on page 25 of "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" by
Maurice J. Bach says,

______
2.  The name bss comes from an assembly psuedo-operator on the IBM 7090
    machine, which stood for "block started by symbol".

Neville Chandler    nhc@mtdcr.mt.att.com



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From: jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: GCC: what old libraries should I need?
Keywords: GCC, libraries, _setjmp
Date: 10 Nov 92 04:49:52 GMT
Organization: UB

Okay. I know this went by long ago, but I wasn't having *any* trouble
compiling (yeah, I know - that's what they all say!)

Trouble cropped up a week ago when I tried to majorly hack apart tip for a
quick and dirty port to linux -- had all the compile bugs worked out, but
during the link phase I got a bunch of '_setjmp undefined' and other _name
undefined messages. All from libraries I'm assuming I either have, but
installed improperly, or don't have. I upgraded from gcc2.2.2 to gcc2.2.2d
about a month ago with the updated install scripts from H.J.

The problem reared its ugly head once again in trying to compile ingres. Of
course, it might just be ingres (and my bad hack of tip) that are causing
these problems. I've tried several combinations of compile/link options to
no avail.

I _can_ compile some C code that I've written myself (either old or new) --
it doesn't happen all the time, but that doesn't prove anything.

Basic system config:  Linux 0.98pl1, gcc2.2.2d, 16mb RAM.

I tar'ed my old libraries and includes for gcc (and have a backup of the
entire gcc tree) so could always backtrack to gcc2.2.2, but I really don't
want to create a library jungle.

If you can help, I can use it! Thanks for the assist.

	JMS

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: shim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sam Shim)
Subject: Question about setting up X w/Diamond SpeedStar 24X/Paradise vid cards
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:48:21 GMT

   I currently have X running on my PC, but only in 640x480.  However,
my Diamond SpeedStar 24X is supposedly compatible with the Paradise
chipset, so I was able to bring up X in 800x600, but it was interlaced.
Now I'm trying to set it up for 800x600 non-interlaced.  I would appreciate
any suggestions on how to do it.  I especially would like to know how
other people with the 24X video card have set up X.  In addition, I would
also like to know how people with Paradise cards currently have X configured.
Are they get an interlaced mode running X in 800x600?

   I also have several questions about X that hopefully someone can answer.
1. What exactly are the 'clocks' numbers in Xconfig?  Do these numbers have
   to be in any particular order?  How do these numbers apply to each video
   mode?
2. How do you set up Linux so xdm starts automatically?
3. And, can someone point me to where I can get the wd90C00 video driver
for X?

   Thanks!

-Sam-
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ups (the X-based debugger)
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:05:26 GMT
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro) writes:

----------
Anybody thought of having a look at porting UPS? It is a you-beaut X-based
debugger. I regularly use it on a MIPS system at uni and love it.
'Fraid the port is beyond me - not enough C or low level knowledge,
and I'm not running X right now (No space :( ). Anyway, if someone has
a lot of spare time looking for a project...
----------

I did. Unfornately, UPS doesn't support C++.

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: cron gets stuck.
From: Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:37:01 CST
 <Bx9rB9.6r5@ais.org><1992Nov9.190309.162@victrola.sea.wa.us>
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network


I'm not including text here because this newsreader seems to be too
stupid to do so.

Look at the source for vixie-cron and find the poke_daemon function, it
will answer the question of how crond knows that its files have been
updated.  Incidentally the source seems to indicate that the best method
of notifying crond is to use the crontab -r function rather than the
more brute force methodology of over-writing the file yourself.  The
source will explain this as well.

                            As always,
                            Dr. G.W. Wettstein
                            Oncology Research Division Computing Facility
                            Fargo Clinic / MeritCare

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                            INTERNET: greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu
                            Phone: 701-234-2833

`The truest mark of a man's wisdom is his ability to listen to other
 men expound their wisdom.'
From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with XFree86 and S3 server
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:50:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxL9JL.2JE
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

I recently installed  XFree86  to run on  my Diamond Stealth, and have
been having trouble getting it to work. If I  just use  the monochrome
server (i.e.  no XS3) everything   works right except  that  the mouse
driver is not being loaded. I have a 3-button Microsoft mouse on COM1.
Could someone tell me the Xconfig setting for this mouse?

The other problem is that when I try to run the  color server (XS3) it
can't  set the font  path. I  uncompressed all of   the fonts and  ran
mkfontdir in the  various directories, but still I  can't seem to make
the S3 server  recognize the path. I  know  that some people have been
succesful in running X on the Stealth in  color mode, and I am anxious
to  see if I  can  make it work also.   Any help  on  either of  these
questions would be greatly appreciated.









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From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help needed: S3 / Alpha Server
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:55:36 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: jon@lucrece.robots

In article <1992Nov8.143435.22815@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
>tran@tran.Berkeley.EDU (Tran) writes:
>
>>I have been running SLS 0.98.pl1-40 on my Farenheit 1280 card using the
>>MONO server and would now like to try the Alpha S3 server from 
>>ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk.   I downloaded the source and binaries last night and 
>>installed it on my machine.  When I ran "startx", I got just a blue background
>>with no cursor or anything.  The mouse did not respond.  When I tried to 
>
>The S3 server can't handle compressed fonts. So you have to uncompress them
>all and update your fonts.dir files accordingly.
>

This is all in the README, the 0.1 server doesn't restore text mode the
blue screen is was you get. My development server gives you a screen of
green smilies when you return to text mode, sort last laught on me I guess.

I'll release the latest server this week, it will feature 4 times faster
pixmap transfers, ten times faster tiling and unless I can discover why
an exit screen of green smilies.

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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FIX: UUCP, !, bash and smail
Date: 14 Nov 92 00:22:04 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:

> In article <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpat
> 
> >Bash really pissed me off too --for the same reason. I think linux
> >should have a nondescript plain-jane bourne shell for system level
> >functions. Having to hack sources for os compatibility is one thing,
> >but having to do it for shells is pretty bizarre.
> 
> If you don't like csh-style history, start bash with the +H option, or
> use `set +H', or type `histchars='.  This is all documented in the man
> page, at least the one I wrote.  You could put it in /etc/profile, if
> you like it that little.

Ah! What I was hoping to have was the ability to have it change it's
mode by what name it was invoked as. So that if called as 'sh' it
wouldn't have the user-options like history, etc.

> >While I'm whining, is there any documentation available to fill the
> >gaping holes in the man pages?
> 
> Please be more specific about the `gaping holes'.  I have changed the
> manual page quite a bit since the 1.12 release; perhaps the updated
> version will satisfy you.

I had no idea that bash had a man page. I have the sls package and it
isn't a part of what I managed to get, I guess. By gaping holes, I was
speaking in terms of the many utilities that go with linux whose man
pages aren't a part of the bundled software. 

I meant no personal assaults. Until I read the recently posted article 
on bad block isolation, I had no clue as to what the options in fsck 
would do. It reacted differently than other fsck utilities I've used 
with bsd and sysv unii, and early xenix. Of course discovering that a
part of fsck didn't really work cleared up some of that confusion. (-:

Bash itself is fine, a good stable shell. It was just over-helping.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: Minicom emulation problems?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:04:41 GMT

>>>>> On 8 Nov 92 16:52:47 GMT, noah@astro.as.utexas.edu (Noah Smith) said:

NS> 	I have not been able to make any progress solving my remaining
NS> problems with Minicom and need advice from anyone with experience or an
NS> alternative to Minicom that will work.
[...]

If you have X11, I suggest you try Seyon (vailable from sunsite).
Seyon doesn't have any of the terminal emulation bugs that plagues
minicom. 


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