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From: iiitac@cybaswan.UUCP (Alan Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DOS emulation under PD unix..
Keywords: DrossEmulator
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:14:00 GMT
Organization: Swansea University Computer Society


If you've tried the old dos emulator, try the variant I've put on
sunacm.swan.ac.uk:/pub/misc/Linux.  This has a lot of fixes - like it
bothers to set all the carry flags. I can now run most DOS utilities
reliably. The only exceptions I've found are dir/p (as before), 
format (not supported, crashes anyway), and ansi.sys (a bug in my
int10 fixes).
I've add full (but with 2 bugs I know of) emulation of mono display int10,
as well as the vblank wait that most direct video drivers use, extended
int13 tided the others up and added the AT extended bios (int15) calls.

It now seems happy to run microemacs and several other dos apps I've tried
(including HHGTTG!).

Also on there is a fixed version of rogue which has the original patches
to rogue clone applied and a help page added.

If the dos stuff seems to work let me know and I'll submit it on to
the original author of the dos emulator for inclusion.

Alan
[anarchy@sunacm.swan.ac.uk | iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr]
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dshin@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (dongil shin)
Subject: Need info on ModeDb for NEC 3D with "640x480"
Originator: dshin@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 00:27:00 GMT


Hi! X-perts!


	I just finished install Linux on my 386. However, I can't 
see X windows on my screen and I think it's because the original 
modeDb is inadequate for NEC 3D. The follwing is my configuration.

	i386 33Mhz + 8M memory
	100M HD
	Paradise Video with 1M
	NEC 3D
	Linux 0.96 (I will patch 0.97 tomorrow)
	Xv1.1 (I am not dare to try Xv2.0 without successfuly installing v1.1)

	Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. 


Dongil Shin
Washington State University
dshin@eecs.wsu.wsu 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)
Subject: More newbie questions
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:31:01 GMT


	Thanks for the responses to my original post, now for some more
	questions.

	1: Tape drives:
	Does linux support Qic 36/02 standards (and what is the difference
						between them)

	In particular the Sankyo model ET150 (and controller)?

	2: Does linux have a c++ compiler? (g++ for instance?)

	3: Is there a FAQ list floating about so I don't have to
		bother everyone with silly questions...

Bill


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Pascal compiler needed 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:05:03 +0000


In article <1992Oct1.032131.25455@athena.mit.edu> tree@midget.towson.edu writes:

>
>
>alovellkerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:
>
>|Another solution would be to use p2c to convert the pascal
>|interpreter source.
...bits cut out
>
>  P2c works great and is really fun to use with the pascal.el mode
>  of gnu emacs. I'll try and get it to run p2c with the compile
>  command. And when I get time I will try to compile the pascal
>  interpreter. 
....more bits cut out
>
>|Denise why the change of major, got sick of Bio:)
>
>  How sweet... you remembered '\003' '\003' :-)
>  I've found I prefer virtual bugs to microscopic ones and I rather
>  enjoy the hackish folk. GPA preservation too... I was being a bio
>  major in my spare time!
>_____________________________________________________________________
>_______________ Denise Tree
>____________________________tree@midget.towson.edu
>_________________________________________.... . . .   .   .    .     .
>                                                                     .
>                                                                     .
>                                                                     *
>    
>
>
I always try to remember these little things makes any postings less
impersonal
Linux can get a bit addictive
I'm about to upgrade gcc to 2.2.2d with the new jump tables which files
off tsx-11 do I need
anthony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Subject: X screen comes up, but no window?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:05:36 GMT

Recently built and installed X last night.  Took about 3 hours watching it
compile on a 486dx33 with 16 megs.  INstalled the X.8514 server for the
ATI graphics Vantage and Ultra.  INitially I tried running it with the
inport mouse on the card and the cursor would not move.  Put a serial 
mouse made by kraft (a microsoft mouse clone) and got my cursor moving
.  But nothing seems to happed afterward.  No window pops up  or anything.
The buttons when pressed do not bring up the small pop up window for
shutting down, bringing up more xterms, etc either.  WHat do I need to
do to get X working right.  I really really need it.
From: Richard.Vanhouten@f38.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Richard Vanhouten)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Intro to Linux!
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:57:34 -0800

 LtbM> From: klaus%rel652.dnet@esu36.cfsat.honeywell.com (Let there be
MORE
 LtbM> light!) Reply-To: klaus%rel652.dnet@esu36.cfsat.honeywell.com
(Let
 LtbM> there be MORE light!) 
 LtbM> Ted T'so writes:
 LtbM> 
 LtbM> |One thing that might help is "Intro to Linux" document that
explains
 LtbM> how |linux development works, and has a section about how to deal
with
 LtbM> Linux |FTP sites for someone who wants to bring up Linux: Step 1:
Run,
 LtbM> don't |walk, to either the MCC Interim releases or the SLS
release;
 LtbM> IGNORE ALL |OTHER FILES.  Step 2: Use the distribution mechanism
to
 LtbM> install Linux on |your disk.  Step 3: If you want to be
adventuresome
 LtbM> and upgrade to a new |kernel, follow the following steps: .... 
Do we
 LtbM> have any volunteers to |write such a document?
 LtbM> 
 LtbM> I'll take this on.  I was thinking of something along the lines
of
 LtbM> this: 
 LtbM> Intro to Linux:  What is Linux and how do I try it out?
 LtbM> 
 LtbM> I - What is it: description of linux with brief comparisons to
BSD386,
 LtbM> Minix, etc. II - Linux development: how it's done (who are these
linux
 LtbM> activists, anyway?) III - How to get it if you're not a unix guru
(MCC,
 LtbM> SLS, basic root disk, et. al.) IV - How to upgrade: You don't
HAVE to
 LtbM> have the latest version of the kernel to see what it's like; or:
How
 LtbM> to have a working 'ps' ;-) V - Where to go from here: FAQ,
 LtbM> Linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, comp.os.linux, etc. 
 LtbM> It is not my intention to duplicate anything already out there; I
just
 LtbM> want to provide newcomers  with an initial pointer to the great
stuff
 LtbM> that's already out there and give them a 'feeling'  for the
linux
 LtbM> development environment. 
 LtbM> Comments/Suggestions are welcomed/requested!!!

How about a list of all the standard utilities included with the root
disk,
giving a brief description of what they do and the syntax to get them to
do
it?  I just installed 0.97pl0 (the latest that the local BBS has) and
bought
Using Unix published by Que, but there's a lot of commands that the root
has
and Using Unix doesn't cover.

 
... Nobody notices when things go right.
 * Origin: <<PRISM PDN HQ (914)344-0350 HST/DS 343-7540 HST
(1:272/38.0)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: Re: PROBLEMS COMPILING INGRES
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:10:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep28.110438.4214@athena.mit.edu> nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de writes:
>I recently downloaded the INGRES database package from tsx-11 but I have
>problems to compile it:
>	- in the directory ../iutil:
>		make calls 'sccs get insert_mbtree.c' but I haven't got
>		sccs and I haven't seen it yet on any file server.
>		There's just a file 'insert_mbtree.' but not in ascii
>		format.

Sorry about that! If you count hte chars you come up with 14. The object over-
wrote the source. I could swear I changed that :-(

>	- in the directory ../equel:
>		make calls 'yacc -d grammar.y'. As I haven't got yacc I
>		wrote a small shell script that calls bison with the
>		appropriate -y option. But bison says: '"grammar.y", line 115:
>		invalid input'. I'm not familiar with grammar files for
>		yacc and bison, so I can't see what bison dislikes.

I never had that problems but then I have byacc as well as bison. I'll check
into it.

>	- in order to link sysmonitor and sysmodfunc a library called
>	  'libinet' is needed which I haven't got -- where can I find it?

That happens with gcc222d. Just remove all -linet in the Makefiles.

>Anybody out there who has managed to compile the package? Help would be
>appreciated.
>
>Andreas Wacknitz
>Internet: nmp08@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de 

I'll u/l fixes within a couple of days. If you can't wait, do the follwing:
touch insert_mbtree.
use byacc
remove -linet's
in .../iutil/Makefile remove getservent.*'s

I suggest you wait till tommorow.


Zeyd


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape/drives on 2nd controller
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:05:04 GMT

In article <5ooZRB5w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>I currently boot and operate off of an MFM harddisk, but have 2 disks
>and an Archive Viper tape drive which runs off of an ST01 controller,
>which is a secondary controller.
>
>Under DOS, I load a driver in config.sys which recognizes the card, and 
>places the drives on the device list for dos to access. All works very 
>well in dos. 
>
>Is there a way to get linux to recognize these multiple units on the
>second controller, and allow them to be resources available to linux?

1.  Tape drives are not yet supported under the stock distribution of 
	Linux. 

2.  The disks on the second controller should be recognized if you 
	have the BIOS enabled on the Seagate board.  Note that 
	for the Seagate SCSI to work, you must

	- enable interrupts on IRQ5
	- have BIOS enabled or use the OVERIDE flag when 
	  compiling kernel/blk_drv/scsi/seagate.c. 

If you have  BIOS enabled on the SCSI board (The seagate driver 
uses a signature from the BIOS to find out where the memory 
mapped I/O ports are) and it is not being detected, please identify
a string that uniquely identifies your BIOS, send it, the length,
and offset from "base" (ie c8000), and your signature will be 
integrated into the distribution so that other people don't 
run into the same problem.




-- 
Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, 
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but 
marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
From: steffen@gfz-potsdam.dbp.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: headrest ? replacement ?
Date: 28 Sep 92 07:55:09 GMT
Reply-To: steffen@gfz-potsdam.dbp.de
Organization: The Internet

X-Mn-Key: SCSI

Hi Linuxers,

who knows what happened to headrest.woz.colorado.edu ? From my Sun, I can dig
its address (so there is no mis-spelling), but cannot ping, neither ftp...
Did that machine move with Drew ? Is it switched off at night (in Colorado) ?
Is it replaced my another one - what is its address ?

I _need_ the SCSI patches, really !

Thanks,
--
Steffen Grunewald | steffen@gfz-potsdam.dbp.de | Phone : (+49)331-310526
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A3, O-1561 Potsdam, Germany
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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler needed
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:25:59 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory

>>My change of major to COSC has produced an awful consequence....
>>I am required to take 2 (that's two!) semesters of Pascal.
>
>hi,
>i think something called p2c exists; a pascal to c translator.
>
>if someone has a working copy of this, could they please upload
>it to sunsite?

	If you are feeling a bit brave, there is a pre-alpha version of
GNU-Pascal available from kapi.hut.fi.  These are installed as patches
to the existing GCC compiler source tree.  The most recent version that I saw
was relative to GCC 2.1.

-Eric
-- 
Eric Youngdale
eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: balasub@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Balasubramanian)
Subject: FAQ X11 -- getting/starting X11v2.0 etc.
Originator: balasub@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:33:24 GMT


If you are getting X anew and need trident 8900, ati ver 5 or 6
or Xmono (800x600 monochrome on any vga?) get xfree86-1.0Ya.
You need to get fonts and man pages from x11v2.0

The directories are on tsx-11
pub/linux/packages/X11/private/xfree86-1.0Ya
pub/linux/packages/X11/private/x11v2.0
private is unreadable so cd blindly through it.

These are beta releases so you should know something
about X. For example the xbin and xlib directories
are changed to /usr/X386/bin and /usr/X386/lib/X11.

Installation amounts to cd /; tar -xvzf stuff
The files are split so untar with for example:
	cat xbin* | uncompress -c | tar -xvf -
And other things like putting the xterm entry in /etc/termcap
and updating ~/.profile and editing ~/Xconfig.
Support files to aid in this are in /doc /tst and xlib/etc.

You need /dev/console major=4 minor=0 else xterm wont accept input.

To start X if you dont have tcp/ip
with x11v2.0 use 
startx.notcp

with xfree86-1.0Ya if you dont have tcp/ip use
startx -- -pn
pn is for partial network.

Orest will make a public release of X11 when xfree86-1.1 is released
(mid to end October) ... maybe SLS will be out before then.

Discussion should be in the X11 channel. email me if you have
elementary questions.

krishna
From: si0_tb90020@debet.nhh.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Who will handle publicity for Linux 1.0? 
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:05:56 MET
Distribution: world
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics

In article <717819515snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
> In article <1992Sep29.084430.11868@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> weberj@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de writes:
> 
>    In article <BvAxpB.74G@ucunix.san.uc.edu> zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Humberto    Ortiz-Zuazaga) writes:
>    >advertizing BSD386 0.1 and Linux 0.96 together for $100.  I think the
>    >word is slowly getting out.
> 
>    So Linus put in many man-months for free and those people want
>    $100 just for copying?
> 
> No.  The key word is "advertizing".  It's very expensive.  People who
> do not have access to the online world depend on the print world.
> It's very expensive to send mashed flattened wood pulp all over.
> Guess who pays for it?  The people who don't realize that they can
> get lots of software for the cost of downloading it.
> 
> -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
> Potsdam, NY 13676          315-268-9201 FAX

Still 100$ is a lot of money to charge for advertizing and media.
As far as I have heard USL is going to charge 300$ for "Destiny" and
that is advertizing+coding+debugging+media+... you name it.

IBM is charging about the same for OS/2 including manuals and technical
support.

Terje Bergesen (Mr.)  : SI0_TB90020@debet.nhh.no

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: is RLL SOL? 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:38:48 +0000


In article <1992Oct1.120223.1109@aau.dk> psykseth@aau.dk writes:

>
>I have looked in the various INSTALL docs, and the FAQ (from July) and nary
>a peep about whether Linux can be installed on an RLL drive.
>There was a peep that MFM, ESDI and SCSI were possible, so perhaps by
>implcations RLL is out of the running.
>
>Anyway, I have this wonderful ST-238R which Linux 0.97.11 could not read
>(according to fdisk).  Am I doomed to live on floppies (or find a rich uncle)?
>
>[As a newcomer to Linux, I can only give my naive praise at how easy
>it was to install on the floppies and how exhilirating it was to
>watch it come up.  I am sure it has been said thousands of times
>before, and probably more elegantly, but I could also guess that the
>people who work on it don't get so tired of hearing it. (-: ]
>
>Cheers,
>  Seth
>
>
Your RLL drive should work ,you do have an AT drive controller ?

anthony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: umlippen@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Rick Lippens)
Subject: [Q]: BEST solution to Partitioning Large DOS Drive
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Originator: umlippen@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Summary: [Q]: BEST Solution to Partitioning 180MB DOS/Linux Drive
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:12:05 GMT
X-Posted-From: ccu.umanitoba.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I've been reading this group, the FAQ's on the site, and wherever
else on Linux and am ready to install it on my hard disk.  I am
familiar with DOS and UNIX, but not with partitions and boot sectors,etc.
Is there an EASY to use program with a fairly comprehensible set of 
instructions available?  I would like to do the following:

Partition my 180MB Hard Disk into 80MB LINUX, and 100MB DOS.

I understand that MKFS only allows for up to 55MB on a partition...
does that mean I need to further partition my 80MB LINUX into smaller
partitions?  

Also, it would be nice if I could boot up and choose either DOS or 
LINUX.  I'm really searching for the simplest yet best solution without
having to experiment and re-install new partitions every time something
does not work out.  Has anyone had successful experience without any
difficulties on an easy-to-use program?

I presume that OS/2's Boot Manager may be of assistance as well.
I'm lost, and need help!

Rick
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pdcawley@cix.compulink.co.uk (Piers Cawley)
Subject: How do I get the digest?
Reply-To: pdcawley@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 19:50:00 +0000


Well, the subject line says it all. I know it's probably an FAQ, but
I haven't seen the FAQlist for ages and I've lost my copy.

-----
Piers
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Piers Cawley                  |                                      |
| pdcawley@cix.compulink.co.uk  |              THIS SPACE              |
+-------------------------------+                TO LET                |
| #include <pithy.statement     |                                      |
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:11:11 EDT
From: Mike Tierney <MBT3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How to: ttys3 w/ IRQ 5??

Hi all,
     I have a modem on /dev/ttys3 (or COM3, depending on how you like to
look at it), set to use IRQ 5.  I've had consistent trouble trying to get
it recognized under Linux.  Linux .97p6 detected ttys3, however, it set the
port as IRQ 4.  Linux .98 does not detect ttys3 at all.  Is there any way
short of recompiling the kernel to "force" Linux to detect my modem?  If
recompiling is the way to go, what switches need to be set?
     Thanks for any help you can give,
                                   -Mike

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mbt3@vm.psu.edu  it is by for the most humane form of contradiction,
mbt@ecl.psu.edu  and in the midst of effeminacy, one of our foremost
mbt@eclu.psu.edu virtues." - Nietzsche
From: kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation under PD unix..
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:24:27 GMT

In <1992Sep25.114638.29604@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
[asks about running Windows under Linux]
>But what should that be good for? Linux already has a multitasking
>facility which is *much more* efficient than everything under Windows
>(or similar DOS extensions). The reason to run DOS applications under
>an emulator on a Unix-type system is to keep some programs running
>that have no equivalent under Unix. But most applications surely can
>be replaced by (at least sometimes) more efficient Unix versions. As
>graphics is involved: Linux runs X11, which for the graphics and UI
>features can equally replace MS Windows. Usually a DOS emulation is
>needed to run one or two application which still can not be replaced
>(dviscr from emTeX comes to my mind...)

Personally, my question would be "why would you want to run a
non-Windows MS-DOS application".  Other than a few games, I tend to do
all my work under Windows.  As far as I know, there's still no way
under XWindows to do much in the way of outline fonts, and certainly
no equivalent of MSWord for Windows.  (Don't tell me to use TeX.  I
want to create cool newsletters and suchlike, not learn another
obscure macro language whose output leaves much to be desired anyway.)

XWindows doesn't support Truetype fonts, of which I have 300 or so.  I
could feasibly convert them to Postscript, but there's still no way to
use them flexibly in my documents (or in XWindows applications).  X11
is cool, but it's not NeXTStep (or even MacOS or Windows). 

As far as I know, there's no decent consumer-level design/drawing
program for XWindows, and certainly not for Linux.  There's no
programming environment that approaches the sheer niceness of Borland
WinC++.  And while XV does an admirable job, there are some things I
can do in WinGif that I'd have to try and port pbm/ppm to Linux in
order to do. 

So, I don't think I'd bother emulating DOS under Linux for the same
reason I haven't done so on my Amiga: running MSWindows is not a
realistic option.  Maybe one of the other Unix variants which claim to
support Windows apps, but I'll believe that when I see it, too. 

Rob
From: ablakey@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Antony Blakey Recall Design)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Assorted questions
Keywords: x11v2.0 compress make
Date: 4 Oct 92 07:58:13 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au

Hi,
   I have just started using linux and have a few questions:

Several install scripts (lib41 etc) apply zcat to a .TZ file, yet on my version of linux (0.97.1 root, 0.98 kernel) compress complains about the file not being in '.Z' form.  Am i missing a better version of compress ?

When I compile using g++ and refer to cout, the linker says it can't find cout
or operator<<(...etc) Am I missing some library, or some linker switch? g++ -v
shows -lg++ -lgcc.  I have 2.2.2d7 and 4.1.

Finally, where can i find make and x11v2.0.  I can't seem to find them on tsx-11
anywhere.  I want x11v2.0 because I have a Trident 8900.

Thanks in advance

Tony Blakey,
Boxes Objects Links Design P/L