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From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
Subject: Free Software Workshop, Moscow, 4/19-23
Keywords: conference announcement
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:43:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

[ Moderator's note: They might be interested in somebody giving a talk
  about Linux.  Volunteers?  --Lasu ]

	     CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

   There is a conference on Free Software taking place in Moscow,
Russia, April 19-23, 1993.

   The conference is hosted by SUUG, the Society of Unix User Groups
(formerly the Soviet Unix Users Group), the Russian Center for Systems
Programming, the Russian Chapter of the Free Software Foundation, and
the International Center for Scientific and Technical Information.

   Participant specialists are coming from North America, Europe and
Japan.  We have just learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the
Free Software Foundation, and recipient of the ACM Admiral Grace
Hopper Award and MacArthur Fellowship, will attend.

   The main topics of the Workshop include:
   - the current state of the GNU project and other FSF projects;
   - "free" software means information freedom and sharing;
   - free software portability in Open Systems environments;
   - user experiences with free software;
   - free software in education and training;
   - legal aspects of free software;
   - relevance of free software to NIS modernization and democracy;
   - how NIS scientists can contribute to free software.

   Concurrent with the conference, there will be a small exhibition
demonstrating free software in a networked heterogeneous environment.

   The conference encourages submissions of original designs, papers
and ideas, and it welcomes the participation of computer and software
companies.

   In the past, a conference of this kind has drawn 120-140 attendees
from within the former Soviet Union, including 20-30 computer
specialists, 60-80 enthusiasts, 20-30 persons from the commercial
sector and members of the public.  This year the turnout is expected
to be larger, because there is great interest in free software among
all kinds of programmers and users.

   The precise location of the conference will be announced in the
coming months.

   For further information, you may contact any of the following
members of the program committee:

Name                        Telephone            E-mail
--------------------------  -----------------    ----------------------
Moscow
  Sergei Kuznetsov (Chair)  +7 (095) 272-4425    kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su
  Peter Brusilovski         +7 (095) 198-7055    plb@plb.icsti.su
  Dmitry Volodin            +7 (095) 231-2129    dvv@hq.demos.su
Boston
  Geoffrey S. Knauth        +1 (617) 891-5555    gsk@marble.com

   Please send proposals for participation, paper abstracts and texts
via e-mail to the Chair <kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su>.

-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.                Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555                             Standard Disclaimers
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From: tmcwill@holonet.net (Thomas McWilliams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
Subject: ATP QWK 1.40 mail/news reader
Keywords: off-line reader, qwk, atp 1.40
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:43:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: University of Helsinki

ATP 1.40 is a mail/news reader for QWK format mail-packets. This format
is the de dacto standard mail/news format for public access BBS. ATP 1.40
can be found as LINUX binary and source at the following ftp locations: 

       sunsite.unc.edu
       halcyon.com
       zeus.ieee.org
       tsx-11.mit.edu

The following BBS also have copies of ATP 1.40:
         
       When Gravity Fails BBS  (202) 686-9086
       MAC's Place BBS         (919) 891-1111
       Prism BBS 1:272/38      (914) 344-0350
       Lunatic Fringe BBS      (214) 422-2936
       Brodmann's Place        (301) 843-5732

This version provides considerable enhancement over earlier versions     
and a general clean-up of the code. It should compile without error 
on systems supporting ANSI/POSIX standard C.  No oddball calls are 
used. K&R is NOT supported. ATP is distributed under the terms of 
the Free Software Foundation GNU General Public License. In other 
words, it is copyrighted but freely distributable under conditions 
contained in the GPL. ATP is derived from an earlier work of Rene
Cougnenc (AzerTyuioP), but greatly enhanced. Users of earlier 
versions of ATP for Linux should try to upgrade to this version. 
ATP supports both French language and English language.

New Features Include:

* message size of up to 150,000 bytes (about 2500 to 3000 lines).

* 8192 conferences (fully compatible with older mail doors).

* dynamic memory management.

* Emacs style command-line editing with command history (Salz/Tumlee
  editline library)

* separate conference for replies.

* re-edit, kill, or change security on replies.

* export replies ONLY when you want to.

* greatly expanded tagline manager.

* no limits on number of taglines.

* direct, random, or automatic tagline selection.

* support for external spelling checkers

* text search conferences and headers for strings.

* ANSI/POSIX compliance with full function prototyping 

* load multiple packets for reading at one time (ATP is a database
  type reader).

* support for 7bit, latin1, and msdos character sets.
  
* DOS versions in both 16 bit mode and 32 bit protected mode.

If you have further questions, I may be reached at tmcwill@ukelele.gcr.com
or at thomas.mcwilliams@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org  

Thanks to Cougnenc, Salz, Tumlee, and others who provided the code for me
to build upon. 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
From: Krishna Balasubramanian <balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: System V IPC : beta release available.
Keywords: sysv ipc, beta, messages, semaphores, shared memory, linux-0.99
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:12:55 GMT

A beta version of sysv ipc is now available. Messages, semaphores and shared 
memory are implemented. It was tested with linux-0.99 but should work with 
linux-0.98p4. The patches are relative to 0.99.

FILES:
You can get ipcbeta.tar.Z from tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux/patches/ or
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux/Incoming/. 
Untar ipcbeta.tar.Z to get a directory ipc. There is a README file in 
ipc/ that describes installation. The subdirectory ipc/test contains 
user programs and documentation.

COPYING:
The files are distributed under the GNU copyleft. There's a copy in the 
file ...src/linux/COPYING with the linux distribution.

Send any comments/suggestions/questions to me at balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu

krishna
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
From: turnbull@ces.cwru.edu (John Turnbull)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: settime sources and binaries.
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: settime, sources, binaries, modem, atomic clock
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:33:21 GMT

I have uploaded settime.tar.Z to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming. This
includes source, binary and a manpage for settime. This will dial up the
NIST atomic clock in Boulder and set the system time from it if run as
the superuser, otherwise it just displays the time. The binary is configured
to use /dev/ttys0 as the default. The binaries were compiled with Jump
tables, and tested with libc.so.4.2.

John


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: upload of dmalloc.taz to tsx-11.mit.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: debug malloc library
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:35:03 GMT

[ Moderator's note: This was posted to c.o.l, but I repost it in
  c.o.l.a since it seems to be important.  --Lasu ]

holerbch@phoenix.princeton.edu (Uwe Hollerbach) writes:

>I have uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu source code and a compiled library
>of the debugging malloc package submitted to comp.sources.unix by
>Conor Cahill about 1.5 years ago. It's called 'dmalloc.taz', and it

Just a note.  This version of dbmalloc is very old.  The current version
was posted to comp.sources.misc in Sept and is much, much better than
the original (faster, more options, leak detection, better docs, better
portability, bug fixes, etc, etc).  If possible, you should obtain and use
that version.


-- 
*** SENTINEL(tm) The ultimate Debugging Environment - email for more info ***

Conor P. Cahill              (703)430-9247            cpcahil@virtech.vti.com
Virtual Technologies, Inc.  46030 Manekin Plaza          Dulles, VA 20166 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 3c509 Driver Required. 
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:31:15 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <BzpynG.L7H@doc.trent.ac.uk> jmh@doc.trent.ac.uk writes:

           I'm using a 3Com 3c509 Ethernet card and I seem unable to locate a
   driver. Is such a driver available? In the SLS release that I have there only
   seems to be support for a Western Digital card. Any help would be greatly
   appreciated.

I'm working on it...

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
Crynwr Software           Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.              315-268-1925 Voice  |  LPF member - ask me about
Potsdam, NY 13676         315-268-9201 FAX    |  the harm software patents do.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GCC and reliability
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:00:22 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <C06vMC.Bts@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
>In article <1i1m4eINN9gu@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>>
>>In article <C026pE.Cus@mach1.wlu.ca> kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin
>>fisher U) writes:
>>>
>>> Ok, after reading a number of posts, and experiencing my own
>>> frustrations with GCC, I have this question:  is GCC stable enough to
>>> use for "serious" (TM) programming, or learing something, like C++?
>>
>>GCC 2 is considered to be in beta test.  If you find bugs, you are
>>welcome to send bug reports to `bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu' or
>>`bug-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu', but whining about it is unlikely to
>>accomplish anything.
>
>I was under the impression that commercial vendors use gcc as a
>standard by which to base their own product (excluding AT&T updates
>to standard, of course).  Is this wrong?

The standard for C is the ANSI spec.

The standard for C++ is AT&T CFRONT.

Amiga UNIX, Dell UNIX, and NeXTStep all use GCC as their main OS compiler,
and as the main C compiler that they ship.  All three companies have done
extensive modifications to GCC for their own purposes.  Thay all use the
pre-2.x source base for GCC.

-- 

Rick Kelly    rmkhome!rmk@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ps in linux .99p1 broken?
Date: 25 Dec 1992 23:24:25 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir) writes:

>Same at me, ps,fstat and top dos'nt work with 99p1. Do you have tried the
>posted fstat.diff.tar.Z ? I will do tomarrow ! ;-)

>- Amir

Ps, top, and free will work if you fo a ps -U against the unstripped kernel
which is stored in /usr/src/linxu/tools/system.

The fstat patch works, and allow fstat and fuser to work again.. Thats the
only file it patched.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:18:21 GMT

tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie) writes:

>I can do this too... with the SLS sysinstall. List packages installed:
>'ls /install/installed'. I can remove packages (yes Peter, I for one have
>used the -remove option to sysinstall). So what is the problem? 
>No spiffy user interface perhaps???

	I've used the -remove optoin too...on tcpip...bad move :(  It
wiped out the mount/umount commands too :(

>IMHO, the only thing lacking in the SLS sysinstall is some way of getting
>descriptions of the packages (like the Ultrix setld(8) command although this
>too is by no means perfect... but that's another story). Also, better
>"version control" would be nice, so if a package (or subset which is probably
>a better term) was changed then the name (or something) changed (e.g.
>man2-000 man2-001 although this is a problem with the stupid MS-DOS
>limitations [on packages like dviljsrc or ghostscr what do you do?]).

	Wait!!  We are in Unix here...not MS-DOS.  Why would anyone,
considering that everyone who is using the extfs says that they haven't
had any problems, use a minix file system with the stupid MS-DOS
limitations??  If you want those kinds of limitations, why not get
FSUUCP and stick to DOS?  I'm quite confused :(

Marc
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with Trident-VGA 9000 and X-Windows
Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:34:01 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

S_BIRKENMAI@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Birkenmaier Rainer) writes:

>Hello everyone!!!

>I've got a 486/33 Mhz with 8MB Ram and Trident 9000-VGA-Card (with 512 kB).
>I didn't manage yet to configure X-Windows correctly (in Linux 0.98).Only
>the the PVGA1 driver brought some unreadable pixels to my monitor.

>Can anyone help me or tell me where to get TVGA-drivers from?
>Please post or send e-Mail.

>Thank's a lot

>Rainer Birkenmaier 

Last I heard, the 9000 chipset won't work correctly with the current version
of Xfree86. But good news is, is that it's being worked on from what I hear.

You might try bringing up X in 640x480 with the 25 clock settings. This mode
should come up for anyone. Also, specify in Xconfig that your chipset is 
tvga by adding the following line after the vga256 module.

chipset	tvga

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: pcnfsd FTP site address (number address ?)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:16:52 GMT

Can someone please give me the site name for the pcnfsd sources
I need a *number* address, 'cause my uni didn't know about the namne
address, whatever it was...


Ta heeps !

Cos !


  
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Andrew J. Cosgriff ! *                   #include <std_witty_quote.h>
#define HERE cc.monash.edu.au               #include <std_disclaimer.h>
Hassle me at :      andrewc@aurora.HERE ; andrewc@lindblat.HERE ; cos@yoyo.HERE
From:  (Michael Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 3 button mice
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:04:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: GTE Laboratories

Does anyone have any information on 3 button mice under Linux? I have a 3
button 'Alien' mouse that supports MicroSoft and PC (has a switch on the
mouse's belly). However, I can't find anything to check if the middle
button works. When I run the 'mouse' utility in /usr/X386/lib/X11/tst/mouse
withe the MS option only 2 buttons work. Are there generic Linux or DOS
testing programs to see if my mouse's middle button even works? 

I looked through the X, XFree86 and Linux FAQ lists. Perhaps the answer to
this should be added!

thanks,
michael 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: help wanted -- driver for parallel port tape drive
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:18:37 GMT

Hello netters!

Just wonder if there is any driver for parallel port tape drive available?

I have a Jumbo Trakker Tape Backup drive from Colorado Memory System
working fine for my DOS partitions.  And I would like to use that device
to backup my Linux stuff.   Many thanks in advance!

Harry

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Permission denied! for 0.98pl5
From: mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mark Hiro           Norman         )
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:22:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1992Dec18.202921.132@athena.mit.edu> kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (Alex Kambis) writes:

>Fello linuxers,
>	I'm sure someone else out there has run into this problem.
>when I try to g++ or ps or possibly a few other things from my user 
>account, I get "Permission denied" msgs.  I can login, edit code,
>and run gcc, though. I've only had linux installed for 2 days now
>& except for these minor prob.'s it is great! Thanks to all who made
>it possible for us regular folks to have real unix at home!
>Also, thanks in advance for any help with my problem.

As a newbie myself I can't really offer you too much help, but...

As the root account you can try to chmod g++ to be readable by o)thers.
I had exactly the same problem with gcc/g++ - could run one but not the other,
until I set the read permissions.

Hope it works. I'm still trying to figure out how ti get mail to work with
seg faults for a non-root account! without getting a new news program that is.

Merry Xmas
Mark.
From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dead Keyboard and 0.99
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:15:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:

>Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can get a working 0.99 kernel
>mine boots ok but the keyboards dead ,I added the inode fixes

Since you added fixes I assume you compiled it yourself ;-)
In the toplevel Makefile comment out the SVA_MODE so that it
asks which textmode you want. Recompile. This should fix it.
It did for me. 

Niels
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Boot & backup?
Date: 31 Dec 92 12:00:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

I've just gotten Linux running here, but I'd like to get it booting from
the hard disk.  I've tinkered with LILO, but I can't seem to get past
first base, perhaps someone could lay down the steps for me.  The system
is a 386DX-20 with 8mb RAM, 100mb IDE drive dedicated to Linux.  I have
created a Minux root partition, and an extended file system partition,
both seem to work fine.  X-Windows is running fine after wrestling with
the clock parameters.  I'm new to Unix, but I've got lots of MS-DOS
and mainframe miles. :-)

On another topic, I'm busy making modifications to this disk, but I really
don't have any way of backing it up, what facilities are available for
backup?  I have a Wangtek 5150 with a QIC-02 adapter, is that a supported
device?  I'd eventually like to move Linux over to a 486DX-25 with a SCSI
drive if I can get it running here.
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . When the mind is ready, a teacher appears. - Zen
                                                                                             
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: after compiling kernel...then what?
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:14:57 GMT

Hi...

	I just successfully recompiled the kernel in Linux :)

	Now what do I do with it?  It just leaves it in /usr/src/linux.
I copied it over /Image...is that right?

	The README file seems to leave out that point...unless I missed
it somewhere :)

Thanks...

marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: List of Broken Bins under 0.99 [v1.2]
Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:14:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.120724.535@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
>
> 
>Below is an un-official list of programs which break under 0.99 (or 0.98.6)
>and the method to get them running again.  I felt there was a great need
>for such a thing.
>
>           Any Changes/Suggestions/Fixes, tfoley@camaro.uucp
>
>
>     NOTE: ENSURE YOU GET THE NEW LIBC 4.2 FILE FROM YOUR LOCAL SITE
>
>To Upgrade to 4.2:
>
>  Make sure you don't remove the sym-link to 4.0 or the old 4.1, unless
>you have a boot diskette.  The easiest method that I have found is use
>either HLU's bootdisk or Disks 1 and 2 of the SLS series, reboot your
>machine using either combination and exit from the SLS install, then
>manually mount your partition with /lib on it.  Then just kill the link
>and relink using 4.2, reboot and voila...4.2
>
>
	Even easier...'ln -fs libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4', then you don't even
have to powerdown the system. (trust me...I did it *smile*)

Marcc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: uchrist@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Udo Christ)
Subject: [Q] gethostbyname & named (longer)
Keywords: TCP-IP
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:59:42 GMT

Hi all,
	i ran down into a few problems when compiling the plp sources
( nice printer spooler anyway ) last weekend.

The problem is :
	1) When i start up /usr/lib/lpd ( the daemon is configured correct )
		it takes about 1 min to come up right.

	2) Everytime i start a printer job with lpr it takes ~1 min too.
	   ( even when i just use lpc to examine the queue )

 I tracked the problem down to a call to the gethostbyname() function, which
 takes a little over 1 min to complete. I wrote a little C Program, which
 does nothing, but a call to gethostbyname, and timed it :

	real	1:15.0
	user	0.0
	sys	0.0
 
  Anyone had the same problems ?? 

 I've compiled the kernel with full support on everything :-)
 and also tried to get a named running, but with little to no success.

 ( can be read as : named comes up, reads the conf-files with no
		    errors, but a nslookup or nsquery returns
		    no name server for the root domain )


 Has anyone a running named configured correctly with all the related
 configuration files ( email me ), or, even better, there must be
 a way to tell gethostbyname to return immediatly if no name-server is 
 running. ( This makes a little more sense to me, since i'm using my
 Linux Box as a stand-alone-not-connected-to-network-machine ).

 I know that there must be files, which tell gethostbyname not to wait
 for a name-server timeout, but don't know the names and the contents.

 Even the TCP-IP FAQ doesn't stat such things.

And BTW: The section about the named configuration files in the FAQ took
	 some time to understand. ( The file named.boot is referenced at
	 least two times with different contents ).
	

   Could someone fill me up on the above problems, please ??


			Thanx in  advance, Udo

		uchrist@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IRC and c.o.l. traffic
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 21:04:12 +0100
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
NNTP-Posting-Host: messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

In article <ARL.92Dec24183351@deathstar.cs.hut.fi>, arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke) writes:
> 	I'm also available ;-) on IRC - if you have any questions ...

> 	"/whois arl"

I use IRC as well and be sure to find me together with Twiggs in
#ourhome if I am online.

Michael "root"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux