HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: james@wrs.com (James Moore)
Subject: Re: Etova slova ili eto slovo?
Reply-To: james@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:58:19 GMT

covdy@shemesh.metaphor.com (Ivan Covdy) writes:

>"Ja ne znaju etot chelovek/muzhchina" sounds
>absolutely incorrectly.  Don't ask me why it is this way, I don't know.
>It has nothing to do with "alive/dead" things.  For example, both
>"Ja ne znaju etu zhenshchinu" and "Ja ne znaju etoj zhenshchiny" 
>sounds correctly.

I thought that Russian made an animate/inanimate distinction in the 
accusative case only for masculine objects (so, in the accusative case,
masculine animate objects look exactly like genative case, whereas
feminine animate nouns use the normal accusative declinsion.)

(Ja izuchal russki jazik v universitete shest' let tomu nazad - ja
ne "expert"...)

-- 
James Moore                            /|\                        james@wrs.com
Wind River Systems                     \|/                  Alameda, California
	 "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half
			  didn't mean anything at all"
From: karl@hci.npl.co.uk (Karl London)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Linux and Process Waiting
Summary: wait Union Undefined
Keywords: wait union Linux
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:21:35 GMT
Reply-To: karl@hci.npl.co.uk
Organization: National Physical Laboratory


 Hi All,

  Has anyone had any experience with Linux 0.99pl2 and the wait3 call???

Well the problem is as follows...

void reaper(void)
{
   union wait stat;

   wait3(&stat,.....
}

Well when this is compiled GCC complains with an erorr of:
Size of stat unknown
Unused variable stat

Can anyone either tell me how to get 'wait' defined or what type stat needs to
be in this case!

Karl

P.S. Please email your response to me.. (If you are in the UK you may need to
send it to karl%hci.npl.co.uk@uknet.ac.uk - as we have only just registered our
domain)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
From: skipb@IMD.Sterling.COM (Skip Burrell)
Subject: Re: Tape Backup/Using modem as terminal
Keywords: Tape backup terminal modem
Organization: Sterling Software
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:17:32 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 3735514bf4a326e6ebb34cccf5d9bed7

In article <C1FBp4.3BB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> harryrow@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Root) writes:
>Ok, number 1: Does anyone know how to use the Colorado Memory Systems Tape      backup systems with the Linux system.  I have no idea how to start.
>

I'm looking for the same information. If you find out where a driver for CMS
Tape backups can be found, along with instructions on installing etc, let me
know too.

Thanks


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Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: harryrow@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Root)
Subject: Tape Backup/Using modem as terminal
Keywords: Tape backup terminal modem
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:05:26 GMT

Ok, number 1: Does anyone know how to use the Colorado Memory Systems Tape      backup systems with the Linux system.  I have no idea how to start.

Number 2: How can i hook up a modem as a terminal.  One way i want is so people
can call up and the system will pickup, and connect the modem as a terminal.  
Also I would like to be able to hook up a terminal connection to a modem that isalready off hook and connected (actually it is a DOV, and I have a little       program that uses the write command to use my account as a terminal, but it is
the same as having an already connected modem) 
                         Thanks very much in advance, any help appreciated!
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|   Hoosier  H""H__H  |  Science is nothing but     | rowehr@feserve.cc      |
|   Harry       H""H  |perception.-Plato | PRRC     | Physics Major, Purdue  |
From: dsnider@access.digex.com (Don Snider)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Linux and SLIP connection info
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:39:24 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
Summary: Need info about SLIP
Keywords: SLIP TCP/IP HELP

Is anyone out there using Linux with full time or near full time SLIP
connection? I'm interested in reliability as well as any hurdles that need
to be overcome setting up a SLIP with Linux. Thanks!
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: hoekstra@cs.utwente.nl (Aarnoud Hoekstra)
Subject: Reading MAC floppies
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:14:05 GMT

Dear Linuxers,

Is it possible to read from macintosh formatted floppies in Linux ? If
someone has done it, please let me know. I guess one has to update
the /etc/fdprm file and creating a new driver.

Please reply by e-mail or follow-up if more people are interested.

Aarnoud Hoekstra
---
Dept. of Computer Science (SETI)
University of Twente    
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
(hoekstra@cs.utwente.nl)


--- I'm happy I've seen Linux :-) ---
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
From: dirk@iastate.edu (John Case)
Subject: Re: Linux on Two Hard Drive System
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:40:12 GMT

In <1993Jan16.171453.19436@husc3.harvard.edu> eekim@husc11.harvard.edu (Eugene Kim) writes:

>Hi.  Is it possible to install the SLS version of Linux on the D drive (where
>C and D are two internal hard drives), and use LILO to boot off D?

>Please reply by e-mail.  Thanks.

  Same here. Any info would be much appreciated, and I'll send ya
doggy biscuits if you answer this question for me. Thankoo. *bows*

  dirk@iastate.edu

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Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: gthomas@fraser.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
Subject: Re: Tape Backup/Using modem as terminal
Keywords: Tape backup terminal modem
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:31:05 GMT

harryrow@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Root) writes:

>Ok, number 1: Does anyone know how to use the Colorado Memory Systems
>Tape backup systems with the Linux system.  I have no idea how to start.

Well, not yet.  There is work underway to write a driver for various
QIC-* tape backup units.  The most success has been in the area of 
SCSI tape drives, QIC-102 I think.  The QIC-40/80 that run off 
the floppy controler are going to fall next.  


Stay Tuned.
 gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
Subject: Re: passwd LINUX
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:25:31 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

fbrueng@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Frank Bruenger) writes:
: 1. Ich kann unter LINUX 0.97 die Passwoerter von anderen Usern als root
: nicht aendern. Die Nutzer sind mit useradd angelegt worden. Eintraege 
: in /etc/passwd und /etc/shadow und /etc/group sind erfolgt. Beim eiloggen als
: Nutzer erhalte ich auch die Nachricht, dass expire in 0 days ablaeuft.
: In login.def ist passmin schon geaendert worden.

If you're using shadow passwords, there is an entry in the /etc/shadow
file telling when the password expires (also when it can first be changed
etc.) Just try "man 4 shadow" (or "man 4.Z shadow") to see the man page
describing the shadow-file. 

: 2. Wie benutze ich setterm so, dass alle virtuellen Terminals z.B. farbigen Hintergrund haben? Im Moment schaltet immer nur das 1. um.

Have a look at the example files e.g. in SLS. To change the other ttys just
put s.th. like
/bin/setterm -blank 5 -foreground white -background blue -bold on \
	-ulcolor bright white -hbcolor red -store -clear >/dev/tty2
							^^^^^^^^^^^^
into your brc.local-file

Always READ the documentation!

Hank.
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From: hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)
Subject: Re: Priam RLL drive, other newbie questions
Reply-To: harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Norway
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:45:39 GMT

In article <21JAN199314304140@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, secsu@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ralph O. Clark) writes:
|> 
|> 1) From the very beginning (during bootup), the screen goes into some sort
|>   of high-resolution text mode that I can't seem to change.
There is a command, called "rdev", I think, that can write the display
mode to the floppy. It hasn't got a man page; try rdev -help.
|> 
|> 2) Does everyone's definition of "boot from hard disk" differ from mine?
Get LILO and install it. I booted from the hard disk 30 mins after starting
to think about the problem.
|> 
|> 3) The most disconcerting problem is with the hard drive.
I made 2 primary partitions of 62 and 62 Mbytes; that worked like a charm.
(Some finger trouble: ALWAYS create DOS partitions using DOS fdisk, and LINUX
partitions using LINUX fdisk, or you're in for it....)

No idea what the HD error messages mean.
|> 
|> 4) Now the real newbie stuff :).
|>   Is there any comm software available that does graphic terminal emulation?
|>   E.g. Tektronix or VT240/340.
xterm does a Tektronix something emulation.
|> 
|>   In addition, what is a good way to download software from a VAX/VMS system?
Check out Seyon. Haven't found a good protocol there yet, but haven't looked
either. MY kermit doesn't have the limit.

Good luck.

-- 
                   Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=delab;S=alvestrand;G=harald
+47 7 59 70 94
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: umdavi22@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
Subject: Running X remotely??
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:43:38 GMT

Hi Linuxers,
  I was wondering if it was possible for me to run X remotely off
one of the Universities Sparcs (via modem) and have the display
on my machine here at home?

  If it is, could someone please e-mail me instructions on what I
need to do (UNIX NEWBIE ALERT).

Configuration:
    386-DX40  4 Megs ram 
    5 meg swap
    55 Meg Linux partion
    2400 Baud Hayes comp. modem   (slow, but it works).


                                            Thanks in advance
                                            -- Corey Davis

-- 
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   //      //   //    fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks
  //      //    //    and stones."    --Albert Einstein
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Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: rothm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Michael Roth)
Subject: emacs under X / talk between users
Originator: rothm@hphalle6h.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:28:13 GMT


Hi Linuxers,
  
  i've got the following problem: emacs under X does not recognize my 
  arrow-keys. I KNOW, that there are some FAQ-hints for this problem,
  but this solutions don't seem to work.
  Working with C-p, C-n, C-f and C-b all the time is not very funny :-( 

  Annother question:
  Is there any 'talk'-software for Linux available? I need a program, which
  provides me a user2user-chat. 
  Is it possible to use 'telnet' for such chats? If so, could please someone
  tell me the options?

Thanks for any help reaching me.
    
Michael


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Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: skipb@cwis.unomaha.edu (Skip Burrell)
Subject: Re: Tape Backup/Using modem as terminal
Keywords: Tape backup terminal modem
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:08:19 GMT

gthomas@fraser.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas) writes:

>harryrow@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Root) writes:

>>Ok, number 1: Does anyone know how to use the Colorado Memory Systems
>>Tape backup systems with the Linux system.  I have no idea how to start.

>Well, not yet.  There is work underway to write a driver for various
>QIC-* tape backup units.  The most success has been in the area of 
>SCSI tape drives, QIC-102 I think.  The QIC-40/80 that run off 
>the floppy controler are going to fall next.  

Umm, I'm not really a hardware wiz. I know I have a CMS Jumbo 120
Tape-backup unit on my 386, I was unaware that it is a QIC-something. Where
is there information on which type of Tape Drive is what, so I know what to
watch for in the announcements?

Thanks


>Stay Tuned.
> gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca
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From: hoekstra@cs.utwente.nl (Aarnoud Hoekstra)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: connecting an extra terminal to Linux
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:38:18 GMT
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science

Hi Linux users :-),

Recently I saw a discussion about connecting a terminal to Linux. I have a terminal 
(ADDS) with an RS232 port and I want to connect it to Linux via my com2 port.

I have the following questions:

1) Can I use a NULL modem cable to connect both ports (that of my terminal and the com port) ?
2) How can I get Linux to work with that terminal, is there anything special I should take care
   of ?

Please e-mail me, or reply by follow-up.

---
Aarnoud Hoekstra

Dept. of Computer Science (SETI)
University of Twente    
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
(hoekstra@cs.utwente.nl)

--- I'm happy, I have Linux -- :-) --
From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
Subject: Botting Linux
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:13:45 GMT

I'm trying to boot Linux/SLS It works OK until the message appears :

Loobback device init
wd8013

and everything is frozen. Can someone wise help ? Thanks a lot.
BTW, is it possible to run X if I have 4MB RAM ?
Please e-mail
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: dwilliam@pizza.ess.harris.com (Dave Williams)
Subject: Re: Linux on PS/2 (MCA) machines?
Keywords: MCA PS/2 microchannel
Organization: Harris Corporation - ISD
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:09:14 GMT

In <gel.727534700@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> gel@sys.uea.ac.uk (Gareth Lee) writes:

>I notice from the Linux FAQ that it does not currently support IBMs MCA
>machines.  Does anyone know of any ports to kernel/device drivers to
>allow Linux to run on PS/2s?  Could any of you accomplished linuxers
>give me some feel for the problems that need to be overcome in such
>a port if I was to attempt it?

   Well, you'd probably have quite a few problems - one of which would
be IBM's unwillingness to tell you anything about the really low-level
grungy hardware stuff to make the microchannel go.  (Or you could wave
a few hundred thousand dollars under their noses to get them to supply
you with all sorts of good stuff...)

   Example - IBM's monster wierd disk controllers, which aren't anything
at all like the old interface for MFM/RLL/IDE controllers, which is what
the linux hd.c code likes to talk to.

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From: youngdah@nic (Ben Youngdahl)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Linux on 486-33E Gateway system
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:18:22 GMT
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.gac.edu


Hello,  

I currently own a Gateway 2000 486-33E system (E = EISA) and am interested in
using it as a unix platform.  My questions:

- does linux support SLIP?
- does it support any of the SVGA modes of the Diamond Stealth (S3) video
  card?
- has anyone set it up and succesfully run it on the Gateway 2000 system that
  I own?
  (I have the standard SCSI card and 340MB drive that came with this system
    when it was introduced).

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Ben
youngdah@nic.gac.edu

Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: harryrow@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Root)
Subject: starting X!
Keywords: starting X
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:51:26 GMT

Ok, I've loaded X-11 on an SLS system (but i had to remove the extended base    system)  Now when I type xinit it gives a BUNCH of errors, including server
error, can't open display.  Do i have to install it now, or what?  HELP!
                                      Thanks in advance.
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| the     H__H        |  A little experience often  | Harry R. Rowe  HHH<*>  |
|   Horny H""H__H     |upsets a lot of theory.Cadman| harryrow@sage.cc.purdue|
|   Hoosier  H""H__H  |  Science is nothing but     | rowehr@feserve.cc      |
|   Harry       H""H  |perception.-Plato | PRRC     | Physics Major, Purdue  |
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: castles@cs.scarolina.edu (Robert Castles)
Subject: Installing to IDE big probs.
Summary: Can't yet install
Keywords: IDE problem install
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: alt
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:06:03 GMT

     I am having some difficulty installing the base operating system.
I am installing to 102 meg IDE drive.  When I fdisk, I have tried one extended
partitition using sectors 1-1024.  When I do this, the doinstall complains about
not seeing the default (linux/minux?).  

     So, when I try fdisk and do a primary partition(1), fdisk complains about 
not being able to use 70000 blocks of the hard drive.  If I ignore this, and
continue installing,  I quickly run out of disk space(b3 or b4).

     Any idea what's going on?  

     Any idea how to install to a second IDE drive?
                                      Thanks,
                                                 Robert Castles.

    
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: lingy@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Dan Ling)
Subject: VESA LocalBus With EISA Motherboards? LocalBus Cards?
Summary: Motherboards, EISA, VESA, Cards, SCSI
Keywords: vesa, eisa, graphics, cards, motherboards
Reply-To: lingy@rpi.edu
Organization: Somewhere Special
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:49:45 GMT

Hi there,
        I am just wondering if anyone can tell me if there's any graphics
accelerator boards that will not work with Linux? How about VESA SCSI-2
adapters? I am thinking of purchasing a new computer and I need to know
what I can/cannot buy so that I do not get the wrong stuff and get burned
whatever I get, I am sure it will run in *cough choke* MSDOS, but then 
how about Linux? Does Linux work well with Localbus boards? Localbus
SCSI? IDE? Graphics? Cards...
All help is appreciated. And if there's an interest here, I will post
whatever replies I get thru emails. I would prefer all replies to be via emails
as my usenet link is not too stable.

Dan Ling

Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie)
Subject: Is Linux/SCSI safe?
Organization: Rockwell International
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:24:35 GMT


I've been just dying to install Linux on my home system (preferably using SLS).
My only hard drives are SCSI and, unfortunately, I've heard that some of the
recent Linux kernels don't get along too well with SCSI.  

My question is: is the current release of SLS (or vanilla Linux) SCSI ready?
I have an Adaptec 1542B controller (I don't think that the types of disk
drive matter, or I'd give those), if that helps.

Thanks a lot.
-- 
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wade@nb.rockwell.com             | say that, did you?)"
Me be not speaking for the Rock. |
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: fbrueng@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Frank Bruenger)
Subject: passwd LINUX
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:30:49 GMT

[ Article crossposted from fido.ger.linux ]
[ Author was Frank Bruenger ]
[ Posted on Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:17:38 GMT ]

1. Ich kann unter LINUX 0.97 die Passwoerter von anderen Usern als root
nicht aendern. Die Nutzer sind mit useradd angelegt worden. Eintraege 
in /etc/passwd und /etc/shadow und /etc/group sind erfolgt. Beim eiloggen als
Nutzer erhalte ich auch die Nachricht, dass expire in 0 days ablaeuft.
In login.def ist passmin schon geaendert worden.

2. Wie benutze ich setterm so, dass alle virtuellen Terminals z.B. farbigen Hintergrund haben? Im Moment schaltet immer nur das 1. um.
Frank


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From: hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)
Subject: Re: Linux and DOS from two different drives?
Reply-To: harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Norway
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:45:45 GMT

I haven't tried this. But check out the LILO documentation if you
want to avoid that boot floppy; I think this configuration was
mentioned specially.
-- 
                   Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=delab;S=alvestrand;G=harald
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