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From: jwaters@deepthought.unm.edu (Joe Waters)
Subject: Re: Good comm program?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:00:28 GMT
Organization: The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

In article <9207201343@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com> smp@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm) writes:

>   arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) writes:
>   : 
>   : If *SOMONE* could post a *GOOD* port of Minicom (One that works) we
>   : might just have a good Comms package..

>    Before I post . . .

>    I have Minicom working just great.  It only has ONE problem on my system.

>    For up/downloads, it opens a window to show status.  It's opening a pipe
>    to capture the output of the transfer command, and sending that to the
>    input of the window...

>    Are pipes buffered?  Because output to that window is only updated after
>    quite some stuff has flowed through, making it useless as a status box.

>    If this doesn't bother anyone, I'll put it up somewhere.

	Uhh, I uploaded a completely working version of minicom, along with a
port of the newest version of sz/rz (with zmodem recover, etc) to tsx-11.  It's
sitting in /incoming and should be up in a few days.  I guess I'll go throw a
copy up on banjo in /pun/Linux/Incoming as well after I catch up news.  Look
for it in a couple hours :-)

Joe
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mike@hectic.demon.co.uk (Mike Davies)
Subject: dosfs in 0.96pl2 ? 
Distribution: world
Organization: MMD
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:36:00 +0000


In article <1992Jul24.075245.28876@athena.mit.edu> steffen@gfz-potsdam.dbp.de writes:

> I tried to mount
> mount -t dosfs /dev/hda1 /dosc

Shouldn't it be :

mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dosc

??

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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Minor problems with Linux
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:56:22 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <711857605.F00038@remote.halcyon.com>, Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
| 
|  CM> Speaking of .profiles, what is the name of the ".login" that bash
| executes
|  CM> just before coming up?  I would like to set my PATH variable
|  CM> to inclue ".", but I haven't been able to stumble into the name of
| the 
|  CM> initialization script for bash (i've never seen any documemtation
| on bash
|  CM> anywhere!
| 
| Cathy,
| 
| It seems to vary from root disk to root disk.  Try ".bash_profile" on
| Jim Winstead's root, though you may have to change your shell name in
| /etc/passwd to "bash" instead of "sh".  On MCC, I'm not sure.

  What am I missing? The shell with both the mj and drs (sc.tamu.edu)
versions seem to like .profile just fine.
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From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems compiling 0.96cpl1
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:16:37 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

I'm having problems compiling 0.96cpl1...(surprise, surprise, surprise :-)
I applied the patches to the 0.96c source (which, with the help of a few
persons to whom I am truly grateful, I got to compile) using 
'patch </patch1' correctly, I think. However, patch kept saying "this
looks like a new style diff to me" and printed the lines leading up to
it (which included the file names) and forced me to patch them one-by-one.
(i.e.-entering the file names at the prompt; patch actually applied the
patches to the files.) It said "hunk at xxx succeeded", so I assumed that 
it worked properly after all.
(First off, is that how patch should work? If my problem is with patch
(I got it from tsx-11 last weekend, I believe, or else it's the version
which came on Jim Winstead's 0.96 root disk), how do I fix it?
When I do a make all I get the following errors:
	in tty_io.c, it says "structure has no member named 'f_rdev'"
	for the functions 'tty_read/write/open/release'
then it says
	make[2]: *** [tty_io.o] Error 1

in hd.c it gives several "undeclared" errors then says
	make[2]: *** [hd.o] Error 1

in inode.c in function 'iget' it says
	structure has no member named 'i_flags'
	structure has no member named 's_flags'
	make[1]: *** [inode.o] Error 1
and fonally
ld: No such file or directory for fs/fs.o
make: *** [tools/system] Error 1

Thanks for any and all help...

(Sorry for the typos, but my cursor has disappeared, and that makes errors
hard to correct...)

			James

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From: caxrudt@pkinbg.UUCP (Hr. Rudolf,EXTERN, )
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Does LINUX support TCP/IP?????
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:12:59 GMT

, and if not, is there any hope???

Thomas


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From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: shutdown problem
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:44:02 -0800

 >>I tried using the shutdown utility from the 0.96c root disk under
0.96cpl2
 >>and it gave me messages "cannot umount /dev//dev/hda3" and "cannot
 >>umount /dev//dev/hda2" or something to that effect. These are indeed
 >>mounted as / and /usr.

 > Looks like you're _not_ using mount/umount from the
 > 0.96 root
 > disk. With those tools and a proper /etc/fstab it will
 > work.

Well I have been waiting for someone to ask that question or for it to
show up in a FAQ, but it does that with RAWWRITEN copies of unaltered
0.96c boot and root on floppys on my system.

As well as from the way it is installed on my HD.

Anyone have the mount version and/or syntax to make it behave?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson)
Subject: Re: Registry of ongoing projects
Organization: System Support Group
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:35:25 GMT

mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons) writes:

> 
> 	IMHO, it might be best to have a section in the FAQ with a list of
> utilities and the person 'responcible' for them. This way people can have
> a way of knowing who to send bug-reports to, as well as a list of what's
> been ported.
> 

Hm... that would make the FAQ, already split into two parts, rather long. 
Maybe the list should be "Part 3" or issued as needed?

Rick


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From: Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with Alpha.5 DOSFS
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:35:52 -0800

>               ....I have mounted the file system using smount, with
all
>three modes (binary, text, auto) and all behave the same.  The
>extensions in question are .CFG, .BAT, .BTM and many more....
>
>HELP!  [grin]

 LCF> Unfortunitly the format of DOS and unix files is rather
different.
 LCF> DOS expects a carriage return and line feed at the end of the
line,
 LCF> and a CTRL-Z at the end of the file. Unix expects only a line
feed.

I understand.  That's what auto and text mode are designed to overcome. 
They allow you to access text files in such a way as to convert them to
Unix standard.

I discovered the problem, which was that I was passing the conv=auto
option to smount incorrectly.  It doesn't provide a lot of error
messages.

 LCF> Your best bet is to write to the author of joe
rcarter@wpi.wpi.edu
 LCF> and ask if he can ad a DOS mode to the editor.

That is unnecessary, now that I'm mounting in auto mode.  Text files
have those ^Z and ^C characters converted properly, now, assuming the
filename extension is proper for DOS.  The only remaining problem is
that joe returns errors reading the file--he notices that the number of
characters read is incorrect.  That's an expected artifact of the
conversion process.  It could be overcome in the fs, but I expect a lot
of work would be involved.... :-)

I'm not sure it's even especially necessary.

Rob




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From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Graphics library and mouse support in GCC ?
Keywords: Graphics GCC
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:53:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <bibhas.712287107@femto.engr.mun.ca> bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya) writes:
>I will be very much interested to know the graphics library and mouse
>support with GCC. What could be the equivalent of the QUICK C interrupt
>caller function int86() and others.
>Any info is most welcome.
>Thanks...
>Bibhas.

All the necassery functions to do graphics are implemented by GCC. For info
about graphics on linux hunt for vga* and MGR. vgalinux.tar.Z in banjo should
be a good start. There is NO equivalent of int86(). You can't access the BIOS
at all under linux.

Zeyd
From: smp@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Good comm program?
Date: 20 Jul 92 18:16:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: myamig2.9207201343
Organization: Proud Linux Site, Milwaukee WI
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) writes:
: 
: If *SOMONE* could post a *GOOD* port of Minicom (One that works) we
: might just have a good Comms package..

 Before I post . . .
 
 I have Minicom working just great.  It only has ONE problem on my system.
 
 For up/downloads, it opens a window to show status.  It's opening a pipe
 to capture the output of the transfer command, and sending that to the
 input of the window...
 
 Are pipes buffered?  Because output to that window is only updated after
 quite some stuff has flowed through, making it useless as a status box.
 
 If this doesn't bother anyone, I'll put it up somewhere.
From: gg@jet.uk (Gordon Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: GDB 4.6 where is reg.h ?
Summary: Installing GDB 4.6 fails - cannot find reg.h
Keywords: GDB mcc-interim reg.h
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:49:20 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus

Hello

I have recently installed the MCC-interim package including gcc.

I noticed the release of gdb4.6 now supports linux and decided to to
give gcc a workout. The installation of gdb looked easy so after
the command 'configure linux' which gave no errors. (the linux support
looks good !). I let rip with 'make'

This failed on the file bfd/trad-core.c with cannot find <machine/reg.h>
I commented this out to let make proceed but it failed again in
gdb/i386-xdep.c but this time the file was <sys/reg.h>.
a grep though the distribution kit also found "vx-share/reg.h" in 
gdb/remote-vx.c:

Questions:
  Which package should supply reg.h (linux, gcc or gdb) ?
  where should it reside <machine/ > (i don't have one of those),
  <sys/ >, elsewhere or both ?
  Where can I get a copy ?


Email replies please - news feed not too reliable in deepest Oxfordshire !



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Andrew Watts)
Subject: SoftWare.
Organization: University of Western Sydney
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:13:38 GMT

Two things, 

First: What X programs do others use for wordprocessing and the like? (I'm 
hoping someone will say something other than VI, and not TeX, perhaps some 
other suggestions?)

Second: (pretty trivial, but anyhow) I was trying to compile xhextris from
the contrib area of X11 ftp areas, well, it compiles fine, but (always a but
isnt there :) I get this error -

# xhex

Welcome, root...
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
 Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
 Value in failed request:  0x2
 Serial number of failed request:  4
 Current serial number in output stream:  5
#

Thats all the program reports as it exists, i was told that maybe using xset 
to set the 'fp' to the default would work, but.. I dont have xset. So Two 
questions, anyone else get Xhextris working, and does anyone have xset? 
(I have seen neither mentioned for Linux X11)

Thanks.

awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
From: kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ken Corey - Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Anyone using a Cyrix 387 clone out there?
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:25:22 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas

Supposedly, the Cyrix chips are getting Darned cheap... (not a claim, just
repeating a rumor...I'll have to check it out tomorrow)

Anyway, Can anyone say that cyrix chips do/do not work with linux?  It'd be
*great* to have one to help x along....(especially in xfig at ANY
magnification at all)

Speaking of which, I compiled it, making SIGBUS and SIGSEGV the same value. 
It seems to work for some of the provided examples, but most of them have
lines that run off the right hand of the screen, and the program blows up
with a SIGSEGV error.  Any ideas?

*shrug* Talk to you later.

-Ken


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From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Compiling OLVWM: the steps
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:26:32 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


the olvwm binary that's been posted at banjo (and tsx-11) for weeks
works FINE! i assume the recent todo in c.o.l. is just due to 
not making the needed changes in xinitrc (twm -> olvwm) and
in Xconfig (olvwm needs the 75dpi fonts, ie lucida)
From: rune@imada.ou.dk (Rune Larsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Is the gcc.2.12 compiler SLOW ??????
Summary: my gcc2.12 compiles much slower than djgcc for DOS and seems
Keywords: gcc djgcc slow
Date: 20 Jul 92 13:51:49 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark


Is there written something about performance of gcc.2.12 running under 
Linux?

I ask because I have tried to compare the Linux gcc compiler and the DOS
djgcc gnu compiler - I understand that they have the same origin -
and it seems that the gnu compiler is much faster !!

And if I use the tcsh 'time' comand  it seems that only 30% of the time
is used in CPU!  In comparison the gcc2.2.2 on a network running 
SUNOS 4.1.2 compiling the same program uses 60% in CPU !

My quistions is 'Is ther any thing to do about it ?'
                'Is gcc2.2.2 faster as gcc.2.12   ?'
                'Does it have anything to do with cash to do ?'

I'm running Linux root0.96a on 486 box with 8MB
and I have tried with and without swap_file -- no difference.
I'am running it from X11R5 twm.

Ideas? Suggestions?  Answers?


Rune Larsen
Odense University
Denmark

email rune@imada.ou.dk
From: chchen@stat.fsu.edu (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Why ZIP/UNZIP slower than DOS version?
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:09:21 GMT
Reply-To: chchen@stat.fsu.edu
Organization: The Internet

I am using the zip/unzip binaries from tsx-11(or banjo?). The zipping
/unzipping speed is far slower than the pkzip/pkunzip DOS version,
especially for large files (>= 100k). Anyone has the same problem?

BTW, a little warning. I used a shareware program called zipsplit
to split zip file made by Linux zip in DOS and when I wanted to
unzip the sub-zipped files in Linux, the unzip won't do it.

Steve Chen
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson)
Subject: Re: Splitting the comp.os.linux group
Organization: System Support Group
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:15:06 GMT

joef@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU () writes:

> 
> unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) writes:
> >wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
> >> andrew@rnivh.rni.sub.org (Andrew Wheadon) writes:
> >> >who sits on a machine in the USA and doesn't have to pay for suddenly
> >> Why is it necessary to have the persont to do the RFD and CFV to be in
> >> the US?
> >Chauvenism aside, beats me!  I suspect this was a well-meant comment from
> >someone who doesn't understand why there are a lot of .fi's and .FI's in
> >incoming mail here.  <grin>
> 
>    Oi! don't forget .au's either! :-)
> 

Or .sg's or .uk's or .de's or .ca's or...  Wonder where the .su's are?  <g>


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From: sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FLT_DIG, tabs, FPU, yacc
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:08:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

}} In article <1992Jul22.082501.20615@athena.mit.edu> J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk writes:
}} 
}} Couple of other queries.
}} 1. I hate a tab size of 8 in vi. I much prefer 4. How can I change
}} this. Is there a port of tabs* anywhere?

Depends on what you want.  If you just want them to appear as 4 space
tabs (and don't care how it's actually stored in the file), you can
set your tabstop to 4 spaces via

set ts=4

If you want to make tabs map to 4 spaces in input mode, it's

map! ^V^I ^V    <cr>

The ! means input mode, not command mode.  

This doesn't quite do what you might want in all cases, as it
literally expands the tab to 4 spaces.

Both examples are for your .exrc file.

}} :: Jon Jagger  asjrbj@oak.scp.ac.uk

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Subject: Re: ibug, Linux Bug Reporting program
Originator: btc30679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:57:13 GMT

welshm@snail.rtp.dg.com (Matt Welsh) writes:

> Note: Ibug is NOT a program for use with Linux, as Linux does not
> support mailing over the internet (yet). It's meant to be used on your
> "other" UNIX machine(s) to report bugs for the Linux project. Whenever
> Linux lets you mail onto the Internet, feel free to use it!

Gee, I dunno; I can send mail to "welshm@snail.ftp.dg.com" from my
Linux machine.  (And "linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi", too.  :^>)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Video7 VRam text modes
Keywords: Video7 VRam text
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:53:15 GMT

In article <l6ujs1INNajv@cash.cs.utexas.edu>, woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
> 
> If you have a Video7 VRam card and are unable to set
> the text modes at start up, mail me, I changed 
> setup.S, and now I can run Linux with 7 different
> text modes, yea!

Don't have people write to you, send you changes to Linus!
(Well, OK, ask him first.)  IF there is indeed a problem with ALL
Video-7 VRAM cards, then your fix will be greatly appreciated
by all, and should be a part of the regular distribution.
If not, then someone will let you know why it doesn't work for them B^).

> My first change to the kernel, and it only took me
> 12 tries, it's so nice to be reminded of that each
> time I start it up! :D
> 
> Seriously, I can't believe how easy it was to get my
> Video Card working correctly.

Yeah, using 286 assembler for the 386 startup.  Yay!  (I gotta
download the sources for as86 to find out what we're missing!)

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From: Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: DOS emulation
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 08:18:56 -0800

This message is directed at those folks working on DOS emulation.  How
is that stuff going?  I'd love to alpha test, but am not sure where the
materials are located....

Rob L.

P.S.  This is not an RFF.  [grin]


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mch@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Michael Hermann)
Subject: Re: Using 387, xload, and rzsz with Linux
Keywords: 387 xload linux rzsz zmodem
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:49:02 GMT

broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Bill Broadley) writes:

>The xload binary from tsx needs gcc.2.1 libraries, is a newer version 
>available?  I tried to compile it, and I got several unresolved externals.  
>I can compile the kernal so I assume most of my includes/libs are okay.

My fault. I intended to compile it -static but didn't upload
the correct file. Anyway, as it depends on the ps-database, it
is a candidate for recompilation anyway.

You can resolve the undeclared externals by linking noupdate.o
(from the ps-package, or the included version) to xload. It
definitely profits from the shared Xlibs, now xload consumes
about 30KB.

Michael