HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Thomas Dunbar <tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: Epoch 4.2/viewer/ctl-arrow
Reply-To: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:27:42 GMT

 
 I compiled Epoch 4.2 (with gcc 2.2.2d7 on a Linux system) and it works fine
until i 
  (setq-default ctl-arrow 'eightbitfull) to enable \202, etc (for use
with Marlet's viewer (wysiwyg TeX package for Epoch or Lucid).
 then i dump core when i backspace over a \202.  works fine for higher
eight bit chars (\240 and up).
  can anyone suggest a fix/replacement for the ctl-arrow stuff ??
    thomas (tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu)

ps: the ctl-arrow isnt needed for \240 and above, but i need 
\202 for TeX's \beta, etc.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: 0.98pl6 Kernel Question?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:25:29 GMT

ssb1pzp@access.digex.com (Phil Perucci) writes:

>Hello fellow kernel makers!

>  Questions: 1) With 0.98pl6 and LILO 0.6 (can't get 0.7 to compile),
>                should I use the US keyboard in Makefile if I am 
>                resident of USA.  I know this sounds stupid, but with
>                "vmlinux" kernel I got with GCC, emacs arrow keys work.
>                With mine, they don't.
Well, yes anyway, but there was some sort of bug recently
(can't remember whether it was p5 or p6) that stopped the arrow keys working
in vi (possibly emacs, but I'm sure mine worked...)

>             2) Again, 0.98pl6 and LILO 0.6;  I have tried every
>                combination I can think of in Makefile with SVGA...
>                variable.  Still I get weird 132 column text mode
>                on my paradise VGA card.  More frustrating still,
>                I can't get my image to prompt for video type when
>                booting.  I tried commenting out the variable to
>                no avail...
Lilo 0.6 stuffs this up, so i'm told (didn't stuff MINE up but I'm just
lucky it seems...), so you'll have to try harder with 0.7...
(I still haven't grabbed it yet)

Enjoy !

Cos !
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From: jimc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (James Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Serial IRQ polling
Date: 16 Dec 1992 03:26:54 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

In article <ADAMS.92Dec16013812@PDV2.pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de> adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) writes:
>There is no reasonable way to poll a device in a multi user or
>realtime environment. Attaching to a timer
>will lead to a desastrous performance loss, and hooking the
>CPU will disable multitasking.

It is interesting that Coherent could do this with no problem. There was a
small decrease in speed but who cared... it ran unbelivably slow anyway.

>If there would be enough interest, it would be neither too hard nor
>too expensive to throw an expansion card together, handling 2-4 serial
>ports without any intervention of CPU.....

That sounds rather nice.

	-Jim Carpenter
	 CARPENTER@Eisner.DECUS.Org
	 jimc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Wanted: help getting FAQ
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:05:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.160349.1@happy.colorado.edu> srheintze@happy.colorado.edu writes:
>Someone from another news group told me about the FAQ for Linux.  I've never
>used ftp before but, armed with my "Zen and the Art of the Internet" I gave it
>a try...

Hi. I tried responding to this over e-mail, but 'happy.colorado.edu'
was not a valid site. Not from here, anyway. :)

Since your 'dir' and ls commands don't work in the transcript
you gave, why do you expect the FAQ to even be there or be transmitted
correctly? Just grab it from sunsite.unc.edu, directory /pub/Linux/docs.
(I'm acting as Jon's walking talking file finding service at the moment...).

Hope this helps.

mdw

NEW USERS: WHERE TO GET THE LINUX FAQ (please read)

In response to the numerous postings that continually ask questions covered
in the FAQ for this group, I'm going to post this article to reiterate where
new readers and users of Linux can find the FAQ. I will post it for a while.
It suppliments the Meta-FAQ. :)

PLEASE: EVERYONE read the FAQ for this group before posting questions. Many 
people (myself included) worked hard to produce the FAQ to accurately answer 
all of your questions. The new version of the FAQ (with many updates, 
clarifications, etc.) will only come out every month! So you won't see it 
posted that often. In the meantime you'll have to get it in one of the
following ways:

1)  ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu. It's the file /pub/linux/FAQ. It's one big
    ASCII file (about 150k). 
or  ftp to sunsite.unc.edu. It's the file /pub/Linux/docs/FAQ. Again, one
    big ASCII file, same thing as on tsx-11.mit.edu.

2)  If you don't have FTP access, you can retrieve it via the mailserver at
    pit-manager.mit.edu. Send mail to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with the
    word "help" in the body.
or  If you simply can't find the FAQ, I will mail it to you myself. Just
    send me mail (mdw@tc.cornell.edu).

3)  The most recent FAQ will be posted to comp.os.linux and news.answers
    every month (if you want to wait...).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Read the "Meta-FAQ" posted weekly to this group.
It gives you all of the pointers on where to look for Linux information.

-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "Go on, emote! I was raised on thought balloons!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: J.R.Jagger@sheffield-hallam.ac.uk
Subject: Help I don't know who I am !!
Reply-To: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:26:25 GMT

:-)
Hi, I've grabbed SLS.98.5 and installed it (all except X, which I'll
do next). I've created a new non-root user for myself using adduser
(or was it useradd) The trouble is that even though I specify when
my password is to expire, I always get a message saying that
my 'password will expire in 0 days'. Also, setting my prompt to '\u'
causes the above subject line message. Can anyone help?
I am also having trouble compiling C programs as this new user. Will
this problem go away when I know who I am?

Lastly, I too have been having trouble with LILO and SLS. It just
won't work. I have set ROOT_DEV in the make file, recreated my image,
changed the /etc/lilo/install script and I keep getting a message
saying that there is an invalid LILO signature in the first boot
sector.

In case I don't need to upgrade to LILO 0.7 here's what I'm trying

DRDOS partition on /dev/hda1
LILO partition on /dev/hda2
LINUX partition on /dev/hdb1

the LILO parttition is the only one flagged as bootable, and is very
small. I did it this way to avoid having to change my master boot
record. Call me paranoid. This setup worked with HJ's disked setup.
Also all Partition Id's have had to be changed from 81->41 (fs) and
82->42 (swap) or else DR-DOS 6.0 gets all in a muddle.

Can anyone help?

Lastly (really this time) a couple of observations from using SLS.
The readme says to alter super.c (if you want to lose fs features)
but this should read filesystems.c. Also if you don't want SCSI there
is a line saying to remove scsi from the SUBDIRS line in the makefile.
Since this line reads  SUBDIRS = scsi   I just commented it out. But
this fails, since SUBDIRS in then inherited from the 'parent' make. I
should have just commented off the scsi bit so it read
SUBDIRS =
Obvious really. Just thought I'd mention it.

Cheers
JJ


:: Jon Jagger  J.Jagger@scp.ac.uk
:: Sheffield Hallam University, Pond Sreet, SHEFFIELD S1 1WB
:: Tel 0742 533802/432889 (work/home) Fax 0743 533840
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind)
Subject: Re: Zip for distributions?
Organization: The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:14:37 GMT

In article <1gku45INN8qo@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:

>    The free `Zip' utility, and it's compress-like son `Gzip' get
>    significantly better compression than the traditional `compress'.  Is
>    there any particularly good reason not to use them for distributions?

First of all; I'm not attacking you, Charles!

  PLEASE, everyone! There was a war on this subject five months ago which lasted
for quite long and took up quite a lot of space in comp.os.linux . The result
of that war was: compress is, and have been the unix standard and this is how
it will be in the future (well, pherhaps not forever but for now at least), 
an opinion supported by 'The Important People', the sysadmins at the ftp-sites.
  I kindly ask everyone not to start a war again. The volume on comp.os.linux 
is high as it is.

/Kristian

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: c0033010@rznb31.rz.tu-bs.de (KOhne)
Subject: Sigma Legend II (still problems ...)
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, Germany
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:59:49 GMT


Hi,

anyone out there who runs a Sigma Legend II with Bios vers. 1.01 ?

I still have problems running Linux with this card. No, not under
X11 - I'm talking about the plain text mode ! It neither switches
to the 80x25 mode nor accepts any number correctly (after asking
me to choose a mode ...)

Why ? Please help me ! I've tried almost all possibilities of 
configuring my card (jumper J1 and J2 in any combination) and BIOS
(shadow ram settings etc.) I'm currently running Linux on a total 
piece of shit (Trident 8900/512 card) and I want my SL II back as
soon as possible - or I have to drop Linux :(

P.S. My machine is a 486/33, AMI Bios, 8 meg RAM ...



Sven Kuehne                       Technische Universitaet Braunscheig
c0033010@ws.rz.tu-bs.de           Rechenzentrum
From: lapj_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jason LaPierre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: NEWBIE Question about mkfs
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:26:34 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York


  After wading through several of the suggested documents for beginners, I
have been unable to find a solution to the following problem:

  After partitioning my disk (723 cylinders, 13 heads, 51 sectors), with
approximately 60MB for the minix filesystem, I ran mkfs with the number of
blocks fdisk told me I had in that partition. 'mkfs' promptly told me it
could not make a filesystem with more than 30000 blocks. I have no clue how
blocks relate to megabytes, but it seems to me that 30000 is not all that
much. (Have I just labeled myself not worthy of linux?)

  In the document INSTALL-0.96, the example given was a 47MB partition,
which I think is more than 30000 Blocks. Again I don't understand the
relationship.

  Could someone please help me here. I've had it up to ->here with dos and
I'm dying to get linux and X11 running on my system. I know 60MB seems like
a lot for a beginner, but I'd rather not have to partition my HD again, and
I plan on doing a fair amount of (Xwindows) programming. If this still seems
excessive please say so.

Jason A. LaPierre			   couldn't think of a decent .sig
University of Rochester
Department of Cognitive Science
lapj_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xconfig on Gateway 2000 (Diamond Speedstar)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:50:15 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi, can someone help me out here...
  I have a Gateway 2000 with a Diamond Speedstar Plus/1M
and an Crystal Scan 1024NI monitor.  And I can not get X to
work right.  I used the values in the modesDB.txt file and it
isn't working.  What's even more annoying is that I have done this
before and had it working, 3 times, and now I can't seem to get it.
Thanks...

   -Dan
BTW, the screen comes up, but is wavy and no horizontal control.

Dan Newcombe
stdn@vm.marist.edu                        kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu             And others...
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Real programmers like vending machine popcorn.  Coders pop it in the
  microwave oven.  Real programmers use the heat given off by the cpu.
  They can tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: UUCP FIX! PLEASE SAVE!!!!!
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:04:47 GMT

ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:

>I finally got UUCP working!!!!!!!  YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A GOD!!!!!
>There are several things you want to look at before continuing; one
>is that you may want to put the -fwritable-strings in your Makefile
>under the CFLAGS definition.  Second of all, and this is VERY impor-
>tant, in the conf.h file, HAVE_SIGACTION, HAVE_SIGVEC, and HAVE_SIGSET
>_MUST_ BE DEFINED AS 0!!!!  For some strange reason, pl5's and pl6's
>reaction to sigaction() causes a segmentation fault and it MIGHT dump
>core on you.  Here is the conf.h I used to compile my copy of UUCP
>(mailpak-1.3 version):


thanks Ian.  It indeed works.  The mailpak-1.3 conf.h I have had one
of them set to 1 (...Ed - you listening :-))


-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
"USENET is not an obsession. It's just something I have to do all the time."
					quote from Jan'93 Unix World article
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: qualtrak@netcom.com (Qual Trak)
Subject: Re: LPD: no daemon present SOLVED! (I wish)
Organization: QualTrak Corporation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:35:21 GMT

In article <1gre7oINNrch@gap.caltech.edu> nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
...
>I still haven't gotten lpd going either with this LaserWriter on ttys2.. I snagged the cable
>specs from a local hardware god (he swears they're right) and cat > /dev/ttys2 kinda works
>if you keep it small.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Here's my entry:
>
>lp|LaserWriter:\
>	:br#9600:lp=/dev/ttys2:\
>	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd: lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs
>-- 
>nyet@cco.caltech.edu
try adding a :ms=crtscts to the printcap.  I'm not sure what linux
wants in the printcap but if it understands the ms entry then you should
find that hardware flow control between your linux box and the
laserwriter should help considerably.

I imagine that on long files it prints a little and then goes catatonic.
This would indicate to me that characters were dropped and the PS
interpreter displayed an error message and then ignored all subsequent
input until receiving a ^D.

Just a guess.
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John Birchfield - QualTrak Corp (408) 730-2674 Home (408) 736-3852
jb@QualTrak.COM
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From: jchen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: lilo boot problem with 0.98p5 SLS
Date: 13 Dec 92 04:31:14 GMT
Organization: UB

Hi, all.

	I installed SLS 0.98p5 (min+base+x) this morning.  And with some
help from my friend, we put in the lilo ver 0.7.  I have one hard drive
and I partition it to 20mb DOS, 63mb linux and the rest is also for linux.
lilo boots fine with ms-dos 5.0.  But when it try to boot linux, it gives
me the following errors and hang the machine:
	...
	...
	partition table ok
	MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
	EXT-fs: unable to read superblock
	MSDOS bread failed
	kernel panic: Unable to mount root

That's it! It hangs there!

My machine config is: 386-40 8mb ram and 116mb with trident 8900


Thanks for any help,

-Jonathan
====================
jchen@cs.buffalo.edu


	
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: ext fs question (.badblocks)
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL241235]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:34:49 GMT

Remy CARD (card@masi.ibp.fr) wrote:
: In article <orman.724229253@vislab.me.iastate.edu> orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman) writes:
: >does mkefs still make a /.badblocks with the -c option?  I was
: >reinstalling and tried it and I didnt get a .badblocks  I got made
: >errors as the scan was done however, so I know there is some bad spots. 
: >the command I used was:
: >mkefs -c /dev/hdb1 xxxxxx
: >
: >I forget the number of blocks, anyway its an RLL drive with known bad
: >areas so whats the deal....  is it ok or not?
: >
: 
: 	mkefs now uses a reserved inode (inode #2) to store the bad blocks.
: This inode does not appear in the filesystem tree any more because it was
: leading to problems (root could delete the .badblocks file or save it during
: a backup).

This is a common way of implimenting a bad block list, fsck will not 
complain about this inode being unreferenced.
: 
: 	So, even if you don't see a .badblocks file with ls, don't worry.  The
: bad blocks are recorded and won't be use in the fs.

It also means that back-up utilities (e.g. tar) will not pick up the
bad blocks file

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: Changing a Serial Port IRQ Number
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:22:52 +0000

In article <1992Dec17.003953.24890@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
> Bill Woodward (wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com) wrote:
> 
> : How does one go about changing the IRQ that a specific serial port
> : uses.  I have a modem on COM3 under DOS running with IRQ 5.  When I
> : switch to Linux and boot, the bootup messages say that the IRQ for
> : /dev/ttys2 is 4.  Is there a config file I am missing, or do I need
> : to recompile the kernel?
> :    Any suggestions happily accepted.
> 
> Either #undef the AUTO_IRQ stuff in kernel/chr_dev/serial.c, or use setserial
> to reset the IRQ for the card.

Or alternatively reset the IRQ values in the table of standard serial port parameters
about 50-odd lines down in serial.c.  I did this and have had no problems.  In fact
with AUTO-IRQ defined I get zmodem CRC errors and all sorts of other weird stuff.

Cheers,

Alan.
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| agc@cix.compulink.co.uk         | - what the hell does it spell? |
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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 0.99 FPU question
Keywords: LINUX, FPU
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:30:37 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

My PC runs 0.99 WITHOUT FPU emulation on a 486/33 just fine...
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===========================================================================
From: cl820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wei Jin Mai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS 98p5 couldn't install base system a2-a4
Date: 21 Dec 1992 00:40:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


   So far, I have the booting disk and rooting disk working. After set up a                                                              em
Partition for Linux and mkfs it, I tried to install the base system. The install
program first asked for A2 which is am image disk direct ftp from tsx-11.
I put in the A2 image disk(a dos disk) , the program didnt regonized the disk  
and keeped asking for the A2 disk. Later I put in DISKA2 to the disk as appear
in every other disk. The program regonize the DISKA2 disk but ignored the A2 
image file and continuous to DISKA3.
Other problem pop up as the result of skipping A2. I got mv and rm command not 
found error messages and some files were missing in FAQ directory. After 
the installed all the disks(a2-a4), a booting disk was supposed to be written.
but the install program skipped the booting disk( the drive light not even  
frash)
 Have anyone encounter the same problem with the SLS 98p5 in tsx-11 and has 
solutions for the A2 disk problem?
-- 
Weijin Mai
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: keyboard problems - v.99
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:08:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.195705.10601@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>Dean Troyer (troyer@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com) wrote:
>
>: Port 61 is listed in my BIOS reference as being the PS/2 System Port B, although
>: it's not unique to PS/2s.  It's uses include the speaker hardware & timer
>: control bits.  Check out the Mach sources kd.h.  The bummer is that I can't
>: find the purpose of bit 7 documented anywhere!  I suspect it controls one
>: of the keyboard controller's input pins.
>
>Bit 7: input - 1=IRQ 0 reset (timer 0 output latch)
>       output- Parity check state (1=parity check occurred)
>
>This is from "The Programmer's PC Sourcebook" by Thom Hogan.  An absolute
>*must* if you're going to be mucking about with the hardware. :)

You can stop wondering about it: somebody pointed out that it was needed
only for the original PC to accnowledge the character, so I removed it
and it works just fine.  So as of 0.99.1 there won't be any playing
around with port 0x61 in the keyboard driver. 

And if somebody is wondering, then no, I haven't had much experience
with PC hardware before linux.  So most of the drivers are a collection
of info gleaned from various sources, glued together by prayers and
trial-and-error.  Or something like that.  I remember beating my head
against the wall for a week before I got the first serial drivers
working: I had the chipset data-sheets, but they didn't mention the
PC'ism of enabling interrupts by setting the out_2 bit...  I finally
found the info in a comment from some PD communications software that
came with source. 

		Linus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
From: ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
Subject: How to use this Enet card...
Reply-To: ketil@ii.uib.no,magnus@ii.uib.no
Organization: student of numerical analysis at the University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 21:24:26 GMT


Hello!

We are trying to interface a Linux system with the rest of the world
by using this ethernet card that we don't have any documentation for.
We are interested in *any* info you could have on this, including the
name of the manufacturer, but also things like device drivers to use,
etc etc.

THe card is an 8-bit ISA card, it has a chip labeled 'Reliability //
2VP1209 LAN-PAC(tm) // made in ireland' and a 40mHz crystal.  There's
another important-looking (:-) chip labeled AM7990DC on it.

The sockets on the edge are one 9-pin D type plug, and one coax e-net
plug.

The date '16 FEB 1989' stamped in black, and the words 'ENET 1.4 LS'
are printed on the back side.

Any help deeply appreciated!

--
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 = Nuke the whales!                    Honk if you love unicorns! =
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux