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From: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti)
Subject: vi in 8x22...
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:12:46 GMT

I'd like to know if someone can point me to a version of vi (I think it
is elvis, in Linux) that can go with a screen of 8 lines x 22 columns.

Why? Because I would like doing some simple editing with my Hp48s connected 
to the serial line of my linux Box ... :-).

(Not so important question)
Bye,
	Romano.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: britt@leland.Stanford.EDU (Britt Park)
Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 23:43:14 GMT

I believe that atof() is broken.  I've had the same experience and I have a 
387 in my Linux box.  A simple work-around is to replace

blab=atof(blabula);

by

sscanf(blabula,"%lf",&blab);

Inelegant, I admit, but it works.

I don't know the origin of the problem.  It might be a shared library thing.
I experienced some really strange behavior with some of the early shared X 
libs which went away when I linked things statically.

						Britt Park
						britt@cb-iris.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: HD: write_intr errors during SLS install
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:58:00 GMT

dstein@shell.portal.com (Doug Mr-Science Stein) writes:

>Apparently, mkfs does not pay attention to the drive's error list.  It was
>suggested that I run mkfs -c, which forces a disk scan and creates a bad
>block list.  Problem solved.  

I used the -c option when mkfs'ing my disk but things didn't change.
Also I observe it on SCSI disks too that by definition never have bad blocks.
So what else can be the reason for these errors?

Klaus
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Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Sunday, 10 Jan 1993 05:28:50 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: vgalib with Tseng ET4000

I have ET4000 i compiled the vgalib works fine the test program produced
a number of different test cards, Ok.
But whats the vgalib used for ?? is that IT ?
barry.
From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tar won't do multi-volume archives
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:49:20 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania


Hi,

The tar on my SLS linux will not read or write multi-volume archives. When
reading, it gives error message "unexpected EOF". In writing, when the
end of the first volume is encountered it just says:
"0 of 10240 bytes written", and falls off the end of the world without
prompting for next volume. I'm currently running SLS .98 p5-49. Under
SLS .98p4-36, previous version, I had no problems with tar. Any help would
be much appreciated. Thanks.

			Joe Panico
			joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Corrupt 'tar' man page
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 09:24:50 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
> I am running the SLS 0.99 linux installation successfully, but I noticed
> that the tar man page is corrupted. There may be some others, but I
> don't remember which ones.  Anyway, when I run the 'man tar' command, I
> get a text which starts out like this:
> 
> \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-

Yup.  The tar "manpage" installed in SLS 0.99 is actually a texinfo file.

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver 
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:40:07 GMT

nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>   I am sure somebody out there has hacked a 3c501 driver for Linux. If
>   you have one, please email it to me.......

>Go buy yourself a real Ethernet card.  You can get NE2000 clones for
>under $100 now...

Not utterly helpful. suppose he has got the 3com for free becaues someone
bought a ' real ethernetcard' ?

But: the ne2000-driver that I used at the latest ChaosCommunicationCongress
had 3c501 built in, If you want to know where I got it, mail me, I will take
a closer look then :-)

MfG, Michael Will
From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: gcc -g trouble in 2.3.3
Date: 7 Jan 1993 09:14:09 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

If I give gcc 2.3.3 the -g flag, ld complains about an unknown "-static"
flag; I had no such trouble with my previous version gcc, 2.2.2d.  My
version of ld came with the SLS 0.98pl5 distribution. Is that version
of ld out of date by now?
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
Subject: Re: CMOS getting mangled ?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:24:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.151851.23665@athena.mit.edu> acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) writes:
>I've been running SLS v.98pl5 for a while, and (almost) everything is
>peachy-keen, except for the fact that Linux has the annoying habbit of
>thrashing my CMOS for time to time.  It seems like every other time the
>time and date get fried, and occasionally the disk info is lost.  Very
>strange.  I've never had this problem running any dos stuff.  It looks
>like the clock is just reset, it comes up jan 1, 1980.  

Hmmm ... That's interesting, because something similar is happening to 
my Gateway 486/33C, too, but up to now I never linked it to linux.
(... and it still may have nothing to do with it until I hear about more
similar coincidences).

Lately I have noticed some erratic behavior with my A: drive while in
DOS 5.  I would try to format a 1.2Mb floppy in it with the usual
command lines options (/u /f:1.2) and it would be refused with a message
saying something about those parameters not matching the drive.  This is
new, because those params always used to work before (meaning
unconditional formatting of a 1.2 Mb floppy).  What I discovered,
however, that all I needed to fix this problem was to make a cold boot
with the reset button.

Reading your post makes me think of the circumstances when these things
were happening and it looks like it might have been when I used the floppy
drive in linux and later rebooted (via warm boot) into DOS-5 to format 
some floppy.  I thought that recent erratic behavior may have been due
to my drive slowly going south, but perhaps there is something else to
this.  (I hope I'm not going to be eaten alive for this comment again!
;-)  Maybe somebody more knowledgeable can look into it. 
I am going to watch this better from now on, because it may have been
happening when I tried to format after a RAWRITE. 

Joe Pannon
From: marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G. Fournier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: looking for someone...
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:42:15 GMT
Organization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366

Hi....

	I'm looking for anyone who has successfully
gotten uugetty to work with a WorldBlazer under Linux.

thanks...

marc
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From: johnsonm@amcl6.StOlaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:18:52 GMT
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA


In article <1993Jan11.070318.2842@athena.mit.edu> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:

   I have had problems before forgetting to unmount before removing a floppy
   disk, and the average user used to DOS would probably be even more likely
   to forget sometimes.   Would it be possible to make it so that the light
   will stay on when a floppy disk is mounted, as a reminder to unmount before
   removing?

Yes, but it would keep your floppy disk spinning the whole time it was
mounted.  Not good.  It is a simple hack, but it would wear out your
floppy, since they can only do a certain number of rev's before they
fail, and it's been my experience that they fail sooner than later... ;-)

michaelkjohnson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: buckel@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (bernhard buckel)
Subject: Re: Help with Xconfig = (800x600 != full screen) && (1024x768 == mess)
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:07:46 GMT

Daniel W. Bingler (dwb4h@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: Hey,
:         Can some one please help me figure out my video settings for
: Xconfig?  I can't seem to be able to even get the default 800x600 mode
: to work.  The image comes up clear, but the screen image is shifted way
: to the right hand side of the screen.  Only about 1/3 of the screen
: shows up.
:         I'm using an ET4000 1mb w/ Interlaced monitor.  640x480 works fine,
: but that is it.  I can't get 1024x768 to come close.  I get multiple
: screens.  My monitor has screen frequences of horiz. 31.5/35.5KHz and
: vert 50-87Hz.  These rating don't even seem to give the right resolution.
: These resolution work fine under Dos.
:         I would appreciate any info on getting info on getting higher
: resolutions.
: 
: Thanks a 1,000,000++,
: Rob
: dwb4h@virginia.edu
: 

Hi out there !

Here is my nickel, too. Though X ran right out of the box after installing a
ET4000 instead of my old Paradise I'll post my Xconfig values. I hope it helps-
if it doesn't I'm sorry for my waste of bandwidth!

"800x600" 36  808 848 984 1024  606 606 610 618  # 56 Hz refresh
"720x525" 28  720 752 856 888   525 525 528 535  # 60 Hz refresh
"650x450" 25  648 672 768 792   451 451 454 460  # 70 Hz refresh

Hope it helps !

						Bernhard 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:16:42 GMT
From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: ***** README: How to find answers to your linux questions. *****
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: janl@ifi.uio.no
Symary: RTFM, RTFFAQ, posted automatically twice a week

Much of the volume on comp.os.linux used by questions that have been
answered tens, hundreds or even thousands of times.

Questions like:
  - I have a ACME vga card. Will it work with X11?
  - I have a 100Mb hd and want it all in one partition, but mkfs don't
    like block counts >65535, what do I do? (and you'll also be told why
    this isn't a good idea)
  - Can I have both os/2 dos and linux on my 'puter?
  - Which virtual toppings does Linus like on his virtual pizza?
  - I want to install Linux on my machine. Where do I start?
  - du seem to report double sizes on files, what's up?
  - I just upgraded my kernel, why don't ps work anymore?

Answers on that and a lot more can be found in these documents:

  INFO-SHEET (what is linux, features, hardware, getting linux)
  meta-faq   (linux faq, linux newsgroups, ftp, bbs'es, about which
	      files to get when installing linux, mailing lists,
	      + quite a lot of other info and pointers)
  faq_<Date> The complete linux faq. Contains answers on: Linux, linux
	     instalation, common problems, linux and dos, more problems,
	     hints, features, gcc, scsi, X11, networking, and emacs.

Both the INFO-SHEET and meta-faq are posted regularly on comp.os.linux
(recently on comp.os.linux.announce); you should be able to find it if
you search backwards thru comp.os.linux for "INFO-SHEET" or "META-FAQ"
in the subject line.

For some this might work:
  cd /usr/spool/news/comp/os/linux    # or /var/spool/news/comp/os/linux
  grep "Subject: META-FAQ" *
  grep "Subject: Linux INFO-SHEET" *


The faq is _large_ but very well organized, and face it: you have to
read _some_ docs to keep your system running smoothly, and the faq is
a minimum.

The problem is that the people who know the answers grow tired of
answering the same questions time after time and stop answering. This
is not what anyone wants, so please RTFM before asking. The manuals
might be hard to understand, but please make a effort.

If people could start doing this life on comp.os.linux would become
better and maybe we could get rid of all the split posts too :)

Nicolai
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: klengel@col01.enet.dec.com (Michael Klengel)
Subject: Mouse problem with SLS
Reply-To: klengel@col01.enet.dec.com (Michael Klengel)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:14:13 GMT


Hi linux-fans!

I have a problem with my installation of SLS-Linux. Linux doesnt detect
the mouse during boot. No chance to get the mouse working on X. If
I understand correctly, my PC has a busmouse (no docs available now),
but all combinations of mknod ... and setup in Xconfig failed. Also
no success with the mouse test program.

	Hardware: DECpc 333 (Olivetti)
		  80386 DX
		  4MB Ram
		  2 x 120 MB (Conner)
		  Logitech-Mouse

	Software: Linux 0.98.p5

Thanks...

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE)
Subject: Possible Kernel bug
Originator: jlnance@chow2.ece.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:51:19 GMT


I think I may have found a bug.

Here is the setup:

386 running linux 99 PL 1. Unknow version of telnet deamon, but it is not
0.2. The machine is about 150km away, so I can not be much more specific.

I am loged from a DECstation.  I have 2 telnet sessions to the linux machine,
and I have 1 Xterm running on the linux machine and displayed on the DECstation.

Here is the problem:

I will be typing along in any of the 3 linux windows on the DECstation end and
periodically the shell seems to lock up.  By this I mean that you can hit return
multiple times and nothing happens (No scrolling, no prompt, nothing).  You can
wait for several (30?) seconds and nothing happens.  If you move to the other 2
windows and press return in each of these windows, then the locked up window
comes back to life.  When it comes back, it remembers everything that you typed
into it while it was locked up.  Then you can type for a few minutes and the
window locks up again.  Any of the 3 windows will lock up, not just the telnet
windows.  If I logout of the telnet windows and leave the Xterm running, things
seem to work fine.

Thought someone might want to know

Jim Nance
From: Dave.Deavours@f303.n232.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Deavours)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Question about ISA/IDE disk throughput (pc newbie)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:37:36 -0800

 SC> Umm...Sorry to burst your bubble, but... I have a ISA bus 486/33
with
 SC> a generic (read $20) IDE & I/O board controlling a Seagate ST3283A.
I
 SC> have achieved peak transfer rates of 1250KB/sec. The iozone
benchmark
 SC> under linux (with a Minix partition) consistently does 550KB/sec
writes
 SC> and about 640KB/sec reads. Ofcourse, I run my I/O bus at 11MHz
instead
 SC> of the standard 8MHz but 200KB/sec is too low. A caching
controller
 SC> with lots of memory will probably do much better, but you are
better

Isn't that benching the cache speed?  I think the actual memory <-->
disk transfer is still at ~500K/sec.  Would the same benchmark give the
same results without the cache?  While the effective transfer rate is
really that high--1250KB/sec peak-- the actual disk<-->memory transfer
is far lower, the difference attributed to the chache performance.

Dave


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
Subject: New curses in the works
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:02:34 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD Austin, TX

I am in the process of porting Curtis Pavel's (sp?) ncurses (also known
as pcurses) library to Linux. Most of the work involves porting the
sgtty interface to the termios interface. This library is more System
V'ish than the current Linux curses. There is keypad support, etc. I
also plan on adding color support.

The stumbling block I forsee is that the package uses the terminfo
database instead of termcap that is currently used in Linux. Although
all the terminfo data and source needed is included in the ncurses
package, I was wondering what the Linux users group thinks about
terminfo.

Can terminfo and termcap coexist? Is it wise? Would it be better for
Linux to shy away from termcap and go to terminfo? Should I just modify
the package to use termcap instead? What does POSIX say about termcap vs
terminfo?

Sorry for the deluge of questions, but I wanted to check with the group
first.

thanks

john.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what?  (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 23:25:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.221959.19464@sfu.ca> jeffreyj@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu writes:
>In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
>> I wrote:
>> 	Now what?

I think Linux will eventually get around to satisfying people of your
ilk.  That is, non-hacker end user just trying to balance the
checkbook and write a letter.  

But first, there is a huge crowd of able bodied and capable unix
literate users that Linux will appeal to, and they are the primary
target.  Why?  Because they are actually capable of contributing to
the improvement of the system.  So you can almost think of this
as a recruitment drive.  When most major problems are solved,
the "I don't really care how it works" crowd can be serviced.
Until then, you may want to stick with DOS/WINDOWS, painful
as it may be.

Peter.
From: STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: do these exist on Linux?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:13:18 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I got some files from an MIT site, where the docs for X11 are.
The came with an Imakefile, that worked, but when I ran make I
got this:

refer -e -n -s -p vis.refs vis.nr : eqn : pic : psroff -ms > vis.PS
eqn: command not found
refer: command not found
psroff: command not found
pic: command not found
make: *** vis.PS| Error 1

Do any of these exist for Linux?  Can this be done?

  -Dan

Dan Newcombe
stdn@vm.marist.edu                        kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu             And others...
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- 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.
From: Gary.Pfeffer@f1161.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Pfeffer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Phantom file invades /etc
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 22:54:24 -0800

 ML > From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig)
 ML > 
 ML > john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
 ML > 
 ML > > I have developed a somewhat mysterious problem with Linux,
 ML > specifically > a mystery growing file! :-(  A binary file appears
in my
 ML > /etc directory > named wtmp, and it's continuously growing.  It's
also
 ML > flagged by fsck 
 ML >    Stuff Deleted....
 ML > 
 ML >    The wtmp file is created and maintained by the accounting
software
 ML > on the machine.  Forgive me if I'm a bit off, but if you don't
use
 ML > accounting, you might want to remove the adm stuff from your cron
so
 ML > this file doesn't do anything.  Now I might be wrong, this could
be a
 ML > login stat file, I can't recall, and if so, adm won't help.

 It doesnt come from cron.  I don't know if its in the kernel or init
 but my solution is a cron entry to truncate it once a week with a

        >/etc/wtmp

 Gary


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya)
Subject: Re: MH,GNUS for Linux
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:32:59 GMT

vishal@kedar.ee.iitb.ernet.in (Vishal Misra) writes:


>Hello all,
>	I have a few queries regarding linux -
Hello Vishal,
I can't really answer your questions, but I'm really happy to see a posting
from India. Is there a lot of people using Linux there? I have down loaded
the full SLS version (about 40Meg), but don't have a 386+ to run them. It
took me a whole night's work to download them. So, what I want to ask is
that, is it particularly difficult to keep tab on any fast paced
developements like Linux from India? I'm really dedicated to Linux and want
to keep in touch with it when I go back to India this March.
Thanks...
Bibhas.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: martin@scs.carleton.ca (martin chidyausiku)
Subject: Re: IN-2000 SCSI card 
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:37:37 GMT

Please post the reply to this request because there is a large interest group
for it waiting in the wings.
Thanx.

Martin.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Zmodem for 0.99?
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:19:27 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

I've tried compiling the rzsz9202.tar-z with rzsz9202.dff.Z, but it
doesn't work with 0.99.2.  When receiving, it creates the file it's
supposed to be receiving, but then it does nothing else.  Has anyone
ported rzsz to Linux 0.99?
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   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"