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From: dohm@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dohm)
Subject: Fix for Minicom - .98-5
Summary: Simple fix...
Keywords: Minicom , Linux
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:31:18 GMT

Hi.

Seeing as I got a few posts about the sloppiness of a small fix for
window.c in minicom, i'd like to update the fix:

change 

char *gname = "gA"

to

char gname[] = "gA"

in window.c

that fixes that problem... the other problem exists in keyserv.  the
escape sequences for the ansi, vt100, and minix emulations are kept in
arrays, but inside each array is a bunch of static strings... keyserv
attempts to modify these strings... therefore, since re-coding would be
rather ugly, simply adding the compile switch -fwritable-strings would have
fixed that problem.  (it would have fixed the above problem too)
i.e.:

rather than gcc -whatever -whatever -whatever -o keyserv keyserv.c
            gcc -fwritable-strings -whatever -whatever -whatever blah blah.

If anyone *really* wants this fixed then fine.  But i do not thing that
the -fwritable-strings directive is an *undesirable* fix.  It works, and I
can't imagine it being all that difficult to implement in the compiler - i.e.
it's probably not adding overhead or much code at all...

So now the important question is:

Why didn't the program seg-fault?  Why did it just sit there endlessly
chomping away at nothing???  According to linus, an attempted modification
of a text segment string should seg-fault.  The attempted modifications were
occuring, however, it didn't seg fault.

I am sending a reference to this article to linus, to make sure
he see's it.

Pete
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein)
Subject: Ultrastor 24F (EISA)?
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:16:38 GMT

    Does anyone out there in Linux land know if the
Ultrastor 24F SCSI controller will work with the existing
Linux SCSI drivers?  This is an EISA board (I know Linux
does not currently take advantage of the EISA bus), but
perhaps it is driver compatible with the 14F.

    I'd appreciate any info anyone can give me on this.
I'll summarize if people are interested.  Thanks,

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[ Caleb Epstein ][ Davidge Data Systems Corp, New York, NY ][ cae@davidge.com ]
[      Someone's definitely jumping into the tub ... with your brother!       ]
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How do I install olwm?
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:17:56 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



  Finally I made X working on my S3 LB card and would like to run
  something Open Look like GUI. I found binaries for olvwm at sunsite
  but have no clue how to tell X to use it - well, I have done all 
  things read.me taught me to do, but startx starts xdm anyway.

  Any help?
 
  Sergei Borodin


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mmannan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Mohammed Mannan)
Subject: Is it possible to mount the OS/2 HPFS from Linux?
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:39:41 GMT

Is it possible to mount the HPFS file system? If not, will it
be possible in the future? anyone working on it?


Thanks,

M. Mannan
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:45:28 EST
From: <ESQUIVEL@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: boot_b.exe

In article <92325.164219ESQUIVEL@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, <ESQUIVEL@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
says:
>
>Could somebody tell me where can I get boot_b.exe to boot
>linux from drive B: ?
>

If somebody is interested, I got it from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
in pd1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL>.

Rodolfo Esquivel

Esquivel@qucdn.queensu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@r-node.gts.org (Tim Foley)
Subject: rm Security Problem!
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:37:10 GMT

 
   I think I may have found a large problem with 'rm' as it comes in the
SLS distribution.  
   Logged in as *anyone* I can delete *almosy any file* with the rm
command, it just comes up and asks 'override mode 0600' or whatever
and away it goes!  I was able to delete copies of my passwd and inittab
in the /etc dir using the guest login....very annoying, now disabled!
  Anyone know whats going on with rm and where I can get the source to
recompile it fixed! 
 
							Tim


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: My ghostview experience
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 09:11:37 GMT

Just want to share my experience in making ghostview work. The patch in
sunsite is nice to make it compile and run but I wasn't able to see any
plot within ghostview window. Thank to Woody(wjlib.cs.uh.edu), I figured
out that I must put x11.dev first in the device list option line in 
GhostScript's makefile. I used something like '.... epson.dev x11.dev'
at first and ghostscript just dump the printer output in /tmp when I used
ghostview. Everything is OK now.

Steve Chen         chchen@stat.fsu.edu
From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: serial ports are broken in p4!
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:30:03 -0800

EC> Help!  When I upgraded from p1 to p4, the serial ports
EC> broke! :(  The serial
EC> ports will only give me 14 characters at a time, and that
EC> only after I hit
EC> the return key.  Any fixes or suggestions?  I'd really like

I found that a cable I was using caused my serial connection between
Kermit 
on linux and Kermit on a MS-DOS PC.

The cable worked fine w/0.98pl1 not with pl2-pl5.

I believe it is pin 4, old cable was 2-3, 3-2, 4-4, 6-20 and 7-7.
New cable is 2-3, 3-2 and 7-7 and works fine.

Kermit still worked find hooked to a modem (0.98pl1-pl5), it was the
direct 
PC-PC cable that nailed me.... 
 
 * Origin: Intermittent Connection  Eugene, OR (1:152/35)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg)
Subject: Re: fixed font solution & Xconfig ?
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:58:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.074805.5356@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Bill.Saunders@launchpad.unc.edu (Bill Saunders) writes:
|> Hello all,
|> 	Finnally got X running! I was haveing the server blow up and say
|> that it couldnt find the fixed fonts.  To solve this problem I changed
|> into the /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc dir compressed everything and
|> uncompressed fonts.alias and fonts.dir.  It worked for me but I dont
|> guarentee anything.  

You don't have to compress the fonts. Just run the mkfontdir program in the
appropriate directories to upfate fonts.dir and fonts.alias.

Jerry

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@vipunen.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
Subject: Re: German Keyboard and Umlauts for Linux
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:57:52

In article <injoh.8.721998561@rz.tu-clausthal.de> injoh@rz.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein) writes:

>But now I'd like to use real german umlauts. What have I to do
>to make Linux 8-bit-clean? In ASCII umlauts have ASCII-Codes greater 127.
>Please Post to this News-Group. I can't receive mail.

Change the definition of KEYBOARD in the Makefile to
KEYBOARD = -DKBD_GR_LATIN1 -DKBDFLAGS=0x9F and recompile the kernel.
The Makefile also explains the KBDFLAGS define.

Please note that some applications aren't very good at handling 8-bit
characters.

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Johan Myreen
jem@cs.hut.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: crhoffma@iastate.edu (Chad Hoffman)
Subject: Attempting to install Linux. Help!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:19:11 GMT

Please help!

I've ftp'd everything from the SLS directory at wuarchive.wustl.edu,
put all files on their respective floppies, and booted with a1. After
using fdisk (I deleted my DOS partition, as I was having probs), rebooting,
using mkfs, I proceded to install a, c, and x disks. a2, and a3 went fine,
but when I got to a4, I got the following error message:

[MS-DOS FS Rev. alpha.8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=000]
[me=0xc0, cs=240, #f=10, fs=20510, fl=55438, se=13083, de=30162, data=52487,
se=13083, ts=-13722593]
Unsupported FS Parameters
MINIX-FS magic match failed
EXT-FS magic match failed
Insert disk a4.......

Now, the file 'diska4' is present on the disk. What's up? All help is
appreciated! DOWN WITH DOS!!!

Chad Hoffman                                             crhoffma@iastate.edu
Biochemistry/Biophysics                                  Iowa State University

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: c60c-2gf@web-4g.berkeley.edu ()
Subject: Video with X386
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:37:08 GMT


I don't like cluttering the net with questions that I know have been asked,
and probably answered (in email, since I have seen not responses).

I have a Paradise VGA card expanded up to 512k (its kinda old).
It seems I am fortunate in some repsects that I have loaded X in both
800x600 mono, and 640x480 color.

Am I right in believing there are two different binary X files for this?
Because in order to switch between the two, I've not only been editing
my Xconfig, but rename my X file as well.

The Bad Part.... It was sheer luck that I got it to work (okay, maybe not
all luck) by copying the VESA clock values in the sample Xconfig, editing
the clock values to match the DB, getting rid of duplicate values, etc.  This
took quite a bit of tinkering, and I don't quite understand all of
what I did!!!

SO, my main question, besides where to find a FAQ devoted entirely to
setting up Xconfig,

Can I run X in 800x600x16, or even 1024x7?? mono?  Is there any support
for 512k cards, or is it basically you have 1024k, or you are stuck with
generic VGA.

One last question about video.  What determines how much memory you have
available for virtual screens, your video card or your computers memory?

Thanks for any help, and patience with novice users :)

-David Simpson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drives with linux?
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:13:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.110702.12514@ifi.uio.no> janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt) writes:
>
>I have gotten a Bernoulli 90 to work on my linuxbox, hanging off my
>aha1542b (I don't use it now, I just leant the box to check if it
>would work). Should work with any SCSI adapter, and with the new scsi
>drivers it might even handle disk changes...

	I should point out that the existing scsi drivers in the 0.98.4 kernel
already handle removable scsi disks, at least partly.  There was a minor
bug in the code, so if you attempt to remove any disk other than /dev/sda? you
will crash the system.  I can email a simple patch which will fix this to
anyone who wants it.  The patch is already in the new scsi code.

-Eric

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Networking?
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:59 GMT

In article <SSCALSK.92Nov20070209@nswc-wo.?> sscalsk@nswc-wo.? (Stanley Scalsky) writes:
>
>Having successfully configured a machine to run linux with X I have been
>trying to configure networking but some details are not clear. Has there
>been any discussion on recommended network setup and/or install procedures?

I would get the recent document that was written by Phil Copela
(p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk) on networking with Linux, I found it to
be quite well written and easy to understand.

Its available on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/docs/linux-networking.faq

In other news, I've started a new directory on sunsite for Linux networking
information and clients: /pub/Linux/system/Network.

jem.

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From: f3b192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Hong Yeh Ryan Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problem with TCP socket and X11
Date: 23 Nov 1992 13:03:44 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca

I have installed linux (SLS packages full base + X11) in my 486DX33 computer and 
it works great except for X.. 
It gives me the following error whenever I type X or X386mono :

	Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument.
	Fatal server error:
	Cannot establish tcp listening socket..

and when I type startx:

	waiting for X server to shut down XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
	(protocol version 11, revision 0, release 5000)
	Configured drivers:
	  VGA2 (monochrome VGA):
           .....
           .....

        xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): Client error.
	xsetroot: unable to open display ':0'
	Error: Can't open display: ':0'


I am confused why X uses TCP socket and not Unix domain, is there a way
to bypass the TCP socket connection? I remember seeing somebody in the
newgroup had the same problem before, but I couldn't find a reply and 
answer to the problem. I would be really grateful if somebody would tell
me what is my problem and how to fix it. 

The following is my PC configuration:
	486DX33
	Trident 8900

Thanks..

Ryan
From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux TCP/IP how integrated into the kernel is it?
Keywords: Linux TCP/IP MiNT Atari
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:50:25 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London

I'm writing this message to ask all you Linux kernel hackers how integrated
into the kernel structure is the TCP/IP code?

The reason I ask is that I'm looking into adding TCP/IP into the kernel of
another OS which does not run on an Intel platform (namely MiNT on the Atari
ST/TT/Falcon ranges). I was wondering if your code could be a good starting
point.

Please don't reply to this newsgroup as I only VERY rarely monitor it.

The best email address to post replies to is:-

	steve@earth.ox.ac.uk

Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ssb1pzp@access.digex.com (Phil Perucci)
Subject: Getty/SLS bug?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:41:25 GMT

With SLS 0.98pl5 on 486DX/33 AMI BIOS, C&T/AMI chipset, I get bug:

  Under some conditions, only the last line of the screen (line 24/25?)
  is used for output.  This is not under heavy use!  JUST kermit in
  text mode.  It occurs after I exit (about 10% of the time).

Anybody see this before?  I tried "stty sane", but Linux does not seem
to support that.

                               H E L P

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox)
Subject: TCP/IP burps, can't run X, and FD950 SCSI?
Keywords: ATI VGA ULTRA X XWindows xfree86
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:56:09 GMT

	OK, I know some of this has been discussed.  Actually, probably
all of it.  But I'll ask anyhow because I think I missed something.

1.  I *really* want to get TCP/IP working, but I am not too successful.
I have messed with paths and links (/usr/etc ==> /etc and all that) and
I have recompiled /etc/inet/config.  However, I think maybe my errors
are a result of linux's unwillingness to talk to my ethernet card, which
is a 3Com 3C503.  I know there was some discussion about this, but all I
saw were questions and no answers.  Has anyone gotten specs together
that work for that card?  My errors are as follows:

Socket: inavlid argument  (two or three times)
-r - bad address
...another "socket, invalid argument"
...it starts inetd
/usr/etc/inet/named.boot: no such file
/usr/etc/inet/telnetdgetpeername: bad file number

	All this is at boot up.  The only thing I can see is that "-r -
bad addres" refers to the fact that config must be complaining.  As I
say, I think it can't see my ethernet card.  Any suggestions?

2.  As a result of the above, it seems, X will not run.  It says "can't
establish TCP listening socket...fatal error....giving up."  I thought X
could at least fly without TCP.

3.  Could someone tell me where (if they do exist) I can find drivers
for the Future Domain 950 chipset?  I am running Linux from an old IBM
ESDI and WD1005, which is fine but I would like to be able to get at the
SCSI drive as well.  I saw something in one or two fo the readme's that
seemed to imply that these drivers were out there, but I haven't seen
them yet.

	Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

						Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: HIPKR@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (P.Kruse)
Subject: Re: SLS t1-t5 TeX problems with xdvi !!
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU CLAUSTHAL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:02:33 GMT

In article <DONBON.92Nov14152719@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu>
donbon@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu (Donald L Bonaddio) writes:
 
>
>I just downloaded the TeX disks (t1-t5) from the SLS package at tsx-11.
>with the command 'sysinstall -install foo.tz' I installed all the taz files.
>
>Problem:
> When I ran xdvi on a dvi file 'xdvi file.dvi' it invoked mf many times
>to create some fonts, then it quit with a message like below.
>
>  .
>  .
>  .
>Can't find font cmsy10.
>- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmmi12 300 300 magstep\(0\)
>/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmmi12.300pk already exists!
>Can't find font cmmi12.
>- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmr12 300 300 magstep\(0\)
>/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmr12.300pk already exists!
>Can't find font cmr12.
>- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmr8 300 300 magstep\(0\)
 
 
You need to make the fonts in /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts readable
to all users with the
    chmod 644 *
command.
 
Then it must work out of the box.
 
Greetings, Pete.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft)
Subject: SLS Install problem
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: us
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:47:33 GMT




Here is the deal, short and sweet:


SLS base A1-A5 .98pl5 from sunsite on 11/18/92

A3 message:

Could not link usr/bin/rootdev to bin/rdev

A5 message:

installing zafix... chmod: dev: no such file or dir.
mknod: dev/ttys0 ...stuff   no such file or dir.
chmod:
chown:
              "stuff deleted"


basically it looks like the base system does not install /dev so even
though the install runs to completion, when I reboot since there are
no /dev/tt* files none of the consoles work so I get a blank screen
with occasional drive activity??



--help :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dje@sspiff.cygnus.com (Doug Evans)
Subject: Re: How to find things at tsx?
Organization: Cygnus Support
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:29:44 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body) writes:
>I recently read that joe1.0.0 is at tsx in pub/linux somewhere, after
>wasting a half hour searching all the directories I decided to ask if there is
>an easier way to find it?????      Sorry to waste the space for it
>but this has plagued me for a long time never finding things at tsx

Grab pub/linux/ls-ltR and browse/grep for the things you're looking for.

Works wonders! :-)
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                         | But there were days, O tender elf,
                         | When you were Poetry itself!         C. Morley
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ckurs-2@orville.uni-mainz.de (Teilnehmer am C-Kurs WS 1992_93)
Subject: Re: SLS install ?????
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:43:45 GMT


In article <1992Nov13.130348.17158@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, mvdfd1@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (donald.f.dodier) writes:
|>  I just got my new machine (486/33 with 234hd).  While loading SLS
|> with X I received a message 
|> 	could not create symlink to /usr/X386/bindone
|> 
|> Will this be a problem????
|> 
|> I have never used X so if there is someone who would not mind helping
|> me out I would be thankfull.
|> 
|> Don Dodier
|> mvdfd1@mvgpk.att.com



This error message occurs, because earlier in the installation (while installing
disk B5 / ghostscr.taz) a directory /usr/bin/X11 will be created.

(Hi SLS maintainers! This might be useful for your next release...)

Here is a quick fix:

	1. mv /usr/bin/X11/gs /usr/X386/bin
	2. rmdir /usr/bin/X11
	3. ln -s /usr/X386/bin /usr/bin/X11

This one did it for me. I hope it will work for you, but don't blame me if it
doesn't!


Dominik Kubla (kubla@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux