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From: kkk@magma.fipnet.fi (Kristo Kulju)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Smail (from Mailpak 1.3) won't compile
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:25:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Fipnet

Mail/rmail gives me only problems and headache, so I decided to try Smail.
But 'make' says:

------------------------------
gcc -O -c defs.h
gcc: Compilation of header file requested
make: *** Dmain.oE Error 1
------------------------------

I think this has something to do with following piece of Makefile:

------------------------------
D...E
OBJECTS =	main.o map.o resolve.o deliver.o misc.o alias.o pw.o headers.o getpath.o str.o getopt.o

all: smail svbinmail lcasep pathproc mkfnames nptx

smail:		$(OBJECTS)
		gcc $(CFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) -o smail $(LIBS)

$(OBJECTS):	defs.h
		gcc $(CFLAGS) -c $<

svbinmail:	svbinmail.c defs.h
		gcc $(CFLAGS) svbinmail.c -o svbinmail
D...E
-------------------------------

I do not fully understand this, any ideas? I'm using gmake 3.62.
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From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: Ported Programs? List?
Keywords: linux rules!!!
Summary: linux Ruless Linus RULES
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:59:09 GMT
Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.

Hey all,

	Is there a list of ported program out there,
    if not it seems like time to start one. On the same
    note, has anyone ported xfig? Also, interviews
    has been talked about on this news group as a
    nice wusiwug editor, is it PD? One last question..
    Is there a huge X ftp site, I have checked the 
    Xwindow newsgroup faq and found only small contrib
    directories on all the sites I have looked at..
	Ooops.. one more question.. where do I send
    SLS bugs to?

thanks in advance

paul
 

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From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dial-up line limit?
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:40:07 GMT
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
[original message deleted]
: 
: I've been wondering something similar myself...
: 
: The most serial ports I've seen on any i80[2|3|4]86 has been *FOUR*.
: How would one go about connecting more than four dial-up lines?
: ...and what's the limiting factor for Linux (other than load)?
: 
: Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
: Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan

I don't think I can help you much, but I vaguely remember there's something
like 'terminal concentrators'; this is a board with lots of serial ports on it.
It is somehow connected to the PC. Don't know how to handle it from linux,
though.

	Kolja
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb)
Subject: X and TCP/IP: Problems
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 22:42:50 GMT
Fcc: ~/.outgoing


I've recently installed Xfree386 1.1, and am running Linux 0.98pl1
with TCP/IP.  I have a Tseng labs et4000, and a WD8003 installed.

Whenever I startx, I start getting messages like:
	malloc called with impossibly large argument (65538)
	dev_rint: Dropping packets due to lack of memory
and soon afterward the machine dies. (i.e., no response to anything at
all).

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is, and how to fix it?


			Regards,

				- Peter Chubb

Softway Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 698 2322;       Fax: +61 2 699 9174;     Telex: AA27987
Internet: peterc@softway.oz.au	   UUCP: ...!uunet!softway.oz!peterc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: Modem/serial line no longer works in linux 0.98.1 !!!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:51:08 GMT

I just upgraded to version 0.98.1 only to find out that the system no longer
recognizes my internal modem on COM 2, but it find COM 1 OK???  I read an 
earlier thread discussing this problem, but people said that it would work
anyways (even if not detected)  Well, I tried it to no avail.  Does anyone
have any suggestions???  Thanks.

Jaime

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tp@jet.uk (Tarang K Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q] How do I set up color (foreground/background), inverse video ?
Summary: I wish to set up foreground/background color of my monitor
Keywords: Video
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:00:18 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus


 This should be a simple one for the experts.
   
  How do I set up foreground/background color, inverse video in LINUX ?

  I am currently on MCC 0.97pl2

       Tarang.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Subject: Thanks & questions
Reply-To: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:36:59 GMT

I've just got HJ' release up and running.
c and c++ compiling fine under static.
few problems with c++ in shared libs but readme notes these.
X11 up and running on Trident 8900C. LILO gives DOS or Linux boot
choice. 1000 x thanks. It's really F.A.B. (virgil)

Just one or two questions.
X is mixing up some keys eg ~#"@\/  which can be annoying.
I've grabbed the 0.98 kernel sources, recompiled with UK keyboard,
put LILO back in. Now text mode uses correct keyboard, but X still
doesn't. Can someone tell me how to change the keyboard for X (ie
point to the man file). I've got the xman help files but they're
!"stlg$%^*! to read if you're not in X, and xman won't display them.
It complains that tbl and neqn can't be found. The root lsl-lR at
mcc (my usual ftp site) doesn't show these. Can someone point me to
tbl and neqn please. UK site if possible.

Now a few questions on subjects where I'm paddling at the shallow end
of the knowledge pool.

I work for sheffield city poly. They have just paid some large sum of
money to get a unix clone that will work on 386's. I was wondering
whether Linux could be set up to replace it. To do this Linux must
run remotely on a hard-diskless 386 workstation. Is this possible?
I don't think there would be a problem with utility availabilty,
since they only seem to have C on the thing they've bought, so linux
is ahead there for starters. Also what they've got will run from a
novell menu, and return to the menu when you logout. Is that possible
under Linux? I hope to persuade some bods that Linux would be a
*good thing* to install. It would also be a *good thing* for Linux.


Also I'm due to take a course and exam that will enable me to use
packet radio. Can I use packet radio on X11 to have slow free email at
home? A yes/no answer will suffice, since if it is not possible,
then I won't take the exam.

1000 x thanks again
Jon Jagger
:: 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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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: New SLS is on tsx-11.mit.edu
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:19:39 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET (BARRY TITMARSH) writes:

> ok fine.. but where to look on tsx-11 for this new SLS..
> for me its a real pain in the A#$21  to keep doing ftp via a mail server.
> please tell where you post things to.. makes my life easier and others.
> barry.

They're right where they were before --replacing the 96c version.
 
pub/linux/packages/SLS

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Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
From: tucker@yuppie.enet.dec.com (David Tucker / KC4ZGO / tucker@yuppie.ENET.dec.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Video cards for linux
Date: 15 Oct 92 05:03:40 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Is the S3 supported?

David Tucker @ATO / KC4ZGO
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X bombing *occationally*
Date: 11 Oct 1992 03:28:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ewerlid@pinus.slu.se (Ove Ewerlid) says:

>
>dohm@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dohm) wrote:
>> a) it says that no clock exists for the current display mode
> ...
>>   each time I run x, it gives a different list of clocks available
> ...
>I've also seen this.
>The given description fits my problems quite well.
>
>However, it only happens to me if I start X from an 80x25 mode.
>I've never observed this very problem when starting X from an 80x60 mode.
>E.g. the problem doesn't occur since the dot clock I use (45 Mhz) is always
>detected when this mode is used.  I still observe different detected dot
>clocks though.
>
>Anyway, this problem seems to be a bit fishy and you may, defacto, already
>be starting from X from an 80x60 mode.  If so, why not try 80x25 :-)
>
>Details: Et4000 based 1 Mb video card with a programmable dot clock and
>I'm starting up X(free86-1.1) into a 1024x768i mode.

i think this is just due to the clocks on our video cards. Sometimes
they aren't exactly stable. One time X failed to boot cause it read
a 100 clock time. Normally , my max is 65. Oh well.....it only
happens once and a while

later

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From: dwong@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dennis Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X386
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 17:33:29 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Could someone please tell me if there is any simple way to upgrade
to X386 on my MCC 0.97pl2 ?
Besides, getting all the relevant X386 files, do I need to modify
the GCC ?
I believe I've read some message about 0.97pl4 is the minimum for
a X386 ?
Thanks
Dennis

Dennis Wong              dwong@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Hayes John H)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help needed to get top/ps/free working on 0.98
Keywords: trident 8900c resolution modes
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:51:12 GMT
Reply-To: hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Hayes John H)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu

A couple of days back I upgraded my kernel to 0.98, downloaded Xfree86,
got the 4.1 jump libraries ( the numbers may be wrong but the version is
correct ), and bought a trident 8900c display adapter ( I was using an
8900 display adapter, but that's another story ). I've since installed
all of this stuff on my linux partition and began debugging the Xconfig
file.

Where I am now is as follows: I've read the instructions in Bob
Crosson's buide to calculating the display numbers for high resolution
mode ( 1024x768 ) and put these figures in the Xconfig file, and type
startx. It produces a very stable display, the mouse works fine, all the
functios perform properly... however the display looks crappy. There is
a dot pattern that appears to follow a linear configuration. If the
dots were to be connected thay would appear to form diagonal lines in
the display. When the mouse is moved around the path it has traveled
contains a trail of black bits in it's wake. These don't go away. and as
the mouse cursor moves, it only get worse.

Here are the numbers that I calculated:
mode		clock	horizontal			vertical
1024x768	65.0	1024 1064 1272 1344		768 771 774 806

here are my video specifics:
clocks: 25 28 36 40 45 50 57 65
display: 
horizontal sync: 48.363 kh
sync pulse:	 3.200 us
front porch:	 0.600 us
back porch:	 0.0 us
vertical frequency: 60 hz

My monitor is a ViewSonic 6.

Any information at all would be appreciated.

Thanks, John Hayes
email hayes@cps.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Peace
From: system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 19:01:04 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

In the interest of peace I will cease and desist.  We all post off topic
things now and then, Ted included (;-).  We should try to minimize this
as much as possible.  In the interest of Topical conversation, I need a 
Floppy copy of MCC and the News/uucp software.  I will be in the San
Jose  area on October 16,17,18 for a wedding.  If any one with net
access has a system with this stuff (hopefully compiler stuff to bring
the system up to 98.1 as well) I can bring floppies or a dos tape (drive
too if neccessary) I would appreciate being able to copy it.  I have no
net access except for ftpmail (Highly unreliable for more than 150k) 
and  I am trying to convert my BBS over to Linux by the first of the
year.     Call me at 805-499-9444 9 to 5:30 weekdays.  I don't always
get to read my mail here so an alternate address is scott@yarc.uucp.
Thanks in advance.
Scott



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From: simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: XFM 1.1: not work at all
Date: 10 Oct 92 17:15:24 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:

>In article <1992Oct9.190416.22416@athena.mit.edu>, Ching-Hsiang Chen <chchen@stat.fsu.edu> writes:
>|> I've tried XFM 1.1, from old X version 1.1 to current Xfree86, including
>|> both binary and source version. I could compile it w/o any problem
>|> at all but each time I ran it, it gave me a core dump. This happened
>|> when I still got a 386SX/16 to current 386DX/33. I got 5 mb RAM.
>|> Kind of frustrating. Anyone succeeds?
>|> 
>|> Steve Chen             chchen@stat.fsu.edu

>First thing to do is link with static lib. If it works, get GCC FAQ and read
>it.

>You should look for `errno' and `environ'.

There is nothing as obvious as this wrong with xfm. It should need no
additional knowledge in other than that provided in the README file in
order to compile it. The binary distribution is in fact linked
statically - so libraries are not a problem.

The reports I've received of problems with xfm have all been solved by
reinstallation of one package or another - usually X11 (except for the
case that was solved by switching from an extended partition to a
minix one, I'm still mystified about that one). 

It is quite possible that xfm has a weird bug that makes it
particularly sensitive to the environment in which it is run, but my
attempts to find it have failed so far. It's never core dumped for me :-)
If anyone can reproduce this core-dump problem and send me some
gdb output, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers,
	Simon
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: libdisk is on tsx-11.
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:09:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Oct9.210905.21235
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1992Oct9.203212.17106@utdallas.edu>, ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh) writes:
|> >In article <1992Oct9.040653.7509@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
|> |> People are having some trouble to install the Linux C library 4.1. I just made
|> |> a Linux C library 4.1 disk. Please try it and tell me what you get.
|> |> 
|> |> It is just a repacked Linux C library 4.1. Nothing is new.
|> 
|>  < a lot of stuff deleted>
|> 
|> |> 
|> |> H.J.
|> |> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
|> |> 10/06/09
|> 
|> Is it possible to make disks for /usr/include/*, because people like me, if

You just deleted the header file stuff in README.libdisk. Anyway, they are on
41lib2. Get it and read README.libdisk from the first line to last.

|> any, who have installed several versions of gcc+kernelinc's over a period
|> could have made small mistakes that don't show up in most programs, but can
|> kill you on that one program when it uses the buggy .h file. (I am still not
|> sure whether my const.h is the correct one, but haven't seen any problem

Linus, does Linux kernel still us <const.h>?

|> except I cannot get a running 0.98.1 kernel)
|> 

Can you run my 0.98.1 kernel?

|> Ramesh

H.J.
From: jem@calypso.uucp (Jonathan Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: QIC/02 support
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:48:55 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

all the talk about tape support reminded me that there was a beta
qic 2 driver for the .96 kernel, along with the common useful
tape utilities such as mt; it was written by Hennus Bergman, who
warned in the documentation he was soon losing his net access.

Has anyone continued work on these things or has Hennus found a new
net connection?

If anyone is interested the files are available on sunsite.unc.edu
in /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/tape.

jem.
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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Dial-up line limit?
Date: 12 Oct 1992 11:49:22 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Was: Linux and large systems

phanson@well.sf.ca.us writes:
> [...] Anyway, he would like to have a system that supports in the
>neighborhood of 50-60 users per machine, most connecting to the host
>via dialup ports.  The first obvious question is how many simultaneous
>users is Linux capable of supporting?  Does anyone know of any
>multi-serial port cards capable of handling that many connections at
>the same time?  [...]
>                                  Pete Hanson

I've been wondering something similar myself...

The most serial ports I've seen on any i80[2|3|4]86 has been *FOUR*.
How would one go about connecting more than four dial-up lines?
...and what's the limiting factor for Linux (other than load)?

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
From: wmitchel@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: measuring execution time
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:12:29 GMT
Organization: GE Advanced Technology Labs

Is there a C function available in the linux distribution for measuring
the execution time of parts of the program?  Such functions (like clock,
times, etime and dtime on SunOS) typically return the elapsed time since
the program started.

-- 
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GE Advanced Technology Labs   |  na.mitchell@na-net.ornl.gov

Just the facts -- no opinion disclaimer necessary.
From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Trouble with Kermit as non-root
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:14:25 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

I've been running Linux for some time, and am now at 0.98-pl1.
After messing around and rebuilding my /dev directory, I
can no longer use Kermit unless I log in as root. I've checked
all the permissions, I can't see anything wrong. Kermit says
"Error opening /dev/tty / congm: Permission denied."

/dev/ttys* are root:tty crw-rw-rw, and /usr/spool/locks is
uucp:system drwxrwsrwt.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

-Chris


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: genie@netcom.com (Gene Choi)
Subject: Re: Xtrek ported for Linux
Keywords: xtrek
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:59:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.025511.1911@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:
>I wasn't sure if anyone's already done this, so I "ported" (read: did minominor
>touch-ups) Xtrek for Linux. I haven't been able to really test it yet
>since I get the 'socket: invalid argument' when trying to run xtrek or xtrekd,
>but that's just because my tcpip stuff isn't set up right and I haven't
>messed with it since  I don't have an ethernet card anyway. I assume it works.
>If you're inclined to believe me, let me know and I'll upload the binaries.
>I'm using X11v1.1.

Did you port the sources for the UDP version?...  Is UDP supported
with tcp/ip .8?

Gene

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr)
Subject: Re: where is lharc?
Organization: GNUSYS // Private Linux Site
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:37:20 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
: >I assume taht lharc is what's being used to pack up .lha files, so where
: >is it?  It's not on tsx-11, where it should be.
: 
: Look for LHa instead.  I think there is a copy on tsx-11 at least in the
: lisp directory (packages/lisp or something).
: 
: --
: Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)



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28 Jul 1992    86043 ./xtra/lha-1.00.tar.Z
28 Jun 1992    82948 ./xtra/lha.Linux
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From: MBT3@psuvm.psu.edu (Mike Tierney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: *** Quick! *** Need Trident chipset info for X!
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:06:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92289.140656MBT3
 <1992Oct15.045749.11939@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Oct15.045749.11939@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>,
cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) says:
>Please!  I've ordered a new machine to run Linux on but I want
>to be sure that I'll be able to run X in the highest possible
>mode.  I understand that a certain Trident chipset (A, B, C or D)
>will run in the high res modes (1024x768x256) under Xfree86.

     You can run X in 1024x768 with almost any video card.  I'm running it
at that res (with 256 colors) on a Compuadd High Res card (generic form of
a Cardinal Tseng 4000 chipset video card).  So really, as long as you stick
to a popular chipset (such as T4000), you should have no problems.  Which
leads me to ask:


      Who wants Trident?


                                            -Mike
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