HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jbuckner@lonestar.utsa.edu (James A. Buckner)
Subject: Re: Summary of: What tape drives work with Linux
Keywords: Maynard Gateway
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:30:58 GMT

In article <Bvpwsr.9oy@afsserv.boulder.ibm.com> carl@boxelder.Berkeley.EDU (Carl vonLoewenfeldt) writes:
>I have discovered that the Gateway 2000's offered internal floppy-tape
w 
>backup drive
>is a Maynard model 5580i, capable (under DOS) of 250MB with compression,
>and supplied
>with QICstream backup software.
>
>There has been some (limited) discussion in this forum about the writing
>of a device
>driver to support such a floppy-tape drive under LINUX. Is anybody
>actually working
>on such a project?
>
>I'm trying to get in touch with Maynard technical support to request the
>data necessary
>to write such a driver. Has anybody else had success with such a
>request? (If interested,
>Maynard's toll-free number is 1-800-821-8782.Like most suppliers, they
>are VERY busy.)
>
>Carl vonLoewenfeldt
>(303) 924-9202

How about a Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 120? Will Linux support it?
From: uho@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS 0.98 odd/unexpected behaviour
Date: 12 Oct 1992 13:05:20 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kiel, FRG
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In <1992Oct12.004434.10049@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> riepe@ifwhp1.ifw.uni-hannover.de (Michael Riepe) writes:

>5)	During installation, I always get error messages like
>	"fd1: floppy is write protected". In fact, the floppies *ARE* write
>	protected, but this message is rather boring

The reason for this is, that the diskettes are mounted with the possibility to
read AND write, although the installation procedure should only read them. 

I think it should be possible to mount the diskettes read-only, then this problem
would go away.

>Anyway, I like the SLS edition very much 'cause I don't have enough time left
>to grab and install all the stuff I need.

Agreed. It's a fine package. I had some problems with permission bits when I tried
to operate as NON-root, though. 

Ulrich

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bywater_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: QUESTION:  How many people use linux?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 03:11:13 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: bywater_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <6106@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, al198723@next00.mty.itesm.mx (Eugenio Sanchez) writes:

>I really dunno, but maybe arl (mantainer of the LINUX mailing channels)  
>can give us the number of *really interested* users.
>
Hi - Just wondering what these mailing channels have?

Cheers.
From: laurentj@hpgnd195.grenoble.hp.com (Laurent_Julliard)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:20:33 GMT
Subject: ** Fix your keyboard ! **
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, GND
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux

Hi to all Linuxers !


   I wrote a small program called "fixkbd". Its purpose is to fix the
keyboard map used in your kernel image. I think it might be helpful to
a lot of us. Thanks to this small "jewel" (how modest I am ...) you can
select your own keyboard without having to recompile the whole kernel 
stuff.

   It works more or less a la "rootdev" (or rdev). Here is the usage

** USAGE **
-----------
      usage :  fixkbd [-pKBD_TYPE] kernel_file
                where KBD_TYPE is one of the following...
                          - KBD_FINNISH
                          - KBD_FINNISH_LATIN1
                          - KBD_US
                          - KBD_UK
                          - KBD_GR
                          - KBD_GR_LATIN1
                          - KBD_FR
                          - KBD_FR_LATIN1
                          - KBD_DK
                          - KBD_DK_LATIN1
                          - KBD_DVORAK
                          - KBD_SG
                          - KBD_SG_LATIN1


** EXAMPLE **
-------------
Let's assume your kernel file is in /image.

      -> To display the current keyboard
         ...............................

      $ fixkbd /image
        Size of file is : 34014 bytes
        Loading the kernel file in memory, please wait...
        Keyboard table found at offset : 0x57e0
        Current type of keyboard is KBD_FINNISH


      -> To fix the keyboard
         ...................

      $ fixkbd -pKBD_FR_LATIN1 /image
       Size of file is : 34014 bytes
       Loading the kernel file in memory, please wait...
       Keyboard table found at offset : 0x57e0
       Current type of keyboard is KBD_FINNISH
       New type of keyboard will be KBD_FR_LATIN1


** ENHANCEMENT **
-----------------

 - Right now fixkbd can only work on a file, not a bootable floppy disk. 
 - Speed up the loading of the whole kernel file in memory 
 - Do not load the whole file in memory for those having few Megabytes.
 - Could be handy to have an MS-DOS version, any volunteer ?


** BINARY & SOURCES **
----------------------

 Sources and binaries (compiled under 0.96cpl2 -static option) are
 available on tsx-11.

** FEEDBACKS **
---------------
 Any feedback, comments, etc... will be appreciated. Let me know if you
 (dis)like it. 
 email address : laurentj@hpgnse2.grenoble.hp.com

Laurent JULLIARD
From: David.Fox@Saigon.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ecvt source wanted
Keywords: math library ecvt
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:30:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Station Zebra Corp, Sunnyvale CA Ph:408-739-1520

Hi Linuxers,
  
I recently posted a message in the 386BSD newsgroup asking about
ecvt() which I need to compile an application.  386BSD's math
library doesn't have it.

H.J. Lu responded that Linux's math library might have it.

Question: Does it?  If so, can someone mail me the ecvt()
source?  

Please email responses as I don't normally read this newsgroup, either
to the address in this message, or preferably to bbs.barfeau@goonsquad.Spies.Com.
From: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (cs87ejh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: wherefore ed
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:31:34 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Can some kind soul point me to the 'ed' program for linux.  I would prefer
to get it as part of a set of similar utilities.  It is not part of mcc or
hj's basedisks.

Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: minyard@crchh453.bnr.ca (Corey Minyard)
Subject: Re: ANSWER: (Re: GCC report segmentation fault and dump core.)
Reply-To: minyard@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:43:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.145332.22468@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
|> Now that info-zip has released 1.9, there are some good technical
|> reasons why using zip would be better than compressed tars:
|>   1. files are smaller
|>   2. you have a CRC and can tell right away when something is munged
|>   3. Since you can tell which file is munged you have a prayer of
|>      getting someone to send you just that file.

True, but zoo is better.  It has a high-compression rate, individual file
munging recovery, and it supports directory hierarchies.

|> 
|> And the political reasons why we won't:
|>   1. it's not POSIX
|>   2. zip is a PC program (so use zoo, which started in UNIX)
|>   3. it's unsupported
|>   4. people won't understand something new.
|> 

And a technical reason why we won't:

    1. zip and zoo do not support file modes, owners, or groups.
    
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Corey Minyard
From: fiji@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X with a diamond stealth
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:48:58 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu


	Can you run X-windows with a diamond stealth svga card?
		Thanks 
	          Ben Bennett.
-- 
	This was the opinion of my hands and not necessarily the remainder
 of my body.  The remainder of Ben Bennett (Fiji@wpi.edu) can not be held 
 responsible for anything typed above.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: base,gcc,lib disks parts corrupt?
Organization: UMCC
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:27:18 GMT

It seems that base1.Z 41lib1.Z and 222d7a.Z are corrupt.  I have
downloaded them three times (yes, I set binary), and uncompress
reports input corrupt.  The other files in each directory appear to
uncompress fine (they come out to 1228000 or some such). 

Anyone else have this problem?

Leon dent
lcd@ais.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen)
Subject: Re: X386v2.0 and ATI XL
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:55:44 GMT

s2848632@techunix.technion.ac.il (ITZHAK FRIEDMAN) writes:

>Hi X386 users,
[deleted]
>Please some one with ATI XL send me his/her Xconfig file......PLEASE......

Or better yet, please post here. I am sure a few folks will appreciate it.
I am looking for timing data for this video card, especially 1024x768
non-interlace mode.

>thanks in advance,
ditto.

Nhut.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: Xfree86-1.1, the ALTGR key and norwegain (european) keyboards
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for (tungt) eple cider p} Inf. stua
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:55:18 GMT
Originator: janl@bera.ifi.uio.no


The norwegain keybard has some characters on the key-front (as opposed
to key-top). We usualy get to them with the help of ALTGR. This worked
with my Xmodmap.no (same as the one you find on the linux ftp sites)
for the old X386 (X11v2.0 i think). Now all ALTGR does is set the high
bit.  Can I configure this somewhere? Or do I have to get some source
and fiddle?

Thanks.

Nicolai
-- 
Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"             
Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no
From: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Ghostscript
Keywords: compilations problems
Date: 7 Oct 92 05:50:03 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne


I am having problems compiling ghostscript with gcc-2.2.2d (I am running
0.97pl5 ), the compilation dies with an internal compiler error.
Anyone who has compiled gs give me a few pointers, is this a problem with gcc
or the gs makefile.

thanks

Alistair Scott

afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: beppe@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Giuseppe Zanetti)
Subject: Re: Scanner support in Linux???
Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:37:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.173711.20088@PA.dec.com> steves@flashy.tay2.dec.com writes:
>
>	I was wondering if anyone is working on scanner support in Linux? I
>have a Scan-Plus scanner which is a HP-scanner clone and would like to be able
>to use it under Linux.
>

I have some sources for a driver (for SCO) for the genius scanner.
Now I have a ScanMan Plus (logitech) but I think manual scanners are
fully compatible ... I do not have time to write a driver for
linux, but if you want i the sorces where in comp.sources.misc (5 or 6 month
ago).

ciao, Giuseppe (and excuse my bad english :-()

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: blhuber@fishlab12 (Brett L. Huber)
Subject: Re: Another Beginner Installation Question...
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Distribution: usa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:48:57 GMT
X-Posted-From: fishlab12.fsh.mtu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

ljarvie@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lee Jarvie) writes:
> 
> while installing with bootimage.98 and rootimage.97...  
>
> This worked fine.  The script went on to mount the root and user
> partitions okay, but from there, everything fell apart.  As it tried to
> move binaries to my harddrive and mount them, I got MANY of the following
> errors.
> 
> [...]  No space on device [...] No space on device.
> 
> Finally, I [...] tried to mount the partitions using
> 'mount /dev/hda2 /mnt' as shown in the installation.notes file.  This
> gives a segmentation fault: core dumped error.  
> 

I'm getting the same thing.  I downloaded bootimage 0.98 and rootimage
0.97pl1 from two different sources, but both give me a seg fault when 
mount is run.  
I do have boot 0.97pl6, but couldn't get gcc to work right, so I decided 
to go for 0.98.  Mount for this boot image works just fine...
Suggestions?  Comments?  Random thoughts?

Brett Huber (blhuber@major.cs.mtu.edu
From: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Bill Ehrendreich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Several questions
Date: 13 Oct 1992 01:20:09 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Bill Ehrendreich)
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu
Originator: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu


I have now (greatfully installed the new SLS ver and am only dismayed by the 
permission problems. Does anyone have a list of what the defaults SHOULD be. This w

s is a deffinet problem for me. 

On another note I am interested if any BBS packages have been ported yet. 
 
One last question, is there a detailed  list of instructions on how to compile, install ane
install, and configure the telnet,NSF,tcp/ip stuff??? I need to make a connet
to a remote system and will have to do it via modem/mux. Any suggestions.
From: csi063@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Lover...)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help required
Date: 16 Oct 92 11:08:39 GMT
Organization: Coventry University

Can anyone out there help me. As a completely new and very inexperienced Linux
user I would like to know whether or not it is possible to use (successfully)
a HP Deskjet Plus printer with Linux. Also are there any Miranda clone
compilers out there.

Thanks in advance.

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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maybe I'm really stupid
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:19:23 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

sm7x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean E. Mccardell) writes:

> 
> I'm trying to install Linux from the SLS distribution. So far, I've only
> copied the first four disks. I can get disks 1 and 2 to work without any
> hassle, but when the installation program asks for disk 3, and I put it
> in, I recieve an error message to the effect that it's the wrong disk,
> try again.
> What am I doing wrong? (Or am I just really stupid?)
> Sean E. McCardell
> 
> "Ford's in his flivver, all's well with the world."

First, I assume that you only used rawrite on the first two disks -the
rest are just normal dos disks with the files on them. :-)

Second, if you did create the disks, did you transfer JUST the .tz files?
Did you put the little "disk3", "disk4", ... files on them too? The way
that doinstall recognizes the disks is to see those files. (BTW, they
don't have to be the original files --any file with the proper name will
work. When I made my disks, I used the 4DOS redirect to create them. It
made an empty file with the proper name:   > a:disk3 ). 

Hope this helps.

--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: can i erase lib*2.* in /lib
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:29:34 GMT

Matthew A. Lewis (mal11@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:

: My question now is, can i erase all the old libraries????
: Should I make links from the old 2 libraries to the new 4's
: so that if an old application goes looking for them in will
: look in the new jump libs???

I'll let H. J. answer this one ... but IMHO if you do ...
"you'll be sareeeeeee......." :) :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                  erc@apple.com                     801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: How do I build shared libraries with jump tables ???
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:39:23 GMT

Hello,
  I spent my weekend compiling the Xaw3d widget set for linux.  The library
ended up being about 270k (a little bigger that the static Xaw library).  My
question is, how can I build this library as a shared jump table?  I noticed 
that the shared jump table library for Xaw is cosiderably smaller!  Thanks
in advanced,

Jaime
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: can i erase lib*2.* in /lib
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:31:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Oct7.173144.12617
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1av34mINNjmk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
|> 
|> 
|>  i just install jump table 4.1 and all the new system binaries
|> so kindly provided by Hlu. 
|> 
|> My question now is, can i erase all the old libraries????

I did just that.

|> Should I make links from the old 2 libraries to the new 4's
|> so that if an old application goes looking for them in will
|> look in the new jump libs???

They are not compatible. With my rootdisk and LBS, you should be able
to live with new binaries.

|> 
|> thanx for your help.....and all the great work you guys do :)
|> 
|> -- 
|> maThiEu a. LeWis    "ask me why and i'll die/and if you must go to work
|> cyber-mercenary      tomorrow/well, if i were you i wouldn't bother/for there
|> Thieves Like Us      are brighter sides to life/and I should know because I've
|> mal11@Po.cwru.edu    seen them/but not very often/am I still ill?"

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: exactly my problem 
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 06:31:57 GMT

and lo, there was much rejoicing among the people, as
hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:

>That is one reason why I made bootable rootdisk, Linux Base System, gcc disk
>and the Linux C library 4.1 disk. Please get all of them and use them as
>kind of system backup. They are all minix disks. I know you can figure out
>how to use it.

why do you make this assumption?

is it possible for there to be /2/ sets of readme files, one for people
who know what they're doing, and one for people who are trying to
learn this stuff?

for example - i thought that there were specifically two separate parts -
a boot disk, and a root disk. or is this only the case for people who
don't use a hard drive?

has it been determined /why/ gcc has stopped working?  if i keep downloading
6 megs of stuff at a time, my sysadmin is going to get displeased with me.

any help is appreciated.  thanx.

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick "The Compression Crusader" Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Use of zip instead of compress
Date: 14 Oct 1992 18:43:27 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Holy War (Not)

Okay, it has come up again.  The "Gosh!  There sure is a *difference*!!"
compression algorithm debate.  I'll just add my 'too sense' up front...

[un]compress	Pro:  This is (currently) the de-facto UNIX *STANDARD*.
		      Hey, it's not bad... it's just not that great.
		Con:  Only does one file.  Archiving requires 'tar'.

[un]zip		Pro:  Good compression (better than 'compress').
		      Archives multiple files/directories into one file.
		Con:  <GUILT MODE ON> Phil Katz (the "PK" of PKWare) won't
			be making any money by this use of his invention. 
		???:  This is somewhat of a DOS standard. (Pro?/Con? :-)

lha		Pro:  Very good compression (better than 'zip').
(*not* 'lharc')	      Archives multiple files/directories into one file.
		      Placed in the public domain freely by the author.
		Con:  The original 'man' page is in Japanese.  (Though
			every distribution I've seen includes enough
			documentation in decent English to compensate.)

You choose.
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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Finding 'struct sgttyb'
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:07:58 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Oct5.175140.29826@umr.edu>, dminer@cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
| 
| 	Well, I saw a binary form of tput on one of the
| many rootimages.  I had been looking for a terminal initializer.
| I found the source and tried to compile it.
| 
| gcc basically said that it couldn't figure out what
| 	struct sgttyb
|   was defined as.  
| Well, I looked all through my header files.  NOTHING defines it.
| The only mention I found was in curses.h.    Where can I find
| the need header file(s)?
| 
| 	I'm using gcc 2.2.2 + 97pl4 

You have a use of something truely old here, totally non-POSIX I
believe. The answer is to find a source which has been ported to a
modern o/s. It's in ttold.h on some BSD systems, noted as obsolete. I
wouldn't spend a lot of time finding it, but would suggest changing the
tty interface to something current.
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