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From: charlto@ubitrex.mb.ca (Mike Charlton)
Subject: Re: .98p5 and Logitech L7 bus mouse problem
Organization: Ubitrex Corporation, Winnipeg, Canada.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:18:36 GMT

I also had that problem.  I had a little bit of trouble figuring out
which mouse to select (I have a Logitech Mouseman bus mouse).  I tried the
Logitech designation (which moved only left and slightly down), the Mouseman
designation (which jumped all over the screen, and then the Busmouse
designation (which worked).  However, I switched over to using the 8514
Xserver and it won't listen to my mouse at all now...  Oh well...

           Mike
From: ctoomey@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: help with mount
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:17:10 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I've just gotten hold of Linux 0.98 and installed the base system 
using the SLS distribution. So far so good. Unfortunately I only have
a 43Mb HD here, so I can't install everything I want using the SLS
distribution (I need the compilers, a couple of tools, some network
stuff and X11). So I'm just ftping the relevant stuff, downloading to
floppies and I'm going to install it myself. 

	My first stupid question is: why do I get the error "must be superuser"
when I enter the command "mount mnt fd0:" after logging on as root. I
thought root was superuser. Also when I run adduser I *must* give superuser
priveleges to every user I add or else it just loops. Yet if I log on as the
new user I get the same error executing mount. 

	So what stupid thing am I doing wrong here? And how do I fix it?
Any ideas much appreciated.

				Colm Toomey 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Installing new Type 1 fonts...?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:31:34 GMT

duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer) writes:

>In article <ins217t.721905113@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>>Anyone got any pointers on installing Type 1 fonts into X ?
>>
>>Instead of having .afm files (as well as .pfa or .pfb), they have .pfm
>>files, or whatever...

>Just a wild guess, but if you mean ".pcf", then the files are the new
>X11R5 "Portable Compiler Format" format. These are portable, but made
>for a particular system; i.e. they will work on any X11R5 system, but
>will have to be converted on the fly if the binaries are not directly
>compatible. This would explain the delay you describe.

>This may be way off, it was the "or whatever" that made me wonder
>if you meant ".pcf".

Nah, apologies...
I'm talking about Type 1 fonts, not pcf fonts.

I got one yesterday from cica (a windoze site) which had a .afm file - this
was a little quicker, but the font wasn't particularly useful anyway...

So is there anything i can do to speed this up ?
(besides get a new motherboard 8-)

Enjoy !

Cos !
-- 
Andrew J. Cosgriff !	ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
			ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
			cos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
"Language is a virus from outer space" - William S. Burroughs
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Idea for a useful manual for linux
Organization: Too many
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:12:26 GMT

From what I've seen of a lot of the newbie questions, and of my own
problems, I think one thing that could definitely help out is some
kind of "Intro to Linux" FAQ sheet, that gives a user a general idea
of what is going on in the system.  Things like:

	What files get sourced on booting a system and why (as well
	as what should be there).

	The ins and outs of mounting (I know three people already that
	have been bitten by the lack of knowledge that a directory
	must already exist before you can mount a device at that
	location.

	What files get sourced when starting a shell, and what
	permissions this requires.

	What files get sourced when starting up X. (I don't know this
	one, since I haven't set up X yet).

	How to manually add users and groups (and what these mean).

Very little of this is linux-specific, but linux doesn't have much of
a users manual (not that I've found).  We've got the FAQ which answers
specific questions, but I'm thinking more of a users manual which
details things like this in a general manner, rather than addressing
specific problems.  It would be nice to get this out for 1.0, but 
I don't see that happening.

Does anyone else think this would be useful, before I commit myself
to helping organize such a beast?  I think the best way to do this so
that it doesn't crush a few people is to get a list of competent
volunteers to write parts of the manual, with one person responsible
for editing the parts to ensure consistency, creating a table of 
contents, index, etc.

If the idea does seem viable, what sections would we need?

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
From: dace@shrike.und.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Terminal emulator Linux <--> DOS
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:37:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: shrike.1edddeINNrnp
Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa
NNTP-Posting-Host: shrike.und.ac.za
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
: 
: My response was a resounding: use kermit!  Really, I feel kinda
: stupid for not thinking of it myself since kermit is what I
: use under linux and on the Sun at work.  Anyway, kermit has good
: terminal emulation and is free.  Can't ask for much more than that!
:

On this note, does anyone know of a comms package/terminal emulator which
has been ported to or written for linux.  I'm thinking of getting a machine
to run linux in the next year, with t view to getting as far from ms-dos
as possible.  I would need a package which offers ansi terminal emulation
though.

	-Hal 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sevenup@netcom.com (Mark W. Moorcroft)
Subject: default printer ??
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: us
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:48:51 GMT




	I need to set my default printer to /dev/lp2 and after 2 hours
at the bookstore today and another hour looking over my file system I
have no idea how to keep it from insisting on /dev/lp1 ??
	I was also wondering about fsck. It will report lots of things
but refuses to fix any of them no matter what switch I use??
	I have looked over the postings here pretty carefully because
I hate to ask seemingly dumb questions but then again they say that
there 'are' no dumb questions, only dumb answers :-)


--thanx in advance


	I'm off to try and get xmono working under SLS 98pl5, it won't
load and I think it has to do with symbolic links. It also insists
that it is only configured for vga256 ??  Someone want to send me a
working mono vga Xconfig??


--sorry this should be 3 seperate posts

-- 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Mark W. Moorcroft -- sevenup@netcom.COM -- C.I.S. 70741,325
-------------------------------------------------------------
  "I speak for myself and those who agree with me !"   ;-)
From: opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 98pl5 dumps core on "xmkmf"
Date: 23 Nov 92 02:54:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov23.025437.22056
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I have not had any problems with pl5 other than the fact that xmkmf no longer works, if I boot my pl4 kernel it works fine...the xmkmf is from the xfree86 dist.  and I have 8 meg ram 100 meg IDE, 486/33/dx.......anybody else having prbs with xmkmf and pl5????
From: waa@mars.cs.umbc.edu (William A. Arbaugh; Phd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X3861.1 Xconfig entry for Diamond SpeedStar+ 1MB
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:25:24 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Computer Science Department

Does anyone have a working entry for the Diamond SpeedStar+ with 1 MB?
I've tried several things.  Most of the time the server will error out
with different clock settings.

				thanks, bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: linux-man and linux-serial
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN  USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:10:27 GMT


I would like to announce the demise of the linux-man@stolaf.edu and
linux-serial@stolaf.edu lists.  It is not too sad -- they are now
being maintained automagically by the MailNet software.  Their
replacements are:

linux-man -> DOC channel
linux-serial -> SERIAL channel

If you don't know how to join, send an empty message to
linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi, and you will get an
autoresponse telling you how to join, use, and leave the channels on
the mailing list.

michaelkjohnson
johnsonm@stolaf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vaz@eagle.TC.cornell.edu (Craig Metz)
Subject: logout updating who display
Reply-To: vaz@eagle.TC.cornell.edu (Craig Metz)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:11:59 GMT


	Might I ask exactly what program updates the /etc/utmp file such that
users who have logged out don't show up as logged in anymore? I installed SLS
and my system handled this procedure properly, but since installing poe-IGL
and admutils (latest versions), my system does not properly handle updating
the utmp file when a user logs out to reflect the user not being logged in any
more. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this problem may be fixed?

							-craig
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:46:28 -0500 
From: "Hollis M. Schuler" <hs02+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Ethernet Cards

What is a good & cheap Ethernet Card to use with Linux...  i.e.  what is
compatiable & has drivers even if it isn't the fastest.

Hollis.
---
From: opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: xfish2.0 won't compile!!
Date: 23 Nov 92 03:01:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov23.030116.22594
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I am using 98pl5 Xfree86v1.1 and Gcc2.2.2d7 with 48633dx and 8 meg ram/ 10 swap

gcc -fwritable-strings -fomit-frame-pointer  -g -m386 -DNO_ASM  -I. -I./fishmaps -I/usr/X386/include  -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE       -Dlinux  -DFUNCPROTO=11 -DNARROWPROTO    -c xfish.c -o xfish.o
xfish.c: In function `parse':
xfish.c:178: warning: passing arg 2 of `strcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast
xfish.c: In function `init_colormap':
xfish.c:989: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
xfish.c: In function `init_pixmap':
xfish.c:1221: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit declaration
xfish.c:1167: warning: previous implicit declaration of `malloc'
xfish.c: In function `init_signals':
xfish.c:1471: storage size of `vec' isn't known
xfish.c: In function `initialize':
xfish.c:1495: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit declaration
xfish.c:1167: warning: previous implicit declaration of `malloc'
xfish.c:1525: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
xfish.c: In function `high_res_sleep':
xfish.c:1960: warning: passing arg 2 of `select' from incompatible pointer type
xfish.c:1960: warning: passing arg 3 of `select' from incompatible pointer type
xfish.c:1960: warning: passing arg 4 of `select' from incompatible pointer type
make: *** [xfish.o] Error 1
#

It looks like a really neet program if it would compile...
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: deutsch@euclid.math.colostate.edu (jesse deutsch)
Subject: Re: Problems compiling / installing .98p5
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:10:52 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins

By the way, where are all the header files for C in the
SLS release 0.98.5?  There is something called include.taz
but it has only some, not all of the standard header files.

Thanks for help.

Jesse Deutsch

#include standard disclaimer
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: a shell idea
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:36:57 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




i was thinking that one could create a "super" shell which understood
the syntax of all the major shells: csh, tcsh, ksh, sh, bash, ash, etc.
of course, size would be affected, but imagine the power, not to 
mention the end of all the bickering.


Any ideas????
bye


-- 
maThiEu a. LeWis     "Don't ask me/what you know is true/don't have
cyber-mercenary       to tell you/I love your precious heart/I/I was
Thieves Like Us       standing/you were there/two worlds collided/and
mal11@Po.cwru.edu     they could never tear us apart." 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dchan@world.std.com (Dan Chan)
Subject: Manuals for Linux
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:48:03 GMT

Where can I get the manual for Linux? or is that just simply not available?
.
From: laakkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Laakkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Q: mcopy messed up my C: partition, how?
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:05:31 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

i am using DrDos 6.0 && here is my /etc/mtools:

-----------------------
A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0
B /dev/fd1 12 0 0 0
C /dev/hda1
D /dev/hdb1
-----------------------

chkdsk reported that some '.taZ' files were causing problems on my 16
meg C: partition. luckily i didn't have anything important there. 
i decided to format C: after i had done a flakey chkdsk /f, 
but the problems persisted!!!

can someone tell me how this can happen? i'm inclined to think it's some
kind of DrDos bug, especially after my disk partitioning experiences
with DrDos...

not too happy at the moment.

-tero
From: Bill.Saunders@launchpad.unc.edu (Bill Saunders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: InterViews and MODGEN?
Date: 21 Nov 92 05:08:56 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service


	Hello,
	I just read the discription of interviews.  Am I correct in
guessing that InterViews is sort of like Visual Basic.  Can you draw the X
interface to your program then add the code to make it work?  If not what
is the easiest way to write X programs?
	I think I saw something posted a while back about an sc
spreadsheet file that would do the monitor calculations.  I think it was
called modgen.? and was supposed to be placed on tsx.  Does anyone know
where that is? 
					Thanks,
					Bill Saunders
					bills@outlaw.uwyo.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle)
Subject: Re: Printing on a deskjet ?? 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: steve@rama.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:23:01 +0000


In article <722312538.AA21705@remote.halcyon.com> Ron.Howard@f1.n2250.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>HELP!
>        I have an HP Deskjet 500C printer and a problem. When ever I 
>print from linux all I get is linefeeds no CR. On my printer this prints
>one line and then all the rest is off the page.
>        Can someone tell me how to get linux to add CR to its lines?
>

Compile the following program, and then re-direct its output to your
printer. E.g.

            cc -o setdj setdj.c
            setdj > /dev/lp1



#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
	printf("\x01b\x026\x06b\x033\x047");
}
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (CROSBY MATTHEW JAMES)
Subject: Re: multi-user linux games
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:04:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.161406.1986@r-node.gts.org> tfoley@r-node.gts.org (Tim Foley) writes:
>
>   By the way, whats the diff between Chainsaw and Ksu?

Ok.  Basically, Chainsaw *is* KSU, with lots of new options and neat features
added.  Empire has many variations, all build on top of each other:

There where several archaic versions from various sources, one of which being
PSL.
BSD 1.1 took PSL and rewrote it.  BSD is the basis for modern empire.
KSU added and expanded to BSD:  It added bmap, several option, ship names and
  the renaming of planes (fighter 1's to Sopwith Camels, for example)
Merc expanded on KSU, and added more neato features
Chainsaw expands on Merc and adds lots of neat options, like slow_war and
the move command emulating exploring  (can't remember what that is called)

The point is,  Chainsaw can be made to run just like KSU (or even BSD).  It
is basically just a collection of optional patches applied to the earlier
versions.

In short, Chainsaw is the correct one to port.


(Then there are other miscellaneous versions, like Kansas State (the other KSU)
and the fabled BSD2.0, but they are not important)

More information can be found in Versions of Empire, a monthly faq in
rec.games.empire.


-- 
-Matt
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net!!!!
mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu     or     crosby@cs.colorado.edu
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:15:50 -0500 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: GCC 921113 and 98p5/fscsia-06

Anybody had any problems building the kernel with this configuration?
I can do everything *except* build seagate.o.  The compile dies with
a:
seagate.c: Line 714: gcc2_compiled already defined

The funny thing is, I can't even find a macro on that line!

                                  -Brian

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From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Just when I thought I was catching up ...
Keywords: 0.98pl5, SLS
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:56:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov18.195626.21694
Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle

Sigh...  In the time allowed me by my busy research schedule and computer-
jealous girlfriend, I have been attempting to get a working configuration
of Linux on my home PC, mainly to run fortran programs, and do word 
processing in LaTeX, under X.  After figuring out a lot about this very
nice system over the last two weeks with SLS (containing 0.98pl1),  I notice
that the new SLS with 0.98pl5 is out and there are a whole bunch of changes
over there.  And supposedly Linus going to bring out 0.99 in two weeks?!!
How do I catch up?

Specifically...
Is it better to 
	a)  apply 0.98-patch1, -patch2, -patch3, -patch4, -patch5 and remake
	    my kernel,

	b)  get the tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/sources/system/linux-0.98.5.tar.Z
	    and make that
	   (and having done either (a) or (b), where do I put this stuff.  
	    Is there an appropriately named README on this?),

	c)  after updating the kernel using either a) or b), then pulling in
	    all the patches for t1-5, x4-8, assorted a's, b's, and c's, and
	    trying to get them all installed one by one,

	or

	d)  get the entire SLS dist. again and reinstall (with the
	    corrections just mentioned by pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca, of course).

Being something of a non-computer-science person, it is a little frightening
to change one thing at a time, since I am never quite sure if I am doing
something that will break the system.

While I am baring my soul, I have some other questions:

1) Can LILO allow the option of choosing either a DOS or Linux boot _during_
the boot process, or do I have to use BOOTLIN?  How do I actually make BOOTLIN
work (that would be tolerable)?  Do I have to put more options on the line
in my CONFIG.SYS?  E.g.

	DEVICE=C:\BIN\BOOTLIN.COM C:\BIN\LINUX098.PL1 [more options?]

What should I be starting BOOTLIN with... a copy of the Linux Image, or what?
And why is it that the BOOTLIN documentation sometimes mention BOOTLIN.SYS, 
but the ZIPfile actually comes with BOOTLIN.COM?  Isn't the DOS (gag) convention
to have a .SYS file in the CONFIG.SYS file?

2) Does the latest SLS emacs now come with at least /usr/emacs/info/dir, so that
even though the main online documentation is missing, other info files can be
read through emacs (they *do* come with SLS, after all :-> ) ?.

3) Should I just go with what I have for now, and wait for Linux 1.00 to come
out?

My sincere thanks to those who choose to answer this and those who have been
helping me so far.  What a great system -- Linux *and* comp.os.linux! 
-- 
 ==========================================================================
  L.G. 'Ted' Stern    ---       Mostly a Grad Student Peon . . .
  stern@amath.washington.edu
  lstern@orville.nas.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
Subject: fifo's
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:21:05 GMT

(as in 'mkfifo' - named pipes).

Do they work?  If so, how?
From: foustwf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: pl4 in SLS
Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:28:47 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: foustwf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

peter or anyone else:
	When  do you think pl4 will be integrated into the SLS package?
I'm forced to re-install linux because of the old Maxtor 7213 problem,
and is I have to do that,  I'd rather just wait for the new SLS package :)
(Yes I'm lazy...)
		Thanks,
			Bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: browland@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brent Rowland)
Subject: basic vga 640x480 in X
Keywords: X vga 640x480
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 03:20:47 GMT



  I just installed the SLS .98.1 and am having difficulty getting
X to go anywhere.  The graphics card is rather limited, having
the oddball REALTEK chip set and only 256K of memory.  I would really
like to at least get it going in standard vga 640x480 mode, but I
don't know what to put in the Xconfig file.  The 256K of memory
will limit it to 16 colors in anything over 640x400.  Any suggestions/
complete Xconfig files :-> will be most welcome.

Thanks,

Brent "I want a Unix Word Processor" Rowland     browland@nyx.cs.du.edu

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