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   From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
   Date: 11 Jan 93 21:00:06 GMT
   References: <michaelw.726417607@mcshh.hanse.de> <1993Jan7.174127.3075@super.org> <1993Jan9.002313.12543@brainiac.mn.org>
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   In article <1993Jan9.002313.12543@brainiac.mn.org> jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock) writes:
   >In article <1993Jan7.174127.3075@super.org> becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
   >>The 3c501 is an ancient product with documentation that's no longer
   >>being printed.  It has a single packet buffer that is shared between
   >>transmit and receive.  By this I mean that when you have a packet it
   >>cannot receive another packet.  While you are offloading
   >>that packet it cannot receive a packet.  While you are loading a new
   >>packet to transmit it cannot receive a packet.  While you are waiting
   >>to transmit it cannot receive a packet.  While... well, you get the
   >>idea -- you miss most packets.  And I haven't even started describing
   >>the bugs.
   >
   >I have used 3c501's for a long time, and yes they suck, but you are totally
   >full of crap.  They work fine for some applications.  People are giving
   >them away, and they beat the hell out of a SLIP line, which is what you
   >would probably be running if you didn't have ether.  Please just shut up.

I am currently running mach/i386 on my box, with a 3c501 card.
I see throughput of about 150 K/s which isn't bad at all.

considering the cost of the card, it is much better than 0 K/s


-- craig
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcallist@logdis1.SM.AFLC.AF.MIL (Ron McAllister)
Subject: X/mouse
Reply-To: mcallist@logdis1.SM.AFLC.AF.MIL (Ron McAllister)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:46:05 GMT

Hi.  I succesfully installed the SLS X distrubution, and after modifying
the Xconfig (thanks for all the nice modegen stuff SLS) I got X up and
running (altho very slow... I will be upgrading from 4 to 8 meg DRAM soon).

Unfortunately, I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del after a power glitch, and now whan
I "startx",  the mouse does not respond.

Mouse: no-name, /dev/ttys0

Is there an initilization file that X uses that may be messed up ?

Also, can anyone reccomend a Great SVGA card for Linux/X <300.00$ ?

Thanks.
Ronan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.std.c
From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: Library 4.1 bug/feature?  fopen("fifo","a") fails
Followup-To: comp.os.linux,comp.std.c
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:05:15 GMT

H.J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) wrote:
: Have you tried my test code? Some Unices just ignore lseek (). FIFO is just
: one type of file, on which lseek cannot be done. We have char devices and
: sockets. I prefer stdio should not know so much details about the kernel.

I tried it under SVR4 and it also reports an error in lseek when run
on a fifo.

David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Subject: Wanted Man page for gdb
Organization: camaro
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:43:12 GMT


   If anyone has the man page for GNU gdb, could you please email me a copy.
 
 							Thanks


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From: martinf@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Martin Froehlich)
Subject: TVM monitor patameters wanted 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:23:06 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.
Keywords: TVM X Linux

Hi everybody!!

I have a (very) old TVM monitor (grayscale 12inch) and i don't know
the parameters (H freq. V freq. usw) to set up my X system.
Could anybody MAIL me these parameters?
Just from any gray TVM monitor you know about (with precise type mentioned,
please).
I bought my monitor used and and every label (even those on the back side)
had been removed (i don't know why). 

Thank you in advance

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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: quick q
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 18:44:22 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan)) writes:
> In article <1993Jan7.034007.26946@sfu.ca>, wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
> writes:
> |> In article <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
> |> (William T. O Connell) writes:
> |> >In article <1993Jan6.071608.4248@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Pe
> |> Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
> 
> |> trying to ask is that (root@softland) thing.  Well. Considering he
> |> didn't specify where, I could be given some leeway in interpretation here.
> |> But like, for that (root@softland) to be changed to (root@?????), I think
> |> he'd need to recompile the kernel under the ????? hostname, am I correct?
> 
> wrong,....

Not entirely wrong.  The *kernel* prints a banner along the lines of

Linux 0.99 (root@softland) ...

during the boot sequence.  The version and user and host names are set when
the kernel is compiled; thus, mine currently says

Linux 0.99.pl2 (root@kf8nh) ...

because I installed the 0.99.[12] patches, changed the busmouse IRQ, swapped
SCSI support for QIC02 support, mangled the keyboard so the control key is
where us ancient folks expect it :-) and built a new boot disk, *after*
changing my hostname.  (Earlier builds before I changed the hostname
continued to proclaim "(root@softland)".)

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
Subject: Re: HELP me! NFS quit it's job!
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 13:52:06 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


O.K., O.K., I DO appologize!  Always look at the source before
you ask dumb questions. I did have half a dozen different WRONG
mounts. The one in the current SLS does work (kind'o lost count
of my different versions).

Hank.
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: running dos & linux
Date: 12 Jan 1993 14:27:42 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Only one bootable partition.

In article <pcc.726808155@s1.gov> pcc@s1.gov (Philip C. Cox) writes:
>I wanted to make sure that having a bootable dos partition and having a
>bootable linux partition on the same disk will work. I am curious as to
>how you (re)specify the active partition while in linux. Do I just use
>fdisk ( like in dos )? Am I reading more into this that there is?
>
>Phil

First, you should only have *one* bootable partition at any one time.
The best way to go about it is *NOT* to keep toggling back and forth.
You're better off to make your Linux partition *the* bootable one, and
install LILO.  You can tell LILO to give you a choice by simply giving
it more than one boot-option, like so:

	cd /	(/dev/hda2, that is)
	/etc/lilo/lilo -c -i /etc/lilo/boot.b -d 20 -v -v -v \
		msdos=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda \
		linux=/vmlinux

My DOS is on /dev/hda1 and my Linux is on /dev/hda2.  My wife still uses
my home system for DOS, and she doesn't care to learn UNIX yet, so I make
DOS the 'default' OS by listing it's boot-option first.

Thus, whenever I boot I have two seconds (20 x 0.1s) to press [Ctrl], [Alt],
[Shift], [Caps Lock], or [Tab].  If I don't, LILO loads DOS.  If I do, LILO
asks me which OS to boot.

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
Subject: WYSE Terminals and Linux
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 21:11:39 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

Hi,

Recently I have inherited a couple of old WYSE Terminals and would like
to try and hang them off of my linux box as dumb terminals.  After some
effort and little success, I thought I'd see if anyone else has done this
successfully.  If so, I would very much like to correspond with you.
What I have thus far done:

1.  Copied wyse termcap entries from the SUNs at the University
2.  Added an entry in inittab for the wyse terminal:

ttys0:wyse50:/etc/getty 9600 ttys0

(I also tried ttys0:wyse50:/etc/uugetty ttys0 9600 - with no luck).

Unfortunately, the terminals have no docs so I'm somewhat in the dark
as to what to try.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Jean.
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From: plph@engin.umich.edu (Mark Montague)
Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:47:12 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <bkBSb$li@twinsun.com> junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano) writes:
>Here is a better and simpler way to do this.  Let's put the
>following sentence somewhere in the FAQ.
>
>	When you ask questions in c.o.l., put an extra `.'
>	(period) character after `?' in your subject line.  This
>	tells people that you _have_ read the FAQ, so that
>	helpful linuxers can ignore questions from people who
>	haven't even read the FAQ and don't follow this
>	convention.
>
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VERY good idea!  I hope this is made a standard policy.

Mark Montague
plph@caen.engin.umich.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Henning Spruth)
Subject: Re: rlogind & telnetd together act funny
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:26:52 GMT

gbothe@desire.wright.edu writes:

>Well, I got rlogind finally working from the net-bin-0.2 distribution.
>However, I have a small problem between telnetd and rlogind.  The
>two seem to use the same port!!  If I rlogin to my Linux machine,
>then telnet to my Linux machine, then log off the telnet session, my
>rlogin session logs off too!!!  They both (for the first session) behave
>I am using Linux 0.99pl2 with the net-bin-0.2 distribution.  Any help
>would be appreciated...  

We have exactly the same problem (kernel 0.99pl2, net-bin-0.2).

Henning

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Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:23335 comp.unix.bsd:11071
From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:50:15 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Regarding 386BSD vs. Linux...  What about C Library compatiblity with the
bulk of packages obtainable from the Internet.  Univel (Novell/USL) may well
stop the anti-BSDI suits so the valuable development work on BSD can continue
for another decade, but ignoring legal issues,

  Which provides the greatest level of compatibility with the bulk of
  packages available off the Internet, so far as the c libraries are
  concerned?  386BSD or Linux???

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tiller@quattro.me.uiuc.edu (Mike Tiller)
Subject: Re: need Xconfig for Diamond Speedstar
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:42:52 GMT

>Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov> writes:


>>ok, I know you're out there.....
>>seriously, could one of you with a Gateway2000, CrystalScan1024ni, and
>>the Dreaded Diamond Speedstar video card email me your Xconfig file?
>>Thanks In Advance,

>>Alex.
>>kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov

>Sorry to have to tell you this, but as far as I know the Diamond Speedstar
>is not supported. Nor, will it ever be supported in XFree86 because of
>the way diamond acts about releasing specs.

>I haven't heard any success stories about running one, so I'm not
>real sure if it will. With the variable dot clocks, X can't seem to lock
>down the screen correctly.

>James

BZZZZT!

You can run the Diamond Speedstar cards.  Some (not all) of the cards
have variable dot clocks.  If you have one with a variable dot clock
you need to get the clock set before you run X.  My current way of
doing this is to boot windows (the driver sets the clocks for me) and
then warm boot over to Linux.  Now there are two other ways I know of
to do it (within Linux).

1) choose a text mode that has the clock you want.  Not the best way,
   but people tell me it can be done.

2) get a program capable of setting the dot clocks.  I've got something
   someone e-mail to me that is supposed to be able to do this, but I
   haven't tested it.

I have come across many people who use the Diamond Speedstars with
variable clocks so I can attest to several success stories.
True, the card isn't supported and I don't have a problem with that (I
don't expect people working on XFree86 to deal with any of these
headaches), but it is usable...

UNSUPPORTED != UNUSABLE

Michael Tiller
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "david shadoff" <david.shadoff@canrem.com>
Subject: list of stuff that wo
Reply-To: "david shadoff" <david.shadoff@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:51:23 EST

To: STDN@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU

In message <09JAN93.16268680.0012.MUSIC@MARISTB>, you write:

>Here's a project that I would be interested in overseeing/doing
>or whatever.  Maintaining a list of software that people have
>sucessfully ported over the Linux.

> ... stuff deleted ...

>Anyway, what I had in mind was something like:
>
>Program Name:
>Obtained from:  (ftp site and subdirectory)
>Brief Description:  (something like database, cute shoot-em-up game)
>Compiled Under: (Kernel version, GCC version(or whatever lang),
>                 library version)
>Special Dependencies: (stuff like needs X, or Needs CLISP and joystick)
>Needed Changes:  (Changes you had to make.  This is the only part

Sounds like a good idea.  Maybe this could be turned into a FAQ or
stored in a public archive or something.

I would like to suggest that kernel version AND release type and
number (ie. SLS distribution as at xx/xx/1992) be kept.  I also
suggest that they be basically mandatory.

 - Dave
 
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From: minnear@ll.mit.edu (Robert Minnear)
Subject: PEX and Linux
Originator: minnear@ll.mit.edu (Robert Minnear)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:01:43 GMT


I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences with using PEX
with Linux?  If so, could you drop me a line about them?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: khockenbury@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Subject: Anyone working on diskquotas and acl's?
Organization: Stevens Institute Of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:53:09 GMT

    I was wondering if anyone was working on diskquotas and acl's
(access control lists) for Linux.  I know there were old (.96?)
diskquota patches, but is anyone working on it currently?  ACLs are
used for finer file control than the standard unix "ugo" stuff, and
both are features of many "modern" unix os's (AIX, HP-UX). 

    Just thought I'd ask before I started poking around through the 
source.  Thanks!
	-Kurt Hockenbury
khockenbury@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
Subject: Re: BUG of feature: cannot move `foo' accross file systems
Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:07:58 GMT

>Note that GNU mv already does something similar with regular files (ie
>it copies them across filesystems and then unlinks the original file if
>the copy was successfull), but symbolic links aren't the only thing mv
>won't touch.  Directories, named pipes and any other special files share
>their non-movability with symlinks - understandable, as moving them can
>result in funny behavior (especially trying to move a directory by
>copying it and then removing it is so fraught with race-conditions that
>it's not really worth it). 

Well, I maybe didn't realize that moving accross file systems is done in
mv, not in kernel (although I have known this for long, really), so my
first post was a bit confusing. I don't want more functionality to the
kernel itself.

It is, however, annoying that mv handles plain files and symlinks
differently here. And, as I mentioned, there are platforms where you can
actually mv symlinks from fs to another. I understand that moving
directories and other special files is so tricky that it needn't be
handled even in mv.

So, would it be The Right Thing to modify GNU mv? What are the systems
that allow/forbid moving of symlinks accross fs's? Does POSIX say
anything about this? What do you think about splitting this newsgroup?
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From: ljk@muse.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Les Kitchen)
Subject: Linux in China
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:37:28 GMT

Howdy Linuxers!

I just got back from a study visit to China.  I stayed at
Southwest China Teachers University just outside Chongqing
in Sichuan Province.  Having brought my trusty laptop with
me, I was able to install Linux and Xmono on their Computer
Science Department's 386 machine.  Is this the first Linux
site in mainland China?


					Les Kitchen.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: Re: Q: Is there NIS (yellow pages) for linux ?
Organization: The Internet
            <1993Jan8.153020.13379@aston.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:54:58 GMT

>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:30:20 GMT,
>>>>> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) said:

Mark> Gerhard R. Kircher (kircher@gandalf) wrote:

Gerhard> does anyone know about a port of NIS (yellow pages) for
Gerhard> linux?  At least a NIS client (ypbind) would suffice.

There is no current freely available NIS implementation that I know
of.  Anyway, ypbind would not really be enough because you will have
to recompile the shared libraries to get everything to use NIS instead
of the standard non-NIS libc versions.

Mark> I don't know of one, but someone from sun said that all the
Mark> apropriate x files should be on any machine they ship.

Please don't do that.  The *.x files that come with SunOS don't have
the appropriate distribution notices in them.  Nevertheless, there are
similar freely available versions of them with the proper notices.  Do
an archie search for tirpc if you want to find them.

Mark> Anyone understand XDR?

XDR is just a fraction of the problem.  It would really be a pretty
big project.  Nevertheless, if you are interested, libc-4.2 fully
supports RPC and the next RPC release will contain said yp*.x files.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: benjie@quack.sac.ca.us (Android)
Subject: Major Help Needed On Monitor and Graphic Card
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 11 Jan 1993 04:35:29 UTC

Hello.
As I am typing right now, my screen is really fuzzy and there are lines
running across it.  This happended after I tried several times on config
the X windows.  During one of those tries, I started the X window and
the screen gets really messy (it was like that every time, and that is
why I was trying to config it), and then when I reboot the computer the
screen went fuzzy like it is now.  I could still see things, but really
fuzzy and I need to try really hard.

I have a Tri-SVGA card with 1 meg memory for the card. 
Any helps are welcome

Benjie

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From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Ftape 1.02 Question
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:03:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: wefunk.1993Jan10.010350.2042
Organization: WEFUNK, The Mothership Connection - Franklin Park, NJ


	The following is a question concerning ftape 1.02 that I recently
downloaded from sunsite.une.edu.  If it's in a FAQ somewhere, I'm sorry,
but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

	I'd like to get my QIC-40 tape drive working with Linux.  I've yet
to be able to make ftape compile for my system.  The docs provided with
ftape are sketchy at best.  I realize that it's supposed to be an ALPHA
version, but if anyone has got it working, I'd appreciate a mailing on
what you needed to do, and how you did it.

Danke.

Mitch

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From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what?  (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:31:04 GMT
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

In article <1993Jan6.221959.19464@sfu.ca> wonge@shnext34.ucslabs.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:

      Like if you look at it, Linux is a good system to run on, but
   if you or your family are more inclined towards DOS/Windows 3.1
   applications, it's quite a tough decision.  Personally, I like
   Linux much better, but the point is that until good spreadsheet
   programs or wordprocessors are ported to Linux, I'm still gonna
   be unsure of keeping it up...

This is "Now What": writing good spreadsheets and wordprocessors
and whatnot.  My idea of a good time, anyway...