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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: Questions
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:58:17 GMT

In article <1ek29uINNi1h@bigboote.WPI.EDU> fiji@realsoon.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett) writes:
>	Many thanks to the people who wrote the SLS it was (relatively)
>painless to install Linux yesterday, I even got X running (in mono).
...
>		I saw the man pages for the dos emulator that SLS installed
>	but I could not get it to work :-(  Does it work or was the one
>	installed with the SLS broken?

You should look at /usr/src/

>	
>		Fianlly my mail is dead, I tried mailing myself but it said
>	segmentation fault when I ran mail or smail, elm ran but no mail was
>	actually sent as far as I can tell.

Great.  Someone finally reports a problem with SLS .98p5!  This is probably
due to the code segment changes in p5.  Other than me forgetting devs.taz of
course. 

Although SLS is finally going to stablize in its current form, the mail
stuff is going to be split off into it's own series, administered by
Vince Skahan (I hope), and will include mail, news, and BBS's.

Aside from this, the main things I want to add to SLS are NFS client
and server, plus nameserver etc (ie, complete TCP/IP stuff).   
This is not to say that other series will not be added.  Interviews is
one I would like to see done right, for example.  
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mc499424@longs.lance.colostate.edu (amine chouicha)
Subject: Novice question: How to write and read from /dev/fd0 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:06:16 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523



 Hi,

 I read the FAQ to know how to write and read from /dev/fd0 but didn't 
 help much. Any idea ? 

  Amine
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: patch for C-Kermit-5A(186)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:02:03 GMT

Here is a patch for C-Kermit-5A(186) that fixes three things with
an "out of the box" compile.

* usleep is used so dialing delays work properly
* TCP/IP is compiled in because it works fine
* RTS/CTS flow control works

A patch to cku186.tar.Z follows.
-----
diff -rc orig/cku186/ckutio.c cku186/ckutio.c
*** orig/cku186/ckutio.c	Tue Nov  3 12:48:06 1992
--- cku186/ckutio.c	Fri Nov 20 20:57:19 1992
***************
*** 3023,3038 ****
  
  #else /* It is ATTSV or POSIX */
  
      if (flow == FLO_RTSC ||		/* Hardware flow control */
  	flow == FLO_DTRC ||
! 	flow == FLO_DTRT)
        tthflow(flow);
!     else if (flow == FLO_XONX)		/* Software flow control */
        tttvt.c_iflag |= (IXON|IXOFF);	/* On if requested. */
      else if (flow == FLO_KEEP) {
  	tttvt.c_iflag &= ~(IXON|IXOFF);	/* Turn off Xon/Xoff flags */
  	tttvt.c_iflag |= (ttold.c_iflag & (IXON|IXOFF)); /* OR in old ones */
  	/* NOTE: We should also handle hardware flow control here! */
      } else if (flow == FLO_NONE)	/* Off if NONE or hardware */
        tttvt.c_iflag &= ~(IXON|IXOFF);	/* requested. */
  
--- 3023,3047 ----
  
  #else /* It is ATTSV or POSIX */
  
+ #ifdef CRTSCTS
+     tttvt.c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS;		/* Turn off CRTSCTS flag */
+ #endif
      if (flow == FLO_RTSC ||		/* Hardware flow control */
  	flow == FLO_DTRC ||
! 	flow == FLO_DTRT) {
! #ifdef CRTSCTS
!       tttvt.c_cflag |= CRTSCTS;		/* Turn on CRTSCTS flag */
! #endif
        tthflow(flow);
!     } else if (flow == FLO_XONX)	/* Software flow control */
        tttvt.c_iflag |= (IXON|IXOFF);	/* On if requested. */
      else if (flow == FLO_KEEP) {
  	tttvt.c_iflag &= ~(IXON|IXOFF);	/* Turn off Xon/Xoff flags */
  	tttvt.c_iflag |= (ttold.c_iflag & (IXON|IXOFF)); /* OR in old ones */
  	/* NOTE: We should also handle hardware flow control here! */
+ #ifdef CRTSCTS
+ 	tttvt.c_cflag |= (ttold.c_cflag & CRTSCTS); /* OR in old ones */
+ #endif
      } else if (flow == FLO_NONE)	/* Off if NONE or hardware */
        tttvt.c_iflag &= ~(IXON|IXOFF);	/* requested. */
  
diff -rc orig/cku186/makefile cku186/makefile
*** orig/cku186/makefile	Mon Nov  9 03:08:47 1992
--- cku186/makefile	Fri Nov 20 18:40:27 1992
***************
*** 1705,1711 ****
  linuxgcc2:
  	@echo 'Making C-Kermit Linux with gcc2.1'
  	$(MAKE) wermit "CC = gcc" "CFLAGS = -O -DPOSIX -DDIRENT -DDYNAMIC  \
! 	$(KFLAGS)" "CC2 = gcc" "LDFLAGS = -ltermcap "
  
  #Microport SV/AT for IBM PC/AT 286 and clones, System V R2.
  #The -O flag may fail on some modules (like ckuus2.c), in which case you 
--- 1705,1712 ----
  linuxgcc2:
  	@echo 'Making C-Kermit Linux with gcc2.1'
  	$(MAKE) wermit "CC = gcc" "CFLAGS = -O -DPOSIX -DDIRENT -DDYNAMIC  \
! 	-DUSLEEP -DCK_RTSCTS -DTCPSOCKET $(KFLAGS)" \
! 	"CC2 = gcc" "LDFLAGS = -ltermcap "
  
  #Microport SV/AT for IBM PC/AT 286 and clones, System V R2.
  #The -O flag may fail on some modules (like ckuus2.c), in which case you 
--
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: winstead@cs.tulane.edu (Teddy Winstead)
Subject: problems w/starting up bootimage
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-16583]: zulu
Keywords: LILO boot
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:03:22 GMT

Hi.  I'm pretty new to linux, and I'm trying to check it out from floppy.
After I get the "Loading....." message, my screen gets scrambled.  My
hardware is a Gateway 2000 486/33MHz w/8megs and a Diamond Speedstar SVGA
card (I don't know what chipset it uses).  I'd really appreciate any advice
that anyone could offer.  Thanks a million.

ted
winstead@cs.tulane.edu
From: bsp10@cd.amdahl.com (Byong Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: diku muds
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:21:41 GMT
Reply-To: bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I do remember someone asking if anyone has ported the Dikumud source code to 
linux.  Well, I think I finally have a version that seems to work ok.  I had
to take out some of the Linger stuff and comment out some code here and 
there.  If people are interested I can upload the diffs or just my source 
to tsx.... let me know...

Byong

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gerd@zaphod.physik.fu-berlin.de (Gerd Buntkowsky)
Subject: Re: X Oak Driver
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:22:36 GMT

archie@cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Gienskey) writes:

>Say, has anybody out there got a X-driver for the OAK Oti 67/77 Chip?
>Ok, it is not a very good VGA, but I have it,
>so please mail me, if you know.

>Thanks.
Hello,
I use the X368mono with an OAK-VGA. It works without any problems.
    gerd




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From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ANNOUNCE: minor Linux TeX update
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:26:21 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


 i've made a slight update to the TeX package in SLS:
 
  1) /pub/linux/SLS/t1/texman.taz   -  mostly std Unix manpages now
  2) /pub/linux/SLS/t1/texbin.taz
     
      a) mf binary now defaults to reading /usr/TeX/lib/mf/macros 
            AND its subdirectories
      b) xdvi is now Karl Berry's version..the main change from
            Paul Volta's src is that it can do subdirectory searches.
            It uses std Tex environmentals if u dont like the default
            (/usr/Tex/lib/tex/fonts//)
      c) texbin.taz has a /usr/X386/bin/xdvi which is just a symlink
            to /usr/TeX/bin/xdvi
 
 hopefully, these changes will fix the problems people have had from
 1) not reading the docs or 2) having XDVIFONTS erroneously set from 
 somewhere (the TeX package, ie t1-t5 in the SLS package, never sets it)
 
 mf and xdvi compiled with gcc 2.2.2d7 , c libs 4.1 and x libs 2.1
 xdvi tested on a file with 401 fonts on my system (kernel 0.98p5)
 
   thomas (tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tsuanian@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: FAQ please
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:02:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.152345.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, tsuanian@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> Could somebody out ther please post me the FAQ to this group,
> or at least let me know where I can get it.  Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> Thanks
> Ian.
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To all those of you who emailed me with the FAQ information, 
Thanks heaps.  I'ts nice to know that in some circles,
knowledge is still freely distributable.

Thanks All.
Ian
From: sdj@acpub.duke.edu (SCOTT JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Upgrading to patch level 3 (and kernel recompile)
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:43:32 GMT

I downloaded the source code for the system, and I deleted the SCSI stuff,
but once I recompile, how do I set the new kernel up as my system kernel?
And how do I make the upgrade from pl1 to pl3 for SLS 0.98?  Thanks! (please
send replies to sdj@acpub.duke.edu.  Thanks again!

--Scott
sdj@acpub.duke.edu
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: WHERE IS THIS (dammed : -) FAQ ???
Keywords: FAQ
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:48:36 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

a2baehr@rzdspc22.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Martin Baehr) writes:
>like as many others I am new to LINUX, and like those others (They were
>to much to count :-), I have problems finding the FAQ. Wouldn't it be
>possible to post the FAQ like: THIS IS THE FAQ OF 'date' ???

I post (or rather my crontab does) an article *every Monday* with the
following subject line:

	Subject: META-FAQ: Linux sources of information

I don't know whether I should change the subject to something more
easily visible, perhaps

	FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ 

would be better?  (Should I go for fancy graphics, sounds, colors, and
animation while I'm at it?)

Or perhaps I should post it every day, or hour, or as an answer to
every query?  Or perhaps mail to everybody who ever has access to
Usenet, Internet, or any gatewayed net?  Heck, I'll just print out a
few copies and snailmail those to everybody on this and the
surrounding planets.

>I think many of us NewUsers would appreciate that. And there wouldn't 
>be anybody asking for the FAQ anymore.

Unfortunately, I am beginning to feel that there will always be
clueless or less than wizardly people around who will ask both where
the FAQ is and questions directly from it.  I've even seen (though not
on comp.os.linux) somebody ask a question from a FAQ as a followup to
the said FAQ.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: archie@cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Gienskey)
Subject: X Oak Driver
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:19:04 GMT

Say, has anybody out there got a X-driver for the OAK Oti 67/77 Chip?
Ok, it is not a very good VGA, but I have it,
so please mail me, if you know.

Thanks.





Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu (Matthew X. Rhoten)
Subject: Classic games, folks
Originator: mrhoten@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Keywords: sail ipc
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:43:47 GMT

Empire is definitely cool, but let's not forget some other really neat
classic multiplayer games out there! Some of the oldest stuff written
for unix was with multiplayer stuff in mind. Grub around on ftp.uu.net
or your favorite comp.sources.games ftp site. Things like the great
game 'sail' sometimes compile right out of the box.

 -matt
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: Re: emacs under X
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:15:07 GMT

In article <GTHAKER.92Nov11132510@trantor.atl.ge.com> gthaker@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker) writes:
>In article <AJB.92Nov9190408@dlsi.dl.ac.uk> A.J.Bleasby@daresbury.ac.uk (Alan Bleasby) writes:
>
>   >This is probably a real easy question, but does anyone know how to make emacs
>   >work under X? It seems to want to stay under the Xterm window.
>
>   Not that easy. You need a version of emacs that has been compiled to take
>   advantage of X. Has anyone done this yet? I'd do it myself only am a little
>   short of disc space..... :-)
>
>Actually this has been done. Try getting from tsx-11.mit.edu
>
>packages/emacs-18.58:
>total 5485
>-rw-rw-r--  1 johnsonm   405733 Oct  6 00:04 x11emacs-shared-4.1.tar.Z   
>
>This works fine withe  /lib/libX11.so.2.1  and will give you what you want.
>
>Gautam H. Thaker (gthaker@atl.ge.com) 609-866-6412 (fax x6397. Dialcom 8-777)
>GE Adv. Tech. Lab., MS 145-2; Route 38; Moorestown, NJ 08057.  767-4396 (home)
>--
>Gautam H. Thaker 

No, no, no ;).
Get emacs-18.59a, the x11 version (something like
x11emacs-18.59a-bin.tar.Z). -58 is broken due to
increased number of files opened simultaneously.

It should be on sunsite, and on tsx-11 too.


			Sincerely

			Rafal

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Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:16965 comp.lang.tcl:1848 comp.os.coherent:5680 comp.unix.misc:4212
From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.tcl,comp.os.coherent,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:45:03
Organization: IDIAP (Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle
	Perceptive)
Reply-To: tmb@idiap.ch
NNTP-Posting-Host: arolla.idiap.ch
In-reply-to: gwlester@cpu.com's message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:08:24 GMT

Someone writes:

   >[replacing items in /bin and /usr/bin with interpreted scripts]
   >
   >By properly partitioning functionality into dynamically loadable
   >libraries most of the necessary functionality ought to be doable
   >in C functions.  In which case the scripting language would only
   >be there to glue C functions together into an application usable
   >by a user.  This should, then, make the `overhead' from
   >interpreted scripts insignificant.

Maybe it would make it insignificant for copying a TeX file or listing
your home directory. However, there are many users (including myself)
of UNIX that routinely work with files that are more than 100M big,
that need to work on lines that have around 1000 blank-separated
fields, and that use directories with hundreds or thousands of
entries.

Currently, tools like "cut", "paste", "join", "sort", and "ls" are not
significantly slower than what I could write myself in C, and I hope
that it will stay this way...

					Thomas.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: machocz@namu01.gwdg.de (M. Machoczek 28823186)
Subject: Re: xtank
Organization: Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:01:18 GMT

In article <1ek5ueINNk52@bigboote.WPI.EDU> fiji@rajeesh.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett) writes:
Path: gwdu03.gwdg.de!Sirius.dfn.de!chx400!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uunet!noc.near.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!rajeesh.WPI.EDU!fiji
   From: fiji@rajeesh.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett)
   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
   Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:12:30 GMT
   Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   Lines: 9
   NNTP-Posting-Host: rajeesh.wpi.edu

	   Where can I get the library libX11.so.2.1 Xtank apparently Xtank
   wants that library and I can not find it anywhere.
		   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.


Try texlib.tar.Z - you will find it in one t1 or t2 of the TexDisks from the
SLS0-Package. There I found the libs I needet for xtank .

Hope this helps 
	Monika Machoczek
From: jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS update
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:48:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: du139-20.jahoward.722105312
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

I happened to notice that when downloading the latest SLS off of
tsx-11 that the disk a5 contains basically nothing.  There was
a file called zafix.taz, but it has a zero length, is this a mistake,
or can the install.end file be put on the last disk (a4) to save
a disk?


Jim

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From: Nicolas.Nowinski@p3000.f349.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Nicolas Nowinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Conference Unix et linux
Date: 20 Nov 92 06:19:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: remote.722438907.AA22022


 > Yves;
 >  Voudrais-tu rendre accessible les conferences unix et
 > linux par Bluewave
 > si c'est possible. Moi je pense que ma configuration
 > est correcte, sinon veux-tu me donner l'information
 > pour les rendre accessibles par bluewave.

    I thought that FIDONet Policy v4.0 calls for using ENGLISH in all
but designated AREAS! ! !

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rpj@fir.canberra.edu.au (Ross Johnson)
Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:21:00 GMT

In <1992Nov20.190818.27245@samba.oit.unc.edu> jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:

>In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>>In article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky) writes:
>>
>>I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
>>be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck.  This isn't an
>>impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
>>think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
>>turn off whenever they want to.
>>
>This isn't really a function of the filesystem so much as U*IX-like os's 
>standard use of buffer caching to speed disk access.  I think that the
>performance hit for disk intensive jobs is higher than you think...
>(try dyking out the buffer cache code in the kernel, if you want to try,
>or easier put sync in the crontab to go off every second, come to think
>of it, thats a way to make a system for people who insist on no buffering)

>as for selling "a system to the masses", apart from the question of whether
>Linux could be sold to the masses and whether that is desirable I think
>that the Macintosh has sold pretty well...

>jem.

DOS PC's running smartdrive should also be added to the list OS's
needing syncing before power down (or hard reset). Incidently, on some
(most?) Unix systems there's a daemon called "update" that will do a
sync as often as you like.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
Subject: Re: Enough memory for X?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:46:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.094620.8917@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>Quick question: I have plenty of hard disk space but only 4M of ram.
>Before I start ftping and downloading mult-megs of binaries for X11,
>should I even bother?  The FAQ says 8M of ram are needed (required?),
>but I'm wondering if I can get away with 4.
>
4 MB will probably work if you have a large swap partition, but will
certainly be slow. What I've seen from looking at my system is that 
with a few X apps running (Xterm, clock, xload) I'm using about 5MB.
I'm running the S3 server, which is a little smaller than the "normal"
XFree86 server but I don't know how the memory usage compares. My
recommendation is to have at least 8MB installed. But like I said,
4MB might work if you don't mind a *lot* of swapping...



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From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: quicken support?
Date: 22 Nov 92 04:50:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ

Does anyone know if there is a version of Quicken that will run under Linux?
Quicken is a checkbook register program that runs under DOS. Are there any
U*IX alternatives for this type of application?

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From: jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xwin broke with 0.98pl3
Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:31:01 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: yoakum.cs.utexas.edu


I currently run 0.98.1, skipping the upgrade to 0.98.2 since all the problems
with it.  However, I have compiled 0.98.[345], and all of them exhibit a
problem with Xwindows.  I start up X, the screen goes into graphics mode,
and then the machine hangs before the X background is drawn on the screen.
I have seen posts concerning this, but not a solution.  X's stderr output
just includes the "no tcp socket" message, and that's it.  It did not
provide a more useful solution.  This problem existed with tcp compiled
in, and left out.

System:

  intel 386/33
  16 mb 60ns ram
  et4000 generic video
  14.4 modem
  maxtor 7213a 213mb HD
  both floppies
  ami bios
  compiled with/without tcp, with math emu, no scsi
  

If anyone has any info, I'd love to know.  SLIP has advanced to the newer
kernels, and I'd like to keep up with the SLIP progress.  Thanks...

-- 
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jeff grills              | "Sometimes i see myself so clearly, because I
jefftep@cs.utexas.edu    |   see nothing at all.  This feeling of emptiness
Undergrad Lab, UT Austin |   flees my soul, leaving even less behind."  -me
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From: ken@psych.toronto.edu (Ken Seergobin)
Subject: free memory in 0.98pl1
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:21:03 GMT

Hi,

Are there any memory problems in 0.98pl1?  According
to 'free' my memory fluctuates dramatically.


Example Session:

1. logon 
2. free

	Total	used	cache	free	shared
	12288	0	2096	8452	0
3. ls
4. free

	12288	0	2228	8308	0
5. df
6. free
	12288	0	2252	8284	0
7. startx
8. free
	12288	5304	7414	0 	376
9. lc
10. free
	12288	5224	7360	84	376
11. ls
12. free
	12288	5248	7376	60	376

Is this normal or should I just switch to 
0.98pl5?

Ken
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