HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: whit@Tymnet.COM (Kendall Whitlatch)
Subject: Re: Question and Observations
Reply-To: whit@Tymnet.COM (Kendall Whitlatch)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:56:04 GMT

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
|I am doing the best I can with SLS.  I can't help the fact
|that minor errors on my part result in extra postings on
|the internet.  A hazard of the trade.  What you don't see
|are the countless hours I spent collecting and configuring
|the tcpip system, shadow passwords, the install scripts, etc.
|Please be patient and you will be rewarded.  But if you need
|a finished product now, try SCO or DELL.
|
|Peter

I just wanted to extend to Peter my thanks for compiling the SLS package.
If it wasn't for him I think the spread of Linux would have been VERY
limited.  I personally am not interested in combing through all the FTP
sites trying to find code that I can run on (much less port to) Linux.

Peter takes a pretty good beating here on C.O.L. every time any minor
flaw in the package is found.  I think he needs a little applause for
even attempting the task in the first place.

Thanks again.

Kendall Whitlatch
whit@Tymnet.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: Re: Undefined C library functions
Organization: PC peripheral operational services group
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:57:56 GMT

Sorry, I left out information on the attached post. 
	- Using SLS 99p1
	- Problem didn't arise until sometime after messing 
	  with libraries (see post below)
	
In article <1992Dec26.215216.11318@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>Unable to login, get the following message after entering any login :
>	login: root
>	Undefined C library functions
>		1. ulimit (use getrlimit/setrlimit instead).
>		2. light C shared image (use the real one instead).
>
>	login:
>
>I normally use xdm from my rc file, which works fine. I also don't
>have problems building any executables (i.e. kernel) But, when I
>try to login from a getty in inittab, get the above message refering
>to undefined library functions.
>
>Note that I recently updated to libc.so.4.2. But, I don't know
>if this library is causing the problem because I inadvertently
>deleted some other libaries but restored them from my SLS 99 
>distribution. Maybe I have a symbolic missing link? or missing library?
>
>Any ideas on what is causing this during the login process.
>
>- Bill     wto@ihlpx.att.com
From: ahopelto@mits.mdata.fi (Pasi Ahopelto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TeX and HP Deskjet
Date: 31 Dec 92 09:50:10 GMT
Organization: Microdata Oy

I'm looking for a dvi-driver for Deskjet.  Is there one available via ftp?
I suppose dvi2ps and ghostscript would do the job, does gs have
dj-support?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rosa@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (massimo rossi)
Subject: Help me about installing LINUX
Keywords: HELP
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:22:17 GMT

We want be new linux's users, but we aren't in grade to understand how can we
do for installing it.If Someone want tell us where can we find the software 
and what we do with this to installing it with a 386 + 387 system and if
it increase the speed of graphic working vs Dos system with windows

Thank to All Who Want post us.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: Qic Tape Problems
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:17:50 +0000

In article <1992Dec30.122015.129@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
> 
>   I have most of everything installed happily now for the QIC-02 dist 2c
> drivers, but the mt and mtreset commands keep coming back with
> 
> 	mt: /dev/tape: Invalid Argument
>  
> Anyone found this as well?  Hennus! Help!
>  
> -- 
> 

I get that too - I haven't a clue what's wrong.

BTW - what are the correct mknod settings for a 250Mb drive?

The 150 meg settings gave me a 'density minor bits have changed' error -
have you seen this?  I made /dev/tape with mknod /dev/tape c 12 16,
and the error went away - but I don't know if it's right or not.

It also sounds suspiciously like my tape controller is dead.  Dammit!

Cheers,

Alan.
-- 
+---------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Alan Charlton, Bristol, England | If B.U.R.D. doesn't spell Bird |
| agc@cix.compulink.co.uk         | - what the hell does it spell? |
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| Tel:  +44 454 202706 (after 6)  | ---  W. R. Hearst              |
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From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (never mind)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Serial driver issues
Summary: wire-OR circuit
Keywords: hack chop scrape gouge
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:28:33 GMT
Reply-To: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us


In article 25095@athena.mit.edu, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
>This needs to be added to the Serial FAQ!
>
>Due to limitations in the ISA hardware bus, it is *not* possible for two
>serial ports (to wit, COM1 and COM3) to share an IRQ simultaneously.
>You need to take one of your serial boards and rejumper it to use
>another IRQ, such as IRQ 2 or IRQ 5.  Otherwise, it simply won't work.
>
>It is true that there are some hardware hacks around that allow two
>boards to share an IRQ simulatenously.  Most of them are not reliable,
>and will just get you into trouble; therefore, I do not recommend them.
>
>							- Ted


I agree with Theodore: wire-ORing the interrupt is
an ugly hack!  But for those who insist, here's a
relatively reliable way to do it.
 
1.  Banish all thought from your mind of faking 
this with diodes, relays, or bits of string! 
 
2.  Break the IRQ trace you intend to share. 
Insert a 74LS241 (3-state line driver chip) in the
broken trace:
        
  +5V     11  |~~~\  9  new IRQ 
    ----------|    >---------------(___) card edge    
              |___/   
                | 
   old IRQ      | 19    
    ------------+  
 
The 'LS241 requires +5V on pin 20 and ground on pin 10. 
You can leave the remaining pins (15 of them) unconnected. 
(Mechanical details are left to you.  Make sure the
'241 is physically secure and not shorting to anything.) 
Do this to each card you are hacking.  Do not mix
hacked and unhacked cards on the same IRQ.
Do not use anything but a 74LS241.
 
3.  Pick *one* of the hacked cards and add a 470 ohm 
resistor from the new (shared) IRQ to ground.  This
swamps the pullup on the motherboard, we hope.
 
WARNING:  Nobody will respect your warranty once they 
catch you doing stuff like this, and I can't say I 
blame them! 

DISCLAIMER:  Your hardware will be destroyed if you
attempt this!  Go back!  Danger!  This article does not
represent my employer's opinion, or mine, or anybody's.
I never posted it!  What article?

Cameron
(I'll be away for a week.  Happy Holidays and thanks to
all the kind folks who've helped make this system real!)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Robert Pamer <JZP0113%HUSZEG11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Q: Anon. FTP site with Linux?
Reply-To: JZP0113%HUSZEG11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:29:55 GMT

Hello,

I read about an anonymous FTP site, which is running on a Linux
box. Does anybody knows its internet address or domain name?

Thanks.

                                 Robert Pamer
                                 JATE University
                                 Szeged, Hungary, Europe

                                 E-mail: JZP0113@HUSZEG11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir)
Subject: Re: More install questions
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:53:07 GMT

Hi

A pure, fresch formated msdos disk IS lowlevel formated ! Try it, it worked
at me .

Greetings

- Amir Guindehi
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Gcc 2.3.3 help
Keywords: Eek
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:12:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan3.231223.3450
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <daum.726098715@ee.ualberta.ca>, daum@ee.ualberta.ca (Tanya Louise Daum) writes:
|> Okay, I downloaded all the gcc 2.3.3 upgrade stuff out of tsx-11
|> /pub/linux/GCC and untarred and put it all in the right directories.
|> 
|> But when I go to type "gcc" it says "gcc: can't load library
|> '/lib/libc.so.4' Incompatible version
|> 
|> My libc.so.4 is linked to libc.so.4.2 ( -rwxr-xr-x   1 427      242
						       ^^^
						 	Only one link

|> 607236 Dec 30 04:22 libc.so.4.2) and ( -r-xr-xr-x   2 root     system
					              ^^^
							It has two links,
							But not 4.2.

|> 607236 Dec 30 20:00 libc.so.4)
|> 
|> can anybody help me?
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> "And men are men who till the land, and women are women who weave, fifty men
|>  own the lemon grove, and no man is a slave." -- Herbert Read
|> 
|> Comrade @ LambdaMOO (telnet lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888) daum@bode.ualberta.ca


Boot from bootable root disk and then mount your root partition. After
that, do

cd /mnt/lib
rm libc.so.4
ln -sf libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4

Or try

cd /lib
ln -sf libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4

I prefer symbolic link for shared images.

H.J.
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Qic Tape Problems
Date: 2 Jan 93 13:01:13 GMT
Organization: camaro

In article <725833070snx@weasel.demon.co.uk> agc@weasel.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.122015.129@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
>> 
>>   I have most of everything installed happily now for the QIC-02 dist 2c
>> drivers, but the mt and mtreset commands keep coming back with
>> 
>> 	mt: /dev/tape: Invalid Argument
>>  
>> Anyone found this as well?  Hennus! Help!
>>  
>> -- 
>> 
>
>I get that too - I haven't a clue what's wrong.
>
>BTW - what are the correct mknod settings for a 250Mb drive?
>
>The 150 meg settings gave me a 'density minor bits have changed' error -
>have you seen this?  I made /dev/tape with mknod /dev/tape c 12 16,
>and the error went away - but I don't know if it's right or not.
>
>It also sounds suspiciously like my tape controller is dead.  Dammit!

  Mine is just a 60 meg, but I still get the 'density minor bits have 
changed' as well, almost as though the qic driver defaults to QIC-11 or 
something.
 
  I now have the tape driver rewinding, retensioning, and taptest worked for 
a little bit, but tar, cpio, forget it.
 
  So, mt and my card & Drive work, but I agree with you, I think the ioctl.h 
etc are out.  I didn't use the old ones though, I used the new ioctl.h and 
file.h from 0.99p1, so there might be some subtle difference.

  Have you found the source for GNU's mt?  I can't find it around...
 
>
>Cheers,
>

'Hic....Whats this Reset button for...Hic....oops.....Hic'
 
(God I hate New Years Parties...)



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir)
Subject: Re: ps in linux .99p1 broken?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:51:37 GMT

Right ! Worked all !
For now I'm a happy Linux User !

Thx all !

- Amir Guindehi
From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: cp foo.graphics /dev/lp1 is slooooooooow. ANSWER!
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:30:37 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu (James Wiegand) writes:
>johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson) writes:
>>bernd@iamk4526.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Wiebelt) writes:
>>
>>   This has been asked before, but not yet answered.
>>
>>BZZZZZZZZZZZZT!  Wrong.  I have posted twice about this already.

>Actually, the answer is quite simple and no secret.
>Increase the value of LP_INIT_CHAR until you are happy.
>I have:

>#define LP_INIT_CHAR 250000

If you have these problems, please start by trying LP_INIT_CHAR 500,
and if necessary go even higher. Furthermore: at the moment it works,
mail the number to MKJ, so that he knows the results for different
printers!

>in include/linux/lp.h and get the same throughput as before. Otherwise,
>I was getting one line of graphics every 20 minutes. Pretty sh*tty!

The problem is that your printer is so slow in reacting, that the
driver thinks its buffer must be full. My 7 year old EPSON reacts
after 210 tries, so it is reasonable to assume that everything else is
faster than that, and certainly faster than 250! Well, it seems this
is not true.

Please note that it doesn't only have advantages to make the number as
high as you can, because when the printer buffer is really full a lot
of CPU time will still be spent trying to print one more character.

If you have a very fast laserprinter you may even want to lower the
number: that's what the new tunelp program will be able to do on a
running system!

>jim
>When in doubt, there is always the source code!

True.
-- 
Rob W.W. Hooft,  Department of crystal and structural chemistry
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)
====Use a Real Operating System on your 386: Linux is FREE!====
From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: What is NFS server latest version? Having server problems.
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:30:40 GMT
Organization: Public Domain Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Is there a later version of the NFS server than exists in the SLS
distribution? The client works great, but the server barely works for
me. I can mount (from a Sun) and do a directory. I can even access small
files. But the minute I try to acces a larger file, it locks up. After
that, I can't access the partition anymore until I reboot the Linux
machine.

Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks

--
Seng-Poh Lee    <splee@pd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Alex Nemirovsky <AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Graphics/Animation for Linux
Reply-To: AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:31:14 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone know of any really good Animation packages for
Linux.

And if there are any good paint packages.

I have downloaded ImageMagick, and PBMplus.  I still have not untared them
to have a look so I dont know if they are what I am looking for.

Could someone please suggest some more packages that they know work on
Linux and maybe where they are located?

Thank you.

oh... one more thing..  which Xview package on sunsite or tsx-11 works for
ver 0.98p2?

I got Xview3l2 and Xview2.2.  Xview3l2 came with OLWM but without Xview and
Xview2.2 does not compile because I guess it is for an older version of
GCC?

Thanks again!

                                        - Alex Nemirovsky
                                          Larry Tech Univ.
                                          Southfield, MI
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca (Giles D Malet)
Subject: SED is buggy (library bug ?)
Organization: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:57 GMT

I got the `sed' from the GCC disk about 3 weeks ago, and noticed it made a
mess of a couple of cnews' reports. So, a couple of days ago, I got the
SLS one, to find it is also buggy. In fact, it is the same `sed' :-(

Here is the problem :

$ echo xxxfooyyy | sed 's/x*\(foo\)y*/\1/'

should print just `foo' (ie substring 1 in the left part of the pattern) -
instead it prints the whole lot.

My old sed comes from the first release of the shared libraries,
and works fine. It currently uses libc_v2_11c. As a test I linked its
intermediate file ( .a ? can't remember) with the new libraries to form a
static module. This also produced the buggy output, which is what makes
me think something is wrong in the libraries.

This is gcc 2.2.2d, jump libc.so.4.2, and its static libs.
OS is v0.99 with tcp patches, but this failed on 0.98P5 as well.

Anyone have any ideas ? If someone can tell me where I can find the
source for sed, I will pursue this further myself.

BTW - the `newsdaily' reports in cnews are the only things I have noticed
so far that are being upset by this bug, despite a pretty busy system, so
it appears `safe' to use the buggy one. Either I do, or I get `old stat()
call' msgs all over the place...

-- 
Giles D Malet                                             gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca
Waterloo, Ont, Canada       +1 519 725 5726       gdmalet@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
From: mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (--)
Subject: Answers to a couple of common SLS Questions
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: 2 Jan 93 23:23:10 GMT


LILO and changing default video mode:
    After running 'rdev -v /Image -whatever', RERUN /etc/lilo/install
    TO MAKE THE CHANGES TAKE EFFECT.  (I'm using LILO .5, this may
    have changed for later versions)

Missing linux header files:
    Get and install the kernel source package from the 'b' series.
    Most things that I've compiled have needed headers found in
		linux/include/linux and
		linux/include/asm.

----

    To anyone able to make such a change to SLS, I think the
/linux/include/asm and /linux/include/linux headers belong in the 'c'
package.  From the number of people who have asked about the headers,
there must be a lot of people installing the 'c' series without the 'b'
series.  And I doubt most of these people need the *full* kernel source.

--
Michael Lo
mlo@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.questions
From: w_stef@athalia.unibw-hamburg.de (Stefano Ianigro)
Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii
Organization: University of Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:42:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.065116.16162@Princeton.EDU> bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:

   In article <BzoF8I.2CE@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> tglovie@sail.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
   >Hello,
   >
   >I was wondering if there is such a beast as a postscript to ascii
   >converter?  

   There's something called ps2txt.  The results are pretty ugly, but look
   better after piping through fmt.  Sorry, I don't know where to get it.

   Barbara Vaughan

I think a better solution is to grab the psf-package. It can be used as a 
filter system for PostScript-printers and as a converter for ASCII->PostScript.
You'll find it on several ftp-servers. The current version is psf-3.5

Happy Linuxing and merry christmas to you all, especially to Linus for his
great work!

Cheers

Stef
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:50:20 GMT

In article <FURNISH.92Dec25222554@dino.ph.utexas.edu> furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish) writes:
>In article ... (Stefano Ianigro) writes:
>
>   In article .. (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
>
>      In article ... tglovie@sail.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
>      >Hello,
>      >
>      >I was wondering if there is such a beast as a postscript to ascii
>      >converter?  
>
>      There's something called ps2txt.  The results are pretty ugly,
>      but look better after piping through fmt.  Sorry, I don't know
>      where to get it.
>
>      Barbara Vaughan
>
>   I think a better solution is to grab the psf-package. It can be
>   used as a filter system for PostScript-printers and as a converter
>   for ASCII->PostScript.  You'll find it on several ftp-servers. The
>   current version is psf-3.5
>
>For another data point, I use something called a2ps.  Use archie to
>find it, I can't remember where I got it.
>

Isn't the original poster asking for the reverse, i.e. PS to ascii?

Barbara Vaughan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: xdm without rc.local
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 06:32:27 GMT

I am working on fixing some of the most commonly posted problems
or requested features for the next SLS.  One of them is xdm.
I have recompiled it, and am trying to find a way to start it 
without putting it in rc.local (ie, from the command line).
Can someone offer up any help?

Xdm, xlock etc had to be recompiled because of shadow passwords.
Effectively, these programs, plus any others that let new users
into the system (ie, check passwords), must now be suid root.
Ditto for ftpd.

In addition, shadow passwords uses its own set of interfaces that
is like, but different from getpwent, getpwname, getgrent, etc.
I have crafted an interface that uses macros to redefine these
calls to allow shadow password to fill in the password fields, 
assuming the program is compiled with -DSHADOW_PWD, and is
suid root.  One caveat is that xlock had to be changed to use:

	pw=getpwuid(getuid())

instead of

	pw=getpwnam(cuserid(NULL))

This because of the suid.  If anyone thinks this is a security
problem, let me know.  Xdm need no source changes, other than
to delete a few "extern char *crypt()" defs.

Finally, I don't really plan a new release of SLS until at least
libc 4.2 is released.   I am also hoping that the X11 libs get
recompiled as jump tables.  And of course 1.0 will be out soon.
One change expected is that you will be able to run executables
from the DOS and NFS file systems (albeit with no sharing, demand
loading, etc).  The implication is that disk a2 will no longer
be an image, but instead a DOS disk like all the rest of SLS.
The only problem I forsee is that people with 2Meg will have an
even tougher time installing, because now the whole image will
need to be loaded to run.  Oh well.

Other things that will be there are lpr, a lot of updated binaries
(including sed, which 4.2 breaks),  and some new or missing binaries
and man pages.  The new gcc 2.3 as well.  Hopefully most of the FPQ
(frequently posted queries) will be addressed, so that traffic on 
col can be reduced.

As for interviews, I got it all to compile and it all runs, but
for doc, which core dumps on me.  The doc posted by some others
(Thomas and Mike) also core dump on me.  I have a 387, so don't
know why.  My big problem though is that when I run any of the
IV stuff, the Xserver occasionally catches signal 11's and 
barfs, dropping back out to text mode?  I don't know if this is
due to gcc or X?  If anyone has had better luck, let me know.

Peter.
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca