HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: smalltalk on SLS (was Re: SLS update: missing make)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:15:19 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

Since James (and please call me Chip, eh?) has been so kind as to post
a friendly article in reply to a not-so-friendly article of mine, it's
only right for me to respond in kind and in public.

According to jjctc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (James C. Tsiao):
>I feel that it may be easier on users if smalltalk and other extras of
>limited interest was placed in separate series.
>
>This is a difference in opinion.  I don't believe we'll ever change the
>other person's mind.

When we get down to the technical issue, I agree that it _may_ be
easier on users to split out `extras of limited interest'.  But a
problem with further splitting the b? and c? series is that SLS is
useful to a very diverse user population.  Defining `limited interest'
is quite difficult -- to the point that, were I Peter, I would have
little motive even to try.  Imagine the disagreements about whose
interests are limited and whose are general.

>You thought I was complaining about Peter's policies.  And, rightly so,
>you flamed me for doing it.  However, here is my POV:  [...]
>I "complained", not about Peter's policy, but rather the suggestion to
>add the extra c disk from the other poster.

Yes, my discomfiture was based on a misunderstanding.

>    condescend - to assume an air of superiority.
>    pompous - Self-important.  Excessively elevated or ornate.
>Not the same, perhaps, but pretty close.

Granted.

>Mr. Salzenberg, I extend an olive branch to you.  I do not wish to continue a
>flamewar that was precipitated by a misunderstanding. [...] So how about it?

Great.  And I apologize for directing personal criticism at you that
you did not deserve.  I'd have done well to remember the scripture:
`Be swift about hearing, slow about speaking, slow about wrath.'
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mespinoz@dcc.uchile.cl (Mario Espinoza)
Subject: No mouse detection at time, help please
Originator: mespinoz@dcc.uchile.cl
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:34:44 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

I have installed linux 0.98 on a Dell 486P system, it has a PS/2 type
mouse. At boot time none of the mouse types are detected.
Anybody have an idea of what's happening??

Thanks in advance,
					Mario
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
Subject: Smail and TCP
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:31:57 GMT

  I have tcp working for the most part.  I still have a couple of things to
fix up for FTP incoming sessions to work, but that's okay for now.  As nearly
as I can tell, smail is running okay too.  I can send to people on my own
machine and I can send to the outside world.  Now, how can I get it running
to receive mail from the outside world?  Is there an smtpd or something odd
such as that?

Ed
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Backups - what to include ?
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:34:57 GMT

I'm looking for some help concerning coming up with a list of SLS stuff
to backup routinely, especially before upgrades to any of the SLS kits.

I wrote a quickie shell script to do a 'file' on each of the files that
get installed from SLS, then did the 'egrep -v' from hell to get down to
just ascii files...then I pared it down to the attached.

The goal is obviously to only back up config files since at any time
reloading all of SLS is a snap with sysinstall.  Can people please take
a look at this list and tell me what they think is missing?

Be forewarned that I didn't install 'X' yet so stuff like the Xconfig
file is missing.  Same goes for anything TCP/IP-related. Also, I want
to specifically exclude home directories (for now) since what I'm looking
to come up with is a backup list for System Software.

This list applies to the following kits:

base bin bin4 binutils cnews comms devs diff20a elm2417 gcc233 getty
groff gxx233 image inc42 lib42 libm lpr lx99p2 make man man2 menus
nn6418 nn6418m perl shadow shlibs smail syslogd syssetup tin11p4
trn22 usrbin4 uucp zafix zoneinfo

Any help is appreciated !!! If you WANT to include config files that
relate to other packages, please feel free to go wild :-)


----------------------------- list follows ----------------------------
 
etc/fstab etc/gettydefs etc/gettytab etc/group etc/gshadow etc/inittab
etc/issue etc/login.defs etc/minirc.dfl etc/motd etc/mtools etc/passwd
etc/printcap etc/profile etc/rc.local etc/rc.new etc/rc etc/securetty
etc/shadow etc/syslog.conf etc/termcap etc/ttys etc/ttytype

usr/adm/faillog usr/adm/lastlog usr/adm/sulog

usr/etc/printcap

usr/lib/uucp/Devices usr/lib/uucp/Permissions usr/lib/uucp/Systems

usr/local/etc/minicom.users

usr/local/lib/elm/elm.rc

usr/local/lib/news/active usr/local/lib/news/batchparms
usr/local/lib/news/explist usr/local/lib/news/localgroups
usr/local/lib/news/mailname usr/local/lib/news/mailpaths
usr/local/lib/news/organization usr/local/lib/news/postdefltgroup
usr/local/lib/news/sys usr/local/lib/news/whoami

usr/local/lib/smail/config usr/local/lib/smail/paths

----------------------------- end of list --------------------------------


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Subject: Re: S3 801 (Actix GraphicsEngine32)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:55:24 GMT

>   I've been looking into getting an S3 video card for use with X386 (the
>   X-window software) running over linux.  It seems the highest
>   performance cards supported by X386 drivers are S3 801 based.  That is
>   the conclusion I've drawn from last month's issue of Byte's comparison
>   of Windows accelerators.

First off, XS3 != X386. Please do not mess this up. X386 migrated into
a commercial product, and hance has nothing to do with XS3.
Furthermore, X386 1.3 does support also S3 newest baby, the 928. From
what I can tell waiting for the 928 boards to ve is definitvely
worth the time. They will be not as cheap as the 801 based things, but
at higher resolutions much faster. And don't forget, the 801 can only
do 8bpp and 16bpp. The 928 will also do 32bpp if you have a driver for
it.

>   It seems that from the Byte review the best card is the Actix
>   GraphicsEngine32.  A close runner up was the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 VA

From benchmar done here, the 1280VA is substantially slower then
the GraphicsEngine32. Under MS-Windows the benchmarks don't make this
obviouse, since much of MS_Windows performance is related to copy a
Pixmap to the Screen type of operations. There both cards are at about
the same speed. Under X-Window, you'll see the difference in real
drawing speed. Another good 801 card would be the STB PowerGraph X-24.

- Thomas

Oh, BTW, I finally found out what the 801/805 has to do with Porsches:

	8 + 0 + 1 = 9
        8 + 0 + 5 =  13
		    ---
        Porsche     913


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jec@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jerry Chanek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 2 Question From A Linux-Newbie!!
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:49:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jec@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jerry Chanek)
NNTP-Posting-Host: flubber.cc.utexas.edu
Keywords: Help Xwindows newuser

Well, I'm not a programmer, and I hate to ask questions that have already
been answered, but...

1. I need help installing X-Windows!
My system:
		Gateway 2000 386/33
		Tseng 4000 Video Card
		Gateway Crystal Scan Monitor (1024x768)
		Western Digital 202 mg drive
		Western Digital 42 mg drive

I'm pretty sure the drives don't have anything to do with the
configuration of X, but I put them in there just in case.

2. Are there any Linux drivers for a Colorado Jumbo 120 Tape Backup?
    If so, please inform me as to where I can ftp them :)

I appreciate any help that people give me. I'm always willing to return
favors.. :)

Thanks for your help!
jec@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  ********************************
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@hazelrah.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:50:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.062345.1839@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.000807.28623@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de writes:
>>In article 94187@mavenry.UUCP, maven@mavenry.UUCP (Norman Hamer) writes:
>>|> 
>>|> Something I'd like to see in the MKFS/MKEFS program would be a "are you 
>>|>really sure" thing if you try to write a linux filesystem onto a partition 
>>|>which isn't marked as linux... I tried to install the 99p2 SLS release, 
>>|>ended up writing a linux partition over my DOS partition (user stupidity), 
>>|>had to restore from week-old backups... Ugh. While I don't have anyone but 
>>|>myself to _blame_, it sure woulda been nice if it had said "this partition 
>>|>is marked as DOS... use fdisk to change to type 81 before proceeding"... 
>>|>
>>
>>The same applies to mkswap - I once wrote a swap signature into the FAT
>>of my DOS partition (fortunately, I could fix it with dd).
>

Unix assumes that YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, and doesn't burden you
with any protections that are going to get in your way when you don't
want them.  Normal users aren't priveledged, and can't break anything
important.  Root is priveledged, and can break everything.  So, when 
you are root, you should sit on your hands for thirty  seconds after 
typing something, think real hard about weather or not that's what 
you really want to do, and then press enter.

You'll only get in trouble if you let your fingers doing the typing 
get ahead of your brain doing the thinking.


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From: corey@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: libc.2.2.2 renamed?
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:13:29 CST
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

I got the rzsz files from tsx-11.  when i try to run them it says "can't load
library '/lib/libc.2.2.2'".

So i scaned the hard drive and the files dosent exist (i'm running SLS .98) 
anyway.  Was libc.2.2.2 replaced by another filename?  or am i missing a file
due to a hole in the sls distribution?

But more important then that... how do i get it to work?

Corey

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:39:48 GMT

bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) wrote:
>In article <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de> root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
>>It's this:
>>I want to encourage everyone who plans to upload any of his works to
>>ftp-sites to use a file system that is NOT the minix one. The reason is that
>>while names like "page-up-window" match the request "page-up-window.h" when
>>used on that fs, it is a nightmare for everybody using a fs with long names 
>>to rename all the files with truncated names.
>>I would strongly suggest that you use efs or maybe xfs, because the problem
>>is not given the other way round - a long filename untarred into a minix-fs
>>will be shortened and still matched.
>
>	A better solution in my opinion is to use shorter filenames
>(pgup-window.h for example).  Until efs, xfs or some other filesystem with
>longer names becomes the "standard" Linux filesystem; it is preferable that
>packages be usable on matter which filesystem the receipient uses.  If you
>are dealing with a package written by someone else whose distributor assumes
>longer names then this may be more difficult, but I still think it is
>preferable.

In addition, for those of us using the minix filesystem for stability,
we are fased with the problem that if there is, to extend the example,
a page-up-window.c and page-up-window.h, whichever one is second will
overwrite the first with no error when untarring.  This is unavoidable
on packages which originated outside Linux, but it would be nice if
people would provide for the 14-char limit that is still common on
UNIX systems today.

-Dave

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From: hitchie@utopia.hacktic.nl (hitchie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: NFS PROBLEM: Invalid client credential
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:58:35 GMT
Organization: U.T.O.P.I.A.

I'm having troubles mounting my dosbox from linux since i've upgraded to
the latest SLS distribution.

My configuration:

      SLS 1.0 (19 January) kernel upgraded to 0.99-pl4
      3c503 ethernet driver from ftp.super.org:/pub/linux/ethercards
      Compiler GCC v2.3.3

      A dosbox running SOSS v2.3

I'm able to mount the linux machine from the dosbox when using PC-NFS
without any problems. Which means that the linux nfs-server works
fine.

But when running the SOSS NFS server on the dosbox and try
to mount it from linux, this is what i got:

# mount -t nfs -o intr,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 helios:/d /pub
rpc mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential
#

It looks like the dosbox can't handle the credentials i've just send.
Maybe because of a wrong order or it's length was wrong?
Both the hnfsd.log and umountd.log stay empty, so i can't
provide more diagnostics than below.

After debugging i found that the clnt_call() in /bin/mount returns
RPC_BADCRED. It uses the descriptor of authunix_create_default()
which seems to provide wrong information.

This doesn't happen when i mount locally:

# rpcinfo -p
   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
    100005    1   udp    657  mountd
    150001    1   udp    663  rpc.pcnfsd
    150001    2   udp    663  rpc.pcnfsd
    150001    1   tcp    666  rpc.pcnfsd
    150001    2   tcp    666  rpc.pcnfsd
# hostname
comsat
# mount -t nfs comsat:/usr/tmp /pub
# cat /tmp/hnfsd.log

   getattr [1 93/1/25 16:14:44 comsat 0.0+0,2,3,4,7,8,10,12,19,49]
	/usr/tmp
   getattr on path '/usr/tmp'
	 t=2, m=41777, lk=2, u/g=0/0, sz=96, bsz=1024
  blks=1, fsid=1, psi=2013269214, at=727963658, mt=727963658, ct=727963658
    result:0
# cat /tmp/umountd.log
mountproc_mnt_1 [ 1 68 Mon Jan 25 16:14:44 1993 comsat 0.0 (0,2,3,4,7,8,10,12,
19,49) ]
#

Thanks in advance for any help,

               -Marcel Kat

 ---
hitchie@utopia.hacktic.nl (hitchie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
Subject: Booting Linux
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:17:40 GMT

I'm trying to boot SLS, & everything is going on until the message
appears : 

Loopback device init
wd8013

and then machine is frozen. Can you help(email) ? Thank you.
From: mbo@dde.dk (Morten Bonde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with SCSI-disk [maybe a FAQ ...]
Summary: SCSI-disk found but disk entry deleted ...
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:15:14 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S

Hi there.

I'm having some problems with linux 0.99 and my SCSI-disk:

	-	I have build a kernel with SCSI support,
	-	I have set my ST-02 to IRQ 5,
	-	I have disabled caching and shadowing of video-RAM,

When I boot my system I get the following output on my screen:

... [stuff deleted] ...
lp_init: lp1 exists (0)
scsi0: Seagate ST-01/ST-02
Seagate ST-0X SCSI driver by Drew Eckhardt
$header: /usr/src/linux/kernel/blk_drv/scsi/RCS/seagate.c,v.1.1 1992/07/24...
scsi: 1 hosts
	Vendor: ................       <-- I can't remember all the
	Type:   ................       <-- details mentioned here.
Detected scsi disk sd0 at scsi3, id 0, lun 0
scsi: detected 1 SCSI disk 0 tapes 0 CD-ROM drives total
sd0:  unsupported sector size 1024.
scsi: deleting disk entry.
Memory: 6456/8192k available ....
... [stuff deleted] ...


I've looked in the FAQ, but could't find any help on this one.

Maybe the SCSI-disk won't work with my 210 Mb IDE harddisk.

Please send any answers to mbo@dde.dk - I'll post a summary if I receive 
any good clues....



/Morten
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: Why one should use Linux rather than SCO?
Organization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:50:15 GMT

In article <9301170947.aa18196@maria.wustl.edu> mike@maria.wustl.edu writes:
>
>I'm looking for pros (& cons) regarding using Linux for a BBS rather
>than SCO.  Please direct all replies to me via email -- Usenet is 
>unreliable where I can read it from.

- cheaper...free vs ~$2000
- easier to admin (from what I've seen of SCO)
- more complete system 

marc
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: daves@techmpc.csg.mot.com (Dave Schmitt)
Subject: Trouble with KA9Q/SLIP
Organization: Motorola Cellular Subscriber Group MIS
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:58:48 GMT


I've been trying to get KA9Q to talk SLIP with a machine at work
over a modem, but apparently they don't speak the same dialect
of slip, or the terminal server is interfering.  When I try
to ping from the remote end, this is the error message KA9Q
gives:

l0 recv: [Tue Jan 19 20:40:00 1993]
IP: len 84 100.0.0.1->100.0.0.2 ihl 20 ttl 64 prot ICMP
ICMP: Echo Request id 28392 seq 36 CHECKSUM ERROR (4626)
0000  45 00 00 54 00 00 00 00 40 01 b2 a6 64 00 00 01  E..T....@.2&d...
0010  64 00 00 02 08 00 2c d6 6e e8 00 24 00 0e b0 f3  d.....,Vnh.$..0s
0020  00 0e c0 0a 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 12 14 15  ..@.............
0030  16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25  .......... !"#$%
0040  26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35  &'()*+,-./012345
0050  36 37                                            67


sl0 recv: [Tue Jan 19 20:49:09 1993]
IP: len 84 100.0.0.1->100.0.0.2 ihl 20 ttl 64 prot ICMP
ICMP: Echo Request id 28436 seq 18 CHECKSUM ERROR (4626)
0000  45 00 00 54 00 00 00 00 40 01 b2 a6 64 00 00 01  E..T....@.2&d...
0010  64 00 00 02 08 00 cf a3 6f 14 00 12 00 0e b3 9e  d.....O#o.....3.
0020  00 06 1a 80 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 12 14 15  ................
0030  16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25  .......... !"#$%
0040  26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35  &'()*+,-./012345
0050  36 37                                            67

I've tried both slip and cslip on the Linux end, with the same results.
Two questions:

1) Has anyone else seen anything like this?
2) Is it possible/likely I could get a different version of 
   /usr/etc/slipd and drop it into place on the remote machine,
   if in fact slipd is the problem?

Thanks for any suggestions.

-Dave.
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From: voyager@eng.umd.edu (Gebran Krikor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux using HPFS
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:11:52 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
NNTP-Posting-Host: coffee.eng.umd.edu
Summary: HPFS reading is possible
Keywords: HPFS, Source code

In article <727676295.AA34611@remote.halcyon.com> 
Derek.Glidden@f42.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Derek Glidden) writes:

>The major problem with ANY other operating system using HPFS is that, 
>from what I understand, the actual format/structure of the HPFS is still
>
>(C) Microsoft and they're not releasing any details, except to IBM. 
>
>Now, if someone's hacked the details out on their own, that's another 
>story altogether. 
>

The source code to a program to _read_ HPFS partitions, in a limited
sense, can be found on ftp.uu.net (in the published/windowsdos/1991
directory as part of the july (I think) issue.) or I will send copies
of the source to anyone who sends me an email request. 

The program scans an HPFS partition and locates a file which it then
dumps to stdout.  It would make a good basis for at least
a read-only HPFS implementation for Linux.  I'm willing to help
anyone who wants to work on such an implementation.... the source
code is fairly clear, but I'm sure that it will take some
time to develop.

Anyone who wants a copy of the source code, send me email.

Gebran
gebran -- voyager@eng.umd.edu & krikorg@wam.umd.edu & who@knows.what.else
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: paulm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Paul Mantyla 3678)
Subject: Re: Getting started with Linux
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 02:30:46 GMT

iks@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ivan K. Samuelson) writes:
> I'm wanting to install Linux onto my system, but I'm not sure what files I
> need. I have found the Linus directory on wuarchive, but what files are
> necessary to get Linux up and running? I'm looking in the SLS directory,
> since that is what the README file told me to do. I figure I need the files
> a1.Z and a2 and then I need to use rawrite to put these files onto separate
> 3-1/2" floppies, but what else do I need?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 

In /pub/linux/docs/FAQ is a very helpful (and lengthy) FAQ
that will answer most of your questions. This should also
be available in comp.os.linux.


Paul