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From: Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FAQ: Latest version of Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:33:02 -0800

Hello there Joshua!

In a Ditty of <Friday November 20 1992>, Joshua Lee says to All:

 JL> What is the latest version of Linux, and what are it's features
over 0.96?

Boy, that would be a mouthful;-) Many...

 JL> I've got that version, but I know it's not the latest. Since the
gate is
 JL> (hopefully temporarily) down, we don't have the FAQ, so I figured
I'd ask.
 JL> Also, what's the latest news on the gateway? Was it taken down for
some
 JL> reason or is it only experiencing technical difficulties?

The gate has always been up, there was a problem in my net having to do
with a change of routing, it should now be fixed. It took a week for me
to even know there was a problem, nobody netmailed me to let me know;(

Looks like the latest faq will be posted shortly, in the meantime
FAQ10-05.ZIP ia available here, along with many other Faq's.

 JL> Also, any of the latest news about Linux and the latest ports would
be
 JL> welcome here, I have alot of catching up to do.

I keep all the comp.os.linux <-> LINUX messages stored on line here, you
may f'req:

LNX92312.ZIP  435444 11-07-92* Linux Echoid Extracts Oct 31, 1992 thru
Nov. 6,
                               1992
LNX92319.ZIP  487123 11-14-92* Linux Echoid Extracts Nov. 7, 1992 thru
Nov.
                               13, 1992
LNX92326.ZIP  448276 11-21-92* Linux Echoid Extracts Nov. 14, 1992 thru
Nov.
                               20, 1992

Also, there is available a conference for fidonet nodes called
LNXMANAGE, it is a medium for fidonet sys-admns. Although not used much,
it should be available on the bone. Feel free to ask any fidonet related
questions in this conference, there are a few fidonet sys-admins that
are very helpful to those in fidonet.

Catch Ya Later!

Greg

... Conversation enriches the understanding,

 * Origin: S'Qually Holler's BBS Renton, WA. 206-235-0270 HST-DUAL
(1:343/34)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tmpcms@eua.ericsson.se (Carl Michael Skoog)
Subject: Re: Q about Seagate SCSI controller ST02
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:10:58 GMT

agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton) writes:
>connecting a disk.  However, AFAIR the machine should still boot after a 30 second
>or so delay - at least, my machine does :-)

OK, maybe my message was a bit hazy: I can boot the machine from the harddisk
with no problems. I cant access the disk or boot from it, but i got some 
other responses my mail that indicated that i have to disable other diskette
controllers to use the floppies on the ST02 (i didn't do that!).
So everything seems OK after all.

I want thank everyone who has enlightened me, either by mail or news.
No one named, no one forgotten!

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|					|	2 points for ambition,	|
|Email: tmpcms@eua.ericsson.se		|	96 points for hooters!"	|
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From: dkyoon@alnitak.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: My Diamond Stealth VRAM, now works in 1024x768 with the new X386.s3.
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:35:43 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu
Keywords: Stealth VRAM, S3

First of all, here is my hardware configuration:

	home-assembled 386-40 w/8M and Cyrix 83D87-40
	Diamond Stealth VRAM 1M graphics accellerator
	Viewsonic 5+ Multiscan monitor
	Microsoft compatible mouse.

I recently installed the new X386.S3 (X386.S3-0.2a.Z) from 
ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk, and finally got it work well with my card and monitor
in 1024x768 mode.

Here are the steps I followed to make it work (I found this procedure just
by accident !!  But this might work for others who have trouble with clock 
settings.)

- Boot DOS and run Windows 3.1 in 1024x768x256 mode.
  My smode setting is NEC 4FG (70Hz V-scanrate at 1024x768).

- Warm-start the PC (CTRL-ALT-DEL) with your Linux boot diskette 
  in the driver.

- Login and Run startx.

Of course, the above steps are somewhat irritating but should be better
than getting nothing.

Note that with X386.S3, only misc/* and 75dpi/* worked for me.
So you might have to remove other font directories from your Xconfig file.
And of course, you might have to adjust various timings for your monitor
to properly locate the viewing area. (I think you can just try the default
timings in the beginning).  

Anyway, I attached the video part of my Xconfig file at the end of this
article.  Hope this saves someone who wanted to sell his Stealth card
simply because Linux X doesn't support it. (I myself was almost going to 
sell my card and get a new card which is *well* supported by Linux)

Best regards,
DK

===================== My Xconfig file ==================================

# ......
# ......
vga256
# Virtual      1024 768
Clocks 25 50 80

# To disable SpeedUp, use NoSpeedUp
#
#  NoSpeedUp

ViewPort      0 0

Videoram 1024
Modes          "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
ModeDB
# name        clock   horizontal timing     vertical timing      flags
"640x480"     25     640  662  760  800    480  491  493  525
"800x600"     50     800  856  976 1040    600  601  603  625
"1024x768"    80     1024 1080 1300 1320   768  784  787  823



-- 
Dae-kyun Yoon
dkyoon@usc.edu, ..!uunet!usc!dkyoon
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Second Monitor
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:58:01 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
>However, I'm a die-hard Zmodem fan.  How does one use Zmodem (rz/sz)
>with Kermit?  If I knew, I'd use Kermit exclusively for the reasons
>you mentioned above.

I do it like this:

	remote system:  sz whatever
	local system:  ^\c! rz

i.e. I start sz normally, then get to the command line of the local
kermit (the one running under Linux) with ^\c (that's ctrl-\ and a
normal c; btw, your kermit may have a different "escape" character),
then run rz with kermit's ! command.

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
   MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: adelt@imada.ou.dk (Adel Shavandi)
Subject: latex: couldn't read format file!
Summary: latex: couldn't read format file!
Keywords: latex: couldn't read format file!
Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:33:08 GMT



What file does latex want to read before processing my .tex file?!
I will appraciate any hint, since i really need to run latex on
my own machine and i don't know which file is abscent in my system,
or even if i haven't configured my system well enough!

NB: I have installed the tex package of SLS!



			Thanks in advance,

				Ade'l
From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: who creates the superblock?
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:05:37 GMT
Organization: 3-B Technology

In a prior message, I made comment about having some problem with booting
using LILO version 5 (got errors about getting to the superblock).

I've installed the version 6 copy of LILO and notice the same problem.  For
a sanity check, I even blew away the linux partition, and started from scratch
but with installing lilo version 6 first, before attempting to modify the
boot record (thank god for ms-dos' fdisk /mbr).  Still got the same result.

I'm going to start looking at some of the LILO code, along with pulling
out a copy of Tannenbaum's book that's sitting on my shelf...maybe I
can get some idea as to what's happening. 

-bob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Applications for Linux
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:23:26 GMT

In article <1en27mINNrb7@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>There are a number of types of applications which net.geeks^H^H^H^H^Hpeople
>tend to *call* "word processors":

-- 
Eric Youngdale
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler)
Subject: Re: A few problems
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:56:22 GMT
Summary: Bouncing mail ...

In article <1992Nov19.201651.727@victrola.sea.wa.us>, vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
> --
>      ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
> -- 

I am sorry to put this here, but I've tried to contact Vince Skahan
by e-mail concerning problems compiling smail-3.1.28. The e-mail
bounces!

Neville Chandler   nhc@mtdcr.mt.att.com

-- 
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nhc@mtdcr.att.com             ||       Middletown, NJ 07748
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Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 08:49:49 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: find src for TOP

ok thanks for the replies to find PS src for 0.98
found on sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/ps-0.98.tar.Z

I now need to find the source code for TOP for 0.98
thanks barry.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Stoehr)
Subject: Re: SLS t1-t5 TeX problems with xdvi !!
Originator: stoehr@hpsiegert3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:03:52 GMT


In article <168A1A96C.HIPKR@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de>, HIPKR@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (P.Kruse) writes:
|> In article <DONBON.92Nov14152719@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu>
|> donbon@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu (Donald L Bonaddio) writes:
|>  
|> >
|> >I just downloaded the TeX disks (t1-t5) from the SLS package at tsx-11.
|> >with the command 'sysinstall -install foo.tz' I installed all the taz files.
|> >
|> >Problem:
|> > When I ran xdvi on a dvi file 'xdvi file.dvi' it invoked mf many times
|> >to create some fonts, then it quit with a message like below.
|> >
|> >  .
|> >  .
|> >  .
|> >Can't find font cmsy10.
|> >- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmmi12 300 300 magstep\(0\)
|> >/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmmi12.300pk already exists!
|> >Can't find font cmmi12.
|> >- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmr12 300 300 magstep\(0\)
|> >/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmr12.300pk already exists!
|> >Can't find font cmr12.
|> >- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmr8 300 300 magstep\(0\)
|>  
|>  
|> You need to make the fonts in /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts readable
|> to all users with the
|>     chmod 644 *
|> command.
|>  
|> Then it must work out of the box.
|>  
|> Greetings, Pete.
|>  
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> address:                       e-mail:
|>    Peter Kruse                 Internet : hipkr@sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de
|>    Leibnizstr. 24/110          Internet : HIPKR@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de
|>    3392 Clausthal            --------------------------------------------
|>    GERMANY                  |   Sorry, no joke today ...
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

I had the same problems, my solution was to delete the environmentvariable
XDVIFONTS (or something like this). 
Since then everything works fine.

    Greetings Peter
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sthomas@worldbank.org (Sidney F. Thomas)
Subject: Re: Wanted : Plus Hardcard driver
Summary: Pls. post
Reply-To: sthomas@nimbus.UUCP (Sidney F. Thomas)
Organization: World Bank
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:48:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.174654.3136@ifi.uio.no> okolbu@ifi.uio.no (Olav Kolbu) writes:
>
>I'm looking for a driver/kernal-patches to let Linux recognise my
>105Mb Plus Hardcard IIXL (XLII?). I know such a beast is around,
>as I have tried asking for this earlier and received a reply. He
>said that he had it and would send it to me, that was a month ago...
>
>Getting a bit impatient, I'm trying again. So, if you know of a site 
>that carries it, or happen to have the source lying around somewhere, 
>PLEASE drop me a mail.

Better yet, pls. post.  I am interested also.

--Sidney Thomas (sthomas@nimbus@worldbank.org)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr)
Subject: Re: OS/2 boot manager
Organization: GNUSYS // Private Linux Site
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:02:34 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

James R. Skinner (880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca) wrote:
: 
: 		
: 	Has anybody been able to get OS/2 2.0's boot manager to work with
: Linux?  If I try to boot off the Linux partition I get the error message
: partition not formatted.  Are there other good bootmanagers around so that
: I don't have to boot off of floppy?

OS/2 Bootmanager works great...
The only thing to do is making a executable bootsector on the explicite 
harddisk.

-- 
| Snail: Klaus Guhr, Marktstrasse 33, 5300 Bonn 3, Germany
| Phone: ++49 +228 48 53 60       Data: ++49 +228 48 24 33
From: fiji@rajeesh.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: xtank
Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:12:30 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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.
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 19:45:32 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: where are they: TIOCGETP / TIOCSETP ?

Hi|
When trying to port bsd stuff, you come across the TIOCGETP/TIOCSETP defines.
What are they called in Linux ?

Thanks, Herp (Herbert Rosmanith)
From: duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GNU (?) compress (4.0.1) -c bug
Date: 24 Nov 1992 10:38:15 +1100
Organization: Information Technology Services, University of Melbourne
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

In article <1epqqeINN3s7@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU writes:
>The 'bug' is this: (un)compress has a '-c' switch, which is supposed
>to mean "write output on standard output, don't delete original".
>When used with compress, '-c' makes compress act like zcat.

Actually, now that i have looked at this more closely, it seems the bug
is not in the compress source code itself. In fact, it works quite
happily on our AIX system. Even worse, it works just fine when run
under gdb, but displays the error when run stand-alone (-g or not).

Very strange, and rather tricky to know what's going on ... Maybe my
argv is getting overwritten somewhere?

I'll throw in some printf's and see what's going on ... BTW, this is with
gcc 2.2.2d and linux 0.98 pl5.

rab
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: NIS for Linux?
From: franco@deis20.cineca.it (Franco Venturi)
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:57:04 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science & Systems, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Keywords: network information services

anyone has thought of porting NIS (Network Information Services) for Linux?
NIS (formerly called YP=Yellow Pages) is a distributed data base that allows
Unix machines (I know Suns, HPs and IBMs, at least) to share some data bases,
tipically /etc/passwd /etc/hosts and so on... In this way, the logins and other
data can be shared by many machines.
Franco Venturi
Dept. of Electronics
Bologna, Italy

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jesperf@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Rene Frandsen)
Subject: Re: Problem with TCP socket and X11
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:46:57 GMT

I have the same problem too. However, if I make myself root everything works
fine! (?)

Does anyone have an answer to this ?

Oh, yes. All files can be read by everyone.


Jesper

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ayr@gtech.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov)
Subject: linux on floppies
Organization: GTECH Corporation, West Greenwich RI
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:26:54 GMT



Is it possible to get linux on floppires in USA ?


Please reply via e-mail


Thank you
-- 
Aleksey Y. Romanov

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are entirely my own and do not
necessary reflect those of my employer or anyone else
From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS: sysinstall -instdev works???
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:16:00 GMT


 > From: hyun@medici.ils.nwu.edu (Seungseok Hyun)

 > Has anybody had such luck? I've been trying to install
 > files from FDD B: after I booted the system with FDD A:

 > When I type

    sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd1
 > or
    sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd1h1440

It may be easier to just copy the disks to FDD A: and then use the
series install.

Note: the help (and some docs) for sysinstall in the SLS package say - 
sysinstall -special C
to install the SLS-Cn disks, it should say
sysinstall -series C

YEA it took BPE looking in sysinstall to find that one...

SLS is nice, it is not perfect, but the best thing I have found for
installing LINUX.  It made a GREAT leap forward in ease of installing.

My compliments to SoftLandingSystems (hope I got that correct) for a
great effort!

 * Origin: Intermittent Connection, Eugene OR 503-344-9838 (1:152/35)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: PPP support in Linux
Reply-To: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: nowhere in particular...
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:58:07 +0000

Greetings and Salutations!

Is there an implementation of PPP in the Linux port of KA9Q?  It seems to be far
more reliable than SLIP in my experience;  also the DOS version of KA9Q which I'm
currently using supports both.

Cheers,

- Alan.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ken@psych.toronto.edu (Ken Seergobin)
Subject: Xgobi
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:21:38 GMT


If you have compiled xgobi on Linux please drop me a line.
(It seems to be looking for /Xw/*.h).


Thanks,
Ken

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wies@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rene Felix Wies)
Subject: netfax-3xxx ???? fax-software ????
Keywords: netfax-3.xxx ??? fax-software ???
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:11:12 GMT
Summary: ??? netfax-3xxx ??? fax software ???


Has anyone ported netfax-3xx to linux???

If so, please let me know

> wies@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

P.S. Or any other fax-software?

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: How to use sys_iopl (to change I/O privilege) ?    
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:40:57 GMT

I assume what you want to do is access I/O ports from a user-level program.

There are two ways to do this.  The first requires that you are root
or suid root.  (I use this code to test out device drivers without
making a kernel every few minutes.)  Do the following:

#include <unistd.h>
...
    /* For devices between 0x000 and 0x3ff use: */
#define PERM_OFF 0
#define PERM_ON 1
    if (ioperm(PORT_BASE, PORT_LENGTH, PERM_ON)) {
	perror("io-perm");
	return 1;
    }
    /* For devices higher than 0x3ff you must enable the whole I/O
	space. */
    if (iopl(3)) {
	perror("io-perm2");
	return 1;
    }

This method has several problems for general use: you must be root or
suid root, there is no enforcement of exclusive or semi-shared access
to a device, and there is no way to get interrupts.

The second way is use my not-yet-released generalized device driver.
I originally developed as alternate soundcard driver, but later
extended it.
Its features are:
	o Every I/O port range of interest is assigned a device.
	o A fixed device list is usually compiled-in.
	o The device list is extensible at runtime by 'root'
	o Each device can be set for exclusive, counted, or shared access.
	o Device names are arbitrary, and are made as usual by 'mknod'
	o Access permission is handled by the normal Unix user/group/all
	  permission bits
	o Opening the device allows access to that I/O port range.
	o Once open, an ioctl() returns the port base, range and in-use count.
Still to be implemented is:
	o Translating interrupts to signals
-- 
Donald Becker				       becker@super.org
Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Patrick Graham <Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Help with base2.Z on tsx-11
Reply-To: Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:50:53 GMT

I am having trouble with base2.Z on tsx-11. I need it for sed so that
I can finish installing GCC2.2.2d.

Here is what I have done. I have Linux 0.98.1 from nic.funet.fi.
I got HLU's bootable rootdisk to get the latest stuff off of it,
and I copied the libraries over, and linked them up.

I ftp'd base1.Z, kermited it down, uncompressed it, rawrote it under dos, and
mounted it on Linux, no problem.

I ftp'd base2.Z, kermited it down, during the uncompress I got something
like "file token bad". I kermited it down a second time, same thing.

I ftp'd it a second time, kermited, and got the same message during uncompress.

I ftp'd it a third time, uncompressed it FIRST, then kermited it down. 
(at 2400 baud!)

This apparently worked. When I mounted it, it looked like some of the
stuff was missing, there was nothing in etc, and the timezone stuff
was not there. In fact, when I did a "ls -al" it said ".: not found".

I copied over the stuff in /usr/bin, but when I went to execute
any of them, sed for example, it said "can't execute sed".

All the permissions were fine, they were set for rx u g and o.

So I ran fsck on the floppy and got a whole slew of messages.
Iran it on my hard drive, and every one of the binaries that I 
copied from base2 had erros, and it deleted access to them for
everyone but root.

Being determined to get sed so I can have a compiler (I am jealous of
all of you :-) ) I kermited it down UNCOMPRESSED a fourth time,
but still got "can execute xxx". So I booted the rootdisk,
mounted base2, and tried executing them from there:
./sed  and still got the same message. 

Is base2.Z corrupt? Do I need the jumptables? The dates for 5rootdisk
and base(1 2 3).Z all match, so I assumed that the libraries on the
rootdisk would work with the base disks, is this wrong?

Failing all of this, where can I get sed?

Thanks,

Pat Graham
Graham@Dockmaster.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux