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From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: 486 in 386 socket??
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:14:45 GMT

I bought a 386-40 motherboard a while ago.  My friend also bought
a complete 386-40 motherboard system just last week.  The salesman
told her that the motherboard will accept a 486 as future upgrade d
directly in the socket.  I noticed that the AMD-40 was mounted
on what looked like to be a small card which then was mounted into the
processor socket.  My motherboard has the same thing.  Does anybody
know if that the AMD-40 plugs into the socket VIA this type of
adapter, it too can be upgraded at any time to a 486??
BTW: what does a 486-33 chip go for nowadays.

I need the speed for Linux and some FE programs and that is why
I posted it in this newsgroup.




-- 
 
.............................................
 Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu) 
 Toronto        (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Subject: Re: Image Magick 2.1 and graphics jump libs available at sunsite
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:29:46 GMT

In <chengb.722231259@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> chengb@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bruce) writes:

>OK, for those who are interested, I have uploaded the diffs for 
>the latest Image Magick 2.1 to Sunsite, you can get the original source
>from export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib and compile after you patch
>it with my diffs.  You'll need the jump libs I uploaded, because it
>implements JPEG, TIFF formats.  I have also uploaded the latest jump
>libs for TIFF, URT and JPEG.  The location of the files are as follows:

>Imagick Magick 2.1 diffs: /pub/Linux/Incoming/diff-imgik21.Z

>JPEG lib version 3c : /pub/Linux/Incoming/libjpeg.a.Z

>TIFF lib version 3.2b : /pub/Linux/Incoming/libtiff.a.Z

I think there is a mistake somewhere. If those are jumplibs they are 
not useful to anyone, because jumplibs need a shared image in /lib/
to run, and that doesn't seem to be included. I think these are just
normal libraries, containing all the code.

Anyone needing a graphics jumplib (with the disk-space-saving-effect)
could as well check my package on sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/Incoming/jumptables/libgr01.TZ. it also contains the four
p[pgbn]m libs. And there's more jumptables in the same directory (f2c
and readline), and some packages using them.
-- 
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)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: serial ports are broken in p4!
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:24:48 GMT

Help!  When I upgraded from p1 to p4, the serial ports broke! :(  The serial
ports will only give me 14 characters at a time, and that only after I hit
the return key.  Any fixes or suggestions?  I'd really like to upgrade to
p4 or p5, since I will be getting a SCSI controller soon.

Also, will linux handle an MFM and SCSI controller in the same box?  I'd like
to use the SCSI to dump my MFM drives to tape...
--
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become aware of what
he already is, of the True Self within."  -- Zen maxim
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry)
Subject: Where did f77 come from? (SLS)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:16:34 GMT

I installed SLS 0.98-pl1, and was surprised to find f77
in the package.  Is this really a fortran compiler, or
is it f2c in disquise?  By the way, Peter, I found SLS
to be a pretty painless way to go :-)

-- Dennis Harry            dharry@rice.edu
   Research Associate
   Rice University
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
Subject: Re: malloc (0) ( Re: function-->macro bugs.)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:38:12 GMT

Well, recent discussion has revealed that it IS correct (according
to POSIX) to turn malloc into a macro. (I had asserted the opposite).

On the other hand, this behavior is clearly breaking a lot of
programs.  Many programmers seem to assume that a function is a
function, not a macro.  According to POSIX, that assumption is
wrong...  but on the other hand, it _is_ a natural assumption, and one
that is supported by other operating systems.  Perhaps we should treat
it as a 'de-facto standard' - not written into POSIX, but something
that programmers frequently and intuitively rely upon, and therefore
worth supporting...

On a separate note:

Here's another possible solution to the MALLOC problem:

#ifdef FIX_MALLOC
static inline void *malloc(n)
    size_t n; /* thanks Lars :-) */
    {
    return __fixed_malloc(n);
    }
#endif

Lars says that that's formally incorrect... but in practice, it works fine,
and it doesn't break this:

    void *malloc();

or this:

    void (*allocator)() = malloc;

it does break this:

    /* my super-fast allocator */
    void *malloc(n)
    ...

but only if you explicitly put FIX_MALLOC in the program.

So that's a "2 1/2 out of 3" solution... anybody care to go for 3 out of 3?

Incidentally, notice that I used

#ifdef FIX_MALLOC

instead of

#ifndef NO_FIX_MALLOC

When I was compiling 'emacs', the "fix malloc" code confused it -
but emacs didn't ask for any malloc fixes!  Neither did it need any.
The moral? Since "tricky fixes" like that one are ugly hacks, they
tend to be buggy, and they tend to break.  It's better to leave
them OFF by default until you discover that you really need them.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti)
Subject: No bmap support?
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:48:19 GMT

   Hi Linux wizard!
   I'm trying to install the new SLS release of Linux (0.98p5) on a 386/25. 
Well, I created (with rawdisk) disks a1 and a2 and then booted from it: all 
runs well. Next, I do doinstall /dev/hda2 (60Mb), the program read well disk
a2 but when I put a3 it says:

...
[MS-DOS etc etc ...]
[me=...]
No bmap support
error: you may have inserted the wrong disk, try again?(y/n)

Perhaps I have copied in the wrong way the subdirectories a3...x8 on my
floppies: What I have done was:

   cd .../a3/base.taz.Z-split/part* > ../base.taz.Z
   cd ..
   rm -r base.taz.Z-split
 
and then ftp-ed all this to a floppy. I think the problem is hard, but
my system can read minix fs floppies... now, we have a lot of computer
here; anyone knows if its possible to "dd" the disk on a sun or a 386BSD
and then go on with installation? I'd like a lot be able to install
linux...

    Any help will be appreciated.
    Sorry if this is a FAQ.

 


-- 
***************************************************************************
* Romano Giannetti          * Dip.to di Ingegneria dell'Informazione      *
*                           * Elettronica, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni*
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* giannetti@sssup1.sssup.it * Universita' di Pisa, I-56126 PISA, Italy    *
***************************************************************************
From: bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
Subject: lpr/lpq/lpq/lprm uploaded to sunsite
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:10:04 GMT

I've just uploaded a full port (Sans varian printer/ploter filters.)
of the BSD lpr package to sunsite.unc.edu.  It includes everything you
need to do local or remote printing spooling (or both.)  I think
someone else has already done this, but I was unable to find it.

I also made some additions to the printcap database to deal with
the termios/sgtty differences.  If you have a serial printer be sure
to read the README file.  (Be sure to read it anyway.)

This isn't as fancy as the SysV print spoolers, but it is a lot
easier to configure. 

Ross Biro bir7@leland.stanford.edu 
Member League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
mail lpf@uunet.uu.net for information
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: ups (the X-based debugger)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:19:39 GMT

makisara@vtinsx.ins.vtt.fi (Kai Makisara) writes:

>I like ups very much, too. So much that I tried to compile it in Linux.
>It won't compile "out of the box" and I ran into problems in the code
>which is extracting information from the running program and dealing
>with signals. I won't say that it can't be ported but that it requires
>more effort than I was prepared for. xxgdb is not so bad after all.

By the way...how can you stop a program running under xxgdb ???
Ctrl-C doesn't work !
Argh !

Cos !
-- 
Andrew J. Cosgriff !	ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
			ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
			cos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
"Language is a virus from outer space" - William S. Burroughs
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Printing on a deskjet ??
From: cvadr021@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 21 Nov 92 09:14:02 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadr021

In article <722312538.AA21705@remote.halcyon.com>, Ron.Howard@f1.n2250.z1.fidonet.org (Ron Howard) writes:
> HELP!
>         I have an HP Deskjet 500C printer and a problem. When ever I 
> print from linux all I get is linefeeds no CR. On my printer this prints
> 
> one line and then all the rest is off the page.
>         Can someone tell me how to get linux to add CR to its lines?
> 
> Thanks   Pete
> 
> 
>  * Origin: EchoMania * Belleville IL * 618-233-1659 * HST *
> (1:2250/1.0)
> 
-- 

	You could instead bring the mountain to mahomet.  If you send the
characters: <ESC>&k2G (where <ESC> is the esccape character decimal 027) your
printer will happily accept LF as including an implicit CR.

---
						David Dhuyvetter
  						email: cvadr021@csupomona.edu
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:56:29 -0500 
From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Problem with console
Distribution: comp.os.linux

    How does one get kernel messages to appear in an xconsole/xterm
then, if normally it only captures user-level output?


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tim.foley@rose.com (tim foley)
Subject: D:read_intr & write?
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:39:13 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 11-19-92 10:34

 
   I have added my second 40meg drive, but now I get some bizarre messages
whenever I do a large amount of work on it.
 
HD: read_intr: status = 0x59   (sometimes 0x51)
HD: read_intr: error = 0x80
HD-controller reset
harddisk I/O error
dev 0302, sector ####
 
  And this will go on and on....any ideas why this is happening?
Both of my drives are *MFM*, and used to work great on dos, I just 
recenly re-partitioned the other drive for Linux and did a mkfs.
  The drive appears to work fine, I can mount it, mkdirs, copy files, etc
but only when I try to do something large, like copy over a directory
and its files from the other harddrive to the new one, do I get those errors
....  
 
  My os is Linux 0.98p1 SLS distrib, system is 486 25mhz, 8 meg ram.
 
The two partitions are my original HDB1 and now my new HDA2.
 
(Please reply in the net, not to any of my addresses) 
	 
						Tim


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: ATTN LINUX DOCUMENTORS! (was Re: Idea for a useful manual for linux)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:59:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.193549.28547@samba.oit.unc.edu> jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>The Linux DOC group is working on exactly this ("Lo, there is nothing
>new under the sun"): Linux User manuals.

But there are often new things under the Sun_SITE_. Haw haw.

Yes, anyone who's interested in working on Linux documentation should now
join the DOC channel of the linux-activists mailing list by sending mail to:

	linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi

with the line

	X-Mn-Admin: join DOC

at the top of the message. We're currently working on the standard set of
'user-friendly' online and printed docs for Linux, including:
	Installation, Setup, and Getting Started manual
	User's Manual
	System Admin's Manual
	Kernel Hacker's Guide
and much more. If you're interested in seeing my "status of the project" or
have any questions just let me know; otherwise, we'll see you on the mailing
list!

Thanks,
mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "We're going away now. I fed the cat."
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: franks@nadia.stgt.sub.org (Frank Siegert)
Subject: Maybe a FAQ, anyway: setjump problems
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:46:31 GMT
Organization: Stuttgart Net Systems, FRG
Keywords: setjump SLS gcc lib

Well, this maybe a FAQ but I need an answer to this:
Since I upgraded to the SLS0.98pl1 the compiler complains about

BlaBla.o _setjump referenced from text segment

Do I need other libs, the old (SLS0.96) one used to work fine on this?
Any help appreciated... thanks

Frank

franks@nadia.stgt.sub.org
From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Multiple disks: IDE and RLL DTC7287 controller
Date: 21 Nov 92 22:47:25 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

After reading Sotiris Karagiannis question on using IDE and AT controller
I finally bite the bullet.

I tried shareware 3_drives.hdd from simtel-20 dskutl --- but it didn't install.
Never gets past initialization prompt.

I did cut the land to IRQ14 (pin D7 on the extended 36 connector) on
DTC7287 conroller RLL --- because IRQ14 was still active with RLL controller
as secondary HD at 170!!!
BTW: DTC7287 can also jumper floppy to sec. and still use IDE as floppy 
controller also.

LIGHT BULBS go off!!! Since IRQ14 was still active when sec address ---
moving IRQ from 14 to spare IRQ and copy hd.c stuff from kernel to hd_sec.c
with address from primary address to sec address 170... and another IRQ gate.

I plan to have second disk available for Linux (too bad not also avail for
MS-DOS)

I will clip lead IRQ to vidoe card (only card in my system that has connection
to unused IRQ's.  Alternative is to put in blank card and clip lead from
DTC7287 to blank card.  [DTC7287 only has copper for IRQ14]

BTW: yes I have MD_DOS 5.0 as required by 3_drives.hdd.
Tried in config.sys without much else and with it first.

John
From: Don.Dunlop@f7060.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Don Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Connection to echo
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:07:58 -0800

Hello Rob!

15 Nov 92, Rob Levin writes to All:

 RL> All we've gotten of the LINUX echo in the last week is the
occasional
 RL> message from a Canadian FidoNet site.  What's going on with the
traffic?
 RL> Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Same sort of thing way up here.  I've received 15 messages since
November 7 in teh Linux echo.  All other areas are looking normal.  Any
ideas?

Don

 * Origin: RedPoint BBS * Vancouver, BC * 604-321-1646 (1:153/7060)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: matt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Matthew Hughes)
Subject: crt0.o bad magic number ...
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:51:35 GMT

Hi! I am having a problem with gcc (or, really, the loader and crt0.o).
Essentially, the loader (this is the one in binaries/Compilers/as86.tar.Z at
tsx-11) claims that both gcrt0.o and crt0.o have bad magic numbers and dies
... This is gcc 2.2.2d, kernel 98 (patch 1, I think - the latest image
disks). Any fixit methods greatly appreciated - and if this is a RTFM
question, PLEASE tell me which FM to R! Thanks much,
						Matt Hughes
					matt@jarthur.claremont.edu
From: lairdt@leela.cs.orst.edu (Tom Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS xload
Date: 21 Nov 92 06:05:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: leela.1992Nov21.060506.2242
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

Why was xload left out of SLS0.98p5?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Mitsumi CDROM support
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:56:01 GMT

I just got a Radio Shack CDROM because it was cheap ($200). It seems to
be a mitsumi, at the driver software has MITSUMI in it. The
interface is a very plain card that looks like it just has a couple of
i/o ports on it. It's not scsi. Does anyone have more documentation on
the interface, or source code for drivers?

-- 
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Prof. of Math. (topology)\ Internet:    wilker@math.purdue.edu
Dept. of Mathematics      \ messages:   (317) 494-1903, FAX 494-0548
Purdue University,         \ office:    (317) 494-1955 (voice/modem)
W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907 \ 
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:30:34 -0500 
From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Status of EFS-2 (was: ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 10)
	<1992Nov17.162427.20837@jussieu.fr>

From comp.os.linux (USENET): 17-Nov-92 Re: Status of EFS-2 (was:
ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 10) Remy CARD <card@masi.ibp.fr>
(967)

>	Now, I have a version of the new extended fs which seems to
>work but I need to test it a little bit more before making a test
>release.

	Good to hear that it is on its way. A couple of questions, does EFS-2
use a bitmap instead of linked lists, and does it support separate
ATIME/CTIME/MTIME? Yeah, it seems minor, but it would really help things
like find, and for me personally, would essentially make EFS as good as
a "real" BSD FS. By the way, good work so far on EFS! I've been using
the EFS for quite a while, and haven't had any real problems with it.
Maybe we should call it beta instead of alpha now.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: INGRES update #3
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:14:38 GMT

I've just uploaded the third set of updates to my port of INGRES.
This update fixes the problems with printing floating-point values (a buggy
lib4.1) and with EQUEL crashing when processing equeltut.q
You need update3.lzh and README.

Zeyd

PS. INGRES is a Relational DataBase Management System. It supports a query
language (not SQL) call QUEL. It supports embedding quel statements within
a C program.
The Linux port of  INGRES  is on tsx-11.mit.edu under pub/linux/packages/ingres
You'll need lha to extract files and byacc to build the sources.
README and ingres.setup.Z are to be read BEFORE you try to install INGRES.
From: japhet@romulus.rutgers.edu (APJ)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: GCC questions.
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:01:24 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


  Hello, me again. (I'm afraid yer gonna be seeing alot of me).

I finally (think) I grabbed all off the req'ed files for GCC, and got them
all installed. 222d7a.Z, 222d7b.Z, 41lib1.Z and 41lib2.Z. However, when
I tried to compile anything I would get errors in the include files, so
I checked them. THEY turned out to be just one line:

#include </linux/filename>

I do not have this linux directory, or any of the files that should go in it.
Where are they located?? And what other files should I get (ie: required or
nifty things) for GCC??

							Thank you,
						            RJ
From: lairdt@leela.cs.orst.edu (Tom Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:38:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: leela.1992Nov18.043834.14590
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

lairdt@leela.cs.orst.edu (Tom Laird) writes:

>I just finished pulling SLS 0.98p5 off of tsx-11 two hours ago.

I found the problem... the drive which wrote the disks was out of
alignment, and when redone on another system SLS installs fine.

HOWEVER.... I installed everything (option 3) and when I boot the system up
it says it can't find WD8013 (which is fine since I don't have one),
looks for SCSI drive (none), and then after checking the partitions
it locks up, never to come back again. Too bad I had to blow away 0.98p1
to install this version.

Any ideas?
From: Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Connection To Echo
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:03:22 -0800

Hello there Joe!

In a Ditty of <Monday November 16 1992>, Joe Klemmer says to Rob Levin:

 RL=>> All we've gotten of the LINUX echo in the last week is the
occasional
 RL=>> messa from a Canadian FidoNet site.  What's going on with the
traffic?
 RL=>> Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

 JK>         I think the Fido <--> Internet gate is down.  :-(

The gate is not down, there seems to be a problem elsewhere, I am/have
been checking into it, in the meantime, anyone who would like a direct
connection, is welcome to send netmail or call me. 1-206-235-0189
voice.

Catch Ya Later!

Greg

... If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:42:37 -0500 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: a shell idea
	<BxtoLp.75t@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

It can!  It is call GNU-Emacs!

                                  -Brian

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