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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: gzip (GNU zip) beta release 0.5
Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug
Date: 26 Dec 1992 20:49:45 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Crossposted from gnu.announce.

In article <9212231803.AA09637@octave.chorus.fr>
	jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly) writes:
gzip version 0.5 is available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu
[18.71.0.38], in the file /pub/gnu/gzip-0.5.tar.Z

gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement
for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are better
compression and freedom from patented algorithms.  The GNU Project
intends to make this the standard compression program for its system.

gzip currently uses by default the compression algorithm used in zip
1.9 (the portable pkzip compatible archiver). The gzip format was
however designed to accomodate several compression algorithms.
gunzip can currently decompress files in gzip 'deflate' format, zip
format or 'compress' format. The detection of the input format is
automatic.

Please send comments or bug reports to jloup@chorus.fr.

Jean-loup Gailly
jloup@chorus.fr

      [ Soon to be at these ftp sites as well.  Please try them
	before prep.ai.mit.edu!  thanx -gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu

	Japan: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep
	Australia: archie.oz.au:gnu
	Europe: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu, ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de,
	  ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:pub/gnu, nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu,
	  ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se, ftp.stacken.kth.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
	  ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, archive.eu.net
	United States: wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu,
	  uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
	  ftp.uu.net:systems/gnu

	For information on how to order GNU software on tape, check
	the file etc/DISTRIB in the GNU Emacs distribution, or e-mail
	a request to:	gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
      ]

[End of crosspost from gnu.announce]

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: What are Shadow passwords? [REPOST]
Organization: Too many
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 03:12:50 GMT

When I installed .99, several things didn't get updated (not enough
disks).  anyway, my question is, now when I log in on any user that
I created, rather than the ones that the SLS install set up, I get
a "No Shadow Password" warning message.  What are shadow passwords,
and how do you use them?

Please email me, as I didn't see the answer last time I posted
this, if anyone responded.
-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel config script and Re: Serial driver issues
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:03:32 GMT

   From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
   Date: 25 Dec 1992 09:05:03 GMT

   Cards CAN be connected to the same IRQ.. its just that your system won't
   know which one called the interrupt and won't service the right card all
   of the time. Under DOS this is occasionally fine, but under Linux you want
   to be able to all of the devices simultaneosly.

No, no, no!!!  A thousand times no!!!!!  There are real hardware
problems with doing having more than one card connected to same IRQ.  In
the words of Gero Kuhlmann, who posted the following message ONLY THREE
DAYS BEFORE your misinformed posting:

|The problem with the PC hardware is that it uses an active high interrupt
|system with three-state outputs on the serial cards. That means that normally
|the interrupt line is pulled down to zero by the output transistor
|(if the interrupt is enabled on the serial card with OUT2). Now if two
|cards share the same interrupt line, suppose only one line is trying to
|send an interrupt. It then shuts off it's low-driving transistor and enables
|it's high driving transistor. Unfortunately the low fan out of the standard
|LS-TTL's is 8mA while the high fan out is only -400microA. You can think of
|the low driving transistor being about twenty times stronger than the high
|pulling one. So the single card trying to send out an interrupt doesn't
|have any chance to bring the interrupt line up above the minimum high level
|of approx. 2V because there is the low output of the other card. But that
|low-to-high-transition is required by the interrupt controller.

Please, c.o.l. is noisy already to have people posting just-plain-wrong
information.  

						- Ted
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: KEYBOARD_BH undefined in
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:23:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

TO: richmond@sml.cs.psu.edu
MR>I've been trying to compile 99.2, but when it reaches keyboard.c,
MR>I get an error message saying KEYBOARD_BH is undefined.  I looked
MR>thru all the files and cannot find any other reference to this.

I've seen several references to this problem, you should have seen them 
by now in this very place.  I'd tell you what they were, but I forget
exactly what the answer was, just a location problem as I recall.

MR>Another quirk I've found is copy/paste using twm in Xfree86: it
MR>doesn't work on my setup.  Normally I'd highlight text using the
MR>left mouse button, and then tap the right button to paste it.
MR>It does highlight, but no paste.

I noticed this two, I've jumped ship to the olwm window manager, it
seems to work much better, and cut/paste works in it. :-)

MR>One more thing and I'll finish.  :)  Is it just me or are there
MR>only 4 virtual terminals, even tho the initial login screen says
MR>there are 8?  Anytime I push ALT-F[5-8], all I get is a blank
MR>screen. 

You have to define the extra consoles in the inittab file in /etc to
activate the other virtual consoles.  I did that, but discovered that
does take more memory, and I really wasn't using them, so I took it
back out.

I'm pleased to actually be able to answer some Linux questions, since
I only got it running the other day.  I'm still on the steep part of
the learning curve. :-)
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . TANSTAAFL. BUMMER. What about dinner ?
                                                                    
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: splee@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Seng-Poh Lee)
Subject: Re: Remote telnets echo ^M instead of accepting line input.
Organization: Alchemy International
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:01:29 GMT

Seng-Poh Lee (splee@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu) wrote:
> I'm telneting into my Linux box (SLS .99PL1) from a Sun and when I enter
> the user name and hit enter, it echos ^M instead of accepting the line. 

An associated problem is the telnetd daemon failing to give the login
prompt. When I telnet to it, it disconnects the session without even
giving me the login prompt. If I try long enough, I've eventually
get a prompt and can log in. What is this, some kind of race condition?

Thanks. I've only been playing with Linux a few days, and I like it
already. Kudos to all involved. Just want to solve these problems!

--
Seng-Poh Lee    <splee@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu>
From: Darin.Wayrynen@f145.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Darin Wayrynen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Install woes...
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:56:00 -0800

I recently installed the SLS 0.98pl5 distribution on my machine.

I had several problems, but was able to get it up and running,
install the latest kernel source, and remake the kernel.

I had several problems, but the two I'd like to address are:

   1) MS Bus mouse doesn't work under X
   2) Video Seven VRAM II video card not supported.

Upon boot I kept seeing the detection of and installation of
three different mouse drivers.  When I ran X, the mouse wouldn't
work, so I thought maybe there was a problem with having too
many mice, so I changed the kernal to only install a MS Bus
mouse driver.  Still didn't work.  :-(

Upon boot, I was not given a proper choice of video modes to
chose from.  Some of the resolutions I had to chose from were
not available on my video card.  I I changed the kernel to
look for the Video Seven first rather than last, and I was
given a proper choice of options.  None of which would actually
change to the proper video mode...

So my two questions are:

     1) Any ideas on why the MS mouse isn't working under X?
     2) Anyone have a Video Seven working under Linux?

Darin Wayrynen
 * Origin: Paragon BBS (602) 938-8288 (1.2 gigs/Windows Support)
(1:114/145)
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: And then came?
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:46:08 GMT
Reply-To: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)


In article <C00tvp.6M6@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil writes:

>*------------------------------
>In the beginning...
>  there was Linus, and He was Good.

I think you have an extra O in that line

-- 

anthony

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk          |   If at first you don't succeed
                                      | 
alovell@cix.compulink.co.uk           |   Get a Bigger Hammer 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: jano@layla.RoBIN.de (Jan-Olaf Droese)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Distribution: world
Subject: strange behaviour of emacs
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Organization: JanO's Mathelabor
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 18:20:51 +0100

I just figured out some strange behaviour of emacs:

Whenever emacs is started from another application (tested with tin, rn,
elm) pressing Control-G doesn't interrupt the running command, but instead
interrupts emacs.
Control is returned to the calling program (at least in some way, wait), so
i.e. when posting an article from within tin after aborting an emacs-
command I get 'quit edit post' in the bottom line. If I press edit now,
I am able to edit my article again, BUT:

emacs is still running. When I do a ps from another VC, there is one
emacs sleeping in the background. Even if I quit the calling program, this
copy of emacs doesn't get killed. It sleeps there, until I do a kill -9.

Is this behaviour due to my quite old kernel (I can't update at the moment
due to limited time & ftp access), or am I missing something else.

SOFTWARE: .98.1 kernel, emacs 19.58 (as of SLS .98.1); tin, rn, elm
          compiled by myself, they are otherwise ok.

Happy new year to all Linuxers,

    JanO
--
Jan-Olaf Droese   | email: jano@layla.RoBIN.de (home)
Gluckstr. 6       |        droese@lif.de (work)
6000 Frankfurt 1  | phone: ++49-69-552167
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Cron for Linux?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:00:32 GMT

Michael 'Moose' Dinn (dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: Does a cron-type scheduler exit for Linux? the SLS distribution doesn't
: return anything on a find / -name \*cron\* -print.

There are two: My cron (which reads /usr/lib/crontab and is *very* simple-
minded) and Paul Vixie's cron.  I believe that both are on tsx-11.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

Who and what would you be if you went beyond your deepest fears?
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
Date: 31 Dec 92 02:29:54 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA

In article <T8BmwB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>> >You know something I've always hated about Unix (and people are
...
>If, in my copious spare time [ ;-) ] I can manage to put together an
>install/uninstall/update package that works that way, I'll be glad to donate
>it to Peter so SLS will have a better install/uninstall package than the
>commercial *xes :-)  --- after all, how many of those deal nicely with the
>"update" case?  I would include a way to specify a data file update/backoff
>program as well, so an update won't stomp your data files or force you to
>update them manually (well, it won't help with private data files aka dot
>files, etc.) and if you back off the update it can convert them back for you
>as well.
>
>Comments?  Suggestions?  Criticism?  Let's do this right and create an
>install package that will make the commercial vendors green with envy!  :-)

Actually I responded via email to Neslon's initial suggestion.  The 
gist of it is there is no benefit to the symbolic links idea.
SLS already allows easy uninstall (not that anyone uses it)
via "sysinstall -remove pkg".

Symbolic links turn out to be a system admins nightmare, and I am thinking
seriously about clensing SLS of all such, except for directories.
While hardware is cheap, slowing it down makes no sense.

As for making a real fancy install program.  Best not.  The main reason
is that the current scheme uses shell scripts and a few programs
like tar, compress, sed, etc.  All of this fits nicely onto the
ramdisk (shell scripts are small).  Perl just won't go.
Even a fancy program will cramp things up.   SLS may not be
perfect, but it is very modular.

My intention, though, was to put a fancy frontend onto sysintall,
perferably menu driven, etc.  Actually, a better menu program would
be the first order (must be based on text files).  Even simpler,
just add more menus to the existing menu program and send them 
to me.  Design them so that they automatically answer many of the
newbie questions.  We can always convert the menus when a new
program comes along.  If I had more time ...

Peter
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: pwd command missing in Linux???
Keywords: pwd
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:22:04 GMT

   HELP!.. I've been searching my system for the 'pwd' command,
and like, I can't find it!  The reason for me searching for 'pwd'
is because I'm having major problems with the permission flags.

   Everytime I log on as a non-root user, I get the following:-

    Welcome to Linux SLS ....
    ....etc

     Your password will expire in 0 days.
     No mail.
     shell-init: Permission denied
     pwd: Permission denied
     : Permission denied
     #

  I know, this isn't the first time I've posted this problem up,
and nothing seems to work!  Actually, it worked the first time I
installed linux, but after screwing around with stuff like lpr,
getty_ps and stuff like that, the old config files have been
like totally been screwed completely..well..not exactly screwed,
but the non-root user login is now completely screwed...

    Can someone please help me with this hair-tearing dilemma??

    Also, while I'm at it, How do I stop the server from giving
me the stupid "Your password will expire in 0 days."???? 

    Thanks in advance....

 


-- 
InterNet: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca  |  "Fail not; Learn Not.
                               |  It is with failing, that one learns,
                               |  So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: greg@katie (Greg Wells)
Subject: Re: XS3 gives 'Unknown S3 chipset: 82'
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:03:50 GMT

Stephen Wong S M (a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk) wrote:
: 
: I've also grabbed Xfree86-1.1 from ftp.robot.uk.ac, but it never
: reports the clock setting of my VGA card, I use the following
: command line:-
: 
: startx -- ./Xfree86-1.1 >& out ; sync ; sleep 1 ; sync
: 
: But Xfree86-1.1 reports that no supported chipset is found and die!
: 
The S3 clock speeds are programmable.  I believe Xfree86 requires clock
speeds that are set on the chip by the manufacturer, hence only et4000, et3000,
etc...  chips are supported.  XS3 is the only X server I found that can work at 
all with my Orchid 1280.

Greg_Wells@west.msi.com



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: miranda@frenzy (Johann Miranda)
Subject: Re: compiling kernel...found problem??
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:56:22 GMT
Reply-To: miranda@eng.uiowa.edu
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.

In article <marcf.725751581@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>Hi...
>
>	I'm still playing around trying to find the source of
>the problem with compiling the kernel.  I'm doing everything as
>per instructions.
>
>	make config
>	make dep <--- source of first problem
>
>	The problem is, or error is:
>
>inode.c:22: #error The iso9660 filesystem can only be used with CDROM.
>make[2]: *** [dep] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
>make: *** [dep] Error 1
>
>	Now, in the make config stage, I say no to the iso9660 filesystem
>as well as SCSI support...why is it trying to use the iso9660 filesystem
>anyway?  How can I fix this?
>
>Thanks...
>
>Marc


	Tar the offending directory! it works....(UGLY)	

			-JEM-

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Subject: Am I dreaming, or is this possible?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:22:09 GMT

Of course I mentioned a few posts back, that I am a newcomer to the world
of un*x sysadmin, and all the devices that go with it.  I know this question
doesn't entirely belong in this newsgroup, but I'd bet I'd get flamed royaly
if I asked it on comp.os.unix and the like. :)

What I eventually plan (want) to do, is to network my 386 Linux box to
my 286 Dos BBS box via a serial port.  (so far, sounds simple enough)
What I would like to do is allow (through some sort of door program [no
windows, desqview, or doubledos being used] on the 286) a dialin BBS user
to telnet (and maybe ftp) to the Linux box.  (ah, but theres more...)  There
would be options to telnet to different ports (ie: the internet type... 2010,
4013, 4020...) to access either a logon, or a mud, or some other type of
program.  Am I crazy, and I should toss in the towel on that idea know, or
will some sort of SLIP program do this.  Any ideas.  A FORGET IT or YES, THAT
IS POSSIBLE is all I'm looking for at the moment.  If I know it's
possible, I can do the research, probably, on my own... and if not, I may 
come whining back saying It Don't Work.... Waaaaaaa.

Thanks
Mike

       tweek@netcom.com  tweek@tweekco.uucp  WWIVNet 5@5058  4@5056 
          I'd rather get my cable service from the phone company,
                than my phone service from the cable company.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Linux Standards Need Improvment
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:31:22 GMT

jbh@feenix.metronet.com (Justin B Harvey) writes:
>I think that each software package should have a universal standaard
>file or directory of the files that are needed to compile or run
>the program or util.  I find it very confusing to figure out what
>to ftp.

Are you volunteering to write and maintain the stuff?

Well, _somebody_ has to volunteer.  It ain't happening by itself.

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
   MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
From: cl820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wei Jin Mai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: strange screen output after tail!
Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:32:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


   Last night I tried tail some binary files and Linux seem to change character set. All commands work but output strange characters. 
-- 
Weijin Mai
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jbh@feenix.metronet.com (Justin B Harvey)
Subject: Whereksis MUSH @ tsx-11?
Organization: Texas Metronet Communications Services, Dallas TX
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:37:54 GMT

Whereis the MUSH MUD software @ tsx-11?
From: vpoy@terapin.com (Vincent Poy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:55:46 PST
Organization: BBS

Does anyone know where I can get Linux copied on Floppies cheaper than from
SLS? Also, What is the procedure to install Linux if my entire drive is in one
big DOS partition? Also, Can someone provide details for the DOS Emulator and
what is included with TCP/IP in Linux?
From: kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Subject: Re: gcc : Internal compiler error
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:04:05 GMT

Rafal Kustra (summer student) (rafal@utstat.toronto.edu) wrote:
: In article <#012p5=@rpi.edu> palmj@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jyri L. Palm) writes:
: >
: >Basically, when I try compiling various packages, the most common error message
: >that I'm getting nowadays is :
: >
: >gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
: >make: *** [main.o] Error 1
: >
: >I've not gotten to any conclusions on why this seems to be happening about
: >50% of the time when I try to compile applications, and it's something which
: >is very easy to recreate. The latest one which I got was when I tried to 
: >compile umoria. I don't know if it's because I'm running too many things 
: >in X, so here's the output from "free" :
: >
: >             total       used      cache       free     shared
: >memory:       6876       6384        452         40       2580
: >swap0:       12500       2880                  9620         20
: >
: >According to gcc -v, I have :
: >
: >Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2d/specs
: >gcc version 2.2.2d
: >
: >I know that I'm not the only person who's had this problem with cc1, is there
: >a FAQ for this (I haven't really checked) ? I've got loads of stuff that I'm
: >trying to compile for my system and it's frustrating when I'm blocked by this
: >error. *ANY* suggestions would really be appreciated. Please mail to
: >palmj@rpi.edu ... thanks once again.
: 
: 
: Lots of time this is coused by bad memory chip. If you
: have a chance to swap some of your SIMMS with new ones,
: try it. Otherwise takeout some SIMMS, and swap them with
: each other. Dont forget to have enough swap space than.
: On the other hand I had this problem once, it corrupted
: my whole gcc files. I reistalled, and it went away.
: 

Just thought I'd add my 2cents worth:
I can't get my C++ program to compile.  GCC dies with an internal error:
cp-class.c:2378: failed assertion `IDENTIFIER_TEMPLATE (t) != NULL_TREE'
/usr/bin/gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 6

I have no idea what this cp-class.c program is, it's not mine...
and since GCC won't compile, I can't debug to find out where (and why) it is
dying.

Comments anyone??? 
(Please??)

-- 
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kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca   |  see and hear, can you?" - Hendrix, 'EXP'
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