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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 15:13:17 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #896
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Linux-Misc Digest #896, Volume #2 Fri, 7 Oct 94 15:13:17 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Alan Cox)
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minicom help (Franco Gerace)
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Re: Document on PCI Information - read me if you are thinking about PCI (Jason ROOT George)
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Re: SW Technologies (E. Robert Tisdale)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Sergei Naoumov)
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SW Technologies (Mr John Shaller)
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PPP disconnect question (Richard Kooijman)
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Re: Logitech busmouse & X help please! (kline@juncol.juniata.edu)
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Re: SCSI DAT tape on a Linux box? (TlingitMan)
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Configuring 1.1.8 Kernel error (John Behneman)
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Re: Help! Seyon hangs when started (mgb)
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Re: talk/talkd and ^Z (Robert Sink)
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Re: Linux doesn't like my cache (David Flood)
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Re: Gnuplot and XWindows ? (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Re: What PCMCIA ethernet card to buy? (edavis@ctron.com)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Mark Krischer)
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Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree (Dan Newcombe)
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Help With LCD, Cirrus and XFree86 (Lucas James Sheneman)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 14:29:08 GMT
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In article <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
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>In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu> wrote:
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>>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.
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>You were misinformed. Both Linux and the BSD's use monolithic kernels.
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>For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus
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>and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux
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>was in it's infancy.
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The discussion is on sunsite.unc.edu if you can ever get it to work. It is
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quite amusing. Linux has modules but they are not the same thing as a
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message passing kernel - nothing like it.
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Alan
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--
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..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''
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From: f_gerac@pavo.concordia.ca (Franco Gerace)
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Subject: minicom help
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 12:45 -0500
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I recently configured minicom on my linux PC but I cannot get the proper
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VT100 extra functions like the gold key when calling a VMS system. Is
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there a way to get the vt100 emulation working like in my dos qmodem?
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--Thanks
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------------------------------
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From: jbg@infomat.ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Jason ROOT George)
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Subject: Re: Document on PCI Information - read me if you are thinking about PCI
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 14:44:12 GMT
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Steven M. Henry (smhenry@vt.edu) wrote:
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: For exact PCI specifications contact:
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: PCI Special Interest Group
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: M/S JF2-51
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: 5200 N.E. Elam Young Parkway
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: Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497
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: (503)696-6111
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Note this is an Intel address.
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--Jason
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------------------------------
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From: edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (E. Robert Tisdale)
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Subject: Re: SW Technologies
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 00:59:35 GMT
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In article <3714uc$dl9@pad-thai.cam.ov.com>
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jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
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>In article <37028n$e0p@hk.super.net>,
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shciosea@hk.super.net (Mr John Shaller) writes:
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>
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>>I can see that Marvin has been trying hard to help by shipping replacements
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>>and suggesting importments... Nothing in the world is perfect...
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>
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>Marvin tried, but he tried in an incompetent manner. As I believe I said
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>in my review, the fact that SWT tried hard to fix serious problems with the
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>machine does not change the fact that the machine should not have had those
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>problems when it was shipped to me.
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>
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>Would you consider it acceptable if you bought a new car and spent three
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>months driving back to the dealership almost daily to get things fixed?
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>There are new cars which don't cost much more than I paid for the computer
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>from SWT, so I believe the analogy is completely reasonable.
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Marvin Wu is a competent and conscientious Linux workstation vendor.
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He certainly believed your machine was in good working order
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when he sent it to you and it has not failed since you sent it back.
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Like a new car, you may have trouble with a new computer. The problem is
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that you can't just take it back to the dealer and tell him to fix it
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if you bought it mail order. You agreed to pay shipping back and forth
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for warranty service and you agreed to ship your machine back to SWT
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within 30 days for a full refund if you were not satisfied. Marvin Wu
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extended this money back guaranty to 60 days then 90 days at your request.
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Since you have made no attempt to acquire another Linux workstation,
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it is not clear that any PC-clone vendor would be able to provide you
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with satisfactory service. It might even appear that you decided that
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you didn't really need or couldn't afford a new workstation sometime
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after you made your deal with SWT and that you just strung Marvin Wu
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along for three months then tried to beat him out of the shipping costs
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as well.
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It appears to me that Marvin Wu made an honest effort to live up to his part
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of the agreement and was overly generous when he agreed to pay half of the
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shipping costs to return the workstation. I think that you should accept
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the fact that you were bound to live up to your half of the agreement.
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Bob Tisdale
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------------------------------
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From: naoumov@physics.unc.edu (Sergei Naoumov)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 13:37:39 GMT
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In article <1994Oct6.050941.21508@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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>Come on guys. I've been using Emacs for quite some time now. It's the
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>best program editor I know. But it can't touch off-the-shelf word pro-
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>cessors available for micros.
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Well, Emacs never pretended to be a word processor, at least until now.
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And I feel, it shouldn't except simple little things like different
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fonts (see Xemacs, former Lucid Emacs).
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>Another point: TeX will give you low-level control over your document.
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>But frankly I don't give a damn. Once the referees, copy editors, lay-
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>out goons, and editors get their hands on my MS it's not going to look
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>like what I gave them, anyway. So who wants to twiddle kerning pairs?
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>Just bang the sucker out, I say, and don't be so anal-retentive.
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Well, I don't know about editors but many scientific journals except
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a LaTeX file. They don't do anything with it -- just print. Besides,
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many journals move to the electronic way of publishing, so YOU print
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a document.
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>And don't anyone tell me, by the way, that Emacs is a great multilingual
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>editor. I've got some off-the-shelf editors that do this on micros with
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>little or no fuss (e.g. MLS for the peecee). And they are REAL word
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>processors - not souped up editors that still betray their roots in old
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>style ttys and character-based displays. Just touch type Hebrew or
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>Greek or whatever with canned layouts - no need to even look at any
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>key bindings.
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I will tell you. May be you're right about Herbrew but I use Russian
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and Sanskrit without ANY problem.
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--
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+ Sergei O. Naoumov serge@envy.astro.unc.edu tel: (919)962-3998 +
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+Department of Physics & Astronomy, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA+
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+++++++++++ http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/sergei/Me/Serge.html +++++++++++
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------------------------------
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From: shciosea@hk.super.net (Mr John Shaller)
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Subject: SW Technologies
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 05:34:15 GMT
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I'm a COMPUTER USER from HK. Generally I hate all those retailer who
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cheat their customers for profit, selling buggy components...etc.
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However, after following the recent thread of Jonathan's *LONG* complaint
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about SW Technologies, strangely :-) I don't have much sympathy on the
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customer. Rather, I'm not sure who's the victims... :-|.
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Something from Jonathan saying that "...I'll keep reposting the message
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until they admit their fault or out of business..." make me feel awkward.
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I don't there is such big deal to justify forcing someone until they die
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.. One thing that SW Technologies did wrong is they didn't have enought
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money in bank, causing a bounced-cheque charge ($4) for Jonathan. I think
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it's fair if SW Technologies pay him $4 and let the case settle...
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Personally, I think the requirements from Jonathan is just too much.
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Everyone in the Linux world know that Linux is provided "AS IS", you try
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it at your own risk. There are numerous reports people trashing their
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filesystem when using a new Kernel...etc.... I don't quite buy what
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Jonathan says "... not counting the time that I spent on this
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machine...". If Jonathan kept the PENTIUM machine for the 3 months, and
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finally the deal was off, I think it's fair for him to at least pay for
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half of the shipping. Moreover, even from Jonathan's statement, I can see
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that Marvin has been trying hard to help by shipping replacements and
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suggesting importments... Nothing in the world is perfect...
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A final word, Jonathan, PLEASE DON"T periodically reposting your LONG
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statement ( and the finely tunned correction/amandment... are we in the
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California court?). Just try to think there are how many news server
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around the world and your REPEATED posting may consume a few GB of disk
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space :-)....
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Just my personal opinion.
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------------------------------
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From: richard@dutepp6.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: PPP disconnect question
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:15:29 GMT
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Hi,
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I made a script to automatically dial in onto our PSTN gateway, which,
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after giving some user info, calls me back again.
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For this I use pppd from the 2.1.2a distribution.
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I do this by calling pppd and specifying the connect and disconnect options.
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The connect option works great, my script with chat script is called,
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dialing occurs and information is fed to the PSTN gateway.
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Later, when I want to disconnect, I run a script called ppp-kill.
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It finds the pppd pid and sends it a SIGHUP. Now, I expected the
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disconnect script to be run next by pppd but it isn't.
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Couple observations: the man page discussed this option, the binary
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'reveals' the disconnect support (strings -a pppd), but the source
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doesn't contain it! The pppd program doesn't complain about the
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option either.
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What gives? Anyone who knows the details?
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Richard.
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------------------------------
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From: kline@juncol.juniata.edu
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Subject: Re: Logitech busmouse & X help please!
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Date: 3 Oct 94 23:17:42 -0500
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Thanks to Michael Barbuschak, the solution to the problem I was having was to
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edit the /usr/src/linux/include/linux/busmouse.h include file to point the IRQ
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to where the mouse is currently sitting.
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Sorry I can't thank you in person Mike but your address bounces when I email
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you.
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Barry
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===========================[Cut Here]========================================
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In article <1994Oct2.223523.1241@juncol.juniata.edu>, kline@juncol.juniata.edu writes:
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> I'm having trouble getting my slackware pro 2.0 release of LINUX/X to recognize
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> my Logitech P7-3F busmouse. I've tried configuring two new kernels of Linux:
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> one with Logitech and one with Microsoft bus mice and the former does get me
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> into X without error but the pointer doesn't move with mouse movement. I did
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> change the symbolic link of /dev/mouse to /dev/busmouselogitec with the first
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> kernel and have tried both that one and /dev/busmousems with the Microsoft
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> kernel. Anything with "busmousems" fails to find the mouse at all.
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>
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> Is there a quick way of determining that my mouse is configured properly for
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> linux without going into X?
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>
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> TIA,
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>
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> Barry (kline@juncol.juniata.edu)
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>
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------------------------------
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From: tlingitman@aol.com (TlingitMan)
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Subject: Re: SCSI DAT tape on a Linux box?
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 00:44:02 -0400
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In article <306qhk$agm@girtab.usc.edu>, krtolica@girtab.usc.edu (Igor
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Krtolica) writes:
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Just plug it in and power it up. Should work great! I have HP's,
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WANGDATS, SONYs and a few other oddball DAT drives all writing to tape and
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being read without problems on any othe (clean) drive!
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------------------------------
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From: John Behneman <jfb@unicomp.net>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Configuring 1.1.8 Kernel error
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 08:11:40 PDT
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I am trying to build a new kernel with CD-ROM support which wasn't built in.
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I get the following message during the make zImage:
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fs/fs.o: Undefined symbol _ext_read_super referenced from text segment
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_ifs_read_super referenced from text segment
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make *** [ tool/zSystem ] Error
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I am new to linux and figure there maybe something I am doing wrong or over
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looking. Any help would be appreciated! Bye the way I'm using the Walnut Creek
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CDROM Toolkit for Linux "stuff".
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Thanks....
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======================
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John Behneman
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jfb@unicomp.net
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======================
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: byrne_mike@mm.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (mgb)
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Subject: Re: Help! Seyon hangs when started
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 00:38:58 GMT
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In article <1994Oct3.005854.2654@midway.uchicago.edu>,
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kostov@kff1.uchicago.edu (Konstantin Kostov) wrote:
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> Dear Netters,
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>
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> I have a problem starting Seyon. The modem doesn't respond to anything I
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> do. /dev/modem was originally linked to /dev/cua3, which produced a
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> "modem read error". After relinking /dev/modem to other devices the
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> best result I got was with /dev/ttyS1 which doesn't give any errors,
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> but nothing happens when I try to dial, or type anything in the
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> term emulator window. I've tried all plausible devices in /dev
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> with no success. The modem is hooked to com4, and I have used all
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> the settings that work with DOS in the starup file.
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>
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> Any suggestions?
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> Thanks in advance
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>
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> Konstantin
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Have you tried using setserial to insure com4 is set with the intended
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port and IRQ?
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------------------------------
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From: sinkr@universe.digex.net (Robert Sink)
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Subject: Re: talk/talkd and ^Z
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 21:01:58 -0400
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cgori@isengard.stanford.edu (Christopher Gori) writes:
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>>: has anyone else noticed that talk and ytalk really don't like to be
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>>: suspended under linux?
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>>: this was true from 0.99.1? up to what i'm using now 1.1.48, and through
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>>: several versions
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>>: of net code... just curious if anybody knows why this is...
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>>
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>>I've found that... talk goes pretty hyperactive when I try to suspend
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>>it!
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>I thought it was an ncurses bug. I think I have an old curses lib, maybe
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>the new ones fix this?? (Correct me if I am way, way off base)
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> cgori@isengard.stanford.edu
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Yuh. I've noticed that on all the versions of Linux that I've seen. I keep
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all my libraries, etc up to date and this still happens even with 1.1.51.
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--
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|:| Robert Sink | "I don't want to start any blasphemous |:|
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|:| sinkr@universe.digex.net | rumors, but I think that GOD has a sick |:|
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|:|--------------------------| sense of humor and when I die I expect |:|
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|:| (c) 1994 Gurkware, Inc. | to find him laughing." -- Depeche Mode |:|
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*PGP 2.6 Public Key Available By Fingering This Account*
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*or via the PGP Server: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu*
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|
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------------------------------
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From: dcflood@u.washington.edu (David Flood)
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Subject: Re: Linux doesn't like my cache
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 01:38:12 GMT
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LONGSA%DFCS@dfmail.usafa.af.mil (Sean A. Long) writes:
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>Try increasing the cache read/write wait states... I have a similiar setup
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>and at 33 Mhz, works nicely but at 40Mhz, get errors compiling and random
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>other little faults which eventually hose something important and the
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>machine dies a rather entertaining death...
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Well, the default is write is 1. When I try 2, lilo bombs with a crc error
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during uncompress. The only other availible setting is 0. The only read
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setting is one called 'Cache Read Cycle'. It is set to 2-1-1-1 and can be
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set to 3-2-2-2 or 2-2-2-2. I'll try the others with a 1 write setting and
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get back to you.
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--
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=============================================================================
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dcflood@u.washington.edu
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The above opinions are mine alone and do not reflect anyone elses.
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Besides, who wants my opinion anyway?
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=============================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
|
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Subject: Re: Gnuplot and XWindows ?
|
||||
Date: 7 Oct 1994 01:21:56 GMT
|
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|
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Actually, I bet the version of gnuplot this guy got was the vgalib version that
|
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is on sunsite. I don't think it has X support. At any rate, you can just use
|
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one of the more generic defines (unless there is a linux-x11 set yet). The
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last time I compiled it, I pretended my machine was a Cray :->.
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--
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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------------------------------
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From: edavis@ctron.com
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||||
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking
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||||
Subject: Re: What PCMCIA ethernet card to buy?
|
||||
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 12:04:18 PDT
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||||
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||||
|
||||
In article <1994Oct3.183033.2807@Princeton.EDU>,
|
||||
> Subject: What PCMCIA ethernet card to buy?
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||||
|
||||
> I'm looking for PCMCIA ethernet card for my notebook running Linux. I
|
||||
> have the list of Linux-happy cards (got it from the Stanford ftp site
|
||||
> about a month ago.) I'm looking for recommendations on these or
|
||||
> compatiable cards, as well as leads on good prices. Thanks!
|
||||
>
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||||
> --
|
||||
jimgreer@princeton.edu
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||||
|
||||
Hey you should get a Xircom Ethernet PCMCIA, (get a modem on it too)
|
||||
I used it for: <running at once, mind you>
|
||||
|
||||
exceed/W
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||||
Novell Netware
|
||||
SNMP agent
|
||||
Chameleon NFS
|
||||
|
||||
Works great, and in exceed/W, you can open about 6 xterms or other TCP/IP
|
||||
connects before the adapter says it's stuffed.
|
||||
It cost me about 200bux w/o modem.
|
||||
-ed
|
||||
|
||||
|
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------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: mkrisch@avalanche.mpce.mq.edu.au (Mark Krischer)
|
||||
Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
|
||||
Date: 5 Oct 1994 23:43:29 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
if you want to do WORD processing and not TEXT editing, and you don't want to use something
|
||||
like latex or troff--personally, i don't like them--you might try using a combination of
|
||||
DOSEMU and WordPerfect for DOS. i've gotten WPDos6.0 running in graphics mode. i haven't
|
||||
given it a good workout yet to test its stability, but it looks nice. and DOSEMU just keeps
|
||||
getting better.
|
||||
|
||||
if you've already got WP its worth a try. WP5.1 might be more stable, but it's without the
|
||||
added graphics editing mode which i really like.
|
||||
|
||||
hope that helps,
|
||||
|
||||
mark
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe)
|
||||
Subject: Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree
|
||||
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 11:26:27 UNDEFINED
|
||||
|
||||
In article <372tg0$1ai@huron.eel.ufl.edu> acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
|
||||
>In article <1994Oct5.141142.773@muvms6>,
|
||||
>Andy Bailey <bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu> wrote [in c.o.l.misc]:
|
||||
>> I think more users might be attracted to Linux, if some really nice
|
||||
>>out-of-box configs like this were available, as well as some new icons and
|
||||
>>fonts. Perhaps some scripts (maybe tcl/tk based) that allow easy
|
||||
>>addition/removal of icons from the desktop. (I know its simple just the edit
|
||||
>>the config file to add/remove stuff, but this would be better looking)
|
||||
|
||||
>You may get some negative feedback from the die-hard functionality
|
||||
>over form crowd, but I'd say there's a lot of truth to what you're
|
||||
>saying-- cleaning up minor things like GUI look & feel *will* make the
|
||||
>X environment more appealing to a lot of people (maybe this is
|
||||
>unfortunate, but with all the "fluff" on a typical Mac/Windoze desktop
|
||||
>nowadays a lot of people expect this kind of thing...)
|
||||
|
||||
I also agree. Many people will give you the "if you can't take the heat of
|
||||
setting X up, get out of the kitchen", but I think it's time that we got past
|
||||
that attitude...after all, they don't have to use it.
|
||||
|
||||
To put it simple...X at it's defaults is UGLY! Even when you add fvwm to it,
|
||||
it's still kinda ugly...it's just to damn bland.
|
||||
|
||||
>1) A mouse-driven tool for setting common X resource preferences would
|
||||
>be *very* helpful, even for experienced users (kind of a big project,
|
||||
|
||||
Isn't there an app that comes with X that does this? I remember one that shows
|
||||
a tree of resources that you can set right on that screen. Of course, the
|
||||
thing to do then would be to grab the resource database and save it into
|
||||
.Xdefaults for the user.
|
||||
|
||||
>HP-VUE desktop-- you can adjust window colors, background pixmaps,
|
||||
>speaker pitch & volume, screensaver status, etc. from a "control
|
||||
>panel"-like utility. There are too many things under X that can be
|
||||
>configured only from the command line, which is not good (ideally both
|
||||
>a good GUI and command-line way of setting each option should exist).
|
||||
|
||||
Oh...I see...More than just the resources. Some stuff, like speakers, etc...
|
||||
isn't X, but the hardware. Still, at worst, you could have some app bar like
|
||||
you mentioned where you click on the speaker and it calls up a mixer program
|
||||
for the sound card.
|
||||
|
||||
As you mentioned, too much is command line based. Perhaps a Tcl/Tk or other
|
||||
program that would give a decent interface and call the command line funtions
|
||||
behind your back. (and in the tradition of HP-UX's Sam, even create a log
|
||||
file of what it executed for later reference.)
|
||||
|
||||
>"xrdb -load'ed" on exiting the preferences tool). HP-VUE even allows
|
||||
>some things to be changed on the fly in already-running clients, but I
|
||||
>think support for this has to be specially compiled into each client.
|
||||
|
||||
I don't know about that...but this goes back to the program that I mentioned
|
||||
earlier. It changes things on the fly. I wish I could remember the name.
|
||||
It's one of the standard X apps. I don't think anything has to be specially
|
||||
compiled, but I've been wrong before :)
|
||||
|
||||
>Maybe a drop-in replacement for some of the X shared libraries could
|
||||
>allow existing binaries to support this, though?
|
||||
|
||||
Since you mentioned drop-in replacements: One suggestion would be to
|
||||
automatically include Xaw3d instead of plain old Xaw.
|
||||
|
||||
>2) A better X file manager than what's currently out there (xfm &
|
||||
>xfilemanager are nice but not as easy to configure, easy to use, or
|
||||
|
||||
You can ftp mfm (Motif File Manager) with static linked libraries...kinda slow
|
||||
though!
|
||||
|
||||
>3) Another idea from HP-VUE... this environment features a "console
|
||||
>bar" area at the bottom of the screen, containing buttons to switch
|
||||
>virtual desktops, invocation icons for commonly-used apps, small icons
|
||||
>for system functions (logging out...), and space for a clock,
|
||||
>calendar, Xload bargraph, & other stuff. The appearance of the bar is
|
||||
>very professional, with little beveled insets for each item. I'm
|
||||
|
||||
Perhaps you should look at the GREAT package. It is very similar to VUE. (On
|
||||
my system, it even runs as slow as VUE :)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Also:
|
||||
nice fonts - the default fixed font at 1024x768 is very hard to see.
|
||||
fvwm menus that are useful. The most recent slackware ones are
|
||||
real good. Earlier dists. didn't have much to them.
|
||||
xsetroot -fg red4 -bg black -bitmap /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/escherknot
|
||||
|
||||
:)
|
||||
-Dan
|
||||
|
||||
--
|
||||
Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
|
||||
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
||||
"And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: sheneman@cs.uidaho.edu (Lucas James Sheneman)
|
||||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help
|
||||
Subject: Help With LCD, Cirrus and XFree86
|
||||
Date: 7 Oct 1994 02:03:36 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
I just got XFree86-3.1 and installed it on my machine. I have a Cirrus-6440
|
||||
chipset. I am trying to run the XF86-SVGA server. I managed to make the
|
||||
server happy by telling it I had a Cirrus-6420 chipset (like the docs say to
|
||||
do). When the server comes up, I get a nice, crisp, clear display on my
|
||||
LCD notebook, except for the fact that the top 50 pixels or so and the
|
||||
bottom 50 pixels of the screen are screwed up. The bottom 50 pixels of the
|
||||
display are identical to the top 50 pixels on the display...only shifted by
|
||||
about 100 pixels.
|
||||
|
||||
My question is this: I have a dual-scan color LCD display and a cirrus 6440
|
||||
chipset. Does it make sense for me to determine the video modes for my
|
||||
display as discussed in the text file VideoModes.txt? How do I treat an LCD
|
||||
display when trying to determine video modes and sync frequencies? Does my
|
||||
problem sound like a video timings problem or does it sound like a problem in
|
||||
which my server is mis-using VRAM?
|
||||
|
||||
Specifically, here is my system:
|
||||
1. Sager NP7500 Notebook/dual scan color LCD (640x480x256)
|
||||
2. 1MB VRAM.
|
||||
3. XFree86-3.1
|
||||
|
||||
Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions. Thanks.
|
||||
|
||||
-Luke.
|
||||
|
||||
--
|
||||
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
||||
| Luke Sheneman sheneman@cs.uidaho.edu |
|
||||
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
||||
| Laboratory for Applied Logic, University of Idaho |
|
||||
| http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/lal/students/sheneman.dir/sheneman.html |
|
||||
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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