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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 10:13:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #894
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Linux-Misc Digest #894, Volume #2 Fri, 7 Oct 94 10:13:12 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: unctrl.h: No such file or directory (Matthew Hannigan)
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Newest Linux Journal? (Kevin K. Lewis)
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Re: talk/talkd and ^Z (Christopher Gori)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Alan Cox)
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Linux on a Thinkpad 720 - 160MB disk, How? (Philip Papadopoulos)
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Re: which is better: Mitsumi or Panasonic CDROM? (Hallvard Paulsen)
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Re: P5-90 MHz beats SGI R4000-100MHz. (Brian Vinter)
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Looking for SCO Wordperfect DEMO (C.W. Southern)
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Slackware Pro v2.0 old? (Wayne Adams)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (iafilius@et.tudelft.nl)
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Re: PPP chat script (Shujaat Siddiqui)
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interesting slip problem (Randy Beiter)
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Re: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51 (Randy Beiter)
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Trouble-free Linux PC's (Steven van Aardt)
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Re: PLS recommend a G++ debugger ( with or without X ) (Alan T Shutko)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! - AND UNFREEZE KLUDGE (Alan Cox)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Colin MacDonald)
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Oct issue of Linux Journal - Mobile Computing Article (William J. Sproule)
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Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD? (Peter da Silva)
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Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Christopher Wiles)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Peter da Silva)
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Re: [Q] WD 1Gig HD + EIDE w/ Linux (Dougal Campbell)
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diff between Slackware 2.0.1 vs 2.0.0? & cannot open mouse dev (Salem, Lazaro)
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Microsoft busmouse on the ATI ULTRA , cannot be opened? (Salem, Lazaro)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
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Subject: Re: unctrl.h: No such file or directory
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:11:10 GMT
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zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
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>In article <matth.781031467@extro>,
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>Matthew Hannigan <matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> wrote:
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>>zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
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> [ .. ]
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>If you are using ncurses then you SHOULD be using the <termcap.h>
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>that comes with it. This is kinda the point!
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Ok, but why don't you use the standard termcap.h?
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Is ncurses' termcap.h is just meant for ncurses?
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If so, perhaps you could use a different name (ntermcap.h?)
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>>I just have a feeling that it is safer to #include <pkg/somefile.h>
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>>in general rather than -I/usr/include/<pkg> , #include <somefile.h>
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>So how do you propose handing your problem? <ncurses.h> includes
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><unctrl.h>. Without the -I you won't find it. Besides ncurses
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>could be installed elsewhere (eg. /usr/local/include).
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I would hope that it would be installed in
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/usr/local/include/ncurses, myself. Gcc, and most other
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compilers search there without -I flags. (I think!)
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BTW, thanks for writing such a great package. My programs so
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far run identically under Solaris 2.3.
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You may treat my questions as stemming from ignorance :-)
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--
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-Matt Hannigan
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From: lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis)
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Subject: Newest Linux Journal?
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Date: 06 Oct 1994 13:16:42 GMT
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Can anyone tell me if they've received the newest (November?) issue of
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Linux Journal, yet?
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I had to call and tell them I never received my October issue (which
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they promptly shipped -- kudos for that!). I'm just wondering if the
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same problem might have occurred with my November issue.
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Thanks for any info.
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--
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Kevin K. Lewis | My opinions may be unreasonable
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lewikk@aud.alcatel.com | but such is the voice of inspiration
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From: cgori@isengard.stanford.edu (Christopher Gori)
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Subject: Re: talk/talkd and ^Z
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 21:02:45 GMT
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(ben@tsunami.demon.co.uk (Benjamin John Walter)) wrote:
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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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>
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>Peace, Ben
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>
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[nice .sig deleted]
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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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Chris
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cgori@isengard.stanford.edu
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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: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 16:04:06 GMT
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In article <36ksic$96h@nntp1.u.washington.edu> mkshenk@u.washington.edu (M. K. Shenk) writes:
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>In article <36jcb5$ilp@rivendell.apana.org.au>,
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>Phil Homewood <phil@rivendell.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>>Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
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>>: Now the question is, which os better? Better as in...
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>>: 3) faster
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>>FreeBSD (the difference isn't generally noticeable)
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>Support this?
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Not hard - I can write you a benchmark to show either is better. The older
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*BSD kernels were slower especially on a 4Mb machine due to lack of shared
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libraries and other things. On the whole they are pretty similar.
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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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------------------------------
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From: papadopo@cs.utk.edu (Philip Papadopoulos)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Linux on a Thinkpad 720 - 160MB disk, How?
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 12:36:25 -0400
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Has anybody put Linux on Thinkpad 720? W/ 160MB disk?
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I tried a slackware-compatible bootdisk from peipa.cs.uk (something
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like that) that would automagically detect the disk paramters.
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It came back with 64 heads, and then proceeded to croak that
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the head count was > 16.
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Running PCTOOLS on this disk gives the following geometry
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head=64, cylinders=161, sectors/cyl = 32
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With 512 bytes/sector that gives me 168,820,7xx bytes.
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THis is an ESDI disk. If it was IDE with proper sector translation,
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I could divide the heads by four and multiply the cylinders by
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4 to get the same storage, but that doesn't work.
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Any good ideas out there? Anybody done this?
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Thanks,
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Phil
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From: hallpaul@mt22pc-26.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
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Subject: Re: which is better: Mitsumi or Panasonic CDROM?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 08:31:55 GMT
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Harry C Pulley (hpulley@uoguelph.ca) wrote:
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: Heiko Schlittermann (heiko@lotte.sax.de) wrote:
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: : As far as I know the Mitsumi driver doesn't use either irq nor dma.
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: Then why is it important that you set your IRQ correctly in mcd.h?
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And why is it mentioned in the SoundBlaster manual that you
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have to choose an IRQ number for the Mitsumi drive, but not
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for a Sony or Crative (Panasonic?) drive?
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Hallvard P.
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From: vinter@cs.uit.no (Brian Vinter)
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Subject: Re: P5-90 MHz beats SGI R4000-100MHz.
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 08:55:38 GMT
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In article <CwJE4z.MGs@cerc.wvu.edu>, lera@zeus.chem.wvu.edu (Valery Petrov) writes:
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|> Some benchmarks comparison:
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|>
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|> DELL XPS-90 SGI with R4000 cpu (100MHz):
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|> Integer: 19.2 sec. 23.3 sec.
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|> Floating point: 200 sec. 199 sec.
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|>
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|> I used gcc-2.5.8 with Linux-1.1.51 on DELL's Pentium and C 3.18 with Irix 5.2 on Silicon Graphics machine. Programs were written in plain C using double precision for floating point. Considering
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|> the price difference (similarly equipped SGI is ~3 times more expensive) I wonder who whould like to buy those Indigos nowdays.
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>
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>
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This is not really a fair comparation is it ? The Dell is a top og the line
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PC (are there any 100MHz on the market yet ?) whereas the SGI is the absolute
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bottom of the current SGI line (do they sell any 100 MHz R4000 anymore ?)
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What I would love is a 133 MHz R4600 with Linux, the problem is that even
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though MIPS claims that their CPU's cost only half of the price of a Pentium, a
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PC motherboard with a MIPS is still for more expensive that a Pentium board.
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Still hope though !
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Brian
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--
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Vinter 8>}
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________________________________________________________________
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| Brian Vinter | Email vinter@cs.uit.no |
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| Department of Computer Science | Phone (+47) 77 64 52 52 |
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| University of Tromsoe | Disclaimer: |
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| N-9037 Tromsoe, NORWAY | Real men do it in parallel!|
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________________________________________________________________
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.W. Southern)
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Subject: Looking for SCO Wordperfect DEMO
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Reply-To: cws9669@ultb.rit.edu ()
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 22:02:48 GMT
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I am looking for the SCO Workperfect DEMO, so I can check out iBCS on
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my Linux box.
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thanks
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--
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Chris Southern RIT Computer Science
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E-mail: cws9669@ultb.rit.edu WWW: http://ultb.rit.edu/~cws9669
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------------------------------
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From: wadams@pcnet.com (Wayne Adams)
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Subject: Slackware Pro v2.0 old?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 23:20:41 -0400
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I just received my cd-rom version of Slackware's Pro v2.0 and see
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that it is using the Linux kernel 1.1.18 but now I see the kernel is all the
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way up to 1.1.50 (anything newer?). Being a newbie to Linux, should I be
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concerned with this, or get used to using Linux before recompiling the
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kernel? It also came with Xfree 2.1.1 and 3.0 and I now see 3.1 is avail.
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Again, do the upgrade?
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I understand that things change quickly, but still wondering. (G)
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TIA,
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Wayne
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------------------------------
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From: iafilius@et.tudelft.nl
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 7 Oct 94 10:22:48 +0100
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>
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> I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
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> 486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
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>
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> Daniel
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Yes you have to buy a WHOLE new chip.
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Arjan
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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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Arjan Filius
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Email: iafilius@et.tudelft.nl
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Tell them :
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Get Linux
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Don't even think of BUYING msdos and windows.
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windows is for the masses
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Linux is for the smarter ones!
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------------------------------
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From: dpss@dprmpt.dataprompt.com (Shujaat Siddiqui)
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Subject: Re: PPP chat script
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Date: 6 Oct 94 16:33:57 GMT
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Reply-To: dpss@dprmpt.UUCP (Shujaat Siddiqui)
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In article <36ers0$8q8@kpcnews.q8petroleum.com.kw> asr@kpc01.q8petroleum.com.kw (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan) writes:
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>Please, please, please....I need a chat script for PPP login.
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>I am open for any contribution :-))
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>
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>Thanx
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Ahmad here is the chat script I use:
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/sbin/pppd connect '/sbin/chat -v "" ATDT9Phone Number) 9600(SPEED) "" \
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gin:--gin:--gin: ppp word: remote' /dev/cua1 9600(SPEED) -detach debug modem \
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(your IP address):
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I hope this will help you in whatever you want to achieve.
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How are the things in Kuwait.
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From: rbeiter@books.com (Randy Beiter)
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Subject: interesting slip problem
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 17:18:24 GMT
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Hi, I'm having a rather strange problem with slip. I have two
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linux machines connected with slip, one at work <with internet
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access> and one at home <without :)>.
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At work, I'm using dip to handle inbound slip and at home I
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use dslip to connect to work.
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Instead of using the slip line to connect one machine at home
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with the network at work, however, I have a route set up in the
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router at work to link a network over the slip line, to connect
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the three compuers I have at home to the world.
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Now comes the problem...
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Periodically <it seems very random> while connected through
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one of the machines at home <not the one with the modem>
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I suddenly cease to be able to get anywhere. Upon connecting
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to the machine at work from another computer, I find a route
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set up directly to the machine that stopped resonding has
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magically appeared, and the device for the route is eth0... which
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doesn't work too well, since the machine is on the other end
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of the sl0 device.
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Any ideas why this silly computer would keep forming routes
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like this? It happens on either of the two machines I have at
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home that are not directly connected to the modem. The
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computer that serves the slip connection at home never has
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this problem.
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Both networks use ne2000 compatible cards.
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Thanks for any help, in advance. email responses are preferred,
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but I'll keep an eye out for posted responses too.
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- Randy Beiter
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------------------------------
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From: rbeiter@books.com (Randy Beiter)
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Subject: Re: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 17:27:15 GMT
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In article <drorCx4wBn.DGy@netcom.com>, dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror) says:
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...
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>when a user type dos no error is printed, but also dos is not entered.
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do you have the dosemu.users file set up in /etc?
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i believe for non-root users to use dosemu, they need to be listed
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in that file.
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- Randy
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------------------------------
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From: svaardt@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (Steven van Aardt)
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Subject: Trouble-free Linux PC's
|
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Reply-To: uunet!csfb1!svaardt
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 12:18:05 GMT
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I'm looking for an off-the-shelf PC system which will run Linux without
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any trouble. The PC should be a 486 or better, offer reasonable performance
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with Microsoft Windows, and not be too expensive. Are there any recommendations ?
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Thanks in advance
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Steve van Aardt
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------------------------------
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From: ats4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (Alan T Shutko)
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Subject: Re: PLS recommend a G++ debugger ( with or without X )
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Date: 06 Oct 1994 17:41:20 GMT
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Damon Roscigno <ddr@beach.cis.ufl.edu> writes:
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In article <36ndng$4cn@sand.cis.ufl.edu> ddr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Daniel Damon Roscigno) writes:
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Daniel> I am a new C++ programmer and am looking for a debugger for
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Daniel> Linux I am currently running Slackware 1.1 with kernel .99pl14
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gdb is a good debugger and you probably already have it. I'm using it
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as I type to debug a class project in c++....
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--
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========================================================================
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Alan Shutko - Home of the Mighty Morphin' Power Sig - ats4@cec.wustl.edu
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Yes-men: Fellows who hang around the man nobody noes.
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GCS/S d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a-- w+(@) v+++(-) C++++ UL++++ P+>+++ L++ 3 E+++
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N++ K++ W--- M-- V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5+++ j R G !tv D- B--- e+>++++ u h f r++ n-
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y+(**)
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! - AND UNFREEZE KLUDGE
|
||||
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 10:39:34 GMT
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In article <36la3n$qqd@news1.shell> zerucha@shell.portal.com (Thomas E Zerucha) writes:
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>The *real* problem is in tcp.c where tcp_write uses sock_wmalloc to allocate
|
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>socket buffers, but uses kfree_skb (if anything) to deallocate (after an ACK).
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>The problem is that kfree_skb bypasses the counting mechanism for the number
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>of bytes, so a count of used bytes keeps going up. THIS IS ONLY A THEORY,
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It's also totally wrong.
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>but I can find no call to sock_wfree except for an error that aborts sending
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>a packet. The problem seems to occur with ppp due to timing and the very
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>small packets (each containing 1 character, but eating 768 bytes), with a
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>large window size.
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A 1 character packet uses about 100 bytes if that. sock_wfree is called
|
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from kfree_skb() - look harder
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>
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>You can figure out how to feed the following to patch, or simply edit
|
||||
>sock.c in the wmalloc and wfree routines. All I do is disable the size
|
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>tracking.
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|
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It's a pity that the size tracking is used to manage the TCP windows and
|
||||
you now have a totally invalid broken TCP that will crash if someone sprays
|
||||
you with tcp frames.
|
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|
||||
What is interesting is everyone reporting the problem uses PPP. I've looked
|
||||
through the PPP driver but I can't see anything wrong with it.
|
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|
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Alan
|
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|
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|
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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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|
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------------------------------
|
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|
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
||||
From: cmac@skull.dcn.ed.ac.uk (Colin MacDonald)
|
||||
Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
|
||||
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 12:16:34 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
In article <Cx94C0.F3q@info.swan.ac.uk> iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
|
||||
|
||||
>There are other problems I get regular reports of like whole machines
|
||||
>suddenely locking absolutely solid with not even the keyboard or anything
|
||||
>else responding. This is always machines with an NE2000 clone and those
|
||||
>people with the hardware gadgets to check always find the card has jammed
|
||||
>the bus.
|
||||
|
||||
Is there any way round this? I've had this happen on occasion, using an
|
||||
NE2000 clone, mostly when I've been ftp'ing to our local Netware server. It
|
||||
has no problem when FTP'ing anywhere else, or any other net activity. Is
|
||||
the best solution to get a different card?
|
||||
|
||||
Colin MacDonald
|
||||
|
||||
==========================================|=#===|=#===|=#===========
|
||||
Colin MacDonald | # . | # . | #
|
||||
Department of Clinical Neurosciences | # . | #
|
||||
Edinburgh University | #
|
||||
===========================================
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: sproule@mitl.MITL.Research.Panasonic.COM (William J. Sproule)
|
||||
Subject: Oct issue of Linux Journal - Mobile Computing Article
|
||||
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 18:08:14 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
Mark Fiuczyniski references a few technical reports
|
||||
at the end of this article. I thought I would mention
|
||||
that these are available for anonymous ftp at
|
||||
MITL.Research.Panasonic.COM, and also via WWW at:
|
||||
http://www.MITL.Research.Panasonic.COM/
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
If anyone has questions on these, please forward them to
|
||||
me, and I'll direct the to the right folks.
|
||||
|
||||
-b
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
--
|
||||
William Sproule, Systems Administrator sproule@MITL.Research.Panasonic.COM
|
||||
Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Phone: +1 609 734-0800
|
||||
2 Research Way Fax: +1 609 987-8827
|
||||
Princeton, New Jersey 08540-6628 MIME, PGP Accepted
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.os.386bsd.misc
|
||||
From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
|
||||
Subject: Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
|
||||
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 12:17:39 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
In article <jmonroyCx0z90.2DJ@netcom.com>,
|
||||
Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote:
|
||||
>Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
|
||||
>: If one has a pc compatible with a 486, which OS is the best unix
|
||||
>: operating system? QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
|
||||
|
||||
> I must agree with the majority here.
|
||||
> This posting constitutes *flame bait* and does
|
||||
> not ask a real question. (pardon the pun)
|
||||
|
||||
Jesus, Jesus, pay attention. The majority response isn't "that's flame
|
||||
bait", it's "we need more information."
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Christopher Wiles)
|
||||
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
|
||||
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 18:09:36 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
Jesus, take it to e-mail if you two are going to bash each other.
|
||||
|
||||
-- Chris
|
||||
|
||||
a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu wileyc@halcyon.com wileyc@quark.chs.wa.com
|
||||
"... but I want to use all eight comm ports SIMULTANEOUSLY!"
|
||||
PGP 2.6 public key available by finger for the clinically paranoid.
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
|
||||
From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
|
||||
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
|
||||
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 02:47:58 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
In article <MICHAELV.94Oct4095313@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
|
||||
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
|
||||
>This should be taken with a large bucket of salt, however (as Terry
|
||||
>Lambert points out), since none of the systems have had an official
|
||||
>POSIX verification suite run on them.
|
||||
|
||||
Not to mention that in practical terms POSIX still means very little.
|
||||
|
||||
Most code is still written straight to System V or BSD semantics.
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: Dougal Campbell <dougal@vespucci>
|
||||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
||||
Subject: Re: [Q] WD 1Gig HD + EIDE w/ Linux
|
||||
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 07:52:33 -0500 (CDT)
|
||||
|
||||
On Thu, 6 Oct 1994, Paul Murphy wrote:
|
||||
|
||||
> In article <36t2b3$m5h@vespucci.iquest.com> you wrote:
|
||||
>
|
||||
> : There's a 'big IDE HOWTO' on ftp.iquest.com that's quite helpful.
|
||||
>
|
||||
> Thank you! You saved my life.
|
||||
|
||||
Thank Patrick LoPresti. He wrote the file. I'm just trying to make sure
|
||||
that people know about it :)
|
||||
|
||||
> What\where\who is 'iquest.com,' BTW??
|
||||
|
||||
interQuest is an internet service provider in Huntsville, AL. You can
|
||||
email or finger 'info@iquest.com' for information on our services.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
> --
|
||||
> pmurphy@carbon.denver.colorado.edu
|
||||
> University of Colorado @ Denver
|
||||
> dont't yoiu widh you culd ktype as fasxt as me?
|
||||
|
||||
Dougal Campbell | Check out the interQuest home page:
|
||||
System Administrator | http://www.iquest.com/
|
||||
dougal@iquest.com | interQuest: "We can hook you up!"
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: salem@hauk.hsr.no (Salem, Lazaro)
|
||||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
||||
Subject: diff between Slackware 2.0.1 vs 2.0.0? & cannot open mouse dev
|
||||
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:28:51 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
Hi everybody,
|
||||
|
||||
Anybody can point me out were to look for a list of differences between
|
||||
Slackware dist 2.0.0 and 2.0.1?
|
||||
|
||||
It seems I messed it up by using boot/kernel and root/install of 2.0.1
|
||||
and disk sets from 2.0.0 distribution.
|
||||
could that be the reason why I can't get my mouse to be recognized?
|
||||
|
||||
(Microsoft busmouse connected through the ATI ULTRA grapphic card)
|
||||
|
||||
both selection and test-mouse give the error message:
|
||||
Cannot open device
|
||||
|
||||
Trying
|
||||
# ls -l /dev/mouse
|
||||
I get:
|
||||
|
||||
... /dev/mouse -> inportbm
|
||||
|
||||
instead of
|
||||
... /dev/mouse -> /dev/inportbm
|
||||
|
||||
Is this a "bug" of the Slackware 2.0.1 distrib?
|
||||
|
||||
Then I tried to hard link the mouse device with:
|
||||
|
||||
# ln -f /dev/inportbm /dev/mouse
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
( I assume that should be a _hard_ link after checking with, for example,
|
||||
"# ls -i /dev/cdrom " because those as well as /dev/modem are hard links to
|
||||
the proper devices
|
||||
|
||||
It did not work either. I got the cannot open device again and again.
|
||||
Tried starting again and again repartiotioning and reformattning the partition
|
||||
but nothing.... well I learned a lot reading all the staff (the HOWTOS' and
|
||||
the 200 pages Book by Matt Welsh (great!) but still do not get my
|
||||
mouse to work...... buhhhhhh!
|
||||
|
||||
Any kind soul can help me?
|
||||
|
||||
Specially if you have the ATI ULTRA and a microsoft busmouse connected trough
|
||||
it.
|
||||
|
||||
HAve all of you a nice weekend!
|
||||
lazaro (desperate to make Linux + Xfree86 work )
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
From: salem@hauk.hsr.no (Salem, Lazaro)
|
||||
Subject: Microsoft busmouse on the ATI ULTRA , cannot be opened?
|
||||
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:55:28 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
Hi, I tried tried tried and keep trying.
|
||||
|
||||
I cannot install the mouse under Linux (Slackware 2.0.1 distribution)
|
||||
|
||||
Hardware:
|
||||
It is Leaguer busnouse, recognized by all the soft under both Linux and
|
||||
(ehhem, sorry DOS) to be a microsoft (protocol) and busmouse (interface). It
|
||||
aso has the 9 pins rounded connector with the notch as described in the
|
||||
busmouse HOWTO. so for me there was no doubt its a busmouse.
|
||||
|
||||
It is connected trough the graphic card ATI ULTRA (w/mach8 processor for
|
||||
the accelerated mode).
|
||||
|
||||
I tried mknod ... /dev/inportbm
|
||||
and when running "selection" or "test-mouse"
|
||||
with "-t bm" or "-t ms"
|
||||
and "-m /dev/mouse" or "-m /dev/mouse" options,
|
||||
get:
|
||||
|
||||
ms_init: Cannot open device
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
the same when booting.
|
||||
|
||||
why? why? why?
|
||||
many thanks!
|
||||
LAzaro
|
||||
|
||||
lazaro
|
||||
|
||||
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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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|
||||
nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux
|
||||
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
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