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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: Tue, 11 Oct 94 05:13:16 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #916
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Linux-Misc Digest #916, Volume #2 Tue, 11 Oct 94 05:13:16 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: PHONE for ACC Bookstore Anyone? (Mark Bolzern)
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Re: Newest Linux Journal? (Mark Bolzern)
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DLL Problems with staticvars (Marc L. Allen)
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Re: getting linux to work dail-up (Bill West)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (H. Peter Anvin)
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Re: DooM: Sound but no Music? (Brian G Long)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (Al Longyear)
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Re: XFree86 3.1, Linux bin: Where are NLS files? (Kaz Sasayama)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Alan Cox)
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Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN) (Alan Cox)
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Re: talk/talkd and ^Z (Alan Cox)
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Re: What PCMCIA ethernet card to buy? (Alan Cox)
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Re: IP Gateway/Forwarding Problem (David - Morris)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (matthew green)
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[pine] where is spell(1) ? (pp000547@interramp.com)
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Re: Does all SCO software run on Linux (Mike Jagdis)
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Replies to replies (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware) (Yan Xiao)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: mark@gcs.com (Mark Bolzern)
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Subject: Re: PHONE for ACC Bookstore Anyone?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 21:03:23 GMT
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In article <1994Oct5.184600.20175@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, <edg@tt740 > wrote:
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>Does anyone have the phone for ACC Bookstore? They are Linux CD/book
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>disktributors.
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>^^^^^^
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>
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>Ed Gonzalez
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>edg@comm.mot.com
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203-454-3242 Tel
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203-454-2582 Fax
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--
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Mark Bolzern : mark@gcs.com USA Tel: (303) 699-7470 Fax: (303) 699-2793
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WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. The FlagShip "CA-Clipper and XBase on Unix" People
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FlagShip is a 4GL Database Development System & XBase Porting Tool for Unix
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No Runtime Fees Info at ftp.wgs.com : /pub2/wgs/Filelist OR mail: info@wgs.com
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------------------------------
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From: mark@gcs.com (Mark Bolzern)
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Subject: Re: Newest Linux Journal?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 21:36:07 GMT
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In article <CxDuB5.1C3@eskimo.com>, Phil Hughes <fyl@eskimo.com> wrote:
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>Kevin K. Lewis (lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com) wrote:
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>
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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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>
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>Well, we publish it and we don't have them yet. :-) They were shipped
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>from the printer on Friday and we should have them on Monday. Our
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>mailhouse promises us that they will go out within 3 days so they will be
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>in the mail by Thursday.
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>
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>--
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>Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal (206) 527-3385
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>usually phil@ssc.com, sometimes fyl@eskimo.com
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Phil... great mag!!! looking forward to the november issue!!
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Oh, and thanks for running the FlagShip piece under NEW PRODUCTS!
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We are working on an article for you about the porting process, and what we
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ran into.... and I just submitted another on the product, what it is, and
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how it benefits the Linux community to Mike... but it bounced, so I sent
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it to lydia.....
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Hope the email stuff gets straightened out for you....
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--
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Mark Bolzern : mark@gcs.com USA Tel: (303) 699-7470 Fax: (303) 699-2793
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WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. The FlagShip "CA-Clipper and XBase on Unix" People
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FlagShip is a 4GL Database Development System & XBase Porting Tool for Unix
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No Runtime Fees Info at ftp.wgs.com : /pub2/wgs/Filelist OR mail: info@wgs.com
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------------------------------
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From: allen@chesapeake.rps.slb.com (Marc L. Allen)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: DLL Problems with staticvars
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 16:13:16 GMT
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I'm having some problems with the DLLs under linux. It may not be the DLLs,
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but a misunderstanding on my part.
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Basically, I've got a static object in a library file which doesn't appear
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to be properly constructed.
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For instance:
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class A
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{
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public:
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A(int a) { _a = a; }
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int _a;
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};
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static A aa(4);
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This code doesn't load up aa::_a with four when I load the sharable library.
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At least it doesn't appear to. Are there some rules or gotchas that I need
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to be aware of when using DLLs?
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I do have a number of objects with static members which DO get properly
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initialized, so I'm quite confused.
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Is there maybe a FAQ on DLLs or something? I'm using DLL Tools 2.11.
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Please email any responses to allen@chesapeake.rps.slb.com
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Thanks,
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Marc L. Allen
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------------------------------
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From: billw@starbase.neosoft.com (Bill West)
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: getting linux to work dail-up
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 17:05:54 GMT
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Lars Hofhansl (lars@hboix1.enet.dec.com) wrote:
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: Now you have to setup your modem to "pick up the phone". On Hayes-compatible
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: modems you do that with
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: ATS0=n where n is the number of rings the modems should wait before it picks
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: up the phone (you will most probably want to set n to 0).
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^^^^^^^^^^
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On my Hayes-compatible ATS0=0 disables auto-answer so that you cannot dial
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in since the modem will not pick up. This was also true for about four
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differant brand modems that I have setup.
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: You can send the command using sezon,kermit or minicom...
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: For me "echo -nf ATS0=0" works, but I heard that doesn't for everyone.
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: That's all I did to set it up, and it works for dialin and dialouts;
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: problems may arise when using UUCP on the same line. In that case you should
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: switch over to uugetty (or getty_ps)...
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: good luck,
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: Lars
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--
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******************************************************************************
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Bill West
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Houston TX
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email: billw@starbase.neosoft.com
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******************************************************************************
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------------------------------
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 16:10:47 GMT
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Followup to: <37a9ot$7ug@hearst.cac.psu.edu>
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By author: donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu (Matthew Donadio)
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In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc
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>
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> The term multi-threaded is also often misused. Then there is the
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> confusion about user level threading and kernel level threading.
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> Packages like LWP and language features only give the impression of
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> threading. The will still boil down to normal unix-like scheduling.
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> If a process has threads using LWP, then the threads will get
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> scheduled when the controlling process does. In a true threaded
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> system, each thread will act independant of each other and all other
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> threads. Another feature of threads is "low overhead": sharing text
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> space, etc. But this is becoming downplayed with some of the new
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> fork(2) system calls that do the same thing. I think the original
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> poster wanted to know if the linux kernel was multi-threaded (no).
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> The easiest way to describe this is that the kernel itself can
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> multi-task (system threads). I'll have to try to find my copy of my
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> LynxOS programmers guide to help clarify this.
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>
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Actually, the Linux kernel supports multithreading through the clone()
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system call, but I believe libc doesn't support multithreading yet.
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Remember, since threads share the same address space, multithreading
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is visible to libc, whereas multitasking is not.
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
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FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
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Unizork: You are in a maze of twisty little directories, all different...
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------------------------------
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From: Brian G Long <bl2y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: DooM: Sound but no Music?
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 19:40:21 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 8-Oct-94 Re: DooM: Sound but
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no Music? by Terry Evans@sal.cs.utah.
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> : Somebody posted a message about this a little while ago, but I
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> : didn't see any solutions posted. In particular, I'm running xdoom
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> : under Linux 1.0 with the 2.9 sounddriver and a SoundBlaster 16 ASP.
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> : I hear all the sound effects, but I don't hear any music. I made sure
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> : the the music volume slider was turned up, so that does not appear to
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> : be the problem.
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I get this problem ALL THE TIME in DOS! The only way I can fix it
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is to go into Windows, quit, then run the program in question. Doesn't
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this mean there is some problem with the FM-Synthesis mechanism?
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Ugh, the SB16ASP blows ...
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----
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bl2y@andrew.cmu.edu | "And I often sigh...I often wonder why..." | acrimony
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WRCT Pittsburgh 88.3FM : every Sunday nite at midnight : some noise & stuff
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------------------------------
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From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 19:48:55 GMT
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keithk@nando.net (Keith Kee) writes:
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>Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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No. It is multi-user.
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--
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
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From: kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp (Kaz Sasayama)
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Subject: Re: XFree86 3.1, Linux bin: Where are NLS files?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 01:39:18 GMT
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>>>>> "Kaz" == Kaz Sasayama <kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp> writes:
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Kaz> I have just downloaded XF86-3.1-{S3,bin,doc,fnt,inc,lib,man}.tar.gz
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Kaz> for Linux, but cannot find any NLS files. Where can I find them?
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Oops, I found them in the cfg part.
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--
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Kaz Sasayama, a Nagoyan X68000 user.
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-- "May the source be with you!"
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------------------------------
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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: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 17:53:23 GMT
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In article <36sa1i$1l7@quagga.ru.ac.za> csgr@cs.ru.ac.za writes:
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>(I wouldn't hazard a guess on how soon after a source change is made
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>in Linux, it becomes available to the general hacking public.)
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It's normally available first, then debugged then submitted into the main
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kernel. Of course people who play with alpha test code do so at their own
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risk
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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: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN)
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:02:04 GMT
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In article <1994Oct6.141605.1792@dale.dircon.co.uk> pc@dale.dircon.co.uk (Pete Chown) writes:
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>When an svgalib program starts, it checks to see whether it has the
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>I/O permissions it needs. If it doesn't, it exec's another program
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>which is suid root. This program checks that the first program is
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>entitled to have direct access to the video system; if it is, it
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>adjusts the I/O permission bitmap accordingly, and then exec's the
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>first program (after setting its euid back to the proper value). This
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>program does what it did last time--looks to see whether it has the
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>relevant I/O permissions. This time, it does have, and starts
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>working.
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And while its doing the exec I mv a copy of /bin/sh over the original
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svgalib program
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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: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: talk/talkd and ^Z
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:04:53 GMT
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In article <1994Oct5.210700.805@tsunami.demon.co.uk> ben@tsunami.demon.co.uk (Benjamin John Walter) writes:
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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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Thats a bug in curses under Linux - rebuild talk with ncurses. I await the
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new libc to see if the new BSD curses fixes all the bugs.
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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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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: What PCMCIA ethernet card to buy?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 19:02:44 GMT
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In article <373r7nINNka9@ctron-news.ctron.com> edavis@ctron.com writes:
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>Hey you should get a Xircom Ethernet PCMCIA, (get a modem on it too)
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>I used it for: <running at once, mind you>
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>
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> exceed/W
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> Novell Netware
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> SNMP agent
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> Chameleon NFS
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>
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>Works great, and in exceed/W, you can open about 6 xterms or other TCP/IP
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>connects before the adapter says it's stuffed.
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>It cost me about 200bux w/o modem.
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Pity they wont tell anyone how to program it so only their drivers can be
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used - what you gonna do when you change OS and they dont have a driver ?
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Get a 3c589 and you can sit running Linux with a good many more than 6
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open Xterms 8)
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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: dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: IP Gateway/Forwarding Problem
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 20:26:49 GMT
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jared@seanet.com (Jared Reimer) writes:
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>Hi. Here's my situation:
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>Laptop Linux 1.1.51
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>3Com 3C589 ---ethernet--- Pentium 90 ========PPP========> Internet
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>(PCMCIA) USR 28.8k V.34
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>I am trying to set up my Linux box as a gateway for my Laptop (with the
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>intention of adding additional machines later).
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> ...
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Your internet provider's router must know to send data to your Laptop
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via your pentium. This is normally done by haveing 'routed' in your
|
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machine provide RIP advertising to peer routers. It can also be done
|
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by having your provider establish static routes to your LAN
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addresses. In my similar situation, I have found it sufficient
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to add '-g -s' (overkill?) flags to the routed startup in
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/etc/rc.d/rc.net AFTER my LAN is ifconfigED. Sometimes it seems
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I have to kill and restart routed after running a while but
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Ive been up for a couple hours now w/o problem (at the moment
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the LAN station is running IBM TCP/IP DOS
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 16:33:52 GMT
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alexd@system9.unisys.com (Alex Dumitru) writes:
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There's a thought. JMJr running Linux, and posting endless moose droppings
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on the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy... Jesus... ("What?")
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take him! please! how much do you want?
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.mrg.
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------------------------------
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From: pp000547@interramp.com
|
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Subject: [pine] where is spell(1) ?
|
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Date: 08 Oct 1994 06:06:37 GMT
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Reply-To: pp000547@interramp.com (Bill Hogan)
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Hello.
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I just noticed that the Pine binary I have on my pC does not
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spell-check.
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|
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When I press ^T (in COMPOSE) I *instantly* get "Done spelling check"
|
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even if the text consists of a text-string like "qwerty".
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Also, after I press ^T, the ^G [set help] on the menu gets
|
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overwritten by text of which I can only see this little bit: "or
|
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directory" -- which looks like a piece of "No such file or directory".
|
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|
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Aha, I say, `pine' can't find its spelling-checker, so I go to see
|
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what spelling-checker Pine is looking for and `man pine' tells me this
|
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is `spell(1)'.
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So, I did `man 1 spell'.
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Nada.
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So, I thought, I must have deleted the binary by accident somehwere
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along the line.
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I checked my TA CD-ROM.
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I checked my sunsite.ls-lR.
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I checked ftp.cdrom.com.
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I can't find spell(1) anywhere.
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I guess I never noticed this little quirk before because until
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recently I was only using my modem to dial into a shell account, but
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now I have a PPP connection.
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Does everyone else already know about this?
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No big deal (I use GNUS and RMAIL now, anyway) but I would still
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like to be able to use Pine from time to time -- with a
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spelling-checker.
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Thank you!
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Bill
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--
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Bill Hogan <pp000547@interramp.com>
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------------------------------
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From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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Subject: Re: Does all SCO software run on Linux
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 20:22:00 +0000
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* In message <1994Oct08.042659.1392@taylor.infi.net>, Mark A. Davis said:
|
||||
|
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MD> These should also work, but I haven't tested them yet-
|
||||
|
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MD> ClockWise, Foxbase+, FoxPro, Dbase, Applixware, Grammatik
|
||||
|
||||
MD> I have heard of yet many others which have worked.
|
||||
|
||||
The fact that many, *many* people seem to be using iBCS but hardly anyone
|
||||
talks to me <sniff> would appear to suggest there are few applications that
|
||||
have significant problems. I might be reduced to adding 286 Xenix support
|
||||
soon :-(.
|
||||
|
||||
Mike
|
||||
|
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|
||||
------------------------------
|
||||
|
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From: yxiao@umabnet.ab.umd.edu (Yan Xiao)
|
||||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
||||
Subject: Replies to replies (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware)
|
||||
Date: 09 Oct 1994 00:21:15 GMT
|
||||
|
||||
In article <QUINLAN.94Oct7170019@freya.yggdrasil.com> quinlan@freya.yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
|
||||
|
||||
Yan Xiao (me) <yxiao@umabnet.ab.umd.edu> writes:
|
||||
|
||||
(passwd problem)
|
||||
DQ> This is covered in the Fall 1994 errata. The errata is available for
|
||||
DQ> FTP at ftp.yggdrasil.com (192.216.244.52) in /pub/fall94/errata.
|
||||
|
||||
DQ> # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/passwd
|
||||
|
||||
Let me first say that we printed out the errata and spent about
|
||||
10 minutes to figure out where the installation process
|
||||
should be changed. Or how do you think we got control-panel
|
||||
up?
|
||||
|
||||
> 2. More than you asked for: 'more' behaves strangely: in console
|
||||
> (non-X), you'll get segmentation fault. in X's xterm, you'll
|
||||
> have trouble scrolling. The problem also affects 'appropos'.
|
||||
|
||||
DQ> We are unable to reproduce a segmentation fault. It is always
|
||||
DQ> possible that the copy you are running has been corrupted.
|
||||
|
||||
I wouldn't say that if I were you: we copied 'more' from CD
|
||||
several times, including running directly from CD.
|
||||
|
||||
DQ> Meanwhile, I might suggest trying `less'.
|
||||
|
||||
No comment on that.
|
||||
|
||||
> 3. Plug-and-Play, no-plug, no-play: waning CD-ROM can be a challenge
|
||||
> We didn't install everything (has anyone?), thus we picked
|
||||
> packages we wanted from control-panel. Guess what, we still
|
||||
> have pointers to CD-ROM, such as /usr/X386/lib/libX11*.
|
||||
|
||||
DQ> Please get a copy of the errata. It covers this and other small
|
||||
DQ> problems.
|
||||
|
||||
Well, one more thing to report on that front. Due to seemingly
|
||||
random errors with mail, we did a thorough check. We found that
|
||||
'smail' was linked to CD. When CD not mounted, sendmail was just
|
||||
not started, and thus no connection to sendmail could be made.
|
||||
|
||||
And, copying smail from CD to harddisk may not solve all the
|
||||
problem, as at least one (I forgot which one) of smail-linked
|
||||
programs (eg runq, sendmail) was not linked to smail, but
|
||||
rather to CD, as well.
|
||||
|
||||
To other yggdrasil CD users, it is advisable to go
|
||||
through at least /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/X11/lib, /etc,
|
||||
and /usr/etc to check whether softlinks to CD are
|
||||
suitable for you. This is of course based on
|
||||
our limited experience of installing about 250MB of stuff
|
||||
from CD to the harddisk. If you install significantly
|
||||
more or less than 250MB, you may not have the concern.
|
||||
|
||||
Yan Xiao, U. of Maryland at Baltimore.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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