Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #206 From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 6 Sep 93 14:13:09 EDT Linux-Activists Digest #206, Volume #6 Mon, 6 Sep 93 14:13:09 EDT Contents: SLS-1.03: What is "/dev/log=" (wd) help (""Fritz.Ganter@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at, Tu-Graz@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at,) Re: NeXTStep & Linux (DAVID L. JOHNSON) Re: NeXTStep & Linux (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands)) where's "look"? (Shaogang Gong) Re: ll (Frank OEynes) Re: NeXTStep & Linux [QUIT!] (Frank OEynes) Re: ll (Fritz Ganter) Re: BSD UNIX (Denis Fortin) Re: NeXTStep & Linux (James Hammett) [Help] AHA 1540B + TEAC CD-50 in linux/Dos (Teng-Wen Chang) Re: (was: Re: A Word Processor for Linux) (Joshua R. Poulson) Re: NeXTStep & Linux (Rich Mulvey) Re: BBS package (MCREYNPA) Re: Remote task-starting (A06012XT@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT) Re: BSD UNIX (Alan Cox) Re: tsipp3.0 compiled? (Christoph Piotti) tsipp3.0b compiled (Christoph Piotti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wd@pcsbst.pcs.com (wd) Subject: SLS-1.03: What is "/dev/log=" Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 07:54:28 GMT The subject says it all: In the current SLS release there is a file "/dev/log=" - what is this supposed to be? Wolfgang ===================================================================== Wolfgang Denk (+49)-89-68004-288 Digital-PCS Systemtechnik GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 81539 Muenchen Email: wd@pcsbst.pcs.com or wd@pcs.dec.com ##################################################################### # The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers. # # (Shakespeare. II Henry VI, Act IV, scene ii) # ##################################################################### ------------------------------ From: ""Fritz.Ganter@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at, Tu-Graz@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at, Subject: help Date: 6 Sep 1993 05:02:23 -0400 Reply-To: ""Fritz.Ganter@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at, Tu-Graz@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at, ======== remove ganter@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at ------------------------------ From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux Date: 6 Sep 93 05:15:13 GMT In article <1993Sep5.225916.776@kf8nh.wariat.org>, bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >In article <930904.224103.9T2.rusnews.w165w@mulvey.com> rich@mulvey.com (Rich Mulvey) writes: >>rlion@access.digex.net (crazy lion) writes: >>> nextssetp is, in my opinion the best OS there is. but it's hardware >>> requirements are just too great for intel. you'd have to have a fully >>> loaded comupter to even get one program running. so i doubt that anyoe >>> would spend all the time it owuld take to write it when few could benefit.. >>> >> "Too great for Intel?" Ummmm... you may be interested in knowing that >>it has been available on Intel processors for several months now... and >>in fact, since Next is no longer producing hardware, the average person >>is likely to see it *only* on Intel machines... :-) > >Which doesn't change the fact that it rivals NT for hardware requirements to >run it.... > I'm sorry, but I just don't see what is so great about NeXT or NeXTStep. I know the answer that Jobs and company give, but let's get beyond the pretty icons and the hype. It's deadly slow on a NeXT itself. It requires a 486/66 with eisa, 16 meg ram, and 2 meg on the video card to run half-way decent monochrome graphics. With linux on a box like that, it'd be incredibly fast. While I have not seen the Intel port in action, whaddya bet it's terribly slow on even that setup? If you want software beyond what comes with it? Let's say we get tired of the dictionary, and ObjectBuilder. What else is there? From the ifdef NEXT stuff you see in c programs, it seems that it's a pain in the &*^) to write for, compared to most unices. What is available? No X11 stuff will be easy to port -- it'll have to be completely re-written. There isn't that much commercial software out there for it, and what there is is very expensive. I can't see any future for this product, not at the price, seeing the limitations of such a small user base and incompatible OS. It seems like NeXT's last gasp. >++Brandon >-- >Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org >"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years >of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca > -- David L. Johnson ID: dlj0@lehigh.edu Department of Mathematics Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015 Telephone: 215-758-3759 (office) 215-282-3708 (home) #include ------------------------------ From: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands)) Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux Reply-To: hevans@wm.estec.esa.nl Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:59:22 GMT In article <1993Sep5.225916.776@kf8nh.wariat.org>, bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: |> |>In article <930904.224103.9T2.rusnews.w165w@mulvey.com> rich@mulvey.com (Rich Mulvey) writes: |>>rlion@access.digex.net (crazy lion) writes: |>>> nextssetp is, in my opinion the best OS there is. but it's hardware |>>> requirements are just too great for intel. you'd have to have a fully |>>> loaded comupter to even get one program running. so i doubt that anyoe |>>> would spend all the time it owuld take to write it when few could benefit.. |>>> |>> "Too great for Intel?" Ummmm... you may be interested in knowing that |>>it has been available on Intel processors for several months now... and |>>in fact, since Next is no longer producing hardware, the average person |>>is likely to see it *only* on Intel machines... :-) |> |>Which doesn't change the fact that it rivals NT for hardware requirements to |>run it.... |> That and its $1000 entry cost is enough to choke most users. Not that it isn't worth it, but I can't afford it, well... justify it. -- Hugh Evans European Space Research and Technology Centre - Noorwijk, Netherlands Internet: hevans@wm.estec.esa.nl SPAN: ESTWM2::hevans Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. -Ambrose Bierce ------------------------------ From: sgg@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Shaogang Gong) Subject: where's "look"? Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:51:19 GMT is there a program in linux that is similar to "look" on a Sun Sparc? if so, what is it? if it's not in the slackware distribution, where i can ftp one? many thanks. -- Shaogang Gong, Computer Science Department, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, England Email: sgg@dcs.qmw.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: frank@mack.uit.no (Frank OEynes) Subject: Re: ll Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 11:41:37 GMT ll is an alias probably found in the .profile of the user you were logged in as. It is probably added because it is perhaps the most common alias among unix users. personally i prefer alias ll='ls -la' (By the way - this is not a Linux specific question!) -- /////// Frank \Oynes // frankoe@phys.uit.no /// ////// University of Troms\o // tel: +47 (0)83 45197 //// ///// Dept. of Physics // fax : 89852 ///// //// (Auroral Observatory) // snail: N-9000 Troms\o ////// ------------------------------ From: frank@mack.uit.no (Frank OEynes) Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux [QUIT!] Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 12:02:15 GMT We have been wasting bandwidth for three weeks now flaming NT. Let's not start a new flamewar on NeXT ! These groups are named comp.os.linux.??? for a reason. Let us concentrate on constructive criticism of Linux, and raise above destructive flaming of other OS's ! Maybe it is necessary to add this statement to READ-THIS-BEFORE-POSTING :-) -- /////// Frank \Oynes // frankoe@phys.uit.no /// ////// University of Troms\o // tel: +47 (0)83 45197 //// ///// Dept. of Physics // fax : 89852 ///// //// (Auroral Observatory) // snail: N-9000 Troms\o ////// ------------------------------ From: ganter@fvkmapc02.tu-graz.ac.at (Fritz Ganter) Subject: Re: ll Date: 6 Sep 1993 12:12:47 GMT Frank OEynes (frank@mack.uit.no) wrote: : ll is an alias probably found in the .profile of the user you more correct: if no .profile exists, then it's in /etc/profile : were logged in as. It is probably added because it is perhaps : the most common alias among unix users. : personally i prefer : alias ll='ls -la' : (By the way - this is not a Linux specific question!) : -- : /////// Frank \Oynes // frankoe@phys.uit.no /// -- Fritz Ganter Graz University of Technology, Austria Email: ganter@fvkmapc02.tu-graz.ac.at, ganter@fvkmads02.tu-graz.ac.at HAM-Radio: OE6FAD@OE6XYG.AUT.EU, OE6FAD@OE6FAD.AMPR.ORG Phone: +43 316 873-7222 (Office), +43 316 663243 (home) ********** Linux... try it, use it, love it. ************ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc From: fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 12:06:29 GMT In article michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >Linux is a completely different beast. [...] >Until recently, its networking was not at all complete. They have recently >adopted Net/2, but it is still somewhat buggy. Actually, I recently discovered by reading one of the Linux FAQs that Linux's Net-2 simply means "the second release of the Linux networking code" and has nothing to do with Berkeley's Net/2 (which I originally thought it was). -- Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca ------------------------------ From: James Hammett Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 13:32:12 GMT In article <1993Sep6.051513.38107@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> DAVID L. JOHNSON, dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu writes: > I'm sorry, but I just don't see what is so great about NeXT or NeXTStep. I > know the answer that Jobs and company give, but let's get beyond the pretty > icons and the hype. It took me less than an hour to setup the networking on my NeXT. I can now log into it from my Macintosh with NCSA Telnet. On my linux box I've been trying to get the thing to even recognize my host's name and the ethernet card for about 2 weeks. > It's deadly slow on a NeXT itself. It requires a 486/66 with eisa, 16 meg ram, > and 2 meg on the video card to run half-way decent monochrome graphics. With > linux on a box like that, it'd be incredibly fast. While I have not seen the > Intel port in action, whaddya bet it's terribly slow on even that setup? About 80-90% on (supposedly) of the Video speed. > for, compared to most unices. What is available? No X11 stuff will be > easy to port -- it'll have to be completely re-written. There are several ports of X to the NeXT: 2 Public domain (MouseX, and one by Tufts University). There are at least 2 commercial versions, that support Motiff, available (Pencom's Co-Xist, and eXedous). > There isn't that much commercial software out there for it, and what >there is is very expensive. True, but the same can be said for almost all unices. later, James ------------------------------ From: Teng-Wen Chang Subject: [Help] AHA 1540B + TEAC CD-50 in linux/Dos Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:32:04 -0400 Do anyone have the successful case with this configuration, in Linux/Dos? I setup the SCSI id to be 2, and the terminator is installed at both end (one is Adaptec 1540B, another is Teac CD-50 CDROM-driver, and it's the only SCSI driver I have now) Both dos and linux can recognize the CDROM driver at properly ID and CUN(0), but I just can't find the data of the CD-ROM. I use the ASP4DOS.sys from adaptec and Corel SCSI driver on the DOS part, and it works fine before I tried to use it. I even can't reject the disc by using the reject buttom. Since I am new to both sides: SCSI card and CDROM, I wonder is it the problem of driver(CDROM), or the problem of Adaptec 1540B? Any help is appreciated tengwen ================ ------------------------------ From: jrp@widcat.Widener.EDU (Joshua R. Poulson) Subject: Re: (was: Re: A Word Processor for Linux) Date: 6 Sep 1993 15:12:54 GMT Reply-To: Joshua.R.Poulson@cyber.Widener.EDU In article <26aulc$ier@news.bu.edu>, heiser@bumetb.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) writes: |> In article weasel@mecom.oulu.fi (Kari T. Salmela) writes: |> > By the way, I have noticed that old UNIX farts are absolutely |> >most conservative persons I've ever met. Not even IBM :) mainframe |> [...] |> >It's kinda sad to see 25 year old people who are totally fixed to |> >their old customs, unable and unwilling to learn & use anything which |> >has been coded in the 80's or 90's.. |> |> 25-year old people are "old unix farts"???? Yeah, really. Looks like I'm getting grief for liking "TeX" here too. :) --JRP [24 years old, a systems administrator, and runs Linux at home] ------------------------------ From: rich@mulvey.com (Rich Mulvey) Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:29:31 EDT dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes: > In article <1993Sep5.225916.776@kf8nh.wariat.org>, bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Bran > don S. Allbery) writes: >>In article <930904.224103.9T2.rusnews.w165w@mulvey.com> rich@mulvey.com (Ric > h Mulvey) writes: >>>rlion@access.digex.net (crazy lion) writes: >>>> nextssetp is, in my opinion the best OS there is. but it's hardware >>>> requirements are just too great for intel. you'd have to have a fully >>>> loaded comupter to even get one program running. so i doubt that anyoe >>>> would spend all the time it owuld take to write it when few could benefit > .. >>>> >>> "Too great for Intel?" Ummmm... you may be interested in knowing that >>>it has been available on Intel processors for several months now... and >>>in fact, since Next is no longer producing hardware, the average person >>>is likely to see it *only* on Intel machines... :-) >> >>Which doesn't change the fact that it rivals NT for hardware requirements to >>run it.... >> > I'm sorry, but I just don't see what is so great about NeXT or NeXTStep. I > know the answer that Jobs and company give, but let's get beyond the pretty > icons and the hype. > > It's deadly slow on a NeXT itself. It requires a 486/66 with eisa, 16 meg ra > m, > and 2 meg on the video card to run half-way decent monochrome graphics. With > linux on a box like that, it'd be incredibly fast. While I have not seen the > Intel port in action, whaddya bet it's terribly slow on even that setup? > > If you want software beyond what comes with it? Let's say we get tired of > the dictionary, and ObjectBuilder. What else is there? From the ifdef NEXT > stuff you see in c programs, it seems that it's a pain in the &*^) to write > for, compared to most unices. What is available? No X11 stuff will be > easy to port -- it'll have to be completely re-written. > > There isn't that much commercial software out there for it, and what there is > is very expensive. > > I can't see any future for this product, not at the price, seeing the > limitations of such a small user base and incompatible OS. It seems like > NeXT's last gasp. > -- Actually, I saw it in action on a '486 about a month ago at the office of a Next developer. It was most definately faster on the '486 - Gateway, by the way. ( I couldn't tell you what speed, though I suspect it was a 33MHZ machine. ) As for software availability, the developer showed me a number of PD/Shareware apps that rivaled the work of most MS-DOS/BSD commercial offerings. Not that I'm ever likely to use it, but I was impressed, nonetheless. :-) - Rich -- Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS 787 Elmwood Terrace rich@mulvey.com Rochester, NY 14620 ------------------------------ From: mcreynpa@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (MCREYNPA) Subject: Re: BBS package Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 16:20:00 GMT In article <26eq9j$shi@news.delphi.com>, tdylew@news.delphi.com (TDYLEW@DELPHI.COM) writes... >I was wondering if anybody here knew of a BBS package that has been ported >to Linux. I found Eagle BBS, but it would require a couple hours of >porting work to get up and running. I am looking for something that would >be like a mess-dos setup, but allow higher level users to get to the shell. > > Tom > How about waffle? See comp.bbs.waffle for details. --- Phillip McReynolds MCREYNPA@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU ------------------------------ From: A06012XT@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Subject: Re: Remote task-starting Date: Mon, 06 Sep 93 18:42:43 MEZ In article <746099931snx@fidonet.bbs.no> harald-f@fidonet.bbs.no (Harald Finnaas) writes: > >> Look up your man pages on nohup, or use csh, which defaults to nohup. >> with nohup set, you can log off without killing your process. > >The problem is that I've ordered a UNIX manual, but I haven't received it >yet.:( try: man like: man nohup > >But hey, who needs it with guys like you around? :) > Actually it's enough to run nohup like: nohup .sh & to run the command .sh in the background with no hangup signals. Andreas Kostyrka (A06012XT@HELIOS.UNIVIE.AC.AT till 1.10.93) (A9207884@GUNTHER.SMC.UNIVIE.AC.AT) ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 16:20:39 GMT In article fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin) writes: >In article michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >>Linux is a completely different beast. [...] >>Until recently, its networking was not at all complete. They have recently >>adopted Net/2, but it is still somewhat buggy. It's none too complete now, however its great fun helping to debug it. > >Actually, I recently discovered by reading one of the Linux FAQs that >Linux's Net-2 simply means "the second release of the Linux networking >code" and has nothing to do with Berkeley's Net/2 (which I originally >thought it was). This is unfortunately misleading there is NET-2 and NET/2 for Linux. The first is FvK's work on Ross Biro's from scratch tcp/ip for Linux, the second is a port of BSD Networking release 2 for Linux. Both exist, both are used. In time NET-2 should be as good as the BSD networking, but for the moment its providing some good lessons on interrupt and network writing. The original primary motive was to avoid potentially 'contaminated' code from BSD releases getting into Linux given the ATT v BSDI lawsuit. Without that I'm fairly sure the BSD networking code would have been used straight off. Alan iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: piotti@uni-muenster.de (Christoph Piotti) Subject: Re: tsipp3.0 compiled? Date: 6 Sep 1993 17:30:36 GMT Christoph Piotti (piotti@uni-muenster.de) wrote: : Hi! : Is there anyone who had compiled tsipp3.0? : I've problems with linking tsipp. There are some missing functions : ("Referenced undefined functions ...") in tsipp-specific objects. : It seems to be only a small mistake, but I'm not able to find yet. : _Christoph : --------------------------- : Christoph Piotti piotti.uni-muenster.de : ------------------------------ From: piotti@uni-muenster.de (Christoph Piotti) Subject: tsipp3.0b compiled Date: 6 Sep 1993 17:42:46 GMT ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via: Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993 End of Linux-Activists Digest ******************************