From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 20:13:21 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #274 Linux-Activists Digest #274, Volume #6 Wed, 29 Sep 93 20:13:21 EDT Contents: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Justin Shuttleworth) Re: SoftLanding Message (Henrik Lund) Re: p2c for linux - sources where? (JEFF EPLER) DOS EMULATOR (Horng-Ming Tai) Re: VLB IDE controller cards? (Denis Cheong) Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Miguel Alvarez Blanco) test post - please ignore (Christopher Stevens) [A]: RAWDISK.SYS bugfixed version 1.1 (Juergen Prang) cannot pipe to lpr (Werner Gold) Re: minicom 4g (Mark Buckaway) Connecting Apple LW PRO 600 to Linux box NFS won't mount on .99pl12 (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu) Re: cannot pipe to lpr (Roger Binns) rpcgen? (David Levine) Re: Term Binaries needed (bryan k williams) Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Chris Nystrom) Re: SoftLanding Message (Brett Person) TERM (Yaobin Huang) Ethernet error message (Bao Chau Ha) ATI Graphics Ultra Pro X problems (Bao Chau Ha) p2c, but what about c2p?? (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) Gateway 2000 486/66E linux startup files? (mark ross) Bernoulli driver (Wobutt) Kernel taking 2 meg of ram?? (Mr KAA. Smith) Dial-in line was working, but now doesn't (Harry C. Johnson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: justin@sunra.astro.cf.ac.uk (Justin Shuttleworth) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: 29 Sep 93 15:04:42 In article <1993Sep28.172229.9083@aber.ac.uk> jfd0@aber.ac.uk (Julian Day) writes: : There is a program called 'doc' in /usr/bin/X11 in SLS 1.03. : I've tried it very briefly, but I was very disappointed with : the performance. I had top running in another window, and doc : was using over 80% of the CPU, even when I wasn't doing anything. : -greg doc seemed to perform much more reasonably with a co-pro. Without, it is unusably slowwwwww. Julian Day ==== no sig (jfd0@aber.ac.uk) This is not so surprising. Presumably you mean the doc that comes as part of the InterViews release. InterViews uses floats to store *all* of its internal measurements, so a coprocessor is necessary for all but the most basic of InterViews-based programs. I program using InterViews on a couple of PCs using Linux and Dell SVR4, have found a coprocessor to be a prerequisite. -Justin -- Dr Justin Shuttleworth | Post: Dept. Physics & Astronomy Email:J.Shuttleworth@astro.cf.ac.uk | UWCC, PO BOX 913, JANET:J.Shuttleworth@uk.ac.cardiff.astro | Cardiff, CF2 3YB, Wk: +44 222 874000 x6964 Hm: +44 222 470117 | Wales, UK. ------------------------------ From: lund@diku.dk (Henrik Lund) Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 14:34:32 GMT brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes: >Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just >before the login prompt? I think, maybe, it could be, im not sure if it is, look in /etc/motd or another /etc textfile. (just look for a file with the same contents, back it up, change it and try it out) Hope this helps you. Henrik Lund lund@diku.dk ------------------------------ From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (JEFF EPLER) Subject: Re: p2c for linux - sources where? Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:09:36 GMT philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades) writes: >Where can I find the sources for p2c (for linux)? There is a change I need >to make to hopefully fix a problem with a p->c conversion that I want to >do - LL1, a parser generator. >Anyone know where they are? - I've looked on all the obvious hosts. I found this readme in wuarchive:/systems/gmu/p2c.README: p2c is a Pascal-to-C translator. It is available via anonymous ftp from csvax.cs.caltech.edu in /pub/p2c-1.20.tar.Z. It is also available on the GNU `languages' tape and the GNU CDROM. Ask gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu for more details. Try looking there... ------------------------------ From: ming@med.umich.edu (Horng-Ming Tai) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin Subject: DOS EMULATOR Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:16:34 GMT Is there anyone knows how to setup dos emulator? I have troubles on running dos applications. TKS. ------------------------------ From: zylantha@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Denis Cheong) Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.setup Subject: Re: VLB IDE controller cards? Date: 29 Sep 1993 14:46:10 GMT carsten (bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: : My Boca IDE Plus controller card has just failed under warranty :) and : I would like to look into replacing it with a local-bus equivalent, : in the same price range, ie CAN$50-75 or not too much more. Does : anyone have any experience with any such beast? Can anyone recommend : anything? Bear in mind that I am a student running _deep_ in the red, : and no matter how nice a card costing only $200 is, I will probably not : be able to afford it. Tell me about them anyway, though, no reason not : to drool :) . : If anyone has experience in the matter, I _must_ get a card which works : in both linux and OS/2, so one which doesn't require a driver, or is : completely standard is needed. The discussion lately has been about the Promise Technologies card (PT-2033). They apparently promised drivers for OS/2 by the end of October. Without the device driver or the on-board BIOS the card performs just like a normal IDE card (16-bit). With it I have seen transfer rates at 4MB/sec, without just standard 1MB/sec. I did have a problem with it working in an early VLB machine though. I am running it under OS/2 2.1 with no problems, except that it is operating in straight 16-bit mode; just waiting for the drivers to run it in 32-bit mode. Hope this helps Denis. ============================================================================== Denis Cheong | `Today I am zylantha@tartarus.uwa.edu.au | a small blue thing lazarus@mackerel.gu.uwa.edu.au | Like a marble University of Western Australia | or an eye' Nedlands, Western Australia | net.goth | - Suzanne Vega - ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) From: miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es (Miguel Alvarez Blanco) Date: 29 Sep 93 14:42:19 +0100 Laszlo Herczeg (las@whome.uucp) wrote: : There is a documentformatting package called lout which compiles : clean for Linux. It was posted ca. 3 weeks ago in comp.sources.misc. Two quick questions arise in my mind: How is the user interface, and what is the performance of this wordprocessor ? I mean, surely it isn't an X program, but, could it run over an Xterm, it's a kind of WYSIWYG, has good menu options, could it be programmable (something like macros) .... ? Oh, and another thing: where can we find it ? Miguel PS: BTW, move this to comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux is to be deleted. Miguel Alvarez Blanco "All that is gold does not glitter, miguel@hobbit.quimica.uniovi.es not all those who wander are lost." miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es Bilbo Baggins. ------------------------------ From: albert@stu.rpi.edu (Christopher Stevens) Subject: test post - please ignore Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:56:56 GMT Test post. please ignore. -- Christopher Stevens =============================================================================== stevec2@rpi.edu stevens@acm.rpi.edu ------------------------------ From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: [A]: RAWDISK.SYS bugfixed version 1.1 Date: 29 Sep 93 15:44:45 GMT I'm announcing the bugfixed version 1.1 of RAWDISK.SYS in this newsgroup, because I know a lot of people with tape drives not supported (either by type or by using older kernels etc.) are using this DOS device driver for backup of their Unix disk/partition. RAWDISK.SYS v1.1 is available by anonymous ftp from: ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/pc/misc/rawdsk11.zip login: anonymous, password: e-mail address Version 1.1 of RAWDISK.SYS (raw disk device driver for DOS) fixes the following two bugs: 1. DR-DOS's CHKDSK complains about an illegal drive for RAWDISK.DRV. 2. Successful restore of a backup was prevented by version 1.0 under certain circumstances: if the program you use for restore (ie that writes to the disk via RAWDISK.SYS) wrote an updated directory entry first before reading the FAT to get the available bytes on the drive, RAWDISK.SYS returned a virtual FAT indicating a full drive. This prevented successful restore. Both bugs are fixed. BTW, RAWDISK.SYS is a DOS device driver, that maps an arbitrary portion of a harddisk (given by a start- and endcylinder) onto a logical DOS drive. The HD area is accessed (read or written) through a regular DOS file. Logical drive administration areas (bootsector, FAT and rootdirectory) are totally virtual, hence no additional HD space is required. sorry for the inconvenience, Juergen -- Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de University of Duisburg |******************************************** Electrical Engineering | Logic is a systematic method of coming Dept. of Dataprocessing | to the wrong conclusion with confidence ------------------------------ From: gold@wpfx01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Werner Gold) Subject: cannot pipe to lpr Date: 29 Sep 1993 16:10:12 GMT I am not able to do this on a remote host: cat filename | rsh linuxbox /usr/bin/lpr If I do "rlogin linuxbox" it requests a password, even though I set up a .rhosts file. Some days ago I posted to c.o.l.admin an article named "SECURITY HOLE in SLS" I realized that rshd did not correctly check the shadow password file. Is this a similar problem? Werner ------------------------------ From: mark@datasoft.com (Mark Buckaway) Subject: Re: minicom 4g Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 10:49:18 GMT John Henders (jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca) wrote: : It seems to not have made it onto either tsx-11 or sunsite. I : checked the listings and downloaded the one with the most recent date, : and it's not 1.4g. : Please send it again, and maybe leave a note asking the maintainers : to delete the other versions and there are some really obsolete versions : up there. On sunsite, I retrieved it from /pub/Linux/Incoming as mc4g-tar.z. Mark -- ============================================================================== Mark Buckaway | root@datasoft.north.net | DataSoft Communications DataSoft Communications | uunorth!datasoft!root | 62 Rock Fernway System Administrator | Voice: +1 416 756 4497 | Willowdale, ON M2J 4N5 ============================================================================== "UNIX and OS/2 are operating systems. Windows is a shell, and DOS is an boot virus" ============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: pramod@radon.ece.uiuc.edu () Subject: Connecting Apple LW PRO 600 to Linux box Date: 29 Sep 93 11:48:06 GMT Hi, Has anyone out there got an apple lw pro 600 hooked up to their linux box ? I can get postscript files to print without any problem but plain text is the problem. Is there anyway to convert ordinary text output to ps or is that necessary ? Thanks, -- Pramod John, Dept. of ECE at UIUC email: pramod@uiuc.edu "Blessed are the peacemakers"- Jesus Christ ------------------------------ Subject: NFS won't mount on .99pl12 From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 29 Sep 93 09:56:11 -0800 I am having problems with NFS. WHen I boot off the boot/install disk (SLS 1.03) I can mount an NFS drive and install Linux. When it is installed (which it contains .99pl12) and I make a .99pl12 boot disk, and reboot, I cannot mount the NFS drive. I get the following: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC Unable to send .99pl12 does detect the ethernet card which is a 3c503. If I reboot with the boot/install disk, I can mount and work with NFS. Is there something I need to change? rc.local and rc.net runs without reporting any errors. Please help. Please respond via private e-mail -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696 ------------------------------ From: rogerb@x.co.uk (Roger Binns) Subject: Re: cannot pipe to lpr Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:10:10 GMT Werner Gold (gold@wpfx01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote: : If I do "rlogin linuxbox" it requests a password, even though I set up : a .rhosts file. Several machines (all should) check the permissions on the .rhosts file. Make sure it is only readable by the owner (ie r--------). You may ALSO have to add the foreign host to linux's /etc/hosts.equiv. Note that sometimes you have to give full domain names and userids in these files. Roger -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Roger Binns | "I can't even begin to think what they think about" | | rogerb@x.co.uk | - Audrey I, Little Shop of Horrors. | +--------- two wheels good, four wheels bad ---------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: dlevi@ctp.com (David Levine) Subject: rpcgen? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:51:56 GMT I'm running .99pl6 (SLS version ?). I'm just curious if rpcgen is distributed with later versions of SLS or any of the other Linux distributions. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________________________________________ /\ /\ / \ /**\ / /****\ ../ /******\................... 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I am RUNning to sunsite now.... couldn't get there last night ------------------------------ From: chrisn@medianet.com (Chris Nystrom) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 13:50:56 GMT In article <284qs5$hrq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber) writes: >So I guess the answer is that there is not word processor for linux? > >Figures... > >Byron Faber... > > >Guess I shouldn't have rmed Dos. You are supposed to write one. Let us know when it is finished... :) -- Chris Nystrom chrisn@medianet.com MEDIANET, Inc. P.O. Box 293218 Voice: (512) 343-2002 ext 450 Austin, Texas 78720-3218 Fax: (512) 343-1717 ------------------------------ From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 19:11:43 GMT In article <288f4b$np5@access.digex.net> brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes: >Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just >before the login prompt? Yeah. Its easy. UPGRADE to Slackware. -- Brett Person Guest Account North Dakota State University person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet ------------------------------ From: y1huang@ic.sunysb.edu (Yaobin Huang) Subject: TERM Date: 29 Sep 1993 20:30:10 GMT Can any body tell me how to use "term" in Linux? I try to login to Linux via serial port by modem dial in using PROCOMM under MS-DOS. If you know how to setup "term" under Linux, so I can remote login by modem, Please email me . Thank you!! Ben ------------------------------ From: habaoch@eng.auburn.edu (Bao Chau Ha) Subject: Ethernet error message Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 20:24:58 GMT I keep getting ethernet error messages: eth0: transmit timed out, TX status 0x3, ISR 0x3. eth0: Possible IRQ conflict on IRQ3? but TCP/IP seems to be OK. Are there something wrong with my setup? I am using 3c503 (AUI, 8 bit), SLS 1.03 (0.99.13). Thanks. Bao ------------------------------ From: habaoch@eng.auburn.edu (Bao Chau Ha) Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro X problems Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 20:31:56 GMT I am using the ATI GUI Pro. Everytime, I am getting out from X-windows, the screen is messed up. It looks like the VGA was not reset right. This didn't happen with the old ATI Graphic Ultra. Is there a patch to reset the VGA back to normal when I quit X? Thanks. Bao ------------------------------ From: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) Subject: p2c, but what about c2p?? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 22:09:26 GMT I am wondering if there is a program to convert from C to pascal?? -- ======================== a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu Bikram Dhaliwal (416) 845-4567 ------------------------------ From: ross@london.dab.ge.com (mark ross) Subject: Gateway 2000 486/66E linux startup files? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 22:00:40 GMT I just installed linux on my Gateway 2000 486/66e. After a full installation I tried bring up openwindows. I got a system error telling me that I need to set the "Clocks" keyword in my Xconfig. I tried doing this by getting the clocks from startx output, but had no luck. Does anyone have the correct Xconfig files as well as any other files that were changed for the Crystalscan monitor, ATI Ultrapro local bus etc? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! ____________________________________________________________________ Mark I. Ross Simulation & Control Systems ross@sunny.dab.ge.com Daytona Beach, Florida ____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: scc016rf@unm.edu (Wobutt) Subject: Bernoulli driver Date: 29 Sep 1993 17:15:37 -0600 Has there been a bernoulli driver developed for linux? If so,where do I get it? Thanks.. Robert Franklin scc016rf@carina.unm.edu ------------------------------ From: edc187p@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr KAA. Smith) Subject: Kernel taking 2 meg of ram?? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 21:12:26 GMT G'day, I recently compiled my pl11 kernel with the net2 stuff installed. No probs with net2, btw. I implemented plip and slip in the linux/net/inet/CONFIG file and compiled. No errors, but when I rebooted, I found the kernel was taking around 2 megs of my ram! (1.6 meg data, if I remember rightly). Does anyone have any clues? Keith ------------------------------ From: hcj@gull.uncc.edu (Harry C. Johnson) Subject: Dial-in line was working, but now doesn't Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 23:08:45 GMT I am using uugetty(getty_ps?) and have the ringback feature enabled. We have a USR Internal Sportster 14.4 modem, and everything worked fine for a while. After restarting my computer however I could not get the modem to answer. I set the appropriate DIP switch so that ATZ would reset the modem to its factory defaults instead of the Non-volatile ram setups, and now the modem answers fine, but screws up in the getlogname() call. I have the debug option turned on in my uugetty.ttyS1 file, and the debug output doesn't report any errors. After the modems connect though I get a line of about 30 characters of garbage (though all the characters are the same). Anything I type is echoed as garbage. My uugetty.ttyS1 file is as follows, and worked for some time before the reboot. SYSTEM=nmrlab-pc DEBUG=777 VERSION=/proc/version LOGIN=/bin/login ISSUE=/etc/issue CLEAR=NO HANGUP=YES ALTLOCK=cua1 INITLINE=cua1 INIT="" ATZ\r OK TIMEOUT=60 RINGBACK=YES INTERRING=6 WAITFOR=RING DELAY=3 CONNECT="" ATA\r CONNECT "" \r \d\d ALTLINE=cua1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. One of our undergrads has been diagnosed with cancer but would like to continue with her research using her computer from home. The 14.4 line is to be her access to the campus. Thank you very much for your time. -Harry -- ============================================================================= Harry C. Johnson IV Phone: (704)547-4339 E-Mail: hcj@gull.uncc.edu Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina 28223 "Seems to me, its all just chemistry..." -Neil Peart ============================================================================= ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************