From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 13:13:12 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #711 Linux-Misc Digest #711, Volume #2 Mon, 5 Sep 94 13:13:12 EDT Contents: Re: 1542 (Rob Janssen) Re: Class 1 FAX Software for Linux? (Robert J. LeBlanc) Re: g3topbm problem ? (Thomas Ziegler) Re: any Linuxers out there using Demon Internet? (David MacRae) Recommendations for flatbed scanner... (James Fidell) BOOTPC: how to get it to work ? (Johannes Moeckel) Linux on QIC Tape? (russ mcelroy) Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Robert Kroes) Re: uugetty doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (jonathan allen) Re: Linux Journal (Steven Buytaert) Re: PerfMeter OLWM (Wilfried Tenten K8/EIS2. Tel. 2986) Re: Assembler working with GCC?? (Peter Mutsaers) Re: BOOTPC: how to get it to work ? (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Re: SQL For Linux? (Alan Cox) Re: Opaque move (Alan Cox) cancel my request for xfree benchmarks... (Derrik Walker II) Adaptec 2322D ESDI controller. Help please. (Wayne Hodgen) Re: 16550AFN serial card (Alan Cox) Re: If Linux passes X/Open's Spec 1170, will it become a true Unix? (Phil Hughes) What is /dev/mem? (andy harbick) Re: Linux Journal (Phil Hughes) Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing! (Thomas Quinot) dosemu problems with linux 1.1.45 (Kees Lemmens) Re: calentool 2.3X for Unix/Solaris/Linux released (ta104128@menudo.uh.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: 1542 Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 08:04:19 GMT In <1994Sep4.233326.15979@pepper.cuug.ab.ca> dominic@pepper.cuug.ab.ca (Dominic Fraser) writes: >Looking for info on the compatibility of Adaptec 1542c scsi interface cards. >I understand that the 1542b, which is obsolete, was more forgiving than >the newer 1542c. Is this a problem with the linux drivers? This is not related to software, but to hardware. With the 1542C you just have to be more careful selecting good cables and having the proper termination at the ends of the cables. Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: rjl@davinci.renaissoft.com (Robert J. LeBlanc) Subject: Re: Class 1 FAX Software for Linux? Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 19:20:24 GMT garym@charon.osc.on.ca (Gary Lawrence Murphy) writes: >I could only find efax06a on sunsite --- where does 06b live? efax 06b was (to my knowledge) only sent out by the author to certain individuals who were having trouble with USR Sportster 14.4 modems. While the patch may make other improvements as well, that (and an upgrade to kernel 1.1.42 or later) was what did the trick for me. It should really be Ed Casas' prerogative to decide whether to upload the patch somewhere, but as he's on vacation at the moment I can mail out the patch to those who request it. To save bandwidth here, reply by e-mail to me at rjl@renaissoft.com if you would like the 06a-06b patch. -- ====================================================================== Robert J. LeBlanc | rjl@renaissoft.com | 1925 Fell Avenue Manager | tel: (604) 985-2013 | North Vancouver, B.C. Information Systems | fax: (604) 980-1077 | V7P 3G6 Renaissoft | * PGP-capable * | Canada ------------------------------ From: zie@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Ziegler) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: g3topbm problem ? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 11:49:20 GMT : >I have just installed Rob Hooft's 1mar1994 binary NETPBM package, and : >trying to print a received fax with efax's "fax print" command : >resulted in the following error message: : > : > "g3topbm: error allocating memory for a row" : > : >and no usable output. The netpbm packages seems to have a lot of errors. Use the pbmplus package (you find it on sunsite). It does not use shared libs, so the executables are larger, but they work without errors or allocating lots of megabytes. TH. -- Thomas Ziegler, Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Elektronik (LTE), Uni Erlangen-Nuernberg, Cauerstr. 9, D-91580 Erlangen, Phone: +49 9131 85-7200, FAX +49 9131 302951 ------------------------------ From: dave@gemma.demon.co.uk (David MacRae) Subject: Re: any Linuxers out there using Demon Internet? Reply-To: dave@gemma.demon.co.uk Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 11:57:56 +0000 In article: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes: > : Any further queries, please feel free to mail me. (just remember the > : Scotland bit :))) ) > > What about Wales, we're not in England. :) > > -- My apologies. -- Dave MacRae |The views expressed here are mine and Edinburgh |mine alone and do not reflect the views Scotland |of my employers in any way. ------------------------------ From: jfid@mfltd.co.uk (James Fidell) Crossposted-To: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Subject: Recommendations for flatbed scanner... Date: 5 Sep 1994 12:44:59 +0100 I'm looking for a colour flatbed scanner to run off my Linux PC, preferably something that can handle at least A3 size images (twice letter paper size, or about 300mm x 400mm). Does anyone have any recommendations ? James. -- "Yield to temptation -- | it may not pass your way again" | jfid@mfltd.co.uk | - Lazarus Long | James Fidell ------------------------------ From: yd52@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Johannes Moeckel) Subject: BOOTPC: how to get it to work ? Date: 5 Sep 1994 12:11:10 GMT Hello, I'm trying to get bootpc to work. No matter what programm I use I will always get " No response from bootp server". As there is NO documentation, I can't imagine where the problem really is. Bootpc is known to work under dos here at university, but when I try to broadcast under Linux it won't work ...? ( and my boss want's me to get this fu**ing bootpc running :-( ). Joe -- =============================================================================== | Johannes Moeckel | Friends don't let friends use *OS | | joe@hrz.th-darmstadt.de | Yeah, fuck it ! ( Ministry ) --<-<-@ | =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: russ@dialup.rain.com (russ mcelroy) Subject: Linux on QIC Tape? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 02:12:06 GMT If you can provide Linux on QIC-02 tape, especially if you are in Canada, please reply by mail. Thanks. Russ -- Russ McElroy Qualicum Beach russ@dialup.rain.com | VE7AJH @VE7FMY.#NVI.BC.CAN.NA BC, Canada #*# ------------------------------ From: robert@plasma.apana.org.au (Robert Kroes) Subject: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! Date: 5 Sep 1994 12:45:25 GMT Hello, Forgive me if this is an FAQ, but I've scanned the ones that come with Slackware 1.2 and can't find anything usefull... I would like to know how I can create a Slackware boot disk (the one used to install Linux from scratch) and install a kernel of my choice... Why? So I can make use of an alpha network driver to perform an NFS install and save copying 100+ MB of Slackware 2.0 on to floppies :-) I've formatted a diskette with "fdformat", added my kernel with "dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0", created a ramdisk with "rdev -r /dev/fd0 1440", and changed the root file system with "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/ram" (I think :-) The bit I can't work out is how to tweak it so it asks for the ROOT disk, and copies that filesystem to the ramdisk, after the kernel has loaded... Please don't tell me this requires a specially modified kernel :-) Any and all hints gratefully accepted (email especially appreciated since this *ensures* I can't miss your response :-) Regards, -- -Robert Kroes- robert@plasma.apana.org.au -- -Robert Kroes- robert@plasma.apana.org.au ------------------------------ From: jonathan@mirror.demon.co.uk (jonathan allen) Subject: Re: uugetty doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reply-To: jonathan@mirror.demon.co.uk Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 10:07:34 +0000 In article kwasnch@panix.com "Chris Kwasnicki" writes: > In one of the HOWTO's, it mentions doing a > strings uugetty | grep "/etc/defaults" > to verify that you have the right version. I installed Slackware 2.0, and the > versions of getty there did not support the conf.uugetty.* setup. Yup - Slackware 2.0 installs agetty, not getty_ps Jonathan =============================================================================== Jonathan Allen | jonathan@miror.demon.co.uk | Voice: 0271-79023 Barum Computer Consultants | jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk | Fax: 0271-24183 =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert) Subject: Re: Linux Journal Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:26:41 GMT David Reid (dreid@hookup.net) wrote: : I am thinking of subscribing to the Linux Journal. Can anyone who is a : present subscriber or has seen the magazine, comment on whether it will be : money well spent. I don't really have easy access to any old copies so I am a : little wary about spending the money without knowing what I am buying. Any : comments would be appreciated. Thanks Yup, money very well spent. The best thing for readers of the LJ IMHO is that they can steer the editors towards where they want them. If you ask on the net "could someone give me a quick tutorial rundown on that program", he'll probably get "use the source, Luke" as an answer. If there is enough interest, I think you can send a request to LJ where they can spend an article on it. Examples for me are the articles on EZ, the articles from Michael about the libraries and VT interface. Examples of shell plumbing, how to use 'icmake', ... For 19$ (?), money well spent... For me LJ brings back the 'crisp feeling' of a (very old) 'Byte'. I hope Phil you boys keep it that way... Stef -- Steven Buytaert WORK buytaert@imec.be HOME buytaert@innet.be 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' (A. Einstein) ------------------------------ From: wtenten@eis.k8.rt.bosch.de (Wilfried Tenten K8/EIS2. Tel. 2986) Subject: Re: PerfMeter OLWM Date: 5 Sep 94 13:36:44 GMT Reply-To: wtenten@eis.k8.rt.bosch.de Hello Mrs. or Mr. Mads Meisner-Jensen, I am running LINUX on my private PC and I got the perfmeter. The original version won,t come to proper work. So I phoned with the originator, Mr. Koenig, told him my challenges with perfmeter and couple of days went into the country. As a result, he sent me a new version of the perfmeter and exccellent, it runs properly. Send me a disk, I will copy the files and I send this disk back to you. Please note, I am in Denmark at the 28. of this month (September) and I` think it will be much better to send the post from Denmark to you ... if you agree. My private address is: Dr. Wilfried Tenten Bubenhofenstr. 7 D-72501 Gammertingen P.S. Please give me note, if you will send me your disk. Regards Wilfried ------------------------------ From: plm@atcmp.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Assembler working with GCC?? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:13:51 GMT In bernd@bjshome.oche.de (Bernd Lehahn) writes: >In article , Bernd Lehahn writes: >> Something else I'm constantly seeking, is an editor for LINUX (shell or X), >Before someone starts to explain how Emacs could fulfill all those needs, I >should add that I already looked at him, but I would prefer an editor rather >than a lisp interpreter. :) Although I usually use emacs, if you really don't want it there is always vi! One of the most beautiful editors ever created (except for emacs of course). You must get used to it but after that you will see its beauty. Regards, -- Peter Mutsaers | AT Computing bv, P.O. Box 1428, plm@atcmp.nl | 6501 BK Nijmegen, The Netherlands tel. work: +31 (0)80 527248 | tel. home: +31 (0)3405 71093 | "... En..., doet ie het al?" ------------------------------ From: wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Subject: Re: BOOTPC: how to get it to work ? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:04:29 GMT In article <34f1su$vr8@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> yd52@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Johannes Moeckel) writes: >I'm trying to get bootpc to work. >No matter what programm I use I will always get " No response from bootp >server". >As there is NO documentation, I can't imagine where the problem >really is. The original bootpc source for linux includes a boot file name of "linux" in its bootp request, which according to the bootp rfc prevents any bootp server from replying, unless it also has a suitably named bootfile available for tftp. So I would recommend to eliminate this bootfile name in the bootp request construction in the source. Hope this helps, Wolfgang R. Mueller , Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany. ------------------------------ From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: SQL For Linux? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 12:57:20 GMT In article <1994Aug30.162656.4867@nntpxfer.psi.com> cgs_joe@pikes.dnvops.sticomet.com () writes: >Is there a database product out there that supports SQL and >has a SQL compiler for Linux? Look under http://www.linux.org.uk/ at the commercial vendor list -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' ------------------------------ From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Opaque move Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:04:19 GMT In article <33u2oq$gm8@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes: >Advantage: You don't have to drop the window to see what is under it. > eg. you can just drag a window away and drag it, back if you > just want to look under it. Get xblast from the X11R5contrib on ftp.x.org. Its a demo of shape extensions that lets you put holes in windows. Its meant as a toy but Im forver using it make corners of windows seethru and stuff Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix From: Derrik Walker II Subject: cancel my request for xfree benchmarks... Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:40:10 GMT I posted the request for such a list twice and both times, I got a bunch of people mailing me saying they too wanted a copy if I found one. So, Naturally, I thaught that one did not exist. Well, I guess that people finally discovered I was serious and wanted to know what video card to put into this linux box I'm building. Thanks to everyone who sent me a copy of the information I originally wanted. I am fairly new to this group and couldn't find what I was looking for in the FAQ. Maybe it should be there? -Derrik =============================================================================== Derrik Walker II Student of Computer Sciences Cleveland State University Automation Assistant, Law Library d.k.walker85@csuohio.edu dwalker@omega.csuohio.edu =============================================================================== http://pclab19.law.csuohio.edu:8099/html/dwalker/home.html ------------------------------ From: hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Wayne Hodgen) Subject: Adaptec 2322D ESDI controller. Help please. Date: 5 Sep 1994 14:47:47 GMT Reply-To: hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de Greetings Linuxers! I was rummaging around in our old hardware box today and I came across a couple of 200MB ESDI drives and an Adaptec 2322D ESDI controller. My problem is, someone seems to have beat me to the card and pulled all the jumpers off. I have no idea what the jumper blocks are for. Whoever put the stuff in the box must have trashed the handbook 'cos it's nowhere to be found. Has anyone out there got a handbook for a 2322D? If you have, could you please fax me the page(s) with the jumper descriptions on it? Many thanks in advance. -- Wayne Hodgen | hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de | #include ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: 16550AFN serial card Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:12:41 GMT In article <343ff5$62l@blkbox.blkbox.COM> naji@myhost.subdomain.domain (Naji M. Khudairi) writes: >Great, but how do you enable the 16 byte buffer in order to take advantage >of overrun protection? When linux sees a 16550A it enables the FIFO. Easy as that. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' ------------------------------ From: fyl@eskimo.com (Phil Hughes) Subject: Re: If Linux passes X/Open's Spec 1170, will it become a true Unix? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:07:00 GMT Chris Bitmead (chrisb@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote: : In article iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: : >>In UniForum's UniNews July 20,1994 issue there's and article on X/Open's : >>UNIX branding. This got me thinking--if Linux would pass this branding, : >>would it become a full-fledged _official_ Unix, on par with SunOS or : >>HP/UX or whatever? : >It would cost a lot and include royalties according to the X/open blurb I : >saw. : Brilliant! Now we have the opportunity to pay royalties to X/open instead : of USL. :) Maybe we could cut a deal with X/Open to just pay a percentage of the sales price instead of a fixed fee. :-) -- Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal (206) 527-3385 usually phil@fylz.com, sometimes fyl@eskimo.com ------------------------------ From: harbica@tch31.cs.jmu.edu (andy harbick ) Subject: What is /dev/mem? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:34:30 GMT Hi, Is it the memory of my computer? How does it work? I ask because I had a program, sasteroids, that tried to call it and it said cannot open /dev/mem. I don't have any other problems, but it sounded bad. Is it? Andy ------------------------------ From: fyl@eskimo.com (Phil Hughes) Subject: Re: Linux Journal Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:23:15 GMT Thanks for all the positive feedback. When I saw the question I was holding my breath. :-) We aren't just a magazine that decided to cover Linux, we are Linux people that decided to do a magazine to help Linux. We aren't perfect but as our subscriber and advertising base grows we re-invest in the publication. (Actually that is an understatement as we are still spending more than our income but with your support we expect to be breaking even early next year.) If you have comments, by all means send them to us (linux@ssc.com is the easiest address. SSC publishes Linux Journal and we just converted the office over to a Linux network.) Or you can mail them to Linux Journal, P.O. Box 85867, Seattle, WA 98145-1867 or FAX to (206) 527-2806. We do publish letters to the editor and we do even listen to them. The initial direction of Linux Journal was set by a survey I posted to comp.os.linux over a year ago and we continue to use this feedback to set our future course. (The tag line on the cover says "The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community". I fought hard to get that line on the cover (the word "community" kept disappearing :-) ) and want to make sure we continue to represent that community.) -- Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal (206) 527-3385 usually phil@ssc.com, sometimes fyl@eskimo.com ------------------------------ From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot) Subject: Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing! Date: 4 Sep 1994 22:25:37 +0200 Le Prostetnic Vogon pana@phoenix.phoenix.net écrit : > > Likewise! > Yep same here. Ditto :-) -- Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un | homme plein de misère." Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO ------------------------------ From: lemmens@dutind5.twi.tudelft.nl (Kees Lemmens) Subject: dosemu problems with linux 1.1.45 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 16:04:12 GMT I was running dosemu 0.52 with linux 1.1.24 and this worked fine. Now I upgraded to linux.1.1.45 and suddenly dosemu crashes when it is run on the console. The xterm version (curses based) still works fine. Even recompiling (with new linux include files) didn't make any difference: It still crashes when it tries to access the videocard. Anyone who can help ? regards, -- Kees Lemmens, | Phone : +31-15-787229 Dep. Applied Analysis, | Fax : +31-15-787209 Fac. Techn. Maths & Informatics, | PO Box : 5031; NL-2600 GA Delft Delft University of Technology. | E-mail : lemmens@dv.twi.tudelft.nl The Netherlands. | ------------------------------ From: ta104128@menudo.uh.edu Subject: Re: calentool 2.3X for Unix/Solaris/Linux released Date: 5 Sep 1994 11:53:28 -0500 In article , Bill Randle wrote: >Calentool, a day-week-month-year at-a-glance calendar and hackers almanac, has >been cleaned up, slightly enhanced and ported to Solaris 2.3 and Linux. It >is available in /contrib/office on ftp.x.org and has just been put into >the incoming directories on sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu. Look for >"calentool-2.3X.tar.gz" (and "calentool.lsm" for you linux'ers). Hi, I just compiled the calentool program on linux 1.1.47, it works fine execpt when I choose "week", in which case it core dumps. Any idea ? Thanks. -- wj ------------------------------ ** 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-Misc-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via: Internet: Linux-Misc@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 sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Misc Digest ******************************