From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 05:13:14 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #755 Linux-Misc Digest #755, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 05:13:14 EDT Contents: CorelDRAW for Unix (philip m. thompson) Re: Linux, 40,000 Cover CD's (Peter Jones) Re: Corrupt linxdoom.tgz on sunsite? (Mario Rosario) Re: Doom settings ??? .doomrc copied from DOS??? (Mike Treadwell) best PCMCIA ethernet? (Jim Greer) Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (Terry Lambert) Re: Biz.comp.linux* (Jeff Kesselman) Re: Linux Slip Server (Steve Larsen) Re: best PCMCIA ethernet? (Jasper Wong) OS/2 fan wants to try Linux.. What do I need ?? (Jim Chisholm) PCI Ethernet Cards (Steven Carter) *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) (Ian Jackson) Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (Mark A. Davis) Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors (Ian Jackson) Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card (HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE) Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect. (Mark A. Davis) Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem (Gregory Trubetskoy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pmt@cyberspace.net (philip m. thompson) Subject: CorelDRAW for Unix Date: 13 Sep 1994 22:33:11 GMT CorelDRAW runs on Sun, SCO, AIX, etc... Has anybody had any luck running it on Linux? It's my main DOS application, so if there's a reasonable chance of success, I'd like to use it at home on my Linux box. ------------------------------ From: thanatos@drealm.drealm.org (Peter Jones) Subject: Re: Linux, 40,000 Cover CD's Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 19:41:19 +0000 On 13 Sep 1994 01:18:28 GMT, randy hyde (rhyde@cuda.ucr.EDU) wrote (in article <352ul4$fqq@galaxy.ucr.edu>): > Since when did FSF start demanding that distributors give this > stuff away at cost? I was under the impression that they could Err... This is the basis of the GPL. You *MUST* have free access to the source code. [SIGH] -- Peter ------------------------------ From: mario@duke.swdc.stratus.com (Mario Rosario) Subject: Re: Corrupt linxdoom.tgz on sunsite? Date: 13 Sep 94 21:02:05 GMT Paul Hatchman (paul@sfe.com.au) wrote: : The linxdoom.tgz file on sunsite appears to be corrupt? As no one else here : seems to have reported any problems, I tried twice to download it, made sure : I had binary mode set etc.. but gzip still says it doesnt pass its crc. : The file is: : -rw------- 1 paul 171762 Sep 12 18:06 linxdoom.tgz : and gzip -t says: : gzip: linxdoom.tgz: invalid compressed data--crc error : Can anyone point me to an ftp site that has a good copy of doom? It appears to be fixed now. mario : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Paul Hatchman, | : Analyst/Programmer, | paul@sfe.com.au : Sydney Futures Exchange, Australia | Tel: +61 2 2560567 : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: miket@cyberspace.net (Mike Treadwell) Subject: Re: Doom settings ??? .doomrc copied from DOS??? Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:36:11 GMT Preston William Gilchrist (pwg7503@tamsun.tamu.edu) wrote: : I was trying to get my favorite key settings from DOS to work with Linux Doom, : so I just copied my defaults file from DOS to .doomrc in my home directory : This did not work. I am using these key settings........ : UP --> Home : DN --> End : TURN RT--> Page Up : TURN LT--> Insert : STRF RT--> Page Dn : STRF LT--> Delete Refer to the text file that came with Doom. The keys are hardcoded to the default arrangement. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking From: jimgreer@tucson.princeton.edu (Jim Greer) Subject: best PCMCIA ethernet? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 19:17:30 GMT I am about to buy a PCMCIA ethernet card (I need 10BT although one that would work with other wires would be great.) Are any of the cards with Linux drivers superior, or should I just go with the best price? I am not very knowledgeable about networking in general, or ethernet, or PC hardware, so feel free to clue me in as bluntly as you like. Thanks! -- "Because it was there... jimgreer@princeton.edu I don't think I even had to be on stuff. Computer Science, Class of '95 I just like to smear things. Smearing is nice. Smearing is good." - Iggy Pop on why he put peanut butter on his chest onstage ------------------------------ From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs Date: 14 Sep 1994 03:24:15 GMT In article <353k49$293@kubds1.kub.nl> paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes: ] Terry, You probably have your quotes confused. As I am a very ] satisfied Linux-user myself, I can't call other Linux-users ] 'geeks' can I? Check the indents, please. Oops. I guess I was refuting you instead of defending you. 8^). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: biz.config From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux* Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:59:43 GMT In article <352iri$h2s@elaine.teleport.com> spire@teleport.com (Spire Technologies) writes: >In iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > >>In article <34sqeo$hd6@kelly.teleport.com> spire@teleport.com (Steve Wicke) writes: >>>The reasoning I have for wanting to start a biz.* heirachy for linux is >>>that there are commercial vendors now addresses the need for >>>professional Linux support. Professional support costs money...ie; is >>>commercial and people on the net (including myself) have a tendacy to be >>>a little snide towards commercial posts in non commercial areas. I would > >>Well I'd certain back the idea. > >>Alan > > Thanks.... > It is nice to seee that more pepople are realizing the need for >it. I am hoping that with more support from people like you :) We can get >this underway. > > Joshua Drake > Spire Technologies > >>-- >> ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, >> // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // >> ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' >-- > Spire Technologies 1985 SW 6th Ave. > Portland Or > Phone (503)222-3086 > If i didn't say so already, I think its aa good idea, too. A particular example is this 'I can't get Yygdrasil F94 to boot on my sony cd' problem. I've been tellign the same story over and over, 'cause it disappears in the flood of mail. If there was a place were people could ask yygdrasil questions, and read their posts, it might alleviate some of this. jeff Kesselman - just a consumer, not an employee ------------------------------ Date: 14 Sep 94 04:05:51 GMT From: slarsen@gonix.com (Steve Larsen) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Linux Slip Server ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes: >dlg@cleese.apana.org.au (David Garrard) writes: >>Iam currently trying to set up my Linux box as a slip server and I have >>come across a problem that has me stumped. I have created an account with >>a shell /usr/bin/dip -i and I have put it in /etc/shells. Every time I log in >>with this account the computer tells me tha /usr/bin/dip -i does not exist and >>logs me out. However the program is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. >I don't think you can pass a parameter (-i) to the shell field in the >password file. Put the thing in a script and use the script for the >shell (although the chance might exist that the person invoking the >script could break out of it and have access to the O/S). int main() { execlp("dip", "dip", "-i", (char *) 0); } Compile this as dip-i.c or whatever,doesn't matter. Work's like a charm, and it's straight outta the faq I got with the prog. ------------------------------ From: jyw@cs.brown.edu (Jasper Wong) Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking Subject: Re: best PCMCIA ethernet? Date: 14 Sep 1994 06:57:10 GMT In article <1994Sep13.191730.7968@Princeton.EDU>, Jim Greer wrote: >I am about to buy a PCMCIA ethernet card (I need 10BT although one >that would work with other wires would be great.) Are any of the cards >with Linux drivers superior, or should I just go with the best price? >I am not very knowledgeable about networking in general, or ethernet, >or PC hardware, so feel free to clue me in as bluntly as you like. > >Thanks! >-- >"Because it was there... jimgreer@princeton.edu > I don't think I even had to be on stuff. Computer Science, Class of '95 > I just like to smear things. Smearing is nice. > Smearing is good." - Iggy Pop on why he put peanut butter on his chest onstage I just went through the whole process of setting up my linux station with a PCMCIA ethernet card, so I guess I can share some of my experience. For PCMCIA service, you'll need at least version 1.1.49 of the kernel (found in ftp.funet.fi) as well as two files from stanford.edu (can't recall the exact name of the FTP site). You'll need the file module.tgz (?) and pcm-2.2.2.tar.tgz (?), module.tgz gives you an updated version of 'insmod' and pcm-2.2.2.tar.tgz is the actual PCMCIA service driver (the author did a great job). I have the 3Com589 Combo card and it has been running perfectly once I set it up right. BTW, don't buy Xirom cards since they are supported by the driver..... Jasper -- // < jyw@cs.brown.edu wongj@rpi.edu IRC[miles@#amiga#hk#paris > _|_ // < Captain of Brown Table Tennis Team : : Amiga Users Group > | \X/miga < Winner of 93/4 Northeast Intercollegiate of Table Tennis > | _ Dept. of CompSci, Box 1910, Brown U, Providence, RI 02912 (401)863-4900 _ ------------------------------ From: Jim@JChisholm.Phys.Dal.Ca (Jim Chisholm) Subject: OS/2 fan wants to try Linux.. What do I need ?? Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:49:22 -0300 Hi folks.. I'm a long time advocate of OS/2 and I am curious about Linux.. 1)will it run on a386DX40 8M ? 2)how much HD is required ? 3)does it require it's own partition or can it live alongside DOS and OS/2 in the same partition ? 4)can it be booted from DOS or does it require it's own boot manager ? 5)what are the files required to get me up and running ? 6)where can I get these ? 7)no flames please about not having read the FAQs, I don't know which farqing faqs to read !! Thanks to anyone who can help, I look forward to trying Linux !! Cheers, Jim Chisholm Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax, N.S. CANADA B3H 3J5 Internet Jim@JChisholm.Phys.Dal.Ca ------------------------------ From: scarter@calvin.gtlug.org (Steven Carter) Subject: PCI Ethernet Cards Date: 14 Sep 1994 04:05:58 GMT Is the Boca PCI ethernet card fully supported under Linux? Is anyone using one? Does it seem to have and better throughput than a 16-bit ISA ethernet card? What is the fastest and most robust PCI ethernet card supported by Linux? Thanks. -- --- Steven M. Carter scarter@gtlug.org Golden Triangle Linux Users Group ------------------------------ From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) Subject: *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) Date: 13 Sep 1994 04:03:26 -0600 Please do not post questions to comp.os.linux.misc - read on for details of which groups you should read and post to. Please do not crosspost anything between different groups of the comp.os.linux hierarchy. See Matt Welsh's introduction to the hierarchy, posted weekly. If you have a question about Linux you should get and read the Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers list from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs, or from another Linux FTP site. It is also posted periodically to c.o.l.announce. In particular, read the question `You still haven't answered my question!' The FAQ will refer you to the Linux HOWTOs (more detailed descriptions of particular topics) found in the HOWTO directory in the same place. Then you should consider posting to comp.os.linux.help - not comp.os.linux.misc. Note that X Windows related questions should go to comp.windows.x.i386unix, and that non-Linux-specific Unix questions should go to comp.unix.questions. Please read the FAQs for these groups before posting - look on rtfm.mit.edu in /pub/usenet/news.answers/Intel-Unix-X-faq and .../unix-faq. Only if you have a posting that is not more appropriate for one of the other Linux groups - ie it is not a question, not about the future development of Linux, not an announcement or bug report and not about system administration - should you post to comp.os.linux.misc. Comments on this posting are welcomed - please email me ! -- Ian Jackson (urgent email: iwj10@phx.cam.ac.uk) 2 Lexington Close, Cambridge, CB4 3LS, England; phone: +44 223 64238 ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:45:20 GMT stolz@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Eckehard Stolz) writes: >Just to add my point of view (as a very satisfied WPWin-user) to this threat: >I would love to see WP for Linux at a reasonable price It already is. Although even lower couldn't hurt! >Since most of the Linux-boxes are stand-alone PC's, a non-network version would >be sufficient. WordPerfect for Unix does not require networking. >In todays world, not only sales are important but also the percentage of the >market (sp ?). It should be in Novells/WordPerfects intention to spread as much >versions of WP in the market as possible (I mean selling at reasonable price - > not giving away for free ). One big advantage of WP visa MS-Word is IMHO the > availability of WP on different platforms. Exactly >My conclusion: >Novell should make a Linux-only, no-network version of WP available The SCO version of WordPerfect for Unix runs just fine under Linux. They are ****NOT**** going to make a native version for Linux. We should work to get WordPerfect/Novell to SUPPORT running the SCO version under Linux (Which they currently do not). > at a price >comparable to a DOS/Windows version (including students discounts). The suggested retail price of all versions of WordPerfect are the same. The Unix version can be had for under $299. Upgrades or crossgrades are even less expensive than that. Government/educational prices are lower also (check DIT/GSA/etc). > The Linux >community could profit by getting more acceptance for Linux because of a native >port of WP. Why does it have to be native?? Keep in mind that it is utterly futile to expect a native version of WP for Linux.... I T W I L L N O T H A P P E N -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 00:59:47 GMT In article , Theodore Ts'o wrote: >[Further discussion on this topic is directed to gnu.misc.discuss >and/or comp.os.linux.misc. These two messages have been posted to >c.o.l.announce to make the Linux community as a whole aware of >some issues surrounding the GPL; please see discussions elsewhere >if you wish to fight it out. --mdw] I AM ABSOLUTELY LIVID. FURIOUS DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT. Firstly, because Ted Ts'o has joined in with the ignorant flamers. He himself has stooped to spreading the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that he claims he finds so harmful. There was nothing inaccurate about my posting, and nothing that needed correcting. The posting went through several drafts on a mailing list with several hundred people, with _no_ objections. Secondly, because the moderator of comp.os.linux.announce, Matt Welsh, posted this so-called "correction" WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO ME. I find this particularly galling considering the fact that Matt is a *member* of the mailing list I mention above. Unfortunately I am going away on holiday for a week, so I will not be able to battle this out. However, I am EXTREMELY ANGRY that Theodore Ts'o has turned a message that would have accurately and honestly reassured those who have been confused by the FUD surrounding this topic into an opportunity for him to score points of the FSF and RMS, and that Matt Welsh, whom I would have expected to know better, allowed him to do so. This has greatly damaged the cause of free software, and will no doubt make the lives of all the developers and users of Linux much more difficult as they wrestle with the problems caused by missing, unclear, home-built or otherwise unhelpful copyright notices. >Now, a number of law professors have stated that the FSF would be >"laughed out of court" if they ever tried to sue someone over this. But >it is still true that the FSF's interpretation has caused a lot of Fear, >Uncertainty, and Doubt. Which YOU are helping to spread. -- Ian Jackson, at home. ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu or iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk +44 1223 575512 Escoerea on IRC. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/ 2 Lexington Close, Cambridge, CB4 3LS, England. Urgent: iwj@cam-orl.co.uk ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.development,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,convoy.hardware,local.pinboard,paderborn.pinboard,zer.z-netz.fundgrube.suche.elektronik From: HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE Subject: Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:20:00 +0200 Frank Westheider Linux Support Group Paderborn higgins@uni-paderborn.de higgins@delbox.zer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HI Folks ! I'm looking for infos on the ReadLINK ENET16/U Rev. C Ethernet-Card. This card can be jumpered for WD80x3 and NEx000 mode and has a lot of jumpers on board : J10 Eprom-Addr A18-A13 J9 I/O ADDR A8-A5 J11 NE1/NE2 CPX/WDP 32K/8K WD/NE J5 SEL J4 J12 0WD-DLY J8 PROM J15 EPROM CONFIG 16K 16/32K 32/64K 64K J14 EPROM SIZE E16K E32K E64K J6A Upper IRQ's (15,11,10) J6B Lower IRQ's (2,3,4,5,7) Whatever setting i choose (WD oder NE), whatever IRQ/IO i choose, the card is recognized but - in NE-Mode the card hangs together with HD-Access CRASH - in WD-Mode, all works fine, but the cards (2 of this kind) don't recognize one another on the NET I got these cards very cheap but without infos. Can anyone post me infos for this card ???? HELP !! Ciao Higgins -- You can escape the gates of hell, say DOG and WINDOG, USE LINUX :-) ! ## CrossPoint v3.0 ## ------------------------------ From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect. Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:49:37 GMT andre@borneo.dkfz-heidelberg.de (Andre Schroeter) writes: >hi, >i'm running it on a 486dx2 66, ati mach 8 (dump isa!!) Easier said than done for some of us.... it would mean a motherboard AND video card upgrade. And it might mean trashing all your RAM too.... Not cheap! I have not done this yet because my machine is fairly respectable (486 DX 33,16MB 0 wait, true SCSI, etc). Oh well. Technology marches on. Certainly, Doom for Linux is a good excuse for upgrading video :) -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: grisha@cais.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:43:02 GMT I have the same problem, and I have posted a question regarding this. Only diff is - I'm trying to get a PC to route between 2 ppp links. It seems that if it has two interfaces - it can't forward packets... (I too have IP forwarding/gatewaying set to [yes]). -- ================================================================ Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com ================================================================ ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************