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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: Sat, 3 Sep 94 12:13:33 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #704
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Linux-Misc Digest #704, Volume #2 Sat, 3 Sep 94 12:13:33 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Application to format/read/write Macin (Marc Fraioli)
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Re: WANTED: Supplier of PC clone for Linux.... (paule@marvin.st.nepean.uws.edu.au)
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Re: Does Linux really benefit from video cards? (Phil Homewood)
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ioctls to a portserver? (Kyle Bateman)
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Unix programming question (Van Dao Mai)
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Nachos anyone? (Robert Wesley Bingler)
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Re: Raw ethernet? (Rob Janssen)
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Re: *** Seamless Disk Compression (eg Stacker, DoubleSpace) under Linux (Rob Janssen)
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Re: BOCA 8 port NIGHTMARE !!! (Rob Janssen)
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Re: 16550AFN serial card (Rob Janssen)
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Re: Boca 8 Port Board - Great For Linux (Rob Janssen)
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Re: 3-button mice with no-emulation. (Rob Janssen)
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Re: Unix programming question (Rob Janssen)
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sliplogin 1.1 released (Sven Goldt)
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Re: Green Motherboards (Daniel Rock)
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Re: Linux BBS Software (Wayne Hodgen)
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FTAPE...Im' soo close, yet so far???? (RYAN Colin Patrick)
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Re: (FLAME) Curse on HOWTO's (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: LJ#4? (yuan tzeng)
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Re: Sampling with Linux? (Nikolas Daglis)
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From: mjf@clark.net (Marc Fraioli)
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Subject: Re: Application to format/read/write Macin
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 23:52:20 GMT
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Reply-To: mjf@clark.net
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In article 31217@pertron.central.de, ke@pertron.central.de (Karl Eichwalder) writes:
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>31 Aug 94 15:59:27 GMT, Holger Dunkel UP4 (dunkel@up4u0b.gwdg.de) wrote:
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>> james@atri.curtin.edu.au (James Pinakis) writes:
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>
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>> - use xhfs to read data from Apple 1.44 MB HFS floppies (no write so far as
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>> I know)
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>
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>hfs tells me:
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>
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>19:14:48 luna: ~/SRC/hfs0_3$ ./hfs ls /dev/fd0H1440
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>error: cannot open the device "a:" for use as a Macintosh volume
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>
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>Any clue?
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>
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FWIW, I get the same error, although mine is "b:", since that's my
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3.5" floppy. The disk I was trying to read is a few years old, so
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I wasn't sure if it was an 800k or a 1.44M disk. I thought the latter,
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but assumed it must have been the former when it didn't work. Perhaps
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not?
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>The floppy drive blinks for a short time, so I am sure, that hfs finds
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>the device and of course I have inserted a Macintosh HD floppy.
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>
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Yeah, mine blinks the light a bit too, but nothing more.
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---
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Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- "
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mjf@clark.net | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
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| Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
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From: paule@marvin.st.nepean.uws.edu.au
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: WANTED: Supplier of PC clone for Linux....
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Date: 02 Sep 1994 09:26:57 GMT
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In article <1994Aug16.194002.7194@desaster.student.uni-tuebingen.de> michaelw@desaster.student.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Will) writes:
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bealar@ndlc.occ.uky.edu (Andy Beal) writes:
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>: * Specialise in Linux/GNU/Xfree86 software (including MS-DOS/Windows).
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>Umm, if you find one, tell me. I am almost 99% sure that no vendors
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>specialize in Linux. The best you may get is a technician that has ran
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>Linux.
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A vendor which apparently does specialise in Linux is Fintronic USA,
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Inc. A short writeup appears in the September issue of Byte on page
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167.
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The address is:
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Fintronic USA, Inc.
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1360 Willow Rd., Suite 205
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Menlo Park, CA 94025
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(415) 325-4474
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The review is favourable, with the warning that some Unix experience,
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or this newsgroup, will be required due to incomplete documentation.
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--
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,-_|\ | Paul English (p.english@nepean.uws.edu.au) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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/ \ | Associate Lecturer | PO Box 10 | Ph: +61 47 36 0835
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\_.--_/ <- | Department of Computing | Kingswood 2747 | Fax: +61 47 36 0662
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v | UWS - Nepean | NSW, AUSTRALIA |
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<a href=http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/~paule>My WWW Home Page</a>
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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
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Subject: Re: Does Linux really benefit from video cards?
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 10:14:06 GMT
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S. Hosseini (saied@lando.wustl.edu) wrote:
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: Hi Linuxers:
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: My question:
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: I know there is much fuss about video cards in Linux
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: commumity, but does Linux really benefit from them? and how ?
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Yes, it does. Makes it a LOT easier to connect a monitor to the
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machine. :-)
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Phil.
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--
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
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APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
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"And the legal pads were yellow, hours long, paypackets lean"
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From: kyle@wicat.com (Kyle Bateman)
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Subject: ioctls to a portserver?
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:18:36 GMT
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I have a DigiBoard portserver16 connected to my Linux box. I can
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login to the host over the portserver just fine. However, when I bring
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up an editor that tries to turn off the XON/XOFF stuff on the port, it
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has no effect on the portserver port. Presumably, there is a pseudo port
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or something on the host that is effected, but the long and the short is
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that the ^S and ^Q chars get eaten up by the portserver and don't get
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sent to the host.
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Is this an inherent problem to logging in from a remote host or am I
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doing something wrong? Are there provisions in telnet/tcpip to effect
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the actual remote port or is that kind of thing just not done?
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Any help would be appreciated.
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kyle@wicat.com
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From: mai@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au (Van Dao Mai)
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Subject: Unix programming question
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 10:14:20 +1000
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I have programmed UNIX for a long time and feel frustrated with the way
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software is installed on the system. Under UNIX people often have to
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hardwire the paths and settings into the executable at compile time.
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This is in contrast with DOS that passes the full path name of the execuatble
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as argv[0] so that you can search for library + data files.
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This is why DOS programmers can install all needed files into one
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directory making it easier to maintain and backup. In UNIX after a while
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you have no idea where to find the files. You also have binary
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distribution problem where you have to make so many links and forget about
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them.
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The UNIX shell can be modidied to pass the full path name into a program
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but this will crash many existing programs or causing some real nuisance.
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I just wonder if there is any one workin on proposing a standard for Linux
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software layout that solve this problem. What I have done is to make the
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binary fully configurable after compilation.
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- Provide fee space within the executable at compile time
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- Provide a program 'register' that scan the executable and
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modify information in it (safely) to produced a customised one
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that knows where it is installed.
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By doing this, I can move the distribution anywhere, change the path
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stored inside the executable. That's it! No recompilation nor any other
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hassels! I can even put a check sum to guard against corruption and virus
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attack if I like. The program check itself before running.
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Can any one give me some comment on this. Can any one see any flaw in this
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method? I love to see some sensible guide lines developed for Linux
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programmers (and UNIX) in general to ease the installation and
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configuration of software.
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Cheers,
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Van Dao Mai
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mai@uow.edu.au
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From: rwb3y@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Robert Wesley Bingler)
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Subject: Nachos anyone?
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 23:53:35 GMT
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Hey,
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Has anyone ported/compiled nachos operating system code to Linux?
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It is said to compile under FreeBSD etc. I am working with version 3.2.
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Thanks,
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Rob
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--
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==============================================================================
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Robert Bingler rwb3y@virginia.edu Not to fear, Linux ver. 1 is here.
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"Look to the sky just before you die, it's the last time you will!" -Metallica
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==============================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Raw ethernet?
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:08:45 GMT
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In <19940830080418.gmangum@condor.hosp.med.umich.edu> gmangum@umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
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>Hi all,
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>
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>I tried comp.unix.programmer, but got no response. I hope someone
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>here can help.
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>
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>I need to write a program on Linux which gets all non-IP traffic from
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>the ethernet adapter - in promiscuous mode. Can anyone point me to
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>some docs or simple examples of:
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>
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> - how to read raw ethernet frames (all or just non-IP)
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> - how to send non-IP eth (I know how to build them, just not how
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> to get them on the wire)
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> - how to get the ethernet card into and out of promiscuous mode
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You can open a socket in SOCK_PACKET mode.
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Look in the "packet driver" support in DOSEMU 0.53plxx for an example.
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: *** Seamless Disk Compression (eg Stacker, DoubleSpace) under Linux
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:29:05 GMT
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In <3436mb$emc@gap.cco.caltech.edu> brien@cco.caltech.edu (Brien M. Oberstein) writes:
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>hi there,
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> Is there any existing linux support for any
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>seamless type compression schemes? Does any
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>commercial program have (additional) support
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>for linux? If not how 'bout a few volunteer
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>hackers to step up to the job. At a bare
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>minimum, it may be doable to write a little
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>driver that just supports read operations
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>of a compressed drive.
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Look for a package called "double".
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(I have no personal experience with it, but it has been mentioned many times)
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: BOCA 8 port NIGHTMARE !!!
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:29:55 GMT
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In <343d45$4gb@news.cais.com> bass@cais.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer)) writes:
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>BOCA 8 port (with RJ11) trying just to talk to a BOCA
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>V.FAST modem (RJ11 to DB25 adapter) is ruining my
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>day(s)! Why is it so hard just to get kermit to
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>talk to the modem?? There must be a better way to
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>do serial comm.
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This card is not suitable for use with modems. Get a 6-port ioAT66 instead.
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: 16550AFN serial card
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:30:38 GMT
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In <343ff5$62l@blkbox.blkbox.COM> naji@myhost.subdomain.domain (Naji M. Khudairi) writes:
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>Lei Zhou (lzhou@cse.uta.edu) wrote:
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>: In article <33o6uv$sc@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
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>: myhst1+@pitt.edu (Ming Y Haung) writes:
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>: >Does LINUX support any 16550AFN serial card?
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>: >
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>: >Thanks!
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>: >
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>: >
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>: Yes, I'm using it now.
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>Great, but how do you enable the 16 byte buffer in order to take advantage
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>of overrun protection?
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It is enabled automatically.
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Boca 8 Port Board - Great For Linux
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:33:16 GMT
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In <344cdq$pqq@linux1.cfic2.com.tw> yuan@cfic2.com.tw (yuan tzeng) writes:
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>Maciej Otreba (motreba@ray.boa.uni.torun.pl) wrote:
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>: Referring to multi serial cards: does anyone know, how advanced is support
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>: for "intelligent" multi serials such as DigiBoard?
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>: Maciej
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> I have a chance to test LONGSHINE (a Taiwan brand, they make a famous
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>4-port AST compatible card which is supported by Linux. See hardware howto).
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>8-port intelligent card. They have driver for SCO Unix. I am thinking
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>to run iBCS2 stuff to test to see if it runs. The idea may be stupid but
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>I will give it a try anyhow :-) Any idea?
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No need to try that...
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: 3-button mice with no-emulation.
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:42:35 GMT
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In <344r0h$99q@fnnews.fnal.gov> cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko) writes:
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>I haven't seen much about this anywhere. If someone could
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>point me to the proper FAQ or HOW-TO, I would appriciate it.
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>Anyway, is there a way to get a 3-button mouse to work as
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>a 3-button mouse? The best I could do is to have my mouse
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>setup as a Micro-Soft mouse. The 3-button-emulation option,
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>is not that great either... Thanks.
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When your mouse is 3-button, don't set it to work as a Microsoft mouse.
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Microsoft mice have only 2 buttons, and clone mice implement various
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kludges to make the third button functional.
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You better set it up as a Mousesystems mouse, which is 3-button.
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Unix programming question
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:51:59 GMT
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In <345qos$c4q@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au> mai@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au (Van Dao Mai) writes:
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>I have programmed UNIX for a long time and feel frustrated with the way
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>software is installed on the system. Under UNIX people often have to
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>hardwire the paths and settings into the executable at compile time.
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>This is in contrast with DOS that passes the full path name of the execuatble
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>as argv[0] so that you can search for library + data files.
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>This is why DOS programmers can install all needed files into one
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>directory making it easier to maintain and backup. In UNIX after a while
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>you have no idea where to find the files. You also have binary
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>distribution problem where you have to make so many links and forget about
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>them.
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You mean you like the idea of having 20 directories in your PATH variable,
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one for each installed package, each of them full of files? And the
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system looking through all of these for each command you enter?
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Especially with this nicely unlimited-length PATH variable in DOS this
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is fun to have....
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Windows is also a good example of how to do things right: just put 600
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files into a single directory, and put it in the path. Now everything
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can be easily located....
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I would have believed the creators of the operating system to be more
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knowledgable about the impact this has on performance, and use some
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subdirectories to improve that. But noooooo...
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: goldt@math.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
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Subject: sliplogin 1.1 released
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 00:37:11 GMT
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Ok folks,
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sliplogin 1.1 is now uploaded on sunsite.unc.edu.
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Should be moved soon to pub/Linux/system/Network/serial.
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Changes since 1.0:
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Refering to slip.login*:
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New argument pid for slip.login files.
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Update your old slip.login* if you are upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1 !
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Refering to slip.hosts:
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Changed slip mode "adaptive" to "auto" since there was no adaptive defined.
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Changed slip mode "compress" to "compressed" since it looks better.
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Added slip mode "ax25" for KISS AX.25 connections.
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Update your old slip.hosts if you are upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1 !
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General:
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Some workarounds.Speed argument contains now the real speed.
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--
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* # THE MOST IMPORTANT FINANCIAL QUESTION IS: Where is the money ? # *
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From: rock@effonix.cs.uni-sb.de (Daniel Rock)
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Subject: Re: Green Motherboards
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 14:44:33 GMT
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I doubt these options will work under Linux.
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The power management facilities are controlled by the BIOS, which is disabled
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under Linux (except some PCI-BIOS Routines).
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I don't know it exact, but here is how I would do that:
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The BIOS grabs the timer interrupt and some other (keyboard, serial)
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interrupts and measures the inactivity, after the maximum inactivity time,
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in sends some commands to harddisk, videocard, etc. After activity
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(receiving an interrupt) it enables harddisk, videocard, etc.
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Linux does not give the BIOS any chance to do anything of these things above.
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I have a green board on my own and are using under DOS some power saving
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facilities, but I hadn't seen them work under Linux.
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Daniel Rock
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From: hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Wayne Hodgen)
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Subject: Re: Linux BBS Software
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 14:27:35 GMT
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Reply-To: hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de
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|> >OK, you say, you don't like it, write your own. Well, I'm seriously
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|> >considering it. A student of ours has written a FIDO scanner/tosser. A FIDO
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|> >editor using ncurses and is working on a simple mailer (Binkley is a config
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|> >nightmare). Is anyone already working on a FIDO BBS for Linux? Does anyone
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|> >know if theres Free source examples of how to do such a thing? Who would
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|> >be interested in it?
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|>
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|> My BBS runs under Linux, but it's actually no BBS package, it's only
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|> a shell script using a modified version of dialog, elm, tin and ytalk.
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|> The fido mailer ifcico works well for me, together with mgetty.
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Hmm, I thought of doing something like that but decided a dedicated packed
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using no internet type stuff would be "nicer". At the moment I'm using
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mgetty and Binkley term. Occasionally the modem goes nuts tho.
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|> On a point system, echomail can be converted by FidoGate or ifgate.
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|> The only missing thing is a full-featured tosser that is suitable
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|> for a "large" system, including areafix, forward requests, multiple
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|> zones etc. How about your tosser? Where can I get it?
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||
|
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The guy who wrote it is currently on his semester holidays. You can find a
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source version of FEddi on 2:2454/100 (the Wahalla BBS). I can only hope
|
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he's been working hard on the mailer and new features over his holidays :)
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||
|
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|> Feel free to have a look at it: +49-851-55596 V.32terbo -950468 ISDN
|
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|> Fido: 2:2494/21 and /23
|
||
|
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Thanks, I probably will.
|
||
--
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||
Wayne Hodgen | hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de | #include <ridiculouslylong
|
||
Uni Koblenz, | or Fight-o-net 2:2454/518.42 | legalesemumbojumbodisclaim
|
||
Rheinau 1, | Voice: +49 261 9119-645 | er||stupidasciipictureover
|
||
56075 Koblenz. | Fax: +49 261 9119-499 | 20linestoannoythenet.cops>
|
||
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|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
|
||
From: ryan@ecf.toronto.edu (RYAN Colin Patrick)
|
||
Subject: FTAPE...Im' soo close, yet so far????
|
||
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:39:16 GMT
|
||
|
||
Hello,
|
||
|
||
|
||
I'm trying to get ftape to go and have run into a snag. I have kernel 1.0.0,
|
||
ftape -1.13.b and modutils 0.99.15.pl1. I have succesfully complied the
|
||
modules and went throught the drv. hello world test without any problems.
|
||
I'm pretty sure that make made it to the end of the compile as ftape.o does
|
||
exist. The problem is when I do 'insmod ftape.o'. I get:
|
||
|
||
darkstar:/usr/src/ftape-1.13b# insmod ftape.o
|
||
_enable_irq undefined
|
||
_disable_irq undefined
|
||
_free_dma undefined
|
||
_free_irq undefined
|
||
_request_dma undefined
|
||
_irqaction undefined
|
||
|
||
Whats up??
|
||
|
||
Thanks ahead....Colin Ryan: ryan@ecf.utoronto.ca
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
|
||
Subject: Re: (FLAME) Curse on HOWTO's
|
||
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 18:26:36 GMT
|
||
|
||
Hello Timothy,
|
||
|
||
First off, get ready to flame me also (already wearing my Nomex :) !)
|
||
|
||
I have to agree with Greg.
|
||
|
||
I will address some of your points directly as they are made.
|
||
|
||
Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
|
||
: (1) I am only concerned with an appopriate getty for dialling in and out.
|
||
|
||
As we all are, plus uucp is a biggie for me... I receive a full feed
|
||
as well as service some downstream sites and provide 24 hr. dial-in
|
||
connections for various users, both shell accounts and Eagles BBS users.
|
||
|
||
: (2) Anybody intending to do this who follows the advice
|
||
: in the Serial-HOWTO is going to waste a lot of time.
|
||
: Out of 14 people who wrote to me, only 3 succeeded;
|
||
: and all 3 had made considerable modifications
|
||
: to the setup described in the HOWTO.
|
||
|
||
The "considerable" modifications necessary usually consist of changing
|
||
one comment in the Makefile for getty_ps which IS documented :
|
||
|
||
# FSSTND Compliance:
|
||
# If you want getty_ps to comply with the upcoming FSSTND document,
|
||
# uncomment the following line. As a result, all config files will
|
||
# be expected in /etc/conf.* rather than /etc/default, modem locks
|
||
# will be created in /var/lock, and binaries will go in /sbin.
|
||
#
|
||
# FSSTND=-DFSSTND
|
||
|
||
as well as in /etc/inittab which reads:
|
||
|
||
# NOTE NOTE NOTE adjust this to your getty or you will not be
|
||
# able to login !!
|
||
#
|
||
# Note: for 'agetty' you use linespeed, line.
|
||
# for 'getty_ps' you use line, linespeed and also use 'gettydefs'
|
||
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1
|
||
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2
|
||
c3:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3
|
||
c4:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4
|
||
c5:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5
|
||
c6:456:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6
|
||
# Serial lines
|
||
#s1:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0
|
||
#s2:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1
|
||
# Dialup lines
|
||
#d1:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400,19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS0
|
||
#d2:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400,19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS1
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
The difficulty that most people seem to have is NOT with getty_ps
|
||
but with the distributions of Linux that they are using... usually
|
||
Slackware these days... With these, the pre-compiled binaries have
|
||
been built according to the distributor's standards.. In the case
|
||
of Slackware, Patrick uses the FSSTND standard and thus the default
|
||
files and locks are not necessarily where one expects them... this
|
||
is easily remedied.
|
||
|
||
In order to address the entire issue, I wrote and made available on
|
||
c.o.l.help a "mini-getty_ps-HOWTO" in which I provided detailed
|
||
examples from boot to grave of setting up serial lines through
|
||
the exact working files I use in my uucp setups. All of this information
|
||
was extracted from existing HOWTO documents... all I did was read
|
||
them and write an overview for newbies. My point being that the
|
||
information IS there and IS correct, it just may not jump out of the
|
||
page and configure itself magically for your system... with the
|
||
wide variety of ports cards, modems, and configurations of uucp
|
||
this would be almost impossible! :)
|
||
|
||
: (3) By contrast, several people told me that mgetty worked
|
||
: "out of the box".
|
||
|
||
I'm glad.. however, for complex uucp configurations and dial-in
|
||
integrity and the need to reset several different brands of modems
|
||
on the fly, it seems to break down or at least be a bit difficult
|
||
to configure... please show me where I've gotten confused on this...
|
||
I could have used a "mini-Mgetty-HOWTO" when I was tinkering around
|
||
with it! :
|
||
)
|
||
: (4) mgetty is well-documented, with a proper texinfo manual.
|
||
: getty_ps is not well-documented.
|
||
|
||
Agreed. I keep hoping to find a manual on it myself; until then
|
||
I use the O'Reilly book... it's close enough!
|
||
|
||
: (5) If my experience is reasonably typical,
|
||
: then people should be told that they are likely to meet problems
|
||
: if they try to use getty (= getty_ps) for dialling in and out.
|
||
|
||
Configuration, configuration, configuration.
|
||
|
||
: (6) I have been told at length that HOWTO authors are open to reason,
|
||
: and will modify their documents in response to suggestions.
|
||
: Unfortunately I have not found this to be the case.
|
||
: >If you have something positive to contribute to the Serial-HOWTO, I will
|
||
: >be more that happy to work something out with you. I'm always on the
|
||
: >lookout for more information and other alternatives.
|
||
: Well, I made the suggestion above to you some time ago.
|
||
: I'd be interested to know if you have successfully
|
||
: followed your own advice in the HOWTO for dialling in and out?
|
||
: Or are you just taking it on hearsay?
|
||
|
||
Comeon, Tim... an attitude like that just serves to piss off people who've
|
||
given their own time and effort to help others use something that they've
|
||
ALREADY mastered and thus could rightfully say "f**k off" to suggestions. Be
|
||
happy that there are people who are still willing to persevere in the face of
|
||
public attacks on their attempts to help others. It's been suggested before
|
||
in this thread and in others in which you've made the same assertions, so
|
||
you'll probably flame me for saying it here... WRITE an Mgetty-HOWTO yourself!
|
||
It doesn't have to be "officially" sanctioned! Do like I did... write it and
|
||
post it... be prepared to answer questions by email and even flames on the
|
||
net, but hell, that's what this anarchy is all about! Just do something
|
||
constructive to better Linux... it's easy to bitch, less so to teach and write.
|
||
If you've got suggestions you think may be included in a HOWTO, submit them...
|
||
or make your own mini-HOWTO and post it... I think you'll find it will be
|
||
welcomed by those who are out there searching for such knowledge as you can
|
||
impart to them!
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
|
||
============================================================
|
||
Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
|
||
P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com
|
||
+1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: yuan@cfic2.com.tw (yuan tzeng)
|
||
Subject: Re: LJ#4?
|
||
Date: 2 Sep 1994 07:57:13 +0800
|
||
|
||
Liam Greenwood (liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz) wrote:
|
||
: Joseph W. Vigneau (joev@garden.WPI.EDU) wrote:
|
||
: > Has the Linux Journal #4 been distributed yet? I just received LJ#3
|
||
: > yesterday...
|
||
|
||
: I received the Linux Journal #5 today.
|
||
: Liam
|
||
|
||
I got my copy too here in Taiwan. Taking a quick look, I find
|
||
page 6, "RISC BASED MULTIPORT CARD" is interesting to me.
|
||
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
<EFBFBD>O<EFBFBD>W<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <20><><EFBFBD>緽 -- Tzeng Ruey Yuan, an independent network consultant
|
||
Your company (head & all branches) wants to have Internet email? Ask me How.
|
||
yuan@cfic2.com.tw
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: nick@lsupoz.apana.org.au (Nikolas Daglis)
|
||
Subject: Re: Sampling with Linux?
|
||
Date: 2 Sep 1994 12:16:32 +1000
|
||
|
||
peje@irf.se wrote:
|
||
: Question:
|
||
: How do I go about sampling with a dumb AD converter.
|
||
: What I need is a way to have an accurate sampling frequency
|
||
: variable between 10 and 15 Hz.
|
||
|
||
A program called scope is available to use the a/d converter on many
|
||
sound cards. as an osciliscope. I've never used it, but it sounds like it
|
||
may even exceed your specifications. I think sunsite is the place to find
|
||
the program.
|
||
|
||
Cheers. Nick Daglis.
|
||
nick@lsupoz.apana.org.au
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
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