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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: Fri, 9 Sep 94 08:13:08 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #727
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Linux-Misc Digest #727, Volume #2 Fri, 9 Sep 94 08:13:08 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Colorado Jumbo250 (Edward Cannon)
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Re: Exercise for Experts (Larry Doolittle)
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Console speaker control? (Olaf Erb)
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Colorado Jumbo250 (Dennis Duffner)
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Re: What ever happened to Novell's Expose? (Ethan Henry)
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Digiboard on Linux (David Cabot)
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Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why??? (Kevin Martinez)
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Re: gcc 2.5.8 / g++ with -g does fail on XOpenDisplay( ) ?! (Michael Will)
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Fax on demand/voice mail box? (Humenberger Edmund)
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Re: Voice and Remote control together! (Larry Doolittle)
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API fpr phone???? (Humenberger Edmund)
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DOSEMU0.52 problem (NJBIRDMAN)
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Voice and Remote control together! (Humenberger Edmund)
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Script to limit access to a program (Dimitris Kontoudis)
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Re: Anybody seen the September issue of BTYE? (David Negaard)
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Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? (Maciej Otreba)
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Re: [INFO WANTED] C/SLIP vs. PPP (Garner)
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Re: Max size of SCSI HD? (Drew Eckhardt)
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Re: Dialin/dialout modem setup for UUCP etc. (John Henders)
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xxx to fig converter (Trink Andreas)
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Re: ACE modem/voicemail/sound card ? (Erik Troan)
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Problem with 1.1.49 & NCR53c810 pci scsi (Dan Halverson)
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Re: Dialin/dialout modem setup for UUCP etc. (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
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From: Edward Cannon <raycannon@delphi.com>
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Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo250
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 23:47:31 -0500
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I have used FTAPE with Jumbo250 and Linux 1.1.18. Seems to work fine, however
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I have had so many other problems with 1.1.18 I have gone back to 1.0.9 with
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UMS support built in (on sunsite and rsx-11). When you download the Q disks
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and the D disks, if you load the D disks last you will get 1.0.9. If you
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load the Q disks last you will get 1.1.18. I had to reload getty from 1.0.8
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to get it to work at all. 1.1.18 seems to have heartache if you try to compile
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it without networking... It compiles if you leave the netwroking defaults in
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the make config alone. BTW, the instructions that talk about lodlinux are
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not quite correct. The sample does not have the rw option set which freaked
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out my computer when I tried to boot from DOS. I am planning to pick up the
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source for FTAPE and recompile it for Linux 1.0.9. Maybe 1.1.18 will work
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fine for you, give it a try. Note FTAPE will not run with Colorado
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accelerator cards... just leave it hooked up to your floppy cable and you
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should be alright.
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From: doolitt@recycle.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle)
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Subject: Re: Exercise for Experts
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Reply-To: doolittle@cebaf.gov
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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 21:38:58 GMT
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David Anderson (davida@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE) wrote:
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: Like many others, I'm looking to buy a PC to put Linux on. I'm reading
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: all the FAQs HOWTOS etc, and getting a lot of information. However,
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: I'm still finding it difficult to make a decision about what to buy,
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: about, but probably give you better performance.
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: about problems) is:
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: Pentium 90MHz (P54c) PCI
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: 16 MB
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: ATI MACH64 graphics card
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: Adaptec 2942 PCI SCSI or BUS LOGIC BT-946C controller
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: Disk > 1.0GB SCSI
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: 17 inch Monitor
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: Twin speed Panasonic CDROM
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Oops! The ATI Mach64 is not supported, and probably wont' be
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for a while. Try a S3-864 once XFree-3.1 comes out, until
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then maybe an S3-928, or get by with an S3-801 ($100 throwaway).
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- Larry Doolittle doolittle@cebaf.gov
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From: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb)
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Subject: Console speaker control?
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Date: 7 Sep 1994 23:16:05 GMT
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Just a question - I *think* there was a little program to control
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the speaker duration and volume, but I can't remember/find it
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anymore. Ok, it's no big job to write it using KIOCSOUND..but..
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I'm wondering where it's gone :)
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Any hints?
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Thanks!
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Olaf
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--
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! erb@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de dc1ik@db0sao.ampr.org !
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! <A HREF="http://inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de/~erb">click</A> !
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From: dduff@MCS.COM (Dennis Duffner)
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Subject: Colorado Jumbo250
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 11:19:12 -0500
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Will this work with Linux 1.1.18?? If so, which version of FTape should
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I have installed? Thanks!!!!
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From: ehenry@Newbridge.COM (Ethan Henry)
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Subject: Re: What ever happened to Novell's Expose?
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 20:25:35 GMT
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In article <348cf2$4b7@gilligan.npeg.provo.novell.com>,
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Ron Holt <ron@novell.com> wrote:
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>In article <1994Aug21.222426.9830@kf8nh.wariat.org>,
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>Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org> wrote:
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>>
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>>It was a figment of PC WEEK's imagination.
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>>
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>>++Brandon
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>
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>No it wasn't.
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>
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>Ron
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Was too.
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Ethan "Show me proof" Henry
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--
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Ethan Henry ehenry@newbridge.com
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CrossKeys Systems Corporation Standard disclaimers apply.
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From: cabot@tct.com (David Cabot)
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Subject: Digiboard on Linux
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 18:33:21 GMT
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I need to know if anyone has written a DigiBoard driver for linux yet.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
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From: Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net>
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why???
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 05:14:04 GMT
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mgebhard@panix.com (Mike Gebhardt) writes:
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>>In article <34ai1k$n12@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, <kenliu@vt.edu> wrote:
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>*** lots of other stuff deleted ***
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>>>I know for a fact that you can't learn Unix (I mean learn it really well)just
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>>>by fooling around with it. So what's the point?
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>I couldn't disagree with that statement more. Installing applications and
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>getting them to work on my Slackware distribution has taught me more
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>about the inner workings of Unices in general than anything else ever
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>could, and I've been in the computer business since 1981.
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I remember a time in my life when those 26 characters in our alphabet
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looked completely overwhelming and I was quite sure that it was
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impossible to ever learn them all.
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Some fooling around with pencils seemed do a great deal for my progress.
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I can even spell 3133t sometimes!
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If you can't teach yourself, certainly nobody else could do any better.
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Kevin "empiricism r00lz" Martinez
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lps@rahul.net
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--
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========================================================================
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Kevin Martinez lps@rahul.net Member of the Julie Kangas Fan Club
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Work: 1 800 I FEEL OK Home: 1 510 676 1111
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From: zxmgv07@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Will)
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.5.8 / g++ with -g does fail on XOpenDisplay( ) ?!
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Date: 7 Sep 94 23:11:44 GMT
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In <34kefa$bke@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza) writes:
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>zxmgv07@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Will) writes:
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>|> Well, if I compile the objectfiles with -g and link without -g it works,
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>|> I can debug and all.
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>Please give the *exact* messages yoy get when compiling with -g.
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There is no special message, it seems to link ok. But when I run that
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version which I linked with "-g", it fails at XOpenDisplay as described.
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(gdb showed me it seems to call strncpy(0x0, "esaster,8) and thus yielded
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a sig11 segfault when trying to copy to the nullpointer.)
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"esaster" is part of my hostname "desaster".
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Cheers, Michael Will
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From: k3076e5@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (Humenberger Edmund)
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Subject: Fax on demand/voice mail box?
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Date: 7 Sep 1994 23:48:37 GMT
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Are there any applications available for Fax on demand and
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telephone on PC. Interest on Linux!
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for example you call a phone number, a computer asks questions,
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you answer them by pressing the buttons on your phone,
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and you can leave a message, or you get a fax, or you get a message
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especialy for you.
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please email me
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ed
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From: doolitt@recycle.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle)
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Subject: Re: Voice and Remote control together!
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Reply-To: doolittle@cebaf.gov
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 03:04:49 GMT
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Humenberger Edmund (k3076e5@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at) wrote:
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: Intel demonstrated it:
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: over 1 phoneline two people talked and worked together on their
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: monitors. (there are two pointers on the monitor).
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: this will cost 199$.
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: Intel also have as version, where you can see the other person.
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: 2500$.
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: I AM INTERESTED IN THE FIRST VERSION: (for support purpose) for Linux.
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Sounds like you could almost do it now by piping /dev/audio
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through a pair of term sockets. Throw in the lossy compression
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code announced here recently, and you might almost have it!
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Now you have the classic bootstrapping problem: if someone
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has enough of Linux running to get their sound card configured,
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their modem configured, term running, and this oddball pipe
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invoked, they probably don't need your help!
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IMHO, YMMV, just my $0.02, etc.
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From: k3076e5@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (Humenberger Edmund)
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Subject: API fpr phone????
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 17:19:16 GMT
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Are there Standards to implement these? (Intel, MIcrosoft)
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I am going to put a Card (250$) into the LInux box and use it as
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answering machine , and much more (much more is going to be a applic).
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what is the appropiate newsgroup for such a question
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thanks ed
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From: njbirdman@aol.com (NJBIRDMAN)
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Subject: DOSEMU0.52 problem
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 15:50:01 -0400
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I compiled dosemu0.52 (kernel 1.1.35, GCC 2.5.8, etc. All went well,
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but when I try to run it to install (dos -A). I get 0 errors and 0
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warnings in /etc/dosemu.conf (which is good news) and then a segmentation
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fault (VERY bad news). I tried a lot of stuff, including recompiling,
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removing ftape module, removing selection, etc. No change. Any ideas?
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John n4js@tspan.org (faster than via AOL)
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From: k3076e5@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (Humenberger Edmund)
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Subject: Voice and Remote control together!
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Date: 7 Sep 1994 23:59:12 GMT
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Intel demonstrated it:
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over 1 phoneline two people talked and worked together on their
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monitors. (there are two pointers on the monitor).
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this will cost 199$.
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Intel also have as version, where you can see the other person.
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2500$.
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I AM INTERESTED IN THE FIRST VERSION: (for support purpose) for Linux.
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somebody else?
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when yes. how much will you pay when Iam doing it (any offer wellcome).
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ed
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From: kontoudi@aphrodite.uoregon.edu (Dimitris Kontoudis)
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Subject: Script to limit access to a program
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Date: 7 Sep 1994 09:22:19 GMT
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Hi all,
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I am looking for a script (maybe executable program) that will
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allow me to restrict access to a programm for a specific user
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and for a limited time per day. That is, I want to be able
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to detect if my user ``X'' has executed the programm ``Y''
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today, for how much time and, hence, allow him (or not) to
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executed it again until an upper time limit has been reached.
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If anyone has got any such script or programm (or a pointer
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to something relevant) and can share it with me, I will
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really appreciate.
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Thanks in advance for any help you might give me,
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Dimitris.
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PS. PLEASE REPLY TO: kontoudi@ics.forth.gr
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From: negaard@jayne.graceland.edu (David Negaard)
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Subject: Re: Anybody seen the September issue of BTYE?
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 18:51:51 GMT
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Orhan Unal (unal@uwnuc1.physics.wisc.edu) wrote:
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: Has anybody read the article "Power of Cooperation"
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: by J. Bruce Dawson on Linux in September issue of BTYE magazine-page
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: 167-168. Check it out. It's a good article IMO. I don't have the magazine
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: at my finger tips, but from memory I'll quote a couple of remarks from
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: the article.
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: ...
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: "Linux is not a bare-bones Unix clone. There is plenty of meat."
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: ...
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: "Linux has become what the Internet community wanted: a robust, freely
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: available environment that has all the features of many commercial
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: versions, but with the openess and cooperative spirit of the early days
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: of Unix. It's anarchy at its best."
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: --
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I've read the article several times, and found it to be exceptionally
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well-done and generally more than favorable. It is yet another
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vindication of my school's decision to replace our SCO system with
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Linux. There have been a share of difficulties, but overall it has
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performed more reliably and been more readily customized than SCO
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every was. Now if it only had a 'sysadmin' shell...
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--
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)\,__,/( __ \ _ \ __ \ _ \ _ \ o David Negaard
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|\@..@/| / _/ / / / _/ / / ___/ o Graceland Box 751
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\(~~)/ __/ \___/ _/ \__ / \___/ linux o 700 College Avenue
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/(__)\ _/negaard@graceland.edu\___/ evangelist o Lamoni, IA 50140
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From: motreba@lnx1 (Maciej Otreba)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree?
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 08:05:01 GMT
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Dirk Eddelbuettel (eddelbud@qed.uucp) wrote:
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: Very well that the ATI Mach32/Ultra/Ultra Pro are advocated for, but could
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: someone give me hints for the best performance/price ratios ?
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: My system is a 486DX-33, 16MB, ISA bus, 1024x768 interlaced 14'' SVGA
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: monitor so I am looking for an accelerated card that gives me 800x600 and
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: 1024x768 (but not more, no 2 MB cards needed) and that will be faster than
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: the 512 kB Oak Oti67 it will replace (this one sucks: TOTAL 3012.000000
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: xStones reported by xbench).
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: I am looking for something like
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: Orchid Fahrenheit 140 USD
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: STB Powergraph 125 USD
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: STB Horizon 95 USD
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: cards with Cirrus Logic 5428 chips price ?
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:
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: Comments, recommendations, flames, welcome under <edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
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Ok. I could recommend Cirrus Logic chip-based cards. They have great
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performance/cost ratio, they are cheap (ca 79$) here in Poland. And I'm
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sure they are supported by Linux (now I'm working on 486 equipped with VLB
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Cirrus Logic 5428).
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Maciej
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--
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| 87-116 Torun, POLAND / |
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| Dzialowskiego 4/4 / motreba@boa.uni.torun.pl |
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| phone +48-56-485645 / |
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From: gt0676a@prism.gatech.edu (Garner)
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Subject: Re: [INFO WANTED] C/SLIP vs. PPP
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 16:12:23 -0400
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rjl@spectre.apana.org.au (Richard Lindner) writes:
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>: via TCP/IP standards procedure, which is much slower than serial line dedicated PPP
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>: error correction procedures
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>aahh - but what if mnp4 or v42 is active? - would slip then be faster?
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>enquiring minds are wondering .....
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My experience with SLIP and PP gave me the following results:
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At 28.8k with SLIP I got up to 125ms ping times with 1500 mtu. I only got up
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to 140ms ping times using PPP.
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Garner Halloran gt0676a@prism.gatech.edu
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"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
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- Vroomfondel, from _The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts_
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From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
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Subject: Re: Max size of SCSI HD?
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 20:02:48 GMT
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In article <CvpCEJ.3J0@odin.apana.org.au>,
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John Saunders <john@odin.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>Dale Elrod (dale@gate.dungeon.com) wrote:
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>> What is the max size that a single partition on a SCSI based hard drive?
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>> I would like to place two 9 gig drives on my ftp server but want to be sure
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>> that Linux can handle this.
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>
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>Going by the partition table format you should be able to get 8 Gig from
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>a single drive.
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You can access terrabyte drives under Linux, using the normal
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partitioning scheme. With Remy's changes to ext2, you can
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even have 9 gigabyte partitions if you want.
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>a single drive. If the SCSI controller BIOS handles it, 8 Gig should also
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>If the SCSI controller BIOS handles it, 8 Gig should also
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>be usable under DOS. I think Linux is limited by the partition table
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>limitation.
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Linux ignores the H/C/S fields in the partition tables, and only
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looks at the 32 bit flat addresses which don't have this problem.
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>I haven't tried it but, it may be possible to put the
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>filesystem on /dev/sda rather than the partition /dev/sda1. Since /dev/sda
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>is raw access to the blocks on the drive you should be able to create
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>a filesystem of any size (up to SCSI limits) on the drive.
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True.
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--
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Since our leaders won't respect The Constitution, the highest law of our
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country, you can't expect them to obey lesser laws of any country.
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Boycott the United States until this changes.
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From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.com (John Henders)
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Subject: Re: Dialin/dialout modem setup for UUCP etc.
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 07:13:01 GMT
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:: From: Bill Hiley (bhiley@sydney.DIALix.oz.au)
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:: I want to setup the modem on my Linux machine for dialout (for UUCP)
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:: and dialin (for terminal access). I have read the Serial-Howto, but
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:: I can't figure out how to flip the modem between 'quiet mode' (for
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:: dialin terminal access) and normal response mode so that UUCP can
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:: chat to the modem and get eg 'CONNECT' type messages.
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: From: treed@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (Tracy R. Reed)
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: There is an option in uugetty that will cause the modem to be on or
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: off at certain times. Look at the SCHED option in the getty man page.
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Excuse me if I'm missing some subtlety here, but why can't you
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just have the modem programmed to be silent by default, then have the
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uucp Dialers string send the command to go into verbose mode? The you
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can set the modem to reset when it loses carrier.
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--
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John Henders - Wimsey Information Services
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http://www.wimsey.com/ (teletimes, gnn and more)
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GAT/MU/AE d- -p+(--) c++++ l++ u++ t- m---
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e* s-/+ n-(?) h++ f+ g+ w+++ y*
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From: trink@myhost.subdomain.domain (Trink Andreas)
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Subject: xxx to fig converter
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 10:23:20 GMT
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Is there any possibility that xfig loads (imports) files with other formats
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than fig-format, e.g. hpgl, ps, eps, ... ?
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Thanks, Andi
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Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
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From: ewt@netcom.com (Erik Troan)
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Subject: Re: ACE modem/voicemail/sound card ?
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 18:26:38 GMT
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In article <NELSON.94Sep3175555@crynwr.crynwr.com>,
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Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com> wrote:
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>In article <3496f3$g59@news.cs.brandeis.edu> dehnel@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Yves Dehnel) writes:
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>
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> I saw a product at CompUSA today that combined in one PC card:
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>
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> 19,200 baud modem, fax, answering machine, 16-bit wavetable sound
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> with MIDI, Panasonic CD-ROM interface and kitchen sink.
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>
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> It's made by ACE, I think.
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>
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>I saw it, too. I want to use it under Linux. Since I doubt that they
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>include Linux drivers with it, I'd probably have to write my own.
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>Does anyone know if hardware documentation is available from the
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>manufacturer? I've never heard of ACE either, so I don't know who to
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>ask.
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If you look more closely, I think you'll find it's built by Best Data, and
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it's called the ACE card. It's made w/ licensed Mwave technology rom IBM,
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which I worked on for a while.
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It's good technology, but writing a Linux driver will be non-trivial. I doubt
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IBM will release the internal specs of the DSP code that you would need
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to write a driver (the driver/dsp interface is medium level - lots of
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work went into it). Even if you could, you'd have to write a complete real-time
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preempting OS to reside on the card. No kidding. That's why if can do so
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many things at once. If you're seriously interested in this, talk to
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me via email, and I'll seee if I can convince IBM it's a good idea.
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Look at the size of the drivers though (such as mcifax.dll). The code is pretty
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complicated, but that's what gives it such good performance.
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Erik
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From: ceet1065@eiger.ceet.niu.edu (Dan Halverson)
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Subject: Problem with 1.1.49 & NCR53c810 pci scsi
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Date: 6 Sep 1994 17:34:43 -0500
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I seem to be having a problem. I have a motherboard with the NCR 53c810 PCI
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SCSI controller installed on it. Dos acceses all SCSI devices (1 NEC 3xi
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cd-rom, 1 DAT tape Drive, 1 1.7 gig SCSI HD), but LINUX refueses to see
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the SCSI interface. I installed off of the fall release of the Yddrasil
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(sp?) cd-rom, which has 1.1.49. I had 1.1.49 off of sunsite before, and
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when doing a make, I received some warnings about type-casts on pointers,
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but everything compiled fine otherwise. Anyone else have any ideas? My
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system is:
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486DX-2/66 FIC motherboard W/AMI bios
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212 IDE hard drive (boot partition for LINUX and dos)
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1.7 Gig SCSI HD (dedicated to LINUX)
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NEC 3xi CD-ROM
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Archive 8 gig DAT
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Sound-blaster SCSI to run SCSI devices under LINUX
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On-board SCSI set to irq 9. I was unable to locate any information on
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the base I/O address.
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Thanks
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Dan Halverson
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tbc@xnet.com or ceet1065@eiger.ceet.niu.edu
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From: klaus@gaston.isar.muc.de (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
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Subject: Re: Dialin/dialout modem setup for UUCP etc.
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 20:14:12 GMT
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treed@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (Tracy R. Reed) writes:
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>Bill Hiley (bhiley@sydney.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
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>: I want to setup the modem on my Linux machine for dialout (for UUCP) and
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>: dialin (for terminal access). I have read the Serial-Howto, but I can't
|
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>: figure out how to flip the modem between 'quiet mode' (for dialin terminal
|
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>: access) and normal response mode so that UUCP can chat to the modem and
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>: get eg 'CONNECT' type messages.
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That isn't really necessary, except if you try to stick with getty.
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>There is an option in uugetty that will cause the modem to be on or off
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>at certain times. Look at the SCHED option in the getty man page. It will
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>execute the INIT string certain times, and the OFF string at certain
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>times. So if you know when your UUCP is going to be, and when dialins
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>will be, you can schedule uugetty to issue a command to the modem to turn
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>on quiet mode using the OFF string.
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IMHO, too complicated ;-)
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If you use uugetty, you don't have to run the modem in quiet mode, uugetty
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supports "active" handling of the modem, that is, answering the RING
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command or understanding any immediate CONNECT message.
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There is a second package, again IMHO ;-) _very_ good, called mgetty+sendfax
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by Gert Doering. It even supports incoming and outgoing faxes, but
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you can disable it, if you don't have a fax modem.
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Klaus
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>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>Mr. Tracy Reed |Every artist is a cannibal.| Why did dad cry
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>San Diego State Univ. |Every poet is a thief. | when I gave him
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>Aerospace Engineering |All kill their inspiration | Willmaker 1.0?
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>treed@ucssun1.sdsu.edu |And sing about their grief.|
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>treed@tbn-bbs.com |-U2 IRC-Maelcum /me smiles |
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>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--
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__________________________________________________________________________
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Klaus Lichtenwalder, Dipl. Inf., Buschingstr. 65
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D-81677 Muenchen, F.R. Germany, Fax +49-89-98292755
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email: Lichtenwalder@ACM.org, klaus@gaston.isar.muc.de
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