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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: Sun, 11 Sep 94 21:15:45 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #741
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Linux-Misc Digest #741, Volume #2 Sun, 11 Sep 94 21:15:45 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Jeff Epler)
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Linux X Doom is out! (Peter Schoenmaker)
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Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support (Matt Welsh)
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Re: 320x200 X resolution? (H. Peter Anvin)
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Linux DOOM comments... (Skip)
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Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60 (Rob Janssen)
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Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support (Matt Welsh)
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Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file (Leonard101)
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Re: Is 2 MB enough for an ISDN router (Harald T. Alvestrand)
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Re: 480x360 Res works for me. (Paradox)
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Linux DOOM is very impressive! (Rene Baart)
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Doom Music + PAS-16 (Christopher M. May)
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Ultrastore 34F vs Adaptec 1542CF (Robert Ashcroft)
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Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect. (Mr Robert J Logan)
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Re: Linux Doom comments. (Mr Robert J Logan)
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Re: linux-1.1.50 (Kris Van Hees)
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Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (S. Joel Katz)
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Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors (Raul Deluth Miller)
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Re: 480x360 Res works for me. (Mihail S. Iotov)
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Re: Colorado Jumbo250 (Dennis Duffner)
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From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (Jeff Epler)
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ??
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 06:03:42 GMT
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jbettis@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Bettis) writes:
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>How can I run doom w/o a window manager though.. I haven't been able to yet.
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Ditto that question.
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WHen I have xinit simply start doom, the colormap of the doom window
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never becomes active -- I get a black, and a white, and that's it.
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So my 'minimal' setup for domo is to start doom and fvwm, and put the
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mouse in that window.
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--
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____ "And if I smile please tell me some bad news
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\BI/ before I laugh and act like a fool"
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\/ -The Who "Behind Blue Eyes"
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IRC: Synger Running Linux 1.1 -- Free Unix for 386+ machines
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From: peter@cyberquest.com (Peter Schoenmaker)
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Subject: Linux X Doom is out!
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 19:01:11 -0700
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Linux X doom is finally out! I don't see any articles so I thought you all should know! I is awsome!
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Peter
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
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Subject: Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 20:12:08 GMT
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In article <34tilt$kkj@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> lilo@slip-1-72.ots.utexas.edu (Dances With Geeks) writes:
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>On Thu, 8 Sep 1994 14:22:06 GMT, Matt Welsh (mdw@cs.cornell.edu) wrote:
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>> Sorry, but you're stuck with the "GNU approach" (whatever that means)
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>> because you use software and libraries covered by the GPL. Any "problems"
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>> perceived with GNU software applies equally to Linux.
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>
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>Sorry, but you're wrong. The Linux kernel, for example, adds additional
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>disclaimers which modify the GNU-format license it is used under.
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Those "disclaimers" don't relieve the fundamental problems that
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people perceive with the GPL, namely, the fact that (a) source
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mustg be provided, and (b) modifications must be copylefted as
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well.
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M. Welsh
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 19:24:01 GMT
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Followup to: <34vboa$slo@news.u.washington.edu>
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By author: olson@phys.washington.edu (Erik Olson)
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In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc
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>
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> Remember that even if you can get the refresh rates for 320x200 on your
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> monitor, it's going to look really ugly! Remember CGA? That's 320x200.
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>
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> When you use the normal PC VGA mode of 320x200, it's really 640x400 but with
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> each pixel doubled in both directions.
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> This is the key here. Would be nice to have XFree hook
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> into that particular VGA (MCGA) mode (ho ho ho), but now we can't expect
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> the Xfree team to write something that has no purpose other than Doom,
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> can we?
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>
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Well, actually the XFree86 team says the MCGA mode will be in the SVGA
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server of 3.1. I also proposed in comp.windows.x.i386unix that they
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add a "dualscan" flag that would set the pixel-doubling bit in the VGA
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registers.
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
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FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
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"Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts." -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org
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From: rkuo@blue.seas.upenn.edu (Skip)
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Subject: Linux DOOM comments...
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Date: 10 Sep 1994 02:21:24 GMT
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Well, Linux DOOM is out, and I must say it is a definitely a good translation.
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I don't want to sound picky, because we all owe Dave Taylor a great deal of
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thanks for porting this for us on his own time, but I've encountered a couple
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of problems.
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(1) Pixel doubling, etc., doesn't work right. I think other people have had
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this problem.
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(2) Switching to low detail only halves the size of the screen.
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(3) Do the function keys work?
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(4) I'm not sure if there is supposed to be music or not. Does anybody get
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music or only sound effects?
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(5) I think the control keys stick sometimes, messing up my character
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bigtime.
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(6) Is there any way to have DOOM use only the colors available instead of
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grabbing the entire colormap? I assume this is possible through
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Xresources or something, but how?
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And finally, anybody know how to write a program to intercept the 16-bit audio
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and convert it to 8-bit? :-)
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 20:40:52 GMT
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In <Cvpu55.8nA@dfw.net> jhs@dfw.net (Justin Scott) writes:
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>I would have to say that if it comes down to the point where you want the
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>Pentium, you would more than likely be wasting your time with an IDE... I
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>use a 1.2 gig SCSI at work on my SCO box, and a 212 meg IDE at home on my
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>Linux box, and I can notice a big difference in time (Of course there are
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>other factors involved, such as the SCO box at work is a Multi-Processor
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>486dx50 with 48 megs ram, and my comp at home is a 386sx16 with 5 megs
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>ram :) )
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Your performance comparisons are only surpassed by John O'Brien's :-) :-)
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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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From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
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Subject: Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 20:08:42 GMT
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In article <CvvtAu.4vq@pell.com> orc@pell.com (Orc) writes:
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>In article <1994Sep8.142206.18896@cs.cornell.edu>,
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>Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
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>>RMS's idea (which I have heard first-hand) is that Linux systems
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>>should be considered GNU systems with Linux as the kernel.
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>
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> Well, that certainly puts a new twist on the GPL. An unpleasant
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>one; GPLing things makes them part of the GNU project.
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This is absolutely wrong. This viewpoint has nothing to do with
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the fact that Linux is covered by the GPL. If you had bothered
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to read my message, you would have known that. It has to do
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with the fact that Linux systems use GNU software for nearly
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all basic utilities, including the libraries.
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> No reason. But since my first interpretation of RMS's idea is
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>that the FSF will take credit for work they've not done, it seems
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>like it's not the most politic way to ask for recognition.
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The FSF is not taking credit for anything that they have not
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done. What they HAVE done is provide a damn fine base upon
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which to build a complete UNIX system such as Linux. Or did
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believe that it was the Linux development team which wrote gcc,
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libc, and the dozens of other software tools which your Linux
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system depends upon to run?
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M. Welsh
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From: leonard101@aol.com (Leonard101)
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Subject: Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:03:05 -0400
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In article <OAK.94Sep11195828@domen.uninett.no>, oak@domen.uninett.no
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(Olav Kvittem) writes:
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Most linux distributions are already configured to write the boot messages
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to /var/adm/syslog.
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Hi,
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I have a syslog file in /var/adm that is 0 bytes in length... how do I
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turn this logging function on?
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I am using the Slackware dist. from tsx-11.mit.edu and it reports Linux
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0.99.15. (Posix). at bootup.
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From what I've been able to read so far I think I have to edit one of
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the rc.* files... the last screenful of information contains quite a few
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messages to the effect of:
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/etc/rc.d/rc.S: /sbin/mount: No such file or directory
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.
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.
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.
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When I login as root my darkstar:~# prompt contains a 'tilde' before
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the # symbol. If I ls -a I only get:
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./ ../ .emacs .less .term/ linux@ .kermrc .lessrc INSTALL@
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If I do a dir I get:
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INSTALL -> /var/adm
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linux -> /usr/src/linux
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If I then do a cd / then ls produces what I think is a 'normal' root
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dir:
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bin/ dosc/ lib/ dev/ boot/ home/ etc/ ... and the prompt looses
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the 'tilde' character.
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Anyway, I'll be following this thread to see what develops in the way
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of assistance.
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Thanks,
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-Len [JAFU]
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From: hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Is 2 MB enough for an ISDN router
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 23:20:53 GMT
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In article <34vg4g$ito@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, iotov@cco.caltech.edu (Mihail S. Iotov) writes:
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|> Has anyone tried running linux with 2 MB to use it as a router only ?
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|> I imagine for ISDN traffic even 386SX16 will be enough, but question is
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|> about the memory. I have no 2MB PC at hand to check.
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If you want a dumb ISDN router, buy one.
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I'm going to sweat blood getting Linux ISDN to work - but I have special
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reasons to want it that way (no net where it's going).
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The cheapest ISDN router (in Europe) is probably a 286 box with a TeleS
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card running ISPA and KA9Q. It does PPP, BONDING and lots of other junk.
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I bet it will be *months* before ISDN Linux gets as functional as that.
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--
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
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G=Harald;I=T;S=Alvestrand;O=uninett;P=uninett;C=no
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+47 73 59 70 94
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My son's name is Torbj<62>rn. The letter between "j" and "r" is o with a slash.
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From: paradox@pcnet.com (Paradox)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: 480x360 Res works for me.
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 19:16:58 -0400
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Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org) wrote:
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: In article <34r3nd$ps1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> mooredan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel L Moore ) writes:
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: DOOM runs fine, now to find solutions to the ctrl, alt - arrow keys
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: combinations, (my window manager takes over), and getting the sound
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: to work, probably need to upgrade my driver.
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Remember, Linux is a multi-user system, I found the easiest way
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to get around this was to add a user in the database who's only purpose
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in life was to boot X-Windows in a configuration to play doom ;)
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To get around the alt/ctrl problem, look through yer .fvwmrc
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and take out all the definitions for those keys. Remember, the user is for
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playing Doom and you don't need a full-fledged setup. I stripped it down
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to almost nothing and get decent time on my 486/33 with 8 megs.
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-Paradox
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Ok, who wants to make a linux-based wad editor now? ;)
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From: baart@Simplex.NL (Rene Baart)
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Subject: Linux DOOM is very impressive!
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Date: 10 Sep 1994 09:21:38 GMT
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I just ran DOOM on my 386/40 with a cheap (ISA) Cirrus VGA card.
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I expected horrible performance, but it's only
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a little bit jumpy, like a DOS game over a slow modem line.
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DOOM runs just as it would under DOS, only now in an
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X-window. Due to the small window size, the image is even somewhat
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sharper now.
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All in all, this is something no Linux/X user should be without.
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Even without high-end equipment, you really should see this!
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--
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Rene Baart |
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Amstelveen, The Netherlands | baart@simplex.nl
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From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May)
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Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:10:54 GMT
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Hi, Has anyone gotten the music to work in DOOM?
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I've seen 1 person post with a SB16 who said it worked.
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I thought doom was working perfectly, until I remembered there's
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music too :)
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My card passes the "fmtest" included in the sndkit.
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(After I load the general midi patches... is this necessary?)
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Also, do I have to compile in the MPU-401 support?
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The PAS-16 emulates an MPU-401.
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Is the DOOM code sensitive to Soundblaster IRQ?
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Does the Music go out /dev/sequencer or /dev/midi, or /dev/dsp?
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Finally, does anyone with a PAS-16 have music working?
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THANKS DDT, ID, and HANNU. You're the greatest. Keep up the
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great work. I really appreciate the early release of Linuxxdoom.
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--
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-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
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- Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab
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From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Ultrastore 34F vs Adaptec 1542CF
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:14:47 GMT
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How do these two boards compare for ease of setup, use, etc with Linux?
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The 34F is a VLB board, the 1542 is ISA. Does that mean you get DMA
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above 16MB on the 34F?
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I noticed something about manually having to give the disk dimensions
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in the case of the 34F while reading the SCSI HOWTO.
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I know that Ultrastore has gone bankrupt.
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Any comments about the advisability of swapping out my 1542 for a 34F?
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Finally, if I were to do so, would the 34F need to read the data on
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my harddisk as it stands, or would I have to do a backup of everything
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first and then load stuff back on?
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(of course I make backups anyway, but I'd rather not have to reload
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Linux...)
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RNA
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From: rjl2@stirling.ac.uk (Mr Robert J Logan)
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Subject: Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect.
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 23:36:43 GMT
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Robert Logan (rl@dmu.ac.uk) wrote:
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: Youll need to remap some keys under fvwm to shoot and run at the
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: same time - otherwise, this game illustrates the power of Linux
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: and iD.
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AS for fvwm - Ive simply edited my .fvwmrc and commented out the
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keyboard shortcuts at the bottom of the file - never used them
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anyway (cos Id never tried). Works a treat.
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bert
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--
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Linux - you cant buy more powerful relief
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From: rjl2@stirling.ac.uk (Mr Robert J Logan)
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Subject: Re: Linux Doom comments.
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 23:41:10 GMT
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chrisp@dirac.bcm.tmc.edu wrote:
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: I have some problems also with the sound: I have been said that there is
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: no music only effects (to confirm) In fact, I just hear garbage.
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more than me...
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: The pixel doubling, tripling, etc blur the window.
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fixed already - ddt mustve been watching.
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: When using the Ctrl-Key (FIRE) at the same time than the arrows, I switch
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: to the other rooms (screens). The only way out of this is to run Olwm instead
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: of fvwm or others mwm like.
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comment out the shortcut keys at the bottom of your .fvwmrc
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: I patched my registered version 1.2 to 1.666 but the file is not recognized
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: by linuxxdoom.
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Works fine for me - have you altered it for new wads at all?
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bert
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--
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Linux - you cant buy more powerful relief
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 01:19:16 +0200
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From: stud02@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Kris Van Hees)
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Reply-To: stud02@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be
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Subject: Re: linux-1.1.50
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xlacha1@wizard.weizmann.ac.il (Omer Zak) writes:
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>Version 1.1.50 has been posted several several hours ago to ftp.funet.fi.
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>Before upgrading my PC from version 1.1.8 to 1.1.50 I would like to know
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>if anyone has already installed version 1.1.50 on his system and whether
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>there are any problems with it.
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We installed 1.1.50 on our PS/2's (adding the locally developed tokenring
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driver, and ESDI driver) and it runs smoothly.
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Kris.
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From: stimpson@panix.com (S. Joel Katz)
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ??
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 20:11:55 -0400
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In <rrwardCvznMH.9wH@netcom.com> rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward) writes:
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>In article <34rbks$1ch@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
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>>Bill C. Riemers <bcr@physics.purdue.edu> wrote:
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>>> 2. There is significant delay between action and sound. i.e. I
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>>> can fire my gun and then turn halfway around before the gun
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>>> sound comes through my speakers.
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>>
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>>Get shorter speaker cables.
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>>
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>>--Tim Smith
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>I really hope that you are kidding. I'd hate to think that our fine
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>educational system is producing people so stupid as to think that reducing the
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>length of cable between an amplifier and the speakers would have an observable
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>effect. Think about it: sound travels through the air about 730 miles per
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>hour at sea-level, electronic signals travel through wire at close to the
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>speed of light (roughly 186,000 miles per _second_). If you were to make
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>_any_ adjustments to the speaker placement, you'd be better off putting on
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>headphones (though the difference would still be virtually unobservable).
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I really hope that you are kidding. I'd hate to think that our
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fine educational system is producing people so stupid as the think that
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electrons net velocity down a cable is anywhere close to the speed of
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light. With all those electrons refusing to travel straight and bumping
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into each other, you are lucky if you get 1/10 C.
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--
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S. Joel Katz Information on Objectivism, Linux, 8031s, and more
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Stimpson@Panix.COM is available at http://www.panix.com/stimpson/
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Time flies like an arrow -- fruit flies like a banana.
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From: rockwell@nova.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller)
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Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:07:00 -0400
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Theodore Ts'o:
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: The FSF/Stallman interpretation of the GPL essentially amounts to
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: an interface copyright, although they attempt to deny it.
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:
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: ... (I have email from Stallman to back up this story; I will
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: forward it to people upon request.)
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Attached is the letter that Ts'o forwarded to me. I think that it
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paints a significantly different picture from what Ts'o described.
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But read it for yourself.
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--
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NB. public e, n, y
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x -: n&|&(*&y)^:d 1 NB. 1=(d*e)+.p*&<:q
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attachment: forwarded mail
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 01:25:07 -0400
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From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
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To: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU
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In-Reply-To: <9307070427.AA13564@tsx-11.MIT.EDU> (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
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Subject: Re: Fascist GPL interpretation?
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If it is not a new position, could you please supply some references?
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That would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry, I don't understand.
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Again, I'd like to know what your reasons are.
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Here's the explanation I wrote (though I would have expected you'd
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have seen it by now).
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Several years ago, I met with Steve Jobs, who was looking for some
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alternative to making the Objective C front end free software. (This
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may have been due to worries about being hassled by Stepstone, rather
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than a desire to be uncooperative.) He asked me if it it would be
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legal to ship proprietary .o files to the user and have the user link
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them with the GNU compiler.
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At that time, I envisaged the legal ramifications like some others who
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have recently posted on this list, so I did not see a basis for saying
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they could not do this.
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But at the same time, I realized that it would not bode well for the
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GNU project if such a thing were permitted. So I responded, "I will
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have to check with our lawyer."
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It's a good thing I did, because when I checked, I found that there
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was a basis for objecting to this plan. Such .o files would have
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implied the presence of the GNU compiler, linked with them. They
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would be, in effect, a way of distributing a larger program which
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implicitly includes the GNU compiler; as such, it must follow the
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terms on the GNU compiler.
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I told NeXT this, and NeXT decided there was no alternative to making
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the Objective C front end free software. So now it is available to
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all of us as a part of GCC.
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Note that this is not a matter of copyrighting an interface. The .o
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files that NeXT planned to release would have used one of the
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(internal) interfaces of the GNU compiler, but that was *not* what the
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FSF objected to. Our objection was because the use of these .o files
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implied linking them with the GNU compiler--the program, not just an
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interface.
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If it were possible for a company to get around the GPL simply by
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dressing up changes or extensions as "separate programs that the user
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might link in", then the GPL would be a paper tiger. (True, we often
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print it on paper, but...) So it is vital for the FSF to object.
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If we made this a request rather than a legal demand, some people
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would comply as a matter of conscience. But many others who would
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not. If I had told Jobs, "It is legal, but please don't," I doubt he
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would have heeded the request.
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Many improvements to GNU software are contributed by, or funded by,
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companies. If they could make these improvements proprietary, many of
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them would. I consider these companies unethical (because making
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proprietary software is unethical in general), but they don't share my
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ethical views, and they don't feel they should forego profit for a
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mere request from the FSF.
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The only way to make sure these improvements are free software is to
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make it hard to make them proprietary. That's what the GPL is for,
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and to make it work right, we must not permit getting around it by
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"having the user do the link."
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From: iotov@cco.caltech.edu (Mihail S. Iotov)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: 480x360 Res works for me.
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Date: 10 Sep 1994 03:39:18 GMT
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mooredan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel L Moore ) writes:
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>Here's a Xconfig line that works for my CrystalScan 1572FS monitor.
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>"480x360" 25 480 496 504 664 360 360 368 377
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>It'll will probably work with other monitors that have the following
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>specs:
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> Horizontal Scan Freq: 30 - 64 kHz
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> Vertical Scan Freq: 50 - 100 Hz
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And make sure your monitor can do 100Hz.
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> Bandwidth: 80 MHz
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>Also note that the dot clock is 25MHz for your video card.
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It looks like for 320x240, you'll need even lower dot clock, soif you can
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program yours give it a try.
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>DOOM runs fine, now to find solutions to the ctrl, alt - arrow keys
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>combinations, (my window manager takes over), and getting the sound
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>to work, probably need to upgrade my driver.
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same here.
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From: duffy@dduff@dduff.ppci.com (Dennis Duffner)
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Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo250
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 03:32:59 GMT
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Dennis Duffner (duffy@dduff@dduff.ppci.com) wrote:
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: Dennis Duffner (dduff@MCS.COM) wrote:
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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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: Also, will a Conner 120 or 250 work? (I've got a choice, thankfully.)
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: Mucho thanks.
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I got the new Ftape-HOWTO...and got the question answered.
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