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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: Tue, 27 Sep 94 12:13:27 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #833
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Linux-Misc Digest #833, Volume #2 Tue, 27 Sep 94 12:13:27 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Scanning with Linux? (Mary Shenk)
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Re: 56.6 Kb simulated with 2 28.8Kb modems. Is it possible? (Henry Ware)
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Re: Don't use Linux or it's to academic! (Alan Cox)
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Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors (Marcus Daniels)
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Re: Sound Blaster Driver (James Norton)
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Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? (Andreas D"oscher)
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Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev) (J.J. Paijmans)
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Linux version of crypt(1) (David A. Vohwinkel)
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Re: Does Linux support ATI Mach64 card in non-accelerated mode (Stuart Booth)
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Is a Seagate ST 3660A (525 Mb) any good? (Arno Bakker)
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Re: Driver support for PS/2 (MCA) version of SMC/WD? (Donald Becker)
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NYC Linux Group Meeting at UNIX Expo. (ACC Corp.)
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Re: Linus' visit to Perth (Robert Ashcroft)
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Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Peter Reilley)
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Re: Editors/WordProcessors for Linux (MacGyver)
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From: mkshenk@u.washington.edu (Mary Shenk)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: Scanning with Linux?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 07:52:45 GMT
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In article <366ord$kka@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>,
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Byron A Jeff <byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
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>In article <NELSON.94Sep21212413@crynwr.crynwr.com>,
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>Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com> wrote:
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>>In article <35k0c6$qib@virgo.cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
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<stuff>
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>In all honesty all we really need is the interface specifications for the
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>interface card and the scanner. But getting the representatives I've talked
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Or just the scanner, if we're talking SCSI. (proprietary interface cards
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for things that should really be SCSI--yuk!)
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>
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>My plan (which is stated in the Info-Sheet) is to check out EPSON because
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>as far as I know they are the only flatbed scanner manufacturer that actually
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>releases the hardware/interface specs for their interface boards.
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Well, I'm going to have a go at writing a driver for the UMAX 840, a SCSI
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flatbed. (Because I happen to have one, and would rather let it sit than
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even boot winblows.) From what I hear, the UMAX folks should be good about
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giving out the info...I will be talking to them sometime in the next few
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days. This will be my first driver, but I fully intend to do it, as it
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doesn't seem my scanner is going to be supported unless I do.
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Anyway, being a newbie at this driver writing stuff, I'd like input on
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any sort of hooks etc that should be in this thing for stuff folks might
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want to add later. I know nothing about TWAIN, but if it's something I
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should even be worrying about, I'd appreciate some pointers in that
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direction as well... As long as I'm writing this thing, it might as well
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be of use to as many others as possible, so be sure and speak up if there
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anything I may easily do to make it more general, etc... I am wondering
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what degree of similarity there is between SCSI flatbeds from different
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mfrs.. Is it likely that once a driver for one SCSI scanner is written,
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others will be a good deal easier?
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Anyway, if this is the sort of thing you are interested in seeing,
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please bombard me with any useful information you may have.
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-Craig
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(posting from wife's account.)
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From: hware@bronze.coil.com (Henry Ware)
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Subject: Re: 56.6 Kb simulated with 2 28.8Kb modems. Is it possible?
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 00:00:35 -0400
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In article <3603tl$knc@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>,
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Mark Weaver <mhw@cs.brown.edu> wrote:
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>In article <1994Sep23.172102.5103@umr.edu>,
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>David Edwards <dpe@rocket.cc.umr.edu> wrote:
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>>Juana Moreno (madrid@gandalf.rutgers.edu) wrote:
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>>: I just had this idea. There must be a way to simulate a 56.6 Kb connection
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>>: without the need unconventional equipment (from the home user point of view,
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>>: I mean). May be with just 2 28.8 modems connected to 2 regular phone lines and
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>>: some smart low level packet routing ( choosing for a packet the least busy
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>>: line) it has to be possible.
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Possible and cheap sure. But, SLIP/PPP connections over modem have higher
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overheads than leased lines/ISDN. For news, mail, ftp, its a win. For
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telnet... well, is it really that much cheaper?
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Cheers,
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Henry
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Don't use Linux or it's to academic!
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:05:45 GMT
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In article <7PIWkunLQ994071yn@oslonett.no> serik@oslonett.no writes:
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>Now, I would never (or at least not for some years) recommend Linux to
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>my customers as an alternative to MS-DOS or OS/2, especially not when
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>we are talking about networks and day-to-day use of business programs.
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>1. There is no support for the more sofisticated disk handlings like
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> RAID 5 or STRIPING.
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RAID SCSI arrays work fine - Real RAID systems do all the RAID stuff away
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from the computers CPU so that it doesn't notice. If you RAID system
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requires the CPU to do the stuff why not just buy an 8bit IDE controller 8)
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Striping yes - actually performance so far hasn't needed it. Being able
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to grow partitions across disks (ala AIX) is much more important to me and
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the one I do miss.
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>2. There are no programs available that does Word-processing, spreadsheets,
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> databases, presentation graphics and so on, as we have under MS-DOS
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> and Windows.
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Pardon? - WordPerfect, Xcess, Flagship(Clipper), Several SQL servers,
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CodeBase (C/C++ class library for writing dbase tools), Corel Draw/SCO.
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>3. There is currently no easy way to interconnect to LAN Server or Netware
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> natively, i.e. from Linux.
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smbfs in ALPHA. SAMBA also allows Linux to server lan manager - including
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the extended file name support to NT machines. I couldn't recommend OS/2 to
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anyone as a server as it wouldn't have the ability to serve Chicago long
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names went it appears. OS/2 also doesn't have a bundled NFS client/server.
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>4. There is no support for MCA-based machines.
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Its being finalised. Personally the only MCA machines I've seen in the past
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three years were 'discards'.
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>6. Nationalized version of the few programs existing are not available.
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Wordperfect etc all have international support.
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>7. Nationalized versions of Linux is not available.
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I have a German Linux CD-ROM the SuSE people gave me sitting on my desk.
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I guess its one of those illusionary things that people keep denying exist.
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>8. Support for modern graphics accelerators like Mach64, Stealth64 etc,
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> is not scheduled until maybe next year.
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But you can pick up the ALPHA tests now. From what I understand Mach64 is
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scheduled for Xfree86 3.1. Of course I can go out and buy an alternate X
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server if I need to (Tried buying an alternate OS/2 driver for an
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unsupported video card 8)).
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>9. Printed manuals and easy 'Get started' manuals does not exist.
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Wrong. I have several printed Linux books/manuals here. Including some in
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Germany.
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>10. Support for Mulit-media is shaky.
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Now that is a really misinformed statement. Linux can play almost any
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animations, have the X MITSHM extension for smooth animation has assorted
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sound drivers etc. Tell me where you get nv (network video) for OS/2 ?
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>11. Support for ISDN is not generally available.
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True.
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>12. There is no disk-compression.
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True enough but I could never recommend any organisation use disk
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compression except on crude single threaded operating systems where the CPU
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has nothing better to do during disk I/O.
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>When I'm recommending some system to my customers it should be something
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>that has a proven record of durability, Netware and Lan Server both have
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>that when it comes to NOS'es. MS-DOS and OS/2 have it when it comes to
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>PC OS'es.
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I avoid netware due to its overall lack of open-ness. If Novell don't sell
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you the client for your OS you are a bit stuck.
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>from a wide range of other products, read MAC disks etc.
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Yep - Linux reads Mac disks 8) (xhfs)
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>In a network environment, things like RAID 5 and STRIPING both adds to
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>security and speed.
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Why are you talking about security in the same sentence as OS/2 - OS/2
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doesn't even have usernames and 100% bulletproof virtual memory.
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>When it comes to TokenRing and MCA based machines, well IBM is the
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>biggest player in the computer world no matter what you people of the
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>.edu thinks!
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IBM don't seem to make very much MCA bus hardware now. Nobody in the company
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I work for uses MCA bus. Token ring definitely has its place.
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As to your overall conclusions - I tend to see windows has a nice
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wordprocessing client and little more. I have hopes for chicago being a good
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network terminal too when they finally finish it. Linux is a fine server,
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development environment and is maturing into a good highend(ish) all round
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system. It has lots of things OS/2 doesn't have and vice versa (OS/9 disk
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reader for OS/2 ?, CAP for OS/2 ?, Andrew for OS/2) ditto Windows for Linux
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8)
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Alan
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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From: marcus@ee.pdx.edu (Marcus Daniels)
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Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors
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Date: 24 Sep 1994 20:16:36 -0700
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
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>Another example --- suppose I write a program that uses dbm; it can
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>potentially be linked against gdbm. Hence, by your reasoning, my
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>program must fall under the GPL! But perhaps the fact that there is a
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>non-GPL library is enough to make it O.K. Alright, I'll write a slow,
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>stub library which implements the gmp interface. Then PGP must be OK!
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>A stub library isn't enough? Alright, I'll write a library which
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>implements the gmp interface but calls a slower package as its back-end.
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>Now is that OK? I'm sure the FSF would find some reason why that
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>wouldn't be OK, since they dislike PGP so much.
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Ok, what *is* the FSF's hidden agenda?
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Why is it you think the FSF dislikes PGP?
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Cut to the chase. Let's here it!
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[I'd suggest folks read some of Craig Burley's recent comments on
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the issue (on gnu.misc.discuss). ]
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From: jamesnor@clark.net (James Norton)
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 11:03:42 GMT
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de) wrote:
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: Hello chris and all others,
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: on 23.09.94 chris wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.MISC:
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: c> A quick question, I have a creative labs Sound Blaster Pro 16 w/
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: c> SCSI II adapter along with a Sony 541 CD-ROM. I can't get the
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: c> sbpcd driver to work with my kernel, any help would be appreciated...
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: If you are using a SCSI CDROM drive, the sbpcd driver can not help you.
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: It will work with your kernel, but not with your drive.
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: Greetings ... Eberhard
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Get the SCSI Howto from sunsite. It will tell you how to set your CD-ROM.
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James Norton
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jamesnor@clark.net
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From: gwynfor@informatik.uni-bremen.de (Andreas D"oscher)
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Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 10:46:22 GMT
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Robert Ashcroft (rna@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
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: In article <frank.780526774@suffix.icce.rug.nl>,
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: Frank B. Brokken <frank@icce.rug.nl> wrote:
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: >rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
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: >
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: >>Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
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: >>The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
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: >>post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.
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: >>So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
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: >>with zero problems). What is this other AMD?
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: >Hm,
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: > What's an AMD chip ? Any way, I always use AMD to mean Auto Mount Daemon.
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: > In that meaning: we have coupled some 5 linux boxes using NFS mounting
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: > each other's root directory, with amd managing the mounting process.
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: > No problems, whatsoever, and we're doing it for quite some time now.
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: You must be joking.
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: AMD as in AMD 486 DX2/66, etc. As in competitor to Intel.
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Watch your mouth, I am AMD.
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Andreas Michael D"oscher
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PS: And now, no more of this silly stuff.
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--
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Lizzie Borden took an axe,
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And plunged it deep into the VAX;
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Don't you envy people who
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Do all the things YOU want to do ?
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Found in a fortune cookie.
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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
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Subject: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev)
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 10:28:33 GMT
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In article <3674l8$5up@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
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>In article <1994Sep26.152725.11875@imec.be>,
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>Steven Buytaert <buytaert@imec.be> wrote:
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>>J.J. Paijmans (paai@kub.nl) wrote:
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>>: As for the Great Linus himself: we have to decide yet what to do and how,
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>>: but I think dutch or belgian beer will be involved somewhere.
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>>
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>> Go for the Belgian beer. I can give you a few tips there. But beware,
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>> 3 pints of 'Duvel' and the next kernel release will take 3 days extra :-)%
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>
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>Duvel's is pretty yummy, although a bit pricey. Lindeman's Kriek is
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>nice too, although I don't think Lambics should be considered beer.
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>Otherwise, we don't get too much Belgian beer arround here.
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>If you can settle for beers from other nationalities, I'd have to
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>recommend Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout and Taddy Porter, McEwan's
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>Scotch Ale, New Castle Brown Ale, and Sam Adams Cream Stout.
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>
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McEwan's is Belgian, despite its name.
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>There are also plenty of local microbreweries in the states which
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>have very tasty beers, with personal favorites being cask conditioned like
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>the Walnut Brewery's Cask Conditioned James and Wilderness Pub's Cask
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>Conditioned Stout. Other local favorites are Colorado Kind Ale from
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>the Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery (very hoppy), Extra Special Bitter,
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>etc.
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>For light beers, I'd have to go with Sierra Nevada Pale,
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>the Walnut Brewery's Buffalo Gold Ale, or Breckenridge Brewery's
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>India Pale Ale.
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Are those the pilsener type beers? (Lager, I think in Anglo Saxon
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speech).
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The beer I 'd send to Linus would be the Westmalle Tripel or perhaps
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the Rochefort 10. Bit expensive though. That is why I generally brew
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my own (not difficult & cheap).
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Aside from all that: does anybody know what is involved in getting
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bottles with beer to Finland? I understand that the customs over there
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put so much tax on it that you'd better invite him over to Holland.
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Still I'd want to make a gesture.
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(One of the obvious things to work on is electronic transmission
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of bottles & alcoholic contents by internet)
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Paai.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel)
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Subject: Linux version of crypt(1)
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:56:24 GMT
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I have a file that has been encrypted with crypt(1), is there anyway under
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linux that I can decrypt it?
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Thanks
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-Dave-
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--
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David A Vohwinkel
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Unix Consulting ^ ^ vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu
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& Operations 0 0 @ The State University of New York at Buffalo
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From: stuart@garage.demon.co.uk (Stuart Booth)
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Subject: Re: Does Linux support ATI Mach64 card in non-accelerated mode
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Reply-To: stuart@garage.demon.co.uk
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:47:25 +0000
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In article <35t00g$si8@blackbird.db.erau.edu>
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eric@news.db.erau.edu "Eric F. Sorton" writes:
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> Hayim Hendeles (hayim@quark.la.locus.com) wrote:
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> : I am considering purchasing an ATI MACH 64 graphics card. However, as
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> : Linux does not yet have support for this card yet (I know there is
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> : an Alpha driver available for those willing to be on the bleeding
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> : edge of technology), I am wondering if I can use this card under
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> : Linux in non-accelerated mode (e.g. as a Mach32 or whatever which
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> : is supported). This will get me by for the meanwhile until Linux
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> : can take advantage of the features of this new card.
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>
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> The alpha driver is fairly stable. It is not an acclerated
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> driver though. I have been using it for a few weeks without
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> any problems.
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Where can we find this alpha driver? Once I get Linux onto my 1Gig IDE disk
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(LBA translation problems aside) I'll be trying to get X working with my
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ATI Mach 64 card.
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Cheers,
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Stuart.
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Stuart Booth
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stuart@garage.demon.co.uk
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From: abakker@cs.vu.nl (Arno Bakker)
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Subject: Is a Seagate ST 3660A (525 Mb) any good?
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 11:22:52 GMT
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Your opinions please on this harddisk type.
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Replies via e-mail, thanks in advance!
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Arno
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--
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===========Arno Bakker /| Gumperson's Law:
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Department of Computer Science, |/ "The probability of anything happening
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, /| is in inverse ratio to its desirability."
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The Netherlands |/ URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~abakker
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From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: Driver support for PS/2 (MCA) version of SMC/WD?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 10:33:48 -0400
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In article <jfmorrisCwruMH.4rq@netcom.com>,
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James F. Morris <jfmorris@netcom.com> wrote:
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>I have been working on getting Linux up and running on an IBM PS/2 Model
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>70, which has not been an enviable task, to say the least! But, beggars
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>can't be choosers, either.
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...
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>So, to make a long story short, I was able to scrounge an IBM PS/2 Ethernet
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>Adapter /A. This is a microchannel version of an SMC Ultra, from what I
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>have been able to tell. Under DOS, the same SMC_WD.COM packet driver is used
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>for this card, as for an ISA based SMC Ultra or WD8013. Biggest difference
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>is that the I/O port address range is up at 0x800, rather than 0x300 - no
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>big deal, and the RAM address is fixed in the PS/2 setup program.
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The WD80*3 and SMC Ultra use different methods of enabling memory.
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Do you know which one this card is similar to?
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>Problem is, even with the 0x800 I/O port range added to the scan list in the
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>WD.C and SMC-ULTRA.C kernel driver, the card just doesn't work right (under
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>Linux - works fine under DOS). I get TX status 3 (timeout on TX) when
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>attempting to access the network.
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Please include the exact message -- is that the Tx status register or the
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general status register?
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>Looking through the Crynwr packet drivers shows that there are differences
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>between operation of the NS (8390?) chip used on these boards on the ISA
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>vs. MCA bus. Specifically, the MCA bus has twice as fast a clock cycle as
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>the ISA bus. The Crynwr driver inserts extra delays if it detects operation
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>on a Microchannel machine. Other differences are some extra setup in
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>certain registers on the NIC's ASIC.
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Those delays shouldn't be necessary with the UltraChip. They were for
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earlier chips that needed a recovery period between accesses. That was a
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bug, not a feature.
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BTW, which driver are you trying to use, the SMC Ultra or WD80*3?
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Is the ethernet address correctly detected?
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Are you receiving any packets at all? Even errors? Check /proc/net/dev.
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What addresses can the board end up at?
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--
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Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
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Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
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301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
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From: info@acc-corp.com (ACC Corp.)
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Subject: NYC Linux Group Meeting at UNIX Expo.
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:35:25 GMT
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Subject: NYX Linux Group Meeting at UNIX Expo
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There will be a New York City (and region) Linux Users Group meeting at Unix
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Expo at New York's Jacob Javits Center on Tuesday October 4, at 5.30pm.
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While a room has not been assigned, it will be in the conference room area
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on the lowest level.
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The general theme of the evening will be "ask the guru", and we will be
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trying to encourage as much interaction between the attendees as possible.
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There will be a panel of knowledgable Linux users on hand to discuss issues
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from how to configure hardware, to the future of the Linux OS for both
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recreational (DOOM) and corporate use. The goal will be to have the
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"audience" contribute as much as possible.
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So come out and meet many of the local and a few national Linuxers. There
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will be even be give aways and we'll invite some suppliers of Linux products
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and tools, who will be at the show, such as the Linux Journal crew, to drop by.
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You can get a complimentary exhibits pass by registering electronically by
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telnetting to: blenheim.com
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and logging in as: unix94
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choose your terminal mode (ansi or vt100)
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and fill in the form. It did odd things when I registered, but seemed to work.
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We also have "complimentary exhibits" paper passes to the show. Most years
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these are accepted at the door despite their advance registration wording.
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If you email me with the subject: EXPO and include an address I'll put one
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in the mail.
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See you on the 4th.
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Cheers, Bob Young, bob@acc-corp.com
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From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
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Subject: Re: Linus' visit to Perth
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 05:05:21 GMT
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In article <367dif$e4q@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>, S. Keeling <keelings@wl.aecl.ca> wrote:
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>In article <365l6c$lj4@crl.crl.com>, Bill Hogan <bhogan@crl.com> wrote:
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>>
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>>I thought I might post a brief summary of Linus' presentation at WAUG.
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>[stuff deleted]
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>>on the Sunday for a week in Singapore. And then will end another leg of
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>>the Linus Torvalds World Tour. I would've volunteered to show Linus
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>
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> What I want to know is, who's going to be the the one who
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>produces and distributes the "Linu[sx] World Tour" t-shirts. Who ever
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>it is, put me down for an X-Large, please. =[8]-)
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Well, can we get his itinerary from the last few (busy) years?
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RNA
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From: pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:49:21 GMT
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jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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$>In article <eratCwnGos.5wt@netcom.com>, Erik Ratcliffe <erat@netcom.com> wrote:
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$>>Guy Bobenrieth (guy@lmias6.u-strasbg.fr) wrote:
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$>>Hell, it's only about $25...
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$>>
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$>Well, $34.95 list, really.
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$25.00 at CDROMs+ (603) 898-5047 of Salem, New Hampshire. I got
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one Friday.
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Pete.
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--
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-->>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wiis.wang.com ..... KA1LAT <<<<<<<<<<<--
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BEAV, the best binary file editor w/src. For info finger pvr@das.wang.com
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"Knocked while you were out"
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- Opportunity
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From: macgyver@MCS.COM (MacGyver)
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Subject: Re: Editors/WordProcessors for Linux
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 23:58:27 -0500
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DAVID L. JOHNSON (dlj0@Lehigh.EDU) wrote:
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: In article <366g5rINN1sfm@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de>, krasel@alf.biochem.mpg.de (Cornelius Krasel) writes:
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: >S. Troughton (Stuart@trognet.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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: >: I am new to using Linux and I was wondering what editors/wordprocessors
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: >: exists. The ones I know about (came with the Slackware distribution) are
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: >: Emacs (several variants), TeX (lots of different macros), Jove, ed and elvis.
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: >: I have also invested in Crsip (not working yet).
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: >
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TeX...I've got a few questions about that. Is there a good TeX editor? If
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so, WHERE? Are there TeX converters from say ASCII to TeX or vice versa?
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If so WHERE? I'd like to find a good TeX editor (preferrably X based) and
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get it running, however, I seem to be running into brick walls whenever I
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try to find any information about it.
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HJD.
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