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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: Mon, 3 Oct 94 12:13:32 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #870
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Linux-Misc Digest #870, Volume #2 Mon, 3 Oct 94 12:13:32 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Linus' visit to Perth (Rob Janssen)
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Re: unctrl.h: No such file or directory (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
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Re: Bug in PPP code? (Al Longyear)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Steve Kneizys)
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Motif (Metrolink) 1.2.4 forsale ($110) (Rajesh Raj)
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Re: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev) (John C. Fisher)
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Re: Suggestions for a 486 PCI Motherboard (Steve DuChene)
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Re: POVRAY-linux with pentium support (Albert Hui)
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Database for linux? (zachary brown)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Matti Aarnio)
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Re: Dynamic IP PPP server (Al Longyear)
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Suitable front-end to postgres ? (Rik Zandvoort)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Phil Homewood)
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Floppy coolnes (was Re: ext2 QUESTIONS) (John Palaima)
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Re: POVRAY-linux with pentium support (Byron Faber)
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Re: Play Audio CD's on Linux? (Jason Dinsdale)
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Re: New Linux Distribution (John Palaima)
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Re: Boot disk -> Root disk (John Palaima)
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Re: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard? (Mikael Lyngvig)
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Re: Linux <-> Hurd (was: How Old Is Linus?) (Louis-D. Dubeau)
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In search of help (-== The Paladin ==-)
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Re: New Linux Distribution (Erik Troan)
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Linus' visit to Perth
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 22:51:51 GMT
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In <36896h$277@nntp.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
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>In article <367dif$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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Ok, let's make a start:
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1. November 2, 1993. NLUUG, Ede, the Netherlands
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Rob
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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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From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
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Subject: Re: unctrl.h: No such file or directory
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 00:15:53 GMT
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In article <matth.781031467@extro>,
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Matthew Hannigan <matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> wrote:
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>zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
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>>Programmers should not use <ncurses/ncurses.h>. stick to <ncurses.h>
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>>and use -I/usr/include/ncurses to direct the compiler to the correct
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>>directory.
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>
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>But if you do this, then isn't it possible that
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>you might include other stuff in /usr/include/ncurses/
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>that you might not want?
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>
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>e.g. you might #include <termcap.h>, and get the one in
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>the ncurses directory rather than the one in /usr/include/.
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>(They're different on my system, I don't know how much
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>that matters)
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If you are using ncurses then you SHOULD be using the <termcap.h>
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that comes with it. This is kinda the point!
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>I just have a feeling that it is safer to #include <pkg/somefile.h>
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>in general rather than -I/usr/include/<pkg> , #include <somefile.h>
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So how do you propose handing your problem? <ncurses.h> includes
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<unctrl.h>. Without the -I you won't find it. Besides ncurses
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could be installed elsewhere (eg. /usr/local/include).
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Zeyd
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--
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---
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Zeyd M. Ben-Halim zmbenhal@netcom.com
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NCURSES is available from ftp.netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ncurses
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Current version is 1.8.5
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From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
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Subject: Re: Bug in PPP code?
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 00:24:44 GMT
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ian@tanagra.demon.co.uk (Ian Chard) writes:
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>I recently tried to put my PPP interface into promiscuous mode by accident
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>with 'tcpdump -p' and got this fault:
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It won't work by the way. :)
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>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000000
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>current->tss.cr3 = 00560000, [r3 = 00560000
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>*pde = 00102027
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>*pte = 00000027
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>Oops: 0000
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>EIP: 0010:00000000
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>EFLAGS: 00010246
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>eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000051 ecx: 00582f44 edx: 00190151
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>esi: bffffd48 edi: 00582f64 ebp: 0019bbdc esp: 00582f20
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>ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
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>Process tcpdump (pid: 222, process nr: 27, stackpage=00582000)
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>Stack: 0013218f 0019bbdc ffffffff 00000000 bffffd28
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^^^^^^^^
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Please look up this address. It is a call to a procedure which
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is zero. The arguments given to it are (0019bbdc, -1, 0)
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>Where am I supposed to be looking in the above message for a pointer into my
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>system map?
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--
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys)
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Date: 1 Oct 94 20:49:35 EST
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Trevor Lampre (trevor@xanax.apana.org.au) wrote:
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: Many have. I have posted twice myself about it and seen at least 5 other
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: posts not including this thread. I have never seen a response and my emails
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: to other posters has never been answered. It's pissing me off that nobody
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: seems to know the answer or have a fix. I've been patching my kernel up
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: to 1.1.51 (I think it got worse at .51) as well as rebuilding my daemons.
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: I read a few days ago that the next release of the networking code fixes
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: a problem that sounds like this but I've seen no followups as to when it
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: will be released.
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: As the admin of a public access system it is of great concern to me, I've
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: had sendmail die for about 2 days before I noticed as well as the other
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: problems described. I spend more time now checking/killing/rebooting
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: my network stuff than I do giving more value to my users. I might just
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: switch to *BSD, at least the network code works.
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: Trevor Lampre.
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I have started a couple such threads...nobody posted a solution. It
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does not bother me that there is a problem, especially with development
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versions, but that so many people have posted and never an acknowledgement.
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I would feel better about things, especially in the era of a code freeze
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where release 1.2.0 is imminent, that somebody is working to try and patch
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this before that version is out :) What post was it that you saw this
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possible fix with the newest networking code?
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Thanks!
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Steve...
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From: Rajesh Raj <rxr401@huxley>
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Subject: Motif (Metrolink) 1.2.4 forsale ($110)
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 18:40:09 +1000 (EST)
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From: jfisher@engr.latech.edu (John C. Fisher)
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Subject: Re: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev)
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 12:45:12 GMT
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J.J. Paijmans (paai@kub.nl) wrote:
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: In article <1994Sep27.202537.20069@abo.fi> mwikholm@at8.abo.fi (Mats 'MaDsen' Wikholm) writes:
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: >In article <368s4h$1n7@kubds1.kub.nl> paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
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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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: ...
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[snip...]
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What about "RAM for Linus"? Beer probably isn't terribly good for him... :-)
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If everyone contributed US$1, we could probably get him quite a bit.
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I know! What about "P5-100 for Linus"? :-)
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< John Fisher | jfisher@engr.latech.edu >
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--
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< John Fisher | jfisher@engr.latech.edu >
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From: s0017210@unix1.cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for a 486 PCI Motherboard
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 20:51:40 -0400
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I know you were asking about recommendations for 486 PCI motherboards
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but I thought I would just mention how well Linux performs on my
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Gateway-2000 P4D-100 (486DX4-100 PCI) system. I am really happy with
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the speed of the system and the setup was a breeze (except for the
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problems with the older 1.0 kernels and the 540 Mb EIDE drive). I
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would not hesitate to recommend this system to anyone (now Gateway
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monitors are another story!).
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--
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| Steven A. DuChene sduchene@cis.ysu.edu or s0017210@cc.ysu.edu
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| Youngstown State University | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
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| Friends don't let friends do DOS
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From: s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Albert Hui)
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Subject: Re: POVRAY-linux with pentium support
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 23:46:39 GMT
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baba@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Baba Buehler) writes:
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>matthew@crocker.com (Matthew S. Crocker) writes:
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>>I'm just now running a test on it to see if its any faster but it
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>>should be the render.c is -O4 which is the most inportant :)
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>i compiled POV-Ray several times with the i2.5.8p version of GCC. I noticed
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>that it was significantly SLOWER than a version compiled with stock 2.5.8 gcc
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>and -O6 -m486 optimization.
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I'm not sure, but is -O6 bogus (same as -O2) in the stock gcc?
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--
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`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._
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Albert Hui (The Avatar) |
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- avatar@excalibur.apana.org.au | "To boldly code where no one has
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- s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au | man page for." -Joe R. Hacker
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From: zbrown@lynx.dac.neu.edu (zachary brown)
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Subject: Database for linux?
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 06:53:19 -0400
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Is there a database program for Linux, of similar power to something
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like SPSS?
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Thanks.
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-ZB-
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: mea@utu.fi (Matti Aarnio)
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 17:52:39 GMT
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STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) writes:
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>Trevor Lampre (trevor@xanax.apana.org.au) wrote:
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>: Many have. I have posted twice myself about it and seen at least 5 other
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>: posts not including this thread. I have never seen a response and my emails
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>: to other posters has never been answered. It's pissing me off that nobody
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>: seems to know the answer or have a fix. I've been patching my kernel up
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>: to 1.1.51 (I think it got worse at .51) as well as rebuilding my daemons.
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...
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>: Trevor Lampre.
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>I have started a couple such threads...nobody posted a solution. It
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>does not bother me that there is a problem, especially with development
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>versions, but that so many people have posted and never an acknowledgement.
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>I would feel better about things, especially in the era of a code freeze
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>where release 1.2.0 is imminent, that somebody is working to try and patch
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>this before that version is out :) What post was it that you saw this
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>possible fix with the newest networking code?
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Compile with "PC/TCP compability ON", and it apparently works
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a lot better...
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The real problem is being investigated!
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>Thanks!
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>Steve...
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
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From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
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Subject: Re: Dynamic IP PPP server
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 00:48:29 GMT
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raf@dt1.datatamers.com (Richard Farrar) writes:
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>I am looking for information on how to set up my linux box as a
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>dynamic IP ppp server for dial in. Currently I am set up for dump terminal
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>dial in. PPP is complied in my kernel 1.1.51 and is running. I would like
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>to offer PPP dial in for Mosaic users. I've RTFM net-2-howto and the readme from
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>ppp-2-1-2a and all they talk about is how to dial into a DYN ppp server,
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>but not how to configure your box to be a dynamic IP PPP DIAL IN SERVER.
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Please follow the section called "SETTING UP A MACHINE FOR INCOMING
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PPP CONNECTIONS" in the README.linux file.
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The trick to set up a 'dynamic IP' address is to simply fix the IP
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address on the linux side. If you have multiple ports into the Linux
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system, then want to setup the IP address, one for each of the
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ports. The IP address would go into the configuration file for each
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tty line. For example, /dev/ttyS1 would be called /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1.
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The software gets the name of the tty with ttyname(), removes the /dev/
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prefix, and uses the remainder as the key to the file name.
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Always put your local address in the file. I use 10.128.5.10 in this
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example. This defines the value that the remote must use as it's
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remote address. This IP address does not need to be unique. You may
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use the same IP address for all of your incoming lines, as well as one
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of the ethernet devices.
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For example, if you wish to the remote to use the local address of
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10.128.4.12, then you would put the following into the
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/etc/ppp/options.ttyS1.
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10.128.5.10:10.128.4.12
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-detach
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The options.tty file is accessed while the pppd process is still root.
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In this manner, your client would not specify a remote address. The
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address would be assigned to the value in the options file on the
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server. Each port which the user connects would have a unique
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address. Let the telephone equipment do the hunting for a non-busy
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line, and by association, modem.
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The -detach parameter prevents the pppd from forking into the
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background. Since it is started by uugetty, the fork would confuse
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the getty process into thinking that the shell has disconnected.
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(I'll add this to the documentation for the next version. Thanks for
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the help.)
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--
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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From: rik@parsec.nl (Rik Zandvoort)
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Subject: Suitable front-end to postgres ?
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 09:45:46 GMT
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Postgres seems to work fine with linux, but writing applications is not that
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easy.
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Does there exist any front end that is ported to Linux?
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And where can I find it?
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Thanks,
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Rik
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--
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Rik Zandvoort <rik@parsec.nl> Phone: +31 71 131000
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Parsec Developments, Leiden, The Netherlands Fax : +31 71 142142
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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 20:06:29 +1000
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Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
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: Now the question is, which os better? Better as in...
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: 1) least bugs, and stable IMPORTANT!
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I'd say FreeBSD (not 386bsd btw, I'll leave advocacy of that up to
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Jesus....)
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: 2) more software available that runs on it
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Both (what runs on one usually works with minimal hacking on the other)
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: 3) faster
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FreeBSD (the difference isn't generally noticeable)
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: 4) more compliance to POSIX (I think standards are good, or am I wrong)
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Hm... I think Linux gets it on this one (not sure)
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- neither is 100% POSIX compliant to my knowledge.
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: 5) more people using it.
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Linux.
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: 6) more support for third-party hardware (VLB, EISA, modems, etc) IMPORTANT!
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mmmm possibly Linux, yep, I'd say Linux has it here.
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: 7) platform for programming.
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What exactly do you mean by this?
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: Has anyone actually used both systems?
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Yes. Personal preference: FreeBSD, but Linux has a lot of nice
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features.
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Phil.
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
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APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
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"Every finger in the room is pointing at me
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I wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid what that could bring"
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From: jolt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Palaima)
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Subject: Floppy coolnes (was Re: ext2 QUESTIONS)
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 13:53:46 GMT
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In article <jeffpkCwtKyz.LuI@netcom.com>,
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Jeff Kesselman <jeffpk@netcom.com> wrote:
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>
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>Thats okay, I'm waiting for a compile to finish (god i LOVE UNIX! ;) )
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yeh. also, has anyone noticed the wonderful feature that you can do multiple
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simultaneous copies to/from floppy drives? And that floppy I/O doesn't kill
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system performance? (god I LOVE LINUX :) )
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From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber)
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Subject: Re: POVRAY-linux with pentium support
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:38:00 GMT
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s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Albert Hui) writes:
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[junk deleted]
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>I'm not sure, but is -O6 bogus (same as -O2) in the stock gcc?
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For gcc 2.5.8 yes. But I believe gcc 2.6.0 does some more
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optimizing so that -O3 is relavent. (but obviously only for 2.6.0)
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Byron
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--
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Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it
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should be hard to understand.
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b-faber@uiuc.edu & http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~bf11620
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From: jasond@leucite (Jason Dinsdale)
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Subject: Re: Play Audio CD's on Linux?
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 13:13:42 GMT
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William Bushing (6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu) wrote:
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: OK, call me blind or stupid... flame me to your heart's content.
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: I love Linux, but I haven't yet found out how to play audio CD's
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: while operating under Linux. I grep'ed through all the documenta-
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: tion I could see for anything on audio/CD, but could find nothing.
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: I'd hate to return to DOS or, shudder, Windose just to be able to
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: play music while I work. I know Linux can do it... my world would
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: be complete with multiple windows multitasking PLUS music! Thanks
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: in advance for any pointers.
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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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: William W. (Boo) Bushing | "Life is too important to be
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: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet | taken seriously"
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: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu |
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: bushing@lifesci.ucsb.edu | - Einstein
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: Marine Biotechnology Lab Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara
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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Your Blind!
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Your Stupid!!!
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Sorry, couldn't resist!
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OK, so you want some tunes huh? Well I use a little 'ole X utility
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called "workman" which can be found on the net (sunsite I seem to
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recall) ... very nice ... with good old OpenWindows interface to boot.
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Rave on.
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Jason D
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Jason Dinsdale | Redrock Consultants Ltd,
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W:jasond@kbss.bt.co.uk | 57 Foden Avenue, Ipswich,
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H:jason@redrock.demon.co.uk | Suffolk, IP1 5PL, UK.
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From: jolt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Palaima)
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Subject: Re: New Linux Distribution
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:22:23 GMT
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In article <36hk5l$bj1@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
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Andreas Helke <andreas@orion.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
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>Steven Pritchard (spritcha@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
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>: sasewt@tarrant.unx.sas.com (Erik Troan) writes:
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>: >DOS doesn't have "rm -rf /".
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>: "deltree /y \*.*"
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>: Of course, that's probably not a bad thing. :)
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Lets not forget 4DOS' aliasing capabilities: "del/szqyx \" will silently and
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recursively remove all files and directories...(ok, ok, so it complains about
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empty directories, but...)
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>DOS does not ship with rm, but many implementations of this nice program are
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>available. You can make DOS look exactly like a unix shell with some
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>tweaking. Shell scripts instead of batch file etc. Batch files can only be
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>run by giving their name as parameter to command.com. The illusion only
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>breaks down if you hit the 640 K barrier or if you try to use the & operator
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>or want to fork a process or try to use a filename with 2 points in it.
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yeah, I remember the PC-Unix set (something like that) that you could
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get off Clarkson's PC's directly back in 89-90, when I was there... Pretty
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cool really. Back then, some of us had access to Minix, but the damned
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Zeniths CU gave us couldn't install it because Minix didn't have 3.5" support
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at the time :)
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(btw, Russ Nelson, what ever happened to grape.ecs???)
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-r-
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R. Cooley
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rcooley@nyx.cs.du.edu
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rcooley96@dgl.ssc.mass.edu
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From: jolt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Palaima)
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Subject: Re: Boot disk -> Root disk
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:46:24 GMT
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In article <36mq7l$bq@nkosi.well.com>,
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Patrick J. Volkerding <gonzo@magnet.mednet.net> wrote:
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>In article <36k9lv$beu@mailer.fsu.edu>,
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>Pramod Koshy <koshy@nu.cs.fsu.edu> wrote:
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>> ... , it says "out of memory"
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>>.Having only 4 MB of RAM , i need the command that disables the ram disk and
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>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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if you're getting your files from sunsite, get your kernel at
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sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/kernels
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under this are a bunch of directories with kernels that *don't* load the
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rootdisk into RAM -- try this! At least, my copy of the July InfoMagic CD
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with the copy of the sunsite FTP archive sez to do this...
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>Slackware 2.0.1 has a file, LOWMEM.TXT, which describes a couple
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>simple workarounds to this problem. You can get the file from most
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>Slackware mirror sites, including
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>ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/slackware/LOWMEM.TXT.
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I didn't get this file, so I don't know what's in it...
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-r-
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Rick Cooley, extraordinaire
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rcooley@nyx.cs.du.edu or rcooley96@dgl.ssc.mass.edu
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: milyng@netcom.com (Mikael Lyngvig)
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Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard?
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 12:13:16 GMT
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pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
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>If Linux runs on your Pentium P90 PCI, or you know of a working such,
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>I'd appreciate knowing what motherboard did the trick.
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I'm using a Zeos P90 PCI - it has only been a few days since I installed,
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though. Seems like it runs just fine and smaller load on heavy tasks than
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I get on NETCOM at 3:30 am ;) I haven't got X to run yet; xinit complains
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about a missing config file. My configuration is:
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Zeos P90, 16 MB RAM, 540 MB IDE HD & 340 MB IDE HD, Mitsumi CD-ROM (*),
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2 * 16550 serial ports, Phoenix BIOS (v4.0??), Diamond Stealth 64 (using
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the S3 Vision 964 64-bit chip - not tested yet...), Practical Peripherals
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PM14400FXMT modem - not tested yet), Microsoft mouse (not tested yet).
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I been throught a lot of the standard Unix utils, and they all seem to run
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just fine.
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(*) The Mitsumi drive, as configured by Zeos, needs the command "mcd=0x310,10"
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when booting the Mitsumi kernel otherwise Linux won't recognize the drive.
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Mikael Lyngvig
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milyng@netcom.com
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From: ldd@step.step.polymtl.ca (Louis-D. Dubeau)
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Subject: Re: Linux <-> Hurd (was: How Old Is Linus?)
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Date: 03 Oct 1994 13:40:30 GMT
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>>>>> "AB" == Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu> writes:
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AB> js1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Jiann-Ming Su) said:
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Terence> sure it will happen if Linux if still around for a couple
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Terence> of more years.
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Jiann-Ming> Why would Linux go away?
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AB> Hurd, maybe? Are they planning an 486 version at all?
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The Hurd is coded for the i386/i486 architecture. BTW, my work in the
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`Linux on Mach' project (was formerly knows as linuxss) is based on
|
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the Hurd: ie. my goal is to implement Linux compatibility on the
|
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Hurd. Right now I have an ext2fs server working (but still alpha).
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So the Hurd does not spell doom for Linux.
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ldd
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-- Louis-Dominique Dubeau == ldd@step.polymtl.ca == hallu@info.polymtl.ca --
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-- Linux on Mach project: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/
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------------------------------
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|
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From: warrenp@astro.ocis.temple.edu (-== The Paladin ==-)
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Subject: In search of help
|
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:44:01 GMT
|
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|
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Thank you for reading this.
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I have a slight problem with linux/os2-2.1/dos-win.
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|
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I have a 1gig ide drive, on which I am trying to install os2
|
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and linux to replace dos-win.
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problem 1 > os2 boot manager freeses when I select dos boot.
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|
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problem 2 > linux doesn't understand the drive, possibly
|
|
because of my BIOS.
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|
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problem 3 > I am using stacker on another disk that has all of my
|
|
DOS applications, which I wish to retain, and
|
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can't un-stack because that drive is small.
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|
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problem 4 > tape drive / sound card / cd-rom all seem
|
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non-functional under OS2 and linux.
|
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Am I missing something obvious?
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|
|
I spend the weekend going through news, documentation, and FAQs.
|
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I didn't find much to help.
|
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I think getting stacker for OS2 will solve some problems,
|
|
but is there a stacker for linux? Or should I byte the bullet (sorry)
|
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and delete some applications?
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|
|
Any help welcomed.
|
|
|
|
thnak you again,
|
|
p
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|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: ewt@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Erik Troan)
|
|
Subject: Re: New Linux Distribution
|
|
Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:00:15 GMT
|
|
|
|
In article <36hk5l$bj1@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
|
|
Andreas Helke <andreas@orion.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
|
|
>: sasewt@tarrant.unx.sas.com (Erik Troan) writes:
|
|
>
|
|
>: >DOS doesn't have "rm -rf /".
|
|
>
|
|
>DOS does not ship with rm, but many implementations of this nice program are
|
|
>available. You can make DOS look exactly like a unix shell with some
|
|
>tweaking. Shell scripts instead of batch file etc. Batch files can only be
|
|
>run by giving their name as parameter to command.com. The illusion only
|
|
>breaks down if you hit the 640 K barrier or if you try to use the & operator
|
|
>or want to fork a process or try to use a filename with 2 points in it.
|
|
|
|
Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was
|
|
good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's
|
|
unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd
|
|
happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After
|
|
a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file,
|
|
and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do
|
|
a compile.
|
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|
|
That day he want and got Linux (0.95) and installed it. Viola! ctrl-z worked
|
|
and all was good.
|
|
|
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That user was me, and DOS's illusion broke down pretty quickly for me.
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|
|
Erik
|
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--
|
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============================================================================
|
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"Like a fool I let dreams become great expectations" - Chess
|
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|
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Erik Troan = ewt@sunsite.unc.edu = http://sunsite.unc.edu/ewt
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