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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 94 19:13:09 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #908
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Linux-Misc Digest #908, Volume #2 Sun, 9 Oct 94 19:13:09 EDT
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Contents:
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snmp (Darko Krizic)
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Modem usage from another machine ? (Iain Lea)
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DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51 (Oz Dror)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: RFD: comp.os.linux reorganization (Kai Dupke)
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NONE (steven.rosenberg@support.com)
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Re: Mosaic for Linux? (Alexei Rodriguez)
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XFree86 3.1, Linux bin: Where are NLS files? (Kaz Sasayama)
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Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Spencer PriceNash)
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Re: getting linux to work dail-up (Toon van der Pas)
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Emacs & LaTeX (Was: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?) (Per Abrahamsen)
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Real stupid question. What is Motif?? :) (Martin Eggen)
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Re: Cnews - HELP! (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
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Re: [Q]Linux on PPC a hoax? (Brad Grantham)
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Re: what IS maple? (Stormy Henderson)
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IP Gateway/Forwarding Problem (Jared Reimer)
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From: dekay@xtac.tg.sub.org (Darko Krizic)
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Subject: snmp
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:06:20 GMT
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I am looking for snmp agents for Linux (_not_ smtp).
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=====================================================================
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Darko Krizic Langweidenstrasse 37 60488 Frankfurt 49 69 7893687
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dekay@xtac.tg.sub.org MIME 4e71 "Powered by Motorola"
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From: iain.lea@anl433.erlm.siemens.de (Iain Lea)
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Subject: Modem usage from another machine ?
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 12:38:13 GMT
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I have 2 linux boxes running 1.1.51 connected by a 10base2 network.
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One of them has a 14.4 modem hanging off /dev/ttyS1 that I use with
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minicom.
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Does a program exist that will allow the 2nd linux box to use the
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modem on the first machine remotely?
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If so ftp site would be appreciated.
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TIA
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Iain
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--
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iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de +49-9131-7-43402
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'Raus aus dem Alltag, rein in die Kiste'
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From: dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror)
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Subject: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 05:52:34 GMT
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Linux 1.1.51
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DOSEMU Pre0.53pl25
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Hi,
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Dosemu has significantly improved compare with p17. I would like
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to congratulate DOS EMU team.
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But there is at least one problem. Only root can run it. I check permission
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of dos it seems OK.
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9 -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 9079 Oct 3 19:57 /usr/bin/dos
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when a user type dos no error is printed, but also dos is not entered.
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-Oz
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--
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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California <<SCO UNIX since 3/90>>
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SMAIL dror@netcom.com <<Linux since 8/15/94>>
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PHONE (213) 874-7978 Fax (213) 874-7965
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 06:03:21 GMT
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In article <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
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Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
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>In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu> wrote:
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>>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.
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>
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>You were misinformed. Both Linux and the BSD's use monolithic kernels.
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>For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus
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>and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux
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>was in it's infancy.
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>
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>
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>Nate
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Actually, as I understand it, this was not what the poster was talkign
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about. From his parenthetical statement, I think he's referring to the
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fact that Linux is being developed openly by a large group, while FreeBSD
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is controlled and dvevloped by one fairly closed group. (I don't know if
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thsi is true, BTW., I've just heard thsi claim before.)
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I think the poster just misused the term 'monolithic', though I coudl be
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wrong...
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Jeff Kesselman
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Crossposted-To: news.groups
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From: dupke@koma.han.de (Kai Dupke)
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Subject: Re: RFD: comp.os.linux reorganization
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 19:36:32 GMT
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Dave Sill (de5@sws5.CTD.ORNL.GOV) wrote:
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: REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
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: comp.os.linux reorganization
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: 5) Group: comp.os.linux.video (unmoderated)
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: Charter: For questions and discussion relating to video hardware or
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: software including XFree86, commercial X servers, svgalib,
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: console modes/fonts, dosemu, etc.)
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I don't know, if 'dosemu' is right here in c.o.l.video.
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I think there should be a system-group for dosemo, elf, coff, icbs, wine(?).
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Gruss kai, dupke@koma.han.de
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--
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Kai Dupke |Tel & Fax : +49 511 499738 |Holt fast kolt isen!
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Badenstedter Str. 121 | |Scouting around the world.
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30453 Hannover | |
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GERMANY | |
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From: steven.rosenberg@support.com
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Subject: NONE
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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 94 22:28:39 -0700
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Message # 20170 has been read
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From: alexei@mindspring.com (Alexei Rodriguez)
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Subject: Re: Mosaic for Linux?
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 13:34:48 -0400
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In article <36d17p$gps@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> draker@cs.mcgill.ca (Daniel MORRISON) writes:
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>From: draker@cs.mcgill.ca (Daniel MORRISON)
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>Subject: Re: Mosaic for Linux?
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>Date: 29 Sep 1994 00:20:09 GMT
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>In article <35t7qf$md4@portal.gmu.edu>,
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>Luis Mirantes <lmirante@mason1.gmu.edu> wrote:
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>>Is there a version of Mosaic, or similar program that'll run under XFree?
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>>Luis.
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>I've been trying to compile NCSA Mosaic under Linux 1.1.13 and having no luck.
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>I can't seem to configure it properly - can't find a bunch of files in an Xm
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>directory. Can anyone help?
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>--
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Last time I checked, Mosaic requires Motif to compile.
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Do you have Motif on your Linux box? If not, I would stick
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with getting a Mosaic binary.
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Alex
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
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From: kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp (Kaz Sasayama)
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Subject: XFree86 3.1, Linux bin: Where are NLS files?
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 06:15:35 GMT
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I have just downloaded XF86-3.1-{S3,bin,doc,fnt,inc,lib,man}.tar.gz
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for Linux, but cannot find any NLS files. Where can I find them?
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--
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Kaz Sasayama, a Nagoyan X68000 user.
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-- "May the source be with you!"
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 06:25:43 GMT
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In article <pbashCx3tHG.4J4@netcom.com>, Paul Bash <pbash@netcom.com> wrote:
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>In article <jeffpkCx30q6.37K@netcom.com>,
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>Jeff Kesselman <jeffpk@netcom.com> wrote:
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>>In article <1994Oct3.002210.2485@tware.com>, Paul Bash <bash@tware.com> wrote:
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>>>In article <Cx1LHz.3H1@cs.ruu.nl>, Jan Willems <janw@cs.ruu.nl> wrote:
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>>>>
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>>>>Yggdrasil users,
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>>>>
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>>>>I'm stuck with a few questions:
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>>>>
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>>>>- Is there a solution to the above described problem?
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>>>>- Why is it that the fall 1993 CD was allright as far as I knew,
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>>>> the summer 1994 gave me a lot of problems right away and this one won't
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>>>> install simple packages in Xwindows?
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>>>>- Is this really plug & play? Is it my fault? Am I doing things
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>>>> wrong? Did they test it?
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>>>>- Last but not least, are there any other CDROM's that say
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>>>> they are plug & play. I might get me one.
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>>>>
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>>>> Regards,
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>>>> Jan Willems.
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>>>
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>>>Having worked with both of them, the obvious solution to the Yggdrasil
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>>>problems is to junk the CD and buy the Slackware PRO CD. While the Yggdrasil
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>>>CD-ROM shows a lot of promise, it is far behind the Slackware distribution
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>>>in terms of "Plug and Play".
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>>>
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>>>Yggdrasil is cute if you only want to burn 10MB of hard disk space and don't
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>>>mind a _slow_ system running from CD-ROM. Past that, its a mess. One example:
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>>(various other vitriol deleted...)
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>>This helpful person, while treating us to his delightful rants, has
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>>deleted the actual question asked to begin with (which figures) so its
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>>kind of hard to help.
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>>
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>>I'm running Yygdrasil fall94 quite nicely. I am EXCEEDINGLY happy with
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>>it, the docs that came with it, and the Linux bible I bought that
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>>Yygdrasil publishes.
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>>If whomever posted the original question would like to mail it to me, Ill
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>>see if I can help.
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>>In a democracy everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion....
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>>(I won't finish that thought. Those of you out there inclined to agree
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>>with me will be able to finish it for yourselves, and this way I don't
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>>start a flame war with anyone else. :) )
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>>
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>Hi Jeff,
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>Having a nice day?
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Paul,
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No, actually, i had a terrible day that day, so if i over-reacted, I
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apologize.
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I don't mind your posting your point of view. For your info I've also
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adminstered a sun network consisting of 2 sparc desktops and a 4/490 server.
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Now, it is true that I DON'T expect Linux to be as comfortable as SOlaris
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2.x, but neither the hardware I'm running nor the software (Linux) cost
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nearly as much as that sun system did.
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I'll repeat that I've continually foudn my yygdrasil easy and riendly to
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use-- perhapse we have very different environments? I WAS a little
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annoyed that, by removing the actual problem from the text, you gave me
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no room to respond with my own experiences. I think that leaving that in
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would have been considerate to those with other points of view. Anyway,
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thats my opinion.
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I think the most honest, balanced, emotion free discussion of the various
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distributions available was printed this month in the Linux journal.
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The author likened it to shopping for a car.
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You have your lean, fast sportscar (Slackware).
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You have your large, comfortable utility vehicle (Yygdrasil).
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You have your experimental alternative energy vehicle (Debian).
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And you have your build-it-yourself car kits (ftping you own software.)
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What you find most desireable depends alot on what you want from it.
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>Other comments
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>in this thread and other threads throughout the Linux newsgroups bear that
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>out. I _did_ say that Yggdrasil shows a lot of promise. It just isn't there
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>yet.
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Funny, I just read a comment that echoes my OWn very pleased sentiments.
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And are you forgetting MY comment, which obviously does not agree with
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yours? I think you are being a bit hasty in assuming the whole world
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(or even a large majority) shares your viewpoint. Unless specificly
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asked, people seldom post about having NO problems, they only post when
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they need help, and I've seen as many slackware specific questions as i
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have Yygdrasil.
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>My comments were constructive and to the point. Hopefully Yggdrasil will
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>read these and others here and take more care the next time. In the meantime
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>the Slackware distributions I've used have always worked perfectly and give
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>much finer control over the install process. Jan asked if there was a better
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>CD out there and I told him.
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>
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Umm, I hate to diagree with you, but you didn't start out by saying 'In
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response to your asking if there are other CD-ROMS available...'
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Rather if you look above, you will see that your opening reads:
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"Having worked with both, the obvious solution to the yygdrasil problem
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is..."
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I think it is QUITE reasonable to read that as a response to the question
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"Is there a solution to the above problem?"
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Said problem having been deleted. Can you now perhapse see why the
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deletion annoyed me?
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>Do you have a problem with that?
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Yup. The problems I already outlined.
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From: spencer@montego.umcc.umich.edu (Spencer PriceNash)
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 03:06:43 -0400
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[ Newsgroups trimmed]
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In article <36qlgs$1a9@agate.berkeley.edu>,
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Nick Kralevich <nickkral@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
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>Greetings.
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Hi.
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>I'm attempting to find a word processor for Linux. One that will
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>allow me to create reports, and type up documents.
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Yuck.
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>So far I've been using Jove, which is useful as a text editor, but
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>not as a word processor. I'm looking for somthing that will allow
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>for different fonts, along with text formatting.
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Sounds like the simplest thing would be: you can use Jove (or emacs
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or one of the vi clones or whatever) to type in your text, using
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groff commands, then use groff to format it, then pump it through
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ghostscript to print it.
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[If you just want to play with ghostscript a little and see what
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it will do, try using a2x or a2gs (tsx-11, sunsite). They're great
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for printing things like the FAQs or HOWTOs or little documents.]
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The first time with the editor -> groff -> ghostscript combo, you'll
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probably get just one font. Within a week or so, you can be clever
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and do multiple fonts. During that time you discover X and the
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possibility of viewing your file before printing it to see how
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clever you were, and avoid wasting paper.
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This is about the time your spouse, friends and relatives wonder what
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happened to you.
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In the case of becoming very clever, you could use TeX, but I don't
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think you wanna hear that.
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>I don't think emacs is what I'm looking for.
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Not entirely.
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>I've heard of TeX, but I'm not really sure what it is, and I'm
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>hesitating to install the 14 disks it takes for the binary
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>distribution.
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Oh. That's ok, I didn't install it, either.
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>So, what is a good word processor for Linux or Unix in general?
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>Preferably somthing that is freeware or shareware.
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You might just have everything you need.
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>What do you use?
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I've done nvi -> groff -> ghostscript, but not very often. I'm
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not doing high-intensity text stuff here. One font throughout a
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file is fine for me. I've seen people use TeX and do things that
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look like newspapers or books, though. You might think of taking the
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TeX/LaTeX plunge.
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--
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Spencer PriceNash spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us spencer@umcc.umich.edu
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Dan Quayle via anon ftp: Quotes at umcc.umich.edu in pub/users/quayle, GIFs
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and sound files at vaxa.crc.mssm.edu in quayle/gif and quayle/sound.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
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From: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl (Toon van der Pas)
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Subject: Re: getting linux to work dail-up
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 15:24:54 GMT
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blane@seanet.com (Brian Lane) writes:
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>Jacob Zielinski (jzielin@vanbc.wimsey.com) wrote:
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>: Has anyone be able to hook their modem up so that you can dail into linux?
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>
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>: The people on #linux suggested agetty, and mgetty. But I didn't get to far
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>: with those to commands. Could somebody who as done this explain how or at
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>: least point me toward some docs.
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>
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> You really should get the mgetty+sendfax package from
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>sunsite.unc.edu(or your local mirror). Just follow the instructions,
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>compile it, and add it to your inittab.
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>
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> My only problem with it so far is getting seyon to dialout while mgetty
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>is running. The docs say it should work(there's no lockfile unless mgetty
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>has answered the phone) but I cannot get kermit/minicom/seyon to work.
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>They think the device is busy.
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>
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> Works great for dialins. I never could get getty to work correctly.
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>
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> Brian
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Don't use the cua devices.
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Use ttyS devices exclusively, and you're in business.
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Good luck,
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Toon.
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Toon van der Pas Tel.: +31 3403 53162
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Zomervlinderberm 24 Email: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl
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3994 WP Houten
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From: abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Emacs & LaTeX (Was: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?)
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Date: 09 Oct 1994 19:04:02 GMT
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>>>>> "Terence" == Terence S Murphy <blackbob@wwa.com> writes:
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Terence> Does editing with emacs offer additional features for the
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Terence> LaTeX user that aren't present in vi? I'm curious about what
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Terence> they are, since I really love vi/LaTeX, and don't have
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Terence> problems with it; of course, I haven't done anything very
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Terence> complicated vith LaTeX. (This is a question, not a flame :)
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- Run LaTeX, BibTeX, View, Print, etc from inside emacs. It can do
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some pretty good guesses at what you want to run and how.
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- Translate LaTeX error messages into english (using the explanation
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from the LaTeX book) and automatically position the cursor at the
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error. There is a command to step to next error.
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- Templates for all standard environments and macros, which prompts
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for arguments so you don't have to remember the syntax or worry
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about typos.
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- Fonts and environments can be inserted at point, around the current
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region, or you can change the current font or environment, for
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example itemize to enumerate or italic to bold (it remembers to fix
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the italic correction).
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- Context sensitive help. You can get an description of the macro or
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environment under the cursor.
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- Automatic indentation of the source, which helps readabilty and
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error detection.
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- Spell check and correction, and check for common mistakes such as
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missing italic correction, both from within Emacs. The cursor will
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naturally move to the errors.
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- Completion of macro-names, cite-keys, labels, even when they are
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defined in other files.
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- Outline mode, which allows you to get a fast overview of your
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document and navigate easily.
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- Math mode for entering mathematical formulas quickly.
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- Menu interface so you don't have to remember all the commands.
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- Lots of other features.
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Emacs + AUC TeX does the above. There is color highlighting of macro
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names in the standard Emacs distribution.
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One person is working a limited "wysiwig" mode. It will not be real
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wysiswyg, but it will do some limited formating and hide all LaTeX
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commands, i.e. much like WordPerfect for DOS. An early version was
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posted to gnu.emacs.sources (I will not mail it)
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You can get AUC TeX with ftp from
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Host: ftp.iesd.auc.dk
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File: /pub/emacs-lisp/auctex.tar.gz (gzip'ed)
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File: /pub/emacs-lisp/auctex.tar.Z (compress'ed)
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or
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File: /pub/emacs-lisp/alpha/auctex.tar.gz (gzip'ed)
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for the latest alpha release.
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You can use ftpmail if you don't have ftp
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Mail the following message to "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com", with
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just about anything as the "Subject:" line (it is ignored).
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connect ftp.iesd.auc.dk
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binary
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chdir /pub/emacs-lisp
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get auctex.tar.gz (or .Z)
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If this doesn't work (like the version number has changed) you can
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get more info about the ftpmail program by by mailing ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com,
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with the word "help" in the body (the Subject: line is ignored).
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Please remember that the ftpmail service is there to help everyone, so
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please don't abuse the privilege! Thanks.
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You can browse the documentation under the WWW, use URL
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<http://www.iesd.auc.dk/~amanda/auctex/>
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From: martine@powertech.no (Martin Eggen)
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Subject: Real stupid question. What is Motif?? :)
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 02:24:19 GMT
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As the subject says.. Can someone tell me what Motif really is, since
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everyone is talking about it..? :-)
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Martin :)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
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From: dnb@orgland.ru (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
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Subject: Re: Cnews - HELP!
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 19:31:59 GMT
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damin@cis.csuohio.edu writes:
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> Hello all....I recently installed the Slackware 2.0.1 Cnews package and am
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> experiencing some difficulties now.
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> I -USED- to have everything running just fine, but somehow my active file
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> became corrupted, my spool drive started to die w/ errors and things kind of
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> stopped working.
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> I saved all my config files and re-added all my groups.
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> Now, when the system starts to process it's incoming News spools, they
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> wind up being thrown into the /usr/spool/news/in.coming/bad directory.
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> Here's what my Errlog says..
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> relaynews: database files for `/var/lib/news/history' incomprehensible or unavailable (Permission denied)
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> Also, Here is an ls -al of the directoy (In case this is a permission or
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> ownership problem.)
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> total 64
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> 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 news news 0 Oct 6 23:35 history
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> 3 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3072 Oct 6 23:35 history.dir
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> 3 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3072 Oct 6 23:35 history.pag
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It seems that You lost all history. First of all make owner
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of history* to news and after that run /var/lib/newsbin/expire/mkhistory
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as user news.
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From: grantham@coyote.rain.org (Brad Grantham)
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Subject: Re: [Q]Linux on PPC a hoax?
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 12:34:47 -0700
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In article <371m41$t0h@delphinium.cig.mot.com>,
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gabrius@riker.cig.mot.com (David M. Gabrius) writes:
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>In article <1994Oct5.062847.5386@venus.gov.bc.ca>,
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> <rfraser@vanisl.decus.ca> wrote:
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>>Is the Linux for the PPC project a hoax? Promised delivery of kernel was
|
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>>August when the project was supposedly started, then September in the Linux
|
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>>FAQ. [...] difficult to port [...]
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>>[...] vaporware [...]
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>>[...] real status reports [...]
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Porting software to the Mac that needs the raw Mac hardware is nearly
|
|
impossible (and I'm not convinced it isn't completely impossible).
|
|
I laughed when I heard about the announcement, mostly because I
|
|
compared it to my own experience in MacBSD, where we were *sure*
|
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we could have it working in a few months, and that was on machines
|
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for which we actually had spotty documentation. The MacBSD project
|
|
will be three years old this month (by one reckoning), and five
|
|
people's efforts on and off haven't been enough to make floppy,
|
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ADB (kbd and mouse) on most, ethernet, or SCSI (on the Quadras)
|
|
functional. Making GCC compile for the 680x0 (or PPC) is easy, and
|
|
so is building the operating system binaries, and we made quick
|
|
progress with the system clock, video, and keyboard, but it turns out
|
|
that it's *much* harder to shoehorn those into an existing operating
|
|
system framework, and then you have to conquer the parts of the
|
|
hardware that have *no* documentation AND FOR WHICH YOU WILL NOT
|
|
ACQUIRE ANY FROM APPLE.
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|
I don't think PowerMacLinux will be available any time soon, if
|
|
ever. (And if this angers them enough into making real progress,
|
|
that's cool too! :)
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>One thing to get used to -- there is no such thing as "promised"
|
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>delivery when it comes to Linux.
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Probably the same kind of person who would complain that "my
|
|
such-and-such non-standard Mac video board isn't supported by
|
|
MacLinux; when will it be supported," instead of saying, "I
|
|
ported my non-standard board to MacLinux, the sources are
|
|
on foo.bar.com in /my/non-standard-video.tgz."
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>One more thing -- no news is usually good news.
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My opinion is that they shouldn't have announced anything until they
|
|
were actually at the shell prompt and could type "ls" without the
|
|
damn thing crashing. I kind of regret our announcing MacBSD before it
|
|
was stable on the platforms on which "Alpha" was released.
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|
|
|
>[...]the Alpha/MIPS stuff is sexier,
|
|
>but not any more frequent without people screaming for a status
|
|
>report.
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|
|
I'm impressed that the MIPS group is porting Linux, but I just want
|
|
to say that "we have GCC configured to cross-compile for MIPS" should
|
|
not be announced as "a Linux port."
|
|
|
|
>"Ahh, kids today! They think that Linux should magically appear on
|
|
>any new platform. Back when I first started using Linux, the TCP/IP
|
|
>was barely there, and Donald Becker still hadn't nailed down ne2000
|
|
>drivers! Ahhhh...."
|
|
|
|
<sigh> It's so easy to complain when you don't have the proper
|
|
perspective, isn't it? I'm personally waiting for NewtonLinux, and
|
|
I can't imagine why it hasn't been ported yet...
|
|
|
|
-Brad
|
|
--
|
|
'1' means a BLACK pixel, '1' means button UP, what will Apple think of next?
|
|
Brad Grantham, grantham@netcom.com >+------+< Happily slaved to NetBSD/Mac68k!
|
|
I thought I would have to go without dinner tonight until I
|
|
remembered the container of chocolate frosting in the fridge!
|
|
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|
------------------------------
|
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|
|
From: Stormy@Purple.Madness (Stormy Henderson)
|
|
Subject: Re: what IS maple?
|
|
Date: 9 Oct 1994 20:25:15 GMT
|
|
Reply-To: Stormy@Grand.Mother.Com
|
|
|
|
Frank M. Haynes wrote:
|
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|
|
The subject says it.
|
|
|
|
Never used it, but I started it up and asked for help and it said:
|
|
|
|
HELP FOR: Introduction to Maple
|
|
- Maple is a language for symbolic mathematical calculation.
|
|
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|
|
Be happy...
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|
|
|
|
|
- Stormy the happinator "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
|
|
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
|
|
Reply to: Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
|
|
Stormy@Grand.Mother.Com Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: jared@seanet.com (Jared Reimer)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
|
Subject: IP Gateway/Forwarding Problem
|
|
Date: 4 Oct 1994 07:05:28 GMT
|
|
|
|
Hi. Here's my situation:
|
|
|
|
Laptop Linux 1.1.51
|
|
3Com 3C589 ---ethernet--- Pentium 90 ========PPP========> Internet
|
|
(PCMCIA) USR 28.8k V.34
|
|
|
|
I am trying to set up my Linux box as a gateway for my Laptop (with the
|
|
intention of adding additional machines later).
|
|
|
|
So far, I can:
|
|
|
|
- Use ALL functions (telnet,ftp,ping,etc) between Laptop
|
|
and Linux box.
|
|
|
|
- Use ALL functions between Linux box and the Internet
|
|
|
|
But I can NOT:
|
|
|
|
- Use ANY functions from the Laptop, thru the Linux box, out in
|
|
to the internet. (For example, I can't FTP directly from the
|
|
laptop but I can telnet in to the linux box, then FTP from
|
|
there.)
|
|
|
|
My provider has given me a second IP address for the laptop, I have
|
|
compiled the kernal with IP forwarding enabled, and when I send a PING
|
|
out from the laptop thru the ethernet and out the PPP, I can see the
|
|
modem's SEND DATA light blink, which indicates that Linux is not at fault.
|
|
|
|
Anyone have any idea what I or my provider needs to do to make this work?
|
|
|
|
Thanks,
|
|
|
|
Jared Reimer
|
|
jared@seanet.com
|
|
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|
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