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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: Thu, 13 Oct 94 02:13:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #926
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Linux-Misc Digest #926, Volume #2 Thu, 13 Oct 94 02:13:12 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Help with NFS! (Amrik Thethi)
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Motif for Xfree386 (Mike Berger)
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Re: ez (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?) (Jerry Leslie)
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specifying routes (Kenneth Cope)
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Re: Advantage of having sound card (Doug Dejulio)
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Re: Applets; was: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Thomas Aaron Insel)
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Re: Advantage of having sound card (Dan Newcombe)
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Laserjet 4 success (Kevin Martinez)
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Re: X News-reader for LinuX (Timothy J. Kordas)
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ATA or SCSI !! (Kevin Martinez)
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Imake configuration for X/Motif (fheitkamp@nova.wright.edu)
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Re: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51 (Georg Vollmers)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Lars Marowsky-Bree)
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Re: Copying from CDROM to floppy - why does HD go active? (Jeff Kesselman)
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SW Technologies (E. Robert Tisdale)
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I want SETUID scripts! (Alex Ramos)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: at@setanta.demon.co.uk (Amrik Thethi)
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Subject: Re: Help with NFS!
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 12:03:42 GMT
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In article <stajdae.110.0048BF6F@rh.wl.com> stajdae@rh.wl.com (Eric Stajda) writes:
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>Hello,
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> We are trying to mount a file system from our HP9000 to our Linux box....
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>In the FSTAB we have the following command:
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>
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>hp.el.com:\users\smith \tempmount nfs timeo=14,intr
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>
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>In the rc.inet2 we have:
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>mount -a -t nfs
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>
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>We receive the following error on bootup:
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>
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>mount clntudp_create: RPC: program not registered
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>
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>Could anyone help with hints on how to solve this problem?
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It seems that the HP9000 is not running the rpc.mountd and therfore
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cannot service NFS mount requests. Is the filesystem remote mounted
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on any other machine?
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Also the slashes should be / not \, but I don't know what problems
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that will cause.
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--
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Amrik Thethi. Tel. +223 421 008 Fax. +223 421 024
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Setanta Software Ltd. Internet: at@setanta.demon.co.uk
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Cambridge, UK.
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From: direwolf@uiuc.edu (Mike Berger)
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Subject: Motif for Xfree386
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 16:50:34 -0600
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What are the options for Motif under Linux? I haven't found anything for
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free, though it would make it easier to compile Xmosaic and a few other
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things. I haven't found anything about commercial versions either. I'm
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interested in getting Motif one way or the other.
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Mike Berger
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direwolf@uiuc.edu
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From: jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: ez (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?)
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 05:57:42 GMT
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davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu wrote:
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: In article <1994Oct10.185245.15648@midway.uchicago.edu>,
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: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
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: : Personally, I don't that dial-up character-based I/O is the future of
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: : computing. To bend over backwards to suit this constituency would be
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: : to cripple any forward-looking WP, and to slow development.
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: I do not think that making a character based WP will slow development at
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: all. The display code for X is far more complex than it is for ordinary
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: terminals and will distract from the internals of the WP itself. The X
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: stuff can come later. I think that there are far more of us still using
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: simple terminals than are using X terminals.
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: --
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: _____________
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: #___/John E. Davis\_________________________________________________________
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: #
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: # internet: davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu
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: # bitnet: davis@ohstpy
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: # office: 617-735-6746
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: #
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Please remember that there are some parts of the world where
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telecommunications is so backwards as to make X apps unusable via modems.
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Or is unix to only be for those who have it on their desktops, or via
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a modern telephone system (POTS) ? :-)
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--Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie
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Staff Engineer
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Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation (my opinions are my own)
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P.O. Box 721648 9896 Bissonnet
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Houston, Texas 77272 Houston, Texas, 77036
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713/272-5065 713/272-5200 (fax)
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gleslie@isvsrv.enet.dec.com
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jleslie@dmccorp.com
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From: copek@ug1.plk.af.mil (Kenneth Cope)
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Subject: specifying routes
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 16:28:34 -0600
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I am running a Linux 1.1.52 system on an Everex 486DX2-50 with a
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Western Digital WD8003 ethernet card with Net-3. Lately I have been having
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routing problems with tcp/ip traffic a few gateways downstream.
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Is there anyway to route ip traffic by hand around these gateways?
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My ethernet card is configured as follows:
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# ifconfig eth0
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eth0 IP ADDR 129.238.8.33 BCAST 129.238.8.255 NETMASK 255.255.252.0
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MTU 1500 METRIC 0 POINT-TO-POINT ADDR 0.0.0.0
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FLAGS: 0x0043 ( UP BROADCAST RUNNING )
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My routing tables and eth0 interface are set up with the following
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commands at boot time:
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ifconfig eth0 129.238.8.33 netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 129.238.8.255
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route add -net network
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route add default gw router metric 0
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# netstat -r
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Kernel routing table
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Destination net/address Gateway address Flags RefCnt Use Iface
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default router UGN 0 213 eth0
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network * UN 0 230 eth0
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I have ignored the loopback interface for conciseness. Can anyone help?
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Thanks
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Kenneth Cope
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cope@gizmonic.plk.af.mil
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From: ddj+@pitt.edu (Doug Dejulio)
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Subject: Re: Advantage of having sound card
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 03:49:20 GMT
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In article <37b91g$f1b@werple.apana.org.au>,
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Glenn Jayaputera <gtj@werple.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>WOndering if I have a lot of advantages if I buy a sound card for my
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>linux box.
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When I demo my Linux box to folks, they're often impressed when they're
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running Mosaic, click on a link, and hear audio.
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Similarly, if you run a sufficiently studly MIME mailer (Messages,
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metamail), you can exchange MIME mail that contains audio.
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--
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Doug DeJulio
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ddj@zardoz.elbows.org
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http://www.pitt.edu/~ddj/
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From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Applets; was: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 20:11:20 GMT
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Reply-To: tinsel@uiuc.edu
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m.ballard@forprod.csiro.au (Mat Ballard) writes:
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Xedit might qualify as a notepad-level text editor. Other programs
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that probably qualify are xspread and xpaint.
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Xfig is definitely a good drawing program, and might even look pretty
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if used with the 3d Athena widgets. It can deal with the standard
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formats for Unix -- it exports postscript/eps as well as a number of
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TeX drawing formats.
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There's no shortage of Unix database programs. What I suspect you
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want is more like a cardfile program, like Filemaker.
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> e. a common clipboard for simple cutting and pasting;
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X has a clipboard, at least for text.
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> f. the ability to use truetype and/or adobe fonts;
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Using TrueType requires paying Apple big money, doesn't it. On the
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other hand, PostScript fonts are supported by lots of stuff.
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--
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Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
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"They [La Prensa] accused us of suppressing freedom of expression. This
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was a lie and we could not let them publish it." -- Nelba Blandon
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From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe)
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Subject: Re: Advantage of having sound card
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 16:11:48 UNDEFINED
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Glenn Jayaputera <gtj@werple.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>WOndering if I have a lot of advantages if I buy a sound card for my
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>linux box.
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1) Games are so much better.
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2) combined with my CD drive, it makes for a decent sound system in my
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computer room.
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3) Gives me MIDI access to my synth.
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(Soundblaster Pro)
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--
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Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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"And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion
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From: Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net>
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Subject: Laserjet 4 success
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 00:52:52 GMT
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This is a mini-howto related to making a Laserjet 4m+ connected to the
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local ethernet functional with Linux. It was a "novell printer" according
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to our MIS department but then I found the manual.......... ;^)
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( this enables printing with the lpr command )
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( most of this is adapted from the jetdirect manual )
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To enable LaserJet 4m+ network printer to print from Linux machine,
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perform the following actions as root:
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Add:
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text|lj1_text:Laserjet 4m+ (text mode) on local subnet: \
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:lp=: \
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:rm=laserjet1: \
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:rp=text: \
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:lf=/var/spool/lpd/text/errs: \
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:sd=/var/spool/lpd/text/lj1_text:
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raw|lj1_raw:Laserjet 4m+ (PostScript) on local subnet: \
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:lp=: \
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:rm=laserjet1: \
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:rp=raw: \
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:lf=/var/spool/lpd/raw/errs: \
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:sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw/lj1_raw:
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to /etc/printcap
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Add something like:
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146.174.64.60 laserjet1.qntm.com laserjet
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to /etc/hosts
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Note that you have to have chosen a valid IP address for your printer and
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have configured the IP address/netmask/default gateway previously via the
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front panel.
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mkdir /var/spool/lpd/text
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mkdir /var/spool/lpd/raw
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chown daemon.daemon /var/spool/lpd/text
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chown daemon.daemon /var/spool/lpd/raw
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chmod g+w /var/spool/lpd/text
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chmod g+w /var/spool/lpd/raw
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mkdir /var/spool/lpd/text/lj1_text
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mkdir /var/spool/lpd/raw/lj_raw
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chown daemon.daemon /var/spool/lpd/raw/lj_raw
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chown daemon.daemon /var/spool/lpd/text/lj1_text
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chmod g+w /var/spool/lpd/raw/lj_raw/
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chmod g+w /var/spool/lpd/text/lj1_text
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To test the printer, try lpr -Ptext /etc/printcap for text mode.
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To test PostScript, try lpr -Praw your-postscript-file.
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To check print queue status, try lpq -Ptext or lpq -Praw as appropriate.
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have phun!
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--
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========================================================================
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Kevin Martinez Fear the Government that fears your Scanner!
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lps@rahul.net I owe all my success to Roly Poly Fish Heads!
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========================================================================
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From: tjk@nostromo.eeap.cwru.edu (Timothy J. Kordas)
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Subject: Re: X News-reader for LinuX
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 21:59:54 GMT
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Jason Haar (jasonh@chineham.euro.csg.mot.com) wrote:
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: Don Rubin (rubin@setinc.com) wrote:
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: : I use XRn and it leaves alot to be desired. Has anyone built
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: : xvNews for Linux? I would be interested in hearing about any
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: : other X newsreaders too.
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: I can't believe no one has mentioned tknews yet! I think it's the best
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: one available at the moment (always a moving target that! ;-) and it
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: supports...
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: THREADS!!!!
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: Of course it requires Tcl/TK to run...
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: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/tknews
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talk about SLOW...it looks really nice, but from what I read it does
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a little bit too much of the NNTP stuff in Tcl.
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if you have a nice quick machine use it.
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it also had a nasty habit of thrashing my .newsrc (this was a couple of
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versions back)...it subscribed me to alt.fan.barry-manilow once...
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-Tim
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--
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Timothy J. Kordas | tjk@nostromo.eeap.cwru.edu
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Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics |
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Case Western Reserve University | PGP public key available
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Cleveland, Ohio 44106 | via finger
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From: Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net>
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Subject: ATA or SCSI !!
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 01:03:22 GMT
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Using Mark Lords excellent hdparms program, I captured the following
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results from my machine. It has two disk drives, one ATA and the other
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SCSI. The funny thing about these drives is that except for the firmware
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and interface, they are identical.
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One is a Quantum LPS540 ATA and the other is a Quantum LPS540 SCSI.
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The computer is a brand x 486-66 clone running Linux 1.1.50 with no
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special patches. It has 16 MB of RAM and during the test was running
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Xwindows but doing nothing special (about 40 processes). The ATA
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interface is built into the motherboard and is considered ISA type. The
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SCSI interface is a Adaptec 1542CF set for 5.0 MB/sec, negotiate
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Synchcronous. (Who knows if it was really running sync or not!)
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The results show the ATA setup slightly faster than the SCSI but at the
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expense of 2 to 3 times the CPU bandwidth. Anybody want guess the results
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if someone else logged in during the tests? ;^)
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=======================================================================
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(/dev/hda is the ATA drive)
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bash# hdparm -agmsit /dev/hda ; hdparm -t /dev/hda ; hdparm -t /dev/hda
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/dev/hda:
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readahead = 8
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multcount = 8
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geometry = 1024/16/63, offset = 0
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sectors = 1032192
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Model=QUANTUM LPS540A, FwRev=A57.0200QUANTUM LPS5, SerialNo=18532033
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Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>5Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
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Physical CHS=1120/16/59, TrkSize=30208, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=4
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BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=96KB, MaxMultSect=8
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Features: DblWordIO=no, LBA=yes, DMA=yes, tPIO=2(fast), tDMA=2(fast)
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(valid): Logical CHS=1048/16/63, TotSect=1056383, MaxLBAsect=1056383
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MultSect=8, DMA-1w=0704, DMA-mw=0101
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Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 5.85 seconds = 5.47 MB/sec
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Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 11.52 seconds = 1.39 MB/sec (87% CPU)
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Estimating raw device speed: 16 MB in 8.59 seconds = 1.86 MB/sec
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/dev/hda:
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Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 5.80 seconds = 5.52 MB/sec
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Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 12.55 seconds = 1.27 MB/sec (79% CPU)
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Estimating raw device speed: 16 MB in 9.65 seconds = 1.66 MB/sec
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/dev/hda:
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Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 5.85 seconds = 5.47 MB/sec
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Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 11.69 seconds = 1.37 MB/sec (86% CPU)
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Estimating raw device speed: 16 MB in 8.77 seconds = 1.83 MB/sec
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(/dev/sda is the SCSI drive)
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bash# hdparm -gst /dev/sda ; hdparm -t /dev/sda ; hdparm -t /dev/sda
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/dev/sda:
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geometry = 516/64/32, offset = 0
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sectors = 1057615
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Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 5.80 seconds = 5.52 MB/sec
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Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 12.54 seconds = 1.28 MB/sec (30% CPU)
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Estimating raw device speed: 16 MB in 9.64 seconds = 1.66 MB/sec
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/dev/sda:
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Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 5.81 seconds = 5.51 MB/sec
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Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 12.99 seconds = 1.23 MB/sec (30% CPU)
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Estimating raw device speed: 16 MB in 10.09 seconds = 1.59 MB/sec
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/dev/sda:
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Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 5.81 seconds = 5.51 MB/sec
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Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 13.01 seconds = 1.23 MB/sec (30% CPU)
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Estimating raw device speed: 16 MB in 10.11 seconds = 1.58 MB/sec
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--
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========================================================================
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Kevin Martinez Fear the Government that fears your Scanner!
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lps@rahul.net I owe all my success to Roly Poly Fish Heads!
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========================================================================
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From: fheitkamp@nova.wright.edu
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Imake configuration for X/Motif
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Date: 12 Oct 94 11:38:44 EST
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I have purchased SWiM for Linux. I have downloaded some examples of
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Motif programs that have an Imakefile for building them. The configuration
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files (Imake.tmpl etc.) for imake only point to X/standard development
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and not Motif, although there are Motif.tmpl (Motif.rules ...) files in the
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config directory. Where do I find, or how do I fix, the imake configuration
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files so that they are aware of Motif being installed? Thanks in advance!!
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Please E-Mail if possible.
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-Fred Heitkamp
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From: georg@egalize.han.de (Georg Vollmers)
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Subject: Re: DOSEMU/Linux 1.1.51
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 23:21:34 GMT
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Hi Oz,
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Oz Dror (dror@netcom.com) wrote:
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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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In the file Quickstart you can find a little note.
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If other than root should have acces to dosemu youe have to edit the
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file /etc/dosemu.users and the name of the account. On my achine:
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00:18:38 : root(root)@egalize[tty1]:/# cat /etc/dosemu.users
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root
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georg
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Works fine.
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Maybe this should find a way in the FAQ or man page, but its a prerelease!
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Happy Linuxing!
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Greetings from Germany
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Georg
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--
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Georg Vollmers, 30159 Hannover, Kokenstr.10, Germoney
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E-Mehl: georg@egalize.han.de, IP number for SLIP!
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>>> 192.109.225.110 mtu 296 compressed or uncompressed<<<
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PC users:use Linux! Lovers:use lubbers! Rich:send money! Poor: can't read this
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Date: 08 Oct 1994 19:59:00 +0100
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From: lmb@pointer.in-minden.de (Lars Marowsky-Bree)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Quoting nickkral@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) ,
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topic 'Word (Text) processors for Linux?', group /comp/unix/questions, stardate 04.10.94:
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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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>What do you use?
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You should not use TeX. LaTeX is much easier, well, it is big, but
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I found it simple.
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After my first steps I took a timer and reformatted a 2 two page
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ascii text (with some chemical formulas) to a text with a title,
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tableofcontents, footnotes, etc. 10 min. (Ok, so it wasn't a long
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text, but remember I had to conver the german special characters
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etc)
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To make a long story short, I tried the same the next day using
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WinWord at a friends computer. Took me about an hour to get it
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somewhat close to the LaTeX output, then I gave up.
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So LaTeX can't be _that_ complicated;-)
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The main difference between these two is that LaTeX is a text
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formatter (WYWIWYG), while WinWord is a WYSIWYG editor.
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You write the input for LaTeX using any ascii editor (I prefer
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JOE/JED) and then LaTeX parses it. (Actually, LaTeX is "just" a
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macro package for TeX, but it makes things really easy, while not
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losing any power)
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LaTeX generates a .dvi file which then can be viewed or printed.
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Hey, I like it;-)
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I would recommend: try it at least. Go to your next library, and
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get an introduction to LaTeX. (I could recommend one, but only if
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you understand german;)
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If you don't like it - what have you lost?
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If you like it - what have you won!
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--
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Lars Marowsky-Bree Voice: +49-571-63663 PGP-key via return receipt
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VirNet: 9:492/7158 Fido: 2:2449/620.16 Mail: lmb@pointer.in-minden.de
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PGP fingerprint: CF FC 3A F0 86 F1 D3 EB 79 8A CF 75 4F 4C 81 DF
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## CrossPoint v3.02 ##
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Copying from CDROM to floppy - why does HD go active?
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 05:41:57 GMT
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In article <37bo5c$k2u@deathstar.riva.com>,
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Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@deathstar.riva.com> wrote:
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>I noticed something strange when copying a boot disk image
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>from CDROM to floppy. Basically, I did the following:
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>
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>dd if=/cdrom/file-image of=/dev/fd0 obs=18k
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>
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>It said:
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>2400 input records
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>66+1 output records
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>
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>The CDROM activity light came on for a few seconds, then went off.
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>At this point the floppy light came on and it made the usual grinding
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>noises for a bit. What got me curious was why the root IDE drive was
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>also busy during this interval? Something to do with the buffer cache?
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>If not, what??
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>
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>
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>
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I'ld guess it was swapping. Hwo much memory do you have and what else
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was running? (Also, is your swap partition on that volume?)
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JK
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From: edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (E. Robert Tisdale)
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Subject: SW Technologies
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 23:28:13 -0700
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jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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>In article <373rmu$bm0@pad-thai.cam.ov.com>,
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>Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@cam.ov.com> wrote:
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>>In article <3726hn$ihe@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>,
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>>edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (E. Robert Tisdale) writes:
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>Not that I particularly want to get cuaght up in this mess, but i felt i
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>aught to say something in Jonathan's defense. Bob said somethign in his
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>post on the order of "so Martin didn't have enough money to cover the
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>check. he evntually made good. Is that a crime?"
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I never said any such thing. I have sent Jeff three email messages attempting
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to get him to retract this statement but he can't remember who may have said it
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and apparently doesn't even remember what he said in his article. He just
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doesn't get it. Bob Tisdale
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From: ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alex Ramos)
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Subject: I want SETUID scripts!
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 18:15:39 GMT
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Does anybody have patches for allowing setuid shell scripts?
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Like many other Linux users, the only reason I even have a *user*
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account on my system is mostly to avoid shooting myself on the foot.
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So, I don't care if setuid scripts are unsecure. As long as I can't
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break one on accident, it's fine with me.
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Thanks
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--
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Alex Ramos (ramos@engr.latech.edu) * http://info.latech.edu/~ramos/
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Louisiana Tech University, BSEE/Sr * These opinions are probably mine
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