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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: Fri, 14 Oct 94 09:13:56 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #936
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Linux-Misc Digest #936, Volume #2 Fri, 14 Oct 94 09:13:56 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree (Andy Bailey)
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Re: Lilo booting last booted OS. (Werner Almesberger)
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Re: YOUR VERY OWN IDLE DAEMON (Cynon)
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ImageMagick / libXpm.so.4 (Neil Matthew)
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Re: X vs non-X users? (Chris Bitmead)
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Re: Host name aliases (Daniel Tran)
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Re: ez (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?) (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Re: what IS maple? (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Re: HHTP/HTML editor for Linux?? (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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ncurses 1.8.1 (BILLrWILD)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Gregory Urban)
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Re: AFS Linux? (Benson L Chow)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (bmk)
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Re: changebars (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?) (Warwick Allison)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Alexander Williams)
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Good IDE card (Wayne Adams)
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Re: I want SETUID scripts! (Dennis Heltzel)
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Re: SW Technologies (Jeff Kesselman)
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New HD & Linux (Wayne Adams)
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Re: Weakest Linux Box (Tim Norman)
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Re: Curious: Why is Linux DOOM so much slower than DOS doom (Bigfoot)
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Re: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be (Moises Lejter)
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Warning against UMC 486SX chips (U001295@vm.uci.kun.nl)
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EIDE 1GB HD PROBLEMS !!!!! (Radovan Chytracek)
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Subject: Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree
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From: bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu (Andy Bailey)
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Date: 13 Oct 94 12:07:27 EDT
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In article <newcombe.856.0063B6D2@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>, newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
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> In article <37ea82$83s@sashimi.wwa.com> blackbob@wwa.com (Terence S. Murphy) writes:
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>>>Anyway I like the idea of a HOWTO, but even better, I like the idea of a
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>>>whole package, containing documentation, sample configuration files of
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>>>various 'schemes' of things (.fvwmrc's, app-defaults files, whatever),
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>>>and a tool to manipulate (choose/install) them.
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>>This is even a better idea, yes. I think we should do this! What do others
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>>think?
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>
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> I like the idea...hey...no one can stop us :)
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>
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Interestingly enough, this was exactly my idea when I started this little
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thread :) . I have set about assembling a collection of nice fvwmrcs. I dont
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like the idea of a standard one, but having a starting point in the form of
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some nice rc's, and more importantly a large collection of nice icons :), I
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think it would be helpful. I have my collection, and will make it public
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ftp'able sometime soon.
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From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
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Subject: Re: Lilo booting last booted OS.
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 18:27:05 GMT
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In article <37a495$rsd@kubds1.kub.nl> rutger@kub.nl () writes:
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> Ah, I C. and when will LILO 0.15 be out?
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Probably in 1-2 weeks.
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- Werner
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_________________________________________________________________________
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/ Werner Almesberger, sending this from almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch /
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/______________________..._but_now_at_home_at________almesber@di.epfl.ch_/
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From: crobinso@clam.rutgers.edu (Cynon)
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Subject: Re: YOUR VERY OWN IDLE DAEMON
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 23:12:22 -0400
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OK, what the Hell is an idle deamon?
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--
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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-=Cynon=- Bring back |*| Welcome to the Peoples Republic of NJ
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safe government: Use Kingdoms! |*| Please leave your RKBA at the gate
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From: nm@mobicom.demon.co.uk (Neil Matthew)
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Reply-To: nm@mobicom.demon.co.uk
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Subject: ImageMagick / libXpm.so.4
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 10:40:40 +0000
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Hi,
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I am looking for Linux binaries for the ImageMagick suite. I have downloaded
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ImageMagick 3.0 from sunsite, but the binaries require a shared library:
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libXpm.so.4. I have libXpm.so.3, and I cannot find a binary for .so.4.
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I also note that ImageMagick 3.3 is around, I can compile it without all
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the goodies: JPEG, TIFF, XPM, but I'd like at least JPEG. Xpm-3.4 is
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also released and is said to be incompatible with Xpm-3.x (x <= 3), but
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the Makefile does not build Linux shared libraries, in case that is the
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.so.4 I'm looking for.
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So, does anyone have a working ImageMagick 3.x w/JPEG/TIFF, with all
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associated shared libraries (or a statically linked one)?
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Thanks
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Neil
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Neil Matthew Non sequitur |
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| nm@mobicom.demon.co.uk Your facts are uncoordinated |
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From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
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Subject: Re: X vs non-X users?
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Date: 12 Oct 94 16:35:43
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In article <371n5g$pn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
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>NNTP-Posting-Host: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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> The main reason I still have a DOS partition on my machine is that
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>I don't use X, and, as far as I know, there is no non-X previewer for
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>TeX that is equal in quality or ease of use to the emtex previewer
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>for DOS.
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>
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> This leads to a more general question. I wonder whether we are
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>approaching the point where software for the two kinds of linux/unix
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>users will split the group. I can't suggest any particular fix.
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>As a matter of curiosity, I wonder what the X/non-X ratio is.
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Pretty well everyone who
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1) has enough computing resources and
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2) uses Linux as a desktop machine
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will be running X.
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People not using X because of the first reason are always getting smaller
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and people not in the second are using Linux as some kind of server and
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don't care.
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From: dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu (Daniel Tran)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Host name aliases
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 23:23:01 GMT
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In article <37jmmt$ce3@darkstar.rsa.lib.il.us> wbeckner@darkstar.rsa.lib.il.us (William Beckner) writes:
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>Does anybody know where I can get information about how to set up our DNS
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>to have a second hostname, but pointing to the same machine?
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>I'd like to set our info serer up so that if anyone on the 'Net wanted to
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>access our gopher, then all they would need to enter is
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>'gopher gopher.rsa.lib.il.us' instead of 'gopher darkstar.rsa.lib.il.us'.
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>Please e-mail suggestions or post here. I'll be watching (lurking).
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>Thanks! :)
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Run named will accomplish just that. Buy O'Reiley "DNS and Bind" to
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understand the concept and howto. Once you have that going, just reconfigure
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you client station to use the linux box as the new nameserver.
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Daniel Tran
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Subject: Re: ez (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?)
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Reply-To: goer@midway.uchicago.edu
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:52:45 GMT
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davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu writes:
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> :
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> : Who about Andrew's "ez" ? I think that's what you want.
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>It is X only. I think Linux needs something more general for non-X
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>terminals. I spend 90% of my time using MS-Kermit connected via a dialup
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>line. I imagine that I am not alone.
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Ez has no multilingual capabilities, as far as I know, and I don't
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believe it has been designed to be Unicode or ISO 10646-capable. This
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is rather odd, since it was designed for multimedia use. One of the
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primary academic uses of multimedia technology is language instruc-
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tion.
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Aside:
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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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--
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-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
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goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Subject: Re: what IS maple?
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 03:10:46 GMT
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In article <379nk0$jlj@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
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>In article <1994Oct9.135240.7597@vatmom.com>,
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>Frank M. Haynes <frank@vatmom.COM> wrote:
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>>The subject says it.
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>Same category as Mathematica---algebra cruncher.
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Well, it's a _bit_ more than that. It's one of the most powerful general-
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purpose mathematical computation programs in existence. It does graphics,
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calculus & differential equations, and several different types of mathematical
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computation. It is also a programming language.
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Geez, this is sounding like an advertisement.
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>RNA
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--
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Subject: Re: HHTP/HTML editor for Linux??
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 03:14:36 GMT
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In article <379rto$q7h@news.cais.com>, bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer)) writes:
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>If no one know of one, I'm about to pull out some of my old Motif
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>code and write one. As I see it, a fairly good Motif based HTML
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>editor is pretty basic stuff and could be a lot of fun.
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Sounds like something I'd be interested in.
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>Steven Kornreich (steve@eps.com) wrote:
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>: Is there a compiled HTTP server and HTML editor available for Linux? If
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>: so, what ftp site?
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>: Thanks
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The latest version of ez can do some of this. There is more such capability in
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the works, too. Also, if you have tk/tcl there is a tk-based editor,
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tkwww. Works OK.
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>
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>: --
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>: Steven Kornreich
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>: Kornreich Communications
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>: steve@eps.com
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--
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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From: billrwild@aol.com (BILLrWILD)
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Subject: ncurses 1.8.1
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 23:59:03 -0400
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where can i obtain help with ncurses for linux ver 1.0 (LSL) ?
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possible bug report or misunderstanding.
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From: urban@cs.umbc.edu (Gregory Urban)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 11:57:12 -0400
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In article <37jjnd$9m6@panix2.panix.com>,
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Marten Liebster <mmarten@panix.com> wrote:
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>
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>So when is AMD comming out with a 486dx4-120? :-)
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>Marten
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NO, NO, NO !!!!!!!!!!
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Only Intel uses STUPID names for their chips. AMD will produce a DX3/120
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(clock tripled, 40mhz external, 120mhz internal).
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--
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Greg Urban | "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite
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urban@cs.umbc.edu | unbearable. There is something unfair about its use.
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gurban1@gl.umbc.edu | It is hitting below the intellect." Lord Henry
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From: Benson L Chow <bc3c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: AFS Linux?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 20:11:32 -0400
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It's already ported. It works nicely (a bit slow on my computer but...)
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Note: This software is not GNU/freeware/shareware... you must purchase a
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copy (how? dunno... of course we have a site license...)
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-bc
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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
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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: 13 Oct 1994 22:47:37 -0700
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Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
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In article <CxM86z.3D8@bonkers.taronga.com>,
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Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote:
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>In article <37ii2n$2i2@bigboote.wpi.edu>,
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>Linux just has a system-V-ish feel, which isn't a bad thing.
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That's certainly a matter of opinion (and probably a hot topic for
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debate as well). :)
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I switched from Linux to FreeBSD specifically because Linux has
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that sleazy sysV-ish feel.
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IMHO, of course, and YMMV. :)
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P.S. Linux is a fine product. I'm not slamming it; I just happen to
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have an irrational dislike of all that is System V. :)
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--
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bmk@teleport.com | "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get
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Portland, OR | yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is
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| to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
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| fathers used in the struggle for independence."-C.A. Beard
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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.text.tex
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Subject: Re: changebars (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?)
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 05:33:39 GMT
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blaak@mdavcr.mda.ca (Ray Blaak) writes:
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>The only way I can think of doing changebars in LaTeX is to have some kind of
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>\begin{change} ... \end{change} construct and manually putting them in (as well
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>as manually removing the old change bars).
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Really? I would imagine that it wouldn't bee too difficult to use diff, rsc,
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and a few shell scripts to do changebars in LaTeX. There might be a few more
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constraints to LaTeX though...
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--
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Warwick
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--
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_-_|\ warwick@cs.uq.oz.au /
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/ * <-- Computer Science Department, / WIT SPACE TO LET
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\_.-._/ University of Queensland, /
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v Brisbane, Australia. /
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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From: thantos@runic.mind.org (Alexander Williams)
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 13:58:36 GMT
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While we're on the subject of editing, LaTeX and troff, are there any
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online guides/manuals/explications for LaTeX and troff that some poor
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creature like myself can ftp and read, and which /themselves/ are
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strict ASCII unformatted? The 'Gentle introduction to TeX' is, in
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fact, in TeX and thus somewhat unusable to me.
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Similarly, are there any non-X .dvi viewers that make reading them
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/easy/? GhostScript with magnification turned up /works/... for the
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first quarter page or so, and I've yet to figure out how to maneuver
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about.
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--
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thantos@runic.mind.org (Alexander Williams) | PGP 2.6 key avail
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Email is the right of the masses. So do it. | DF 22 16 CE CA 7F
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Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the | 98 47 13 EE 8E EC
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Law. Love is the Law, Love Under Will. -oOo- | 9C 2D 9B 9B
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From: wadams@pcnet.com (Wayne Adams)
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Subject: Good IDE card
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 00:51:54 -0400
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I'm looking for a new VLB ide card that will handle: 2 hard drives,
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2 floppies, and a tape back up. A friend of mine said he saw one that
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also incl. a scsi for cd-rom. Is it possible? Should I get one with a bios
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(I understood that Linux & OS/2 don't need it-it reads from my cmos) and
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should I get one that has cache (again I understand that this is a trade off
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in 90% of the cases).
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My system is a 486/66 with 8 meg on a VLB, 340 & 540 ide hd, cd-rom,
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floppy tape backup, and am a single user (no networking or extremely
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intensive useage).
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TIA,
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Wayne
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From: dheltzel@crl.com (Dennis Heltzel)
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Subject: Re: I want SETUID scripts!
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 01:28:54 -0000
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Alex Ramos (ramos@engr.latech.edu) wrote:
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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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The only way I know of to run setuid scripts is with a "wrapper" program
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compiled in C. This of course can be very dangerous - but you already
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know that. The C program would have basically 1 line of code that uses
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exec to execute the program passed on the command line. You could then
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execute it with a command like:
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wrp scriptfile
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(where wrp is the compiled program and is setuid root)
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Hope this gets you started in the right direction.
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Dennis
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: SW Technologies
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 06:51:20 GMT
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In article <37db9t$hf6@maui.cs.ucla.edu>,
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E. Robert Tisdale <edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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>jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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>
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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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>
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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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>
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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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Ah. Bob has finally deigned to provide the copy of the post I asked him
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for for reference.
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The originator of this thread DID indeed say that all that was required
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for it to be fine was that Martin return the $5.00 bounce fee. However,
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that original poster may not have been Bob at all. I did not remember
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referencing Bob by name is this post, and he refused to provide me with a
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copy.
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Having now seen the post again, I realize this might well have been an
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error and I apologize.
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(Now, wasn't that easier then ranting at me through email?)
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The question I am left with here is DOES Bob feel Mr. Wu acted improperly
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in bouncing this refund check, and not as a repsonsible vendor?
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Comments , Bob?
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Jeff Kesselman
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From: wadams@pcnet.com (Wayne Adams)
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Subject: New HD & Linux
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 01:08:43 -0400
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I have a new WD 540 (>1024 cylinders) that I want to install that
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will be used only for Linux & XFree86-3.1. My primary system will be on "c"
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which is strictly OS/2 (v2.11 hopefully 3.0 later this week :-) running
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on HPFS. Now what I want to do is set it up that I'll be able to select
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either OS/2 or Linux at bootup. Is it possible to read across the drives
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in this manner? I understand that Linux can't work with HPFS and only read
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them. Should I use OS/2's fdisk 1st and format the newest drive fat (even
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though it's not MSDOS) and then use Linux's fdisk & LILO? Use a swap file
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on this hard drive (8-10 meg)? Partitions?
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I've read the faq's and the manual but they all seem to rely on DOS
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and 1 drive being used.
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My system is a 486/66 with 8 meg on a VLB with a Maxtor 340 ide
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hd and a WD 540 ide hd.
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All help is greatly appreciated!
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TIA,
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Wayne
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TEAM OS/2 & LINUX (newbe)
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From: normat@jec322.its.rpi.edu (Tim Norman)
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Subject: Re: Weakest Linux Box
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 21:53:20 GMT
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> > I was just wondering who has the weakest Linux box? What I mean by this
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> > is like anyone running Linux on a 386 with 3 megs of RAM... I've got a
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> > 386sx-16 with 5 megs of RAM and it works great (tons faster than DOS).
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> > If anyone has a "weaker" machine that runs Linux (and you actually use
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> > it) let's hear it....
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> >
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>
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> 386/16 (this was before the "DX" moinker, but it is a 32-bit one) with
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> 3 Mb of RAM, on the bus, with no cache... 0.60-something BogoMips...
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Last year, with the pre-1.0 kernel, I ran a VERY base linux system on a
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386sx-16 with 2 megs of ram, and on a 1.2M floppy disk (who need a HD?!)..
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It was quite acceptable. I even managed to get a login prompt over my modem
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using getty and echo!
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Tim
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From: bigfoot@pentagon.io.com (Bigfoot)
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Subject: Re: Curious: Why is Linux DOOM so much slower than DOS doom
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 21:00:35 -0500
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Anybody can tell me the exact location/subdirectory/filename to get the
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latest version for DOOM for Dos ?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter)
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Subject: Re: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be
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Reply-To: mlm@cs.brown.edu
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 02:37:53 GMT
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In article <37jtnd$ac8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>, andreas@orion.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de (Andreas Helke) writes:
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moi> I installed Linux from the Yggdrasil Fall 94 CD on a Packard-Bell
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moi> 486SX33, with 8MB. When prompted for a swap partition, I declined to
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moi> specify one, since I planned to set one up later, "on top of" my
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moi> windows swap file.
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Andreas> The process I use is to create a appropriately sized DOS
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Andreas> partition and create a DOS filesystem on it. Save the first
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Andreas> sectors (root directory and partition table) to a file. I
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Andreas> activate this partition as linux swap partition when
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Andreas> booting linux and restore the file to the partition when
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Andreas> shutting down.
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This will work, I suspect, with all the caveats that Andreas describes
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- and it is what I was going to do first. But, it then occurred to me
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that Linux can mount MSDOS file systems... so this is what I did:
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- Create a MSDOS partition for Windows swap, about 10MB - call it
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drive G: in MSDOS, /dev/hda3 on Linux.
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- Start up windows, tell it to use drive G: for swap, and allocate all
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but 50K to it (just in case). Windows complains that it cannot use
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all of that - I ignore the warning :-) Windows reports 9796K of swap.
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- Quit Windows, boot Linux
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- In /etc/fstab, add something like this (I am not at home...)
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# partition mount dir filesys format
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/dev/hda3 /winswap msdos
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Drive G: will then be mounted under linux as /winswap.
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- Create a symbolic link, from the shell:
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# ln -s /winswap/386spar.par /dev/swapfile
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(not sure that is the exact correct name for the Windows swap file,
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but you can just do an ls there and see...) I just wanted the
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symlink, in case I ever decided to rearrange where that swap file
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lives...
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- In /etc/rc.multi (or wherever your setup activates swap) add these
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lines:
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# add Windows swap file as Linux swap
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mkswap /dev/swapfile 9796
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swapon /dev/swapfile
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And voila, Linux will swap to that same Windows swap file.
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- You must also remember to undo this on shutdown. In /etc/rc.halt,
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add the lines:
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# disable Windows swap file
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swapoff /dev/swapfile
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*before* the "umount -a" line. I suspect nothing untoward will
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happen if you forget this - but it is the "proper" thing to do...
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:-)
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I have read that the Linux msdos file system is slower than the
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others, and I suspect that writing through the file system code is
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slower than writing directly to the raw partition - but it lets me
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reuse the disk space allocated to the Windows swap...
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If people are interested, and this does not seem to work as is, I can
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email you the exact changes from my Linux setup, rather than this
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sketch drawn from memory...
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Moises
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--
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=============================================================================
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Internet/CSnet: Moises_Lejter@brown.edu BITNET: mlm@browncs.BITNET
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UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.brown.edu!mlm Phone: (401)863-7671
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USmail: Moises Lejter, Box 1910 Brown University, Providence RI 02912
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 21:53:15 +0100
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From: U001295@vm.uci.kun.nl
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Subject: Warning against UMC 486SX chips
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Hello,
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I've been testing the last couple of days a couple of machines with a
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UMC 486SX processor. It appears that they are not sold in the U.S. because
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UMC is afraid of Intel-lawsuits. But in Europe (and the rest of the world???)
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these chips are available now (and are very cheap).
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Well as it appears, Linux has a problem with these chips: kernel panics!
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I read an article in the german magazine C'T and they reported the chip
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worked with MSLOSS&MS-Widows, but had a big problem with WIN-NT. Apparently
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a 32-bit problem.
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I'm not sure whether UMC is aware of the problem, so that there are already
|
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newer versions of it. If you want to buy a system with it: try to boot
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Linux with a boot floppy, if it boots, I guess it'll work OK.
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Hope to have warned everybody just in time!
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Greetings Ronald Schalk
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From: chytrace@myhost.subdomain.domain (Radovan Chytracek)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
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Subject: EIDE 1GB HD PROBLEMS !!!!!
|
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 14:31:24 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.admin ]
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[ Author was Radovan Chytracek ]
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[ Posted on 11 Oct 1994 14:04:20 GMT ]
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Hello Linuxers ,
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|
|
I have got some probs to make partitions .
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|
|
When I use fdisk and I try to create partition over 528 MB ( or 540 MB ? )
|
|
I always get following error message from fdisk:
|
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|
|
Partition X has different physical/logical endings:
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|
|
phys=(1023,15, 63) logical=(1072, 15, 63)
|
|
|
|
May I ignore this warning or there is any solution ?
|
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|
|
I've got 1GB WD HD, VLB, EIDE, and I'd like to install Slackware 2.0.
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|
Radovan
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