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From: Digestifier <Linux-Activists-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 09:13:06 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #269
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Linux-Activists Digest #269, Volume #6 Tue, 28 Sep 93 09:13:06 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: SoftLanding Message (Lanfranchi Thierry)
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New Great Linux Plus CDROM (Roman Yanovsky roman@btr.com)
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Summary of (Re: Common Lisp on 486 machines?) (Tomohiro Shibata)
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Re: Memory LEAKING!*=--.._ (Marino Ladavac)
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A Western Digital 8003E TCP/IP driver for Linux (Mikel L. Forcada)
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Linux as Gateway (Antonio Moreno Peleteiro)
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ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X (Stavros Sotirchos)
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Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform? (Henrik Lund)
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Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (R. Stewart Ellis)
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Trantor support in Linux (Tony White)
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Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (R. Stewart Ellis)
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Re: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X (JEFF EPLER)
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Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (R. Stewart Ellis)
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linux and modems? (CAM PROCTOR)
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Office Package (Island Draw Write Paint) for Linux (Thomas Uhl)
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From: lanfra_t@xenon.epita.fr (Lanfranchi Thierry)
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Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 06:48:41 GMT
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In article <288f4b$np5@access.digex.net>, brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes:
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|> Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just
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|> before the login prompt?
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|>
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|>
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Yes : 'rm /etc/issue'
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--
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begin 600 signature.gz
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MV(+=N*5YK9W-LD1Q@4EA*TZ+V%<XP:=\V);+!FQ++;3T=F/29.$C_]7#0B$#
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end
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From: roman@public.btr.com (Roman Yanovsky roman@btr.com)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: New Great Linux Plus CDROM
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 05:22:56 GMT
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=====================================================================
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NOT JUST ANOTHER LINUX + 386BSD CD-ROM.
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Trans-Ameritech presents LINUX SLS/Slackware AND 386BSD and MULTYMEDIA CD-ROM.
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A new Linux CD-ROM is available! But not just Linux. Also 386BSD and more.
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Here is a brief summary of why we think this CD-ROM is the best.
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As the price of only $30 puts it in the same price category as the JANA
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product, I'll base my comparison on it.
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We provide 2 versions of SLS distribution - a very stable 1.02 and the new 1.03
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and also the SLACKWARE distribution! Linux installs directly from the CD-ROM
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on almost any hardware configuration.
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1. The Trans-Ameritech Linux CD-ROM is not just a mirror of some ftp site.
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In addition to the full SLS distributions we supply a "live" image of a
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configured system. This is great if you don't want files that are not used
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very often to garble your hard disk. One example is manpages - use them
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directly from the CD-ROM. Same applies to emacs lisp files, info files etc.
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How many fonts do you need? Have them all! Space is no problem.
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2. Uncompressed sources are available for instant reference.
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3. Several versions of the Linux kernel are provided precompiled to cover
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different hardware options including drivers for Sony-31A and Sound Blaster
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CD-ROMs.
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4. Patches to support sound cards are included. Take this compiled kernel IF
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YOU WANT. If not - use a small kernel with no unused ballast.
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5. Install Linux directly from the Sony-31A or Sound Blaster CD-ROM drive as
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well as standart SCSI and Mitsumi types.
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6. We are running Linux on several PCs to make sure that our configurations
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really work. We don't wait for official SLS release for certain extra drivers
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and utilities. If they work here, we include it as an option on the CDROM.
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7. For your convenience a full recent distribution of 386BSD *NIX is provided
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on the same CD-ROM.
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8. Some space is dedicated to what takes too much room on hard disks -
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sounds and pictures. They are usable with the Linux sound/gif tools and under
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MS-DOS too!
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9. A few choice MS-DOS applications are included in the assumption that the
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majority of Linux users run DOS occasionaly. Or use it from dos-emu!
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Most of the MS-DOS stuff comes from the SIMTEL20 archive. Naturally only part
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of it made it to the first CDROM. However the new releases will include other
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files from SIMTEL20, GARBO etc. So if you subsribe to the Trans-Ameritech
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Linux+ CDROM, you will not only get updated Linux, but over a year you will get
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the full SIMTEL20 collection as an extra bonus.
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10. Trans-Ameritech is a well established company with efficient organization
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to guarantee on-time printing and shipping of this product. There will be a
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significant discount if you subscribe for future releases.
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But the best part is that YOU will decide what to put on the next edition!
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We'll count votes and provide most popular software on the next one.
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You can order by phone (408) 727-3883 or by FAX (408) 727-3882.
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Our address is:
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2342A Walsh Avenue
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Santa Clara, CA 95051
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Shipping overseas (as in UK and Germany) is $6.
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Shipping in US is $5.
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Pay by cheque or credit card.
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COD in continental US is $6 extra if you want it.
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The price for a single CD-ROM is $30.
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California residents, please include tax.
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We plan to make a new release every 3 month. Subscription price is $20 per CD
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for a total of $80 for a year.
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From: tom@jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tomohiro Shibata)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.software,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.lang.lisp
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Subject: Summary of (Re: Common Lisp on 486 machines?)
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 06:13:35 GMT
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Hi everybody.
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I have received a lot of mail for below question.
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# I want to use Common Lisp such as ExCL, KCL and AKCL.
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# Is there anyone out who can use such Lisp on 486 machines, and
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# on which OS do they run?
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I am pleased very much that I could receive quick mail.
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And I also have some mails that say post summery of the answers,
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so I summerize the answers here.
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timd@aiai.ed.ac.uk, kem@zoyd.prl.ufl.edu and brent@jade.ssd.csd.harris.com
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recommend me to see the Lisp FAQ, especially part 4.
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nho@nguyen.ruhr.de, p.k.h.gragert@math.utwente.nl,habaoch@eng.auburn.edu,
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cracauer@hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) and dlj0@Lehigh.EDU
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suggested to use CLISP on Linux. dlj0@Lehigh.EDU also AKCL on Linux
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was OK.
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emi@Franz.COM, poeck@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.d400.de and
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patl@goldfish.mitron.tek.com 's letter says we can use Allegro CL/PC on
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WIndows3.1
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Thank you all of them very much!! But I feel giddy there are many
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candidates...
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If there were a discussion about comparing among Lisps, please let me know..
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Tomohiro Shibata (email: tom@jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
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Inoue-Inaba Laboratory,
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Department of Mechano-informatics,
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University of Tokyo; Japan
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin.help,comp.os.linux
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From: lan_lada@rcvie.co.at (Marino Ladavac)
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Subject: Re: Memory LEAKING!*=--.._
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 10:15:45 GMT
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: jP@hpacv.com writes:
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:
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: >Hello!
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: > Just installed SLS 0.99.12 and hooked that baby right up to the
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: >net. All went great and life was good UNTIL I did a top or a free.
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: > Here output RIGHT after bootup! HELP! I'm missing 15 meg!
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: > Check this out...........
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: >Here's the free output:
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:
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: > total used free shared buffers
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: >Mem: 14964 13792 1172 1856 10696
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: >Swap: 0 0 0
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Slightly on a tangent, free reports only 13800 K total on my 16 M
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machine. Its .99pl10, btw.
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Does anyone know where did the rest go (I know that 1 meg is kernel text
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plus IO space; I'm still missing at least a megabyte?)
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Included in hte kernel:
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SYSV IPC,
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ext2, minix, dos,
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no SCSI,
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inet,
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no soundcards.
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Thanks,
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/Alby.
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BTW, I read I have to enable IPC during boot. How?
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--
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Proof by Intimidation:
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"I'm bigger, therefore I'm right."
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noone@nowhere.in.particular
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 12:32:35 GMT
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From: Mikel L. Forcada <MLF@EALIUN11.BITNET>
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Subject: A Western Digital 8003E TCP/IP driver for Linux
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Hi netters,
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is there any driver out there for those old Western Digital
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8003E cards that I can install on Linux? I wouldn't like
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top write a new one myself...
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Mikel L. Forcada
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Universitat d'Alacant
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From: tonim@stonehenge.ac.upc.es (Antonio Moreno Peleteiro)
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Subject: Linux as Gateway
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 18:50:12 GMT
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We want linux installed as a gateway, but we are having problems with the second
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NE2000 card. Linux boots ok, but only detects the first card and seems to stop
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searching for others. Both cards are well configured (had been tested under MsDos to
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avoid IRQ conflicts and other configuration problems). It seems that we should add
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a second array for the second card in /linux/net/inet/Space.c, but how should we call
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it to make the kernel know of it? Thats the way to do both cards work?
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Any help will be apreciated.
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Please reply by email preferably. Thanks!
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Toni Moreno
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OOO Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
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tonim@ac.upc.es OOO
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OOO Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors.
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From: ssotir@ntua.gr (Stavros Sotirchos)
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Subject: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 11:02:45 GMT
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I would like to use more than 256 colors in my X session.
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Is this possible and if yes how?
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I must mention that I have a MegaEva/2 card with ET4000 and TruaColor DAC.
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Mail to ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr
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--
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Sotirchos Stavros National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
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HOME: 7 Konitsis St., UUCP: mcsun!ariadne!theseas!ssotir
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Filothei, GR - 152 37 or InterNet : ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr
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Athens, GREECE
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help
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From: lund@diku.dk (Henrik Lund)
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Subject: Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform?
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 10:55:39 GMT
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hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) writes:
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>In article <DWSMITH.93Sep24213809@uncle-sam.llnl.gov>,
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>David W. Smith <dwsmith@uncle-sam.llnl.gov> wrote:
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>>
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>> I've just recently read about the new IBM company called AMBRA.
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>(...)
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>> The first is a 5 slot ISA system with 2 VESA LB slots and built in SCSI
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>> and 10BaseT ethnet.
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>I'm interested in this unit also, especially if the on board SCSI and
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>E-net has a full 32 bit address bus to memory.
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>Does anyone know how to get technical documentation from IBM/AMBRA so
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>that SCSI and network drivers can be written?
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I don' think IBM will tell you about their machines, as an example take
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the Micro Channel Bus, Linux won't run on MCA bus machines, because
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IBM won't tell "us" how to program it.
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This is not to speak badly about IBM, but to warn you that
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the only machines hat aren't 100 % IBM compatible is IBM machines,
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and the don' tell YOU about their secrets.
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>I'll try to track something down on Monday from IBM, but a contact
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>would be great. I remember a Kafka like experience trying to get
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>technical information out of AT&T (aka "We're the Phone Company") once
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>in my past.
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>Peter
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>--
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>Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
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>HD Associates Voice: 508 433 6936
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>hd@world.std.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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>Looking for: Orangey-brown front leather seats or NOS covers for '73 BMW 3.0cs
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Have fun, happy linuxing
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Henrik Lund
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lund@dikudk
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All opinions expressed are my own, but if you'd like to share them it's fine.
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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis)
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Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC?
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Date: 28 Sep 93 12:10:30 GMT
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a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) writes:
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[deleted]
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>The SUN IPC costs many times more than a typical Linux system. That is even
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>if you took a 'Maxed Out' PC and put Linux on it you could give the IPC a run
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>for its money.
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Many times more? First of all, the IPC is a three-year old target, with the
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same processor as the SS 1+. You can probably get either one with 12M (max
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with 1M simms)on the IPC or 16M on the SS1+, with a 16" color monitor and
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200M disk for about $2200-2500. This gives you enet, SCSI, sound and a
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monitor that is about the size of some "17 in" monitors I was looking at the
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other day at a PeeCee store. On most benchmarks this system will be
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somewhat faster than a 386/40, but faster by a factor of three than a PC
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system with a generic Tseng 4000 svga card. If people want to compare
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486dx2/66 machines, lets make sure they are compared against Classics or
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LX's. These machines comes with a minimum of 16M. They also include sound,
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enet, faster SCSI, so lets put those on the PC. They may also come with a
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minimum of 400M disk, but I am not sure. Last I checked the Classic was
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available at an academic discount price of about $3300 with the 15"
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monitor. The LX with a 16", I believe 32M of memory, and a 400M disk was in
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the low-to-mid $4000 range. I believe these computers would outperform the
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high-end PC at about the same price with comparable features at comparable
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price. Raw speed is not the only issue, however. On many tasks it will
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take you a long time to pay back the investment of time it takes you to port
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or find a ported version of a package that compiles out of the box on a Sun.
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Linux is a wonderful thing, but if you want access to all the free packages
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on the net, SunOS 4.1.3 still provides an edge and the costs are comparable
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for comparable performance. Also with SunOS on SPARC you never have to deal
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with IRQ's, DMA conflicts or base address conflicts for your enet, asynch,
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parallel, mouse,sound and video adapters.
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>P.S. I am sorry about your computer, time to upgrade rather than get angry.
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No need for most tasks, unless he is like the DOS heads I know who want the
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latest hardware so they can do one thing at a time faster. I still find a
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386/16 with 8M, slow RLL disk, 8-bit enet and standard ET4000 video adapter,
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running SVR4 (slow) to be preferable to a faster PC running Windoze or DOS.
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>--
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>------------------------
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>a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu
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>Bikram Dhaliwal
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>(416) 845-4567
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--
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R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________
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Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______
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Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / /
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Gopher,News and sendmail maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / /
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From: arpw@bgtys16.UUCP (Tony White)
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Subject: Trantor support in Linux
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 12:36:55 GMT
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Is there support for the Trantor T130 SCSI card available
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for Linux? I'd really like to use my Panasonic CDR-25!
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Thanks.
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--
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Tony White | Phone: (613) 765-4279
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Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. | Fax: (613) 763-4222
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Dept. 0R00, P.O. Box 3511, Station C, |
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4H7 | email: arpw@bnr.ca
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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis)
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Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
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Date: 28 Sep 93 12:43:42 GMT
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daved@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey) writes:
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>In <284qs5$hrq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber) writes:
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>>So I guess the answer is that there is not word processor for linux?
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>There is "doc", which I have to admit I have not used seriously enough to
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>evaluate, and I cannot see any obvious reasony why the Andrew system "ez"
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>could not be ported to linux since it is an X client. It would probably
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>consume a lot of disk space though!
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ez was ported by Michael O'Reilly, the author of term, who might argue about
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how easy it was. He uploaded it to sunsite about 2 weeks ago.
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--
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R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________
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Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______
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Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / /
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Gopher,News and sendmail maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / /
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From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (JEFF EPLER)
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
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Subject: Re: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 12:43:42 GMT
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Cc: ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr
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ssotir@ntua.gr (Stavros Sotirchos) writes:
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>I would like to use more than 256 colors in my X session.
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>Is this possible and if yes how?
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>I must mention that I have a MegaEva/2 card with ET4000 and TruaColor DAC.
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As far as I know, no support for greater than eight bits color depth
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is supported by Xfree, and will not be in the next release.
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However, I think that sometime in the future this capability will be
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supported. (I saw one comment that said, basically, "Wait for 2.1")
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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis)
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Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
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Date: 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT
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khockenb@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
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>In article <WESCOTT.93Sep27114652@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu>, wescott@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Jeffrey Wescott '95) writes:
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>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:20:02 GMT, las@whome.uucp (Laszlo Herczeg) said:
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>>
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>>> For really small jobs, I am not using the emacs-like editor called
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>>> Joe which is absolutely wonderful, and does things like underlining
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>>> and centering. It suffices for quick jobs, and has support for 7-bit
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>>> and 8-bit characters.
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>>
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>> Emacs-like!?!? Hahahah! Maybe I am wrong, but isn't JOE ==> "Joe's
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>> Own Editor" which is distributed w/ SLS? If so, it is HARDLY like
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>> Emacs and more closely resembles Wordstar for DOS. Sorry, I am just a
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>> big Emacs fan.
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>Maybe he meant "jove", which is an emacs-like editor.
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Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand
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^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like:
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vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs
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(I left out uemacs on purpose because the last couple of versions I tried
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did idle-waiting and mucked with the permissions of the files I edited with
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it.)
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In the above scheme joe would be (sorta) emacs-like.
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--
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R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________
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Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______
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Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / /
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Gopher,News and sendmail maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / /
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From: bcp1@cc.msstate.edu (CAM PROCTOR)
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Subject: linux and modems?
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 12:51:51 GMT
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I have a 14.4K baud infotel modem. Originally it was on com3 when I installed
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linux. When i try to access the modem all I get is "/dev/modem (cua2, ttyS2)
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is busy" or when trying to use minicom "Sorry cannot open /dev/modem". I
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tried relinking /dev/modem and even tried accessing cua2 and ttyS2 directly.
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Still nothing worked. Last night in desperation I removed my serial board and
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disabled com1 (com2 is still there... it's my rodent) and reset the modem
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(internal) to com1. it still gives me the same errors on cua0 as when i was
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on cua2.
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HELP!
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Please reply via email.
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cam
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bcp1@ra.msstate.edu
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bcp1@pcmail.cc.msstate.edu
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From: tul@tonga.heidelbg.ibm.com (Thomas Uhl)
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Subject: Office Package (Island Draw Write Paint) for Linux
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 12:33:08 GMT
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Reply-To: tul%tonga.heidelbg.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
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Hi everybody!
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As I already mentioned I asked Island for a port of their quite powerfull
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office software package "Draw, Write, Paint" to Linux. It contains a
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Wordprocessor, a program for creating Images and another for vector
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grafics. I think it would be the right thing for everybody who is
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locking for a standard software package.
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I got an answer some minutes ago. They know Linux, but at the moment they
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have no plans to make a port. This may change if they will see a real market
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for a Linux port.
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Now it is your turn!!! Please send me an E-Mail if you are pricipially willing
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to bye a package like "Draw, Write, Paint" for Linux.
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I want to show that there _IS_ a market for commercial Linux software. Please
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don't dissapoint me :-).
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Send your E-mail to the following address:
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tul@sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de
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Thanks for your efforts!
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Thomas
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