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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 21:13:10 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #271
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Linux-Activists Digest #271, Volume #6 Tue, 28 Sep 93 21:13:10 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Mark A. Davis)
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Re: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X (Jon Tombs)
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Re: Trantor support in Linux (Drew Eckhardt)
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NET-2 Configuration ?? (Dan Hadad)
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PCI-Board and Linux (Heiko Krupp)
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Re: PC for linux (Philippe Steindl)
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Cannot load font error message (John Fauerbach)
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Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (the stupid one)
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Colorado streamer (nicolas olle)
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**WARNING: EXPO computers won't work with TCP/IP, NCSA, Linux, ...
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Changing filesystem size???
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dip source code (Sanjoy Mishra)
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Re: Stealth VRAM support for Linux? (Andy Schwalb)
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Re: Linux won't boot from HD (HELP !!) (Julian Day)
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Re: **WARNING: EXPO computers won't work with TCP/IP, NCSA, Linux, ... ("Alex R.N. Wetmore")
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[HELP] Problems with Slackware Linux and 'hostname' (Ian Clysdale)
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Re: SoftLanding Message (William S. Kaster)
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Re: Can't umount! (David Lesher)
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From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis)
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Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 18:01:41 GMT
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snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
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>In article <1993Sep24.111523@cs.utwente.nl>, debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (Steef S.G. de Bruijn) writes:
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>> |> a la WordPerfect for Linux.
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>I think he means Framemaker for Linux, or 'Word for Linux' :-)
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>> Wordperfert sucks (it's no misspell!)
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>Don't u mean worddefect, as its know here. We have it one the Vomit Making
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>System.
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Kindly keep your personal and unproductive comments to your self. We find
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the software to be extremely productive, flexible, cost effective, and
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open. Perhaps you two should tell us which wordprocessors you use and like
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so others can say yours suck.
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Also, perhaps you should enlighten us as
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to a better wordprocessing system under Unix? Framemaker isn't bad, but
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TERRIBLY expensive.
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--
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/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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| Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
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| Sys.Administrator| Computer Services | mark@taylor.wyvern.com .uucp |
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
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From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
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Subject: Re: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 18:14:46 GMT
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In article <289bhu$2tc@crcnis1.unl.edu> jepler@herbie.unl.edu (JEFF EPLER) writes:
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>Cc: ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr
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>
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>ssotir@ntua.gr (Stavros Sotirchos) writes:
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>
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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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Currently xfree86-2.0 is still using the standard vga 6 bits per color 256
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color (8 color plane) mode. There was talk of getting 8 bits per color (for
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the ramdacs that support it) before 2.0 but I don't think this is so likely
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now - but this is slightly of the subject.
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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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To get > 256 colors on an ISA based card then first we require somebody to
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port the MIT newcfb 16 bit framebuffer code to the SVGA banked video model.
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This is pretty nasty although quite possible. I would expect that a "wait for
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2.2" would probably be more accurate time scale. To do 24 bit would require
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writing from scratch the framebuffer code. The MIT newcfb code has support
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for 32 bit but not 24 bit packed pixels which is unfortunatly what almost
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all SVGA cards use (the expection I know of is the S3-928 cards with the
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BookTree ramdac which can do 32 bit truecolor - possibly the ATI mach32 can
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aswell).
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Jon.
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From: drew@cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
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Subject: Re: Trantor support in Linux
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:56:27 GMT
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In article <1993Sep28.123655.10893@bnr.ca> arpw@bgtys16.UUCP (Tony White) writes:
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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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No. The Trantor T130 boards are built arround a more integrated,
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incompatable version of the chip used in the supported (ALPHA)
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Trantor T128/T128F/T228 boards.
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--
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Boycott USL/Novell for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit. | Drew Eckhardt,
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Condemn Colorado for Amendment Two. | Professional Linux
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Use Linux, the fast, flexible, and free 386 unix | Consultant
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Will administer Unix for food | drew@cs.Colorado.EDU
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From: dhadad@engr.trinity.edu (Dan Hadad)
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Subject: NET-2 Configuration ??
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 18:32:51 GMT
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I have Slackware 1.0.3 and have tried to configure NET-2 TCP/IP software as in the
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NET-2 HOWTO. When I try to ping something however, the error is :
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sendto: Network is unreachable.
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When I try to query the status of the interface, ('ifconfig eth0'), the error is:
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eth0: Unknown interface.
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At boottime, the errors produced by 'ifconfig eth0 131.194.137.0 netmask 255.255.255.0' :
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SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid Argument
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SIOCGIFFLAGS: Invalid Argument
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SIOCGIFNETMASK: Invalid Argument
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I'd appreciate any assistance any gurus wish to give.
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- Dan Hadad, at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
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"It can only be attributed to human error"
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-- HAL-9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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From: krupp@unix-ag.uni-kl.de (Heiko Krupp)
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Subject: PCI-Board and Linux
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 18:24:39 GMT
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Hiho...
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I couldn't find any article about Linux and PCI-Bus-Boards...
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So if anyone knows something about this PLEASE tell me for
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I'd like to use a PCI-Board AND Linux...
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Heiko.
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From: ilg@imp.ch (Philippe Steindl)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: PC for linux
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 19:49:49 +0200
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Hello,
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well, what follows is my opinion and not an order :-)
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Oki, there are some things that this PC *must* be:
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- It must have a processor 386sx/16 or higher (intel, amd .. whatever)
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- I think you must have at least 2 MB RAM
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- A Harddisk bigger than 20 MB (for basic systems)
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You will not get very far with these minimum requirements. I would suggest
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you get a 486dx or dx2. A 386 can do it, too, but as you will need to
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compile a lot with linux (kernel updates all the time), you better go for a
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486, since 386 are not much cheaper. For memory: get 8 MB if you will not use
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X windows and 16 MB if you want to. You can run X with 8 MB (even with 4 I
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heard), but it won't be very pleasant. Harddisk: get at least a 245 MB drive,
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IDE or SCSI. Get SCSI if you want to use several disks, cdroms, scsi tapes
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or if you simply want to ensure you can move the HardDisk when switching to
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another computer system (which will support scsi for most cases). Note: IDE
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drives are not slower than scsi ones (well, depends on what model of course).
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Monitor: get at least a 15" model .. I would go for a 17" monitor, which is
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ideal for 1024x768. The video card: get an accelerated one. Linux runs
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with most cards, X with many. I would suggest an S3 chip based cards, since
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they offer good speed at good prices. Avoid diamond cards (well, not all are
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bad, but you won't get into trouble hopefully without a diamond card).
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Especially don't buy a viper: this one is fast, but will maybe never get
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drivers in Xwindows. I'm using an orchid VA vlb, and it gives me great speed
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under Xwin (there are a *lot* of other nice S3 cards, the best are the S3 928
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based ones). Floppy drives: at least a 3.5" drive. Buy a 5.25 drive only if
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you need compatibility to your friends 5.25" disks or similar. Then, get a
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mouse (needed for Xwin or selection, a cut'n'paste "driver" for terminal use).
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Linux supports many mice, even bus mice.
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Note that I didn't cite a minimal konfiguration, but with this system you
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will have no problems originating from hardware. An estimated price would
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be ranging from 2000 to 3000 US$, you may even find it for less (also for mor
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:)). If you need more details, send me a mail or ask people on #linux in IRC.
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Hope I helped you a bit.
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Philippe
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PS: I would not buy anything less than the above :) It's more expensive at the
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start, but you won't regret it.
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From: fauerbac@clyde.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach)
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Subject: Cannot load font error message
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 18:59:44 GMT
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When I try to run several differnt X programs, I keep getting simular error
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message:
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XView warning: Cannot load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)
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XView warning: Cannot load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)
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I have loaded all the fonts I can find. When I do a xlsfonts I get:
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(partial listing)
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-p-58-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-p-71-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-14-140-75-75-p-81-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-18-180-75-75-p-106-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-19-190-75-75-p-108-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-24-240-75-75-p-136-iso8859-1
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-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-8-80-75-75-p-45-iso8859-1
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In my Xconfig I have:
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FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
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What am i doing wrong or missing? Thanks for any help.
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John Fauerbach
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From: warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one)
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Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC?
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 20:02:11 GMT
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rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) said:
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>In article <1993Sep23.150359.24805@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
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>metzger@cnplss5.cnp s.philips.nl (Kees Metzger) writes:
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>>My Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V (running Linux) is about 3 times faster than
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>>the SS 1+ on a compilation job of about 100,000 lines (in 150 files).
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>Of course you really need to document the processes that were running
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>on the two systems at the time.
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to which t0e0078@tamsun.tamu.edu (Terje Eggestad) replied:
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>I fail to see the purpose, or the sanity of this argument.
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>How can you compare hardware to software??
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>This is like arguing about how this VCR tape compares to that VCR
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>ot how the Cosby show compares to my TV!
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i think Rick's point was that we cant tell from Kees's comments whether
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there was another user on one of the systems doing a 10^6 point fourier
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transform or deconvolving a blurry image with the camera's point spread
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function or running a large magnetohydrodynamic simulation or something
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even more time-consuming in the background and affecting the speed of
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the system
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--
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Bela Lugosi's dead, Jim!
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From: olle_n@argon.epita.fr (nicolas olle)
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Subject: Colorado streamer
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 21:08:09 GMT
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Hello
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I would like to obtain informations on the following
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subject: I have a 250 Mb streamer (Colorado) connected
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on my pc (IDE). And i would like to use it under Linux.
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Then i would like to know :
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1- If it's possible.
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2- Then how to proceed.....etc.
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Sorry for my english....
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Thanks.
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=============================== C (o)(o) "There are things known
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- E-Mail : olle_n@epita.fr - | _) and things unknown and
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 14:13:33 MST
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From: <ASHZJ@ASUACAD.BITNET>
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Subject: **WARNING: EXPO computers won't work with TCP/IP, NCSA, Linux, ...
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A few netters reported networking problems with EXPO computers. It
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seems that Expo Computers Inc. is not committed to making their computers
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compatible with LINUX, TCP/IP, etc. Here is a summary of my telephone
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conversation with one of their Tech-Support people:
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1. Expo Computers are not guaranteed to work with Linux, TCP/IP,
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NCSA software. The only network software they tested are:
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NOVELL, Windows/NT
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2. Expo computers uses 8-bit SIMM and 8-bit Cache. They will NOT
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exchange 9-bit SIMM and 9-bit Cache for you even if this is
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highly suspected to be causing the problems.
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**NOTE** 8-bit SIMMs are usually used in MACs. Very few 486
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PCs use them.
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3. EXPO computers are designed for the general public ONLY, NOT for
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scientific/computing people.
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4. EXPO Computers Inc. will not do any exchange if the machine is
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not working with TCP/IP, LINUX, NCSA. In other words, they
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will not do any exchange if you are running into problems with
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software which is not tested by their lab.
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If you don't consider the above appropriate, please either email me or
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call Dan Swanson at (800)-288-3243 (Tech Support). I will forward any
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comments from the network community to EXPO Tech and post their response
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later.
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Thank you very much for your support. If you are also having problems
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with an EXPO computer, please send me your name, phone number, and Email
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address.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: totake@ho10.eng.ua.edu ()
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Subject: Changing filesystem size???
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 21:26:52 GMT
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Hi all,
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I was wondering whether it is possible in Linux to increase the size of a
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filesystem without having to recreate the entire filesystem.
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Tom
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\ Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception /
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\ of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. /
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\\\\\\\\ Thomas Otake /////////
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\\\\ totake@buster.eng.ua.edu \\_// 72570.3031@compuserve.com ////
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From: mishra@controls.ccd.harris.com (Sanjoy Mishra)
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Subject: dip source code
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 19:48:37 GMT
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Hello:
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DIP program seems to be a nice interface for dial out and slip
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connections. Does anyone know where I can find source code for
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the DIP. I would like to try on my PC running SVR4. If not ported
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yet I will try to port it.
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Thanks for all your help.
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______________________________________________________________________________
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Sanjay K. Mishra Work: 407-242-4333
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mishra@ccd.harris.com Home: 407-242-4333
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The opinions expressed are my own and do not in any way represent Harris Corp.
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From: aps@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Andy Schwalb)
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Subject: Re: Stealth VRAM support for Linux?
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 22:35:42 GMT
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Diego A. Aranda (daa7365@tamsun.tamu.edu) wrote:
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: After hearing some very positive comments about Linux, I decided to go
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: ahead and install it on my system. Before doing so, I read all the FAQs
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: and information I could find, and I discovered that Diamond cards are not
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: supported.
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: I was told by an expert Linux user that the video drivers necessary
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: for using a Diamond Stealth VRAM with Linux are available somewhere
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: on the net. I'd like to know where I might possibly find them, how solid
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: they are, and how to go about installing them (being new to Linux, I
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: haven't the slightest).
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: If you have any information, please e-mail me, as I'm rather anxious to
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: try out Linux with X-Windows. Thank you.
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: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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: | Diego A. Aranda | DAA7365@TAMSUN.TAMU.EDU | Texas A&M University | CS | U-3 |
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: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Likewise for a VIPER VLB 2 meg card from diamond. It uses the Weitec 9000
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graphics chip
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aps@orion.ksc.nasa.gov
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From: jfd0@aber.ac.uk (Julian Day)
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Subject: Re: Linux won't boot from HD (HELP !!)
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 22:43:39 GMT
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Jesper Honig Spring (spring@diku.dk) wrote:
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: Hello,
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: I've just installed Linux for the first time. When I try to
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: boot Linux from my HD (214 Mb allocated for Linux) the
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: system halts with the following message printed in CGA-mode:
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: "NO ROM BASIC - SYSTEM HALTED"
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You need to make your linux partition active using fdisk.
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Julian Day
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no sig. (jfd0@aber.ac.uk)
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From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Subject: Re: **WARNING: EXPO computers won't work with TCP/IP, NCSA, Linux, ...
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 19:31:28 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 28-Sep-93 **WARNING:
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EXPO computers w.. by ASHZJ@ASUACAD.BITNET
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> 2. Expo computers uses 8-bit SIMM and 8-bit Cache. They will NOT
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> exchange 9-bit SIMM and 9-bit Cache for you even if this is
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> highly suspected to be causing the problems.
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> **NOTE** 8-bit SIMMs are usually used in MACs. Very few 486
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> PCs use them.
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Not only macs, but just about every workstation on the market as well.
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In fact PC's are the only machines that I know of that have a parity bit
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anymore. If you think that 8-bit SIMMS are causing you problems why not
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get a good memory checker (like QAPlus or testext) and run it for a few
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hours. I strongly doubt that the simms are causing you any problems,
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and if they are most simm manufactures warrant their stuff for life now.
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I agree with the rest of what was said though, and I would agree that if
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the above is true that people shouldn't buy their machines.
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alex
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From: Ian Clysdale <ac559@freenet.carleton.ca>
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Subject: [HELP] Problems with Slackware Linux and 'hostname'
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 18:26:23 GMT
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Recently I set up Slackware Linux running on my PC, and have it
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pretty much running well right now, except for one small problem --
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it refuses to define my hostname; it came defined as 'darkstar' in
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the distribution that I got, and refuses to change.
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I did a little reading, and found out that apparently the command
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"hostname -S elanon" should change the name of my system to "elanon",
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but whenever I do that, it responds with "unknown system "elanon" ".
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Even when I tried hostname -S darkstar for a test, it still responded
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'unknown system "darkstar" '.
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If anyone can help, please reply via e-mail to
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ac559@freenet.carleton.ca Thank you very much.
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-Ian!
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Ian Clysdale | | One .sig file to rule them all,
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Co-Op, Bell Northern Research | | One .sig file to find them,
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. | | One .sig file to bring them all,
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#include<stdisclaim.h> | | And in the memory bind them.
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From: wsk@mayfield.hp.com (William S. Kaster)
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Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
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Date: 29 Sep 1993 00:30:25 GMT
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Yes. getty displays /etc/issue.
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--
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=====
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William S. Kaster
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email: wsk@mayfield.hp.com
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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: Can't umount!
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 20:43:02 -0400
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Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
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>umount won't work if the target directory (of a subdirectory thereof) is
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>the current directory of at least one process (including your shell).
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I've also found that if you mount the same partition more than
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once, as I did while screwing around with bootutil, umount won't
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no matter how hard you try.
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--
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A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
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& no one will talk to a host that's close............[301] 56-LINUX
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Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
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is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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