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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: Thu, 30 Sep 93 13:13:16 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #276
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Linux-Activists Digest #276, Volume #6 Thu, 30 Sep 93 13:13:16 EDT
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Contents:
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NovellLite and SLS (Studenten)
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Refresh problems with X386/S3 package in Slackware (Jean-Pierre Sarrato)
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[SUMMARY] ( WAS WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE ) (belmouh@idefix.ensmp.fr (Rachid BELMOUHOUB ))
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Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone? (Tom Reynolds)
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Oakdriver for X (OPV 5-51 - THE ORANGE FARM)
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Re: kermit drop lines on exit (Tom Reynolds)
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Re: A DOS partition question. (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
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AT&T ct Work-a-like Software Wanted (Ralf Vogt)
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Re: SoftLanding Message (John R. Campbell)
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passwd doesn't work anymore (Thomas J Bilan)
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install prob. (jdoliver@TrentU.CA)
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Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro X problems (Stefan Wolf)
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Re: DOS based GUNZIP? (Yi-Tsun Chang)
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X errors over phone lines. (Rick Johns)
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Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFIL (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Thomas Dunbar)
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Installing Linux (A.S.Williams)
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From: prk1158a@ecx.tuwien.ac.at (Studenten)
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Subject: NovellLite and SLS
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 13:21:23 GMT
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I have three PCs (386/486) connect via Ethernet NE2000. On two of these
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I installed NWLite 1.1 for printer and HD sharing. Recently, I tried Linux
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on the third one and it's really great. I read that Linux supports NFS.
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Questions:
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1. What exactly is NFS.
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2. Is it possible to access NWLite Server for printing and file-serving
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under Linux. I have IPXODI or IPXPKT as protokoll
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3. Or can NWLite simulate NFS in any way.
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4. Can I use TCPIP and IPX concurrently when running one PC with Linux
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and the others with NWLite. (with PKT and ODI driver it works, because
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with these you can bind multible protokolls to one LAN-Card, but I
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dont't know how Linux handles the net)
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all infos are appreciated
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Alex
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prk1158a@ecx.tuwien.ac.at
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From: sarrato@polytechnique.fr (Jean-Pierre Sarrato)
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Subject: Refresh problems with X386/S3 package in Slackware
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 13:14:40 GMT
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I have experienced refresh problems with xs3: after opening a pull-down
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menu over a window and releasing the mouse button, the menu, however inactive,
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remains visible and I have to refresh the window manually. Is it a known bug?
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And in that case, how to solve it?
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JPS
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc.help,comp.os.linux
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From: belmouh@idefix.ensmp.fr (Rachid BELMOUHOUB <belmouh@cig.ensmp.fr>)
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Subject: [SUMMARY] ( WAS WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE )
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 13:01:41 GMT
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In article <1993Sep29.123206.12083@ensmp.fr>, belmouh@idefix.ensmp.fr (Rachid BELMOUHOUB <belmouh@cig.ensmp.fr>) writes:
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|> Hi,
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|> I have succefully now installed the SLS 1.03 release, on my 486DX50 clone,
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|> I went through the Linux user's guide in search of informations about how to
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|> configur my system but haven't found lot of things about the file .profile
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|> I tryed to set the PATH environment variable to run X11, I did like in my
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|> .cshrc file on a sun at work but after sourcing the .profile, I have run
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|> printenv and none of the changes I've made was taken, I tryed unset PATH
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|> and I had an answer that the systen can't unset PATH. Is there any document
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|> that explains how to do this, or any one here that could help me.
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|>
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|> Thanx
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|>
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|> Rachid
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First of all I would like to thank all the people that replyed to my post
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I have learned a lot. It would be impossible to send to each of them
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a mail, so thank you all!
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this is a summary of the answers I've had to my problem, the firts important
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thing is to read the man pages for bash.
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From bam@linux.wolfson-computer-laboratory.birmingham.ac.uk Wed Sep 29 16:26:01 1993
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The bash manual could help.
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The syntax of setting variables in csh is weird. If your using the
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Linux default shell (bash) then don't try to use the csh syntax.
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Try something like:
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PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:.
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From jmadison@tech.iupui.edu Wed Sep 29 14:41:54 1993
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well, this is probably the gazillionth reply, but. your profile's found
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in /etc. it's called profile (as opposed to .profile).
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From stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de Wed Sep 29 14:19:38 1993
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with the SLS there comes am /etc/profile.
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This is the common data-base file for all users.
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The .profile is only used when Your shell is /bin/sh.
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If Your shell is /bin/bash You have to create a .bashrc in Your homedirectory.
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Here's mine:
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========begin ~/.bashrc =========
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.profile
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========end ~/.bashrc ===========
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If You want a shell like Suns csh You should get the tcsh-package.
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it's on tsx-11 under: /pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/tcsh-6.04.tar.gz
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From teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com Wed Sep 29 14:51:08 1993
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.profile is for bash and sh. you don't source it, you 'dot' it
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to run it. . ~/.profile
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.cshrc and .login are for csh (tcsh). You source them to run them.
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environment variables are for csh. They are propagated to subshells.
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csh also has variables which are not propagated to subshells.
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PATH in sh is just a variable. You must say export PATH after you
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change it, to propagate its value to subshells.
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From deleeuw@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL Wed Sep 29 17:26:53 1993
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echo $PATH
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this shows the current value of path.
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If you want to change the PATH variable anyway use:
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PATH=<new_path>
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or
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PATH=$PATH:<extra_path>
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for example if you wanna add /usr/X386/bin to your path
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PATH=$PATH:/user/X386/bin
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From mitchum.dsouza@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk Wed Sep 29 15:49:31 1993
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Your .profile uses bourne type syntax and thus your .cshrc from the sun will
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NOT work as it is csh.
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You need to either get tcsh (csh clone) working and use all your Sun .cshrc
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and .login type files or read the bash man page (for .profile) thoroughly.
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e.g. setting up PATH
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On csh (.cshrc)
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% setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/etc:./
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On bash (.profile)
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% export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/etc:./
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From stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de Wed Sep 29 15:04:47 1993
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Like /etc/profile is the common database for sh /etc/csh.cshrc
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is the common database for tcsh.
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Make a link : ln -s /bin/tcsh /bin/csh
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Now You can say "csh" for Your shell.
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/etc/csh.cshrc doesn't exist yet, You have to create it; here's mine:
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=======begin /etc/csh.cshrc =========
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# common database for all users
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# only german users have the csh so the German keyboard is loaded
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# here and not in the /etc/rc.local
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/etc/loadkeys /usr/lib/keytables/gr-latin1.map
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setenv NOREBIND
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setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
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# the next 3 lines are necessary to show the german Umlaute
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foreach key ( \\374 \\334 \\366 \\326 \\344 \\304 )
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bindkey $key self-insert-command
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end
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set openwinhome=(/usr/openwin)
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set path=($path /usr/TeX/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/X11 $openwinhome/bin ~/bin .)
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set prompt="%n@%m:%~<%!> "
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set prompt1="> "
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alias h history 50
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alias more less
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alias rm rm -i
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alias md mkdir
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alias rd rmdir
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alias up cd ..
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alias ll ls -al
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alias ls ls -F
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alias dir ls -l
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alias up cd ..
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alias cp cp -i
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alias mv mv -i
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alias home cd $HOME
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alias more less
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alias rm rm -i
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alias md mkdir
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alias rd rmdir
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alias ls ls -F
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alias dir ls -l
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alias .. cd ..
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alias cp cp -i
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alias mv mv -i
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----end /etc/csh.cshrc ---------
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Rachid BELMOUHOUB ( rsm pour les amis ) E-mail:belmouh@cig.ensmp.fr
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Ecole des Mines de Paris
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Centre d'Informatique Geologique
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"si parvenir aupres de l'ami, est impossible. | "A Woman needs a man like
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L'autre ami se devra de mourir, le cherchant" | fish needs a bicycle" U2 :-)
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( Le Gulistan, Saadi poete et soufi Persan) |
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From: treynold@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu (Tom Reynolds)
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Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM anyone?
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 13:59:59 GMT
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Thus spake SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS :
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>Is anyone using the Mitsumi LU005S CD-ROM with Linux? I found no
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>mention of it in the hardware list, and don't want to but it without knowing if it is going to work.
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>
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>Do CD-ROM with their own interface cards work in general with Linux?
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Yup. Got a Mitsumi and love it for the mney I paid and the amount I use it
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(just about never :)
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Configuring the Mitsumi to work with Linux is a snap. In fact, pl13 has
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Mitsumi support in the kernel code (pl12 may, too). If you're working with
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some older kernel (?) UPGRADE! No, seriously, there is a patch somewhere
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on tsx to your kernel sources for support. It's by a guy name Martin Harris.
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It's called, I think mcd-somtheting.tar.z
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--
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Thanx!
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Tom Reynolds
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treynold@hp800.lasalle.edu
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treynold@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu
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#include <disclaimer.h> /* Any flames go to /dev/null and the views held
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are not necessarily those of the personality
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Currently controlling me. */
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From: nthirion@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (OPV 5-51 - THE ORANGE FARM)
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Subject: Oakdriver for X
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 06:51:57 GMT
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Hello Linuxers
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I am looking for a oakdriver so that i can run X in color. Let me state it
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this way, I have looked for one but could not find one and now I am
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asking you if you have found one or maybe if you come across one if you
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could send it to me.
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Thank you very much. 8-)
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From: treynold@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu (Tom Reynolds)
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Subject: Re: kermit drop lines on exit
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 14:05:45 GMT
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Thus spake Laurent Chavey:
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>I am trying to connect to the Univ net through the modem, and then use term
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>on both ends to establish multiple connect.
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>steps taken.
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>linux> kermit
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>kermit>dial xxxxxxx
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>kermit>c
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>login udelnet>
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>passwd udelnet>
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>udelnet>term
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>escape sequence back to kermit on linux
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>kermit>!term </dev/modem >/dev/modem &
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Don't know if this is significant enough to help, but I never run term in
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the background. I just do this:
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HP-UX [1]% term
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<escape sequence>
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Kermit> !term <>/dev/cua2
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This works like a charm, but when you kill term, it hangs up the line.
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It's possible (not sure) that backgrounding term will cause it to die
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(like some programs do) and this may in turn hang up your line.
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Thanx!
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Tom Reynolds
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treynold@hp800.lasalle.edu
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treynold@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu
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treynold@trex.com
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Subject: Re: A DOS partition question.
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From: miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
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Date: 30 Sep 93 13:58:22 +0100
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John Will (john.will@satalink.com) wrote:
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: J >Also, is there a way to partition my drive without having to delete
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: J >everything on it in the process?
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: Nope. Welllllll, maybe. I have a program FIPS08.ZIP that I found on
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: a BBS, it will shrink a disk partition if it's the only one on the disk.
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Not maybe, there is. Fips works OK, but only with DOS partitions. It can
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be other partitions in the drive, from wherever and whicherver taste, but
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fips will only split DOS ones. All you need is to have all the data at the
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beginning of the partition (use Norton's SD) and call fips. It'll give you
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the partition table, prompt you which part to split, and to what extent. If
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it has some problem, leave the part table untouched, so it's fairly secure.
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You can found it at sunsite.unc.edu.
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Miguel Alvarez Blanco "All that is gold does not glitter,
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miguel@hobbit.quimica.uniovi.es not all those who wander are lost."
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miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es Bilbo Baggins.
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From: rv@pbinfo2.uni-paderborn.de (Ralf Vogt)
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Subject: AT&T ct Work-a-like Software Wanted
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 15:50:51 +0100
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Does anyone know where I can get software for linux which implements
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the "dial a phone number and then spawn a getty" function of ct?
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Thanks.
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rv
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From: soup@penrij.UUCP (John R. Campbell)
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Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
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Date: 29 Sep 93 22:20:52 GMT
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brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes:
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>Thanks for the help. The file /etc/issue contains this message. You can
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>edit it or remove to your liking.
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>Anyone know what program/script calls displays this file?
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Getty itself display this, as the shell, during startup (I don't find
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it in a script) displays the contents of /etc/motd
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I tend to put in my nodename at the left margin and the IP address at the
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right. While not the most logical approach, it is mildly entertaining.
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BTW, the "login" prompt is generated from the line in /etc/gettydefs,
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so you can modify that prompt too...
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--
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John R. Campbell soup%penrij@kd3bj.ampr.org
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or: uunet!kd3bj!penrij!soup
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From: bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan)
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Subject: passwd doesn't work anymore
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 15:26:00 GMT
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When I'm the superuser I type:
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passwd username
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to change a passwd and I get a dump of the passwd file with No such file or
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directory tacked onto the end of it.
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I must have changed something in the last week or so because it was working
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fine before.
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Thanks,
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Tom
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--
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/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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$ Department of Death by Engineering ^ Surgeon General's Warning: $
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$ Michigan State University ^ Graduate School may cause brain $
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$ bilan@cps.msu.edu ^ damage and sporadic loss of hair $
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From: jdoliver@TrentU.CA
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Subject: install prob.
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Reply-To: jdoliver@TrentU.CA
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:40:07 GMT
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Hi!
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I just started installing Linux and when i used rawrite to write
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a1.5 (from SLS) to a 5.25" floppy everything went fine - however
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when I tried booting it, evrry option (ramdisk,floppy,harddisk)
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brings me a recurring message:
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ramdisk.
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error 0X00
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booting ramdisk
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error 0X00
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booting ramdisk.
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error 0X00
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etc..
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what's the deal?
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thanks, jdoliver@trentu.ca
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From: hsw@digtec.dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Stefan Wolf)
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Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro X problems
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 16:12:43 GMT
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Hi,
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i had the same problem with my ATI GUP. What solved my problem was
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reconfiguring the Card to seperated VGA and accelerator mem.
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My card was set to mem=shared and X messed up the screen on leaving.
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With setting VGA ram size to 256, 512 or 1024 byte my screen is now
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ok. This change can be done with the install utility that came with the
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ATI card.
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Hope that helps
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Stefan
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--
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Stefan Wolf
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Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Voice: (06151) 163078
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Institut fuer Datentechnik Fax: (06151) 164976
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Merckstrasse 25 E-mail:
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D-64283 Darmstadt hsw@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de
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From: ytchang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Yi-Tsun Chang)
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Subject: Re: DOS based GUNZIP?
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 16:19:45 GMT
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In article <1993Sep30.113120.2@gst-soft.demon.co.uk> cwood@gst-soft.demon.co.uk
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(Chris Wood) writes:
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> I'd like to test all the .tgz files after ftp'ing before going
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> ahead with the installation to make sure they all ftp'ed
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> correctly, is there a DOS based gzip/gunzip around I could
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> use?
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>
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> Thanks,
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>
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>CW.
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>==============================================================================
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>Chris Wood. "You Screwy Rabbit" - Yosemite Sam
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>cwood@gst-soft.demon.co.uk
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>GST Software Products (R&D) Tel: (+44) 0480 496789.
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>Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE17 4LG. Fax: (+44) 0480 496189.
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>==============================================================================
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Yes, there is. Try sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/gnu
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x
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From: rjohns@bnr.ca (Rick Johns)
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Subject: X errors over phone lines.
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:50:57 GMT
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Hi. I have a user who's running my application from home and displaying it
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on a PC with Linux running X11R5. The server at work is X11R4 (HP-UX 8.0)
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and the application was compiled with X11R4 libraries. This is running
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over "term", which he says is Linux's compressed communication protocol.
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When the application comes up, it tends to crash very easily with:
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Xlib: sequence lost (0x10000 > 0x1f) in reply type 0x0!
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X Error of failed request:
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Major opcode of failed request: 0 ()
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Minor opcode of failed request: 0
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Resource id in failed request: 0x0
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Serial number of failed request: 0
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Current serial number in output stream: 31
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This happens when the window first appears or when he moves a window.
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What does this mean? Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Cheers,
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Rick Johns
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BNR
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rjohns@bnr.ca
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Disclaimer: I said it, BNR didn't.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc.help,comp.os.linux
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From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Subject: Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFIL
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Reply-To: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:42:00 GMT
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In article 13013@news.clarkson.edu, glancebe@omnigate.clarkson.edu (Bryan E. Glancey Jr) writes:
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> ME TO!! Also, any information anyone can give me on which are
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>the auto running shell files (I am used to the .cshrc and .login) would
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>be apreciated.
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The information you desire can probably be found in the bash man page.
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However there is no need to learn bash unless you want to. csh and tcsh
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are both available for Linux. Look on your favorite Linux ftp site if
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they're not already on your system. Once you get them, use chsh to
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set your default shell (must be listed in your /etc/shells).
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Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com
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From: tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
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Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 16:09:51 GMT
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or:
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Operating Systems: ------Linux-------
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-----XFree86------
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------Emacs-------
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...
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...
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Editors: -joe-jove-vi-elvis-vile--
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From: mi2914@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (A.S.Williams)
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Subject: Installing Linux
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Date: 30 Sep 1993 18:07:07 +0100
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I've just come across this group and I was wondering what files I need to
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install Linux.
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Also, what can Linux do? Can it run DOS programs via a shell? Does it require
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its own partition like xenix?
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Thanks in advance,
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Andy.
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