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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 94 15:14:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #167
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Linux-Admin Digest #167, Volume #2 Sun, 9 Oct 94 15:14:12 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Linux and X (Michael B. Montvelishsky)
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Re: Pentiums (Alan T Shutko)
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question about Xwin (nivek)
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Re: 16-user dial-up Linux? (Bart Kindt)
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Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far? (Michael H Price II)
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Re: PPP faster then 38.4 (Andreas Haumer)
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HELP with CDROM problems (Sid Boyce)
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Re: finger tells me "never logged in" ? how to fix it? (Andrew Robinson)
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Re: Bug in Linux 'mv'? (Michael H Price II)
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Help! NCR 53c810 problems with bootdisk (Rolf Larsen)
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Please don't post security holess... (Isis Leslie)
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tftp on Linux (Greg Shaw)
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PC m/boards + ncr PCI (some tips + info) (Angelo Haritsis)
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Re: tar help (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Installing Manpages (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Mathematica, GAUSS (Eric Gustafson)
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From: mic@fclub.mordovia.su (Michael B. Montvelishsky)
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Subject: Re: Linux and X
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 07:06:44 GMT
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Michael Hutera (mikeh@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
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: When I start up X the window is not centered. The whole screen shifts to the
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: right. Is there a way to center it?
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: Mike Hutera
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1. Start X
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2. Start some shell
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3. Start vgaset
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4. Adjust the screen (--help available)
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5. Remember the ticks and edit Xconfig.
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Michael Montvelishsky
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From: ats4@ritz.cec.wustl.edu (Alan T Shutko)
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Subject: Re: Pentiums
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Date: 07 Oct 1994 07:18:01 GMT
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>>>>> "Shaune" == Shaune Beattie <sdgb1@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
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In article <36qc47$g72@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> sdgb1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Shaune Beattie) writes:
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Shaune> version of gcc would be made... as it is I would guess the
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I heard a rumor that an official verion was in the works... but no specifics.
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Shaune> 486-100 to be faster? Anyone confirm/deny this? Tried the
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Someone posted benchmarks a while back... P-60 was marginally faster
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on ints than the DX4 (non P-optimized), but smeared it when it came to
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floats. Unfortunately, floats aren't used as often....
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--
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Alan Shutko - Home of the Mighty Morphin' Power Sig - ats4@cec.wustl.edu
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On the other hand, I have four fingers and a thumb.
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GCS/S d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a-- w+(@) v+++(-) C++++ UL++++ P+>+++ L++ 3 E+++
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N++ K++ W--- M-- V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5+++ j R G !tv D- B--- e+>++++ u h f r++ n-
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y+(**)
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From: ind00812@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (nivek)
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Subject: question about Xwin
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:20:22 -0400
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If I connect PPP to a remote site that runs Xwindows.. is it at all
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possible to run X remotely provided my PC has the video card to do it?
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I connect to Suns what run OpenLook.. I doubt this is possible, but was
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just wondering if it was to all you Linux gurus.. please respond via E-mail
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muchas gracias
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From: bart@dunedin.es.co.nz (Bart Kindt)
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Subject: Re: 16-user dial-up Linux?
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 05:30:38 GMT
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In article <36v257INNj7q@uwm.edu> wls@magrathea.csd.uwm.edu (Bill Stapleton) writes:
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>Path: otago.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!waikato!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!magrathea.csd.uwm.edu!wls
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>From: wls@magrathea.csd.uwm.edu (Bill Stapleton)
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>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin
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>Subject: 16-user dial-up Linux?
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>Date: 5 Oct 1994 20:26:15 GMT
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>Organization: Computing Services, U of Wisc-Milwaukee
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>Lines: 13
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>Distribution: world
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>Message-ID: <36v257INNj7q@uwm.edu>
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>NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.70.45
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>We're planning on setting up a Pentium-90 type machine (64 meg, PCI/SCSI 2 gig)
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>with 16 modem lines for dial-up usage. We haven't decided what hardware to
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>connect the serial lines with though. Are people actually using any of those
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>neat new multiport "intelligent" serial boards, especially with modem control?
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>Anybody doing multi-user dial-up willing to share hints/warnings/experience,
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>or bleeding edge hardware horror tales?? :-) Please E-mail and I'll post a
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>summary. Thanks...
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>--
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>Bill Stapleton
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> wls@magrathea.csd.uwm.edu
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> uwmcsd4!wls
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I am about to get a 16 port card myself for our Internet SLIP server. It
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looks like the only *inteligent* card available for Linux is the Cyclade card.
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Info on this card via: cyclades.netcom.com
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I have not tried it yet, but I have not been able to find any other inteligent
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card for which a Linux driver exists...
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If you hear of anything else, let me know. This card is pretty expensive..
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Greetings, Bart.
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Bart Kindt (ZL4FOX) System Operator, Efficient Software NZ LTD, Dunedin, New Zealand
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====================================================================================
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From: mhp1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Michael H Price II)
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Subject: Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 12:16:01 -0500
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Of course, dare I say it, everyone could just go ahead and use sendmail
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instead of smail ;-)
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Michael
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From: andreas@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haumer)
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Subject: Re: PPP faster then 38.4
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Date: 08 Oct 1994 20:47:42 GMT
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Hi!
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In article <376m8q$74d@pdx1.i.net> steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich) writes:
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Can you run PPP or slip faster than 38.4? I have a V.34 modem that I use
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to communicate with my Internet provider that also has a v.34 modem on his
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side.
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Thanks
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Well, you can use the "setserial" command to change the baud rate of your
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serial device up to 115kb. With this command you can tell the device-
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driver to use a higher baud rate when your application requests 38.4kb
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(but a "stty -a < /dev/ttyxx" will still show you a speed of 38400 baud)
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See the "setserial" man-page for more details!
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Of course, you should use a 16550A UART to get this high throughput!
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I'm writing this using a SLIP-line with "dip" and a USRobotics V.FC modem
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at a serial connection speed of 115kb on my linux side and it works, as you
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can see :-)
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Hope, this helps...
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andreas
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--
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======================+===============================+========================
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andreas haumer | phone: +43.1.6256583 |
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buchengasse 67/8 | fax: +43.1.408355719 |
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a-1100 vienna | e-mail: | god is real -
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austria | andreas@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at | unless declared integer
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: szb50@ccc.amdahl.com (Sid Boyce)
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Subject: HELP with CDROM problems
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Reply-To: szb50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Sid Boyce)
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 12:00:42 GMT
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The following was received via Packet Radio TCP/IP mail and has been
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posted on Chris' behalf.
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Any help greatfully received, thanks in advance.
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Regards
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Sid .... G3VBV ... Amdahl(UK) ....
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From gb7bir.ampr.org!g7bgp Sat Oct 8 08:09:26 1994
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Return-Path: <g7bgp@gb7bir.ampr.org>
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Message-Id: <199410080706.AA00504@gb7bir.ampr.org>
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Subject: Lazermate CD DRIVE
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To: g3vbv%g3vbv.ampr.org
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 08:06:46 +0100 (BST)
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From: "Chris Lord" <g7bgp@gb7bir.ampr.org>
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X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
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Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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Content-Length: 1124
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Status: RO
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Hi Sid.
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I wonder if you could help as leigh suggested you may be able to.I have just
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fitted a Lazermate INT 562 CD rom in my machine or may be known as a
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PANASONIC CR-562-B which it mentions in the CDROM-HOWTO and the Kenel info
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but it always looks for a Sound Blaster card on bootup and cannot find one.
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I am using the interface that came with the drive.I wonder if you know what
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i have got to setup ?.Leigh said that if you do not know you may be able to
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ask on the internet for me ?.
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It does say in the CDROM-HOWTO that for the panasonic drive it might be
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better to get the kernel to auto-probe on bootup but i am not sure how this
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is done ?.I did see Darryl do it at his house the other weekend on my
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machine when i saw you there if you remember me ?.DO you know.
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Hope you can help me.
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73's..Chris
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--
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Chris Lord (G7BGP) | G7BGP@GB7BIR.#29.GBR.EU | g7bgp@gb7bir.ampr.org |
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| SysOp of GB7BIR WM HUB | 0121-329-2195 | LINUX FOREVER! |
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: robinson@cnj.digex.net (Andrew Robinson)
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Subject: Re: finger tells me "never logged in" ? how to fix it?
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Date: 04 Oct 1994 23:19:05 GMT
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In article <jacek.244.000073EF@eng1.uconn.edu> jacek@eng1.uconn.edu (Jacek A. Ponarski) writes:
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>Hi all,
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>I guess the subject says it all. That shows even when I was logged in.
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>Thanks,
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It looks like your /var/adm/lastlog (or /usr/adm/lastlog) file either does
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not exist or is not readable. That is where the last login information is
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stored. If it doesn't exist, you can simply create it.
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--
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Andrew Robinson
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robinson@cnj.digex.net (MIME and Andrew mail welcome)
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From: mhp1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Michael H Price II)
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Subject: Re: Bug in Linux 'mv'?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 12:18:10 -0500
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scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
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>> cp doesn't copy symlinks. If you want a completely messed up file tree, go
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>> for it, otherwise use tar from the source tree:
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>the '-a' option of copy tells it to copy symlinks. It implies '-d' which is
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>"no-dereference". It works just fine for me.
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Regardless of that, tar is still safer.
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Michael
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From: Rolf Larsen
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Subject: Help! NCR 53c810 problems with bootdisk
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 13:24:40 GMT
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I use a Install bootdisk with an updated NCR boot image which works well.
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When I installs Linux, I use custom disks ncr1 & ncr2. When these disks are installed I get
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an error message wich tells me that there are maybe missing som files on the disks, but I chose to continue,
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and everything seems to work well. (I know that the filesizes at the disk is a bit different than what
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displays in ncrdisc1 & ncrdisc2, but i just asume that there's maybe an difference in the way that unix and dos counts bytes..)
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Anyhow, in the setup I choose to not install scsi & ide files located in a1, but instead i select ncr later on.
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When setup makes a bootup floppy, it seems to take to short time to make it, and it will not work when i try to boot on it either.
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If I include scsi or ide support from disk a1, then the bootdisk that setup makes will boot, but the system will not be able to connect
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to my scsi drives.
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My conclusion is that i either do something wrong, or that i am missing som files. Anyone that can give me som help here?
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Rolf Larsen Digital Partner
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rolf@eunet.no Internet Provider
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PMD Data a.s Tel: +47 371 51644
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Postb. 181 Fax: +47 371 51900
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4951 RISOR Mob: 942 94005
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From: sheela@er7.rutgers.edu (Isis Leslie)
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Subject: Please don't post security holess...
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 12:20:19 -0400
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I'm rather unconfortable with the posting of all of these security holes.
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For a while I was under the impression that this was a no-no, and that
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while sure, posting a "fix" or "work around will tell those in the know
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just what the whole is, at least it makes it a little tougher.
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I had the smail hole fixed for a while, but none the less imediately after
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the post to the announce group I had about 15 incidents of people trying to
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mail to /etc/passwd. (Remotely and they were too stupid to not make it
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so I couldn't get their user id's...go figure)
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While nothing happened to my machine, someday I won't be able to check my
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system the same day the initital post is made.
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peace-Isis
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From: shaw@manwe.fmsoft.com (Greg Shaw)
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Subject: tftp on Linux
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 23:30:43 GMT
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I was trying to get some xterminals up the other day, and was
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having a heck of a time getting them to boot. After messing with tftp for
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a couple of hours, I grabbed the source from the net. The gotcha:
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Different than other systems, tftp on Linux runs from the root
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area, not /tftpboot.
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So, to get an xterm up and running, boot it from /tftpboot/filename
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rather than just filename.
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If you find this solution obvious, please disregard. I just wanted
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to save others some time and effort in getting tftp devices to boot.
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Greg.
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Gregory Shaw Programmer, SysAdmin
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fmSoft, Inc. Network Planner
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shaw@manwe.fmsoft.com And homebrewer...
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--
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Gregory Shaw Programmer, SysAdmin
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fmSoft, Inc. Network Planner
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shaw@manwe.fmsoft.com And homebrewer...
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From: ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: PC m/boards + ncr PCI (some tips + info)
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Date: 9 Oct 94 14:52:20 GMT
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Hello all,
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A while ago I asked the net about PCI motherboards that will work
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well with linux and Drew's NCR PCI SCSI driver.
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This is a very short summary of ideas I collected from various people
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together with some personal views.
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Before I start, I would like to point out that most of my questions
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had answers in the comprehensive PCI-HOWTO, which you should read
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when you decide to plunge into the PCI world. Get it from your favourite
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tsx-11 mirror.
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I will try to quote information here that is not found in the PCI-HOWTO.
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IN fact a part of this posting will be sent to the PCI-HOWTO maintainers
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so that it will eventually contain most of the info you will need.
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486 PCI motherboard: SA486P AIO-II
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The motherboard I eventually bought (in the UK) is one supporting
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486 SX/DX/DX2/DX4 chips. It is called SA486P AIO-II. Features include:
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Intel Saturn v2 chipset
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Phoenix BIOS (flash eprom option)
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NCR scsi BIOS v 3.04.00
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256K 15ns cache (max 512) write back & write through
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4 72-pin SIMM slots in 2 banks
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3 PCI slots, 4 ISA
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On-board NCR 53c810 scsi controller
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On-board IDE / floppy / 2 x 16550A uarts / enhanced parallel
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I bought it from a company (UK) called ICS (note I have no connections
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whatsoever with the company, just a happy customer). I use a 486/DX2-66 CPU.
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Before I had a VLB 486 m/board with a buslogic BT-445S controller that
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I was borrowing. I have 2 scsi devices: 1 barracuda 2.1GB ST12550N disk
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and a Wangtek 5525ES tape drive.
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I was expecting a lot of adventures by switching to the new motherboard,
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esp after hearing all these non-success stories on the net. To my
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surprise everything worked flawlessly on the 1st boot! (1.1.50). And it
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has been doing so for about a month now. I did not even have to repartition
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the disk: apparently the disk geometry bios translation of the 2
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controllers is the same.
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Linux has had no problems at all. SCSI is visibly much faster as well
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(sorry, I have no actual performance measurements).
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The only problems (related to Drew's linux ncr scsi driver - thanks for the
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good work Drew!) are:
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(1) lilo cannot boot from the scsi disk unless you manually edit /etc/disktab
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(a one-off simple procedure).
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(2) disconnect/reconnect is disabled; ditto with synchronous negotiation.
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The former just causes scsi ops to "hold" during certain lengthy
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tape operations (eg rewind). The latter just looses some extra spped.
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These will not be a problem in the near future.
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I hear Drew is working to fix them.
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I had a small problem with MS Windoze! On win startup I get this warning:
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{
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The Microsoft Windows 32-bit disk driver (WDCTRL) cannot be loaded. There
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is unrecognizable disk software installed on this computer.
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The address that MS-DOS uses to communicate with the hard disk has been
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changed. Some software, such as disk-caching software, changes this address.
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If you aren't running such software, you should run a virus-detection
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program to make sure there is no virus on your computer.
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To continue starting Windows without using the 32-bit
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disk driver, press any key.
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}
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This is not really a problem. All works fine after this. And if I remove
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the WDCTRL driver from the SYSTEM.INI I get no warning. But I am
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wondering whether I am loosing in performance (it does not look
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like it). I can state that this problem did *not* appear with the
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buslogic VLB 445S scsi controller.
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All else is fine. I tried the serial ports with some dos/windows s/w
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and worked ok. The IDE/floppy work ok as well. I have not tried the parallel
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yet. The motherboard is quite fast and so far I am very pleased with the
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upgrade. I have not yet tried a PCI graphics board. I will later
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on. I am using an old ISA S3 which is fine at the moment).
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GENERAL TIPS FOR: PCI MOTHERBOARDS + LINUX NCR PCI SCSI
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This was compiled from various people's postings.
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o DON'Ts:
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Do *NOT* go for combination VLB/PCI motherboards. They usually have
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a lot of problems. Get a plain PCI version (with ISA slots as well
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of course).
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A lot of bad things have been heard about OPTI chipset PCI motherboards.
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Someone hints: "Avoid the OPTi (82C596/82C597/82C822) chipset based
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motherboards like the TMC PCI54PV".
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Rumours say that Intel chipset PCI motherboards will have problems
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with more than one bus-mastering PCI board. I have not tried this one
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yet on mine and have nothing to suggest. I also heard that the
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Saturn II chipset is problematic, but this is the one I use
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and it is perfectly ok! Advice: Try to negotiate a 1-2 week money
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back agreement with your supplier, in case the motherboard
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you get has problems with the use you plan for it.
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o SIMM slots: go for 72-pin only SIMMs for speed:
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Some (all?) of the mainboards which take 30 pin SIMMs use a 32 bit
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main memory interface, and will be significantly slower than the
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Intel based boards which all use a 64 bit or permantly interleaved
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memory interface. You might want to keep that in mind.
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o Praised PCI Pentium motherboard : P90 Intel motherboard with the Intel
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Premiere II chipset (aka Plato). Get the latest BIOS which has
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concatenated NCR scsi BIOS 3.04.00. Otherwise DOS won't see your
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scsi disk(s) if you use a BIOS-less 53c810 based controller.
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NCR SCSI BIOS exists in the AMI BIOS of the plato after version 1.00.08
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(or maybe verion 1.00.06). This BIOS is FLASH upgradeable so you should be
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able to get the upgrade on a floppy from your supplier. The current
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version is 1.00.10 and has all early problems fixed.
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o The value in the interrupt line PCI configuration register is usually
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set manually (for compatability with legacy ISA boards) in the
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extended CMOS setup screens on a per-slot or per-device basis.
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Older PCI mainboards also force you to set jumpers for each
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PCI slot/device which select how PCI INTA and perhaps INTB, INTC,
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and INTD are mapped to an 8259 IRQ line, Obviously, if
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these jumpers exist on your board, they must match the
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settings in the extended CMOS setup.
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Also note that some boards (notably Viglens) have silkscreens
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and instruction manuals which disagree with the wiring, and some
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experimentation may be in order.
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o Info about the different NCR 8xx family scsi chips:
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All NCR 8XX Chips are dircet connect PCI bus mastering devices, that
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have no preformance difference wether on motherboard or add in
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option card. All devices comply with PCI 2.0 Specification, and can
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burst 32 bit data at the full 33 MHz (133Mbytes/Sec)
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53C810 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2 (10 MB/Sec) Single ended only
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Requires Integrated Mother board BIOS 100 pin Quad Flat Pack (PQFP)
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Worlds first PCI SCSI Chip, Volumes make it the most inexpensive.
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53C815 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2 (10 MB/Sec) Single Ended only
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Support ROM BIOS interface, which makes it ideal for add-in
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card Designs. 128 Pin QFP
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53C825 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2, Single ended or Differential
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16 bit Fast SCSI-2 (20 MB/Sec), Single ended or Differetial
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Also has support for external Rom, making it a good
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candidate for add in cards. 160 pin QFP
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Not supported by linux yet. Must have devices with wide
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or differential scsi to use these features.
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There are 4 new devices planned for announcement late this year and into
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early next year. Footprint compitible with 810 and 825 with some new
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features.
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All the Chips require a BIOS in DOS/Intel applications. The 810 is
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the only chip that needs it resident on the motherboard. Latest NCR
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SCSI BIOS version: 3.04.00
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The bios supports disks >1GB for DOS.
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o Performance of the 53c810:
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C't magazine's DOS benchmarks showed that it was significantly
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faster than the Buslogic BT-946, one user noted a 10-15% performance
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increase versus an Adaptec 2940, and with a very fast disk it may be
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2.5X as fast as an Adaptec 1540.
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Hope you find this helpful,
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Angelo
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--
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#include <standard.disclaimer.h>
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Angelo Haritsis, Applied Systems Section
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s-mail: Dpt of Computing,Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
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e-mail: ah@doc.ic.ac.uk - !!!NEW!!! tel:+44 71 594 8434 - fax:+44 71 581 8024
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: tar help
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 05:26:06 GMT
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In article <vttoth.133.0029DAAA@vttoth.com>,
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Viktor T. Toth <vttoth@vttoth.com> wrote:
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>In article <Cx2Byv.E0D@mercury.wright.edu> s010dls@alpha.wright.edu () writes:
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>
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>>I'm having trouble with tar. When I try to us it, all I get is:
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>>
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>>tar: can't open /dev/rmt0 : No such device or address
|
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>>
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>>Why does it say this? I looked for /dev/rmt0 and it's there.
|
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>>Thanks.
|
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>
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>Do you actually have a tape device on your system? Or are you trying to
|
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>(un)tar a disk file?
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If you are trying to untar a .tar file, use the f option
|
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(as in tar xvf <filename>).
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>
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>Just because the entry /dev/rmt0 exists, that doesn't mean that you actually
|
|
>have a real device behind it.
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>
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>Viktor
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>
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Installing Manpages
|
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 05:29:00 GMT
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In article <36pbpt$e5e@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>,
|
|
Paul E Rubin <prubin@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
|
|
>
|
|
> Hi. I've recently got a hold of some manpages for Xt functions to program
|
|
>X-windows. However, I'm having a hard time installing therm..
|
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>I've edit MANPATH a few times, but the change never takes place.
|
|
>say the manpages are in the directory ~john/manpages. I've edit MANPATH as
|
|
>setenv MANPATH /home/john/manpages ${MANPATH} in my .cshrc file. I've tryed
|
|
>loging out and rebooting the machine, but somehow the new path doesn't get
|
|
>updated.
|
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>
|
|
>anyone have any idea why??
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>
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>I have slackware 1.1.8
|
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>
|
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>thanks
|
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>
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|
>Paul
|
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>
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I don't know about Slackware, but my Yygdrasi luses a more complex system
|
|
by which it maps directories in the path variable to create a manpath
|
|
based on what you can really access. If you have the same system, you
|
|
shoudl be able to get all the info by typing
|
|
man manpath
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|
Jeff Kesselman
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------------------------------
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From: egustafs@vlsia (Eric Gustafson)
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Subject: Re: Mathematica, GAUSS
|
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 23:33:44 GMT
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|
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Ted Harding (Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk) wrote:
|
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: In response to queries from colleagues, I am trying to find out if
|
|
: the mathematics packages MATHEMATICA and GAUSS are available for
|
|
: Linux, or in UNIX version which can be persuaded to work in Linux.
|
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|
|
I talked to Wolfram Research about 6 months ago and at that time they
|
|
told me that they were considering porting Mathematica to linux but
|
|
had not made their minds up yet. The person I talked to strongly
|
|
suggested that I send them email requesting Mathematica for Linux. I
|
|
forget the first part of the address, but its something@wri.com for
|
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those who want to voice their opinion.
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--
|
|
Eric Gustafson egustafs@vlsia.uccs.edu
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Electrical & Computer Engineering egustafs@cpe.valpo.edu
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University of Colorado -- UCCS Phone: (719) 637-8022
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