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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 23:13:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #846
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Linux-Misc Digest #846, Volume #2 Thu, 29 Sep 94 23:13:12 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: xfree 3.2 (Andrew Robert Ellsworth)
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Are Micron Powerstations good Linux machines? (Chris Harris)
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Re: pkzip for dos? (Cave Newt)
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Re: pkzip for dos? (Cave Newt)
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Re: 3D CAD for Linux? Help! (Michael James Porter)
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Adeptic 1522 vs. 1542... (Derrik Walker II)
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where to get the texbook (Hans Petter Fasteng)
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Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? (Mitchum DSouza)
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Where to get iBCS (Mike Jagdis)
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Mosaic dies (Dongxiao Yue)
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Re: How Old Is Linus? (Terence S. Murphy)
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Re: Maple V for linux! (William Huang)
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Re: Tierra on Linux (carl patterson)
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Re: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev) (Janne Kukonlehto)
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Re: Assembler for LINUX??? (Drew Eckhardt)
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efax problem? (Udaya B. Vemulapati)
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PPP chat script (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan)
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Re: 256 colors on laptop X (Dan Pop)
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Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD? (Dan Pop)
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Re: Maple V for linux! (Harald Milz)
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Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? ("Eric Jeschke")
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From: are1@ritz.cec.wustl.edu (Andrew Robert Ellsworth)
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Subject: Re: xfree 3.2
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:50:34 -0500
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>Ok when and where will this be availble.....
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Chances are it'll be a while, since XFree86 3.1 is supposed to be out in a
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couple of days....
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Andy Ellsworth
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are1@cec.wustl.edu
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From: chharris@u.washington.edu (Chris Harris)
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Subject: Are Micron Powerstations good Linux machines?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 00:56:40 GMT
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Hello Folks,
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I'm considering buying a P90PCI or P66PCI Powerstation from Micron
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as a new PC. I'd like to run Linux as the primary OS, so I first wanted
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to make sure it is an okay machine to run it on. The machine I'm looking
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for has the following components:
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Intel 90MHz/66MHz Pentium
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256K 15ns cache
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16MB 70ns RAM, expandable to 192MB
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4 ISA slots, 2 PCI slots, and 1 ISA/PCI slot
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Phoenix flash BIOS
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Intel's Neptune PCI chipset
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3.5" floppy
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Mitsumi 280ms double-spin CD-ROM (IDE)
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527MB (10ms) IDE hard drive (Connor)
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15'' Micron 15FGx SuperVGA, non-interlaced screen, 1280 x 1024, .28dp
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1 parallel port, and two 16550-compatible serial ports
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Diamond SpeedStar 64 PCI 2MD DRAM video card
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I'd be primarily be using the machine for development, and running
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X full-time would be nice too. The reviews of the machine seem to be
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quite good, at least when windows places are reviewing it. Basically,
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I'm looking for any additional thigns I should take into consideration
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for running unix or Linux in particular.
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There are a few gotchas I can see with the bundle, and if you can
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point out any others, that'd be great. First, the diamond card is
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obviously not supported by XFree86. Therefore, I need to find a
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replacement. For a bit more $, they offer a Matrox MGA II+ PCI 2MB card,
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which looks like a good buy, except it doesn't look like that's supported
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either. Does anybody know if it is being worked on, or how hard it would
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be to add support? If that's not a feasable option, they allow you to
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drop the monitor and video card and save $350. Would it be better to buy
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a more standard setup from a local store?
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It also doesn't look like Linux supports any IDE CD-ROMs, so I'd
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probably need to replace it with a SCSI equivlent. They offer a Plextor
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DM-3028 SCSI-2 2X drive, which sounds like it'd be okay, but I'm not sure.
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Any ideas or suggestions would be appriciated.
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Thanks!
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-Chris
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--
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"If patterns of 1s and 0s were 'like' patterns of human lives and death,
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if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer by a
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long string of 1s and 0s, then what kind of creature would be represented
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by a long string of lives and deaths?" --Thomas Pynchon
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: pkzip for dos?
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Reply-To: roe2@midway.uchicago.edu
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:24:24 GMT
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ps@kis.uni-freiburg.de (Peter Suetterlin) writes:
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>What's about unzipping multi-volume pkZIP-files? Until now the only way
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>to unzip them was using dosemu. Or am I missing something?
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No, multi-part archives are still not supported. But why are you using
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PKZIP for that anyway? ARJ's multivolume support currently is much better.
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Greg Roelofs
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Info-ZIP (obviously not an ARJ fan)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: pkzip for dos?
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Reply-To: roe2@midway.uchicago.edu
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:18:19 GMT
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DABOUS@CHIP.FNAL.GOV wrote:
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>: Does Linux have a utility to pkunzip DOS .zip files? If yes, would
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>: you tell what site it is on?
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cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May) writes:
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>It's on sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/utils/compress/unzip51.tgz
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Actually unzip512.tar.gz (sources/docs) and unz512x.tar.gz (exes/docs).
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Also in ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/LINUX (home site).
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Greg Roelofs
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Info-ZIP UnZip guy
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From: mike@strauss.udel.edu (Michael James Porter)
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Subject: Re: 3D CAD for Linux? Help!
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 13:28:07 -0400
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In article <ENRICO.29.000DBCE4@farm.rug.nl>,
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P. Enrico <ENRICO@farm.rug.nl> wrote:
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=>Hi all,
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=>
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=>I'm desperately looking for a good 3D CAD for Linux, doesn't matter (well..)
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=>if is free or not. So far I've only found Siscad, but it's first a 2D CAD
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=>and then it's also (unfortunately) in german!
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I was able to run DesignCad under DOSemu. This isn't entirely a joke
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either. One of the slow things to do under DesignCad is printing. It
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was much faster to print to a postscript printer and have ghostscript
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convert it to Cannon BubbleJet output than have DesignCad rasterize the
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drawing in DOS. (DOSemu will route LPT: output to Linux 'lp'. lpr can
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run ghostscript...)
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I didn't try the 3-D version of the program, but I can if you are
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seriously interested.
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Mike
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From: dwalker@omega.csuohio.edu (Derrik Walker II)
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Subject: Adeptic 1522 vs. 1542...
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:26:49 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage ]
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[ Author was Derrik Walker II ]
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[ Posted on Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:21:07 GMT ]
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Since it appears that I can get a 1522 for around $80.00 and a 1542 for
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around $200.00, what I want to know is why I should get the 1542? Is it
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better or more realiable than the 1522?
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I will be using this in a 486 linux work station.
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any advice appreciated..
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-Derrik
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===============================================================================
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Derrik Walker II Student of Computer Sciences
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Cleveland State University Automation Assistant, Law Library
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d.k.walker85@csuohio.edu dwalker@omega.csuohio.edu
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===============================================================================
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http://pclab19.law.csuohio.edu:8099/html/dwalker/home.html
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--
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-Derrik
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===============================================================================
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Derrik Walker II Student of Computer Sciences
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Cleveland State University Automation Assistant, Law Library
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d.k.walker85@csuohio.edu dwalker@omega.csuohio.edu
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===============================================================================
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http://pclab19.law.csuohio.edu:8099/html/dwalker/home.html
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From: hansf@kfdata.no (Hans Petter Fasteng)
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Subject: where to get the texbook
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:30:55 GMT
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I hope to learn how to make docs in tex, I also hoped to make info pages and
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I think I need the texbook to do this. Where can I get this book or books?
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-Hans
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 10:50:51 GMT
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In article <frank.780526774@suffix.icce.rug.nl>, frank@icce.rug.nl (Frank B.
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Brokken) writes:
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|> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
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|>
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|> >Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
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|> >The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
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|> >post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.
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|>
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|> >So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
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|> >with zero problems). What is this other AMD?
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|>
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|> >RNA
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|>
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|>
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|> >In article <1994Sep25.165813.15237@tcel.com>,
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|> >Sean Watkins <sean@tcel.com> wrote:
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|> >>
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|> >>Hi,
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|> >>
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|> >>After labouring several hours to get AMD working, I have come to the
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|> >>ultimate conclusion that AMD coupled with NIS under Linux is broken.
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|> >>Following example summarizes:
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|> >>
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|> >>Let the auto.home map be equal to:
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|> >>
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|> >>gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
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|> >>www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
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|> >>other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other
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|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
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|> >>ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
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|> >>staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff
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|> host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
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|> >>cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust
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|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
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|> >>
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|> >>
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|> >>NIS Querys of this map anywhere succeed --
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|> >>
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|> >>pc06 ~ % ypcat -k auto.home
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|> >>gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
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|> >>www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
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|> >>other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other
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|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
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|> >>ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
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|> >>staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff
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|> host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
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|> >>cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust
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|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
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|> >>pc06 ~ %
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|> >>
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|> >>
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|> >>Amd -v reveals:
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|> >>pc06 ~ % amd -v
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|> >>Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
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|> >>Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
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|> >>Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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|> >>Unofficial patch level 67.
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|> >>amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-beta #0: Mon Aug 29 11:39:51 MDT
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|> 1994
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|> >>Built by root@pc01 for an i486 running linux version 1.1.34
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|> (little-endian).
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|> >>Map support for: root, passwd, union, file, error.
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|> >>FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, pcfs, program, union, auto,
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|> >> direct, toplvl, error.
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|> >> Primary network: primnetname="x.x.x.x" (primnetnum=x.x.x).
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|> >>No Subsidiary network.
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|> >>pc06 ~ %
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|> >>(x.x.x.x have been replaced)
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|> >>
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|> >>Invocation of amd reveals:
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|> >>pc06 ~ % amd -a /tmp_mnt /home auto.home
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[412]/info: My ip addr is 0x100007f
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info: file server localhost type local
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|> starts up
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: type nfs
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: version 1
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: fd 6
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: hostname 127.0.0.1
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: port 1023
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: fsname pc06:(pid413)
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: type (mntent) auto
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: opts
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|> intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info: linux mount: dir /home
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/user: No source data for map auto.home
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|> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info: auto.home mounted fstype toplvl on
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|> /home
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|> >>pc06 ~ %
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|> >>
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|> >>Ideas??? If I ypcat -k auto.home > /etc/auto.home then do amd -a /tmp_mnt
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|> >>/home /etc/auto.home it is successfull...
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|> >>
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It is widely recogonized that YP with AMD is not a very good idea. As you
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can provide AMD with commands on the startup line then I suggest something like
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% amd -a /tmp_mnt -- /home `ypcat -k auto.home`
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Mitch
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From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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Subject: Where to get iBCS
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 19:52:00 +0000
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* In message <35cfah$m4l@news.cais.com>, Zeke Miller said:
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CM> I have seen iBCS mentioned in several threads and would like
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CM> to know where I can get the emulator. Thanks for any help.
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tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2
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Mike
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: dyue@deca.cs.umn.edu (Dongxiao Yue)
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Subject: Mosaic dies
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:56:26 GMT
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When I run xmosiac for linux, it spit out
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Connect:no such file or directory
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and aborted.
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I suppose this happens when it can to open a file named "Connect:",
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can someone tell me what is this file and where to put it?
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Dongxiao
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From: blackbob@wwa.com (Terence S. Murphy)
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Subject: Re: How Old Is Linus?
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 02:35:05 -0500
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In article <hpa.0a870000.Allah.u.Abha@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu>,
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H. Peter Anvin <hpa@nwu.edu> wrote:
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>His exact birthdate is encoded in the kernel. (I am not telling
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>where, though.)
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Holy cow! I just downloaded the Linux News #3 which Lars Wirzenius just
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mentioned, and in it Linus says, "I'm 22 (as some avid kernel source
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readers have already found out: there is a hidden clue in there somewhere...)"
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So is anybody going to give some details on exactly where I can find
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this piece of information? I grepped through the source for things such
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as 69 but couldn't find it. Hmm... It probably has something to with
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the time starting at 1/1/70 since he would have been born within a few
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months before that.
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--
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Terry Murphy | UIUC Frosh/CS Major | "The whole world has been made again" -
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Marillion | There ought to be an alt.fan.linus-torvalds! | "The S.A.T is not
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geared for the lower class so why waste time even trying to pass?"-Gang Starr
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"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude"-H.D.Thoreau
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From: wyhuang@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (William Huang)
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Subject: Re: Maple V for linux!
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Date: 28 Sep 94 23:15:59 GMT
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In article <36blpu$491@j51.com> fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk) writes:
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!William Huang (wyhuang@sdcc15.ucsd.edu) wrote:
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!: In article <1994Sep27.003555.1874@escape.widomaker.com> shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) writes:
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!: !swein@csc.albany.edu (Scott Weinstein) writes:
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!: !
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!: I'll be really impressed when they get Matlab working for Linux.
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!
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!Matlab was ported to Linux more than a year ago in Mar. 1993. But for
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!whatever reason, it was not released. Please send emails to
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!info@mathworks.com.
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!
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!Please don't send emails to me.
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!
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!Thanks.
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!
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!NH
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Knowing mathworks, they're probably perfecting their liscense
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manager for Linux, so that if you tried to violate their liscence,
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your SCSI disk drive head will gouge the magnetic media.
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From: patterson@mse1.two.dec.com (carl patterson)
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Subject: Re: Tierra on Linux
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 12:02:06 GMT
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In article <36a6f7$rr4@lynx.dac.neu.edu>, zbrown@lynx.dac.neu.edu (zachary brown) says:
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>
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>Hi! Has anyone got Tierra (or any other AI/ALife program) working under
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>Linux, and if so could you tell me where to get it and how to build it
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>(if it requires special building for Linux)?
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>
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Tierra itself runs fine, I think I just used the sysv5 def in the makefile.
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I haven't tried working on the graphical browser for a bit, but my first couple tries
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didn't work. I remember thinking it would take a bit of time and haven't gone
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back to it yet.
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You can get it from the alife site alife.santafe.edu along with plenty of other
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goodies.
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enjoy it,
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carl
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From: jtklehto@stekt8.oulu.fi (Janne Kukonlehto)
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Subject: Re: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev)
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 18:05:17 GMT
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David K. Merriman <merriman@metronet.com> wrote:
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> In article <368s4h$1n7@kubds1.kub.nl> paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
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> >(One of the obvious things to work on is electronic transmission
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> >of bottles & alcoholic contents by internet)
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>
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> You mean uuencoding or MIME don't work? Bummer.
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>
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MIME does work. Take a look at RFC 1437: "The Extension of MIME
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Content-Types to a New Medium" which discusses about matter transport.
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--
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Janne Kukonlehto http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto
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From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
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Subject: Re: Assembler for LINUX???
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 19:35:07 GMT
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In article <369lju$ptp@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>,
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greek <qiongw@news-server.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
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>Does anyone know if there is any assembler available for linux?
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Yes - Linux uses the GNU assembler, which is included in the
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binutils binary distribution from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/GCC.
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>Something like Macro Assembler?
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Yes and no -
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No - Linux is unix (or at least as close as you can get without
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some one suiing you), so there shouldn't be a macro assembler
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since you can have the same effect with simpler tools.
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The Linux as is also intended to assemble compiler output,
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and not human generated code.
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Yes - take cpp, m4, or macro language of your choice to pre-process
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assembler input.
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--
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Since our leaders won't respect The Constitution, the highest law of our
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country, you can't expect them to obey lesser laws of any country.
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Boycott the United States until this changes.
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From: vemula@longwood.cs.ucf.edu (Udaya B. Vemulapati)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: efax problem?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:26:27 -0400
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Folks,
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This is my second posting about this problem. Hopefully, I'll
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get advice from the fellow netters this time.
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When I run "fax wait" to keep the "efax" running always ready to
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receive incoming faxes, I've trouble using the modem for out-going connections.
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Yes, I set-up my "efax" as well as my "pppd" to use UUCP-lock files. Yes, I
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gave "-s" switch to "efax" to release the lock file while waiting for
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action on the fax.
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The problem I've is that when "pppd" dials the modem (on an outgoing
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connection), I hear ***beep--beep--beep** from the modem (as if it is ready
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to receive a fax, those fax beeps). Even if then kill my efx/fax processes,
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and reset my modem through "minicom" at&F command, it still does that.
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In fact, the only way for me seems to be to "re-boot" the m/c. Any
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pointers are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Uday.
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From: asr@kpc01.q8petroleum.com.kw (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan)
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Subject: PPP chat script
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:00:48 GMT
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Please, please, please....I need a chat script for PPP login.
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I am open for any contribution :-))
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Thanx
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: 256 colors on laptop X
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:48:21 GMT
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In <369k0e$dl6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gmarzot@whaler.wellfleet.com () writes:
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>VGA16 seems to be the only mode detected by X when I start up on an NEC
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>UltraLite. I looked at the sample Xconfigs and found that the toshiba
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>laptop only listed VGA16 as well. Is there some inherent limitation here
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>or can I get 256 colors on my laptop? I know it can handle it since
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>windows runs with 256 colors.
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The limitation is that your graphics hardware is not supported by the
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VGA256 server. The only way to solve the problem is to write a driver
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for your chipset and include it in the VGA256 server. Or hope that
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someone else will do that :-)
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Dan
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--
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Dan Pop
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CERN, CN Division
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Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
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Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:57:17 GMT
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In <3680r1$dlu@girtab.usc.edu> plin@girtab.usc.edu (Po-Han Lin) writes:
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>If one has a pc compatible with a 486, which OS is the best unix
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>operating system? QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
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You forgot to tell us what you mean by "the best unix operating system".
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Or specify a method of comparing two OS's. So, your question is
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meaningless.
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Dan
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--
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Dan Pop
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CERN, CN Division
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Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
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Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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From: hm@ix.de (Harald Milz)
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Subject: Re: Maple V for linux!
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Reply-To: hm@ix.de
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:36:40 GMT
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Scott Weinstein (swein@csc.albany.edu) wrote:
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> I havn't seen anything on the newsgroups about this... Maple V is
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> available for Linux. It looks and runs just like the Solaris version.
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Yeah, and it's not only Maple V. It's all in the Commercial-HOWTO
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on ftp.ix.de. I tried to announce it in c.o.l.a, but it seems to have
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vanished. Matt, you hear me?
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--
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President Thieu says he'll quit if he doesn't get more than 50% of the
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vote. In a democracy, that's not called quitting.
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-- The Washington Post
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--
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Harald Milz (hm@ix.de) WWW: http://www.ix.de/editors/hm.html
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iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine phone +49 (511) 53 52-377
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Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover fax +49 (511) 53 52-378
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Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's.
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From: "Eric Jeschke" <jeschke@cs.indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:01:43 -0500
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rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
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:Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
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:The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
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:post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.
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:So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
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:with zero problems). What is this other AMD?
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amd == automount daemon
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It allows you to set up maps so that devices are mounted on demand
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and unmounted after a configurable period of inactivity.
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--
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Eric Jeschke | Indiana University
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jeschke@cs.indiana.edu | Computer Science Department
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