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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: Mon, 3 Oct 94 14:13:41 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #871
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Linux-Misc Digest #871, Volume #2 Mon, 3 Oct 94 14:13:41 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: New unix new GUI (philip m. thompson)
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Re: Don't use Linux or it's to academic! (Harald T. Alvestrand)
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NYC Linux Meeting at Unix Expo - Tuesday Oct4 (ACC Corp.)
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Re: Linux archives mirror map (Erik Troan)
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Re: Linux Documentation (Erik Troan)
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[Q] Driver for braille-box? (Matthias Bruestle)
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Re: Play Audio CD's on Linux? (Wolfgang Kalthoff)
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Re: kcore [Q] (Markus Haendel)
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Re: moxftp 2.2 for mosaic (Robert S. Cauthorn)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Seppo Kallio)
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Postgres Front End (?Ingres ditto) (Ted Harding)
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From: pmt@cyberspace.net (philip m. thompson)
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Crossposted-To: alt.fan.linus-torvalds
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Subject: Re: New unix new GUI
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:03:55 GMT
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Sami Cokar (cokars@cuug.ab.ca) wrote:
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: Now,
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: if only someone would design a FD interface that isn't
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: based on millions of layers....
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Feel free to design one!
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From: hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand)
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Subject: Re: Don't use Linux or it's to academic!
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 06:59:49 GMT
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In article <Cwx305.HKM@gcs.com>, mark@gcs.com (Mark Bolzern) writes:
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|> In article <7PIWkunLQ994071yn@oslonett.no>,
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|> Svein Erik Brostigen <serik@oslonett.no> wrote:
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|> >What amazes me, is that there are so few from the commercial world in
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|> >this fora, only from the academic world. Maybe I should take that as
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|> >a sign telling me that this is of purely academic interest at the
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|> >moment.
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Statements like this always make me run to my Linux Counter database.
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A VERY fast grep on simple registrations only gave me:
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aun% grep 'edu:' countlist | wc -l
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1229
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aun% grep 'com:' countlist | wc -l
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1097
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This does not weed out duplicates, does not count "form" entries, and
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generally only leaves a rough idea, but still...
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What is more amazing is that the relation between "home" use and "work"
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use is just about the same in both groups:
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aun% grep 'com:' countlist | grep 'home' | wc -l
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894
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aun% grep 'com:' countlist | grep 'work' | wc -l
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234
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aun% grep 'edu:' countlist | grep 'home' | wc -l
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986
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aun% grep 'edu:' countlist | grep 'work' | wc -l
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281
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That is, 75% home, 25% work.
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Linux is not for academics only. But most of us use it at home.
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(According to my estimates, between 37.000 and 950.000 use it at work.
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This is not an insignificant number)
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--
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
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G=Harald;I=T;S=Alvestrand;O=uninett;P=uninett;C=no
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+47 73 59 70 94
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My son's name is Torbj<62>rn. The letter between "j" and "r" is o with a slash.
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From: info@acc-corp.com (ACC Corp.)
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Subject: NYC Linux Meeting at Unix Expo - Tuesday Oct4
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 13:45:57 GMT
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There will be a New York City (and region) Linux Users Group meeting at Unix
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Expo at New York's Jacob Javits Center on Tuesday October 4, at 5.30pm. It
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will be in the conference room area on the lowest level.
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Please check at the NYC Linux Users Booth #1888 for the room number (or with
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the Linux Journal's booth 1881) during the show, ie before 5pm.
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The general theme of the evening will be "ask the guru", and we will be
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trying to encourage as much interaction between the attendees as possible.
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There will be a panel of knowledgable Linux users on hand to discuss issues
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from how to configure hardware, to the future of the Linux OS for both
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recreational (DOOM) and corporate use. The Panel will include:
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Michael K. Johnson, editor of the Linux Journal.
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Michael Johnston, President of Morse, Publishers of the Slackware
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Professional 2.0 Linux CD Package.
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Marc Ewing, Developer of the new Redhat Linux Distribution.
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H. J. Lu, Coordinator of the Linux Developers Tools project.
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The goal will be to have the "audience" contribute as much as possible.
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So come out and meet many of the local and a few national Linuxers. There
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will be even be give aways and we'll invite some suppliers of Linux products
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and tools, who will be at the show, such as the Linux Journal crew, to drop by.
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You can get a complimentary exhibits pass by registering electronically by
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telnetting to: blenheim.com
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and logging in as: unix94
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choose your terminal mode (ansi or vt100)
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and fill in the form. It did odd things when I registered, but seemed to work.
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See you Tuesday.
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Cheers, Bob Young, bob@acc-corp.com
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ACC Bookstores
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"Home of the PC UNIX - Linux Catalog"
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1 (800) 546-7274
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info@acc-corp.com
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From: ewt@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Erik Troan)
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Subject: Re: Linux archives mirror map
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:07:33 GMT
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In article <CwyLKv.v0@galileo.cuug.ab.ca>,
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Scott Barker <scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca> wrote:
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>Is there any one "official" site where any or all of the following are kept?
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>
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> Documentation
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The LDP archives at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/LDP are official, as
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are the HOWTO and faqs there. The Linux-faq is actually at ftp.cam-orl.co.uk
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but sunsite mirrors that nightly.
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> Source/binaries for applications
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Which application? X is at ftp.x.org, tex is probably somewhere at Stanford,
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gcc is at prep (w/ binaries at tsx-11, mirrored to sunsite), etc. There
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are thousands of applications, many of which aren't on sunsite or tsx-11.
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> Source/binaries for kernel development
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Source is at ftp.funet.fi, mirrored to sunsite and probably to tsx-11
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as well. No binaries should be considerd official - just officical parts
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of the various distributions.
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>I'm trying to set up a mirror at my site, and I need to know where to fetch
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>everything. I believe the home site for Slackware is ftp.cdrom.com, and the
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>home site for Debian is sunsite.unc.edu
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>However, the various source, binaries and especially documentation seem to be
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>different at each of tsx-11, sunsite and funet. I guess I'm mostly interested
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>in where the developers in each of those categories put their stuff.
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Depends on the developer.
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Erik
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--
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============================================================================
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"Like a fool I let dreams become great expectations" - Chess
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Erik Troan = ewt@sunsite.unc.edu = http://sunsite.unc.edu/ewt
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From: ewt@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Erik Troan)
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Subject: Re: Linux Documentation
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:09:26 GMT
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In article <1994Oct2.164453.26932@cs.cornell.edu>,
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Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
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>
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>It certainly should be. Sunsite's FTP seems to be flaky over the
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>last few days. You can get the LDP files from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux
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>if you can't get sunsite to cooperate.
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>
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Sunsite's has found some bugs in the OS it's now running. The problems
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should be fixd by now, but more may crop up.
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Sorry for all of this trouble, but uploading a network server that hands
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out well over 6 gigabytes of info a day is bound to run into problems.
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Erik
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--
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============================================================================
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"Like a fool I let dreams become great expectations" - Chess
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Erik Troan = ewt@sunsite.unc.edu = http://sunsite.unc.edu/ewt
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From: m@mbsks.franken.de (Matthias Bruestle)
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Subject: [Q] Driver for braille-box?
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 20:01:24 GMT
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Mahlzeit
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Is there a driver for a braille-box available? It is connected
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through the parallel port.
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Mahlzeit
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--
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A leap ahead... through insanity.
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From: wo@rio70.bln.sni.de (Wolfgang Kalthoff)
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Subject: Re: Play Audio CD's on Linux?
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 09:37:48 +0100
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Reply-To: wo@rio70.bln.sni.de (Wolfgang Kalthoff)
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try workman, should be included with slackware
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keep linuxing
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Wolfgang
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--
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Wolfgang Kalthoff | S iemens | email: wo@rio70.bln.sni.de
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Gustav-Meyer-Allee 1 | N ixdorf | kalthoff.bln@sni.de
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D-13355 Berlin | I nformation Systems | Tel: +49-30-4673-2951 Fax: 2915
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=============================================================================
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: markus@dyob.lahn.de (Markus Haendel)
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Subject: Re: kcore [Q]
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 09:15:16 GMT
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In article <199409301555.LAA24471@freenet.carleton.ca>,
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Frank J. Potolo <av643@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
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>I have a 16M file in /proc/kcore. Is it ok to delete it?
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ROTFL!
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You can't delete it. The only way to remove is, you have to remove
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your ram.
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But believe it or not the 16M file don't use a bit of your disk-space.
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Bye,
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Markus
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--
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- Ist das Problem unserer Zeit mangelndes Wissen oder fehlendes Interesse?
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- Weiss ich nicht, ist mir egal!
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From: cauthorn@indirect.com (Robert S. Cauthorn)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: moxftp 2.2 for mosaic
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 01:46:13 UNDEFINED
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In article <36ml6p$qp9@bigboote.WPI.EDU> alman@strangiato.res.wpi.edu (Benjamin Alman) writes:
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>From: alman@strangiato.res.wpi.edu (Benjamin Alman)
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>Subject: moxftp 2.2 for mosaic
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>Date: 2 Oct 1994 15:56:09 GMT
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>does anyone out there have the moxftp (compiled for mosaic) binaries (and
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>man page(s), docs, app-default-files, etc) they can .tar up and put up for
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>ftp somewhere? I'm running linux, but I don't have the space to compile
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>this myself... Could anyone help me out? THANKS!
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>PLEASE reply be email if possible.. thanks!
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You can get the binaries at sunsite, if memory serves. Look in /pub/X11/motif
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(or something like that). There will be two files, moxftp.tar.z and mftp.tar.z
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-- the second one is the binary, the first is the source.
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Bob
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cauthorn@indirect.com
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From: kallio@network.cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 10:53:03 +0200
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System Administrator (root@jaguar.tigerden.com) wrote:
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: First, the original problem as I originally mentioned it:
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: We are running slip to our internet provider, and intermittantly
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: experience telnet lockups during logins. The system either 1) refuses
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: connections 2) accepts the connection, but just sits 3) provides a login
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: prompt, takes input, and never gives the password prompt (ususally
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: creating a login zombie in the process).
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Hip! I have exactly same problmes 1 and 2 without slip !!!!!!! Not the
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problem 3.
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I have a 66MHz 486 + 32MB RAM + 2GB disk + 2000 (!) user accounts in my
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Linux box.
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Usually it works nice, but sometimes the whole net software seems to
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do nothing with the new connections. Login opens the window and
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connects, but no "login:" prompt. Same problems with smtp
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connections, they jammmm similar way. I think all telnet connections
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hang somehow or are extremely slow.
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In the begining I got "no more sockets" to the /usr/adm/messages. I
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doubled the socket tables in kernel. It did actually not help,
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expect I am not getting "no more sockets" into the /usr/adm/messages.
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My laste experiment: I did delete smtp from inetd.conf and started to
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run sendmail directly "standalone". I do not know if it helps. I have
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not had problems after that, but the week is in the begining. :-(
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: Additional information/trends noticed:
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: If the lockup occurs, allowing the telnet session with the locked
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: connection to sit while starting another is *always* successful.
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This is interesting. I have not noticed that. Must check it next time
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if I have same situation.
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Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi
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U of Jyvaskyla
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Finland
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From: Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Ted Harding)
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Subject: Postgres Front End (?Ingres ditto)
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:01:43 -0400
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Reply-To: Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Ted Harding)
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| From: rik@parsec.nl (Rik Zandvoort)
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| Subject: Suitable front-end to postgres ?
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| Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 09:45:46 GMT
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| Postgres seems to work fine with linux, but writing applications is not that
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| easy.
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| Does there exist any front end that is ported to Linux?
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| And where can I find it?
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And the same question for INGRES?
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Any useful answers would be much appreciated.
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Ted. (Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk)
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