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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: Sat, 15 Oct 94 16:13:11 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #944
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Linux-Misc Digest #944, Volume #2 Sat, 15 Oct 94 16:13:11 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be (Moises Lejter)
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Re: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be (Moises Lejter)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! - AND UNFREEZE KLUDGE (Donald Becker)
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Tar | Seyon Problems (David J Topper)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Geoff Rehmet)
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Re: Emacs & LaTeX (Was: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?) (Tim Holmes)
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Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree (Andrew R. Tefft)
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MINICOM Downloading Not Working (Eric Silver)
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Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware (Moises Lejter)
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Linux, Adaptec1542C-SCSI-II (Twigt CJ)
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Re: DoomX where (Anthony W. Kay)
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Re: IDE or SCSI CD-ROM (Anthony W. Kay)
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?????? how many space do I need ?????? (Benny)
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Re: What is Linux good for?
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[Q] Linux for PowerBooks (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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Re: Problem with TERM (Marko Schuetz)
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getty/uugetty problems in slackware (BUG REPORT) (Joe Rhett)
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How to setup Linux to be a WWW server? (Paul Pearson)
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Which fonts to get for Mosaic? (Alexandra Griffin)
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Re: siscad (Alexandra Griffin)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter)
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Subject: Re: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be
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Reply-To: mlm@cs.brown.edu
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 07:49:17 GMT
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Gerry> This may be ok (I have no reason to doubt it), but for just a
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Gerry> little more work you can make it a Linux swap partition
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Gerry> rather than just a swap file. See the mini how-to for
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Gerry> details.
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I know... but it worried me, though, that if Linux crashed I would
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have to go through a couple of steps before running DOS/Windows
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instead.
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Moises
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--
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=============================================================================
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Internet/CSnet: Moises_Lejter@brown.edu BITNET: mlm@browncs.BITNET
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UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.brown.edu!mlm Phone: (401)863-7671
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USmail: Moises Lejter, Box 1910 Brown University, Providence RI 02912
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter)
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Subject: Re: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be
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Reply-To: mlm@cs.brown.edu
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 07:54:51 GMT
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In connection with all this - I've booted Linux off a few times since
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setting up as described in my previous message, and I have found a
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small problem. In particular, I do this to set up my Windows swap file
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as a Linux partition:
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Moises> - In /etc/rc.multi (or wherever your setup activates swap)
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Moises> add these lines:
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Moises> # add Windows swap file as Linux swap
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Moises> mkswap /dev/swapfile 9796
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Moises> swapon /dev/swapfile
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I have noticed that a couple of times it's told me that it is setting
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up a swap file that is ~10MB (output from mkswap) then it's told me
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that it is activating ~17M (output from swapon) - yet my only swap is
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that lone swapfile that is only 10MB. My total memory, swap plus
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real, is ~17MB - but real mem should not be counted in that output
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from swapon, should it?
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The other times I've booted up Linux, it says (correctly, I think)
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that it is activating ~10MB of swap.
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Anyone have any thoughts about what might be going wrong? Thanks!
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Moises
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--
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=============================================================================
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Internet/CSnet: Moises_Lejter@brown.edu BITNET: mlm@browncs.BITNET
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UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.brown.edu!mlm Phone: (401)863-7671
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USmail: Moises Lejter, Box 1910 Brown University, Providence RI 02912
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From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! - AND UNFREEZE KLUDGE
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 10:11:34 -0400
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[[ I rarely quote whole articles, but this one seemed important. ]]
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In article <37mui3$44c@mickey.iaccess.za>,
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Steve Davies <steve@iaccess.za> wrote:
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>We experience a problem on out Linux 1.1.19 systems where
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>the inetd goes deaf and won't handle any more incoming connections.
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>
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>If you run inetd in debugging mode then as I recall you see that
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>select() starts to return -1 [Dimly remembered]
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>
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>The fix is to kill inetd and start a new one.
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>
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>The cause? I have found that the problem is caused by people connecting
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>with SLIP and using the *wrong IP address* on their end. In other words
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>they have configured their IP stack with an address different from that
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>in the diphosts file.
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This would explain a lot!
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The problem is unlikely to happen with other connection types.
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Most people that could track this problem down have correctly configured
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connections and never see the problem.
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--
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Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
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Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
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301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
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From: djt1@namaste.cc.columbia.edu (David J Topper)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Tar | Seyon Problems
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 06:07:23 GMT
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Tar Question:
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My version of tar gives me the following error when I try to extract from the
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following file:
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tar -x Cmix.manual.tar
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tar: can't open /dev/nftape : I/O error
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Granted, I did download the file with a DOS comm program and then copy it over
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to a Linx directory (having my DOS partition mounted to /dosc). Would that
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make a difference? Or is there something esle at work here.
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Seyon Question:
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So in order to rectify the above situaion, possibly, I tried to download the
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file again with seyon. Whenever I try to:
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sz Cmix.manual.tar
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I get a bunch of timeout errors. Even if I try to time things exactly (i.e.,
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type the above command, then do a RECEIVE - Reg. Zmodem, then watch errors).
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In general, I've been having bad luck getting seyon to upload and download
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files.
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Any help to either of the above would be greatly appreciated.
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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:35:32 GMT
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Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za
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=====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE=====
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In <37ii2n$2i2@bigboote.WPI.EDU> joev@res.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau) writes:
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>Well, FreeBSD is closer to Ultrix (which is BSD based) by definition :)
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>Linux, which is SYSV based, also has a lot of BSDisms with it...
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Be careful calling Linux SYSV based. Linux is not based on the SYSV
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source tree -- if it were, you would be paying a lot of money. I think
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Linux tries, rather, to take nice features from both BSD and SYSV, and
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provide a fairly POSIX-complient implementation (for what POSIX is
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worth).
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I would rather say that Linux is "Linux-based" rather than "SYSV-based"
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:-)
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Geoff.
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--
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Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa
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FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\
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csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\
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finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \
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From: holmes@chimp.gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Emacs & LaTeX (Was: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?)
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 15:03:20 PDT
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abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:
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> One person is working a limited "wysiwig" mode. It will not be real
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> wysiswyg, but it will do some limited formating and hide all LaTeX
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> commands, i.e. much like WordPerfect for DOS. An early version was
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> posted to gnu.emacs.sources (I will not mail it)
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>
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In my opinion, this seems like the way to go. It would provide
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compatibility with current documents and allow those who prefer
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to have a WYSIWIG mode. There could be pull down menus and all
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of the rest of the word processor type conveniences. Codes could
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be invisibly inserted by the program. If I understand
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what this person is doing, it would be like a word processor
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which uses "/" commands for formatting.
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From: teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Subject: Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree
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Reply-To: teffta@erie.ge.com
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 17:59:33 GMT
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In article <37556o$q75@sashimi.wwa.com>, blackbob@wwa.com (Terence S. Murphy) writes:
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>I don't like the idea of a menu to set the appearance of X because it
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>would be too limiting. What I think would be more helpful would be
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>something like a BeautifyX-HOWTO, or something similar.
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Well, Sun has the openwindows Properties tool, and hp vue has the Style
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manager. And yes, they are limiting. But on the other hand, they have
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the desired result: they give some amount of customization ability
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with little knowledge needed, and little opportunity to screw up, and
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with VUE, some *very* nice color schemes, which are hard to come up with
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for those of us who are not graphic designers, and they are obeyed by most
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software (including some you might not want to obey your color schemes).
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Anyway I like the idea of a HOWTO, but even better, I like the idea of a
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whole package, containing documentation, sample configuration files of
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various 'schemes' of things (.fvwmrc's, app-defaults files, whatever),
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and a tool to manipulate (choose/install) them.
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This package could be used by anyone, not made the default in any
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distribution, but available for the target audience to use, and
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shouldn't prevent anyone from using newly-gained knowledge to manually
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tweak the results. In fact I am frankly surprised that no distribution
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has one yet, after seeing slackware's current color install program.
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>One thing that would be neat would be a list of nice color combinations.
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>Sometimes I see these discussed and I often test them out and like
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>them enough to incorporate them enough into my configuration. And
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>whenever I add a new program to my configuration, I'm at a loss to
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>think of a new color combination.
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Yes, this is tough. I have seen a few available programs come with
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really nice defaults files giving nice color combinations: frisk
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(risk clone), xpat2-1.00, xv, xpaint (actually I don't know where
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this resource file came from but I like it), and Andrew stuff. tcl/tk
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applications are generally a consistent beige color, although I don't
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really like the default look of tknews. Then there is xmailtool, which
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is, well, green. I don't mind it but I know plenty of people who do. And
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lots of applications are just vanilla -- mumail, emacs, the old version
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of xsokoban, xcalc(ulator), to name a few I have encountered.
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Someone (I think it was in a Sunergy email newsletter) once posted
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a list of foreground/background combinations he liked for terminal
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windows. I adopted only one: DarkSlateBlue background, LemonChiffon1
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foreground. I am not a big fan of black-on-white or white-on-black, but
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that is my default xterm window, and I use a few other color schemes for
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specific windows to identify them: black background with amber, green,
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turquoise, or royal blue; pastel-colored backgrounds (green, pink, blue,
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ivory) with black text, and some gray backgrounds with hot pink or primary
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colors for the foreground. It was tough, but I got my olvwm colors to match
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twm's (maroonish borders with silver-gray text).
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Just keep me away from cheesy white-on-"dos-blue" (default dos editor colors)!
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--
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Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
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From: silver.e@grin.io.org (Eric Silver)
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Subject: MINICOM Downloading Not Working
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 07:47:17 GMT
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I tried several times to make the rz and rx part of MINICOM work.
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I was trying to download a file from a UNIX BBS and the system
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seems to just sit there. I can perform this same function using
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DOS based PROCOMM PLUS. The order I do things in is;
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$sz filename [Enter] from the shell prompt at the BBS
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ctrl-a r
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z [Enter]
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filename typed in pop up box
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Then the system just seems to sit there and no file is actually
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transfered. I have checked the pathnames for valid entries.
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Would some please let me know the specific keystokes to make
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MINICOM downloading work properly.
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Thanks,
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Eric Silver
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware
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Reply-To: mlm@cs.brown.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 03:35:17 GMT
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In article <jeffpkCxF8Iy.3CE@netcom.com>, jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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yxiao>3. Plug-and-Play, no-plug, no-play: waning CD-ROM can be a
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yxiao> challenge We didn't install everything (has anyone?), thus we
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yxiao> picked packages we wanted from control-panel. Guess what, we
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yxiao> still have pointers to CD-ROM, such as /usr/X386/lib/libX11*.
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Jeff> Did you follow the erratta and install usrbin first from the
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Jeff> command line before you used the X based installer? I've
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Jeff> instaleld all m ystuff from the commadn lien and so far
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Jeff> haven't found anything thatw asn't loaded ('course again, i
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Jeff> don't use X...)
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I installed Linux from the Yggdrasil Fall 94 CD on a Packard-Bell
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486SX33, with 8MB. When prompted for a swap partition, I declined to
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specify one, since I planned to set one up later, "on top of" my
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windows swap file. I attempted to install some of the software from
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the CD-ROM to the disk, before setting up that swap partition - only
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to have the install process (a) run incredibly slowly, and (b) fail.
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Reason was that Linux was running out of memory...
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It might be nice to add a note to the doc that mentions that >8MB VM
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are needed during the install process - I am pretty sure it is not...
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Moises
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--
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Internet/CSnet: Moises_Lejter@brown.edu BITNET: mlm@browncs.BITNET
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UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.brown.edu!mlm Phone: (401)863-7671
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USmail: Moises Lejter, Box 1910 Brown University, Providence RI 02912
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From: cjtwigt@cs.vu.nl (Twigt CJ)
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Subject: Linux, Adaptec1542C-SCSI-II
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 10:15:59 GMT
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Hi,
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I have an Adaptec 1542C-SCSI-II adapter for a SCSI-II HD,
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this works fine with OS/2 and DOS and stuff.
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It just doesn't with linux.
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I read the SCSI-HOWTO about the problems. It seems my adapter is very
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sensitive to cabling problems.
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I think this is very very weird, because my computer is a finitestate machine.
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But apart from that, the SCSI-HOWTO describes a method to MINIMIZE the
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problems of random errors,
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Is there anyway in which I can SOLVE the problem ?
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Chris.
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From: tkay@crl.com (Anthony W. Kay)
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Subject: Re: DoomX where
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 07:37:28 -0700
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Spire Technologies (spire@teleport.com) wrote:
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: Where in the world can I find doomX?
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sunsite.unc.edu
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I think it is in /pub/Linux/X11/games/action/doom (or maybe
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/pub/Linux/games/action/doom...I forget).
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-Tony
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From: tkay@crl.com (Anthony W. Kay)
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Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI CD-ROM
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 07:40:00 -0700
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Janusz Smolak (jsmolak@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU) wrote:
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: I'm considering buying a CD-ROM kit and I need some help with selection
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: a good package. Can I install Linux and OS/2 using IDE CD-ROM, or do I
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: have to use a SCSI? Can anyone suggest a brand name of a good CD-ROM
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: drive and sound card that will work well with those two systems.
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: I'd really appreciate any info.ct.
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Use ftp to pop over to sunsite.unc.edu or tsx-11.mit.edu and pick up the
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CD-ROM and SCSI HOWTO (in a directory something like /pub/Linux/doc/HOWTO).
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They will tell you everthing you need to know.
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-Tony
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From: ltsun@newstand.syr.edu (Benny)
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Subject: ?????? how many space do I need ??????
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 22:11:31 GMT
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Reply-To: ltsun@mailbox.syr.edu
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Hello,
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I have one 120mb IDE drive in notebook, and a 1.08gb
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external SCSI2 drive. Now I'm going to repartition/reformat
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both drives in order to install OS/2 and Linux OSs. I wish to
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place all OSs in drive C: 120mb drive and all data/applications
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in 1.08gb drive. So I will repartition C: into four primary
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partitions, ie, BootManager, DOS, OS/2, and Linux.
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My question is 'how many disk spaces do I need to reserve
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for Linux in drive C in order to boot Linux by using OS/2's
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boot manager?'
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(I don't want to make a bootable floppy disk.)
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(I want to use X-WIN or OpenWin.)
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(I use Linux 1994 cd-rom release 4.)
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Thank you very much..
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Benny
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ltsun@mailbox.syr.edu
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From: jwest@jwest.ecen.okstate.edu ()
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Subject: Re: What is Linux good for?
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 14:57:23 GMT
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In article <newcombe.866.003E850F@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
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>In article <SA073.522.2E9EA8D3@getty.onu.edu> SA073@getty.onu.edu (Daniel Woodard) writes:
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>>>FAQ??? They even don't check the name of the group on which they are
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>> That's an outright lie. I looked for a faq. Not finding one, I posted
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>>this message.
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>Where did you look?
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>There is one. There is quite a bit if you count the HOW-TO's etc...
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But it is not posted to this group, which is probably the most logical
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place for a newbie to look (based on names). I think this is a very
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good argument for support of Ian Jackson's proposal to post the FAQ
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in all Linux groups.
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jw
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>--
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>Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
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>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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>"And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion
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--
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Jim West jwest@jwest.ecen.okstate.edu
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Associate Professor jwest@master.ceat.okstate.edu
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Oklahoma State University
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From: bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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Subject: [Q] Linux for PowerBooks
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 14:56:16 GMT
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Get this....
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Just bought a new laptoy manufactured in a small island near China that
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starts with a "T". Dual Color Scan, 486/66, 20 MB ram, 250M removable
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hard drive, and 2 PCMCIA cards (Megahertz and some ethernet card).
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Here I am, about to lay back on the couch and write some really cool
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network utility to give to the linux community and the %#&! trackball
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breaks - THE FIRST NIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!.
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I've owned a PowerBook 100 since it was first released. We've been
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to Asia together, climbed mountains together, my finance' and I fight
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over who can use it. It has never, never had a H/W failure. (I've
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even dropped it a time or two).
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Can I help someone port linux to a robust HW laptop, like the PowerBook?
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I'm really mad at cheap 'Made Over There" hardware that can't even
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make it 'through the first night'!!!!
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From: marko@hisplace.rhein-main.de (Marko Schuetz)
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Subject: Re: Problem with TERM
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 06:53:41 GMT
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mental@hydra.unm.edu (Kevin C. Dorff) writes:
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>and after pressing returns a few times I get the prompt, I can do
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>a little and then it just stops transmitting for no obvious reason.
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>I can see the send/receive lights flashing on the modem, so the
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>two sides are talking to each other, BUT it is dead. At this point,
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Had the same problem. My connection is through a terminal server.
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Escaping and ignoring the codes linecheck returned was not sufficient,
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I had to go to seven bit. Now it runs smoothly (termncftp reporting
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1.24 K/s).
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Marko
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Marko Sch"utz / Koselstr. 7 / D 60318 Frankfurt / Germany
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marko@hisplace.rhein-main.de / Tel: +49 69 5971621
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From: jrhett@netcom.com (Joe Rhett)
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Subject: getty/uugetty problems in slackware (BUG REPORT)
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 09:11:49 GMT
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A _LOT_ of people who get Slackware complain about not getting
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the getty_ps package to work correctly. I fought it round and round,
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until I got the source code, and found these things...
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First of all, debug mode can be enabled with -D 777 on the command line.
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This is _NOT_ documented in the man page, and it should be!
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If uugetty isn't reading the right file, it won't see DEBUG=777 in it's
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defaults file. therefore you have nothing to assist you in debugging.
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You need -D777 to find this out (see above!)
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ALL the documentation (getty man page, the howtos, etc) that come with
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Slackware tell you that the configuration files go in /etc/default.
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That is true, _IF_ compiled that way. It's _NOT_. It is compiled to look
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in /etc/conf.(device)
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I recompiled the code with no change. When I looked in tune.h, I found
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a line about the FSSTND - Filesystem Standard. When I removed the
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"ifndef FSSTND" and it's results, it properly compiles for using
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/etc/default.
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A - Distribute Slackware with proper documentation
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and/or
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B - Change tune.h, or change the documentation!
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===== =====
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Joe Rhett Navigist, Inc.
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Systems Engineer (408) 397-5803
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* My opinions are my own, unless they are printed on company letterhead. *
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From: ppearson@folio.com (Paul Pearson)
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Subject: How to setup Linux to be a WWW server?
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 17:25:46
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Can Linux be used as a WWW server? I assume it can but unsure how. If you
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could point me in the direction of some information, that would be very
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helpful. I have looked through most of the HOWTO's but can't seem to find
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anything. Perhaps I overlooked it?
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--Paul Pearson
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ppearson@folio.com
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--Paul Pearson
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ppearson@folio.com
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"Please Wait... Brain booting from floppy."
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From: acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin)
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Subject: Which fonts to get for Mosaic?
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 19:50:45 GMT
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Could someone recommend a fast way to get and install the particular
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fonts that the pre-compiled Linux Mosaic binaries try to use (for each
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of the Times, New Century, etc. families)? When a "normal" or "large"
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sized font is selected from within that program, a smaller font seems
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to get scaled up to the requested size, resulting in horrible-quality
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type. "Small" fonts look fine. Could someone post either a pointer
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to the specific .pcf-format fonts I need to install (for X11R6,
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XFree-3.1), or what resources I should change to coerce Mosaic into
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using more standard font sizes?
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Thanks a lot,
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-- alex
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From: acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin)
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Subject: Re: siscad
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 19:58:22 GMT
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In article <37lse4$ir1@svin09.win.tue.nl>,
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Student van Paul de Bra <debra32@wsinpa01.win.tue.nl> wrote:
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>I've been looking for the siscad package at sunsite and at ftp.Germany.EU.net
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>and I can't find it there !
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>Where is it
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FTP to ic.eecs.berkeley.edu:/pub/Sis; be sure to grab the "sis-temp"
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file as well as the main source archive, since it contains needed
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patches for Linux.
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-- alex
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