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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 08:13:06 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #200
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Linux-Development Digest #200, Volume #2 Wed, 21 Sep 94 08:13:06 EDT
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Contents:
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Source Code (Matt Fredrick Kraft)
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Re: Linux on CD (PINKERTONA@delphi.com)
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Re: integer sizes was Re: Alpha Linux (GARY K BARNES)
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Re: 1.1.51 breaks shutdown's unmount (Anup M Changaroth)
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Re: Netware Client (Mark Evans)
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Re: Pascal for Linux?? (Emarit Ranu)
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Re: Features Register for use with EIDE driver (Mark Lord)
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Re: Hayes ESP driver? (Chris D Fanning)
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"guide" (xviews) for Linux ? (Andrew Davison)
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Re: "guide" (xviews) for Linux ? (Klaus Schniedergers)
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What user interface to use??? (Tony Schwartz)
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Re: Netware Client (Pete Chown)
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still floppy problems with 1.1.51, details inside (Steve DuChene)
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Driver for Adaptec AHA2842 (Yury German)
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Re: Pascal for Linux?? (williams)
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Re: Netware Client (Ken Latta)
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Q: Pro-Sonic-16 soundcard problem (HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE)
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From: mfkraf01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Matt Fredrick Kraft)
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Subject: Source Code
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Date: 20 Sep 1994 14:57:14 GMT
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could anyone tell me where I can get the orig. Source code for linux
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I need an FTP sight with Source and Docs. availiable. Some ambitious fri ends of mine and I are going to try to port Linux to Power Mac Bin for a science Fair project. Thanks in Advance.
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Matt Kraft
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University of Louisville
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From: PINKERTONA@delphi.com
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Subject: Re: Linux on CD
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Date: 21 Sep 1994 00:34:21 -0400
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Reply-To: PINKERTONA@delphi.com
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:In article 9tC@pe1chl.ampr.org, rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes:
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:=>In <CwDx2M.ww@cs.bsu.edu> fagarcia@cs.bsu.edu writes:
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:=>
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:=>>I was having a chat with someone over the net and we came to this..
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:=>>What if Linux came fully implemented (X & all the disk sets) on a CD and
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:=>>all you would have to do is boot off the CD rom and have the
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:=>>settings/option files (ie ~/.seyon inittab & the rc scrips) in your HD.
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:=>
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:=>>I mean, this would save a lot of diskspace ;)
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:=>
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:=>There are several CD-ROMs available that allow you to do this...
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:=>
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:
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:I can confirm this. I tried it with the TransAmeritech CD, release April 1994.
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:[DELETED]
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:I think it's more reasonable to have the often used stuff on your HD, and the
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:less used stuff you can run from CD-ROM.
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:How do other people feel about running from CD-ROM? I do like the idea of
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:saving HD-space, but it becomes too slow for me to be usable.
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What I think (for what it's worth) would be useful would be
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the ability to merge the CD-ROM's directory with the HD's and
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the HD's files would take precedence. That way if you want to
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make a change or just want the speed of the HD you could copy
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the file(s) to the HD in the same spot (directory and file name).
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Just a vague thought...
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Alan Pinkerton
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pinkertona@delphi.com
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:regards,
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:AKr
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From: gkb@aber.ac.uk (GARY K BARNES)
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c
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Subject: Re: integer sizes was Re: Alpha Linux
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Date: 20 Sep 1994 19:44:17 +0100
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In article <35m15e$qk@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
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Andrew Bulhak <acbul1@penfold.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
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>Steven A. Reisman (sar@bee.beehive.mn.org) wrote:
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>: Albert D. Cahalan (adc@bach.coe.neu.edu) wrote:
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>
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>: : Why drop one?
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>
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>(8 bits = char)
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>: : 16 bits = short int
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>: : 32 bits = int
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>: : 64 bits = long
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>
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>: 128 bits = long long :)
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>
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>This may merit discussion on comp.lang.c. Sooner or later, we will need
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>more sizes, as soon as somebody makes a 128-bit CPU.
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I just had great fun getting ufc-crypt and Crack to compile on
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an Alpha. (Mind you, I did get a little help from Alec *8-])
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I have to say it's worth it though, I now have a version of
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crack that uses 64 bit integers and a ufc-crypt that can crypt
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at about 4500 fcrypts/sec
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Just to relate this to linux a little, cracking a passwd file on my
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386dx25 Linux box took 5hrs 40mins to do the 1st (gecos) pass, whereas
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it took 13mins 25secs to do the same pass on an Alpha running OSF/1 2.1.
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Gaz
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--
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/\./\ gkb@aber.ac.uk (Gary "Wolf" Barnes)
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( - - ) Computer Officer, News Administrator
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\ " / University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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~~~ "It's just a ride..." - Bill Hicks
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From: aa160@city.ac.uk (Anup M Changaroth)
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Subject: Re: 1.1.51 breaks shutdown's unmount
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Date: 20 Sep 94 18:34:26 GMT
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dcflood@u.washington.edu (David Flood) writes:
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>I just patched my 1.1.50 up to 1.1.51 and now the unmount during the shutdown
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>command bombs. It happens during both -h and -r. During the next boot, fsck
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Like Rob says, it only happens _once_ on a freshly booted kernel.
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(umount with any of the filesystems seg faults). Thereafter, deleting
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the mtab lock file, mount/umount seems to work just fine.
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--
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Anup M. Changaroth URL "http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/finger?aa160"
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aa160@city.ac.uk L i n u x - t h e l o g i c a l c h o i c e
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From: evansmp@mb4715.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
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Subject: Re: Netware Client
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 20:38:30 GMT
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Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
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: In article <ijDTk4OIKr8G071yn@kaiwan.com> tweaver@kaiwan.com (Timothy Weaver) writes:
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: >stuff. Of course, if Novell has a patent on any of their software routines
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: >then it won't matter whether you accidently happen to create a driver that
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: >does its work the same way, they can sue you if you infringe on a patent.
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: As far as I can tell they don't. If they do then you just release the
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: software to the free world and only the USA will be forbidden from using it.
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As I have about a hundred pages of C and C++ code (mostly from the userfs package)
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do not expect a netware client in a hurry.
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From: drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Emarit Ranu)
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Subject: Re: Pascal for Linux??
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Date: 20 Sep 1994 14:58:32 GMT
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Heinz Kranefeld (pthk@ptb2.pt.tu-clausthal.de) wrote:
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: In article <35ltn1$lf0@pandora.sdsu.edu>, zwilliam@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (williams) writes:
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: |> I was wondering if anyone knows of a Pascal compiler that is available
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: |> for Linux.. Please give me a pointer. Thanks!
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: |> --Zach
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: There is an pascal to c converter.
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There is a GNU pascal compiler called "gpc", use archie to find it
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though I think sunsite has it somewhere. Works like a charm
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only it creates binarys as large as 40k just to writeln('hello');!
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Enjoy!
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--
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-Emarit drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU
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KG0CQ _._ __. _____ _._. __._
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From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
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Subject: Re: Features Register for use with EIDE driver
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Date: 20 Sep 1994 19:07:38 GMT
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In article <CwFtop.G4o@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> john@sr.hp.com writes:
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...
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>To put the controller into a new PIO mode, you have to issue
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>the set features command, with the feature in the 'features'
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>register, however I am not sure what the proper port address is
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>for the features register...
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The features register is a write-only port, mapped to the same
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address as the read-only error register. The error register is
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defined in linux/hdreg.h
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--
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mlord@bnr.ca Mark Lord BNR Ottawa,Canada 613-763-7482
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From: cdfannin@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning)
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Subject: Re: Hayes ESP driver?
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Date: 21 Sep 1994 06:00:18 GMT
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Chris D Fanning (cdfannin@engws12.ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
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[ oddly enough, nothing ]
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<groan> I hate this system... argh. Let's try this again... :)
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Is there anyone out there working on a driver for the Hayes ESP serial
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cards? For those who don't know, the ESP card has 1024 byte send and
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recieve buffers, uses DMA to do transfers, supports speeds to 900something
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Kbps and does hardware handshaking. Hayes also has provided a developer
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kit "free" on CompuServe (which I downloaded but haven't gotten to looking
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at..) on CompuServe. More specifically, I'm talking about Hayes ESP v2.0
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cards.
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I like the card very much and want to run it under Linux. (When I finally
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figure out how to get it to work with my hardware...) The card is
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very fast, and I'm guessing, very unsupported. If such a driver doesn't
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exist, or if someone isn't working on it, I might take up the project.
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This is assuming: 1) I get Linux working on my machine 2) I'm not
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overwhelmed when I look at the toolkit and Linux serial drivers (not
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likely) and finally 3) there's sufficient interest.
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Anyone?
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Thanks,
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Chris
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From: davison@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew Davison)
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Subject: "guide" (xviews) for Linux ?
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Date: 21 Sep 1994 07:36:40 GMT
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Do anyone know of a linux port of the "guide" GUI builder for XView ? I know
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that Sun versions exist, and am a little concerned that it might be a Sun
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commercial venture.
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I'm trying to compile an application which has been written using guide
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and have hit a wall you might say...
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Regards,
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Andy
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From: eedksc@teamos50.ericsson.se (Klaus Schniedergers)
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Subject: Re: "guide" (xviews) for Linux ?
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Date: 21 Sep 1994 08:25:18 GMT
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Reply-To: eedksc@aachen.ericsson.se
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Davison <davison@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> writes:
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Andrew> Do anyone know of a linux port of the "guide" GUI builder
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Andrew> for XView ? I know that Sun versions exist, and am a
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Andrew> little concerned that it might be a Sun commercial
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Andrew> venture.
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The 'Guide' UI-Builder is a commercial product from Sun, I doubt that
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there is a Linux version at all.
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--
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Klaus Schniedergers, OSS Design, eedksc@aachen.ericsson.se
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<A HREF="http://www-eed.ericsson.se:8001/org/b/eedksc.html"> Me </A>
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From: tony@teleport.com (Tony Schwartz)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: What user interface to use???
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:10:37
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When do dial into your local ISP using a standard terminal connection, what
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software is used to providet the menuing, ability to do internet functions
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like telnet, ftp, gopher, etc???
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Recommendations please and locations on obtaining these....
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Thanks
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Tony Schwartz
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From: pc@dale.dircon.co.uk (Pete Chown)
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Subject: Re: Netware Client
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 12:10:47 GMT
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In article <ijDTk4OIKr8G071yn@kaiwan.com> tweaver@kaiwan.com (Timothy Weaver) writes:
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> In article <QPCSB16W@math.fu-berlin.de>, rzm@dain.oso.chalmers.se
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> (Rafal Maszkowski) wrote:
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>
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> > Just curiosity: can the author be sued for writing or distributing
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> > a client written [ by reverse engineering Novell code or obtaining
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> > protocol details from published work ]?
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>
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> ... If you start reverse engineering [ Novell's ]
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> drivers, the law is much more gray. Some courts have said you can't do it
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> at all and some courts have said that if you make that kind of effort, it
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> is ok.
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This is US law. A quick glance at the references field suggests that
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European law is more likely to be relevant. This is governed by EU
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Directive 91/250 (Council Directive on the Legal Protection of
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Computer Programs):
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> Article 6: Decompilation
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> 1. The authorisation of the rightholder shall not be required where
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> reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the
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> meaning of Article 4(a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the
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> information necessary to achieve the interoperability of an
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> independently created computer program with other programs, provided
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> that the following conditions are met: ...
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The clarity and grammar of the above leave something to be desired,
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but essentially it is saying that it is permissible to reverse
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engineer to achieve the interoperation of two programs. Presumably
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a Netware server and client satisfy this.
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> Of course, if Novell has a patent on any of their software routines
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> then it won't matter whether you accidently happen to create a driver that
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> does its work the same way, they can sue you if you infringe on a patent.
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Software patents don't work in Europe. If the GATT is ever
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implemented (which I am inclined to doubt, even though it has been
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signed), it appears that this will change.
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Interestingly, Novell almost committed an offence under the Patents
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Act 1977 (in the UK), because they claimed that their product was
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protected by a patent when this was not so. The patent they claimed
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presumably existed, but only in the US. I was just looking forward to
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having them summoned before the Clerkenwell magistrate to explain why
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they were making a false claim of patent rights, when I discovered
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that the Act is badly phrased and allows you to claim patent
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protection even when the patent in question is foreign and so of no
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consequence.
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--
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Pete.Chown@dale.dircon.co.uk "The Pen is mightier than the Quill"
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-- anonymous
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From: s0017210@unix1.cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene)
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Subject: still floppy problems with 1.1.51, details inside
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Date: 20 Sep 1994 00:08:38 -0400
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Ok, folks I upgraded from 1.1.51 this afternoon hoping to see some
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improvement in the errors I have been getting with a 1.1.39 kernel
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I have been running. Kernel patching from the 1.1.45 source tree
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to 51 went fine. I applied the util and bsd patches from the 940902
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ibcs ALPHA release and compiled the result. Other than a lot of
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complaints about a function declaration in include/ibcs/ibcs.h
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everything was real clean. After booting I tried mounting one of the
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1.743Mb ext2 floppies I use for archiving. It mounted fine and the
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output from df (shown below) looked great. The form of mount command
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I used was "mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0H1743 /mnt/flop".
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Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
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/dev/hda1 321516 243030 61880 80% /
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/dev/hda3 178728 131036 47692 73% /usr/msdos
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/dev/fd0 1683 1647 36 98% /mnt/flop
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I then issued a "umount /mnt/flop" and got the following error output
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to the console:
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EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
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Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000000
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current->tss.cr3 = 00c2a000, %cr3 = 00c2a000
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*pde = 00102027
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*pte = 00000027
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Oops: 0000
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EIP: 0010:0017324c
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EFLAGS: 00010246
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eax: 00170000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00170000
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esi: 00c2fed4 edi: 00c2fed4 ebp: 00000000 esp: 00c2fea8
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ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
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Process umount (pid: 68, process nr: 18, stackpage=00c2f000)
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Stack: 001a024c 001a0002 00126193 00c2fed4 00000000
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Code: f6 01 02 74 0d 0f b7 46 10 50 e8 a1 ed fa ff 83 c4 04 be 88
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So I then used "df" to see what was going on with the mount table and
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got the following from that:
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Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
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/dev/hda1 321516 243031 61879 80% /
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/dev/hda3 178728 131036 47692 73% /usr/msdos
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/dev/fd0 321516 243031 61879 80% /mnt/flop
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You may notice the similarity between the first and third line for the
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above table! I looked through the zSystems file in /usr/src/linux/tools
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directory for the 1.1.51 source tree and got the following:
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00171e48 t _fd_copyout
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00171e98 t _poll_drive
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00171f38 t _drive_name
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00171fa8 t _raw_cmd_ioctl
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001722a8 t _invalidate_drive
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00172368 t _fd_ioctl
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00172e88 t _set_base_type
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00172f48 t _config_types
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00173038 t _maybe_check_change
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001730a8 T _floppy_is_wp
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001730e8 t _floppy_read
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00173178 t _floppy_write
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00173228 t _floppy_release <<<<<<< after this
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001732f8 t _floppy_open <<<<<<<< before this...
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00173648 t _ack_change
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001736c8 t _check_floppy_change
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001737e8 t _floppy_revalidate
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00173958 t _get_fdc_version
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00173ae8 T _floppy_init
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00173d98 T _floppy_grab_irq_and_dma
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00173e38 T _floppy_release_irq_and_dma
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I have arrowed the relevant area. In case it makes any difference I have a
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Gateway-2000 P4D-100 (486DX/4-100 PCI) system with a 540Mb harddrive. The
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floppydrive is identified as a "FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077" at bootup. If
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anyone needs any more info from me let me know. Sorry this got so long but
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I didn't want to leave out any details that might be needed. I will be
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trying a 1.44Mb ext2 floppy later to see if the same thing occurs with that.
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As I remember I tried unmounting with "umount /dev/fd0H1743" and the same
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thing occurred but I will check to make sure and follow this posting up with
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the results from those two tests.
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--
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| Steven A. DuChene sduchene@cis.ysu.edu or s0017210@cc.ysu.edu
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| Youngstown State University | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
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|-------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Friends don't let friends do DOS
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From: yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German)
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Subject: Driver for Adaptec AHA2842
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 17:38:08 EST
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Hello All!!!
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Need some help... I am going to change the SCSI2 Card in my computer since
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the one I have is obviously not supported and not going to be supported.
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Is the driver for AHA2842 from Adaptec (VLB Card) available yet?????
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I have looked in the ALPHA directory mentioned under SCSIDOC HOWTO but
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could not find anything!
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I would appreciate if someone would respond and let me know the current
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status before I go plunk another $300 :-)
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Thanks for the Help
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Blue Knight Productions blue-Knight@genie.geis.com
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Graphics Design, 3D Animation blueknight@online.apple.com
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From: zwilliam@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (williams)
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Subject: Re: Pascal for Linux??
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Date: 20 Sep 1994 16:24:00 GMT
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Emarit Ranu (drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU) wrote:
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: Heinz Kranefeld (pthk@ptb2.pt.tu-clausthal.de) wrote:
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: : In article <35ltn1$lf0@pandora.sdsu.edu>, zwilliam@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (williams) writes:
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: : |> I was wondering if anyone knows of a Pascal compiler that is available
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: : |> for Linux.. Please give me a pointer. Thanks!
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: : |> --Zach
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: : There is an pascal to c converter.
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: There is a GNU pascal compiler called "gpc", use archie to find it
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: though I think sunsite has it somewhere. Works like a charm
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: only it creates binarys as large as 40k just to writeln('hello');!
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: Enjoy!
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Great! Thanks for all the fast responses!
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--Zach
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From: Ken Latta <klatta@pkdla5.syntex.com>
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Subject: Re: Netware Client
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 13:42:42 PDT
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In article <CwF92v.F5A@info.swan.ac.uk>, <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk> writes:
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> In article <ijDTk4OIKr8G071yn@kaiwan.com> tweaver@kaiwan.com (Timothy
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Weaver) writes:
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> >stuff. Of course, if Novell has a patent on any of their software
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routines
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> >then it won't matter whether you accidently happen to create a driver
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that
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> >does its work the same way, they can sue you if you infringe on a
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patent.
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>
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> As far as I can tell they don't. If they do then you just release the
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> software to the free world and only the USA will be forbidden from using
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it.
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>
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> Alan
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I'm not a lawyer so don't take any of this to the bank. In the past I wrote
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some patent applications for a Patent Agent, who never tired of reminding
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me that software is not patentable, at least in the USA. The use of
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software to achieve a particular behavior by a machine is patentable. The
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code is not protected, only the way in which it is used. In other words,
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you can borrow all the patent covered code you want, you just have to make
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it work differently in a way that is not obvious. Or you can try proving
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that the patent should never have been issued.
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And that's enough of this damned lawyer talk,
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Ken
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From: HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE
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Subject: Q: Pro-Sonic-16 soundcard problem
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 14:15:00 +0200
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Hi Folks !
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I installed a ProSonic16 Soundcard in my computer some days ago and
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it works fine under DOS. It is set up for the appropiate IRQ/DMA/PORT by
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a small device-driver. Under Linux it is only recognized after a DOS-Boot,
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because of the DOS-device-driver that configures the card.
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How can i setup the card from the Linux-Sounddriver ???
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Ciao
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Higgins
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You can escape the gates of hell, say DOG and WINDOG,
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USE LINUX :-) !
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