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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: Tue, 27 Sep 94 18:13:27 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #235
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Linux-Development Digest #235, Volume #2 Tue, 27 Sep 94 18:13:27 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: 1+ Gig SCSI Drives (Bill Heiser)
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Re: 1.1.50 blow-up (Bill Heiser)
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Re: Memory in 1.1.50: What is data? (Bill Heiser)
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Re: Memory in 1.1.50: What is data? (Bill Heiser)
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File /lib/ld.so not found! (Ron Heller)
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Re: HDD Controller Question (David Boyd)
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"who" garbage? (A.Couture@agora.stm.it)
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PC Graphics cards for Linux (Steven van Aardt)
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Re: Shared Libs: working toward a permanent solution? (David Holland)
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Incremental linking for quick compile/link/debug cycle (Michel Dagenais)
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LOOK FIRST-- FORGED SPAM (Michael S. Scheidell)
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Greek driver (Nikos Massios)
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Time Zone (Nikos Massios)
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IPC bugs in 1.0.9/Slackware 2.0? (Jim Reiss)
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OpenGL Extensions to X server? (Jim Callahan)
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Re: Installing from a QIC-80 tape? (Daniel Andor)
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Re: 900 MHz CB band??? (John Hays)
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Is "socket.h" complete - I've got missing defines (Jeremy J Starcher)
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Re: Adaptec 1542/SCSI under Linux (Matthew D Stock)
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Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development (Joel M. Hoffman)
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SCSI PCI Adaptec (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld)
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From: heiser@spc280.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
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Subject: Re: 1+ Gig SCSI Drives
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:13:30 GMT
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Harald Milz (hm@ix.de) wrote:
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: In comp.os.linux.development, Marc Singer (elf@netcom.com) wrote:
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: I don't really know which problems you folks have. I have been
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: operating a DEC DSP3160S (1.6 G) with a Adaptec 1542B since 0.99.9
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: and never had any problems. No Extended Translation, nothing. Remember:
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: All DOS-specific extensions as Extended Translation have to be switched OFF.
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This is something I've been wondering about. It appears to depend
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on which SCSI HA you are using. In looking for a solution to my
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instability problems with Buslogic BT445S/DEC DSP3107LS, I noticed
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a comment in the buslogic driver that seemed to indicate it expects
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the extended Translation to be switched ON.
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Mine is OFF and I wonder if this is causing my instability problmes
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(various crashes and kernel panics, different symptoms all the time).
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I've been considering trying to turn the Translation ON, but this
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(according to the Buslogic manual) means I need to reformat the
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disk, and I haven't had time to do that kind of job (reformat, reinstall,etc).
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--
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Bill Heiser == Work: heiser@ed.ray.com Home: bill@bhhome.ci.net
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From: heiser@spc280.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
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Subject: Re: 1.1.50 blow-up
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:19:28 GMT
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JL Gomez (kitana!sysop@caprica.com) wrote:
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: Can someone explain what the following syslog entry means?
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: Sep 18 03:20:30 kitana kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
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: virtual address c4c70f56
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: Sep 18 03:20:30 kitana kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 004a1000, Rr3 = 004a1000
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: Sep 18 03:20:30 kitana kernel: *pde = 00000000
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: Sep 18 03:20:30 kitana kernel: release: sh kernel stack corruption. Aiee
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: I'm running SCSI.
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I've seen this too. In fact my system hasn't stayed up for more than 3
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days without seeing either this kind of thing or a total lock-up (processes
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getting stuck in a "D" state) since I started running late 1.1.4X kernels.
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Running 1.1.51 now I've been up for just over 3 days ... keeping my
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fingers crossed ...
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--
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Bill Heiser == Work: heiser@ed.ray.com Home: bill@bhhome.ci.net
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From: heiser@spc280.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
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Subject: Re: Memory in 1.1.50: What is data?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:22:50 GMT
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: Peter Suetterlin (pit@myhost.subdomain.domain) wrote:
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:: Just half an hour ago, I compiled the latest 1.1.50 kernel version.
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:: During bootup, I got the following message:
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:: Memory: 12956k/16384k available (624k kernel code, 384k reserved, 2420k data)
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Someone else wrote:
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: Memory: 25900k/32768k available (712k kernel code, 384k reserved, 5772k data)
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: Linux version 1.1.50 (root@ka4ybr) (gcc version 2.5.8) #2 Sat Sep 17 13:44:27 EDT 1994
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This is what mine looks like:
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Memory: 29532k/32768k available (524k kernel code, 384k reserved, 2328k data)
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Linux version 1.1.51 (root@bhhome) (gcc version 2.5.8) #1 Thu Sep 22 20:17:49 ED
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--
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Bill Heiser == Work: heiser@ed.ray.com Home: bill@bhhome.ci.net
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From: heiser@spc280.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
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Subject: Re: Memory in 1.1.50: What is data?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:24:19 GMT
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: Peter Suetterlin (pit@myhost.subdomain.domain) wrote:
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:: Memory: 12956k/16384k available (624k kernel code, 384k reserved, 2420k data)
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My SCSI (buslogic bt445s) system looks like that.
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However my IDE system doesn't!
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Memory: 23476k/24576k available (484k kernel code, 384k reserved, 232k data)
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Linux version 1.1.51 (root@xxxxxx) (gcc version 2.5.8) #1 Fri Sep 23 16:53:55 ED
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--
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Bill Heiser == Work: heiser@ed.ray.com Home: bill@bhhome.ci.net
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From: r.g.heller@research.ptt.nl (Ron Heller)
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Subject: File /lib/ld.so not found!
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:54:21 GMT
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If the file /lib/ld.so does not exist, how or where can I get it???
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From: dwb@ITD.Sterling.COM (David Boyd)
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Subject: Re: HDD Controller Question
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:55:13 GMT
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In article <CwpyH3.922@dorsai.org>,
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Carlos Dominguez <carlos@dorsai.dorsai.org> wrote:
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>Cary B. Abend (cary@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu) wrote:
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>
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>: My question: I know that IDE cards that support 4 HDD exist and work
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>: under DOS (presumably with some kind of BIOS bypass). Will (or which
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>: of) these cards work with Linux?
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>Cary,
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>You have the atdisk2 patches, which are meant for *two* IDE controller
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>cards, not one card with two IDE channels. I own a buslogic BT410A that has
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>on-board BIOS to goad DOS into accepting up to four drives. Since this
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>is the development group, perhaps someone out there could look at the
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>atdisk2 code and perhaps see why it won't work? Maybe re-work some
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>code so we could get hd1's some day ;-)
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This seems to be the question of the week.
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If the card emulates two seperate IDE controllers (one at the primary
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addresses & IRQ and one at the secondary) then it will work with the
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ATDISK2 patches. One such card is the DTC 22XX controllers which I
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had working fine with my Linux box.
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I have a PROMISE 4030VL-2 controller which is like the BT410A described
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above and have not been able to get it to work for < 2 drives. (I even
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whined and got the source code for an SCO driver from Promise under
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non-disclosure but have not been able to get anything to work. I suspect
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that each of these type cards uses a different method for > 2 drives and
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would require different driver code.
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Perhaps information on what 4 drive cards are compatible with ATDISK2 and
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which are not should go into the FAQ. It would have saved me some
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grief.
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--
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David W. Boyd UUCP: uunet!sparky!dwb
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Sterling Software ITD INTERNET: Dave_Boyd@Sterling.COM
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1404 Ft. Crook Rd. South Phone: (402) 291-8300
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Bellevue, NE. 68005-2969 FAX: (402) 291-4362
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I survived - Seoul Sea of Fire Tour 94
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From: A.Couture@agora.stm.it
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Subject: "who" garbage?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:32:21 -0400
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Reply-To: A.Couture@agora.stm.it
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:25:54 +0000
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From: Andre Couture <andrec@cyborg.cic>
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Subject: "who" garbage?
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To: "comp.os.linux.development" <linux-development@news-digests.mit.edu>,
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"comp.os.linux.help" <linux-help@news-digests.mit.edu>
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Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9409272024.A1316-0100000@cyborg>
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MIME-Version: 1.0
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Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
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Is there a way to get the display name for a particular user?
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What I want to do is to pop a X-message on a user screen, the problem is=20
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that I don't know where he did login?
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I was thinking of using the command 'who' but for x-sessions there seem=20
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to be garbage on the lines,=20
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ex:
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andrec ttyp0 Sep 27 20:12 (=D4=F1=BF]=ED!`)
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root ttyp1 Sep 27 20:20 (=C8=EE=BF]=ED!`)
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=20
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Any suggestion? there must be a 'native' way.
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thanks
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=====
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Andre Couture,
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A.Couture@Agora.stm.it (preferred)
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_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ Centre Informatique Couture
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_/ _/ _/ (div. of 938934 Ontario Inc.)
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_/ _/ _/ 938934 Ontario Inc. Phone: +1-613-762-0262
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_/ _/ _/ 155 Queen St. FAX: +1-819-775-9697
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_/ _/ _/ Suite 900 Roma: +39/6-5125-745
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_/_/_/_/. _/_/_/_/. _/_/_/_/. Ottawa, Ontario Delphi: CoutureA
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@receiver file
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From: svaardt@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (Steven van Aardt)
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Subject: PC Graphics cards for Linux
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Reply-To: uunet!csfb1!svaardt
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:46:20 GMT
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What's the best PCI Graphics card (or VL bus) that you can get (budget, or
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otherwise) which will not cause problems when running Linux & X, and will
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give smashing performance under Windows/DOS.
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Secondly what's the determines whether one CD-ROM drive works with Linux or
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not - is it the actual drive or the interface ? (I assume the latter), and
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if it's the interface which interfaces will work ? What about 3x & 4x drives ?
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Finally, Hard disk drives & their interfaces - similar to question above.
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Hopefully someone out there can help me out - I'm putting my decision upon
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which m/c to buy on hold until I'm better informed.
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Thanks,
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Steve.
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Subject: Re: Shared Libs: working toward a permanent solution?
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From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
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Date: 25 Sep 94 13:00:50
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neal@ctd.comsat.com's message of 21 Sep 1994 17:59:15 GMT whined:
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> Keeping on with the old non-pic libs is not a sustainable option. The
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> requirement to globally register every shared lib is becoming an
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> impediment to wider usage of linux.
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Nonsense. At most, it needs to be done a bit more carefully. Look at
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Apple with their four-character resource codes. There's been trouble
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there, but not much.
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> I'm sorry for those who don't want to give up a small percent of their
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> CPU. Piss an moan in Intel's direction. It is because they designed
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> the 8086 family without consideration of software requirements that
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> pic performance is not as good as is could be.
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So what? It's what we have. If you wait for the ideal chips to come
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along, you'll never get anything important done.
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> I don't care if I have to give up 10%. We have no real choice for a
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> sustainable linux future.
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Maybe you don't. I do. One of the main reasons to use Linux, instead
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of something else, is the performance. Kill that, and a lot of people
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will start to discover that BSD is more standard... and SCO is more
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supported (by 3rd-party commercial outfits, if not by SCO itself.)
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If this attitude prevails, it might well be time to switch to NextStep
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or Solaris.
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--
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- David A. Holland | -- "Do you have a moment?" -- "Yes.
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dholland@husc.harvard.edu | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."
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From: dagenais@notung.vlsi.polymtl.ca (Michel Dagenais)
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Subject: Incremental linking for quick compile/link/debug cycle
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:21:44 GMT
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Debugging often involves a number of edit/compile/link/debug cycles.
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While the current tools (gcc, ld, ld.so...) are flexible and produce good
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code they are not optimized for turnaround time. I would like to be
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able get the edit/debug cycle down to a few seconds for large X applications.
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Presumably you can easily know the modified files and those which need
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recompiling (through make or hooks in the editor). From that, new .o files
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are produced and must be "incrementally" added to the executable.
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The dld library could load the new .o files but, as far as i remember,
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will not redirect symbols in the original executable to use them. Furthermore,
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the process continues where it was instead of starting a fresh run.
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The debugger, gdb, allows you to "add-symbol-file" when a new .o file is
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loaded. It already knows about symbols. Perhaps gdb should be taught about
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appending .o files to the executable and processing the relocation information
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in order to perform the incremental link and then run.
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The most realistic solution is probably to keep the linker running and have
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the output executable file memory mapped; all the symbol tables are already
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in core. Then the linker would receive instructions to add some .o files.
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It would take only a second or two to append the new .o files and redirect
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any references to these symbols to the new .o files. This being done in
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the memory mapped file, gdb sees the new executable and needs only be told
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to "add-symbol-file" at the appropriate address for the added .o files.
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Is anyone working on something like that? Will that be easier with ELF?
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Comments and suggestions welcome!!
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--
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Prof. Michel Dagenais dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca
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Dept of Electrical and Computer Eng.
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Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal tel: (514) 340-4029
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From: scheidel@gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.minix
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Subject: LOOK FIRST-- FORGED SPAM
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 15:51:51 GMT
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PLEASE READ THIS. I DID NOT MAKE THAT POST!
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This posting did not come from our office, but we are tracing it.
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If you look carefully at headers you will find sites that don't exist,
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and see that it does not trace back to scheidel@gate.net.
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We have a good idea of who it is and some admins are helping us trace it
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by comparing the posting on their machine to other postings.
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If you have the time and ability to help us trace this, we can give you
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info on who is doing it and maybe try to pressure HIS site to drop him.
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Again, I did not do this post, and we have taken great pains to avoid
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offending anyone, and to date this is my first flame, even if undeserved.
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I thank those who looked at headers and saw it was a forgery, and look
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forward to a solution to this.
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NOW TIME TO PAUSE AND PONDER:
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Seems like every time I get too full of myself, someone helps to humble
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me and remind me, that I too am just a sinner saved by the grace of God.
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NOW BACK TO BUSINESS:
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ps, reply with subject line "hacker" to avoid auto reply.
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--
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Michael S. Scheidell Florida Datamation, Inc.
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scheidel@gate.net (407) 241-2966
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Distributers of QNX Real Time OS Products (finger for more info)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
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From: nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nikos Massios)
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Subject: Greek driver
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 13:37:45 GMT
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Anybody out there knows if there is a keyboard driver to make my
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keyboard capable of printing Greek? If not how can I find information
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on how to write my own?
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Nikos.
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Nikos Massios 3rd year Computer Science
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nikosm@castle.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University
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nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk nikos.massios@ed.ac.uk
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nmassi@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
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From: nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nikos Massios)
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Subject: Time Zone
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 13:49:06 GMT
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I think EET stands for Eastern European Time and it is GMT+02. Well
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if my previous statement is right then Slackware 1.2.0 is wrong
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because it thinks that EET is GMT+03. Anybody knows what EET is?
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Nikos.
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======================================================================
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Nikos Massios 3rd year Computer Science
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nikosm@castle.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University
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nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk nikos.massios@ed.ac.uk
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nmassi@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr
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From: jim@accelr8.com (Jim Reiss)
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Subject: IPC bugs in 1.0.9/Slackware 2.0?
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:35:06 GMT
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I have been doing some porting work to Linux, and have encountered some
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oddities in the System V IPC facilities. I am using the latest
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Slackware 2.0 distribution, which uses revision 1.0.9 of the Linux
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kernel. Whenever I have shared memory, semaphores, or message queues
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allocated, the "ipcs" command encounters a memory fault error. If
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I say "ipcs -u", I get a valid summary of the resources allocated.
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Is this a known problem? In addition, when the process which allocated
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the semaphores exits, it does a semctl(IPC_RMID) which apparently fails
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to deallocate the semaphore. I need to investigate this one a bit more,
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but does it seem familiar?
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One thing that is odd about our IPC resources is that the "uid" and "gid"
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is changed to a non-existent user and group. The "cuid" and "cgid" are
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left alone. I don't know if that provides a hint.
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By the way, is the way "optind" is set in C on this version of Linux
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a bit unusual? It seems like it starts at a different place than
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on most Unix systems.
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Thanks for any advice anyone can offer.
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--
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Jim Reiss (jim@accelr8.com) Accelr8 Technology, Denver, Colorado, USA
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From: jim@jimcal.dialup.access.net (Jim Callahan)
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Subject: OpenGL Extensions to X server?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:18:39 GMT
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Reply-To: jimcal@panix.com
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Anyone working on extending the XFree86 server to handle OpenGL calls?
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With several fast 3D hardware PC cards comming out soon which support OpenGL in
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their instruction set, it would be very nice to have a GL/X server under Linux.
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With this done, Linux users could get the benifit of the OpenInventor 3D OOP
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toolkit and tons of GL apps...
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I've seen OpenGL running on all of the more traditional UNIX platforms and even
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the dreaded NT and Mac will be supprting it soon. Wouldn't want uncle Bill to
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beat the Linux community on this one... ;^]
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Jim Callahan Computer Animation Cygnus Feedback, Inc.
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jimcal@panix.com | Interactive 3D Apps | 200 East 11th Street 2E
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212 477-6239 GUI Design New York, NY 10003
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From: daniel@hapsi.demon.co.uk (Daniel Andor)
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Subject: Re: Installing from a QIC-80 tape?
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Reply-To: daniel@hapsi.demon.co.uk
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 07:47:30 +0000
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Rob wrote:
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> Most probably it assumes disksets written to tape as subsequent "tape files",
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> not in some proprietary format used by a DOS backup program...
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> So, if you want to create the tape from DOS you will need a very specific
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> program to do it. (kind of like the RAWRITE.EXE you need to make a
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> bootable floppy from a disk image)
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>
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> This technique has worked well with a Dutch distribution of Linux (called
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> "Snow") which I have installed from tape a few times in the past. But today,
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> it is exclusively distributed on CD-ROM.
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I was wondering whether anybody knows of a QIC-80 distribution (of SLackware?)
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and where I can get it from?
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Also, I have two HDs and was wanting to install Linux on my D: drive, but my
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machine boots from the c: drive. Is that a problem (in terms of keeping my old
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c: dos partition)
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Thanks!
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--
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Daniel Andor ----- daniel@hapsi.demon.co.uk -----
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From: hays@silver.networx.com (John Hays)
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Subject: Re: 900 MHz CB band???
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:08:04 GMT
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jbarrett@onramp.net wrote:
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: <vassili@cs.sunysb.edu> writes:
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: >
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: > Alexandra Griffin (acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu) wrote:
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: > : I was unaware of the existence of a CB band @ 900MHz. How much
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: > : bandwidth is available there? What restrictions exist w.r.t.
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: >
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: > To bring it to topic - there is ALPHA version of Linux driver for
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: > the WaveLan card, designed by NCR, that gives you about 2.5 Kbit/sec
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: > link as far as you can beam 1Watt at around 910 MHz. This band is
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: >
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: The RatShack FM walkie talkies are 900mhz, as is the new spread spectrum
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: hand-held fone from Uniden... there are also some paging freqs up in that
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: area... but like the WaveLan.... nothing real powerful or long range..
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<SNIP>
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Actually there are some higher powered applications in this frequency range,
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i.e. Amateur Radio (906-928?? Mhz.), some locating devices, etc. and these
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lower power devices must accept interference from these other applications.
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Interestingly this is an area where Amateur TV is active, and some of the
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wireless (i.e. Rabbit) TV distribution systems for in home use are in this
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range.
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John - KD7UW
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From: r3jjs@dax.cc.uakron.edu (Jeremy J Starcher)
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Subject: Is "socket.h" complete - I've got missing defines
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:11:36 GMT
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I am trying to compile a socket handling set in C++.
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I have the following error messages:
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SOMAXCONN not defined in this scope
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MSG_MAXIOVLEN not defined in this scope.
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Later in the compilation, there are other error messages of this kind.
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I grepped my entire drive for MAXCON, but it returned empty :(
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And this was both with Kernal 1.0.9 and Kernal 1.1.18
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Is there a more complete socket.h file avaible, should I "borrow"
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one from ultrix, or am I out of luck.
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Please reply by e-mail as our newsreader likes to expire things
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too quickly (but yes, I will be reading the newsgroup too).
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Many thanks
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==========================+===================================================
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Jeremy J Starcher ! If the Macintosh did not exist, what would
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r3jjs@vax1.cc.uakron.edu ! MS-DOS and UNIX users make fun of?
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r3jjs@akronvax.bitnet !
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From: stock@cs.buffalo.edu (Matthew D Stock)
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542/SCSI under Linux
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:16:29 GMT
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In article <780661909snz@indev.demon.co.uk>,
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Jason Malaure <Jason@indev.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>
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>I would like to know how reliable SCSI generally is under Linux. I have
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>had some problems witj my Fujitsu floptical but I am quite prepared
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>to accept that lies with the way the drive behaves, however I would
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>be very interested to find out how people have been getting with
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>large SCSI drives (>1 gig or so) as I am thinking of buying one!
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I've got a 1 gig fast SCSI disk (Seagate), and a Toshiba 2x SCSI CDROM
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drive on my 1542CF. They have worked flawlessly for me for the past 2
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or so months that I've owned them. There have been reports of problems with
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the 1542 driver, but I don't know the details. They may have been
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regarding the rev. A or B controllers.
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-Matt
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From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
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Subject: Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:50:24 GMT
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In article <369cou$3l@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D R Barlow) writes:
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>In article <368ssc$glc@deneb.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>,
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> Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:
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>>How are you going to umount the disk if it's already been ejected? It seems
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>>to me that this would rule out anything but read-only mounts.
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>
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>Or synchronous mounts. I know sync means a big performance hit, but
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>floppies are so slow anyway I doubt anyone'd notice too much.
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On the contrary --- the slower the medium, the worse the performance
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with synchronous I/O. While synchronous mounting may be slow but
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acceptible with HD's, it would make floppies almost unusable.
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-Joel
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(joel@wam.umd.edu)
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--
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=============================================================================
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|_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1943. "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters,
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__|~| 16 Million DEAD. and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
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meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded.
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cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1993. And around these, in a larger circle of pain
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cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one
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cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in
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the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
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than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the
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lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates
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into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
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that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
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=============================================================================
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Tell Clinton to stop the genocide: president@whitehouse.gov
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From: frodef@stud.cs.uit.no (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld)
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Subject: SCSI PCI Adaptec
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:49:07 GMT
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Does anyone know if any of the adaptec SCSI-drivers will work with
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"Adaptec AIC-7870 Fast and Wide SCSI interface connected to the
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processor via the PCI bus" ?
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If not, is this chip very different from the "ordinary" adaptec
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SCSI controllers? Would anyone know where I can get the needed
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information to write a driver?
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Thanks,
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--
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Frode Fjeld e-mail..: frodef@stud.cs.uit.no
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WWW.....: http://www.cs.uit.no/~frodef/frodef.html
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