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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: Thu, 29 Sep 94 09:13:17 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #241
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Linux-Development Digest #241, Volume #2 Thu, 29 Sep 94 09:13:17 EDT
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Contents:
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FTAPE support for TRAKKER parallel port tape drive (Rick Macdonald - Calgary Canada)
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Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development (Greg Harewood)
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C-News cleanup release finds bug in GNU 'join' (Steve Robbins)
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xircom pocket ethernet support ???
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ParcPlace OI builder?? (David A. Vohwinkel)
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Re: ParcPlace OI builder?? (NightHawk)
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Re: getopt in libc broken? (NightHawk)
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Re: linux+slip+bootp. How? (James Harper)
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Re: Could TCP/IP be implemented over SCSI? (Jason Venner)
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AMD/Automounter (Was Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development) (Mitchum DSouza)
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ISODE (Mike Jagdis)
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CD-ROM w/ read-only mount. Why? (Carlos Antunes)
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Re: Doom Music + PAS-16 (Kristoffer T Ongbongan)
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Re: Linux Console Device (Andries Brouwer)
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Re: Could TCP/IP be implemented over SCSI? (Ian McCloghrie)
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Re: Could TCP/IP be implemented over SCSI? (Mark A. Davis)
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string.h and bzero/bcopy/bcmp etc ("Stephen Davies")
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From: macdonal@cuug.ab.ca (Rick Macdonald - Calgary Canada)
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Subject: FTAPE support for TRAKKER parallel port tape drive
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 22:19:00 GMT
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I've been talking to Colorado about their dev kit for the Trakker
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parallel port tape drive. Not many details yet, but,
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assuming they will give out the info is there any technical reason
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that it couldn't be made to work under Linux?
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I was very surprised when their tech support said the interface was
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NOT proprietary. Norton seemed to think it was a few months ago...
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...RickM...
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From: gjh@ukc.ac.uk (Greg Harewood)
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Subject: Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 16:20:41 GMT
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Reply-To: gjh@ukc.ac.uk (Greg Harewood)
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In article <35sheg$b71@earth.baylor.edu>,
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Pyramids-R-Us <ges@earth.baylor.edu> wrote:
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>In article <DHOLLAND.94Sep17154858@husc7.harvard.edu>,
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>David Holland <dholland@husc7.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>>I additionally think it's not reasonable to force the user to look up
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>>the filesystem type and issue a mount command before reading from the
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>>disk. Floppies should mount themselves (like on Macs and Amigas) to
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>>the greatest extent possible given the hardware.
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>
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...
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>Aonther problem is that there is no simple way to mount a floppy.
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>The big question is 'where?' since a floppy can be mounted on ANY
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This is easy. It also implies the biggest gain by having this code
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exist - in the kernel, or as a loaded driver.
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You mount by volume name. Whenever a disk is inserted for the first
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time, a mount point is created, eg /rmv/MSDOS6_0 ie /rmv for
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removable media, and then the volume name. The disk can be removed
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at any time, but any time the disk is accessed, the console gets
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a message to "Please insert disk MSDOS6_0 in any drive". We would
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want to intercept this under X and have a window pop up. File accesses
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to the floppy would block until the disk was inserted. If disks turn
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out to have identical names (MSDOS disks are bad for this), then
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either it could be named implicitly, or a serial number recorded as
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a hidden file on the disk, and be mounted as /rmv/serialno.
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Also a soft link /rmv/fd0 should always point to the currently mounted
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floppy; that way, programs can cd to the disk, and end up with a
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correct path for the actual volume name.
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Greg
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From: steve@CIM.McGill.CA (Steve Robbins)
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Crossposted-To: news.software.b
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Subject: C-News cleanup release finds bug in GNU 'join'
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 02:13:24 -0400
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Thanks to the stress-testing that C-News gives shell utilities, I
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found a bug in GNU's 'join' command (from shellutils 1.9).
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This affects linux in particular as most people rely on GNU utilities
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exclusively. [Another annoying thing on linux: the standard includes
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insist on #define'ing atol(), which breaks the declaration in
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c-news/include/libc.h. This appears to be fixed in the latest alpha
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libc for linux, but you'll have to delete the line from the c-news
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file, or surround it with #ifndef atol for now]
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The bug with join is that the -a option is supposed to:
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-a file-number
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Print a line for each unpairable line in file file-
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number (either 1 or 2), in addition to the normal
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output.
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but in fact, it simply dumped the line from file1 or file2, rather
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than outputting the fields in the order demanded by the '-o' option.
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Plus, '-a3' is supposed to print unapairables in BOTH files -- at
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least on SunOS 4.1, so I added that too.
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Here's the diffs against v1.9.
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===================================================================
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RCS file: join.c,v
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retrieving revision 1.1
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diff -u -r1.1 join.c
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--- 1.1 1994/09/29 04:33:36
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+++ join.c 1994/09/29 05:42:46
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@@ -314,24 +314,6 @@
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fputs (empty_filler, stdout);
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}
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-/* Print LINE, with its fields separated by `tab'. */
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-
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-static void
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-prline (line)
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- struct line *line;
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-{
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- int i;
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-
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- for (i = 0; i < line->nfields; ++i)
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- {
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- prfield (i, line);
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- if (i == line->nfields - 1)
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- putchar ('\n');
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- else
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- putchar (tab ? tab : ' ');
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- }
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-}
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-
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/* Print the join of LINE1 and LINE2. */
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static void
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@@ -355,7 +337,10 @@
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{
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int i;
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- prfield (join_field_1, line1);
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+ if (join_field_1 < line1->nfields)
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+ prfield (join_field_1, line1);
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+ else
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+ prfield (join_field_2, line2);
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for (i = 0; i < join_field_1 && i < line1->nfields; ++i)
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{
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putchar (tab ? tab : ' ');
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@@ -389,7 +374,7 @@
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FILE *fp2;
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{
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struct seq seq1, seq2;
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- struct line line;
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+ struct line line, null_line = { NULL, NULL, 0, NULL };
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int diff, i, j, eof1, eof2;
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/* Read the first line of each file. */
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@@ -404,7 +389,7 @@
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if (diff < 0)
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{
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if (print_unpairables_1)
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- prline (&seq1.lines[0]);
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+ prjoin (&seq1.lines[0], &null_line);
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freeline (&seq1.lines[0]);
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seq1.count = 0;
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getseq (fp1, &seq1);
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@@ -413,7 +398,7 @@
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if (diff > 0)
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{
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if (print_unpairables_2)
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- prline (&seq2.lines[0]);
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+ prjoin (&null_line, &seq2.lines[0]);
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freeline (&seq2.lines[0]);
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seq2.count = 0;
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getseq (fp2, &seq2);
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@@ -474,22 +459,22 @@
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if (print_unpairables_1 && seq1.count)
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{
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- prline (&seq1.lines[0]);
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+ prjoin (&seq1.lines[0], &null_line);
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freeline (&seq1.lines[0]);
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while (get_line (fp1, &line))
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{
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- prline (&line);
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+ prjoin (&line, &null_line);
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freeline (&line);
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}
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}
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if (print_unpairables_2 && seq2.count)
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{
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- prline (&seq2.lines[0]);
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+ prjoin (&null_line, &seq2.lines[0]);
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freeline (&seq2.lines[0]);
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while (get_line (fp2, &line))
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{
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- prline (&line);
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+ prjoin (&null_line, &line);
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freeline (&line);
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}
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}
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@@ -599,6 +584,8 @@
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print_unpairables_1 = 1;
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else if (val == 2)
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print_unpairables_2 = 1;
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+ else if (val == 3)
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+ print_unpairables_1 = print_unpairables_2 = 1;
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else
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error (2, 0, "invalid file number for `-a'");
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break;
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--
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Steve Robbins -- Consultant in Computerology
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steve@cim.mcgill.ca
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From: root@nimir.demon.co.uk ()
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Subject: xircom pocket ethernet support ???
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 17:05:58 GMT
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Is anyone working on a driver for the Xircom parallel
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port ethernet adaptor ????
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What is the difference between this and the dlink ????
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Thanks
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Steve Hunt hunt@nimir.demon.co.uk
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hunt@nimir.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel)
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Subject: ParcPlace OI builder??
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:13:35 GMT
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Does anyone know what happened to OI from ParcPlace ?? I haven't heard
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anything about it? IS it still available? Anyone know where it is?
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and can you buy any manuals for it?
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Thanks
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--
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David A Vohwinkel
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Unix Consulting ^ ^ vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu
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& Operations 0 0 @ The State University of New York at Buffalo
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==============oOO=(_)=OOo====================================================
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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Re: ParcPlace OI builder??
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 16:15:40 -0400
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David A. Vohwinkel (vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote:
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: Does anyone know what happened to OI from ParcPlace ?? I haven't heard
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: anything about it? IS it still available? Anyone know where it is?
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: and can you buy any manuals for it?
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The old OI binaries were compiled with g++ 2.4.5, which is not compatible
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with the new one. But the new one couldn't compile it. I was told they
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will make a new binary for a working gcc 2.6.x.
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NH
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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
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Subject: Re: getopt in libc broken?
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 16:16:38 -0400
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David Martin (dmartin@lerc.nasa.gov) wrote:
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: I have libc 4.5.26. I've noticed a strange behavior with the getopt()
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: function. getopt() doesn't terminate when it encounters a string (a
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: non-argument) in the argument list. Most noticeably, the rsh command:
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: rsh machine ls -l /etc/motd
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: The code for rsh is correct and it compiles and runs correctly on my
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: AIX system. On Linux, getopt() examines the entire list, rather than
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: stopping at the first non-argument (in this case "machine"). So Linux
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: will interpret the -l option as being for rsh, and try to run the ls
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: command on machine as the user "/etc/motd".
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: Are there any plans to change/correct this behavior? Please send
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: comments through e-mail (dmartin@lerc.nas.gov).
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It has been fixed in 4.6.x.
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NH
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: linux+slip+bootp. How?
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From: loon@ironbark.ucnv.edu.au (James Harper)
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 12:34:43 GMT
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Sowmya Raman (raman@ewl.uky.edu) wrote:
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: Iam trying to use bootpc on my linux box to get an valid ip over SLIP and I am
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: running into some problems. First of all the ioctl SIOCGIFADDR fails to get
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: hardware address obviously because its a slip connection I am trying to
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: make. I tried commenting out the ioctl and tried again and now I get my ip
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: as 127.0.0.1.
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: My questions are
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: (1) Does the bootp client on linux work with slip connections?
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tried it and couldn't do it, think that was because the slip connection doesn't
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have an ethernet address (ie in the form xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx). the reason i
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was trying it was to get a computer to telnet in, the computer was local so
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I tried it with plip which does have an ethernet address type setup but
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still couldn't get it working. I did end up getting it working using rarp tho
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and maybe that would work over slip???
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: (2) Is there any RFC that deals with slip and bootp?
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: (3) Has anybody successfully used bootpc over SLIP connections?
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LOON
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From: jason@idiom.berkeley.ca.us (Jason Venner)
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Subject: Re: Could TCP/IP be implemented over SCSI?
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 16:56:33 GMT
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With differential scsi, your scsi bus can extend quite a distance.
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With SCSI 2 fast wide/SCSI3 I think you are limited to 256 id's and 256 feet
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for the scsi bus.
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So: given a little change in technology, networking via scsi will make a lot
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of sense.
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Subject: AMD/Automounter (Was Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development)
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 17:03:45 GMT
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In article <ADC.94Sep26123716@zeta.coe.neu.edu>, adc@zeta.coe.neu.edu (Albert D.
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Cahalan) writes:
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|> In article <wpp.780578439@marie> wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
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|> writes:
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|> mwikholm@at8.abo.fi (Mats 'MaDsen' Wikholm) writes:
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|>
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|> >possible to automagically mount the floppy only when it is accessed. I
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|> >mean that you don't have to have it mounted before you access it so
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|> >when you try to access it the system checks if it is mounted and if it
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|> >isn't it gets mounted. If there's no disk in it you get a flaming
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|> >error.
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|>
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|> That sounds like a good idea. Actually, the NFS automounter works
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|> that way. Can it be changed to handle floppy mounts as well?
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|>
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|> Also unmount after 90 seconds of inactivity or when all files are closed.
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Its funny how so many people want this feature from AMD. For a very good reason
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(performance mainly) UFS mounts (of which a floopy is one) are made not to
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timeout. As you have the source and it is eaisly compileable I suggest you
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look at the file
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amd/ufs_ops.c
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around the last few lines there is a bitwise or'ed field in the ufs_ops
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structure saying FS_NOTIMEOUT. Take this out and recompile and UFS mounts
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will timeout.
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Mitch
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From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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Subject: ISODE
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 23:38:00 +0000
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* In message <Cwnvr4.18J@dfw.net>, Aleph One said:
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AO> I'am about to try to port the ISODE v7.0 package to linux..
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What on earth for? The last public release was 8.0 (and there's even a patch
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to that).
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AO> In any case i was wondering if anyone has doen this
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AO> already as i dont like to do things other people have done.
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Yeah, and PP 6.0. Look in sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/isode.
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Mike
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From: cmsa@softsousa.pt (Carlos Antunes)
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Subject: CD-ROM w/ read-only mount. Why?
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Reply-To: Carlos.Antunes@softsousa.pt
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:15:37 GMT
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Hello, fellow linuxers!
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The kernel 1.1.51 (and before) requires that you explicitly specify read-only
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to mount a CD-ROM unit. Isn't this redundant? Shouldn't the default be
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read-only, as it was in previous kernels?
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Thanx!
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Regards,
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Carlos Antunes.
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--
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Carlos Antunes @ SoftSousa Developing for 32bit MS Windows(tm)
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Voice: 351-1-3975303 Windows NT(tm) and Windows'95(tm)
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Fax : 351-1-3975889 Console, GUI or Kernel Mode Drivers
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From: kristoff@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (Kristoffer T Ongbongan)
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Subject: Re: Doom Music + PAS-16
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 22:40:26 GMT
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Alexandra Griffin (acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu) wrote:
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: In article <Cvzxqq.6o0@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
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: Matthew D Stock <stock@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote:
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: >
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: >Sounds works fine for me... I've got a SB16.
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: >
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: [...]
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: >
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: >What do you mean the SGI version doesn't have sound? My Elan runs with
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: >Doom with sound.
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: It's not the digitized sound effects but the *MUSIC* that's missing
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: from the non-DOS versions. This is played over the FM/Adlib section
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: of the soundcard.
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: Anyone know why music was not included outside of the DOS release? I
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: would think it would be much simpler to implement than the digitized
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: fx (no need for synchronization with game events), and the impact of
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: FM sound on CPU usage is trivial.
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: The music scores for DOOM are stored in the .WAD files, right? Wonder
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: how difficult it would be to extract & convert these to .MID files or
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: something, for playing in the background as DOOM runs? :-)
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: -- alex
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Yeah.. why not.. I kinda miss the music coming out of MIDI.
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KRis.
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--
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krismon@hh.sbay.org The Electronic Battlefield Series FAQ
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kristoff@gas.uug.arizona.edu http://www.hh.sbay.org/~krismon/public.html
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Prodigy: GRTV13B ftp://hh.sbay.org/users/krismon/ebsfaq
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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
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Subject: Re: Linux Console Device
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 11:58:32 GMT
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pp000932@interramp.com writes:
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>I have been playing around a little with the Linux console and am curious how
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>or if it can be switched into an 8 bit character mode and how to get it to
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>support color ANSI sequences (similar to 'ansipc' emulation present in
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>Coherent's console driver). I can use DEC SI/SO to switch in/out DEC
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>graphics character sets, and it seems to perform correctly as a vt100
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>console, but I am looking for ANSI color support. Is there an escape sequence
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>which controls the console's mode of operation?
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Lots of ^M's - are you posting from a DOS machine?
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I am not sure precisely what you want - it seems that you already have
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all that you ask for.
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The Linux console is always in an 8-bit character mode.
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It does support colour. You might look at the output of
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setterm -foreground xxx -background yyy.
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From: ianm@qualcomm.com (Ian McCloghrie)
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Subject: Re: Could TCP/IP be implemented over SCSI?
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 15:43:03 -0700
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lim@vector.gs.tandem.com (myers_lincoln) writes:
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> I read in the SCSI FAQ that two SCSI hosts can share SCSI peripherals
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>on the same bus. Is it possible for these two hosts to send commands to each
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>other?
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It is possible, yes. I've heard of it being done before. It's not
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terribly practical though, because the maximum length of a scsi bus
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is on the other of 6 meters, which doesn't give you much to work
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with... You've also gotta be careful not to have the two systems
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both try to access one drive at the same time.
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>having SoundCardNet. Sound Cards would record each other's audio output from
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>across the room. True short range wireless communication, though sleeping in
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Ulch. Your error rate would be atrocious, I would imagine.
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"Hey! John! Turn your music down, it's making me drop packets!"
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--
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Ian McCloghrie work: ianm@qualcomm.com home: ian@egbt.org
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____ GCS d-- H s+:+ !g p? au a- w+ v- C++$ UL++++ US++$ P+>++
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\bi/ L+++ 3 E+ N++ K--- W--- M-- V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5+++ jx R G'''
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\/ tv- b+++ D- B-- e- u* h- f+ r n- y*
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The above represents my personal opinions and not necessarily those
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of my employer, Qualcomm Inc.
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From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis)
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Subject: Re: Could TCP/IP be implemented over SCSI?
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:09:47 GMT
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dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris) writes:
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>While ya'll are at it, shared scsi hard drives and/or CDROMs might be
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>intersting as well ... even if restrictions to one host r/w others r/o.
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>Source trees, netnets, etc. would be obvious candidates.
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Actually, I think that is allowed within the SCSI specs..... Same SCSI
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bus, with two controllers, one in each host. I don't know how it is
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done, but I'm quite sure I heard that somebody had done it before to
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share a tape drive....
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--
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/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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| Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
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| Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net |
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From: "Stephen Davies" <scldad@sdc.com.au>
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Subject: string.h and bzero/bcopy/bcmp etc
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 21:57:05 PDT
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Could someone please explain for me why string.h has different types
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for the "size" parameter in bzero etc depending on whether or not
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__linux__ is defined. So far as I can see, the size_t version is correct
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in terms of BSD compatability and of common sense; the size cannot be
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negative.
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Cheers and thanks,
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Stephen.
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