Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #597
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
Date:     Thu, 27 Jan 94 14:26:16 EST

Linux-Misc Digest #597, Volume #1                Thu, 27 Jan 94 14:26:16 EST

Contents:
  Four Operating Systems on one Computer with two Drives (how?) (John Lemon)
  accessing DD MS-DOS floppies (A.A.Buykx)
  Linux with ISDN (Jens Klaas)
  Re: new shadow-3.3.1 patches (John F. Haugh II)
  Re: How much disk for Slackware 1.1.1 (Jay Maynard)
  Re: Informal POLL: What do you use Linux for? (Paul Tomblin)
  IDE > 500MB? (Robert Scholten)
  Re: Any way to watch a tty port? (Nick Simicich)
  Re: uucp 1.04 - looking for tester, _complete_ (better)version (Vince Skahan)
  New Linux release (Edward Powers)
  Re: WUARCHIVE LOST :) (David Holland)
  Re: Archives of Torvalds/Tanenbaum discussion? (David Holland)
  Re: More help with SLIP/DIP please ? (Neal Becker)
  HELP! Adaptec 1522/2nd Drive Install Problems! (kelly r brown)
  Re: MSDOS Better than Linux (neil j.cherry)
  Re: [WANTED] A list of tape drives supported by Linux! (Patrick Draper)
  Re: MSDOS Better than Linux (Alan Cox)
  Re: driver postscript -> bubble jet printer (Mark Warren USG)
  Tools for Shared Libraries in Slackware? (David C. Niemi)
  Networking (Hubert Atkinson)
  New GCC 2.5.9 and new libs??? (David A. Vohwinkel)
  [BOOT MESSAGE] DMA Problem? (Rick Slater)
  Re: Panasonic CDROM CR-562-B (Aaron Wohl)
  talk(1) bug (David Holland)
  Re: IDE > 500MB? (Robert Scholten)
  Any info on Genoa PCI motherboards? (Rajappa Iyer)

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From: john@ozspace.brisnet.org.au (John Lemon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.os.os2.setup
Subject: Four Operating Systems on one Computer with two Drives (how?)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 21:41:08 +1000

I need to Setup on one system NTAS, OS/2 2.1, Linux pl14 and MSDOS, the
question is what is the best way to do this?. I need to boot up under any
one of the OS's at any time.

I tried a setup of dos and OS/2 using the Boot Manager but then NTAS 
didn't like the partition make by OS/2's Boot Manager.

I also would like to be able to access the other partition it possible.

If anyone knows how or has done this can you Email me details please.

John.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: accessing DD MS-DOS floppies
From: andreas@elmat01.et.tudelft.nl (A.A.Buykx)
Date: 25 Jan 94 16:04:09 +0100

Hi,

How do I access 3_1/2" DD MS-DOS floppies? The default is to read HD 
floppies and when I put in a DD floppy, it says:
"Cannot initialize drive A:" or something like that. I found a file 
for mtools in which some initializing parameters are set for reading 
HD floppies, but it is not clear to me how to change them for DD 
floppies, nor do I know if it is the right thing to do.

Any help, preferably by e-mail, is greatly appreciated.

Andreas.
-- 
--> Andreas A. Buykx                  Electrical Materials Laboratory <--
--> andreas@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl      Delft University of Technology <--
=========================================================================
=====================> That's all, folks!!! <============================

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From: klaas@pcserver.trier.fh-rpl.de (Jens Klaas)
Subject: Linux with ISDN
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 07:16:09 GMT

Hi all,
Do anybody know a driver to use ISDN with Linux ?
I like to connect my LAN (SGI and PC) to the world by using ISDN under LINUX,
who knows how ??


so long 

         Jens KLaas

please mail me !!

email    :            klaas@biiris.trier.fh-rpl.de
phone    :            49 651 8103 457
fax      :            49 651 8103 245

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From: jfh@rpp386 (John F. Haugh II)
Subject: Re: new shadow-3.3.1 patches
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:59:17 GMT

In article <2i0r42INN59g@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de> rzsfl@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Florian La Roche) writes:
>this is me, Florian  La Roche.
>I hope all the patches that good Linux hackers have made will improve
>your shadow passwd suite. Maybe you can even earn more money with it
>and someday buy a big Linux-machine.

I already have a), plenty of money b), a big machine.  But thanks for
the mock concern.

>As I have read your copyright, I can make modifications and put a new
>version on an ftp site since I make no commercial things like earning
>money.

Correct.  Or you could ASK permission first, and maybe even GET permission,
and MAYBE even get to sell the code.  Two companies have already received
permission to sell Shadow.  One of them even has SIGNED permission.  I
guess you should have ASKED first, no?

>But I must really say, that I dont like your probably "new" way of
>defining "commercial purpose". All people who make some binary distribution
>and sell it for money have to work a lot for it.
>How much money do you want from such a person, who will never be able to
>charge much for a Linux distribution?

If that person isn't charging much for their distribution it sounds a
lot like they are selling it for cost.  One such company that sells
Linux for cost is now able to sell Linux and include Shadow on their
CD-ROM.  Perhaps you should have ASKED for permission first, no?

>What about, if I sell someone Linux and give him the shadow passwd for free?

Then I want my free copy, too.

>Maybe we will have a much better version soon, as you don't seem to be
>very cooperative.

I'm extremely cooperative.  I've even offered to give the distributors
the internal documentation that has NEVER been release to ANYONE
before.  Do they want it?  No.  What they =do= want is for Shadow to
be put under the GPL, or they will "kill" it, as one distributor
threatened to do.  Boy, they sound =real= co-operative.  Perhaps those
people should have asked for permission first, no?

>It's more than funny that you want to make money from the Linux folks.

But it isn't funny that these people want to make money off of me?
Can you spell hypolocrity?  But then, if those Linux folks had asked
permission, as one distributor recently did (and might I add, is now
the second licensed Shadow reseller ...), they might have received
it.  Perhaps those people should have asked for permission first, no?

>P.S.: What a pitty, that we havn't put any copyright remarks about all
>bug fixes in the source code. Than you would have to share your earned
>money with some of us good people.

I very seldom use the actual patches that are sent to me.  They usually
are inconsistently coded and ignore requirements that other systems
have.  Shadow runs on several dozen platforms.  I just received a note
saying it is being ported to DEC Alpha.  DEC Alpha's version of OSF/1
doesn't work exactly like Linux and many of the changes in your patch
would break OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4, etc.
-- 
John F. Haugh II  [ NRA-ILA ] [ Kill Barney ] !'s: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151 [GOP][DoF #17][PADI][ENTJ]   @'s: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
The P.C. Movement killed the 1st Amendment, the Brady Bill the 2nd, the WOsD
got the 4th and 5th, political activism the 9th and 10th.  Not much left, eh?

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From: jmaynard@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard)
Subject: Re: How much disk for Slackware 1.1.1
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:35:32 GMT

In article <SCOT.94Jan24210826@am.ucsc.edu>,
Scott Derrick <scot@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote, in its entirety:
>like I thought, just an OS. 

Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Just because I find a system usable without the overgrown porkers you seen to 
think are neceessary does not mean that you have any call to feel superior.

You miss the point completely: Linux can be a usable system in a small amount 
of disk. It's not the luxurious environment you seem to feel is absolutely 
necessary in order to get anything done at all, but, then again, YOU DON'T 
KNOW WHAT THE ORIGINAL POSTER'S REQUIREMENTS ARE!!!! (Or mine, for that 
matter.) Different people have different amounts of system that they need to 
think something is usable. Instead of making elitist comments, I was trying to 
help the guy decide if Linux was for him. My point, which you seem to have 
ignored completely, is that he may well be able to get a system he can use if 
he's careful what he puts on his disk.
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
        "A good flame is fuel to warm the soul." -- Karl Denninger

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From: ptomblin@gandalf.ca (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Informal POLL: What do you use Linux for?
Date: 25 Jan 1994 11:38:12 -0500

crawdad@smerdis.ccqc.uga.edu (T. Daniel Crawford) writes:

>       So, please, tell me what you use your Linux box for.  I really want
>to know!

I have 8 or so Linux boxes (386s and 486s) with various custom bits of
hardware in them to test Gandalf networking products.  I lead the team
responsible for the automated test tool product - a language compiler,
interpreter, various device drivers - that recieves commands over the
corporate network, and sends packets over the network under test.  Various
tools running on the linux boxes analyse the results and report.  All
controlled by a fairly fully fledged programming language that we call "Test
Control Language".  The user interface is written in XView.


-- 
Paul Tomblin, Head - Automated Test Tools Team.
Gandalf Canada Limited
This is not an official statement of Gandalf, or of Vicki Robinson.

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi
From: scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten)
Subject: IDE > 500MB?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:33:35 GMT

There are now several tempting IDE drives over 500MB (eg WD2540, and
Micropolis 2210A).  IDE is supposed to max out at 500MB.  I have heard
two stories about how to use bigger drives: get a special IDE adapter,
or use some special driver that comes with the drive.

If the latter is true, can I use a big IDE drive with, say, Linux or
OS/2??

I'd be very grateful if anyone knows something about this matter and
can help me with it.

Thanks.
-- 
Rob Scholten
scholten@epg.nist.gov
Fax: (301) 926 2746
Ph:  (301) 975 3744

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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer
From: njs@watson.ibm.com (Nick Simicich)
Subject: Re: Any way to watch a tty port?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 04:34:29 GMT

In article <1994Jan21.214100.25185@scorch.hna.com.au>,
Leon Garde <lgarde@scorch.hna.com.au> wrote:
>barkers@cuug.ab.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
>
>'Is there any way for a program to observe everything which occurs at a tty
>'port? I'm trying to figure out how my UPS converses with the supplied UNIX
>'SVR4 software, so that I can write my own daemon for it under linux. I need to
>'be able to tell how the port is configured, and what signals are passed back
>'and forth. I figured that I could set up some sort of pipe to watch data flow,
>'but that doesn't help me with the port configuration (ioctl's).
>
>'Any ideas?
>
>you want to monitor the data on the serial line ? then 
>patch the serial line into another uart !
>That will work successfully unless flow  rate stuff up things ...
>flow control wont work for the uart that is doing the eavesdropping;
>well not without a few fancy tricks i think may work;
>
>
>or can you just run the UPS daemon through pipes ?
>then 'tee' copies ouput to two different file descriptors.
>
>or use other software. trace or equivalent, which may give you a lot
>of extra information ...

All of the doc I've seen for UPS devices, especially those used for the
simple, fairly cheap UPS devices, use nothing but control lines, no data
is transmitted.  They do things like raise and lower DSR, CTS, and so
forth.  It might be that the scope that someone suggested is the best
idea, but not required.  What you might actually want to get is a simple
breakout box that allows you to observe line signals.  As a point,
looking at the box will also tell you if there are any signals being
transmitted on TD and RD (although not what those signals are).  At a
local computer show this weekend, someone was selling inexpensive
breakout boxes for $22.50, with two color LEDs.

njs@watson.ibm.com

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From: vince@victrola.wa.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: uucp 1.04 - looking for tester, _complete_ (better)version
Date: 24 Jan 1994 20:50:10 -0800

I wasn't looking to start a war :-)

Hey, he asked for an opinion and I gave him my opinion.  Nothing more or less.
He's obviously free to listen and agree, listen and not-agree, or not listen.

Geesh...you guys are all taking this far too seriously.
It's only USENET for chrissakes...

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.wa.com -------------
     "When you can get your customer to tatoo your name on their chest,
      it is unlikely that they will change brands"
           - Indiana Univ. of PA professor about Harley Davidson owners

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Subject: New Linux release
From: edp@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Edward Powers)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 00:25:24 EST


can any-one tell me if and when the new
Linux release will come out...
I forgot the name, but every one is talking 
about it


===========
edp@hudlink.hoboken.nj.us (Edward Powers)

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WUARCHIVE LOST :)
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 24 Jan 94 23:15:23


 > The entire archives were destroyed the afternoon of Thursday, January 13th
 > due to a bug in the system crash dump routines.  

Ooh, serious bad press for Digital... wuarchive was (last I heard)
running their hottest new OSF/1 on an Alpha.

--
   - David A. Holland             | Nobody ever went broke underestimating
     dholland@husc.harvard.edu    | the intelligence of the American public.

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Subject: Re: Archives of Torvalds/Tanenbaum discussion?
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 24 Jan 94 23:25:39


hta@uninett.no's message of 21 Jan 1994 11:06:51 GMT said:

 > This was in 1992. QNX is out there, but is there a Mach 3.0 based OSF,
 > or a Chorus based USL Unix on the market?
 > 
 > Seems the jury is *still* out...

Well, just to add kindling...

the Amiga has a microkernel OS, and has since 1985...

--
   - David A. Holland             | Nobody ever went broke underestimating
     dholland@husc.harvard.edu    | the intelligence of the American public.

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From: neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)
Subject: Re: More help with SLIP/DIP please ?
Date: 25 Jan 1994 16:28:45 GMT

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Director <dennis@cauchy.math.nwu.edu> writes:
In article <2hp00g$kb8@news.acns.nwu.edu> dennis@cauchy.math.nwu.edu (Dennis Director) writes:

    Dennis>     socket: Operation not permitted

I bet you were not root when you ran dip.


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From: uk09242@mik.uky.edu (kelly r brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: HELP! Adaptec 1522/2nd Drive Install Problems!
Date: 25 Jan 1994 20:04:25 GMT

Okay, I've been through this before, but nobody really answered me...

My current setup:

486-dx33
16MB RAM
PAS-16
Adaptec 1522 (SCSI ID 7, IRQ 11, Address 340)
Fujitsu SCSI Drive (340MB, Linux recognizes it fine) (SCSI ID 0)
Maxtor 7245SCSI drive (245MB, Linux WON'T FIND IT!) (SCSI ID 1)
Chinon CDX-435 CD-ROM
Conner 250MB Tape Drive

NOW...I've been through SLS and TAMU, and neither recognizes the Adaptec at
all, which I assume is because the patch level of the kernel in those dists
is too low.  Fine.

Slackware recognizes the PAS-16 as a scsi host (nothing is attached to it, 
BTW)...and recognizes my Adaptec 1522 okay.  It also recognizes the Fujitsu 
drive fine.

However, it is NOT recognizing the Maxtor drive that it needs to be installed
on.  It only finds one drive.

DOS recognizes both drives.

Another U*IX has recognized both drives.

The adaptec itself has no problems recognizing both drives, and maps them
as C: and D:.

HOW CAN I INSTALL LINUX TO THE SECOND DRIVE?

It's a generic (but Intel) 486.  The video is Trident TVGA8900CL.  I think 
that's all the information you need.

Oh, yes...the Slackware version I tried installing was 1.1.1, and whatever
kernel was on both the 2-disk boot/root set, and the unidisk, all of which
is whatever was current on sunsite.unc.edu as of last weekend.

Can SOMEONE, ANYONE, please help me out, here?

It would be appreciated...I'm going NUTS!

Thanks...

mark->
(Kelly's Husband)


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From: ncherry@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (neil j.cherry)
Subject: Re: MSDOS Better than Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:04:56 GMT

In article <2i32dd$ie3@agate.berkeley.edu> wypoon@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (WINGYUEN POON) writes:
>
>I think there is an ounce of truth in this person's rhetoric: there is a
>dearth of layman applications for unix. This is perfectly logical, given that
>*nix is ~not~ a user-friendly, low learning-curve, OS. And because the soft-
>ware market thrives on high volumes, *nix is, and will, never have the
>dishonor of being the OS with the most widespread usage. 
>
>Look at the "Information *way", we already have that - for the technically
>inclined. Yet, the goal is to have the "*way" made so metaphoric that the 
>bulk of the cash-endowed population will and can make use of it.
>


Someday there will be a smooth multi-tasking easy to use OS. I just hope it
isn't Windows! There are alot of good (strike that) reasons to use
DOS & Windows mainly everyone elses does. What I find disturbing about
DOS & Windows is that it is of limited use. It has business applications that
my place of employment has standardize on. If you want applications that
will do what I mean and look like I drew (SP) then I'll use a MAC. The one
thing Unixes can do that no single-tasking system will do is take the output
of one app, put it into another, process it, put it into another process,
etc. This the domain of Multi-tasking. Yes this is what I do at home, I have
alot of automated processes in place and I'll soon add more to monitor and
manage. (But I would like a Word Processor, any suggestions for Linux?)

NJC


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From: pdrap@ctp.com (Patrick Draper)
Subject: Re: [WANTED] A list of tape drives supported by Linux!
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:00:59 GMT

I am forwarding this message which I received in e-mail this group:

===========================================================================

From: bas@vimec.nl (Bas Laarhoven)
Subject: Re: [WANTED] A list of tape drives supported by Linux!
To: pdrap@ctp.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 22:06:21 +0000 ()
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Hi,

Someone sent me a copy of a message you posted on c.o.l.m.
I've added some comments:

> >It is my understanding that ftape is the driver for the floppy connected
> >tape drives. Is this true? I can get a Colorado-120 tape drive for $75.
> 
> Yes, this is correct.

Indeed, the driver will go beta soon.

> 
> >Should I do it? 120 megs is big enough for me, but will it work with Linux?
> 
> Yes.

It will work but watch out: the 120 megs is compressed data. In practive you'll
never reach this amount. Without compression you only get 60 Mb on one tape !

> 
> >Will I be able to swap tapes when the first one is full? (This is also an
> >issue with the Colorado 250's)
> 
> I am not sure, but I'd say no.

YES. Multiple volume tar's are supported by ftape.

> 
> To you all three, ftp to sunsite.unc.edu and get the file ftape.HOWTO in
> /pub/Linux/docs/howto, read it, you'll get answer to most of your questions
> there.
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Mario.
> 

Bas.


PS: Please forward this message to c.o.l.m. as I've no means to do this.
=========================================================================


 /\/\ |Patrick Draper                        Mr. Order, he runs at a|
/ /_.\|Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc.      good pace, but old  |
\  /./|e-mail: pdrap@ctp.com                      Mother chaos is   |
 \/\/ |Lansing, Michigan                          winning the race. |


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From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: MSDOS Better than Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 19:18:52 GMT

In article <2i32dd$ie3@agate.berkeley.edu> wypoon@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (WINGYUEN POON) writes:
>I think there is an ounce of truth in this person's rhetoric: there is a
>dearth of layman applications for unix. This is perfectly logical, given that
>*nix is ~not~ a user-friendly, low learning-curve, OS. And because the soft-
>ware market thrives on high volumes, *nix is, and will, never have the
>dishonor of being the OS with the most widespread usage. 
If it wasn't for a set of co-incidences unix would have been the OS. Had
Xenix taken off better, had real computing power arrived a little earlier..
Unix is effectively becoming much more widespread in its concepts if not
implementation - Windows comes with IP networking nowdays , NT has a POSIX
subsystem.
Other problems with Unix were/are certain people's sheer greed. If unix had
been at it's current price 7 or 8 years ago... anyway thats the past
>
>*nix is almost solely used in academic institutions, research institutions,
>and commercial scientific houses, no? Commercial *nix applications will never
>sell for the $49 of Borland's paradox, the reason being simply because the 
>software houses will never break even at the kind of volume for that sophist-
>icated a product.
NO - Unix is used a lot in process control, financial processing, simulation,
graphics/animation, film studios ... Most hospitals I know of seem to be 
Unix houses.
>
>Face it, everybody loves (some) money. Public domain software will never reach
>the feature-level of commercial software. Look at Procomm: starting off as a
Emacs is more powerful than any commercial editor, gcc is the best C compiler
I've ever used. Linux is more stable here than $3000's worth of SCO gear
and more standard. A lot of people are forbidden by their contracts to do
commercial work in the same area while working for xxx co. - Thus the freeware
market is alive and well. Also many people write something use it and give it
away - if you sell it people want manuals and upgrades. You can put free
software on an archive site and say - its here, it works for me, but thats
the end of the story. [Granted a few commercial vendors seem to take this
attitude these days]
>shareware, it quickly became popular and now Procomm is a commercial soft-
>ware produced by a money-raking company. The above conclusion, however, does
The reverse happens to - look at Hitech C for CP/M ....
>I love *nix (after learning it, of course), but Windows - and the require os
>to run it (DOS?) - stays in my hardisk. The two can coexist side-by-side, and
>they are complementary in many ways too.

In time everything will run DOS apps and windows apps and posix apps and we
can stick the entire stupid 20 year period of history behind us.

Alan


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From: mwarren@zk3.dec.com (Mark Warren USG)
Subject: Re: driver postscript -> bubble jet printer
Date: 25 Jan 94 19:21:58 GMT

edmundo@retina.cs.ucla.edu (Edmundo de Souza e Silva) writes:

>I'm looking for a filter to print postscript files in a bubble jet printer.

>Someone mentioned that I should look into ghostscript.  I looked and I
>found drivers for the HP DeskJet 500C & 550C, HP PaintJet, XL, and XL300,
>DEC LJ250, but not for the bubble jet.

>Does any one knows of some driver, or of other way to solve the problem?

>Thanks, and please answer to: edmundo@cs.ucla.edu

>Edmundo

I'm using ghostscript 2.5.2.  Canon Bubble Jet support is in devbj10, which
I use with a BJ200..
--
== Mark S. Warren     mwarren@zk3.dec.com     (603) 881-0821    DTN 381-0821

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From: niemidc@oasis.gtegsc.com (David C. Niemi)
Subject: Tools for Shared Libraries in Slackware?
Date: 25 Jan 1994 18:37:42 GMT
Reply-To: niemidc@oasis.gtegsc.com

I could have sworn when I installed Slackware 1.1.1 that there was an option
for tools for creating shared libraries that I failed to select.  Now looking
back at all the Slackware stuff I cannot find them.  Are they there, and if
so where?

I need things like "mkimage" for the XFree86 build to be able to make its
libraries.  Surely I am missing something obvious...

Thanks

(Yes, I know others have already built it successfully).
---
David C. Niemi  David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com
======================================================
Now I must sit here and ponder the yonder
Herbivores ate well 'cause their food didn't never run



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From: Hubert.Atkinson@f8003.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Hubert Atkinson)
Subject: Networking
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 06:00:00 -0500

I am currently running a small 3 node Lantastic network (1-Windows box, 
2-Dos boxes.) I would like to convert one of the Dos machines to Linux. 
Does anyone know if I can use the same NIC that came with the Lantastic 
setup-and will the Linux box talk to the Dos/Windows boxes?


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From: vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel)
Subject: New GCC 2.5.9 and new libs???
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:05:57 GMT

I was told that they were coming out in a couple weeks around christmas...
anyone know what the status of them is??  I like to be on the bleeding
edge...  :-)

                                Thanks

                                        Dave
-- 
  David A Vohwinkel        
Unix Consulting   ^ ^     vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu
  & Operations    0 0    @ The State University of New York at Buffalo   
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From: slater@nrlssc.navy.mil (Rick Slater)
Subject: [BOOT MESSAGE] DMA Problem?
Date: 25 Jan 1994 16:30:06 GMT

I'm running Linux 0.99.14 on a 486DX-33 with AMI bios, an ISA, Inc.
mother board, and the typical IDE hard drive.  Ever since I upgraded
Linux, I've noticed that among the boot messages is a pair which say

tpqic02: DMA block size (blah, blah)
tpqic02: Reset failed!

I've been ignoring the second one (it scrolls off the screen so fast,
it's actually easily missed at first) because my machine has been
behaving normally.

But the other night, while doing a "make" on the zip utility, the
machine crashed while gcc 2.4.5 was doing a compilation, and during
which there was heavy disk activity.  Only the reset switch could
restart things.  The problem could *not* be reproduced by repeating
the same steps that led to the crash.

Should I be concerned about the message?  Or is the probable cause
of the crash not likely to involve a DMA "reset failure" (whatever
that may mean to the kernel)?

                        -- Rick Slater

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From: Aaron Wohl <aw0g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Panasonic CDROM CR-562-B
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:07:48 -0500

NOTE: even though the driver says it is for the SBPro it will work fine
with the interface card that comes with a 562-B.  A friend uses it all
the time with the interface card that comes with it..

You need the file:
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/cdrom/sbpcd1.0.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/cdrom/sbpcd1.0.tar.gz

I use the same drive with a sbpro all the time.   It has a little
trouble starting up the drive once in a while.  That is if you access
the cd when it has been off for a while it give an empty driectory
sometimes.  If you try again it works fine.

For use with dos it doesn't seem to care what driver number the CDROM is
selected as.  (You can have up 3 drives on the CDROM bus).  Check on the
back of your CDROM drive there is a place to put a jumper.  There must
be a jumper present and the drive should be selected as drive zero.  The
manual that comes with the drive expains the jumpers.

I used the sbpcd1 with a SLS patch level 12 kernel and pl13 and now
pl14q.  Check the lilo docs and kernel docs if you haven't built a new
kernel before.

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Subject: talk(1) bug
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 24 Jan 94 23:29:41


I imagine this one is probably known by now, but:

the talk(1) binary provided with the net-2 binary distribution (I got
it from sunsite, I think) does not suspend; if you hit ^Z, it starts
repeatedly redrawing the screen until you kill it off.

--
   - David A. Holland             | Nobody ever went broke underestimating
     dholland@husc.harvard.edu    | the intelligence of the American public.

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi
From: scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten)
Subject: Re: IDE > 500MB?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 20:07:50 GMT

In article <2i3kpr$7lc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, da416@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andy Nicola) writes:
|> 
|> In a previous article, scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten) says:

[stuff deleted]

|> January 1994 issue of 'UNIX Review' magazine, page 105
|> 
|> Micropolis Corp.  Model 2217A IDE is the first disk to crack the 1GB limit.
|> The drive is 10ms seek, 1.62GB, 5400 rpm, 3 1/2" form factor, $1,600 street
|> price.

Thanks - but street price on the 2217A is $999.

Rob.


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From: rsi@netcom.com (Rajappa Iyer)
Subject: Any info on Genoa PCI motherboards?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 18:55:27 GMT

Sigh! Just when I was getting ready to buy a VLB machine... :-(

Anyway, I am in the market for a PCI machine and I came across this
manufacturer of PCI motherboards. It is a San Jose company... I was
wondering if anyone has run Linux on this successfully. Any info would
be most useful.

While on the topic, I understand that Linux should work with normal
IDE controllers attached to this board. Is this correct? 

Any and all wisdom most gratefully accepted. Thanks
-- 
<rsi@netcom.com> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer.  La Jolla, CA.
        I drink to make other people interesting.

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