Subject: Linux-Development Digest #30
From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Mon, 15 Aug 94 22:13:04 EDT

Linux-Development Digest #30, Volume #2          Mon, 15 Aug 94 22:13:04 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Future of Linux (Dominik Kubla)
  Re: Was: [hd] Do you recognize this error message? Now: Error survey (Viktor T. Toth)
  Compiling Kernel version 1.1.45 (Tony Acero)
  Re: GP faults  (Juha Laiho)
  interested in porting CAP to Linux (Rob Newberry)
  development using svgalib and linux (davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu)
  Re: Future of Linux (cjs)
  Re: Linux 1.2.0. When? (Drew Eckhardt)
  Re: Intel syntax assembler available anywhere ? (Jeffrey Sturm)
  Re: BOCA ioAT66 serial card?? (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Suggestion for Linux (David A. Ranch)
  Will 12/16/24 bit color be supported in XFree86 anytime soon? (Khan M. Klatt)
  Planning to write ISDN driver (DE KERPEL SVEN)
  Re: Future of Linux (Robert A. Hayden)
  attn Idec Supervision 16 users (David Young)
  Floppy serious errors in 1.1.42 (with buslogic scsi) (Angelo Haritsis)
  Re: Will 12/16/24 bit color be supported in XFree86 anytime soon? (Byron A Jeff)
  Looking for Interactive UNIX device driver (Jim R. Pruitt)
  Re: Was: [hd] Do you recognize this error message? Now: Error survey (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Suggestion for Linux (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Adaptec-2840VL SCSI driver? (Rob Janssen)

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From: kubla@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Dominik Kubla)
Subject: Re: Future of Linux
Date: 15 Aug 1994 20:01:10 GMT


What do you think Linux International has been founded for ...
It is currently coordinating several projects and is promoting Linux as
a platform to professional software developers.
Unfortunately the Linux-SDK project has stalled due to a lack of volunteers.

If you want to know more about LI and its projects, contact me at:

  Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE

Cheers,
  Dominik (ex Linux-SDK coordinator)
 
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From: vttoth@vttoth.com (Viktor T. Toth)
Subject: Re: Was: [hd] Do you recognize this error message? Now: Error survey
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 12:36:08

In article <32np2b$10u@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> e8ne@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Chris) writes:

>[... lots of stuff deleted...] Now, for the weird part:
>
>df results in the following (I am at work, but you should see my point)
>
>avail  used    free
>135xxx 119xxx 10xxx    *note: 119+10 != 135
>
>I have rebooted several times, and STILL I get about 6/8 megs MISSING!?!
>
>Whats's the deal??

I don't know about the rest of your problems but this one is easily explained; 
5% of the space on any partition is reserved for root use and does not show in 
the output of df.

Viktor Toth

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From: ace3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Tony Acero)
Subject: Compiling Kernel version 1.1.45
Reply-To: ace3@midway.uchicago.edu
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 19:58:49 GMT

If you're on an Intel PC ([345]86) you probably need to replace the 
.../src/linux/include/asm directory with a link to asm-i386; ie

rm -fr /usr/src/linux/include/asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 /usr/src/linux/include/asm

Folks on other architectures should probably make the appropriate links
as well (asm-mips->asm or asm-generic->asm!!!).

Disclaimer: It worked for me, but I am not a heavy duty kernel hacker,
so be careful out there.

Tony Acero

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      a-acero@uchicago.edu          | ing the same question as his grandparents
___W(312)702-8214 H(312)752-5464____| before him and as his grandchildren after
him: "What star is that?" -- H.A. Rey, _The Stars, A New Way to See Them_

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From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: GP faults 
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 05:03:32 GMT

nicolas@magix.uucp (Nicolas BOUGUES) said:
>I got it from the memory info during boot process. Here is the line I get
>with 1.1.44 :
>Memory: 15900/20480k available (728k kernel code, 384k reserved, 3468k data)
>
>And with 1.1.39 (with the same kernel config) :
>Memory: 18248/20480k available (696k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1152k data)
>
>I do not look at it carefully each time I boot up Linux, but as far as I
>remember, it has always looked like (more or less) 1.1.39.

EEK! Those figures are pretty horrible; they'd practically kill a smaller
machine. Below are mine:
Memory: 6952k/8192k available (548k kernel code, 384k reserved, 308k data)

Kernel is 1.1.42, compiled to include normal HD support, SCSI support
(AHA-1542, SCSI disk, tape, CDROM, verbose SCSI error reporting), e2fs,
procfs, iso9660 fs, networking (CSLIP, PPP, 3c505), printer support,
selection, COFF/ELF loaders, SysV IPC and SoundBlaster support, so I'd
think it's not a minimal kernel.

There's couple of options I've seen that may allocate pretty large amounts
of data space: 'kernel profiling support' and ramdisk. Both of them are of
no use in normal operation.
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From: rob@eats.com (Rob Newberry)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: interested in porting CAP to Linux
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 18:02:02 UNDEFINED

I've been looking at the sources for CAP as well as the linux BPF interface in 
lib-pcap, part of the tcpdump-3 package.  I want to get my Linux machine 
speaking ethertalk to my Macs.  I've heard several people say that with this 
code, it shouldn't be hard to make it work.  But Unix network programming is 
a new one for me.  And maybe CAP is not the best place to start learning.

In any case, I would very much like to work with any other programmers who 
might be able to get it going with me.  I'll offer any help I can, and I can 
test plenty.

If you're interested in helping, drop me a line.

Rob



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From: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Subject: development using svgalib and linux
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 21:55:51 GMT

Hi,

  I am working on an image analysis using svgalib with my linux system
(1.1.24 kernel).  Once in a while (about every half hour) when using a
prgram in graphics mode, Linux crashes.  It really crashes because the
numlock nolonger works and I am not able to connect to it from another
terminal.

  Questions:
  
     1.  Is it supposed to crash?  I thought that a program that crashes is
         not supposed to bring the system down.   This is like developing
         under DOS again.
         
     2.  What are some good tips on using svgalib?   Somtimes I have to
         reboot because textmode disappears.
         
  Finally, according to version 1.12 docs for svgalib, it is supposed to
  work with a PS/2 ``busmouse''.  The fact is that it does not which is
  pretty obvious from the sources (see the `open_mouse' function).
  
     3.  Is there a newer version which has been verified to work with the
         PS/2 mouse?
         
Thanks,
     _____________
#___/John E. Davis\_________________________________________________________
#
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#   bitnet: davis@ohstpy
#   office: 617-735-6746
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From: cjs@netcom.com (cjs)
Subject: Re: Future of Linux
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 21:25:37 GMT

byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:

>All you'll end up doing is emasculating the OS we know an love by chaining
>more and more restrictions so that it'll look/feel like DOS/Windows/MacOS.

>BAJ
>-- 
>Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
>Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
>Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332   Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu

I agree with everything you've said. Especually all that stuff which I didn't
quote to save bandwidth. =)

But one thing you really have to admit, printing under Unix (any unix) really
blows. Its even worse then the early days of DOS. But I especually miss
being able to kick in a printer driver and dump lines, fonts, and pictures 
to it with C commands.

But at least with Linux, all you have to do is wrestle lprd.. I hear that SCO
makes you do triple-summer-salts while hand-cuffed and blind-folded in order
to get the printer support working.

Christopher
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From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Linux 1.2.0. When?
Date: 15 Aug 1994 22:04:02 GMT

In article <1994Aug15.190052.1@cc.uab.es>,  <icid2@cc.uab.es> wrote:
>I want to know when will be released Linux 1.2 

1.2 will be the "normal" users' release of 1.1.x, incorporating 
all of the new features and with more stability.  It could be out
in a month or two depending on how long the "cooling off period"
ends up being.

>or 2.0, and what are planning
>to put in it; multithreading? modular kernel? automatic mount/unmount of
>removable devices?

None of the above.  Everything in 1.1.x will be in 1.2.x - mostly,
this means clustered reads/writes, more robust networking with 
8K NFS, a reworked VM subsystem, more drivers, etc.

-- 
Drew Eckhardt drew@Colorado.EDU
1970 Landcruiser FJ40 w/350 Chevy power
1982 Yamaha XV920J Virago

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From: jsturm@garnet.msen.com (Jeffrey Sturm)
Subject: Re: Intel syntax assembler available anywhere ?
Date: 15 Aug 1994 22:41:19 GMT

Joerg-Otto Hartz (hartz@merlin) wrote:
: Dear Assembler-Freaks!

: We are trying to port a 3D-Graphics Library from Windows to 
: Linux. Unfortunately, the rendering functions are written in
: Intel assembly-language and we only have AT&T assemblers (GNU). 8-(
: Is there any assembler using Intel syntax running on Linux?
: We don't have any information about the as86. The generated
: object file should be compatible with G++.

: Thank you very much for your kind help!

: Henrik Behrens

as86 is a 16-bit assembler.  Under Linux it is only used to generate
real-mode bootstrap code, as far as I know.  It can't be used to assemble
ordinary Linux programs.

There are certainly syntactic differences between MASM and Unix assemblers,
the most annoying being the order of the operands.  But I'd imagine your
biggest problem will be handling 16-bit (Windows) vs. 32-bit (Linux)
instructions.  For example, compare:

                MOV     [BX], 1         ; move 1 to address bx, MASM-style
and
                movl    $1,(%ebx)       /* move 1 to address ebx, gas-style */

The MASM example moves 2 bytes and the gas example moves 4 bytes.  Doesn't this
mean your entire data segment would have to be reorganized to do a conversion?
I think there are some very non-trivial difficulties here.

Not to discourage you :-).  I haven't dealt much with assembly in a long
while, and if someone knows a way, or a tool that can help, I'd love
to hear about it too.

--
Jeff Sturm


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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: BOCA ioAT66 serial card??
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 22:01:42 GMT

In <1994Aug15.124050.28172@apgea.army.mil> bobs@apgea.army.mil (J. Robert Suckling <bobs>) writes:

>In article <CuFy59.8GF@pe1chl.ampr.org> pe1chl@rabo.nl writes:
>>In <32g0a1$ros@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> steven@gsb019.cs.ualberta.ca (Steven Charlton) writes:
>>
>>>Has anyone hacked the kernel to properly support this serial card?
>>>This is a 6 port, 3 UART (16550) serial card.
>>
>>You don't need to hack the kernel to support this card.  Just issue
>>6 "setserial" commands from your /etc/rc.serial, sepcifying the I/O
>>addresses and IRQs you assigned to the ports.  (IRQs may be the same)

>It might have something ti do with my having to use irq4 and the
>memory locations not starting with 0x220.  But the only way I could
>get this card to work was by changing .../linux/drivers/char/serial.c
>It seems the serial driver see some of the irq4 ports in irq3 and
>setserial will not let me change'em.  My stuff is at home and I am not.
>It is an easy change.

COM1 is the normal user of IRQ4.  Apparently the system detected a COM1
and took away the IRQ4 before.
It is not supposed to work with both a standard COM1 and the BOCA card
on IRQ4.  If it does, you are stressing hardware.  When the COM1 is
actually not present, first turn it off by:

        setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 0

There is no reason whatsoever why setserial would not be able to accomplish
what editing serial.c does.  Please stop doing that (or at least don't
recommend it to others)

Rob
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From: dranch@ecst.csuchico.edu (David A. Ranch)
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Linux
Date: 15 Aug 1994 21:16:21 GMT

In article <32nq3f$b8u@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>,
B Nivi (Babak)/9409 <bnivi@eth234.eld.ford.com> wrote:
>
>I'm sure all you develop people love these suggestions
>from idiots like me who have nothing to do with and know
>nothing about the development of Linux. . .

>the shell.  So if I type c-a-t j-ESCAPE, I will see
>
>cat junk.gs


Oh Man....  can you say file-name completion?  I believe its been in
Unix since its inception.

ksh - hit ESC twice
sh, csh, tcsh, bash - hit TAB


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From: n9044144@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Khan M. Klatt)
Subject: Will 12/16/24 bit color be supported in XFree86 anytime soon?
Date: 15 Aug 94 21:10:38 GMT

First, this is _not_ a demand, or even a request. I realize the 
programmers of Linux/*BSD/XFree86 are plenty busy, but I'm wondering if 
>8 bit color is a possibility in the next year.

Are the developers planning on doing >8bit color? Enquiring minds want to 
know... ;-) As akwaqysm jeeo yo tge giid wirj,](or if you can't read when 
my fingers are all a key off, as always, keep up the good work. :-)

-- 
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From: we34329@vub.ac.be (DE KERPEL SVEN)
Subject: Planning to write ISDN driver
Date: 15 Aug 1994 20:20:54 GMT

I'm planning to set up a 2 year mission, writting ISDN connectivity 
software for linux.

I read a lot of stuff on ISDN and have following questions.
How should I handle this problem (streams, ...)
What could I use as a base?
Which code could give me an insight in the way linux connects to
cards?
Is there an X25 connectivity within Linux?

Any help and suggestion is welcom.

Greetings

Sven De Kerpel
we34329@vub.ac.be

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Subject: Re: Future of Linux
From: hayden@vorlon.mankato.msus.edu (Robert A. Hayden)
Date: 15 Aug 94 16:54:36 -0500

Russell Nelson mumbled something like:
>       3- Linux users should be encouraged to become members of a Global 
>        Linux Club and membership fee will beused to support programmers
>        working on Linux Software Projects.

> These are excellent ideas, but don't you think you're biting off a
> little bit much?  Any one of these ideas is going to take you quite a
> effort to implement.  Maybe you should just pick one of them and run
> with it?

Actually, #3 seems like it is about time.  If there was a GOOD gloabl
registry of people, closely coordinated with Linux Journal, CD
Distributors, and the kernel developers, it would go a long way to showing
the numbers of people.  This is important because numbers is what big
companies like Word Perfect or Micro$oft look at to determine whether they
want to develop for that platform. 

In addition, buy charging a small fee (say $10-$20 US), one could build up
a small slush-fund to do two things

A)      offset any costs for running the organization (connection costs,
        snail-mailing, equipment if necessary, etc)
B)      Distribute remaining funds to utility developers as a sort of 
        pay-back for all the thankless work they've done.  Very likely, 
        the rate wouldn't be much, and it would have to be based on some
        kind of popular voting mechanism of what the users find useful, so
        that very useful programs get a larger payback than worthless ones. 

Because all funds are dispersed, it could operate as a non-profit 
organization.  The only real operating costs would be for connectivity 
(schools get cranky if you run a business on their networks :-) but some 
additional for manpower and equipment if needed.

Hell, I'd be more than willing to look into this if people are 
interested.  I'm not sure offhand the BEST way to start, but if people 
are interested I can let you know...

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From: dyoung@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (David Young)
Subject: attn Idec Supervision 16 users
Date: 16 Aug 1994 00:48:15 GMT

        Users of the Idec Supervision 16 video digitizer can use the
PC adapter to make Targa image files in Linux with an X Windows
program I've written. Users of this adapter can mail me at the
address below for the program.

Dave
dyoung@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu


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From: ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Floppy serious errors in 1.1.42 (with buslogic scsi)
Date: 16 Aug 94 01:30:32 GMT


Hello all,

I get serious errors when I use the floppy on my linux pc with a Buslogic 
445S VLB scsi controller (the on-board tape is disabled).  See below for
more details of my setup.
With linux 1.1.25 I had complete crashes in some cases that I accessed the
floppy. This was a complete system lock with no panic messages.

Now with 1.1.42 I run an iozone 20 (scsi disk) and at the same time I try 
floppy read operations. The problem manifests itself with messages:
floppy: dma problem?
40,10, 0, 5, 0,11, 2,
floppy: dma problem?
40,10, 0, 7, 0, a, 2,
...
The motor jumps with funny noises.
After this one of the following may happen:
1) operation is normal
2) 'illegal command' messages on most operations
3) complete lockup (without any panic message)

Back in 1.1.25 the problem did not appear before I used the Buslogic
scsi controller on. I wonder if the same problem occurs with other
scsi controllers.

This is a rather nasty problem. Could you cast some light on this?
Could it be connected with the BIOS settings (bus timing etc.)?

Thanks,
Angelo

Details of h/w, setup: (bus_type is E and dma is 0 on buslogic stratup):

Some output from dmesg:
BusLogic SCSI: Inquiry Bytes: 41 41 33 33
Configuring BusLogic EISA/VESA HA at port 0x330, IRQ 11, ID 7
BusLogic SCSI: interrupt received, but no mail
scsi0 : BusLogic
scsi : 1 hosts.
  Vendor: COMPAQ    Model: ST12550N          Rev: 3215
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: WANGTEK   Model: 5525ES SCSI CPQ1  Rev: 6G15
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, id 4, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total.
Memory: 12072k/13312k available (564k kernel code, 384k reserved, 292k data)
This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a 8272A
Partition check:
  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
  hda: WDC AC2340, 325MB w/127KB Cache, CHS=1010/12/55, MaxMult=16
  hda: hda1 hda2
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From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Subject: Re: Will 12/16/24 bit color be supported in XFree86 anytime soon?
Date: 15 Aug 1994 23:15:09 GMT

Check out the XFree86 3.1 update in comp.windows.x.i386unix.
There will be limited offerings for 15/16/24 bit color.

BAJ
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Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332   Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu

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From: pruitt@clam.rain.com (Jim R. Pruitt)
Subject: Looking for Interactive UNIX device driver
Date: 15 Aug 1994 23:29:09 GMT

Anybody know where I can get a sample device driver 
for Interactive UNIX. Perferrably a for a block device for 
pcmcia.

Thanks 

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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Was: [hd] Do you recognize this error message? Now: Error survey
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 22:04:12 GMT

In <32np2b$10u@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> e8ne@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Chris) writes:

>In article <32mro0$8av@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>,
>The Answer is 42. <jwiegand@odie.temple.edu> wrote:
>>In article <317fdd$bvd@aurora.engr.LaTech.edu> ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alex Ramos) writes:
>>>Might some hd.c guru tell me a possible cause for the following errors?

>[snip] (HD errorors)

>>[snip]

>>I have developed soft errors on my hdb, and the soft errors result in
>>file/file-system corruption. The problem, as far as I can tell, is

>I have a sneaking suspicion I have experienced the same thing last night 
>:( ... after running out of drive space, I started clearing up some old 
>files, and typing 'make clean' in a few dirs... while occasionally 
>checking df, I noticed that I had 135xxx total 128xxx avail and 0 free (I 
>forget the unit - it's in Ks I think) ... anyhow, they didn't add up 
>correctly... (I remember reading another, similar thread about 2-3 months 
>ago, but this gets even better:

>I rebooted, and ran e2fsck - it came up with some weird errors (and even 
>told me it had an error in the programming  (of e2fsck?!) (oh - this is 
>version 0.5a of e2fsck, with v1.1.44 kernel)) ... so I just said yes to 
>all prompts about fixing things... and it told me to reboot (I did this 
>booting under multi-user, with the fs mounted (hope this isn't bad) :)


Disk space not adding up?  Running FSCK while filesystem mounted??
I think it is time to read some FAQ's and HOWTO's...

Rob
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Linux
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 22:06:52 GMT

In <32nq3f$b8u@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> bnivi@eth234.eld.ford.com (B Nivi (Babak)/9409) writes:


>I'm sure all you develop people love these suggestions
>from idiots like me who have nothing to do with and know
>nothing about the development of Linux.  Anyway, here's
>a suggestion for Linux.  Maybe it's already implemented?

>On HP-UX, say you have a directory with the following files

>junk.gs fool.c idiot.gz

>Now, I don't know if this is a function of the shell, the OS
>or what but if at any point in the shell I type in the letter 
>j followed by an escape key, I will see the filename junk.gs in
>the shell.  So if I type c-a-t j-ESCAPE, I will see

>cat junk.gs

It is a function of the shell.

When you use "bash" under Linux, you will find a similar function
under the TAB key.

Rob
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Adaptec-2840VL SCSI driver?
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 22:09:27 GMT

In <CuKxxu.1uy7@sue.cc.uregina.ca> biegler@aristotle.cs.uregina.ca (Mark Biegler) writes:

>Hello,

>I was wondering if Linux will recognize the 2840/2842 VL SCSI card
>and be able to use it, in one way or another.  We have one of these
>cards and haven't tried installing Linux with it yet.  Do we need an
>additional driver?  Can it be used in some sort of emulation (1542?)
>mode?

>Please advise accordingly.  Thanks!

Please read the Linux FAQ and Projects-FAQ to find out about the status
of these drivers.

Rob
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