Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #114
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:     Sun, 15 May 94 16:13:11 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #114, Volume #2                Sun, 15 May 94 16:13:11 EDT

Contents:
  Re: LOGISCAN V0.0.1 released (CHRISTOPHER M MAY)
  Re: DIP and dynamic IP's (Robert G. Smith)
  Re: NeXT like voice mail ? (Bill Chin)
  Re: FAQ : is Jana Publishing still trading? (CD-Rom A Month)
  /proc/kcore (Shim Phyau Min)
  Re: Streets named after programming languages  (Doug Hosking)
  Neew patches to WW library (Mosaic) (Brian Beattie)
  Re: how to connect WFW 3.11 to linux box ?? (Keith B. Webb)
  Re: Linux & DEC ALPHAs... (Wayne Hodgen)
  Re: Linux CD-ROMs? (Weih-Guang W Liou)
  Re: Novell is trying to Sell a derivative of Linux for a big (David Konerding)
  Re: DIAL-IN MODEM DOESN'T RESPOND. HELP!!! (Chris Russell)
  Yggdrasil 1.1 (Henry O. Farad)
  Re:  Still that BackSpace key problem (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
  LOGISCAN V0.0.1 released (Henning Holtschneider)
  Re: [Observation] Mosaic's Spinning Globe (Alan Cox)
  Mapping keyboard and mounting CD-ROM? (Tri Tran)
  Re: UUCP Packet Size (Torben Fjerdingstad)
  Re: Zeos Pantera OK ? (neal kettler)

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From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (CHRISTOPHER M MAY)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: LOGISCAN V0.0.1 released
Date: 15 May 1994 15:40:15 GMT

Henning Holtschneider (hh@hhdo.ping.de) wrote:
: Hi you, out there!

: There recently was a discussion about a Logitech scanner driver for Linux in
: col.help and now I found this message in a German Fidonet newsgroup:

: [for those of you who don't understand enough: the author has written a
: driver, based on the mustek driver, for the Scanman32 and Scanman+. He has
: uploaded the file to tsx-11.mit.edu as logiscan.tar.gz]

Hi, I have a scanman32 and it has just been collecting dust.  I was
wondering if you knew a more exact location for this file, as I could 
not find it on tsx-11, and 'archie logiscan.tar.gz' found no matches.

Thanks for the info, though, it's good to know that at least there's
something out there for my logitech handheld scanner.
 
-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
-       Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab


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From: rob@bip.anatomy.upenn.edu (Robert G. Smith)
Subject: Re: DIP and dynamic IP's
Date: 13 May 1994 04:25:51 GMT

Daniel J Rabinowitz (djr@pion.rutgers.edu) wrote:

:       Right now I'm running DIP and retrieving my dynamically
: allocated IP address by hand.  What's the best way to do this
: automatically?

: BTW, I'm using the default dip 3.3.7 program which came with
: Slackware.

Here's my script for dynamic addressing for the Penn campus
dialin SLIP server. Note the switch from 7 bit even parity,
to 8 bit no parity after the successful login.
There may be minor variations depending on which version
of "dip" you're using.

Hope this helps,

Rob Smith


#  connection script for SLIP to mach.dept.upenn.edu
#

port /dev/cua1
speed 38400
parity e
databits 7
dial 899-0934
if $errlvl != 0 goto error

wait CONNECT 60
if $errlvl != 0 goto error

sleep 2
# print sent crlf, waiting...
send \r\n
wait  ID: 10
if $errlvl != 0 goto error
# print sent login, waiting...
send myloginname\n
wait ord: 5
if $errlvl != 0 goto error
# print sent password, waiting...
send mypassword\n
wait nnex: 30
if $errlvl != 0 goto error

send stty bchar 8 parity none\r\n
sleep 2
parity N
databits 8

send slip\n
# print sent slip, waiting...
wait is 2
if $errlvl != 0 goto error
get $remote remote 1
wait is 1
if $errlvl != 0 goto error
get $local remote 1
# get $mtu 1500
get $mtu 512
if $errlvl != 0 goto error

  default
  print CONNECTED to $remote with local address $local
  mode CSLIP
  goto exit

error:
  print CSLIP connection failed.

exit:


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From: bchin@is-next.umd.edu (Bill Chin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: NeXT like voice mail ?
Date: 15 May 1994 16:00:04 GMT

Shahid Ikram Butt (sib1@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:

: I have not installed Linux on my machine yet, I am looking to do that 
: real soon. A quick question. Is anybody working on NeXT-like voice 
: mail system for Linux ? I like the ability to send/receive voice mail on my
: computer.  Just about everybody has sounblaster or compatible card and
: it shouldn't be difficult to stnadardize something like that. 

: If we could get voice messages and gifs in the sig file of a voice message
: we'd very close to video-conferencing without wasting all that bandwidth.
: The data could also be automatically compressed/decompressed 
: uudecoded/uuencoded etc ? 

You are talking about MIME, an Internet standard for sending "richer"
messages than straight ascii.  You can send graphics, binaries, sounds
and others using MIME compatible mailers on many platforms including
Linux. 

: How easy or difficult something like this should be to write ? Does something 
: like this already exist for Linux ? I haven't noticed in any Linux users' sigs
: as I do in NeXT owners' sigs. Imagine putting "Linux mail accepted here" next
: to your email address. 

NeXTmail was developed way before there was an Internet standard to exchange
"rich" messages.  In some ways, NeXTmail is still superior, but not
in one of the most important - there are only a few people that can send/
receive NeXTmail.  Even NeXT is building in MIME support into their
bundled mail app, and there are several commercial and freeware solutions
to send/receive MIME under NEXTSTEP.  Also, if one wanted to be able
to handle NeXTmail, it isn't *that* hard.  NeXTmail is nothing more
than an uuencoded Rich Text Format document with simple extensions to handle
attachments. However, the demand probably just isn't there and one still
has to deal with funky things like character set mapping and font
compatibility (usually X11 <-> Display Postscript).  There is little reason
to create yet another non-standard e-mail message protocol.

.Bill Chin
bchin@andi.org


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From: cdrom@noc.hookup.net (CD-Rom A Month)
Subject: Re: FAQ : is Jana Publishing still trading?
Date: 13 May 1994 04:49:13 GMT

Tim Kimberley (tim@stencil.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Sorry to be (I imagine) the 100 th person to ask,
: but I'm becoming concerned.  They neither reply
: to my mail nor announce on c.o.l.a. the shipping
: date of the new 3 cd-rom Linux bundle - it was
: going to be about Easter, I think. What gives?

: Has anyone had luck in tracking them down very
: recently (on linux@jana.com) If so, will you 
: mail me please?
: Thanks.
: -- 
: Tim Kimberley (tim@stencil.demon.co.uk)


The node jana.com is in trouble, there were few post on the net
about the CD's. If you want any help, e-mail me here and
I will try to do my best.

Jay

















































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From: med70047@solar.cc.nus.sg (Shim Phyau Min)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: /proc/kcore
Date: 15 May 1994 16:38:14 GMT


This file: /proc/kcore seems to be growing bigger and bigger. It currently
stands at 8 MB and appears to be the file that is responsible for chewing
up the free space left in my root partition.

Is there a program available for me to look at it in a meaningful way?
Can I remove it without anything untoward happening to my system?
If I can't remove it, can I make a symbolic link for it to somewhere else
on another partition where I have more space?

Please reply by e-mail. Thanks.

Ivan Shim
ivan%shim@csah.com

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Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers
From: hosking@netcom.com (Doug Hosking)
Subject: Re: Streets named after programming languages 
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 04:41:18 GMT

Colin Simpson (cms@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Extending this conversation a bit further to streets named
: after any field of computing. 

: Is there in Silicon Valley a street called `Disk Drive' ? 

According to 'The Thomas Guide' for Santa Clara County (one of the better
known street maps), yes - in San Jose.

... and now you've got me trying to remember which company (Apple ??)
was silly enough to put up a building with an address of '1 Infinite Loop'
a few years ago.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: beattie@netcom.com (Brian Beattie)
Subject: Neew patches to WW library (Mosaic)
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 16:47:23 GMT

I am looking for the patches to the WWW library to run across term.  I have
seen various versions of Mosaic for linux that will run across term (I think)
so I believe the patches exist but I have been unable to locate them.  I could
probably also use the complete source to Mosaci that runs across term but all
I need is the WWW library.

I some kind soul could give be a pointer to these sources I would greatly
appreciate it.
-- 
Brian Beattie      | [From an MIT job ad] "Applicants must also have
beattie@netcom.com | extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they should
                   | have sufficently good programming taste to not
Fax (404)414-5414  | consider this an achievement."

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From: keith@atl.fujikura.com (Keith B. Webb)
Subject: Re: how to connect WFW 3.11 to linux box ??
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 02:31:01 GMT

Papa Legba (lockwooj@janus.ucq.edu.au) wrote:
: I'm looking for ways to connect my dos box to my linux box.

: I have got ncsa telnet etc for dos and have just ftp'd the nfs stuff fot
: dos but I'm also looking for a linux program that will directly
: interface with Win For Workgroups default networking stuff.

Just this week I ftp'd MS Beta TCP/IP32 for WFW.  It comes with a few
applications (telnet and ftp) and is very beta but works!  This TCP/IP
is the new virtual device driver type vs. streams used previously.  MS 
expects to release next version of WFW including TCP/IP and a few basic
applications around mid summer.  I have not had enough time to try other
apps with this but will be soon.

: I did hear of Samba ( I think it wass called that ) that is a linux
: add on that will let it talk to windows boxes running window's standard
: protocols, which is lan manager or something ...

: Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Good Luck!
Keith
: --
: Jason Lockwood.
: 3rd Year Bachelor of Computing
: Central Queensland University
: Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.




--
Keith B. Webb                           Fujikura America, Inc.
keith@atl.fujikura.com                  Atlanta, Georgia USA
                                        +1 404 956 7200 x126 

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From: hodgen@ozzy.uni-koblenz.de (Wayne Hodgen)
Subject: Re: Linux & DEC ALPHAs...
Date: 15 May 1994 17:28:45 GMT

In article <2r16ul$9ia@sousa.amt.ako.dec.com>,
Jim Paradis <paradis@sousa.amt.ako.dec.com> wrote:
>Dwight M Evers (evers@plains.NoDak.edu) wrote:
>: To all those would be porters of Linux to the DEC ALPHA...
>
>That's me 8-)  More than would-be, by the way... I just booted it for
>the first time last week.  Mind you, it didn't get very far, and I've
>been temporarily called away to another project, but I'll be back in 
>a couple of weeks with a full progress report.

Great, I'm waiting with baited breath...

>you care to elaborate?  What kind of bugs have you encountered?  As far
>as I know, there are no problems with the architecture or the chip.  There
>ARE programming implications due to the chip's pipelined architecture,
>its separate I&D caches, its multiple-issue architecture, and the 
>appearance of 64-bit data types, but these are all well-documented in 
>the Alpha Architecture Reference Manual.

Can you post exact infos with number etc for that book so the library can
order one?

>Admittedly, I'm initially targetting my Alpha Linux port to low-end
>systems (i.e. 100-150MHz) as opposed to the 200+MHz higher-end systems,
>so we MAY not get all the way up to 100 SPECfp... sorry 'bout that 8-)
>On the other hand, I maintain that one will still be in the same league.
>:      Trying to use a Ferrari to do the work of a VW will only make 
>: things worse. I don't want to make it seem as if noone needs a DEC, but 
>: re-evaluate your needs before putting out the $$$...

Fine, what systems? Are motherboards available? I can't afford a complete
new system but an MB shouldn't be more than $1000 or so.

>No problem... some people can get along just fine with 486s and Pentiums.
>No problem.  On the other hand, some people have the need for more power 
>but not the budget to justify a large, expensive system.  For such people, 
>a low-end Alpha-based system with a small, fast OS that squeezes the maximum 
>power out of such a small package is ideal, and that is what I intend to 
>deliver.

And is exactly what I need/desire. Personally I don't really care if the
system I end up using is R4X00, Power PC or Alpha based. I want a cheap
RISC machine using as much of my current HW as possible running Linux. The
first MB solution available gets my money (and any help I can give porting
Linux).

-- 
Wayne Hodgen   | hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de | #include <ridiculouslylong
Uni Koblenz,   | or Fight-o-net 2:245/5618.42     | legalesemumbojumbodisclaim
Rheinau 1,     | Voice: +49 261 9119-645          | er||stupidasciipictureover
56075 Koblenz. | Fax:   +49 261 9119-499          | 20linestoannoythenet.cops>

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From: wgliou@iastate.edu (Weih-Guang W Liou)
Subject: Re: Linux CD-ROMs?
Date: 15 May 94 17:36:25 GMT

In <2qn2gk$g5p@xmission.xmission.com> vir@xmission.com (vir@45acp.slip.com) writes:

>DL83-08 (s21008@cc.ntnu.edu.tw) wrote:
>: [ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.development ]
>: [ Author was DL83-08 ]
>: [ Posted on Sun, 8 May 1994 17:15:22 GMT ]

>: David - Foulds (foulds@shell.portal.com) wrote:

>: : I just got the InfoMagic 2 CD set for $20, and it's hard to imagine
>: : how much better a deal could be available.
>: : (unsolicited.)
>: : David
>: : -
>: The deal sounds unbelievably good, I admit, but do I really need ALL
>: versions? Is it possible to run stuff off of the CD (I have only 200MB HD,
>: and I already need alot of it)? There are one or two systems that will run
>: nearly or entirely off of the CD, one being EXPENSIVE, the other reasonable.

>: Curtis
>: --
>       At least you have a choice of which distribution you want to
>       go with.  TransAmeritech Release 3 is mountable and usable
>       from the CD.
>CUL
>vir
>--
>    _/_/_/  _/      _/  _/_/_/   Salt Lake Internet Project(tm)
>   _/      _/      _/  _/    _/  y.a.c.c.  : Vir Lagua, Jr.
>  _/_/_/  _/      _/  _/_/_/     voice     : 801.571.5602
>     _/  _/      _/  _/          data / fax: 801.571.2020
>_/_/_/  _/_/_/  _/  _/           email     : vir@xmission.com
>  


   Where I can find this mountable and usable Linux CDs ?

Liou

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From: rafael@cse.ucsc.edu (David Konerding)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Novell is trying to Sell a derivative of Linux for a big
Date: 15 May 1994 18:33:38 GMT

Erik Talvola (talvola@fennel.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: I'm not sure what people think the problem is here.  "Linux" is a collection
: of programs.  The kernel is GPL, and Novell would have to provide source code
: for it.  However, if they take the Linux kernel, and add some of their own
: applications to it (from the original article, it sounds like this is their
: plan), and sell it for whatever (the article mentioned about $100 I think),
: there is no problem at all.  Many major pieces of Linux are not GPL programs,
: like X11 for example.

: I hope Novell continues with the project.  Getting commercial support of
: Linux from a large company like Novell would likely stabilize the kernel
: quickly.

My computer runs 1.10 Linux, with a SLIP connection, X11, all the neat stuff, and
I never have any crashes.  I often leave my computer on for days and nothing is
"unstable" about it.  I don't see what you mean about Novell stabilizing the kernel.

I also like the idea of a network-contributed, single person-moderated kernel with
occasional new patches adding new features for hackers to test, then to be incorporated
when they're well-debugged.

However, I'm a little worried that if Novell (and other companies) start putting out
their own versions of Linux the problem started by AT&T a long time ago will
continue: many many different versions of Unix, all slightly different.


: --
: +-----------------------------+
: ! Erik Talvola                | "It's just what we need... a colossal negative 
: ! erikt@psi.prc.com         | space wedgie of great power coming right at us
: ! talvola@gnu.ai.mit.edu      | at warp speed." -- Star Drek

--
   O~_   ______ David Konerding (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  c/ /'    ____ rafael@cse.ucsc.edu
 ( ) \( )    __ rafael@cats.ucsc.edu


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From: cjr@netcom.com (Chris Russell)
Subject: Re: DIAL-IN MODEM DOESN'T RESPOND. HELP!!!
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 17:52:31 GMT

Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
: The Serial-HOWTO recommends getty_ps 
: (which is getty on slackware1.2.0, I believe),
: but in my experience this does not work
: if you want to dial in _and_ out.

The getty_ps which is included in Slackware 1.2.0 does have a bug or two, 
in my experience also. I think it's 2.07c. After fighting with it for a 
day or so I got 2.07b which worked better. Problem I had with getty_ps at 
2.07c was that on re-initializing the modem (after someone dialed in and 
logged out), getty_ps insisted on sending an ATA (which took the phone 
off hook with nothing there). ATA was not in my INIT string (of course) 
but was in my CONNECT string (after a WAITFOR). 
 
-- 
Chris Russell    *   Sunnyvale,   *   PGP public key block   *
cjr@netcom.com   *   California   *   available via finger   *

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From: lrc@netcom.com (Henry O. Farad)
Subject: Yggdrasil 1.1
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 18:08:34 GMT

Just thought that I'd let people know, The summer release of
Yggdrasil is out.  They are furiously working on shipping out
the orders they have.

I've installed it on my system and I'm basically very happy with 
it.  It is much easier to deal with the installation than on
the winter release.  As with anything, I have a few minor gripes,
but as I said, it is a major improvevment over the previous.

--
-UUU-v^v^-||- Henry O. Farad / Larry Colen      lrc@netcom.COM
H:408-335-7505  W:408-774-2215                  lrc@red4est.felton.ca.us

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From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Subject: Re:  Still that BackSpace key problem
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 17:34:44 GMT

In article <2r5b37$aee@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, pedro@es2i.univ-mrs.fr (Javier Garmendia) writes:
>
> (Joe Pannon) writes:
>|I've seen several posts mentioning the Slackware 1.2.0 backspace key
>|anomaly (it's ^? instead of ^H) but I haven't seen any answers how to
>|fix it.  Perhaps I missed it or all of them were answered by e-mail, so
>|pardon me if I'll be repetitious.
>
>You can use the stty command in profile files (or rc*):
>       stty erase ^H
>and it should work fine.
>
I don't have the problem in the console, but did in X.  I managed to find a 
fix.

>|I just found the following stuff in my .xsession-errors file which seems
>|to relate to the backspace key problem:
>| 
>|sh: /lib/cpp: No such file or directory
>|xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad keysym target keysym 'BackSpace', no corresponding
>| keycodes
>|xmodmap:  1 errors encountered, aborting.
>| 
>|I haven't used the xmodmap yet but I'll try if that's the way to fix the
>|problem.  Is it?
>
Yes (or, it was for me.  Put:

keycode 22 = BackSpace

in your .Xmodmap (or system version, /usr/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap)

Q:  Shouldn't this be in a FAQ somewhere?

It's not obvious that it's an XFree problem, so people won't be running to the
XFree FAQ, if that's where it is.
-- 

David L. Johnson                             ID:  dlj0@lehigh.edu
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015       Telephone: 610-758-3759 (office)
                                                        610-828-3708 (home)
MS-DOS: Just say No!

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
From: hh@hhdo.ping.de (Henning Holtschneider)
Subject: LOGISCAN V0.0.1 released
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 12:57:53 GMT

Hi you, out there!

There recently was a discussion about a Logitech scanner driver for Linux in
col.help and now I found this message in a German Fidonet newsgroup:

[for those of you who don't understand enough: the author has written a
driver, based on the mustek driver, for the Scanman32 and Scanman+. He has
uploaded the file to tsx-11.mit.edu as logiscan.tar.gz]

[ Article crossposted from fido.ger.linux ]
[ Author was Andy Beck ]
[ Posted on Sat, 07 May 1994 12:06:08 +0200 ]

Hallo All!
==========

Ich hab' mir in den letzten Tagen die Arbeit gemacht,einen Scannertreiber
fuer den Logitech SCANMAN+ (Scanman32) zu schreiben ...

Das Ding sollte auch mit dem aelteren SCANMAN und ggf. (teilweise) einem 
neueren Typ,den die Logi-Software als "NCRSCAN" identifiziert,laufen.

Es handelt sich um ein Kernel-Loadable-Module,es werden also die modutils
benoetigt.Ein Demo-Programm [fuer svgalib] ist auch dabei.

Ich hab' das Teil auf tsx.mit.edu hochgeladen,wo es demnaechst wahrscheinlich
unter ALPHA/scanner/logiscan.tar.gz o.ae. zur Verfuegung stehen wird.

Das Ding basiert zu grossen Teilen (Geruest und ioctl-Schnittstelle) auf dem 
M105-Treiber von Thomas Faehnle (Thomas.Faehnle@uni-ulm.de). Software,die 
fuer diesen Treiber geschrieben wurde,und keine speziellen Faehigkeiten des
Mustek benutzt und die Zeilenbreite korrekt via IOCTL holt,sollte ohne
weitere Veraenderungen mit dem Logi-Treiber laufen.

Leider ist es mir unmoeglich, Thomas zu erreichen (der Mailserver seiner Uni 
sagt 'Addresse unknown'),um mich mit ihm ueber die weitere Entwicklung der 
Scanner-Ioctl-Schnittstelle,etc. zu unterhalten.
Sollte jemand von euch in der Lage sein,ihn zu erreichen oder ihn gar kennen,
so moege er ihn bitten,mich 'mal unter <becka@hp.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> 
oder via Fido anzumailen.
Ich waere auch schon gluecklich ueber eine funktionierende Mail-Adresse.

CU,Andy

... Line noise provided by German Telekom !
-- 
      Henning Holtschneider * Bauernkamp 41 * 44339 Dortmund * Germany
          Member of OASE - European Shareware Authors Organization
  Internet: hh@hhdo.ping.de  Fidonet: 2:2444/1099  Telefax: +49 231 7285296

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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: [Observation] Mosaic's Spinning Globe
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 16:55:02 GMT

In article <CHRIS.94May13083439@blackvelvet.ads.com> chris@blackvelvet.ads.com (Chris Smith) writes:
>I'm running Linux 1.0 on a 486DX50; my enlightened co-worker is using
>something else, methinks.  I was trying to retrieve an HTTP document
>related to Linux, in fact, but sunsite.unc.edu wasn't responding right
>away, so the globe was spinning away.  The globe was spinning so fast,
>in fact, that I could barely see the dots moving in to the globe nor the

Its a bug in mosaic arguably, at the very least a bug in the port. The history
is like this.
BSD invent select and say the time field may in future be updated to reflect
time remaining when the select ends - Everyone uses select - Linux arrives and
does select as per the BSD spec including the time update they never finished.
Mosaic assumes the time isn't fiddled with.

Alan


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From: tran@f18sun5.nwc.navy.mil (Tri Tran)
Subject: Mapping keyboard and mounting CD-ROM?
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:31:50 GMT

Hi,

I've just successfully installed Linux and XFree86.  Now how
do I go about maintaining/configuring my system to be like the
SUN sparc that I have at work?  Is there a document that I
can refer to for this?  What I would like to do is map certain
function keys on my keyboard for various function such as "open icon",
"Copy", "Paste", and "Cut" to name a few.  Can it be done?

Also, how do go about mounting the cd-rom drive?  I want to update
my system with additional slackware packages that I didn't include
when I installed Linux.  Everytime I try to do this, it give me
an error message saying either the device is already mounted or the
node does not exist.  Neither of them is true.  Help please.

Tri

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From: tfj@olivia.ping.dk (Torben Fjerdingstad)
Subject: Re: UUCP Packet Size
Date: 15 May 1994 18:47:42 +0200
Reply-To: tfj@olivia.ping.dk

rwyble@tlc.alcm.org (Richard J. Wyble) writes:

>>Hmm, make sure the package is (re)compiled with the new style configuration
>>files on. The 1024 byte packes size is for the 'i' protocol, read your
>>/usr/spool/uucp/Log file to determine what protocol you're using to connect
>>to the other host (the widespread 'g' protocol has a max of 64 bytes). Also,
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Well, no. The 'g' protocol has always supported packet sizes up to 1024, but
>many uucp implementations have not. Taylor--using the new config
>files--allows a larger packet size and windows to be specified. It's in the
>docs.

uucp-g also does 2048 bytes packets.

Here is what I always see with taylor-1.04 and 1.05, no matter which
system I connect to:

     protocol 'g' sending packet/window 2048/7 receiving 64/7

I did not change the 64 bytes define. Maybe I should?
It would be better reversed. I receive a lot more than I send.

Policy is hdb+taylor, and my config files are straight hdb,
i.e. NO taylor configuration files.

-- 
torben fjerdingstad                     | linux-1.1.12     (God's Own OS).
tfj@olivia.ping.dk  /  (234/85@fidonet) |   And it's FREE!

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
From: kettler@CS.ColoState.EDU (neal kettler)
Subject: Re: Zeos Pantera OK ?
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 19:17:29 GMT

In article <sib1.768979718@isis.msstate.edu>,
Shahid Ikram Butt <sib1@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>
>I am considering buying a Zeos Pantera machine with 486DX2-66, 16MB RAM,
>3PCI 5 ISA slots, on board Adaptec 6360 SCSI controller chip and a Diamond
>Speedstar 64 PCI (1meg) video card.
>
>I am wondering if someone out there has the same or a similiar machine 
>running Linux ?  I would hate to buy the machine and find out I made a 
>mistake. Any help will be greatly appreciated. 
>
>Thanks a million.
>
>
>Shahid
>   ______________________sib1@Ra.Msstate.Edu____________________________
>                  Cruising Information Super Highway
>                  WWW : http://www.msstate.edu/~sib1
        Just one problem with that setup... The Diamond Speedstar. Diamond
doesn't like to make the programming specs freely available, so that
card may not work with X. The diamond stealth won't work, but I'm not
sure about the Speedstar 64. My reccomendation is to play it safe
and get something based on the ATI Mach 32 chip. Good luck.

-- 
========== Neal Kettler < kettler@beethoven.cs.colostate.edu > ==========
The following sentence is false.
The preceding sentence is true.
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