Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #204
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Linux-Misc Digest #204, Volume #2                 Thu, 2 Jun 94 15:13:28 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (Beeblebrox)
  Re: Future Domain TMC850MCD & Toshiba 3401 (Mark Pfeifer)
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (Timothy Towers)
  Re: Comparing Yggdrasil's and TransAmeritech CD Linux ....  (rah@bwco.com)
  Number Nine GXE Video Cards work w/ Linux??? (Doug Braun)
  Re: LYNX - Small problem with Linux (Bryan Vold)
  Re: [X/XF86_VGA16/xterm] Make my day. (Oyvind Brusevold - Hstud)
  Re: Latest in PC WEEK (May 30 Editorial) (Louis-D. Dubeau)
  more - Broken Pipe (Larry Barea)
  Programmers Interface to POSTGRES (Tim Smith)
  Seyon Question (George Reese)
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
  Re: Ghostscript and epson 24pin printers (Roland Funk)
  A System I am ordering.... (Bulldawg (Ken Pearce))
  Observations and questions from a dithered Linux novitiate (Dr. Albert Hybl)
  Re: Adaptec 2742T:  Anything at all??? (David Fox)
  Re: who wants POV for Linux ??? (Oyvind Brusevold - Hstud)
  <None> (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
  suit for Linux (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
  Re: [X/XF86_VGA16/xterm] Make my day. (Oyvind Brusevold - Hstud)

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From: M.S.Ashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Beeblebrox)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 13:02:07 GMT

reubenr@netcom.com (Reuben Regucera) writes:

>It can be found in : ftp.wordperfect.com:/unix/demos/sco/sco.Z
>It is an 8M file, uncompress works, but the tar file is not recognized 
>by Linux or Sun.

Who says it is a tar file ?
It could be a binary - try "file sco" ?
___
mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk                 M.S.Ashton@csv.warwick.ac.uk
C++ consultant and emacs support.         Mail me if you have any problems.

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From: pfeifer@lf.hp.com (Mark Pfeifer)
Subject: Re: Future Domain TMC850MCD & Toshiba 3401
Date: 2 Jun 1994 13:27:17 GMT

Thanks for the info.  I'm beginning to suspect that I have a newer BIOS than
the driver knows about, and that its BIOS matching misses my card.  Once I
can compile my own kernel, I'm going to try and add my string to the
driver and see if that helps.

                                                Mark
--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mark Pfeifer                   (302) 633-8260   Internet: pfeifer@lf.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site               #include <disclaimer.h>
Wilmington, DE 19808                            #define OPINIONS mine

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From: tzt@uniplex.co.uk (Timothy Towers)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 12:12:50 GMT

I know I'm biassed, but Uniplex sells a wordprocessor
which works on ascii terminals and is widely used
by industry.

The drawbacks are...
   It is not released for linux because there is no demand.
   It will cost.

PS uniplex software is not just a wordprocessor, but
a lotus-a-like spreadsheet and database all working
together too.

        Tim


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: rah@bwco.com
Subject: Re: Comparing Yggdrasil's and TransAmeritech CD Linux .... 
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 16:24:39 GMT


Well maybe for you. I put TransAmeritech on two different machines without
any problems. The auto install worked beautifully. Maybe you were just
having a bad day? Perhaps it didn't like the hardware you were using?



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From: dbraun@ilx049.iil.intel.com (Doug Braun)
Subject: Number Nine GXE Video Cards work w/ Linux???
Date: 2 Jun 1994 13:35:58 GMT
Reply-To: dbraun@iil.intel.com

I was thinking of buying a Number Nine GXE64 video card.
This models uses the latest S3 chipset.  Does anyone know
how well it gets along with Linux???

-- 

===================================================================
Doug Braun     Intel Israel, Ltd.      M/S: IDC-42 (new mailstop!)
               Tel: 011-972-4-655069   dbraun@inside.intel.com


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From: btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM (Bryan Vold)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: LYNX - Small problem with Linux
Date: 26 May 1994 10:16:58 -0500

>: I also tried compiling with -DFANCY_CURSES (wouldn't compile).
>
[stuff deleted]     

You shouldn't need to copy anything anywhere or make changes in the source
code.  To compile with fancy curses under Linux, do this:

Add -DFANCY_CURSES -DNCURSES -I/usr/include/ncurses to the COPTS, and change
the -lcurses to -lncurses.

Please NOTE: the ncurses in Slackware 1.2 had a bug with underlining which 
shows up in lynx.  I think the version in Slackware was 1.8.1.  The under-
lining bug is fixed in ncurses-1.8.5.  You make have to get the source for
this.  If not, I could make an FTP-able version available.  The ncurses 
compiles out of the box if I'm not mistaken.    

If you want better performance out of Lynx, take out the -g (debugging stuff)
and add -O or -O2 to the COPTS.  I also added -O2 to the Library/Implementation
Makefile.  Make a BIG difference in the speed.  

[stuff about editing source deleted]

>I too find that dial-in modem users to linux get messed up screens more often 
>than on our SCO machine, which is due to dificiencies in linux's termcap.

In the recent versions of the Linux kernel, it seems things have gotten better.
If you continue to experience difficulties with Lynx over dial-in lines, you
may want to check out Screen-3.2.  It bypasses the Linux termcap and has its 
own built-in entries.  Works like a charm, and you can have other screens
running other programs at the same time (unless you have too many people 
logging in.).  I've found that it is also crucial to have a very good terminal
emulator.  I use a shareware VT102 emulator.  

Cheers,
Bryan Vold
-- 
btv@ldl.healthpartners.com               "The relentless pursuit of perfection"
Linux -- The Choice of a GNU Generation  "Make it so, Number One." 

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From: bruse@ii.uib.no (Oyvind Brusevold - Hstud)
Subject: Re: [X/XF86_VGA16/xterm] Make my day.
Date: 2 Jun 1994 14:10:56 GMT
Reply-To: bruse@ii.uib.no

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Hogan <bhogan@crl.com> writes:

Bill>   To wrap up, I would like to thank Oyvind and Richard and all the other
Bill> kind folks who responded to by question.

:-)

Bill> that would do for all resources what I am now able to do on a
Bill> resource-by-resource basis.

Bill>  Hmm. Maybe something as simple as *.*.Foreground: magenta?

Right on! Put *foreground: magenta in your resource file. All programs not
defining their own resources, or get their resources anywhere else, will get
the spesified foreground. 

Bill>  Nevertheless, thanks again to all who responded -- you really did make
Bill> my day!

Bill>  Bill -- Bill Hogan {bhogan@crl.com}

-Xyvind.
--

_______________________________________________________________________________
Oyvind Brusevold                                       email:  bruse@ii.uib.no
Inst. for Informatikk, Universitetet i Bergen            Tel:  +47 55 54 40 76

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From: hallu@boole.info.polymlt.ca (Louis-D. Dubeau)
Subject: Re: Latest in PC WEEK (May 30 Editorial)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 12:10:36 GMT


    CA> Well, PC Week has Novell using Linux again in the
    CA> Corsair/Expose operating system.  Only problem is that the
    CA> editorial mentions that Novell is "Basing the software on the
    CA> public-domain Linux version of Unix...".  Linux is NOT
    CA> public-domain, at least as I understand it.

No, it is not public-domain, it is freeware. Anyway, the magazines are
notorious for their innacuracies. I'm not suprised at all. The member
of the editorial staff who worte the editorial doesn't know the
difference between PD and freeware... man, that shows the seriousness
and the quality of the magazine. I usually read PC Week only to know
what commercial products are _likely_ to be released with _probably_
such and such features.

Of course... according to that they were reporting for years,
NT would have taken over the world by now.

    CA> Chris Adams

|              Louis-Dominique Dubeau <hallu@info.polymtl.ca>
|Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Montreal, Quebec)
|Linux single server project (http://boole.info.polymtl.ca:1500/~hallu/)
|                     -> This sentence is false!!! <-
--
|              Louis-Dominique Dubeau <hallu@info.polymtl.ca>
|Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Montreal, Quebec)
|Linux single server project (http://boole.info.polymtl.ca:1500/~hallu/)
|                     -> This sentence is false!!! <-

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From: larry@tarik.demon.co.uk (Larry Barea)
Subject: more - Broken Pipe
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 22:37:29 +0000

Anyone else getting a Broken Pipe error when piping through 'more' or is
it just me (particulary on an xterm).

I am using Slackware 1.2 (linux 1.1.8).

Thanks


Larry
(larry@tarik.demon.co.uk)

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From: tcsmith@csi.nb.ca (Tim Smith)
Subject: Programmers Interface to POSTGRES
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 11:01:12

Hello all...

I would like to get in contact with someone using the programming interface to 
POSTGRES. The reason being, I'm having a problem with includes for the 
package. Can anyone using the progamming interface send me a simple sample 
program and makefile that will help me in getting started. The test code and 
makefile won't  even compile !!!

-Tim Smith

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From: greese@abacus.bates.edu (George Reese)
Subject: Seyon Question
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 14:13:04 GMT

How do I set up a dial string with seyon?  The modem I dial to is a
14.4 modem which can handle only 9600 baud connections.  Since both my
modem and the remote modems are 14.4, they always end up at 14.4.  I
want to tell my modem to force a 9600 connect using my dial string, but
i do not see where in Seyon to do that.

                   ********************************
                   *         George Reese         *
                   *    greese@abacus.bates.edu   *
                   ********************************

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From: dlj0@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: 1 Jun 1994 11:38:18 -0400

In article <2sgq91$4dv@virgo.cc.gatech.edu>, byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>In article <1994May31.145704.7174@taylor.wyvern.com>,
>Mark A. Davis <mark@taylor.wyvern.com> wrote:
>>sta@whale.micro.umn.edu (Shawn T. Amundson) writes:
>>
>>>Byron A Jeff (byron@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
>>>: In article <2scudj$2e8c@ns2.cc.lehigh.edu>,
>>>: DAVID L. JOHNSON <dlj0@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:
>
>I've heard good things about WP for Unix. Are there any major incompatibilities
>using the ISBC2 (sp) emulation.
>
There is a demo version of WP for SCO unix (I forgot where it was.. can anyone
help here?) which I was able to run under iBCS without problems.  Some of the
button bitmaps were scrambled, but it ran (as  demo) fine.  In fact, it was
a little faster than on our rs6000's at work.  Howver, that is NOT fast.
It is basically a pretty pokey puppy unless you have gobs of RAM.

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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From: roland@foehnix.mch.sni.de (Roland Funk)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript and epson 24pin printers
Date: 1 Jun 1994 19:00:09 +0200


Try to change your paper size adding this option to your command line:
   -sPAPERSIZE=a4

Best regards,
+-------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Funk, Roland            | ^\ /^v^v^\_/^\ /^\_/^v^v^\ /^ |
|                         |   V           V           V   |
| email:                  | Lasciate ogni speranza, voi   |
| Roland.Funk@mch.sni.de  | ch'entrate !!   --Dante       |
+-------------------------+-------------------------------+

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From: kpearce@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bulldawg (Ken Pearce))
Subject: A System I am ordering....
Date: 2 Jun 1994 15:23:25 GMT

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I have this system that has been quoted to me by several vendors.  I want
to make sure that this syetm will work using *current drivers*.

Has anybody got suggestions/comments regarding this system?

        ASUS Pentium-60 PCI bus 256K cache ZIF
        32 Meg RAM (70ns)
        2 gigabyte hard drive, 8.5 ms, IBM
        Adaptec 2940 ISA SCSI controller
        3.5" floppy
        NEC SCSI Double Speed CD-ROM
        ATI Graphics Pro PCI Local Bus Video Adapter (MACH64 chipset?)
        MAG MX-17G, 0.26mm dp, 1280x1024 NI, 17" monitor
        Tower
        3 button mouse
                asking for $7008 (lowest bid so far from DATAPRO)

Problems?  Questions?  Good System?

Ken Pearce
kpearce@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

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From: hybl@umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl)
Subject: Observations and questions from a dithered Linux novitiate
Date: 2 Jun 1994 11:28:47 -0400


The HW-Configuration:
=====================
  The configuration consists of a Micronics 486DX2-66 motherboard,
16M RAM, two Western Digital IDE 420Mbyte hard disks, a Plextor
(internal) CD-ROM, a 5-1/4 + 3.5 Combo floppy drive, a Nanao 17"
display monitor with an ATI Technologies Graphic Ultra Pro mach32
VLB accelerator card, a Spectrum Multimedia Sound Card16 with a SCSI-2
port and an USRobotics (internal) modem.  (A network card will be added
sometime is the future.) The hba HD is dedicated entirely to a msdos
partition while hdb has both a linux-native partition and a linux-swap
partition.

My Linux Installation Observations:
===================================
  Using the Trans-Ameritech CD-ROM, I first installed the experimental
"umsdos" on top of the hba DOS file system.  For the longest time, I
could not get umsdos to install.  The Plextor CD-ROM drive came with
the SCSI device ID set to 2, since 0 and 1 are frequently dedicated to
HD's.  When I changed the SCSI ID to 0, umsdos installed.  This
"UNIX" looks good, although I did not do much to test it.

When I added the second HD, I installed the "regular" Linux on it
and [then] removed the umsdos from hba.  I used the 1.2_Meg SCSI
boot disk but was unable to use the COLRITE 1.2_Meg root disk.
I successfully used the TTY12 1.2_Meg root disk.  I have created a
new kernel and also installed LILO; both are working.  (I think
that COLRITE saw the umsdos on hba and wanted me to boot it
with the boot disk created during its installation.  That was
not what I wanted to do!)

Some irksome Problems and Questions:
====================================
  1.) I still do not know how to mount the cdrom disk so I can use
UNIX tools to browse about on an ISO9660 file system?  I have tried
'mount /cdrom' and Linux says that /cdrom is neither in /etc/mtab nor
/etc/fstab.  What values do I need to enter into those files?
      Likewise, I want to access the msdos file system on hba.
What additional entries do I need to make in those files so I can
mount /hba ?

  2.) I have started setting up the USRobotics modem.  Again I
was unable to get 'cu -lcau1' to connect to the modem.  Here
I found that the BIOS had COM2 connected to the onboard COMB
connector.  Once I changed that to COM4, the cu command
connected to the modem card.  Can someone please suggest a
setup for USRobotics modem, i.e., the nonvolatile random
access memory of the modem, the information needed for the modem
in the Devices file and the DIP switch settings.

  3.) 'shutdown -h' does nothing.  I found that I needed to be root and
use /sbin/shutdown.simpleinit to get it to shutdown in a proper manner.
[/sbin was not in the PATH variable.]

  4.)  While creating the Linux partitions, fdisk said:
          "Partition 1 does not start on cylinder boundary
          phys=(0,0,2) should be (0,1,1)"
This seems to be an irrelevant message.  Is there any cause for
concern?

  5.)  On the MSDOS side, I used "A:install" to begin the
installation of WP that seemed to be going OK until the computer
locked-up on the final WP [--Please Wait--] screen.  It appears
that the WP subdirectory is pointing to the dos root
directory--they appear to be the same.  I can 'cd WP' but 'DIR /w'
says I am still in the root directory although CD says I'm at C:\WP. 
Does anyone know what might have happened?  Can someone suggest
how to repair the problem!

Regards,
Albert (Hybl@umbc.edu)

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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2742T:  Anything at all???
Date: 01 Jun 1994 23:42:45 GMT

James P Gurganus writes:

] I have an Adaptec 2742T controller a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM, a 340 meg hard
] drive and soon, a 230 MB MO drive.
] 
] Can I do anything with Linux at all?

If your 340 Meg hard drive is IDE, yes.  Otherwise, no.
--
David Fox                                               xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab                     baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

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From: bruse@ii.uib.no (Oyvind Brusevold - Hstud)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: who wants POV for Linux ???
Date: 1 Jun 1994 17:34:21 GMT
Reply-To: bruse@ii.uib.no

>>>>> ">" == David A Vohwinkel <vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:

>> In article <alexr.0sqc@willow.login.qc.ca>, Alexandre Rousseau
>> <alexr@willow.login.qc.ca> wrote: In article <2rvnl9INNjed@CS.UTK.EDU>
>> peek@duncan.cs.utk.edu (Michael Peek) writes:
>>> : >How many readers would be interested in an officially-compiled and :
>>> >supported version of POVRAY, with X-Windows support, for LINUX ???
>>> 
>>> : Yes, I'm interested in POVRAY for Linux.  : Patrick Reijnen
>>> 
>>> I'm voting yes too.  Mike Peek - peek@math.utk.edu
>>> 
>> Me too !  --
>> 

>> Me too !!

>>      Dave

And I!

-Oyvind.

--

_______________________________________________________________________________
Oyvind Brusevold                                       email:  bruse@ii.uib.no
Inst. for Informatikk, Universitetet i Bergen            Tel:  +47 55 54 40 76

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From: 9208033h@levels.unisa.edu.au (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
Subject: <None>
Date: 2 Jun 94 23:13:36 +0930

Hi..

Just wondering if Linux supports RARP??

If so could someone point me to some info on it...

Email Replies Only...

Matt

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From: 9208033h@levels.unisa.edu.au (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
Subject: suit for Linux
Date: 2 Jun 94 23:50:26 +0930

Hi (again)

Just wondering if anyone has had success porting suit to linux

suit = Simple User Interface Toolkit.

Matt

PS Sorry about the previous post.. Forgot the message 8)..

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From: bruse@ii.uib.no (Oyvind Brusevold - Hstud)
Subject: Re: [X/XF86_VGA16/xterm] Make my day.
Date: 1 Jun 1994 17:42:20 GMT
Reply-To: bruse@ii.uib.no

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Hogan <bhogan@crl.com> writes:

        [ stuff deleted...]

Bill>   I have tried putting the line

Bill>   XTerm.Foreground: magenta

Bill> into a file named '.Xdefaults' in my $HOME directory, but that did not
Bill> work.

Bill>  I tried the same thing using a file named '.Xresources' and that did
Bill> not work.

Bill>  I can't believe how *great* the stuff I am typing at this moment looks
Bill> under 'openwin' and I would be ecstatic if I could make this "magenta"
Bill> trick work globally!!!

Bill>  So, how about it?

Bill>  Come on, make my day.


I'm not sure if case makes any difference, but have you tried (in .Xdefaults
or whatever...):

        xterm*foreground: magenta
?
The '*' is an wildcard for possible in-between class-names. 'xterm' is the
name of the top-level something.

Also (since you don't meniton it), are you sure to use xrdb to load the correct
resource file?

Bill>  <B)-

Bill> p.s. I used kermit in xterm to post this note.

Nice! My sys.adm have not yet had the time to set up the serial line to my
computer. 
  
Bill> -- Bill Hogan {bhogan@crl.com}

-Oyvind.
--

_______________________________________________________________________________
Oyvind Brusevold                                       email:  bruse@ii.uib.no
Inst. for Informatikk, Universitetet i Bergen            Tel:  +47 55 54 40 76

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