Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #288
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Sun, 19 Jun 94 19:13:07 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #288, Volume #2                Sun, 19 Jun 94 19:13:07 EDT

Contents:
  Re: UNIVERSAL CDROM - STOP ADVERTISING ! (Charles Liu)
  Re: Universal CDROM - enough already -give us a break! (Charles Liu)
  Re: [diff] Where is 'man diff' page? (Tom Bueschgens)
  What happened to the distribution packages? (Siming Zhan)
  ftp `macdef' broken?? (Roy Hann)
  Re: XDM (login problems) (Oliver Wurm)
  Re: future of Unixware (Brandon S. Allbery)
  Re: Does WP demo work? (was:WordProcessing again) (Brandon S. Allbery)
  Re: Novell to bundle DOS7/Linux ? (Andrew Anderson)
  Re: HTTP with LINUX PL20 (Hildo Biersma)
  Re: Mosaic: Is there ... (Tommi)
  Re: Wordperfect for X-Windows (Mike Jagdis)
  add a partition later? (Bill McCarthy)
  Re: Xfm suggestions (Christian Holtje)
  Re: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ? (Michael L. VanLoon)
  Re: Suggestions: Tape drives? (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Linux.... On a Sparc? (Beverly J. Brown)
  Re: UNIVERSAL CDROM - STOP ADVERTISING ! (Beverly J. Brown)
  xinit (Randi Singh@)

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From: Charles Liu <alte@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL CDROM - STOP ADVERTISING !
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 19:05:11 GMT

In article <2u1hlo$ovl@sun.cais.com>, Tim Bass <bass@cais.cais.com> wrote:
>A policeman I'm not, but UNIVERSAL CDROM uses almost every opportunity
>to plug it's service.  I recommend that if it continues we completely
>agree not to use their services.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                  
     
Do we have problems in services  to our customers ?

>
>Note to Charles at Universal:
>
>None of the other CDROM vendors in this group bombard us with their ads.
>Build a solid service and others will speak for you, continue polluting
                                                               ????

>this group with your unwanted ads and your business will suffer.
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

How about if we "build a solid service" ?


>
>BTW:  THANKS TO ALL THE OTHER CDROM VENDORS FOR BEING SO PROFESSIONAL
>      AND POLITE.  WE ALL APPRECIATE IT.
>


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End of Note

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From: Charles Liu <alte@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: Universal CDROM - enough already -give us a break!
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 19:15:19 GMT

In article <2u16r3$gs@razorback.brisnet.org.au>,
Rick <rick@razorback.brisnet.org.au> wrote:
>alte@rahul.net (Charles Liu) writes:
>
>>In article <2trade$dr8@sun.cais.com>, Tim Bass <bass@cais.cais.com> wrote:
>>>Universal CDROM is posting to many ads on this newsgroup.  Please give
>>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Are we ?
>
>Well, yes.  Advertisements should be posted to c.o.l.announce, not to
>discussion groups.  You seemed to have toned down the frequency recently
>(only four article with advertising in nine days in two groups), but a

Thank you for the count.

>while back it appeared you were posting outright ads every two days.
>Morse/TA/IM/SLS/Ygg follow charter and etiquette, why don't you?

We were new in this business, did not know well how to reach the 
potential customers.  Our formal advertisement will be in August's Linux 
Journal. 

Charles

>Rick.
>-- 
> _-_|\  | Rick Lyons : C/C++/X/Unix/DOS/86/DSP | "My ethicator machine must've
>/     + | rick@razorback.brisnet.org.au        | had a built-in moral
>\_.-._/ | Work: +61.7.837.4008 (2300-0700 GMT) | compromise spectral release
>     v  | Home: +61.7.349.2764 (0800-1300 GMT) | phantasmatron! I'm a genius!"


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End of Note

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From: sledge@hammer.oche.de (Tom Bueschgens)
Subject: Re: [diff] Where is 'man diff' page?
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 19:01:50 GMT


   On 17 Jun 1994 03:10:12 -0700, bhogan@crl.com (Bill Hogan) said:

Bill> I grepped the /live directory on my Slackware 1.1.1
Bill> trans-ameritech cdrom and did not find one; I also looked in
Bill> diff.tgz and ditto.
Perhaps looking in the original diff-distribution would help, just
get it from any gnu-mirror next to you! It includes a small manpage
and, much more important, the big info-file!

Gnu-diff compiles without comlaining on most unix-systems, so use the
advantage of owning a unix-machine!

Bill> Anyone know if a Linux 'man diff' page exists and, if so, where
Bill> I can find it?
Look in /usr/info or /usr/local/info, there should be some files
called diff.info-?, just access them through emacs or info. Viewing
them via less should be possible, too, but isn't that convenient!

Regards,
                Tom
-- 
Thomas Bueschgens                       sledge@hammer.oche.de     
 "Trust me, I know what I'm doin' !!"   sledge@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
 -- PGP 2.3a Key available on server or finger| "Sorry, Dave! I can't do that!"
 -- sledge@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de   | -- HAL 9000 --- Odyssee 2001 --


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From: szhan@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Siming Zhan)
Subject: What happened to the distribution packages?
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 18:59:08 GMT

Why are all distribution packages stopped updating? What happened? 
Have I missed something(announcement)?  Slackware has untouched for
50 days. SLS and some other packages are inactive, too.

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From: rhh@tachy.uah.ualberta.ca (Roy Hann)
Subject: ftp `macdef' broken??
Date: 19 Jun 1994 20:18:55 GMT

Is it just me doing something wrong, or the rev of ftp that I have,
or is the ftp macro facility broken?  I was trying to ftp a series
of directories off my DECsystem using a PPP connection at 14.4kbaud,
so I created the following macro so that I could go to bed and leave
it running:

macdef getx
cd /tmp/$i
lcd /tmp/$i
mget *

This just didn't convert into correct ftp commands.  After fussing
about with it for a while I just gave up and did the ftp FROM the 
DECsystem, using a similar macro that did an mput *, and that worked
as expected.  I am therefore satisfied that I am using the macdef
command correctly.

The ftp that I am using is part of the Slackware distribution that I 
just got--ie it's the latest rev available.

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

Roy Hann
Senior Analyst, Information Systems        rhh@tachy.uah.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta Hospitals            (MIME-capable mail agent)
WMC 2C2.21, 8440-112th Street,     
Edmonton, Alberta                          Tel: (403)492-4367
T6G 0N4                                    FAX: (403)492-3090
Canada

PLEASE: No shipments by courier from outside Canada; use regular mail.
========================================================================

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From: owurm@k.mup.de (Oliver Wurm)
Subject: Re: XDM (login problems)
Date: 19 Jun 1994 14:26:38 GMT
Reply-To: owurm@k.mup.de

The next thing I would try, is: make shure, none uses a character above
ASCII 127 in name or password !!

Maybe this is a silly hint, but I've no other idea.

---
Oliver Wurm
================= LINUX + SLIP  =  Internet at Home =======================


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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware
From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: future of Unixware
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 19:52:58 GMT

In article <2u1677$7tr@u.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) says:
+---------------
| ] But you can do that in character mode with Accell, Informix-4GL, Progress, ...
| ] and even DOS Quicken.  (Well, not part numbers :-)
| 
| No fair.  You cut off the part where I said "unless you make it
| multisession", and then went and gave "multisession" as an exception.
| I had already excepted that.
+------------->8

Your definition of "multisession" differs from what others use, then.  None
of the above programs use either "screen"-like sessions or multiple
ports/consoles; they use dedicated look-up windows.  The key being
*dedicated* --- you can pop up the category list in Quicken or zoom to a
reference form in Accell, but neither will let you do the same trick with
WordPerfect, or even with other application forms the author of the
application didn't think of making available at the point in question.  (You
can shell out, at least from Accell, but that's not the same thing.)
Moreover, while Quicken allows limited switching between the main window and
the category list, the others will not; activating a lookup form will suspend
everything else, and you can't switch back and forth at will.  One session,
multiple *limited availability* forms.

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery         kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org          bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
Friends don't let friends load Windows NT.              Linux iBCS2 emulation

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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Does WP demo work? (was:WordProcessing again)
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 19:56:26 GMT

In article <2u2325$6ti@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, umlin000@cc.umanitoba.ca (Zhuo Er Lin) says:
+---------------
| In <1994Jun14.163640.12524@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| >/pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2.  Use one of the mid-May releases:  the most recent two
| >are reported not to patch into the 1.0 kernel properly.  (Yes, this is being
+------------->8

The current patch works with 1.0 again.

I can't answer the compile question.  I'm not running 1.1.20 (yet), though.

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery         kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org          bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
Friends don't let friends load Windows NT.              Linux iBCS2 emulation

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From: andersoa@news.db.erau.edu (Andrew Anderson)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Novell to bundle DOS7/Linux ?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 20:38:38 GMT

Jim Vlcek (uunet!molly!vlcek) wrote:
: Ray Berry writes
: > A recent item in PC Week reported that they had seen an internal Novell
: > document specifying a version of Linux integrated with DOS7, to be offered
: > for $99 starting in July.  Is their any truth to this?

: Yes!  The project is code-named "Bermuda Triangle".  Ray Noorda got the idea  
: from Bigfoot, whom he had stumbled across in the Utah mountains.  The latter  
: had just loaded Linux onto a Macintosh given him by the CIA and which [s]he  
: uses to track alien spacecraft rendezvousing about Devil's Tower.  Elvis  
: himself wrote the updated Soundblaster device driver.

Was it Elvis?  I thought it was Jimmy Hoffa.

--
|===========================================================================|
|  Andrew Anderson                              andersoa@erau.db.erau.edu   |
|  Novell Network System Administrator          andersoa@bart.db.erau.edu   |
|  Linux System Administrator                   andrew@wilbur.db.erau.edu   |
|                                         andrew_anderson@cts.db.erau.edu   |
|                                                                           |
| I don't speak for ERAU, and God knows I don't want them to speak for me!  | 
|===========================================================================|

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From: biersma@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Hildo Biersma)
Subject: Re: HTTP with LINUX PL20
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 20:46:08 GMT

In article <2u1lud$68g@news.u.washington.edu>,
Erik Olson <erik@marge.phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>Has anyone had this problem NOT been using SLIP?  I have seen it with
>both SLIP and PPP (I think), but I haven't tested it on our
>local ethernet yet.  It might be important data for Alan & co. to know.
>
It fails to work with PPP, even though it works just fine locally.
On a different newgroup, someone suggested increasing my MTU &c.
Well, it's set at MRU 1500 and MTU 1500, which seems reasonable to me.

Could this be something to do with the TCP TOS value?  (a wild guess indeed)
-- 
Hildo Biersma

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From: treynold@fred.lasalle.edu (Tommi)
Subject: Re: Mosaic: Is there ...
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 17:24:04 UNDEFINED

In article <bts.771648910@sas.com> bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes:
>From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
>Subject: Re: Mosaic: Is there ...
>Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 02:55:10 GMT

>Scott Mattes <smattes@navsealog.i-net.com> writes:


>|   Is there a character based Mosaic? And especially for Linux? tanks

>[Apologies for including the entire original article . . .]

>No, and Yes "lynx" is the most popular (only?) character-based
>WWW reader, but is not character-based Mosaic, but rather another
>WWW program.

>And I don't know whether it runs on linux.

Lynx Compiles without an ounce of problem on linux.  To see it run on my U's 
web server, telnet to info.lasalle.edu (139.84.10.213) and login as lynx.
---
Tommi

treynold@fred.lasalle.edu

The above are my thoughts; if you don't like them, don't read them!

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From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: Wordperfect for X-Windows
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 22:59:00 +0000

* In message <cyrillvCrHw0H.JA0@netcom.com>, Cyrill Vatomsky said:

CV> I do not have this proble, WP starts without a glitch but
CV> the screen is
CV> filled with garbage. How did you go about  those corrupt
CV> fonts?

You need .pcf fonts rather than the .snf fonts WP ship. You need to convert 
snf -> bdf -> pcf. The full version of WP ships with bdf files as well as 
snf. The requirement for pcf rather than snf fonts is down to your X server. 
The problem is documented in later versions of the HINTS file that comes 
with iBCS.

                                Mike  
 

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From: bmccarth@gulfaero.com (Bill McCarthy)
Subject: add a partition later?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 17:58:04 -0400

Hiya:

Was wondering: is it possible to add another partition after I have
installed linux from the cd? The reason I'm asking is I love working
with linux, but am not too keen on using the cd for X and man, for the
mot part. I'm looking at the partition table and it reads:

hda1 dos
hda2 linux swap
hda3 linux

Now, I iinstalled linux only on a 60 meg partition, figuring I would
try it out, etc. I now would like to add hda1 as a linux partition and
to heck with dos/windows. Is it possoble to delete hda1 and create a new
linux partition and then install x11src on the new partition WITHOUT having
to reinstall linux from scratch. I'm using Yggdrasil Plug&Play cd. I hope
this is a lucid request for info and any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. TIA.




Bill McCarthy
bmccarth@gulfaero.com

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cat bin/usual | sed -e 's/company opinons/ /my opinions/g' > disclaimer

 
   

 

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From: choltje@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Christian Holtje)
Subject: Re: Xfm suggestions
Date: 19 Jun 1994 22:33:37 GMT

jmantel@ins.infonet.net writes:

>In article <2tspc3INNf9a@mickey.eng.gulfaero.com>, bmccarth@gulfaero.com (Bill McCarthy) writes:
>>Hiya:
>>
>>Was wondering if anyone could offer some suggestions or hints. I'm
>>a relative newbie to linux, and so I'm not all that familiar with
>>basic conventions. I recently dowloaded xfm-1.3 - a filemanager for
>>X. I was able to compile it fine, and it works. BUT, the file xfm.man
>>is not linked/compiled/formatted so that when I use man xfm nothing comes
>>up. Any hints? I read the README files, but can't find anything to help.
>>
>>The same situation occured when I downloaded and installed xearth. I can
>>set xearth as a default root screen, but nothing for the manpage. Am I
>>totally clueless and missing something really basic? A 'yes' with some
>>pointers would be a good answer. TIA.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Bill McCarthy
>>
>>
>Bill, 
>  I a not sure of what versioin of linux you are running but I have found that
>I get the same problem with mosth of the x window apps I download and install.
>After a little bit of searching I have found that the man files are being 
>put into a different directory  /usr/X386/man  to be exact. but my man
>command looks for my man files in usr/man directory.  So I just move them
>there.  one of the directories in /usr/man is specifically for xman, so I try
>to put the files in there.  And I believe they are .Z files.  so I compress
>them.  Sorry I can't remember the directory name but I haven't done it in a
>while.

>Jaime
> 

Also, if you aren't familiar with the imake/xmkmf stuff, you need to run
make install and make install.man     the install.man installs the man files

        -Doc
-- 
    ---     ---     ---   -      -  -  -   ---  -----  docwhat@uiuc.edu
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  *   +  *    +  *      *  +   *  +*+*  +*+*+   *    --- finger me at ---
 ****     ***     ***   **  **   *  *  *   *   *    choltje@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ?
Date: 19 Jun 94 22:01:11 GMT

In <2u132p$1t4@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:

>or buy only motherboards with known working chipsets (I'm partial
>to SiS for EISA, but that's just me -- and my very, very fast
>machine... Sis has the fastest Gate A20 I've ever seen, too).

Definitely.  Demand a fix or your money back if you still have a
warranty.  If your board was marketed as EISA but doesn't fully meet the
spec., I think you'd have a case to make some noise.

Like Terry, I love my ALR EISA board.  It uses proprietary ALR EISA
chips with C&T support chips and Phoenix BIOS, plus a proprietary ALR
386 caching system.  This is the fastest 386 I've ever used.  All the
components used on the motherboard are of extremely high quality (like
Brooktree 25ns static RAM cache chips back when such things were
barely on the market).

I'll probably end up buying an ALR Evolution V Pentium system down the
road, in spite of the steep price, simply because my ALR EISA 386 has
simply been the most reliable, fast PC I could hope to own.  When
everyone else was having problems with niggly little hardware
incompatibilities on various off-brand motherboards under
NetBSD-current, my machine continued to run flawlessly.  And this was
when I was abusing the EISA chipset horrendously by running a fast
EISA bus-master SCSI controller on the same bus as a 16-bit ISA
sloooow AST RAMPAGE+ memory expansion board.  Gawd it was slow back
then, but it never once hung or crashed from the abusive setup.  (The
machine is very fast; the extra memory was on the bus so wasn't cached
-- it was what was slow.)

On the other hand, I was just able to have a fresh experience with
screwy PCI bus autoconfiguration.  A company I do some Windoze NT
programming work for got me a DELL OmniPlex 566 (Pentium, 66MHz) to
use at the office.  The machine came with built-in ATI Mach32 video on
the PCI bus, a built-in NCR SCSI chip on the PCI bus, plus a second
NCR SCSI board plugged into a PCI slot.  No matter what I did I could
*NOT* get Windoze NT into 1024x768 mode -- it would refuse to go
higher than 800x600.  Finally, I looked at the system log, and it said
that the video and the second SCSI controller were trying to access a
small region in memory at the same address.  So much for that fancy
PCI auto-configure.

It's true that EISA requires you to boot up a configuration disk and
have all the configuration libraries for all the EISA devices you're
going to configure.  But it lets *YOU* set all the attributes of each
EISA device.  At least with EISA I would have been able to set the
addresses so they didn't conflict, to any value *I* wanted.  PCI
wouldn't let me touch the settings of the SCSI controllers or the
video chip (except for the most rudimentary settings like on/off or
video refresh rates).  There simply was no method available for me to
manually set the two devices not to conflict, and the PCI
hardware/firmware was too dumb to get them out of the way itself.

I finally yanked the second SCSI controller since I didn't need it.
From that point forward I could get the monitor into a beautifully
solid 1024x768 and even an interlaced 1200x1024.

Believe me, I do think PCI will eventually be *the* PC-architecture
bus to own.  But this little experience just goes to show you that it
still isn't quite there yet.



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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Tape drives?
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 14:54:11 GMT

In <2tl4vf$m8r@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> hsuc@msu.edu (Chun Hsu) writes:

>I need to repartition to give more room for DOS/Windows and Linux.
>With this information, what would people recommend.  I don't think
>I need much more than 250 Mbyte capacity for the tape drive and
>I can't afford to spend a fortune.  However, if I can find a 
>reasonably priced 250 Mbyte SCSI tape drive, that would be nice.
>As I said before, I may eventually get another disk drive.  SCSI
>would be convenient at that point.

I have bought an Archive 2150S for the equivalent of about $150 on
a computer faire.  This is a SCSI drive which can use DC-6150 cartridges
for 150MB capacity, or DC-6250 cartridges for 250MB capacity.
(of course, these are *uncompressed* values, so you could squeeze more
on it if you dare)

A drive like this could be attractive for you, but I don't know if you
can get it at a comparable price...

Rob
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl     | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU     |
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From: bjb@shore.net (Beverly J. Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux.... On a Sparc?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 18:27:28 -0400
Reply-To: bjb@shore.net

In article <merlyn.771807115@winternet.com>, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> stroutl@polaris.nova.edu (Leeman Strout) writes:
> >Okey... Well... dad says he wants to see if he can by a Sparc 5 without 
> >the Solaris 2.x license.  He wants to run Linux on it.  Can he do that?  
> >Will it work?  How hard would it be to make it work?
> 
> No, Linux isn't ported to the Sparc. But why would you? Solaris (V1.1B) is 
> much more stable, and Linux is trying to copy alot of it. By owning

Solaris and stable do not belong in the same sentence without a NOT in 
between! And GOD! PLEASE tell me Linux is NOT copying such a piece of crap!
I haven't had much opportunity to put it to much of a test, but if it's as 
stable as Solaris, I'll delete it from my machine! From all I'[ve heard from 
others, Linux is MORE stable than Solaris. 


Beverly J. Brown
bjb@shore.net
beverly@datacube.com

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From: bjb@shore.net (Beverly J. Brown)
Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL CDROM - STOP ADVERTISING !
Date: 19 Jun 1994 18:27:32 -0400
Reply-To: bjb@shore.net

In article <2u1hlo$ovl@sun.cais.com>, Tim Bass wrote:
> A policeman I'm not, but UNIVERSAL CDROM uses almost every opportunity
> to plug it's service.  I recommend that if it continues we completely
> agree not to use their services.
> 
> Note to Charles at Universal:
> 
> None of the other CDROM vendors in this group bombard us with their ads.
> Build a solid service and others will speak for you, continue polluting
> this group with your unwanted ads and your business will suffer.
> 
> BTW:  THANKS TO ALL THE OTHER CDROM VENDORS FOR BEING SO PROFESSIONAL
>       AND POLITE.  WE ALL APPRECIATE IT.
> 

In defense of Universal I believe they posted articles in response to 
questions about availability of certain Linux CD's. They were merely letting 
those who asked know that they had them. I don't think they overstepped 
their bounds here at all.


(I'm not affiliated with Unicversal CDROM in any way. I just thought you 
weren't being fair.)

Beverly J. Brown
bjb@shore.net
beverly@datacube.com

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From: Randi Singh@
Subject: xinit
Date: 19 Jun 1994 22:34:34 GMT
Reply-To: randips@vnet.ibm.com

Guys I am having problems starting my xserver.

    1. first xinit gives a message that it cannot find config file.

    2. gives a message that it cannot read config file.

    3. I assume that the file are .Xmodmap, .Xresources in my home
       directory plus .xinitrc.

    4. files are there but I guess are not configured properly.
       can anyone send em the sample files.Sample files with the kit
       do not work.

    5. how do I set DISPLAY variable. If i do export DISPLAY=myg:0
       does not work says cannot find host. Do I have to do some other
       configuration. TCPIP is enabled. what files do I configure ?

    6. I have vga monitor 640*480 (GOLDSTAR) with a tseng SVGA chip on
       the card. mouse is microsoft. chip is 386sx 20MHz.


    So what went wrong here ? This is URGENT. so please Help.

    Thanks in advance.

    Randi



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