Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #334
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:     Wed, 29 Jun 94 07:13:06 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #334, Volume #2                Wed, 29 Jun 94 07:13:06 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Watching a user on an tty? (Alex Shrom)
  Re: Infomagic (Tim Bass)
  Re: Youngest linux user (Craig Borchardt)
  New Trans-Ameritech Linux Supplement CD-ROM (Roman Yanovsky  roman@btr.com)
  Re: Linux.... On a Sparc? (Ron Burton)
  Re: XT disk controller still supported? (Johannes Stille)
  Re: PAS16 - alternate oscillator? (Stephen Timson)
  INN 1.4 problems (Udo Christ)
  Re: Why cannot xterm use -bg option in .xinitrc ? (Keith Eaton)
  Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing (Marten Feldtmann)
  Re: Youngest linux user (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
  Re: Linux on PS/2? (Stephane Eranian)
  Re: Why cannot xterm use -bg option in .xinitrc ? (Keith Eaton)
  Re: [Q] Linux WWW Server possible? (Paul Johnston)
  Re: Difficult Linux Instructions... (Nils Nieuwejaar)

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From: alex@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu (Alex Shrom)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Watching a user on an tty?
Date: 27 Jun 1994 22:16:42 GMT

I have a related question: how can I monitor my modem's transmissions
over the phone line. I use slip, and I wanted to inspect the
transmissions more carefully.

-- 

Alex 'Shroom (alex@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu)

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From: bass@cais.cais.com (Tim Bass)
Subject: Re: Infomagic
Date: 26 Jun 1994 15:49:53 GMT

InfoMagic just sent me an announcement of a new release "june 94 edition'.
2CDs for 20 bucks plus postage.  I have about 10 of their disks.

Toll free number:  (800) 800-6613
E-Mail:         :  info@infomagic.com

InfoMagic has been very good to me, ships in a timely manner, polite
and professional.  Most of all, they don't bombard the newsgroups
with ads and posting.

Support good vendors......keep Internet ethics high!


Jon Saken (saken@stsci.edu) wrote:

: Sorry if this an FAQ question, but I can't find one for this group.
: I'm interested in installing Linux on a 486.  Could someone post or
: e-mail the address and phone number for Infomagic, and any other
: company selling Linux packages?  Thanks.

: jon saken

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From: craigb@winternet.com (Craig Borchardt)
Subject: Re: Youngest linux user
Date: 29 Jun 1994 07:03:27 GMT

In article <2uo443$oqp@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Roy Hann wrote:
> 
> As someone who got into this business at the age of 11 back in 1971
> I have to protest against that advice.  The correct thing to do, the
> thing I would do if my kids showed the least interest, is to buy 
> the kid his/her own machine.  (Or give him/her that machine and
> upgrade!)
>                          

Yeagh Me to! hehe
Well I,am a 13 year old and I have bin useing Linux for 90 days.
I donot know well I guess i,am not the youngest linux user. Well maybe 
I,am the youngest linux user with dislyxea. hehe. Maybe the youngest REAL 
linux user in the state of MN or the US. hehe. o well        

--
-- 
Craig Borchardt  Edina, MN   -= LINUX =-
Internet: craigb@winternet.com FidoNet: craigb@1:282/31
IRC: Craigb -- Talk Requests Welcome -- Phone #: Just Ask
Talk: craigb@icicle.winternet.com
Finger craigb@winternet.com for PGP key

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From: roman@btr.btr.com (Roman Yanovsky  roman@btr.com)
Subject: New Trans-Ameritech Linux Supplement CD-ROM
Date: 29 Jun 1994 07:16:05 GMT


Trans-Ameritech Systems announcing the Linux Supplement CD-ROM.

Linux is a rapidly evolving operating system. Important improvements are made 
almost on a daily basis. New applications are written and ported to Linux all
the time. This means that there is plenty of material for a new CD-ROM. However
neither the filesystem layout, nor the versions of main packages changed in any
major way since the Release 3 of the Trans-Ameritech Linux plus BSD CD-ROM.
Due to all this we decided to announce the Linux Supplement CD-ROM.
The main distribution source is still Slackware, but in addition to upgrading
the Slackware version to 1.2.2 we provide alternative distributions.
You can install Linux from the Supplement with the same ease as from the
regular release, but instead of duplicating the "live" filesystem we provide
additional software. If you have a regular release to be mounted after the
installation to save disk space and this Supplement with updates and additional
software, you have the best of both worlds: the most stable Linux and the
cutting edge latest software.
Also we incude the security patch to close a major security hole in most
Linux installations.

Below is the partial list of features of the Linux Supplement CD.

                        Main features.

Linux Slackware 1.2.2 Distribution
SLS 1.05 with modular Linux Kernel
DEBIAN 0.91 

Two sets of kernels (1.1.18 and 1.0.9)

For the first time optional Motif for Linux (SWiM) is availabe (registration 
is required to activate it and receive printed documentation).

X11R6 - for the hard core hackers and general information we include the full
        uncompressed source tree of the latest X-windows code.


                        Some new features

JE- The updated version of Japanese Extensions

EMACS - two major reseases: GNU EMACS 19.24 and X-based Lucid "lemacs-19.10"

Security patch to fix a serious security hole in most Linux Systems.

                New releases of Linux applications:

Interviews 1.3          text and graphics utilities
ANDREW
linuxdoc-sgml-1.1 - document preparation.
ImageMagick - prcess many graphics formats.

PLAN - a full blown graphical calendar and shedule manager.

EBBS - a BBS package (create and run your own BBS).

XDOS 0.4a -  DOS emulator in an X window.

WINE 960602 - ALPHA code that will one day run all MS-Windows apps.

IMAZE - a network game

New for June 94 HOW-TO guides in raw text and ready to print formated files.

UMSDOS-0.3a - run Linux on top of your DOS disk partition.
IBCS-940526 - support for SCO binaries.

WORD lists in most European languages ready for spell checkers.
GNU and international versions of the "ispell" spell checkers

FTAPE-1.12 - support for non-SCSI tape backup.

The latest GNU C/C++

PostScript clone "ghostscript"

Networking packages with news and e-mail: TCP/IP, UUCP, SLIP, SCLIP, mailx
dip, deliver, elm, pine, smail, cnews, nn, tin, trn

Communication apps: term 1.1.4, minicom, Seyon (X-Windows based)

Spreadsheet "sc"

Object Oriented GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1 and Smalltalk interface to X (STIX)

Powerfull script language with Motif-like X interface: tcl7.3, tk3.6
now with Motif library

Popular window managers: openwin, twm, fvwm

Easy X-Windows configuration with many real-life examples

                        Some X Applications include

Workman, xdraw, xfilemanager, xv 3.0, GNU chess and xboard, xfm 1.2,
ghostview, X games

Typesetting: TeX, LaTeX, New xdvi, dvips, Metafont, groff
MultiMedia: mpeg video and sound applications, Mosaic
New and easy to use EFAX - send and receive FAXes

Pricing:

Linux Supplement CD retail for $29.95 (plus s&h).

As our usual policy, we offer discount to Internet users, since we all
(developers, distributors, users etc.) are benefiting tremendously through
the use of Internet.

The Internet price for Linux Supplement CD is          $20

The price for our current (Release 3) Linux Plus CD is $30

The price for a package order:
Linux Plus CD (Release 3) and Linux Supplement CD
(Trans-Ameritech Linux Package)  in one shipment is -  $40

Below are some ordering details and the order form.

You can order by email, by phone (408)727-3883 or FAX (408)727-3882.
(email Roman@Trans-Ameritech.com)

If you prefer to send a cheque/money order, our address is:

Trans-Ameritech Enterprises, Inc.
2342A Walsh Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95051
USA

If you order with a credit card (VISA, M/C, American Express) please indicate
the card number, expiration date and your mailing address.
You can use PGP if you want to.

The order will be processed and the CD shipped the same day.

Shipping and handling in US is $5, Canada/Mexico $6, Overseas $8.
COD is available in the US only for $4.50

California residents please add sales tax.

Anual subscriptions (4 regular Releases) are available for $80 plus s&h.
(note: there are 4 shipments in a subscription)
Example subscription in US is: $80 + $5 * 4 = $100
Subscription in Europe/Japan etc. is: $80 + $8 * 4 = $ 112

You can place your order in any form as long as the charging information
and the mailing address are in one message.  Sending mailing address
and the credit card number in seperate messages is the major cause of
errors.
(You can utilize PGP, if you want to).

An optional order form is provided below.

_________________________________      __________________________________
First Name                               Last Name

_________________________________________________________________________
Street address

________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________   _____________    _____________
City                                   State            ZIP

_____________________________________
Country


Day Time Phone Number:
FAX number:

e-mail address:

Visa/MasterCard/EuroCard/AmericanExpress number:
Expiration date:

(Note: Optional COD is available in United States only.  COD charge is $4.50)

Trans-Ameritech Linux Plus CD-ROM (Release 3) ________  x $30 = $____________
                                              quantity
Trans-Ameritech Linux Supplement CD-ROM       ________  x $20 = $____________
                                              quantity
Trans-Ameritech Linux Package                 ________  x $40 = $____________
(Release 3 plus Supplement)                   quantity

Annual Subscription (4 regular releases)                        $____________
( $80 + 4x(s&h)
                                                                $____________
                                                                 (subtotal)

California Residents include 8.25% sales tax          x 8.25% = $____________

Shipping and handelling                                         $____________
(US - $5, Canada/Mexico $6, Overseas $8 - per 1 shipment)

FederalExpress/or UPS RED                                       $____________
(for US - add $15, all others - add $70)

UPS second day                                                  $____________
(US only - add $5)

COD charge                                                      $____________
(for COD orders. Only in US)

                                                        $_____________________
                                                          Total

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
From: burto_r@gtsi.com (Ron Burton)
Subject: Re: Linux.... On a Sparc?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 21:45:45 GMT

In article <1994Jun26.151137.1120@tora.RoBIN.de> sws@tora.RoBIN.de (Steffen W. Schilke) writes:
>Andrew Anderson (andersoa@news.db.erau.edu) wrote:
>: Leonard N. Zubkoff (lnz@dandelion.com) wrote:
>: : In article <2u5s4j$ch1@uc.msc.edu> alk@et.msc.edu (Anthony L. Kimball) writes:
>: :    I have a sparcstation at home running 4.1.3, and full source,
>: :    but you know, if I do a hack on it, it is wasted effort, since
>: :    I can't share it with anyone else except other sunos source licensees.
>: :    I've been thinking about getting rid of the sparc, and picking up a
>: :    pentium, simply because of Linux, but the loss of muscle would hurt.
>: : Loss of muscle??  My personal Pentium-90 system feels and measures faster than
>: : the SparcStation 10 Model 41 I have at the office.
>
>: I agree.  My '66 will do loops around a Sparc 10...an operation that took
>: 45 minutes on a Sparc-10 only took about 2 or 3 on my Pentium!
>
>Yep, I have the same experience . All Sun's I used where slower then a
>good (486, or 386 with SCSI-2 HD) LinuX Box

        Hmm,  I have not noticed my SS10 512 running slower than the 486 based 
systems we have here.  Infact my system runs Softwindows under Solaris Far faster
than any dos emulation under x86 based unix platforms like SCO, Solaris x86 etc.
I'd say that SS10's are a bit faster for what they are designed to do but perhaps
the 486 seems faster since its OS's are typicaly simpler in design.  I love Linux
on my 486 with Vesa disk I/O but it is nothing compared to a SS10 with Solaris
under a load.  I will grant you that SS2's, IPX's, LX's and Classics are all dogs
in comparison.  
 
        Ramblings of a nerd.
                burto_r


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From: johannes@titan.westfalen.de (Johannes Stille)
Subject: Re: XT disk controller still supported?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 12:13:46 GMT

In article <2ucb48$7hg@cayman.Cayman.COM> pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox) writes:
>
>hi -- is the XT-style disk controller interface still supported in 
>the latest kernels?  can anyone vouch that it works?

Probably, but I never tried it.

>i need to get a bigger disk.  currently i have an MFM AT-controller.
>if i get an IDE disk (i have a controller), i need to quit using my
>MFM controller, so i lose the use of my current disks unless i can move
>them to an XT controller.
[...]

There is a better solution:

You can use both the AT MFM and the IDE controller if you can switch one
of them to another IO address and another IRQ. Use the "atdisk2" driver
to access the second controller.

If it is enough for you to boot from the MFM disk and to access the IDE
disk only after the Linux kernel is booted, then get an IDE controller
that can be jumpered to another address. This is a good idea anyway. If
the IRQ cannot be changed, that's not that bad, you can solve this with
a small hardware modification, as described in the atdisk2
documentation. I have done this successfully myself.

If in doubt, get the atdisk2 package and read the documentation.

        Johannes

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From: stimson@stanford.edu (Stephen Timson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PAS16 - alternate oscillator?
Date: 29 Jun 1994 08:18:19 GMT

Stephen Timson (stimson@stanford.edu) wrote:
: I have a PAS16 which I am trying to get to work with Linux.  I have one
: of those "defective" OSC signals, so under DOS I have to use the T:1
: option in the mvsound driver.  This tells it to use the 28.224MHz
: frequency oscillator/2 instead of the system oscillator clock.  Is there
: any way to cause Linux to do the same.  I have looked in the pas.h
: file in the sound driver part of the kernel (v 1.1.23) and I see
: lines that seem to describe what I am talking about, but I have no idea
: how or if I can make use of them.  Any help would be much appreciated.

: Thanks,
: --Steve

: please reply here or to stimson@leland.stanford.edu as I think responding
: to this post will just bounce your mail.

Before anyone responds, I figured it out.  For any who are interested all that
needs to be done is adding the line:
#define BROKEN_BUS_CLOCK
to the beginning of the pas2_card.c file.

Sorry to waste bandwidth with all this...

--Steve

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From: uchrist@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Udo Christ)
Subject: INN 1.4 problems
Date: 29 Jun 1994 08:27:18 GMT
Reply-To: uchrist@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Hi all,
 after finally installing the INN v1.4 package my newssystem is
running smoothly with just one minor problem.

Reading and posting works perfectly for everything but the Path: line.

My INN always puts the local hostname twice in the Path field. So 
if my machine is named foo.bar, the pathname for posted articles
shows up as Path: foo.bar!foo.bar!<username>.

Does anyone know how i can trigger INN to normal behaviour ??

Thx, udo
--
______________________________________________________________________
Udo Christ                         uchrist@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
=======================================================================
.. and if that doesn't help too,  call the system an IBM and give up ..

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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.help
From: keaton@RedBrick.COM (Keith Eaton)
Subject: Re: Why cannot xterm use -bg option in .xinitrc ?
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 05:08:53 GMT

In article <1994Jun27.222528.19632@RedBrick.COM> keaton@RedBrick.COM (Keith Eaton) writes:
>In article <HJSTEIN.94Jun27171946@sunset.huji.ac.il> hjstein@sunset.huji.ac.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes:
>>In article <1994Jun26.024024.5037@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
>>viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly) writes:
>>
>>   I'm customising X-windows and I have run
>>   onto the following puzzle:
>>   I can run xterm (or xclock or whatever else)
>>   with -bg <color> option (background color)
>>   from other xterm without any problem. However when I try
>>   to use the very same option, say, when running
>>   xterm (or xclock) from .xinitrc or from twm manager,
>>   they kick me off saying that that -bg option is
>>   illegal !!!  So the only way I can change the
>>   background color in xterm is by running it from
>>   other xterm or put the color as default in app-defaults/XTerm
>>   file. Why is it ?
>>
>>You could also put the color as your default in your .Xdefaults file.
>>
>>Good luck,
>>
>>--
>>Harvey J. Stein
>>Berger Financial Research
>
>Well, I've been able to place the -bg commands in .xinitrc.
>I think the problem you are seeing might be that the "-e program
>name" option must be the LAST one.  Thus you should add the -bg
>option earlier on the line.
>
>     -keith
>
Sorry, let me try one more time.  In .xinitrc I have the line
    exec xterm -C -geometry 80x25-2+140 -sb -bg bisque -name login &
and that sets the background color just fine.  In .twmrc I have
menu items like:
   "Xterm"         !"xterm -sb -bg yellow -e /bin/bash &"
and that works fine, too.  It's this case that needs to have
the "-e ..." option last.

                 -keith


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From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux better than OS/2 for net surfing
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 94 09:39:21 MET

In article <yamanaka.772835519@hurricane> yamanaka@hurricane.seas.ucla.edu (Erick I. Yamanaka) writes:
>In <2unehg$q3d@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
>
>>rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (R S Rodgers) writes:
>>>I agree, but the issue isn't massive bugs (e.g., IBM's 1522 SCSI drivers
>>>which do not work _at all_ in the latest release, even with name-brand
>>>Adaptec hardware) of that sort, but rather technical support issues that
>
>>I've heard this several times now and I'm wondering if I'm the
>>only person running the 1522 drivers with 2.11 sucessfully.
>
>>Maybe it's because I'm using a 1520 instead of a 1522 (same, but
>>w/o floppy controller).  Maybe it's because I'm running it as a
>>secondary controller w/o hard drives on it.  Maybe it's FUD.
>>I really don't know and I'd kind of like to know if I'm the only one...
>
>I have an Adaptec 1522 as well, and I'm running just fine on 2.11, even with
>the prior versions of 2.1 and 2.0.  I'm not getting any trap errors due to
>it...
>
>Is he sure it's the Adaptec?  Does it work with other HD's?
>

 I have a machine from Intel (1522 and ATI-card on-board) and I got OS/2
running on this machine only by using the 1522 drivers from the 2.11,
the old ones (from 2.1) did not work.

 Just to tell another experience ...

 Marten

--
  M. Feldtmann, Kieler Str.29, 24143 Kiel, Germany, Tel.:0431-731916
  "Sag mal Mama!" ..... "Punica!" -- "Sag mal Papa!" ..... "Punica!"
  "Schaaaaatz? Sag mal, was machst Du so den ganzen Tag mit dem Kind ?" 

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From: miguel@lucy.crs4.it (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
Subject: Re: Youngest linux user
Date: 29 Jun 1994 09:58:48 GMT

In article <5914f799%fidonet.org@p2.f34.n2407.z2.fidonet.org> pit@p2.lxs.baboon.ch (Peter Berger) writes:
>sto2@netaxs.com (Brian Stoler) wrote:
>
> > John Bryan (jhonsrid@drealm.drealm.org) wrote:
> > : Btw, the youngest linux user I know is 15. Is that some kind of
> > record?
>
> > Well I'm 15 now, but I started using Linux 5 monthes ago, when I
> > was 14.
> > Do I hold the record? :)
>
>Hm. If you're administering it yourself: Sort of.. In regard to the
>original question 'bout the youngest _user_ I know about younger ones:
>
>In the german fidonet echo LINUX.GER there's been a poster having 8 or 9
>(sorry, I forgot, but it's been less than 10) years old...
>
  Ok, so my girlfriends brother is on pair with the record. He's currently 9,
but it's using it since last year. Although I must admit that I've put him
directly into X, so he does everything from mouse menus. But he likes fractint
a lot :-)

>There's been also his father posting. He had some security problems :-))).
>
>If I remember right best advice to him has been to set the boot option
>in the BIOS setup to boot from the hard disk instead of floppy drive A:
>and to set a password for the BIOS setup that his son doesn't know, of
>course.

  Well, what the hell, when dealing with a child you should consider punish
first psicologically (I'll cancel your account) and then phisically (in my
case, since he's not my son, "I'll kill you :-)").

  Nevertheless, he's very disciplinated: I teach him that you can't switch
off unix without shutdown first, and tell him how to do it (of course, he's
using the one and only console). Nevertheless, he's give up linux for his
16-bit Super Nintendo (me too, sometimes ...).

>
>bye,
>    Peter
>
>e-mail: pit@lxs.baboon.ch
>

 Cheers,

    Miguel

    Miguel Alvarez Blanco           |  "All that is gold does not glitter,
miguel@hobbit.quimica.uniovi.es     |   not all those who wander are lost."
Temporary address: miguel@crs4.it   |           Bilbo Baggins.


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From: eranian@chorus.chorus.fr (Stephane Eranian)
Subject: Re: Linux on PS/2?
Date: 29 Jun 94 08:08:23 GMT

KAUTZ RICHARD W (kautz@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:
: Hi,

: I've got a friend with a PS/2 interested in installing Linux. However,
: I know that the documentation states that it's far from guaranteed to 
: work. Does anyone have any experience one way or the other? How about XFree?
: Thanks,
: Richard Kautz  Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Toronto

I have successfully (for the moment) installed a PS/2-70 with Linux
last week. I grabbed the patch from 
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/diskdrives/ps2esdi.tgz

This is a patch for the MCA-ESDI disk drives and a sample bootdisk as well.
The patch is against kernel 1.1.8 but I managed to insert it into 1.1.19.

From then on, I've installed a simple slackware distribution and everything
seems ok, except for booting and CMOS clock (it seems). There seems to 
be a problem with LILO, as well.  Therefore, I have set up a small 
MSDOS partition and use bootlin to boot the Linux kernel.

Concerning XFree, I also installed it with success. Of course, response
time is low, but in monochrome mode it's fairly usable.

We currently have only 4Mo of RAM and no 387 co-processor.


Of course, network devices drivers are missing, but I think it's already
a good starting point !!

On the same idea , Arindam Banerji (axb@defender.dcrl.nd.edu) posted
a news in this newsgroup telling that he made available a 'developer's
release' on invaders.dcrl.nd.edu::/pub/misc/linux. I did not have had 
the time to look through it yet.

Hope this helps you !
--
====================================================================
St'ephane ERANIAN                       | Email eranian@chorus.fr
Universit'e PARIS VII                   |       eranian@litp.ibp.fr
LITP - Laboratoire d'Informatique       |
Th'eorique et Programmation             |
2 place Jussieu                         |
75251 Paris cedex 05                    |
====================================================================

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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.help
From: keaton@RedBrick.COM (Keith Eaton)
Subject: Re: Why cannot xterm use -bg option in .xinitrc ?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 22:25:28 GMT

In article <HJSTEIN.94Jun27171946@sunset.huji.ac.il> hjstein@sunset.huji.ac.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes:
>In article <1994Jun26.024024.5037@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
>viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly) writes:
>
>   I'm customising X-windows and I have run
>   onto the following puzzle:
>   I can run xterm (or xclock or whatever else)
>   with -bg <color> option (background color)
>   from other xterm without any problem. However when I try
>   to use the very same option, say, when running
>   xterm (or xclock) from .xinitrc or from twm manager,
>   they kick me off saying that that -bg option is
>   illegal !!!  So the only way I can change the
>   background color in xterm is by running it from
>   other xterm or put the color as default in app-defaults/XTerm
>   file. Why is it ?
>
>You could also put the color as your default in your .Xdefaults file.
>
>Good luck,
>
>--
>Harvey J. Stein
>Berger Financial Research

Well, I've been able to place the -bg commands in .xinitrc.
I think the problem you are seeing might be that the "-e program
name" option must be the LAST one.  Thus you should add the -bg
option earlier on the line.

     -keith


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From: rpj@myhost.subdomain.domain (Paul Johnston)
Subject: Re: [Q] Linux WWW Server possible?
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 09:08:10 GMT

Michael James Gebis (mjg51721@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: fox@otago.ac.nz writes:

: >Hay All,
: > 
: >Maybe it is a stupid question, but what is involved in making a Linux box
: >a WWW *Server* ? I don't exactly know what protocol is involved.. Is it a
: >a sepparate protocol altogeter, or is it a kind of script running on
: >top of Telnet or FTP?
: >Is there a daemon available for it?
: > 
: >I would like to setup a wee WWW Server on my system, to have at least a
: >local 'page'.
: > 
: NCSA httpd will run on Linux.  
: Check out ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/ncsa_httpd  (Or something close to
: that)

: >Any info welcome. Please reply by E-mail, as I have currently problems
: >getting into the Usenet system.

: I'm mailing as well as posting, in case someone has the same question.

For information, I have also managed to set up my Linux box as a WAIS server.
Get freeWAIS-0.3 from ftp.cnidr.org:/pub/NIDR.tools/freeWAIS. This compiled
straight out of the box for me (use -Dlinux) under slackware. Note that
Mosiac etc (ie client for http) can use WAIS as a back end search engine,
which come in very handy!

Cheers, Paul.
: -- 
: Mike Gebis  m-gebis@uiuc.edu    Mean people suck.
: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~mg7932/mike.html

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From: nils@cs.dartmouth.edu (Nils Nieuwejaar)
Subject: Re: Difficult Linux Instructions...
Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:32:16 GMT

31khoo@wmich.edu (Beng Teck Here...) writes:
   it, thanks to those who replied... :) But there must be a better
   and easier way to get Linux up and running. I propose a
   Linux-HOWTO, or a Linux For Dummies kind of doc that goes through
   everything, from Distribution to X. I wouldn't mind writing such a
   document, but as you can see, i am not even a 2 month old Linux
   baby yet!!! :)

Have you read _Linux Installation and Getting Started_ by Matt Welsh?
This sounds like the gentle introduction you are looking for.  It is
available in the Linux Doc Project directory of your favorite Linux
ftp site.

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