Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #597
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:     Fri, 12 Aug 94 13:13:24 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #597, Volume #2                Fri, 12 Aug 94 13:13:24 EDT

Contents:
  Re: [BUG] in cp (copy) on DOS fs. (David Fox)
  Re: Upgrading to 1.1.x ? (David Fox)
  Slackware 2.0 CD-ROM (John W. Podlogar)
  Re: CD-ROM vs Tape Distribution (was Re: Coherent & Linux  ...) (Tom Oehser)
  Re: NCSA Moaic? (Helmut Geyer)
  Driver for ADAPTEC 274x (Rod Telford)
  Redirecting output of screen to X (Skip)
  Re: Linux(slackware) and security (Frank Lofaro)
  pci motherboards (Gregory Urban)
  Re: Coherent & Linux (Was : A Truly Unbiased Opinion) (David Willmore)
  Re: Linux on a SMC ELITE 16C Ultra (Adam Roach)
  Re: Word Perfect? (Christopher M. May)
  Re: Needed: Read Linux Partition Under Dos
  Re: WABI vs. SoftWindows? (Martin Sohnius)
  Re: WABI vs. SoftWindows? (Martin Sohnius)
  Re: Linux book(s) (Michael Rogero Brown (Sys Admin))
  ?: Linux-based BBS' (Clay Luther)
  Re: Where did "Yggdrasil" come from? (Tanner Lovelace)
  Re: WANTED: Supplier of PC clone for Linux.... (Keith Smith)
  Re: Can't Malloc 192309 Bytes - Fix? (Iain Lea)

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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: [BUG] in cp (copy) on DOS fs.
Date: 12 Aug 1994 10:45:42 GMT

In article <berndm.776583533@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> berndm@cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd U Meyer) writes:

] If it is a problem for you, it is easily cured by
] 
] alias cp='cp -i'

Well, this sort of solves the problem.  My most common
file clobber problem is leaving out the "-" in tar commands:

  tar cf file1 file2 file3 | gzip > foo.tar.gz

destroys file1.  Maybe tar needs a "-i" option?  (Just kidding...)
--
David Fox                                               xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab                     baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.1.x ?
Date: 12 Aug 1994 10:51:05 GMT

In article <32cvn9$p6q@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:

] PS. New/fixed in 1.1.43:
]  - the same crazed linux user sent me even more spelling corrections.
]  - the "setup" code should be able to handle more than the 2kB limit
]  - interrupt requesting re-done. "cat /proc/interrupt" if you want to.
]  - some module support for the network drivers.. PCMCIA drivers on the
]    way..
]  - buslogic updates
]  - seagate.c reset return code fix..
]  - dcache update fix for ".." in a moved directory
]  - proc-fs inode number handling cleanups
]  - new soundcard.h which should correct the old-type ioctls

Linus, You should stop saying you're no good at writing
documentation.  This looks OK to me!
--
David Fox                                               xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab                     baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

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From: podlogar@telerama.lm.com (John W. Podlogar)
Subject: Slackware 2.0 CD-ROM
Date: 12 Aug 1994 08:18:33 -0400

'm looking to purchase the Slackware 2.0 CD-ROM from somebody. I recall
that there was a post awhile back announcing this. Does anybody have any
info on who I can order this from? Thanks for any help...-John Podlogar

-- 
John W. Podlogar Jr.         The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the 
podlogar@lm.com              one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!"
http://www.lm.com/~podlogar  (I found it!) but "That's funny..."  -Isaac Asimov

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From: toehser@cais.cais.com (Tom Oehser)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: CD-ROM vs Tape Distribution (was Re: Coherent & Linux  ...)
Date: 12 Aug 1994 12:19:16 GMT

>>>Every UNIX box has a tape drive.

Yeah, ok, would you rather distribute a cdrom- or 5 kinds of DAT
and 4 kinds of QIC and this and that.  Most unix boxes have some
kind of tape backup.  Lots of them are 9-track.  There must be
50 different incompatible formats.  I don't think it will fly.

>CD-ROM is nice, but if I had to choose CD or Tape I'd take the Tape.  At
>least you can back up your box.  Also with a tape distribution it's
>easier to make a COPY of your distribution.  Someone cracks your

Why?  You can copy CDROM to tape.  Tape distribution only makes sense
on a 370 type box where *everyone* has a 3480 36 track tape driver.

-Tom




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From: geyer@urania.IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.de (Helmut Geyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: NCSA Moaic?
Date: 12 Aug 1994 12:29:57 GMT

Steve Dunham (dunham@gdl.msu.edu) wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
:>Russell Nelson (nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com) wrote:
:>: I use Chimera, which doesn't require Motif.  It makes me happy.  FTP
:>: it from ftp.cs.unlv.edu.

:>Can you put a binary somewhere. I tried to compile it the other day,
:>but it didn't work (it displayed the source instead of the html, if I
:>manually set the text resource to:
:><h1>This is a test</h1>

:>it displayed it correctly, but if I set it to:
:><h1>This is
:>a test</h1>

:>only the first line was displayed...

You forgot to install the content file (which does the extension -> file type
mapping). Look at the INSTALL file and the template file, where you should
place it.
        
        Helmut

-- 
==============================================================================
Helmut Geyer                                Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de

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Subject: Driver for ADAPTEC 274x
From: telfordr@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Rod Telford)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 11:04:54 GMT

Does anybody out ther know of a driver for the 
ADAPTEC 274x scsi controller card,
this  car is also know as the AIC-7770

Thanks in advance,

--
+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|  *  _/_/   _/_/_/  |  Rod Telford         | telfordr@latcs1.lat.oz.au |
|*   _/  _/   _/     |  La Trobe University | #INCLUDE <stdisclm.h>     |
| * _/_/_/   _/  *   |  Melbourne Austraila | :-) happy little Vegemite |
|  _/ _/    _/    *  +--------------------------------------------------+
| _/   _/  _/   *    | Linux; Now thats what I call an Operating System | 
+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

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From: rkuo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Skip)
Subject: Redirecting output of screen to X
Date: 12 Aug 1994 04:56:54 GMT

        When I receive a talk request while I am running X, the request pops
up on VT1 but nothing shows up on my X desktop.  I figured the problem could
be solved using xconsole, but I haven't had any luck using it either.  I've
looked through the man pages, but I just can't figure it out.  What is the
proper way to solve this problem?

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Crossposted-To: alt.flame.spelling
From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
Subject: Re: Linux(slackware) and security
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 94 07:29:24 GMT

In article <DHOLLAND.94Aug11181239@husc7.harvard.edu> dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland) writes:
><Attribution intentionally omitted to protect the guilty...>
>
> > I was wondering if there is a good source of info about Linux and security
> > Preferrably free but I would like to know how to set up accounts and create
> > groups and make sure that my system isn't holy!
>
>Use curses, and run lots of daemons.

And make sure to have shadow passwords, skeleton accounts, zombie
processes and ghostscript too.

Also run SATAN, a security testing program (isn't that ironic, makes
sure your system isn't either holey or holy! :)

:)


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From: gurban1@umbc.edu (Gregory Urban)
Subject: pci motherboards
Date: 10 Aug 1994 23:54:41 -0400

I am in the market for a 486 pci motherboard.  Does anyone know of any
potential problems running LInux with such a board.  This includes any
problems with the NCR on-board SCSI some mb's come with.

All help and recommendations welcome.  Please use e-mail, for I do not
regularly follow this group.  Thank you in advance.




-- 
Greg Urban              |  Always follow the fool, for the fool knows not
urban@cs.umbc.edu       |  where he is going, so he follows his heart.
gurban1@umbc.edu        | 

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From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent & Linux (Was : A Truly Unbiased Opinion)
Date: 11 Aug 94 03:51:03 GMT

rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes:

>Yes, it keeps them from taking out the CD and putting in one of there 
>own.

Doesn't putting a little sign saying "CDROM in use by SYSADMIN--DON'T
TOUCH" work for you?  Are your users clueless or just insolent?

>The only tasks that I have used CD's for are loading Solaris 1.x and
>2.x, and loading Oracle on Suns.  None of these three tasks are applicable
>to my personal uses.

Ahh, that changes things.  You now have my pitty.  At least you aren't
doing this for yourself.  That would get you contempt. :)

>I don't use MSDOS or Windows 3.x.  I haven't run DOS here since 1990.
>So I don't need a CD drive for Microsoft drivel.

Here here!

>At work, every system that needs a tape drive, gets a tapedrive.

That seems to me to be highly cost ineffective.  CDROM players are
cheaper than tape drives--by a good margin.

>Maybe you like to sit around for hours trying to back up hundreds of
>computers to a handful of tapedrives.

I backed up 14 gig twice a week to 1 2gig DAT drive.  It wasn't
difficult at all.  How much storage are you dealing with?  An 8mm
drive can handle 5-10 gig fairly easily.  That can cover quite a few
'typical' workstations.  How much do you have to back up?

>Fur personal use, I have no need for a CD-ROM drive, so why should I
>buy one before the need occurs?

This smacks of "I haven't used one before so I don't need one now."  
Better known as the 'fear to think' syndrome.  Change happens.  Getting
used to that is a good idea. 

Cheers,
David
-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
willmore@iastate.edu | "Death before dishonor" | "Better dead than greek" | 
David Willmore  | "Ever noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!" | 
===========================================================================

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From: adam@spam.tamu.edu (Adam Roach)
Subject: Re: Linux on a SMC ELITE 16C Ultra
Date: 12 Aug 1994 08:05:47 GMT

Dennis Robinson <robinson@sparc13.cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>

>SMC Elite 16C Ultra Network card
>
>I am attempting to get the Elite Ultra network card to work.  Currently 
>I get an errant error message popping up on my screen every couple of minutes.

The exact same card has not caused a second thought for my box, which is
running Slackware 1.1.35. It is either not your card (I can't tell, since 
you've not told us the error message you are producing) or you need to upgrade.

Oh, the card also ran just fine with Slackware 1.0.9.


-- 

===========================================================================
    Adam Roach  ---  adamr@tamu.edu  ---  PGP 2.6 Public Key Available
================= WWW URL: http://ftp.tamu.edu/~abr8030 ===================

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From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May)
Subject: Re: Word Perfect?
Date: 12 Aug 1994 05:03:55 GMT

Andrew V Harbick (harbick_andrew@bah.com) wrote:
: Hi,

: Am I out in left field or did I see a couple of posts a month or two ago that 
: indicated that there is a version of Word Perfect for Unix/Linux.  If I'm not 
: crazy where is a demo/shareware copy or is it only registered available.

Subject: Re: Word Perfect?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
References: <harbick_andrew.21.00085EE9@bah.com>
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Distribution: 

Andrew V Harbick (harbick_andrew@bah.com) wrote:
: Hi,

: Am I out in left field or did I see a couple of posts a month or two ago that 
: indicated that there is a version of Word Perfect for Unix/Linux.  If I'm not 
: crazy where is a demo/shareware copy or is it only registered available.

OK, here's the deal, Wordperfect runs under the "ALPHA" iBCS2 package,
which supports SCO, Wyse, and SVr4 binaries.  Wordperfect has made 
a demo version available.  This version will not print or save files.

Some time ago, I was able to download the demo, a compressed, tarred
archive, from ftp.wordperfect.com  in /ftp/unix/demos/sco/sco.z
Note that the file is a compressed *tarred* archive, even though
there is no .tar.z extension.  This file is BIG.  
-rw-------   1 root     root      8055942 Aug  3 12:08 sco.Z
and uncompressed...
-rw-------   1 root     root     16023552 Aug  3 12:08 sco

Of course, to run this you definitely need the ibcs2 package,
a work which is in progress, and currently in "ALPHA" development stage.
At the risk of confessing total ignorance, I will say that I believe
certain network functions to be unimplemented.  The package is available 
at tsx-11.mit.edu: /pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2

Finally, to fix some font incompatibilities, and generally make the 
demo (and presumably the full commercial SCO/iBCS version) run properly,
you need the wpfix script, available at 
sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/apps/editors/wpfix.tar.gz

After following the intructions in the ibcs2 and wpfix packages,
the wp demo worked flawlessly for me, though I have not attempted
to install the actual commercially licensed package.

I have been notified that a licensed owner of WP for DOS can
upgrade to Unix for somewhere around $99.  For more accurate 
information contact:
    Lara at 1-800-321-3280.  larab@wordperfect.com

I would like to thank the authors of the iBCS package, the wpfix
script, and Wordperfect Corp. for making the demo available.

DISCLAIMER...
Please recognize that all this information may or may not be 
currently accurate.  I present it as my current knowledge,
which could be completely in error.  
--

-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
-       Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab


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From: u7911507@cc.nctu.edu.tw ()
Subject: Re: Needed: Read Linux Partition Under Dos
Date: 12 Aug 1994 00:35:45 GMT

Robert Ashcroft (rna@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: In article <324j4f$m50@news.tamu.edu>, Adam Roach <adam@spam.tamu.edu> wrote:
: >>Hi, every,
: >>  Is there any utility that I can use to read Linux partition under
: >>Dos? Please tell me. Thanks.
: >

: And DOS files are readable and writable from Linux, so whatever is
: in your Linux partition that you need, you could always copy to your
: DOS partition in Linux, and then reboot and view in DOS.

Thanks for all your help. Anyway, my problem is that my dos partition is too
small and there is some space on my Linux partition. I want to put some Dos
programs on the Linux partition, and read and execute those programs from 
the "really" Dos enviroment (not in Dosemu). So is there such tool? ??

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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware
From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: WABI vs. SoftWindows?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 14:21:43 GMT

[ post and followups to a subset of the UNIX world only ]

J.J. Paijmans (paai@kub.nl) wrote:
: In article <Cu6r7v.7vA@epimbe.com> vlcek@epimbe.com (James Vlcek) writes:
: >In article <320ris$g7n@kubds1.kub.nl> paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:

: ...

: >>I admit I have no experience with Unixware - send me a copy and I
: >>try and review it in the magazine I am writing for.
: >
: >Buy it yourself!  It's only $166 from Information Foundation.
: >
: >Cripes, all these Linuxers think everything should be given to them.
: >I've gotten several emails already, demanding that I buy copies of
: ...

: Jim, this sneer was uncalled for. I stated that I review stuff for
: a magazine and it *certainly* is not customary for reviewers to buy
: everything that they review. Why! If you do two or three products
: every month, you would have to be a millionaire!

Jim may be in the business of selling systems which involve UnixWare as a
platform, but he is certainly not in the business of providing free review
copies.  I distincly remember sending Hans Paijmans an email pointing this
out, and with a contact address for getting such a copy.

Oh, and BTW, some publications INSIST on buying EVERYTHING they review
(like the "New York Times") so as not to prejudice the outcome of
the review, or the choice of what they do or do not review.

: I distinctly seem to remember that you said you had no commercial
: interests in Unixware... Having "customers" seems to imply commercial
: activities. So it seems that you just try to throw dirt to a dangerous
: alternative to the product you are selling. Is that real? If not, I
: apologize.

I thought Jim's point was that he didn't see Linux as a "dangerous
alternative" to UnixWare.

--
                        +--------------------------------------------+
Martin Sohnius          | "It doesn't matter whether the cat is      |
Novell Labs Europe      |  black or white, as long as it catches     |
Bracknell, England      |  mice."      - Deng Xiaoping               |
+44-1344-724031          +--------------------------------------------+
                        (I speak for myself, not for Novell or anyone else.)

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.unixware
From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: WABI vs. SoftWindows?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 14:29:05 GMT

J.J. Paijmans (paai@kub.nl) wrote:
: In article <1994Aug10.131414.6536@taylor.infi.net> mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:

: >-- 
: >  /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
: >  | Mark A. Davis    | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |

: Remember me not to fall ill when in Norfolk, VA. I dug both into Linux
: and SCO for a review and I am afraid that in the tests SCO certainly
: proved to be less stable and more aggressive to operator errors than
: Linux as. Admittedly those tests were rather constricted and done in
: a stand-alone environment. But if a system is corrupted easily in 
: stand-alone, I tend to distrust its MU-capacity.

Standalone, you were probably root. Other users are not.
Root errors are serious, others are not (or should not be).
What does Linux say when you do

        # rm -r / tmp

: BTW, why do you write "Hospital" with a capital "H"?

Because he knows English.  Of course, he would say "in the hospital" where
I would only say "in hospital", but that's another story.  :-):-)

: -- 
: Copyright Hans Paijmans 1994. Niets hierboven mag geheel of
: gedeeltelijk worden geciteerd buiten de nieuwsgroep(en) waar het
: oorspronkelijk is geplaatst.

--
                        +--------------------------------------------+
Martin Sohnius          | "Newsgruppe urspruenglich geplatzt."       |
Novell Labs Europe      +--------------------------------------------+  
Bracknell, England    
+44-1344-724031      
                        (I speak for myself, not for Novell or anyone else.)

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From: michaelb@hobbie.bocaraton.ibm.com (Michael Rogero Brown (Sys Admin))
Subject: Re: Linux book(s)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 18:06:25 GMT

Mark A. Horton KA4YBR (mah@ka4ybr.com) wrote:
: Andy Oram (andyo@ruby.ora.com) wrote:
: : A more intriguing project is a completely new book we're doing from
: : scratch, with Matt Welsh (the head of the Linux Documentation Project)
: : as a co-author.  We've been interested in Linux for a long time, but
: : it takes quite a while to create a new book of value.  Now is really a
: : little early to talk about it (I'm expecting it to be ready in
: : January), but since you asked...  This book is an overview--I don't
: : know if it will say anything new to regular readers of this group, but
: : it will serve as a good introduction for otehr people who know UNIX
: : but are new to Linux.


:       ... and we all know what critter had better be on the cover of
:       the Linux books, right?  :)

No.  What critter?  The Platypus?  (who chose it and why?)

:       Seriously, I think this is an excellent addition to the O'Reilly
:       offerings... I use and recommend their publications often (dropped
:       a bundle on it, but have now accumulated virtually everything 
:       they publish!)  That they are releasing publications devoted to
:       Linux is a major step forward, I think... very much like the 
:       "SCO UNIX in a Nutshell."  

Wouldn't mind see them put out all the 'books' from the LDP.  Sort of like
their BSD Doc set.  But do you put the platypus on all of them (like the
BSD daemon on all the BSD books) or put different animals on each on?

--
==========All Opinions Expressed are MINE, not IBM's==============
Michael Rogero Brown       (*IX System Administrator)  
IBM (uK Development)         TEL/TIE   (407) 443-6400   
Boca Raton, FL               Internet:  mikal@bocaraton.ibm.com

If you think I speak for IBM, then I've got some swamp land^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
real estate to sell you.

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From: clay@monsta.metronet.com (Clay Luther)
Subject: ?: Linux-based BBS'
Date: 11 Aug 1994 23:45:32 -0500

Would someone send me a summary of Linux-based BBS.  I have been assigned with
the task of finding a BBS software platform that allows both dial-in access and
telnet-in access, but is something "friendlier" than just a pure unix prompt.

Thanks.

-- 
Clay Luther                           clay@monsta.metronet.com
Systems Administrator                 clay@gojira.monsta.com
Monsta, Inc.                          (214) 407-0029

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From: lovelace@netcom.com (Tanner Lovelace)
Subject: Re: Where did "Yggdrasil" come from?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 03:09:47 GMT

kenbrody@cloud9.net (Kenneth Brody) writes:

>Subject says it all.  Does anybody know where the name "Yggdrasil" comes
>from?


It's from Norse mythology.  I think it was the tree that held the 
universe in its branches (with the netherworld in its roots), but I may
be wrong on that part.

Tanner Lovelace
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Crossposted-To: biz.comp.hardware
From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Supplier of PC clone for Linux....
Reply-To: sales@ksmith.com
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 94 13:59:09 GMT

In article <32eo4b$1lv@ndlc.occ.uky.edu>,
Andy Beal <bealar@ndlc.occ.uky.edu> wrote:
>I M H Nadiadi (mapimhn@midge.bath.ac.uk) wrote:
>
>:         * Specialise in Linux/GNU/Xfree86 software (including MS-DOS/Windows).
>
>Umm, if you find one, tell me.  I am almost 99% sure that no vendors 
>specialize in Linux.  The best you may get is a technician that has ran 
>Linux.  
>
>-- 
>                /^\      /^\               
>___________/\  /   \    /   \  /\________  Andy Beal
>             \/     \  /     \/            bealar@ndlc.occ.uky.edu
>                     \/

You found one.  I'll set up and configure a machine for you with
whatever linux happy you want, at no extra cost and ship it to you fully
assembled and tested.  Problem is you won't get that Computer Shopper
price your looking for.

I'm currently RUNNING Linux 1.1 as a news server, and have several Linux
boxes that I support.

I don't do DOS _at all_, But I'll do _any_ PC-UNIX you like, Coherent,
Linux, SCO, SVR4, Unixware, etc.

FAX your specifications to 910-423-4216 or E-mail to sales@ksmith.com.
NC Residents will have to pay 6% Sales Tax.

Note:  I stripped a few dozen newsgroups from the Newsgroups line.
-- 
Keith Smith aka Digital Designs                 keith@ksmith.com
5719 Archer Rd.                    Free Usenet News and Internet Mail Services
Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201         All 28K/14K Modems  (910) 423-4216/7389/7391
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From: iain.lea@anl433.erlm.siemens.de (Iain Lea)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Can't Malloc 192309 Bytes - Fix?
Date: 12 Aug 1994 08:20:01 GMT

Greg Boehlein (damin@csuohio.edu) wrote:
: I am having a problem with Elm under Slackware 1.2.0.
: Couldn't malloc 1936269459 bytes!!
: Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!

Get a newer compiled version of elm or smail. The /usr/lib/aliases
format was causing the problem.

-- 
iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de  +49-9131-7-43402
 'Raus aus dem Alltag, rein in die Kiste'

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