From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 16:13:12 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #100 Linux-Activists Digest #100, Volume #6 Thu, 12 Aug 93 16:13:12 EDT Contents: SLS 1.03 and NET-2 (Scott C. Gray) Re: IOT trap/Abort with remote mount (Tark McMains) Re: SLS 1.03 and NET-2 (Scott C. Gray) Linux Users Group (Summary) (linux@relax.des.edu) SONY CDU 535, pl 9, not working (Nimrod Warshawsky) ttys0/ttys2 IRQ conflict (?) (Rob de Winter) EVE customization of EMACS... (Ioannis Ioannou) x8514 servers and ps/2 mouse (Jonathan Wilson) Re: [Q] Diffs from SysV specs? (Nick Holloway) 486 Doesn't boot LINUX SLS v1.02 (Hugo van.der.Kooij) Re: Modula3 compiler for Linux? (mako@FNALO.FNAL.GOV) Can not mount root (Rick Harby) emacs 19.18 patches for Linux wanted (Jan van Oorschot) Re: could this be realized ?(Kernel-Extensions) (Eric Youngdale) Can GNU Emacs Clone MULE be compiled at Linux? (Zhuo Er Lin) Re: Slackware 1.01 install halts on first disk (Joshua P. Weage) LINUX ON SEEDY ROM (Randy Just) Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy? (Wayne Schlitt) Re: setfdprm (Warner Losh) Re: SLS 1.03 no good ad for linux (Warner Losh) Re: IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LINUX... (Warner Losh) Re: Ultrastor 34F woes (Warner Losh) List of apps for Linux ? (Kee-Huat Lim) Linux on an OLD 386 with 1.5 MB RAM (Matt Mosley) NE3200 drivers (Russell Nelson) Why would I want LINUX? (Russell Nelson) Re: How to use zmodem from kermit (Ken Burrell) Angband Beginner--Needs Help!!! (The Sleepless Wonder) Re: kermit doesn't work under X - SLS 0.99p9 (Kevin Sanders) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: gray@pong.nas.nasa.gov (Scott C. Gray) Subject: SLS 1.03 and NET-2 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:04:49 GMT This may be a moronic question, but I'm askin' anyway. I have the NET-2 package, which says it is for kernels 99pl10 or above, and SLS 1.03 is 99pl11. In the SLS RELEASE notes it says "net-2 support". Does this mean that I do not need to install NET-2 because it is already in there, or does it mean that it will support NET-2 without any additional patches? I am asking because I tried to install NET-2 last night on top of SLS 1.03 and I noticed that most of the links set up by NET-2 in /etc pointed to non- existant places. So I blew away the installation and decided to wait until I hear from the net first. thanks scott ------------------------------ From: wtm1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Tark McMains) Subject: Re: IOT trap/Abort with remote mount Date: 12 Aug 93 16:33:27 GMT wtm1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Tark McMains) writes: >when I try to mount something with say "mount foobar.com:/usr /mnt" >I get the message "IOT trap/Abort" It used to work fine, and I can't >think of anything I did that would cause it to do this. I'm using >.99pl9 with the networking software from SLS 1.01. Directories can >be mounted from my machine onto other machines without problems. I found out if I use the old libc.so.4.3.3 it works, but if I use libc.so.4.4.1 it gives me the IOT trap/Abort error. Then I got the new version of mount, to see if it was an incompatibility problem but it hasn't been updated since my version. any idea what is cousing the problem? -- Tark McMains -- Cornell University wtm1@cornell.edu wtm1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu Sharkin' it up 1993 ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: gray@pong.nas.nasa.gov (Scott C. Gray) Subject: Re: SLS 1.03 and NET-2 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:22:19 GMT sorry, I somehow posted this to *.development rather than *.help. If you want to answer it, though, that would be cool :) scott ------------------------------ From: linux@relax.des.edu Subject: Linux Users Group (Summary) Date: 10 Aug 93 13:56:13 GMT A while ago I asked people who were interested in paying to join a Linux Users Group or consortium to send messages to say so. OK, well after a week or so, I've gotten about 20 responses. Not a very impressive response level. I suspect that those outside of the USENET community might be more willing to pay, but one of the main benefits was to make hardware vendors believe that Linux was worth some of their time. Apparently, it's not. :-) If anyone's interested in a more complete summary, I can put one together & mail it to you, but it's hardly worth anyone's time. In the event that you're interested in such a group but didn't notice the message, send mail to this account linux@relax.des.edu & say that you're interested & how much you'd be willing to pay yearly: 1,2,20,50 / year ($US). ------------------------------ From: nimrod@library.des.edu (Nimrod Warshawsky) Subject: SONY CDU 535, pl 9, not working Date: 10 Aug 93 23:54:56 GMT Reply-To: nimrod@library.des.edu (Nimrod Warshawsky) I'm trying to use a sony cd, model 535-01 working with linux pl9. If anyone has gotten this combination to work, please contact me. I've already applied the necessary patches, etc..., but when I try to mount the cd I got the following error: ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexistent block-device 1500 (32) isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x1500 iso_blknum 16 mount: wrong fs type, /dev/cdrom already mounted, /cdrom busy, or other error. I think I may not have all the dip switches on the drive set up properly, so please contact me with the proper settings. Later. Nimrod ====== nimrod@library.des.edu Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, New Jersey USA ------------------------------ From: winfrdw@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Rob de Winter) Subject: ttys0/ttys2 IRQ conflict (?) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:10:28 GMT I've encountered a problem in Linux I though it was beyond... the 'good old' shared IRQ conflict for serial lines. When I set up two getty's for ttys0 and ttys2, neither of them works... Or very very slow, with response times going to 25 seconds... or characters are eaten. The problem is consistent for both kernel 0.99 pl 9 and pl 11. I though Linux was capable of handling this IRQ conflict a lot better than MS-DOS. BTW, all chips are recognized as 16450's, and the kernel has no serial options enabled. So.... does anyone know how to solve this ? How I can install 4 serial lines and get them all working ? maybe some patches are needed... (there was hardly any difference between the serial.c from pl 9 and pl 11 anyway). Many thanks in advance (got a demo this monday...) ------------------------------ From: ioannou@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Ioannis Ioannou) Subject: EVE customization of EMACS... Date: 12 Aug 1993 17:54:08 GMT Hi everybody, I have a question on customizing emacs. We have VAXes in the office and I use EVE for editing, with the EDT keypad option (there are three customization options in EVE; vt100, edt, wps). Anyway, I'm so addicted to it, that I can't get started with emacs at home. When I asked for emacs in the office, or in the department for that matter, I got the EMACS=eight meg and constant swap. Now, keep the flamethrower off, I think that this may have been once upon a time, and, being a bona-fide person, I do believe that there is merit in learning emacs, although the facilities I need from my editor (learn, find, cut/paste, and the like) are all superbly implemented in EVE. Is then there any way I can readily customize emacs to look exactly (or almost) like EVE with the EDT keypad? I hope from that point on I will be able to slowly learn its details (it is not intuitive you know; see discussion on wordprocessors). When I tried to customize it myself (there is an edt customization file in the linux distribution of emacs, but it is outdated; goes back to 87 or something) it wasn't quite the same, and I had enough of meta- and ctrl- to make me want no more. By the way, is this true, that for virtually any command I give I need to push two keys simultaneously? Almost never happens in EVE. When I need PF1, I don't have to hold it down, just punch it. My ultimate goal is to learn emacs and be able to use its power, which currently I only suspect. This article should probably have been directed to the emacs newsgroup, however I do not follow that one. If there is a way to do close emulation of EVE, then please let me know how; otherwise I will need to work on it when I have more time myself. Thanks, Ioannis PS:Please, flames and long threads only if necessary :-) It's just that I'm new to emacs. -- Ioannis I Ioannou phone: (313)-764-8225 Microwave Spectroscopy Lab fax: (313)-747-4865 Department of Chemistry University of Michigan e-mail: ioannou@umich.edu ------------------------------ From: jon@stimpy.b11.ingr.com (Jonathan Wilson) Subject: x8514 servers and ps/2 mouse Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:37:53 GMT Hello, We are running SLS 0.99PL10 with NET-2. The box has an ATI Ultra Vantage and a PS/2-style mouse. We have been trying unsuccessfully to get an X implementation working on this system. The problem seems to be the PS/2 mouse support - specifically, the PS/2 mouse is supported with Xfree86 (although the video card isn't), but not with either X8514 or X8514scale servers (where the video card IS supported.) We can start the Xfree86 server and get munged video, but a working mouse. Using 'strings' on the different server binaries verified this - the string 'ps/2' only appears in the Xfree86 server. We have tried calling this mouse anything that's supported - Microsoft, Mouse Systems, etc. and have called it quite a few other things 8-) but cannot get it to work with either of the X8514 servers. It works fine under DOS and Windows 3.1, using a Logitech driver. Does anyone have any ideas on adding ps/2 support to x8514 or x8514scale? Thanks Jon ________________________________ | | | Jonathan Wilson | | Intergraph Corporation | | jlwilson@stimpy.b11.ingr.com | |________________________________| ------------------------------ From: alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick Holloway) Subject: Re: [Q] Diffs from SysV specs? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:59:37 GMT In <1993Aug12.154026.6075@timesink.spk.wa.us> kew@timesink.spk.wa.us (Keith Walker) writes: > >units - conversion program > Sometimes I really miss this program. Have a look in an archive near you. There was a units program posted on July 22nd to comp.sources.misc (Volume 38, Issue 61, units/part01). I can't have had much problem compiling for Linux, since I can't remember having any problems. -- Nick Holloway | `O O' | alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, alfie@warwick.UUCP, [aka `Alfie'] | // ^ \\ | ..!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!alfie ------------------------------ From: hugo@rusthoff.hacktic.nl (Hugo van.der.Kooij) Subject: 486 Doesn't boot LINUX SLS v1.02 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1993 23:31:00 Ok, I mentioned my problem in an earlier message but everybody asked me to elaborate the issue. So here goes: SYSTEM: 486 System board using: AMI BIOS dated 06/06/92 486DX Processor at 33MHz 16MB (4x4MB SIMMs 70ns) ISA BUS SYMPHONY chipset ET4065 (ET4000; 64k colors) Video card without IRQ2 Multi I/O with: 2x serial (I/O and IRQ standard) 1x parallel (I/O and IRQ for LPT1) Floppy drive with 3.5" and 5.25" drives IDE controller ST1144A (type 47; Cyl: 1001; Heads: 15; Sector: 15) Soundblaster2 (I/O: 220; IRQ: 2) NE2000 (I/O:300; IRQ: 5) SoftWare which failes: SLS v1.02 kit (v0.99 pl8) LINUXpro (v0.99 pl11) (Fred van Kempen's toy) MCC Interim release Software which works: SLS v1.01 kit (v0.99 pl6) HLU bootdisk (v0.99 pl7) I tried at first with all cards installed: FAILED All I got was LILO telling it was booting. Then LINUX loading the RAMDISK. Then LINUX loading and uncompressing. Right after the message Booting LINUX my system freezes. Ok so somebody sugested to play with RAM shadowing ROM and so on. And so I did. Well I got just as far as a line telling me: console: colour The chips involved my systems are: CPU: A80486DX-33 L2523562 SX729 INTEL (M)(C) 1989 1: SYMPHONY SL82C461 A29987.1 1161 C_9246 2: SYMPHONY SL82C362 2222220 JAPAN 3: SYMPHONY SL82C465 4L02F2237 JAPAN 9243EAI keyboard: NEC (c) 1988-1991 DISA 4236 297 9224M7028 Main Memory: 4 SIMMs of 4MB with 9 chips at 70ns (The manual says 80ns would be fast enough) Cache Memory: 9 chips of 32kx8 at 20ns (for 33MHz 20ns would do according the manual) And there is a jumper which tells me: ZERO WAIT STATE CACHE WRITE HIT this could also be place as: ONE WAIT STATE CACHE WRITE HIT Problems occur even without the NE2000, without the SoundBlaster, with another Video card, with an original 8042AH. The system has been stripped to the bone just to see what is actualy causing the problem. Any item I couldn't do without has been exchanged by stuff from my 386SX (yep, even the keyboard and controller) EXCEPT for the systemboard itself, the RAM and the CPU. I have no way of exchanging any of these yet. If any one has cured a simular problem please specify faulty equipment and what part it has been exchanged by to fix it. Please specify as much as possible. I hope to start a Systems query on the NET next weeks. I will make a sort of an approved hardware list so any future decisions can be made according this information. And we might even be able to put pressure on manufactures. Thanx for your time, Hugo. * Origin: Rust-Hoff; Home of the Brave. (2:512/32.23) ------------------------------ From: mako@FNALO.FNAL.GOV Crossposted-To: comp.lang.modula3 Subject: Re: Modula3 compiler for Linux? Date: 12 Aug 1993 18:03:23 GMT Reply-To: mako@FNALO.FNAL.GOV > The upcoming release of SRC Modula 3 will be a native compiler and will > run on Linux Would it be called V2.12 or V3.0? What are the new features? On what new platforms will it run? mako (mako@fnald.fnal.gov) ------------------------------ From: harbyrs@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu (Rick Harby) Subject: Can not mount root Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:21:08 GMT Ok I downloaded the complete kernel stuff for pl11. I edited the makefile for ROOT_DEV, and VGA_MODE and compiled it fine. Then I did a make zdisk so I could set up my boot disk. Worked fine, but when I reboot I get: Kernel Panic: Can not mount root. My linux partition on my harddrive is hda3, and I set ROO_DEV to /dev/hda3. Is this wrong or can anyone help me fix this problem. Thanks, Rick ------------------------------ From: etstjan@dutepp2.et.tudelft.nl (Jan van Oorschot) Subject: emacs 19.18 patches for Linux wanted Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 16:56:33 GMT Hi, Does anybody have patches to het Emacs 19.18 compiling. This version fixes a lot of the bugs, but does not compile out of the BOX. I tried the suggestions somebody posted yesterday, but they were not enough. To be more precise: fixes mentioned on news: . include in buffer.c . define HAVE_FREXP in floatsfns.c . undef CTOR_LIST in emacs.c fixes i noticed: . undef HAVE_MKDIR in sysdep.c something i have not fixed: . a LLOOOTTTT of wornings when linking temacs. it can't seem to find anything at all. I am using Slackware 1.01 (pl12). Jan -- -- Ir. Jan van Oorschot. --- Email: J.P.M.vOorschot@et.tudelft.nl -- -- Data Network Performance Analysis Project -- -- CARDIT, Delft University of Technology ------------ Tel: (31)-15-786179 -- -- P.O.Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands ------ Fax: (31)-15-784898 -- ------------------------------ From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: could this be realized ?(Kernel-Extensions) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:47:50 GMT In article <24dnds$cnf@smurfnbg.smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurfnbg.smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >In comp.os.linux, article , > blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: >> >>>>> On 30 Jul 93 16:14:49 GMT, higgins@sisley.uni-paderborn.de (Frank Westheider) said: >> >> Frank> I am not a SCSI-Guru, so i ask in the Linux-Comunity, who is able to >> Frank> manage such a Kernel-Extension, and if it is recommended to start/stop >> Frank> the drives. >> >On the other hand, there's one instance where spinup code would be >really useful -- when the system boots. After all, you can configure >most disks not to spin up on poweron. If the kernel waits for each disk >before spinning up the next one, there's less strain on the power supply. >In fact, I can operate all my disks from one supply -- with an amp or so >to spare -- but turning on the supply with all disks in auto-spinup mode >doesn't work. > >I'll probably hack the startup code into the Linux SCSI initialisation >sequence one of these days if nobody beats me to it... I have spinup patches that I have been sitting on for quite some time. I am waiting for someone to try them out and evaluate them before I send them in to be included in the distribution kernel. The patches are kind of old, but will probably go in to a recent kernel without too much trouble. -Eric -- "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a lawyer." ------------------------------ From: umlin000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Zhuo Er Lin) Subject: Can GNU Emacs Clone MULE be compiled at Linux? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:15:09 GMT I just know that Multi-Languale GNU MULE has a formal release 1.0. I wonder is there a ported version for Linux or it can be compiled without hesels? -- ======================================================================== Eric Lin (Home): (204) 783-2884 Computer Engineering Internet: Umlin000@cc.Umanitoba.CA University of Manitoba ------------------------------ From: ai900@yfn.ysu.edu (Joshua P. Weage) Subject: Re: Slackware 1.01 install halts on first disk Date: 12 Aug 1993 19:06:19 GMT Well, when I got the a1disk file I had it .Z'd. The first time I uncompressed it w/ compress, and it didn't work. So I used gunzip and rawrote the disk again. That time it worked fine. You might want to try redoing your disk. If that doesn't work get a1disk again. Josh -- ## ------------------------------ From: rjust@nntp.crl.com (Randy Just) Subject: LINUX ON SEEDY ROM Date: 12 Aug 1993 12:07:16 -0700 For those that are looking for the Yggdrasil LINUX CD-ROM I am making them available for $49.95 U.S. Customers $3 S/H. I can be contacted at 707-769-1648 Just Computers! 707-765-2447 FAX P.O. Box 751414 Petaluma, CA 94975-1414 rjust@justcomp.com It can be frustrating to find all of the files to start using LINUX effectively and this is the quick and dirty way of getting a robust system running. Visa and Mastercard can be used as well. International orders welcomed!!! ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r4 From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Subject: Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:27:52 GMT In article <1993Aug11.142541.16315@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes: > > I think most of you are in the twilight zone on this commercial software > issue. Again, most software companies will likely never have interest in > porting to Linux. In theory, at least, *WHO CARES* once Linux has full > COFF (and ELF to a much lesser extent) compatibility *YOU WILL BE ABLE TO > RUN THE COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE*. Who wants to wait for "porting"- just slip > right into the main role of buying SCO ODT (except for some other things > SCO has like real documentation and multiprocessing/multithreading and such). Well, you are right, "porting" to Linux should not require lots of rework in the code, or even a recompile. On the other hand, "supporting" Linux means that you need to test your releases on it, make sure the documentation is updated and having the support staff not say things like "Linux? What the !$#@ is that? Try running on a different operating system". This is still a major hurdle to overcome, but _if_ Linux gets is a significant install base, then I think it will happen. I don't see anything fundamental about Linux that would stop it from happening. -wayne -- The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic: (A => B) => (B => A) (There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x) (A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) --Warren Vonroeschlaub ------------------------------ From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: setfdprm Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:09:45 GMT In article <24bj4j$oh9@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com writes: >Suns could only do 1.44 MB and there wasn't much else to worry about. They could also do 720K. I developed a driver for the DEC Rainbow for the 3.5" low density floppy so I could drag between home and work. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety. ------------------------------ From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: SLS 1.03 no good ad for linux Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:15:03 GMT In article <24cooa$enc@tuegate.tue.nl> lennart@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Lennart Benschop) writes: >Was it ever tried on a nonworking machine with the ethernet card removed? I was able to bring up the SLS 1.03 (p11) on my machine w/o an ethernet card w/o any problems related to the network stuff. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety. ------------------------------ From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LINUX... Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:17:31 GMT In article <1993Aug12.013042.11767@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes: > For $5, he'll tell you. ;-) Reminds me of a comic I once saw. He said there should be a $5 charge for being stupid. Anybody could collect at any time. So, if you see someone being stupid, say "That'll be $5 for being stupid." If they pay it, charge them another $5.... :-) Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety. ------------------------------ From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: Ultrastor 34F woes Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:00:09 GMT In article fsj@csd.cri.dk (Flemming Sylvest Johansen) writes: >I've just bought an Ultrastor 34F, and i am having problems with >getting it to work with a tape drive, so i would be very grateful if >someone could point me to an ftp site where i could find those >patches. I am currently running the pl-11 kernel. Well, the patches that I have were originally for the pl5 kernel and I had to hack them for the pl8 kernel. I went directly from the pl11 kernel on SLS 1.03 to p12 after finding out that the tape drive was effectively useless. The p12 ALPHA kernel of Aug 8 seems to have the patches to get tape drives working with UltraStor 34F's. This alone is a good reason for going to p12a. I never did forward port the p8 patches to p11, and have no idea if they would work or not for p11. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety. ------------------------------ From: keehuat@kits.sfu.ca (Kee-Huat Lim) Subject: List of apps for Linux ? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:26:31 GMT Hi, Is there a list of Linux apps available ?? If there is, could someone *please* post it here ? Thanx Kee ------------------------------ From: mattm@ss1.digex.net (Matt Mosley) Subject: Linux on an OLD 386 with 1.5 MB RAM Date: 12 Aug 1993 15:32:20 -0400 I have a really old 386-16 with 2 megs of RAM. Unfortunately, 384K is shadowed, so all I can use is around 1.5MB. This is not enough to get the kernel to boot. Is there any way I can force it to boot in that little RAM? -- Matt -- Matt Mosley Email: mattm@access.digex.net Digital Express Group, Inc. Digex info, email: info@access.digex.net Operations Staff Washington 301-220-0258; Baltimore 410-768-8774 ------------------------------ From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Subject: NE3200 drivers Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 17:23:14 GMT In article <24bfim$64d@access.digex.net> baal@access.digex.net writes: Is there anyone out there planning/in possesion of a driver for Novell NE3200 compat ethernet boards? If not, is there anyone willing to write one, or willing to help push me in the right direction to write one? Problem is that it's very hard to get the programming documentation. I tried for three or four months, and my customer finally gave up on me. If you can get the documentation, I'd love to get a copy from you... -russ What canst *thou* say? Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support. 11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice | LPF member - ask me about Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX | the harm software patents do. ------------------------------ From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Subject: Why would I want LINUX? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 17:27:39 GMT In article <55270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> rozum@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM writes: *** Why should I want to use LINUX? ** I have a ZyXEL modem, and I want to use it, and modgetty as an answering machine. I also want to be able to do other things with the machine at the same time. Windoze might do the job, but it's too darned slow compared to Linux. -russ What canst *thou* say? Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support. 11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice | LPF member - ask me about Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX | the harm software patents do. ------------------------------ From: ktb@uai.com (Ken Burrell) Subject: Re: How to use zmodem from kermit Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:36:39 GMT Just use the shell escape at the kermit prompt and use i/o redirection as follows: C-Kermit> !rz <>/dev/modem . ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: rec.games.moria,comp.os.linux.help From: darkstar@bach.udel.edu (The Sleepless Wonder) Subject: Angband Beginner--Needs Help!!! Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:52:04 GMT Okay, I'm running Linux on my PC at home, and I want to compile Angband for it. Now, looking at the moria ftp site (ftp.cis.ksu.edu) all I found was the source for Angband 2.0. Now, I've heard it mentioned several times on r.g.m that there is a version 2.4 frog-??? Is this something completely different. Is it just a bunch of user patches? What is it? But more importantly, where can I get it? Also, will this version compile with Linux v0.99pl11? Is there any special type of patch file that I can get to make it compile under linux otherwise? So many questions. Hopefully someone out there can help me. Thanks in advance... --Jerry -- |>Jerry Alexandratos ** "vengo de la tierra del <| |>darkstar@freezer.cns.udel.edu ** fuego ten cuidado cuando <| |>darkstar@bach.udel.edu ** llamas mi nombre..." <| ------------------------------ From: kevin@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Kevin Sanders) Subject: Re: kermit doesn't work under X - SLS 0.99p9 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 19:34:20 GMT In article brandon@gaia.msfc.nasa.gov (Brandon S. Dewberry) writes: >Hi, >I'm trying to dial out in kermit in an xterm running bash >while the X386mono server and twm are running. I get the >message (from memory) "can't make connection to modem". >My modem is set to /dev/modem -> /dev/cua2. >When I hit cntl-alt-backspace to terminate X, I can >execute kermit, dial out, the works. Why would the >system be able to connect to the modem under a plain >shell, but not when X is running? > I don't know about cua2, but I have had a similar problem with all the X versions I have tried. I seem to be able to use /dev/cua0 fine but /dev/cua1 always shows up as "in use" when X is running. This even though my Xconfig clearly states I'm using a busmouse, and the mouse works fine. I have /dev/mouse linked to /dev/atixlmouse or whatever it's called. You can check for this problem by running kermit in one VC, then trying to start up X in another VC. In my system X will fail to start, stating it failed to initialize core devices. It seems that X always holds /dev/cua1 open, no matter what Xconfig says. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? I really would like to be able to use both serial ports while in X. -- [] [] [][] [][] Kevin Sanders, KN6FQ NCR Torrey Pines [] [] [] [] [] kevin.sanders@torreypinesca.ncr.com (619) 597-3602 [][] [][] [][] kevin%beacons@cyber.net [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [][] Dump MS-DOS. Prevent Programmer Burnout with Linux. ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via: Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993 End of Linux-Activists Digest ******************************