From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 14:13:09 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #167 Linux-Activists Digest #167, Volume #6 Wed, 25 Aug 93 14:13:09 EDT Contents: where can I FTP pico from? (Richard Wooden) Business use of Linux (Brent Johnson) Re: Thinkpad compatible? (Barry Jaspan) *UNBELIEVABLE PRICE* New 209 Meg Seagate Hard Drives $145.00!!!!! (John V. Jaskolski) Re: Linux on CD-ROM For Only U$ 19.95 (Yvan Cazabon) Pascal for linux? (David Simmons) Help: Making a tape from the ftp distribution of SLS (Henry Creagh) Re: *UNBELIEVABLE PRICE* New 209 Meg Seagate Hard Drives $145.00!!!!! (Dave Feldman) Need QIC-150 driver (Karl Keyte, ESOC Darmstadt) Re: Linux labels are now available on tsx-11 (Gunnlaugur Kristjansson) ifconfig >?> (guest@hpacv.com) Memory leak with 100ns simms? (Jeffrey T. Noll) SSSLLLOOOWWW gopherd: first hint (neuwirth@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at) Support for Farenheit & Stealth-24 ? (Luong V Nguyen) Re: when is linux 1.0 coming out ? (sn) Re: *UNBELIEVABLE PRICE* New 209 Meg Seagate Hard Drives $145.00!!!!! (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) 3COM Etherlink III Combo Card (Ryan J Snodgrass) Re: X leaving garbage on screen (Walt Croom) Re: Linux labels are now available on tsx-11 (Jeff Jennings) HELP! newbie gets warning message "libc.so.4: incompat. minor ver no." (Jeffrey Muday) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rwooden@access.digex.net (Richard Wooden) Subject: where can I FTP pico from? Date: 25 Aug 1993 09:16:44 -0400 Subject says it all. Richard Email rwooden@access.digex.net ------------------------------ From: Brent Johnson Subject: Business use of Linux Date: 25 Aug 1993 09:49:54 -0400 Reply-To: t901094@goodyear.com I am interested in how people make use of Linux in 'real world' applications. Especially, what version they use, what 'extras' like TCP/IP, NFS, X, and the stability of such systems. I'm trying to build a case for giving it a look here at work... Please respond by email to bijohnson@goodyear.com. -- . . BRENT I. JOHNSON . Systems Engineer . Technical Computer Systems Design . The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company . . "DOS is to operating systems, what vi is to desktop publishing." . ------------------------------ From: bjaspan@GZA.COM (Barry Jaspan) Subject: Re: Thinkpad compatible? Date: 25 Aug 1993 13:33:24 GMT In article <1993Aug24.190501.11946@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, pcwood@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Wood) writes: |> Does anyone know if linux is compatible with the 10Base2 Type II ethernet |> card which may be ordered with the IBM ThinkPad? Perhaps. PCMCIA ethernet cards from D-Link and Socket Communications are known to work. I recommend D-Link, because they have been very helpful to Linux developers; their number is (714) 455-1688, and they sell through dealers. I can't tell you whether IBM's ethernet card will work without having the card to test, and I don't think anyone has approached IBM asking for documentation or an evaluation unit yet. -- Barry Jaspan, bjaspan@gza.com Geer Zolot Associates ------------------------------ From: jasko@park.bu.edu (John V. Jaskolski) Subject: *UNBELIEVABLE PRICE* New 209 Meg Seagate Hard Drives $145.00!!!!! Date: 25 Aug 93 10:22:06 Reply-To: jasko@cns.bu.edu Numerous people from this newsgroup have asked me to post here whenever I find an excellent deal on something that might be of interest to the general community. I *DO NOT* intend to post items of this sort regularly here. Rather, I will usually post *ONLY* in the .forsale newsgroups. This is a worthy exception because it is an absolutely awesome deal. (Please note that many people have already bought tape drives, CD-ROM drives, and modems from me. I have a list of testimonies that I can E-mail to anyone on request.) Quite a few people have asked me if I can get any other equipment for the kind of prices I have been getting the tape drives, CD-ROM drives and modems for. The most frequently asked for items have been SCSI controllers (to go with the tape and CD-ROM drives) and hard drives. (I now have some *BRAND NEW* Adaptec 1540B SCSI controllers for $125 each. I will be posting these to the .forsale newsgroups shortly; but if you want one you can call now.) The following is an *EXTREMELY* good deal on some brand new 209 Meg Seagate SCSI hard drives. (Anything under a dollar a Meg is a good deal. At .69 cents per Meg these are a steal!) The description follows: I have a few *BRAND NEW* 209 Meg Seagate SCSI hard drives. These drives went for $245.00 regularly. I will give these 209 Meg drives away to anyone who wants one for $145.00 each (THESE ARE BRAND NEW). Call me immediately if you want one because I will give them out on a first come first serve basis and THEY WILL GO FAST. If you think it is too late and they are already gone call anyway because your call will put you in line for one if I can get any more. My home phone number is (617) 246-3634. My wife's name is Julie and she can take down your order info.. I am there in the evenings. If neither of us is there you can leave a message on our machine and I will call you within hours of your leaving a message. I will return *ALL* calls. If you can't reach me then send me E-mail reserving a drive and give me a phone number you can be reached at. Now you can afford a decent sized hard drive and *YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PAY ALOT FOR IT!!!* These are Seagate ST-2209N SCSI Hard Drives. They were manufactured by SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY and they are high quality drives. These drives are internal 5 1/4" Half Height Drives. They are vastly superior to most of the non-SCSI hard drives out there. They will work with *ANY* SCSI controller. These Seagates are brand new, still in the box, and come with *EVERYTHING*. They come with docs, and everything necessary for installation. It is a complete package. When you get your drive you will have all that you need to use it. They are 100% guaranteed for 30 days. If you get one and you don't like the way it matches your wallpaper simply return it for your money back *NO QUESTIONS ASKED*! I repackaged my Seagate, went to UPS, weighed the package, and found out the cost of S&H. I asked them for worst case S&H in the continental U.S. (i.e., California). S&H with insurance for $350.00 plus tracking would cost $10.00 from Boston to California. That is what I will charge everyone for S&H. These drives also work perfectly with Linux, BSD, and other Unices for the PC. I WILL GIVE THESE OUT ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. FROM MY EXPERIENCE IN THE PAST, MY E-MAIL WILL BE CRAZY! I may be able to take your credit card for these. My home phone number is (617) 246-3634. You can call me *ANYTIME* up until 2:00 AM seven days a week. My wife, Julie, is home during the day (so she can take your order then) and I am home in the evenings. If you are going to pay with a check or money order: The total cost is: Seagate 209 Meg $145.00 S&H $ 10.00 ------------ TOTAL $155.00 In order to acquire a Seagate make your payment or money order for $155.00 payable to: Dr. John V. Jaskolski send it to: Dr. John V. Jaskolski Suite #307 95 Audubon Rd. Wakefield, MA. 01880 E-MAIL me confirming exactly what you want and in what quantity and indicate how much money you sent in your payment. Sincerely, Dr. John V. Jaskolski jasko@park.bu.edu P.S. The Specs follow: I am always looking for equipment that is dirt cheap. I especially like prices that are around 50% less than the cheapest price around. I decided to go with these since the price is right (You can't get new 209 Meg SCSI hard drives *ANYWHERE* for $145.00). They provide industry standard performance *AND* they work with everything. Also, these drives are *BRAND NEW*! No Non-SCSI hard drive even comes close to the quality of these drives. These are the specs: Condition *BRAND NEW* Unformatted Capacity 209 Meg Formatted Capacity 179 Meg Average Access Time 14 ms Data Transfer Rate 2.75 Meg/SEC Form Factor: 5 1/2" Half Height Buffer 32Kbyte SCSI-I: Read Look-Ahead, Non-Adaptive, Single-Segmented Buffer. SCSI-II: Read Look-Ahead, Adaptive, Multi-Segmented Cache. MTBF (power-on hours) 100,000 Average Sectors Per Track 45 Tracks 7720 Cylinders 1544 Heads 5 Discs 3 Media Type Thin Film Spindle Speed 3600 TPI (Tracks Per Inch) 1280 BPI (Bits Per Inch) 19213 Single Track Seek 4 ms Power Requirements +12V Start-Up (amps) 4.0 +12V Typical (amps) 1.0 +5V Start-Up (amps) 0.75 +5V Typical (amps) 0.65 Typical Watts 16 Maximum Watts 58 Landing Zone (cyl) AUTO PARK -- ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc From: cazabon@csd.uwo.ca (Yvan Cazabon) Subject: Re: Linux on CD-ROM For Only U$ 19.95 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 14:39:48 GMT [stuff from Jay deleted] >: My advice is DON'T SEND YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER BY E-MAIL to >: these people until they start answering their e-mail reliably. > >We have a FAX number and a tool free 800 number ^^^^^^^^^ Is this a reflection of the person who used to answer the phone? :-) (Sorry, couldn't resist). -- | Yvan Cazabon | The more things change, | | cazabon@csd.uwo.ca | the more they stay insane. | | Office: MC28-H | | ------------------------------ From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons) Subject: Pascal for linux? Date: 25 Aug 1993 14:41:19 GMT Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu Does anybody know of a pascal that has been ported for Linux? Thanks, David Simmons ------------------------------ From: henry@is.sprint.com (Henry Creagh) Subject: Help: Making a tape from the ftp distribution of SLS Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 15:01:32 GMT I am a current Linux user who does not wish to copy 30 diskettes again! I have SLS 1.02 now and want to install 1.03, but this time I would like to put the SLS distribution which I retrieved via ftp, on my Sparc 2 at work, onto a tape (QIC-150 format) and install the new SLS at home with this tape. There is no mention of how to do this in the install-guide-1.0.txt. CAN THIS BE DONE? I know that I must still have disk a1 on a floppy to begin the installation procedure. What must I do to put all of the other SLS disk directories and their related files onto a tape? Do I just use tar? Do I put all files into one directory then use tar? Help would be greatly appreciated. -- ====================================================================== Henry J. Creagh EMAIL: henry@is.sprint.com Sprint VOICE: (816) 854-3801 1200 Main FAX: (816) 854-4428 ------------------------------ From: dfeldman@teal.csn.org (Dave Feldman) Subject: Re: *UNBELIEVABLE PRICE* New 209 Meg Seagate Hard Drives $145.00!!!!! Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 15:18:35 GMT In article jasko@cns.bu.edu writes: > >Numerous people from this newsgroup have asked me to post here whenever I > (I now have some *BRAND NEW* Adaptec 1540B SCSI controllers for $125 > each. I will be posting these to the .forsale newsgroups shortly; > but if you want one you can call now.) The following is an I subscribe to something called "Processor", it's a weekly mag published out of New Jersey. A company in there has been advertising 1540B SCSI controllers for $100 ($115 with shipping); they are an OEM unit resold by DEC with DEC's documentation. Go to the source. It was easy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 16:54:29 CET From: Karl Keyte, ESOC Darmstadt Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Need QIC-150 driver I have a Wangtek 5150ES QIC tape unit (like the one on Suns) and I'm looking for the Linux driver for it. Can someone point me in the right direction? Please reply to: KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET Thanks, Karl ======================================================================== Vitrociset S.p.A. (Space Division) Tel : +(49) 6151 902041 Eurepean Space Operations Centre Fax : +(49) 6151 904041 Darmstadt, Germany e-Mail: kkeyte@esoc.bitnet ------------------------------ From: gulli@vedur.is (Gunnlaugur Kristjansson) Subject: Re: Linux labels are now available on tsx-11 Date: 25 Aug 93 14:40:13 GMT In article <25dhno$a3s@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>, chris@surfcty.com (Chris D. Johnston) writes: > Postscript diskette labels are available on tsx-11 ... > linux.labels.PS.tar: The object (ps) files generated by PageMaker on Mac. > linux.labels.pm.tar: The PageMaker 4.2a (Mac) source files. > linux.labels.fh.tar: The FreeHand version of these source files. > > > This set of files should print to most any postscript device > (I hope). I have tested it on an AST Laser PS and an > Apple LaserWriter IINTX. I think they look good. What > is pretty neat is the fact that the edge copy lines up > nicely. > > Any questions? Has anyone been able to print the PS files? They do not print on Kyocera or DEClaser 3250... (Offending command is lettertray) Also the format of the PS files is strange. Just one loooong stream so I am not able to edit the files. Best regards, gulli -- =========================================================================== Gunnlaugur Kristjansson Email......: gulli@vedur.is Systems Analyst PSImail....: 274011724200::gulli Data Processing Division DECUS mail.: EDCHUB::KRISTJANSSON Icelandic Meteorological Office COMPUSERVE.: 72461,2160 Bustadavegi 9 Telephone..: +354 1 600600 IS150 Reykjavik Telefax....: +354 1 28121 Iceland. =========================================================================== ------------------------------ From: guest@hpacv.com Subject: ifconfig >?> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 12:07:39 GMT Hello! Can anyone tell me where I may find the ifconfig for Linux? I have been attempting to setup TCP/IP on 2 machines and am having no luck =;-(... Thanx much, Jamie Popken postmaster@hpacv.com root@hpacv.com ------------------------------ From: jnoll@dante.nmsu.edu (Jeffrey T. Noll) Subject: Memory leak with 100ns simms? Date: 25 Aug 1993 16:03:53 GMT Hi, I've run into a slight, annoying problem that I'm hoping there is a cheap solution. I'm running a 486-33 with a p10 kernel. the problem is that i have a big time memory leak. I'm using, now dont laugh, 8M of 100ns simms. I havent got the money to buy new so these will have to do for a while at least. The problem is that memory doesnt seem to be being freed up. With the free command, memory used just goes up, never down. An example, after a reboot the other day i went into kermit, messed around in there for an hour, shelled out and did some stuff, checked free, and i was using over 6M memory. If i run top or do a ps xaug it doesnt show any huge memory consuming processes running. It just kind of disapears. As soon as i run out of real memory and goto swapping, that seems to work fine. Swap memory seems to be freeing up, real memory isnt. Any ideas? Am i screwed until I win the lotery and can afford new simms? Any help appreciated! Jeff jnoll@NMSU.Edu . ------------------------------ From: neuwirth@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at Subject: SSSLLLOOOWWW gopherd: first hint Date: 25 Aug 93 17:26:39 GMT I have a first hint for the problem concerning the slowness of gopherd under net-2. The problem only occurs, if the "default" host/network name is routed, i.e. after a route add default ... Routing special hosts does not invoke problems. Has anybody an idea, why routing and the gopherd could clash? ------------------------------ From: luong@athena.mit.edu (Luong V Nguyen) Subject: Support for Farenheit & Stealth-24 ? Date: 25 Aug 1993 16:42:14 GMT Hi everybody .. I installed Linux on my 486DLC-40 but I couldn't get X Windows to work. I believe that's because my video card is not supported by Linux (the FAQ said so). I am using the Farenheit 1280 video card. I also have a Stealth-24. What I want to know is is there a new version of XFree that support either of these cards ? or is there any patch or utility that would make these cards run under Linux ? I would appreciate any information on this matter. Thanx in advance. --- LuoNg --- luong@athena.mit.edu  ------------------------------ From: sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn) Subject: Re: when is linux 1.0 coming out ? Date: 25 Aug 1993 16:04:30 GMT writes: >Oh yeah, and Linux 10.0 will be running 10 times as fast as Linux 1.0 >btw, do you think linux1.0, if there ever is one, will be bugfree ? Smart question. Very smart. Now, let's conserve some bandwidth and stop this nonsense. I don't care if I have version 0.000001 or version 14.66 as long as it works for me (which linux does). Thank you. -Sven ------------------------------ From: cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) Subject: Re: *UNBELIEVABLE PRICE* New 209 Meg Seagate Hard Drives $145.00!!!!! Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 16:47:35 GMT > These Seagates are brand new, still in the box, and come with > *EVERYTHING*. They come with docs, and everything necessary for installation. > It is a complete package. When you get your drive you will have all that you > need to use it. They are 100% guaranteed for 30 days. If you get one > and you don't like the way it matches your wallpaper simply return it > for your money back *NO QUESTIONS ASKED*! I wonder if Seagate is still in the practice of making "new" drives out of old broken-down ones? The short 30 day guarantee seems to suggest just that. cak Geekium Rex ------------------------------ From: Ryan J Snodgrass Subject: 3COM Etherlink III Combo Card Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 13:26:10 -0400 Anyone know what drivers (or even if there are some) for the 3COM Etherlink III Combo card for Linux (or BSD)? Thanks, Ryan ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: waltc@cpqhou.sys.hou.compaq.com (Walt Croom) Subject: Re: X leaving garbage on screen Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 17:01:13 GMT In article hegt@iaci.kun.nl (R. Hegt) writes: >Compaq Prolinea 4/33 w. 8MB >Eizo VA41 (ET4000) VGA card >Eizo F550i monitor > >By the way, does anyone have a good mode db for the above combination? >I need entries for as big a display that is possible with 512k, and >for 1024x768. Is there a particular advantage to using the Eizo graphics card in this system? All ProLinea 4's have an integrated ET4000 with 1Mb (/AX for the original model and /W32 for the local bus version), which works fine with XFree86 1.3. Walt ------------------------------ From: jennings@lhotse.stortek.com (Jeff Jennings) Subject: Re: Linux labels are now available on tsx-11 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 16:49:15 GMT Gunnlaugur Kristjansson (gulli@vedur.is) wrote: : > linux.labels.PS.tar: The object (ps) files generated by PageMaker on Mac. : > linux.labels.pm.tar: The PageMaker 4.2a (Mac) source files. : > linux.labels.fh.tar: The FreeHand version of these source files. : > : > : > This set of files should print to most any postscript device : > (I hope). I have tested it on an AST Laser PS and an : > Apple LaserWriter IINTX. I think they look good. What : > is pretty neat is the fact that the edge copy lines up : > nicely. : > : > Any questions? : Has anyone been able to print the PS files? They do not print : on Kyocera or DEClaser 3250... (Offending command is lettertray) : Also the format of the PS files is strange. Just one loooong stream so : I am not able to edit the files. The PS file printed fine on my NEC Model 95. The look great. It would be nice to get these in a different format, say xfig or tgif, so I could edit them and make addtional labels on my Linux box. Also a 5 1/4 version would be cool. (I don't ask for much, do I?) :-) - jeff -- Jeff Jennings | Imagination is more important than knowledge. Jeff_Jennings@stortek.com | - Albert Einstein Storage Tek - Iceberg | The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to LSVL 4 (303)673-7855 | save all the pieces. - Aldo Leopold ------------------------------ From: mudayja@wfu.edu (Jeffrey Muday) Subject: HELP! newbie gets warning message "libc.so.4: incompat. minor ver no." Date: 25 Aug 1993 17:54:29 GMT Thanks for your attention: Yes, I am a newbie to linux. My target platform is a AMD 386-40 I downloaded SLS 1.03 linux from wuarchive. Due to some strangeness of their automated installation, I was forced to manually install the basic package. Many of the programs in the OS work well, but a number of programs crash and dump the core with the message: lib.so.4: incompatible minor version numbers (DLL Jump4.4pl1) Did I screw up the installation? Where can I get the proper version of this library? regards, --jeff ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************