From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Fri, 1 Oct 93 16:13:25 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #174 Linux-Misc Digest #174, Volume #1 Fri, 1 Oct 93 16:13:25 EDT Contents: Xinfo can't find TOP node (Stefan Strecker) Re: Man pages for tar/gtar - WHERE?? (Nick Hilliard) Re: swm source code now available (Tommy Andreasen) Re: Bogomip (Howlin' Bob) Re: Man pages for tar/gtar - WHERE?? (Roland Meier) Re: New Great Linux Plus CDROM (Andreas Klemm) [Q] laptop power/video control Re: Games? (Curt L. Olson (Admin)) Wanted: C-Cross-Referencer / Browser (Eckehard Stolz) Re: Random program crashes under heavy disk use (Bill C. Riemers) Re: Converting .hqx files? (Pim Zandbergen) Re: swm source code available (Peter Mutsaers) Will NET-2 work with pl10? (Rod Troch) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: strecker@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Stefan Strecker) Subject: Xinfo can't find TOP node Date: 1 Oct 1993 14:12:20 GMT Hello Linuxers, I compiled xinfo and ran through a lot of warnings but finally got an executable. Now I can access some of my Info files but some others not. xinfo issues an errormsg like 'can't find TOP node'.Those Info-files it cannot handle seem to be the TAG files (I have the following line in my dir file): * GCC (gcc). ... and gcc.info conatins tags for all nodes. Naturally it won't find any TOP node in that file, but it should be able to find them in gcc.info-1 ? Has anyone compiled xinfo for Linux pl12 since I can't neither find sources nor binaries :-( Thanks a lot, Steve ------------------------------ From: nick@quay.ie (Nick Hilliard) Subject: Re: Man pages for tar/gtar - WHERE?? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 14:24:50 GMT KarlKeyte wrote: : I have the SLS 1.03 release of Linux and use the pl13 kernel. : 'man tar' just gives me (I think) TeX stuff - unformatted. Where can : I find man pages for the latest 'gtar'? I couldn't even find it in : the gtar source package. Can anyone help? It doesn't exist. If you read the documentation for gtar, it says that it will be included in the next release. Real Soon Now, I'd say. : Please REPLY to: KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET I'd be glad to (if you put the correct Reply-To: address in your header) Nick -- | Nick Hilliard | e-mail: nick@quay.ie | | Quay Financial Software, | Phone: [+353] 1 6612377 | | Ferry House, Lower Mount St, | Fax: [+353] 1 6607592 | | Dublin 2, Ireland. | Opinions: I think; therefore I disclaim. | ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.apps From: tommy@diku.dk (Tommy Andreasen) Subject: Re: swm source code now available Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 15:09:50 GMT toml@blade.Boulder.ParcPlace.COM (Tom LaStrange) writes: >I've just placed the source code to swm, the ParcPlace (formerly >Solbourne) Window Manager on ftp.x.org in contrib/swm.tar.Z ...... >As far as I know, swm has not yet been ported to Linux. Well, it isn't difficult to compile it, but it won't run. I just end up with an empty xterm-window, which doesn't react on any keystrokes. I anybody get it to work, please post your diffs. tommy@diku.dk ------------------------------ From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) Subject: Re: Bogomip Date: 1 Oct 93 15:52:52 GMT cbvetter@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Chris Vetter) writes: >The more is said about this BogoMip-stuff, the more I come to this: > BogoMip is LAME !!!!!!!! The "benchmark" calculation does its job fine, and that job is to calibrate a kernel delay loop. It makes no pretense at being a real benchmark. And it might be more apropos to say that BogoMip is Bogus. -- Robert Sanders Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt8134b Internet: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu ------------------------------ From: meier@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Roland Meier) Subject: Re: Man pages for tar/gtar - WHERE?? Date: 1 Oct 1993 16:05:18 GMT In article <93273.122426KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>, Karl Keyte, ESOC Darmstadt writes: > I have the SLS 1.03 release of Linux and use the pl13 kernel. > > 'man tar' just gives me (I think) TeX stuff - unformatted. Where can > I find man pages for the latest 'gtar'? I couldn't even find it in > the gtar source package. Can anyone help? Install the info-files from the d-series, tell emacs to M-x info (preferably in X with the mouse) and look at the last menu option. > Please REPLY to: KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET I can't reach esoc.bitnet as well... (he should be about 5 km away from me now:) -- =============================================================================== Roland Meier meier@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Nik.-Schwarzkopfstr. 10 roland@microelectronic.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de D-63322 Roedermark ... ceterum censeo commodorem esse delendum! =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux Subject: Re: New Great Linux Plus CDROM Date: 30 Sep 1993 19:18:48 -0000 roman@public.btr.com (Roman Yanovsky roman@btr.com) writes: > NOT JUST ANOTHER LINUX + 386BSD CD-ROM. >Trans-Ameritech presents LINUX SLS/Slackware AND 386BSD and MULTYMEDIA CD-ROM. >A new Linux CD-ROM is available! But not just Linux. Also 386BSD and more. >Here is a brief summary of why we think this CD-ROM is the best. >As the price of only $30 puts it in the same price category as the JANA >product, I'll base my comparison on it. >We provide 2 versions of SLS distribution - a very stable 1.02 and the new 1.03 >and also the SLACKWARE distribution! Linux installs directly from the CD-ROM >on almost any hardware configuration. One question: which slackware release ? [ lot's of usefull contents ... ] >7. For your convenience a full recent distribution of 386BSD *NIX is provided >on the same CD-ROM. Do you mean the original 386BSD 0.1 release ? In it's original distribution with the 256k files etc01, etc02.... bin01, bin02, bin03 ... ? Or an already unpacked version which would be more interesting for direct file access ? >8. Some space is dedicated to what takes too much room on hard disks - >sounds and pictures. They are usable with the Linux sound/gif tools and under >MS-DOS too! >9. A few choice MS-DOS applications are included in the assumption that the >majority of Linux users run DOS occasionaly. Or use it from dos-emu! >Most of the MS-DOS stuff comes from the SIMTEL20 archive. Naturally only part >of it made it to the first CDROM. However the new releases will include other >files from SIMTEL20, GARBO etc. So if you subsribe to the Trans-Ameritech >Linux+ CDROM, you will not only get updated Linux, but over a year you will get >the full SIMTEL20 collection as an extra bonus. >10. Trans-Ameritech is a well established company with efficient organization >to guarantee on-time printing and shipping of this product. There will be a >significant discount if you subscribe for future releases. >But the best part is that YOU will decide what to put on the next edition! >We'll count votes and provide most popular software on the next one. It would be a good idea to include all Linux sources so that everybody is free to compile the stuff new with up to date compiler and libraries. I think all gnu sources and Linux diffs would be a good start ... -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@sunny.wup.de (Unix Support) ------------------------------ From: poagm@jeeves.eng.sematech.org () Subject: [Q] laptop power/video control Date: 1 Oct 1993 16:14:42 GMT Reply-To: poagm@jeeves.eng.sematech.org () What code/patches/binaries are available for laptops to control: power management (LCD backlight, HD, serial ports & modems) Video control (internal/external, video modes, contrast control) I am running a Dell 320N+ laptop with 8MB RAM, 60 MB HD, FaxModem Slackware 1.02 with X (Linux .99p12) Michael Poag (512)863-9351 poag@cactus.org poagm@jeeves.eng.sematech.org (512)356-3116 Pager 397-8669 ------------------------------ From: clolson@me.umn.edu (Curt L. Olson (Admin)) Subject: Re: Games? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 17:09:39 GMT root@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us writes: >Speaking of this - I got this distribution not too long ago by ftp, and >I used to run 386BSD. Many of the games are the same, of course, since >it's the BSD games distribution. However, chess exists in 386BSD and >I figured it would also be in this bsd-games distribution, but no dice. >What happened to it? >David Fox root@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us >5479 Castle Manor Drive >San Jose, CA 95129 Thanks for letting me change >408/253-7992 magnetic patterns on your hard disk. Chess is on the todo list ... Curt. -- Curtis Olson clolson@me.umn.edu Eliminate theft: the government can't stand the competition. . Try Linux ... if you own a [34]86. If you own a mac ... :( \__[0]__/ ------------------------------ From: stolz@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Eckehard Stolz) Subject: Wanted: C-Cross-Referencer / Browser Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 17:30:57 GMT Hi ! I'm looking for a Cross-Referencing-tool for C-Source-Code. I would like something, that tells me where a special function is defined, in which files it is used and by which functions it is called. The same should be possible for global or static data or structure-definitions ! It would also be nice, if it would be possible to view (or maybe also edit) the file at the found position. What I have in mind is something like the C-Browser-Tool in M*cr*s*ft's C 6.0 PWB! Is there something similar (or even better) for Linux ? If not, maybe there is someything that waits for beeing ported to Linux ! Please reply to: stolz@fiffi.sta.sub.org !! Eckehard Stolz ------------------------------ From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Random program crashes under heavy disk use Date: 1 Oct 93 15:56:58 GMT In article toy@soho.crd.ge.com (Raymond L. Toy) writes: >The problem is definitely with accessing both disks. If I do >everything on one disk, nothing crashes. Once I do some reasonable >disk activity on the second disk, things start crashing. > Linux 0.99 pl 13, libc 4.4.1, xfree 1.3 > 386 33MHz, Mylex motherboard, 8 MB RAM > FD-1680 SCSI controller > Conner CP30200 > Quantum LPS240 I have been having a problem with random program crashes as well. However the problem occures when I access my modem at 38400BPS at the same time as intensive hard-drive activity, or the CDROM and the harddrive at the same time. (I haven't tried the modem and the CDROM intensively at the same time.) One time the random process was the kernel, so the machine rebooted. Normally it is an xterm, seyon, term, or the window manager. Linux 0.99 pl 13 , libc 4.4.2, xfree 1.3 (also with) Linux 0.99 pl 12 , libc 4.4.2, xfree 1.3 Gateway 2000, 486-66 VLB, 8MB RAM, 16MB swap IDE harddrive, Mitsumi CDROM, ATI Ultra Pro VLB Linux worked normally under 0.99pl8a, xfree 1.2 and before. So this is a new problem either in the kernel, xfree, or libc. My guess is that this is an xfree 1.3 problem, since I've never noticed any processes dying befor starting my x-window manager. (Other than the famous mitsumi driver bug, I haven't bothered to patch yet.) Bill ------------------------------ From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) Subject: Re: Converting .hqx files? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 18:14:15 GMT bgc@netcom.com (Sean Camanyag) writes: >Is there a program out there that decompresses .hqx files for Linux? >I checked archie but all the entries are either for Macs or dos. site ftp.cwi.nl directory pub file macutil2.0b3.shar.Z -- E-mail : Pim Zandbergen S-mail : Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70, 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands Phone : +31 70 3542302 Fax : +31 70 3512837 ------------------------------ From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: swm source code available Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 22:55:24 GMT >> On 29 Sep 1993 21:12:34 GMT, Tom LaStrange >> said: TL> 1. No default look and feel. Templates are provided for motif and TL> open look. This sounds great. I'd really like to use it, but... TL> swm was developed on top of and relies upon the Object Interface TL> (OI) toolkit. If you don't have a copy of OI, get one. If TL> you're using Linux on a PC, you can get a free copy of TL> ObjectBuilder and OI as follows: it is very important to me to use the same window manager on every of the many platforms I use. Off course I cannot buy OI for all of these. So I wonder whether swm can also do without OI. By the way, are you not also the author of twm? I still like that (ctwm version in fact) very much. It looks simple and not very nifty, but because of that it works efficiently. And it is very configurable. The icon-manager is very good. For years already I do never display icons (which clutter the screen IMO with all the different sizes and colors) but have an icon-manager instead on my screen. Does swm also have an icon-manager? I wouldn't want to do without one. -- _______________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands. ------------------------------ From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch) Subject: Will NET-2 work with pl10? Date: 1 Oct 93 19:19:27 GMT Howdy, I have recently installed the MCC pl10 version on Linux. Will NET-2 work with this release? Should I upgrade to pl12? If so, do I need to build XFree386? And, can I just grab the pl12 patch, or do I need to go to 11 then to 12? One more thing, where is the best place to get release 12? Thanks, ROLL TIDE!!! Rod -- --PGP 2.3 Public Key Available (finger me or ask for it) If you yell try : Rod Troch | Zeta Beta Tau internet : troch@gandalf.rutgers.edu | bitnet : troch@zodiac | happyHappy joyJoy Rutgers University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences / History Dept. - Microcomputer Analyst (Network Admin) ------------------------------ ** 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-Misc-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via: Internet: Linux-Misc@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 sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Misc Digest ******************************