From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 28 Nov 93 18:13:13 EST Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #349 Linux-Misc Digest #349, Volume #1 Sun, 28 Nov 93 18:13:13 EST Contents: MH configuration file (Dr Eberhard W Lisse) Dialing up a VMS VAX (Andrew Stevens) Re: MH configuration file (Brandon S. Allbery) Re: A script: to identify multiple executables on PATH (Johannes Grosen) Re: Cross-assembler wanted (Cedric Adjih) linux-activists lists (Yonas Fisseha) Re: Problem with ext2fs (Scott Barker) Re: my pl13q died ): (Carl Boernecke) Re: Video Cards Supported? What should I buy! (Peter Wai Kwok Lie) Re: Recent TeX ports? (Sunando Sen) Re: Jana CDs shipped in November? (gordon@tradenet.com) Wheel of Adaptecs... (Craig Metz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: el@lisse.NA (Dr Eberhard W Lisse) Subject: MH configuration file Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 09:15:26 GMT Hi, I would like to have a look at the MH mail system (for the xmh, actually). I do have the sources for mh-6.8 but haven't got the conf/MH. Anybody done this already? Thanks, el ps: I can't affort c.o.l.help -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Windhoek Central Hospital \ * | Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Private Bag 13215 \ / 61 203 2106/7 (Bleeper) 61 224014 (home) Windhoek, Namibia ;____/ ------------------------------ From: as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) Subject: Dialing up a VMS VAX Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 12:34:03 GMT My dear Wife uses my Linux box to dial up her (VMS) VAX at work. The main problem is that using plain old xterm with Seyon (or whatever) doesn't do *quite* a good enough job of emulating a VT[23]20. The main problem is getting some kind of emulation of the keys on the DEC keyboard. Does anyone out there have an experience with doing this kind of stuff or suggestions how to get some kind of half-decent keyboard emulation set up? Andrew -- Andrew Stevens INTERNET: Andrew.Stevens@prg.oxford.ac.uk Programmming Research Group PGP pulic key - mail or finger 11 Keble Road, Oxford, England as@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk OX1 3QD +44 0865 272563 ------------------------------ From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: MH configuration file Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 14:49:33 GMT In article <1993Nov28.091526.5801@lisse.NA> el@lisse.NA (Dr Eberhard W Lisse) writes: >I would like to have a look at the MH mail system (for the xmh, >actually). I do have the sources for mh-6.8 but haven't got the >conf/MH. Anybody done this already? There are both static and dynamic link versions of MH on sunsite.unc.edu. Building MH for Linux is non-trivial, because some of the routines central to MH know what the insides of stdio look like... except that under Linux it's different. (Linux stdio being a front-end to G++ iostreams.) And changing it to use stdio directly makes it hideously slow, so the only solution that works is to port the stuff that knows the insides of stdio (mainly sbr/m_getfld.c) to know what the insides of GNU stdio looks like. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc From: grosen@argv.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) Subject: Re: A script: to identify multiple executables on PATH Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 14:49:37 GMT In article , Ajay Shah wrote: >In some Linux distributions there have been duplicate binaries. >This script will find them all. > >#!/bin/sh >dlist=`echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` >for d in $dlist ; do > if [ -d $d ] ; then > cd $d > for f in * ; do > if [ -x $f ] ; then > echo $f > fi > done > fi >done | sort -u > /tmp/list1 ># So /tmp/list1 is the full list of all executables at CMIE. > >pa=./pa # a copy of this is ahead. >for x in `cat /tmp/list1` ; do > test `$pa $x | wc -l ` -eq 1 > if [ $? != 0 ] ; then > echo Executable $x > $pa $x | gawk '{print " "$0}' > echo "" > fi >done > >exit 0 > >The script `pa' follows. It is like `which' except that it shows all >occurences of a executable on the path, not just one. > >#!/bin/sh >original=`pwd` >for dir in `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do > cd $original; cd $dir > for executable in $* ; do > # time to expand it > tmp=`echo $dir/$executable` > for name in $tmp ; do > if [ -x $name ] ; then > echo $name > fi > done > done >done > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Ajay Shah Work: 91-22-4300531 >Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Fax: 91-22-4370558 >ajayshah@cmie.ernet.in Home: 91-22-6420584 Here's a perl program, written by Tom Christianson, which does the same as the above script. It provides a great deal of information for each duplicate file including size, date, and crc information. Incidentally, those who are running bash can get all names in your path by using the builtin `type' command with `-all' as an argument; i.e. `type -all ls' will return all the `ls' commands in your search path (including aliases). #!/usr/bin/perl # dupf -- find duplicate files. # tchrist@cs.colorado.edu # 28 july 1993 # nb: run with recent version of perl; i'm getting semi-colon lazy @ARGV = ('.') unless @ARGV; require 'find.pl'; &find(@ARGV); sub wanted { $dupnames{$_} .= "\0$name" if -f; } foreach $name (sort by_basename keys %dupnames) { @files = split(/\0/, $dupnames{$name}); shift @files; # leading null field next if @files == 1; %size = %devino = %chksum = (); # compare sizes; if any found, we'll have to foreach $file (@files) { $size = -s $file; $size{$file} = $size; ($dev,$ino) = stat(_); # save cached info $devino{$file} = "$dev,$ino"; } @slist = reverse sort by_sameness @files; if ($- < @slist) { $- = 0; } # force new page if won't fit $prev = undef; foreach $file (@slist) { $flag = ' '; if ($prev) { $flag = do { if ($devino{$prev} eq $devino{$file}) { 'L' } elsif (&chksum($prev) == &chksum($file)) { 'C' } elsif ($size{$prev} == $size{$file}) { 'S' } else { ' ' } } } write; $prev = $file; } ␣ } format STDOUT_TOP = DevIno Size Chksum F Filename ========== ======== ====== = ======== . format STDOUT = @<<<<<<<<< @>>>>>>> @>>>>> @ @* $devino{$file}, $size{$file}, &chksum($file), $flag, $file . format BLANK = . sub by_sameness { &chksum($a) <=> &chksum($b) || $devino{$a} cmp $devino{$b} || $size{$a} <=> $size{$b} || $a cmp $b; } sub by_basename { substr($a, rindex($a, '/')+1) cmp substr($b, rindex($b, '/')+1); } sub chksum { local($pathname) = @_; local($/) = undef; local($_); if (defined $chksum{$pathname}) { return $chksum{$pathname} } if (!open (FILE, $pathname)) { warn "can't open $pathname for chksum: $!\n"; return undef; } $_ = ; $chksum{$pathname} = unpack("%16C*", $_); } sub blank { local($~) = BLANK; write; } -- Johannes Grosen grosen@argv.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu System Administrator Intelligent Systems Cluster, Room 244 IACC Building North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND USA 51805 (701) 237-8282 ------------------------------ From: adjihc4@cti.ecp.fr (Cedric Adjih) Subject: Re: Cross-assembler wanted Date: 28 Nov 1993 17:05:56 GMT Olav Woelfelschneider (wosch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote: : Hi there, : Are there some 8bit cross-assembler package available via ftp? : I am especially searching for Z80 and 8051/8052 types, which will run under linux or other : un*x-systems. : An assembler generating binary output would be fine, but one generating linkable code : would be even better. There is a "Catalog of Free available compilers" or something like this in "comp.compilers", and is posted from time to time (today in my site there is no such article, but let's hope it will be reposted soon :-) : in this catalog, I remember that I saw a 8051 cross-compiler (binary and linkable code) ; I was able to get it and compile it with Borland C++ (DOS) and with Sun (with minor patches), but unfortunatly can't remember the site it is located or its name (8051.zip ??? as51.zip ???)... : Thank you, Hope this can help... : -- : /===================================================\ : | Olav Woelfelschneider | : | wosch@rbg.informatik.th.darmstadt.de | : +---------------------------------------------------+ : | Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. | : | Wizard Of Oz | : \===================================================/ -- Cedric Adjih / Internet : adjihc4@cti.ecp.fr Disclamer : concerning my English. "Nuclear War can ruin your whole compile." -- Karl Lehenbauer ------------------------------ From: fisseha@egr.msu.edu (Yonas Fisseha) Subject: linux-activists lists Date: 28 Nov 1993 19:50:13 GMT Can someone send me a list of all the linux-activists mailing aliases? I am looking in particular for net-2 group (or a SLIP group if one exists). Thanks yf ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) Subject: Re: Problem with ext2fs Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 20:30:02 GMT Scott Mitchell Jennings (smj@netcom.com) wrote: > Scott Barker (barker@enel.ucalgary.ca) wrote: > : I just discovered a problem with ext2fs, I think. I'm running on a 50 Mhz > I had similar problems... all cured by a kernel upgrade (p13) I tried that, and then had problems with ext2fs AND xiafs. -- Scott Barker barker@enel.ucalgary.ca "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ From: carlb@hardy.u.washington.edu (Carl Boernecke) Subject: Re: my pl13q died ): Date: 28 Nov 1993 20:38:32 GMT greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes: >In article <1993Nov23.142539.15646@nrao.edu> rzm@oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski) writes: >>I posted an entusiastic report about my new Linux pl13q. Today, >>after 12 days and 20 minutes of hard life my Linux died. I got >>some messages about cleaing rbuf and rcv queue (no idea what's >>this) two days ago and possible network kavle problem today but >>the death was completely silent - it just hanged without a word. >I used to get that after 1 or 2 days of heavy use. >I recently upgraded to pl13s, and the system's been >up for over 3 days now!!!! >I have pl13t compiled, but I'm afraid to reboot it!! >I'll wait til something finally goes wrong. I'm running pl13t right now (from the system I'm typing this message on). I stripped the kernel of all the extra drivers, and don't use this sytem much, but still... 'uptime' == 12:30pm up 1 day, 10:24, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 My friends think I'm just lucky, but I like to think Linux is more stable than people thingk. Ack... nice typing, eh? :) Not as reliable as my 3B2 here (been running for almost four months straight with a medium load), but that it'll come with time. -- Carl Boernecke (carlb@u.washington.edu or carlb@inex.com) ------------------------------ From: wklie@cs.cuhk.hk (Peter Wai Kwok Lie) Subject: Re: Video Cards Supported? What should I buy! Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 15:34:03 GMT jpd@discovery.uucp (Joseph P DeCello III) writes: >Most seem to agree that an S3 928 card is best, so I went out and bought S3 928 seems too expensive to me. How's that compared with 805 ? Or even CirrusLogic 5426/5428 ? In the Windows 3.1 case CirrusLogic 5426/5428 comes close to 805 but are at much cheaper price... Are there any xstone benchmark for common video cards ? Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I've read several Linux FAQ but couldn't find any. Thanks for any info. Best Regards, Peter Wai-Kwok Lie -- | Computer Science | Life is a harsh Role Playing Game. si | | Chinese University | I can't save/load game (undo) or pause. | | of Hong Kong | Cheating in RPG leads to quick success. | | wklie@cs.cuhk.hk | Cheating in Life leads to tragedy. gh | ------------------------------ From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen) Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Recent TeX ports? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 20:47:39 GMT In article jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <2cvjmn$fkt@universe.digex.net> philp@universe.digex.net (Phil Perucci) writes: > Is anyone in either the [Free|Net|386]BSD or Linux groups > actively porting TeX? I assume TeX development, somewhere, > >Well, 3.14 seems to be the active code-stream. A new binary release package >just went up on freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/FreeBSD/packages. > > Jordan >-- >(Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie The current version of TeX is _3.141_ and the current version of METAFONT is 2.71. The source for both are in the packages web-5.851d and web2c-5.851d (the version number is the sum of TeX's and MF's version number), which you can find at any good TeX archive. If your TeX says something like this at startup: This is TeX 3.141 (D) ... then you have the latest version. If not, you can get the sources. It builds without any change and passes the trip and trap tests under Linux. Just type `configure'. See if the paths for fonts and macros in the makefile are to your liking. Then type `make trip-trap' to run the tests, and `make clean' and `make all' to make the final version. Sunando Sen ------------------------------ From: gordon@tradenet.com Subject: Re: Jana CDs shipped in November? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 07:37:22 GMT Remco Treffkorn (root@hip-hop.sbay.org) wrote: : Eugene E. Devereaux (gened@halcyon.com) wrote: : ... conversation deleted... : : ME: I will post this conversation as best as I can remember it. : : -- : : Eugene E. Devereaux Call: K7JZU -o- --ooo o--- --oo oo- : : 4 Ponce DeLeon Creek S.W. Internet: gened@halcyon.com : : Tacoma, Wa 98499 Voice: (206) 584-1856 : : - Easy does it, but do it - FAX: (206) 584-1178 : Please let us know if you receive a check! : -- : Remco Treffkorn, DC2XT : remco@hip-hop.sbay.org <<-- REAL reply address !! : (408) 685-1201 Well I haven't received mine after a direct email responce from Jay that the CD's were shipped on or about Nov. 7th. I'm tired of this. I'm going to Consumer and Corporate Affairs and the BBB. gordon@tradenet.com (604) 365-3388 ------------------------------ From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz) Subject: Wheel of Adaptecs... Date: 28 Nov 1993 16:29:42 -0500 It seems that Adaptec has been changing around their line of host adapters, dropping the 1740A and 1742 and introducing new 2000-series models like the 2742. Has anyone had any experience with these new Adaptec host adapters and Linux, and do they (esp. the 2742, which sounds like the closest to the 1542/1742) work with the current Adaptec drivers? If not, could someone recommend a good EISA or VLB host adapter that is supported under Linux? -Craig ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************