Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #274
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 20:13:21 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #274, Volume #6           Wed, 29 Sep 93 20:13:21 EDT

Contents:
  Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Justin Shuttleworth)
  Re: SoftLanding Message (Henrik Lund)
  Re: p2c for linux - sources where? (JEFF EPLER)
  DOS EMULATOR (Horng-Ming Tai)
  Re: VLB IDE controller cards? (Denis Cheong)
  Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
  test post - please ignore (Christopher Stevens)
  [A]: RAWDISK.SYS bugfixed version 1.1 (Juergen Prang)
  cannot pipe to lpr (Werner Gold)
  Re: minicom 4g (Mark Buckaway)
  Connecting Apple LW PRO 600 to Linux box
  NFS won't mount on .99pl12 ([email-masked])
  Re: cannot pipe to lpr (Roger Binns)
  rpcgen? (David Levine)
  Re: Term Binaries needed (bryan k williams)
  Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Chris Nystrom)
  Re: SoftLanding Message (Brett Person)
  TERM (Yaobin Huang)
  Ethernet error message (Bao Chau Ha)
  ATI Graphics Ultra Pro X problems (Bao Chau Ha)
  p2c, but what about c2p?? (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
  Gateway 2000 486/66E linux startup files? (mark ross)
  Bernoulli driver (Wobutt)
  Kernel taking 2 meg of ram?? (Mr KAA. Smith)
  Dial-in line was working, but now doesn't (Harry C. Johnson)

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From: [email-masked] (Justin Shuttleworth)
Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
Date: 29 Sep 93 15:04:42

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Julian Day) writes:
   : There is a program called 'doc' in /usr/bin/X11 in SLS 1.03.
   : I've tried it very briefly, but I was very disappointed with
   : the performance.  I had top running in another window, and doc
   : was using over 80% of the CPU, even when I wasn't doing anything.
   : -greg

   doc seemed to perform much more reasonably with a co-pro. Without, it is
   unusably slowwwwww.

   Julian Day
   ====
   no sig               ([email-masked])

This is not so surprising. Presumably you mean the doc that comes as part 
of the InterViews release. InterViews uses floats to store *all* of its 
internal measurements, so a coprocessor is necessary for all but the most
basic of InterViews-based programs.

I program using InterViews on a couple of PCs using Linux and Dell SVR4, 
have found a coprocessor to be a prerequisite.

-Justin

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From: [email-masked] (Henrik Lund)
Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 14:34:32 GMT

[email-masked] (Brett Michaels) writes:

>Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just
>before the login prompt?

I think, maybe, it could be, im not sure if it is,

                look in /etc/motd
                or another /etc textfile.

        (just look for a file with the same contents,
        back it up, change it and try it out)

Hope this helps you.

Henrik Lund
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (JEFF EPLER)
Subject: Re: p2c for linux - sources where?
Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:09:36 GMT

[email-masked] (Philip Rhoades) writes:

>Where can I find the sources for p2c (for linux)? There is a change I need
>to make to hopefully fix a problem with a p->c conversion that I want to
>do - LL1, a parser generator. 

>Anyone know where they are? - I've looked on all the obvious hosts.

I found this readme in wuarchive:/systems/gmu/p2c.README:
p2c is a Pascal-to-C translator.  It is available via anonymous ftp from
csvax.cs.caltech.edu in /pub/p2c-1.20.tar.Z. 

It is also available on the GNU `languages' tape and the GNU CDROM.  Ask
[email-masked] for more details.

Try looking there...

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From: [email-masked] (Horng-Ming Tai)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: DOS EMULATOR
Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:16:34 GMT

Is there anyone knows how to setup dos emulator?
I have troubles on running dos applications.
TKS.

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From: [email-masked] (Denis Cheong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.setup
Subject: Re: VLB IDE controller cards?
Date: 29 Sep 1993 14:46:10 GMT

carsten ([email-masked]) wrote:

: My Boca IDE Plus controller card has just failed under warranty :) and
: I would like to look into replacing it with a local-bus equivalent,
: in the same price range, ie CAN$50-75 or not too much more. Does 
: anyone have any experience with any such beast? Can anyone recommend
: anything? Bear in mind that I am a student running _deep_ in the red,
: and no matter how nice a card costing only $200 is, I will probably not
: be able to afford it. Tell me about them anyway, though, no reason not
: to drool :) .
: If anyone has experience in the matter, I _must_ get a card which works
: in both linux and OS/2, so one which doesn't require a driver, or is 
: completely standard is needed.

The discussion lately has been about the Promise Technologies card
(PT-2033).  They apparently promised drivers for OS/2 by the end of
October.  Without the device driver or the on-board BIOS the card
performs just like a normal IDE card (16-bit).  With it I have seen
transfer rates at 4MB/sec, without just standard 1MB/sec.  I did have a
problem with it working in an early VLB machine though.

I am running it under OS/2 2.1 with no problems, except that it is
operating in straight 16-bit mode; just waiting for the drivers to run
it in 32-bit mode.

Hope this helps

Denis.

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Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
From: [email-masked] (Miguel Alvarez Blanco)
Date: 29 Sep 93 14:42:19 +0100

Laszlo Herczeg ([email-masked]) wrote:

:   There is a documentformatting package called lout which compiles
: clean for Linux. It was posted ca. 3 weeks ago in comp.sources.misc.

Two quick questions arise in my mind: How is the user interface, and what
is the performance of this wordprocessor ?

I mean, surely it isn't an X program, but, could it run over an Xterm, it's
a kind of WYSIWYG, has good menu options, could it be programmable (something
like macros) .... ?

Oh, and another thing: where can we find it ?

    Miguel

PS: BTW, move this to comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux is to be deleted.

     Miguel Alvarez Blanco           "All that is gold does not glitter,
[email-masked]      not all those who wander are lost."
  [email-masked]                   Bilbo Baggins.

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher Stevens)
Subject: test post - please ignore
Date: 29 Sep 1993 15:56:56 GMT

Test post.  please ignore.
--
                                                Christopher Stevens

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From: [email-masked] (Juergen Prang)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: [A]: RAWDISK.SYS bugfixed version 1.1
Date: 29 Sep 93 15:44:45 GMT

I'm announcing the bugfixed version 1.1 of RAWDISK.SYS in this newsgroup,
because I know a lot of people with tape drives not supported (either by
type or by using older kernels etc.) are using this DOS device driver for
backup of their Unix disk/partition.

RAWDISK.SYS v1.1 is available by anonymous ftp from:

ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/pc/misc/rawdsk11.zip
login: anonymous,  password: e-mail address

Version 1.1 of RAWDISK.SYS (raw disk device driver for DOS)
fixes the following two bugs:

1. DR-DOS's CHKDSK complains about an illegal drive for RAWDISK.DRV.

2. Successful restore of a backup was prevented by version 1.0 under
   certain circumstances:

   if the program you use for restore (ie that writes to the disk via
   RAWDISK.SYS) wrote an updated directory entry first before reading
   the FAT to get the available bytes on the drive, RAWDISK.SYS returned
   a virtual FAT indicating a full drive. This prevented successful
   restore.

Both bugs are fixed.

BTW, RAWDISK.SYS is a DOS device driver, that maps an arbitrary
portion of a harddisk (given by a start- and endcylinder) onto a
logical DOS drive. The HD area is accessed (read or written)
through a regular DOS file. Logical drive administration areas
(bootsector, FAT and rootdirectory) are totally virtual, hence
no additional HD space is required.

sorry for the inconvenience,
Juergen
-- 
   Juergen Prang           |     [email-masked]
   University of Duisburg  |********************************************
   Electrical Engineering  |     Logic is a systematic method of coming
   Dept. of Dataprocessing |     to the wrong conclusion with confidence

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From: [email-masked] (Werner Gold)
Subject: cannot pipe to lpr
Date: 29 Sep 1993 16:10:12 GMT

I am not able to do this on a remote host:

cat filename | rsh linuxbox /usr/bin/lpr

If I do "rlogin linuxbox" it requests a password, even though I set up
a .rhosts file.

Some days ago I posted to c.o.l.admin an article named "SECURITY HOLE in SLS"

I realized that rshd did not correctly check the shadow password file.
Is this a similar problem?

Werner

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Buckaway)
Subject: Re: minicom 4g
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 10:49:18 GMT

John Henders ([email-masked]) wrote:
:     It seems to not have made it onto either tsx-11 or sunsite. I
: checked the listings and downloaded the one with the most recent date,
: and it's not 1.4g. 
:     Please send it again, and maybe leave a note asking the maintainers
: to delete the other versions and there are some really obsolete versions
: up there.

On sunsite, I retrieved it from /pub/Linux/Incoming as mc4g-tar.z.

Mark

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Connecting Apple LW PRO 600 to Linux box
Date: 29 Sep 93 11:48:06 GMT

Hi,
        Has anyone out there got an apple lw pro 600 hooked up to their linux
box ?  I can get postscript files to print without any problem but plain text
is the problem.  Is there anyway to convert ordinary text output to ps or is
that necessary ?

Thanks,

--
Pramod John, Dept. of ECE at UIUC 
email: [email-masked]
"Blessed are the peacemakers"- Jesus Christ

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Subject: NFS won't mount on .99pl12
From: [email-masked]
Date: 29 Sep 93 09:56:11 -0800

I am having problems with NFS.  WHen I boot off the boot/install disk (SLS
1.03) I can mount an NFS drive and install Linux.  When it is installed (which
it contains .99pl12) and I make a .99pl12 boot disk, and reboot, I cannot mount
the NFS drive.  I get the following:

mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC Unable to send

.99pl12 does detect the ethernet card which is a 3c503.  If I reboot with the
boot/install disk, I can mount and work with NFS.  Is there something I need to
change?  rc.local and rc.net runs without reporting any errors.

Please help.   Please respond via private e-mail

-- 
Eric Levinson
[email-masked]      |  Home computer (UUCP)
[email-masked]         |  Vax
I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696

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From: [email-masked] (Roger Binns)
Subject: Re: cannot pipe to lpr
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:10:10 GMT

Werner Gold ([email-masked]) wrote:
: If I do "rlogin linuxbox" it requests a password, even though I set up
: a .rhosts file.

Several machines (all should) check the permissions on the .rhosts file.
Make sure it is only readable by the owner (ie r--------).  You may
ALSO have to add the foreign host to linux's /etc/hosts.equiv.
Note that sometimes you have to give full domain names and userids in these
files.

Roger
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From: [email-masked] (David Levine)
Subject: rpcgen?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:51:56 GMT

I'm running .99pl6 (SLS version ?). I'm just curious if rpcgen is
distributed with later versions of SLS or any of the other Linux
distributions.

Thanks,

Dave

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From: [email-masked] (bryan k williams)
Subject: Re: Term Binaries needed
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 18:22:39 GMT

>
>The real C standard is still K&R, 1st edition.  Lots of UNIX boxes,
>including Suns running SunOS 4.1.3 , do not have ANSI support.  Many sites
>have installed GCC to get ANSI support.  You might set CC=gcc in the
>top-level Makefile.
>
--- problem is, gcc isn't on the system either- the makefile originally 
invoked gcc. I am RUNning to sunsite now.... couldn't get there last night

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Nystrom)
Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 13:50:56 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Byron Faber) writes:
>So I guess the answer is that there is not word processor for linux?
>
>Figures...
>
>Byron Faber...
>
>
>Guess I shouldn't have rmed Dos.  

You are supposed to write one. Let us know when it is finished...  :)
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MEDIANET, Inc.
P.O. Box 293218                 Voice:  (512) 343-2002 ext 450
Austin, Texas 78720-3218                Fax:    (512) 343-1717

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From: [email-masked] (Brett Person)
Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 19:11:43 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Brett Michaels) writes:
>Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just
>before the login prompt?

Yeah. Its easy. UPGRADE to Slackware.

-- 
Brett Person
Guest Account   
North Dakota State University
[email-masked] || [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Yaobin Huang)
Subject: TERM
Date: 29 Sep 1993 20:30:10 GMT

Can any body tell me how to use "term" in Linux?
I try to login to Linux via serial port by modem dial in
using PROCOMM under MS-DOS.

If you know how to setup "term" under Linux, so I can
remote login by modem, Please email me <[email-masked]>.

Thank you!!

Ben

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From: [email-masked] (Bao Chau Ha)
Subject: Ethernet error message
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 20:24:58 GMT

I keep getting ethernet error messages:

eth0: transmit timed out, TX status 0x3, ISR 0x3.
eth0: Possible IRQ conflict on IRQ3?

but TCP/IP seems to be OK.  Are there something wrong with my setup?
I am using 3c503 (AUI, 8 bit), SLS 1.03 (0.99.13).

Thanks.
Bao

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From: [email-masked] (Bao Chau Ha)
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro X problems
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 20:31:56 GMT

I am using the ATI GUI Pro.  Everytime, I am getting out from X-windows,
the screen is messed up.  It looks like the VGA was not reset right.
This didn't happen with the old ATI Graphic Ultra.  Is there a patch
to reset the VGA back to normal when I quit X?

Thanks.
Bao

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From: [email-masked] (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
Subject: p2c, but what about c2p??
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 22:09:26 GMT

I am wondering if there is a program to convert from
C to pascal??

-- 
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(416) 845-4567

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From: [email-masked] (mark ross)
Subject: Gateway 2000 486/66E linux startup files?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 22:00:40 GMT

I just installed linux on my Gateway 2000 486/66e.  After a full
installation I tried bring up openwindows.  I got a system error
telling me that I need to set the "Clocks" keyword in my Xconfig.
I tried doing this by getting the clocks from startx output, but
had no luck.
 
Does anyone have the correct Xconfig files as well as any other
files that were changed for the Crystalscan monitor, ATI Ultrapro
local bus etc?
 
        Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

 
 
____________________________________________________________________
 
      Mark I. Ross
      Simulation & Control Systems       [email-masked]
      Daytona Beach, Florida
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From: [email-masked] (Wobutt)
Subject: Bernoulli driver
Date: 29 Sep 1993 17:15:37 -0600

Has there been a bernoulli driver developed for linux?
If so,where do I get it?

Thanks..
Robert Franklin
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mr KAA. Smith)
Subject: Kernel taking 2 meg of ram??
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 21:12:26 GMT

G'day,
  I recently compiled my pl11 kernel with the net2 stuff installed. No probs
  with net2, btw.  I implemented plip and slip in the linux/net/inet/CONFIG
  file and compiled.  No errors, but when I rebooted, I found the kernel
  was taking around 2 megs of my ram! (1.6 meg data, if I remember rightly).

  Does anyone have any clues?

Keith

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From: [email-masked] (Harry C. Johnson)
Subject: Dial-in line was working, but now doesn't
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 23:08:45 GMT

I am using uugetty(getty_ps?) and have the ringback feature enabled.
We have a USR Internal Sportster 14.4 modem, and everything worked
fine for a while.  After restarting my computer however I could not
get the modem to answer.  I set the appropriate DIP switch so that ATZ
would reset the modem to its factory defaults instead of the
Non-volatile ram setups, and now the modem answers fine, but screws up
in the getlogname() call.  I have the debug option turned on in my
uugetty.ttyS1 file, and the debug output doesn't report any errors.
After the modems connect though I get a line of about 30 characters of
garbage (though all the characters are the same).  Anything I type is
echoed as garbage.  My uugetty.ttyS1 file is as follows, and worked
for some time before the reboot.

SYSTEM=nmrlab-pc
DEBUG=777
VERSION=/proc/version
LOGIN=/bin/login
ISSUE=/etc/issue
CLEAR=NO
HANGUP=YES
ALTLOCK=cua1
INITLINE=cua1
INIT="" ATZ\r OK
TIMEOUT=60
RINGBACK=YES
INTERRING=6
WAITFOR=RING
DELAY=3
CONNECT="" ATA\r CONNECT "" \r \d\d
ALTLINE=cua1

Any help would be greatly appreciated. One of our undergrads has
been diagnosed with cancer but would like to continue with her
research using her computer from home.  The 14.4 line is to be her
access to the campus.  

Thank you very much for your time.

-Harry
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