Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #18
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 14:13:30 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #18, Volume #2                 Sat, 3 Sep 94 14:13:30 EDT

Contents:
  pppd works but... (Alan Tsang)
  Re: _setutent: can't find file or dir (Rick Slater)
  Setting up mail and news? (Frank Bruno)
  Re: Pascal and ADA on Linux ? (Jonathan Kitchin)
  Re: network install w/Intel Ether Express? (Thomas Quinot)
  Re: Where is newgrp source code? (Thomas Quinot)
  Curses problems with kterm (George Wilson)
  _setutent: can't find file or dir (Paul Pershing)
  New Term-HOWTO (Patrick Reijnen)
  WARNING about shadow-mk package (Bauke Jan Douma)
  HORRIBLE swapping performance (1.1.48) (Russell Leighton)
  Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?) (Jouni A Kosonen)
  FTAPE...Im' soo close, yet so far???? (RYAN  Colin Patrick)
  Re: ftape don't compile (1.1.49) (Sid Boyce)
  Re: DNS & 'format error no SOA record...' (Matthew S. Crocker)
  Re: pppd's ip-up doesn't work (Gregory Trubetskoy)
  Re: Need Xconfig for WD90C33 (Nikolas Daglis)
  Re: What MTU for SLIP links ? (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
  Re: Exporting to a domain (Matthew S. Crocker)
  Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?) (Jouni A Kosonen)
  Re: How to use 14400bps with modem? (Jim Graham)
  ftape don't compile (1.1.49) (Rene Angel Sepulveda)
  Re: NCR53c810 Problems!! (Drew Eckhardt)
  Sager 9200 (Claudionor Coelho)
  EMS/extended memory (John Hoford)

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Tsang)
Subject: pppd works but...
Date: 3 Sep 1994 11:51:07 GMT

Hi 

I am able to get pppd up. It works fine but when I ifconfig, the 
following appear: 

ppp0      Link encap UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-00-00-00-00-00-00-F8-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr 192.91.254.205  P-t-P 192.91.254.5  Mask 255.255.255.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU 296  Metric 1
          RX packets 1003 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
          TX packets 1288 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
 
I think what comes up with ifconfig should be :

ppp0      Link encap Serial Line IP
          inet addr 192.91.254.205  P-t-P 192.91.254.5  Mask 255.255.255.0
          ........

Anyone knows whats wrong with the above ?  I am using 1.1.49 kernel, 
slackware 2.0 and ppp-2.1.2a

Thanks

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Slater)
Subject: Re: _setutent: can't find file or dir
Date: 2 Sep 1994 20:12:34 GMT

Paul Pershing ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Hello. I tried this query over in .help, but to no avail. Someone, please
: help. For no reason *I am aware of,* every time I login as root or any
: other user on my system (Slackware 1.0.8), the system displays this
: message before it starts my shell:

: _setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory.

: I've pored over the docs I have, but can't find any reference.

_setutent is an "inline" function which is defined in one of the system
header (.h) files, although I can't recall which one (I'm on a Sun
system at the moment).  Generally, it is used to manipulate the utmp
file, and it sounds to me as if utmp is simply missing.  In most
installations, utmp is fount in /etc;  once in a great while, it is
found in /var/adm.  If you DO have a utmp file, try creating a symbolic
link to it from the "other" directory.  Otherwise, create one with the
touch command.

Good luck. -- Rick

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From: [email-masked] (Frank Bruno)
Subject: Setting up mail and news?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 01:04:48 GMT

Hello!
        I have recently set up a slackware Linux setup, basically out of the
box. but my return addresses in tin and elm are both some sort of default.
Is there a way to set these somehow?
                                        Thanks
                                        Frank
                                        [email-masked]

--
Dilbert, a real live Linux machine SLIPing in over a 28.8K modem

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Kitchin)
Subject: Re: Pascal and ADA on Linux ?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 08:55:41 +0800

the Linux Quarterly for Winter 1994 by Morse has a Modula2 compiler and also
an ADA compiler thru gcc called GNAT
I got the modula2 called 'mocka' to work OK but could not get the GNAT to go
their email is [email-masked] or [email-masked]
the product is on a cdrom fo course
jon kitchin

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: network install w/Intel Ether Express?
Date: 1 Sep 1994 15:31:08 +0200

Le Prostetnic Vogon Ken Neighbors écrit :
 
> So, is the Ether Express driver in the net kernel?

The Intel EtherExpress driver is part of the standard kernel source tree,
but it is usually not integrated in the standard pre-compiled kernels of
the ditributions.

> I go about installing Linux over the net with this card?  Will I have
> to compile a kernel another Linux box, 

There is no need to use another machine for this :-) Just recompile a
kernel on your machine (run "make config", then select "ALPHA net drivers",
"Other ISA adapters", "Intel EtherExpress", then build your kernel as
usual)

> and if so, how do I put it on
> the boot disk?

If your bootdisk has LILO on it : mount it, copy the new kernel on the 
disk and re-run LILO (be sure to have the right config file, and check
that your disk is mounted at the same point as the place your config file
expects to find the kernel). 

If you don't use LILO, configure your kernel w/ rdev ("man rdev" for more
enlightments on how to do it), then copy it to an unmounted, formatted, blank
floppy using "dd if=<your-kernel-image> of=/dev/fd0 bs=32768" (assuming the
disk is in /dev/fd0).
-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Where is newgrp source code?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 02:19:40 +0200

Le Prostetnic Vogon Admin écrit :
 
>   I need the source code for an executable in /usr/bin It is: newgrp

Grab the shadow-password utilities suit.
-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (George Wilson)
Subject: Curses problems with kterm
Date: 2 Sep 1994 17:39:27 -0400

I have a curses based application that I am trying to use
with kterm. It seems to get confused about the cursor position
and what to display when working with JIS Japanese data.
Straight display works fine, but when you move the cursor
and update the screen, the display is wrong and it does not
have the expected position on the screen. Everything works
fine on English-only texts.

The version that I am running of kterm is version 5.1.1  .
I run this under linux and also on Sun workstations.
<CTL>-<Mouse middle> gives a menu that allows you to
control whether you are using JIS, ShiftJIS or EUC.
I tried all settings to no avail.

The man page says that kterm will work with the xterm
termcap settings. That is what I am using. Is there some
termcap entry more specific to kterm that will help?
If so, how can I get it?

There is a library called pcurses in the linux JE
package. pcurses seems to be for EUC encoding only.
My application is not 8-bit clean, so I want to use
JIS. Also, I have not seen pcurses for the Sun. Can
I use pcurses or some other library with JIS on both
linux and Suns?

I have seen the JE-HOWTO. Are there other FAQs that
would help me? What resources should I be using?

I would be happy to hear any recommendations for
solving my problem.

TIA,
George Wilson
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Pershing)
Subject: _setutent: can't find file or dir
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:29:53 GMT

Hello. I tried this query over in .help, but to no avail. Someone, please
help. For no reason *I am aware of,* every time I login as root or any
other user on my system (Slackware 1.0.8), the system displays this
message before it starts my shell:

_setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory.

I've pored over the docs I have, but can't find any reference.

Can someone supply some light?

Thanks,
Paul Pershing

-- 

======================================================= paul pershing ========
"When you get tangled up, you just tango on."         | [email-masked]
----Editorial Design/Systems, Rocky Mtn. News, Denver | [email-masked]

-- 

======================================================= paul pershing ========
"When you get tangled up, you just tango on."         | [email-masked]
----Editorial Design/Systems, Rocky Mtn. News, Denver | [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Patrick Reijnen)
Subject: New Term-HOWTO
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 13:01:27 GMT

Due to many questions for the new Term-HOWTO, I have just send the latest
 version of it to Mat Welsh. It will be available in all known places soon.

It now covers term versions upto 2.0.4, ALTHOUGH a major gap at this moment
 will be libtermnet.a. This is major stuff for the next version. Furthermore,
 results of the Term poll held by Bill McCarthy are appended as is a lot of
 other small stuff.

Most up to date version will still be available on

http://zeus.cs.kun.nl:4080/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html 

However, as my linux box is connected to the internet via a special modem of 
a experimental modem connection, it will be possible that this URL is not
 available due to problems. In that case, please try it another time.

Suggestions, additions, error corrections etc. are welcome. I am not stating all the information is complete or correct (although I really hope that it is correct).

Patrick Reijnen

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************************* Patrick Reijnen *************************
* Department of Computer Science, Catholic University of Nijmegen * 
* Email:  patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl                                *
* WWW:    http://{atlas,zeus}.cs.kun.nl:4080/homepage.html        *

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From: [email-masked] (Bauke Jan Douma)
Subject: WARNING about shadow-mk package
Date: 3 Sep 1994 14:19:51 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, bjdouma <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Just was about to update my shadow programs (compiling the shadow-mk
>package by Mohan Kokal, which is the 3.3.2 sources), when before the
>install I noticed something funny.
>
>Here's the snippet from the Makefile where login is installed:
>
>       install -m4755 login $(LOGINDIR)/_login
>       install -m4711 login.secure $(LOGINDIR)/login
>       
>Hm, seems that login in installed as _login, and another binary,
>login.secure is installed as login. What's funny is, the package has
>no sources for login.secure.  This binary was never in the
>shadow-3.n.n packages, and in this package is never referred to in
>any README's.
>So how secure can it be that there are no sources.
>Just asking.
>
>
>Sagittarius(tty2):/usr/src/shadow-mk> ls -la log*
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff        2381 Jun 28 04:44 log.c
>-rw-------   1 root     staff         793 Sep  1 15:04 log.o
>-rwx--x--x   1 root     staff       27792 Sep  1 15:05 login
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff        3351 Jun 28 04:44 login.1
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff       14568 Sep 17  1993 login.5
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff        3264 Sep 17  1993 login.c
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff        5324 Jul 13 09:12 login.defs
>-rw-------   1 root     staff        1555 Sep  1 15:04 login.o
>-rws--x--x   1 root     staff        1124 Jul 13 10:36 login.secure <- ?
>-rwx--x--x   1 root     staff        3988 Sep  1 15:09 logoutd
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff        1009 Sep  1 13:36 logoutd.8
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     staff        5399 Sep 17  1993 logoutd.c
>-rw-------   1 root     staff        2185 Sep  1 15:09 logoutd.o
>
>
>[email-masked]  (Bauke Jan Douma)
>

Ok, I will now follow up on my earlier post about the shadow-mk
package.

I would advice anyone that has installed this package to remove it.

I have received an email from someone who also noticed the
installation of the login.secure binary, for which no source is
provided.
In his correspondence with the author of this package, that author,
in his helpfulness, asked for a temporary account on his machine, and
having been denied that, asked for the password file. The emailer
also told me he has observed the author of this package to be
bragging about violating computer security.

[email-masked]  (Bauke Jan Douma)

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From: [email-masked] (Russell Leighton)
Subject: HORRIBLE swapping performance (1.1.48)
Date: 3 Sep 1994 09:17:30 -0400

Help! I am new to Linux, have a 90MHz Pentium w/16Meg ...
after running a couple of apps that use ~10Meg (these have
now exited), the system thrashes...note the apps are NOT
running but the system is unusable (e.g., 10 min to bring up
emacs)...what to do? 

Can I tune som paramters in the kernel?

Will another 16Meg make life good again?

Will the memory management get better in later versions?

Will Linux work if I load 128Meg (or would that be a waste)?

Thanks.

Russ

-- 
        Russell Leighton     
        Taylor Computing   
        [email-masked]  [email-masked] 
        http://taylor.digex.net  http://www.digex.net/~rrl/Welcome.html

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From: [email-masked] (Jouni A Kosonen)
Subject: Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?)
Date: 02 Sep 1994 01:31:58 GMT

The one time I forget to check the rest of the articles before posting...

So, this is solved. Thanks, Alan Modra.
Now my tz_minuteswest reads -120, not -7200. A definite improvement :-)
The beauty of it all is that I downloaded the patch two weeks ago and
forgot to use it!

Jouni Kosonen
[email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (RYAN  Colin Patrick)
Subject: FTAPE...Im' soo close, yet so far????
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:39:16 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to get ftape to go and have run into a snag. I have kernel 1.0.0, 
ftape -1.13.b and modutils 0.99.15.pl1. I have succesfully complied the 
modules and went throught the drv. hello world test without any problems.
I'm pretty sure that make made it to the end of the compile as ftape.o does
exist. The problem is when I do 'insmod ftape.o'. I get:

darkstar:/usr/src/ftape-1.13b# insmod ftape.o
_enable_irq undefined
_disable_irq undefined
_free_dma undefined
_free_irq undefined
_request_dma undefined
_irqaction undefined

Whats up??

Thanks ahead....Colin Ryan: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Sid Boyce)
Subject: Re: ftape don't compile (1.1.49)
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Sid Boyce)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 15:27:47 GMT

      I had the same problem, couldn't see a reason for it, so I modified
 line 954 as follows    result = request_dma( fdc.dma, NULL);
                                                     ======
it compiled and works fine.
Regards
Sid .....G3VBV .... Amdahl(UK) ....

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Subject: Re: DNS & 'format error no SOA record...'
Date: 3 Sep 1994 15:43:39 GMT

:       IN      MX      rmc1.crocker.com.

Thanks to everyone who sent me mail,  I have named up and running,  If
only my T1 would stay up :(.  My problem was in the above line..
it should be like:

crocker.com.    IN      MX      10      rmc1.crocker.com.

I forgot the '10' which is the preference value for the MX record.
its all fixed again,  thanks everyone who responded.

-Matt/2
[email-masked]  (in a few more days...)

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From: [email-masked] (Gregory Trubetskoy)
Subject: Re: pppd's ip-up doesn't work
Date: 2 Sep 1994 01:42:24 GMT

This did the trick! Thanks Andy.

:From: "Andrew R. Tefft" <[email-masked]>
--snip-snip---
:Works for me. It didn't at first -- until I put #!/bin/sh at the beginning.
:Until then, syslog reported an exec format error.
--snip--
:Andy Tefft               - new, expanded .sig -     [email-masked]

--
================================================================
Gregory Trubetskoy                   [email-masked]
================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (Nikolas Daglis)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Need Xconfig for WD90C33
Date: 2 Sep 1994 12:31:16 +1000

Alfred Hovdestad ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I need an Xconfig file (or help builiding one) for an ASI Rocket-VL
: (VESA local bus VGA Accelerator/VESA local bus IDE) with a WD90c33
: video chip. 
 ... Much deleted ...

I've an ISA wd90c33 card with a 14inch monitor that has 65Mhz bandwidth. 
It sounds like youre hardware is a bit more sofisticated than mine. But if 
desperation sets in you might like to look a my Xconfig file as follows.  

RGBPath         "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/BitstreamType1/"

Keyboard
  AutoRepeat 500 5
  ServerNumLock
  Xleds      1 2 3
  DontZap
  LeftAlt     Meta
  RightAlt    ModeShift
  RightCtl    Compose
  ScrollLock  ModeLock

mousesystems    "/dev/ttyS0"
  BaudRate      1200

vga256
  Modes         "1024x768" 
  viewport      0 0

vga2
 Modes         "1024x768" "640x480"  "800x600"

ModeDB
# name        clock   horizontal timing     vertical timing      flags
 "640x480"     25      640  664  760  800    480  491  493  525
               31      640  664  704  832    480  489  492  520
 "800x600"     36      800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  625
               40      800  840  968 1056    600  601  605  628
               50      800  856  976 1040    600  637  643  666
 "1024x768"    65     1024 1032 1176 1344    768  771  777  806
               75     1024 1048 1184 1328    768  771  777  806
               85     1024 1032 1152 1360    768  784  787  823

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From: [email-masked] (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
Subject: Re: What MTU for SLIP links ?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:00:04 GMT

Erik Heinz ([email-masked]) wrote:
: What MTU should one choose for a SLIP link using recent 1.1.* kernels?
: What is the maximum value, and what is a good choice?

        Through experimentation, I've found that 512 is a good value
for maximizing throughput and still keeping fair interactive times.

Your mileage may vary. :)

        -Sam            ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Subject: Re: Exporting to a domain
Date: 3 Sep 1994 15:51:31 GMT

H. Peter Anvin ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hello Linux friends.  I am having problems with NFS-exporting to a
: domain.  My /etc/exports looks like this (abbreviated)

: /usr ramius(rw,link_absolute) ahab(rw)
: /usr/nuars w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu(rw)
: /usr/linux *.nwu.edu(ro)
: / solo(rw)

I haven't tried NFS with a domain yet, but I did have problems
mounting the slakware directory so I could install via NFS (from 1
machine to 3 others at the same time). You *can't* mount a symbolic
link unless you add 'link-absolute' I beleive,  you have to mount the
actual directory

I had the slakware dir on /home/user1/slakware.  I also 
ln -s /home/user1/slakware /slakware

I added to my /etc/exports
/slakware         falcon(ro)lego(ro)

mount rmc1:/slakware /mnt would fail with perm. denied message.

I had to change /etc/exports to:

/home/user1/slakware  falcon(ro) lego(ro)

and  mount rmc1:/home/user1/slakware /mnt

hope this helps...

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From: [email-masked] (Jouni A Kosonen)
Subject: Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?)
Date: 02 Sep 1994 00:06:05 GMT

Alberto Vignani <[email-masked]> writes:
> Hi all.
> Yesterday I noticed a very strange fact. I created some directories
> and files from Linux in a MSDOS filesystem; when I returned to DOS all
> the dates were offset by 5 days(in the future).
...
> Then I went back, changed my timezone setting from EET (the right one
> now in Italy) to GMT, and all was right.

I don't think EET (Eastern European Time) is right for italy.
Shouldn't it be WET DST ? Anyway, this is irrelevant to the point of
this discussion - I'm using EET (+ DST now) here in Finland with
similar results.

> In fs/msdos/misc.c, line 232 (for 1.1.48):
>
>       secs += sys_tz.tz_minuteswest*60;
>
> was the source of the trouble: minuteswest holded a larger value
> (EET difference+5 days).

Are you sure it was not just the 5 days? That's what I seem to be getting.

> If I'm right, possible sources of this behaviour are a bug in the
> clock program or a corrupted /usr/lib/zoneinfo/EET file under Slackware
> 2.0. Slackware 1.2 has no such problems.
>
> Am I right? Anyone has noticed this bug(feature :-)?

Yep. And as it happens, I managed to clobber the /usr/lib/zoneinfo/EET
some time ago. The one I'm using now is from an Alpha, but I still get the
5 day offset in Dos dates. So, I think the problem is elsewhere.
Tried the following snippet:
..
  gettimeofday(&tv,&tz);
  printf("Timezone: minuteswest %d, DST %u\n",tz.tz_minuteswest,tz.tz_dsttime);
..
Result:
  Timezone: minuteswest -7200, DST 1

I know EET is two hours east of GMT, but two hours is 7200 seconds, not
minutes. 7200 min is 120 hours is 5 days... Apparently somehow, somewhere
the true offset gets multiplied with 60.  Hasn't really shown up elsewhere,
as I've told Linux to regard the CMOS clock  as localtime. Doesn't the
minuteswest-value come from the sys_tz struct in kernel/init.c? If so,
does this mean that whatever program passed the timezone to the kernel
function sys_settimeofday() gave the wrong value?

Quite annoying, actually. As long as this problem persists, I'll
have to remember to keep my fingers off anything that might be time 
stamp dependant on the DOS filesystems.

Jouni Kosonen
[email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Jim Graham)
Subject: Re: How to use 14400bps with modem?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 23:12:57 GMT

NOTE:  Followups re-directed to comp.dcom.modems.

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
writes:

>Compression comes in 2 flavours; MNP 5 and V42bis.

Well, actually, there are others, but.....  :-)

>MNP 5 is capable, theoretically, of 2:1 compression [ .... ]
>V42bis theoretically manages a max of 4:1 compression

Actually, both of these so-called theoretical maximum compression ratios
are nothing but simple numbers the marketing types can remember.  Both
MNP5 and V.42bis (which, btw, really is normally the better of the two)
are capable of *MUCH* higher than 2:1 or even 4:1.

I have some detailed specs somewhere, but of course, they're not in the
directory they should be in (and my copy of Recommendation V.42bis is at
work).  Of course, the numbers don't really mean much unless the data is
basically designed to be highly compressible, but....  :-)

Later,
   --jim

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From: [email-masked] (Rene Angel Sepulveda)
Subject: ftape don't compile (1.1.49)
Date: 2 Sep 1994 19:52:53 -0400

Hello all.

I compiled ftape-1.13b in Linux 1.1.49  and I had the follow errors in
compilation: 

fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_grab_irq_and_dma':
fdc-io.c:949: warning: implicit declaration of function `irqaction'
fdc-io.c:954: too few arguments to function `request_dma'
make: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1

request_dam function changed your syntax.

Could someone tell me if some hacker solved it, please?

thank in advance

I sorry, but my english is not good :-)

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From: [email-masked] (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: NCR53c810 Problems!!
Date: 2 Sep 1994 22:25:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jean-Paul Chia <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I have a PCI Pentium, and a SC-2000 PCI SCSI-2 card, and I've got it 
>working in DOS, but I can't get Linux to reconize it.. BTW, I'm using 
>kernel version 1.1.44 And I have the NCR53c7,8xx Driver..
>
>And I get this error:
>
>scsi -ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
>scsi -ncr53c7,8xx : warning : revision of 0 is less than 1
>scsi -ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c810 at memory 0x30000000, io 0x0000, irq 0
>scsi0 : IRQ0 not free, detaching
>scsi : 0 hosts
>
>Please help! :)

Linux 1.1.44 broke the pci BIOS code, either upgrade or use 1.1.39.
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subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have
allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own
downfall by doing so." -- Adolf Hitler

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From: coelho@pegasus (Claudionor Coelho)
Subject: Sager 9200
Date: 3 Sep 1994 06:18:22 GMT

Has anyone installed Linux successfully on the laptop Sager 9200?

Thanks,

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Stanford, CA 94305
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disciples and declared: "Call this a stick and you assert; call it not a stick
and you negate. Now, do not assert or negate, and what would you call
it? Speak! Speak!" One of the disciples came out of the ranks, took the
stick away from the master, and breaking it in two, exclaimed, "What is this?"

                                                Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki"

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From: [email-masked] (John Hoford)
Subject: EMS/extended memory
Date: 2 Sep 1994 22:27:45 GMT

I scraped together a 386sx out of old parts and I am running linux
Now I find I have 8 1meg sims and 4 slots. I also have
an ems/extended memory board. 

Can linux use ems/extended memory?
How?

Do I have any other choice.
It is also possible that I will be commin into more 1 meg sims
(as I upgrade my sun's memory) 

Is there any solution as how to use it?

John
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