Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #703
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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 07:13:07 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #703, Volume #2                 Sat, 3 Sep 94 07:13:07 EDT

Contents:
  Mosaic !!! (Benjamin Alman)
  **BRAND NEW**Texel CD-ROM Drives ***DIRT CHEAP***!!! (Dr. John V. Jaskolski)
  Does Linux save boot msgs to a file ([email-masked])
  Re: Linux BBS Software (Steven Eric Rubin)
  Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing! ([email-masked])
  Re: Fax Viewing Software for X11 ? (Mitchum DSouza)
  linux binary with dpt driver would not boot ([email-masked])
  NETATALK for Linux? (S. Hughes)
  Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60 (Ahmed Naas)
  Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file (Andy Wilks)
  Re: Setting up printer to print POSTSCRIPT ? (Richard Dalton)
  Re: any Linuxers out there using Demon Internet? (Anthony Lovell)
  ? ftp site for net apps? (C U E Here Sysop)
  *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) (Ian Jackson)

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From: [email-masked] (Benjamin Alman)
Subject: Mosaic !!!
Date: 3 Sep 1994 03:33:29 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

I am trying to get Mosaic on my linux box here, but it requires Motif - 
and i only have an emulator for it, not the libraries!! Does anyone know 
of a COMPILED binary version of the latest version (2.4 or so) with all 
the other required files ???

i got version 1.2 off of tsx-11.mit.edu, but it says it can't find the 
'Connect' program...

I really would like the latest version, though !!!!

Please email any replies, thank you!! 

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From: Ben Alman, Internet: [email-masked], My PC: [email-masked]
Linux 1.1.47 + XFree386-2.1.1, Slackware 2.0 on an i486 DX/2-66 with 20mb RAM 
It's just the age, It's just a stage, We disengage, We turn the page... -Rush

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From: [email-masked] (Dr. John V. Jaskolski)
Subject: **BRAND NEW**Texel CD-ROM Drives ***DIRT CHEAP***!!!
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 03:29:18 GMT

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I have a few *BRAND NEW* Texel SCSI CD-ROM drives. These drives went for $199 regularly.  I will give them to anyone who wants one for $135 each.  Call
me ASAP if you want one.  You can call *ANYTIME* 7 days a week up until
2:00 AM.  I will give them out on a first come first serve basis and they will go FAST.  Just think, now you can impress all your friends with the cool way that your computer can play music CD's and do multi-media stuff.  (Also, if you need a SCSI controller I have a new Adaptec 1540B for $90.00.)

These are Texel DM3021 SCSI CD-ROM drives.  They are internal 5 1/4" Half Height Drives.  They will work with *ANY* SCSI controller.  The drivers (i.e., ASPI managers) come with your SCSI controller.  They are brand new, still in the box, and come with Documentation, 50 pin SCSI ribbon cable, and mounting rails.  They have a headphone jack on the front so that you can play Audio CD's on your computer.  Also, I will E-mail a FREE CDplayer to anyone who wants one.  (The CD-Player puts an audio CD-Player panel on your screen and plays audio CD's through the headphone jack or through speakers.)  They also have an audio output jack on the back so that you can play Audio CD-ROMS and multi-media apps through your soundboard.  I presently have a drive installed and I can do all of the multi-media stuff on mine.  The drives 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*!

These drives also work perfectly with Linux, BSD, and other Unices for the PC. They work fine with Macs.  The dimensions of the drive are as follows: 5 1/4" x 1 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Standard 5 1/4" half height internal PC drive dimensions).

I can take Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express for these.  You can call *ANYTIME* up until 2:00 AM to order one.  My home phone number is (414) 629-1804. 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.  If nobody is home you can leave a message on our machine and I will call you within hours of your leaving a message.

The cost is as follows:

 Texel SCSI CD-ROM Drive                  $135.00
 S&H                                                      $ 10.00
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 TOTAL                                                 $145.00

 (This is the amount that would be charged to your credit card.)

 If you are going to pay with a check or money order:

 In order to acquire a Texel make your payment or money order for $135.00
 + $10.00 S&H payable to:

 Dr. John V. Jaskolski

 send it to:

 Dr. John V. Jaskolski
 6120 Hillcrest Drive
 Allenton, WI
 53002

 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
 (414) 629-1804
 [email-masked]

These are the specs:

Condition                            *BRAND NEW*
Total user data:                      683Meg
Data Transfer Rate:             150KB/SEC
Access Time:                           340ms
Data Buffer Capacity:              64K
Head Read Error Rate:          Less Than 10E-12
Power Supply:                      +5V DC or +12V DC
Form Factor:                       5 1/4" Half Height
Accessories:                       Documentation, 50 pin
                                   SCSI Ribbon Cable, Side
                                   Mounting Rails.  Works with DOS,
                                   MACS, OS/2, and all Unices.
N/A                           Caddy (You must supply caddy.  They
                                 can be acquired at your local computer
                                 store for $5.00).       
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 15:25:09 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Does Linux save the msgs it spews out at boot time, to a file ? These msgs
whiz by so fast, it's practically impossible to note everything that's
happening. Any info would be appreciated.

Kurella Murty
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Steven Eric Rubin)
Subject: Re: Linux BBS Software
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 07:24:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
David Holland <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>[email-masked]'s message of 17 Aug 1994 21:20:09 -0400 said:
>
> > ctdl-bin.tgz             bins for the Citadel BBS package
> > ctdl-src.tgz             source for the Citadel BBS package
>
>This is probably Citadel/UX, which is derived from an old and dated
>version of Citadel. If it is, don't bother. If it's something else,
>please let me know.
>
>--
>   - David A. Holland          | -- "Do you have a moment?"   -- "Yes.
>     [email-masked] | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."

If anyones interested, ive got the latest version of the authors bbs,
with a few mods for linux + a few local changes I've made.
 
Include... Internode chat from within the bbs.  Type / at the main menu.
           Broadcasts to all nodes "User xxx has logged in/out".
           
Still need to be written.  A replacement for CitadelRmail.  It doesnt
seem to come with it, one of these days...  And a easy way for it to
read the usenet message database.
-- 
Steve Rubin                                     [email-masked]
KSFO TalkRadio 560                              [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin,aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing!
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 00:29:19 PDT

In article <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]> writes:
> Path: 
dolphin.phoenix.net!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!dds
w1!not-for-mail
> From: [email-masked] (Dave Rossow)
> Newsgroups: 
aus.computers.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
> Subject: Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing!
> Date: 2 Sep 1994 22:11:25 -0500
> Organization: MCSNet Services
> Lines: 15
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> References: <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com
> Xref: dolphin.phoenix.net aus.computers.linux:1320 
alt.os.linux:208 comp.os.linux.admin:14185 
comp.os.linux.development:15558 comp.os.linux.help:55264 
comp.os.linux.misc:25362
> 
> [email-masked] (Justin Scott) writes:
> 
> 
> >Any type of JPEGs, etc we can see of the shirts before we 
order?
> 
> >I would love to have the "Linux Inside" as will as the "GNU 
Generation" 
> >shirts, but only if I can see pics before purchase
> 
> >Justin
> 
> Likewise!
> 
>       dave
>       [email-masked]
> 
Yep same here.
Chuck

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Fax Viewing Software for X11 ?
Date: 1 Sep 1994 09:32:35 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Mihail S.
Iotov) writes:
|> Is there a fax viewing software in the style of ghostview ?
|> In principle one can some converting program to ps, but that is way to slow
|> on
|> intel computers without coprocessors and is an overkill anyway -
|> converting rasterized fax image into scaleable postscript and then back
|> again to X11 bitmap.

You can start by looking at my g3vga viewver for the linux console and
take out the relevant raster image routines and building a X11 bitmap straight
off. The decoding routines are extremely fast.

Alternatively if you are concerned by speed, it is an overkill starting X11
just to view/page turn fax documents. The g3vga viewver will let you do this
on the plain linux console.

If you are interested, you may find it at

        sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/g3vga-0.5b.tar.gz

and other good archives.

Mitch

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked]
Subject: linux binary with dpt driver would not boot
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 19:59:03 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Following responses to my posting about Linux and dpt controllers, I got the
kernel image vmlinuz.eata.gz from tsx-11, from the directory :
/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi

It seemed to recognise the disk and tape. But then, it crashed. The boot
messages were as follows :

        .
        .
        .
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total
        .
        .
        .
Linux version 1.1.44   ...

Partition check :
        sda : sda1 sda3 sda4
SCSI disk request error : invalid device
ll-rw-block : only 1023968 - char blocks implemented (1024)

MINIX-fs : unable to read superblock
SCSI disk request error : invalid device
Kernel panic : No device passed to allocate_device()

I would really appreciate any help. Thanks.

Kurella Murty
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (S. Hughes)
Subject: NETATALK for Linux?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 19:23:53 GMT

Has anyone ported or worked on porting the netatalk package to Linux?
(It's an Appletalk for Unix package)
This looks to me to be a better alternative to CAP for those of us
without an Appletalk router.  Netatalk is able to talk Phase 2
Ethertalk directly and is supposed to be faster than CAP because it is
tightly tied to the kernel (here's the part that might make porting
fun).  Currently netatalk runs on SunOS and Ultrix.

Shayne Hughes
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Ahmed Naas)
Subject: Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 09:53:00 GMT

Zach ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi i'm looking to get a system to run Linux but was wondering if
: someone could advise me on weather I should get a 486dx4/100 or a
: Pentium 60. The 2 systems I am looking at cost almost exactly the same
: but the 486 has a 520 mb SCSI hd while the pentium has a 420 ide.

I faced the same dilema 3 months ago and I choose the DX4 solution. I
considered the following:

- The high heat output of the P5. I built my own system so I didn't
  need to worry whether the case I'm using is suitable, ..etc.
- 3.3 v technology is more reliable.
- The P5 60/66 5v technology is a deadend. You can't upgrade to anything.
- The difference in total system performance is not that significant.
[It takes 9 minutes to compile a fully featured kernel on my system.
Anyone with a P5 cares to compare?]
- At the time I saw too many complaints about P5 motherboards and 
  chipsets.

-- 
The above is a result of random neuron activity in the writer's brain.
Ahmed M. Naas                                      [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Andy Wilks)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file
Date: 2 Sep 1994 21:20:03 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says:

\>Does Linux save the msgs it spews out at boot time, to a file ? These msgs
\>whiz by so fast, it's practically impossible to note everything that's
\>happening. Any info would be appreciated.

Yes, you can view it with the dmesg program:

dmesg

or 

dmesg | more

-Andy

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Richard Dalton)
Subject: Re: Setting up printer to print POSTSCRIPT ?
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 09:54:50 +0000

[email-masked] (Eduard Marghidan) writes:

>Mubashir Cheema ([email-masked]) wrote:

>: I have been trying to setup my laser printer, Okidata OL 400, an HP  
>: laserjet II compatible printer to print Postscript. Well as it is now
>: it does print postscript files but I or anybody else I know cannot 
>: seem to be able to setup a magic filter that would sucessfully recognize
>: a postscript file and handle it accordingly. Right now I an all other
>: users have to specify a different printer 'ps' to print PS files.
>: I have on several occasion forgotten to do that and ended up printing
>: several pages of text. I am including my current printcap file, please
>: help me add the magic line that will do the magic filter trick.

>: Thanks.

>       You must be confused about what you mean. If you mean that
>PS files should be filtered differently, then your printcap file
>is correct. If you mean that your filter is wrong, then you should 
>use a different filter in printcap. Or perhaps you are saying that
>the postscript filter is not working because it only prints PS files?
>Either way, you should know that a "PS printer" is different than an
>Oki (HPLJII) printer, hence the two printcap entries are necessary.

>: -----------------------My-printcap-file-----------------------
>: lp|oki|default:\
>:         :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>:         :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/oki:\
>:         :if=/usr/lib/lp-filter/lpf:\
>:         :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/oki/log:\
>:         :mx#0:sh:
>: ps|okips:\
>:         :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>:         :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/oki:\
>:         :if=/usr/lib/lp-filter/lpf-oki-ps:\
>:         :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/oki/log:\
>:         :mx#0:sh:
>: --------------------------------------------------------------- 

No, Mubashir is right. You can use a magic filter which detects what kind of
file you're trying to print and acts accordingly. It says this and gives a 
couple of examples in the Printing HOWTO, but I couldn't get them to work with
my HP DeskJet 520 either, so I too have two different printer names at the 
moment. If anyone can solve this little problem i'd appreciate it.

        Richard
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From: [email-masked] (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: any Linuxers out there using Demon Internet?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 18:17:57 GMT

David MacRae ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article: <[email-masked]>  [email-masked] (Benjamin John Walter) 
: writes:
: > 
: > Hi,
: > 
: > I'm looking for ayone out there with a Linux box who is also
: > connecting to Demon Internet in England... I'd like to talk to

: Well, I and a number of other people use Linux boxes to connect to 
: Demon Internet although I'm not in England.

As are a great many of us.

: Any further queries, please feel free to mail me. (just remember the 
: Scotland bit :))) )

What about Wales, we're not in England. :)

--

anthony

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PGP Key available from a server       |
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Subject: ? ftp site for net apps?
From: [email-masked] (C U E Here Sysop)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 18:12:25 MDT

Are there one or more ftp sites where one could obtain the source code for
all the various network applications? Any client or server applications,
anthing for news and EMail, Mosaic, IRC, etc.

Thanks.

-- 
Roger Walker (403) 465-4962  ****  SysOp, CUE Here BBS (403) 465-7715
 GIS Analyst (403) 496-4145
         FAX (403) 496-4014       [email-masked]

    PGP Public Key from:  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Ian Jackson)
Subject: *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07)
Date: 3 Sep 1994 04:03:16 -0600

Please do not post questions to comp.os.linux.misc - read on for details of
which groups you should read and post to.

Please do not crosspost anything between different groups of the comp.os.linux
hierarchy.  See Matt Welsh's introduction to the hierarchy, posted weekly.

If you have a question about Linux you should get and read the Linux Frequently
Asked Questions with Answers list from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs, or
from another Linux FTP site.  It is also posted periodically to c.o.l.announce.

In particular, read the question `You still haven't answered my question!'
The FAQ will refer you to the Linux HOWTOs (more detailed descriptions of
particular topics) found in the HOWTO directory in the same place.

Then you should consider posting to comp.os.linux.help - not
comp.os.linux.misc.

Note that X Windows related questions should go to comp.windows.x.i386unix, and
that non-Linux-specific Unix questions should go to comp.unix.questions.
Please read the FAQs for these groups before posting - look on rtfm.mit.edu in
/pub/usenet/news.answers/Intel-Unix-X-faq and .../unix-faq.

Only if you have a posting that is not more appropriate for one of the other
Linux groups - ie it is not a question, not about the future development of
Linux, not an announcement or bug report and not about system administration -
should you post to comp.os.linux.misc.

Comments on this posting are welcomed - please email me !
--
Ian Jackson  <[email-masked]>  (urgent email: [email-masked])
2 Lexington Close, Cambridge, CB4 3LS, England;  phone: +44 223 64238

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