Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #711
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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 13:13:12 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #711, Volume #2                 Mon, 5 Sep 94 13:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  Re: 1542 (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Class 1 FAX Software for Linux? (Robert J. LeBlanc)
  Re: g3topbm problem ? (Thomas Ziegler)
  Re: any Linuxers out there using Demon Internet? (David MacRae)
  Recommendations for flatbed scanner... (James Fidell)
  BOOTPC: how to get it to work ? (Johannes Moeckel)
  Linux on QIC Tape? (russ mcelroy)
  Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Robert Kroes)
  Re: uugetty doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (jonathan allen)
  Re: Linux Journal (Steven Buytaert)
  Re: PerfMeter OLWM (Wilfried Tenten K8/EIS2. Tel. 2986)
  Re: Assembler working with GCC?? (Peter Mutsaers)
  Re: BOOTPC: how to get it to work ? (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
  Re: SQL For Linux? (Alan Cox)
  Re: Opaque move (Alan Cox)
  cancel my request for xfree benchmarks... (Derrik Walker II)
  Adaptec 2322D ESDI controller. Help please. (Wayne Hodgen)
  Re: 16550AFN serial card (Alan Cox)
  Re: If Linux passes X/Open's Spec 1170, will it become a true Unix? (Phil Hughes)
  What is /dev/mem? (andy harbick)
  Re: Linux Journal (Phil Hughes)
  Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing! (Thomas Quinot)
  dosemu problems with linux 1.1.45 (Kees Lemmens)
  Re: calentool 2.3X for Unix/Solaris/Linux released ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: 1542
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 08:04:19 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Dominic Fraser) writes:

>Looking for info on the compatibility of Adaptec 1542c scsi interface cards.
>I understand that the 1542b, which is obsolete, was more forgiving than 
>the newer 1542c. Is this a problem with the linux drivers? 

This is not related to software, but to hardware.  With the 1542C you
just have to be more careful selecting good cables and having the proper
termination at the ends of the cables.

Rob
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Robert J. LeBlanc)
Subject: Re: Class 1 FAX Software for Linux?
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 19:20:24 GMT

[email-masked] (Gary Lawrence Murphy) writes:

>I could only find efax06a on sunsite --- where does 06b live?

efax 06b was (to my knowledge) only sent out by the author to certain
individuals who were having trouble with USR Sportster 14.4 modems.
While the patch may make other improvements as well, that (and an
upgrade to kernel 1.1.42 or later) was what did the trick for me.

It should really be Ed Casas' prerogative to decide whether to upload
the patch somewhere, but as he's on vacation at the moment I can mail
out the patch to those who request it.  To save bandwidth here, reply
by e-mail to me at [email-masked] if you would like the 06a-06b
patch.

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Ziegler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: g3topbm problem ?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 11:49:20 GMT

: >I have just installed Rob Hooft's 1mar1994 binary NETPBM package, and
: >trying to print a received fax with efax's "fax print" command
: >resulted in the following error message:
: >
: >     "g3topbm: error allocating memory for a row"
: >
: >and no usable output.

The netpbm packages seems to have a lot of errors. Use the pbmplus
package (you find it on sunsite). It does not use shared libs, so
the executables are larger, but they work without errors or allocating
lots of megabytes.

        TH.

--
  Thomas Ziegler, 
  Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Elektronik (LTE), Uni Erlangen-Nuernberg,
  Cauerstr. 9, D-91580 Erlangen, Phone: +49 9131 85-7200, FAX +49 9131 302951  

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From: [email-masked] (David MacRae)
Subject: Re: any Linuxers out there using Demon Internet?
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 11:57:56 +0000

In article: <[email-masked]>  [email-masked] (Anthony 
Lovell) writes:
> : Any further queries, please feel free to mail me. (just remember the 
> : Scotland bit :))) )
> 
> What about Wales, we're not in England. :)
> 
> --
My apologies.

-- 
Dave MacRae                 |The views expressed here are mine and
Edinburgh                   |mine alone and do not reflect the views
Scotland                    |of my employers in any way.

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From: [email-masked] (James Fidell)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Recommendations for flatbed scanner...
Date: 5 Sep 1994 12:44:59 +0100

I'm looking for a colour flatbed scanner to run off my Linux PC,
preferably something that can handle at least A3 size images (twice
letter paper size, or about 300mm x 400mm).

Does anyone have any recommendations ?

James.
-- 
 "Yield to temptation --             |
  it may not pass your way again"    |     [email-masked]
                                     |
        - Lazarus Long               |              James Fidell

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From: [email-masked] (Johannes Moeckel)
Subject: BOOTPC: how to get it to work ?
Date: 5 Sep 1994 12:11:10 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to get bootpc to work. 
No matter what programm I use I will always get " No response from bootp
server".
As there is NO documentation, I can't imagine where the problem
really is. 
Bootpc is known to work under dos here at university, but when I try to
broadcast under Linux it won't work ...?
( and my boss want's me to get this fu**ing bootpc running :-(  ).

Joe
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| Johannes Moeckel              | Friends don't let friends use *OS           |
| [email-masked]       | Yeah, fuck it !      ( Ministry )   --<-<-@ |
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From: [email-masked] (russ mcelroy)
Subject: Linux on QIC Tape?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 94 02:12:06 GMT

If you can provide Linux on QIC-02 tape, especially if you are in
Canada, please reply by mail.

Thanks.

Russ

-- 
Russ McElroy                                                    Qualicum Beach 
[email-masked] | VE7AJH @VE7FMY.#NVI.BC.CAN.NA            BC, Canada #*#

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Kroes)
Subject: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk!
Date: 5 Sep 1994 12:45:25 GMT

Hello,

Forgive me if this is an FAQ, but I've scanned the ones that come with
Slackware 1.2 and can't find anything usefull...

I would like to know how I can create a Slackware boot disk (the one used
to install Linux from scratch) and install a kernel of my choice...

Why? So I can make use of an alpha network driver to perform an NFS install
and save copying 100+ MB of Slackware 2.0 on to floppies :-)
 
I've formatted a diskette with "fdformat", 
added my kernel with "dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0", 
created a ramdisk with "rdev -r /dev/fd0 1440", 
and changed the root file system with "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/ram" (I think :-)

The bit I can't work out is how to tweak it so it asks for the ROOT disk, 
and copies that filesystem to the ramdisk, after the kernel has loaded...

Please don't tell me this requires a specially modified kernel :-)

Any and all hints gratefully accepted (email especially appreciated since
this *ensures* I can't miss your response :-)

Regards,
--
-Robert Kroes-
[email-masked]
-- 
-Robert Kroes-
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (jonathan allen)
Subject: Re: uugetty doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 10:07:34 +0000

In article <[email-masked]>
           [email-masked] "Chris Kwasnicki" writes:
> In one of the HOWTO's, it mentions doing a 
>      strings uugetty | grep "/etc/defaults"
> to verify that you have the right version.  I installed Slackware 2.0, and the 
> versions of getty there did not support the conf.uugetty.* setup.

Yup - Slackware 2.0 installs agetty, not getty_ps

Jonathan 
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Barum Computer Consultants | [email-masked] | Fax:   0271-24183
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From: [email-masked] (Steven Buytaert)
Subject: Re: Linux Journal
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:26:41 GMT

David Reid ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I am thinking of subscribing to the Linux Journal.  Can anyone who is a 
: present subscriber or has seen the magazine, comment on whether it will be 
: money well spent.  I don't really have easy access to any old copies so I am a 
: little wary about spending the money without knowing what I am buying.  Any 
: comments would be appreciated.  Thanks

  Yup, money very well spent. The best thing for readers of the LJ IMHO
  is that they can steer the editors towards where they want them. If
  you ask on the net "could someone give me a quick tutorial rundown on
  that program", he'll probably get "use the source, Luke" as an answer.
  If there is enough interest, I think you can send a request to LJ where
  they can spend an article on it. Examples for me are the articles on
  EZ, the articles from Michael about the libraries and VT interface. Examples
  of shell plumbing, how to use 'icmake', ...

  For 19$ (?), money well spent...

  For me LJ brings back the 'crisp feeling' of a (very old) 'Byte'. I hope
  Phil you boys keep it that way...

  Stef

--
Steven Buytaert 

WORK [email-masked]
HOME [email-masked]

        'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'
                        (A. Einstein)

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From: [email-masked] (Wilfried Tenten K8/EIS2. Tel. 2986)
Subject: Re: PerfMeter OLWM
Date: 5 Sep 94 13:36:44 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Hello Mrs. or Mr. Mads  Meisner-Jensen,

I am running LINUX on my private PC and I got the perfmeter. The original
version won,t come to proper work. So I phoned with the originator, Mr. Koenig,
told him my challenges with perfmeter and couple of days went into the country.
As a result, he sent me a new version of the perfmeter and exccellent,
it runs properly.
Send me a disk, I will copy the files and I send this disk back to you.

Please note, I am in Denmark at the 28. of this month (September) and I`
think it will be much better to send the post from Denmark to you ... if
you agree.

My private address is:

Dr. Wilfried Tenten
Bubenhofenstr. 7
D-72501 Gammertingen

P.S. Please give me note, if you will send me your disk.

Regards
Wilfried

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: Assembler working with GCC??
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:13:51 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Bernd Lehahn) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]>, Bernd Lehahn writes:

>> Something else I'm constantly seeking, is an editor for LINUX (shell or X),

>Before someone starts to explain how Emacs could fulfill all those needs, I 
>should add that I already looked at him, but I would prefer an editor rather 
>than a lisp interpreter. :)

Although I usually use emacs, if you really don't want it there is always
vi! One of the most beautiful editors ever created (except for emacs of
course). You must get used to it but after that you will see its beauty.

Regards,
--
Peter Mutsaers                  |  AT Computing bv,  P.O. Box 1428,
[email-masked]                    |  6501 BK  Nijmegen, The Netherlands
tel. work: +31 (0)80 527248     |
tel. home: +31 (0)3405 71093    |  "... En..., doet ie het al?"

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From: [email-masked] (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Subject: Re: BOOTPC: how to get it to work ?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:04:29 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> 
 [email-masked] (Johannes Moeckel) writes:
>I'm trying to get bootpc to work. 
>No matter what programm I use I will always get " No response from bootp
>server".
>As there is NO documentation, I can't imagine where the problem
>really is. 
The original bootpc source for linux includes a boot file name of "linux"
in its bootp request, which according to the bootp rfc prevents any
bootp server from replying, unless it also has a suitably named bootfile
available for tftp. So I would recommend to eliminate this bootfile name
in the bootp request construction in the source.
Hope this helps,
Wolfgang R. Mueller <[email-masked]>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: SQL For Linux?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 12:57:20 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] () writes:
>Is there a database product out there that supports SQL and
>has a SQL compiler for Linux?

Look under
        http://www.linux.org.uk/

at the commercial vendor list

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Opaque move
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:04:19 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Warwick Allison) writes:
>Advantage: You don't have to drop the window to see what is under it.
>       eg. you can just drag a window away and drag it, back if you
>           just want to look under it.

Get xblast from the X11R5contrib on ftp.x.org. Its a demo of shape
extensions that lets you put holes in windows. Its meant as a toy but Im
forver using it make corners of windows seethru and stuff

Alan

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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: Derrik Walker II <[email-masked]>
Subject: cancel my request for xfree benchmarks...
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:40:10 GMT

I posted the request for such a list twice and both times, I got a bunch 
of people mailing me saying they too wanted a copy if I found one.  So, 
Naturally, I thaught that one did not exist.

Well, I guess that people finally discovered I was serious and wanted to know 
what video card to put into this linux box I'm building.  

Thanks to everyone who sent me a copy of the information I originally 
wanted.  I am fairly new to this group and couldn't find what I was 
looking for in the FAQ.  Maybe it should be there?

-Derrik
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 Cleveland State University                  Automation Assistant, Law Library
 [email-masked]                            [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Wayne Hodgen)
Subject: Adaptec 2322D ESDI controller. Help please.
Date: 5 Sep 1994 14:47:47 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Greetings Linuxers!

I was rummaging around in our old hardware box today and I came across
a couple of 200MB ESDI drives and an Adaptec 2322D ESDI controller. My
problem is, someone seems to have beat me to the card and pulled all the
jumpers off. I have no idea what the jumper blocks are for. Whoever put
the stuff in the box must have trashed the handbook 'cos it's nowhere to
be found.

Has anyone out there got a handbook for a 2322D? If you have, could you
please fax me the page(s) with the jumper descriptions on it?

Many thanks in advance.
-- 
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Uni Koblenz,   | or Fight-o-net 2:2454/518.42     | legalesemumbojumbodisclaim
Rheinau 1,     | Voice: +49 261 9119-645          | er||stupidasciipictureover
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: 16550AFN serial card
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:12:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Naji M. Khudairi) writes:
>Great, but how do you enable the 16 byte buffer in order to take advantage
>of overrun protection?

When linux sees a 16550A it enables the FIFO. Easy as that.

Alan

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Hughes)
Subject: Re: If Linux passes X/Open's Spec 1170, will it become a true Unix?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:07:00 GMT

Chris Bitmead ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Alan Cox) writes:
: >>In UniForum's UniNews July 20,1994 issue there's and article on X/Open's 
: >>UNIX branding. This got me thinking--if Linux would pass this branding, 
: >>would it become a full-fledged _official_ Unix, on par with SunOS or 
: >>HP/UX or whatever? 
: >It would cost a lot and include royalties according to the X/open blurb I
: >saw.
: Brilliant! Now we have the opportunity to pay royalties to X/open instead
: of USL. :)

Maybe we could cut a deal with X/Open to just pay a percentage of the
sales price instead of a fixed fee. :-)

--
Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal (206) 527-3385
usually [email-masked], sometimes [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (andy harbick       )
Subject: What is /dev/mem?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:34:30 GMT

Hi,

Is it the memory of my computer?  How does it work?  I ask because I had a
program, sasteroids, that tried to call it and it said cannot open /dev/mem. 
I don't have any other problems, but it sounded bad. Is it?

Andy

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Hughes)
Subject: Re: Linux Journal
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:23:15 GMT

Thanks for all the positive feedback.  When I saw the question I was
holding my breath. :-)

We aren't just a magazine that decided to cover Linux, we are Linux people
that decided to do a magazine to help Linux.  We aren't perfect but as our
subscriber and advertising base grows we re-invest in the publication.
(Actually that is an understatement as we are still spending more than our
income but with your support we expect to be breaking even early next
year.)

If you have comments, by all means send them to us ([email-masked] is the
easiest address.  SSC publishes Linux Journal and we just converted the
office over to a Linux network.)  Or you can mail them to Linux Journal,
P.O. Box 85867, Seattle, WA 98145-1867 or FAX to (206) 527-2806.  We do
publish letters to the editor and we do even listen to them.  The initial
direction of Linux Journal was set by a survey I posted to comp.os.linux
over a year ago and we continue to use this feedback to set our future
course.  (The tag line on the cover says "The Monthly Magazine of the
Linux Community".  I fought hard to get that line on the cover (the word
"community" kept disappearing :-) ) and want to make sure we continue to
represent that community.)

--
Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal (206) 527-3385
usually [email-masked], sometimes [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts, Now Printing!
Date: 4 Sep 1994 22:25:37 +0200

Le Prostetnic Vogon [email-masked] écrit :
> > Likewise!
> Yep same here.
Ditto :-)
-- 
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] (Kees Lemmens)
Subject: dosemu problems with linux 1.1.45
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 16:04:12 GMT

I was running dosemu 0.52 with linux 1.1.24 and this worked fine.
Now I upgraded to linux.1.1.45 and suddenly dosemu crashes when it is run
on the console.
The xterm version (curses based) still works fine.
Even recompiling (with new linux include files) didn't make any difference:
It still crashes when it tries to access the videocard.

Anyone who can help ?

regards,
-- 
 Kees Lemmens,                    | Phone  : +31-15-787229
 Dep. Applied Analysis,           | Fax    : +31-15-787209
 Fac. Techn. Maths & Informatics, | PO Box : 5031; NL-2600 GA Delft
 Delft University of Technology.  | E-mail : [email-masked]
 The Netherlands.                 | 

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: calentool 2.3X for Unix/Solaris/Linux released
Date: 5 Sep 1994 11:53:28 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Bill Randle <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Calentool, a day-week-month-year at-a-glance calendar and hackers almanac, has
>been cleaned up, slightly enhanced and ported to Solaris 2.3 and Linux. It
>is available in /contrib/office on ftp.x.org and has just been put into
>the incoming directories on sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu. Look for
>"calentool-2.3X.tar.gz" (and "calentool.lsm" for you linux'ers).

Hi, I just compiled the calentool program on linux 1.1.47,
it works fine execpt when I choose "week", in which case it core dumps.
Any idea ?

Thanks.

--
wj

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