Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #729
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To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 20:13:29 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #729, Volume #2                 Fri, 9 Sep 94 20:13:29 EDT

Contents:
  Yggsdrasil Linux uses Their OWN filesystem? (Chang Hyeon Song)
  Re: Monitoring TTY's .. (Stephane Boyer)
  Linux DOOM for X released (David Taylor)
  Linux/AXP Progress Report posted to comp.os.linux.announce (Jim Paradis)
  Re: Linux DOOM for X released (Doug  Dejulio)
  Re: Reminiscence... (Kai Petzke)
  bootp problems (Brian Quandt)
  Re: Linux for the CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) (Jim Oke)
  Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help? (Sven Goldt)
  WordPerfect (David Cabot)
  People should _use_ the LSM (was: Possible FAQ?) ([email-masked])
  Text screen is not restored after exiting from X-windows (Ren B. Bitonio)
  Re: memory above 16Mb ? (Matthew S. Crocker)
  Cirrus Logic 5434 not supported (Yutao Feng)
  Gnu Gopher and linux display problems (Chris Mackay)
  Re: Looking for cheap DC-6525 tapes (525MB) (Margaret S Voges)
  Re: DOSEMU0.52 problem (Sylvain NIERVEZE)
  Re: PCI+Pentium+Linux+X? (Pete Deuel)
  Doom for Linux (Bill West)
  Re: Which is the best Linux CD package? (Dan Newcombe)
  Linux in OpenSystems Today (Robert Mudge)
  Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Sam Oscar Lantinga)

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From: [email-masked] (Chang Hyeon Song)
Subject: Yggsdrasil Linux uses Their OWN filesystem?
Date: 9 Sep 1994 17:54:28 GMT

Hi, netters.
I just bought this Linux CD-ROM, but I found out that Yggsdrasil uses
non-standard file system of their own.
Does it cause any problem?
Please let me know.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
From: [email-masked] (Stephane Boyer)
Subject: Re: Monitoring TTY's ..
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 18:16:24 GMT

Alpha / Omega Enterprises ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Ivan Parga ([email-masked]) wrote:

: : > I'm running a Linux box and would like to find out if there is software 
: : > that will allow me to monitor someone's tty.  We have had some problems 
: : > with people trying to break system security.. it would be nice to be able 
: : > to monitor and record the actions of these people live, while it happens.

:     There is some software available for this, but I have found a quick 
: way to monitor access is to login as that user and then press the up 
: arrow key.  Keep pressing it, and it will show you all of the commands 
: that the particular user executed in their last session.  Of course it 
: will not monitor what they did in different editors, and mail programs, 
: but it is better than nothing.

that is if you know their password ;-) instead try as 'root' to look at their
.bash_history file in their $HOME directory.

even better install ttysnoop, I use it and it works great!, it should be on
sunsite.unc.edu

Steph!

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From: [email-masked] (David Taylor)
Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.announce
Subject: Linux DOOM for X released
Date: 9 Sep 1994 11:07:45 +0100

DOOM v1.666 for Linux using X is available at:

        sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz

The .lsm is also there.  Read it before downloading.  Both of these
may be moved if the sysadmin discovers them.  If you don't already
have the DOS v1.666 data file, it's at the same place but called
doom1wad.tgz.

If you have bought registered DOOM or have pre-ordered DOOM II, you
may use the data files from either on it.  If you've pirated either
file, you suck demon phallus.

WARNING: If you don't know what DOOM is and are getting plenty of
things done at school or work, you do NOT want to download this
program.

        =-ddt->

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Paradis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Linux/AXP Progress Report posted to comp.os.linux.announce
Date: 9 Sep 1994 14:26:43 -0400

For those who are interested, I posted a progress report for the
Linux/AXP project to comp.os.linux.announce

Linux/AXP is a port of the Linux operating system to DEC's Alpha AXP
CPU architecture.

-- 
Jim Paradis ([email-masked])

      The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening at once.  
                               It's not working.

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From: [email-masked] (Doug  Dejulio)
Subject: Re: Linux DOOM for X released
Date: 9 Sep 1994 19:37:37 GMT

>>The .lsm is also there.  Read it before downloading.  Both of these
>>may be moved if the sysadmin discovers them.  If you don't already
>>have the DOS v1.666 data file, it's at the same place but called
>>doom1wad.tgz.
>>
>This doesn't sound particularly legal.

There are two WAD files(*) -- the shareware one and the registered
one.  I own registered DOOM, and the WAD is "doom.wad".  For the
shareware one, it's "doom1.wad".  As long as the tgz file contains
only the doom1.wad file, it should be legal.

(* Actually, there are a zillion WAD files if you count the ones
   written by 3rd parties...)

-- 
Doug DeJulio
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Kai Petzke)
Subject: Re: Reminiscence...
Date: 8 Sep 94 22:30:36 GMT

[email-masked] (Matthew Donadio) writes:

>I just got done reading hlu's post about Linux being a GNU system, so
>I decided that it is about time for another post about the good old
>days.  I've been using Linux since 0.12 (Jan 92) and it's amazing what
>it has become.

>Do you remember...

>...when the only choice when getting a distribution was getting the root 
>       disk first, or the boot disk first?

... when System V IPC came first out as ipcalpha, then ipcbeta, and
    ipcdelta, and even that one was severly broken?  (Rather special
    experience from me, though).

>...only having the minix fs?
... moving from minix to ext2?
... the kernel printing dots when booting
... Linus words in the bootloader, that only up to 512k kernels are
    supported, because Linus wants to keep it simple.
... When a new kernel would break elvis.

Kai
-- 
Kai Petzke                      | How fast can computers get?
Technical University of Berlin  |
Berlin, Germany                 | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek.
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From: [email-masked] (Brian Quandt)
Subject: bootp problems
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 17:08:30 GMT

GeAtting the follwoing out of bootp can anyone hlep, I'm running 
a slackware install upgraded to 1.1.35 of the os

ioctl(SIOCSARP) protocol family not supported.

I get this message by adding a bunch of -d's to the in.bootpd in 
inetd.conf

Brian

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Crossposted-To: soc.culture.canada
From: [email-masked] (Jim Oke)
Subject: Re: Linux for the CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corp)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 18:49:22 GMT

[email-masked] (Eric Masson) writes:

>Hello Maple Leaf Linuxers,

>The CBC News (Peter, Pamela, Wendy et al) can be reached on the internet
>at

>       [email-masked]

>The even better news is that the box running the whole service is 
>a 1.1.48 Linux box 8)  So our tax payer dollars aren't going
>towards expensive operating systems in this time of austerity.   I 
>keep my fingers crossed that the CBC will continue in this thrifty 
>line of thought. Linux is surely making waves.

Good news for Linux fans as well as Canadian tax payers. 

However, although the OS may be on the cheap, the location is not.
See the latest Saturday Night magazine for a description of the CBC's
badly bungled venture in the downtown Toronto real estate market
and how the taxpayers will be on the hook for another few hundred
millions or so to bail the 'corp out....
  
wjo

>Salut,

>Eric

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Goldt)
Subject: Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help?
Date: 9 Sep 1994 19:36:25 GMT

IMHO a math co wouldn't improve much, but more ram !

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From: [email-masked] (David Cabot)
Subject: WordPerfect
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 15:41:48 GMT

I remember someone here saying that they were able to run WP for SCO and 
WP for DOS on Linux.  Someone here tried to install the SCO version here and
it core dumped.  Any suggestions?

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: People should _use_ the LSM (was: Possible FAQ?)
Date: 09 Sep 1994 12:00:18 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Vaibhav Goel) writes:

>People keep on asking about BBS software available for Linux.

This is because they are too lazy to look first.

>  Maybe it's
>time that a FAQ was available listing software that people got compiled
>under linux and the places where its available (eg, xbbs, citadel, etc.)

It exists, it's the LSM.

=============================================================================
Title:         xbbs
Version:       1.0
Description:   Source for xbbs ported to linux
AuthorEmail:   No address
MaintEmail:    No address
DateEntered:   21MAY93
WhoEntered:    Mike Elliott
Location1:     sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/system/BBS/xbbsv1-0.tar.Z (240529)
               <A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/BBS/xbbsv1-0.tar.Z">Location1</A>
=============================================================================
Title:         Citadel/UX  for Linux
Version:       0.2.24
Description:   Citadel/linUX is a Citadel bbs implementation for Linux. This is 
               a port from  Citadel/UX 2.24 by Art Cancro. ctdl-bin.tgz 
               contains binaries and documentation ctdl-src.tgz contains the 
               sources 
Author:        Art Cancro (Inspector Gadget)
Maintainer:    Steve Blass
MaintEmail:    [email-masked]
Required:      libc.so.4.5.24 (or above i suppose) other than that it's running 
               on a 386sx w/4MB ram & 16MB swap  
CopyPolicy:    Freely distributable, modifiable for particular systems; as per 
               Art Cancro's statement in enclosed citadel.doc.
Keywords:      Citadel, BBS, Linux
Comments:      Citadel is a room based, message oriented bulletin board. 
               Citadel/UX also supports voting mechanisms, uucp & usenet 
               services as well as concurrent users plus a doorway to the 
               subsystem of your choice.
DateEntered:   26APR94
WhoEntered:    Steve Blass
EmailEntered:  [email-masked]
Location1:     ftp.mscfs.edu: /pub/citadel/ctdl-bin.tgz, ctdl-src.tgz (120832)
               <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mscfs.edu/pub/citadel/ctdl-bin.tgz, ctdl-src.tgz">Location1</A>
Location2:     <unknown>: /<nopath>/<noname> (0)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: [email-masked] (Ren B. Bitonio)
Subject: Text screen is not restored after exiting from X-windows
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 21:07:26 GMT

Hi!

        I just got X-windows running under linux, but the only problem so
far is the following:

        When I exit a window manager, i.e. fvwm, I expect to return to the 
text screen from which I had invoked startx, the script to run X-windows.
However, my screen becomes distorted with a flickering green pseudo-rectangle
and I can never returned to the text screen mode (console).

        I need to reboot in order to have the system running again.

        I hope somebody can help me out.  My computer consists of the 
following:

        AST Advantage Plus 486dx2-66
        16 MB RAM
        ATI Mach 32 chipset on a local bus
        17" Panasonic 1795E (PanaSync) which complies with VESA standards

        I heard from a friend that ATI might cause some problems.  Is that
true, and if so, what sort of problems?  If not , what can be causing my 
problem of not being able to return to text mode after exiting X-windows.

        Any remedies or utility to fix this ?  

Thanks,
Ren

-- 
< Ren B. Bitonio ([email-masked], [email-masked], et. al. ) >
     "I'm amazed that people who weren't born when we started making
      records know all our old stuff,"
          -- Nick Mason of Pink Floyd

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: memory above 16Mb ?
Date: 8 Sep 1994 18:32:00 GMT

Andre Addicks ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hello,

: We are trying to setup a Compaq systempro (486/33 Mhz) with 24 Mb internal
: memory. We compiled the kernel (1.1.45) with the option:
: 'Limit memory to low 16MB' CONFIG_MAX_16M n
: Still after booting Linux finds no more than 16Mb. Kernel message:
: "Memory 15004k/16256k available (652 kernel code, 384 reserved, 216k data)
: Anybody knows where to find the lost 8Mb ?

: Thanks in advance,

Does the computer report 24MB when it runs through its POST?  If the
computer doesn't see 24MB, then linux won't either.  Try turning off
shadow-ROM in the CMOS settings,  I had to do that in order for linux
(or OS/2) to see anything above 16 MB...

Hope this helps

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From: [email-masked] (Yutao Feng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Cirrus Logic 5434 not supported
Date: 9 Sep 94 21:02:03 GMT

My video card is Cirrus Logic 5434, which is not in the options of my
XFree86, and my X windows can not be configured. Cirrus Logic 5420,
5422 and 5426 are supported in my installation. Is there anyone here
also using clgd5434 under XFree86? What can I do to run X with this
video card? Thanks!
--Yutao Feng

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
From: [email-masked] (Chris Mackay)
Subject: Gnu Gopher and linux display problems
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Chris Mackay)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 01:06:14 GMT

 I just FTP'ed the latest version of Gnu Gopher from
boombox. It compiled perfectly with one warning which
wasn't very important.  I set it up with the sample
menus and such but when I run 'gn', nothing appears
on the screen and if I press the <enter> key, it shows
what looks like the .cache file to the screen and drops
back to the prompt. I don't see the traditional gopher menu with a
selector prompt and such at all. Does anybody have a clue as to what
I should do?

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Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
From: [email-masked] (Margaret S Voges)
Subject: Re: Looking for cheap DC-6525 tapes (525MB)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 16:37:18 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Angelo Haritsis <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am looking for a supplier to get *cheap* DC-6525 tapes (525Mb) 
>in the UK.  Any suggestions?

I'm also looking for DC-6525's or DC-6250's only I am in the US.

>
>Please reply by personal email.
Reply to me either way (there may be others who need this info).
Thanks
>
>Thanks,
>Angelo
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> e-mail: [email-masked] - !!!NEW!!! tel:+44 71 594 8434 - fax:+44 71 589 7127

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain NIERVEZE)
Subject: Re: DOSEMU0.52 problem
Date: 9 Sep 1994 10:52:13 GMT

NJBIRDMAN ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I compiled dosemu0.52 (kernel 1.1.35, GCC 2.5.8, etc. All went well, 
: but when I try to run it to install (dos -A). I get  0 errors and 0
: warnings in /etc/dosemu.conf (which is good news) and then a segmentation
: fault (VERY bad news). I tried a lot of stuff, including recompiling,
: removing ftape module, removing selection, etc. No change. Any ideas?

I think that you have a problem with video. I had the same problem which I
resolved with removing the video line in the /etc/dosemu.conf file and
replacing it with a very basic declaration like the one said to work with
xterm:
video { vga chunks 1}
it sould work with that, and then you can try other configurations .

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Deuel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PCI+Pentium+Linux+X?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 01:16:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (David J Topper) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (David J Topper)
>Subject: PCI+Pentium+Linux+X?
>Date: 7 Sep 1994 14:12:03 GMT

>Subject: Pentium PCI + Linux X Motiff
>I could really use some help on the following:

>1)  Does Linux support the Pentium?

Yup, ours is a Gateway P5-90 (a Gateway better than usual)
(PCI HOWTO)

>2)  Does Linux support 32 | 64 bit Video (PCI)?

The gateway came with an ATI Mach 64; there's an experimental driver, which is
working great for us!  1024 x 768--woks spectacularly
(PCI HOWTO, X Free 86 HOWTO)

>3)  Would an SCSI HD make life better?

Drive access speed will be much better (faster).  SCSI may also make it easier 
for you to add a CD ROM and such 
(SCSI HOWTO, Installation HOWTO, I think)

>4)  How does one get Linux + a GUI (X Windows 
/ Motiff) + a C++ compiler>    and other utils?

See Distribution HOWTO--Yggdrasil sells OSF Motif WM for Linux, however
I've been less than satidsfied with their non-standard file structure.  I also 
like Trans-Ameritech--if I had to do it again, I'd get the TA dist. and then 
by Motif from Yggdrasil.

>5)  Are there any major brand hardware peices I need to watch out for?

Read the HOWTOs to get a sense of it (theres even a Hardware HOWTO)

>6)  Or, is there a list (are there lists) of Linux / Xfree86 / C++ 
>    compatibility and availability w/respect to Pentium / PCI Video. 

Yup.  See The HOWTOs.  They are at

     sunsite.unc.edu     /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO

Basically, here's the lowdown--> read the HOWTOs + a little extra commentary.  
Good Luck, Linuxer!

Pete
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     "Actually, I'm a lab mouse on stilts..."

     E-mail:  [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Bill West)
Subject: Doom for Linux
Date: 9 Sep 1994 22:19:45 GMT

For those who can't use ftp some kind soul just posted Doom for Linux at
alt.binaries.doom.

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From: [email-masked] (Dan Newcombe)
Subject: Re: Which is the best Linux CD package?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 15:18:00 UNDEFINED

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (ACC Corp.) writes:
>Infomagic do offer one of the best price/performance Linux CD's being their
>$20 two CD set.  Their June release had a live kernal on the CD, but does
>not run X windows.  Infomagic is out of stock of their June release, as are
>most of their resellers (including ourselves) but are taking orders for
>their upcoming September release that should be available by the end of
>September.

Uh...they have several live "kernels" on the CD.  I think what you meant to 
say was that they have a live filesystem (slackware) on the CD that you can 
mount and use.  This live filesystem does not have X installed, but you can 
install that from one of the distributions.

        -Dan

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Mudge)
Subject: Linux in OpenSystems Today
Date: 9 Sep 1994 11:50:35 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

I saw an editorial about Linux in Open Systems Today
Magazine.  Says as stable as Sun 4.1.3!  Great job
Linus T and crew.

Linux Lovers...

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
From: [email-masked] (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 22:25:38 GMT

Christopher Wiles ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Good God, why?!?

        DOOM for Linux, why else?  ;-)

: Well ... I suppose you could use the monitor config spreadsheet at 
: sunsite (/pub/Linux/X11 is the closest I can point you ... sunsite is 
: still down).  Plug in the rez and you'll get timings.

        Hmm. 

: Yeah ... fingering [email-masked] reveals the same message re: Linux 
: port as it has for the last two months: "RSN!! RSN!!"

        I suppose you speak in ignorance. :)  It's out, and
available from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming and at
dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/doom as the file lnxdoom.tgz

Enjoy folks!  *grin*

: Seriously, IMHO Doom will probably be more useable in the promised 
: pixel-doubling mode than in a straight 320x200.  Easier to make things 
: look innocent when the boss walks in ... "Hey, you're not actually 
: _working_ in 320x200, are you?"

        Well, a couple of things... I've tried it in pixel doubling
mode, and not only is it slower, but the display is broken.  It looks
like you are looking through one of those windows with glass ribs.
Also... if you should happen to be one of those that actually play
games at work, you might want to know that Ctrl-Alt-+ and Ctrl-Alt--
change X11 resolutions on the fly at the Linux console. :)

        So.... 320x200 resolution anyone? :)
I'll post if I figure out how to do it.

Thanks,

        -Sam

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