Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #766
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:13:15 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #766, Volume #2                Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:13:15 EDT

Contents:
  Replacement for clrscr() (Nate Hill)
  linux & PCI SCSI (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld)
  Re: The HP 560C printer (Johannes Schindlin)
  Re: CorelDRAW for Unix (Mats 'MaDsen' Wikholm)
  Have you bought from Fintronics? (Michael P. Jarreau)
  Re: Q: Reading from a ext2fs partition from DOS? (Won Hong)
  Re: Horrific bug in DOOM! (John Lamp)
  Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Jeff Tranter)
  Re: Linux DOOM comments... (Jeff Tranter)
  Re: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem (Spencer PriceNash)
  Re: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ? (Pete Deuel)
  Re: Compaq Contura Aero (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
  Re: VHDL for Linux...? (Don Hiatt)
  calendar/scheduling (Brian Quandt)
  Re: OS/2 fan wants to try Linux.. What do I need ?? (Steven Pritchard)
  Re: Time Screws up w/ Linux (G. Browning)
  Re: AHA1542 Problems (Rob Janssen)
  Re: linux-1.1.50 (Pete Deuel)
  Re: Linux for home use (Treemaker)
  S3 864 BETA? (Lam Dang)
  Go for Linux available! (Randy Hootman)
  X-Remote (Sean Marrinan)

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From: [email-masked] (Nate Hill)
Subject: Replacement for clrscr()
Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:52:20 GMT

        I need to find the equivalent command to Borland's clrscr() in
conio.h.  I looked in the curses.h but I'm pretty sure the clear() function
in there is not quite what I'm looking for.  Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,
   Nate Hill

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From: [email-masked] (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld)
Subject: linux & PCI SCSI
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 19:24:50 GMT

Does anyone have an idea if linux will
recognise an "Onboard PCI 7870 Fast-Wide SCSI-2 controller."?

-- 
Frode Fjeld        e-mail..: [email-masked]
                   WWW.....: http://www.cs.uit.no/~frodef/frodef.html

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From: [email-masked] (Johannes Schindlin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: The HP 560C printer
Date: 15 Sep 1994 19:49:33 GMT

SHAKER Kamal ([email-masked]) wrote:
: We're now looking for a new printer, has to be colour for my
: brothers design work, and my mother wants the Hewlett Packard 560C.
: What I'd like to know is whether it is well supported under OS/2 
: and Linux ( my OS's of choice, I assume it has decent drivers for 
: Windows ). So, does it? Or does anyone else know of a similar printer 
: for about the same price.

: Thanks for anything, 
: Kamal.

As far as I know, it can be run compatible with HP 550C drivers
(then only supporting 300x300 dpi). In this case, you might use
ghostscript under linux to produce high-quality color outputs
(as far as I can say that - I'm not an expert on this). Perhaps
ghostscript 3.0 has a driver for the hp560c - ask in comp.ghostscript
(or similar) if that is so.
For OS/2 drivers, contact HP directly. When I was needing an OS/2
driver for my brand-new HP550C a year ago, I got it from them -
if there's an OS/2 driver not included with the printer, you might
get it from them as well.

Bye

Dscho

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From: [email-masked] (Mats 'MaDsen' Wikholm)
Subject: Re: CorelDRAW for Unix
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 20:20:58 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (philip m. thompson) writes:
>
>CorelDRAW runs on Sun, SCO, AIX, etc... Has anybody had any luck running
>it on Linux? It's my main DOS application, so if there's a reasonable
>chance of success, I'd like to use it at home on my Linux box.

 The only reason why I still have  Messy Dos on my  HD is CorelDRAW. I
just got the new 5 and love et even more.

 So if there's even a little chance to get Corel on Linux I would really like to know, too.

-- 
 . . .  [email-masked] / win-nt from the people who invented edlin  .
 . . .  frantzgatan 3 E 25  / apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden  . .
  . .  20380 abo  finland  / Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses  . . . 
   .  @358.(9)21.377.363  / this .signature is  released as shareware  . . . .

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From: [email-masked] (Michael P. Jarreau)
Subject: Have you bought from Fintronics?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:57:02 GMT

I am preparing to buy a PC with linux built in from a company called
Fintronics (Melno Park, CA, USA).

Can you tell me anything about the company?

Thanks,
Michael
([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Won Hong)
Subject: Re: Q: Reading from a ext2fs partition from DOS?
Date: 16 Sep 1994 02:09:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Steve
DuChene) writes:

>Won Hong ([email-masked]) wrote:

>: Just wondering if there is a DOS program you can use to be able to
>: read the Linux ext2fs partitions, guess it would be something like
>: the mscdex thing to read iso9660 format.  It would just be nice to
>: be able to access things on all my drives in either operating
>: system.

>  Everytime I see this come up I wonder what someone is thinking
>  when they say they want to do this? DOS does not have any means
>  of restricting access to the filesystem (oh, like /etc/passwd!)
>  to prevent someone with a DOS program like this from accessing my
>  system files as root! I really don't think this is a real swift
>  idea here.

Well, it was just a thought.  I've gotten a couple pieces of mail
saying that this is a security risk, and that is definitely true for
some people -> namely the ones where the DOS system is either
networked or the computer is physically accessible to others who
you don't trust.

But for myself (and I assume many others) my computer is here on my
desk safely in my room.  If someone had physical access to it, they
could just boot a Linux install disk off the floppy drive and mount my
harddrive and change the /etc/passwd if they wanted.  (unless I change
the CMOS to not boot from the floppies...but that's a bad solution).

It would just be very convenient not to have to reboot into Linux to
grab something from a file on those semi-often occasions when I'm
caught playing games in DOS and need some stuff from Linux.

But thanks for the replys, I just wanted to see if it existed is all.
I'm not very good at programming DOS, so I definitely couldn't do it
myself.

Jesse Hong
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (John Lamp)
Subject: Re: Horrific bug in DOOM!
Date: 15 Sep 1994 03:57:08 GMT

[email-masked] (Jake Colman) writes:

>Kevin Lentin ([email-masked]) wrote:

>: Huh? I know QDOS as a separate product. Sort of in the lvein of 4DOS. Is
>: this a coincidence?

>QDOS is a product from Gazelle Systems which is more like X-Tree than it
>is like 4DOS.  The latter is a replacement command processor for DOS
>in that it fully replaces COMMAND.COM.  QDOS is a file selector/browser
>tool with a few other goodies thrown in as well.

Yep, and not to be confused with Seattle's QDOS (quick and dirty o/s) 
which was renamed MS-DOS 1.0. I have been using Gazelle's QDOS since 1.2 
and can heartily recommend it.
--
-- [email-masked] : John Lamp --------------------------------
Time paradoxes will have given me a headache.
================================= http://131.217.21.97/jw_lamp/jw_lamp.html ==

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Tranter)
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
Date: 14 Sep 1994 15:59:53 -0400

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Terence S. Murphy) writes:
>Does 8 bit sound work *at all*?  I have the Soundblaster Pro, and when
>I start it up, it says, could not initialize 16 bit sound (or something
>...

I got the program doom_16to8bit_snd.tgz from incoming on sunsite. I
allows running doom on an 8-bit soundcard. It worked great with my
SoundBlaster/Pro -- as good as the DOS version. You also need a recent
kernel (get 1.1.50) that has "DOOM mode" support in the sound driver.
-- 
Jeff Tranter                                      [email-masked]
Software Technology, Mitel Corporation

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Tranter)
Subject: Re: Linux DOOM comments...
Date: 14 Sep 1994 16:02:52 -0400

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Thomas E Zerucha) writes:

>Pixel doubling doesn't work.  Sound is fine (and in stereo!).

The file linxdoom.lsm.new in incoming on sunsite has the pixel
doubling and tripling fixed.  At least thats what it claims, and it
seemed to work fine on my machine.
-- 
Jeff Tranter                                      [email-masked]
Software Technology, Mitel Corporation

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From: [email-masked] (Spencer PriceNash)
Subject: Re: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem
Date: 15 Sep 1994 00:03:29 -0400

[ newsgroups trimmed ]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Neal Becker <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Did you really want uucp_neighbors?  How about removing the offending
>router?

If you don't have a router, smail (at least under Linux's Slackware
2.0 distribution) defaults to calling uuname.

IMHO that's STUPID.
-- 
Spencer PriceNash   [email-masked]   [email-masked]
Dan Quayle via anon ftp: Quotes at umcc.umich.edu in pub/users/quayle, GIFs
and sound files at vaxa.crc.mssm.edu in quayle/gif and quayle/sound.

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Deuel)
Subject: Re: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 03:10:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Kevin Esler) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (Kevin Esler)
>Subject: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ?
>Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 19:39:10 GMT

>Does anybody have any benchmark figures on the relative raw CPU
>performance of:

>        486/dx2-66
>        Pentium 60
>        Pentium 66
>        Pentium 90

Yup.  Check the mini-howto on "BogoMips"  P5-90 gateway (for us) is 36.08, 
which toasts nearly everything else...  Check it out; it's on sunsite...

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

     E-mail:  [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Subject: Re: Compaq Contura Aero
Date: 15 Sep 1994 04:43:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jerod Tufte) writes:
>has anyone tried to run Linux on this machine?  I'm thinking of getting
>one for light work, to complement my main linux system, and I was
>wondering if there were any problems with it and linux.  I noticed in
>the bios messages that it supported the Plug-n-play standard.
>
I'm running it right now.  It's TeX'ing something for me.  Installs easily.
Only problem is, in X (Yes) the sleep mode is odd -- this may also occur in 
text mode, too.  You just have to manually sleep it, or sync'ing keeps
waking it up before it completely times out.  Maybe fiddling with the 
sync daemon will help that.  Once it's asleep for real the clock stops getting
updates, and syncing also stops, I guess.  Suspend/resume does work.

But it does work.  I installed slackware 1.2.  Use the tty install disk.

You need to use a floppy disk (why I got one), and it needs to be bootable.
Older Aero's may not have this ability (ROM date needs to be 3/7/94).

The floppy (PCMCIA) is readable w/o any drivers -- linux complains a 
bit, and you have to tell it it's /dev/fd0H1440, but then it works fine.

Make a diagnostics diskette, since lilo prevents you from using their method to 
boot into the diagnostics.  Then you can delete the diag. partition and gain 2 
meg of space.

X is slow with 4 meg RAM (more is available if you have some money), but I 
did get it working with some help.  The SVGA server didn't recognize the card,
and SuperProbe gave another guess, so I use the VGA16 server.

Here's Xconfig info:

FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#FontPath       "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

Keyboard
  AutoRepeat 500 5
#  Xleds      1 2 3
  ServerNumLock
#  DontZap
ps/2            "/dev/ps2aux"
BaudRate        1200
#  SampleRate   150
Emulate3Buttons

# The graphics drivers
#
vga16
  Virtual       640 480
#  Virtual      1152 900
  ViewPort      0 0
  Modes         "640x480"
Clocks 28.3 28.322 0.00 0.00

ModeDB
# clock  horzontal timing      vertical timing
 # "640x480"   28.3     640  680  776  800    400  412  414  449
 "640x480"   28.322    640  680  720  864    480  488  491  521

Be sure to re-compile the kernel with the minimum configuration you need, to 
save space and RAM.
-- 

David L. Johnson                        [email-masked] or 
Department of Mathematics               [email-masked]
Lehigh University
14 E. Packer Avenue                     (610) 758-3759
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174                (610) 828-3708

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From: [email-masked] (Don Hiatt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.lsi.cad,comp.lang.vhdl
Subject: Re: VHDL for Linux...?
Date: 13 Sep 1994 22:13:36 -0500

ADA ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have been playing (or trying to play) with both magic and ocean.  I
: was wondering if there are any free VHDL simulators available or being
: worked on for Linux.  If so, what about synthesis tools?

Yes there is. Get the Alliance-2.0 package. You can ftp the source
from: ftp.ibp.fr
You will find it in /ibp/softs/masi/alliance

Alliance is aimed at VLSI synthesis but if that is not your goal
you can still use the VHDL simulator.. BTW, it is a great package.

don

: While I'm on the subject, and I know this isn't the proper group but I
: know there are a lot of hardware weenies out there like me, is there
: an emacs major mode for VHDL floating around?

I would like to know this :)

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From: [email-masked] (Brian Quandt)
Subject: calendar/scheduling
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 20:31:52 GMT

Looking for a multiple user calendar/scheudling program for unix/linux.
anyone know of one?  Something that might even have a niffty
winsock front end that can be used from windows.  A mosaic/http 
document that interfaces to some datafile/database would be fine.

Anyone can you help?

Brian

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From: [email-masked] (Steven Pritchard)
Subject: Re: OS/2 fan wants to try Linux.. What do I need ??
Date: 13 Sep 1994 21:01:46 -0600

[email-masked] (todd) writes:
>I recently added Linux to my OS/2 machine and am quite
>happy, so I feel somewhat qualified to answer this post:

I don't question this, but I don't completely agree with some of your 
responses.

>: 1)will it run on a386DX40 8M ?
>Yes, but slowly.

I disagree. I'm running Linux on a 386DX/40 with only 4 meg, and it seems 
fine to me.  Of course, it is all what you are used to.  I'm used to 
DOS/Windows on the same machine, and Linux is much more comfortable to 
use.  It also depends on what you want to do.  If you want to run X, have 
multiple logins, compiles, and what not, then it'll be slow.  For 
"normal" work, I'm really happy.

>: 2)how much HD is required ?
>Give it 100 MB for comfort.

Again, this all depends on what you want to have on your hard drive.  
Personally, I would recommend getting something like InfoMagic's CDs (if 
you have a CD-ROM) with its live filesystem and keep only a minimum 
configuration + X (if you want it) on the hard drive.  You could probably 
keep it down to <50 MB.  Then again, you could get on of the CDs and dump 
*everything* to your HD and use a gig quick.  At home, where I don't have 
a CD-ROM, I use about 120 meg, but I've got about 30-40 meg free.

>: 3)does it require it's own partition or can it live alongside DOS and 
>: OS/2 in the same partition ?
>I'd recommend making a dedicated Linux partition.

Ditto.

>: 4)can it be booted from DOS or does it require it's own boot manager ?
>Boot it from the OS/2 boot manager if you're using that.  That's
>what I do.

Or you can use LILO.  Or you can boot it from DOS.  (That's what I do.  
Loadlin is cool.  :)

>: 5)what are the files required to get me up and running ?
>: 6)where can I get these ?
>Order one of the Slackware 2.0 CDROMs from any of a number of
>distributors.  I got mine from Morse Telecommunications for
>about $50, which includes the installation book (printed, of
>course) and three months of tech support.

I have to recommend InfoMagic's CDs.  A two disk set for $20.  It is 
minimalistic, but if you don't mind figuring things out for yourself, 
it's a hell of a deal.  They can be reached at [email-masked].

Otherwise, look on ftp.cdrom.com, sunsite.unc.edu, and tsx-11.mit.edu.  
Oh, and get /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO from sunsite.

Enjoy!

Steve
-- 
[email-masked]             |  Steven
[email-masked]             |  Pritchard
GCS/M/S d? p+ c++(++++) l++ u+(-) e+ m+(---) s/+ !n h--- f+ g+ w@ t++ r- y?

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From: [email-masked] (G. Browning)
Subject: Re: Time Screws up w/ Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 15:28:10 GMT

Vaughn Adams ([email-masked]) wrote:
:       I have had this problem for a while and never bothered to resolve it.
: Now that I need cron, I need to get it fixd.  Everytime I boot Linux, my i
: clock screws up.  THe time is always off, but the date is ok.  This doesn't 
: happen with any other OS that I have run on the computer.  I am runnin 
: Slackware 1.2 with a couple of dirrerent kernels. it seems to be kernel
: independant.

:       Any response would be appreciated.

Well, I wanted to make sure that my clock was always accuate for cron
so XNTP was installed on my system (network time protocol).  Of course
this only works if you are connected to the internet.  You could use
archie to search for the package.

-Gary

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: AHA1542 Problems
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 23:00:18 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Stephan Duhl) writes:

>-- 
>Hi all,

>i have a adaptec 1542 CF at adress 0x330. Now i have get a soundcard
>(spea media fx), which want that adress too. Any attempt to change the
>adress of aha 1542 to 0x2XX or 0x1XX doesn't work. DOS runs as normal, but
>linux doesn't boot any more!
>(Many game under DOS assume that at 0x330 is a Wave-Table-Adr! )

>has someone a solution ??

In /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c you will find the following:

/* The adaptec can be configured for quite a number of addresses, but
I generally do not want the card poking around at random.  We allow
two addresses - this allows people to use the Adaptec with a Midi
card, which also used 0x330 */

static unsigned int bases[]={0x330, 0x334};

You can just edit and/or expand this table...

Rob
-- 
=========================================================================
| Rob Janssen                | AMPRnet:   [email-masked]           |
| e-mail: [email-masked]     | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU     |
=========================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Deuel)
Subject: Re: linux-1.1.50
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 03:12:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin)
>Subject: Re: linux-1.1.50
>Date: 13 Sep 1994 11:47:22 GMT

>Matthias Bruestle ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: Mahlzeit
>: > Version 1.1.50 has been posted several several hours ago to ftp.funet.fi.
>: > Before upgrading my PC from version 1.1.8 to 1.1.50 I would like to know
>: > if anyone has already installed version 1.1.50 on his system and whether
>: > there are any problems with it.
>: I would also be interessted, what programs I must change if I upgrade
>: from 1.1.22 to 1.1.50.
>:                       Mahlzeit
>: -- 
>: A leap ahead... through insanity.

>Dosemu, for shure. Besides that, everything I use seems to work.

Is it also true that you need to update "modutils"???

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

     E-mail:  [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Treemaker)
Subject: Re: Linux for home use
Date: 13 Sep 1994 23:11:08 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
(Thomas J. Lohman) writes:

Hi, 
    I am ruuning both DOS/Windows  on my home machine. the Dos is used for

customer support and LINUX for found and Knowledge.  I use floppies
between the
two systems. This is because of the way I did (to keeps kids out of the
machine).
I have no problems using the two operating systems side by nor when I had
UNIX
itself with the other two systems.  Caution is to watch your partions
carefuly

bye 

                                      mark

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From: [email-masked] (Lam Dang)
Subject: S3 864 BETA?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:49:27 GMT

Do you know where to find a copy of the XFree86 driver beta which 
supports the S3 Vision 864 chip?  I need it for my new #9GXE64 (not the 
964 Pro version).  Thanks.
-- 
Lam Dang
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Randy Hootman)
Subject: Go for Linux available!
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:51:47 GMT

I modified a couple of files for xgoban and wally so that they would work 
on Linux. Now they do and they are available for anonymous ftp from:

ftp.netcom.com 

as /pub/rph/xgoban-wally.tgz

I'll put it in sunsite and tsx if I can ever get in (busy, busy, busy).

Enjoy!

Randy Hootman
-- 

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings,
      we pay ourselves the highest tribute." - Thurgood Marshall
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Randy Hootman                Randysoft Software             (408) 229-0119

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From: [email-masked] (Sean Marrinan)
Subject: X-Remote
Date: 15 Sep 1994 12:06:44 -0400

Hi,

I was wondering if there is an X-Remote program for linux.

I need to run xwindows over a slow serial line, and this is
supposed to get you the best results.  Slip and Cslip and PPP
are just too slow for remote xwindows.

If no xremote port is out there. Is there a program which
is xwindows specific compression to increase my throughput.

thanks,
Sean
[email-masked]
computer engineering

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