Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #832
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 09:13:12 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #832, Volume #2                Tue, 27 Sep 94 09:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  Re: inn 1.4 missing file nntp_access (yuan tzeng)
  Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS (Frank van Maarseveen)
  Re: Scanning with Linux? (Erik Corry)
  Re: Apple IIgs floppies (Alexandra Griffin)
  Re: More Memory = Slow Linux?? (Henry Ware)
  Re: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard? (Kevin Martinez)
  Special Sale On QNX!
  Re: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard? (Martin Oldfield)
  Re: More Memory? (Alexandra Griffin)
  Re: Wanted: Mailadress for Infomagic (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Graham Chapman)
  Re: More Memory? (Tom Barringer)
  Re: xfree 3.2 (Bob)
  Re: ** autoconf.h? ** ([email-masked])
  Re: Is Linux faster than Os/2? Please help. (Robert Gasch)
  Compiling Linux for a Pentium... (Aaron K. Michalove)
  max line length (zachary brown)
  Re: reccomend a CD-ROM? (Steve DuChene)
  Re: GCC (templates) on Linux (Daniel COHEN-LAROQUE)
  Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (ADRIAN WEBBERLEY)
  *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) (Ian Jackson)

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From: [email-masked] (yuan tzeng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: inn 1.4 missing file nntp_access
Date: 26 Sep 1994 10:43:02 +0800

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

: I recently installed inn.1.4. on my Linux system as it was distributed
: with the Slackware 2.0 version. First of all it seems to work fine. But
: sometimes, when I want to read news with winvn or telnet on port 119,
: I'm getting the message: "innd server can't talk to you"
: When I'm looking in the syslog file, I see the following message:
: "nntp[]: access: fopen /usr/lib/news/nntp/nntp_access : No such file or 

  You can't mix C news with INN. That won't work right. If you want to
  have INN (and ONLY). Make sure you

  1. /usr/local/lib/news is renamed to something else
     and $ cd /usr/local/lib ; ln -s ../../lib/news .
  2. /usr/bin/rnews & /usr/bin/inews are linked to /usr/lib/news/* where
     INN's inews/rnews sits.
  3. make sure you take nntp service out from /etc/inetd.conf
  4. you have INN runnig
  5. you now can change nntp reading permission to whatever your like by
     editing /usr/lib/news/nnrp.access
  
  Hope this helps some bits.

--
* * ´¿ ®á, An Independent Network Consultant

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: [email-masked] (Frank van Maarseveen)
Subject: Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 17:34:13 GMT

I saw a posting in comp.os.solaris recently about assigning multiple
IP addresses to the same adapter! (on a SparcStation with Solaris 2.x)

This was done in order to route something across the same physical network
without the need for an extra adapter. The second "virtual" adapter was
referred to as le0:1, the ":1" part appended to the original adapter name.
Though a bit unusual, there's nothing wrong with this I think.
I suppose there are no plans yet for implementing this feature in linux.

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From: [email-masked] (Erik Corry)
Subject: Re: Scanning with Linux?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 01:45:18 GMT

Russell Nelson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Byron A Jeff) writes:

:    1.1 The misconception of TWAIN compliancy
:    -----------------------------------------
:    One of the comments I often see is "If we write a TWAIN driver then all
:    scanners will work..." Unfortunately this is an incorrect assertion. TWAIN
:    is a standard that the scanner manufacurers came up with to provide a
:    common, standard interface between their scanners and the DOS/Windows
:    applications that use them. Quick Picture:

: Okay, so why can't we design a similar interface, so that
: manufacturers can port their TWAIN driver?

The TWAIN drivers written by the manufacturers are DOS programs, accessing
the hardware directly, and providing a standard interface to the application.
Surely it would be very difficult to emulate this sort of environment so as
to enable the driver to be ported easily.

What might be simpler, is to provide a standard set of ioctls and read writes
on a /dev/scanner. This could be done with twain in mind so that the wine
people could add TWAIN -> /dev/scanner code without too much trouble. This
doesn't solve the problem of writing a scanner driver. This is something
the company I work for (InnoData) could do for SCSI scanners, but I can't
see us releasing our code in GPL and we are not convinced there is a market
for the sort of high-end scanners we support with Linux.
-- 
Erik Corry, Skagerrakstr. 2, 79100 Freiburg, Germany, +49 761 406637
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Alexandra Griffin)
Subject: Re: Apple IIgs floppies
Date: 26 Sep 1994 22:14:57 GMT

Unfortunately, it's not possible to read Apple-format floppies with a
PC drive, due to the variable-speed problems you mentioned (I think
Apple disks are GCR-encoded as well).

Do you have access to a Macintosh anywhere?  All Macs with recent OS
versions can read and write Apple II 3.5" disks as well as MS-DOS
disks.  Just insert each disk in turn, and copy the files-- the
foreign file systems appear as normal icons on the Mac desktop.

-- alex

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From: [email-masked] (Henry Ware)
Subject: Re: More Memory = Slow Linux??
Date: 24 Sep 1994 23:40:27 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
Brad Matthew Garcia <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Marc Visser) writes:
>|> In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Brad Matthew Garcia) writes:
>|> There is an answer to the question in the comp.os.linux...FAQ
>|> It can be caused by a cache that's not big enough or that's only enabled
>|> for the lower part of RAM. If you read the FAQ you can often solve the
>|> problem, if not inform the net so we can help or avoid the hardware you
>|> have bought.
>|> 
>Yes, I have read the FAQ.  The Faqqin' FAQ just tells me to add cache as 
>I add memory, and to make sure all my memory is being cached.

Please note that most of the questions in c.o.l.help and in the 
comp.os.unix.* groups are answered in the respective faqs.  R'ing TFM
is something most people are reluctant to do.  (The Linux stuff is a 
relatively easy read, with a very high signal to noise ratio.)

Of course, this question begs for an answer from the PC hardware 
groups... but I'll throw my two humble bits in anyway. :^)

>What I wanted to know is why Linux slows down with more memory/no more
>cache, while MS Windows doesn't appear to suffer a bit.

>I have already had several people reply to me, and have heard a few
>plausible explainations.  I will summarize my findings and ask some more
>questions.

[ summary of answers relating to the 16M question deleted. ]

Simple: the cache has an overhead.  A cache miss takes much longer than 
the memory access time.  First we look if its in the cache.  We decide 
its not, we send out a query.  This overhead is significant- a small (L2) 
cache is worse than none at all.  

It seems to me, this implies that Linux has a lower locality of 
reference than ms.w.doze.  
  
Ms-doze, as a different OS, would have different locality of reference 
characteristics than Linux.  Hardware manufacturers of PC stuff will tend 
to optimize for ms.Doze.  

We compensate with differnet buying patterns: ie. better busses, more 
memory, more cache, slower cpus.

YMMV,
Henry

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
From: Kevin Martinez <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 00:47:26 GMT

[email-masked] (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:

>If Linux runs on your Pentium P90 PCI, or you know of a working such,
>I'd appreciate knowing what motherboard did the trick.
>-- 
>Vaughan Pratt                  http://boole.stanford.edu/boole.html

I got a Dell Optiplex 590 that works fine. It has the Intel Neptune 
chipset as far as I can tell. The motherboard is proprietary to Dell and 
wouldn't fit in anything else by the look of it.
-- 
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 I owe all my success to Roly Poly Fish Heads!     Call: 1 510 676 1111
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 09:34:56 GMT

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Oldfield)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 09:04:05 GMT

>>>>> "David" == David S Vickers <[email-masked]> writes:
In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (David S. Vickers) writes:

    David> [email-masked] (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
    >> If Linux runs on your Pentium P90 PCI, or you know of a working
    >> such, I'd appreciate knowing what motherboard did the trick.
    >> -- Vaughan Pratt http://boole.stanford.edu/boole.html

    David> I recently built a system for someone with an Intel Plato
    David> P54C motherboard which used the Neptune chipset.  I used an
    David> NCR SCSI controler with a patched kernel (version 1.1.19).
    David> The first motherboard I got had a flakey cache, and
    David> upgrading the BIOS didn't help.  I replaced the
    David> motherboard, and everything has worked flawlessly since.

I've also installed Linux 1.1.49 on a Plato / Neptune board. We had
problems with the original bios (version X.X.3)  but an upgrade (to
X.X.10) solved that. I'm running it with:
        Orchid Kelvin 64 on PCI
        SMC Ultra on ISA
        FD 1650 SCSI on ISA

There's a small problem cleaning up when X shuts down - the text mode
font gets screwed up, but that's probably an X problem.

Cheers,

--

Martin Oldfield, MRAO, Cavendish Labs, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0HE
Work:  0223 337365 Fax: 0223 354599 Home: 0223 67940
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are bad for me do not tempt me - Shaw

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From: [email-masked] (Alexandra Griffin)
Subject: Re: More Memory?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 22:21:29 GMT

Linux supports ISA-bus memory, but if you already have 16 megs or more
it won't work because only the low 24 bits of address space can be
accessed from the ISA bus.  It will also be unacceptably slow.

I've never seen a VESA local-bus memory expansion card-- do such
things exist?  If they did that would be a viable means of expansion,
but with the low prices on CPU-less motherboards these days you should
probably just swap yours out for one with more simm sockets.
-- alex

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Mailadress for Infomagic
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 04:19:31 GMT

Thomas Blase ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hello Linuxers,

: i tried to order the new Linux-developers-CDs at [email-masked], but
: the mail returned, because there is no route to host.
: So, who knows the new email-adress of Infomagic for orders ?

Hmmmm... should be routing properly now... if not, use
        
        [email-masked]    and I'll forward it for you via phone
                                if necessary.

        Sorry for the mix-up with the move to Arizona and all...
          (the T1 should be in soon now - the phone company says so!)
        
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============================================================
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747         [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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From: [email-masked] (Graham Chapman)
Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk!
Date: 25 Sep 1994 18:47:53 +1000

In <slarsen.779550200@gonix> [email-masked] (Steve Larsen) writes:
>>   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...

You need to edit the kernel Makefile and change the RAMDISK macro 
to read:

RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440

Then rebuild the kernel.

This defines a ramdisk which is the same size as the diskette. If you
boot from a diskette using this kernel and a lilo label of "ramdisk", then
linux will automatically create the ramdisk and copy the diskette
contents to it, thus making the ramdisk the root drive.

You do not need to use dd to copy the kernel to the diskette. Simply
create a filesystem on the diskette and copy the kernel in the normal
way using cp. Use lilo to make the diskette bootable. My lilo config
file is:

boot = /dev/fd0
install = /etc/lilo/boot.b
compact
image = /floppy/Image
        label = ramdisk
        ramdisk = 1440
        root= /dev/fd0

This config assumes that the boot diskette is mounted at /floppy
and the kernel on it is called "Image".

There may be other ways of doing it. I have done it this way and it works.

>It seems like you guys have the 'boot' disk figured out, so your'e trying
>for a 'root' disk? Mount the one you currently have for an example. Incident-
>ally, it's Minix! Seriously, I've done it out of necessity, and you can make
>one alot better than what you get with most distributions. I don't know why
>it has to be Minix---I think it hearkens back to the pre-historical days
>of Linux development.......hope this helps.

It does not have to be a Minix filesystem on the boot diskette. It was 
probably used for the early distributions because it was simple, and
it was the first one up and running, but it does not have to be Minix.
I have set up my own boot diskettes with an ext2 filesystem, and it
works fine.

Graham

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Barringer)
Subject: Re: More Memory?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 16:55:45 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (G. Browning) writes:
|> 
|> Hello,   I currently have 32 Megs of actual RAM and have a 50 meg 
|> swap partition and I was wondering if expanded memory boards would
|> work with linux.  Basically, I want to have a LARGE amount of actual
|> RAM for many services that are planned for our linux box.  Basically,
|> I would like to have somewhere around 64 megs + of ram (the computer
|> is maxed with 32 megs extended).

My recommendation:  get a better motherboard, one that can handle
more memory (up to 128MB is not uncommon these days), regardless of whether
Linux can handle a bus memory board or not.

Reasoning:  putting memory on your bus limits memory access rates to bus
rates AT BEST; in practice, speeds are even lower because of bus contention.
Your regular memory areas are on the order of 100 times faster than an
ISA bus, again at their theoretical best.

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From: [email-masked] (Bob)
Subject: Re: xfree 3.2
Date: 24 Sep 1994 18:39:55 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
David H Hickman  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Ok when and where will this be availble.....
>

boy, that's a good question!  you might be better off waiting for XFree 3.1
which will probably be released at the end of this month.  3.2 is probably at
least a couple of months off... ;)

as far as where, id say probably all of the standard Linux ftp sites.

bob
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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: ** autoconf.h? **
Date: 26 Sep 94 17:40:54 MET

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Michael_Nelson) writes:

[deleted]...

> config.h isn't a problem, because it's there, and it gets #included without
> problem.  But config.h has a line in it that #includes "<linux/autoconf.h>",
> and there is no autoconf.h anywhere on my system.
> 

[deleted]...

> --
> Michael Nelson                          [email-masked]
> San Francisco, CA                           FAX: 1-415-621-2608
> 

in the linux-directory type "make config" and then it should work.

--
Peter Streckeisen
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Gasch)
Subject: Re: Is Linux faster than Os/2? Please help.
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:21:14 GMT

All this discussion of Tex is making me curious: Is there an online 
tuorial or guide detailing it's features available?

Thanks for any pointers
--> robert
PS: I know what it is but have no clue how to use it.

Robert Ashcroft ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]>,
: Jeffrey  Nipp <[email-masked]> wrote:
: >The real question is: Why would you want to write a THESIS on emax and 
: >latex?  There are many comercial products which are much better suited to 
: >that particular task which will run native under OS/2 or in a dos or 
: >windows box under OS/2 and give much better performance than the unix 
: >programs you mention.

: Uh, I've known numerous people who have written theses, and almost all
: of them used Latex or Tex or something, and most of those used Emacs
: while doing so.  The only exception being a marketing weenie I know who
: wrote his thesis in MS Word on a ****ing Macintosh...

: And I'm using Latex and Emacs (with Auctex!  Very nice package that
: more or less integrates the two) for my thesis.

: I've yet to see nicer looking math output than Tex and Latex.  There is
: a ton of stuff available for it too, just check out the Tex newsgroup
: faqs sometime.

: RNA

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From: [email-masked] (Aaron K. Michalove)
Subject: Compiling Linux for a Pentium...
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 06:42:25 GMT

...I have a Pentium 90 with 16 megs of Ram and I am wodering if there is 
any advantage to compiling my current 1.0.8 version (compiled for a 486) 
for my Pentium? If so, can anyone tell me the benefits?

                                -Aaron

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From: [email-masked] (zachary brown)
Subject: max line length
Date: 27 Sep 1994 07:57:17 -0400

Hi. I had a file containing a VERY long list of files, and I tried

# cat `cat files.list`

and got an error on the length of the line. For some reason I thought
there was no limit on the line length in Linux. How big is the limit,
anyway?

-ZB-

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From: [email-masked] (Steve DuChene)
Subject: Re: reccomend a CD-ROM?
Date: 25 Sep 1994 06:01:01 -0400

Joe Pannon ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]>,
: Andrew T. Brown <[email-masked]> wrote:
: >Hello,
: >
: >I was wondering if someone could reccomend a CD-ROM drive for use
: >with Linux.  I also want to use this drive under MS-DOS and OS/2.
: >I'm looking for a 3x or 4x speed w/ a SCSI-2 interface.  It will be
: >used w/ a SoundBlaster 16 w/ SCSI-2 interface.

: I hope the answers to this request will not be by e-mail 'cause there
: may be many of us interested in the same question.

: So let's hear about preferred CD-ROM/Sound card combos with SCSI-2
: interface.

        Hey guys, why don't you just check out the documentation that has
        this information available? At sunsite.unc.edu in the /pub/Linux/
        docs/howto directory there is a Hardware-HOWTO (listing of hardware 
        compatable with Linux and receintly updated) and I believe there 
        also is a CDROM-HOWTO that may have some usefull info in it too.
-- 
| Steven A. DuChene   [email-masked]  or  [email-masked]      
| Youngstown State University  | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|       Friends don't let friends do DOS

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel COHEN-LAROQUE)
Subject: Re: GCC (templates) on Linux
Date: 27 Sep 1994 12:36:27 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (David Fox) writes:
> In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John Rhoades) writes:
> 
> ] Templates sort of work in gcc 2.5.8. I've been using them successfully, but
> ] I've had one problem. I have to include the implementation part along with
> ] the interface part in every source file. If I don't, I get undefined
> ] externals. This slows down compilations quite a bit. Anybody know a way
> ] around this?
> 
> I believe that this is that standard way of doing things with G++
> templates.  I haven't found it inordinantly slow.  Are there other
> compilers that don't need the implementation in the header file?
> --
> David Fox                                             xoF divaD
> NYU Media Research Lab                           baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

No. Things evolves very quickly in the compilers domain.
Use GCC(G++) 2.6.0, and you will be able to differentiate implementation
and declaration. However, you have to #include <decl_filename.cxx> which is
not very clean, but it works. 

For more information, have a look at gnu.gcc.help newsgroup.
If people is interested, I can download gcc2.6.0 on a site. I think
people at sunsite wait for gcc to be more stable. (I don't aggree since
it's as usable as gcc2.5.8, I compiled kernel 1.1.45 yesterday)

Daniel COHEN-LAROQUE
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (ADRIAN WEBBERLEY)
Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ??
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:59:58 GMT

>   Bill C. Riemers <[email-masked]> wrote:
>   >  2. There is significant delay between action and sound.  i.e. I
>   >     can fire my gun and then turn halfway around before the gun
>   >     sound comes through my speakers.

>   Get shorter speaker cables.

>No!  Get thicker cables.  The problem is that the electrons (which are
>really just like tiny elephants) can't travel as quickly in a narrow
>cable.  They bump around too much if the wire isn't big enough.  If
>you get thicker wires, then they can shoot straight down the middle
>without bumping into the walls.

>Electronics is really very simple if you understand the physics of it all.

>-russ <[email-masked]>    http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html

Oh that's a classic that is.

Thanks for brightening up my otherwise dull day.

Adrian

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From: [email-masked] (Ian Jackson)
Subject: *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07)
Date: 25 Sep 1994 04:03:10 -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 !
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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
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