Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #844
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 13:13:12 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #844, Volume #2                Thu, 29 Sep 94 13:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  Re: 56.6 Kb simulated with 2 28.8Kb modems. Is it possible? (Andy Beal)
  Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD? (WAN)
  SCSI card and drive (Bill McCarthy)
  Mathematica, GAUSS (Ted Harding)
  Help: ftape 1.13b with kernel 1.1.49 (Andreas Weigand)
  e ? for menu (Sumner West)
  ost: 7 (Sumner West)
  Re: ext2 QUESTIONS (Unix answers) (Sumner West)
  assword:  (Sumner West)
  Re: Is Linux faster than Os/2? Please help. (Shamim P. Mohamed)
  3D CAD for Linux? Help! (P. Enrico)
  Re: SCO WordPerfect: does it run on Linux? (root)
  Re: which is better: Mitsumi or Panasonic CDROM? (Teemu Kilpivuori)
  WD AC2540 or QUANTUM LPS540 - which one should I buy ? (Piet Ruyssinck)
  Re: Linux AMD Problems (Mitchum DSouza)

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From: [email-masked] (Andy Beal)
Subject: Re: 56.6 Kb simulated with 2 28.8Kb modems. Is it possible?
Date: 28 Sep 1994 21:59:56 -0500

matt kracht ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Juana Moreno ([email-masked]) wrote:
: : I just had this idea. There must be a way to simulate a 56.6 Kb connection
: : without the need unconventional equipment (from the home user point of view,
: : I mean). May be with just 2 28.8 modems connected to 2 regular phone lines and
: : some smart low level packet routing ( choosing for a packet the least busy 
: : line) it has to be possible.

How do you plan to split (and rejoin) the signals?  What happens if one 
modem gets a fuzzy line?  That would cause it to hang or fall back to a 
lower speed, what happens then?  

Are you trying to tie your Linux box into your work network?  or ar you 
just doing terminal emulation?
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                /^\      /^\               
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From: [email-masked] (WAN)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:11:02 GMT

Po-Han Lin ([email-masked]) wrote:
: If one has a pc compatible with a 486, which OS is the best unix
: operating system?  QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?  

On this forum, comp.os.qnx, QNX!

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From: [email-masked] (Bill McCarthy)
Subject: SCSI card and drive
Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:30:34 -0400

Hiya:

First, I know next to nothing about SCSI, so if this question is naive or
just plain stupid, please bear with me. I looking to add an external hard
disk and since I have a spare slot, I figured this should be via a SCSI
controller. Now, I figure an Adaptec 154x is good 'cause it's supported by
Linux and that should be a good start. I don't have any room in my box for
another drive - I have two, so I figure an external SCSI hdd would seem the
logical choice. Anyone have any thoughts on this setup? I would like to 
keep my two segates - one for dos/win, the other for Linux partitions and
use the SCSI hdd for the bulk of the Linux file system. Could anyone comment
on this proposed setup and offer suggestions as to prices and dealers? I'm
primarilly concerned about the external hdd. 

OR

Should I go with the Adaptec card and a large SCSI internal and forget about
an external? Also a SCSI-2 card is okay? As I mentioned, don't know squat
about SCSI, but am looking at it as a definite enhancement/replacement for
my current setup. TIA!

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From: [email-masked] (Ted Harding)
Subject: Mathematica, GAUSS
Date: 29 Sep 1994 11:01:15 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Ted Harding)

In response to queries from colleagues, I am trying to find out if
the mathematics packages MATHEMATICA and GAUSS are available for
Linux, or in UNIX version which can be persuaded to work in Linux.
 
(We're aware of MAPLE)

Ted Harding                               ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Andreas Weigand)
Subject: Help: ftape 1.13b with kernel 1.1.49
Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:19:01 GMT

Hello all !

Two weeks ago i send the following message, but i get no responce.
So I post it again and hope someone can answer me:

Can someone help me ? I want to use my Colorado streamer DJ-10 with
controller card FC-10 on my Linux system ! I get the patched ftape-driver
from sunsite and compiled it successfully. The modules were compiled same
and I'am using kernel version 1.1.49.

Now when I give the command "mt -f /dev/ftape reten " the tape go's from the
beginning to the end and return. That is it what the tape should do, but
when I want to read from the tape with:

mt -f /dev/ftape erase

or 

mt -f /dev/ftape status

the tape moves and I get the message: I/O error !

Can someone help me about this problem ?

You can reach me via Internet at the adress:

[email-masked]

or you can post an articel at this place !

Thank you !

Andreas Weigand

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From: [email-masked] (Dopey (Andy Wang))

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Subject: GCL 1.0 Binaries available

Keywords: GCL, Common LISP, programming

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 14:14:39 GMT

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From: [email-masked] (Sumner West)
Subject: Re: ext2 QUESTIONS (Unix answers)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 15:41:54 PDT

[email-masked] (Marc Fraioli) writes:

> In article [email-masked],  [email-masked] (Esther Heller
> >Your questions are basically Unix, not Linux.
> >
> Perhaps, but...
> 
> >1. The reserved 5% of disc space gives you a very small amount of elbow
> >room to get in and clean up things when your file system fills up for 
> >whatever reason.  If the reason is some program merrily and unexpectedly
> >writing a huge file of trash you will be grateful for the system stopping
> >it before you don't even have enough space to look for it.  As someone 
> >who has cleaned out file systems at 103% capacity, leave it on _all_ 
> >partitions.  Trust me on this one!
> >
> Didn't the BSD fast filesystem suffer pretty dramatic performance 
> degradation if this was set to 0?  I believe that keeping a certain
> amount of space free allows it to better resist fragmentation, 
> keeping it quick.  Don't know if this applies to ext2 as well, but
> it might.  Of course, the reason you give is plenty valid too.
> 
> ---
> Marc Fraioli        | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " 
> [email-masked]         |    - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
>                     |    Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
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From: [email-masked] (Steven Pritchard)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc

Subject: Re: Seeking modem advice, experiences

Date: 22 Sep 1994 22:02:56 -0600

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Hi,

I am thinking of purchasing a 9GB seagate drive (Elite 9) for use with

Linux.

Does anyone know if this would cause a problem?

Anyone out there using big drives with Linux and regretting it?

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From: [email-masked] (Shamim P. Mohamed)
Subject: Re: Is Linux faster than Os/2? Please help.
Date: 26 Sep 1994 17:04:33 -0600

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?

Because my life is finite?

LaTeX just does a better job of typesetting than any WYSIWYG editor I have
seen. With the number of changes you have to make to get a dissertation out
the door, WYSIWYG is insanity. Show me any WYSIWYG editor that can include
and preview EPS like LaTeX/dvips/ghostscript, or set math like you can with
LaTeX. Also, it's very easy to get all the stupid formatting details that
Graduate Colleges have, and then once the style file is written, voila! So I
just had to put in "dissertation" in the first line, and I knew it would be
accepted by the University. I knew all the page numbers, section numbers,
equation numbers, figure numbers, indices, bibliography, etc. etc. would be
right. (And then I changed that one word to "tr" and got a departmental Tech
Report.)

Sure WYSIWYG's are peachy keen and neato, and the chicks dig it, but they
didn't quite do what I needed. (Or what the Graduate College wanted.)
And then when you factor in the cost ($0), and the robustness (there are
very few commercial packages as solid as TeX) there is no contest.

And all that was on a Sun Sparc, and I am delighted that everything works
exactly the same on this Linux/X11 PC I'm using now.

> ... and 
>Microsoft (shudder) also have robust (more robust) word processing 
>programs 

That's a good one!

>is any time you have invested in learning EMACS.  All of the traditional 
>desktop apps will be much easier to learn and use, but if you already 
>know EMACS backwards, forewards and sideways, it is probably too late to 
>make a big switch, although I learned most of Word's pertinent features 
>in a couple of days.  

This was not really a factor - I just use emacs as a text editor, and
learning ^B ^F etc. is no different from learning whatever you have to to
use the "desktop apps". Emacs even has an online tutorial and help that you
can use at any time. I can even point and click with the mouse, use
scrollbars and pull-down menus etc. if I want to.

-s
--
  Shamim Mohamed                                     [email-masked]
  "Take this cross and garlic; here's a Mezuzah if he's Jewish; a page of the
    Koran if he's a Muslim; and if he's a Zen Buddhist, you're on your own."
   Member of the League for Programming Freedom - write to [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (P. Enrico)
Subject: 3D CAD for Linux? Help!
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:44:10 GMT

Hi all,

I'm desperately looking for a good 3D CAD for Linux, doesn't matter (well..) 
if is free or not. So far I've only found Siscad, but it's first a 2D CAD 
and then it's also (unfortunately) in german!

Could anybody please help me?
Thanx a lot in advance!
-paolo

*****************************************************************************

     If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in it!
                                   ****
Paolo Enrico                                               [email-masked]
*****************************************************************************

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From: [email-masked] (root)
Subject: Re: SCO WordPerfect: does it run on Linux?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 23:32:20 GMT

Jeff Arnholt ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I use WP at work on a SparcStation.  I use WP under Windows
: at home.  WP is the only utility I'm missing from my
: Linux arsenal.  Questions: does it run under Linux?  What problems
: have people encountered?  Would anybody recommend it?

: I should sadly note that the Windows version is much faster
: than the SparcStation (the Sun having >3x mips), but of course not as
: reliable.  I'd guess that SCO WP is like molasses.

: I'd appreciate any comments, preferably mail ([email-masked])

: Many thanks.

: ---
:    
: Jeff Arnholt: mail [email-masked]   
: Mayo Medical and Graduate Schools        
: 200 1st St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905

  YES!!!    I am runing WP for SCO on my linux box right now.   It is FAST!
I have 5.1 and went through some contortions to get it running.  But now
it works.   There is a demo version on ftp.wordperfect.com that is derived
from the first version of Wp for SCO.  It is REALY slow.  I am happy to say
that my copy is not.  

  First I copied the IBCS2 files to my machine.  /pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2
from tsx-11.mit.edu and installed them.   recompiled it and the kernel.  
I am using 1.1.42 of Linux.   Then loaded it via insmod iBCS in my rc.local
file.   Then I hacked the install for 5.1 and now I can run it.  I just 
cd to wordperfect/wpbin and run xwp.   Never used the terminal version of
wp.  Just the X version.   Hope this helps.  Robert

                                  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Teemu Kilpivuori)
Subject: Re: which is better: Mitsumi or Panasonic CDROM?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:25:45 GMT

: >The specs are lying. The Panasonic is faster than the Mitsumi.

: What evidence do you have for that ?
Yeah,what. As I understand, Panasonic doesn't use IRQ nor DMA, only software
polling, which makes it slower,and it causes more CPU-load than Mitsumi with
IRQ and DMA enabled. I have tested both drives, and seen that myself, which 
is why I bought a Mitsumi.
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From: [email-masked] (Piet Ruyssinck)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: WD AC2540 or QUANTUM LPS540 - which one should I buy ?
Date: 29 Sep 1994 08:43:46 GMT

Hello,
I'm about to buy a second harddisk of about half gigabyte.
I've asked prices for both the
  Western Digital (Caviar) CA2540
and the
  QUANTUM LPS540
Pricewise they're comparable.
Hence my question : Which one should I buy ?
Or should I go for yet another brand ?
There are some constaints that limit my choice :
I have an IDE controller (which I don't intend to replace)
and the drive should coexist with my current drive, which is
a Seagate 1239A (a 240 megabyte drive).

All advice is greatly appreciated !
Thanks a lot in advance,
Piet 

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| Piet RUYSSINCK                  [email-masked] |
| Department of Data Analysis               +32 9 264 4733 |
| University of Ghent (RUG)                                |
| Krijgslaan 281, building S9 (ARC), B-9000 Ghent, Belgium |

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems
Date: 29 Sep 1994 09:19:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Timothy Demarest)
writes:
|> Sean Watkins ([email-masked]) wrote:
|> 
|> : Hi,
|> 
|> : After labouring several hours to get AMD working, I have come to the
|> : ultimate conclusion that AMD coupled with NIS under Linux is broken.
|> : Following example summarizes:
|> 
|> < STUFF ABOUT AMD DELETED >
|> : -- 
|> : Sean Watkins 
|> : [email-masked]
|> 
|> Sean:
|> 
|> I am running AMD here on Linux, and if you look in one of the
|> Makefiles (I can't remember which) it says that LINUX DOES NOT
|> SUPPORT NIS MAPS (YET)!  AGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!
|> 
|> I about freaked out when I read this, after several frustrating
|> hours.  Rule #1: Read all stuff.
|> 
|> Hope this helps!  Anyone know when amd *will* support NIS
|> maps?

When I ported AMD to linux a very long while ago, we did not have *any*
NIS/YP implementation. Currently we have at least two. So if you want
NIS support then just take out the hash sign (#) from the config/Makefile.linux
line that says HAS_NIS_MAPS and recompile. But dont forget that the YP
implementation must also integrally support the automount map as a valid map in 
its domain. Since I use NYS I am sure that it does. Your mileage may vary with
the YP implementation that is in libc.

Mitch

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