Linux-Misc Digest #450, Volume #18 Sun, 3 Jan 99 17:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Netscape eats up *all* the swap (Gary Momarison)
How to turn off COM2 (ttyS1) ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Printing only odd/even pages of postscript (Ed Legowski)
Re: Printing only odd/even pages of postscript (Ashok Aiyar)
Re: Add Win95 Machine to Linux Network? [Yes - NT] ("Todd A. Wood")
Re: Red Hat Linux 5.2 (Mark Robinson)
My Ghostscript tears ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Add Win95 Machine to Linux Network? (Bev)
Re: WordPerfect 8 (Carl Fink)
Re: Real Player on RH 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Whats the best *offline* usenet reader for Linux? (Andrea Fanfani)
Re: Another stupid WP8 question (Rod Smith)
Re: Red Hat Linux 5.2 (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Does Linux support plug & play ("Paul Merritt")
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape eats up *all* the swap
Date: 03 Jan 1999 12:10:53 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is anybody else having this problem?
I've had it for at least six months. NS 4.0*, 4.5*.
Sometimes, it has even caused my X server's memory usage to
grow very large. (Try "ps axmw".)
Shutting down NS will free up some of the swap.
I keep a small cpu+memory+swap+net monitor on the right side of my screen with
this in my ~/.fvwm2rc:
*FvwmButtons(1x4 Frame 0 Swallow(UseOld,NoKill) \
xcpustate 'Exec xcpustate -bg LightBlue -font
-misc-*-medium-r-semicondensed-*-9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' \
Action 'Exec xosview -network 0 -geometry 600x300+1+1' )
--
Visit Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to turn off COM2 (ttyS1) ?
Date: 3 Jan 1999 20:10:36 GMT
Is it possible to tell the kernel *not* to use ttyS1 (tty01)
at boot time (without recompiling) ?
I am running a generic RedHat 5.1 kernel, and I have just switched
from using a serial mouse to using a Logitech bus mouse. The bus mouse
is on IRQ 3. Everything works fine when I boot Windows,
but when i boot linux, the kernel will not finish booting
if I load the busmouse drivers (boot: linux bmouse=3).
It hangs when it tries to start gpm.
I already removed the symlink /dev/mouse and re-pointed
it to /dev/logibm (which exists).
I think the problem is that the kernel is using COM2 (tty01)
on IRQ3. I don't want to use COM2 at all, I want to shut it off.
Is it possible to do this without recompiling the kernel?
(I don't have the kernel sources on this machine and I'd
like to avoid going the trouble of getting them just to
set up the mouse.)
I tried using "setserial" to adjust the COM2 settings
at boot time, but had no luck. gpm still hung at boot time.
Thanks for any help! :)
--
##--------------------------------
## John Nolan
## jpn acm org
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Subject: Re: Printing only odd/even pages of postscript
From: Ed Legowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Jan 1999 15:28:45 -0500
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello ALL!
>
> Does anyone know how to print odd and even pages separatedly of a
> postscript file? If possible, someway to use ghostscript, because I don't
> have a PS-compatible printer.
>
psselect can do this. On my RH5.2 system, it is part of the psutils package.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashok Aiyar)
Subject: Re: Printing only odd/even pages of postscript
Date: 3 Jan 1999 20:21:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3 Jan 1999 12:18:05 -0600,
Bruno Barberi Gnecco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Hello ALL!
>
> Does anyone know how to print odd and even pages separatedly of a
>postscript file? If possible, someway to use ghostscript, because I don't
>have a PS-compatible printer.
I use the "mpage" postscript printing utility. mpage can do lots
of neat things such as resizing the output, printing multiple pages
on a single page, printing just the selected pages of a postscript
file, or printing just the odd or even pages of a postscript file.
For the last the mpage command-line options would be "-j 1%2" for
the odd pages, and "-j 2%2" for the even pages. mpage is archived
at lots of FTP sites, but it's home site is:
http://www.mesa.nl/pub/mpage
Later,
Ashok
--
Ashok Aiyar, Ph.D.
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
http://aiyar.cjb.net
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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:42:45 +0100
From: "Todd A. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Add Win95 Machine to Linux Network? [Yes - NT]
Bev wrote:
>
> Is it possible to connect a dedicated win95/98 machine to a linux LAN to
> act as a server for win95/98 appliocations? The desired configuration
> would allow a linux machine running X to display the results of an
> application program running on the win95/98 machine.
>
> The whole point, of course, is to be able to run winshit stuff (like
> Turbo Tax or the cheap parallel scanner with no linux support) without
> having to reboot into windows.
>
> Any hope?
>
Yes... You would need an NT server modified with NCD's, Tektronics, or
some other Winframe vendor.
These companies offer a "real" multi-user NT Server version which can be
connected to via an X-Client.
I have administrated a Tektronics WinDD server in the past.
Check out these links:
http://www.ncd.com/pwin/pwin.html
http://www.tek.com/VND/welcome_thinclients.html
There are others also...
Sincerely,
Todd A. Wood
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 5.2
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:39:10 GMT
Dale Erwin wrote:
> I received a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 for Christmas and have been
> reading the installation guide. I am completely new to Linux and am
> wondering if this is a proper forum for asking questions. In the
> hopes that it is, can someone tell me if the OS/2 Boot Manager can
> be used to boot Linux, or must LILO be used?
>
> If this is not the proper forum, could someone please point me in
> the right direction?
> --
> Dale Erwin
This is the proper forum for asking questions. You can use OS/2 or
Lilo. Linux will work with any multi-choice boot loader.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My Ghostscript tears
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:25:24 GMT
Hi All,
I installed this files to my Linux Mandrake 5.2 namely:
- ghostscript-5.10-1.i386.rpm
- ghostscript-fonts-5.10-2.noarch.rpm
in the hope that I could use the uniprint driver for my
EPSON Stylus 600. Okay, installation done and typed
# gs --help
one of the lines contain "uniprint". So far that's good.
I then added the ff. lines to my
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/printerdb
=====================================
# Unified Printer Driver
#
StartEntry: Uniprint
GSDriver: uniprint
Description: {Unified Printer Driver}
About: { \
This driver provides support for several printers.\
For full details on its use see the file Devices.htm.\n\
To use this driver you must enter the name of the correct\
upp file in the "Extra GS options" box.\n\n\
E.g. to get an Epson Stylus Color 600 to print at\n\n\
360dpi: use @stc600p.upp\n\
720dpi: use @stc600ph.upp\n\
}
Resolution: {360} {360} {plain paper}
Resolution: {720} {720} {plain paper}
EndEntry
=====================================
I let printtool did all the work afterwards. I was able to add
the uniprint driver and tested the printer under printtool.
It prints an ASCII file without an error but when I print an
test postscript file (still under printtool) this is the message on the
printed page:
Error: /undefined in -- .outputpage--
Operand stack:
1 true
Execution stack :
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- \
--nostringval--
- 2 % stopped_push 1 3 %oparray-pop .runexec2 --no \
stringval --
:
:
[and so on and so on]
:
:
Dictionary stack:
--dict:776/809-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:44/200--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is <some numbers here>
I tried to do some command lines like gs @stc600ph.upp *.ps
but no joy.
My God! Can anybody tell me what's happening here. Am I missing
something? What other files to play with and I'll give it a try. Before, I
can print a *.ps file -though in black only because I used the Stylus 800
driver during the installation. I really want my printer to work under
Linux. Please I need your help.
So many thanks in advance.
Bud
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Add Win95 Machine to Linux Network?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 09:50:58 -0800
Is it possible to connect a dedicated win95/98 machine to a linux LAN to
act as a server for win95/98 appliocations? The desired configuration
would allow a linux machine running X to display the results of an
application program running on the win95/98 machine.
The whole point, of course, is to be able to run winshit stuff (like
Turbo Tax or the cheap parallel scanner with no linux support) without
having to reboot into windows.
Any hope?
--
Regards,
Bev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8
Date: 3 Jan 1999 04:53:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 20:52:03 -0500, Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If the file you downloaded was the guilg00.gz this file has been named
>wrong. Rename it to guilg00.tar.gz
. . . unless you downloaded it with Netscape Navigator. If you did,
Netscape un-gzipped the file, but didn't change the .GZ in the file
name (presumably because of case problems).
You can still untar (tar xvf) and install normally.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Your brain is actually a fabulously complex computer, which means that
on Jan. 1, 2000, it will stop working and your body will flop around
like a recently caught perch." (Dave Barry, slightly paraphrased.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Real Player on RH 5.2
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:56:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wojtek Lukaszewicz wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > The only thing that works on my Real Player 5.0 (Red Hat 5.2) is the
> > volume slider. I mean it moves. All the rest is dead. Menus drop from
> > popdown menu bar, but nothing happens. Don't even have a chance to
> > configure it, cos' the preferences box won't open.
> > Any ideas re cause?
> > Thanks,
> > Wojtek
Make sure that Caps lock, Num lock, and shift key are not on or being use.
This should stop the
menus from being dead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrea Fanfani)
Subject: Re: Whats the best *offline* usenet reader for Linux?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:12:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 05:31:22 GMT, Eric Hardwick ha scritto:
>Greetings,
> Having happily moved from Win95 to Debian Linux recently, I am
welcome to linux (and debian of course)
>Question is: Which newsreader for Linux (X or console) has these
>features.
>
>1. Allows offline reading.
>2. Follows threads.
>3. Must work with dialup PPP connection to NNTP server.
>
you can use slrn (it is debianized) with a subprogram srlnpull you
can feed and download the news...
or better you can install a ligthgweight newserver (I use leafnode)
and then point the newsreader to your local server...
according to myself this is the best solution for a single-user machine
with ppp connection...
all the program are in the debian mirrors
i use slrn with leafnode
Regards
Andrea Fanfani
--
Andrea Fanfani
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"togliere toglimi per il reply"
"please cut "toglimi" if you want reply me"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Another stupid WP8 question
Date: 3 Jan 1999 21:01:39 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <76nunt$fj4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tazman37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey people-
> I KNOW this has been posted here before, but my dang isp
> removes messages so fast (check the header if you wish) I couldn't get back
> to it.
In cases like this, Deja News (http://www.dejanews.com) is a great
resource. Remember that address. Bookmark it. Use it.
> I sucessfully downloaded and renamed the wp8 large file. Gunzipped and
> untarred the tarball and got the directories installed properly (I think).
> The problem is, I can't figure out how to RUN the damn thing!
> I have tried all the executables in shbin, etc but would
> like to know how to get an icon on desktop and run program.
In Linux, there are many different "desktops," so there's no way to answer
your question completely without writing a small (or maybe a large) book.
Check the documentation for whatever window manager and/or file manager
you're using.
You can more easily run the program from an xterm prompt. Open an xterm
(I'm assuming you know how to do this with whatever window manager you
have running), then type:
cd {path-to-wp-install-tree}/wpbin
xwp
This should get it running. If you've installed WP in /opt/wp8, the
first line would be "cd /opt/wp8/wpbin". You can put both those lines in
a text file called, say, wp, give it execute permission (via "chmod a+x
wp"), and AS ROOT, move it to a directory on your path (such as
/usr/local/bin), and then you can start wp by just typing "wp" at an
xterm. (Technically, the first line of such a shell script file should
be "#!/bin/sh" [or some other shell's name], but it will usually work
without this.) You can also add the wpbin directory to your PATH in any
of a number of ways and then type "xwp" to start it.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the digit and following word from my address to mail me
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 5.2
Date: 03 Jan 1999 13:27:34 -0500
Dale Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I received a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 for Christmas and have been
> reading the installation guide. I am completely new to Linux and am
> wondering if this is a proper forum for asking questions. In the
> hopes that it is, can someone tell me if the OS/2 Boot Manager can
> be used to boot Linux, or must LILO be used?
you can use lilo, or you can tell the os2 boot manager to boot lilo.
there's more detailed information on this kind of multiboot setup in the
howto section of the linux documentation project,
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP
> If this is not the proper forum, could someone please point me in
> the right direction?
this is an appropriate place; however, it's usually considered good form to
look through the existing docs first. the above site is an excellent place
to start. www.redhat.com and www.linux.org also have links to more info.
good luck! =)
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.0pre3 i586 | at public servers
I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Paul Merritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Does Linux support plug & play
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:01:45 -0500
>From a newbie to newbies,
I was never able to get my internal PnP USR 56K modem to work properly with
Linux in PnP mode. If your modem has jumpers on it, I would recommend
following the instructions and set the jumpers to an open com port. Once I
set my modem's jumpers to com1, I had no problems configuring it in Linux.
It also worked well in Windoze. My .02. -Paul-
Rohit Singh wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Here is what i had to to get pnp modem to work. I have a USR. Since you
>can read this post i guess i am able to dial out.
>
>0) get isapnp software from http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk
>1) uncompress, compile, etc.
>2) type pnpdump --config > pnp.log
>3) type isapnp pnp.log
>4) If it works and does not gives you any error you are ok, otherwise go
>and fix the problem in pnp.log. I had a trivial problem, took seconds to
>fox it.
>5) use this command setserial /dev/modem port 0x3e8 irq 5 autoconfig
>Most if the settings you should know from your windows setting or
>pnp.log file created above
>6) use minicom or other program to check it out
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