Linux-Misc Digest #486, Volume #18 Wed, 6 Jan 99 01:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1 ("Colin Chaplin")
Re: Audio CD's ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: MicroEMACS for Linux/Alpha (Gary Momarison)
Re: Excel to HTML converter? ("Meint Post")
Re: Linux OS NOT preemptive multitasking ? (John Varela)
ttyS2 -or- cua2....what's the difference??? (Barton)
FS: X Window/Motif books ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ghostscript & samba & win95 (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: setting color depth (Howard Mann)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Number cruncher Linux system Recommendations...?? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Tcl Blend & Linux - Almost Works (mo)
Re: Linux OS NOT preemptive multitasking ? (Douglas W. Jones,201H
MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Stupid Wordperfect Question (gfonseca)
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From: "Colin Chaplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:53:08 -0000
>On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:52:07 -0500, joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>comp.os.linux.hardware:
>
>>However, when I mount the drive
>>on a windows machine, the drive appears to be 2 gigs.
>
>This is a bug in the original Microsoft DOS/Windows filesystem code, which
>not only had the FAT16 filesystem size limit but also assumed that the
>network servers had the same limit.... It was not fixed until Win95-OSR2.
>Pre-OSR2 operating systems will allow you to read and write to the entire
>
There *IS* a patch for oldy windows 95 systems - sorry can't tell you where,
search the MS knowledge base. I remember it being an issue where I used to
work and this patch from MS got round it. Alternatively, use NT !
Good luck
Colin
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD's
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 23:18:44 -0600
Jimme Quinn Ross wrote:
> I want to play my audio CD's on my Red Hat 5.1 box. Is this possible?
> Any information will be appreciated. (I'm at the office now, and my
> Linux Enc. is home otherwise I'd have looked there first.)
xplaycd was probably in your RH installation kit. If you use X windows, just
type xplaycd at an xterm prompt and it should pop up.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS for Linux/Alpha
Date: 05 Jan 1999 13:27:49 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> anybody know a URL for any version of MicroEMACS for Linux/Alpha?
http://members.xoom.com/uemacs/index.html
>From Gary's Encyclopedia Emacs page at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/emacs.html
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From: "Meint Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Excel to HTML converter?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:04:36 +0100
or use the win32::ole module (I assume you're on a win32 platform) to get to
the Excel information and put this in a HTML template. I used this approach
for converting Word 97 documents to HTML and it works fine.
Meint
--
Hilta Goatfounder was all lace and shawls and colours
and earrings and so many bangles that a mere movement
of her arms sounded like a percussion section falling off a cliff.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Varela)
Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Linux OS NOT preemptive multitasking ?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 21:31:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 06:05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Kirkcaldie)
wrote:
> >>hrm... poor phrasing on my part. RT OS == a superset of a strictly
> >>multitasking OS. it fills the same specs as a multitasking OS, and then
> >>some.
>
> Then it's a subset, if it's more specific, unless I misunderstood. All
> RTOSs are MT OSs; there are some MT OSs which aren't RT.
I can name a real-time OS that wasn't multi-tasking, in fact the hardware didn't
even support interrupts, a propos of which I am cross-posting this to
alt.folklore.computers.
--
John Varela
(delete . between mind and spring to e-mail me)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barton)
Subject: ttyS2 -or- cua2....what's the difference???
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 05:22:21 GMT
Reply-To: barton <at> gcmcomputers <dot> com
Hi,
I have read that the cua* notation is used historically, and that
ttyS* will be used in the future to refer to serial ports. I have
also read that one should be used for incoming transactions, and
the other should be used for outgoing. I had an unusual occurance
tonight with the application "mserver", a modem sharing program.
mserver would not work if I shared the port ttyS2, but it worked
perfectly if I shared the port cua2. Both devices have the
exact same permissions and are owned by and in the same groups.
The only difference might be that /dev/modem points at cua2. I have
also used the setserial command on both ports to change their
addresses and interrups.
I am completely puzzled by this. Can anyone shed some light?
Thanks for your time.
Barton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,dc.forsale
Subject: FS: X Window/Motif books
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:13:10 GMT
X Window System, Robert W. Scheifler & James Gettys, 3rd edition,
The complete Reference to Xlib, X Protocol ICCCM XLFD.
X version 11 Release 5, by Digital Press, 1993, 967 pages.
Very good condition. Make an offer
X Window System Toolkit, the complete Programmer's Guide and Specification
by Paul J. Asente & Ralph R. Swick, Digital Press, 1993, 967 pages.
Very good condition. Make an offer
OSF/Motif Release 1.2 Programmer's Guide, Prentice-Hall, 1994
Very good condition. Make an offer
OSF/Motif Release 1.1 Style Guide, Prentice-Hall, 1992
Very good condition. Make an offer
OSF/Motif Release 1.2 Style Guide, Prentice-Hall, 1994
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: ghostscript & samba & win95
Date: 5 Jan 1999 13:37:16 -0800
>I have a problem with printing; after successfully printing
>a postscript file from win95 through SAMBA to an Epson LQ300
>24 pin printer on the LINUX box I get the following:
>
>%%[ Page: 1 ]%%
>%%[ Page: 2 ]%%
>%%[ Page: 3 ]%%
>%%[ Page: 4 ]%%
>%%[ LastPage ]%%
>
>this is printed after a form feed ( the normal end of the
>print job). This print jobs had 4 pages. How do I
>eliminate these leftovers?
Well, you may be able to remove the above by removing those lines from
the offending postscript file in question.
- Sam
--
Email address here: http://www.samiam.org/ssi/mailme.shtml
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Mp3 reviews here: http://www.samiam.org/music
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting color depth
Date: 6 Jan 1999 05:36:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running Red Hat 5.1 with a Viewsonic P815 monitor and
> an STB nVidia video card with 8MB of memory on board.
> X always comes up with a color depth of 8. What are the
> appropriate ways to change the current color depth?
Hi,
The issue of color depth in the X-window server is well articulated in this source
available online:
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/maddin_bpp.html
Stipulate a fixed color depth by editing the relevant section of the XF86Config file.
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xmission.com/~howardm
(a LINUX website for newbies)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 5 Jan 1999 23:34:24 -0600
In article <zaitcev.915570119@mallorn>, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Does LVM do things you can't with RAID controllers like the Mylex DAC960?
>>It will do the mirroring, hot spare swaps, etc. I think you can
>>add drives to existing volume groups if you need to grow a partition
>>but under Linux you would need to shut down and make the change
>>through the card's ROM bios.
>
>Think Big, Leslie. My workhorse system has 6GB of RAM and 56 drives
>attached. Ultimately when your system grows it outgrows controller
>boundaries. Then you need a software RAID to bind pieces together.
The mylex scsi<->scsi array controller claims to allow up to 35 drives
(with a daughterboard) with up to 16 terrabytes to be mapped to a
single SCSI ID so you could hook 15 of these to a single normal
wide SCSI adapter. I think that would be big enough for me.
>Besides, cost of hardware controllers mounts pretty quickly when
>your system gets bigger. I imagine if Ilya could spare some megabucks
>he spent on EMC or HP or other hardware RAID with Ingo he would
>win big money in the end with software LVM.
If your system is busy, do you really want the main CPU doing that
kind of stuff? Dropping a Netapp box on the network sounds even
better. I suppose what we need is a cheap do-it-yourself equivalent.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Number cruncher Linux system Recommendations...??
Date: 05 Jan 1999 13:22:41 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Hi,
> : We are looking for a number cruncher linux system that will
> : run large and long running fortran computations. I was thinking
> : about a dual processor system... The comutations usually require
> : large swap files so they can also be highly I/O intesive. I would
> : like to invite the other netters opinions, tips, recommendations
> : for hardware etc on how best to build such a system... I guess the
> : most important choices are those for the MB, CPU and Hard Disk/Disk
> : cotrollers. Any comments will be appreciated.
http://www.microway.com has systems that run Linux.
"667 Mhz Alpha, 1.3 Gigflops, 8MB Cache" 288-bit-wide memory.
You might also find something interesting in Gary's Encyclopedia at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/high-performance.html
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From: mo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: Tcl Blend & Linux - Almost Works
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 23:41:40 -0600
Clif Flynt wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get Tcl Blend installed on a RedHat 5.2 Linux system,
> and it almost works. This note is partly to let other folks who
> may be interested in Tcl Blend and Linux know what I've done that
> worked, and partly to see if anyone has suggestions for where to
> go from here.
>
> There were several preliminary steps to getting to TclBlend. First
> off, the Java supplied with RedHat 5.2 doesn't seem to include
> libraries. I found a java rpm, but that required a Motif library.
> So, first LessTif, then Java, then Tcl, then Tcl Blend...
>
> Here's the steps I've gone through:
>
> 1) Install LessTif.
> I downloaded 'lesstif-current.tar.gz', configured, made, and it
> created libXm.so.1.2.
>
> I then made a symbolic link from the libXm.so.1.2 to
> /usr/lib/libXm.so.2.
>
> The jdk rpm file I downloaded required libXm.so.2.
>
> 2) Install the jdk kit. The java supplied with RedHat 5.2 didn't
> seem to have the libraries. Perhaps I missed something.
>
> I got jdk-1.1.7.1a-2glibc.i386.rpm and installed it with:
> rpm -iv --test --nodeps jdk-1.1.7.1a-2glibc.i386.rpm
>
> This installed under /usr/local/jdk1.1.7
>
> 3) Download and install Tcl8.0.4
> I downloaded the tcl8.0.4.tar.gz and tk8.0.4.tar.gz from Scriptics,
> configure --enable-shared
> make
>
> 4) Download and compile TclBlend
> I downloaded tclBlendSrc1.1a1.tar.gz from Scriptics
> Used symbolic links to make a directory tree that resembled:
>
> tclBlend1.1a1 tk8.0 tcl8.0
>
> Made two symbolic links in the java distribution to pass the
> sanity checks in configure:
>
> ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib/i686 /usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib/linux
> ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.1.7/include/genunix \
> /usr/local/jdk1.1.7/include/linux
>
> set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to /usr/local/jdk1.1.7
>
> configure \
> --with-javaarchlib=/usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib/i686/native_threads
>
> Modify Makefile:
> I added the java library to the libtclblend.so link line. Without
> this, I got an undefined/unfound library when I tried to load
> libtclblend.so
> ....
> # Build the shared library
> libtclblend$(SHLIB_SUFFIX): $(OBJS)
> rm -f libtclblend$(SHLIB_SUFFIX)
> $(SHLIB_LD) $(OBJS) \
> -L/usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib/i686/native_threads -ljava \
> -o libtclblend$(SHLIB_SUFFIX)
> ....
> make
>
> This procedure got me a libtclblend.so that can be loaded into wish,
> almost.
>
> The Java Virtual Machine fails to find classes.zip.
>
> $> wish
> % load "./libtclblend.so"
> Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
> JNI_CreateJavaVM() failed.
> Perhaps your CLASSPATH includes a classes.zip file for a version other
> the one Tcl Blend was compiled with?
> Currently, the CLASSPATH environment variable is set to:
>
>/usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib:/../../../classes:/../../classes.zip:/../../classes.jar:/../../rt.jar:/../../i18n.jar
> The JVM currently is using the following
>
>classpath:/../../../classes:/../../classes.zip:/../../classes.jar:/../../rt.jar:/../../i18n.jar
> % set env(CLASSPATH)
> /usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib
> % set env(JAVA_HOME)
> /usr/local/jdk1.1.7
>
> I don't have source to the java kit, so I'm at a bit of a loss for
> what's happening in the java engine. Running strings on the libjava.so
> indicates that the JVM classpath is initialized as
> "%s/../../../classes...", but I couldn't figure out what variable was
> being used for the %s. The obvious choices of JAVA_HOME, CLASSPATH,
> and JAVA_CLASSPATH had no effect.
>
> So, being rude&crude, I copied classes.zip from /local/jdk/lib to /.
> This improved matters a little. The load process takes much longer
> before failing.
>
> $> wish8.0
> % load "./libtclblend.so"
> Can't find class java.lang.System
> JNI_CreateJavaVM() failed.
> Perhaps your CLASSPATH includes a classes.zip file for a version other
> the one Tcl Blend was compiled with?
> Currently, the CLASSPATH environment variable is set to:
>
>/usr/local/jdk1.1.7/lib:/../../../classes:/../../classes.zip:/../../classes.jar:/../../rt.jar:/../../i18n.jar
> The JVM currently is using the following
>
>classpath:/../../../classes:/../../classes.zip:/../../classes.jar:/../../rt.jar:/../../i18n.jar
>
> The missing class *seems* to be in classes.zip:
>
> $> unzip -t classes.zip | grep System
> testing: java/lang/System.class OK
> ...
>
> If anyone has gotten further than this, I'll be pleased to
> hear how far you got and how you got there.
>
> Clif
>
> ------------------------------ Clif Flynt -----------------------
> --- Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers - Academic Press Professional ---
> ---------------- Release Date: December 1998 -----------------
> -- http://www.msen.com/~clif ------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
> - In theory there is no difference between theory and practice -
> ------------------------ In practice, there is. -----------------
Hi Clif.
I have been working on getting TclBlend running with the linux release
of 1.1.7v1a from blackdown for some time now. Currently, it does not
work
because of problems in the implementation of the native threads port
of the linux jdk. I was running on a RedHat 5.2 system just like you are
and I can tell you that the fault was not yours. I have posted a bug
report about this problem in the blackdown jitterbug database but I have
yet to hear from anyone on the JDK porting team about a fix for this
problem. The JNI_CreateJavaVM function is getting called correctly but
if fails for some reason. If you are looking for a way to "speed things
up"
I think the best thing to do would be to create a really small example
of
the problem that TclBlend is running into and then post it to the
java-linux
mainling list (you can find info on that at www.blackdown.org). Having
to
compile and install Tcl and TclBlend just to see the bug is too much
work.
I was planning on doing this when I had some free time but I have not
got around to it as yet. I can also get you some patches that fix the
configure
problems you are having with TclBlend on linux (for linux-intel and
linux-ppc). Send me an email if you want any of this stuff.
I hope that helps
mo dejong
dejong at cs.umn.edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Linux OS NOT preemptive multitasking ?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 21:56:17 GMT
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 06:05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Matthew Kirkcaldie) wrote:
> >>hrm... poor phrasing on my part. RT OS == a superset of a strictly
> >>multitasking OS. it fills the same specs as a multitasking OS, and then
> >>some.
>
> Then it's a subset, if it's more specific, unless I misunderstood. All
> RTOSs are MT OSs; there are some MT OSs which aren't RT.
Take a look at the Amulet kernel, http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/amulet/
This kernel is distinctly a real-time kernel, and it is absolutely not
preemptive nor is it based on a tasking model! I prefer preemptive
multitasking myself, but the point is, there are other models.
The Amulet model is based on Charm, a distributed processing model where
thereads are very short lived, and where each thread claims the entire
resources of its CPU until that thread terminates. The short lifetime of
threads allows all scheduling decisions to be made between threads, so
there is never any reason to save or restore the state of a thread.
Amulet extends this idea with real-time primitives. When you send a
message to a method of an object, thereby firing up a short-lived thread
to handle that method, you have the option of specifying when the message
should be sent, and when you do this, you specify a real-time window,
giving the earliest acceptable delivery time and the deadline, so that
soonest-deadline first scheduling may be used.
The result is not purely object oriented -- methods never return results,
so if you want a result returned to the object from which a method was
called, you've got to include, as a parameter to the method you call, the
identity of a method of your object to be called with the result. Sure,
this is clumsy, but it's not new. It's called programming with explicit
continuations by the folks in programming language theory, and it is a
feature (or misfeature) inherited from Charm.
Doug Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: gfonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stupid Wordperfect Question
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 02:31:17 -0200
This is a really stupid question...
After installing Wordperfect 8 onto /usr/progs... I can't get it to run!
I'll try to run xwp but all I'll get is a "command unknown" type
message. Any ideas?
I'm obviously a newcomer to Linux so I'm still figuring out how to do
many basic things (especially those different from the DOS/Windows
world).
Gustavo
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