Linux-Misc Digest #887, Volume #18 Wed, 3 Feb 99 20:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Laserjet 1100 Printing problems (Frank Miles)
Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Kaustav Bhattacharya)
Teleconferencing software for Linux? (Josh Bertram)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (pdohert)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (pdohert)
Re: sendmail (Simon Ee)
Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise (Wuff)
Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AHA3940U and Linux 2.2.0 (Andy Carlson)
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers (mlw)
Re: HElp, i can't compile ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Laserjet 1100 Printing problems (Phil Brutsche)
loading up the sound driver module (Cher-Wah Tan)
Re: ***** Moving Linux to a new hard disk (Mark A Dotson)
a couple of questions from a fairly new user (Vito DeFilippo)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Arthur)
Re: when RedHat to ship 2.2.X? (Georg Schwarz)
getting modprobe message during boot - don't know what it means (Daddy Rabbit)
Re: Partition Magic ("William H. Pridgen")
Re: linux max RAM is 1GB? (Mark Hahn)
Announcing C-Kermit 7.0 for Beta testing (Frank da Cruz)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: Laserjet 1100 Printing problems
Date: 3 Feb 1999 16:27:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Mjones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've recently moved from RH to Slackware 3.6, and I'm trying to set up
>at HP LJ 1100 printer on it. I'm using APS-filter, I have set up the
>printer on the correct port (I've tried 'cat atextfile > /dev/lp1' and
>it works), but how do I test if the printer can print postscript now?
>
>I've tried 'gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 apsfile.ps', but GS simply starts up,
>halts for a second, the displays "showpage, press return....", and I
>end up at the GS prompt (and, of course, nothing is printed =/ )
Mine works fine with ghostscript/ghostview. Have you got the proper
print queue files/directories set up? Does the problem occur as root
as well as a normal user? What is your /etc/printcap like?
-frank
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From: Kaustav Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 12:08:56 +0000
Reply-To: k, dot, bhattacharya, at, bbc, dot, co, dot, uk
erm,
calm down laddy.
check out http://www.redhat.com/ - for a great commercial distribution
or check www.linux.org - for lots of interesting info and advise on
linux
Koz
> iBoy wrote:
>
> Hello all ppl of this Linux newsgroup!!!!!
> I need some of your HELP!
> u see, i'm interested about LINUX and want to get it and use it
> can anyone help me??????????
>
> please reply A.S.A.P.
> Thanks!
>
> PS: I'm using Windoze 98 with Pentium II
>
> Andre
> ==
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> icq: 17558107
> webpage: www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/8379
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From: Josh Bertram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Teleconferencing software for Linux?
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:59:31 -0600
Are there any teleconfernencing software apps for linux? I'm running
RH5.1 and/or 5.2.
Also, can I run non-RH linux apps on RH? I'm just getting into Linux,
so this may be a silly question.
Thanks,
Josh.
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From: pdohert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:40:38 -0600
Ciaran Dunn wrote:
> And what will all this high tech weaponry tech get you ?
<>
> All you seem to be doing is letting off some nice pretty weapons,
> killing a bunch of reasonably innocent people and not really
> acheiving anything.
And we appreciate your help in achieving nothing... Britain is in this
too (and you are a colony of Britain, no?)
--
Paul Doherty
Systems Analyst/Programmer
http://www.dfw.net/~pdoherty
Home of PC DiskMaster
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From: pdohert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:42:33 -0600
Darin Johnson wrote:
> nose at the non connoisseurs is too pretentious in my book. I also
> dislike the trend of doing trendy things just to be trendy. (ie, to
> be on topic - the trend of getting Windows because everyone else has
> it, or the lastest 3D card because your friends have one, etc).
Not to pick a nit, but to be completely accurate it's also pretentious
to *avoid* doing these things simply because others *are*.... so that
new 3D card may be open to you yet... :-)
--
Paul Doherty
Systems Analyst/Programmer
http://www.dfw.net/~pdoherty
Home of PC DiskMaster
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From: Simon Ee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sendmail
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 20:27:07 +0800
Hi Don,
A basic sendmail CF file isn't too hard to cook up with M4, but there are a few
traps to avoid even for a simple domain.
Email me your MC file; I can't guarantee anything but I may be able to help.
One thing you might want to do right now is to log in as root to the server
running sendmail. Type 'mail' to check your messages. Stuff that sendmail
doesn't know how to handle usually get sent to root as a last resort. You might
be able to get some clues here.
HTH,
Simon.
Don wrote:
> 1. I can't get the sender's address to appear as just the domain. It
> always includes the
> name of the machine as well. The other machines on the net get
> masqueraded thru
> our mailhost correctly, but, the sender's address appears as
> mailhost.domain.org
> instead of just domain.org.
>
> 2. I can't receive mail. I don't even get errors bounced to
> /var/log/messages. The
> server won't even route mail on the internal network.
>
> They are the two major ones for now. I would appreciate any help you could
> provide. Thanks in advance.
>
> Don
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wuff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise
Date: 3 Feb 1999 16:07:52 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael
C. Vergallen) writes:
>On 28 Jan 1999 18:04:15 GMT, Wuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>You do not need a mouse, a keyboard, or a video card in a linux
>>machine in order for it to boot.
>Some boxes here do and some do require a Video card...
>the newest and cheaper boards do require a video card. I've got one I use as
>mail server that needs a video card other systems don't require this..
That's quite possible : I was contesting the statement of the
other poster that it was not possible to do this.
My own (admittedly limited) experience is that of the two boards
I have, (rough 1 and 2 years old respectively) both boot perfectly
well with no video or keyboard attached. Neither are expensive
boards : a Gigabyte 430 TX and a Tyan S1590.
Regards,
Vin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:15:28 GMT
iboy,
Ok, you see, there are these special stores out there called "bookstores". In
these special stores, they sell things called "books". These books tell you
how to do things. Some of them will tell you how to use Linux. Pretty cool,
eh?
Sorry for the sarcasm, but such a naive post begs for it.
Try a book called "Using Linux, Special Edition". It includes CDs containing
the Red Hat and Caldera distributions, and is a good starting point for
someone just starting out with Linux.
have fun,
-Dave
Database Development Consultant
http://www.dpulaski.net
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> can anyone help me??????????
> =20
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Carlson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: AHA3940U and Linux 2.2.0
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:47:10 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ben Goble, Lakewood Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I read that a few people are having
> some success with the new Linux 2.2.x kernel.
I have linux 2.2.1 on my work machine and my home machine, bot with
aic7xxx adpaters, and it has been rock solid.
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:35:18 +0000
al wrote:
>
> Who really gives a fuck if Britain or Us is the best as long as you idiots
> stay where you are and don't pollute the rest of the world by moving
> elsewhere.
> Stop wasting bandwidth and discuss something useful.
Personally, I don't care what other people think. Especially ones that
insult people. I have made no claim to living in the best country,
however, pride over ones clan is as old as civilization itself.
You reading things you disagree with is not my problem.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HElp, i can't compile
Date: 3 Feb 1999 18:31:03 GMT
In alt.os.linux Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--> #include <stdio.h>
--> void main(void)
--> {
--> printf("Hello world\n");
--> }
--> I get the same error when i try to compile this
I don't...
101 /home/hhuggins -> cc -g0 -Wall foo.c
102 /home/hhuggins -> a.out
Hello world
Exit 12
103 /home/hhuggins -> more foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
printf("Hello world\n");
}
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From: Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laserjet 1100 Printing problems
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:43:16 -0600
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Johan Mjones wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently moved from RH to Slackware 3.6, and I'm trying to set up
> at HP LJ 1100 printer on it. I'm using APS-filter, I have set up the
> printer on the correct port (I've tried 'cat atextfile > /dev/lp1' and
> it works), but how do I test if the printer can print postscript now?
>
> I've tried 'gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 apsfile.ps', but GS simply starts up,
> halts for a second, the displays "showpage, press return....", and I
> end up at the GS prompt (and, of course, nothing is printed =/ )
Have you tried this?
gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 apsfile.ps
======================================================================
Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft: "Where do you want to to today?"
Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: Cher-Wah Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: loading up the sound driver module
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:21:03 +0000
hi!
any idea how i could load up the sound driver under linux. i believe my
kernel is being compiled with sound driver as a loadable module (comes
with redhat 5.2).
can anyone gives me the command to load it up?
thanks a bunch!
-w
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From: Mark A Dotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ***** Moving Linux to a new hard disk
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:55:18 -0700
Before you boot to the new copy, edit /mnt/etc/fstab to reflect the new
disk layout.
Mark
William Wueppelmann wrote:
>
> In an interview, the artist formerly known as Nick said:
> >***** Moving Linux to a new hard disk
> >
> >I currently have Red Hat 5.1 Linux along with LILO in a primary
> >partition of my second hard disk (hdb1). I'd like to move it to an
> >extended partition of a third hard disk (hdc5).
> >
> >1. How can I copy over the contents of my Linux partition to the new
> >drive? Can you please tell me the procedure and also what program
> >(hopefully one that came with RH5.1) I can use to accomplish this?
>
> 1. mke2fs /dev/hdc5
> 2. mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt
> 3. cp -a /bin /boot /dev /etc ... /mnt
>
> i.e. copy everything in the root directory except /mnt into /mnt, using the -a
> switch to preserve ownership and links and such.
>
> >2. How will I be able to access the new drive to edit and reinstall
> >LILO? Will I have to use the floppy, or will that not work either?
> >
> >3. What will I need to change beside fstab and lilo.conf?
> >
> >4. How do I reinstall LILO in my Linux partition, not the MBR?
>
> I think that you'll need to edit lilo.conf and re-run it from your existing
> installtion after copying over the files. You might want to ADD a new entry
> for the kernel image on /dev/hdc5 instead of replacing your existing lilo.conf
> outright so that you can still boot back to your current system if things go
> wrong. Once the new installation boots and you've checked it over, you can
> remove the /dev/hdb1 entry and reformat the disk.
>
> Also, remember to copy the modified /etc/lilo.conf into /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
> before you reboot.
>
> Perhaps someone else can provide a more authoritative suggestion, but that's
> how I think I'd go about it anyway.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> William
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From: Vito DeFilippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a couple of questions from a fairly new user
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:30:24 -0500
Hello all,
Thanks again to all who have replied in the past. Fabulous group!
I have some new questions since updating to kernel 2.2
All is well, except a couple of minor glitches. One is that the command
"dmesg" now gives the below, instead of the usual list of boot messages.
The example below is abbreviated, I usually get a row of about 40:
Socket destroy delayed (r=62624 w=0)
Socket destroy delayed (r=60976 w=0)
Socket destroy delayed (r=47792 w=0)
Socket destroy delayed (r=62624 w=0)
Socket destroy delayed (r=60976 w=0)
Another message I get while booting is that gpm is using the outdated
cuaX and I should update it to ttyX, or something like that. I would
send the exact message, but dmesg doesn't work. Sigh... I looked around
but couldn't find out how to make this upgrade.
I also have a Netscape question. How do I remove old message headers
from newsgroups? There seems to be nowhere to choose an option to do
this. There is a "Clean Up Disk" option under the file menu, but it does
nothing when I try it.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Vito DeFilippo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:53:24 -0800
Kenneth I. Cramer wrote:
>
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > Melancon wrote:
> >
> > > Frank Sweetser wrote:
> > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > >
> > > > > You pledge
> > > > > : allegiance to the flag at *school* in the USA AFAIK.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yup. I think they do.
> > > >
> > > > yup, we do.
> > >
> > > I don't know what school you went to, or how old you are, but that silly pledge
> > > dissappeared back in the 50's or 60's...
> >
> > Actually it was in the 70's. Strangely enough right about the time the country
> > went to hell in a handbasket.
>
> Sorry, I had still to say it in the 80's but it disappeared when I left
> grade school. Strangely not because of objection to the pledge itself,
> but because it was deemed less important than using that time for
> learning.
According to an autoritative source (my 11 year old
daughter), it was said in 5th grade in the local
school system last year (but only on Mondays). It
is not said in the 6th grade at all this year.
Knowing both teachers, it sounds like teacher option
to me. This is in an area that often has only Republican
candidates on the ballot.
Arthur
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: Re: when RedHat to ship 2.2.X?
Date: 4 Feb 1999 00:34:31 GMT
Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Anyway why would it matter when you can download the kernel and roll
>your own 2.2 system.
sure I could do that. The point is I'm considering a complete
reinstallation of about 10 machines in late February or early March. It
would have been a nice opportunity to start anew with a nice distribution
based on the latest kernel (which by then will be have had ironed out most
of its bugs I'd guess).
Which libc version is the current RH based on? Does it already contain a
version of fdisk that supports ESDI hard disks? How much changes are
required to install 2.2.X on it? Is it more than upgrading from 2.0.X to
2.0.X+1, i.e. grabing the kernel sources, configuring and installing?
Does RH continuously update its distribution which is available via ftp
(I'm consifdering a direct installation via ftp or NFS), or is everything
included as of 11/1998 at best?
--
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Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daddy Rabbit)
Subject: getting modprobe message during boot - don't know what it means
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:17:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I get the following modprobe message during boot:
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
I would like to know what it's looking for so I can fix it or remove
it.
TIA
Jim
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From: "William H. Pridgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Magic
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:36:11 +0000
Razor wrote:
>
> Aaron wrote:
>
> > I know that the company says it should work, I'm just wondering if you
> > have run into any problems using Partition Magic 4 to resize (in my
> > case, make bigger) Linux ext2 partitions...
> > --
> > Aaron B. Hockley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Developer of Markup Master for HTML compatibility
> > http://www.netresource.org
>
> I've resized my Linux partition without any problems many times (Linux
> Ext2 patition and Swap partition too) , so go buy this software , it will
> help u a lot.
Did you have to do anything after you finsished using Partition Magic,
or was Linux immediately bootable? In my case, it was not, and I didn't
know how to recover. (I have since been given some instructions.)
--
Bill Pridgen ** Linux: OS for the next millennium
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: linux max RAM is 1GB?
Date: 3 Feb 1999 17:19:00 GMT
>>I am trying to bring Linux into our environment at work along side some
>>Sun Ultra's and Enterprise systems but I became disappointed to hear
>>that Linux only supports up to 1GB of RAM? That is unfortunate when
nonsense. linux's current memory scheme is constrained by the
its design of putting VM+PM into 4G. by default, the kernel
comes with set for 3+1, but can be trivially modified for 2+2.
I don't know about 1+3, if that would make sense. there's continuing
talk on the linux-kernel list about how to change this, though it's
not all that important, since if you have $10K+ for 4G, you don't
need to piss around with wimpy x86 boxes (ie, that big, fat, quad
2M Xeon can't sustain over ~350 MB/s (total) anyway.)
> figure) 4 gig. The later Intel CPUs allow addressing directly much more
> than this, but there are several layers of memory management involved at
> the programming level.
not particularly. the 36b extension requires 2M pte's, which are fairly
different from 4k pte's. the kernel's approach to mapping everything
is designed to avoid playing with page tables, since that sort of thing
gets slow, quickly. and normal IO devices aren't going to be able to
access that ram directly, either. as an example of what you have to do
to use 36b memory, SCO has a positively revolting extension that
bank-switches this stuff; Linus says that NT uses 36b memory for a
glorified ramdisk.
> Linux implements a memory model suitable for a 386.
> (Yes, the 386 can access terabytes, but not the way Linux does it.)
I don't believe this is true. I think that everything preceeding
the P6 was limited to 32b or less physical ram. virtual space,
is quite a different story, and basically irrelevant, since it's not flat.
(loading segments is impractically slow in protected mode on all x86.)
regards, mark hahn.
--
operator may differ from spokesperson. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://java.mcmaster.ca/~hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.kermit.misc,de.comp.os.unix.sinix,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.unix.solaris,alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.unixware.misc,comp.os.qnx,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.aix,comp.os.vms,comp.os.aos
Subject: Announcing C-Kermit 7.0 for Beta testing
Date: 4 Feb 1999 00:49:54 GMT
This is to announce a (hopefully) brief public Beta testing period for a
major new release of C-Kermit for UNIX, VMS, AOS/VS, and other platforms:
Version 7.0, to replace version 6.0 of September 1996.
The changes are significant, and there are far to many of them to list here.
Chief among them are:
. Configurability as an Internet service, similar to FTPD, but with
far more features and greater flexibility.
. Availability of Kerberos IV and V and SRP (TMs) security (USA and
Canada only).
. Ability to switch automatically between text and binary mode on a
per-file basis when transferring file groups.
. Ability to transfer directory trees -- even between different platforms,
such as UNIX, VMS, and Windows.
. Flexible file-selection options when transferring file groups.
. Faster file transfer, faster defaults.
. High-precision timers and statistics.
. New character sets, including those needed to show the Euro symbol.
. Increased power in the scripting language.
. New platforms supported.
Find the full story at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html
This page lists and describes the new features, and contains links to
further information and to the software itself: source code, tar and zip
archives, and selected individual binaries for many platforms.
Special thanks to Jeff Altman for his key role in the design and development
of many of C-Kermit 7.0's most important new features. Thanks also to the
many contributors and testers, and to those companies, institutions, and
individuals who provided other forms of assistance including manuals,
equipment, advice, system access for building and testing, binaries,
reports, suggestions, and encouragement.
Please send any bug reports, remarks, or questions to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And if you can make any binaries that we can't make ourselves, please let
us know.
Thanks!
- Frank
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