Linux-Misc Digest #57, Volume #19 Mon, 15 Feb 99 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Multilink PPP driver(mlppp, mppp) (Ruairi McFarlane)
Re: Firewalling and Security -- Where is the path to Enlightenment? Er, (Eric
Jorgensen)
Re: bring up an image while not in X windows
Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure (James Youngman)
Re: Linux suxxxx (Mark Bratcher)
smbmount (Ed Szynaka)
Re: ramdisk for linux: mount /ramdisk (oak)
Re: From RedHat to Slackware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: set up small word-processing system (John Hasler)
Re: Problem on Make Command
Re: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: System command /usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/man/cat1/date.1.gz exited ("Joe (tWdy)
Philbrook")
Re: big endian -> little endian converter (Thomas Boggs)
Re: PPP problems (John Red-Horse)
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? (Emile van Bergen)
Re: Matrox G200 PCI support Linux?? (Jay)
Re: [Q] Any experiences with SuSE 6.0 ????
Re: Kernel question (David)
Re: Firewalling and Security -- Where is the path to Enlightenment? Er, (Eric
Jorgensen)
Re: Which distribution? (David)
Re: HELP: Postscript/lpr: Not printing large docs-Win98 is hosed! (Michael Saunders)
Re: floating point accuracy on Linux? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (David Goddard)
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: ODBC driver for Linux? (Ben Russo)
$ mailx : Segmentation fault ("Joe (tWdy) Philbrook")
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From: Ruairi McFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multilink PPP driver(mlppp, mppp)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:11:47 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patrick Lanphier wrote:
>
> Does anybody know where to find a Multilink PPP driver for Linux kernel 2.2?
>
> Patrick Lanphier
Hi there,
I am looking for something similar but would prefer to have the actual
driver for my SupraSonic II. I made another posting about this earlier
here. Like you and others I will be waiting for the news!
--
Sincerely,
R. M.
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From: Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Firewalling and Security -- Where is the path to Enlightenment? Er,
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:53:26 -0700
Eric Jorgensen wrote:
>
> I highly recommend the rc.firewall script you will find at
> www.nerdherd.net/ipchains (there are both ipchains and ipmasq versions
> on the page) - I'm using the ipfwadm version. I know the authors, and
> they definately know their stuff.
Forgot to mention - on many systems (redhat for instance) you will need
to add a line to the script enabling all inbound and outbound traffic on
the loopback device (l0) - otherwise you break ftpd. Manuka needs to add
that to the script he's distributing. This opens no security holes,
since the loopback device, by definition, isn't accessable from outside
the system.
- Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: bring up an image while not in X windows
Date: 15 Feb 1999 21:01:43 GMT
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:37:11 +1100, Forge Villella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Hi all
>
>I have seen a fellow linux user bring up a image outside of X windows,
>and would like to know how to go about doing this. Before you say it,
>yes I did ask him how it was done, but he didn't offer any instructions,
Get zgv, it's a svgalib app that does images from the command line in a text
session. I think you can get it from sunsite.unc.edu in the graphics
directory.
hope this is what you wanted.
--
"I will have the most ethical administration in history."
Bill Clinton; Nov. 1992
Yeah, right....
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure
Date: 15 Feb 1999 22:49:51 +0000
Shadowspawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables.
Search www.dejanews.com for this.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux suxxxx
Date: 15 Feb 1999 21:01:43 GMT
Tim,
Tim Laursen wrote:
>
> Actually it is a bit hard to compare the difficulty of installing Linux
> vs. Windows, since most new PC's are sold with Windows pre installed. If
> everybody had to install Windows themselves, I'm sure a lot of people
> would need help with that too.
Excellent point! I'll add to that and say that I recall a kajillion
posts in the Windows newsgroups from people agonizing over installing
their Win95 upgrades when it came out. The pre-arrangement MS has with
PC vendors has really covered alot of sins.
Mark
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From: Ed Szynaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smbmount
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:44:26 -0500
I'm having trouble trying to mount my Win smb shares in linux. I can
use samba to view and transfer files but I can't mount them. I keep
getting the error need mount version 6.
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ramdisk for linux: mount /ramdisk
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:09:55 GMT
This, or some variation, should work - assuming you've
got ramdisk supportin the kernel:
# I don't know if this line is really neccessary
bash# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=8192
# These are:
bash# mkfs.ext2 /dev/ram0 8192
bash# mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/ramdisk
Ramdisks are very helpful. I don't care how good memory management is it can
never guess what you are going to do. If you have a lot of files being
written to /tmp for example , every time you write a file there you access
the drive not only writing the data but also writing time stamps and access
time. Another way to go is to keep things from being written to disk by
extending the update time....I'm planning on extending update to something
like an hour or so! I'm going to purchase a power backup first though.
-Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: From RedHat to Slackware
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:49:51 GMT
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:45:42 +0000, Donn Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Fuzzy wrote:
>
>> It's probably the most popular (or was at one time and still is). Be
>> forewarned that you can't as easily remove and install a package as with
>>
>> rpm -e
>> rpm -i
ya, in slakware it's
installpkg (filename)
removepkg (filename)
>>
>> Also note that Slackware is different that RedHat as far as it's
>> configuration files (for startup). One is s5 like the other is bsd like
>> but I forget which is which. You won't have all the nice gui tools like
>
>I believe Slackware is more like BSD, RedHat -> SysV.
>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: set up small word-processing system
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:36:14 GMT
steve mcadams writes:
> btw, I've tried several distributions including Slackware 3.6, Red Hat
> 5.2, and SuSE 5.3, and none of their install programs will run in
> 4meg.
The problem is ramdisk. The install creates a ramdisk, puts few essential
utilities on it, and mounts it. This lets a very basic Linux system start
running before there is any hard disk available. This works great in 32M,
but in 4M it doesn't leave room for the kernel. You might try Debian.
The installaltion instructions claim that 4M is enough.
If Debian doesn't work do a Web search on "low memory install".
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem on Make Command
Date: 15 Feb 1999 21:08:13 GMT
>Stephen Leung wrote:
>>
>> Dear Xav,
>>
>> I am a new player of Linux. I believe that you are more experience than me
>> because I don't even know how to invoke the 'make' command.
>>
>> I have downloaded some free software from the network that require me to
>> install it with the 'make command such as 'make' and 'make install' etc.
>> However, when I follow the readme to do so, it will come back with me the
>> error messages of missing 'cc' and 'gcc' etc.
Looks to me like you haven't installed the GCC compiler.
>>
>> I appreciate it if you could advise me how to resolve this problem. Is
>> there something missing in my Redhat 5.2 during installation.
>>
>> Many thanks and regards,
>>
>> Stephen Leung
--
"I will have the most ethical administration in history."
Bill Clinton; Nov. 1992
Yeah, right....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:16:58 GMT
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:36:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Gerd Roethig) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:33:06 +0100 Klaus Kocheisen
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Anthony Pioli schrieb:
>>>
>>> If a beep is all you want:
>>>
>>> print "\a";
>>>
>>> Anthony
>
>>Looks like you didn't read the message of Tobias thoroughly. He wrote,
>>that his script beeps happily if run at the console or a terminal but
>>not within a cron job. The reason why it's not beeping is that cron is a
>>daemon and thus, any job run by cron runs (like cron itself) without a
>>controlling terminal. Therefore, any data written to stdout or stderr
>>goes to nirvana.
>
>So maybe it helps if output of the script is redirected to something
>like /dev/console in the commandline invoked by crond?
>I mean a line like
>
>/where/your/script/is/testscript > /dev/console
>
>or
>
>/where/your/script/is/testscript 2> /dev/console
>
>if you want to catch output to stderr.
>
>Just a suggestion, but I am interested in the results, too :).
>
>Cheers
>
>Gerd
why not just copy the ding.wav from windows and
cat /path/ding.wav >/dev/audio
set my computer with startup/shutdown sounds this way. ( using
different wav files of corse )
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From: "Joe (tWdy) Philbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System command /usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/man/cat1/date.1.gz exited
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:35:55 +0000
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, jamie wrote:
>
> Obviously what you did wrong was try to use 'date' to set the time and
> date. Once upon a time I knew how to do that. But it's pain in the
> ass, and by the time you've reread the man page and figured out which
> string you want to use, the time has changed and your clock is off.
>
> /usr/sbin/netdate 132.163.135.130
> clock -w
>
> --
> jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
Thanks for the suggestion jamie...
My problem though wasn't that I didn't know about the clock command.
when the cmos battery doesn't keep the RTC running with PC powered down,
then setting the clock won't help much... And if the date/time is wrong
when you run the clock -w it wouldn't help much even if the cmos battery
was up to snuff... Actualy I just wanted to check the syntax of the date
command so I could set the date with the date command so I typed
man date
expecting that I'd be able to get to the :! command prompt that is usualy
obtainable from less by way of invoking vi on the file with the v command
But apearantly it couldn't because less was invoked on the stout of man
rather than on a file...
I was actualy being sarcastic about reaching a command prompt while the
output of a man command was still being displayed when I posted the
mesage you replied to...
AND about how difficult it can be for a relitive newbie to find the right
docs when they need them...
Actualy since I usualy boot linux from dos with loadlin, and since I'm now
running caldera's Dr-dos (which doesn't suffer from that non compliant bios
problem like ms-dos did, I jsut put the date & time commands in my
C:\autoexec.bat and since dos does update the clock when you use it's
date and time commands, And since I don't power down before linux takes its
strart up read on the RTC, I don't have a problem... (though I still need a
new cmos battery, or a motherboard change... haven't decided which yet)
But like I said,
TTTTTTTTTTTT HH HH AA NN NN KK SSSS
TT HH HH A A NNNN NN KK KK SS SS
TT HH HH AA AA NN NN NN KK KK SS
TT HHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAA NN NN NN KK KK SSSSS
TT HH HH AA AA NN NN NN KKKK KK SS
TT HH HH AA AA NN NNNN KK KK SS SS
TT HH HH AA AA NN NN KK KK SSSS
| --- ___
| <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
| ^ J(tWdy)P
| ~\___/~ <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: cern.linux
Subject: Re: big endian -> little endian converter
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:49:09 -0500
"David R. Conrad" wrote:
> Thomas Boggs wrote:
> >Speaking of floating points, does anyone know of any libraries to convert
> >floating point values between different platforms? I've gotten some VAX binary
> >files containing floats in the past and had to do my own byte swapping and bit
> >fiddling to use the data on an Intel machine. It would be nice not to have to
> >go through that process for each platform.
>
> Sure:
>
> printf("%f", double_var);
>
> scanf("%f", &double_var);
>
Huh? How is scanf going to know that the binary value it is reading is from a
different architecture which is byte swapped and has a different number of bits for
the number's exponent and mantissa?
-thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Red-Horse)
Subject: Re: PPP problems
Date: 15 Feb 1999 14:01:16 -0700
In article <7a5j1h$goh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>You are probably setting up a default route onto eth0 (you have an
>ehternet card in your machine I assume.) Kill off the default route
>before you start up ppp-- eg in the script which stars up ppp.
>
Just a quick follow-up to Bill's advice: His diagnosis was correct, but
all I have to do is issue a `route add default ppp0' after I initiate my
ppp connection.
Thanks for the help...
cheers,
john
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From: Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:20:37 +0100
Frank McKenney wrote:
> I did get a bit confused by your first statement above; the words you've
> used seem to imply that Linux is complex to set up _because_ it is so
> wonderful, and I don't _think_ that's what you intended (;-).
Xfree86 and Linux complexities are both complexities, but have nothing
to do with each other and are, although a very nice combination,
completely independent.
> >Careful reading of the FAQs, HOWTOs and man pages (as well as the
> >documentation provided with X itself) will lead to a richly rewarding
> >*understanding* of the X Window System. Contrast this with Microsoft
> >Windows, where the user is the hapless ``victim'' of the software rather
> >than being in complete command of the computing environment.
>
> Flexibility, knowing that I (and others) _can_ work around current
> limitations, yes, these are good things. On the other hand, I don't
> realy want to have to read hundreds of pages (yes, I'm exaggerating - I
> think (;-)) and spend days simply setting up Linux so I can see a clean
> 800x600 X desktop.
You're right, but nobody has yet set up a central repository with
downloadable subsets of the XF86Config file for different
monitors/videocards and the combinations thereof. XF86Setup tries, but
sometimes fails, because the developers clearly didn't have the
resources to test each and every monitor / card combination... ;-)
For a nice, readable though in-depth guidance for setting up the
modelines in /etc/XF86Config, I'd suggest Eric S. Raymond's 'Tweaking
your X server for fun and profit', a.k.a. the 'XFree86 Video Timings
HOWTO', which can be found at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.html
Hope this is of some help.
--
M.vr.gr. / Best regards,
Emile van Bergen (e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This e-mail message is 100% electronically degradeable and produced
on a GNU/Linux system.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
From: Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox G200 PCI support Linux??
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:34:41 -0700
Although I have not tried it with XFree, I have a PCI G200+ running
perfectly with Accelerated-X (www.xig.com). Accel-X has full support for
the entire Mattrox line. Although it is not free, it is a really great X
server.
~Jay
On 15 Feb 1999, Tom Trebisky wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mike Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 03:52:42 +1100, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I'm running XFree 3.3.3-1 and I have a strange problem: ....
> >
> >..... When I upgraded to 3331, most of the
> >X11 binaries produced segmentation faults. The fix was to re-compile them,
> >but netscape is well and truly dead. I did not have this problem at home
> >where I use the XS3 chip. My two Linux boxes are otherwise identical, so
> >put it down to problems with the G200 support.
>
> Well, I have a G200 AGP card, I installed RH 5.2, then got the XFree 3.3.3
> rpm's (just maybe the 3.3.3-1), and dumped them in (took 2 passes for some
> reason), and I am running perfectly. No recompile, no hassle. I even lied
> to the original RH install and told it I had a Matrox MGA card, and never
> had to touch the config file after I installed the RPM's later, it just
> came up. Maybe there is some problem unique to the PCI version ??
> --
> Tom Trebisky MMT Observatory
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Arizona
> http://kofa.as.arizona.edu/ Tucson, Arizona 85721
> (520) 621-5135
>
>
- J a y J a c o b s o n
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.kinetic.org
In a world where an admin is rendered useless when the ball in his mouse
has been taken out, it is good to know that I know UNIX.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: [Q] Any experiences with SuSE 6.0 ????
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:33:48 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SuSE 6.0 is the best distro on the market :) I also had no problems
> getting 2.2.1 compiled and running on this distro. There is a lot of
> updated software on the 5CD set and a few features have been added that
> make my online life more affordable :)
Nothing wrong with this. But Augusto would have to *update* from
5.3 to 6.0. I can�t recommend this. My udate from 5.1 to 6.0 was
a fiasco. The system seemed to take double the time for booting up
(with roughly the same services/daemons running), and it didn�t set
up my Teles 16.3c PnP ISDN card correctly. I was playing with isapnp
for hours with no success. This was with the supplied 2.0.36
kernel. I ended up sweeping my partitions and making a clean new
install.
Now everything�s working fine (kernel 2.2.1); especially diald�s dial
on demand is at last working as it�s intended to. Now if I only
could set up the kernel NFS server correctly (have no manual) ...
When I try to import a directory, I only get a message like
"portmap: program not registered". What�s that supposed to mean?
Holger
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel question
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:57:31 +1100
Sorry. This is in reference to kernel 2.2.1
David wrote:
> Hello All,
> My question is this. When building the kernel, I cannot
> seem to load the SMC Etherpower Express II ( experimental ) option . It
>
> is always greyed out.( in xconfig) . The module is in the package (
> epic100.o ) but unlike previous kernels, the SMC EPIC/100 card is not an
>
> option. Is this a shortcoming of the kernel ?
> Do I need to do something that I cannot thimk of ?
>
> Anyhelp will be appreciated.
>
> -David
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From: Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Firewalling and Security -- Where is the path to Enlightenment? Er,
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:50:07 -0700
I highly recommend the rc.firewall script you will find at
www.nerdherd.net/ipchains (there are both ipchains and ipmasq versions
on the page) - I'm using the ipfwadm version. I know the authors, and
they definately know their stuff.
- Eric
K&A wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I've got DSL ordered and with the 24x7 connection have a rather obvious
> need to make sure I understand what I'm doing to keep the bozos out. I
> have two Linux boxes. One I'm currently using as a server to three
> [Un$peakableO$] machines and the other Linux box. It's acting a crude
> firewall and gateway to my ISP.
>
> The other Linux box (P100, 64Mb RAM, 6Gb HD) is currently a goof-off
> machine that spends more time off than powered on. I've been thinking
> about turning it into a dedicated firewall for the DSL connection. I
> also need to understand security to make sure that it's not using swiss
> cheese security.
>
> The question is where do I start to learn about these two topics? Any
> books worth reading?
>
> Thanks to the fine 'Net community I have a rudamentary firewall but I
> don't 100% understand what it's doing. I've also got several daemons
> running that I understand are potential security holes. I found in
> /var/log/messages that some bozo from Sweden tried to ftp to my machine
> using the logon "warez"... the three attempts in 12 seconds on a dial-up
> connection (dynamic IP address) makes me think it was some sort of
> modern war dialer for the 'Net. No damage done, but it gives one a
> reason to sit up and reconsider. I know that if one really knows what
> they're doing they can clean up after themselves before disconnecting.
>
> In short, I can do basic sysadmin stuff but am eager to learn more.
>
> Thank you for your insights!
>
> James
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distribution?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:52 +1100
Go with SuSE 6.0. It will have everything you need.
Nicholas James wrote:
> I can't decide whether to get RH 5.2 or Caldera 1.3. I've installed
> redhat on two other machines that I've had, but I've never tried
> Caldera. I really want StarOffice and KDE, and for once, I'd like to
> have my soundcard work under linux.
>
> I feel comfortable with installing and using RH, and I think I'm more
> likely to get the sound card working under RH (it's a Creative Labs
> PCI128--will this work?).
>
> I know I can just download StarOffice and KDE, but I much prefer to have
> things on CD rather than wait several hours for something to download.
>
> I'm considering getting RH 5.2, and just ordering the StarOffice 5.0 CD,
> but it would cost me a fortune since I live in Canada.
>
> Caldera 1.3 ships with StarOffice 4.0, but I don't know well that
> compares to 5.0.
>
> I'm sorry this message isn't terribly coherent. I'm hoping someone can
> render their opinions on some of my questions.
>
> ...Thanks very much in advance for any feedback!
>
> --
> --== Nicholas James
> --== [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --== http://www.uoguelph.ca/~njames/
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From: Michael Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Postscript/lpr: Not printing large docs-Win98 is hosed!
Date: 15 Feb 1999 14:53:32 -0700
Michael Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I just connected my "new" DataProducts LZR2080 laser printer
: to one of my Linux machines (via the serial connection on
: /dev/cua1 if it matters -- the ethernet interface is reporting
: a "cable break at 0ns" so I think that I.F. might be broken).
Well, here's an update. You'll all be happy to learn that my
problems are most likely due to a bug in the Winbloze98 PostScript
rendering driver...
Since I was having no luck printing my 1040 at home (on the DataProducts
LZR2080), I brought it into work to print on our flashy (and FAST!)
Xerox DocuPrint N32's. I lp'ed the 1040.ps file and guess what? Nothing
came-out -- just like at home. So, that tells me that it's not my
laser that's hosed-up.
Next, I tried to convert the 1040.ps file to a pdf file using the
Acrobat Distiller (Solaris version). Partway through the the
process, Distiller took a dump on me and said that one of the pages
was incomplete and exited with a 0 byte pdf output file.
So, I can only conclude that the Win98 .ps driver (at least for the
DataProducts printers) is hosed-over.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with this problem -- I really
appreciate it!
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: floating point accuracy on Linux?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:25:07 GMT
In article <7a9mdm$r2a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Schwarz wrote:
>Tne following small sample program produces different output on Linux
>(x86) than on any other platform I have tested:
[...]
Lot's snipped ...
() the Intel CPU family is not 100 per cent IEEE compliant
() other CPU's use 64 bit for double while Intel CPU's use 80 bit
internally.
... so, the math library aside, you will see differences, for
instance, if you compile with and without -f(no)-float-store.
There is some interesting documentation about all that on
the Net and I know of at least one Pascal compiler that offered
intervall arithmetic (say, the result somewhere between x and y);
not nice, but honest at least.
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Goddard)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 15 Feb 1999 23:00:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:
...
> Glad to see this thread moving to substantive issues rather than
> which OS is incrementally easier for a novice to install.
Makes a change :-)
> FWIW
> Solaris' x86 installation code was, in 1996, a generation ahead of
> where FreeBSD and Linux's installation code is today.
So what did they do to it in the last couple of years then? When did
they introduce the flakey disk partitioning? (and it's in the FAQ that
it's a bit iffy...) From my experience, the UI and functionality of the
FreeBSD install for the last few years has been better than that of
Solaris 2.6 & 2.^H^H7, albeit without the optional pretty graphics.
This is of course speaking as someone who hasn't studied the code of
either, just used them.
Having said that, both installation processes *work* and they knock
spots off certain other installations I could mention...
--
David Goddard
Any twelve people who cannot get themselves
excused from jury duty are not my peers.
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:25:37 +0000
> Hi, Steve! I am glad you voluntered to do this for the Linux community.
> Please post the source code for the program in a Linux binary group,
> when you are done with the program.
Sheesh... as soon as you're finished building the corporate headquarters and
factory for making shrink-wrapped boxes, so that I can have my own distribution and
make money supporting such a nightmare, I'll have that source code all ready to go for
ya'! <smile>
Steve
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.sparc
Subject: Re: ODBC driver for Linux?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:23:33 -0500
Gary wrote:
> Does anyone know of a free or commercial implementation of ODBC for Linux? I
> know Solaris has one but I haven't seen anything for a freenix. Thanks for any
> info.
>
> -Gary
>
> ---
> hack together /vt./
> To throw something together so it will work. Unlike `kluge together' or
> 'cruft together,' this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
I would imagine if you found one for BSD or SCO or x86Solaris you could
run it with binary compatibility.
Running linux as a client seems a little hard. But you could use JDBC.
-Ben.
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From: "Joe (tWdy) Philbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: $ mailx : Segmentation fault
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:57:38 +0000
when I type mailx I get:
Segmentation fault
what could cause that???
Note: don't know if it's related but on this same user account (it's the
one I was using for my mail of course...) I just lost the abillity to
route outgoing mail through the sendmail daemon... which used to hold
"expensive" smtp mailers mail in a spool till I logged in to my isp...
Now to get out I have to point pinme at the smtp server directly and BE
on-line when I send it... <sigh>
any clues guys???
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