Linux-Misc Digest #251, Volume #19 Mon, 1 Mar 99 20:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Re: running executable from cdrom? (William Cherry)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Matthias Warkus)
Re: running executable from cdrom? ("J�rgen Exner")
dis ("Alyssa Rebensdorf")
Optical drive doesn't work under 2.2 (����)
kernel level autoconfiguration in 2.2 (Ambrose Li)
Re: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps? (bill davidsen)
Re: man is lost? ("Martin")
Re: Redhat 5.2 is a waste of time.....Win98 for 2000. ('Wulff)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Bill Vermillion)
Re: Looking for Base64 encoder (like uuencode) (Rob Komar)
"decrease font" not working in netscape (Benno Tangang)
SGI Visual Workstations? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused (William Harford)
Re: PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it... (J Sako)
Re: Downloading at half the speed under Linux vs NT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wordperfekt 8.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Massive LinuxWorld Bash following Linus's Keynote in San Jose ("Jim Thorpe")
Re: More bad news for NT (John Hasler)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Bill Vermillion)
Re: ncurses displays gibberish for root not for regular users (Juergen Heinzl)
DUN: truncated-IP keep up connection (Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?=)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:15:12 GMT
In article <7b7he9$alq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paolo Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "John Selph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > They're ugly trust me. After the panic I saw, the contents of the ext2
> > system were unrepairable. Look you guys, the truth is your right. Your
> > computer and your OS are great. They do exactly what you want and they more
> > often than not work great. But take a deep breath and step back, there are
> > other systems out there that also work pretty well. Personally, I hate all
> > operating systems. They all suck, every last one of them. I want a system
> > that does 5 things:
...snip...
I think the remainder of the post was sarcasm, but I wouldn't swear to that.
I will ask this, though: Why is the OS not on a Flash ROM in the machine? I
power up, I'm sitting at a logon prompt within seconds, and there's no chance
of botching the core OS. Still updatable...I dunno.
Randy...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 1 Mar 1999 21:44:04 GMT
On 28 Feb 1999 22:57:38 -0800, Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You play games because you have nothing better to do. That's fine --
>but spending hundreds of dollars on toy games and defining your use of
>computers around them is lame. I dare say I've had every bit as much
>fun playing in a chess tournament ... and I actually used my -- brain!
>(Sorry, I know the notion of thinking scares you.)
>
And you talk about arrogance?
- Mike
>mp
>
>- --
>Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
> "Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
> -- Anthony Trollope
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- Arnold Edinborough
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from my website at http://www.wcnet.org/~mtrausch/mykey.zip. You need
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From: William Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: running executable from cdrom?
Date: 01 Mar 1999 12:28:10 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> any info. BTW, this is how I mount it (from my fstab):
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
>
The "user" option in fstab implies the "noexec" option. This makes
it impossible to execute files on /cdrom, even if the x permissions
are set. See the man page for mount. To "fix" this, add the "exec" option
explicitly to the options listed in fstab, or do mount -o exec /cdrom
when you mount the drive.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:00:06 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 01 Mar 1999 01:02:31 +0100...
..and Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, why this zealousness?
ITYM `zeal'. Excuse me, normally I don't criticise spelling or grammar
on Usenet, but I have seen `zealousness' quite often, and I think it's
simply superfluous.
`Zeal' is such a nice word :>
mawa
--
Level 4 - Transport Layer
User has broken one or more packages, and has submitted small
corrective diffs to the developers. Argues about obscure technical
points on the newsgroups. -- Cliff Pratt
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: running executable from cdrom?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:00:15 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7bcl99$8rp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi there. I just burned my first cd. I used mkisofs to make the disk image,
>and that program gives all files root group and user ownership. That
>shouldn't be a problem, but anyway, when I mount the cd and try to run a
>program which has these permissions: '-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root', I still
get
>a Permission denied error. Does anyone know why this is the case? Thanks
for
>any info. BTW, this is how I mount it (from my fstab):
>
>/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
I may be wrong but I believe the option "user" implies the option "noexec"
(which ususally is a good idea). Please check the man pages for mount(8) and
fstab, it should be mentioned there somewhere.
Try re-enabling "exec" and be careful not to enable "suid" (for obvious
security issues).
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: "Alyssa Rebensdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dis
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:06:32 -0500
I'm looking for advice on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the
various Linux distributions. No flame wars please, just a simple explanation
of which distribution you use and why. Also I need to settle on a word
processor that will allow easy exchange of documents with both
UNIX/FrameMaker people and Windows/Word people.
All rational thoughts appreciated,
Kirk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (����)
Subject: Optical drive doesn't work under 2.2
Date: 1 Mar 1999 13:54:18 -0500
After upgrading the kernel to 2.2.2 on a machine at work,
our HP optical drive doesn't work any more. The kernel
sees the drive, but it can't recognize *any* optical
disks as having valid filesystems (even DOS disks).
This thing is a SCSI drive. Does anyone have any problems
with removable media under Linux 2.2? The kernel has no
problem seeing the root filesystem, which is on the same
SCSI bus.
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From: Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel level autoconfiguration in 2.2
Date: 1 Mar 1999 13:59:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I take a kernel with the "kernel level autoconfiguration" option
enabled, and install it on a machine with a normal root file system
(on a hard disk), the kernel seems to take a long time trying to
autoconfigure itself, even though I did not specify the "nfsroot"
parameter on the kernel command line. On a 2.0 kernel, if I don't
specify "nfsroot", the kernel won't try to guess my intentions and
it won't try to autoconfigure.
Does anyone knows how to get the old behavior? TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps?
Date: 1 Mar 1999 23:31:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I got the utils from metalab. they work from linux to linux. takes
| time to learn how to set it up especially if you want to persist
| conection. EQL uses a unique way of doing the load balanceing.
| everyother ip packet was sent over the other line...one here, one
| there and so one.
Interesting, because the EQL I used to use to one ISP didn't work that
way at all, the incoming data all came over one modem until there was a
backlog, then the other modem(s) were used.
That may have been a feature of his Livingston Portmaster, but I don't
think balancing is a feature of EQL per se, any packet will be accepted
on any line.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be
changed regularly and for the same reason.
--Ted Symons(?)
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: man is lost?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 23:35:28 -0000
Reply-To: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Erik,
I suspect that you have not got the MANPATH environment variable setup
correctly. In a console window, type the command :-
echo $MANPATH
if you get nothing back, or an unusual path this is your problem. Edit your
~/.profile and add the following :-
MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/X11/man:/usr/local/man
export MANPATH
Now logout and log back in again. This time when you type the command
'echo $MANPATH' it should return :-
/usr/man:/usr/X11/man:/usr/local/man
Now you will be able to find the man pages with 'man ls' etc.
Hope this helps
Martin
Erik with a K wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I installed RH 5.2 a few weeks ago and have not had any major problems
>yet. However, I realized in the last few days that the "man" command is
>not working and I don't remember it ever working. It gives me:
>
>$ man ls
>No manual entry for ls
>$ man rm
>No manual entry for rm
>
>I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the man-pages RPM and it didn't
>change anything. Do I need to add something to my $PATH so it knows
>where to find the man pages? I am running the BASH shell with KDE 1.1
>and kernel 2.0.36. Thanks in advance!
>
>~Erik
>
>
>--
>Erik Newman
>Sophmore in Civil Engineering
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>I love deadlines....
>
>....I especially like the whooshing sound they
>make as they go flying by.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ('Wulff)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.2 is a waste of time.....Win98 for 2000.
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:03:14 GMT
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 23:41:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Plissken) wrote:
>
>I am a MAJOR newbie, but installed via FTP with no problems. I had a
>bit of trouble configuring X for a while, but that's all sorted now.
>I'm using RedHat 5.2. So...I didn't d/l it, I just did a direct FTP
>install, therby passing up any non-Linux-native hd problems.
>
>Plissken
>
OK.....then here's the 42 cent question ,
Where do I find Redhat 5.2 and all of it's components?
I've come across some sites but wasn't sure which files I needed to
get the ball rolling.
Also I've got a cd burner so what are the chances of being able to
make my own bootable linux cd using files off the net?
'Wulff
......................................................
Hindsight is nature's way of saying
"Boy did YOU screw up".
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 23:48:34 GMT
In article <7begp2$1gi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Bill Vermillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I've typically seen it $100US, vs $100A ('strine), or $100CDN.
> ^^^^^^
>Which, according to something I read years ago, would be redundant.
So how would you distingiush 100 Canadian dollars from 100
Australian dollars or 100 United States dollars.
>I can't back this up aat the moment (and it may be wrong, too :),
>but my understanding is that the $ sign came from the superimposed
>U and S (I forget what happned to the bottom part of the U).
That would be all well and good if there were only one dollar on
this planet, but times change.
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: Looking for Base64 encoder (like uuencode)
Date: 1 Mar 1999 19:28:50 GMT
Jean-Sebastien Morisset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: It seems I've searched everywhere and I can't find a base64 encoder. I can't
: believe no-one has written one yet!
:
: What I'm looking for is something like the uuencode/uudecode utilities. I
: figure if anyone knows, it's gotta be Linux users. <grin>
Try `mmencode', which is part of the metamail package.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: Benno Tangang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "decrease font" not working in netscape
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:58:11 -0800
I have Netscape 4.5 in Linux. The 'decrease fonts' and 'increase font' in the menu are
grayed out. The ctl +] and ctl + [ don't work as they do in netscape for Windows.
Another odd thing: In Netscape, the backspace key deletes the letter after the cursor
instead of the letter before the cursor.
Any keyboard shortcut for invoking the menu in linux, similar to Windows' alt + f?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: SGI Visual Workstations?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 17:57:06 GMT
I am about to purchase another linux machine, and the SGI VW look great.
Their base price is terrific. But, I do have some big concerns:
* Is there a linux X-windows driver by now? (I know that the kernel 2.2
supports it.)
* SGI has steep non-base prices. So, is RAM user upgradeable? Is adding a
disk internally easy? (SCSI?) Does adding CPUs (especially on the 540) mean
buying just the CPUs, or expensive boards with CPUs sitting on them? (My
experience with DELL is that such boards can add 50% to the price per CPU.)
* Will the 320 come with the Pentium III rather than the Pentium II?
* When will the 540 ship? Really.
Anyone else going through these issues?
Sincerely,
/ivo welch
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From: William Harford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused
Date: 1 Mar 1999 20:06:35 GMT
Paul Taylor wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> >
> > Sorry I'm a relative newbie also. How do you tell if you are using
> > GNOME with your window manager or not? I have it installed and I'm
> > using WindowMaker right now.
>
> I grabbed the 0.99.7 RPMs and installed them; part of the installation is
> to add/create a .xsession file in your home directory containing the line
> "gnome-session" at the end. This starts the Enlightenment window manager
> and the Gnome toolbar. To run the toolbar with AfterStep, I added
> "AfterStep &" before the "gnome-session" line. (Ugly - Enlightenment
> will still try to load, but it works. :) It may be possible to load
> the toolbar without changing .xsession, but I haven't played with it
> enough to find out.
>
panel &
Will start the GNOME panel and leave your window manager in control :)
>
> These are still the development versions so they are a little flaky and
> incomplete; I haven't tried 0.99.8 yet. It's probably best to wait for
> Gnome 1.0 to do any serious work with Gnome. RedHat 6.0 will be a
> must-have upgrade for me. :)
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, I ticked.
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:08:49 -0600
From: J Sako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it...
Loren Cook wrote:
> Another thing you should look at is your BIOS settings. If you set your BIOS
> for "PnP OS" and also for "Win95 OS" Linux will not see the PnP card. The
> correct setting is "PnP OS" type "diabled". This will allow the BIOS to
> configure for any OS PnP.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> J Sako wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I'm trying to configure sound for a Yamaha OPL3-SA card, but I cannot
> >get PnP to see the card. A pnpdump does not pick it up - nothing shows
> >except my modem. When I try to configure it manually by adding the
> >following (which I got from the Win95 settings) to isapnp.conf:
> >
> >(CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1 (LD 0
> > (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
> > (IO 1 (BASE 0x0530))
> > (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
> > (IO 3 (BASE 0x0330))
> > (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> > (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
> > (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 1))
> > (ACT Y)
> >))
> >
> >I get:
> >
> >Executing CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1
> >Board YMH0800/-1 not found - skipping
> >
> >I'm not real familiar with the PnP conf parms, but I tried making LD 1,
> >with the same results. How do get PnP to work when a pnpdump doesn't
> >even find the card.
> >
A stupid question. How can I check this and where do I set it? At the
interrupted boot BIOS screen? This is dual boot machine (linux/windows) Will
this effect win95?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Downloading at half the speed under Linux vs NT
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:55:30 GMT
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:24:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred
smith) wrote:
>Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Hi all,
>: I have a USRobotics internal 56k v.90 modem that works just fine under
>: Linux except that I seem to consistently get about half the download
>: speed or less than I do under NT, plus it stalls up to 3-4 times a
>: minute sometimes. Where should I start to look for things to tweak to
>: try and get it up there? I have seen a serial port HOW-TO is there a
>: modem HOW-TO? Also seems to happen most under Netscape, I think I'm
>: running 4.08. Could that be the problem? I hate to keep having to
>: reboot into NT to go download stuff that I need for Linux.
>: Thanks for your help!
>: mike
>
>What IRQ is the modem using? If it is not 3 or 4 (com 2 or 1) then you
>may need to get irqtune. The modem needs high priority interrupt service,
>and if not on 3 or 4 it won't get it causing lots of lost interrupts and
>resulting in slow throughput.
>
> http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/irqtune.tgz
>
>Fred
>--
>---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------
> "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
> heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
>------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
you may also want to consider adjusting your mtu setting. in your
ppp-options add the lines
mtu 576
mru 576
may help.
tng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Wordperfekt 8.0
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 20:00:20 GMT
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:46:49 +0100, Tobias Schmetzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know it's a horror to get the all in one tarball but that's what I
did. All works perfect! Like it better that the win ver and it's
faster than staroffice 4.x/5.x
>Hallo love linuxers!
>
>i have the following problem with my Wordperfekt-Installation for linux:
>
>I untarred the files with tar xzf gui01.gz, tar xfz gui02.gz, ...
>then I had some directories and a Runme skript. I startet it and was asked,
>if I had already untarred the package, and I said yes.
>Then I got the answer �nothing new to install�. Great
>Next, I looked through the dirs and saw 2 files called install.ftp and
>install.wp in the dir �shared�. Knowing nothing more, I startet them.
>install.ftp said, it couldn�t read a lot of files, which were in the same dir.
>install.wp did as it should and seemed to install wp. Everything worked, except
>of the file �xwp� - the main program. the only message I get is:
>chmod: couldn�t chmod /opt/wp/bin/xwp!
>
>What did I make wrong ?
>I downloaded all 7 parts of wp8 and the checksums have to be ok because gzip
>decompressed it correctly.
>And why does the Runme-script not run ??
>
>Please help me, as I wanted to test this product.
>
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From: "Jim Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Massive LinuxWorld Bash following Linus's Keynote in San Jose
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 16:54:21 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "Jim Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:25:05 GMT, Arthur Tyde wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>This note and your conference pass is YOUR INVITATION to the most hip,
>>LinuxCare and IDG are sponsoring the PARTY OF THE MILLENNIUM at the first
>LinuxWorld Expo
What are you going to do next year in the last year of the century/millenium?
Jim T.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:56:38 GMT
Harry writes:
> Ones? I used to dream of ones!
The EAI analog computer I programmed at MTU really didn't have 1's or 0's.
Just voltages.
> We had to hard-wire our programs.
On the EAI we had the luxury of patch-cords.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 23:51:50 GMT
In article <7befhp$j1o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>in the uk, the shifted three gives the proper pound symbol and what in
>>the us is displayed as # is in the uk shown as the wacky L.
>Regardless of where they may or may not appear on a keyboard, they
>are two completely different symbols.
>
>UKP (�) = £ = character 163 in an ISO-8859-1[1] charmap.
>
>Number Sign (#) [or octothorpe or whatever you choose to call it]
> = # = character 35 on both the US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 charmaps.
Only in the 8-bit world. In the old ASCII world of 7 bits - not
so long ago. The same key labled # generated # or L (the real
looking pound sign not L ), depending on the mode you set it for.
I recall that the B mode was $ the A mode was the pound sign.
And for the life-of-me I can't recall the sequence of which that
was part - nor do I feel like lookup it up in a Vt102 manaul.
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: ncurses displays gibberish for root not for regular users
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:56:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Plumbly wrote:
>Anyone run accross this one?
No ?
>
>Any display which uses ncurses (linuxconfig, etc) prints out the display
>plus
>gibberish around the edges instead of the proper display characters,
>for root, but if a regular user runs the same software, the display is
echo $TERM as root and echo $TERM as JoeSixpack, any differences ? If
not stty -a as see above and compare again. You might use stty -g and
> the output to two files, easier to compare via cmp.
Cheers,
Juergen
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\ Phone Private : +44 181-332 0750 \ /
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From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: DUN: truncated-IP keep up connection
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 01:21:21 +0100
Hi there!
I got a strange probem. I'm using SUSE 6.0 and I'm trying to set up a
Linux box which should connect the LAN (Win95-nodes) to the Internet via
ISDN. (ipppd connects on demand). The nodes have no DNS an no default
route. The clients only have access to the Internet via squid-Proxy.
Quite often the the connection is kept up, because some packets seem to
be sent forth and back and /var/log/messages says: 'truncated-ip: 16,345
bytes missing'
What do I have to do?
Thanx in advance, Christian
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Christian Froehlich / Damage Data Systems GbR
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~chrifroe
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