Linux-Misc Digest #852, Volume #21 Fri, 17 Sep 99 19:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: converting MacBinary ?? ("John Coonrod")
Samba browser? ("John Coonrod")
Re: REQ: The fastest Window Manager for a slow Laptop? ("G.T.")
Re: Pico (John Girash)
Re: Favorite Editor? (Allen Ashley)
8505 exabyte (claudia burg)
Re: 2 More Newbie Questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help With CD-Rom (can't mount to install Linux) (John Lenk)
Linux Mailing List (noname)
Re: fetchmail polling 250000 accounts. (Ian Westcott)
FOUND THE CULPRITE! (was Re: Zip Disk data corruption?) (Taura)
Re: Fetchmail - recipient address *** didn@t match any local name??? ("Alex
Monaghan")
Re: Newbie needs help! (Leonard Evens)
If you are on Long Island.. (ORRIN)
Re: Getting confused with the virtual terminals ("rob")
Re: Loadlin nukes APM BIOS save-to-disk feature ( splunty!)
Re: Star Office 5.1 and KDE (Gary Fidler)
fetchmail polling 250000 accounts. (Ed Soniat)
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From: "John Coonrod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: converting MacBinary ??
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:31:17 -0400
MacBinary just contain a 128-byte header that needs to be sliced off. The
dos program Behead can be downloaded from lots of places and does this just
fine.
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From: "John Coonrod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba browser?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:33:31 -0400
Is there any kind of graphical browser for Samba network shares, similar to
"Network Neighborhood" in win95?
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From: "G.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: REQ: The fastest Window Manager for a slow Laptop?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:22:29 -0700
Eduard Bloch wrote in message ...
>Am Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:12:56 -0700 schrieb/wrote/a �crit
>G.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc:
>
>>Sorry, I don't see that. I use kfm under KDE and WindowMaker and when I
>>display a directory with 2400 jpegs in it, it's lightning fast (or are you
>
>I don't know you understand as "fast". I just tried this with 2200 files
>(usenet spool). gmc takes about 12 seconds, kfm about 1 minute to
>display the whole directory (on K6-2-400) - you see the difference.
I'm talking 6-8 seconds on my PII-400 with 128MB, KDE 1.1.1. gmc was about
12-14 seconds.
Greg
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pico
Date: 17 Sep 1999 16:04:56 -0500
Lee Mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have Caldera OL 2.2 Distro, and would like to know if anyone knows
: where I could receive a Pico rpm, or as part of something else.
I believe the "joe" editor comes with a picolike mode called "jpico".
You could look for that ("joe", that is).
hth
jg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Ashley)
Subject: Re: Favorite Editor?
Date: 17 Sep 1999 20:23:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (tony summerfelt) writes:
>which editor is that? which platforms?
Since you asked: I call the editor edit. I wrote the first version in
8080 assembly language to run under the dos that came with an ICOM
8" disk drive. I then ported it to my own dos for a COMPAL-80. Then
to z-80 assembly for a North Star. Then to CP/M, first for the DR
version of that dos, then for my own version of it. Then for CPM/86
then PCDOS. Then I moved to an NEC-APC adding color things. I stuck
with DOS for a long time, moving to linux 5 or 6 years ago. I also have
ported my editor to SunOS and Solaris. It was only under linux that
ther editor was wholly written in C, before that it was almost all
assembly language.
I would like to hear from contributors to this thread about what
features of their favorite editor they like. I am always looking
for things I might add to my editor.
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From: claudia burg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: 8505 exabyte
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:13:30 -0700
hi
i am new to the linux news group and linux so please be kind if i offend.
i checked the old messages for something on this and found nothing.
i am trying to set up a scsi II 8505 exabyte on a linux box running red
hat 6.0 on a scsi III dell box. i set up the file stinit.def (see below)
and ran ./MAKEDEV in /dev and two device entries were created: st1 and
nst1 (st0 is a dds-dc drive). the problem is the computer is not seeing
the high compression mode. i can successfully write and read to the drive
with some tapes, but not high compression. i have an exabyte tape written
in high compression and readable on the drive when the drive was attached
to a dec alpha running unix. the same tape is not readable when the drive
is put on the linux box. how do i properly configure and access the
multiple compression levels of the 8505 exabyte?
thanks!
ciao
claudia
stinit.def file:
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# Exabyte 8505 and other similar 8 mm helical scan driver
manufacturer=EXABYTE model="EXB-85058SQANXR1" {
scsi2logical=3 can-bsr auto-lock
mode1 blocksize=0 density=0x8c # 8500 density, compressing
mode2 blocksize=0 density=0x15 # 8500 density, no compression
mode3 blocksize=0 density=0x90 # 8200 density, compressing
mode4 blocksize=0 density=0x14 } # 8200 density, no compression
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2 More Newbie Questions
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:18:31 GMT
I've changed from Redhat 6.0 to Mandrake 6.0 coz it's more up-to-day.
Both are from Redhat!!! But Mandrake 6.0 seems to be an updated & bug-
fixed version of Redhat 6.0.
http://users.skynet.be/gizmo
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From: John Lenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help With CD-Rom (can't mount to install Linux)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:31:21 GMT
Stephen Nelson wrote:
>
> I have a Mitsumi CD-Rom (FX001D). It is hooked to a ISA driver card. I
> don't know how to find out what the address and IRQ number is to mount
> the CD-ROM.
>
> I have tried under the "specify options"
> Base IO port: mcd=0x340,11
>
> I get a error of "can't find media" after it tries to mount it.
>
> I have a 486Dx66 compputer with a very old Pheonix BIOS that doesn't
> support booting from the CD. I also couldn't find out where the CD
> address was with Win 3.11 or Win NT. Any help...............
>
> -Steve
>
>
Steve,
I am not an expert, but your base addres and interupt for the ISA card
seem wrong. I think on Mitsumi's web site they have a driver that will
work with a minimal DOS install to find the CD-Rom. This shuld give you
your address and interupt. Let me know if this helps. I have had a
simular problem but changed motherboards & CD-Rom to fix it.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (noname)
Subject: Linux Mailing List
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:37:06 GMT
Hi
http://mylinuxworld.virtualave.net
or
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/mylinux
It's growing, but I was really impressed with the second issue. In my
opinion, subscibe to it now. I think a sample issue is available at :
http://mylinuxworld.virtualave.net/issues/issue02.txt
Thanks
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From: Ian Westcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fetchmail polling 250000 accounts.
Date: 17 Sep 1999 21:18:31 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Ed Soniat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Holly Female Bovine
: I have been asked to evaluate fetchmail to pole 250000 different
: accounts.
: What is the largest polling you have heard of and who is doing it?
Damn! That's quite a few. Can you be more specific about what you are
trying to do? As in... poll how? Just to check to see if new mail has
arrived, or to actually download mail from all those accounts? If the
former, I suggest that fetchmail might not be the appropriate tool at all.
You might consider using something else to build a list of which accounts
have new mail, and then use fetchmail to pull down the mail. I would
suggest using several fetchmail processes in parallel, as this will likely
be much faster than just one fetchmail process polling one account after
another.
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From: Taura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: FOUND THE CULPRITE! (was Re: Zip Disk data corruption?)
Date: 17 Sep 1999 14:25:16 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great news!!!
*Wipes sweat off forehead* Whew!
After much hacking, I found the problem!
Go to your kernel source and run `make menuconfig' (or whatever favorate
config setup you prefer) and take a look at the SCSI Low-Level Drivers
section.
Go to the PPA driver and look at the lines just below it, there are TWO options
for `slow access'. If you read the help, it says they arn't generally needed,
but for my (only 2 year old) computer, they ARE NEEDED! I compiled both of those
options in and the data corruption went away! :)
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From: "Alex Monaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Fetchmail - recipient address *** didn@t match any local name???
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:01:46 +0100
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I recently changed Internet Provider. I use a GMX free email account
> which bounces all my mail to my true email address (similar to
> the way Bigfoot works). Since changing IP I get an error message from
> Fetchmail at the end of the headers of each incoming message. MY IP uses
> POP3, my mail is downloaded by Fetchmail (v 5.0.5-1) and processed by
> exim.
>
> An couple of examples of the error message:
>
> At the end of messages from the Debian-user list:
>
> X-Fetchmail-Warning: no recipient addresses matched declared local names
>
> At the end of messages from the Applix list:
>
> X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't
> match any local name
>
> Personal mail:
>
> X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match any
> local name
> Status: RO
>
> Any idea why this is happening? It has never happened before with
> umpteen IPs, just this one.
>
> Here are all the headers for that last message:
>
> Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1])
> by scgf.gmx.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian))
> for gsmh@localhost
> id 11Qul9-0000DO-00; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:44:43 +0100
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: from mail.force9.net
> by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.0.5)
> for gsmh@localhost (multi-drop); Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:44:43 +0100
> (BST)
> Received: (qmail 3726 invoked from network); 14 Sep 1999 15:36:30 -0000
> Received: from magnus.plus.net.uk (HELO magnus.force9.net)
> (195.166.128.27)
> by murphys.force9.net with SMTP; 14 Sep 1999 15:36:30 -0000
> Received: (qmail 5337 invoked from network); 14 Sep 1999 15:35:49 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO mx4.gmx.net) (194.221.183.84)
> by magnus.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 14 Sep 1999 15:35:49 -0000
> Received: (qmail 7248 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 1999 15:31:52 -0000
> Delivered-To: GMX delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: (qmail 7199 invoked by uid 0); 14 Sep 1999 15:31:50 -0000
> Received: from camelot.netcom.net.uk (194.42.225.1)
> by mx4.gmx.net with SMTP; 14 Sep 1999 15:31:50 -0000
> Received: from xpnwjjkf (dialup-15-18.netcomuk.co.uk [194.42.231.210])
> by camelot.netcom.net.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13856
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:31:46 +0100 (BST)
> Message-ID: <002f01befec5$dc1aaa20$d2e72ac2@xpnwjjkf>
> Reply-To: "Pamela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Pamela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Phillip Deackes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Fw: re MS Office
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:20:48 +0100
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0027_01BEFECD.1AEDDEA0"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3
> X-Resent-By: Global Message Exchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Resent-For: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-Fetchmail-Warning: recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't match any
> local name
> Status: RO
>
> BTW, my 'real' email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], the hostname of
> this system is scgf, and my username on this system is gsmh.
>
> Thanks very much for any pointers.
>
> --
> Phillip Deackes
> Debian Linux (Potato)
I'm presuming that you're using multi drop.
Try changing your envelope settings, I had a similar problem when changing
ISP's.
I was delivering mail using the qvirtual and envelope settings, I can see
that you have 2 Delivered To:'s, there is a mention in the fetchmail man
page that you can use "envelope n envelope-text" where n is the number of
matching envelope's to skip.
Failing that you may need to declare the graff.f9.co.uk as a localdomain.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help!
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:57:28 -0500
> Neil R Mendham wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am setting up my system as a dual boot, and I'm not having much luck
> so far!
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) fdisk reports that because of the size of my drive (10Gb) I "may"
> have problems running lilo. What the hell can I do about it!?
The basic problem is that most BIOSs until quite recently used
a routine for accessing the disk which could not read beyond
cylinder 1023. (But it is a bit more complicated because the
disk geometry is often remapped by the BIOS.) If fdisk reports
having more than 1024 cylinders, you are supposed to arrange
to put at least a small (20MB) partition for /boot entirely
below cylinder 1024. RedHat's automated workstation install
will do that for you if it can. But this is an issue only
for the lilo boot loader which uses the BIOS calls since the
Linux kernel has not yet been loaded. The Linux kernel can talk
to the entire disk since it uses its own routines. Also, if
you boot Linux from a floppy, it is not a problem since the
kernel is on the floppy, so it is only a problem when booting
from the hard drive.
If your BIOS call can talk to the entire disk, presumably
the lilo boot loader will work. But I've never tried this
myself. I'd like to know the experience of anyone who has.
Perhaps the lilo program which installs the boot loader will
complain. But theoretically if you add the linear option
as described in the lilo documentation, it should work.
(The linear option tells lilo to address blocks on the drive
sequentially rather than by the (X,Y,Z) notation of cylinder,
track, sector.)
There is a Linux mini HOWTO on Large disks which explains a lot
of this.
>
> 2) I bought a Matrox G400... anyone got any helpful tips on how the
> hell I get it working with X?
The G200 is supported. According the Xfree web site, the G400
is supported partially. It says something about only one head
and no TV-Out. You might be able to get it to work choosing
the G200 setting and then playing with resolutions and/or modifying
the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Or you may have to
get the latest version of the XFree distribution.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> --
> Neil Mendham
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: ORRIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: If you are on Long Island..
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:27:51 -0400
The Long Island Linux User Group (LILUG) will be presenting a
Linux demonstration at the Huntington, NY, Barnes & Noble
bookstore, on Route 110 on Tuesday, 21 September, 1999, at 7:30
PM. Come down and meet the group and see what's on hand, both in
the way of machinery as well as new Linux books.
=============================
Orrin - Long Island, New York
Orrin's Caribbean Index - http://www.orrin.org/carib/
Syosset Camera Club - http://www.orrin.org/syocc/
HS Class Reunion - http://www.orrin.org/wphs/
Our e-mail address is at http://www.orrin.org/email.html
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From: "rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting confused with the virtual terminals
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:42:24 -0600
Forgive me if I am misunderstanding you, but you can, for instance, run
startx
from terminal F1, then from F2 run
startx -- :1.0
to start another x session, then switch between x sessions on F7 and F8.
rob.
Stan Barr wrote in message ...
<snip>
>The way back to X is ctrl-F7. The virtual terminals are F1 to F6 and
>X is F7 - quite logical really as you can only run one X server on the
>console.
>
>--
>Cheers,
>Stan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>The future was never like this!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( splunty! )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,tamu.unix.general
Subject: Re: Loadlin nukes APM BIOS save-to-disk feature
Date: 17 Sep 1999 21:56:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Elchonon Edelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>splunty! wrote:
>> Get a real computer.
>That is not a useful suggestion.
It's the best suggestion he'll get.
>If you don't know anything
>about the problem, why say anything?
I do know something about the problem.
I suggested a solution to the problem.
You, on the other hand, have posted flaming drivel.
Practice what ye preach, wandering brother!
>Alternatively, tell us
>what you consider a "real" computer, and tell us precisely
>why and how the computer currently being used by the person
>asking for help is not "real". Is it an "imaginary "computer?
Your attempt at sarcasm falls far short of the length of your chain.
>Did someone conjure it out of soap bubbles, or is it perhaps
>a holographic projection, or possibly a hallucination? Why
>don't you enlighten us?
Why don't you quit posting in threads for which you know nothing
about? Will this second yank work as keenly as the first?
--
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< > Candyland is real. < >
\ / \ /
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From: Gary Fidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Star Office 5.1 and KDE
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:10:46 -0600
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There is an item on one of the "Start" menus called "appfinder". Run it. It
looks for known applications and places them on your KDE menus for you.
I found it by mistake... "Wonder what this does?"
Gary
Hor Jiun Shyong wrote:
> mine too. i just can't seem to find my newly installed applications like
> Mpegtv, Wordperfect, staroffice.
>
> mine is Redhat Gnome.
>
> j
>
> msj wrote:
>
> > It said the same thing for me (but I am running Gnome/Enlightenment, not
> > KDE) and no links appeared. And when I click on
> > /opt/Office50/bin/soffice it tries to install it again.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > John English wrote:
> >
> > > I've just installed Star Office 5.1, and the last thing the installer
> > > does is to say "updating your KDE desktop -- restart the desktop after
> > > this finishes" or words to that effect. When I restart my desktop
> > > there doesn't seem to be any change. No new menu items, no new desktop
> > > icons.
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From: Ed Soniat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: fetchmail polling 250000 accounts.
Date: 17 Sep 1999 11:14:39 -0400
Holly Female Bovine
I have been asked to evaluate fetchmail to pole 250000 different
accounts.
What is the largest polling you have heard of and who is doing it?
Any other forums you can suggest? (not necesarily linux)
Any suggestions on how to start this or what issues to focus on.
Thanks
Ed
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