Linux-Misc Digest #62, Volume #28 Fri, 8 Jun 01 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
PLEASE help me.....Can you print to "D" size plotters? (Andy H)
Re: linux and the modem -- a little help? (John Hasler)
problems with xserver/madrake 8.0 (martin gaeb)
Re: Floppy format confusion,HELP!!! ("KW")
Re: cdrecord and Plextor drive (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: IDE cdrw (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: need book on unix/linux utilities (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Move a large file from Windows to Linux - How? (Jason Gask)
compface and slrnface (Meinolf Sander)
Re: hardware autodetection (John Hasler)
Re: need book on unix/linux utilities (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How to make a simple incremental backup to a diff.OS over the net? (Ronald
Raulefs)
ftime() on RedHat linux 6.2 Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (Shichang Liu)
Re: Print to a PDF (Dave Uhring)
Re: XFree86 resolution (Dave Uhring)
Debian install suggestions, anyone? ("Missy")
Re: hardware autodetection ("Paul E. Bennett")
Re: XFree86 resolution (Yvan Loranger)
Re: Matt Blaze's CFS on Linux - readdir problem. ("Binesh Bannerjee")
Re: PLEASE help me.....Can you print to "D" size plotters? (Brian V. Smith)
Re: The bare minumum. ("Joel")
Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Agenda PDA (William Kendrick)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy H)
Subject: PLEASE help me.....Can you print to "D" size plotters?
Date: 8 Jun 2001 11:43:50 -0700
Hi all:
We're trying to plot to a HP 1055cm plotter - we're using the
Design Jet 650C driver. The plots seem to come out ok *but* the full
range of paper sizes aren't available in the driver settings. We
desperately need to print a "D" size plot but the biggest the driver
allows is 16x22. This is strange as I know the 650C can print E size
sheets. How can I change these settings? I tried screwing around
with the 650C driver (interface, whatever) file to no avail. Please
help.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and the modem -- a little help?
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:44:54 GMT
Cary Kittrell writes:
> My question: can someone tell me of any software out there which will
> drive a modem under Linux? Though, as mentioned, I have been using Unix
> since the late Ordivician, we have Sun stations around here,...
In that case you should have little trouble: in this area Linux differs
little from other unices.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (martin gaeb)
Subject: problems with xserver/madrake 8.0
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 18:53:10 GMT
Hello
I installed mandrake 8, everything went fine during the installation, but when
i start xwindow, no matter whick manager, i get a "distorted" display, not at
once, only after maybe one minute (!): when i start to move the windows for
example or i push the "K" button on KDE the things get distort...
maybe someone has an idea, would be fine...
greetings, martin
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy format confusion,HELP!!!
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:57:00 -0500
I can't tell you what the differences are in the h and u versions of the dev's
or how you tell if the drive will do it. but anytime I've made a 1.7MB disk
I've used
fdformat /dev/fd0u1760
then
mkfs msdos /dev/fd0
my "guess" on the h and u difference might be the difference between the
different disks densities?
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff Pierce"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used to think I knew about floppies, but now I find a ton of different
> formats and /dev/fd*'s.
>
> What is the difference between /dev/fd0h* and /dev/fd0u* ? How do you go
> about formating a floppy now? Say I wanted to format a floppy 1.68 Meg, how?
>
> FAQ makes mention of going beyond 80 track to 83. How do you know if your
> drive is capable of this?
>
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord and Plextor drive
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:48:04 -0500
I have a Plextor 12/10/32 and haven't had any problems with it at all.
I use XCDRoast as a front-end for cdrecord, and it auto-detected the
CDRW and provided all of the configuration that was required.
http://www.xcdroast.org/
ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
>
> hi
>
> After much trouble recompiling the kernel for scsi emulation support - I
> finally get the cdrecord to recognize my Plextor 12/10/24. However, the man
> page of cdrecord talks about driver configuration for each drive instead of
> using the generic driver.
>
> There are drivers for a variety of popular drives but not Plextor. If you
> have a Plextor cdrw, please show me how you configure so that it can take
> full advantage of the drive's features ..
>
> Thanks
>
> ThanhVu Nguyen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE cdrw
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:44:46 -0500
Go to dejanews (it's google-something, now) and search for CDRW+IDE.
There are several old postings on this group that provide step-by-step
instructions for exactly this issue.
> Im a bit of a newbie, any pointer on how to load a module / how to
> find a scsi emulation module as well?
> Thanks for your response though,
>
> Pete
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need book on unix/linux utilities
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:44:01 -0400
Lori Holder-Webb wrote:
>
> Actually, a couple of books, I think.
>
> I need help learning how to use the *nix utilities like awk, grep, shell
> programming, and regular expressions. I know enough to realize that
> grep, for example, will make some given task a lot easier, but I don't
> know enough to get started using it. The man pages are not very useful
> for a complete novice - I think they're better if you already know how
> to use it and have forgotten the switches or options.
>
> I understand why regexes would be incredibly useful to me, but putting
> one together, OTOH, is a different matter entirely. I've been exposed
> to them in learning perl and tcs, but all of the books I have assumed
> some previous familiarity with regular expressions. Not very helpful
> for me.
>
> In addition to the fundamentals of those 3 tools, I'd also like
> something that functions as an overall guide to *nix utilities. I find
> myself asking a friend for help on accomplishing some task. They say,
> "Oh, you should use X [fill in *nix utility here]." All too often my
> response is "Great, I had no idea that I could *do* that with my
> system."
>
> I looked at Linux in a Nutshell and didn't find that it answered my
> need. Running Linux was a great start, but I need to know where to go
> from there. I've been using linux for a couple of years now, and am
> starting to feel like I've got a Porsche that I didn't know would shift
> up from 2nd gear.
>
> Thanks for any recommendations!
>
> Lori
For regular expressions, consider:
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/scgn/v52/section1_7_0_1.html
You might also consider a lot of other O'Reilly books. Programming
with GNU Software, Managing Projects with make, Learning the bash
Shell, Learning GNU Emacs, Essential System Administration, DNS and
BIND, Using Samba, sendmail, SSH, The Secure Shell, POSIX Programmer's
Guide. sed and awk, lex and yacc,
Non O'Reilly books include: The C++ Programming Language, The
Annotated C++ Reference Manual, C++ (Lippman & Lajoie), The C++
Standard Library, ... .
Don't get all of these, especially at first; it all depends on your
interest.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 3:35pm up 1 day, 4:31, 3 users, load average: 3.72, 3.72, 3.71
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From: Jason Gask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Move a large file from Windows to Linux - How?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 19:46:37 GMT
ivorybones wrote:
> I want to move some files from my windows box to my linux box. Most are
> mp3's, and there a few jpegs. They will not fit on a single floppy.
>
> I can email them to myself, but that would involve uploading and
> downloading.
>
> I can rerip the mp3's, but that would take some time too.
>
> The easiest thing to do would be to split the files, copy them to
> floppies, bring them to the linux box, rejoin them.
>
> Can this be done?
>
> If so, what utilities do I need?
>
>
> Don
>
Do you have cable or dsl? Does your isp limit attachment sizes? Why not
just email yourself? Maybe you isp offers free ftp space, upload/download
it from there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Meinolf Sander)
Subject: compface and slrnface
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:46:43 +0200
Hello,
I'd like to use the "X-Face" feature of slrn on my Debian box.
Unfortunately, trying to generate an X-Face issuing the command
compface image.xbm myface
I get the error message
: error while loading shared libraries: undefined symbol: compface
in spite of the libraries libcompfaceg1 and libcompfaceg1-dev being
present on my system. "strace compface image.xbm myface" complains
open("image.xbm", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("i", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0644) = 4
read(3, "0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xe0, 0x"..., 2048) = 167
read(3, "", 1881) = 0
writev(2, [{"", 0}, {": error while loading shared lib"..., 40}, {"",
0}, {"", 0}, {"undefined symbol: compface", 26}, {"", 0}, {"", 0},
{"\n", 1}], 8: error while loading shared libraries: undefined symbol:
compface
) = 67
_exit(127) = ?
What's going wrong here (ms@mars:~$ file image.xbm
image.xbm: ASCII text)?
My second problem is: I cannot compile the patch slrnface, its
Makefile looks like this:
CC = cc
X_INCL = # location of X include files, if needed
X_LIBS = -lXt -lX11 # X libs
XF_LIB = -L/usr/lib -lcompface # compface library
C_FLAGS = -O -D_REENTRANT
OS_DEFS = -DLINUX_SUX
CFLAGS = $(C_FLAGS) $(OS_DEFS) $(X_INCL)
LDFLAGS = $(XF_LIB) $(X_LIBS) -lpthread
slrnface: slrnface.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o slrnface slrnface.c $(LDFLAGS)
clean:
rm -f *.o core slrnface
Invoking make, I get the message:
cc -O -D_REENTRANT -DLINUX_SUX -o slrnface slrnface.c -L/usr/local/lib
-lcompface -lXt -lX11 -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [slrnface] Error 1
Sorry for this a little long posting, but does anyone know how to solve
these problems?
TIA,
Meinolf
--
You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware autodetection
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:17:47 GMT
Paul E. Bennett writes:
> With the propensity of manufacturers to minimise the information they
> deliver with new systems that is becoming a situation that will be harder
> to maintain.
There the hardware will all be PCI, where autodetection actually stands a
chance of working.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: need book on unix/linux utilities
Date: 8 Jun 2001 15:50:38 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lori Holder-Webb wrote:
> I need help learning how to use the *nix utilities like awk, grep, shell
> programming, and regular expressions.
You should consider this venerable book:
Kernighan and Pike 1984, The unix programming environment, Prentice-Hall
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Ronald Raulefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How to make a simple incremental backup to a diff.OS over the net?
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:18:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Logan Shaw wrote:
> Ronald Raulefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ufsdump 0f /dev/null /raid/linux/opt
>
> to see whether ufsdump is the bottleneck.
ufsdump seems to be the bottleneck - why is so dammed slow? It has a fast CPU,
there is fast raid - how can I speed up ufsdump?
> You don't want to use the Linux dump on a Solaris filesystem. The
> filesystems are not the same, and even if you could, you would not gain
> that much anyway.
Would you dump to Solaris x86 filesystem? Do you think that would cause any
probs?
Regards,
Ronald
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Tel: +49(0) 8153 28-2803 DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
Fax: +49(0) 8153 28-1442/1871 82230 Wessling
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From: Shichang Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftime() on RedHat linux 6.2 Kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:29:07 -0400
I was trying to use the ftime() system call to test the daylight saving
flag in 'struct timeb'. The dstflag is not set though it should. I have
other ways to get the daylight saving flag such as localtime anyhow.
I am just wondering if this is a bug of ftime().
Shichang
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Print to a PDF
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:35:29 -0500
Sebastien Stormacq wrote:
> I totally agree with you... What I was looking for was someone who
> already did the job and who has the correct printcap entry :-)
> I am sooo lazy :-)
>
> Seb
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>>>>>>"Sebastien" == Sebastien Stormacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>
>> Sebastien> ps2pdf is a great tool to convert PS files to PDF.
>> Sebastien> What we would like to have is printer definition in
>> Sebastien> /etc/printcap that "prints to PDF", i.e. which use a
>> Sebastien> filter that converts the data on the fly to PDF and
>> Sebastien> save it somewhere on your disk, much like the PDF
>> Sebastien> Writer Windows printer driver.
>>
>> Sebastien> Example of usage :
>>
>> Sebastien> lpr myfile.ps -PPDFWriter
>>
>> Sebastien> creates myfile.pdf in a special dir
>>
>> Sebastien> I think this should be possible using the filter
>> Sebastien> capabilities of lpd (if:...) and the gs program
>>
>> "man printcap" and pay attention to the "if" parameter. There should
>> be some HOWTO's which teaches you how to use 'gs' as a filter to print
>> Postscript on ANY printer. The idea is the same, except that you
>> replace 'gs' with 'ps2pdf'.
>>
>> (If you know more about 'gs', you can study the ps2pdf script and
>> discover how to do it more directly with "gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
>> -sOutputFile=/tmp/printout.pdf ...", bypassing the overhead of the
>> shell script.)
http://www.apsfilter.org
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86 resolution
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:38:13 -0500
Yvan Loranger wrote:
> Chad Lemmen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> Thanks for the info. xf86cfg won't work on version 4.1.0, it exits with
>> a "signal 11 error" I think thats what it was. It does that after
>> reporting
>> a bunch of unresolved sym links. So I installed 4.0.2 and ran
>> XFree86 -configure and it generated XF86Config for me without errors. I
>> then
>> reinstalled 4.1.0 and just used the XF86Config generated from 4.0.2. I
>> added a Mode line for "800x600" and added DefaultDepth 24 since it was
>> defaulting
>> to 8. Everything seems to be working ok now.
>
> rhetorical question: has everyone forgotten my favourite xf86config
> proggy?
> [assuming it's still being used for 4.1]
> --
> Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
> http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
>
Doesn't work with XFree86-4.X.X. Good only for XFree86-3.X.X.
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From: "Missy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Debian install suggestions, anyone?
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:14:41 GMT
I just ordered a copy of Debian potato to install on my PS/2 77....I would
appreciate any help or advice etc. cause I've heard lots of horror stories!
Beware, I'm not an expert, but not a total idiot. If it's anything like the
LISA install of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 I'll survive ok. Thank you!
Missy
--
http://missy842.tripod.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Paul E. Bennett")
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: hardware autodetection
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 01 20:00:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Peter T. Breuer" writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How come Debian and FreeBSD do not autodetect hardware the way Windows,
> Mandrake
>
> Why should they?
>
> > and Redhat do? How am I supposed to know which cryptic kernel modules I should> >
>enable and with which parameters?
>
> No parameters, and the module for your hardware, whoch you'll find out
> because you know what your hardware is, and you can read the names of
> the supported hardware in the kernel code comments, or else the
> manufacturer supplied a driver with the card. If the manufacturer
> didn't, complain to him! What is this? You buy a card without
> researching whether it's supported by anyone? Huh!
You can end up on quite a web-hunt when the card manufacturers disk
is a just-for-M$-Windows selection. I have a PCMCIA card that I had
bought before my current laptop, which is an Ethernet/Modem combo
card. Works fine under DOS and Windows but the disk hasn't got any
Unix style drivers of any flavour.
As the company, SiliCom, are based in Israel and emails are not
being answered - no phone number and I haven't found their Web-site
despite searching, I can understand the desire for a probe programme
that reports all hardware and current settings.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: XFree86 resolution
Date: 8 Jun 2001 21:21:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Dave Uhring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Yvan Loranger wrote:
>> rhetorical question: has everyone forgotten my favourite xf86config
>> proggy?
>> [assuming it's still being used for 4.1]
>
> Doesn't work with XFree86-4.X.X. Good only for XFree86-3.X.X.
Beg your pardon but I've successfully used it with 4.0.2
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: "Binesh Bannerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Matt Blaze's CFS on Linux - readdir problem.
Date: 8 Jun 2001 21:34:32 GMT
In comp.os.linux.security Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, this was most helpful... I unfortunately have the whole CFS
source all torn apart now, and have ripped through the code,
ANSIfied everything, and gotten it to compile without any warnings
now... (Well, maybe not really unfortunately)... I've made the changes
you said, when I finally run it, I guess we'll see what happens...
Have you done much with cattach -l ? Do you know how that works?
I noticed some interesting _other_ problems with cattach -l...
But, maybe it's just a more radical version of the same problem...
Basically, with cattach -l after I add enough directory entries,
the _entire_ directory becomes invisible... (There still there, just
ls or find, whatever won't find them, but you can cd to the directories,
vi files etc.)
Second question regards cfs_adm.c
The file defines
typedef struct svc_req *SR;
and later defines
cfsstat *admproc_attach_2(ap, rp)
cfs_attachargs *ap;
SR *rp;
while in admproto.h theres a declaration for
extern cfsstat * admproc_attach_2_svc(cfs_attachargs *, struct svc_req *);
(I understand that the _2 in the cfs_adm.c, and cfs_nfs.c need to be
changed to _2_svc because of Linux rpcgen...) But, is the definition
still wrong, because SR *rp effectively becomes struct svc_req **rp?)
Still plugging away, anyhow tho...
Binesh
: It's a kernel/C-library bug that's difficult to fix completely. The C
: library does some fancy double-buffering in getdents(2) and so must
: occassionally lseek on directories behind the scenes. When reading
: from NFS filesystems whose files have large (>0x8000000) NFS cookies,
: it will occassionally issue directory lseeks to negative offsets
: without checking for an error return value. This is highly dependent
: on internal C library buffer sizes, and will result in silently
: disappearing files that vary from application to application. For
: NFSv2, you can fix this particular problem by having the C library
: llseek in this situation; for NFSv3---where the cookies are 64 bits,
: it'll still be broken
: Note that this isn't normally a data-destroying bug---your files are
: still there; it's just that some applications won't "see" some files.
: "rm -rf" might give you a mysterious "directory not empty"; or after a
: "mv * elsewhere", you might be surprised to discover the current
: directory is still full of files that were missed on the first pass.
: There's more on this in a "linux-kernel" thread with subject:
: negative NFS cookies: bad C library or bad kernel?
: dated December 2, 2000.
: The easiest fix is to modify CFS to use small NFS cookies. CFS
: actually uses small host-endian cookies that, on little-endian
: architectures, become large cookies in NFS space. This isn't a CFS
: *bug*: cookies are supposed to be arbitrary. However, it just happens
: to tickle this Linux bug, and we can "fix" it by having CFS convert
: cookie values to network byte order.
: I've enclosed a patch against Debian CFS 1.3.3-9; it will apply
: against vanilla CFS 1.3.3 with some fuzz. Note that this modification
: won't introduce any compatibility problems with existing or new CFS
: directories---it only changes the values of the temporary cookies
: passed between the CFS server and the kernel, not anything to do with
: the CFS storage format. As always, test on a trash CFS directory
: before trying it on your pr0n collection or anti-government tract
: archive.
: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: * * *
: diff -ru cfs-1.3.3/cfs_nfs.c cfs-1.3.3-new/cfs_nfs.c
: --- cfs-1.3.3/cfs_nfs.c Wed Jun 6 00:37:40 2001
: +++ cfs-1.3.3-new/cfs_nfs.c Wed Jun 6 00:34:34 2001
: @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@
: ne=0;
: prev= &ret.readdirres_u.reply.entries;
: *prev=NULL;
: - bcopy(ap->cookie,&cookie,sizeof(cookie));
: + cookie = ntohl(*(unsigned long*)(ap->cookie));
: eof=TRUE;
:
: key=keyof(h);
: @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@
: else if (strcmp(s,"..")==0) /* parent */
: entrytab[ne].fileid=fhpid(h);
: else entrytab[ne].fileid=dent->d_fileno;
: - bcopy(&cookie,entrytab[ne].cookie,sizeof(long));
: + *(unsigned long*)entrytab[ne].cookie = htonl(cookie);
: *prev = &entrytab[ne];
: prev = &entrytab[ne].nextentry;
: entrytab[ne].nextentry=NULL;
: @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@
: ne=0;
: prev= &ret.readdirres_u.reply.entries;
: *prev=NULL;
: - bcopy(ap->cookie,&cookie,sizeof(long));
: + cookie = ntohl(*(unsigned long*)(ap->cookie));
: eof=1;
:
: ret.status=NFS_OK;
: @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@
: else entrytab[ne].fileid=dent->d_fileno;
: cookie=dent->d_reclen; /* may not work everywhere */
: *prev = &entrytab[ne];
: - bcopy(&cookie,entrytab[ne].cookie,sizeof(long));
: + *(unsigned long*)entrytab[ne].cookie = htonl(cookie);
: prev = &entrytab[ne].nextentry;
: entrytab[ne].nextentry=NULL;
: ne++;
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian V. Smith)
Subject: Re: PLEASE help me.....Can you print to "D" size plotters?
Date: 8 Jun 2001 21:36:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Andy H) writes:
|> Hi all:
|>
|> We're trying to plot to a HP 1055cm plotter - we're using the
|> Design Jet 650C driver. The plots seem to come out ok *but* the full
|> range of paper sizes aren't available in the driver settings. We
|> desperately need to print a "D" size plot but the biggest the driver
|> allows is 16x22. This is strange as I know the 650C can print E size
|> sheets. How can I change these settings? I tried screwing around
|> with the 650C driver (interface, whatever) file to no avail. Please
|> help.
What "driver" settings? If you are using Windows, you should try a Windows newsgroup.
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Brian V. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www-epb.lbl.gov/BVSmith
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Check out the xfig site at http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the
glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is too small
for a decent safety factor.
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The bare minumum.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:38:10 -0500
I looked at the websitesteve gave me, www.linuxfromscratch. I started build
my distro now, but I did find some bugs (not in the source code) in the
instructions, and batch programs, so if your going to do it, check all the
batch files against what's writen on the website. Also, you have to make
another partition to build it on, so I had to split mine, which took a while
to figure out, but look at my "Splitting an ext2 partition" thread to see
what I did.
Thanks for your help.
-Joel
"Tom Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Joel wrote:
> > Hi. What is the bare minumum of software needed for linux to boot to
bash.
>
> Look into the embedded Linux stuff. I have booted to a shell prompt from
> within a 4-MByte ramdisk. Basically all you need for that is the kernel
itself
> (which is not in the initrd ramdisk, of course), whatever kernel modules
you
> need, whatever libraries your shell needs (libc and friends), and your
shell
> (linked to /sbin/init in the initrd ramdisk). For this, bash is a
particularly
> poor choice, as it can do almost nothing by itself. The stand-alone shell
> "sash" is a MUCH better choice, as it includes things like ls, pwd, ps,
(etc.)
> compiled in as internal commands. There are other similar shells as
well....
> There is a HOWTO on using an initrd ramdisk.
>
> If you have a network, another possibility is to mount the root filesystem
via
> NFS (include an initrd ramdisk if you need kernel modules before mounting
/).
> This can be done in something like 1 MByte of flash memory (or a single
floppy).
>
> IIRC the linux router project is a Linux system complete enough to act as
an
> IP router/gateway, and it fits on a single 1.44 MByte floppy.
>
>
> Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone?
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:05:55 +1000
Hi Missy!
Am in similar position. Use Slackware for five years and decided to try Potato.
First thing: Do NOT compare with the ease or difficulty of previous
experiences.
Start from zero and follow the directions of this distro. What we call RTFM.
You won't regret it.
NB. Don't pay attention to gossip.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
Missy wrote:
> I just ordered a copy of Debian potato to install on my PS/2 77....I would
> appreciate any help or advice etc. cause I've heard lots of horror stories!
> Beware, I'm not an expert, but not a total idiot. If it's anything like the
> LISA install of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 I'll survive ok. Thank you!
>
> Missy
>
> --
> http://missy842.tripod.com/
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Agenda PDA
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:47:01 GMT
Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Has anybody on here got an Agenda yet?
: If so, what do you think of it?
I've had a Dev. Edition for a few months. It's very fun to develop
for. I've created 4 games, and began (but got bored? :) ) porting a
few existing Xlib apps to it. Quite easy.
FLTK (the GUI library that's standard on the Agenda, and which is what
all of the PIM software uses) isn't too hard to learn, either. (Hell, I
don't even know C++! :) )
And, looking at your later posting, it looks like you'd probably not want
the PIM stuff on it. Fortunately, you can just build your own custom
romdisk image and dump it on your units and have more room for whatever it
is you need to do! :)
-bill!
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