PS: I DID actually find something similar to ports for Solaris:
opencsw.org / blastwave.org. I guess there's some feuding between some
NetBSD pkgsrc system works under solaris
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I am trying to figure out how when making the kernel that the number is
incremented.
For example my system reads:
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #4
I have my own kernel that works, however I would like to have it read this:
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0
Is there a way to resolve this?
the number is incremented
Thanks this time it worked. I am almost sure (99%) I've tried that already
yesterday but the 1% wins.
One more question can i label the / partition. I have the same error when i try
to label it.
don't do mount /
or boot from liveCD
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Well, the 1.02 version (DVD-video) is, but I see the UDF format has let go
of ISO9660 support in later versions. Pity.
but the CD/DVD must be finished so UDF incremental format is scanned and
ISO data generated.
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MacOS X is unix-based. All it's GUI and other isn't unixlike, but base
system is.
You may compile unix commands on it. Maybe just ftpd, or rsync?
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Chris Maness wrote:
Is there an AFP client for FreeBSD? I have a mac with a gargantuan
hard drive, and I would like to back
Well I am using the dump command, and I am not sure if I want to dump
to the same partition that I am backing up.
Can I use rsync to pipe the dump output via ssh?
you don't need rsync to it. you need dump and ssh - as you said
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dns services for my internal network.
all should work - ATA adapter has no electronics on it, as CF is ATA
compatible just have different
I use dump. I think dumping to the same partition that you are
backing up is a bad idea.
works fine and WILL work fine by design.
just you have to create directory, flag it with nodump and dump to
file in that directory
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the other two died. The vendor we used tanked, so no warranty support.
I got two IBM X3400 boxes to replace the SuperMicros; the drives were
OK, so I got empty enclosures plus some rails, stuffed the drives in, and
What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in
replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure?
Is UFS2 no longer considered the best general-use filesystem?
at least for be it's the best. High performance, minimal hardware resource
usage, perfect recovery from
At this point you're sort of out of the general-use category :) You want
ZFS. Or rather, you don't want to try and fsck a UFS filesystem with 200M
inodes. The three drawbacks I can think of to ZFS are it's hard to boot
ZFS is very trendy now, but isn't it allocating space in 4KB chunks?
man em
hw.em.rxd
Number of receive descriptors allocated by the driver. The
default value is 256. The 82542 and 82543-based adapters can
handle up to 256 descriptors, while others can have up to
4096.
hw.em.txd
Number of transmit
Or store your data in a RDBMS rather than in the filesystem.
sounds like the best solution.
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task that even Pentium 100 will do.
I'm hosting websites on 5-10 years old SUN hardware. V100/120 with ultrasparc II
400-650 Mhz. Just put in some new disks and memory, no sweat. They allmost
normal. 400MHz SUNs are available here for 100$ or less. they usually have
quite a lot of RAM even
Correct. I do the same here.
I also do use make to produce LaTeX documents. I even `published' my
collection of makefiles at https://gna.org/projects/bsdmakepscripts/
make is universal too, as many other unix tools. for example i use make
and cpp (C preprocessor) for making HTML pages :)
so this could be a reference to all of them.
I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times
when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples
provide a thorough understanding.
just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody.
how about
just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how
about name
change?
and here we go again ...
yes. Into general mess of everything off topic being ok because you/others
only want to help people
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just few months and this will be general unix support list for
everybody. how about name change?
Stop the whining already, will you? If you have no useful content to
contribute to a thread, please consider ignoring it.
could you precisely define useful content. I just point out that this
only want to help people
The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your
complaining about stuff being off-topic.
Not most, but certainly off topic.
But well - with no moderation or other execution of on-topic rule, what
you expect?
On the other hand, using make to grow
I this thread dies right now, I PROMISE I'll just figure it out
myself...
what exactly do you want to figure?
-Original Message-
From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:49 PM
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; Gary Gatten
The error I get is:
mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom
mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
I've Googled and read the handbook but I think my settings are ok.
Any suggestions?
ask your friend what filesystem he use. what is filesystem? ;)
With windoze user there are only two options -
The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining
about stuff being off-topic.
...and people complaining about Woj's complaints.
...and my own complaining about the people complaining about Woj's
complaints. :)
and the circle goes on. Who is right - doesn't matter
what exactly do you want to figure?
With all due respect Mr. Puchar I guess you haven't read
the OP's problem which he posted in the first message.
i read, but THEN it got completely off topic and THEN i started to
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Because that version by default now uses an UDF-based live file system
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_File_System].
Try mount_udf
Does it actually work now?
I tried once in FBSD 6.1 with one made under windoze and mastered DVD
(which by standard requirements are UDF, and may be UDF+ISO).
Try kldload udf.ko prior to the mount attempt. Check and see if it auto-
loaded udf_iconv.ko as it should. If that one isn't present in kldstat load
it too.
Don't really know if the particular UDF spec/format that FreeBSD supports
is the same as Vista. No Vista here to try.
-Mike
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error.
This is the command line:
# burncd -ev -s max fixate data notes.txt
are notes.txt your CD image? at least should be multiple of 2kB, and
probably some minimal size. i don't know what is minimal track size but in
order of 100K.
isn;t it trying to read past the end of disk?
Hmm.. I guess you are correct. The question is why is it doing this ?
because partition/slice table is wrong?
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sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
and, later:
...
GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a259f5253bef8ae removed.
uhub2: port 2 reset failed
uhub2: port 2 reset failed
uhub2: port 2 reset failed
uhub2: port 2 reset failed
uhub2: port 2 reset failed
uhub2:
the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space
(4x500GB in RAID5 for data).
However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4
the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'.
Core2 is actually only a bit faster per clock cycle than PIII, but you
solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI.
Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server
(i.e., i mean as a target)?
/usr/ports/net/iscsi-target
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put 12 lines, for each month and with the last day.
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
crontab.
Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month
day is the last day of the month?
Solving
Maybe mplayer can do that for you. It has options -dumpvideo
and -dumpaudio. As you know, mplayer / mencoder can do everything
that you can imagine. :-)
-dumpaudio -vc dummy will dump audio and skip video decoding at all
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You are right Puchar, but sometimes (2 in 100 on powerfailure) the
filesystem
gets corrupted (database files opened, and being extended)... so
when the fsck enters, the database get corrupted..
Filesystem will rather be not corrupted, but database file data.
Non-journalled UFS with
Hello list,
Can anyone please recommend to me a program that will stress-test a
disk? If it matters, two are connected by firewire, another via usb.
Filesystem is ufs. I think I have a disk that might be about to fail,
but it only sometimes errors when under stress. I need to see if it
if it's
That will show me thruput. I need to see if bad blocks or similar are
happening.
you will - dd will fail with error that case
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Check the downloads section at the disk manufacturer's website. All the disk
vendors have utilities that can test their disks.
by doing the same as dd of=/dev/null :)
as least seagate one.
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I played around with the quirks and found that it needs both these to
create the
device and make it mountable:-
NO_TEST_UNIT_READY | NO_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
Works fine now
please make patch with diff -u
diff -u usbdevs.orig usbdevs /tmp/patch.txt
diff -u umass.c.orig
:D
okok, dd it is. I'll remove all data beforehand just in case. Thank
you all for your replies.
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you may cure badblocks by
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m
(but cleaning all data)
Disk will try to remap badblocks then.
But remember that it only make it's life a bit longer. this disk
can older Xorg server be used with just updated drivers?
drivers are separate modules.
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Luke Dean wrote:
This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to
research instead. I know many readers of this
I've seen several mentions of dd in this thread, and I'll say that I've
seen several recommendations elsewhere to use a simple:
dd if=/dev/device of=/dev/device
forgot bs=1m or at least 64kB, unless you like to wait days with default
bs=512
to refresh the drive. That is, dd will
Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: ad6: detached
Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1d[READ(offset=86540058624,
length=16384)]error = 6
Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1e[READ(offset=63203147776,
length=16384)]error = 6
Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel:
It's not like the badblocks command is particularly speedy, either. I imagine
that *any* thorough drive test would take a long while given today's typical
drive size.
ca 2 hours on 500GB disk with bs=1m
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
can older Xorg server be used with just updated drivers?
drivers are separate modules.
Never tried, but the way Xorg is going this looks kind of frightening ;)
that's why i'm asking. To do it that way in port system, because Xorg
started to follow linux way and kde
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port,
I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years
old. When I tried to add latex via pkg_add, I had no success (I
assumed the package was named latex, but it wasn't found).
Winefish works, and latex
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),
donati...@freebsd.org
and of course you may sponsor it too by improving ZFS code, or
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in scripts,
tutorials, howto's etc.
The other reason often mentioned, there being not enough letters in the
alphabet to cover all
how can i put in setenv= definition a : character?
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
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for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
It's documented in login.conf manual.
indeed i missed that.
Note that since a colon (`:') is used to separate capability entries,
a
`\c' escape sequence must be used to embed a literal colon in the
value
rsync isn't bloated and it's well written IMO. It still does only one job, and
it does it well. As you say, most common tasks can still be done with only
short options. This would change if some developer decided to add other,
unrelated functionality. But that's harder if you want to maintain
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the
FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either.
problem with FreeBSD kernel? what FreeBSD/amd64 kernel can't that i386 one
can?
Although ZFS isn't currently listed as a project, I'm sure there's enough
interest from the community.
Just to clarify. . .
I'm not laughing at just the response, which was appropriate. I was laughing
at the combination of response and responder.
well - it's quite a big difference between
When the TL-C300 is plugged in after boot, it produces the following console
report:-
umass1: RockChip ROCK MP3, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 on uhub2
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable error
da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da0: Teclast Digital Player 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1900MB (3892224
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds
fsck as usual and on all the other partitions, seem to take the normal
turn off
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, great RAID
support, and
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
use ZFS...)
is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck?
on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all.
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My isp have up to 1Gbyte/s costs 1000SEK a month
1Gbyte/s?
Yes.
it's 10Gbit/s
No.
So 1Gbyte or Gbit/s?
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Man, you're with the wrong ISP.
Or maybe it's best ISP available there? :)
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The question is, I'm looking for a rule in my IPFW script.
Running 7.2 stable - ipfw configured in the kernel without nat.
Because after some googl'in, i read it's dangerous to just open port
4000 udp.
dangerous because of?
are you running any insecure service on port 4000 udp?
Of course ICQ
I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4
CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.
this is not old - very powerfull machine.
I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar
configuration
and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server
using samba.
Well, I don't know about cable, but this is the way DSL works. 90%+ of
the issues with DSL are due to the modem losing connectivity overnight,
so a reboot is the quickest and easiest method of troubleshooting.
i don't remember now what brand of modem i have (i'm not in place) from
Polish
You are absolutely right, and I'm glad you pointed that out. Even I will
admit to not minding hanging on the phone a few extra minutes with a
calm, polite user (no matter how 'green' they are) if they do what I say
(without click-click-clicking in the background) throughout the
troubleshooting
I did the support gig for the better part of two years when I started
school. It was difficult, especially when the people that were
frustrated, angry, and determined to take it out on me had broken or
ancient hardware and lived out in the boondocks where audible crackling
Just put the earphone
S months.
I've been at a US Air Force MIS helpdesk since Sept 1988. I wrote an
article about some of my favorite tools, and as an aside I mentioned
my time working in IT support. My favorite article comment:
If I'm still doing this in 21 years, someone please write a
program to
10 times more power than needed. disks speed is the only limit
I have a P-II at 400 MHz running as a file server. See about 5 MB/sec on
it depends from both sides ability, but pentium 100 with SDRAM memory can
saturate 100Mbit/s network running FreeBSD 6.2
Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager
do you use?
fvwm2, BUT not because i like it's tools and widgets, but because all of
them can be easily turned off :)
My configuration strips everything possible including window titles and
borders, window moving and
A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly
reliable and secure.
It's also a much *simpler* piece of software than something like MS
Windows, which makes it much easier to secure.
you meant more logical?
It's really hard to take care of software product that looks like
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time...
That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages.
Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by
that site when the
This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance
on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch.
is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me.
i made all-need server for small office (8 people) using PIII/500 and 384
MB RAM. i
Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note that slightly
downlevel... was meant to refer to a combination of older Netburst
architecture and consumer retail motherboard.
The Core Xeons that replaced the old Netburst processors are much better
performers. In a true datacenter server
GNU recommended:
$ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz
Seriously, why are long options encouraged?
there are people that like to write a lot? ;)
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is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me.
Not really. But considering how everyone is buying Core Duos and quads
these days, you can get decent P4s for free.
could you please tell me where i can get P4 machine for free? :)
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a
normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny
thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed
to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw
unless CPU are
This is a dedicated server in a datacenter. I don't know the exact
switch specs but it's likely a
layer 2/3 managed switch. Probably a 1U catalyst.
you mean cisco?
there are actually most problematic switches. They don't properly
autonegotiate speed and full/half duplex with many network
Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if
the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that
even when under load.
In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw less than
100W for the whole system. It is not even
Ignore him please.
because?
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because?
The FreeBSD project still uses man pages as the principle form of
documentation. Texinfo is for GNU projects. Try 'info tar' on a BSD
system, you'll get the man page.
indeed. But i was talking about how linux looks. Forgot to read all - as
usual?
ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it.
it's exactly what you want.
pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat
/tmp/pkglist` installed
for sure you used ' instead of `
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Good day am a new user of of freebsd Os and i forgot my login password, i will
need an assitance on how to get it changed.
boot, press 4 at boot loader prompt to get single user.
after seeing a guestion what to run as a shell (/bin/sh as default) press
enter.
then
/sbin/mount /
/sbin/mount /
/usr/bin/passwd
Without any arguments, the password for root will probably get changed.
If the user wants to change his/her personal account passwd, then:
what a sense to reboot and get single user mode to change non-root
password? just log as root and then change
Hello list,
Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation
CD, or must boot.flp be used as per
make your own CD
add file boot.config containing just one line:
-P
to existing, make sure you it's bootable (mkisofs -b boot/cdboot
-no-emul-boot) and record
refer to
man boot.config
Sure that's enough? ttys is still going to mark the ttyd0 line as
off and won't present a tty/login then.
no. it's set to console in installator IMHO.
that's universal.
I think it's more complicated than that. And what if the boot process
hangs for some reason? no
It should be The FreeBSD project uses man pages [...] - not still,
which reads like The FreeBSD project still uses those old
fashioned man pages, but will abandon them soon in favour of
a GUI-driven help system that is used via Internet. :-)
are you sure it won't? at least i wish so, as most
PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman?
I don't, it's much easier to just type man something than browsing through
big document
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I have a laptop and I was looking at the ATT LaptopConnect cards. They
appear to only work with Windows. I do need windows support, but I insist on
FreeBSD support.
I tried looking at the hardware and release notes for FreeBSD, but what do
you call these devices to distinguish them from
PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman?
Well, man pages are good at formally documenting the how of use, but
they often are not so helpful on the why and wherefor of use.
for me it's exactly for this - to know how and why to use.
4. What kind of hardware and software are you running?
Can't provide this, due to security reasons.
That's the stupidest answer I've heard today.
It isn't that stupid. As many ISPs admins aren't very good, they simply
fear.
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That's the stupidest answer I've heard today.
It isn't that stupid. As many ISPs admins aren't very good, they simply
fear.
Based on the answers provided, I highly doubt that the OP was speaking
to an admin...
Of course not, but THEY require others to not talk about used hardware and
hello everybody:
I´m new to freeBSD, I want to know how I can restart the network services
what services?
/etc/rc.d/service restart
or if installed from ports
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/service restart
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I'm seeing this message repeating in my logs from ssh. I'm running a
7.2 system, no patches, with ssh installed from ports. Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.
Jun 4 13:08:06 ssh-server ssh: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
NetworkMachineName IN , got type A
DNS behave strangely.
Thanks everyone for the information on this. I'm not running
anything ipv6, i'd like to turn this off completely. The dns for my network
unfortunately due to lack of computers is being provided by a 2wire gateway
2701, if anyone has any information on this thing's dhcp or dns i'd love to
Your the only one who's found this problem, so we'll wait until the next
version to patch this problem.
It's just like my upstream network provider. When they have longer
problems i heard Sorry we working on this, you must be really unlucky, as
nobody else have problems here.
I asked few
These responses don't surprise me. I'm actually impressed your rep knew
the numbers for the up/down bandwidth, even though their metric was
It's just marketing bandwidth as most clients don't understand what it
mean anyway, but just expect higher value that others for the same price.
It's
It is important to understand man is a _reference_, not a
_tutorial_. It's great if you need to refresh your memory of the
Handbook is a tutorial. And looking at files in /bin, /sbin/ etc.. and
doing man was my way of learning unix years ago.
to the _fillintheblank() library call.
I am not sure a 'tutorial' is it either because they tend to take a
person through a couple of particular tasks using the item in
question, but still not discuss much of the why and wherefor.
What's wrong in FreeBSD handbook and many different paper books available
about unix? Actually not
What's wrong in FreeBSD handbook and many different paper books available
about unix? Actually not that many, but still there are available about
design of unix.
FreeBSD is really much more than the base OS.
Even though it is divided in to base and ports, it is really all
of them together.
cases and finally .. there are no need for any graphics to read text
maybe it's worth emphasizing that manpages in the text only
form are the best solution for users with disabilities.
I actually know a blind man. But he has to use windoze+putty to be able to
use FreeBSD - because textreader
5MBps upload/5MBps download (she said bytes, but should it be bits?)
768kBps
My isp have up to 1Gbyte/s costs 1000SEK a month
1Gbyte/s? it's 10Gbit/s
What card do you use to connect?
server on my connection.
Outgoing port 25, 137-139 closed. Incoming port 137-139, 445 closed
So
The Braille output was 1x80 or 2x80. For outputs with less
colums, 1x40 or 2x40, an additional horizontal slider was
added.
RS-232 connected braile terminal would be THAT SIMPLE. Really nobody
wanted to make moneyincredible.
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