Linux-Misc Digest #977, Volume #18 Wed, 10 Feb 99 20:13:12 EST
Contents:
Aegis 3.9 - a project change supervisor (Peter Miller)
Re: File Type Application Association - How? ("David J. DeFrain")
Bison 1.26a available (Jesse Thilo)
Re: How to make it run faster? (A. Bandyopadhyay)
big endian -> little endian converter (Slava Zimine)
ramdisk for linux: mount /ramdisk (Ray Eads)
Re: world's smallest webserver (Marco Tephlant)
Re: compiling kernel 2.2.0 (James Fidell)
Re: Please,Help me whit tcl/tc...! (Estela Valle Pendon)
Re: Circumventing my ISP (Carlo Graziani)
partition problem (Juhani Vanhala)
printing problem: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops ("G. Pollack")
Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0 ("Cj.Spaans")
Re: KDE opens more and more Xterms each time! (Hans Wolters)
Re: Space Station uses 95/NT, disaster imminent (no joke) (Jay O'Brien)
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From: Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.announce,gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,alt.sources.d
Subject: Aegis 3.9 - a project change supervisor
Date: 9 Feb 1999 22:33:14 +0100
Reply-To: Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am pleased to announce that Aegis 3.9 is now available.
Aegis is a transaction-based software configuration management
system. It provides a framework within which a team of developers
may work on many changes to a program independently, and Aegis
coordinates integrating these changes back into the master source
of the program, with as little disruption as possible.
You are invited to visit
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis.html
for a more complete description of what Aegis is, and access to
the download files.
For information about what new features are available in this
release, please see the README file available at the above site.
Regards
Peter Miller E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are personal and do not necessarily
reflect the opinion of my employer or the opinions of my colleagues.
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From: "David J. DeFrain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: File Type Application Association - How?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:09:21 -0500
OK, I understand, let me be more specific. I'm running Red Hat 5.2 and am
using the included "file manager" xfm. I have a group of images (.jpg's)
I'd like to view when I've located them in xfm. Now, if I double click an
image file nothing happens. I'd like to have The Gimp start automatically
and load the image I've double clicked. I want to associate a specific file
type with an appropriate application to open it. TIA.
Frank Boehme wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>David J. DeFrain wrote:
>>
>> How do I associate an application to a specific filetype in Linux? I
want
>> the GIMP to open automatically when I click on a .jpg file, for instance.
>> TIA.
>
>Nobody will be able to answer this question, because you are not telling
>us what do you mean by 'clicking on a file'. I gather that you are
>talking about a file manager of sorts which runs under X. But which one?
>
>There are plenty of them...
>
>Frank
>
>--
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>National University of Ireland, Cork | phone: +353-21-903163
>Dept of Computer Science | fax: +353-21-903113
>Cork, Ireland | WWW: http://yeats.ucc.ie/~fboehme/
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From: Jesse Thilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,alt.sources.d
Subject: Bison 1.26a available
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:53:06 -0500
Reply-To: Jesse Thilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bison 1.26a is now available for download from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/bison-1.26a.tar.gz
There are no functional changes from bison 1.26 (released recently).
This release merely fixes a build problem for some systems.
Bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. Bandyopadhyay)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: 9 Feb 1999 16:15:20 -0500
>[snip]
>> i tried to do the append="mem=96M" in my lilo.conf then run /sbin/lilo and
>> reboot. after that, linux recognized my 96 Mb RAM as reflected in another
>> free -m command from xterm. apps were loading superfast!!! i was impressed
>> . . . but then . . . .
>>
>> BIG PROBLEM!!!! ---------------- my system hangs up in the middle of
>> running apps . . .
>
>If your BIOS does ROM shadowing (and most do these days), you may not have
>the full 96M to play with. See what your BIOS says is available during
>the memory check and use that value instead of 96M; if it says 96M, try
>using append="mem=95M" instead.
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, I ticked.
You may also want to recompile the kernel. When configuring the new
kernel, ensure that the "limit memory to 16MB" is set to no. I suggest
using "make xconfig" from X-Windows to configure it. Then save the
configuration, get out of X, and run "make dep; make clean; make zImage".
Go watch some TV for a while. Come back and make a backup of your old
kernel and install the new one. Read the LDP for more info on how to
recompile a kernel (Kernel Howto).
I'm sorry, but I forgot what your kernel was. If you have a kernel version
earlier than 2.0.36, then you have to use the "append" command as
mentioned above (use 95M). Otherwise, you should be just fine. It appears
that kernels earlier than 2.0.36 used some sorta BIOS calls to figure out
the amount of RAM. Apparently, that technique allowed a maximum of 64Mb of
RAM to be seen.
Anyhow, good luck.
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Computer Engineering & Management | McMaster IEEE Communications Society
McMaster University, Hamilton, CA | McMaster IEEE Computer Chapter
[.....Montreal Canadiens....... E.R.T.W. .........Brasil in '02..........]
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From: Slava Zimine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: cern.linux
Subject: big endian -> little endian converter
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:09:13 +0100
Hello.
I'm faced to work with a big binary data file produced on HP which
contains integers and floats.
I'd like to work on it from linux and am faced to perform this big
endian (hp) -> little endian (x86) bit order rearranging conversion for
this file.
Is there a standard/common program which does this ?
a pointer for a good read on this topic would be appreciated to
understand exactly this bit order rearrangement.
( I don't know f. ex. if different files with different data types in
them require a specific conversion code or there is a universal
solution ) .
Kind regards & thanks.
Slava
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From: Ray Eads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ramdisk for linux: mount /ramdisk
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:14:05 -0800
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Here's a feature I would like--anyone else seen something like this:
I would like to be able to mount a ram disk in the filesystem,
somewhat like an Amiga ramdisk.
# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults
8megs of physical memory /mnt/ramdisk ram defaults
# mount /mnt/ramdisk
This would be terribly convenient. Anyone else wondered about this?
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From: Marco Tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: world's smallest webserver
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:59:27 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerald Willmann wrote:
> just visited the world's smallest webserver (about the size of a matchbox)
> at http://wearables.stanford.edu. Guess which OS it is running. Well, you
> guessed it.
> GErald
It looks cool, but where is the power supply, modem etc??? I doubt it would
be matchbox sized after those things where added.
--
Marco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Fidell)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compiling kernel 2.2.0
Date: 10 Feb 1999 15:21:04 GMT
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:48:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>it is when I get to this third stage I start to get problems the following
>lines may help someone!
>
> drivers sound sound.a : In function 'ess_init'
> sb_ess.o(text+0xde2): undefined reference to 'esstype'
> sb_ess.o)text+0xe77): undefined referece to 'esstype'
> make: ***[vmlinux] error!
I believe this was fixed in the 2.2.1 kernel.
James.
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From: Estela Valle Pendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please,Help me whit tcl/tc...!
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:39:50 +0100
Thank you for your answer Wallace. Could you help me with another question
about tcl/td ?
I know I'm newbie so perhaps my questions are a little evident. What must I
do for use tk? I think that it's done calling to tkcvs but when I do it I have
a message which tells me that there is a variable who are not defined but I
don't know what must contain that variable (rootcvs or cvsroot) . Could you
help me please?.
Do you know where can I have documentation about it?
Thank you very much.
Wallace Barnes III escribió:
> TCL is a language used primarily to automate usage of interactive programs
> such as telnet and ftp. It also has X windows commands which allow for
> construction of X interfaces (widgets) making your tcl "scripts" easier for
> users to work with.
> TK is a toolkit of tcl "scripts" which can be used in standalone situations
> (in some cases) or with scripts you build.
>
> Wally
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove nospam to reply)
>
> Estela Valle Pendon wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> > I'm new in Debian Linux so I don't really know what's tcl/tk. I think
> > it's an grafic development for C++ but I'm not sure. If you can explain
> > it to me, please do it.
> > Thank you
> > Estela.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlo Graziani)
Subject: Re: Circumventing my ISP
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:04:53 GMT
On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:43:18 -0500, Kevin Currie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am wonderring if anyone can help me find a way to circumvent some
>firewalling my ISP is doing. Here is the situation (names have been changed
>to protect the guilty):
>
[Snip]
>
>Now this setup the ISP has is all fine and dandy for Windows users, but I'd
>love to be able to telnet/ftp to my machine from remote computers to do
>things like get my mail and transfer files and such.
>
Do you know whether they filter port 22? You could try setting up
sshd on your home machine, and experiment with connecting by ssh.
As an generalization, you could try setting up sshd on some arbitrary
(but not "Well-Known") port, and use ssh to connect to that port instead.
When I was visiting my in-laws, ssh allowed me to bust through
the firewall set up by my brother-in-law's ISP (a school district),
which wouldn't let me telnet anywhere.
Regards,
Carlo Graziani
c-graziani AT uchicago DOT edu (sorry about that)
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From: Juhani Vanhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: partition problem
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:57:32 +0000
Hi,
I have installed Linux on my second HD (8.4Gb Western Digital) On my
first HD I had Win NT and DOS. I left about 2.3 Gb unpartitioned space
to /dev/hdb when I installed Linux, because I was not sure if I was
going to need it for Win NT or for Linux.
Some days ago I found some use for that space and partitioned it with
Win NT and formatted to FAT. Everythig seemed to go smoothly and I was
able to copy ~2Gb of data to this new partition without problems. Today
I decided to mount that partiton to linux side too, and I used fdisk to
check which logical partition it was. To my surprize, fdisk found a
problem in mu partition table:
==============================================================
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 17 136521 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb2 18 1027 8112825 5 Extended
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1026, 254, 63)
/dev/hdb5 18 527 4096543+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb6 528 719 1542208+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb7 720 735 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb8 736 1027 2345458+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
=================================================================
Apparently Linux fdisk and Win NT has somewhat different opinnion about
the disk size. Is this a real problem and should I try to fix it
somehow. If so, which tool should I use?
Thanks,
Juhani
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From: "G. Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing problem: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:42:00 -0500
I've just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.1 (on a RedHat 5.1/686 system).
Using RedHat's printtool, ascii text prints fine, but postscript does
not. It produces the following message on the page:
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
(148) op_array(586)
0x819a4b8 : E
(and perhaps some more that's gone off the page?)
My printer is an HP Deskjet 600C, with printer support compiled into the
kernel rather than as a module. I'm using ghostscript version 5.50-2,
installed as binary files from an rpm package. I've tried reinstalling
ghostscript, but this doesn't help. Strangely, and disturbingly, I now
have the same problem even when I boot my old kernel (2.0.35). I'd
appreciate any help (in fact I'm desperate for it!).
Thanks,
--
Gerald Pollack
Dept. of Biology, McGill University
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From: "Cj.Spaans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:33:30 +0100
Nothing. SCO Unix is a M$-product. Are you scared now?
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Clive wrote:
> Whats to stop them ?
>
>
> Steve Salgo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >Kinda scary, huh?
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: KDE opens more and more Xterms each time!
Date: 10 Feb 1999 22:29:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marco Tephlant wrote:
:Each time I launch X, I have more and more xterms and Xclocks!
:E.g I'll have one xterm and one xclock, if I shut down X, and restart it
:then I'll have two xterms and two xclocks! How can I stop this! It
:appears to be mandatory to start at least one xterm each time X starts.
:
Hi Marco,
Had this same problem with WM. I opened a console and killed them all. Then
closed WM and the problem was gone
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay O'Brien)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Space Station uses 95/NT, disaster imminent (no joke)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 02:13:56 GMT
Yeah, you think this is all a joke. However, a little over a year ago
a crewman on the guided missile cruiser USS Yorktown made the
unfortunate mistake of entering a zero for a denominator in a division
equation(something to do with calibtrating a fuel pump) on the NT
system that controlled the entire ship. The result of asking the
system to divide by zero? The boat sat dead in the water for a number
of hours.
If you have the resources, check the article out. 8/27/1998 Wall
Street Journal, Marketplace Section.
Jay
On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:01:53 -0600, Jerry Lynn Kreps
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Michael C. Vergallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:56:23 GMT, Matt Kressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>The International Space Station (ISS) is networking seven IBM PCs
>> >>together using one NT box and three Win 95s. They are using Windows
>> >>based software to determine when the next communications pass will
>> >>occur.
>> >>Thoughts/Flames/Replies?
><snip>
>
>>
>> Maybe MIR wasn't so bad after all...
>>
>> --
>> Alain Borel
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>mmmm... space station + M$ = Mir ???
>Will the TV cameras be on when the next docking occurs? If it is under
>M$ control we may be witness to more than one kind of crash.
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