PCCARD Installation

1999-07-06 Thread Ettikan Kandasamy
Hello, I'm trying to install 3Com Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX (model 3CCFE575BT-D) into my Dell laptop-freeBSD 2.2.8. Could some one help me with the setup/installation procedure. I tried modifying the GENERIC file for the kernel and /etc/pccard* files. But did not succeed. 1) Does Free

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread ycheng
In article <199907070339.vaa88...@panzer.kdm.org> you wrote: >> 3.5" 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, >> 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). > The CAM DA driver was specifically designed to handle various sector sizes, > and should work fine with non-512

Re: Overwrite an executable file that is running

1999-07-06 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zhihui Zhang) writes: > For a big executable file that is being run by the OS, all its contents > may not be loaded into the memory. At the same time, the developer gets > impatient and wants to create a new version of the same file. He could > modify the makefile to output

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread ycheng
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> 3.5" 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, >> 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). > The CAM DA driver was specifically designed to handle various sector sizes, > and should work fine with non-512 byte sector sizes.

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... > Thanks for many suggestions. > > I'll try latest CAM system. Cool, I'm interested to hear how it works for you. If things don't work properly, we'll try to fix the bugs. > ken>>Can you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look > ken>>at it, and

Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a FineTimer

1999-07-06 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:12:59 -0700 (PDT), The Utz Family said: utz> (perhaps it might be time to change the name of the patch subdir from utz> serial-midi to something else?) Definitely. The patches themselves are now 'newmidi-...' so I have s/freebsd-serialmidi/freebsd-newmidi/ed the URIs. (t

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
Thanks for many suggestions. I'll try latest CAM system. ken>>Can you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look ken>>at it, and see what sorts of things you have to do to make these drives ken>>work? I am a beta tester of the new od driver. It almost works fine on some b

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... > Thanks for many suggestions. > > I'll try latest CAM system. Cool, I'm interested to hear how it works for you. If things don't work properly, we'll try to fix the bugs. > ken>>Can you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look > ken>>at it, an

Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a FineTimer

1999-07-06 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:12:59 -0700 (PDT), The Utz Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: utz> (perhaps it might be time to change the name of the patch subdir from utz> serial-midi to something else?) Definitely. The patches themselves are now 'newmidi-...' so I have s/freebsd-serialmidi/freebsd-new

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
Thanks for many suggestions. I'll try latest CAM system. ken>>Can you make source code to the OD driver available, so I can take a look ken>>at it, and see what sorts of things you have to do to make these drives ken>>work? I am a beta tester of the new od driver. It almost works fine on some

Re: Overwrite an executable file that is running

1999-07-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > For a big executable file that is being run by the OS, all its contents > may not be loaded into the memory. At the same time, the developer gets > impatient and wants to create a new version of the same file. He could > modify the makefile to output

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... > ken>>Alex Zepeda wrote... > ken>>> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > ken>>> > ken>>> > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > ken>>> > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > ken>>> > CD driver doe

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> How do you think about some MO(Magneto Otpical disk) and PD drives? > > 3.5" 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, > 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). The da driver should handle 2048KB sector sized media right now. If it doesn't for some reason, that i

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
ken>>Alex Zepeda wrote... ken>>> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ken>>> ken>>> > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and ken>>> > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The ken>>> > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it

Re: Overwrite an executable file that is running

1999-07-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > For a big executable file that is being run by the OS, all its contents > may not be loaded into the memory. At the same time, the developer gets > impatient and wants to create a new version of the same file. He could > modify the makefile to output

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... > ken>>Alex Zepeda wrote... > ken>>> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > ken>>> > ken>>> > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > ken>>> > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > ken>>> > CD driver do

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> How do you think about some MO(Magneto Otpical disk) and PD drives? > > 3.5" 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB, > 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB). The da driver should handle 2048KB sector sized media right now. If it doesn't for some reason, that

Re: Connect and so on..

1999-07-06 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Ahhh.. RACF... MVS... Music to my ears... And speaking of resource managers... don't forget the ESM on CMS for SFS... :-) I would have spared the bandwidth.. but it's worth noting that we run a production system that installs user exits into the Shared File System on CMS via the Callable Se

Overwrite an executable file that is running

1999-07-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
For a big executable file that is being run by the OS, all its contents may not be loaded into the memory. At the same time, the developer gets impatient and wants to create a new version of the same file. He could modify the makefile to output the new version to a different file name, but this

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Takeshi OHASHI
ken>>Alex Zepeda wrote... ken>>> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ken>>> ken>>> > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and ken>>> > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The ken>>> > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but i

Re: Connect and so on..

1999-07-06 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Ahhh.. RACF... MVS... Music to my ears... And speaking of resource managers... don't forget the ESM on CMS for SFS... :-) I would have spared the bandwidth.. but it's worth noting that we run a production system that installs user exits into the Shared File System on CMS via the Callable S

Overwrite an executable file that is running

1999-07-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
For a big executable file that is being run by the OS, all its contents may not be loaded into the memory. At the same time, the developer gets impatient and wants to create a new version of the same file. He could modify the makefile to output the new version to a different file name, but this

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Wes Peters
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > > > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? > > > >It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you > > specify the -e flag), as well as a Te

Re: Improved libcrypt ready for testing

1999-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
[I've redirected this to -hackers where I probably should have sent it initially.] On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > It would probably also be worthwhile redefining New-DES and our blowfish > > format to fit this common form: > > > > $DES$$salt$hash > > IMHO, don't change the existing n

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Wes Peters
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > > > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? > > > >It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you > > specify the -e flag), as well as a T

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

1999-07-06 Thread patl
Jamie Howard writes: > > Perhaps this will help with -w? > > Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also > beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am > still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify > a commandline

Re: Improved libcrypt ready for testing

1999-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
[I've redirected this to -hackers where I probably should have sent it initially.] On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > It would probably also be worthwhile redefining New-DES and our blowfish > > format to fit this common form: > > > > $DES$$salt$hash > > IMHO, don't change the existing

Re: Searching the Handbook (was Re: 'rtfm script')

1999-07-06 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:55:26AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > *Much* simpler is to build a grep-alike that understands structured > documents, but that doesn't care how those documents are structured. This Perhaps dtags(1) a-la ctags(1). -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

1999-07-06 Thread patl
Jamie Howard writes: > > Perhaps this will help with -w? > > Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also > beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am > still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify > a commandlin

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Alex Zepeda wrote... > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it's a one-line fix to > > chang

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-06 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c how to become a hacker? >>> You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else >>> can teach you. >> This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > But it's certainly NOT something that you just are, either

[gtay...@picante.com: apsfilter/pnp database integration]

1999-07-06 Thread Andreas Klemm
Is somebody perhaps working on that ? I think Grant's idea is very good of maintaining a ghostscript printer database and his idea to make apsfilter aware of connected printer type. In FreeBSD possibly some infrastructure is missing. Please look his comments about how Linux folks implemented this

Re: Searching the Handbook (was Re: 'rtfm script')

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > I've added d...@freebsd.org to the distribution list, for obvious reasons. > > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:16:36PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > >Note that I can't figure out a decent way to search the > > Handbook at this point, but I'm open to ideas.

Re: Searching the Handbook (was Re: 'rtfm script')

1999-07-06 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:55:26AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > *Much* simpler is to build a grep-alike that understands structured > documents, but that doesn't care how those documents are structured. This Perhaps dtags(1) a-la ctags(1). -- This is my .signature which gets appended to th

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it's a one-line fix to > change that.

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > > > > > No, that's a really stupid idea. > > > > Thanks! But still, I don't think r

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > Honestly, while this is one of those things that sounds good when > you first start talking about it, in practice I don't see what we gain > from it. What we gain from it is really simple and can be obtained from looking at how it operates. It's a star

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Doug
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > > > No, that's a really stupid idea. > > Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look > for someth

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
Wes Peters wrote: >Greg Lehey wrote: >> Peter's gone to the USA, we think. > >Not another one? The FreeBSD Aussie invasion continues... You're likely to see a lot more. The Oz Government has just enacted Internet censorship legislation placing us on a par with China (http://www.efa.org.au/Campai

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Alex Zepeda wrote... > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it's a one-line fix to > > chan

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I think that whomever actually writes it will get to name it whatever the hell they way, that's what I think. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > No, that's a really stupid idea. Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look for something better, more obvious? Or perhaps it would be in the motd

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-06 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c how to become a hacker? >>> You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else >>> can teach you. >> This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > But it's certainly NOT something that you just are, eithe

[gtaylor@picante.com: apsfilter/pnp database integration]

1999-07-06 Thread Andreas Klemm
Is somebody perhaps working on that ? I think Grant's idea is very good of maintaining a ghostscript printer database and his idea to make apsfilter aware of connected printer type. In FreeBSD possibly some infrastructure is missing. Please look his comments about how Linux folks implemented thi

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... No, that's a really stupid idea. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Searching the Handbook (was Re: 'rtfm script')

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > I've added [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the distribution list, for obvious reasons. > > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:16:36PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > >Note that I can't figure out a decent way to search the > > Handbook at this point, but I'm open to idea

Re: Budget on user-ppp

1999-07-06 Thread Brian Somers
> On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:11:39AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > ? How about under ``set redial'' in the man page ? > > > > Brian, > > The i4b stuff seems to have some sophisticated costing control code > (isdn.rates). > It appears that you can define the costs at different times of da

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it's a one-line fix to > change that. >From what I can tell,

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > > > > > No, that's a really stupid idea. > > > > Thanks! But still, I don't think

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > Honestly, while this is one of those things that sounds good when > you first start talking about it, in practice I don't see what we gain > from it. What we gain from it is really simple and can be obtained from looking at how it operates. It's a sta

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Doug
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > > > No, that's a really stupid idea. > > Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look > for somet

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 02:52:08PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > > > >That would cause problems with bash users. They already have > > a builtin help command. > > Which can be disable

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greg Lehey wrote: >> Peter's gone to the USA, we think. > >Not another one? The FreeBSD Aussie invasion continues... You're likely to see a lot more. The Oz Government has just enacted Internet censorship legislation placing us on a par with China (http://w

Re: kern/11222

1999-07-06 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Matthew Dillon wrote: >Hi Ted. I did look at it and it seems ok, though I didn't run it >by the gurus. Thanks. I know you're busy, and I just figured it was buried under other more pressing concerns. Sorry the commit problems are still lingering, b

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I think that whomever actually writes it will get to name it whatever the hell they way, that's what I think. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... > > No, that's a really stupid idea. Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look for something better, more obvious? Or perhaps it would be in the motd

Re: Connect and so on..

1999-07-06 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:52:12 -0700 >From: Mike Smith >> > Could you point me to more about this (RAGF) scheme? >> [ML] I don't know if I have spelled it out correctly, but this >> is the authentication scheme used on mainframes (IBM at least) where all >> syscalls are routed through the

Re: kern/11222

1999-07-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
Hi Ted. I did look at it and it seems ok, though I didn't run it by the gurus. Unfortunately, without commit privs my hands are tied and I am just not willing to spend the hours of testing necessary to ensure that obvious bugs have been avoided when other people get the credit

kern/11222

1999-07-06 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, folks. I was hoping that someone would take a look at kern/11222, which has been open since I submitted it in April. The problem it addresses is that MFS buffers that are dirty when the reboot syscall is made are never cleaned because the reboot call neve

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... No, that's a really stupid idea. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Budget on user-ppp

1999-07-06 Thread Brian Somers
> On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:11:39AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > ? How about under ``set redial'' in the man page ? > > > > Brian, > > The i4b stuff seems to have some sophisticated costing control code (isdn.rates). > It appears that you can define the costs at different times of day

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). Sure it is. Some hapless newbie wanders into #FreeBDS on efnet, and asks an already answered question. Aside from a kick, and a possible ban, they're likely to be met with a chorus of "rtfm", which

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 02:52:08PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > > > >That would cause problems with bash users. They already have > > a builtin help command. > > Which can be disabl

Re: kern/11222

1999-07-06 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Matthew Dillon wrote: >Hi Ted. I did look at it and it seems ok, though I didn't run it >by the gurus. Thanks. I know you're busy, and I just figured it was buried under other more pressing concerns. Sorry the commit problems are still lingering,

Re: Connect and so on..

1999-07-06 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:52:12 -0700 >From: Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Could you point me to more about this (RAGF) scheme? >> [ML] I don't know if I have spelled it out correctly, but this >> is the authentication scheme used on mainframes (IBM at least) where all >> syscalls ar

Re: kern/11222

1999-07-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
Hi Ted. I did look at it and it seems ok, though I didn't run it by the gurus. Unfortunately, without commit privs my hands are tied and I am just not willing to spend the hours of testing necessary to ensure that obvious bugs have been avoided when other people get the credi

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-06 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Jul 07, 1999 at 10:25:12PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote: > OK, I did that. What is the convention for naming the flags? The > only one in use for that set of flags is FP_SOFTFP. I'm currently > using PCB_DBREGS, but I but I easily change the name to whatever > convention dictates - please advise.

kern/11222

1999-07-06 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, folks. I was hoping that someone would take a look at kern/11222, which has been open since I submitted it in April. The problem it addresses is that MFS buffers that are dirty when the reboot syscall is made are never cleaned because the reboot call nev

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). Sure it is. Some hapless newbie wanders into #FreeBDS on efnet, and asks an already answered question. Aside from a kick, and a possible ban, they're likely to be met with a chorus of "rtfm", which

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > >That would cause problems with bash users. They already have > a builtin help command. Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next re

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). That would cause problems with bash users. They already have a builtin help command. -- Chris Costello On a clear disk you can seek forever. - Denning To Unsub

paper on improving Webserver performance

1999-07-06 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, I'd like to tell the FreeBSD community about my recent paper that proposes some TCP implementation techniques for improving Webserver performance. I used FreeBSD for my study and I thought perhaps FreeBSD's TCP maintainers might like to incorporate some of the propositions in FreeBSD. T

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? > >It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you > specify the -e flag), as well as a Texinfo search, as well as a > FAQ search, u

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-06 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Jul 07, 1999 at 10:25:12PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote: > OK, I did that. What is the convention for naming the flags? The > only one in use for that set of flags is FP_SOFTFP. I'm currently > using PCB_DBREGS, but I but I easily change the name to whatever > convention dictates - please advise.

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
Leigh: PHK wrote a driver (under the watchful eye of M-Systems) for the "true" DOCs that have a BIOS driver to make them look like a disk rather than an IDE interface. That's what Jaye is referring to... -marc Marc Nicholas netST

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you specify the -e flag), as well as a Texinfo search, as well as a FAQ search, using the FAQ pages at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/. It

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
http://phk.freebsd.dk/doc2k/ Linked from http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd. -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.900

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Leigh Hart
Hi Jaye, All of the DOC stuff I've played with has usually had an IDE style interface associated with it - I may be way off track here tho...? Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > I just got a DOC2K in, and am anxious to play with it. I know Poul > had done some work with it, but his web page doesn't have

Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I just got a DOC2K in, and am anxious to play with it. I know Poul had done some work with it, but his web page doesn't have a link to it, and I cannot find his original email. The reference in freebsd-small doesn't contain an URL... Any help appreciated. I want to run under 3.2-stable. To

Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer

1999-07-06 Thread The Utz Family
widely-used midi interface now works under > my midi driver framework. Another new thing is a fine timer > at a period of 156us, called directly from hardclock(). > > You can try the patch at: > http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/freebsd-serialmidi/patch/ > newmidi-1999070

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > >That would cause problems with bash users. They already have > a builtin help command. Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next r

Re: Connect and so on..

1999-07-06 Thread Wes Peters
Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Dan Seguin [SMTP:d...@texar.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:22 PM > > To: Ladavac Marino > > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > > Subject: RE: Connect and so on.. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > >

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). That would cause problems with bash users. They already have a builtin help command. -- Chris Costello<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On a clear disk you can seek forever.

paper on improving Webserver performance

1999-07-06 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, I'd like to tell the FreeBSD community about my recent paper that proposes some TCP implementation techniques for improving Webserver performance. I used FreeBSD for my study and I thought perhaps FreeBSD's TCP maintainers might like to incorporate some of the propositions in FreeBSD.

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? > >It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you > specify the -e flag), as well as a Texinfo search, as well as a > FAQ search,

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-06 Thread John Polstra
Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote: > >> In article , >> >> The application itself has to get involved if it wants to do async >> name lookups, or async anything else, for that matter. Suppose you >> do have an async thread to do hostname lookups as you propose. Wh

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
Leigh: PHK wrote a driver (under the watchful eye of M-Systems) for the "true" DOCs that have a BIOS driver to make them look like a disk rather than an IDE interface. That's what Jaye is referring to... -marc Marc Nicholas netS

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-06 Thread Justin C. Walker
> From: John Polstra > Date: 1999-07-06 09:36:51 -0700 > To: arc...@whistle.com > Subject: Re: poll() vs select() > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org > In-reply-to: <199907050103.saa51...@bubba.whistle.com> > Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Organization: Polstra & Co., Seat

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you specify the -e flag), as well as a Texinfo search, as well as a FAQ search, using the FAQ pages at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/. I

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
http://phk.freebsd.dk/doc2k/ Linked from http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd. -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.90

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Leigh Hart
Hi Jaye, All of the DOC stuff I've played with has usually had an IDE style interface associated with it - I may be way off track here tho...? Jaye Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just got a DOC2K in, and am anxious to play with it. I know Poul > had done some work with it, but his w

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-06 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > > The application itself has to get involved if it wants to do async > name lookups, or async anything else, for that matter. Suppose you > do have an async thread to do hostname lookups as you propose. What > is the application going to

Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I just got a DOC2K in, and am anxious to play with it. I know Poul had done some work with it, but his web page doesn't have a link to it, and I cannot find his original email. The reference in freebsd-small doesn't contain an URL... Any help appreciated. I want to run under 3.2-stable. T

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Takeshi OHASHI wrote... > Hi folks, > > dmiller>>Apologies if this should be on -scsi > dmiller>> > dmiller>>Has anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? > dmiller>> > dmiller>>I will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like > to do > dmiller>>it under unix

Re: CAM: delaying new commands during reset

1999-07-06 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
This stuff should really go to the SCSI list. I read that list much more frequently than this one. > The Iomega USB Zip drive is a bit slow when resetting (reset of the USB > part of the drive). It takes 1s or more to reset. The reset is initiated > because for example an illegal command was rece

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Doug
I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? Feeling a little dense, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers

Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a FineTimer

1999-07-06 Thread The Utz Family
widely-used midi interface now works under > my midi driver framework. Another new thing is a fine timer > at a period of 156us, called directly from hardclock(). > > You can try the patch at: > http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/freebsd-serialmidi/patch/ > newmidi-1999070

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-06 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article you write: >In article <199907050103.saa51...@bubba.whistle.com>, >Archie Cobbs wrote: >> >> A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget >> to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability. > >Yes! Yes! Yes! (I agree.) There

Re: mmap question

1999-07-06 Thread John Polstra
In article <000101bec73c$e20e3660$291c4...@kbyanc.alcnet.com>, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > Also, in case it hasn't been notice already (I'm running -stable from May > 18th), the mmap(2) manpage has a typo: it has "#include " So what's the typo, exactly? John -- John Polstra

Re: Connect and so on..

1999-07-06 Thread Wes Peters
Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Dan Seguin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:22 PM > > To: Ladavac Marino > > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > > Subject: RE: Connect and so on.. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: > >

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