Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #603
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Date:     Thu, 27 Jan 94 17:44:50 EST

Linux-Misc Digest #603, Volume #1                Thu, 27 Jan 94 17:44:50 EST

Contents:
  Re: Sounds for Mosaic in Linux (Sarr J. Blumson)
  Re: Emacs-Problems (Tat Lam NGUYEN)
  Re: Solitaire ? (Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer)
  Re: Four Operating Systems on one Computer with two Drives (how?) (Scott Derrick)
  *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07) (Ian Jackson)
  Re: Slackware needs a shadow package! (Alan Cox)
  Re: [WANTED] pixmap editor for fvwm icons available? (Nicholas Ambrose)
  Re: Does the Mitsumi 2xSpeed CD-ROM work with Linux? (cosc19v2)
  Re: Linux Distributions and the Shadow Pass (Jay Maynard)
  Re: MSDOS Better than Linux (Mohd Hamid Misnan)

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From: sarr@citi.umich.edu (Sarr J. Blumson)
Subject: Re: Sounds for Mosaic in Linux
Date: 26 Jan 1994 14:12:55 GMT
Reply-To: sarr@citi.umich.edu

In article <2i5j7k$9mj@agate.berkeley.edu>,
genie@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Gene Choi) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Is there such a program called "showaudio" or a
|> clone of it which
|> can read raw and au format sounds?
|> 

I've been using the Lsox package, which is on sunsite.  It's a port of
another Sun package called sox, and can play (and translate) a variety of
formats.

The external players that Mosaic uses are controlled by an X-resource
(mosaic 1.x) or via your .mailcap file (mosaic 2.x).

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From: tln@uni-paderborn.de (Tat Lam NGUYEN)
Subject: Re: Emacs-Problems
Date: 27 Jan 1994 11:05:41 GMT


 There are also people who have not installed or used X, U know. :)

 TLN

Joost Helberg (jhelberg@nlsun8.oracle.nl) wrote in article <JHELBERG.94Jan26154824@nlsun8.oracle.nl> (Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:48:24 GMT):
> In article <2i5j6b$oau@news.uni-paderborn.de> tln@uni-paderborn.de (Tat Lam NGUYEN) writes:
>     Just install the emacs package with X support(there are TWO emacs packages!).
>     The package on disk e1 is with X support (emacsbin.tgz), the another one on
>     disk e5 is w/o X support.

> Why are there 2 different packages? Emacs will support ASCII as 
> well as X within the same binary.

> This might confuse people.

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From: jfh@ES-sun2 (Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer)
Subject: Re: Solitaire ?
Date: 27 Jan 1994 08:33:37 GMT

Frank M. Haynes (frank@vatmom.COM) wrote:
: The only reason I use MS windows is for Solitaire.

: Is it available for X-windows?

: Thanks.

: --Frank
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there is a tcl/tk solitaire i know.
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From: scot@as215-ws-11.ucsc.edu (Scott Derrick)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.os.os2.setup
Subject: Re: Four Operating Systems on one Computer with two Drives (how?)
Date: 26 Jan 1994 19:11:31 GMT
Reply-To: scot@cats.ucsc.edu

   I need to Setup on one system NTAS, OS/2 2.1, Linux pl14 and MSDOS, the
   question is what is the best way to do this?. I need to boot up under any
   one of the OS's at any time.

   I tried a setup of dos and OS/2 using the Boot Manager but then NTAS 
   didn't like the partition make by OS/2's Boot Manager.

   I also would like to be able to access the other partition it possible.

I don't know about NTAS, but the LILO boot loader is happy with OS/2,
DOS, and Linux.


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From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
Subject: *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (misc-2.07)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 11:03:00 GMT

Please do not post questions to comp.os.linux.misc - read on for details of
which groups you should read and post to.

Please do not crosspost anything between different groups of the comp.os.linux
hierarchy.  See Matt Welsh's introduction to the hierarchy, posted weekly.

If you have a question about Linux you should get and read the Linux Frequently
Asked Questions with Answers list from sunsite.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/docs, or
from another Linux FTP site.  It is also posted periodically to c.o.l.announce.

In particular, read the question `You still haven't answered my question!'
The FAQ will refer you to the Linux HOWTOs (more detailed descriptions of
particular topics) found in the HOWTO directory in the same place.

Then you should consider posting to comp.os.linux.help - not
comp.os.linux.misc.

Note that X Windows related questions should go to comp.windows.x.i386unix, and
that non-Linux-specific Unix questions should go to comp.unix.questions.
Please read the FAQs for these groups before posting - look on rtfm.mit.edu in
/pub/usenet/news.answers/Intel-Unix-X-faq and .../unix-faq.

Only if you have a posting that is not more appropriate for one of the other
Linux groups - ie it is not a question, not about the future development of
Linux, not an announcement or bug report and not about system administration -
should you post to comp.os.linux.misc.


Comments on this posting are welcomed - please email me !
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From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Slackware needs a shadow package!
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 12:01:09 GMT

In article <14523@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) writes:
>How about this:
>
>1. Add an encryption feature into the file system.
No just an encryption program and encyrpted code in the CD-ROM - you don't
want to decrypt every time you run
>2. Sell the CD at cost.
But not export it from the USA due to the crazy US cryptography rules.
>3. Encrypt any program on the CD that the the copyright allows.
Surely any that the copyright requires.. This is Linux not Windows.
>4. Sell the encryption key needed to access the encrypted stuff.
You don't sell the key or people will resell it, you sell software
licenses and give people keys. On a CD-ROM of course every piece of
software is the same, there are no serial numbers on the 386 chips 
(that software can read) and anyone can tune the kernel source code
to fix any smart ideas you have - so there is only one key for your
whole run...

Alan
iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk


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From: na2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nicholas Ambrose)
Subject: Re: [WANTED] pixmap editor for fvwm icons available?
Date: 27 Jan 1994 13:05:59 -0000


In article <1994Jan24.164823.2997@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>, fg@spcklr.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Frank Grieger) writes:
|> Hi Linuxers,
|> 
|> I wonder if there is a pixmap editor available for fvwm icons. I allready
|> browsed the LSM and I ran out of subcases with which I could torture
|> xarchie any further. :)
|> 
|> Thanks for any hint. Greetings,
|>                              Frank.
Yeah, try xpaint that should work, it can read in GIF, xpm, and bitmaps and
save to any of those formats, so it's also useful for conversions.
Nick
-- 
What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.

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From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2)
Subject: Re: Does the Mitsumi 2xSpeed CD-ROM work with Linux?
Date: 26 Jan 1994 20:59:30 -0600

In article <2hps07$kdf@access.digex.net>,
j. hurwitz <jhurwitz@access.digex.net> wrote:
>
>I have one of the newer Mitsumi double speed CD-ROM drives, when Linux
>is booting up I see a message saying Mitsumi initialzation failed. I
>remember hearing that Linux was compatable with the Mitsumi drive.
>
>Will the Mitsumi double speed work with Linux?.

I have similar problem (maybe same).
I think that it is "interrupt setting" problem.
Mitsumi's default is using INT10, my GUS uses INT11 default.
However, Linux assumes that CD ROM Drive is using INT11 default.
I tried to recompile the kernel (pl14t) but there is no configuration
how I may change the interrupt for CD ROM.
Well, I may hack around the kernel, but I want to be safe, and
don't want to cause troubles when I patch the source tree in the future.
Is there anyone who resolved this problem ?

Thanks.


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From: jmaynard@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard)
Subject: Re: Linux Distributions and the Shadow Pass
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 11:35:58 GMT

In article <14518@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>,
Bill C. Riemers <bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> wrote:
>One easy way to avoid this problem is to use the GNU copyright, so that you
>can get the Free Software Foundation to take the action necessary to enforce
>your copyright.

The FSF has refused, in the past, to defend any code but their own, even 
though it was under the GPL. Specific case: Xircom used the packet driver 
skeleton for their pocket Ethernet adapter driver, and refused to release 
source. The FSF wasn't interested; when I brought the matter to Richard 
Stallman's attention, he said that they could not take any action, since it 
wasn't their code.
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               get caught stealing, you're out!" -- Ed Shanks

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From: hamid@mhmsys.pc.my (Mohd Hamid Misnan)
Subject: Re: MSDOS Better than Linux
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:16:53 GMT

Jeroen Bosters (jbosters@kub.nl) wrote:
: |> In terms of real world work you lusers should realise that MS-DOS and
: |> MS-Windows is far better than some half assed Unix toy, get a life and
: |> pay for your software like everyone else you spongers.
: |> 

: Unix-toy? What are you talking 'bout... m$-dos and M$-Windoze are the two
: bugiest pieces
: of software I ever heard of. And to spend money on something that stinks 
: that much, Nah.

Humm, is this bug in Messy-DOG already fixed? This happened on the format 
command. 

C:\FORMAT C:
[..]
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? ^C (do ctrl-C here)

And nah.. DOG won't reconize your HD anymore until you reboot your PC.
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