Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #783
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Date:     Mon, 7 Mar 94 06:13:27 EST

Linux-Misc Digest #783, Volume #1                 Mon, 7 Mar 94 06:13:27 EST

Contents:
  Re: "Reverse-engineering" (Bill Hogan)
  incompatible library '/lib/libc.so.4' (Dongjin Han)
  Re: Moderation by program for col.* (Re: RFD: comp.os.linux.advocacy) (John Henders)
  Wanted: scsi tape drive ( brian weaver)
  lost /lib/libc.so.4 (Dongjin Han)
  Re: pronunciation of linux (Kayvan Sylvan)
  Re: [q] Power PC and Linux? (Kayvan Sylvan)
  Script tool for Researchers Toolkit (Ronda Hauben)
  Pascal compiler for linux (john halar)
  Re: pronunciation of linux (David Holland)
  Re: libm.so.4.5.21 in /usr/lib ?? (Jayme)
  Re: [q] Power PC and Linux? (Anthony Lovell)
  Re: Can I get Slackware 1.1.2 on CD-ROM? (Anthony Lovell)
  OS/2 HPFS mount--no upper case (Ken Neighbors)
  Re: pronunciation of linux (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
  Re: undefined symbol __IO_stderr_ (Mitchum DSouza)
  Re: Undefined symbol ___main for DLL tools? (Mitchum DSouza)
  Re: pronunciation of linux (Christian Weisgerber)
  Re: libm.so.4.5.21 in /usr/lib ?? (Helmut Geyer)
  Re: Mail Order Linux Workstation Vendors (Dirk Steinberg)
  Re: Linux on a Thinkpad (Alex Frausin)
  how do I uncompress .z files (Jesper Honig Spring)

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From: bhogan@crl.com (Bill Hogan)
Subject: Re: "Reverse-engineering"
Date: 6 Mar 1994 16:31:08 -0800

John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386) wrote:

: In article <2kuq5j$e0p@crl2.crl.com> bhogan@crl.com (Bill Hogan) writes:

: > I think we would all be much better off in the long run if, instead of
: >investing time and money trying to extract short-term advantage from
: >knowledge by keeping it secret as long as possible, we invested that same
: >time and money into making knowledge equally available to anyone who wants
: >it, and competed on the basis of the ability to *use* knowledge better. 
                                                         
: The problem with RMS's communist utopian version of information
: socialism is ...

 Excuse me, JH-II, but my initials are "BH".

 I do not equate "information" with *knowledge* (see above).

 And what I have in mind is no more (and no less) radical than your
nearest Public Library. 

 Which might have you saying something like this:

   The problem with BH's vision of a Global Public Library is...

 I would be interested in seeing how you completed that sentence.

 Watch out, though; when you start out with an open mind, you can never be
sure where you are going to come down. 

 That can get real scary.

BH
 
 


 
 
 

-- 
  Bill Hogan
{bhogan@crl.com}

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From: dj@lems25 (Dongjin Han)
Subject: incompatible library '/lib/libc.so.4'
Date: 7 Mar 1994 05:31:24 GMT



Hi
I always get this message like 
make: using incompatible library '/lib/libc.so.4'
        Desire minor version >= 510 and found 402
And finally compilation fails.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks

--
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-Dongjin Han, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
 dj@lems.brown.edu ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `  
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Crossposted-To: news.groups
From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.com (John Henders)
Subject: Re: Moderation by program for col.* (Re: RFD: comp.os.linux.advocacy)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 04:21:04 GMT

froh@devnull.adsp.sub.org (Frohwalt Egerer) writes:

>What about a moderated group  comp.os.linux.faq  where all the faqs and 
>howtos are posted periodically? (The 'beginner' faqs weekly, the 'advanced' 
>ones monthly.)  I know there currently is c.o.l.a, but IMHO new readers do 
>not realize the faqs are posted there, or they are not patient enough to wait
>until the appropriate faq shows up,

        If announce is used the way it's intended, this is completely
unnecessary. If you expire announce on a 30 day rotation, there are always
copies of all the FAQ's and HOWTO's there. I do this at home, and a du on
announce shows there's a mere 800k there, so this is not exactly a huge
drain on a site's resources.


-- 
           John Henders - Wimsey Information Services
           GAT/MU/AE d- -p+(--) c++++ l++ u++ t- m--- 
               e* s-/+ n-(?) h++ f+ g+ w+++ y*

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From: weaver@mozart.cs.colostate.edu ( brian weaver)
Subject: Wanted: scsi tape drive
Date: 7 Mar 94 05:36:29 GMT

I'm looking for a scsi tape drive thats linux compatible.
If you have one, please email me the details.. Thanks.
Not looking for any expensive dat units.


--
Brian Weaver
weaver@mozart.cs.colostate.edu

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From: dj@lems25 (Dongjin Han)
Subject: lost /lib/libc.so.4
Date: 7 Mar 1994 05:55:39 GMT



--
Hi Help me. I tried to symlink libc.so.4 to libc.4.5.19
then I deleted libc.so.4 accidentely NO command are accepted!
What shoud I do?
Ahhhh.......
Thanks ...

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 ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
-Dongjin Han, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
 dj@lems.brown.edu ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `  
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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From: kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Subject: Re: pronunciation of linux
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 06:00:39 GMT

>>>>> "J" == J J Paijmans <paai@kub.nl> writes:

>> Oh boy, my first chance to tell people to read the faq =).  Its a 
>> question on the faq and it gives the pronunciation to be like minix
>> if I remember correctly.  Anyways...later...

J> Uh... how do you pronounce 'minix...'?  :-) Paai

Like "My Nykes". :-)

                        ---Kayvan
-- 
| Kayvan Sylvan, Sylvan Associates, kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM, (408) 978-1407  |
| Consulting, Training, Development, SysAdmin, {BSD,SVr3,SVr4} Unix Systems  |
| "Think Globally, Act Locally." "Only you can make your dreams come true."  |
| Proud Dad of Katherine Yelena (born 8/8/89) & Robin Gregory (born 2/28/92) |

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From: kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Subject: Re: [q] Power PC and Linux?
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 05:57:22 GMT

>>>>> "Andrej" == Andrej Gabara <gabara@mascot.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

Andrej> I think AIX3.2 kicks ass!

I agree. It kicks the ass of anyone stupid enough to use it. 1/2 :-)

                        ---Kayvan
-- 
| Kayvan Sylvan, Sylvan Associates, kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM, (408) 978-1407  |
| Consulting, Training, Development, SysAdmin, {BSD,SVr3,SVr4} Unix Systems  |
| "Think Globally, Act Locally." "Only you can make your dreams come true."  |
| Proud Dad of Katherine Yelena (born 8/8/89) & Robin Gregory (born 2/28/92) |

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From: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)
Crossposted-To: alt.amateur-comp,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Script tool for Researchers Toolkit
Date: 7 Mar 1994 07:01:06 GMT
Reply-To: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)



I have begun working on some unix script tools to help
me do research and below is one tool that I've found
quite helpful. 

 
 
Script Searchtool for Researcher's Toolkit
 
I have a series of files I have named
        unixtool.000
        unixtool.001
           .
           .
           .
           .
 
        unixtool.040
 
I wanted to be able to search in the files
for some keyword like MAC or tool etc.
 
Then I wanted to be able to have a list
of the filename, linenumber and the word
that I am searching for with the full
line of the context of the word.
The following gives me the list of the one
line references that contained the keyword
in all my unixtool.0* files.
 
$ grep -n word unixtool.0*  >  newfile
 
However, I wanted to print up the context
of the reference by getting the 5 lines
before and the 5 lines after the line
that contained the keyword.  The following
Searchtool Script prints out one line
references, and then the context (5 lines
before and 5 lines after the word) from each
of the files. It uses the extract
script file and the nu.awk script file
which are also given below.
 
Searchtool Script
 
#!/bin/sh
 
grep -n $1 unixtool.0*
 
for wd in $*
do
        echo ===================== 
        echo $wd ":" in unixtool.0*
        echo =====================
        extract $wd 
done
 
 
 
 
$ cat extract
 
grep -n $1 unixtool.0* | awk -f nu.awk | sh
 
 
$ cat nu.awk
 
 
BEGIN {FS=":" }
{print "echo",  $1, $2, "------------"}
$2 > 5 {print "sed -n '" $2 -5 "," $2+5 "p'" , $1}
$2 < 6 {print "sed -n '" 1 "," $2+5 "p'" , $1}
{print "echo ==================="}
 
 
 

Note: When the above program is used to search
thru several files, if there are references
less than 10 lines apart, the lines are repeated.
I haven't yet figured out how to avoid the 
repetition.

In doing my research on the history of UNIX 
(which is what this tool is intended to help in :-) :-) 
after working on this tool, I came across a 
reference to a script file created as part of 
the Programmer's Workbench which was created to 
to do something very similar to what I have
wanted to do, but it printed the paragraph
the word was found in rather than 5 lines 
above and 5 lines below as I do. (For my 
purposes paragraphs wouldn't do.) However,
the Programmer's Workbench version does manage
to eliminate repetition. They describe what
they did as follows:

The set out to:
"produce a report consisting of all paragraphs
containing the word `marketing', for example"

They used the editor and the sort command to 
obtain a unique list of the line numbers of 
"paragraph beginnings." "Another editor script,"
they explain, "alters this list of unique
numbers to obtain yet a third editor script 
that causes all the lines of the paragraph 
to be printed, taking care of cases such as 
paragraphs that are followed by lists. Another pass
through the original file using this last
generatedscript produces the desired output."
(quoted from J.R. Mashey and D.W. Smith,
"Documentation Tools and Techniques",
Proceedings of  2nd International
Conference on Software Engineering
October 1976, p. 180. )
-- 
Ronda Hauben                  write for email copy of Summer/Fall 1993 issue
Amateur Computerist           articles include From ARPANET to Usenet News
ronda@umcc.umich.edu            Common Sense: The Net and the Netizens
or ae547@yfn.ysu.edu                 Do You Want to Lose Your Voice?

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From: jhalar@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au (john halar)
Subject: Pascal compiler for linux
Date: 3 Mar 1994 18:19:12 +1100

Are there any pascal compilers running on a linux box out
there?  I need a pascal compiler for a specific task and 
was wondering if there was an ftp site that would have 
the software?

I will be running standard pascal programs with no reference 
to any unix or xwindow libraries.

Cheers
John Halar
E-mail:  j.halar@uow.edu.au

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Subject: Re: pronunciation of linux
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 7 Mar 94 01:20:43


kjetilho@ifi.uio.no's message of 6 Mar 1994 05:50:21 GMT said:

 > +--- Kevin Lentin:
 > | I always presumed linux would be pronounced similarly to Linus which
 > | I pronounce as desribed above. I'd love a definitive answer.
 > 
 > Linus -> /'li:nus/ or "Lee-noos" in English approximation (note that
 >          the 's' is not voiced, and the 'l' is "clear", like in "leaf")
 > 
 > Linux is then /'li:nuks/ or "Lee-nooks".
 > 
 > The vocal quality of "u" can vary in much the same way ["oo"] does. Hope
 > this helps :-)

My theory on this one has been that it should be pronounced either in
the original language, or in English, using what passes for English
phonetic rules. 

For the latter, IMO, it wouldn't be pronounced like Minix (i.e., like
"tin" and "mix") unless it were spelled "Linix" or possibly "Linnux".
The spelling "Linux" really wants to be pronounced with the first
vowel like "tine", especially considering that Linus is pronounced
that way in English.

For the former, why doesn't Linus post a sound file with the
definitive original pronunciation? I'm sure it doesn't map well into
English sounds, and describing it in terms of them isn't going to be
very accurate.

--
   - David A. Holland             | Nobody ever went broke underestimating
     dholland@husc.harvard.edu    | the intelligence of the American public.

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From: jaymecox@coyote.rain.org (Jayme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: libm.so.4.5.21 in /usr/lib ??
Date: 6 Mar 1994 22:34:34 -0800

H.J. Lu (hjl@nynexst.com) wrote:
> Simon A Langley (slangley@constant.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> I have moved libm back to /lib for the next release.

> H.J.

        I belive someone made this suggestion earier, but why don't we
have a LIBPATH variable or have it automaticaly check /lib then /usr/lib
then /usr/X386/lib? Would it break all programs in existance or be impossible
to implement?

-- 
JaymeCox@rain.org

"Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
 starry dynamo in the machinery of night."  --"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg

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From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: [q] Power PC and Linux?
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 23:17:06 GMT

Frank Lofaro (ftlofaro@unlv.edu) wrote:
: In article <CM2no6.280@du.edu> yohgaki@cassandra.cair.du.edu (Yasuo Ohgaki) writes:
: >PowerPC might be a choice, but remember IBM's
: >PowerPC comes with Personal AIX, Apple's PowerMac
: >comes with System7

: Both are absolutely HORRIBLE lame excuses for an Operating System!!!

Exactly, thats why a port of Linux would be just the thing to make one worth
having :)

--

anthony

==============================================================================
alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk          |   If at first you don't succeed
                                      |
alovell@cix.compulink.co.uk           |   Get a Bigger Hammer
==============================================================================

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From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: Can I get Slackware 1.1.2 on CD-ROM?
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 23:54:07 GMT

Alan Osborne (alan@osborne.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: 3JJN3@QUCDN.QueensU.CA wrote:
: : Yes you can get it, but you have to wait for until middle of
: : next week. The CD has Slackware 1.1.2 and 1.1.1, can be directly
: : installed. E-Mail christina@jana.com for more info or call
: : 1-416-538-2311.

: : Jay

: Aaah.....

: I paid for a year's subscription last year and only received the
: first CDROM from jana.  

: Anyone else ?

I'm a little ahead of you in that I've received two disk from my years 
subscription but I'm very patient which is just as well.
 

--

anthony

==============================================================================
alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk          |   If at first you don't succeed
                                      |
alovell@cix.compulink.co.uk           |   Get a Bigger Hammer
==============================================================================

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From: wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors)
Subject: OS/2 HPFS mount--no upper case
Date: 7 Mar 1994 07:46:22 GMT

I mounted an os/2 hpfs partition. and all the files are in lower case.
This is bad for me.  I have LaTeX files that read *.pic files and *.eps
files and the file names are mixed upper/lower case.  Is this going to
be fixed?

The only workaround I know of right now is to zip the files under os2,
reboot to linux, then unzip the files in a linux directory.  Is there
an easier workaround to get the mixed case file names without requiring
a reboot?

Thanks
Ken Neighbors
wkn@leland.stanford.edu

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From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
Subject: Re: pronunciation of linux
Date: 7 Mar 1994 02:20:42 GMT

+--- I wrote:
| Linux is then /'li:nuks/ or "Lee-nooks".
| 
| The vocal quality of "u" can vary in much the same way "u" does.

This should be "oo" --------------------------------------^
In English, "u" varies too much to useful in phonemic approximations :-)

Sorry about following up myself. If I had discovered this earlier, I'd
cancelled and sent the corrected version.


Kjetil T.

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From: Mitchum DSouza <m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: undefined symbol __IO_stderr_
Date: 7 Mar 1994 05:32:28 -0500
Reply-To: m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk

| Since upgrading to GCC 2.5.8 I have not been able to compile either
| the new minicom or term114.. it seems to make all the dependency files
| fine but when it tries to put it all together I get:
| 
| Undefined symbol __IO_stderr_ referenced from text segment
| 
| This happens with both programs... any ideas? 

You haven't upgraded you includes as well to match you library version. Please
do so.

Mitch

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From: Mitchum DSouza <m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Undefined symbol ___main for DLL tools?
Date: 7 Mar 1994 05:32:38 -0500
Reply-To: m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk

| In article <2l88c4$lic@usenet.rpi.edu>,
| Matthew J. Ryan <ryanm4@hall104.its.rpi.edu> wrote:
| >  I have been playing with the DLL tools-2.10, and I couldn't
| >get any shared libraries to build.  So I tried building the
| >example library, and it wouldn't build, either.
| 
| Another case of posting before thinking.  I have solved this 
| problem, and I apologize for wasting bandwidth.  But, so this
| isn't a total waste, here's the answer, for anyone who may
| also have this problem:
| 
| I had recently upgraded my system to libc 4.5.19.  In the install
| instructions, you are told to remove libgcc.*. But, that is 
| precisely where the symbol ___main is located.  So I linked in
| /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.5.8/libgcc.a, and that fixed it.

all
        -lgcc

occurences in the mkimage line can/should be replaced with

        `gcc --print`

with the backquotes intact, such that your makefile is independent of gcc
version. BTW: This is doccumented in the GCC-FAQ from

        sunsite.unc.edu /pub/linux/docs/faqs

or a hypertext version (via xmosaic/Mosaic)

        http://topquark.cecer.army.mil/FAQ/

Mitch

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From: naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: pronunciation of linux
Date: 6 Mar 1994 12:51:32 +0100

ymy@johann.engin.umich.edu (Yumin Yang) writes:

> How should I pronunce the letter "i" in "linux", like the one in "line" or
> the one in "linear"?  Thanks.

Considering that Linus is Finnish of Swedish decent, I don't see why his
(and Linux') name should suffer distortion from the English sound shift,
i.e. the i like in "linear" seems more appropriate. Actually, we Germans
always use a long i like in "even" which I'd favor in general.

-- 
Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber, Germany         naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org
## CrossPoint v3.0/Win ##

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
From: geyer@polyhymnia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Helmut Geyer)
Subject: Re: libm.so.4.5.21 in /usr/lib ??
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 09:12:50 GMT

:>      I belive someone made this suggestion earier, but why don't we
:>have a LIBPATH variable or have it automaticaly check /lib then /usr/lib
:>then /usr/X386/lib? Would it break all programs in existance or be impossible
:>to implement?

It _IS_ implemented. ld.so does just this. The problem here is due to 
        (i)  old binaries (which do not use ld.so
        (ii) binaries that need libm and might be uses before /usr is mounted.

        Helmut

--
==============================================================================
Helmut Geyer                              geyer@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de

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From: steinber@schoenfix.ert.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Mail Order Linux Workstation Vendors
Date: 07 Mar 1994 09:45:05 GMT

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Doolittle <doolitt@cebaf4.cebaf.gov> writes:
In article <CM951n.6ny@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> doolitt@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle) writes:

    >> This configuration is not well balanced. It's total nonsense to
    >> operate the lastest-and-greatest (and expensive) Pentium PCI
    >> workstation with a small IDE hard disk. Anyone buying such a
    >> configuration should be shot to death, even more so since most
    >> PCI mainboards already have an onboard SCSI controller. Drew
    >> Eckhard is working an a NCR 53c810 PCI driver for Linux, which
    >> I hope will be ready soon. A 1 GB SCSI-2 drive would fit the
    >> picture much better.  I recently bought such a beast (3.5") for
    >> ~ $700.

    Larry> Well, with 16Mb RAM, disk speeds should not be a big deal.
    Larry> Point/counterpoint!

Wrong! While caching is nice, it doesn't fully compensate for slow
disks. As soon as your I/O size (or the working set of *all* programs
on your computer) is larger than the cache, you'll be disk bound.
Also, the more (dirty) buffers you cache, the more you have to flush!

Anyway, my main point was to say that one should get a SCSI drive
(possibly with the same speed) rather than an IDE drive. IDE ties up
the fastest CPU while doing disk I/O, and a real multi-tasking OS like
Linux has better things to do in the meantime.

If you have more than one hard disk, things get even much worse for IDE.

        Dirk

=============================================================================
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Aachen University of Technology / IS2-Integrated Systems in Signal Processing
Rhein.Westf.Tech.Hochsch. Aachen / Integrierte Systeme der Signalverarbeitung
Templergraben 55 / D-52056 Aachen / phone:+49 241 807879 / fax:+49 241 807631
Home address: Kleikstr. 63, D-52134 Herzogenrath,Germany/phone: +49 2406 7225
--
=============================================================================
Dirk W. Steinberg - RWTH Aachen - Internet email: steinber@ert.rwth-aachen.de
Aachen University of Technology / IS2-Integrated Systems in Signal Processing
Rhein.Westf.Tech.Hochsch. Aachen / Integrierte Systeme der Signalverarbeitung
Templergraben 55 / D-52056 Aachen / phone:+49 241 807879 / fax:+49 241 807631
Home address: Kleikstr. 63, D-52134 Herzogenrath,Germany/phone: +49 2406 7225

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From: alex@psyalex.psy.gu.se (Alex Frausin)
Subject: Re: Linux on a Thinkpad
Reply-To: alex@psyalex.psy.gu.se
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 08:49:07 GMT

Marius Hancu (hancu@crim.ca) wrote:
: >>>In article <2l08u1$ka8@mane.cgrg.ohio-state.edu>, coil@osc.edu (Stacy D. Coil) writes:
:  >> NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.osc.edu

:  >> I too am trying to install linux on a Thinkpad 750c.  I haven't even
:  >> been able to get past the initiall boot disk using any of the installation
:  >> packages.  It seems unable to recognize the 2.8 Meg floppy drive.

:  >> Is there anyone that has been successful in install linux on a Thinkpad?

: Yes, I was, on the cheapest model, the one with the black and white
: display, I guess 320 (I do not have the machine here). Unfortunately,
: as far as I know (correct me if I am wrong) the 700 series uses the
: MCA bus architecture, which is not supported by linux (see FAQs).

Yes, you're wrong  ;-) When Big Blue introduce the 750c they switched to ISA bus.
Dunno why, but I think it was a smart move.

/Alex
--
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| Alex Frausin                | Haven't been able to steal any good .sig     |
| Gothenburg University       | file lately.                                 |
| Department of Psychology    |                                              |
| Gothenburg, Sweden          | Opinions all mine.......                     |
|                             |                                              |
| alex@psyalex.psy.gu.se      |                                              |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------+

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From: spring@diku.dk (Jesper Honig Spring)
Subject: how do I uncompress .z files
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:45:22 GMT

Hello

Can anyone tell me how to uncompress files named .z

thanks


-- 
  Jesper Honig Spring
  spring@diku.dk
  University of Copenhagen, DK
  Dep. of computer science  

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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
    nic.funet.fi				pub/OS/Linux
    tsx-11.mit.edu				pub/linux
    sunsite.unc.edu				pub/Linux

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