Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #786
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Linux-Misc Digest #786, Volume #1                 Tue, 8 Mar 94 02:13:07 EST

Contents:
  Re: mlist 1.0, a fileviewer and directorybrowser (Eyal Lebedinsky)
  Linux Journal (Paul M. Gazella)
  Re: ncurses problem (Brandon S. Allbery)
  Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Donald J. Becker)

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From: eyal@fir.canberra.edu.au (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Subject: Re: mlist 1.0, a fileviewer and directorybrowser
Date:  7 Mar 94 22:43:03 GMT

In <2l20r0$a26@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk> cm1924@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (J.R.Williams) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>I had the same problem and emailed Marc about it. All you need to do is
>to cd into pub/386bsd/incoming and then mget mlist*. BTW its works well!

'works well'? I have a strange problem with it: it seems to think that
it is reading keystokes repeatedly, so the highlighted entry flickers
terribly and when I hit some keys they repeat even if I only hit once.

I am on Linux 99pl15f (as of slackware of late). Anyone else seen it?

BTW, I had to change the header file for more sane utility program names
as well as add -DTERMIOS to the makefile.

>John
>(cm1924@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk)
--
Regards
        Eyal Lebedinsky         eyal@ise.canberra.edu.au

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From: Paul M. Gazella <gazella@delphi.com>
Subject: Linux Journal
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 22:04:52 -0500

I've noticed that a number of people have mentioned receiving the first
issue of the Linux Journal.  I've also noticed that they were reporting from
the west coast.  Has anyone out there in the midwest (preferably Ohio) had
their issue arrive yet?
 
Still waiting...
==============================================================================
Paul M. Gazella                     gazella@delphi.com              OneNet ICI
Linux: The choice of a GNU generation!              #include <disclaimer.h>

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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: ncurses problem
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 23:10:23 GMT

| In article <2lfl3m$v8r@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca> bzarnett@jupiter.scs.Ryerson.CA (Bryan Zarnett) writes:
| >In writing a program with ncurses it seems that when I activate noecho(),
| >and keypad that it does not respond to the arrow and function keys, but when

noecho() without cbreak()/crmode() is a pathological case for curses in
general (the behavior varies between curses implementations; in particular,
BSD and System V curses differ in its meaning, and ncurses may well differ
from System V curses or from both).  If you're using noecho() without
cbreak(), turn cbreak() on and see what effect it has.

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery         kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org          bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."  ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca

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From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 06:25:34 GMT

In article <CM5CFI.Fru@seas.ucla.edu>,
Arthur D. Jerijian <jerijian@hurricane.seas.ucla.edu> wrote:
>  What is the difference between FreeBSD (386BSD) and Linux?  Are they both
>UNIX clones, and is one better than the other?

This is flamebait, right?

Most BSDers would be offended if you called BSD a UNIX clone.

There are number of BSD descendants that are commonly available: FreeBSD,
NetBSD, 4.4 Lite, BSD386, 386BSD, etc.  They can all trace their heritage
through UCB and back to Bell Labs, and thus can properly be called
UNIX(tm).  BSD descendants are usually "mostly POSIX compatible".

Linux is a POSIX-compatible O.S. that is remarkably like UNIX(tm), but is
not UNIX(tm) because it was written from scratch, not using code from Bell
Labs, AT&T, or Univel.

The major free contenders are Linux and NetBSD.  Both are excellent systems;
far better than anyone would have expected a year or two ago.  Linux is
cleaner than NetBSD in many respects, but parts of NetBSD have had many
years of testing.
-- 

Donald Becker                                          becker@super.org
IDA Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 20715                        301-805-7482

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