Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29624; Sun, 10 Dec 95 22:18:37 EST Received: from SENATOR-BEDFELLOW.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22250; Sun, 10 Dec 95 22:18:41 EST Received: (from root@localhost) by senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/2.3JIK) id WAA01140 for Linux-Development-System-Dist@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:13:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199512110313.WAA01140@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> From: Digestifier To: Linux-Development-System@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Linux-Development-System@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 10 Dec 95 22:13:52 EST Subject: Linux-Development-System Digest #104 Linux-Development-System Digest #104, Volume #2 Sun, 10 Dec 95 22:13:52 EST Contents: iBCS for 1.3.45 (Juergen Pfeifer) DOS FS with long filenames (Win95) (Juergen Pfeifer) Re: [Where] module for par Zip drive? (Byron A Jeff) Re: reading lp port.. (Thomas Quinot) Unmounting NFS file systems of machines that are down (David Fox) cdu31a not seen by 1.3.xx ! (Chris) Re: Floating point processor - help (Mathew G Monroe) Re: PPP + 1.3.45 memory corruption (Jon M. Taylor) Re: Linux Security - C2 and beyond (Markus Kuhn) Re: 3com, 3c5x9,smc8000 drivers (W.Ton) Sony CDU77E and Slack. 3.0 (Roman Maszczyk) Re: tpqic02: LAST call for help (J Wunsch) Re: elf (Gary Anderson) Re: Latest Stable Kernel ??? (Gary K Nitzberg) memory model (Haq) [Q] About module verbage when loading. (Eric Kahler) Re: Netscape/Mosaic for ELF (Matthias Urlichs) Dosemu kicks/shells me out! (Jamal Hadi Salim) Re: Dosemu kicks/shells me out! (J. Lawrence Stephan) Where is ???? (Oscar E Masters) Tape drives that connect to floppy controller (Ian Chard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: 0616250291-0001@t-online.de (Juergen Pfeifer) Subject: iBCS for 1.3.45 Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 14:31:30 +0000 Where can I get a working iBCS module for 1.3.45 ? Regards Juergen Pfeifer ------------------------------ From: 0616250291-0001@t-online.de (Juergen Pfeifer) Subject: DOS FS with long filenames (Win95) Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 14:38:35 +0000 Any attempt to support long filenames for the DOS FS driver (Win95) ? Regards Juergen Pfeifer ------------------------------ From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) Subject: Re: [Where] module for par Zip drive? Date: 6 Dec 1995 21:14:38 GMT In article <4a2l31$a1a@news.scruz.net>, Remco Treffkorn wrote: >Some time ago I saw something about a driver for the par port >version of the iomega Zip drive here. > >I lost the reference and the article is already expired. > >I would be thankfull for a pointer, either posted here, >or send to me at remco@emc.rvt.com > >Thanks ... Here's the announcement that was posted to comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.development.system, linux-scsi and linux-kernel written by Grant Guenther, author of the driver: ============================================================================== I'm looking for some brave beta testers who'd like to try out a new Linux driver for the parallel port version of the Iomega ZIP drive. This driver was written without the cooperation of Iomega and without any specifications for the hardware. Instead, I used a modified version of the DOS emulator to capture all the parallel port traffic between the DOS driver and the ZIP drive. From that I derived a model of the protocol used and implemented this driver. The ZIP drive is actually a SCSI device with a parallel to SCSI converter built in. Iomega also sells that converter separately and this driver *may* also work for that device. I don't have one and haven't tried it. To try this driver you will need either a 1.2.13 or 1.3.37 Linux kernel. Other versions might work, but those are the two that I have used in developing the driver. You should also have support for SCSI disks in the kernel (either built in or loaded as modules). You should not have PLIP or LP support in the kernel. And, of course, you will need a parallel port ZIP drive. I have tested the driver on 'standard', bi-directional, EPP and ECP parallel ports. It does not (yet) take advantage of any of the higher performance capabilities of EPP or ECP, but it should adapt to 4 or 8 bit transfers depending on the port. I've tested it on a slowish 486SX/33 and on a 486DX4/100. I have NOT tested it on an ELF system. I've been able to read and write MS-DOS disks partitioned by Iomega's software and I've also been able to use fdisk and mke2fs to build native Linux file systems. Performance is not outstanding - but you wouldn't expect that from a parallel port interface. In 8-bit mode, reads run at approximately 100 kb/sec. The source code for the driver, ppa.c, can be obtained by anonymous FTP from /pub on gear.torque.net. Instructions for compiling and installing the driver are included in the comments. If you are using 1.3.37 please pay careful attention to the remarks about PROC_SCSI_PPA. If you do try it out, please keep me posted on your successes and failures. ============================================================================== ========================================================================== Grant R. Guenther grant@torque.net ========================================================================== -- Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of... Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux! Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu ------------------------------ From: thomas@cuivre.fdn.fr (Thomas Quinot) Subject: Re: reading lp port.. Date: 7 Dec 1995 20:05:05 GMT Riku Saikkonen (rjs@spider.compart.fi) icrit : > No, the lp driver supports only standard parallel printers. (Well, you could There is also a kernel module, bidir-lp, which provides support for bidirectional parallel ports. -- Grand.Bwana@cuivre.fdn.fr | Linux : the choice of a GNU generation ------------------------------ From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Unmounting NFS file systems of machines that are down Date: 09 Dec 1995 21:57:40 -0500 Is it possible to unmount a file system of a machine that has gone down? Unmount eventually times out, but the file system remains mounted. -- David Fox http://found.cs.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN ------------------------------ From: gt1355b@acmey.gatech.edu (Chris) Subject: cdu31a not seen by 1.3.xx ! Date: 8 Dec 1995 06:17:00 GMT I recently tried to answer mail/news from Henrik Soderstrom about the cdu33. Unfortunately, his email address bounced ;-). Anyway, Henrik, if you get this, here's what I'd suggest. Try booting the last kernel that worked (1.2.13 would be a good one), and watch the bootup for lines something like Dec 5 11:41:32 woodruffn239 kernel: Sony I/F CDROM : SONY CD-ROM CDU33A Rev 1.0f Dec 5 11:41:32 woodruffn239 kernel: Capabilities: tray, audio, eject, LED, el ec. Vol, sep. Vol, double speed, irq 10 What do these say? What do they say when you boot 1.3.45? Note: you shouldn't have to actually reboot. Just look through /var/log/messages. later, chris -- Chris Ricker : gt1355b@prism.gatech.edu : The Georgia Institute o' Technology ------------------------------ From: Mathew G Monroe Subject: Re: Floating point processor - help Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:01:49 -0500 Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.development.system: 7-Dec-95 Floating point processor - .. by jvisser@cis.co.za > I am porting an app from HP-UX to Linux(1.2.8) and I am having > some problems with floating point > > On the HP I can > 1)ignore under/over-flows > 2)decide which SIGFPE's I want to trap etc. > You can't currently do that under linux. The HP/UX interface that allows you to that comes from the SVID standard. Linux has always been first POSIX. POSIX doesn't support these things. There has been much talk of suppporting the SVID methods, but no one has yet released a patch to libm ( and other things needed to support this). It really comes down being POSIX didn't make this support part of its standard, and addeding SVID support while maintaining both fast hardware coprocessor support and POSIX compliance is hard to do. If you really want this support there a fully software libm available that provides for this fully. Matt ------------------------------ From: taylorj@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Jon M. Taylor) Subject: Re: PPP + 1.3.45 memory corruption Date: 6 Dec 1995 20:36:57 GMT In article <4a3c0c$4is@news.tamu.edu>, Richard Henderson wrote: >I am seeing a "block on freelist isn't free" message shortly after >ppp registers device ppp0. I can get this reliably with 1.3.45, and >I'm told that it happened with previous kernels (>1.3.40?), though >it was spurrious and I never actually witnessed it. I get it with .43, .44, and .45. I can reliably reproduce it by running ifconfig after running pppd and establishing a connection. -- Jon Taylor = | ============================================================================== "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers; what they really hate are lousy programmers." - "Oath of Fealty", Niven & Pournelle ------------------------------ From: mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) Subject: Re: Linux Security - C2 and beyond Date: 10 Dec 1995 11:36:19 +0100 Reply-To: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Darren J Moffat writes: >Many moons ago in the Linux world there was discussion about brining together >the required options to make Linux conform to the C2 requirements for system >security. >I gather there is now an (almost?) working shadow password suite, but there >is a lot more work to get upto C2. I suggest to look first at the latest POSIX.1e (IEEE Std 1003.1e) draft, which specifies a lot of new high security extensions for POSIX systems. Perhaps the final standard has already been published (it was already in ballot last time I checked). It would be nice if new security functionality in Linux would be aligned with the upcoming standards for this. Information about getting POSIX documents is available from IEEE: phone: +1 908 981 1393 (TZ: eastern standard time) 1 800 678 4333 (from US+Canada only) fax: +1 908 981 9667 e-mail: stds.info@ieee.org Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -- University of Erlangen, Internet Mail: - Germany WWW Home: ------------------------------ From: wton@news.Inter.NL.net (W.Ton) Subject: Re: 3com, 3c5x9,smc8000 drivers Date: 6 Dec 1995 23:42:28 +0100 The newer 3Com boards have a different manufacturer ID in the ethernet addres, so some drivers (kernel 1.? from Yggdrasil) won't recognise them. ------------------------------ From: Roman Maszczyk Subject: Sony CDU77E and Slack. 3.0 Date: 10 Dec 1995 14:37:03 GMT Hi all, I'd appreciate if you could tell me what I should do to make the setup program in Slackware 3.0 recognize my IDE/ATAPI 4x CDROM drive (Sony CDU77E). I tried compiled kernels from Q-disks (idecd1, idecd2, aidecd) and also compiled my own kernel with CDROM support, all failed to run it. It seems that the the drive is recognized at booting of those kernels (its name is displayed) but when it comes to reading CD format I get "unable to recognize CD format", "no CD found" or "tray open". The problem shows up for the first time during configuring with setup; it is unable to detect any CDROM drive when I choose 'scan' option in the CD-setup section. Thanks, ------------------------------ From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tpqic02: LAST call for help Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:41:17 GMT Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) rdong@mat.jhu.edu (Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}) writes: > > QIC-02 doesn't seem to be actively supported in Linux. I am thinking about > booting FreeBSD to do my backup. (It is probably a good idea to backup > from a dead file system instead of a live one anyway.) I understand that > FreeBSD supports QIC-02 and it reads Linux Ext2 file system. It is just a > matter of getting the right boot image and some shell utilities. Your problem seems to have been answered. Anyway, all you need for FreeBSD are two floppies (the ``Fixit'' approach). You could then mount your Linux partition, and backup your files. Dynamic device configuration is supported by booting with the -c option. Since ext2fs support is part of the -current code, you need the (not yet published) boot and fixit floppies from -current; the 2.1 ones aren't much helpful for you. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) ------------------------------ From: ganderson@clark.net (Gary Anderson) Subject: Re: elf Date: 10 Dec 1995 14:44:22 GMT James L. McGill (fishbowl@fishbowl.pic.net) wrote: : : In article <48alo7$8r7@shellx.best.com>, : Gregory H. Margo wrote: : > : >Is there any particular benefit to compiling the kernel in ELF format? : : And how do you do it to the 1.2.13 distribution? : : The ELF-HOWTO mentions a patch but does not say where to find it. : It does not appear to be in tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/patches : or in /pub/linux/sources/system/v1.2 : : I already know I can use a 1.3 kernal and compile it as ELF. I want : to do it to a 1.2.13 kernel. : : ELF-HOWTO, about line 742, mentions H. J. Lu's patch to allow : compiling the kernel as ELF, but it leaves it up to me to find it. : : : : g-r-a-t-e-f-u-l-l-y---[ email: ]---l-i-v-i-n-g : d-e-a-d-i-c-a-t-e-d---[ http://www.conservatory.com/~fishbowl ]-----l-i-g-h-t : Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL. -- Mae West : The last ELF patch I saw for the 1.2.x kernels was for 1.2.11. Those patches _will_ apply/work against a 1.2.13 kernel source tree. HOWEVER - part way through the patch process, 'patch' will start complaining of reversed patches, and ask if you want to apply them anyway. Answer 'y' to all of them. I brought this to H.J.'s attention when the patches came out, so he may have fixed the file by now. Give it a shot and see. I'm running a 1.2.13 elf kernel built with those patches now. Gary ganderson@clark.net ------------------------------ From: gknitz@netcom.com (Gary K Nitzberg) Subject: Re: Latest Stable Kernel ??? Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 23:16:55 GMT Ok so LinuxKernel and Stable are oxymorons. I'll try 1.3.45. Thanks. ------------------------------ From: kh26560@dali.math.swt.edu (Haq) Subject: memory model Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:20:42 GMT I need to know that what kind of memory model does linux support for user level process. Could some one please breifly explain to me, I would really appretiate. Please mail me at kh26560@nyssa.swt.edu It is really important. Thanking Reazul ------------------------------ From: Eric Kahler Subject: [Q] About module verbage when loading. Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 11:11:20 -0500 Hi, When I load ftape.o, as su from an XTerm, it is very quiet. There are no extraneous messages at all. But everyday, when ftape.o is loaded from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, eventhough I'm loading it in the same fasion (insmod /boot/ftape.o) I get a lot of unwanted loading info put out onto the terminal. I'd like this info to either show up in /var/log/messages, or not show up at all as it interferes with my ability to read other modules successes or failures in loading. Thank you. -- From: Eric Kahler. ekahler@mars.superlink.net http://mars.superlink.net/user/ekahler/index.html ------------------------------ From: smurf@work.smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: Netscape/Mosaic for ELF Date: 10 Dec 1995 17:30:10 +0100 In comp.os.linux.development.system, article , > > libc.so.4.7.5 is 624K, and libm is 109K. Netscape is 3829K. When > programs are that size, it seems pointless to worry about a few > hundred K for libraries. You just need the .so files, not the .sa, .a > or .h files. > Netscape is that big because it's linked statically to Motif, which is a sin in itself. :-( (Some day, there'll be a dynamically-linked Netscape, and my Motif library will be a symlink to Lesstif. Until that day...) It's _another_ "few hundred K" of memory. It'll make the system another few percent points slower. _I_hate_that_. We can all imagine what happens if everybody thinks "these two percent won't hurt". NB: Your Message-ID is somewhat verbose... needlessly so, IMHO -- besides, I think it's false. ;-) -- Matthias Urlichs \ XLink-POP N|rnberg | EMail: urlichs@smurf.noris.de Schleiermacherstra_e 12 \ Unix+Linux+Mac | Phone: ...please use email. 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) \ Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42 PGP: 1B 89 E2 1C 43 EA 80 44 15 D2 29 CF C6 C7 E0 DE Click here. ------------------------------ From: hadi@bnr.ca (Jamal Hadi Salim) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Dosemu kicks/shells me out! Date: 6 Dec 1995 22:21:10 GMT I am trying to use dosemu to run a program from dos; however when i start up the dos prog i get kicked out and my linux prompt gets back to me ... i tried to turn on debug for just the general and warning options (to reduce the debug info) I would appreciate any info/help; do i need to add more debug options? below is the debug info: === CONF: allowing access to the speaker ports! 0 error(s) detected while parsing the configuration-file 1 warning(s) detected while parsing the configuration-file Low memory mapping! Set date 06.11.95 Initialized all signals to NOT-BLOCK DOSEMU0.53pl28 is coming up on Linux version 1.2.1 SERIAL $Header: /home/src/dosemu0.60/RCS/serial.c,v 2.5 1994/09/20 01:53:26 root Exp root $ GEN: fd=0 gets SIGIO TERMIO: $Header: /home/src/dosemu0.60/RCS/termio.c,v 2.19 1994/10/14 17:58:38 root Exp root $ WARN: copying VBIOS file from /dev/kmem mapping GRAPH_BASE VC_ACTIVE! VC_ACTIVE: ours: 3, active: 3 Hardware initialized CONFIG: 0x02a3 binary: 0000 0010 1010 0011 revectoring 0x22 CONF: allowing access to the speaker ports! 0 error(s) detected while parsing the configuration-file 1 warning(s) detected while parsing the configuration-file Low memory mapping! Set date 06.11.95 Initialized all signals to NOT-BLOCK DOSEMU0.53pl28 is coming up on Linux version 1.2.1 SERIAL $Header: /home/src/dosemu0.60/RCS/serial.c,v 2.5 1994/09/20 01:53:26 root Exp root $ GEN: fd=0 gets SIGIO TERMIO: $Header: /home/src/dosemu0.60/RCS/termio.c,v 2.19 1994/10/14 17:58:38 root Exp root $ WARN: copying VBIOS file from /dev/kmem mapping GRAPH_BASE VC_ACTIVE! VC_ACTIVE: ours: 3, active: 3 Hardware initialized CONFIG: 0x02a3 binary: 0000 0010 1010 0011 revectoring 0x22 [a few more revectoring 0x22's -- 0xe5] $Header: /home/src/dosemu0.60/RCS/cmos.c,v 2.4 1994/09/26 23:10:13 root Exp root $ INITIALIZING VGA CARD BIOS! mapping GRAPH_BASE EMULATE DEFIVEC: int 0x42 SG: 0xf000 OF: 0xf065 DEFIVEC: int 0x42 SG: 0xf000 OF: 0xf065 get time 18:10:59 get date 06.12.1995 WARNING: dosemu installation check EIP: 046a:00000240 ESP: 05f9:0000ff42 VFLAGS(b): 000000001010010010 EAX: 0000aa55 EBX: 00000053 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 0000000c VFLAGS(h): 00000292 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 0000000c EBP: 0000ff42 DS: 05f9 ES: 05f9 FS: 0000 GS: 0000 FLAGS: AF SF IF RF VM VIF IOPL: 0 STACK: 63 68 20 69 6e 73 74 72 75 63 -> d0 ff b9 04 20 33 20 4c 48 5f OPS : 05 01 00 55 8b ec b0 00 cd e6 -> 3d 55 aa 75 06 8b c3 eb 06 eb int 15h error: ax=0xbfde int 15h error: ax=0xbfde general protection at 0x7e10: f EIP: 07af:00000320 ESP: 0577:00001536 VFLAGS(b): 000000000000000110 EAX: 00000033 EBX: 00000577 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000020 VFLAGS(h): 00000006 ESI: 00000400 EDI: 00000a43 EBP: 0000152a DS: 0577 ES: 0577 FS: 0000 GS: 0000 FLAGS: PF IF RF VM IOPL: 0 STACK: 90 d6 7b 00 43 0a 43 0a ca 08 -> 06 00 43 0a 87 0a 2a 15 48 15 OPS : ff 16 ba 09 0f 01 e0 0c 01 66 -> 0f 01 16 74 09 0f 01 1e d0 08 00| 012b:108a->0233a 01| 0070:06f4->00df4 02| 0331:0016->03326 03| 0070:06f4->00df4 04| 0070:06f4->00df4 05| f000:0050->f0050 06| 0013:9f80->0a0b0 07| f000:0070->f0070 08| 0331:003c->0334c 09| 0331:0045->03355 0a| 0331:0057->03367 0b| 0331:006f->0337f 0c| 0331:0087->03397 0d| 0331:009f->033af 0e| 0331:00b7->033c7 0f| 0070:06f4->00df4 10| c000:227b->c227b 11| f000:0110->f0110 12| f000:0120->f0120 13| 0070:0774->00e74 14| f000:0140->f0140 15| 0070:084a->00f4a 16| f100:3000->f4000 17| f000:0170->f0170 18| f000:0180->f0180 19| 03a6:002f->03a8f 1a| f000:01a0->f01a0 1b| 0070:06ee->00dee 1c| f01c:0000->f01c0 1d| f000:01d0->f01d0 1e| 0000:0522->00522 1f| c000:3bcc->c3bcc 20| 012b:1094->02344 21| 012b:109e->0234e 22| 03ab:01dc->03c8c 23| 03ab:014b->03bfb 24| 03ab:0156->03c06 25| 012b:10a8->02358 26| 012b:10b2->02362 27| 012b:10bc->0236c 28| 012b:10da->0238a 29| 0070:0762->00e62 2a| 012b:10da->0238a 2b| 012b:10da->0238a 2c| 012b:10da->0238a 2d| 012b:10da->0238a 2e| 03ab:0140->03bf0 2f| 0464:0285->048c5 30| 2b10:d0ea->381ea 31| f000:0301->f0301 32| 012b:10da->0238a 33| 012b:10da->0238a 34| 012b:10da->0238a 35| 012b:10da->0238a ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting! leavedos(4) called - shutting down calling close_all_printers calling serial_close calling mouse_close calling SIG_close 00| 012b:108a->0233a 01| 0070:06f4->00df4 02| 0331:0016->03326 03| 0070:06f4->00df4 04| 0070:06f4->00df4 05| f000:0050->f0050 06| 0013:9f80->0a0b0 07| f000:0070->f0070 08| 0331:003c->0334c 09| 0331:0045->03355 0a| 0331:0057->03367 0b| 0331:006f->0337f 0c| 0331:0087->03397 0d| 0331:009f->033af 0e| 0331:00b7->033c7 0f| 0070:06f4->00df4 10| c000:227b->c227b 11| f000:0110->f0110 12| f000:0120->f0120 13| 0070:0774->00e74 14| f000:0140->f0140 15| 0070:084a->00f4a 16| f100:3000->f4000 17| f000:0170->f0170 18| f000:0180->f0180 19| 03a6:002f->03a8f 1a| f000:01a0->f01a0 1b| 0070:06ee->00dee 1c| f01c:0000->f01c0 1d| f000:01d0->f01d0 1e| 0000:0522->00522 1f| c000:3bcc->c3bcc 20| 012b:1094->02344 21| 012b:109e->0234e 22| 03ab:01dc->03c8c 23| 03ab:014b->03bfb 24| 03ab:0156->03c06 25| 012b:10a8->02358 26| 012b:10b2->02362 27| 012b:10bc->0236c 28| 012b:10da->0238a 29| 0070:0762->00e62 2a| 012b:10da->0238a 2b| 012b:10da->0238a 2c| 012b:10da->0238a 2d| 012b:10da->0238a 2e| 03ab:0140->03bf0 2f| 0464:0285->048c5 30| 2b10:d0ea->381ea 31| f000:0301->f0301 32| 012b:10da->0238a 33| 012b:10da->0238a 34| 012b:10da->0238a 35| 012b:10da->0238a calling disk_close_all calling video_close calling keyboard_close ======================= ------------------------------ From: jlarry@ssnet.com (J. Lawrence Stephan) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: Dosemu kicks/shells me out! Date: 10 Dec 1995 21:08:34 -0500 Jamal Hadi Salim (hadi@bnr.ca) wrote: : I am trying to use dosemu to run a program from dos; : however when i start up the dos prog i get kicked out and my : linux prompt gets back to me ... : i tried to turn on debug for just the general and warning options : (to reduce the debug info) : I would appreciate any info/help; : do i need to add more debug options? It would appear that your program is a 386/486/Pentium program that uses the protected mode features of these chips. The only such programs dosemu can run are those that comply with the DPMI spec. There are many large programs out there that use dos extenders. The 386/486 cannot run these programs without putting the entire operating system at risk. The Pentium can, but only by using proprietary (read $$$) features of that chip. There is one way out, but it's not practical: emulate the CPU in software, which is either s-l-o-w, or a HUGE amount of work, depending on your emulation technology. The approach is, nonetheless, being discussed by the dosemu team, who collectively have almost enough time available to imagine it. Writing it would, I'm afraid, require some enthusiastic professor with access to hoardes of eager student programmers. There is also the possibility that your program does comply with DPMI and that you compiled dosemu without DPMI. Larry Larry Stephan "Sometimes I think the surest sign there's intelligent jlarry@ssnet.com life in space is that they haven't contacted us." Bill Watterson - "Calvin and Hobbes" ------------------------------ From: Oscar E Masters Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,metronet.linux,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Where is ???? Date: 8 Dec 1995 18:12:46 GMT X-URL: news:4a8nek$n7a@feenix.metronet.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I recently installed slackware version 3.0. Most of the installation was fairly painless but i have stumbled on a problem which has me fairly dazed and confused. I am able to compile a fair number of C programs that use 'vanilla' include files but i started running across the following error for many of the gnu tcp calls (such as #include : In file included from connectsock.c:2: /usr/include/sys/socket.h:5: linux/socket.h: No such file or directory In file included from connectsock.c:4: /usr/include/netinet/in.h:78: linux/in.h: No such file or directory 1 when i look at the code in it has an #include to 2 though a directory exists called /usr/include/linux it has no *.h type files in it. Did i somehow mis-install the gnu-linux files ? overall everything else is working fine. Can someone shed some light on this ? Should i try to reinstall the 'gcc' environment ? Thanks. If i sound clueless there is a good reason for it. oem ------------------------------ From: ian@tanagra.demon.co.uk (Ian Chard) Subject: Tape drives that connect to floppy controller Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:46:03 GMT Hi, I'm interested in buying one of these little cheap tape drives, and I was told by a friend that I needed to use ftape to make them work with Linux. However, in the latest kernel I couldn't find it - has it been removed, or just renamed? Thanks Ian -- [ Ian Chard, back in Manchester | He'd got a plan. In fact, it was more ] [ Email: ian@tanagra.demon.co.uk | than that: it was a Plan. ] [ NTS: G7OMZ @ GB7VRB.#38.GBR.EU | ] [ Phone: +44 161 434 6492 | -- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters ] ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Development-System-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.development.system) via: Internet: Linux-Development-System@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU 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 End of Linux-Development-System Digest ******************************