Re: Linux and the AS/400

1998-06-15 Thread David Wollmann
read something about a couple fellas who were working on 5250 emu's a couple of weeks ago. I think the 5250 specs are "public" so it shouldn't be too hard to crank out something decent. You might do a Deja News search on "linux and 5250," I'm sure this w

pppd demand dial--almost

1998-06-14 Thread David Wollmann
-- Begin source to tcflush.c ( compile as cc -O2 tcflush.c -o /usr/local/bin/tcflush ) #include #include main() { if(tcflush(0, TCIOFLUSH)) { perror("tcflush"); } exit(0); } --- End source end quoted Deja News article -- David Wollmann [EMAIL PR

Re: ncurses blasted libc5?

1998-06-12 Thread David Wollmann
;t change to ." when started and I'm getting IPV4 checksum errors on ppp0, but I think these are probably unrelated. Hopefully this information will be of some use to someone else who encounters this problem in the future. -- David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

ncurses blasted libc5?

1998-06-11 Thread David Wollmann
glibc2 FAQ but found nothing of any use. Is there a definitive and comprehensive HOWTO or FAQ online that will instruct this poor newbie on how to straighten this libc thing out and keep it that way? tia David -- David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Wollmann | [EMAIL

ncurses blasted libc5?

1998-06-10 Thread David Wollmann
? I suspect I'm experiencing yet more of the libc6/glibc2 wierdness, and I've looked at the glibc2 FAQ but found nothing of any use. Is there a definitive and comprehensive HOWTO or FAQ online that will instruct this poor newbie on how to straighten this libc thing out and keep it that way? ti

RH 5: 2.1.* kernel upgrade questions

1998-06-04 Thread David Wollmann
prescribed upgrades that I haven't been able to find in the form of RPMs. I'm assuming I should 'rpm -e ' before installing from the tarball? At any rate, is there a doc online somewhere that explains the fine points and any 'gotchas' for RH 5.0 devel kernel upgra

Re: Linux - a moving target

1998-03-13 Thread David Wollmann
e the product with shrouded source. That way, the ISV could release patches, RPMs, etc. to allow users to compile for different distributions, and they wouldn't have to worry too much about people modifying their code. just my 2 cents David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red

RE: repartion hard drive

1998-03-11 Thread David Wollmann
at I changed. I think that the partition > utilities like fips are meant for DOS FAT-16 filesystems. > FWIW, I think there's a FAT32 version of 'fips' on the FAT Support page: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

RE: Cool....

1998-03-11 Thread David Wollmann
that it takes a geek to be interested in >distributed computing, but still... > >Oh, and the Netscape/MSIE percentage split goes 77/20. Any idea how many of the Mac/Win folk are just using them because they have no choice at work? David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE rea

Re: Connecting to my ISP w/o using netcfg

1998-03-10 Thread David Wollmann
fdown ppp0' to take the ppp xface down. I'm not sure if this will work on a system where 'netcfg' has been used to set up ppp and none of the scripts or config files have been edited. One of the gurus can probably answer that, but give it a try and see what happens. Thank you, D

Re: Iomega internal SCSI Zip / Good SCSI card

1998-03-09 Thread David Wollmann
At 07:52 PM 3/9/98 -0600, you wrote: > >Anyone have any experience (good or bad) with the Iomega internal SCSI >Zip drive? I need a zip drive and since I only have one more IDE >device I can fit into my computer I want to go the SCSI way rather >than fill up my last IDE slot. I realize this means

Re: Slow FTP

1998-03-09 Thread David Wollmann
"unsubscribe" as the Subject. > > Thank you, David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support http://www.ibmhelp.com/ -- Support for legacy IBM products. Data, document and file conversion for legacy IBM file and media formats. -- PLEA

Re: RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

1998-03-09 Thread David Wollmann
a and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! >http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject. > > Thank you, David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] D

Re: A new HOWTO

1998-03-08 Thread David Wollmann
collaborative knowledge base built from interactive Q&A? I'm sure tools are available that would make this a relatively painless project for two or three reasonably competent web hackers. One or two part time admins could keep the back end db updated with the latest HOWTOs and FAQs. Dare I s

Re: Applixware for Linux and Windows95 from CompUSA?

1998-03-07 Thread David Wollmann
At 09:24 AM 3/7/98 -0600, you wrote: Is the following a typo from CompUSA? Applixware Office Suite for Linux for Win,Win95, & NT on CD 50807 $79.94 Does this version Applixware really contain Windows95 and NT executables as well as Linux? Is this the same version that you offer for $9

Re: FAT32

1998-03-07 Thread David Wollmann
e vfat, like msdos, uses 16-bit cluster numbers. Another >> difference is that fat32 support is not available in stock 2.0.x >> kernels (or Win95 versions other than OSR2). >> >> Does that make it clearer? David Wollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat