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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><A NAME="answer">
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<img src="../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif" alt="" border="0" align="middle">
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The Answer Guy
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<img src="../gx/dennis/bbubble.gif" alt="" border="0" align="middle">
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</A></H1> <BR>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<p><hr><p>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<p><strong><A HREF="#tag_greeting"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(!)"
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hspace="10" border="0">Greetings from Jim Dennis</a></strong></p>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_audiocd.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>
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Problems with SCSI-CDROM and Audio CDs --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_audiocd.html"><STRONG>Sinister 'xmcd' Permanently Disables
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Right Speaker Channel</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_paging.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Email Alpha-Paging software</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_xdmbpp.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG><tt>xdm</tt> in 16bpp Mode</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_cluster.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Bad cluster in HDD</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_netbios.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Complex network and NetBIOS</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_century.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>
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Lets vote for Linus --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_century.html"><STRONG>Some Thoughts on "The Man of
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the Century"</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_gateway.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>
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How do I setup gateway server? --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_gateway.html"><STRONG>Linux as a General Purpose SOHO to
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Internet Gateway</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_winmodem.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>
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Linux.bat -or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_winmodem.html"><STRONG> LOADLIN.EXE, Plug & "Pray"
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and "Win(Lose)Modems" </STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_mailmasq.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>'<tt>sendmail</tt>' Masquerading:
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What and Why</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_x2java.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"><STRONG>Tools for converting X output
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to java </STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_hoax.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a>
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Fwd: Please Be Careful --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag_hoax.html"><STRONG>"Good Times" Are Here Again?
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NOT!</STRONG></A>
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<dt><A HREF="tag_xdmthread.html"><img
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src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50" alt="(?)"
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hspace="10" border="0"></a> LinuxGazette Mar 1998:
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<A HREF="tag_xdmthread.html"><STRONG><tt>xdm</tt> Login
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doesn't!</STRONG></A>
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<a name="tag_greeting"><p><hr><p></a>
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<h2>Linux Gazette: The Answer Guy for May, 1998</h2>
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<p>Well, plenty has happened in the world of Linux this month:</p>
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<ul><li>
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The kernel team is getting much closer to the next stable version,
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<li>
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Linux has been discussed favorably on <a href="http://www.npr.org/"
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>NPR</a> (National Public Radio)...twice.
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<ul>
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<li>Once on <em>All Things Considered</em>
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(<a href="http://www.linuxresources.com/news/npr.html">transcript</a>
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available with a link a RealAudio file of the whole thing and
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<li><a
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href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html">again</a>
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on "Science Fridays"
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</ul>
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<li>
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Linus is the proud father of <em>another</em> baby girl.
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<li>
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I've completely changed the look of this column.
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<li>
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I'm signing a book contract to do a book on "<em>Advanced
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Linux Systems Administration</em>"
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</ul>
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<p>My wife has decided to take responsibility for marking up the mail
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that I do as "<em>The Answer Guy</em>" (I didn't pick the name,
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honest!). Traditionally I've just answered the e-mail that was
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forwarded to me by the <em>Linux Gazette</em> editors and copied them
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on it. Marjorie has normally done the rest.</p>
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<p>This has been O.K. since we've focused on content rather than form.
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However, I've wanted to improve it a little bit ever since I first
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found out that the answers I was giving were being included in LG.
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(Mainly I want the URL references I make to other various web sites to
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be rendered as links so you don't have to cut and paste those into
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your "Go" or "Open Location" prompt).</p>
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<p>Obviously I've procrastinated on that for over a year. Yes, I fiddle
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with Hypermail and MHOnArc. Finally, Heather took matters into her
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own hands and modified a copy of
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'<tt>babymail</tt>'
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(a Perl script) to do most of the work. Unfortunately it appears that this
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still requires quite a bit of hand tweaking. Oh well. [24-Aug-2000: Hyperlink
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removed because file is gone. -Ed.]</p>
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<p>So, I hope everyone likes the new look.
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<em>[Me too! -- <a href="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather</a>]</em>
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To any of you that have written to me and been ignored or never received
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your responses I'd like to apologize. Sometimes I procrastinate on more
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than just the cosmetics and I certainly hope you eventually got your answers
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from other venues like <a href="news:comp.os.linux">comp.os.linux.*</a> or the
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<a href="http://www.ch4549.org/lust/lusthome.html">L.U.S.T.</a>
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(Linux Users Support Team) mailing list, or even (horrors!)
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from one of the <a href="http://www.linuxresources.com/LDP/index.html">LDP</a>
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(Linux Documentation Project) mirrors.</p>
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<p>Another, budding new source of support info for Linux users will hopefully
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be the "self-service" <a href="http://search.linux.lrf.gr/">Linux Search
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Engine</a> which hopefully will eventually be a complete replacement for
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<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a> (the source for most of the
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answers I've ever given here).</p>
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<p>Well, enough of my rambling and onto my usual collection of questions
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and answers. As usual I've also included a couple of items which are my
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responses to posts in newsgroups or mailing lists --- items that I personally
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think are important enough to be restated here.</p>
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<hr align="left" width="10%">
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<address><a href="mailto:jimd@starshine.org">Jim Dennis</a>
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</address>
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<center><H4>Previous "Answer Guy" Columns</H4></center>
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<P>
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<A HREF="../issue13/answer.html">Answer Guy #1, January 1997</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue14/answer.html">Answer Guy #2, February 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue15/answer.html">Answer Guy #3, March 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue16/answer.html">Answer Guy #4, April 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue17/answer.html">Answer Guy #5, May 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue18/lg_answer18.html">Answer Guy #6, June 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue19/lg_answer19.html">Answer Guy #7, July 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue20/lg_answer20.html">Answer Guy #8, August 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue21/lg_answer21.html">Answer Guy #9, September 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue22/lg_answer22.html">Answer Guy #10, October 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue23/lg_answer23.html">Answer Guy #11, December 1997</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue24/lg_answer24.html">Answer Guy #12, January 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue25/lg_answer25.html">Answer Guy #13, February 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue26/lg_answer26.html">Answer Guy #14, March 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue27/lg_answer27.html">Answer Guy #15, April 1998</A>
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<P><HR><P>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 28 May 1998</H5>
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