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<H4>"The Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Guy</font>
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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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LinuxCare,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">http://www.linuxcare.com/</A>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<p><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" alt="(!)" border="0"
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align="middle"><strong>Greetings From Jim Dennis</strong></A></p>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>a small question --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><strong>
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Using a 286 as a Serial Terminal
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>What's wrong with internal modems?</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Error starting recompiling process?</strong></a><dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>How Can I Delete? --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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Deleting Files and UNIX Permissions
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>No rule to make target '<tt>config</tt>' --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><strong>
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Recompiling Kernel to Support CD-ROM
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Fvwm95-Wharf --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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><strong>
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fvwm95-Wharf: xterm comes out black?
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>Another "No Login" Problem: A little tip</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/10.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Multilink PPP using Linux --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/10.html"
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><strong>
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Modem Multi-link PPP: EQL
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/11.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>New Linux Distribution --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/11.html"
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><strong>
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How to Create a New Linux Distribution: Why?
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/12.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>login source code --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/12.html"
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><strong>
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Seeing Stars During Login
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/13.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Personal LAN setup... --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/13.html"
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Setting up a Personal/Home LAN
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/15.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Good morning!!! --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/15.html"
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><strong>
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Essay Quiz
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/16.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>diald dials every hour... --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/16.html"
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Overactive diald
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/18.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Modem Problem --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/18.html"
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Another Lost Soul
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</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/19.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Plee for help</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/21.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>security issue, /etc/passwd --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/21.html"
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><strong>Secure Shutdown from the Console</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/22.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Linux and Y2K</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/23.html"
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><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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></a>Your approach to Y2K problem --or--
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<dd><A HREF="tag/23.html"
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><strong>Y2K Cause Arithmetic Failures?</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="./../gx/dennis/bbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Jim Dennis</H3>
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Dear Bill,
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Thanks for the offer letter. Of course, I'll take that promotion.
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I'd love a senior marketing position at Microsoft's sunny Seattle
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campus.
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I'll be happy to help MS focus on its core competencies (making mice,
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joysticks, keyboards, and the exciting new "Talking Teletubby (TM)"
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line of toys. It's definitely the best thing since "Teddy Ruskin
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(TM)" and the "Cabbage Patch (TM)" dolls.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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(I have some interesting strategic proposals for dealing with the
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Mattel and Fisher-Price problems, but we'll discuss them when you
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meet me at SeaTac next week. Not that they're anti-competitive or
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anything like that! But be sure to "secure delete" this e-mail after
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reading it. Too bad you don't have that new "one-time reader" code
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integrated into Outlook (TM) yet. We're still stuck using that old
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Norton code)
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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I agree with your assessment about software. That's definitely
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passe. We'll only have a couple more years before those Linux geeks
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completely eat our lunch. Believe me, after this prolonged
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undercover assignment that I've been on I know all about Linus'
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subversive plan. BTW, thank Paul for starting that company to hire
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Linus. I would have hated to go to Helsinki and attempt the
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infiltration during one of their winters. I'm sure he was right to
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put that down here in the Silicon Valley; the ploy might have been a
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little too transparent if we'd put it up in King county.
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It's too bad that MSN has been such a flop so far. How are the AOL
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acquisition plans going? I still think you should set up a European
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shell to do that. If Daimler-Benz can buy Chrysler than I don't see
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why we can't have British Telecom come in and nab AOL.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Luckily MSNBC is doing pretty well, and should be ripe for the Senate
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elections in 2002. We definitely have to finish our diversification
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out of software before then, since I don't think we can string out
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the W2K delays much longer than that.
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By the way, we should fire that red bearded freak that's been
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ghostwriting "The Answer Guy" for me. He's actually been HELPING our
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customers put Linux on OUR computers and I heard that he said some
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choice personal things about YOU. I even heard he got access to some
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of our internal memos and is planning on leaking them to "Obi Wan
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Raymond."
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(<A HREF="http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/98dec/19981203.html"
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>http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/98dec/19981203.html</A>)
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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After those "Halloween" fiascos I'd hate to see an "April
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Fool's Document...."
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<center><H4>Previous "Answer Guy" Columns</H4></center>
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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><br>
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<A HREF="../issue28/lg_answer28.html">Answer Guy #16, May 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue29/lg_answer29.html">Answer Guy #17, June 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue30/lg_answer30.html">Answer Guy #18, July 1998</A><br>
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<A HREF="../issue31/lg_answer31.html">Answer Guy #19, August 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue32/lg_answer32.html">Answer Guy #20, September 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue33/lg_answer33.html">Answer Guy #21, October 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue34/lg_answer34.html">Answer Guy #22, November 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue35/lg_answer35.html">Answer Guy #23, December 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue36/lg_answer36.html">Answer Guy #24, January 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue37/lg_answer37.html">Answer Guy #25, February 1998</A><BR>
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<A HREF="../issue38/lg_answer38.html">Answer Guy #26, March 1998</A><BR>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 39 April 1999</H5>
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