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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><A NAME="tips"><IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE ALT="" SRC="../gx/twocent.gif">
More 2&#162; Tips!</A></H1> <BR>
Send Linux Tips and Tricks to <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">
gazette@ssc.com
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<H3><font color="#CC0000">New Tips:</font></H3>
<ul>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#deck">
Netscape for Linux trick
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#pujet">
ATAPI Zip drives under Linux
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#romaniak">
Booting off SCSI
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#willis">
what is my dialup (ppp) IP number?
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#sousa">
Common POP3 Error
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#broezell">
Spell checking a single word...1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#kahn1">
Spell checking a single word...2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#jaegermann">
Spell checking a single word...3
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#kahn2">
Spell checking a single word...4
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#plezbert">
Spell checking a single word...5
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#dok">
Spell checking a single word...6
</a>
</ul>
<H3><font color="#CC0000">Answers to Mail Bag Questions:</font></H3>
<ul>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#avelon">
Linux Download
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#haidar">
Re: We do not relay...1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#page">
Re: We do not relay...2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#regan1">
Re: We do not relay...3
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#gushee">
RE: Multiple booting (LG #38)
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#regan2">
Re: Linux & Win95/98/NT clients
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#regan3">
Word to Postscript...1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#renaghan1">
Word to Postscript...2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#javeed">
Word to Postscript...3
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#renaghan2">
RE: Korn Shell FAQ...1
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#roev">
RE: Korn Shell FAQ...2
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#correa">
Re: Help wanted -- article ideas
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#mckown">
FW: Linux Gazette #37 question
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#benettor">
Re: Making a Red Hat 5.2 CD
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#kosse">
2 cent correction
</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_tips39.html#pires">
Etherexpress NIC
</a>
</ul>
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<a name="deck"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Netscape for Linux trick
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 01:25:12 +0000<BR>
From: andy deck, <A HREF="mailto:andy.deck@nyu.edu">
andy.deck@nyu.edu</A>
<P>
<A HREF="./tip_deck.txt">This script</A> will
strip away some of the annoying
unconfigurable parts of Netscape
and replace them with links and
button titles that you choose.
<P>
This script can be used to modify Netscape 4.51 binaries that run under Linux (ELF).
<P>
It will modify the following hard-coded
values, which are not modifiable with
the preferences:
<ol>
<li>removes "Netscape:" from the title bar
<li>Changes base url for several links that
normally are directed to home.netscape.com
You will be prompted for a substitute URL.
Note that you will be prompted for a URL
that ends with a foldername, not a file.
This is because the foldername prepends
several files. You should be able to make
files in the folder you suggest as an alternative.
<li>Changes the label on the "My Netscape" button in
the navigation toolbar. And changes the link.
<li>Changes the link for the Search button on the
navigation toolbar.
<li>Changes the link behind the N button on the navigation
toolbar. Currently I've hard-coded this to "newssites.html"
But you can edit that value in the script.
</ol>
When modifying values you need to be aware that the
binary produced by this process (usually it will be called
"netscape.new") MUST be the same number of bytes long as
the original.
<P>
This script comes with no guarantees. It's working for me,
and I've made it as friendly as seems necessary. Good luck.
<P>
--<BR>
Andy
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="pujet"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
ATAPI Zip drives under Linux
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:31:51 -0800 (PST)<BR>
From: Nicolas Pujet, <A HREF="mailto:npujet@yahoo.com">
npujet@yahoo.com</A>
<P>
I just read a good article on using internal ATAPI Zip drives under
Linux
at <A
HREF="../issue28/lg_tips28.html#atapi">../issue28/lg_tips28.html#atapi</A>
However I would like to suggest a simplified procedure for beginning
Linux users.
This procedure does not deal with SCSI at all.
<P>
|-----------------------------------------------|<BR>
| A simple setup procedure for ATAPI Zip drives |<BR>
|-----------------------------------------------|<BR>
<B>Step 1: figure out the device name</B> <BR>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<BR>
Run dmesg and look for a block of lines looking like this:
<PRE>
hda: ST34342A, 4103MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63
hdc: Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-A24X 0105, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
</PRE>
Here the Zip drive has become hdd. Since DOS formatted Zip disks use
partition 4,
the device name will be /dev/hdd4
<P>
<B>Step 2: set up mounting</B> <BR>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<BR>
Login as root, make a directory /zip and allow users to mount DOS
formatted Zip disks
by adding the following line to the /etc/fstab file:
<PRE>
/dev/hdd4 /zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
</PRE>
Reboot to make these changes effective.
<P>
<B>You are now ready to use Zip disks !</B> <BR>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<BR>
Any user can now put a Zip disk in the drive and mount it by typing:
<PRE>
mount /zip
</PRE>
which makes the contents of the disk available in the directory /zip .
<P>
When the user is done with the Zip disk, he should unmount it:
<PRE>
umount /zip
</PRE>
Now the "eject" button on the drive can be used to eject the disk.
<P>
<B>Notes:</B>
-----<BR>
<ul>
<li>if you try to unmount the Zip disk while being in the directory /zip,
the following error message appears:
<PRE>
umount: /dev/hdd4: device is busy
</PRE>
So just move to an other directory (in every xterm window !) and try
again.
<li>some people have the Zip drive on hdb instead of hdd, so they should
use /dev/hdb4 instead of /dev/hdd4
<li>In the fstab file you can change vfat to msdos if you don't like
long file names
<li>The ATAPI drive setup is quite fast: I tried to copy a 53 MB file
from a Zip drive
to a hard drive. It took just under 90 seconds, i.e. the transfer
rate was 588 kB/second
(compare with 92 kB/second with a parallel port Zip drive, as
reported in the mini-howto).
</ul>
<P>
Cheers,
<P>
--<BR>
Nicolas Pujet
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="romaniak"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Booting off SCSI
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:10:21 -0500 (EST)<BR>
From: Greg Romaniak <A HREF="mailto:greg@snoopy.gwr.com">
greg@snoopy.gwr.com</A>
<P>
Regarding the recent $.02 tips on booting off a SCSI drive with IDE drives
also installed -- I used a quick-and-dirty solution that worked for me --
but no guarantees. Simply don't define the IDE drives in the CMOS. This
way, the system doesn't "see" them on boot and the SCSI BIOS take over as
if there were no IDE drives. Once Linux starts booting off the SCSI
drive, the IDE drivers in the kernel will do their own probe for IDE
devices and find the IDE drives.
<P>
--<BR>
Greg
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<a name="willis"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
what is my dialup (ppp) IP number?
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:12:44 +0000<BR>
From: Matt Willis, <A HREF="mailto:matt@optimus.cee.cornell.edu">
matt@optimus.cee.cornell.edu</A>
<P>
Okay. This drove me nuts for a while. Here's a succinct perl script
to give you the current ppp IP address. This can come in handy for
assigning DISPLAY variables for remote X events, etc. It saves the
current IP in ~/.myip
<PRE>
#!/usr/bin/perl
open(IFCONFIG,"/sbin/ifconfig|") || die "Can't open /sbin/ifconfig!\n";
while (&lt;IFCONFIG&gt;) { last if (/^ppp0/); }
$_ =&lt;IFCONFIG&gt;;
($inet,$ptp,$mask) = /.*:([\d\.]*) *.*:([\d\.]*) *.*:([\d\.]*)/;
close(IFCONFIG);
open(MYIP,">$ENV{HOME}/.myip");
print MYIP "$inet \n";
close(MYIP);
</PRE>
nb - I did this using kernel 2.2.3 and the success of the script may
depend on what the ipconfig output looks like. For me, it looks like
this:
<PRE>
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:139.186.224.88 P-t-P:139.186.0.50 Mask:255.255.255.255
</PRE>
If yours is different, you may require tweaking. If there is no ppp0
then .myip gets written over with a blank.
<P>
-- <BR>
Matthew Willis
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<a name="sousa"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Common POP3 Error
</font> </H3>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:57:17 +0000<BR>
From: Carlos Sousa, <A HREF="mailto:majestik@mail.telepac.pt">
majestik@mail.telepac.pt</A>
<P>
There is a common error that occurs when downloading mail for a local
machine through POP3.
<BR>Sometimes when downloading mail we receive the following error message
from the POP3 server:
<P>being read already: /usr/spool/mail/XXXXXXX
<P>where XXXXXXX is the login for the account.
<P>This occurs because the client is interrupted while performing any task
on the pop3 server or failed to send the quit command to the pop3 server,
causing the lock file from that pop3 account to stay there, causing the
occurence of the error message in future attempts to retrieve mail.
<P>The problem can be solved deleting the following file in the pop3 server:
<P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /usr/tmp/.pop/XXXXXXXX
<BR>&nbsp;
<P>You may think that this article is pure loss of disk space, but believe,
3 network admins at my university were unable to solve the problem.
<P>
--<BR>
Carlos
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="broezell"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Spell checking a single word...1
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:37:27 -0600<BR>
From: "Ken V. Broezell", <A HREF="mailto:broezell@cig.mot.com">
broezell@cig.mot.com</A>
<P>
Hi Ben. I just read your 2 cent tip in the March Linux Gazette. Did you
realize that ispell
can already be used to check a single word as follws:
<PRE>
echo ticckle | ispell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95
& ticckle 1 0: tickle
</PRE>
In the above example ticckle was found to be misspelled and tickle was
suggested
as the correct spelling.
<P>
I execute this not as an alias but as a 1 line shell script:
<PRE>
cat /usr/local/bin/ws
echo $1 | ispell -a
</PRE>
--<BR>
Ken
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="kahn1"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Re: Spell checking a single word...2
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:08:57 -0500 (EST)<BR>
From: "Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn", <A HREF="mailto:xkahn@cybersites.com">
xkahn@cybersites.com</A>
<P>
To: "Ken V. Broezell":<BR>
Yep! I knew that. Actually, my tip was in reply to someone who
posted just that piece of information. I don't like that output. Under
my solution, nothing extra is shown if the word is spelled correctly. If
the word is spelled wrong, you get a curses based interface which lets you
select the correct word or try to spell it right. I find it removes most
of the guess work.
<P>
--<BR>
Benjamin Kahn
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="jaegermann"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Re: Spell checking a single word...3
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:19:27 -0700 (MST)<BR>
From: Michal Jaegermann, <A
HREF="mailto:michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca">
michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca</A>
<P>
In "2c Tips" Benjamin Kahn presents an eye popping tcsh macro and writes:
"I have no idea how to do this in bash". The answer is "simpler and
more general". Try this (may go into your .bashrc):
<PRE>
spell () { echo $@ | ispell -a | sed -n -e '/^\&/p' -e '/^\#/p';}
</PRE>
and type <tt>spell tihs is a tset</tt>. You will see on your screen:
<PRE>
& tihs 6 0: this, ties, Tims, tins, tips, tits
& tset 2 10: set, test
</PRE>
Numbers like "2 10" mean that there are two replacement propositions and
that a "bad" word starts after ten characters of your input. '#' character
above is reserved for words ispell knows nothing about whatsoever.
Translating that to tcsh is left as an exercise for a reader. :-)
<P>
Michal
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="kahn2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Re: Spell checking a single word...4
</font> </H3>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:42:11 -0500 (EST)<BR>
From: "Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn", <A HREF="mailto:xkahn@cybersites.com">
xkahn@cybersites.com</A>
<P>
Michal:<BR>
That's correct -- this script will work to spell check a word,
phrase, paragraph, etc. However, under my solution, nothing extra is
shown if the word is spelled correctly. If the word is spelled wrong, you
get a curses based interface which lets you select the correct word or try
to spell it right. I find it removes most of the guess work.
<P>
--<BR>
Benjamin Kahn
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="plezbert"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
<font color="navy">
Spell checking a single word...5
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:41:04 -0600 (CST)<BR>
From: "Michael P. Plezbert", <A HREF="mailto:plezbert@cs.wustl.edu">
plezbert@cs.wustl.edu</A>
<P>
There's a much easier way to do this, using the -a option to ispell:
<PRE>
echo 'wordyouwanttocheck' | ispell -a
</PRE>
--<BR>
Michael
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="dok"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
Spell checking a single word...6
</font> </H3>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 15:03:47 +0100<BR>
From: Dennis van Dok, <A HREF="mailto:dvandok@wins.uva.nl">
dvandok@wins.uva.nl</A>
<P>
Gazette march 1999 contained a tip for checking a single
word with ispell from the command line. This is a shorter solution:
<PRE>
echo frobnicate | ispell -a
</PRE>
regards,
<P>
--<BR>
Dennis van Dok
<P> <hr> <P>
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<H4><font color="maroon">
Tips in the following section are answers to questions printed in the Mail
Bag column of previous issues.
</font></H4>
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="avelon"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Linux Download
</font> </H3>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:09:40 +0100<BR>
From: Ian Carr-de Avelon, <A HREF="mailto:ian@emit.pl">
ian@emit.pl</A> <BR>
Status: RO
<P>
N.B. English at end
<P>
Beste Jaap,<BR>
Ik neem aan dat jij een typierende nederlander bent en geen probleem
met een aantword in het engels hebt. Ben ik hier verkeerde, neem even contact
voor een vertaaling.
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
From: "Jaap Wolters", woltersj@hotmail.com:<BR>
Ik heb geprobeert jullie programma "LINUX" te downloaden, maar ik
krijg geen toegang. hoe zou het toch kunnen? Op de t.v werd verteld
dat het programma beter is dan Windows 98, Minder fouten en minder
vastlopers. Is het programma windows compatible zodat ik mijn oude
windows spellen kan doorspelen. Ik heb ZEER veel belang bij dit
programma, maar aangezien me het niet lukt om het te downloaden zou ik
graag uw advies willen.
</font></blockquote>
QUESTION<BR>
========<BR>
I can't access Linux for download. Will it run my old Windows games?
What do you suggest I do as I can't download.
<P>
ANSWER<BR>
======<BR>
If you can't easily down load Linux, your best is to get Linux on a
CD-ROM. The CD is likely to come free with a book on Linux, maybe there
is one in your local library, or a Linux magazine. To run programs
writen for Microsoft Windows under Linux's "X" windows, you will
need the emulator WINE. As WINE is an emulator, it tends to run
programs a little slower than '98 and can't handle tricks which
some programers include in their programs. I run MS Word with WINE
with no problems, but arcade games need speed and use tricks, so
you may have to get some nice new Linux games to go with your system.
<P>
--<BR>
Ian
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="haidar"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
We do not relay...1
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:18:34 -0500<BR>
From: Ayman Haidar, <A HREF="mailto:haidar@usol.com">
haidar@usol.com </A> <BR>
<P>
I hope you solved your problem by now, but in case if you haven't..
I just had the same problem, and after a long search all over the internet I finlly gave up and dumped sendmail for qmail, it's extremely easy to install and run.
Maybe you should give it a try.
<P>
--<BR>
Ayman Haidar
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="page"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: We do not relay...2
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:55:13 +0000<BR>
From: Jeremy Page, <A HREF="mailto:jpage@cwcom.net">
jpage@cwcom.net</A>
<P>
I don't know whether this may help you, but I also had the same problem
recently. For me the problem occurred when my mail client (in this case
Pine) had the setting SMTP server = localhost. When I changed it to the
actual hostname the error stopped. Just don't ask me why - someone else
will probably tell you that.
<P>
-- <BR>
Jeremy Page
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="regan1"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: We do not relay...3
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:45:46 +0000<BR>
From: "Jimmy O'Regan", <A HREF="mailto:Jim.Regan@lit.ie">
Jim.Regan@lit.ie</A> <BR>
<P>
Regarding "We do not relay":
<P>
In /etc/mail you should find files called ip_allow and name_allow To
allow your machine to be used to send mail, simply place either IP
addresses (ip_allow) or domain names (name_allow) into these files.
<P>
For all machine in a domain, just type in the domain, eg:
lit.ie
for a subnet, use blanks in the place of wildcards, eg.
172.16
172.17.100
<P>
--<BR>
Jim
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="gushee"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
RE: Multiple booting (LG #38)
</font> </H3>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:33:46 +0900<BR>
From: Matt Gushee, <A HREF="mailto:matt@it.osha.sut.ac.jp">
matt@it.osha.sut.ac.jp</A> <BR>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
Richard Veldwijk writes:<BR>
As I've got kids and kids tend to play games, I have to have
Micro$oft products on my machine. As I use OS/2 and Linux
myself, here's a nice tip: Install OS/2's boot manager. If
you have OS/2 installation floppies, you can run an OS/2
FDISK and install the boot manager, even without installing
OS/2 itself.
</font></blockquote>
As a former OS/2 user, I can confirm that OS/2 is Good Stuff (TM) ...
and the above method may be the easiest way to set up dual booting (and
I think you have to use it if you boot OS/2) On the other hand, LILO can
do pretty much the same things, and doesn't have this drawback:
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
Only the last booted C-partition is visible. If you need to
access the other, you'll have to hide one and unhide the other.
</font></blockquote>
Versions of LILO >= 20 allow you to have partitions automatically
"hidden" or "unhidden" at boot time -- but unlike OS/2's boot manager,
the "hiding" doesn't affect access from Linux. You do it with an entry
something like this in /etc/lilo.conf
<PRE>
win95 = /dev/hda1
..........
change
partition = /dev/hda2
deactivate
partition = /dev/hda1
activate
</PRE>
*Something* like that. I've done it, but it was a couple of years ago,
so I may have forgotten some details. For more info, check the LILO
User's Guide (not the man page -- it's a big document probably in
PostScript).
<P>
Happy booting!
<P>
--<BR>
Matt Gushee
<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="regan2"></a>
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Linux & Win95/98/NT clients
</font> </H3>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:20:14 +0000<BR>
From: "Jimmy O'Regan", <A HREF="mailto:Jim.Regan@lit.ie">
Jim.Regan@lit.ie</A> <BR>
<P>
There are two things you can do to use Linux as an image server.
<P>
Attach the hard drive you want to use as an image to your linux box, and
use something like this: (reverse procedure for making a boot flopy)
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/path/to/disk.image bs=1024 conv=sync; sync
You'll have to find out the right byte size (bs) though, the 1024 is
just a guess:)
This will create an image of the disk on the machine in /path/to/ called
disk.image
Linux can read and write FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, but it can't write
NTFS (yet). You'll need a commercial DOS tool like Ghost
(http://www.ghost.com) for NTFS.
<P>
To recreate the image, boot with a linux boot floppy (with dd), and run
mkdosfs on the hard drive (I'm not sure if that's necessary, but I doubt
it can hurt) then the same dd command with the if and of parameters
swapped.
<P>
The other option, which will be required for NTFS, is to set up Samba on
the Linux box, and use a bootable DOS floppy and ghost.to read and write
the images. Ghost comes with documentation, and is easy to use.
<P>
--<BR>
Jim
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Word to Postscript...1
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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:56:31 +0000<BR>
From: "Jimmy O'Regan", <A HREF="mailto:Jim.Regan@lit.ie">
Jim.Regan@lit.ie</A> <BR>
<P>
I'm pretty sure you mean that you want to convert the word documents to
postscript on your Linux box, but I don't think there's a way of doing
it yet. The closest there is to it is MS Word View
(http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html) which converts Word
8 to HTML.
<P>
This is how you do it on the windows machine:
In Control panel, select Printers, Add Printer, Click Next, select a
postscript compatible printer from the list (try Oki OL-850/PS), select
File: as the port to attach it to, name it, and select 'no' for "Make
default printer". You should be prompted for a file name when you print.
It works for me.
<P>
--<BR>
Jim
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Word to Postscript...2
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:33:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Padraic Renaghan, <A HREF="mailto:padraic@renaghan.com">
padraic@renaghan.com</A>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
JX: From time to time, people e-mail me documents in Microsoft Word
format.
Do you know where I can find an utility to
convert the MS Words documents into Postscript format so that I can
view/print them in Linux?
</font> </blockquote>
I don't know of anything to convert MS Word to Postscript, but I do know
of a utility to convert MS Word 8 (Office 97) to HTML which can then be
read by a web browser and printed.
<P>
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
<P>
-- <BR>
Padraic Renaghan
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Word to Postscript...3
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:53:35 +0500 (PKT)<BR>
From: Shahbaz Javeed, <A HREF="mailto:sjaveed@bigfoot.com">
sjaveed@bigfoot.com</A>
<P>
Greetings. I have found the program mswordview to be almost
indispensable. It doesnt convert Word97 documents to PS, but it converts
them to HTML, which comes a close second. An alternative would be to use
StarOffice 5.0 (you can get a personal edition for free at
http://www.stardivision.com) which can read and write to all Office97 file
formats.
<P>
Hope this helps.
<P>
--<BR>
SJ
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RE: Korn Shell FAQ...1
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:30:09 -0500 (EST)<BR>
From: Padraic Renaghan, <A HREF="mailto:padraic@renaghan.com">
padraic@renaghan.com</A> <BR>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
JT: I'm looking for a good Korn Shell FAQ, because I dislike reading the
Manpages. Does anyone know a good Internet
Address of a FAQ?
</font> </blockquote>
I have found the SHELLdorado site to be very helpful.
I has good shell tips and a great list of other shell resources.
http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/
<P>
As for learning the korn shell (I am not sure that is what you are
doing, but regardless), I purchased the following book which is
EXCELLENT! I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0134514947/
<P>
-- <BR>
Padraic Renaghan
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Korn Shell FAQ...2
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:04:30 +0100 (CET)<BR>
From: Arne Knut Roev, <A HREF="mailto:akroev@online.no">
akroev@online.no</A>
<P>
You wrote:<BR>
<blockquote> <font color="navy">
I'm looking for a good Korn Shell FAQ, because I dislike reading the
Manpages. Does anyone know a good Internet Address of a FAQ?
</font> </blockquote>
<P>
Now, I am going to tell you a secret:
<P>
FAQ-files _supplement_ the documentation, they do _not_ _replace_ it.
So, you should get into the habit of using man/info pages, since they are
the places where you can find the formal documentation you sometimes need.
<P>
However, FAQ-files and HOWTOs _do_ have their uses, so they are by no means
useless.
<P>
And in any case, when you are looking for this kind of stuff (relating to
Linux documentation), you look for the "Linux Documentation Project" (short:
LDP). The www-adress I have for this, is:
"http://www.linuxresources.com/LDP"
(I am putting it this way, because I am not sure whether this is the address
of the main site, or of a mirror.)
<P>
NB: I am cc'ing this letter to the www-based Linux Gazette, in case they
want to publish this info. (After all, I _am_ replying to a letter published
there.)
<P>
Arne
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Re: Help wanted -- article ideas
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:53:36 -0300<BR>
From: Andre Correa, <A HREF="mailto:andcor@tesla.com.br">
andcor@tesla.com.br</A>
<P>
Re: Kristoffer Andersson <BR>
I had problens that I think are same as yours. Here in our office I have am
internal network with 192.168.x.x IP addresses masqueraded to the net
throught a Linux box with 2.1.x kernel and everything goes fine but I
needed to let outside users see our Intranet. I searched and found a
program called rinetd that makes redirection of requests so any request
coming to our masq box in port 80, for example, is redirected to
192.168.3.21 in port 80 and then everyone in the Internet can see our pages
using our masq box IP address. It works fine for a while now.
<P>
from the man rinetd we have:
<PRE>
RINETD(8) UNIX System Manager's Manual RINETD(8)
NAME
rinetd - internet ``redirection server''
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rinetd
VERSION
Version 0.52, 9/7/1998.
DESCRIPTION
rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another.
rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections
to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf. Since
rinetd runs as a single process using nonblocking I/O, it is able to
redirect a large number of connections without a severe impact on the ma-
chine. This makes it practical to run TCP services on machines inside an
IP masquerading firewall. rinetd does not redirect FTP, because FTP re-
quires more than one socket.
</PRE>
You can find at sunsite.unc.edu
<P>
good luck
<P>
--<BR>
Andre Correa, Sao Paulo/Brazil
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FW: Linux Gazette #37 question
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:29:05 -0600<BR>
From: "McKown, John", <A HREF="mailto:JMckown@Insurdata.com">
JMckown@Insurdata.com</A>
<P>
xia@xlnt.com:
You asked if there is some way to view MS Word files under Linux. Have you
tried mswordview? You can download it from
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/converters or
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/converters/mswordview-0.5.1.tar.gz<BR>
I'm sending this from work, so I'm forced to use MS Outlook to send
it. I hope you can read it OK. I have not tried using this, so I don't
know how good it is. the .lsm file says that it works with MS Word 97.
<P>
--<BR>
John McKown
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Re: Making a Red Hat 5.2 CD
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:03:50 -0200 (GMT+2)<BR>
From: BenettOr, <A HREF="mailto:benettor@nightmare.gr">
benettor@nightmare.gr</A>
<P>
Yeah, this is a common problem when users trying to install RedHat by
donwloading the disksets from the net.
<P>
In order to install RedHat 5.0+, downloaded from a site or ftp you have to
burn (copy) it on a cd in the following directory:
<P>
\RedHat\
<P>
"R" and "H" in uppercase mode. This means that you have to cd-copy it on
Microsoft Extension mode (lower and upper case support) and not in
ISO9660. Down that directory copy the disksets directories: A, A1..
etc. etc.
<P>
Then start the installation running the batch file included on the
distribution.
<P>
--<BR>
BenettOr
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2 cent correction
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:47:43 -0800<BR>
From: Ben Kosse, <A HREF="mailto:BKosse@thecreek.com">
BKosse@thecreek.com</A> <BR>
<P>
The Ensoniq AudioPCI actually has the necessary circuitry to do hardware
MIDI, it simply lacks the onboard RAM, using instead your system RAM to hold
the samples.
<P>
--<BR>
Ben Kosse
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ANSWER: <font color="navy">
Etherexpress NIC
</font> </H3>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:44:27 -0300<BR>
From: "Sergio Pires", <A HREF="mailto:sergio.drtmg@mtb.gov.br">
sergio.drtmg@mtb.gov.br</A>
<P>
Mr Lim:<BR>
I read your mail in <I>LG</I> and the only thing I saw is you are using irq 7
normally assigned to the parallel port. Try to choose another irq # (5, for
example) and it will work.
<P>
--<BR>
Sergio Pires
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