... (I sent this to Linus for 0.12, but it didn't make it): reads on a pipe should return partial results. ... to the EMACS 18.57 distribution to build it for Linux-0.12. Shar & enjoy, John Kohl jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Jan 25 1992 - 21:55

If any of you are going to be at UseNIX in SF in January, perhaps we can arrange a BoF session to chat about Linux? John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Nov 12 1991 - 16:26

I just got a new 486/33 today, and linux only seems to want to boot if the "turbo" switch is turned off. If I turn it once I'm running ,it seems to cause no problems. I'm booting off a 1.44MB 3.5" floppy. John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Nov 16 1991 - 04:03

... there for the i386 will be useful? They include: com port(s), floppy, NE2000 Ethernet, WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003S, WD8003SBT, WD8013EBT console & keyboard various disk & tapes also might pick up VFS, bsd ffs (may be incomplete?) John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Nov 18 1991 - 19:25

... now been able to observe program execution speed differences when I toggle the Turbo switch (easiest to observe by scrolling lots of text on the console). So it's probably some sort of timing glitch that prevents booting at full-speed? John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Nov 18 1991 - 19:53

It seems whenever I type control-U while in a program, the console bash dies and the system grinds to a halt. bug? feature? John

linux-activists - John T. Kohl - Nov 19 1991 - 03:32

It seems whenever I type control-U while in a program, the console bash dies and the system grinds to a halt. bug? feature? John

linux-activists - John T. Kohl - Nov 19 1991 - 03:32

... the networking code itself (sockets, tcp, etc) is welcome to look at that; for the moment I'm more interested in getting various utilities and libraries from BSD working (they seem to have a rather large C library; maybe even complete!). John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Nov 21 1991 - 13:09

I've had Ted Ts'o put my port of GNU awk (2.11, I think it was...) onto tsx-11.mit.edu, in ~ftp/pub/linux/binaries & ~ftp/pub/linux/ports (the latter has diffs from the FSF distributed sources). John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Dec 12 1991 - 01:07

... getting perl 4 working? I've tried various things, most of which cause test/base/lex.t to fail. -m80387 present/absent -O/-g -Dfloat=double no combination of the above makes a working perl. ?? John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Dec 13 1991 - 02:01

... 'll find GNU find 2.1 and associated tools, a README file, and diffs from the GNU distribution in tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/find-2.1/ [yes, I know that gnu find 1.2 is also there, but I figured why not use the latest & greatest] John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Dec 18 1991 - 19:25

... this enough info to debug the problem? John P.S. If you have a terminal ... the shell with redirected input/output doesn't work right, as the controlling terminal ... on new tty...: */ fprintf(stderr, "can't exec shell: %s\n", sys_errlist[errno]); ...

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Dec 21 1991 - 00:56

... .ARMY.MIL. it runs under DOS, and provides an o.k. interface. I believe it lets you select partitions on cylinder boundaries, and does the rest of the calculations itself. [of course, you have to calculate from blocks/MB to cylinders...] John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Jan 5 1992 - 17:20

... with booting a 486/33 at full speed. The problem was the BIOS "Fast A20 Gate Option". For UNIXes, this should be DISABLED; for Mess-Dos, it seems to make no difference. [A droid at the computer store said it has something to do with DMA] John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Jan 6 1992 - 15:52

Yesterday I said: > The problem was the BIOS "Fast A20 Gate Option". Actually, that wasn't it. At the same time, I upgraded to 4M simms rather than 1M simms, and the problem went away. Oh well...? John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Jan 7 1992 - 15:25

The stty from the GNU shell utilities (I think; or some other set of utils) works with minimal porting effort. John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Jan 12 1992 - 22:01

... socket liberary. When will it be ready ? I've said this on the list before, and I'll say it again now. I am NOT working on BSD networking. I _WAS_ doing some work to port various utilities that come on the BSD networking _release_. John

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Jan 15 1992 - 12:47

... sometimes I get two "general protection" errors (same process, usually). When I toggle the turbo on & off while running, I don't observe any change in running times of programs (but I can discern differences under MS-DOS 5.0), even when I run programs ...

linux-activists - John T Kohl - Nov 17 1991 - 03:11