Re: your mail

1999-10-02 Thread Barry Irwin
On Sun 1999-10-03 (07:22), Matthias Buelow wrote: > Bcc: > Subject: Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3) > Reply-To: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemen

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1999-10-02 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bcc: Subject: Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Type 'man 3 fetch', scroll down to the BUGS section, and see the >light. Next, scroll back up to the AUTHORS section and find out who to >contact :) (fetch

Cosmetic changes to whois(1)

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Abley
I've just made two very minor (cosmetic) modifications to whois(1): 1. Added -m option, which selects whois.ra.net as the whois server. This server publishes routing policy for a large number of network operators, and is currently run by Merit (see www.ra.net for more details). 2. Added -q optio

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-02 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Oliver Fromme wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > As Oliver Fromme wrote ... > > > I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit > > > familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb > > > floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per t

umount(8) or unmount(2) ?

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, Since about 5 weeks I'm working on sanity checks and bug fixes for umount(8), mount(8) and mount_xxx(8). Poul Henning told me to mail to cvs-committers too, cause many clued people read it. You'll find my patch and the readme for it on : http://www.attic.ch/patches/MOUNTPATCH-CURRENT-02101

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:15:53PM +0300, Narvi wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The > > > commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names fo

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > As Oliver Fromme wrote ... > > I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit > > familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb > > floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track and twice > > the data rate (1

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Bjoern Fischer: > The sdk consists of some C headers, docs and a small example. > You simply build a small shared library that is loaded by > navigator. The shared library uses hooks in navigator and > you may perform any action you like (start /usr/bin/mail, > mutt, emacs, ...). Wow

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:15:09PM +0200, Bjoern Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:09:31PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > [...] > > Yes but with the navigator, you can't even mail a link or a page... > > With Netscape's mail and news sdk you can use your favorite > mail and news client

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:09:31PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: [...] > Yes but with the navigator, you can't even mail a link or a page... With Netscape's mail and news sdk you can use your favorite mail and news clients transparently from navigator (like mailto:, news:, or mail page, etc.). T

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > This one does not resolve the controller problem either as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said. > > > > So, I guess dac0t0, dac0t1, ... dac3t4, will be good enough if we want > > to be short, but anyt

A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

1999-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
[bcc'ed to committers, hackers] My last pamphlet was sufficiently well received that I was not scared away from sending another one, and today I have the time and inclination to do so. I've had a little trouble with deciding on the right distribution of this kind of stuff, this time it is bcc'

Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem...

1999-10-02 Thread Stefan Lindgren
Well, this UDMA story has finally come to an end. I got this wierd(!) ide to test my developer version of BeOS 4.5 on the machine. I have had no problem with BeOS on the machine before this UDMA disk thing. Did it work? No. The BeOS couldn't even find the CD-ROM when I had the UDMA crap whitin

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > > > That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The > > commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names for disks > > (rz0, rz1, rz2, ... ). This was very nice. > > This one does

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Nathan Kinsman
Julian Elischer wrote: > > Has anyone looked at netscape Communicator 4.7 for FreeBSD??? > > I just installed it. > the binary is 13234176 bytes long!! > yes folks, that's 13 MB! Not sure if anyone has tried this, but I run the BSDI version of 4.7. I've been running BSDI versions of Netscape f