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Linux-Announce Digest #79
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Mon Jan 29 14:16:42 1996
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Linux-Announce Digest #79, Volume #2 Mon, 29 Jan 96 05:13:18 EST
Contents:
Karalin : Modification of the copyright (root)
Slirp 1.0c (TCP/IP emulator for shell accounts) ("Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)")
Termpkg debute (Joe Croft)
LOCAL: (UK) Linux usergroup intrest list (Gareth Blades)
ftape-2.06 released (Kai Harrekilde-Petersen)
ADMIN: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu going away (Lars Wirzenius)
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From: root@fanny.frmug.fr.net (root)
Subject: Karalin : Modification of the copyright
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 20:55:28 GMT
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During development of alpha & beta releases,
karalin copyright changes to the GNU one.
You are welcomed to test it and to give us
all remarks to help us to correct potential bugs
and to add new features.
karalin V0.1 : The first midi Karaoke player under X11/Motif
for linux
Karalin can be found on sunsite on the midi/sound directory.
Laurent Taieb
Email : Laurent.Taieb@ansf.alcatel.fr
CC : karalin@fanny.frmug.fr.net
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From: "Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)" <u923168@student.canberra.edu.au>
Subject: Slirp 1.0c (TCP/IP emulator for shell accounts)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 20:55:37 GMT
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Hi,
I'm proud to annount version 1.0c of Slirp. In short, Slirp is a TCP/IP
emulator with many features, like load-balancing, the ability to connect
a whole LAN to the Internet, the ability to resume all connections after
the modem gets disconnected, etc. etc.
Slirp can be ftp'd from the following places:
o ftp://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/pub/slirp
o ftp://peak.usa1.com/pub/slirp
(please use peak.usa1.com if you live outside Australia) both of which
have a Linux a.out binary. There's also a WWW page:
o http://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/slirp
Here is the relevant information on Slirp:
What is Slirp?
==============
Slirp is a TCP/IP emulator which turns an ordinary shell account into a
(C)SLIP/PPP account. This allows shell users to use all the funky Internet
applications like Netscape, Mosaic, CUSeeMe, etc.
Slirp Features
==============
* Freedom. It's free, in every sense of the word.
* Source code. Slirp comes with *all* source code.
* Portability. Slirp should compile on most Unix compatible Operating
Systems, thanks mainly to the GNU Autoconf package.
* Flexibility. You can use *any* Operating System on your home PC provided
you can get SLIP/PPP software for it.
* 4.4BSD TCP/IP code base. The TCP/IP code is based on 4.4BSD which is
widely regarded as a very stable and complete implementation. This means
it does all the things expected of TCP implementations. E.g: slow start,
congestion avoidance, exponential back-off, round-trip-time calculation,
delayed ACKs, Nagle algorithm, incoming and outgoing IP fragments, etc.
The TCP/IP code was actually taken from the excellent FreeBSD 2.0 sources.
In fact, I went out of my way to do as little modification to it as
possible. Most things that I regarded as unnecessary (E.g.: the rfc1323
performance enhancements) were simply commented out, so if you want to
experiment with them, you can.
* PPP-2.2 code. Slirp uses code from the wonderful PPP-2.2 package, so you
get all the funky PPP-2.2 bonuses like BSD-compression (if your PC
supports it).
* Port redirection. This is used to make your PC look more like it was
really connected to the Internet, hence allowing others to access services
on your PC, etc.
* Program execution. Slirp can execute a program on connection to a certain
address/port so you can use things like nntpd if your remote host does not
have an nntp server installed.
* Load-balancing. You can use multiple modems and Slirp will "balance" the
load on each modem. So, for example, if you load-balance two 28.8K modems
your throughput will be as if you had one 57.6K modem. There is no inherent
limit as to how many modems you can load-balance, if you have the modems
and phone lines, Slirp will slurp them all up!
* Link-resumption. If your modem dies, or the connection is somehow lost,
you can log back in, restart Slirp and all your connections will continue
as if nothing happened.
* Command mode. Telnet to 10.0.2.0 and you can control Slirp using an
on-the-fly command mode. Here, you can change certain parameters, close
connections, gather statistics, execute programs, get extensive on-line
help, etc.
* LAN connection. If you have a LAN (Local Area Network) at home, you can
connect *all* the PC's connected to the LAN onto the Internet, through
Slirp.
* And more ...
Have fun!
Dan ...
[ Danny Gasparovski | Mortified by the lack of conscience ]
[ danjo@blitzen.canberra.edu.au | Our sanctity bears no relevance ]
[ University of Canberra, Australia | Insignificant is our existence ]
[ Bolt Thrower, "The IVth Crusade"->| Hear the litany of life's persistence ]
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From: Joe Croft <jcroft@unicomp.net>
Subject: Termpkg debute
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 00:15:32 GMT
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Hi YAll,
I have finally got a package to release for the linux community,
termpkg. This package is a telnet like client/server that allows you to
connect to another machines serial ports over a tcp/ip network. The
client can also connect to telnet servers and the server will accept
connections from telnet clients.
When the two are used together, you can select the device, and set
baudrate and port settings of the device. By using variuos IP ports, the
parameters can be pre-set for you through the standard inetd.conf and
services files and a file called termsrvd.conf.
I have found it to be a handy means of using the modem on my machine by
connecting to localhost. Along w/ color-xterm, it makes for a great vt100
terminal emulator w/ scroll bars.
I have been using this program at work for a number of months so the
serious bugs have been worked out. Though there still remains a couple of
little ones that make for inconveniences but so far it seems quite usable.
If it weren't, I'd have to give up using Linux on my machine as it is what
makes it possible to connect up to the equipment I need to.
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Title: termpkg
Version: 1.06
Entered-date: 26JAN96
Description: Telnet like Client/Server programs to allow the access of
another machines serial ports over a TCP/IP Network.
Keywords: telnet serial
Author: jcroft@unicomp.net (Joe Croft)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Network/serial
33kB termpkg.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platforms: Linux, AIX
Copying-policy: GPL
End
Joe Croft <jcroft@unicomp.net>
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From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp@pip.dknet.dk>
Subject: ftape-2.06 released
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 00:15:29 GMT
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I have just uploaded ftape-2.06 to www.pip.dknet.dk and will shortly
upload it to sunsite.unc.edu (if I can get in).
This release actually supports QIC-3020 (aka TR-3), but only in 1Mbps
mode. The 2Mbps code isn't fully tested, and thus I have decided to
siwtch it off by default. For the adventurous, the code is there.
For everyone's safety I will from this release also put the MD5 sum in
my announcements.
MD5 (ftape-2.06.tar.gz) = 079b9cd47c44d652662fde0bbd99c8af
MD5 (ftape-2.06.lsm) = f14583b204e4aabfe683af486bc2fb13
MD5 (ftape-2.05-2.06.diff.gz) = c08125e2619693c4218f1f5b663fccf9
Below is an excerpt from the RELEASE-NOTES:
===== Release notes for ftape-2.06, 28/01/96 =====
Special thanks go to Neal Friedman and Steven Sorbom for their
help in producing and testing this release.
I have continued to clean up the code, with an eye towards inclusion
of ftape in Linus' official kernel (In fact, as I type this, I am
running on a kernel with ftape support statically linked). I have
test-compiled ftape against my 1.2.13 tree without problems.
Hopefully, everything should be OK for the v1.2.x people.
WARNING! Alan Cox has mailed me that ftape does *NOT* work with
Linux/SMP. If you try to run ftape under Linux/SMP, it will cause a
kernel deadlock (which is worse than a panic).
- - - QIC-3020/TR-3: 1Mbps support works. Neal is capable of reading and
writing data to a tape. ftape will automatically detect the type of
tape (e.g. TR-3 vs QIC-80) and move the fdc in and out of
"perpendicular mode" as neccesarry.
- - - 2Mbps support is disabled by default, since it is not fully
debugged. If you are adventurous, remove -DFDC_82078SL in the
Makefile and see what happens :-)
- - - fdc detection: silly bugs removed (Only 2Mbps fdcs were affected)
and added detection of the National Semiconductors PC8744 fdc chip
(used in the PC873xx "super-IO" chips).
- - - Removed warning about incompatible types when compiling with Linux
1.2.x.
- - - README.PCI updated with info about the DELL Dimension XPS P90.
- - - Connor TST3200R added to detected drives.
- - - `swapout' utility added to distribution. It will dirty 5Meg of
memory, trying to swap out other programs. Just say `make swapout'
to build it. ftape will do this automatically Real Soon Now (ie:
when I have found out which kernel memory alloc function to call).
An updated version of the HOWTO will follow shortly.
Regards,
Kai
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From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
Subject: ADMIN: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu going away
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 00:15:36 GMT
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I said I wanted a volunteer to run a news-to-mail mirror of
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The wonder of Linux: whenever I get a good idea, it seems someone's already
implemented it. :-)
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As an aside, my PPP is now working very well (the only real problem was
my failure to understand version numbers and therefore failing to get
the _really_ newest version...), mail flows like a dream. I will
be setting up a news server on my machine in the near future. After that,
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