Date: Sat, 24 Sep 94 04:30:17 PDT From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Digital-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Digital@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #317 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Sat, 24 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 317 Today's Topics: Best Packet SW? JNOS on Linux passive bulletin distribution TEST Unix vs DOS vs OS/2 vs NT Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Digital Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-digital". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Sep 94 09:27:48 CDT From: timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!jwl@uunet.uu.net Subject: Best Packet SW? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Steve Steinberg (ss@JH.Org) wrote: : Hi all! : I just got a KPC3 as a starter tnc and I am trying to figure out : what software to run with it. I would much rather stick with pd : stuff. I've got copies of PaKet and Lan-Link. What else should : I be looking at and what do you packet.people recommend? : TIA & 73s, : Steve : KB2___ (8 1/2 weeks and holding my breath :-( ) : -- : %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% : ss@jh.org Steve Steinberg Amateur Radio Callsign: KB2??? I don't think Lan-Link can be called pd. It was shareware the last time I looked. Take a look at my freeware (TM) package, SimpTerm. It can be found in /SimTel/msdos/hamradio as simptr21.zip. It is generic and will run on most of the popular TNCs on the market. It doesn't cost you anything and you can sleep nights without worrying about beating out that shareware author of a buck! Jim. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Southeast District, Phone: (404) 631-2254, Email: jwl@cray.com Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 94 09:23:31 CDT From: timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!jwl@uunet.uu.net Subject: JNOS on Linux To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu I asked a question about a problem with the keyboard on JNOS and received a very nice reply from Brandon (kf8nh), but had another question. Unfortunately, the mail bounced, so I am posting a question to him. My most humble apologies for using net bandwidth for personal messages, but maybe this will help others. ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 451 ... reply: read error from po.cwru.edu. 501 ... 550 Host unknown (Name server: usenet.ins.cwru.: host not found) ----- Original message follows ----- To: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Subject: Re: Jnos on Linux Brandon, Thanks for the terminfo entry. I'll give it a try. I understand (I think) what you said, but why don't the function keys work when I'm just using the Linux console (not running X) and what might I have to do to fix it? Thanks, 73 de Jim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Southeast District, Phone: (404) 631-2254, Email: jwl@cray.com Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 1994 15:17:37 GMT From: thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!longlast.cs.nyu.edu!jackson@nyu.arpa Subject: passive bulletin distribution To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Question re: bulletin distribution First, I presume that a main BBS distributes bulletins to other BBSes in its area. Suppose a distributor has five or six BBSes to distribute to. Could bandwidth be saved if, while the distributor is sending the bulletin to one recipient, the other five listen in and store the bulletins for themselves? That way, when the distributor connects to the next machine, it could send a table of contents and await a reply from the intended recipient indicating the bulletins it has not received to date. Basically, since I'm an RO station, I'd like to leave my machine on all day and capture all the bulletins as they are transferred on a network backbone. Then, I can read them when I get home. Or better yet, read them on a (physically) networked machine so I won't disturb the ongoing receipt of bulletins. Comments? -- Steven Jackson, Assistant to the Chair of Computer Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University 251 Mercer Street, NY NY 10012 +----IMPORTANT:-----+ |<-----------These 2 DEAD after 9/23/94--------->|<-starts 9/24/94-->| | Work <-- (forwarded) | | |jackson@cs.nyu.edu, jcksnste@acfcluster.nyu.edu,|jacksons@cs.nyu.edu| +------------------------------------------------+-------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 1994 03:32:42 GMT From: news.uiowa.edu!panda@uunet.uu.net Subject: TEST To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu In note <940920183508104@aznetig.stat.com>, daniel.meredith@aznetig.stat.com (Daniel Meredith) writes: >TEST They worked! There's like 6 of them in here.. you're in for being flamed if you don't quit sending tests 8-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 12:17:10 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!cs.city.ac.uk!city!nick@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Unix vs DOS vs OS/2 vs NT To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu In article , C. T. Nadovich wrote: >DOS is just a poorly implemented Unix. DOS (I assume you mean ms-dos) is nothing like Unix - it doesn't even multitask! There's a list somewhere of everything an OS has to do in order to be called a "unix clone", and I think DOS manages less than 5% of them. There's also a list of what ANY operating system is supposed to do, and DOS doesn't manage many of THEM either! This means that DOS is not even truly an operating-system - it's more of a "program runner" with a little bit of "memory management" thrown in. -- Nick Waterman - inet nick@cimio.co.uk - ax25 G7RZQ @ GB7GFD.#42.GBR.EU "We have no need of weapons, brother - we wear protective herbs." None of the opinions above belong to anybody at all, probably. ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #317 ******************************