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- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 94 04:30:17 PDT
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- Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #317
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- 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
-
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-
- 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
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- 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 <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org>... reply: read error from po.cwru.edu.
- 501 <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org>... 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
-
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-
- 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
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-
- 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-)
-
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-
- 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 <Cw74yF.5Jo@kd3bj.uucp>, C. T. Nadovich <chris@kd3bj.uucp> 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.
-
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