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Re: DOSEMU



In message <Pine.LNX.3.91-heb-2.05.960512075429.838A-100000@luke.gilo.jlm.k12.i
l> you write:
|On Sun, 12 May 1996, Menahem Lurie wrote:
|
|>       for all of you linux new users: thair is  a very good book on linux
|> called: Linux unleashed pub by SAMS sold by "bag" il for nice 195 NIS. the
|> book covers all linux HOTO and many more. the book come with a cd with a
|> full linux OS. by the way: i sew this book at tel aviv uni asnd in 3 DAY
|> THAY SOLED ALL THE COPYES THAY HAD...
|as far as I saw, BUG sells them for about 250, the price you quoted wa 
|Dyonun.

BTW, the book costs 34.50 USD (about 110) at the bookpool.  If you
have a cheap way to get it here (e.g. share the shipment with others)
then you can beat BUG's and Dyonun's prices. (that's if you don't want
USPS Reg. surface, in which case you beat the prices even if you ship
alone - 45$ total).

|
|>       the book sed that: a file named dosemu.config shuld be unde /etc dir
|> on linux file system. i looked it over. it is not exest on my installation.
|> should it be thair?
|I don't have it handy, but I am sure the book actually said that when you 
|install DosEmu, you should put that file in /etc, since it only comes 
|standard with RedHat, and not in slackware.

Why buy a book when you must be able to get such info from the sources
or the man pages? (haven't tried, but the discussion above seems to be
about basic matters).

|A. next time download such files directly into the Linux, it will fee 
|more at home with the character capsing and all.

True.  Also from my little experience, Linux handles the net much
better than any MS product.

|since, like most Linux files, it is a source that has yet to be compiled, 
|I usually stick it is a directory like /usr/src or ~/src etc. you compile 

My personal taste dictates /usr/local/src.  I feel this is where you
should put packages which haven't arrived as part of your
distribution.  I put the binaries in /usr/local/bin and if an older
version from the dist.  exist on the disk then I disable it with
"chmod 000" (and make sure /usr/local/bin is at the beginning of my
PATH).

|>       the file above mention archived using GZIP. i unarchived it on
|> windows95 file system. it came to be archived with TAR. i used linux TAR to
|> unarchiv it and got error massage saying somethig is wrong named: can`t open
|> /dev/hst0 no such device. how can i fix it?

You should tell tar where to look for the tape archive using the 'f'
option (or -f, or --file).

|most of those files are ended by .tgz or .tar.gz or .tar.Z, and they all 
|mean it was TARed and then ZIPed or GZIPed. one thing is certain: you 
|absolutly do NOT open them on win95 teritory, since it can't handle some 
|file names correctly, and DOS tar can't use long filenames, dot files, 
|case sensitive names etc.
|next: tar is made for tapes originally, but I never saw it default to 
|searching for a tape, what parameters did you give it?

You haven't used UNIX enough, then, tar allways defaults for searching
for tape devices, unless it is a GNU tar compiled to do something
else.  Read tar(1) about --file.

Cheers,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                      | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.            |  glory, for its people had been chosen
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