From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux]: pcomm woes Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 22:25:42 GMT
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> From: awozniak@zeus.calpoly.edu (The WOZ)
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> Subject: pcomm woes
> Message-ID: <1992Jul13.193439.868489@zeus.calpoly.edu>
> Date: 13 Jul 92 19:34:39 GMT
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> Ok, spent all night installing, got a 32 Meg file system and 10 megs
> of swap set up, managed to get pcomm.tar, untarred it, and got
>
> unable to open /lib/libc_v2_11
> [pain and suffering omitted]
> (euch! I just wanted to use the modem to download directly to
> linux, bypassing messydos and rawrite)
> and the thing (surprisingly (not)) seg faulted on me.
>
> So here I sit, running DOS from floppy, trying to figure out how to
> get my modem to work for downloading files to linux.
>
> I'm using the bootimage96c, rootimage96 and pcomm96c.tar that I
> found on a mirror at banjo.concert.net
>
Why not try using kermit and a (null?) modem? It's not graceful but for a
brief setup it beats the pain you're having now. Telix, on the MS-DOS side,
supports kermit. There's also a package from Columbia which I'm trying to
locate (drop me a note if you want it or Telix shipped out in uuencoded form
- I can't do ftp).
Rick
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