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Issue #20, December 1995

We here at Linux Journal believe in empowerment, and giving people the tools to the job themselves, so we are proud to present the LJ Archives.

We get a lot of e-mail that begins “I am looking for that article, you know the one, about froodling the dewhacker?” We here at Linux Journal believe in empowerment, and giving people the tools to the job themselves, so we are proud to present the LJ Archives. You will find below a listing of the articles that we have published, and information on where to find them. Some are available on our Web site, and we have provided the URL for you. Others are not yet electronic, and if you can't wait, the issue number is listed so that you can order back issues. There is also a new feature on the Web site, an interactive search page for articles in Linux Journal. (www.linuxjournal.com/).

Features

  • Comparison of Linux, DOS/Win and OS/2 Issue: 1 Page: 1 Author: Bernie Thompson

  • Linux Code Freeze Issue: 1 Page: 1 Author: Linus Torvalds

  • Interview With Linus Issue: 1 Page: 4 Author: Robert Young

  • Formation of the XFree86 Project, Inc. Issue: 2 Page: 1 Author: LJ Staff

  • Interview With Patrick Volkerding Issue: 2 Page: 10 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Optimizing Linux Disk Usage Issue: 2 Page: 1 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • World Wide Web Issue: 3 Page: 9 Author: Bernie Thompson

  • Optimizing Memory Usage Issue: 3 Page: 11 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • Sendmail+IDA Issue: 3 Page: 30 Author: Vince Skahan

  • Interview with Fred Van Kempen Issue: 3 Page: 16 Author: Phil Hughes

  • EZ as a Word Processor Issue: 4 Page: 5 Author: Terry Gliedt

  • Disaster Recovery Issue: 4 Page: 10 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Wine Issue: 4Page: 14 Author: Bob Amstadt

  • Eagles BBS Issue: 4 Page: 16 Author: Ray Rocker

  • Linux Does Comics Issue: 4 Page: 26 Author: Robert Suckling

  • Emacs, Friend or Foe? Issue: 5 Page: 9 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Interview With James MacLean Issue: 5 Page: 15 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • EZ for the Programmer Issue: 5 Page: 5 Author: Terry Gliedt

  • Linux in the Trenches Issue: 5 Page: 21 Author: G. Wettstein

  • Messages, A Multi-Media Mailer Issue: 6 Page: 7 Author: Terry Gliedt

  • Mobile Computing with Linux Issue: 6 Page: 17 Author: Mark Fiuczynski

  • Learning C++ With Linux Issue: 6 Page: 24 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • The Joy (and Agony) of SLIP Issue: 6 Page: 30 Author: Warren Baird

  • Tutorial, Emacs for Programmers Issue: 6 Page: 39 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Making the Most of Andrew Issue: 7 Page: 7 Author: Terry Gliedt

  • Report from the Front: Linux in Antarctica Issue: 7 Page: 11 Author: Andrew Tridgell

  • Samba: Unix Talking With PCs Issue: 7 Page: 22 Author: Andrew Tridgell

  • Linux Performance Tuning Issue: 7 Page: 26 Author: Clarence Smith

  • Introducing Modula-3 Issue: 8 Page: 9 Author: Geoff Wyant

  • X Window System Programming with Tcl and Tk Issue: 8 Page: 24 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Linux Command Line Parameters Issue: 8 Page: 35 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • What is a Linux? Issue: 8 Page: 59 Author: LJ Staff

  • Linus Torvalds in Sydney Issue: 8 Page: 60 Author: Jamie Honan

  • A Conversation with Linus Torvalds Issue: 9 Page: 8 Author: Belinda Frazier

  • Connecting Your Linux Box to the Internet Issue: 9 Page: 18 Author: Russell Ochocki

  • Linux in the Real World: Redesigning SCADA at Virginia Power Issue: 9 Page: 23 Author: Vance Petree

  • Remote Network Commands Issue: 9 Page: 33 Author: Jens Hartmann

  • A Conversation with Olaf Kirch Issue: 10 Page: 13 Author: LJ Staff

  • Linux in the Real World: SCADA-Linux Still Hard at Work Issue: 10 Page: 14 Author: Vince Petree

  • Linux Conference at Open Systems World FedUNIX'94 Issue: 10 Page: 20 Author: Belinda Frazier

  • Using Tcl and Tk From Your C Programs Issue: 10 Page: 26 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Linux in Amsterdam Issue: 10 Page: 6 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • The Humble Beginnings of Linux Issue: 11 Page: 11 Author: Randolph Bentson

  • Introducing Scheme Issue: 11 Page: 23 Author: Robert Sanders

  • Introduction to LINCKS Issue: 11 Page: 26 Author: Martin Sjolin

  • Review of Scilab Issue: 11 Page: 40 Author: Robert Dalrymple

  • Building Shared Libraries Issue: 12 Page: 9 Author: Eric Kasten

  • Ethernetting Linux Issue: 12 Page: 12 Author: Terry Dawson

  • Linux- It's Not Just For Intel Anymore Issue: 12 Page: 20 Author: Joseph Brothers

  • Leviathan Issue: 12 Page: 28 Author: Paul Sittler

  • The Pari Package on Linux Issue: 13 Page: 5 PeterAuthor: Klaus-N/A Nischke

  • Access Information Through World Wide Web: Installing CERN's WWW Server Issue: 13 Page: 9 Author: Eric Kasten

  • Majordomo Issue: 13 Page: 13 Author: Piers Cawley

  • Interview with Mark Bolzern Issue: 14 Page: 19 Author: LJ Staff

  • Review: xBase Products for Linux Issue: 14 Page: 22 Author: Robert Broughton

  • Introduction to Eiffel Issue: 14 Page: 34 Author: Dan Wilder

  • Review: Intelligent Multiport Serial Boards Issue: 14 Page: 46 Author: Greg Hankins

  • The LINCKS GPD Issue: 15 Page: 17 Author: Martin Sjolin

  • Setting up X11 Issue: 15 Page: 24 Author: Greg Lehey

  • HTML: A Gentle Introduction Issue: 15 Page: 35 Author: Eric Kasten

  • xfm 1.3: A File and Applications Manager Issue: 15 Page: 50 Author: Robert Dalrymple

  • Linux Goes To Sea Issue: 16 Page: 19 Author: Randolph Bentson

  • Efficient, User-Friendly Seismology Issue: 16 Page: 25 Author: Sid Hellman

  • HTML Forms: Interacting with the Net Issue: 16 Page: 34 Author: Eric Kasten

  • Introduction to Lisp-Stat Issue: 16 Page: 44 Author: Narasimhan Balasubramanian

  • Writing A Mouse Sensitive Application Issue: 17 Page: 14 Author: Alessandro Rubini

  • Porting DOS Applications to Linux Issue: 17 Page: 28 Author: Alan Cox

  • ncurses: Portable Screen Handling for Linux Issue: 17 Page: 43 Author: Eric Raymond

  • Writing man Pages Using groff Issue: 18 Page: 18 Author: Matt Welsh

  • LaTex for the Slightly Timid Issue: 18 Page: 34 Author: Kim Johnson

  • Using grep Issue: 18 Page: 42 Author: Eric Goedelbacker

  • Flexible Formatting with Linuxdoc-SGML Issue: 18 Page: 51 Author: Christian Schwarz

  • Getting the Most Out Of X Resources Issue: 19 Page: 30 Author: Preston Brown

  • Optimizing the Linux User Interface Issue: 19 Page: 47 Author: Jeff Arnholt

  • LesTif and the Hungry ViewKit Issue: 19 Page: 56 Author: Malcolm Murphy

News and Articles

  • ICMAKE part 1 Issue: 1 Page: 12 Author: Frank Brokken

  • Onyx Issue: 1Page: 14 Author: Micheal Kraehe

  • Linux and Hams Issue: 1 Page: 16 Author: Phil Hughes

  • The Linux FSSTD Issue: 2 Page: 28 Author: Daniel Quinlan

  • ICMAKE part 2 Issue: 2 Page: 34 Author: Frank Brokken

  • WINE status Issue: 2 Page: 44 Author: Bob Amstadt

  • Introduction to the GNU C Library Issue: 2 Page: 18 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Linux Distributions Issue: 2 Page: 22 Author: LJ Staff

  • Let's Take Linux Seriously Issue: 3 Page: 7 Author: Phil Hughes

  • ICMAKE part 3 Issue: 3 Page: 24 Author: Frank Brokken

  • The Open Development of Debian Issue: 3 Page: 29 Author: Ian Murdock

  • UniForum 1994 Issue: 3 Page: 18 Author: Phil Hughes

  • From The Publisher: Let's Take Linux Seriously Issue: 3 Page: 7 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Linus Torvalds at DECUS '94 Issue: 4 Page: 20 Author: Bob Tadlock

  • Unix and Computer Science Issue: 4 Page: 22 Author: Ronda Hauben

  • Linux Sound Support Issue: 4 Page: 28 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • ICMAKE part 4 Issue: 4 Page: 35 Author: Frank Brokken

  • Slackware 2.0 Released Issue: 4 Page: 45 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Linux on the Motorola 860x0 Issue: 5 Page: 20 Author: Hamish Macdonald

  • Dialog, An Introductory Tutorial Issue: 5 Page: 24 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • Writing an Intelligent Serial Driver Issue: 5 Page: 28 Author: Randolph Bentson

  • Using iBCS2 under Linux Issue: 5 Page: 30 Author: Eric Youngdale

  • Linux Events: Two Views on Heidelberg Issue: 3 Page: 32 Author: LJ Staff

  • Selecting a Linux CD Issue: 6 Page: 20 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Fix /etc/gateway Issue: 6 Page: 21 Author: Cor Bosman

  • Report From the Front:The Linux Review Group Issue: 6 Page: 23 Author: Magnus Alvestad

  • Linux Journal Demographics Issue: 6 Page: 32 Author: Laurie Tucker

  • Kernel Code Freeze Announced Issue: 6 Page: 37 Author: Linus Torvalds

  • Harbor Issue: 6 Page: 46 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Overview of the Debian GNU/Linux System Issue: 6 Page: 59 Author: Ian Murdock

  • Selecting Hardware for a Linux System Issue: 7 Page: 14 Author: Phil Hughes

  • CD-ROMs and Linux Issue: 7 Page: 33 Author: Jeff Tranter

  • Linux User Group News Issue: 7 Page: 39 Author: LJ Staff

  • Andy Issue: 7Page: 40 Author: Andy Tefft

  • The Term Protocol Issue: 8 Page: 39 Author: Liem Bahneman

  • Linux Meta-FAQ Version 3.11 Issue: 8 Page: 48 Author: various

  • Linux Organizations Issue: 8 Page: 54 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Linux Development Grant Fund Issue: 9 Page: 42 Author: LJ Staff

  • Report on Comdex '94 Issue: 10 Page: 6 Author: Belinda Frazier

  • What Your DOS Manual Doesn't Tell You About Linux Issue: 10 Page: 23 Author: Liam Greenwood

  • Questions From the Linux Journal Booth at Open Systems World Issue: 11 Page: 20 Author: Kim Johnson

  • Linux in the Real World—Data Gathering With Linux Issue: 11 Page: 18 Author: Grant Edwards

  • Pentiums & Non-Pentiums Issue: 11 Page: 34 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Installing Linux via NFS Issue: 11 Page: 15 Author: Greg Hankins

  • Mr Torvalds Goes to Washington Issue: 12 Page: 5 Author: Kurt Reisler

  • Linux Tip Issue: 12 Page: 41 Author: LJ Staff

  • Users Mounting Floppies Issue: 12 Page: 41 Author: LJ Staff

  • Linux For Public Service Issue: 13 Page: 21 Author: Dan Hollis

  • Hamming It Up On Linux Issue: 13 Page: 26 Author: Brian Lantz

  • Netsurfing With Linux: To Sail The Cyber Sea Issue: 13 Page: 30 Author: Arthur Bebak

  • A New Project or a GNU Project Issue: 13 Page: 44 Author: Mark Bolzern

  • Linus Torvalds Receives Award Issue: 13 Page: 60 Author: LJ Staff

  • Linux at the UW Computer Fair Issue: 14 Page: 17 Author: LJ Staff

  • Caldera and Corsair Issue: 14 Page: 18 Author: LJ Staff

  • Linux at Comdex/Fall: A Call for Participation Issue: 14 Page: 24 Author: Mark Bolzern

  • Product Review: SlickEdit Issue: 14 Page: 41 Author: Jeff Bauer

  • The Linux File System Standard Issue: 15 Page: 45 Author: Garrett D'Amore

  • The Trade Shows Issue: 16 Page: 14 Author: Randolph Bentson

  • Putting Widgets in Their Place Issue: 16 Page: 30 Author: Stephen Uhler

  • Prototyping Algorithms in Perl Issue: 16 Page: 39 Author: Jim Shapiro

  • Two Eiffel Implementations Issue: 17 Page: 21 Author: Dan Wilder

  • Reader Survey Results Issue: 17 Page: 36 Author: LJ Staff

  • Indexing with Glimpse Issue: 18 Page: 16 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Linux on Alpha: A Strategic Choice Issue: 18 Page: 29 Author: Jon “maddog” Hall

  • Linux Serving IKEA Issue: 19 Page: 20 Author: Anders Osting

  • The Best Without X Issue: 19 Page: 22 Author: Alessandro Rubini

  • How To Build A Mac Issue: 19 Page: 40 Author: Andreas Schiffler

  • Linux on Low-End Hardware Issue: 19 Page: 38 Author: Trenton B. Tuggle

  • Linux at SCO Forum Issue: 19 Page: 59 Author: Belinda Frazier

Kernel Korner

  • Introduction (Device Drivers) Issue: 8 Page: 18 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Block Device Drivers Issue: 9 Page: 11 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Block Device Drivers: Interrupts Issue: 10 Page: 9 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Block Device Drivers- Optimization Issue: 11 Page: 38 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • The ELF Object File Format Issue: 12 Page: 14 Author: Eric Youngdale

  • The ELF Object File Format by Dissection Issue: 13 Page: 27 Author: Eric Youngdale

  • The Linux Keyboard Driver Issue: 14 Page: 5 Author: Andries Brouwer

  • Memory Allocation Issue: 16 Page: 16 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • System Calls Issue: 17 Page: 12 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Porting Linux to the DEC Alpha: Infrastructure Issue: 18 Page: 22 Author: Jim Paradis

  • Porting Linux To the DEC Alpha Issue: 19 Page: 16 Author: Jim Paradis

Programming Hints

  • Programming the VT Interface Issue: 3 Page: 35 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Programming the VT Interface part 2 Issue: 4 Page: 31 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Strange I/O Issue: 5 Page: 33 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Introduction to make Issue: 6 Page: 48 Author: Michael K. Johnson

System Administration

  • The df command Issue: 1 Page: 35 Author: Phil Hughes

  • General System Administration Issue: 2 Page: 26 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Making Your Own Filesystems Issue: 3 Page: 20 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • mtools Issue: 5 Page: 17 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Fixing Your Clock Issue: 8 Page: 15 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • How to Move /home To A New Hard Drive On Your Linux System Issue: 8 Page: 44 Author: LJ Staff

  • Undelete Issue: 9 Page: 14 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • How To Log Friends and Influence People Issue: 11 Page: 35 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Setting Up Services Issue: 12 Page: 18 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Anonymous ftp Issue: 13 Page: 41 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Upgrading the Linux Kernel Issue: 14 Page: 30 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Installing the Xaw3D Libraries Issue: 15 Page: 54 Author: Mark Komarinski

  • Using LILO Issue: 19 Page: 52 Author: Æleen Frisch

Novice to Novice

  • Linux Installation and X Windows Issue: 12 Page: 26 Author: Dean Oisboid

  • DOS Emulation with dosemu Issue: 13 Page: 34 Author: Dean Oisboid

  • Games, Sound & Other Agonies Issue: 15 Page: 6 Author: Dean Oisboid

  • Interlude & Exploration: Spreadsheets & Text Editors Issue: 16 Page: 6 Author: Dean Oisboid

  • Databases Issue: 17 Page: 37 Author: Dean Oisboid

  • Serendipity Issue: 18 Page: 26 Author: Dean Oisboid

What's Gnu?

  • What's Gnu? Issue: 1 Page: 20 Author: Arnold Robbins

  • What's Gnu? Issue: 2 Page: 14 Author: Arnold Robbins

  • Bash: The GNU shell Issue: 3 Page: 40 Author: Chet Ramey

  • Bash: The GNU Shell part 2 Issue: 4 Page: 41 Author: Chet Ramey

  • Texinfo Issue: 6 Page: 51 Author: Arnold Robbins

  • groff Issue: 7Page: 19 Author: Arnold Robbins

  • RCS: Revision Control System Issue: 10 Page: 36 Author: Arnold Robbins

  • Plan 9 Issue: 11 Page: 31 Author: Arnold Robbins

  • The GNU Coding Standards Issue: 16 Page: 47 Author: Arnold Robbins

Stop the Presses

  • Non-Intel Linux, WWW, Brave New Linux Issue: 3 Page: 6 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • Linux MIPS, Version 0.9.2 Linux 64k, LSM Maintainer Change Issue: 6 Page: 5 Author: N/A

  • Linux Gaining Momentum Issue: 7 Page: 5 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Linux Journal at Unix Expo Issue: 8 Page: 5 Author: Phil Hughes

  • An Amazing Year—Looking Into the Future Issue: 9 Page: 7 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Documentation? Issue: 10 Page: 5 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Time Again For Reader Input Issue: 11 Page: 10 Author: LJ Staff

  • Linus Torvalds Releases Linux 2.0 Issue: 13 Page: 22 Author: LJ Staff

  • Changes to Linux Journal Issue: 14 Page: 10 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Linux at DECUS Issue: 15 Page: 10 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • ELF Tools Released for Linux Issue: 16 Page: 10 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • WYSIWYG Editor, BLADE, Linux at OSW Issue: 17 Page: 10 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Win95 and Linux Issue: 18 Page: 11 Author: Phil Hughes

Cooking With Linux

  • Virtual Dramamine Issue: 3 Page: 46 Author: Matt Welsh

  • It's Linux Jim, But Not As We Know It! Issue: 4 Page: 39 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Thou Shalt Not Use MS-DOS Issue: 5 Page: 35 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Your Mileage May Vary Issue: 6 Page: 38 Author: Matt Welsh

  • Amsterdam on Fifty Guilders a Day Issue: 12 Page: 11 Author: Matt Welsh

Book Reviews

  • Linux Installation and Getting Started Issue: 1 Page: 10 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Newtons Telecom Dictionary Issue: 3 Page: 23 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Internet Public Access Guide Issue: 3 Page: 23 Author: Morgan Hall

  • Cyberia, Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace Issue: 5 Page: 44 Author: Putnam Barber

  • The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog Issue: 5 Page: 44 Author: Putnam Barber

  • Firewall and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker Issue: 6 Page: 36 Author: Danny Yee

  • Making TeX Work Issue: 8 Page: 50 Author: Vince Skahan

  • UNIX—An Open Systems Dictionary Issue: 8 Page: 52 Author: Laurie Tucker

  • Linux vom PC zur Workstation Grundlagen, Installation und praktischer Einsatz Issue: 8 Page: 52 Author: Martin Sckopke

  • Linux Anwenderhandbuch Leitfaden fur die Systemverwaltung Issue: 8 Page: 53 Author: Martin Sckopke

  • Unix Systems for Modern Architectures Issue: 9 Page: 30 Author: Randolph Bentson

  • Your Internet Consultant Issue: 11 Page: 59 Author: Phil Hughes

  • The Tcl and the Tk Toolkit Issue: 11 Page: 60 Author: Phil Hughes

  • A Quarter Century of Unix Issue: 12 Page: 45 Author: Danny Yee

  • The X Mosaic Handbook for the X Window System Issue: 12 Page: 25 Author: Caleb Epstein

  • The Linux Sampler Issue: 13 Page: 58 Author: Harvey Friedman

  • Running Linux Issue: 14 Page: 8 Author: Grant Johnson

  • X User Tools Issue: 15 Page: 8 Author: Danny Yee

  • Sendmail: Theory and Practice Issue: 16 Page: 12 Author: Phil Hughes

  • Casting the Net: From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond Issue: 17 Page: 48 Author: Danny Yee

  • The Unix Philosophy Issue: 17 Page: 51 Author: Belinda Frazier

  • Build a Web Site Issue: 18 Page: 15 Author: Brian Rice

  • The HTML Sourcebook Issue: 18 Page: 15 Author: Brian Rice

  • HTML for Fun and Profit Issue: 18 Page: 15 Author: Brian Rice

  • Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days Issue: 19 Page: 15 Author: David Flood

Product Reviews

  • Motif 1.2.3 Runtime and Development System Issue: 6 Page: 12 Author: Dale A. Lutz

  • Unix Interactive Tools Issue: 6 Page: 22 Author: Clarence Smith

  • Crisp Text Editor Issue: 6 Page: 27 Author: Robert Broughton

  • Doom Issue: 8Page: 22 Author: Michael K. Johnson

  • BRU—Backup and Restore Utility Issue: 11 Page: 43 Author: Jon Freivald

  • Xfig Issue: 12Page: 6 Author: Robert Dalrymple

  • InfoMagic Issue: 12 Page: 25 Author: Caleb Epstein

  • Metro X Issue: 15 Page: 30 Author: Bogdan Urma

  • AX Graphical Display Server Issue: 15 Page: 31 Author: Mark Ganter

  • Motif for Linux Issue: 15 Page: 48 Bogdan Urma

  • Moo-Tiff Development Environment Issue: 17 Page: 55 Author: Bogden Urma

  • IGEL Etherminal 3X Issue: 19 Page: 35 Author: Michael K. Johnson