HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mmario@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (michael.p.mario)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: sc dumps core
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:43:37 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <mdc.716441251@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> mdc@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Mark D. Crimmins) writes:
>Does anyone have a diagnosis and/or solution for sc (version 6.8, as
>found on osu) dumping core on 3b1's?  It does this very frequently &
>ruins the usefulness of a very useful program (especially since one
>gets 32 lines with the small fonts at osu).

Core dumping on sc version 6.8 is rather common on 3b1s and is due
to improperly initialized pointers.

The solution is to get a later version of sc.  The last version I
know of is version 6.19 which runs flawlessly on a 3b1.  Some folks
have had difficulty compiling it on the 3b1 but I think the trick
is to use bison instead of yacc.

--mike
From: jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com (James W. Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: I'm still around, just not 3b1'ing much lately.
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:55:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: picarefy.1992Sep10.145513.10982
Organization: Green Tiger Software

>Unfortunately that's (for sale postings) all I see these days of "real 
>substance" in c.s.3b1.  The machine had it's hay-day, probably a year 
>after the AT&T discontinue/fire-sales ... then other machines got cheaper, 
>more advanced, and more attainable for those with limited budgets...  

   Well, there's still one thing that the 3B1 does better cheaper than
anything else I can think of on the used market: serial ports. The really
cheap Suns (3/50,3/60) have only two; after that, you have to buy SCSI or
Ethernet terminal concentrators (major $$$). I believe that serial ports
can be added to the larger, VME-based Sun3's, but neither the boards nor
the machines are as cheap as 3B1's. Multiport serial boards for IBM
compatibles are expensive as well. The only other machines I see used in
significant quantities are NeXTs, which don't have lots of ports either.
Whereas it is possible to outfit a 3B1 with seven ports relatively cheaply.
Of course, it won't stand up to heavy traffic, but if you're trying to
connect a bunch of machines you can probably arrange things such that no
more than one or two ports are loaded at any given time.

   That's what I did. My main machine these days is a Sun 3/60, but the hub
of my little UUCP network is the 3B1, simply because it's the only machine
I have that can do the job at a reasonable cost.

-- 
James W. Birdsall                            jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com
Compu$erve: 71261,1731    GEnie: J.BIRDSALL2    America On-Line: GreenTiger
          "For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
Subject: What's the 3b1 still have going for it?
Organization: Little to None
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:37:07 GMT

>>Unfortunately that's (for sale postings) all I see these days of "real 
>>substance" in c.s.3b1.  The machine had it's hay-day, probably a year 
>>after the AT&T discontinue/fire-sales ... then other machines got cheaper, 
>>more advanced, and more attainable for those with limited budgets...  
>
>   Well, there's still one thing that the 3B1 does better cheaper than
>anything else I can think of on the used market: serial ports.

For my money, the best thing the 3b1 has going for it is the software.
The OS is cheap -- well, free for the most part, and -- even if it is
getting a bit dated -- it is quite solid.  I leave two of my systems up
continuously, and the only time they boot is when the power fails.  I
really think I would spring for a '486 box if it wasn't for the cost of
a good Unix software platform.

BTW, any of you note the recent announcment of the release of P G P 2.0
in the crypto groups.  (This is an implementation of the R S A public key
encryption/signature system that was originally written by Phil Zimmerman
and which is patented in the states, but apparently not in Europe.)  It
actually works fairly well, after I spent some time getting it to compile
on the 3B1 (although it is as slow as molassas on a 1 MIP machine).  If you
are trying to build it, and having problems, let me know -- I could
probably save you a few false starts.
-- 
Rob Stampfli  rob@colnet.cmhnet.org      The neat thing about standards:
614-864-9377  HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh  There are so many to choose from.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: paulmack@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Mackinney)
Subject: AT&T PC7300/3B1 4 Sale Update
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:10:51 GMT



Previously I had offered a PC7300 or 3B1 for sale. Now the only
for sale item is the 3B1, which comes with the Foundation Set,
Development Set + more installed.  I'll be including a User's Manual 
and Programmers Guide for my asking price of $400

Reason for sale is that I had bought this machine to consolidate some
hardware and software that I wanted with another machine. This one
has been running for about four months with no problems, appears to
be in great shape.

Paul Mackinney 510/428-2217
Xref: sparky comp.sys.3b1:3317 comp.sys.apollo:3497 comp.sys.atari.st:13463 comp.sys.sequent:543 comp.unix.aix:9476 comp.unix.amiga:2108 comp.unix.cray:269 comp.unix.sysv386:14207 comp.unix.ultrix:6780
From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.sequent,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.cray,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: CFV: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: 9 Sep 92 07:58:04 GMT
Reply-To: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Originator: dslg0849@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

> So how is my mailer supposed to know this, seeing as how all three
> hosts have the same MX priority?  Is it just to supposed to, like,
> guess or something?

Any of the mail exchangers will work.  Mail sent to gnuplot-vote@uiuc.edu
works.  If not, your mailer is broken and that is your problem.

Daniel Lewart
d-lewart@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: ksc@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (kenneth.s.cobler)
Subject: Re: Help with EIA Combo board... What is cmbpcnt?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:48:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.114807.1@orion.yorku.ca> haroldt@orion.yorku.ca writes:
>
>However... The software that came with the board for driving 
>the additional two serial ports does not work.  It reaches
>as far as the line (see /etc/lddrv/cmb.rc):

>
>
>The above does not return within 5 minutes (I think it's hung).

The cmbpcnt program counts the number of combo ports in the system.
It also can be used to test for the existence of a single port.


The 3.5 combo driver was a little buggy.  Upgrade to 3.51m.  The
drivers in 3.51m should clear up your problem.

Kenneth Cobler		ksc@cbnewsk.att.com or ken@ihlpm.att.com
AT&T Bell Laboratories	attmail!cbnewsk!ksc or attmail!ihlpm!ken
2000 N. Naperville Rd.
Naperville, IL  60566
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.sequent,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.cray,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.ultrix
From: kak@hico2.westmark.com (Kris A. Kugel)
Subject: Re: CFV: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Reply-To: kak2@hico2.westmark.com
Organization: High Country Software
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:09:13 GMT

Daniel S. Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu) wrote:
: This is a Call For Votes (CFV) for the comp.graphics.gnuplot newsgroup.
: The newsgroup would be unmoderated and its charter is given below.
: 
: To vote *for* the creation of comp.graphics.gnuplot, reply to
: gnuplot-vote@uiuc.edu with either of the following:

I have had no luck e-mailing my vote for this in.
Anybody else having problems?

Kris A. Kugel	908-842-2707
hico2!kak	kak@hico2.westmark.com
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: 3.51? && max memory of 2.4Megs?  HELP!!!
Date: 15 Sep 92 05:37:44 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Sep14.100001.1@orion.yorku.ca> haroldt@orion.yorku.ca writes:

>0) How do I know if I'm running OS version 3.51 

$ ls -l /UNIX*
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root    root     168707 Jan  1  1970 /UNIX3.51
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root    users    174174 Apr  8 20:01 /UNIX3.51m

One will be linked to /unix.

>1) How do I acquire 3.51?  

Find somebody who has a copy and borrow it.

>2) How do I get to create a process in excess of 2.5Megs?

You can't.  It's a hardware limitation - the memory translation
hardware is designed to provide each process with a maximum of 4Mb,
of which 1.5Mb is taken up by the shared libraries and the kernel
(which is inaccessible).  You can add more physical memory or swap,
but programs can be 2.5Mb maximum.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Makefiles and the like.
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:28:02 GMT
Organization: D & D Data

In article <1992Sep7.131906.10061@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jbunch@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Bunch) writes:
>Well, it is me again...  I have run into a bit of another problem.  I am a
>real novice at using Make, and so I am not sure what might be causing the
>problem I am having.  Just so ya know..  I am running on a 7300 with 1meg of
>ram and a 20meg HD.  I have Unix 3.51m and the Dev set 3.51 installed on the
>machine.  Okay, what I did was grab the uuencode stuff from osu-cis, but
>when I type make I get the following messages.  

>
>Below is output of make -d
>--------------------- Cut Here --------------------

	[ ... ]

>Make: Must be a separator on rules line 8.  Stop.
>-------------------- Cut Here --------------------
>Bellow is a copy of the makefile.  I think....  ;-)  Still have to get the
>hang of ~%take and ~%put.
>-------------------- Cut Here --------------------
>include $(MAKEINC)/Makepre.h
>CFLAGS = -O
>BINDIR = /usr/local/bin
>
>all:   uuencode uudecode
>install:       all
>       cp uuencode uudecode $(BINDIR)
>       strip $(BINDIR)/uuencode
>       strip $(BINDIR)/uudecode
>#      cp uuencode.1 /usr/man/man1/uuencode.1
>
>uuencode:      uuencode.c
>       cc -c $(CFLAGS) uuencode.c
>       ld $(SHAREDLIB) -o uuencode uuencode.o
>
>uudecode:      uudecode.c
>       cc -c $(CFLAGS) uudecode.c
>       ld $(SHAREDLIB) -o uuencode uuencode.o


	Well, this one looks strange, since I don't normally encounter
makefiles with include directives in them.  It is complaining about line 8,
but I am not sure whether that is line 8 of the Makefile, line 8 of the
Makepre.h that is included, or line 7 of Makepre.h (starting counting with
the line in Makefile.

>       strip $(BINDIR)/uuencode

	If it is this line, check for a space at the front of the line.  It
*must* start with a tab, or it is taken as a new target.  (All lines which
don't start at the left margin *MUST* start with tabs.

	If not, I need more information to figure out what is happening, and
it might be a function of your environment variables.  (I never got the
uuencode package from osu-cis, since I already had a copy from other sources.

	Perpaps someone else who has gotten and used this package can
pinpoint the problem which you are having.

	Good Luck
		DoN.
-- 
Donald Nichols (DoN.)     | Voice (Days): (703) 704-2280 (Eves): (703) 938-4564
D&D Data                  |  Email: <dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
I said it - no one else   |         <nichols@nvl.army.mil>
	--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: Re: CFV: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:04:29 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

In article <Bu9M06.qv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu writes:
>are to local users via selection of the local mailer.  All three hosts above
>(ux1,uxc,garcon) treat d-lewart and d-lewart@uiuc.edu quite differently.

So how is my mailer supposed to know this, seeing as how all three
hosts have the same MX priority?  Is it just to supposed to, like,
guess or something?

-- 
Marc Unangst                | Real men don't use Windows.  Real men use X. 
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | Only a real man would use a GUI where the
                            | shift keys after "Alt" are "Super" and "Hyper."
From: ahh@glyph.kingston.ny.us (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: 3B1 FAQ needs an owner
Date: 8 Sep 92 01:07:36 GMT
Organization: Moji Computing


	I'm going to be dropping my net connections in a while
and might not be back.  This means that I won't be able to take
care of the Frequently-asked Questions list in the short term
and can't really commit to it in the long term.  If anyone is 
interested in taking this on, please let me know in the next week 
or so.

	Thanks.

-- 
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  Andy Heffernan		$BJ8;z(J		uunet!glyph!ahh
From: tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: sc dumps core
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:23:55 GMT
Reply-To: tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com
Organization: GM Research Labs

In article F27@hico2.westmark.com, kak@hico2.westmark.com (Kris A. Kugel writes:
> You need a more recent version than 6.8.
> I don't remember where to get it,
> but the latest version I know of is 6.19,
> which doesn't have this problem.

Checking the sc archive site I found that the latest version is actually 6.21.
I guess it's now time to update it again. (I do not remember the archive site name,
but it is given in the sc README file.)

Tom Tkacik
GM Research Labs
tkacik@hobbes.cs.gmr.com
tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Stock uucp on 3.51
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 08 Sep 92 03:50:14 PDT

K.X. Darmoyslis (kxl1258@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
: 
:  I'm experiencing some difficulty getting stock uucp (on 3.51) up
: and running on my 3b1. 
:  The uucico -r1 -x4 -sosu-ci gives the following screen error:
: 
:   
:     call: no. 16142923124 for sys osu-ci NO DEVICE exit code 0
:  
:  STST.osu-ci shows:
:     6 1 700742378 300 DIAL FAILED osu-ci
: 
:  LOGFILE shows:
:     osu-ci!uucp (3/16-5:39:38) (c,190,0) NO (DEVICE)
:        "                "          "     FAILED (call to osu-ci)
: 
:  I have 'ACU tty000 hayes 2400' in L-devices, and a standard entry
: in L.sys. I also have a DIR entry in L-devices for cu, which works
: just fine I might add. So does kermit-5A(179).
:  I'm using a hayes compatible modem, and the getty is disabled for
: tty000.

I had a fight to the death with the stock uucp under 3.51m trying to
contact osu-cis over the weekend - in the end I used another machine
with a UUCP of my own.  I *think* the L-devices file format is:

   ACU tty000 - 2400 hayes

since there is no dialler as such - it's part of the intelligent modem.
There must also be a modemcap entry for hayes, of course, and 2400
baud Hayes modems are subtly different from the AT&T modemcap 1200
baud entry - I think CONNECT has to be replaced by 2400 as an expect
string for successful dialling.

I hit problems that looked like RS232 status line errors, but I couldn't
track them down.  The file on osu-cis dealing with Hayes covers HDB
rather than version 2, and so can't help much.  I find the directory
structure of HDB a bit of an overkill, so I avoid it if possible.

What is even more annoying is that last time I used this modem (2400
baud hayes on tty000) under 3.51 it worked first time.  I assumed it
was a penalty of upgrading to 3.51m, but obviously it's something else.

Good luck, anyway - Will

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: lucio@proxima.uucp (Lucio de Re)
Subject: Re: Frequently-asked Questions about the UNIX-PC/3b1, Part 1/2
Organization: M-Net Communications Technology
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 08:50:03 GMT

Thus spake ahh@moji.uucp (Andy Heffernan):

>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>| Answers to some frequently asked questions about the AT&T UNIX PC, |
>|     as well as some frequent problems, hints, and solutions.	     |
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ etc... ] 
>-- 
>Andy Heffernan		$BJ8;z(J	ahh@moji.uucp (uunet!glyph!moji!ahh)

It is my understanding that FAQs ought to be posted to news.answers as
well - certainly my news expiry is geared to keep news.answers long
enough that the most recent copy is always on line.

Andy, please rectify (the posting or my understanding :-).
From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: I'm still around, just not 3b1'ing much lately.
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:22:31 GMT
Organization: D & D Data


	I don't usually followup to my own articles, but I just had to add
to what I wrote before Sunday's hamfest and today's e-mail.

In article <1992Sep13.031746.9383@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:

	[ ... my usually several spadefulls deleted ... ]

>	This does not mean that I am going to ge getting rid of *my* 3B1s,
>but I *am* going to make sure that they remain ethernet connected with the
>rest of the machines.  I used to have a ton of serial lines going to

	Not only am I not going to get rid of mine anytime soon, but I also
couldn't resist one for $50.00 at the hamfest, Sunday.  (Also, a tape drive
with card for another $50.00.)  The machine was labeled a 3B1 (with lost
password - no problem), but interior inspection showed that it was a 7300
with a case-top facelift, a new power supply, and a 67MB drive.  Still only
1MB at present.  I can't complain, at the price.  Oh, yes, it does *not*
have the DRUN patch applied - well, if I need more disk space, that's no
problem, either.

	[ ... More deleted ... ]

>	What I *would* like to do with one of the 3B1s is to find a
>Voice-Poser card being offered, since I need to make a voice-mail type
>touch-tone maze for the Folklore Society's answering machine, since the
>outgoing messages are getting too long, and giving callers the ability to
>steer their way to the topics that interest them would be nice.

	Well, shortly after that posting, I read another article offering
various 3B1 parts, including a Voice Power board.  I now have confirmation
that I have it, and am about to send off the check.  Since I don't have
ethernet for the new machine, and ethernet plus voice power are supposed to
really load the machine down, I'll hang the voice-power on my current
experimental machine (which panics with ethernet), and put the ethernet on
the new machine.  (This assumes that the new machine does *not* panic with
ethernet. :-)

>
>	I've gone on too long
>		DoN.

	As Usual :-)
		DoN.


-- 
Donald Nichols (DoN.)     | Voice (Days): (703) 704-2280 (Eves): (703) 938-4564
D&D Data                  |  Email: <dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
I said it - no one else   |         <nichols@nvl.army.mil>
	--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---
From: vern@zebra.alphacdc.COM (Vernon C. Hoxie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Fix for interactive use/19200 baud serial line
Keywords: 3B1 7300 19200 serial
Date: 13 Sep 92 01:41:10 GMT
Reply-To: vern@zebra.alphacdc.COM (Vernon C. Hoxie)
Organization: Alpha Communications, Denver, Colo.

In article <937@winneshk.hawkeye.com> mps@winneshk.hawkeye.com (Michael Snyder) writes:
>
>I have two 3B1's set up with a 19.2Kbaud serial link, and have also wanted
>clean interactive use of the link (using "cu" in my case).
>
>I have found success in getting clean output by executing "stty nl1" in my
>.profile when it conditionally senses I'm coming in on that line.

Michael:
	I don't see what your problem is.  I have had my two systems set
up to run at 19200 between them for some time.  The interface speed
between the systems has nothing to do with the display speed of the
console.

	One trick I did do was to set up a second login in /etc/passwd
which is identical to my regular login except that it is for 'vch'
instead of 'vern'.  Then modified my .profile to:

" if [ "$SHFLAG" != 1 ]
" then
" 	if [ "$LOGNAME" = "vern" ]
" 	then
" 		exec /usr/bin/ua
" 	else
" 		stty erase \^h
" 		exec /bin/ksh
" 	fi
" fi

When I login as 'vern', I get the 'us' and can use the various service
available there from the console.  When logging in with 'cu' from the
other system, I login as 'vch' and bypass all the 'ua' gibberish.

>*My Theory* is that the windowing hardware/software on these machines cannot
>handle the speeds above 9600 (as evidenced by inittab entries for getty on
>the windows).  If this number is bumped any higher in inittab, nothing or
>bad things happen.

	Certainly true.  If you called in with a vt100 or any other
terminal and set the speed wrong, bad things will happen.

vern

-- 
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3975 W. 29th Ave.                                   vern@zebra.alphacdc.COM
Denver, Colo., 80212          voice: 303-477-1780        uucp: 303-455-2670
From: trinh@FLUKY.MITRE.ORG (S. Trinh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: WANTED: 20 or 40 meg MFM hard drive
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:28:25 GMT


 
I am looking for a half-height 20 meg or 40 meg hard drive in good working condition.
It must has a ST506/MFM interface, has less than or equal to 1024 cylinders,
has less than or equal to 8 heads and has seek time faster than 80ms.  
I might consider the 67 meg depends on the price.

If you happen to have one for sale at a very *reasonable* price, please
email me with the condition, year, manufacture and the module of the
drive.  Thank you very much! 

PS. FYI, it will be a replacement for my PC7000 machine.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: hruska@bnr.ca (Bob Hruska P840)
Subject: Re: Two 3B1 keycaps needed
Originator: hruska@brtph380
Organization: bnr
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 00:51:44 GMT

From article <1992Aug31.220715.16473@sco.COM>, by robertle@sco.COM (Robert Lewis):
> 
> The new keycaps which are the ones which I want have a very small,
> approximately 1/8 inch by 1/16 inch rectangular-section stud on their
> underside which is made entirely of white plastic.  The stud fits into
> a rectangular-section socket on the keyboard.  This socket is made of
> brown plastic, and takes the form of a 3/8 by 1/4 inch protrusion or
> stud which has the necessary rectangular socket hole in its top.

I'm looking for a space bar in the new style myself.  I have an old style
keyboard that broke, so I bought a surplus one.  It has the new style keys
and was missing a space bar.  I have hacked up my old one to sort of fit,
but it certainly could be better.

I would be willing to trade parts from an old style keyboard, or buy
the new style space bar outright.

Help? Please?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: haroldt@orion.yorku.ca
Subject: Help: : Reinstalling Printer from scratch
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:38:39 GMT


  I recently connected my IBM Colorjet printer to the 3B1 and it worked, 
to my amazement, right off the bat.  The other day, for some reason,
I `cat`ed to the device /dev/lp (parrallel printer), that worked too.  
Since then, printing via lp does not work.  I've tried redefining the printer,
rebooting... nothing.  The jobs just flush.  I can still cat to the device
so I'm tempted to just port lpr/lpd/lpq... but that would occupy more of my
precious disk and cpu.  

  How can I reinstall printing right from scratch without wiping out my 
entire disk and reinstalling everything?

  I tried a cpio of the Foundation Set but it failed to find anything.  I tried
`cpio -icdvmB /usr/spool/lp/* < /dev/rfp021` (and that's from memory).  After
feeding it all ten disks, I came up with nothing.  No error, no nothing.

Ideas?


Haroldt.

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