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From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: pixmode(PM_SIZE) question, Indigo XS running 4.0.2
Date: 18 Dec 92 10:35:43 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

Recently I've tried using pixmode(PM_SIZE) to draw packed 1-bit and
4-bit images on an Indigo XS24Z running 4.0.2. 4 bit images work fine,
but if I try to draw 1-bit images I don't get any complaints but all
the pixels come out as zero.

The manpage is less than clear: it has a note about PM_SIZE<8 not
being supported on Indigo, but 4 bit pixels *do* seem to be supported.
Should 1-bit pixels be supported as well, or am I out of luck?

Alternatively, does anyone have a neat trick to let the lrectwrite
engine do the unpacking? (After all the wonderous things I've gotten
lrectwrite to do for me with the right incantations to pixmode I
wouldn't be surprised...)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: werner@physics.uq.oz.au (Michael Werner)
Subject: shared libraries
Keywords: mkshlib
Reply-To: werner@dirac.physics.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:53:29 GMT

I have a Sony NEWS (R3000) running 4.1R which has the MIPS C compiler, linker and other tools. It calls these version 2.11 if that means anything to non-Sony machines. It also has mkshlib2.11. 
How do you generate an appropriate specification file for mkshlib to use ?
Do you need a shared library version of lic.a for it to work ? Has anyone built X11R5 shared libraries using the sgiLib.rules configuration file in the MIT distribution? If so does this file need to be modified to get it working ?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: Command not found, but file exists - Need Info
Organization: IKE
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:59:13 GMT



    Hey,

    could somebody tell how I can make executable files available ?
    We use IRIX 4.04 ! Following happens :

        - I copy a programm in a directory
        - Change to this directory
        - Want to run this program, but "Command not found" message
          appears
        - Then I can run the program with ./<name of program>, but
          exists there no possibility to make this program at once
          available ?

    Please mail me your informations !


    Thanks for your efforts,

        Oliver



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jj@aquarium.esd.sgi.com (Jennifer Jacobi)
Subject: Re: Borders of fixed-sized windows
Keywords: client decorations
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:20:33 GMT


In article <34497@adm.brl.mil>, drew+@cs.cmu.edu writes:
> I'm using Xlib, and I'm trying to create a window that
> will have a constant size.  (The user will be unable
> to adjust the size of the window.)
> 
> However!  4Dwm leaves the window resize handle decorations
> on the window, even though they're useless.  Is there
> any way to get rid of them from within my program?
> 
> It would be way keen if 4Dwm was smart enough to notice that
> "minsize equals maxsize" and then ditch the resize handles.

	
Never ask how "smart" a window manager is -- it's dangerous.
8-)	


What you can do however is the following:

1) In your .Xdefaults file you can place the line

4Dwm*<appClass>.clientDecoration: title

This will take the min and max buttons away as well as the resize handles
around the boarder.  This also works for mwm.  (YOU MUST restart the 
window manager before this will take effect -- this is a window manager
resource.)

OR

2) Programatically you can set mwm or 4Dwm window manager hints to 
do the same thing.

You will find this in OSF Motif programmer's guide (1.1)  page 12-13.


--jj
jj@sgi.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Printer Problem
Keywords: lp
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 01:57:20 GMT

In article <BzFKIC.B72@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> sridhar@ameiris1.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sridhar  Sundararaman) writes:
>hai
>
>I am having some problems with printing. I am using 'lp' to print and it was working fine.
>One of the users sent a job to the printer, which is a Tektronics 4693DX, and for some
>reason did not want it. So he switched off the printer, instead of trying to remove it from the
>queue. After this, the printer has been refusing to print. Whenever a job is sent it stays
>on the queue and nothing happens. 

I'm not certain that this is the case, but the driver may have exited
leaving the spooler and/or parallel port in an error condition.

Does rebooting solve it?

Short of that, the best solution for the wedged spooler problem is:

su
/etc/init.d/lp start

Try printing again.

If it's the parallel port you can try a small program to reset it (see
man plp and the ioctl PLPRESET), or reboot the machine.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California

I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.
From: jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Paradigm Flight Sim?
Date: 18 Dec 92 06:04:36 GMT
Organization: a2i network
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   Has anyone seen this around?  I was just at the Holiday Open House (thanks 
SGI), at SGI and someone was playing around with it on a PowerSeries.  Does 
anyone now if it's publicly available, or the cost, etc?
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: brad@research.nj.nec.com (Brad Gianulis)
Subject: Re: Inventor Question
Originator: brad@eames
Organization: NEC Research Institute
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 02:50:40 GMT

In article <1go6veINN40j@fido.asd.sgi.com> gavin@krypton.asd.sgi.com (Gavin Bell) writes:
>In <1992Dec16.162928.16505@erenj.com> ram@ramsgi.erenj.com (ram rajagopalan) writes:
>> This may be a really stupid question,  but here it is.  I am in the 
>> process of learning inventor, and I am trying to set the value for
>> the fields in the nodes.  I get a compile time error in attempting
>> to do this.  Any pointers would be appreciated.  Code segment follows.
>> I am using the C binding ...
>>  SoCmplx      *sph_cmplx;
>>  sph_cmplx = SoCmplxCreate();
>>  sph_cmplx->value = 0.25;
>
>Ah.  sph_cmplx->values is a field of type SoSFFloat, not a regular
>'float'.  The compiler is complaining because you are trying to assign
>a float to an SoSFFloat.  When you set a field's value, Inventor does
>some extra stuff so that data sensors will notice the change and fire.
>
>So, in C, you have to call a method to set a field's value; your code
>should look like:
>
>SoSFloatSet(&sph_cmplx->value, 0.25);
>
>In C++, Inventor 'overloads' the '=' function to essentially do this
>for you automatically.
>
>
>
>--
>--gavin     (gavin@sgi.com,  (415)390-1024)


So, Gavin, in C++, wouldn't that be:

	sph_cmplx->value.setValue( 0.25 );


(I'm learning Inventor (and C++), too. and just want to make sure I got
it right).



Brad Gianulis
NEC Research Institute
Princeton, NJ
(609) 951-2776
brad@research.nj.nec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: lfeth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence L Feth)
Subject: SGI Indigo in monochrome?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:13:01 GMT

We have considered buying an Indigo, but a major application program that
we wish to run must be run in monochrome not color.  Sun systems can be
run in forced monochrome mode under X-11, DEC Stations apparently can not.
Can anyone tell me if they have tried "forced monochrome" under X-11 and
their impressions of its performance?  Thanks.

BTW  please send e-mail I am not yet a regular reader of this group

L. Feth feth@shs.ohio-state.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:17934 comp.sys.sgi.admin:2
From: panisset@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Sendmail won't deliver outside / or /usr
Keywords: sendmail home directory
Date: 12 Dec 92 19:51:14 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

I am trying to get mail to run on an Indigo running 4.0.5. Things
are very bizarre, since I am able to send mail to some users without
any problems, but for some of the users mail bounces with the following
headers:

(anything between {} brackets has been replaced to protect the innocent...)

Note this bit of bizarrenes: I thought I had my /usr/lib/sendmail.cf
configure right...
             |
             v
From root@somewhere  Sat Dec 12 13:32:41 1992
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:32:41 -0500
From: root@somewhere (Super-User)
Apparently-To: root

***** UNDELIVERABLE MAIL sent to {user}, being returned by {host}!root *****
mail: Error #8 'Invalid recipient' encountered on system {host}

Received: by {host} (920330.SGI/911001.SGI)
        for {user} id AA13814; Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:32:40 -0500
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:32:40 -0500
From: root (Super-User)
Message-Id: <9212121832.AA13814@{host}>
To: {user}
Subject: test

test

--------------------------
As I said, mail would barf for some users but not for others. I finally
figured out that I was able to send mail to all users who had home directories
(as specified in /etc/passwd) under /usr/people (or for that matter, it seems,
anywhere in the / or /usr partition), but would fail for users with their
home directories on a different partition on an external drive (all such
users are in /sd4/u). I got things to work by telling /etc/passwd that
the home directories for these users were in /usr/people and putting in
there symbolic links to their real home directories in /sd4/u, but this
seems like a rather gross kludge. BTW, the machine is not running NIS.

Anybody knows what's going on? Surely someone else has tried (and failed?)
to send mail to a user with a home directory on an external drive?

Thanks in advance for any feedback,

JF Panisset


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt)
Subject: Re: Why do my rlogin and xterm sessions keep dying?
Reply-To: mark@cita.toronto.edu
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:02:22 GMT

[ Kim Andersen ]

| Has anybody else noticed, under 4.0.5, that xterm windows and
| rlogins seem to just suddenly disconnect for no apparent reason?
| It always seem to happen when I'm typing really fast.

I haven't seen any followups to this, but it seems worth mentioning that
I've noticed a similar (though different; related?) problem:  Every so
often, my console window vanishes.  I have no .xsession, .sgisession, or
.chestrc files in my home directory, so I'm getting whatever defaults
SGI in its infinite wisdom decided one should get.  The problem isn't
connected with an autologout feature, since I'm one of those remaining
few curmudgeonly neoluddites who prefer using /bin/sh as a login shell.

I keep my console window iconified most of the time.  What I generally
see is that it's there, tucked away next to the toolchest when I leave
at the end of the day, and in the morning it's gone.  Nothing in SYSLOG
that seems relevant.  And it doesn't seem to happen to any window other
than the console window.  Dunno whether having it iconified is relevant.

Anyone else noticed this?

Mark Bartelt                                                416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                             mark@cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                           mark@cita.utoronto.ca

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          [ singing "It's all right, ma (I'm only bleaching)" ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin
From: doctor@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong)
Subject: XView clients locking 4.0.5 X server
Summary: need to display Sun XView clients on SGI display
Keywords: X, 4.0.5, Xview
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:28:54 GMT

Hi all,

A few weeks ago I believe there was some discussion on displaying Sun
XView based clients. Seems there is a known problem with the 4.0.5 X
server which freezes when a Sun XView client (e.g., "textedit") is
started. I've been told a workaround was described (setting "the
fullscreen debug mode"), but of course, I neglected to save the
articles that discussed what resources/command options were needed.
Can someone point me in the right direction? 

Merci beaucoup.

-terry
terry@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov



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From: keith@zookeeper.zoo.uga.edu (Charlie Keith )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: ghostscript on 4d25, indigo
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:43:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Dec11.184326.6089
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Hi -

	I have built ghostscript on a 4d25, hoping to use it to drive HP
 laserjets on both machines. The code works, because if I direct it to a file
I can print that file out on another machine. I am not having much luck trying
to route it diectly to the spooler, however. If I include the switch

	-sOutputFile=\|lp

as they say to do, the print comes out garbled, because lp screens its input,
presumably. I have the HP selected as a dumb printer. Can anyone give
me a clue as how to set it up, or what switches to send lp, to avoid this?

	I also built support for a dec ln03 into the system, because I may
occaisionally use that printer. The ln03 communicates thru a serial port.
Will there be any difference, except in port selection?

Thanks 10E6
Charles Keith
From: S.H.Kinder@daresbury.ac.uk (Steve Kinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Indigo memory UK suppliers
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:36:51 GMT
Reply-To: shk@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

Does anyone know of any suppliers of memory for indigos in the UK?
If so could you let me have their names and phone numbers please.
Thanks

Steve
From: gavin@krypton.asd.sgi.com (Gavin Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: WANTED: demos for 3D shutter glasses
Date: 17 Dec 1992 18:13:48 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: krypton.asd.sgi.com

In <1992Dec16.214358.16543@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>  Are there any demos or applications out there that I can download which
>make use of 3D shutter glasses? 

The powerflip demo has a command-line option that puts it into
full-screen stereo mode.  It is in the 'eoe2.sw.demos' subsystem, and
is installed into /usr/demos/bin.  It even has a man page.  Try
something like:

/usr/demos/bin/powerflip -S /usr/demos/data/yaodl/x29.ydl

Not really a sublime application of stereo, but turn on a couple of
local light sources and spin everything around and it looks kind of
cool....
--
--gavin     (gavin@sgi.com,  (415)390-1024)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ssfels@cs.toronto.edu (Sidney Fels)
Subject: Audio Input Level Meter (also apanel)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:27:05 GMT

I am writing an application that uses the audio port on a PI35.  What
I'm wondering is whether anyone knows of a good way to measure the
input level of a signal coming through the stereo-line-level port.
Basically, what I really want is the code that runs the input level
meter on the apanel display.  Thanks.

sid
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: joefw@eosdev1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joe Fulson-Woytek)
Subject: Showcase files to Mac-Word
Keywords: Showcase, Mac, Word
Reply-To: joefw@eosdev1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joe Fulson-Woytek 
Organization: NASA/GSFC, Code 902.2
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:57:36 GMT

I thought I remembered a discussion a month or so back about
transfering text files produced through showcase to a Mac and
then importing them into Word.  I also thought I remembered 
saving the discussion - but I can't find it.  In any case,
I tried saving the file as an EPS file on the Iris and I
then used kermit to ship the file to the Mac.  When I try
to insert the file into Word, it basically comes out 
blank.

Any suggestions?  Thanks

Joe Fulson-Woytek
Code 902/Goddard DAAC
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
joefw@eosdev1.gsfc.nasa.gov
From: suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: PC binary data files to Irix?
Date: 12 Dec 92 16:29:10 GMT

Hi!

I should write a program to manipulate binary data from PC-world (from
a dollarware program). Data is a mixture of integer and float (8 bytes)
data. I thought that simple byte-swapping will do the trick, but no...
or then I have (once again) made a programming error. Any pointers to
a working solution is welcome.
--
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From: barrett@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov (Jim Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: POP3 Mail Server Setup
Date: 12 Dec 92 15:35:24 GMT



In article <1992Dec7.193927.2303@alw.nih.gov> Edward Suh,
suh@rainbow.dcrt.nih.gov writes:
>Could someone tell me how to seup pop3 mail server on the 
>SGI (4.0.5)?

Here's how:

1) Obtain the source code to popper from ftp.cc.berkeley.edu
(128.32.136.12) via anonymous ftp.   It's in the /pub/popper
directory, and the file you want is popper-1.831beta.tar.Z


2) Compile it.  You'll have to fix the Makefile before it will compile. 


3) Take the executable file 'popper' and put it someplace like
/usr/local/bin, or wherever you store local programs.  


4) Edit the file /etc/services, and put the following line in there:

pop3       110/tcp             # Post Office, version 3

Check to make sure there's not already a reference to pop3 in there. 
If there is, make sure it agrees with the above.  If not, replace it
(but comment out the old line, don't delete it).  


5) Edit the file /usr/etc/inetd.conf, and put the following line in
there:
	
pop3   stream  tcp nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/popper    popper

Note that you should use the path of your popper program, which may
not be /usr/local/bin/popper.  That's just where I've put mine.  


6) Use the 'ps -ef | fgrep inetd' command to find out the process id
number  of inetd.   Issue the command 'kill -HUP nnnn', where nnnn is
the process id number of inetd.  This tells inetd to re-read it's
configuration file.

Presto!  All done!

You will find that popper generates a *large* number of messages that
appear in /usr/adm/SYSLOG.  We have so many people using pop3 mail
clients that the log messages became a problem (and we never found
the log useful).  So we gutted the poplog function in the pop_log.c
file in the popper distribution.  

Best of luck!

--
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From: erikl@shogun.asd.sgi.com (Erik Lindholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Problems with SGI Space Simulator - how to fix?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:44:20 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: shogun.asd.sgi.com


The toggle for planets is 'o', and the toggle for moons is 'i'. The missing data
file 'df1' was not offered as the color data is (c) by the Geosphere project. df1
is the Earth color+elevation file. An alternate 'df1' data file is now available.

Erik
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Subject: repost: is jag(7m) manpage wrong for number of jag boards allowed???
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:03:16 GMT

this is a repost - i never saw it get thru or any replies  

system: 440S  os: 4.0.1

the jag(7m) man page sez six is the limit but the jag.h file seems 
to imply eight (if you have dual power channels) - maybe just an 
old manpage from before dual IO3's were released?

are any of the older SGI disk drives capable of fast scsi (underlying
question is if we upgrade to cougar boards will we be able to use
any of our existing devices on them - i think the disks are seagate
1.3GB, 8mm EXB8500, 4mm Archive/Python, Kennedy 9track)

or do we have to get new devices - would it make no sense to hang
tape devices off of the 10MB boards - the drives aren't capable are they?

what new scsi-2 disks are available from SGI?

general scsi questions: are scsi-2 and fast scsi basically the same thing?

scsi-1 devices can be hung off of scsi-2 controllers (backward but not
forward compatible) i guess not - man this is frustrating.

what does fast-wide give you? and where can i find out more about scsi
without bothering good old dave (i'ld rather not read the IEEE spec or
whatever it is that defines it all if possible)

	thanx,
		fish
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Subject: Re: possible games for SGIs?
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi.apps
Organization: Yale University
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 14:13:10 GMT

KAHLE DARCY BRYAN (kahle@server.uwindsor.ca) wrote:
: Does anyone know of any games for the SGIs?  I have been searching the ftp
: sites and trn and haven't gotten far. If anyone knows of somewhere that I can
: obtain some, it would be helpful!

1) Look at the SGI FTP list, at pit-manager.mit.edu in pub/usenet/comp.sys.sgi.

2) Look in the comp.sources.games and comp.sources.x archives. Most of the
   former and many of the latter compile just fine.

Followup to comp.sys.sgi.apps. (Of _course_ games are apps!)

Cheers,

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