HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cannell@ed8217.ped.pto.ford.com (Larry Cannell)
Subject: Turning on NFS locking
Organization: Powertrain Electronics, Ford Motor Co.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:06:32 GMT

Our Ultrix workstation environment is growing and we are changing our
user configuration to make it more scaleable.  What I would like to do
is put all user files (users, projects, homebrew software) on a main
server (DECsystem 5900).  Presently, most all user accounts are on local
workstations (and we cross-mount all of them).

We also don't have NFS locking turned on.  This environment was new to us
(we were a VMS shop until then) and we didn't turn on NFS locking because
of some cautious advice we were given.

Now that I am moving all user files to a server should I turn on NFS locking?

--
Larry Cannell (cannell@ed8200.ped.pto.ford.com)
Powertrain Electronics
Ford Motor Company
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: installing X11R5
From: harres@sundance.uwyo.edu (John M. Harres)
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:23:27
Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix,world
Organization: /usr/users/harres/.organization

I just got through installing X11R5 on my DECstation 3100 into the /usr/X11R5
directory.  I am now in the process of changing /etc/ttys to start Xdec instead
of Xws.  I first tried (from /etc/ttys):

:0 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/bin/Xprompter -C /usr/bin/dxsession -e" none on secure window="/usr/X11R5/bin/Xdec bc"

That causes some problems with fonts and cursors.  After playing with xset, I
realized that the problem was caused by the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi
fonts directory not being searched.  I tried (command line):

xset fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi

and that cured the problem for any new windows started in that session.  Next,
I tried the following (from /etc/ttys):

:0 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/bin/Xprompter -C /usr/bin/dxsession -e" none on secure window="/usr/X11R5/bin/Xdec bc fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi/"

That line seems to either hang the boot (if I reboot), or start the display
flashing (if I kill the Xdec server and allow it to restart).  I have tried
typing the Xdec part directly from single-user mode (ok, I was desperate), and
it gave me the usage message, implying that the fp+ part was not allowed.

Any ideas?

John Harres
harres@sundance.uwyo.edu

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  University of Wyoming  |   however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: dbrillha@dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart)
Subject: installing X11R
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:01:15 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Reply-To: dbrillha@dave.mis.semi.harris.com
Organization: Harris Semiconductor

>I just got through installing X11R5 on my DECstation 3100 into the /usr/X11R5
>directory.  I am now in the process of changing /etc/ttys to start Xdec instead
>of Xws.  I first tried (from /etc/ttys):
> [... deleted ...]


Try this, it's worked for me for, 


:0 "/usr/X11R5/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/X11/xdm/xdm-config" none on secure



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From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: Why no PEX in Xws?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 13 Oct 92 05:05:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.161405.20135@PA.dec.com> rjones@wsl.dec.com (Russ Jones) writes:
>In article <2AD761AD.13152@news.service.uci.edu>, fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
>> We use PEX applications on our PXG machines (Xwst3d server), however I'd like
>> to know why PEX is not in the 2D server (Xws). I know performance of the
>> 2D graphics boards is not going to be good for our 3D applications, but
>> wouldn't PEX on a HX/PX/CX cards be better than plain X if it were
>> available? 
>
>Today we support PEX on some of the 2D accelerators we sell with VAXstations.
>We're investigating adding this type of support for our 2D graphics options on the UNIX side of the house.  Stayed tuned.
>

Great!

>> Some X terminal vendors are incorporating PEX into their
>> servers even though their products do not have any special hardware
>> accelerators.
>
>You're right.  NCD, for one, sells PEX as a layered product on their RISC-based
>X-terminals.  

We're waiting to receive our PEX support tape for NCD 17CRs soon.
Hopefully it will be compatible with DEC's PEX! 

>Does this layered product approach seem resaonable to you?
>

Yes, as long as it still supports the existing product line on the
DECstations and especially if it's a 100% DEC developed product, so that
universities get it for free through the CSLG program :-) (Sorry Russ!)

>> Thanks
>> 
>> Fred Velijanian
>> University of California, Irvine
>> fredv@uci.edu
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>Russ Jones
>U.S. Graphics Workstation Marketing Mgr
>Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
>All opinions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer


Fred
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sybertz@brsux0.bro.dec.com (Sybertz Marc)
Subject: Re: Unix Distributed System Management : DECFullSail
Reply-To: sybertz@ketje.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Brussels
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:18:54 GMT


In article <1besvhINNfkv@agate.berkeley.edu>, forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest) writes:
>From: forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest)
>Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
>Subject: Re: Unix Distributed System Management : DECFullSail
>
>One thing about FullSail that I haven't seen the answer to (I haven't
>looked very hard) is how they're going to handle the paradox presented
>by the fact that FullSail requires Ultrix/SQL, which is no longer
>licensed in Ultrix 4.3. (I don't know if no longer licensed means not
>distributed, or requires and additional license for additional $, or
>what). So, how are you supposed to run FullSail without Ultrix/SQL?
>-- 
>Anything you read here is my opinion and in no way represents the Univ. of Cal.
>Jon Forrest WB6EDM	 forrest@postgres.berkeley.edu	 510-643-6764
>

When you order FullSail, you automatically get Ultrix/SQL in addition.

Regards,
Marc Sybertz.

+------------------------------------------+
| From : Marc Sybertz                      |
| Dept : EIS - Unix Service Center         |
| Func : Unix System Management Specialist |
| Mail : sybertz@ketje.enet.dec.com        |
| Loc  : DIGITAL - BRO (Brussels, Belgium) |
+------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: reber@ceres.fccc.edu (John Reber)
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 - DECsession manager(pause quits)
Originator: reber@ceres
Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:59:07 GMT


In article <Bw50Dz.GsF@alsvid.une.edu.au>, mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859) writes:
> I upgraded my 5000/25 from ultrix4.2A motif 1.1.1 to ultrix4.3 and motif 1.1.3
> everything has been fine, the install was great, much better than
> having to dump and reinstall everything.
> 
> 	Only one problem, when I select pause session from DEC's
> session manager I constantly get logged out.
> 
> 	The pause window comes up OK and functions as it should, except if
> I leave it paused after about 2-5 minutes I find I'm back to xdm's sign on
> window.
> 
> 	I'm using X11R5's window server Xdec with xdm which worked ok for
>  me before, Any ideas ?
> 
> 
> 	Cheers
> 		Mark :)
> -- 
> Mark Garrett	Internet:  mark@arvak.une.edu.au	Phone: 	+61 66 20 3859
>    University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.

i just had the same problem...

i was runinng DEC's Xprompter, but because of problems we encountered with it we switched to xdm and fired dxsession from there...what happes is, when dxsession is paused, it stops io to the terminal...xdm has a built in inactivity timer, that will poll the terminal if there is no terminal io in a specified period of time...a call to NCD supplied the following fix:

	in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config add the lines:

	DisplayManager*pingTimeout:	0
	DisplayManager*pingInterval:	0

this tells xdm not to do any checks on the connection



 
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From: dsmith@aa.cad.slb.com (J. Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Server for X11R5 / PX ?
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:08:49 GMT
Organization: Applicon; Ann Arbor, MI (USA)

In <AJC.92Sep28105749@thendara.pa.dec.com> ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes:
>In article <3088@unieinf.UUCP> conen@dec3.wi-inf.uni-essen.de (Wolfram Conen) 
>writes:
>>>Which Board should I buy to optimize the performance under X-Windows
>>>(and who wants 3 PX-Boards as an christmas gift ??)
>driver for the PX. Keep in mind that the PX was designed in 1989 strictly to be
>a wire-frame accelerator with a 1280 x 1024 resolution.
With the emphasis on "wire-frame"; the PX* cards have some serious
problems when it comes to doing pixmap stuff.  Depending on what you
are doing under X, the PX* may not be the best thing to look for under
the tree...

   Dan
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Subject: Re: Mail aliases - includes - in V4.2
Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:51:28 GMT


In article <1992Oct8.002846.25662@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika) writes:
>Is it possible to use include statements in the global mail aliases
>file (/etc/aliases)?  According to a Berkeley unix book I have,
>the format on that machine is:
>
>aliasname: :include:/usr/students/account/includefile
>
>but my sysadmin has informed me that this format (along with some
>variations involving ;, ' and ") did not work. 

Works fine for me on ULTRIX.  You need your system manager to
let you (and us) know what the error was.

f
From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Upgrade to Ultrix 4.3
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:19:19 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST
In-reply-to: bab@csuohio.edu's message of 14 Oct 92 14:05:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.140500.5122@news.csuohio.edu> bab@csuohio.edu (ben a blake) writes:

   We currently run Ultrix 4.1 on DECStation 3100. We plan on upgrading
   to 4.3. I remember reading things like remember to backup sendmail,...
   and they are all in fine print in the installation guide. I was
   wondering if anyone would be kind enough to send me a list of all the
   things that we could easily screw up. Thanks in advance, ben blake

The installation manual lists a bunch of files that are upgraded; I
typed them in as I was doing the upgrade. Here's the script to tar
them all to a safe place (it must be executed from /).

# 1) deleted /usr/include/{DXm,Mrm,Xm,Xt} links (will be reinstated by instal)
# 2) checked /usr/lib/dxbook: filled, but hopefully install will squeeze in
# 3) DON't forget to delete /usr/lib/DXM/lib/...
# 4) change sm* resource entries
# 5) window manager not necessary
# 6) /usr/ucb/script copied to  /tmp
# 7) hostname is rrdstrad.nist.gov!! (rc.local)
# 8) saving config file + Install p 1.7 (this has to be exec in root dir)

tar cvf saves ./sys/conf/mips/RRDSTRAD ./{.cshrc,.profile,.login,.mailrc,.rhosts} \
./etc/{acucap,aliases,aliases.dir,aliases.pag,automount.master,crontab,dumpdates,\
exports,fstab,gettytab,group,hosts,hosts.equiv,passwd,phones,printcap,rc.local,\
remote,resolv.conf,sendmail.cf,sendmail.fc,sendmail.hf,sendmail.st,services,\
svc.conf,svcorder,termcap,ttys} ./usr/var/adm/{aculog,lastlog,lpd-errs} \
./usr/var/uucp/{L.cmds,LIST.DAY,LIST.HOUR,LIST.NIGHT,LIST.NOON,uucp.hour,\
uucp.longhall,uucp.night,uucp.noon,uucp.week,USERFILE} ./usr/var/spool/mqueue/syslog


 In actuality, only sendmail.cf was clobbered, and even then DEC was
kind enough to save the original one into sendmail.cf.install.save

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			Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
			National Institute of Standards and Technology
			Gaithersburg, MD 20899,      USA

			(301) 975 6249
From: mbeattie@oxford.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ultrix man pages with groff
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:12:41 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX2
	6NN

I have built groff 1.06 on our DEC 5500 under Ultrix 4.2
and it's mostly O.K. However, the tmac.an macros for Ultrix
are very different from groff's version: Ultrix's version
takes control of the whole page layout and defines some
macros of which the man pages make essential use.
I've tried rewriting them to work with groff's tmac.an but
I don't know enough *roff really.

Does anyone have a solution?

I was also unable to get the -TX75 or -TX100 support to work.
Under X11R5 (MIT distribution), the following occurs
in xditview/ after the main make and make install complete
successfully:

# make install.dev
if [ -d /usr/local/lib/groff/font ]; then true; else mkdir /usr/local/lib/groff/font; fi;
Installing devX75
bad font name: -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
*** Error code 1

Stop.

However, groff -X works well (except for rather odd vertical spacing)
and the bad font mentioned certainly exists:

# xlsfonts -fn '-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1'
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-54-iso8859-1
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-74-iso8859-1
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-84-iso8859-1
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-96-iso8859-1
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-125-iso8859-1
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-170-iso8859-1

Any ideas on this one?

The man page problem certainly appears Ultrix-specfic
(Sun man pages use lower level macros) but please don't
take my posting to gnu.groff.bug to imply that the problem
is purely groff's---it just seems to be an appropriate group.

--Malcolm

 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Running daemons non-setuid root
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:02:31 GMT

A while back, I observed that fingerd on our Ultrix 4.2a (Rev. 47)
system (a DECstation 5000/240, if it matters) runs as root, since
local users fingering one another could not read .plan files that were
not properly chmoded, but they had no such problem if they forced
finger to read via TCP/IP (i.e. finger so-and-so@unix.amherst.edu).

This is sub-optimal behavior as far as I'm concerned.  Upon further
investigation, though, I found that unlike SunOS, inetd.conf on Ultrix
does not permit the admin to specify which user the various daemons
should run as!  I had hoped to simply go in and change the user as
whom fingerd runs to "guest" or some other dummy non-privileged entry,
but that appears impossible now.  Does anyone have any advice for
getting daemons to run as non-privileged users?

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: avolio@dco.dec.com (Frederick M Avolio)
Subject: Re: the 'w' command.
Originator: avolio@gildor.dco.dec.com
Reply-To: avolio@dco.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:58:00 GMT


ruptime gives you remote load information if rwhod is running on the 
other systems.  or if you have an account on the other systems
	rsh otherhost w
will run w on the other machine

f
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: bab@csuohio.edu (ben a blake)
Subject: Upgrade to Ultrix 4.3
Organization: Cleveland State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:05:00 GMT

We currently run Ultrix 4.1 on DECStation 3100. We plan on upgrading
to 4.3. I remember reading things like remember to backup sendmail,...
and they are all in fine print in the installation guide. I was
wondering if anyone would be kind enough to send me a list of all the
things that we could easily screw up. Thanks in advance, ben blake

bab@cis.csuohio.edu
From: ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (GEROPELLA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: f2c question
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:44:54 GMT
Reply-To: ropella@engcon.UUCP (GEROPELLA)
Distribution: na
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX


Ok,  I got a copy of f2c from netlib.  Now, when I tried to
use make for the src subdirectory, I got two errors from the
main.c file: 1) redeclaration of memcpy() and 
2) redeclaration of memset().  

If anybody out there in ULTRIX land has made f2c and has any 
tips as to how I can fix this or as to where (who) I can go
to find out how to fix this, please let me know.

Thanks.

glen e. ropella                                |
Operations Analyst                             |The Historian always looks
ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com                |backward; eventually, he
engcon!ropella@uunet.uu.net                    |begins to believe backward.
engcon!plato!ropella@uunet.uu.net              |       -Friedrich Nietzche
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sybertz@brsux0.bro.dec.com (Sybertz Marc)
Subject: Unix Distributed System Management : DECFullSail
Reply-To: sybertz@ketje.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Brussels
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:10:15 GMT


I received a lot of demands concerning information about DECFullSail
(new Digital product). I decide to put here a little summarize of what
DECFullSail actually does.

It is an integrated, off-the-shelf, GUI-driven, system management
package for Unix that lets you manage your computing environment resources.
It can manage distributed systems of a few to one hundred nodes.

DECFullSail today is able to manage users, file systems, and to monitor
distributed Unix system.

It consists of four components including the Navigator, Account Manager,
File-System Manager, and Performance Manager.

With DECFullSail, system managers can make changes to all systems without
regard to the current availability of the managed systems. The DECFullSail
Delegation Service stores requests in a centralized database, and distributes
them to managed systems instantly if available or in the background if
certain nodes are unreachable or busy.

For more information, please ask your local sale's representative.

Regards,
Marc Sybertz.

+------------------------------------------+
| From : Marc Sybertz                      |
| Dept : EIS - Unix Service Center         |
| Func : Unix System Management Specialist |
| Mail : sybertz@ketje.enet.dec.com        |
| Loc  : DIGITAL - BRO (Brussels, Belgium) |
+------------------------------------------+
From: se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Local netgroup possible ?
Date: 7 Oct 1992 17:38:48 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: snert.ikp.uni-koeln.de

In article <Bvpu8q.Myx@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, wieckert@immd5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wieland Eckert) writes:

|> i5_ds5000       (faui56a,-,),(faui56a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,),\
|>                 (faui56b,-,),(faui56b.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,),\
|>                 (faui56c,-,),(faui56c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,),\
|>                 (faui56d,-,),(faui56d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,-,)
|> 
|> in the file /etc/netgroup  -  right ??

Host names specified in the netgroup file are *case sensitive* !
(Just in case your domain name has been specified in mixed case ...)

|> But I cannot mount from one of these machines :-(
|> Yes, /etc/exports says 
|> 	/usr    -o      i5_ds5000
|> When entering dirctly the machine name in the exports file, it works ...
|> 
|> 1. Is it netgrouping only possible with YP ?

No, take a look at /etc/svc.conf

|> 2. Is my entry correct ?

I'd only enter the fully qualified domain names ...

Ought to work, if there is a line reading 

	netgroup=local

in your copy of /etc/svc.conf ...
-- 
 Stefan Esser,  Institute of Nuclear Physics,  University of Cologne,  Germany
 se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE                                           [134.95.192.50]
From: grant@panhed.psc.edu (Shirl Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: 4.3 and DECwindow restarts
Date: 15 Oct 1992 12:54:32 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway



Has anyone seen/found a fix to this:

On a DECStation 2100 with Color monitor, doing a ^D or "clear" in the
login window takles nearly 5 minutes to restart (I have the -once
switch in place).  I have installed OSF/Motif Version 1.1.3.

Thanks,
-Shirl

-----------

ULTRIX V4.3 (Rev. 44) System #1: Thu Oct  8 12:24:21 EDT 1992
UWS V4.3 (Rev. 10)

From /etc/ttys:

:0 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/bin/Xprompter -C /usr/bin/dxsession -e" none
on secure window="/usr/bin/Xws -once bc"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: vaxinf@V36.CHEMIE.UNI-KONSTANZ.DE ()
Subject: X-Transport over DECnet very slow but over TCPIP fast
Reply-To: vaxinf@V36.CHEMIE.UNI-KONSTANZ.DE ()
Organization: UNIV. KONSTANZ, FAK. F. CHEMIE
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:37:35 GMT


I have a network problem here. There are several VAXes in an ethernet based
cluster. And we have some DECstations here too, using the same network.
Now some users on their workstation claim that their X-Windows display
stop for about 20 seconds without any obvious reason. Now I located
the problem: it has something to do with the DECnet-configuration. There 
seems to happen a timeout and it takes that time mentioned above until
everything is reset (this is my explanation).

Now here is my DECnet-characteristics:


DG2 > ncp
ncp>show exec char

Executor Volatile Characteristics as of Wed Oct  7 14:27:46 WET 1992

Executor node =  47.29 (DG2)

Identification                     = DECstation 5000/200
Management version                 = 4.2.0
Loop count                         = 1
Loop length                        = 40
Loop with                          = Mixed
Incoming timer                     = 45
Outgoing timer                     = 60
Incoming proxy                     = Enable
Outgoing proxy                     = Enable
NSP version                        = 4.1.0
Maximum links                      = 32
Delay factor                       = 80
Delay weight                       = 5
Inactivity timer                   = 60
Retransmit factor                  = 10
Routing version                    = 2.1.0
Type                               = Nonrouting IV
Maximum circuits                   = 1
Segment buffer size                = 576
Maximum node counters              = 48
Pipeline quota                     = 16000
Gateway Access                     = Enabled
Gateway User                       = guest
ncp>

Thanks in advance for any hints and comments

Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann