HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olsenc@stein.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: What's the latest version of NewsPrint?
Date: 6 Jan 93 05:27:31 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

Hello:

We have version 1.0, and I'm about to reinstall.  I just
want to make sure that there isn't any newer version
lingering around.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's necessary to
have it installed if we're going to use a Sparcprinter.

Please email.

-Clint
From: ahalim@ics.uci.edu
Subject: How to test Sun tty's broken RTS line
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:39:39 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin


From I what I read before in in this newsgroups, Sun's tty
driver doesn't support bidirectional hard ware flow control.
A lot of people on this net say that it doesn't drop RTS when
the buffer is full, which causes some dropped chars.

I need to see myself that the RTS is not supportted by SUN.
Would someone tell me how to code the testing program, or
prefrably send me the code itself?

Thanks much in advance
/aha
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bri@athena.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Subject: SLIP doesnt seem to work (cslip-2.6)
Organization: mit
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:31:50 GMT

well, i follwed the advice of those telling me to use cslip-2.6.
i mananaged to get it all setup (so i thought) and tried to
connect to it using a 386bsd system (whose slip is know to work 
with sunslip and is net2 based (sliplogin slattach etc...)

they dont seem to want to talk to each other. when i try to ping
the sun from the 386bsd system, i see the packets go out in the 
lights, and i see them come back, BUT the 386 doesnt see them. i 
guess they arent in the right format, maybe trying to send back
compressed slip when the 386 doesnt want it or somthing.

any ideas on what could be the problem?

-bri

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas)
Subject: Re: NewsPrint broken for PostScript printers?
Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:14:17 GMT

pjm@cshl.org (Pat Monardo) writes:
> In article <1992Apr30.182526.3092@persistence.com> ckeene@persistence.com (Christopher Keene) writes:
> >We recently purchased NewsPrint 2.0 after being assured that it
> >supports PostScript printers.  Two weeks, several late nights, and a
> >few dozen manuals later, we have come to the conclusion that NewsPrint
> >actually does not support PostScript printers, in fact we would have
> >been better off with the standard printer daemon.
> >
> 
> we run two PostScript printers via NewsPrint 2.0 and have had
> zero problems. we run PreLimn of course. Also, i notice that
> XNeWS still runs even though this shouldn't be necessary.
> we do install small_openwin. but it's strictly out of the box,
> no mods whatsoever.

I, too, have been running PostScript printers through NeWSprint 2.0, rev c.  I have
not experienced the problems that Christopher Keene mentioned.

I do have two small problems.  One is that often the system does not transmit the CTL-D
character to tell the printer that there is no more data so the printer times out. 
The other is that the page accounting files get screwed up with bogus entries.  But
other than that, it prints fine.  I just got the CD for 2.1, which is supposed to
contain bug fixes, but I haven't had a chance to see if it fixes my two problems.
--
George Pallas
Manager, Systems Management Section
OCLC, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH   43017                    "This time for SURE!"
Voice:      614-764-6301               -- Bullwinkle
FAX:        614-761-5047
Email:      pallas@oclc.org
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--
George Pallas
Manager, Systems Management Section
OCLC, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse)
Subject: Changing the size of the disk cache
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:33:21 GMT



     A while back someone posted instructions for changing nbuf in the kernal
using adb.  I lost the instructions and I am not terribly competant in adb.
Could someone who knows how to do this e-mail me the procedure?  Thanks!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: btonkin@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Bruce Tonkin)
Subject: Maintaining SPARCprinters
Organization: Monash University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:57:26 GMT


I have several questions regarding the maintainence of the SUN SPARCprinter:

1. Is there a way of getting a count of the number of pages printed?



2.  How does the printer decide when to replace the toner cartridge?


3.  How does the printer decide when to replace the drum cartridge?

I am interested in prologing the use of the toner and drum cartridges,
but once the printer indicates that the cartridges need replacing it
ceases to print until the cartridges are replaced.  I would like to
find an easy way to override the printer so that a few more pages can
be printed before replacing the cartridges.

Thanks for any hints.

Bruce Tonkin
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

email: btonkin@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: stailey@bugs.comm.mot.com (Mike Stailey)
Subject: Problems with NFS Automounter
Reply-To: stailey@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola LMPS Research, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:58:04 GMT


We are having problems getting the automounter to function
properly. It seems to be ignoring the existing hard mounts 
and mounting everything a second time.

For example...

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a              15487    3601   10338    26%    /
/dev/sd0g             169439  113213   39283    74%    /usr
/dev/sd0h             142039      10  127826     0%    /home
laurel:/usr/local     659054  549388   43761    93%    /net/laurel/usr/local
laurel:/usr/users     448271  273954  129490    68%    /net/laurel/usr/users
laurel:/usr/user1    1312829  906633  274914    77%    /net/laurel/usr/user1
laurel:/usr/user2    1312829  940373  241174    80%    /net/laurel/usr/user2
laurel:/usr/user3    1312829  900660  280887    76%    /net/laurel/usr/user3
laurel:/usr/cad2/maskap804/sun/cad
                      448271  273954  129490    68%    /net/laurel/usr/cad
laurel:/usr/cad2     1312829  750114  431433    63%    /net/laurel/usr/cad2
laurel:/usr/cad3     1312829  727597  453950    62%    /net/laurel/usr/cad3
laurel:/usr/project3 1312829   18211 1163336     2%    /net/laurel/usr/project3
laurel:/usr/cad       448271  273954  129490    68%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/cad
laurel:/usr/man       448271  273954  129490    68%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/man
laurel:/usr/proj      448271  273954  129490    68%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/proj
laurel:/usr/cad1     1312829       9 1181538     0%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/cad1
laurel:/usr/cad2     1312829  750114  431433    63%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/cad2
laurel:/usr/cad3     1312829  727597  453950    62%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/cad3
laurel:/usr/local     659054  549388   43761    93%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/local
laurel:/usr/games     448271  273954  129490    68%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/games
laurel:/usr/users     448271  273954  129490    68%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/users
laurel:/usr/user1    1312829  906633  274914    77%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/user1
laurel:/usr/user2    1312829  940373  241174    80%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/user2
laurel:/usr/user3    1312829  900660  280887    76%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/user3
laurel:/usr/user4    1312829       9 1181538     0%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/user4
laurel:/usr/project2 1312829      11 1181536     0%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/project2
laurel:/usr/project3 1312829   18211 1163336     2%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/project3
laurel:/usr/project4 1312829       9 1181538     0%    /tmp_mnt/net/laurel/usr/project4


The current automount statement being used is...

	% automount -m /net -hosts

Is there some way we can eliminate this problem?

--
Michael                      
stailey@comm.mot.com
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS QUESTION: Timing out hard mounts
Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:49:13 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1993Jan8.030917.27907@timesink.chi.il.us> mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec) writes:
>1) Since I am using the "bg" option, why does it take so long to
>   time out the RPC request and background the mount?

Good question.  I guess it wants to be sure that the mount has really
failed before resorting to backgrounding.

>2) Are the "retrans" and "timeo" options only effective on soft mounts?

No.  When the retrans limit is reached on a hard mount, you get the "NFS
server <host> not responding, still trying" message; the timeout is then
doubled (up to a ceiling of 30 seconds) and then it starts retransmitting
again.

>3) What can you recommend to shorten the time it takes before I see:
>   mount: server:/directory not responding
>   RPC: Port mapper failure
>   RPC: Timed out
>   mount: backgrounding server:/directory

Run "mount -a" in the background.  First, run a series of foreground mounts
that explicitly mount the critical file systems, and then run "mount -a &"
to mount the ones that can wait.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: stevec@water.ca.gov (Steve Croft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: The horse power needed for 100 users
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:03:36 GMT
Reply-To: stevec@water.ca.gov
Organization: California Department of Water Resources

Bassem Zahabi writes:

>We are trying to buy a system that can handle the heavy load
>(network connections, nfs, and X-Windows) of a 100 users 
>with a reasonable response (fast enough that users do not feel the delay).
>What is the horse power this system should have ?

Some more info about your applications may be helpful.  We have similar
requirements for our database systems.  Our database system (Ingres) is
client-server, so we run the database engines on one machine and run the
front-end applications on another.  This is more economical for us than
buying one huge machine to provide all the compute resources needed.

For the record, we will be running Ingres on a large Pyramid system.
The front-ends are on a variety of different machines, mainly PCs and
SPARCs.

> What is the best system to buy, how many mips, how much memory,
> What are the Specs, how much disk space (file server),
> and so on.

This is very application-dependent.  DBMS systems have very different
requirements than modelling systems, etc.  You gotta do some analysis
on your own here:  how much compute resources do my apps require...

stevec@water.ca.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: carlos@unicom.uucp (Carlos Robinson)
Subject: Setting up modems on Sun 4/60
Organization: College of Marin, Science Computer Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:55:38 GMT

Hello netters,

Here at the college we have replaced our old tired Vax 11/750 with
a Sun 4/60 (Sparc Station 1).  I want to add modems to the system, but
the Sparc 1 has only two serial ports in the back.  Right now, I use
"serial A" for the printer and "serial B" for a telebit modem.

To cover our serial problem, we purchased a Lantronix-16 terminal
server.  This is suppose to add an additional 16 serial ports to our
ethernet port.  This server works fine as a terminal server, but I
get little response/help from the lantronix folks about connecting
a modem to it.

How do you let yer server know what "tty" to dial-out when its dialing
through a ethernet port?


Any help would be welcome,



-carlos 



Carlos Robinson
College of Marin
Science Computer Center
Kentfield, CA  94904
Ph: (415) 485-9540  
Email: ...!{uunet,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!unicom!carlos
       carlos@unicom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: List of SUN Bug fixes
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:13:41 GMT

More often than not, when someone posts a problem report there is usually
an answer of the type "SUN has a bug fix # XXXXXXX-XXX for that"

How can I find out about available patches/bug fixes released by SUN and
what problems they apply to?

I'd like to keep on top of it.

-- 

Roland Besserer
QUAD Systems
roland@quadsys.com
From: symanzik@pigeon.egr.msu.edu (Edward Symanzik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: How permanent are "arp -s" entries?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:03:54 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pigeon.egr.msu.edu

I found a note left from a previous system administrator:

># It is not clear that SunOS "arp .... perm" entries are really permanent,
># so we periodically re-install the proxy ARP entries.

He left no explaination for his skepticism.  Is there any reason I should
not set arp entries in /etc/rc.local and be done with it?

--
Ed Symanzik
Michigan State University
symanzik@egr.msu.edu
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From: medley@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Bert Medley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: SunOS v4.1.1 and getty
Summary: getty goes south with error
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:08:00 GMT
Organization: Synercom Technology, Inc., Houston, TX

I am having a sporadic, frequent problem with getty.  The configuration is a
Sun Sparc2 running SunOS v4.1.1 with the jumbo DNI and serial port patches
installed.  About every day or two the following hits:

Jan  7 16:02:06 sun44 getty: ioctl(TCGETS): Bad file number
Jan  7 16:02:06 sun44 getty: ioctl(TCGETS): Operation not supported on socket
Jan  7 16:02:06 sun44 getty: ioctl(TCGETS): Operation not supported on socket

But nothing seems to be wrong.  I am assuming that getty could not open a 
socket for some reason and gets the above error.  When it happens, DTR gets
dropped (Telebit T2500) and never gets raised, causing all incoming dialups 
to fail (NO ANSWER).  Does anyone have any ideas.  I will summarize if 
any answers are received (post or mail).  Thanks!

-- 
Bert Medley				medley@synercom.hounix.org 	[work]
					bert@medley.ssdl.com		[home]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.questions
From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: RE: KERMIT
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:30:29 GMT

From cu23.crl.aecl.ca!nott!torn!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!charnel!rat!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!dale.ksc.nasa.gov!news Wed Dec 16 09:02:59 1992
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks)
Subject: Public Comm Software (kermit)
Keywords: Kermit, Comm, Xmodem
Organization: NASA
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 21:41:09 GMT


What ftp site an I get the latest kermit, xmodem & all the 
popular SUN comm. software? Please be specific on the machine.

Thanks!

O

------------------------------------------------
Oscar Brooks		
NASA, Real Time Systems Branch
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Internet <obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> (NeXT Mail Preferred)

From cu23.crl.aecl.ca!nott!torn!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!albert!rhaar Wed Dec 16 09:02:59 1992
From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Bob Haar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Public Comm Software (kermit)
Date: 11 Dec 92 12:19:53 GMT
Reply-To: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com
Organization: G.M. Research Laboratories

In article 21638@dale.ksc.nasa.gov, obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Oscar Brooks) writes:
|>
|>What ftp site an I get the latest kermit, xmodem & all the 
|>popular SUN comm. software? Please be specific on the machine.

For kermit, go to watsun.cc.columbia.edu - the kermit's official
home.


---
  	Robert Haar               InterNet : rhaar@gmr.com 
	Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories
DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is
personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp.



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From: jerry@pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu (Jerry Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Public Comm Software (kermit)
Date: 11 Dec 1992 12:20:56 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu
Keywords: Kermit, Comm, Xmodem

obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks) writes:

> What ftp site an I get the latest kermit, xmodem & all the 
> popular SUN comm. software? Please be specific on the machine.

For kermit:

    watsun.cc.columbia.edu:pub/kermit

-- 
jerry@telecom.ksu.edu                     Jerry Anderson
                                          Kansas State University
vox: (913) 532-6936                            Telecommunications
fax: (913) 532-7114                       Manhattan  KS  66506

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu (Robert McGraw)
Subject: Recycle/Refurb. SPARC toner Cart
Reply-To: mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu
Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:40:26 GMT

Does anyone know of a outfit that recycles and/or refurbs
SPARC toner cart.

Robert



_______________________________________________________________________
Robert P. McGraw, Jr.    
System Manager                 INTERNET:rmcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu
National Solar Observatory/SP  SPAN: 5355::RMCGRAW or NOAO::RMCGRAW
Sunspot, NM 88349 USA          PHONE: (505) 434-7038
From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Need help on sun
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:59:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1993Jan12.185940.8694
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

In article 13JAN199300310142@v9000, sd7047787@v9000 (SD7047787) writes:
>Hi,
>I have a few questions on Sun. Could someone please help me by answering
>the questions below:
>
>1. I read the Sun manual on the csh's command history feature. The way to
>call the history commands seem to be the !! characters. Could someone tell
>me how I can map this command history features to the arrow keys on the
>numberic keypad? This is a very important and basic feature for the users.
>Could someone please help!

Find the program tcsh via FTP and install it.  Tcsh is essentially csh with
many fixes and improvements, my favorite being able to access the command
history through the arrow keys.

>2. How do I create an .au sound file? Or any ftp site where I can .au sound
>file to play on our Sun stations?

Audiotool will create the .au files using input to the Sun audio port.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.shell
From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Subject: Re: KSH on Sun
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:49:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.143902.16634@news.columbia.edu> jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim) writes:
>
>I am not sure whether I am at the right group to ask this question.  If I
>am not, please direct me to the right group.  It's such a basic question
>that it should be in FAQ somewhere, although I couldn't find it in FAQ in
>comp.unix.shell. 
>
>I have Sun Sparc stations running SunOS Release 4.1.1.  They only came with
>Bourne and C shells, and I would like to get Korn Shell.  I asked Sun
>Support and they told me they don't have it for my version of SunOS and
>I'll have to look elsewhere.  
>
>- Does anyone know where I can get/buy Korn Shell for Sun?

A suggestion, here in the cse department we don't have korn shell on our Suns.
For those rare people who want to use Korn, we have Bash (Bourne Again Shell)
from the Free Software Foundation.  I don't know if that's a solution to your 
problem.  Works for us.

-- 
<< Michael Rogero Brown                      | Disclaimer: I speak         >>
<< CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ |  only for myself.           >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sunrise.cse.fau.edu    | All my opinions are         >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                    |  that: mine & opinions.     >>
From: wells@zach.fit.edu (James M. Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Need /etc/printcap entry for Panasonic dot-matrix printer.
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA

We have a Panasonic KX-P1091 dot matrix printer with a serial interface
connected to a Sparc2 running SunOS 4.1.2.  The same machine has a
laser printer on the other port that works fine.
This printer worked fine with our /etc/printcap entry when it was on
a Sun3 running 4.0.3, but now it seems like flow control doesn't 
work right. Here is what we have:

lp|panasonic:\
        :br#300:fc#777777:fs#0006122:\
        :tr=:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
        :lp=/dev/ttya:\
        :sd=/var/spool/panasonic:\
        :of=/usr/lib/lpf:\
        :af=/usr/adm/lpd-acc:\
        :if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
        :xc=#777777:
        :xs=#040000:

Our cable is a null-modem cable as specified in the Sun Sparc manual.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Please email.
Thanks in advance.

Jim
-- 
James M. Wells, Florida Institute of Technology
150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901. +1 407 768 8000 x7285
wells@zach.fit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pat@gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
Subject: Re: mount CD-ROM as pcfs?
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:35:48 GMT

Guy Harris (guy@Auspex.COM) wrote:
>>Is it possible to mount a DOS format CD-ROM using a Sun CD player?

>What do you mean by a "DOS format CD-ROM"?

>If the CD-ROM is in High Sierra or ISO 9660 format, then it's not in
>"DOS format" in the sense of having a DOS file system on it; as such, it
>should not be mounted as type "pcfs".  Instead, it should be mounted as
>type "hsfs".

	i'm not sure.  what i do know is that when i run the
CD rom software on our PC, the data shows up as DOS file systems.
here's what happened when i tried to mount it on my SPARC 10.


Script started on Mon Jan 11 08:31:44 1993
jaameri# mount -o hsfs,ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 on /cdrom: Invalid argument
mount: giving up on:
   /cdrom
jaameri# mount -o pcfs,ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 on /cdrom: Invalid argument
mount: giving up on:
   /cdrom
jaameri#  mount -o ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 on /cdrom: Invalid argument
mount: giving up on:
   /cdrom
jaameri# ls -ld /cdrom /dev/sr0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root          512 Oct 20 08:15 /cdrom
br-xr-xr-x  1 root      18,   0 Jul 29 14:46 /dev/sr0
jaameri# 
script done on Mon Jan 11 08:32:26 1993

i can see that it tries to mount because the green light on
the CD player blips on & off.

--
"I have a cunning plan." -- Baldric
                                                             patrick m. ryan
     nasa / goddard space flight center / oceans and ice branch / hughes stx
                     pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov / zmpmr@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov

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