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From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: frustration and rage
Date: 23 Nov 92 07:21:52 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

i walk a lot, and it seems like i do a lot of writing in my head while
i'm walking. tonight, i was going from the student union to the lab,
and i started getting really angry.

it was dark, a nice evening. i passed people hanging out on campus,
singly or in groups, and as i walked past them i started thinking
about how they're all *people*. this concept has always amazed me
because it's so big. i mean, i'd be driving along a freeway and start
thinking about how all those other people were driving along and being
as human as i was and it would be too much to think about all at once,
trying to imagine what the insides of their realities were like.

but tonight i was kinda bored and hadn't been able to reach a couple
of friends i'd tried to call and i was thinking about how all these
people were people but instead of thinking of it in terms of them, i
was thinking of it in terms of me. i mean, i was shouting inside "all
of you stupid people who don't pay any attention to anything, why
don't you talk to me, why don't you see that i'm a really cool person
and pay attention to me??" i was actually getting rather angry about
ti, about how we all just ignore everyone else unless we already know
them or have been introduced and there are people like me running
around who look average but are really cool that they should want to
get to know. basically, a five-year-old's rage at not being the center
of the universe.

as i think about it, though, i do the same thing. there could be some
really cool people out there i'll never get to know because i won't
make the first move. but what would i do? and how could i be sure i
wasn't wasting my time? and how do you figure out from appearances
which people are really cool and which aren't? i mean, there doesn't
seem to be any yardstick, no visible outward signs. so it's doomed,
really. besides, even if you did go up to someone and say "hey, some
weird instinct tells me you're a really nifty person and i want to
talk to you" they'd freak and run.

so how do you find cool people? it's easier to be frustrated and
pissed.

--
sine | deb
this doesn't really express what i want it to, but i'm too
drained/tired to care.
From: bzb47596@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Baba Z Buehler)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: about 'naked' nightmares
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:39:04 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

actually, if you increase the pressure on the water, you can get very cold
still-liquid water.  ice occupies more space than a same volume of water,
so if its under pressure, it will remain liquid.  its due to the polar
natuer of the water molecules.  thats why the temp/pressure diagram for
h2o looks the way it does.

useless facts for angstful discussion

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      the sensible man hardly anything."   --Goethe
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From: erlebach@fluke.icase.edu (Gordon Erlebacher)
Newsgroups: alt.gambling,rec.gambling
Subject: lottery number selection
Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:34:47 GMT
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: fluke.icase.edu

Hi, 

A friend of mine is interested (as we all are I am sure) in winning the
lottery.  My friend (she) noticed that certain number combintations
appear more frequently than others leading to the conclusion that one 
should be able to increase the chances of winning by a proper selection of
numbers.  Given the fact that the number selection (as seen on the
newscasts) appears random, the balls in the basket must not be uniformly 
distributed.  

Does anyone out there have any information at all about the distribution of
numbers in a lottery basket?  Are the distributions uniform?

  Send replies to 

	erleabach@icase.edu


	   Gordon Erlebacher
From: sudhir@Metaphor.COM (Sudhir Walvekar)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: POSTSCRIPT PREVIEWER for SUNTOOLS ?
Keywords: POSTSCRIPT, PREVIEWER, SUNTOOLS
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:37:25 GMT
Reply-To: sudhir@Metaphor.COM (Sudhir Walvekar)
Organization: m4

Does something like that exist ? 
If so, could you tell me where I can get a copy of it.

I am using SunTools and not OpenWindows (which has pageview).
gspreview works only on X based systems.

- sudhir


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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: Communication Program for the Sun
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:30:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.002954.2067@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ktong@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Tong) writes:
"
"
"I'm looking for a communication program for the SUN as
"an alternative to Kermit.
"
"Ideally, I would like to get a program that functions similar
"to the packages available on the IBM PC or MAC such as VersaTerm,
"Microphone II, ProComm, etc.

TIP comes with your system.  RTFM!
PCOMM [v2.0.2] is a pd procomm clone, in c src.

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From: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.wanted,comp.unix.solaris,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Packet filtering for Sun needed
Date: 23 Nov 1992 09:22:55 GMT
Organization: Her Master's Voice
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au
NNTP-Posting-Host: britt.pax.tpa.com.au

I have a server based on a sparc running 4.1.2 connected to the outside
world via a slip connection.

I have a need to be selective about the packets that come in and go out
both in terms of what they are, where they are from and who they are to.
I don't have anything like a cisco router to put in between unfortunately,
I want the sun to do it itself. I am aware of inetd replacements like
log-tcp but that doesn't help with outgoing connections.

Has anyone seen or hacked up anything that will do this ? Seems like a
common enough need, but I don't know how to go about doing it myself.

david


Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: DNS versus other libraries
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:21:38 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

We're running SunOS 4.1.1, with the DNS resolver routines installed in
libc.a.  So far, so good.  In the last week, though, we've hit two
problems.

The first is that code compiled with /usr/5bin/cc doesn't find those
routines, since 5lib/libc.a has its own gethostbyname.  Can I just
say -lresolv?  Must I recompile the resolver library with 5cc, and
modify its libc.a?

Second, and more serious, a program running with the light-weight
process library and -lnbio can't reliably resolve name.  It sends
out the DNS queries, but the select() call in res_send seems to
end prematurely enough times that the library routine gives up.
Does anyone have a bypass?
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: ktong@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Tong)
Subject: Communication Software for the SUN
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:49:10 GMT

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Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 16:40:54 TUR
From: Cevdet Dengi <CEVDET@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Block Transfer support for Z8530 chip on SUN/Sparc machines

I am writing a device driver for Z8530 chip on SUN/Sparc machines but
unfortunately I do not have enough information about the hardware details.
Does anybody know whether there is a support for DMA block transfer (uses
REQUEST line on Z8530) or CPU block transfer (uses WAIT line on Z8530) for
Z8530 chip on sparc machines ? And if DMA is supported how can I use it ?
Any peace of informatrion will help. Thank you in advance.

Cevdet Dengi
TUBITAK Software R&D Center
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: nicolai@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Nicolai Leymann)
Subject: Re: Looking for sparc machine code book
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:57:52 GMT

fulling@jade.CS.ORST.EDU (Steve Fulling) writes:

>greetings, looking for a book describing the sparc architecture in 
>machine languange terms.  yes, i know only sick people wish for
>such punishment, but it's a necessary evil.  any good references would
>be appreciated.
>
Try "The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 8". 

       Nic
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Tel.: 314 25790                               Fax: 314 21114          
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok)
Subject: FDDI ftp bandwidth
Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:22:40 GMT

Hi,

what sort of bandwidth have people really achieved of Sun 10s or one
of the big servers (690s etc.) using FDDI?  Which FDDI interface was
used and was it an SBus or VME card?

I am interested in the bandwidth that can be achieved using standard
utilities like ftp.

Mike
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mike@meiko.com                    |
Meiko tel: (617) 890 7676         |
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.infosystems.gis,sci.geo.geology
From: simon@earth.monash.edu.au (Simon Cox)
Subject:  Drawing & CAD packages for SUN ?
Reply-To: simon@earth.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University Dept of Earth Sciences
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:02:31 GMT

We would like to know what experiences/recommendations people have for 
drawing packages for SUNs.  What we have in mind is something for editing 
and annotating graphics generated by a variety of other applications, with 
capabilities simlar to, say, Canvas on the Macintosh.  Price is a consideration, 
but convenience is the most important.

simon@cerberus.earth.monash.edu.au

Monash University,  Australia
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
Subject: Re: Communication Program for the Sun
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:57:48 GMT

ktong@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Tong) writes:

>I'm looking for a communication program for the SUN as
>an alternative to Kermit.

>Does anyone know of any communication public domain packages or 
>commercial packages for the SUN?  I have a modem connected to
>/dev/ttya and would like to be able to dial out and receive
>calls.  

>Ideally, I would like to get a program that functions similar
>to the packages available on the IBM PC or MAC such as VersaTerm,
>Microphone II, ProComm, etc.

>Does any such animal exists?

Try PCOMM.  It's available from almost everywhere (wuarchive.wustl.edu, etc.)

For those who want it, I have a diff file from mods that I did to let
PCOMM (v. 1.2.4) support RTS/CTS flow control and 38400 baud...

If there's enough interest, I'll post it somewhere.

haven't added support for tty_ucb.c.  Currently, I've put code in to
use XON/XOFF when RTS/CTS is selected.  If someone out there wants to
this, I'd be grateful.

-- 
    Rob McKeever  VE7ICJ  rmckeeve@sfu.ca  mckeeveb@sfu.ca  604-291-0457
"Do you know what standards are?  They're career paths for people who don't
 want to work!" - John Parkinson, Ernst & Young at the BCDMA Conference '92
       -*-          Standard Disclaimers should be adequate        -*-
From: fulling@jade.CS.ORST.EDU (Steve Fulling)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Looking for sparc machine code book
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:32:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jade.cs.orst.edu

greetings, looking for a book describing the sparc architecture in 
machine languange terms.  yes, i know only sick people wish for
such punishment, but it's a necessary evil.  any good references would
be appreciated.

-- 
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Computer Science Department              UUCP: ...!hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!fulling
Oregon State University                  Bell-net: (503) 737-6175
From: ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (Ned Danieley)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: graphics software for new Suns
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:13:04 GMT
Organization: Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory, Duke Univ. Med. Center, Durham, N.C.
Originator: ndd@bal1

We're hoping to get a Sun 10/52 for our lab, and we're trying
to figure out what graphics software we can purchase that will
take maximum advantage of the GX accelerator (or the GT if
we can get that for the 10/52). We'd prefer not to repeat
our experience with the 3/260CXP where the only Sun product
that used the GP board was SunPhigs.

The main phrase that I keep hearing from my boss is "volume
rendering", so that ability would be nice. Any suggestions?

-- 
Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710   (919) 660-5111 or 660-5100
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Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 16:29:12 TUR
From: Cevdet Dengi <CEVDET@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject:    HP LaserJet IIIsi connection

We have a HP LaserJet IIIsi printer connected to a Sun SparcStation IPC
over a serial (RS-232) line. There is no problem with PostScript or
PCL output but we cannot switch between PostScript and PCL sending
escape sequences to the printer. It appears line driver does not
send escape character (0x27) to the printer. We tried to use tty ports
directly but could not succseed. Has anybody else faced the same problem ?
Thank you in advance.

Cevdet Dengi
TUBITAK Software R&D Center

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From: jvergeer@stel.csir.co.za (Johnny Vergeer)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: SUMMARY : Filters and remote printers
Keywords: filters, remote printers, printcap
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:14:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: stel.jvergeer.60.722006096
Organization: CSIR
NNTP-Posting-Host: nazgul2.csir.co.za

I Wrote:
>
>I am having lots of problems getting a TCP/IP connected laser
>printer to work correctly. The printer seems to concatenate print jobs.
>The supplier sugested putting some sort of time delay between print jobs.
>
[stuff deleted ...]
>The problem is that the filter (ng-if) never gets executed !  
>Is this because filters are ignored for remote printers ?
>
Thanx to all who replied via mail !! (I guess this is a FAQ  :)

So, filters *are* ignored for print queues configured as remote printers.
The trick is to fool the queue into using the filter (lp=/dev/null), and
then in the filter do the lpr -Pxxx command. The xxx queue will point 
to the remote printer.

Regards
Johnny
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: ktong@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Tong)
Subject: Communication Program for the Sun
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Section 331
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:29:54 GMT



I'm looking for a communication program for the SUN as
an alternative to Kermit.

Does anyone know of any communication public domain packages or 
commercial packages for the SUN?  I have a modem connected to
/dev/ttya and would like to be able to dial out and receive
calls.  

Ideally, I would like to get a program that functions similar
to the packages available on the IBM PC or MAC such as VersaTerm,
Microphone II, ProComm, etc.

Does any such animal exists?

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ktong@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov       Pasadena, California  91109
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Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 12:21:59 CET
From: Karl Keyte <KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Help with Sun's WAN e-Mail address

Anyone know Sun's Wide-Area-Network IP address?  I've been given
a host name of 'newstop.Ebay' on "Sun's Wide Area Network" which
is supposed to accept anonymous FTP.  I've tried 'newstop.Ebay'
on its own but it's not recognised.

Any help?  Please answer directly.  Thanks,

Karl
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
From: mckesey@Hydra.prior.com (Gregory McKesey)
Subject: NIS: yppush to slave server fails on netgroup
Organization: PRIOR Data Sciences Product Sales Inc., Kanata, Ont., Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:14:46 GMT
X-Posted-From: prior.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


I have a bizzare problem I have not been able to trace for a long time.
I am totally at a loss to explain this.  We are currently using NIS on
a mixture of Unix boxes.  Our NIS Master server is a SparcServer 4/3xx with
SunOS 4.1.3. We have a single NIS Slave server that is a SparcStation IPX 
running SunOS 4.1.1.  Here is the problem, the netgroup, netgroup.byuser and
netgroup.byhost maps will not push to the slave server. All the other maps
work just fine.   The message I get back is that the slave server did not
respond. Does anyone know what might be going on?

If I manually do a ypxfr for the maps from the slave server I get this message:

"Can't get master of netgroup. Reason: no such map in server's domain."

but the map is clearly on the master.  I can ls it, and any machine that is
bound to the master server can do a ypcat netgroup.

	Any help would be appreciated.

Signed
     Perplexed.


Gregory McKesey
mckesey@prior.com
From: at018@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dale Houston)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: funny results with 'xdpr'?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 14:34:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I set up a menu item for our users called 'Print window' that uses  'xdpr'
'xdpr' to print out a window once it has been clicked on. Here's the pr
the problem: sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes we get black streaks out
streaks out of the printer, sometimes it gets lost and prints nothing.
We have this probllem under SunOS  4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3Is 
there a fix for this? Does it always work under Solaris 2?

dale
dhouston@bio.ri.ccf.org
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: brooks@dvs.com (Walter Brooks)
Subject: Characters not repeating anymore
Organization: Digital Video Systems
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:28:23 GMT

I'm using a Sparc2 running tcsh under OW3.0 and SunOS4.1.2.

The problem I'm having is that my keys stop repeating after I have
been logged in for awhile. I have not been able to isolate the cause
of the problem, and cannot find any reference to key repeat subjects
in any of the SUN manuals (or answerbook).

Any body seen this problem, or have a possible solution?

Thanks

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From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.wanted,comp.unix.solaris,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Packet filtering for Sun needed
Date: 23 Nov 1992 16:53:10 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Clunie (dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au) wrote:
: 
: I have a need to be selective about the packets that come in and go out
: both in terms of what they are, where they are from and who they are to.
: I don't have anything like a cisco router to put in between unfortunately,
: I want the sun to do it itself. I am aware of inetd replacements like
: log-tcp but that doesn't help with outgoing connections.

The Morning Star PPP software (which also speaks SLIP) has a complete
set of packet filtering tools which would let you selectively block
traffic over the line based on ports.  I'm quite sure that it would
meet your requirements as described.

I've attached contact information below.

  Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
        Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 998 GLOB

Symbol: morningstar
Name:   Morning Star Technologies, Inc.
	1760 Zollinger Road
	Columbus, OH 43221

Voice: +1 614 451 1883
Sales: +1 800 558 7827
FAX:   +1 614 459 5054
Email: sales@morningstar.com
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From: jvergeer@stel.csir.co.za (Johnny Vergeer)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Filters and remote printers
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:22:37 GMT
Organization: CSIR
NNTP-Posting-Host: nazgul2.csir.co.za
Keywords: filters, remote printers, printcap

Hi all

I am having lots of problems getting a TCP/IP connected laser
printer to work correctly. The printer seems to concatenate print jobs.
The supplier sugested putting some sort of time delay between print jobs.

I have tried this using an input filter. The following is the entry in my 
printcap file :
------------
newgen|lp:\
  :if=/usr/local/bin/ng-if:\
  :vf=/usr/local/bin/ng-if:\
  :sd=/usr/spool/newgen:\
  :lf=/usr/spool/newgen/newgen.log:\
  :lp=:\
  :rm=newgen:rp=turbops:\
  :mx#0:\
  :sh:\
  :rw:
-------------
The problem is that the filter (ng-if) never gets executed !  

Is this because filters are ignored for remote printers ?

Thanx for any help.

Regards