HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rosenth@vision.ethz.ch (Lukas Rosenthaler)
Subject: XView on Ultrix4.2A(RISC) core dump of cmdtool
Summary: Application core dumps on XView, Ultrix4.2A
Keywords: Xview
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:00:20 GMT

Hello,
I have some XView-application which should run on DECstations. I managed to
compile XView3.0, and many things do work quite well (even "olwm"...). How-
ever many application do core dump, as for example the "cmdtool".
Are there any patches available which help to get a complete working Xview
on a DECstation?

I have to mention that I copied the binaries from "gatekeeper.dec.com", but
the applications compiled with these libraries do core-dump in the same way.

I could see that most core dump involve the function "xv_create_avlist", which
has something to do with "attributes"...

Any help is *** V E R Y *** welcome, since I'm quite desperate!!


Thanks a lot,
	Lukas

Lukas Rosenthaler
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Image Science Group
CH-8092 Zurich

Email: rosenth@vision.ethz.ch
       rosenthaler@urz.unibas.ch

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a DECstation 5000/200 as a news server?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:54:41 GMT

iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
}Our current news server, a Sun 690MP system, is not performing
}satisfactorily as both a general use timesharing system and as our campus
}news server (we use nntp and c-news).  Is anyone using a DECstation
}5000/200 (or 240 for that matter) as a news server?  We have about 7 or 8
}sites off campus that we have bi-directional feeds with, and we typically
}have 5-20 nntpd daemons running for people on campus reading news.

We are using a DECstation 3100 with 24MB as our campus news server
(nntp & c-news).   We have 9 sites we exchange news with and have
16 nntpds now (Sat morning) and typically around 80 during week days
and evenings, peaking well above 100.  It performs pretty good for
reading news although posting can be a little slow during peak times.
IMHO, CPU power is not as important as having fast seeking disks
and enough memory (plenty dedicated to bufcache).  We are considering
going to a 5000/25 (the 3100 is maxed at 24MB, plus the extra CPU
can't hurt).  Not all sites are big enough to justify having a 
dedicated news server, but I think it's a big win if you can do it.

John
-- 
John Hascall                                       ``Live with it pink-boy!''
Project Vincent                                                              
Iowa State University Computation Center                     john@iastate.edu
Ames, IA  50011                                      515/294-9551 [fax -1717]
From: ian@uws.EDU.AU (Ian Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Printcap entry for Serial Laserwriter needed.
Summary: Having trouble configuring a serial connection to an Laserwriter.
Keywords: printcap Laserwriter serial
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:02:57 GMT
Organization: University of Western Sydney

Can anyone help me with a printcap entry to attach a Laserwriter
serially at 19200 using Hardware handshaking.

We seem to be losing jobs.

We are using Decstation 5000 model 240's.

Thanks in advance.

Ian Walsh (I.Walsh@st.nepean.uws.edu.au)
From: edwards@aurs01.uucp (A. J. Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Help with ln -f -s
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:25:56 GMT
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

When I do the following command, sometimes I get the following
error that I don't really understand why and how it occurs.

        ln -f -s /project/srcpool/sf601589_06d2.c ./obj/sf601589_06d2.c
./obj/sf601589_06d2.c: File exists

We are running ULTRIX V4.2A (Rev. 47) System #4: Fri Aug  7 16:16:52 EDT 1992.

According to the Ultrix man page, the -f option forces the removal
of the existing link before creating the new link.  In the case that
I have just shown, there were no links in the obj directory before
the command was executed.

Any ideas on how to get around this problem will be greatly 
appreciated.

* Alan Edwards, RD&E       -*-  Internet Domain:  <edwards%aurgate@mcnc.org>  *
* Alcatel Network Systems  -*-  USENET Pathalias: <edwards@aurs01.UUCP>       *
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From: buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley)
Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:58:25 GMT

In article <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
>I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
>system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
>something with more features, especially since most users are
>used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or 
>otherwise), please let me know. 

Take a look as MUSH, it's highly programable.  If it's not enough go and
buy Z-mail.  I *WISH* I could but, there is the budget thing in my way.

-- 
=) Buck (buck@sunyit.edu)
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only
say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
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Subject: Re: Printcap entry for Serial Laserwriter needed.
From: hal@kaos.declab.usu.edu (000200 Lynch)
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:48:20 MDT
Reply-To: hal@kaos.declab.usu.edu (000200 Lynch)
Distribution: world
Organization: Utah State University
Keywords: printcap Laserwriter serial

I suspect that your printcap entry is _not_ the problem.  I am assuming
a direct connection to the laserwriter and not through lat.  We experienced
lost jobs also.  We put a data line monitor on the line and discovered
that all jobs were being sent to the printer.  The problem is this:
  The laserwriter was getting a buffer full and xoffing the decstation.
  The decstation didn't stop.
  The laserwriter xoffed again.
  The decstation still didn't stop.
  The laserwriter choked on the job, barfed it into the bit bucket then
      reset itself at the beginning of the next job.
Small jobs may make it through but large ones probably won't.
The decstation finally responded to xoff but many times it was too late.
The data line monitor showed that the decstation would take anywhere from 2
to over 100 hundred characters to respond to an xoff.  The laserwrite and many
other printer can't handle that.  We solved the problem by putting the 
printer on a lat.  That introduced a whole new set of problems but that is
another story.

BTW we are using a decstation 5000/200.

--
Hal Lynch
	Internet: Hal@cache.declab.usu.edu
	DECnet:   USU::HAL
From: gt2847c@prism.gatech.EDU (The Commander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Having Problems with talk/talkd
Keywords: talk, talkd
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:21:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I've got a DECStation 5000-200 w/Ultrix 4.2

I have a strange problem with the talk program....
If anyone but root requests talk (i.e. talk xxxxx@yyyy) it
replies "You don't exist. Go away."  Has anyone seen anything
like this???? I thought it was amusing at first, but it has 
become quite a nuisance as of late.  If anyone has any ideas,
I would be most appreciative.

Thanks in advance...

David Taylor
Asst. Systems Manager
Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech
dtaylor@cfd.gatech.edu

-- 
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|Internet: gt2847c@prism.gatech.edu| specification to fit the program	|
|    Also: dtaylor@cfd.gatech.edu  | than vice-versa.			|
|     And: root@cfd.gatech.edu	   | -Author Unknown (but very wise :-) |
From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: routing through a DECstation 5000/125
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:44:11 GMT
Reply-To: andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Information Technology Division, Adelaide University, Australia

In article <1992Aug28.123033.23973@alf.uib.no>, iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen) writes:

+At our department there is a Pathworks server with two Ethernet interfaces.
+One of the interfaces is to the Internet, the other interface connects a number
+of DEC PCs to the server. This works fine, except that now the PC users wants to
+access the outside world. In the /etc/rc.local file, the following lines 
+set up the interfaces:

+[ -f /etc/routed ] && {
+        /etc/routed -q & echo 'routed'                          >/dev/console
+}

	Apart from the already stated "Don't use the quiet option", you
may also need to reconfgiure the PC's to tell them the IP address of the
gateway - they may not listen to RIP.
	Not sure, we've had enough problems getting this to work at all,
it took Digital Customer Support five weeks to work out the reason the
PC's couldn't see the server was because the server had registered the
name on the wrong interface as it was looking up BIND and finding the
hostname with two IP's, and guessing thw rong one, rather than /etc/hosts
which had one name per interface. And svc.conf was "hosts=local,bind".
Another "gotcha".

Cya,
	Andrew.

/*
 * Andrew Rutherford                 andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au
 * +61 8 228 5669            Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and
 * Room 1060, Adelaide Uni      Halloween because OCT 31 == DEC 25 !
 */
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: Re: First Line Comments in Scripts
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:18:53 GMT

The ULTRIX sh has been like that since ULTRIX 1.0

-Mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
Subject: X11 screen fonts, where are they hidden?
Keywords: programming fonts
Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:27:18 GMT


Hi UN*X gurus out there,

I'm trying to run a little program I got from the net. It came as
C-source and compiled fine on a DEC-Station 2100 under ULTRIX 4.1 (yeah,
I know that's not the latest version). 
On running it, however, it crashed complaining that it couldn't find a
font. I looked in the source and found the following lines of code:

        font = XLoadFont(disp, "10x20\0");      /* If you don't have this
                font, try replacing it with 9x15\0      */
        XSetFont(disp, gc, font);

Consequently, I rooted around in the file system, looking for a font of
that name 10x20 and couldn't find it. I admit being a total novice to
the programming of X-apps and would never think of starting to code my
own. I would like to see that little program run, however. 

Is there a quick fix? Can I use one of the fonts I found under
/usr/lib/fonts/decwin/75dpi ?

Thanks in advance for any help you might be willing and able to supply,
oh, and by the way: please reply by e-mail.

-- 
*************************************************
*	Those stupid, horse-brained masses! 	*
*			OPUS on honker surgery  *
*******************************************HSK***
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Subject: Re: Play audio CDs on DECstation?
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 31 Aug 92 11:49:55




Ed Svoboda <svoboda@adobe.com> writes:

>>I have a DECstation 5000/120 with a CD-ROM drive. This drive has a headphone
>>jack and volume control. Is there software available to play an audio CD?


Ed,

 From the ultrix-faq on gatekeeper, I find:


==============================================
1. How do I play music CDs on DEC CD-ROM drives?

Music CDs can be played through a speaker jack on RRD42 CD-ROM drives,
which is the one contained in the DECstation 5000/{120,125} box.

There are two different programs: A command line version and a
Motif-based version. Both can be found in:

        gatekeeper.dec.com or decuac.dec.com
        in /pub/DEC:
                        cdp.c[.Z]               /* command line version */
                        xcd_source.tar.Z        /* Motif version. */

Neither of these programs is supported by Digital.




I hope that this answers your question.

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: /bin/test bug?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:53:23 GMT

>    test -s = -s

	When I do string tests, I almost always put something in front
of it, I.e.:

	test "X$foo" = "X$bar"

	Just an idle remark.

mjr.
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From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: plot(1) and such...
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:28:10 GMT

Of the following files:

/usr/bin/t4013
/usr/bin/aedplot
/usr/bin/bgplot
/usr/bin/crtplot
/usr/bin/dumbplot
/usr/bin/gigiplot
/usr/bin/grnplot
/usr/bin/hpplot
/usr/bin/hp7221plot
/usr/bin/implot
/usr/bin/lvp16
/usr/bin/tek
/usr/bin/t450
/usr/bin/t300
/usr/bin/t300s
/usr/bin/vplot
/usr/tmp/raster

...only a couple seem to be available in vanilla ultrix (lvp16, dumbplot and
crtplot). Are suitable substitutes for any/all of the others available
anywhere you know of? Anybody used plot/graph/spline/whatever and liked
the results? Anyone know if these files I've identified are mostly all that's
lacking from the ``unix graphics suite'' as supplied by DEC, or are there
other show stoppers?

-Mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cja@chmist.zso.dec.com (Carl J. Appellof)
Subject: Re: 2Gig Rule??
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:39:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com> shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:

>   How can you take advantage of a 8500
>   when DEC won't even write up to half of the tape.

Either close/open the device or do an lseek(fd, 0L, SEEK_SET)
before you get to 2GB.  This resets the file pointer without
repositioning the tape.
-- 
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Carl J. Appellof		|	cja@chmist.zso.dec.com	|
| Open Systems Group            |                               |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: boris@math10.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Boris Hemkemeier)
Subject: Re: X11 screen fonts, where are they hidden?
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:56:30
	<1992Aug26.161746.7778@aosg.gsf.dec.com>
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany

In article <1992Aug26.161746.7778@aosg.gsf.dec.com> hrt@utne.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Henry R. Tumblin AOSG) writes:

   From an Ultrix 4.2a system:

   install the MIT fonts. the 10x20 font is in there.

Right, but you need a change if you have to use Dec's Xws. Xws
doesn't accepts fonts.alias files in non DEC pathes(10x20 is such an
alias) . I made a symbolic link from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/MIT (the
DECWindows placeholder for MIT fonts) to /usr/X11R5/[my
path]/fonts/misc (where 10x20 is) and it works fine. 

--
			  "Say no to bugs!"
Boris Hemkemeier	boris@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Disk sizes under 4.2a
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:16:31 GMT


In article <92245.104159JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (John Grover) writes:
>
>We are (finally) upgrading to 4.2a and I am trying to confirm some
>rumors concerning disk sizes.  [ Details of rumor omitted. ]

I've never seen the behaviour nor heard the rumor.  What is the source
of this rumor?  It's more likely that somebody's space report program
started using 512 byte units instead 1024 bytes units to report sizes.

>
>John Grover
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: hrt@utne.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Henry R. Tumblin AOSG)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: X11 screen fonts, where are they hidden?
Keywords: programming fonts
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:17:46 GMT
Reply-To: hrt@aosg.gsf.dec.com
Organization: AOSG

From an Ultrix 4.2a system:

install the MIT fonts. the 10x20 font is in there.

/Henry
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Henry R. Tumblin                        Alpha Open Systems Group
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From: riley@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Daniel S. Riley)
Subject: Re: Finding a Filesystem's Minimum Free Space
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:36:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.133933.27437@dxcern.cern.ch> matheys@online.cern.ch writes:
>How can one find-out the amount of space "reserved from the normal users"
>as the man page says ? By default it's 10% (set by the newfs -m default).
>But how does one get "the" number from Ultrix ?

root_lns276> dumpfs /dev/rrz0c | head
magic   11954   time    Tue Sep  1 10:24:07 1992
sblkno  2       cblkno  3       iblkno  4       dblkno  15
sbsize  8192    cgsize  8192    cgoffset 6      cgmask  0xfffffff0
ncg     65      size    172893  blocks  172045
bsize   8192    shift   13      mask    0xffffe000
fsize   8192    shift   13      mask    0xffffe000
frag    1       shift   0       fsbtodb 4
minfree 5%      maxbpg  4096
^^^^^^^^^^
maxcontig 1     rotdelay 0ms    rps     60
csaddr  15      cssize  8192    shift   9       mask    0xfffffe00

(this is from a Wren VIII formatted with "-f 8192 -c 32 -i 32768 -m 5")

You can also change the number without reformatting--see the "tunefs"
man page for details.

-- 
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-Wilson Lab, Cornell University     HEPNET/SPAN: lns598::dsr (44630::dsr)
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From: grio@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Daniel L Grillo)
Subject: reading/writing DOS floppies on DECstation
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Makemail: v1.15
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:21:13 GMT


Does anyone have suggestions for reading and writing MS-DOS
floppies on Personal DECstations?  Has anyone gotten mtools to work?

		--Dan
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 Dan Grillo   grio@cs.psu.edu   [NeXTmail, PrivateMail, MIME welcome]
From: robm@ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Having Problems with talk/talkd
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:17:26
Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: ataraxia.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu's message of 1 Sep 92 22:45:21 GMT

To follow up on what Mike said....

This problem somtimes occurs when you've added more ptys to your
system (via MAKEDEV), but forgot to add them to /etc/ttys.

If you're running X, another possiblity is that, or the user has put:

xterm*utmpInhibit:	true

in his or her Xresource or Xdefaults file.

-Rob


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From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: Ethernet Interface hardware address
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:44:51 GMT

sgi@kodiak.si.macsch.com (Son Giang) writes:
> Is there a simple command to get the ethernet hardware address?

This is somewhat indirect but you can type "uerf -R -r 300 | more" and look
at the entry that looks like:

	ln0: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface, 
	_hardware address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  

But I assume that should be a more direct way.  I'm not a ioctl() sort of
guy.  Anyone?

--
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From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us
Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
Originator: jim@eddie
Reply-To: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us
Organization: me?  have you seen my desk?  : -)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:29:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.151046.1@vxdesy.desy.de> sys_sprute@vxdesy.desy.de
(Lars Sprute) writes:

>I would like to use 'less' as the pager for the man pages. (default is 'more').
>I tried to define the environment variable PAGER, but it doesn't work,
>'more' is still used.

someone please correct me if this is incorrect, but I believe, unless you
specifically pipe man through less (man xxx | less), it probably uses a
built-in pager.

why do I think this?  well, I went a step further than trying the
environment variables --- I actually moved the real more to something
else (more.real, I think) and copied less to more.  so, in fact, on
my machine, less is really more...or should that, perhaps, be more is
really less?

anyways....  the result is still the same --- unless you force the issue
by piping man through more on the command line, it still uses a more-like
pager.

>Any ideas what to do ?

I don't know, but if you find out, please let me know (if it's not posted
here).
   --jim

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From: scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen)
Subject: DEC lpr - Hmmm....?!
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:05:53 GMT

Hi,

I've been trying to use the DEC supplied lpr and have found it rather basic
to say the least.  My previous experience with such things has involved the
use of Transcript.

The main reason for this posting is to please for assistance from someone in
the DEC world with getting the "lpr -t" function to work.  I see from the
man page that the default setting for a printcap entry for a printer is to
NOT set anything to support any troff filtering.  How, pray tell, am I
supposed to use this function then - psychic powers?

I have to say that I have not been impressed with the abilities of the DEC
lpr, and it does appear to have problems processing Postscript output 
produced by dvitps from TeX files (oh yes, THERE's another filter that is
never supplied by these all powerful computer manufacturing corporations)
whereas other machines have zero trouble.

Any help from the ether would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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