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From: paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Paraska)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How can I do an automatic backup?
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:31:37 GMT
Reply-To: paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Peter Paraska)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

I have a 4-mm DAT tape drive on a 4D/30 PI.  I wish to have the backup
program do a backup in the evening without any user intervention.  I
figure I should put something in the crontab script, but don't know
how to go about doing this.  Any help (example script) would be appreciated.

I ran the backup script from the toolbox on a new out-of-the-box DAT
tape to see if things were working when I recently installed the tape
drive.  When I executed the backup tool, the tape drive spun for
a while with the list of files in the backup window stalled.  After
a while, the tape stopped spinning and a message box appeared saying
that tape 1 was full and to insert tape 2.  Since only about 20K worth
of files had scrolled by in the backup window, I knew that tape 1 was
not full.  So I just hit the "accept" button to overwrite tape
1.  I don't know if this backup was successful.

What bothers me is that user intervention was needed to do the backup,
i.e., I had to fool the program into thinking I had inserted tape 2.
If this is the way the backup script is going to work with the DAT drive,
I don't think my plans for an automatic unattended backup will be fruitful.

Any ideas in this?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 firmware
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:21:43 GMT

lsr-vax!art@uunet.uu.net (Art Hays - PSTAFF) writes:

>Dave Olson worte on 14 Mar 92, <i8rksog@zuni.esd.sgi.com>:
>|> We haven't even completed qualification of the 8500 yet, as far as I
>|> know.  There are no hardware changes, just a different firmware rev.
...

>And also in <ip4s4o4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>:
>|> The 8500 (5 Gb) isn't fully qualified (by SGI) yet, and there is some
...

well, this is really confusing because i just got two 8500's purchased 
from SGI (does this mean it isn't "fully qualified" yet its shipping???
dave (or anybody else) can you clarify this?)

		fish
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: mail problem with one user
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:42:36 GMT

In article <84266@netnews.upenn.edu>, yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates) writes:
> On a machine running IRIX 4.0.4 I have a peculiar
> mail problem I don't understand. All users can send/receive
> Internet mail just fine, except one user klein. He can send
> mail out, but incoming mail bounces. A 'mail -v' to him
> shows 'mail: Can't send to klein' and bounces it.
> 
> A finger looks ok, I have the same sendmail.cf working
> on more than 6 other SGI's, I've rebuilt it anyway,
> and I've removed and readded klein as a user. He tells
> me that if a .forward file is there to someone else,
> it works. I checked the aliases file and there are
> none for him. He has no .mailrc file. I have checked
> /usr/mail for a klein file (none), and checked
> /usr/spool/mqueue for any files (none).
> 
> /bin/mail is exactly the same, including protections and
> ownership as at another SGI machine at IRIX 4.0.4
> that I just added a klein account to and it receives
> mail just fine.
> 
> What can be wrong on the one machine?


Read `grep ^klein /etc/passwd` very, very carefully.

Check `ypmatch klein passwd` and `ypmatch klein aliases`.

Try `mkdir ~klein; chown klein ~klein`.

Check for a lock file (not mail box) for klein in /usr/mail.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: raeker@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov (Todd J. Raeker)
Subject: c optimizer?
Reply-To: raeker@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov (Todd J. Raeker)
Organization: Ames Laboratory
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:37:04 GMT

I just saw mention in this newsgroup about a c optimizer called copt.  I am running
IRIX 4.0.4 on 4D/25 machine and a 4D/380 and don't have this in my /usr/lib directry.
I have the developers option, do I need to buy this thing or does it come with new
releases?  Thanks for any info that is sent my way.

-- 


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raeker@tc4.fi.ameslab.gov    |      Iowa State University
Phone (515)-294-9927         |      Ames Laboratory, USDOE
FAX   (515)-294-5204         |      Ames, Iowa 50011
From: john@sg25.aud.temple.edu (John W. Schwegler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: indigo DAT drive options
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:30:35 GMT


In message <grl.712227937@groucho> ,
 Greg Lehmann <grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au> writes:
> Is there a HW compression version of the standard 1.3Gb drive and/or a long
> tape version (180minutes?)
> -- 
> Greg Lehmann,
> CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology,   Telephone: +61 7 365 3877
> c/- Dept. of Mining & Metallurgical Eng.,     Facsimile: +61 7 365 3711
> The University of Queensland, QLD 4072.       Internet:  grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au

The 1.3Gb capacity is for a standard 60 meter tape. There are also 30 and 90
meter tapes with capacities of ~650Mb and ~2.0Gb, respectively.

______________________________________________________________________________
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   but stupidity is not thus            | Temple U. Auditory Research Dept.
   handicapped."                        | john@sg25.aud.temple.edu
         - Elbert Hubbard               | (215) 221-3687 FAX 221-7523
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CAP on Indigo - generic Ethertalk ?  
From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:38:01 GMT
Reply-To: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [BASEL]   

 I remember that there were some discussions on CAP earlier this year 
which dealt with a possible code generation wrt generic Ethertalk. 
I just ftp'ed cap 60 pl 100 from Rutgers but still didn't find any SGI 
specific code there. Did I miss something or do I need to stay with what is 
there? 

Regards 
Reinhard 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.programmer
From: patrick@ERC.MsState.Edu
Subject: Re: sockets vs. FIFOs performance
Organization: /usr/home/patrick/.organization
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:31:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.021407.4337@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian) writes:

   Xref: nntp.msstate.edu comp.sys.sgi:20825 comp.unix.programmer:7055
Path: nntp.msstate.edu!olivea!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!sparcy.Stanford.EDU!vahe
   From: vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian)
   Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.programmer
   Date: 29 Jul 92 02:14:07 GMT
   Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
   Organization: Robotics Lab.
   Lines: 17
   Originator: vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU

   I am running two independant processes on two (SGI IRIS) machines
   that need to communicate.

   Since the two machines share a common NFS mounted file
   system, FIFOs (named pipes) may be used for the communication.
   I also have the option of using sockets.

I don't think named pipes can be used for this. They can only be used
on the local machine. Sorry to spoil the fun.

   Any comments, suggestions, feedback ?

   Thanks in advance.

	   					No Prob.
								Patrick Bridges
								patrick@erc.msstate.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: randy@caesar.iaf.uiowa.edu (randy frank)
Subject: Strange bug on 4D120GTX (ERR_WMANIPC)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:35:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility

I am running a FORTRAN GL program on a 4D120GTX (tess).  When I run the program
locally (logged into tessa with DISPLAY pointed to tessa), I get the
following error after I open my window when I first call qread:

GL: X request = 131.23, error code = 2
ERROR #93  Error in communication with window server: ERR_WMANIPC

If I run the program on another machine with DISPLAY pointed to tessa,
it runs just fine.  If I run the program on other SGI machines using their
displays it runs fine (Indigo Elan, Indigo Entry, 4D20, Crimson...).
The code ran fine under 3.3.x on the 4D120GTX.  Any pointers as to
where I might look????  

	Please Email me any suggestions you might have.  Thank-you.

hinv (tessa):
2 16 MHZ IP5 Processors
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 1.5
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 1.6
On-board serial ports: 2 per CPU board
Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
Secondary data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Main memory size: 32 Mbytes
I/O board, slot F: IO2 revision 2
Integral Ethernet: et0
GT Graphics option installed
Genlock option installed
Xylogics 754 4-drive SMD disk controller 0: Firmware version 2.7.0
SMD Disk drive: unit 0 on Xylogics controller 0
Tape drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 0: QIC 150
Tape drive: unit 5 on SCSI controller 0: 8mm cartridge
Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93

uname -a (tessa)
IRIX tessa 4.0.1 11150233 IP5


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University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility |  73 EMRB              
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From: steve@denali (steve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: sendmail addressing
Keywords: sendmail uucp
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:24:44 GMT
Organization: CAD MicroSystems, Los Angeles, CA


I have been running a configmail'd setup which works fine connecting
the local hosts and our UUCP hosts.

We're not directly connected to the internet, but can transfer mail
through a UUCP connection to a mail service, PSI.  The problem is
that we must rewrite addresses from "name@host" to "host!name@uupsi2",
where uupsi2 is the Systems entry for PSI.  Replying to mail is
even harder.

Can sendmail be configured to overcome this?  Forwarding hosts(the
DF rule) seems like the ticket, but I haven't gotten it to work.
Thanks,
Steve Rice (srice@cadmicro.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: mac network copy from 4ddn 4.0.4 fails - machine type "dec" ?
From: raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:07:25 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: dec macintosh network copy 4ddn 4.0.4 
Summary: Network copy to a mac from 4ddn 4.0.4 fails - type DEC ?

Has anyone noticed that 4ddn on irix 4.0.4 advertises itself as a system type
DEC.  When using "network copy" from a macintosh a users reports that he
can list and select files on our 4d/240D but the copy fails.  He also notices
that 4ddn is saying it is a system type "DEC" but a microvax says it is "VMS"
and an ultrix says it is type "UNIX".  I presume that "netcopy" gets somewhat
confused about the directory stucture as it comes back with a VMS type 
directory name that it cannot find.  This problem occurred when we moved up
to 4.0.4 from 4.0.1 which we did because there were "no changes to 4ddn" in 
the release notes.
    
    Thanks in advance
    Ray Martin
    System Programmer
    Auckalnd University 
     
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Unix spell and Showcase
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 02:47:24 GMT

In <1992Jul23.204933.17879@linus.mitre.org> russ@dash.mitre.org (Russell Leighton) writes:
| Okay, so you don't get Unix spell with Irix4...I got a
| public domain Unix spell but I cannot get Showcase to
| recognize that I have it.
| 
| How do you tell showcase that you have spell?

I think showcase has its own spelling checker, but it may
want the dictionary that comes with installing eoe2.sw.spell,
which is the standard unix spell program stuff.  spell
*is* part of basic IRIX, but it isn't installed by default,
you have to select it from inst.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mannel@vaquero.neu.sgi.com (Bill Mannel)
Subject: Re: DATA ACQUISITION on Personal Iris
Reply-To: mannel@vaquero.neu.sgi.com (Bill Mannel)
Organization: Silicon Graphics S.A., Neuchatel, Switzerland
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 08:08:28 GMT



VMIC Corp (Huntsville, Alabama 1-800-322-3616), makes a series of
VME-based data acquisition
cards that many people (including myself) have used with the Personal IRIS - 
including a to d, d to a, d to d, etc. These fit in nicely into the single slot
on the PI. Their 4512 is a 12 bit a to d, with (if I remember correctly)
32 channels analog inputs.
around $1500


In article <1992Jul24.123157.9782@athena.mit.edu>,
crwanke@athena.mit.edu (Craig R. Wanke) writes:

|> 
|> Ho,
|> 
|> Does anyone out there have the names of some companies who make
|> data acquisition cards for the PI?  I need a card which has ~16
|> analog inputs and ~32 bits of digital input.  Doesn't have to be
|> high speed or (in the analog case) particularly accurate (8 bit
|> converters would be fine).
|> 
|> Please e-mail the responses, and I will post a summary.
|> 
|> Thanks for any help!
|> Craig Wanke
|> MIT Aeronautical Systems Lab
|> Room 37-438
|> Cambridge, MA 02139
|>
From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to link C object with Fortran library?
Summary: use f77 driver, f77 main program
Keywords: Linkingobject with library
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:53:11 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1765@kluge.fiu.edu>, sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu (H. Sumargo) writes:
> 
> I guess that the above subject explained it all.  FYI, I would like to be able to
> write a program in C language that has the capability of doing complex math.  I know
> that C language does not support complex math (If I am not mistaken) without additional
[ ]
> Linking the C object with the ForTran library:
>         cc -O3 -o main main.o sub.a -lm

Use f77 to do the linking, not cc.  
Use -v to see what libraries that links in.

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson             (415)390-1548             davea@sgi.com ]
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SCSI Disk problems. [ drive spinup at poweron ]
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:33:07 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <14kho9INNccs@network.ucsd.edu> sd@chem.ucsd.edu (Steve Dempsey) writes:

| I just want to make sure I understand Dave Olson's recomendation
| regarding the spin-up jumpers on SCSI disk drives.  Do we want the
| drives to spin up at power-on, or to wait until the start command is
| received from the scsi controller?  Do different models of the IRIS
| have different preferences?

All ESD systems (4D/20, 25, 30, 35, Indigo and r4k Indigo) want/need
the motor start jumper(s) set (i.e., do not spin up until a
startunit command is issued); all ASD systems except 4X0 and
Crimson need to power up immediately because their PROMs don't
know how to issue startunit.

There are 2 reasons for delaying poweron.  First, for internal
drives, the power supply really can't handle spinning up multiple
drives at the same time.  Second, most drives will not respond
to inquiry or other commands during power on spinup, and we
expect drives to respond to inquiry within a few seconds of
power on.  Most of the ASD systems have no power on SCSI diags,
other than the act of booting itself, and by the time they
get up to the kernel, the drives have all spun up; the ESD
systems, particularly from Indigo on, boot much more quickly
up to the time when the rc scripts run.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Calling a Fortran Subroutine from a C Program
Keywords: Programming
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:53:45 GMT
Reply-To: sumargoh@fiu.edu
Organization: FIU Electrical Engineering Department

Does any of you out there know how to call ForTran subroutine from a C program running on IRIX 3.3.2?
For example, if I write a ForTran 77 program as follows:

   SUBROUTINE TEST (TEMP1, TEMP2, N)
   DOUBLE COMPLEX TEMP1, TEMP2
   DIMENSION TEMP1 (N,N), TEMP2 (N)
        :
        :
   RETURN
   END

How would I incorporate the above subroutine into my C program?  Do I need to create a header
file for the above subroutine?  What switches do I use to compile the above subroutine (as a
Fortran 77 program) and my C program?

Please send you response to sumargoh@fiu.edu.  Thank you very much in advanced.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Subject: xwsh's -title option doesn't do what I expect
Organization: Yale University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:35:32 GMT

Hi all,

'xwsh -name foo -title bar' opens an xwsh with the title "bar".
'xwsh -name foo.bar -title baz' opens an xwsh with the title "foo.bar".

Is this an xwsh bug, or am I dealing with forces beyond my control, or what?
Irix 4.0.4.

TIA,

--
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| Lab phone: 203-432-5208      Fax: 203-432-6144     Home phone: 203-624-3866 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cboesel@iat.holonet.net (Charles Boesel)
Subject: using TAR > other directories
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:46:50 GMT

I'm trying the get some file out of their archives into the /usr
directory. Problem is, the files keep going to the / directory.

Can you direct the extracted files to another volume (the /usr)?


cboesel@holonet.net
From: hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel)
Subject: cc errors
Organization: University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:30:35 GMT

I don't like the lengthy error messages from the c-compiler.
They fill the screen
with lots of dashes even if one makes only a few mistakes. 
This behavior is *NOT* what is described in the ansi-c manual from sgi.
there is some page describing exactly what the format of the
error messages is. The format described there is not the format I get.
Any way to force this output format?
(this is still 4.0.1)

-- frans
From: rcronh@wsres1.info.win.tue.nl (Ron Helwig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Question on the pricing of SGI in Europe
Keywords: SGI
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:22:20 GMT
Reply-To: rcronh@info.win.tue.nl

Hi there,

In BYTE Magazine (July 1992 issue), there is an article about the new
R4000-based Crimson systems. The article ends with the following
`FACTS':

	Crimson/VGXT, 	128 MB of RAM
			780 MB disk space

			$ 110,900

(I don't know if any taxes should be added to this price)

Recently, I have received the following quote from our Dutch SGI 
distributor:

	Crimson/VGX,	128 MB of RAM
			1,6 GB disk space

			$ 198,200 (1 $ = Dfl. 1.80)

Local taxes (called BTW), as well as a 30% educational discount are 
included in this quote.

Clearly, the quote from BYTE is much better:

	Pro:	VGXT vs. VGX graphics
		$ 110,900 vs. $ 198,200 (local taxes ?)

	Con:	780 MB disk vs. 1,6 GB disk 
		(the 1,6 GB disk costs $ 10,800)

I suppose that the quote I got is comparable to any quote one would get
in Europe. The question arrises why there is such a big difference in
pricing between both continents. 

Thanks for any suggestions,

	Ron Helwig
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phone:  +31 (0)40 472724            | Eindhoven University of Technology
fax:    +31 (0)40 436685            | P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
Subject: Re: correction re: cron problem
Reply-To: pj@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Research & Development
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:47:56 GMT

In article <31518@adm.brl.mil>, johnson@euler.jsc.nasa.gov (Stan Johnson) writes:
|>
|> #min	hour	daymo	month	daywk	cmd
|> 32	4	22-28	*	0	/etc/my_program
|> 
|> Cron actually ran my sample program only yesterday (22nd) and today, as
|> if I had entered "*" for daywk.

Using both daymo and daywk to specify the day(s) to run a command
does not result in only running the command on the days meeting
both conditions, but on days meeting either condition.  These two
fields are combined as if with an OR, not an AND, operator.

To quote the man page:

     Note that the specification of days may be made by two
     fields (day of the month and day of the week).  If both are
     specified as a list of elements, both are adhered to.  For
     example, 0 0 1,15 * 1 would run a command on the first and
     fifteenth of each month, as well as on every Monday.  To
     specify days by only one field, the other field should be
     set to * (for example, 0 0 * * 1 would run a command only on
     Mondays).


-- 

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				Software Production Engineer
				Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
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