HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Problems with patch
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:44:55 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA


>>>>> In article <1992Aug31.164244.54@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>, bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:

bross> I'm trying to compile sbprolog on my Indigo.  When using 'patch' to
bross> merge some diff files, 

bross> 	patch < Makefile.diff

bross> I get the error:

bross> 	Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
bross> 	The text leading up to this was:
bross> 	--------------------------
bross> 	|*** Makefile.orig      Thu Jan  5 13:10:36 1989
bross> 	|--- Makefile   Thu Jan  5 11:36:07 1989
bross> 	--------------------------
bross> 	Patching file Makefile using Plan A...
bross> 	Hunk #1 failed at 1.
bross> 	1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.rej
bross> 	done

The source being patched does not match what the patch (diff) file
expects, so it fails rather than put garbage in the file.

bross> Is this because the 'diff' file is too old, or am I doing
bross> something foolish?

The diff file was only for a specific version of sbprolog, which is
now several years old. There was talk about including the SGI patches
into the standard distribution, but I don't know what happened. I am
the original author of the patches, but I currently have no time to
work on them. They should be a good starting point for someone else,
though.

=-=-=-=-=
--
 Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> / Traveller on Dragon Wings
 Networking Services,        / Help! My disclaimer is missing!
 Silicon Graphics, Inc      / GIGO *really* means: Garbage in, Gospel Out
From: ottmar@ajberl.adsp.sub.org (Ottmar Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Splitting up comp.sys.sgi
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:24:47 GMT
Organization: Atelier Roehrig

How are the affords in splitting up comp.sys.sgi going on? The
traffic we have here becomes a lot too much for my taste/time... (ok,
it would be much worse if there was less traffic at all :-)

Ottmar
--
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Ottmar Roehrig, ECG130    cbmger.de.so.commodore.com!ajberl!ottmar
Hamburg, Germany

"There's method in his madness" (Shakespeare, Hamlet II.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: kreidler@convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Homer Simpson)
Subject: ftp problems
Summary: Problems with ftp through a novell server/ip-router
Keywords: iris4d20g, ftp, novell
Organization: Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:10:32 GMT

Hello out there!

In our institute we have a Personal Iris 4D20G in a thin wired network, in
which are also PC's running Novell 3.11 on the same wire. We use an ipx.com,
that uses the clarkson packet drivers, so our configuration will be :

ne2000 -n 0x60 0x0a 0x300
ipx
netx

The Novell Server is used as the IP-Router for our subnet. There is no problem
using ftp from a PC to any UNIX-station (including our iris) but when transporting
files longer than about 1-2 kB between the iris and a UNIX-host outside the
connection breaks down. 

We have another unix-computer here, which has no problems like this. 

What's going wrong? We have this problem since we use the novell net. Before
that, we had a network based only on TCP/IP and it worked well with our sgi.

Thanks a lot

Kay Kreidler,
Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry
Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf
GermanY
From: SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: NASA X Interface Builder
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:33:23 GMT

Is there such a thing for the SGI?  I've heard rumors to the effect from
some government types here at NUWC.

Thanks
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:13288 comp.windows.x:16183
From: wiltzius@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (Dave Wiltzius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.windows.x
Subject: XtCallbackReleaseCacheRef crashes
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:47:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.


I'm writing a Motif application on an SGI running 4.0.4 and
can reliably reproduce a core dump with the following traceback
from dbx:

XtCallbackReleaseCacheRef
ObjectDestroy
_XtFreeCallbackList
XtFree
.malloc.free

I have run this will mallopt's M_DEBUG enabled (nothing caught
there).  It happens after I create about 7 top level shells,
destroy 2 (via window manager "quit"), create another and destroy
that one.  All of these shells have a mixed-mode (SGI terminology)
child.

I'm about ready to hit the sources for this problem.  Any suggestions,
comments or hints would be welcomed.  I've looked at my code closely
but am not excluding bugs there, of course.

Please send email since our news service is flakey.  Thanks much.
  Dave Wiltzius
  Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
  wiltzius@llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
Subject: Re: CAP60 and APPLETALK Encapsulation
Keywords: cap
Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 11:31:27 GMT

msk@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Mark S. Kassem) writes:

>	I have been trying to compile CAP60 (the columbia appletalk
>	package) on a number of SGI Indigos (R3000) but with no luck!!

Hmmm, I have had no problems at all. Are you using the latest patchlevel?
This is cap 6.0 PL 126.

It should compile with an SGI build "out of the box". Check that you are
using the -cckr option for the cc compiler.

>	The make file doesn't even kick off the compiler.  Does anyone
>	have CAP60 compiled?? If so can you please post the binaries
>	where NOVICES like me can access them?  Do you know of any
>	appletalk packages out there that allow an SGI over ethernet
>	to talk to a LaserWriter IIg from Apple (with an ethernet adapter)
>	on board.

CAP on SG's can't do native ethertalk phase II, so the only way you will
get it to talk to your laserwriter is if you have an appletalk router
that can do MacIP eg. kinetics fastpath, webster mutiport gateway.

I _think_ SG will be releasing a new product soon (printvision?? - or similar
name) that will support what what you want to do. Go and ask your friendly
sales being for an answer :-)

	ian
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: haidl@cs.uregina.ca (Mark Haidl)
Subject: Re: How to control animation frame rates?
Organization: University of Regina
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:05:09 GMT

mds@sgi.com (Mark Stadler) writes:

>In article <1992Aug27.133349@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov> sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan) writes:
>>	How can one measure animation frame rate on an Indigo Entry?
>>I want to maintain a certain rate, but the complexity of each scene
>>may vary. Is the best way to do this counting the number of scenes
>>per second and adjusting accordingly? What function returns the time
>>most accurately?  Any tips?
>>               Thanks, Dan
>>
>check out the swapinterval() man page.  using this call, you can specify
>the worst case frame and force swapbuffers() to swap at that rate.
>--
>-- mds	[aka Mark D Stadler  mds@sgi.com  ...!uunet!sgi!mds  (415)335-1327]
Note that swapinterval was broken in 4.0.1-4.0.4 on our PIs and Indigo.
I would assume it is fixed under 4.0.5.(We reported it back at 4.0.1)
--
Mark Haidl, Systems Manager, Dept of Computer Science, U of Regina, Canada
haidl@cs.uregina.ca,  regina!mercury!haidl
Phone: (306)585-4977, Fax: -5205
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: drablos@marvin.mr.sintef.no (Finn Drablos)
Subject: SCSI cable length
Summary: What is the length of internal SCSI cable in 4D25
Keywords: SCSI,4D25,Iris
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
Date:  2 Sep 92 14:09:06 GMT

I need to know the length of the internal SCSI cable in a 4D25 PI
and an Iris File. Thanks in advance for any info!

--

Finn Drablos                drablos@marvin.mr.sintef.no
MR-Center, SINTEF UNIMED    phone +47 7 99 77 10
N-7034 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY    fax   +47 7 99 77 08
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt)
Subject: Re: Problem with "chdir"
Organization: Climate and Radiation Branch
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:28:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.161656.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>, cbas25@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
|> The following piece of code illustrates an anomaly between
|> IRIX 4.0.x and earlier versions of IRIX.
No. It illustrates a common programming mistake.
You declared 'chdir' as real, implicitly, when it should be integer.

|> C-------------------------------cut here------------------------
|>       PROGRAM CHANGEDIR
|> 
         integer chdir

|> C  To test the fortran subroutine chdir
|>       I = 999
|>       write (*,*) I
|>       I = chdir ('notthere')    !  This directory is not there
|>       write (*,*) I             !  Should return -1
|>       call system ('pwd')       !  No change in directory
|>       I = chdir ('..')          !  Go to parent directory 
|>       write (*,*) I             !  Should return 0
|>       call system ('pwd')       !  Should now be parent directory
|>       stop
|>       end
|> C-------------------------------cut here------------------------

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From: gpfrn@cam.nist.gov (Glenn_P._Forney_x6884)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: re-organizing file systems
Keywords: file systems
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:28:33 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

when i originally set up my disk (a non-system disk),
I partitioned
it into three separate file systems.  i thought
it was a good idea at the time.  i would
like to go back to one file system.  i use the new dump
commanded provided with 4.0 to do backups.
one backup for each file system. my question is
how best to back up my system before consolidating
three file systems into one.  can the three dump
files (one for each file system) be used to restore
back to the new consolidated file system?
thanks,
glenn forney
gpfrn@cfr6.cfr.nist.gov
From: acas@cgl.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Logical Volume size problems?
Summary: is life sweet
Keywords: mklv sizeof(ulong)
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:03:57 GMT
Organization: RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, CITRI, Melbourne


Does anyone know if there problems with mixing SCSI drive sizes in a logical
volume or if there is a limit (ie. triggers some "bugs" ;-) associated with
logical volumes on IRIX 4 systems.

Basically, we have a 340 and we have a logical volume which consists of 3
780M SCSI drives. We wish to add a fourth SCSI disk to the lv which is 1.2Gb,
but I am unsure whether this will make the lv too large for IRIX to *SAFELY*
handle. We currently are using 4.0.1, but have 4.0.5A if this would be better.

Any comments, suggestions or tips would be much appreciated. I will
post a summary if there is interest.


Andrew Cassin
RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre
email address: acas@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au
From: BABINB@vax1.dseg.ti.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: GL puzzle: zbuffer madness
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:32:55 GMT


  The reason why the first program works and the second doesn't is that there
is only one zbuffer per graphics head.  This means for all systems except the
Skywriter there is a single zbuffer available for hidden surface removal.
Thus, the first program works because you clear the zbuffer before drawing
each frame.  But, the second program doesn't work because the zbuffer still
has the data from the first frame.
  Hope this helps.

Brad Babin
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:43:48 EDT
From: <KJB6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,psu.comp.sgi
Subject: Problems connecting an HP Paintjet XL

I have an HP Paintjet XL plotter that I am connecting to my SGI 4D/20. When
I connect the printer using the parallel port and send a "snapshot" to it,
all the colors come out fine. But if I connect this printer on the serial
port, the colors are not the same as A). the snapshot (ipaste) and B). the
output from it being attached parallel.

I have access to a serial cable and not another parallel cable (for the time
being), that is why I would like to connect it serially (sp). Any ideas or
things I could try?

Thanks,

Ken Bauer
Systems Analyst      kjb6@psuvm.psu.edu
PENN. STATE - ERIE, The Behrend College
From: acas@cgl.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Interviews 3.0.1 bug?
Summary: hmmm....
Keywords: hmmm...
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:02:56 GMT
Organization: RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, CITRI, Melbourne


I grabbed 3.0.1.tar.Z from sgi.com:/graphics/interviews and followed the
instructions in the README file, namely:
	setenv CPU `make World`
	make World

However, part way through the build, CC complains about an inline function
call when compiling iv/src/lib/IV-2_6/xpainter.c. Making this function
(AllocPts) non-inline fixes the compile errors.

Is the a known cfront bug? Or am I configuring InterViews incorrectly? 
(see below)

We are using IRIX 4.0.1, IDO and C++ 2.1.1 on a 340VGX. 
Of the configuration files, only the following has been modified and its
contents are given below:

--- start of iv/src/config/InterViews/local.def ---

/*
 * For now, just assume cfront 2.0.
 * If you are using cfront 2.1, then use -Dcplusplus_2_1.
 */
#undef LanguageCCDefines
#define LanguageCCDefines -Dcplusplus_2_0

/*
 * Delete this definition if your /tmp space is less than five megabytes.
 */
#undef HasLargeTmp
#define HasLargeTmp YES

/*
 * If you do not want to create a symbolic link called "/interviews"
 * that points at /..../iv/installed, you should replace /interviews
 * below with the name of the symbolic link you do want to use (say,
 * /usr/local/interviews).  If you don't want to create a symbolic
 * link at all, replace /interviews with the absolute pathname of
 * /..../iv/installed so InterViews applications still can find the
 * installed data files.
 */
#undef InstalledRoot
#define InstalledRoot /usr/local/interviews

/*
 * If the X11 config files are not in /usr/lib/X11/config, the X11
 * includes are not in /usr/include, or the X11 libraries are not in
 * /lib, /usr/lib, or /usr/local/lib, then you should specify their
 * actual locations here.
 *
 * If you have to set XConfigDir, don't forget to override XCONFIGDIR
 * on the command line when saying "make World" for the first time.
 */
/*
#undef XConfigDir
#define XConfigDir /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/config
#undef XIncDir
#define XIncDir /usr/X11R5/include
#undef XLibDir
#define XLibDir /usr/X11R5/lib
*/
--- end of included file ---

Andrew Cassin
RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre
email address: acas@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au
From: sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 9 track tape drives recommendations?
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:27:29 GMT
Reply-To: sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan)
Organization: NASA/GSFC Hydrospheric Sciences Branch


  Does anyone have any  9 track tape drive recommendations for SGI 
Indigos? 800/1600/6250 tape densities. We are dumping our VAX 11/780 but
we still need the 9 track tape drives.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dan Sullivan                   #  Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics (STX) 
                               #  Code 920.2
sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov   #  NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
                               #  Greenbelt, MD 20771
                               #  voice: (301) 286-2484
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mikulska@crux.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
Subject: Is there a FAQ list? and other questions
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:16:09 GMT

In article <fenton.713805375@news.cso.uiuc.edu> fenton@nemo (James M. Fenton) writes:
>The list is helpful, but do they work?  I'm still trying to get 4Mb SIMMS
>from Memory/X working in my 4D25.  Any suggestions?  Yes, I have them 
>installed in the banks in the proper arrangement.

Is there a FAQ list in this group?  We keep two weeks of news, and I
couldn't find a FAQ list there.  I would appreciate if somebody could
send me a copy or point me to an archive.  We have an IRIS (Indigo) on
loan, but no TFMs, except for the on-line man pages.

I'm also interested in 3rd party memory and peripherals for Indigo.  We
are currently evaluating an Indigo system; the sales reps, as usually,
are not very willing to talk about h/w from other vendors.  I'd like to
hear from Indigo users what kind of memory and disks were they able to
plug into the system.

One more question: does anybody have a _working_ amd automounter ("amd",
not the one that comes with IRIX) for IRIX 4.0.5?  Our network consists
almost exclusively of Suns, and we use "amd" quite heavily.  It would be
a pain for me if amd didn't work or if it worked unreliably on the IRIS.

Thanks a lot in advance.  A prompt reply would be _greatly_ appreciated,
since our loaner stays only a week with us.

Margaret Mikulska
UNIX Systems Manager

Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University

mikulska@astro.princeton.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Installation overwrites inittab - why?
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:24:13 GMT

After upgrading to IRIX 4.0.5 I discovered that the installation
overwrote /etc/inittab, thereby turning off our dialin ports.
I ran into this while working through the changed versions, but I can't
see any justification for this, since none of the other lines are
changed.  I suggest that an inittab.N file be installed rather than
replacing inittab as a default.  Does anybody see any logic to the
current practice?
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
Subject: Re: "PICTURE IN LOGIN ICON ??"
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:27:19 GMT

murali@IASTATE.EDU (B Muralidharan) writes:
>        I would like to know how to get picture in login icon above your
>user name. Is there any reference book I can look into? What format the
>picture should be? Is there any ftp site from where I can get the picture?

check out the pandora(1) man page.  It goes into great detail about this.

...robert
From: ib@ivan.esd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4.0.5 Font Manager Problems?
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:39:27 GMT
Followup-To: <1992Aug26.232018.19122@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How to control animation frame rates?
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:33:49 GMT
Reply-To: sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan)
Organization: NASA/GSFC Hydrospheric Sciences Branch


	How can one measure animation frame rate on an Indigo Entry?
I want to maintain a certain rate, but the complexity of each scene
may vary. Is the best way to do this counting the number of scenes
per second and adjusting accordingly? What function returns the time
most accurately?  Any tips?
               Thanks, Dan

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dan Sullivan                   #  Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics (STX) 
                               #  Code 920.2
sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov   #  NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
                               #  Greenbelt, MD 20771
                               #  voice: (301) 286-2484
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI Abekas A60 graphics control panel...
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:56:38 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep3.175744.16376@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> tttron@escher.lerc.nasa.gov (William Krauss) writes:


| Attention SGI Abekas A60 video disk users.
| 
...
| If you are interested in obtaining the "diffs" contact me via e-mail. 
| 
| If someone from SGI would comment on if/how I might get the okey-dokey to 
| "redistribute" the source ~8 files total) I'd appreciate it. 

The first step would be to contact the support folks.  We have some
established procedure for this, from what I recall, but I don't know
what it is.
--
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: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Using the digital Audio out to backup on a DAT .. ?
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:48:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <?.715298753@tazdevil> henrik@mpci.llnl.gov (Henrik Klagges) writes:

| Can the digital audio output jacks on an Indigo be used to record 
| Backup-files onto DAT tapes ? This would be a great kludge in connection

YUCK.  Fortunately this gawdawful suggestion won't work, at least, not
without an incredible amount of work, and maybe not then.

| with a portable DAT player, because one could carry one's software library
| around in a DAT and have the player handy to ensure everyone can read it.
| Cheers, Henrik

Buy a data DAT drive.  They are reasonably portable.
--
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: malik@rnch01.dnet.roche.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Logon times
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:09:06 GMT

I need an accurate way of ascertaining the length of time users are logged
onto the system and at what terminal device.  I have an IRIS-4D running
IRIX 3.3.1 and the standard UNIX accounting package does not portray what
is actually happening.

In particular, the /etc/utmp file is useful only for determining who is
currently logged on and at what terminal.  Despite what the documentation
says (i.e. last(1)), a logout record is not entered in the /etc/wtmp file.
However if a user is remotely logged on via rlogin(1C), then a "pseudo"
logout record is generated, which I assume to be an exiting rlogind
process.

Because a logout record is not generated, last(1) can incorrectly report
that a session is still active when in fact it is not, or it can incorrectly
inflate the duration of s session to the point when a new session is

started.


Thanks,
Jeff


Jeff Malik
Hoffmann-La Roche
Nutley, New Jersey
malikj@rnisd0.dnet.roche.com
(201) 235-6557
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi