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From: ivan@durras.anu.edu.au (Ivan Dean)
Subject: Re: NIS, slave servers and DNS access (actually disabling accounts)
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  8 Sep 92 23:12:28 GMT

This thread has moved off into the area of disabling accounts, which is
something I have had a bit of experience in. Recently we acquired sixty
Xterminals for our teaching laboratories, and they change things quite
noticeably.

To recap, we've seen the following suggestions for disabling accounts :

1. Alter the password field of the user
2. Alter the shell of the user

Suggestion 1. doesn't work if the user has a .rhosts file, or the
/etc/hosts.equiv file allows them to log on directly, i.e. if a
"trust relationship" is set up from another working account, because the
user doesn't have to enter a password at all.

Also, if you change a user's password, then you can't give them a message
about why their account is unavailable when they log in. This is often
desirable, and can only be achieved by altering a user's shell to a
program which prints out the required message. Which leads us to
suggestion 2, which is a good suggestion for logins that require shells.

However, running an Xterminal with xdm, or a workstation with xdm, means that

       THEY DON'T NEED  A WORKING SHELL TO USE THE SYSTEM !

A user with their shell set to "/bin/false" can use the system via windowing
tools such as textedit, mailtool, filemgr etc. quite happily. They can't
start a cmdtool, shelltool or xterm for instance, but who cares ? I HAVE
tried this on one of our Xterminals, and it DOES work. To get around the
problem, you need to modify the standard startup sequence for xdm - we did
it by running a program called xlogin (see archie for details). xlogin
was modified to provide a mechanism for noting that an account was
disabled, and printing out an appropriate message. Running a "standard"
xdm setup does not provide this functionality, and as far as I'm aware,
doesn't provide you with any way to disable a user other than altering
their password, which of course, doesn't work in certain cases anyway.

In summary, altering a user's password AND shell will disable that account,
but the user has no idea what's wrong with their account. Changing one but
not the other is generally not sufficient.

Disclaimer : I don't know anything about SVR4 yet, so I'm writing about
Suns running SunOS 4.1.x, and the X11R5 version of xdm.
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From: pineapp@netcom.com (Daniel Curry)
Subject: sendmail binary
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 19:38:35 GMT
Organization: Netcom-Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Keywords: sendmail

  Has anyone had any problems with Pyramids /usr/lib/sendmail binary?
I have discovered that if I put in comments in my /etc/hosts file to
reflect the ownership of ip address. That sendmail does not treat it
as a comment only.
  I am running version 5.61 /usr/lib/sendmail. There are some
discussions about that this version may have some DNS( domain name servive)
problems.
  Please send me any information that you may have and I will post this
to the rest of the group.

-- 
Dan Curry                                   WB6STW
Pineapp@netcom.com                   K6ANN Rptr 444.500
From: award@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL (Antoinette Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Pyramid Work Center For Sale
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:13:06 GMT
Organization: The Internet



 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
           F O R   S A L E
 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

   Pyramid Work Center
        208 v Single Phase 3 wire
        Dual Ported O/S :  BSD 4.2  & AT&T System V
        Single Processor Board
        16 Ports expandable to 32
        8 MB RAM
        Dual Fujitsu 150 MB SCSI HD
        Parallel Printer Port
        Ciprico Tape Controller
        1600 bpi 9-track Tape Drive
        Floppy Drive w/ boot floppy
        Console


**  Interested parties should contact  Don Snyder  (703) 803-9293
                                       The Design Group, Inc.
                                       General Manager
    (Please do not send email)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
From: philip@xilinx.com (Philip Freidin)
Subject:  Used 90X boards
Keywords: Used 90X boards
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:59:56 GMT


I have a "batch" of 90X boards from what was two working 90X
machines. Includes memory boards, coms boards, CPU, I/O....

Is there a market for these boards? 

If you are interested, or know someone who might be,
please mail me or call me.

Philip Freidin
	philip@xilinx.com

	(408) 879-5180

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Philip Freidin: Product Planning Manager, Xilinx, INC
(rest of clever .sig still under construction....
		coming to a terminal near you, Real Soon Now (tm))
From: sgccdeb@citec.oz.au (Darren Bock 231 9716)
Subject: Anyone ported "top" v3.0 to OSx5.1 yet?
Organization: CITEC
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:20:09 GMT
Keywords: top osx

Has anyone created a module for a pyramid for top version 3.0 yet?

I have the old top version 2.5 with mods to work on a pyramid.

Before I look at re-doing this work has anyone else done it already?

						Darren Bock
From: roberts@luxor.crd.ge.com (Victor D Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Battery life on the HP95LX
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:05:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE Corp. Research & Development, Schenectady, NY

In article <1992Sep8.162754.9983@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea) writes:
>
>
>>I have had my HP95LX for almost 1 year now. I can assure you>
>>that 2 to 3 weeks is perfectly normal. HP's claim of 1 to 2
>>months is pure hog wash. Turning off the serial port reduces
>>power consumption by about 25%, which is important, but not the
>>magical trick it is sometimes claimed to be. Using the battery
>>use time in 95BUDDY, I measure that the 2 to 3 weeks of elapsed
>>time translates into 12 to 15 hours of actual use.
>
>
>I find that I get about 20-23 hours (according to 95BUDDY) before the low
>battery alarm goes off. That's 8 hours more than Vic seems to be getting.
>I'm using a 1meg machine, Serial # ABA3206A00207, and I'm using
>Panasonic AA batteries, not nicad.
>
>
>Bill Corea
>hwcco@chevron.com    San Ramon, California





I am also using Panasonic AA batteries. Have a 512K machine upgraded
to 1 Meg. What is your secret?
-- 

Vic Roberts
GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
roberts@crd.ge.com
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Shareware Appointment SW (was Re: new Hp95lx)
Date: 11 Sep 1992 18:29:00 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Sep11.133630.6578@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>Well, I have to admit, as much as I like it, the 95 IS a little too big
>for the average shirt pocket.

You need to buy different shirts, then. It fits fine (a bit snugly, but no
strain) in my Arrow and Van Heusen shirts.

Next, on comp.sys.palmtops: What shirts to buy for your HP95LX! :-) :-)
-- 
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jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
            at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: ij59@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Problems with Pascal on Portfolio
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:54:40 GMT

Well, it's me again, with more problems on my Porfolio.  I finally found a
pascal that will run properly on it and has all standard Pascal functions (its
called SURPAS from an Australian company called Tixauku Pty. Lt.) but
the compiled files almost always fail to run, giving me either "INSUFFICIENT
MEMORY" or "Exec error."

  Now, naturally, unless you are very familiar with the workings of this
particular PAscal, you probaly can't help with it, but the reason I post is
that I have had the same problem with ALL compiled pascal programs I have
tried running. 
  I have compiled code with Turbo 3.0, Visual Pascal (works but is screwy),
SURPAS, Turbo 5.5 and Turbo 6.0.  I can find no correlation betwee size of the
compiled program or variables or data structures or screen controls used and
whether it will run or not.  In fact, some programs will run sometimes and not
others, even if the Portfolio has been reset completely before running them
(i.e. no chance of stuff in memory.  I currently have no programs that install
on boot-up)

SO does anybody have any idea why a 32k pascal compiler will run fine, but a 9k
compiled prog usualy won't?  Oh yes, and this puzzles me even more.  The
programs run fine if I compile them to memory and run them from the PAscal
editor (This is only with SURPAS, the other Pascals would not run, with the
exception of Visual PAscal, which was too limited for my needs and could not
use read/readln statements properly (inputted a continuous stream of spaces or
nulls from the keybaord; i couldnt tell which)

Even if I can't use SURPAS for some reason to actually make Portfolio
compatible files, I would like to be able to work on them in SURPAS and then
compile them on a PC in _some_ Pascal that makes code 
the Portfolio won't reject.

BTW, I was testing VERY simple progs, i.e. ones that print a single line and
then quit, or input a string and then re-print it.  Nothing fancy, soruce code
usually around 500bytes.  Yet I still got "INSUFFICIENT MEMORY" errors when I
tried running the compiled files from DOS.

So, open forum, keyword: HELP!!!!!!

thanks.

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From: 6500dac@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Daniel A. Coury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Sharp Wizard Accessories For Sale Cheap
Keywords: For Sale Sharp Wizard Software Cards
Date: 11 Sep 92 02:17:36 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.palmtops misc.forsale

I have the following Sharp Wizard Accessories For Sale
CE-76BC Battery Case
OZ-706A 3D Spreadsheet
OZ-705A Money Planner
OZ-707 Scientific Computer Card neat BASIC compiler
OZ-703A 8 Language Translator
OZ-708A North American City Guide
Everything is new still in the box
I want to sell it all for $195 obo
:
Call Steve at (805)963-5012 lv message
Steve at (805)963-5012 lv messag
Everything for $195 OBO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: rick@cs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer)
Subject: Palmtop to run Mathcad
Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:27:31 GMT

I find myself developing a growing attachment to Mathcad, enough so that I
would like to buy a portable platform to run it on.  

Are palmtop machines to the state where they can run Windows?  If so, what 
would be a good choice of a machine with ~2 mByte ram, ~25 mByte disk, 
and reasonably fast CPU?  Total runtime between charges is not important to me, 
as the machine would be used around home & office, ie never far from a second 
battery pack or charger.  The goal is to put together a Mathcad based pocket 
calculator :-)  Thanks!

					Rick Spanbauer,
					SUNY/Stony Brook

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: gcs@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg C. Steiner)
Subject: SHARP WIZARD: is it a palmtop?
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 18:36:07 GMT
Keywords: sharp wizard


I was wondering if a Sharp Wizard counts as a palmtop or is it 
just a fancy organizer?
From: laub@Software.Mitel.COM (Boniface Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Help!  HP95 kaput (again!) - what's going on here?
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:10:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
In-reply-to: todd@sparcy.Stanford.EDU's message of 7 Sep 92 23:33:10 GMT

>>>>> On 7 Sep 92 23:33:10 GMT, todd@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Todd Koumrian) said:

Todd> 4) Went to Fry's and got a salesman to let me try a Sparcom RAM
Todd> card.  Self-test never wavered from "ok".  Plugged the Derive
Todd> card back in - got "no card" and "bad".

To me, this sounds all too familiar. I suspect your problem is that
your Derive card is not compatible with the 95LX. I would suggest you
return the card and get refund, then call Active Data to get their RAM
cards.  Active Data has the best price for RAM cards. The number is
(714)997-7718 or (800)223-0503.

--
Boniface Lau    (613) 592-2122 ext. 3042    Boniface_Lau@Mitel.COM
Mitel Corp.  				    
350 Legget Drive, Kanata
Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Subject: Re: HP95:  How to soft Phone Book entries?
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:52:19 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.235142.2756@crd.ge.com> roberts@luxor.crd.ge.com (Victor D Roberts) writes:
>In article <112160040@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
>>I'd like to find an easy way to sort my Phone Book in alphabetical order.
>>Does anyone have any ideas?

>The phone book in my 95LX sorts all entries into alphabetical order
>automatically. Does anyone know why rrd's do not get sorted?

Perhaps he imported a phone book file generated outside the 95LX? The
95LX actually *does not* sort the phone book! It inserts new entries
in the proper places, thus keeping the book sorted - but only if it
was sorted (or empty) from the beginning.
--
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Swedish Institute of Computer Science           Phone (intn'l): +46 8 752 15 09
Box 1263                                        Telefon (nat'l): 08 - 752 15 09
S-164 28  KISTA, SWEDEN                         Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: bdahlen@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen - U. of Denver USA=)
Subject: Re: How to delete HP95LX spreadsheet examples
Organization: University of Denver
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:10:47 GMT

In article <7338@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <1992Sep15.192921.29357@odin.corp.sgi.com> ems@work.wpd.sgi.com (Ed Sesek) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a way to delete the Lotus 123 example spreadsheets
>>that come with the 95?  The files I am refering to are in the root
>>directory and have the "wk1" extension.  They seem to be read-only.
>
>They don't take up valuable space. Those files are in the 95's ROM, not in
>RAM. There's no way to get rid of them, but they don't cost you anything,
>either.
>
>jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.

One other "solution" is to acquire 95 BUDDY, which will noth delete them,
but it will make them invisible.  95 Buddy is on eddie.mit.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,alt.lang.basic,biz.comp.software
From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: System compliant BASIC for HP 95LX?
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:42:38 GMT

First, an apology to HP.  In an earlier posting I was a critical of their
local "service".  It turns out the problem was due to a 2nd-order agent (i.e.
they sell the HP 95LX, but they don't deal directly with the distributors;
they deal through an intermediate dealer).  So...bouquets to the Qld 
distributors, Twinlock Acco, and especially to Peter Tucker in Brisbane,
who couldn't have been more helpful once I approached him directly.

Now to the real thing:-
A HP rep in Melbourne responded to my previous posting.  He is into the HP
calculator line rather than the palmtops, but he thought one of my concerns
about operating the HP95 in the field could be overcome by using "system
compliant" programs.  He thought there was a version of BASIC available which
would facilitate writing such programs.  He called it "Swift BASIC" - which I
have never heard of!  Have you?  Who supplies it??  (Having slept on the matter
I'm left wondering if he really meant QuickBASIC?!)

In summary:
1. Is there such a thing as "Swift BASIC" for the HP 95LX palmtop computer?
   If there is, where do I get it and how much does it cost?
2. Alternatively, can you use QuickBASIC to write "system compliant" programs
   for the HP 95LX?  (Or MS BASIC PDS 7.1?)
3. IF (2) THEN do the manuals for the HP contain the necessary details to
   enable "system compliant programming", or must one purchase extra docs?
   (It looks very much like the latter to me.)

Thanks for your help,  Ian S.

-- 

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From: hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Battery life on the HP95LX
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:27:54 GMT
Reply-To: hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea)
Distribution: usa
Organization: chevron



>I have had my HP95LX for almost 1 year now. I can assure you> 
>that 2 to 3 weeks is perfectly normal. HP's claim of 1 to 2 
>months is pure hog wash. Turning off the serial port reduces 
>power consumption by about 25%, which is important, but not the 
>magical trick it is sometimes claimed to be. Using the battery 
>use time in 95BUDDY, I measure that the 2 to 3 weeks of elapsed 
>time translates into 12 to 15 hours of actual use.


I find that I get about 20-23 hours (according to 95BUDDY) before the low
battery alarm goes off. That's 8 hours more than Vic seems to be getting.
I'm using a 1meg machine, Serial # ABA3206A00207, and I'm using 
Panasonic AA batteries, not nicad.
 

Bill Corea                   
hwcco@chevron.com    San Ramon, California
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: How to delete HP95LX spreadsheet examples
Date: 15 Sep 1992 21:01:54 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Sep15.192921.29357@odin.corp.sgi.com> ems@work.wpd.sgi.com (Ed Sesek) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way to delete the Lotus 123 example spreadsheets
>that come with the 95?  The files I am refering to are in the root
>directory and have the "wk1" extension.  They seem to be read-only.
>I have tried using the HP Connectivity pack to change attributes on
>the files from my PC, but that didn't work either.  The examples are nice,
>but I don't need them taking up valuable space.

They don't take up valuable space. Those files are in the 95's ROM, not in
RAM. There's no way to get rid of them, but they don't cost you anything,
either.

All of the HP-supplied files in C:\_SYS, and all files listed before the _DAT
subdirectory in a DIR C: listing at the MSDOS prompt, are in ROM.

(This info will be included in the upcoming HP95LX FAQ, too...)
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
            at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
From: ems@work.wpd.sgi.com (Ed Sesek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: How to delete HP95LX spreadsheet examples
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:29:21 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

Does anyone know of a way to delete the Lotus 123 example spreadsheets
that come with the 95?  The files I am refering to are in the root
directory and have the "wk1" extension.  They seem to be read-only.
I have tried using the HP Connectivity pack to change attributes on
the files from my PC, but that didn't work either.  The examples are nice,
but I don't need them taking up valuable space.

Thanks,
Ed Sesek
From: drp40@cd.amdahl.com (Douglas R Puchalski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: How to delete HP95LX spreadsheet examples
Date: 16 Sep 92 00:16:31 GMT
Reply-To: drp40@cd.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

In article <1992Sep15.192921.29357@odin.corp.sgi.com>, ems@work.wpd.sgi.com (Ed Sesek) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way to delete the Lotus 123 example spreadsheets
>that come with the 95?  The files I am refering to are in the root
>directory and have the "wk1" extension.  They seem to be read-only.
>I have tried using the HP Connectivity pack to change attributes on
>the files from my PC, but that didn't work either.  The examples are nice,
>but I don't need them taking up valuable space.

They don't take up any disk space.  They're in ROM.  Annoying that you can't
put them in a directory or something, but you can't.  95buddy will hide them
for you though, sort of.

-- 
Doug Puchalski						Death to all smileys
drp40@cd.amdahl.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds,misc.forsale.computers
From: melz@well.sf.ca.us (Melvin L. Zwillenberg)
Subject: Poqet and Lotus 123 for Sale
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:38:04 GMT


 FOR SALE:



512K Poqet PC w/case and Serial and Parallel Cables $550.



Lotus 123 V.2.2 ROMCard for Poqet  only (will NOT work on other

                palmtops) $150.



Please add shipping to above prices.





SPECIAL PACKAGE DEAL: ALL ABOVE ITEMS: $650. PPD.





Please contact me by e-mail.











Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: rthien@c3po.rdt.monash.edu.au (rj thien)
Subject: Has anyone made their own HP95LX <-> PC serial cable?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:13:21 GMT

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone has attempted to make their own
HP95LX <-> PC cable.  If you have I was wondering if you
can tell me which lines go where.  Is it similar to the
HP48SX calculator connections?  If it is I have some
documentation on that matter.  I know a 4-pin plug with
2mm pin seperation is difficult to acquire but I think
I found one from a bunked PC hard-drive that might just
do the job.

Cheers,

	Roger....


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| Monash University (Caulfield Campus), P.O. Box 197, Caulfield East,
| VIC 3145, AUSTRALIA.  Email: rthien@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au,       
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,ny.wanted,wny.wanted