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From: jdp@oleander.cs.odu.edu (JD Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: uucp, LCK* files, and gremlins
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:28:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va


I'm having a little trouble with uucp.  My company runs a small
network (not connected to the Internet) using SCO Xenix 386GT R
2.3.4h under a vertical POS application.  Daily fiscal information
is sent to the central office utilizing uucp via a dialer script
written by the POS vendor.  Telebit T1000 modems are at all sites. 
Data entry commenced, the pigs danced, and communications were fine
for about 3 months...then the gremlins appeared.  The daily
transfer option in the POS menu started reporting failures to
communicate with one site. 

I can manually login to the uncooperative site, but uucp stands
firm in its defiance.  The Systems, Permissions, and Devices files
all check out.  Poking around, I notice the LCK file hasn't been
deleted by uucico, so I do it.  As I watch, a new process invoking
the dialer script is initiated, with a PPID of the "- tty1A m"
process created by init.  As root at the remote site, I can delete
the LCK..tty1a file in /usr/spool/uucp, and within a few ticks the
system generates it again.  Incidentally, this has been the case
with every combination of powering up the Telebit T1000 modem in
conventional/enhanced mode - tty1a/tty1A.  Shutdown and reboot
doesn't change anything.  

The following is the log file generated by uutry on the remote
site:

...........................................
mchFind called (newmktm) 
list (rmail) num = 1 
name (newmktm) not found; return FAIL 
list (rmail) num = 1 
fillFlds: entered 
fillFlds: returning 
list (/) num = 1 
list (/) num = 1 
list (rmail) list (rnews) list (uucp) num = 3 
_Request (TRUE), _Switch (TRUE), _CallBack (FALSE), _MyName (),
_Commands rmail 
_Commands rnews 
_Commands uucp 
chdir(/usr/spool/uucp/newmktm) 
conn(newmktm) 
Device Type ACU wanted 
File exists: link(/usr/spool/uucp/LTMP.191,
/usr/spool/uucp/LCK..tty1a) 
ulockf file /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..tty1a 
Lock File--process still active--not removed 
mlock tty1A failed 
getto ret -1 
Call Failed: DEVICE LOCKED 
exit code 101 
Conversation Complete: Status FAILED 
TM_cnt: 0 
.........................................

I would appreciate any comments, hints, or suggestions.  Oh, and
yeah - I've already kicked it...several times....

-JD
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson)
Subject: Re: Writing to a dos floppy.
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:11:19 GMT


riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch (Petri Juhani Riipinen) writes:

>Hello there.

>I would like to use SCO Xenix for FTP:ing software. The machine, where it
>runs, has one HD 3"5 floppy drive. Can I just do so with Xenix, that I
>mount /dev/fd0 /myowndir and then access the floppy from /myowndir ? Does
>the Xenix recognize the 1.44 MB floppies automatically with no problems?
>Or  do  the Xenix floppies have some special format? If so, how can I write
>to dos-formatted floppies?

The only floppies that you can mount under SCO Xenix are floppies that
have a Xenix filesystem on them (which can be created using mkfs).

Xenix can read and write DOS floppies using the dos utility "doscp".
There are a complete set of utilities for formating DOS floppies,
copying DOS files, listing DOS directories etc (dosformat, doscp, dosdir)
which are described on the DOS(C) manual page.

SCO UNIX has kernel support for DOS filesystems and allows either
floppy or hard disk DOS filesystems to be mounted.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt)
Subject: Wangtek tape drive info needed.
Organization: Private system in Toronto, ON
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:35:42 GMT


[Sorry if you see this twice - the original had errors in the header
which caused it to get punted at some sites...]

I've recently acquired a Wangtek tape drive and controller card,
without any documentation or software.  The model number of the drive
is 5125EN, and I'm running Xenix 2.3.3

Any information on getting this thing running under Xenix would be
greatly appreciated.

-- 
Murray
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Current Screen Change
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:06:48 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1481@pacsoft.com>, mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik) writes:

| >Does this work on SCO Unix (or any other 386 unix?).
| 
| This will work with SCO XENIX and SCO UNIX, but I would certainly consider
| it a non-portable extension.  Perhaps other flavors (such as Coherent)
| provide it for compatability purposes, but I don't know for sure one way or
| the other.

  Right, this is non-portable, but a really usefuly feature. SCO
provides this, and also their ANSI driver supports \033[S (save cursor
loc) which is really useful for doing some screen based stuff. I have
that on my list of things I want to add to the xterm program to make it
more useful.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    Keyboard controller has been disabled, press F1 to continue.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
Subject: VGA on Xenix 286 2.2.3
Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:03:03 GMT

I resurrected an AST 286 and installed an old copy of Xenix 2.2.3 on
it. The installation notes claim that it will support a VGA operating in
EGA mode.  I have an Oak VGA but when I set it up for this mode, the
display still comes out wrong---little narrow lines at the top rather
than a screenfull of funny characters.  

What can I do to get this lashup to work?  
-- 
Hank van Cleef  vancleef@netcom.com vancleef@tmn.com  Andover, Mass.
Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
SysV, BSD, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, SCO. Porting a specialty. 
	     The Union Institute  History of Science
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: greg@gsesco.DIALix.oz.au (Greg Wake)
Subject: Project Management Software Required
Organization: Geographe Software Engineering
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 09:22:58 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


	I am chasing some Project Management Software for 
	SCO Unix.

  	I am specifically after :

		1. Prices
		2. Useability
		3. Support Character based terminals
		4. Run on SCO Unix 3.2V4
		5. Flexability
		6. Personal Experiences

	If anyone has some information, either Email it to me
	to the address below, or post it to this newsgroup.

	Thanks in advance!!!

-- 
**********************************************************************
Greg Wake                             Geographe Software Engineering  
                                      Bunbury  6230
greg@gsesco.DIALix.oz.au              Western Australia
From: rick@psg.com (Rick Buhagiar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Questions about 2.3.4
Keywords: xenix, sco
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:53:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: psg.1993Jan9.035350.16220
Distribution: na
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US


I am thinking of upgrading to 2.3.4 and I would appreciate if anyone who has
upgraded from 2.3.2 can tell me what the difference is?
How do you upgrade? Are the files simply revised, or do you have to install
2.3.4 from scratch?
Do applications like ELM, NN etc have to be compiled again?

Lastly,is the number of users (2 user version or infinite user version)
software depend on you serial number and key or is it hard coded in the
sofgtware?

Regards, Rick.

-- 
rick@psg.com       uunet!m2xenix!rick
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com (Dave Yon)
Subject: SLLOOWWW Printing from SCO ODT
Reply-To: yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:37:20 GMT



Can anyone help me get decent print queue performance from SCO ODT 2.0?
I've got a Deskjet 500 connected to the standard LPT1 port of my Gateway,
and even though I've got all lp daemons running at priority 0, it takes
five minutes just to print a banner page!  Is there something I'm missing?
It would be nice at some point to install Ghostscript to get Postscript
support for this printer, but if an ASCII-only banner takes this long,
I'm not even gonna bother.

Any help appreciated...

--
David Yon
yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com <--- use this address

Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: chogan@maths.tcd.ie (Christine Hogan)
Subject: MicroEmacs binary wanted for SCO Xenix 3.2.3
Summary: MicroEmacs binary wanted for SCO Xenix 3.2.3
Keywords: MicroEmacs, Xenix
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:02:18 GMT

Does anyone know where I could get hold of a MicroEmacs
binary for SCO Xenix on anon-ftp ?  (We don't have the
Development Environment, so the sources are no good.) 
Preferably with the help file and tutorial.

Thanks.

-- 
Christine.
chogan@maths.tcd.ie
cjhogan@dsg.cs.tcd.ie
From: kbeck@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Kevin Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Print spooler stops printing
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:42:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.48202
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR

Sometimes when I send something to the printer, it doesn't print.  If
I run "lpstat -t", I see that it is spooled, the printers are all
enabled and the scheduler is running.  Checking the printers themselves,
I find they are all powered, on-line, loaded with paper and all that
good stuff BUT NOTHING IS HAPPENING.  This occurs about 2 or 3 times
per week - just often enough to be a big problem, but not often enough
to let me do much experimenting.

OUTPUT FROM LPSTAT DURING PROBLEM:
        system default destination: dp80
        device for lp1: /dev/lp0
        device for lp2: /dev/lp2
        device for dp80: /dev/tty2a
        lp1 accepting requests since Mar 17 16:26
        lp2 accepting requests since Aug 28 17:57
        dp80 accepting requests since Nov  2 17:09
        printer lp1 is idle.  enabled since Nov 23 13:12
                    ^^^^^^^
                    Why doesn't it say "now printing..." ??
        printer lp2 is idle.  enabled since Nov 23 12:34
        printer dp80 is idle.  enabled since Nov  2 17:09
        lp1-8665            xfr              19203   Jan  7 09:06

We have two similarly configured systems which both exhibit the
problem:
        SCO XENIX 2.3.3 (Upgrade UFM - update M installed)
        486 DX 33 MHz AST, 10 MB RAM
        600 MB IDE Hard Disk
        Sankyo 525 MB tape drive, BusTek BT542 SCSI controller
                with Chantel drivers so we can use it without
                the GT version of XENIX...

        One system has an 8-port DigiBoard serial board,
        the other has an AST 4-port serial board.

On both systems, we have 3 regular old dot-matrix printers (mix of
Epson, Star and OkiData).  Two are connected to the two built-in
parallel ports, the third goes through a serial/parallel converter box
attached to tty2a.  The converter boxes say "IQ Technologies, Inc.
Model Q00C".

Some occurrences of the problem can be cleared by using /usr/lib/lpshut
and /usr/lib/lpsched to stop and re-start the scheduler.  Often
however, the only solution seems to be shutting down XENIX.  When I do
this, I often get a little fragment of some earlier print job printed
on the printer which is attached to the serial/parallel converter box
AS THE SYSTEM IS GOING DOWN.  This seems like an important clue, but
I don't know what to make of it.

When I originally set up the printers, I used "lpinit" and the "dumb
serial or parallel interface" with a very minor modification: I added
an option to allow suppression of the form feed between print jobs.
Also, two of the printers use the "dumb serial or parallel interface"
with an additional modification which consists of a filter to truncate
excessively wide output.  (Both modifications are to help us use the
printers to fill in pre-printed forms...)
From: franzis@evax.gdc.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: re: 3.5" 1.4M floppy
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:53:40 GMT
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT



   Don,

	May be a stupid question, but did you try "mkdev fd" and relink
        your kernel ? I don't remember if 286Xenix had the mkdev feature.

        Good Luck,

				-pat

Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: eric@abode.ttank.com (Eric C. Bennett)
Subject: Re: BASIC Compiler for Xenix?
Organization: Abode Computer Systems
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:43:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.135003.1@evax.gdc.com> franzis@evax.gdc.com writes:
>
>
>    Does anyone know of a BASIC compiler that will run under
>    SCO Xenix 2.3.4 ? Does SCO offer one?
>
>			Please post or email at : franzis@evax.gdc.com
>

I would like an answer to this too. Someone sent me the C source to a BASIC
interpter that I compiled on my XENIX system, but I lost it when my system
crashed.

Eric
-- 

		Internet: eric@abode.ttank.com
		    uucp: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!wvus!abode!eric

Xref: sparky comp.unix.xenix.sco:3592 comp.unix.xenix.misc:300 comp.dcom.modems:19034
From: birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.xenix.misc,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: TIME-CRITICAL: Xenix/286 and Hayes 2400, Auto-Answer
Keywords: This is for a friend, not for me.
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:43:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Organization: Screaming in Digital, the Queensryche Digest

I am going to be going onsite to take a look at this problem and see if I
can rectify it at 1800 EST, Friday January 8th.  Therefore:

If you see this after that time, don't bother replying.
If you see this _before_ that time, and have an answer, please MAIL it, so
that I will get it faster.

A friend of my family (former classmate's father) is trying to call in from
his house to work.  Both ends are running Xenix.  Both ends have Hayes 2400
modems.  The Hayes at work will not auto-answer.  One of the wizards he had
in said that "something in the operating system" is missing.  My guess is
that it's the Xenix equivalent of /etc/gettytab.

I am _not_ a Xenix user, but I know my way around Unix.  I'm also not a 
Hayes user, but I know my way around the Hayes command set.

So, the question is:  What do I need to know, and do, to make a Xenix box
realize that it's got a Hayes hung off it, and tell the Hayes to auto-answer?

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, even if you're telling
me something you're sure I'd figure out on my own.

[He also has trouble getting his F-keys to work remotely, but that's an
application problem, and I don't do application problems. ;)]

Thanks in advance,

-Shag
-- 
birchall@pilot.njin.net, shag@glia.biostr.washington.edu, birchall@njin.bitnet
  Operator of ShagNet - Rutgers/NJIN dialup access for Burlington County, NJ
     Happy and informative user of a PPI 14400 FaxModem and GeoWorks Pro
       Editor of the Queensryche E-mail Digest - "Screaming in Digital"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch (Petri Juhani Riipinen)
Subject: Writing to a dos floppy.
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:42:07 GMT

Hello there.

I would like to use SCO Xenix for FTP:ing software. The machine, where it
runs, has one HD 3"5 floppy drive. Can I just do so with Xenix, that I
mount /dev/fd0 /myowndir and then access the floppy from /myowndir ? Does
the Xenix recognize the 1.44 MB floppies automatically with no problems?
Or  do  the Xenix floppies have some special format? If so, how can I write
to dos-formatted floppies?

Please email to me.

- PJR -
-- 
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Les terrases de Thoiry n.15      (riipin@vxldb1.cern.ch)
01710 Thoiry,  France            (riipin_dev@vxldb2.cern.ch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: dbg@crash.cts.com (Dave Gresham)
Subject: Re: BASIC Compiler for Xenix?
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 07 Jan 93 18:51:56 PST

In article <1iha6dINN7dg@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Craig Macbride) writes:
>eric@abode.ttank.com (Eric C. Bennett) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jan5.135003.1@evax.gdc.com> franzis@evax.gdc.com writes:
>>>
>>>    Does anyone know of a BASIC compiler that will run under
>>>    SCO Xenix 2.3.4 ? Does SCO offer one?
>

Basis International also has an interprative Basic that will run under
*nix and dos, multi-user dos and anything you write on the unix side will
run on the dos (except for system calls).  

you can call them at 1-505-345-5232 or send a message to 
postmaster@basis.bbx.com.

dave
dbg@crash.cts.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Wordprocessors for SCO (Commercial, Shareware, etc.)
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:00:58 GMT

bob@cs.umd.edu (Bahman Adeli) writes:

>I'm looking for recommendations for any wordprocessors out there for SCO xenix.
>I know there is Wordperfect for it.  How close is it to the PC version?  
>Also I would like to hear from people if they know of any Shareware or Public
>Domain software.  

I've always aimed to use off-the-shelf products myself.  WP is excellent.  MS
Word from SCO is OK, but WP is the best.  The pricing on 5.1 is more than 2x
the pricing for 5.0.  It is also almost exactly like the DOS version.  The
difference comes in the booster key sequences.  Most terminals do not use their
ALT keys, except in PC SCAN mode.  You might want to try WP.

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,biz.sco.opendesktop
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: CDROM problems
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:35:25 GMT

In article <Noi5wB4w165w@zswamp.UUCP> geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
>randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) [me] writes:
>> 	I have ODT 2.0 running on a 486 with an adaptek 1542b, 600
>> 	meg scsi drive and a CHINON cd-rom drive.  
>
>   A friend of mine also laments that his Chinon drive is not supported by 
>ODT; it is supported by Adaptec's DOS and Windows SCSI software (and by his 
>Amiga, which timeshares his SCSI peripherals with his PC).  

	Well, I gave up and stuck a NEC 82 (also not officialy supported!)
	in there and it works fine.  Can anyone explain why a particular
	SCSI cdrom drive is not supported?  We are not talking about a
	pseudo scsi drive like a lot of the Sony's but one that seems
	to follow all the specs properly.  The usual case, as in earlier
	releases of OS/2, the driver has imbedded in it the manufacter 
	code  returned by the drive.  Common practice was to binary
	edit the driver and patch in your name, and it all worked.
	Same thing with some stupid AT&T scsi hard disk drivers that
	only worked with their drives before patching.  However, I cannot
	find any .o or space.c file in all of pack.d that has cdrom
	ids embedded.
	Nother problem is now that I can mount the cdrom under ODT2,
	I cannot then mount that same directory from another UNIX
	system via NFS.  Mumbles something about the mount point
	already remotely mounted or some such.  This is with Dell svr4.
	Can a cdrom not be nfs mounted under ODT?

	-randy

-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us
From: nussbaum@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Lars Nussbaumer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Modem-Control-Lines on serial ports
Date: 8 Jan 1993 09:09:35 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Keywords: serial, tty, modem

Hello!

Can anyone help me on the following problem?

I am trying to drive and read the Modem-Control-lines on a serial line under
SCO-Unix 3.2.4. Trying to use ioctl XCGETA and others on /dev/tty1A didn't
give me the data c_line in termio/termios.
Is there any possibility to drive the lines directly without writing a new
device-driver, that maybe even is compatible (more or less) with other UNIX's
like Solaris/HP-UX/IBM-AIX???

Thanks a lot.

Lars.
From: WEdmunds@cen.ex.ac.uk (W.Edmunds)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: backup/dump of filesystems
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:24:31 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK

We have an Irwin 40Mb tape streamer attached to our xenix machine. I wish to
use backup or dump to take security copies of the filesystems, but am unsure
of the correct "magic" numbers for the size and density options. We wish
to use 40Mb and 60Mb (half as long again) for this purpose but have found
that the utility quits on reaching end of tape. We dump to /dev/rctmini and
I have checked the files in /etc/default directory for details for the
relevant options. I have found a tape sizeof 37500 with blocking 20
mentioned in the file archive, but get the same problem using this size.
The actual tape lengths are 205ft (4o Mb) 307.5ft (60 Mb). Please could
some kind sole give me the required option parameters for dumping to these
mini data cartridges.

Many thanks
Bill

I apologise if this has come up before in this newsgroup, but I have only just
taken on resposibility for backing yup these systems and therefore have not
subscribed to this group before.