HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Printing in reverse order
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:45:25 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

Our HP LaserJet III is printing everything in reverse order.  Any Ideas
which files control that?

The print server is an Indigo (R3000) running 4.05F
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: benoist@netcom.com (Tom Benoist)
Subject: Re: [dl-1.5] was adding objects to an program's address
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:26:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.175206.5430@sunova.ssc.gov> chow@sdc1.ssc.gov writes:
>Hi,
>   Thanks for you all the information.
>I fixed the problem.
>
>   And now I have another problem
>related to dynamic linking.
>Sun supports operations for adding
>shared objects to an program's address
>space.  Does SGI support that?
>(Are those ldfcn used for this purpose?)
>
>thanks,
>Ivan

Theres a public domain library for dynamic loading called dl.
The current version is 1.5 I believe.

Archie says:

Host buizerd.cwi.nl

    Location: /pub
           FILE -rw-rw-r--      30423  Sep 24 15:26  dl-1.5.tar.Z


By the way, I tried to compile this latest version and had some
problems. (possibly 4.05 changes to the compiler?) 
but havent had much time to spend on it.  
If anyone gets it going, please let me know.

-Tom Benoist
 benoist@netcom.com
From: arc@xingping.esd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Is RWHOD working as advertised?
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:32:21 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <34735@adm.brl.mil> ACCESS@krdc.int.alcan.ca (Shawn Allin - Alcan KRDC Computer Services) writes:
>Recently, we fired up a RWHOD server on our Vax that was ported by Terry 
>Kennedy.  We were perplexed at first by the seeming randomness of which 
>machines it saw and which it didn't.  I've tracked it down to the fact that 
>the SGI's are broadcasting the information with the fully qualified domain 
>name, rather than just the host name portion as the man pages says it 
>should.  This causes the Vax to attempt to write files of the form:
>rwho.host.domain.name
>
>which of couse is invalid under VMS.  As I stated earlier, the man pages 
>for RWHOD indicate that it gets the hostname of the machine with 
>gethostname.  Here is a quote from the man page:
>
>   "The host name included is that returned by the gethostname(2) system call,
>with any trailing domain name omitted."
>
>I know that I can probably fix the VMS side to do exactly this, but I'd 
>prefer it to be fixed on the SGI's if indeed it is a bug.

The workaround is not use the FQDN in /etc/sys_id.
Note that sending the FQDN is useful in networks with multiple domains 
and use rwhod in multicast mode.
From: bclark@ctron.com (Bret Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Controlling DTR
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:19:32 GMT

I am posting this for someone. The person is writing
code using C and needs to control the DTR signal on
the serial port of an IRIS Indigo. They have been unable to 
find reference to it in the man or documentation.

Thanks in advance.


Bret
Mail Address: bclark@ctron.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: dweber@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel Weber)
Subject: Re: C Compiler & Array subscripting
Originator: dweber@kankakee.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: dweber@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:35:22 GMT


Thanks for all of the suggestions and help.  One gentleman at Fermi
pointed me to the K&R manual (pg. 99, K&R second ed) where it specifically
states that the compiler converts a[i] to *(a+i).  That answers that 
question.

As for optimization, thanks for the information on how the SGI compiler
optimizes code and thanks for reminding me that SGI's have "pixie" for
profiling the code.  Many of the machines that I work on don't have tools
like this, so I tend to forget to use it.

-daniel weber
dweber@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: chow@sdc1.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow,,2216)
Subject: unable to use make on SGI
Reply-To: chow@sdc1.ssc.gov
Organization: SSCL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:17:58 GMT

Hi,
   I have tried to use make on an SGI machine.
But the syntax seems like is totally different from
other machines.  The normal dependency "making"
mechanism works fine.  But I can't do any
looping with the make.  For examples,

for i in $(SUBDIR)"";
do
echo "$$i";
make
done

The make always coomplains
for: command not found

Can anyone give a hand on this?  Please.

Ivan
Organization: Doctoral student, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:54:17 -0500 
From: "Jimmie M. Raines" <jr4s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Is there a command to tell you the amount of sys. mem.?

I believe 'hinv' will tell you what you want to know.  (I can't tell
you the full path because my  SGI is broken at the moment.)

Jim
From: cnguyen@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Cuong Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Third party recommendation <**********
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:19:00 GMT
Reply-To: cnguyen@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Cuong Nguyen)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Please give us your recommendation of the third party vendor for
the following items:

     - 1.2GB (formatted) Fast SCSI Option Disk, 3.5 (SGI part #
       P3-D12S)

     - 32 MB Memory Upgrade (SGI part # HU-M32A)

     - External CD-Rom SCSI Drive (SGI part # P-CDR-1)

     - 4" Backup Tape Drive - DAT (SGI part # ?????)

     All of the above items will be installed on the Iris Indigo
Elan/R4000. 

Thanks in advance.

Cuong Nguyen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ram@ramsgi.erenj.com (ram rajagopalan)
Subject: Inventor Question
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:29:28 GMT


hi,

 This may be a really stupid question,  but here it is.  I am in the 
 process of learning inventor, and I am trying to set the value for
 the fields in the nodes.  I get a compile time error in attempting
 to do this.  Any pointers would be appreciated.  Code segment follows.
 I am using the C binding ...

  SoCmplx      *sph_cmplx;

  sph_cmplx = SoCmplxCreate();
  sph_cmplx->value = 0.25;

  ...
  ...


 Error Message:

accom: Error: sph.c, line 115: operands of = have 1) incompatible types or 2) disallowed type(s)
          sph_cmplx->value = 0.25;
       --------------------------^
*** Error code 1

Stop.

-- 
regards,

ram
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: SGI Dat sold separately?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:39:21 GMT

In <1992Dec18.004854.5728@jericho.uucp> gord%jericho.uucp (Gord Wait) writes:


| So far, the SGI Dat machine seems to be the only one that does Audio
| and Computer Backups (correct me if I'm wrong please!).
| 
| If I could buy an SGI dat drive (without an SGI computer) , could it
| be connected to a PC via some scsi controller, and could I get it to
| work for both audio and data without an SGI box attached?

Yes, but getting the documentation on what to do is going to be
tough, since we don't supply the low level programming info,
just a high level library that makes calls into our tape
driver.  You *might* be able to get the documentation from
Ardat, but I sort of doubt it; it is very informal.  For the
same reasons, I don't have something that I could just post.

| I would like both tape backup, and an audio dat, and it would seem
| silly to have to purchase two different dat machines!
| 
| If the above is possible, how much (roughly) does the SGI dat sell
| for? If it cost more than a PC dat plus and audio dat, it would
| obviously be a dumb idea...

I think it is $2000 US, but it might be more.  So, depending on
what consumer DAT drive you buy, it is likely to be more expensive.

--
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: blean@rwb.esd.sgi.com (Bob Blean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI Motif Bug
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:56:08 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics

In article <2413@sdrc.COM>, scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
|> There appears to be a bug in the text field cursor pixmap caching logic
|> that SGI modified which causes a severe performance degradation under
|> certain circumstances.

Thank you for your effort in characterizing this problem.

I took a look at the sources and, while the details of your conjecture aren't
right, the problem is real in all released versions of SGI's Motif.

Unfortunately, there is no work-around for this embarassing problem.
I shall pass along the bug report and see when we can get the bug fixed.

--Bob Blean
From: valaris@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (Andrew Valaris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: This group is repeating on me
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:07:54 GMT
Organization: CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics, Sydney

>|> 
>|> Vigilantly,
>|> 
>|> --
>|> | Dave Schweisguth   Yale MB&B & Chemistry   Net: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu |
>|> | Lab phone: 203-432-5208     Fax: 203-432-6144    Home phone: 203-624-3866 |
>
>Same Here!
>
>-- 

Yep, the same here, and I'm in australia.
From: js@cophos.co.at (Jodok Schaeffler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Inventor experience
Date: 12 Dec 92 14:40:59 GMT

Some time ago I asked for experience values in using Inventor.

I got some responds and as I stated to make this information
available on the net, here is a short summary of what I got.

It seems that Inventor is not in wide use yet. Most replies told
me about starting experience or a small number of projects done
with Inventor. 
The overall impression seems to be good. I was told about the 
possibilities Inventor offers me, although this knowledge seems
to come more from the manuals than from personal experience. 
I was told there is another SGI product for applications like
we have to do: Performer.
This product is aimed at high end graphic applications (VR etc.).
One negative point I learned about is that Inventor holds its own
graphical scene database. This results in the fact that the 
whole design of a graphical application has to be done with 
Inventor in mind, a later add-on is problematic (if this can 
be seen as a negative point).

All in all I got 4 responds. What I would be interested in 
(as I am a new user of the net): is this the normal number
of responds to this kind of questions?

Thanks to all who sent me a reply. I appreciate your help.


Jodok Schaeffler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin
From: beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
Subject: RE: system names from IP
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:32:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.182618.3199@den.mmc.com>, you write:
|> 
|> Does anyone know how one might be able to derive
|> a systems hostname from it's IP address?!?  RARP is
|> similiar in function in that it is supposed to be able
|> to derive an IP number from a physical ethernet address,
|> however, I need to go one step further.
|> 
|> Any help would be appreciated!
|> 
|> P.S. The network I am operating on does not have any
|>      "open" accounts which could be used for a
|> 
|> 		rsh IP# uname -n
|> 
|>      The network is also EXTREMELY heterogeneous and
|>      LARGE!
|> 
|> Thanx!
|> 
|> -fred
|> 
|> 
|> ****************************************************************************
|>   Fred R. Beck	:-)                 Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
|>   beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com        P.O. Box 179
|>   (303) 971-1584                     Attn. Fred Beck, M.S. L5420
|>   FAX:  (303) 971-2563               Denver, Colorado  80201
|> ****************************************************************************
|> 


I would like to thank all who replied VERY much!!  I am afraid
that in my rush, I lost all of your addresses...  Pulled an `ol
"I am very stupid"...  Anyway, thanx.

And the winner was...  NSLOOKUP

The steps are as follows:

1) nslookup	- To start up nslookup in interactive mode
2) set type=ptr	- To change the type of information query to
		  type pointer
3) type in the IP# in reverse order
4) append ".in-addr.arpa" to the result

A typical session is as follows:
% nslookup
Default Server:  mmagnet1.mmc.com
Address:  129.243.0.1

> set type=ptr
> 115.3.243.129.in-addr.arpa
Server:  mmagnet1.mmc.com
Address:  129.243.0.1

115.3.243.129.in-addr.arpa      name = gate-enterprise.den.mmc.com


This might be a good addition to the FAQ!!  Hint, Hint...

P.S.  There was also an indication of a tool on archie
	called "dig" (from Leif).  I did not pursue this
	due to the solution via nslookup.

Thanx again to all!!

-fred

****************************************************************************
  Fred R. Beck	:-)                 Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
  beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com        P.O. Box 179
  (303) 971-1584                     Attn. Fred Beck, M.S. L5420
  FAX:  (303) 971-2563               Denver, Colorado  80201
****************************************************************************
From: akin@tuolumne.asd.sgi.com (Allen Akin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI Phigs implementation
Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:09:47 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: tuolumne.asd.sgi.com


In article <1407@shrike.com>, flash@austin.lockheed.com writes:
> 
> ...She said that
> 	1) Phigs is built into X11R5 (true? if so, how about it
> 				      SGI?)

That's a bit misleading.  The PEX sample implementation is available
from the X Consortium as part of the X11 distribution, and it includes
a PHIGS API.  However, it lacks some fairly important functionality
(e.g. Z-buffering) and is reported to be quite slow.  It needs to be
ported, extended, and optimized for the target graphics system.  Since
this requires a huge amount of work, not all vendors will be using this
approach to provide a product-quality PHIGS on their systems.

> 	2) Figaro+ (for the SGI) is actually built on top of GL.
> 	   That I found hard to believe

I believe this is true.  Perhaps someone from Liant could comment.

> ...However, I am curious if the SGI implementation of Phigs takes
> advantage of the CLEARLY SUPERIOR SGI graphics hardware, or is it
> as crippled as the X server?

To the best of my knowledge, SGI doesn't sell an internally-developed
PHIGS.  However, we do refer people to third-party implementations
(like Figaro+).  I believe most (if not all) of those use GL for
rendering.

Someone from Liant should speak to the performance characteristics
of Figaro+.

By the way, is there some performance problem with X that particularly
bothers you?

> I presume that GL is the SGI answer for really hot graphics
> performance, but what about OpenGL on other platforms (S*n)? Will
> it out-perform an X-based application?

Depends on the application, the implementation of OpenGL, and the
hardware on which they'll be run.  For applications that involve 3D
transformations, lighting, and smooth shading, I'd certainly expect
OpenGL applications to do better than X applications, unless OpenGL is
naively layered on X.  This would be even more likely on machines with
more hardware support for those graphics functions.


Allen
From: jpm@geoquest.com (Jeffrey P. Manjerovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: modems on an sgi
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:04:20 GMT


can anyone tell me how to hookup a modem
to an sgi. (step by step)

i am very new at this.

thanks in advance

jeff Manjerovic

GeoQuest System Inc.
713-952-6593
From: kark@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Tasso Karkanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: X/Motif and signal(2) facilities
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:31:33 GMT
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine

Hi netters,

We are developing a multi-process graphical simulator, and are
considering using Motif for the interface.  We would like to use the
SIGIO, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 and SIGALRM in that process.  Would a program
using the signal facilities interfere with X/Motif ?

Tasso Karkanis
From: ZRFL%DS0RUS1I.BITNET@vm.gmd.de (Dr. Heinz W. Poehlmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: (none)
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:09:22 GMT

Hi there,
thank you for all the informative mails in the past.
Please sign me off from this mailing list, since
I am now able to read the newsgroups directly.
Bye for now,
Heinz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: wmc@photon.com (Bill Cornette)
Subject: f77 compiler bug?
Organization: Photon Research Associates, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:10:50 GMT

	I seem to have encountered a bug in our f77 compiler.  The following
code:


      real   tref,temp,xk
      double precision qrot
c
      data   tref /273./, temp /304./, xk /1.50/
c
      qrot=dprod(tref,1./temp)**xk
      print *,qrot
c
      qrot=dprod(tref,1./temp)
      qrot=qrot**xk
      print *,qrot
c
      stop
      end

produces the results:


0.0000000
0.85.....  (I don't recall the exact number, but it is the corret one)

I don't know of any reason why I can't raise the INTRINSIC function
dprod to a power directly.  Anyone have any comments?
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T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L.
From: SML108@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Indigo XS24 Sphere library z-buffering problems
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:45:34 GMT

Hi, a program I am developing which uses the sphere library runs just
fine on an IRIS 4D/220 VGS, but when I run it on a nearby Indigo XS24,
the SPH_HEMI seems to get set true by default with SPH_ORIENT set to
FALSE (It draws hemispheres which show up as you rotate objects on
the screen).  If I set SPH_HEMI and SPH_ORIENT to TRUE, this problem
goes away, but then z-buffering goes away too and the appearance of
spheres on the screen is as if they all have the same z-coordinate
and appear in the order in which they are drawn...  The Indigo is
running 4.0.5 and zbuffer is most definitely set to TRUE...

Oh, one more thing, this is in a GLX widget that this is happening...

Scott Le Grand
From: tndoma@ddpi6 (Thompson Doman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CASEvision coredumps on my source
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:25:19 GMT


	I am trying to use the CASEvision static analyzer to study
the source code for a large (7.5M) molecular modelling program
known as MacroModel.  The source code is in both C and FORTRAN and
is spread over about 10 subdirectories.  Some Motif programming is
also involved.  At one point a colleague was able to use CodeVision
1.0 to analyze the MacroModel source, but CASEvision core dumps
during the cross-reference procedure. Anybody have any suggestions
as to how I can keep CASEvision from breaking on my code?

Thanks!

Tom Doman
tndoma@ddpi6.monsanto.com
From: taylorf@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Frank S. Taylor IV 283-4278)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Problems with SGI Space Simulator - how to fix?
Date: 12 Dec 92 12:35:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.055535.4415@iti.gov.sg>, johne@iti.gov.sg (Dr. John S. Eickemeyer) writes:
|> I seem to be having some problems with the copy of the SGI Space
|> Simulator I downloaded last week.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Or
|> can someone forward this to the author?  Any and all help appreciated.
|> 
|> The problem: I see the orbits, the names, and even the Sun, but none of
|> the planets.  Autopilot zooms me to a spot with the planet name centered, 
|> but there is no planet displayed.  I seem to be missing a datafile.  
|> How do I get it?
|> 
-- 
You have to toggle the orbits off to see the planets.  You either see the
orbits or you see the planets.  So, try hitting 'o' or the button for
orbits.  The same applies to the satellites.
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16055 Space Center Blvd., Houston, Tx  77062
(713) 283-4278 (Voice)  ||  (713) 283-4020 (Fax)
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From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Elm for an Indigo
Date: 15 Dec 1992 10:50:01 -0800
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: fangio.asd.sgi.com
Keywords: elm, email

johnu@syma.sussex.ac.uk (John E. Upham) writes:
>I'd like to install the elm PD mail reader on a network of Indigos. Does
>anyone have this and is it easy to install ?

It compiles and runs right out of the box...

...robert
From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Maxtor Tahiti II troubles
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:39:55 GMT
Organization: Xyvision Design Systems

In article <tmquac0@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <matt-151292132410@wardmac2.med.yale.edu> matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy) writes:
>| We bought our Tahiti II directly from MaxOptix.  After much
>
>Wrong!  In fact, if it is off, various things won't quite work
>right.  The mac (actually, I understand newer Macs work right)
> ...
>Many *low end, poor SCSI implementations*.  We don't fall into
>that category, thank you...

I must agree with Dave O on this point.  The mac generally does not do
too well when it comes to the SCSI nits, and random third party mac 
suppliers do even worse.  I have integrated or looked hard at about half 
a dozen various devices, an only in two small documentation errors has
the SGI stuff been bad.  All the rest has been *poor SCSI implementations*
on somebody other than SGI's part.

good luck

...

-- 
	 Frank E Perdicaro, Systems Admin, etc.		Xyvision Color Systems
      Legalize guns, drugs and cash...today.		101 Edgewater Drive
   inhouse: frank@marvin, x5572				Wakefield MA
outhouse: frank@contex.com, 617-245-4100x5572		018801285
From: gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: A Question About Audio Files
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:42:39 GMT

In article <1gghnmINNcrd@tamsun.tamu.edu>, n102ef@tamuts.tamu.edu (Ming
Niu) writes:
|> Hello!  I am using SGI Indigo to analyse
|> various sound.   I know AIFF is a standard
|> file format for an audio file.
|> 
|> From the standard audio file, how can I 
|> get the amplitude of the sound within?

Hard to figure out your mission.  If you want to edit waveforms, try
soundeditor from the 4.0.5E (probably a new letter H?, by now) release. 
Soundeditor is a graphical waveform editing application.

|> After decoding, one should have a sequence
|> of integers or floating points(I am not sure)
|> which represent the amplitudes of the sound
|> wave in a period of time.   If the sampling
|> rate is 44.1KHz, that means there are 44,100
|> integers or floating points.

If you intend to write your own processing utilities, you need the Audio
File library, found in the Digital Media Develeper's package.  In
/usr/people/4Dgifts/libaudiofile, you will find some code that
reads/writes AIFF-C file header info and audio data from files.  

You may choose to read integers or floating point numbers from the file.
The Audio File library will perform the necessary conversions upon
proper configuration. 

If you are interested in the AIFF-C specification, ftp the file
aiff-c.9.26.91.ps from directory sgi at ftp site sgi.com.

If you have any other questions, please post them to this newsgroup.