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From: schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz)
Subject: Help with Postscript cartridge for HP LaserJet II
Organization: 3M Company, 3M Center, Minnesota, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 15:56:12 GMT

I am trying to print Postscript files to a HP LaserJetII with the
Postscript cartridge option.  The LaserJet was originally on a PC and
is currently attached to a SGI with IRIX 4.0.5.

A postscript file made with Microsoft Word and uploaded to the SGI
prints fine.  Postscript files made with FrameMaker, xprism2, or a2ps
do not print.  The data light on the printer flashes and the status
line shows data is being processed but no paper ever comes out.

Thanks for any help.
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   How to include the taste of Glendronach in a multi-media system?
From: gjr@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: clusters
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:24:34
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
	<TT.93Jan6150818@marius.jyu.fi>
Reply-To: gjr@zurich.ai.mit.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: chamartin.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: tt@marius.jyu.fi's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:08:18 GMT

In article <TT.93Jan6150818@marius.jyu.fi> tt@marius.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:

|   >We have ~15 300/400's and ~10 700s. Any significant comments on
|   >making a mixed-cluster out of these?
|
|   I'd probably make two clusters of the lot -- two mixed clusters, not
|   one 700- and one 300/400 cluster (even though that would save disk space):
|   that way you can easily move machines from one cluster to another,
|   like when one server is down.  But even a single 25-machine cluster
|   might not be a bad idea, depending on how they're used.  You could 
|   start with that and split it if the server chokes.

We have a single cluster with 27 machines.  A mix of 700s and 300s,
although we are about to replace most of the remaining 300s with 715s.
All our 700s have 48M+ and our 300s (except the couple of 320s left)
have 32M of memory.  Our 3 710s are diskless, everything else has
local swap, but we are going to buy swapping disks for the 710s --
they seem to perform noticeably worse than 720s with the same memory
when they page, even though the lan and server are nowhere near
saturated.

The server is a 750 and is pretty idle, as is the LAN, but we tend to
run compute & memory (not I/O) intensive software.

It has been a very reliable setup (we used to have an 850 as the
server before we had the 700s and that was a nightmare), and
maintenance is much easier than when each machine had its own OS.
|
|   >Was told HP plans to replace clusters with NFS in the near future.
|   >Is this true?
|
|   Gack.  I hope not.  I'd much rather see the opposite, i.e., using the
|   HP diskless protocol for inter-cluster file access: it is faster, more
|   convenient with CDFs, and more reliable than NFS.

I agree.  I like the diskless stuff much better than any NFS-based
stuff that I have seen.  I just wish it weren't so sensitive to
temporary network disconnect or server crash, although that is very
rare (I think we've had one in the last year).
From: salehi@merlot.cs.umass.edu (James Salehi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP4 hosted from DECstation 5000/Ultrix?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:49:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, UMass/Amherst

Does anyone know whether an HP laserjet 4 can be run from a 
DECstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.2a?  If so, what types of 
software mods (if any) are required?  

Thanks. 

JIM
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From: carl_r@cho006.cho.ge.com (Computer Systems & Tools)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,com.sys.sun.admin
Subject: commercial backup utilities
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:18:18 EDT
Organization: GE Fanuc Automation


    we are considering buying an automated backup utility that creates a
    backup database showing which files live on which tapes...using a tape
    pool, of course.

    does anyone have any experiencing with UNIX backup tools which would
    run on either HPUX or SUNoS 4.1.2/3 ? or both ???

    we've recently have obtained an eval copy of BUDTOOL for the suns...
    any comments on budtool???

    another problem that i have is:  how does one "eval" this type of tool
    with fully implementing it ?  that is, if you use it for backups, then
    you have to use it to recover.

    thanks,

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       Rick Carl
       GE Fanuc Automation N.A.
  **************************************************
       carl_r@cho000.cho.GE.COM
       GE-DECNET -> CHO000::CARL_R
From: lang@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John J. Lang)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:30:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Using starbase in X
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, floyd@media.mit.edu (Bob Sabiston) writes:
> Does anyone know if the R_LOCK_DEVICE gescape can be used in programs
> that run in Xwindows?  If so, anybody have any idea what could cause the
> program to hang my machine?

It is possible to use R_LOCK_DEVICE in an X window, but not easy.  What
is probably happening is that a Starbase call sent a request to the
X server.  If the device is locked, the X server cannot continue, and a
deadlock happens (ie. Starbase is waiting on the X server, the X server
is waiting for the device lock, which Starbase has).  This could also
happen if you program is making Xlib calls

If you have to use R_LOCK_DEVICE, make sure you unlock the device before
you make any Starbase calls.  For example, your code should be organized
like this:

    starbase_call()
    starbase_call()
    gescape(R_LOCK_DEVICE)
    for each pixel {
	access frame buffer
    }
    gescape(R_UNLOCK_DEVICE)
    starbase_call()

Another problem with accessing the frame buffer directly, is that you
must know the location of the window you are accessing.  There is no
protection to keep you from drawing outside the window.  There is also
no way to find out what parts of your window are obscured by other
windows.  This means you program must always keep it's window as the
topmost, and you must inquire the location and size of your window.
This is of course easier if you are just doing something for your
personal use (since you can control the environment) rather than a
general utility or application.  In any case, the above should indicate
how to get around the hang.

John Lang
lang@fc.hp.com
From: ahockamp@hpugrca.GRC.HP.COM (Andreas Hockamp)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:21:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Distribution lists in elm
Organization: HP Response-Center Germany, Ratingen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

One way to create a distribution list is to set up an alias. You create an aliases.text file
in your $HOME/.elm dir.
For getting infos about the sysntax please use man elmalias, which you have to invoke after
creating the correct aliases.text.

For more information:

Mail Systems: User's Guide                     B1862-90012


Regards
   Andreas Hockamp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: chow@cssn0b.pdsf.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow)
Subject: strange problem on HP
Reply-To: chow@cssn0b.pdsf.ssc.gov
Organization: SSC
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:48:41 GMT

Hi experts,
    I have a strange problem on HP.  I have a FORTRAN program
on HP.  This FORTRAN program used a lots of COMMON blocks for
passing data globally.  The first version of my program runs
fine.  And now, I modify slightly the program.
I open a file to read.  OK!  Now, strange thing happens,
the values of some of my common blocks variables got messed up.
I mean "messed up".  I have no idea how the values got changed.
(There is no segmentation error or Bus error.)  What I did is just
a simple open and read.  Nothing fancy.  I tried to use C to do
the same read, the result was the same -- common block values got
messed up.  I have tried just to read a dummy variable (not related to
the program at all).  The result was the same.  No matter what I do, if
I open a file and read in the program, the problem appears.
Can someone please help?  I really have no clues.  :-(

Ivan
From: rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle  Wizard of Ozje)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: sar -v   text-sz header:  What is it???
Keywords: sar accounting process
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:47:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Organization: Oracle Europe

HP hungry people,

	HP-UX 8.07  HP 9000/827S

In the sar -v output, the first heading listed is "text-sz".
I'd like to know exactly what that is and which kernel parameter(s) affect it.

Nothing more, nothing less 8-)

--Rob.


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From: mario@cad4.lbl.gov (mario aranha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: /etc/rc
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Date: 7 Jan 1993 21:59:32 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.177

I've been trying to start some software license
daemons automatically at boot on a 700/8.07 by
calling them in the localrc() function in /etc/rc.
Localrc() does get called by /etc/rc at boot but
nothing within localrc() seems to be executed when
the system is rebooted. Here's the relevant code from
/etc/rc:

#! /bin/sh
blah, blah, ...

localrc()
{
/usr/local/flexlm/bin/lmgrd  > /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.log &
}

blh, blah, ...

if [ ! -f /etc/rcflag ]         # Boot time invocation only
then

   blah, blah, ...

   localrc
fi

blah, blah, ...
From: mbheprg@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Raju Gurung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Problem using Motif with HP-PHIGS
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:43:16 GMT
Organization: EE Dept, Manchester University

Hi,
	I've a phigs application with a Motif XmDrawingArea Widget as its
work-station. I've opened the work-station using pescape_5() and popen_ws()
functions. 
	It all seems to work fine unless I try to use the colour functions.
The phigs colormap doesn't seem to get installed when I open the workstation,
i.e. I do not get the 'technicolor' effect when the pointer is in the window.
I've a few programs that uses direct color environ and pick input which work
as expected in dumb windows but not in my motif windows.
	Any idea what's wrong ?

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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:22:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Need lp interface file for Calcomp plotter.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

dave@hp1.holl.com (David Vrona) writes:

>I'm trying to get a Calcomp plotter to run off the serial port of one of our
>730 workstations (HP-UX 8.07).  I'm having a lot of trouble.
>
>I chose the dumbplot lp interface file but it doesn't work.  I noticed that
>the dumbplot script lacked an stty line to set the serial port to the
>appropriate line settings so I tried adding the line myself.  Now the plotter
>seems to be receiving data, but it "limits out" immediately.  I believe I still
>don't have that lp interface script right.

  First try to talk to the plotter without using the spooler, i.e. :

# sleep 100000 </dev/plotter &
# stty <nice_options> </dev/plotter
# cat file >/dev/plotter

  The "dumbplot" model issues "IN;" and "PG;" HP-GL (HP Graphics
Language) instructions, which the Calcomp plotter might not understand
(Does the Calcomp plotter understand HP-GL?).

  If you have a terminal with the same baud rate as the plotter, then
you may want to use that first in order to know for sure that you have
the right wiring, baud rate, etc. and are receiving correct data. If the
terminal is an HP terminal with an HP terminal mode (i.e. not only
emulating non-HP terminals), then you may want to use its "DISPLAY
FUNCTNS" mode, so you can see non-printable characters.

Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston)
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4 problem with paper sticking
Originator: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:08:34 GMT
Reply-To: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: HP, HPLJ4, printer


In article, sasbge@unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
>I recently purchased a HP LJ4 printer and with the exception of
>misfeeding the paper, it works wonderfully.  I would like to hear
>from others who have this specific device to see if anyone else
>is have problems with the printer feeding two and three pages
>of paper with every other page of output.
>
>I'm gonna try some different paper if I can find some tomorrow.
>
>Please post or email to me directly.
>
>Thanks.

I am very happy to report that after changing the paper stock, my
"sticking" problem has disappeared.  I'm not quite sure what the
exact specs were on the paper that failed, but it was stuff from
work and it's bought in bulk and unlabeled.  (what do you expect
for free!)

Hey, if I made that stuff, I wouldn't put my name on it either!
Anyway, a nice laser ready, 24 pound stock did the trick.  Just
wanted everyone to know it wasn't the printer.


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From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:01:25 GMT
Subject: Re: HP-UX 9.0 problem - terminal type
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, murthy@ee.uwm.edu (Murthy Nyayapati) writes:

> When I login to the HP machine and open another window or rlogin/telnet
> to any other machine (like DEC 5000/240 or convex), something is
> wrong with the terminal type.  For example, when I do an "ls", the tab
> characters are shown as "N on top of an L" (N as superscript and L as
> subscript).  Did anyone one of you have this problem ?  Please let me
> know what terminal type should I set the terminal to.  
> 
> Please let me know if I am not clear in what I am saying .....
> 
> Please reply to me directly.

I'll reply directly, but here's a fix for those interested.

Add the following line to your login sequence 
(.profile or .login depending on your shell preference):

	stty opost

I'm not sure why this is messed up in 9.0, but this clears it up.

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Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
Systems Technology Division
From: kalli@kerfi.hi.is (Karl Roth Karlsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: fbackup(1504) why?
Summary: what is fbackup(1504)?
Keywords: fbackup
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:32:47 GMT

I'm using fbackup on three different levels (0, 3, 6) and I am
quite satisfied with how it works, except for the full backup.
It seems to 'give in' on its way down the directory list and
stops being able to open more directories.  This morning it
got all the way down to the middle of /usr as shown here:

fbackup(1004): session begins on Wed Jan 06 04:00:02 1993
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/local/dos/tc/lib)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/local/dos/tc/tour)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/local/dos/td)
		.
		:
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/local/src)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/local/tex)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/local/word)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/mail)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/man)
		.
		:
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/tftpdir)
fbackup(1504): could not open directory `.' (/usr/tmp)
fbackup(3223): volume 1 has been used 6 time(s) (maximum: 100)
fbackup(3212): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/dat

What is happening here?

From 'bdf' I find out that used discspace is about 0.95 GB
but the tape is to take up to 1.2 GB.

From the index file I can see that some of the files in between
are backed up, especially to beginning.  But none of the last
files are backed up.

To me it looks like a buffer is getting full.  
Is it possible to configure these things?
What is going on?

Thanks in advance.

	-Kalli.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: khindria@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Vivek Khindria (CSU))
Subject: HP Workstations for EMail use.
Keywords: pine, email  
Organization: Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:15:33 GMT


   Our group will be setting up an HP workstation ?(725)
  for 1200 user email system using Pine.  Does anyone have any experience or
  comments about system requirements, performance, etc..


  Vivek Khindria
  McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  khindria@mcmaster.ca


Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: baker@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (James Baker)
Subject: terminal emulator
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:05:27 GMT

I am wondering if anyone knows of a terminal emulator program for the hp700 that is similar to emt on the apollo. I have a VME board I need to talk to via the serial port and kermit does not do the job. I am not able to download files to the board via the serial port.

James "Bears Suck" Baker
baker@areaplg2.corp.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: mac@mercury.Harris-ATD.com (Mike McDonald)
Subject: Dynamic Linking to running executable
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept, Harris Corp, Melbourne, FL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:11:45 GMT

  Does anyone have any ideas on how to link in a C .o to a running program? I use
to have the magic necessary for doing it on aVax 750 running BSD4.3, but that was
long ago.

-- 

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  Voice: (407) 727-5060			P.O. Box 37
  Fax:   (407) 729-3363			Melbourne, Florida 32902
From: bobw@ftcollins.ncr.com (Bob Waldron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: How to get autoscroll?
Date: 8 Jan 93 23:47:46 GMT
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO. (303) 223-5100
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

On my HP720 machine using HPUX I am able to have Terminal Windows
with scroll bars.  However, when I scroll up several pages, and 
then type in that window, the window doesn't autoscroll to the
bottom but displays the text at the position where the cursor
happens to be.  Does anyone know how to set up the environment so
the window autoscrolls to the bottom with input?

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                   uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!bobw


From: pwalden@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Philip Walden)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:02:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Using starbase in X
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp


Use /usr/bin/X11/xwcreate to make a window for your application to use. 
There is a starbase manual section devoted to this subject.

	export WMDIR=/dev/screen
	xwcreate -bg black -r -geometry 800x600-20-30 -title starbase

	Then start up your application using the device:

		/dev/screen/starbase

	and driver:

		sox11 or the native driver for your crt.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: dougvoss@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Douglas Voss)
Subject: GNU's bash on an HP 9000/350 running HP_UX 8.00
Keywords: bash, HP-UX
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:10:30 GMT


Anyone else had difficulty getting bash to run under HP_UX 8.00? 

It appears to build just fine, but wildcard evaluation doesn't work.

Thanks.

-- 
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Vanderbilt University
Computer Science Department
From: xdaa374@ut-emx.uucp (William T. Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: PCL to PostScript translator
Keywords: PCL, PostScript, laserROM
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:15:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

We are using the LaserROM software on an HP9000/847s, HP-UX 8.02.  We have
several PostScript LaserWriters that we print to over AppleTalk using
the PacerPrint software from Pacer.

According to the Response Center, LaserROM will only send output in PCL
format (LaserJet et. al.)  This means we cannot print formatted output from
the LaserROM to our printers.  We do not have a LaserJet available, and the
LaserWriters are dedicated to PostScript and thus cannot be set to
PCL mode.

We are looking for a filter that will convert PCL formating to postscript, or
even to "dumb" printer formatting (overstrike and backspace).  If anyone
knows of a solution, I would be most grateful to hear from you.

Thx.
-- 
Bill Douglass, TCADA

"I dreamed I was to take a test,
 in a Dairy Queen, on another planet."      L. Anderson
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:52:18 GMT
Subject: Re: sar -v   text-sz header:  What is it???
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

I wrote:

> > 	HP-UX 8.07  HP 9000/827S
[deleted]
>   As sar(1) says, it is the size of the text table. The relevant kernel
> parameter is ntext. See the SA Tasks manual for details on ntext and the SA
> Concepts manual for details on (shared) text (code).

and mabrams@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Michael Abrams) writes:

> And nothing is what you get. This used to (before 8.0) refer to the number of
> entries/size of the text table. HP-UX stopped using a text table in 8.0, but
> the heading was kept in sar to make it look like sar. The values you see, 
> which should be the same on both sides of the /, are basically meaningless.
> At 9.0, the bogus values are replaced by N/A (as in, not applicable, I guess).
> There are no kernel parameters that affect it.

  I guess this is my punishment for RTFM! :-) Well, you can't be right
all (most? some? :-)) of the time!

Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
From: ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:50:42 GMT
Subject: Re: How to server clients over more than one LAN?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA