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From: nat@egg.gg.caltech.edu (Nathan Inada)
Subject: ISC 3.2/TCP-IP 1.3 connections hang
Summary: tcpip server connections hang. get protocol err on accept
Keywords: tcp-ip, socket
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:12:14 GMT

i have set up a tcp connection server which "selects" on 
a set of "listen"ing sockets

every now and again, under a heavy barrage of connection requests, i get
	errno = 71 "Protocol error"
when "accept"ing on a selected socket. the message:
"tcpcmds: non-fatal error in unknown event: 0000000B"
gets sent to the console

after this select no longer returns on connection requests
though it does return for activity on already connected sockets.
any requests that do come in are handled by what ever magic it is that actually
deals with the tcp protocol. that is, subsequent connections ARE established,
and data is passed (i know. i sniffed.), but select never hears about them.
this lead to the following problem of closing connections with data in the 
queues... after a while the requesting client times out and closes the
connection. this leaves a closed tcp connection with data in the queue.
TCP/IP v 1.3 does not seem to deal with this situation well either.
even when a tcp packet with the Reset bit set in its flags field is sent
the protocol handler doesnt flush its buffers.


has anybody run into this sort of thing ?
the TCP/IP v 1.3 release notes say in its bug fixes "Multiple, simultanious 
incoming connections no longer hang a server"
am i missing something ?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

nathan
(nat@gg.caltech.edu)
From: dpwc@dprmpt.UUCP (Weihan Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: CodeView
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:43:15 GMT
Organization: Data-Prompt, Inc., Silver Spring, MD


I am running SCO ODT 3.2 on my 486 and try to make CodeView work.
I follow the man page giving "-g" to cc, but, cv keeps telling me
no symbolic information. I can only see assembly codes.
The man page also say that "ld" has "-g" option. When I try, "ld" 
told me it doesn't know about this switch.
Anyone can help me with this? Thanks !
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From: madsere@okys.infoserv.com (Rene Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MDQS for SCO UNIX available?
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:47:42 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Brackton Ltd. Luxembourg

In article <1992Sep01.003831.2372@zentronics.ca>, steveh@zentronics.ca (Steve Haller) writes:
> In article <1992Aug31.155028.11774@wam.umd.edu> geo@wam.umd.edu (Varghese George) writes:
> 
> >PS:  Is there a newsgroup for SCO UNIX in particular?
> 
> Yes,
> 
> biz.sco.general
> biz.sco.announce
> biz.sco.opendesktop
> biz.sco.sources
> biz.sco.binaries

I think you forgot sco.opendesktop ... 

In OPEN DESKTOP RELEASE NOTES for ODT 1.1 (page 3) SCO actually write:
"All Open Desktop users are invited to participate in the Open Desktop
newsgroup called _sco.opendesktop_.".

Curiously I have at several occations posted questions to that
newsgroup, without having had any reply.  SCO appears to be present
in the biz.sco.* newsgroups though.

Yet another inconsistancy in the SCO manuals I guess ...


-- 
Rene Madsen                
Unix Systems Support/Dev.       
madsere@okys.infoserv.com
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: kermit alternatives
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:29:32 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <l9g6biINN44v@phad.hsc.usc.edu>, mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) writes:
| Can anyone suggest where I can find (pd preferably) a unix alternative to 
| kermit for moving files over a serial line from SCO Unix to DOS. Kermit seems
| slow and I assume X, Y, or Z modem would be faster. I just need the unix
| side in executable form.

  If your kermit is slow you probably either have an old version or
forgot to turn on the sliding windows. If your Kermit if 5A, add "-v 7"
to the command line and try again. I usually see about 98% efficiency in
the line throughput (2370bps or 2400). High speed performance is better
but I don't have a number handy.
-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: Xman on Interactive 3.0
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 00:05:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.220320.15060@awds.imsd.contel.com> andy@awds.imsd.contel.com (Andy Moskoff) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know how I can tell Xman to look for groff and NOT nroff on my
>Interactive UNIX 3.0? Interactive, in there infinite wisdom doesn't offer
>the Documentor's Workbench, so I've installed groff-1.05. However, Xman
>doesn't look for groff, but nroff. Is there a way around this? I've already
>groffed and/or decompressed all my man pages for Xman to use, but I would     
>rather have the man pages still left in pre-groffed format (i.e., with the
>macros). Better yet how about modifying Xman to decompress and THEN groff
>the man pages? If anyone has any suggestions, please respond by e-mail.
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>andy@wx.gtegsc.com                      |   This space for rent.
>(818) 706-5312				|
>Andy Moskoff				|

In "their" infinite wisdom, ISC do; you can buy DWB from any ISC 
reseller.

Ed Whittemore   uupsi!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.msdos
From: rlm@wyvern.twuug.com (Robert Mohrmann)
Subject: MS Windows 3.1 via UNIX
Organization: Tidewater UNIX Users Group
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:07:47 GMT

FIRST OF ALL ARE THESE POSTS GETTING OUT? I'VE NEVER USED NN BEFORE.


      My company department has a problem. We are currently running an
internal software package that was designed to run under "MS Windows 2.1".
The computers that we are running this on are 386 clones running
SCO Unix v3.2 and the VPIX (DOS emulator).

      The problem is, the department in charge of the internal software
package is releasing a new version of it and is not going to support the
old one any more. :-( The new version will only run on "MS Windows 3.1"
which does not work under VPIX. Open Desk Top (ODT) does supply a DOS
shell but the price at this time of ODT is prohibitively high for my
department.

      Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get around this
dilemma? One idea we had was to reformat the hard disk and to set up one
partition for DOS and another for UNIX. But, we don't know if it is
possible to switch between the two operating systems. Another idea would
be to find some other company that supplies DOS shell software, like
ODT's version, as a separate software package that can be bought for a
little amount of money.

Information:
                    Zenith 386
                    SCO UNIX v3.2
                    VPIX v1.1 (DOS emulation package)
                    8M bytes RAM
                    150M Hard Drive
                    VGA graphics card
                    Shades of grey VGA monitor



**-- rlm@wyvern.twuug.com --***********************************************
|    Robert Lee -SAURIAN- Mohrmann  |    Exodus 4:1-5    Numbers 21:5-9   |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: scott@palan.uucp (Scott Boake)
Subject: Re: Dell SVR4: no SCSI support for Exabyte and/or CDROM?
Organization: Palantir Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:48:42 GMT

Hi...

I've used my Exabyte with the DELL 2.1.

The magic was to issue a 'tapecntl -v' to se variable length block mode.

No problem reading / writing tapes from Sun, SCO w/Chantel, etc.

---Scott
----
Scott Boake                                            Palantir Systems, Inc.
scott@palan                                            5030 - 78th Ave N Ste 11
(813) 544-8152                                         Pinellas Park, FL 34665
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scott@palan                                            5030 - 78th Ave N Ste 11
(813) 544-8152                                         Pinellas Park, FL 34665
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: garyb@gcm.com (Gary Blumenstein)
Subject: Using Sun SCSI Drive in a PC
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:53:37 GMT

Does anyone know if it's possible to install a Sun formatted SCSI drive
(Quantum 207MB) for use with an Adaptec host adapter in a 486 PC running Unix?

If so, what steps do I need to take to initialize/install the drive?
Thanks.

-gb

-- 
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Unix Systems Administration               |   uunet!gcm!garyb      UUCP
Greenwich Capital Markets                 |  +1(203) 625-7937      Voice 
600 Steamboat Road, Greenwich, CT  06830  |  +1(203) 629-9136      FAX
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:09:35 -0400 
From: Lucian_Dancanet@transarc.com
Subject: X386 1.2E on ATI Graphics Ultra



Does anyone have X386 1.2E running on ATI Graphics Ultra, at 1024x768 or even
at 800x600?

I'm running ESIX 4.0.4. Thanks for any help.

Lucian
From: kim@cs.arizona.edu (Kyung Soo Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: SCO UNIX 3.2.2 and IDE drivers
Keywords: SCO AND IDE
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:28:16 GMT


Hi, netters.

  Has any one of you used an IDE hard disk drive with SCO UNIX 3.2.2?
  Where can I get a driver if such driver exists?  You can either mail
  it to me(prefferedd) or post news here.  Than you for your help.

kenny


Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H. Buehler)
Subject: Re: UUCP disconnects on ESIX SVR4.0.3 using ZyXEL modem
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:40:15 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.122117.25714@digibd.com> rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:

   I spent a couple of hours last night talking to the ZyXEL BBS
   using a Telebit WB at 14,400 on my end.  Presumably, the ZyXEL
   BBS is running with ZyXEL modems and latest firmware.

   Each connection I made there would last anywhere from 10-20 minutes.
   After that, the ZyXEL would start outputting garbage (but wouldn't
   drop the line).  The garbage was different than line noise.  You
   could type a command but the output would be *completely* garbled
   (including high order characters, etc.) with nothing recognizable.
   I tried forcing a retrain, (+++, ATO1) but that didn't stop the garbage.
   I had to hang up the line and call again (many times!).

   If you ask me, there are some bugs in the ZyXEL modem.

   This garbage would be enough to choke UUCP or any other comms program.

Thanks for the info.  This fits with something else I'm seeing.  A
friend has tried several times to log in to my system with his USR
Sportster modem.  It works OK for several minutes, then all of a
sudden my system starts receiving spurts of complete garbage, as you
describe above.  Perhaps there *is* something wrong with my modem...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Subject: trident 8900
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:09:00 GMT

 Does anyone know where to get TECHINCAL info on the Trident 8900 chip? Specifically, I need to learn to use the
bankswitching features to use the 256 color hires modes.

 An address or phone number of trident or if you have a technical manual you don't use anymore, i'll buy it.

Jason.
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SVR4.2 (Was Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware))
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:13:51 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep2.192037.23954@lgc.com> danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson) writes:
> In article <1992Sep2.153349.7886@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
> |>.. stuff omitted
> |> 
> |> SVR4.2 (UnixWare/Destiny) reportedly has a CD-ROM file system.  I suppose
> |> they bought back Sun's code, sinse there's one for Solaris 2.0.
> 
> .. anybody know when SVR4.2 is due to be out?
> 
> Doug
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------
> Doug Anson					
> Internet: danson@lgc.com			
> Phone:	  713-579-4739
> SNAIL:    Landmark Graphics Corporation LGC	
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> 	  Houston, TX 77094			
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The standard blurbs all report that Univel will have end-user packages
out by the end of the year.  I don't know about any of the current SVR4
VARs; I know Microport has the code, but I don't know that any decision
when (or even if) to ship a product has been made.  I believe that
several of the other VARs are also evaluating the code.  There's a blurb
in this week's Open Systems Today that mentions a SVR4.3, which merges
the Desktop, Enhanced Security, and Multiprocessor versions of SVR4.2
(I didn't know there WERE separate versions until I read that :->).  This
will reportedly be released by USL by the end of the year.  Maybe the
VARs are waiting for that.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
David Wexelblat             | dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com  | Somebody get me a
AT&T Bell Laboratories      | ...!att!mtgzfs3!dwex  |   cheeseburger!
200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421     |                       |      
Middletown, NJ  07748       | (908) 957-5871        | --Steve Miller Band
From: roe@Unibase.SK.CA (Roe Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: SASS 2.00 to be released!
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:36:04 GMT
Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.

SASS 2.00 will be released Sunday, September 6th.

I will be posting it to alt.sources, and sending it to comp.sources.misc.

The question is:  should I post it to comp.unix.sysv386 as well?  Considering
the free-for-all that followed FAS 2.10 (I personally approved of posting
it here, BTW), I'd like some feedback from the net before I jump into
the breach.

It will also be available for anon. ftp from udevdiv.Unibase.SK.CA
(192.75.161.2).  I'm looking for other (possibly better connected) sites
to put it on as well;  we're a slip link (albeit a fast one :-).
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 486/50 DRAM REQUIREMENTS
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:42:34 GMT
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745

acmrlb@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Ronald L. Bolin) writes:

>Question: Is anyone using a 486/50 clone or non-clone machine running
>386 UNIX with 70 nano second DRAM? I am considering upgrading my 

we are using a 486/50 with 70ns NEC DRAM and 256 SRAM cache

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.dcom.modems,biz.comp.telebit,alt.bbs
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: ESIX 4.0.4 ttymon problems...HELP!
Keywords: ttymon, esix
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:14:59 GMT

jmcook@larel.LAMRSCH.COM (joel m. cook) writes:

>I've been "wrasslin'" with this software since I got it, and
>since I paid big $$$ for it).  Unfortunately, I still can't get
>modems to work (USR HST's or TB's).  Get a *reproducible* string
>of garbage, or sometimes the prompt, but can never type anything
>and log in.  It seems that /etc/ttydefs, as shipped, is crap.
>Things like "parenb" on the same line with "ignpar" and that sort of
>thing.  To get to the point...if anyone out there can tell me what
>to do to ttydefs or  anything else to get ESIX 4.0.4 ttymon working
>with a modem for uucp, I'd be MOST grateful.  Thanks.

Maybe it would be easier getting the modems to work with getty?

We're running getty here -- this might help (we also run USR DS v.32bis
modems along with Telebit Trailblazer Pluses, T2000s and Worldblazers ---

PEP registers:

atn?
E1 F1 M1 Q4 P V1 W0 X3 Y0 &P0 &T4     Version BA5.01
S00=001 S01=000 S02=043 S03=013 S04=010 S05=008 S06=002 S07=040 S08=002 S09=006
S10=007 S11=070 S12=050 S18=000 S25=005 S38=000 
S41:002 S45=000 S47=004 S48=000 S49=000
S50=000 S51:254 S52:002         S54:004 S55=000 S56=017 S57=019 S58:002 S59=000
S60=000 S61:199 S62=003 S63=001 S64=000 S65=000 S66:001 S67=000 S68=255 S69=000
S90=000 S91=000 S92:001 S94=001 S95:002 S96=001 
S100=000 S101=000 S102=000 S104=000 S105=001 
S110:000 S111=255 S112=001 
S121=000 S130:004 S131:001 S255=000 

/etc/uucp/Dialers:

PEPslow =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pA\pA\pT OK ATs58=0s0=0sDP\T NNECT\s2400 \d
#PEPslow =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pA\pA\pT OK ATs66=1s51=5x3s0=0s64=1s50=0DP\T NNECT\s2400 \d
PEPfast =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pA\pA\pT\pZ OK ATS50=255DP\T FAST-\c-FAST \d
#PEPfast =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pA\pA\pT OK ATx3s0=0s64=1s50=255s121=1s110=0s95=0s96=0\p OK ATDP\T FAST-\c-FAST \d

/etc/uucp/Devices:

PEP /dev/term/a15s,M - 19200 PEPfast
PEP /dev/term/a15s,M - C19200 PEPslow

/etc/inittab:

Ca15:23:respawn:/etc/getty -r -t 30 /dev/term/a15m PEP

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: mattair@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Charles Mattair)
Subject: Re: PC-Clone UNIX Hardware Buyer's Guide
Organization: Synercom Technology, Inc., Houston, TX
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:17:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.124923.1533@dlpinc00.rn.com> dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker) writes:
>In article <1hQSvZ#5NQTrw8sLg8W9wJLZM5ny9ts=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>>
>>over it.  Best of all is a buddy with a state-registered dealer number; these
>>aren't very hard to get and confer not just exemption from sales tax but
>>(often) whopping discounts from the vendors.  Hand him a dollar afterwards to
>>make it legal.
>>
>>(Note: I have been advised that you shouldn't try the latter tactic in
>>Florida -- they are notoriously tough on "resale license" holders).
>>
>>	Send your feedback to: Eric Raymond = esr@snark.thyrsus.com
>
> [Long description of why you don't want to do this in Missouri deleted]
>-- 
>Dave Parker
>Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
>(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax

It's real easy to get one in Texas as well.  $25/year (at least when I had one)
and no bond.  Everything else Dave described is true and the state will hound
you until you file a report.  You have to file even if you have no sales tax
to report.

I'm not sure what Texas does to small tax evaders as we are discussing but it
shuts large ones down and seizes assets.  To repeat what Dave said: don't do it to avoid taxes.

On the other hand, using a sales tax permit to masquerade as a reseller in
order to get wholesaler's discounts is perfectly legal -- as long as you
remit the requisite sales tax.
-- 
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Any opinions offered are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: felix@escape.vsse.in-berlin.de (Felix the double Helix)
Subject: info on VFS under Sys V.4?
Summary: info neede for vfs
Organization: Felix the double Helix
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:02:29 GMT

hi netlanders!

i'm looking for info on the system v.4 virtual file system. at the present,
i have a "binary-only" version of (interactive) system v.4, with the
"standard" system v.4 documentation.

the info i'm looking for i haven't found in the actual documentation, and
of course the header files only give me a limited understanding of what's
going on. what i'd like to know is how the VFS works, what exact functions
one would have to support in a vfs driver, and if anyone has any experience
in writing a vfs driver for any kind of filesystem that she/he would
like to share.

i'm not sure whether  there is information publicly available, or just
for people with a source-license. but if there's anyone who knows more
about vfs internals i'd be happy to get pointers to documentation or a
more detailled description of vfs and vfs drivers.

thanks a lot,
	felix
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EMAIL: felix@escape.vsse.in-berlin.de
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but they're far from being human writeable!"
From: sp_pm@space.alcbel.be (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Advice on getting into computer music wanted
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:25:37 GMT
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Hello,

I'm looking for advice on getting started with the use of computers with music. I'm interested specifically in the following:
  - musical notation entry for writing and printing music scores
  - sampling and controlling keyboard instruments using MIDI

My hardware is a ISC-2.2.1 UNIX-based 386 box, and a dot matrix printer. I also have access to the DOS world via VP/ix.

Can someone offer advice on the following:
  - extra hardware that I need (for the MIDI interface, I suppose)?
  - software, either public domain or commercial, and either UNIX or DOS?
  - books on the subject?

I apologise if this request sounds like a catch-all, but I am a complete beginner to the field of electronic music. Alternatively, is this stuff covered by a FAQ?

Please email responses, as I don't have a News feed. I'll summarise responses, if there is sufficient interest.

Thanks in advance for any help offered.

- Paul

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