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From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
Subject: Is WordPerfect 5.1 X slooow or what?
Organization: Not bloody likely around here!
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.misc, comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:31:16 GMT

We just got WordPerfect 5.1X (The XWindows Version). This has to be
the slowest X app I have ever seen in my life. Bag running OW3 with it.
We had a newsletter running on an otherwise idle 40MByte IPX. It took 
1 minute, 20 seconds to scroll between pages. Running X11R4 (or R5) speeds
it up by an order of magnitude, but it is still a far cry from "zippy".
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Opinionated and tunnel-visioned? Darn right. But then, my employer really
doesn't know what I'm talking about anyway...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: "Ken Rawlings" <krawling@raisin.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Reading/Writing MSDOS Disks
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:46:36 -0500


[Sorry if this is an FAQ, I couldn't find a sun FAQ]

	Could someone please point me to a set of user installable utilities
that will allow one to read and write files to a DOS disk in the internal
floppy on a Sparc IPC.

	I'm aware of PCFS, but I was told there was a set of utilities that you
could use without the mount command(which is disabled to non-root on our
system).

						Thanks,
							Ken
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: Indiana University|           -J.R.R. Tolkien(referring to Emacs)
From: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:38:55 GMT
Reply-To: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Well, I had called SunExpress since we prefer to order documentation, etc through
them instead of our normal Sun sales channel.  What I was told was that if I
wanted the University discount the quote would be for a 30 day lead time.  The
only thing that seemed to have the Educational discount and quick delivery was
the PC-NFS product.

I can understand the extra delivery time on hardware, but it seems totally 
bull*&%^ to apply this to their software and documentation.  They seemed
to have such a good thing going....its too bad someone had to jump in and
screw it up.  I didn't ask if other discount groups were similarly affected....

Marketing types....can't live with them....can't live without them...

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Carnegie Mellon University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: knelson@milli.cs.umn.edu (Kenneth Nelson)
Subject: New to Sun env. - info requested
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:13:48 GMT


Hello,

I am new to the Sun environment and have a few questions.  I am running
OpenWindows 3.0 on a SpracStation IPC.

o  What are the major archive sites of public domain Sun software?

o  What is the default/popular image file format?  Is an image viewer available
	for viewing multiple image file formats?  How do I change my desktop
	background from a plain color to an image?

o  What is the format of an audio file?  Can Sun/NeXT audio/sound files be shared?


Please email.  Thanks,


Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: ira@virtual.rdrc.rpi.edu (Ira Lee)
Subject: Writing to /dev/kbd
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:54:39 GMT

I would like to write a program that performs keystrokes as if I were
typing them at the console.  Is it a matter of simply writing to
/dev/kbd? Or is it more involved?

Any help would be appreciated. Ira
From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: tcsh 6.02 and Solaris 2.0 detaches from tty.  Why??
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:32:55 GMT
Organization: ki Research, Inc. Derry NH


I built tcsh 6.02 on our Solaris 2.0 system and we just noticed something
odd.  Every child process that gets run from tcsh has no tty!  This
can cause some definite problems.  Here's an example froma ps display:

   10:23am dwatts@sparky % ps -ef | grep dwatts
     dwatts 22975 22973 80 10:23:17 pts/1    0:04 -tcsh
     dwatts 22989 22975 23 10:23:40 ?        0:00 grep dwatts
     dwatts 22990 22975 80 10:23:40 ?        0:01 ps -ef

Note that the grep and ps both have no tty associated.  We do not see this
with sh or csh as shown below from an sh shell:

   $ ps -ef | grep dwatts
     dwatts 22975 22973217 10:23:17 pts/1    0:04 sh
     dwatts 23080 23078 80 10:25:37 pts/1    0:01 ps -ef
     dwatts 23078 22975 17 10:25:37 pts/1    0:00 grep dwatts

Does anyone know how to get tcsh to work correctly?  From uname -a on
our Sun:

   SunOS sparky 5.0 Beta sun4c sparc

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: holen@xilinx.com (Victor A. Holen )
Subject: Too much memory
Summary: How to fake/reduce memory for testing purpose
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:52:57 GMT

Well, never too much memory, but:

Is there a way to tell SunOS to pretend it has less physical memory
then it has ? (Without yanking the chips).

Lets say I have 32Mb in my sparc-2 sun, but I would like to test the 
performance of a program in a 16 Mb configuration.  Any [reasonable] 
sugestions ?    Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: james@wrs.com (James Moore)
Subject: Audio files - how to modify pitch and speed?
Reply-To: james@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:43:48 GMT

I've been using soundtool to play and record simple things, but I'd
like to be able to change the speed and pitch of a recording.
What I'm aiming for is to be able to change the tempo without changing
the pitch - to drop to half speed, and then bring the pitch up an
octave and so on.

Suggestions for where to look for software?

(I'm using an SLC.)

-- 
James Moore                            /|\                        james@wrs.com
Wind River Systems                     \|/                  Alameda, California
	 "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half
			  didn't mean anything at all"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.lang.c
From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Subject: Re: Strange error in C compiler
Keywords: dynamic linking C compilation constant pointer
Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 01:27:35 GMT

I deal with _DYNAMIC with no trouble.

I declare it

extern struct link_dynamic _DYNAMIC;

then I ask

   if (&_DYNAMIC == 0)

works just fine. 
-- 
Benson I. Margulies
From: jre20@amdahl.com (John Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: r/w Mac floppies on IPC?
Keywords: Mac floppies
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:23:30 GMT
Reply-To: jre20@amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corp

Does anyone know of a public domain package that would enable me to format, read,
and write Mac floppies on my SPARC IPC?

Also, has anyone used FloppyWorks from Digital Instrumentation Technology?  It supposedly does all of the above for both DOS and Mac. I'm interested in the cost, an e-mail address for DIT, and any other comments on the product.

Thanks ...

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From: R2HMV@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Help needed - installing snmpd on SUN
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:25:27 GMT
Organization: The University of Akron


 
Hi,
 
I need help in installing an SNMP daemon on SUN workstations. The daemon
is part of the CMU package. I do not have any sysadmn experience and
hence would appreciate if someone could let me know the steps involved
in installing a daemon. I have access to root privileges and just need
to know how to do it.
 
Thanks.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: petrasg@berra.cs.rpi.edu (George Petras)
Subject: Re: A few OpenLook questions ...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:50:23 GMT

In article <BtEHou.3GL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jrpg8255@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeremy Payne ) writes:
>Just a few questions that have been nagging me for a while now that I finally
>got around to posting.  Some quickie suggestions (probably very simple ones
>I'm sure) would be appreciated:
>
>-> NOT including .openwin-menu gives you a "save workspace" option in the 
>   root menu utilies section.  How do I get that functionality from my own
>   .openwin-menu?  i.e. what's the entry I need to make under "Utilities" MENU?
>

   If this is OpenWindows Version 3 -read the man page.  The default menus
are kept in $OPENWINHOME/lib.  I believe you put in the item SAVE_WORKSPACE
right after the text for the menu entry:

"Save Workspace"                SAVE_WORKSPACE

>-> WRT the above, where's the data from Save Workspace kept?
>

	.openwin-init in your home directory.

>-> How do I get cursor-up command-line recall or its equivalent in a sun-cmd
>   window?
>
	Due to bugs in cmdtool, shells that offer command line recall, like
"tcsh" and "bash" do not work.  Use a shelltool (a cmdtool with no scrollbars) 
or xterm.  The cmdtool provided with Solaris 2.0 apparently fixes this problem.
 
>-> Is there a way to get a bitmap as the workspace root window instead of a 
>   solid color provided by the Properties interface?
>
	xsetroot will load monochrome x bitmaps into the background.  The 
ftp'able program xloadimage will load color images of many formats into the
background.

>-> How can I get more control over window properties (like individual colors
>   for certain windows like in SunView), again since the Properties interface
>   doesn't seem to provide this?
>

	You would probably have to provide this stuff on the command line
with -fg or -bg.  Running the X or OpenWindows program with -help will show
you the options.  There might be a way of doing this with X resources, but
I'm not sure.

gp.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:4051 comp.benchmarks:1363 comp.databases:6513
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.benchmarks,comp.databases
Subject: Sun workstations tpc-b numbers
Date: 2 Sep 1992 15:23:54 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

I need to know the tpc-b numbers for various Sun workstations,
ESPECIALLY the SLC (SS1), the SS2 and the SS10/45.

If you have this handy, or a pointer to these, could you please
let me know?  If there is interest I will summarise.

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
From: ydupont@vega.QE.Bell.CA (Yvan Dupont)
Subject: NeWSprint 2.0 for QMS PS-1700
Keywords: newsprint duplex
Organization: Bell Canada -- OD Information Architectures
Distribution: bell
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:19:47 GMT

I have a QMS PS-1700 postscript printer attached to a SparcStation 2.
I'm driving this printer with NeWSprint 2.0 and everything work very
well, but I want to take advantage of the duplexing capabilities of
my printer. I want to be able to specify whether or not I want duplex
printing for the current job independently of the others.

I also want (if possible) that users won't need to remember a funny
command string... Maybe naming of two different printers would be a
good idea: simplex=ps and duplex=ps2.

Does any of you have a good idea ???
==>     Please mail your answer to: ydupont@Stam.QE.Bell.CA

Yvan.



Yvan Dupont, 

Directeur de projets A.M.I.
Bell Canada
ydupont@Stam.QE.Bell.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
Subject: Re: Anon. FTP site for Sun patches?
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:10:41 GMT

In article <laa51cINNpuq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
herzog@dogwalk.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog - SMCC System Software) writes:
>In article <dhuber.715329616@autmgr>
>dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
>>Hello there,

>>Is there a anonymous FTP site holding ALL Sun patches?

>Okay netlanders, just this once, I'll go on the record.

>Hypothetically, *if* Sun were to provide anonymous FTP access to patches, 
>would you use such a service?  What would you expect or desire from it?  

Where are the sun2, os4.0.3 patches? :)

--Steven, sun2 paleontologist
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: sgccses@citec.oz.au (Stephen Spence)
Subject: HELP with kernel parameters
Organization: CITEC
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:48:13 GMT

Please tell me where I can find the tuneable parameters for the following
on a SparcServer 670

1) total number of active processes in the system
2) total number od open files on the system
3) number of distinct files which are open at one time
4) the number of locks on file regions permitted at one time

thx
Mail would be appretiated

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rob@icarus.ssd.loral.com (Rob Riepel)
Subject: Re: NCSA telnet to SUN goes to sleep
Organization: Space Systems/Loral
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:36:10 GMT

>I have found that if I connect to any UNIX machine and leave my
>session idle for a while,then come back I can resume as you would expect.
>However, if I do the same to a SUN, I find that the
>session goes to sleep. If you keep the session active all seems to be
>ok, but left for 10-15 minutes and it's good night session.

  This is probably not an NCSA Telnet problem.  I have the same problem
  using LAT to get to a Sun.  In fact, I connect to the Sun via LAT and
  immediately exec telnet.  It's a LAT-telnet gateway allowing DEC terminal
  servers to get to telnet-speaking Unix boxes.  Idle session to other Suns
  definately "go to sleep".  I'll check idle sessions to other hosts.

>The strange thing is that if open a telnet session to the same SUN box
>again, almost immediately the first session wakes up and responds to
>everything to typed to it while the session was asleep.

  I also see this same behavior.

  If anyone can shed some light on what's going one here, I'd love to hear
  it!

  ..rob (rob@icarus.ssd.loral.com)
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Interesting clone pointers
Date: 28 Aug 1992 01:19:50 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

In the August 1992 issue of sunexpert I find:

p2: clones by DTK.  Call 800-buyadtk or 818-810-8880
p14: talk about Tadpole selling 10k laptops a year.  Speculation?
p20: Compuadd is building SPARC boxes using the Ross/Cypress chips.
     Shipping when?
p20: Mobius has SS2 clones, diskless $7k; disky (520 Meg) $8590
p39: "Super workstation inc" has SS2 color "complete" system for $6k.
     A SS2 motherboard for $1600.
     Call 800-841-0036 or 408-436-8881
p54,66:Twinhead has a MP (right now SS2) Mbus box.  Looks good, 
     800-545-8946, 408-945-0808
p78: SS2 clone $10k (32M, 520M, GX, 16") "System Computing Corp"
     404-872--6475
p79: SS2 clone $8.5k (32M, 426M, GX, 20"color) "Xpert Image Inc"
     713-558-6788

I like the phenomenon of nondescript garage companies making clones.

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: A few OpenLook questions ...
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 09:19:11 GMT

I never found viraw necessary on a Sun - but I have found it necessary on
Ultrix in the olden days at least.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: From a Sun to a MAC
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:27:39 GMT

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 bud@paradise.pegasus.com... Host unknown: Address family not
                                    supported by protocol family


Mail bounces, so:


Host rutgers.edu

    Location: /src
-rw-r--r--  1 0        1             229 Mar  9 02:55 cap60.README
drwxr-sr-x  2 0        1            3584 Aug 19 14:32 cap60.patches
-rw-r--r--  1 0        1         1314774 Mar  9 02:51 cap60.pl100.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 0        1         1346001 Mar 15  1991 cap60.tar.Z
 
The pl100 tarfile incorporates patches 1-100, so you should grab this. 
Current patchlevel is at least 126, so you can get cap60.patch101 thru
126 from the cap60.patches directory.

This will allow you to mount the Sun from the chooser as an AppleShare
server.  Compile with native level 2 Ethertalk selected.

--
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        Building 12A, Room 1050              phone: (301) 402-3488
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: nick@socrates.umd.edu (Nick Lemberos)
Subject: make tftp default binary?
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:05:02 GMT


I am trying to get a proteon to load its boot image off of a Sun
using TFTP.  I remember reading somewhere that 4.1.2 tftp defaults
to an ascii mode, instead of binary.  I need to set the tftp deamon
to transfer files as binary.

this is the line in my inetd.conf file:

tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /usr/local/gw

I am running 10/23/91 SunOS 4.1.2 out of the box, on a IPX. 
Couldnt find anything in AnswerBook. 

thanks

nick

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic)
Subject: Re: strange mount problems
Keywords: cdrom hsfs
Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:45:45 GMT

In article <l9t5lkINN5u0@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, pkn@cs.utexas.edu (Kay Nettle) writes:
|> I'm trying to mount a hsfs on a sparc 2.  I type the command:
|> 
|> root@engr:98 % mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /mnt
|> 
|> and this is what happens:
|> 
|> mount: /dev/sr0 on /cdrom: No more processes
|> mount: giving up on:
|>    /cdrom
|> mount: giving up on:
|>    /cdrom
|> mount: giving up on:
|>    /cdrom
|> mount: giving up on:
|>    /cdrom
|> mount: giving up on:
|> .
|> .
|> .
|> mount: giving up on:
|>    /mnt
|> 
|> 
|> Has anyone else had this problem before.  This is the first time it's
|> happend to me.
|> 
|> Kay
|> 
|> pkn@tac.harc.edu
|> 

   The key question is:  How did you recover from this?  Did killing
mount(8) restore the system to normal order or did you have to reboot?
If you're low on process slots, tweak MAXUSERS and reconfigure.

   mount(8) probably gets the no more processes error when it tries
to fork /usr/etc/mount_hsfs.  Why does it do this?  Well...  ask Sun.

							Mario

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From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: NumLock on Suns under X11R5 [was: Re: OW3 and Xterm]
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:01:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep3.220153.5623
Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia

OK, bonehead question #49: how do I get the NumLock key to work at
all under X?  

-Dean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x.intrinsics
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: no keylogin when I rlogin
Keywords: secure RPC keylogin rlogin
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:31:09 GMT

Hello
    I am trying to use SUN-DES-1 user authorization for X11 r5 and I
largely have it working except for one thing, when I rlogin my key
isn't set as it is when I login. If I rlogin and then keylogin all is
OK. My question is, have I missed something and if not is there a work
around.

Thanks in advance.

-- 

Michael Salmon

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#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

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From: fullmer@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert Fullmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Pure vs. Demand Paged Sparc Executables
Summary: Trying to generate pure executables
Keywords: Linking, Compiling
Date: 23 Aug 1992 20:56:40 GMT
Organization: Rice University

Pure dynamically linked executables on the Sparc are smaller than demand
paged executables. The reason for this, I gather, is that pure
executables are not page aligned, as demand paged executables are, by
default. I've perused the man pages on ld and cc, but haven't yet been
able to successfully generate a pure executable by frobbing the flags.

Is there some magic sequence of flags I should pass to ld, or cc, in
order to get more compact executables? I don't mind if the solution is
complex.

Yes, I know about strip. Stripped demand paged executables are still
significantly larger than pure executables.

RTFMs are ok, but I've already had a good look through the FMs, so
please be specific as to what I should be looking for.

Emailed replies would be preferable. If there is interest, I will post a
summary.

Rob Fullmer     :     celine@athena.mit.edu     :     fullmer@rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc