HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bowman@csrp.tamu.edu (Kenneth P. Bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Adding memory to X-station
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Date: 28 Dec 1992 14:45:13 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
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In article <Bzxtpw.GrM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob
Shair) wrote:

> The Xstation and the 220 use the same memory SIMMs used in PS/2's and
> (I believe) many other PC's.

I recently put 8 MB into an X-Station 130 for $307.  This was two 4 MB
SIMMS
from Technology Works, 4030 Braker Lane West, Suite 350, Austin, TX 78759,
800-723-7965, 512-794-8520 (fax).  It works.  Your mileage may vary.

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From: shieh@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Retension on ostape
Keywords: tape retension
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:50:11 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: shieh@racerx.austin.ibm.com


John,
	If this problem has not been answered to your satisfaction,
please drop me a note: shieh@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com.  I don't
want to clog up bandwidth.  I am just catching up to the newsgroup
after one month's absence.  There are 1215 more postings for me to
read!!!!

			Johnny Shieh
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VNET:     SHIEH at AUSVMQ	Internet: shieh@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com
Phone:(512) 838-3357		tie line 678-3357
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rick@cougar.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
Subject: Re: New list of PTFs for AIX 3.2 available
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:54:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.210320.3059@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>, jsalter@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (James Salter) writes:
|> The list of PTFs for AIX 3.2 as of 12/21/92 is now available for
|> anonymous ftp from:
|> 	ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (192.35.233.1)
|> in the pub/ptfs directory.
|> 
|> This file contains a list of currently orderable PTFs with PTF number,
|> APAR number, the LPP name it affects and a short one-line description.
|> 
|> Updates to the list will occur approximately once every two weeks.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jim Salter  ---  (415) 694-3827  T466-3827 
|> IBM PSM Mountain View  1055 Joaquin Rd.  Mountain View, CA  94043
|> Internet/IBM Net: jsalter@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com	VNET/OV: JSALTER at ALMVMA
|>    -- Are you crying???  There's no crying in baseball! --

The ideal setup for this would be a gopher server with a WAIS-indexed
copy of the output you get from "installp -q -d /dev/rmt0.1 -A all".

A single line of info about each PTF is woefully inadequate.  Having all
the data in a single file is inconvenient.

PLEASE DO THIS.  IT'S NOT DIFFICULT.  I WILL HELP IF YOU WANT.

I would do it myself with the listings I have from my own private PTF
collection, but I'm not sure if I would get in trouble from Copyright
infringement.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.admin
From: terry@quack.sac.ca.us (Terry Greenlee)
Subject: Compiling spread sheet."HELP"
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: sc ss oleo
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:10:19 UTC


I'm trying to compile sc6.21 on AIX 3.2
My main problem error is some thing like:
1506-041 (S) Parameter list cannot contain fewer parameters than
required by macro definitions.
I'm not real experienced with Makefile compiling of big projects.
Also trying ss & oleo. Thanks for any kind of help.

Terry
terry@quack.sac.ca.us
408.251.6152


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: spider@hercules.kgn.ibm.com (Gregory Scallan)
Subject: Re: RS6000 graphic card, where to buy??
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:19:28 GMT
Reply-To: spider@hercules.kgn.ibm.com (Gregory Scallan)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY

There are a whole slew of IBM graphics cards for 2d and 3d:  For 2D in a
3xx or 5xx series machine, the gt3 adapter is recommended.  If in a model 220,
the gt1 is recommended.  For 3D graphics using phigs, graPHIGS, GL or
PEX, there
are several adapters available depending on the performance and function you 
want.  Here is a quick hardware rating of the adapters to give you an estimate
of the performance differences:


Adapters:                CGDA    Gt1    Gt3    High Perf.    Gt4    Gt4x    Gto
                         ----    ---    ---    ----------    ---    ----    ---

BitBlit rate (Mpel/sec)   10     34     15          20       15     20      20
2D Vectors                75     284    600         80       650    800 
   990 
3D Vectors                N/A    N/A    N/A         80       350    700     990
Triangles, Gouraud        N/A    N/A    N/A         20       20     75      120
  shded (k/sec)


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Graphics Systems Technical Center, AWSD  |  Internet:   spider@vnet.ibm.com
(914)385-5054  (T/L 695)                 |  Sneakernet: 203-2-2-2, Kingston
From: calb@edsi.plexus.COM (Calvin Bolwerk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Is there a way to find the name of the machine I am on?
Date: 24 Dec 92 13:38:32 GMT
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI


I am looking for a way to find the internet name of the machine 
that I am logged in on.  We have a few PC's connected to the 
network and a few remote RS/6000's.  I am attempting to 
standardize the login procedure and different actions need to be 
taken depending on whether the user is logging on from a PC or an 
RS/6000 (like running xinit).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
From: shieh@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: New IBM 8mm tape drives
Keywords: IBM 8mm
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:59:56 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: shieh@racerx.austin.ibm.com


In article <ByM2FH.3r2@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>, mikeb@coot.UWaterloo.ca (Mike Borkowski) writes:
> Anyone know whether the new IBM 8mm tape drives (7208 and 7208 Model
> 011) have "IBM firmware" or are they stock ExaByte drives?
> 
> Michael Borkowski, Computing Services, University of Waterloo


IBM firmware
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dgogates@fberry ()
Subject: Re: /usr performance for 220's
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:35:45 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <Bzox55.JMH@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>Mike JD Espig (jd@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
>> I just finished installing a new IBM 220 as a /usr client.  The only
>> problem is that the performance is terrible!  I remember a thread about
>> this recently and was wondering if any solutions were posted.
>
>I've found that the default size transmit and receive queues pretty
>much throttles NFS performance (like 50K/s max read rate). Upping them
>to their max (default is 30 for both, max is 150 ) helps a lot - doing
>that we got more like 500K/s max read speed, but write speed is still
>a very low 150K/s. What's odd is that this _wasn't_ happening
>under 3.1.6, we had the default size queues and we were getting
>MUCH higher throughput ( 800K/s on read, 600K/s on writes).
>
>me thinks something is broken....

The rs/6000 model 220 has the integrated ethernet built into it, so
you will need to get PTF U410209 to fix some ethernet performance
problems.  Bumping up the xmit queue sizes to 150 is too much, we have
found that around 45 gives optimal NFS performance.

Also, since this is a /usr client, after the PTF is installed you
will need to do the bosboot command to re-build to boot image
for the 220.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: Re: some questions
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:11:40 GMT

lz@flynn.chem.columbia.edu (Liedong Zheng) writes:

>Hi:
>	I am new to aix, I have some would-be faq questions, thanks for your
>help!
>	Q1: a pseudo-terminal problem. If someone is on the console, then 
>nobady can telnet to login. And sometimes eve when nobady is on the console,
>the error message says:3004-003 All available login sessions are in use, TSM
>error on terminal "/dev/pts/2". What is the problem?

This sounds as if you haven't told AIX of the number of licensed users
you purchased.  At installation, the maximum number of users is set to
1-2 users.  You need to change that... follow the environments path
from the smit main menu.


>	Q2:Printer conf. I followed the README file under /usr/lpp/bas/ that
>comes with the machine, to configure a printer to the host, it went pretty
>well both "add a printer" and "add a virtual printer", but I still can't
>print anything, I checked lpq, they queued. I am pretty sure the printer is
>on prior to the workstation and cables are properly connected.

Not sure what is causing this.  Does the queue show as up?  do a qchk -A.
If it's down, do a qadm -Uqname

You can test the printer without the queuing system by doing a
cat some.file > /dev/lp0
 	Merry Christmas ! and Happy New Year!
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Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
IBM Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: Re: RS6000 graphic card, where to buy??
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:22:01 GMT

curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:

>meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer) writes:
>>Where, and to what prices can I get a new graphic card to our 
>>IBM RS6000/320??
>
>>Currently we have a 'High Performance 3D Color' card. This is not
>>adequate for our use. Our application runs better with some kind of
>>2D-card.

Have you considered a GT3 adapter from IBM?  Usually gives much better X
performance than the 3D card you currently have.
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Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
IBM Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.protocol.misc,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,alt.bbs.internet
From: splee@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Seng-Poh Lee)
Subject: Re: Recursive get for ftp
Organization: Alchemy International
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:26:51 GMT

 (totake@ho10.eng.ua.edu) wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a way to transfer files using ftp from a remote site to my
> current account.  In particular I need a command for ftp to recursively
> retrieve all files in a directory as well as all files in all subdirectories,
> not only the first level, but all levels below the current directory level,

If you are picking stuff up via anon ftp, and the server supports the
tar or tar.Z feature, then all you have to do is do a 'get' of the
directory, and append the directory name with a .tar or .tar.Z and the
server will tar up the directory and its sub-directories and send it as
a tar or tar compressed file. 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: kcameron@erc.cat.syr.edu (Ken Cameron)
Subject: Should /bin/ecs have SUID root???
Originator: kcameron@erc.cat.syr.edu
Keywords: security loophole ecs ate
Organization: Electronic Resource Center, Syracuse
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 19:03:23 EST

I discovered that the ecs program (a tool for connecting to IBM InfoNet)
had the permissions set to -r-sr-s---  root  ecs.
The idea being that you have to add a user to group ecs to
make it available to them. And I guess that it wanted root so it could
fiddle with the com ports. HOWEVER, it does have a shell escape and that
gives the user root access not their own!!! Looks like a hole to me.
Yet I checked with tcbck and it said it should be suid root. I suspect
that ate is also effected the same way. And I found that I had both
/bin/ecs and /usr/bin/ecs but not as links but copies!??
My current version is 3.2.2 with no other ptf's installed. Anyone with
clues let me know. Also if this is a hole it should be posted to 
alt.security by an IBM'er if their distrubution is like this.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dhp@secapl.com (David Pfister)
Subject: Re: 3.2.3 out yet? How come we never get this stuff?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:41:42 GMT
Organization: Security APL, Inc.

In article <1992Dec19.193635.13033@panix.com> banana@panix.com (Walter Polkosnik) writes:
>Is AIX 3.2.3 out yet? How long has it been out? It took us a couple of months
>and maybe 50 unreturned messages to get version 3.2 in the first place. IBM
>seems to have forgotten about us.
>
>Let me know when, and if 3.2.3 is out so I can begin placing nasty phone calls
>to get it.
>
you can order 3.2.3 by calling 1-800-879-2755.

David Pfister
dhp@farstar.secapl.com
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Bug in wsetscrreg or scroll (aix 3.2.0) ?
Date: 3 Jan 1993 15:22:15 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


In article <1993Jan3.133553.5890@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
mvarila@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mikael J Varila) writes:
>
> We have run into a small (?) problem with our c-programs compiled in
> RS6000 AIX 3.2.0 conserning scrolling.

There were a couple of bugs in the Curses library, which appear to be
fixed.  You should call and order U404724.  Amazingly, it only took 8
days for them to create and ship this patch to me.

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From: amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tar -r
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:25:13 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

tar -r does not work for streaming tape devices, or so
the IBM no-man pages claim. I could swear that I have seen 
some versions of tar adding to 8mm tar files. I have a DAT
tape (a horror story in itself, but the brief word is: IT SHOULD
WORK!) and would hate to issue 'tctl fsf 137' to archive pieces
of data in the 100M range. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Andrew Mel'cuk   amelcuk@dirac.clarku.edu  the non-IBM non-SE
From: feats@feats.cc.vt.edu feats@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Calendar Application
Date: 30 Dec 92 12:55:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

I have an RS/6000 POWERstation 220 running AIX 3.2.  I am looking for an
X-windows based calendar application.  I need to keep track of important
dates and meetings.  The only thing I have available now is PROFS on the
IBM mainframe and that is going away fairly soon.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Marcel J.E. Mol)
Subject: Re: Help Using HP Deskjet 550C color printer with RS/6000 AIX 3.2.1
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:49:25 GMT

bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling) writes:

>If anyone has had any luck with the above printer or knows where I might
>get a driver for it, I'd appreciate hearing from you.  Thanks.
>--
>Teresa Selling
>South Bend, IN

If your problem is that you can't get color, we had something similar.
Just connect the printer to the parallel port, and add it to the
system as 'other parallel printer'. Define a virtual printer queue
for it. 
Now the trick is to print to it using: enq -d p <file>
(not sure about the option, the intention is to let it print
without doing any translations, see the enq manual page).
I think it also works by editting the /etc/qconfig file and add
the '-d p' option to the piobe backend.

Hope this helps.

-Marcel

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From: mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RS/6000 Integer Multiply Instruction
Summary: Want assembly language help
Date: 2 Jan 93 23:29:12 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: scss3.cl.msu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I would like help on an RS/6000 assembly language question.

I have written an integer multiply-intensive program which has
been ported to many platforms.  (The program, RIPEM, is a public key
encryption program written in C; for more info, FTP to rpub.cl.msu.edu.)

RIPEM spends a lot of time doing extended-precision integer 
multiplies.  This involves doing a lot of 32 bit * 32 bit = 64 bit
multiplies.  Because there is no 64-bit integer type, doing
such a multiply in C is painful and inefficient.  This is especially
annoying given that most CPU's, including the RS/6000, have
a single instruction which does a 32 bit * 32 bit multiply,
yielding a 64-bit product.  But few C compilers can be gotten
to emit this instruction.

On architectures with which I am familiar, I have been able to
speed up RIPEM by 50% or more simply by:

  1. Feeding the C source through the compiler to get assembly output, 
  2. Replacing the lengthy and obtuse code needed to do the multiply 
     portably with the appropriate instruction for that platform,
  3. Feeding the resultant assembly source to the assembler.

I haven't been able to do this on the RS/6000 because I can't
figure out exactly how the MQ register works (the information
in InfoExplorer seems to be incorrect), I can't figure out
how to get IBM's xlc C compiler to emit true assembly code,
and I don't know the assembly syntax for accessing the MQ register
(which evidently holds the most significant 32 bits of a multiply).

I can get xlc to put out an assembly *listing*, but not assembly
source code that can be fed to a compiler.  I obtained and installed
GNU C to solve that problem.  But I still can't figure out how to
access the MQ register.

Incidentally, I want to do *unsigned* multiplies.  Is this going
to be a problem?  

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Mark Riordan    mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu
From: lz@flynn.chem.columbia.edu (Liedong Zheng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: InfoExplorer on vt100
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:58:35 GMT

Hi:
	I have a problem when running InfoExplorer on a vt100 terminal, I 
can't switch to the menu by Ctrl-O. I am running VersaTerm PRO on a mac.
Is this a keyboard mapping problem? Could some help me out ?
Thaks very much! Please send to me directly at 
		lz@flynn.chem.columbia.edu

Merry Christmas to ALL

Liedong Zheng
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From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: Is -qextchk incompatable with varargs?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:26:29 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J Watson Research Center

peter@deepthought.unm.edu (Peter Blemel) writes:
>   I'm compiling a program that uses varargs. If I compile with -qextchk, the
>   linker/loader complains that my varargs function is used inconsistantly. I
>   have prototyped the function, is this not enough?
>
>   Or is -qextchk only useful to check programs without varargs?

This looks like a compiler bug in generating the function arguments hash
value; I got this problem with XL C version 1.1.3.13, but not with versions
1.1.8.32 and later.  If you upgrade your version of the compiler, this
problem should disappear.

	-Lucien
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From: elr@trintex.uucp (Ed Ravin)
Subject: Weird Ping Problem -- Hide 'n' Seek?
Summary: he can see me but I can't see him unless he sees me first. ICMP?
Keywords: tcp ping
Organization: Prodigy Services Co.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:53:09 GMT

I've got the strangest problem trying to communicate between two RS/6000's.
They're networked to each other via token ring and a couple of bridges.

Let's call these two machines A and B.  Everything was wonderful until one
day, some connections and configurations were moved around.  I signed on to
machine A and tried to ping machine B.  No response.  I called up the admin
of machine B on the phone.  He said, "Let me try pinging you..."  He signs on
to machine B and pings me.  It works fine.  I then go back to machine A
and try pinging B again.  Much to my amazement, now it works, but after several
minutes (haven't nailed down the exact length of time it takes) if I don't
reference machine B in any way, it fails again.

The admin from B was skeptical, so I came down to his machine and started up
two X windows.  The first one I left at the regular command prompt, and the
second one I telnetted to machine A, but via two indirect hops so as not to
create a direct path between B and A.  From that window, I said "ping B", and
it hung there, timing out.  I then switched to the local window on B, with
the sysop watching, and said "ping A".  Immediately, both windows began
scrolling with successful pings.

Anyone out there have some ideas?  The folks in charge of the token ring
bridges claim everything works, and that traffic should pass equally in
both directions.  I've looked through B's routing tables, but I can't find
anything that explains why locally originated pings would work while remote
ones go unanswered...

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From: christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen)
Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions for Tape Backup?
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:01:53 GMT

Suggest you look in the RS/6000 magazine for tons of ads by vendors
having the capability to attach to the RS/6000.  Be a bit wary -
many 8mm systems work nicely with tar, etc, but don't work well
with the image backup facility.

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