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From: sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal)
Subject: Re: [Q] tar destination across multiple volumes
Organization: UMCC
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:28:58 GMT

In article <C0o1KH.Ayw@ais.org> sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal) writes:
>I have heard that tar might be able to store its output across volumes.
>
>In my case I'm looking for a way to archive an entire partition to 
>a floppy device.  This floppy will obviously fill up long before the
>tar is done.  Is there a way to get tar to continue on the next installed
>floppy volume.  It seems there would be a bit of a problem with sync.
>
>Assistance would be appreciated.
>
>-- 
>Stephen N. Opal     sno@umcc.ais.org

And the information I have received that has proved the most helpful...!

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>>I have heard that tar might be able to store its output across volumes.
>
>Some versions (i.e., GNU tar) can.
>
>>In my case I'm looking for a way to archive an entire partition to
>>a floppy device.  This floppy will obviously fill up long before the
>
>Check out the -M (multi-volume) flag.  It will prompt you to put in the
>floppies as needed.  -M works fairly well unless you're trying to compress
>the data on floppies; even though tar has a -z flag, it will compress a
>floppy's worth of data before writing it, thus you end up with only a part
>of the disk being used, and you end up with the same number of disks if
>you hadn't turned compression on in the first place.
>
>For backups here, since I want compression (just to save on disks) I use
>a program called 'backflops' which uses tar as part of the work but has
>code to get around the problem with compressing floppies on multiple
>volumes.  It works reliably for backup (although, it would be nicer if
>I had my tape drive working under Unix.) :)
>
>>tar is done.  Is there a way to get tar to continue on the next installed
>>floppy volume.  It seems there would be a bit of a problem with sync.
>
>An interesting concern, but I think it's unjustified.  I believe tar is
>smart enough to close the floppy device before telling you to insert the
>next one.  Also, since you aren't writing to a filesystem, just a raw
>device, sync shouldn't be necessary.
>
>
>>Stephen N. Opal     sno@umcc.ais.org
>--
>David Fox

So, along with a little experimentation on my part, I have succeeded!

While my current backup procedure *DOES NOT COMPRESS*, it does tar
to /dev/fd1 (unmounted device) in a relatively efficient way.  I have just
finished a tar store to the device that took 17 1.44 Meg floppies (Linux
preliminary configuration) with no difficulty at all.

The key was to tar to an unmounted device.  Sort of like sending stuff
to /dev/null, but with better results I hope!  

I'm not so sure I want to use any type of compression because my
understanding is that if a byte of data gets corrupted, you could end up
with garbage for all data after it.  Should something like that happen on
the first floppy at the wrong time, well, let's just say that I value
my full head of hair.

-- 
Stephen N. Opal     sno@umcc.ais.org
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.hp
From: dave@dhcs.demon.co.uk (Dave Hodgkinson)
Subject: Re: supported version control systems
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.hp
Organization: IISC, dept of hackery.
Distribution: comp
Apparently-To: mail2news@news.demon.co.uk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:37:37 +0000

In article <1993Jan11.195216.6253@sierra.com> lipp@sierra.com (Damon Lipparelli) writes:

   Terry J. Gardner (tjg01@thdhub.HomeDepot.COM) wrote:

   : Could someone who has experience with a commercially supported
   : version control system (RCS, prop., whatever backend) please send
   : me mail. My org. is looking at doing version control, and I may want
   : to suggest a commercial alternative. We will not use CVS (above my
   : objections) because it's PD. Shame, but not my decision.

I am looking to do similar things...

   : Thanks,

   : --
   : terry@HomeDepot.COM                      (404) 433-8211x5124 or (404) 941-8304
   : Home Depot, USA Corporate Office, Atlanta, GA

   Well, you may want to tell the powers that be that RCS is a public domain
   system as well.  If it makes any difference, I've had nothing but great
   results with CVS and RCS.

Hmmm - are RSC/CVS not Free Software covered by the GNU copyleft, and
therefore definitely NOT PD? You are free to pay for support and
fixes if you like, and a hefty contribution to the FSF goes down will.

See the recent flamefest in gnu.misc.discuss for details :-)



   -lipp

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos)
Subject: Re: Sockets: How do I detect when it has unexpectedly closed
Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:44:00 GMT

ejohnson@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Eric E. Johnson) writes:
: I know how to close a connection.  That's easy.  My question is: how do
: I detect that a socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM) has been unexpectedly 
: disconnected from its remote client?  I'm assuming a case where the
: remote client has crashed and was unable to send out a "closing"
: message.

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <signal.h>

int s;	/* this is the socket, it's external to main in order */
	/* to be closed by byebye() and snifserver() */

byebye()
{
	close(s);
	fprintf(stderr,"aghhhhhhh... you got me...");
	abort();
}

snifserver()
{
	fprintf(stderr,"The server is dead... R.I.P.\n\n");
	close(s);
	exit(1);
}

then, in the main() you just have to setup signal handlers.

	signal(SIGINT,byebye);
	signal(SIGPIPE,snifserver);

By the way, if the client dies, the server should recive a SIGPIPE too.


I use this method in a NeXT running NS 2.2.

-- 
regards,
  ____
|/asco
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From: st1y2@elroy.uh.edu (Gray, William W.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: INTERNET finally!
Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:06 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I finally have talked my boss into letting me 
add INTERNET at work... now ta   THAT the
hard work is done, where do I go from here?


Also, any Interactive folks out there?

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: markb@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (Mark R. Baith)
Subject: How to print in Landscape using lp?
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:09:37 GMT


 Is anyone aware of a landscape option when using lp?

                                -Thanks in advance,

                                        M
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman)
Subject: Re: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO UNIX?
Organization: Tacoma Screw Products, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:58:10 GMT

In article <7225@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Harley Hahn) writes:
Deletions...

>Within the next few days, I will be writing an analysis of the 
>Novell/AT&T deal for "Unigram", a worldwide Unix newsletter.  (If 
>you have never seen Unigram, it is published weekly and covers 
>the business aspects of Unix. Unigram is read widely and reaches 
>all the executives and movers and shakers in the Unix industry.)

I've never seen Unigram and would like to check it out.  Can
somebody tell us how to find it?  Thanks.

-- 
David Breneman     Sys Admin, Tacoma Screw Products, Inc. |  ____  ____  ____
dcb@tacoma.uucp           |   SCREWIE the TSP CLOWN sez-  |   /   /___  /___/ 
 ..!uunet!tacoma!dcb      | "Zinc & cadmium plating stops |  /   ____/ / 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: cs4gp6bl@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Kerr         P)
Subject: How do you find out if tcp sock conn is local/remote?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:28:56 GMT

Hiya!
 I am having some problems trying to find out if a socket connection
I have just accept(ed) is coming from a remote machine or is local.

 I assume the address of the remote end of the socket is in the 
sin_addr field of the sockaddr structure that the accept has been
made on but I have been unable to properly get the ip address to 
compare with ip address of the machine the server code is running on.

 I have looked at the manuals and a few different books but have found
no reference on how to !properly! do this. If anyone could provide some
insight it would be greatly appreciated.

		Cheers, Paul

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius)
Subject: Re: dictionary search
Keywords: dictionary search 
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:46:39 GMT

sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano) writes:

>Could someone who has access to a site with a dictionary of 200,000 English 
>words or more be so kind as to run this script and e-mail me the "out.file".

[horror sed script deleted]

I don't know how intelligent sed implementations generally are in
parsing regular expressions, but shorter seems better to me in any case.

This is the same script that Jean-Pierre Radley posted; with some excess
dots stripped to make it work like expected. Otherwise I have to stress
that this is jpr's excellent work:

	</usr/dict/words tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' |
	sed '
	/^.$/d
	/^..$/d
	/^...$/d
	/[abdjkmqv-z0-9]/d
	/c.*c/d
	/e.*e.*e/d
	/f.*f/d
	/g.*g/d
	/h.*h/d
	/i.*i.*i/d
	/l.*l.*l/d
	/n.*n.*n/d
	/o.*o/d
	/p.*p.*p/d
	/r.*r.*r.*r/d
	/s.*s.*s/d
	/t.*t.*t.*t/d
	/u.*u/d
	' > out.file

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: creilly@maths.tcd.ie (Colman Reilly)
Subject: Re: .exrc file for vi customization
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:14:03 GMT

mlwilkin@apgea.army.mil (Michael L. Wilkins <mlwilkin>) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.231726.11125@black.ox.ac.uk> tbrann@black.ox.ac.uk (Tony Brannigan) writes:
>>fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
>>|>I have one thing to add.  Much like Stephen's example I find that I need

[stuff about .exrc's deleted]

>all over the place until I found out that I could accomplish the same key
>mappings in my $HOME/.exrc, I could eliminate the problem with EXINIT and
>stopped worrying about version controlled on all those .exrc files.

My solution was to write a script I call in place of vi that sets the EXINIT
to "so c.set" if the file is .c, "so tex.set" if it's .tex etc.

If it doesn't recognise the file type it just uses a default set up.

What I really want is a son of vi editor with a proper tcl like interface for
it's init file.

Colman
-- 
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c/o School of Mathematics,18.05 Westland Row,Trinity College,Dublin.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
Subject: How do you use a variable of variable name?
Followup-To: poster
Originator: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 19:10:16 GMT

I have a need to use a variable where the name of the variable is itself a
variable.  For example, if I have the name of a variable in var_name, I would
like to be able to    echo $$var_name.  However, I can't figure out the correct
punctuation.  Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Jethro Greene,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: robert@kommu.UUCP (3730)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Description for the CRASH-Utility
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:37:46 GMT
Organization: SNC
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I was wondering if somebody has a description of the 
"crash" - Utility. I am asking for a more detailed 
description.
From: censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Emulex MD24/SCSI info ?
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:14:26 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

I'm desperately trying to get some disk attached to a Sun 3, I need some
info/help.

I have a Sun 3/60 that I want to connect to a disk tray I got from an
IBM PC RT setup. The tray has 4 EDSI drives which are connected to an
Emulex MD24/C which is connected to a Rancho RT-SDA, a differential to
single-ended SCSI converter.

I think the MD24 is essentially an MD21 with support for 4 EDSI drives 
rather than 2, and for differential SCSI rather than single-ended. I 
plugged my Sun into a Sun (Wangtek) tapedrive then into the Rancho 
convertor card. The Sun boots ok from the tape, but using format(8), 
the disks are not seen. If the disk tray is powered off then on, the
tape drive rewinds and clatters about (implying a SCSI reset?) but
still no sign of the disk.

	a) Is the RT-SDA convertor two way?
	   Originally it was used with a differential SCSI host
	   and single-ended tape & disk drives. I want to use it
	   with a Sun so the host is single-ended and the Emulex
	   is differential.

	b) Anyone know about the MD24/C? Is it like a MD21? Are the
	   dip switches the same? What LED's should be lit?

I need to get some disk working with my Sun, and I'd like to use the 
kit I have already, though at worst I suppose I could buy a couple of
MD21's...

If anyone out there can offer any help, suggestions or likely sources of
more information I'd be most grateful, email to addresses below preferred.

Supplemental info:

	Emulex 		MD24/C
	Assy		MU2410401 Rev C	(c)1986
	Firmware	MD2410201-02B
	ROM (?)		E80C
	SW1-1		off
	SW1-2		on
	SW1-3		on
	SW1-4		off
	SW1-5		off
	SW1-6		off
	SW1-7		on
	SW1-8		on

	Rancho		RT-SDA Rev T

-- 
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From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: What happens when you remove a file being written in to?
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:29:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan12.022956.16090
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Originator: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov

cat > testfile &
rm testfile
fg


What happens?  Is there a threat that I could write over another person's
file who happens to be "dealt" that particular disk area?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Jethro H. Greene
Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: root@trebor.uucp (Bob Stockler)
Subject: Re: a simple question about rm
Organization: Bob Stockler
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:22:44 GMT

In <C0ELJK.G8z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jdg41088@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Pickaxe) writes:

>yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich) writes:

>>	Here's another one.  Why can root remove stuff if
>>	all permissions are off.  I did a test once to see if
>>	I could use this as a mask, and it failed.

>I think that's because permissions don't apply to root. They can do anything
>they want becuase root is god.

It can be very dangerous to operate as 'root', or to write shell scripts
to be run by "cron" (perhaps as 'root') without understanding exactly how
your shell will behave in any certain circumstances.

For instance, how will "test" respond to its various switches if 'root'
is the user?  The only way to tell is to try it out in experimental
situations before using it.  The privileges and power of 'root' are so
great that things one would assume would work as expected don't.

I got bit by this once, where I used "test" (actually [...]) in a "cron"
run script, and I lost half of my 'root' filesystem's files.

Try it, before you buy it, has since been my motto.

-- 
Bob Stockler                  bob@trebor.uucp                  CIS: 72726,452
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
Subject: saving history information
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:59:31 GMT


I would like to be able to have all of my shell commands written to a
file when I log out. I'm a pretty new unix user so I haven't even
figured out how to set myself up so that the history command keeps all
of my commands (right now it keeps 50 or so) so I can't just do a
history > history.dat at the end of my session.

Any ideas on how to do either or both of the above would be very
helpful. 

Thanks.

Ted Pedersen
From: imustafa@slate.mines.colorado.edu (MUSTAFA IBRAHIM )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: A  simple question
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:25:24 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


 Hi netters,

 I have a simple question. How can i view .jpg files on X-windows.
 Any information will be highly appreciated.
From: rmascaro@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Robert Mascaro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Coherent
Date: 7 Jan 1993 11:33:11 +0800
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I am thinking about purchasing Coherent v4.0 but are unable to look at a
working copy. It's a staggering Aust $200.00, but will it be SVR4
compatible?? Does it /Will it have TCP/IP support?? Is it worth it, or
should I go for a more expensive UNIX solution ie Solaris/SCO. I
primarily want it for Personal use at home (do I have to reformat my
Hard Disk to install it), I am told that I can switch between DOS and
Coherent. Can someone explain?? 
If the product is good I will recommend it to my Department.

Regards and Thankyou to whomever is kind enough to answer.
Rob.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: xbtoa format.
Originator: erodrigu@tortel
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:32:04 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


I received a file with this header:

--

xbtoa Begin
%15p?FE2)*Bl?$A$4R>.EHPt<FCcS3@;]Uo+D#@3AnbagATD]36qL'G5qYQ$6QgAkAKZ#)@qfCd/e&
.REHPt<Ci:G<Ea`j,AoD^,AKYD(5uU-B8Lu!'DfQt:D]j.1DKKe>E+O'#Bl=FfCghB-DImI$Blmd)/

--

Is there a public utility to tranform this format?. I'm
in a SunOS 4.1.1.b
Thanks 

edo...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: bud@mtek.com (Bud Hovell)
Subject: sed how to
Reply-To: bud@mtek.com
Organization: MTEK International, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:46:38 GMT
Keywords: help!


Sorry, but it appears my recently-acquired Nutshell Book on Sed &
Awk has taken legs (dammit, dammit, dammit!!!), so I need help
from some kind soul who is more sed-literate than I currently am.

Given rows of pipe-delimited ascii database records of this form:

  0113|Hog Farms|0213|Hogs|
  0114|Poultry & Egg Farms|0251|Broiler, Fryer, and Roaster Chickens|
  ||0252|Chicken Eggs|
  ||0253|Turkeys and Turkey Eggs|
  ||0259|Poultry and Eggs NEC|
  0119|Livestock Comb'n Farms|0219|General Livestock NEC|
  ||027|Animal Specialties|
  0121|Honey & Other Apiary Prod. Farms|0279|Animal Specialties NEC|
  0122|Horse & Other Equine Farms|0272|Horses and Other Equines|

....what sed construct will give me output in this form:

  0113|Hog Farms|0213|Hogs|
  0114|Poultry & Egg Farms|0251|Broiler, Fryer, and Roaster Chickens|
  0114|Poultry & Egg Farms|0252|Chicken Eggs|
  0114|Poultry & Egg Farms|0253|Turkeys and Turkey Eggs|
  0114|Poultry & Egg Farms|0259|Poultry and Eggs NEC|
  0119|Livestock Comb'n Farms|0219|General Livestock NEC|
  0119|Livestock Comb'n Farms|027|Animal Specialties|
  0121|Honey & Other Apiary Prod. Farms|0279|Animal Specialties NEC|
  0122|Horse & Other Equine Farms|0272|Horses and Other Equines|

That is.....

When a line is evaluated to have values in the first pipe-delimited
field, save the values of the first two fields and print out the line.

Then, on each subsequent line evaluated, if the first field is empty,
substitute into the first two fields the values previously saved and
print out the line.

Else print out the line and save its values (as above) for possible
substitution on subsequent line(s), etc.

Any help would be very greatly appreciated.
-- 
________________________________________________________________
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MTEK International, Inc.             Throughput Technology Corp.
Throughput!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: umate002@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (0084)
Subject: RTFM (was: 'tar' file format description?)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:36:35 GMT
Organization: University of Bielefeld, F.R.G.

    Sorry folks, I didn't check an obvious source regarding my query
    about the format of 'tar' archive files. The format is described
    in the UNIX manuals under tar(4) (e.g. in HP-UX, which I am using)
    or tar(5) (BSD), as several people pointed out to me. Thanks very
    much.

    Sebastian Lisken
    lisken@lili11.uni-bielefeld.de
From: xyzzy@imagen.com (Xyzzy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: quest about tar
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:40:42 GMT
Organization: IMAGEN

I would like to know how to un-tar a .tar file that I FTP'ed.  My local 
guru is not much help.  He'd rather do it himself for job security. :)
  Thanks in advance,
-- 
My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
..I'm not nearly as think as confused you am.
xyzzy@imagen.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
Subject: Re: [Q] tar destination across multiple volumes
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 04:00:22 GMT

In article <C0o1KH.Ayw@ais.org> sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal) writes:
>I have heard that tar might be able to store its output across volumes.
>
>In my case I'm looking for a way to archive an entire partition to 
>a floppy device.  This floppy will obviously fill up long before the
>tar is done.  Is there a way to get tar to continue on the next installed
>floppy volume.  It seems there would be a bit of a problem with sync.

The only thing that I can think of is 'tar'ing to a file, 'split'ing the file,
and then 'cp'ing the results to floppies.

-- 
Jethro H. Greene
Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions