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From: robert@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Robert Dal Santo)
Subject: ISDN on SS-10
Keywords: programs, software, documentation, information
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:58:40 GMT


	I'm interested in the ISDN ports on the SparcStation 10. Our PABX is
ISDN based so I am wondering what software and/or/documentation is available
for the SS10 ISDN port.  Can anyone give me any pointers to sftware sources
or good documentation sources ?

Thanx,

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Department of Psychology,      
University of Queensland 4072,
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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Large hvtmp files left in /tmp?
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:45:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.apps
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara


 >>Some program here keeps on leaving behind a large (greater than
 >>0.5Mb) file called hvtmpBAAa06214 (letters after hvtmp appear to
 >
 >   I notice this last week on a user's workstation. Since it is a postscript
 >  file I used pageview to look at it. It was the Sun Postscript introduction
 >  to the desktop.

"hv" probably stands for Help Viewer, then.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: Ted Lowery <tbl@rock.concert.net>
Subject: Help compiling xpilot for SunOS 4.1
Organization: Product Portfolio-Northern Telecom Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:52:00 GMT

Hi all,

I downloaded the xpilot sources from wuarchive/volume14 over the weekend,
and I am trying to compile it on a Sun IPX running SunOS 4.1.3.  I am
having
a lot of trouble, and have tracked the problems to be the fact that the 
makefile I got is mostly configured for HPUX, and sun's implementation of
X is nothing like that.

Someone out there has bound to have compiled this for SunOS.  If you have
and have had success, I want to hear from you.  A tar of the actual
executables would be excellent, a properly working makefile would be
good, and just some general help and pointers would be very helpful.  I 
long to play this game on my Sun, as it is one of my favorites.

I have Imakefile and xmkmf on my machine to facilitate compiling x
programs,
but have never done this before.  I know just enough about unix to make
me dangerous.  

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.  Please respond via email
if possible, rather than posting an answer.

Anxiously,

-Ted
tbl@rock.concert.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: stedmabn@ucunix.san.uc.edu (STEDMAN)
Subject: Getting a Sparc10 and neWSprint 1.0 to color print to HP Deskjet 500C
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:44:12 GMT

Does anyone have the various parts of NeWSprint 1.0 that are required to drive a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 500C (color) printer from a Sparc 10? Everything from the /etc/printcap on down!

I can get black and white output by setting the printer up as a HP Deskjet Plus from within NeWSprint but what's the point of running 16.7 million colors if you can't get hardcopy! NeWSprint 1.0 doesn't have an entry for color other than Seiko ColorWax. I've looked at the devkit that comes with NeWSprint but it would appear to be a very long task to develop the appropriate code etc. necessary to output color graphics to a Deskjet 500C printer and I'm certain my skills don't approach the level require

Please mail ideas, suggestions and source code to : bstedman@barry.daa.uc.edu,  I'll summarize and put the responses back here.

Thanks a lot - in advance!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jta@unccsun.uncc.edu (joey adams)
Subject: Re: Large hvtmp files left in /tmp?
Reply-To: jta@unccsun.uncc.edu (joey adams)
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:13:40 GMT

In article <16612@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes: 
|>  >>Some program here keeps on leaving behind a large (greater than
|>  >>0.5Mb) file called hvtmpBAAa06214 (letters after hvtmp appear to
|>  >   I notice this last week on a user's workstation. Since it is a
postscript
|>  >  file I used pageview to look at it. It was the Sun Postscript
introduction
|>  >  to the desktop. 
|> "hv" probably stands for Help Viewer, then.

This problem bit us about a year ago.  We have a few labs with Sun 
Workstations and only ~20 Meg. of /tmp space on each machine.  
During an upgrade the Help viewer was placed in every student's 
.openwin-init file.  The systems are always in high demand and within
a day all of our workstations /tmp directory was full of hvtmp* files. 
Checking into the problem I found out the following characteristics of
Help viewer.

1.  If you use the Window->Close function Help viewer WILL delete
    the /tmp/hv* files.

2.  If you send a signal (TERM, etc., I can't remember every signal
    that I tried) such as "kill -TERM pid" then Help viewer WILL
    delete the /tmp/hvtmp* files.  BTW, as most should know "kill -9
pid"
    will not give the process a chance to clean up anything.

3.  If you go Workspace->Exit..., or you use the Openwin abort key 
    sequence (default is L1-Alt-Delete) then Help viewer will NOT
    remove the /tmp/hvtmp* files.  

Since ~99% of the students and most other users only exit openwindows 
and not every application, we had every machine's /tmp directory full.
The immediate fix was to delete the Help viewer from the .openwin-init 
file and clean the directories by a reboot.  (Trust me in our case, a
reboot was easier than logging in to every one of our 120+ machines and
hand cleaning the directory.)

The permanent fix was to write a program that cleaned every file from
/tmp
excluding the lost+found directory.  We added this onto our own login
program so that after every user would log out /tmp would be cleaned.
Hope this helps explain the problem.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: WordPerfect 5.1 on a SunSPARK: is it usable?
From: lichtner@bashful.cnwra.swri.edu (Peter Lichtner, lichtner@rory.cnwra.swri.edu, (210) 522-6084)
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:34:19 CST
Reply-To: lichtner@bashful.cnwra.swri.edu
Distribution: world
Organization: CNWRA


I am writing to find out the experience of others using WordPerfect 5.1
X-windows on the SUN. I am running an IPX machine with 64MB, using SunOS 4.1.2under Openwindows. My work involves writing reports, perhaps on the order
of 100 pages, which contain on the average one or two mathematical
equations per page. Graphics and tables are also required inserted in the
text. I also need to exchange documents I produce with our secretary who
uses a 486 DOS version of WP. Finally I am required to use WP by our
sponsors, who also use it on DOS 486 machines. I can only have one machine
on my desk--and a workstation is a necessity for my daily number crunching
work.

In a brief encounter with WP, I have found it to be extremely sluggish and
unwieldly. It's usually impossible or difficult to get the cursor in the
right place without a couple of mouse clicks as the screen goes through
gyrations of refreshing. And the refresh time seems to take forever.
Everytime a save is made a refresh of the screen takes place.
Scrolling to the bottom of a large file is another impossible task. By the
time you get down there you forget what it is you were doing.

Equations are another story in WP. To insert one inline equation requires
16 mouse clicks! That means to insert say the letter alpha in the text
requires running through oodles of boxes and menus. Why not just change
fonts to the symbol font? Because then the style of symbols inline and
in displayed equations is different. And after all that work the equations
don't even look good. Finally it doesn't seem possible to reuse an equation
and edit it to some new form. They have to be typed in from scratch each
time.

Being one that likes to compose on the computer directly, WP presents an
impossible situation. By the time I have done all the necessary mouse
clicks, screen refreshes... I forgot what I wanted to say!
The general consensus among my colleagues here is that WP in its present
form is unusable. Is it possible that something is wrong with our
installation? Can anyone tell me if this situation is particular to
our system or if it is experienced by others. And if not,
is the situation expected to change--soooon?

BTW: Does anybody know of any other word processors for the SUN that
are usable?
 
Any and all comments are greatly appreciated. If this is an FAQ I
apologize for not having read them.

...Peter

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| Peter C. Lichtner  Southwest Research Institute           |
| 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas 78238-5166 |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: e3uvlb@fnma.COM (Vic)
Subject: Action Diagramming Tools
Reply-To: e3uvlb@fnma.COM
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:07:43 GMT


Can anyone recommend a tool for Sun 4.1.2 that supports creation of 
Action Diagrams for documentation purposes?  Something simple is fine.  
Doesn't have to be a CASE or integrated planning or design tool.  It 
will be used to document existing code.

vic

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: lcm@med.unc.edu (Lori Moffitt)
Subject: Openlook shelltool cursor display
Originator: lcm@pelham
Organization: UNC School of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:14:15 GMT


We have found that when we open up a shelltool in OpenLook,
the cursor is often diplayed in the lefthand column of the window
rather than in its expected position at the prompt.  In fact,
it actually displays over the first character of the prompt.

The most potentially disconcerting manifistation of this problem
is when we open a shell and run our menu interface in it (for our
users).  Then the cursor often displays in the lefthand column
of the choice line,. as opposed to at the choice prompt itself.

I've said that this often happens.  Whether it does or not seems
to be related to how quickly the shelltool comes up (and particular
to the menu, how quickly the menu call is processed).  The 'toolwait'
command affects the speed with which to shelltool comes up, not
the call to the menu. We've experimented with different fonts, but that
doesn't seem to be the determining factor.

Has anyone experienced this problem.  Has anyone figured out a work
around?  Is there something really obvious I'm missing.  Sigh.

I'm using a SPARCstation IPC, OpenWindows Version 3.  My term type is
sun-cmd. Our operating system is SunOS 4.1.3

Many thanks,
Lori

Lori Moffitt
Office of Information Systems
School of Medicine
UNC-CH
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Can f77 be taught not to use /tmp?
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:04:41 GMT

In article <C1FDwv.68I@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>
>I have to believe that somewhere in the docs is a recommendation to do something
>about /tmp if you're going to be making significant use of it.  

It's not in any of the obvious places, such as under setting up a workstation 
or server, making space on filesystems, or the whopping two entries in the 
index under /tmp . If it isn't someplace sensible, it isn't much use to the 
novice sysadmin.

>You're begging to lose.  There are several problems here:
>o If just / is mounted, /tmp points to nowhere.

If just / is mounted under SunOS, you have worse problems than something
trivial like this, which can be fixed by a simple "rm /tmp; mkdir /tmp".
Even if /tmp is a separate filesystem, it isn't normally mounted on a single-
user boot, in which case you probably lose anyway if it isn't available or / 
doesn't have enough space for what you need - which in single-user mode isn't 
much if /usr isn't mounted too.

>Users -- including scripts and executables -- are used to the behavior that
>	- nothing in /{usr,var}/tmp is touched at reboot
>	- /tmp and /usr/tmp are distinct wrt filenames

You must have exceptionally well-educated users. Our users are used to the 
idea that if it has "tmp" in the pathname, it can't be counted on to stick 
around. If they want it to survive a reboot, they put it somewhere else, or
some of them create a subdirectory for it, but I think most of them discovered 
that empirically. 

Not sure what you mean by /tmp and /usr/tmp being distinct wrt filenames,
unless it's just that they are separate directories. Each system here uses
a single directory of its own for all of /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp, with no 
problems at all as a result. None of the UNIX utilities or scripts that either 
came with the Suns or has been installed since creates files with the same 
name in both /tmp and /var/tmp.

>If the activity and available space warrant, make /tmp a filesystem.  If
>activity and available space warrant, move /var to /usr:

Actually, the point about this not working for diskless workstations was a
good one, especially since tasks running as root need to create temporary
files too. The procedure I use in this case, rather than put it under /usr,
is to create a subdirectory in the server's /var/tmp area (or anywhere else
which isn't already exported) for each workstation that needs it, export it 
to the client, and have the client mount it on /var/tmp. Note that because 
it's a subdirectory, its contents survive a crash of the server, and because 
it is separate from what the server and all the other clients are using as 
/var/tmp, there are no filename conflicts. Works very nicely.
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Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jim@cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady)
Subject: looking for PD packet analyser
Summary: ftp location of net management tools, eg packet analyser, wanted
Keywords: packet analyser
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:26:41 GMT

Greetings

Can some kind, knowlegable soul mail me the ftp address of a site
holding any public domain/ shareware net management tools for a
Sun Sparc station? I am particularly interested in a protocol analyser.

Thanks in Advance

Jim

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From: rohit@NeoSoft.com (Rohit Mehrotra)
Subject: BRIEF compatible editor on Unix
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:54:03 GMT

Hello,

This document is not meant to start a religous war on editors.  Its only 
purpose is to bring to public knowledge the existence of an editor under 
the UNIX platform which by its power and ease of use is worth considering.

The editor is called CRISP. 

CRISP is compatible to BRIEF, the editor which has sold more in numbers 
than every other editor combined under DOS. CRISP can do a true keystroke
emulation of BRIEF. User's can run existing BRIEF macros, as well as use both 
BRIEF/UNIX regular expressions.

CRISP also has a VI emulation which passes the VI-turing machine macro test.
It gives seasoned VI programmers, what they have always longed for:
multi window / multi buffer environment, with full color/hilighting support.

CRISP runs on various UNIX platforms and has a true X version with scrollbars,
buttons etc, as well as a character version. The X version has both OPENLOOK 
and a MOTIF implementation.

The latest commercial version is 3.0+. For information regarding its 
availability, ordering information, and pricing send a mail detailing your 
needs to: owner-crisp-list@uunet.uu.net

		CRISP IS A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT.
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: emurphy@cs.uno.edu (Edward Murphy)
Subject: (?) Seeking assistance installing MINOS
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:39:51 GMT

Howdy.

Recently I was given the task of installing a program called MINOS onto  
out Sun system (690 running SunOS 4.1.3). The software consists of a  
series of FORTRAN files which you have to compile and assemble into one  
executable. Everything seemed to be going fine when suddenly...

Having gotten the final executable, I attempted to run it and got a  
segmentation fault. There are two input files which should be in the  
current working directory when the program is run. The unit numbers in the  
open statement for the files are 4 and 7 respectively.

If anyone has any comment regarding this problem, I would appreciate  
hearing from you.

Ed

P.S. Apologies for the scarcity of infomation. When it comes to FORTRAN, I  
am out of my element. Also, the program's documentation does not have  
anything to say regarding installing this system on a Sun. VAX, IBMPC, and  
Macintosh are all addressed, but not Sun. ****sigh****

P.P.S. One final thought, the program was written and obtained from  
Stanford's Department of Operations Research. They, however have turned  
the maintainence over to a private consulting firm which is not quite up  
to speed yet.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: mlbelan@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Mark Belangee)
Subject: SS10 to play CD's through audio box...
Organization: The Great Beyond
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:04:33 GMT

I have the x_cdplayer program on my Sparc 10, what I'd like to be 
able to do is to play the audio thru that really neat speaker that
was included with the machine.. Any ideas? Or is there a new program
out there written for this case?

Thanks
Mark Belangee

mlbelan@afterlife.ncsc.mil

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bwolfe@rad.rpslmc.edu (Brian A. Wolfe)
Subject: Project Mgmt/Time Reporting Software
Reply-To: bwolfe@rad.rpslmc.edu
Organization: Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago IL 60612
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:39:14 GMT

Hi there,

Can anyone recommend a project management package for Sun that also 
does time reporting? It would be nice if it had an X and character-based
interface.

thanks in advance,

Brian


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Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center 
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From: sam@john-bigboote.ICS.UCI.EDU (Sam Horrocks)
Subject: Deleting old calander manager entries
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Reply-To: Sam Horrocks <sam@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 93 01:20:15 GMT

Does anyone know how to delete old calander manager entries without
going through and doing it by hand?  Is there something in the cm program
that can do this?  If not, has someone written a script that can
figure out which appointments have expired and delete them?

Sam Horrocks
ICS Department, UC Irvine
Email: sam@ics.uci.edu
From: ee91ajh@brunel.ac.uk (Adam H)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for: You type,it talks
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:01:57 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

James D. Watson (JW1675A@auvm.american.edu) wrote:
: Hi: does anyone have a program which will interpret ASCII text and enunciate
: it through the Sun speaker?  I would try ARCHIE, but have no idea what to
: look for.  I'm looking for something that, when I type "Hello Mr. So-n-So" it
: would SAY "Hello Mister so-n-so"

: I've heard rumers that such exists for Sun...  I know it exists for the PCs,
: so I can't imagine Sun doesn't have it!

: Private e-mail or postings are fine.  THanks much,
: Jim

	Try using archie to find 'klatt' or 'scat'.  I've had the 2nd up and
	running and it's almost comprehensible(!).  Couldn't get klatt to work
	though.

	yrs...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: phoenix@well.sf.ca.us (Benjamin McLemore)
Subject: Spreadsheets for Solaris 2.1?
Keywords: spreadsheet, solaris
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:46:30 GMT

What spreadsheets are available that will operate under Solaris 2.1?
Also, what about graphing and statistical analysis programs?

I am interested in the new SparcClassics, but coming from the Mac world
I have very little knowledge of the software that is available. There
seems to be a large gap in the Unix world between the large amount of
PD software and the relatively expensive commercial stuff.

Please mail to me and I will summarize to this newsgroup.

Thanks.

Benjamin McLemore
phoenix@well.sf.ca.us
214/522-7640 fax

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.wanted
From: c4craig@teal.csn.org (Craig Anderson)
Subject: SysV curses/menu/form
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:01:26 GMT


I am porting an application from ISC UNIX to SunOS 4.1.3.  Menu and Forms
features of Curses are used and I have not found them on my Sun.
Any advice?  Are menu and forms on the Sun system.  Is there
a PD alternative?

Thanks,
Craig H. Anderson
C4 Network, Inc.
518 17th Street, Suite 1400
Denver, CO 80202
    (303) 825-8183
FAX (303) 893-6510
c4craig@csn.org
From: lange@gaffel.informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE (Thomas Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: Wanted: Need Info's for Apogee Compiler for Sun
Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:25:44 GMT
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gaffel.informatik.uni-koeln.de
Keywords: Compiler, Sun, Apogee

Hello folks !
I'm looking for information about Apogee C-Compiler for Sun's Sparc 10.
Has anybody experience or the address of Apogee Software Inc.


Please email to: lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de

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