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From: lawrence@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Lawrence H. Smith,E20 Clark,56064,2726746)
Subject: Re: PTF hell
Originator: lawrence@msc2.msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:50:26 GMT

From article <1992Sep14.163822.8978@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, by paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson):
> 
> This is getting to be a good candidate for the FAQ - what are the
> differences between the PTFs on the AIX 3.2.1 tape and those on 3.2.2?
> Is there a list somewhere that some kind soul could provide?  If an update
> is made to a PTF (apar set), does the PTF then get a new number, or
> should I <ick> go re-do all the PTFs I've already got on the 3.2.1
> system from the 3.2.2 tape?
> 
> I know this must have seemed a good idea at the time, but this
> scheme of weird PTFs and no version numbers is driving me **crazy**!
> It would be _very_ nice to have a "new in this version" list - it could
> even be hardcopy, as long as I could get to it...

Yes, I love the "version number format with enough digits to 
keep track of the federal deficit, 90% of which are always zero, especially
if the product is actually a different version." I mean, fercrissake, all
the _3.2.2_ updates are numbered _3.2.0_. What kind of Drain Bamage does
that take!?!? Did someone lobotomize the entire version-numbering department
between designing the system and handing out numbers?

"Oh, no, sir, we can't use those digits yet. We haven't run out of numbers
to put after the `U'..."

sheesh!

-Lawrence Smith, MSC Computing Staff
 lawrence@msc.cornell.edu lawrence@crnlmsc2.bitnet 
-Cats, Coffee, Chocolate... Vices to live by.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: john@storcon.UUCP (John Hunley)
Subject: What Does IBMR2 Mean?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:27:32 GMT
Organization: Storage Concepts, Inc.
Keywords: IBMR2

OK, I give up.  In the standard config file for cc, the standard options
include -D_IBMR2 and -D_AIX.  Now, I presume _AIX is because it's running
under the AIX OS (duh...), but what's the _IBMR2 mean?  I'm running AIX 3.2
on an RS/6000 550.  Does "IBMR2" mean "RS/6000" ???

The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to build a freeware package
(SRC Modula-3 from the Prime Time Freeware 1-2 collection) which has several
architectures to choose from, with no explanation as to what they mean.  The
ones such as "SUN3" and "VAX" I can figure out, but which one do I choose for
my RS/6000-AIX 3.2 combination?  The possible candidates are "AIX386," "IBMRT,"
and  "IBMR2."  (Is there really an AIX for the 386?)

Or perhaps I'm just SOL.  It seems very few freeware packages compile on the
RS/6000 without extensive porting, so most people don't bother.  In fact, my
company is thinking seriously about trading in our $50,000 RS/6000 for a good
used SPARCstation (or 20 of them!) for this very reason.  Doesn't anybody use
freeware on their RS/6000s?
-- 
                            John Hunley
   Storage Concepts, Inc.                  UUCP:  uunet!storcon!john
   1622 Deere Ave.                        Voice:  (714) 852-8511
   Irvine, CA  92714                        FAX:  (714) 557-5064
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: PS Viewer
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:24:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.080934.3339@meteor.wisc.edu> Mike O'Connor
<mjo@snclib.snc.edu> writes:

:I'm sure that someone's filled his mailbox with "Ghostscript" and
:"Ghostview" -- if nothing else, I've mailed him.  What I wonder is
:why IBM ships Display Postscript and yet doesn't ship a tool to
:*view* Postscript!  DEC and Sun certainly don't have this problem.
:Any comments?

My apologies -- still thinking in an AIX 3.1.5 universe.  People have
mailed me correcting my statement above for AIX 3.2.

-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
From: cwright@mickey.WPI.EDU (Charles R. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: XMGR - file missing?
Date: 11 Sep 1992 18:27:54 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Distribution: world,local
NNTP-Posting-Host: mickey.wpi.edu

In article <1685E6EFC.LEVINO@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu> LEVINO@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
>Hi:
>   I'm trying to compile XMGR on a RISC/6000 using AIX3.2
>but there is a file missing "editpwin.c".
>THe question is: From where I can ftp that file?.
>Thanks.

Can't answer your question, but I found that the program compiled and
ran right out of the box for my RS/6k with AIX3.2.  When make got to
compiling "editpwin.c", it told me the file was empty, but kept going.

This xmgr program is a godsend, by the way.  Compared to all other
plotting packages I've seen or used for X (mongo, xgraph, gnuplot,
Lotus), this thing is amazing.  Heck, I'd say it beats the pants off
of Microsoft Excel's plots on a Mac, something I've used for long
reports filled with graphs.  And, it's free!


Charles Wright             Research Assistant, Machine Vision Lab
cwright@ee.wpi.edu         De facto system manager for an IBM RS-6000
From: hsg@cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: xmodmap problems in AIX 3.2.2
Date: 13 Sep 92 03:50:34 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC


I am using xmodmap to reassociate keys on my RS/6000
340 keyboard, e.g., move ESC to the grave (`) key,
interchange the CAPS LOCK and left control key, and so
on. I then have a statement of the form:

    usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap-$HOSTTYPE
    if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
      xmodmap $usermodmap
    fi

in my .xinitrc file to execute xmodmap when starting up
X.

I have found two problems:

1. Although I have verified that the xmodmap command is
being executed when I start X, I find that the keymap
changes are actually not being made, i.e., I have to go
into an xterm window and run "xmodmap .Xmodmap-rs6000"
directly. All other .xinitrc commands seem to run ok.

2. Not all X window programs respect the keyboard
changes, which is a REAL pain, making some programs
unusable.  E.g., after executing xmodmap, the tilde (~)
character works correctly in a xterm window, but some
other programs (both AIX and public domain) that
require a pathname as text input will treat ~ as a
"quit" mouse selection and cause a window to exit. I
have exchanged DEL and BACKSPACE which work in a xterm,
but the exchange isn't recognized in the "ftp" program,
when invoked in a xterm.

Has anyone had similar problems? Is there a fix?  I
include below the actual changes that are executed by
xmodmap.

	Henry



remove Lock = Caps_Lock        ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L

keysym BackSpace = Delete   ! Swap Backspace and Delete
keysym Delete = BackSpace

! Move ESC to grave key, grave to ESC key, while preserving ~

keysym grave  = Escape asciitilde grave
keysym Escape = grave
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Subject: 8mm Tape woes
Organization: Bush in 92 ? NOT!
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:30:17 GMT

I'm having problems with my 8mm tape drive (at least that's what I've
concluded it is).

Backups and restores with cpio work fine.

Smit can list the products on a new product install tape, but can't
install it (twice - two different tapes with Ada on it - I got "this
tape is not in backup format" or similar message).

I'm trying now to install 3.2.2 (I'm on 3.1.5 now, going to do a complete
overwrite installation).  I follow the directions (power down, set to
secure, power up, insert tape, switch to service, hit yellow button twice)
and the tape drive spins briefly, then it boots from the hard drive in
diagnostic mode.  No installation dialogue.

Any advice ?
--
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
doug@cc.ysu.edu	   doug@ysub.bitnet	<internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug
"Recession: your friend loses his job.  Depression: you lose your job.
Recovery: Bush loses his job" - Bill Davidsen
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick)
Subject: 370 Floating Point to IEEE conversion
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:58:34 GMT

Does anybody know of where I can find some routines to convert the IEEE
floating point on the Risc/6000s to/from 370 floating point.

It turns out that the GDF file produced by graPHIGS (and AIXWindows 3D)
is written in EBCDIC and 370 floating point, so it is very hard to write
programs for it on the Risc/6000.

Thanks,

Tom Merrick
Ohio State University
From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: pcsim questions / bugs
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:40:29 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
Distribution: world
Reply-To: moore@cs.utk.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.cs.utk.edu

1.  Why can't I print out the pcsim man page from within info explorer?
Every time I try to do so, I get:

info Warning
ARTPRT 0575-610
Cannot print article

printing works for other man pages.

2.  Why doesn't pcsim work when I specify a remote X display with
-display?  It only seems to work in monochrome mode.  If I try running
pcsim as follows: "pcsim -display wilma.cs.utk.edu:0.0 -dmode V" it
simply exits.  (The command "xterm -display wilma.cs.utk.edu:0.0"
works fine.)

3.  Is there any way to exit pcsim from the DOS command line?  How
about if I write a small program -- if I call the BIOS entry points
for warm boot or cold boot, will that suffice to exit pcsim?

4.  Why doesn't IBM supply a keyboard entry for vanilla xterm?  Is this NIH 
or what?  Does anyone have a pcsim keyboard entry for xterm handy?

5.  It appears that the -Edrive option of pcsim will let you specify a
directory, but not a symlink that points to a directory.

6.  I have drive E attached to my home directory.  I can cd around within
DOS and list files with DIR.  However, whenever I try to type any of
the files, I get a "General Failure" message followed by the filename.
Can anyone tell me what is going on here, and how to work around it?

7.  If I kill pcsim (which I have to do often, because it gets wedged)
a few times, eventually it won't let me run pcsim anymore.  The message
I get is:

There are too many simulator sessions running.
To change the maximum allowed, edit /usr/bin/pcsim.

Granted, this is easy to work around, but it seems like pcsim should
clean up after itself when it gets a signal.

8.  Is there any way to run a single command at a time in a dos
environment, with the dos environment inheriting the current directory,
stdin, stdout, etc, from my AIX environment?

I'm sure there's more to come.  All I'm trying to do is to run 
an assembler in a pc environment...it shouldn't be that hard to do.

--
Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN  37996-1301
Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu      BITNET: moore@utkvx
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 1992 14:05:22 +02
From: Wim Van Holder <FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: lex - invalid characters ?

When I try to make the xgc demo in /usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/demos, I get
an (167): invalid character error during "lex lex.l". The same
thing happens during the making of xrn 6.17 with "lex newsrc.l" where
I get a "67: (Error) Invalid character".

We are using the AIX 3.2 operating system, and I applied the bosadt
2.01 update correctly, I think. The lex executable is in /usr/ccs/bin
and ls -l results: 72649 Mar 06 1992.

Who knows what's wrong ?


Wim Van Holder,
Systems Engineer at KU Leuven, Departement TEW.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
Subject: Can group id's be assigned in AIX 3.2
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:09:56 GMT

Here is the situation.  The faculty has several independently administered
Unix machines and groups of Unix machines.  (A group of machines administered
by one administrator may be running NIS, aka. yp)

Occassionally, NFS mounts among the independently administered machines
is useful.  It is not desireable to run them all as a NIS domain.
Therefore, the faculty has implemented a set of standards for assignment
of user id numbers and group id numbers.

Assignment of user id numbers appears to be no problem under AIX 3.2; the
smit panel for adding users provides an entry for the id number and the
system appears to accept the administrators wishes.

The smit panel for creating a group does not provide an entry for
specifying a particular id number.  The smit panel appears to run
the mkgroup command; info explorer information does not indicate a
group id parameter.  The info explorer entry for chgroup, the command
for changing a groups attributes, lists id as an attribute.  To quote
"The ID of the group specified by the Group parameter.  This value should 
not be changed.  The value is a unique decimal integer string."

Is it possible to specify the id number for a created group?  How?
Would the chgroup, in fact, set the id number of a group to a specific
value?  What are the implications of ignoring the "should not be changed"
warning for chgroup from info explorer?

John DeDourek
dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano)
Subject: Re: AIX Xserver question
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:28:36 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

In article <9209102136.AA05936@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VRBASS@ATLVMIC1.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>ng@nrccsb19.di.nrc.ca (Kai Ng) writes:
>> ...  (Is AIX the only Unix to allow more than one session
>>on the same terminal?)
>
>I believe that SCO has added this feature also.
>


Added?? SCO has that feature since 1986!!!!

-- 
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Dickens Data Systems, Inc.         |         uunet!dickens.com!lpc
Atlanta, GA                        |         (404) 475-8860
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The more I learn, the more I know I know nothing. -somebody else
From: kozlowsk@acs.ucalgary.ca (Don M. Kozlowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: X.25 interface on the RS/6000
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:40:15 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

We're looking at using an X.25 card on one of our RS/6000's to
connect to DATAPAC. We need the capability to control access to
the port based on userid/groupid. Has anyone out there done
anything like this? Does anyone have experiences with X.25 on the
RS/6000 to relate?



-- 
Don Kozlowski	                 	Phone: (403) 220-5156
Academic Computing Services		Fax:   (403) 282-9199
The University of Calgary
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: gcc 2.2.2 wierd -g problem
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:55:52 GMT

In article <PRENER.92Sep13010512@prener.watson.ibm.com>
	prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:

>If we take the assembler error message at face value, then what it means
>is that there is a branch that must reach over more than the +/- 32 MBytes
>that the 26-bit displacement field in a relative branch allows.  This is
>consistent with the fact that it all works when you compile with -O, since
>optimization usually reduces the total volume of program text.

A conditional branch has only a 16 bit displacement (32 bit instruction - 6
bits for opcode - 5 bits for branch opcode - 5 bits for condition register
bit number).  The documentation on the branch instruction in the CD-ROM info
database is inconsistent.  The text says the branch displacement is 24 bits,
but the diagram of the bit fields in a branch instruction shows a 16 bit
field.  One paragraph says bc does modify the condition codes and exception
register, the next paragraph says it does not.

xlc (at least xlc 1.2) will write convert an out-of-range conditional branch
into a reversed conditional branch over an unconditional branch.  The
unconditional branch does has a 26 bit range.  gcc does not do this, so when
a function exceeds 32K gcc may produce bad code (at least the new assembler
complains about out of range branches...the old assembler silently produced
a bad object file).

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: nsysdbj@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner)
Subject: Ghostscript and paging space
Summary: Ghostscript can make X eat VM like crazy!!!
Organization: North Carolina State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:22:28 GMT

Has anyone noticed strange behavior with the -r switch in
Ghostscript???  I was playing around with it today and I ran gs -r450
on a postscript file (meaning render at 450 dpi).  The X server
started sucking up memory like a dry sponge and the system eventually
when down when X had about 2/3 of the paging space (about 41Mb out of
64Mb).

From svmon:

  Pid                         Command        Inuse        Pin      Pgspace
 5196                               X         1491          2        10414

Pid:   5196
Command:  X

Segid  Type  Description         Inuse   Pin  Pgspace   Address Range
 194c  pers  /dev/hd2:57714          1     0       0    0..0
 2331  pers  /dev/hd2:62729          0     0       0    0..0
 2130  pers  /dev/hd2:62730          7     0       0    0..7
 3f1f  pers  /dev/hd3:54             0     0       0    0..0
  f27  pers  /dev/hd2:65699          1     0       0    0..1
 3e3f  pers  /dev/hd4:2              1     0       0    0..0
 1209  work  shared library        718     0     956    0..1003 : 65471..65535
 154a  work  sreg[3]                16     0      16    0..15 : 65536..65535
 152a  work  private               619     2    9442    0..9510 : 65388..65535
 192c  pers  code,/dev/hd2:57759   128     0       0    0..243


Ghostscript only got as far as "Initializing...".  I'm running version
2.5.  Just curious to see if anyone has noticed this...

--
David Joyner (david_joyner@ncsu.edu)
Unix Systems Programmer                            | Phone: (919) 515-2794  |
NCSU Administrative Computing Services             | FAX:   (919) 515-3787  |
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: InfoExplorer Background Color
Keywords: InfoExplorer Color Background
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:48:32 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <1992Sep10.172648.14252@dickens.com> lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano) writes:
>Does anybody know what's the magic line to add to my .Xdefaults
>to change InfoExplorer text window background.  I've added 
>info*background*: but it only changes the menu bar background.

Try:

	info.background: <whatever>

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: File with empty name
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 15:35:15 GMT
Organization: ananke

How do I kill a file with an empty name in AIX 3.2 - a name of length
0? I don't know how I created this damned beast, maybe in a system
crash, but now I cannot delete it.

Trying to delete the file, I got some funny effects. Some system calls
accept "" as alias for the directory which contains the file so "ll -i"
lists the inode number of the directory, "rm -r" builds a name
consisting of some hundred slashes until it gets too long, ...

		Danke, Andreas

:::::::::::::::::::: subnet:  ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org
:: Andreas Kaiser :: fidonet: 2:241/7220.9
::::::::::::::::::::
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jirwin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jay Todd Irwin)
Subject: Configuring Laserjet III to Print in Landscape??
Summary: Need commands to print in landscape mode on Ljet III
Keywords: print, laserjet, landscape
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:00:12 GMT

Hello Aix Gurus!

  I've attached a Laserjet III to an RS6000 and set it up on the spooler
with commands below:

  # mkque -q ljet -D -a 'up=true' -a 'device = dprnt1'
  # mkquedev -d dprnt1 -q ljet -a 'file = /dev/tty12' -a 'backend = /usr/lpd/piobe
  # mkvirprt -d dprnt1 -n tty12 -q ljet -s pcl -t hplj-2

  Now I'm trying to print a file in Landscape mode by using :

  % lp -dljet -w132 temp.file

  (this command works on another RS6000 that We have but not on this one)

  Can anyone give the commands to make another virtual printer that will
print in landscape.. I feel the problem may reside in "-s pcl" or "-t hplj-2"
but not sure.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in Advance
Jay Irwin
jirwin@lancelot.colorado.edu
From: craig@spool.mu.edu (Craig Schanning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: PS Viewer
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:12:15 GMT
Reply-To: craig@spool.mu.edu (Craig Schanning)
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
NNTP-Posting-Host: spool.mu.edu


	Is there a PD PostScript viewer available for AIX?

Please send responses to pwickman@cerebus.cc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: Re: Can't get xdm to work - help wanted
Keywords: xdm
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:32:02 GMT

> Would some kind soul please explain to me how to get xdm to work on AIX 3.2,
> X11R4?  The documentation is sketchy, and the support center doesn't do
> X windows, apparently.  My local SE does them even less :).
> 
> Basically, I've got the daemon running, and all of the config files are in
> /usr/lib/X11/xdm.  I have no entries in my Xservers file, as the system in
> question is a fileserver, and our Xterm 130's do XDMCP.  From my 
> understanding of the manpage, I don't need any entries with this 
> configuration.
> 
> I get a login window, and the login authentication works fine.  However, 
> after a successful login, there is a pause, a blink, and the login
> screen is presented again.  This can be repeated any number of times.
> 
> My config files are very plain-vanilla.  Rebooting the @#$%@% Xterm every
> time I log out is getting very old indeed; I'd like to get xdm working.
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Allan Bazinet, University of Vermont
> 'We look for things -- to make us go.'

There should also be a log file called /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors. I was 
having a different problem with xdm (I've got it working now, and it's 
great!!!), and the xdm-errors file listed everything that was going on. 
It might be able to help you also.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:9501 comp.graphics:9567
From: walet@dept.physics.upenn.edu (Niels R. Walet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.graphics
Subject: Disspla to graPHIGS conversion
Keywords: Disspla,GraPHIGS
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:43:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: University of Pennsylvania Physics Department

We have recently converted from main-frame usage to a farm of IBM RS6000
workstations. On the mainframe we mostly used Disspla (Issco version) to
make plots and draw graphs. Severeal of our users have programs that make
explicit reference to Disspla subroutines. Since we do not feel that buying
Disspla for our workstation is a good and affordable solution, we would
like to know whether anyone ever created a set of subroutines that emulate
(most of the) Disspla calls by making graPHIGS calls.

If any of the people on this group knows of such a utility, please let me know.

Niels Walet
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix