HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: A.0013@VCC3.vcc.bc.ca
Subject: HP Font downloading
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:51:26 GMT

Does anyone know of a way to upload a PC font to the Prime and then
download this prime font file back to spooled HP laser printer.

I have tried using Primelink and the Binary option to upload the
font to the Prime and then tried spool fontfile -no_format
but this did not load correctly.

Jim Chivas
Vancouver Community College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime,kw.uucp,ont.uucp,can.uucp
From: timk@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: uucp connectivity problems SCO <-> Prime 325 Unix
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:35:46 GMT

I am having some problems getting a uucp connection between an 
old(er) Prime box (basically a 386/25 running Prime's Unix) and 
other uucp sites. On one end I have the Prime box w/a T2500 (running
as a 2400 baud [don't ask]), on the other end I have either a SCO 
Xenix w/TB+ or WAFFLE PC w/a GVC 2400 baud modem. Both the SCO 
and WAFFLE system uucp with a good number of other sites on a 
regular basis.

The basic situation is that the machines hook up, start a session, 
initiate a file transfer, and then die with "bad header" errors.

So far I've checked the gettydefs and inittab files to make sure 
the session was going w/an 8N1 configuration, but the problem 
persists.

Is there anyone out there with experience getting uucp going between
a Prime box and other uucp sites of various flavors that could give
me some other ideas to try or places to look?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge - Marketing 620-2800 x4666, 508)
Subject: Re: Charley O'Neill response
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:41:52 GMT

Nice goin' Kevin,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: akc@pilot.njin.net (Albert K. Costanzo)
Subject: C. O'Neils response
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:55:11 GMT

Subject: Re: Charley O'Neill response
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime


Kevin, (others)

For Your Information:

I did in fact pull away from info-prime and support of the list.

The list used to sit at Kean College, after employee comments were
used by Management against employees it was removed from here.

I would not allow something I did to HELP Prime be used to hurt
employees of the company....

I do not subscribe to Info-Prime the List.  I do however see posts
and respond at times on the Newsgroup.  and as you can see,
it is at Rutgers University NOT Kean College.

I wish I was wrong but our department was told not to purchase
one more item from Prime because of statements made in the press.

-Regards

 Al Costanzo

PS: Correction: 50 Series related item.

    our CAD/CAM Tech Department is still allowed to purchase
    workstations and what not...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: A.0013@VCC3.vcc.bc.ca
Subject: Re: HP Font downloading
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:19:03 GMT

Yes the following headers seem normal in that I think you are on a uucp
type system and are gatewayed thru uunet or something like that. If you
support FTP I can get the code that way. If you can send the file from a Prime
computer then that machine may support FS encoded files (executable code)
or just send it via e-mail like the message you sent me. I will
then compile the source although I onle have FTN from prime.
JIm

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To:   Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Subject: Re: HP Font downloading
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

In comp.sys.prime article <9208141618.AA04453@usenet.rpi.edu> you  
wrote:
> Is it possible to get a copy of your source or the executable.

Likely. I am new at this "net" thing. I am not sure *where* you are -  
which affects my ability to send something large, like a mag tape. 


The program is only ~350 lines of Prime FORTRAN 77, the executable is  
about 250k. The whole thing, source and executable, would fit on a  
MS-DOS disk - and would be cheap to send most anywhere.

Send me some mail and give me some options. 


P.S. Did my message come thru with all that header? Is that normal?  


Rick
--
Richard Maurer                          

Bryan, Pendleton, Swats & McAllister    Phone: 615-665-1640
P.O. Box 150949	                        Fax: 615-665-1650
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: ROLF@BLX-S.Prime.COM (Rolf Kauffeld, Pre-Sales Analyst, CSBU Netherlands)
Subject: re: HP Font downloading
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:46:12 GMT

Load the font up to the prime with the binary option and spool it to the
printer with the -plot option.


This should do the trick for you always !!

Regards,
Rolf Kauffeld
Prime CSBU  Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: dierick@brsux0.bro.dec.com (Dierick Dominique)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: Calma Bitmap format for X Windows ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:59:31 GMT
Reply-To: dierick@ketje.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Brussels



Hope this is the right newsgroup to ask this ...

I am looking for the file format of a Calma DDM generated bitmap
when using X Windows on a VAXstation.

I tried to read the image with public domain viewers as xwd, xv,
ImageMagick,PBMplus and even wrote an xwd reader for it without any
success. I suspect Calma uses a private format to store images generated
with XGetImage.

The header of the file starts with "X Windows Bitmap file Version 0002".

Thanks for any hints that can solve the mystery.


Dominique Dierick
Digital Equipment Corporation
Brussels, Belgium
From: R.KITTREDGE@md-b.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: (none)
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:17:41 GMT
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

08/14 @3:02pm NYSE Most Actives

   5,521,400 Computervision  12       Unch
   3,265,200 Lowe's Cos      18  3/8  Dn   4  5/8
   2,001,600 Chrysler Corp   20  1/4  Dn      5/8
   1,608,800 Gen Motors      36  3/4  Up      3/4
   1,486,000 Black & Decker  18  1/2  Dn   1  3/4
   1,304,200 Limited Inc     21       Up      7/8
   1,232,600 PepsiCo         38  3/8  Dn      1/8
   1,197,200 Navistar Intl    2       Unch
   1,162,600 Gap Inc         31  3/8  Dn      5/8
   1,128,400 Santa Fe Pac    11  5/8  Up      5/8
                      -v-
    Volume and closing quotes based on Composite trading.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Gnu TAR for PRIMOS
Keywords: gnu tar primos
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:59:40 GMT

I'd like to know if anyone has tried the direct tape access features
of the port of Gnu TAR to PRIMOS that I did some time ago..?

Ie, have read a tape written by a Unix machine, and/or written a tape
that was later read by a Unix machine directly from Gnu TAR.

I'm asking since I never got a chance to test that code myself when
I did the port...

Gnu TAR for PRIMOS is available by anonymous FTP from "ftp.lysator.liu.se"
in the directory "pub/primos/run" as the file "tar.run.Z". You will need
to get the file "uncompress.run" to uncompress the "tar.run" executable if
you don't have a working compress/uncompress already. Don't forget to select
binary mode when transfering the files.

/Peter


--
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: MSO@eeyore.usc.edu
Subject: Rumours
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:41:41 GMT

Might as well get the mill heated up again.
I'm hearing multiple 'things' concerning PI and Devcom.
Anybody have anything on this one?
By the way, Margaret Hannamann, one of the 'good' ones is leaving Prime
Service.  She was a large part of what made Prime my favorite vendor for many
years.  Margaret, we will miss you.  Good Luck at Thinking Machines.
-mso- in Shaky-Bakey Land.
From: lpierce@sdf.lonestar.org (S. Lane Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: Anybody need some Prime Manuals?
Date: 13 Aug 92 02:47:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access

Hello Folks!

I have been involved with Prime computers for 8 or so years and have 
aquired quite a few that I need to get rid of. (no I'm not dumping 
because CSBU went out of business ;-)  ).

I have a bunch of books for Prime Information also.  I do not want to sell 
these but I ask that you pay shipping.

Books are from rev 19 thru 22
Please e-mail me or call 214-234-1326.

Schools/colleges get first consideration.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: A.0013@VCC3.vcc.bc.ca
Subject: re: HP Font downloading
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:48:21 GMT

Thanks
Jim
From: gadget@hsepm1.HSE.NL
Subject: re: unsubscribe
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:50:13 GMT

try ending an unsubscribe to listserv@blx-a.prime.com

 jan verhoeven   s87405095 @ hsepm1.hse.nl

btw my sssssss key is broken i see now

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: pen@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: Resource Guide
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:19:46 GMT

In comp.sys.prime you write:

>Hi folks!

>Not much change since the first version, but here's my current Internet
>Resource Guide for Prime users:

>13 August 1992           INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDE                Version 2
>                         For Prime Computer Users

>This guide documents resources available on the Internet of particular
>interest to users of systems and software supplied by Prime Computer,
>Inc.
...
>                      Resources Available Via FTP

The Lysator Academic Computer Society at Linkoping University, Sweden,
currently has some Prime/PRIMOS software available for anonymous FTP
from the machine "ftp.lysator.liu.se" (130.236.254.1). Login with
user "anonymous" and then give your email address as the password.
Then "cd" to the directory "pub/primos", below which you will find
a number of subdirectories.

Files available include ports of GNU Tar, Bison, Grep and Diff. BSD
Compress/Uncompress. Sun's RPC 4.0 package and an old version of
MicroEMACS.

Administrator is: Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
-- 
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: A challenge - raise my confidence in Pr1me
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 17:24:53 GMT

   Barry  Gorman  <GORMAN_B@prime1.lancashire-poly.ac.uk> has raised his
problem about printf and exponents around the limits of double-precision
again.   My  first question would be "What units are you using such that
you *wish* to be displaying such numbers?".  You're running the risk  of
overflow  just manipulating such numbers.  Virtually *any* (all?) method
of displaying approximations to numbers (which is what real numbers  are
on computers) has limitations. 

   If  you  walk  on  the  edge  of  the  pavement  expect  to  fall off
occasionally. 


   As I understand it float.h defines

    #define DBL_MAX_10_EXP 9863

as  what can be represented as a bit pattern - not what can be displayed
as a textual number.  The same include file also has:

    #define DBL_MAX 1.0e+9825

so you are trying to exceed this anyway...

   

PS.   I  had  a  problem  a  few years ago of DBG displaying "the double
precision number that is 1 bit less than 2" as  1.:0000000  rather  than
2.000000  (":"  is  the  character  after  "9").   This only happened on
certain processors (it was all to do with whether they had the 2 bits of
extra precision kept in regosters or not).  This was fixed very quickly,
though I never did understand the fix.... 



-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: Primenet X.25, Netlink
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 16:39:13 GMT

>   Unhapply, as far as I know, you can't specify which way your calls will
>   take.   A  Netlink call to a system expressed using its X.121 address,
>   will always take the lower sync line way up until al VCs for that line
>   are exhausted. After that it will take the next one.
>
>   In order to call systems over the DDN connection you must declare those
>   systems  in  PRIMENET.CONFIG   (using  CONFIG_NET)  and  tell  they're
>   connected to the DDN network.  Although unpractical (especially if you
>   need to  call many  different systems)  this is  the only solution I'm
>   aware of.


     Well, I've just tried it and this isn't quite the case.

     I have a system with 3 SYNC lines.

     Sync 0 is an FDX line to another single node (let's ignore it...)
     Sync 1 is configured as PSS.
     Sync 2 is configured as X.25.


     Now,  *any* call to an address which starts 2342 (ie.  on PSS) goes
down the Sync 1 line: I do  not  have  to  configure  the  address  with
CONFIG_NET.  Any other address goes down the Sync 2 line.

     As  I  recall, any SPECIFIC PDN configured will take all calls with
that DNIC.  X.25 is a "last resort" (and if that isn't there  *then*  it
goes to the lowest numbered PDN Sync line).



-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: ariel@world.std.com (Robert L Ullmann)
Subject: Re: Problems using t$mt
Organization: The World in Boston
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:41:45 GMT

Hi again,

I should point out that hardware EOT status is only returned
when the transport finds the silver marker on the tape and ONLY
WHEN YOU ARE WRITING. The standard requires 10 feet (9-track
6250 equivalent :-) of tape after the physical EOT, so that
the software can write trailer labels and set up to continue
on the next volume.

When you are reading, the physical EOT is ignored, except, on
good reel drives, and all cartridges, to keep you from going
off the end of the reel, or hitting it too hard. Not-so-good
reel drives will go right off the end. Flap, flap, flap.

On reading, logical EOT is two consecutive file marks, and
you must catch it in software. Note that logical EOT can be,
and normally is (on a full tape), past the silver marker.

If you try to read a really blank (new) tape on a standard
reel drive, it will go right off the end unless the *software*
does a timeout.

Rob
--
Robert Ullmann		Ariel@World.STD.COM	+1 508 879 6994 x226
Quand Maigret poussa la porte du Tabac Fontaine, vers une heure et demie,
le patron du bar, qui venait de se lever, descendait lentement un escalier
en colimaon qui s'amorait dans l'arrire-salle. ... Arriv derrire le
comptoir, il repousa le garon d'un geste ngligent de la main, saisit
une bouteille de vin blanc, un verre, mlangea au vin d l'eau minrale et,
la tte renverse en arrire, se gargarisa.  -- Simenon

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: ROLF@BLX-S.Prime.COM (Rolf Kauffeld, Pre-Sales Analyst, CSBU Netherlands)
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:10:36 GMT

Leonard,

send mail with subject help to lestserver@blx-a it explains you all...


Regards
Rolf Kauffeld
Prime Computer Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: YODERS@PRIME.WITTENBERG.EDU (Kevin Yoders)
Subject: re: HP Font downloading
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:44:04 GMT

Subject: re: HP Font downloading
To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
From: Rolf Kauffeld (Pre-Sales Analyst, CSBU Netherlands)  <ROLF@BLX-S.Prime.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:46:12 +0200
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

Load the font up to the prime with the binary option and spool it to the
printer with the -plot option.


This should do the trick for you always !!

Regards,
Rolf Kauffeld
Prime CSBU  Netherlands

--- Reply by Kevin Yoders :

     I just wanted to add my 2 cents to this.  I use the exact same
method to take output from PC word processors (WordPerfect,
Wordstar, etc.) and spool it to the Prime.  Everything works
wonderful, until I send something with graphics.  The graphics files
will more than likely contain a  0A value (ASCII LF) somewhere in
the graphics data.  Unfortunately the EMIT_RAW routine (which sends
things in the -PLOT mode) flips the high bit on LFs.  The problem
seems to only happen when it is at other than an end of line.  It is
very strange, but it is documented in SPAR 4058722.  I noticed it at
22.1.4 and now at 23.2.

    So, as long as the font file does not contain spurious LFs, this
method should work.  Be aware, however, that this method does not
work the way you would think it would in every case.

Kevin Yoders
Wittenberg University

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: DZZA1005F@UNIVERSITY-CENTRAL-ENGLAND.AC.UK (Christopher Davis)
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:50:48 GMT

unsub info-prime
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Downing)
Subject: Re: Recycling messages
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:21:31 GMT

In article <9208100930.AA17120@uk0x06.ggr.gri.com> Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM writes:
>     This is just an observation.   
>
>     Dave  Haywood's  original  "recycling"  message  (re:  bibi  world)
>doesn't seem to have arrived over the weekend.  (Hurrah!!).
>
>     However,  Dave's  message  commenting  that *he* was also receiving
>mutliple copies (Re: re: bibi  world)  has  now  arrived  several  times
>instead. 
>
>
>     Can this just be coincidence???
>
>
>-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
>The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
>*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Sounds like the ultimate example of recursion gone awry...


-- 
Bill Downing, President		Email: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us		
DOWNING ASSOCIATES, INC.
8 Doyle Lane, Hopkinton, MA 01748
508-435-4567
From: R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge - Marketing 620-2800 x4666, 508)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: CVN Stock Active
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:27:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.9208141835.AA06665
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM


PRM - DOW JONES NEWS (DJ)                                     STORY 3

08/14 N.Y. Stocks Advancing; DJIA Up 11; Computervision Active

   NEW YORK -DJ- Stock prices are edging higher in quiet trade,
highlighted by active dealings in Computervision, a new issue.
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average has moved in a narrow range all
day.  It now shows a gain of about 11 points to 3,324.  The average
has lost ground each of the last three sessions.
    The Standard & Poor's 500-Stock Index has gained about 1 1/2, and
the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index has added 3/4.  Big Board
gainers lead losers about three-to-two.
    Volume, meanwhile, is quiet, following the pattern of recent
Fridays, which have seen scant participation because of summer
vacations among investors.  NYSE volume totals about 93 million
shares.
    James Andrews, head of institutional trading at Janney Montgomery
Scott, says investors are particularly cautious today because of the
approach of the Republican National Convention next week.
    Many are counting on the convention to boost President Bush's
standing in public opinion polls.  The outcome of the presidential
election is seen having a broad affect on the stock market and the
economy.
    Andrews says renewed strength in bond prices today is helping to
encourage stock investors.  Long-term government securities are up
more than 1/2 point today, after tumbling sharply yesterday.  Those
losses carried over to stocks.
    Computervision, the recapitalized version of Prime Computer, is
the most active Big Board issue.  The stock is changing hands at 12,
unchanged from its initial offering price, on volume of 4.8 million.
The issue totals 25 million shares.
    Prime Computer was taken private in a 1988 leveraged buyout by
J.H. Whitney & Co., a venture capital firm.  Today's offering was
priced well below the $18 to $20 a share price that the company had
originally expected to
  command.   The size of the offering, though,
  was increased from a planned 15.8 million.
    Meanwhile, Janney Montgomery's Andrews says he expects the
market's sleepy conditions to persist through the close.  However, he
says some last minute short covering ahead of the weekend may give
stocks a late lift.
    12:59 PM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: LANCE@CSSS-A.Prime.COM
Subject: Re: Problems using t$mt
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:05:44 GMT

Thanks for the info Neil...

Regards,
lancer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
Subject: Re: Gnu TAR for PRIMOS
Keywords: gnu tar primos
Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 20:14:38 GMT

In article <1529@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
>I'd like to know if anyone has tried the direct tape access features
>of the port of Gnu TAR to PRIMOS that I did some time ago..?
>
>Ie, have read a tape written by a Unix machine, and/or written a tape
>that was later read by a Unix machine directly from Gnu TAR.

I wasn't even able to figure out how to tell it what the name of the tape
drive was.  I'd love to try again, if that magic question gets answered.
The UX_TAPE utility supplied by Prime couldn't seem to hack the tape I
wrote on my unix box at all.

De
--
 == Frustration is portable. ==
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime