HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Subject: Toshiba XM3301B CDROM on Adaptec AHA1542B
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 22:55:06 GMT


I have been unable to get a Toshiba XM3301B CDROM drive to work under DOS
with my Adaptec AHA1542B SCSI controller. I have the Adaptec ASW-410
Toshiba drivers installed, and mscdex 2.21. Both drivers load normally,
mscdex claims to be installing the CDROM unit as drive E:, but attempts
at accessing it (eg. dir E:) also result in the error "Disk is not High
Sierra or ISO9660 format" and the usual Abort, Retry, Fail.

Note that this EXACT same hardware setup running OS/2 2.0 has NO problems at
all reading the drive.

Any clues are appreciated.

Thanks,

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz (David White)
Subject: Re: Help! Need to convert HPGL and Postscript to PCL!
Organization: Industrial Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:20:05 GMT

In <1992Oct11.120315.224@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kconnors@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith Connors) writes:

>Recently the family purchased an Epson Action Laser II printer.  Its 
>quite nice, and we're pretty happy with it.  However, I have some
>programs that only produce output in HPGL and/or Postscript.  I can save
>the output to a file....and ideally I am looking for a program to be able 
>to take these files and convert them to something that the printer will
>understand (such as PCL - the printer is HP Laser Jet IIp compatable)!
> 
>Loss of resolution or other such anomolies are expected, so that is not
>much of a concern.  If you know of any such program allowing the
>conversion of HPGL or Postscript into PCL, please drop me a line!  Since
>money is tight, we are considering primarily Public Domain or Shareware,
>however, please inform me of commercial products as well.

Try prtgl118.zip from simtel or similar. It does exactly what you want.
Try it out. Registration is $40.

regards, david
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From: yoda@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Terry Lee)
Subject: Looking for real time data feed of Stock and Options markets
Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 92 03:34:11 GMT

I'm looking for a source for getting stock and options market prices on-line
for real time data analysis.  I have heard of a couple different resources.
What are my options and what will give me the best performance at a reasonable
price?  I've heard of FNN signal receivers, but I really don't know anything
about them.  Is there any way to access information via internet?  (I image
not since it would be something that needs to be broadcasted to many
destinations.

My second question is how can I perform near instantaneous transactions
of stocks and stock options?  Are there any brokers who provide a fast
enough on-line service to perform real time transactions?  If not,
what do I need to do to be able to perform such transactions
(like get a broker's license and subscribe to some market service).
An internet accessible service would be very desirable here.

Any information would be much appreciated.

Terry Lee
yoda@deathstar.stanford.edu

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From: usgtemx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Tracy Monteith)
Subject: Code Page Manipulation
Keywords: Code Page Manipulation
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:26:01 GMT

I need some information (or source) of information that will allow
me to design and implement my own codepage to change the "look" of
my screen.


Thanks in advance


usgtemx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu



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From: skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Shahab Raza Khan)
Subject: SCSI controller wanted for IBM PC
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:15:08 GMT

I am looking for a SCSI controller.  My controller just died and
I wanted to know if there is a cheep place to get one.  I don't
know much about the cintrollers (if there are different types)
so any information would be greatly appreciated.

Please send me mail.

Thanks
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From: olsonkk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Kirk Olson)
Subject: Help in Compiling ELM mailer on the RT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:25:46 GMT

I just got the new version of ELm 2.4.  When I try to compile it it
blows up.  I run the configure file.  Type make.  And then it starts,
but, stops after about 5-10 seconds.  Anyone else have the same problem?
Anyone conquered the problem?  I would appreciate any hel
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From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: serial port speeds
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:46:29 GMT
Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA

In an article, benji@mathsoft.com (Benjamin Cline) writes:
>I have a RT with 2 of the 4 port RS232 serial boards (8 ports total). Anyone 
>know what the maximum speed for these ports is? 

19200 bps under AIX 2.2.1 (the manual pages lie, extb doesn't work).
Also keep in mind the magical 50 foot limit on RS-232 cable lengths.
Personally, I've been able to squeeze more out of 'em, but I've also
seen things get *really* flakey when I've stepped over that line. Fortunately,
the third-party serial boards (eg: Dickens) didn't suffer from this abject
stupidity.

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Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: Re: Megapel Adapter
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:25:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


In article <MAXIE.92Sep29145414@mack.geg.mot.com>, maxie@geg.mot.com (Michael Maxie x8958) writes:
|> This might sound stupid, but is it possible to use a megapel adapter
|> in aan ISA or EISA bus machine.  I can't get a decent version of Unix
|> on my RT,

The megapel adapter will fit in a ISA bus machine, but you'll have to resort to
writing your own device driver.  The problem with this is that as far as i know,
the only external documentation on the interface to the adapter would be the AOS
source code, which is unavailable.  

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From: maxie@cso.geg.mot.com (Michael Maxie x8958)
Subject: AOS
Organization: Motorola GEG, Scottsdale, Az.
Distribution: comp
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:32:24

Is it possible to get AOS and if so, what do I need to do?  I'm will
to trade a 310MB disk drive and my left arm.

Regards,
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From: tom@ethome.et.iupui.edu (Thomas Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: hc2.1 - ftp location
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:53:23 GMT
Reply-To: tom@cnc.iupui.edu
Organization: School of Engr and Tech, Purdue Univ at Indpls


Hi everybody,

  I am in the process of updating my AOS (Dec 88 Version) with all the patches
from bikini. I found V1.13 and V1.26 includes the information about the new
version of the C Compiler - hc2.1s and hc2.1y. I have looked on bikini, but could
not find it. The references are to ibmsup (using uucp). 

  QUESTION: Is the new version (preferably hc2.1y) available anywhere via 
            anonymous ftp? 

  Thanx for the help.

  

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From: johanes@farida.cc.nd.edu (Johanes Suhardjo)
Subject: Re: HELP: Problem installing tcpip and sendmail
Reply-To: suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu
Organization: Civil Engineering Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:41:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.161502.42854@watson.ibm.com>, mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps) writes:
|> 
|> (sendmail not working after reinstall): did you setup and rebuild sendmail.cf?
|> If you didn't put the hostname into sendmail.cf and rebuild it, then something
|> like you are describing will happen, as i recall.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Michael Phelps, (external) mjp@vnet.ibm.com ..
|>                 (internal)  mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com .. mjp at kgnvmy         
|>  (and last but not least a disclaimer)  These opinions are mine..       


Yes, I did.  I saved site dependent configuration files such as sendmail.cf
and net, reinstalled the software and reloaded the configuration files.
I also ran /usr/lib/sendmail -bz.

BTW, when I reinstalled sendmail, the directory /usr/adm/sendmail/aliasesDB
was missing, I had to create it manually.  I suspect that there is another
missing directory that I have to create.  Here is the content of the
/usr/adm/sendmail directory now:

total 120
-rw-rw----   1 root     system       511 Oct  9 14:35 aliases
drwxrwx---   2 root     system        64 Oct 12 09:30 aliasesDB
-rw-rw----   1 root     system         0 Oct 13 09:21 aliasesDBl
-rw-rw----   1 root     system      7108 Oct  9 14:35 sendmail.NOTES
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system     35553 Oct 13 09:18 sendmail.cf
-rw-rw----   1 root     system      4341 Oct 13 09:19 sendmail.cfDB
-rw-rw----   1 root     system         0 Oct 13 09:19 sendmail.cfDBl
-rw-rw----   1 root     system      1879 Oct  9 14:35 sendmail.hf
-rwxrwx---   1 root     system       919 Oct  9 14:35 smdemon.cleanu

Am I missing something?

Another possibility is that since I didn't reinstall all the operating
system utilities (small hard disk syndrome), I might have missed a utility
which is needed for ftp and sendmail.  I did reinstall:

	* base operating system
	* programming support
	* vi
	* gsl
	* sendmail
	* TCP/IP
	* inter-workstation commands (I added this later after I got
				these problems, is the order important?)

Thanks for looking into this.

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From: sh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Samuel Roy Helwig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Serial Problems
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:22:07 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


    I'm running an IBM RT desktop with BSD 4.3-AFS.  When I try to
upload (using rz) to it via a serial connection at 9600 baud, I get a
screen full of error messages (ays16: overrun error and cbuf full) after
the first 200k of file transfer.  From the transmitting end, transfer
continues normally as the error messages scroll by on the RT console. 
However, when the transmitter reaches the end of the file, it backs up
and begins retransmitting the section of the file following the first
error message (i.e. everything after the first 200k).  The error
messages take longer to appear for slower speeds (i.e. after 400k has
been transmitted for 1200 baud connections).
    Does anyone know what's up?  If so, please let me know how to fix
this problem.

                            thanx,
                            Sam
                            sh4j@andrew.cmu.edu
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From: olsonkk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Kirk Olson)
Subject: SMTP mailer problem
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:38:03 GMT

When we send mail to some machines via SMTP we are apparently telneting
in as a 3270 type terminal and the host machine will refuse the
connection.  It then delivers some message saying that 3270 emulation is
not supported.  This is fine but we are not using 3270 emulation onf the
RT.  For some reason, some sites just beleive that we are.  Is there
some configuration setting on the RT that will forever ban even the hint
that 3270 ever existed on the RT?

-- 
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olsonkk@ucsu.colorado.edu
olsonkir@luther.uni.edu
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From: johanes@farida.cc.nd.edu (Johanes Suhardjo)
Subject: HELP: Problem installing tcpip and sendmail
Reply-To: suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu
Organization: Civil Engineering Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:04:31 GMT

I hate it when it happens, but I have to re-install my AIX 2.2.1 again.
After I re-installed tcpip which used to work, ftp doesn't work anymore.
I can ftp from another machine to the RT, but not vice versa.  The error
message is: 
	gethostbyname (other_machine_name) failed

Also, sendmail which used to work, doesn't work anymore.  I can send email
out but when I tried to email from another machine to the RT, the message
bounced back with the error:
	RT_host_name Do not communicate with self
	<RT_host_name>... Service Unavailabel: No such file or directory

Can anyone help?  Thanks much.

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From: mpr@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Matt P. Rush)
Subject: Newbie Questions!
Reply-To: mpr@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Matt "C P." Rush)
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 04:28:15 GMT


Hi all!

	I just (brought it home Wednesday) got myself an old RT.  The label on
front of the case says "Model 125".  It's got 4Mb and 2 70meg hard drives, and
appears to be running AIX 2.2.1.

	My questions are:  What's involved in putting in a larger hard drive, and
what kind of drives does it take (SCSI, ST-506, etc.)?
	And will doing a tar from the root be sufficient to reinstall the system if
something nasty happens?  Which, I suppose, brings up the question of how do I
build a boot-floppy for this system?

	Sorry if these are kind of lame questions, but this is the first UNIX-like
box I've had where I didn't access to Customer Support or the Manufacturer-
Supplied Install Media...

	Oh yeah, has anyone gotten ELM running on an RT?

-- 

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From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: test - 
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 11:02:25 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


does this get thru?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: steve@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Steve DeJarnett)
Subject: Re: AOS
Organization: IBM PS Programming, Palo Alto
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 03:32:51 GMT

In article <MAXIE.92Oct7153224@mack.cso.geg.mot.com> maxie@cso.geg.mot.com (Michael Maxie x8958) writes:
>Is it possible to get AOS and if so, what do I need to do?  I'm will
>to trade a 310MB disk drive and my left arm.

	Sorry, it's no longer available.  It was only available to universities
when it was sold.  I believe there's a version of Mach that runs on the RT.
You might check with CMU if you're interested.

	Guess you'll get to keep the disk and the left arm.  :-)

Steve DeJarnett			Internet:  steve@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
IBM PS Multimedia Palo Alto	IBM IPNET: steve@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
(415) 855-3510			IBM VNET: dejarnet at almaden (only if you must)
These opinions are my own.  I doubt IBM wants them.......
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From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: Re: HELP: Problem installing tcpip and sendmail
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


 I've only got one more guess.. do you have to reconfigure the token ring stuff
like the submasks, etc (via 'devices' command i think)
 Maybe try getting the machine to boot 'clean' w/o starting tcpip, etc.. then
manually start tcpip and see if you get any error messages.  Also clean out the
error log first, then look at it (errpt -a) after the failures - is anything
logged? 
 I'm guessing, and i don't have an rt anymore.. so your mileage may vary..

good luck..
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From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: Re: Megapel Adapter
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 10:41:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


|> The apa16 adapter documentation contains a warning: "programming and
|> addressing considerations preclude the use of [an apa16] in PC-AT systems".
|> I don't know if the megapel would have a problem.
|> 
|> --
|>     John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)

Years ago I ran a megapel in a PC-AT (10MHz) using cga emulation mode; I suspect
that we had to mess with the dip switches to put the adapter at a usable address
range.  Its do-able, but the end result is cga emulation, which isn't really that
special, nor that all fast .. i eventually yanked it.
If you all still want to try cga mode, i'll try and dredge up the dip switch 
documentation later today..

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From: mjp@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: test - again!
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 14:09:54 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


testing news software
From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Megapel Adapter
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:47:56 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, The Netherlands

mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps) writes:


>In article <MAXIE.92Sep29145414@mack.geg.mot.com>, maxie@geg.mot.com (Michael Maxie x8958) writes:
>|> This might sound stupid, but is it possible to use a megapel adapter
>|> in aan ISA or EISA bus machine.  I can't get a decent version of Unix
>|> on my RT,

>The megapel adapter will fit in a ISA bus machine,

Just out of curiosity, I tried to fit one in a 486DX25 ISA bus PC.
It would not boot at all, no matter how many other cards I removed.
I was hoping the card would do CGA emulation, like the dip switches
suggest, but it would not for me.
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From: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: serial port speeds
Date: 16 Oct 1992 00:43:23 GMT
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
Distribution: world
Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hone.citi.umich.edu

Mike Stefanik writes:
|> What? The IBM serial cards for the RT under AIX won't go faster than 19.2k
|> bps

i run unix, not aix.

	peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: auvnele@acis11.tamu.edu (Eric L. Nelson)
Subject: Re: AOS
Organization: Computer Science, Texas A&M University
	<1992Oct8.033251.7637@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:47:49 GMT

We finally found and installed our distribution of AOS (what is
difference, for the better). But I don't think it was complete. I know
that it is not the latest...the version of hc is level o and not s,
also the X11 is R2 and not R3, and f77 is missing some pieces.

I've pulled down the binaries that people have made avail for gcc and
X11 (thank you very much!!) and these work great.

My question is: are any updates still available. I"ve got all the
stuff from bikini.cis.ufl.edu but some of it is just announcements.

My local SE is looking, but nothing so far.  Any ideas?

Thanks

eric nelson
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From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: serial port speeds
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:00:48 GMT
Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA

In an article, honey@citi.umich.edu writes:
>i'm running at 57,600.  115,200 loses.  (we tried.)

What? The IBM serial cards for the RT under AIX won't go faster than 19.2k
bps (and I'm reasonably sure that B50 and B75 aren't used to support the
higher speeds).

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