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From: mea@sparta.com (Mike Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: FORTRAN on VxWorks
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:30:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: tasha.9207301830.AA02202
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Greetings!

  I have this question come up about 2-3 times a year with no satisfactory
answer as of yet.  Is there any way to run FORTRAN under VxWorks?  The 
host would ideally be a SPARC cross targeted to 68030 or 68040.  But
info on R3000 or SPARC targets would be greatly appreciated as well.  If
there is interest, I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks,


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Director, ADDEM(TM) Project Office  FAX:   (703) 734-3323
SPARTA, Inc.                        EMAIL: mea@sparta.com
Suite 900                     
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From: thor@surt.atd.ucar.edu (Richard Neitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Tcp dying
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:00:17 MDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

We run some VxWorks targets off of an IPC. Two of these targets read
in several files to load some DSP boards. If the two try to perform
this task at the same time the IPC gets this error message on the
console:

odin inetd[121]: shell/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

The only why we know to recover is to send inetd a -1 signal.

So

A> What is the probable cause of this?
B> What can we do to recover and/or prevent this?

Richard Neitzel thor@thor.atd.ucar.edu          Torren med sitt skjegg
National Center For Atmospheric Research        lokkar borni under sole-vegg
Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000	                Gjo'i med sitt shinn
303-497-2057                                    jagar borni inn.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
From: jim@glowworm.arc.nasa.gov (Jim Pantaleo x45347)
Subject: Re: Motif on vxWorks
Keywords: motif, X11, VxWorks
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:07:32 GMT

I'd suggest calling VisiCom in San Diego.  They have Motif as an option to
their X11 support for VxWorks.  I don't have the address handy, but the
phone # is 619 457-2111.  Mike Trest can probably give you the best info, and
he can be contacted at that number or at trest@visicom.com.

I haven't had any experience with their products yet, but they've been very
helpful when I've called for product info on X support for our Sun 1E.

Good luck -

Jim Pantaleo
Sterling Software
jim@cave.arc.nasa.gov
From: harvey@wrs.com (Harvey Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: VSB bus performance
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:40:51 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Dear Users,

Can anyone recommend a 68K based VME target processor that can sustain
7 MB/sec on the VSB bus?  (Of course, the board should have VxWorks
ported to it.)


Thanks,

Harvey Wong
Wind River Systems, Inc.
From: christ@ostar.pen.tek.com (Chris Tilt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Floppy disk driver for National 8473
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:57:18 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Greetings!

  My dog ate my listing of supported vxWorks drivers, really it did! So
I'd request that someone who saved (Harvey Wongs?) message from Wind
could forward the list to me.

  I'm mostly interested in the National Floppy Disk Controller (8473).

Thanks in advance.

Chris Tilt
Tektronix, Inc.
christ@tekig1.tek.com
From: kr@jet.uk (Kenneth Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: VxWorks forgetting whoami
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:20:28 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus

I've just started using VxWorks so this may all be my fault but, every
now and then, it seems to forget which user to use when accessing it's
UNIX host."whoami" just shows a blank.

Anyone else came across this problem?

Ken

-- 
- Ken Reed, Joint European Torus, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
  kr@jet.uk
- Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not 
  be construed as an official comment from the JET project.
From: mea@sparta.com (Mike Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: re: VxWorks forgetting whoami
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 11:47:41 EDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Greetings!
> 
> I've just started using VxWorks so this may all be my fault but, every
> now and then, it seems to forget which user to use when accessing it's
> UNIX host."whoami" just shows a blank.
> 
> Anyone else came across this problem?
> 

What you're seeing is not a bug but a *feature*.  If you rlogin or
telnet from the Unix box into the VxWorks target the first time, your
whoami works like a champ.  However, once you log out of the target,
VxWorks automatically removes the whoami information as a security
feature to prevent someone else from accessing the target and becoming
the user identified in the boot ROMs without executing the "iam"
function.  Of course, these restrictions are trivial and somewhat
annoying but short of enabling the security option of VxWorks, they
represent a minor inconvenience only in the name of security.



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Process Distribution/Control and Communications for Distributed Systems

Mike Anderson                       Voice: (703) 448-0210 ext. 235
Director, ADDEM(TM) Project Office  FAX:   (703) 734-3323
SPARTA, Inc.                        EMAIL: mea@sparta.com
Suite 900                     
7926 Jones Branch Drive        "The optimist proclaims that we live in the
McLean, VA  22102               best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist
                                fears that this is true."

                                    J.B. Cabell

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From: tadusa!ma@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: re: VSB bus performance
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 13:40:30 CDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Hi Harvey,

>Can anyone recommend a 68K based VME target processor that can sustain
>7 MB/sec on the VSB bus?  (Of course, the board should have VxWorks
>ported to it.)

It won't surprise you to know that I recommend the TP41V from Tadpole! 
It's an 040 board with VME and VSB and has a VxWorks BSP supported by Wind
River.  Transfer rates for all VME and VSB boards depend on many factors
including whether or not the board is a master or slave, the speed of the
other board, and what else the boards are doing at the time.  That said,
the TP41V is capable of the speeds you mention.

Let me know if you need more info.



Mark Armitage                         Tadpole Technology Inc
Third Party Software Manager          12012 Technology Blvd
Phone: (512) 219 2200                 Austin, TX 78727
Fax:   (512) 219 2222                  
Email: ma@tadpole.com  or  ...!uunet!tadusa!ma
From: ntmtv!seddonrj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Richard Seddon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: vxWorks Transaction Management?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 08:46:57 PDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov


My group is in the process of redesigning a vxWorks real-time system which involves a large database.  In the current system the database is always accessed in single user mode, but in the new system there will be many users accessing the DB simultaneously. We therefore have a need for concurrency control, and a possible need for a log based recovery scheme. 

Before I go off designing and implementing a fair portion of a transaction manager I am trying to determine if there are any commercial products available.  I know that these can be bought for Unix based systems.  Does anyone know of one which can be used for vxWorks? 


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Rich Seddon
ntmtv!seddonrj@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Northern Telecom
(415) 940-2034
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: ear@penny.WPI.EDU (Mr. Neat-O [tm])
Subject: Re: (X/)Y/Zmodem Programs for CPM machine.
Keywords: Communications
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:55:22 GMT

In article <4218@equinox.unr.edu> takem_b@pyramid.unr.edu (Brian Takemoto) writes:
>We are in need of a (Batch) File Transfer Program for a CPM machine.
>Does anybody know where one exists and if so, what it is called and
>where it is available?  An FTP site would be preferrable, but not
>necessary.  Thanks in advance...

Check out a program called ZMP.  It can be ftp'd from simtel20.army.mil or
any of it's clones (wuarchive.wustl.edu).  I don't remember which directory
it's stored in, though.  ZMP is a CP/M terminal program with built-in
support for Zmodem file transfers.  Since Zmodem supports batch transfers,
it should suit your needs.  Be aware, however, that you will most likely
need to patch ZMP to run on your particular CP/M machine.  Fortunately,
there are ready to be applied patches and instructions for most CP/M systems
available along with the generic ZMP program.

P.S.- I've got a copy of ZMP already configured for the DEC Rainbow if that
will help you.

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From: binder@CALIPH.ZK3.DEC.COM (Rem ratam agite)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Please remove me from the INFO-CPM distro list.
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:57:04 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Thanks.

-dick
From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Help with Amstrad 8256
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:59:38 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


   Joe R Szurek asked about moving LocoScript files from a PCW8256 to a PC. 
I have a PCW8256 and recently performed this task for someone who paid me to
do it.  It is painful but can be done.

   There are two problems.  One is to get information from the PCW's 3"
diskettes onto PC diskettes.  Some people have added 3.5" or 5.25" drives to
their PCWs, and then it is easy (assuming they still have a 3" drive --
which many don't).  I have a serial interface and made the transfers using
telecommunications software and a null-modem cable.  This task can be made
easier by collecting all the files one wants to move in one user area on one
diskette (or as many as are needed to hold the files).  I had to collect
lots of individual files from many user areas, and this added a lot of time
to the task.

   I had contracted to move the files as is.  The person had not even told
me with what applications the files had been created.  As it turned out,
some were LocoScript files and others were dBase files.  Although LocoScript
provides its own operating system and file system, the disks are fully CP/M-
compatible and can be operating on in CP/M mode with a telecomm program. 
The 'groups' correspond to user areas.

   Later, the person realized that he could not use the LocoScript files on
his PC.  I recommended that he purchase LocoScript for the PC, especially
since he was familiar with and liked the program, but he declined.  I am not
sure what he is doing with the files -- probably nothing.

   To satisfy my own curiosity, I worked out the procedure for converting
the LocoScript data into a form usable on a PC.  I soon found that
LocoScript, as I expected, has a menu choice to convert files.  There are
two conversion options.  One simply generates the equivalent ASCII file,
stripping out binary headers and special formatting characters.  The other
essentially prints to disk.  That is, it generates an ASCII file with text
whose appearance approximates the printed page that LocoScript would
produce.  Ideally one would probably perform both conversions before moving
the files over to the PC.  Unfortunately, these conversions have to be
performed manually on each file; there is no *.* option.  To speed things up
(LocoScript is a lovely program, but, like WordStar, not terribly speedy), I
moved the original files to the RAM disk and worked there.

>> Do you need a special interface to connect a modem to the 8256....If so,
>> where do you get it and what price?

   Yes, a special interface card is required.  Elliam Associates may have
them.  If not, you'd have to order them from England.  Unless this is going
to be a continuing need, it would probably not make sense to go this route. 
Better to pay someone to convert a few diskettes.

-- Jay Sage
From: dg@pallio.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: need ANSI terminal sequen
Date: 25 Jul 92 08:24:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Jeffrey Jonas <jeffj@synsys.uucp> sez:
> I've set up my old California Systems S100 Z80 CP/M system
> as a word processor for a friend.
> I want to upgrade the terminal from the ADM3A to a Data General
> that seems to have an ANSI mode.
>
> Wordstar version 3.0 doesn't have any ANSI terminal in the install menu.

See if it has VT-100, and try that. It might be close enough to get going.
     dg
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From: c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK (Christopher Currie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Ansi sequences for WS 3.0
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:02:11 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Jeff:

You could try to get a copy of WS that was customized for the DEC Rainbow.
That used Ansi escape sequences and the version was 3.0. We have copies here
but I don't want to do anything illegal!

Christopher Currie
c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk
From: FORRESTC@CC.SNOW.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: PX/8 Util Rom, Cable Info, also ICC GOULD CP/M machine.
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:10:53 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I purchased an EPSON PX-8 (geneva) quite a while back.   It was an extremely
reliable machine except for an occasional ramdisk crash.

About a year ago, the unthinkable happened...  The UTIL rom (with PIP, and
all the good utilities) died.  What I was wondering is if there is anyone out 
there with a UTIL rom and an eprom burner which would be willing to read the
contents of this rom into a file and send it to me (preferrably
electronically)?   I have an eprom burner at my home that I can use to program
a new prom, but it's kinda hard without the contents of the rom.

Also, anyone know of any good software for a PX-8 available on SIMTEL or
another FTP site?  Any other technical PX-8 information would be wonderful.  

And finally, I have an old ICC GOULD industrial computer which runs CP/M. 
Unfortunately, the manufacturers of this computer decided not to use a standard
disk type.  Anyone know what parameters I could stick into a CPM disk emulation
program such as 22nice or the like to use this?   Anyone got any ideas about
what the I/O ports would be on this thing?

Thanks for any assistance,

Forrestc@cc.snow.edu
From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: iBEX Boot Disk
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:46:30 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


   My acquaintance does, indeed, have an iBEX.  He's rather busy now and
can't dig it out tonight, but he will try to take a look before the end of
the week.  He thinks he has the model number asked for.  Would the person
who got the machine like another one at an attractive price?

-- Jay Sage
From: eudoh@ST6000.SCT.EDU (Etop Udoh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Cosmic fighter....
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:40:36 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


hi,

   yes, I used TRS-80 when I was first introduced to computers and still
have several MEGS of software for the Model 3 - 4 & 4P.....
 I finally got a 4P a little after Radio Shack sold out on them and pretty
much tried every concievable "hack" on it (hardware)..... with the service
manual for it still in tact, I manage to keep the machine running all these
years.....and still running as we speak....
 I  can probably get you a new copy of Cosmic Fighter as such, but don't
know if it really matters as far as copyright is concerned whether the 
software is still considered to be licensed or whether it is considered
public domain....since I could just give you a copy of mine on disk...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: eudoh@ST6000.SCT.EDU (Etop Udoh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Tandy 6000HD boot disks....
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:19:24 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet



hi,

  I recently acquired a Tandy 6000HD and I'm looking for information
on it since I know nothing about it whatsoever....
  Also, if possible a boot disk since it gives a boot error when trying
to boot off the 15 Meg harddrive, and It came with no disks whatsoever...
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From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Miscellaneous Replies
Date: 20 Jul 92 14:42:24 GMT
Organization: The Internet


   To "williams9027@iscsvax.uni.edu" about "converting files":  There are
very nice programs that run on a PC that will read hundreds of CP/M disk
formats.  One of the nicest ones is 22DISK, shareware from Sydex in Oregon
and available on just about all MS-DOS BBS systems.  Whether it will do the
trick depends on what CP/M disk format you are dealing with.

   This technique will copy the data in the files over to the DOS machine as
binary data, i.e., completely unchanged.  What you do with the data then is
a separate problem.  ASCII text is never a problem.  If they are WordStar
files, for example, they can be used with DOS versions of WordStar.  The
same goes for dBaseII files.  Lots of other programs have the ability to
convert data that is in those popular formats.  If the data is for some
strange program, then you will have more trouble and might have to write
your own conversion software.

   If you want to move to a Mac, I'd suggest converting to DOS first.  There
are programs available for the Mac that allow it to read DOS diskettes.

   Matthew Kasdorf was looking for a boot disk for the iBEX 7102.  Don
Maslin of the Dino(saur)SIG in San Diego probably has this boot disk in his
collection.  If not, I have a friend who HAD an iBEX.  It may have been the
7102, and he may still have it.  If Don does not have the disk, let me know
and I will try to track it down.

   On the subject of undocumented Z80 opcodes, Dag Erik Lindberg recently
wrote, "Zilog recognized that some useful things could be done with those
op-codes, but flat stated that if their manufacturing process changed, or
micro-code was modified, those op-codes may not work any more.  As it turned
out, the Z80 sort of dead-ended development wise, and that never happened."

   Not at all!  The Z80 was far from dead-ended.  The Z180 and Z280 chips
have followed it.  Both are Z80-code-compatible.  They are supposed to run
everything written properly for the Z80.  Thus, they are not guaranteed to
run programs that used the undocumented codes (and I don't know if the Z180
or Z280 run those codes or not).

   I once built a computer (actually, it is still running my home electrical
and heating systems) using an Intel 8085, and I made use of its undocumented
opcodes.  Later I had to replace the chip with one from Toshiba, and I had a
sudden sinking feeling that the software would no longer run because I had
used those opcodes.  But it ran fine.  Either Toshiba had licensed the mask
designs or the operation of those codes followed automatically from the
obvious implemention of the documented codes.

-- Jay Sage
From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: PX-8 Rom Generator, 1/3
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:58:12 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

The following two files are my Epson PX-8 ROM maker, written in TURBO
Pascal. It has two commands, I to initialize a file and C to copy a file
from the CP/M host system's disk into the ROM image. You wind up with a file
called ROM.DAT (or somesuch; it's been a long time since I used it) that is
a binary image of the ROM. I've misplaced my utility for turning that into
an Intel .HEX file, so I'm not posting that one.

Once you've copied a file into the ROM, you can't delete it; if you make
a mistake you have to start over.

It also doesn't handle the special case used by the WordStar ROMs, wherein
a portion of the first KB that does not contain FCBs can contain data. In
other words, you can't upload the WordStar ROMs, patch WordStar, and then
use this program to build it back into a ROM of the same size.

The program also only generates ROMs with 32 FCBs. I don't recall why I
didn't prompt for that; there may be some reason beyond the obvious. At
any rate, I've never built a ROM that needed more than 32 FCBs and 32 FCBs
fills 1KB, which is one of the reasons that it can't rebuild the WordStar
ROM.

Enjoy,

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu