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From: Axel.Eble@IMBI.Uni-Freiburg.DE (Axel Eble)
Subject: curses *sigh* Sparc, SunOS 4.1.1
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:41:29 GMT
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Hi!

Since we wanted to use curses, we tried... and failed. The manpage
says that in curses.h are the defines for ACS_HLINE and ACS_VLINE,
but there really aren't any of that defines.

Any help?
	Regards,
		Axel
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From: brrian04@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: WANTED: Info on INTERACTIVE UNIX
Date: 26 Jul 92 23:49:33 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town


I am wondering about Interactive UNIX - Does it come with the capability to run
DOS as well as UNIX software, How does it compare to other versions of UNIX,
What is the documentation like?  Is it a full operating system?

Any information on this system would be appreciated.  Is this a new system?

Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		 Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		 nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		 schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:32:13 GMT
X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.

In <12529@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Except on AIX machines, where the <expletive completed> at
>IBM have decreed that HIDING the information in a bozonic,
>underpowered DBMS is somehow BETTER than having it out
>where people can FIND it.

From my .signature history:

"AIX. It may not kill you but you wish your were dead."
	-- Jeff Smith (comp.unix.wizards)

"Brain dead is IBM's motto."
	-- David Barr <dsbarr@cs.psu.edu>


Kristian
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: stever@netcom.com (Steve Riggins)
Subject: MacMach Info
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 06:51:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Keywords: Mac Mach MacMach Unix Macintosh

Hi!
   I've read about the upcoming MacMach from Carnegie Mellon Univ. and
am looking for more info, like a release date, comparison to A/UX 3.0, etc

Any info?

Thanks!


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From: ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: How to increase transfer speed in Kermit
Date: 26 Jul 92 02:27:00 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I just bought a 14,400 Modem. However, after trying to download the data from
the VAX in the university, I found the download speed from the mainframe to my
Mac was slow. The transfering speed was about 560 byts in each  TWO seconds. If
the high speed modem worked fine, then the transfer speed should be about
1,440  in ONE second. (Is that right?)
I have check the VAX and the modem there is 14,400. I don't expect that the
speed can  reach 1440 in a second but the speed I got was so slow. How come?

Can anyone help me solve this problem?


                                                        Yang
From: a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Wanted: NQS Information
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:43:44 GMT
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hi all,

Would anyone pls tell me where can I find information and ask questions
about NQS (Network Queuing System) and nmap ?  I can't find any email address in
the documents come with the NQS package.  I'm installing NQS on HP 720
and HP 750 running HP-UX 8.07.

Thanks in advance !

Regards,
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From: JOHNK@fapsys.prime.com (J. D. King)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: re: System Builder & Simple Source
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:36:04 GMT

> This morning my boss walked in my office and asked: "What are Simple  Source
> and  System  Builder?" If I had known what he was talking about you wouldn't
> see this article on the net, and if I don't find out soon  I'll  be  mopping
> the floor with my buddy Joe.
>
> Does anyone know what they are, what they do, and how to get them?  I  would
> really  appreciate  if anyone could e-mail any suggestions to me.  Will they
> run on IBM RS/6000 with AIX 3.2?

I don't know what Simple Source is, but I know  of  a  product  called  System
Builder   ...   a  Pick-based  applications-environment  developed  by  System
Builder Corporation.  (Pick is  a  relational-database  environment,  marketed
and   developed   by  various  companies  in  various  flavours:  Native  PICK
[operating system = Pick], Prime Information [os = PRIMOS  &  Unix],  UniVerse
[Unix], Ultimate [Unix] etc.)

It runs on DOS, Pick or Unix, using 4GL  tools  and  windowing  techniques  to
build applications ... it's a good product.

It will run on IBM RS/6000s under Prime Information or UniVerse, for  example.
(an  advantage  of  Prime Information is that the same generated code will run
on many other different  platforms  [SUN,  DEC,  HP,  DG,  MIPS  ...]  without
recompilation,  for  all  version-releases  -  a  good  portabilty/development
point, but of course you should investigate the pros and cons of  the  various
environments yourself).

I can give you the following contacts (I assume you're in the States):

Sytem Builder (SB+):              Prime Information (PI/open)
(on all continents)               (all over the States & the world)

2658 Holcombe Bridge Road,        Prime Computer
Suite 100,                        Prime Park,
Alpharetta, GA 30201              Natick, MA 01760

Tel. (404) 992 6187               Tel. (508) 655 8000
Fax. (404) 640 9441

regards, John King, Prime Switzerland
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .forward
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:56:08 GMT
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central

CSIE> == CSIE 73 student <ntucs73@csman.csie.ntu.edu.tw> 

 CSIE>     Is there anyone able to tell me the correct format about
 CSIE> ".forward" file ?  I write a line in my local .forward as
 CSIE> following :

 CSIE>      "| cat >> tmp "

 CSIE>     But I found nothing happened.  IS something wrong with it ?

Well, besides the fact that "cat" does no locking whatsoever, there's
also the problem that you seem to be assuming that the mailer is
defaulting to your home directory when running your .forward.

It's not (as many csh-scripters learn to their dismay when they get
errors like "getwd: can't stat .").  It's often /usr/spool/mqueue, which
you probably can't even cd to, let alone write in.

You have the syntax right, however.  You might want to look into
something like deliver, procmail, or elm's filter as a program to put in
your .forward--these are all designed to be called in .forward, and have
documentation & stuff :)
--
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  point.  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
         to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer
From: cpshelle@neumann.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: Making ``.plan'' EXECUTE a Program ???
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:41:23 GMT

spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
> In article <1992Jul22.124403.18751@math.waterloo.edu>, cpshelle@neumann.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley) writes:
> >
> >I have a piped .plan file, and a cron job that wakes up every morning
> >to restart it if it's busted.
> 
> Great, but meanwhile finger will just sit there waiting any time someone
> fingers you.

I've observed the mean time between failures at this site is
sufficiently longer than 24 hours so that this is not a problem.

[much whining about NFS]

Are you fishing for a sympathy card?

> None of which deals with the underlying question of motivation.  With
> all due respect, I think there's an element of ego involved, "Aren't I
> clever to have figured out that you fingered me" or else it's
> paranoia, "Gosh, people could be fingering me AND I WON'T EVEN KNOW IT!"
> What's so important about knowing who fingered you?

Two things.  One is that it gives (gave) me something to do while
avoiding my thesis.  The second is the tremendous fear and loathing it
apparently inspires in others, such as yourself.

</dev/cam
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: nll@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (neal.l.leitner)
Subject: Clarified VI question
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:33:14 GMT


First, I would like to thank all the people who answered my first posting
about getting a search wrap around message.  After reading the responses
and re-reading my posting, I don't think I got what I was looking for 
across.  So, let me try it this way:

In vi, when you search for a string and the search wraps around to the
beginning of the file, is there anyway to print a message on the bottom
of the screen that says "Search Wrapped Around Buffer" or something to 
that effect.  I have wrapscan set, so it will wrap the searches, but when
it does wrap the search, I want to be able to know that it did with a 
message at the bottom of the screen.

Neal Leitner
From: walter@mecky.rent-a-guru.de (Walter Mecky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Is st_size defined after fstat(on_a_pipe) ?
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:30:14 GMT
Reply-To: walter@rent-a-guru.de (Walter Mecky)
Organization: RENT-A-GURU (tm), Buettelborn; FR Germany

After a fstat()- or stat()-system call on a pipe I can find the number
of bytes in the pipe in the st_size field of the struct. My question:
can I count on this? Are there Unices around where this is not the
case.

I'm asking this because POSIX and X/Open state that this field is only
defined for regular files.

Thanks for your answer.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.books.technical,misc.books.technical,alt.books.reviews
From: SSC92ISA01@rcnvms.rcn.mass.edu (David C. Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: New UNIX user: help?
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:33:08 GMT

Howdy y'all, I just got an account on an HP mini running UNIX.  I don't know
the first thing about how to use it, and I can't really bug the sysadmin
because he was SO nice as to give me the account in the first place (I don't
really deserve it) that I don't want to drive him up the wall.

Before I plonk down $30 for a book that'll teach me what I need to know, I
thought I'd look at the on-line help.  ("man," right?) 

Trouble is, I don't think the computer knows what kind of terminal I'm using,
because when I try to use man, it only gives me one line at a time (and the
MORE prompt) instead of 66 lines or whatever would be a screenful.  This is
just super unuseful.  When I log on it asks TERM something and I just don't
know what to say :(

SO could you please 

a) tell me if there's an interest-group for USERS who need help and can't/don't
want to ask the sysadmin (probably not, eh?) (oh well, worth a shot)

b) help me get started by solving the above-mentioned problem using "man."

If anyone wants to offer to answer my baby questions, that would be mightily
cool as well, but way above and beyond what I'm really asking here.

Thanks!
-Dave		ssc92isa01@ecn.mass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: sshrivas@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Sumeet Shrivastava)
Subject: Writing to multiple terminals
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 23:30:24 GMT



Hi,
    Is there someway that one can write to multiple terminals ?

    i.e. I want to give a demo, so how can a person on another terminal
    see whatever is the output on my terminal ? ... assuming that the 
    other person is logged on to the same machine but with a different login.

Thanks.

Sumeet
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From: birnbaum@cor5.pica.army.mil (Richard C. Birnbaum (GC-ACCURATE) <birnbaum>)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is stdin a pipe or a tty?
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:57:42 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Armament Research Dev. & Eng. Ctr, Dover NJ

Look up the function isatty - it tells you if the given file descriptor is
coming from a terminal device.
From: Arthur_T_Hu@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Logging session to disk file with tip
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:10:00 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I found how to transfer a single file with TIP, but how to a log everything
that comes in the session, or is this possible? TIP is a terminal program
for UNIX.

Please email response to arthur@rad.com, not portal.com.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:9569 comp.unix.admin:4378 comp.sys.sequent:476
From: mohrc@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Using IBM as an XTERM
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:54:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: leela.1992Jul30.085418.9286
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Western Oregon State College

I would like to set up some 386/40's with super vga monitors as X-Term's
for our Sequent S81. Has anyone ever done this? For any system is fine.
Please let me know what you had to do/how you did it. Also is the software
for the IBM PD? Where can i get it?

please E-Mail, I will summerize.

mohrc@jacobs.cs.orst.edu   -     Not affiliated with OSU
Systems Administrator @
Western Oregon State College
From: sundar@fiber-one.ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: how to find swap space under SYSV Unix
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:29:37 GMT
Reply-To: sundar@ai.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Hi: To find the amount of swap space on my Sparc (SunOS 4.1.1)

I type 
	pstat -s

What is the SysV equivalent of this command? (I need to do this
under IRIX).

Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc
From: a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To)
Subject: Wanted: NQS Information
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:27:23 GMT

Hi all,

Would anyone pls tell me where can I find information and ask questions
about NQS (Network Queuing System) ?  I can't find any email address in
the documents come with the NQS package.

Thanks in advance !

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind)
Subject: Re: image converters
Organization: The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:21:43 GMT

In article <21JUL92.17410847.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> LT30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (Trevor Landon) writes:

   Hello,
      Does anyone know of a way to convert a raster image created
   by a screendump on a sun (*.im8 file) to a postscript file?  Also,
   does anyone know of a way to convert a gif image to postscript?

   Thank-you,
   Trevor Landon
   landont@lafcol.lafayette.edu

For gif -> ps, xv does a good job, although the postscript files usually
get quite large (>1MB) and sometimes that can cause problems when printing
them. For im8 -> ps, I think that xv handles that too, but I'm not 100%
sure.

/Kristian
From: kgoveas@eeyore.cc.utexas.edu (K. Goveas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Ascii values for control chars
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:49:29 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin

Does anyone know where I could find ascii values for nonprintable characters?
I want to make a logo move across the screen when someone reads my mail
message. I need to know what the ascii values for the "delete", "move up
one line", "move down one line", etc. are. The "delete" command may be
bound to different keystrokes in different user environments. Does anyone
know how to make a mail message containing "delete" characters display correctly
in any environment?


   /\	 Kelvin Goveas
 __\/__  E-mail: kgoveas@pine.ece.utexas.edu
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From: chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finger and .plan, .project
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:21:57 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

scotth@felix.filenet.com (Scott Hopson) suggested using a named pipe
as your .plan file.

Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) gave lots of
good reason why this is a bad idea.

To which I'll add one more: we share a lot of home directories via NFS
between machines.  So, you may have the same home directory on dozens
of machines.  If your .plan is a named pipe, it is associated with a
process on *one* of those machines, on all of the other machines any
access will hang.

I got tired of having to kill off hung fingerd processes (owned by
"nobody", so only root can get rid of them), so I installed a new
version of finger.  Works great - only accesses regular .plan and
.project files, gives an error for named pipes, sockets, etc, etc.

I considered writing one which would execute .plan if it was
executable, to allow people to run a program when they got fingered,
but I got overwhelmed by the security issues.


Charles H. Buchholtz       Systems Programmer     chip@seas.upenn.edu
	      School of Engineering and Applied Science
		      University of Pennsylvania
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Bourne shell read command
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:36:54 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston Dept. of Math & CS


I am looking to read a file containing lines of the form

	field1	field2	field3

from a shell file, setting the variables mac to field2 and
dir to field3 if field1 matches the variable abbrev.

The following code does NOT work, but illustrates my meaning:

	# this does NOT work
	while (read x y z junk < $afile)
	do
		if test $x = $abbrev
		then
			mac=$y		# 'export mac' doesn't help
			dir=$z
		fi
	done

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
  Mike


-- 
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mzraly@cs.umb.edu	is adequately explained by stupidity.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
From: abrams@dan.ccd.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer)
Subject: Setting up a limited access ftp?
Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. Upton NY 11973
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:28:30 GMT


I would like to set up an account on my Sun4 (OS4.1.1) similar to
the anonymous ftp account with one difference. I wish to enable
password verification on that account.  The user should be able to
ftp in only if he knows the password and once in see his home 
directory as slash.

In effect, I would like to enable password verification on the
anonymous ftp directory.

Does anyone know how to do this?


All (reasonable;-)  suggestions gratefully accepted.

karl

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner)
Subject: shell scripts - then: then/endif not found error > ANSWER
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:11:54 GMT

Thank you all for your help with my shell script problem.  The problem
turned out to be in my .cshrc, as so many of you suspected.
Specifying

#!/bin/csh -f

demonstrated that the problem was in the .cshrc.  A little examination
yielded the problem in my .cshrc file:  The last line of my .cshrc was
endifEOF.  A simple newline at the end of the last endif statement
cleared that up.

Finally, many of you felt strongly that the sh scripting language is
much preferrable to csh.  I think I'll take your advice and switch.

Thanks again.

    >p

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