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From: geoff@alsvid.une.edu.au (Geoff Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: FAQ List - THANKS
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:06:22 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

Hi,
Thanks to all who responded to my query re: FAQ list for AUX.
I have successfully ftped the FAQ from jagubox.
Cheers,
-- 
 Geoff Hill				        
 University of New England - Northern Rivers.	          
 Lismore,  Australia.				
 E-mail:geoff@alsvid.une.edu.au  
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:06:11 -0500 
From: Matthew Mashyna <mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: MacX from A/UX used with MacOS?

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aux: 18-Nov-92 MacX from A/UX used with
Ma.. by Mike Peters@vos.stratus. 
> PowerBook to access A/UX on my IIci.  Is it possible to install MacX from
> the A/UX distribution CD on my PowerBook (this shouldn't be in
violation of...

I tried this a while ago. We have a site license for MacX so I figured
there was no problem giving someone a copy of what I thought was the
latest version.

It really choked big time. I don't remember the details but it crashed.

BTW MacX over SLIP on a PowerBook runs great with a 9600 baud modem. I
don't connect to my A/UX machine, though, so I can't tell you what
that's like.

Matt


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From: reissell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juhani Reissell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: trouble installing gcc
Date: 21 Nov 92 09:22:42 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Ok, here's a newbie kind of problem. I downloaded the binaries for gcc
2.3.1, installed them according to the instructions, but all I'm getting
is segmentation faults with it. What could be wrong? I'm running A/UX 3
on a mac II, if this is of any importance.

The 1.40 version binaries don't seem to give any better results. Any
help appreciated,

jussi
reissell@cc.helsinki.fi
From: test@test.com (test-test)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: MacX from A/UX used with MacOS?
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:30:24 GMT



In article <Qf2cMHe00WAL44_K9V@andrew.cmu.edu> Matthew Mashyna,
mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aux: 18-Nov-92 MacX from A/UX used with
>Ma.. by Mike Peters@vos.stratus. 
>> PowerBook to access A/UX on my IIci.  Is it possible to install MacX
from
>> the A/UX distribution CD on my PowerBook (this shouldn't be in
>violation of...
>
>I tried this a while ago. We have a site license for MacX so I figured
>there was no problem giving someone a copy of what I thought was the
>latest version.
>
>It really choked big time. I don't remember the details but it crashed.

You must have some other problem.

The MacX  application in the /mac/MacX directory under A/UX is the same as
the one shipped for the MacOS.  Read this as THE SAME BINARY.

The difference is the MacTCP driver used.  A/UX has a modified MacTCP
that 
will not work under the MacOS. If you copy the MacTCP from A/UX 
to the MacOS, it will not work. If you replace the MacTCP included with
A/UX
with the one shipped with MacX (if you buy MacX ),  any application
attempting
to use MacTCP under A/UX will fail, must of the time the Finder session
will 
crash.

The only thing related to MacTCP that you can copy between the two
operating 
systems is the MacTCP Tool located in the Extensions folder of the System
Folder.

Hope this helps

Antonio
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: grmensz@grmensz.erenj.com (Gary R. Menszyk)
Subject: Re: Still Cannot print from account
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering, New Jersey
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:50:36 GMT

In article <grmensz-181192111101@grmensz.ere.fp.exxon.com>,
grmensz@grmensz.erenj.com (Gary R. Menszyk) wrote:
> 
> In article <grmensz-181192104637@grmensz.ere.fp.exxon.com>,
> grmensz@grmensz.erenj.com (Gary R. Menszyk) wrote:
> > 
> > Have a strange problem. The user account which I normally use will not
> > allow me to print from any of my Mac applications.  The Chooser appears to
> > work and I can select a printer. However, when I try and print from any
> > other application, I get an error, often telling me that a printer is not
> > selected.
> > 
> > I created a dummy account and copied all of the system files into my old
> > system folder and this did not correct the problem.
> > 
> > If I log in to the system as root, printing is ok from the default system
> > folder.
> > 
> > Any hints on how this can be fixed?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance...
> Whoops!!!!
> 
> My error, when I copied the system files into the new account, the UNIX
> ownership remained carried over (of course). Went into the 'System Folder'
> and changed the ownership and all is back to normal.

Well, I thought this was fixed, but it is not.  Can select a printer in the
Chooser and turn background printing off, but when I reopen the Chooser the
new settings have been forgotten.  There must be some place the new
settings are being written to, but the file must somehow be write
protected.

Help!!!!!

Gary Menszyk
From: Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com (Mike Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: MacX from A/UX used with MacOS?
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:26:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: greer.az.stratus.com

I've played with MacX somewhat under A/UX, but I don't have access to any
other systems that I can "MacX to".  I would like to use MacX on my
PowerBook to access A/UX on my IIci.  Is it possible to install MacX from
the A/UX distribution CD on my PowerBook (this shouldn't be in violation of
the license agreement since I won't be using it with A/UX)?

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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 partition slower than Mac Partition
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:58:07 GMT
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li) writes:

>In article <1257@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>>li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li) writes:
>>
>>>When working from Mac Applications, access to the Mac Partition is several
>>>times faster than a folder/directory under the root (/) partition.  Is
>>>this normal, and if so, could someone explain why?  Also, is there anything
>>>that can be done to make this faster?
>>
>>Could it be the simple fact that the MacPartition is many times _smaller_
>>than "/"...?

>I really don't think so because the files I am talking about are about 500K,
>unless there's heavy fragmentation.  On that note, is there a unix utility
>I am not aware of that manages fragmentation (equivalent of Norton Speed
>Disk) or is that somehow handled by the OS?  

I guess the question is "how is it slower"?

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From: drwho@pandoras.path.med.ufl.edu (Robert Rainer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: db.h in aux
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:03:46 GMT
Distribution: us

hello;

	I am trying to compile vacation that was written for a BSD system
and I can not seem to find the db.h header.  Does this beast
exist in A/UX, or is there a sub for many of its declerations.

	Any help will be gladly excepted.  I am bugging out tommorrow
the 21 so there is alittle bit of urgancy here.  But if you read this
after that date, I still would like the info, but don't expect a 
personal thanks for about two weeks

thanks--rr

rainer@pandoras-box.path.med.ufl.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: cyor@mobius09.math.uwaterloo.ca (Jim)
Subject: List of X Applications that can be run under A/UX
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:07:58 GMT

Hi!

Does anybody know how/where can one gets a list of X Applications that can
be run on the Mac under A/UX?

Thanks...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Yet more about 'tc' (blocking issues)
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:02:17 GMT

tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:

>In article <1244@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>> Well, I've been testing this and it doesn't look good... It seems that
>> the SCSI Manager won't allow it to accept "wrong length" transfers
>> when reading:

>I have no information on the SCSI manager and am only grasping for straws,
>but a remote possibility exists if the SCSI manager allows transfers which
>are a multiple of N times the device block size.  In that case, setting the
>block size to 1 byte would allow odd size transfers to the device.

This may be possible... Of course, 'tc' would 1st have to issue a
Read Block Limits to see if the device can do down as low as 1byte and
then do the Mode Select... This also would mean that things be set up
so that the device isn't _really_ in variable mode but in a small fixed
blocksize mode... I'll have to see about this...
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Strange Boot Behavior
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:33:24 GMT

In article <9211152008.AA07254@eagle> levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes:
>Arggh,
>My maxtor 535 went south after about 60 days...
>
>The replacement arrived yesterday. After going through the
>torturus reinstallation I noticed that the drive will not
>boot! (It is an external). What I had done in the past was
>to hold down the <cmd>-<opt>-<shift>-<del> key. This causes
>the internal drive to be skipped. After the "question mark"
>in a disk icon appears I release the keys. Two weeks ago this
>would allow the external drive to boot. Now the internal drive
>goes ahead and becomes the startup disk!
>
>I have tried (several times) reinstalling the Mac Software on
>the external disk, I have swapped/tried all possible permutations
>of the the APS and Apple drivers all to no avail. I have set the
>startup device to the external drive but this does not work either.
>
>I have tried dragging the system folder from the internal to the
>external, this did not do any good either.
>
>The external drive does mount OK and starting the A/UX Startup
>application DOES start A/UX!
>
>How can I get my external drive to boot?
>
We had a similar problem with a Macinstor 330MB external drive.  When
set to be the boot disk, we sporadically saw this problem, where it
would be skipped and the machine would boot from the internal drive
regardless of how the startup disk option was set.  An Apple
representative told us that this happened because the external drive
didn't spin up fast enough at boot-up, and thus wasn't recognized by the
machine as even being there, so it fell back to the internal drive to
boot off of.  We found that once the machine was running, if you choose
'reboot' from the special menu, it would always work properly,
presumably because the disk was already 'spun up'.  You might try this
and see if it works for you, at least to determine if that is your
problem.  We never came up with a real solution, except that that
machine (the only A/UX machine in our lab), has become a fairly
important server, and is thus always on.  That pretty much fixes booting
problems, because it almost never boots, being always up ;-).
-- 
Marc Fraioli
mfraioli@grebyn.com	        	(So I'm a minimalist...)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: Rick Boebel <boebel@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Re: MacX from A/UX used with MacOS?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7301044EA02B0E0@boxorain.sob.tulane.edu>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:22:44 GMT
Organization: Freeman School of Business
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:22:57 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-25633]: boxorain.sob.tulane.edu

In article <Mike_Peters-171192202617@greer.az.stratus.com> Mike
Peters, Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com writes:
>I've played with MacX somewhat under A/UX, but I don't have
access to any
>other systems that I can "MacX to".  I would like to use MacX
on my
>PowerBook to access A/UX on my IIci.  Is it possible to
install MacX from
>the A/UX distribution CD on my PowerBook (this shouldn't be in
violation of
>the license agreement since I won't be using it with A/UX)?

I'm also interested in this question, so please post to the
net.  Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Path to UNIX commands in A/UX Startup
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:27:17 GMT

cnspci@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.N. Salvaggio) writes:

>Can anyone tell me where the UNIX commands (like ls, fsck, cat, ...) are
>accessed from when you are running A/UX Startup.  I have A/UX 3.0 
>installed on a Quadra 700 and a 950 and am experiencing the same
>problem.  When I cancel the "canned" boot sequence, and have the 
>A/UX Startup screen, any commands I issue return the message

>   Couldn't execute "command"

>All the built-ins seem to work fine (like cd, launch, ...) but the 
>commands seem not to.  It seems like a path problem but I don't know
>where the path should be set to.  Several people I have spoken with do
>not seem to have this problem, but none of these people are using
>Quadras.

There should be a "bin" folder in the folder on the disk that contains
A/UX Startup...
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: BBEdit 2.2
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:12:02 GMT

... works GREAT as a replacement for TextEditor. 2.1.3 also worked well,
but 2.2 is even better.

The complete BBEdit 2.2 package is available here on jagubox via anon-ftp.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:01:32 -0500 
From: Matthew Mashyna <mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: SCSI accelerators & A/UX

I'm planning of bringing up a Quadra 700 as a DAL database server. One
of my fears is the access rate from the disk. I know the Quadras have
better throughput but I want to be sure.

So, my questions are:

1) will a SCSI accelerator work on a Quadra running A/UX ?

2) will the quadra's native SCSI transfer rate match an accelerator ?


Thanks,


Matt


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Desktop file's getting screwed up, What to do?
From: denny@alisa.com (Bob Denny)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:19:34 GMT
Organization: Alisa Systems, Inc.

In <1992Nov19.163700.10198@delfin.com> mr@delfin.com (Mark Rosenberg) writes:
> [... nested quotation deleted...]
> If they are, they are probably doing so on their own time. I just got my
> A/UX ISV information packet. Still absolutely no pre-sales support for
> potential A/UX users....  [etc., etc.]

Hey, Apple doesn't support _anything_ they sell. Before _or_ after they
sell it. I cannot believe the GIANT business opportunity they are leaving
on the table.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: brett@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Brett Morrow)
Subject: named
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:55:36 GMT
Organization: Gallifrey - Home of the Timelords


We are running AUX 3.0 on two SE/30 with 17 meg of RAM each.  The 
primary use of these machines is to run named to provide nameservice
to our campus.  We seem to be having trouble with them, named seems
to just keep dieing.  I have run it by itself with the debug flag and
the message I eventually get is 

memory fault, core dump

Does anyone else have this problem?  Does anyone know a solution?
It dies on both machines.
 Thank you for any help.

   Brett

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Yet more about 'tc' (blocking issues)
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:00:10 GMT

tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:
>Oh dear...  I was suggesting this only in the hopes that it might serve to
>fake out the SCSI manager.  It don't think it will work to actually set this
>block size at the device level, because this changes the tape format and we
>are back to the problem of having a tape format which can't be read on a
>different system.  What I was hoping, lacking information on the 3.0 SCSI
>manager, was that the SCSI manager could be told by the driver that the
>device block size was 1, that the SCSI manager would hopefully permit device
>transfers N times this value, and that the actual device block size would be
>set unbeknownst to the SCSI manager, using the SCSI set mode command to the
>device (I'm still not completely convinced this won't work, though it would
>be a horrible kludge).

>It sounds to me like this SCSI manager was written to do fixed block mode
>i/o to SCSI disk devices.  The stock tc driver wants the tape device to look
>like a disk in order to use this SCSI manager code.  It might still be
>possible to work around this, but I am kind of stuck until the 3.0 device
>driver kit comes out, as I have no source for any of this stuff.  Even so,
>if the limitation lies further into the A/UX kernel we may be stuck.

This kludge was an immediate effort to try to fix this... What tc 3.11 will
attempt to do is the above... As you admit, this is a horrible kludge
and will take some time and testing. I was hoping that this initial step would
help things out until then.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:32:41 -0500 
From: Matthew Mashyna <mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Informix under A/UX

Has anyone run Informix SQL under A/UX 3.0 ? I talked to them a few
weeks ago and they didn't know. It definitly runs under 2.01.

Matt
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jefman@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (J. Mann)
Subject: pax is busted, can't restore ownerships
Organization: U of Toronto Computing Services
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:48:26 GMT

Has anyone else noticed that pax cannot restore file ownerships, regardless
of using the -o flag and running as root? This is when using the cpio
archive format; I don't know about others. I made a backup using pax, on
2.0.1, so I could install A/UX 3. But now pax can't restore the ownerships.
cpio can, but the backup is a two-tape archive, so I can't access the second
tape. <Jeff

----
Normally mann@intacc.uucp, but for now jefman@utcs.toronto.edu since I can't
get A/UX 3.0 running...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: coolidge@sirius.aux.apple.com (John L. Coolidge)
Subject: Re: A/UX and apple menu items
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:14:09 GMT
Reply-To: coolidge@apple.com
Organization: Open Systems Development, Porting&I/O Group, Apple Computer, Inc.,Summary:

lewis@sophists.com (Lewis G. Pringle) writes:
>Are there any inits/cdevs that allow you to accelerate your mouse
>(like supermouse, or mouse^2) that work with A/UX.  If not, then
>does anybody know how to begin trying to implement one???

>While on the subject of inits that no longer work now that I'm
>using A/UX, NowMenus doesn't seem to work right with A/UX either.
>Selecting folders from the apple menu works fine, but selecting
>apps seems to be ignored. Are there any similar tools that
>work with A/UX?

NowMenus 3.0 doesn't seem to work for selecting apps (or control
panels, or chooser things); however, NowMenus 4.0 works fine under
A/UX as far as I can tell.

--John

        May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
                -- George Carlin

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