HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Daystar Powercache
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:06:16 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1992Sep14.133341.3697@arizona.edu> PIERRE@hacks.arizona.edu (Pierre Padovani) writes:

>I am awaiting A/UX to arrive in the mail, and read in the news group about some
>sort of support problem with Daystar Digital. I have a IIcx with a new (less
>than 4 months old) 50MHz powercache, am I going to need to contact Daystar to
>receive the correct drivers for A/UX 3.0? Or are the MacOS drivers (i.e. the
>control panel) the correct driver.

No worries.  PowerCache works fine with A/UX.

The only problem that I've seen mentioned or experienced is that the 
current version of the PowerCentral cdev v.1.3 crashes the A/UX Finder 
when it is opened.  There isn't any reason (that I know of) to change 
the control panel settings, so this shortcoming has no practical effect.

The previous version of the driver (called PowerCache v.2.4) did
work normally with A/UX, so I expect that this incompatibility will
disappear in a subsequent release.

I've dealt with Daystar tech support several times (satisfactorily) but 
never managed to speak to someone familiar with A/UX.  My understanding
is that A/UX will inherit the "cache on" mode control panel setting from
the initial MacOS boot even without having the PowerCentral cdev in the
A/UX Control Panels folder.  It will also inherit the PowerMath cdev 
setting from MacPartition, but for PowerMath to work (for Finder apps 
only, btw) the init part of the PowerCentral cdev must load, therefore 
the PowerCentral cdev must be in the A/UX Control Panels folder -- just
don't try to open it and it "works" fine.

There were a few grumbles about Daystar's older PowerCARD accelerator 
not working with A/UX 3.0, but it was also pointed out that Daystar 
offers a fairly liberal upgrade policy to the current PowerCache series.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
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From: fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner)
Subject: X11 bell on Quadra 950
Summary: Is the bell supposed to work under X?
Keywords: Bell Quadra 950 activate
Organization: Motorola IVHS Group - Northbrook IL
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:50:55 GMT

Is there some reason that the bell won't work on a Q950 when running
straight X? It works fine in MacOS mode, but I have never has a bell 
running X11. xset -b on doesn't do anything, either. Just me?

-FB


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From: dba3k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Daniel Burton Avery)
Subject: inittab
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 23:29:37 GMT

I have inadvertently crashed my A/UX 2.01 system.  I was
changing a few parameters in the inittab file, then left the
system (shutdown...powerdown) was in macos for a bit, and thin
when it came to jump back into A/UX everything locked up after
mounting the external file system.

When I rebooted, and got into the A/UX launcher I found my self
unable to edit the inittab b/c vi doesn't work.  Aside from
possibly mounting my drive on another A/UX system (which isn't
a likly choice b/c I don't know of anyone around here who has
an A/UX system) what can I do?  

Also, I'm going to purchase the 3.0 upgrade CD.  Does the 3.0
CD have the entire system on it?

Thanks in advance,
D

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From: thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Thomas Eberhardt)
Subject: Re: csh is screwed up
Organization: Univ. Bremen, Informatik
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 10:35:46 GMT

One last note about this problem:
The failure of COMPAT_SYSCALLS not working as expected when COMPAT_POSIXFUS
is active means that all programs expecting uninterruptable system
calls after calling set42sig will fail.  I consider this a serious bug
in the A/UX kernel.
--
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Thomas Eberhardt                 | Universitaet Bremen, FB 3, Postfach 330 440
Koelner Str. 4, W-2800 Bremen 41 | W-2800 Bremen 33, Germany
Phone: +49 421 472527            | FAX: +49 421 218-4236
From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: directory diff broken?
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:15:46 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

If I diff two directories, diff will stop after the first file that
differs from its counterpart, rather than diffing each file against
its counterpart. E.g.

   $ mkdir fgrep
   $ cp /usr/local/src/fgrep/* fgrep
   $ cd fgrep
   $ ls -C
   Makefile   fgrep.c    kwset.h    obstack.h  std.h
   README     kwset.c    obstack.c  std.c      unix.h
   $ for i in *.c; do echo "test $i">>$i; done
   $ diff . /usr/local/src/fgrep
   diff ./fgrep.c /usr/local/src/fgrep/fgrep.c
   628d627
   < test fgrep.c

[What about kwset.c, obstack.c and std.c?]

On the other hand, diff -c works:

   $ diff -c . /usr/local/src/fgrep
   diff -c ./fgrep.c /usr/local/src/fgrep/fgrep.c
   *** ./fgrep.c	Wed Sep  9 08:19:36 1992
   --- /usr/local/src/fgrep/fgrep.c	Wed Mar  7 12:33:53 1990
   ***************
   *** 625,628

       exit(error_seen ? 2 : status);
     }
   - test fgrep.c

   --- 625,627 -----

       exit(error_seen ? 2 : status);
     }
   diff -c ./kwset.c /usr/local/src/fgrep/kwset.c
   *** ./kwset.c	Wed Sep  9 08:19:36 1992
   --- /usr/local/src/fgrep/kwset.c	Wed Mar  7 12:29:13 1990
   ***************
   *** 607,610
       obstack_free(&kwset->obstack, (PTR) NULL);
       free((PTR) kws);
     }
   - test kwset.c

   --- 607,609 -----
       obstack_free(&kwset->obstack, (PTR) NULL);
       free((PTR) kws);
     }
   [differences in obstack.c and std.c omitted]

On large directories, diff -c sometimes quits after a few files. On
directories with subdirectories, diff -r (with or without -c) will
often stop printing after a few files, but not return. ps reveals
several children.

I get the same results on my machine at home and on panix. It's not a
practical problem; Gnu diff works fine. I can also work around it by
using find to call diff on each file-pair.

Anybody else noticed this?

dhs    spencer@panix.com
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From: khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth H. Jacker)
Subject: rdump 'bread' error
Organization: Appalachian State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:11:34 GMT

Config:  Mac IIfx / A/UX 2.0.1 (backing up to DS / Ultrix 4.2a)

While rdump'ing / from the 'fx' to the Ultrix system, I encountered the
following error message:

 "DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/dsk/c4d0s0 [block 99992]:
                count= 4096, got=0"

Two questions:

	o  Can I "trust" the dump?

  and	o  Is there some repair work to / that I can do?

--
khj@cs.appstate.edu --- Kenneth H. Jacker --- Boone, NC  28608   USA
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Unit Attention: (Was: Re: Finder crashes)
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:58:04 GMT

urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:

>In comp.unix.aux, article <1086@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>  jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>> R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh) writes:
>> 
>> >Disk write c4d0s31 Error: Unit Attention
>> 
>> The Mac requires that all SCSI devices have Unit Attention disabled. This

>That doesn't apply to A/UX.

I assume that GDISK handles Unit Attention fine then... The rub is that the
vast majority of SCSI disks that are distributed for the Mac have UA
disabled by default.

If your drive supports this optional "mode", then is there any advantage
to enabling it or any disadvantage to keeping it disabled?
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
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From: adurg@cs.umr.edu (Ajaya Durg)
Subject: Help - Installing X11R4
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:54:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: jyothi@mcs213a.cs.umr.edu

            		Help - Installing X11R4 

I have a macintosh IIfx running A/UX 2.0. I am trying to install X11R4 
on it. I do not have enough space on root, so I am trying to install
it on one of the user accounts. I could install all the X11R3 files using 
fistall utility. 

The probelem is I am not able to update the software to X11R4, because when I 
use finstall to install the X11R4 updations it comes up with the following 
warning.


>>>>>

Warning: the directory /usr/bin/X11 is not present. That directory
is created when the full X11R3 distribution is installed. This
X11R4 floppy is intended to update an X11R3 that has already been
loaded onto the hard disk. Perhaps you overlooked the X11R3
installation. If so, at an upcoming prompt you may choose to
discontinue loading the X11R4 update floppies. You should then
install X11R3 according to the printed instructions, and finally
return to these update disks.

>>>>>>
I am not able figure out a way to make finstall put the X11R4 updations in 
the directory where I have installed X11R3.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
AJAYA

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ajaya Durg 
University of Missouri - Rolla

e-mail: adurg@cs.umr.edu 				Phone : (314)-364-5231
        durg@ee.umr.edu

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From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
Subject: Re: tar
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:06:58 GMT

In article <DPASSAGE.92Sep11205455@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> dpassage@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Paschich) writes:
>Is it just me, or is tar _really way broken_ on A/UX 3.0?

Its a LOT better than it was in 2.x(.x)!

>I installed 3.0 on my Mac IIsi today, grabbed useful things (like the
>UUCP fix, emacs, etc) using Zterm :), copied them over to the unix
>filesystem, did the fcnvt thing, etc, etc...
>
>And when I go to extract the tar files, the files tar creates get set
>to really obnoxious foreign user id's.
   <<stuff deleted>>

This version of tar requires you to use the 'o' option to untar files
under the uid of the person running tar.  I just browsed /usr/bin/tar,
and it doesnt appear to have setuid set, which would almost imply anyone
could create files owned by someone else.  If one of the users you can
create files as is root, then youre really scrod because anyone can
write a tar file with a root uid and their favorite executable.  Has
anyone actually tried this to see if its possible??  -Steve
From: vlb@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: csh is screwed up
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:05:18 GMT
Reply-To: vlb@apple.COM (Vicki Brown)
Organization: Apple Computer A/UX Engineering


In article <1992Aug27.171503.794@colorado.edu> powellb@samwise.colorado.edu (Brian Powell) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know why the csh included with A/UX 3.0 is so screwed up?
>This simple example here does not work under the A/UX csh; however, it works on
>Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, and SGI.  Here it is:
>
>	#!/bin/csh
>	set test = `pwd`
>	echo $test
>	exit

The example does work on A/UX 3.0.  I have sent mail to the original poster
with some theories and questions.
      Vicki Brown                  A/UX Development Group   
      Internet: vlb@apple.com      Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA
              Ooit'n Normaal Mens Ontmoet?  En..., Beviel't?
        (Have you ever met a normal person?  So..., did you like it?)
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From: thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Thomas Eberhardt)
Subject: Re: csh is screwed up
Organization: Univ. Bremen, Informatik
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:11:45 GMT

Oops... just wrote a little test program to explore various combinations
of compatibility flags with respect to interrupted system calls.  Here are
the results:

COMPAT_SVID  COMPAT_BSD  COMPAT_POSIX  set42sig  result
(or -lsvid)  (or -lbsd)  (or -lposix)
-------------------------------------------------------
     X                                           EINTR
                  X                                OK
                              X                  EINTR
     X                                    X        OK
                  X                       X        OK
                              X           X      EINTR    <=== !!!

The last line explains the mysterious problems with the csh.
It means that programs that call set42sig to get the COMPAT_SYSCALLS
feature will fail when they are executed from programs that are linked
against -lposix (this is because all these composite flags and libraries
set COMPAT_EXEC). This includes for example my entire X11R5 distribution
and the tcsh binary I placed on wuarchive. I've verified this by
executing the csh script under an xterm running the tcsh. In this case
the script sometimes fails as expected. But when executing the csh script
from a sh (with sets COMPAT_SVID) everything works fine. I have looked
at the csh with adb and indeed the csh only calls set42sig.

Morale of the story: If you REALLY want BSD behaviour FORGET set42sig()
                     and use setcompat(COMPAT_BSD) or -lbsd.
--
thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de  | Institut fuer dynamische Systeme
Thomas Eberhardt                 | Universitaet Bremen, FB 3, Postfach 330 440
Koelner Str. 4, W-2800 Bremen 41 | W-2800 Bremen 33, Germany
Phone: +49 421 472527            | FAX: +49 421 218-4236
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From: root@macdfv.dfrf.nasa.gov ()
Subject: XRN and AUX Problem 
Organization: NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards CA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:08:35 GMT

I asked this question before and lost some of the answers so here it
is again:

 I am running AUX on a IIfx and am using xrn to read the net.  I have xrn
 set up to use the vi editor for posting....but when I try to post...
 I get the message..."unable to open editor(too many processes)....

here is one of the answers: 

>It's possible that you've run into a proc table problem...
>Increase MAXUP (see kconfig(1m)) to something like 40 or 50.

Well I checked MAXUP it is set to 100.....now what?

dave

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From: dwb@apple.com (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:20:54 GMT
Organization: Greenwing Enterprises
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <khj.716508452@beagle> Kenneth Jacker, khj@cs.appstate.edu
writes:
>So, how do I install something like Now Utilities, MS Word, MathType
>(that needs to add fonts to *some* System file), and other applications
>into a Un*x file system (*not* a MacOS file system) while remaining

I've run into two major problems trying to install software under A/UX

1.  The first is with programs that don't let you choose where to install
the files. They just blindly try to do the install in the root directory
of
the default volume. If the app you're dealing with is one of these, you
will have to do the installation as root.

2.  The second and related problem is with programs that as part of the
installation process remember a DirID.  The problem here is that DirID's
under A/UX aren't really persistent.  Of course they aren't on the mac
either, but that's another story.  This means that having done the
installation into the root folder as root, you now can't copy them
somewhere reasonable.  The software also may not work if you reboot.
The major culprit I've found in this category is AutoDoubler.  Only
complaint I hvae about the product.
From: Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com (Mike Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Driver for SyQuest removable?
Date: 12 Sep 92 05:14:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

Has anyone written a device driver that will support SyQuest removable
drives?
I'm able to mount Mac Partitions provided the drive is ready when I boot
the system, however, once the disk is ejected the current driver will not
mount additional cartridges without a reboot.  The same holds true for A/UX
partitions.  I've contacted various drive manufacturers and haven't found a
driver.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Peters                           VOS Mail: Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com
Consulting Systems Engineer          Unix Mail: mp@az.stratus.com
Stratus Computer, Inc.              Voice Mail: (602) 852-3002
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:33:43 GMT
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:

>In article <khj.716508452@beagle> khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth Jacker) writes:
>> [MS word nervousness deleted]
>>
>>So, how do I install something like Now Utilities, MS Word, MathType
>>(that needs to add fonts to *some* System file), and other applications
>>into a Un*x file system (*not* a MacOS file system) while remaining
>>under A/UX?  Most of these new apps no longer use a "drag this there,
>>and drag that there" installation approach.  Instead, they use the
>>fancy Apple Installer program (Word uses v3.3) ...
>>

>Please post any emailed words of wisdom.  I did manage to get Word 5.0
>(what, laugh?  _I_ originally picked FullWriteProfesional for A/UX use)
>onto my A/UX 3.0 system, and do not remember if anything was odd or not (I
>am using a personal system folder).  On the other hand, I have not been able
>to install Canvas 3.0 .  Initially the problem was that it insisted on
>installing into the root, but even access was grnated and installation was
>progresing it gets some sort of file error (very repeatably, and I already
>tried replacement disks) when decompressing some files.  I do not have the
>space in my Mac OS partition to install it (oops).  So the 90 lb manual
>(and sw) sit unused (the previous version still works).
>	-jrg

I have seen some Installers die under 32-bit but not 24-bit... Try mac24
when installing.

The easiest way, unfortunately, is to install under the "real" MacOS, which
is a pain. If, like you, you don't have the space, then installing as
root under mac24 helps.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
From: dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Slip for A/UX
Date: 11 Sep 92 03:12:30 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering


Well, my problem getting slip to work from my Q700 at home turned out to
both simple and obscure, like I thought might be the case.  A co-worker
who had his Mac working mailed me all of his shell scripts and config
files and I pawed through them all.  Apparently my problem was that I
have to do the ifconfig BEFORE the slattach.  None of which was mentioned
in any of the man pages or manuals I had.  None of the people who looked
at my bogus slipup script noticed anything wrong either.  Well, it does
work now, so I guess that's a victory.  Sigh...

-- 

Dan S.
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: tar
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:48:59 GMT

dpassage@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Paschich) writes:

>Is it just me, or is tar _really way broken_ on A/UX 3.0?

>I installed 3.0 on my Mac IIsi today, grabbed useful things (like the
>UUCP fix, emacs, etc) using Zterm :), copied them over to the unix
>filesystem, did the fcnvt thing, etc, etc...

>And when I go to extract the tar files, the files tar creates get set
>to really obnoxious foreign user id's.

>This seems just really _broken_ to me.  I'm not doing the extractions
>as root, and every other unix system I've used has created the files
>with the uid of the person doing the extraction.  In fact, every other
>unix I've used has prevented normal users from creating files owned by
>others.

The answer is that if you want the owner/group ID's to be that of
the running process and _not_ that of the original archive, you must
add the '-o' option... Think about it; if tar always reset the UID/GID to
the running process, using it for system backup _and recovery_ would
be a royal pain in the butt... after restoring files root would need to
completely restore all the UIDs/GIDs if he/she even knew what they were...

Ack!
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
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From: bha@vall.dsv.su.se (Bertil Hansson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:22:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Stockholm University, Sweden

In article <1992Sep15.100611.9712@informix.com> johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:
>In article <khj.716508452@beagle> khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth Jacker) writes:
>> [MS word nervousness deleted]
>>
>>So, how do I install something like Now Utilities, MS Word, MathType
>>(that needs to add fonts to *some* System file), and other applications
>>into a Un*x file system (*not* a MacOS file system) while remaining
>>under A/UX?  Most of these new apps no longer use a "drag this there,
>>and drag that there" installation approach.  Instead, they use the
>>fancy Apple Installer program (Word uses v3.3) ...
>>
>
>Please post any emailed words of wisdom.  I did manage to get Word 5.0
>(what, laugh?  _I_ originally picked FullWriteProfesional for A/UX use)
>onto my A/UX 3.0 system, and do not remember if anything was odd or not (I
>am using a personal system folder).  On the other hand, I have not been able
>to install Canvas 3.0 .  

I have successfully (as far as I know) installed Word 5.0, Excel 4.0 and
Canvas 3.0 on my Quadra 950. Right now, that box on repair, but I am fairly
sure this is the way I had to work it out:

Word 5.0

Had to be installed by root. Refuses to be installed in the context of
a user lacking Unix root access.  I have to log in as root to use it,
but OK, that's me. Microsoft Sweden gave me that tip. Program works OK.

Excel 4.0

Easy to install in the context of a non-privileged user.

Canvas 3.0

If I remember right, see "word 5.0" above.


As I remember it without having the computer at hand, I sprinkled all the 
non-transient System folders with various Preferences from these programs
"just in case".



--Bertil Hansson <bha@dsv.su.se>!"The ideal situation is to have real computing
Arbetsmilj|institutet, Solna    !power close at hand - right at home. Something
voice +46 8 730 90 82           !that dims streetlights and shrinks the picture
fax   +46 8  82 63 53           !on the neighbors TV when you crank it up"-anon
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