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From: dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Subject: MH (actually inc) on IRIX 4.0.5
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:03:23 GMT


I've just built MH 6.7.2 on a machine running IRIX 4.0.5.  My
configuration is:

version: MH 6.7.2 #17[UCI] (mbunix) of Thu Nov 19 13:15:36 EST 1992
options: [ATTVIBUG] [ATZ] [BIND] [DPOP] [DUMB] [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [ISI]
         [MHE] [MHRC] [MORE='"/usr/bsd/more"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [POP2]
         [RPATHS] [RPOP] [SENDMTS] [SOCKETS] [SPRINTFTYPE=int] [SYS5]
         [TYPESIG='void'] [TZNAME]

The problem is that inc (I'm almost 100% positive that inc is the
problem) is occasionally adding sporadic characters to the beginning
of the message body.  My test was to first look at the file in
/usr/mail and determine that no extra characters were there, then
doing inc and finding some extra character at the beginning of the
message body.  Has anyone else seen this?  I don't see anything in
inc.c that looks suspicious.

Thanks for any help.
--
Dave Goldberg                      UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator
Post: The Mitre Corporation MS B020 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: 617-271-2460
Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org  UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: garvin@cfd.mae.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
Subject: More Exabyte 8500c (and SCSI) questions/woes
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:29:39 GMT

	I've also taken receipt of an Exabyte 8500c (compression) 8mm tape
drive, and it's giving me pains.  Following the instructions in Dave Olson's
posting of 17 Nov 92 (thanks for the info!) I reconfigured my kernel, altering
the tpsc config file to read:

        /* Entry for Exabyte 8500c - Michael Garvin, 11/19/92.  Copied entry
         * from 8500, changed "EXB-8500" to "EXB8500c", "{0x0, 0x14, 0x0, 0x0}"
         * to "{0x0, 0x14, 0x8c, 0x0}".
         * There are 3 densities, 8500 mode, 8200 mode, and 8500 mode with
         * compression, in order.
         */
        { EXABYTE8500, TP8MM, 7, 8, "EXABYTE", "EXB8500c", 6,
                "\40\4\16\0\200\7", {0x0, 0x14, 0x8c, 0x0},
          MTCAN_BSF|MTCAN_BSR|MTCAN_PREV|MTCAN_CHKRDY|MTCAN_VAR|MTCAN_SETSZ|
            MTCAN_SILI|MTCAN_CHTYPEANY|MTCAN_SETDEN|MTCAN_SPEOD|MTCAN_SYNC|
                MTCAN_SEEK,
          80, 4*60, 25*60, 5*60, 1024, 128*1024},

I installed the drive on controller 0, ID 7, and rebooted the new kernel.  I
then made the following devices:

	crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       23,241 Nov 19 14:13 nrtape
	crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       23,243 Nov 19 14:13 nrtapens
	crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       23,240 Nov 19 14:13 tape
	crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       23,242 Nov 19 14:30 tapens

The minor numbers were upped 16 from the default 224-227 to match the 8500c
(0x8c in the tpsc config file) entry.  I then tried tarring to the drive, which
died with the following error:

	tar: tape write error: I/O error

and produced the following console output (note the tape drive hiccuped first):

	WARNING: dma_map: address not word aligned
	sc0,7,0: cmd=0xA disconnected on non-word boundary (addr=C02185A9,
		0x0 left).  Resetting SCSI bus
	dks0d1s6: retrying request
	dks0d2s6: retrying request

Our setup is a Power Series 4D/440.  SCSI controller 0 has an internal 1.6 gig
system disk (ID 1), an Iris File on the rear external connector with four 2 gig
drives (IDs 2, 3, 4, and 5), an internal CD-ROM (ID 6), and the 8500c mounted
internally (ID 7).  We've also got a Jaguar differential SCSI controller with
four drives on each channel.

	My questions are: am I going too far with that SCSI chain?  I have a
sinking feeling that I'm pushing the length limit, giving me the error I saw
(although the 8500c failing might give me that).  Are my entries for the 8500c
in the tpsc config file correct?  Have I correctly made the devices (in
particular, did I get the minor number correct and do they correspond to the
8500c in compression mode)?  And finally, would someone have the correct density
to feed to BSD dump for this drive (I calculated something around 47.5 million,
which sounds wrong).  Thanks for any help, I'm banging my head at this point.

-- 
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Mars Mission Research Center				(919) 515-5250 [Voice]
North Carolina State University				(919) 515-7968 [FAX]
From: SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Speech Recognition
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:50:41 GMT

Is SGI doing anything serious in this area? I spoke to a person at
Command Corp Inc about the subject (They have a nice product for the
SPARC (Slowly Process Any Requested Command)).

Any chance SGI might get something out in this area before the turn of
the century?  It seems all the pieces are there; hardware, software, etc.
How long can it take?  Heck, hire me, I'll do it for you.

I'm still waiting for audio on the Power Series.  Any clues about
this?  I heard rumor that its only going to be available on the
newer platforms (Crimsom, et al).  What happen to the Vigra or Virgo or
Viper or whatever board?

Any News?
From: davidh8@pogo.wv.tek.com (David Haight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to convert from PostScript to Iris RGB?
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:12:10 GMT
Reply-To: davidh8@pogo.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

In article <1992Nov18.134328@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov> sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan) writes:
>I need to convert PS files to Iris RGB format to print on a Tektronix
>4693D printer. Is there a command to do this? I can't find 'fromps'
>in the /usr/sbin or the sgi anon ftp site. Imgworks doesn't seem to
>be able to do this either. I could  display the file in xpsview,
>then make a screen snapshot, but this is crude. Is there a simpler way?

Xpsview is crude and your looking for a simpler way?  The PostScript
code needs to be interpreted and a bitmap needs to be created.  This
is not a simple task.  xpsview renders to screen spatial and color
resolution (72ish dpi/8bit dithered - worst case) and you want to
print on a 300dpi/24bit printer, now that IS crude.

There are a couple of options, neither is complicated or crude or cheap.
First the one I don't recommend, CAI (Freedom of Press) is a 3rd party
software RIP that runs on SGI and has 4693D(X) driver.  I wont quote
prices but I think it can be purchased through SGI (1-800-800-4SGI).

The other option is to upgrade your 4693D to a 4693PXi.  The PXi is
our lastest state of the art PostScript Level 2 interpreter and
would solve all of your problems.  I wont quote price on usenet but if
you want more info, email me.  If you are concerned about loosing
the D raster functionality email and I'll explain why that's not a
problem.


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From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: DAT SCSI COMMANDS ON SGI INDIGO
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:48:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <By6KM8.ErA@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, MACRVM.NRL.NAVY.MIL (JEFF JAMES) writes:
> 
>   I have an SGI Iris Indigo Elan with a DAT drive installed and would like
> to operate the drive with raw SCSI commands. I can write to the drive and 
> rewind the tape as well as read using the SCSI commands in dslib.h but there
> are several commands missing that control the tape such as functions for
> writing file marks, seeking data on the tape and writing EOT's. Any info on 
> this subject would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> PS Any info on general DAT storage formats would be appreciated.
> 
> 
>                                             Thanks , 
> 
>                                             Jeff James 

dslib is a sample library.  If you want enhancements you have to
do it yourself.  The source code is all in a subdirectory of
/usr/people/4Dgifts.  You should have litte trouble adding other
SCSI commands by following the example of the ones that are
already there.

jeremy
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: CDAUDIO.H
Date: 22 Nov 92 00:32:33 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov21.162022.13540@discus.technion.ac.il> ori@marvin.technion.ac.il (Ori Degani) writes:

| Can anyone tell me what the type  unchar  means?
| It shows up in /usr/include/{cdaudio dataudio}.h

See sys/types.h.  It is the obvious: unsigned char

--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cooper@holodeck.jpl.nasa.gov ()
Subject: SGI Expo and Dev Forum?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:12:23 GMT


Could someone please tell me when and where this years SGI EXPO and 
Developers Forum are being held? If I want any chance at all of going
I need to let my boss know now for budgeting purposes.

Thanks,

Brian K. Cooper
cooper@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
--


		Brian K. Cooper
		Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jonathan@vort.cuc.ab.ca (Jonathan Levine)
Subject: HELP! Anyone with an IP4!
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:39:59 GMT

I recently procured a 4D/70 with an IP4 CPU.  Unfortunately, the machine
went down shortly after I got it...

I've checked the PALs on the CPU, and a couple of them seem to be bad
ie successive reads give different results.  I would appreciate anyone
with one of these CPUs helping me, if possible, by sending me the JEDEC
files for the following devices:

WRITE0 070-0081-001 TIBPAL16L8-25CN
LMARBIT 070-0091-001 AMPAL22V10APC

Both of these devices are located next to the RAM SIMMs.

Also:  The 27LS19 prom located between the middle DIN connector and the
EPROMs is full of 00s.  What is this device for?

Thanks very much!

-- 
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                (fax)   403-686-1254 | Virtual  Universe         (Calgary AB)
uucp:        jonathan@vort.cuc.ab.ca | Survival Research Laboratories (SF CA)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig)
Subject: Install problem
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:21:01 EST
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Summary: Everything tests OK, but remote install doesn't work
Keywords: Install CDROM remote

I've got a 4D/360 server (Uranium) with a CD drive and a bunch of 4D/35 and
Indigo clients (4.0.5 on the server; clients vary from 3.3.2 on up).

I've disabled logins on the guest account ("*" in the password field
in /etc/passwd on the 360), and edited its /usr/etc/inetd.conf's tftp line:

    tftp    dgram   udp     wait    guest   /usr/etc/tftpd \
        tftpd -l -s /usr/local/boot /CDROM/dist
(folded for legibility).

I also have cdromd running on the 360 to automount CD's.

When I run inst on a remote machine, I can't get it to communicate with
the 360 server:

    Sulfur:root> inst
       :
       :
    Inst> from guest@Uranium:/CDROM/dist
    
    Reading installation history database
    Permission denied.
    Permission denied.
    Permission denied.
    Permission denied.
    inst:  remote connection to guest@uranium blocked.  See "help networkerror".
    inst:  can't read software.  See "help readerror".

All "normal" network operations (NFS, NIS, telnet, ftp, etc.)
are fine, so I know the network's good and both /etc/hosts and
BIND have got the right names and addresses.  There are no routers
bridges or gateways between the machines, just 600 feet of thinwire
and a repeater.

I can't figure out what I'm missing here!  Help!!

-- 
      Kurt Hillig
   Dept. of Chemistry      I always tell the     khillig@umich.edu
 University of Michigan     absolute truth    Telephone (313)747-2867
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1055    as I see it.    hillig@chem.lsa.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cooper@holodeck.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian K. Cooper)
Subject: yaodl to sgo ?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:52:27 GMT


This must have been discussed before ... does anyone have a program to 
convert yaodl format to sgo format object files. I need to display the
space station yaodl file (commonly found in /usr/demos/data/yaodl/space.
ydl) in inventor or performer (both can use .sgo files). If I could 
get the source to powerflip I could write it myself (Howard are you
listening?).

--
		Brian K. Cooper
		Jet Propulsion Laboratory
		(818) 354-6298
		cooper@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
From: gmt@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Gary McTaggart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Iventor and cfront 3.0
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:01:50 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Just curious if there are plans to have a version of Inventor that takes
advantage of templates any time soon.  Also, what does it take to get an
upgrade to cfront 3.0?  (We are running 4.0.5.)

Thanks,
Gary McTaggart
From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Printer Parallel port misery
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:23:59 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <1992Nov16.141604.16853@eurohub.neu.sgi.com>, joe@spectrum.neu.sgi.com (Joe Elliott) writes:
- I have been having problems with printers for some time now. All of them
- with PostScript printers and parallel ports.
- Things are great for small print jobs but given a reasonable load, the port
- just stops and the jobs keep queueing up. 
......
- Maybe  a comms problem as it only happens on large jobs when the job
- possibly exceed the printers memory capacity,Handshaking maybe Xon/Xoff not
- stopping the data flow.

Cannot really be Xon/Xoff, as the normal Centronics printer protocol is
simplex - i.e. printer cannot drive port, so cannot send (ascii text) information
back to the computer. PostScript printers sometimes give you messages.

You could try to get a line analyser for parallel ports whic show you the
state of the lines - unfortunately most serial port testers will probably not
work, unless they have a LED and mandatory jumper lead for each of the 25 
pins.

Check if you get status changes on the pins 1 and 10 of the 25 pin connectors,
the Indigo should flip the state of line 1 for every byte twice to strobe
out the data, the printer should respond on pin 10 to say it got the byte.
Thus flow control should be automagic, but ...

Vernon told me once that there is a 15 second time-out on the parallel port,
but that applied only if the port had been closed. But a PostCript printer
may well be in think state for 15 seconds without anything untoward being
the reason - I have somewhere a PostScript program of 17 lines or so that
prints a Mandelbrot set and reputedly run for 48 hours (!) on a Laserwriter+

Once you have decided which box is at fault, complain to the manufacturer :-).

                                   Thomas

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: tape drives for an indigo
Date: 21 Nov 92 03:07:30 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <2B0D5B26.12597@news.service.uci.edu> rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:


| We have been thinking about getting a tape drive for our indigo, since we
| seem to be unable to read SGI tapes on any drives hooked up to other vendor's
| machines.
| 
| I have two questions:
| 
| 1) Will a tape drive bought for an indigo work on other systems? (i.e. suns,
|    DEC risc, HP 700s, etc.)

Maybe.  It depends on what type of tape drive you buy.  For something
like an Archive 2150S QIC-150 drive, the answer is "almost certainly".

For other types of drives, the answer isn't as clear.

| 2) What would be the best drive to get, and from which company?

Depends on what you want it for, and what your requires are.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: holly@cam.nist.gov (Holly_Rushmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: VideoFramer
Keywords: video, frame , component video
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:18:20 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

We've been trying to use the SGI VideoFramer with a
BetacamSP PVW-2800 (with appropriate Vlan receiver) and 
an external sync source. We have had limited success --
sometimes the recorded sequences come out clean, and sometimes
they have small (2 or 3 pixel) horizontal jumps. We have
gotten clean sequences and jumps at different times from
the same sequence of images, so we know that the problem
is not in the generation of the images. We are using tape
with clean, prerecorded time code (VITC). I called the hotline, but
the external sync source was all they could suggest (that
did cut down on a lot of the random horizontal jumping we
were getting, but not quite all). We are using component, rather
than composite video, so I don't think this is the problem
require a "color bump" that is mentioned in the release notes.

This is a really difficult problem to debug, since it involves
equipment from different manufacturers. Has anybody else had
this problem?

-- Holly Rushmeier
holly@cam.nist.gov
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: HELP: Installing Pioneer CD-ROM on Indigo
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:19:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov18.142702.29806@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> peter@engr.trinity.edu (Peter Vafeades) writes:

| We have tried to install a Pioneer DRM-600-A multi platter CD-ROM on our new
| SGI Indigo.
| When we run
| mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/scsi/sc0d5l0 /p0
| we get an error message:
| iso_addfs set_blk err:5
| mount_iso9660: can't initialize /dev/scsi/sc0d5l0: I/O error
| mount: GIVING UP 
| 
| We have installed the software that the manufacturer and distributor (PSI) has
| sent us.  We have sent the unit back and they have returned saying that it
| has worked on their machine.  Are we overlooking something unix-wise or do we
| have a problems with our box?

Its hard to say without more info.  Were there any messages on the
console window, or in /usr/adm/SYSLOG?

Perhaps PSI had a different OS rev or different machine type than you?
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: animation builder
Summary: WANTED: Animation builder
Keywords: anbimation creator
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:28:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Nov16.222834.17152
Followup-To: None
Organization: Very un



	I'm looking for a non-commercial animation creator/player.
I've got the 'movie' program that comes with IRIX but it is designed
for 24-bit and I only have an 8-bit machine. It also won't save an
output file. I've got xflick for playing ..FLIs if anyone can direct
me to an .FLI creator or any other type of animation maker/player I'd
appreciate it. thanks.

ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: hirade@kekux1.kek.ac.jp (Hiroaki Hirade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: gawk-2.14 on SGI
Date: 21 Nov 92 03:07:01 GMT
Organization: KEK, Tsukuba, Japan



 Did anyone compile gawk-2.14 on Indigo?  I could compile it with no
problem, but when I did 'make test' to run a test suite, gawk stopped
due to internal error.

   # make test
           cd test; make -k
   Any output from "cmp" is bad news, although some differences
   in floating point values are probably benign -- in particular,
   some systems may omit a leading zero and the floating point
   precision may lead to slightly different output in a few cases.
           cmp swaplns.good tmp && rm -f tmp
           cmp out1.good out1 && cmp out2.good out2 && cmp out3.good out3 && \
                   rm -f out1 out2 out3
           cmp argarray.good tmp && rm -f tmp
   gawk: longwrds.awk:8: (FILENAME=manpage FNR=1) fatal error: internal error
           cmp longwrds.good tmp && rm -f tmp
   cmp: EOF on tmp
   *** Error code 1

 (to be continued...)


 If anyone know how to avoid this problem, please show me.

 Thanks in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: uucico fails if uugetty not running
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:21:34 GMT

In article <By5Lwq.C20@wizzy.com>, andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati) writes:
> I have recently bumped into a problem with uucico, and you are such a
> helpful bunch ;-)
> 
> It fails if uugetty is NOT running on that port. 
> cu works fine, both ways.
> 
> Looking at the lights, nothing is even sent to the modem, as far as I
> can tell. DTR comes active, and then goes away when the script fails.
> 
> I am reasonably familiar with the modem, and it has worked fine for
> months. I have recently done an OS upgrade. I don't know if it did this
> before, as I usually have uugetty running. I did /dev/MAKEDEV tty, was
> appalled at what /dev/MAKEDEV owners did (chown everything to root) and
> fixed them so the ports are owned by uucp.
> 
> Various permissions :-
> 
> /usr/lib/uucp% ls -l /dev/ttyf2 uugetty uucico /usr/bin/cu
> crw--w--w-   1 uucp     uucp       0, 98 Nov 23 00:02 /dev/ttyf2
> ...


Is the port used for both incoming and outgoing calls?  If so,
it is now and always has been necessary to use uugetty.

If the port is used only for outgoing calls, and if it stopped working
after installing software, I bet the problem was the ownership
and permissions of /dev/ttyf2.  Uugetty changes them to be usable
for uucico.

It would also be prudent to check that nothing else is trying
to use the port, say under the name /dev/ttyd2.  
Did you check that any changes in /etc/inittab were integrated into
the new version?  

Running `versions changed` and then dealing with the indicated
configuration files is always a good idea.


vjs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Indigo modem cable same as Mac cable?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:24:19 GMT

In article <KAVEH.92Nov21153013@altitude.CAM.ORG>, kaveh@CAM.ORG (Kaveh Kardan) writes:
> 
> Can a Mac modem cable be used to connect an Indigo and a modem?


Only if you don't mind running at low speed.

The MAC does not support all of the wires need to run a modern,
high speed modem with hardware flow control.

See `man serial` for the wires in the Indigo connector.


By the way, the line "Distribution: comp.sys.sgi" significantly reduced
the number of people who saw the original article.  There is no
such distribution.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi