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From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (Robert Stephens)
Subject: Re:  sendmail on Indigo
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:53:01 GMT

mabry@julio.sanders.lockheed.com (Mark Mabry) writes:
> 
> I am having trouble setting up sendmail on our new Indigo R4000.
> After some work I am able to receive mail from any host, but cannot
> send mail at all.

Do you have copies of the "bounced" messages?  What do you see if you
run "Mail -v"?

>                   My machine appears to add a ".ether" to the full
> mailpath name.

Don't worry about that.  It's just shorthand sendmail uses in verbose
mode to let you know it's using the "ether" mailer.  ".ether" is not
actually added to the destination address.  Yes it's silly and confusing.

> Here is the output of /usr/etc/configmail list:
> 
> 	Parameters:
> 
> 	forwarder = "relay"
> 	rootdomain = "sanders.lockheed.com"
> 	directdomains = "sanders.lockheed.com"

Is denali the relay or MX host for the entire sanders.lockheed.com domain?
Can denali directly contact all hosts in the sanders.lockheed.com domain?
If not, use "configmail set directdomains" to set directdomains to NULL.

> 	localdomain = "sanders.lockheed.com"
> 	pathalias = "/dev/null"
> 	relayname = "relay"
> 	deadhosts = "somewhere"
> 
> 	Functions:
> 
> 	domainrelay = "relay"
> 	mycanonname = "denali.sanders.lockheed.com"
> 
> Relay is aliased in /etc/hosts to the forwarder machine.

What machine is the forwarder machine?  Can denali contact it?  Do you
use either NIS or DNS prior to looking at /etc/hosts (see resolver(4) about
hostresorder)?  Are they authoritative?  Do they understand "relay"?

>                                                           Also, when
> receiving mail my machine always greets the sending machine with
> something like "HELO machinename.D, why do you call yourself
> machinename.domainname".

The message implies that your host knows the connecting host by a
different name than the connecting host knows itself.  If you do a
"/usr/sbin/canonhost machinename" what do you get?

I don't understand the .D

	- Robert Stephens
	  Silicon Graphics Inc.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Printers?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 02:58:33 GMT

In article <19526@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> phil@venus.engr.ucdavis.edu (Phillip W. Wong) writes:
>Hi all!
>
>I have an Indigo and would like everyone's opinion as to what type of
>printer I should get. The requirements are:
>
>    1] The printer should be inexpensive. Speed is not a problem
>       since this will be for personal use.
>
>    2] Software support. If the printer is not supported by the
>       base operating system, then what software package should
>       I get to support the recommended printer. Please include
>       the price of the software package.
>
>[I was thinking of something along the lines of a HP DeskJet
>500/500c/550c with a postscript cartridge. Is this a good idea?
>Software drivers?]

Since (to the best of my knowledge) the 500 series does not allow a
PostScript cartridge, you're out of luck on that line.

I would suggest getting the HP DeskJet 500C and purchasing SGI's
Impressario product.  It gives you full color PostScript support, and
even full engine status.  List price $795.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California

I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.

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From: thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick HURT)
Subject: Re: GUI Mail and News
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:08:37 GMT

Once configured with your resources, mainly colors and window sizes,
xmailtool is pretty nice, especially compared to att_mail and Bsd_mail.
Available at good ftp sites. Ask archie. There is an xarchie also, BTW,
but I coulnd't get it to run. Just hangs on my Iris, it won't let me
enter a search term. Anybody with the same problem? (and the fix also?)

Patrick Hurt.
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From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Subject: Should I Get a Barracuda for My Indigo?
Keywords: disk drive
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:25:26 GMT

SGI machines in general and Indigos in particular seem to work
well with disk drives from Seagate. Now Seagate has introduced
a really interesting drive -- the BARRACUDA -- 2.1 GB in a 3 1/2
inch form factor. It should be much faster than the IBM drive
SGI is currently shipping since it comes with a 1,024KB cache, 
giving it an 8 ms access time :-) Best of all, Seagate has priced
them very competitively ($2,495 in OEM quantitites).

Has anyone (Dave?) had a chance to look at the ST12550 (Barracuda)
and/or the other members of the family (i.e. ST12400, ST31200)?

If someone did buy an ST12550, and put it in an R4K Indigo,
could the Indigo's SCSI contoller take advantage of the drive's
support for FAST and FAST/WIDE SCSI-2?

Thanks.

-- 
David M. Senseman, Ph.D.     | A man who has never gone to school may steal 
(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences    | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio               |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: How to "downgrade" an R4000 Indigo XS24Z?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 04:52:32 GMT

In <Bxz4tv.68s@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
| We have an R4000 Indigo XS24Z, which is  a very nice machine, but we
| need to test our software on other configurations.  What I would like to
| do is remove various pieces of the hardware to reconfigure the beast into
| XS24, XS, and Entry.  Two questions:
| 
| 1.  Do I need to change jumpers or do anything to the hardware other than
| remove the boards?

I don't think any hardware reconfiguration is required.  The GIO bus
frequency changes, but I *think* we made that automatic.

| 2.  Which parts of the software have to be reinstalled when the config is
| changed?  Since this is a temporary change, I would like to have different
| versions of the necessary files on-line and rename them as needed.

eoe1.sw.unix, eoe2.sw.X11, and if you have it gl_x_dev (and again,
if you have it, maint_gl_x_dev).  Make sure you do 'set neweroverride'
once inst comes up.  That is only necessary when switching between
entry graphics, and any of the others.  XS, XS24Z, and Elan are all
the same s/w.
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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: nermano@pintado.ciagri.usp.br (Nermano Franco Ferreira)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Subscription
Date: 20 Nov 92 01:20:24 GMT

Please, 
Would you join me to the list?
Thank you
Nermano Franco Ferreira
USP/CIAGRI/Brazil
From: lingley@ug.cs.dal.ca (William Lingley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Request for some data...
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:12:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

I have been producing a ship hull manipulation facility, and
am going to be presenting it to the other staff here.  I would
like to demonstrate its flexibility by obtaining some data
from another source (i.e. A human body, a plane, a car, a motor part, etc.)
The general idea is for it to define a group of panels, four vertices in 
3-D space per panel.  If anyone would have such data that could be shared,
I would appreciate it greatly.

adv-thanx-ance

William
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From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics,comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: ABACUS/IDEAS supported on SGI's?
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:17:03 GMT
Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute

Hi,
   We will be upgrading our DEC MicroVax 3 running VMS in july next year.
The system is used exclusively for finite element analysis modelling
using ABACUS and IDEAS. I would like to convince people to get an SGI
machine as a replacement, but naturally we need to be able to run the
same software. Is ABACUS/IDEAS supported on the SGI? Or are there 
better finite element analysis and modelling packages available for
the SGI?

Please reply via email...

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Getting the full 2.0 Gb from DAT's
Date: 21 Nov 92 03:04:34 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov20.182144.728@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> markb@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (Mark R. Baith) writes:
| I understand that there is a DAT bug on SGI's that limits the total
| archive space to 1.2 Gb, even though you may be using a 90M or 
| 2.0 Gb tape. I understand that the magazine pipeline recently
| published a fix. Can someone pass the fix along? Thanks -M

There is no such bug.  All DAT drives that SGI has ever shipped
support the 90 meter tape.  There were earlier drives shipped by
Ardat (and other vendors) that did *not* support the longer tape,
because it didn't exist when the firmware was written.

I have never seen any such article in the Pipeline.  If it is there,
and is on this subject, it is wrong.
--
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: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: MAX NUMBER OF SCSI ADAPTERS ON SGI
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:37:51 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <By6JuF.EGy@ra.nrl.navy.mil> MACRVM.NRL.NAVY.MIL (JEFF JAMES) writes:

| I have an  SGI IRIS INDIGO ELAN and would like to add a second SCSI controller
| if it is possible, my question is " Is it possible?

No, not today.  There has been discussion of making a GIO SCSI board
(basicly a duplicate of the builtin SCSI login).  Contact your sales
folks to let them know you are interested in such a board.

I know of no official commitments to do the board, but there been some
serious discussion about it.
--
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: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: lpd Print Utilities
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:45:30 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Nov22.004709.24538@julian.uwo.ca> jhsherk@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John H. Sherk) writes:
>We are having problems getting lpd print utilities to run on our SGI Indigo
>network. The printer is a QMS815. One of the Indigoes on the network is used
>as the print server for it. We are currently using 4.0.1 operating system.
>The problem seems to be that after the job has been sent to the printer,
>the job prints, but is not removed from the queue.
>
>Is anyone successfully using lpd on an Indigo for a local printer? We ran
>across a note in the system documentation that indicated that SGI is not
>supporting the Berkeley print utilities with IRIX 4.0.1 (or 4.0.5 for that
>matter).

SGI does not support the lpr spooler.  

If you have an Indigo network, why aren't you using the system V
spooler which comes with the Indigos (eoe2.sw.lp) and which is
supported by the Print Manager GUI tool (part of eoe2.sw.envm).  No
administrator intervention is necessary when setting up and installing
printers under the Print Manager.

If you install Impressario, SGI's printing solution, you also get
active printer icons in the WorkSpace desktop product, full GUI
(PrintStatus) for up-to-the-second printer queue and engine status, a
graphical job submittal tool which allows each user to customize how
they print various file types (text, PostScript, images) to each
printer on the network.

Not to mention that Impressario includes a PostScript-to-bitmap filter
which will allow you to print Color PostScript to such inexpensive
printers as the HP LaserJets and DeskJets without needing any
PostScript hardware -- a significant cost savings.  Add to that the
raw speed of the Impressario RIP (up to 50 times faster than a
LaserWriter on an Indigo) and you have quite a nice solution.

For more information, contact SGI Express at 800-800-4SGI.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California
From: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Install problem
Keywords: Install CDROM remote
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:31:07 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig) writes:

>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).

Looks ok, but I run it as root and say for the secure directory: /CDROM.

>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.

0) Are you running cdinstmgr ?  (I assume that it just does the
	automounting as you describe above - but maybe it does more...)
1) Are all the client machines in /etc/hosts.equiv on uranium?
2)	 or is the uranium:~guest/.rhosts file set correctly?

3) It is my recollection that the remote user of inst under 3.3.X was
"inst," consequently the .rhosts file had to let "inst" use the login..
i.e. the <server>:~guest/.rhosts file had:

	hostname1	inst
	hostname2	inst

Maybe that's the deal.

	Hope this helps.

	- Scott
-- 

	- Scott Presnell (srp@cgl.ucsf.edu)
From: fouts@exacto.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Battle Zone Location
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:59:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics (Dallas, TX)

In article <34135@adm.brl.mil>, SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B) writes:
|> I have two new Indigoers.  I'd like to get a copy of the tank game
|> battle zone (as seen at the developers forum) any ideas where it might
|> be found?

The program "bz" :^) is available via anonymous ftp at sgi.sgi.com in the
~ftp/sgi/bz directory.

-- 

Chris Fouts				Email:  fouts@dallas.sgi.com
Systems Engineer			Phone:  (214)-788-4122
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems	Vmail:	8714
Dallas, TX

  "I can type 60 words a minute -- 20 if you don't count backspaces."
From: driscoll@pica.army.mil (Joseph D. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: borderless window
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:21:37 GMT

Does anyone know how to open a wsh(xwsh,xterm or any other) without any 
border at all (no frame, no scrollbar, no title box, etc.) ? We are currently
using 4Dwm as the window manager. thanks in advance.

				Joe Driscoll
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From: taylor@world.std.com (Russell R Leighton)
Subject: MIPS future processors
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:38:27 GMT


	A few months ago MIPS announced an outline and timetable
	of future processors (r4k successors, a floating point/ vector
	processors, etc.). Can someone please post this outline of
	future processors and the associated timetable.

	On a related note, does SGI have an answer to the latest
	offerings from dec and hp?

	Russ
From: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: where is thermal switch on twin tower
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:07:00 GMT


>	A while back in this list, it was brought up that there was a
>thermal cut off switch in the twin tower (in my case a 4D/240) and how to
>reset it. Naturally, now that I need it, I can't find the information.

The thermal switch is right next to the opening for the tape drive in the
front panel of the lower of the twin towers.  You need a paperclip or
something of the same shape to reach into the hole and hit the reset.

Enjoy,

Rob

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: How to lower the default sound level in Indigo
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 04:38:18 GMT

In <2281@sdrc.COM> spsisira@sdrc.COM (spsisira) writes:

| I am having hard time trying to lower the default speaker output level.
| Can somebody please send me how and where I can do that.

If you have 405F or later:
	 apanel -nodisplay -outlevels 80

in your .xsession or .sgisession file will do it.  This might
have been in 405 or 405MM, but I don't think so.
--
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: teo@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Patrick ChengSan Teo)
Subject: ortho2 and ortho
Reply-To: teo@cs.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:33:40


I've just finished implementing the Lisp FFI for GL.  Everything seems
to work fine except for ortho(), ortho2() and window().  I tried
(ortho2 0.0 60.0 0.0 60.0), i.e. ortho2(0.0, 60.0, 0.0, 60.0) which I
got from the book and it gave me a ERR_BADWINDOW error.  The arguments
to ortho2 are floats and those check out correctly.  Does anybody know
how ortho2 is implemented and what other reasons can there be for
ERR_BADWINDOW (besides specifying bogus clipping coordinates)?  I
check the window that GL was referring to with (winget) and that
checks out okay too.  

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance,
Patrick

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From: rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Tell me about Bars&Pipes
Date: 16 Nov 92 01:17:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BxsBKy.GL8.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

I've heard about a MIDI sequencing program for the Indigo
called Bars&Pipes Professional - how effective is it compared
to and one of the Macintosh/Amiga/DOS programs? Full featured
orsome sort of demo/trivial program to show that MIDI is 
possible on the Indigo's?

Thanks.

-- 
Aaron Hughes        DoD#0482   		The Freedom Junkie	
rane+@pulsar.fac.cs.cmu.edu		Bad cop. No donut.
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From: loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson)
Subject: Indigo video for Beta
Organization: Centre for the Physics of Materials
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:21:52 GMT

	I've heard rumours that a third-party is already offering a
video board for the Indigo, pre-empting SGI's offering.  Any truth
to this?  Anyone have any info?  Is it available for Beta?

--
'gards,
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From: hshamans@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harry T Shamansky)
Subject: Fixed bug in MH
Keywords: MH
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:01:57 GMT

   Hello fellow-sgi'ers

   In an earlier post, Dave (dsg@blackbird.mitre.org) reported a problem
   with MH-6.7 tossing in a strange character after inc'ing a file. I
   saw the problem also, and tried to figure it out. I got close, but was
   unable to nip it in the bud.

   Enter John Romine (keeper of bug-repairing tools at Bug-MH@ics.uci.edu).
   I was able to point him to m_getfld() in sbr/m_getfld.c, and within
   minutes he had the following patch:


*** ../../mh-6.7.2/sbr/m_getfld.c	Mon Jan 27 10:00:52 1992
--- ./m_getfld.c	Wed Nov 11 16:50:06 1992
***************
*** 546,557 ****
  	     */
  	    return 1;
  
! #ifdef notdef
! 	(void) fseek (iob, (long)(pos-1), 0);
! 	if (iob->_cnt <= 0)
! 	    _filbuf(iob);
! #else
  	(void) fseek (iob, pos, 0);
  #endif /* !notdef */
  	return 0;
      }
--- 546,556 ----
  	     */
  	    return 1;
  
! #ifdef	notdef
  	(void) fseek (iob, pos, 0);
+ #else
+ 	(void) fseek (iob, (long)(pos-1), 0);
+ 	(void) getc (iob);		/* should be OK */
  #endif /* !notdef */
  	return 0;
      }


   John informs me that a new version of MH will be out toward the end
   of the month, and it will have that fix.

   I tested the patch for the problem it was to fix; it worked well.

   harry
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Subject: 8 bit vs 24 bit color question.
From: jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:52:23 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


I recently received a Silicon Graphics Crimson Elan and was under the 
impression that this configuration supported 24 bit color. Why is it then that 
the default color visual is 8 bit? Can someone explain the difference 
between the various visuals? Is it possible to switch between 8 bit and 24 
bit color like on the Macintosh?


Thanks

jchauvin@netcom.com

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John H. Chauvin jchauvin@netcom.COM
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
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