HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Is any driver for Panasonic Optical drive available?
Date: 5 Sep 92 22:14:02 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep5.030650.27704@ennews.eas.asu.edu> sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman) writes:
| We have a Panasonic Optical drive (1 Gig) set up for DOS using Corel
| Driver. But due to space constraints on our 4D/35 we intend to
| configure it for the 4D/35. Does any vendor sell drivers for it?

If that model has a SCSI interface, there is a not unreasonable
chance that it will work with the normal dksc disk driver.  Several
other M-O drives do, to varying degrees.

If you just need to access it from a small set of programs, you
could probably write a devscsi program to do it (see 'man ds dslib').
--
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: loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson)
Subject: Ocean v2.5
Organization: Centre for the Physics of Materials
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:01:32 GMT

	Ocean v2.5 is now available via anonymous FTP from

		ftp.physics.mcgill.ca (132.206.9.13)

under ~ftp/pub/Ocean.  The files are

-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys      1807152 Aug 17 09:54 Fish_x19.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys       610190 Sep 14 18:29 Sounds_x11.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys        85911 Sep 14 18:28 oceanv2.5.tar.Z

	The new features (different from v2.4) are improved idle-time
monitoring (fish reduce cpu consumption if idle time goes to 0), 
increased font size on mail reading window and audio notification of
mail.  Neither the fish nor the sounds are required; there are currently
19 fish images and 11 sounbs in the libraries.  A pre-built
binary is also available.

	The audio is very simple but effective.  A randomly chosen sample
(or optionally a specific one) is played using the Indigo-type audio
and the "sfplay" executable.  It replaces or augments the mail beep
when new mail arrives.  Volume can be adjusted at start-up time.
Non-audio equipped machines can still use an audio'ized ocean; it
disables sound if /dev/audio doesn't exist.

	If you wish to contribute sounds to the library, please
contact me directly.  I still want seagulls, surf, foghorn, bouy bell
and a better seal sound, preferably in AIFF.

	Enjoy...
----
'gards, 
                                 __________
Loki Jorgenson                  //    //  \\    node:  loki@Physics.McGill.CA
Physicist/                     //___ //   //    BITNET: PY29@MCGILLA
Visualization Analyst         //    //  _____
EMINENCE GRISE               //    //    //     fax:   (514) 849-8190
Montreal Quebec CANADA      //_____\\___//      phone: (514) 849-0390
                     -*  Visually Simulating  *-
From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: X Terminal: I want my WorkSpace!
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:00:20 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <l#pnyvc.jchauvin@netcom.com>, jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin) writes:
|> Any recommendations for a replacement for the WorkSpace on X Terminals?

You might consider Looking Glass Professional ($795), which is a "desktop
environment for X Terminals" available from SGI Express @ 1-800-800-7441.
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Stan Jensen, Systems Engineer                          stanj@corp.sgi.com
Silicon Graphics Inc., M/S 14L-120                    Phone:(415)390-5822
P.O. Box 7311, 1350 Charleston Road                   FAX:  (415)962-1589
Mt. View, CA  94039-7311                                "I (heart) Tonks"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Terran Boylan)
Subject: BUMPMAP/PHONG TRIX on VGX? (REPOST)
Organization: Engineering Animation, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:49:30 GMT

(I tried this a couple of weeks ago but got no responses....)

(NOTE: forgive the repetitive use of the word "clever" in
the following post.)

Hello, everybody!

I really hope this doesn't start a big "when are we gonna
have Phong shading in hardware" thread.  That's not what I'm
after. :^)  (Anybody besides me remember that guy at the SGI
user's group meeting back at SIGGRAPH '87 or '88 that stood up
and demanded Phong shading?)

The best analog for what I'm after is a technique similar in
cleverness to the Stencil Shadow's algorithm that was published
a couple of _Iris Universes_ ago.

What I want to know is if anybody's figured out some clever
way of simulating bump maps on a VGX?  I would assume that
the process would involve rendering your object unshaded using a
texture map to represent a change in normal direction.  Somehow
you'd get approximate polygon slope information from either taking the
derivative of the Z-buffer or using a second pass where you render
your object using color to represent normal information.  The last
step would be a pixel-by-pixel computation of some sort, possibly
using the stencil bitplanes in some clever way.

Remember, I'm not looking for displacement maps or true bump maps.
I'm looking for SYNTHETIC bump maps, where the majority of the
work is done in hardware.  I'm not looking for a real-time interactive
technique, and I don't care if it looks ugly on the screen while it's
doing it.  I want it for a frame-at-a-time animation technique.  Images
would be video resolution.

Has anybody done this?  Does what I'm suggesting make sense?  Should
I just give up the idea of having bump-mapped objects in my animations?
Say it ain't so!

Thanks a million flat shaded polygons per second!

Terran J Boylan
Sr Artist/Programmer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
Ames, IA  50201
 
P.S. So when are we gonna have hardware support for FFD's?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: aardvark@nt1l.krl.com (Donald Koch)
Subject: Re: traceroute
Organization: Koch Research Labs
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:51:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.210628.5967@biome.bio.ns.ca>, silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
> I've been asked why only root can run traceroute on a PI.  It is mode 755,
> but only root can access the necessary socket.  Apparently on other
> platforms you don't have to be root to run it.  Any answers out there?

traceroute needs root access in order to open a raw socket which allows
the program the ability to send anything out it needs.  I don't know of
any machine that will let this program run except by root or setuid'ed to root
(which is not advised for other reasons).  From the source code:

 * This program must be run by root or be setuid.  (I suggest that
 * you *don't* make it setuid -- casual use could result in a lot
 * of unnecessary traffic on our poor, congested nets.)

-- 
Don Koch
aardvark@nt1l.krl.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: smith@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Steven L. Smith)
Subject: Re: Euroweather data
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:53:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.184015.21413@iitmax.iit.edu>, thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick HURT) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep11.114718.26874@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
|> >In article <18n71qINNi9g@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen) writes:
|> >>
|> >>Someone was asking about European weather maps
|> >>for bgpaste? ... Should work with a bit of editing
|> >>for the weather shell recently posted.
|> >>
|> >
|> >The original post in this thread (which I missed somehow) mentioned
|> >something about getting US weather maps but not European. Could someone
|> >E-Mail me the site for getting US Weather maps? Thanks.
|> >-- 
|> 
|> Me too, please! Also, if anybody has a script getting the weather
|> by ftp, and popping it up on the screen, please mail it to me.
|> 
|> Thanks, Patrick.
|> 
|> -- 

The script, which I got and modified from F.R. Phelan is as follows:

--Begin-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/csh -f
# display-weather-map
# Sets the background to the latest USA weather map.
#
# Original:
# Ron Boisvert, NIST, 25 Jun 92
#
# Modified for SGI:
# F.R. Phelan Jr.
# NIST Polymers Division
# September 1, 1992
#
#
#Background info:
#nslookup vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
#Non-authoritative answer:
#Name:    VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
#Addresses:  128.174.5.98, 192.17.13.1
#

#Default settings ...
set NameOfThisScript = weather
set infile = /usr/tmp/weather.$$.ftp
set gif_file = /usr/tmp/weather.$$.GIF
set rgb_file1 = /usr/tmp/weather.$$.rgb.1
set rgb_file2 = /usr/tmp/weather.$$.rgb.2


# Usage.
if ($#argv != 0) then
  echo 
  echo $NameOfThisScript":"
  echo "A script to display the current US weather map."
  echo 
  echo "Usage: $NameOfThisScript"
  echo
  exit 1
endif

onintr cleanup

cat > $infile << END
user anonymous
cd wx
binary
get CVIS.GIF $gif_file
bye
END

echo Getting current weather map image...
ftp -n 128.174.5.98 < $infile

# Begin my mode.
gif $gif_file
rm -f $infile $gif_file
# End my mode.

#fromgif $gif_file $rgb_file1
#izoom $rgb_file1 $rgb_file2 1.06 1.7

#echo .......... Painting Root Window
#bgpaste -t 0 0 0 $rgb_file2

# give the machine some time to paste ...
#sleep 20

#cleanup:

#       rm -f $infile $gif_file $rgb_file1 $rgb_file2
--End---------------------------------------------------------------------------

*******************************************************************************
Steve Smith                          | Internet: smith@icat.larc.nasa.gov
NASA Langley Research Center         |           s.l.smith@larc.nasa.gov
M/S 152                              | Voice: (804) 864-2004
Hampton, VA 23681                    | FAX  : (804) 864-7793
*******************************************************************************
From: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: help for man binary
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:55:08 GMT
Reply-To: pj@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Research & Development

In article <1992Sep9.211926.1@evax0.eng.fsu.edu>, super@evax0.eng.fsu.edu writes:
|>       1)  I accidently deleted the man binary. Now I can not use man 
|> command anymore.  How can I recover this file

You can reinstall the subsystem containing this file,
eoe1.sw.unix, from your distribution media.  You will have to
"set neweroverride on" inside the installation software to get it
to reinstall that which you already appear to have installed.
And you may have to remerge changes to system configuration
files.  Contact the SGI Hotline for more support.

And look into your backup alternatives.  They're essential
for continued reliable computing, as you have discovered.

|>       2)  How can I put a daily announcement to every user then they are 
|> login.  I may modify every users .login file, but that may be too time
|> consuming.

Put your message in /etc/motd, as described in the man page motd(4).     

Until such time as you have a man command working, you can view
man pages using pcat, as in:

    pcat /usr/catman/p_man/cat4/motd.z

-- 

				I won't rest till it's the best ...
				Software Production Engineer
				Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Reading CDI in an Indigo CD-ROM drive
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:21:04 GMT

In <32510@adm.brl.mil> ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement) writes:
| A music mail-order place in the UK is advertising a "CD-I" listing 73,000
| CDs. Is it possible to read CD-I in the standard (I hope that's what we've
| got - our Indigo expert is on holiday) Indigo CD-Rom drive. Furthermore, is
| the data in a CD-I readable with *reasonable* effort (e.g. a quick and dirty
| programme to translate to normal text) or is it stored in some super-complex
| compressed/encrypted/whatever format.

I'm not familiar with just how CD-I works (I know what it is), but our
peripherals folks tell me that the drive we ship (a Toshiba 3301B variant)
will not read CD-I media.  Sorry.
--
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: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: unsubscribe
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:56:33 GMT


 ... since I've got xrn ...

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| Fred Phelan                                                            |
| Polymer Composites                                                     |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology                         |
| Gaithersburg, MD 20899                                                 |
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| e-mail >>> fred@poly2.nist.gov   (Internet)                            |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bruggink@neep.engr.wisc.edu (Dennis Bruggink)
Subject: Re: Third Party Memory/Disk: recommendation sought
Organization: 
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:37:08
In-reply-to: xiaoyan@ecf.toronto.edu's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:26:50 GMT

>Buying directly from SGI is an expensive option for us.
>So we would like recommendations, experience with buying 3rd party
>memory and hard disk.  Can I get 16 Meg ram and 1 Giga disk for
>the money ($5000)?


We bought a 1.6 GB Micropolis 11.5 ms drive for ~$2500 from
North Central Peripherals
612-881-2302

and

(2) 8 MB memory kits for ~$600 each for an Indigo.  5 year warranty on the
disk.
  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Subject: Re: 4.0.5MM gobbles RAM!!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 01:01:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.212711.24549@tin.monsanto.com> jrroma@beaker (John Roman) writes:
>We had a similar problem with one of our applications.  After the
>upgrade to 4.0.5 the user merely twiddled the dials and the process 
>grew until swap-time and response went out the window.
>He (figuratively) held a gun to my head while I sweated out the
>downgrade from 4.0.5 to 4.0.1.  Once I did that, the process did
>not change in size no matter how much he twiddled.
...
>I don't think this is an isolated example, but I don't know
>what the common thread is.

We had the same thing happen, and traced the problem to the change in
the memory management scheme in the 4.0.5 font manager.  I think the
reason our case blows up is that it repeatedly requests the same font,
but never uses fmfreefont() to reclaim the memory for all these font
handles.  I guess that with the old font manager, requesting the same
font returned a new pointer to the same memory area, while the new font
manager allocates fresh space every time.  I would guess that in your
case, the code that services the dials is allocating new fonts to write
some sort of status information on the screen, perhaps a new font for
every dial event received.

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
From: aaronf@cse.ucsc.edu (Aaron T. Ferrucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: External sync on serial ports
Keywords: external sync
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:50:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

]] I am interested in generating the odd-ball baud rate of
]] 31.25 kHz for interfacing a 4d60 to MIDI devices. There's some
]] suggestion that it might be possible to use an external clock, for
]] example in the man page for stty. Is this actually possible? Thanks
]] to any and all who supply clues.
]
]
]The standard serial I/O ports for 4D/60's and other machines besides
]Indigos either use UART's and incapable of using external clocks or do
]not have a signal connected to the stupid DB-9 connector.
]
]There is a sync board used with the IBM and x.25 products, but
]you wouldn't want to buy it just for MIDI.
]
]The Indigo can talk to MIDI devices on its din-8 connectors.
]
]
]Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com

Well, if it's impossible to generate 31.25 kbaud, what about a baud
rate converter? I have in mind a simple circuit I could design which
would convert incoming MIDI data to 38.4 kbaud, and convert MIDI data
coming out of the computer to 31.25 kbaud. The circuit would
consist of 3 chips and a few analog components.  It could be used with
any computer which can run a serial port at 38.4 kbaud with hardware
flowcontrol.

Email me if you are interested in this idea (and also if it's already
been implemented!). I could possibly produce a small number of boards
for a small profit.

-Aaron
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: paul@baroque.Stanford.EDU (Paul Ning)
Subject: Re: Third party maintenance and resellers, and more
Organization: Stanford University
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:55:57



Thanks to all who replied.  Here are the responses I got :

*********** 1) Maintenance and/or repair of SGI's

Sun Valley Technical Repair & Sales	408-224-6261, fax:  408-224-0766
XS International, Inc.			404-874-1212, fax:  404-874-0222

*********** 2) Buyers/sellers of used machines

Arena Electronics			404-816-6350, fax:  404-816-5443
Minicomputer Exchange			408-733-4400, fax:  408-733-8009
XS International, Inc.                  404-874-1212, fax:  404-874-0222

*********** 3) Vendors of film recorders (i.e. screen image to 35mm)

AGFA Compugraphic Division (508)658-5600

Focus Graphics Inc. (initially found in SunExpert magazine,
   they now have an ad in Iris Universe):  Film recorder at
   ~10K $US, camera et al. ~2K $US.  Currently, their product
   permits only a full-screen dump; they are supposed to have a
   new version by early November with which you can send an RGB
   file to the recorder.  Very positive comments from the couple
   of users I spoke to.

      Focus Graphics Inc.
      1191 Chess Drive, Suite B
      Foster City, CA  94404
      1-800-288-6226
      FAX: (415) 377-0598

Apunix (found in SunExpert magazine):  Polaroid film recorder
   at ~5K $US, camera at ~500 $US, software at 25 $US.  Their
   SGI software is just out of beta testing, but they haven't
   yet received their own Iris and haven't made a slide of the
   RGB file I sent them three weeks ago.

      Apunix Computer Services
      5575 Ruffin Road, Suite 110
      San Diego, CA  92123
      1-800-827-8649
      FAX: (619) 495-9230

Management Graphics (found though previous posting, they have
   an ad in Iris Universe):  Film recorders start at 34K $Can
   (~28K $US), they do not sell software but have suggested a
   3rd party source.  Their price is well over our budget.
   They have bulk production recorders.

      Management Graphics
      1401 E. 79th Street
      Minneapolis, MN  55425
      1-612-854-1220
      FAX: (612) 854-6913

*********** 4) Other 3rd party dealers (disk, memory, etc.) 

Falcon systems				800-326-1002
Impediment				617-837-8877
R-Squared				800-777-3478
Memory International			800-266-0488

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Ning                           U.S. mail : P.O. Box 9738
Dept. of Elec. Engr.                            Stanford, CA 94309-9738
Stanford University                    e-mail : paul@kaos.stanford.edu
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: CD-ROM & Magnetic/Optical Drive?
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:05:58 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep9.042513.18641@eng.ufl.edu> jmc@sioux.eel.ufl.edu (Jim Callahan) writes:

| Are there any Magnetic/Optical drives that also read CD-ROM formats for the
| Indigo?  If so, what is the maximum size the drive(s) will write.

I've never seen such a beast, although I vaguely remember reading a short
article in one of the trade rags about a drive that promised it.

I do know of some M-O drives that will also handle some styles of WORM,
but not CD-ROM.
--
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: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
Subject: Re: Listening to CD's
Reply-To: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
Organization: EAI, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:57:25 GMT

In article <BuEtA6.9I6@news.udel.edu> kdobbs@brahms.udel.edu (Kerwin D Dobbs) writes:
>
>I believe I have seen the answer here before to my question
>but let me ask again. Is it possible to listen to "musical" 
>CD's on the SGI supplied CD player? If so, how does one go
>about doing it?
>
>kdobbs@brahms.udel.edu
>


Take a look at 'cdinfo' and 'cdreader' from:

Patrick Wolfe  (pwolfe@kai.com, uunet!uiucuxc!kailand!pwolfe)
System Programmer/Operations Manager, Kuck & Associates
		

The man has done an excellent job of teaching me a lot about SGI's audio
library and gives anyone the basic building blocks to write something
with more bells and whistles should they require it.

I'm not sure where to get it anymore, so ask archie.  Or with the
author's permission, I could post it here.  I'll ask him.

Oh, and be sure to thank him for it and respect his copyrights.



'Gards,

Bryan.


-- 
Bryan Manske  (515) 296-9908        . 
Engineering Animation, Inc.         . 
bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu            .    Is it a rut, or is it a groove?
#include <caveat_opinion.h>         . 
#include <standard_disclaimer.h>    .                         Me.
From: aaronf@cse.ucsc.edu (Aaron T. Ferrucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: External sync on serial ports
Summary: Is ext. sync possible on /dev/tty* ?
Keywords: external sync
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:24:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

I am interested in generating the odd-ball baud rate of
31.25 kHz for interfacing a 4d60 to MIDI devices. There's some
suggestion that it might be possible to use an external clock, for
example in the man page for stty. Is this actually possible? Thanks
to any and all who supply clues.

-Aaron
From: raines@dirac.physics.upenn.edu (Paul Edgar Raines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: bru relative path extraction
Keywords: bru
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:00:45 GMT

Is there a way to extract bru archive files with the name /usr/example/*
to disk files with the name /usr2/exmpl/*?  The -j relative path option
does not seem to allow you to specify the "point of relativity" so that
it extracts to /usr2/exmpl/usr/example/*.

-- 
Paul Raines	raines@purcell.physics.upenn.edu	215-898-8832
Dept. of Physics
University of Pennsylvania
From: lsr-vax!art@uunet.uu.net (Art Hays - PSTAFF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Need Help in Selecting a COLOR PRINTER for SGI machines
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:40:48 GMT


	Note that Tek just released a dye-sub printer with PostScript Level 2
for around 10K.

Art Hays, Nat. Eye Institute,			uunet!lsr-vax!art
Nat. Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD		(301) 496-7143