HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: don@seila.uucp (Don Kossman)
Subject: 3.5" 1.4M floppy
Summary: how to run 3.5" fd under xenix286
Keywords: 286 fd 3.5" driver
Reply-To: don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman)
Organization: SEI Information Technology, Los Angeles
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:58:02 GMT

i have xenix286 2.2.1 running on a 386 PC and have added a 3.5" floppy drive.
this works fine as a 1.4Mb drive under DOS, but i can't access
it under xenix- there don't seem to be any standard xenix drivers
for this device with my (yes it's old but it works fine with 1Mb of RAM)
xenix OS.

based on recent postings on a similar subject, i tried using mknod
to create a driver with major/minor device numbers 2/64, (actually,
2/65 cuz this is drive 1, not drive 0) and although mknod didn't
complain, i can't access the drive.

unhappily i have no support agreement with SCO...
can anyone summarize what i need to do in order access this device 
under this version of xenix286?

thanks in advance...
-- 
   don kossman, sei information technology, los angeles
   ...llyene.jpl.nasa.gov!seila!don

Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,biz.sco.opendesktop
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: CDROM problems
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:06:47 GMT

	I have ODT 2.0 running on a 486 with an adaptek 1542b, 600
	meg scsi drive and a CHINON cd-rom drive.  The above works
	fine under dos, os/2 and bsd386.  However, when trying
	to access the cdrom under odt, I get "cannot open cd0,
	no such device or address" when trying to dd from it, mount
	it or anything.  The drive light flickers when I try to
	access it.
	I did the normal mkdev cdrom and mkdev highsierra.  I tried
	addressing the cdrom at 1 and 2, with the hd at 0.
	I know that the CHINON is not specifically mentioned in the
	release notes, but I can't find any strings in the pack.d
	files that specify manufactures ids.
	Any idea what I am doing wrong?

	-randy
-- 
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	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: pbergan@iastate.edu (Patrick J Bergan)
Subject: BASIC == Correct email address
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:32:18 GMT


Correction:

Basis International  1-505-345-5232  or  postmaster@bbx.basis.com

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Patrick J. Bergan
Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology (I.C.E.M.T.)
Iowa State University            Office: 515-294-6604  Lab:515-294-3149
2078 Black Engineering Bldg.     Fax: 515-294-5530
Ames, IA 50011                   EMAIL: pbergan@iastate.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: jrd@uumeme.chi.il.us (John R. Dennison)
Subject: Forcing a user to go through a program at logout?
Organization: UUMEME Public Access Xenix
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 06:38:40 GMT

I am working on a statistics package for SCO Xenix 2.3.4GT.  At this stage,
I am contemplating several ways of going about things.  In one of the ways I
have thought about would require a user to go through a custom written 
executable *just* prior to logout.

Is there anyway to *force* a user to go through a program prior to logout?

Would I be able to, say, use a "trap" in the /etc/profile to force the
user through the program upon logout?

Any other suggestions.


(Oh this package is going to a systems usage hours statistics package)




						John
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Subject: Re: Forcing a user to go through a program at logout?
Organization:  SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 17:33:51 EST
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> 
> Is there anyway to *force* a user to go through a program prior to logout?
> 

Sure ... we use "trap $HOME/.logout 0" in our .profile for ksh ...



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: SLLOOWWW Printing from SCO ODT
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:38:53 GMT

yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com (Dave Yon) writes:



>Can anyone help me get decent print queue performance from SCO ODT 2.0?
>I've got a Deskjet 500 connected to the standard LPT1 port of my Gateway,
>and even though I've got all lp daemons running at priority 0, it takes
>five minutes just to print a banner page!  Is there something I'm missing?
>It would be nice at some point to install Ghostscript to get Postscript
>support for this printer, but if an ASCII-only banner takes this long,
>I'm not even gonna bother.

>Any help appreciated...

>--
>David Yon
>yon@smltlk.zko.dec.com <--- use this address

best place for this dicussion is biz.sco.general.

But I digress...

You probably need to verify that the parallel port interupt is the one you have
selected in software, as I recently did this, and a change from IRQ 5 to 7 made
a 20x performance difference!

If all the hardware and SW agree, ask b.s.g to send you the info on fixing slow
parallel printing.

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From: "jason hibbard" <jason.hibbard@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: announcing a free lib
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:40:01 EST
Reply-To: "jason hibbard" <jason.hibbard@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

to:Steve.Bleazard@RoboBar.Co.UK

SB>    Subject: Announcing a free libc for SCO XENIX.

SB>Announcing a free libc for SCO XENIX.

SB>build scripts form release.  For the time being I am looking for people
SB>willing to do alpha testing.  If you are interested please email me.

SB>Steve.Bleazard@RoboBar.Co.Uk        | Phone:  +44 81 991 1142 x153

Hi Steve, I would be very interested in being a test site for you. I have 
Xenix 386 GT 2.3.4 and dev sys 2.2. I am not a programmer but can hack 
some code. I would be happy to be of service. Thanks for the chance. - Jason -



       You know when you are getting older when Happy Hour in a nap.       
                                                                           
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: pbergan@iastate.edu (Patrick J Bergan)
Subject: BASIC == email address correction
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:41:58 GMT


Correction:

Basis International  1-505-345-5232  or  postmaster@bbx.basis.com

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Patrick J. Bergan
Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology (I.C.E.M.T.)
Iowa State University          Office: 515-294-6604  Fax: 515-294-5530
2078 Black Engineering Bldg.,  Ames, IA 50011        EMAIL: pbergan@iastate.edu
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Iowa State University          Office: 515-294-6604  Fax: 515-294-5530
2078 Black Engineering Bldg.,  Ames, IA 50011        EMAIL: pbergan@iastate.edu
From: franzis@evax.gdc.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: BASIC Compiler for Xenix?
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:50:03 GMT
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT



    Does anyone know of a BASIC compiler that will run under
    SCO Xenix 2.3.4 ? Does SCO offer one?

			Please post or email at : franzis@evax.gdc.com

                        Thanks in advance.


Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: cbaker@woody.dep.anl.gov (Christopher Baker)
Subject: re: C-News and SCO Xenix 2.3.1
Organization: Argonne National Lab. - Div. of Educational Programs
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:38:19 GMT

I am trying to do something similiar.... I am trying to setup 
a nntp client to get news of a nntp news server.  The most
obvious thing when files are missing might be the tcp/ip
dev. sys. package.  I do not know if that is required for 
c-news, but it is for nntp.  You see, the Xenix dev. sys. 
does not include the tcp/ip sockets include files like the
Unix and ODT dev sys do (or at least that is what I have been
told).



In article <C0pFDn.M1u@ais.org> spencer@ais.org (Spencer PriceNash) writes:
>I'd like to hear from anyone out there who has successfully compiled
>and installed C News under SCO Xenix 2.3.X.  Preferably recently.
>
>I thought getting C News up would be relatively simple, but either
>build fails while looking for a file that does not exist (should this
>ever happen?) or something doesn't compile, depending on where I ftp'd
>sources from.  Doesn't seem like this should be a big deal.
>-- 
>Spencer PriceNash   spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us   spencer@ais.org
>"Dan Quayle is our Vice-President!  Isn't that a shame?"  -- A.B., eight
> years old
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.periph.scsi
From: dekoning@frcl.bull.fr (Gerard de Koning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Need address for Columbia Data Products
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:25:24 GMT
Reply-To: A. Abraham <abraham@qnm1.frcl.bull.fr>
Organization: Bull, Les Clayes, France


A project here is looking for the address and fax number of
Columbia Data Products.

Does anyone know the availability of version 2.0 of their
device drivers:
  sdlpfm
  scsiprim
  hd

Please reply directly by e-mail to A. Abraham at <abraham@qnm1.frcl.bull.fr>.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: spencer@ais.org (Spencer PriceNash)
Subject: C-News and SCO Xenix 2.3.1
Organization: UMCC
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:27:21 GMT

I'd like to hear from anyone out there who has successfully compiled
and installed C News under SCO Xenix 2.3.X.  Preferably recently.

I thought getting C News up would be relatively simple, but either
build fails while looking for a file that does not exist (should this
ever happen?) or something doesn't compile, depending on where I ftp'd
sources from.  Doesn't seem like this should be a big deal.
-- 
Spencer PriceNash   spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us   spencer@ais.org
"Dan Quayle is our Vice-President!  Isn't that a shame?"  -- A.B., eight
 years old
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
Subject: Re: 3.5" 1.4M floppy
Keywords: 286 fd 3.5" driver
Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:50:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.185802.4859@seila.uucp> don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman) writes:
>i have xenix286 2.2.1 running on a 386 PC and have added a 3.5" floppy drive.
>this works fine as a 1.4Mb drive under DOS, but i can't access
>it under xenix- there don't seem to be any standard xenix drivers
>for this device with my (yes it's old but it works fine with 1Mb of RAM)
>xenix OS.
>
>based on recent postings on a similar subject, i tried using mknod
>to create a driver with major/minor device numbers 2/64, (actually,
>2/65 cuz this is drive 1, not drive 0) and although mknod didn't
>complain, i can't access the drive.
>
The nodes on my 2.2.3 Xenix 286 for fd135 floppies are:
2, 60  for (r)fd0135ds18
2, 36  for (r)fd0135ds9

Drive 1 are one higher.  If you kernel supports these, these are the
minor numbers to use.  
-- 
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Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
SysV, BSD, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, SCO. Porting a specialty. 
	     The Union Institute  History of Science
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Forcing a user to go through a program at logout?
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:09:47 GMT

jrd@uumeme.chi.il.us (John R. Dennison) writes:

>I am working on a statistics package for SCO Xenix 2.3.4GT.  At this stage,
>I am contemplating several ways of going about things.  In one of the ways I
>have thought about would require a user to go through a custom written 
>executable *just* prior to logout.

>Is there anyway to *force* a user to go through a program prior to logout?

>Would I be able to, say, use a "trap" in the /etc/profile to force the
>user through the program upon logout?

>Any other suggestions.

Use a shell script containing your package and the executable you want them to
run before logout.  Then "exec" this shell script from their .profile.

.profile:

TERM=ansi
......
export TERM .....

exec /usr/bin/myscript


/usr/bin/myscript:

statistics_program
custom_logout_program
-- 
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From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Print spooler stops printing
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:44:18 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

kbeck@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Kevin Beck) writes:
: Sometimes when I send something to the printer, it doesn't print. 

...

: Some occurrences of the problem can be cleared by using /usr/lib/lpshut
: and /usr/lib/lpsched to stop and re-start the scheduler.  Often
: however, the only solution seems to be shutting down XENIX. 

Before giving up and shutting down, try:

/usr/lib/lpshut
rm /usr/spool/lpd/*
rm /usr/spool/lp/[A-Z]*
/usr/lib/lpsched


		Tony   apl@world.std.com

Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle
       Kevin Clark is embarrassed by most of what I say.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: Print spooler stops printing
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:50:56 GMT

In <C0J9xv.H0D@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:

:kbeck@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Kevin Beck) writes:
:: Sometimes when I send something to the printer, it doesn't print. 

:...

:: Some occurrences of the problem can be cleared by using /usr/lib/lpshut
:: and /usr/lib/lpsched to stop and re-start the scheduler.  Often
:: however, the only solution seems to be shutting down XENIX. 

:Before giving up and shutting down, try:

:/usr/lib/lpshut
:rm /usr/spool/lpd/*
:rm /usr/spool/lp/[A-Z]*
:/usr/lib/lpsched

You should also look at /usr/spool/lp/log to see if there are any
messages that will help identify the problem.  This is
particularly useful when the printer doesn't work when the system
is rebooted.  I've found whole directories missing from the
/usr/spool/lp hierarchy after an abrupt shutdown, and this
logfile had entries relating to the missing directories.

Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: Questions about 2.3.4
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:52:57 GMT
Keywords: xenix, sco

In <1993Jan9.035350.16220@psg.com> rick@psg.com (Rick Buhagiar) writes:

:I am thinking of upgrading to 2.3.4 and I would appreciate if anyone who has
:upgraded from 2.3.2 can tell me what the difference is?

The most noticeable difference is the Korn Shell.  It alone is
probably worth the price of the upgrade :-).

:How do you upgrade? Are the files simply revised, or do you have to install
:2.3.4 from scratch?

SCO has a smart upgrade available that should work in place.

:Do applications like ELM, NN etc have to be compiled again?

Not here they didn't.

Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)
Subject: Need Kermit or ECU binaries for SCO Xenix 386 2.3.4
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:15:01 GMT

The subject pretty much says it all.  I'm looking for binaries for either
Kermit or ECU, preferably both, compiled for SCO Xenix/386 2.3.4.  If someone
knows of an FTP site with them, I'd be very happy!

Thanks in advance...

Jeff Berntsen
jeffb@world.std.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.xenix.misc
From: rwmech@uumeme.chi.il.us (Robert W. Mech)
Subject: Software Vendors/Suggestions Needed (FOLLOWUP)
Organization: UUMEME Public Access Xenix
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 15:18:18 GMT


I have been receiving many diffrent responses to my inquiry about POS/Accounting
system vendors for Unix/Xenix Systems.  I have also received many requests to
post my findings.  I am at the moment compiling a list of everyone that I 
have been able to contact about the software and services they provide.  I am
awaiting responses from some of the companys, when I have received all the 
information I will post my findings.  If anyone else has NUMBERS of others
selling POS/Accounting software, please email them to me.  I dont want to leave
anyone out.  Thanks!

	- Robert
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,gnu.gcc.help
From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Subject: Help building GCC-2.3.3 on SCO Xenix 2.3.4
Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 20:40:48 GMT

Has anyone gotten the latest version of GCC to build on
SCO Xenix? The closest config option to SCO Xenix
is ./configure i386-sco and configure reported back
that it was set up for SCO 3.2.2. I have no idea
how compatible 3.2.2 is with 2.3.4.

When I tried to build gcc, cc1 dumped core while trying
to build _muldi3.o for inclusion in tmplibgcc2.a.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can get GCC up and
running, please drop me a line. Thanks.


-- 
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From: s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Craig Macbride)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: BASIC Compiler for Xenix?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:11:41 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

eric@abode.ttank.com (Eric C. Bennett) writes:

>In article <1993Jan5.135003.1@evax.gdc.com> franzis@evax.gdc.com writes:
>>
>>    Does anyone know of a BASIC compiler that will run under
>>    SCO Xenix 2.3.4 ? Does SCO offer one?

Basmark makes a BASIC compiler compatible with Microsoft's BASIC. It's
available for SCO Xenix, SCO Unix and a number of other Unix platforms.
They often advertise in SCO Magazine, if you want a contact address.

(If you can't get a copy, let me know. I can email details to people once
I look them up at work.)

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch (Petri Juhani Riipinen)
Subject: Does Xenix write only 1.2 HD floppies?
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:49:44 GMT

Hi there.

Ok, I managed to write the files to my floppies, but then Xenix started
giving me this crap, that my floppies were full, even if they had 240kb
more to go. So, I understood, that Xenix thinks, that the floppy is only
1.2 MB, even if it is 3"5, 1.44 MB. So, is there any way to make Xenix
write more than 1.2MB to a floppy, or do I just have to waste the rest
of my floppies?

Email, please...

- PJR -
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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: sun rpc under xenix
Date: 7 Jan 93 04:04:18 GMT
Organization: GDX-BBS,Central Pa Unix BBS/anon uucp (717)737-3249 PEP+/2400/1200 24hrs


Has anyone compiled and used sun rpc under xenix?  (SCO xenix 386).

I'd like to use unfsd (non-kernel based nfsd) under xenix, but it
needs sun rpc.

Has anyone gotton this (unfsd), or any other nfs server to work under
xenix?   I know that not having multiple file system types, xenix can't
be an NFS client, but there shouldn't be any reason that xenix can't
be an NFS server (using a user process nfs deamon).  I'd like to mount
the xenix file systems on remote dos, and BSD (next) systems.

_______________________________________________________________________________
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This is your Brain: (unix)              GDX-BBS (717) 737-3249 WorldBlazer
This is your Brain on drugs: (MSDOS)     Unix and MSDOS File areas + Xenix bins