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From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin)
Subject: Re: File size limitations in AIX?
Summary: ooops, my mistake :-}
Organization: College of Marine Studies, U. Del.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:32:09 GMT

In article <Bs79nJ.EHu@news.udel.edu> mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
>I just found out that AIX limits the size of Fortran direct-access
>files to 1 GB.   What happened to the extra addressing bit?  
>A limitation of 2 GB is irritating enough --- why 1 GB?

Ooops.  Ignore this complaint.  It was a simple limit problem.
The other complaint about the 2 GB maximum size of a file system still
stands....
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From: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu (J. Scott Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: I am so confused! (Shared libraries)
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:01:52 GMT
Reply-To: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
Organization: Stanford University, dept of Physics / SLAC

I want to do the following:

I have several routines, one routine each, in source files A1.f, A2.f,
and A3.f.  I want these routines to be used in several programs (in
reality I have not 3 but 150).  I compile each

xlf -O -c Ak.f

Lets say I write two programs B1 and B2 that use these routines.  I
want to be able to do the following:

xlf -O B1.f -L/home/mylib -lstuff

The result of this should be that 

  1) If B1 only uses routine A1, only routine A1 and NOT A2,A3 should
     be loaded
  2) B1 should NOT contain a copy of A1
  3) It would be nice if A1 (and A2, A3) were shared among all
     applications using them.
  4) /home/mylib/libstuff.a should be as small as possible (part of
     that means that is has the minimum amount of symbol table 
     information necessary to load)

So, how do I use ld or xlf to do this?  I have tried to be specific,
since every time someone gives an answer to "how do I make a library
shared?" a different answer is given (and every different answer
produces a different result!  One of those answers just produced a
78MB library; it should be more like 1MB).

Does this make sense?  Have I been specific enough?  Is this possible?
Am I insane to want to do this?  All help is greatly appreciated.  If
what I want to do is impossible, the "closest" solution would also be
appreciated. 

Thanks very much

				-Scott Berg

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From: legend@cheshire.oxy.edu (Linda A. Malcor)
Subject: AADU Help/Questions
Organization: Los Angeles Times - Editorial Library
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:02:07 GMT

Is there a way to convince PCI that the ptys that are generated are vt220
terminals? This seems like a simple thing to do with ttys why are ptys 
such a pain. SMIT does not seem to have a way to tell the ptys what their 
default terminal type (and erase key) are.
   One of the minor problems that I am trying to fix is that when you start
to login you have no erase key. Also the "tset" command can't quite figure
out the diffrence between our dialup and our network connections.
  I hope I have been clear enough to get a clear answer.

Thanks,

  Daniel Malcor
(213) 237-4590
From: is@groucho.dev.uga.edu (Bob Stearns)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: When was it really created?
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:54:29 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia

As is usual in a multiuser system, we are short of disk space. We make
available to our users a segment where files which will be reused or
moved offline may be kept for up to four days. They have discovered
touch (all of 100's of files with the same time stamp to within a
second) and are abusing the privelege.

Does anyone know how to get the real (untouched, untouchable) file
creation time of a file in AIX? Do I have to create a database of my own
with time first seen and checksum? Has anyone else solved this problem?

Any suggestions, pointers or manual references greatly appreciated.
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From: rhcoe@buscfg.austin.ibm.com (Rich Coe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Is vi broken under 3.2?
Keywords: hung ptys and ttys
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:51:33 GMT
Reply-To: rhcoe@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Rich Coe)
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX

In article <1992Jul14.121659.28442@email.tuwien.ac.at> fritscher@edvz.tuwien.ac.at writes:
>In article <13sjp3INN1i1@agate.berkeley.edu>, gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
>|>  We recently upgraded an RS/6000 540 to AIX v. 3.2.  A few of our users
>|> have noticed that vi occasionally "hangs" under the new OS, forcing them
>|> to kill the vi process and reset the window that was running vi.
>|> 
>|> Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, what did you do about it?

This is one of two problems due to serialization in the tty subsystem code.
Order the following 2 apars from your Country's support organization 
(or SE) to fix the problem.

ix24895 pty device driver (processes hung on output)
ix24329 posix line discipline (processes hung on input, w/ input available)

Regards, Rich Coe
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: block@ief.itg.ti.com (Bucky Block)
Subject: SUMMARY: dbx problems
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:22:24 GMT
Organization: IEF Development, Texas Instruments Inc., Plano Texas.
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at Texas Instruments Inc.
              The opinions expressed within are those of the user and not
              necessarily those of Texas Instruments.


Thanks to Gary Keim <gk5g+@andrew.cmu.edu> who provided me
with the MALLOCTYPE 3.1 fix. After I set that variable dbx
worked ok (not great, but ok). 

Funny thing, my application dies if I don't use the 3.1 malloc, 
does anyone know what the difference is between the two mallocs?

Thanks, 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jm@expert.expert.com (Jane Majkiewicz)
Subject: aix users group
Organization: Computer Publishing Group
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:47:59 GMT

I am interested in surveying members of the International AIX
User Group for a story in RS/Magazine. I would appreciate any
comments, suggestions or opinions that you would like to share
regarding IAUG and its services for RS/6000 users. You can
contact me through my e-mail address jm@expert.com or by phone
at (617) 738-3403. In your response, please include your name,
company, title, and which IAUG chapter you belong to.
Thanks for your help,
Jane Majkiewicz
Senior Editor
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: marca@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Subject: Re: Imake and Xmkmf - Hello, IBM???
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:09:35 GMT

RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com (Thomas J Cozzolino) writes:
: Does anyone know where Imake and/or xmkmf are, and to how to use them under
: AIX 3.2?
: 
: No one from IBM seems able to tell me where the source or binaries are; I need
: to build some Public-domain code and would dearly like to get this capability
: on AIX. Geez, we waited *long enough* for R4, I figured that Imake/xmkmf would
: be included, too.  I was mistaken.

They're hiding in /usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/config.  The IBM X folks elected
not to support imake/xmkmf (not support == don't test, don't ship binaries,
don't fix bugs), but source code is there.

Hope this helps,

Marc

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hm292hu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Fred Hucht)
Subject: Re: dos2unix & unix2dos in AIX 3.2
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:31:51 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Duisburg
Keywords: sun, aix, unix2dos, dos2unix

In <1992Jul20.213348.6111@ra.msstate.edu> bill@AEC.MsState.Edu (bill balcerzak) writes:

>On my Sun I have the commands dos2unix and unix2dos.  Is there something similar
>available for the IBM RS/6000?  The RS/6000 does have doswrite and dosread but
>the output (as far as I know) has to be sent to a dos filesystem (such as on a
>floppy drive).  I'm looking for something which will allow me to convert a file
>and keep it in the aix filesystem.

When you have installed pci.obj, you will find aix2dos and dos2aix 
in the directory /usr/lpp/pci/bin.

Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany
EMail: fred@hal6000.Uni-Duisburg.DE
From: block@ief.itg.ti.com (Bucky Block)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Linking with Shared and Non-shared libs.
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:21:50 GMT
Organization: IEF Development, Texas Instruments Inc., Plano Texas.
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at Texas Instruments Inc.
              The opinions expressed within are those of the user and not
              necessarily those of Texas Instruments.


This may be a stupid question but...

I have built X11 R5 for my rs6000 running AIX 3.2, the default
ibm.cf specifies the rules for building shared libraries. R5 is
great, however when I try to run an application that that was 
linked with the Motif lib (from IBM 1.1.4 ,non-shared) and the 
new X11R5 libs (shared) I get the following:

root on ief% testit.rs6000
Could not load program testit.rs6000
Could not load library libXm.a[shr4.o]
Error was: No such file or directory


I've tried the -bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp flags but then the
linker has a bunch of unknown symbols.

Any help would be appreciated...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: fletcher@netcom.com (F. Sullivan Segal)
Subject: Graphical programming
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:18:49 GMT
Organization:  bottom up!
Summary: Need information about graphical programming environments.
Distribution: na

Does anyone know of a graphical programming environment for UNIX,
or specifically for the RS6000?  I'm badly in need of something
that will allow my users to define new models for a project I'm
working on, and would like to use something with a graphical 
interface.

The product needs to be capable of some pretty heavy duty processing,
and should graphically represent the connection between program modules,
should be able to display information at a variety of detail levels,
preferably including a hierarchical representation.

For anyone familiar with ISI's Matrix-X product, this is a good 
example of what I need, but ISI fell through on porting their product
to the RS6000 platform, so I'm left scrambling for an alternative.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. 


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: kruel@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
Subject: Re: bibcard executable on a RS/6000 ??
Keywords: bibcard, RS/6000
Organization: Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie / Uni Wuerzburg
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:42:19 GMT

In article <4806@tuegate.tue.nl> ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts) writes:
> Is there somewhere out there an anonymous ftp-server where I can find
> a compiled version of bibcard.
> Ronald Aarts
> Eindhoven University of Technology  | Internet: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl

I fear that it might not be possible, since bibcard relies on the OpenWindows 
developers guide, which, as far as I know, is available on Suns only. 

However, there exist versions prior to 1.0 which need xview3 only, so the 
chance that some kind soul can compile it for you is higher than zero.

Versions 0.9 are not as bad and can be recommended also.

Thomas.
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From: julie@levell.austin.ibm.com (Julie L. Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: problem with putuserpw subroutine
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:54:10 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <LWVANELS.92Jul27094958@fionavar.mit.edu> lwvanels@MIT.EDU writes:
>bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Bob Ware) writes:
>
>>   Has anyone had success using the putuserpw subroutine?  
>>   The getuserpw subroutine seems to work as advertised, but the putuserpw
>>   routine always bombs with errno pointing to:
>>	   Only the owner or a privileged user can perform the operation.
>
>It looks like there is indeed a bug; it looks like getuserpw() is doing a
>setpwdb() to get read-only access to the auth db, and never closing it when
>it is finished.  
	
getuserpw()
 *   This is a library routine. It returns the requested attribute values
 *   in malloc'd memory. A call to enduserdb() will free all the memory.

We can't call enduserdb because it will free the memory just malloc'd.

> Furthermore, it looks like putuserpw is trying to be smart
>about things, and not trying to get read-write access if the database is
>open at all.  Since getuserpw left it open with read-only access, putuserpw
>fails.

	If no one has called setpwdb() then putuserpw will call
	it with read/write

	        /* open for read and write */
        if (chkpsessions() == 0)
        {
                if (setpwdb (S_READ | S_WRITE))
                        return (-1);
        }

>
>There's two work-arounds for this- either explicitly call
>setpwdb(S_READ|S_WRITE) before putuserpw(), or call endpwdb() after the call
>to getuserpw.
>
>		-Lucien

	I think the rule-o-thumb would be if you want to write to
	the database, call setpwdb yourself.

>
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: slouder@nsf.gov (Steve Loudermilk)
Subject: AIX Block Size
Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:25:47 GMT


A couple of weeks ago I asked why files seemed to take up so much more room  
under AIX.  My thanks to those who told me there was a 4 KB block size that  
was, unfortunately, not configurable.  Some said that this has been the subject  
of many complaints.  I can imagine.  I've never worked on a UNIX system that  
you couldn't configure the block size.  Of course that wouldn't be so bad if  
the size weren't so large!

Now management has asked me to inquire if anyone knows if IBM has any  
intentions of changing this in the future.  Is a global size required to make  
the logical volume manager work?  

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From: eddjp@edi386.huber.com ( Dewey Paciaffi )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: 8mm 2.3 Gig backup times
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:59:03 GMT
Organization: J.M. Huber Corp. Edison, NJ

I've recently aquired a 970 with a 2.3 Gig tape. I find that whatever
I do, I can't seem to get more than 1 Gig per hour backup rate. At worst,
using the 512 byte block, it took about 2.5 hours/gig.

Here's what I currently using, and the hardware blocking in smit is set
to 512 bytes, because that's what mksysb likes:

backup -0uf- -b32 /oracle1 |  tctl -p 65536 -b 16384 -f /dev/rmt0.1 write

Am I kidding myself that I should be able to get more than 1 Gig/hour on this
tape (we get 2Gig/hour on a Sparc/Budtool setup), or is there something
really obvious that I've missed?


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick)
Subject: Re: MUltiple backups in a single tape.
Keywords: backup, dump, restore
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:31:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.191929.15642@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> carlosp@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Thunder Carlosp) writes:
>
>How can I squeeze multiple level 0 backups in a single 8mm tape?
>
>I tried to use tctl to skip my first dump file and dump the second one. However,
>tctl sems to move forward but keep rewinding the tape. I tried to use
>tapedevice /dev/rmt0.1 ( a non-rewinding device according to the man pages),
>However, if I use this device I always get a read input/outout error while
>trying to restore my data. A single dump/restore  (or I should say backup/restore)
>works fine, but I have not been able to skip the first dump file (it seems). 
>
>Tapechk reports the existence of 2 file in good shape. However
>
>tctl -f /dev/rmt0 rew
>tctl -f /dev/rmt0.1 fsf 1
>restore -if /dev/rmt0.1 

You should always use the -s option on restore command when extracting files
from a multiple file backup tape.  For example:

  tctl -f /dev/rmt0 rew
  restore -s2 -if /dev/rmt0.1

will do what you want to do.
>
>will produce  input/output  or tape error. 
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From: poger@cs.unc.edu (Elliot Poger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: memory limit, color map problems
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:10:25 GMT


We've been having a couple of probelms on our 550E
(AIX 3.1, 512 megs RAM).

1) User is limited to ~100 megs RAM, even when the 
   limit is set astronomically high in SMIT.
2) Colors seem to be missing (i.e., when I run Info
   Explorer, it works, but I get the message, 
   "X Toolkit Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
   for 'Black'".

  Has anyone else had these problems? Any suggestions?

  Thanks,
	Elliot
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: joe@uunet!cambex!zeus
Subject: looking for info on LVM...
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:50:03 GMT
Organization: cambex

I am looking for references to any information on AIX's
enhancements to the filesystem interface, including logical
volumes and the logical volume manager.

I have read the articles in RS/6000 Technology titled:
"Evolution of Storage Facilities in the AIX System" and
"Auxiliary Storage Management in the AIX Operating System".  While
these articles were very informative, I'm looking for more detail.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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From: hecht@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Caroline Hecht)
Subject: Re: Xstation 120 and X11R4
Reply-To: hecht@tc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell National Supercomputer Facility
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:54:03 GMT

In article <949coB1w165w@improb.cls.com>, jlw@improb.cls.com (Jeff Wannamaker) writes:
|> john@pauli.lv-physics.nevada.edu (John Kilburg) writes:
|> 
|> > We just got 4 megs of non-video memory for our Xstation 120 and so I decided
|> > to try to run the R4 server.  The server loads onto the Xstation and then
|> > the screen turns white.  The server gives the AGE copyright message
|> > before it turns white.
|> > 
|> > Has anyone encountered this problem?  The R3 server works OK.
|> > 
|> > Does it need more video memory?  It has 1/2 meg.  As far I could
|> > determine it would only need more video memory if we put a larger display
|> > on it (it has a 1024x768 grayscale monitor).
|> > 
|> 
|> I assume you are running AIX 3.2.x since you mentioned the R4 server.
|> For 120's there are two bootfiles.  Try bootfile1.  That is the one we
|> are using and our 120's work fine.  (We do have 1024 Meg though).
|> 
|> --
|> Jeff Wannamaker, jlw@improb.cls.com  OR  ...!uunet!cls!improb!jlw

Even in AIX 3.1.5, both the R3 and R4 servers are provided for X Stations.
You just need to go into smit and create a name for the combination of
"X Station 120 and bootfile1".  

While this works on most X Stations, we do have some X Station 120's which
will not boot up with R4 (bootfile1), though they work fine with R3 (bootfile).
Someone here vaguely recalled that this indicates that a hardware upgrade is
required.  Anyone know details?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
Subject: Re: 8mm 2.3 Gig backup times
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:05:33 GMT

In article <210@edi386.huber.com> eddjp@edi386.huber.com ( Dewey Paciaffi ) writes:
>I've recently aquired a 970 with a 2.3 Gig tape. I find that whatever
>I do, I can't seem to get more than 1 Gig per hour backup rate. At worst,
>using the 512 byte block, it took about 2.5 hours/gig.
>
>Here's what I currently using, and the hardware blocking in smit is set
>to 512 bytes, because that's what mksysb likes:
>
>backup -0uf- -b32 /oracle1 |  tctl -p 65536 -b 16384 -f /dev/rmt0.1 write
>
>Am I kidding myself that I should be able to get more than 1 Gig/hour on this
>tape (we get 2Gig/hour on a Sparc/Budtool setup), or is there something
>really obvious that I've missed?

240K/sec is about 14.4M/min is about 864M/hour

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