HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow? (=NeWS!)
Summary: Too true.
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:18:13 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ

In article <CKD.92Aug17163152@loiosh.eff.org> you write:
>TK> == thomas kendelbacher <token@ernohb.UUCP> 
>
> TK> That spells out as "in order to speed up OpenWindows-3 startup,
> TK> forget it and use something else instead ???"
>
>Precisely.  Just as "in order to get sendmail to do the right thing,
>junk the one Sun supplies and use something else instead."

Right on!

>
>Or "in order to get NIS to deal properly with hostname resolution,
>forget it and use something else instead."

What he said!!

>
>I tend to have little patience for brain-damaged vendor software. :)

Not to mention the syslogd so old Chuck Babbage was porting it to his box,
and the 'I live for the D-state' automounter...
-- 
Jim Davis            | "Maybe I will get to use my right hook after all!"
jdavis@noao.edu      |   -- Clarissa Darling
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan)
Subject: halt and catch fire?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:34:44 GMT

I just read the SunFlash announcement of Solaris 1.1, which includes
SunOS 4.1.3.  There's a long list of bug fixes, in which one line
caught my eye:
1088483  Security: 600MP shipped with halt_and_catch_fire

Is somebody having a little joke, or is this a serious item?

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From: exudnw@exu.ericsson.se (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: halt and catch fire?
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:16:43 GMT
Reply-To: exudnw@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems

On a 4/690 (Ross-Cypress CPUs) under 4.1.2

nm /vmunix | grep -i halt
f8101770 T _halt
f8005058 T _halt_and_catch_fire
f811e15c T _mcp_dmahalt

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= exudnw@exu.ericsson.se                                                =
= David Williams              "You can't win, you can't break even,     =
= Ericsson Network Systems     and you can't quit"                      =
= Richardson, TX 75081                                  my opinions...  =
From: stern@brahms.udel.edu (Garland Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: HELP! Can't read /dev/ttya on 386i
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:35:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Delaware

I am trying to read /dev/ttya in order to transfer data
from an obsolete machine.  The following code fragment is the
offender:

ttf = open("/dev/ttya", O_RDWR);
if (ttf < 0) {
	printf("Can't open /dev/ttya!\n");
	exit(-1);
	}
ioctl(ttf, TCGETS, &pdpstat);
pdpstat.c_iflag = IGNBRK | IGNPAR | IXON | IXOFF;
pdpstat.c_oflag = ONLCR | NL1 | CR3;
pdpstat.c_cflag = B9600 | CS7 | CLOCAL | PARENB;
pdpstat.c_lflag &= ~(ICANON | ECHO | ISIG);
pdpstat.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
ioctl(ttf, TCSETS, &pdpstat);
	for ( ; ; ) {
		n = read(ttf, buf, sizeof buf);
		prbuf(buf, n);
		}

Writing is not a problem - chars written to ttf make it to
the other end OK.

I'm sure the hardware works - an identical terminal emulator
running on the sun and a pc works just fine in both directions.

Could there be some hidden process which is also reading
/dev/ttya?  (/etc/ttys, /etc/ttytab, and /etc/gettytab all
have ttya disabled).

One curious thing - once /dev/ttya is open the owner and
permissions do not change.

Thanks in advance for restoring my sanity

(post replies or email to stern@medsci.udel.edu)
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 17:36:45 +02
From: Philip Vanneste <FZAAE02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject:    fonts in OpenWindows2

Hello,

We have just started using OpenWindows2 on a SparcStation ELC (big screen).
However, the default font is so small that it is killing the eyes of
most of the users. Is there any way to change the default font ?

Please mail any answer to
Philip Vanneste
e-mail: fzaae02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
    or  fzaae02@blekul11.bitnet
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From: johnj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (John A. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Power Specification
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:49:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library


We're moving some of our stuff to a "to be built" computer room.
Presently we have to calculate the power consumption of our systems to
be in the room.

In preparing the facts for an RFP for protected power (UPS), a document
on the subject of computer room specs indicates that this should be
calculated in a unit called KVA.

Anyone know how to calculate this?  From a basic PC we read X watts and
Y amps max draw, and for our Sun server I have only 1,174 watts maximum
draw - but no KVA!

Any clues on calculating the KVA would be appreciated.
From: bruce@neuro-dev.neuro (Bruce Kall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Display GX hardware cursor
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:05:29 GMT
Reply-To: bruce@neuro-dev.neuro
Organization: Sun Microsystems

Does anyone know how to disable the hardware
cursor on a GX?????


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From: ables@hal.com (King Ables)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:27:26 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.

> If you delete the lost+found directory there are ways to get it back, but
> arbitrarily removing it is not a very good idea.

You complained about bad advice to novices, yet this statement is itself
misleading.  To clarify:

If you delete your lost+found directory, there are ways to make another
one.  There are *not* ways to get THE ONE YOU HAD back (i.e. with saved
files in it).  (Yes, I know you can fsdb your filesystem or something
equally baroque [but ONLY if no other changes have been made while it was
mounted] but I'm talking about *normal* Unix tools to get things back).

If you delete your lost+found directory and fsck had saved corrupted
data there that you want, it's gone.  You can make a *new* lost+found
directory which the appropriate amount of available file slots so that
fsck can use it again if it wants to, but you can't get *those* data files
back.
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ables@hal.com                 8920 Business Park Dr., Suite 300
+1 512 794 2855               Austin, TX  78759
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From: ehgasm2@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: HELP!  Getting wierd-Sun-format data off the floppy disk...
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:43:48 GMT
Reply-To: S.Marshall@Hull.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

Hi all, I hope someone out there can help me, I'm in a real fix.  A year or so
ago, I put some *vital* data, part of my research, onto 3.5" discs, using our
SparcStation's floppy disc drive.  I did it to free up a load of space.

Originally, I was going to make a compressed tar-file on the Sun, and copy the
file to floppy disc.  Our Unix Guru said, "No!  You can put it on <in
such-and-such a way>".  I've forgotten how he did it, and I've forgotten how to
get the data off.  Unfortunately, the Guru is no longer with us (sadly in every
sense), and I'm stuck.

I get the following:

% mdir
Probable non-MSDOS disk
mdir: Cannot initialize 'A:'
% bar tf /dev/fd0
bar: Bad format. Insert volume 1 and press Return when ready.

How else can I put data on/pull it off?  I think I'm right in remembering that
the data "filled the disc" or somesuch, so that I could not use it for anything
else while I used it in that way.

Please email/post/anything-you-like.  I'm desperate!

Many thanks, in advance.  Simon.
-- 
Simon Marshall, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
  "Football isn't about life and death.  It's more important than that." Bill
Email: S.Marshall@Hull.ac.uk    Phone: +44 482 465181    Fax: 466666   Shankley
From: ram%artecon@hp-sdd.sdd.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: *Blinking cursor in a shelltool*
Date: 12 Aug 1992 19:04:23 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hello World

	Is there a way to change the cursor from a solid rectangle
	to a blinking (flashing) rectangle/whatever ? 
	Also xterms come with a nice `cr' option to change the
	cursor color. Is it possible to change the cursor color in 
	the shelltool? 

	Would appreciate any help. (I can design my own cursor using
	iconedit, but how do i tell the shelltool to start using this 
	new cursor?)

ps
	670MP running 4.1.2
	OW3
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
From: pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader)
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Originator: pv@gagme
Keywords: Pseudo-ops
Organization: Inline Software Creations
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:18:42 GMT

mcdowell@exloghou.exlog.com (Steve McDowell) writes:

> Out of idle curiosity more than anything, can anyone tell me
> what calls the _halt_and_catch_fire() routine in locore.o?

> What does this routine do? A quick poke at it with adb leaves
> me terribly confused, as it seems to be an endless loop that
> adds adds 2 meaningless numbers.

> Anybody?

Someone (I think in this group) occasionally posts a *very* exhaustive list
of assembler opcodes that you wish actually existed. Most are just jokes
(BM - Branch if Maybe, or AO - Annoy Operator), but this is the second time
I've heard of an actual implementation of my favorite on the list, HCF. The
other story was about an undocumented 8080 opcode used for stress testing
that would rapidly "strobe bus lines" (whatever that means. I'm not a bare
metal hardware type), eventually cooking the chip. If I can dig up my copy
of the list I'll post it. Till then, be afraid. Be very afraid. PV
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: greg@itc.gu.edu.au (Greg Watson)
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
Reply-To: greg@itc.gu.edu.au
Organization: Griffith University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 23:25:15 GMT

In article 16695@exlog.com, mcdowell@exloghou.exlog.com (Steve McDowell) writes:
>Out of idle curiosity more than anything, can anyone tell me
>what calls the _halt_and_catch_fire() routine in locore.o?
>

The halt_and_catch_fire routine triggers a trap 0xC8 which in turn calls a routine
that is guaranteed to cause the processor to stop, possibly triggering a watchdog
reset.

It's called from a couple of places that are undef'ed in the code I have. It
appears to be used when a CPU id check fails.

It is only supported on the sun4m architecture.

Greg



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From: carl@syscon.rn.com (Carl Kreider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:12:38 GMT
Organization: Syscon Corporate Headquarters - South Bend, IN USA

Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan) writes:

>bmw@isgtec.com (Bruce M. Walker) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug17.132819.29817@zoo.bt.co.uk> jcs@zoo.bt.co.uk (John C
>Sager) writes:
[.... re the 6800 HCF ... ]
>>instruction set caused the processor to cease fetching instructions,
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>new 6800 design.  Just burn HCF into every EPROM location, get your 'scope
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Isn't this contradictory?

My, my.  Aren't we picky.  Of course it is only necessary to burn it where
the reset vector points.  However, if you fill empty space in the eprom
with hcfs, control transfer errors during execution get pretty obvious
if you monitor a couple address lines.  Or better yet split the address
lines to two DACs to the x and y inputs of a vector scope.
-- 
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CIS  71076,76      Internet  carl@syscon.rn.com
From: little@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Littlejohn Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: PC Emulators
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:50:23 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal



What experience do people have with PC emulators for the SparcStation? 
(e.g. Soft PC, or anything else that may be out there).

I would be most interested in any recommendations, prices and sources.
Thanks!

Tim


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rthau@qualix.com (Rick Thau)
Subject: Re: Wrist problems, input devices, and Sun workstations
Reply-To: rthau@qualix.com
Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:38:35 GMT

Please contact Qualix Group, info@qualix.com or 800-245-UNIX.... We have several
products designed to replace the optical mouse you are now using....

Rick Thau

In article 14392@oracle.us.oracle.com, schiles@martini.us.oracle.com (Suzanne Chiles) writes:
>In article <15rb80INN2pq@cs.utexas.edu>, turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell
>Turpin) writes:
>|>-*----
>|>I should have made it more clear, when I wrote:
>|>
>|>> ... Yes, they have seen their physicians, and yes, they have
>|>> tried varying the way they use their keyboards. ...
>|>
>|>that this includes varying the height of the keyboard, the 
>|>placement of the mouse, remapping the return key, and the use
>|>of wrist pads.  None of these have resolved the problems, at
>|>least, not in the worst case.  I am really hoping for other
>|>suggestions.
>|>
>
>In my case, the doctor has *strongly* urged me to find an option to the
>Sun optical mouse.  I keep trying to call Sun Microsystems, but go straight
>from the receptionist to phone mail hell.  If anyone knows about any
>options -- conventional mouse, trackball, whatever -- please let me know.  
>
>Suzanne
>             
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>schiles@us.oracle.com			No, they aren't those of Oracle.
>					Yes, you are most welcome to them.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: petrasg@berra.cs.rpi.edu (George Petras)
Subject: Re: How to make focus follow cursor
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:59:55 GMT

I'm surprised nobody mentioned that you can choose to have keyboard
focus follow the mouse from inside the OpenWindows "Properties" program.
It can be run from the root menu or by typing "props".

The category is "Miscellaneous".

gp.
From: zhang@buast7.bu.edu (Zhang Yun Fei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting a Floppy
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:31:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

A problem related to pcfs. When I tried to mount /pcfs, I got the following
error message:

  mount_pcfs: /dev/fd0 on /pcfs type pcfs: I/O error
  mount: giving up on:
     /pcfs

What could be the cause of this error? 

BTW, the eject command works properly on /dev/fd0.

Yun Fei Zhang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Where the Eck is herror?
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:36:08 GMT

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

>In article <1992Aug13.040617.11413@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>>While building xftp I got an unresolved reference:
>>
>>ld: Undefined symbol 
>>   _herror 
>>make: *** [xftp] Error 2

> Try compiling with libresolv.a

First thing I tried.  Still came up unresolved, and nm confirms no such
name.  Are you perhaps using the ported BSD version?

In any case, the problem was "fixed" by grabbing "res/herror.c" from
the UCB bind distribution.  This module contains the herror routine and
not much else.
-- 
 "Voodoun is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those
  members of it who are dead."
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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:28:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: volitans.BOB.92Aug14142839
	<1992Aug10.144046.18197@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
	<1992Aug11.235441.1646@pacdata.uucp>
Organization: Morning Star Technologies

In article <1992Aug11.235441.1646@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes:
   ...a complaint from a co-worker about me always talking about
   spawning demons...

When I addressed a conference of missionaries who use computers to get
their job done, we got along pretty well as I described heterogenous
interoperable global-scale networks by analogy to the Pax Romana.  I
got only a few concerned looks when I mentioned daemons (which I was
careful to pronounce "day-muns") running round inside my OS.

But the biggest reaction came when I did a big-screen demo of
telnetting across a PPP modem connection from that lecture hall into
my office systems.  I run yow(6) in my .login, and they were
confronted with "Over in West Philadelphia a puppy is vomiting."  At
that point they all wrote me off as a hopeless layman, but at least
(to their credit) most of them kept listening to what I had to say...

(I'm not a missionary nor even a full-time preacher, nor do I play one
on TV, but I hang out with them whenever I can.)
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From: cardo@coos.dartmouth.edu (Frederick L. Crabbe IV)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: what is halt_and_catch_fire?
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:20:29 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:


>Instruction HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) I understood to be part of HOS, that
>is, Hostile Operating System.  If Dennis Boylan reads this, perhaps he
>would be so kind as to dig up and post and/or mail a copy of the whole
>thing.  This was an item I saw floating around Georgia Tech sometime in the
>late 70s.
>-JTT

From the Jargon file:
HCF: /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire', any of
   several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with
   destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on
   several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360.
   The MC6800 microprocessor was the first for which the HCF opcode
   became widely known.  This instruction caused the processor to
   {toggle} a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in
   some configurations this can actually cause lines to burn
   up.

--
Ric Crabbe 
Consultant/Postmaster/Stand-Up Philosopher/Grad Student(!?)
From: eeandrew@cybaswan.UUCP (e c andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:24:43 GMT
Reply-To: eeandrew@pyr.swan.ac.uk
Organization: UC Swansea

In article <1992Aug17.152726.21925@hal.com> ables@hal.com (King Ables) writes:
>> If you delete the lost+found directory there are ways to get it back, but
>> arbitrarily removing it is not a very good idea.

Of course, if it's /tmp/lost+found, that means that /tmp is a separate
partition. And you probably don't care if you can't get the files back from
there... (but it may make an auto-fsck croak, of course...)

Eddy Andrews
eeandrew@pyr.swan.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Subject: Re: surpressing background color when capturing an image of a window
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:41:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Aug10.113913.1775@tba.uucp> tmb@tba.uucp (Tim Brown - TBA) writes:
=
=The user is using a software package that does not generate postscript
=output. Therefore he is forced into capturing a raster image of the 
=desired window. The user converts the sunraster image to postscript 
=and then prints the file.
=
=The problem is that the software displays the image with
=a black background in the window and the user has no control over this
=feature. The user wants to eliminate the black background when printing. 
=It does not appear that there are any options for removing the 
=background color on a window through Sun's Snapshot utility or through 
=NeWSPrint. I have also looked briefly through the bpmplus utilities as 
=well and found no obvious solution.
=
=Can anyone give me some guidance on if this can be done and what utilities
=are available. I would prefer to find a solution that ignored the window's
=background when capturing the image, but we would accept any utilities
=that would work on an raster file or postscript file.

This is a simple man page reading task.

'man ras2ps' gives you one of the option to do exactly what you want,

     -i   Invert the image.  This will reverse black and white on
          a  monochrome  image  and  is  of limited usefulness on
          color images.

Also see rash(1), rasterfile(5), rasfilter8to1(1).

Also try 'man -k raster', you might surprise yourself with some
unknown programs(to you) on your system.

=
=Thanks for your assistance
=
=Tim Brown
=
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow? (=NeWS!)
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<1992Aug10.170900.6655@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr>
	<1992Aug10.232537.16251@sq.sq.com>
	<BABY.92Aug13155132@turing.info.polymtl.ca>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:08:59 GMT

PG> == Philippe Grant <baby@info.polymtl.ca> 
LQ> == lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:

 LQ> You can get a small speed-up by disabling the "OpenWinsow 3" banner
 LQ> at startup.

 PG> ...and would you share the wealth?  How would a common mortal go
 PG> about disabling this banner?

Well, we did it here by installing X11R5 (which has other advantages,
and the primary disadvantage is that we can't use AnswerBook [easily]).

Of course, this solution is not for those who need some OW3-only
functionality, or who have a corporate requirement for vendor-supported
software.

--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
            ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
            Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master
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