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From: tmike@cmptrc.lonestar.org (T. Mike Howeth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: prob w/ smail HP-UX 8.02 (837)
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:06:31 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

After much gyration, I am unable to compile smail on my 9000/837 w/ 8.02.
If YOU are having fun w/ smail on a like system, I would like to see your
conf/EDITME and os files.  Thanks.
-- 
tmike@cmptrc.lonestar.org                                               __
"Whoever said 'getting there is half the fun'                           \/
    has never ridden in a class 8 probe!"
From: christr@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Rob Christiansen)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:22:49 GMT
Subject: Re: What is the default blocksize on HP DAT tapes ?
Organization: HP Software Technology Division
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

/ hpcc01:comp.sys.hp / e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink) /  8:44 am  Aug 26, 1992 /

The default blocksize of tar is 10k (10240 bytes).  Checkout tar(4) for more
detailed info.

Rob Christiansen
rob@hpjarel.mayfield.hp.com
From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: VUE Console Window
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:06:25 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

HELP, I've fallen and I can't get up!

My console window has disappeared, and nothing seems to bring it back.

I've restarted VUE, logged out of VUE, and re-booted the system.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov   vsnyder@math.Jpl.Nasa.Gov  <-- preferred
ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder     ames!elroy!math!vsnyder
vsnyder@jato.uucp
From: harry@cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: VUEPAD -- Setting Word Wrap as Default ?
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:17:21 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

cobb@betsy.mc.ti.com (Chip Cobb) writes:
: My question is:   Is it possible to set Word Wrap on by default, and
:                   if possible, how to do it?

It is not possible with the vuepad shipped with HP-UX 8.07.  Once you
have HP-UX 9.0, set the resource:

Vuepad*wordWrapOn: True

Harry Phinney   harry@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: heeres@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Ken Heeres)
Subject: amd for HP 9000/7??
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:46:00 GMT

I am looking for a version of amd for the HP 9000/7??, does anyone have pointer
to it?  It is not on Iworks and the version I downloaded has configurations for
HP 300 but not the 700.  
  1. what version should I use
  2. will amd reread its map file without restarting?


ken



From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:42:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Vectra ("Classic") upgrade info/help needed!
Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

>(Esmail Bonakdarian) 
>I am trying to upgrade my "Classic" H-P Vectra and having a very
>hard time finding out the necessary info. The GOAL is to increase
>the size of my harddisk storage to around 100 MB at minimum cost.

One way is to add a SCSI card to the Vectra. The WD ST01 works but
ST02 apparently does not. Other SCSI cards should work but then
so should have the ST02. However the SCSI solution is the cleanest
and easiest solution to more disk drives. You can leave your existing
drives in the system and continue to use them. The limited number
of shelves in the Vectra may require an exeternal SCSI drive.

			     Danny Low
		        CPCD Technical Support
	               dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Subject: OS/2 NDIS driver needed for HP 27245A EtherTwist
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:02:37 GMT

How can I obtain an *OS/2* NDIS driver for the HP 27245A EtherTwist card?
Is there a repository of network drivers for these HP cards?  Thanks.

Shih-Ping Chan
Dept of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg
From: prs9k@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Phillip Ruxton Scarr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HELP: need a .scf to .bdf font converter!
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:39:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Sep2.153922.9409
Organization: University of Virginia

The title says it all.  We need to change some of the hp fonts to run
with a Microsoft Windows X server (Xvision).

	-Phil
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp


>>I asked another 700 user in our building and he said he also had odump in
>>the /usr/contrib/bin directory, but we ain't got nuttin in /usr/contrib at
>>all...
>
>Sounds like your friend has found an HP SE around.  They have tapes
>that make your machine much more useful.  Unfortunately, HP has this
>new "make money at all costs" philosophy, so getting a live SE to
>your site is not at all easy.  In the old days (3 years ago :-)  you
>could get an SE out just by calling your sales rep and saying you
>need help.  Now, you need to get divine intervention :-)
>
>Even getting the response center to upgrade your problem to the
>local office doesn't work (I have one request in right now).  All
>the HP SEs are out doing consulting services, instead of supporting
>customers...
>

I feel for you, but I don't know what to do. Perhaps the InterWorks
library has a copy of odump. You can try contacting the librarian at
librarian@iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu I cannot access this machine because
of HP's protected subnet but I understand it has various useful files. 

If InterWorks does not have the contrib fileset, they should be able
to get it. Then it could be loaded once on their machine and distributed
from there (it is a free fileset as far as I know). 

jim shoe

P.S. InterWorks is the HP Workstation Users Group.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jhd@irfu.se (Jan D.)
Subject: Re: X11R5 on hpux 8.07
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:15:49 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

In article <1992Sep1.083553.2934@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> a006700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Tang Sammy) writes:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Has anyone try building the X11R5 on HP-UX 8.07?
>It seems that everything is ok except that the main.c for
>xterm when compiled with -DSYSV. It complainted "_file undefined"
>with an error number 1588.
>
>I'm not too sure on what things I've missed in building the R5,
>the release note is a bit too heavy to me and if I've not missed
>anything in the docs, the steps for building it should be very straight.
>
>Any comments and sorry if this is a FAQ.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Sammy

HP has a slightly different stdio structure.

Change this

		stderr->_file = i;

to this

#ifdef __hpux
                stderr->__fileL = i & 0377;
                stderr->__fileH = (i >> 8) & 0377;
#else
                stderr->_file = i;
#endif

and you're set (soory, but I don't remember the line number).

	Jan D.


From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:50:20 GMT
Subject: Re: System crashes: "freeing free inode" and "LPMC"
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:

> In the past few weeks we have had numerous panics with "ifree: freeing
> free inode", and just had another panic with "LPMC handler got error
> on pdc_call" with LPMC type "SEDC".
> 
> Has anyone else seen these problems, or have some ideas what is causing
> them? The file system giving the "freeing free inodes" is our News
> partition, which is an 'sdsadmin'-created partition on our second disk
> (not the boot disk). That file system is quite active, creating about
> 10000 files per day, and deleting about that number during the 'expire'.

  Starting nit: In future please give some more details about your
system, i.e. Series, Model, software release, etc. and in this case the
type of disk(s).

  From the text I can figure out that this is about a Series 700, right?
If it is a 750 with an internal Micropolis Turbo 660MB disk, then call
your HP support organization: The "ifree: freeing free inode" panic may
be caused by a known problem in some of these systems.

  I don't have a clue about the LPMC stuff. I am not a hardware type,
but I am enough hardware type to advise you to talk to a HP hardware
type about this one too. :-)

Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: astsloke@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
Subject: Porting HP9000 Application to an IBM PC
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:05:51 GMT

I have a friend who would like to port an application over from an
Hewlett Packard 9000 series desktop computer to an IBM PC compatible.
The current HP 9000 setup is:
 
 
        Series:         HP 9000 - 236
        Model:          9836C Desktop
        CPU:            6800
        Peripherals:    2 x Double Density Disk Drives
                        1 x Thinkjet (HPIB)
        Source:         Majority of code is in Interpreted HP BASIC
                        while some code is in HP PASCAL
 
Apparently, he has read of a company called TRANSERA, which sells a HP
BASIC interpreter which runs on an IBM PC. He found an insert card in
BYTE magazine and sent it off to the company as well as a fax (this was
several months ago) but got no reply.
 
He would like to know:
 
1.  If there are any other solutions from either HP or some other
party to allow this porting to the IBM PC platform.  (Bascially he wants
to avoid recoding the entire application.)
 
2.  If anyone has a person to contact in TRANSERA as well as his/her fax
number.
 
3.  If anyone has any experience in using TRANSERA products and what
are their opinions of the product.
 
Please email to me directly and I will summarise to the list.
 
Any help will be *greatly* appreciated.
 
Thanks.
 
 
T.S. Loke
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
 
Bitnet:   astsloke@ntuvax.bitnet
Internet: astsloke@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg

* Standard Disclaimers Apply.
From: stuart@TIVOLI.COM (Stuart Jarriel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: attaching xdb to a running process...
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:15:05 GMT
Organization: Tivoli Systems, Inc

This is more of a signals question I think.  I would like to be able to 
fork/exec xdb in a hpterm window that in turn will attach to the parent 
process.  The code flow looks like this:

                main
                  |
                  |
                 fork----------------|
         (parent) |                  | (child  PID = XXX)
                  |                  |
                 wait()              |
                                     | 
                                    fork--------------------|
                                     |                      |
                                     |                      | (child)
                                     |                      |
                                     |                      | 
                                   pause()                exec()
                                     |                 (hpterm -e xdb -P XXX)
                                     |
                                 (debug code here)

Well, this works REALLY well except that after the debugger attached to the
code that is in the pause(), I cant get it to start.  SIGCONT has no effect.

As for signal handlers, the main has a handler for SIGCLD prior to the first
fork, and after the fork ignores SIGHUP, SIGINT and SIGPIPE.

I suspect that I just dont know enough about xdb to see what it needs to 
do to get a process started, but the only manual Ive seen is a really good
users manual, and this is a little beyond that.

If anyone knows more about xdb and what signals it uses to start/stop a 
process once it has gotten it with ptrace, please let me know.  

Thanks
stuart
From: chuckm@hpunsca.canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 14:09:46 GMT
Subject: Re: hpdesk <-> unix mail?
Organization: H-P Canada Ltd., Dartmouth, N.S.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp


Here's the generalized method I use to move email from a UN*X system
to HPDeskmanager systems -  it may or may not be official, but I can
say that I've never had mail bounce because of badly-formed addresses.
(I have had mail bounce because I did not know the correct HPDesk
 address to begin with   :-)

  If the recipient's HPDesk address is, for example:

       John DOE / HP1234/AB

  I use the following address when sending mail from a UN*X node:

       john_doe%ab@hp1234.desk.hp.com

  Note the underscore between first and last names, and the use of
  all lower-case characters.   HP's  HPDesk<-->email  gateway does
  all of the translation stuff for you.

This method works just fine when sending email from the public internet
into the HP internet.    HPDesk users can reply to UN*X email by simply
hitting their "REPLY" softkey.

As far as I know, all HPDesk addresses within HP are of the form:

      Firstname LASTNAME / HPXXXX/YY      (where XXXX and YY can be
					   numeric and/or uppercase
					   alpha)
which should translate to:

      firstname_lastname%yy@hpxxxx.desk.hp.com


Hope this helps!

Chuck.               Speaking for me, not H-P.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: lee@ceg.uiuc.edu (Chris Lee)
Subject: cable curiosity
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:19:18 GMT

This is just a curiosity....

Why doesn't the power cable have screws/locks of sorts to hold
it in place?  It seems that just about every other cable has a 
"locking" mechanism that makes it fit snugly while the power
cable pops out with the slightest tap or jolt to the system?

(I hope this doesn't generate TOO much stuff and waste bandwidth...
if it does, I apoligize for the distraction)

-- 
Chris Lee
University of Illinois Urbana
lee@ceg.uiuc.edu
(217)244-2903
From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:34:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Help w/CRX-24 Graphics
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, kincer@hagar.endicott.ibm.com.waterloo.hp.com writes:

> I'm trying to understand the overlay capabilities with a CRX-24.
> They say I have 8 overlay bitplanes.  Does this mean I can have a single
> 256 color overlay, or eight single bit control planes (window, clipping, etc)?
> Is it both (user configurable)?  I'm really trying to find out what 
> flexibility I have concerning overlays.  Thanks !

The overlay planes are configured as a single 8 bit PseudoColor visual.
This is the default visual for the X server.  The last entry in the 
colormap (255) is reserved for the transparency color.  The overlay
visual has a single hardware colormap, while the image planes have 
three 8 bit colormaps (for the image plane based 8 bit PseudoColor visual
and a single 24 bit colormap for the 24 bit DirectColor visual.

--
Howard Stroyan                                         
Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
User Interface Technology Division                     
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: bcr@cernapo (Bill Riemers)
Subject: HP equivalent of APOLLO ppri
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for High Energy Physics
Distribution: WORLD
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:32:29 GMT

I've noticed that HP's have a nasty "bug" of not killing
all processes when someone logs out.  Frequenly I'll log
in to find someones copy of tetris, or something equally
stupid still running and consumming half the cpu...  On
Apollo's this is easily taken care of by changing the 
process's priority with ppri and letting the owner of the
process delete it latter.  Is there an equivalent command
on the HP, or do I have to continously bother our very
busy system administrator?  (Or get out my pen and press
the reset button.)

                    Bill
From: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN??
Date: 31 Aug 92 04:36:57 GMT
Reply-To: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Organization: Commodore Sweden

In article <pl159410.714966154@academ01> pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez) writes:
>Gracias to Cathy at C= for that announcement!!! BTW, since C= IS working on a 
>new version [of Amigavision], where can I mail any comments or suggestion for
>the new vers. of AV??

Probably suggestions@cbmvax.commodore.com. It is however far to late now to
come up with suggestions for the next release. But please come in with
suggestions for the one after the next.

>- ALEJANDRO GARZA GONZALEZ tel. +(83)38-46-86 Monterrey, MEXICO (Yes, Mexico!)
>- pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx / luisk@men_at_work.mty.itesm.mx


-- 
============================================================\\======
Peter Hjalmarsson     \  hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com  \\  _
Amiga Support Engineer >-----------------------------------   \\//
Commodore Sweden      /  ...speaking for myself, not Commodore \/
From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN??
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:00:52 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <1992Aug25.163528.3890@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   Commodore occasionally does something right, but they NEVER do anything
>right on a timely basis.  This standalone runtime player should have been out
>a year ago.


Ah... but is it going to be a _freely redistributable_ runtime player?

If not, it'll be interesting but not hugely useful - as many people pointed
out, having to own a copy of amigavision to use things developed with it isn't
the way to encourage people to buy it - and I can count the number of
commercial amigavision applications that I've seen so far (where they could
maybe afford to licence the player) on the fingers of one nose :-) :-)

A PD player might finally get things going...
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| jc@crosfield.co.uk (jc@cel.uucp) or jc@selune.demon.co.uk        |   \_|__
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN??
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:13:06 GMT

In article <34767@cbmvax.commodore.com> campbell@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Campbell - CATS) writes:

[ ]
>
>Yes, it is going to be a freely redistributable runtime player.

Will it support CDTV?

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
Distribution: world
Date: 23 Aug 92 11:00:50 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Sun 23 Aug 92  2:07, Barrett@iastate.edu (marc N Barrett
wrote:

 BNB>    Just because I can read generic IBM (ISO-9660) CD-ROM discs, does
 BNB> this give
 BNB> me a library of interactive Amiga CD-ROM software?  No.  Having read
 BNB> access
 BNB> to IBM CD-ROM discs is directly analogous to having read/write
 BNB> access to
 BNB> IBM 720K discs with something like CrossDOS.  It does nothing to
 BNB> give a user
 BNB> a library of usable software.  I explained in a message in advocacy
 BNB> that 
 BNB> Amiga users have to expert programmers with degrees in computer
 BNB> science in
 BNB> order to use CD-ROM drives on Amigas.  This is because none of the
 BNB> most 
 BNB> popular generic CD-ROM databases have Amiga access software, so the
 BNB> Amiga 
 BNB> user has to write his or her own access software.  There is also no
 BNB> Amiga
 BNB> CD-ROM software of the quality and style of software for CD-I, CDTV,
 BNB> and 
 BNB> IBM.  

This does not sound like a problem. It sounds like an opporunity. Stop
complaining that "somebody else" should do it for you. Program an insanely
great access system yourself, sell it, and become rich. Isn't that the
"American Way?" When all you have are lemons, make lemonade!

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold)
Subject: I wanna cheap genlock w/passthrough
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:29:51 GMT

Greets fellow Amiga video enthusiasts; allow me to solocit your wisdom:

I want a genlock with an RGB passthough.  Why would anybody want to take the
darn thing on/off, on/off, on/off, etc, when you could leave it attached
permantly if it had a passthrough?  Why do manufacturers make them without
passthroughs?

Anyway, this device would be for home use.  I don't need broadcast quailty 
(I doubt I could tell the difference), nor do I want to pay a bunch for
all of the bells and whistles.

I did some reasearch (from Amiga World special edition (the one with the silver
dude on the cover)) and found the Alter Image genlock to be exactly what
I am looking for!  To bad it's no longer made (serves me right for reading
year old magazines.)

I see the following options:
1. Minigen: no passthrough, other than that... it seems to be what I want
2. RocGen: I've heard the signal ain't too good (then again, I couldn't tell)
3. SupraGen: do I hafta spend this much to get a clean signal gen w/passthru

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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