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From: sridhar@ameiris1.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sridhar  Sundararaman)
Subject: Printer Problem
Originator: usenet@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:08:35 GMT
Organization: Computer Aided Design and Vision Research Lab, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Keywords: lp

hai

I am having some problems with printing. I am using 'lp' to print and it was working fine.
One of the users sent a job to the printer, which is a Tektronics 4693DX, and for some
reason did not want it. So he switched off the printer, instead of trying to remove it from the
queue. After this, the printer has been refusing to print. Whenever a job is sent it stays
on the queue and nothing happens. 

lpstat -t says everything is fine. For some of the jobs I get a mail from lp saying

	"error in cadvrprint request 120"

and the manual says, its probably a error in the printer. 

What I would like to know is, Could something go wrong with the printer settings
if it is switched off when a job is being received? Is there any other solution
other than calling Tektronics hardware support? 

Thanks for your info.

-- 
******************************************************************************
Sridhar Sundararaman. 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ttknock@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Armstrong)
Subject: lots of stuff
Followup-To: none
Summary: a plethora of questions
Keywords: questions crash irix sgi pi 
Organization: none
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:01:46 GMT



   1 - I've got some X programs that I run under 4sight(3.3.2), 
specifically they are POV-Ray and Radiance, both of them attempt
to make private colormaps so as to use all 256 colors, however,
when running under 4sight they for some reason cannot. If I load
up real X-Windows it works fine. Is this a problem with 4sight or
the other software?
   2 - I have a 4D/20 that I bought used, I have found that two
of the plastic SIMM holders are broken, one is totally broken(both
clips), the other only has one clip off. The SIMMs do not stay in
very well at all. I am constantly crashing. Anywhere from 1-5 times
a day, 4sight may freeze or I might get a kernal panic. I taped
them in securely once and the system stayed up for 4 days straight
and then the tape came undone and it crashed. Now I can never seem
to tape it as well and I'm crashing a few times a day again. Does
anyone have any suggestions on how to make them stay in or solve
my problem? I don't have enought money to pay for another mother
board so that's out of the question.
   3 - I have an HP DeskJet 500, will TeX or any other non-commerical
program support it in b&w mode?    

Thanks in advance for any help.

ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: lots of stuff
Summary: a plethora of questions
Followup-To: none
Distribution: world
Organization: none
Keywords: questions crash irix sgi pi 



   1 - I've got some X programs that I run under 4sight(3.3.2), 
specifically they are POV-Ray and Radiance, both of them attempt
to make private colormaps so as to use all 256 colors, however,
when running under 4sight they for some reason cannot. If I load
up real X-Windows it works fine. Is this a problem with 4sight or
the other software?
   2 - I have a 4D/20 that I bought used, I have found that two
of the plastic SIMM holders are broken, one is totally broken(both
clips), the other only has one clip off. The SIMMs do not stay in
very well at all. I am constantly crashing. Anywhere from 1-5 times
a day, 4sight may freeze or I might get a kernal panic. I taped
them in securely once and the system stayed up for 4 days straight
and then the tape came undone and it crashed. Now I can never seem
to tape it as well and I'm crashing a few times a day again. Does
anyone have any suggestions on how to make them stay in or solve
my problem? I don't have enought money to pay for another mother
board so that's out of the question.
   3 - I have an HP DeskJet 500, will TeX or any other non-commerical
program support it in b&w mode?    
   4 - According to gversion() I have a low serial number version of
the PI. Does SGI have an sort of motherboard trade in deal or 
upgrader path for people like me?

Thanks in advance for any help.

ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SGI Phigs implementation
Keywords: Phigs, GL, X
Date: 12 Dec 92 07:01:30 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744


I was having a conversation today with the Product Manager of
Lockheed's (SMS) mapping product about the future direction of the
product. I had requested that they consider porting the underlying
graphics kernel to GL (or OpenGL) so I can get better performance
on my SGI workstations :-)

She said that they had considered it, but that platform
independence was a major consideration, so they were leaning toward
implementing the kernel using Phigs (Figaro+ on SGI). I argued
(somewhat ignorantly, I admit) that an X-based solution give a
standard, but would not help the performance any.

She said that
	1) Phigs is built into X11R5 (true? if so, how about it
				      SGI?)
	2) Figaro+ (for the SGI) is actually built on top of GL.
	   That I found hard to believe

I have listened in on the various conversations around the net on
Phigs and PEX and GL and OpenGL, and am not interested in reviving
them here.

However, I am curious if the SGI implementation of Phigs takes
advantage of the CLEARLY SUPERIOR SGI graphics hardware, or is it
as crippled as the X server?

I presume that GL is the SGI answer for really hot graphics
performance, but what about OpenGL on other platforms (S*n)? Will
it out-perform an X-based application?

Please email; post if you like. I can't always keep up with the
volume.
From: js9s@helga1.acc.virginia.edu (Jiangeng Sun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: dbx get into infinite loop: what I should do?
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:56:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: adm.34634


 
  I have a excutable which generated by linking both C and FORTRAN source code.
and when I try to debug the program, here is what I get.  

/usr1/e771/usr/js9sf/pvm/SGI> dbx track_m
dbx version 2.40 3/7/92 1:12
Type 'help' for help.
Reading symbolic information of `track_m' . . .

warning: iaux (4) greater than max (2) for file 92


warning: iaux (4) greater than max (2) for file 93


warning: iaux (4) greater than max (2) for file 142


warning: iaux (5) greater than max (4) for file 143


warning: iaux (5) greater than max (4) for file 143


warning: iaux (5) greater than max (4) for file 143

............ keep going forever.


I guess I did not compile  file 143 with -g, and somehow dbx does not like 
it, but HOW can I figure out which is file 143?  I have linked with so many
libraries, that it is impossible to retangle everything with -g. 
 
I tried gdb, which is fine for the c portion of the program. Since gdb does
not support fortran, I got stuck.

Is there anybody can enlighten me on this? 

Are there any other debugers I could try with support C and Fortran?

thanks.
From: S.H.Kinder@daresbury.ac.uk (Steve Kinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Mounting VAX/VMS on SGI?
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:29:18 GMT
Reply-To: shk@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

In article 34705@adm.brl.mil, imd1707@ggr.co.uk (Ian Dunkin) writes:
> (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
> >  |> Is it possible to mount a VAX NFS server onto SGI without too much of
> 
> (doelz@urz.unibas.ch)
> >  I wouldn't recommend it because of
> >
> >  (*) files on VMS must be in str_LF to be read on UNIX correctly
> 
> That was the case with DEC's own `UCX' TCP/IP (and may still be, for all
> I know).  Better TCP/IP implementations for VMS, such as Multinet,
> provide on-the-fly translation.
> 
>     I.

DEC's tcp/ip now does on the fly conversion. This did cause me one problem
by throwing away the first character in a file with FORTRAN CARRIAGE CONTROL
(correctly so I think, but still) when reading a formatted direct access file
on the Unix system. Files don't have to be stream_lf to be read / listed corectly
now. You may be able to get UCX/tcpip very cheaply through DECcampus

Steve
From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigo Graphics and Z-Buffering
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:54:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <3201@contex.contex.com>, frank@marvin.contex.com writes:
> In article <1glhm0INNlu@fido.asd.sgi.com> kipp@warp.asd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman) writes:
> >
> >The OpenGL doesn't have this problem.  Depthbuffering must be provided
> >on all OpenGL implementations, even if it has to be emulated in
> >software.  This will apply to the XS version of OpenGL too.
> >
> >					kipp
> 
> Regarding zbuffering, I have wondered about this also, and
> suspected something like this was coming.  I think G.T. did
> the zbuffer stuff in the Entry graphics.  He must laugh and
> feel vindicated when people note that the Crimson entry
> graphics can draw P zbuffered polygons per second, but when
> you install the XS&Z "upgrade", zbuffered polygon
> performance drops to something like P/3!  I suspect that
> for tuned code on the R4000A, this is like P/10.....good
> thing this is going away some time soon.

I'm not a graphics system designer, hardware or software,
but nevertheless I must point out some possible fallacies
in your statement.

It is true that a primarily software-driven graphics
architecture, such as the Entry graphics, increases as the
speed of the system driving it as increased.

However, I suspect that tuned code on the R4000A will
probably not produce the P/10 figure you envision.  There
are other bottlenecks in the graphics system that will be
encountered first, such as the limit at which the REX chip
in the Entry graphics system can render polygons into the
framebuffer.  Also, it must be noted that time spent by
the CPU performing graphics computations is time that could
be spent on the main portion of yours, or another
concurrent application.  In engineering, nothing comes for
free.

Finally, both the XS and the XS/24 were not strictly
designed for 3D-intensive applications.  They are scaled
down versions of the Elan architecture, and are targeted at
applications such as paint systems and electronic
publishing which require large screens, 24-bit color,
and less demanding 3D performance.  The Elan graphics still
provides superior Z-buffered performance, with fewer
demands on the main CPU, than the Entry graphics offers.

m.

--
Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: lacey@dsea.com (Dan Lacey )
Subject: Re: R4K Indigo drive slot problem
Organization: Dainippon Screen Engineering of America, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 20:12:05 GMT


I have had a different problem with the top slot of our new R4K's. In this
slot we place an SGI floppy. The floppy seems to have trouble seating or
comes loose sometimes. The result is a PANIC during the power-on
diagnostics. The drive *seems* to be seated properly, but if I reseat it, 
the system still panics.
To fix the problem, after I reseat the floppy drive, and ensure that the
lever is all the way in place, I firmly push the floppy (sometimes with
a slight wiggle). 
This fixes the problem. I was surprised to have this happen on about 1 in
5 systems shipped to us.

Is it just ME!!!!!!!!

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* THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY	*	Dan Lacey ( lacey@dsea.com )	    *
*				*	Dainippon Screen Eng. of America    *
* LEFT BLANK			*	3700 W. Segerstrom Ave.		    *
*				*	Santa Ana, CA. 92714		    *
*****************************************************************************
-- 

					Dan Lacey
					lacey@dsea.com
					Dainippon Screen Eng. of America
From: S.H.Kinder@daresbury.ac.uk (Steve kinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: connecting NEC S62P silentwriter
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:33:37 GMT
Reply-To: shk@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

Does anyone have any experience of connecting an NEC SilentWriter S62P laser
printer to an indigo? I would be grateful for any advice people may have.
I intend connecting to the parallel port. Do I need any special software driver`
on the indigo?

thanks

Steve.
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: ftp.sgi.com
Date: 12 Dec 92 12:35:11 GMT

In article <34542@adm.brl.mil>, krumbein@thama1.apgea.army.mil (Michael Zvi Krumbein) writes:
> Are the files in sgi.com's ftp available (legally) to all? I ask because of
>the discussion about psview. Is it available to everyone with support? Everyone
> who owns an SGI machine?
> 
> mzk Michael Zvi Krumbein krumbein@thama1.apgea.army.mil


That depends on what is meant by "available (legally)".

Since there is no reasonable way to keep total strangers from fetching
those files, anyone who wants can fetch them.  There is (or should be)
nothing that requires an extra-cost lisense in sgi.com:~ftp.  For one
thing, managing the paper work for the lisenses would be impossible.

About the only restriction that makes sense is that people here would
be irritated if someone reverse-compiled and ported the stuff to some
other brand of hardware.

Of course, Silicon Graphics does not promise that the stuff in sgi:~ftp
will work, not destroy your disks, not make you lose money, or not
cause cancer.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: hostname from IP?!?
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:26:18 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta


Does anyone know how one might be able to derive
a systems hostname from it's IP address?!?  RARP is
similiar in function in that it is supposed to be able
to derive an IP number from a physical ethernet address,
however, I need to go one step further.

Any help would be appreciated!

P.S. The network I am operating on does not have any
     "open" accounts which could be used for a

		rsh IP# uname -n

     The network is also EXTREMELY heterogeneous and
     LARGE!

Thanx!

-fred


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From: HERBER@fnal.fnal.gov (Randolph J. Herber, CD/DCD/SPG, x2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: RE: FORTRAN carriage control characters to postscript
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:05:50 GMT

+From: "John H. Chauvin" <jchauvin@netcom.com>
+Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
+Subject: FORTRAN carriage control characters to postscript
+Date: 18 Dec 92 02:28:21 GMT

+I am currently working on a Silicon Graphics Crimson workstation running IRIX
+4.0.5 operating system. I use a FORTRAN program which output a file which
+contains line printer vertical carriage control characters in column 1. I use   
+the program lptops to convert the file to postscript for printing on a Apple
+laserwriter. My problem is the carriage control characters are not recognized
+by the lptops program. Does anyone know how I can convert the carriage control
+characters to something that lptops can understand?
+                                                                      
+Thanks                                                                       
+                                                                        
+jchauvin@netcom.com

+John H. Chauvin jchauvin@netcom.COM
+Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA

RTFM

ASA(1)                         Silicon Graphics                         ASA(1)

NAME
     asa - interpret ASA carriage control characters

SYNOPSIS
     asa [files]

DESCRIPTION
     Asa interprets the output of FORTRAN programs that utilize ASA carriage
     control characters.

     ...

Randolph J. Herber, herber@fnalf.fnal.gov, +1 708 840 2966
(Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.)
(Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: mbr@bellcore.com (Mark Rosenstein)
Subject: Where does the CPU go, when its not doing nuthin' (gr_osview)
Reply-To: mbr@bellcore.com (Mark Rosenstein)
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
Date: 17 Dec 92 06:39:36

When looking at gr_osview, I have a program that uses about 50% of the
cpu (indigo R4000 elan running 4.05F). The CPU wait line in gr_osview
is empty, so if the cpu isn't waiting, why doesn't my program get 100%
of the CPU?

I guess the less naive way of putting this is: What factors aren't captured
between the CPU Usage and CPU wait?

[The program in question reads in a 16k chunks of stuff off of disk, messes
around with them and writes them out. All to local disk.]

Thanks.

Mark.
=-=-=-=-=-=
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
    --- Edgar A. Guest, "Collected Verse"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: chow@sdc1.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow)
Subject: adding objects to an program's address
Reply-To: chow@sdc1.ssc.gov
Organization: SSCL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:52:06 GMT

Hi,
   Thanks for you all the information.
I fixed the problem.

   And now I have another problem
related to dynamic linking.
Sun supports operations for adding
shared objects to an program's address
space.  Does SGI support that?
(Are those ldfcn used for this purpose?)

thanks,
Ivan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: coyle@mars.cs.umn.edu (Mark Stephan Coyle)
Subject: Gethostbyname Error
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:31:41 GMT

Hi,

I am programming on a 4D 310 VGX and am getting a segmentation fault
whenvever I use the system call "gethostbyname".  The code works on
other machines, bu not on this sgi.  Any clues?


thanks in advance


Mark S. Coyle
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Computer Science Department
Human Factors Research Lab
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Mn

coyle@mars.cs.umn.edu
coyle@dexter.psych.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: tjdustma@cc.utah.edu (TED JAMES DUSTMAN)
Subject: Backing up a macintosh to an sgi via nfs.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:28 MST  


I am trying to backup my mac to an sgi workstation via nfs using the mac
program Retrospect Remote.  I am also using Intercon's `nfs/share' software
on the mac.  In other words, Retrospect is copying files from my mac's hard
disk to the sgi via the nfs/share volume.  The problem is that I can backup
successfully only 1 time between mounts of the nfs/share volume.  On the
next backup try Retrospect remote throws an error (# 205 - no media).  The
nfs/share volume seems to work fine otherwise.  To do another backup I must
drag the nfs/share volume to the trash and then remount it.

It turns out that if the nfs/share volume is connected to our vax (it is
running multinet) then Retrospect remote behaves just fine; it can perform
multiple backups with no problem.  This makes me think that there may be a
problem with the nfs software on the sgi workstation or that we have
configured it incorrectly.  

I have talked to Intercon's tech support and to Retrospect Remote's tech
support and neither know of any problem with their respective software.

I am running version 1.3a of retrospect and version 1.1.2 of nfs/share.  I
am running system 7.1 on a mac IIx. Our workstation is running Irix 4.0.5.
I am also running the bwnfsd authentication daemon on the sgi.  Intercon's
software requires bwnfsd (or pcnfsd).

I would be most grateful for any clues, hints, suggestions, and/or solutions.

Thanks, 

Ted Dustman 
CVRTI, University of Utah 
e-mail: dustman@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Where does the CPU go, when its not doing nuthin' (gr_osview)
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:39:22 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <MBR.92Dec17063936@ponape.bellcore.com> mbr@bellcore.com (Mark Rosenstein) writes:

| When looking at gr_osview, I have a program that uses about 50% of the
| cpu (indigo R4000 elan running 4.05F). The CPU wait line in gr_osview
| is empty, so if the cpu isn't waiting, why doesn't my program get 100%
| of the CPU?
| 
| I guess the less naive way of putting this is: What factors aren't captured
| between the CPU Usage and CPU wait?
| 
| [The program in question reads in a 16k chunks of stuff off of disk, messes
| around with them and writes them out. All to local disk.]

It's hard to say just where it is waiting.  Running osview may be
helpful, as would 'timex -s yourprog'.  My guess is that it is indeed
waiting for the disk part of the time.
--
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.misc
From: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN carriage control characters to postscript
Reply-To: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Organization: MRL - UIUC
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:31:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.022821.6657@netcom.com>, jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin) writes:
>I am currently working on a Silicon Graphics Crimson workstation running IRIX
|>4.0.5 operating system. I use a FORTRAN program which output a file which
|>contains line printer vertical carriage control characters in column 1. I use   
|>the program lptops to convert the file to postscript for printing on a Apple
|>laserwriter. My problem is the carriage control characters are not recognized
|>by the lptops program. Does anyone know how I can convert the carriage control
|>characters to something that lptops can understand?

filter the FORTRAN output with asa (huh?) before giving it to lptops                                
--
Furio Ercolessi
Materials Research Laboratory           |   Intl School for Advanced Studies
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   |   Trieste, Italy
furio@uiuc.edu                          |   furio@sissa.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: melchers@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Bernd Melchers)
Subject: Re: unable to use make on SGI
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:37:03 GMT

chow@sdc1.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow,,2216) writes:

>Hi,
>   I have tried to use make on an SGI machine.
>But the syntax seems like is totally different from
>other machines.  The normal dependency "making"
>mechanism works fine.  But I can't do any
>looping with the make.  For examples,

>for i in $(SUBDIR)"";
>do
>echo "$$i";
>make
>done

>The make always coomplains
>for: command not found

>Can anyone give a hand on this?  Please.

perhaps you forgot SHELL=/bin/sh ?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
Subject: Is there a command to tell you the amount of sys. mem.?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:36:49 GMT

Just what the title says.  I'm working on an SGI machine where the original
operator, installer, etc. is long gone.  I would like to find out how much
system memory is in the machine, is there a command for this?  I'm sure it
is in the docs, but they are somewhat scattered also.

Thanks,

Todd