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In <28510299@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC) writes:
| olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| > In <7371166@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> kinsell@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dave Kinsell) writes:
| [deleted]
| > | I'll bet you're not using an HP dat drive.  Tar tvf sends out a
| > | write 0 filemarks command, conventionally used by drivers to flush
| > | buffers.  Some drives write 0 filemarks, then write an EOD mark.
| > | This clobbers all your data.  Try skipping the tvf pass, or write
| > | protect the cartridge first.
| > 
| > I strongly doubt this, since he said he could read the tape on
| > HP after creating it, and very few recent drives are this braindead.
| > (Our driver also uses a write 0 fm cmd, and I've never heard of
| > a drive that dies with it.)
| 
|   Apparently some Exabyte drives suffer from this. Whether they are
| recent I don't know. See "Exabyte tape drives on Series 700 ?" in this
| group for "details".

  > We've been supporting Exabyte 8200 drives for close to 3 years now,
  > and none of them have ever had problems with write 0 fm's.  Given
  > the many firmware releases Exabyte makes, I suppose that they could
  > have introduced a bug like that in fixing some other problem for
  > some custom firmware rev...

Some revisions of Exabyte 8200 firmware have the side effect of
writing an EOD (end of data) tapemark in response to a write
zero filemarks command. A write zero filemarks command is defined
to cause a buffer flush. The HP 9000/s700 HP-UX 8.07 SCSI tape 
device driver uses a write zero filemarks operation to flush
buffers to gain an accurate idea of head position. On most
SCSI tape devices this operation has no effect if there is no
data in the tape drive's buffer or if the head is not located
at logical end-of-data. Unfortunately, some versions of Exabyte
8200 firmware do have the side effect of writing an EOD tapemark.
This results in data after the EOD mark being lost. The quick
fix for this problem is to change firmware. HP-UX is expected to
deal with problem in a future release by avoiding write zero 
filemarks commands at times when Exabyte 8200 drives might
handle them in a undesirable manner.

It is important to note that Exabyte 8mm tape drive use is not
supported by the HP 9000/s700 HP-UX 8.07 SCSI tape device driver.
Although some users have been able to use such a configuration
to meet their needs, it is not officially supported.

Bruce Lundeby


This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by,
the Hewlett-Packard Company.  The above data is provided for informational
purposes only.  It is supplied without warranty of any kind.

From: glen@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Glen Robinson)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:18:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Parallel port compatibility problems?
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

>   This is true on the above systems.  Unfortunately, there is apparently NO
>   way of changing this on the 700 series.  Why not?
Actually, I am pretty sure that as of 8.07 pulse mode is there.  Also
supported is a stream mode, though I don't remember the minor numbers
offhand.

Not my company's position etc.

Glen -  R

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: khindria@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Vivek Khindria (CSU))
Subject: Re: Best Mail User Interface
Keywords: mail, popmail, editor
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:01:32 GMT


Dan,
 
       You may consider Pine+Pico as an alternative to elm+vi for casual users.


   Vivek Khindria, Network Analyst, Faculty of Health Sciences
   
   khindria@mcmaster.ca

   McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In article <1992Jul22.130859.7760@news.nd.edu> mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu (Dan Mandell) writes:
>We are setting up HP 9000/827S system to serve as academic 
>system/mail server.  For the casual user, elm+vi is not easy enough
>to learn.  We are thinking of running Pop3 servers and clients for 
>the PC users, but need something for folks with just terminal access. 
>Is there a Pop3 Popmail Client application that runs under HPUX?
>Alternatively, is there a full screen editor that runs under HPUX that is
>easier to use than either Gnu Emacs or vi?
>
From: hblim@iti.gov.sg (Hock-Beng Lim (SE/Sch))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Looking for ADC board for HP 700 series
Keywords: ADC, HP700 series
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:16:40 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore

Hi !

I am looking for an ADC (analog-to-digital) board which can be plugged
into the EISA bus of the HP 700 series workstations. The board (or
multiple boards) should have eight channels (preferably differential),
with sampling rate of 50KHz to 200 KHz. The board should provide digital
outputs of 12 to 16 bits. Finally, it should have simultaneous sampling
and hold capability.

Please send me email if you know of a company that offers such a product.

Thanks in advance !

HB
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: stravers@donau.et.tudelft.nl (Paul Stravers)
Subject: /etc/disktab entry for 1.3 Giga hp97560 on 9000/817
Reply-To: stravers@donau.et.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:26:06 GMT

I am trying to hook 2 hp97560 scsi disks (1.3 GB each) to our 817 computer, but
I cannot find a suitable entry in /etc/disktab. Is there anyone who can provide
me with this entry? I also need an entry for a C2213A (660 MB) scsi disk.

If I'm going to write these entries myself, are there any special things you
think I should care for?

Thank you,

Paul Stravers
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From: weber@sipi.usc.edu (Allan G. Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Help with LaserJet+Postscript on HP-UX
Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:20:04 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: sipi.usc.edu

Can somebody give me some advice on getting a HP LaserJet IIID with an HP
Postscript cartridge to work off an HP 425S (HP-UX 7.05) via an RS-232
connection?  If the Postscript cartridge is not installed it works fine by
specifying the "laserjet" printer model when setting it up with lpadmin.
However, with the Postscript cartridge installed I guess it no longer acts
enough like a LaserJet to work.  I tried specifying the "dumb" model hoping it
would just pass the data to the printer but nothing ever came out.  None of the
HPUX documentation mentions anything about Postscript, and none of the LaserJet
documentation mentions HP-UX so I'm a bit lost.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Allan Weber
USC Signal and Image Processing Institute
Los Angeles, CA
weber@sipi.usc.edu
From: sprague@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Fred Sprague)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Free HP calculators w/workstations ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:01:44 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA


 > Hi, has anyone ever managed to resize xhpcalc using the font resources.

I've not had any touble doing this, however the instructions in my copy 
of the man page for the calculator says to use the resource "PFont", 
but a quick "strings" on the executable shows up the names with a lower 
case 1st letter.  ie. "pFont".  This might be the basis of your problems.

It seems that the calculator is a *pure* X11 (R1?) program that does not 
use any of the "Xt" enhancements like "fontList" or -xrm etc. And has only
a subset of the settable things available on the command line.  The font 
resource must be set from the .Xdefaults file (or the xrdb resource on 
the server) or the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XHpcalc file.

The .Xdefaults lines I use are:
  XHpcalc.pFont:          10x20
  XHpcalc.fFont:          6x13
  XHpcalc.gFont:          6x13
  XHpcalc.dispFont:       10x20
And I find the results quite large.
Porportional fonts (other than in the display) seem to work acceptably too.

Where "pFont" is the legends on the keys
Where "fFont" is the legends above the keys
Where "gFont" is the legends below the keys
Where "dispFont" is the font used in the display

The shortcut is "KeyFont" which is the Class name for "pFont", "fFont" 
and "gFont", and can be overridden by their specific names.

Fred Sprague
Hewlett-Packard
3404 E. Harmony Rd.
Fort Collins, Co 80525
(303) 229-3940
sprague@hpfcda.HP.COM
From: mark@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (Mark Simms)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:54:07 GMT
Subject: Re: HP Thinkjet
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp


>> Does anyone know how to configure an HP Thinkjet for a 486 machine?

I am not sure what settings are appropriate for a given machine, but I
do have the documentation for the printer and can make some guesses.
You will have to check with someone who knows more about MS-DOS to see
how to configure the computer to use the printer.  Also, certain
settings depend on the software you are using.

>> There are two sets of pins on the back:

Looks like this is a 2225D serial ThinkJet

>> MODE - 8 switches

These switches are common to all ThinkJet printers and define how the
printer responds to incoming characters.

1: CR definition.
	UP:		CR character causes CR,LF
	DOWN:		CR character causes CR only
	Comments: 	Correct setting depends on your software
	Suggestion:	DOWN

2: LF definition.
	UP:		LF character causes CR,LF
	DOWN:		LF character causes LF only
	Comments:	Correct setting depends on your software
	Suggestion:	DOWN

3: Perforation skip mode
	UP:		1" perforation skip and end of page
	DOWN:		Print over perforations
	Comments:	Most WP software expects this to be down.
			Some dumb software may look better with it up.
	Suggestion:	DOWN

4: Page length
	UP:		12" page length (ISO A4 size paper)
	DOWN:		11" page length (ANSI A size paper)
	Comments:	Depends on the size of paper you use
	Suggestion:	DOWN (assuming you are in the U.S.A.)

5: Control sequence mode
	UP:		Alternate mode (Epson compatible)
	DOWN:		HP mode (PCL level 1)
	Comments:	HP software will work better with the switch
			down.  Most other software will only work with
			it up.
	Suggestion:	UP

6-8: Character set
	DDD:		HP Roman-8
	UDD:		ASCII
	DUD:		ISO Swedish
	UUD:		IBM 8
	DDU:		ISO French
	UDU:		ISO German
	DUU:		ISO UK English
	UUU:		ISO Spanish
	Comments:	I believe that software for IBM compatibles
			uses the IBM 8 character set.
	Suggestion:	6 UP, 7 UP, 8 DOWN

>> RS232C - 5 switches

1: Handshake mode
	UP:		DTR (hardware) handshaking
	DOWN:		XON/XOFF (software) handshaking
	Comments:	Depends in the computer interface
			configuration.
	Suggestion:	UP

2,3: Parity
	DD:		No parity, 8 bit characters
	DU:		Odd parity, 7 bit characters
	UD:		Even parity, 7 bit characters
	UU:		Parity bit set to 1, 7 bit characters
	Comments:	8 bit character sets require DD.  The setting
			must match the configuration of the computer.
	Suggestion:	2 DOWN, 3 DOWN

4,5: Baud rate
	DD:		9600
	DU:		19200
	UD:		2400
	UU:		1200
	Comments:	The setting must match the configuration of
			the computer.
	Suggestion:	4 DOWN, 5 DOWN


Mark Simms

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Name:         Mark Simms
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Computer Peripherals Division
Unix-mail:    mark@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com
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From: stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP remote print server SYSV like or BSD like ?
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:26:26 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.


   Hi, I am trying to get my HP 9000/730's to act as remote print
   servers for A Dell SYSVR4 box and I have recieved several helpful
   answers on this.  Unfortunately the contradict on one key poit, and
   that is:

   Is the HP remote print *server* SYSV like or BSD like?  
   
   I hope the answer is SYSV like because I am told that the BSD client 
   in SVR4 is "buggy" , I'm not real shure waht is meant by this but I have
   the HP's working as remote print servers for each other, but the
   Dell doesn't seem to be ablle to use them as print servers.

   Thanks

   Stan

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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 700 Single user boot (WAS: HP9000/400 and long file names)
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:37:25 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands

houten@pttnwb.nl (K. van Houten) writes:

> I've tried that, the same way as on a 800 machine, but failed.
> What is the magic boot command from ISL to boot a 730 in single user?

  The same as for the 800, i.e. "hpux -is" (without the quotes) at the
"ISL> " prompt. However this only works if everything is setup
correctly. If not, then you will have to specify a "devicefile" (see
hpux_700(1m). If you need to specify part of the devicefile then you
often have to specify *all* parts of the devicefile. See "Devicefile" in
hpux_700(1m) for details. You can see the right "manager", "path" and
"filename" parts during a normal (i.e. non-attended) bootup.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: wheatley@enel.ucalgary.ca (Robb Wheatley)
Subject: sendmsg() and recvmsg() source or binaries ?
Summary: Does anyone have some ?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:14:35 GMT
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hi, 

I have recently acquired some code which makes sendmsg() and recvmsg()
calls. Unfortunately, I am running HP-UX 7.0 on an HP9000s345 and sendmsg()
and recvmsg() were not available until HP-UX 8.0. I am wondering if anybody
has source code versions or HP s300 binaries of these functions? 
Please email me back with any info

	Thanks a bunch

Robb Wheatley
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

wheatley@enel.ucalgary.ca
From: chitgo@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Sunil Chitgopekar)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:02:53 GMT
Subject: Re: "panic: E_HW_NOT_TXON"-message on HP 9000/433s
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

/ hpindda:comp.sys.hp / ti2mf@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Markus Feuser) /  3:00 pm  Jul 23, 1992 /
Hello HP-users,
recently we performed the hardware upgrade for 68040/33 on
our system (HP 9000/433s, HP-UX B.08.00 B).
Now, the system hangs sometimes with the following error-message:

     panic: E_HW_NOT_TXON

Does anybody know something about this error-message? What
could it mean? Please, mail advices/comments/answers to:

Markus Feuser                           feuser@tu-harburg.dbp.de
TU Hamburg-Harburg
Ti2
Harburger Schlosstrasse 20
2100 Hamburg 90, Germany

feuser@tu-harburg.dbp.de

----------


Please contact HP for a patch.

Sunil Chitgopekar
From: jincai@archie.usc.edu (Jincai Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: File transfer between PC and HP 9000/720 using Kermit?
Date: 22 Jul 1992 12:16:35 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: archie.usc.edu

We just installed an HP 9000/720 with HP-UX 8.05 and we use a PC
running MS-Kermit (v 3.01) as a terminal.  I try to transfer files
between the PC and the HP using Kermit.  When I escaped back to local
Kermit and gave the receive/send commands, an error said "No response
from host" then the file transfer failed.

I tried different parities, stty settings, none worked.
  
I called the HP Response Center and was told that the Kermit on HP
9000 is for file transfers between HP workstations, so it won't work
between PC's and the HP.  I don't believe that's true.

If anyone can help me on this I'll greatly appreciate it. 

Jincai  

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From: daryl@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Daryl Odnert)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:57:10 GMT
Subject: Re: What does this mean ?
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

lecom> cc -O -c error.c
"error.c", line 111: compiler error: register allocation error
*** Error code 1
lecom> cc +O1 -c error.c
lecom> 

  The name error.c is a pure coincidence.

-- 

On HP 9000 Series 700 and Series 800 systems, the default level for
code optimization with the -O option is level 2.  The +O1 option
selects level 1 optimization (which takes less compile time, but
does not optimize the code as well as level 2.)  I believe the same
thing is true on the Series 300 and 400 systems.

The register allocator used at level 2 is not the same as the one that
is used at level 1.  The error message you received probably indicates
that your source code is exposing some kind of defect in the compiler.
I would suggest contacting your local HP support folks to report the
problem.

Alternatively, you could e-mail to me the smallest piece of source
code that reproduces the problem.  It will help if you expand the
source file first by using the cc -P option to generate error.i.
Also, please indicate what kind of system (300, 400, 700, or 800) that
you are using and the version number of the compiler that you are
using.

Regards,
Daryl Odnert       daryl@cup.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard
Cupertino, California
From: paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Backup to DAT over net
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:59:51 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

HP have a product designed to do backups over networks.  It is fully
supported on the 700 workstation -- BUT it is *very* expensive.  How
much is your data worth?

The product is called HP OmniBack.  It is (I think) based on OSF's
DCE, and uses disk agents to read and a tape agent to write to the
DDS across the LAN.  It can backup quite fast indeed, and using the
index method, restore any file in just a few minutes.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: glowell@leland.Stanford.EDU (gary lowell)
Subject: Allocating kernel memory
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:09:58 GMT

I've been trying to use kmem_alloc to allocate large buffers
on an S800.  However the call seems to hang on requests over
1 megabyte.  The system has over 200 mb of lockable memory.

Does anybody know of a better way to grab large chunks of memory
on the S800 ?  Sys_memall which does the job nicely on 700s doesn't
exist on the 800s, at least not in release 7.0.

Thanks,

Gary Lowell
glowell@allego.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:8467 comp.sys.sgi:11293 comp.unix.questions:9364
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: moving tar file on DAT (4mm) tape between HP and SGI???
Summary: SGI and swab tapes
Keywords: DAT DDS SGI HP
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:26:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <1992Jul23.182530.19630@news.eng.convex.com> datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>Byte-order foo.  dd conv=swab it off the tape, piped through tar.

This can be sloooow.  Look for a device driver on the SGI for your
device that ends in ns which is SGI parlance means "no-swap".  Much
faster than dd.  By the by, this works for 8mm tapes too...

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: eyring@cc.utah.edu
Subject: Re: What is MONITROL?  <- JOB OFFER
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:21:55 MDT


Thanks to all those who responded to my query
about what is MONITROL.

>But if you can post the same message you sent me in comp.sys.hp
>it would have a greater audience, specially the European audience.

I hope this is not too out of line to post here
but one of our divisions is looking for talent
with MONITROL experience.  If you know anyone who
may be interested in working in Utah, Provo
or Salt Lake City, have them call Clyde Stauffer
at Eyring Corp.
801-561-1111 or send their resume to:
6918 South 185 West
Midvale, Utah 84047

PS. I posted in misc.jobs.offered but MONITROL must
be so obscure that no one responded.
-- 
>Bob Witmer
>Eyring Corp., Flight Simulation Div.
>Salt Lake City, Utah
>eyring@cc.utah.edu
From: craig@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Craig Bryant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Pls help: UID and GID consistency in NFS
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.

In / comp.sys.hp / thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>In <1992Jul23.092816.8625@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To) writes:
>
>>We've configured a HP720 (HP-UX 8.07) to mount filesystem on HP 845S
>>(HP-UX 8.00).  I've made the uid and gid of the root entries the same on
>>both machines.  When I mount the filesystem and create a new file on
>>this filesystem, I saw the owner is 65534 (nobody) but the group is
>>okay (the same as those file created by root on the 845S, say admin).
>>Then, on HP720 I chown the file to root, I've no access to the file
>>again.
>
>You need to look at the exportfs(8) man page on the server and figure
>out how to tell the server to permit unmodified root access from certain
>client machines (or all of you *really* trust your network).  Right now,
>the server is trying to protect you from raids by a foreign root user,
>and you need to tell it which hosts you trust.  The syntax on Suns and
>our machines is "-root=host_a,host_b,host_c" in the /etc/exports entry
>for the filesystem(s) in question.  You should think carefully about
>how wide you want to open yourself up with this.
>
>Rob T
>--
>Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
>Heaven knows / No frontiers
>And I've seen heaven in your eyes			- Jimmy McCarthy
>----------

	Rob T is exactly write except that exportfs does not exist on
any released versions of HP-UX.  The good news is that it is coming on
HP-UX 9.0.  And even better news is that this release is for all S[3478]00
series.

Craig Bryant
Hewlett Packard
Fort Collins, CO
OSSD/UDL
* Nobody from HP ever says anything official in comp.sys.hp including me *
From: bell@EKBEXT.sps.mot.com (David Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: RMB 6.2 Rev 1.0 on Sun X
Date: 24 Jul 92 08:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: bell@ekbext.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola European Semiconductor Products Sector

Has anyone managed to configure X windows on a Sun so that RMB 6.2 Rev 1.0 can
use the Delete Line, STOP, INSERT etc etc. I know that using the -t option will
allow me to use CTRL - R for reset, CTRL - L for RECALL etc etc.

I would like to be able to access the full range of HP keys, can anyone help me
with some X - resource strings or the like ?

Dave

p.s. Email will be summarised to the net

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