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From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
Subject: Re: vt100 emulation?
Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 14:22:54 GMT

In article <31AUG199214432809@zeus.tamu.edu> jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu
  (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE) writes:

>  Anybody know of a vt100 or similar emulation package for sco available
>  by ftp? I've got xcmalt and kermit(old) and neither are doing vt emulation.

There is a package called PCOMM that is a unix clone of the popular
MS-DOS ProComm Plus package that does a few different emulations
and has X/Y/ZMODEM SEALINK and other file transfer protocols.

You seem to want VT100 emul, but I use a made specifically for SCO
package call ECU (enhanced cu) that gives you a great comm package
for the console or any xterm.

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[ dlucy@sandr.COM                                                ]
From: gridley@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Gehrke)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: include files
Date: 26 Aug 1992 22:13:42 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu

In attempting to compile a number of programs I am getting a number of
error messages such as:
       gcc -posix -g -nostdinc++ -I. -I.. -I. -I./../src -I./../g++-include -c
 procbuf.C
gcc: unrecognized option `-posix'
In file included from ./../g++-include/signal.h:33, from procbuf.C:20:
/usr/include/signal.h:35: parse error before `='
/usr/include/signal.h:36: parse error before `|='
/usr/include/signal.h:37: parse error before `&='
/usr/include/signal.h:38: parse error before `&'
In file included from procbuf.C:20:
./../g++-include/signal.h:47: conflicting types for `int  kill (...)'
./../g++-include/signal.h:47: An argument type that has a default promotion
./../g++-include/signal.h:47: can't match an empty parameter name list declarati
on.
/usr/include/signal.h:39: previous declaration of `int  kill (short int, int)'
*** Error code 1

Stop.
 
These messages occur with gcc or cc and all seem to be related to the 
include files (not just signal.h).

I'm running ODT 1.1 with the development system and I've applied the
POSIX upgrade SLS lng 305b. Any ideas would be appreciated. If e-mail
please reply to:
gridley@snow.water.ca.gov

thanks
From: jmiller@cis.ohio-state.edu (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Idea: binaries archive
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:37:40 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
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I was wondering what people's ideas were on keeping a binaries archive, or
a keeping a list of sites that offer binaries.

I realize that it is generally a BAD idea to bring binaries onto a system
(especially a system with live data) due to the risks of viruses and 
trojan horses. Granted, one could run 'strings' and do other prowling
to look for obvious bad things, but this is not a sure-fire way to avoid
trojans/viruses/etc.

Personally, I am running 3.2.2 with an old Xenix-286 development kit. I
am running the 286 dev kit because I cannot afford the full-blown UNIX kit.
I have wanted to compile tcsh, vn, and others, but the 286 kit just
can't handle programs of this size. I have fought for hours trying to get
these programs to compile correctly, with no success.

What are your thoughts?

(I am aware of sites like wimsey and dribble.c-mols.siu.edu that have
binaries available, but I can't find VN anywhere!)

Thanks,
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From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca>
Subject: 3.2 4 system reports 3.2 2
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:30:18 GMT
Precedence: bulk

A client just installed 3.2.4, however a uname -a reports that it is 3.2 2.

Am I missing something here?  It is 3.2.4 because symbolic and long names 
work!!

What's going on here??

brian

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From: john@chance.gts.org
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general,comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Reply receipt from MMDF
Date: 24 Aug 92 13:26:28 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: Reverse - esreveR :noitazinagrO
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|So the answer is "upgrade"

It's been a while since I've had anything to do with MMDF (as David
can vouch for :-) ), but I think there's a simple near-solution.
Write a script to generate return receipts, and put it in the global
maildelivery file triggered by the existence of a Return-Receipt-To
header, with the action Reject.  The mail will be fed to the script,
which can pick out who the receipt is supposed to go to and blast it
off.

One problem with this is that the returned receipt is generated before
actual delivery, so the receipt could be in error.  This is true with
sendmail as well, I recall.

If I can go off on a rant for a moment, Return-Receipt-To is
misleading in name, and people should not considered a returned
receipt to indicate that the person has actually received the message,
and especially not assume the recipient has read it or even had a
chance to.  Think of it as Return-MTA-Coniders-Delivered-But-Who-
Really-Knows-Receipt-To.
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: rwirthli@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ralph Wirthlin)
Subject: Tape drives - which ones?
Keywords: tape drives
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 13:56:34 GMT


We're running SCO UNIX 3.4.2 with ODT 2.0 and are in the market for a
 1/4" SCSI tape drive for installations as well as backups.  We're
leaning towards the Wangteks but are open to suggestions.  Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

                                                                          
                                 Thanks,
                                         Ralph

Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
Subject: WANTED: Digiboard's address
Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:39:05 GMT


Could someone please send me Digiboard's address and phone number?

Thanks.
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From: brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: upgraded from ODT 1.1 to SCO 3.2.4 causing panics!!
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:01:30 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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I just upgraded to SCO 3.2.4, in a box which has run ODT 1.1 (SCO 3.2.2)
for months now without a burp.  Now I am continually getting panic type 0xE.

The machine has in it, a mono video card, an SMC Elite Plus (WD8013), and an
adaptec 1542 with one Fujitsu 330 meg HD, a Sankyo SCSI tape drive, and an
Equinox 24 port CS card.

One thing I noticed different is that the hardware config on bootup reports
the FPU on int 13 and the SCSI card at int 11 whereas the ODT reported int 15
and int 13 respectively.  This is not a problem however as the SCSI card _is_
int 11.

I suspect the Equinox card, which has driver rev 2.4.0, becuase the system
seems to panic mostly at night, when this system has an aggressive outdial
with 13 fax-modems on the Equinox card.

All SCO could say to me was to try swapping hardware, ignoring the fact that
this hardware worked fine for 3 months, until the day I upgraded to 3.2.4!!

What I really need to know is, has anyone had any similar experiences, or
trouble with the Equinox driver on 3.2.4??  I would ask them myself, but
they don't seem to answer their phone (probally because they can't even
find - or care about the phone at this time!!) - expectedly of course!

brian

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From: watson@carssdf.uucp
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: Bustek 742A Mode disk driver
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:32:28 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: John Watson (Self Employed System Integrator)
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I just got another AMI FAST SCSI HOST ADAPTER, which claims to be Bustek
742A compatible.  It says that SCO will use the faster 32 bit EISA mode.

WITHOUT CHANGING THE DRIVER?  is this true.  Do I have to do anything to
turn it on, or just unplug the 1542, plug it in, re configure the EISA
nov-RAM and go?

This customer is still on 3.2v2.0, does this make a difference?

John Watson ... Not affiliated with any profitable institutions ...
From: fengstad@alpha.uleth.ca
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: FOXPRO FOR SCO WHEN????
Date: 25 Aug 92 00:13:11 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: University of Lethbridge
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In article <9208241859.aa06135@openage.COM> paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant) writes:
>
>>Has anyone heard when FoxPro for SCO Unix might ship.  I have had
>>many customers interested, but there is no news of availability.
>
>>Microsoft purchased FOX and I wonder if it will ever be a real
>>product for SCO users.
>
>
>I called the 800 number for Fox and MS after the merge.  I never got a reply.
>The rumor I heard is that Foxpro for SCO is dead.  Qbase is out.  Does anyone
>have any info on that?
>

At the upcoming FoxPro Developers Conference in Phoenix, AZ, FoxPro has
the FoxPro for DOS 2.5, FoxPro for Windows 2.5 and FoxPro for Unix 2.5
on the agenda.  My sources tell me that FP Unix 2.5 is in limited Beta
at this time (on the SCO platform).

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From: brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: NIS - how to get it??
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:47:15 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Precedence: bulk

I just installed a 3.2.4 network bundle.  The tcp and nfs are 1.1, with an
order for 1.2 outstanding.

How does one get NIS for SCO.  I know there is an EFS called update G for 
ODT 1.1 which includes NIS and X11R4.

Is there something similar for SCO UNIX?  Will it be included with tcp 1.2?

brian

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From: taso@munnari.OZ.AU
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: Booting and Keyboard Input
Date: 25 Aug 92 10:13:40 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: University of Melbourne
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At some point in time after a kernel reconfiguration, the following problem
appeared:

The kernel boots until it gets to the 'Type Control-d to etc.'
stage. At that point, what I type at the console keyboard doesn't
get through to the program which did the prompting. It seems that
the input is in some sort of raw mode. If I let the system time
out and boot itself in multi-user mode the console works as expected.
Can anyone shed some light on the subject?
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: SCO 3.2.4/ODT 2.0 Filesystem Types
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:02:34 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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In article <9208251355.aa16809@openage.COM> paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant) writes:
>>3.2.2 supports only AFS, and S51K.
>                And XENIX and DOS
[...]
>Add EAFS to the above.

Read closely.  That was for 3.2v2.0, not 3.2v4.0.

3.2v2.0 supports S51K, S52K, Xenix, DOS, and AFS (the Acer Fast
Filesystem, not to be confused with the neat super-NFS that's also
called AFS).  3.2v4.0 adds EAFS (Extended Acer Fast Filesystem), which
has support for symlinks and long filenames.  I don't know if they
changed the allocation or seek schemes any.

There is no version of SCO Unix that supports the BSD FFS.  SVR4,
which is not offered by SCO, supports the UFS filesystem, a derivative
of the BSD FFS.  The UFS filesystem is also used by later versions of
SunOS, and perhaps by things like Ultrix and HP-UX.

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                            | to need later.
From: apl@world.std.com
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: SCSI ID Problems resolved
Date: 24 Aug 92 20:57:31 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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In article <Bt2xIF.Ep3@world.std.com> I wrote:
>New AST 486 eisa, Adaptac 1744, 510 Meg Connor, Archive 2525S.

>Installation went fine.  Same problem with tape, though.  Then,
>suddenly, screenfulls of "Can't read block " off of dev 1,40.
>
>So, I was going to look at replacing the Adaptec, but now I'm not sure.
>

Boy, did I screw up!

First, this wasn't a 1744, it was a 1740.  But that was just a typo
and not at all the problem.

The problem was that diagnostics would see 8 drives attached and the
tape did not work at all.

As I said in my post, the only time I've ever seen that is when the
drive is at ID 7.  My post went on to state  "This drive assuredly is
NOT at ID 7".

Well, what's required here is some creative re-definition of "assuredly NOT".

Because it was, and I even looked at the jumpers (yep, all 3 of them) and
somehow just did not see it.  Or somehow figured that all closed MUST mean
0 because who would  ship a drive ID'd at  7? (*Conner would-and does)

As I had said to the client as I lay on my back, reaching up into the
machine to see if cables were loose:  "There's something really screwy
here, because this drive acts like it's ID 7"

Did I listen to myself?  No.  Am I a total idiot?  Maybe.


		Tony


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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: karl@robots.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge)
Subject: Re: Second or alternate swap files
Organization: K.-P. Huestegge, Systemanalyse und Beratung, Berlin
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:16:20 GMT

fraserh@eismv3.dofasco.ca (Hugh Fraser) writes:

>I've gone through the manuals and haven't found the answer to my
>question: can I create a second swap file on another disk.

Just type "man boot" ;-)
or edit the file /etc/default/boot and enter the line:

DEFBOOTSTR=hd(40)unix swap=hd(minor)

where minor is the minor device number of the desired swap device.
Rename this device to /dev/swap for the utilies.

You might enter the bootstring at the "Boot:" -prompt for tests,

hd(40)unix swap=hd(105)

to use the second division on the second harddisk as swap device.


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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Subject: Re: mmdf II submit problem 
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 00:24:44 GMT

>From:  mathers@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Mathers)
>I have an odt 1.1 system that I have installed the mmdf II TLS on.
>We use the smtp channel, and have a nameserver configured. Occasionally,
>maybe once a week, after somebody sends a message to an off-campus address,
>an error message appears like
>
>Unexpected address response:  Possibly a nice address "JOHNSTO@sscvax.cis.mcma
>ster.ca".

This is strange.  I can't find this message anywhere in the
generic MMDF sources (I don't have SCO MMDF sources anymore).
Could you be more specific about what the message is?

>We are using elm 2.3 as the front end, if it matters. This never occured
>with the original version of mmdf. The message never gets sent, and it
>doesn't end up in a queue somewhere. If you immediately re-send the 
>message, it works fine. The problem used to be much worse until I

This indicates that the problem is almost certainly with the
nameserver.

> So, I am assuming it is some sort of nameserver timeout problem. 
>I would guess that I don't have the delay channel configured properly,
>but after having RTFM, I can't see how one is supposed to do that.
>Has anybody else seen this problem? Any ideas?

The correct way to configure the delay channel is:

          MCHN   delay, show="Name Server Delay Channel", ap=same, tbl=smtpchn

where 'smtpchn' is replaced with the name of the "table" that
is actually the nameserver channel table.

- David
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From: sfrazier@eng.norstan.com (Steven E. Frazier 614-785-7335)
Subject: Using a modem under Dos Merge 
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Reply-To: Steven E. Frazier <sfrazier@norstan.com>
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:23:45 GMT
Precedence: bulk

 
I am trying to use "com 2" under SCO Unix Dos Merge to point toward
/dev/ttyac.  I disabled the port as the book says, chmod to 666, I believe
and then I do from unix:

#
# dos +acom2[=/dev/ttyac]
TOKEN_NF: dos: ERROR: Could not find token 'com2[' of the needed type.
# 

I am not sure how to make the com2 appear as /dev/ttyac so I can use Procomm
under the Dos Merge, have you done this before?

thanks.

steve

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From: paul@openage.COM
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,biz.sco.general
Subject: RE: SCO 3.2.4/ODT 2.0 Filesystem Types
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:55:51 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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>Could someone tell me what filesystem types are supported with
>SCO ODT 2.0 (which I believe is 3.2.4).

>In particular, I want to know if the BSD 4.2 filesystem type is supported.

>3.2.2 supports only AFS, and S51K.
                And XENIX and DOS

>                                               Thanks


Add EAFS to the above.

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From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Colorado QIC40 / SLS available?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 11:47:10 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

gws@xenitec.on.ca (Geoff Scully) writes:

> You will be most un-amused to discover that you need to reinstall the OS
> on the hard disk before you can restore your tape.

   I was going to mention this before (don't know why I didn't), but the 
latest CMS propoganda glossies say that you only need three diskettes and the 
tapes to restore your filesystem(s).  This may have changed since your 
experience with the drives, especially if CMS has been getting a lot of 
feedback from annoyed customers after they re-install their OS.

   Other things have also changed: the tape drives used to *require* one of 
those hardware boards if you had two floppies, and even then compatibility 
with some floppy controllers (such as Adaptec's 1:1 RLL controller) was poor.  
Now, the drives come with a cable that permits you to install without a board 
even in machines with two floppies (such as my DOS machine), and compatibility 
seems to be improved (I don't know if the two are related).

Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
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From: kupp@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Timothy Kupp)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Oracle recompile problem.
Keywords: Oracle 6, gethostbyname, libraries.
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:14:50 GMT
Reply-To: kupp@hercules.uregina.ca (Timothy Kupp)
Followup-To: biz.sco.general
Distribution: biz.sco.general
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan


I am attempting to install Oracle 6 on a Compaq 486/33M running SCO
UNIX 3.2.4 and I ran into some installation errors.  The messages are
all of the same type.  The installation procedure tries to compile
using cc and the error messages in the logfile indicate I am missing
functions such as gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr, getservbyname,
setsockopt, getsockname, bind, and listen first referenced in an
Oracle library called libsqlnet.a.

Are these functions TCP/IP functions?  What package are they located
in?  I have installed the Development System, SCO TCP/IP and SCO NFS on
this system already.

Any help in locating these functions would be most appreciated.

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University of Regina                            kupptw@uregina1 (BITNET)
Saskatchewan, Canada
From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX System Performance
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 11:31:48 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.COM> writes:

> I think, in practice, the number of >16MB PC-based systems has been
> vanishingly small until recently.

   I guess that depends on what you mean by "recently".  I first used an IBM 
PC in the fall of '85, and didn't own one until the spring of '87 (which was 
hardly used in the year I bought it).  To know that support for >16 MB RAM has 
been around for a year or two, that's a sizable slice of my IBM PC history.

> Furthermore, this problem isn't fatal -- it only causes a mysterious glitch
> in performance.

   "Not fatal" is accurate but somewhat misleading; the performance hit leaves 
the machine significantly less functional.  Mind you, we had - and exercised - 
the option of taking the extra RAM out and running in 16, with swapping.

> Finally, not all
> machines behave this way -- it's totally dependent on cache design.

   I'm wondering if this is exclusive to direct mapped cache; I'll have to 
look that up and get back to you all.

> Lastly, SCO UNIX 3.2v4 makes the problem much more apparent by loading
> the *kernel* into high memory, thus making the entire machine slow if
> high memory is slow.

   It might do to make a quick scan of memory when installing the kernel to 
find if any block(s) of memory are unusably slow. 

Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
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