HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Problems with Interactive UNIX 3.0
Date: 6 Sep 92 11:48:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: fasttech.1992Sep6.114810.27829
Organization: Fast Technology

In <8bnndwa.esprit@netcom.com> esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) writes:

>Problem 1.  The first partition on the disk is DOS.  The second partition
>is UNIX.  When I try to boot from the DOS partition from the Interactive-
>supplied boot program, the system does not come up.  It comes up fine
>in Unix, though.  I am able to boot DOS from floppy, then access the DOS
>partition, but this isn't very clean.  The DOS on the hard disk was
>"SYS"ed from the floppy that I am booting from.  By the way, if it makes
>a difference, it is DOS 3.3.

I used to have similar problems. When I used the ISC boot program some DOS
programs I ran were flakey and crashed. When I booted from a floppy, all was
well. This was with Compaq Dos 3.31. My problems went away after I installed
DOS 5 on the hard disk.
From: stephane@spxtech.qc.ca (Stephane Laroche)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Weird behavior of Xsco (X11R4)
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:53:25 GMT
Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
X-Bytes: 563

Maybe I don't live on the right planet but isn't a screen blanker 
supposed to blank by darkening the screen?  Mine strangely prefers
to bring the screen to all white...

Also, when I switch to another screen (with CTRL-ALT-F?), some of the
processes on the Xwindow screen stop immediately when they should
continue in the background.

All of this above worked fine with X11R3.

My setup:  ODT 1.1,  ATI WONDER+, 800X600 16 colors.


-- 
Stephane Laroche,                 Securiplex Technologies Inc.
Stephane.Laroche@spxtech.qc.ca    Montreal, Quebec     CANADA
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:44:42 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Sep8.145610.1099@godzilla.quotron.com>, sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz) writes:

| >actually, Dell as compared against other SVR4 products is a deal --
| >look at UHC for example, or even take ESIX -- the price for Dell
| >is about what one would pay for a complete ESIX SVR4 and DOS Merge --
| 
| Larry, then why is Dell "such a bargain"? If the price for Dell is the same
| as a complete ESIX SVR4 and Merge, then, if my logic is correct, ESIX is the
| better value. Am I missing something?

  Dell includes Merge. And two versions of gcc. And net stuff you would
need, like Perl, pbm, ect. And both Motif and openlook. I could go on,
but you get the idea. When I got my first beta years ago I thought they
dumped some hacker's personal machine with all the toys. Then I found
out I didn't have to do all the ports, the stuff was there.

  I have upgraded some things, but in general the Dell is compete and
probably includes more than most people will want to keep on their
disks.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
From: sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Deleting Merge from DELL SVR4 (Was: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?)
Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:00:56 GMT
Organization: Quotron Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep12.210327.0649391@locus.com> peet@locus.com (J. David Peet) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.144224.13970@tware.com> bash@tware.com (Paul Bash) writes:
>>In article <BuEvwy.2rt@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>>peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>>>
>>>>> DELL includes the MERGE along with their product (i.e. it is a "nuts and
>>>>> bolts complete" release).  
>>>
>>>>IF you want Merge. But why would I want Merge?
>>>

  {  portions deleted ]

>
>The reason that Merge is bundled with DELL (and Merge/Vpix is available for
>other UNIX systems) is that a majority of buyers have a minimum requirement
>that their 386 UNIX system also be able to run DOS programs.  If your UNIX
>can't run DOS, then many customers go elsewhere.  This is also starting to
>be true with non-386 UNIX systems and MAC's which have Soft-PC to provide
>this function.

David, that is really nice; however, why bundle it??? If it is available
and the need is present, the customer will buy it. If the need is not
present, the customer just through away his money. Now you see why many
of the vendors make add-ons like "merge" or "vpix" an option.

>--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>David Peet     Internet: peet@locus.com   UUCP:...!uunet!lcc!peet  
>Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Disclaimer: Normally my statements are my own, and not do not
>necessarily reflect those of Locus, but maybe this time they do,
>but then again, maybe not.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------


Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz



-- 
Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz            XBBS
Voice: (714)821-9670   Data and FAX: (714)821-9671
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From: heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 & SAS 2.x(?)
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:39:44 GMT
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry

marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin) writes:

>	Quite simple question...where can I ftp FAS 2.10 from?  I'm
>currently using FAS 2.09 and am looking at getting an AST board
>so will prefer to upgrade FAS at the same time :)

#NAME		ftp.FU-Berlin.DE
#ADDRESS	130.133.4.50
#ORGANIZATION	Freie Universitaet Berlin
#LOCATION	Berlin, Germany; 52 31 N / 13 24 E
#ACCESS		no restrictions

FR--     105551 17-Aug-1992 19:46 /pub/unix/driver/fas/fas-2.10.tar.Z


>	Also, what would the benefit be of installing SAS instead of
>FAS?  It has been explained to me what SAS is...but I still don't
>quite understand it :(  I'm running SVR3.2, and FAS installs no
>problem...does SAS give better throughput or anything like that?

SAS doesn't work on SVR3.2. It can be used as a substitute for fas in SVR4.
SAS is the streams version of fas.

Heiko
-- 
Heiko Schlichting                     | Freie Universitaet Berlin
heiko@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de     | Institut fuer Kristallographie
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Recommendations?
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:08:52 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Sep2.160136.1603@unislc.uucp>, dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold) writes:

| I have a 1740A, with a Archive DAT, and a Wangtek QIC, running SCO 3.2.4.
| I am running "eiad", with the 1740A in enhanced mode.
| I couldn't get my original 1740 to run SCO in either enhanced or 1540 mode.
| The replacement 1740A is a different board layout, although similar.
| 
| I have had no problems with either tape, or the disk.

  I don't have scars from this problem, but I will when the scabs fall
off. With many SCSI devices you have to go into the EISA setup and tell
the controller not to negotiate synchronous communications. This is done
on a per-LUN basis along with parity and a bunch of other stuff.

  The symptom I saw was that the disk worked fine, the 150MB drive
either ignored the negotiation or said "no thanks," and the DAT and
CD-ROM drives went out to lunch when the 1742 start negotiating.
Changing the config fixed it, and I sure hope this save someone the time
it took us to find it!

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell Issue 2.2--Should I Keep It?
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:32:55 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <tkevans.715693347@eplrx7.es.dupont.com>, tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans) writes:

| o	I cannot get dialup SLIP to work AT ALL.  The connection is
| 	made, but immediately disconnects.  Does anyone have dialuip
| 	SLIP working under this rlease?  If so, please e-mail me
| 	so we can talk details.

  See Charlie's post, but call Dell. This stuff has been reported as
working by some people, so I don't think it's all that broken. The 2.1
was so nice about doing the dialing and starting the connection, but I
haven't tried 2.2 yet for SLIP.

| o	I am having frequent reboots while running X11R5.  These

  Look at the video card and see if it has a "turbo" jumper. If so
change the jumper to the other way. I had a problem with this on another
brand of card, and cured it by kicking the bus speed to 12MHz (I do
*not* recommend this) until I found the problem.

| o	I am unable to recompile cnews to disable Dell's
| 	default NNTP support.  compiler errors crop up
| 	with both cc and gcc--even on the source code Dell
| 	distributes, using all the Dell build.def definitions!

  As a data point I compiled cnews and nntp under the gcc-1 compiler on
2.1. I don't remember diddling anything special, although it did have a
tendancy to corrupt the history file while getting an nntp feed (as does
the current 2.2 using the cnews as shipped). Since I've seen this on
other systems I assumed it was just a feature of cnews.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:14098 comp.unix.xenix.sco:2838
From: chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: SCO Enhanced Feature Supplements [summary of recent changes]
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:24:03 GMT
Expires: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 00:24:04 GMT
Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX
Supersedes: <sco-efs-diff-920807@chinacat.unicom.com>
X-Faq: sco-efs-diff

This posting summarizes recent changes to the repertoire of free
Enhanced Feature Supplements available from the Santa Cruz Operation.
These EFSs may be downloaded via anonymous uucp from sosco, scolon,
sosffm, and uunet, as well as the SCO SOS bulletin board.  A full
listing of available EFSs also may be retrieved from these systems.
Please see the monthly ``Welcome to comp.unix.xenix.sco'' posting (in
the comp.unix.xenix.sco newsgroup) for information on how to access
these systems.

*** /tmp/faq8328.prev-version	Sat Sep  5 19:23:13 1992
--- /tmp/faq8328.curr-version	Sat Sep  5 19:23:12 1992
***************
*** 1,9 ****
! @(#) sco-efs 1.8 92/08/07 21:36:11
! [ file sosco!/usr/spool/uucppublic/EFS/info retrieved on 8/7/92 ]
  
  List of SCO Enhanced Feature Supplements available for transfer using UUCP
! Last updated: 07/15/92
  
  New on 07/15/92
  
      efs124:  IBM Model 57 EFS for SCO XENIX release 2.3.4
--- 1,13 ----
! @(#) sco-efs 1.9 92/09/05 19:19:04
! [ file sosco!/usr/spool/uucppublic/EFS/info retrieved on 9/5/92 ]
  
  List of SCO Enhanced Feature Supplements available for transfer using UUCP
! Last updated: 08/28/92
  
+ New on 08/28/92
+ 
+     efs125:  SCO LLI Driver Disk Release 3.1.0
+ 
  New on 07/15/92
  
      efs124:  IBM Model 57 EFS for SCO XENIX release 2.3.4
***************
*** 101,108 ****
       5. Follow the installation instructions given in the cover letter file.
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- 
  List of available Enhanced Feature Supplements
  
  Files ending in .Z have been reduced in size by the compress utility.  The
--- 105,110 ----
***************
*** 277,280 ****
--- 279,290 ----
        ^ 
        |
  (please note the 7th character in the filename above is the letter "l")
+ 
+ 
+ efs125.Z        1125849 (51367) SCO LLI Driver Disk Release 3.1.0 for
+ efs125.doc.Z      57911 (61182) SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 4
+ 				SCO MPX Release 2.0
+ 				SCO Open Desktop Release 2.0
+ 
+ 
  
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz)
Subject: SCO UNIX and APS DAT?
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:01:43 GMT



Will it be possible to back up to a APS DAT drive from SCO UNIX? It is
based on the Archive Python mechanism. It is the Mac-version so there 
is no driver included from APS. Do I have to buy additional software?

--
Kent Boortz
boortz@sics.se
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: SCO+FutureDomain
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:57:33 GMT

mike@adpgate.UUCP ( ADP OPuS) writes:

>I have installed SCO UNIX system V ver 3.2.4 and _every_
>time I go through either shutdown or haltsys , take down my 
>machine (i.e. power down), when I come back up I either have:

>	 a. corrupted root file system that must be fixed
>		with fsck (booting my machine automatically 'determines' this)
> or  b. I simply can't boot at all, I stop on "J", which is the last
>		thing before the boot-disk  boots.

>	 does anyone have a similar problem, I have this configuration:
>		   386-25sx; FutureDomain TMC885 controller, Maxtor 3280xt drive(s)

>any feed back would be appreciated...thank you

You might want to check the bus timing on that.  If the FD is like the 
Adaptec 1542-b you can set it for different DMA xfer rates, you may also
be able to adjust bus timing in the system BIOS.

This would be a good start.
-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:50:27 GMT
Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem

In article <BuD2E7.E96@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>I stated something to the effect that ESIX with Merge would be about
>the same price as Dell, and based on that -- I consider (personal 
>comment) Dell to be a better product for the price.  

But to those of us who would not contaminate an Intel UNIX system with
a DOS emulator, the entry price is cheaper.

And those who do not want to buy the vendor's GUI, but get XFree86 or
MetroLink's or SGCS, can save even more.

An ESIX unlimited user licence with development system, sells for under
$650US. Add XFree86 and you've got a fairly complete system, still $650,
and you don't have to buy any specific brand of hardware to get that price.
As for the free software that comes bundled with Dell, no question that
this is an asset, but then as freely available software, your knowledgeable
ESIX dealer (not to mention your local user community) should have it.

>BTW, does ESIX support anonymous ftp access?

Heck, they've just gotten directly onto the Internet (esix.everex.com).
Give 'em a little time for ftp.

In the meantime, there are other sites with R4 binaries that are
presently ftp-able. Why should an R4 binary be specific to ESIX, or
Dell, or anyone else?

-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
   "This Used To Be My Playground" -- Madonna, singing about mens' washrooms
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Subject: socket lib for SCO
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:34:00 GMT

  Anyone know where I can find a socket library for SCO UNIX 3.2.2?
I've tried the one from anomaly, but it was written for xenix and just
dumps core whenever gethostbyname() is called.

Please reply by email to jle9162@venus.tamu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 02:28:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 



I have placed several calls and sent two faxes to Orchid for information
on how to set timing values for the Farenheit 1280. They are refusing
to release this information due to it may create a competitive advantage
to other SVGA manafucturers. In slight defense of Orchid, it may 
be technically possible to extract the timing info by writing a simple
DOS programs and then dumping all the S3 registers. I am not sure
if this will work...

It appears that there is a current trend with SVGA manufacturers
to not release information on S3 related products or spinoff of
the ibm 8514/a /vga architecture model.

This is getting interesting...

Still working on S3 driver for X11R5 under 386bsd.

Amancio Hasty
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:10:45 GMT

raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes:

>In article <1992Sep14.125859.997@microware.com> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:

>>   [...] A 1740 I recently bought (the EISA version of the 
>>   1540)  [...]

>The AHA1740 is a completely new product. It has several concepts in common
>with the AHA1540, but it's by no means just another version of the 1540.

The 1740, 1740A and 1742 have two modes of operation, 'Standard Mode' which
is directly compatible with the 1540-series, and 'Enhanced Mode' which offers
the following advantages over Standard Mode (quoting the 1740 Technical
Reference, page 1-2):

>The Enhanced mode allows the board to take advantage of a number of
>features which were not available on earlier host adapters.  These
>include:
>o 32-bit addressing capability
>o Ability to access all EISA board registers
>o Single fast mailbox handling
>o Contingent allegiance (SCSI)
>o Tagged queuing (SCSI)

Of these, only 'single fast mailbox handling' differs from a software
point of view from the 1540-series.  While they are different, they
are not 'completely new'.

-- 
Adam G.
adamg@microware.com, or ...!uunet!mcrware!adamg
The above is not to be construed in any way as the official or unofficial
statements of Microware, or any Microware employees.
From: jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: optimization
Date: 16 Sep 1992 02:02:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  I am writing some code that needs to be extremely fast in x86 assembly.
A bottleneck I'm running into is this:
(cx=num1, dx=num2)
   mov ax,640
   mul dx
   add ax,cx
This sequence simply takes too long. Can anybody think of a faster way
of doing this address calculation? Possibly shifting is the answer?

Thanks for your help.
Jason.
reply by email to jle9162@venus.tamu.edu
From: rob@jdsny.com (Rob Yampolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Init: process table full?  What do I tune to fix this?
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:51:03 GMT
Organization: Jefferson Data Services

I have been attaching terminals to an Interactive 3.0 system using Digiboard
concentrators.  After adding the 7th group of 16 async ports, I started getting
"Init: process table full" (not an exact quote) errors.  At this point, I could
not shut the system down cleanly.  Changing the getty lines in /etc/inittab
to "off" for the last 16 terminals clears up the error condition, but of course
I can't use the terminals.

Is there a tuneable parameter "init" uses to size it's process table?  I don't
think it's NPROC because the remaining terminals can run lots of processes 
with no problem.
-- 
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=     Mail replies appreciated if possible (who has time to    =
=     read this stuff?)               Thanks, rob@jdsny.com    =
================================================================
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: What is /dev/pmem?
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:24:29 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1263@admin.mport.COM>, root@admin.mport.COM (admin) writes:

| Now we will tell you what it is - sorry that you slipped
| through the cracks.
| 
| /dev/pmem is a means of accessing the physical memory - it
| is analogous to /dev/kmem which is used to access
| kernel virtual memory.

  I understood this until they explained it to me.

  Now I want to go back and see what the difference between mem and pmem
is, and why they drew an analogy between the kernel virtual memory and
the hardware memory.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
From: quinn@ender.tamu.edu (Dave Quinn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Again
Date: 6 Sep 1992 03:50:11 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University

I post again...if someone would please bang me with some email, or
at least a response here, I would greatly appreciate it.  The 
scenario is as such: I have previously installed SVR4 on a Compaq
notebook.  The install went just grand (albeit a little slow), but
I found after the install, that the system was giving me some rather
bizarre keyboard errors, as follows "WARNING: integral keyboard 
controller not found.  if you are using the integrated console, check
the keyboard connection" et al.  If *ANYONE* has had any experience
in putting SVR4 on a notebook or laptop, please let me know if there
is some place that I can look into fixing this...Thank you kindly...

-David

/* Just my own opinion/thought/idea/whatthehellelse */
From: garyb@gcm.com (Gary Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Was SAS 2.0 posted?
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:13:17 GMT
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Was SAS 2.0 posted to "any" of the newsgroups yet?  I`ve been keeping
an eye out (ouch!) for it lateley, but our newsfeed has a tendency to
selectivley filter out only those articles that I desparately need. :-)

- Gary

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From: wd@infodn.rmi.de (Walter Doerr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Console message "tcp off"  ???
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:19:50 GMT
Organization: infodn, Dueren, Germany

A SCO Unix machine sometimes displays the message

	NOTICE: tcp off: src xxxxxxxx off 0

on the console, where xxxxxxxx is the remote IP address in hex.

What does this message mean? I got it when experimenting with Kermit and
Workplace on a the remote PC.

-Walter
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386