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From: thomson@zarda.macc.wisc.edu (Don Thomson)
Subject: Recent UNIX history materials
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date: 12 Sep 92 11:35:33

I teach a 16-hour non-credit UNIX overview course at our computing center.
I've always included a discussion of the UNIX family tree so that students
could understand the divergence from the original Bell Labs UNIX into BSD and
SysV and the subsequent convergence back into some semblance of "standards" a
couple of years ago in the form of the UNIX International and OSF camps.  I've
been using the same chart in my notes for those same couple of years, and
obviously a lot has changed in that time.  Can anyone point me to an online
paper/chart/whatever that clearly outlines much more recent UNIX history to
bring my own notes up to date?  Now that USL has loosened its alliance with
Sun, that DEC seems to be the the only remaining vendor fully committed to
OSF/1, that USL, Univel, Sun, and NeXT are all targeting the desktop market,
there's a lot more to the picture than what I have been presenting.  If
someone has already consolidated all of that information into some kind of
document it would be most helpful.

I'm always interested in what other people present in such overviews, so
additionally, if anyone is aware of UNIX overview class materials in general
that are available electronically, I'd enjoy looking at them.  Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich)
Subject: Parallel Processing
Organization: Vision Graphics
			  Dover, NH
			  USA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:54:39 GMT


This question has to do with Unix, generally:

I'm curious about the new technology/application of parallel processing.
I've been told that there is a board one can purchase for the IBM-compat
platform (called CMOS?) which will fascilitate this.

I'd like to know the logistics of these boards, and as well do you need
to have a special version of Unix in order to run it?  Or any software
for that matter.  Say if I were to have a 486 (which is fast enough)
and wanted to buy such a board... how many processors would it support,
and what would I need to do to the software and machine to make things
work?

Thank you.

(kindly respond via email, my site does not get fed the necessary groups)
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From: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu (J. Scott Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: backward MANPATH ?
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:19:45 GMT
Reply-To: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Stanford University, dept of Physics / SLAC

In article <1992Sep10.010200.12873@eng.ufl.edu>, ruck@zeta.ee.ufl.edu (John R Ruckstuhl Jr) writes:
|> I wrote:
|> 
|> > Sanity check, please --
|> > Regarding "man" (SunOS 4.1.1) and "xman" utilities,
|> > 
|> > These utilities output the manpage found !last! in the MANPATH, 
|> 
|> 
|> Not true.  I'll try again.  Apparently I've noticed some behavior
|> related to the filename extensions, and my explanation was entirely
|> incorrect.
|> 
|> If MANPATH is /usr/man:/usr/local/man ,
|> 
|> then
|>     /usr/man/man1/cmp.1  is output rather than  /usr/local/man/man1/cmp.1
|>     /usr/man/man1/split.1  is output rather than  /usr/local/man/man1/split.1
|>     /usr/man/man1/tail.1  is output rather than  /usr/local/man/man1/tail.1
|> but
|>     /usr/local/man/man1/cat.1  is output rather  than /usr/man/man1/cat.1v
|>     /usr/local/man/man1/cut.1  is output rather  than /usr/man/man1/cut.1v
|>     /usr/local/man/man1/sum.1  is output rather  than /usr/man/man1/sum.1v
|> 
|>  
Well, just to put my two cents worth in:  I'm running an IBM RS6000,
aix 3.1.7, X11R5.  Just to confuse me, man will take the "leftmost"
occurrence (i.e., the /usr/man entries) for the SAME extension (i.e.,
.../man1/cmp.1 for both).  However, xman will take the "rightmost"
occurrence.  xman's behavior will probably be standard across all
platforms (for X11R5).  Can anyone confirm this?  Basically, this
means I can't set MANPATH and get consistent behavior between xman and
man.

				-Scott Berg

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From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: Playing CD in workstation A, hearing it in B, Can I?
Originator: erodrigu@tolten
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 19:27:47 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <Bu9pL1.2M6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
> This is true, but it's only one possible approach.  You can play the
> CD, take the audio from the headphone jack and connect it to the audio
> in on the sparc, digitize it, and send it to another machine over the
> network.  Assuming its a novelty and not a serious need to get digital
> accuracy for playing a CD over the network, that might be acceptable.

Is there anybody that did that?. Somebody here told me that this
can be dangerous (the audio in the sparc can result damaged, due to
the output level is very high), any comments?, do I need some
device special between the output and input audio devices?

edo...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: maklinm@cognos.com (Maxwell Maklin)
Subject: Any standards on UID and GID
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:29:35 GMT

I have a medium-sized multi-vendor Unix environment.  It was born a number
of years ago and I am now having some concerns about user IDs (UID) and
group IDs (GID).  We have have used most of the UIDs and GIDs less than
a 100 and was wondering if I really should think about moving those above
100.  Does any of the standards defined today or in the process for the
future state that these should be greater than 100.  

This has all come about as a result of SCO Unix being added at it wanting
you to use UIDs greater than 100 which can be a real pain for NFS doings.

Max
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: BASH Compiling for SCO.
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:42:46 GMT

In article <18qqo1INN81n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
>In article <1992Sep07.154844.18755@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
>
>>I receive this error when compiling BASH 1.12 for SCO. Any ideas on 
>>correcting this problem would be appreciated.
>
>Add a line to the machine description in machines.h that reads
>
>#undef HAVE_ALLOCA
>
>and see if that does the trick.
>
>
>-- 
Including a -lPW fixed the problem. Thanks for the help everyone.
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From: grimaldo@tokyo.seri.philips.nl (Emilio Grimaldo)
Subject: Need GAWK 'manual'
Organization: Philips Semiconductors, The Netherlands 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:35:34 GMT

Hi, I have a copy of gawk running on my PC under DOS (well, I must find a good
UNIX first...) but I do NOT have any documentation about the supported
features. Can anybody email me that?

I am also trying to find sources for gawk, and the whole sccs system in source
code to run on my PC.    

      Thanks in advance. Send replies to my EMAIL address please.
		     Emilio

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: peter@citr.uq.oz.au (Peter Klavins)
Subject: Re: Question: Stallion Technologies email address
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:42:46 GMT

nms@saukh.relcom.msk.su (Nickolay Saukh) writes:

>Do they still have it? If so, what is it?

stallion.oz.au  --  if you don't know anyone else, try postmaster@
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: hc05@rexago8.uucp (Beirne Konarski)
Subject: Re: malloc(3) library
Reply-To: beirnek@summitis.COM
Organization: Summit Information Systems
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:06:33 GMT

dkowalsk@usdsd1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Dennis Kowalski) writes:


>As you can see, the malloc(3) routines which are supposed to be faster,
>are over 3 times slower!!!!!!


>Any ideas as to what is happening ???

No, but I got similar results on a 3b2/1000.
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From: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com (Mark C. Burhans)
Subject: Re: A question on ls
Originator: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:48:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <Uec1x2y00VolE4IFF=@andrew.cmu.edu>, sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier) writes:
|> Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.questions: 29-Aug-92 Re: A question on
|> ls Bill Bohrer@mcc.com (1088)
|> 
|> > In article <1992Aug29.233534.27967@umbc3.umbc.edu>
|> > rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
|> > >In article <6786@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren
|> > Bala) writes:
|> > >>If I type
|> > >>% ls *.Z 
|> > >>All files with .Z extension are displayed.
|> > >>
|> > >>What command would I type to display all files that do not have a .Z 
|> > >>extension ?
|> > >

|> > >the shell you are using.  In tcsh, you type:
|> > >% ls ^*.Z
|> > >In sh and csh you are out of luck.  In other shells, I don't know.
|> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> 
|> > Not true, this should work in ALL shells:
|> 
|> > ls | grep -v '.Z'
|> 
|> All this is true, but don't forget that it won't list ALL the files
|> ending in .Z
|> the files beginning with a point will be 'forgotten' !
|> (I had quite a surprise a week ago)

This will:  ls -A | grep -v '\.Z$'

This one will even search subdirectories:  ls -AR | grep -v '\.Z$'
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From: shubu@cs.wisc.edu (Shubhendu Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .netrc entry for default ftp connects
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:08:16 GMT
	<1992Sep12.215444.9640@bradley.bradley.edu> <smr.716471679@hitkw14>
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin @ Madison, CS Dept.

>>>>> In article <smr.716471679@hitkw14>, smr@hitkw14.pki-nbg.philips.de (S.Riehm) writes:

SR> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:

>In article <1992Sep12.184012.2519@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
>-} .netrc works fine if I specify the machine that I want to contact. Often, tho,
>-} I want to jump out on the net and use anonymous ftp.

>Well, then use this script (suitably modified for your situation) in
>place of ftp:

SR> [script deleted]

SR> eek! that script adds a line to the end of your .netrc file every time
SR> you ftp somewhere... why don't you just read the man page to get the
SR> answer...

SR> ---
SR> netrc(4)

SR> default             This is the same as 'machine name' except that
SR> default matches any name.  There can be only
SR> one default token, and it must be after all
SR> machine tokens.  This is normally used for
SR> ftp as follows:

SR> default login anonymous password user@site

SR> This provides automatic anonymous FTP login
SR> to machines not specified in .netrc.  This
SR> can be overridden in ftp by using the -n flag
SR> to disable auto-login.
SR> ---

SR> need I say more?

SR> catchya

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work on an Ultrix machine (not at least 
on this DEC 3100).  I think this was mentioned before somewhere along the 
thread of discussion. 

Luck!
-Shubu





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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question: which is faster 'find -exec' or 'find | xargs' ??
Date: 4 Sep 1992 21:49:11 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Sep4.041033.23158@news.acns.nwu.edu> navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:
>I was experimenting with find and xargs. I issued the command
>  find . -exec ls -ld {} \;
>and the command
>  find . -print | xargs ls -ld

>Question: why is the xargs command MUCH faster?

The -exec version executes a separate ls command for each file that is
found.  The xargs version accumulates a bunch of arguments and then
executes one ls command with all of them.  The difference is all the time
spent starting up new shell and ls processes.  It's the difference between:

	sh -c "ls file1"
	sh -c "ls file2"
	sh -c "ls file3"
	sh -c "ls file4"
	sh -c "ls file5"

and

	sh -c "ls file1 file2 file3 file4 file5"
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Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:10927 comp.unix.bsd:5486
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: What Unix HW/SW I will buy with my $8000
From: root@micom.com (Todd L. Kindig @ Micom Comm. Corp.)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:27:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Micom Communications Corp., Simi Valley, Ca.

In article <Bu1IMs.E7n@multisys.com> rot@multisys.com (Republic of Taiwan) writes:
>Get a Sparc II clone for $4843(16M memory,17"color).
>Add 420M HD $1197.
>Upgrade to 19" Trinitron $1197
>Each Extra 16MB $785, (Add up to 64MB)
>Add Sun GX Accelerator $585
>
>So a decent SparcII clone with 420MB HD, 64MB Memory will be $8395.
>
>Or 840MB HD, 32MB Memory will be $8022.
>
>For more info call 800-mobius-1.
>
>PS. I have no connection with this mobius.

	Now you're talkin.... I have a 486-33 sitting right beside me here that 
I attempted to make into a Unix box... Guess what, It sits and I am typing up
this message on my Sun Sparc... I bought all the parts for it piece mill, and didn't even spend $5000.00  

Sparc 1,
600mb hard drive, 1Gb now same price as I payed for 600.
1/4" Archive Viper
19" Color Monitor
GX graphics
32MB memory
High speed modem

Do yourself a favor, follow the mans advice, and get a real box.

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From: lpostenr@pyramid.com (Linda Postenrieder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x
Subject: Scheduling package for windows
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:18:51 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology

I currently run a daytimer type of scheduler called synchronize to
schedule meetings and keep track of things to do.  

Does anyone know of any other scheduling packages for UNIX systems.  I
need to schedule daily events for a couple dozen people.

Please send info to me via email.

Thanks,
Linda
From: eluyten@rc1.vub.ac.be (Eric Luyten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MH and UNIX groups (setgid directory and NFS)
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:10:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium

In article <1992Sep10.002119.12363@den.mmc.com>, jzwiebel@pgl-devsvr.den.mmc.com (John Zwiebel (303)977-1480) writes:
|> I've been running MH(xmh) on the RS6000 for several year with no trouble.
|> But, I now have a SPARC station that mounts the same directory (/usr/spool/mail)
|> that I was using on the RS6000.  MH comes installed on AIX but not in my
|> SPARC.  I built MH and it is working fine _except_ for one little problem
|> that messes everything up.  It changes my unix group name.

Same problem over here. No RS6000 or AIX in sight, but mail partition NFS-mounted
by three clients. The problem appeared yesterday using ELM and was irreproducible.

Can someone post (or provide pointers to) the  "setgid directory - NFS" issue.
I remember reading about it somewhere but it has expired. FAQ ?

One of our systems people traced it to "opening an existing file with CREAT flag"
but it may be constructor-dependent.
  
|> Thanks 
|> John Zwiebel 

Eric.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Playing CD in workstation A, hearing it in B, Can I?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:24:35 GMT

martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick) writes:
>if there is a utility that will play a CD on a Sun Sparc, it must be a
>pretty sophisticated one.  CD's use 14-bit audio samples encoded with the
>Reid-&-Solomon error correcting codes  at a sampling rate of 44.1KHZ for
>each channel.  The audio channel on a Sun Sparc is an ISDN telephone 
>subscriber IC which operates at a nominal rate of 8 thousand samples per
>second.  Its digital samples are actually 12-bit samples, but the I/O works
>in 8-bit samples, each one representing the change of audio level which
*----
This is true, but it's only one possible approach.  You can play the
CD, take the audio from the headphone jack and connect it to the audio
in on the sparc, digitize it, and send it to another machine over the
network.  Assuming its a novelty and not a serious need to get digital
accuracy for playing a CD over the network, that might be acceptable.
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From: bldaniel@unccsun.uncc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Sun strips 8th bit?
Summary: make it stop! Please!
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:38:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
X-Posted-From: unccsun.uncc.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu



I'm having problems with a Sun running SunOs 4.1.2.
Whenever I try to transfer a binary file with ymodem or
zmodem, it fails.  The filename and size come through ok,
but none of the blocks is successfully transferred.  If I use
Kermit, it works fine--but I may grow old before the transfer
completes.
 
As far as I can tell, something is stripping off the 8th bit
along the way.  I've tried stty cs8  and  stty pass8  to
no avail.
 
Any suggestions?  Am I way off base about the 8th bit?  Help!
 
 
Many thanks in advance,
Brian
 
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From: jbowyer%ovc.vutbr.cs%CSBRMU11.BITNET@aearn.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (Jeff Bowyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: PAGER
Date: 14 Sep 92 05:54:49 GMT

The following line appears in my .profile file:

PAGER="pg"

but whenever I use the man command, the output is still filtered
through more.  What am I doing wrong?
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From: ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alexandre Ramos)
Subject: Re: user command to recover deleted file ?
Reply-To: ramos@engr.latech.edu
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:43:34 GMT

In article 3533@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu, hongman@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Guo Hongman) writes:
> 
>  can any tell if there is user command to recover deleted file ?
> 
> 
>  Thanks in advance !
> 
>                         my email: hongman@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu


Nope. It's gone!
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh command line editing
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:43:40 GMT
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
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In article <ellis.716558665@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
:>In article <5049@balrog.ctron.com> geremia@ctron.com writes:
:>>	I have a Sun SPARCstation running sunos 4.1 unix.  Does anyone
:>>know how to get command line editing to work.  Also how about command
:>>line history browse using the arrow keys????
:
:Get tcsh, bash, or zsh.  All have many features beyond csh or sh.  tcsh is
:the most limited superset, because the others try to be supersets of both
:csh and ksh.  Chances are someone else at your site has already installed
:them on their workstations or on a server.

Note that tcsh is the "most limited superset" because unlike bash and
zsh, it's a true superset of csh while the other two focus more on sh
compliance.  If you like csh over sh/ksh, you'll love tcsh.  :)

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From: huang2@husc8.harvard.edu (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Man page ---> postscript .... help!
Date: 13 Sep 92 13:26:09 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA

chem001@hoss.unl.edu (Jonathan Skean) writes:

	This is probably a very basic question.  I want to print a man 
	page on a postscript printer.

If your site has the popular enscript utility, you can print the man
pages out in landscape mode, with two pages per sheet of paper.  I do
something like:

	man csh | enscript -2Br -L66 

The 2 is for two pages per side.  r rotates into landscape mode.  B
takes off the page headers.  L66 says to use 66 lines per page, so
that the page headers and footers come out right.
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