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From: sean@visix.com (Sean E. Trowbridge)
Subject: Cross-compiling MacOS apps from A/UX
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:34:57 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA


I've got some working source code which runs on A/UX under X (compiled with
gcc 2.3.1).  Now I want to try and port it to native MacOS.  It would be cool
if I could do it "incrementally", switching over parts of the application from
unix libraries to native toolbox calls a chunk at a time.

However, I want to be able to produce a program which can run under a native
MacOS system when I'm through.  Is there a way to compile native MacOS
applications from A/UX?  How about libraries/object files which can be used
under MPW?

I'd be willing to shell out the $$$ for apple's ANSI C compiler if it has this
capability, although I'd rather use gcc if possible.

Or do I have to start from scratch with MPW?



--
Sean Trowbridge
Visix Software Inc.
sean@visix.com
From: og@access.digex.com (Gary Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: CD300 external arrives; A/UX install advice?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:57:41 GMT
Organization: Order? Just a small bureaucracy really. (DIGEX)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

My CD300 external unit arrived yesterday, so I am looking forward to installing
A/UX 3.0 on my IIcx this weekend. The IIcx has 20MB of RAM, (1) internal
Maxtor 120MB drive running System 7.1, and an external Maxtor200MB drive which
I intend to dedicate to A/UX. I'd like to configure it so that the machine
boots System 7.1, and only makes the jump to A/UX when I want it to. I
expect the machine to be in A/UX mode only about 25% of the time.

Can anyone provide advice on configuration, partitioning, etc? It will not be
accessed through a network, as it will be a standalone machine in my house.
Generally, is there any tips that would be useful before the first install?
I know SunOS 4.1.X but nothing more about A/UX beyond the Essentials
manuals.

Additionally, is there a set of recommended third party software that I should
go on 'the hunt' for? I won't need mailers, etc., unless they work over a modem.
- Gary

-- 
- Gary Goldberg og@access.digex.com Bowie, MD KA3ZYW

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: emacs, postscript
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:25:06 GMT

johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:

>In article <C14K8A.JsE@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> clintdw@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Clinton Wong) writes:
>>   Like many other people, I'd deeply appreciate if someone could tell me
>>where I could get the binaries for emacs for A/UX (or anything like that).

>This should be added to the FAQ.  A binary for emacs 18.58 is included 
>with the epoch binaries on wuarchive.wustl.edu in /systems/aux/gnu.

It already is... kinda... It's noted that emacs 18.58 is available on wuar
"soon"... Nobody told me when it was added, only that it was "going to be
added".
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "I'd keep playing... I don't think
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  the heavy stuff's gonna come down
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  for quite a while."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |                        - Carl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: Where is these library functions ?
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:51:28 GMT

I am compiling PGP 2.1, but I have a problem.
The following two functions is undefined:

undefined               first referenced
 symbol                     in file
tcgetattr                       system.o
tcsetattr                       system.o

and they both have a prototype in /usr/include/termios.h

SO have Apple left something out ? Or is it in a strange library ?
-- 
Povl H. Pedersen   -   Macintosh specialist. Knows some DOS and UNIX too.
pope@imv.aau.dk    -   povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:14:43 -0500 
From: Matthew Mashyna <mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Quadra 800 and A/UX 3.0

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aux: 23-Jan-93 Re: Quadra 800 and A/UX
3.0 by Jim Jagielski@jagubox.gs 
> 3.0 will almost assuredly not run on the Q800. I would be extremely
> surprised if a new version that supported the Q800 wasn't projected.
> After all, the Q800 would be a most excellent platform.


I wonder if a new version of A/UX is really in the works. I've read in a
few places that a LAN server based on A/UX has been under development.
If Apple is real about getting into the server business I'd have to
think that it would include the high-end machines.

Of course, I've made assertions like this in the past...



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham)
Subject: Re: A/UX on PowerBook:Anyone tried ?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:42:41 GMT

In article <brownlow.728089224@xanadu> brownlow@informix.com (Keith Brownlow) writes:
>I would like to run some applications that need Unix.  I own a PowerBook 
>170 and have found that the applications run on A/UX.  I have read the
>FAQ on this newsgroup which states that A/UX 3.0 will not run on the
>PowerBooks.  Would previous versions run ?  I contacted Apple who said that
>A/UX is not SUPPORTED on a PowerBook, which is a little different from
>not running on a PowerBook.  My idea would be to install 8 meg into the
>PowerBook (minimum A/UX req.) and have A/UX reside on a large external SCSI
>drive.  Has anyone actually tried this ?  Is there some absolute hardware

At one point, I had heard that some of the problems with A/UX were a
lack of drivers for the powerbooks LCD screens.
Does anyone know if this is the reason?

>Keith Brownlow.
>brownlow@informix.com
>brownlow@wet.com


-- 
Darren Dunham                 		          add@is.rice.edu
MicroConsultant                       		  Rice University
(What is that? A small consultant?)	              Houston, TX
Any resemblance between real opinions and my post is coincidental
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: Carlo De Vecchi <cdv@sunicar.cern.ch>
Subject: Quadra 950 video problem?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78C36F57402F870@icarunix.cern.ch>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:56:21 GMT
Organization: CERN
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:55:59 GMT

I own a Quadra 950 with an Apple 16" display. When I first installed it 
(without A/UX) I read in the documentation that this Mac need a 
extension named "950 Colour Addition" for some problems with some 
applications. In the Quadra packing I didn't found the diskette with 
that file and I used the Quadra all the same. It worked fine with only 
a small (?) problem: sometimes the display lose the synchronisation and 
all on the screen start to run diagonally and very fast through the 
monitor. To stop all without rebooting I can press the interrupt button 
to get into Macsbug (the video card regain the synchronisation) and 
after I type 'go' to return back to the running application. Some weeks 
after I got the "950 Colour Addition" extension and I never experienced 
again this problem.
Now I installed A/UX 3.0. All works fine but the display loses 
again the synchronisation. I tried to install the "950 Colour Addition" 
but with A/UX it doesn't work.
Now I don't understand if this is an hardware problem of my Quadra or a 
software problem. Do anybody known something about this?

Thanks. Carlo.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Carlo De Vecchi
  Bld. 591 R-011
  CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  CH-1211 Geneve 23
  Switzerland
e-mail:
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: New 'tc' to be released RSN
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:27:35 GMT

The latest version of the New 'tc' will be released Real Soon Now... most
probably around 1/27... This version adds some _very_ welcome hacks from
Apple themselves as well as some further modifications by myself. Some
changes include:

	1. The variable block length hack is gone for good... I'll wait
	   until the SCSI Manager _really_ supports this.

	2. "Official" support for the Sony DAT drives...

	3. The bug with the 8200s has been fixed.

	4. The one reported problem with the HP DAT and a Q700 should
	   be fixed also.

	5. Mode Sense info now reported by 'mt status'

	6. 'tc' will now "coerce" drives to have characteristics that
	   it expects...

All these changes seem to warrant a version number upgrade to 3.20 (from 3.12).
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "I'd keep playing... I don't think
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  the heavy stuff's gonna come down
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  for quite a while."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |                        - Carl
From: hatch@conan.llnl.gov (Jeff Hatch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: New 'tc' to be released RSN
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:01:15 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

This is great news.  I have been fighting with my Exabyte 8200 since I 
bought it.  I knew it was fine since it worked OK using Retrospect under 
MacOS.  Under A/UX using the supplied 'tc' driver and the standard UNIX 
utilities (dump.bsd, tar, pax, etc.) it worked only half the time at best 
... really flaky!

Jeff Hatch
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, L-479
Livermore, CA  94550

(hatch@conan.llnl.gov)
(jeff_hatch@quickmail.llnl.gov)
From: lkimes@alshain.usc.edu (Lance 'Moof' Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Quadra 800 and A/UX 3.0
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:04:37 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: alshain.usc.edu
Keywords: Quadra 800



Has anyone heard anything concerning whether or not the unannounced Quadra 800
will now or in the near future run A/UX? We have been considering its purchase
but require it to run A/UX. Any thoughts on the subject.

Lance Kimes
Systems Programmer
USC
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: chilly@panix.com (Will Schenk)
Subject: terminal emulator/downloading...
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:31:17 GMT

I'm running A/UX on a local machine, and dialing up to a computer on the 
internet to get access to things, which is just great.  I've done this with
ZTerm and right now I'm on with "cu".  The only problem is, I can't figure
out how to download/upload a file.  I've looked that the cu documentation, and
there seems to be no way to set up a pipe between cu and a protocal (ie:rz/sz)
the ~$rz command just doesn't cut it.  Any ideas?


-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: 3.0 and Radius Hardware
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:28:02 GMT

joe@genome.wi.mit.edu (Steve Lincoln) writes:

>Before we plunk down any cash, I thought I should double check compatibility
>(I know, silly me).

>(i) Does A/UX run with a Radius Rocket board? How about any other 040
>accelerators (for IIci)? Anyone tried the Rocket's optional SCSI-2
>booster (it hasn't been out long, however)?

At present, A/UX doesn't work with the Rocket. Daystar claims "100%"
compatibility with their 040 board, and they are usually very good as far
as A/UX support is concerned. I have no idea if they (the Daystar boards)
work under A/UX though...

>(ii) Does A/UX support the Radius accelerated video boards (particularly 8Xj)?
>Does QuickColor really work? [Apple says in the release notes that A/UX
>does not support the 8.24 GC accelerator, so...]

A/UX doesn't support the acceleration aspects of the board. It appears to
work with some Macs (read non-Quadra) in the unaccelerated mode.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "I'd keep playing... I don't think
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  the heavy stuff's gonna come down
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  for quite a while."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |                        - Carl
From: mbp@generali.harvard.edu (Mark B Palmerino)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: listserver for A/UX?
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:14:37 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

I'd like to install a list server on my machine (Mac IIci running A/UX
2.0.1) and I recently procured listserv5.5.sh from xxx and started to
compile it. However, it bombed out with errors...

So, I thought before I spent alot of time trying to get it to work that
I'd ask if anyone else has already installed a listserver. Has anyone?

Thanks,

--Mark
-- 
=========================================================================
Mark Palmerino                          "The challenge is to be a light,
mbp@wjh12.harvard.edu                    not a judge; to be a model,
Boston, MA, USA                          not a critic." -Steven Covey
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: joe@genome.wi.mit.edu (Steve Lincoln)
Subject: Re: 3.0 and Radius Hardware
Organization: Whitehead Institute, MIT
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:52:29 GMT

Thanks for the posts from jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
and chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson) and mail from
yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko) and johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill
Johnston). They dont quite agree, but they were quite helpful.

* Accelerator:

Daystar 030 boards work, 040 board should soon but doesn't yet
(according to Daystar Tech support). Rocket is a no-go as well, and
Radius apparently has no plan to make it work (not according to
Radius, they didn't call me back).

* PrecisionColor boards:

Much contradictory data and questions still remain :-(

Yaosen says: I am using Radius PrecisionColor 8x with 1.3.1 ROM. It is fully 
A/UX 3.0 compatible. (Previous 1.2.1 ROM is NOT compatible)

Bill says: No accelerated video boards work, either.

Jim says: A/UX doesn't support the acceleration aspects of the board.
[Not quite clear whether he meant Apple or Radius board] It appears to
work with some Macs (read non-Quadra) in the unaccelerated mode.

Chris says: I'm using the 24X si card with a IIsi and it works fine.
I don't know if the acceleration works, but I leave it on before I
fire up AUX Startup.

So, if anyone knows:

	Does acceration (e.g. the QuickColor CDEV) work?
	Does the Radius board (new Roms) work in a Quadra?

May just have to mooch some hardware and try it out.

Thanks!

-SL
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jrowney@arco.com
Subject: Re: setting up named under A/UX 3.0
Organization: ARCO Exp. and Prod. Tech.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:04:49 GMT

>
>Ok?  So whay doesn't the blasted thing work?  When I setup my resolve.conf to
>point to my machine:
>
Try resolv.conf (i.e., no "e" in the resolve)

John
jrowney@arco.com
From: levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: TeX at wuarchive problem
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:06:47 -0500
Organization: Listserv to Netnews Gateway at pucc.Princeton.EDU

Sigh,

I just spent most of the afternoon downloading tex.tar.Z
from wuarchive.

to TeX something (OK for this part). When I tried to dvips
the output bad things happened.

1) I get a warning that a shared library cannot be found.
"loadshlibs: lib /usr/local/shlib/libX11_s.5.01 not found "

2) dvips can't find the ".300pk" version of fonts.

3) there are *NO* instructions on how to setup the system
(ie are there ENV variables that need to be set?)

********************************************************
I manually tryed to run mf and cmmf, these are the two
programs that are evidently linked to the shared library,
there maybe more.
they immediately croak.(there may be more...)
here is the output of the dvips program.

(aux /users/levan/TeXWork 117): dvips -r refcard
This is dvips 5.47 Copyright 1986-91 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1993.01.25:1910' -> !lpr
' TeX output 1993.01.25:1910' -> !lpr
- MakeTeXPK cmbx10 360 300 magstep\(1.0\)
mf \mode:=localfont; mag:=magstep(1.0); scrollmode; input cmbx10 \</dev/null
/usr/local/tex/bin/MakeTeXPK: 419 Killed
Metafont failed for some reason on cmbx10.360gf
dvips: Font cmbx10.432pk at 360 not found; scaling 432 instead.
dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.
dvips: Font cmbx8.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font cmsy6.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font cmti8.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font cmmi10.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
dvips: Font cmsy8.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
<tex.pro>. [2] [1]

I set TEXFONTS to point to the fonts directory in the distribution
(thats how we do it on our machine at school.)

Does the "mf" program make the *.300pk files on the fly.
Is there a workaround to the missing shared library?

Does the dvips program have any documention? (will it
rotate pages for example).

Help help help

Jerry
Jerry LeVan ( levan%eagle@eku.bitnet or matlevan@eku.bitnet )
From: swalker@mta.ca (Stewart Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.5 crashes A/UX 3.0
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:49:22 GMT
Organization: Mount Allison University
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X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14: 55:46 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17

NCSA Telnet 2.5 (MacTCP configuration) frequently crashes our A/UX
3.0 machine (the unix, not just the MacOS process), so that the
machine has to be powered off and on to restart it. This occurs
even when it is used by the Guest account. The machine also runs a
bootp process, and does light-duty work as a secondary nameserver.
No one is doing any other unix or Mac computing with it at the
moment. Everything has been stable until Telnet use began recently.
Any ideas of a fix? I have had to pull the machine from general
access since the bootp process is mission critical, and have since
done a careful clean re-installation of A/UX but the problem
persists. MacIIfx, 16 meg RAM, 205 meg hard disk, Apple Ethernet
card.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: cnspci@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.N. Salvaggio)
Subject: Problem using dbx with gcc
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:51:02 GMT

Has anyone encountered a problem using dbx on image files created with
gcc.  Whenever I compile a file using gcc, when trying to use the dbx
debugger, I receive the message

   dbx: internal error: can't find exit

when trying to run the program, or the error

   couldn't read "libgcc2.c"

when trying to list the code.

If anyone has any insight as to why this is happening, I'd appreciate
your help.

Carl Salvaggio
cnspci@ultb.isc.rit.edu


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jflores@tolhuaca.ing.puc.cl (Javier Flores)
Subject: How set X-terminal on MAC LC ?
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:28:22 GMT

I have an MAC LC connected with QUADRA 950 (with A/UX 3.0 ).
I am trying to run an X-terminal on LC using MacX, but I could not.
On A/UX I have a X11 running well.

If somebody knows how can I set up MacX on LC to work in it,
I will thanks.

e-mail to jflores@146.155.4.59
          abae@146.155.1.43


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: setting up named under A/UX 3.0
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:29:39 GMT

N.R.Ellis@newcastle.ac.uk (Nigel R. Ellis) writes:
: Hi,
: 
: I've just recently had a stab at setting up the named server on a Quadra 700 running
: A/UX.  Given the manual page entry, supposedly all I have to do is have an entry
: in named.boot such as:
: 
: > directory       /etc
: > domain          dur.ac.uk
: > primary         dur.ac.uk       129.234.4.9 129.234.4.11 129.234.4.13
: > cache           .               named.ca
: 
: and named.ca contains:
: 
: > deneb.dur.ac.uk         86400   IN      A       129.234.4.41
: > dns2.dur.ac.uk          86400   IN      CNAME   hermes.dur.ac.uk
: > dur.ac.uk               120     IN      MX      9 hermes.dur.ac.uk
: > durham.ac.uk            120     IN      MX      9 hermes.dur.ac.uk
: > ...
: 
: Ok?  So whay doesn't the blasted thing work?  When I setup my resolve.conf to
: point to my machine:
: 
: > nameserver 129.234.202.104
: > domain dur.ac.uk
: 
: Any pointers appreciated.

OK, here are my  files:
================== /etc/named.boot=================
;
;  @(#)named.boot.slave 1.13    (Berkeley)  87/07/21
;
;  boot file for secondary name server
; Note that there should be one primary entry for each SOA record.
;
;
directory       /usr/local/domain
;
; type    domain                source host/file                backup file
;
domain  sps.mot.com
cache     .                     root.cache
forwarders      192.55.22.4
primary         gpb-mac.sps.mot.com     named.local

secondary       sps.mot.com     192.55.22.4     192.55.22.5     motnamserv.bak
====================================

=============== /etc/named.local====================
@       IN      SOA     gpb-mac.sps.mot.com.    gpb@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com. (
        2.1     3600    300     3600000 3600 )
        IN      NS      motsps.sps.mot.com.
1       IN      PTR     localhost.
localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
===================

Note that named.boot and named.local are the files you need to set up.  The
cache file is written by the named with data from the primary nameserver.

Also note that while this works in my situation, I don't know enough about it
to explain why it works.

Good luck.  BTW, if any guru spots my inevitable mistakes in the above files,
please feel free to flame me as long as you tell me how to fix it.

Greg.
--
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Motorola Austin, Texas, USA *   \/   *     First, be true to yourself.