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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Connecting Modems to DEC Stations
Date: 20 Aug 92 07:47:10 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Aug20.043558.11448@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>
>>It is worth noting that the DEC-supplied UUCP is about as bad as you'll find
>>anywhere, so if you're planning on using UUCP, you'd be a lot better off if
>>you started out by building either the Taylor or the 4.3BSD UUCP.
>
>	I don't like to think I have a reputation for automatically
>sticking up for Digital's software quality; I know anyone who uses
>any of the code I've ported to replace ULTRIX components will not
>accuse me of narrowmindednessin this regard, *BUT*
>
>	Don't just replace parts of ULTRIX because someone on the
>net posts saying, "it sucks". It may be deficient, and in fact
>ULTRIX' uucp is pretty antiquated - but I used it for a long
>time and it got the job done. Not only did it get the job done,

Yes, it gets the job done.  But have you seen Ian's figures comparing CPU time
for his UUCP (Taylor) and the Ultrix UUCP?  Aside from the oddity of the spool
structure and some other age-related deficiencies (protocols, packet sizes and
windows, &c) Ultrix UUCP is, featurewise, OK.  But my personal machine is a
pmax, a 2100 in fact, and I guess it just gives me a different perspective on
what goes and what doesn't go so far as CPU drain.

[...]
>	Don't throw it away until you try it and determine it's
>unusable for your purposes, unless your time is worth very little
>to you. If it works but lacks functionality, *do* make that a
>requirement for future purchases. If you *need* honeydanber or
>newer BSD-style uucp, write all your RFPs stating it as a must
>have requirement and then buy from whoever meets that requirement.
>Only in this way will vendors (including Digital) someday learn.

Digital may be about to learn in myriad other ways, unless the white knight on
the 200Mhz steed rushes to the rescue, but that's beside the point.  I agree
with most of what you say above, though.  And no, of course I don't think you're
biased against outside code.  I use too much of what you've ported. :-)

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	 tls@panix.COM
  "Oh, you have wounded me!  I have very few prejudices, actually.  The
biggest problem is that I am intolerant of fools.  That is why I have
such a low tolerance level for Libertarians."  -- Jim McMaster
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Fortran for DecStation/Ultrix
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:09:07 GMT


In article <HUDGENS.92Aug17113818@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU>, hudgens@SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes...
> 
>In article <2A8C2AC0.28045@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
> 
>   Media prices
>   are in the low hundreds of dollars usually (which includes
>   documentation).
> 
>Yep.
> 
>Anyone else notice that DEC fortran didn't make the CD-ROM (CONDIST)
>distribution?  Nor Motif.  Our salescritter *swore* both would be in
>the August 1992 distribution.  Anyone know *when* these items will
>make the "Ultrix Consolidated Software Distribution"?
> 
>JHH
> 
> 
>--
>Jim Hudgens 			Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
>hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu      

Hmmm, a quick scan of the Cons Dist from June shows that Fortran is not in
there, but DECwindows Motif 1.1.3 was in there, albeit in a separate folder 
along with Open SCSI CAM V1.0 for ULTRIX RISC.

But then perhaps that was because I got the CDDS, Consolidated Documentation
and Distribution Service, both Software and Doc together.

Regards
Richard Sharpe
These opinions be mine, Digital has its own!
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to set up additional swap partitions
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:03:21 GMT
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Aug14.211622.14530@linus.mitre.org>, rzakon@mitre.org (Robert H Zakon) writes:
>
> [ The customer asks why he gets the following message when running
>   swapon -a, even though fstab is setup correctly.
> 
> /dev/rz4f: No such device

Have added the corresponding 

	config vmunix root on ____ swap on ____ and rz4f dumps on ____

to the system configuration file, rebuilt and rebooted the kernel?

>
>Thanks,
>  Robert
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: fox@rudolf.nscl.msu.edu (Ron Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Pacer share file corruption?
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: fox@rudolf.nscl.msu.edu (Ron Fox)
Organization: National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab.

--
  We recently had a rather odd thing happen to us using
PacerShare and Ultrix 4.2  Our environment uses Mac's to do
Cad work in conjunction with Intergraph workstations and an Ultrix
Decstation 5000 file server.  The file server runs Pacer-share to
give file sharing/access to Mac's. The Mac's run Intergraph's
Microstation software and are all system 7 boxes.
Just to mix things up a bit, some of the workstations are also
IBM PC's running microstation and PC-NFS from sSun to access files on
the server.
  We have a design file that was created by one of the PC's on a
directory in the server.  If you observe it from the PC it's fine.
If you click it open from a MAC, the design file is corrupted.
Design elements moved, lines drawn in the wrong place and so on.
If we take the design file and use FTP to tr ansfer it to a
VAX/VMS box running Pathworks/Mac, and click it open, then it looks
ok.  If we ftp the file from the fileserver to the MAC
then it's Ok.
  This is 100% repeatable.
  SO the question. Are there known pacer problems that cause this?
Is pacer a piece of junk as I'm beginning to fear?  Doeas anyone
have suggestions?`
	Thanks,
	RF
Ron Fox                     | FOX@MSUNSCL.BITNET      | Where the name 
NSCL                        | FOX@RUDOLF.NSCL.MSU.EDU | goes on before
Michigan State University   | MSUHEP::RUDOLF::FOX     | the quality
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 |                         | goes in.
USA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: how to recover a lost partition table?
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:35:12 GMT


[ The customer hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu asks why his partition table
  is disappearing when he shuts down the system. ]

Because something is overwriting it.  On the odd chance you're
using an unusual disk, that might be useful to know.  You also
didn't specify which disk and file system.  Does it only happen
to one or all?  If only one, which one; the system disk or a random
user disk?  Here are some things to check.

1.  Make sure that you're page/swap space doesn't overlap the
    beginning of the disk in question.

2.  Carefully examine the applications that run to make sure
    none of are writting to a disk they shouldn't.

3.  Make sure no file systems overlap with one another.

The ULTRIX partition table lives at the end of the superblock
at sector 16 of the disk.  It is wise to have a file actually
exist at this location; it helps protect the partition table.
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Xref: sparky comp.unix.xenix.misc:180 comp.unix.xenix.sco:2710
From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: HELP! Tape drive not responding!
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:19:08 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Organization: Duke University EE Dept.; Durham, NC

A friend of mine has a Xenix system.  To make a long story short, a few weeks
ago the tape drive stopped working.  Dumps are usually performed using the
command "tar c6v /", but now that command locks up (no error messages from
tar or in /usr/adm/messages) and no data is sent to the tape drive.  The
tape drive and controller card have both been replaced to no avail.

I did some browsing on his system and didn't see anything out of the ordinary,
but having never worked on a Xenix system I don't know its quirks like my
systems.  If anyone has had a similar problem, please mail me any information
you can and I'll relay it to my friend.  Thanks in advance for all replies.

-John
-- 
John P. Eisenmenger	###### MAIL ADDRESS CHANGED 8/1/92 !!!!!
Duke University
Department of Electrical Engineering
Box 90291
Durham, NC 27708-0291
Xref: sparky comp.unix.xenix:23 comp.unix.sysv386:13259
From: sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: XBBS Version 7.200
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:46:42 GMT
Organization: Quotron Systems, Inc.


XBBS, version 7.200, is now online for downloading.
This new version no longer requires external
programs to list "arc" and "zip" files. Also,
additional enhancements were made for SVR4 support.

The new code has been tested under Xenix386 and
ESIX SVR4 Release 4. 

Two Makefiles are supplied for SVR4 to support
both Big and Little Endian machines.

If you wish to archive the new code for others
on the internet, please let me know the
system name and IP address. You can send the
information to: 
         sandy@smftst.Quotron.com
            (130.224.26.12)

-- 
Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz   XBBS
Voice: (714)821-9670   Data and FAX: (714)821-9671
....uunet!pride386!alphacm!sandy
sandy@smftst.Quotron.com (130.224.26.12)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: plh@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Patrick L. Heck)
Subject: thanks for xmodem
Originator: plh@cad.cs.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:20:48 GMT


I just want to thank everyone who responded to my request for
a binary of xmodem.  I now have rzsz working and all seems well.

Pat Heck
-- 
  Patrick Heck                         University of Virginia
  plh@cs.virginia.EDU                  Computer Science Department
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Subject: Re: running 14.4 modems from XENIX
Keywords: modem zoom 14.4
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:37:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.123932.10762@ksgbbs.harvard.edu> timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu (Tim Buehrer - 625-6829) writes:
>
>I hope that this is a simple question.  How can I set up a Zoom v.32bis
>14.4 modem to run on XENIX?  Using the Telebit dialer doesn't work. 
>Has anyone done this?

One quick & dirty way to use a modem that you have no Dialer for is
to use the Hayes 1200 , because it sends very little and expects almost
nothing back.  It doesn't attempt to set the modem to any particular
speed (it doesn't think it can!), so your modem will just do what
it can.

Really you should modify it (/usr/lib/uucp/Dialers unless you are really
old Xenix) to send/expect what you want.

		Tony


Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle
From: Bob_Ross@mindlink.bc.ca (Bob Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Need xmodem -- please help
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:30:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I sucessfully compiled a public version of xmodem/ymodem/zmodem.
The program uses the above protocols depending how you invoke it.
ie: sx, sb or sz - for send (x)modem (b)ymodem or (z)modem.
The other two files are actually linked to a common file named sx.
It also compiles rx which you link (ala above) to rb and rz.

I fairly new at this but I can try to email you the file if you like.

Let me know.
Bob

--


*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Bob Ross
CP Rail
e-mail: Bob_Ross@mindlink.rsoft.bc.ca
Comments here are my own, and not those of the company!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: nkraft@crash.cts.com (Norman Kraft)
Subject: Re: GIF viewer for Xenix
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:34:57 PDT

In article <1992Aug19.125433.12290@mlfarm.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes:
>David Mason writes:
>
>  [...] is there a .GIF viewer even for standard VGA for SCO Xenix 386
>  2.3.2?
>
>This works, or at least did when we had a Xenix box here.  You will
>need the CGI package, and the CGIDISP and CGIPATH environmental
>variables.

I take it that the CGI package is an add-on from SCO? We appear to
have the full developers package here (not my site, but my feed's),
but no reference to any *cgi.a libraries. Needless to say, though
there are some graphics references in the various libraries, and
a grafinfo package, there isn't much I can do with this viewer without
CGI. Is it expensive?

Thanks for posting this, though. I wasn't the one asking the question,
but I too have been looking for a console GIF viewer for SCO Xenix 386
(2.3.4) for a while now. I knew it could be done without X11, and this
file at least confirms that.

Norm.
From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: GIF viewer for Xenix
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:43:13 GMT
Organization: SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
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Seems there are quite a few of us looking for a gif viewer for Xenix ...
In unsharing the package Ron Florence sent, I notice in the Makefile
/usr/lib/386/Slibccgi.a ... not only can't I find that library, I can't
even find the directory!  I do have a /lib/386 tho, but still no cgi
library.  (I believe we have version 2.3.1b of the dev/sys, doubtful any
plans to upgrade either :-( )  To be thorough about searching for cgi
stuff, I did a find / -print | grep -y cgi and got zilch  :-(((
Now, the xenix.faq lists CGI as a separate package from the dev/sys,
however, it has a paragraph later on talking about graphics/gifs saying
that cgi *is* included with the dev/sys, but no versions are indicated.
Could someone (Chip? :-) ) please tell us all what the real story is?


#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
#          David L. Jarvis                 SOFTWARE  /                 #
#          david@dynamix.com                       /  DYNAMIX          #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,biz.sco.general
From: gomez@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (JL Gomez)
Subject: getty_ps 2.0
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 18:27:05 GMT


Has anyone got getty_ps 2.0 as posted in comp.sources.misc volume 15
working under Xenix/386 2.3.3?

I have getty_ps version 1.1 running but version 2.0 groks init
by saying my dial-in gettys are dying.  I have no problem running
2.0 on my console tty's.  Just my dial-in.

I didn't change any of my /etc/default/getty files.
 
Thanks for the help!

P.S.  getty_ps is by Paul Sutcliffe, Jr.
--
gomez@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
From: vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: GIF viewer for Xenix
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:23:41 GMT

Hi,

I run a public access BBS using Xenix. Occasionally GIF files are uploaded,
and rather than having to transfer them over to the DOS system (by the way has
anyone else noticed it seems to be faster using a 9600 baud connection than it
is using floppy drives? Slow..) I'd like to view them directly on the Xenix
system. 

I've heard of software that sounds like it will do this on a Xenix system. I'm
using an ATI VGA Wonder card on a multisync monitor, and would like SVGA
resolution, but is there a .GIF viewer even for standard VGA for SCO Xenix 386
2.3.2?
From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Verbose kernel messages - NOT!
Date: 16 Aug 92 01:50:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Aug16.015003.28387
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI

While running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 and 2.3.4 I've seen these strange
anomalous messages come up from time to time.  I was wondering if anyone
can figure out their origins (probably described in TFM, but they are
at work and I'm at home - or is that the other way around?)

kernel: WARNING: no file

or even better...

kernel: panic: no fs

I fixed the first one by regenerating a new kernel with slightly
larger numbers in some of the parameters.  I don't know exactly what I
did, but I haven't seen the message for about a week.  The second one
was fixed simply by rebooting.  They don't show up in /usr/adm/messages
and I have no idea of their cause, but they worry me.  Should they?
-- 
Chuck Tomasi             |     "Mom, it's Data.  I heard you know
chuck@edsi.plexus.COM    |      how to turn him on." 
spool!cserver!edsi!chuck |                    -Wesley  "Datalore"
------<Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton Wisconsin>------
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: ocon@bert.cs.byu.edu (John S. O'Conner)
Subject: Zoom 9600 baud modems
Reply-To: ocon@bert.cs.byu.edu (John S. O'Conner)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 01:38:43 GMT

I may have posted about this before but don't remember.  Anyway, I
haven't found
an answer yet.  So here goes:

My two Zoom 9600 baud modems are running at 2400 right now on my Xenix
2.3.4 box.
They seem to be working perfectly correctly, until I try to configure
things for
9600 baud.  I'm using the HA96V dialiers since Zoom is supposedly 100%
Hayes
compatible.  Anyway, I get DIALER errors at 9600 but not at 2400.  Are
there
any known bugs with the HA96V dialer?

If you've successfully tackled this type of problem before, email me
directly and
I'll give you all the details of my particular setup.  Maybe you'll see
something
that I've overlooked--probably the case.

Thanks,
John  -- ocon@bert.cs.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Subject: ksh invocation
Organization:  SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 11:14:30 EDT
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I'm noticing some behavior with /bin/ksh that is contradictory to what I've
read in TFM.  (or I could be misinterpreting what I've read, who knows)
I was under the impression that upon invocation ksh would read /etc/profile
and $HOME/.profile, then, only if it was a login shell (-ksh) it would
read .kshrc (or whatever filename ENV was set to in .profile) ... but this
doesn't appear to be the case.  If I login with ksh as the SHELL, and
invoke another /bin/ksh from the command line, both .profile and .kshrc
get executed.  For me the conflict arose by wanting users to have an exec
runmenu at the end of their .login but still be able to get out to a shell
if they need to.  (which, btw, I have solved with ps | awk :-) )
Anyway, can someone out there confirm or deny this functionality?


#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
#          David L. Jarvis                 SOFTWARE  /                 #
#          david@dynamix.com                       /  DYNAMIX          #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
From: Charlie Rosenberg <crosenberg@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:44 PDT
Subject: Re: mail log with sendmail
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1534600012:cdp:1534600013:000:148
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!crosenberg    Aug 15 19:44:00 1992



Thanks to all that have replied.  Simply touch /usr/adm/syslog and the
logging will start if logging is called to that file name from sendmail.cf


Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)
Subject: Re: GIF viewer for Xenix
Organization: Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT
	<1992Aug19.153457.14836@crash>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:36:45 GMT

Norman Kraft writes:

   I take it that the CGI package is an add-on from SCO? We appear to
   have the full developers package here (not my site, but my feed's),
   but no reference to any *cgi.a libraries. Needless to say, though
   there are some graphics references in the various libraries, and
   a grafinfo package, there isn't much I can do with this viewer without
   CGI. Is it expensive?

We haven't had a Xenix box here for quite a while, but as far as I
remember, the CGI libraries and drivers were included in the SCO
Development System.  The supplied drivers included VGA, EGA, CGA,
Epson, Postscript, HP plotters, Laserjet printers, and perhaps others.
-- 

				Ronald Florence
				ron@mlfarm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: bt757@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Bettis)
Subject: UUCP HDB?
Reply-To: bt757@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Bettis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 17:55:51 GMT


I am running Sco Xenix 2.3.3 with the HBD SLS for UUCP. Is this the latest 
version?? I can't seem to talk with anomaly. Is it using another version?? 
I have had no problems with two other computers. (Not using SCO) 

I get the following error...

'R' expected, got FAIL

what is the problem??
-- 
Jerbo Jehoshaphat (The Dew Drop Inn 402/476-8986 3/12/24 Baud)
bt757@cleveland.freenet.edu

"Those who stand in the middle of the road are often hit by passing cars."
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco