HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone)
Subject: Re: Information needed
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 02:09:17 GMT

From article <009664F3.E6D8D940@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, by cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu:
> In article <1993Jan8.010703.7625@a.cs.okstate.edu>, boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone) writes:

>>the disk protection on this one was unique... it could not be copied with
>>anything using a western digital controller.
> 
> Does that mean any of the Disk controllers for the 99/4A?
> Was it developed on another disk controller?

It had to have been created using a different controller (like an IBM or
something)... a Copy II-pc card would have
copied it pretty easily.

-- 
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Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Information needed
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:33:13 GMT

I have 2 questions, any information you might have will be appreciated.

1.  I have a copy of the CorComp WriterEase word processor.  This is so
heavily protected that I am afraid to use it becuase if the original is
damaged, there will be nothing left (Also, heavily protected programs make
the disk drive work hard, a major sin in any computer user's book; I heard
about disk drives that died as a result of an extened use of protected
programs).  Anyway, can anybody tell me how to make a backup copy?  Has
anybody had success in un-protecting the program?

2.  Has somebody had an experience with the FIRST ADE card?  From the info
I have this was a clock + A/D/C card in the early 80's; it predates the
MBP card.  Is it similar to the MBP?  Anybody owns one?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: srh3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Steven R. Hollis)
Subject: ftp sites for programs?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:50:39 GMT

     Are there any ftp sites for TI-99/4a programs


Thanks in advance
     Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: lilley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Shannon Lilley)
Subject: TI Professional Computer for sale
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Distribution: world 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:21:57 GMT

Texas Instruments Professional Computer:color monitor,3-plane graphics board, 
768k system memory,serial port, and 10mb hard drive.  $200 + shipping.

Shannon Lilley
lilley@spdc.ti.com
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
Date: 1 Jan 93 05:58:28 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ

>OK, then there might be a need to have non-SVR4-ABI compliant programs,
>then, 'cuz an executable image that does a "stat()" by trapping into the
>kernel, rather than calling "stat()", is *NOT* SVR4 ABI-compliant.....

I personally never particularly wanted anything to do with SVR4 or any other
SV in the first place.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
Subject: Re: -Bstatic required with -pg - why?
Reply-To: elling@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:59:41 GMT

In article 16231@auspex-gw.auspex.com, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Is there some technical reason that the prof/gprof stuff on Suns (we are
>>running 4.1.2) requires static linkage, or did somebody at Sun just get
>>lazy? 
>
>Yes. :-)
>
>The main headache with doing "prof"-style on programs linked with shared
>libraries is that, if you want to profile the library code, you either
>need a *huge* profiling buffer, to cover the large non-contiguous
>address space, or you need a version of the code that implements
>"profil()" that supports multiple profiling buffers.
>
>Whether one considers it laziness on Sun's part that they didn't do any
>of that, and didn't implement a different profiling scheme that doesn't
>just use the PC as an index into a (range of) buffer(s), and didn't just
>provide startup code and say "sorry, we don't profile shared library
>code", probably depends on who's doing the considering.

This is another one of those "fixed in Solaris 2.x" things.
In Solaris 2.x you have the /proc filesystem which allows
access to the image of each process on the system.  Thus you
can attach to a process and profile it or debug it on the fly.
Definitely an advantage since now you can choose to only profile
parts of the program.  Also, you don't need to store a bunch of
profiling libraries.  A definite win.

Meanwhile, unless you are really into profiling, you can save
quite a few megabytes in /usr/lib and /usr/openwin/lib by taking
the lib*_p.a files out.  At my site, we replace them with symlinks
to an automounted directory so that we really only have one 
copy of them on the net.  If you never profile, then just remove
them.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mccann@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Mike McCann)
Subject: Success with installing Solaris 2.1 on a SS10?
Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:49:52 GMT

Has anyone had success with installing Solaris 2.1 on a SPARCstation 10?

When we install SunOS 4.1.3 on it it comes up with:

	cgtwelve0: screen pixel resolution 1152x900


When we install Solaris 2.1 we get:

	NOTICE: Can't find driver for console frame buffer.


(It's tripping right out of the starting blocks, I wonder how far it will get?)



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: gjw@csis.dit.csiro.au (Graham Williams)
Subject: Re: Mailtool header summary format
Reply-To: gjw@csis.dit.csiro.au
Organization: Spatial Information Systems, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:01:17 GMT

In article 13412@icd.teradyne.com, molloy@emerald (Phil Molloy) writes:

>If someone knows of a way to do the same thing in mailtool, I would greatly
>appreciate hearing about it.


This was posted to the net some time ago:

# Sun have an undocumented feature (undocumented because they couldn't
# figure out a good GUI for manipulating it).  They used the mush format
# for the header.
#
# Here is the technical poop.  Do a strings on mailtool to convince
# yourself of the following facts!
#
# The mailrc variable is "header_format".  If "header_format" isn't set,
# one of two defaults, depending on whether "showto" is set or not, is used.
#
#                if (mt_value("showto")) {
#                        format = "%3m %-18.40r %16.16d %4l/%-5c %-.100s";
#                } else {
#                        format = "%3m %-18.40f %16.16d %4l/%-5c %-.100s";
#                }
#
# Here is the description of the various fields:
#
#/*
# * format and print a header string.  We use the Mush format:
# *
# * %% -- a single %
# * %c -- number of bytes in the message
# * %C -- number of bytes in the message contents
# * %f -- entire from field
# * %l -- number of lines in the message
# * %L -- number of lines in the message contents
# * %i -- message id
# * %s -- subject of message
# * %t -- To: field (recipients)
# * %r -- recipient (sender, or to line if you sent)
# * %d -- date and time of the message
# * %n -- sender's real name (if any; otherwise use %r )
# * %?header? -- insert contents of header (if any)
# *
# * You can also specify a field width in printf format: either
# * %25s (25 chars of subject), %.25s (no more than 25 chars),
# * or %10.25s (at least 10 and no more than 25 chars)
# *
# * leading '-' means to left justify the string.
# *
# */
#
# So for a sender field of fixed width and truncated, set the
# default to be something like "%40.40r" instead of "%18.40r".
#

# My preference is the following (put it in your ~/.mailrc or $MAILRC file:
 
set header_format="%3m %15.15r %24.24d %3l %-.100s"
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: libg++-2.3 Problem
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:34:51 GMT

I need to quickly install the latest libg++ release (2.3). I have gcc 2.3.3
installed, as well as the whole gcc 1.4 and libg++1.3x

Anyway, after doing a configure, make crunches along and seems to compile
everything, but when I do a 'make install' I get the following error 
message from ld :

ld: Undefined symbol 
   _sys_read__7filebufPci 
   _get__7istreamPcic 
   ___stderr_stdiobuf 
   _dtoa 
   _underflow__7filebuf 
   _doallocate__7filebuf 
   _xsgetn__7filebufPci 
   _sys_seek__7filebuflQ23ios8seek_dir 
   _setbuf__7filebufPci 
   __9streambuf$_list_all 
   _sync__7filebuf 
   __$_7filebuf 
   _sys_close__7filebuf 
   _seekoff__7filebuflQ23ios8seek_diri 
   _xsputn__7filebufPCci 
   _sys_stat__7filebufPv 
   _sys_write__7filebufPCvl 
   _overflow__7filebufi 
   __Xstrtod 
   ___stdout_stdiobuf 
   ___stdin_stdiobuf 
   _do_write__7filebufPCci 
   ___std_filebuf_0 
   _getline__7istreamPcic 
   ___std_filebuf_1 
   _close__7filebuf 
   ___std_filebuf_2 
collect: /usr/bin/ld returned 2 exit status

I also get this is I try to compile anything with g++. I need to get this
running by tomorrow and I hope someone has encountered a similar problem
and will save me some time tracking it down. System config is SPARC 2 
with SUNOS 4.1.2

Thanx
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
Subject: Re: problem with repaint procedures in XView
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:07:26 GMT

myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Myka) writes:
>Of course, if the canvas is retained by the X server,
>this only leads to annoying results in case of
>a complete refresh. In this case all the canvases
>are cleared but not repainted.

I bet I know what your problem is.  Are you clearing with WINDOW_CONSUME_EVENTS,
WIN_NO_EVENTS, and then setting it again with a list of events to consume?
If so, you are doing what I did.  This worked under SunView, but doesn't
work under XView.  I think you need to enable a few other things so the
repaint requests come through.  You either have to figure out which other
events to add (probably WIN_REPAINT and WIN_GRAPHICS_EXPOSE at least),
or use WINDOW_CONSUME_EVENT and WINDOW_IGNORE_EVENT to add or remove
individual types of events.  I chose to do the latter.

-Jonathan		hue@island.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bhays@teal.csn.org (Boyd Hays)
Subject: Remote Debugging with SparcWorks?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:38:37 GMT

Hello,

I travel with a SUN IPC and often connect to it with a Macintosh PowerBook
using TCP/IP. I using SparcWorks C++ 3.0.1 and its associated debugger
"normally".

The problem:
   I can't run the SparcWorks debugger from an X server other than one on a
   another SUN. It appears that SparcWorks uses ToolTalk for IAC and I blow
   out with the loader complaining that it can't find libtt.so.


My questions:

1) Am I wrong, is there some way to run the SparcWorks debugger remotely?

2) I've tried to build xdbx but have had trouble linking the X11 libraries
   statically. Do you link with the .a files directly, or specify -Bstatic
   for the link. I've tried both and get messages from xdbx's build saying
   that it requires a .so. Is there a good description of the process of
   building X applications statically anywhere?

3) Is there a version of UPS that supports C++?

4) Will GDB work on the output of C++/acomp?

5) Any recommendations for a new development environment?

Boyd Hays
bhays@csn.org
From: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Myka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: problem with repaint procedures in XView
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:18:45 GMT
Organization: Uni Tuebingen, Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut
Distribution: world
Reply-To: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: sunpower.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de


Hello.

I have ported a large application from SunView to XView.

Now I have encountered the following problem: the
repaint procedure of a canvas is called twice only
during the creation of the canvas. After that, the
repaint procedure is  not entered anymore, regardless
whether I start a complete refresh of all windows,
resize or move windows.

Of course, if the canvas is retained by the X server,
this only leads to annoying results in case of
a complete refresh. In this case all the canvases
are cleared but not repainted.

Can anyone give me a hint to a possible solution of
this problem?

Thank you very much

Andreas

EMail: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
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From: forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.wanted,mi.sun,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: 101 Ways to Use an Old CD-ROM
Date: 6 Jan 1993 23:26:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: nobozo.cs.berkeley.edu

You guys got it all wrong. You use them for swimsuit tops.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: molloy@emerald (Phil Molloy)
Subject: Mailtool header summary format
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:12:19 GMT

I'm using OpenWindows 3.0 and would like to know if there is a way to change
the format of the summary displayed in mailtool.  The problem I have is that
it's not in fixed columns.  If the number of characters in the sender's address
is greater than about 18 characters the rest of the line gets pushed to the
right.  I find this bothersome when trying to scan down a long list of message
subjects.  I've been using VM from within EPOCH because of this.  VM allows me 
to use a format string similar to that used by printf() to control the number 
of characters in any displayed field.

If someone knows of a way to do the same thing in mailtool, I would greatly
appreciate hearing about it.

Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: andreas@sunny.wup.de (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: Problem with NewsPrint 2.0. Sparcprinter prints only Courier Font...
Summary: need help, Sparcprinter prints only one font
Keywords: help problem sparcprinter newsprint fonts missing
Organization: Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH, Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:11:55 GMT

Hello !

we have a problem with NewsPrint 2.0 running on an IPX with
SUN OS 4.1.3. Only one postscript font -- Courier -- works.

On my site everything runs fine. Only one of our clients isn't
able (after 4 newinstallations of newsprint) to print in another
font than Courier.

o He has installed the printer with a fontlizense password !

o We read ``TFM'' (NeWSPrint Installation and Administration Guide,
Assigning Font Licenses to Printers, page 140ff.) and tried to 
reinstall font licenses. This procedure showed, that np_fonts 
were already installed for the SPARCprinter.

For me	``pl test.ascii :postprint -f Palatino-Roman -s 14''
works pretty well. For him: not !

Has anybody a good idea how to track down the problem ?

Please respond via EMail, I'll summarize later.

Thank you very much

Andreas Klemm
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From: liste@geos01.sinet.slb.com (Matthew Liste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re:  Modem communication
Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:38:03 GMT
Organization: Geco-Prakla (Schlumberger), Oslo.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: geos209.oslo.sgp.slb.com

In article <1993Jan7.132739.15297@ugle.unit.no>, eidem@itk.unit.no (Kjell Eidem) writes:
|> I have a need for file transfers between Sun and PC via modem and is
|> seeking suitable software doing this.
|> I know/have Kermit, but is interesting in other other programs, 
|> x/y/z-modem or similar.
|> Any experiences, recommandations and hints are welcome.
|> 
|> Regards
|> 
|> Kjell Eidem

I've used the zmodem public domain package rzsz for file transfer between a
Sun with a USR 14.4 and a PC with a 2400 Baud modem running Crosstalk.

-Matthew		(liste@oslo.sgp.slb.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,rec.sport.football.misc,rec.sport.basketball.misc,rec.sport.baseball,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look,soc.motss
From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)
Subject: Re: "sports" games for X-Windows
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:47:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.174231.24783@ircam.fr> francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.171727.1874@mlfarm.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes:
>>My son, aged 14, would like me to build some sports-oriented games he
>>can play on our little network of Sun-3/60s and 3/80s, running Open
>>Windows.  He plays in an EFBL rotisserie league via email, and enjoys
>>xtank, xconq, xtrek, xmris, and tetris.  He is jealous of friends with
>>Nintendo or ms-dos machines with color displays and commercial games.
>>I think he'd particularly enjoy X-Windows games based on baseball,
>>football, or basketball.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>Please reply by email.  If there is much interest, I'll post a summary
>>of replies.  Thanks.

Sorry about the first mangled reply: Ahem:

Perhaps its just my orientation, but all I could think of building was
xteth (with a pronounced lisp) - an X based tetherball game.

You need a good 24-bit color X terminal, thin-wire ethernet
connection, a long pole, crash helmet and boxing gloves. You connect
one end of the ethernet wire to the top of the pole, and let the
terminal hang down along the side. The wire cannot be too long or the
signals attenuate too much - the terminal should just touch the
non-static floor carpeting. The object of the game, like ordinary
tetherball, is to wind the cable around the pole until it cannot be
wound tighter.  You put on the boxing gloves and crash helmet, and hit
the X workstation as hard as you can to make it swing around the pole,
winding the cable. Make sure you have the motorcycle crash helmet
securely tightened to avoid having your brains bashed out if the
workstation hits you in the face when you miss (I know how maladroit
most programmers are). I would suggest that children under twelve wear
shoulderpads.

It is a visually exciting game, with full 24-bit color quality,
especially popular in France. I know that tetherball hasn't really
been adopted by rigid-wristed international sports organizations, but
hey. Perhaps the EFBL rotisserie league will be interested.

I know my friends are jealous!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jwilson@homeboy.msfc.nasa.gov (Jackie Wilson - BCSS)
Subject: Message displayed upon telnet connection
Reply-To: jwilson@homeboy.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:57:46 GMT

Does anyone know how to modify the message that is displayed
when a telnet session is established?  Normally when a telnet session
is started on a Sun you get the following message

>Trying 131.XX.XX.XX ...
>Connected to machine-name.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
>SunOS UNIX (machine-name)
>
>login:

I've not been able to find a configuration file or header file where
these messages are defined.  Has anyone tried this before?  I suppose
I could get the source code for telnet off the net somewhere and hack
it a little but I would like to avoid that if possible.

Jackie Wilson
jwilson@homeboy.msfc.nasa.gov



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: Amusing Sun Anecdote
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:18:30 GMT

I was doing some testing and I needed
to see the contents of a file on another
host.  I did a "rsh otherhost cat file"
and got the message "Permission Denied".
I then rlogined into the otherhost and then
did a "cat file" and got the same "Permission
Denied" message. Weird.  

This really had me stumped.  I then tried to 
vi the file.  This worked fine and showed me 
what my problem was.  Can you guess?

The permissions and exporting of the file was 
fine.

See below for the answer....


























THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE FILE CONTAINED THE TEXT;

"Permission Denied"

This should be a test question for new system
administrators.  It really had me going for a 
while.

- John DeRosa

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From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: HP-DAT cleaning problem
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:59:35 GMT
Organization: UB

Hi,

I've been using HP-DAT on Sun for a few months. Can anybody tell me
how to clean this drive? Thanx in advance for any information.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: phjj@ruchem.ru.ac.za
Subject: Classic FAQ
Reply-To: phjj@ruchem.ru.ac.za
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:27:15 GMT

We are about to launch ourselves into SUN world, probably by buying
a SparkClassic.  Vendors down this part of the world are not great
on supplying useful info (before or after purchase), so please
mail me relevant goodies, or point me at faq lists.  I would like to
know about bugs (hardware and software), SunOS/Solaris incompatibilities,
installation tips, etc.
Our configuration would probably be:
SparkClassic
19 inch monitor
24 MB memory
200 MB internal disk
1.3 GB scsi disk
cd-rom drive

I have always been a VAX/VMS person in the past, this will be my first Unix
box. We will want to hook up to thin ethernet.  All the existing Sun's on campus
run SunOS.

Thanks
Justin