HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: Come on.... Somebody must have some ideas... Please? Sun 3/60 and SCSI...
Organization: /home/theory/ignatios/.organization
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:30:55 GMT

First of all, PLEASE PLEASE don't pad your lines with blanks to the
length of 82 again. 80 is a common terminal width, so stick to 78 and
you are on the safe side if anybody's terminal has a problem with
newline after the last screen position.

To your scsi problem:

Yes, I, too, think it might be a termination problem.

As every other high frequency cable, the scsi bus needs to be
terminated to avoid reflection of signals, at the beginning and at the
end (and NOWHERE in between). There are 2 possibilities: internal
termination (termination resistors in the drives) and external
(termination resitors in a connector, which you put on the SCSI OUT
port of the last drive).

Usually the CPU has a terminated scsi port, so you have to terminate
only the far side of the cable. 

Sun3 scsi interfaces are rumoured to be able to drive more than two
terminators, but don't count on it... on a special occasion (hot
weather) they might break down, at least temporarily.

Check that there is only one terminator in the drives, and in the last
one, or no internal terminators and an external terminator at the scsi
out port of the last drive.

Other problems might be: too long cables (max. 6m, I think, thats
about 18 ft.), internally broken cables and the like. And, of course,
some broken chip in one or more of the scsi interfaces, including CPU.

Try shorter cables if too long, check the terminators (or get someone
else who knows how they should look like), try operation only one disk
drive. Try operation the disk drives at another machine. I've heard
rumours that Amiga 3000's are very fast testing and formatting drivers
for SCSI disks, but any temporarily spare Sparcstation should do.


--
	Ignatios Souvatzis
	ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de souva@babsy.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: paraffa@sunvis2.vislab.olemiss.edu (Carl Raffa)
Subject: news utility
Organization: Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:11:11 GMT


does anyone know where i can get the source of a program
similar to the 'news' utility so commonly found on SystemV
systems? (not USENET news, just something that will let
me put news on the system for users to read)

Thanks...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jeff@cns.nyu.edu (Jeff Fookson)
Subject: Strange cmdtool behavior on 4/370 
Reply-To: jeff@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University, Center for Neural Science
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:29:44 GMT

A 4/370 (4.1.1, with TAAC) shows the following bizarre behavior -- it is running
fine and then something (no clear precipitating cause) happens and the console
window (an openwin, version 2 cmdtool (tcsh), opened in .openwin-init as the console
(-c flag)) starts to hog about 50-60% of the cpu, system time goes WAY up to over 90%
and the system slows to a crawl. If the user at the console logs out the console
window remains, and `ps' claims it is running detached from any tty (and still
a huge hog). Killing the process quits the machine, a user logs in at the console
and as soon as openwindows starts up, there is the sick console again. Reboot the
machine and the problem is gone, only to resurface in a day or so.?
Does anyone have ideas as to what to look for? THanks.
 Jeff Fookson
 jeff@cns.nyu.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.cray
From: cnwietho@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Carsten Wiethoff)
Subject: What's in an audio cable? Pinout?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:21:17 GMT

I want to build my own variation of the sun audio cable for Sparcstations.
So I'm looking for the pinout of the 8 pin DIN connector and I need to know
what's inside the little box of the Sun audio cable. I know that there are
at least two variations of these cables, an old one that does not work well,
and a new one that has been fixed. Of course I need the information on the 
new one.

Thanx.
Carsten Wiethoff
pwi@psun3.hmi.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mewing@hitchcock.eng.uiowa.edu (Michael A. Ewing)
Subject: Re: vi undoer SunOS 4.1.2
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:51:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
Keywords: vi SunOS 4.1.2
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin, comp.sys.sun.misc


I would like to thank the following individuals for there responses to
my question concerning the "vi" editor under SunOS 4.1.2.

   hanson@pogo.fnal.gov, mark@isis.Berkely.EDU, fwp@CC.MsState.Edu
   ckd@eff.org, havia@cc.helsinki.fi, birger@vest.sdata.no
   weingart@inf.ethz.ch, mario@wdc.sps.mot.com, jimmy@denwa.info.com
   ramsey@majorleague.npirs.purdue.edu, cdl@mpl.UCSD.EDU

All responses indicated that the "vi" editor shipped with SunOS 4.1.2
is a System V version which uses the terminfo database rather than the
termcap database which is used by SunOS 4.0.3's vi.

The "captoinfo" command will convert a termcap entry into a terminfo
entry.  The "tic" command will compile and install the terminfo entry
into the terminfo database.

For further information, the following man pages can be referenced.

   tic(8),  terminfo(5),  captoinfo(8V), infocmp(8V)


Michael Ewing
Systems Analyst
University of Iowa
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.
Iowa City, IA 52242
email: mewing@eng.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Subject: Re: 'cron' may fail again...
Keywords: cron, die, daylight, savings, time
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:01:31 GMT
Distribution: na

[from the Sun patch description]

>   If there are cron events scheduled for the time that will disappear
>   when daylight savings time starts, they will be scheduled for a time
>   practically in future infinity.  This is because timelocal() returns
>   -1 if given a gmt that falls into the 'non-existant' time period.
>   This value of -1 was being used as the 'next time' of the event.

We have a source license and are running a rather modified version
of cron, so the binary patch won't do us any good.  Can anyone confirm 
that all of cron's DST-related problems (october and april) are due to 
problems in timelocal()?
-- 
Kenneth Herron                                   kherron@ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky                              +1 606 257 2975
Department of Mathematics      I just thought of a neat disproof of
     Fermat's last theorem, but .signatures can only be four lines.
From: aegl@ossi.com (Tony Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: cpio -p corrupted links?
Date: 12 Oct 1992 13:28:36 -0700
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: nym.ossi.com

I recently moved my news spool directory onto an even bigger drive (keeping
up with news when you have to expire at 3 days was getting to be a pain).
To achieve this I first turned off the "newsrun" from cron to make sure that
any news that arrived while the copy was in progress would not get filed in
the spool directory and thus confuse the copy process.  Then I said:

	# cd /usr/spool/news
	# find alt ba ca comp ... sci soc talk -print | cpio -pd /news/spool

Some hours later ... the copy completed and I started using the new partition.
However, when I started reading news, I found some articles filed in the
wrong directory.  E.g. an article for "ca.politics" was in the
"news.software.nntp" directory as article 2509.  I looked at the old spool
directory, and file 2509 there was different from file 2509 in the new area.

To get some idea of how widespread the problem was, I ran "sum" on every file
in the old directory, and in the new directory, and compared the output. About
200 files had been messed up (out of 89000).

Is this a known bug?  Next time I'll use "cp -r", or "tar c | tar x" or ...

-Tony Luck <aegl@ossi.com>
From: csb@gdwb.oz.au (Craig Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help desk software.
Date: 12 Oct 92 06:00:25 GMT

Could someone who has gone throught the pain of searching out
companies and software systems which do this send me a list.

Any comments about the usability or quality od said products
would also be welcome.

Needless to say, running on a sun in OpenLook is a requirement.

Thanks.

-- 
Craig Bishop			Information Systems Division
Email: csb@gdwb.OZ.AU		Geelong & District Water Board
Phone: +61 52 262506		61-67 Ryrie St Geelong
Fax:   +61 52 218236		Victoria 3220 Australia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: nilsht@dhhalden.no (NILS HENRIK TVETENE)
Subject: talk upgrade problem
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:54:58 GMT

Hi

I'm trying to upgrade our talk-program which is (I believe) 4.2BSD to 4.3BSD.
(We're running SunOS 4.1.2 on a SPARCstation 2)

I seem to be missing the file talkd.h, which is supposed to be in /usr/
include/protocols.

Can anyone direct me to this file??

Please mail me directly.


Thanx ;-)

Nils Tvetene
==========================================================================
Nils Henrik Tvetene        ------====------          NilsHT@dhhalden.no
   Consultant              ------====------            Ostfold College
 Tlf -47-9-185400          ------====------           Fax -47-9-185485
==========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
From: sss@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au (Steve Silver)
Subject: Xmodem/Ymodem/Zmodem over ethernet
Keywords: Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem, Ethernet
Organization: Telecom Australia, Information Technology Development
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:56:23 GMT

To anyone who may be able to help:

I received a copy of Xmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem Batch and Zmodem for a Pyramid. Our
Pyramid is running BSD 4.3 OS. 

I am trying to transfer Unix files from the Pyramid to a PC (and vice versa)
over Ethernet, without success!!! Can anybody assist me in this.

I have successfully transferred files from the Pyramid to a PC, etc, using 
KERMIT.

Please reply to my INTERNET address "sss.scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au".

Thank you for your anticipated help.
-- 
Steve Silver         sss@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au
From: Cohena@mdc.com (Andy Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: free-form database for HP95LX ??
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:57:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: MDGAC

In article <1992Oct15.155039.742@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>,
herman@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Herman Moons) wrote:
> 
> 
> Does anyone know whether there exists a free-form database for the HP95LX
> palmtop. 

Actually there are a couple of them.  The simplest is LXFile. I'm pretty
sure it's on Eddie.mit.edu (I'm not sure if that's the right address
sorry).  It's a free form text based flat filer which is quite a bit better
than using the phone book with a different file then your phone#s.  You can
build your input forms with your own labels and specify the field range and
values....  Not bad for a palmtop.....
There is also Uno.  Uno can be had off Compuserve's MessDOS board for use
on the PC.  The HP95 version cost $25 abd comes with a bunch of stuff.  Uno
is basically a kinda Hypertext authoring tool.  It functions in ways
similar to IBM's Linkway.  It is also text only and I've used it.  I'm
saving it for my big screening and qual exams.... Great for class notes!! 
There's also a memory resident version for the HP for those who have the
guts to use those kinds of things (I don't trust them!)....Uno needs lots
of your RAM, but I use it with my 512K (I also have a RAM card)...Both are
limited in record size by your ram size too....neither have graphics..... 
and I'm sure there are more......I bet you'd want LXFile.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)
Subject: Re: CallForDiscussion: A*BETTER* HP95LX?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:28:06 GMT

williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) writes:

>One of my major beefs is how lame the terminal emulator is.  The
>DELete key doesn't seem to transmit the ASCII delete charater, and
>the arrow keys scroll the display, rather than send the standard arrow
>key escape sequences!  Why on earth didn't they make this like the
>MS-DOS session, where you scroll with ALT-arrow?  That would be more
>consistent and also allow the arrow keys to send very useful escape
>sequences to the host!  Lame...

Actually you can configure the backspace to send DEL - if that
will do anything for you. 

Miles

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)
Subject: Re: A few questions
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:39:13 GMT

>In article <19352@acorn.co.uk>, asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:

>>Finally is Derive 2.5 system manager compliant. I.e. can it be lauched from
>>on of the blue keys, while other apps are running?

>No, damn it.  However, there is a program available call MC.COM that
>lets you run both the System Manager and an MS-DOS session.  


Actually I understand that Ace in San Jose will be releasing an api
and a shell soon so that non-sysmgr compliant programs can behave as
if they are. I don't have a number for them, but I believe they are
in San Jose (Ace technologies).

Miles

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: Psion-3 keyboard - is it good?
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:49:24 GMT

In <1992Oct14.131330.16225@abo.fi> MLINDROOS@finabo.abo.fi (Marcus Lindroos INF) writes:

>Do Psion-3 owners like the keyboard on their machines? It struck me that the
>HP95LX and Psion's machine are almost the same size although the keyboards
>are different. There are fewer but larger keys on the P3, which should make
>it more pleasant to use as a word processor. Is touch-typing possible?
>How large are individual keys, and how big is the entire keyboard?

I think the keyboard is quite good considering that the S3 is a palmtop and
there is a limited amount of space for the keyboard. I have tried the HP & the
S3 keyboard is much better. Several reviews I have read have agreed that S3
has a very good keyboard. The keys are about 8 x 8 mm, there is about 3 mm of
space between each key. The keyboard is 15 x 5 cm. Regarding touch-typing, I'm
not real good at it myself so my opinion may not mean much. I think
touch-typing is poissible after geting used to the S3 and if your fingers are
not too fat.
-- 
James.Gorak@mixcom.com
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: More information on SunDisk Flash EPROM for HP-95LX
Date: 15 Oct 1992 00:51:42 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I called up SunDisk today for more information.  The cards will
be available November 2 with a two week lead time.  The prices
are as follows: 1MB $199, 2.5MB $399, 5MB $599, 10MB $999.  Stacker
can be bundled in for another $40 (not sold without a card).  The
cards draw a minimal amount of power when programming.  The cards
are first being released for the HP, work is being done on the
Sharp PC-3x000 and NCR (penpad?).  They will take order directly
or you can go through a distributor.

The prices are a bit high for the 1 and 2.5MB cards compared to the
cheapest SRAM, but are competitive compared to ACE and Sparcom.  Of
course 5MB and 10MB cards of any type are not available from anyone but
SunDisk right now.

SunDisk
408-562-0583
408-562-0500 technical support
408-980-8607 fax

I am only an interested user of the HP and have no other relationship
to SunDisk.
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: GRAFI11.ZIP (Corrupt?)
Date: 16 Oct 1992 19:46:35 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

And to followup to my own article:
>This is very odd.  I just got grafi11.zip from eddie and unzip works on
>it just fine.  Has anyone else had the same problem?  I used unix zip
>1.9 to create the archive, I'll see if any MS-DOS unzippers have
>problems with it.

It turns out that for some reason pkunzip can't handle at least some
files created by Info-ZIP zip, but unzip (MS-DOS or unix) can.  I've
rearchived grafi11.zip with pkzip and put a copy on eddie.mit.edu.  It
may take a while for the old file to get replaced.  In the meantime
unzip 5.0 works fine.  Note that the new archive is 29923 bytes while
the old one is 28737 bytes.
-- 
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: can i do add-in (r)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 03:10:00 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Oct8.1238.2959@channel1> "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com> writes:
>                                                  And is there a
>way to change a .COM or .EXE file into an .EXM so it can be
>attached to a blue key? (I'm not a programmer, but I can do stuff
>with DOS DEBUG or another patcher if necessary.) Thanks.

There really isn't.  System Manager programs must be specifically
written for it.  System Manager is not MS-DOS, it's a different
enviroment that resembles it in some ways.  Among other things EXM
programs need to have the appropriate libraries linked in, and there
are certain limitations.  There are shareware menu programs that will
launch MS-DOS programs from within the System Manager, at the moment
none of these are available outside of Compuserve.
There are some people that don't use the System Manager much at all
and run only MS-DOS software.
--
<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: rlynx@netcom.com (Roger Lynx)
Subject: SHARP WIZARD DEVELOPMENT SUPP/TOOLS?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:05:00 GMT

I have a question:
Is anybody outthere with any experience using WIZARD development tools?
I mean quality of documentations, HW and eng, support, etc.....
I am looking for a second opinion before I commit myself to this platform.
BTW, if anyone  has a negative feedback, please suggest what would you select
instead. Any input will be greatly appreciated.
--rog
Please email your $0.02 (or more) :-) to:
rlynx@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu (King_Claudius (Chris Knight))
Subject: Re: CallForDiscussion: A*BETTER* HP95LX?
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:38:03 GMT


Another idea I came up with over the weekend...put the function keys on the
same half of the clamshell as the display...have them membrane switches instead
of the regular buttons...you could have other buttons there too, possibly have
the applications buttons there too...freeing up a lot of space for other keys
below.  This would require almost no space on the display.  Anyone dare to try
to mod theirs to do this?
-- 
---King Claudius---                                   claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu
From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: CallForDiscussion: A*BETTER* HP95LX?
Date: 15 Oct 1992 12:49:31 +0100
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <1992Oct14.124422.13157@abo.fi> MLINDROOS@finabo.abo.fi (Marcus Lindroos INF) writes:

>
>Hm.. Not a stupid idea, perhaps the scheduler should be able to store and read
>PCX-entries as well?! You could draw and store diagrams, crude drawings and 
>the like.
>                                                         ^^^^^^ there are
                                                         NO crude drawings
                                                           on my machines!

-- 
*----------*------------------------------------------------------------------*
| Sam   Jam|"Never underestimate the importance of a cheap laugh"-Plucky Duck |
| Liddicott| University of Warwick, Coventry, England     I WAS IN IDAHO      |
*----------*------------------------------------------------------------------*
From: asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: CallForDiscussion: A*BETTER* HP95LX?
Date: 12 Oct 92 08:06:34 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1b803aINNrab@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:

>In article <1992Oct07.204119.152524@zeus.calpoly.edu> claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu (King_Claudius (Chris Knight)) writes:
>

>>*  a better RPN calculator
>
>Definitely.  There doesn't seem to be a decent 95 scientific
>calculator, apcalc and cmcalc are integer only.  The Financial
>Calculator is just that,  it's got scientific functions but they're a
>pain to get to.   I wonder of 95buddy could make that easier.  I'm
>checking out various MS-DOS calculators but haven't found anything that
>would work well with the 95's small screen.

You obviously havn't played with Derive. There is a Derive 2.5 ROM card for
the 95, which gives you  very much more than just a calculator. Its nearly
as good as the 48 in some places and better in others.

Its great being able to set the precision, and the equation writer is much
faster than the 48's, but it doesn't have RPL:-( However the programming is
supposed to be quite flexible, I just havn't got that far yet (I only have
2.0 to play with). 
               
The 3D plotting demo is really good, and as its designed to work within the
limits of the 95, you don't have problems with missing bits of information.
My only bind is that you have to run it from the filer, after shutting down
all the other applications. It would be so much neater if it were sysmgr
compliant, and could be started from say CTRL+blue calc.

Maybe some one 2.5 can give us more details of the programming and other
differences from 2.0. But if you want a good scientific on your 95, I
thoughly recommend Derive 2.5. (not 2.0 )


><-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony

Andy
From: phj@gestalt.austin.tx.us (Patricia Ju)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Wanted: Used sub-notebook or info about sub-notebooks
Keywords: sub-notebook, handheld, palmtop, subnotebook
Date: 13 Oct 92 04:07:42 GMT

I'm interested in purchasing a sub-notebook PC.  Something under $600,
preferably.  If you have one that you'd like to sell or if you have
specs/other information (reviews, &c) on any such computers, I'd
really appreciate your posting or emailing me directly.

Patricia
phj@remus.rutgers.edu