HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:

> I've found out the hard way that the supposedly Centronics-compatible
> parallel port on HP models 362 & 382 (and probably the rest of the
> Series 300/400 line) is not compatible with some printers which work
> just fine with PCs.

Try setting the LSB of the /dev/lp device file to 1.  

crw-rw-rw-   1 lp       other     21 0x170001 Jul 28 17:14 /dev/lp
                                            ^

By default, the parallel hardware/software runs an interlocked handshake.
Minor bit 0 switches it to "pulsed" mode.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

This article represents only the opinion[s] of its author, and is not an
official or unofficial position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard
Company.  The text is provided for informational purposes only.  It is
supplied without warranty of any kind.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: thurmond@helios.aero.org (Rick Thurmond)
Subject: Help: I need to print headers/footers on every page
Organization: Aerospace Corporation
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:10:28 GMT

I need a method for printing a string of text at the top and bottom
of every page I print under HP-UX 8.0.  It would be especially nice
if files dropped on the printer icon would be printed that way.
If possible, the text should be centered horizontally on the page.

					--Rick
                                        thurmond@aerospace.aero.org
From: njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP *connect* very slow
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:18:50 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin


I read the post on 'HP login very slow' and thought it might be connected, but 
since the problem is happening after login, i guess not.

Our problem is also a recent thing - for the last month, when we try to telnet
(or rlogin or rshell) to our 710 (8.07), we experience a ten or twenty second
delay before getting the login prompt - not even a tcp 'are you there' works...

the machine is on a network, and once used NIS (ypbind...) for name serving,
but since another problem (the domainname 'ucd.ie' worked for some things, but
ypbind seemed to insist on '.ucd.ie') cropped up, we just use resolv.conf to
tell it where the nameservers are.

now - the crunch - this has just recently started happening and i can't relate
it to any changes we made, but when i disconnect the machine from the main net,
the login process *never* seems to start - connections already made to local
pc's etc. are still fine, but new connections hang indefinitely without ever
getting a login prompt - 

so, the machine is going to the net (nameserver, i guess ?) for some reason,
before ever deciding to offer a login prompt ?   

is this for real ?   is there some way to stop it ?  it might have been
happening all along, and maybe external net traffic is causing the delay...

it's driving us insane though, so any ideas would be very welcome  

(ps - if you can solve the domainname dot problem, speak up too :)

Neil

njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
neil@nebula.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: andy@ian.stx.com (Andy Moore)
Subject: Differential SCSI Jukebox faster?
Keywords: jukebox, SCSI
Reply-To: andy@ian.stx.com
Organization: Hughes STX, Lanham, MD
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:17:49 GMT

Would it be fair to say that a differential SCSI jukebox would be
faster than single-ended SCSI?  How much faster?  A little (5-10%)?
A lot (two to three times faster)?  Thanks for any data...
 
______________________________________________________________________________
Andy Moore          "It is, quite frankly, a disgusting mess, and sounds like
 andy@ian.stx.com    someone trying to play the piano while two other people
                     try to dismantle it..."  - Dave Stewart, "Keyboard" mag
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Re: Attach LZRJet to a Parallel Port
Summary: A configuration that works. 
Keywords: laserjet, parallel port
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:47:05 GMT

In article <2389@ulysse.enst.fr> philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville) writes:
	(LJIII from paralllel port woes deleted)
>
>On a related note, though:  has anyone managed to get a LaserJet III
>(with or without PostScript) to work on a Parallel port on a 400 (or
>even a 700)?
>

	This configuration works for me (both vanilla LJIII and with 
PacificPage PS cartridge:

HARDWARE:	HP-425t, LJIII

OS:		HP-UX B.08.00 A 9000/43T
Devices:
	crw-rw-rw-   4 root     sys       21 0x0c0000 Aug 23 16:41 /dev/lp_php

I used SAM to set it up and modified the interface script to get rid of the
cover page.

What am I doing right?



-- 
Larry Headlund  lmh@world.std.com    Eikonal Systems (617) 482-3345 
From: larryt@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Larry Thompson)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:47:10 GMT
Subject: Re: diskless server advice
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp


#include <STD_DISCLAIMER>

>Given some promises about 9.0 I'd like to update to it someday,
>but ... seems like I'll end up with our clusters running
>different versions of hpux, which means extra work. :-(
>Or maybe I'll fix the 835 with an axe ...

Well, I wouldn't take an axe to it but I would definitely trade it in!
The sales offices have programs in place to give allowances for people
who are upgrading their equipment. (May not be as satisfying as the axe but,
more economically sound.)

>OK ... but you better not announce later that HP-UX 10.0 won't support
>diskless with s700, only with s800 ... I can see it now, "only s700
>servers will be supported with odd- and only s800 servers with
>even-numbered versions of HP-UX" ...

This will definitely not happen! I for one would like to see 10.0 be a unified
release with seamless functionality (except for graphics which I don't think
will ever be supported on the s800 again). Of course, I don't make the 
decisions. I just deal with the results :-).

 Larry
      ______________________________________________________________
     |           ___                                                |
     |          /  /                          Larry L. Thompson     |
     |  HEWLETT/hp/PACKARD       Commercial Open Systems Lab (COSL) | 
     |        /__/                            larryt@cup.hp.com     |
     |Open Systems Software Div                                     |
     |______________________________________________________________|
     
As always these opinions are only my own and should in no way be considered
an official position of the Hewlett-Packard Co.
From: mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu (Dan Mandell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: News Reader for HP 9000/827
Keywords: news, usenet
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:53:19 GMT
Organization: Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, In

We are trying to bring up an HP 9000/827 as an academic machine 
and have found recommendations by members of comp.sys.hp to be 
invaluable in finding products like the simple mail reader "pine", 
which seems to be exactly what we need for students and faculty!
Thankto all! 
 
Now we are looking for a news reader. Any suggestions, recommendations 
concerning locating an FTP-able source?

Dan Mandell (dmandell@saintmarys.nd.edu)
Saint Mary's College, Computer Services 
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556  -  Phone: (219) 284-4610
From: a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Mkdir in fork
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:57:54 GMT
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hi all,

I'm using HP 720 running HP-UX 8.07.  I tried to mkdir in a child
process.  It fails but returns with return code 0.  Following a sample
program (actually, it's extracted from a program in the public domain
version of NQS) :

--------------------------- test.c -------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>

extern int errno;			/* System call error number */
extern void sync();			/* Schedule system buffers for */
					/* writing */
extern char *sys_errlist[];		/* Error list explanation */

main ()
{
	int childpid;
	char *path;
       char *argv [3];                 /* Argv() to mkdir() */
       char *envp [1];                 /* Envp() to mkdir() */

		path="/usr/spool/nqs/private/root/control/+++++0";
		childpid = fork();
		if (childpid == -1) {
			/*
			 *  The fork was not successful!
			 */
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Unable to fork() ");
			printf ("mkdir process.\n");
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Reason: %s.\n",
				sys_errlist [errno]);
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Aborting.\n");
			fflush (stdout);
			fflush (stderr);
			sync();		/* Schedule all dirty system I/O */
					/* buffers for writing (so that */
					/* directory blocks refering to the */
					/* newly created files will be */
					/* securely written to disk */
			exit (6);
		}
		if (childpid == 0) {
			/*
			 *  We are the child mkdir process.
			 */
			argv [0] = "-mkdir";
			argv [1] = path;
			argv [2] = (char *) 0;
			envp [0] = (char *) 0;
			/*
			 *  Create the named directory.
			 */
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Creating: %s.\n",
				path);
			execve ("/bin/mkdir", argv, envp);
			/*
			 *  The execve() failed!
			 */
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Unable to execve() ");
			printf ("mkdir program.\n");
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Reason: %s.\n",
				sys_errlist [errno]);
			printf ("Utility [nqsmkdirs]:  Exiting.\n");
			fflush (stdout);
			fflush (stderr);
		}
}
--------------------------- end of test.c --------------------------

Would anyone pls help ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ST Wong				       BITNET: A866700@CUCSC.BITNET
Computer Services Centre               Internet: a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk
The Chinese Univsersity of Hong Kong             st@csc.mgate1.cuhk.hk
From: abell@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Alan Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP-9000/345 crashes
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:23:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Department, Cal Poly SLO

Hello,

I was wondering if anybody else has had the following problem on
an HP 9000/345 system?  We have three of them and two of them are
now experiencing the problem.  They just lock up after running some
random period of time, anywhere from 1 hour to a couple weeks.  They're
on a department ethernet network.  Two of the systems have 7.0 and
the third 8.0.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your assistance.

Alan Bell
System Administrator
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA  93401
abell@garden.calpoly.edu
From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Postcript to HP LaserJet 500-C ?
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:48:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: waterloo.Bs8ILE.H7I
Distribution: na
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

vollath@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ulrich Vollath) writes:
: 
: Do you really get good color output by this?
: On my deskjet500c the colors look ugly, and black gets a color-tone.
: Therefore I allway use the pstoppm.ps program with ghostscript
: and convert to deskjet with pbmplus utilities.
: This yields the best output for me.

I often use xv to output postscript to my DJ500C through ghostscript...
The colours I do use look great.

Others in our lab use Framemaker with colour output and seem to have good
luck. However, they and I do not use a LOT of colours (<10).

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom Division
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Differential SCSI Jukebox faster?
Summary: Differential speeds
Keywords: jukebox, SCSI
Date: 28 Jul 92 06:37:16 GMT
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <1992Jul27.151749.1318@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> andy@ian.stx.com writes:
>Would it be fair to say that a differential SCSI jukebox would be
>faster than single-ended SCSI?  How much faster?  A little (5-10%)?
>A lot (two to three times faster)?  Thanks for any data...

Differential SCSI is the same speed as normal SCSI, but the cable
length can be very long.  Now, a "fast" SCSI is much faster than
normal SCSI.  It just happens that the HP differential card is also
"fast".   Magneto-Opticals, however, are slow due to physics, not
any particular SCSI interface.  An HP-IB interface could easily
overdrive an MO disk...

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA
Newsgroups: ctp.it,comp.sys.hp
From: fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman)
Subject: Re: HP login very slow
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:12:04 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

In <1992Jul28.203022.16348@ctp.com> jmay@ctp.com (Jason May) writes:
>What else does login(1) do that could be slow?  We're running both NFS
>and NIS.  CPU and network loads aren't high.  Once the login does complete,
>there are never any performance problems.

HP, checks quotas during login. Perhaps that is your problem.

	Fred
From: davidb@zeus.ce.washington.edu (David W. Barts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: -lPW causes problems building R5 on HP 9000/700s
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:18:12 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

In article <4310267@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, spero@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Spero Koulouras) writes:
> The following text was lifted from the man page for regex and discusses
> the proper cc invocation of -lPW ...
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Spero Koulouras
> 
> -------------
> 
>  WARNINGS
>       regcmp() and regex() are kept in /lib/libPW.a.  Unfortunately,
>       /lib/libPW.a also contains some functions that have the same names as
>       functions contained in the default C library, /lib/libc.a.  To prevent
>       unexpected results due to these name conflicts, always search libc
>       before searching libPW.  This is done with the ld (or cc) command line
>       option sequence -lc -lPW which satisifies all standard C functions
>       from libc then searches libPW for the regcmp() and regex() functions
>       (there is also an implied -lc following the explicit -lPW to satisfy
>       any additional C functions required by regcmp() and regex()).

Of course, if you do this, then ld will simply grab all the routines in
libc.a instead of using shared libraries (and X is bloated enough software
as it is even with the shared libraries being used).

A better idea is to use ar(1) to extract the modules that contain the
code you want (it lists regex.o and regcmp.o; you may need others) and
link these in by hand.

I found I had to do something similar to get Gnu tar to compile on
the 400 in my office -- gtar wants to use alloca(), so I simply pulled
alloca.o out of libPW.a and linked it in myself.

--
David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
davidb@ce.washington.edu                Seattle, WA  98195
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: cantin@nrccsb3.di.nrc.ca (Claude Cantin)
Subject: disktab entry for WREN 8...
Organization: National Research Council of Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:49:07 GMT

I recently added a Seagate WREN 8 to an HP 9000 model 730.  I had no
entry in /etc/disktab, so I made one up, then using "newfs" and
the warning messages it gave me (regarding non-allocated sectors
on the last cylinder), I "adjusted" the value of "s0#".

I ended up with a file system of 1.372797 GB (1.235445 GB available).

I'm not sure if the /etc/disktab entry is "valid".  Are there any
dangers of using that entry?  Should I "re-adjust" it?

Here is the entry I used:

WREN_VIII|WREN_VIII_noswap|WREN_VIII_noreserve|WREN_VIII_noswap:\
	:No swap or boot:ns#154:nt#15:nc#2107:\
	:s0#1383150:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
	:se#1024:rm#3600:

Thank you for your input,

      Claude
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Again, trouble with european HP-UX software support
Keywords: Support
Date: 28 Jul 92 06:42:29 GMT
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <1992Jul23.124031.8935@marcal.uucp> marc@marcal.uucp (Marc Veeneman) writes:
>it.  Why couldn't HP simply put all the patches on each one?
>Something's wrong here and we shouldn't have to look to DEC or
>IBM for leadership.  Is THIS the HP WAY?

Actually, yes it is.  After 8 years of observation, things haven't
changed dramatically since the first HP UNIX box.  The HP rule is:
if it works it works ALWAYS, but if it doesn't, don't expect it to
be fixed anytime soon.  Engineers, God lov'em, are like this as a
whole :-) :-)

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Inhibiting core dumps on HP7xx
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:24:01 GMT


Understand that all these kludges are no substitute for "limit
coredumpsize 0k" working outta my darned csh in H-pukes 9.0!

:)

-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
From: arons@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Tom Arons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: hpterm resize source?
Date: 21 Jul 92 05:36:07 GMT
Organization: University of California at Davis

Does anyone have source they can distribute for a modified X11 resize program
that will work with hpterms as well as xterms?  It's a pain when our users
rlogin from an hpterm to a non-HP system and the resize command spits out a
vt100 sceen size inquiry escape sequence which momentarily chokes the hpterm.
The /usr/bin/X11/resize distributed with hpux does the right thing, but I
do not have access to the source.  It seems like it would be relatively trivial
to modify the MIT source, but I haven't been able to find the 
hpterm screen size inquiry sequence.
--
Tom Arons			Internet: arons@eecs.ucdavis.edu
EE/CS Department		Bitnet:   tgarons@ucdavis
University of California	UUCP:     {lll-crg, ucbvax}!ucdavis!iris!arons
Davis, CA 95616			Phone:    (916) 752-1750
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: edsver4@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Jane R. Kramer)
Subject: software version determination 
Reply-To: edsver4@cecil.lerc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA - Lewis Research Center
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:35:53 GMT


Can anyone tell me how to determine on-line, the current version of software
such as FORTRAN or C?  Thanks.

	Jane
-- 
Jane Kramer                                Sverdrup Technology, Inc.
(216) 826-6737                             2001 Aerospace Parkway   
edsver4@cecil.lerc.nasa.gov                Brook Park, OH  44142    
From: stevewi@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Steve Witten)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:33:50 GMT
Subject: Re: /etc/disktab entry for 1.3 Giga hp97560 on 9000/817
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

You should contact your salesman/SE for this.  This is the kinda thing
you don't need a support contract for.

===============================================================================
Steve Witten                    stevewi%hpspd@hplabs.hp.com
Intelligent Networks Operation  ...!hplabs!hpspd!stevewi
Hewlett-Packard Co.             stevewi@hpspd.spd.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com (Greg Cagle)
Subject: Re: Network Distribution Server
Originator: gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:00:39 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics 
Keywords: Server, network
Followup-To: 


Try the man page for "netdistd" and/or the "Installing and Updating
HP-UX x.x" manual.

- Greg
-- 
Greg Cagle               "Engineers aren't as smart as they 
Mentor Graphics           like to be told they are."
greg_cagle@mentorg.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: marc@marcal.uucp (Marc Veeneman)
Subject: Re: LanMan/X and Printing to PCL5 printer (IIIsi)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:43:29 GMT
Organization: Marcal Systems Corporation

prs@Turing.ORG (Phillip R. Scarr) writes:

>We're having some trouble with printing from DOS WordPerfect to a
>LanMan/X printer (an HP IIIsi).  We get the error message:

>line too long

>on the first page of the print out and then in prints the first part of
>the paragraph and no more.

You need to invoke lp with the -oraw option.
-- 
Marc
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From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: HP MPE NetIPC <-> BSD sockets?
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:00:12 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

The June '92 issue of Interact magazine had an article describing the use of
HP's NetIPC product on their MPE/iX operating system to communicate with BSD
sockets on remote systems.  Is anybody out there doing this?  What version(s)
of MPE/iX are you running?  My HP Sales Rep says that MPE/iX 4.0 is needed,
although I'm skeptical.  Would any internal HP people like to confirm/deny 
this?  Any insight would be appreciated.  Thanks.
-- 
Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu
Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jon@socrates.umd.edu (Jonathan Kruger)
Subject: Re: Best Mail User Interface
Keywords: mail, popmail, editor
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:39:02 GMT

khindria@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Vivek Khindria (CSU)) writes:


>      You may consider Pine+Pico as an alternative to elm+vi for casual users.


>In article <1992Jul22.130859.7760@news.nd.edu> mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu (Dan Mandell) writes:
>>We are setting up HP 9000/827S system to serve as academic 
>>system/mail server.  For the casual user, elm+vi is not easy enough
>>to learn.  We are thinking of running Pop3 servers and clients for 
>>the PC users, but need something for folks with just terminal access. 
>>Is there a Pop3 Popmail Client application that runs under HPUX?
>>Alternatively, is there a full screen editor that runs under HPUX that is
>>easier to use than either Gnu Emacs or vi?

Having set up and tested Pine on our 9000/835 over the last couple
days I can't recommend it highly enough.  It builds and runs smoothly
"right out of the box."  It's available from ftp.cac.washington.edu.

They're also working on a DOS port...

-- 
Jonathan Kruger        jon@socrates.umd.edu         UNIX & VMS Systems Staff

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll
look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
From: maj@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Jassowski)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:38:44 GMT
Subject: Re: "source" on HP-UX
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA