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From: micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Xstation sw under DOS
Keywords: X, DOS
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:32:24 GMT
Reply-To: micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD)
Organization: The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden



Is there any X-station sw available for MSDOS?

Thanx in advance
/RS

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:58:46 EDT
From: Chao Yuan <yuan@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: pc emulators for SPARC

I need buy a PC emulator for SPARC. Does anyone could recommend some
products for me? If you can provide some phone numbers, that should be
better. 

Thanks a lot in advance,


Charles
From: david@cssnet.UUCP (J. David Schronce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: pc emulators for SPARC
Date: 1 Oct 92 04:14:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Support Services

yuan@cs.columbia.edu (Chao Yuan) writes:

> I need buy a PC emulator for SPARC. Does anyone could recommend some
> products for me? If you can provide some phone numbers, that should be
> better. 
> 
One was reviewed in the last (current) issue of UNIX WORLD.  I didn't 
read it as I am not running SPARC, but it may be a good place for you 
to start looking...

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From: lowe@fnx.uucp (Phill Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Source for $99 unix
Date: 25 Sep 92 22:24:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: I/Ovations

COHERENT 
Mark Williams Company
60 Revere Drive
Northbrook, IL 60062
(708) 291-6700
(708) 291-6750 (fax)

This may not be what a serious Unix addict needs but the
basic system works.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix!,comp.unix.msdos,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit!
From: reh5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard E Hu)
Subject: DOS I/O program under UNIX
Reply-To: reh5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard E Hu)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 03:02:01 GMT
Expires: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 04:00:00 GMT

I have a dos application program that needs to be run under 
AT&T UNIX with VPiX (Simutask). The DOS program will receive
data from COM1 serial port and put the data in the U: drive
so other unix program can access the data.  The amount
of data received by the DOS program ranges from a few Kbytes
to 100K bytes. Does anyone have any knowledge/experience
on this kind of application? Do you know if there is any
problem with the DOS I/O capability under UNIX? Would
DOS porgram suffer from time-out due to time-shared nature
of UNIX? Do you know someone who may be able to enlighten me?

Any suggestion is welcome.

Thanks.
From: wrb@teal.csn.org (William R. Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: PC + DOS Emulator Source Code for UNIX
Keywords: DOS, UNIX, Emulate
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:52:31 GMT
Organization: William R. Bishop


  Greetings DOS-doers:

  I worked on a project for over a year to develop a PC AND DOS emulator 
under unix.  This was supposed to be our "BIG" break (and it just about broke
John Stevenson-jks@nomadic.com and I).  We both had a lot to learn about 
marketing.  A lot of your potential buyers got the shakes when Microsoft 
announced their effort to bring a DOS emulator to every machine (for free?).

Please post all responses to comp.unix.dos-under-unix or Email wrb@wrb.com

  It only emulates an XT (or most of one) and a monochrome display adapter,
though it was designed to be extended.  The code traps interrupts and executes 
UNIX code for the DOS interrupts (thus obviating the need for DOS).  
Many of the important DOS calls have been emulated, but quite a few have not.
We figured to use the code as a "wrapper" around PC packages, thereby only
needing to implement the calls that a particular package uses (and what do
you know, just like most compilers use only a small subset of a machines 
instructions, most programs use only a small subset of DOS calls).

It was developed on an SGI 3030, 4D/35, and Indigo so the keyboard and 
display I/O is tailored to these machines (GL).

It runs Quicken, most of WordPerfect and Microsoft word as it sits.  The 
mouse stuff still has a few problems.

  The code has been sitting on the shelf for a year or so now, waiting for
its "BIG" break.  I am posting this notice to see how many people would be
interested in using and improving it.   Also any suggestions on how to 
support it would be appreciated (like pearl?)


                William R. Bishop (Bill) -<wrb@wrb.com>
From: david@cssnet.UUCP (J. David Schronce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Xstation sw under DOS
Keywords: X, DOS
Date: 1 Oct 92 04:11:17 GMT
Organization: Computer Support Services

micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD) writes:

> 
> 
> Is there any X-station sw available for MSDOS?
> 
I stand by my dedication to DesqView-X.  itt is a truly remarkable 
product for DOS.
  
disclaimer:  just a VERY happy user

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: shj@swl.msd.ray.com (STEPHEN JOYCE)
Subject: Re: ieee-488 interface software
Keywords: ieee,488,unix,dos
Organization: Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:26:11 GMT

shj@swl.msd.ray.com (STEPHEN JOYCE) writes:


>I'm looking for the IEEE-488 bus interface card for
>the PC unix compatible software driver. Does anyone
>know of a vendor that supplies one?
>  So far all I've found is that Hewlett-Packard
>makes a card/driver combination but it just
>runs under MS-DOS and not a Unix PC.

Please send any replies to:

shj@swl.msd.ray.com (STEPHEN JOYCE) writes:


Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: giarha@giau01.gia.ch (Hayoz Rolf)
Subject: rpc under DOS
Reply-To: giarha@giau01.gia.ch (Hayoz Rolf)
Organization: Grapha Informatik AG
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:30:17 GMT


Does any one know if Sun RPC or other RPC implementations are available for
MS Dos.
Where I can get the software (if possible source code).
Which network software do I need. 
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From: 00cchall@bsu-ucs.uucp (Chael Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Basic on Unix
Date: 28 Sep 92 06:13:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.183246.703@mcs.kent.edu>, rayes@Snake.mcs.kent.edu (Mohamed Omar Rayes) writes:
> Does any one out there know of a good Basic interpreter  for
> the SUN3/4 or HP families running  UNIX system  V.  Has any
> one installed Qbasic on any machine running UNIX. Thanks.
> rayes@mcs.kent.edu

     Why not write one?  We'd all love to put it on our systems and let it
rot...  BASIC?  Really?

Chael


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: RCS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:09:51 GMT

niu@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Shaohua Niu) writes:

>Does anyboby there know if there is a DOS version of the 
>UNIX RCS (revision control system) and where I can ftp them?

You get DOS implementation of RCS from
oak.oakland.edu :  /pub/msdos/pgmutl  rcs55.zip
wuarchives.wustl.edu : /systems/msdos/gnuish   rcs55ax.zoo 

Samuel ... 

Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: prosh@access.digex.com (Federico)
Subject: Re: Source for $99 unix
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:01:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.162547.12039@alw.nih.gov> arm@helix.nih.gov (Andrew Mitz) writes:
>Will someone send me the company name & phone number for
>the folks who sell the $99 unix-like operating system
>for IBM PCs?  
>
>Also, is there some other way for a hard-core unix user
>to get the look & feel of unix while running DOS? For
>example, is there a c shell script interpreter for dos?
>
>Please send responses via Email, since I don't normally
>read this news group. 
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>Andrew Mitz          |    NIH Animal Center
>Biomedical Engineer  |    Poolesville, MD
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>All opinions expressed are my own.
>
>
>

Sure, check p. 127 of Sept 92 Byte magazine:

Coherent OS for 99 bucks, by Mark Williams Co

A full development system!

-prashant
From: mallman@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Mark Allman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: News on PC
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:10:08 GMT
Organization: /home/ace/a/mallman/.org

In article <1992Sep28.173136.22336@alf.uib.no>, s310@brems.ii.uib.no (Chris Tveit) writes:

> Is there anyway I can read News on my PC (ms-dos/windows) by using
> a modem to a Unix-network ?
> 
> Is there any software avail. to help me ? (PD/ShareW) ?

why, yes there is!  what you need is a uucp package for dos (or windows,
since you run it).  some of the more popular ones are uupc, fsuucp, and
waffle.  they will let you set up your own personal net site.  you will,
of course, need a site which is willing to give you a network feed.  of
the above listed packages, i believe that only waffle comes with its 
own built in newsreader.  if you want to read news with the others, you
will have to get a seperate newsreader.  i use waffle, and have a 
personal site set up, so if you would like some more information, drop
me some mail. :-)

mark
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   mallman@duce.cs.ohiou.edu  |  to read, and even harder to modify.         */ 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
Subject: Accessing DOS files from UNIX
Reply-To: brian@coconut.com
Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc., La Jolla, CA
Date: 25 Sep 92 16:33:46 PDT


Imagine I have a UNIX machine running a program that from time to time
needs to retrieve a file that is sitting on a DOS machine that is networked
via some Ethernet method.  Imagine however that the DOS machine is busy
running some program all the time.  I need to be able to access any file
on the DOS machine even if it is busy running some program.  Is there some
way to do this?  Is there some commercial product (PC-NFS?) that would
allow me to transparently access files on any DOS machine that happened
to be a part of the same network my UNIX (SCO UNIX probably) machine was
on?  I am looking for a shareware or commercial program that can run maybe
as a TSR in DOS to monitor requests for files or directory listings from
remote but networked UNIX machines.

All suggestions/advice welcome!!!

If replying by email please reply to brian@coconut.com thanks.


Brian Dear /// Coconut Computing, Inc. /// brian@coconut.com


Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: niu@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Shaohua Niu)
Subject: RCS
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:15:34 GMT

Does anyboby there know if there is a DOS version of the 
UNIX RCS (revision control system) and where I can ftp them?
-

Thanx in advance.

-





Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: taylor@SunWorld.Com (Dave Taylor)
Subject: Re: pc emulators for SPARC
Organization: SunWorld Magazine, San Francisco, CA: +1 (415) 267-1728
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 07:26:54 GMT

yuan@cs.columbia.edu (Chao Yuan) asks:

> I need buy a PC emulator for SPARC. Does anyone could recommend some
> products for me? If you can provide some phone numbers, that should be
> better. 

I suggest that you check out the October issue of SunWorld
magazine, wherein our intrepid Richard Raucci looks at a 
variety of solutions, both hardware and software, to run DOS
software on SPARC systems.  Coming up: Netware on SPARC too.


						-- Dave Taylor
SunWorld Magazine
San Francisco, California

taylor@sunworld.com        			taylor@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Basic on Unix
From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:20:13 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <1992Sep23.183246.703@mcs.kent.edu>, rayes@Snake.mcs.kent.edu (Mohamed Omar Rayes) writes:
> Does any one out there know of a good Basic interpreter  for
> the SUN3/4 or HP families running  UNIX system  V.  
There is at least one BASIC interpreter for Unix; there was a copy around here,
but it seems to have been removed. But don't expect a lot to work properly,
since there are so many peculiarities in different BASIC's (like graphics, PEEK
& POKE, etc, etc). Depending on what you want to do, you could be better off
with a PC emulator (like the free pcm).

In article <1992Sep28.011356.9923@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 00cchall@bsu-ucs.uucp (Chael Hall) writes:
>...  BASIC?  Really?

BASIC isn't all that bad. It is extremely simple, which makes it something of
an oasis in a Unix/C environment for many people. Some versions of BASIC are
very efficient (CPU-efficient and people-efficient) in database access and
matrix manipulations (not thinking of your average MicroSoft or Timex/Sinclair
implementations, but some DG, HP and DEC implementations are quite worthwhile).

Most of all, there is such a large pool of programs and programmers that could
benefit from BASIC on a Unix system much more than trying to rewrite the
programs in C or retrain the users.

Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: s310@brems.ii.uib.no (Chris Tveit)
Subject: News on PC
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:31:36 GMT

Is there anyway I can read News on my PC (ms-dos/windows) by using
a modem to a Unix-network ?

Is there any software avail. to help me ? (PD/ShareW) ?

Chris.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: shj@swl.msd.ray.com (STEPHEN JOYCE)
Subject: ieee-488 interface software
Summary: need vendor names for unix ieee-488 interface
Keywords: ieee,488,unix,dos
Organization: Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:19:08 GMT


I'm looking for the IEEE-488 bus interface card for
the PC unix compatible software driver. Does anyone
know of a vendor that supplies one?
  So far all I've found is that Hewlett-Packard
makes a card/driver combination but it just
runs under MS-DOS and not a Unix PC.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
From: cwhsu@syl.dl.nec.com (James Hsu (214)518-3584)
Subject: Where can I find BW-NFS by Beame & Whiteside
Organization: NEC Systems Lab., C&C Software Technology Center (Dallas, TX)
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:48:47 GMT

Hello:

Could anybody please tell me where can I purchase BW-NFS by Beame &
Whiteside?  I contacted some resellers and none of them carry this
package.  I called the 800 directory service and found out that
B&W does not have an 800 number.

Reply by email is preferred, even though I will check this newsgroup
every now and then.

Thanks in advance.

James.

email: cwhsu@syl.dl.nec.com
From: bobw@mge.uucp (bobw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: ISC - broken/incomplete mt command
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:43:30 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: MG-Entreprises, Paris, France

I posted this about a week ago to comp.unix.sysv386 without any
response.

I want to use a comprehensive backup system that requires either "mt"
or tapecntl. I use ISC 2.2 which has an incomplete/buggy mt, and no
tapecntl, which I believe is only found in SYSVR4. I've been told that
mt was debugged in ISC 3.0.

Does anyone know if I can use the 3.0 version of mt, and if so, can
anyone send it? Is there another solution that I've overlooked?

Regards,

Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
From: gibanez@cecux1.cec.uchile.cl (IBANEZ CORVALAN GABRIEL ANTONIO)
Subject: Help with pipes...
Originator: gibanez@cecux1
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:13:04 GMT
Organization: Centro de Computacion, Universidad de Chile


Hi, 

   I made a program for using finger server, and
my need is to know who is connected in what WorkStation.

   I use fingerd for doing it, then I create severals
process CHILD that are concerned with the queries to
every server.
   Then, in order to obtain what my processes CHILD did,
I use a pipe and I read from them using a select() call.
But I have problems with it:
    - sometimes it is fine, and its performance is high.
    - sometimes my program is stoped for long time and
      I must kill it.

  Do you know what is the real problem ???
  Perhaps, the pipe() is not realiable and I must
 to use a socket ????
  I use one pipe per child process.
  I hope your help.

Gabriel.
gibanez@cecux1.cec.uchile.cl

PS: I use a timeval of NULL, that is, I wait until a write
( from my childs ) is made. Then, I read.


Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
From: dickerso@fester.dell.com (Russell Dickerson - X2787)
Subject: trying to fork a "rsh" w/out success
Reply-To: dickerso@cpat.stortek.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:41:58 GMT

I am writing program which forks another and then reads/writes to it.  The
fork works fine when the program is run on the local machine but when I 
change the command from "smiley" to "rsh bugs smiley" the fork works but I
never get input/output. 

Any suggestions?


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For every vision, there is an equal and opposite Congressional revision.
From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Running X386 under 386BSD 0.1
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:01:25 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de

In <3358@carroll1.cc.edu> derek@carroll1.cc.edu (Derek Inksetter) writes:


>	hi.

>	Perhaps this isn't the correct forum for this, but I'm sure I'll be
>	flamed into correctness soon enough.

>	I'm having problems getting X386 working with 386bsd 0.1. I FTPd
>	the X386 port from agate.berkeley.edu, and installed it according
>	to any README I found, but it apparently is looking for /dev/vga,
>	which I don't have.  I wish I had some sourcs to look thru, but I
>	just don't have the room for it all.

>	If anyone here can help, or point me to anyone who can help, I'd
>	appreciate it.

>	derek

>	PS. Is there a 386BSD newsgroup? There's not one at this site, but
>	I'm not too sure about much at this site.

The /dev/vga is 'mknod /dev/vga c 12 0', a well known FAQ.
The 386BSD newsgroup is comp.unix.bsd.

Holger

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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help needed writing a simple Imakefile
Date: 30 Sep 1992 17:54:11 -0500
Organization: Cafe Limbo
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bin@primate.wisc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: uakari.primate.wisc.edu

From article <1acj3fINN1l4@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>, by klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute):
> In article <1aa24kINNij3@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate.wisc.edu
> (Brain in Neutral) writes:
> |>
> |> [stuff deleted]
> |>
> |> So I suggest your Imakefile should look like this:
> |> 
> |>              SRCS = foo.c bar.c
> |>              OBJS = foo.o bar.o
> |>   LOCAL_LIBRARIES = -lm -lX11
> |>           PROGRAM = baz
> |> 
> |> ComplexProgramTarget(baz)

> - If the Motif library is not installed beside the X libraries the
>   linker won't find it. For further information see the recent
>   discussion about Imake and Motif.

I don't understand this.  I saw no mention of any need for Motif in the
original posting. (-lm != -lXm)

> - The line "PROGRAM = baz" is superfluous as the ComplexProgramTarget
>   rule defines this Make macro itself:

Ah, yes.  Quite right.  Silly of me!

-- 
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
From: mike@inform.co.nz (Mike Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Should I use syslog?
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:51:14 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: InForm Group, Wellington, New Zealand.


  I have the job of re-writing a license server.  Currently the server is
  started by init, from a line in /etc/inittab which looks something like
  this: 

    ZB:3:once:/the/server >/dev/console 2>&1

  There have been problems with the server output being re-directed to
  /dev/console ... mainly that it sometimes prevents a ttymon (getty) being
  started on the console, and other times simply warns you that "another
  process already has this device open" when you logon to the console.

  My questions are:

  * Is re-directing output to the console legal for commands that do not
    run in "wait" mode?  (That is, when init(1) does not wait for them to
    complete before continuing).

  * A colleague has the impression that re-directing stderr is somehow
    different from re-directing stdout, and that "2> /dev/console" may be
    safe when "> /dev/console" is not.  Does this have any foundation?

  * Should I change the server to use syslog?  Can I expect to find syslog
    on all modern Unixes?

  Please reply via email.  Thanks.

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
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   Email: mike@inform.co.nz   Phone: 64 4 472 0996   Fax: 64 4 473 2407
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: "&" sign and DEC C compiler
Date: 6 Oct 1992 04:24:56 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <6739@m2c.m2c.org> lu@m2c.org (Thomas Lu) writes:
>     ccom: Error: VandaScript.c, line 469: unacceptable operand of &
>     for(gen = lsStart(argList); 
>	(lsNext(gen, (lsGeneric *) &((lsGeneric) newArg),(lsHandle *) 0) == 0)
>	|| ((void) lsFinish(gen), 0); )

The result of a cast is not an lvalue, and therefore not acceptable to &.
Some compilers treat

	&(<type>)<lvalue>

as if it were

	(<type>*)&<lvalue>

But this is not required by any C specification.  If this is the
interpretation you want, then use this syntax.

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.windows.x