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From: nrs2495 (Bill Reed  )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Unix Games, really
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:19:37 GMT
Reply-To: nrs2495

Does anyone know where an anonymous ftp site is for some games running under
SYSV Unix ?  I have seen battleship, greed, and a few others, but for the most
part, Unix games seem to be non-existent!  If I am wrong on this, Please post.

Thank you, My users would enjoy a few games during lunch.  Users of course,
not system administrators. ha ha

Bill
From: bogstad@imhfhp16.epfl.ch (Mark BOGSTAD)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: vi question: deleting characters in file
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:27:59 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Dear vi gurus

I have large data files in which data are stored in columns.
I want to get rid of say the first 80 characters and keep the last ones.
This can be done the follwing way but isn't very elegant:
:%s/^......//g
The problem is that one has to type 80 (eighty!) dots to get rid of 
80 characters.
:%80x or any variant does't seem to work 

Is there a more straight forward way to do this operation?

Thanks
Mark
email: bogstad@dme.epfl.ch




Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:3869 comp.unix.questions:11686
From: harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Hahn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX is TM?
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:54:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc

>In article <1992Sep14.002958.26428@research.nj.nec.com> zilla@ccrl.nj.nec.com (John Lewis) writes:
>>I need to mention the word "Unix" in a paper.  One of the reviewers
>>repeated that 
>>- UNIX must be capitalized
>>- UNIX must modify a noun
>>- UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories Inc. and must be
>>  footnoted as such.


Forgive me if I missed some of the earlier discussion, but
I would like to settle this question once and for all :-)

How you spell the word "Unix" depends on who you feel to
be in authority over your actions.

The word "Unix" has many meanings, *one* of which is a particular
product of USL/AT&T.  This is the UNIX operating system and
is the descendent of the original UNIX (that was, the story goes)
called UNICS for a short while.

This name "belongs" to USL/AT&T and, as such, is a trademark.
Their lawyers say that UNIX must be capitalized and must modify
a noun, as in "the UNIX operating system".
These "rules" are not for the convenience of user or readers of
a paper or book, they are legal ways to protect the name
UNIX so it does not fall into the public domain.

So, if your paper talks about *this particular product*
from USL, then, by all means, have the courtesy to follow
their legal guidelines.  Refer only to the UNIX (noun) and 
tell everyone it is a registered trademark of USL.

However, if you're paper talks about Unix in general, and
not the specific product from USL, then recognize that the word
"Unix", as a name for the world of Unix, or the Unix culture,
or Unix programming, or Unix magazines, or the Unix approach
to problem solving, or the family(?) of Unix operating systems,
doe NOT belong to anybody.

Used in this way, the word "Unix" is a noun, is not a registered
trademark, and should be spelled:

Unix

Although many people still use:

UNIX

The evolution of such a name in the English language will take
it from a specific trademark UNIX to the word UNIX to the word
Unix and, eventually, to the word unix.

Right now, we are in the UNIX/Unix stage.

However, I really think it is silly when people describe
rules that were developed by the USL/AT&T legal people as if they
were the will of god.

(which used to be GOD (tm), then GOD,, then God,
 and now is god :-) :-))

When you write anything, your primary responsibility is to your readers.
Ask yourself, what is the best way to use the U-word as far
as *they* are concerned.

They probably don't care one whit about UNIX(tm) stuff,
nor do you, judging by the fact that in the original question
you spelled it "Unix".

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen Perkins)
Subject: Lost characters in the shell
Originator: perkins@indian.cps.msu.edu
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 05:17:21 GMT

I posted this to comp.protocols.ppp and then though that
this may be a more appropriate place.

I have had a terrible time getting PPP to run on my
current setup.  I had it working at one location, and
after I moved, I tried to install it at another.  The
configuration is that I have PPP running on a Sparc1+
running SunOS 4.1.1 and PPP on a NeXT at home.  Everything
works fine except that when I try to do binary FTP transfers,
9 times out of 10, the Sparc will crash.

I think that I have narrowed down the problem. I wrote two simple test
programs that are designed to test the link.  They determine which
characters are being eaten as they are sent across (one program
writes to stdout, one reads from stdin).  Now, if I run the programs like:

   writeit | readit

without going over the link I get:
  Lost char number 9
  Lost char number 10
  Lost char number 11
  Lost char number 12
  Lost char number 13
  Lost char number 32
This is true on my NeXT and on our sun server.

When I run this over the modem link (and through the terminal server
that was in binary mode) I get the same thing.  This is OK because PPP
automatically escapes these characters (except 32) and they get sent
across fine (asyncmap of all ones).

However, when I run the same program at the command prompt on the
Sparc running PPP I get (Please note that I am using kermit
to do these tests, not telnet or rlogin via PPP):

  Lost char number 9
  Lost char number 10
  Lost char number 11
  Lost char number 12
  Lost char number 13
  Lost char number 32
  Lost char number 134
  Lost char number 142
  Lost char number 150
  Lost char number 158
  Lost char number 166
  Lost char number 174
  Lost char number 182
  Lost char number 198
  Lost char number 206
  Lost char number 214
  Lost char number 221
  Lost char number 222
  Lost char number 234
  Lost char number 249
  Lost char number 250

Low and behold, I get the same characters lost when going over the
modem link.  These characters (the ones of value > 32) are not
automatically quoted by PPP.  They are being eaten and this is 
probably what causes the kernel to crash.

I checked the tty settings (via "stty everything") and they are
identical between the PPP sparc and our Sun server.  I also tried the
csh instead of tcsh. Both Suns (PPP Sparc and server) are running
SunOS 4.1.1.

Anybody have any ideas why (and where) the PPP Sparc is eating the
extra characters??

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.  If this is a FAQ, I would
appreciate a pointer to where they are held.

Thanks,

Steve





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====================================================================
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Department of Computer Science     | perkins@cps.msu.edu
Michigan State University          |
From: mzagsaa@v4.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Tony Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: VMS to Unix transfer requests
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:30:25 GMT
Reply-To: A.C.Arnold@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


In article <90387@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu
(Matthew P Wiener) writes:
|>From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
|>Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.os.vms,comp.sources.wanted
|>Subject: VMS to Unix transfer requests
|>Date: 25 Sep 92 15:43:12 GMT
|>Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
|>
|>I asked about transfering directories from VMS to UNIX, and the most
|>common answer was "tar".  I find it hard to believe that I can use a
|>standard tar for either machine--I need something that will pack on
|>VMS and unpack on UNIX.  Of course we're going to lose some
|>information.
|>(The only one that would be annoying would be VAX floating point. 
|>I'll
|>write my own VAX-FP=>ASCII=>SGI-FP programs if needed, but it would
|>be
|>nice if some kind of bilingual tar package indeed existed.)
|>
|>Anyway, *where* can I get the relevant VMS tars?  Or a UNIX program
|>that can read VMS savesets?  Thanks again.

VMS POSIX has such a beast. There is also a VMSTAR on the DECUS SIG tapes.

Tony Arnold,
Manchester Computing Centre,
MUniversity of Manchester.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: vonb@iitmax.iit.edu (Robert Von Borstel)
Subject: Writer's Workbench
Keywords: Writer's Workbench
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 04:07:38 GMT

We have 2 old 3B2's here with Writer's Workbench, that we would like
to retire.

Ideally we would like to port the software to our Harris Nighthawk 3800
which is SVR4 compliant (68K arch).

Our campus also has an AT&T (unix) source license) so if anyone can
point me in the right direction for the source or if a port is
even possible, I would appreciate it.

Thanx.



-- 
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Illinois Institute of Technology  . NeXTmail:vonb@fred.iit.edu  
Academic Computing Center           (312) 567 5962
10 West 31St Street   Chicago, Ill  60616
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: s4uhkm@fnma.COM (Howie Michalski)
Subject: WANTED Source for "moo"
Reply-To: s4uhkm@fnma.COM
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:36:53 GMT

I know this belongs in sources.wanted, but we don't get that group :-)

If you have (or can get) this for me I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,
Howie

BTW -> You should have moo in /usr/games (if you're lucky enough to have,
Sun OS).




Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com (Mark Burhans)
Subject: Re: BEGINNER Q.: pipes and awk?
Originator: sasmob@chewy.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:19:07 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: awk cat pipe


In article <1992Sep22.153055.13626@csus.edu>, jetfuel@babbage.csus.edu (Dave Jenks) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep20.033358.17970@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins132g@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike Battersby) writes:
|> >
|> >I'm calling a script called small with a filename parameter (eg small file1)
|> >and what I want to do is pipe some output to another filename which
|> >consists of the first 5 characters of the parameter plus some extra
|> >character... eg I want to type 
|> >
|> >	small theinputfile
|> >
|> >and get my output file to be  theinp_ex.txt..
|> >
|> >Now, I thought to go about this using awk, ie redirecting the output thus:
|> >
|> >	> $1 | awk '{print substr($1,1,5) "_ex.txt"}'
|> >
|> >but all I get is an ambiguous output redirect error... What should I be
|> >doing???
|> 
|> Try this:
|> 
|> 	cat $1 | awk '{print ...}'
|> 
|> or...
|> 
|> 	awk '{print ...}' < $1
|> 

That will work great, but you don't _really_ need to use awk. You are
already using a shell script so let's do what you need using just the
script.  The following example with work with 'sh' or 'ksh'

#!/bin/ksh

OutputFile=`echo $1 | cut -c 1-5`"_ex.txt"
echo $OutputFile


exit 1


To make it an 'sh' script, change the "#!/bin/ksh" to "#!/bin/sh".
To make it a little more readable:

OutputFile=`echo $1 | cut -c 1-5`
OutputFile=${OutputFile}_ex.txt


In other words, check out the man page on 'cut' (man cut) and use
parameter substitution ( ${Parameter} type stuff ).

Now to write stuff to this new OutputFile:

>$OutputFile                           # Create a new, empty file

echo $WHATEVER >>$OutputFile           # Append new stuff to OutputFile

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SAS Institute, Inc., USA, SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513.
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Mr. Bowels? --
From: colm@mathcs.emory.edu (Colm Mulcahy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: How DOES sed interpret  \  at the end of a line?
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:52:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: sometimes, but never early in the morning

I'm trying to do a series of search and replaces inside a long sed program,
(to prepare for TeX), there is a problem which I have isolated in this one
line example.

I'm new to sed, so please be patient if this is a silly question!   Please
email if you can help, thanks.


How *does* sed interperet \ at the end of a line?

I was hoping it would think the line continued, 
until the first line withOUT \ at the end.

However, the following one line sed program file:

(called pppp)


s/IT\(.*\)$/{\\it \1}/


applied to the file

(called ffff)



IT     blah1\
       blah2\
       blah3


(invoked by typing 

sed -f pppp ffff > dump)

yielded this file dump:


{\it   blah1\}
       blah2\
       blah3


when i was hoping to get:

{\it   blah1\
       blah2\
       blah3}

(which, in TeX, would have the effect of putting the three lines in italic)


I've tried changing the sed program file from:

s/IT\(.*\)$/{\\it \1}/

to

s/IT\(.*$\)/{\\it \1}/

or even 

s/IT\(.*\)/{\\it \1}/

neither gives the desired effect



what am I missing?  Basically, I am trying to write a sed program file
that will put certain paragraphs (whose beginnings are flagged with IT) 
inside TeX italic, as in {\it PARAGRAPH}.  

email please, thanks.


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Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:3887 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:272
From: maassen@phoibi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Wanted: portable file system
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:50:27 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen

I'm posting this for a friend who has no usenet access:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------


For my master thesis I want to write a file system for parallel systems.
As hardware base I use a raw Transputer system and every sort of mass storage
devices such as hard disks, memory cards, ramdisks, cd roms, etc.. Because the
Transputer has hardware support for scheduling and IPC I have the
idea of a file system running without operating system support.

I have already inspected Minix, but this doesn't seem to be
the ultimate solution. I would be very glad if somebody could send me
some information, sources, etc. about available file systems which 
could be adapted for my specific application.

The file system I'm thinking of should have the features 
listed below:

a.) Unix like

b.) Posix system calls

c.) Some utilities should be availiable such as a checker, ls, cp,
    mtools (nice to have), etc..

d.) Because of the usage in distributed systems, the filesystem should
    be layered, e.g. every access to the mass storage device
    such as reading or writing blocks should be done in one single module.

e.) 32 Bit block pointers because I have to support mass storage devices
    with up to some Gbytes of memory.

f.) Should be suitable for real time systems. 

f.) File protection would be nice.

g.) Implementation Language is ANSI C

Any help is appreciated.


Stephan Brunner

Jakobstrasse 169				e-mail: stephan@parsytec.de
D-5100 Aachen, Germany				Phone  : +49 (241) 8889-0
						         	
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: hchong@netcom.com (Hoi Chong)
Subject: Uncompress tar.Z files? 
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 14:34:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Does anyone know how to uncompress tar.Z files for IBM PC?  Or can it be
used for IBM PC?  Whether to get those utilities to uncompress?

Please email as I don't usually read this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance. 

Hoi Chong. 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sources.wanted
From: npc@socrates.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Nick Christenson)
Subject: Wanted: Unix program to list most active processes.
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:12:48 GMT

I need software to monitor the most active processes under HP-UX running
on 700 series hardware.  A graphical interface that runs under X or 
HP VUE would be nice, but not necessary.  I would be quite happy with
a public domain version of the BSD and Sun tool "top".  If anyone knows 
of such a creature I would appreciate the information.  Please email me,
and if there is sufficient interest, I will summarize and post.

Thank you for your attention.

--
Nick Christenson
npc@zeus.jpl.nasa.gov
Systems Administrator, JPL
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen)
Subject: Re: vi question: deleting characters in file
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 14:26:23 GMT

Mark BOGSTAD writes:

>I have large data files in which data are stored in columns.
>I want to get rid of say the first 80 characters and keep the last ones.
>This can be done the follwing way but isn't very elegant:
>:%s/^......//g
>The problem is that one has to type 80 (eighty!) dots to get rid of 
>80 characters.
>:%80x or any variant does't seem to work 
>
>Is there a more straight forward way to do this operation?
 
Yes choosing the right tool for the job, and then call it from inside VI.

!!cut -c81-

should get the job done.

\Ruben.
-- 
        Ove Ruben R Olsen a Gnarfer and VI user. EMAIL: ruben@uib.no. 
     Maintaining the EX/VI-archive and a couple of the Comp.Editors FAQs.
    People that are ignorant tend to live a frustrated life, at least when 
     it comes to editing - But I do belive this is a general rule in life
Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:3889 comp.windows.x.apps:1208
From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: X appl. generator for vt100 terminal streams
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:14:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct6.181439.20786
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I am looking for a commercial or PD program that will allow me to
relatively easily generate a GUI (X based, presumably) front end
for a VT100 using remote program.  For example - I have a program
running on a remote mainframe. Its only user interface is a dumb terminal
vt100 type of interface.  I'd like to be able to write an X-window
wrapper that will still communicate to the mainframe application using
VT100 screen codes, but interact with the user using windows, buttons,
and other graphical stuff.

I know programs like this exist for the PC and Macintosh worlds - anyone
know of something similar for Unix?

-- 

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Systemhouse Inc.              | Voice:    415-243-8100
                              | Fax:      415-243-0471
From: row@cs.bham.ac.uk (Reuben O. Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: SLIP and KA9Q
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:22:36 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

Hi,

Several of us are trying to setup a TCP/IP connection between
an Archimedes, a PC and a SUN. We have managed to get ka9q to
connect the Archimedes to the Sun, however this only allows
the Sun and the Archimedes ka9q processes to talk to each other,
is there any way that we can interface ka9q to the Sun's kernel
TCP/IP so that the Archimedes can connect to anything that the
Sun is connected to ? The PC will be connected to the Sun via
an Ethernet and will be running Unix, the Archimedes is
connect to the Sun via a serial link.

I have looked at various ftp sites for SLIP but I am not really
sure what this program is and many of the packages mention
rebuilding the kernel which is not really desirable :-)

Thanks for any help,

Reuben Wells

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: jgw1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Jan G. Wilms)
Subject: bar to /dev/fd0 (floppy)
Keywords: bar Sparc floppy drive
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:01:31 GMT

I have a Sun sparcstation with a floppy drive, but (for now) no tape drive.
This is a stand alone machine, and I have to resort to the floppy drive for
backups. I read in the manual that bar should do multi-volume archiving
(and also has a compression switch). But when I try doing this to the 
floppy drive, I get an (unexpected EOF) error as sson as the first disk
is filled, i.e. I never get prompted to insert a new floppy. Any ideas on
what I am doing wrong?


Please respond to
wilms@cs.msstate.edu  or  jgw1@msstate.bitnet
From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: vi question: deleting characters in file
Date: 3 Oct 1992 08:14:48 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

bogstad@imhfhp16.epfl.ch (Mark BOGSTAD) writes:

>I have large data files in which data are stored in columns.
>I want to get rid of say the first 80 characters and keep the last ones.

>Is there a more straight forward way to do this operation?

Assuming you have moderately recent version of unix, you should have cut as
one of the standard programs.

try

  cut -c81- filename

That would remove all characters up to column 81 and print out the rest.

man cut for more info.

Craig
--
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin)
Subject: Re: Unix Games, really
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:15:54 GMT

In article <5616@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nrs2495 writes:
>Does anyone know where an anonymous ftp site is for some games running under
>SYSV Unix ?  I have seen battleship, greed, and a few others, but for the most
>part, Unix games seem to be non-existent!  If I am wrong on this, Please post.
>
>Thank you, My users would enjoy a few games during lunch.  Users of course,
>not system administrators. ha ha
>
>Bill

ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume...

There are volumes of games there

Marc
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:19:40 EDT
From: <CXC19$@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Does POSIX compliance require a text-mode interface?


I don't know anything about POSIX, so I hope this question isn't
too silly, but could anyone tell me whether the POSIX standard
would require a text-mode (command-line) interface?  Thanks a lot
for your help.

Carl Cotner
Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit
Subject: Unix on a 286
From: coxon@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Baker)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:15:25 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Does anyone know of a unix for 286s?

I have a 16MHz 286 with 4Meg of RAM and 80MB hard disk and was wondering as
to what packages maybe available... _FREE_...!!

Preferably something that doesn't take up too much disk space, as I have
alot of DOS apps, and definitely a dual boot system, coz I don't want to
biff DOS altogether.

Please email me at this address, or to chem193@csc.canterbury.ac.nz, with
the subject ATTN: Mark Baker.

Thanx in advance... Mark

P.S. Does anyone know of any problems with the sabine graphics adapter in
the RS/6000's...?


Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit