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From: janw@fwi.uva.nl (Jan Wortelboer)
Subject: Re: tar problems
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:55:12 GMT

GNU cpio is the solution!!!!!!!
eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot) writes:

>In article <1992Nov12.164004.9850@netnews.whoi.edu>, gie@charon.er.usgs.gov (Gerald I. Evenden) writes:
>|> I am having problems with tar files created under Dell SVR4-i2.2 not
>|> un-tar-ing properly on other systems.  More specifically, directories
>|> in the tar file will *NOT* expand to a directory, but instead get
>|> created as an executable, zero length file.  Some detective work has
>|> shown that the name field in the SVR4 tar is not suffixed with a "/"
>|> as in a non-SVR4 tar and mode value also differs.  I have also used the
>|> latest version of GNU's cpio with "-H tar" and get the same results
>|> as with the SVR4 tar.  Foreign tars have always been successfully
>|> processed by SVR4, but the other direction is a bust.
>|> 
>|> This seems to be a bug/problem related to issue 2.2 because I do not
>|> remember having this trouble with issue 2.1 last spring.
It's a problem not a bug.
>|> 
>|> It is interesting that GNU cpio and Dell tar tend to agree on format.
>|> 
>|> Any comments or workarounds would be appreciated.
>|> 
>|> In the meantime, I'll try cpio which has its own problems with inodes
>|> greater than 65k---why the inodes are recorded is a mystery.
>|> 
>|> Thanks.
GNU cpio support's also SVR4 cpio (New MagicNumber) and SVR4 tar.
                        ^^^^^^^^^                       ^^^^^^^^
>If I recall correctly, I ran into a similar problem with cpio, and from the
>looks of things, you could well have the same source code in tar and cpio.
>Again, as I recall, the old programs used the trailing '/' in the file name
>to denote a directory, but some standard (POSIX?) calls for an explicit mode
>bit to be set instead to indicate a directory.  As far as I know, the standard
>did not forbid the use of the trailing '/', so I don't know why the V.4 version
>doesn't generate it.
>In other words, pre-V.4 code generated and expected a trailing '/' to mean
>that the file is a directory; V.4 generated and expected a mode bit in the
>file header.


>-- 
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From: arnd@hilde.han.de (Arnd Borchers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: SAS-2.00
Keywords: available yet ?
Date: 16 Nov 92 07:01:23 GMT

Hi Friend's

is the SAS-2.00 available yet ?
When it is, where can I get the package ?

Bye
Arnd

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.sysv386
From: jrohr@rasc.com (Jay J. Rohr)
Subject: ISC 3.0.1 remote equivalence problem
Organization: Rohr Applied SYstems Corp., Sterling VA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:12:59 GMT

I need some help trying to resolve a remote access ( rsh, rcp, rlogin ) problem
I've been having with Interactive 3.0.1.  The configuration is a server runing
ISC 3.0.1 with multiple PC workstationsi (FTP PCTCP) and an ISC 2.2 workstation
on an ethernet LAN. 

The PROBLEM is that if resolv.conf is set up to use the nameserver, remote
access from the PCs and the ISC 2.2 workstation (rsh, rcp, rlogin, etc) is not
recognize as equivalent and the user is prompted for passwords or the command
fails with permission denied.  If resolv.conf is set up as nonameserver,
the remote commands work fine.

Before I get swamped with some of the obvious responses, let me give some
details and alternatives already tried.

   - other functions that access named work correctly (i.e ping, ftp, rlogins
     to internet sites)
   - resolv.conf has the domain specified correcty
   - resolv.conf has the name server address specified as an IP address.
   - hosts.equiv has had hosts specified as short names, full domain names, and
     both.
   - .rhosts has had hosts specified as short names, full domain names, and
      both.
   - .rhosts is owned by the correct user and is writable only by that user.

I've talked to SunSoft tech support 5 or 6 times in the last week and they sent
the question on the development staff. (who came back with the same items
listed above.)

WHAT AM I MISSING ?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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From: Lucian_Dancanet@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: I need 8514/ATI Graphics Ultra support for ISC UNIX SVR3.2 & X11R4
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:34:15 GMT
 <PATRY.92Nov16102428@jy.Software.Mitel.COM>
 <1992Nov16.213215.4701@netcom.com>
 <1992Nov23.073800.6592@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Distribution: na
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



Thomas Roell writes:

>PS: BTW, X386 1.3: 85k xstones on a Ultra ....

Do you mean to say that there is a X386 1.3 available, and it runs on an
ATI Graphics Ultra (and SVR4)?

Could you post details, please?

Thanks

Lucian
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Which PC Unix to buy???
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:43:26 GMT

hdoshi@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Hiren Doshi) writes:

>I am not an expert on Unix by any means, because of which I am 
>considering to buy Unix for my 486/50 at home. Could all of you
>Unix gurus please advice me as to which Unix version to buy: BSD
>USL SVR4.2, SCO, DELL etc. I apologize if this is a FAQ. 
>Thanks in advance..

>Hiren....... 

Hiren,

What do you want to do with it.  If it is for Home learning use, then I would
guess that price is the issue.  If this is true, then I would advise you to
look carefully at what you get.  If price is not an issue, than what is?

-- 
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"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: AT&T SVR3.2.2/386 hard disk partitions
From: <AASSI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 23:26:53 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

    I installed AT&T UNIX on a 386/33 ISA with 16 MB RAM, DPT ESDI with 4.5MB
cache and a MAXTOR 330 MB HD.  Installation partitions  the HD to 10% DOS
PARITION and the rest to UNIX by default;  I selected 9% DOS 71% UNIX
and left the 20% UNUSED. (I figured I might create another filesystem later.)

- Problem #1:   How can I access the 3rd parition (20%) in UNIX as a file-
                system using the "mkfs" command? what is that parition called?
                Is it reasonable to set it up as a spare 'root' fs with
                some critical utilities?

- Problem #2:   I frequently need to 'doscp' unix files to the dos parition,
                and the doscp process hangs when I'm writing large files 1+MEG
                Weird directories are created on dos somtimes that I had to
                use NORTON in dos to remove them.  I formatted the DOS
                parition with 3.0 3.3 & 5.0 versions of DOS to no avail.

- Problem #3:   WIndows 3.0 hangs at startup screen when I run it after booting
                from the DOS parition.


- Problem #4:   Why does 'root' file free block count become out of sync with
                copy in memory if machine is not shutdown after 20+ users
                use it for wp daily for 1 month? e.g. fsck shows ,say, 40% free
                and dfspace shows 0.5% free.
                HOW DO YOU RECOVE FROM THIS? I had to reinstall system twice.


   Thanks for any advice you might send, either email or ,if useful to others,
   netnews.
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From: alanlb@bethesda.cs.vt.edu (Alan L. Batongbacal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Exabyte 8500 on ISC 3.0?
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:06:28 GMT
Reply-To: alanlb@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

Hi there!  I have ISC 3.0 with the FD_S3.0 patch diskette running
on a non-DTK (the real name escapes me, Cirrus maybe?) 486 motherboard
with an Adaptec 1542B.  I have hooked up an Exabyte EXB-8500 to it and
have configured HPDD to recognize it as a generic SCSI tape drive.
However, I seem to missing a step or two because /dev/tape is still
unrecognized.

Are there any special hardware/software configuration steps that I
have to perform?  Is my ISC version OK, or do I have to upgrade?

Thanks for any help!

alan l. batongbacal
From: liuwu@acuson.com (Wu Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Soundblaster under SCO?
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:25:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE) writes:
>I use SCO UNIX 3.2 and it has worked fine forever. Now, I stick in 
>a Soundblaster, and now SCO hangs on the hardware screen. It does this
>on two different machines.
>Whats the problem? SoundBlaster causes no problems with 3 other OS's including
>another 386 unix.

Several device drivers in SCO Unix attempt to, when booting the kernel,
figure out if they're needed based on whether a particular IRQ and/or
I/O memory address is being used.  I suspect that your SoundBlaster
card is configured such that one of those drivers thinks it's needed.

What IRQ and I/O address do you have the SoundBlaster at?
-- 
Wu Liu                          Software Engineer, User Interface Group
liuwu@acuson.COM                Acuson
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jsmith@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Joe Smith)
Subject: Re: UPS, SCO and automatic shutdown
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems, Inc., Phoenix Product Division
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:39:13 GMT

APC - American Power Conversion also has similar functionality on their
Smart-UPS series with PowerChute software.
From: ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: inittab problems with Dell 2.2
Date: 21 Nov 92 02:20:44 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

In article <105@jassys.UUCP> tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:
>We've just picked up a copy of Dell 2.2 and have run into a problem.
>
>I'm trying to add a line to /etc/inittab to run a script that starts
>up database servers & such.  It's never run.  Here's how it looks:
>
>rclocal:23:wait:/usr/local/rc.local > /dev/sysmsg 2>&1 < /dev/console
>
>
>The script itself is fine, has been used for years now.  For some
>reason this entry is never executed when the system is bought up.

Is it possible that you have run "idbuild" since changing /etc/inittab?  I
ran into a similar problem...except that when I'd look, the entry I had
just added to inittab was gone.  It turns out that the "master" inittab
is in /etc/conf/cf.d/init.base.  I *know* that idbuild copies this file
to /etc/inittab...perhaps other utilities do the same thing.
--
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From: druid%caercn@ajax.rsre.mod.uk (ad4su1)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC 3.0 multiple FDISK partitions?
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:45:15 GMT
Organization: CAD4 Division DRA Malvern
Originator: druid@ad4su3

From article <1992Nov12.062326.19981@timesink.chi.il.us>, by mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec):
>>I would also like to use the third partition for ISC, as a home partition.
>>
>>Is this possible?
> 
> Yes, use /dev/dsk/0p3
> 
But my controller is an Adaptec 2320A,
which seems to have no bad-sector mapping
[at least I don't think it has]. I cannot afford to spend $$$s on a
new controller, so I need to mkpart /dev/dsk/0p3.
I can see no way to do this.
It cannot be a part of "disk_c0t0" as it is outside that partition.
Yet to treat it as a new disk would mean it would then need soft
partitioning [to handle bad sectors].

The "Interactive UNIX System Maintenance Procedures---Version 3.0",
Section 8.2.7.1 refers to device names of the form citjlksm, where
ijkm are each integers. Is this the way to refer to controller i,
disk j, hard partition k, soft partition m? If so, I could soft partition
my third hard partition.

From article <1992Nov12.062326.19981@timesink.chi.il.us>, by mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec):
> 
> The spec changed from 2.2.x to 3.0.x in that:
> /dev/dsk...
> c0d0s3	<= 2.2.x syntax for Controller 0, Disk 0, Slice 3 (usually /usr)
> c0t0s3	>= 3.0.x syntax for Controller 0, Target 0, Slice 3

But what is the difference? The "Interactive UNIX System Maintenance
Procedures---Version 3.0", Section 8.2.7.1 refers to "target or LUN",
with no further explanation. I thought LUN meant "disk or virtual disk".
Does "slice" mean "partition", in ISC-speak?

	Regards,
		Mark.
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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: tar problems
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:50:56 GMT

sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:

>There is a new version of tar for issue 2.2 on dell1.dell.com in
>the support2.2 directory, if memory serves me correctly.  Snarf
>and install this and you should be happier.  (I sure was after I
>installed...)

I've been having one heck of a time connecting via ftp to dell.com 

as a matter of fact, I have had email in the queue for a couple
of days for machines at *.dell.com (awaiting SMTP)

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From: davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:37:38 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <Mf30lBO00VI=41tGYT@andrew.cmu.edu>, Geoffrey Spear <gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
| 	Also, read the jargon file and start using obscure hacker jargon all
| the time.  It will at least make you *seem* to be a wizard of some sort,
| at least to those who have no idea what you're talking about and who are
| afraid to admit it :)

  I think it mainly takes a big ego to call yourself a wizard (like one
person who has UNIXGURU vanity plates). The best people I know are still
willing to admit they don't remotely know it all.

  Most people who look like wizards have an indepth knowlege of some
phase (for which they may be famous) but an overview at best on other
areas. The folks with the big ego dismiss what they don't know, ignoring
things like xenix or even all of sysV, or knowing only streams but not
sockets, etc. The people who are really good tend to avoid bragging.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: ESIX 4.0.4 in-line assembly in c
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:30:25 GMT

In article <By2IFC.1yI@constant.demon.co.uk> slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:
> david.e.wexelblat (dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) wrote:
> : 
> : Yes, we have done this.  Boy have we done this :->  The jokers at ESIX
> : have no idea what they are talking about.  The manual you want is
> : "Programmer's Guide: ANSI C and Programming Support Tools" from the
> : Prentice Hall SVR4 manual set.  There's a big section on how to do
> : inline assembler with the SGS in SVR4.
> : 
> I am also trying to use the SVR4 assembler but although I found the
> section about inline code in the Programmer's Guide, I couldn't find
> any reference to the instruction format.  I know a few of the
> differences between the SVR4 format and Intel format, but not enough to
> be very useful.
> 
> Does anyone have a reference for this?
> 
> -- 
>    Simon Langley                   (preferred)   slangley@constant.demon.co.uk
>    Hampstead, London
>    pgp 2.0 public key available                  slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk

I have found precious little documentation on the Unix assembler format
(there's an old SVR3 (ISC, I believe) document floating around somewhere
on the net, but I don't have it).  The best way to learn the formats is
to compile some stuff with the -S option, and look at the assembler 
output in the .s files.

--
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 other people, and hope to fall in love."  -- Mallory Keaton
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: How to compile Interviews?
From: villa@sparrow (Ferdinando Villa)
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:57:25 +0100
Organization: Ecologia Universita' di Parma
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Has anyone compiled Interviews on ISC 3.x and X386/Xfree? I haven't tried
very hard but it seems very tricky even with gcc 2.3.1. Are binaries available?
If yes, I would be delighted to keep them on my system for anonymous ftp...

Thank you for any info

--
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Institute of Ecology                     Direct phone: +39-521-905615
University of Parma                               FAX: +39-521-905665
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman)
Subject: Re: What's happening to ISC UNIX?
Organization: Software Toolz, Inc.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:15:48 GMT

This is not a total flame (see the last paragraph), but my recent
experience with ISC Unix has not been good...

sp_pm@space.alcbel.be (Paul Moore) writes:
>I bought ISC-2.2 about 2 years ago. Have they improved on it since? 

They have fixed a few bugs, but little else has changed in the
basic Unix O/S and the Software Development Set.  I can't speak
to the  X-Windows implementation as I don't run X-Windows.  

>I understand that ISC-3.0 has since been released. Is it an improvement over
>the previous one? Is this the latest version available?

3.0 is the latest version.  The takeover by SunSoft has confused
Interactive greatly, and (in my opinion) very little has changed
in the past two years, except for the system administration
(which features color menus that take *forever* to execute).  

>Is ISC up to SVr4 yet? 

No.  And, there is no ksh.

>Has VP/ix been improved to provide Windows 3.0/3.1 support?

The documentation states that Windows can be run in real-mode,
but I found that the Windows 3.1 install program crashes VPIX
immediately.  VPIX performance has decreased noticably since 2.2.   

>Is there driver support for CD-ROM drives?

The High Sierra file system is supported (but not from within VPIX).

>Thank you, Paul

I was so disatisfied with my upgrade to ISC 3.0 that I asked
SunSoft for my money back, and I explained to them in writing
why I thought it was a shoddy product.  I added TCP/IP and NFS
when I upgraded:  it took 4 phone calls to ISC support to get
Unix working, and 6 phone calls and a FAX to get TCP/IP and NFS
working.  But, my initial 30-day support period ran out before I
could get everything working!  I have installed SCO Unix, AIX,
AT&T Unix, VMS; so it wasn't as if I had no experience doing
installations. 

To their credit however, my letter to SunSoft seems to have
cause a stir, as they assigned a VP to "settle the issue" with
me.  He assured me that Sun was concerned about the quality of
their product and that they were dedicating many new resources
to ISC Unix.  I have decided to give them the benefit of the
doubt, as they seemed determined to see me satisfied as quickly
as possible.  And, they did extend my initial support period so
that I could get everything working.  Time will tell, however,
as to how serious they are about ISC Unix.  Sun is under the gun
with Solaris, and seem to be very sensitive about issues of
quality.  I doubt that they would be thrilled to see a Sun
flame-fest on Usenet.

I actually don't want to see Sun fail with ISC or Solaris.

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From: duane@intermec.com (Duane Charron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Using the LPI ansi Compiler on Interactive 3.2 ver 3.0.1
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:26:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: intermec.2007
Reply-To: duane@intermec.com ()
Distribution: world
Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett, Wa.

Hello Net,

  Hey, has anyone out there tried to use the LPI ansi 'C' development
system that is included with interactive Unix?  I am having a heck
of a time trying to get it going.  If so please write Back.  I
tried a simple program to read in a file.  I wrote it so both the
standard 'C' compiler(cc) and the LPI 'C' compiler could compile
and link it.  The Standard one worked fine but the LPI one
gave erroneous errors.  Also How do I get the LPI to include the
Machine specific 'h' files(fcntl.h) and (/sys/*.h)?  Then
also How do I get the anis Library to link.  I have a program
I am porting to Unix and a couple of functions are allready done
in Ansi.  

				Thanks in advance
				Duane
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