HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: edc@openage.COM (Ed Cooley)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: PANIC dump in swap file
Keywords: PANIC swap
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:51:32 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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> From uupsi2.uucp!xenitec.on.ca!news Fri Oct 16 01:50:08 1992
> To: distribution@xenitec.on.ca
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> From: Joe Smith <jsmith@cibecue.az05.bull.com>
> Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
> Subject: PANIC dump in swap file
> Summary: Unable to remove PANIC dumps from swap area
> Keywords: PANIC swap
> Message-Id: <1992Oct15.175415.15438@catfish.az05.bull.com>
> Date: 15 Oct 92 17:54:15 GMT
> Sender: placeholder for future <news@catfish.az05.bull.com>
> Organization: Bull HN Information Systems, Inc., Phoenix Product Division

> I am running an ODT server with 3.2.2 and have experienced a PANIC dump due
> to a parity error.  I saved it to tape, but since then I am always told that
> there may be a dump in the swap area do I want to save it.  No is not an
> acceptable answer, at least if you expect anything to happen with the dump
> like removing it.  I have looked everywhere in the documentation for some
> clue, but so far have been unsuccessful.  Can any of you ODT gurus give me
> some pointers?

Try this...

dd if=/etc/termcap of=/dev/swap

That'll get rid of the message.  I agree that SCO should give a 
menu option to remove the dump image from swap.  Ease-of-use 
sells - live it, learn it, know it.


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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: tiger@netcom.com (Tiger Zhao)
Subject: Re: Zy-XEL Modems and SCO Unix
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:04:35 GMT

sfrazier@birch.vlink.com writes:

>I have been hearing a lot about these modems lately.  I am looking for
>success or failure stories with these modems?

>Thanks.

>Steve


>-- 
>Steven E. Frazier                            Voice: 614-785-7335
>8101 North High Street - Suite 100           Fax  : 614-785-7337
>West Worthington, OH   43235                 sfrazier@vlink.com

Failure? no, I am extremely happy with these animals. They are highly 
reliable, and I recommend especially the U-1496E model, its capable to
handle 16.8k bps speed with all flexible features. And the price were 
just as good. $339.00, I bought it from Athena Microsystem (415-962-8686).
It has basically all that 1496 has, and the cost were just about 200
dollars less. 


---Tiger----


Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,biz.sco.opendesktop
From: timr@sco.COM (Tim Ruckle)
Subject: Doug Michels guest on _Dvorak on Computers_ radio program
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 03:44:34 GMT
Summary: Sunday, October 4



Doug Michels will be a guest on the radio program _Dvorak on Computers_,
this Sunday, October 4, 1992 (see below for times and stations).  It will
be broacast on 40 U.S. stations as well as over the Armed Forces Radio
Network worldwide.

The show is hosted by John Dvorak, author and well-known industry journalist,
who will be joined by the producer of the show Leo Laporte.  The audience may
call in, and there will also be SCO technical support people available to
field questions.

Stations        Broadcast Location      Broadcast Time
------------------------------------------------------
KTAR            Phoenix, AZ             5 - 7:00  (p.m.)
KNCO            Grass Valley, CA        10 - 12:00
KRGO            Fresno, CA              11 - 1:00
KMNY            Los Angeles, CA         10 - 12:00
KGLW            Arroyo Grande, CA       10 - 12:00
KCSJ            Pueblo, CO              11 - 1:00
KGIW            Alamoso CO              12 - 2:00
KNUS            Denver,CO               11 - 2:00
WNTR            Washington DC           1 - 4:00
WDEL            Wilmington DE           1 - 4:00
WKEN            Dover DE                1 - 2:00
WHNZ            Tampa, FL               1 - 3:00
WWNZ            Orlando FL              6 - 7:00
KGU             Honolulu HI             8 - 11:00 (a.m.)
WOC             Davenport IA            12 - 2:00
KQAM            Witchita, KS            12 - 2:00
WLXG            Lexington KY            12 - 2:00
WBUL            Louisvile, KY           11 - 1:00
KPEL            Lafayette LA            12 - 2:00
WPEP            East Taunton MA          1 - 3:00
KFRU            Columbia, MO             12 - 3:00
WBZO            Edenton NC               1 - 4:00
WNCT            Greenville, NC           1 - 2:00
KATK            Carlsbad, NM             12 - 1:00
KNUU            Las Vegas, NV            11 - 1:00
WKBN            Youngstown, OH            1 - 3:00
WBRJ            Marietta, OH              1 - 3:00
KTOK            Oklahoma City, OK         1 - 3:00
KYKN            Salem, OR                10 - 12:00
KOPE            Medford, OR              10 - 12:00
WVSJ            Philadelphia, PA          1 - 4:00
WTAW            Bryan, TX                12 - 3:00
KLIF            Dallas, TX                1 - 2:00
WOAI            San Antonio, TX          12 - 1:00
WFIR            Roanoke, VA               1 - 3:00
WLEE            Richmond, VA             12 - 1:00
KXLY            Spokane, WA              10 - 12:00
WTDY            Madison, WI              12 - 2:00
WIZM            LaCrosse, WI              2 - 4:00
From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Problems with cnews+nn6.4.16 on SCO3.2.2
Date: 10 Oct 92 05:35:01 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Carl Kreider writes:
> >Easy. I don't use the standard Devsys CC. I use GCC.
> 
> I love flip answers to serious questions.  Shows your stuff.  In fact
> *my* boss isn't interested in paying me to try to chase down gcc and make
> it work.
> 

That's flip too.

So if you invest an hour or two, why shouldn't your boss thank you for
installing a superior compiler?

I compiled gcc 2.2.2 here on SCO 3.2v4 and it passed all the tests the
first time around.
-- 
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From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Need to identify EFS/SLS
Summary: What update replaces netstat to go with EFS120?
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:06:58 GMT
Distribution: biz
Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.

We installed EFS 120 on an ODT 1.1 UFG system today, at the suggestion
of SCO's support line.  However, our version needs something identified
as a "netstat upgrade" in the letter with EFS120---we have exactly the
systems specified when trying to run netbios.  

We have an Eisa Compaq 386 with a WD8013EBT enet card, and have lots of
problems with the net hanging and truncating reads into the system.  

This is a development environment where we are support ODT 1, so an
upgrade to ODT 2 isn't part of the picture.   The rest of the network is
Suns and R6000's, and management is not in the least interested in
hearing about problems with SCO in a heavy fileserver BSD-oriented
development environment.  

I have looked at the latest EFS and SLS lists and can't identify a
downloadable upgrade to replace /etc/netstat.  Can anyone identify this
for me?
-- 
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Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2.2, C News and lack of inodes
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:59:32 GMT

Dean.Roth <Dean.Roth@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:

>Are you saying that 3.2r4 does NOT allow the creation of filesystem
>with more than 64K inodes yet?!  If so, then I'll be seriously

Nope. 

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From: lance@markv.com (Lance Ellinghouse)
Subject: Need Driver help...
Organization: Mark V Systems Limited, Encino, Ca.
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 19:19:46 GMT

Hello,

  I am looking to see if someone has either done this before or 
can help me with some ideas on how to do this..

  What I am looking for is a driver that when you open the /dev file,
it then looks at the minor number and opens a TCP/IP port to a host
that is defined by the minor number in a table in the space.c file or
in an external file. Then when I do read/write over that /dev file, it
routes the bytes to and from the TCP/IP socket that it created during
the open() call.

  Why do I need such a beast? Here is our setup... maybe someone knows
of a better way of doing this..

I am running SCO ODT 2.0 (SCO UNIX 3.2.4+) and have a NetBlazer.
The NetBlazer has the modems connected to it. Each modem has an IP
number (i.e. x.x.x.x:y) associated to it. I want to use UUCP and CU
with the modems on the NetBlazer. Dialin UUCP is no problem.
All is working there (have it do a 'telnet -raw -noesc hostname.domain 540'
and all works since I have 'uucpd'). So what I want to do is
use UUCP and CU to dial OUT to the TCP port and connect to the modem and
then dial the remote phone number and such.. 

uucico will work with TCP, but ONLY if you DIRECTLY connect to the 
remote machine over TCP.. not if you have to dial over TCP
to a modem port. I have not been able to find out how to make
it work and CU will not talk TCP at all..

SO I figured, create a device entry that looks like a tty port
and then do the underlying TCP/IP stuff below where uucico and cu
see it...

Any comments? ideas? sugestions?

Thank you,
Lance Ellinghouse
lance@markv.com


Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386,news.software.b
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2.2, C News and lack of inodes
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:43:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.054702.2252@xenitec.on.ca> eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
>In article <BvwCJK.A4r@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>>	[....]	 the current version *will* use symlinks if they
>>exist on your system. 
>
>Symbolic links exist on SCO UNIX 3.2v4, in EAFS filesystems.
>
>>I bought a new drive yesterday, I'll be getting news installed on three 200mb
>>partitions overnight and into tomorrow. We'll see if it works!!!
>
>You'll of course have to recompile cnews to make use of symlinks,
>but I expect you'll be just as happy with them as we were when
>we switched earlier this year.  Now, if only I can get that 2
>gig drive online, I could use some more filesystems.  :-)
>
>		--ed

Does someone have the config files that work for SCO 3.2.4 with RCC or GCC 
2.2.2? Please send them if you do or post the recommended settings for
the configure program. 
-- 
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From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: RE: Larry Snyder, please cool it!
Date: 10 Oct 92 13:17:19 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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>Larry Snyder writes:
>> 
>> Maybe you could mount another filesystem under comp, and maybe another one
>> for alt?  It might work -- or maybe you could sell your SCO for close to
>> what SVR4 is then it won't be a problem?

>Jean-Pierre Radley replies:

>Do you really think it necessary to continue to visit the SCO groups in
>order to knock SCO, and the Telebit groups in order to knock Telebit?

>If you don't like or use or want or enjoy or appreciate a product, that's
>certainly your right and your privilege.

>But your constant sniping at people who productively use that product is
>contumelious, contemptible, and continually irritating.

>Could you please take your marbles to some other sand-lot, or else try to
>be polite when you visit other people's domains?

Well I guess it's open season on Larry Snyder again.  I missed the original 
comment, but I agree with Jean-Pierre.

Larry please play nice or go play somewhere else.

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From: aw1@stade.co.uk (Adrian Wontroba)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Lyrix pcap file(s) for HP Laserjet IIIP
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:41:35 GMT
Organization: Stade Computers Limited, UK

Does anybody have, or know the whereabouts of, Lyrix pcap files
for a HP Laserjet IIIP? The laserjet pcaps which came with Lyrix
6 are not a vast amount of use. I'd like more than just courier 10
and line printer fonts!
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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Problems with cnews+nn6.4.16 on SCO3.2.2
Keywords: problem cnews nn 6.4.16 sco 3.2 v2 news
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:57:03 GMT
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745

sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>BTW the above comment about my use of AT&T *is* true. Of course it
>was SVR3 Esix. The first release. Not nearly as nice as ODT 2.0 :-)

Nor as expensive as $CO :)

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Problems with cnews+nn6.4.16 on SCO3.2.2
Keywords: problem cnews nn 6.4.16 sco 3.2 v2 news
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:40:42 GMT

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:

>In article <Bvs6A9.5tG@wimsey.bc.ca>, sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>| Oh! this isn't a trip down memory lane. You *ARE* discussing a modern
>| OS. Well then why don't you contrast the latest SCO ODT 2.0 Dev Sys
>| against SVR4. I think you'll find it's about as good by the above
>| criteria. 

>  ODT2.0 has some major problems with their header files, and I believe

I hardly consider ODT2.0 a modern day OS -- considering it's origin
is 3.2 regardless of any enhancements.   

>sent to them, but that's not the same as having it work. V.4 really only
>provides V.[34] and BSD compatibility, and does not include some vendor
>supplied BSD extensions (neither do other vendor's versions). SCO
>provides support for a number of exvironments, but there are problems
>with many.

>  My experience with getting net sources to compile has been much better
>with V.4 than and SCO compiler, although 99% of the problems are due to
>non-portability in the source program. Correct programs will almost
>always run 1st try. But if you want to *use* a program instead of
>modifying it to enforce standards, then V.4 is more likely to work
>unchanged.
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan)
Subject: SCO and SLIP/PPP
Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:14:37 GMT

sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>I can't quite get it to work properly. I'm trying to setup a default
>route, which works fine if the only interface configured is the SLIP
>connection. But if we also config the ethernet device then the 
>routing gets screwed up.

This is probably due to the packets being routed over the ethernet instead
of over the SL/IP line.

I would ifconfig the ethernet first, then ifconfig the SL/IP connection.
Depending on the network mask of the ethernet, packets may be going to
the wrong interface. You should be able to check this with netstat.

For instance, if your SL/IP line is 192.76.250.1, and your SCO box is
192.76.250.2, and you have another SCO box which is 192.76.250.3, depending
on how you ifconfig the ethernet card, you may end up routing all your
packets over that network inadvertently.

>I suspect I'm doing something wrong. On vanbc we have a ka9q box doing
>our routing. That works well. But complicates life by having to have
>a separate box. Would be nice to get rid of it.

I recommend keeping the box, and using ethernet to talk to it. That's
what we do here. The SL/IP drivers on SCO are absymally slow. Using
KA9Q w/ ethernet decreases overall ping times by .125 to .2 seconds.

MD
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From: eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2.2, C News and lack of inodes
Date: 13 Oct 92 07:27:59 GMT
Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA

In article <uFXgsB1w165w@zswamp.UUCP> geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
>kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
>> One "fix" that I have implemented is /usr/spool is mounted on its own
>> file system. [...]
>
>   I'd take that further, putting /usr/spool/news on a different partition 
>than /usr/spool.  The difference may seem small, but we're counting every 
>inode now and you might gain a few by separating news from /usr/spool/cron, 
>~lp, ~mail, ~mmdf, ~uucp, ~uucppublic, etc. 

Take it a lot further.  We currently run two news filesystems here
(under ODT 2.0/SCO UNIX 3.2v4), mounted respectively on
/usr/spool/news and /usr/spool/news/alt, and will shortly go to 5
news filesystems as more diskspace comes online.  We're currently
involved in the configuration of a c-news filesystem hierarchy
consisting of a dozen or so filesystems - this one will be interesting
as we crank it up to full-feed.  Symlinks are a wonderous thing. :-)
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From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Problems with cnews+nn6.4.16 on SCO3.2.2
Keywords: problem cnews nn 6.4.16 sco 3.2 v2 news
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:15:44 GMT
Organization: BC News and Mail

In article <BvpAKK.EDE@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike S.) writes:

>I remember when I was running $CO.  Few things compiled as 
>shipped -- or if it did, it didn't properly work.  Now that

I remember when I was running AT&T. Few things compiled as 
shipped -- or if it did, it didn't properly work.

>I am running SVR4, just about everything I've tried compiles clean
>and runs without any "gotchas".

Oh! this isn't a trip down memory lane. You *ARE* discussing a modern
OS. Well then why don't you contrast the latest SCO ODT 2.0 Dev Sys
against SVR4. I think you'll find it's about as good by the above
criteria. 

If we're going to compare against an old release of SCO then you should 
report your experiences with the AT&T releases available at that time, 
not the latest SVR4.

SCO is a moving target. So is AT&T. Neither are sitting on their duff's
devices. If you are using anything more than a year or so old from *any*
vendor you are not going to have the same results as the current crop.

BTW the above comment about my use of AT&T *is* true. Of course it
was SVR3 Esix. The first release. Not nearly as nice as ODT 2.0 :-)

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386,news.software.b
From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2.2, C News and lack of inodes
Organization: BC News and Mail
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:11:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct08.235632.7282@wes.on.ca> tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>We are running SCO Unix 3.2.2 with the latest C News software.  We have
>
>    * I can't add more inodes.  SCO 3.2.2 won't let me have more than 64K.
>
>    * I can't mount another filesystem at /usr/spool/news/comp or whatever --
>      the hard links used by C News can't span filesystems.
>    
>    * I can't symlink part of news to another filesystem -- soft SCO 3.2.2
>      doesn't support symbolic links.
>
>Do I really need to spend $1000 upgrading my OS and development system just
>to run news?  Can someone tell me I'm wrong on one (or more) of the above
>points?  Or tell me about another way to get around my inode problem?

The latest CNews will reputedly copy files that cannot be linked. 

I have not tested this yet on SCO. I *need* to. I'm out of room too. But
don't have another partition to add. 


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