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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Scanner Installation on Indigo (was PI)
Keywords: Scanner
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:59:49 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr12.111654.6979@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
| 
| If the only machines in my lab are Indigos, is there any scanner I can
| connect to them that is supported by IRIX? I suspect this is another
| way of saying, do SHARP scanners come with a SCSI interface?

Well, "support" isn't quite the right term, since we don't officially
support any scanner, although we provide programs to use a few models.
Ricoh makes a number of scanners, and the 'scanner' and 'imgscan' (4.0 only)
programs will work with the FS1 color scanner, and IS-11 and IS-50 (4.0
only) grey scale scanners.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt)
Subject: graphics conversion tools
Reply-To: mark@cita.toronto.edu
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:44:23 GMT

This isn't exactly the most important question in the world, but I'm just
wondering ...

SGI has made various nifty tools available via anonymous FTP from sgi.com
for quite some time.  Now I notice that many of them have made it into the
4.0.1 release of IRIX.  (Some of these were in 3.3.x as well, but not all of
them.)  Specifically ("S" == sgi.com, "3" == IRIX 3.3.x, "4" == IRIX 4.0.1):

        S  3  4                         S  3  4
        -  -  -                         -  -  -
        x  x  x  fromalias              x  x  x  toalias
                                              x  toascii
           x  x  frombin                   x  x  tobin
                                           x  x  tobw
           x  x  fromcmap
              x  fromcube
           x  x  fromdi
              x  fromface
        x     x  fromgif                x     x  togif
        x     x  frommac                x     x  tomac
                                        x  x  x  tonews
        x     x  frompic
                                        x     x  topict
        x     x  fromppm                x     x  toppm
                                        x  x  x  tops
        x  x  x  fromrla
                                           x  x  toscitex
        x     x  fromsun                x     x  tosun
        x  x  x  fromtarga              x  x  x  totarga
        x        fromtiff               x        totiff
        x        fromutah               x        toutah
        x     x  fromxbm                x        toxbm
        x     x  fromxwd
        x     x  fromyuv                x     x  toyuv

Note the various types of asymmetries:  Some are rather obvious (such as
lack of "fromascii" or "tocmap").  But why "topict" but no "frompict", for
example?

And even for those for which both a "from" and "to" converter do exist on
sgi.com, there are other asymmetries:  Why did "fromxbm" make it into IRIX
but "toxbm" didn't?  For that matter, why are there any programs at all in
the sgi.com stuff which got left out of IRIX 4.0.1 (e.g. {from,to}tiff and
{from,to}utah)?

And, for the ones that now come with IRIX, why bother keeping them around
on sgi.com at all?

In short, how do you folks go about deciding what goes where?  There doesn't
seem to be much rhyme or reason ...

Not complaining about any of this, mind you; just curious.

Mark Bartelt                                                  416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                               mark@cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                             mark@cita.utoronto.ca

"Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying."   -   Dylan, on laundry day
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: putenv, getenv
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:29:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr8.131508.11516@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> sharon@ted.jsc.nasa.gov (Sharon Goza) writes:

| Since upgrading our systems to 4.0.1, we've noticed a problem with putenv and
| getenv.  If you compile the following program with cc -ansiposix the putenv and
| getenv do not work.  Has anyone had any similar problems?
| 
| -----------------------------------------------------------------
| #include <stdio.h>
| 
| main()
| {
| 
| 	putenv("TESTV=testv");
| 	printf("%s",getenv("TESTV");
| }

Well, assuming you add the missing ), it works in 4.0.3.

I don't know if this was fixed from 4.0.1 or not.  It could
be related to the fact that _environ is used instead of environ
in any of the ANSI modes.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IRIX 4.0.[2-5] summaries?
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:12:48 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr17.145632.4911@news.csd.sgi.com> allenb@gewgaw.csd.sgi.com (Allen M. Buchinski) writes:
|           + fsck could destroy file systems if lost+found was full.
|             Inodes that can't be reconnected owing to full
|             lost+found are no longer removed.  If any reconnections
|             fail for this reason, warnings are printed on
|             completion.
| 
|           + fsck could destroy a file system.  fsck now can
|             distinguish between a bad superblock and one that
|             indicates a size larger than the partition.  If you
|             have the latter situation, do not look for a secondary
|             because it has probably been invoked on an incorrect
|             partition; any secondary is probably bogus and has no
|             connection with the real file system.

Hmm; I guess this wasn't reviewed for shock value.

Note that 'destroy' is somewhat of a strong overstatement, so don't get
too concerned.  In the first case, this is the long standing fsck
behavior of clearing all unconnected inodes after lost+found is full.
In addition to no longer clearing them, fsck now has an option that
allows you to specify a directory on some mounted filesystem, and
unconnected files will be copied to that directory.

The second case was quite rare on any new drives, unless a user created
partitions with dvhtool, but it turns out many of the old Toshiba SCSI
170 Mbyte drives had this problem (bad partition layout).

|           + Synchronous mode was disabled for only the first SCSI
|             bus.  It is now disabled for all SCSI buses.

This is very misleading.  It was an issue when halting or rebooting
the system, and could cause some scsi errors as the system came back
up (if not reset or power cycled).

|           + The 1/2-inch tape driver did not correctly process file
|             marks in the 800 BPI mode (SCR 12374).

This is the xylogics pertec interface only, not the scsi 9 track.

| In addition...
| 
|         1. fix random core dumping caused by "fault at end of page"

This is crimson only from what I recall, and was caused by one
of the R4000 chip bugs; that is, this is a hardware workaround fix.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: tape drive limits
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:52:38 EST
Reply-To: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

-> | I was trying to backup the user data on several 3M 150mgbyte tapes.
-> It | happened like this: after first tape is filled up, computer asks
-> for the seco | tape and press a return. Since I was not at the place
-> when this happend. So I

I too ran into this situation. We were backing up a large project, on
three 150mb tapes. When we tried to restore the job, we were unable to
restore the 2nd and 3rd tapes.

According to SGI (at the time) you can not do this. I know it says to
insert the next tape, but apparently this is a bug. A good thing to find
out after you just blew away 400mb of image files. I'm not sure if this
is still a bug or not, but we havn't tried it again since 3.1.
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From: hofmann@mira.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Hofmann)
Subject: Re: graphics conversion tools
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 12:47:16 GMT

woolstar@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Derek Woolverton) writes:

>    Some people have older machines, or may not even have any SGI machines, 
>but could still make use of the souce code.


What source code? Where can I have a look at it?

Bernhard
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From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Subject: Re: How About a Word Processor with IRIX 4.0.X?
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:46:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.175740.191@cs.yale.edu> dave@doctor.chem.yale.edu (David Maxwell) writes:
>One other comment.  When I try to use superscripts, the offset causes the whole
>line to move down.  Is this correct?  Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but this
>type of line spacing looks kind of stupid when it prints out.  Every other
>word processor leaves the line spacing alone.

No.  Any word processor MUST adjust the line spacing when superscripts
or subscripts are used, or else the superscripts/subscripts will over-write
the previous/following line!  The question is whether the adjustment is
being made correctly.  For example, if everything is double-spaced, probably
no adjustment should be made, whereas if things are single-spaced a
typical adjustment of +/- a half line might be called for, depending
in part on whether the super- or subscripted characters are in a reduced-
size font.  I don't know how well IRIS showcase handles this, but both
troff and Microsoft Word try to do the right thing, with moderate success.

	-P.
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From: mds@sgi.com (Mark Stadler)
Subject: Re: Am I at the console?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:29:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.184534.21355@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>This problem came up before, but I haven't seen a solution posted.
>How can I tell whether I am at the console in a C program?  I had to update
>the program lockscreen to run it under 4.0.1, and it tries to open
>/dev/console as a check.  Since this is apparently not the way devices
>are handled under IRIX 4, I need a different way to keep a remote user
>from locking the console.
>
>Bill

lets define some terms first:

	o what you sit in front of is the screen.
	o kernel printfs and other system-wide messages
	  are directed to the console, which is not necessarily
	  associated with any physical devices or screens.
	o the console output does not necessarily have to
	  be on the screen that you sit in front of.
	  (check xterm and winterm documents for -C/-console options)
	  (you can have a console window for system A on a screen from
	  system B)

so, even if your tty does return /dev/console, that has no bearing
whatsover for making any decisions about whether or not to do graphics.

why kick off lockscreen if you don't want it to run?

if its because you invoke from your .profile or .cshrc etc...,
my answer is that this kind of stuff does not belong in shell init files.
it belongs in .xsession or even better, .xsgisession.

whoever starts the window manager (by logging in to xdm) gets to
start whatever global graphics programs they want.

if its for some other reason that i don't understand, send me more
specific explanation of your situation.


hope this helps
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-- mds	[aka Mark D Stadler  mds@sgi.com  ...!uunet!sgi!mds  (415)335-1327]
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Security hole in default /etc/passwd file under 4.0.x
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:55:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: zuni.j7ht3lk
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr6.130551.23444@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
| >There are definite conflicts between security and usability.
| >We don't deliberately ship systems with security holes, with
| >the exception of a basicly wide open password file.  That isn't
| >to say that we may not make mistakes, and that they may not be
| >caught by us or our alpha sites, but we do try.
| 
| Not true.  My system was shipped in February 1991 with several known
| security holes, such as the defective Mail command, and I was not informed
| of the problem.  It ws only several months later that I found out about
| this from a discussion on the net, even though SGI had posted a fix the
| previous November (at that time I wasn't reading comp.sys.sgi, since I
| didn't have an SGI system then).

It sounds like you were shipped 3.3.X, and the fix was in a later
release (such as 4.0).  I don't remember the details on this one.

What I meant, but didn't state clearly, was that SGI doesn't release
software for shipment with any significant known security problems.
Problems discovered after a release will be fixed in the next release,
and shipped then.

You do bring up the point (and a good one) that when we find security
problems, or other nasty bugs with work arounds, that we should add an
errata sheet to the currently shipping software, listing the fixes, and
their availability.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: lombardo@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SMOOTH emacs bindings for the iris - AGAIN
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:41:34 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

Howdy,
  This is another request for a cool iris-ansi.el file for emacs that
defines the functions keys, arrow keys and provides for some mouse
functionality on an iris.

Come on, do you mean Noooooobody has spiffed up an emacs interface for
the iris worthy of being shared with the rest of us emacs users.

Please send your .el files to:

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Thanks,
Chuck
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Need info on color scanner for Iris
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:45:33 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr8.154809.7762@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> vvmbw@sargent.lerc.nasa.gov (Mary Vickerman) writes:
| I need info on a color flatbed scanner to use on an Iris workstation.
| The man page for scanner lists a few that are directly supported.
| We are particularly interested in the Ricoh color scanner, using the
| SCSI connection.
| 
| - Does anyone have a Ricoh FS1S color flatbed scanner attached
|   to an Iris?

Yes, about 50 feet from my office.
| - Does it work with the scanner program?
Yes; also 'imgscan' in 4.0.1
| - Do I need any other software or hardware to get it to work?
No, although if you have 3.3, you need to configure the devscsi
driver into the system (uncomment "*INCLUDE: ds" in /usr/sysgen/system).
| - How is the quality of the scans? 
Pretty good.
| - Do you have a supplier's name, address?

We got ours directly from Ricoh; their local headquarters is just
down the road in San Jose.  I guess you could call them for the
address of a distributor near you.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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From: parkins@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (David Parkins)
Subject: Re: 4 Have you ever seen this error.
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:32:02 GMT


I have a strange linking problem. This is from a fairly large piece of 'c'
code and I have no idea how to attack it. We have a 4d-20 running irix 3.3.

Warning: jump relocation out-of-range, bad object file produced, can't jump from 0x
4c6e10 to 0x10035be0 (time)
Warning: jump relocation out-of-range, bad object file produced, can't jump from 0x
4c6e3c to 0x10035be0 (time)



If you have any ideas PLEASE send me mail. 
dave parkins
parkins@femur.tn.cornell.edu
(607)255-9101

parkins@theory.tc.cornell.edu


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From: arc@kaibab.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson)
Subject: Re: functions in library
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:32:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.151002.6212@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>In <hofmann.703426368@mira> hofmann@mira.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Hofmann) writes:
>
>>>Try stlookup or nm.
>
>>I'd rather use ar.
>
>The question was how to find out what functions are in the library.
>ar tells you what files are there, but not what the entry points are.
>Or is there a feature of ar I don't know about?

Try /usr/lib/collide1, which is described in collide(1).
From: raymond@centrcn.umontreal.ca (Raymond Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: X11R5
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:37:06 GMT


paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin) writes:

   I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question.  What
   is it about an R5 server that you want?


Here, at Universite de Montreal, we have a dozen of power servers
and more than a hundred of X terminal spreaded in the campus!

The chooser option (indirect connection) of Xdm is one the options
of R5 that we would want.

Our users do not have access to all the servers, so a chooser at the
X terminal would help us a lot!

Bye!
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From: arc@kaibab.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Breakin attempts
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:27:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: sgi.j8m0a3g
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Apr7.154946.11894@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>One way of identifying potential crack houses (if that is the right phrase)
>is to set up some sort of mailing list of breakin attempts.  I haven't been
>checking my logs, but I do have syslog=all, and I've noticed the following
>attempts during the past week:
>
>rwja.umdnj.edu, motion.EE.QueensU.CA, 130.159.208.16
>
>Some of these later logged in via anonymous ftp.  One point I don't
>understand is a line like:
>
>Mar 30 19:26:31 biome login[1778]: failed: ?@rwja.umdnj.edu as anonymous
>
>in the SYSLOG, since it seems that should have started a valid anonymous
>ftp login (there was also the attempt
>Mar 30 19:26:51 biome login[1778]: failed: ?@rwja.umdnj.edu as bassuk)
>
>If anyone can clarify this it would be appreciated.

rlogind and telnetd use login, which logs attempts to syslog.
The "?@host as user" format means the perp tried to login via telnet.
(rlogin attempts appear as "ruser@host as user".)
From: usson@imag.fr (Yves Usson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Worskspace tags
Keywords: TAGS
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:44:49 GMT
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France

I wriote programs that I want to be worskspace friendly.
I designed nice icons for these programs and used arbitrary
tag numbers to identify them.
In the IRIS workspace integration guide p.3-7 it is said that
one can get an unique block of ID numbers for tagging files
by sending an e-mail request to :
             workspacetags@sgi.com

I tried many times but it seems that the worspacetags user
is unknown at sgi.com

I got in touch with Ian Clements at sgi.com who suggested me
to try :
		workspacetags@esd.sgi.com
but once again such user was unknown...

Could someone tell me how to contact this workspacetags user?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Yves Usson
Equipe de Reconnaissance des Formes et Microscopie Quantitative
Universite J. Fourier, CERMO
BP 53 X
38041 GRENOBLE, FRANCE
ph. (33) 76 51 48 13
fax (33) 76 51 49 48
e-mail usson@imag.imag.fr
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From: taylorf@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Frank S. Taylor IV 283-4278)
Subject: gcc-2.1
Keywords: Gnu, gcc-2.1
Organization: nasa-jsc
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 12:01:30 GMT

I'm attempting to install the Gnu gcc-2.1 compiler on our Irises under
IRIX 4.0.1.  I followed instructions posted previously by Bob Crowe
but I'm having some problems.  Could someone who has installed gcc-2.1
successfully please contact me with some tips (E-mail would be fine)?

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From: lombardo@TAURUS.CS.NPS.NAVY.MIL (charles lombardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: emacs bindings on an iris
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:24:34 GMT

Hello,
  I use emacs all the time on many different platforms and like it
very much.  The problem on the iris is lack of good key bindings that
make use of the function keys and the mouse.  Is anyone aware of an
emacs lisp file that will define the above key bindings and mouse
functionality for an iris?

  I remember a couple of earlier requests for the same thing, but the
replies seemed somewhat less that satisfactory.  Has anyone
consolidated all this into a single el file?

Thanks in advance
Chuck

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