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From: tannerc@cu18.crl.aecl.ca (Chris Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Printing on Ultrix Systems
Keywords: printing, ULTRIX, VMS
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:19:34 GMT
Organization: AECL-Research

Greetings all

At our site, we have most of our printers connected to the central
VAX/VMS cluster, but at least one printer attached to a DECstation 5000.
To communicate print files between VMS and UNIX we use LPD (WIN/TCP on
VMS). This works fine in most cases but has problems with things such as
forms (due to the LPD protocol being rather primitive).

One problem that we is that it is not a totally DEC solution. VMS
systems can pass print files using DQS, but the only things that appear
to be available to ULTRIX systems is LPD on TCP/IP, or sending files to
LAT connected printers directly. (I have not explored accessing LAT
printers from ULTRIX fully yet). 

Is this the best that DEC can provide? Is their a mechanism under DECnet
for sending print files between ULTRIX and VMS? 

Thanks in advance for any information.


Chris

-- 
Chris Tanner                  Email: tannerc@CU18.CRL.AECL.CA
AECL Research                 Phone: (613) 584-3311 X4053       
Chalk River, Ont.             FAX:   (613) 584-1082
Canada, K0J 1J0
From: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Why is dxclock bigger than vmunix?
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:45:03 GMT
Reply-To: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Distribution: na
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Reason #1: Since ULTRIX doesn't have shared libraries, dxclock has to
include all the relevant code from the X11 library, the Xt library, the
DECwindows library...  This can add up to quite a bit.

Reason #2: The "dxclock" binary is not just dxclock.  Do an
% ls -il /usr/bin/dx*
and take a look...  There's a single binary which takes care of dxcalc,
dxcalendar, dxclock, and dxpuzzle.  (Think of it as a way to at least
partially deal with a world without shared libraries.)

Reason #3: Keep in mind that vmunix isn't an "executable" in the same
sense as dxclock (and every other executable) is...  it's actually closer
in format to a .o file.

cavedog> file /usr/bin/dxclock /vmunix  foo.o
/usr/bin/dxclock:       mipsel demand paged executable - version 2.10
/vmunix:        mipsel 407 executable not stripped - version 2.10
foo.o:		mipsel 407 executable not stripped - version 2.10

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com
Disclaimer: Don't blame me, I only work here...
From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Troubles installing 4.2A from CD-ROM on DS5000/125
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:31:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: cmkrnl.1992Apr16.143150.435
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA

p.s. -- apologies to those of you who saw a similar note from me in 
comp.sys.dec, posted yesterday.  I wasn't getting comp.unix.ultrix until today,
or I'd have crossposted.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
Chair, VMS Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: osyjm@coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Where's the stuff for setting up an ln08?
Organization: Montana State University, College of Engineering, Bozeman MT, 59717
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 10:12:47 GMT



Where do I get the necessary files to make my LN08 do all the cool
things that my turbo-printserver 20 can do?

Setting it up as an ln03r works, but seems kind of pointless, as an
ln03r can't do all the cool things the ln08 can...

Is there like a repository of printcap info, filters I can latch on to?

Did I miss something extremely obvious in the release notes?

-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@{cs,coe}.montana.edu
From: mhan@pine.circa.ufl.edu (MICHAEL HAN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Unable to xrn from a remote node
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:38:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: uflorida.35055
Reply-To: mhan@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

Hello everyone,

     I am having problem with running xrn from a remote node on 
DECstation 3100 Ultrix 4.1.  This machine is connected via ethernet to 
another remote node which has xrn capability. Each time I invoke xrn 
on the remote node, the same error message "Can't open display' pops 
out.  I checked my DISPLAY env variable and could not find anything 
wrong with it.  In fact, I can access another window software on the 
remote node to display its window on the DEC's screen.  This shows 
that the DECstation and the remote machine should not have any problem 
with the access control file.

     What's wrong? Could any kind soul out there please give me a clue?  

     Thanks


M.H
Troubled!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@guest0.iit.nrc.ca>
Subject: Ultrix 4.x mail gets "z-" wrong after an "f $"
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:30:36 GMT

This problem is in at least Ultrix 3.1 and 4.2 mail, so it's probably an
ancient BSD bug:

    - enter mail
    - see you have 150 messages
    - type "f $" and see the header of the last message
    - type "f" and see you are positioned at the last message
    - type "z-" to back up a screen and you get told

	On first screenful of messages

    - disbelieve and type "h"
    - you see the last screenful of messages, confirming that you are *not*
      on first screenful of messages.
    - trye "z-" again
    - it works this time
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: zakon@hobbes.CWRU.Edu (Robert H. Zakon)
Subject: stale file handle message on server screen
Reply-To: zakon@hobbes.CWRU.Edu (Robert H. Zakon)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:58:38 GMT

We have 6 VaxStation running Ultrix 4.2.  One of them act
as a server for the others.  We are also running YP.

Our problem seems to be that the server machine gets (or
registers) a stale file handle message anytime a command
is entered on any of the other machines.

I have tried every option for elcsd, including both remote
and local logging, as well as turning it off completely,
but had no luck.

Any suggestions as to what else I could try?

Thanks
  Robert, hobbes@hobbes.cwru.edu
From: chaochen@cs.washington.edu (Chao Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: LaserJetIIID PostScript
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:24:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Apr17.052414.5600
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle

I hope someone out there might be able to help:

We have a HP LaserJet IIID PostScript printer connected to a DEC 5000 running
Ultrix V4.2A.  It prints fine and everything but we would like to use some
extra features of the IIID such as simplex/duplex printing, being able to
select paper from the upper or lower tray, etc.  The "lpr" command is
suppose to support these features for a PostScript printer by using switches
such as "-K1", "-K2" for simplex/duplex printing.  There are other swithes
to select upper or lower paper tray etc.  But when I tried these options,
they're not working with the IIID.

Is this because some modification needs to be made to the "printcap" file
so that it know how to do that?  If someone has a printcap file that will
allow these switches to work correctly with a LaserJet IIID, I would love
to get a copy via email.

Chao

chaochen@cs.washington.edu
From: bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DECstation 5000/240 hangs
Keywords: DECstation 5000/240 hangs
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:05:07 GMT
Organization: Federal Express Corp.

cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies) writes:

>We have recently upgraded a DECstation 5000/120 to a 5000/240. The
>system is used as a timesharing system and has 64Mb of memory, two
>Wren disks, Presoserve, an Exabyte and DEC CD-ROM.

>The system runs fine for a while (several hours at least) and then
>appears to hang. You can still ping the host, but nothing happens for
>logged in users. After rebooting, the error logs show no errors. 
>In order to find out what's running, I left top running in a window. 
>The output when the system has 'hung' is as follows:

>last pid:  9121;  load averages: 82.91, 82.10, 78.33                   12:17:40
>158 processes: 155 sleeping, 1 running, 2 stopped
>Cpu states:  0.7% user,  0.0% nice,  1.6% system, 97.7% idle                lux
>Memory: 28920K ( 5540K) real, 44768K ( 9600K) virtual, 21800K free

>  915 cchd      55  -10   884K  668K run    18:11  0.00%  0.00% top
>29882 9109214g  25    0   332K   80K stop    0:00  0.00%  0.00% vi
> 7791 9124698t   4    0   328K  148K stop    0:03  0.00%  0.00% ftp

>I can see the load average :-( and this explains the hang. Any ideas????

>-- 
>  Huw Davies           | cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au
>  Computing Services   | Phone: +61 3 479 1500
>  La Trobe University  | I own an Alfa to keep me poor in a monetary
>  Melbourne Australia  | sense, but rich in so many other ways

We have been working with DEC (> 4 months) on a similar "hang" problem
with a DECsystem 5500.  Ultrix is at 4.2 and the 64Mb system has 2 rf31
drives and 2 rz57 drives.  Our problem seems to be related to the SCSI
subsystem.  The system-ish stuff is on the DSSI rf31's and most of the 
user-oriented stuff is on the SCSI rz57's.  During our "hangs", only
users accessing the SCSI drives are affected at first.  The console is
still active since "root" doesn't try to touch the SCSI's.  But if one
is naive enough to try to hit the rz57's, that user also comes to a
screeching halt.  "ps" shows the hung users in a "D" state.  The load
average on the machine shoots up ( I suppose because so many processes
are waiting on resources to run) but the idle time on the machine is
>90%.  If we force a crash dump, DEC says that the processes are all 
waiting to run and only idleproc is really getting any time.  I guess 
this means that the machine is not literally "hung" but only
users/processes are.  This has gone on so long that DEC has arranged 
for a SPECIAL team of engineers to work with us.  I think that Huw's
system and our system may be experiencing similar problems.  WOW!

bill "4 months & counting" daniels
-- 
these ravings are in no way sanctioned by federal express corp
bill daniels			| voice:  (901)797-6328
federal express corp		| fax:    (901)797-6388
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: syslog in the mail queue directory?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:17:52 GMT

russells@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Street) writes:
>Are there any good reasons why the default installation procedure
>for Ultrix (4.1 on a MicroVax) puts the syslog into /var/spool/mqueue?

	Just a place for it to go - had to go someplace.

>Would there be any problems changing /etc/syslog.conf and
>/var/adm/newsyslog (that rotates the log) to put it somewhere
>more sensible (like /usr/adm/syslog/).

	None at all. I use /usr/spool/log, and it Works Fine For Me.

mjr.
From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DECstation 5000/240 bootable tape
Keywords: boot
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:18:09 GMT
Reply-To: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
Organization: Default Organization Name


--
In article <1992Apr3.142723.9642@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>,
young@smtc21.engr.scarolina.edu (Sarah Young) writes:

|>DECUS has some software called TPC, which will make copies of
|>bootable tapes.  But, get this:  it runs on VMS!

There are at least two programs commonly used to copy entire tapes into and
out of container files under UNIX:

	tcopy
	copytape

Another program

	remtape

can be used to copy directly from one tape to another, even across a
network connection.  All are available on gatekeeper, I believe

___Pete

kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
+33 92.95.62.97 (DTN 828-6297)
From: shahryar@tama.crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Subject: xrn on Ultrix 4.2a
Reply-To: shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Organization: RICOH Corporation C.R.C.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 01:21:09 GMT

Dear all,

I am trying setup xrn on my Ultrix 4.2a system and seem to have difficulties.
It is complaining about some header files redefined [Xaw didn't come with
my distribution].  If someone has successfully compiled dxrn let me know.

Shahryar
--
Shahryar G. Hashemi
System/Network Administrator -- RICOH Corporation California Research Center
2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115         Telephone: (415) 496-5730
Menlo Park, CA  94025-7022             FAX: (415) 854-8740
E-Mail: <shahryar@crc.ricoh.com>
From: omar@osf.org (Mark Marino)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Need Project Tracking/Milestones software.
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:17:43 GMT


Unfortunately,  no one has responded with a solution, but several
people responded asking me to forward any info I found, so I'm posting
again to see if anyone bites this time.

I did see something in the DECdirect catalog called DECplan that looked
pretty good.  Only problem was that it's pricing tier starts in the
thousands of dollars.  This is totally beyond what I'm willing to
spend.  Probably you too, if your reading this.  Otherwise, take a look
at it.

Here's the original article in case it was expired at your site:

Does anyone know of any Project Tracking/Milestones software that runs under
Ultrix?  It doesn't have to be that powerful, just good enough to draw some
basic schedule time-lines.

Ideally, some PD software would be great but commercial stuff is o.k. too.

In case I'm not making myself clear, I'm looking for something that'll 
let me do something like this:

                Week1   Week2    Week3    Week4

Study survey      ^-------^
Collect info      ^-----------------^
Bahamas                   ^---------^
Get rich                            ^-------^

If anyone can give me pointers to such a beast, it would be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

P.S. I tried to look around some of the archive sites, but couldn't
easily search for anything so I gave up.

| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson               |	
|                                                                             |
| Mark Marino              | omar@osf.org             | uunet!osf!omar        |
| Open Software Foundation | 11 Cambridge Center      | Cambridge, MA 02142   |
From: vaxinf@V36.CHEMIE.UNI-KONSTANZ.DE
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: maxima for DECstation 5000 available
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:13:20 GMT
Reply-To: vaxinf@V36.CHEMIE.UNI-KONSTANZ.DE ()
Organization: UNIV. KONSTANZ, FAK. F. CHEMIE


Has someone successfully generate the maxima-program (i.e. PD MACSYMA)?
I stuck already at the first step, the error-free compilation of KCL,
that one needs to produce maxima.

vaxinf@v36.chemie.uni-konstanz.de
Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann
Univ. Konstanz, Germany 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: POP3 server for Ultrix Rev. 3.1
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:17:12 GMT

edotto@uipsuxb.ps.uiuc.edu (Edward C. Otto III) writes:
|This is a repeat request for:
|a POP 3 server that will accept UPLOADED mail messages using the
|POP3 extended command set - used by PC/TCP Rev 2.05's POP3 client.
|MH will not compile; popper is defective - it chokes on the uploads;
|pop3d does the same.

  That's severely strange!  I've compiled and run popper on elsbeth:
Ultrix V3.1D (Rev. 54) Worksystem V2.2 System #3: Sun Oct  7 17:14:57 EDT 1990
It's unchanged from the version on my main 4.2 system...

--dave (mail me for more info) c-b
-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | He's so smart he's dumb.
CANADA. 416-223-8968  |     -- Joyce Collier-Brown
From: epeisach@athena.mit.edu (Ezra Peisach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: syslog.h vs sys/syslog.h inconsistant
Summary: One appears to be BSD 4.2 and the 4.3 derived
Keywords: syslog, ultrix
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:16:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr6.151637.19498
Distribution: usa
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This pertains to ultrix 4.2, but probably applies to earlier versions... 

If one looks at /usr/include/syslog.h one sees that it is based on the
4.2 BSD version of syslog, which the syslogd is based upon. If one looks
at /usr/include/sys/syslog.h one see the 4.3 additions for the facility
codes. (LOG_DAEMON, LOG_LPR, etc...). Any reason for this? A comment in
the header implies that it should go away when uerf shows up. Why is the
file still there and why does it imply support that doesn't exist?

	Ezra Peisach
	MIT Infornmation Systems
From: jtkohl@cs.Berkeley.EDU (John T Kohl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Why does a DECStation dump core on C program with *large* auto var?
Date: 14 Apr 1992 23:52:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: stinson.cs.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: elwin@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:04:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.210404.25109@hubcap.clemson.edu> elwin@hubcap.clemson.edu (lawrence brown) writes:

> I just ran into this myself.  From testing things, it appears
> that any auto variable larger than 64K causes the machine to
> hurl at runtime.  Global variables work fine. Anyone know why?

I would guess that the VM fault code which detects stack growth decides
that you're not growing the stack, you're using a bogus pointer.
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley CS grad student
Member of the League for Programming Freedom--details: league@prep.ai.mit.edu
(The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers)
Subject: Re: Why is dxclock bigger than vmunix?
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, Massachusetts
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:45:24 GMT

gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) writes:

>In article <29EDBABE.558@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>|> In article <peterd.703429230@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com> peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers) writes:

>|> >again - WHY DOES IT TAKE 400K BYTES MORE CODE SPACE AND 200K BYTES MORE
>|> >DATA SPACE TO PUT A SILLY CLOCK ON THE SCREEN THAN TO IMPLEMENT ULTRIX?
>|> 
>|> dxclock is also dxcalc, dxcalendar, and dxpuzzle.  They are all
>|> hardlinked to the same executable.  

>Good point.  However, the bulk of Ultrix DECwindows images size is the 
>statically linked-in Xlib, Xt and DECwindows widget libraries.

I forgot about the fake-shared-libraries-link-everything-together
"features" of 4.2. Like 3 meg for dxterm, dxsession, dxwm, and dxue
linked together. 

Another observation: 

If I don't run dxclock, my machine is pretty fast. If I do run dxclock,
my machine is slow. The memory it would take to change this probably
costs more than my Bulova, my HP, and my Day Planner combined. And I
can't say that dx-whatever does a better job than any of them.

The inexorable march of progress continues...

				Peter Desnoyers

--
From: pwm@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Miller Phil F1E x8335)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Optimized blas for Ultrix?
Summary: Is there blas for DEC?
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:04:15 GMT
Organization: JHU/APL, Laurel, MD

The blas library that is on our DEC 5000 with Ultrix 4.2 is not the
entire set of blas that LAPACK needs.  The LAPACK manual says performance is
heavily dependent on the blas routines.  Does a complete optimized set
of blas routines exist for Ultrix machines?  If not, is this planned?

Phil Miller
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Tektronix emulator
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:28:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: mailer.1992Apr9.142238.271
Reply-To: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
Organization: F.S.U. Dept of Physics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4


  Thanks for all the info on the Tektronix 4010 emulator.  The emulator
everyone directed me to is the Tektronix 4014 emulator in the Unsupported
Dec software.  Fortunately we have the CD software distribution and it was
on that.

		Roger
		books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: csal@knuth.mtsu.edu (Al Cripps)
Subject: Need help in setting up g++ libraries
Organization: Dept. of CS, Middle TN State Univ, Murfreesboro, TN
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:00:48 GMT

I can't get g++ (linker) to locate routines in a user created library.
I am running Ultrix 4.1 and gcc-2.1.  I installed collect2 in the
gcc-lib directory and I am using Ultrix's ld.  I created the library as
follows:
pwd
   /var/local/lib
ar libgo.a obj1.o obj2.o obj3.o obj4.o
ranlib libgo.a
When I attempt to compile and link a source file that uses the library
such as:
g++ example.cc -L/var/local/lib -lgo   
then I get messages such as
ld:
Undefined:
_2Go$differ_destroy
_6GShPen$_funcList
_6GShPen$_headOfList
collect: /usr/bin/ld returned 1 exit status

I can use strings and ar -t to find the routines in the libgo.a

What's causing this????

Please post or send email to
csal@mtsu.edu

Thanks,
al cripps

Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tn
From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Why is dxclock bigger than vmunix?
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:56:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr16.215602.15634
Reply-To: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Originator: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

From article <1992Apr16.125457@wsl.dec.com>, by gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten):
> 
> By merging all the DECwindows apps together, we save a whole lot of disk 
> space on your system by not replicating the libraries in a bunch of 
> seperate images.

FYI:   ULTRIX 4.2a has the following "consolidations" (i.e., each set
       shares the same inode)...

	dxcalc dxcalendar dxclock dxpuzzle   (Already noted)

	dxdb dxdiff dxnotepad

	dxcardfiler dxpaint dxvdoc

	dxsession dxterm dxue dxwm

I suppose this all makes sense, if you look at it in the "right" way.
Maybe.

-- 
John G Dobnick                          ATTnet: (414) 229-5727
Computing Services Division             INTERNET: jgd@uwm.edu
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee     UUCP: uunet!uwm!jgd

"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation,
and is thus a source of civilized delight."  -- William Safire
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: grant@umigw.miami.edu (Grant Basham)
Subject: Ultrix RISC Fortran will delete source files
Organization: University of Miami, RSMAS
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 20:37:44 GMT

Ultrix 4.2 and 4.2A with Ultrix RISC DEC Fortran (3.0 and 3.1)

A user found an unexpected feature of f77.  He made a typographical
error when entering the source code file name and entered 'f77 file.r'
instead of 'f77 file.f'.  'f77' deleted his fortran source file...
several hours work.  He was peeved.  The file is deleteded by f77.  I
tried renaming the ratfor so it wouldn't run and still lost the source
code file (different error message from f77).

umigw* cat >test.f
        program test
        end

umigw* ls -l test*
-rw-r--r--  1 grant          19 Apr  9 16:27 test.f

umigw* f77 test.r
ratfor:error at line 0, file test.r: can't open

umigw* ls -l test*
test*: No such file or directory
-- 
  Grant Basham       (305)361-4026       University of Miami
  grant@umigw.miami.edu      RSMAS Computer Facility/Systems