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From: kent@manzi.unx.sas.com (Paul Kent)
Subject: Re: Shared libraries of MIT R5
Originator: kent@manzi.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:24:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Sep30.174314.22136@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>martin@ics.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Martin Buss) writes:
>|> 
>|> Has anyone out there a hp.cf config-file which deals with
>|> HPs shared libraries correctly (for HP7xx).
>
>Strictly, you can't deal with HP shared libraries correctly when building
>X.  That's because clients must be linked against the shared libraries
>sitting in their final installed directory and, at the time you are trying
>to build the clients, the libraries aren't there.
>
>It's a minor problem, though: you just make World, make install in
>./lib and ./extension, then make.
>
>There are config files in the R5.HP.SRV file that was recently put on expo.
>I made a few changes; will post them soon.


we have this in our hpLib.rules that relinks clients as they are installed.
it generates a Makefile.install and relinks the clients with that before
installing.

like the comment says, it was originally posted by Tor Lillqvist.
it has served us well.

perhaps it will help you too

cheers
paul




/*
 * If we use shared libraries, then when installing, relink the program with
 * the (hopefully) already installed shared libraries.
 *
 * added, kent, st paddies day, 1992
 * original: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
 */
#ifdef HasSharedLibraries
#if !UseInstalled
#define InstallProgramWithFlags(program,dest,flags)			@@\
install:: program							@@\
	if [ program != "imake" ]; then $(RM) program; fi		@@\
	$(IMAKE) -DUseInstalled -I$(IRULESRC) $(IMAKE_DEFINES) -eMakefile.install @@\
	$(MAKE) -f Makefile.install program				@@\
	MakeDir($(DESTDIR)dest)						@@\
	$(INSTALL) -c $(INSTPGMFLAGS) flags program $(DESTDIR)dest	@@\
	$(RM) Makefile.install
#endif
#endif

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From: martin@ics.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Martin Buss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Shared libraries of MIT R5
Date: 27 Sep 92 06:54:30 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Organization: F. Harashima & H. Hashimoto Lab. Institute of Industrial Science,
	University of Tokyo, Japan.


Has anyone out there a hp.cf config-file which deals with
HPs shared libraries correctly (for HP7xx).

Thanks.

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Hashimoto laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Tel. (03) 3402-6231 Ext 2360  Fax. (03) 3423-1484
e-mail: martin@sos.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP vs. DEC (not again!)
Summary: Alpha
Keywords: Alpha
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:55:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <1992Sep29.201430.27428@u.washington.edu> seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
>In article <38535@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
>(gee... the signature says "Tony Burzio"?)
We have a common account for all our employees...

>Re: the DEC Alpha beast...
>>Who knows what the speeds will be...  DEC has lied before...

How about MVUPS, that VAX lie of all lies?

>and you CAN give your old .EXE files to "VEST".. a program which chews
> through them and generates ALPHA-native code which mimics true-blue-VAX/VMS
> operation and idiosyncracies...

Oh great.  How about all those old dusty-DEC FORTRAN programs that
break if the IF statements don't have i EXACTLY equal to zero, which
is what happens if you change the precision of the math?

>The beasts ARE fast... and will be available in many speed ranges, with more
> coming right along .. and the architecture is "scalable"... more parallel
>  pipeling can be added immediately, and the clock speeds can be upped from
>the current 150MHz nominal (the chip is designed for 200MHz) to 400 MHz

How did you get past the FCC with this?

>Digital's "betting the company" on this platform... and they did the VAX/VMS
> system right (things we wrote in 1978 still run on every VAX we've got,

Eventually :-)

> based upon demonstrated capabilites, and probably won't actually order an
> ALPHA until next summer or fall (funding cycle constraints), once it's
> shown its abilities...

Like most UNIX users, I switch allegiances easily.  If a good UNIX
(not ULTRIX :-) is available on the ALPHA chip, and if DEC can get
over it's lying (yes, they do, I was burned three times before
becomming an HP'er) then I'll recommend an ALPHA as our next
machine.

Y'all hear that HP?

>Of course, maybe by then i'll have put "OpenVMS" on an HP, and the pressure 
>  to buy ALPHA may diminish...

Yucch!  How does one clean a keyboard?  I lost my lunch all over it!

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.internals,comp.lang.c
From: heidi@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Heidi de Wet)
Subject: Decreasing brk value
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 10:37:25 GMT
Organization: Dept of Elec Eng, UCT

A problem has cropped up in a large network management system
being written on an HP9000/730 system.  (OS is HP-UX ver A.08.07.)
The system is using Ingres, and when application processes do a
large query a lot of dynamic memory is being allocated.  The
problem is that after it's been freed, the process is left with
a high brk value, and when a couple of applications have done this
the system starts falling over due to lack of available memory.
Processes sometimes have as much as 80MB standing idle.

Decreasing the brk value manually seems to be the answer, but dynamic 
memory is being used elsewhere as well, and malloc will fall over.
Do we have to write our own malloc, etc. so that we can adjust its
records when the brk value is decremented?  Or is there some simple,
obvious solution? :-)  Or has someone done this already and can we
get hold of their code?

Any pointers welcome.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jsm@fc.hp.com
 (John Marvin)
Subject: Re: HP9000/720 and audio/sound
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:53:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.1 PL6]

Jarkko Oikarinen (jto@rieska.oulu.fi) wrote:
: This may be a stupid question, but...
: 
: I have temporarily a HP9000/720 on my desk. Behind it is a socket
: which says "Stereo". I assumed that it's there for sound, right?
: Or is it there just to fool the fools?

It doesn't say "Stereo", it says "Audio". It is for an alternate output
for the internal speaker, which is hooked up to a 3 voice beeper. The
720 does not have digital audio in/out capability.

The Aserver,audio_demo, etc, is for the 705 and 710, which do have
digital audio capability. The 705 and 710 are newer than the 720,730 & 750.
Most new systems from HP will have digital audio capability.

	John Marvin
	jsm@fc.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: system@aurum.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: Exporting NFS filesystems with root allowed
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:05:36 GMT

In article <BvEyIo.L85@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> jns@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Jeff Squires) writes:
>At HP-UX revision 9.0 the root= feature of /etc/exports will be there.
>In the meantime, I hope this helps:
> ... nice procedure deleted ...

It should be pointed out in this procedure, in the largest letters
available, that this "patch" opens your system to abuse by
anyone on any network you are connected to who is listed in
your /etc/exports file, or if you just export a directory with no
list (which is not a good idea), you have made yourself wide open.
In fact, what happens is that the uid/gids which actually match across
the systems will get proper access enforcement, but non-matching
uids, which map to -2, will get root privileges - fantastic!

This patch may be acceptable for an ISOLATED network of trusted systems
and users, but not in the real world.
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.. and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry
From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:28:24 GMT
Subject: Re: dbx for HP-UX??
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, bruno@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bruno Melli) writes:
| As of 9.0 xdb ... works on non HP terminals.

Uh, some non-HP terminals ... specifically, the terminal has to support
either memory lock (meml and memu in terminfo) or scrolling region (csr
in terminfo), as well as cursor motion (cup ...) and clearing to end of
screen/line (ed and el ...).  Other terminfo resources xdb would like
but doesn't require (as of revision 71.xx):  kll il1 dl1 rev/sgr0 smso/rmso.

						Regards, Steve taylor

NOT A STATEMENT, OFFICIAL OR OTHERWISE, OF THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY.
From: rbw@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Rick Whitner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: lp and remote printer
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:28:38 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

> I'm trying to configure a remote printer attached to a Novell server
> as a model laserjet.
> This because I want to be able to print in landscape or by half.
> Paging through the man pages I've found this line :
>  /usr/lib/lpadmin -plp3 -v/dev/null -mrmodel -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel -ob3
> -ormsystem2 -orplp -v/dev/null
> Now :
> my remote printer is f010 and my remote server is nfss1 and I need to set
> model to laserjet or equivalent
> 
> so I issued the command :
>  /usr/lib/lpadmin -ptest -v/dev/null -mlaserjet -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel
> -ob3 -ormnfss1 -orpf010 -v/dev/null
> The command went OK , I restarted the lpscheduler but nothing happened.
> any lp -dtest is accepted but no output on the printer....

My recommendation would be to use SAM to add the printer.

Your problem above is with the model.  From the view of your system, the
printer is remote, even if it is a laserjet.  You need to use "-mrmodel"
instead of "-mlaserjet".  The rmodel script sends your request via rlp to
the remote printer.

Rick

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From: martin@ics.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Martin Buss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Getting xdm of the MIT X11R5 dist going ?!?
Date: 27 Sep 92 06:52:53 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Organization: F. Harashima & H. Hashimoto Lab. Institute of Industrial Science,
	University of Tokyo, Japan.


Well, I really am interest how to get going the xdm of the MIT
distribution. I successfully compiled R5 with much pain at xterm
(finally went through using the patches of this group) and twm
(where alloca was missing). The server and also xterm run nicely,
when started with xinit. 

So please tell me some stories about xdm.

Thanks.

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Tel. (03) 3402-6231 Ext 2360  Fax. (03) 3423-1484
e-mail: martin@sos.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: olafn@inbit.ibt.unit.no (Olaf F. Normann)
Subject: Connecting Macintosh 1 GB Magneto-optical drive on a 720
Keywords: Magneto-optical harddrives
Organization: IBT
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 15:28:44 GMT

Hello!

We have a 1 GB Magneto-optical drive for the Macintosh (with SCSI interface), 
and want to connect it on a HP 720 (running HP-UX 8.0.7). 
Is there anyone who knows if this would be very difficult?
Do we need more SW (new devices or ...) ?

Thank you in advance,

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From: dma@cs.bham.ac.uk (Denis Anthony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Apollo workstation used as an xterm on HP network (solution)
Keywords: X, xterms
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:04:28 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Birmingham University. Great Britain

I received the following useful advice :-

From: Ake Burman <ab@mkon.lth.se>
To: D.M.Anthony@cs.bham.ac.uk (Denis Anthony) (Denis Anthony)
Subject: Re: Making Apollo 3500 workstations into xterms running over an HP 
         network

In article <BvFw7E.C64@cs.bham.ac.uk>, you write:
> I am trying to get info on cutting down a kernel, to allow
> workstations (3500's) on a domain token ring network (of which one
> machine needs to remain a domain machine) to be used as x terms on our
> new HP net. I have enquired at HP, and from colleagues, and have thus
> far drawn a blank. Ideally I should like the equivalent of Xkernel, as
> seen on Sun machines.
> 
> Advice will be appreciated, and summarised if appropriate.


I have sucessfully used our 425t/s machines as xterminals, You have to run SR10.3.5 or later. Use the X-server: Xdomain, not Xapollo. I used the command:
 Xdomain -query remotemachine. In our net I connected to a HP710 and everything worked fine. Even switching between DM and X worked OK!

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From: stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP calculator (TThe X version)
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:31:08 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.


   Is the HP calcualtor Xclient that comes with the (000's available
   in source form anywhere?  I like it very much and miss it when not
   running on the HP's.  I would like to compile it for our other
   machines.

   Thanks
   Stan

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From: dek@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (David Kohl)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:23:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Disk overwrites
Organization: the HP Response Center, Atlanta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

There is a new Disk Eradication Utility available through a third-party
vendor.  The utility is available for Series 400 HP-UX, Series 700 HP-UX,
or Series 400 on DOMAIN PSK 10.3 or PSK 10.5).  I have not heard any 
prices or availability dates but you can contact the vendor for more
information :

     FULL SOURCE SOFTWARE CORPORATION
     346 Costello Court
     Los Altos, CA  94024-4707
     Phone (415) 949-4567
	   (800) 999-UNIX
From: onward@fsg.com (Onward Lam)
Subject: DATIO - will it work ok 8.05 ?
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, Ltd
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:05:56 GMT


The A1999 manual claims DATIO will work on 8.07 or later.
Has anyone tried it on 8.05?

I'm not going to bother loading it if it doesn't.

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From: okada@av2.avrl.mei.co.jp (Tsuyoshi Okada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: How can I telnet 730 vis HP27248 Ethertwist?
Date: 22 Sep 92 07:24:00 GMT
Organization: Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp. JP
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Hello world!

Could someone please give me an instruction on how to make
the EISA Ethertwist LAN adapter card HP27248A on my PC/AT 
clone accessable to HP9000/730 via TCP/IP?
I'm new at HP's PC-UNIX world.

I've installed HP27248A on my i486/25 EISA machine, and let
the system recognize it by EISACFG file: !hwp1840.cfg.
Now what else do I have to do to make my PC able to telnet
and ftp to my HP9000/730?  Do I have to purchase a software?

I also bought HP ARPA Service2.1/MS-DOS, with which the LAN card
supposed to work as the sales rep. said, but I found that the
S/W didn't support HP27248A after all.   What should I do?
I only want to make EISA system as a client of 730 for the first
step.  !! HELP !!

It's been over three months since I got that hardware and
it do nothing but consuming power generating heat!
Looking forward someone from HP may clear this situation.
I bought it directly from HP's local sale division and they
don't seem to know the optimum solution.

BTW, I also have HP ISA Ethertwist card(PC Link) HP27247A-60002
ready to install.

Any comments welcome.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jon@socrates.umd.edu (Jonathan Kruger)
Subject: Help! Sendmail is destroying my system!
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:38:21 GMT

Configuration:  HP 9000/835SE, HP-UX 8.0, 2044 users in /etc/passwd

Problem:  Whenever mail is addressed to a non-existant user on this
system (either locally or from outside) instead of simply bouncing the
message with the standard "user does not exist" error, the sendmail
process for that message sits there and churns away, usually with a
priority of 50-100, until I kill it.  Then another process pops up to
replace it!

Help?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: meyer@uuisis.isis.org (Katherine Meyer)
Subject: HP DESKJET series v2.1 printer driver wanted
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 01:48:47 GMT

Hi.  Apparently HP has a printer driver that supports both the scalable
fonts (HP) and the TrueType Fonts with Windows 3.1.  It is the HP DESKJet
Series V2.1 Printer Driver.  It is supposed to be available on the HP Forum
on Compuserve.  Does any one know whether this printer driver can be FTP'd
from any sites accessible from other systems?  Please e-mail replies
directly to me.
Thanks.  

Katherine
MEYER@UUISIS.ISIS.ORG
Ottawa, Ont.
Canada
From: tmr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Tim M. Read)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Datebook on HP-PA machine
Date: 26 Sep 92 17:39:29 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

If this question has been asked before, I'm sorry, but I'm not a regular to
this group.

We have just set up our HP-PA machine, and one of the applications I have
found is datebook (thats /usr/bin/X11/datebook). It runs fine apart from one
problem - getting information into the event editor. I am unable to enter
anything from the keyboard, it just ignores what I type, ie no text appears.
However if I write the appointment into another window, and cut it in using
the mouse, it works - strange? Anybody have any ideas?

I really like the application, and would hate to have to give it up - having
to cut and paste is a real pain...

 Tim

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From: ufe@dlva.dl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: more mediainit problems
Date: 28 Sep 92 09:45:21 GMT
Reply-To: ufe@dlva.dl.ac.uk ()
Organization: SERC Daresbury

Are there problems with mediainit and 3rd party disks ?
We've had corruption of our WREN VII disks on a 9000/750 (8.07).
Mediainit fails to format them with an I/O error. The disks
format OK on a SUN, and once done, mediainit is quite happy
to reformat them. 
Are we doing something wrong ?
Thanks in advance,
	Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: lazarus@leland.Stanford.EDU (Howard Wang)
Subject: GCC 2.2.2 and HP-UX 8.07 shared libs
Keywords: GCC, HP-UX, Shared Libs
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 19:16:27 GMT

Does anyone know how to get the GNU ld to use the shared
libraries under HP-UX 2.2.2.  Now it doesn't seem to
recognize the libXX.sl libraries and instead uses and links
in the libXX.a versions.  Unfortunately the -lsb (starbase)
library only exists in shared form on our system as one
might guess from the following:

>ld: Can't find library for -lsb
>collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status


And if one can't use gld to use shared libraries, how does one
the the native HP ld to link the .o files produced by gcc?

I resolved the unresolved code __main problem by linking in the -lgcc
(libgcc.a) library,
( >/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
  >__main (code)  )

but when I try to run the executable, I get

>/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: main (code)  from /lib/libc.sl

some diagnostics:

>nm rovshell | grep main
>main                |     19024|extern|code   |$CODE$
>__main              |    195016|extern|code   |$CODE$


Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

Howard
waho@orca.mbari.org



Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Subject: Re: HP1000
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information
	Processing (VTT/TIK)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:32:51 GMT

In article <90046@hpunsca.canada.hp.com> chuckm@hpunsca.canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro) writes:
   Yup, that's a feature -  the secondary prompt.  Type-ahead behaviour is
   configurable if you are using the 8-channel MUX.  The MUX has two type-
   ahead buffers per port.  The single-port async card has no such feature.

With the newer versions of RTE-A, and especially the tty drivers, it
was even possible to port microEmacs with perfectly reasonable
typeahead behaviour. I.e. no restriction to "two lines" of typeahead.
But still, I would probably rather have another hole in my head than
go back to programming on the hp1000.
--
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working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,news.software.b