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From: eng.norstan.com!sfrazier@watmath.UUCP (Steven E. Frazier)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: DBaseIV for SCO Unix
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:48:13 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Could someone give me a name of a distributor for Ashton-Tate-Borland for
DbaseIV for SCO Unix?

Does anyone know if they give you a break for having SCO's Foxplus, 
I understand
that SCO is discontinuing support on this product and not making any 
improvements.

Thanks in advance.

Steve


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From: Mark Edwards <mcesd!mce@sdcc10.ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: HUPCL
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> I checked, and I am using HUPCL (the setup is very close to the 1-2-3 cycle).
> And yet I can't frop the line, either by logging out or by "stty 0".  What
> could do that?  (It's a standard COM2 port with a 16550AFN).
>
> [ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
> [ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
> [ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
>
Another possibility: getty or login may be trapping SIGHUP, thus protecting
your login process from receiving the loss of carrier interrupt cause it
to exit.  Your shell would inherit the ignored signals.  It is common to
ignore a wide variety of signals in getty, but login should restore the
default behavior before exec'ing the user's shell.  You should also make
sure that the modem is set up such that CD follows carrier, and is not
held up by a physical switch or a logical configuration bit.




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From: jle9162@venus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Questions..
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:58:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I have a few questions that I hope some expert can answer as I am very frust-
rated...

1. I am using sco UNIX 3.2.2 (odt actually).. I originally just installed the
   os, the extended utilites, and X-windows... Its been running fine that way
   for a while.. Now today I tried to install odt-dos service using sysadmsh..
   every thing seemed to go fine until it said " Relinking Kernel...wait.."
   It grinded away for 3 minutes then told me :
  Unresolved external: m6845fillword     in modle /etc/conf/pack.d/mono/Driver.o
  ??Why is this?  I installed according to the directions...

2. How do I use my unix system as an X terminal?

3. What special file must be used to use my modem on COM1? I tried /dev/tty1a
   but everytime i struck a key I got some sort of error and it shut down
   the port.

Any help is greatly appreciated..thanks, jason
From: cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: X for SCO UNIX 3.2.4?
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:06:56 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Apologies if this is a FAQ (although I haven't seen a FAQL), but I was
wondering if anyone had ported X11r5 to SCO UNIX - especially version 3.2.4.
I know about the SCO ODT package, but I was thinking of something slightly
cheaper (ie: free :).... I know Per Lindqvist (was it him?) did it for Xenix -
can anybody point me in the right direction?

Also, was the patch to GCC2.0 to work properly with SCO UNIX incorporated
into 2.1, or do I still need to get the patch and apply it?

Thanks for any info,
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Xref: sparky biz.sco.general:1799 comp.unix.sysv386:8573
From: wes@dd.UUCP (Mads Westermann)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ODT 1.1 and Video 7 1024i
Summary: Video goes haywire when switching multiscreen under ODT 1.1
Keywords: Video7 1024i SCO ODT X video screen multiscreen console
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:18:03 GMT
Followup-To: biz.sco.general
Organization: Damgaard Data A/S

I have recently installed a Video Seven 1024i adapter in my machine and have
configured it for 800x600 resolution.

The problem is that when I switch from a multiscreen running in graphics mode,
X to a multiscreen running in text mode, it never makes it to text mode. The
screen goes haywire and it looks like the timing registers are filled with
garbage. When I try to switch back it sometimes goes OK, and sometimes it
gets even worse.

When running in 640x480 mode I don't have any problems at all.

My machine is a 33Mhz 386 clone with AMI bios, 16MB, WD8003 ethernet adapter,
Adaptec 154x SCSI controller and a dumb multiport card. It has been running
for over a year now in 640x480 mode without any problems. As far as I can
see there's no conflicting interrupts and/or memory/port adresses.

Does anybody have a clue ????


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From: jle9162@venus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: C for unix
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:31:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Does anyone know of a 'C' compiler for SCO that has an integrated editor,
compiler and linker environment like DOS's Turbo 'C'? 

Jason
From: nikki@cix.compulink.co.uk (N Locke - Trumphurst Ltd)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: sar documentation under Unix 3.2.2
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:58:59 GMT
Reply-To: N Locke - Trumphurst Ltd <nikki@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Organization: Gated to News by demon.co.uk

I am reading the SCO Unix System Administrator's Guide - "Using
Performance Tools to Diagnose System Inefficiency". Under "sar -q",
it states ...
> %runocc The percentage of time the run queue is occupied; The
>         larger this value is the better
> ...
> ... the processor utilisation (%runocc)
> ...
> If %runocc is greater than 90 and runq-sz is greater than 2, the
> CPU is heavily loaded, and response is degraded.

Leaving aside the rather poor English (:-), is the statement that
large values of %runocc are good back to front, or what ? It seems to
contradict what is said later on.

Your thoughts on this appreciated - by mail (as I am not a regular
reader of this newsgroup).

Nikki
From: eng.norstan.com!sfrazier@watmath.UUCP (Steven E. Frazier)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: list server
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 19:08:36 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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Could someone tell me the best way to use mmdf as a list or file server?

I know how to set up mailing lists, that isn't a problem.

What we would like to do is, have an alias name say "info".  Any time
someone sent to that mailbox it would reply back to the sender a text
file.

We need to set up several of these so using individual logins with maildelivery
probably wouldn't do it.

Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Steve


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From: spnp@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mr NL Parker)
Subject: Problem with NSLOOKUP
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:44:02 GMT
Summary: NSLOOKUP says "Can't find initialize address for server"

Hi there

I am running TCP/IP V 1.1.1 and have been attempting to set up our
machine here as primary server for domain utr.ac.za. nslookup is 
supposed to help you show up nameserver related information which
I need to check whether or not I've configured things correctly.
If you just type nslookup you are supposed to enter interactive
mode. But when I try this nslookup comes back with:

Can't find initialize address for server. Timed out.

Now I don't know exactly where nslookup checks to find this address - 
logically one would expect it to consult the nameserver cache data.
I have dumped the latter ( kill -2 named ) and the relevant address
is definitely there.

So could some kind person please tell me how to get nslookup to
find the missing "initialize address for server" !

Thanks in advance
Neil
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From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Subject: Re: MY MAILER IS BRAIN DEAD!
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 10:34:57 GMT

Oops missed a point in my other followup.

According to fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald):
>sendmail does lots of things that MMDF just can't be configured to do.

Nope.  sendmail does lots of things that MMDF as shipped by SCO
can't be configured to do.  Now admittedly, we are talking
about SCO MMDF, but there are no real differences between the
two.  SCO doesn't ship some of the pieces because they are very
unstable, and SCO didn't have the time to productise everything
in the source distribution.

- David
From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: What does SCO "2 user limit" mean with ODT?
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:55:13 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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losecco@undpdk.hep.nd.edu (John LoSecco) writes:
> 
> This is what w tells me:
> 09:25:16$w
>   9:25am  up 11 days, 20:01,  2 users,  load average: 4.51, 4.40, 4.08
> User     Tty       Login@  Idle   JCPU   PCPU  What
> losecco  tty02     1:37pm        95:59         xinit /bin/sh /u/losecco/.startx
> losecco  ttyp2     2:15pm     7     44     44  telnet undhe9.hep.nd.edu
> 
> But the telnet session is OUTBOUND.  Funny thing is, while I can't get in
> I can start other OUTBOUND telnet sessions.
> 
> Does an outbound telnet session count against the 2 user limit?
> 
> Very strange....  Is there a work around?  I need to have access to the
> system via internet when I am not in the office.

Not so strange.  That outbound telnet session is running in an xterm (or
scoterm) and unless you have utmpInhibit set to true for xterm (or scoterm),
each xterm gets put into /etc/utmp just as though it is an incoming
network login.

The work around is to set utmpInhibit to true either in your .Xdefaults,
or in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (or SCOTerm, or whatever).

Stephen Rothwell		sfr@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au
NEC Information Systems Australia
Software Development Centre
Canberra, Australia
From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Microsoft Windows(tm) 3.1 write cache
Date: 15 Apr 92 05:42:58 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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I saw this in comp.risks today and I think it is of interest to
many readers of this group.

>  Microsoft's new version of Windows includes an "enhanced" version of the
> SmartDrv disk cache utility.  The primary enhancement is the addition of a
> write-behind write cache.  The RISKy part of this is that the default for the
> program is to enable the write cache on all hard drives; this is what the Setup
> utility suggests as the "preferred" configuration!  Now, maybe I'm paranoid,
> but it seems to me that this is going to cause LOTS of problems for naive users.
> I'm especially worried because I don't believe that most casual users are going
> to bother reading through the documentation to find the little notice that
> says (on page 540):
>  
>    CAUTION  Check that SMARTDrive has completed all write-caching before you
>    turn off your computer.  To make sure this has happened, type SMARTDRV /C
>    at the MS-DOS prompt.  After all disk activity has stopped, you can safely
>    turn off your computer.
> 
> Personally, I think Microsoft has an incredible amount of confidence in the
> stability of 3.1, and in the diligence of the casual users; the decision to 
> make this the default mode of operation was, in my view, ill advised.
> 
> - Andrew E. Birner, Zenith Electronics Corporation -

Bill
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From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: SCO NFS annoyance in 3.2.2 (ODT 1.1)
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:23:57 GMT
Distribution: biz
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

SCO Unix prevents the superuser on a client machine from having superuser
permission on a remote-mounted filesystem. 

While this is highly desirable in an environment where some machines
on your network aren't trusted, it is a real pain when they all are.

Berkeley and Berkeley-derived systems allows one to do a "-root=0" thing
on the mount, where the number specifies the uid that root, when coming
in remotely, is to have.

Is this capability going to be in 3.2.4 and, alternatively, does anyone know
of a reasonable workaround?
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From: ssanbeg@visual.spk.wa.us (Scott Sanbeg)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: uucico problem with SCO UNIX 2.3.2 and T-2500
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:51:25 GMT
Organization: The Visual Market Public Access Site - Spokane, WA

In article <N3w5iB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org> doug@uuisis.isis.org (Doug Thompson) writes:
>We're doing a large newsfeed and the problem is that uucico sessions
>abort with disturbing frequency. No, it is not modem initialization.

What do I know. But, whilst I tried to run uucico with _windows set to
7, instead of the default 3, I saw frequent INSLAVE/<something> aborts.
Restoring the original uucico saw an end to the problem. I'm referring
to SCO UNIX v.3.2.4.
Scott

 
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: eng.norstan.com!sfrazier@watmath.UUCP (Steven E. Frazier)
Subject: TCP/IP Ethernet HELP PLEASE
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 00:45:05 GMT
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I am getting checksum errors.  I have two dos boxes running ka9q about
25 feet away from me.  I have run WD diagnostics and sent packets back 
and forth and everything appears clean.  I can telnet/ftp between the
dos boxes and everything is clean.  It appears it is a SCO problem on
the SCO box which is the host.  Whenever anyone tries to telnet/ftp
to it I have the problems.  I suspect the WD800EBT card, but the diagnostics
works fine.

Any ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.  I have re-installed the
tcp, wdn, and everything else I can think of.

Thanks in advance.

Steve


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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: arlvs2.arlut.utexas.edu!GL@watmath.UUCP
Subject: The .Z files you can't install...
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:13:04 GMT
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Chris said, in part:

>Can anyone tell me how to install these .Z files? I tried (for instance
>lng227.Z) to dd if=lng227.Z of=/dev/rfd096ds15 , tried also tar'ing the 
>files to disk. No success. I always get: tar file not extracted from the
>custom script.
>
>--Chris

     I think I know.  Try "uncompress" on the ___.Z files.  The .Z
usually means things have been compressed.
     It's worth a try...

       gl@arlvs1.arlut.utexas.edu
From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: RE: ODT on Gateway 2000 486/33 EISA -- Help
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:37:55 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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>I can get through the entire installation process, bring up the system,
>log in to odt; select the visual administrative shell; a window pops up
>for typing in the root password.  At that point the machine hangs.

>I have installed multiple times and this consistently occurs.

Probably not necessary.

>During installation I have the controller in standard mode.

>The only thing peculiar thing that I have noticed is that as part of the
>machine's coming up bios process (note this is not unix's booting that i am
>referring to) is a two line message.  the first line is innocuous.  its
>talks about target 0 being the hard drive.  the second line states
>       target 1 not found

This message is from the Adaptec SCSI BIOS.  This means you have no Hard Disk 
installed at SCSI ID 1.  Your boot drive is SCSI ID 0, so it is found.

>If you successfully installed odt on a similar machine, or if you
>you have any idea on how to proceed, I would greatly appreciate any pointers.

>Jim Cohoon

My bet is on the streams module.  I'm willing to be that you are either running 
out of processes or streams.  The way to check this is to look in 
/usr/adm/messages and see if there are any error messages pertaining to this 
problem.  I would also raise some kernel parameters that could be the cause of 
the problem.

NPROC
NREGION
MAXUP
and of course your streams buffers.

You might also be having a problem with bad memory.  Try excercising the 
machine in text mode, not in X.  This way if there is a panic and an attempt to 
dump pages into memory, you will be able to see it.  This might give you more 
of a clue as to the problem.

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From: Bob_Ross@mindlink.bc.ca (Bob Ross)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: CMS tape problem summary (long)
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:23:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11397
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

We too had the problem of the system hanging.  It seemed to happen after we
changed from the floppy controller to the hardware compression board.  I sent
it back for repairs.  It took a very long time to get it back. (I'm not blaming
CMS for this, it seems our local dealer sat on it for a while.) At any rate, I
took the bull by the horns, and installed an Archive 150 MByte SCSI tape drive.
It is working extremely well.  THe CMS DJ-10 has been relegated to a DOS
machine.

Well, there's my 2 cents worth.

Bob Ross

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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: what version ODT?
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:53:23 GMT
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.

eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:

> The cap -X flag appears to be new to 3.2v4; at least I've never
> seen it in prior releases.

It was in 3.2v2

>  It seems to do essentially what
> "uname -a" used to do under Xenix, going right back to 2.2.1

Yes, and no :-)

SCO originally extended the utsname structure returned by the uname()
system call in XENIX in order to provide info like serial number, etc.
This proved to be a fatal error from the point of view of binary
compatibility, and they have been regretting the price of this error
ever since :-)  The current SCO extension for obtaining this information
is a proprietary system call scoinfo() which fills a (different) extended
utsname structure called scoutsname.  Which scout this is the name of,
I can't guess.  uname -X simply prints out the contents of this structure.

It contains stuff that is not in the original XENIX extended uname structure
as well, like the type of bus (ISA, MCA, etc) and the number of licensed
users.  Now, who on earth would want to know info like that, I don't know.

The current version of XENIX also supports scoinfo() and uname -X, by
the way.
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