HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: vhand is bringing my R4K Indigo to its knees!
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:14:28 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan9.003815.18504@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:

| Our newly upgraded R4K Indigo is SLOWER than our 4D/50 GT  :-P

Perhaps you are trying to run just a few more/larger apps ;)

| Top gives the following:
| 
| IRIX lucy 4.0.5F 08280217 IP20 Load[12.39,10.88,8.53] 18:23:58   56 procs
|     user   pid  pgrp  %cpu proc  pri  size   rss    time  command
|     root     2     0  69.5    0    0     0     0    7:46  vhand
|     lisa 24284 22243   4.6    *  105   234    17    0:46  xball
|     root 28500 28500   3.4    *  +65    98    70    0:01  top
|     root   255   255   2.8    *   20  1629   849    1:05  Xsgi
|     root     3     0   2.6    *   20     0     0    0:08  bdflush
|     root   132   132   2.0    *   20    91    45    2:11  rpc.lockd
|     root    95     0   1.6    *   26    62    13    0:07  ypserv
|     lisa 22250 22243   1.4    *   29  2185  1850    0:38  ksh
|     root    83     0   1.4    *   20    45    22    0:02  portmap
|  sbernst 19407 19407   1.0    *   29  4353  3072    1:47  ksh
|     root 28513   135   0.8    *   20    76    32    0:00  inetd
|  sbernst 28532 28532   0.8    *   10    52     3    0:00  playaifc
|  sbernst 19835 19835   0.8    *   29  4263  2907    1:37  ksh
...
| Now what did I screw up? 

Well, it looks like you are running far more jobs than you have
memory for, so you are doing a lot of paging.

Something is *seriously* wrong with your ksh processes.  How could
you possibly have ksh's with 3000 pages (12 MB) resident ?!?!?

| Kinda embarassing to have it running so slow. Also I got the following
| message in the SYSLOG:
| 
| Jan  7 22:52:32 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 12308 killed due to insufficient memory/swap.

This tends to confirm that you are way short on memory.  You can increase
swap to avoid this (on another disk, or re-partition the system disk
after backing it up, and then reinstall it), but that will just keep
jobs from getting killed, based on the above info, you will still
spend way to much time paging/swapping.

| and osview shows:

Not too helpful for a single snapshot, although it does indicate that you
are short of memory for the jobs you are running.

| P.S. The cute "R4000" medalion that comes with the upgrade kit is
|      very niffty...I put it on the lower right front cooling vents
|      like the directions said...kinda' reminds me of the grill medalions
|      on our old (1982) Mercedes TD300 diesel wagon :-)

Yes, it is a bit funky.
--
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: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Subject: R4K Upgrade Warning!
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:34:52 GMT


Today we received our first R3000 to R4000 Indigo upgrade. 
The SGI engineers have really done a marvelous job of 
engineering -- the whole process, including swapping the 
power supplies was EXTREMELY easy and took less than 10 min.

The only glitch was came when the system wouldn't boot with the
following error:

_______________________________________________________________

Cannot load scsi(0)disk(0)partition(8)/sash
Unable to load bootfile; not enough space

Unable to boot; press any key to continue:

_______________________________________________________________

The error message above suggests that partition(8)
might have been trashed. However, under the miniroot
I was able to "cshroot" in the disk from Admin. 
Fx showed no problems, and everything seemed in order.

When I explained these symptoms to the SGI Hotline 
representative, his only suggestion was that the
partition 8 "had been hosed" and suggested that I
use "fx" to rewrite the partition info, do a mkfs from
Admin -- i.e. wipe the disk and start over. 

This worked except when I did a Restore, the problem 
returned.

Now 8 hours later, I think I see what went wrong.
The R3K machine was running IRIX 4.0.5F prior to the 
installation. When I installed the operating system, 
I didn't set the "neweroverride" to  "on" so the old 
/unix kernel didn't get updated. My hypothesis is that
when an R4K Indigo attempts to load an R3K /sash
it fails with the above error message. Is this correct?
 During a "Restore" simply put back the old R3K kernel.

TAKE HOME LESSION?
If you are currently running IRIX 4.0.5F on an R3K Indigo
and you get an R4K upgrade kit, make sure you set the
"neweroverride" to "on" and step through list of
files and force INST to install eoe1 basic IRIX files.

If I'm wrong in this, please correct me -- I'm just trying
to save some else the problems I had. Clearly the SGI
Hotline dude hadn't seen this problem before (or he
wouldn't have had me wipe my disk clean :-(



 
-- 
David M. Senseman, Ph.D.     | A man who has never gone to school may steal 
(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences    | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio               |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
From: rogerc@kuhio.wpd.sgi.com (Roger Chickering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: lp unable to access files
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:52:18 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1ii0fcINN3va@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle) writes:

>This printing stuff is really causing me problems. :) This one
>should be easier to answer (hopefully) than my previously mentioned
>one.

>For some reason, lp can only access (and hence print) files that are
>world readable. How can this be remedied?

This is because lp is setuid lp.

Either change the permissions on the file, or print like this:

   lp < file

-Roger
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: compiling metamail
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:14:56 GMT

When I try to compile metamail I get the following error:

        (cd richmail ; make  CONFIGDIR=../.  CFLAGS="-g -I.    -DSYSV" LDLIBS="-lsun -lc_s")
        cc -I../. -g -I.    -DSYSV -o richtext richtext.o richlex.o richset.o usascii.o iso2022.o -ltermcap -lsun -lc_s
/usr/bin/ld:
Undefined:
FinalizeTerminal
FPUTS
outputstr
ResetTerminalCodes
MakeWorkingMargins
outputc
Pause
fputsmovingright
realoutputc
*** Error code 1

Stop.

Any ideas what library or other that I am missing?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: brett@surfpix.princeton.edu (Brett Borowski)
Subject: Dumb terminal question
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:10:30 GMT

No, the question isn't dumb...well, okay, maybe.
My colleague here is having some trouble getting a WYSE 99gt terminal to
work with his PI.  Before we upgraded from 3.3 to 4.0.5, we had it hooked
up to one of the serial ports on the Iris.  Now, attached to the same
serial port, we get no response.  We've tried various baud rates and other
miscellaneous settings.  Is there some sort of configuration that must be
done?  The original terminal was installed before we got here.
He called phone support, but they aren't fast enough for him, so he's
already called back once surely giving somebody an undeserved headache.
He's not very patient, and he gets a bit irate.  I'm hoping an answer on the
net will save some phone support personnel a few headaches...

Thanks!
Brett
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brett@surfpix.princeton.edu		(Finger for more info...)
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigo R4000 vs. R3000 4D/35
Date: 8 Jan 93 08:50:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan7.213506.6454@Princeton.EDU> awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe) writes:
| In article <1993Jan7.142834.7127@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, corkum@csri.toronto.edu (Brent Thomas Corkum) writes:
| |> We just installed a R4000 upgrade in an Indigo and after running an in house application
| |> that is completely cpu bound I found that it was only 1.8 times faster on the Indigo
| |> than on a R3000 4D/35. Now, both have the same amount of memory and the application
| |> doesn't use that much. Is this right? Do I need to recompile on the R4000 with some
| |> magic compiler option (the code is in kr C)? I'm using the:
| |> 
| |> -cckr -float -O2
| |> 
| |> command line options.
| |> 
| |> Brent
| 
| 
| Sounds about right to me...

This I more or less agree with.

| Remember - even though the CPU is about 3-4 times faster, other factors come
| into play.
| 
| Examples:
| 
| 	Main memory is approximately the same speed

Nope, the R4K memory system is much faster, and 64 bits wide vs 32
(datapath to memory).

| 	Primary caches are smaller

True, and this can offset some of the other gains.

| This means that loads/stores may not speed up if you have little locality.

They should, particularly stores, because the cache is so much larger,
and writeback vs writethrough.  Of course, a *lot* depends on the
data access patterns.

| Also - you imply that you have a lot of floating-point.
| 	Note that the latency of an FP add only changes from  ~55ns to 40ns.
|                        double prec. FP mult     changes from ~140ns to 80ns.

And it is this that indicates there is a good chance of -mips2 really
helping (as others indicated), since it does 64 bit loads and stores
of double precisions flots, rather than a pair of 32 bit loads/stores.

Note that you need the 3.10 compilers (4.1 IDO) to use -mips2.
--
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: SCSI floppy disk on INDIGO: Why is it so slooow?
Keywords: INDIGO, floppy, SCSI
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:32:36 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <coizi01.726527326@convex> coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann) writes:

| We have an R3000 Indigo and are relatively satisfied with it,
| except a few things: The SCSI floppy is *VERY* slow with data
| rates of about 5-6K/sec. Is any newer SCSI system software 

Because the drive controller only has a 512 byte buffer, so you miss
a rev for every sector.

| available, that speeds up floppy read/write to *normal* data
| rates, which are (please correct me, if I'm wrong) about
| 40-100 K/s for MSDOS machines?? Or is it just the drive
| hardware, which seems to be a bottleneck in data throughput?

It's the drive hardware.  Believe it or not, it was the best available
at that time.  We will probably switch to the Insite or Iomega floptical
in the future (date unknown), which has larger buffers on the drive,
and handles a special 20 MB media (which is *not* cheap, the
20 MB media lists for about $25 US) as well as the 720K and 1.4 MB
common media.
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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: karlton@fudge.asd.sgi.com (Phil Karlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Help: problems with remote mailbox
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:13:23 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: fudge.asd.sgi.com

In article <1993Jan9.015630.10432@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> edik@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Ed Sternin) writes:
>Folks, I cannot make it work, please help!
>
>On machine A.A I want to open a mailbox that will 
>  - raise its flag when /usr/mail/myself on machine B.B receives mail
>  - execute a mail program on B.B and send the output to A.A when I
>    click on the mailbox icon on A.A
>
>This is what I thought would work:
>
>  /usr/sbin/mailbox -f B.B:/usr/mail/myself \
>	-m '/usr/bsd/rsh B.B /usr/sbin/xwsh \
>	-fg 7 -bg 97 -bold 230 -cursorfg 95 -geom 80x40 -display A.A:0
>	-e /usr/sbin/Mail' &
>
>Well, the mailbox icon pops up, the part in quotes works if I it by
>itself,  but the mail received on B.B is never detected.   Why is
>that?

mailbox does not understnad the syntax "B.B:/usr/mail/myself". It
only works on the local file system.

>Also, a small problem: I have not been able to make mailbox deposit
>itself some place on the screen, as -geometry does not seem to be
>recognized.  Any way around that?

mailbox is not an X program, but rather a straight GIrisGL program.
Check out the 'env' and 'GLResources' man pages. I haven't tested it
but something like

	env DISPLAY=A.A GLRES="*geometry: 70x70+50+50" mailbox 

executed on machine B.B should do something close to what you want.
You may still wish to play with the "-m" switch to mailbox, but
you could bury much of that command line in the .Xresources file
on A.A if you use the "-name" switch when you invoke xwsh. (Check
out its man page.)

PK
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The Curmudgeon                          2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
					Mountain View, CA  94039-7311
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: amg8408@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avijit  Moitra)
Subject: Printing from Showcase NOT WORKING
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:27:52 GMT

Hello,
	I am running the Showcase software provided by the SGI on my 
4D25 PI which has two printers one serial and parallel printer connected to
it.  I use "lp" to print on both the laser (post script, laserwriter I) and
the Color (Tektronix 4693DX) printers.  But when I try to print from within
Showcase I don't get anything, i.e. the printer doesn't receive any signal,
but I can see a printing job on the Print manager.  I am not sure what's 
going on.  Do I have to set up the printers for the Showcase separately from
within showcase.  If so can someone suggest me for seting up the printer
for the showcase.  I could not find much details in the showcase manual, may
be I didn't search thoroughly.  If it is in the manual please tell me which
section.  An e-mail reply will be highly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
From: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: DAT tapes
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:30:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I just got an Indigo with a DAT tape. I bought an
audio DAT tape from Silo and made a backup.
Is there the same uncertainty of what one can
vs. should use (data grade vs. video, here audio)
with DAT as with 8mm, or not?

Thanks, John
yates@a.chem.upenn.edu
From: c60244@ccfiris.aedc (Kenny McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: FAX software for Indigo?
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:58:01 GMT

Keystrokes of Kenny McDonald, in response to Karl J. Vesterling:
>
>
>	Now with the new version of Soft PC I'll run Windows in a
>window, and then we'll see what happens ;-)...
>
>
>-- 
What is the new version of SoftPC?  Is this upgrade covered on full maintenance
support?

Thanks.

  vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
  | Kenneth M. McDonald * OAO Corp * Arnold Engineering Development Center |
  |          MS 120 * Arnold AFS, TN 37389-9998 * (615) 454-3413           |
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  INTERNET:
  mcdonald@aedc-vax.af.mil

  LOCAL:
  c60244@ccfiris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: miket@teal.csn.org (Mike Tostanoski)
Subject: Reading raw blocks from a 9-track tape
Summary: Need help reading raw blocks from SCSI 9-track tape drive.
Keywords: tape 9-track
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:44:24 GMT

I have a Qualstar 3402 9-track tape drive on my system (4.0.5). I can use
it from backup and tar just fine. I need, however, to read some tapes
written by a foreign system. These tapes have variable block lengths and
are not ANSI standard.

I have been unable to open the tape in such a way as to allow reading the
raw blocks from the tape. All I get is a zero record length returned from
my read (i.e., an EOT).

Is there someone out there that can point me in the right direction. I
would certainly appreciate it.

Thanks, Mike Tostanoski
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: corkum@csri.toronto.edu (Brent Thomas Corkum)
Subject: Indigo R4000 vs. R3000 4D/35
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:28:34 GMT

We just installed a R4000 upgrade in an Indigo and after running an in house application
that is completely cpu bound I found that it was only 1.8 times faster on the Indigo
than on a R3000 4D/35. Now, both have the same amount of memory and the application
doesn't use that much. Is this right? Do I need to recompile on the R4000 with some
magic compiler option (the code is in kr C)? I'm using the:

-cckr -float -O2

command line options.

Brent

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Rules for naked ";" in ANSI "C"?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 06:44:49 GMT

In <255@trident.datasys.swri.edu> noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Greg Noren) writes:

| I turned -fullwarn on some "C" code I was ANSIfying and tangled
| with a bothersome warning from cc().  Take a look at the
| following test program derived from the code in question.
...
| Compiling with:  "cc -o test -ansi -fullwarn test.c" produces
| an executable which runs correctly and the following accom
| warning for the "D(printf...);" macro line:
| 
| accom: Warning 302: test.c, line 17: bodyless for statement

Use -woff 302 in your command line ('302' is any comma
seperated listed of warnings you don't want to see.

--
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: tshay@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Timothy B Shay)
Subject: ELM and/or vcal executable available??
Keywords: I *WISH* I had a C compiler... 
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:34:34 GMT



	Is there someplace the executable for ELM and/or vcal is
available for SGI machine (specifically, for an Iris Indingo; 4.0.5E)?

I cannot talk my boss into buying the C package since this workstaion
is used almost totally for molecular modeling.  Any helps/hints would be
greatly appreciated...


And to you (wonderful) SGI people; there's been talk about marketing the
Iris Indigos as home workstations.  If this is so, I don't think people
will go for that unless you supply some basic software, like a planner, 
that you don't need the optional C compiler for (unless, of course
there is one on the market I don't know about).  Just a suggestion.

			Thanks
-- 
"A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a  |"We've got to get some Beer!
 meaningless interaction to a battle of wits and | We've got no Atmosphere!!
 add drama to an otherwise dull day!!" -Calvin   | From looking into the Sun!" 
 ---->  tshay@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  <----   |        - Pixies
From: ttknock@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SLIP, upgrading, etc
Summary: SLIP etc
Keywords: SLIP 4D iris personal 3.32
Date: 11 Jan 93 03:11:46 GMT
Followup-To: none
Organization: none



	I've got a 4D/20 running 3.3.2 that I would like to 
get SLIP for. Can anyone recommend a free version that I can
get?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SLIP upgrading etc
	Can a 4D/20 be upgraded to a 4D/25 simply by 
replacing the motherboard?
	Does anyone use TeX or ghostscript with an HP DeskJet
500 or 500C? Please mail me I need some pointers.
	Can mapcolor() be called without first opening a 
window? I get core dumps if I try this. I also get core dumps
if I try this with getmcolor().
	Does SGI Express have a catalog? And are there any
SGI specific magazines out there?
	Thanks in advance for any help!

ttknock@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: leonardz@testarossa.cs.uoguelph.ca (Len Zaifman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Upgrading 4.0.1 & 4.0.4 systems
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:56:59 GMT


	We have several systems on campus whichare variously at 4.0.1 & 4.0.4.
We have 2 CD's labelled 4.0.5a update & maintenance disks and two more
labelled 4.0.5f. The OS disk for 4.0.5f ( with eoe1,eoe2, etc.  ) is
clearly labelled  for indigo & reality engine systems only. The question is
: should I update the users to 4.0.5a using the 4.0.5a update disk and
apply the 4.0.5f maintenance disk , or should i use the 4.0.5a maintenance
disk as well??

	Comments are appreciated. I hope to do this tomorrow afternoon.
-- 
						Regards,
						Len Zaifman

Len Zaifman
Information Technology Coordinator, College of Physical and Engineering Science
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. N1G 2W1
phone : (519) 824-4747 xt 6566 
fax   : (519)767-1620
email : leonardz@Testarossa.cs.uoguelph.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mjbroad2@mail.ncku.edu.tw ()
Subject: Montage, Laserwriter drivers wanted
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:25:33 GMT

Can someone tell me where to find Indigo drivers for a Montage FR2
film recorder and an Apple Laserwriter, preferably via anonymous
FTP?  Thanks.

Tom Broadstock
mjbroad2@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
Subject: REALLY nice processes?
Organization: Department of Chemistry, Cornell Univ.
Distribution: comp
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:32:29

	
	I regularly use an sgi machine which is mainly used for cpu
intensive graphics applications.  My jobs run in the background and
number crunch.  

	Even when I nice my processes as much as possible, there is a
noticable drop in performance in interactive work.  Is there any way
to eliminate this?  I could envision the swapper swapping out
processes when an interactive job is running;  is this configurable?  


	Any help would be very much appreciated.

	Nathan Siemers
	Department of Chemistry, Cornell University
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From: kipp@warp.asd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Clock rates in MH?
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:02:30 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: warp.asd.sgi.com


The first line of output from "hinv" is the processor type and speed.
YOu can pipe the output of that command into whatever you want...

					kipp
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi.misc:156 comp.sys.sgi.apps:25 comp.sys.sgi:18499
From: vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: strange problem with command execution at xwsh startup
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:16:10 GMT
Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: abgen.tamu.edu

%xwsh -e rlogin <any-host>

The above command works on this SGI (Indigo 4.0.5A). But,

%xwsh -e /bin/ls
%xwsh -e cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk
%xwsh -e chdir /usr/people/vamsee/junk
%xwsh -e cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk; vi <somefile>

don't work. The man page says:

" The -e option will pass all trailing arguments to xwsh , to be
   executed as a command line."

What's the difference ? Why does rlogin work and the others don't?
There must be a way to do this simple thing. Any help is appreciated.

Vamsee