HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: paul@lily.aerc.colostate.edu (Paul Williams)
Subject: Looking for "nn" that compiles on an HP 720
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:40:10 GMT
Organization: USDA-ARS-WMU, Ft. Collins, Colorado

I was reading the book "The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog"
by O'reilly & Associates and they advocated using "nn" instead of "rn".
I am using rn presently.

Using an Archie server I brought back a couple of copies of "nn"
around the net but was unable to get either of them to compile on
the HP 720 here (HP-UX 8.07).

Does anyone know if a copy of "nn" that will compile on the HP 720
exists somewhere on the net?  If so please let me know where I can get it.

Thanks,

Paul



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: greene@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Courtney Greene)
Subject: CSO Nameserver & HPUX
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:23:00 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.

Hello,

I'm still trying, with no luck at all, to compile the CSO Nameserver software
on an HP 9000 Series 750 running HP-UX 8.07. Is there anyone out there who has
managed to get through the compilation? Does anyone know of an ftp site that 
might have the compiled binaries?

All pointers will be appreciated!

Courtney Greene
greene@tuns.ca
From: allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: lp information
Date: 16 Dec 1992 10:23:40 -0800
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdlx.sdd.hp.com

In article <1992Dec16.095305.12310@walter.cray.com>, neshba@cray.com (Nesheim Byron A) writes:
> Where is the destination printer name and destination system name
> stored on an HPUX system for remote printers. Its aggrevating not
> to be able to have this info immediately available.

i believe that it was not displayed so that our lpstat output would be
compatible with system v.  since then, for whatever reason, someone
has changed their mind.  the newest patches for lp contain
an updated version of lpstat that outputs that information.

the patch numbers are:
	s300/400	PHCO_1433
	s800		PHCO_1432
	s700		PHCO_1437

> ps sunos 4.1 --> lpstat -v (cr)
> device for sluggpp is the remote printer sluggpp on sluggo.nnn.nnn

the output of the new lpstat looks like:

device for lpks: /dev/null
	remote to: lj1_gpc on hpsdlc

not an official response.
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                          San Diego Division       - or -
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Subject: PHIGS on an X-terminal?
Originator: tt@euler.math.jyu.fi
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:52:15 GMT

HP-PHIGS Graphics Tehcniques manual says:
 
"HP-PHIGS can operate in an X window only if the X server is running on
the same machine as the HP-PHIGS program.  In other words, you cannot run
an HP-PHIGS program on one machine and send its output through the
network to another machine's X server."

Does that really mean what I think it does -- is it really impossible
to run an HP-PHIGS program on an X-terminal?  Why??  Is that ever
going to change?  (Please tell me "in 9.0 ...")
--
Tapani Tarvainen  (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: greenste@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Michael Greenstein)
Subject: Re: No VUE on HP X-Terminals
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:08:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto,CA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

I had a similar problem once with 700RX Xterminals. The issue was contention
between xdm and vue for the login process. To force vuelogin, xdm must be
disabled in /etc/inittab: comment out the line, and execute /etc/init q.
--

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Michael Greenstein, 
HP Labs, Medical Department

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From: pdt@athena.mit.edu (Patrick D Tepesch)
Subject: Solution to the high speed modem prob.
Keywords: modem
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:42:31 GMT

I have a solution to getting a SupraFaxmodem v.32bis modem to work with a 720
using HPUX 8.07.  First, you need the patch to the operation system,
PHNE_1440.  I recieved it from my local sales rep, but he also said that
this is usually the responsibility of the Response people (right!).  This 
patch does many things, but most importantly it allows hardware hadshaking.
With this done, the device files created by sam need to have 8 added to the
minor number at which point they look like this for me (port B 38400 baud).

crw-r--r--   1 root     sys        1 0x205009 Dec 16 14:24 /dev/cua00
crw-r--r--   1 root     sys        1 0x205009 Dec 16 14:25 /dev/cul00
crw--w--w-   1 root     users      1 0x205008 Dec 16 16:38 /dev/ttyd00

I set the modem with the following command:

AT &F2 s0=1 &w

The inittab entry is:

a1:3:respawn:/etc/getty -h ttyd00 38400

The gettydefs entry is:

38400   #  B38400 HUPCL IGNPAR PARENB ICRNL IXON OPOST ONLCR CS7 CREAD
                  ISIG ICANON ECHO ECHOK ISTRIP IXANY TAB3
        #  B38400       SANE CS8 ISTRIP IXANY TAB3 HUPCL
        #login: #38400

I think that is all that needs to be done.  I called in with another v.32bis
modem (not from Supra) from a mac and the modems connect at 14400 baud with
full data compression/error detection and logged in successfully.  I tried
to get the hp to talk to the modem at 57600 buad, but couldn't do it.
If anyone knows how to get that to work let me know!

Patrick Tepesh
pdt@mit.edu
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P.S.  Thanks to everyone who contributed to my cause!
From: raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Solution to the high speed modem prob.
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:32:44 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
In-reply-to: mark@hpsanaeo.nsr.hp.com's message of 17 Dec 92 05:05:03 GMT

In article <1gp1pvINNseq@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> mark@hpsanaeo.nsr.hp.com (Mark Bonsack) writes:

>> I tried
>> to get the hp to talk to the modem at 57600 buad, but couldn't do it.
>> If anyone knows how to get that to work let me know!

>   There's no reason the port on the s700 shouldn't work at that speed.  Make
>   sure your modem is set to talk at that speed, and your gettydefs and inittab

Exactly. We have 2 modems running at 38400 bps. No problem at all. We do use
hardware handshaking. This didn't require any patch.

>   are changed accordingly.  (The s700 ports are supported up to something
>   around 400,000 baud!)

To be more precise: the hardware is able to run at 400k, but HP-UX 8.0x doesn't
support anything faster than 38400 (getty, stty, uucp etc.). But according to 
HP, at least 57600 bps will be supported under HP-UX 9.0, so you'll have to have 
a little more patience ...

-Raymond
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: bartel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Elmar Bartel)
Subject: Ethernetcards on EISA in HP9000/720
Keywords: EISA, Ethernet
Originator: bartel@sunsystem2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:34:49 GMT
Reply-To: Elmar.Bartel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE


Hi,

I am searching for Ethernet-Hardware and Driver-Software for the EISA
slot of HP9000/720 machines.
Has anybody information about such things ?

If you mail me, I'll post a summary.

Thanx,
	Elmar Bartel.

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D-8000 Muenchen 2             fax:   +49 89 2105-8232
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From: martinr@cardix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de (Martin Rosenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Survey:  Service Support
Date: 13 Dec 1992 11:36:20 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cardix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de

In article <Byz728.M4n@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ylee@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond Lee ) writes:
|> We are thinking of buying several servers from HP, the 
|> HP9000/827 or what they call the H30 line which was
|> recently released.  Do you have any positive or negative
|> experience with HP after the purchase?  
|> 
|> 
The support is great. In our case, the 'hot-line' was included for
the first year. The bad part comes now: HP wants to have
DM 16000/ year for the 'hot line' and the hardware support, this
is somethine like $11000 per year. Perhaps you should check the
prices carefully. For 2 years of support you could already buy
a very fance workstation...
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From: Ian Kent <iankent@bnr.ca>
Subject: HP VUE Programers Guide
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:39:54 GMT

Does anyone know were I can find a soft copy of

  HP Visual UserInterface Environment Programmer's User Guide
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From: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Beginner's question:  How do I set up DNS under HU-UX?
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:04:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I have some PCs and Macs which I would like to use to access
an HP (running HP-UX).  I'm using some public domain/commercial
telnet programs on the DOS/Windows and MacOS side.  However, I'm
using host tables on each PC/Mac (and I'd prefer not to). 

I'd like to configure the HP as a Domain Name Server.  However, 
I've never done this before.  Also, I'm confused with the Yellow
Pages/NIS stuff in relation to DNS.  I think I *don't* want to
use YP/NIS (at least for now) and *only* use DNS.

Can anyone provide some pointers on how to do this?  I've FTP's
the HP FAQ from pit-manager.mit.edu, howver It didn't help.  Also,
I've read a number of man pages on this and I'm still confused.

Any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

--tony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: mike@ulinf0.unil.ch (Michael Bloch)
Subject: X-Remote for HP/9000 700
Organization: HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:10:18 GMT

I heard that X-Remote (it's a dialup protocol to do X over serial lines, 
e.g. using modems) has been donated to the public by its creator (NCD).

Is this true ?
Is it available for HP 9000/700 ?

Any info ?

Thanks, Michael

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University of Lausanne, Switzerland		BIX ID   : astolfi

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From: sam@cs.stir.ac.uk (Sam Nelson (CO))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Strategy for testing possible dud DDS drive wanted
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:00:33 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci Dept, University of Stirling, Scotland

I have two identical 9000/375 servers with identical 660S peripheral boxes in
which are installed identical 1.3Gb DDS (or DAT, if you prefer) drives.  One
I use for regular backup/recovery, the other I no longer trust.  I have
anecdotal evidence to suggest that this second drive is capable of rendering
write-protected tapes unreadable, and I certainly don't trust it for normal
backup purposes.  However, I have no real fault to report.  Has anyone any
suggestions for exercising a DDS drive in such a way as to bring out
reading/writing faults?  All my attempts either take ages (which isn't good
for engineers visiting the site) or are inconclusive, or both.

Sam.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: stockel@taupo.oc.nps.navy.mil (Jim Stockel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Change console on 750
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:41:33 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey CA


	We have an HP9000 series 750 that showed up without a graphics sub-
system (long story omitted).  Recalling a posting some time back, I was
able to boot the machine with a terminal on an RS232 port, which enabled us
to get the machine up and running.  Now that our graphics card is here and in-
stalled, I would like to change the console to the graphics display but I have
been unable to find any information in the manuals.  Does anyone have any
ideas or suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Exiting KSH with ^D
Summary: hpterm vs xterm
Keywords: shell, ksh, kornshell, HP-UX
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:27:56 GMT
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <1992Dec10.020807.8189@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jpittas@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.pittas) writes:
>Many people have answered the original question by saying the
>solution is to set 'viraw' in ksh to allow immediate exit via
>control-d.  However, on other vendor's machines around here
>(various Suns, 3B2s and Pyramids) I can exit ksh via ^D WITHOUT
>having viraw set!  So, there's something peculiar about HP's
>ksh that's causing this behavior.  Anyone have any insight on this?

Are you using hpterm?  I've noticed that hpterm requires a CR after
the ^D, while xterm doesn't.  Could this be a setable hpterm
resource in the .Xdefault file?

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff)
Subject: rlpdaemon
Keywords: lp rlp rlpdaemon duplex
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:09:07 GMT

We have a HPIIsi with duplex option hooked up to an 710. To use the duplex
option we use the -odouble option to lpr on the hps. This works from
the local host and from a remote hp host.

How do I send the duplex option to the hp from a Berkeley printer daemon?

-- 
Karl Hakimian
hakimian@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
From: rocky@poly.edu (Rocky )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Help: HP9000s700 HPUX 8.07 MitX11R5 with khoros
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:17:36 GMT
Reply-To: rocky@poly.edu
Organization: Polytechnic University


  I got a help from  Ger Timmens <ger@cv.ruu.nl>, thanks Ger.

Machine:  HP 9000 series 730
     OS:  HP-UX 8.07
     CC:  HP-UX naitive cc

I compiled khoros 1.5 with  MitX11R4 (got from hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com), it works,
even I got error from linker, error multiple defined symbol in libXaw.

I compiled khoros 1.5 with MitX11R5, I didn't get any errors. But
when I tried to run "cantata", it does core dump.

Does anyone successed building Khoros with HP-UX 8.07 MitX11R5 hp9000s700 ?
If so, please send me KHOROS_HOME/config/imake_conf/  configuration files.

Thanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Polytechnic University
5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jui@hpopr4.cern.ch (Charles C. H. Jui)
Subject: rpc.etherd
Summary: Wanted: rpc.etherd for HP9000/7xx
Keywords: etherd HP9000/7xx ethernet network sun
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:25:54 GMT

Hello...

Does anyone out there have a version of rpc.etherd that runs on the HP9000/7xx
series workstations?

for that matter: does anyone have a program equivalent to TRAFFIC (on the SUN)
for the HP's?...I am interested in a cheap solution to monitor the traffic
volume on our ethernet (in bytes/s...GLANCE only gives no. of packets)

thanks tons

CHarles Jui
OPAL Experiment/CERN

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: alex@math.idbsu.edu (Alex Feldman)
Subject: tex-xet on an HP 9000/730
Organization: Boise State University Math Dept.
Date: 12 Dec 92 11:30:40

I gave up on the Interworks library version of TeX, and pulled the web
and web2c sources from ftp.cs.umb.edu, and that all compiled
wonderfully (I'd still be curious to discover what went wrong with the
Interworks source, but...).  Then I tried to modify ctex.ch as per the
instructions in the tex-xet distribution, and I got errors in tangle.
Again, this is very hard for me to debug, and I would appreciate any
help... the relevant portion of a transcript of the make appear below
(I can mail the whole thing to anyone who wants it.

Could (part of) the problem be that this tex-xet is for 3.0, while
what I have here is 3.141?  If so, can anyone point me towards a newer
tex-xet, or an older tex?

Thanks for any and all help.  Herewith the transcript:

	cd tex; make   SHELL='/bin/sh' CC='gcc ' cflags='-I.././lib -O ' CCLD='gcc '  LDFLAGS='' LIBS='' RANLIB='ranlib ' LN='ln -s'  srcdir=.  wlibs='-lXt -lX11' xincludedir=''  xlibdir='' all
	../web/tangle tex.web ctex.ch
This is TANGLE, C Version 4.3
*1*17*25*38*54*72*99*110*115*133*162*173*199*203*207*211*220*256*268*289*297*300*321*332*366*402*464*487*511*539*583*592*644*680*699*719*768*813*862*891*900*919*942*967*980*1029*1055*1136*1208*1299*1330*1338*1340*1379*1380
! Change file entry did not match. (change file l.1478)
begin @<Reverse the links of the relevant passive nodes, setting |cur_p| to the
                                                                                
Writing the output file.....500.
! Not present: <Declare functions needed for special kinds of nodes>. (l.661)
newpenalty:=p;end;{:158}{161:}... ....1000.....1500.....2000.....2500.
! Not present: <Flush the LR stack>. (l.2613)
endif('STAT')flushnodelist(p);... 
! Not present: <Check for LR anomalies at the end of |hpack|>. (l.2699)
enddiagnostic(true){:663};10:... ....3000.....3500.....4000.....4500.....5000.....5500.....6000
Done.
1037 strings written to string pool file.
(Pardon me, but I think I spotted something wrong.)
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
diamond 2: 
script done on Sat Dec 12 13:14:35 1992
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	--alex			alex@math.idbsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: pypm@trentu.ca (Penghui Ma)
Subject: could not reopen stderr?
Organization: Trent University
Distribution: world 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:57:34 GMT

We have a hp9000/400.  Today I suddendly encounted such a problem: I
cannot use "more".  It alwayse returned "could not reopen stderr".  How
to fix this?

Thanks.


Penghui
____________________________________________________________________
Penghui Ma
Department of Physics
Trent University
From: ebel@lcaohp2.epfl.ch (Norbert Ebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: vacation
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:47:09 GMT
Reply-To: ebel@lcaohp1.epfl.ch
Organization: EPFL.

Hi netters,
I'm desperatly trying to let vacation work for me. It wont. According to the man page
I have 
1) made vacation -i
2) put a .forward file containing
\me, "|vacation -a me"
3) prepared a file .vacation.msg with at least a From and Subject: line.
I get following messages

Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:05:23 MET
Subject: Returned mail: Bad usage
To: ebel
Status: RO

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
500 "|/usr/bin/vacation -averonic"... Bad usage

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
or
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:08:38 MET
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
To: ebel
Status: RO

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 /users/extern/veronic/.forward: line 1: '| /usr/bin/vacation -averonic'...
 User unknown

I have also tried it on suns, with analogous hypothesis with the same results.
Can somebody help me . Does it work when you  work with several machines
Thanks


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,gnu.gcc.help
From: longstre@cae.wisc.edu (Jon Longstreth)
Subject: /usr/diag
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:18:13 CST
Originator: longstre@ws-39.cae.wisc.edu


/usr/diag

Does this need to be on the system for it to work?
(hpux 8.00, 8.05, 8.07)

Can this all be removed safely?  We need more local disk space on our
hp workstations.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: dhepner@cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner)
Subject: Re: bus error problems, how to solve?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:21:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

From: holger@spider.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Holger Busse)

>Hello HPNetters,
>does anybody have some information how to search for the origin of
>bus errors, that occur when executing programs.
>
>Thanx for help
>
>Holger Busse

Bad pointers in the program.  When an invalid memory locations is attempted 
to be read or written, a bus error will result.

Check for pointers which are used but have not been initialized, or have 
been initialized with something other than a valid address of one of
the things the pointer is declared as pointing to.

There are other ways to end up with references "out of bounds",
but this is the most common.

Dan Hepner
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Becoming super
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:05:07 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ope001.iao.ford.com

In article <1670093@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com
(Claudia Zornow) writes:

:I'm looking for information on how people become superuser
:other than via the su(1) command.  I know that HP internal

They typically run unpatched Yellow Pages, but seriously...

:users sometimes use "su2"; does anyone outside HP use this?
:Are there other commands obtained from various sources
:which do the same thing?

I'd suggest checking out the "sudo" command.  There are various
incarnations available from the Internet.  You'll probably get other
feedback regarding sudo.  Another approach is to create UID 0 accounts
for various people, identified by name or somesuch.

						...Mike
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