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From: peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re grep
Date: 13 Nov 92 10:57:43 GMT
Reply-To: peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Yesterday I ask why grep was so called?
Today I've had about a dozen replys

The best from Curt Tilmes <curt@vtucs.cc.vt.edu>
who quotes "The jargon file"

grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where
   re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the
   Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it,
   via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt. To rapidly scan a file or file set
   looking for a particular string or pattern.  By extension, to look
   for something by pattern.  "Grep the bulletin board for the system
   backup schedule, would you?"  See also {vgrep}.

Thank you all - Please stop!
From: nigeld@natinst.com (Nigel Dsouza)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Standard Method of Handling/Detecting Out of Virtual Memory condition
Date: 9 Nov 1992 13:46:48 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.natinst.com
Keywords: virtual memory, stack growth


System: SunOS 4.x

Is there a system call to report on the amount of free Virtual memory?
	
Is there a method to reserve a specific amount of virtual memory for a 
particular process? i.e. guarantee that a process can use a certain amount of
memory without having to worry about running into an out of virtual memory
problem.

I am not worried about dynamic memory (i.e. memory from malloc et all) because
I can allocate that in advance to guarantee that memory; it is the memory 
needed for the automatic growth of the stack that is a problem.  Specifically,
the condition I would like to avoid is that the my process needs to grow its
stack, but cannot because it cannot get another page because the system is out of virtual memory.  I would like to be able to set the "soft" limit, using
setrlimit to (X - EmergencyStackSpace), where X is the amount of stack space
I would like to be guaranteed.  
	
I would appreciate any pointers to methods of handling out of virtual memory
conditions.

Nigel D'Souza
From: haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: wanted shell script for .plan
Date: 6 Nov 92 09:56:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc11.haley.721043774

Since Steve is OTR on the subject, and I am working on related things,
I will tell you what I have found out...

I set up a named pipe (FIFO), which I called test2:

	> mknod test2 p

Then I created a file called test:

	date > test2
	echo "This is a test" > test2
	exec csh test &

Then I did:

	> test &
	> date; cat test2

Which produced two identical copies of the date, one from this shell
and the other from the pipe, and of course the phrase "This is a
test".

One problem, though, I also get an process exit notice from the shell
to tell me that my job had finished...

Any way around that?

BTW: Don't answer, Steve, I wouldn't want to take up your precious
complaining time...
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From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Organization: Homosexual Fascist Lobby, Rampant Paranoia Division
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:33:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.114310.6436@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:

>twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>>Get any one of them and you've got it.  Linux, 386BSD, and SCO have
>>GUI interfaces.  Linux, 386BSD, and SCO run in under 8MB -- well under
>>it, in fact.
>
>SCO is much, much more expensive than $300.

How much is NT projected to cost?

>>>ONE unix that runs
>>>in 8MB installable with X from floppy, from Egghead.
>
>>Linux and 386BSD are free.  How can you beat that, for God's sake?
>
>No support, no handholding.

Support and handholding comes free on the net.  I'm seeing a number of
places in trade magazines that offer support for Linux and BSD:
installation, troubleshooting, consulting, and so on.  So you get the
OS for free and pay a small fee for support.  Competitive, at least.

>>Who was it who determined that "free" is among the three words most
>>likely to make Americans sit up and take notice?
>
>Free in the sense of the GNU Copyleft means freedom, not gratis per se.

You're correct: the Copyleft does not require these products to be
distributed without charge.  Nevertheless, they are.  Hence, free.

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From: cecchinr@gehrig.cs.rpi.edu (Ron Cecchini)
Subject: Proper way to read/write a struct from/to a socket
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:39:55 GMT

Hi all,

o read()/write() expect you to read/write a "char *buf"
o I have a variable "foo" which is of type "struct foo_type"
o I've been reading/writing "(char *)&foo"

It seems to be working.  Am I just lucky, or is this correct?
I've never tried reading into a structure like this before...

Ron
From: nessett@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Dan Nessett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: need text editor that outputs Troff
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:40:16 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


I am working on a collaborative project that for reasons of porability requires
me to provide Troff documentation for software. Having used macro based
text formating software in the past, I am not at all looking forward to this
part of the bargin. Are there any text editors (preferably screen editors
with nice document preparation facilities - something like MS Word, WriteNow,
etc.) that output Troff, much like many output postscript? This would be
of real help to me.

Please respond to nessett@llnl.gov, since I am not a regular reader of
this group.

Thanks,

Dan Nessett
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:25:04 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:

>B>There is no loss in pride in making it easier for DOS users to migrate to
>  Unix.  It is just acknowledging that DOS is more popular, but Unix is
>  better, and DOS users have good reason to choose unix.  Don't make it
>  difficult for them to do that!

This is a very good point, IMHO.

I'd like to add that if UNIX is really as good as it is said to be, then it
can do whatever NT and/or OS/2 v2.0 can do and better. If it can't, well, then
there's no reason to buy UNIX anymore, is there? NT and OS/2 are aimed at
users, if UNIX cannot *also* satisfy normal users (which does not mean that it
automatically denies the hackers/programmers/experts/etc. types), it will be a
second choice.
From: sgreene@nimbus.com (Spencer Greene)
Subject: PRINTCAP needed
Organization: Nimbus Technology Inc. (formerly C2 Technology)
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:05:48 GMT

OK, I've checked the comp.unix.questions faq, and searched through
comp.unix.admin, but I can't find any reference to what I thought
would be an obvious question: where can I get a "monster" printcap
file that will include entries for any printer my users may think
to connect and ask me for help with?

I'm *sure* this is in an faq somewhere, & I'm just looking in the
wrong place, so will someone please enlighten me?

thx,
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From: pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:04:42 GMT

papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
>[...]
>Some things that have to be change about unix before it reaches that place:
[...]

>2. It should have a powerful command line.

	Are you really an idiot or do you just play one on Usenet?

>3.It should install from floppy as well as CD.

	Ah, you _are_ an idiot.
	(Take a look at Linux.)

>4.It should run, graphically, in less then 8MB of memory.

	Take a look at Linux.
	
>5.It should cost less then $300.00

	Take a look at Linux.

	Before you try to convince people of unix's flaws, I suggest you
first make sure you have a clue what you're talking about.

-Peter
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From: franklin@thans.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Subject: REMAPPING KEYS WITHIN BASH/SH
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:13:22 GMT


It would be wholly to my benefit to be able to remap keys within the
bash or sh shell, but I'm not quite sure to go about doing this. First of
all, I would like to be able to remap control sequences such as 
ESC-8 to -> (right arrow Key). But, can I take this a step further?
Can I map Character sequences to the execution of scripts? I don't see
why not, but I'm not quite sure how I would go about doing this...
   any clues?
Thanks in advance...
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From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:06:26 GMT

In article <sherman.721291094@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
>In <1992Nov6.113324.6348@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
>
>
>>Wow! ODT uses Motif, NeXT uses NeXTStep, A/UX uses finder and SVR4.2 uses
>>OPEN LOOK, I guess. That makes four different UNIXes with four different
>>user interfaces. With NT or OS/2 you only need to learn only *1* user
>>interface.
>
>Suppose you don't like it...

You get another one...like Norton Desktop, NewWave, PM (for OS/2).  Or you
could write your own...just like in Unix.  In OS/2, the interface is just
a program that runs on top of the Presentation Manager.  In Windows, I
don't know how you change it, but there is a way, because hundreds of 
thousands of Windows users use Newwave and NDW.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: rz 3.17 problems
From: Craig.Humphrey@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Andrew Humphrey)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:51:45 GMT
Organization: Victoria University of Wellington. New Zealand
Keywords: rz modem unix pc problem help


In the past I`ve used rzsz 3.02 on HP9000/340's and Sun 3/80's, to my PC at home,
with no probs at 2400 baud (though throughput is less than to local bbs).
But just the other day I compiled rzsz 3.17 and now it doesn't work!
With rz, any command line options just cause the help to be displayed and if I
type rz on it's own, it locks up and jumps to the modem server (at the unix end)
when I abort from my end (GSZ 5/3/92).

Does any one have any ideas why this is happening?

Also I have tried repeatedly to compile rzsz 3.02 on an SGI IRIS running sysv but
just get heaps of compile errors.  I'll try 3.17 and see what happens.

Craig

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From: niu@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Shaohua Niu)
Subject: A question on memory management
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:31:06 GMT

I got an interesting question on memory management and hope this is
right group to ask for help.
    In a swapping system with variable partitions, the segments have 
    the probability distribution of 0.1*exp(-0.1s), where s is the 
    segment size in kilobytes. The holes have the probability 
    distribution of 0.2*exp(-0.3h), where h is the hole size in 
    kilobytes, then what is the average fraction of wasted memory.

Thanx in advance for any help.

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From: harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Hahn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: IS UNIX DEAD?  (12 of 22)
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:36:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

This is number 12 in a series of 22 responses to the question:
 
What do you think about the Byte magazine cover that asked:
IS UNIX DEAD?
 
(moderated by Harley Hahn)
 
----------
From: lllowen@netcom.com (Lon Lowen Jr)
 
> What do you think about the question "Is Unix Dead?"
> What would you tell someone who asks if this is true?
 
I'd calmly and politely tell them no.  Since Unix's creation, 
it's been steadily growing.  Obviously you know this.  If your 
publisher's long distance communication company is AT&T, remind 
him he is using Unix every time he makes a long distance call.  
When he books a flight, luckily for Unix it is a relatively short 
and painless procedure.  
 
I am not a computer scientist.  I am not an engineer or a 
programmer.  I am just a guy who wanted to learn as much as I 
could about Unix now because I know it is going to be a handy 
tool of knowledge later down the career path. My father works for 
our local township and told me a few days ago that next year the 
township will be purchasing a few SunOS machines.  Unix. 
 
It might be a gamble, but Unix seem to be the only system that 
has been consistently growing from day one with little changes-- 
changes that are considered a 'major upgrade' on PCs.  I'm 
gambling on the future of Unix, but I find difficulty losing the 
bet.
 
Thank you.
 
(By the way, I loved your work on Norton's Unix Guide.  Read the 
book cover to cover!) -- 
 
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From: naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A few more quick C questions...
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:13:44 GMT
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs

cecchinr@hornsby.cs.rpi.edu (Ron Cecchini) writes:

>2) Is there a command to determine a file's size?
>   [I think the data structure pointed to by a FILE contains a ->_cnt feild
>    that can be used - I'll try it in a minute...]

# include <io.h>
long filelength(int handle);

or, if your library doesn't have filelength:

error = fseek(*file,2);  /* Sets file pointer to end of file */
			/* returns 0 on success */
size = ftell(*file); /* Returns offset of file pointer (long int) in bytes. */
			/* returns -1L on fail */
From: greywolf@ossi.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using dd in the Backup Process
Date: 6 Nov 1992 02:29:00 GMT
Organization: Not the knights who say "NIH!"
NNTP-Posting-Host: defender.ossi.com
X-Punchline: "Candygram."

[ All the mdd/ddd programs deleted. ]

I think the equivalent of what is being done here can be accomplished by
using:

tar cvf - . | compress | dd ibs=1024k obs=64k conv=block of=$TAPE

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From: volli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Volker Lausch)
Subject: Re: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
	<1992Nov5.155838.12398@bilver.uucp> <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:02:24 GMT

In article <Bx9vDB.8HI@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

[...]

> >I thought Unix was written by Bell as a word-processing system
> >to enable them write their the phone company manuals. 
> 
> I heard that, but I also heard that Thompson's *primary* goal was to
> find a machine for playing Space War.  What's the story?

The game's name was "Space Travel" and it consumed so much CPU time
on their expensive GE-645 that Thompson was asked to find another
machine for game development. 

He finally found an old and unused PDP-7 with no OS. A while before,
after the MULTICS project, he and Dennis Ritchie had developed a 
new filesystem. So he hacked that one into the PDP-7, built a little
(single user) process management around it and came out with a
new OS which was called UNICS by Brian Kernighan. Thompson was 
allowed to port UNICS to a PDP-11 later when the company was
working on a text processing project. I think this was in 1971.

(Sources: Maurice Bach: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System",
Andy Tanenbaum: "MINIX Reference Manual")

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From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Organization: Homosexual Fascist Lobby, Rampant Paranoia Division
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:26:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.124503.7169@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:

>ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>
>>For those who like that sort of thing, there you go.
>
>And now for an affordable box...

386.  Or 486.

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From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:15:21 GMT

papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:

>In article <sherman.721291094@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
>>In <1992Nov6.113324.6348@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Wow! ODT uses Motif, NeXT uses NeXTStep, A/UX uses finder and SVR4.2 uses
>>>OPEN LOOK, I guess. That makes four different UNIXes with four different
>>>user interfaces. With NT or OS/2 you only need to learn only *1* user
>>>interface.
>>
>>Suppose you don't like it...

>You get another one...like Norton Desktop, NewWave, PM (for OS/2).  Or you
>could write your own...just like in Unix.  

But then the user has to learn another user interface, which you don't
want to.

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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:42:39 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:

>Yes, and how good that command line is!  (NOT!)

There are good alternatives: 4DOS and MKS toolkit.

>(flames go directly to /dev/null)

Then don't start flaming.

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From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:02:03 GMT

peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:

>rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>>Why do you insist to install it yourself anyway ?

>Because that often saves (a lot of) money.

I doubt it. If you insist to install the OS yourself then you better
start learning how manage it.

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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:34:10 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>Why is that more intuitive than 'ls' ? I have to learn CAT ,D2 ...

>Why is that important to have DIR. You can setup 'dir' as an alias for 'ls'.
>ls -l is not as difficult as  DIR /W

Not *because* it is ls, but because most people know DIR and don't know ls. It
doesn't matter if it's DIR, LIST, LD, CATALOG or ls, as long as it is what the
user expects. And since DOS, OS/2, AmigaDOS, OS-9 and I guess other systems as
well use DIR and nog ls, that makes DIR a standard. Hey! Even FTP uses DIR! :-)

>I don't understand what you mean by that. X application works with any
>window manager. I mean I switch between olwm, tvtwm, NCDwm, and still
>able to use FrameMaker without a problem.

There is no standard. Just think of Motif as CAT ,D2 and OPEN LOOK as DIR.
And many applications use their own user interface. It has hardly anything
to do with minimizing the learning curve. UNIX has an elegant kernel interface
but not an elegant user interface. :-( And besides that, most programs are
still character oriented.

>>>Coherent is $99.  Minix 1.5 is $169 from Prentice-Hall.  386BSD and
>>>Linux are free.
>>Where is free toll-free
>>phone support for Linux and 386BSD?  And where can I buy them?

>I believe there's somebody who is selling Linux and give phone support
>(somewhere in Europe...).

Not here at least!!! (This is 'somewhere' in Europe ;)

>Also wait for Linux and 386BSD CD-ROMs. 

Does that include toll free support? Does that mean that it starts up with a
GUI by default?
From: dmcquaid@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Devin McQuaid)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: 8 Nov 92 02:20:05 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Nov7.133724.7515@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
>pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares) writes:
>
>>	Before you try to convince people of unix's flaws, I suggest you
>>first make sure you have a clue what you're talking about.
>
>Where can I get toll-free support for Linux?

comp.os.linux
you won't get an answer in 20 min. but you will get your answer
-Devin
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From: tparker@music.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
Subject: Re: Can Postscript be converted to TIFF ???
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:22:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.081534.4958@leland.Stanford.EDU> buc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Richards) writes:
>Can a Postscript file be converted to a TIFF file?  Or can it be
>converted to some other file format which can then be translated to
>TIFF.
>
>Thanks for any pointers.

Bob,

I believe the Image Tools package from San Diego Supercomputer Center can do
this, along with lots of other conversions.  It is free, runs on several
platforms, and is available via anonymous ftp to sdsc.edu (132.249.20.22).

Hope this helps.
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