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From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
Subject: Re: xhost on DECstation 3100
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:35:34 GMT

ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.004053.2827@novell.com> jscherer@novell.com writes:
>>> This is more than likely an faq, but I don't normaly read this group..
>>> Is there a version of xhost for Ultrix.  
>
>John,
>
> According to the bits that I'm running:
>
>thendara% which xhost
>/usr/bin/X11/xhost
>
>I'm pretty sure it's part of our vanilla distribution (at least I don't
>remember having to go find a special edition of it).

Aj-

	Check out the "/etc/setld" command.  With it, you can find out
exactly where xhost and friends are in the distribution.

	xhost isn't a vanilla Ultrix app.  As a matter of fact, most
of the things in /usr/bin/X11 aren't automatically put in with Ultrix.
They are in the subset called "UDXUNMIT420", which is the unsupported MIT
X11 Components.  Don't be fooled by the "unsupported".  They all work,
for all I've seen at least.  It is on the Ultrix CDROM.

	To get a listing of all the files in that subset, you can use setld:

% /etc/setld -i UDXUNMIT420

	You'll get a list of all files in that subset.

% /etc/setld -i

	You'll get a list of all subsets, installed and uninstalled.

% /etc/setld

	You'll get a little help in using the setld command.

	Darrin
-- 

mdchaney@iubacs mdchaney@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu mdchaney@rose.ucs.indiana.edu

"It's a marvel of vegetable containment..."
From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:28:22 GMT
Reply-To: kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
Organization: DEC Technology Integration Group


In article <1992Aug26.202504.3031@prl.dec.com>, boyd@prl.dec.com
(Boyd Roberts) writes:

> On the down side is that the CD is in ISO 9660 format ...

And on the up side, the CD is in ISO 9660 format, which makes it mountable
and usable on any UNIX, on DOS, and even on proprietary operating systems
like (dare I say it?) VMS.  As Boyd points out, all the information is on
the CD to recover and use the original BSD-style names of everything there.

___Pete
freeware@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
From: le9miiwa@cine88.cineca.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Color database
Date: 31 Aug 92 12:25:08 +0100
Organization: CINECA, Italian Interuniversity comp. centre

Hi everyone!
Is there any way of having a color database with decwindows?
Maybe some cute rgb.txt file to be placed somewhere with a dollar-stuffed
name?
Please e-mail directly to
	le9miiwa@cine88.cineca.it
Many thanks in advance!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Ultrix File system under VMS
Keywords: Ultrix,VMS
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:31:06 GMT


In article <jeuck.22.0@unix.sri.com>, jeuck@unix.sri.com (Philip Jeuck) writes:
>
>>In article <jeuck.21.0@unix.sri.com>, jeuck@unix.sri.com (Philip Jeuck) 
>writes:>>
>>> [ The customer wants a utility to write a UFS file system on VMS. ]

>> [ I ask: Does it HAVE to be a file system. ]

> [ The customer responds: Yes (strong preference) ].

I don't know of a utility.  Certainly it would be possible to write
one.  If I recall correctly much of the original Fast File System code
was tested in user mode.  If you can't find one, I'm sure you can find
someone to contract for a couple of months to write one.

The other side of reading a VMS file system under ULTRIX would probably
have similiar difficulty.  If you really want to get fancy you might even
be able to add kernel support for it through the file system switch.
This was partly done during the advanced development work for the
file system switch.  A paper was presented at a USENIX discussing
the file systems that were added.  That code is probably long
archived though.

Good luck.

>Phil Jeuck
>jeuck@unix.sri.com
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:59:04 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center

>Would some kind soul please describe this disk's contents and availability ?
>I was unaware of it's existance, and cannot find any reference to it in the
>latest ultrix-faq.

	There is a freeware CD of compressed tar archives and some binaries
and a bunch of other good stuff, done by one of our engineers in Europe. A
hurculean effort that he accomplished almost single-handed (or maybe entirely
single-handed). You might be able to get a copy by asking your local sales
rep or sales office or ULTRIX tech support folks.

	There's another project in the works called "Good Stuff" (but the
name may change if we don't get the trademark) which will be a directly
mount-and-runnable binary/source hierarchy for ULTRIX and eventually
OSF1 for Alpha/MIPS. This is part of a grander scheme to provide, well,
the good stuff off the net ( X11R5 expect gnutar-1.10 kermit-4f-095 perl
rdist-6.0beta regexp tcsh-6.02 tex tk xv-2.21 gnudiff-1.15 kmem man mp
mtools-2.0 rcs-5.6 Xw admin agrep bison-1.14 calc contribtools elisp
emacs-18.58 gcc-2.2.2 gdb-4.6 ghostscript-2.4.1 ghostview-1.2 gnumake-3.62
gnuplot-3.1 groff-1.05 jove-4.14 libg++-2.0 libtiff m3-2.07 mawk
pbmplus sc-6.19 sps top-3.0 transfig-2.1 xdtm-2.4 xdump xfig-2.1.4
xspread) and more, in a format where you can slap it in and run it, or
NFS export it, or copy it piecemeal to a hard disk. We have secured
funding, and we have a ship schedule and resources and this will happen.
Eventually. We'll also make deltas to the kits available for FTP, or
complete kits, for that matter.

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: wjm@utrcv1 (Bill)
Subject: lines on screen
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:48:00 GMT

I'm not sure whether I saw the article posted on this group or somewhere 
else, but there was an article about the 1 or 2 very thin horizontal lines that
appear on some hi resolution color monitors.  I believe it was Sony 
monitors, and had something to do with wires that hold the shadow mask to 
the inside face of the CRT.

I have looked through the current non-expired articles and couldn't find 
it.  If your site still has a copy, or if you have any info on this 
subject, please re-post or E-mail.

Thanks,
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From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Putting logo on Session Manager Login Screen
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:59:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.l9sqbaINNjn0
Reply-To: pdsmith@spca.bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Aug27.190930.13001@decuac.dec.com> avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>
>The file is to be an EPS file not a PS file.  Edit the PS file and remove
>the showpage command at/near the bottom.  It is displaying and then 
>the showpage pops the page -- and you get a white blank page displayed.
>
>Fred

While the above may indeed be true, it is also true that EPS files are
explicitly allowed to include a 'showpage' (Adobe 'Encapsulated Postscript
Files Specification 2.0', section 5.3).


					Peter D. Smith
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: bsd4.3 chicken and egg problem
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:00:28 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <BtMBLF.Gy3@ais.org>, sa@ais.org (Scott Almburg) writes:
> 
> Currently, I have VMS 5.0  running  on a VAX 750.   I'd like to get bsd4.3
> running on another disk.First, of all,  what would be the minimum disk I
> should use for 4.3?
> Also,  having the 4.3 source on tape, how do I go about compling this whole
> mess under VMS?
> 
> Will VAXC be able to handle the 4.3 sources, or do I need
> another complier?

  If you have a full 4.3BSD/VAX distribution, it should be bootable using the
instructions in the documents that came with it. If you have a distribution
for another architecture, I think you're out of luck unless you have one sys-
tem of that architecture around.

  If you have the "Networking Release 2" tape, be aware that it isn't a com-
plete release.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECtalk programming
From: ticps@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:43:17 CST
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

Hello.  I am a grad student at Texas Tech University working 
on my dissertation which involves the DECtalk device.  I am 
trying to find people who have experience programming the 
DECtalk, especially using BASIC and the VMS Run Time Library 
routines.  I would greatly appreciate any response.
 
My Internet address is IN%"TICPS@TTACS1.TTU.EDU"
 
Thanks.
Chris Slovacek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: mcpherson@mcdoug.enet.dec.com (Doug McPherson)
Subject: Re: DECmcc
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:02:50 GMT


In article <l9o5lmINN154@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, jfn@titleist.Eng.Sun.COM (Jamie Nelson) writes...
> 
>Does anyone known of a proxy agent that allows DECmcc to monitor
>system paramters, not just DECnet or network information.
> 


What *sort* of system?   There are a couple of management modules that plug
into DECmcc to allow it to monitor and manage systems (Ulrix or VMS or other
O/Ss I think).

One of these is POLYCENTER System Census (pray you don't lisp) and will be
going to SSB (our software release house) this month...  It 'looks at' attached
devices etc for Ultrix and VMS (poss others), license database, user accounts,
printers, blah blah blah...   Hopefully I can get someone from the group to
chime in here...

There's another module that plugs into DECmcc (internally) called UDM (Unix
Distributed Manager).   It allows monitoring and control of remote Ultrix and
?? systems from DECmcc.   (I'm sure that we'll have a similarly awkward name
for it before it ships...)                                

There's also a module called the Data Collector AM that ships with the basic
system along with sample source code.  Using this module, you can develop
progams, shell scripts or DCL procedures that monitor system status (e.g. check
disks periodically) and send various sorts of (user-definable) events of
different severities into a DECmcc system....

/doug

+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
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|Digital Equipment Corporation|  everything for everything takes approximately |
|550 King Street              |  forever and costs an infinite amount of       |
|Littleton, MA 01460          |  money."             [Ken Olsen, May 20, 1992] |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
From: sgolson@trilobyte.com (Steve Golson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Looking for "Digital Storage Technology Handbook"
Date: 1 Sep 92 03:23:51 GMT
Organization: Trilobyte Systems

I'm trying to find a copy of "Digital Storage Technology Handbook"
which was published by DEC in 1989 (or maybe 1986). It was a tutorial
of sorts about current disk technology and prospects for the future.

Please send email if you have a copy gathering dust on your shelf. I
don't really need to get the book from you, just a copy of some of the
figures.

Thanks...

Steve Golson -- Trilobyte Systems -- Carlisle MA -- sgolson@trilobyte.com
"As the people here grow colder, I turn to my computer..." -- Kate Bush
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: Changing the Xprompter screen
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Distribution: comp.sys.dec
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:54:10 GMT


	This is in the ULTRIX FAQ, on gatekeeper.dec.com, in
pub/DEC/ultrix-faq.txt

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: jscherer@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: xhost on DECstation 3100
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:40:53 GMT
Reply-To: jscherer@novell.com
Organization: Novell, Inc.

This is more than likely an faq, but I don't normaly read this group..

Is there a version of xhost for Ultrix.  

--
John Scherer
778 Shetland Ct. 
San Jose, CA  95127

internet: jscherer@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: garrett@lib.washington.edu (Adam Garrett)
Subject: Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)
Organization: University of Washington Libraries
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:07:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.175617.14854@cl.cam.ac.uk>, maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson) writes:
> In article <1992Aug26.141822.16179@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>,
> kforward@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Ken Forward) writes:
> |> Would some kind soul please describe this disk's contents and availability 
> |> I was unaware of it's existance, and cannot find any reference to it in the
> |> latest ultrix-faq.
> 
> It comes from the European UNIX Competency Circle, so it may not have made
> it to the whole of New World yet. Makes a change for us to get something
> before you do :-)
> 
> Martyn Johnson      maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
> University of Cambridge Computer Lab
> Cambridge UK

I got my CD last Friday and I am on the sunny west coast of USA!  :-)

Adam R. Garrett
University of Washington Libraries     INTERNET: garrett@lib.washington.edu
352 Suzzallo Library, FM-25            PHONE:    (206) 543-8843
Seattle, WA  98195                     FAX:      (206) 685-8049
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: xhost on DECstation 3100
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:10:49 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation




In article <1992Sep2.004053.2827@novell.com> jscherer@novell.com writes:


>> This is more than likely an faq, but I don't normaly read this group..

>> Is there a version of xhost for Ultrix.  

>> --
>> John Scherer
>> 778 Shetland Ct. 
>> San Jose, CA  95127

>> internet: jscherer@novell.com

John,

 According to the bits that I'm running:

thendara% which xhost
/usr/bin/X11/xhost



I'm pretty sure it's part of our vanilla distribution (at least I don't
remember having to go find a special edition of it).

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
Subject: Re: PDP 11 bootstrap codes
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:51:00 GMT

In article <Btpoyx.8AE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko) writes...
>Is there a more realistic way to get a hold of the bootstrap codes for
>ODT (?) booting a PDP11/73+ from various of its devices?  (disk vs. tape drive,
>etc.)  If my lab collegue is correct, we would need to pay DEC $300 for
>the 20 lines of PDP11 assembly which tell the machine to boot from the
>magnetic tape.  Is that right?!?
> 
	Why? For any of the PDP11s of that era, you just would buy the
	appropriate boot ROM from DEC. Digital does not clobber you, prices
	are quite reasonable. What I would do would be to:

	1/ Connect up to DEC-Direct, got to parts, and do a pattern search
	   for ROM, BOOT, etc. (If you don't have a DEC-direct phone account,
	   get one. It makes DEC shopping much easier, effectively bypassing
	   your typical non-technical sales-person.)

	2/ Go to documentation for the bootstrap board. Many of them list
	   what each of the bootstrap boards roms do.

	If your machine has console odt, the first thing I would do would
	be to look at the normal locations where PROMs can reside and see
	what was already installed.

	If you need help, send me e-mail message, I'll look up what you need.
	Probably would be a waste of net bandwidth to a VAX and UNIX dominated
	area.


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From: maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC Ultrix freeware CD (was Re: decwindows cdrom program)
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:56:17 GMT
Reply-To: maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <1992Aug26.141822.16179@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>,
kforward@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Ken Forward) writes:
|> Would some kind soul please describe this disk's contents and availability ?
|> I was unaware of it's existance, and cannot find any reference to it in the
|> latest ultrix-faq.

It comes from the European UNIX Competency Circle, so it may not have made
it to the whole of New World yet. Makes a change for us to get something
before you do :-)

Here's some information from the disc itself:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This CD of UNIX(tm) software is being distributed worldwide by local offices
of Digital from an initial production of approximately 10,000 copies.  It is
not a corporate product but a project of local initiative, and it is not sold
for profit, so you can't order it through Digital's product channels.  (See
README.1ST.)

How can you get a copy of the disk?  Ask a local Digital support person or
sales representative and tell them you're interested in the "European
freeware CD".  I don't know exactly where the disk will be available, so
don't bother to write me to ask.  Ask someone local to you; refer them to
me for further information if you wish.

___Pete Kaiser

freeware@uniriv.vbo.dec.com

________________
UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
ULTRIX is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There's a great miscellany of stuff on it, from Chinese xterm through
multimedia demos to a translation of the Magna Carta. Too much to list
here. It might be nice if Digital made the inventory file available by
anonymous FTP.

Martyn Johnson      maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Computer Lab
Cambridge UK
From: fine@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Thomas A. Fine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: how do I manipulate the frame buffer directly?
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:46:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.1992Sep4.184632.14448
Reply-To: Thomas A. Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science

We've got dec 5000/20s with monochrome monitors.  How do I access their
frame buffers directly?  The man pages are useless, the include
files seem incomplete, the mit X11R5 sources seem out of date.
We seem to be running Ultrix 4.2A.

What I really need is a screenblanker/screensaver that works outside
of the X window system, because we can't use the Xprompter login
method (we have our reasons), and our users can't be trusted with
brightness knobs :-/.

       tom
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: WANTED old PDP-11?
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:13:44 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Aug26.064807.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi) writes:
> All RP drives are 3 phase, as is the RM05. All others are single I'm reasonably
> sure. The TU/A 77/78/79 are also 3 phase I suspect...

  The RM05 is 220V (nominal, 208-240) single-phase. Most places with 3-phase
power derive this from 2 of the 3 phase legs. The suggested breaker rating is
20A.

  TU77/8/9 drives are likewise 220V. The TU77's suggested breaker is 20A, the
TU78/9 is 30A.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
From: blaes@ernohb.UUCP (Rainer Blaes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: JMAIL tool
Date: 25 Aug 92 10:23:57 GMT
Organization: Erno Raumfahrttechnik GmbH, Bremen, Germany


 Hello world,

 need the FAX 0r e-mail address of

 JOINER SOFTWARE INC.

 since we have an interest in their JMAIL software.

 Many thanks in advace!

 Rainer Blaes

 blaes%vim_s@ernohb.uucp
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Wanted: 3100 board
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:11:18 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <AJC.92Aug28152855@thendara.pa.dec.com>, ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes:
>   Even if you don't have the product on service contract. Your local DEC Field
> Service group should be able to sell you a replacement module on a "materials"
> basis (the way they handle non-contracted Field repairs is "Time & Materials"
> for costing). Try that. If it fails, let me know.

  You can get a better deal from DEC's Customer Returns Center, which offers a
flat-rate exchange (as opposed to local Field Service, who will sell you a new
module). The CRC is at 800-225-5385.

  You might also look at some of the 3rd-party vendors. I believe Efficient
Field Service fixes these.

  Lastly, it might just be cheaper to buy a new one. Last I looked, VS3100/30
system units (case, power supply, system board) were going for around $1000-
$1500.

> ps. I don't think a chip level replacement will work, unless you can do a
>     better isolation than the diagnostics currently provide.

  Also, working on these is hard and you run a serious risk of destroying the
board. I replaced the 'F244's on some VS3100/76 boards for a reseller. It was
not a lot of fun (and I have extensive surface-mount rework experience).

        Terry Kennedy           Operations Manager, Academic Computing
        terry@spcvxa.bitnet     St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
        terry@spcvxa.spc.edu    +1 201 915 9381
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