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From: steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Rumsby)
Subject: Re: gcc2.2.2 on Iris Crimson (HELP!)
Organization: Geometry Group, Maths Institute, Warwick University, UK.
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:48:16 GMT

In article <TOTSUKA.92Aug28082940@avaia.av.crl.sony.co.jp>, totsuka@av.crl.sony.co.jp (Takashi Totsuka) writes:
>  |Same things happens on a R3000 Indigo too. I finally trace the problem
>  |to the hypot function in the C library (SGI's library, not glibc) which
>  |was returning bizarre results, but only after printing a double on cout!
>  |I couldn't see any way that these two functions could interfere with
>  |each other, so I gave up at that point. If anybody has any ideas about
>  |what might be going on, I'd love to hear them.
>  |
>  |As above, this is all compiling libg++-2.2.2 with gcc-2.2.2.
> 
> 	I also played aound with Complex::sqrt() and noticed funny return
> 	value of hypot() in SGI libm.a. 
>
Yes, I meant libm, not libc. Slip of the keyboard...

>	However, when I check hypot() alone
> 	with a simple test program, it just works fine (with native cc and
> 	gcc, with -g and -O).  On the other hand, it is true that replacing
> 	hypot() with its definition (sqrt(x*x + y*y)) fixes the problem.
> 
> 	I suspect G++ is doing some unnecessary conversion or it has
> 	some problem in procedure call/return...
>
No, I don't think so. As I said above, I constructed a C++ program that
called hypot lots of times, and always got the right answer, *until* I
put a double on cout, and then hypot always produced the wrong answer.
Calling printf (also in libg++) with a double is fine and doesn't break
anything. Try compiling and running this (gcc-2.2.2, libg++-2.2, Irix 4.0.2):

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>

main()
{
	double	x1, x2, x3;

	x1 = hypot(1, 0);
	printf("Here's a double from printf %f\n", 4.2);
	x2 = hypot(1, 0);
	cout << "Here's a double via iostream " << 4.2 << "\n";
	x3 = hypot(1, 0);

	printf("x1 = %f, x2 = %f, x3 = %f\n", x1, x2, x3);
}

The results I get are:

Here's a double from printf 4.200000
Here's a double via iostream 4.2
x1 = 1.000000, x2 = 1.000000, x3 = 4503599627370497.000000

That value for x3 looks a little suspicious:-)

Can somebody with the source to SGI's hypot (like somebody in SGI maybe:-)
have a look and see if there's anything an external function can do that
will break hypot. This is all very strange...

Steve.
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From: huober_r@hal.rz.uni-ulm.de (Reiner Huober)
Subject: Re: NFS Question...
Organization: Universitaet Ulm
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:52:12 GMT

In 1992Aug31.165654.24006@news.iastate.edu you write

> If a line in my fstab looks like:
>
> [machinename]:/usr/mp1 /usr/mp1 nfs bg,soft,timeo=28,retrans=16 0 0
>
> should the 'bg' and 'soft' options prevent network lockups when one
> machine (nfs server) goes down? 

generally it's not wise to use the option "soft" on a writeable
Filesystem (see fstab(4)), since the remote filesystem could become
corrupted. Also, you must distinguish between "mount options"
like bg, which are only valid when a fs is mounted, so this will not
help much when dealing with network lockups, and "connection options".
We use

           ro,bg,soft       for read-only mounts (e.g. man pages)
           rw,bg,hard,intr  for writeable filesystems (e.g. homedirs)

Network lockups are a common problem using NFS.
Perhaps you should simply increase the number of nfsd-Daemons
(Default 4) and biod-Daemons (also 4). Under IRIX3.x, you must edit
/etc/init.d/network. On our machines (not all SGI's), we use 8 biod 
and 8 nfsd, if a machine exports a filesystem, and on one server, I 
increased the number of nfsd to 16. On our configuration, this led 
to much better behaviour if an important machine goes down, but it did
not disappear fully :-(

Reiner Huober


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: enscript on SGI
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:26:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.213641.4463@news.acns.nwu.edu> dsk@nwu.edu writes:
>I'm looking for a version of enscript that will run on my PI 4D25.
>Is there such a thing out there, anywhere?

Enscript itself is available as part of the TranScript product from
SGI, more commonly known as "Laser Printer Support".  This product
really only supports Apple LaserWriters (I and II's).

You can also get a free copy in 4.0.1 of "lptops", which is a free
product which does some of the same things.  Check out
/usr/lib/print/lptops and associated man page.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California
From: hunter@bacchus.esa.oz.au (James Gardiner [Hunter])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: scanner drivers?
Date: 27 Aug 92 03:32:44 GMT
Organization: none


I am interested in hooking up a scanner to my Indigo but before
I go out and get one I better know what SGI support.

Does anyone know where I can get PD scanner drivers/software
or a list of Commercialy available stuff?

Thanks

James
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From: peterb@perturb.esd.sgi.com (Peter Birch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Sony vs. Mitsubishi monitors: follow-up
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:00:15 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <1992Aug25.031118.24184@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, 
  senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu writes:
|> A while back we received a Stereo View Option only to find that the
|> SONY 16 inch monitor that came with our Indigo XS24 wasn't "stereo
|> ready", i.e., it didn't support double (120 Hz) scanning. Is the
|> Mitsubishi replacement for the Sony "stereo ready"?

From my previous posting in article 22846 of comp.sys.sgi, in response to
your previous posting:

|>article <1992Jun30.023151.29035@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>,
|>senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
|>
|>> Now I have a sinking feeling in ma' stomach that somehow
|>> the SONY 16" monitors shipped with the Indigos (we have
|>> four XS24's) are not what SGI calls "stereo-ready".
|>>
|>> QUESTION -- Is the StereoView option supported on SGI's
|>>             16" monitors?
|>
|>Yes and no.  The SONY monitors (16" and 19",) which until recently we have
|>been shipping by default, DO NOT support stereo.  For customers interested in
|>stereo, there has been a 19" monitor option available at no additional cost
|>(to people who have already paid for 19", of course :^) , which is actually a
|>Hitachi monitor (part # D5-M96NC.)  We now currently ship Mitsubishi monitors,
|>and BOTH the 16" and 19" support stereo.

peter
.....Peter Birch.....peterb@perturb.esd.sgi.com.....MTS, Graphics Hardware.....
......Silicon Graphics, Inc.....Mountain View, CA 94039.....(415)335-1512......
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From: GSkelly@USC.pppl.gov (Gretchen Zimmer)
Subject: Accelr8 Conversion tools
Organization: Princeton U. Plasma Physics Lab
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:19:17 GMT
X-Posted-From: csite-kip154.kip-pppl.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Does anyone have experience with the Accelr8 Tools (DCL9, EDT8, LIBR8,
Transl8, Integer8) from Access Technology?  We are considering a purchase,
and would appreciate any feedback (positive & negative) about the products.

			Thanks, Gretchen Zimmer  (GSkelly@USC.pppl.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Problems with patch
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:42:44 GMT

I'm trying to compile sbprolog on my Indigo.  When using 'patch' to
merge some diff files, 

	patch < Makefile.diff

I get the error:

	Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
	The text leading up to this was:
	--------------------------
	|*** Makefile.orig      Thu Jan  5 13:10:36 1989
	|--- Makefile   Thu Jan  5 11:36:07 1989
	--------------------------
	Patching file Makefile using Plan A...
	Hunk #1 failed at 1.
	1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.rej
	done

I've tried a number of patch binaries, and also have tried

	cat Makefile.diff | patch
	patch Makefile Makefile.diff

but always the same error.  

Is this because the 'diff' file is too old, or am I doing something foolish?


-- 
Brian Ross                         "At the end of the day, all money gets you
bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca     is a better place to watch television."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (M. Bersohn)
Subject: IRIS 4D-35 FOR SALE
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:29:04 GMT

    FOR SALE IRIS 4D-35 WITH 24MB MEMORY  U.S. $11,000
    It has a 380 MB formatted system disk and two 512 MB 
    external Fujitsu disks. C Developer's option and
    C++. IRIX 4.0.1. I have a firm offer for U.S. $8000 but if
    I can't get U.S. $11,000 by September 15, I will keep it.
    Delivery in 40 days.  
    mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
    Prof. M. Bersohn
    Chemistry Department
    University of Toronto
    Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1
    Tel. 416 978 3586
From: ram@ramsgi.erenj.com (ram rajagopalan)
Subject: test
Reply-To: ram@ramsgi.erenj.com (ram rajagopalan)
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:19:01 GMT


this is a test
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to build a System-Disk ??
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:18:01 GMT


  I think the documentation has gotten worse in most respects as far as
`Upgrading' from 3.3.X to 4.0.1.  There needs to be a COMPLETE index in
the back of all the manuals.  Most of the time you have to page through
the manual to find anything, the index is a little better than useless.
     One positive item, using fx to repartition a disk is GREAT.  I found
the easiest way to partition a disk was to use all the defaults for a
first pass, then go back and make adjustments as necessary.  Being able
to specify partition sizes in Mb is soo much easier than fiddling with
sectors/tracks etc.
     (After formatting and partitioning disks a half dozen times, it starts
to be come even easier, ;-))

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  M.S. 361			  		  FAX:(804) 864-8469
  NASA Langley Research Center
  Hampton, Virginia  23681-0001
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero00.larc.nasa.gov

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From: cano@lithium.dfrf.nasa.gov (Reuben Cano)
Subject: WARNING: Graphics timeout  (FIFO still > half full)! 
Keywords: graphics timeout  multigen 
Organization: NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:41:04 GMT


We are having a problem on our 4D/460VGX. The system is under IRIX 4.0.4.
We have a 3-D model built in multigen, running under GVS that continually crashes the system. When it crashes it causes the window manager to die and the login window to come up again. The following line is in the SYSLOG file after this happens.

i8 unix: WARNING: Graphics timeout (FIFO still > half full)!


System admin and I are all unfamillar with this warning. It would be helpful if we at least knew what the warning ment. Otherwise we are in the dark as to what is causing the crash.

By the way, we run the same way on a 4D/440VGX without the problem. Both Multigen and GVS have been contacted and have never seen this problem.

Thanks in advance

Reuben R. Cano    PRC Inc
NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards,CA
P.O. Box 273 MS 4840
Edwards CA 93523
E-mail: cano@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov
Telephone: (805) 258-2085



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From: matumot@elec.nkk.co.jp (Masayuki Matsumoto)
Subject: GLRenderCaching (Inventor)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:05:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Electronics Dev., NKK Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

Hello,

My question is on GL render caching of Inventor.

I am developing a application of which feature is
geometry changes dynamicaly depending on time step.

In this case, having GL render caching turned _OFF_  significantly
improved rendering performance, contrary to the manual page.
Is this reasonable ?

In only case of static geometry application, does GL render caching
accelerate rendering speed ?
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Masayuki Matsumoto
Electronics Div., NKK corporation
From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: batch, at and rc=1
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:58:31 GMT


Hi,

first of all I thank Dave Olson, pjf@osiris and David Hinds for their
advice on how to submit a job to 'at' or 'batch'..

However, further studies on an Indigo running IRIX 4.0.1 have shown
the following curiosity: If identical scripts exist to be submitted
to 'at' or 'batch' whereby one script is named 'test' and the other
is named 'test.xyz' the latter is executed as expected while the script
named 'test' is not executed and gets a tag "rc=1" in the cron logfile.
I include a session log. Does anybody have an explanation for this
behaviour ?

Thank you in advance and best regards.

Ralf Beyer

Session log:

sgu %ls -l
-rwxr--r--   1 beyer    user          79 Aug 27 15:32 test
-rwxr--r--   1 beyer    user          79 Aug 27 15:33 test.xyz

sgu %more test
#! /bin/csh -f

set N=0

while ($N < 3)
        echo "Hello world"
        @ N = $N + 1
end

sgu %more test.xyz
#! /bin/csh -f

set N=0

while ($N < 3)
        echo "Hello world"
        @ N = $N + 1
end

sgu %batch
test
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 714922702.b at Thu Aug 27 15:38:22 1992
sgu %Mail
No mail for beyer
sgu %batch
test.xyz
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 714922713.b at Thu Aug 27 15:38:33 1992
sgu %Mail
Mail version 5.2 6/21/85.  Type ? for help.
"/usr/mail/beyer": 1 message 1 new
>N  1 beyer               Thu Aug 27 15:38  17/467  
& 
Message  1:
From beyer  Thu Aug 27 15:38:41 1992
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 15:38:41 MDT
From: beyer (R. Beyer)
Apparently-To: beyer

Hello world
Hello world
Hello world


*************************************************
Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of one of your cron commands.

& d
& q
sgu %


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From: cychong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chi Yin R Chong)
Subject: Is there Framemaker for SGI machines?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:58:54 GMT

     I don't if this question makes sense or not: does anyone know if
there is a ftp-able FrameMaker available for SGI machines?

     Thanks.

Robert Chong
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bcampbell@ll.mit.edu (Betty Campbell)
Subject: Installing TeX, LaTeX, and Previewer on SGI 4D35
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:42:13 GMT

We would like to install LaTeX and the Previewer on our SGI 4D35.  The
source code has been gathered via anonymous ftp but that's it so far.  If 
anyone out there has done this, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
We are currently running IRIX V3.3 soon to upgrade to V4.04.

Thank you in advance.

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From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Optimization problem with 3.1 compilers
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:47:34 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division

In article <1992Aug25.183256.3342@odin.corp.sgi.com>, ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug19.000616.8590@leland.Stanford.EDU>, dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
|> |> I have a program that compiles and executes reliably with the MIPS 2.1
|> |> compilers under Irix 4.0.1, but core dumps with a segmentation violation
|> |> when a particular function is compiled at -O2 or above with the 3.1
|> |> compilers and Irix 4.0.5A.   Here is a short example with the problem:
|> |> 
|> |> > #include <stdio.h>
|> |> > #define MAXP 12
|> |> > 
|> |> > void main(void)
|> |> >   {
|> |> >   int *i, *j, step[MAXP+1], k;
|> |> >   double sum;
|> |> >   float all2[MAXP+1];
|> |> >
|> |> >   for (k = 0; k < MAXP+1; k++) {
|> |> >     step[k] = k; all2[k] = 2.0;
|> |> >     }
|> |> >
|> |> >   sum = 0.0; k = 2;
|> |> >   for (i = &step[2]; i <= &step[MAXP]; i++, k++) {
|> |> >     printf("k = %d\n", k);
|> |> >     for (j = &step[1]; j != i; j++)
|> |> >       sum += all2[*j] - 1;
|> |> >     }
|> |> >   printf("Sum = %f\n", sum);
|> |> >   }
|> |> 
|> |> When I compile this with 'cc -O2 bug.c' and run a.out, I get:
|> |> 
|> |> > k = 2
|> |> > k = 3
|> |> > k = 4
|> |> > k = 5
|> |> > k = 6
|> |> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
|> |> 
|> 
|> I don't know if you got a response on this or not.  The problem is a bug
|> in the 3.10 version of /usr/lib/uopt which incorrectly unrolls the inner
|> loop "for (j = ...".  There is a bug submitted on this problem.
|> 
|> To work around this problem, turn off loop unrolling in uopt (see uopt(1)
|> man page):
|> 
|> 		cc -O2 -Wo,-loopunroll,0 bug.c -o bug.c
|> 

I discovered another workaround which will allow the loopunrolling to occur.
Change:

	for (j = &step[1]; j != i; j++)
	       sum += all2[*j] - 1;
	}

to:

	for (j = &step[1]; j < i; j++)
		sum += all2[*j] - 1;
        }

The benefit of this change, beyond just working around the uopt bug, is that
it changes the first for (loop) from being what the Power C analyzer considers
to be a "while" loop into a form which is more like a tradition "for" loop.
This allows the analyzer to do a better job of code restructuring.  Besides,
the "j < i" test is more correct than the "j != i" test because you the first
guarantees that the address is within the subrange of the array and the other
just tests to see if j is not the i address.  Of course, all of this is should
not be construed as an excuse for uopt not doing the right thing in the
first place.

	
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From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: Is possible to use Fujitsu harddisk as bootable harddisk ?
Organization: IKE
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:50:06 GMT



   Hey,    
   is it possible to use a Fujitsu harddisk (series M26 or FA26) as
   bootable harddisk for SGI 4D/35 TG ? Please mail me your 
   informations.

   Thanks for your efforts,
  
         Oliver
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From: mikes@biochemistry.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Two screens on 4.0.5
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:20:14 GMT
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3



Anybody fancy describing how one would go about setting the machine up
to run two displays at once, one with 4Dwm, one with twm?

(If such a thing can be done??)

Thanks

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: stefans@bauv106.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de (Stefan Schwarz)
Subject: Re: X programs in C++, why do they need -DFUNCPROTO ?
Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:12:25 GMT

avinash@felix.contex.com (Avinash Chopde) writes:

>I had to provide a -DFUNCPROTO option to the C++ compiler (2.11 and 3.10)
>to compile a X program.
>Without -DFUNCPROTO, the prototypes for XtInitialize(..), etc are not
>included.

>Now, is this normal behavior, or is there some other procedure
>to compile C++ X programs ?

Don't care about such hardware-dependent options. They are different on
nearly every platform. You should always use imake to build X-applications,
which cares about such specific options.

Stefan
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From: boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Terran Boylan)
Subject: 4.0.5 Font Manager Problems?
Organization: Engineering Animation, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:20:18 GMT

     Is anybody else out there having problems with
4.0.5 not recognizing fonts (ie. fmfindfont("Times-Roman"))?
Our software worked under 4.0 and all the fonts seem to be loaded
in /usr/lib/fmfonts.


Terran J Boylan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: chown : HELP!
Summary: How does one change owners?
Keywords: changing owners
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 08:17:22 GMT

In brief, I logged onto my system as the "root" user.  Then,
I used "cd" to get to my normal user account, say, "falcon".

An "ls -l" on a typical file in "falcon" gives

    drwxrwxrwx  2 falcon   user        512 Mar 30 13:22 News

I copied a tlinked a directory called "example", as the "root" user, to
the partition on my disk for "falcon".  After doing a "cd" down
to "falcon", I did a "ls -l" on the tlinked directory, "example".

I get

    drwxrwxrwx  2 nobody   user        512 Mar 31 13:22 example

I want to change "nobody" to "falcon" so that I can effectively
access "example" without getting a lot of permission violations.

Someone told me to use "chown", so I typed

    chown falcon example

But I get this crap:

    chown: usr: No permission match

What the hell does that mean?  What am I doing wrong?  I am executing the
"chown" command as the "root" user.  Shouldn't I _have_ permission?

Please e-mail your response to me.  I will post a summary.

(I swear.  Just one more of these UNIX #@%$#%......)

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From: hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson)
Subject: turb3d status
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:16:40 GMT

Does anyone know the current distribution status of a gl
application called 'turb3d'.  It is a sci. vis. tool for
fluid mechanics which (as I remember) was developed by
NASA.

When I worked with it the application was free, although 
I never saw the source.

Thanks in advance.

John Hudson

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: zrm30423@nfhsn5.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Florian Wohlgemuth)
Subject: Hardware Ethernet adress ?
Keywords: ethernet 
Organization: NFH, Comp. Cent. (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:02:11 GMT

Hi!

How do I get the hardware ethernet adress on a Personal Iris 4D/25 (IP6) ?

nvram works only on IP12 (Indigo) Systems ...

Thanks,
	Flo

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Florian.Wohlgemuth@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.de					IRC: flo

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