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From: sdesmara@sobeco.com (s.desmarais)
Subject: Re: Whither rpc.rstatd?
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 17:05:59 GMT

In <DSG.92Aug31191635@blackbird.mitre.org> dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:


>RS2030 running RISCOS 4.52

>I've recently began playing with xmeter to replace a bunch of xloads,
>and have noticed that the RS2030 doesn't respond.  A closer look shows
>that rpc.rstatd isn't there.  I'm pretty certain I've loaded every
>possible option from the distribution tapes.  Is there a reason it
>wasn't included?  Or, better yet, if it is, in what package? 
>--
>Dave Goldberg                      UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator
>Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org  UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg 

Taken from the file /usr/pkg/rn/RISCos-4.52:

       6.  Known Problems

          o rup works for servers which support rpc.rstatd;
            however, rusers and rpc.rstatd presently do not work
            due to a bad librpcsvc.  The problem should be fixed
            when librpcsvc is fixed in the next major release.

I suppose this is why xmeter doesn't report anything on the 2030.

werner@tron.bwi.wec.com (Alfred Werner) spoke about rpc.statd
and there is a usr/etc/rpc.statd.  Is this different than rpc.rstatd (with
the "r")?
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From: Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: MIPS OS Tapes Needed
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:31:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.gede1dj0Bwwf82Xl0r
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


I just picked up a MIPS RS2030 from a local company that went out of
business, and am interested in getting it up and running.  I have no OS
tapes, though the fact sheet states that it should have been running
MIPS Risc/OS r4.10 Version uMIPS.  Could someone help me get this to
work by loaning me some tapes?   Currently, it boots to the monitor, and
then when I try "auto", it says "Can't read root inode".  Not much of
value happens after that.

I'd appreciate hearing form anyone with any insights into this machine.
I know nothings about it, but I do own some other *IX machines (Suns),
so at least I have some idea of how to rebuild a system.  Please help!

  Thanks!

    Bill (wvh@transarc.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Subject: Whither rpc.rstatd?
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:16:35 GMT


RS2030 running RISCOS 4.52

I've recently began playing with xmeter to replace a bunch of xloads,
and have noticed that the RS2030 doesn't respond.  A closer look shows
that rpc.rstatd isn't there.  I'm pretty certain I've loaded every
possible option from the distribution tapes.  Is there a reason it
wasn't included?  Or, better yet, if it is, in what package?  Since
the RS2030 is on my desk, it's not that big a deal - I'll know if it
goes down :-)  I'm mostly curious.

Thanks,

--
Dave Goldberg                      UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator
Post: The Mitre Corporation MS B020 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: 617-271-2460
Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org  UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: trevc@sal.reading.sgi.com (Trevor Cotton)
Subject: Re: adding a mips RC3240 as a slave server to cluster of suns and RS6000s
Reply-To: trevc@reading.sgi.com
Organization: Trevor Cotton Associates, UK
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:14:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.192136.15355@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>, radha@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (radha) writes:
|> 
|> We recently got mips RC3240 RISComputer and i want to add this to our existing
|> network containing suns and RS6000 as a slave server. My questions: 
|> 
|> 1. does mips rc3240 running RISC/os (UMIPS) supports and accepts NIS/YP?
|> 2. do any of you have experience doing this?
|> 
|> There is no documentations as to this available to me. If you could point
|> to me where i could get these info would be appreciated.
|> 
|> 
|> .. radha

Provided your RC3240 is running RISCos 4.52 or later you should have no
problem. We have a 3260 here on the SGI UK net running as a YP slave
with RISCos 4.52 . We also have a Millennium with 5.01 Beta running as
a client.

RISCos 5.x ships with startup templates for master, clients and slaves
(submaster) in /etc/init.d - just link the required one to yp.
(Note that we found yp to be broken in the R4K 5.0B release - this is will
be fixed in 5.0.1)

If you are running 4.52 you will have to create your own startup scripts.
Examples are in the release notes (see below).
Note that with RISCos you need to set up your /etc/vis.conf file as
well. See the manual page on vis.

If you have RISCos 5.x, chapter 13 of the System Admin Guide Vol 2 is where
you need to look for NIS detail. For RISCos 4.52 it's in Chapter 12 volume 1
of the System Administrators guide, along with updates in the Release Notes
(online copies in /usr/pkg/rn on the system). In the 4.52 release notes,
most information you need is in Appendix D, with some corrections in the main
body of the notes.

--trevc--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: chop_michael@.tandem.com (Michael Chop)
Subject: what is the driver for a CDROM
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:48:35 GMT

hello fellow mipsters,

does anyone out there know what the device driver is for a MIPS magnum 3000, (3030). i've looked and looked through the man pages and even MIPS itself, and can not find the device and SCSIid i should be using.

HELP!!!  somebody must have an external CDROM out there somewhere connected to
a MIPS...

thanks!!
michael...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Subject: Re: mips cc word alignment
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:24:33

In article <1992Sep2.213110.1916@cton.com> nicholas@cton.cton.com (Nick Hennenfent) writes:

| 
| Is there any way to make the mips cc compiler read
| a word (32 bit) from a non (word) aligned address?
| It seems like the LWL/LWR instructions make this feasible.
| 
| The #pragma pack directive seems to have no effect.
| 
| I know such a thing is not optimal but would be
| convenient in certain circumstances.

	struct s { char a[4]; };

	int convert (p)
	     struct s *p;
	{
	  union { struct s st; int i; } u;

	  u.st = *p;
	  return u.i;
	}

Produces the code (GCC 2.2.2 produces the same code):

		.verstamp	2 10
		.text	
		.align	2
		.file	2 "foo.c"
		.globl	convert
		.loc	2 5
	 #   1	struct s { char a[4]; };
	 #   2	
	 #   3	int convert (p)
	 #   4	     struct s *p;
	 #   5	{
		.ent	convert 2
	convert:
		.option	O2
		subu	$sp, 8
		.frame	$sp, 8, $31
		.loc	2 8
	 #   6	  union { struct s st; int i; } u;
	 #   7	
	 #   8	  u.st = *p;
		addu	$14, $sp, 4
		.set	 noat
		ulw	$1, 0($4)
		usw	$1, 0($14)
		.set	 at
		.loc	2 9
	 #   9	  return u.i;
		lw	$2, 4($sp)
		addu	$sp, 8
		j	$31
		.end	convert

--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: werner@tron.bwi.wec.com (Alfred Werner)
Subject: Re: Preventive Maintenance
Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore MD.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:23:53 GMT

Well, I have received a few responses to my question on P/M.
I think maybe restricting the scope of my question to one 
subsystem at a time might be more fruitful, so I'll start with
disks.

My MIPS systems use two types of disks:
 2372-64|fujitsu 2372 (64 sectors) 824Mb:      -- SMD
 94601|cdc 94601 (1GB):                        -- SCSI

As I understand it, drives that use stepper motors for head control
lose track over time, and therefore need to be reformatted every
6 mo. to 1 yr.  Voice coil drives, however are immune to this need.
How do I know if these drives need reformatting?  I have had 3 SMD
disks "go bad" in about 3 years.  The problem became evident when 
the console log started giving me --
ipcs1ds2: error csr=0x4000 bn=1028368 statcode=83 recovered, errcode=0x1
and things to that effect.  Unfortunately, there is no documentation
available (to my knowledge) that helps me decipher what is REALLY
happening here.  Anyway, the incidents increased, eventually the system
crashed (we're talking weeks to months between first evidence and crash)
and I took advantage of the "unscheduled downtime" to reformat the
disks.  Each time, the disks found some bad spots, and I was able to
go back to work as normal.  But in short order, the badspots increased
to the point that I started having to make custom partitions to work
around bad cylinder groups, and eventually trashing the disk and
ordering new ones.

An obvious side-benefit to reformatting the disks is that you dump 
and restore your file system, eliminating fragmentation.  But if
I have a disk that doesn't use stepper motors, I won't be doing that, 
will I?  

Summary:
1. Is it necessary to reformat disks periodically, if so, how often, 
   and which disk types?
2. What is the threshold of fragmentation before doing a dump/restore
   to eliminate frags?

I realize that #2 is possibly subjective, so send your gut feel.
Please respond to werner@tron.bwi.wec.com .  I will summarize.
From: gervais@mips1.info.uqam.ca (Gervais*Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: RPC problem on RISC/os 5.0
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:42:33 GMT
Reply-To: gervais@mips1.info.uqam.ca (Gervais*Robert)
Organization: UQAM

The pmap_unset(prognum,versnum) refuse to destroy all mapping between
the triple [prognum,versnum,*] and ports on the machine's portmap service on
RISC/os 5.0 .

This routine was operating properly on RISC/os  4.52.

Does anyone have the answer  ?

Robert Gervais
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: nicholas@cton.cton.com (Nick Hennenfent)
Subject: cc -volatile
Keywords: cc volatile
Organization: Computone, Corp.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 21:23:43 GMT


Given the following program -

	void (*f)();

	main()
	{
	}

And the following command line -

	cc -volatile xx.c

I get the following results -

	(ccom): xx.c, line 2: ccom: Internal: compiler takes size of function
	      void (*f)();
	      -----------^

Anybody know anything about this? Thanks.

-- 
Nick Hennenfent
Computone   1100 Northmeadow Parkway   Suite 150   Roswell, GA 30076
VOICE (404) 475-2725 x362    FAX (404) 343-9735
"Visualize whirled peas"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: elh@netcom.com (Ed Hudson)
Subject: 3rd party service
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 21:51:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

hi.

	Are there any 3rd party (cheap) repair services for mips
	hardware?  please reply via email.

	thanks,

		-ed hudson	 (elh@netcom.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: greg@gregs.smd.tandem.com (Greg Stewart)
Subject: Re: RPC problem on RISC/os 5.0
Followup-To: comp.sys.mips
Reply-To: greg@gregs.smd.tandem.com
Organization: Tandem Computers Incorporated
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:34:08 GMT

I reported this problem to Prime Service, with a test program. They have
reported it to MIPS.  However, I have since heard that it is a problem in
the Sun code.  Seems Sun thought it was a security risk to allow any program
to clear port mappings it didn't set.  I've heard they will be releasing a fix.
In the meantime, change your /etc/init.d/netdaemons file to run the
old portmap process instead of rpcbind.

-- 
Greg Stewart
Tandem Computers Incorporated
greg@gregs.smd.tandem.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: nicholas@cton.cton.com (Nick Hennenfent)
Subject: mips cc word alignment
Organization: Computone, Corp.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 21:31:10 GMT


Is there any way to make the mips cc compiler read
a word (32 bit) from a non (word) aligned address?
It seems like the LWL/LWR instructions make this feasible.

The #pragma pack directive seems to have no effect.

I know such a thing is not optimal but would be
convenient in certain circumstances.

Thanks.

-- 
Nick Hennenfent
Computone   1100 Northmeadow Parkway   Suite 150   Roswell, GA 30076
VOICE (404) 475-2725 x362    FAX (404) 343-9735
"Visualize whirled peas"
From: skip@taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil (Skip Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: where is settimeofday()
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:43:17 GMT
Reply-To: skip@taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil (Skip Carter)


	I have a program that must be compiled under the sysv systype
	on a MIPS 3230 running RiscOS 4.52.  But the linker can't
	seem to find two BSD functions.

	When compiling under systype sysv,  settimeofday() and
	usleep() are not resolved, even when the compiler is told
	to look in the bsd libraries.   Where are these functions ?

	My compilation line:

	cc -I/usr/include/bsd -systype sysv  stime.c -lbsd

	gives,


	ld:
	Undefined:
	settimeofday
	usleep

	but,

	cc -systype bsd43 stime.c

	compiles OK.


	This program demonstrates the problem,

/* test settimeofday call with different environments */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

void main()
{
    struct timeval tv;

       settimeofday(&tv, NULL);

       usleep( 40000 );

}

-- 
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 Naval Postgraduate School         INTERNET: skip@taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil
 Dept. of Oceanography, Code OC/CR  UUCP:     ...!uunet!taygeta!skip
 Monterey, CA. 93943               TELEMAIL: s.carter/omnet
From: asl9153@kramden.nyu.edu (allan lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys
Subject: Program for porting to unisys 6000 through serial lines
Keywords: porting, unisys 6000, xmodem
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:25:13 GMT
Organization: New York University


 I am looking for a program that would let me port program to a
unisys machine 6000 using the XMODEM or KERMIT protocol. If anyone
of you has kermit running on such a machine could I get the binaries
for this ?
Unisys sales persons have been everything but helpful... 

Allan.
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Date: 3 Sep 1992 04:11:34 -0500
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From: dick@starfish.Convergent.COM (Dick Hacking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys,unisys.ctos_bb
Subject: 3B1 Keycaps wanted
Keywords: AT&T, 3B1, keycaps wanted
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:34:04 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: Unisys Unix Systems Group, San Jose, CA

Posted for a friend, please reply to him directly
Reply to: Robert Lewis <pacbell.com!sco.com!robertle@sco.UUCP>

We briefly discussed the possiblity of you posting a request
for the keycaps I need to restore my 3B1-keyboard.
If that is still possible then I may have a chance of making
this keyboard whole again.

Their are two styles of keyboards mostly seperated by age.
I need the two keycaps from the newer style keyboard.
These are the down arrow (Roll) and the right arrow keycaps.
These are the bottom, rightmost keys on the keyboard.

The new keycaps which are the ones which I want have a very small,
approximately 1/8 inch by 1/16 inch rectangular-section stud on their
underside which is made entirely of white plastic.  The stud fits into
a rectangular-section socket on the keyboard.  This socket is made of
brown plastic, and takes the form of a 3/8 by 1/4 inch protrusion or
stud which has the necessary rectangular socket hole in its top.

To differentiate a description of the old style keycaps follow.
The old style keycaps have a white plastic socket in the bottom
of them which is square in section and about 3/16 inches in inside
side length or 1/4 inches in outside side length.  This socket fits
over a white plastic stem on the keyboard which is square in section,
about 3/16 inches in outside side length, and has a small round hole
in the center.  The old keycaps also have a soft clear plastic boot
on their undersides which is about 1/2 inches in inside diameter, and
is circular in section.  

Your help much appreciated,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
From: symborski@hns.com (Carl Symborski)
Subject: Re: PLM programming query
Organization: Hughes Network Systems Inc.
Distribution: hns
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:00:59 GMT

In article <id.OCRS.SBE@ferranti.com>, kunkee@ferranti.com (randy kunkee) writes:
|> In article <MAYER.92Aug26102743@porky.sono.uucp> mayer@sono.uucp (Ron Mayer) writes:
|> >Yeah, me too.  Unless you have a huge codebase of existing PL/M code
|> >which needs to be maintained, I'd _strongly_ recommend switching to C
|> >(or c++, fortran, lisp, forth, teco, assembly language, or anything
|> >but PL/M (1/2 :-)).
|> >
|> 
|> Ditto for us.
|> 

AMEN TO THIS!  There is no reason to begin a new development effort in PL/M

|> >
|> >Also, on a similar subject, has anyone had any experience with any of
|> >these things, could you let me know your opinions of them:
|> >
|> >    The plm front end for GCC supposedly being developed by someone at
|> >    the "Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for
|> >    Information Processing (VTT/TIK)"
|> >
|> >    The PL/M-86 to C converter by
|> >    "Micro-Processor Services, Inc.; (516) 499 4461"
|> >
|> >
|> >    Ron Mayer
|> >    mayer@acuson.com
|> 
|> 
|> I've spoken to the MPS folks, and decided that our PLM code was too
|> idiosyncratic to work well with them.  We have Robert Ankeney's
|> translater and will be enhancing it ourselves to translate PLM to C.
|> Still, if your PLM is not very convoluted, MPS might work well.  We
|> just had some different ideas about how things should be done.
|> 

We tried the MPS product on our "well maintained" PL/M code.  As Randy
suggests the translator didn't work that well due to the clever hacks
which we have been done to our code over the years.  We also tried Robert
Ankeney's PD translator.... it dumped core on the same test cases!!

In the end we choose to stick with the MPS product.  They have been
helpful to us by making some changes to the translator to help in our
conversion.  For a lot of things it does a good job. Still, there are some changes which need to be made either pre or post conversion.  After looking at the PD converter sources it will be easier for us to whip up a simple pre/post processor....at least for our code.

Carl Symborski

Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
From: usenet@news.udel.edu
Subject: Cyrix Chips, 486DLC
Btw: Has anyone heard any dirt about the new processor in development by Cyrix that supposedly out performs the P5?  I just read it in PC Weak.  Thanks.
Originator: 32616@brahms.udel.edu
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:22:45 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
From: 32616@brahms.udel.edu (Alexander Ti Schwarm)
Subject: Cyrix Chips
Organization: University of Delaware
            32616@brahms.udel.edu
 
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:14:32 GMT