HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: crwanke@athena.mit.edu (Craig R. Wanke)
Subject: DATA ACQUISITION on Personal Iris
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:31:57 GMT


Ho,

Does anyone out there have the names of some companies who make
data acquisition cards for the PI?  I need a card which has ~16
analog inputs and ~32 bits of digital input.  Doesn't have to be
high speed or (in the analog case) particularly accurate (8 bit
converters would be fine).

Please e-mail the responses, and I will post a summary.

Thanks for any help!
Craig Wanke
MIT Aeronautical Systems Lab
Room 37-438
Cambridge, MA 02139

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: charl@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Charl Barnard)
Subject: PCF file format
Summary: Info required : .PCF font file format
Date: 27 Jul 92 00:28:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Keywords: FONTS, .PCF

Hi, 
I am interested in the .PCF file format in which GL fonts are stored.
Can anyone help, or give me an idea on where to look for it ? Please
e-mail me at charl@ford.ee.up.ac.za if you can help.

Thanks,
Charl Barnard.

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From: vamsee@bioiris.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani)
Subject: mail configuration problem
Organization: Centre for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:02:22 GMT

We have some problem with the mail configuration.

# /etc/init.d/mail start
Mailer daemons: sendmail.
# /usr/lib/sendmail.cf: line 214:cannot open /usr/lib/uucp/Systems: Permission denied

What's the reason for this problem. How can I set it right ?

Thanks
vamsee
vamsee@tamu.edu
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From: schieb@shark.gsfc.nasa.gov (Super-User)
Subject: C call FORTRAN reference needed
Reply-To: schieb@shark.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian D. Schieber)
Organization: Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA/GSFC/GSC
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:52:00 GMT


I need a good reference for calling FORTRAN subs from C. 
There is a brief but inadequate address in the SGI FORTRAN
user's guide.  Is the method vendor specific or is there a
standard way for C to call FORTRAN? I do not seem to be able
to find any books so I assume its an individual machine thing
or that I'm going to the wrong stores....

Any help appreciated.

--brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick HURT)
Subject: sendmail and timed problems.
Summary: Problems with sendmail (mail not delivered) and timed.
Keywords: sendmail-lost mail-timed-machine not responding
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:37:13 GMT

I have two problems, here. Actually three. First one is, 
I'm not even sure I'm being read outside. Pnews tells me
"this program posts to everyone on the machine" even when
I use world distrib.

First real problem:
------------------

Just got upgraded to 4.0.1 on an Iris 4D/20. Incoming mail is 
not delivered, and not even bounced! THis happens for mail
coming from anywhere outside the machine. Local mail (internal 
to the machine) works fine. The file sendmail.cf is set up
with sendmail.cf.auto. I can send mail out, it works fine, 
but the mail coming in never shows up anywhere! I looked into
the SYSLOG fileof the Iris, and here is what I found, every time I try to
send mail to the Iris:

ir260a sendmail[5165]: AA05165: from=<thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu>, size=291, class=0, received from iitmax.^AD (192.41.245.10)
ir260a sendmail[5166]: Attempting to deliver to non-existent host ir260a.iit.edu for ir260a.iit.edu
ir260a sendmail[5166]: AA05165: to=<patrick@ir260a.iit.edu>, delay=00:00:01, stat=Host unknown
ir260a sendmail[5166]: AA05166: from=MAILER-DAEMON, size=0, class=0, received from iitmax.^AD (192.41.245.10)
ir260a sendmail[5166]: Attempting to deliver to non-existent host iitmax for iitmax
ir260a sendmail[5166]: AA05166: to=<thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu>, delay=00:00:01, stat=Host unknown


ir260a is the Iris, iitmax is another machine from which I try to send the 
mail. Pretty weird message, "non-existent host ir260a.iit.edu" since it's
the Iris itself... And it's strange that the MAILER-DAEMON doesn't even
bounce the mail. So what's the deal, there? 

Second problem:
--------------

Also found in the SYSLOG file:

ir260a timed[83]: loop breakage: no reply from ir271a=192.41.245.112 to QUIT

And a bunch of those! Timed is running with the usual default options:
-G timelords -P /usr/tmp/.timetrim

Problem is, ir271a is another machine, but it is never connected to 
the Ethernet (security). How do I get ir271a out of the group of 
machines looked at for the time averaging, so that my SYSLOG file is
no longer flooded with those messages?

Any help, hints, comments by mail or posting would be appreciated, 
even a short mail saying that you DID read this!

Thanks,
-- 
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From: lim@cs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: GL question: writing to user-defined frame buffers
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:55:11 GMT
Reply-To: lim@cs.umass.edu ()
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst


Is it possible to define some array in which all graphics output will be sent?
As it stands now, I have to open a window, call some routines to draw into a
buffer, then read from the buffer using lrectread. What I'd like to do is to
have GL draw into some array without ever opening a window. (This would be
analogous to X's capability of writing into a drawable, e.g. pixmap.) Any help
would be appreciated.


Jonathan Lim
lim@cs.umass.edu
From: fnorman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Farley Norman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: TERM and env
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:35:24 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University


  Hi, I've got what hopefully is an easy question.
I'm using telnet to log into our 310 VGX.
If I use top I get the message :

  Sorry, I need to know a more specific
terminal type than "network"

  Also, it is difficult to use vi.

  I tried using env TERM=vt100 to set
the terminal, but it didn't take.  If
I do a printenv, it then says
TERM=network

  Also, adding TERM=vt100 into my
.profile file didn't change anything.

  How can I change my TERM type so things
will work correctly ? Why is env not
working ?

       Thanks alot,

         Farley.

  fnorman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Picking and moving objects in GL
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:28:26 GMT


   Have you checked out Showcase?  I have used it to combine SGI `.rgb' files
and text.  I know you can also read in 3D data and add it to the `page', but
I haven't tryied that yet.  Showcase is standard on IRIX 4.0 and you can get
it for IRIX <4.0 for free I believe (or maybe for a small fee to cover the
cost of media).

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  NASA-Langley Research Center			  FAX:(804) 864-8469
  M.S. 361
  Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: wsj@triton.wpd.sgi.com (Bill Johnson)
Subject: Re: nsieve.c results update
Reply-To: wsj@wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world          
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 21:37:46 GMT

Using the latest release of the compilers (version 3.10) and the new
scalar C optimizer (invoked with -sopt), I was able to improve significantly
upon these results:

System           Compiler                      CPU     CPU   High  Low
---------------- --------------------------- -------  (MHz)  MIPS  MIPS
SGI Iris Crimson Irix 4.0.5, 3.10 compilers   R4000   50/100 89.1  14.7

The exact compile line used was:

 cc -mips2 -DUNIX -O3 -sopt,-inlr,-so=4,-r=3,-arl=3,-ur=8,-ur2=400

Explanation:

cc -sopt invokes the new scalar optimization pass (in /usr/lib/copt).  Optional
arguments may follow in a comma-separated list.  Those used above were:

 -inlr    inline all functions, if possible; remove if all references
	  to that function have been inlined
 -so=4    increase scalar optimization level to 4
 -r=3     increase roundoff level to 3 (ignore all round-off errors)
 -arl=3   Assume local pointers and arrays are distinct from global
          pointers and arrays, and that function arguments are
	  distinct from each other
 -ur=8    unroll loops 8 times, or until 400 operations are in the loop,
 -ur2=400 whichever comes first

Use man copt(1) for further information.

In article <1992Jul27.155003.14769@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>, doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes:
|>  Just for your information, as posted in another newsgroup. 
|> Regards 
|> Reinhard 
|> 
|> In article <1992Jul26.112657.9443@nosc.mil>, aburto@nosc.mil (Alfred A. Aburto) writes:
|> |> -------
|> |> NSIEVE.C, Version 1.2, 03 April 1992
|> |> 
|> |> Results as of 25 Jul 1992:
|> |> 
|> |> System           Compiler                    CPU     CPU   High  Low   NOTE
|> |> ---------------- ------------------------- -------  (MHz)  MIPS  MIPS  ----
|> |> 
|> |> HP 9000/730      HP-UX 8.07, cc +OS +O3    PA-RISC   66.   65.9  16.6    10
|> |> SGI Iris Crimson cc -O3 -mips2               R4000 50/100  65.4  13.3    16
|> |> SGI Iris Crimson Irix 4.0.3, cc -O4          R4000 50/100  64.8  13.1    12

<slower performance numbers deleted>

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Silicon Graphics, Inc.                             Office:(415) 390-1440
Systems Software Technology Center                    Fax:(415) 969-2314
From: thorn@cc.mcgill.ca (Ron HALL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Problems with lpd under 4.0.1
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:23:55 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Computing Centre


In a lab where I manage a network part-time, there is one machine on
which the lpd daemon keeps dying. It is an NIS client so it appears
protocol and service maps are being propagated properly. In addition
/dev/printer does not seem to be created by the lpd process and when run
with -l option syslog has the following error:

	Jul 28 09:39:22 glaurung lpd[8897]: socket: Protocol not supported
	Jul 28 09:40:05 glaurung lpd[8916]: socket: Protocol not supported
	Jul 28 10:14:21 glaurung lpd[9025]: socket: Protocol not supported

Any ideas?

Please respond directly. Given enough responses I'll digest them for 
public consumption :)

BTW:
	Trying to use lpc to start daemon produces a similar error.

-- 
       Ron Hall       | DISCLAIMER:  If you are      | "If there is a light at
       Analyst        | willing to take my word for  | the end of the tunnel,
 <thorn@cc.mcgill.ca> | it, then you are in more     | then it is time to order
   +1 514 398 3718    | trouble than you you thought | more tunnel !"
From: steved@fiji (Steve Diggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: tcopy for ULTRIX/IRIX
Date: 29 Jul 1992 19:00:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: fiji.ucsd.edu
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Does anyone have or know of any site running the BSD tape utility "tcopy"
under IRIX 4.0 or later?

Any information would be helpful.

Thanks in Advance,
-Steve
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography     FAX  : (619)534-4922
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Subject: Re: how to use /debug?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:33:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.160133.314@cs.yale.edu>, nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
|> A programmer here needs to use dbx, which requires the /debug
|> filesystem to be mounted.  The trouble is, the man page on
|> dbg/debug doesn't explain how to mount it, and neither does
|> the man info on fstab.  I don't see any candidates for mounting
|> in the /dev directory.
|> 
|> How do I mount /debug?
|> 

The /debug file system should be automagically mounted when you reboot your
system, on one condition - you need to have a /debug directory which will
allow mounting the file system.  If /debug directory is not present, the
/debug file system will not be mounted.

Here are the lines from the /etc/init.d/MOUNTFSYS script which is responsible
for doing the mounting:

	# If the /debug directory is present, mount the debug file system
	if [ -d /debug ]
	then
		/etc/mount -t dbg /debug /debug
	fi


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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: indigo security
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:57:16 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <91902@bu.edu> jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) writes:

| >See 'man prom nvram'.  Note that the bar and lock won't deter any
| >body who is really malicious, but it is a pretty good compromise.
| 
| What's the deal on prom password protection for other machines besides
| the Indigo, especially the older ones like the 4D-240?  When we got
| the CPU boards swapped recently, I assumed we'd have this ability, but
| it doesn't seem to be there.  Is there just no room in the older proms
| for this?  Is it available as a special option?  I've been trying to
| find out from various people locally, but no one seems to know.

All future ESD systems will have it, and probably all future systems
period, although I can't promise that for sure.  The 4X0 systems
have it.

PROMs for the older systems weren't integrated with the newer code
and rebuilt, although that may be done at some point.  Building
new PROMs for old machines can be a tedious and bug-prone endeavor,
when there have been many new features added in the meantime.  SGI
has seldom done this (it also means a lot of test time, and we would
rather put that into new hardware or software releases).
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Audio Questions
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:38:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu>, bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:
> ...
> Suggestion:  For the love of sanity, Someone PLEASE compile a comprehesive
>              index for the hardbound manual sets with each (major) system
>              release.

Sorry, but who should do that?  More to the point, who would?

A useful index would not be just the result of an index/TOC pass by
text processing software.  Someone must go through all of the manuals
and note the location of all of the good stuff.

The tech-writers will tell you that they do not get a fraction of the
reviewing their efforts deserve.  Programmers are too busy doing other
things that we find much more interesting than re-re-proof-reading
manuals, including wasting time on netnews.  It is very hard to read
something that goes on for pages and pages about stuff you are more
than just a little familiar with.  You're too likely to pick out a
place to improve and go work on the code.  You're too likely to read a
page or a chapter and say "sheesh.  what obvious stuff!  why do they
bother to waste paper on this?  everyone knows how that", whether
"that" is the order of implicit rule applications in sendmail, the names
of the fields in the kernel exception frame, or the undocumented args
to uucico.

This is a hard problem.


By the way, the following line in your article is not strictly legal
and probably significantly and unnecessarily reduced its propagation:

Distribution: na


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: blinkcolor always black
Date: 25 Jul 92 02:24:46 GMT

Hi,

running Personal Iris (4D25), Personal Iris Turbo (4D35TG) and Indigo/
Entry and IRIX 4.0.1 I have noticed that the blink color always remains 
black.

The effect can be shown by SGI's "blinker" demo in /usr/people/4Dgifts/
examples/glpg/ch04/blinker which is intended to blink an initially white
bar to red. However, white is blinked to black.

To get this demo running properly, insert "gflush();" after the mapcolor
instruction.

Although the man page says "blink is not supported on Iris Indigo" this
demo blinks on the machines mentioned above equally well and on all
machines with the blink color being black irrespective to what color it
is set.

I would be very grateful for any workarounds or hints. We need the blink
feature to run our 3.3.2 programs.

Regards

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 02:06:43 GMT

In <howarth.712364458@proto> howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
|              I am trying to discover if I can start up a lpd daemon to
| print to the same printer that already is being used by lp. The reason is
| that we have lp set up so that NFS can allow us to print remotely to the
| printer through lp from another Iris. However, no PC shareware supports
| lp for printing from a PC to a unix box; only lpr. Thus, I would like to
| have both lp and lpr directed at the same printing but not crashing on me
| if they fight over it. Is this possible or not?

In a word, no.  With assorted hacks you might be able to get it
to work.  I've seen scripts here that cause lpd to create lp
jobs in the past (or was it the other way around?); anyway, that
is probably the only approach that would work.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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From: dgw0224@tamsun.tamu.edu (David Guy Ward)
Subject: Novice needs help with Indigo DAT drive
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:40:22 GMT

I need some help.  We have an Indigo ELAN w/ a 1.3G DAT
however everytime I try to back it up (using the 60m tape)
it finds the drive, asks for tape volume 1 to be inserted, then
replies with "Cannot find the tape drive you are using"
yet it shows up on the system inventory.  Due to my lack of experience
w/ the machine, this is prob a blunder on my part of some kind,
but none of the people I have consulted thus far have been able
to solve the prob.  Any help in solving this situation would be 
appreciated.  Thanks.
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SCSI disk info please.
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:33:41 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <2808@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:
| In article <ni3j6m8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >In <2804@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:
| >
| >| Can anybody out there comment on these SCSI disks?  Do they work with the
| >| 4.0.x IRIX, and what are they?  Thanks.
| >| 
| >| Maxtor		XT8383S		5.25", 383Mb?  Too slow for sync. SCSI.
| >| Maxtor		XT8760S		5.25", 760Mb?  Too slow for sync. SCSI.
| >
| >Sync SCSI works on these drives, I'm not sure what 'Too slow' means;
| >it does improve the transfer rate for SGI systems.  The are a generation
| >or 2 old now, but may still be sufficient for your needs.
| >
| I have used these two drives a bit, and found that they work just fine
| on a 4D20 running any IRIX.  Having personally upgraded about a dozen
| of theses ( 4D20/Maxtor ) to 4D25s, I found that in all but 1, the disk
| could not keep up in sync. mode, and IRIX would panic.  Our experience
| in the field confirmed my experience in house.

Then you got drives with broken firmware, or something was misconfigured.
Our eval drives ran fine (I had an 8760 as my root drive for several
months, and believe, it was running in sync mode!).

Besides that, the analysis doesn't quite make sense.  I could name
one of dozens of potential firmware bugs that could cause something
to get hung up on the bus, and very few of them have anything to do
with 'keeping up'.

Unless you were running 3.2 though, I'm surprised to hear it panic'ed
the system, unless  you were getting very frequent SCSI bus resets,
in which case sooner or later you will cause a disk error that we
can't recover from (in particular, a couple of places in the swap code).
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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From: ditolla@itnsg1.cineca.it (Francesco Di Tolla)
Subject: GL distribution policy
Keywords: SGI GL
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:19:06 GMT

Hi, I'm Francesco Di Tolla from the University of Trento (Italy). 
Next september I'll be in Paris at the CECAM (Centre Europeen de
Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire) to develop a graphich tool to
visualize the dinamical evolution of a many particle system.
At the moment a program has been already developed by Valter
Cavecchia and I and it works under SGI GL using Spheres sublibrary
and FORMS (a C-library for dialogues). Next step is to develop
somthing usufull to as many UNIX machines as possible and I don't
know whether it's better to rebuild all unde X-window, or to continue
to use SGI GL, we prefer to continue to use the GL, because they are
much sinpler then X. So I've some question about the compatibility
of SGI GL whith non SG machines, if someone has some experience on
this topic, any answer would be appreciated:

- which workstation do support (or will support) SGI GL? 
  (I know that IBM-risc6000 do have them for instance)

- the IBM-risc6000 I've seen didn't support spheres sublibrary
  doe's it happen cause the impossibility to support hardware
  drawing of spheres (as it happen for some (big) SG machine)
  on IBM machine or was only due to an uncomplete installation
  of the GL library on the IBM machine I've used?
  (We use spheres to represent atoms, of course).

- are GL on machines different from SG fully compatible?

- is FORMS library compatible?

Thanks in advance

Franz

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