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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Calling man for 'two-word' subjects?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:31:23 GMT

Kestutis Sliupas (kestas@lith.UUCP) wrote:
: Hi:
: 	I was wondering how to access man articles for 'two-
: worded' subjects; ie 'modem control'? I can't find it in the manual,
: man modemcontrol, man modem-control and man modem_control all fail.
: Suggestions?

Type <man "modem control">, that's all.
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From: tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us (Tundra Tim Daneliuk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:17:30 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: TundraWare

<.
.
.
>
> I'd be willing to try, but I don't own a tape drive.  I am going to purchase
> one (or 2 -- OS/2 has a 120meg drive, and I don't want to back that
> up on floppy!).  I've written a SCSI driver for microchannel before, and
> after that disaster (you should see what MCA is like -- it's great for
> everyone except the programmer) this shouldn't be too bad.  I can look
> at the Linux drivers for the particulars since they also support non-SCSI
> QIC format.
>
> Can anyone recommend a tape drive besides colorado?  If I buy one, I'll
> start playing with it.
>
> : Anybody willing to give this a try?  Or should we try and convince
> : Colorado systems to change their mind?
>
> If they have a lousy attitude, I'd say let's move on.
>
> -Louis
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>  Louis J. Giliberto, Jr.   ! magus@drktowr.chi.il.us
>    -sysadmin drktowr       ! lgilibe@orion.it.luc.edu
>   Chicago, IL  USA         !
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>

I regularly use the Archive Viper 250 (250 Meg) SCSI drive - it is an
excellent product.  I get between 6 and 7 Megs per minute writing tar
files under PC-DOS with an Adaptec 1542B controller (you need a shareware
DOS driver called ASPITAPE available on Compuslurp - $20 and well worth it.
Comes with relevant ports of tar and mt.)  I also just bought a Wangtek
525 Meg SCSI unit which also seems to work beautifully.  Archive also
makes a 525 Meg Viper which I've not personally used.

Although the initial investment for SCSI is high, its worth it IMHO because
your investment it protected over a variety of machine architectures and
the performance is tremendous. An internal Viper 250 (half-height) is
$499 and the external is $599. The Viper 525 is $100 more in each case as
I recall.  I buy from:

                NCA Peripherals
                1190 Miraloma Way
                Sunnyvale, CA 94086
                (408) 739-9010

Their external cabinet is very nice: small footprint and well made.  These
guys are also a pleasure to work with.  I'm very happy with their service
and willingness to answer stupid questions on the fone.

Currently, the COH Adaptec driver does not support tape properly, but
it is in the works according to MWC.  For what its worth, there is no
SCSI adapter worth considering other than the 1542B IMHO.  It is supported
by almost everyone, its fast, reliable, and compatible.

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From: foster@GVLS1.VFL.PARAMAX.COM (Foster Schucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:37:43 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: Kiteflyers Roost

jay@rslap.mwc.com (Jay Alter) writes:

> >
> > David Scholten (scholten@esseye.si.com) wrote:
> > :
> > : Well, I called Colorado systems today, and they made it clear that
> > : they would not support Coherent.  However, if somebody else wrote
> > : the device drivers, they might consider becoming the maintainers.
> >
>
> We have been in touch with CMS and they have sent us what we need in terms of
> technical information.  Support for CMS drives is planned and we will let
> everyone know when support is available.
>
Jay,

  Thanks!!  I look forward to seeing the drivers.  I depend on my system,
  backups to floppy are not cutting it.

Foster Schucker == foster@nzkites.uucp == 215-458-8354 (voice)
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Thursday, 10 Dec 1992 17:12:36 EST
From: <ADVI8705@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: dos commands help wanted

I had the same problem. When you install coherent it gives access to a dos
partition from root.  To be able to doscp from other accounts you have to set
the permissions on the file appropriately.  If you have other users on your
system it's probably a good idea to make it readable to world and when you
want to write to your dos partition just login as root.
From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs - how big is it?
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:51:44 GMT
Organization: DarkTower Software
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

H.C. Pulley (hcp@csx.cciw.ca) wrote:
: Just out of interest: how big is Gnu Emacs?  Without virtual memory people will
: need to know how big it is before they can run it.  I am a vi man myself, but
: some users want a full Emacs.  I have 8MB of RAM.  How much of that will be 
: eaten up?

A full emacs would also be great for using gdb when GCC gets ported.

-Louis
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From: root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coh/linux/gcc/etc
Date: 13 Dec 92 06:16:21 GMT
Organization: RWSYS Exporter BBS system

shendrix@PCS.CNU.EDU (Charles Shannon Hendrix) writes:
> > I was quoted $49 for GCC.
> 
>         A little high for a GCC compiler don't you think?  If they put
> it on raven or some other public access, with complete source, then the
> $49 for those who don't have net access is OK.  A little high, but OK.
> 

Sounds like it might be a license violation. 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: brianw@philips.oz.au (Brian Wallis)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 03:40:22 GMT
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Subject: ide + floppy controllers, Floppy access failes

I have a disk controller of some unlabeled Taiwanese brand that controls
up to two IDE hard disks and two floppies (High Density).

This works fine on normal DOS access to the floppies but tends to fail
when using backup programs like fastback and PCBackup.

It also fails completly when running Coherent 4.0. (It was never too
reliable under minix either)

The common thread here seems to be whether or not DMA is used to the
floppies.

Has anyone had similar problems and found a fix or should I just go
out a buy another IDE controller on the off chance that it might work?

thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: ksh@hobbes.ds.boeing.com (K. Scott Hunziker)
Subject: Re: Calling man for 'two-word' subjects?
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:29:40 GMT

Kestutis Sliupas (kestas@lith.UUCP) wrote:
: 	I was wondering how to access man articles for 'two-
: worded' subjects; ie 'modem control'?

Just quote it, like

    man 'modem control'

Scott Hunziker
ksh@hobbes.ds.boeing.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me if there is a screen saver?
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:59:56 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Dec15.211531.21340@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> jim@pisaro.enet.dec.com (Jim Hodges) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've seen a couple of mentions in this newsgroup about a screen saver.
>Is there a screen
>saver for Coherent? Is it on the BBS? If so, could someone give me a
>pointer as to where?

There is a screensaver built into Coherent, but it only works with HGA
and monochrome cards.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Subject: perl??
Originator: vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:52:06 GMT

has anyone out there got perl working on coherent yet?    

thanks in advance
	vic spicer

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vic spicer, recent PERL convert/ data systems,instrument electronics and
software person with the Time of Flight Mass Spec. Lab
at the University of Manitoba Dept. of Physics
From: root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: GCC etc
Date: 13 Dec 92 06:14:01 GMT
Organization: RWSYS Exporter BBS system

tpa10@snappy-tom.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Thomas P. Anderson) writes:
> 
[ much deleted... }
> 
> How about it guys and gals?  Lets leave the COMPILER writing to the gang at
> MWC (it's what THEY do best!).  Why saddle ourselves with a compiler that has
> to bow and scrape to the idol of portability?  The vendor knows his environment
> and how to optomize for it.  The people at MWC could, i'm sure, build an ANSI
> compliant compiler that would run rings around GCC.  In the meantime why don't
> we do something productive, like build a CFRONT that spits out code to use the
> existing cc on Coherent?  Who knows, if we build it correctly, it may even 
> run on the 3.xx versions. 
> -- 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Tom Anderson                    |  Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam
> Compatability Software Products |     e tenebras ad luce!
> tpa10@css.amdahl.com  x63115    |  - someone famous, i'm sure!
> 
Whatsa CFRONT?
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From: tpa10@snappy-tom.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Thomas P. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Additional library directories
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:08:10 GMT

[...horror story about failed CNEWS port and Coherent shell...]
Just wondering, now that we have tcsh available to us, will that get
you past those problems?  Seems a shame to give up after all that 
work.

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Compatibility Software Products |     e tenebras ad luce!
tpa10@css.amdahl.com  x63115    |  - someone famous, i'm sure!
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: please move linux-only discussion to comp.os.linux
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:03:01 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <1992Dec16.124906.16945@csx.cciw.ca>, hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley) writes:
> The title says it all.  The next time I read a linux-only message on this 
> group, the word linux and the names of some people who only post about linux 
> and have admitted that they don't even run Coherent any more are going into my 
> kill file!
> 
> comp.os.linux is there for a reason.  Use it!
> 
> Sincerely, a satisfied Coherent user,
> 

I'm a little surprised to hear you say this, Harry.  I've found to
be a reasonable person in the past and someone who is quite into the
"hacker ethic".  As Coherent and Linux seem to attract the same types
of users, I don't see how an occasional "intermingling" of the groups
hurts us at all.

If you feel that this attitude makes me an "undesirable" please feel
free to put me in your kill file.  That's what they're for...


Cheers,

Chris
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coh/linux/gcc/etc
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:35:58 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats

In article <BzIoDA.Hzv@well.sf.ca.us> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>In article <9212159277@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
>>Any commercial C++ compiler you
>>would buy would easily be >$300
>
>Nope.  Comeau C++ 3.0 With Templates is the most diversely ported
>commercial C++ anywhere, and quite a number of our ports cost $250.

So how much is the Coherent port?

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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Testing trn 2.2
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:07:04 GMT

I'm testing the newsreader TRN 2.2, please ignore.
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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: missing system calls
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:05:07 GMT

Grant Edwards (grante@aquarius.rosemount.com) wrote:
: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: : I would like to collect a list of system calls which are missing in
: : COHERENT 4.0, but are available under System V.3. This list may
: : help a lot while porting programs from SV.3 to COHERENT. So if you
: : know about some missing system calls please mail me about them.
: : I'll collect all the stuff and post a collected list of what I get.
: : Thanks for your help!
: 
: We should also make up a list of any SVr3 calls that _are_ in Coherent
: but don't operate identically. 

Also a good idea! So please mail all the informations you have about this
and I'll collect them for a list.
There are differences between system calls and missing library functions!
But I also could collect a list about the later one and look through
my sources what I have here. Missing library functions aren't a problem
because we could write them by our own or port them over from Linux
or 386BSD. We could build 'libPW.a' (under SV a commonly used lib with
additional functions) from this functions to make porting easyer.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: cbenson@adobe.com (Craig Benson)
Subject: I need help installing Coherent
Summary: System hangs after 1st floppy
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:32:38 GMT

Hi:

I just tried to install Coherent 4.0.1B on my system at home,
and when I booted it, after installing the software off the
first floppy, it booted the system, printed the serial number,
then stopped (i.e. no more activity came from the system).  I
then had to cold start the system.

My system is configured as follows:

	Orchid Superboard 486/VLB - 486DX-50 (256K cache, 16MB RAM)
	Orchid VLB S3 chipset VL-bus video adapter (1MB RAM)
	Adaptec 1540B SCSI controller (default configuration)
		Maxtor 213MB HD at ID 0
		Maxtor 340MB HD at ID 1
		Texel 3024 CD-ROM at ID 2
	IDE/floppy/serial/parallel controller (I don't have the
	make of the board; however, it is named the "B237 2S/1P
	1G/FDD/EHDI Super IDE", made, I think, in Taiwan)
		Maxtor 80MB HD
		5.25 HD floppy
		3.5 HD floppy
		Com 1 is disabled
	Modem card at Com 3
	Fax card
	Media Vision PAS-16 sound card (default configuration)

While installing, the system looked like everything worked fine.  
It was only when I tried to continue the installation that things 
stopped.

The partitioning of my hard disks are as follows:

	Disk 0 (80MB IDE)
		0 - 30MB DOS
		1 - 50MB Coherent
	Disk 1 (213MB SCSI) 
		0 - 213MB DOS
	Disk 2 (340MB SCSI)
		0 - 100MB DOS
		1 - 150MB Windows NT File System
		2 - 90MB Coherent

As a side note, I'm having no problems running Windows NT or 
DOS 5.0.  Since I have a bootable windows partition on Disk 2,
I left the boot sector alone, and changed the active boot
partition to Coherent.  Once I get Coherent up, I will figure
out how to modify the Win NT boot.ini file to boot Coherent.

Am I missing something obvious (I hope...), or does anyone
have any suggestions?

Thanks for your help,

_-_- Craig Benson
cbenson@mv.us.adobe.com (at work)
craig@cbsoft.boy.com (at home)
(415) 962-6004

ps:  running on the assumption that I am going to get this
working, the install script only allowed me to set up 
DOS access to one partition.  How do I set up multiple
DOS partitions under Coherent?  Thanks again.
From: hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen)
Followup-To: comp.os.coherent
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: HELP pse w/uucico
Keywords: help,uucico,uucp
Organization: HPHBBS-COHERENT User Conference/Germany (CUC-Ger)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 14:33:27 +0100

In article <3-PCNews-124beta@n8hsp.ncoast.org> tbell@n8hsp.ncoast.org writes:
>Hi,
>I have been trying without any success to get my machine to call out.
>I've read the manual SEVERAL times but I guess something just isn't
>clicking in the ole nogin. Following is a debug session and asso files.
>I have a 1200bps modem in com1: (I have to keep the 2400bps in the
>MSDOS machine to keep my mail/news feeds happy). As sson as I get
>COH uucico running I will switch modems. Any help, most APPRECIATED.
>
>====================================================================
>System Name "wariat", debug=9 (Fri Dec 11 03:47:32 1992) (V4.0.04S)
>Thinking of calling system: wariat
>checktime(Any) = Ok to call now
>12/11 03:47:32 [wariat]: Calling site wariat {117} (V4.0.04S)
>Trying to connect at speed 1200
>Calling phone# 4819436
>12/11 03:47:32 [wariat]: Dial failed, Line Problem {117}
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            Look out the involved tty line. I'd bet you had a 'getty'
            running on that line (i.e. it was enabled for logins previously) 
            and now access rights for that line are set to: 
            	'rwx------ root root'.
            Make the line publicly accessible again: 
            	'chmod 666 /dev/com?l'
            	'chown bin /dev/com?l'
            	'chgrp bin /dev/com?l'	
                          


Regards, Peter
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From: geis@miles.com (Jerry Geis)
Subject: down arrow key with wyse60 confusion???
Organization: Miles Inc., Diagnostics Division, Elkhart, IN
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:54:06 GMT

netters,
	I am using a wyse60 along with Coherent 4.0 and everything
seems perfect except the DOWN key on the wyse60 gives me hex A or a LF
and when you press the return key it also gives me hex A or a LF.

	How do you distinguish which key is being pressed??? I need
to do two different actions depending on which key is pressed. Any
help is appreciated.

	Jerry Geis		geis@miles.com
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: Mark_Ward@mindlink.bc.ca (Mark Ward)
Subject: Re: bbs
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:35:12 GMT

                Coconut computing in California is just releasing Coconet bbs
for Coherent.  It is a graphical bbs and is incredible.  Contact Brian Dear
at
619-456-0815 bbs(incredible to see) or info@coconut.com

                        Mark
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From: dfilip@colornet.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Elm
Keywords: elm
Date: 12 Dec 92 16:18:07 GMT
Distribution: world
Summary: Installation of Elm under Coherent 4.0
Organization: ColorNet Information Systems

Richard Clemens writes :
>Okay, I got Elm and unzip downloaded from mwcbbs and successfully
>unziped elm (some files wanted to overwrite others) but am unsure
>of the next step.  Read some of the document files but perhaps nothing
>is as basic as I need.

Richard, I will mail you instructions I have put together, since I have
posted it here before and don't want to waste the bandwidth.

However, perhaps more detailed instructions should be posted on MWCBBS with
Elm ? This seems to be a fairly recurring question, and the MWCBBS distribution
is not that clean.

If anyone can tell me how to do this, I will.

Regards,

Dave.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: joe@chaos.cs.umn.edu ()
Subject: Need help with ide installation on 4.0
Summary: Trying to install coherent 4.0 on IBM laptop lx40
Keywords: laptop
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: w
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:16:05 GMT

We have an ibm l40 sx (386 sx).  When we try to install Coherent
4.0, it fails with message something like: fdisk cannot access
default devices.  We took the system apart. It has a conners 
disk drive with surface mount parts, so I assume it is an ide.
The drive is 60 megabytes and uses 38 tracks per sector.  There
are lots of WD parts inside, so it must be using some WD asics
to implement the disk driver.  

Any ideas?

joe@chaos.cs.umn.edu (128.101.224.23)
"Who's got time for a sig file anyway????"

Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent