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From: pcb@gunfight.austin.ibm.com (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: one more try...AIX PS/2 1.3 info.
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:06:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: *IX Open Systems, IBM Boca Raton


Greetings,
FYI...at Unix Expo 92 in NYC...
If you have AIX PS/2 versions < 1.3, you can get 1.3 for free until Dec.,
call you local IBM rep.


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AIX PS/2 VERSION 1.3 ANNOUNCED

September 21, 1992

IBM today announced AIX(tm) PS/2 Operating System Version 1.3 and its
associated Licensed Program Products (LPPs) which offers enhanced
application performance, improved memory management, and enriched
graphics support in a UNIX (tm) based operating environment for Intel*
based systems, utilizing both IBM Micro Channel or IBM AT-Bus
architectures.  In addition, AIX PS/2 Operating System V1.3 will offer
support for a selected OEM hardware configurations, certifying them on
a per bid basis.

Demonstrating IBM's strong commitment to open systems, AIX PS/2
supports interoperability with other AIX, UNIX(tm), IBM and non-IBM
systems.

Highlights:

o Full POSIX IEEE 1003.1 1988 standard compliance
o Provides full PS/2 hardware support and exploitation for
  new models of IBM PS/2
o Offers limited support for selected IBM compatible systems
o Graphics Support Library for 2D font assist graphics using
  XGA Hardware Assist
o Enhanced Windowing and Graphical User Interface through
  X Windows V11R5 and Motif 1.1.3
o Multiple concurrent DOS 5.0 sessions under DOS Merge
o Improves performance
o Connects easily to IBM and non-IBM networks
o EZ_Utilities simplifies installation and system management
o Adds Korn Shell

AIX PS/2 Operating System V1.3 and its associated LPPs will be
availble on October 2, 1992.

* Intel386(tm) and Intel486(tm)
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For further announcement information, see announcement letter 292-528
on HONE or contact Tami Garneau at TL 443-3204 or outside
(407) 433-3204 or via PROFS BCRVMPC1(TAMARA).



We also showed some follow on work based on Mache 3.0 (osf/1 and dos).
We had technology demos of x11r5/motif 1.2/osf/1/mach3.0 
and flight simulator/dos5/mach 3.0.  Pretty cool stuff.

Thanks for your time,
Peter

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: What document to request to get info on AIX assembly language?
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:16:40 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J Watson Research Center

csh@lanl.gov (Charles S. Henkel) writes:
>   Someone mentioned here recently the name of the document which
>   describes the AIX assembly language. Anyone remember what that is? A
>   document number would be helpful also.

This is probably what you're looking for; it's also available on the CDROM
version of info.

Pub No: SC23-2197-01    Date: 2/20/92    Medium: MANUL    Pages: 464
Title: Assembler Language Reference for AIX Ver.3 for RISC System/6000

	-Lucien
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: reidc@syscen.com (Reid Carson/Development)
Subject: Paging space, SIGDANGER, etc.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:19:37 GMT
Reply-To: reidc@syscen.com
Organization: Systems Center, Inc.

-
  Having recently had an RS/6000 inflicted upon - err, graciously donated to -
me, I've begun reading this newsgroup.  I've been interested in the discussion
of the AIX malloc and SIGDANGER business, since it seems to explain some of the
problems I've been dealing with, but I still have a question.

  For background, I'm running AIX 3.2, and using olvwm, the Open Look virtual
window manager.  I've recompiled olvwm, and relinked the X server, to catch
SIGDANGER, and achieved a minimal level of stability (I can work now for a few
hours at a stretch).  Still, at some point, various processes, including olvwm,
get killed.

  What puzzles me is that I'm running with 52 MB of paging space, and periodic
checks with 'lsps -a' never show the % used over 50 percent.  Then, I do
something, usually exiting a window, and bang!  I'm hosed.  Once this happened
when I logged out of an xterm window immediately after doing the 'lsps'.

  Can anyone shed any light on this?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano)
Subject: Re: Starting X at reboot
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:29:06 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.
Keywords: X, reboot, console

In article <1992Sep24.215401.12740@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
>In article <262@emtek.UUCP> todd@emtek.UUCP (Todd Taylor) writes:
>>Does anyone know if there is a way to automatically start X at
>>reboot time as a specified user other than root?
>
>i don't know if you can hack this up to be non root somehow
>but this is what we do here.  It may be buggy.
>----------------------------------------
>
>we have a machine here doing that
>in /etc/inittab it has these two crucial lines:
>
>hft0:2:respawn:/etc/getty /dev/hft/0
>xinit:2:respawn:/usr/local/bin/xstart < /dev/hft/1 > /dev/hft/1 2>&1
>

[ xstart script deleted ] ...

Clever, but why not use xdm?? You get a login screen under X ...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: laubner@ipk.fhg.de (Guido Laubner)
Subject: Does IBM support POSIX.1 ?
Keywords: IBM AIX aix posix POSIX
Organization: IPK Berlin, Inst. fuer Produktionsanlagen- und Konstruktionstechnik der FHG
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:22:04 GMT


Hi,
i'm working with different partners in a european r&d - project for
robot simulation. Currently, we are studying whether the POSIX.1 standard
fulfills our requirements as an independent interface layer to operating 
system-dependent funcionalities.  Because there's a lot of different machines
and operating systems involved, i (badly) need some information on POSIX
on certain platforms.
One plattform is IBM RS 6000 ( AIX ).
Here are my questions :

1. Does Sun support POSIX.1 ?

   I have to use the following system calls ( as specified in POSIX.1 ) :
      - creat     ( Creates a new file or rewrites an existing one )
      - unlink    ( Removes a directory entry )
      - open      ( Opens a file )
      - close     ( Closes a file )
      - read      ( Reads from a file )
      - write     ( Writes to a file )
      - fork      ( Creates a process )
      - execve    ( Executes a file )
      - wait      ( Waits for process termination )
      - waitpid   ( Waits for process termination too )
      - sigaction ( Examines and changes signal action )
      - kill      ( Send a signal to a process )
      - pipe      ( Creates an interprocess channel )

2. If Sun does not support POSIX.1, is it possible to simulate
   POSIX.1 - systemcall behaviour with existing systemcalls ?

3. If Sun does not support POSIX.1, do they want do to so ?
   Are there any anouncements ? When will they do ?

4. Is SunOs sys5-style or bsd-style unix ?

I thank you for any help, hints or comments one this questions.
Please reply via email. Thanks a lot !!
                                                Guido
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IPK Berlin                             Voice : +49 30 39006166
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From: se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Does the Fujitsu M2652SA 1.7GB drive work on a RS/6000 (AIX 3.2.0) ?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 22:00:31 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: snert.ikp.uni-koeln.de

Another institute recently bought some M2652SA drives for their main file 
server and had the machine crash soon after installation because of duplicate 
allocations of fs blocks.

Is there any known problem with this drives or is a special jumper setting or
format (eg. number and placement of alternate sectors) neccessary ?

I'd also like to hear if you got this drive working (especially if you have 
*all* of the drive allocated to file systems, since the problem doesn't show 
up until you utilize all of the drive ...).

We considered buying several of these drives and are holding back our order.

Thanks in advance,

STefan
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: paulm@storcon.UUCP (Paul Moreau)
Subject: Aix sendmaiiil probs
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:05:14 GMT
Organization: Storage Concepts, Inc.
Keywords: From Sun to AIX to UUCP

   I'm having problems here sending mail from a SUN workstation to UUNET
   connected to AIX RS/6000.    I can send mail to anyplace from the AIX
   system itself but when sent from another system connected to it the
   AIX systems (I think...) keeps adding an @storcon at the end.  Here
   is a portion of the sendmail debug output from my sun:

Version 4.1
storcon!dorjam!paulm... Connecting to storcon via ether...
Trying 192.112.62.1...  connected.^M
220 storcon Sendmail AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 ready at Wed, 30 Sep 1992 07:44:30 -0700
>>> HELO engr
250 storcon Hello engr (paulsun)
>>> MAIL From:<paulm@paulsun>
250 <paulm@paulsun>... Sender is valid.
>>> RCPT To:<dorjam!paulm@storcon>
250 <dorjam!paulm@storcon>... Recipient is valid.
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail. End with the . character on a line by itself.
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 storcon: closing the connection.
storcon!dorjam!paulm... Sent

   I hope somebody can help with this....   Thanx

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From: bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Bob Ware)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: restoring mksysb backup?
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:20:15 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
: I've been working on setting up backup scripts/procedures for our RS/6000's
: (AIX 3.2.2). In the most simple case of restoring an mksysb image from 
: an install server, I notice that ethernet configuration info isn't recovered.
: This is a real mess when things like NFS/NIS, remote mounts, etc are
: all trying to start once I hit the return key in reponse to "Turn your
: system key to Normal, press enter to reboot". 
: 
: Invaribly, I spend a while "hacking" via smit to reconfigure the ethernet
: device/stopping ip daemons, etc. I have yet to find an outline of just
: how this is supposed to happen. Perhaps I'm naive to expect that a FULL
: system restore should restore vital device configuration information.
...
I grab appropriate lines from smit.script for things that may not get
installed properly and put them in my own shell scripts.  This speeds up
recovery/installation.
-- 
Bob Ware, System Administrator 
Computing and Networking, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co 80401, USA
(303) 273-3987
bware@mines.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rmccoy@rock.concert.net (Ron McCoy - Yale Security)
Subject: AIX/RS6000 FAQ
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:51:28 GMT

I just browsed the newsgroup for the FAQ and couldn't find it. Could
someone point me to the FAQ FTP site?

Thanks,
Rmccoy@rock.concert.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: root@bssi.nl
Subject: File size of 'tmp' files for 'vi'
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:22:30 GMT
Organization: Baan Service b.v.
Keywords: vi aix 


When editing a file in 'vi' a temporary file is created in
the '/tmp'-directory. The name of this file is '/tmp/Ex0< PID vi >'.

The size of this file should be zero when no modifications are
done. However file isn't zero allways. For example: when editting a
small file ( 512 bytes ) a 'tmp' file is created of size 20480 !!!.

Does anyone is familiar with this problem and/or has a solution ?


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: horst@faui63.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Horst Luehrsen)
Subject: mxrn Newsreader for RS/6000 - AIX 3.1.5 Motif 1.0
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:00:49 GMT
Keywords: mxrn, Newsreader, xrn, dxrn

I compiled DEC's version of xrn, called dxrn/mxrn on my RS/6000 with AIX 3.1.5
and Motif 1.0 and it works really fine - you only have to fix a little bug.

dxrn 6.17-18 can be found on decuac.dec.com or gatekeeper.dec.com in pub/DEC
(dxrn.tar.Z). On the RS/6000, you can use the Makefile.motif to build
mxrn with the following changes:
	CC = cc -O
	DEFINES = -DMOTIF -DMOTIF_V1_0 -DutTempnam=tempnam
	INSTALL = /usr/ucb/install
	XTOOLLIB = -lXt
	MTOOLLIB = -lXm
	INCLUDES = 

In xthelpers.c there's a little bug:
In xthTextWidth() replace "int cols" with "short int cols". This bug only
affects big-endian systems, therefore DEC hasn't fixed it yet.

	Horst
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shiao@ans.net (Dennis Shiao)
Subject: Re: Xarchie on IBM Xstation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:29:53 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY


In article <1992Sep30.064228.13235@newshost.anu.edu.au> xinmin@cain.anu.edu.au (Xinmin Wang) writes:

>Does anybody have the experience of running xarchie on the IBM Xstation 120?
>I have a problem of displaying it. Currently there is no typing cursor in the
>`search term' box so nothing appears when I type the keyword I want to search
>for. This Xstation's host is a RISC/6000 running AIX 3.2 and has got X11R5
>installed. Xarchie works fine on the host's console and other kind of X 
>terminals connected to the same host. Therefore I assume that xarchie has been 
>installed properly and the problem might lie in the Xstation configuration or
>X11R5 configuration.

I had the same problem -- I think you have to increase the geometry width
of the "Search Term" widget to be able to see the cursor.

-Dennis.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x.pex
From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Subject: Mixing graPHIGS and ISO-phigs?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:45:17 GMT

Hi,

For the last two years, I wrote most of my graphics tools in graPHIGS
(2.2.1, and C, running on our RS/6000, AIX 3.1.5, X11R3).
Last week, we upgraded AIX to 3.1.6, and graPHIGS to 2.2.3, which
offers me the opportunity to write in ISO-phigs and thus port everything
to our SUNs running X11R5. However, this ISO-phigs implementation lacks
some advanced (phigs plus) features, such as lighting, Gouraud shading,
transparency processing, and direct colour settings.

Is it possible to add these feautures to my ISO-phigs programs, e.g.
using graPHIGS calls? (all right, I know this reduces portability to a
low level, but I just have to live with that).
I tried it, and my program gets simply 'Killed'.
To be more precise, I tried:
	...
	popen_struct(strid);	/* open structure */
	GPICD(red);		/* set interior colour direct */
	pfill_area(area);	/* fill area */
	...
Which does not work with the GPICD call, but does without.

Marcel.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,bit.listserv.aix-l,bit.listserv.power-l
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Re: Wang OPEN/image AIX client server imaging starts shipments
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 06 Oct 92 13:38:23 EST

Regarding that posting which you may have happened to notice, we
can confirm that we are now in volume shipping of our new Wang Labs
client-server RS/6000-based document imaging.  Please feel free to
send in any questions to our worldwide Imaging Club network, and I'll
broadcast them.  Let's keep the discussion on that network.  Thanks!

----------------------Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com-------------------

The Wang Integrated Imaging System (recently ranked as the number one
document imaging system by Computerworld) has been ported to AIX, with
equivalent or better functionality, and named OPEN/image for AIX.
Customer shipments began in September.

While "many vendors have been mimicking WIIS...., Wang has stayed ahead
by adding color and gray-scale support.  Wang is the only major
document imaging vendor to have achieved this," said Rich Barrett, manager
of the client/server component of the product.   The development group
also significantly improved the speed of black and white images.

Full information and demonstrations are now available from any
Wang office or Wang imaging business partner worldwide.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: wimvh@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Holder)
Distribution: world
Date: Friday, 2 Oct 1992 16:07:41 +01
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Applied Economic Sciences Department
Subject: CD Player program - WHERE ?


Recently, I asked how to get the CD player posting (that didn't reach our
site undamaged). Because our system has been down for a few days, I didn't
get possible replies.

So, for the last time, where can I get a working cd player program for my
RS/6000 ?


Regards,

Wim Van Holder
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven          Tel: ++32 (0)16/28.57.16
Departement T.E.W.                      FAX: ++32 (0)16/28.57.99
Dekenstraat 2
B-3000 Leuven                           E-mail: wimvh@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be
BELGIUM                                         fdbaq03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hurf@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Hurf Sheldon)
Subject: AIX 3.2 rcp problem
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:34:14 GMT

	We have an RS6000, 3.2AIX . The rcp command with the RS6000
	as the target fails with 'lost connection'  or 
	'Lost connection - remote host returned end of file' message. I 
	looked closely at /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/services and don't see
	anything wrong. 'remsh' with the RS600 as a target works
	intermittently but fails with no messages.

	Places to look for problems would be a big help.
	(I have /etc/hosts.equiv set up with upper & lower case,
	just in case, /.rhosts is 600 owner root )

Thanks

hurf
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From: tom@weaver.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Tom Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: New RS/6000 performance numbers, please.
Keywords: SPEC92
Date: 26 Sep 92 01:43:02 GMT
Reply-To: tvweaver@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Tom Weaver)
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: IBM DSD, Kingston NY
Originator: tom@weaver.aix.kingston.ibm.com


In article <92268.084002MACKINNO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, MACKINNO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (James MacKinnon) writes:
> Are SPEC92 figures available for these machines? 

 The following is a summary of current RS/6000 performance ratings.

 Benchmark
 (metric)    220  320H   340   350  520H  530H   550   560   580   970   980
 ---------  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----

 Date Ann.  1/92  3/91  1/92  1/92  1/92 10/91 10/90  1/92  9/92  4/92  9/92

 SPECint92  16.6  21.5  27.9  35.4  21.5  28.5  36.2  43.2  59.1  47.8  59.2

 NOTE : Values shown above are the results of development-level systems.
        While these values should be indicative of generally-available
        systems, no warranties or guarantees are stated or implied by IBM.
        IBM recommends application-oriented testing for performance
        prediction and offers the above commonly reported benchmarks only
        as an initial indicator.
From: gjb@fig.citib.com (Greg Brail)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: async IO on aix 3.2
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:17:41 GMT
Organization: Citibank IBISM

In article <97478@bu.edu> jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) writes:
>Do you need to link with a special library (flags?) to use the
>aio_read(), io_write(), etc, subroutines?

Did you try running "smit cfgaio"? If you don't do that, those routines
won't work and you'll see those routines as undefined symbols at run time.

				greg
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Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:10227 comp.os.mach:1416 comp.unix.osf.osf1:2
From: yk7m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Young-Kuk Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: AIX3.2 OSF DCE support
Keywords: pthread
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:09:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Sep30.160929.11669
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department


Hi,

I heard that AIX3.2 was supposed to support
DCE (OSF's Distributed Computing Envirenment).
Anyone has an idea about its current availability on
RS6000 machine?
Or, can anyone tell me IBM contact person on this matter?
E-mail address will be preferred.
I am specially interested in pthreads implementation.
Any info will be appreciated.

-- Young-kuk


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