HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wimsey@milton.u.washington.edu (Andrew Creighton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: neuron and uucp
Keywords: neuron, modem, uucp,
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:25:06 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

However, I would like to salvage what I can on the data end.
My problem is this.  THe modem works perfectly well when I connect
to various services in terminal emulation mode.  I even can use XMODEM
and YMODEM without difficulty, (at least when receiving files).
UUCP is another story.  After much 
hair pulling I managed to get the chat scripts right --- I can dial
into my UUCP account (at netcom) with no difficulty.  But at that
point things *always* freeze.  The link refuses to sync.  (At least
I think that's what's happening.  Here is the debug output:
>\020Shere=netcomsvgot: that
>send "lamont"
>wanted ""
>got: that
>send "Q0"
>wanted ""
>got: that
>send "x6"
>root netcom (4/7-13:21-154) SUCCEEDED (call to netcom )
>imsg looking for SYNC<\0
>Connection closed.

Is this really a Neuron problem?  Is it an obscure cable problem that
would be fixed if a bought a modem cable from NeXTConnection?  (I
have an 040 turbo color slab and told that to Neuron, though there
is no physical identification on the cable that it is for the 040.)
Or am I just screwing up my management of UUCP someplace.  

They say it can blow at any seam, but my problem is that it has blown,
and there are more seams on this puppy than on the Hindenburg, and I
am pretty upset and desparate to get my UUCP link running while on 
sabbatical and I would be every so grateful for any help, assistance,
or just plain moral encouragement.

Thanks,
Andrew Creighton
wimsey@u.washington.edu  *or*
wimsey@netcom.com

P.S.  Neuron doesn't return my phone calls, either.
From: rjp@demetri.appleton.mil.wi.us (Robert J. Pankratz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ( A use for the Neuron) (was: Re: The Crippled Neuron FAX96+ and ff problems)
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:11:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: demetri.1992Apr8.001158.9193
Reply-To: rjp@demetri.appleton.mil.wi.us
Organization: The Society for the Gainfully Unemployeed


 
+ Everytime the 1414 goes down I delete everything from the directory and
+ reinstall.    FAX96+ is defective and has never worked correctly.  If you get
+ yours fixed or working   please let me know how or what you did.    In the
+ meantime, if you find a use for it other   than a techno-knick-knack, please
+ advise.  Likewise.  
+ 
+ 
+ 
Other uses, hum?

I plan to drive over the thing with my truck, as soon, as my T3000 arrives.
Seriously!  Now I just need to think of a good place to send the pieces.

rjp@edsi.plexus.com
-- 
Robert Pankratz             email: rjp@demetri.appleton.mil.wi.us
(NeXTmail accepted here)    Fax: (414) 739-6319
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: More on NFS Export problems
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:42:23 GMT

nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:

>In article <1992Apr8.160553.29408@oceania.com> john@oceania.com (John Robison)  
>writes:
>> If you add a /etc/exports file to a running NeXT, the easiest thing to
>> do is re-boot the computer. I have tried to figure out which daemons
>> to run, and tried to remember, but it is really easier to just re-boot.

>/usr/etc/exportfs -a

He was talking about nfsd and rpc.mountd, probably.  Those are the
only two that are only started if you have an /etc/exports file.
biod is started always if you are on a network, regardless. 
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                   BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: wimsey@milton.u.washington.edu (Andrew Creighton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: neuron and uucp
Keywords: neuron, modem, uucp,
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:59:29 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

This is a followup to my earlier posting --- my first paragraph got
nuked (I'm new to news and probably don't understand something).
My problem is simply that I own a Neuron 1414, and hope that someone
with more experience than I has succeeded in running uucp with it.
I'm just trying to salvage a little bit of my investment, since
the fax end is trash.  If I could just get a working uucp
connection out of this I would be satisfied at having cut my losses.

Thanks
Andrew Creighton
wimsey@milton.u.washington.edu
wimsey@netcom.com
From: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Floppy on a next/x on a next
Keywords: X Xwindows floppy
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:44:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation

In article <1992Mar26.023445.27757@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes) writes:
>  We're looking into NeXT X.  What are some experiences with co-Xist,
>mouse-X, and the X11R5 from UCSB?  Can they run with next apps at the
>same time?  Post and we'll have a lively discussion.
>thanks folks,

Xnext mono works quite well.  The only problem with Xnext is that it
takes over your screen i.e. you can't flop back and forth between
apps.  A good basic X windows system.  R4 server, R5 clients.

Now co-Xist is easy to install and works quite well.  I purchased
the Motif developer's version.  co-Xist also let's you move between
apps (hence the name).  I have one problem with co-Xist though and
that is this one single app I have, using all Xlib calls, doesn't
get the keycodes right ("i" is turned into a "7" and all the special
characters "$" and "%" and "^" etc are turned into spaces).

I recommend both.  For the money, Pencom's product seems pretty
good especially if you need Motif.

--- 

Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
8340 Greensboro Drive #223  Phone: (703) 356-6514
McLean VA                   Uucp: mimsy!black-silicon!hacker
22102                       Internet: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us

"Beneath a sky of perpetual twilight towers a black cube measuring 20 miles
on each side: "Black Silicon", Dark Hacker's fortress of computation!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca  (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Re: TeX printing on NON-NeXT printer
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:57:26 GMT

> In article <1992Apr14.163942.2737@vax1.umkc.edu> 
> writes: I have a user who has a NeXTStation.  Its the only
> one that I have so far.  He prints to an apple laser writer
> over the network.  He has found a way from within TeXView to
> change  the printout dpi from 400 to 300, but he must do this
> each time he prints.  Is there a way to set this printing 
> preference permenantly.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
Quite simple really (and described in the NeXT-TeX manual, which is
called ntman.dvi and located in /usr/tex/ )

Just edit the D option in /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps from 400 to 300.
It sets the default resolution. 

You might encourage this user to look through that manual, there are
several other flags which can be set which could make his printing
and general use of TeX more convenient, depending on his desires.

Hope this is Helpful

tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton)
Subject: 17 or 21 inch colour monitor ?
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:02:28 GMT

Is the 21 inch colour monitor really worth paying twice
the price of the 17 inch one ? 
I would be glad to hear any comments from those people
who have taken the plunge and paid for the big screen.

Dave.

(There didn't appear to be anything in the FAQ about
 this, to my suprise.)
From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing finger information?
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:07:50 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University

Following a recently posted suggestion, I just replaced my fingerd and
finger with new versions (from moo.speech.cs.cmu.edu, as I recall).
These give much more useful replies to "finger", but I have no real
documentation for them. In particular, they look for information about
a user other than a name: in particular, office, office phone, home
phone. I can't figure out where to record such information. "passwd -f" 
is the natural way, but NeXT's version just tells me

Cannot change finger information or shell with NetInfo (yet).

(the same as trying to chsh). Is there any other way to do this? I
really did try to RTFM, but can't find anything relevant.

--Steve Anderson
From: klui@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:05:59 GMT
Subject: Re: sending ps files from Mac 7.0 using TCP lpr
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin

This has been bugging me also and it's related to the
%%BoundingBox: and the %%Pages: identifier directly above it.  I
don't have time to look up what %%Pages: (atend) means so I just
deleted it from the LaserWriter (v7.x) driver and deleted the
"offending" %%BoundingBox: line, too.  I've found that the
PostScript file will print with the "bad" %%BoundingBox:.  Do the
following at your own risk--although it works for me.

Back up "LaserWriter" in System Folder:Extensions
Launch ResEdit
Open "LaserWriter"
Open up resource POST
Open up POST id -8158
Scroll down until you see Command #21 and edit it.  (i.e. you
     should see a template for the above PostScript commands
     as well as those for %%PageBoundingBox and %%For:.)
Save "LaserWriter"

That's all.  Subsequent PostScript files written by this modified
LaserWriter will print correctly on the NeXT--i.e. no longer
crashes npd.


Ken
klui@corp.hp.com
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From: jmd@banana.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NV RAM control?
Date: 4 Apr 92 01:49:38 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.

I saw a program posted a while back that permitted NVRAM (boot ram) parameter
settings to be changed from a running system.  Could someone point me to that
program, or email it (NeXTmail ok) to jmd@cube.handheld.com, NOT by reply to
this machine.

Thanks all!

Jim De Arras
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ekouba@smaug (Eric T. Kouba)
Subject: tektronix 401*
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:20:45 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology

Are there any Tektronix 401* emulators for the NeXT?
I have a program that wants to run under a particular
VAX machine, so I must telnet from my NeXT to the VAX.
The output graphics will display only on a tektronix 
window.

I already have a kludge method working...  I found
a SUN with an x-windows emulator and the x-windows
emulator had a tektronix mode.  So I telnet from the
tektronix mode to the VAX to do the work and ftp
everything back to my NeXT afterwards.  I am trying
to cut out the SUN and x-windows links in that chain,
if possible.

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: khwang@esqserver2.esq.tandem.com (Kevin Hwang)
Subject: ftp domain server problem ?
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:43:52 GMT


Hi :
  We have trouble to deal with ftp domain server.  Please give us some
suggestion to handle this problem.

   esqnx20> ftp mthvax.cs.miami.edu
     Connected to mthvax.cs.miami.edu.
     421- Cannot map IP address into host name.   
     We only accept FTP connections from recognized sites.
     Fix your domain servers or try again in a few minutes  
     when the DNS has the translation.
     421 FTP connection refused, closing connection. 
   

Thanks all.

Kevin Hwang.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: NetBoot help
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 05:34:14 GMT

NeXT Software Release 2.0 would only build NetBoot servers "out
of the box" for NeXT-supplied 660MB drives; in 2.1 this was
changed to "any drive that's big enough" and BuildDisk lets you
set the size of the root partition.

We have 2.1 systems with 330MB and 424MB internal drives acting
as NetBoot servers; their /clients partitions are elsewhere.
This can be as simple as editing one line in /etc/fstab--but
that's enough to qualify as "not supported."

					-=EPS=-
From: bill@eplnxt.jsc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with mail problem
Date: 13 Apr 1992 23:15:27 GMT
Reply-To: bill@eplnxt.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: nasa-jsc

I have a stand alone (non-networked) next.  I can send mail to other  
machines and to other users on my machine, but I can not receive mail from  
other machines to my machine.  Any ideas as to what the problem could be?


Please reply by posting as my incoming mail is obiviously not working.

		bill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: Alternate shells
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:20:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.190033.350@lorax.portal.com> mike@lorax.portal.com writes:
>Several people have been talking about various alternatives to csh lately, and  
>I was wondering if some kind souls would put some of these at purdue where they  
>would be easy to find and play with.  I'd also love to hear from people about  
>their pick for the *best* shell and why.

I have been using the Korn Shell for 3 year now and have found it to be a
satisfactory combination of the best Bourne and CSH features.  It gives the
user job control, history, intelligent prompts, and full compatibility with
the Bourne shell.  Also, there is an excellent book by David Korn from
Prentice Hall on how to program in the shell.

I think AT&T charges an arm and a leg for the source, but there was a
company in New York (Aspen??) that had the ksh quite a while ago and ported
it to Xenix before it was widely available.

Can't say I ever learned csh very well, so my experience is a bit narrow.
-- 

Mark T. Dornfeld                              Voice: (416) 234-9048
CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103                Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: kira!death@netcom.com (David John Burrowes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Automatically shut down workspace and power off machine---how?
Keywords: power off shutdown
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:27:12 GMT

I'd like to be able to have my NeXT shut down at some point during the  
night and I'm not around, but I'm unsure how to accomplish this.
On the one hand, while shutdown does offer a -p option to power the thing  
off, it doesn't appear to shut down the workspace manager nicely (e.g.  
allowing it to warn apps so they can put up dialogs if there are unsaved  
changes).  Further, putting 'shutdown -hp now' in a cron job doesn't do  
anything (I assume it only manages to shutdown the shell that chron spun  
off or something).

Thus: IS there a polite way to shut the workspace manager down from a  
script, and is there a way to power off the machine via a cron job?
(I'd be perfectly happy if I only needed to write a little application to  
send some magical message to the workspace manager that would have it log  
the current user off politely, and then call another program to in turn  
shut down and power off the system)

Thanks for any thoughts, and I apoligize if this is a RTFM question...

\david john burrowes

pick one:
	death@kira.uucp
	death%kira.uucp@netcom.com
	kira!death@netcom.com
From: leone@rainier.ohsu.EDU (TJ Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IB and gcc on a slab
Keywords: gcc, IB, slab
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:22:16 GMT
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University

What's the minimum set of files I need to have gnu c, objective-C, the  
Application Kit, and Interface Builder?  I have these running on a cube at work  
and want to copy a minimal set to a slab at home.  The music kit is not is not  
important for my work, but gdb would be nice.

Thanks,

--TJ
From: samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bug or Feature?
Date: 4 Apr 92 21:37:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr4.213732.16137
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada


If I have a directory named, say "NotFoo" (because I hate "foo"), and
I have it on my self of my workspace browser, and I as well have a file
in that directory called "NotFoo", then if I double click on the file
folder on my shelf called "NotFoo" the workspace changes directory to
"NotFoo" and selects the file "NotFoo" inside.

If I triple click the file folder on the shelf, then the workspace does
the above action, and then deselects the file "NotFoo".

Strange.

- db

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: roberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us (Roberto Arrocha)
Subject: Summary: UUCP: 64-byte packet -> 256-byte packet
Keywords: UUCP packet
Reply-To: roberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us
Organization: Roberto E. Arrocha
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:06:29 GMT

Original Question
In order to reduce uucp communication overhead, and improve throughput,  
I've been told to increase packet size from 64-byte packets to 256-byte  
packets.

Any suggestions on how to set uucp to accomplish this?
Current setup: 040 NeXTcuce <-> Hayes ULTRA 9600 <-> UUNET (T2500)


Summary
Can't do it with standard UUCP, as offered by NeXT.
It seems that packet size is hardcoded in UUCP, and a code change /  
recompilation may be necessary.

Alternatives range from using Taylor & GNU UUCP (source code provided) to  
using Telebit modems, all of the above allow modifying packet size.


Answers / Suggestions

monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon)
Replace your uucp software with Taylor uucp.  Version 1.03 was just  
released.
Another alternative is to replace your Hayes Ultra with a Telebit.  The  
Telebit has uucp protocol built-in and can pretend to be the other end of  
the uucp protocol.


ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
So far as I know, you can't do it with the NeXT UUCP.  You can do it
with my UUCP package, if you like; several people are using it on the
NeXT.

This is my standard Taylor UUCP blurb.
[...]


bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Forget it with NeXT's standard uucico, it's hardcoded. There may be
a chance if you are called but not for outgoing calls.
Packetsize is agreed upon in the uucico startup phase.
With Taylor-UUCP you might have a chance but I am not sure.


jantypas@soft21.s21.com (John Antypas)
I use taylor-UUCP (GNU UUCP soon) and use its facilities on both ends. It  
allows protocol blocks anywhere from 32 to 4096 bytes.


shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org (Shawn P. Stanley)
This can't be done by setting options.  The changes need to be made in the  
binary file.  I thought I saw a posting some time ago on how to do that  
with the uucico for the SCO Unix HDB, but I don't have a record of it.

Thaks to all that responded.
-- 
Roberto
NeXTmail: roberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mike@lorax.portal.com (Mike Ferris)
Subject: Alternate shells
Reply-To: mike@lorax.portal.com
Organization: Stultus Enterprises
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 19:00:33 GMT

Several people have been talking about various alternatives to csh lately, and  
I was wondering if some kind souls would put some of these at purdue where they  
would be easy to find and play with.  I'd also love to hear from people about  
their pick for the *best* shell and why.

Thanks.
-- 

Mike Ferris
mike@lorax.portal.com
From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "dump" params for DAT
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:03:28 GMT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

Patrick Robinson writes
> intend to use dump/restore forever, I'd sure like to understand how to make
> it work.
> 
> Here's the problem:  I'm having trouble understanding the man page for the
> dump command.  Down under the notes for 'DUMPING TO EXABYTE TAPE', there's
> an explanation about setting the s paramter, which specifies tape size in
> feet.  They make the claim that a 1.985 Gb Exabyte tape (120 minute 8mm)
> would be equivalent to 1,332,183 feet of 1600 bpi reel-to-reel tape.  I
> don't see where they get that number.  According to my calculations:
> 
> 1.985 Gb   1,073,741,824 bytes   8 bits      1 in      1 ft  ~
>          * ------------------- * ------ * ---------- * ----- = 888,074 ft
>                 1 Gb             1 byte   1,600 bits   12 in
> 
> rather than 1,332,183 ft.

Two things:
	1.	The man page is wrong.  A single tape with the stated capacity
is actually about 110,000 feet.
	2.	1600 bpi is for *each* track of the 9 track tape.  Normally one  
track was for parity, so it worked out to 1600 bytes/inch of tape.
	This confusion above makes your answer correct.  (eliminate the  
8bits/byte conviersion)

	The only reason you care at all about this is that dump multiplies it's  
default bpi x 12 x length in feet to get the amount of stuff that will fit on  
the tape.  This is used to figure out when to ask the operator to change tapes.

	So you could do this by either telling dump that your tape is only 30  
meters long, and it's density is a zillion bits per inch, or by letting it  
assume a 9 track tape, that's rather long.

	
	
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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Help!  NewsGrazer just stopped working!
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:31:12 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Distribution: usa
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB

This morning I started up NewsGrazer as I have every weekday for the past
eight months, and it got to the point where the status bar says it is reading
my active newsgroups, and then quits completely without any messages at all!

I am posting this via rn, which I built so that I may read mail from home.  It
and NewsGrazer have coexisted on my machine without any problems for six
months.  The only clue I have is that I always get a message listing newsgroups that have been "found again in active list" -- but I have always gotten this,
and it seems to be due to the threading program I use with trn--but again, I
have never had a problem before.

I checked to see if that wierd group with the ":" in the name was in my
.newsrc, and I could not find it there, so I have no clue.  I tried reducing
the number of subscribed groups, and that did not help.  Gdb gave me no clues,
since there are no symbols in the executable.

Please respond via email, since news isnt much fun with rn.

Help!


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: network time daemon
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:29:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.033336.12965@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu  
(Gottfried Mayer-Kress) writes:
>  I always had my own time on my cube, but since I am on this network here it  
>  tells me that a network time daemon is giving me the time. I cannot set it,
>   only synchronize it and it always gives me the wrong time.
>  I couldn't figure out how to turn this daemon off.  there must be a simple  
>  solution to that.
>  Thanks for any help.


Commenting out the entry that starts up timed from one your /etc/rc files  
should do the trick.


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings