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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Adding to a TAR tape
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:14:34 GMT
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <1992Sep8.154726.18675@utdallas.edu> karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches) writes:
>In article <lsloan.715963681@nova> lsloan@nova.gmi.edu (Lance Sloan) writes:
>>
>>For example, I tar several files to the tape and later want to add a file
>>to the end of the existing tar file.  The u (update) and r (write) options
>>to tar return errors.
>>
>Adding files to existing tar files is only possible on a 9 track tape
>drive. The reason is that other tape drives can not accurately position
>the write head to the exact spot on the tape where the additional files
>would be appended.
>
>I believe the man page for tar will verify this.

Well, not quite. The man page for tar says these options do not work on 
*quarter-inch archive* tapes. So it needs to be updated (this is at 4.1.2)
if it really doesn't work for Exabytes (and presumably DATs) either.

However, Exabytes using long filemarks (which Suns do by default unless you
change st_conf.c and rebuild your kernel) are able to position between double 
EOFs to append another file. If it can position at the beginning of the second 
EOF, isn't this accurate enough to position at the beginning of the first EOF?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: bldaniel@unccsun.uncc.edu (Brian Daniels)
Subject: Sun seems to be stripping 8th bit?
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Summary: and I can't make it stop!
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:45:37 GMT
X-Posted-From: unccsun.uncc.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu



I'm having problems with a Sun running SunOs 4.1.2.
Whenever I try to transfer a binary file with ymodem or
zmodem, it fails.  The filename and size come through ok,
but none of the blocks is successfully transferred.  If I use
Kermit, it works fine--but I may grow old before the transfer
completes.
 
As far as I can tell, something is stripping off the 8th bit
along the way.  I've tried stty cs8  and  stty pass8  to
no avail.
 
Any suggestions?  Am I way off base about the 8th bit?  Help!
 
 
Many thanks in advance,
Brian
 
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From: Z.Wang@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Zheng Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Is SunOS networking code freely-distributable?
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:47:50 GMT

I want to do some experiment in the tcp/ip code on a Sun
but the source we have here is rather old. But I notice
that the networking code (ie. sys/netinet/*.* and sys/net/route.c)
all has the following header:


/*      @(#)route.h 1.9 88/08/19 SMI; from UCB 7.3 12/30/87     */

/*
 * Copyright (c) 1980, 1986 Regents of the University of California.
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
 * provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
 * to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University
 * may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
 * software without specific prior written permission. This software
 * is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
 */


Does this mean that SunOS networking code freely-distributable?

I actually saw Steve Deering distributed this code in his early
multicast distribution but I would like to make sure about
this.

Thanks in advance for your replies

Zheng
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From:  Leonid A. Broukhis <leo@ipmce.su>
Subject: SPARC + perl: undump ??
Summary: Does undump for SPARC exist ?
Keywords: perl undump SPARC
Reply-To: leo@ipmce.su
Organization: unknown
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:49:09 +0400

	Hello all!

I'd like to know something about the possibility to make undump
while using perl on SPARCs. Sorry if this is a FAQ. Unfortunately
.su domain is mail-only and I cannot use archie nor direct FTP.

	Thanks in advance,
-- 
	Leonid A. Broukhis


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: gene@aee.aee.com (Gene Kochanowsky)
Subject: Need info on SCSI-2 fast and wide, can anyone help?
Summary: I need technical specs on maximum data throughput of SCSI-2
Keywords: SCSI, SCSI-2, sun, help
Organization: Associated Electronic Engineers
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:41:23 GMT

Does anyone have or know where I can get technical specification on SCSI-2?

In particular I am looking for the practical maximum data throughput, assuming
that the data source and data sink can supply and take the data at infinite 
speed. Assume a fast/wide connection.


Thanks in advance.

Gene Kochanowsky

gene@aee.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: liuxu@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Xudong Liu)
Subject: Grtool--LaTeX??
Originator: liuxu@secfs
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:01:57 GMT

Anyone can tell me a way to incorporate the figures produced
by Grtool into LaTeX file and have them printed?

Does "Transfig" do this converting job?

Thanks in advance for any hints and directions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: HELP: Applying patches to software from FTP archives
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:35:17 GMT

I've already received an answer from Trip Martin (night@acm.rpi.edu).
He says:

> If you have Larry Wall's patch program, you don't need to [apply the
> patch by hand].  Just
> type "patch -p -f < mmv.patch1".  If you don't have patch, I strongly
> suggest you get it, since it's a very useful utility if you pull much 
> software off the net.  Oh, and you don't need to strip any lead-in 
> comments as patch knows to skip that (patch is quite intelligent).

Thanks Trip.

Norm Hoffman
nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
From: dlopata@stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:00:29 GMT
Organization: Dept of Statistics, University of Florida

...

	Hello all!  I'm having a wee bit of trouble with the /tmp directories on our newly
installed Sun network.  We're running Sun OS 4.1.2 with Openwin 3.0 as our primary interface.

	Every couple of days, I find myself clearing out the /tmp directories on the ELCs,
because the file system files up.  Most of the files in /tmp are zero byte files, but there are 
several, named hvtmpAAAa0???? that take up serious disk space.

	Is it just me, or should /tmp be clearing when the user logs off?  Did I miss a flag
somewhere? 

	Sorry if this is FAQ.

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
Date: 15 Sep 92 05:24:40 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

> We just installed 4.1.2 on a few machines, and after noticing a large
> amount of .getwd files in /tmp, found that the sticky bit is turned on
> by default for the /tmp directory.  We turned it off. 

Track down any binaries you have at your site that were compiled under
SunOS 4.0[.x], and statically linked with "-lc" (which probably means
completely statically linked), and get their owners to recompile them,
if they're owned by somebody at your site (as opposed to being, say,
some third-party package).

".getwd" was, as I remember, a cache of "dev_t"/mount-point pairs
maintained by the SunOS 4.0[.x] version of the "getwd()" routine.  The
SunOS 4.1[.x] "getwd()" routine doesn't maintain that cache; the "mount"
command maintains it in "/etc/mtab".

Binaries compiled under 4.0[.x], and dynamically linked with "-lc", will
automatically pick up the 4.1[.x] version of "getwd()" when run, and
won't create ".getwd" files in "/tmp" (and won't get tripped by other
problems in the 4.0[.x] version of "getwd()"; as I remember, the 4.0[.x]
version tended to "stat" lots of things in "/", and if one of them was
mounted from an NFS server that was down, you lost).

Binaries compiled under 4.0[.x], and *statically* linked with "-lc",
have the old version of "getwd()" bound into their executable image, and
don't automatically pick up the 4.1[.x] version when run under 4.1[.x].

(They won't pick up new versions of routines when run under 5.x, either;
they'll probably blow up completely when run under 5.x.)

If you're getting ".getwd" files in "/tmp" on a 4.1[.x] system, old
statically-linked programs such as that are to blame....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: hoehle@lindau.inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de (Joerg-Cyril Hoehle)
Subject: mixed SunOS 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 environments
Keywords: SunOS 4.1.1, SunOS 4.1.2, compytibility, shared library
Organization: Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz
              D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:29:32 GMT

We have a mixed environment of SunOS4.1.1 IPC and 4.1.2 SS2 and IPX machines. We
tend to compile programs on the faster (and newer) machines, but get the
following warning when running the executables on the older OS ones: 

ld.so: warning: /usr/lib/libc.so.1.6 has older revision than expected 7

In order to prevent these warning to appear, I thought about compiling on a fast
4.1.2 machine, removing the executable, login into a slower 4.1.1 machine, typing
make again so that only linking (with the older libraries) is done and not the
full compile stage. The warning then disappears.

Question: is this safe? Or should compile and link happen on the older OS for
compatibility between includes and libraries?

Thanks for any info, 
 	Joerg.
hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de
From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: rusers under Solaris 2.0
Date: 9 Sep 92 05:30:44 GMT
Reply-To: brendan@cygnus.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, CA

Ok, I give up...how do you make rusers(1) under Solaris 2.0 broadcast
with the version 2 rusersd protocol?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure)
Subject: Sun 3/260 --> 4/260 upgrade?
Organization: Ryptyde TimeSharing, San Diego, CA
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 19:08:23 GMT
Keywords: Sun, 3/260, 4/260, upgrade

 
Hi all.  I am considering buying a Sun 3/260 with the intention of
upgrading it to a 4/260 (when $$$ becomes available  8-).
My questions are:

1.  Is this even possible?
2.  Is this really expensive or difficult?   
3.  What parts must be changed?  (i.e., system board, keyboard, memory, etc.)

Any comments/suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Scott

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From: smanicka@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Senthilkumar Manickavasagam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: SPARC
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:40:21 GMT
Organization: Ohio University C.S. Dept, Athens


  I'm looking for some good intro materials on SPARC
  (Scalabel Processor ARChitectues). If any one of
  U there came across some paper, a book or.. any indepth
  material please let me know.
  Reply to me at 
    senthil@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu
  (or)  
    smanicka@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu  
    
  thanks in advance
  Senthil
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From: SANTHA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (SANTHA, ATTANAGODA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,vmsnet.networks.misc
Subject: Network routing help needed....
Date: 12 Sep 92 19:21:46 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Hi,
   I know some unix but not much about networking. My telnet connections
from University of Cincinnati to Fermilab,chicago are very slow. I used
traceroute to find the path of my IP packets. They seem to go through 19 hops
to go to Fermilab and took about 150ms for the roundtrip.
   But the roundtrip time from Cincinnati to Ohio-state in Columbus is about
11ms and from there to Fermilab is only another 35ms. What I found was that
my default routes take a different path. I used traceroute and forced the
packets to go through a route in Columbus and found that path is much faster.
   Now the problem is that I don't know how I could set the default path
from Cincinnati to Fermilab, the way I want to.

   By the way I am uning a SUN-ELC. I greatly appreciate any help I could get.
Attanagoda K.S. Santha    Department of Physics, ML#11
                          University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221
E-Mail: santha@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu | Telephone :(513)556-0545
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: lance@bach.udel.edu (Daniel A Lentz)
Subject: GX acceleration w openwindows?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:13:11 GMT

 Just curious how much sun's OpenWindows takes advantage of GX acceleration.
 I know there is sunGX.uu in the R5 distribution which compiles in GX
 support, but haven't heard about openwin.  I assume that since the GX
 board is their product, they make good use of it, and, I notice signs
 of the hardware cursor (it sticks around for a bit after you're done!)


 Just curious about my new toy...

 BTW, I played the demo verision of SimCity and thought it was pretty good.
 so I ordered it.  But isn't Sun phasing out NeWS?  (Is phasing out the
 right term, or is it ``letting NeWS disappear''!)  It will be very 
interesting to me to find out if there is a market for PeeCee type 
games on workstations.  Quite a leap of faith on their part, I'd say.

Enough rambling...back to work.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris
From: lsloan@nova.gmi.edu (Lance Sloan)
Subject: Adding to a TAR tape
Summary: Help!!
Keywords: tar tape
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:48:01 GMT

I am using a Sun SPARCserver 4/490 with an 8mm tape drive on /dev/rst0.
I can use tar to put files on the tape, but I cannot add files to the tape
after the initial tar.

For example, I tar several files to the tape and later want to add a file
to the end of the existing tar file.  The u (update) and r (write) options
to tar return errors.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lance Sloan
lsloan@nova.gmi.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman)
Subject: Can one resize cmdtool windows from cmd line?
Keywords: cmdtool
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:52:20 GMT

Is there a way to resize cmdtool windows from the command line?

I open cmdtool windows 80 columns wide by default.  At times I will 
widen one to view extra-wide output, then set it back when done.  
To do the latter, I display an 80-column ruler, manually resize the 
window to 80 columns, then scroll back down to the prompt (which 
usually gets scrolled off the screen by the resize operation).  
Is there a better way to do this?  Is there, for example, a command 
which can be issued to set the window to 80 columns or back to its 
original size?

(In anticipation of responses which suggest I just run another, 
wider cmdtool, I'll respond now that sometimes I do this, but I 
still would like to know if there is a way to resize cmdtool from
the command line.)

I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 and OpenWindows 3.0 on a Sparc 1+.

Thanks,

Norm Hoffman
nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker)
Subject: Re: Adding to a TAR tape
Keywords: tar tape
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:08:34 GMT

In article <33639@samsung.samsung.com> jarmolow@samsung.com writes:

>The problem here is the device name. "rst8" is the "rewind" device.
>After each operation the tape is rewound. Use "nrst8" instead.

You are absolutely correct.  Explanation:

1)  When I do this trick, I always accidentally type /dev/rst8 first.
    Then I stop the operation and redo with /dev/nrst8.

2)  When I realized my error, "world.std.com" crashed before I could
    get back on and retract.  So I had to go to work with the real-
    ization that I had humiliated myself before the universe and
    could do nothing about it until I got home that night.


Thanks for the comment, setting things right.

Tom Baker

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: HELP: can't boot (Illegal instruction)
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:07:22 GMT


I recently had this happen on my IPC 4/40.  It was due to a trashed
out boot block -- acquired for reasons unknown.  The machine had
been sitting idle over night, but when I came back in the morning,
"taget esp0 now synchronous at 4.167...," messages were spewing out
on the console window.  When I left for the evening, only calendar
manager and a shell tool were left running; nothing fancy going on.

The machine was too hammered, so I tried L1-A and sync.  When I did
a boot sd, I got the "illegal instruction" message.

I had to boot off cdrom, but on a sun 3, you'd probably boot an O/S
tape from st().  After the cdrom/tape boots, pick "install mini
root".  After you've got a mini root (presuming the hard disk isn't
totally hammered), you can probably manually fsck the partitions on
the hard disk.  If the fsck barfs, try running format, picking the
repair option on any bad blocks reported by fsck.  When finished
with format, try fsck again.

The mini root option on the O/S tape installs a stripped down
kernel and essential tools in the swap partition of the drive
without blowing out the /usr and /home partitions on the hard disk.
The mini kernel is configured to not swap.

Knock on wood, my IPC has been running fine now for about a week
since I had to do the repair operation outlined above.  The machine
is only a few months old, so it made me a bit leery to have the HDU
develop a grown defect [in an important area] so early in its life!

--Bill


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From: aperez@castillo.prime.com (Arturo Perez x6739 5-1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Exabyte: Short tape marks
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:34:18 GMT


Anyone know how, under SunOS 4.1.x, to write "short tape
marks" onto an Exabyte tape.

For those of you wondering what I mean by this:
Exabytes write long (normal) and "short"
tape marks.  Our application requires 3
tape marks per file (to make an ANSI-style
tape).  However, long tape makes take up
1/4 megabyte of space!  We figure at that rate
you could fit 1000 _empty_ files onto an Exabyte.

However, a short tape mark only requires 50Kbytes.
So we would like to know how to write them.

Thanks much.

Arturo Perez
ComputerVision, a division of Prime
aperez@cvbnet.prime.com
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From: jjg@pt.com (John Grana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Need info on SCSI-2 fast and wide, can anyone help?
Keywords: SCSI, SCSI-2, sun, help
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:47:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated

In article <1992Sep7.194123.23383@aee.aee.com> gene@aee.aee.com (Gene Kochanowsky) writes:
>Does anyone have or know where I can get technical specification on SCSI-2?
>
Contact   Global Engineering Documents
          2805 McGraw
          Irvine, CA 92714
          (800) 854-7179  or  (714) 261-1455
Ask for the SCSI-2 Working Draft Proposal. I think it is at revision 10.

There is also a SCSI BBS, maintained by NCR. I dont have the tel # here at
work. Send me email if you would like to download it. Be warned, the
present document is approx 2 1/2 inches think double sided.

>In particular I am looking for the practical maximum data throughput, assuming
>that the data source and data sink can supply and take the data at infinite 
>speed. Assume a fast/wide connection.
>

FAST SCSI = 10 MB/sec/8 bits
Wide FAST (16bit) = 20 MB/Sec
Wide Wide FAST (32bit) = 40 MB/Sec


John Grana
jjg@pt.com

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From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: HELP: can't boot (Illegal instruction)
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:11:53 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University

I hooked up a disk (which was *supposed* to be preformatted and have 
the OS) to a 4/110 and tried to boot.  This is the message that I
got:
        > b sd()vmunix
        Boot: sd(0,10,0)vmunix

        Illegal instruction "0x000017C0" was encountered at PC 0x00004004.
 
I get the same message if I try "b sd()"
Can anyone make sense of this? It seems to me that the program was found but
something was wrong with it (I'm guessing). Is there anything that I should 
try (before I ship it back to the person that I bought it from)? 
-- 
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: GX acceleration w openwindows?
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:24:26 GMT
Organization: cic

lance@bach.udel.edu (Daniel A Lentz) writes:


> Just curious how much sun's OpenWindows takes advantage of GX acceleration.
> I know there is sunGX.uu in the R5 distribution which compiles in GX
> support, but haven't heard about openwin.  I assume that since the GX
> board is their product, they make good use of it, and, I notice signs
> of the hardware cursor (it sticks around for a bit after you're done!)

Yes, it does. I saw the code while I was working at Sun. We also had a
customer who measured the speedup in some older version of OpenWindows.
It was not exactly what you would expect, but we found (as many people have)
that the X primitives are too low level to take advantage of the full
speed a GX can offer. The more graphics you do the better it gets.
Now that you can eliminate the comms overhead with Direct Xlib,
the speedup should be much higher.
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