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From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IRIX 4.0.1 and semaphores
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:25:50 GMT
Reply-To: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <92Apr10.162139edt.8710@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>, Gene Amdur writes:
>I've been playing around with a C program that is roughly
>equivalent to Sun's trace.  The code that I grabbed from
>a umontreal.ca machine uses semaphones in part of its
>code.  Well there were some bugs and in the process of
>fixing them I caused several core dumps of the program.
>Now when I try to run the program I get:
>
>error : can't allocate semaphore : No space left on device
>
>There is nothing else running on this machine that is
>using the default of 25 semaphores.  So it looks to me like
>an abnormal exit of a program that has semaphores
>allocated to it might prevent the semaphores from 
>being put back on the available list.  Has anyone else
>seen this?

Yes, you are 100% correct.  You have to clean up the
semaphores you allocate upon exit.

To see the semaphores which are currently allocated,
use the ipcs command.  To remove a semaphore, try
'ipcrm -s <semid>'.  You get the <semid> from the
report provided by ipcs.

m.

Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Removable media Hard Disk drive on SGI
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 01:52:57 GMT

In <1992Apr10.221930.13639@serval.net.wsu.edu> rnelson@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) writes:


| Does anyone have experience using removable media hard disk drives under IRIX?  
| 
| Can IRIX automatically mount file system on the cartridge when it is inserted?

Theoretically; we made it work with CD-ROM, but not in the ordinary case.

| What drives are (not) known to work?

Syquest, both 44 and 88.

In general, removable disks aren't handled well in the face of
the user removing the disk while it is mounted.
--
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
From: clr@dgp.toronto.edu (Stephen Bohus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: cartridge tape drives on Indigo
Keywords: external tape drive
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:40:25 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

> In Article 18778 of comp.sys.sgi: Philip Machanick (philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za) writes:

> For compatibility with various software sources, Sun machines
> etc. I need a cartridge tape drive. Are there any problems
> fitting a generic 150M SCSI cartridge drive to an Indigo?

	A 150M SCSI drive can easily be attached to an Indigo.  You can put
QIC 150 drive (such as an 'Archive' unit) into an external SCSI unit and
plug it directly into the SCSI port on the Indigo.  A good casing to use
is the 44mb Syquest drive case without the drive (these cases are about $100).
An external tape drive on an Indigo works the same as any internal drive,
and I haven't had any problems with one of these assembled units.

	- Stephen Bohus
	Centre for Landscape Research
	University of Toronto  (clr@dgp.toronto.edu)

	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	APWAIWGATI
			"Anything's possible WHEN and IF we get around to it."
From: root@fuzzy (Dr. Michael M. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Break in attempts continue
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:01:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32152
Reply-To: mmcohen@fuzzy.ucsc.edu (Dr. Michael M. Cohen)
Organization: Univ. of Calif. - Santa Cruz, Program in Exp. Psychology

In article <1992Apr5.203557.12605@ctr.columbia.edu> shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
>
>I'm seeing breakin attempts from machine:
>
How do we get info on site sources of failed (or successsful) login attempts?
TIA. MMCohen

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.question
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Socket, binding to reserve port - SGI, IRIX 4.0.0
Keywords: socket
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 16:13:45 GMT

In <1992Apr14.031437.8738@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:

| In article <jgmqo8s@sgi.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
| >In article <1992Apr13.170347.14097@gateway.novell.com>, terry@ithaca.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
| >> You ARE allowed to overwrite an SUID root file; it just won't stay SUID.
| 
| >Do not count on this in System V.
| >Thank the Wizards of New Jersey, although they don't seem to realize
| >the consequences.
| 
| Can you name a specific, not-super-old System V implementation that works
| this way?  Both of my V/3.2.x systems *will* clear the SUID bit if you try
| to write to the file.

As you might have guessed from one of the bug groups included, and Vernon's
employer, IRIX lacks the feature.  We never picked it up when AT&T and
BSD did so.
--
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
From: absinthe@topo.chem.washington.edu (User Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 'fep'
Keywords: fep sysv indigo
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:56:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr16.205655.20154
Reply-To: absinthe@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington

Has anyone ported it to Irii?
I have been unsuccessful so far...
[Fep is an overlay for command-line programs which adds emacs-like
 key bindings - sort of like tcsh?]

Thanks yet again,
--
Daniel Faken          /          absinthe@u.washington.edu
From: mg26101@i2.msi.umn.edu (Ronald Sakaguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Printing RGB files on a Paintjet?
Summary: Looking for a method to print RGB files from Indigo on PaintJet
Keywords: PaintJet, RGB, printer
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:03:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: msi.mg26101.702655437
Organization: University of Minnesota

Hi,

Does anyone have any suggestions on printing RGB files from the Indigo
on a Hewlett Packard PaintJet printer. The printer configures OK as a
generic parallel printer off the Indigo, but what conversions are
necessary to send the SGI *.RGB file to the PaintJet to print the file
in color?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

Ron

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  Ronald Sakaguchi                       University of Minnesota
  Minnesota Dental Research Center       16-212 Moos Health Sciences Tower
  for Biomaterials and Biomechanics      Minneapolis, MN  55455
	        		         mg26101@s1.msi.umn.edu		
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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: QIC-150 reliability
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:11:02 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

We have always had a lot of trouble with the reliability of backups
made using our QIC drive.  Very often we find that a tape is unreadable
when we go back and try to restore a file.  There doesn't seem to be
any particular pattern -- new tapes, old tapes, all brands of tapes,
drive just cleaned, whatever.   My only hypothesis is that 
backups written fairly recently SEEM to work better than older tapes,
i.e. there may be an "aging" effect, but I can't say so for sure.  
I should add that sometimes the tapes do work just fine.

I called the 3M "800" number and after the usual "you should clean the
heads" the consultant went into a spiel about "turning up the current
on the drive".  My interpretation is that this will strengthen the
magnetic field produced when the tape is written, thereby aligning
the magnetic particles on the tape more reliably (yes, you're right, I'm
not an engineer ... :-)  ) 

Does this sound familiar to anyone?  If the idea isn't completely 
bogus, how do I go about "turning up the current"?   Or is there
anything else I can do?  The drive is cleaned regularly and doesn't
see a whole lot of use.  
________________________________________________________________________
Raymond W. Arritt                     |  Dept. of Physics and Astronomy  
Assistant Professor                   |  University of Kansas 
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu             |  Lawrence, KS  66045  
Apr  1 12:29:21 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE
Apr  1 12:29:27 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A CANDIDATE
Apr  1 12:29:31 timed[92]: This machine is master
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jsw@thalia.microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Indigo: X-session abort via 'xprop'
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:05:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.093955.16543@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>, rainer@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:
> Today I discovered that I can terminate a session on one of those
> Indigos *without* having to log in there and *without* having to know
> a password.

  There is a lot more that they can do.  They can grab an image of your
screen.  They can capture your keystrokes.  They can kill any or all of
your windows.  This is a feature of X, and is in no way SGI or indigo
specific.  If the host based authorization provided by xhost is not
good enough, then you should check out the man pages for xdm and xauth.

	--Jeff

Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police - NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!
MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
jsw@microunity.com
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
From: bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil (Bob Plested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Displays and keyboards
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:05:36 GMT


Howdy all,
  Some of our Fortran code references the PF4 key. This code was written on
an older machine and is being run in a 4D/320VGX that was delivered in late
December. Anybody know which is the PF4 key on these here new keyboards?

  In a sorta related note, is there any way to make one machine run the
display on two different machines? Here's what Im thinking: I'm trying to 
talk another user through a program, and we could simply start up identical
versions of the program with identical input files and hope we don't get
seperated. My other bright idea is to do the work on my machine, and have
the display come up here on my machine as well as on the other user's. We'd
all just sit down in front of the same CRT 'cept one is here in Dayton, Oh, 
and the other is at Pax River, MD. Just an idea. I'm running a 4D/320VGX
under 3.3.2, and I'm not sure what is available on the other end.

All ideas welcome.
Bob

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Bob Plested                    bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil
4950th Test Wing/FFDA              134.136.241.11 
(513) 257-6809 DSN 787-6809
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: marc@cs.caltech.edu (Marc I. Pomerantz)
Subject: Indigo Rental
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: ca
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:57:40 GMT




I am in need of an Indigo ( 8 bit or 24 bit color ) for a few months.  I would 
be willing to pay for a short term rental ( 2-6 months ), so if you have
one of these guys please let me know.

I can be reached at:

818-356-6255 or marc@fides.cs.caltech.edu


Thanks.
From: root@sanger.chem.nd.edu (Doctor Math)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 4.0.1 and sendmail.cf
Summary: It just don't work for me!
Keywords: sendmail sendmail.cf 4.0.1 IRIX SGI broken
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:56:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr7.205632.5443
Organization: University of Notre Dame

Hi all.. I haven't seen mention of this problem before, so it could be just
me. I installed 4.0.1 nearly two weeks ago. The sendmail.cf that comes with
the system has this problem with a loop in the ruleset 0 address rewrite,
so I went back to using the sendmail.cf that came with 3.3.2. With this
setup, I could send mail fine, but not receive any. Logged a call with the
Hotline, and was sent yards of fax on how to configure the sendmail.cf,
which I had already done. Was also send fax on how to configure sendmail.cf
if my nameserver is in a different subdomain (which it is); unfortunately,
the fax referred to lines in the sendmail.cf that do not exist. Support guy
later told me that was the wrong fax. Okay, fine. FTP'd sendmail.cf-latest
from sgi.com and attempted to configure that... Same result; could sometimes
receive mail (with difficulty), while sending anything generated error
messages about address line rewrite, like this (lines split for readbility):

Apr  2 13:11:23 sanger sendmail[4471]: AA04471:
	SYSERR: Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 476
Apr  2 13:11:23 sanger sendmail[4471]: AA04471:
	SYSERR: Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 477
Apr  2 13:11:23 sanger sendmail[4471]: AA04471:
	SYSERR: rewrite: expansion too long

Would sometimes also do this:

Apr  3 00:19:47 sanger sendmail[5397]: AA05395: SYSERR:
rewrite: expansion too long: Address family not supported by protocol family

Today I decided enough is enough, I need mail that WORKS.  So I ftp'd a
sendmail.cf from a local Sparcstation, configured it, and restarted mail.
Everything works just fine now. The support people tell me that they're not
going to support this, since it's not derived from their sendmail.cf.
Should this worry me?
From: aclin@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Charissa S. Aclin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Mail Problem on Indigo
Keywords: mail, Indigo
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:59:39 GMT
Distribution: na

I'm using an Indigo with Irix 4.0 that appears to have a problem
when I try and send out mail. I get the following message:

	<<<554 Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 477
	>>>Quit
	<<<554 Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 477
	554 aclin@bvi ... Remote protocol error

I've checked the /etc/hosts file, the sys_id, and sendmail.cf and
can't seem to find anything that's amiss with them. However, any
comments / recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance ...

C. Aclin
From: chuckb@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuck Bass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Any luck with 3rd party harddrives?
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:19:52 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

We are considering upgrading hard drives on our PI.  Has anyone
had luck with 3rd party drives.  Are service contracts still
valid?  The price differences are fairly substantial.  It seems
like a nice way to go if you aren't afraid to open up your box..

Any input would be appreciated.

Chuck  Bass
chuckb@u.washington.edu
Cooperative for Forest-Systems Engineering
Univerisity of Washington
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Too many open files?
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:15:32 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

I just tried to send out some mail and got these error messages:

On the console I got repeated displays of

NOTICE: File table overflow

and on a mail message I got

451 Cannot reopen dfAA19469: Too many open files in system
451 queueup: cannot create temp file tfAA19469: Too many open files in system

Any ideas what causes this?  PI 4D/25, Irix 4.0.1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to know which 4.0.X we run ?
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:01:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: zuni.j7i2hus
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr6.085657@masg1.epfl.ch> posse@masg1.epfl.ch (Christian Posse) writes:
| we have several Indigo running 4.0.3 and others machines 
| which are running 4.0.1 still with bugs concerning GL and 
| X colormaps. 
| 
| Is there an easy way to ask the machine which release is
| on ? Since I would like to run different .Xdefaults files
| regarding to the 4.0.X version.

uname -a gives you all the kernel info; see 'man uname' for
options to restrict the fields.

Of more general use, since kernels don't always reflect installed
software in a network environment :) may be the 'versions'
command.  versions with no arguments lists all the installed
software subsystems (in 4.0.1; the defaults were different
under 3.3).  For those who get alpha releases, the last 3
digits list the alpha release number; the TAC knows which
alphas correspond to MR'ed products.  Don't forget to look
at the maint images info if you have installed any maintenance
releases.
--
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven P. Miale)
Subject: Want to export an X-window, but not the GL window
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:37:14 GMT

Under IRIX 3.2, we were EXPORTing the DISPLAY of a program we used
that opened both a GL window on the logged-into SGI and an
X window on whatever we set the DISPLAY to be. This is exactly what
we wanted.

Unfortunately, SGI has "fixed" it so if I export the display, it
tries to display the GL window on that particular Sparc, and
that of course fails.

We want it back the old way - an X-window displayed on another
machine and the actual GL application on the SGI. How do I do this?

Thanks,

Steve

-- 
Steven Miale - spm2d@virginia.edu   | Backwards compatibility is backward.
Undergraduate Researcher            |
Department of Computer Science      |
University of Virginia              |
From: lsr-vax!lmo@uunet.uu.net (Lance M. Optican - LMO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: xmodmap key swapping
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:02:13 GMT


Like others trained in the days of rational keyboards, I have had
trouble adapting to the new "pc" style keyboards with esc and ctrl
keys in awkward positions.  I have come up with a simple solution:
make both the caps lock and ctrl keys send "ctrl" codes.  The right
ctrl key is used as a caps lock key (a rarely used function, anyway).
In addition, I swap the '~' and 'esc' keys.  Below is the line from
my .xsession file:

----------------------------
	/usr/bin/X11/xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmaprc
----------------------------

and here is my .xmodmaprc file:
----------------------------

!
! Resource Control file for keyboard mappings
! via xmodmap.  To comment out an undesired
! feature, put an exclamation mark in front of it
!	4oct91	lm optican	create

!
! Make BackSpace send the Delete code
!
keysym	BackSpace	= Delete

!
! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_R keys
!
remove	Lock		= Caps_Lock
remove	Control		= Control_R

keysym	Control_R	= Caps_Lock
keysym	Caps_Lock	= Control_R

add	Lock		= Caps_Lock
add	Control		= Control_R

!
! Swap ESC and `~ keys
!
keycode	62		= Escape
keycode	14		= grave asciitilde

----------------------------


Comment out anything you don't want.
		Good Luck!
----------------------------------------------+--------------------------
   Lance M. Optican			      | uunet!lsr-vax!lmo 
   Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research	      | lsr-vax!lmo@uunet.uu.net
   National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD  |	(301) 496-3549    
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From: kevin@tamri.com (Kevin Dalley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: (NEW OWNER): troff/tbl/eqn missing on new indigo
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:48:01 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@tamri.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

>>>>> On 16 Apr 92 19:18:52 GMT, melvin@ra.cgd.ucar.edu (Lee Melvin) said:


Lee> If I can't get *roff from SGI, is there an anonymous ftp site I can grab
Lee> it from?

You can get *roff from SGI, for a price.  Blame ATT.  FSF's groff is
readily available from ftp sites near you.  It's written in c++.  If
you don't have a c++ compiler, try FSF's gcc 2.1; it compiles groff
nicely (after you add the gcc patch included with groff).
--
Kevin Dalley
kevin@tamri.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: gklaass@nexus.yorku.ca (Gary Klaassen)
Subject: moving /tmp to another disk
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:27:37 GMT

Our group of `amateur' sysadmins would like to move /tmp
to disk that does not contain /dev/root and /dev/usr. Currently we are
using symbolic links to do this, but it has been suggested that we
create a separate partition on another disk called /tmp. Is this a recommended
procedure, or are we likely to run into problems (e.g. installing new system
software)?  Thanks in advance, Gary
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: absinthe@topo.chem.washington.edu (User Account)
Subject: 'Drive'
Keywords: Demo Indigo Drive
Reply-To: absinthe@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:46:29 GMT

Does anyone know anything about the demo program 'Drive?'
I saw it running on some elan-indigos during the annual school
  computer fair here at the UW, but have not been able to find
  it in either the 4.0.1 or 4.0.2 software distributions....

I recall being unfamiliar with some other demos as well, though
  I cannot remember them at the moment...

Thanks!
--
Daniel Faken			/	      absinthe@u.washington.edu
From: griff@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (yo'man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Powerglove and Indigo
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:13:33 GMT
Reply-To: griff@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (yo'man)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: griff@huey.cc.utexas.edu

I was wondering if anyone has had experience integrating the Mattel
Powerglove w/ the Indigo.  I am more interested in the VR rendering software
than the hardware interface (i'm using the HC11 EVB for that).

Even some info on comparing the use of the Indigo over a 386/33 would be
helpful.  My access to the SGI is more limited than an IBM, and I have 
very little experience w/ the Indigo.  Are there any 3-d rendering programs
available as shareware for the Indigo (I'd be using rend386 on the IBM).

thanks for any help you can throw my way,

Andrew Wheeler
[My mother told me not to give .sig's to strangers]
From: merritt@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H. Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: dvi2ps
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:06:05 GMT
Organization: Climate and Radiation Branch

In article <2030@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, schuette@roadkill.nrl.navy.mil (Larry Schuette) writes:
|> Where can I grab the latest version of DVI2PS for the Iris?  Something
|> that has been modified for Irix 4.0.% would be considered a bonus.

Grab 'dvips' (NOT dvi2ps) from  uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.

(Important changes in Makefile)
Compile with -cckr.
Also, -DHAVE_GETCWD

You will have to change the install procedure.  The IRIX install 
can't handle some of the options that BSD install supports.
Basically do a bunch of copies to the destination directories.

This program handles inclusion of EPS figures better than some
of the dvi2ps programs I have encountered.
-- 
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
John H. Merritt --> merritt@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
"I am generally intolerant of ignorance,
but I have made an exception in your case."