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From: sean@coombs.anu.edu.au (Sean Sebastian Batt)
Subject: Rebuilding shared libraries (Was /etc/hosts and name servers...)
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  6 Oct 92 08:31:48 GMT

Dear Colleagues,

cantin@nrccsb3.di.nrc.ca (Claude Cantin) writes:
> How does one set up /etc/resolv.conf to check "/etc/hosts" BEFORE
> checking the name server? [...] On the SUN's, we had to rebuild some
> shared library.  How is it done on the HP's???

I've been able to rebuild the shared libc on a Sun to solve this problem.
How can I rebuild a library on HPUX? Which parts of TFM should I R?

Thanks,

Sean
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From: glen@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Glen Robinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:22:44 GMT
Subject: Re: HP and windows NT
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

Wayne Schlitt) responds:

>	In article <yv9n1-=.mbk@netcom.com> mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe) writes:
> 
>   > I'll close with a quote I heard back in the mid-80s... back when
>   > people were first saying that 'unix was about to catch on BIG - 
>   > the quote, with apologies to its original author, is:
>   > 
>   > "By Tuesday of any given week, IBM will ship more DOS based PCs
>   > than ALL the Unix systems EVER installed in the world."
>   > 
>   > I wouldn't be surprised if you could replace "DOS based" with
>   > "Windows 3.x based" and still be right even today. 
>   > 

>   well, I hate to be the one to surprise you, but I am sure that neither
>   of the above statements are true anymore and depending on how you
>   count things, I am not sure if they were ever true.

Well they could be.  I believe the installed base of DOS is above 100
Million at present with GUI based systems in total < 10% of that number.

The usual disclaimers.

Glen - R
From: bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:52:23 GMT
Subject: Re: HP and windows NT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

> >   Real life, as opposed to the online existence of Usenet, is
> >   NOT CASE SENSITIVE. If I send snail mail, or better yet, a
> >   cheque, to "casper HS Dik" instead of "Casper HS Dik", are
> >   you going to tell the post office that it isn't meant for you?
> >   What would your reaction be if your bank refused to cash it
> >   because the name is wrong?
> 
> Real life is case sensitive. There need only exist one case
> where case sensitivity matters, those cases do exist as
> previously shown. QED.
> 

The above response seems to me like "proof by repeated assertion," as
opposed to answering the reasonable question given.

(Note that many of our computer nerd conventions are different than
those in the real world.  My quoted phrase above includes the comma
inside the quotation, as the real world usually does it.  The included
question uses computer nerd style.  I use both, depending on
circumstance and audience. Both are valid in English.)

ScottB
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: kniveton@zeus.swindon.rtsg.mot.com (Andy Kniveton)
Subject: HP Scanjet 2c -- HP 9000/700
Organization: Motorola LTD
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 15:41:00 GMT

Hi,

Can I connect a HP Scanjet 2c to a HP 9000/720 730, I'm getting conflicting
info from HP and Tetra Systems Inc.

HP are telling me the HP Scanjet 2c is a SCSI device and Tetra Systems Inc are
telling me its a parallel device.

Tetra Systems Inc supply the software to drive the scanner.

Help !

Andy.
BTW if you have a HP Scanjet 2c could you give me the tech info.
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Has anyone heard the rumors concerning HP's new portable 700 series machine ?

I hear that it is small enough to fit in your pocket and is code named Trouser
snake !
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From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Price of AIF:PE
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:45:16 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

I can't find AIF:PE listed in my two most recent price guides either.  I do
remember asking HP when it first came out, and I believe it was $10K just like
AIF:MI.

Now if only HP would publish a _complete_ price guide on each monthly CDROM...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: alex@opal.idbsu.edu (Alex Feldman)
Subject: inhibiting network printing for a user
Organization: Boise State University Math Dept.
Date: 27 Sep 92 12:50:09

We have an HP9000/400 cluster, and another department has an IBM
Powerstation.  Each is listed in each others hosts.equiv file, and
network printing is set up so that users logged in to the powerstation
can print on the printers attached to our machines, even if they don't
have accounts on our machines.

All was well until different people wound up with the same username on
the two systems.  Now when the one with the account on the remote
system prints something, the banner reads with the name of the one on
the local system.  The banner is just the default that comes with most
of the lp scripts.

I tried to change the entry in hosts.equiv to add "-mhoyt" (mhoyt is
the login name in question), but that just seemed to interfere with
other services, like rcp.  Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: rogerg@bluemoon.rn.com (Roger Grywalski)
Subject: GNU Emacs on HP9000/370 with shared libs?
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 12:33:00 EDT

Has anyone got Emacs to run on an HP9000/370 with shared libraries.
There is a blurb in s-hpux8.h as followsL
/* Don't use shared libraries.  unexec doesn't handle them.  */
Well I don't have access the the archive versions of the X libraries
so I was wondering what I might do?  Any help would be great!  Thanks...

 This is from
     rogerg@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: simon.s.huang@hydro.on.ca ()
Subject: hp-ux reinstallation on hp 9000/800 series (827s)
Organization: Ontario Hydro
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:35:01 GMT

We are currently working on writting up procedures of reinstallation
of HP-UX on our HP 827s. We have tried 2 methods 1) using the installation
tape and 2) using the support tape.
Both were included in the HP-UX distribution. The difference is that the 
support tape defines the boot partitioned disk as c2d0sx and the installation
tape defines the boot partitioned disk as c0d0sx . Why is it that if both
tapes were from the same source that they would define the disks differently?
Has anyone experienced the same thing? What is the recommendation for
HP-UX reinstallation?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Simon S. Huang
Ontario Hydro

From: stroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:35:46 GMT
Subject: Re: BSD Compatible Library
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

> I've got HP9000/710 with standard HP-UX8.07 installed at factory last
> week.
> BSD4.3 libc compatible library, /usr/lib/libBSD.a is missing,
> though it exists on HP9000/370(HP-UX8.0).
> Where can I find "killpg()" function on HP-UX8.07 ?

> Shunichiro Cho    scho@yan.yokogawa.co.jp
> Yokogawa Analytical Systems Inc., Tokyo Japan

The killpg function is in /usr/lib/libBSD.a, which is part of the
PROG-AUX fileset.  You should load that fileset.  The programming tools
are an optional product, so they may not have been ordered with that
workstation.

Mike Stroyan, mike_stroyan@fc.hp.com
From: zrde05@trc.amoco.com (Robert D. Ess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HPTerm/Xterm/OpenWindows
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:37:34 GMT
Reply-To: zrde05@trc.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research

Hpterms will work with OpenWindows xnews server patch 24.
From: larryt@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Larry Thompson)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:51:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Device Driver documentation for HP-UX?
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp


>I am posting this for a friend who currently cannot use the news system
>on his machine to post.
>
>Please reply to brad@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Brad Rosser).

Done! If there is more general interest in this topic, go ahead and post 
here and I'll post more information.

Larry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jeff@dsndata.uucp (Jeff Minnig)
Subject: Re: VUEPAD/VUELOAD problems
Organization: Design Data
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:54:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.012609.4608@umr.edu> puneet@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Puneet Grover) writes:

> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:26:09 GMT
> Nntp-Posting-Host: franklin.ee.umr.edu
> Reply-To: puneet@emclab.ee.umr.edu (Puneet Grover)
> Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
> Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Post)
> Originator: puneet@ee.umr.edu
> Lines: 26
> 

> I tried to use the format facility on the VUEPAD editor of our 730 and the
> system hung up . It began filling up the /usr/tmp with a huge file and
> filled the filesystem. I had to restart the system and delete this file
> -then my VUE environment was lost. 
> 

I had a similar problem here.  VUEPAD wrote a 650MB (That's meg,
folks!) file to /usr/tmp.

I don't know what caused it, but would be very interested
to know.


-jeff-

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: bcripe@hpcvusc (Brian E. Cripe)
Subject: Re: interacting with the file manager
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:11:33 GMT

> Is the answer the same to the question of "how do I interact with the
> current actions database?" (for a simple example, the Help manager knows
> whether the LASERROM action is defined).

The VUE components (including the Help Manager) interact with the
action database through a private API.  VUE 3.0 (which has been or
soon will be announced to be shipping with HP-UX 9.0) includes a
"vueaction" command that allows actions to be invoked from the command
line.  Applications can also fork this command to launch actions.

	Brian Cripe
From: jeff@dsndata.uucp (Jeff Minnig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Can I turn off DIAGINIT ?
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:29:58 GMT
Organization: Design Data

In article <1992Sep25.100530.11834@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> u7711501@bicmos.ee.nctu.edu.tw (jih-shin ho) writes:


> Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
> Path: dsndata!backbone!unlinfo.unl.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!news.edu.tw!news!debbie!u7711501
> From: u7711501@bicmos.ee.nctu.edu.tw (jih-shin ho)
> Sender: usenet@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw (News Sender)
> Organization: National Chiao Tung University
> X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 10:05:30 GMT
> Lines: 8
> 
> Hi:
>   Can I turn off DIAGINIT in /etc/rc ?
>   I think that DIAGINIT is the reason causing /usr/adm/LOGxxxx to grow.
> 
>                Thanks
> 
>                                                       Arthur Ho
>                                           u7711501@bicmos.ee.nctu.edu.tw

chmod -x /usr/diag/bin/DIAGINIT



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From: napier@cs.ucsd.edu (Jim Napier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Converting HP300 to X terminal
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:31:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: deadmin.2132
Organization: AMES Dept., UC San Diego



I have an old HP 9000/320SRX system whose disk just crashed and burned. It's
not worth spending the money to replace/fix it but I hate to just pitch the
nice large color monitor. I was thinking about setting up an X11R5 server
binary for the 300 architecture on a 720 I have and just have the 300
download the server image just like it was an X terminal. The 300 would only
be running the X server, not HP-UX. Is this possible? Has anyone else done
this and have any suggestions or references? I've been told by an engineer
at our local HP office that others are doing this but he didn't have any
details. I called the Response Center but the guy they handed me off to had
no idea about how to do this. I guess the crux of the problem is can a 300
be configured as a diskless unit that can poll the network for an image 
to download?

Thanks in advance.

==============================================================================
Jim Napier
Systems Administration
Applied Mechanics & Engineering Sciences Dept.
UC San Diego
(619)534-5414
jnapier@ucsd.edu

"Even if life were a bed of roses, you'd still have to deal with the thorns."
==============================================================================
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Systems Administration
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Shared libraries of MIT R5
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:43:14 GMT

martin@ics.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Martin Buss) writes:
|> 
|> Has anyone out there a hp.cf config-file which deals with
|> HPs shared libraries correctly (for HP7xx).

Strictly, you can't deal with HP shared libraries correctly when building
X.  That's because clients must be linked against the shared libraries
sitting in their final installed directory and, at the time you are trying
to build the clients, the libraries aren't there.

It's a minor problem, though: you just make World, make install in
./lib and ./extension, then make.

There are config files in the R5.HP.SRV file that was recently put on expo.
I made a few changes; will post them soon.
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From: larryd@harp.bnr.ca (Larry Dunkelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: dbx for HP-UX??
Keywords: dbx, ups
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:41:45 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada.

In article <7371342@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein) writes:
>
>No, xdb is derived from cdb, which we purchased from Third Eye Software
>because at the time we decided it was superior to adb, sdb, and dbx.
>(At least I *think* we considered dbx, dunno if it existed at that time
>or if we knew about it.)

All this talk about dbx and xdb makes me wish that some bright sole would
port xups to HP700.  It is by far the fastest, easiest and most fun-to-use
debugger I have used.  

Larry.
From: blh@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Bill Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP1000, HP9000 Model 720, and HPGL->PS conversion
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:58:56 GMT
Organization: Kudzu Headquarters South

I wrote xmodem for the HP1000 several years ago and donated it to the
Interex Contributed Software Library.  Another HP1000 user ported
kermit to the HP1000, and both have been quite successful.

You're right, there were a lot of MUX things to do in the code to get
black-box style behavior, but the source code is almost 30%
documentation for xmodem and runs on RTE-4B, RTE-6 and RTE-A.

Contact Interex at (408) 738-4848 or (800) INT-EREX and ask for
the HP1000 CSL software librarian for more details.  Most all of
the CSL contributions contain source code.

Bill (1000's are still going...bam..bam..bam..) Hassell
From: beckman@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: gcc-2.2.2 won't compile on HPUX 9.0:  Need Help
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:53:35 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington

The workstation is an "HP-UX A.09.00 A 9000/730".  gcc-2.2.2 is from
the Liverpool archive.  The steps that worked perfectly with a 
"HP-UX A.08.07 A 9000/710" system, do not work on the 9.00 system:

% configure
% make LANGUAGES=c
% make stage1
% make CC="stage1/gcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O"

When doing this last step, I get the following:
[stuff deleted.....]
        ./move-if-change tmp-attr.h insn-attr.h
        touch stamp-attr
        stage1/gcc -Bstage1/    -g -O     -I. -I. -I./config \
          -DUSE_COLLECT2 -c `echo ./toplev.c | sed 's,^\./,,'`
cc1: warning: `-g' option not supported on this version of GCC
        stage1/gcc -Bstage1/ -c    -g -O     -I. -I. -I./config tree.c
cc1: warning: `-g' option not supported on this version of GCC
In file included from gvarargs.h:29, from tree.c:41:
va-hp800.h:10: conflicting types for `va_list'
/usr/include/stdio.h:261: previous declaration of `va_list'
*** Error code 1

Stop.

Any clues as to what I should change?

-Pete   beckman@cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Subject: Still trying HPRND.ROSE.HP.COM...
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:39:35 GMT

I'm trying to ftp to the anonymous server at hprnd.rose.hp.com to get the
latest OS/2 2.0 NDIS drivers for HP Ethertwist cards but all I get are
network unreachable messages. Even BITFTP doesn't work.  Can some kind
soul who can get through download the drivers and put them on hobbes.nmsu.edu?
They are said to be in pub/pccards  and should have names like HP27245 etc.

The strangest thing - I can't successfully ping *any* machine in the domain
rose.hp.com even though I can get their IP addresses from the nameserver
relay.hp.com.

Shih-Ping Chan
matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: NetLS and HP/UX
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:44:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.3 PL6]

Roger Sunshine (sunshine@convex.com) wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out whether NetLS (the Network License System) runs
> on HP/UX or only on Domain/OS. 

DOMAIN 9.x to present, on both 68K and 10K architectures
HP-UX 7.0 to present, on both 68K and PA-RISC architectures

> Also, what version of NCS does it require? 

1.5

> Will it be available in HP/UX 9.0?

NetLS will continue to be available on 9.0 and future releases.
NetLS version at 9.0 is 2.01.08

NetLS is also available, for a wide variety of platforms (including HP),
from:
        Gradient Technologies
        Hudson MA
        (508) 562-2882

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: kozlowsk@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rolf Kozlowski)
Subject: Re: HP-UX 9.0 with /dev/nit ???
Originator: kozlowsk@hprbg4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 11:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: Rolf.Kozlowski@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE


Hi there,

I'd like to know if there will be a network facility in HP-UX 9.0
like suns /dev/nit (network interface tap)


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Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:11120 comp.emacs:3233
From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Followup: <backspace> key and Emacs on HP's
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:00:28 GMT
	<1992Sep28.144027.743@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: IXI Ltd.

>>>>> On 28 Sep 92 14:40:27 GMT, golding@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Andy Golding) said:

Andy> (2) In vue.resources, add

Andy> 	*defaultVirtualBindings:	osfBackSpace: <Key>Delete

Andy> Step (2) only affects applications that are clever enough to
Andy> access the X resource database.  

Actually Motif (version 1.1+) applications only.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: rogerg@bluemoon.rn.com (Roger Grywalski)
Subject: emacs/EDT and HP keypad
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 13:19:33 EDT

I'm tring to get emacs to emulate EDT on my HP9000/370 using the
"edt-emuation-on" function but my keypad keys do not work.  I'm running
emacs from an hpterm.  Any help would be appreciated...

 This is from
     rogerg@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: interacting with the file manager
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:46:10

bcripe@hpcvusc (Brian E. Cripe) writes:
> > I figure [HP VUE drag-and-drop is] done through either
> > normal properties and cut buffers or there is something funny going on in
> > the background with the broadcast message server.
> 
> The latter.  HP VUE drag-and-drop is layered on top of BMS messaging.
> We have not documented the protocol or API for external use because 
> drag-and-drop standards are coming (e.g. Motif 1.2 drag-and-drop) that
> will cause a significant change to our current implementation.

Is the answer the same to the question of "how do I interact with the
current actions database?" (for a simple example, the Help manager knows
whether the LASERROM action is defined).
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From: martin@ics.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Martin Buss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: alloca with HP7xx cc ????
Date: 27 Sep 92 07:03:42 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Organization: F. Harashima & H. Hashimoto Lab. Institute of Industrial Science,
	University of Tokyo, Japan.


I really have trouble setting up a useful environment on our HP710.
We have a lot of Suns and also a SGI Indigo (even that one works nicely
now), but the HP is really giving me a hard time. I also hope that
we will get the HP-UX 9.0 update for free???? For the time being I
would appreciate any hints for the following. 

What to do about alloca with the HP-cc?
I tried PDS-alloca (several like emacs, latex,...) and gcc 2.2.2
but this is of no good, I then always get other problems with other
stuff. So what about a decent alloca, xmalloc, ....? 

I really do not understand, why HP does not support a more programmer
friendly HPUX distribution with all the libraries and header files
usually needed. I also miss very much a running yacc (well GNUs bison
does the job) or lex (flex sometimes does not work properly)!

Thanks for your help.

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