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From: matess@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Eliza Strickler)
Subject: Can pcsim run in another mode besides real?
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:19:51 GMT

Can the most current version of PCSIM run in a mode 
besides real? If so, how does one change their mode?

Thanks,
	Elizabeth
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From: andrews@wharton.upenn.edu (Scott Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: problems with mwm under Xdm on AIX 3.2
Date: 13 Nov 92 22:56:57 GMT
Organization: Wharton

I'm having a problem with mwm under Xdm on AIX 3.2. In my Xsession
file I echo $DISPLAY and the value is :0. When I try to run
a script from a mwm menu which echos the DISPLAY variable to a log
file the display value is 0:.46. This disables any programs from accessing
my screen. 

If I change the memu file (system.mwmrc) to execute a program and force the
display to be :0 everything is fine.

In other words if I have entries in my system.mwmrc file such as:
    Menu RootMenu
    {
        "Menu"     f.title
        "Win1"     f.exec "/usr/bin/X11/xterm &"
        "Win2"     f.exec "/usr/bin/X11/xterm -display :0 &"
    }

The Win1 program always fails with a message "Error: Can't Open display"
and Win2 program works without any errors.


Has anyone come accross this problem?
Does anyone have any comments or suggestions?



--
Scott W. Andrews,     University of Pennsylvania
Internet:             andrews@wharton.upenn.edu


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: slg@IEDV4.acd.com ( Leigh Grundhoefer   )
Subject: Re: Re. A couple of answers
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:03:11 GMT

In article <19921106.082746.756@almaden.ibm.com> kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>paul@acus1.cc.uky.edu (paul linton) writes :
>
>> back when 3.1 wasn't "GOLD" i was getting updates about every week or two
>> and i learned one could 'copy' the install tape to disk and do install/update
>> with the directory being the install device and it saved LOTS of time once
>> the installation began.  I wanted to do this with the latest tape I received
>> but I havent done the above in a long time.  I tried (restore -Tf/dev/rmt0.1)
>> but it said not in backup format.  Any ideas?
>
>  Tape format:   (Install tape)
>  ------------
>
>  File 1  | File 2  | File 3  | File 4  | File 5  |.......| File n  |
>  --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------+---------+
>  boot    | display | toc     | bos.obj | lpp-1   |.......| lpp-n   |
>  --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------+---------+
>  dd      | dd      | dd      |  tar    | restore |.......| restore |
>  -------------------------------------------------------------------
>


	Do you have any further information on the creation of 
	the .toc files? I want to add some fixes to our regular
	AIX 3.2.3 load.     
	In 3.1 I was able to install from a "bootable mksysb", then
	load it as if it was a IBM install tape.

	I would like  be able to load everything from the bos.obj
	file, but I may be in dreamworld.


	Thanks 
		Leigh
From: jz1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (James D. Zelenka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: a couple of questions (INSTALLP)
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:10:34 GMT
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 6-Nov-92 a couple of questions
(INST.. paul linton@acus1.cc.uky (878)

> what would be the 'brick walls' run into if someone were to want to write
> a device driver to create a RAMDISK?  Is there a way to have a program
'lock down' a block of memory so that it doesn't get swapped?

Yes, check out xmalloc.

-jim
jz1j@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: AIX PS/2 1.2.1 service change, 1.3 free upgrade
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:00:30 GMT

Picked this up on an internal IBM group, where they said the information
was to be distributed to customers... this is the best way I know.

Bob

 Since AIX Version 1 Release 3 (1.3) is available, IBM expects most
 customers to migrate from AIX Version 1 Release 2 Modification 1 (1.2.1)
 to AIX 1.3.  With the majority of customers migrating to AIX 1.3, IBM
 will change the method of service for problems reported against AIX PS/2
 (5713-AEQ) 1.2.1 on January 1, 1993.  After this date, the IBM support
 center will continue to accept problems from IBM customers, but will
 only provide circumventions or relief for high impact problems.

 The last PTF tape for 1.2.1 was available July 24, 1992 (U405156).
 Reported defects that were not fixed on this PTF and exist in AIX PS/2
 1.2.1 were fixed in AIX PS/2 1.3 or will be fixed in the 1.3 service
 stream.

 There are some points that customers should be aware of:

 1.  AIX PS/2 1.2.1 cannot be ordered after December 21, 1992.

 2.  Service for AIX PS/2 1.2.1 will be withdrawn April 1, 1993.

 3.  AIX PS/2 1.3 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ENHANCEMENTS:
     - Provides full PS/2 hardware exploitation for 386, 486, and
       SLC processors.
     - Offers limited support for selected IBM compatible systems.
     - Performance tuning offers increased throughput for input/output.
     - Improves windowing and GUI capabilities through XWindows System
       V11R5 and OSF/Motif 1.1.3.
     - Provides DOS 5.0 support under DOS Merge.
     - Improves performance.
     - Connects easily to IBM and non-IBM networks.
     - Simplifies installation and system management.
     - Support for Korn Shell.

 4.  Migrating to 1.3 requires you to re-install the operating system.
     IBM AIX Software Support will provide conversion assistance upon
     request.

 5.  Upgrades from IBM AIX PS/2 1.1, 1.2, or 1.2.1 to 1.3 will be
     available free of charge for orders placed on or before December 31,
     1993.  There is a nominal upgrade charge for DosMerge, AIXWindows,
     XWindows, and XStation Manager.

 6.  See the following announcement letters for more details:

     - IBM AIX PS/2 1.3 and related licensed programs (292-528)
     - IBM AIX PS/2 No-charge upgrade promotion (392-208)
     - Withdrawal: AIX PS/2 1.2.1 Operating System and version 1.2.1
       and 1.1.1 LPPs (292-530)

--

Bob Shair                          shair@vnet.ibm.com
Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
IBM Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: fred@dickens.com (Fred R Stearns)
Subject: Re: Access another process data segment(s)/address space	
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:15:57 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Nov11.075544.29818@ulrik.uio.no> mhe@hal.uio.no (Morten Hermanrud) writes:
>In article <LUCIEN.92Nov10101313@fionavar.watson.ibm.com>, lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen) writes:
>|> mhe@hal.uio.no (Morten Hermanrud) writes:
>|> 
>|> >Is there any way process A can 'attach' process B's address space ?
>|> 
>|> The ptrace() syscall is what you're looking for; you can attach a process
>|> and then read/write to it's address space.  Info gives more complete
>|> information on how to use it.
>|> 
>|> 	-Lucien
>|> 
>|> --
>|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>|> Lucien Van Elsen                                          IBM  Research
>|> lucien@watson.ibm.com                                     Project Agora
>
>The ptrace allows me to read/write bytes in anothes process's address
>space but it will not allow me to use the 'read' system call with
>an address in the other process's address space as an argument without
>copying the data into my own address space first. As the amount of data
>is HUGE this would be an incredible wastfull operation....
>
>What I want to do is :
>
>     .
>     .
>     map process B's address space to my address space at addr N
>     write(fd,N,n_bytes);
>     .
>     .
>     read(fd,N,n_bytes);
>     .
>     .
>
>such that the read/write operation goes directly into process B's 
>address space.
> 
>

What about attaching a shared memory segment in both of the
processes?
-- 
Fred R. Stearns -- fred@dickens.com
Everything's a kludge!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: agw@dsm.fordham.edu (Art Werschulz)
Subject: resolv.conf question
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:12:38 GMT

Hi.

The
 # smit tcpip 
command allows you to specify one nameserver, with the result that the
/etc/resolv.conf file has the form
 nameserver	192.33.4.10
 domain	ns.psi.net
I would like to specify additional nameservers.  Is it OK to merely
add them to the /etc/resolv.conf file (as, for instance, in SunOS)?
If so, do I need to restart any daemons or do any further action in
order for the additional nameservers to be recognized?

Thanks.


--
  Art Werschulz		(8-{)}
  Internet:  agw@dsm.fordham.edu  ATTnet: (212) 636-6325

  Shalom!  Ani mutatsia shel virus .signature.
  Ha`atek oti letoch .signature shelcha!
avinoam
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Division by zero, again...
From: avinoam@sunrise.huji.ac.il ()
Date: 9 Nov 1992 20:51:24 GMT
Reply-To: avinoam@sunrise.huji.ac.il ()
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Keywords: Division by zero, FORTRAN
NNTP-Posting-Host: sunrise.huji.ac.il



Hi! Sorry if it is a FAQ, but I would like to know how to stop a FORTRAN
program to after division by zero, overflow, etc...
I am looking for oSomething like ieee_handler in the SunOS fortran,
but this time I am using xlf......
Thank you very much!
Avinoam
avinoam@sunrise.huji.ac.il, avinoam@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Question:  Xstations, how to find who is logged on.
Organization: private system, Toronto, Ontario
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 14:32:28 GMT

In article <8590@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> jonathan@CAD.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Katz) writes:
>
>Hi,
>  I had a quick question regarding Xstations.  What is the best way
>to find out who is logged onto an Xstation?  It would be easy enough
>to create a window with the window title equal to the user id, but, there
>must be a better way.
>
    The command "id" will print out user id and group id of the currently
    logged in session.

                     --jrh

-- 

James R. Hamilton                               inet: jrh@jrh.gts.org
telephone: +1 416 493 4162                      uunet: ...!uunet!jrh!jrh
Toronto, Canada                                 bitnet: jrh%jrh@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton)
Subject: Re: How to redirect outputs from the command "time" into a file?
Organization: private system, Toronto, Ontario
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 15:06:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.023656.1850@cs.tulane.edu> mt0lamg@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Louis X. Lee) writes:
>
>Hello, everyone:
>
>My first question is about saving outputs from the timing command
>"time" into a file. I tried "time a.out > a.time", but it did not
>work. How to capture the outputs into a file? ( I am running
>AIX3.2 on RS/6000 model 550).

    Both the csh and ksh provide time command builtins that, to my knowledge,
    can't be redirected.  However, the following will do what you want by
    forcing the time command to run instead of the time shell builtin:

         /bin/time cmd >cmd.out 2>time.out

>
>My second related question is about the meanings of the outputs
>from the command "time". I guess "real time" is real time, but what
>is "user time"? What is "system time"? InfoExplorer does not
>provide me with a satisfactory answer.
>
    Real time is the elapse, wall clock time, that the program took to 
    complete.  User time is the amount of time that the program was 
    actually executing (as opposed to waiting on a time slice, or I/O
    etc.) in the user address space rather than the kernel.  The sys
    time is the amount of time spent executing kernel code on behalf
    of the program (I/O requests are a typical example).

                     --jrh
-- 

James R. Hamilton                              inet: jrh@jrh.gts.org
telephone: +1 416 493 4162                     uunet: ...!uunet!jrh!jrh
Toronto, Canada                                work: jrh@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com
From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: USENET sources - was: AIX3 performance monitor-1.06 available now
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:55:48 GMT
Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
Distribution: comp
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

In article <104@jassys.UUCP>, tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:
|> Sometimes there is a certain amount of bigotry (sp) towards those of
|> us without internet access.  WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE!  Well, sort
|> of ;-)
In the US uunet archives all of the usenet sources.  I cant guarantee
that the latest version of monitor is there, but I have gotten older versions.
uunet is accessable via UUCP dialin on their 900 number.

Or you can arrange to have an account with ALTERNET so
you can pay monthly.  So , there is no bigotry involved.  You just have
to know how to navigate.

Here is an excerpt from their help file:
1. How to reach UUNET's 900 number via uucp

   Here are some sample a L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for
   UUNET's 900 number:

   # Simple line.
   uunet Any ACU 19200 1-900-468-7727 in:--in:--in: uucp
   #
   # Set up for a Telebit.
   uunet Any cua0 19200 cua0 "" ATX0S50=255S111=30DT19004687727\r CONNECT "" login: uucp

   Modify as appropriate for your site, of course, to deal with your
   local telephone system and uucp version.

   All modems on the 900 lines are Telebit T2500s.  Note that these
   modems first answer with V.32, then at 2400, 1200, and last with PEP
   tones.  This "900" number charges $.50US per minute to the caller.

2. Where the files are

   This file of instructions exists as the file uunet!~/info/archive-help
 
   uunet!~/ls-lR.Z contains a list of all files available.  This is the
   compressed output of an `ls -lR' command.  This file is updated each
   night.  (Note this file is currently about 900 Kbytes *compressed*).
   Information on other indexes can be found in uunet!~/index/README.
   Other information files are listed in uunet!~/info/README


-- 
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From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Login, modem, and alias questions
Keywords: login,alias,modem
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:49:55 GMT
Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin

In article <1992Nov9.224706.27913@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
>In article <1992Nov07.015318.187943@jrh.uucp> jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton) writes:
>>    Login is a program called by the getty program to authenticate a user 
>>    logging into the system and to initialize a new enviroment for them to
>>    use during the session.  It is is not meant to be run from the command
>>    line.  Don't run it ... this is not a bug.
>
>Login is a part of TSM which is a program that pretends to be both
>getty and login.
>
>Running login on the command line shouldn't hang the terminal, although
>it isn't a good idea.  If you want to "login" on an open line, you should
>"exec" login, as in
>
>$ exec login jfh

The guy said he was typing "login" from ksh.  This is cool.  login is a
ksh builtin that actually execs the real login.  Since the 'pid' does
not change, you won't get the "must exec login from the lowest shell"
stuff when tsm dorks with /etc/utmp.

If, from the ksh command line, you said: /usr/bin/login  then you would
get hosed.  From the symptoms the guy describes, it sounds like he is
having a problem worth looking into...too bad I'm not in Defect Support
anymore.

-- 
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 ibmvnet: KONOPIK at AUSTIN               |  IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: Access another process data segment(s)/address space	
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:45:04 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
	<LUCIEN.92Nov10101313@fionavar.watson.ibm.com>
	<1992Nov11.075544.29818@ulrik.uio.no>
Organization: IBM T.J Watson Research Center

mhe@hal.uio.no (Morten Hermanrud) writes:

>The ptrace allows me to read/write bytes in anothes process's address
>space but it will not allow me to use the 'read' system call with
>an address in the other process's address space as an argument without
>copying the data into my own address space first. As the amount of data
>is HUGE this would be an incredibly wasteful operation....
>
>What I want to do is :
>
>	.
>	.
>	map process B's address space to my address space at addr N
>	write(fd,N,n_bytes);
>	.
>	.
>	read(fd,N,n_bytes);
>	.
>	.
>
>such that the read/write operation goes directly into process B's 
>address space.

If large amounts of data a concern, I believe there's a way to do it, though
the amount of work & wizardry involved is such that it may just be easier to
make B cooperate with A and share a memory segment.

  Note that the rest of this was gleaned from the documentation in info and
various include files; I havn't personally written a routine to do this.
If you're willing to write A as a kernel process, you should be able to
attach to a given process B's memory space from the kernel using the vm_att
kernel service on the vmhandle contained in the u.u_adspace stored in the
array u_adspace.srval of B, with the index of the array being the segment in
which the address space of interest in B is located.  The vm_uatt macro in
/usr/include/sys/adspace.h should be a good guide to the format you want to
use.

		-Lucien
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lucien Van Elsen                                          IBM  Research
lucien@watson.ibm.com                                     Project Agora
From: srao@beany.austin.ibm.com (Satish Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: a couple of questions (INSTALLP)
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:40:16 GMT
Organization: "Personal Systems Programming, IBM Austin"

In article <1992Nov6.150923.6837@ms.uky.edu> paul@acus1.cc.uky.edu (paul linton) writes:
>First question:
>back when 3.1 wasn't "GOLD" i was getting updates about every week or two
>and i learned one could 'copy' the install tape to disk and do install/update
>with the directory being the install device and it saved LOTS of time once
>the installation began.  I wanted to do this with the latest tape I received
>but I havent done the above in a long time.  I tried (restore -Tf/dev/rmt0.1)
>but it said not in backup format.  Any ideas?
>
 You can use bffcreate to do this by taking the following path in SMIT:
 
 smit installp
  Standard Installation & Maintenance
    Software Installation & Maintenance
      Copy Software to Hard Disk for Future Installation

-- 
  Satish Rao			Consultant, cmdinstl
  512-838-3428                  srao@beany.austin.ibm.com

  Neither IBM nor Princeton share or back the opinions expressed here
From: paul@acus1.cc.uky.edu (paul linton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: a couple of questions (INSTALLP)
Summary: installp, ramdisk, etc
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:09:23 GMT
Organization: University of Kentucky

First question:
back when 3.1 wasn't "GOLD" i was getting updates about every week or two
and i learned one could 'copy' the install tape to disk and do install/update
with the directory being the install device and it saved LOTS of time once
the installation began.  I wanted to do this with the latest tape I received
but I havent done the above in a long time.  I tried (restore -Tf/dev/rmt0.1)
but it said not in backup format.  Any ideas?

Second question:
what would be the 'brick walls' run into if someone were to want to write
a device driver to create a RAMDISK?  Is there a way to have a program
'lock down' a block of memory so that it doesn't get swapped?  Other than
the 'difficulties' in writing a device driver would there be any obvious
problems with this particular one? (I'm not worried about the 'data loss'
factor invloved with a power loss).

Thanks

Paul
From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: resolv.conf question
Date: 13 Nov 1992 19:05:29 +0100
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr

In article <AGW.92Nov13111238@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu> agw@dsm.fordham.edu (Art Werschulz) writes:
>add them to the /etc/resolv.conf file (as, for instance, in SunOS)?

Go ahead, just edit and modify the file. It's less hassle
than SMIT for the same result. There are no applications to be
restarted.

-- 
Christophe Wolfhugel    |    Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
  "Pour le bien-etre de tous, il est interdit de pisser dans le metro."
From: root@exeter.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Upgrading AIX from V3.2.2 to V3.2.3
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:01:46 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <1992Nov6.015856.20277@cognos.com> maklinm@cognos.com (Max Maklin) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.150612.20357@alias.com> ghawkins@alias.com (Gerry Hawkins) writes:
>:^()  My motivation behind that request was fairly straight forward. I wanted
>:^()  to know what level of AIX is on a given RS6000. This is very important
>:^()  for us as our application is generally only qualified under the most
>:^()  current OS level. We are unable to differentiate between AIX 3.2.0,
>:^()  3.2.1, 3.2.2 and now 3.2.3! This will cause us and our customers
>:^()  problems.

I think you are going to have a problem here as 3.2.2, 3.2.3, etc...
aren't real levels in the sense that they were in AIX 3.1.*. Most
people just selectively apply PTFs to fix the problems that effect
them. I think that there are supposed to be some type of cumulative
fixes in the future that can really be considered level changes.

At least this is my understanding.
From: brian@dsm.fordham.edu (Brian Downing)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Does anyone have an example of a decent .netrc file?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:44:38 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math


As per the subject line: Does anyone have an example of a decent .netrc file?

We just put our AIX box on the net and I'd like a whole bunch of
entries in my .netrc file for autologon to various anonymous sites.
Unfortuantely the manpage for ftp doesn't give an example of the
autologon proc? macro? If anybody has one that works, with a dummy
password if not anonymous, please reply by mail.
  Thanks,
  Brian...
--
 brian downing@->fordham university, nyc ny
      bdowning@mary.fordham.edu
         brian@dsm.fordham.edu