HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: looking for database
Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:55:22 GMT

stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org (Stephan Forth) writes:
: Hi networld,
: 
: is there any relational database system available for Cohernt 4.0 and for
: what price??
: 

There was a commercial package that was available for Coherent 3.2
called /rdb.  Here's the info I've got:

> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 10:11:20 PDT
> From: rsw@rsw.rsw.com (RSW Inc. (408) 429 6229)
> Message-Id: <9108141711.AA00451@rsw.rsw.com>
> To: coherent-request
> Subject: /rdb
> 
> In a recent posting the address for /rdb was given incorrectly.
> The correct surface mail address for /rdb is:
> 
> RSW Inc.
> 131 Rathburn Way
> Santa Cruz, CA 95062
> 
> email: uunet!rsw!rsw   or    rsw@rsw.com
> phone: 1 408 429 6229
> fax  : 1 408 427 0342
> orders: 1 800 736 6299
> 
> By the way, the US$49.95 special offer for the Coherent
> version of /rdb (without the Prentice Hall book) has expired.
> 
> The new price is $US99, and includes the book.

As you can see, this info is old, but it might be worth looking into.
I also seem to recall that a detailed review of the package was posted
by somebody in Europe.  That was probably back in the mailing list
days before comp.os.coherent.

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From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in an intelligent serial board?
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:31:27 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Have you tried to download the update to UUCP from the bbs? get the file
called uusecure.tar.Z or you can update your system to taylorUUCP which
is also on the bbs.

MWC Tech Support

>
> In article <1992Dec27.055652.412@yarc.uucp> dave@yarc.UUCP (Dave Rifkind)
>  (that's me) writes:
> >You'd better make that FIFO *really* big.
> >
> >I have an Intel SatisFAXtion/400.  When working as a modem, it acts like
> >a 16450 except that it has an approx. 64K byte input buffer.  I still
> >can't uucp without lost data.  There's something much more seriously
> >wrong than just long interrupt latencies; you're not going to overflow a
> >64K buffer without working at it pretty hard.
>
> I didn't notice where I was cross-posting when I wrote this item.
> Thanks to those who sent me mail, but I should have made it clear that
> I'm talking about a Coherent problem.  Those of you running 'real' OSs
> can now snicker to yourselves and go back to what you were doing....
> ;-)
> --
> you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe
> in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe
> in them either
>
From: kkuhlman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Kenneth Scott Kuhlman)
Subject: DOS under Coherent?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:32:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

     Is there any way to run DOS as a process under Coherent?  Is there any
chance of it ever happening?

-Ken

Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: tcubed@ddsw1.mcs.com (James Hanlon)
Subject: Q: CDROM recommendations ?
Summary: any CDROM drive best with coherent?
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:12:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Keywords: CDROM Coherent

Hello-
	COherent 4.0 and CDROM drives: any preference? Any drives
to avoid?

Philips has announced a CDROM writer; can Coherent talk to it?

Thanks for any info?

Jim Hanlon
tcubed@ddsw1.mcs.com
From: jdhuse@SEDONA.INTEL.COM ("Jon Dhuse~")
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent graphics
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:22:08 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Hello Shannon,

I have a graphics driver running on Coherent - 640x480x256 - which works just
fine.  It is configured as a library of routines that link with the application,
which sounds like what you are talking about.  The library is very small, right
now, but might/would be easy to expand.  Please let me know a little more about
what you have in mind and I'll consider if I have time to contribute.  By the
way, my graphics driver is part of porting X to Coherent...

Regards, Jon.
From: xmpcwsh@DP7UP.DP7UP.COM (Bill Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent does have graphics!
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:10:00 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: Dr Pepper Company/The Seven-Up Company, Dallas

In article <9301062213.AA22879@grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca> you write:
>> Last time I checked, there was one *major* disadvantage to Coherent:
>> No graphics support!  Makes running X kind'a difficult ?
>
>Not so!  I ported MGR with help from Udo, Vance, Grant and others.  I am
>running MGR in VGA 640x480 mode as I type this message in a window!
>
>Work on X is also going well, I am told...  We are trying to coordinate some
>work on the graphics for both X and MGR so that it will run on the same cards
>and modes.
>
>Harry

Is MGR available for 4.0 via ftp?  What else is required to run it.  I'm
fixing to install Coherent onto my toshiba 1800 notebook and was wondering
if it would run int 2megs of RAM.

Bill

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From: messina@NETCOM.COM (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Some Nettiqette (was Re: Is there any hope left?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 06:00:36 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

In comp.os.coherent you write:

> 2) When you DO post, DON'T QUOTE THE WHOLE BLOODY MESSAGE!  Try
> to pare doWn your quoted message to just the few lines that are
> relevant.

I completely agree with you.  However, why did you quote all 127
lines?  Your point was obvious anyway...

t.
From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Matser Boot (Was: Re: Is there any hope left?)
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:05:19 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>
> Well, just to add insult to injury, after I got rid of all the Coherent
> partitions, I noticed that suddenly my DOS started to lock up after running
> for about 5 minutes.  The only thing that has changed is the darned Master
> Boot remnant from Coherent.  I got so ticked off, I removed the whole DOS
> partition with 140 MB worth of files in it.  Guess what, Master Boot
> is still there.  I think I am going to scream.
>
> t.
>

Once again had you called MWC tech support you would have been informed of
the many ways to remove the Coherent Master Boot program.

The simple way is to boot up dos5 (and for dos5 only) at the prompt type
FDISK /MBR  <enter> .   This is a hidden dos command which replaces the
dos master boot record.
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Justification algorithm
Organization: Messina Software
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:53:06 GMT


I am writing some scripts / programs for use with vi.  I would like
to find an algorithm for justifying lines (padding the lines inside
with blanks).  Yes, I know nroff will do that, but I would like a
set of small simple tools  which I can then use in a variety of ways.
Assumptions - lines fed into it are always shorter (or same) as required
padded length. 
Does anyone know where I could find such an algorithm?  I don't want
to re-invent the wheel...

thanks,

t.

Ps.: I don't need wrapping algorithm, i wrote that already...
From: bill@twinbrk.uucp (Bill Shotts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Home mapping in Stevie
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:08:53 GMT
Reply-To: bill%twinbrk%media@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Twinbrook Coherent System - Rockville, Maryland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Tony Porczyk (messina@netcom.com) wrote:
:
: Hi there,
:
: Please disregard my previous post about MicroEMACS.  I decided it will
: be easier to explain vi to the user after doing some magic to .exrc
: then to teach them to perform finger acrobatics in 'me'.  On top of that
: MicroEmacs has no easy way of inserting a file at a cursor (without
: wiping out the buffer), outside of juggling buffers, which is not good
: for newbie users.  Stevie seems very nice, really fast, and (to me)
: much more intuitive than 'me'.  Anyway, I started playing with .exrc

[stuff deleted]

Another editor that people might look at is ice.  It uses a WordStar
like command set but also has pull-down menus, file boxes and a lot of nice
user interface touches.  A demo version is on MWCBBS called icedemo (note that
the description of the program in the mwcbbs database is wrong.  They say that
it is a file/directory management tool but in fact it is a neat text
editor/quasi-wordprocessor).

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From: h235_003@ccvax.ucd.ie (Ronan Mullally)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: HELP! Bad Superblock!
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:22:19 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin



Is it possible to manually rebuild a corrupt superblock ???

I ask because I managed to thrash my Coherent partition over the christmas
- it will boot far as Loading the keyboard driver and then hang.  I can't
mount it after booting from floppy, and fsck tells me I have a Bad Super 
Block!!

I'm certain most of the data on the disk is intact, and the closest thing
I have to a backup is my installation disks (yeah I know, it serves me
right!).  Is there anything I can do to access the partition to salvage
some data ????
 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: brianw@philips.oz.au (Brian Wallis)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:58:31 GMT
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Re: perl ported?

stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org (Stephan Forth) writes:

I'm working on a port at the moment. It works but has some problems when
running the test suite due to some Coherent bugs. I've not yet worked around
these problems.

I'll post when it is done.

>Has perl been ported?? If so, where can I get it (no ftp)??

>Thanks Stephan
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From: mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp (Michael Faurot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent v4 SCSI and ST-506
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:21:01 GMT
Organization: A.T.W.W.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:

: The problem is the
: bus on/off timing, if the DMA controlls the bus for a too long time
: the CPU can't read out the FIFO of the UART. This problem ist greater
: under UNIX then under DOS, because handling the interrupts is much
: more expensive.

Has Coherent's Adaptec SCSI driver been fixed yet, or are we in the
RSN stage?
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|   Michael Faurot   | Domain: mfaurot@phzzzt.UUCP		             |
|   ------- ------   | UUCP: ...!{irscscm|mimsy}!bogart!phzzzt!mfaurot       |
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From: root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Coherent modem control and getty wedge
Organization: RWSYS Exporter BBS system
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:13:22 PST

clau@acs.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Lau) writes:
> root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser) writes:
> > clau@acs.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Lau) writes:
> 
> I think I'll be trying to add an "answering machine" to mine using the 
> voice digitization capabilities of the ZyXEL.
> c4
> -- 
> Christopher Lau                      |    Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor,
> The University of Calgary            |    not an engineer!
> Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg. |    Well, you're an engineer now..
> lau@enel.ucalgary.ca -OR- clau@acs.ucalgary.ca -OR- root@fusion.cuc.ab.ca
> 

ZyXEL sounds like an excellent modem. Maybe there ought to be something
more flexible than the "minit" style files for the wedge. All the various
manufacturers seem to have their own style of return strings. Modemcap
doesn't accomodate all this, but perhaps a newer language is in order
that allow the administrator to specify strings etc, and if there is
to be digitization of voice, there will need to be some fancy file
format. This is also true for fax.

Randy
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(604) 581-0518  8N1  (Bell 103/212A, V22.bis)  interactive login: guest
Anon uucp:  ogin: uguest     MACHINE=uguest LOGNAME=uguest MYNAME=rwsys
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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent v4 SCSI and ST-506
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:44:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: rmkhome.9301050746.09
Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats

In article <9301041066@hphbbs.E.open.de> hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen) writes:
>Udo Munk (udo@umunk.GUN.de) wrote:
>: Trev Roydhouse (trev@asstdc.oz.au) wrote:
>: :  > From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
>
>: :  > the Adaptec AH-1542 SCSI controller is the best one 
>: :  > available today for ISA bus systems. But be warned 
>: :  > this controller uses busmaster DMA and has problems 
>: :  > with some motherboards. The problem is that you are losing 
>: :  > characters on the serial lines when there is heavy disk 
>: :  > I/O.  This problem does not occur only under COHERENT, 
>
>: :  ... under MS/PC-DOS too. However, the problem is easily solved by installing a
>: : replacement UART, the NS16550AFN in place of the 8250 or 16450. Of course, VLSI
>: : serial port chipsets preclude this option, although I hear there is a 16550
>: : VLSI chipset now.  
>
>: Not in every case. I know about systems where this problem is worse
>: with a 16550, because now a whole FIFO is lost. The problem is the
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: bus on/off timing, if the DMA controlls the bus for a too long time
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: the CPU can't read out the FIFO of the UART. This problem ist greater
>: under UNIX then under DOS, because handling the interrupts is much
>: more expensive.
>
>  NO! The problem is NOT the Bus-On/Off-Timing. I wrote a tool
>  'ahaset' which could set the Busmaster-Timing in the whole range.
>  Using this tool I set the bus-timing to 'worst case' for the disk
>  i.e. 2 ys (micro-seconds) Bus-On, 64 ys Bus-Off, but this didn't improve
>  anything.
>  I believe that the new scatter/gather-support in the ADAPTEC-Driver
>  crushes other I/O.
>  EACH disk access is to detriment of tty I/O - even at only 1200
>  baud. With COHERENTs ADAPTEC driver it is definitly IMPOSSIBLE to 
>  work over tty lines independent of direction.
>
>  Replacing UARTs (->16550AFN) cures nothing but makes things worse, 
>  since disk-access from the provided ADAPTEC driver trashes entire
>  FiFo-buffers. Actually it is impossible to use FiFo-UARTs, because 
>  UUCPs 'uucico' has severe sycronization problems with whole
>  FiFo-buffers trashed, which results in broke UUCP connections all
>  the time.

I have a 386/33 with Adaptec 1540A, and my ISA bus running at 8 mhz.
With Taylor UUCP I rarely get broken UUCP connections run Coh 4.0.

Buson/busoff is part of the problem, but the main problem is interrupt
latency.  The Adaptec SCSI driver is locking out interrupts for too
long.  MWC is aware of this, and they are working on a fix.

-- 

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From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: DOS under Coherent?
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:53:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: DarkTower Software
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Kenneth Scott Kuhlman (kkuhlman@icaen.uiowa.edu) wrote:
:      Is there any way to run DOS as a process under Coherent?  Is there any
: chance of it ever happening?

Not right now.  To run DOS in Unix like Linux has and Interactive Unix
has (VP/ix), the processor has to kick in V86 mode.

Chance? sure, but why would you want to?  I suppose some people have a
good reason for it.

Basically, all they need to do is trap interrupt calls to the BIOS and
emulate the service in some way.  V86 mode on the 80386 and above
allows you to do this in a relatively coordinated fashion.

you won't be running MS-windows or anything that uses 386 specific code
though.  You're limited to 16-bit instruction set.

-Louis


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From: stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org (Stephan Forth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: looking for wordprocessor
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Forthdv
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 15:15:24 GMT

Stephan Forth (stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org) wrote:
: Hi networld,
: 
: is there ANY wordprocessing system available for Coherent that works with
: the HP Deskjet 500.
: Are PCL Fonts available that could be downloaded to the printer. None
: of the supplied font-width-tables work.
: 
: HELP Wordprocessing is the task I need most at the moment ( I'm a student :-))
: 
: Thanks Stephan
: --

Hi networld,

with a little hint from Peter Heidinger I can answer my own question:

-copy the archive cm.tar.Z (PCL Fonts) from COhware II
-delete all fonts except cmr12.sfp, cmb12.sfp, cmi12.sfp
-create new font-width-tables (e.g. fwtable cmr12.sfp tr120rpn.usp)
-replace the definitions in /usr/lib/troff/troff_pcl/fonts.r with the new ones

works ok for the Deskjet 500 without download ram available.

But still I am looking for a "real" wordprocessor (e.g. TeX, groff etc.) :-))

Stephan
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From: fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: how many open files in 4.0.1?
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:32:12 GMT
Organization: What?!? Absolutely none!
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Ed Bravo (ed@invid.mwc.com) wrote:
: >
: > I've been running a test program on many systems latey, to see how many
: > files each system allows a single process to oopen. I was astonished
: > to find that I could open 2000 files on AIX 3.2 on an RS/6000.
: >
: > I was further astonished to see that the program thought it failed after
: > opening 13 files on Coherent 4.0.1.

: At present Coherent supports 20 files but with other processes running the
: system may have only 13 to 18.  On the next version of Coherent you will
: have 60!

Yes, so I hear. Howver I was trying to make two points, neither of which
has been answered by any responder:

1. When a process begins it should ONLY have 3 files open: stdin, stdout,
and stderr. What happened to the rest of them?

2. How come when open or creat return a failure code THEY STILL CREATE
A FILE	???????????????????       T H I S    I S    A    B U G !!!!
I've been told that even on the DDK kernel, which allows 60 files
per process, that this still happens.

Fred
From: schmitte@OSFHRZ13.RZ.FH-OSNABRUECK.DE (Hans Dieter Schmitter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: (none)
Date: 7 Jan 93 08:08:47 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

I'm looking for port of UNIX-bc (calculator with inf. precision) to MSDOS.
Is the COHERENT source code for bc or another available ?
Thanks, Sch.
From: hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: essential: make update on MWCBBS
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Organization: HPHBBS-COHERENT User Conference/Germany (CUC-Ger)
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 20:08:47 +0100

Alexander Shendi (shendi@saruman.stgt.sub.org) wrote:
: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: > For those of you who haven't observe it:
: > the updates directory on MWCBBS has an updated make, where several
: > problems are solved. As an example the redefinition of actions like
:  [... stuff deleted]

: Is this the same version of make that comes with the Device
: Driver kit V2.0?

  The DDK does not provide a new 'make'.
  A new as, cc, ps and stty is provided -- with no update information,
  though. :-((


: Thanks in advance for any pointers.

: Bye,
: Alex
: -- 
: Alexander Shendi                E-Mail: shendi@saruman.stgt.sub.org


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From: DEPIN@target.com (Robert Depin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: New to list...
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:10:00 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Hello, I'm new to the list and I've watching the list to get info on Coherent
before I commit to purchase.

Anyway, I'm curious about a few things:

        Jon Dhuse mentions graphics on coherent and a port of X.
        I also recall seeing a message mentioning X being on the way from MWC

Is there an X available through the net (freeware, shareware, etc.) ?

Can anyone tell me if any music orientated applications have been ported or are
available for coherent (i.e. Keynote, MIDI, etc.) ?

Bob
From: kenji@rcac.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Additional Packages for Coherent
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:53:05 GMT
Organization: RCAC Project, ASTEM RI, Kyoto, Japan
In-reply-to: mike@shell.portal.com's message of 7 Jan 93 00:31:34 GMT

In article <C0GK4M.1px@unix.portal.com> mike@shell.portal.com (Michael Bruce Tepin) writes:

]   This is an honest question.  There is no attempt at starting any trouble or
]   flame wars or anything.  I truely don't understand.  Why are the GNU compilers
]   and utilites FREE for MSDOS, OS/2, and Linux but cost money for Coherent?

You can sell GNU software products as long as you are not
restricting/violating GNU General Public License. If you sell a GNU
product, you are requested to give all source code files if customers
demand. And you cannot restrict redistribution of GNU products by the
customers.

// Kenji
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