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From: ericl@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Eric Lafortune)
Subject: Continued support for Sabine graphics adapter?
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science K.U.Leuven
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:24:31 GMT

At our department we are wondering if the Sabine graphics adapter is supported
by more recent versions of AIX than 3.1.5, and if it will still be supported in
the future. We've heard some totally opposite opinions from our local IBM
representatives so far. We are primarily interested in X11 R4/R5 and in GL.

According to some postings a while ago there was a trade-in program for Sabine
adapters in the US. Does anyone know of a similar program in Europe?

The reason for this is that we have an RS/6000 with a Sabine adapter on a study
contract with IBM. The study contract has expired now and the equipment is
offered to us at a reduced price. Needless to say that continued support of the
hardware is an important criterion while evaluating this offer.

Thanks in advance for any information.

    Eric.

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From: root@connect.com (Niles Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: What do you get when you purchase AIX?
Keywords: AIX
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 13:40:39 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Connect Software, Morehead City, NC

Greetings.

I am currently retained by a company that is having problems 
with an RS/6000 running AIX 3.1.  The system was purchased from
a VAR with the VAR's vertical application preinstalled.  The VAR
is providing something less than stellar support.

The system has a subset of what I'm used to seeing on a Unix system.
There are no compilers, linkers, man pages, printed manuals, etc.,
just lots of empty directories.  The system contains just enough of
AIX to run the vertical application that the VAR is selling, along
with the usual administrative tasks like backup and user management.

According to the purchase order, the client purchased the following 
AIX-related software when they bought the box from the VAR:

- IBM Program No. 5756-030/0206/0208 AIX Version 3 for IBM RISC 
  System 6000 Processor Group F5 (includes models 520 and 530) -
  32 user License.

- IBM Model 5756 Feature 4961 Operating System Backup Copy Option

Can anyone tell me what you get when you order the above?  Should there
be man pages?  C compiler?  Manuals?  Anything?  <g>

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Niles Mills
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From: russotto@vnet.ibm.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 09:28:40 EST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: wuarchive ftpd on AIX ???
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.1
            <1993Jan7.182949.9192@news.uiowa.edu>

In <1993Jan7.182949.9192@news.uiowa.edu> Matt Donath writes:
>However, I have a different problem.  All of the times in my ftp
>transfer log are off by about 7 hours.  ???  Anyone know what
>this is??    (donath@cs.uiowa.edu)

The transfer log times are probably in Coordinated Universal Time (what
used to be called GMT).   Are you in mountain time? (MST7MDT, probably)
From: forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: 16-port asynch. adapters for sale
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:30:20 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

we have three 16-line asynch. adapters for an rs6000 (in a model 530).
they are no longer needed and i'd like to sell them.  any offers?

+ sa2               00-02             16-Port Asynchronous Adapter EIA-232
+ sa3               00-03             16-Port Asynchronous Adapter EIA-232
+ sa4               00-04             16-Port Asynchronous Adapter EIA-232
From: john@newave.newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: What Is A Background Write?
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:25:49 GMT
Organization: Newave Communications, Ltd, Lake Wobegon, MN

I am having problems using the pipe ("|") character on an RS/6000
560 running AIX 3.2.3.  I am running under the C-shell.

When I type something like "ls -l | more", I get a message that says
"background write", and I get a command prompt back.  The job never
seems to run (I never do get my directory listing).  When I go to log
out, the system tells me that I have stopped jobs.  If I do a "ps", my
"ls -l | more" is still running.

This happens about 75% of the time when I use the pipe symbol.  Does
anyone know what is causing this and how it can be fixed?  Without
being able to use pipes, the RS/6000 is nearly worthless to me as a
developement platform.

-john-

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From: jer@stiatl.salestech.com (John Ramspott)
Subject: Atlanta AIX User Group Formation
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.
Distribution: ga
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:10:39 GMT

To All IBM AIX Users in the Atlanta Area:

I am on the Advisory Board of the newly formed AIX Users Group.
After our first meeting, we determined that we needed to figure
out what the group's direction should be. Some proposed that we
be a technical group, much like the Atlanta Unix User's Group
(AUUG) that focused specifically on AIX. Others proposed that
we have a more business orientation. Members of the board range
from Presidents of companies to Software Engineers. What I would
like to hear from the Atlanta AIX users on the net are answers to
the following questions:

1. Are you interested in being a member of an active AIX User's
Group in Atlanta? If not, why not?

2. What position do you have (engineer/manager/sales/support)?

3. What is the size of your company? What products/services does
your company provide?

4. What would you like to get from an AIX User's Group? Ideas are
as follows:

-- Technical Presentations (e.g. DCE, DME, APPC, etc)
-- Product Demonstrations
   __ Software Development Tools
   __ Accounting Software
   __ CAD/CAM Tools
   __ Scientific Software
   __ Hardware products
   __ other
-- How to discussions (administration, networking)
-- IBM directions
-- How people are using their RS/6000's and other AIX platforms
-- Social contacts
-- Business Issues

5. We have determined that we could use group size to leverage action
and support from IBM. Would this help you? What kinds of issues would
you like to see pursued? Examples:

-- Easier System Administration for Beginners (e.g. simplified SMIT)
-- More information about IBM plans for future products/directions
-- Improve the scheme used to distribute and apply bug fixes and updates
-- Improve response to bug and problem reports

6. Would you like the group to be technical, business, or a combination
of the two? 

7. Would you like to present a topic or demonstrate a product at an AIX
User Group Meeting? If so, what?

8. How many people do you know that use AIX that are not on this network?
Would they have an interest in an AIX User group?

9. What other services can the AIX User group provide for you?


We have out next Advisory Board Meeting on January 20, 1993, so I would
appreciate hearing from you before then if possible. Feel free to include
your name, address, company, and phone number if you wish to be contacted
about club meetings and activities. The club is being generously sponsored
this year by Dickens Data Systems with help and participation by IBM.

I am not associated with IBM except as a developer who uses the RS/6000 here
at Sales Technologies. Sales Technologies does not have any affiliation with
IBM or the AIX User Group.

John E. Ramspott
Software Engineer
Sales Technologies, Inc.
jer@salestech.com
(404) 841-4986 (voice)
(404) 841-4115 (fax)
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From: micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How do i print Man-pages?
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:10:41 GMT
Organization: The Karolinska Institute, Sweden
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXMessage-ID: <A7777877DF017A15@bart.mic.ki.se>
X-XXDate: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:18:15 GMT

In article <19930108.010151.363@almaden.ibm.com> , bondono@vnet.ibm.com
writes:
>I would do something like this:
>
>psroff -man -t foo.man > foo.ps

I tried this with three different troff sources from two different
packages
(expect and Perl) and got the following message:
psdit: 1007-653 The input character is invalid: \116 (N)
this error message is exactly the same in both instances.
the result of this abortive process is a truncated ps.file.
What gives?
/RS
From: ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX3.2 & cu
Keywords: 3.2, cu, tty
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:10:58 GMT
Organization: ICS Computing Group Ltd, Belfast
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Since moving to AIX 3.2, cu`ing to devices previously used for sucessful
communications now fail with the following:

Connected

Lost Carrier
User Defined Signal 1

What has changed in 3.2 to cause this ?

 Ian

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From: umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459)
Subject: Is Aixwindows 1.2.3 (extended 3.2.3) is X11.5?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:05:00 GMT

I have just received the extnded upgrades to aix 3.2.3. I already have
all the non x-window stuff installed earlier.

What is the new aixwindows upgrade? How smooth a change is it? The
upgrade documentation that I received does not say a word about X11.5
but just upgrade of Aixwindows 1.2.3! Does this also upgrade Motif?

Can I presume that stuff which I ported to aix like ghostscript, xdvi,
xrn, xmailtool will all function properly? I am already worried because
there is a statment warning that new X libraries being more rigid! Also,
some of the Xamples available before will be missing.

Than, how about xdm? Initial announcement made a big deal about xdm
being in this upgrade. There is no info in the upgrade manual.

If you installed this package could you send me the /usr/lpp/X11/README
file.

Thanks,

umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu

Distribution: world
Keywords:  

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From: eric@masi.ibp.fr (Eric CELEYRETTE)
Subject: Aix Assembler
Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:35:00 GMT

	Hi,

	I'd like to use the GNU C and C++ compiler on RS/6000 workstations
(with AIX 3.2) but the assembler shipped with the system contains bugs which
prevent the use of debugging informations.  This quite annoying since I am
working in a school (where debugging is really necessary :-).

	I know that a fixed version of the assembler exists (I've read it in
the gcc README.RS6000 file) but IBM France does not distribute it.

	Does anyone know a solution to this problem ?

	Please, answer by E-mail since I don't read this newsgroup.

	Thanks in advance.

	Eric
From: shapiro@sputter1.fullerton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: xlfortran version 2.3
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:28:22 GMT



	I just received xlfortran version 2.3.  We currently are using
version 2.2 on our model 320.  Is there anything important that I should
know before installing this upgrade?

Mark Shapiro
Physics Department
California State University, Fullerton
e-mail: mshapiro@fullerton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: stuart@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Stuart Walker)
Subject: SCSI 2 Information
Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:43:03 GMT
Keywords: SCSI SCSI-2

We're shortly to be interfacing a CD-ROM jukebox with an RS-6000 using
the new SCSI 2 adapter.  It appears that there is no official technical
documentation available as yet for the adapter.  IBM Australia are going to
trying and get some info from Austin.

In the mean time, if anyone out there knows about any technical doco floating
around, we'd be VERY interested.

Regards,

Stuart
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From: root@connect.com (Niles Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: cpio: 0511-032 Cannot copy from the diskette.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 20:36:48 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Connect Software, Morehead City, NC

Greetings, AIX Experts!

I'm trying to get a directory from a tape that is labelled as being
"CPIO format" via the following command lines:  (label yields no
clues as to density)

   cpio -i -vt < /dev/rmt0.2 # rewind, retension, high density
   cpio -i -vt < /dev/rmt0.6 # rewind, retension, low density

Both commands generate the message:

   cpio: 0511-032 Cannot copy from the diskette.

I am working on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.1 that has no manuals, no
man pages and an empty InfoExplorer database.  So I'm relying upon a
combination of AT&T System V manuals and the O'Reilly UNIX series that
details AIX differences.  :-)

Any help?

Thanks in advance.

Niles Mills
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From: air4114a@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIXSERV
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:49:15 GMT
Reply-To: air4114a@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Carr)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.unix.aix, lusol@Lehigh.EDU (Stephen O. Lidie) writes:
>In article <199301032127.AA12827@stormking.com> tuc@stormking.com (Scott J
>Ellentuch) writes:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>       Wondering if anyone else is having problems with AIXSERV.  I switched
>>the address like they say and it seems that I got a message a week later
>>saying it didn't get through..... (EASE.AUSTIN.IBM.COM)
>>
>>                               Scott
>>
>>--
>>****************************************************************************
>>* ---   ---  |Scott J. Ellentuch, Pres  | The Telecom Security Group       *
>>****************************************************************************
>>
>
>try aixbugs@austin.ibm.com

Folks,

1.  OK, this is the dumb question of the week from the guy
who missed the beginning of this thread.

2.  What is AIXSERV?

Very Respectfully,
Steve Carr
CDR, SC, USN
Naval Air Systems Command (AIR-4114A)
Washington, DC 20361-4110
703-692-5661, 703-692-5690, 703-746-0696, 703-746-0842
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ahmedk@sys.toronto.edu (Khalid Ahmed)
Subject: AIX security question
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:51:33 GMT

Hello,

I am writing a system daemon which needs to change to from 
the root id to another other id to write to some log files and then 
back again to root. I was told that the euid cant be changed
unless the ruid and saved ids are also changed to the same values. 
Therefore, I use setuidx(ID_SAVED|ID_EFFECTIVE|ID_REAL, id) to change
from root to non-root user ids (and vice versa) which seems to work.

My question is whether a user could kill the daemon when it
changes to that persons id?  Although the real,effective and saved
uids are the users, the  login id is still root. Will kill check
the login id of a process before killing it? 

Email responses welcome. Thanks in advance.

Khalid Ahmed
University of Toronto

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling)
Subject: Need Help using HP DeskJet 550C printer with RS/6000
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:50:08 GMT

If anyone has any luck printing graphics with this printer I'd
appreciate hearing from you.  I am trying to use window dumps of graphs
and such under X, and print them out to this color graphics printer, but
have had no luck with it.  There is no driver for this printer, and I
tried using the Laser Jet driver, but that one doesn't work.  If someone
has a configuration for this printer Please let me know.

If you have responded to this post previously please do so again.  I've
been out the last 2 weeks and my site doesn't keep posts very long. 
Thanks.

--
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South Bend, IN
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rct@fid.morgan.com (Robert Terzi)
Subject: Non AT-101 style kebyoards for RS/6000's
Summary: availability of unix style keyboards for the rs6k
Keywords: control key keyboards right place unix style
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:48:54 GMT

[ I checked the FAQ, I thought this would be there... ]

Are there any alternative keyboards available for the RS6k's
that are more "unix friendly"?

Example:
  - Control key on the home row
  - Caps lock out of the way.
  - Escape key accessible without taking your hand off the keyboard
  - tilde and backtick reasonably reachable
  (etc.)

(I would guess that these would come from 3rd party vendors...)

- Or do PS/2 keyboards work with the RS6000?
  (Or can they be made to work without a soldering iron?)

- Failing any of the above, can the keyboard be remapped via
  software so that it's always remapped?  
  (In other words *not* using xmodmap, possibly changing
  key mapping tables in the driver)?


Thanks In Advance,
--Robert
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Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:19:25 EST
From: Thomas J Cozzolino <RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Paging spaces fill - How to fix?

We had a strange problem yesterday on our 550, 128MB memory, 3 48-MB
paging disks.

When we killed most processes (incl. the X-Server), lsps -a told us that
80-90% of each paging disk was being used.

If we started a user program (CFD simulation), we'd get the message: KILLED.

We had to reboot to "reclaim" paging space.

Questions:
  1). Has anyone seen "leaky" behavior with the X-Server (I seem to remember
      this from a recent thread)?
  2). Is there a way to "clean up" paging space disks w/o rebooting?

Thanks for any help.  Please reply directly, or to this group if you prefer.


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From: shmuel@mapsut.einstein.com (Shmuel Einstein)
Subject: Using SGI machine to print from aix machine
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:28:15 GMT
Organization: Shmuel Einstein & Associates, Inc.

In our small local network the printer is attached to a sillycon graphics
machine, and all the other machines (suns) send files to the sgi machine to
be printed in its spooler queue.  I have not been successful in getting the
rs600 aix3.2 machine to do so.  Could someone please inform me as to how
one goes about queueing files to be printed on a remote computer?

Thanks in advance.


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From: dcm@codesmith.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller - dcm@austin.ibm.com)
Subject: Re: process numbers
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:23:01 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

In article <1h6hv0INNrsl@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>In article <BzMqs8.1Krz@austin.ibm.com> curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com
>(Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
>>
>> My understanding is that it was done for security reasons.
>
>This is nonsense.

	Uh, wait a minute Charles...  Many moons ago during the
	early development days of AIX, there was a rumor circulating
	around AIX development that generating sequential pids was
	a security hole.  I think the phrase used was "covert channel".

	Perhaps that has changed since, but saying that anything
	Curt says is "nonsense" is going a bit overboard, don't you
	think?  He was in AIX development back then.  Were you?

>The process number is the process table index shifted 8 bits, plus a
>number which is incremented every time a process is put in that slot.

	True.  But this doesn't prove that Curt's statement is wrong.
	AIX still doesn't generate sequential pids.

>This is actually fairly useful.  When I want to spy on a process with
>`crash', it's easy to calculate the index into the process table which
>I need for the `u' command.

	I always looked at the output from the 'proc' subcommand, then
	used the slot number for 'u'.....

> \  /   Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
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From: geg@ornl.gov (GILES JR G E)
Subject: *pag files in /tmp
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:51:24 GMT

What causes large files with the extension *.pag to be placed
in /tmp.  These are owned by root, but I cannot find the reason
for their formation.  These files are 3.8 Mbytes and can impact
other uses of /tmp.  Can we keep them from forming?  Can we delete
them without problem?
Thanks in advance.
Gary Giles, geg@ornl.gov, (615)574-8667

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: kcasella@netcom.com (Karen Casella)
Subject: Connecting Hayes SmartModem OPTIMA 144 to RS6K
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:28:47 GMT


I am attempting to connect a Hayes SmartModem OPTIMA 144 to an RS6K Model
340.  Dial out is working fine, but there is a problem with dial-in.
I have enabled the tty, set S0=1 and tried configuring with:

	AT&F&C1&D2S0=1Q1E0&W0

When dialing in to the modem, it syncs up, but drops carrier immediately.
What am I missing?

Thanks,

Karen Casella
kcasella@maxtor.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: gme@lucy.trnet.bb.softpro.de (Georg Mey)
Subject: Netware/6000 and AIX
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 07:54:52 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: Software Professional GmbH, Boeblingen, Germany


Hello everybody,

I' m looking for somebody with experience in NetWare/6000. We intend
to install NetWare/6000 in a great PC-Environmnet. We need print services
in the following way:

1.  PC Netware client ---> NetWare/6000
2.  PC Netware client ---> AIX (attached to a system wit NetWare/6000)
3.  PC Netware client ---> other PC NetWare client
4.  AIX - applcation  ---> PC attached printer

Is there any interface in AIX to generate a print request to the Netware/6000
spooling system in order to send the data to the rptr-TSR-module of a DOS-
NetWare-Client.

Many thanks for your answer.

Call me back at:

   SOFTPRO GmbH
   Georg Mey
   Stadtgrabenstrasse 21
   D-7030-Bobelingen
   Germany - 07031-6606-75

   e-mail   : gme@softpro.softpro.de
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