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From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
Subject: setting up a terminal from private termcap
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:16:37 GMT

Before I go off an try to accomplish this on my own, I wanted to check and
see if anyone has come with with a way to do this.  The FAQ does not have
this.  In fact it seems to have NOTHING about terminal setup questions at
all (hint, hint).

As a user of a UNIX system (where I don't have root access or authority
or responsibility) I want to be able to use termcap entries that are not
present in (or are present but defective in some way, at least for my own
needs) /etc/termcap.  Asking the sysadmin to make the changes for me is
out of the question.  If the scale of the changes were very small I would
do this.  It might not be.  Besides, they have more important things to do.

What I expect to do is write a shell script that basically handles my
terminal setup.  It will be executed via an alias and pass back via stdout
the string values for TERM and TERMCAP environment variables.  I will have
to apply my own logic to finding the appropriate string.  There will be a
termcap file in my home directory (perhaps called .termcap) which will be
searched first, then /etc/termcap will be searched if the entry is not found
there.

Some questions:

If I choose to execute "stty" but not "tset", is there any functionality
I will be missing that I should consider?

What is the best way to make this very portable?  Use /bin/sh?

What is the best way to pass back the TERM and TERMCAP string data so that
any kind of shell could be setup (with an alias, for instance), to readily
use it?
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| Phil Howard,  pdh@netcom.com,  KA9WGN    Spell protection?  "1(911)A1" |
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From: phong@uflash.UUCP (Phong Pham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Archie by Email
Keywords: archie, mail
Date: 28 Dec 92 18:36:01 GMT
Organization: cfX inc., NYC.


	Anybody knows how to use archie services through email?
	Please reply to phong@cfx.com

	Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick)
Subject: Making Dictionaries in Ispell
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:00:41 GMT


Every time I try to install ispell, the code seems to compile correctly,
but I get a fatal error saying that the system doesn't know how to make
eng.0.  It looks like Makefile is designed to build the dictionaries, but
I am not sure what else I need to do.  I modified the Makefile to tell it
where a copy of web2 can be found, and that I want it to make the sml+
dictionary, but it just doesn't happen.  There probably isn't anything
technically wrong, just some procedural step which hasn't become obvious.
	It is said, in the documentation inside Makefile, that the lines
which build the various possible dictionaries are commented out so that
dictionaries aren't rebuilt each time that C code is changed.  This indicate
that one must remove the \# infront of the desired instruction.  If I do this,
I get "Unable to make eng.0."  If I don't remove it, I get 
"Unable to make english.0."  There are warnings about having enough space
in the temporary directory to build the dictionary, but I don't see any
indication that even one byte of dictionary is ever created.  There is a
makedict script in the distribution, but it is supposed to be called from
Makefile.  'Anybody got any ideas?
From: lpeters@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Leslie D Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Mailing to multiple people without each person seeing a list of all
Keywords: elm, mail
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:14:14 GMT
Reply-To: lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil
Organization: 7th Communications Group

In article <BzLLLo.KxF@unix.amherst.edu>, rjyanco@unix.amherst.edu (Richard J. Yanco) writes:
|> I send a daily mailing out to approximately 10 people from my account.
|> If I have the names in a file foo.bar, is there any way to send a message
|> to each person in the list, *independently*, with a single command?
|> 
|> One option is obviously to
|> 
|>   mv foo.bar .forward
|> 
|> and mail myself.  But this is no good; mail might come in, and get bounced
|> where I don't want it.
|> 
|> Another option suggested to me was
|> 
|>   elm -s "Subj" `cat foo.bar` <message
|> 
|> but every individual recipient gets a list of all recipients, which
|> is not what I want.  I'd like the equivalent of
|> 
|>   elm -s "Subj" harry@some.place.edu <message
|>   elm -s "Subj" bob@another.place.edu <message
|>      ...
|>   elm -s "Subj" jane@final.place.edu <message
|> 
|> rather than
|> 
|>   elm -s "Subj" harry@s.p.e bob@a.p.e ... jane@f.p.e <message
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Is there any easy way to do this?
|> 
|> (Email preferred.)
|> 
|> Thanks-

I would try:

for i in `cat foo.bar`; do <mail package> -s "Subj" $i < message; done

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: vlad@dkbfpny.com (Vladimir Stavitsky)
Subject: TeX etc
Organization: DKB Financial Products, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:53:31 GMT

Hi, 
i understand that my question does not really belong here,
so i do apologise; still:

i just got GNU regex library from the net; it comes with 
regex.info file, which requires TeX to print it; i took
a look at some archives and found that there is really
frightening amount of TeX related material. So my question
is twofold:

	- is there some basic toolkit for TeX which i can
get from some automatic mailer?

	- or may be there is some documentation for regex
library which can be printed with t/nroff?

I would appreciate any help (by mail, probably, since this
question does not belong here).

Thank you very much
Vlad
From: ccsis@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Icarus Sparry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pipe cpio output through compress?
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:09:43 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK

In the referenced article, toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps) writes:
>Would this be a suitable and cheap way to get compression on tape backups?
>
>  # find . -print | cpio -ocv | compress >/dev/rmt/(tape device)

Depends on the device driver for the tape device. If I were doing it I would
use 'dd' to package up the output.
e.g.

find . -print | cpio -ocv | compress | dd 'of=/dev/rmt/(tape device)' 'obs=60k'

If you don't use 'dd' then you get two effects.
1) The size of the blocks which you pass to the device driver may vary in
size. Not a major problem but it can make reading them back a little difficult
if your program is not written to expect differing size blocks. Also some
primate device drivers get upset if you are not writing a multiple of 512
bytes to a block device.

2) For typical tape devices you would not get anywhere near as much on a
tape as you would expect due to 'inter block records' A tape drive wants
to be able to start the motor, read the data, then stop the tape in order
to read the block. The starting and stopping tape a finite amount of time,
and therefore a finite amount of tape. If you only write a few hundred
bytes, then the 'wasted' tape is much longer than the useful tape. Therefore
if one could, one would like to write say a megabyte at a time. Unfortunately
some systems are not able to process an I/O request for more than 64k at
a time, hence the '60k' parameter.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: What approach to CD-ROM?
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:22:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.213311.6149@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au>,
 nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood) writes:

| Alternatively I am told I can buy a superior CD-ROM separately (say an NEC)
| which will work fine off the SCSI card under UNIX but I may have problems with
| drivers and things under Windows 3.1.

This is what you should do, and you will be able to get it to work under
dos and unix (especially with a common adapter like the adaptec).

But, if you have a choice, don't get a NEC drive.  They have firmware bugs
and are non-standard in certain ways.

-- 
 Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
 R.W. Withrow Associates, 21 Railroad Ave, Swampscott MA 01907-1821 USA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: amay3@mach1.wlu.ca (andrew may)
Subject: Interuser communication
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:36:19 GMT

I am attempting to write my own version of the unix TALK command and I need
to know how to send a signal to program run by another user. Can anyone
offer suggestions? I have been using C for some time now and have only just
started programming using UNIX. Please reply through the email address
below. Thanks.


******************************************************************************
* Andrew May          - a .sig? Why, the mere thought hadn't even begun to   *
* amay3@mach1.wlu.ca  speculate on the merest possibiliy of crossing my mind *
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From: mallen@carla.Wichita (mallen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,att.unix
Subject: HOW to contact Unix Systems Laboratories
Date: 24 Dec 92 14:26:38 GMT
Organization: wichita

Does anyone have an email address or phone number for sales at USL?
Please email me directly.

Thanks in advance
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
From: david@aim1.aztec.co.za (David Mason)
Subject: Re: What approach to CD-ROM?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:36:38 GMT
Organization: Aztec Information Management

ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer) writes:

>In article <1992Dec22.213311.6149@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood) writes:
>>I'm in a bit of a quandry about how to decide on a CD-ROM approach.
>>I have a 486 ESIX UNIX system with a SCSI HDD which I also use for DOS.
>>I would like to get a CD-ROM which I can use under Windows 3.1 but
>>also under UNIX for PD software etc.

>As for Unix, I'm not aware that there
>is a File System Driver available for CD-ROM.  You can access the actual drive as
>a "raw" SCSI device but I doubt that's what you want.  There was a posting
>a while back with a set of utilities that can read ISO9660 compatible CDROMs
>but what is really neaded is an SVR4 Virtual File System for the ISO9660
>standard.

The software referred to allows one to do "dir" and cp from the CD.  It
works fine, but is not great for non-technical users.  This is an unfortunate
limitation of SVR4, worsened by the fact that CD-ROMs work with SCO.

I have a copy of the software if anybody wants it.
-- 
David Mason, Unix system support.
Aztec Information Management, Cape Town, South Africa.
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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pipe cpio output through compress?
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:14:32 GMT
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting

toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps) writes:
>Would this be a suitable and cheap way to get compression on tape backups?
>  # find . -print | cpio -ocv | compress >/dev/rmt/(tape device)

Only if you don't care about the data you are backing up.  The danger of
a compressed backup is that one small error on the tape and you lose all
the files from that point on.  A safer method is to compress the individual
files before backing them up.  The program afio has a flag to do this for
you so that you don't have to compress them on disk first, problematical
at best for a full backup.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
From: ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: RPC descriptions RFC1014 and RFC1057 still up to date ?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:51:50 GMT

Hi,

I am new to RPC programming and I am using the RFC1044 (XDR) and RFC1057
(RPC) as documentation. Those RFC's were written in 1987 and 1988.
So I am wondering wether they are still valid ?

Apart from that, can anybody recommend other documentation for RPC and
XDR ? I had a look at Stevens' Network book, but he only gives a short
overview.


Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: eswgcs%v8.decnet@v7.vitro.com
Subject: Need help with MAIL
Summary: All mail gets bounced to postmaster.
Reply-To: cstump@vitro.com
Organization: Vitro Corporation
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:09:53 GMT

I am having problems with mail on a SPARC 2.  All mail going to or coming from
this machine is bombing.  The SPARC is connected to a VAX cluster via
ethernet.  The VAX is the primary mail server.  The domain name for the SPARC is
vitro.com and the host name is spsun.  The following is a sample of 
the meassages showing up in ROOT's mail.

	From Mailer-Daemon Fri Dec 18 16:11:18 1992
	Return-Path: <Mailer-Daemon>
	Receiced: by spsun.vitro.com.vitro.com (4.1/SMI-4.1)
		id AA00578;
	Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:11:16 EST
	From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
	Subject: Returned Mail: Service Unavailable
	Message-Id: <9212182111.AA00587@spsun.vitro.com.vitro.com>
	To: postmaster                                       
	Status: R

	   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
	mail: /var/spool/mail/pecore: cannot append
	mail: cannot open dead.letter	  
	554 pecore... Service unavailable

	   ----- Message header dollows -----
	Return-Path: <ESWGCS@sep.DNET>
	Received: by spsun.vitro.com.vitro.com (4.1/SMI-4.1)
		id AA00585; Fri, 18 DEC 92 16:11:16 EST
	Date Fri, 18 DEC 92 16:11:16 EST
	From: ESWGCS@sep.DNET
	Message-Id: <9212182111.AA00585@spsun.vitro.com.vitro.com>
	To: PECORE
	Subject:

	

I would greatly appreciate some help/hints/suggestions !!

Thanks,
	Chuck Stump.
From: Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Mailing to multiple people without each person seeing a list of all
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:57:57 EST
Organization: Univ of Fnord; Roslyn's Cafe Div.
Reply-To: jeff@digtype.airage.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <792@cebu.sbi.com> (comp.unix.questions), goldfish@cebu.sbi.com (P. Goldsmith) writes:
> 
> In article <15391@hq.hq.af.mil> lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil writes:
> >In article <BzLLLo.KxF@unix.amherst.edu>, rjyanco@unix.amherst.edu (Richard J. Yanco) writes:
> >|> I send a daily mailing out to approximately 10 people from my account.
> >|> If I have the names in a file foo.bar, is there any way to send a message
> >|> to each person in the list, *independently*, with a single command?
> >
> >I would try:
> >
> >for i in `cat foo.bar`; do <mail package> -s "Subj" $i < message; done
> 
> Once you are using ELM, use the "fastmail" program provided with elm.  It is
> thoroughly documented and does exactly what you want.  (RTFM, they even give
> an example ...)


The very simplest solution is to mail a copy to yourself, with the
group of people appearing in the BCC: line.

The recipent only sees his name in the header....

Jeff

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hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions
of their own innards!"  -Michael O'Brien
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
Subject: Re: Really stupid questions
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:34:17 GMT

In <009653DD.EFDB4180@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2760carpente@vms.csd.mu.edu (METALLICA) writes:

>I have a few really stupid questions.  Feel free to laugh at me, but I would

The only really stupid question is the question you don't ask!

>really appericiate it if someone could take the time to answer my question.
>I spent 4 years working with VMS and DOS/WIN3 but now I want learn about UNIX. 
>I have seen the errors of my way.... 

Wellcome to the real world of computers.

>1) I have a file .plan in my root dir.  How do I set it up to display everytime
>   somebody fingers me.
>2) How do I set up my .sig file to append to all my messages?  What mailer is 
>   better: elm or vanilla mail

elm by a long shot.  With elm, put your sig file in $HOME/logalsig.

>3) Which shell is better?  I am currently using /bin/csh, but people keep
>   telling me that I should use the Bourne shell. /bin/sh

csh and ksh both have a history function which allows you to rerun and/or
edit previous command lines without retyping the whole line.  - A great time
saver.  I recommend that you use either of these as your interactive shell.
I think what "people keep telling" you is to use the Bourne shell to write 
your shell scripts in.  It does not matter what interactive shell you are
using when you run a shell script because the script can be forced to
Bourne.  On most systems use
#!/bin/sh
as the first line of a shell script and it will run under Bourne.  If that
doesn't work on your system, put
:
as the first line to force Bourne.
>4) Is the faq for this group at pit-manager.mit.edu?

>Thank you.... 
>It did say comp.unix.questions??????

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
Subject: Re: Usage of man ..
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:02:55 GMT

In article <Bzy7pu.FEx@ulowell.ulowell.edu> vprasad@cs.ulowell.edu (V G Prasad) writes:
>Hi,
>I want to know how to read a man page using the man command
>when the man page is not in the standard directory.
>The man page about man says to use -P option , But I 
>was not succesful.
>Any help is welcome.
>Thanks.
>
Try nroff -man <file> |more

Barbara Vaughan
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano)
Subject: searching a file
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 02:18:39 GMT

I want to search my /usr/dict/words and pull out lines by the occurrence
of certain letters in the words for example:  all lines that contain
no more than "2 l's" or no more than 3 "r's" or no more than one "n", etc.
How would I accomplish this considering letters can fall in different
places within a word?  A bin shell approach would be preferred.

Also, many thanks to those who helped me with the "anagram" idea and
obtaining a larger dictionary to use.


Steve Scrivano
sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aix
From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
Subject: Re: AIX, ...  - ksh PTF number!
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:21:49 GMT

   More information about the ksh PFT patch, number included.  Thanks Kai.

In article <1992Dec23.133525.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 1992  "Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto@eng.umd.edu> said:
>>You've run into a known-- and fixed-- bug in AIX ksh.  Sorry, I'm not
>>at work so I can't give you the PTF number.
> 
>    So, I'm awaiting the patch number.  Thanks to everyone who has been
>    contributing to this one.  b.

On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:55:04 -0500, ng@rss30.di.nrc.ca (Kai S Ng) said:
>Secondly, if you are running AIX 3.2.0, you need a ksh PTF U406855.
>I know 3.1.5 and 3.2.2 are ok.

   I guess I'll install my 1st ever aix patch after the holidays.  Cheers,  b.
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From: aniekan@usc.edu (Aniekan Akpaffiong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I find other machine names at a domain site?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 18:43:12 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, USA
	<1992Dec24.150838.1931@Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: aniekan@usc.edu (Aniekan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu
In-reply-to: subbarao@fc.hp.com's message of Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:08:38 GMT


   >I have a domain site, etown.edu, and know of one machine name on that
   >domain, vax.etown.edu.  What I'm wondering is, is there a way to find
   >other machine names at etown that I can finger to look for a user?

   Use nslookup. Set the domain server to be vax.etown.edu, and ls -d
   etown.edu. Like this:


If it's available, you can use the 'host' lookup program as in:

	host -l etown.edu

I'm not yet sure which one is more expensive.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted,comp.editors
From: pgreen@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Philip Green)
Subject: LPD
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 16:30:02 GMT


I need some help with LPD. I need to create a filter or
something that will test the file to be printed to verify
that it is color postscript. My problem is the general
lack of info about LPD in SunOS documentation. 
The filtering will be done on the client and then 
sent to the remote host for printing. 
We are currently using SunOS 4.1.2.

Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions