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From: ZHE@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Zhe)
Subject: multi_language compling problem
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:48:15 GMT
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hello, I have some troubles to link a main c program and an subroutine, which
is written in Fortran so I can call an self_defined Fortran math library.
The problem is that when I use cc to link them with all options necessary, such 
as Fortran Libraries, and my math library(I put it in /usr/local/lib), the 
/usr/bin/ld keeps ing that some routines, which I know as some of my math 
library routines, are undefined. Then I extracted those routines into another 
library, then it worked. Could anyone out there explain this ? 
 
The computer I work on is SGI 4d/35. The compilation of both main program and
Fortran routine finished smoothly. 

thaks!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Where is nroff?? (plus compiler question)
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:19:39 GMT

In <1992Nov18.205218.25687@u.washington.edu> dittrich@carson.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes:

| olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| 
| >Only the r4k machines (from sgi; it applies to r6k MIPS machines
|                                                 ^^^
| R6000?  Do you mean R3000, or did the merger with MIPS move the schedule
| ahead by two generations? :-)

The r6000 chipset (not a single chip micro) is an ECL chipset,
and was primarily done for some MIPS OEM customers.  CDC was far
and away the biggest (and may have been the only non-MIPS user
of r6000's, for all I know).  It came out before the r4k, and
is the mips2 architecture.  That is why the r4k is the mips3
architecture.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Can we use vt220 as console on IRIS 3120
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:18:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.160525.11011@cc.ic.ac.uk>, vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
> In article <1992Nov16.123250.22281@aston.ac.uk>, stopsdj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (David Stops) writes:
> - The system console/graphics terminal on an IRIS 3120 has died, the system
> - seems unable to boot without it.  Is there anyway we can use a dumb vt220
> - terminal as the console device and do non-graphics work (without spending
> - any money) ?
> 
> You should be able to as long as:
> 
>   1. You have a serial port and there is a getty on it.
>   2. You can type in you username and password without errors.
> 
> I dont know the 3120, bu most of the time IRIX likes to have the first 
> serial port as the console - you have to do some work to stop it.
> 
> The top right key on the alphanumeric keyboard on newer DEC terminals is
> a delete, which IRIX by default sees as the -interrupt- key (like most 
> System V derivatives). Once you are in as root you could reconfigure that 
> port.
> 
> Also ensure you set the terminal up in vt100 mode, that way at least you 
> have an escape and a backspace key, even though they are in a funny position
> buried in the middle of the function key row.



The `tset` and `stty` stuff in the shipped ~guest/.login can be used
to configure things for the terminal.  It helps to edit /etc/ttytype to
name the correct terminal type.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ori@marvin.technion.ac.il (Ori Degani)
Subject: CDAUDIO.H
Organization: Heart of Gold Institute
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:20:22 GMT

Can anyone tell me what the type  unchar  means?
It shows up in /usr/include/{cdaudio dataudio}.h
Thanks,
  Ori


-- 
   |  ----      Ori Degani
   |  |___      ori@eddie.technion.ac.il   (Ship Computer on the HOG)
   |  |         ori@marvin.technion.ac.il  (Who else) 
   |  ----      s2973229@techst02.technion.ac.il (Ech..)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Printer Parallel port misery
From: noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Greg Noren)
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:22:15 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute

In article <1992Nov16.141604.16853@eurohub.neu.sgi.com> joe@spectrum.neu.sgi.com (Joe Elliott) writes:
>I have been having problems with printers for some time now. All of them
>with PostScript printers and parallel ports.

 [ Joe's parallel port hangup problem description deleted ]

>
>Any Ideas .. Thanx in advance.
>-- 
>joe@neu.sgi.com  (VM# 9083)   Tel. +41 38 433 698  Fax. +41 38 43 39 74

Just a thought, Joe, which you might have tried already.  Swap out the
parallel cable for a different one.  I had a customer with symptoms
similar to this only with a plotter.  The cable was actually sound; the
problem was it was over 50 feet long.

--
I disclaim:  The words above are mine... My company speaketh their own.

Gregory Noren                             (512)522-5531 (a human)
Southwest Research Institute              (512)522-5499 (just the FAX)
Internet:  noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (129.162.50.211)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (Robert Stephens)
Subject: Re:  sendmailcf help please
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:35:08 GMT

long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long) writes:
> New
> ---
> ###################################################################
> ###
> ###		Ethernet Mailer specification
> ###
> ###################################################################
> 
> Mether,	P=[IPC], F=nsmFDMuXC, S=21, R=21, A=IPC $h
> 
> S21
> R$+@$+			$@$1@$2			address ok
> R$+			$@$1@indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk		add ether domain name
> 
> Your return address will then be, for example, 
> 
> "user%indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk"

Not really.  The change they gave you will result in a return address of:

	"user@indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk"
	     ^
	     !

which would be very unfortunate.
 
> and you you will be able to send and receive JANET mail on each machine. 

I can't vouch for this, but if you want all local sender's return addresses
converted to "sender%indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk", you need to make the
following change to the standard sendmail.cf file:

***************
*** 868,878 ****
  R$+!$+		$:$>7$1!$2		clean UUCP style
  R$-<@$=V>		$2!$1			convert UUCP neighbors
  R$+!$+		$:$w!$1!$2		tack on our hostname
  R$+!$+		$@$>5$1!$2
  R$*<@$+>$*		$@$1<@$2>$3
! R$+			$@$1<@$j>
  
  S21
  R$+!$+		$@$>5$1!$2		make UUCP style pure
  R$+<@[$+]>		$@$1<@[$2]>		pass IP numbers
  
--- 868,878 ----
  R$+!$+		$:$>7$1!$2		clean UUCP style
  R$-<@$=V>		$2!$1			convert UUCP neighbors
  R$+!$+		$:$w!$1!$2		tack on our hostname
  R$+!$+		$@$>5$1!$2
  R$*<@$+>$*		$@$1<@$2>$3
! R$+			$@$1%indigo.materials@oxford.ac.uk
  
  S21
  R$+!$+		$@$>5$1!$2		make UUCP style pure
  R$+<@[$+]>		$@$1<@[$2]>		pass IP numbers
  

Warning: Don't try to cut-n-paste from this message into your sendmail.cf
         file.  Cut-n-paste doesn't preserve tabs and tabs are critical
	 in sendmail.cf files.

Let me know if you have further questions.

	- Robert Stephens
	  Silicon Graphics Inc.
From: achim@video1.han.de (Joachim Gothe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How do I use a remote backup unit?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:52:35 GMT
Reply-To: achim@video1.han.de  (Joachim Gothe)
Organization: Mix Broadcast Video and Computer
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel1

In article <sek63l8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, Dave Olson writes:

[...]
>You just need permission.  The simples test is:
>	mt -t remotehost:/dev/tape stat
>	mt -t guest@remotehost:/dev/tape stat

STOP....now I have a question.

Is there a way to make a remote Backup WITHOUT having a Non-Password
Guest-account on the mashine with the Tape?

I don't like accounts without a Password. :-)

Achim

--------------------------------__
   Joachim  Gothe	       ///   Home: achim@video1.han.de
  Haltenhoffstr. 237	  __  /// !!NEW!!:-------^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  FRG 3000 Hannover	  \\\///     Work: FH-Hannover, FB Kunst & Design
VOC +49 511 7975-15 FAX-16 \XX/ * I sold my jeans, now I have an INDIGO *
From: ubjta56@ucl.ac.uk (Dr P Day)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How do I use a remote backup unit?
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:34:59 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London

We have just bought a HP DAT backup unit and connected it to one of
out Indigos. All is well when backing up the Indigo that the DAT is
attached to, but when I try to backup the Indigo on my desk using
the remote Tape Drive (i.e. bring up the System Manager, login as
root, click on Backup & Restore, type in the name of the host.
Get the 'insert tape in drive and click accept' dialogue box,
I then get a dialogue boc saying checking the network connection,
followed by another saying 'system is unable to open the remote tape
drive'. 

Questions:

	(i) why does the remote Indigo insist that it cannot
	open the tape drive, which a few minutes earlier was
	accessed by the host Indigo?

	(ii) What do I have to do to remotely backup Indigo A on a tape
	drive that is attached to Indigo B? (i.e. do I have to mount stuff
	and do it all by hand (manually) using backup?)

	(iii) Can anyone help please !!!???!!! 

	Thanks, in advance, Paul
From: wiltzius@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (Dave Wiltzius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RPC and/or DCE on SGI
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:16:38 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.


I am interested is using RPC for an application.  Several questions
arise (of course I have not read the manuals): Is the RPC on the SGI
compatible with any other's such as Sun's?

Are there any example programs available on IRIX that uses RPC?

When will DCE (specifically the DCE's RPC, if it makes a difference)
on SGI/IRIX be commercially available or as a beta?  This is actually
the most interesting option for us.

Please respond by email.  Thanks much.
  Dave Wiltzius
  Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
  wiltzius@llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Putting disk in an R4000 Indigo
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:02:06 GMT

In <1992Nov16.190031.24107@cc.ic.ac.uk> vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:

| In article <s9pd1so@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| -
| - The external connector is the standard SCSI centronics connector.
| 
| At the risk of beinb called pedantic, Centronics is an interface definition,
| (and a printer company), not a plug. The Plug is an Amphenol plug, 50 Pin
| in this case, where the Centronics interface uses a 36-pin Amphenol plug, 
| and the HP-IB interfas a 24 pin one.

Everybody in the industry calls it a centronics (or centronics style)
connector.  I've given in to the inevitable on this one...

--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Subject: Re: Speech Recognition
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 18:45:43 GMT


In article <34136@adm.brl.mil>, SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil writes:
> Is SGI doing anything serious in this area? I spoke to a person at
> Command Corp Inc about the subject (They have a nice product for the
> SPARC (Slowly Process Any Requested Command)).
> 
> Any chance SGI might get something out in this area before the turn of
> the century?  It seems all the pieces are there; hardware, software, etc.
> How long can it take?  Heck, hire me, I'll do it for you.

Yes there is an excellent chance the speech recognition will be bundled into
the product before the turn of the century.  Negotiations are close to finalised
and until they are not much more can be said.

> 
> I'm still waiting for audio on the Power Series.  Any clues about
> this?  I heard rumor that its only going to be available on the
> newer platforms (Crimsom, et al).  What happen to the Vigra or Virgo or
> Viper or whatever board?
> 
> Any News?

The vigra board should be available soon for any of our prducts with a
VME bus slot.  Hopefully CSG or AGD will be listening to all this
feedback and will design audio into their next generation products.

----
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
"and a wonderful method (reorganization) can be for creating the illusion
of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
	- Petronius Arbiter, ?? AD.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: MACRVM.NRL.NAVY.MIL (JEFF JAMES)
Subject: MAX NUMBER OF SCSI ADAPTERS ON SGI
Organization: NAVAL RESEARCH LAB.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:42:14 GMT

I have an  SGI IRIS INDIGO ELAN and would like to add a second SCSI controller
if it is possible, my question is " Is it possible?

                                          Jeff James
From: dittrich@carson.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Where is nroff?? (plus compiler question)
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:52:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov18.205218.25687
Organization: University of Washington

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>Only the r4k machines (from sgi; it applies to r6k MIPS machines
                                                ^^^
R6000?  Do you mean R3000, or did the merger with MIPS move the schedule
ahead by two generations? :-)
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200/8500
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:35:28 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov23.130631.25486@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> M.Enderby@daresbury.ac.uk writes:

| We have recently been through a period where we have had an 8200
| Exabyte installed while SG had our 8500 away for repair. We are
| now having problems reading data/backups written with the 8200
| on the 8500.
| We have run MAKEDEV and are using the .8200 device drivers to read
| the tapes. Should this work ?

Yes.

What errors do you get?  Could you perhaps have inadvertantly used
the byte swapping device either when creating the device, or now,
when trying to read it?  The other likely possiblity is confusion between
fixed and variable blocksize devices.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: eric@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Eric M. Schwartz)
Subject: Question on finger
Organization: Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Florida
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:14:52 GMT

I am having a problem with the finger command when used from a remote machine
to my machine.  If on a remote machine and a finger to my machine is attempted,
the result is just my machine address.  For example:

> finger eric@mil.ufl.edu

results in the following

> [mil.ufl.edu]
>

My /etc/passwd seems to be alright.  I don't know if this is relevant, but
my machine is a Silicon Graphics 4D/20 with a System V Release 3.2 operating
system.  Is this a problem with the finger executable file (/usr/bsd/finger)?

Thanks for your assitance,

Eric
eric@mil.ufl.edu
From: williams@agomoda.asd.sgi.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: borderless window
Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:13:48 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: agomoda.asd.sgi.com

In <34110@adm.brl.mil> driscoll@pica.army.mil (Joseph D. Driscoll) writes:

>Does anyone know how to open a wsh(xwsh,xterm or any other) without any 
>border at all (no frame, no scrollbar, no title box, etc.) ? We are currently
>using 4Dwm as the window manager. thanks in advance.

4Dwm controls this sort of thing.  See the man page for 4Dwm and Mwm.  (4Dwm
is a superset of Mwm, so both man pages apply.)  In particular you want the
"clientDecoration" resource (which is described in the Mwm man page).  

e.g.  Add:

4Dwm*windowname*clientDecoration:     none

to your .Xdefaults, then restart 4Dwm and run `xwsh -name windowname` to
get an XWsh that has no border decorations.

-Eric Williams, williams@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker)
Subject: CFD Atlas, V2.0
Organization: ESA/Estec/WMS, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:13:48 GMT

I have just recieved Hot Mix Vol. 2

In the back pages it lists other SGI CD's

What is CFD Atlas V2.0 and what is on the Explorer modules disk ?

Can anyone give me the e-mail address of the respective people responsible
for the disks Stan Posey and Carol Curry ?

Do these disks, and IRIS InSight cost money ? If so, How much ?

Guy Brooker
guy@wm.estec.esa.nl
From: alain@paris.asd.sgi.com (Alain Dumesny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: gcc-2.3.1 & Inventor
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:13:28 GMT
Reply-To: alain@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.asd.sgi.com

In article <1992Nov6.103949.26165@eng.ufl.edu>, jmc@huron.eel.ufl.edu (Jim Callahan) writes:
|> Are there any problems using g++ with the IRIS Inventor Toolkit on a Indigo R4k?  Thanks....
|> 
|>                             -Jim

I don't remember what version of g++ we tried, but a couple of months ago
we tried the latest g++ versions and had problems compiling the Inventor
header files. If I remember correctly, g++ didn't support enums
declarations within the class definition, or something related to that.
Sorry I couldn't be more specific.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alain Dumesny	alain@sgi.com	(415)390-5250	    Silicon Graphics Inc.
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: DAT SCSI COMMANDS ON SGI INDIGO
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:42:00 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <By6KM8.ErA@ra.nrl.navy.mil> MACRVM.NRL.NAVY.MIL (JEFF JAMES) writes:
|   I have an SGI Iris Indigo Elan with a DAT drive installed and would like
| to operate the drive with raw SCSI commands. I can write to the drive and 
| rewind the tape as well as read using the SCSI commands in dslib.h but there
| are several commands missing that control the tape such as functions for
| writing file marks, seeking data on the tape and writing EOT's. Any info on 
| this subject would be greatly appreciated. 
| 
| PS Any info on general DAT storage formats would be appreciated.

I assume you are the same person who contacted TAC today on this, since
the questions are so similar.  It would be helpful to say that you
are doing that...

Use 0x2b (locate) to seek, and 0x10 (write filemark) to write the
filemarks.  As Jeremy said, the source to libds.a is in the same
directory as the inquiry.c sample (dslib.c).  You are expected to write
new routines (about 5-15 lines) for new functions that aren't
already there.  This is pretty trivial, given the manual for
the device you are using.

You can probably get the manual for your DAT drive from Ardat, or via
an Ardat dealer (Maynard is their retail/distribution arm).  For what
it is worth, in SCSI 2 mode (the mode we ship it jumpered in), the
drive is very close to the SCSI 2 draft standards, so you can probably
use the SCSI 2 spec or any other SCSI 2 compliant tape drive manual,
and be very close.  The drive is a variant of the Ardat 4320.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: raines@bohr.physics.upenn.edu (Paul Raines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: lpr and gpsinterface
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:59:56 GMT

Is there anyway to set up a Postscript printer
hooked up to a serial port to use the the lpr
program with gpsinterface?  Or do I just need
to get a second program like Transcript?

-- 
____________________________________________________________________
Paul Raines	raines@bohr.physics.upenn.edu	215-898-8832
Dept. of Physics
University of Pennsylvania
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: michel@testa.Colorado.EDU (Michel Lesoinne)
Subject: 3rd party Indigo memory and disks
Reply-To: michel@testa.Colorado.EDU (Michel Lesoinne)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:57:21 GMT

Hello,

What is the current rate at which 3rd party memory and disks (2.2Gb for example, but
if you know for smaller disks too, let me know) for an Indigo R4K go for ?


Michel (michel@testa.colorado.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: wayner@cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner)
Subject: Area versus Point Sampling...
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:34:10 GMT

I was reading the SGI literature and it mentioned that
the SGI box can use either Area or Point Sampling to
do anti-aliasing. Does anyone know the algorithm it
uses to compute the area sampling? Does it explicitly
compute the exact area intersected with the polygon, or
does it approximate it in some way? Is there any relationship
with Catmull's algorithm from 1978 (circa) ?

Just curious...
-Peter 

-- 
Peter Wayner   Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850
EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu    Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008
Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850  Phone: 607-277-6678

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Subject: Re: Need Example of Multi-media Software
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:52:25 GMT


In article <1992Nov17.220419.9704@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu writes:
> Hmmmm...... I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but here goes...
> 
> I looked at SpaceTour when we got IRIX 4.0.5F and I looked again when
> it was suggested as a good example of interactive multi-media. OK,
> it is interactive and it is multi-media, but in my professional opinion
> (I have taught college-level biology to about 9,500 students to date)
> SpaceTour is NOT a _good_ example of an interactive tutorial. 
> 
> Like the HotMix demo, SpaceTour is too "cutesie". Basically the fancy
> artwork detracts, rather than adds to the information content of the 
> tutorial. 

In defense of both SpaceTour and HotMix, both are essentially
interactive sales brochures, and not interactive tutorials.

Your desire for a substantial multimedia publication for the
Indigo is noteworthy.  Unfortunately, SGI can't do everything
by itself.  I will forward your comments on to the people in
marketing. 

--
Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi