HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: raj@ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson)
Subject: Boot floppies for AOS on an RT?
Summary: How do you produce boot floppies from the /usr/sys sources?
Keywords: AOS, IBM RT, booting, floppy
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:06:55 GMT

I'm using AOS on an IBM RT (basically it's BSD 4.3 ported to an RT).  We
have a serious problem with one of our disks and we need to boot from floppies,
however we don't have the boot floppies around anymore.  The saving grace to
this is that we still have ANOTHER RT which has AOS on it and has the sources
on it also!  Thus, I was able to cd to /usr/sys/standca and can produce all of
the programs I need.  That part works just fine.  However, now I need to put
this all onto a floppy in the correct format so tha I can boot from it.
(I also need to produce a miniroot filesystem for copying into the the swap
area so I can boot from that, but that's my NEXT problem!)  So...

How do I write all of this out to floppy such that I can boot from it?
and
How do I produce the miniroot filesystem I need?  (I've done it a long time
ago on a Vax so I know the basic method, I just don't know what files to
include.)

Maybe there's some place I can get a copy of the boot floppies and the miniroot?
(When I asked my IBM rep. about it all I got back, "We don't support that
OS anymore and we can't get hold of anything related to it."  Oh well...

Please reply directly to me since I don't get around to reading this newsgroup
very often.  If there's sufficient interest,  I'll post a summary.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: TFT (the final test)
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:18:22 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


Now, if this gets to the outside world, i'm in good shape.. 

-- 
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Michael Phelps         "I only work for IBM..                      /
mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com       I certainly don't speak for IBM..."      /
mjp@kgnvmy.vnet.ibm.com    (and they don't speak for me)
From: markw@antimatr.hou.tx.us (Mark Whetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: serial port speeds
Summary: supported speeds are 50 thru 19200 baud
Date: 11 Oct 92 07:40:13 GMT
Organization: StarTrek and Lionel trains fan, Missouri City, TX

In article <1992Oct10.144926.25225@mathsoft.com>, benji@mathsoft.com (Benjamin Cline) writes:
> 
> I have a RT with 2 of the 4 port RS232 serial boards (8 ports total). Anyone 
> know what the maximum speed for these ports is? 

Under AIX, and I assume AOS as well, the IBM book SA23-2605-0
shows the adapter to have the following features:

Slot positions: 2,4,5,7,8
I/O addresses:  range 1 1230-124F
                range 2 2230-224F
                range 3 3230-324F
                range 4 4230-424F
Interrupt levels: 9, 10, 11 (see note below)
Bit rates: 50 - 19200  (set by program)
Bits per character: 5, 6, 7, 8 (set by program)
Maximum number: 4

Notes:
 1)  If the RT PC 4-port Asyncronous RS-232C adapter (buffered)
     is instaled in the IBM RT PC 6192 Expansion Unit, only 
     interrupt level 9 can be used.
 2)  Interrupt levels CANNOT be shared between the system unit and
     the RT PC 6192.
 3)  All interrupt levels are shared, but interrupt level 11 cannot
     be shared with the SCSI adapter.  Also, interrupt level 9 cannot
     be shared with any of the 8-port async adapters.

Hope this helps.
Later,
markw
-- 
M. Whetzel 
Home: markw@antimatr.hou.tx.us        | IBM RT/125 running AIX 2.2.1 
UUCP ..!uhnix1!lobster!antimatr!markw 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: benji@mathsoft.com (Benjamin Cline)
Subject: serial port speeds
Organization: Systems Engineering, MathSoft, Inc.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:49:26 GMT


I have a RT with 2 of the 4 port RS232 serial boards (8 ports total). Anyone 
know what the maximum speed for these ports is? 

	benji
-- 
				Benjamin Cline 	
Systems Engineering, MathSoft, Inc:  			benji@mathsoft.com     
"Unix is a cruel mistress" 	"It's 3:00 am, I need a modem and some coffee!"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: Re: HELP: Problem installing tcpip and sendmail
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 16:15:02 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


(sendmail not working after reinstall): did you setup and rebuild sendmail.cf?
If you didn't put the hostname into sendmail.cf and rebuild it, then something
like you are describing will happen, as i recall.

-- 
Michael Phelps, (external) mjp@vnet.ibm.com ..
                (internal)  mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com .. mjp at kgnvmy         
 (and last but not least a disclaimer)  These opinions are mine..       
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C Tam)
Subject: Re: strdup
Organization: Research Libraries Group, INC.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:54:14 GMT

Thanks for all the interests on the subject. Actually I was trying to
bring Shadow, the password control unix security program into a BSD 4.3
AOS IBM-RT & unfortunately, the Shadow package is not fully ported to
BSD, unless told otherwise.

Thanks anyway.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: Megapel Adapter
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:22:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.132522.31840@watson.ibm.com>
	mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps) writes:

>The megapel adapter will fit in a ISA bus machine, but you'll have to resort to
>writing your own device driver.  The problem with this is that as far as i know,
>the only external documentation on the interface to the adapter would be the AOS
>source code, which is unavailable.  

If you don't want to use it as the console, you don't need the kernel device
driver.  The X server code is available (it was in X11R4; an X11R5 port is
available by anonymous ftp: demi.mit.edu:/pub/RT/Xibm.tar.Z).  I have an
n-th generation photocopy (where n is large) of the microcode and hardware
programming specs for the megapel, but you probably don't need this.  The
X11R5 source code is at least as good a guide (partly because I worked
around some undocumented microcode bugs).

The problem is getting the microcode.  That is part of AOS and AIX, not
generally available as far as I know.

The apa16 adapter documentation contains a warning: "programming and
addressing considerations preclude the use of [an apa16] in PC-AT systems".
I don't know if the megapel would have a problem.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: Test..
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 10:43:49 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


Sorry, but i'm having trouble with my news software..

michael
From: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: serial port speeds
Date: 14 Oct 1992 01:05:00 GMT
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
Distribution: world
Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hone.citi.umich.edu

i'm running at 57,600.  115,200 loses.  (we tried.)

	peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: markb@puccini.crl.umn.edu (Mark E. Berres)
Subject: Print Services over Ether/Appltlk
Organization: USDA/ARS Cereal Rust Laboratory
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:25:58 GMT

Does anyone have any information regarding the installation of print
services from PC`s connected to a Ether backbone with a bridge to
Appletalk? (PC-NFS aside for now). Each PC has a 3-Com card
utilizing packet driver protocols. I have tried to install Apple`s
Appleshare PC (ver 2.0.1) but evidently it's driver is incompatable with the
currently installed packet driver -i.e. neither works with the other
installed. Are there other relatively inexpensive or public-domain
applications which will fit this ticket? At the time of this writing,
these are the only two that I know about.

Thanks in advance for any information.

Mark E. Berres
USDA/ARS Cereal Rust Laboratory
1551 Lindig Street
St. Paul, MN 55108
(612)-625-3156
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: Suggest a good fax modem card for a PC..........
Originator: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 16:46:58 GMT


Hi,

I want to send a fax modem card to my
parents in India. They have a 386. Can I send any
fax modem card from here or should I ask for some
details hardware details of my PC before I buy the modem
card. Also, we use 220V in India but I think that shouldn't
make a difference.

If you have any recommendations for a fax card please
do let me know. Do these fax modem card require tone or
will they work with pulse too?

Please respond by email only. I don't have direct
access to this group.

thanks

-- 
B.G. MAHESH                           | Email : mahesh@evb.com
Software Engineer                     |         
SETT Inc. (Affiliated to EVB Software Engineering, Inc.)
Frederick MD
From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest
Subject: New mailing list for MS-DOS file upload announcements
Summary: SIMTEL20 and Garbo upload announcements
Keywords: simtel20,garbo,msdos,uploads,announcements
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:10:26 GMT
Reply-To: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Distribution: world
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives

Announcing msdos-ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil, a ONE-WAY (moderated) mailing
list which is used by the Internet MS-DOS archive managers to announce
new additions to their collections.

To add yourself to the mailing list send e-mail to
listserv@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil with this command in the
body of the message:

subscribe msdos-ann

Please do not include a signature because it may confuse the server.
Send mail with the word  help  in the body of the message to get a
complete list of commands and their syntax.

If you later change your mind and wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail
from the same address where you were when you subscribed.  Send to
listserv@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil with this command in the body of the
message:

unsubscribe msdos-ann

This server is only for mailing lists.  It will not send files.

Keith
--
Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the MS-DOS archive at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [192.88.110.20]
Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil     or      w8sdz@Vela.ACS.Oakland.Edu
Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz                         BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bob@cbnews.cb.att.com (robert.l.vanderwall)
Subject: Hard Card Questions.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:37:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Summary: Need help w/ hard-card install


I hope this is the correct news group on which to post this, If not,
please forgive and let me know to which group I should post.

I purchased a used Dysan Hard-Card and cannot get it to work, here
is the scenerio I've gon through so far.  Can anyone tell me what
the straps are for and how to fix it???

1) Setup I've got a 286 with a 40meg drive partitioned into 30 meg pri (C:)
   and 10 meg ext (D:)

2) Install the hardcard as disk two, s1 straps on 3 and 4 (I have no idea
   what the straps are for!)

3) Machine booted fine, but would not access the B: drive correctly.

4) Moved straps on S1 to 1 and 2

5) Machine booted really slowly, but all worked and B: was accessible.

6) I noticed that the hardcard (E:) was partitioned as pri, so I 
   re-partitioned it as ext

7) Did a softboot and everything came up perfectly.

8) I then did a power cycle boot and now the machine doesn't even
   recognize the hardcard!

What gives???

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance
Bob Vanderwall
rlv@cbnea.att.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.arch.storage
From: matheson@open.dal.ca (Steven Matheson)
Subject: TAR compatible tapes from PC SCSI tape drive
Organization: OPEN, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:40:05 GMT

I have a user at a field site who needs to make UNIX TAR compatible 
exabyte tapes from his PC.  He has an Adaptec #AHA1520 SCSI board 
and a 2.3 Gb exabyte (8mm) tape drive.  The software he has can read 
and write tapes, but not in TAR format.

What software can be recommended to do this?

Please respond by email to "matheson@open.dal.ca".

Thanks in advance!
______________________________________________________________
Steven Matheson                   E-mail: matheson@open.dal.ca
Dept. of Oceanography             Phone: (902) 494-6663
Dalhousie University              FAX:  (902) 494-3877
Halifax, NS CANADA, B3H 4J1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hanyeu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Han-Yeu Huang)
Subject: Re: Intel 486 price changes (Re: THE WAR IS OVER)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 03:45:24 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: palmerr@turbo.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert G Palmer)
Subject: Wanted -- Terminal Compatible Data Entry Prog
Keywords: data, entry, database, terminal, ps/2
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:46:13 GMT

I have a WYSE 150 terminal connected to COM 4 of a IBM PS/2 model 70.  The PS/2
in on my desk and the terminal is in a lab nearby.  I want to be able to enter
data into a database from my terminal. 

What I am currently doing is to 'CTTY COM4' so that control goes to the terminal.
I was then planning to run dBASE IV from the terminal -- WRONG -- dBASE doesn't 
use the BIOS so when I tried this all I/O went to the PS/2, not the terminal.  
My next solution is to obtain a program that will allow me to create simple 
forms, enter data, and save the data into ascii files from the terminal.  I can 
then import the ascii files to dBASE and everything would be fine.   

This is why I am posting.  I have not been able to find such a program.  Does 
anyone know of such a program, either as freeware, shareware, or commercial 
(preferrably <$75).  Since I am using CTTY, the program does not need to be 
designed to run a terminal, it just needs to be able to do the data entry.  I 
believe the WYSE terminal has a PC terminal emulation to manage all the screen 
positioning stuff.

Thanks in advance for any responses

	Robert Palmer, Jr.
	palmerr@ecn.purdue.edu
	Electrical Engineering
	Purdue University
	
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc:703 comp.sys.novell:8290
From: john@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (John Hogan)
Newsgroups: micro.ibm,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.novell
Subject: X.25 file transfer
Keywords: X.25, file transfer, novell
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:52:28 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: CSC



Does anyone know of a microcomputer data communications package
that will work with the X.25 protocol.  What I'm trying to 
do is dial into a "remote access unit" attached to a Novell
NetWare (3.11) network.  The remote access unit is essentially
a diskless pc that boots off a Novell server.  This pc
is then connected to an X.25 network.  I'm using a public
access telephone line to dial into an X.25 "terminal server"
that then connects me to an X.25 network (in the UK) and from there
to the Novell network.

The problem is that most commercial communications packages
available in the US do not support file transfer over X.25,
as far as I can tell (maybe I'm missing something).  Since
X.25 does some error checking, I'm not too concerned about
error correction in that part of the line.  But i wonder if
someone knows of a protocol or package that will support
X.25 on both the call and answer side.

Please reply by e-mail.  thanks

  john hogan
   ecsvax!john@uncecs.edu
  (212) 563 3006 ext. 259
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:488 comp.os.msdos.programmer:9830
From: ekalenda@netcom.com (Edward J Kalenda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: A Better Mousetrap
Date: 10 Oct 92 18:28:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

From article <$dougn.64.0@sasb.byu.edu>, by $dougn@sasb.byu.edu (Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS):
> 
> I'm building a mouse trap of sorts....
> 
> Actually, I just want to know if the mouse is being used (like the 
> _good_ screen saver TSRs out there--they don't blank your screen when no 
> keyboard input is coming in as long as the mouse is being moved).
> 
> I've successfully hooked the serial port interrupt (Int 14h?) and the mouse 
> interrupt (Int 33h).  The mouse works like it always has, but my variable 
> 'busy' never gets changed... (actually, that's a lie--when the mouse is 
> initialized, busy=M, but while the mouse is moving and buttons are being 
> pushed, busy doesn't get changed)
> 
> My question then is this:  is there another way to access the mouse besides 
> through Int 33h?  Does each mouse driver use a different Int for their 
> driver?  Do I need to hook the DOS int 21h too?

Many programs that use the mouse do not poll the driver for position
and button state. They use the asynchronous notification functions of
the mouse driver. With these, you set up a mask of events you want to
be told about and the driver calls a routine in your program to tell
you about the event. All kinds of restrictions on what the event handler
routine can do, but better than polling in many cases.

You will need to insert yourself between the driver and the program's
event handler.
-- 

Ed
ekalenda@netcom.COM
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:482 comp.os.msdos.programmer:9798
From: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu (Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: A Better Mousetrap
Keywords: mouse interrupt trap
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:31:19 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University


I'm building a mouse trap of sorts....

Actually, I just want to know if the mouse is being used (like the 
_good_ screen saver TSRs out there--they don't blank your screen when no 
keyboard input is coming in as long as the mouse is being moved).

I've successfully hooked the serial port interrupt (Int 14h?) and the mouse 
interrupt (Int 33h).  The mouse works like it always has, but my variable 
'busy' never gets changed... (actually, that's a lie--when the mouse is 
initialized, busy=M, but while the mouse is moving and buttons are being 
pushed, busy doesn't get changed)

My question then is this:  is there another way to access the mouse besides 
through Int 33h?  Does each mouse driver use a different Int for their 
driver?  Do I need to hook the DOS int 21h too?

Here is my example program:

	#include <dos.h>

	#ifdef __cplusplus
		#define __CPPARGS ...
	#else
		#define __CPPARGS
	#endif

	unsigned char busy;

	void interrupt ( *oldMOUSE)(__CPPARGS);
	void interrupt newMOUSE(__CPPARGS)
	{
		busy='M';
		oldMOUSE;
	}
	
	int main(void)
	{
	oldMOUSE = getvect(MOUSEINT);
	setvect(MOUSEINT,newMOUSE);
	
	keep(0, (_SS + (_SP+128/16) - _psp));
	return 0;
	}


THANKS A LOT


____

Douglas R. Nebeker           Internet: $doug@sasb.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.lang.c
From: u8800914@cs.uow.edu.au (Mohammad Salim Olime)
Subject: Re: Need help with Front End/Menuing system for C program.
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 03:06:37 GMT

jch@netcom.com (Jack Hwang) writes:

>In article <1992Oct4.220611.11419@cs.yale.edu> hille-leif@CS.YALE.EDU (Leif Hille) writes:
>>
>>A friend of mine has a very large MSDOS program consisting mostly of
>>well written C-code.  What it needs, is to be jazzed up by a really
>>nice front end/menuing system.  Does anybody know of software
>>libraries or code generating software that will help generate the
>>necessary code?  Any help is much appreciated.
>>	

>I am also in search of similar packages.  I've used TurboVision to
>design my UI.  It is very easy to program in its OOP way. However,
>the code size is unacceptable!  For my 70K of codes, it added another
>240K for UI! 

>My candidate is TCXL libraries from Innovative Data Concepts.  I've
>test its shareware version from SIMTEL.  It looks pretty good.  I
>also found that The Programmer's Shop is selling its commercial version
>with a TesSeRact Screen Designer, and some utilities for $99.  Is there
>anybody having experiences with it?

>Jack Hwang
I needed similar sort thing myself. Somebody recommended TCXL which I down
loaded from simtel-20.The small model version 5.52 which is a shareware.
I was impressed by demo provided in there but when I compiled/link the demo
for myself it fail for not being able to include _TCXLvid.h .Apprently
many people had the same problem. Somebody suggested that there is CXL
package in the simtel-20 but in a different directory(in C) and does almost
everything TCXL does. Luckly all the header file for small model version
5.2 is down there and demo program compiles/links without any problem.
Above all the documentation provided are easier to read and the functions
are c like functions compare to TCXL which I found very pascal looking and
difficult to understand. 
It solved my problem. I hope it does the same for you.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:494 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:13600
From: unmesh@sgi.com (Unmesh Agarwala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Need help with INT 25/ INT 26
Date: 13 Oct 1992 00:28:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.asd.sgi.com
Summary: How do I determine the value of the device attribute word?
Keywords: device attribute word

I've waded through a lot of DOS programming documentation but have been
unable to come up with a solution to this programming problem.

There are two forms of parameter passing to INT 25 (Absolute Disk Read)
and its counterpart INT 26 (Absolute Disk Write).  The second, which
involves passing a pointer to a small disk packet structure, needs to
be used when, and I quote the documentation, "bit 1 of the device
attribute word in the device driver is set".

The documentation I have seen describes how the device attribute word is
created when writing a device driver; it does not say how one can 
determine the contents of this word for an installed device driver, in
my case an installable disk driver.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

-Unmesh

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer