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From: ross@insci.com (ross andrus)
Subject: msgrcv(2) bug in SCO ???
Organization: INSCI Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:28:51 GMT
Originator: ross@augie

Hello world

  I'm writing because I've come up against what looks like a bug in 
  SCO's msgrcv(2) implementation. 
  
  It looks like msgrcv(2) is munging my stack. Sometimes after calling 
  msgrcv(), automatic variables in the calling function are munged. Other
  times the process dies when it tries to return from msgrcv(). 
  
  In some cases I've been able to work around it by adding lots of local 
  variables to the calling function - but even that doesn't always work.
  I have a (sort of) little sample program which works fine or dies
  depending on a the number of local variables. 

  This is most annoying. And because I don't have luxo development support 
  the best response I can get out of SCO is monday next.

  If you have any similar experience, or want a copy of my sample program,
  please email me as I may not have time to browse the news for a while...

  thanks in advance

  ross
  ross@augie.insci.com

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: sledge@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Bueschgens)
Subject: How to setup ISC3.0 for use with >16MB ??
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:29:11 GMT


Hi folks,

the subject explains my question good. Just today I've bought my 486/33
16 MB and in total I'm in possession of 20 MB. So far, so good.
The BIOS and DOS (flames > /dev/blackhole) just recognizes the total
amount of memory, but using ISC I just get 16 MB.
What about my 4 MB on bank Nr 0 ??
A kernel with >16 - 32 MB is allready build, but no change.

Anybody out there who just had this problem , too ??

Any help appreciated, please via Email.

Thanks in Advance    Thomas

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dir@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Daniel I. Rosenblatt)
Subject: Re: Arg list too long
Organization: US WEST Information Technologies
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:52:11 GMT

If you're using GNU make, try adding the following line to your Makefile:
.NOEXPORT:

GNU make tries to export every Makefile macro definition into the
environment when executing commands.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: Re: Names no longer being seen (gethostbyname stops) with ISC 2.2.1
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:13:59 GMT

sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:
>In article <JTSILLA.92Nov15221020@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas) writes:
>>
>>I'm not sure when this started happenning but recently I installed the
>>Basic Networking package and configured sendmail. Besides this there
>>have been no changes. Since I am not hooked up to a network I noticed it
>>after some time had passed.
>>
>>Has anyone seen this on their system? I'm running ISC 2.2.1 with TCP/IP
>>1.2 on a 386 AT.

>First of all, run, do not walk, to your telephone and order the upgrade
>to TCP/IP 1.3.  The 1.2 version is so buggy that even the Orkin man
>gave up on it.  (For example, pinging another machine can cause your
>machine to crash.)

>Now that I've got that off my chest...  My guess is that you changed
>your nameserver information when you updated sendmail.  Check out
>what you've got in /etc/resolv.conf.  If that looks kosher, make
>sure you've got a route to the nameserver(s) with netstat -nr.

First let me echo Sam's comments - get TCP/IP 1.3 immediately.

Secondly, there was a nice little buglet in ISC 2.2(.1) which when
you configured Sendmail without a nameserver would put the wrong
line in /etc/resolv.conf - instead of putting "nonameserver" it would
put "nameserver" in there.  Nameserver expects the IP address of a
host with which to query for name service.  Change /etc/resolv.conf to
read something like this:

<>domain vistachrome.com
<>nonameserver

-Andy

>	- Sam
>-- 
>Sam Neely, CompuServe Incorporated                  +1 614 457 8600 (voice)
>5000 Arlington Centre Blvd, Columbus, OH  43220     +1 614 457 0348 (FAX)
>Electronic Mail:  InfoPlex: >CSI:SAM      Internet: SAM@CSI.COMPUSERVE.COM
>To err is human, to forgive is against company policy
-- 
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GEnie Unix RoundTable Manager, andy@vistachrome.com, andy@genie.geis.com.
  Join GEnie, call 800-638-9636/301-251-6415.  Join Unix, CASE, and Desktop 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: 120Mb tapes on SCO UNIX 
Distribution: world
Organization: BT
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:47:04 +0000


In article <6060@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP writes:

>
>In article <1992Nov6.232519.5474@mr.med.ge.com> frigo@opustech.com writes:
>| You can write DC600A tapes in a 150 M byte drive, but SCO will
>| only allow you to put 60 M bytes on the tape.
>
>Could you give a little more detail on taht? In what way does your SCO
>software stop you from writing  more on the tape (other than spacifying
>the tape size to the software you use, if applicable)?
>-- 
>bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
>    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
>"I haven't had time to read the manual, I've been too
>   busy fighting with the install" -Nevius
>
>

DC600As are the standard tapes for Wangtek 125MB drives (I use Wangtek as
an example because that is what we use). We have the
150MB version which can still use DC600As and writes 120/125MB to them.
SCO couldn't care less what the actual tape type is - it will write out
data until the drive hits the end of tape marker on the last track. As you
say, you have to specify to the backup software manually what size tape
you have.

-----------------------------------------
Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: I need 8514/ATI Graphics Ultra support for ISC UNIX SVR3.2 & X11R4
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:30:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.160631.4252@bnlux1.bnl.gov> scott@gorzarg5.phy.bnl.gov (david scott coburn) writes:
>
>I am running SunSoft's Interactive UNIX SVR3.2 V3.0 with their
>X11R4 V2.0.  I am having trouble get more than 800x600x16 resolution
>from the supplied Xgp video driver.  When I configure for the IBM
>8514 card at 1024x768x256 resolution (at _43Hz_ refresh, gag), the
>screen looks _horrible_.  I have a NEC 5FG monitor and an ATI Graphics
>Ultra video board.
>
>Does anybody out there know if SunSoft supports or will support
>the ATI Graphics Ultra video board with this Xgp driver?
>
>Would it be possible to get a driver from somewhere else? Like, say,
>the X386 stuff?  I could use any old driver for 8514 boards, if it
>supports the resolution I want (and SVR3.2, X11R4, etc., of course...).
>Yes?  No?
>
>Does anybody have the phone # for ATI?  I tried SunSoft.  They seemed
>particularly un-informed...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott
>
>scott coburn                                brookhaven national laboratory
>scott@gorzarg5.phy.bnl.gov [130.199.20.28]                  upton, ny, usa
> .....q.. ...q.... ......q. q....... .......q .q...... ....q... ..q......


You can use the Graphics Ultra at 72 Hz with the Xgp driver with 3.0.
And you can do so at 1024X768, too.

When you run xconfig the submenu choice is for ATI not IBM. Better still
if you upgrade to 3.01 you get the SVPMI Xgp driver which is even more
specific.

-- 
Ed Whittemore   uunet!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gonzo@nevada.edu (DAVID A GONZALES)
Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendation ...
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:11:32 GMT


Hi,
	I have been running AMI motherboards for about 5 years and I have
not had any trouble with them running UNIX, OS/2 or MeSsDOS. I currently
have a AMI Series 50 Super Voyager that is running ESIX 4.0.4 and just about
every option you can think of (SCSI tape, BUS Mastering SCSI controller, 2
ESDI hard drives with controller (340 MB and 780MB), Bus mouse, etc). My
old machine was a AMI Mark II 386/20 that has been running continously (UNIX)
going on 4 years without a problem. I usually build or upgrade my systems
around AMI motherboards. Also, for your information, at COMDEX today I saw
the new AMI mb's that have the local bus. One word -> NICE! Look for them
at a store near you. 

Dave.
From: aze@first.gmd.de (Andre' Zehl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: anyone get XV working with ISC?
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:22:28 GMT

charles@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (Charles) writes:

>Has anyone gotten xv to compile on an ISC 2.2.1 system?  
>If so, I'd like to know how you did it...

I got it compiled, aftre quite some work, but my system used to crash
regularly, using some nifty features of xv - this seems to have been due
to a bug in the ISC mathlib, which wouldn't work together with a 387 coproc.
I just exchanged the motherboard (not only because of this :-) to a 486 and 
can't say how well it works, now (486).

--
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	 			      crusoe@cs.tu-berlin.de [aze@first.gmd.de]
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Soundblaster under SCO?
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:38:40 GMT

jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE) writes:

>I use SCO UNIX 3.2 and it has worked fine forever. Now, I stick in 
>a Soundblaster, and now SCO hangs on the hardware screen. It does this
>on two different machines.
>Whats the problem? SoundBlaster causes no problems with 3 other OS's including
>another 386 unix.

There are even drivers for this board under SCO.  The problem is probably a
hardware conflict.  Call me if you want help with this problem.  I work for SCO
Magazine, and I would like to help you through the problem.

Paul Fischer
1-800-220-OPEN
Open Age Inc.

-- 
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"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: ESIX 4.0.4 in-line assembly in c
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:36:17 GMT

In article <1ejapiINN4cs@agate.berkeley.edu> jef@diva.Berkeley.EDU (Jay Fleischman) writes:
> Hi unix people!
> 
> I would like to do some in-line assembly in a small portion of my C - code
> program.  I would also like information about the syntax etc. of 
> assembly routines and linking them with c programs.
> 
> I've asked tech support at ESIX, and they say they know nothing about
> it, and don't know in which manual I could look (actually, they said
> it's not there, and they have no reference either)
> 
> PLEASE, anyone who has done this, could you tell me?  If there is a
> good reference that you might recommend, what is it?  I had hoped to be
> able to use the symbolic variable names etc. in the assembly.  Perhaps
> one of those excellent X386/XFree people have done some of this?  I
> understand that there were some binary routines written to improve the
> speed...
> 
> Please email your response to jef@swordfish.berkeley.edu  or post.
> 
> Thanks alot.
> Jay Fleischman
> 

Yes, we have done this.  Boy have we done this :->  The jokers at ESIX
have no idea what they are talking about.  The manual you want is
"Programmer's Guide: ANSI C and Programming Support Tools" from the
Prentice Hall SVR4 manual set.  There's a big section on how to do
inline assembler with the SGS in SVR4.

The other option is to use GCC2, which a) generates better code, and b)
uses an in-line assembler syntax that will be portable to other OS's
(on Intel of course) that use GCC2.  You can get GCC2 from prep.ai.mit.edu
or any of its shadows.

--
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AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421, Middletown, NJ  07748

"The meaning of life?  That's simple.  Try to be happy, try not to hurt
 other people, and hope to fall in love."  -- Mallory Keaton
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:52:27 GMT

In <1992Nov18.221254.13744@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
>Passwd search times will make logging in slow.  5000 users in 1 group may make
>/etc/group unuseable, because they all have to be on one line.  You may be able
>to fix that with "\"'s at the end of every x number of users.

There is no need to fit 5000 user names in one line in /etc/group. The
default group is specified in /etc/passwd.

You can't use a backslash for continuation lines anyway.
-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

AIX is a better... is a better...  is a better... OpenSystem.
					IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: marz@czar.bellcore.com (Martin Zam)
Subject: FFast technologies / Perstore controllers
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 05:38:32 GMT

Anyone using or know where to find the revised Perstore
controllers, that were bought out by FFast technologies?
I don't see them advertised anymore.

Any interesting stories on these things?
I'd like to find one of these.  Any pointers?

Thanks in advance,
Martin Zam
(908)669-4544
Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:16515 comp.unix.bsd:8945 comp.windows.x:19200
From: patry@Software.Mitel.COM (Jean-Yves Patry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: I need 8514/ATI Graphics Ultra support for ISC UNIX SVR3.2 & X11R4
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:24:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: scott@gorzarg5.phy.bnl.gov's message of 13 Nov 92 16:06:31 GMT


We are using the Metrolink X11R4 software with Motif 1.1.3 on ISC 3.0.
They support the ATI ultra very well. For information call

(305) 970-7353

They also have X11R5 with Motif 1.1.4 available.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
Organization: I.E.C.C.
Date: 21 Nov 92 23:27:43 EST (Sat)
From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)

>dunno just how bad it would be, but you could also:
>a)	sort your passwd file
>b)	get a pd getty-replacement, and hack it to do a binary search.

Actually, the majority of lookups in the password file are by ls, not by
login.  Getty never looks at the password file at all.

Perhaps if they use NIS, it'd work OK since NIS puts all of its maps into
DBM databases.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
From: kschulz@ba-stuttgart.de (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ISC 3.0! FAX
Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:22:18 GMT
Organization: ba-stuttgart.de
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grey.t-informatik.ba-stuttgart.de
Keywords: ISC

Hi, 
does anyone knows where to get fax software for my modem for an
ISC 3.0 Unix? I have got a Zyxel Modem.
Nowadays I fax from dos with windows!
Or is it possible to install Windows 3.X under vpix?
I tried but it doesnt work, under 2.2
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Connecting SCO-ODT to DEC-NET, which product?
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:07:59 GMT

anderl@kommu.UUCP (Hr Horst Anderl) writes:


>Hallo
>I am looking for software to connect SCO-ODT to DEC-NET.
>Thanks in advance
>Horst

Try Ki-Net from Ki Research in Columbia, Md.

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"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Multiport Boards
From: abraham <AASSI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 14:13:56 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

I installed 2 PC/Xi 16 port DigiBoard ISA boards in a Norhgate Elegance/33DX
2.5 years ago;  the system runs AT&T UNIX SYSTEM V Release 3.2.2/386 24 hours
a day 365 days a year: NEVER A PROBLEM with any of the 32 ports !  I have 3
HP LaserJet IID's 3 Panasonic Serial Printers and 22 terminals (wyse150) and
some modems.  I highly recommend the Digiboards because of their reliability,
and I recommend the company because their technical support is superb and they
provide FREE drivers to over 15 platforms (incl. DOS NOVELL Un*x PICK etc.)


Abraham Abou-Suleiman                         aassi@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Director of Data Processing
United Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State, Inc.
330 West 34 St, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-5770
From: stewart@europa.eng.gtefsd.com (Brad Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Trying to install SCO UNIX 3.2 on a clone 386dx 40
Date: 19 Nov 1992 14:20:51 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In comp.unix.sysv386 you write:

>Trying to install SCO UNIX 3.2 on a clone 386dx 40.  After booting the first 
>installation disk, the installation procedure goes through a series of test 
>(A through Z).  My system hangs at G8.  The installation procedure does not 
>tell me what this means.  By trial and error I installed a serial i/o card, 
I 
>get to the same spot where the error G8 occurs and then the system 
>automatically re-sets and re-boots even though it shouldn't (I think) and 
>that is not want I want.  HELP what is going on and what should I do??  Any 
>help would be greatly appreciated.



.Sounds similar to what happen to me.  I had to take all peripherals
.out of the computer - including serial board. The OS thought the
.serial card (com1/com2) was a multiport Arnet serial board and
.tried to do weird things, crashing the system.

.After getting the system started, edit /etc/conf/cf.d/space.c,
.I think - it's been a long time, I removed all lines except com1 & com2
.and rebuild the kernel.

.I hate software that tries to guess that hardware exists in 
.a system!

.Dean

I started out with just the cpu, vga card, monitor and mfm disk controller 
and I still got that error.  I can not get past that to try your way, since 
you seem to have had a close experience to mine do you have any 
thoughts/advice.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Brad Stewart 
GTE Federal System
From: philstas@rc1.vub.ac.be (Stas Philippe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: modem/backup facilities: a dream or reality?
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:56:40 GMT
Organization: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels
Summary: MODEM-HOST CONNECTIONS

Hello,

I have a Hayes 2400 compatible internalmodem. I was allready able to start the
modem.
Now this is my question. Is is possible with UUCP from SCO v. 3.2.2 run time mode
to tar a
system to antoher system, the one that was called be the modem?
I mean, Could I tar my entire ard disc by piping it to the modem and another
system?

The idea seems quiet irrealistic to me, but with all you computer wizzards,
you'll never know.

Thanx.


Philippe Stas

"If Man is five, Then the devil is six"
"And if the devil is six, Then GOD is seven"
"This monkey is going to heaven"
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: UPS, SCO and automatic shutdown
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:04:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.151630.4910@ncselxsi.uucp>
	fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher) writes:

>We're currently running an Everex system with a 486/33 CPU and SCO Unix
>3.2.4.  We're considering purchasing a UPS (recommendations, anyone?)
>and was wondering if any one has implemented an automatic shutdown (or
>halt) when the UPS detects a power outtage.

I really like the new release of the American Power Conversion (APC)
"PowerChute" software, coupled with its *Smart*-UPS systems. Using this
combination, the serial port used to communicate between UPS and
computer does not have to have modem control.

The new version of the software allows the user, from any UNIX terminal,
to query the UPS' electrical load, battery capacity, its operating
temperature and other such stuff. It allows the root user to test the
UPS or simulate a power outage. It can fully adjust how you want to
configure what action is taken on line power failure or low-battery.

The version specifically supports SCO UNIX, however, I have tested it
and it works exactly as advertised on System V Release 4 (ESIX) as well.

APC is a very popular brand of UPS and many distributors should have it.
Remember to get the "SmartUPS". They also make a cheaper "BackUPS", but it
works with PowerChute in a far more limited manner.

-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
         evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
         "IBM's three letters are probably EBCDIC for CYA" - Nik H.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: phade@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Frank Gadegast)
Subject: Looking for: X-Server for ISC
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:26:26 GMT

Hi,

Following problem:

Have a InterActive (ISC) Unix here, it was always running
with X11R3 (yes, I know !) with a Hercules-Screen (yeah, yeah!).

Got now a ET-4000, a nice 17"-Color-Screen and X11R5-binaries.

But the X-Server doesnt work, cause it likes to make a
1280xwhatever-resolution, but my monitor will not display this.


SO: Did somebody successfully compiled a X for ET4000 with
1024x768 (16 or 256 colors, doesnt matter) on ISC ???

I don't have enough space to recompile it :o(


Thnx in advance ... Phade
 
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