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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:45:38 CST
From:         Rick=L.=Perales%2nd=Fl%FPCM@FPCM.MED.UTH.TMC.EDU
Subject:      ICA error

ICA Controller - Slot 5 - Controller Failure (Watchdog Timer).

A couple of days ago i installed patch FD-1 (ICA patch).  ICA controller
seemed to work fine after the reboot.  But monday morming all the modems were
flickering (RTS, CTS, RD, SD). Seemed like the modems were receiving junk from
the ICA (There were no incoming calls).  Reloaded the communications card.
Didn't work. Rebooted the server. Didn't work. Ran diags on ICA. Came up fine.
Swapped in different ICA.  Same thing!  Once it gave me a 165 error when
trying to assign a line. Only once.  But i've gotten the "Controller Failre"
error more than a couple of times.

Initially i was looking for patches BB-1 and CW-1.  My VAR told me that they
had been replaced by FD-1. In the FD-1 readme file it stated that FD-1
replaced EL-1. What?  Server is an old deskpro 386/25 running 4.11(5).

Am i missing a patch?
Can anybody clear this up?
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:04:43 CET
From:         Chris=Belmans%Bib%Rechten@CC3.KULEUVEN.AC.BE
Subject:      re: Disk cache...

Optinet (from OnLine Computer Systems, Inc. , 20251 Century Boulevard,
GermanTown, Maryland 20874) uses a cache for the CDROM-drives.  But you
probably need a cheaper solution!  If someday you find one, please let me
know.
Chris Belmans
K.U.Leuven / Rechtsgeleerdheid
Leuven, Belgium
cbelmans@cc3.kuleuven.ac.be
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:28:36 EST
From:         Sherwood=Lawrence%Atlanta=Support%Banyan@MAGNOLIA.BANYAN.COM
Subject:      re: How StreetTalk work ?

To: Wong Chee Heng

Banyan has some great educational courses which will explain all.Call Gloria
Simpson, Banyan Ed.Services at 1-800-235-5332.She'll send you a catalog and
you can be on your way to becomeing a certified Banyan engineer.
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:17:00 EST
From:         "Gregory.Burgess" <GBURGESS@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Fwd:determining if a user is log

Two ways to do it.  Try the VnsGetUserPorts call, if it doesn't return any
ports the user isn't logged in.  However, this call doesn't always return
accurate information (98% of the time it is correct).  Other method is to use
a call that Craig Armstrong sent in to csus.  However, I haven't tried it so I
can't comment on its use.  His call makes a direct call to VanGuard (VS on
vines 5.0) so it is more accurate, VnsGetUserPorts() calls streettalk, which
is sometimes not up to date.

Greg Burgess...

Greg.Burgess@banyan.msu.edu
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From: carlr@netcom.com (Carl Robinson)
Subject: PCPRINT under VINES 5.0 (6)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:36:33 GMT


Thanks for the input.  I'm checking those items out right now.

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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:37:00 MET
From:         "Hay Janssen - UCI Nijmegen, NL" <Hay.Janssen@UCI.KUN.NL>
Subject:      Mac and 3270/SNA

Can anybody give me some information about Mac's on VINES?

We have many users on DOS PC's that do 3270/SNA emulation to
the MVS mainframe. They all have their own LU and PLU.
They send part of their output to the printer attached to the PC.

We want to give our Mac users the same possibility to access
the mainframe and print to a remote printer attached to
the Mac. Our idea was to upgrade to VINES 5.0 and to buy
the Mac-option on one server.

Questions:
- Do we realy need the Mac-option only on one server?
  Can these users login, even if their group is registered
  on a server without this option?
- Is the 3270/SNA option available to Mac users?

I am afraid that the second answer will be 'No'. If so, what
are the possibilities to print from the mainframe to
a remote printer attached to the Mac?

Hay Janssen
Univ. of Nijmegen
the Netherlands
hay.janssen@uci.kun.nl
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From: e5endreh@nap41.nap.usace.army.mil (Robert E. Hunter, Jr.)
Subject: Borland C++ w/Turbovision & VINES Toolkit
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:24:38 GMT

Has anybody had any luck using Borland C++ w/Turbovision & the VINES 5.0 
Toolkit? I can't seem to get them to co-exist. Any info will be appreciated!

Robert E. Hunter, Jr.                                 US Army Corps of Engineers
Network Manager                                       Philadelphia District
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From: jabusch@zorro.cecer.army.mil (John Jabusch)
Subject: new uploads to csus.edu
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:16:56 GMT

I'm caught up again, for a few minutes!  There were a couple of other
uploads that I moved over the other day, which I think I may have for-
gotten to post.  However, they're all there.  Enjoy!


/pub/banyan/banyan_info	
==============================================================================
fixlist.zip	Banyan's list of patches and problems they fix

/pub/banyan/experimental
==============================================================================
3c509f.zip	experimental packet drivers for 3Com 3c509 board (version f)

/pub/banyan/src
==============================================================================
findold.zip	find and remove old files from user spaces
format.zip	"idiot-proof" floppy format command
mktemp.zip	make home directories for users in a group
setbuser.zip	set environment variable to ST username

/pub/banyan/techbulletins
==============================================================================
tn242.txt	technical bulletin 
tn244.txt	technical bulletin 

/pub/banyan/windows
==============================================================================
nm.exe		NetMaestro network monitor for Windows 3.x
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 10:29:43 PST
From:         MA=Crist%Info_Sys%STG_IS@DSO3.DSD.TRW.COM
Subject:      PC/TCP 2.1

John Valenti,

I looked at Marketing Notice 244.  It seems rather ambiguous.  For a free
upgrade it says you have to be either:  1) A reseller with a SUP (Support)
contract.  2)  A DIRECTLY SUPPORTED end user with a CSS (Comprehensive
Software Support) contract.

My traditional understanding of Banyan's term directly supported is users who
receive their support directly from Banyan as opposed to a VAR.  Do you fit
into one of the above categories, or am I reading this wrong?

Or, can someone from Banyan clarify this??  Thanks.

Mike Crist
TRW
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:19:41 -0500
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From:         "James B. Van Bokkelen - V.P. Technical Services" <jbvb@FTP.COM>
Subject:      Re: PC-TCP for Windows

    I refer to an earlier posting I made on the price ratio between PC/TCP
    and WordPerfect.  If complexity of the software is an argument, then
    why can Microsoft sell Windows for $99?  IBM OS/2 is $99.  I can name
    countless other examples of software that is EXTREMELY complex, difficult
    to support, produced by large or small companies, and sold at far lower
    cost than PC/TCP.  The really amazing thing here is your implication
    that at reduced prices, you can't support the product...

The issue here is the quality of support you get.  I believe we deliver
quite a lot more than some of the mass-market vendors you mention.  I
know we have more support people per salesman (or developer) than many.
One might also argue that OS/2 and Windows are both loss-leaders, whose
vendors expect to make it up selling spreadsheets, PS/2s or whatever.

I know that we don't satisfy everyone (particularly given the peak load
while everyone upgrades to 2.1), but we try.  If you bought direct, and
aren't satisfied, it's my responsibility (you know where to complain).
If you bought from someone else, they may be contracturally bound to
provide front-line support.  If they're not satisfactory, the only
leverage I have is the fact that we also sell direct.  If the prices
differ, this may be greed, or it may be the real cost of providing
solid support.  You have the money, you get to decide...

James B. VanBokkelen            2 High St., North Andover, MA  01845
FTP Software Inc.               voice: (508) 685-4000  fax: (508) 794-4488
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:42:08 -0500
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From:         "James B. Van Bokkelen - V.P. Technical Services" <jbvb@FTP.COM>
Subject:      Re: PC-TCP for Windows

Someone forwarded the recent discussion to me, and I'd like to clarify
some points.

1. IBANYAN is the kernel Banyan sells.  It uses VINES to encapsulate the
IP datagrams, so the VINES server has to re-encapsulate them and forward
them of the VINES subnet.  The PC can use any media VINES supports.

2. EBANYAN is a kernel we sell (part PC-215), which sends direct to the
Ethernet (not 802.5 or other media), using VINES' hardware driver.

3. There is a BANPKT under development by a member of the Packet Driver
community, that uses the same hardware driver interface as EBANYAN.  I
saw a notice saying it was in beta test a week or two ago, but I don't
remember where it was available.

4. Our ETHDRV kernel (Packet Driver - part PC-210) and DIS_PKT NDIS
adapter will share an NDIS driver with VINES, but EBANYAN couldn't
run with at least one version of the VINES for NDIS.  IBANYAN didn't
have this problem.

5. We use LIM EMS because it can be used on 8086s, too, and when we
committed to it DPMI was not as stable as it is now.  We're aware of
the issue.

6. The reason Tech Support works the way it does is because when a vendor
wants to pay us a lower price we say: "but we can't afford to support it
at that price" and the vendor says: "that's fine, we'll support it".  We
like our customers to be happy whether they bought direct or not, but we
don't want to go broke either.  FTP's President agrees with me on this.

7. If you have a serialized version of PC/TCP, and use the same serial
number on two different PCs, the users will get plaintive messages
about the conflict every few minutes.  The serial numbers are set in
the 'config file' (usually PCTCP.INI, pointed to by the PCTCP
environment variable).  This is also where the IP addresses and user
ids are, so the file already has to exist on a per-PC basis.

James B. VanBokkelen            2 High St., North Andover, MA  01845
FTP Software Inc.               voice: (508) 685-4000  fax: (508) 794-4488
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:11:26 -0500
From:         Paul Paquin <paquin%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      HP Laserjet III extra page problem.

Help!

Until recently we had HP Laserjet Plus clones for printers.  We
then purchased HP Laserjet IIIs to add to the network, and replace
older printers.  The new HPs cause a blank page to be sent at the
end of every job when the outputing software is device driver
driven; ala WordPerfect, FirstChoice etc.

We are running Vines 4.10 (0) (Please don't ask why.), on Zenith
386DX/25 servers, and have a formfeed (/f) in the suffix to output
any direct DOS printouts; ala >prn, Lotus 123, etc.  And the
printers are directly connected to the Server via both serial and
parallel ports.

Returning the clone to duty and changing nothing on the network,
solves the problem immediately.

HP says that they do not know of the problem, nor a solution.

WordPerfect's solutions have had no effect.  They are pointing to
HP.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

Do you know what is going wrong here?

*------------------------------------*
Paul Paquin
University of Massachusetts at Boston
PAQUIN%UMBSKY.dnet@ns.umb.edu
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:56:04 CST
From:         David=Blair%ComputerSrvcs%WILL@BIGBIRD.WILL.UIUC.EDU
Subject: Re: 586 certification

Rodger,
        That is one issue that I have not heard about yet.  The Pentium will
have approximately three time the number of transistors that the 486 does.  It
will be based upon a super scaler design.  I am assuming that it will have
different mode that it will work in.  Meaning that it should be 100% binary
compatible with the previous CPU's in one of these modes.

"Through Complexity there is Simplicity, Through Simplicity there is Complexity"
David L. Blair                  davidb@uiuc.edu         (217)-333-2565 - Voice
Computer Resource Coordinator   U of I - Col. of Comm.  (217)-333-7151 - FAX
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From: "antares electronics" <antares.electronics@canrem.com>
Subject: deleted user in stda
Reply-To: "antares electronics" <antares.electronics@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: bit
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:01:52 EST

-> Two days ago I have deleted a user. Yesterday she complained that her
-> old name is still coming up when people are composing a message.
-> I checked, and she doesn't exist under her old name anymore. (STK
-> 1013) So, I asked STDA-Master to rebuild the database. She is still
-> there. Her mailbox doesn't exist anymore.

This happened to me once so I deleted the STDA service and re-created it
and the name went away. The problem has not occured since.

        Allen...
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:55:38 -0300
From:         Ian.Brabham@CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Subject:      re: PCPRINT under VINES 5.0 (6)

Carl Robinson,

We have been had !!!!!!!

>I upgraded a bunch of servers to VINES 5.0 (6) on Saturday.  Now the
>PcPrint services are giving a message: The print service specified does not
>support network printing.  Does anyone know what the hey is going on?

Rev 4 PcPrints cannot talk to rev 5 print services.  Newrev the workstations
hosting the PcPrint to rev 5.

Another gotcha you will find is that you cannot relocate print services (even
rev 4 print services) with the rev 5 MSERVICE utility.  The Rev 4 MSERVICE
can relocate rev 5 print queues but makes a bit of a mess that will require
some manual cleaning up afterwards (still easier than deleting and
recreating).

Ian Brabham                 email: ian.brabham@cc.monash.edu.au
Micro Support Group         phone: +61 3 565 4742
Monash University           fax:   +61 3 565 4746
Melbourne Australia
From: Stephane=Bourque%Eng%Incognito@TEST.ARTS.SFU.CA
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Subject: re: Associated Record '0' layout
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:06:31 GMT
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Hi Greg:

        If I recall correctly, you want to find a users description...
        If this is so, this is the call you need!

        STRec   rec;
        STNAME  UName, OUName;
        char    buf[1024];

VnsGetStAssocRecord( 0 , UName , USER , &rec , OUName , buf , sizeof(buf) );

        The description is located in...

                rec.USER_case.descrip

        Hope this is what you are looking for!

        Have fun!

        Stephane Bourque
        stephb@test.arts.sfu.ca
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:01:25 -0500
From:         Paul Paquin <paquin%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      re: HP Laserjet III extra page problem.

Thanks for the fix.  It seems to work well.

*-----------------------------*
Paul Paquin
University of Massachusetts at Boston
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:15:38 CST
From:         "W. Bruce Curtis" <curtis@PLAINS.NODAK.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Networked CD-ROMs

>
> Rick and anyone else who is listening,
>
> One of my "parteners in crime" and myself are just wrapping up a product
> that you and others might find interesting. It allows you to share a CD-ROM
> on a VINES network utilizing the VINES redirector. What this means is you
> just do a SETDRIVE from your station and you have access to the CD. NO
> TSRs to load. The service also allows you to mount another station's hard
> drives via the SETDRIVE command. Sound good???
> --

  Does it not require netbios or the Microsoft CD Extensions?

  Is the VINES redirector you mention above the redirector that Trellis sells?
Does it require a dedicated gateway PC like the Trellis redirector does?

  Also how soon do you think you will have it working and how much will
it cost (with educational discounts)?  :-)

Thanks,
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:27:09 PST
From:         MA=Crist%Info_Sys%STG_IS@DSO3.DSD.TRW.COM
Subject:      re: deleted user in STDA

Charan,

I'm probably wrong here, but users names may be subject to the StreetTalk 96
hour rule.  I know if you take a server off-line, it hangs around in
StreetTalk for 96 hours before it gets purged.  Just a guess.

Mike Crist
TRW
From: jim@sytex.com (Jim Arnold)
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Subject: detecting inbound mail
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:04:23 EST
Organization: Sytex Communications, Arlington V.A. * node 1

Does anyone know of an external program available
(anywhere) that will allow me to detect the arrival
of inbound mail to a specified mailbox?  I want
to implement a mailserver to a database and
need to know when mail arrives so I can trigger
the server.

Thanks.
jim

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From: jabusch@zorro.cecer.army.mil (John Jabusch)
Subject: Re: FTP Version 2.10
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:49:34 GMT

"J. Jane Warman" <WARMAN@NBSENH.BITNET> writes:

>Here at NIST we have a site license for PC/TCP software.  One of the drivers
>I ordered with the site license was the Banyan driver from FTP Software.  It
>works with VINES just fine and I don't buy any of that support from Banyan.
>The upgrades to both software and drivers is automatic on the site license.

That's real interesting.  Every time I wanted an upgrade on software I
bought directly from FTP (PC/TCP for VINES being one of the packages)
I have had to specifically order it, or I never see it.  Of course, with
the order I also have to pay through the nose!

One of my complaints on the PC/TCP software.  Yes, it's nice, and it's
good, and reasonable robust.  However, it costs 4 times the price of 
WordPerfect, and my users get a lot more utility from a word processor
on a normal day than they do from a communications suite.

Just some personal grumblings....  I've spent a lot of time working with
packet drivers and NDIS because the commercial market is behind the 
Internet arena at providing software at a reasonable cost and with
reasonable capabilities.  I can still set up a pc with telnet, ftp,
gopher, wais, and nntp using packet drivers and support VINES a heck
of a lot cheaper than I can set up the PC/TCP, and it has no gopher
or wais (or archie, or....).

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From: carlr@netcom.com (Carl Robinson)
Subject: PCPRINT under VINES 5.0 (6)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:44:18 GMT


I upgraded a bunch of servers to VINES 5.0 (6) on Saturday.  Now the
PcPrint services are giving a message: The print service specified does not
support network printing.  Does anyone know what the hey is going on?

Carl Robinson
VINES Administrator
Concord, CA
Naval Weapons Station
b
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:16:25 EST
From:         Patrick=Smoker%Admin%Ag@ADMIN.AGAD.PURDUE.EDU
Subject:      re: Printing with ps2/95

>Since upgrading vines 4.11(5) on to a ps2/95,  the HP3si
>printer attached to the parallel port refuses to print.
>wang support has been working on this problem for about
>three weeks now and still does not have a fix.
>the logs say "monitor locked after 5 attempts".
>the job shows up in the print queue labeled as printing
>but does not come out.

Keith:

I hesitate to point this because it is probably obvious and already
addressed by you, and your support, but I've been in situations in
the pass, that I wished someone would have pointed out the obvious, so
here it goes.

The only time I've ever seen this problem was when we once had a
parallel port that was defined incorrectly in the add card menu.  In
our case, LPT1 was configured to use I/O address 03bc (lpt2) instead of
378 (lpt1). When we finally figured out what we had done and changed it
to 378, all was well.  Below are the settings I generally use when
configuring a VINES server with parallel/serial ports built into the
mother board.

CARD NAME       SLOT#   CARD INT        I/O ADDR

Parallel Port   0       7               378     <-lpt1
Parallel Port   0       5               03bc    <-lpt2
Serial Port     0       4               3f8     <-com1
Serial Port     0       3               2f8     <-com2

I don't know why the upgrade would have caused your working config to
change or stop working upgrading to 4.11, but you might check to be
sure.

Good luck!

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