HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: posse@masg6.epfl.ch (Christian Posse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Tcl on INDIGO (more precise)
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:07:49 GMT

|> Hi  SGI gurus,
|> 
|> I would like to know if someone had succeeded in installing
|> Tcl on SGI running IRIX 4.0.5 ???
|> 
|> (tcl6.4, tclX6.4c and tk2.3)
|> 
|> If some patches are needed, would anyone mind sending me 
|> any indication ???
|> 

The problem I encountered is in the compilation of tcl after the
library libtcl.a was created. I obtain the following error message :

        ........
        touch made.tmp
        true ../libtcl.a
        cc -cckr -prototypes  /usr/lib/libc.a -O  -I../../tcl6.4   -DTCL_HAVE_SETLINEBUF -DTCL_POSIX_SIG  -DNO_MATH_ERR -DTCL_TIMEZONE_VAR main.o ../libtcl.a -lm   -o ../tcl
/usr/bin/ld:
Undefined:
matherr
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Has anyone any idea of this problem and how I can remedy ?

Thanks in advance

Christian.


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From: lau@sunset.ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Flux Capacitors and comp.sys.sgi was Re: TO news@adm.brl.mil !!!
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:11:59 GMT


GREAT SCOTTS! DEJA VU!

Even worse I'm seeing my own postings repeating!!!!
Does this mean I can starting following up to myself?
Can we change the course of history by following up to each repeated 
thread with a different reply?

Maybe the Almighty NetNews Dieties are giving all of us second chances to
put right what once went wrong. 

Or...Maybe the Evil NetNews Dieties are just trying to confuse us. 

Could it be a conspircacy by avid Sun and Evans and Sutherland users 
to confuse and paralyze the world of SGI? 

Or...maybe it's simply a screwed up news handler... naww...too simple.

=:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) =:) 

Steve

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SRI International                         | "Eskimo."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: an16@sol.acs.unt.edu (Blair Copeland)
Subject: Restricting root from telnet.
Summary: I want to restrict root from telnet on IRIS 4.0.1.
Keywords: telnet
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:41:06 GMT

If this is in the wrong group please don't yell!


     We are running a Silicon Graphics on a Cabletron DNSMIM card.
     The system is IRIS 4.0.1.  We would like to keep the root from 
     logging in via telnet.

     I believe that this system is a System V Release 4 variant.

Any suggestions?

==================================================================
Blair Copeland                 |
Data Communications Analyst    |
University of North Texas      |  copeland@sol.acs.unt.edu
==================================================================
From: gavin@krypton.asd.sgi.com (Gavin Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Inventor Question
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:27:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: krypton.asd.sgi.com

In <1992Dec16.162928.16505@erenj.com> ram@ramsgi.erenj.com (ram rajagopalan) writes:
> This may be a really stupid question,  but here it is.  I am in the 
> process of learning inventor, and I am trying to set the value for
> the fields in the nodes.  I get a compile time error in attempting
> to do this.  Any pointers would be appreciated.  Code segment follows.
> I am using the C binding ...
>  SoCmplx      *sph_cmplx;
>  sph_cmplx = SoCmplxCreate();
>  sph_cmplx->value = 0.25;

Ah.  sph_cmplx->values is a field of type SoSFFloat, not a regular
'float'.  The compiler is complaining because you are trying to assign
a float to an SoSFFloat.  When you set a field's value, Inventor does
some extra stuff so that data sensors will notice the change and fire.

So, in C, you have to call a method to set a field's value; your code
should look like:

SoSFloatSet(&sph_cmplx->value, 0.25);

In C++, Inventor 'overloads' the '=' function to essentially do this
for you automatically.



--
--gavin     (gavin@sgi.com,  (415)390-1024)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jschroed@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jay M. Schroeder)
Subject: Windows NT on base Indigo
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:41:58 GMT

I am considering using a Base Indigo system (16Mb, 340Mb HD) to function as a
Microsoft Windows NT server.  Any information about this subject would be 
appreciated.  If anyone has tried this or knows of problems or current
incompatibilities I would appreciate a warning to save time and effort...
From: spl@nubis.rutgers.edu (Stephen Paul Lesniewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Movieplayer Format....
Date: 21 Dec 92 02:41:40 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	I've having a bit of a time trying to figure out the format,
so before i go pull my brains out does anyone have a copy of it that i
could FTP or maybe Email-ed?

thanx,
-Spl
=)

ps. (please send me email, i rarely may it this far down into my
	'.newsrc'. 	Thanx again)
From: steve@ecf.toronto.edu (Steve Kotsopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: This group is repeating on me
Date: 12 Dec 92 13:48:14 GMT

In article <34516@adm.brl.mil> dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Chaejoon Cheong) writes:
>Articles are appearing multiply, in this group only, here at Yale. Is this
>happening elsewhere?
>
>Vigilantly,
>
>--
>| Dave Schweisguth   Yale MB&B & Chemistry   Net: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu |
>| Lab phone: 203-432-5208     Fax: 203-432-6144    Home phone: 203-624-3866 |

I see the same problem.

I think something is wrong at adm.brl.mil. It seems to be reposting
news articles with new Message-Id: headers, which is why you are seeing
2 copies of many messages. I don't think it has anything to do with the
comp.sys.sgi re-organization, since I have seen the same problem in 
other newsgroups.
-- 
Steve Kotsopoulos                   mail:   steve@ecf.toronto.edu
Systems Analyst                     bitnet: steve@ecf.UTORONTO.BITNET
Engineering Computing Facility      uucp:   uunet!utai!ecf!steve
University of Toronto               phone:  (416) 978-5898
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: trgs@quads.uchicago.edu (T. R. Gowrishankar)
Subject: Info reqd. on frame grabbers for Indigo/Crimson systems
Reply-To: trgs@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:17:29 GMT

Does anyone have any info on frame grabbers for Indigo or Crimson series?
We are interested in purchasing a frame grabber with realtime acquisition and
at least 12 bit capability. Any help will be appreciated.

-Gowrishankar
trgs@quads.uchicago.edu
(312) 702-6302 Ext. 5-6466
From: n303bn@tamuts.tamu.edu (Jason Rosson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CDROM drive and Indigo
Date: 13 Dec 1992 05:49:40 GMT
Organization: ~/lib/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamuts.tamu.edu


I am having problems getting a Trexel SCSI CDROM drive working on
an Indigo.  A friend uses SGI's SCSI CDROM and it works just fine.
Are there any significant differences in a drive like my Trexel and
SGI's that I can compensate for?  Thanks for any help.

 - Jason Rosson
From: gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Bug in ls -L ?
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:03:33 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <tkteeqg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Dec14.190234.25355@cc.umontreal.ca> gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre) writes:
>
>| if I do (on csh):
>| 
>| % ls -l /usr/bin/vi
>| l---------   1 root     sys            2 Mar 29  1992 /usr/bin/vi -> ex
>| % ls -L /usr/bin/vi
>| /usr/bin/vi
>| 
>| The man pages for ls say about "-L" parameter:
>| 
>|      -L   If the file is a symbolic link, list the file that the link
>|           references.
>| 
>| I should have obtained "/usr/bin/ex" with the ls -L commabd. Is it a bug?
>| Is there something I did not understand?
>
>The man page could be clearer.  It means follow the link, and get
>the 'stat' info from the file that is pointed to by the link,
>not to change the name that is printed.  See also 'man lstat'.
>--
>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
Subject: Re: Bug in ls -L ?
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Keywords: 

In article <tkteeqg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Dec14.190234.25355@cc.umontreal.ca> gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre) writes:
>
>| if I do (on csh):
>| 
>| % ls -l /usr/bin/vi
>| l---------   1 root     sys            2 Mar 29  1992 /usr/bin/vi -> ex
>| % ls -L /usr/bin/vi
>| /usr/bin/vi
>| 
>| The man pages for ls say about "-L" parameter:
>| 
>|      -L   If the file is a symbolic link, list the file that the link
>|           references.
>| 
>| I should have obtained "/usr/bin/ex" with the ls -L commabd. Is it a bug?
>| Is there something I did not understand?
>
>The man page could be clearer.  It means follow the link, and get
>the 'stat' info from the file that is pointed to by the link,
>not to change the name that is printed.  See also 'man lstat'.

The idea behind my posting was to find a way to get the full path of the file
pointed by the link in a script in a way as simple as possible.


-- 
Pierre Gaumond.        gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA
Services Informatiques, Universite de Montreal. 
C.P. 6128, Succursale "A", Montreal,            
Quebec, Canada.   H3C 3J7
From: okada@av2.avrl.mei.co.jp (Tsuyoshi Okada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Audio Format
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:08:34 GMT

Bruce Karsh (karsh@sgi.com) wrote:
: The A/D and D/A convertors are both 16 bit convertors.  The AES/EBU
: digital audio interface is a 24 bit format.  These formats are all
: linear PCM.

I'm sure you meant that D/A converters have 18-bit resolutions
as mentioned in "relnotes eoe 13" in 4.0.5F.

Now, I figured DSP56001 for audio interface control handles 24-bit
audio data with digital I/F, and 16/18 bits of them with analog I/F.
Is the rest of the lower bits simply masked to zero when transferring
a 16-bit A/D data to GIO-Bus or digital I/F, and when supplying 24-bit
AIFF data to 18-bit D/A converter?
Is there any chance to upgrade the A/D and D/A converter to a higher
resolution considering that there are such as high as 20-bit reso.?

What about the new machine with R4400?  Is the audio interface going
to be the same with Indigo using 56001?

Thanx in advance.
--
||  Tsuyoshi Okada             Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp.  ||
||  T.Okada@avrl.mei.co.jp          Audio & Video Res. Lab. (Japan)  ||
From: awilliam@qucis.queensu.ca (Andrew Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: *New mail list* (Trackers)
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:23:41 GMT

A new mail list has been created to allow for discussion on using/operating/creating
various tracking sensors. These could be motion/location/orientation/force or anything
else you can think up. If you wish to be added (or removed) from the list please send
mail to 

   trackers-request@qucis.queensu.ca

articles and mail should be sent to 

   trackers@qucis.queensu.ca

Andrew Williams
ps. If you intend to *follow-up* on this article, note the alt.test in the header!!
p.ps. Please forward this to any interestead parties! Thanks!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dave@imax.imax.com (Dave Martindale)
Subject: Re: Need dump parameters for 4mm DAT
Organization: Imax Corporation, Mississauga Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:18:41 GMT

gof@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gerald Fountain) writes:
>I was looking at the parameters for the 8mm and they don't seem to add up
>correctly.  In the man page, it suggests the following for 8mm tapes dues to a
>bug in dump.  The parameters suggested are:
>   density == 54000 Bpi
>   length  ==  6000 feet
>
>This gives a storage of 54,000 * 12 * 6,000 = 3,700 MB

Dump, excessively clever program that it is, also allows space for
inter-record gaps on 9-track tape, so if you want dump to correctly
calculate how much it will fit on a tape, you have to reverse-engineer
the capacity calculation.

I would guess that the numbers above are intended to be "big enough"
to use a whole tape, without trying to accurately model exactly how
much will fit on one tape.

	Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: Need program with source to compress files
Organization: IKE
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:01:10 GMT



    Hey,

    I am looking for a program with source code to compress files.
    if possible running on SGI. Could somebody send me informations
    about good ones ?

    Thanks for your efforts,

-- 
 NAME : O.Kretzschmar                      Inst.IKE / University Stuttgart
 PHONE: +49 711 685 2130                           Pfaffenwaldring 31
 FAX  : +49 711 685 2010                            7000 Stuttgart 80
 EMAIL: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de
From: okada@av2.avrl.mei.co.jp (Tsuyoshi Okada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Audio Format
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:58:04 GMT
Organization: Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp. JP
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


In article <tjshch8@zola.esd.sgi.com>, 
 Doug Cook (cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com) wrote:
: In article <9760@storyteller.avrl.mei.co.jp>,
:  okada@av2.avrl.mei.co.jp writes:
: > 
: > What about the new machine with R4400?  Is the audio interface going
: > to be the same with Indigo using 56001?
: 
: From a software perspective, we are committed to maintaining binary
: compatibility with Indigo Audio Library programs on audio platforms
: for the foreseeable future.
: 
That was one thing I wanted to confirm, thank you.
How about the hardware aspect then?  Since AL doesn't seem to 
take care about the difference of bit length between digital
I/F and analog I/F, is the path from A/D and D/A converter
to DSP56001 capable to expand it's bus width (or the bit-slot
in serial) ?  Of cource maintenance contract matter should be
considered with this kind of modifications.

BTW, I'm glad to know that the new 'green' box is going to be
able to install both CD-ROM drive and DAT drive.  May I ask
what's her name?
--
||  Tsuyoshi Okada             Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp.  ||
||  T.Okada@avrl.mei.co.jp          Audio & Video Res. Lab. (Japan)  ||
From: SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Anchoring a Window
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:25:37 GMT

Is it possible to anchor xwsh or xterm so that changing fonts doesn't
automatically resize the window?  I'd like it to stay where I put it
and the exact size I make it (in pixels).

Thanks
From: HERBER@fnal.fnal.gov (Randolph J. Herber, CD/DCD/SPG, x2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: tempnam(3S) bug, possibly on all MIPS
Date: 20 Dec 92 16:33:57 GMT

RTFM!

Quoting from `man 2 intro' of my AT&T 3B1 UNIX manual set (and this manual
set dates from a decade ago -- UNIX has not changed in this respect during
this time):

Most of these calls have one or more error returns. **An error condition is
indicated by an otherwise impossible returned value.** [Emphasis mine] This
is almost always -1; the individual descriptions specify the details.  An
error number is also made available in the external variable *errno*. [Italics
theirs] *Errno* [italics theirs] **is not cleared** [emphasis mine] on success-
ful calls, so it should be test only after an error has been indicated.

You made a mistake.

tempnam() in the course of its internal processing may create one or more
error conditions that it recovers from itself.  E.g., it may create a
file name that is already in use.  Detecting this condition, it repeatly
generates more until it finds a name that is not in use.  `tempnam()' does
not clear errno afterwards!

Check for an error return from your system call or library call *first*!
*Only* if an error is indicated, should you check errno to determine what
error.

Randolph J. Herber, herber@fnalf.fnal.gov, +1 708 840 2966
(Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.)
(Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)

+From: "T.C. Zhao" <svec5@menudo.uh.edu>
+Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.unix.ultrix
+Subject: tempnam(3S) bug, possibly on all MIPS
+Date: 19 Dec 92 04:23:37 GMT

+It appears that tempnam(3S) is broken on three MIPS machines I have
+access to:   IRIX 3.3, Ultrix 4.1, UMIPS 4.52:

+/* 
+ * check to see if tempnam has the errno bug.
+ */
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>

+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+   char *p;
+   errno = 0;
+   p = tempnam(0, 0);
+   if(errno) fprintf(stderr," tempnam is broken\n");
+   return 0;
+}
From: n303bn@tamuts.tamu.edu (Jason Rosson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CDROM drive and Indigo
Date: 13 Dec 92 12:20:08 GMT


I am having problems getting a Trexel SCSI CDROM drive working on
an Indigo.  A friend uses SGI's SCSI CDROM and it works just fine.
Are there any significant differences in a drive like my Trexel and
SGI's that I can compensate for?  Thanks for any help.

 - Jason Rosson
From: achim@video1.han.de (Joachim Gothe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Terminal-Prog. for Indigo ??
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:23:00 GMT

Hi folks,

I use *cu* to dial out of our Indigo.
Is there somewhere an other REAL Terminal-Programm for an SGI ??
I want to dial out, use z-modem, Kermit, u.s.w.

Thanks,

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/ * Waiting for a Mac-Emulator on Indigos *
From: beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: system names from IP
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:50:39 GMT

Howdy!

Has anyone out there ever tried to resolve a system name
from an IP number?  I've been poking around and the closest
utility I have found if rarp; however, it resolves IP from
hardware ethernet address.

Any help would be appreciated!

-fred

****************************************************************************
  Fred R. Beck	:-)                 Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
  beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com        P.O. Box 179
  (303) 971-1584                     Attn. Fred Beck, M.S. L5420
  FAX:  (303) 971-2563               Denver, Colorado  80201
****************************************************************************
From: wes@uf.msc.edu (Wes Barris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: RLE movie viewer
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:14:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.143544.3898@eplrx7.es.duPont.com>, cristy@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Cristy) writes:
|> In article <jwwondra.724319050@yak> jwwondra@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
|> >Does anybody know of a utility to play rle movies (made using rlecat) on
|> >an Iris? Getx11 has the -m option but there does not seem to be a similar
|> >option for get4d.
|> 
|> Try `animate' from contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu (also
|> just posted to comp.sources.misc).
|> -- 
|> cristy@dupont.com

Is there a reason why you don't want to use getx11 -m on the Iris?

Just curious...

-- 

Wes Barris                                                   PH: (612) 626-8090
Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.                         Email: wes@msc.edu
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Strange Request!
Date: 12 Dec 92 10:10:14 GMT

A colleague of mine at a major (=Ivy) university in New Haven, CT
has a problem. At this university, they charge a monthly fee ($20)
for EACH net connection. This colleague just got an Indigo and
he would like to hook it up to the net, and can afford the yearly
charges, BUT he also wants to use 4 Macintoshes in his lab as
X-terminals off of his Indigo. Is there any way that ONLY the Indigo
is DIRECTLY connected to the net and the Mac's are just connected
to the X-server (=Indigo) so he can avoid the connect fees? I haven't
used SLIP, but I would expect fairly poor X-performance compared
to Ethernet.

I told you this was a STRANGE request :-)

Thanks.
-- 
David M. Senseman, Ph.D.     | A man who has never gone to school may steal 
(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences    | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio               |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: hughes@s24.msi.umn.edu (Matt Hughes)
Subject: Re: can't ftp from terminator.niehs.nih.gov ?!
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:09:30 GMT

feil@prl.philips.nl (Hans Feil) writes:


>Last week there was a message from Bill Henderson about 
>SGI Anonymous FTP archives including:

>terminator.niehs.nih.gov	192.41.200.12
>		/pub				MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process
>						Molecular Modeling Suite)


>The problem is that I can't reach this site.
>Is this machine down??

No.  The machine is retired.  I called the guy who keeps this going, and
he said it moved to ns.niehs.nih.gov.  Then I tried to ftp it, but it
won't accept anonymous.  I called him again to let him know that was the
case.  This was this all late Friday.  I tried to ftp again today, and
still no luck.  He may not have had a chance to get it fixed yet.

>Does someone recognizes this problem. (and has a solution.....)

Try again later.

-- 
Matthew V. Hughes - MN Supercomputer Institute  Graphics Support Coordinator
Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.            Phone Number: (612) 626-1765
1200 Washington Avenue South                    hughes@msc.edu
Minneapolis, MN 55415                           hughes@msi.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: arcr1@mbuf.bio.cam.ac.uk (Andy Raine)
Subject: Re: New SGI game: Pipeline maze
Keywords: pipeline sgi game
Organization: U. of Cambridge, England
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:26:10 GMT

Yes indeed, WHY?

Andy
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:18032 comp.unix.admin:6654
From: KJB6@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.admin
Subject: QUEING LARGE JOBS
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:51:27 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but I need to know if there are any
scripts available to do what I am about to describe.

We have a network of 27 SGI workstations running 4.0.4 OS with most of them
having only 16 megs of memory (4 machines have either 32 or 48 megs). Some of
the students in our environment will start large Ansys or Fidap jobs either in
forground or background. When this is done, it really puts a strain on the
network. Most of the students only have access to the machines with 16 megs of
memory.

Without having to have the students 'rlogin' to a machine with 32 or 48 meg of
memory, is there a way to poll which of these machines (32/48 meg mach.) is not
busy and run the job there. And if someone logs onto one of these machines, the
job gets sent back to where it started??

Any ideas would be appreciated.


Ken Bauer
Systems Analyst      kjb6@psuvm.psu.edu
PENN. STATE - ERIE, The Behrend College