HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: geert@cs.ruu.nl (Geert-Jan Giezeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: XS and concave polygons
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:17:58 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In some cases concave polygons seem to be drawn incorrectly on systems
with an XS24 graphics board.
Below is a little program that demonstrates the behaviour.
It should draw the same polygon twice.
The left polygon is OK, the right one is drawn convex.

Is this a known bug and is there a fix?

-------
#include <gl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

long v1[][2] =  { {234, 271}, {211, 192} ,{292, 187} ,{234, 208}};
long v2[][2] =  { {111, 192}, {192, 187} ,{134, 208} ,{134, 271}};

main()
{
    winopen("");
    concave(1);
    color(0);
    clear();
    color(1);
    bgnpolygon();
    v2i(v1[0]);
    v2i(v1[1]);
    v2i(v1[2]);
    v2i(v1[3]);
    endpolygon();
    bgnpolygon();
    v2i(v2[0]);
    v2i(v2[1]);
    v2i(v2[2]);
    v2i(v2[3]);
    endpolygon();
    sleep(4);
}
-------

hinv says:
1 33 MHZ IP12 Processor
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
On-board serial ports: 2
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Main memory size: 16 Mbytes
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A, revision 9
Iris Audio Processor, rev 3
Graphics board: GR2-XS24 with Z-buffer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Indigo info/opinions sought
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 21:27:55 GMT

In <18757@bach.udel.edu> robeson@bach.udel.edu (Scott M Robeson) writes:

| In article <j5552e0@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >|   9. Are you happy with your set-up? What don't you like?
| >
| >I'll leave this for other folks.  One of the most common complaints
| >seems to be that the 24 bit RGB dithered down to 8 bits often looks
| >rather cheap, particularly if you are double buffering; the answer is
| >to not do that (use colormap mode), or to pick your colors very carefully.
| 
| There are now true 24 bit Indigoes running around, aren't
| there?  Of course this comes with a big increase in the price tag,
| but...   Any opinions from those currently using the XS24?

Yes, but the request was for info at the entry level, or at least, that
was the way I read it.  The XS* systems are great, speaking as one
who has used them, but not intensively (and who is also somewhat
biased).
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: azueta@xp.psych.nyu.edu (Steve Azueta (/w Aries))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: xpsview?
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:16:53 GMT

We just installed 4.0.1, and we need to look at some PostScript on the screen.
(We're looking for 4.0's version of 3.3's psview.)  In the relnotes for the DPS
development option, it says that dpsexec and xpsview can be used for this
purpose, and that they are included with the execution environment.  Well,
dpexec and xpsview are nowhere to be found on our disk.  No binaries and no
man pages.

Where are dpsexec and xpsview supposed to be?  Which installation subsystem
are these programs in?  I'm hoping that I didn't overlook it during inst.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Steve Azueta	azueta@xp.psych.nyu.edu
From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4 Have you ever seen this error.
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:51:26 GMT

Your problem is caused by a heap or static area variable with the same
name as a system function call.

The system is trying to jump to a data area to execute code and the
cpu barfs.

Try using the utility conflict (there is a man page) to show you where
your problem is.

Cheers!

Dan.
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| Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190  New York University Medical Center  |
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From: uh311ae@sunmanager.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Henrik Klagges)
Subject: Re: gcc2.1 continued
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:36:18 GMT


usually, specifying 
ALLOCA = alloca.o
at the top of the makefile does the job (grep for ALLOCA).
Cheers, Henrik
IBM Physics Group Munich

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Security for the functionally illiterate
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 04:46:58 GMT

In <29978@adm.brl.mil> MIKE@scripps.edu (Mike Whittaker) writes:

| As far as security on these machines is concerned, please don't assume 
| anything. I am not a unix expert, but simply a lowly biologist. I have a
| 4D35 that is on internet, and the first I knew about accounts without 
| passwords is what I've been reading here. Maybe I'm the only boob out there 
| who doesn't know these things, I dont' know, but I suspect these machines sit 
| on desks of people who know only enough unix to do what they need to do in 
| the course of their research.
| 
| If it's not too much trouble, could someone get together all the holes that 
| should be plugged and publish them here? I'd like to sleep better.

Surely you have *some* system admin folks who know something about Unix?
You should never connect a machine to the internet unless you understand
something about security, or have some advice (that means Iris's, PC's,
Mac's, VAX's, or whatever).

Almost any Unix book has a chapter on this, and as one of our folks
said, it is covered in the system admin guide as well, so you could
get that if you don't have it.
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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: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How About a Word Processor with IRIX 4.0.X?
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:55:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: adm.30078


"Martin J. Dellwo" <dellwo@calgary.scs.uiuc.edu> writes:

>Just admit it already!  It's great.
>-MJ:)

Ok, I admit it, and retire from this commentary (although
my bumbling may have proved a point, but not quite in the
way I'd intended)! 


>"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."-Dan Quayle
To appropriate!

Fred Phelan
fred@poly2.nist.gov
From: dangold@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Daniel Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: America's Cup Graphics
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:42:59 GMT
Reply-To: mnburt@hercles.dt.navy.mil (Martin Burtness)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Congratulations to the SGI guys who did the computer modeling for ESPN's
coverage of the America's Cup races.  (I'm assuming the computer
graphics integrated with the Global Positioning System, showing boat
course and speed was done on SGI's, since they get a credit at the end of
the broadcast, and the graphics _are_ pretty slick).

One possible suggestion for improving the graphics, though.  Could you
add some time marks, or ladder bars showing where the boats are relative
to each other, say every minute or so?  Also, info on how this was done
would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Martin Burtness 
(mnburt@hercles.dt.navy.mil)
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CD-ROM drives and WORM discs
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:39:19 GMT


  I noticed our new CD-ROM drive has a `cartridge' to put the CD's in.
It looks similar to the ones WORM's are in.  Question: Can one read a WORM
disc in one of these CD-ROM drives and visa versa?

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  NASA-Langley Research Center			  FAX:(804) 864-8469
  M.S. 361
  Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: panisset@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset)
Subject: Re: X11R5
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 15:28:50 GMT

In article <jh0s81k@zola.esd.sgi.com> paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin) writes:
>In article <11228@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, rdargahi@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Ross Dargahi) writes:
>|> 
>|> Anyone at SGI know when an X11R5 server will be available for the INDIGO's
>
>I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question.  What
>is it about an R5 server that you want?

A tricky question. Together with a lot of people, I would probably say
that I am mainly interested in the ASCII character "5", as a guarantee
that I'm not falling too far behind the times (hey, I'm still running
R3 on my RS/6000 :-( ). And since this is comp.sys.sgi, I guess demanding
PEX would be considered a faux-pas... And since all my R5 clients seem
to display fine on my R3 server, I guess I should be happy with an R4
server (OK, so I don't get round buttons without Shape). Maybe
the two things that come to mind are:
- the font server stuff (although I'm not sure whether this depends on the
  X server itself)
- the enhanced color models (same comment)


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: kittu@shakti.wpd.sgi.com (Krishna Swaroop Kolluri)
Subject: Re: monitoring heap memory
Reply-To: kittu@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:52:50


Silicon Graphics recently released WorkShop 1.0 - an integrated
programming environment toolchest. WorkShop contains a debugger, a
performance analyzer, and a static analyzer. 

The performance analyzer contains a memory leakage detection tool. It
also contains a process monitor that displays the resource usage on a
per process basis.

The 1.1 maintenance release of the product is scheduled for this
spring. If you would like a Try N Buy CD, please let me know.

It is my understanding that WorkShop requires Irix 4.0.1.

Hope that helps.
kittu..



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						Fax:(415)969-2314
From: merritt@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H. Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Xsgi using 15M RAM, Why?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:33:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: nsisrv.1992Apr9.153334.1595
Distribution: na
Organization: Climate and Radiation Branch


I was wondering why my 16M machine (4D70 GT, IRIX 4.0.1) was so
sluggish, ie. swapping, so I 'ls -l /debug' to find Xsgi was
more than 15M.  What causes it to grab so much memory?  The command
line from ps is:  Xsgi -gamma 1.70000 -bs -c -pseudomap 4sight

My X configuration is nothing special.  I login using the default
configuration for xdm.  I could not find where Xsgi is started.  It's
not in /etc/init.d/xdm nor any of the /usr/lib/X11/xdm scripts.
Maybe someone remembers just how (or where) Xsgi starts.

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From: aw0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew Jordan Werth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Pixel Bus on GTX system
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:24:00 GMT
Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


I was reading through some papers I found on the SGI GTX architecture
(one by K. Akeley and one an SGI Tech Report) and was wondering if
anyone can tell me some information about the "Pixel Bus" which connects
the edge processors to the span processors.  The papers I have don't
talk too much about the bus itself.

What kind of bus is it and what kind of bandwidth can in handle?  Do the
span processors control the bus transfers?  Is it actually one bus, or
five separate buses?

Thanks in advance!

Andrew Werth
awerth+@cmu.edu   or    aw0i+@andrew.cmu.edu
From: marcg@prl.philips.nl (Groenewegen ME)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Indigo Parallel Printer Port speed
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:59:44 GMT

Hi there,

Can someone tell me what speed I can achieve in using the parallel
printer port on an Iris Indigo? I don't want to use it for printing,
but only as a means of fast data output without having to write
a device driver.

Thanx in advance,


______________________________________________________
Marc Groenewegen
Philips Research Labs, digital signal processing group
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Room WY851, phone (..3140)742092
E-mail: marcg@prl.philips.nl
From: acas@ (Andrew Cassin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: /etc/savecore wish list...
Keywords: savecore memory disk
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:37:26 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.

Why cant savecore write large core files in a "compressed" format. We have
a 64meg VGX with no available filesystem with that much space. It would
be great if it could compress core files in such a way so that
we have a chance of passing useful files onto sgi...

ACAS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Subject: Re: debug process file, what is it?
Keywords: debug process file, question
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:58:07 GMT

In article <jcneofk@sgi.sgi.com>, daveh@xtenk.wpd.sgi.com (David Higgen) writes:
|> In article <12157@tamsun.tamu.edu>, k1w8221@sc.tamu.edu (Khalid Sarwar Warraich) writes:
|> 
|> > How can we turn them off?  Should we turn them off?  
|> > Could we claim the disk space from /debug?
|> 
|> No need to turn them off. These are "pseudo files", "windows" into running
|> processes' space. They DO NOT consume any disk space. There is nothing
|> to worry about. If you unmount /debug, they will cease to be visible,
|> but there's no gain in doing so since the /debug files do not consume
|> any resources.
|> 

Unmounting them will also have the unpleasant side effect that you will no
longer be able to run debuggers like dbx, edge, or CodeVision (under 4.0.x).
Debuggers need access to these abstractions of processes as files.  If you
unmount them, the easiest thing to do is to reboot your system.  If the
directory mountpoint /debug exists, the /etc/init.d/MOUNTFSYS script will
automagically remount the debug file system for debugging purposes.

Processes as files are pretty slick if you are steeped in the ideas of UNIX
and pretty confusing if your not.  As was pointed out previously, under
IRIX 4.0.1, df will no longer report them by default.

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From: seaney@engr.wisc.edu (Steve Seaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Paging Monitor
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:49:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr9.154929.6018


We are considering adding memory to our 4D/20 before we upgrade to
4.0.1 (we have 8Meg now).  Is there a way that I can monitor swap
space usage to get an idea how much memory I should add.  One of the
vendors (Impediment) said that he had seen greatly improved response
time with more memory.

The `software` we are trying to improve is a 3D path planning
simulator coded in our lab.  

Thanks,
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: amaluf@Monet.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Rodrick Ameen Maluf)
Subject: help
Organization: McGill University, McRCIM
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 16:50:07 GMT



Hi,

I am facing some problem on the sgi machines (mips processor)).

the problem is the following:

I want to call a function for which I have to determine the arguments
from the user input. Once I have determined the arguments ( their number
as well as their type ) I am having problem building the stack for the
function that I want to call with those arguments.

PS:
 I have tried using the ``asm'' directive provided by gcc but I run into
 problems with ``double'' type arguments.


thanks for any help,

Ameen

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                             McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines
                             Mcgill Univeristy, Montreal, Canada
From: rooke@noao.edu (Steve Rooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: xterm control sequences
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:11:40 GMT
Reply-To: rooke@noao.edu
Organization: self organized :-)

In article <29919@adm.brl.mil>, gilroy@palantir.drea.dnd.ca (Layton E. Gilroy) writes:
>
> [stuff deleted]
>We opened both windows, but the escape characters would not
>switch windows automatically. It works if the appropriate menus
>are used, but we would like to use the automatic feature. Once 
>in the Tek window, the escape characters to clear screen, etc. 
>work.
> [...]
>
>===============================================================
>Layton Gilroy
>Defence Research Establishment Atlantic
>Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
>Mail : gilroy@palantir.drea.dnd.ca
>===============================================================

The following work fine for me:

	from text to tek mode:

	    ^[[?38h^[^_

	from tek mode back to text:

	    ^[^C

where ^[ is the single control character (escape in this case), NOT a
carat followed by [.  I just verified this by editing a file for each
string above and catting them into a running xterm (use ^v^x in vi to
enter control-x into a file for anyone who might not know).

BTW, I appreciate that SGI's xwsh is superior in most respects to xterm,
but xwsh doesn't support a vector graphics mode, which can be quite useful.
I have seen comments from SGI in response to complaints about cut & paste
in xterm dropping lines, to the effect "use xwsh instead" -- I'd love to,
but I have an application that needs the occasional tek mode (or any vector
graphics mode, it's configurable) on the same output stream.  Couldn't
someone fix the paste buffer problem in xterm (or add a simple vector tek
or similar capability to xwsh)?

-- 
Steve Rooke  (Internet:  rooke@noao.edu  or UUCP:  uunet!noao.edu!rooke)
From: senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How About a Word Processor with IRIX 4.0.X?
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:04:52 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <30009@adm.brl.mil> fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.) writes:
>
>>From article <1992Apr11.004752.9988@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, by David Senseman
>> 
>I've always thought that with a little work, Showcase would
>fit the bill for this perfectly. Just enhance the text features
>to provide things like centering etc. (Hint, hint, sgi).
>
Well Showcase is WYSIWYG, and incorporates sound and graphics beautifully
but unless I'm doing something wrong, Showcase lacks even rudimentary 
pagination features, right? However, the idea of making Showcase into a 
moderately powerful word processor is really rather attractive at that. 
Ok SGI, you have your orders, get thoes Summer interns working! (*smile*)

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ih3e@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jan Hoenisch)
Subject: epoch4.0....
Reply-To: ih3e@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU
Organization: UVa Computer Science Dept.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:52:07 GMT

Has anyone gotten it to compile?

Thanks, Jan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: krogh@talon.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Mike Krogh)
Subject: Re: Undefind getcpos
Organization: ncsa
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:13:15 GMT

It seems that 'getcpos' is not in the VGX version of libgl_s.a but is
available on other models.  Comments from SGI????
From: posse@masg1.epfl.ch (Christian Posse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How to know which 4.0.X we run ?
Date: 6 Apr 92 06:56:57 GMT
Organization: Math. Dept., Swiss Institute of Technology

Hi  SGI world.

we have several Indigo running 4.0.3 and others machines 
which are running 4.0.1 still with bugs concerning GL and 
X colormaps. 

Is there an easy way to ask the machine which release is
on ? Since I would like to run different .Xdefaults files
regarding to the 4.0.X version.

Thanks in advance.

Christian

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: How do I tell my PI I ain't got YP?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 03:42:04 GMT

In <1992Apr16.181055.7158@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:

| I just used the System Manager to add some new users, the first since
| "upgrading" to 4.0.1 -- and although it seems to work, I get the
| message "sh: ypcat: not found" on the console every time I add a user.
| Since we have never run YP or NIS, and I think I checked all the
| changes in the configuration files pretty carefully when we converted
| to 4.0.1, why is the System Manager looking for ypcat?  Any cause for
| concern?  And how to I tell it to stop?
| 
| There are no files matching /etc/config/yp* or any other files that
| seem to correspond to the YP/NIS entries in /etc/init.d/network.
| "/etc/chkconfig yp" doesn't return anything.  I didn't install any of
| the NIS files, and I have the manual entry for ypcat but not the
| executable itself installed.

It is a bug.  The hosts tool checks to see if yp is running
before doing something similar; the users tool does not.
I've filed a bug on it, but you can ignore it for now, even
though it is annoying.
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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: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Goings-on in /etc/passwd (silly)
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:21:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: sgi.ja00r6o
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Apr8.122920.24168@news.yale.edu>, dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes:
> Whatever happened to poor 'bin'? In 4.0.1, 'root' owns all the binaries. And
> 'man', who was in /etc/passwd but didn't have two files to rub together in
> 3.3.2, is gone entirely. Must be the recession ...


Having interesting files owned by "bin" or anything other than UID 0
is a bad security hole for an NFS server.  


As for "man", first we get zinged for wasting user ID's, and now for not.
You just can't win.



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi