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From: bob@prepress.com (Robert Crowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: smalltalk for Indigo
Date: 12 Dec 92 11:16:46 GMT

In article <34391@adm.brl.mil> dtr@durer.ppco.com (Doug Rosenoff) writes:
>Hi Netters,
>Does anyone know of a public domain version of smalltalk suitable for SGI
>Indigo machines?  Thanks in advance.  dtr.
>--
>dtr.
>

I believe that I compiled GNU smalltalk on an sgi a while back. I'm not sure 
if I used the sgi C compiler or GCC. Anyhow, it worked. I'm not much of a 
smalltalk programmer, so I can't tell you how well it worked, but it did run
some simple examples. I don't think the X interface is quite as sophisticated
as it might be, however.

Good luck,

Bob.


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From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: newgroup comp.sys.sgi.apps
Date: 12 Dec 92 09:34:52 GMT

comp.sys.sgi.apps is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 179:30 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 4 Dec 1992.

For your newsgroups file:
comp.sys.sgi.apps	Applications which run on the Iris.

The charter, culled from the call for votes:

  apps          Discussions of various application packages , both those
                provided by SGI, as well as third party applications.
From: atul@sgi1.fels.temple.edu (Atul Kumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Reading VAX/VMS 8mm tapes on sgi
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:02:45 GMT
Organization: Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology

Is is possibe to read vax/vms 8mm tapes to retrieve ascii data on sgi 
8mm dat tape drive.

thanks,
atul.
From: yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: WANTED: demos for 3D shutter glasses
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:43:58 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Hi-
  We have an Indigo R4000 with CrystalEyes 3D LCD shutter glasses.  We
use the 3D effect for molecular modelling.  This is really cool and
everything, but I would like to see what else has been done to harness
the 3D effect.
  Are there any demos or applications out there that I can download which
make use of 3D shutter glasses?  I am imagining space-wars games and things
of that nature, although more sublime applications are welcome as well.
Thanks in advance.

-Chris B.
yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
From: mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: vendor independent file system format for M-O drives
Date: 12 Dec 92 12:45:20 GMT

I've been mulling over getting a magneto-optical r/w drive for office
use on which I would install my home dir and maybe other current
projects.  The idea being that I could eject the media, take it home and
use it there for work.

My problem is that my UNIX w/s at work is a Sun SS2 and my UNIX w/s at home
is an H-P 9000/340.

Is there a file-system format I could format such a media to that has a
liklihood of working across vendor platforms?  I know that ISO-9660/Rock
Ridge was intended to be such a format for CD-ROMs ... is it possible
(or even desirable) to format M-O/RW media with that format so that it
can be taken from system to system?

Obviously, at work, I _could_ mount the M-0 on the H-P and NFS mount it
on my Sun, but I'm wondering if there exists a File System Format,
traditionally used on hard/fast disks, that is reasonably
vendor-independent?  Should there be?
-- 
mark.lawrence@drd.com                                     (918)743-3013
DRD Corp., 5506 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74105         (918)745-9037 fax
From: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Printing to a VMS machine running multinet
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:10:08 GMT


>I am trying (with no success) to set up a VMS machine running multinet
>as a remote printer to an Iris Indigo.  I know it possible to do this
>from a unix machine, but I can't figure out how to get the Indigo to

Easy, just set up an entry like this in your /etc/printcap file:

# The printers connected via remote queues on the Vax.

lp|rp0|lp0|lvb0|vtec0|Vax 4000 downstairs Versatec:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=myvax.mydept.utah.edu:\
        :rp=lvb0:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/vtec0:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

rp1|lp1|lva0|vtec1|Vax 4000 upstairs Versatec:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=myvax.mydept.utah.edu:\
        :rp=lva0:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/vtec1:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

rm = remote machine
rp = remote printer (what the printer is known as in Vax-land
sd = local directory where the print spooler can write files (I like to set
     up a directory for each printer si that when things goof up I know
     where the problem is coming from.  Owner of these should be
     daemon.daemon or lp.lp (both seem to work) and protection = 775
lf = error file 

Then make sure you have a /etc/hosts.equiv file set up with all your
machines listed by *full* IP address, eg. (mysgi is the machine from which
you want to print, myvax is the client Vax running multinet),

localhost
mysgi.mydept.utah.edu
myvax.mydept.utah.edu

Then just use

	lpr -P printername filename

to send stuff over. To see what's happening use

	lpq -P printername

Works like a charm for us.

Rob.

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From: barrett@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov (Jim Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: POP3 Mail Server Setup
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:40:26 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1



In article <1992Dec7.193927.2303@alw.nih.gov> Edward Suh,
suh@rainbow.dcrt.nih.gov writes:
>Could someone tell me how to seup pop3 mail server on the 
>SGI (4.0.5)?

Here's how:

1) Obtain the source code to popper from ftp.cc.berkeley.edu
(128.32.136.12) via anonymous ftp.   It's in the /pub/popper
directory, and the file you want is popper-1.831beta.tar.Z


2) Compile it.  You'll have to fix the Makefile before it will compile. 


3) Take the executable file 'popper' and put it someplace like
/usr/local/bin, or wherever you store local programs.  


4) Edit the file /etc/services, and put the following line in there:

pop3       110/tcp             # Post Office, version 3

Check to make sure there's not already a reference to pop3 in there. 
If there is, make sure it agrees with the above.  If not, replace it
(but comment out the old line, don't delete it).  


5) Edit the file /usr/etc/inetd.conf, and put the following line in
there:
	
pop3   stream  tcp nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/popper    popper

Note that you should use the path of your popper program, which may
not be /usr/local/bin/popper.  That's just where I've put mine.  


6) Use the 'ps -ef | fgrep inetd' command to find out the process id
number  of inetd.   Issue the command 'kill -HUP nnnn', where nnnn is
the process id number of inetd.  This tells inetd to re-read it's
configuration file.

Presto!  All done!

You will find that popper generates a *large* number of messages that
appear in /usr/adm/SYSLOG.  We have so many people using pop3 mail
clients that the log messages became a problem (and we never found
the log useful).  So we gutted the poplog function in the pop_log.c
file in the popper distribution.  

Best of luck!

--
Jim Barrett                               barrett@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov
"This has been a test of the Opinion Broadcast System.  If this had
been an actual opinion you would have received instructions on where
to go and what to do.  This is only a test."
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Mounting VAX/VMS on SGI?
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:14:56 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

Is it possible to mount a VAX NFS server onto SGI without too much of
a mess along the way?
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
From: thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick HURT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Gl library subsystems? (Was: Re: Casper ...)
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:52:47 GMT

This is a follow-up to my own post. I just got the answer on how
to use these functions: use -lgl_s -lm on the cc command line. 
But they don't show up in man... Why? Are they close to
obsolete?
-- 
|----------------------------------------------------|
|Patrick HURT 	    Illinois Institute Of Technology |
|Internet :	thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu		     |
|		Hurtpat@karl.iit.edu		     |
|Bitnet :	HURTPAT@IITVAX.BITNET		     |
|NeXTmail :	Hurtpat@elof.iit.edu		     |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Printer Problem
Keywords: lp
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:40:49 GMT

In <BzFKIC.B72@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> sridhar@ameiris1.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sridhar  Sundararaman) writes:

| hai
| 
| I am having some problems with printing. I am using 'lp' to print and it was working fine.
| One of the users sent a job to the printer, which is a Tektronics 4693DX, and for some
| reason did not want it. So he switched off the printer, instead of trying to remove it from the
| queue. After this, the printer has been refusing to print. Whenever a job is sent it stays
| on the queue and nothing happens. 
| 
| lpstat -t says everything is fine. For some of the jobs I get a mail from lp saying
| 
| 	"error in cadvrprint request 120"
| 
| and the manual says, its probably a error in the printer. 
| 
| What I would like to know is, Could something go wrong with the printer settings
| if it is switched off when a job is being received? Is there any other solution
| other than calling Tektronics hardware support? 

Try stopping and restarting the spooling system, making sure all jobs
owned by lp are killed after stopping, and before starting:
	/etc/init.d/lp stop
	ps -fu lp
	(kill any remaining lp programs)
	/etc/init.d/lp start

That *usually* fixes this kind of problem.
--
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
From: crumrine@pxdvgx.erenj.com (MDCRUMR  Crumrine)
Subject: Help w/ethernet:  et0: late collision
Followup-To:  crumrine@erenj.com
Originator: crumrine@pxdvgx.erenj.com
Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:52:09 GMT

We recently moved a 4D/420 from a LANmark IBX connection to
a twisted pair tranceiver, and now we are experiencing errors.
Symptoms include terminal sessions that freeze, and the SYSLOG
error message et0: late collision. The error messages are occuring
at a rate of once a minute.  The network team has certified the
line and connection, there are other boxes on the line that work.
Any ideas??

Thanks,

mike

==================================================================
Mike Crumrine
Exxon Research and Engineering
Annandale, NJ
(908) 730 2237
crumrine@erenj.com
==================================================================
From: akin@tuolumne.asd.sgi.com (Allen Akin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI Phigs implementation
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:25:16 GMT


In article <1407@shrike.com>, flash@austin.lockheed.com writes:
> 
> ...She said that
> 	1) Phigs is built into X11R5 (true? if so, how about it
> 				      SGI?)

That's a bit misleading.  The PEX sample implementation is available
from the X Consortium as part of the X11 distribution, and it includes
a PHIGS API.  However, it lacks some fairly important functionality
(e.g. Z-buffering) and is reported to be quite slow.  It needs to be
ported, extended, and optimized for the target graphics system.  Since
this requires a huge amount of work, not all vendors will be using this
approach to provide a product-quality PHIGS on their systems.

> 	2) Figaro+ (for the SGI) is actually built on top of GL.
> 	   That I found hard to believe

I believe this is true.  Perhaps someone from Liant could comment.

> ...However, I am curious if the SGI implementation of Phigs takes
> advantage of the CLEARLY SUPERIOR SGI graphics hardware, or is it
> as crippled as the X server?

To the best of my knowledge, SGI doesn't sell an internally-developed
PHIGS.  However, we do refer people to third-party implementations
(like Figaro+).  I believe most (if not all) of those use GL for
rendering.

Someone from Liant should speak to the performance characteristics
of Figaro+.

By the way, is there some performance problem with X that particularly
bothers you?

> I presume that GL is the SGI answer for really hot graphics
> performance, but what about OpenGL on other platforms (S*n)? Will
> it out-perform an X-based application?

Depends on the application, the implementation of OpenGL, and the
hardware on which they'll be run.  For applications that involve 3D
transformations, lighting, and smooth shading, I'd certainly expect
OpenGL applications to do better than X applications, unless OpenGL is
naively layered on X.  This would be even more likely on machines with
more hardware support for those graphics functions.


Allen
From: HERBER@fnal.fnal.gov (Randolph J. Herber, CD/DCD/SPG, x2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: Command not found, but file exists - Need Info
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:52:48 GMT

+From: Oliver Kretzschmar <wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de>
+Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.misc
+Subject: Command not found, but file exists - Need Info
+Date: 16 Dec 92 10:59:13 GMT

+    Hey,

+    could somebody tell how I can make executable files available ?
+    We use IRIX 4.04 ! Following happens :

+        - I copy a programm in a directory
+        - Change to this directory
+        - Want to run this program, but "Command not found" message
+          appears
+        - Then I can run the program with ./<name of program>, but
+          exists there no possibility to make this program at once
+          available ?

+    Please mail me your informations !

+    Thanks for your efforts,
+        Oliver

+ 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

The problem is common with `csh'.  Neither `sh' not `ksh' have the problem.

The answer is RTFM:

CSH(1)                         Silicon Graphics                         CSH(1)

NAME
     csh - a shell (command interpreter) with C-like syntax

     rehash
        Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directories in
        the path variable to be recomputed.  This is needed if new commands
        are added to directories in the path while you are logged in.  This
        should only be necessary if you add commands to one of your own
        directories, or if a systems programmer changes the contents of one of
        the system directories.

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.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: PREINERT@CIPVAX.BIOLAN.UNI-KOELN.DE (Peter Reinert)
Subject: Third party vendors in germany?
Organization: BIOLAN - COLOGNE UNIVERSITY (FRG)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 16:29:14 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

Hello netters,

are there any third party vendors, selling hardware for Indigos in europe,
especially in germany?

Please reply directly via e-mail because I don't have regular access to this
board.

Many thanks in advance!


				Peter Reinert
From: HERBER@fnal.fnal.gov (Randolph J. Herber, CD/DCD/SPG, x2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: FORTRAN carriage control characters to postscript
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:05:42 GMT

+From: "John H. Chauvin" <jchauvin@netcom.com>
+Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
+Subject: FORTRAN carriage control characters to postscript
+Date: 18 Dec 92 02:28:21 GMT

+I am currently working on a Silicon Graphics Crimson workstation running IRIX
+4.0.5 operating system. I use a FORTRAN program which output a file which
+contains line printer vertical carriage control characters in column 1. I use   
+the program lptops to convert the file to postscript for printing on a Apple
+laserwriter. My problem is the carriage control characters are not recognized
+by the lptops program. Does anyone know how I can convert the carriage control
+characters to something that lptops can understand?
+                                                                      
+Thanks                                                                       
+                                                                        
+jchauvin@netcom.com

+John H. Chauvin jchauvin@netcom.COM
+Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA

RTFM

ASA(1)                         Silicon Graphics                         ASA(1)

NAME
     asa - interpret ASA carriage control characters

SYNOPSIS
     asa [files]

DESCRIPTION
     Asa interprets the output of FORTRAN programs that utilize ASA carriage
     control characters.

     ...

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.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.admin
From: dan@newt.fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: QUEING LARGE JOBS
Organization: little lizard city
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:32:49 GMT

In article <92350.105127KJB6@psuvm.psu.edu> KJB6@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>  We have a network of 27 SGI workstations [...]
>  the students in our environment will start large Ansys or Fidap jobs [...]
>  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??

We have a product, called "Load Balancer", that does more or less what
you want, plus a lot more. Please send email, or phone, for more information.
(sorry for the commercialism ;-)

Dan Freedman, Director
Freedman Sharp and Associates Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(403) 251 2729
dan@newt.cuc.ab.ca
From: drew+@CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Olbrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How to fix xwsh font weirdness
Keywords: xwsh fix
Date: 17 Dec 92 07:57:40 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

If you cat a large binary in an xwsh and suddenly
you find yourself in some strange unreadable
font mode, you can type:

   echo ^V^O

and it'll return you to your normal font.  You can flip
back into the wacky font by typing:

   echo ^V^N



Drew Olbrich
drew@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: grweiss@ernst.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Robert Weiss)
Subject: to penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu (Terminator 2 Demo)
Followup-To: sender
Summary: When I mail you or your postmaster, it bounces
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:17:29 GMT

I've tried sending mail to you and your postmaster, but it keeps bouncing.
If you want to know where the Terminator 2 demo is, send me mail and a good
return email address, and I'll let you know where it is.

  --Greg
    grweiss@pheoenix.princeton.edu
From: johne@iti.gov.sg (Dr. John S. Eickemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Problems with SGI Space Simulator - how to fix?
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:18:39 GMT

I seem to be having some problems with the copy of the SGI Space
Simulator I downloaded last week.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Or
can someone forward this to the author?  Any and all help appreciated.

The problem: I see the orbits, the names, and even the Sun, but none of
the planets.  Autopilot zooms me to a spot with the planet name centered, 
but there is no planet displayed.  I seem to be missing a datafile.  
How do I get it?

stdout / stderr output follows:
===========================cut here===========================================
(2) /usr/demos 
<root@ec2>: tar xvf space.tar
x Application/Visual_Simulation/.m_space, 53 bytes, 1 block
x README.space, 571 bytes, 2 blocks
x bin/space, 295088 bytes, 577 blocks
x data/space/const.db, 17999 bytes, 36 blocks
x data/space/corona.ring, 32768 bytes, 64 blocks
x data/space/df2, 4147200 bytes, 8100 blocks
x data/space/df3, 1036800 bytes, 2025 blocks
x data/space/earth.worp256, 262144 bytes, 512 blocks
x data/space/galaxy.texture, 262144 bytes, 512 blocks
x data/space/jupiter.worp256, 262144 bytes, 512 blocks
x data/space/mars.worp256, 262144 bytes, 512 blocks
x data/space/moon1.worp128, 65536 bytes, 128 blocks
x data/space/moon2.worp128, 65536 bytes, 128 blocks
x data/space/moon3.worp128, 65536 bytes, 128 blocks
x data/space/moon4.worp128, 65536 bytes, 128 blocks
x data/space/saturn.ring, 512 bytes, 1 block
x data/space/star.db, 148684 bytes, 291 blocks
x data/space/venus.worp256, 262144 bytes, 512 blocks

(3) /usr/demos 
<root@ec2>: rm space.tar

[... snip ...]

(6) /usr/demos/bin 
<johne@ec2>: ./space -f /usr/demos/data/space
Julian Date: 2448959.564794
Loading stellar database
Nearest star is Sol
**ERROR**: Data file not found: /usr/demos/data/space/df1 :Lit sphere substituted
===========================cut here===========================================

Thanks for the help,

- John :)

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Dr. John S. Eickemeyer                                          johne@iti.gov.sg
Member of Technical Staff                                          (65) 772-0406
Information Technology Institute     "He will never fail you nor forsake you..."
Singapore 0511                                                       - Deut 31:8
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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: ftp.sgi.com
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:29:49 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <34542@adm.brl.mil>, krumbein@thama1.apgea.army.mil (Michael Zvi Krumbein) writes:
> Are the files in sgi.com's ftp available (legally) to all? I ask because of
>the discussion about psview. Is it available to everyone with support? Everyone
> who owns an SGI machine?
> 
> mzk Michael Zvi Krumbein krumbein@thama1.apgea.army.mil


That depends on what is meant by "available (legally)".

Since there is no reasonable way to keep total strangers from fetching
those files, anyone who wants can fetch them.  There is (or should be)
nothing that requires an extra-cost lisense in sgi.com:~ftp.  For one
thing, managing the paper work for the lisenses would be impossible.

About the only restriction that makes sense is that people here would
be irritated if someone reverse-compiled and ported the stuff to some
other brand of hardware.

Of course, Silicon Graphics does not promise that the stuff in sgi:~ftp
will work, not destroy your disks, not make you lose money, or not
cause cancer.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com