HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca (Prateek Dwivedi)
Subject: Repost of request - looking for a database engine
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:38:58 GMT

I am in "immediate" need of a database engine, and was wondering if any
one knows where I can get one.

Something that is relational.... or even object oriented.

Thanks,
-- 
Teek (Prateek Dwivedi)                  teek@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca
Research Assistant                      pdwivedi@systems.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
Flight Control Systems Group            (519)885-1211 x5314     Voice
University of Waterloo, Canada          (519)746-3077           Fax
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Specs for tlz06?
From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:45:13 GMT
Reply-To: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

  Does anyone have the storage density specs for the tlz06 DAT drive?  We just
got ours, but we lost the spec sheet, and dump only uses a small portion of the
tape with its default settings.

- Gerald Combs
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From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: fortran-lpdfilter wanted
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:53:50 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
Distribution: world
Reply-To: moore@cs.utk.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.cs.utk.edu

In article <1992Nov9.154056.15207@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, micha@ekpux3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Michael Schneider) writes:
> 
> hi net,
> 
> where can i get a lpdfilter for the lpr-option "-f"?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 		
> 		micha

Look for the program "fpr.c" from the BSD net-2 sources.

sites near you to check are...

rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/os/bsd-net2/usr.bin/fpr/fpr.c
sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de:/pub/bsd-sources/usr.bin/fpr/fpr.c.Z
ftp.uni-kl.de:/pub2/packages/bsd-sources/usr.bin/fpr/fpr.c.Z
athene.uni-paderborn.de:/uninstalled/4.3-net2/usr.bin/fpr/fpr.c.Z

--
Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN  37996-1301
Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu      BITNET: moore@utkvx
UNIX is your brain..............SYSV is your brain on drugs.
From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 3 peeves re: Ultrix 4.3
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:58:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: prl.1992Nov5.215817.15598
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory

In article <AJC.92Nov5075136@thendara.pa.dec.com>, ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes:
> 
>   SCSI CAM is worth it.
> 

But that's just all motherhood and apple pie.  How about a succinct
technical description?


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.''  -- Rob Pike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: kianteck@iastate.edu (?)
Subject: Re: xv root tile as background for login screen
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:37:50 GMT

In <BxBDJ6.7F9@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca (Prateek Dwivedi) writes:

You can write the following command in your startup.tty or startup.x11 file :

	xv -quit -root ????.gif
                       ^^^^^^^^
                       or with the directory if not in the main directory
                       e.g. ~/gif/????.gif

Albert K.T.Tan


>Hi,

>We just got a DEC 5000/240 for our group.  We are called the Flight
>Control Systems Group, so we'd like to have plane like backgrounds for
>everyone to have. 

>I have found a few gif files we would like to use, and we view them with
>xv (which also allows us to use the pictures as backgrounds on our 
>xterminals.

>The problem is that we don't know how to force the picture to be the
>background for the login screen.  Any ideas?

>Thanks,

>-- 
>Teek (Prateek Dwivedi)                  teek@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca
>Research Assistant                      pdwivedi@systems.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
>Flight Control Systems Group            (519)885-1211 x5314     Voice
>University of Waterloo, Canada          (519)746-3077           Fax
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Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:8261 comp.sys.sgi:16329
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Can I mount a SGI CD-ROM Filesystem on my DECstation?
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:29:46 GMT
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>In <1992Nov10.214201.5794@netnews.whoi.edu> rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov (Richard P. Signell) writes:

>| I successfully mounted an ISO9660 CD-ROM on my SGI (Indigo XS-24
>| with IRIX 4.0.5), and now I'd like to make that filesystem 
>| available to my DECstation 5000 (PXG-Turbo with Ultrix 4.2a).
>| Is this possible?  I'm having problems.  

>Can't do it yet.  Possibly in a future release.  At this time, you
>can only NFS mount the ISO 9660 filesystems on another SGI system.
>--
>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


If you have the ISO9660 support in your kernel then:

/etc/mount -t cdfs [-r -o options] device directory

This will mount the CD on ultrix. You should use the noversion and the
defperm options.


One can then export the directory via NFS. As an example take ftp over to
gatekeeper and you will notice that there are CDs mounted there.

Look in the man pages ... cdfs (5cdfs) and mount (8cdfs)


Charlie 
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*  Charles Richmond 	Integrated International Systems Corporation        *
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: Is local caching configurable?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:31:48 GMT

wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
>This is quite normal, the data are cached three times when writing on NFS;
>first normal Unix write cache; second the NFS server process and third
>the write cache on the server.

	On the client, writes are cached only until the block is
full, to prevent abysmal performance on small writes. Once the block
is full, the client sends the NFS write request to the server, and
waits for the response. In true non-protocol-violating-NFS the server
does not ACK the write until it is committed to stable storage. Your
remark implies that the server can cache the write like a normal
UNIX filesystem asynchronous I/O, which is not the case. Some versions
of NFS do this, but they are not adhering strictly to the protocol,
though they gain a great deal in performance that way. The "NFS server
process" (are you referring to nfsd?) is simply a holder process that
is used as a kernel device to block until the I/O completes.


>Of course you pay for the better write performance via NFS by loading
>the server and using up it's memory. You may speed up your local write
>access by adding more memory (bigger buffer pool) to your machine.

	Again, in a true NFS configuration, you're going to be more
bounded by performance of the I/O subsystem on the server than by
the server's memory. If you start using asychronous NFS (in ULTRIX
to do this you have to patch your kernel with unsupported code) you
then start using the buffer cache on the server as a *write* cache
instead of just a read cache. Since ULTRIX has fixed sized buffers,
you don't "use up the server's memory" - but you will affect the
cache access patterns.

mjr.
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: LN03 ScriptPrinter
Keywords: LN03 PostScript LPS
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:44:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: datum.4493
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <3DN8QFU@math.fu-berlin.de>, beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck) writes:


|>(f.i., i want to be able to say -N2 even to this ln03 to print more
|>than one page on a sheet. This must be possible, it is only some PS code.
|>(I know i cannot print double sided :)
|>How (or even can) I setup this printer right ?

The normal print subsystem only implements fancy printing on PrintServer
printers (LPS series).  If you would like to try it, there is some UNSUPPORTED
code on gatekeeper.dec.com that attempts to implement the same features.
Look for pub/DEC/ln0356.tar.Z.  Copy that, unpack it, and follow the directions.

Remember, it's completely unsupported by Digital, so if it does not work in
your computer, you should go back to using the supported software.

						Frank
From: sguyer@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (SCOTT GUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Key Bindings in Emacs
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:12:48 GMT
Distribution: va
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA


	I have a DECstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.2a.  My
question concerns key bindings.  In particular, how do I 
bind function keys in emacs (v 18.58.2)?

	(global-set-key "key" 'command-name)

	This is the format, but I do not know what the "key"
is for function keys.  If anyone knows what they are, or
how to find out what they are, I would appreciate your 
response.  -Thank You-

		Scott :-) sguyer@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
From: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: FPU errors on 5000/240
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:11:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.BxKr3w.G70
Organization: Intelligent Systems Cluster

In article <BxKIq9.7Es@news.iastate.edu> njohnson@sysad.cnde.iastate.edu (Neil Johnson) writes:
>
>I've run both Arthur Smith's and Jay Ponder's programs on our 28 DECStation 
>240's. Smith's program reported only one node with problems, while Ponder's 
>indentfied them all as being bad.  

Same results here.

>We are currently testing our large applications on an older 200 to see if 
>the problem has been effecting results.

I tried running 'ponder' on our DECstation 5000/133's (16MB) and got 'out
of core' messages so we don't have anything to compare to.

>Our DEC service representative told us that they are aware of the problem 
>and are waiting for a decision from above on how to proceed. Should know 
>more soon.

Same for us although our correspondence seems to indicate that the decision
to replace the CPU's has been made. They just don't know when....

-- 
Johannes Grosen
ISC System Administrator
grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Need disktab for 1.2GB Toshiba MK-538FB
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:21:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <1992Nov6.205520.11208@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) writes:
>If you don't have the drive documentation, you can write a fairly
>simple program that uses the DEVGETGEOM I/O control (devio(4)) to
>ask the drive what it's geometry is and then construct a disktab
>from that.  Or you can use the creatediskbyname(3) library function
>to get all the information you need for the disktab entry and
>format it into an entry.

Or you can use 'rzdisk -g current' and find the geometry in the output.  Much
easier than writing programs to do it.


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: 3 peeves re: Ultrix 4.3
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:12:33 GMT


In article <ggm.720916451@brolga>, ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
>
>
>(1)	Can somebody from DEC please state what advantages lie in using
>	SCSI/CAM:
>

As mentioned by AJ one of the good reasons is correctness.  It is a much
more standard driver than the current one.  Another reason is that it
will be the base system driver in OSF and a future version of ULTRIX.  There
are some devices that are supported by the CAM driver that ARE NOT supported
by the current driver; larger than 2 GB capacity tape drives among them.

>(2)	Can somebody from DEC who knows DECmcc explain why we are meant to
>	be pleased that DECmcc needs SQL, but DEC have just unbundled it.

Something like this question was answered somewhere around here recently
and I think the answer is "SQL will be included with DECmcc".  Or maybe
that was the answer that went with FullSail, which also uses ULTRIX/SQL.
It was certainly not an attempt by DEC to trap or con anybody.
>
>(3)	Can somebody from DEC comment on the perception that 4.3 is a dog
>	of a release.

1.  A commentary on perception.  The people that perceive a problem are
    also the ones that tend to be the most vocal.  There may also be a
    tendency for people not having a problem to sit quiet and watch.

2.  Appendix A of the ULTRIX V4.3 Release Notes has 28 pages of problems
    that were fixed since the last release.  Unfortunately along the way
    some new bugs got introduced and a number of "favorite" bugs didn't
    get fixed.

3.  Some very significant new functionality was added in V4.3.  The one
    you mention is the I/O enhancements.  For some well understood I/O
    loads, it provides exceptional I/O improvement.  I've seen two posting
    that indicated the performance got worse when implementing these
    changes, and I think they were from the same person.  Clearly, there
    other I/O loads that don't behave well when large I/O requests
    are preferred.

I personally find #3 to be an interesting problem, because of my interest
in I/O subsystems.  I also have NO idea at all what the problem is.  If
the person that posted the original complaint is still around, send me
mail and maybe I can find a clue.  He should also be working the problem
through the CSC, which has access to the engineering group responsible
for the changes.  I'm pretty much stuck out in the middle of Colorado,
cut off from everybody.
>
>-George
>--
>                         George Michaelson
>G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au The Prentice Centre      | There's no  market for
>                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
>Phone: +61 7 365 4079    QLD Australia 4072       |          -Bertold Brecht
>
--
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Will do TCP/IP for clues" Ranum)
Subject: Re: Memory fault
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:53:55 GMT

>I have a 700k program [...]
>Ultrix 4.0 it core-dumped. I guess this is paging related. How do I find out
>and fix it?

	Read the manual page for your friendly neighborhood debugger, and
use it to find out where in the code and why it core dumped. Saying "it
dumps core" is like going to a doctor and saying "I feel bad." Going in
with a debugger and determining that you're getting a segmentation fault
in, say, strcmp() is like going to a doctor and saying, "my leg hurts,
and here's an Xray showing where it's broken."

mjr.
From: asami@cs.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: ptrace(20, pid...) doesn't work
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:54:07
Organization: CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley
Reply-To: asami@snake.cs.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: anaconda.cs.berkeley.edu

Hi netters.  I have a problem with the ptrace() system call.  The
following program, which runs on an HP with little modification (the
number of arguments are different), doesn't work on my DECstation5000
("uname -a" says "ULTRIX papaya.Berkeley.EDU 4.2 0 RISC").  Anyway
knows what's wrong?

===<begin program>===
/* ptrace.c: ptrace test program */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>

#define OK      0

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    pid_t       pid ;

    if (argc < 2)       {
        fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s prog [args...]\n", argv[0]) ;
        exit(1) ;
    }

    if ((pid = fork()) == -1)   {
        fprintf(stderr, "panic: can't fork()\n") ;
        exit(2) ;
    }

    if (pid == 0)       {
        argv++ ;
        execvp(argv[0], argv) ;
        fprintf(stderr, "panic: can't exec()\n") ;
        exit(3) ;
    }

    sleep(10) ;

    printf("stopping child....\n") ;

    if (ptrace(20, pid, NULL, 0) == -1) {
        fprintf(stderr, "ptrace 20, %d (%d): %s\n", errno, pid, strerror(errno)) ;
        exit(4) ;
    }

    ptrace(8, pid, NULL, 0) ;   /* terminate */

    return (OK) ;
}
===<end program>===

When I compile this using cc and run it, it says
===<begin session>===
% ptrace xeyes
stopping child....
ptrace 20, 3 (3190): No such process
%
===<end session>===
and ptrace terminates but xeyes continues running.

However, when I substitute ptrace(20,pid,...) with something like
kill(pid, SIGSTOP), the eyes freeze as expected.  Hmmm...."No such
process"....?

Thanks in advance,
===
                                                   o o   Satoshi Asami
  Form follows Function.                            ^
                                               (asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
  Tel: (510)643-2730 (home)       Computer Science Div., Dept. of EECS
       (510)643-6228 (office)     University of California at Berkeley
From: jwalker@netcom.Netcom.COM (John J. Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: motif development tools for ultrix?
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:42:29 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service


	I am about to embark on some C/Motif development on a dec workstation
running Ultrix 4.2.  Could some kind soul give me advice on the development
tools available on that platform.  Specifically, I am looking for a quality
Widget Builder tool (I currently have VUIT), and a windowed debugger that
is Motif friendly (I currently have dbx and gdb).  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
				- John
				  jwalker@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP)
Subject: Re: Is local caching configurable?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:31:04 GMT

hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
>> Some vendors do what they call "asynchronous NFS" in which
>
>Out of morbid curiosity, does any vendor ship their OS like this?

	I believe that SGI and HP support it as configurable options. I
don't know offhand if any vendor sells their machine using asynch NFS
by *default*. That wouldn't be very c00l, in my opinion, but stranger
things have happened (like shipping a UNIX that comes with UDP checksums
disabled). I'm not sure what other vendors may support it as configurable
options. Most of them (I believe) have it as an option in /etc/exports.

	There are some cases where asynch NFS might be nice. For /tmp
or something, it'd be very useful - any data that is "expendable".

mjr.
From: asami@cs.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: ptrace(20, pid...) doesn't work
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:02:26
Organization: CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley
	<1992Nov10.161340.29251@prl.dec.com>
Reply-To: asami@snake.cs.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moccasin.cs.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: boyd@prl.dec.com's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:13:40 PST

In article <1992Nov10.161340.29251@prl.dec.com>
        boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:

 * Um, how about a ptrace(0, ...) call in the child?

Hmmm....it worked!  Thanks.  By the way, was I missing something, or
is it just an undocumented feature (read: bug :).

--
                                                   o o   Satoshi Asami
  Form follows Function.                            ^
                                               (asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
  Tel: (510)643-2730 (home)       Computer Science Div., Dept. of EECS
       (510)643-6228 (office)     University of California at Berkeley
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: st1oc@jane.uh.edu (Satish, Kumar S.)
Subject: QUERY: SIGNAL HANDLING ON ULTRIX
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:35:00 GMT

Hi netters:
I have an URGENT PROBLEM on Ultrix O/S. I want to know if there is any
way , a PARENT process which receives a signal from one of its
child processes , find out the PROCESS ID (pid) of that child 
when/after the signal is received.


I searched the man pages and some other UNIX versions
but could not find any utility. Atleast, the signal() ,
sigvec() calls do not give info as regards the pid of the
interrupting process.

I WILL BE THANKFUL IF YOU CAN SEND YOUR REPLIES TO MY 
e-mail address since I am not a regular subscriber to this 
newsgroup.



THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR PROMPT REPLY.

pl. e-mail at sathish@cs.uh.edu


--SATHISH.*:)
From: smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: CD-ROM is really a pseudoterminal??
Summary: "mount device busy", but mount device is pseudoterminal!
Keywords: Gak!  Ugh!  Pfui!
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:59:30 GMT
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Originator: smw@alcor.concordia.ca

Okay, picture this:

I'm innocently attempting to mount the most recent Consolidated
Distribution CD in the drive on our DECsystem 5900 (Ultrix 4.2a).
I admit it's been a long time since I've tried to use this CD
drive, but that shouldn't matter, should it?

Okay, so I typed

    # mount -r /dev/rz5c /CD

This is the right command, right?  Well, maybe not.  All I get for
my trouble is

    "ufs_mount: /dev/rz5c on /CD: Mount device busy"

Hmmm.  Not too helpful.  What next?

After looking around for a while, I finally remembered that I have a
copy of pff (bless you, Dan Bernstein!).  So:

    # pff /dev/rz5c

After a second or so, pff comes back with

           CMD   PID   UID   FD D FLAGS     TYPE      INODE    FS
    telnetd.gw 25019     0    4 I rw-n----- chr dev (/dev/ptyra)

Huh?  What's going on here?

Sure enough, I looked in /dev:

    # ls -Flg /dev/rz5c /dev/ptyra

Imagine my surprise when I saw this:

    crw-rw-rw-  1 root     system    21,  42 Nov 11 17:28 /dev/ptyra
    brw-------  1 root     system    21,  42 Jun  9 17:45 /dev/rz5c


WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

In fact, it's worse than this.  It seems that *all* my SCSI disks *and*
*all* my pty's have a major number of 21.  Even worse, according to
/dev/MAKEDEV, that seems to be what they're *supposed* to be!

I should mention that I have a *lot* of pty's on this system.  ("No
kidding", he says, as he mentions a problem with ptyra.)

That's because this particular system runs the online card catalog for
our university libraries.  There are a whole *bunch* of people using
telnet to this system at any given moment.

Come to think of it, the last time I used the CD successfully was
before I installed the extra pty's.

So the obvious questions are:

       1)  Now what?  Am I doomed to never be able to use my CD drive
           again?

       2)  Can it really be intended that disk drives and pseudo-
           terminals should share the same major number?

       3)  Have I missed something obvious?

Tune in tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion!

(Actually there probably won't *be* a conclusion unless someone who
knows more than I do is willing to help me out.  Aw, come on.
Please?)

Thanks in advance,

     - Steven

________________________________________________________________________
Steven Winikoff      |       smw@         | "I don't want to run the
Software Analyst     | alcor.concordia.ca | world; I merely want to own
Computing Services   |                    | a substantial portion of the
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