HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DEC Dat Drive Capacity
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:01:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd2.1992Sep30.180132.22536
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Sep30.100650.25551@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, seaney@engr.wisc.edu writes:
>
> 
>We recently installed a DAT drive sold by Dec -- tz05 I think (It's not if
>front of me).  Using a 90m dat tape I dumped 1.3Gig last night.  Our salesman
>told us we should be able to dump in the area of 4Gig due to compression
>software built into the drive.

The only tape drives we make (or resell) with 5 in the name is
~e TZ85, but it's not a 4mm DAT drive.  It's the current evolutionary
height of the CompacTape series (2.6 GB, 800 KB/sec).  I can't find
if it does compression.

The tape drives we sell using 4mm DAT are the TLZ04 (1.2 GB) and the
TLZ06 (4.0 GB with compression).  I'd guess you have the TLZ06.

>
>The book that comes with the DAT says that using /dev/nrmt0h will automatically
>enable the compression software.  Is this true?  What results can we expect
>from the drive?

I'd guess that either high density tape device will enable compression.  The
leading 'n' on the name indicates that it won't automatically rewind on
close.  This is useful for putting multiple dumps on one tape.  For ordinary
sorts of file I think you can expect 2:1 compression.  Some files will be
better and others will be worse.  It's entirely possible that trying to
compress some data will actually expand it.  This might happen when you
try to backup an already compress file (compress(1)).  If the tape drive
is smart, it will notice that expansion and just write the data without
change and somehow keep track of it.

>
>The dump command we used was:
>	dump 0nudsf 61000 114880 /dev/nrmt0h /dev/rz2c

I think this is a case where you REALLY DO NOT want to provide
density and length information to dump.  Left to itself dump will
use all of the available tape.  If it runs out, it will ask for
another tape.  Dump has NO WAY of estimating how good the compression
is going to be if it even knows that the drive does compression.  Any
attempt to estimate how much tape is needed is almost certainly doomed
to failure and thus will make very inefficient use of the tape.

>
>BTW -- We are using a DecStation 5000/125 with 4.2a.
>

The TLZ06 is supported on ULTRIX V4.3C with the SCSI CAM driver
installed.  It will most likely merely work on other version.
The feature of support with CAM is that you can create a dump
file larger than 2 GB on the tape.

>Steve
>
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Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: senetza@sigma.uleth.ca (Len Senetza)
Subject: Exabyte Info
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date:  2 Oct 92 20:25:49 GMT

We have ordered an Exabyte for our system (bye, bye, TK50).  I would like to
hear any horror/war stories about these.  (Actually, I'd be interested in
anything: scripts to automate dumps, hints, funny stories, etc.)

Please send direct to me, and I'll summarize to the net.
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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: swap on more than 2 disks?
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:50:29 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <1a9pdbINNfi2@corax.udac.uu.se> Kalle.Flodkvist@udac.uu.se (Kalle Flodkvist) writes:
>I intend to set up swapping on more than one partition. I have a
>decstation
>with 6 scsi-discs. Is it possible to have a swap area on each of them?
>Reading the manuals it looks like only a primary and a secondary swap area
>is supported, i.e. only 2 in total.

This should answer your question. It is out of one of our main comopute
server, a DECsystem 5000/200 ) /sys/conf/mips/BORIS

config          vmunix  root on rz0a  swap on rz0b and rz1b and rz4b dumps on rz0b

-- 
  Philip Yzarn de Louraille                 Internet: yzarn@chevron.com
  Research Support Division                 Unix & Open Systems
  Chevron Information & Technology Co.      Tel: (310) 694-9232
  P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446     Fax: (310) 694-7709
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mayer@piis05.joanneum.ac.at (Mayer Harald (IIS))
Subject: dxsession: quitting from command line??
Organization: Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 07:56:32 GMT

Is there any possibility to quit the Session Manager dxsession from a shell
or a shell script. I don't want to kill it, but to make it quit just like 
I do using the user interface menu.

I'm running Ultrix 4.2a.

Thanks

Harald Mayer

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From: torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Disktab entry Micropolis Micropolis 1924-21MZ1078401 PR35
Keywords: disktab micropolis
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:20:15 GMT
Reply-To: torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer)
Organization: FORUT Informasjonsteknologi as

Could anyone please mail me a /etc/disktab entry (and special considerations) for our new Micropolis 1924-21MZ1078401 PR35 2.4 Gb disk.
Thanks in advance.
--
Torstein Meyer (Sys.Cons.) +47 83 80150 (fax:82420)
	FORUT IT AS, NORUT-gruppen AS, N-9005 Tromsoe, Norway
torstein.meyer@itek.norut.no
	C=no;A=;P=uninett;O=norut;OU=itek;CN=torstein.meyer
From: bcd@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Bryan Dunlap)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: dos diskettes on 5000/200
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:05:47 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: OSU Physics Dept.

Is there any software available to format, read and write DOS 3.5"
floppies on a 5000/200?  A pointer to an ftp site or something would
be greatly appreciated.

Bryan Dunlap, OSU Physics Dept.      | Giving money and power to government is
bcd@mps.ohio-state.edu  614/292-3402 | like giving whiskey and car keys to 
174 W. 18th Ave. Columbus OH 43210   | teenage boys.  -- P.J. O'Rourke
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From: sguyer@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (SCOTT GUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.questions,csugrad.dec
Subject: Tvtwm, and X11ups
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:50:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

I am looking for source code for two programs.  Those being
Tvtwm (a virtual window manager) and X11ups (an X debugging
interface).  If you know where I can get a copy of the C
source code, please let me know by e-mail. -Thank You-

			Scott Guyer
				sguyer@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: top barfs up process list on Ultrix 4.2
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:27:37 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <ROUILJ.92Sep29131331@ra.cs.umb.edu> rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard) writes:
>
>
>In article <9VWQBC9J@cc.swarthmore.edu> hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
>
>
>   Latest is 3.0 at eecs.nwu.edu:/pub/top.  Make sure you have the patch to
>   m_ultrix4 from "David S. Comay" <dsc@seismo.CSS.GOV>.
>
>
>Where is this patch available?  I haven't put top 3.0 in place because
>of this problem.
>
>-- John

I include it here (assuming it  is correct!!!!)


....... deleted stuff ...

incomplete - under ultrix, only process slots where p_stat != SIDL are active
ones.  here is a fix

        *** m_ultrix4.c.orig    Sat May 30 13:18:09 1992
        --- m_ultrix4.c Fri Sep 11 17:05:47 1992
        ***************
        *** 424,430 ****
                 *  status field.  Processes with SSYS set are system
                 *  processes---these get ignored unless show_sysprocs is set.
                 */
        !       if (pp->p_stat != 0 &&
                    (show_system || ((pp->p_type & SSYS) == 0)))
                {
                    total_procs++;
        --- 424,430 ----
                 *  status field.  Processes with SSYS set are system
                 *  processes---these get ignored unless show_sysprocs is set.
                 */
        !       if (pp->p_stat != 0 && pp->p_stat != SIDL &&
                    (show_system || ((pp->p_type & SSYS) == 0)))
                {
                    total_procs++;


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  Research Support Division                 Unix & Open Systems
  Chevron Information & Technology Co.      Tel: (310) 694-9232
  P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446     Fax: (310) 694-7709
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Subject: Re: ps - listing another user's processes
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:27:46

In article <1992Sep29.231024.6610@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:

| Is there any reason, in principle, why ps couldn't take a user ID or
| username to do the ps for? Do any Unixes support this? Is there, by
| any chance, a ps-type utility that does this under Ultrix?

OSF/1, including DEC's version allow you to say:

	ps -u<user> ...
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:7382 comp.sys.dec:5333 comp.os.vms:16139
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How to read VMS-disks on an Ultrix-machine???
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:35:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd2.1992Oct6.193556.25743
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Oct6.102901.13845@rks.se>, vaxmith@rks.se writes:
>
>Hi folks!
>I have a (small) problem with disk-formats.
>Up to now we had a magneto - optical disk connected to a VAX with VMS. We 
>are planning to move this drive to a Ultrix-machine and my question is if 
>there exist any program that makes it possible to read disks formatted in 
>FILES-11 format on a Ultrix-machine?

I don't know of any software available to do this.  I know there's
nothing included in the base system.  The Files-11 format is reasonably
well documented, so it would certainly be possible to write a program
to provide limited read/write capability.  It is conceivable that some
3rd party software company has written software to do so.  The really
adventureous could try writing code to be put into the file system
switch.

>
>-- Michael
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: smccoy@dw3g.ess.harris.com (Scott McCoy)
Subject: QUESTION: scan (mh) ignores -file parm
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:19:12 GMT
Organization: Harris Corporation Information Systems Division
Keywords: scan, mh

I'm having a problem with scan.  I noticed the problem
when using Xlbiff, but I can re-create the problem manually.

Sometimes, scan refuses to scan the /usr/spool/mail/smccoy
file.  Even if I specify the file using the '-file' parameter,
scan always scans the last mail folder I was in.

But, if I force it to scan the inbox folder, then use the
'-file' parameter, it works!

What's wrong?

%> scan
scan: no messages in wastebasket
%> scan -file /usr/spool/mail/smccoy
scan: no messages in wastebasket
%> scan +inbox
   1  08/26 someone            somemessage
   2  08/28 somebodyelse       yet another message
   3+ 09/05 whoareyou          more messages 
%> scan -file /usr/spool/mail/smccoy
   1  09/28 SYSCLP@xxx.com     Reboot for PUMA<<Due to increased usage, the max


System:	DECstation 5000/200
OS:	Ultrix v4.2 (Rev 96)
MH:	MH 6.7.1 #19[UCI] (lastout.zk3.dec.com) of Tue Mar 19 00:01:25 EST 1991

-- 
Scott McCoy	Harris ISD	Opinions expressed are my own.
		Internet: 	smccoy@dw3g.ess.harris.com
From: mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Automatic spin-up on power-on for an RZ25...
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:54:44 GMT
Organization: Network Computing Devices, Mt. View, CA

I need to hook an RZ25 up to a Mac, and in order for that to work, the RZ25
needs to spin up on power-on (normally, DEC ships their drives set to not
spin up on power on so as to avoid a massive power surge when a system is
powered on).   I know that there's a parameter on some SCSI parameter page
that you have to tweak to make this happen, but I don't know what parameter
it is.   Does anybody have a clue?

Thanks in advance for any information!

				_MelloN_

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From: miley@crseo.ucsb.edu (Steve Miley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DEC V.32 DF296 modem & logins
Keywords: modem login hangup
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:15:32 GMT
Reply-To: miley@crseo.ucsb.edu (Steve Miley)
Organization: UCSB Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics

I've connected a DEC V.32 modem to a DEC 5000/240 running 4.2a.
I'm able to dial into it just fine, but I want the modem to hangup the phone line
after logout.  I'm running the modem in AT mode.

Any clues?


-- 
Steve Miley
1140 Girvetz Hall
Computer Systems Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
email: miley@crseo.ucsb.edu
phone: (805) 893-8475
fax:   (805) 893-2578

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From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Inodes in short supply.  Why?
Keywords: inodes,lack,thereof
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:21:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: parsifal.1992Oct5.172109.7393
Reply-To: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Subject: Inodes in short supply.  Why?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix, comp.unix.wizards
Distribution: world
From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Reply-To: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Keywords: inodes, lack thereof

  For the past few weeks, out news partition has been running dangerously low 
on inodes, even though less than 60% of the disk space is being used.  Does 
anybody know what might be the problem?  Here's the output of 'df -i /news':  

Filesystem   Total    kbytes   kbytes   %     inodes   inodes   %            
node         kbytes   used     free     used  used     free     used Mounted on
/dev/rz1f     475439  249558  178338    58%    97887     417   100%  /news

  We're running Ultrix 4.2A, if that's any help.  

- Gerald Combs
     _____     __o          Internet : gcombs@vax1.umkc.edu
   -----      -\<,            Bitnet : gcombs@umkcvax1  
    -----   ( )/ ( )
  For the past few weeks, out news partition has been running dangerously low 
on inodes, even though less than 60% of the disk space is being used.  Does 
anybody know what might be the problem?  Here's the output of 'df -i /news':  

Filesystem   Total    kbytes   kbytes   %     inodes   inodes   %            
node         kbytes   used     free     used  used     free     used Mounted on
/dev/rz1f     475439  249558  178338    58%    97887     417   100%  /news

  We're running Ultrix 4.2A, if that's any help.  

- Gerald Combs
     _____     __o          Internet : gcombs@vax1.umkc.edu
   -----      -\<,            Bitnet : gcombs@umkcvax1  
    -----   ( )/ ( )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Subject: Re: swap partition
Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:29:31 GMT

In article <16684@pitt.UUCP> rees@cs.pitt.edu (Ernest T Rees) writes:

Ernest> I'm trying to add a second swap partition on a DECstation.
Ernest> swapon tells me /dev/rz2d: no such device.
Ernest> This device definitely exists; it had a file system mounted on it and
Ernest> I can change the fstab entry back to the original version and see
Ernest> the filesytem.  Could the existence of the filesystem be the problem?
Ernest> I've compared the format of my fstab entry against one on another
Ernest> DECstation and they are identical, so I'm confident that it is not the
Ernest> problem.

Ernest> Ted Rees rees+@pitt.edu

Unlike other versions of UNIX(tm) based on newer (than 4.1C) releases of
BSD, Ultrix does not dynamically allocate the kernel data structures for a
swap partitions.  You will need to build a new kernel after editing the
"config" line in /sys/conf/mips/MACHINENAME.  Here is what I have for a
ds5000/240 with two swap partitions:

config          vmunix  root on rz0a  swap on rz0b and rz9b     dumps on rz0b  

and the following in /etc/fstab:

/dev/rz9b::sw:0:0:::

The cynicism expressed herein is my own and does not reflect that of my
employers.  :-)
--
Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of
 realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited
 by the risk of displeasure." - Kingman Brewster
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: QUESTION: scan (mh) ignores -file parm
Keywords: scan, mh
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:47:04 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Sep28.171039.6602@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) writes:

|>Bzzzt!  Added in MH 6.7.x was the ability to scan a file.

Whoops!  Time to update the man pages on my server.  :-)

					Frank
From: grif@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Trying to build g++ on a DECstation!
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:24:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

In article <1992Sep28.150027.25539@nlm.nih.gov> neve@nlm.nih.gov writes:
>(1) I'm not picky about which version of g++ to build. Is there a version
>out there that works for the DECstation 3100? (At one time I downloaded
>gcc 2.2.2 but shied away from it when I read that setting LANGUAGE=c++
>was a "waste of time.")

You should try 2.2.2.  The newest versions of gcc are becoming more and
more easy to build.   The "waste of time" that you are refering to,
only concerns the first stage on compilation.  gcc (with or without other
language support) is a self-compiling compiler which needs to be
bootstraped by first compiling gcc with the system compiler.  On later
stages, this gcc, built by the system compiler, builds gcc again.  Because
gcc is not written in C++, you do not need to set LANGUAGE=c++ at first. 
However, in any stage greater than 1, you will have to add LANGUAGE=c++.

The Makefile for gcc 2.2.2 contains a rule called bootstrap, which
performs all of the work.  You should be able to type:

% configure decstation
% make bootstrap

and the whole thing will work.  It has been a month since I last built
gcc, so I may have botched the details.  Send me mail if you have 
any more problems, and I will point you in the right direction.


						Michael A. Griffith
						grif@cs.ucr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: scan (mh) ignores -file parm
Keywords: scan, mh
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:10:39 GMT


In article <4465@datum.nyo.dec.com>, frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
|>You must "inc" your mail into a mh-style folder before you can "scan" that
|>mail.  "scan" reads only mh folders, which consist of a directory containing
|>one message per file.  The /usr/spool/mail/mccoy file contains multiple messages
|>in a single file.  "inc" converts the latter format to the former format.  Only
|>"inc" takes a "-file" option.

Bzzzt!  Added in MH 6.7.x was the ability to scan a file.  Here's an alias for
doing that in ksh:

alias from='(mail=/usr/spool/mail/$USER ; [ -f $mail -a ! -z $mail ]\
 && scan -file $mail)'

Strange, because it always work for me -- but then I stay in inbox in dxmail
almost exclusively.
--
Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.
From: dano@petrucio.ae.utexas.edu (Dano Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: rdump on Ultrix 4.2A
Keywords: rdump dump backup
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:41:59 GMT

dlopata@stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata) writes:

>	On the Sun end, everything works fine.  However, when the script hits
>a DEC, it blows out.  A coworker suggested there was a bug in Ultrix rdump,
>making it unusable.  Is this the case?  If so, is there a fix, or replacement?

>	The command that's bunging up is:

>	rsh decstation rdump 0udsf 6000 108000 marlin:/dev/nrst1 /dev/rrz1d

>	The error I get is:

>	Lost Connection...
>	Try using the -o option.

>	(Not an exact quote, but close).

>	The same command works beautifully on the Sun side.  Any ideas? 

	The -o option is for use with "non-ultrix and pre-ultrix
version 2.0" systems (from man rdump). Adding the -o option is the
first thing to try. 

	Your friend, in my opinion, is right about a bug in rdump. It
just may not be the bug that is causing your problem. When I had some
VAX disks nfs mounted to my DECstation, rdump would crash and burn on
the first filesystem to be backed up.  The thing that will cause this
bug to show itself is when the first non-blank and non-"#" character
on a line in the fstab file is not a "/". For example, a fstab like
this:

/dev/rz1a:/:rw:1:1:ufs::
/dev/rz1d:/usr:rw:1:2:ufs::
/dev/rz2c:/usr/u1:rq:1:3:ufs::
/dev/rz0e::sw:0:0:ufs::
#
# imported file systems
#
/usr/u3@kate:/usr/u3:rw:0:0:nfs:bg,hard,intr:
mv1$1@csrmv1:/usr/u6:rw:0:0:nfs:bg,hard,intr,retrans=5,timeo=50,wsize=1024:

would cause rdump to bomb. Even a fstab like this:

/dev/rz1a:/:rw:1:1:ufs::
/dev/rz1d:/usr:rw:1:2:ufs::
/dev/rz2c:/usr/u1:rq:1:3:ufs::
/dev/rz0e::sw:0:0:ufs::
#
# imported file systems
#
/usr/u3@kate:/usr/u3:rw:0:0:nfs:bg,hard,intr:
# mv1$1@csrmv1:/usr/u6:rw:0:0:nfs:bg,hard,intr,retrans=5,timeo=50,wsize=1024:

Would *still* cause the bomb. The only solution is to delete all
references to VAX disks (i.e. all non-"/" filesystems):

/dev/rz1a:/:rw:1:1:ufs::
/dev/rz1d:/usr:rw:1:2:ufs::
/dev/rz2c:/usr/u1:rq:1:3:ufs::
/dev/rz0e::sw:0:0:ufs::
#
# imported file systems
#
/usr/u3@kate:/usr/u3:rw:0:0:nfs:bg,hard,intr:

Then rdump would work properly. 

							Dano Carroll

Dano Carroll  471-5573         |Address Stuff| "I don't like it when someone
U.T. Center for Space Research |<--          |  bluffs me, it makes me question
WRW 402                        |Amusing Stuff|  my perception of reality."
Austin, TX 78712               |          -->|   --Chris (Northern Exposure)
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Dano Carroll  471-5573         |Address Stuff| "I don't like it when someone
U.T. Center for Space Research |<--          |  bluffs me, it makes me question
WRW 402                        |Amusing Stuff|  my perception of reality."
Austin, TX 78712               |          -->|   --Chris (Northern Exposure)
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