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From: marvo@asl.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Vogt)
Subject: AMPEX210+ termcap entry for SPARCstation2
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 13:50:20 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, ASL.


The other day I had to replace our VT100 terminals connected
to /dev/ttya and /dev/ttyb of our SPARCstation2 by 
terminals called 'AMPEX 210 plus'.  Although there is an existing
entry in our termcap, so it should be possible to use 'ampex210'
for type in the /etc/ttytab, we are not able to work on these 
AMPEX terminals after we logon.  The only thing happening is
beeping and beeping after each key pressed.  
But if you run the 'screen VT100/ANSI emulator' right after
login in your shell resource file,  there're no problems at all.

I would be pleased if anyone could give me the correct termcap
entry or any other hint.

Thanks,
 Markus.
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From: bobs@Think.COM ( Robert Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Overstrike mode in OpenWin 3.0 Text Editor??
Date: 15 Oct 1992 17:00:59 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grendle.think.com

Does anyone know if it is possible to put the Openwindows
text editor (textedit) into "overstrike" or "overtype" mode?
What I mean is; when entering text, the default setup inserts
the new text at the carat, I would like to insert the new text
OVER the existing text (and be able to switch back if possible).
This seems like it should be a relatively simple thing to do but
I can't find any reference to this in any documentation.  Any help
would be appreciated.

TIA

Bob Schwartz
Thinking Machiines Corp
Cambridge MA 
bobs@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: gilland@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Bruce Gilland)
Subject: Need printcap entries for NEC LC-890 and Printronix P6240L
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:57:17 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for printcap entries for the following two printers.  If
any of you  has one or the other, I would appreciate it if you could 
e-mail it (them) to me. 

1.  PRINTRONIX P6240L (400 lpm line-printer, serial)

2.  NEC LC-890 Laser Printer (native postscript or HP emulation)

Thanks, in advance,

Bruce Gilland  (gilland@alumni.cs.colorado.edu)
From: louis@krabat.marco.de (Ju"rgen Fluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: screenblank and tablet on /dev/ttya
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:18:51 GMT
Organization: marco GmbH, D-8047 Karlsfeld

We have a Sparc2 Station running AutoCad. A graphic tablet is connected
on /dev/ttya, and this one is the main input device during graphic
editing.

We would like "screenblank" to be running, but this is only looking
on keyboard and mouse events, and in some way on the frame buffer.
Following TFM "screenblank" has no way to check an extra serial line,
and AutoCad seems to modify the screen in a way that screenblank is
not waking up.

Can somebody give me a hint ? There are sources supplied for some
kind of AutoCad drivers, so we could modify the tablet driver to
light up the screen if it sees characters coming. What's the way
to do this ? Kill screenblank with a special signal ?

Thanx for any help,
  louis
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From: yms@osc.osc.com (Yuh-Ming Shyy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Use Courier font in Sun/Troff
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:05:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Versant Object Technology, Menlo Park, CA

Hi, is there any one who can tell me how to switch to Courier font 
inside a Sun/Troff document? I found this is the only inconvenience 
that I feel as compared to Latex. Thanks in advance. 

Email: yms@osc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: wittesa@reks.uia.ac.be (Willy Wittesaele)
Subject: Printing from SUN to IINTX
Organization: U.I.A.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:41:26 GMT

Hello ,

We have a SUN-Sparc 2 (SunOS 4.1.1 Rev.B) but no printer is connected to
it.
In the same room we have an Apple IIci with Apple IINTX laserprinter 
(connected via appletalk).

What's the easiest way (necessary hardware & software) to let the SUN
print to the IINTX ??

The only constraint is that nothing should change for the apple users.

Willy
From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Printing from SUN to IINTX
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:34:08 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <1992Oct14.224755.27834@qualix.com> rthau@qualix.com writes:
<In article 22717@reks.uia.ac.be, wittesa@reks.uia.ac.be (Willy Wittesaele) writes:
<>Hello ,
<>
<>We have a SUN-Sparc 2 (SunOS 4.1.1 Rev.B) but no printer is connected to
<>it.
<>In the same room we have an Apple IIci with Apple IINTX laserprinter 
<>(connected via appletalk).
<>
<>What's the easiest way (necessary hardware & software) to let the SUN
<>print to the IINTX ??
<>
<>The only constraint is that nothing should change for the apple users.
<>
<>Willy
<
<
<You will require software for Postscript printing. Recommend Transcript by Adobe.
<For info on the new version 4, send to info@qualix.com or call 800-245-UNIX
<(415) 572-0200

NeWSprint for the SPARCstation is alot cheaper.
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From: c-wargaski@nwu.edu (Christopher J. Wargaski)
Subject: Re: swap or swapon?
Originator: cjw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Reply-To: c-wargaski@nwu.edu (Christopher J. Wargaski)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:08:06 GMT

In <SIMON.92Oct14122400@liasg2.epfl.ch> simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes:

>Swap partitions are better than swap files because paging i/o doesn't
>go through the file system.  We only use swap files in acute cases of
>lack of swap space, and replace them with larger/more swap partitions
>in the long term.

I echo "" (couldn't resist) your sentiments.  It inhibits speed of
the system when swapping thorugh the file system occurrs.

 
>You can also have swap partitions on multiple drives - just put
>additional "swap" entries into /etc/fstab.  It is *not* recommended to
>have multiple swap partitions on the same physical drive for
>performance reasons.

Exactly



>Simon.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin)
Subject: Re: Cheaper (Non-SUN) CD-ROM drives work
Organization: Systems Development Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:58:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.222145.29163@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>gordon@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Gordon Vickers) writes:
>
>>       Using the DEC CD-ROM worked perfectly at installing Solaris 1.1
>>	...
>>    'Unrecognized vendor : DEC .....' message but so what, there are no
>>   ill effects from this.
>
>DEC tried to ignore Sun for years and paid the price.  Now Sun is trying
>to turn the tables, and will no doubt suffer equally.
>

Edit /usr/sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c and add your device.  Then you will
no longer see the 'Unrecongized vendor' message.

emike

E. Mike Durbin
emike@sdc.com   or   emike@obs.com
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: swap or swapon?
Date: 15 Oct 1992 20:38:30 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <NICKEL.92Oct15185052@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
>As I once read somewhere, it doesn't matter if swapping is done on a
>swap partition or on a swap file. If swapon(8) setablishes a swap
>file, the file's blocks are simply added to the list of blocks
>available for swapping, just like those of a swap file. No performace
>penalty here.

You probably read it in a posting of mine.  Unfortunately, I was wrong, and
Guy@auspex corrected me.  The problem is that swapon allows NFS files to be
used as swap files, and the NFS protocol doesn't provide a way to access
disk blocks directly.  So file swapping *does* go through the file system
for generality.
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System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Subject: /usr/etc/yp/mkalias, what's the scoop?
Originator: berg@tabaqui
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 12:55:50 GMT

What exactly does this program do?

It is used by yp to supposedly generate the inverse of the aliases map.
Now, at my system, the inverse of the aliases map it generates always
seem to be empty (although I have several aliases defined).

I tried to figure out what the program exactly does (or doesn't), but
I couldn't find a man page and "strings" didn't reveal much either.  The
most I could get was the Usage summary:

Usage: mkalias [-e] [-v] [-u] [-d] [-s] [-n] <input> <output>

Does anybody know what these options are for (and what the conditions are
before it generates an inverse map?)?

Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jdell@maggie.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: 40% discount on Sun workstation system?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:39:18 GMT

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:42:11 GMT, zhao@nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao) said:

> I was very surprised to read that
> 	--- you can always get 40% discount for a SUN SPARC
> 	workstation --
> from PC Magazine of May, 1992. Any body in the net knows where and
> how to get that? (I mean new one, not used one :)

> Regards,

> ZiZi

We here at MIT Dept of Physics, typically get about a 35% or 40% discount on
Sun products.  This is part of the educational discount.  Our computer
center also gives out this discount for those students who wish to spend lots
of money on a workstation at home.

I hear that other departments can get upto 60% discount from Sun.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: zhao@nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Subject: 40% discount on Sun workstation system?
Reply-To: zhao@nmsu.edu
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:42:11 GMT

I was very surprised to read that
	--- you can always get 40% discount for a SUN SPARC
	workstation --
from PC Magazine of May, 1992. Any body in the net knows where and
how to get that? (I mean new one, not used one :)

Regards,

ZiZi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rthau@qualix.com (Rick Thau)
Subject: Re: Printing from SUN to IINTX
Reply-To: rthau@qualix.com
Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:47:55 GMT

In article 22717@reks.uia.ac.be, wittesa@reks.uia.ac.be (Willy Wittesaele) writes:
>Hello ,
>
>We have a SUN-Sparc 2 (SunOS 4.1.1 Rev.B) but no printer is connected to
>it.
>In the same room we have an Apple IIci with Apple IINTX laserprinter 
>(connected via appletalk).
>
>What's the easiest way (necessary hardware & software) to let the SUN
>print to the IINTX ??
>
>The only constraint is that nothing should change for the apple users.
>
>Willy


You will require software for Postscript printing. Recommend Transcript by Adobe.
For info on the new version 4, send to info@qualix.com or call 800-245-UNIX
(415) 572-0200

rt


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: aus@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Hans Aus)
Subject: Printing SUN raster files
Originator: aus@winx03
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:17:11 GMT


We badly need a program which lets us print SUN raster files obtained
from OPEN WINDOWS SNAPSHOT output on a 24-pin matrix printer like 
PANASONIC 1124 or EPSON 2500..

As I am posting this from  a friend's installation, please address me at
my own E-mail address 

korn@ecevax.ece.arizona.edu    or korn@hermes.ece.arizona.edu

Thank you very much GAK
:wq

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: dgibson@bilbo.cs.uct.ac.za (D A Gibson)
Subject: Talking to Suns from non-Suns
Summary: How?
Keywords: talk
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:26:59 GMT

Greetings!

Is it at all possible to get anything other than a Sun to cooperate with the
talk program on the Suns?  On every machine I try (all more or less System
V), I get the message [Looking for invitation on caller's machine], and then
nothing.

(Apologies if this is a FAQ... :-)

Thanks,
DAvid.

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        "But it doesn't compile.", they complained.
        As if programming was about adhering to their primitive 
   language definitions.  As if it was my duty to live within the 
   limits of their antiquated and ordinary compilers.
From: jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien)
Subject: Re: Sparc Assembler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Reply-To: jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:04:35 GMT

In article <STEINAR.HAUG.92Oct15134513@delab.sintef.no>, Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes:
|> > Can anybody tell me where to find a good introduction/reference to the Sparc
|> > assembler language ?
|> 
|> I strongly recommend the following book:
|> 
|> 	The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 8
|> 	SPARC International, 1992
|> 	ISBN 0-13-825001-4
|> 	Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc.
|> 
|> The book can be obtained directly from your friendly nearby bookstore, or
|> directly from SPARC International.
|> 
|> Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator
|> SINTEF DELAB, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
|> Email: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no, 
|> 	sthaug@idt.unit.no, steinar@tosca.er.sintef.no

The only other thing I could find is the Sun-4 Assembly Language Reference Manual from SunSoft. But I didn't find it very useful, at least not for what I want
to do.

Joe Tien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: __GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ undefined in os 4.1.2 libc.a
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:10:37 GMT

fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:

>I'm trying to build an a.out file (actually a matlab executable, or
>"mex" file) solely from static libraries, but when I link to libc.a, I
>get the "undefined _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_".  This symbol is undefined in
>many of the member objects in libc.a.

>This problem did not occur in Sun OS 4.1.1.

>What is this symbol, and why does it not resolve in 4.1.2?

It looks like you have tried to link some code compiled with -PIC or
-pic in a statically linked executable. It is the symbol that
points to the table with the addresses of all the dynamically linked
data.

>I take it "ld" knows about __GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, because the string
>appears in the binary.

All undefined symbols appear in the symbol table of the resulting binaries,
so does this symbol. Ld does know about __GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, but only when
linking dynamically.

Casper
From: dhoward@doffice.Corp.Sun.COM (Dave Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sunergy Broadcast - Object Oriented Technology
Date: 13 Oct 1992 17:09:49 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dhoward@doffice.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: doffice.corp.sun.com




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: craven@cg.emr.ca (Jim Craven)
Subject: Looking for a checkpoint/restart facility...
Reply-To: craven@cg.emr.ca
Organization: Dept. of Energy, Mines & Resources, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:45:15 GMT

Is there anyway to dump core on a Sparc so that the program can be
executed at a later date?  (This must include preserving the status of
open files).  I heard Condor for SunOS 4.0.3 did the job, but I do not
know if it or anything else can do it under SunOS 4.1.2. 

Thanks, in advance, for any help.

Jim
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From: dj@micromuse.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Software Support for Sun Clones
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:39:02 GMT
Reply-To: dj@micromuse.co.uk
Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes

In article 6422@ncar.ucar.edu, rlink@cedar.hao.ucar.edu (Richard Link) writes:
>In article rcw@caspian.cc.vt.edu (R. Craig Woods) writes:
>
>And there are other annoying problems, like not being able to boot a
>clone from a Sun CD-ROM, since the clone is looking for its own boot
>info on the CD. The clone-maker response: we'll have our own version
>of SunOS (4.1.2) *real soon now*.

Odd, because I've booted a few clones on SMCC 4.1.2.... But not (continue reading)
run with it.....

I would point out though that loading SMCC's 4.1.2 on a clone is actually
breaking the licence agreement (check the SMCC licence on Solaris)...

What clone were you trying to boot anyway?

Some clones are radically different (ie Tadpole SPARCbook) and require a whole
host of kernel changes to support different underlying hardware, though Tadpole
are already at 4.1.2 and I believe just getting 4.1.3 out of the door....



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: lupin@jetsun.weitek.COM (Edward Lupin)
Subject: Special SPARCstation configuration
Summary: Booting from ROM
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:18:13 GMT


I am exploring whether it is possible to configure a standalone
SPARCstation to boot without any disk drives or networking, for a
specialized control application.  An additional requirement is that the
machine must recover very quickly from a power cycling event.

The obvious solution would seem to be to create a file system in ROM.
I am not a Unix expert (there are such folks, here), but this would
necessitate developing, or more preferably, finding a block device
driver that talks to the ROMs (and RAM, if SunOS requires a writeable
file system).

On power-on we wish to boot a minimal Unix system, and then execute
a script that will also be found on the ROM.  The boot must complete
in 10 seconds or less.

Does anyone having experience to offer on this problem?  Source code
happily accepted. :-)

Ed
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