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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Modem Question
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 04:00:32 GMT

In <1992Aug15.015313.7077@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:

| I have an IBM 5842 modem (2400 baud) attached to an Indigo
| running IRIX 4.0.5 on ttym2. The modem works fine receiving
| calls. 
| 
| My question is this. I would like to set a status register to
| a new value (S0=5) so it answers on the 5th ring. How can I send
| a simple ASCII command to the modem? I tried the following:
| 	echo "AT S0=6" > /dev/ttym2
| but nothing happens. 

Use /dev/ttyd2, so it doesn't wait for carrier.  The same technique
is used by /usr/lib/uucp/fix*
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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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: andreas@awstar.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Wierse)
Subject: DAT quick out in Indigo?
Organization: Visualization Group Comp.Center (RUS) U of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:20:39 GMT

Hi,

we have several Indigos here, but only one internal DAT. How dangerous
is it to remove the DAT drive out of a running machine and to insert
the DAT drive into a running machine?  I know that the DAT drive must
be installed at boot time for the Indigo to realize that it has one,
but later You can remove it and insert it again without problems I
suppose.

We once did something like that with our CD-ROM drive and there was no
problem, but we would like to be on the safe side :-)

Thanks in Advance

Andreas

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 Andreas Wierse              | Institute for Computerapplications II
                             | Dep. Computersimulation and Visualization
 wierse@rus.uni-stuttgart.de | Computer Center University of Stuttgart
 Tel.: ++49-711-685-5796     | Allmandring 30
 Fax:  ++49-711-682357       | D-7000 Stuttgart 80     Germany
From: dpr@ohm.york.ac.uk (David Rossiter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: ElectroPaint  queries
Summary: Any pointers to the source for ep?
Keywords: ep electropaint sgi psych
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:20:32 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

Hello

When Computing Service first set up my Indigo, they left
a program called 'ep'. This program has impressed a lot
of people here - intelligent control of graphics parameters
has a lot in common with ongoing work to couple music/sound
to real time displays. Unfortunately, nobody on campus seems
to have a clue about it - so I'd greatly appreciate any info
people could give. I have a few particular questions :-

- Is the source code available anywhere?

- Is there any documentation of any sort?

- Is a new release of electropaint likely sometime?

- On my machine, ALL sliders/toggles (except 'triangles/squares')
  are either unlabelled, or are colour coded such that the
  text is completely indistiguishable from the background.
  A lot of guess work goes on! This is the ONLY program that
  has ever done this - is there a workaround? (remapping colour?)

- has anyone done any work in mapping the graphical parameters
  of electropaint to sound/music/dance?

Any comments/help much appreciated.

Thanks

Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Printing large (6-10MB) Postscript files
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:47:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug6.115156.4360@bb1t.monsanto.com> kjaren@bb1t.monsanto.com writes:
>
>     I'm running FrameMaker on a Personal Iris 4D25.  I've been reading
>.rgb files into my documents, and then outputting the documents to 
>Postscript files.  The Postscript files that are created are very large,
>on the order of 6 to 10 megabytes for a page.  When I send one of these
>files to a Tektronix Phaser 4694PX printer, the printout is very slow,
>on the order of a half hour or more.  

This is very common.  You might be interested in the PXi upgrade being
offered by Tektronix.  Just call their 800 number and ask about it.

>There is also a Phaser DX printer
>at my site.  Screen images are captured to a .rgb file, converted to
>Phaser DX format, and then sent to the DX, where they print quickly.
>Does anyone know of a program that will convert a Postscript file to
>DX format?  Any help would be appreciated.

SGI has been shipping a product to do just this since November 1991.
If you are running a PI, Magnum, or Indigo on 4.0.1 or later, and have
Display Postscript installed, the "TekPhaser" software product will do
exactly what you want.  

Using TekPhaser, you can render text, color PostScript, and SGI Images
directly to the DX printer.  All rendering occurs on the host and has
been tuned explicitly for the DX printer.  I've seen orders of
magnitude speedup in complex PS files such as those you mention.  And
the best part is, the faster your host, the faster the rendering.

The interface is quite simple: TekPhaser makes your printer understand
text, SGI Image, and PS directly.  Just "lp filename" and away you go.

Call the software express hotline for more details on this and the
recently released successor product, Impressario.  I believe the
number is 800-800-4SGI (but I might be wrong!)

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California
From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  4.0.5 and mail
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:09:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

I write:
> suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes:
> > 
> > Just got 4.0.5 and installed it. Release Notes says that IRIX is now
> > 8-bit system with Latin-1 as default.
> 
> What release note says that?  I write the release notes for
> mail/Mail/sendmail and I never wrote anything of the sort.

Now that I've had my coffee, I see I was being rather parochial.  I thought
you were talking about the release notes for mail/Mail/sendmail in eoe,
Chapter 4, Networking, but you meant the statement in eoe, Chapter 3, IRIX,
that says:

          o The system default was changed to the eight-bit ISO
            Latin-1 character set in this release.  Some programs
            assume that characters are seven bits and may behave
            incorrectly.

The second sentence is rather unfortunate with respect to sendmail and
RFC 822.

	- Robert Stephens
	  Silicon Graphics Inc.
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From: bam8576@evtprp0b.UUCP (Beverly A Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.sysv286,comp.unix.sysv386,boeing.comp.future,boeing.comp.unix
Subject: Printer model for OLD HP LaserJet
Keywords: printer sgi
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:47:05 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: bcs

I was given an old HP LaserJet printer and I am having problems
getting it to print Postscript and ascii at the same time
does anyone have a printer model that they would be willing to
mail to me.  I am not looking forward to writing a printer model
especially since I don't have all the books for the printer I
will have to find them first.

The printer is connected to a SGI 4D-35 running 4.0.4

Any help would be appreciated.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        /\_/\
    \  / o o \               Beverly Myers
   /\\ \~(*)~/          Boeing Computer Services
  `  \/   ^ /                (206) 234-3672
    | \|| ||
    \ '|| ||           bam8576@atc.ca.boeing.com
     \)()-())
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Problem attaching Exabyte
Date: 17 Aug 92 04:28:18 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug16.155546.24668@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> cunning@arthur.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dave Cunningham) writes:
| I'm trying to attach an Exabyte 8200 to an 4D25, and having some
| problems.  The Exabyte in question is not from sgi, but it was working
| fine on an Iris a few months ago under Irix 3.3 (same cables,
| termination, etc.).  When I attach it to my 4D25 running 4.0.3 I'm not
| able to boot.  The drive shows up properly to the prom hinv, but
| when I try to start the system it hangs up somewhere between
| 
|  "Starting the system..."
| and 
|  "Irix 4.0.3..."
| I can load sash with no problems, boot ide from there, and even boot
| unix with -n and get indications that it loads;  it just won't run.

You didn't by any chance change the kernel or the system disk at
the same time did you?  Perhaps the kernel is trashed or the wrong
one.  I'd try loading a miniroot and see if that works (or booting
another 4D25 kernel over the net (from PROM monitor or sash, try
bootp()somemachine:someunixfile ; the pathname must be allowed by
tftpd on the server, see comments in /usr/etc/inetd.conf).

If you disconnect the Exabyte, will the system boot normally?  If
not, you probably have a bad /unix.
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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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: andreas@awstar.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Wierse)
Subject: ec0: too many oflows, changing modes?
Organization: Visualization Group Comp.Center (RUS) U of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:12:38 GMT

Hi,

when I did "ifconfig debug" the following entries appeared in the SYSLOG:

Aug 20 02:43:48 awstar unix: ec0: too many oflows, changing modes
Aug 20 03:48:13 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015FAE0
Aug 20 03:54:24 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015FC50
Aug 20 03:54:24 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015FC50
Aug 20 04:04:10 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015F910
Aug 20 04:04:10 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015F910
Aug 20 04:49:18 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015FE60
Aug 20 04:49:18 awstar last message repeated 2 times
Aug 20 04:49:18 awstar unix: ec0: too many oflows, changing modes
Aug 20 09:21:42 awstar unix: ec0: dma stopped, rstat = 0x11, crbdp = 0x8015FB40


Can anyone explain what these messages mean? I didn't find anything in
the manual pages that could help me.

ifconfig ec0 leads to the following output:

ec0: flags=e67<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,FILTMULTI,MULTICAST>
        inet 129.69.14.180 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 129.69.14.255


Additionally we have a problem with NFS in that it transfers data
(write only) in a kind of burst mode.  This is like: two or three
hundred KB are transferred, then there are a few seconds delay, then
the next some hundred KB are transfered and so on. Watching this with
nfsstat shows that everytime when it stops for a while afterwards
timeout and retrans are incremented by one. Maybe the reason for the
timeout has something to do with the ifconfig error messages. (they
don't coincide in time).

I don't know if these two problems are related, maybe, but ftp for
example works fine.


Thanks in Advance

Andreas

--
 Andreas Wierse              | Institute for Computerapplications II
                             | Dep. Computersimulation and Visualization
 wierse@rus.uni-stuttgart.de | Computer Center University of Stuttgart
 Tel.: ++49-711-685-5796     | Allmandring 30
 Fax:  ++49-711-682357       | D-7000 Stuttgart 80     Germany
From: joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com (Joseph Maddry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: list
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:50:43 GMT


Date:        Tue, Aug. 11, 1992
From:        Joseph Maddry  <joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.sgi




         WILL










Joseph Maddry
joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dsk@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Daniel Katz)
Subject: enscript on SGI
Reply-To: dsk@nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:36:41 GMT

I'm looking for a version of enscript that will run on my PI 4D25.
Is there such a thing out there, anywhere?

Dan
-- 
Dan Katz                                                       dsk@nwu.edu
Dept. of Electrical Engineering                             1(708)491-8887
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208                E pur si muove
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: DAT quick out in Indigo?
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:41:42 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug14.122039.14293@news.uni-stuttgart.de> andreas@awstar.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Wierse) writes:
| we have several Indigos here, but only one internal DAT. How dangerous
| is it to remove the DAT drive out of a running machine and to insert
| the DAT drive into a running machine?  I know that the DAT drive must
| be installed at boot time for the Indigo to realize that it has one,
| but later You can remove it and insert it again without problems I
| suppose.
| 
| We once did something like that with our CD-ROM drive and there was no
| problem, but we would like to be on the safe side :-)

removing/installing SCSI devices on powered on systems can blow fuses, etc.,
and cause assorted SCSI problems, including system crashes.

There are long and religious debates about this in other newsgroups,
and some folks get away with it (I do it myself on lab machines
from time to time), but any damage to systems, devices, or resulting
crashes are your problem, should it not work for you ;)
--
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
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From: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.os.vms
Subject: DECSERVERS with UNIX
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:59:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Originator: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu

I have a user with two DECSERVER 200's (8 ports each, including
two serial printers) that is considering retiring his MicroVAX 
for a UNIX box (SGI).  Since the DECSERVER's speak LAT, not tcp/ip
what options  exist for him keeping and using them to connect to
the UNIX box direcly, independent of any VAX?

Is there a LAT speaking software package for UNIX (SGI), public 
domain or otherwise?

Thanks, John
yates@a.chem.upenn.edu
From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Subject: Optimization problem with 3.1 compilers
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 00:06:16 GMT

I have a program that compiles and executes reliably with the MIPS 2.1
compilers under Irix 4.0.1, but core dumps with a segmentation violation
when a particular function is compiled at -O2 or above with the 3.1
compilers and Irix 4.0.5A.   Here is a short example with the problem:

> #include <stdio.h>
> #define MAXP 12
> 
> void main(void)
>   {
>   int *i, *j, step[MAXP+1], k;
>   double sum;
>   float all2[MAXP+1];
>
>   for (k = 0; k < MAXP+1; k++) {
>     step[k] = k; all2[k] = 2.0;
>     }
>
>   sum = 0.0; k = 2;
>   for (i = &step[2]; i <= &step[MAXP]; i++, k++) {
>     printf("k = %d\n", k);
>     for (j = &step[1]; j != i; j++)
>       sum += all2[*j] - 1;
>     }
>   printf("Sum = %f\n", sum);
>   }

When I compile this with 'cc -O2 bug.c' and run a.out, I get:

> k = 2
> k = 3
> k = 4
> k = 5
> k = 6
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Compiled -O1, the program runs to completion (k=12).  There are some
funny interactions in the code: if I change 'sum' to float, then the
-O2 code terminates "normally", but at k=7 instead of k=12.  I can't
see anything obviously wrong in the compiler output, but reading MIPS
assembly language gives me a headache.  I'm reasonably confident that
there are no bugs in this code fragment, and the program it is based
on works reliably on several other platforms (including SGI's with
pre-3.1 compilers).

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mohsen@pele.csd.sgi.com (Mohsen Hosseini)
Subject: Re: VideoCreator
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:56:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.150306.496@utagraph.uta.edu>, wford@arrirs04.uta.edu (William A. Ford) writes:
|> Hello All,
|> 
|> Just recieved our Indigo XS24:
|> 80 meg Ram
|> 2.2 Gig Disk
|> 16" Display
|> and SGI VideoCreator Box.
|> 
|> Two questions:
|> 
|> 1) SGI can not find the right cable for the indigo to the creator, creator to the monitor.  Is there a third party vendor that has such a cable...

What you need is a cable that is bnc on one end and D-type on the other. The part number for
such a cable is:

018-8105-001    CABLE ASSY,RGB,13W3/BNC.
You will need two of these cables. One to go from th system to the VC and then from VC to the monitor.

|> 
|> 2) Has anyone out here in network land used the video creator,  Such as for
|>    a)  External video source blended with internal video dumped back to tape.
|>    b)  Third party software to make life easy.
|>    c)  Video ertta reccomendations.
|> 

Video creator is an output only device (except for genlock input). There is no
blend function. You will have to use VideoLab to do that. Contact your local sales
rep for more infot about VideoLab.
|> Thanks all 
|> please email to wford@arri.uta.edu
|> 
|> Bill Ford 
|> UT Arlington
|> Computer Staff
|> wford@arri.uta.edu

-- 
---
Mohsen Hosseini (mohsen@csd.sgi.com) or (mohsen%relay.csd@sgi.com)

SGI Product Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Subject: Re: DPS extensions to X
Reply-To: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Organization: sgi
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 14:57:21 GMT

In article <32139@adm.brl.mil>, englund@gdstech.grumman.com (Dave Englund) writes:
|> I've recently tried to do some postscript previewing on my PI 4D/25. 
|> Using "xspview" resulted in a FATAL ERROR and told me that a correctly
|> installed application resource file was needed. It told me to check my
|> installation and my X environment variables. So after wandering about
|> in TFM trying to see what was what I'm still clueless. 
|> I've download the "xpsv" package thinking maybe the accompanying docs
|> would help but again "Display PostScript required" is the wall I run
|> into.
|> I've checked my installed software and versions says:
|> 
|> I  dps_dev              02/04/92  Display PostScript Development
|> System,
|>                                     1.0.1
|> I  dps_dev.man          02/04/92  DPS Documentation
|> I  dps_dev.man.relnotes 02/04/92  Display PostScript Release Notes
|> I  dps_dev.sw           02/04/92  DPS Software
|> I  dps_dev.sw.dps       02/04/92  Display PostScript Development
|> Environment

I would guess that you have newly installed "dps_eoe" and not restarted
your X server.

	OR

You haven't installed "dps_eoe" yet.

The "dps_eoe" product contains the driver for viewing DPS while
the development piece serves only the development needs.
 
|> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
|> 
|> 
|> 			Dave Englund | #include <stdio.h>
|> 	 englund@gdstech.grumman.com | main() 
|> 		       Grumman Corp. | {
|> 	   Corporate Research Center | 	  printf("hello, world\n");
|> 			Bethpage, NY | }

Good Luck,
Bob Green
From: joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com (Joseph Maddry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: list
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:37:29 GMT


Date:        Tue, Aug. 11, 1992
From:        Joseph Maddry  <joseph.maddry@matrix.sbs.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.sgi









FROM





Joseph Maddry
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From: george@tusk.med.harvard.edu (George Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: optical (r/w) drive for SGIs -- need recommendations
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:10:52 GMT
Organization: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

On Suns, I've used Artecon's "EOD" (Sony 501) r/w optical drives,
they've worked well, and I am very pleased with Artecon's support.

I'd appreciate your recommendations of a vendor for optical
drives for SGI's ... the tried and true Sony 501's, and others
that you have found to be good.  

Thanks.  I'll summarize to this list.




--
George Planansky
Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard University Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
email: gplanansky@tusk.med.harvard.edu
phone: (617) 432-3919
fax:   (617) 432-4360
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Subject: Re: Problem reading a tar file on exabyte
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:25:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.181143.3629@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, agouldng@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Allan Goulding) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem reading a tar file on an exabyte tape. 
> Specifically, the error is:
>    tar: tape read error: Not enough space
> There seems to be no mention of it in the tar man page. The message is
> not intuitively obvious to me. Does tar look to see that I only have
> 150MB free on disk and refuse to even extract one file? Why would a read
> operation complain about lack of space (disk, buffers)?
> 
> The exabyte is an 8200 (252T) on an SGI 4D/360S running Irix 4.0.1.
> We have received other tapes from the same source before and have never 
> had a problem reading them. (but we were also running 3.3.3 at the time)
> 
> tar tvf seems to have no problem reading the tape. ie:
> % mt -t /dev/exabnrnsv rewind
> % tar tvf /dev/exabnrnsv
> rw-r--r-- 2965/100 46719012 Jul 20 13:22 1992 taux2.cdf
> rw-r--r-- 2965/100 46719016 Jul 20 16:21 1992 tauy2.cdf
> rw-r--r-- 2965/100 46718996 Jul 13 17:30 1992 slp.cdf
> rw-rw-rw- 2965/100 46718996 Jul 10 13:52 1992 sst.cdf
> rw-r--r-- 2965/100 46719000 Jul  9 21:32 1992 sat.cdf
> rw-r--r-- 2965/100 46719000 Jul 24 12:59 1992 sst-sat.cdf
> rw-r--r-- 2965/100 46719004 Jul  9 16:11 1992 qs-qa.cdf
> 
> But when I try to extract using "tar xovf /dev/exabnrnsv", (/dev/exabnrnsv is
> linked to /dev/mt/tps0d6nrnsv.) I get an error in syslog saying a blocksize
>  mismatch:
> NOTICE: SCSI tape #6 blocksize mismatch; blocksize on tape is 10240 bytes
> and the "not enough space" message on the screen.
> 
> So I naturally rewind the tape and try again with more arguments:
> % tar xovbf 10240 /dev/exabnrnsv
> The "not enough space" message is repeated on the screen but this time 
> no blocksize error message appears in syslog.
> 
> Turning on some debugging (after rewinding again) yields:
> % tar xovqqbf 10240 /dev/exabnrnsv
> myio(read): wanted 5242880 bytes, got -1
>         errno is 12: Not enough spacetar: tape read error: Not enough space
> exiting myio, firsttape 1
> exiting from done, n 2

The 'b' argument to tar is in blocks, not bytes.  Try

	tar xovbf 20 /dev/exabnrnsv

jeremy
From: bluecow+@pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Have pick() programming problem
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:16:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I'm having an odd problem with an application I'm developing in C under
Irix 4.0.1.  I have many screens in which I use pick() to determine what
buttons have been clicked on.  Everything goes fine until the user moves the
mouse out of the window and then back in.  After the mouse has moved out
of the window, picking becomes very sluggish.  If the user continues to
move the mouse out of the window and back in again, picking gets successively
slower until finally the program just dies.  I suspect that this is some
insiduous bug in my code, but I can't imagine why it's happening.  If anyone
has experienced anything like this, please let me know,  I'm completely
perplexed.

Tob
bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu