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From: marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Marcel J.E. Mol)
Subject: Unix magazines
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:25:26 GMT

Recently I saw a list of Unix books, posted inthis group.
But, I also like to know which Unix magazines exist in this world.
Is there a list for magazines, or do you know any good magizine,
please let me know.
Thanks.

-Marcel
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From: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: /tmp problems ...
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:29:02 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In some of our public SUN Sparcstations, the /tmp subdirectories keep
filling up with "temporary" files until the file system is full.  These
files are left over from various jobs and are no longer needed.  These files
are erased whenever the workstations are rebooted, but we can't always
reboot when we want to.  I have considered creating a cron entry for each
workstation that will erase all of the files in /tmp once a day (say at
midnight or later).  However, jobs are running 24 hours a day and I am
afraid that I might accidently erase someone's temporary file(s) if I use 
this cron job.

Does anyone have a suggestion that will help solve my problem?

Thanks in advance!
-- 
David Swanger,   Auburn University, Alabama,   swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: jbotz@sophia.smith.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: PS printer doesn't know when job is done...
Organization: Smith College
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:01:46 GMT

I spent this afternoon setting up an HPIIIsi with Postscript connected
to a Sun3 via it's serial port.  I got it to work right away, except for
one odd little thing... the HPIII doesn't know when a job is done, and
pops up with a timeout error 10 seconds after it (correctly) finishes
printing.  So I called up HP tech-support, and the person I spoke to 
thought that for some reason the computer was sending an extra character
after the end of file.  He gave me a little piece of HPCL code that
makes control characters visible.  I switched the printer to HPCL mode,
downloaded the code, sent a file... and found that not only was there
no _extra_ character after the end-of-file, there was no end-of-file
character either.  Could this be the problem?  Should "lpd" be sending
an end-of-file character down the tty port?  Do I need to change some
tty flag?  I spent all afternoon digging through man pages looking for
a clue, but came up with zip.

  - Jurgen Botz
    jbotz@mtholyoke.edu

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From: sjoerd@cwi.nl (Sjoerd Mullender)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: help needed with Siemens Nixdorf system
Keywords: disk
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:39:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc

Despite the claimed openness of Siemens Nixdorf we failed to install a
Micropolis 1588-15 disk drive on the system.  The system is a
MX300I-45 running SINIX 5.40.  The disk is connected to a SCSI
interface that we bought from Siemens.  The system can see the disk
but can't access is because the proper information is missing from the
disk (VTOC and pdinfo blocks).

Is there anyone anywhere who can give us any help.
-- 
Sjoerd Mullender
CWI, dept. CST, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
email: sjoerd@cwi.nl			fax:   +31 20 592 4199
phone: +31 20 592 4127			telex: 12571 mactr nl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: holger@zelator.in-berlin.de (Holger Lesch)
Subject: XOpen gencat, catopen... for sgi IRIS Indigo ?
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 11:18:31 GMT


Hi there!

I'm looking for the XOpen nls-package (language independent message
catalogs) including gencat, catopen, ... for the sgi IRIS Indigo with
IRIX 4.0.1. May this be avialable as source or from sgi ?

thanx in anticipation

Holger
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From: kumeda@beach.csulb.edu (ANDY KUMEDA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Searching for Office Automation software
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:45:21 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

We are currently evaluating several Office Automation packages to serve
several thousand users.  Can anyone recommend VERY user-friendly packages
on a Unix platform?!?  Thanks.

Andy Kumeda
United States Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach
kumeda@mercury.nwac.sea06.navy.mil
kumeda@beach.csulb.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber)
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Organization: (n.) Body of persons united for a specific purpose.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:35:59 GMT


REAL programmers do:

	copy con program.exe


-- 
Glauber Ribeiro - Wheaton College, IL  (USA)
                  glauber@david.wheaton.edu 
                  glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.sgi
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Super-Duper Search Command, TLINKing!
Summary: A summary of the responses and a request for help on TLINKing!
Keywords: recap of Super-Duper search command, grep
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 03:50:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.051431.12803@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>...
>It would be more useful to me if I could do the following:
>
>    alias skan  find . -exec grep $$ {} \; -print | pg
>
>Then, by typing "skan VALUE", I could look for the files with the
>string "VALUE".  Is it possible to do an alias with a dummy argument
>like "$$"?
>If not, how could I do it?
>Please send e-mail.

I received numerous replies, and here is the "best" one in terms of
simplicity.  (And I just know that we _all_ love simplicity in the
"hideous" maze we call Unix.)

I edited my .cshrc file to include the following command:

        alias skn 'find . -print | xargs grep \!:1 | pg'

To use this scan "skn" command, I do the following.

       skn bozo_the_clown

Then, the names of all files starting from my current level of the
directory and below will be printed _if_ the accessed file has a
string that matches "bozo_the_clown".

Anyhow, thanks for the response.  But I have yet another question.
I am trying to create a symbolic link to a file.  I used the command
"tlink" on the SGI system do just that.  So, for example,

      tlink source_directory destination_directory

creates an image of the source_directory in destination_directory.
Any files in destination_directory only contain a _link_ to the original
file in source_directory.  Unfortunately, some of the files didn't
link properly and, in fact, did not appear in destination_directory
even though they are in source_directory.

So, I wish to just tlink, one file at a time (instead of 1 directory
at a time), each missing file whose image was not successfull copied
to destination_directory when I tlinked at the directory-wide level.
But I'm not sure how to tlink on a file by file basis.  How do you do it?

Please e-mail.  I will again post a summary.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: jke@tko.vtt.fi (Kemppainen Jukka)
Subject: Wanted: support software for UPS (uninterruptable power supply)
Organization: University of Oulu
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:44:55 GMT

hi there,

is there a public domain software available that supports
UPS (uninterruptable power supply) connected to unix workstation?

That is, a software deamon or a process which checks the serial
port once a while for CTS and other signals? Those signals are
used by the UPS to tell the computer about power failure and
power is up again.

Greetings,

Jukka Kemppainen
jke@tko.vtt.fi

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From: doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Douglas W O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:53:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1992Aug19.115348.5350
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <1992Aug18.153559.9595@wheaton.wheaton.edu> gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes:
->
->REAL programmers do:
->
->	copy con program.exe
->

But that's not a UN*X command :).

Doug.

btw.  it should be copy sys$input: program.exe.  :) :)

-- 
Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: lar@ucs.usl.edu (Robert, Lane A.)
Subject: Re: /tmp problems ...
Reply-To: lar@usl.edu (Robert, Lane A.)
Organization: Univ. of SW Louisiana, Lafayette
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:38:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.152902.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
   In some of our public SUN Sparcstations, the /tmp subdirectories keep
   filling up with "temporary" files until the file system is full.  These
   files are left over from various jobs and are no longer needed.  These files
   are erased whenever the workstations are rebooted, but we can't always
   reboot when we want to.  I have considered creating a cron entry for each
   workstation that will erase all of the files in /tmp once a day (say at
   midnight or later).  However, jobs are running 24 hours a day and I am
   afraid that I might accidently erase someone's temporary file(s) if I use 
   this cron job.

Here is the cron job we use for this problem:

	0 3 * * * find /tmp -atime +2 -type f -exec rm {} \;

It removes all plain files that haven't been accessed in 2 days.

Lane
lar@usl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: murthy@ee.uwm.edu (Murthy Nyayapati)
Subject: Newuser program for a University
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:44:46 GMT

Hi!

I am currently managing two machines which run Unix (HP-UX and DEC/Ultrix).

Being a university,  we have to constantly add accounts and before giving
the 
accounts we should be able to check for their validity.  I have been assigned 
to write a "newuser" program for these machines.  All the necessary security
checks should be done.  A "valid" student should be able to sit at a terminal
and "give" himself/herself an account.  We get a tape of all the list to students
who are registered.

Before I start working on this, I just wanted to find out if there is any
free/shareware software available.  Basically, I am looking for this program
from any university/institution where it is currently being used.  I can
"tailor-fit" the program to suit our needs.

Any input from anyone in this regrad is appreciated.

Thanks a lot in anticipation.

Murthy Nyayapati
Systems Administrator
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
murthy@ee.uwm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Summary of (Re: Grep-ing for Constants (Re: Assembler Syntax...))
Keywords: recap of "EXPORT", grep, UTLB exception handler
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 05:14:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.235443.21099@leland.Stanford.EDU>
underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>
>I received numerous replies.
>
>The one with the simplest explanation was
>
>   Try:
>     find . -exec grep your_string {} \; -print | pg
>
>I've tried it, and it works.  Most of the other replies had
>variations on combining "find" and "grep".

It would be more useful to me if I could do the following:

    alias skan  find . -exec grep $$ {} \; -print | pg

Then, by typing "skan VALUE", I could look for the files with the
string "VALUE".  Is it possible to do an alias with a dummy argument
like "$$"?

If not, how could I do it?

Please send e-mail.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.msdos
From: jbvb@vax.ftp.com  (James B. VanBokkelen)
Subject: Re: PCNFS:what are the alternatives--SUMMARY
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Keywords: PC/TCP 2.1
Reply-To: jbvb@ftp.com
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:51:50

In article <888@marvin.jpl.oz> lm@marvin.jpl.oz (Luigi Martin) writes:

    As promised, here are the replys that I got:
    ....
    From: Leo Smith <shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk>
    ....
    Most polished product is PC/TCP from ftp software. Version 2.1 just
    released - so probably buggy, but it does feature unloadable stack,
    and last I heard they were working real hard to get the normal kernel
    (c.70-100k) shoehorned into expanded memory as well as high loaded.
    They do an NFS implementation but it isn't as good IMHO as Beame and
    Whiteside or PC-NFS. Remote print redirect is (for example) shit.
    ....
    
If there isn't an LIM 4.0 EMS driver present, 2.1's kernel TSRs with slightly
less memory than 2.05 did.  If there is, it only requires ~25Kb (depending on
the kernel and number of TCPs) of DOS memory.  2.1's IDRIVE.EXE (the NFS
client/redirector) doesn't use EMS, and only uses 28Kb of DOS memory, so the
total cost is ~55 Kb with EMS, and ~100 without.

The kernel and IDRIVE were unloadable in previous releases, but now NETBIOS
and SNMPD unload too.  We've worked on print redirection quite a bit for 2.1,
particularly Windows support, but I can't guarantee you'll like the result
(supporting use of RSH or whatever against a SysV doesn't come without a
cost).  You'll see more improvement in this winter's release.

James B. VanBokkelen		26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA  01880
FTP Software Inc.		voice: (617) 246-0900  fax: (617) 246-0901

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: bdixon@wap.uucp (Bill Dixon)
Subject: non-internet ftp access
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:31:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: White Aluminum Products, Leesburg, FL

What is the best/easiest/cheapest way to be able to ftp files, for someone
that is not connected to the Internet?

I frequently see files mentioned that I would like to get, but I cannot
ftp to the sites.  And I feel hesitant to use the e-mail servers (those
few that I have information on), because that could cause someone to send
a (potentially) large file(s) through their modem, possibly with long
distance charges.

Please reply to bdixon@wap.oau.org, or this newsgroup.

Thanks a lot.
-- 
Bill Dixon
bdixon@wap.oau.org
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: edd166h@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (M.J. Rock)
Subject: A very little question...
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:56:13 GMT

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this question, but anyway;
Does anyone know what the Mail equivalent of .signature is? Sorry if this is
an extremely dumb FAQ, but I for one don't know the answer!

Please email replies to edd166h@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au

Thanx,

The ROCK.

-- 
The ROCK.

.signature: no such file or directory - auto reboot now in progr}~#@*
From: mansha@ham-and-cheese.cs.wisc.edu (Rajesh Mansharamani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Electronic Circuit Analysis Programs
Date: 23 Aug 92 16:51:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

Hi,

I'm looking for source code for Electronic Circuit Analysis programs that
run under UNIX (the source code should preferably be in C). Does any one
have information regarding where such source code can be obtained ?

Please send your reply to 'mansha@cs.wisc.edu'.

Thanks a lot,

Rajesh Mansharamani
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin Madison
(mansha@cs.wisc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
From: spc@pineal.sci.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner)
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, but who cares?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:28:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.103347.733@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>spc@pineal.sci.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner) writes:
>
>> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>
>> >spc@pineal.sci.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner) writes:
>> >>   -spc (Unix philosophy:
>> >> 	1. Write cryptic and highly customizable code.
>> >
>> >Write simple code. Write small modules that hang together well. Write your
>> >code as generically as possible... one day you'll have to port it.
>>
>>   And find is simple?  dd is small?  Gee, I'd like to have your Unix system
>> at work 8-) 8-) (add many many more if needed)
>
>All find does is apply a series of tests to all files in a given directory
>branch. And you even have to specify those tests as *whole words*. Sounds
>pretty simple to me.
>
  Yes, but it flies in the face of the syntax MOST Unix commands use by using
full words as apposed to cryptic case-sensitive single letters 8-).  That really
threw me the first time I had to use it.

>As for dd:
>
>	$ ls -l /bin/dd
>	-r-x--x--x  1 bin       bin            9676 Wed Aug  5 20:41 /bin/dd
>	$ 
>
>10k sounds small enough to me.
>
  Ah, but for what system?  On my SGI system (MIPS R3000 CPU) it's 20528 in size.
Not that bad for this system (where a simple #include <stdio.h> main(){printf("hello world\n");}
compiles to about 40K in size (using cc -o hello hello.c).

  (Of course, if I use cc -O3 -o hello hello.c -lc_s -s, then it drops down to about 8K 8-)

  -spc (Anyone want a 168 byte Unix EXECUTABLE file? 8-)


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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:48:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc

In <1992Aug19.115348.5350@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Douglas W O'Neal) writes:

>In article <1992Aug18.153559.9595@wheaton.wheaton.edu> gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes:
>->
>->REAL programmers do:
>->
>->	copy con program.exe
>->

>But that's not a UN*X command :).


>btw.  it should be copy sys$input: program.exe.  :) :)

No it shouldn't :-)

( cat > a.out )

:-)


-- 
einari@rhi.hi.is
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From: leying@alpha.management.mcgill.ca (Leying Zhao)
Subject: How to access intnet in Toronto?
Originator: leying@alpha
Organization: Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:11:52 GMT

Hi,

I am going to move to Toronto soon. Is there any way I can access this
intnet in Toronto?

I appreciate any information.
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From: natarsu@mse.ogi.edu (N. Sukumar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Troff and thesis-writing (Help !)
Date: 14 Aug 92 11:39:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.41375
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Material Science & Engineering


	Is there any on-line help for troff (text
formatter), especially in regard to thesis-writing ?
There are macros for preparing the table of contents;
how about list of figs/tables ?  Would like to get the hang of
page numbering (Roman/Italics) at the bottom-center.  I
doubt if any text formatter can be worse than troff :-)
 
Thanks for any info./help in advance.

-suku.
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Department of MS&E           Work  "   : (503)-690-1121 (X7451)
Oregon Graduate Institute      ****** BLAZERS IN 1993 ******
From: gcp79535@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Tsanpin Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Help -- A problem about tar
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:05:48 GMT
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

When I unpack the X11R5 software, I meet a problem.

$tar xvf mit_1.tar

But it displays the messages ----- xxxx Not a directary.
                                    .... cannot creat.

Does anyone know what's wrong with it?
I will appreciate your kindness. 

Any reply please email to 
          
              idpt95@tpts1.seed.net.tw

Thank you in advance.
From: cy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad O. Yoshikawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: SignalCode 8
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:45:31 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone have information concerning the error:SignalCode 8? From the
signal.h include file it appears to be a floating point exception.
Thanks in advance,

Chad
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
From: tjg01@thdhub.HomeDepot.COM (Terry Gardner)
Subject: mv
Organization: The Home Depot, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:46:01 GMT

What was the great `mv' controversy I heard about? In regards
to UNICOS that is.
-- 
"VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win, you can use UNIX".
terry@HomeDepot.COM			          Terry J. Gardner


Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
From: cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass)
Subject: Re: SignalCode 8
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:38:59 CDT

In article <AeWI0fa00awJ8YrURt@andrew.cmu.edu> cy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad O. Yoshikawa) writes:
>Does anyone have information concerning the error:SignalCode 8? From the
>signal.h include file it appears to be a floating point exception.
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Chad


Hello Chad,

 A Signal 8 - SIGFPE - is Floating-point exception. Overflow has occurred 
or a zero divisor is used in a floating point divide.

 This signal, is a termination signal and also produces a core dump of 
your process.

 Hope this helps.

  Cindy
   cfg@cray.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: NQS Information...
From: jkp@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (Jens K. Petersohn)
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:57:02 EST
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have complete NQS documentation online here in Ohio, USA.
What exactly do you need?

	Jens Petersohn
	Univ. of Toledo
	Toledo, Ohio
	USA
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