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From: salas-m@plains.NoDak.edu (Juan P. Salas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: MOUNT/UNMOUNT CD-ROM AIX-3.2.?
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:22:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.BzqE1H.73y
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network



I hope this is not a FAQ!

I have been trying to set a script that would 
let me mount and unmount cd-roms.

I have been unsucessful, I have also tried the mntdisk
and cdmount software from comp.sources.misc(i think)

I couldn't get mntdisk compiled, but cdmount will
give me the same error as a regular shell script
(not owner of mount-point..)

Would anyone please give me some suggestions, 
someone told me it couldn't be done, or that it
could probably be done on perl..

Any suggestions please..
thanks

Juan Pablo
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: millert@nordsieck.cs.Colorado.EDU (Todd C. Miller)
Subject: Re: Why does xterm not put in a utmp entry?
Keywords: xterm utmpnn
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:07:23 GMT

Well, we're running X11R5 libs & headers w/ the stock aix X server and it works
for us, so ours is not a traditional AIX 3.2 setup :-)
However, there is a really nasty bug.  Xterm will assign pty's to users that
are already in use!  I'm still trying to track down that puppy...

 - todd
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From: ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Looking for suggestions for Tape Backup?
Date: 31 Dec 92 10:41:00 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine -- Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab


Happy New Year!!!!! (almost :) ) 
                   By the time this gets to some it will be a new year

Greetings All,

     We are currently looking to purchase a 8mm backup tape drive for our site.
I was perusing  through the AIX FAQ for possible suggestions and saw that 
only IBM's tape drive will work. We are looking to backup about 1.5 Gig on
Suns and Rs6k. I have to check but I could have sworn that I saw a 8mm 
advertised for IBM and SUNs is the FAQ correct? Anybody have any suggestions
or warnings i should know being in the market for 8mm drives. 

                                  Thanx in advance,

                                  Ed Geraghty 

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From: woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Tuning NFS-Server?
Date: 3 Jan 1993 14:59:38 GMT
Organization: CompuNet Berlin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de

#include <season.greetings.h>

Hi Folks,
let's assume the following situation: I have a 320H acting as /usr- and
/home-server for some 5-10 clients (small machines 320 or 220).
The OS-level is AIX 3.2.2.U`date`

If heavy metal compiling occurs on all clients I can observe, that the
server goes to 100% sys load (I use monitor 1.06). The more the clients
push NFS-load the more response time goes to infinity. 

Before I replace the 320H with a 990 and the Ethernet with FDDI or SOCC
I would like to tune the NFS-perfomance of the 320H a little bit.
So I have three questions:

1.) Can I disable UDP-checksum calculation?
I have no reference whether it is enabled at all, but I have heard from
other vendors that this would be one possibility to increase NFS-throughput.

2.) Can I enable asynchronous write?
I remember that someone told me that in spring. But I found no hints
in info or smit. I would like to have every write-call return 
immediatly regardless of what is happening really down the pipeline.

3.) What else can I do?
(yes, I know Presto and Auspex, but I want to tune the 320H ;-)

Thank you all,


Wolfgang Ksoll           woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
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Phone: +49 (030) 707 85 - 123 FAX: - 130
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling)
Subject: Help Using HP Deskjet 550C color printer with RS/6000 AIX 3.2.1
Summary: Need help!
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:25:12 GMT

If anyone has had any luck with the above printer or knows where I might
get a driver for it, I'd appreciate hearing from you.  Thanks.
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South Bend, IN
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Bizarre question -- 3rd part 3278 -> serial converter?
Organization: The World
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:17:49 GMT


From: jonathan@CAD.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Katz)
>  I want an item that probably does not exist.  We have a lot of
>3278 terminals, but, currently we have a need for serial terminals.
>
>  Is there a device that on one hand is like a 3274, but, instead
>of taking 3278 connections and going to bus & tag (i.e., mainframe
>connectivity), it will take 3278 in and go to several serial ports,
>perhaps, mapping one 3278 to one serial port?

I know I saw such a device a few years ago, it actually emulated a
VT100. It was a little box that hung off the coax and had a DB-25
(RS-232) on it going the other way. It was amusing, I don't think it
was very expensive (maybe $150?) On the other hand, you can probably
pick up good used ASCII terminals for under $100 these days, so
there's not much point.


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From: steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Reading 3.1 dump tapes from 3.2
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:34:57 GMT
Followup-To: poster,kwolters@lucy.wellesley.edu
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U

I have a dump tape created with AIX 3.1 using the backup script.

Since creating that tape, the machine has been upgraded to
AIX 3.2 and the backup script now uses tar.

Is there a way to access manually the tape created with dump?
dump complains the tape is not in dump format.  Has dump changed
in 3.2?

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From: amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: GL PTF?
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:37:26 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

The GL fixe for the GT4/AIX 3.2.0 is U406174. For me, that made GL
work to my satisfaction (doesn't take much, does it?) and made my new
DAT work (well, almost). Try it, you might like it.

Andrew Mel'cuk        amelcuk@dirac.clarku.edu
From: jonathan@CAD.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Bizarre question -- 3rd part 3278 -> serial converter?
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:20:36 GMT
Organization: U.C.L.A. Computer Aided Design Laboratory

Hi,
  I want an item that probably does not exist.  We have a lot of
3278 terminals, but, currently we have a need for serial terminals.

  Is there a device that on one hand is like a 3274, but, instead
of taking 3278 connections and going to bus & tag (i.e., mainframe
connectivity), it will take 3278 in and go to several serial ports,
perhaps, mapping one 3278 to one serial port?

   Thanks for your help,
      Jonathan


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Rowan Hughes)
Subject: NQS help
Summary: NQS help
Keywords: nqs
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 07:18:01 GMT


I'm setting-up NQS under AIX3.1 (RS6000). If anyone has written a Makefile
that works correctly (in the proto/ dir) please email to me.

Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jacobsen@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov (Chris Jacobsen)
Subject: patches to XLC beyond AIX 3.2.3?
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:59:57 GMT

I'm having some problems with shareable objects written
for the CALL_EXTERNAL function of IDL from Research
Systems Inc.  In fact, I think I've traced my problems
down to some flakiness in the XLC compiler.  Are there
any PTFs for it beyond what's in AIX 3.2.3 (August 1992
version)?
	Thanks,
	Chris Jacobsen
	jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Rebooting 520 from kernel debugger
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:33:38 GMT

In the course of developing device drivers, I tend to crash the machine.
I have the kernel debugger activated so that when the kernel panics, it
drops into the debugger.

Is there a way to reboot the machine by giving a command to the debugger
rather than having to go downstairs and press the big yellow button?


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mvarila@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mikael J Varila)
Subject: Bug in wsetscrreg or scroll (aix 3.2.0) ?
Organization: University of Helsinki
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:35:53 GMT


	Hi,
We have run into a small (?) problem with our c-programs
compiled in RS6000 AIX 3.2.0 conserning scrolling.

If anyone out there can spot the error in the following
c-program ( or verify that it crashes ), I would be very
grateful.

========================================================
#include <stdio.h>
#include <curses.h>

main()
{

        initscr();
        cbreak();
        noecho();
        scrollok( stdscr, TRUE );

        wmove( stdscr, 23, 0 );
        waddstr( stdscr, "1" );
        wmove( stdscr, 22, 0 );
        waddstr( stdscr, "2" );

        wrefresh( stdscr );

        wgetch( stdscr );

        wsetscrreg( stdscr, 22, 24 );
        scroll( stdscr );

        wmove( stdscr, 23, 0 );
        waddstr( stdscr, "3" );
        wmove( stdscr, 24, 0 );
        waddstr( stdscr, "4" );

        wrefresh( stdscr );

        wgetch( stdscr );

        nocbreak();
        echo();
        scrollok( stdscr, FALSE );
        endwin();

}

========================================================

When I run the code above, I get the error
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
 - but ONLY if the window where I run it is 24*80
characters.

The compiler we use seems to be of version 1.2.0.8.

One more thing: the program does not crash on our
ICL Mikko DRS6000 machine runnig SysVr4.

Thanks in advance,

				Mikael Varila

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Subject: /usr client woes
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:12:05 GMT

Well, I installed a 220 for use with a /usr server (a 340).
The 340 is running AIX 3.2.2. I used the base 3.2.0 install
tape to install the client. When it booted, it grabbed a
bunch up updates and applied them, then rebooted itself.
So far so good.

The problem:
The 220 crashes often (888) with no extended codes. This 
machine had been running happily as a fully configured 3.2.2
machine. I want to switch to the /usr server to alleviate
system maint time. 

I can easily reproduce a crash by simply cat(ing) a large
file on the server. I know other folks are using /usr servers.
Are you having the same kinds of troubles?

The filesystem structure on the client looks like:

Filesystem    Total KB    free %used   iused %iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4          4096    1912   53%     703    68% /
/dev/hd9var       8192    7348   10%     102     4% /var
150.131.15.31:/usr  364544    3728   98%   -       -    /usr
/dev/hd3         16384   15368    6%      30     0% /tmp
/dev/hd1          4096    3784    7%      22     2% /home
huckle:/usr/local   20480   17740   13%   -       -    /usr/local
huckle:/usr/pkg1  106496   45060   57%   -       -    /usr/pkg1
huckle:/usr/pkg2  286720   45504   84%   -       -    /usr/pkg2
huckle:/var/spool/mail    8192    6460   21%   -       -    /var/spool/mail
huckle:/u1      512000  180552   64%   -       -    /u1
huckle:/usr/lpp/info/En_US  169246       0  100%   -       -    /usr/lpp/info/En_
US

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From: ekpc@access.digex.com (East Kentucky Power Cooperative)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: PC X-term to RS/6k (INed keymap help)
Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:39:36 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

I am using Hummingbird's eXceed/W product to start up aixterm sessions.
Problem: When a user uses the INed on the micro, rather than the hft,
         the right control does not act as the action key. Similarly,
         the Scroll Lock does not act as the Cancel key.

I looked everywhere on the PC side; eXceed/W is sending keycode 64
for the right control and 125 for the scroll lock. The right Alt key
acts as the Alt key for INed.

Any leads/ideas/comments/suggestions/references will be greatly
appreciated.

Fernie
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: drewo@dcatlas.dot.gov (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: GL PTF?
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:22:37 GMT

     I remember seeing here recently a posting about a PTF to fix
various problems with the GL software, but didn't save it at the time.

     Could someone please let me know what the PTF was so that I can try and
get the fix?

     Thanks.
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From: crgreg@rios1.sdrc.com (Greg Marion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: memory leak detection
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:08:14 GMT
Organization: SDRC

I would like to know if anyone has heard of any software that would assist
developers in detecting when an application allocates memory and does
not free it. We would have to know which routine/function and maybe
a range of line numbers that are suspect.

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jmmannin@eos.ncsu.edu (James M Manning)
Subject: /etc/motd - any suggestions?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:41:02 GMT


The subject says it all!
Anybody know how to make nice looking letters out of ASCII
chars?  Or anybody got anything cute?
Also, `date` doesn't work for showing the date.
Besides the anal way of putting a continuous crontab entry,
can that be done?
Thanks for any info,
James Manning

P.S. Also, the mail and Net Ware printing problems are fixed,
     thanks for all the help!
From: esulzner@cadev5.intel.com (Eric Sulzner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Where has all my memory gone?
Date: 26 Dec 92 22:50:05 GMT
Organization: Design Technology, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

It gets used for I/O paging.
And it never gets put back on the free list.
But it's still available to apps that ask for it.

adding RSS in ps output is the only way I've found.  It's not perfect,
but it gets pretty close.  IBM couldn't come up with a better way (I
asked).

you might want to alias
ps aux | sed 1d | awk '{sum += $6} \
END	{print sum}
(or something like that, I'm not at work) to something, or put it in a script.

In article <1hikh3INNn5g@crcnis1.unl.edu> james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau) writes:

   Does anyone know a way to tell exactly where all one's memory
   is being used at?  I've got two 520's running 3.2.1 which have
   been up and running since July 9.  That's fine, but I think
   I'm slowly loosing memory (I mean on the RSs :)  Both 'lsps -a'
   and monitor seem to agree that I've got 60MB of paging, and about
   52MB used leaving 8 or so free.  I would normally not argue, but
   running with 8MB free is getting awfully tight.  So, I add up
   the outputs of size from 'ps aux', 'ps -kel'.  They seem to both
   add up to around 32 MB in use.  So, where is the other 20MB
   of virtual memory?  It sure would be nice to have it back :)  This
   is even after running slibclean.  What I want, is a way to find
   out who/what is using that 20MB of memory.  If something is using
   it productively,  that's OK, but I still want to know where it is!

   I could probably cure all this by rebooting, but, I usually view
   that as the last response on the two servers.  Besides, as they
   say "I shouldn't HAVE to do that".

   Thanks!
   James

   james@engrs.unl.edu

   College of Engineering
   University of Nebraska--Lincoln
   W181 Nebraska Hall
   Lincoln, NE  68588-0501
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From: ija@service (ija)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Is it possible to use HFT input without a display adapter?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:03:49 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


The team I am working with are trying to construct an X server running
on the RS/6000 under AIX 3.2. Our company has a specialized graphics
product called VARS which is display-list based and we are trying to put
X on it. For input devices, we were hoping to use a mouse and keyboard
connected to the standard ports on the RS/6000 and use some of IBM's
sample X server code to drive these. The sample code uses the HFT
driver.

Unfortunately, the HFT driver on our RS/6000 will not load at the
moment, presumably because it has no display adapter. Does anybody know
if the HFT driver can be used without a display adapter, and if so, how
to configure it to operate in this manner?

Alternatively, does anyone know how to drive the mouse and keyboard at a
lower level using /dev/sioms0 and /dev/siokb0 ?  I can't find any
references to driving the devices at this level in InfoExplorer.

Please direct any replies as follow-ups or Email me as ija@fcsl.co.uk --
I am Emailing this to a news posting machine as postnews is not working
at my local site.

TIA for any help.

                   ija@fcsl.co.uk (Ian Abbott in real life)


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  help
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:01:38 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <92358.123359BILMIN@TREARN.BITNET> <BILMIN@TREARN.BITNET> writes:
>What is the difference between tar and tar.Z files ?

The .Z extension means that the files have been compressed using the
compress application. Look for an uncompress command to uncompress
these files.

>What is ps.Z file ?

A PostScript file that have been compressed.



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From: arc2d@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: FORTRAN on UNIX input problem
Date: 29 Dec 92 13:43:24 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I have a question concerning FORTRAN on a RS/6000.  The code I'm using (PMARC)
uses NAMELIST inputs with real values interspersed.  A variable in one NAME-
LIST tells the code that a series of real values is to be read.  An example of
the read statement follows:
READ(15,*,ERR=700) BY,. . .etc.
The error this read statement is looking for is the & or $ that signals the
next NAMELIST (and thus the end of the real values).  The problem is:  UNIX is
to "kind"--it gives a warning when it reads the & or $ instead of an error.
Therefore, it never goes to 700 when the next NAMELIST is encountered.
  Any compiler "switches" or other tricks in UNIX that are available?  The
error trapping works fine on a VAX, I'm want to find a way to improve the 
portability of the code.  (I can always read a character string.  See if & or $
is in the second position.  Then BACKSPACE and read the real value or
NAMELIST.)
  Thanks in advance
  Tom Mouch  ARC2D@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu	
Newsgroups: comp.protocol.misc,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,alt.bbs.internet
From: totake@ho10.eng.ua.edu ()
Subject: Recursive get for ftp
Originator: totake@ho10.eng.ua.edu
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:14:12 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a way to transfer files using ftp from a remote site to my
current account.  In particular I need a command for ftp to recursively
retrieve all files in a directory as well as all files in all subdirectories,
not only the first level, but all levels below the current directory level,
i.e. the entire directory structure with all the files.  I tried mget but it
only retrieves files in the current directory and files in first level of
subdirectories, but nothing else.  Also, it doesn't reconstruct all the
subdirectories at my location.  So, how can I get an entire directory
structure with its files and reconstruct it exactly as it is at the remote
site?  E-mail would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Tom


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From: amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: xlf 2.3 and INTEGER overflow
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:29:54 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department


   It would seem from casual info-monster perusal that xlf
doesn't catch integer overflow. Integer overflow is in fact
mentioned in info explorer, but no switches are available, and
the following simple program doesn't work as expected:

	write(*,*) 100000**2

or, more realistically

	write(*,*) (144*2+450**2)/100000**2

I understand that this code should not work (WELL, it's not MY
code), but how can I trap such things?

Thanks,

Andrew Mel'cuk   amelcuk@dirac.clarku.edu   the victim of the 7206 MONSTER DAT
From: valery@aix6.bgs.com (Valery Kravchenko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Sorry, test
Date: 30 Dec 1992 11:34:55 -0500
Organization: BGS Systems
NNTP-Posting-Host: aix6.bgs.com

test