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From: msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross)
Subject: Questions on UNIXware
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
Summary: Need some info please
Organization: Systems and Synchronous Inc., Naperville, IL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:52:31 GMT

Well there seems to be a number of knowledgable people here in these
newsgroups.  I wonder if someone could answer a few questions for me.

Does Novell's UNIXware support the following?

   1) DMD layers (ie. AT&T 5620, 630, 730)
   2) At least 6 Gigabytes of SCSI disk
   3) NFS and RFS
   4) 8mm SCSI tape backup (Extabyte)
   5) An X.25 interface/test suite?
   6) Multi-Processor support

I know there are versions of SCO UNIX that have 3rd-party versions of
X.25 drivers and 8mm Tape drivers.  Are there many 3rd party vendors
that write code for UNIXware?  (I know quite a few vendors writing code
for the Novell LAN, but we aren't planning on using the LAN until
sometime next year.  We would like to start out with PC/NFS)

I'm sure this will be no problem if the AT&T/Novell sale goes through,
but what is the current state of affairs?

I tried to direct the follow-ups to comp.unix.misc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mike

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From: jgabriel@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Juan Gabriel Ruiz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Print Spooler Manager
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:51:30 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc

I'm looking for a printer spooler manager. I want to replace the
AIX spooler system in our RS/6000 administrative machines, this
is because I need a program that handles more control in the
printing process, for example, reprint from some page to end
of document, handle page forms, stop and cancel of the actual
job, etc. Anybody has some experience with some of this programs
If you have some information about, please let me know.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Juan Gabriel Ruiz Pinto
UNIX System Administrator
ITESM Monterrey Campus
--
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Soporte Equipos UNIX                   NeXT-mail: jgabriel@roxette.mty.itesm.mx
Depto. de Tecnologia Computacional 
I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey
From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Diff between sym and hard links?
Date: 9 Jan 93 15:00:31 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.

> Anyone?  What *is* the difference between symbolic and hard links in a
> unix fs?  

Hmm, how about reading the manual pages? Okay, I'll save you the trouble.

- A symlink contains the (relative or absolute) pathname of a file. The file
can be in another file system. If the file is moved, the symlink is no longer
valid, because the file has a new pathname.

- A hard link contains the *inode* number of a file, and thus is only valid
within the file system where the file is located. If the file is moved within
this file system, the hard link remains valid.

A further point to note is that there is no way to tell the difference between
the "original" name of a file, and any further hard links to that file. They
are all simply links to the same file. When the link count for a file goes to
zero, the operating system removes the file.

There are people who don't like symlinks, are there are versions of Unix which
don't implement symlinks. Personally, I consider it *essential* for efficient
system administration of large installations to have symlinks available.

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
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: pjw@wacher.oz.au (Peter Williams)
Subject: Backing up a system over a TCP/IP network 
Organization: Wachers Pty Ltd
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:28:57 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.unix.questions ]
[ Author was  ]
[ Posted on Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:26:24 GMT ]

G'Day,

Has anyone out there got a shell script or suggestion that will allow me to 
backup my SCO UNIX system using a tape drive on another machine with a TCP/IP 
connection.

I have thought about it and am looking for some suggestions.

Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
Subject: Re: Windows NT Report
Reply-To: Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:48:41 GMT


In article <9212250048.05@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

>According to my friends who have to program for it, NT has no relation to
>any operating system known to man, and they wish it would go away.

Well, given the Win32 API based on the Windows API, and something that
looks very similar to VMS internally, I find this very hard to
believe.

>The Windows 3.x support on NT is such that a hacker could easily write a
>Windows app that would walk right through NT's security.

Please tell us more about this security hole.

>Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	merk!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP

PJDM
--
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Digital Equipment Corporation   |
Canberra, ACT, Australia        | "AXP!": Bill the Cat

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
Subject: Re: Windows NT Report
Reply-To: Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:21:35 GMT


In article <9301050843.02@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

>>>The Windows 3.x support on NT is such that a hacker could easily write a
>>>Windows app that would walk right through NT's security.
>>
>>Please tell us more about this security hole.
>
>From what I understand, Windows 3.x apps under NT ignore the permission
>bits on files except for those already compatible with MSDOS.  This has
>been discussed on comp.os.os2.advocacy, and the "very vocal" people who
>post there from Microsoft have not attempted to refute this.

Windows 3.x apps running on WoW under NT are unaware of the non-MSDOS 
permission bits in NTFS, but those bits are still enforced.  Win 3.x apps are 
not let in via a back door.

--PSW

PJDM
--
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Digital Equipment Corporation   |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: dean@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Richard Dean)
Subject: Re: What rc stands for in .cshrc
Reply-To: richard.dean@Central.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 23:32:03 GMT

In <id.E6CW.9X3@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

>RC starts for "restart commands" or "run commands"
>(depending on whose etymology you believe).

I was brought up believing and cast my vote for "Runtime Configuration"

/richard

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: ghost@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Hartmut Kuehn)
Subject: Alchemy 1.5 needed
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:03:03 GMT

Hi all !

As the subject says, I need Alchemy 1.5, but for SUN/Sparc-stations,
means Unix.
I have some of these jpeg files, that djpeg can't handle and Alchemy 1.4
doesn't know that sort of files.
If you look into these files, you see that they are made by Alchemy 1.5.

So if someone knows where I can find it (or is it no PD anymore ??)
or if someone has it, I would appreciate if you mail me or post here.

BTW: Any requests to some archie-hosts didn't help either, they only
have links to version 1.4.

Thanks and bye

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: juanita@bomford.canberra.edu.au (Juanita)
Subject: OS/2 vs UNIX
Summary: Need reference about OS/2 vs UNIX
Keywords: OS/2 Unix
Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
Date:  5 Jan 93 23:52:01 GMT


I am in need of a reference which compares OS/2 and UNIX.  I chose 
to go with a UNIX workstation for development of a graphics 
application and need to justify myself.  My main reason for choosing 
UNIX was its virtual memory capability (as I will be graphing heaps and
heaps of time series data) which I did not believe was possible in mid 
'91 with OS/2.  There is also the issue of disks speeds and memory
of PCs vs graphics workstations. 

Can anyone point me to a written reference?  I would appreciate any e-mail
to juanita@bpl.canberra.edu.au

Thanks
Juanita Crutchley
Computing Honours Student
University of Canberra
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: CSC System Sciences Division
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:41:00 GMT

In article <1801@ocpt.ccur.com>, pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter) writes...

>The major advantage of Unix over VMS is it's redirection...  Also the device
>independant nature of i/o.  Also the directory structure.

The device independent nature of UNIX I/O has always looked to me to possibly 
be a limitation when doing real-time.  I am under the understanding that the
VMS subdirectory higherarchy was inspired by the UNIX hierarchy.  I am not sure
whether I really find a preference for UNIX's single system-wide hierarchy, or
VMS's per disk hierarchy, but they both beat the heck out of RSX's single
level UFD, or our old IBM mainframe's catalog.

> Better integrated networking (Berkeley learned a lot on developing 
>rcp from decnet's copy node::file.

 Its's really nice to site on a VMS machine and
	edit node::file
 where "node" doesn't have an editor you like.
 I've done this to TOPS-20, RSX, ULTRIX, and AIX (kinet's implementation of
 DECnet).

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                         - Blixie

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.amateur-comp
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:34:49 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

According to mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner):
>UNIX is remarkably consistent ...

Look, whatever UNIX is, it is _not_ consistent.

Of course, "a foolish consistency", etc.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: steve@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steve Rezsutek)
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, MD
	<31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1801@ocpt.ccur.com>
	<5JAN199308410371@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:13:56 GMT

rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:

    Its's really nice to site on a VMS machine and
	   edit node::file

    where "node" doesn't have an editor you like.

Equally nice is sitting on an Apollo DomainOS node:

    my-fav-editor //some-other-node/some-file

Of course, if you're ON the node that doesn't have the editor
you want, then what? On Domain, it's easy...

    //node-with-real-software/local/bin/my-fav-editor some-file

Of course, this can all be hidden from the mortals quite nicely
(ln -s //other-node/local/bin /usr/local/bin), and in reality,
I rarely notice that I'm on one node and not another, unless
one is down, or I happen to be on the 400s which is faster than
the DN4000's we have.

So, anyone with dates handy care to inform us whether Domain's
(Aegis' actually) "integrated networking" [to use the phrase]
came before or after the others?

[Personally, I think it isn't so important who was first, but
rather who did it "right" and when the rest will catch up.
IMHO, Domain has a much higher rightness coefficeient that
either UNIX or VMS.]

"UNIX?  Yeah, it's a cute little OS, but I'll take Domain over
 it, or VMS, any ol' day..."

Steve

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From: miket@frog.CRDS.COM (Michael C Tiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Name daemon RFC & Info.
Summary: Seeking medicine for non-working named.
Keywords: named
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:26:42 GMT
Organization: Charles River Data Systems


	I've got a SVR4 (i860) system and am having one HECK of a time
	trying to get the named to behave itself.

	I can get it to request the files from the primary IF and ONLY
	IF I make it the/a secondary.  However, I just want it to be a
	client.  Should it load the hosts DB file if this is the case or
	should it query the primary name server for each name it can't
	resolve by itself and then maintain it's own cache of resolved
	names?

	If anyone's got the RFC #'s 1034 & 1035 (I don't have direct
	access to the net {YET}) could they be so kind as to mail it to
	me?  I'd REALLY appreciate it.

	Part of what I suspect my problems are is that I don't have the
	root.cache or the named.local files in the correct format.

	Thanks folks.
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	to realize that it was a "Do-It-Yourself" project.
From: rick@rodan.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: What rc stands for in .cshrc
Date: 4 Jan 1993 18:59:40 -0500
Organization: UUNET Communications
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net
Summary: definitive answer


From research!dmr Sat Oct 31 16:58:15 1981
Subject: rc etymology

The name 'rc' comes from RUNCOM, which was the rough equivalent
on the MIT CTSS system of what Unix calls shell scripts.  Of course
RUNCOM derives from 'run commands.'

Yet another piece of evidence for my thesis that Unix is a modern
version of CTSS.  (I said it ca. 1973, so 'modern' is questionable.)
Any who used '. SAVED' will have no trouble conquering the Shell.
Noel I. Morris, do you still live?
		Your indefatigable historian,
				Dennis Ritchie


Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: webster@bnr.ca (Brent Webster)
Subject: Re: Backing up a system over a TCP/IP network
Reply-To: webster@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:45:55 GMT

The easy documented way uses tar piped into a rsh.  SUN man
page for tar:
  tar cvfb  -  20 filenames | rsh host dd of=/dev/rmt0  obs=20b
and to retrieve it
  rsh -n host  dd  if=/dev/rmt0   bs=20b  |  tar
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:07:49 GMT
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		 Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		 nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		 schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.

In <id._5CW.E53@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1992Dec25.072643.20494@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>> When are we finally going to acknowledge that different tools have
>> different purposes?  Every time I see something like "And my truck can
>> haul more dirt than your Corolla" I say "And who the hell gives a shit?"

[ ... ]
>Oh yeh, it's also got door locks so I can park it outside.

Tony, didn't you know better than to make a car-computer
comparison when Peter is near? And didn't you know that any
place in USENET is a place where Peter is near?

Kristian

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"Better to have Linux RT than Windows NT" -- Kristian
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.amateur-comp
From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:10:46 GMT
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		 Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		 nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		 schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.

In <mckeeveb.725854823@sfu.ca> mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user) writes:
>>Tcsh the best interactive shell? 
>I use the zsh here at SFU...

Vote comp.unix.shell.advocacy.

Kristian
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"Better to have Linux RT than Windows NT" -- Kristian
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL !?
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:16:31 GMT
Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)

In article <1i8a0sINNh0b@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>In article <C0AMMu.Lwq@queernet.org> rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>>since 1984.  UnixWare *is* UNIX.  Nothing's missing; you simply can
>>do things without spelling out commands on a ouija board *IF* *YOU*
>>*CHOOSE* *TO*...
>
>Unfortunately this isn't true.  There are no on-line manpages, for
>example, and I'm not even sure that you can get printed manpages.  I
>didn't examine UnixWare much further to discover what else was
>missing; for the purposes for which we were evaluating UnixWare, that
>was enough to kill it.

Did you do a followup call to Novell to see if online manpages and/or
printed manpages are available?  I would suspect that they have various
configuration levels for the UnixWare package, with one of them being a
minimal package to make it look attractive on small systems.

-- 

Rick Kelly    rmkhome!rmk@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP
From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Windows NT Report
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:02:50 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <1992Dec23.160416.2512@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, by williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams):
> In article <9212221409.36@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>Windows sucks.  Microsoft will not support X-11 on NT.
> 
> How do you mean this?  Will they actively try to stop 3rd parties from
> porting X to NT?  I don't think so...

	For various technical reasons due to the way the screen is controlled
by NT porting X11 seems out of the question.. It does require MS to do some
work to the standard system to allow X11 to become possible..

	Cheers
		Mark :(
-- 
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   University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: termcap entry for latest MS-KERMIT?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 6 Jan 1993 23:37:52 -0500
Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Reply-To: tal@warren.mentorg.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: plts.uucp

MS-KERMIT emulates (among other things) a VT320.  Does anyone have a
termcap entry for VT320 that takes advantage of the added features of
MS-KERMIT's terminal emulation code?

Please reply to this message, I will post a summary within a week.

Thanks,
Tom
P.S.  This is for a Sun 4.1.x environment, but most BSD-based
systems are compatible.
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/ mouth to mount resusitation / I just lay down beside him / and idolize.
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:29:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Bill Pechter (pechter@ocpt.ccur.com) wrote:
> 
> Bill
> (looking for a VMS  clone to go on my 386 along with my Unix clone)

What about Windows NT? (half ;-))

pete
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From: msingleton@Parthenon.Tacoma.WA.US (Mike Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: AT&T 3b5 Hardware
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:05:07 PST
Organization: Parthenon - Public Internet Access Division - Tacoma,WA.

 Needed: A vendor who supports the AT&T 3b5 platform. NCR no longer 
supports it. Please email response. Thanks.



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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: What rc stands for in .cshrc
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:35:54 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>While I know it's more likely derive from "run commands" or the like,

It is.  The definitive answer to this question is posted elsewhere in
this thread; Rick Adams posted the contents of a message from Dennis
Ritchie on this topic....
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: wjohnson@nmsu.edu (Wilbur Johnson)
Subject: vi editor
Keywords: vi rule ruler editor 
Reply-To: wjohnson@nmsu.edu
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:30:20 GMT


A friend of mine asked me a question about vi that I was unable to answer.

He said that a long time ago he could load a MACRO into vi that would provide
a column rule (i.e. column number indicator) that would appear as a side effect
to his document. That is the ruler would act like line numbering.

We are particularly interested in SunOS vi.

If you could help please reply by email to

   wsanders@nmsu.edu
            OR
   wjohnson@nmsu.edu

Thanks,

---
Wilbur R. Johnson

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc