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From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Subject: Re: uucp and getty on a shared tty - anybody done it ?
Reply-To: robin@pencom.com
Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:33:04 GMT

By the way,

(Sorry about leaving this off from the last post... BUT)

I have set-up UUCP on a TTY on AIX MANY MANY TIMES... I even wrote a little  
guide for how-to-do-it.  The guide is now somewhat out-of-date, but still  
(for the most part) applicable.  In fact, I just recently set-up a UUCP -  
rmail connection to a 3.2 machine, and most of what I wrote in the guide  
still applies.  If you want the guide mail me directly (It's kind of long).


robin    "batman never really knew me"


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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: alloca in readline
Keywords: Gnu readline library
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:35:07 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


In article <1992Aug31.224322.8392@tamsun.tamu.edu>
jhardin@data.tamu.edu (James Hardin) writes:
>
> [...] when my program tries to link it in the linker fails
> complaining of an unresolved reference to "alloca".

Compile with `-ma' under 3.2.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bondono@vnet.ibm.com (Philippe Bondono)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 09:55:53 FST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: tvtwm fails with X11.5 on rs6000 (AIX 3.1.6)
Organization: Essonnes IBM Lab
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

In article <1992Aug31.220433.15663@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, scl@sasha.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Losen) writes:
> I built X11.5 on a rs6000 running 3.1.6.  I got the latest source
> for tvtwm (patchlevel 7) and compiled it, but it doesn't work right.
>
> I was running a MIT X11.4 server on a Sun sparc, but running tvtwm
> and all the other clients on the rs6000.
>
> Symptom:  tvtwm decorates the windows with titlebars, but I don't
> get any menus when I click on the root window.  Nor does the panner
> appear.  I can iconify/uniconify windows, move them and resize them
> using the titlebar, so I know tvtwm is running.  I got no syntax errors
> from the .tvtwmrc file.  An older version of tvtwm (patchlevel 4)
> compiled under X11.4 runs fine on the rs6000 with this .tvtwmrc.
> I tried compiling both with and without the xpm library (which I
> have built under X11.5).  Neither version worked.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem and/or have some idea what's wrong?
> I am trying to put together an X11.5 environment for our rs6000
> users, many of whom consider tvtwm essential.
>
> --
> Steve Losen                     scl@virginia.edu
>
> University of Virginia Academic Computing Center

I've got this behavior when I first tried the new version of tvtwm
(i.e. the one using M4 to read .twmrc).
Try changing your .twmrc with a new one with just a menu, and see if
it works then. I guess the problem I had was due to a limitation in
the number of lines M4 can process, or something related.
It is probably the same thing for you.

Hope it helps

Philippe

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From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Xwd conversion to postscript
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:44:22 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Aug25.144529.1758@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>, perlman@SMTC.engr.scarolina.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.192447.129967@hal.isc.toronto.ibm.com>, gordon@hal.isc.toronto.ibm.com writes:
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>>Does anybody out there know of any public domain or commercially available
>>software packages that allows users to read in a colour xwd file and convert
>>it to postscript, or encapsulated postscript, format ?  If you know of any
>>ftp sites that have such public domain software, or you have any information
>>please e-mail to
>>
>>            gordon@yoda.isc.toronto.ibm.com
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Gordon Ip
>Call Scott Tailor @ 800 732-2585.
>
Before you buy anything, try the following *free* solution to image transfers.
Pbmplus provides all sorts of type-to-type bitmap transfers (except the format
IBM uses on its pixmaps for the new desktop in 3.2, of course).  Look for 
PBMPlus10dec91 (capitalization unsure). It creates a number of obviously-named
little programs, like xwdtopbm, which converts an xwd to a pbm - usually ppm -
format.  Then get xv, which allows viewing of std bitmaps (gif, jpeg, tiff, pbm
ppm, and PC, MAC, and Sun standards), and can save to postscript or about 5
other formats.  Finally, Ghostscript/Ghostview will allow you to preview the
postscript and convert postscripts to bitmaps.  All for the price of a phone
call, and all running well on my rs600.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: Re: Using getgroupattr()
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:06:02 GMT

jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
>mskucher@auk.UWaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
>>The man page for getgroupattr() says that calling the routine and requesting
>>the group's users will return "a list of NULL terminated character strings.
>>The list itself is NULL terminated."  I'd have thought that invoking this:
>
>The pointer that you are getting back points to a string like this
>
>	"user1\0user2\0user3\0user4\0\0"
>
>So, you are seeing the first user in the first pointed to location.  The
>second character pointer in your array has trash in it because the second
>user isn't pointed to by that array element, but instead is found by
>skipping past the first NUL character.

The man page for getgroupattr() says that I will get back "a list of NULL
terminated character strings.  The list itself is NULL terminated."
That sounds to me a lot more like a vector of char pointers, something like
argv, or something else of that nature, NOT a single string with nulls in it
and two nulls at the end of it.

Perhaps the man pages should be made more clear in this case, and in fact
in many man pages related to getgroupattr() and getuserattr().

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From: ianm@icsbelf.uucp (Ian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: High-speed modem at built-in serial port (RS/6000)
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:19:36 GMT
Organization: ICS Computing Group Ltd., Belfast

In article <01050810.c5a4ip@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> mbeckman@mbeckman.com writes:
>
>I have no direct experience, but my encounters with this problem on other
>systems always turned out to be me just *thinking* I had hardware handshaking
>set up -- but one side or the other wasn't actually configured for it. I
>suspect in your case that either the RS/6000 isn't configured for hardware
>handshaking (use smit to check the line attributes), or the cable isn't

Exactly what settings would you alter in SMIT regarding line settings
for use with a modem?

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From: MWE@IB.RL.AC.UK (Mike Ellwood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: advice on 3.1.5 restore from image backup
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:30:38 GMT

Scenario: 3.1.5 on 550H

When restoring the system disk from an image backup, what exactly is the
difference between selecting option 1 Install AIX    ...-------
                                    2 Re-install AIX ...
The help info says that with 1, ALL directories are erased
WIth 2, /,/usr, /tmp and dump minidisks are erased.
2 seems like a safer option, but is 1 actually dangerous, assuming the
backup is good?

I assume that by 1, it means the knowledge of your other logical volumes
and filesystems is destroyed. However, the restore should put all that
back shouldn't it? (/etc/filesystems plus whatever).

Any help/advice gratefully received.

(mwe@ib.rl.ac.uk)
From: forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: patch wires on scsi and ethernet boards
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:15:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

how many others have older 530 machines (ca. early 1991) that have many little patch
wires on the scsi and ethernet device boards?
one of the boards actually has a patch IC upside down on the board!!?
(am i overly sensitive to think this is disgusting given what we paid for the machine?)
would i be right to think these patches were applied by hand?

i begin to wonder about these boards because that particular machine has not
been right (either scsi or ethernet) since we bought it last year, although another 530
and a 550 have been not too bad.
the ROS levels on all our boards are fine, and the drivers were up to date last time
i checked.

i've also heard a rumour that there were problems with the power supply in early machines.
(power supply problems, either internal or external, would be consistent with some of
the effects we've seen.)
my informant was told this by an IBM technician elsewhere, and
some problems he was having that were similar to some of ours went away
once they'd put the machine on an UPS.

you might think i could just ring up IBM UK and get someone who knew about the hardware
to see to it, but you'd be wrong.

at this point, any old rumour or suspicion will suffice.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: raj@ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson)
Subject: AIX 3.2 with Sabine is SLOW
Summary: Athena widget set is slow on AIX 3.2 with sabine adapter?
Keywords: aix3.2, sabine, X11R4, Xaw
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:25:33 GMT

Has anyone noticed how slowly an X application written with the Athen Widget
set is when it comes to either reorganizing the buttons in a box or removing
such a window from the screen?  If you have a lot of MH folders and you run
xmh, then execute the "close window" function to make it go away, it takes a
long time to disappear from the screen!  You can see the server removing one
button at a time every second, until most of them are gone, then the whole
window finally disappears.  I'm wondering if this is a problem in the Athena
Widget set or if it's a bug in IBM implementation of the X11R4 server.  I
called IBM about it but they don't care since they don't see the problem using
a Motif application.  It seems to be slower when removing buttons which use the
shape extension than if it doesn't use that.

Please Email me directly because I can't always keep up with mail on this
newsgroup.  I wish I could!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Moving volume groups between disks
From: infoian@otago.ac.nz (Ian G. Connelly)
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:48:06 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Hi,

What is the best way to move a volume group from two small disks on our server
to one BIG disk?

 We currently have two 320 disks for AIX/CATIA/Misc Scripts and programs that
go to make up the rootvg.  We also have two 857 disks that contain all the user
data and configuration of CATIA.  And I would like to move all the data from
the two 857 disks to a 2Gig, preserving the logical volumes/filesystems in the
same format/size (this must be done as painlessly as possible, and the server
is vital to our operations so it must be done reliably).

 Then we will be removing the 320 disks and installing AIX on one of the 857
disks.  All this has come about because SCSI only lets us attach 7 devices to
one card and we now have 8!! (2x320,2x857,2x2Gig,tape,CD).

Any tips for this operation gratefully accepted.

thanx

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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Where are the #*&^$( MAN pages?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:22:13 PST
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


In article <BtJu70.Brz@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> (comp.unix.aix), mtimm@auk.UWaterloo.ca (Martin Timmerman) writes:
> /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm contains some potential shell scripts for
> converting the information from InfoExplorer into flat text form. See
> Section 7. Online Documentation (man).
> 

Martin,

  Thank you!  I don't know how IBM expects users will ever find this stuff...
It's not even mentioned in InfoExplorer.

  -mel

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From: jeffry@browncow.austin.ibm.com (Jeff Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Remote (NFS) Access to CD for InfoE
Date: 24 Aug 92 22:24:59 GMT
Reply-To: jeffry@ashanti.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division
Originator: jeffry@browncow.austin.ibm.com


> Presumably you'd export the CD drive on the server and mount it on the
> client, but how would you then point the client InfoExplorer application
> at it?

I just spent some time this afternoon setting up a similar scenario,
and it works fine.  Infoexplorer looks for the database of libraries 
in the directory "/usr/lpp/info/$LANG", where LANG is your local language
environment variable.  You can mount the remote CD-ROM over this directory,
or create a second directory and set LANG=new_dir before using Infoexplorer.

I set up my system the second way so I could access things locally, or
use the CD for artwork and obscure books.

Hope it helps!
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                            AUSVMQ(JEFFRY)

"Of course, everything stated above is my opinion, and NOT that of IBM."
From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tape blocksizes (8mm - Exabyte)
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:18:01 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

I may be horribly wrong, but as I understand it, each pass of the head
on the 8mm lays down 1K, so use of blocksizes other than multiples of
1K leads to waste of tape. The RISC System/6000 can only boot tapes of
blocksize 512, so that's what mksysb uses...
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From: markl@spuddy.uucp (Mark Liversedge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Problem with et0/en0 network devices
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:37:45 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

In article <1992Aug25.114959.9626@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick) writes:
[ ... deleted ...]
>>I have a 'similar' problem, our small network has three hosts:
>>
>>128.127.50.1  druid (RS/6000 320 running AIX 3.1.5)
>>128.127.50.2  pctcp (PC running FTP PC/TCP)
>>128.127.50.3  mc550 (RS/6000 550 running AIX 3.2)
>>
>>A ping of 128.127.255.255 (the broadcast address) will get responses from druid
>>and pctcp when started on the 550. But only pctcp responds to one from the 320.
>>
>>The RS/6000 550 does not respond to ICMP broadcast echo packets. Why?
>
>Make sure that the 550 is not using the et0 interface and the 320 the en0
>interface.  The en0 interface will transmit standard ethernet packets and
>receive BOTH 802.3 and standard packets.  While the et0 interface will only
>receive and transmit 802.3 packets, ignoring everything else.
I am using en0 on both RS/6000's, the 550 is receiving the frame (netstat -s
tells me an ICMP echo packet arrived), it is just choosing not to reply.

In email ejsiebe@chgvmic1.vnet.ibm.com  (Eric Siebert) informs me:
"i believe thie is a result of AIX 3.2's conservative implementation
of RFC 1122, which allows a host to silently discard ICMP echo
requests destined for a broadcast address. i believe the justification
for this is to prevent misuse (which has the potential for creating
broadcast storms)."

Back to the drawing board for me! :-(
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From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Makewhatis(1) doesn't know about InfoExplorer?
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:01:49 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <syscrc.714768099@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
>When I ran makewhatis(1), on our Model 320 running AIX 3.2, it only indexed
>what was in /usr/man.  Is there any way to index the InfoExplorer stuff so
>that I can search with "man k"?

Try "/etc/catman". It will do what you want, though it does take quite
awhile.

(We don't even have "makewhatis" on our system...)

Hope this helps!

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: schultz@schultz.kgn.ibm.com (schultz)
Subject: Re: Need graPHIGS example program
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 20:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: schultz@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM AWD Graphics Systems

In article <Bu2Hqq.5vL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, mtimm@auk.UWaterloo.ca
(Martin Timmerman) writes:
|> We have a user that is in need of an example FORTRAN program that
|> creates an image on an RS/6000 Model 220 with a Gt1 graphics card. The
|> program should use the graPHIGS library.  Does anyone have such a
|> program to share?
|> 

There are sample programs in the /usr/lpp/graPHIGS/samples/samp
directory.  Some of them are written in FORTRAN.

Karl Schultz                             schultz@vnet.ibm.com
These statements or opinions are not necessarily those of IBM
From: ccvj@misty.latrobe.edu.au (Vicki Jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: HELP ME!
Keywords: RS/6000,Installation
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:40:18 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

...tried to email a relpy but it bounced....

In article <eoq.28.0@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu> you write:
>I just installed AIX 3.2 on a RS/6000 350. I had to attach a Terminal to 
>SERIAL #1 and went through the installation without a hitch. Once it asked
>for me to take out the tape and press ENTER to reboot, I did so and it 
>looked like pretty standard SHUTDWN+REBOOT messages began to appear on
>the serial console.
>
>BUT once it came up with the message: Multi-User Initialization complete!
>Nothing else came up. 
>
>I could not get a LOGIN prompt for the vt100 terminal hooked to the first
>serial port. I even went through the installation again, tried the other
>serial port, tried SECURE and SERVICE modes. 
>
>Could someone give me some clues????!??
>THANKS!!
>

I think you have hit the same problem we did - does it stop with a
steady number (I don't remember exactly - 578?)
It (substitute your most most appropriate expletive here) annoyed us 
since it is a "known" problem.

The upgrade misses writing a line to /etc/filesystems.

You will have to do the following:
- boot to maintenance mode
- getrootfs hdisk0 sh   (if your boot logical volume spans more than one
                         disk - getrootfs hdisk0 hdisk2 ....)
 (evidently /etc/continue is gone in 3.2)
- vi /etc/filesystems
 for /, /usr and /var add the stanza "type = bootfs"

-Then reboot


Good luck!

Vicki Jordan

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From: ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: i-nodes in jfs
Keywords: I-NODES JFS
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:36:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: fcom.1992Aug25.233654.16203
Organization: Utah Supercomputing Institute

When creating a 2 gig journaled filesystem that will be holding a
small number of very large files, I noticed that AIX 3.2.0
pre-allocated way more i-nodes than I want using SMIT, so I looked
up the mkfs and found that the -i parm is ignored for a jfs...  Now,
I know nothing about the where's and why's of the journaled
filesystem, so this may be a stupid question to those who do --- but
could someone enlighten me?  Can you set the number of i-nodes in a
jfs (and how)?  If not, I'm curious to hear why (since it would shed
some light on the internals).  Is there a document that describes
the internals of the jfs?  Much appreciation in advance,

Ben Pratt
Utah Supercomputing Institute
University of Utah
ben@snow.usi.utah.edu
From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher)
Subject: I also have problems with aXe-3.0.1
Reply-To: fritscher@edvz.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:18:19 GMT

I recently compiled aXe-3.0.1 and edited only coaxe.c to comment out
the line declaring 'execlp' because it gives a syntax error.

The problem I got is when I start axe, load a file per menu and then
do a 'Close All' axe core dumps because of an segmentation fault.

Any help?

Thanks in advance

Joe
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