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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: SCO 3.2 release 2.0 and COM1/COM2 hardware flow control
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:24:56 GMT
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745

does SCO Unix release 3.2 2.0 support hardware flow control?

I have a 486/50 with 32 megs of RAM and am having problems without
outbound modem connections at speeds > 9600 baud using v.32bis

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.sysv386
From: steveo@world.std.com (Steven W Orr)
Subject: Would like to know how to create a STREAMS pipe under SCO.
Organization: SysLang, Inc.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 18:50:46 GMT

I would like to try my hand at using STREAMS pipes as explained by
Stevens. Running under SCO 3.2.2 a la ODT-1.1 , I expected to find
/dev/sxt available for opening twice to create the pipe. Its not
there but I know I'm close. Could someone tell me how its done and if
I am missing a particular device tell me how it gets properly
installed?  

Many thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: alee@bullns.on01.bull.ca (Anthony Lee)
Subject: SCO UNIX System Performance
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:36:22 GMT

I have a 486 based PC running SCO UNIX.  Recently, I have upgrade the system memory from 32MB to 16MB.  The performance has degraded substantially.  When talking to SCO.  I am told that SCO runs terribly for system with > 16MB of RAM.  Somehow, I do not believe this is quite right.  

Can anyone confirm this?  Or, perhaps someone can give me some suggestion.



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From: uhclem@trsvax.tandy.com
Date: 10 Aug 92 12:35 CDT
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: ftp site ``anomaly''?
Message-ID: <172700004@trsvax>
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Nf-From: trsvax.tandy.com!uhclem    Aug 10 12:35:00 1992


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[0]With over 30,000 articles received here per day for USENET purposes, 5mb of
[0]data transferred from our Mail server, and uh, 98 FTP connections since
[0]midnite tonite, yes, the link does have a tendency to get very bogged
[0]down at times.

I probably was one of those people and had not come across this thread
until now, and I had never accessed anomaly before yesterday.  I was trying
to get a 437K item for someone in my domain (I am the only person who
can do so) and after waiting nearly 30 minutes I aborted the single-file
transfer.  This was on a Sunday in 15:30-16:30CDT time-frame. 

I was a bit surprised to discover a 0.1K/sec transfer rate and less than
1/3th of the file transferred before I aborted.  I restarted the connection
and tried again.  After ten minutes or so I aborted and found I was now
getting 0.02K/sec transfer rate (that 20 BYTES a second folks). 

So I accounted for two connections, and was unable to get the one item in
question on either try.  I even had to keep pressing RETURN, just to keep
the modems from timing out due to inactivity.

I went back to the person requesting the download and asked for them to find
a different site and they told me that anomaly intentionally chokes
its FTP rate.   If I had known this, I probably would have aborted sooner.

I guess my comment is that if a site is going to limit the data rate
excessively, the greeting messages for the FTP  connection should
state this, at least as a courtesy for those who have a long distance
toll connection somewhere in the loop.

[0]In fact, I'm getting so sick and tired of hearing complaints about FTP
[0]that I'm a hairs' length from removing the anonymous FTP option from this
[0]system altogether. So, if you start getting a "Connection Refused", then
[0]you'll know that I have.

Sorry you feel that way, and as a single-time user I certainly don't
think I am one of the excessive complainers.  But I do think a warning
label would be appropriate, possibly even a list of mirror sites,
much the way uunet does on the USENET directories.  It would probably cut
the complaints down enormously.

Thanks, and it's my opinion, not that of this looming corporation behind me.

Frank Durda IV <uhclem@trsvax.tandy.com>    |"The Knights who say "LETNi"
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From: ronald@gate.demon.co.uk (Ronald Khoo)
Organization: Demon Internet Services.
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92)
Subject: Re: Would like to know how to create a STREAMS pipe under SCO.
Cc: Steven W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:20:52 +0000

steveo@world.std.com (Steven W Orr) wrote:

> I would like to try my hand at using STREAMS pipes as explained by
> Stevens. Running under SCO 3.2.2 a la ODT-1.1 , I expected to find
> /dev/sxt available for opening twice to create the pipe.

That's a typo in Stevens' book.  It should be /dev/spx, and the code
works fine on SCO -- in fact, SCO's X11 product uses them for local
connections.

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: steveh@zentronics.ca (Steve Haller)
Subject: LAN Manager Server 1.1
Reply-To: Steve Haller <steveh@zentronics.ca>
Organization: Zentronics Head Office, Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:13:57 GMT

We are running SCO Lan manager server 1.1 (unlimited user) on ODT 2.0 
and are having a few problems;  (We have installed the Lan Manager 
Performance Update)

When printing from a DOS client to a postscript printer set up as a
Unix LAN Manager resource, a blank page always precedes the print job.
I know the problem is nothing to do with the interface script as I
do not get a blank page when printing from a Unix session via lp.  I have
also commented out the form feeds from the interface script. I suspect
that the Lan manager spooler (lmspool) is adding these form feeds.  
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

On the DOS client side we are trying to use the netowrk version of Tiny
Term for terminal emulation.  It supports any netbios (and hence netbeui)
LAN as a transport, but we cannot get it to work.  Has anyone succesfully used 
Tiny Term with LAN Manager netbeui as a transport?  The version of
Tiny Term is 1.0.13.

As we plan to eventually have 40-50 users on this LAN, I would appreciate
hearing from other Lan Manager sites so we can share experiences.

Thanks in advance.
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Steve Haller           steveh@zentronics.ca / uunet.ca!zentron!steveh
Systems Engineer,      Zentronics Toronto,  "Authorized SCO APC"
Tel: (416) 507-2600
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Systems Engineer,      Zentronics Toronto,  "Authorized SCO APC"
Tel: (416) 507-2600
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: fsck: can't read blk xxx, SCSI
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:16:31 GMT

In <9208121323.aa12152@scoke.sco.COM> Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.COM> writes:

:Uwe S. Obst wrote:

:> >Normally *NIX redirects such blocks to an area that was allocated when the
:> >system was installed. 
:> [..]
:> 
:> am i wrong or should/could this normally be done by the SCSI harddisk
:> itself? i remember someone telling me that the controller on the SCSI
:> drive checks for bad blocks and remaps them automatically?!

:The SCSI spec *allows* this but does not require it.  There are two
:optional features: Automatic Write Reallocation (AWRE) and Automatic
:Read Reallocation (ARRE).  Unfortunately, very few SCSI drives on the
:market actually implement these.  AWRE works like this: when you try to
........
:It is a fallacy to assume that the drive takes care of all this.  The
:facility to do so is *optional* -- and not widely implemented.

:>Bela Lubkin<  Support engineer, The Santa Cruz Operation

Could you post a list of those drives that you know do support
this?  (Roy Neese -- if you're listening you could add your
comments :-).

Bill
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
Subject: Current Retail of ODT Components ?
Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:04:07 GMT

What's the current retail price of ODT 2.0 Personal, Server,
Development and simple yearly support for each?

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[ W. Douglas Lucy, VP Technical Services, S&R Software, Inc           ]
[ Internet: dlucy@sandr.COM                                           ]
From: david@infopro.com (Dragon [David Fiedler])
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Sun CD-ROM on SCO 3.2.4?
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:30:17 GMT
Organization: InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons

ken%seaweed.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Seefried III) writes:

>I have a client with several Sun CD-ROM devices.  They would like to 
>use a few of these on SCO 3.2.4 and ODT 2 systems, but I've had no
>luck making this happen.  These known good drive are simply never 
>found by the software (they are found by the PS/2-90 SCSI config
>stuff).

While doing research for a CD-ROM article in Open Systems Today a few
months ago, I found that Sun CD-ROM drives are specially modified Sony
drives that have a different blocking factor so's they can read a UFS
(Unix File System) and therefore boot from CD. In other words, this will
not work unless you can get the original PROM from a regular Sony drive to
make it "normal" again. Note than Sony drives are not supported under SCO,
so I think you're SOL.
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From: ggvvgg@mixcom.com (Dave Fenske)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: LAN Manager Server 1.1
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:51:25 GMT
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.

Re: Tiny Term on SCO Lan Manager for Unix.

Glad I'm not the only one this has happened to.

The product as shipped, does NOT work with Lan Man.

After many, many calls to Century Software, they finally had a programmer
make some patches that at least make Tiny Term for networks functional.
(Note:  the Windows version still does not work.)

I'd suggest you call Century directly, and talk to Steve Sutton.  Just mention
my name, and/or the problem.  They will likely send you an interim release
to use until the real version comes out (hopefully shortly).

You should also know that this interim release is slower than a mole's ass
in January.  Century acknowledges this problem, and says it is because
the software polls too much.  They also suggest that this problem will be
fixed in the real release. 

Do not make the mistake of buying into JSB Multiview desktop.  Tiny Term,
even though it has major problems at this point, is still significantly
faster.

Dave Fenske
From: ken%seaweed.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Seefried III)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Cyrix 486SLC motherboards?
Date: 16 Aug 92 13:26:42 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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I'm interested in finding out who is shipping Cyrix 486SLC motherboards.
I need to outfit a few systems and I'd like to try out this new chip.  I
am aware of the complete system from Zeos; however, I am interested in a
plain motherboard.

I be interested in hearing about anyone elses experience with this chip
under SCO Unix (or System V rel. 4.2, for that matter).

Many thanks...
	
					- Ken Seefried
					  uunet!emory!seaweed!ken
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: mel@rpii.ie (Mel Byrne)
Subject: Shared Modem Ports on SCO Unix 3.2.4
Organization: Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland
Distribution: biz.sco.comp
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:49:28 GMT

Is it possible to configure a modem on a single serial port to handle
incoming and outgoing traffic automatically under SCO Unix 3.2.4?

Please reply by e-mail as our newsfeed isn't fully up yet.

Thanks,
Mel (mel@rpii.ie)

Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: FAX Solution Needed
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:49:53 GMT

In <1992Aug11.132540.13936@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:

:apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:

:>I'm sure that at least part of the reason that all of the TCP stuff
:>for DOS is so pricey is that (until recently) there hasn't been
:>a tremendous demand for it.

:A simply two-user copy of JSB is around $300. Plug it into an intelligent port 
:and you're off and running. I'm not advocating a DOS/UNIX network with this 
:product just yet.

JSB Multiview works fine with PC-Interface.  My only nitpick with
it is that it doesn't fill the entire screen when I maximize it,
but leaves about an inch at the bottom open.

Century Software's TinyTERM performs similar terminal emulation
functions under Windoze and PC-Interface.  I don't like it as much
as JSB because it won't fit the entire width of the UNIX screen
and I have to scroll sideways if my screen is a full 80 characters.

Both these products have the good ansi-sco-color emulations
necessary to run WordPerfect, the function key king.  I haven't
been able to figure out how to get JSB or TinyTERM to give me a
132 column window which I like to use when setting up report
formats on the screen.

Bill
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From: sfs!jmp@uunet.UU.NET (John M. Pearce)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Building access control using Xenix
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:34:38 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Has anyone seen a building access control, using magnetic cards or any
similar type of access device, controlled through a Unix/Xenix system?
(I am using Xenix 2.3.4.)

Such a system would have each door's card reader connected to a separate
port and would read the card input for a code number. It would check
that number against approved users of the related door and, if the
number were found, would issue a signal to release an electric latch.

I expect to relocate my business soon and would like to install such an
access-control device. Hardware systems for this purpose are available
on the open market, but it would simplify record-keeping if I could
handle it through the office computer.
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From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: fsck: can't read blk xxx, SCSI
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:44:22 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

sysop@phiger.deg.sub.org (Uwe S. Obst) writes:

> fh.pad@sni.de (Frank Hoffmann) writes:
> 
> >Normally *NIX redirects such blocks to an area that was allocated when the
> >system was installed. 
> 
> am i wrong or should/could this normally be done by the SCSI harddisk
> itself? i remember someone telling me that the controller on the SCSI
> drive checks for bad blocks and remaps them automatically?!

   Yes, SCSI drives should remap bad spots themselves.  When my Conner SCSI 
drive recently 'developed' a bad spot, I used the Adaptec firmware to request 
that the drive reformat and verify the drive, and it 'disappeared'.  I suspect 
that I could have gotten away with just a verify (i.e. rebuild remapping 
table), but I had an up-to-the-minute backup on tape.

Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
From: thilo%bazooka.amb.org@altos.Altos.COM (Thilo Koenig)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: SCO 3.2v4.0 and ksh
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:03:49 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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I noticed that under 3.2v4.0, If my login shell is /bin/ksh, then
I can only logout by typing exit twice.  The first exit yields:
"You have running jobs".  The fact is, I don't have any background
processes!  If I type "jobs", I usually see some lines like:

[1] + Done           <command unknown>

In fact, If I type "jobs" as soon as I log in, this is what I get.
If I have issued a "jobs" command and then type "exit", then it logs
out just fine without complaint.  I don't start any background
processes in my .profile.

This sounds like a ksh bug.  BTW it does not happen under 3.2v2.0.
Has anyone else seen this problem?  Any suggestion to a fix?

-Thilo
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: mchivers@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Michael Chivers)
Subject: SCSI disks in Toshiba notebooks with SCO UNIX
Keywords: scsi notebook toshiba
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:15:51 GMT

Hi,

I am looking to install SCO Unix on a Toshiba notebook (This bit is OK,
I've done it before).  It will hopefully be a T4400SX (i486 with
120MB HD, 6-8Mb RAM).  I need to have more disk storage than the 120MB
internal hard disk (upwards of 500 MB) ==> I need an external SCSI
mass-storage device (I haven't decided between fixed hard disk/r-w
optical/removable HD - it shouldn't matter, they are all SCSI devices (!))
Because the T4400 has no expansion slots, the only way I can connect
the SCSI device is through the parralell port.  I know these parralell-SCSI
storage devices exist - I've set one up for a DOS T4400 (a r/w optical).
I don't want to have to lug around a Notebook+SCSI disk+Deskstation (or
buy 3 or 4 deskstations !).

Here is my question :
Are there drivers for SCO Unix (any version) for any parralell-SCSI
storage devices that would work in a T4400 ?  If so, who makes them ?

If I can't do this for a T4400SX with SCO Unix, I will have to buy
T6400SX (I would rather not do this because they cost more).
This is a similar box as the T4400, but has a 16-bit ISA slot in it.
Is there a SCSI card I could stick in the T6400 that would let me use
the same sorts of SCSI devices under SCO Unix (any version) ?

Any help/hints/tips/products/experiences with this would be greatly
appreciated.  E-mail prefered - if there is enough interest I will
post a summary.

Thanks in advance,

Anthony Doig                  | E-Mail : mchivers@uniwa.oz.au
Corporate Systems Development |
Perth, Western Australia      | - When you read this, laugh -
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: DOS Dweebs Go Home?
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:04:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: compu.1992Aug12.170440.3596
Organization: CompuData Inc.

rjs@crs.cl.msu.edu (Robert J. Stanton) writes:


>I would like to hear of a single instance of a DOS emulation product
>that provided a solution to a problem that couldn't be done better
>and cheaper on a native DOS machine.

>This is not to say that I prefer DOS, on the contrary, I run UNIX on my
>home machine.  I think that the direction to go is toward networking
>DOS and UNIX together, rather than trying to get DOS to run on UNIX.

Then we are in 100% agreement on the matter.

Fred
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From: lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: FOXPRO FOR SCO  WHEN????
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:36:01 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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Has anyone heard when FoxPro for SCO Unix might ship.  I have had
many customers interested, but there is no news of availability.

Microsoft purchased FOX and I wonder if it will ever be a real 
product for SCO users.

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Lee Penn,  DLP Technologies, Inc.                     Voice: 513 232-7791
SCO Advanced Product Center                           FAX: (513) 232-7801
7444 Jager Ct.
Cincinnati, OH  45230-4344                           email: lee@dlpco.COM