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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: SUN Sparc1 VME bus
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:26:22 GMT
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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Chuck Narad (narad@nonsequitur.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
: In article 1755@ifi.unizh.ch, maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis) writes:
: >Hi all!
: >
: >How fast is the VME bus in a SUN sparc 1?
: >Suppose I have two special purpose cards in separate slots, one for
: >external data acquisition and another for data processing. How fast can
: >I transfer data from one card to the other over the VME bus?
: >
: >regards,
: >Martin
: >-- 
: >Silvano Maffeis       CS Dept. University of Zurich, Switzerland
: >   RFC822: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch            voice: +411 257 43 27
: >   X.400: /S=maffeis/OU=ifi/O=unizh/PRMD=SWITCH/ADMD=ARCOM/C=CH/
: 
: 
: Very slow :-)    Sparcstation 1 doesn't have a VMEbus, it only
: has SBus.

Sorry, bad answer, but thanks for trying.

Sun has a product called a SparcEngine 1E which is basically an SS-1 (old
12MIPS version) with a VME bus interface. Force computers second-sources it,
and has recently introduced the SparcEngine 2CE which is an SS-2 sparc engine
with VME interface. Both are in a 6U VME form factor.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: How to Change the TimeZone in a Sparc
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:45:07 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Originator: guy@auspex-gw.Auspex.COM

>If you repeat the procedure of looking for the inode number, you will
>find US/Eastern linked with EST5EDT, Jamaica, and posixrules.
>Why posixrules? I can't guess. Maybe POSIX is only valid on the
>east coast?

No, it's because:

	1) POSIX 1003.1 doesn't say what standard/summer time rules are
	   to be followed if the setting of the TZ environment variable
	   doesn't explicitly specify them (i.e., if it's set to
	   something like "EST5EDT" or "PST8PDT", rather than set to one
	   of those grotesque strings that POSIX specifies as the way
	   you put the rules explicitly into TZ);

	2) it's kind of silly to just have it pick hard-wired US rules
	   as of when the code was written - hard-code rules of that
	   sort got in the way when the US changed the rules, which is
	   why the Arthur Olson code was cooked up in the first place;

	3) thus, it was decided by the Timezone Cabal that the rules it
	   uses when:

		1) the TZ string doesn't begin with a colon (if it
		   begins with a colon, POSIX 1003.1 says its meaning is
		   implementation-dependent, and the Olson code says
		   that when you strip the colon off, it's the name of
		   the file to use) and isn't the name of a file (the
		   Olson code, at least in the incarnation in SunOS 4.x,
		   will treat it as the name of a file if there is a
		   time zone file with that name in
		   "/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo", even if it has the syntax
		   of a valid POSIX time zone);

		2) no rules were specified in TZ;

	   should be extracted from the "posixrules" file, with the actual
	   standard-time and summer-time offsets from GMT extracted from
	   TZ;

	4) and it was also decided that, at least in SunOS, the default
	   setting of "posixrules" would be the US rules, and it was
	   fairly arbitrarily decided that the specific file used would
	   be the "US/Eastern" file (any file with the same rules, such
	   as "US/Pacific", should do as well).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: winter@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Derek Winter)
Subject: SPARCstation 10 Graphics Options
Organization: CenSIS at University of Tasmania
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:21:54 GMT

Hello All,

					Investigating the options available for the SPARC 10 series, there are 4
different Graphics Accelerator chips which can be used. In the advertising
these are outlined as shown below, BUT this does not mean a great deal to me.
Could some one please explain what the asterisked (*) terms mean, and what
practical significance they have? i.e. what real benefits are there from moving
from GX -> GXPlus -> GS -> GT?

					Thanks for your help.
 
Here are the options... 

                GX      8bit 2D/3D wireframe(*)
                        1152x900 resolution
                
																GXPlus  8bit 2D/3D wireframe
                        1280x1024 resolution
                        hardware double buffering(*)

                GS      24bit 3D solids(*)
                        1152x900 resolution
                        double buffering
                        Z-buffer(*)
                        Gouraud shading(*)
                        Depth cueing(*)

                GT      24bit 3D solids
                        1280x1024 resolution
                        double buffering
                        Z-buffer
                        Gouraud shading
                        Depth cueing
                        Transparency(*)
                        Anti-aliasing(*)
                        Overlays(*)

												Thanks for your help.

													Regards,
																Derek.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x
From: tc@nynashamn.telesoft.se (Torbjorn Carlsson)
Subject: decwin & sun-kbd
Organization: Telesoft Norden AB
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:03:10 GMT


I sent this article to comp.os.vms but did not get any answers, so I'll
try it in this group.

------------------------------------------------------------

I have a Sun4 running OpenWindows, with a type-4 keyboard on my desk,
but are right now working on a VMS machine. I have managed to run VMS-
applications on the vax with the display set to the Sun.

Has someone managed to define a usable keyboard-layout for the sun4 keyboard,
using the VMS applications Decterm or the windowbased TPU ?
I don't like the xmodmap way, because all other applications are also affected
by that.

I've found a file called DECW$SMB_KEYBOARD.DAT where it appears to be
some key definitions but I can't find any documentation about what is what
in that file.


Any Ideas ?

					Torbjorn

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  Utsiktsvagen 10, 		: Phone: +46-8 52069012 
  Nynashamn, Sweden		: Fax:   +46-8 52020965
From: lynne@cs.umd.edu (Lynne D'Autrechy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sun Licensing Question
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:55:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

We are trying to sell a Sun 3-160/4M workstation.  Most interested buyers
also want the SunOS software.  When we  purchsed the software we bought 
a right-to-use license.  So, my question is, are we legally allowed 
to pass this license on with the machine or does the buyer of the machine 
have to purchase their own license from Sun?

Thanks in advance.

Lynne D'Autrechy
From: rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: MS Windows Equivalent of Liken or Quorum on Sun's?
Date: 17 Nov 92 02:06:53 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA


Has anyone heard any rumors about an MS-Windows equivalent of the 
Liken product that will run on Sun's? I know there are a couple of
PC emulators out there, but I was under the impression that these
products require that all calls to MS windows  be run in emulation 
mode (unlike Liken or Quorum which allow a substantial portion of 
the systems calls made from a Macintosh program to run using
a more direct call to the Sun's system software).

I've heard that Windows NT will not run on Sparcs, so this would seem
to be a substantial niche for someone. (From what I've seen Bill Gates
may be acting out of personal motivations rather than business 
considerations or for the good of the industry given the way the ACE 
initiative as seemingly bombed). It really seems like Gates is overly
insulting towards Sun in the interviews I've seen.


Also, does Bristol Technologies have any competitors yet in the
area of products that allow MS-Windows programs to be recompiled
on Sun Workstations. They have an interesting product,but the last
time I checked, it was priced at a rather high level.

Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
Subject: Re: How do you monitor?
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Keywords: top
Organization: Gainfully unemployed
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:07:48 GMT

In article <LIMES.92Nov16163939@ouroborous.eng.sun.com> limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
>>We recently received a 670MP with 2 cpus. I have a question about monitoring
>>useage.  How can you monitor the load and usage of each processor?
>
>Two new utilities were introduced for 4.1.2MP, and were stuck in
>/usr/kvm for the Sun-4M archetecture (yes, I know this is the "wrong"
>place, the functionality should be part of ps and pstat; We Apologise
>For The Inconvenience).
>
>	/usr/kvm/mps - ps with per-processor information
>
>	/usr/kvm/mpstat - pstat with per-processor information.

Let me add to the esteemable Redhead's (Mr. Limes is "Mr. Galaxy", in case you
haven't already determined this empirically) posting that the publically
available "top" program, written by William LeFebvre, supports the 4/6x0 series
MP machines, providing information about memory usage and what processes are
operating on what processor, etc. (I think - I say "I think" because I provided
Phil with slight twiddle patches to display the processor # for each process in
a column, a la "mps"; I do not know if he kept them in his final version of top
3.0 - I recall him thinking that he might not use/display that information.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x
From: hughg@brutus.ee.su.oz.au (Hugh Garsden)
Subject: SUN LWP + X + C++
Organization: University of Sydney, EE Dept.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:54:13 GMT

Standard apologies (FAQ, just been discussed etc.).

I have a program written in C++ which uses X/Motif and SUN's light weight
processes (LWP).

When I initially tried to run it I got this error -

	malloc(0)...core file created
	Error: Cannot perform calloc

The error occurred in a call to a Motif function that creates a widget. This
was done before I called any LWP routines. 

Checking the man page for malloc, I discovered the file
/usr/lib/debug/malloc.o, which is supposed to provide diagnostics. I linked my
program with this, and the program works! No diagnostics.

So, can anyone tell me what's happened here? 

-- 
Hugh Garsden		
University of Sydney 
hughg@ee.su.oz.au
From: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Keeping it pure.
Keywords: ld pure executable options
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:09:51 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
Organisation: Wassat?!

Yo,

I have a problem. Im trying to make 'ld' generate a pure executable as opposed
to a demand paged one. If I type 'file mybinary' it reports it as
"sparc demand paged dynamic linked ..." and other programs about are
"sparc pure dynamic linked ...".

How can I get that? ld has a -z flag to make a dynamic paged binary but I
couldnt see anything to change that. Someone suggested -Bstatic but that
isnt what I want.

Any clues?

Mark.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:5334 comp.periphs.printers:3365
From: tan@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (David Tan,Box 219 Baker Lab,54810,2720402)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: SUMMARY: NEC 95 printer problems
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:31:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: msc.1992Nov19.023140.23327
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Originator: tan@msc2.msc.cornell.edu

(I tried posting this a while ago, but I'm not sure it made it.  If it has,
y'all have my apologies)

Sometime ago I posted a question regarding printing ASCII files on a NEC
Silentwriter Model 95 laser printer.  I was under the impression that it
could tell the difference between PostScript files and HP PCL files and
print accordingly (I didn't buy the thing: I was just told that it could
distinguish between the two and would I please hook the damn thing up.)
Anyway, I had no trouble printing PS files, but it would flush plain
ASCII files.  Manually setting the printer to "LJIII emulation" (HP PCL)
resulted in only the first line of a page of plain ASCII to be printed,
and in too large a font, so that the line ran off the end of the page.

Thanks to all who replied, it was greatly appreciated!

It was pointed out to me that the 95 does NOT differentiate between PS &
PCL in the printer.  Rather, it comes w/software (print filters) for DOS
& Macintosh.  I was told that Abobe's Transcript and James Clark's "lprps"
(available on c.sources.unix vol. 31) should fix the problem.  I installed
lprps, and now things work very nicely.

Some details:  NEC 95 attached to Sun Sparcstation 1+ (SunOS 4.1.1) over
serial line at 9600 baud (will probably increase to 38.4K if I get around
to it.)  /etc/printcap as follows:

lpt1|lp|molly-nec|NEC Silentwriter Model 95:\
	:lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/var/spool/molly:lf=/var/adm/lpd-errs:\
	:br#9600:rw:pl#74:pw#85:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:\
        :sh:mx#0:if=/usr/local/lib/psif:


******************

New problem: it often chokes on largish (> 500K) PS files.  I've since
raised the baud rate to 38.4K, but the printer is supposed to be able
to take that.  (Sigh)  Great mysteries.

(Sigh again) any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, and thanks again to all who replied.

Dave
From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: ************************* help with sound *****************
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:46:40 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


Hello everyone! I would like to know where I could some sound files for

sun workstations , I have some files on my workstation that I can play

through the internal speaker with the following command :

% cat file.ext > /dev/audio , I would like to get more sounds and

possibly use them to stimulate users. Can I get any VIA anonymous FTP???

Thanks for the help!!!!!

Martin Cholette
cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: horgan@mantis.csu.murdoch.edu.au (John Horgan)
Subject: Word Perfect and Network Printers?
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:44:42 GMT

WP51 for SunOS insists on a filter (other than an "of") being required for
printer definitions.

We have printers hanging off Emulex terminal servers on our network and
Emulex have provided an "of" filter for our Sun spooler. 

WP51 will not try to print unless there is a "cf or gf or ...") filter
defined in printcap. I have not found any combination of filters that
will satisfy both WP51 and Emulex yet.

Anyone else got SunOS-WP51 working with network printers ??


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: Keeping it pure.
Keywords: ld pure executable options
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:51:37 GMT

mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark) writes:

>Yo,

>I have a problem. Im trying to make 'ld' generate a pure executable as opposed
>to a demand paged one. If I type 'file mybinary' it reports it as
>"sparc demand paged dynamic linked ..." and other programs about are
>"sparc pure dynamic linked ...".

>How can I get that? ld has a -z flag to make a dynamic paged binary but I
>couldnt see anything to change that. Someone suggested -Bstatic but that
>isnt what I want.

>Any clues?

Try ``ld -n -Bdynamic''.

Casper
From: mrs@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu (Michael Robert Savage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: PC-NFS and the 3C509 Ethernet Card
Followup-To: mrs@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu
Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:20:20 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Astronomy Dept.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: payne.mps.ohio-state.edu

Dear SUN User's:

  We just purchased some new 3COM Ethernet Cards for the IBM PC Clone 
family of personal computers. These are 16-Bit AT BUS cards. They are
3C509 cards.

The problem is that SUN's PC-NFS does not support this new card.
I am using version 3.5 of SUN's PC-NFS but I have also ordered the
upgrade to the latest level, Version 4.0. Has anyone used this new
ethernet card with PC-NFS? I need details about the setup since
PC-NFS Version 3.5 does not have a device driver for this card.

Please send me E-Mail if you have used this card with SUN's PC-NFS.
Please send all E-Mail to the following address:

  mrs@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu

Take care and have a great day.

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-                             The Ohio State University                     -
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jstander@ml.csiro.au (Jeff Stander)
Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
Reply-To: jstander@ml.csiro.au
Organization: CSIRO Marine Laboratories
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:43:29 GMT

I heard WordPerfect 5.1 is now available on Sun. 
Anybody have any experience with it?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bob@soest.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham)
Subject: rolo for OW available
Reply-To: bob@soest.hawaii.edu
Organization: School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, U. Hawaii
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:03:39 GMT

Having had our arms badly twisted by local users here, and not being
able to contact the original author (Ron Hitchens) we've converted the
public-domain program Rolo (the Rolodex-like windows tool) to
Openwindows.

Available via anonymous ftp from elepaio.soest.hawaii.edu in

	pub/bob/rolo.openwin.tar.Z

You do need to have DevGuide available to compile it, though.


---
Bob Cunningham
bob@soest.hawaii.edu
School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, University of Hawaii
From: wang@cedar.nrl.navy.mil (Dennis Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: realxfishdb
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:30:57 GMT
Reply-To: wang@cedar.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab

@ Why aren't there any fish in realxfishdb?
    A fixed version of realxfishdb is available by ftp from
    ftp.eng.auburn.edu [131.204.10.91] as /pub/xrealfishdb.Z


---
Dennis Wang
Solar Physics Branch - Code 7660
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
4555 Overlook Ave SW
Washington DC 20375-5000

E-mail: wang@cedar.nrl.navy.mil
Voice : (202)-767-3137	Fax   : (202)-404-7997'
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.apps:2544 comp.sys.sun.misc:5402
From: katz@elements.rpal.rockwell.com (Morry Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Help needed on installing CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package)
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:01:15
Organization: Rockwell International Palo Alto Lab
Reply-To: katz@rpal.rockwell.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: carbon.rpal.rockwell.com
In-reply-to: hu@sparky.drad.umn.edu's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:04:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.180422.16887@news2.cis.umn.edu> hu@sparky.drad.umn.edu (Xiaoping Hu (Dr. Who)) writes:
> 
> Hi, folks.
> 
> I am desparately seeking some advice on how to make a unix printer
> act like a apple talk printer for ethertalk.  So far, I got the
> appletalk part working.  In other words, the printer is recognized by
> the appletalk.  However, when we tried to print from the mac, nothing
> came out and we got some postscript error:
> 
> %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: F ]%%^M
> %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%^M
> 
> We went back to the doc on lwsrv and noticed that "A generic problem with 
> LaserWriter spoolers  is  that  the proper  Apple  dictionary  must  be 
> downloaded to the LaserWriter..." and we also realized that we have
> enscript intalled.  These may be the problem.  Would someone out
> there who had experience with this particular matter give me some
> suggestions on how to setup the printer and server properly?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> X. Hu
> U. of MN
> 
> hu@sparky.drad.umn.edu
> 
This looks like the problem that is solved by turning on the
ADOBE_STRUCTURED option of papif.  This can either be set at compile
time or via and environment variable.  Please see the papif man page.
--
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Rockwell Science Center
administrator@rpal.rockwell.com (machine administration issues)
katz@rpal.rockwell.com (other)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:38:21 GMT

jstander@ml.csiro.au (Jeff Stander) writes:
: I heard WordPerfect 5.1 is now available on Sun. 
: Anybody have any experience with it?
: 

Yes, and I'd stay away from it. Let me mention that I'm a bit biased, as I
don't like WP on PCs either, but the SUN implementation is attrocious. 

I would strongly recommedn to take a look a Avalon Publisher - very nice
kinda in between a word processor and FrameMaker, but closer to a desktop
publishing system. I think it's either $495 or $995 per license.

Very nice OL version and extremely easy to use.
-- 

Roland Besserer
QUAD Systems
roland@quadsys.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.apps:2488 bionet.software:2115 sci.bio:4149
From: pete@egh-qc.uucp (Pete Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,bionet.software,sci.bio,sci.biotechnology
Subject: Image Analyses Packages
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:18:58 GMT
Organization: Surgical Materials Testing Lab (SMTL)

Hi,

Our lab is looking for an automatic image analyses system to do cell
and colony counting/sizing, particle size analysis etc.

We've got some literature on the Domino system, but this is PC based.

We would preferably like a Sparc based solution, but PC systems might
be acceptable as well.

Any details of systems that are around and what we might end up paying
for a complete system (camera, atachments to add camera to microscopes
etc) would be welcome.

PLEASE reply by mail and I will summarise.

Pete

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"SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work.  
Science explains what is happening around us the whole time.
So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with 
more understand able excuses when its wrong. There is a lot more 
science than you think."
	From "A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Enquiring Young Nome" 
	by Angelo de Haberdasheri (T. Pratchett).
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"SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work.  
Science explains what is happening around us the whole time.
So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with 
more understand able excuses when its wrong. There is a lot more 
science than you think."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.wanted