HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: root@duncan (David John Murdoch at duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Taylor UUCP Log messages etc ..
Date: 27 Sep 92 16:55:51 GMT
Reply-To: djm@duncan.alt.ns.ca (David John Murdoch at duncan)
Organization: Duncan Computer Centre and Home Brewery


	I have Taylor UUCP working but I do have three questions
that I was hoping that somebody could answer.

This is from Log (cut up)

 uucico - - 11:10:50.00 Incoming call (login udalcs port com2r)
 uucico dalcs - 11:10:52.00 Handshake successful
 uucico dalcs news 11:10:53.00 Receiving dalcs/D.mabou5f8bc5e
 uucico dalcs news 11:11:13.00 Receiving dalcs/X.maboud5f8b
 uucico dalcs news 11:11:16.00 Receiving dalcs/D.mabou5f8e112
 uucico dalcs news 11:11:20.00 Receiving dalcs/X.maboud5f8e
 uucico dalcs root 11:11:23.00 Sending D.duncana0021
 uucico dalcs root 11:11:25.00 ERROR: 
 
Can't send D.duncana0021: permission denied
 
 uucico dalcs root 11:11:26.00 Sending D.duncanX0020
 uucico dalcs root 11:11:27.00 ERROR: 

 write: No more processes are available

 uucico dalcs - 11:11:27.00 Protocol 'g' packets: sent 13, resent 0, received 306
 uucico dalcs - 11:11:27.00 Call complete (37 seconds)
 uuxqt dalcs news 14:11:32.00 Executing dalcs/X.maboud5f8b (rnews)
 uuxqt dalcs news 14:11:38.00 Executing dalcs/X.maboud5f8e (rnews)

1.  ERROR: Can't send D.duncana0021: permission denied

I've checked permissions in /usr/spool/uucp/sitename and they are
600 chown/chgrp uucp. I temporarily changed them to 777 but no improvement.
What else could I check locally?

2.  ERROR: write: No more processes are available

This explains itself, but I've never encountered it before. How would
I ensure that enough processes were available? Is there a configuration
parameter that I've missed? 

3.  I notice that for both COHERENT and Taylor UUCP the decimal portion 
of the seconds in the debug/logging output is always .00 seconds.
Is this because of a missing function or is there one that can be adapted?

Thanks,

David
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From: Bret.Johnson@p1.f1110.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bret Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Proposal: Mr. CUG (Midwest Regional Coherent User Group)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 19:09:32 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/1110.1 - Flying High!, Marietta OH

Bob Hemedinger of 1:226/20 wrote to All of 1:226/20
on <Sep 19 at 03:49>

 BH> From: bob@dalek.mwc.com (Bob Hemedinger)
 BH> Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent 
 BH> Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

> I have proposed this before, so here I go again, in a little more detail.
> Name: Midwest Regional Coherent User Group
> Area of Coverage: OH, IL, IN, KY, and perhaps PA and WV and maybe a few 
other
> states.
> Type and Frequency of Meetings: once monthly, format to be determined.
> we should also do a newsletter for the people who can't get to the 
meetings..
> distribute it on paper and via the net...

> what'cha think?? anyone interested let me know.    -steve

 BH> /* Warning: non-mwc sanctioned reply follows: */

 BH> An interesting proposal. Depending on where and when meetings take
 BH> place, you may be able to get our marketting people/mwc rep to
participate.

 BH> BTW: I'm a homesick Buckeye, also (Gahanna, Ohio, Jill).

    Who should we bug err contact in the marketing dept??

    Did not know you used to live here!! 

                       Bret Johnson

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: tobin@btree.uucp (Roy Tobin)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:01:52 GMT
Organization: Brooktree Corporation
Subject: request for help with "Trouble unlocking tty /dev/console."
Distribution: na

I get the above message as I'm attempting to log onto Coherent 4.0.1a
for the first time.
I have a Compaq Deskpro 20/386 with a Compaq VGA monitor.  I asked
for virtual consoles of 4 during installation.  I do not have
a mono screen.

What is wrong?  How can I get around this?  

Other questions:
Should I be alarmed the
the "CPU bug" message I am seeing on install and boot?  Were they
the nature of the 2EF kernel panic I was seeing?

Roy
From: mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp (Michael Faurot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: 4.0, terminfo & curses
Date: 2 Oct 92 02:15:17 GMT
Reply-To: mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp (Michael Faurot)
Organization: A.T.W.W.

Is anyone else having difficulty getting curses programs, compiled under
4.0 to work correctly with terminal types other than the console and VT100?
I have numerious televideo terminals and can't seem to get anything compiled
under 4.0 to work right.  However I've noticed that anything using the termcap
routines (ie, without necessarily needing curses) seems to work okay.

Is there a fix for this?  MWC are you listening?

Thanks

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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: wnews
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 92 22:06:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.204513.26757@jabaru.cec.edu.au> you wrote:
: Does anyone have the file /usr/lib/news/bin/config that the wnews utility
: called adddirs goes looking for.? Tin & Wnews now workin g well, just neded a
: news feed now...looks like that will be the hardest part.
: Bob

I'm working on wnews release 3.1. The installation scripts _does_ run now.
I've made a dual port, which installs fine under Coherent 3.x _and_ 4.0,
all of the compiler warnings are gone.
Now sendbatch doesn't leave the compressed batches in /tmp. Wnbill does
run a little bit now, there are still some problems.
Other know errors which I've located and which I want to fix before give
it to others:

1. Coherent's mail command can't be used to send mail for incomimg
   control messages. I'll change it, so that every commom used
   mailer like mail or elm can be used.

2. Senbatch allways creates 12-bit compressed batches from Coherent 3.x and
   MINIX times. This wastes time and money and I'll fix it. My idea is to
   use 16-bit compressed batches as default, if the option -c is given.
   If the option -c12 or whatever is given it creates 12-bit or whatever
   batches. Then it's possible to feed other systems with different
   compressed batches, just how they want to get them.
   What do you think about this?

3. There is an error in inews. If you activate HAVE_ESTD in wnews.h
   sometimes /usr/lib/news/active is garbeled. I'll fix this, because
   usage of HAVE_ESTD makes inews working faster.

4. There is no manual page for wnbill. Could someone who's first language
   is English please write one and email it to me? If you need are
   running wnbill for that, please let me know and I'll email one.

Projects for wnews in the future (after 3.1):
- The administrating files grows endless until the system crahes (or you
  crunch them:-). Some programs like expire must be written, which can
  be added into crontab and will do the job automatically.

- The length of one line in the sys file is limited to 128 characters.
  Fine, but it should be possible to continue an entry for one system
  with the usual \.

BTW, at the moment Install.sh creates the newsgroups comp.os.coherent,
comp.os.minix, comp.os.linux and of course junk and control.
Is this enough or should I add some other groups?

BTW, does anyone know about other errors in wnews? Please let me know
and I can fix them too in release 3.1.
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From: landstry@miki.toppoint.de (Michael Schack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: faq for nn6.4.16???
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:34:05 GMT
Organization: self-organization

Hello,
I received nn6.4.16, compiled it and now I have several questions
perhaps like many persons before. To put it in a nutshell: I
don`t know how to configure nn correctly.
        -How to write a group list
        -What I need else (inews, wnews...?)
        -What is nnmaster? and so on...
Does there excist a faq or an installation manual for nn? Actually I
use Waffle (DOS) but I want to say Goodbye to DOS what news and mail
concerns... (and in future even TeX??).
If somene could help me I would be very thankful :)
BTW: The installation manual which comes with nn6.4.16 says nothing
about my questions.

bye,
micha...
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From: root@tbucks.com (Timothy E. Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: tin help
Date: 29 Sep 92 12:14:10 GMT
Organization: tbucks.com (private bitty-box)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: Sorry, but it was. I can't reproduce your problems here, if all permissions
: are ok. Where did you get your wnews distribution? Did you made changes
: in the .h files?
: Has anyone else an idea or problems like this?

I made no changes in wnews.h.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: scholten@esseye.si.com (David Scholten)
Subject: RCS port?  GNU diff port?
Organization: Smiths Industries
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:42:12 GMT


>bakowskr@wm-mercer.ca (Ron Bakowski) writes:
>
>>	Does there exist the source to an SCCS or SCCS-like clone which
>>	I might run under Coherent 4.0?
>
>RCS has been ported to Coherent, and it has most of the functions of SCCS.
>You can FTP the source code from prep.ai.mit.edu in pub/gnu/rcs-5.6.tar.Z.


Well, first off, rcs likes to have GNU diff.  Has anybody ported that?

I ftp'd the rcs-5.6 version from prep, and it DOES NOT COMPILE under
coherent.  In fact, I didn't get past the configure script.  Has anyone
ACTUALLY tried compiling this version under coherent 4.0?


Thanks,
Dave
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: dtodd@titan.ucc.umass.edu (David M. Todd)
Subject: DOS 3.3, partitions, & Coherent
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:25:48 GMT


As far as I can tell, because of the network I am on (Novell 2.0a) I
cannot use a version of DOS higher than 3.3.  

I also believe this means I cannot have any partitions larger than 33
mb.  I tried setting my hard drive up once with Disk Manager, which
will allow partitions larger than 33mb in DOS (at the cost of yet
another TSR), but then Coherent wouldn't install.

It seems unlikely that there is a solution to this problem (except to
upgrade our network, which may be a while coming)--anyone know of
anything?


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From: bob@dalek.mwc.com (Bob Hemedinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Beta newsreader feedback?
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:07:43 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>
>     Can you please tell me the complete path at MWCBBS for this
> package?
>

/usr/spool/uucppublic/downloads/news/news.tar.Zaa thru news.tar.Zao

This information is in the proper data files for the mwcbbs interface program.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: bpechter@nyx.cs.du.edu (bill pechter)
Subject: Re: DRDOS and Coherent
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 01:17:28 GMT

In article <BvCvC9.Is@nic.umass.edu> dtodd@titan.ucc.umass.edu (David M. 
odd) writes:
>
>Does Coherent co-exist OK with DRDOS?


Works great with DRDOS v6.  I kept C a non-Superstor partition so 
I could use the dos commands under Coherent.

Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: WordPerfect for Coherent
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:26:48 GMT

I spoke with a person at WordPerfect today, and he said that *if*
Coherent 4.0 is indeed 5.1 (or whatever) compatible (as claimed) their
WordPerfect 5.0 text based should work on it, and 5.1 should also when 
it comes out.  As soon as I get my 486 I'm gonna try it out.

-John D. Boggs      mwcbbs!boggs!jdb     john-boggs@uiowa.edu
From: JEANC@ncccot.agr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Bad man files in 4.0.1
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:44:44 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

1.  The online manual "man" and its index "man.index" do not
correspond.  Some manual files are simply missing, although they
are named in the index.  Other files are on the disk but not named
in the index.  Also, the man file I got on the installation disk
is in the old "tar" format, not in the "ustar" one.  Some Missing
entries are "uutouch" and above, libraries, crontab, ...

2.  The above makes me wonder if I have received an incomplete
set of upgrade disks.  Am I missing other parts of software that
I haven't yet noticed the absence of?

3.  Has anybody run into the same problem with "man"?  What did
you do to get new floppies from MWC?

4.  I have another problem, this time using "c", and I hope it is
not related to missing software.  I am trying to use system call
"tick()".  I have declared it as extern since it is supposed to
be located in "/lib/libc.a" and I have specified linker option
"-lc" as the last argument of my cc command.  Yet the linker finds
it not and tells me that symbol "tick" cannot be found.  I have
not been able to locate a header file in "/usr/include" or
"/usr/inlude/sys" that defines the function (except sys.a which
is for assembler programs, apparently).  Anyways, I've tried a
number of things and I can't get my tick() working, have any
ideas?

  Thanks, "jeanc@ncccot.agr.ca".
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: warmboot / coldboot
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 92 19:21:35 GMT

Rudi Ferrari (Rudi_Ferrari@con.fido.de) wrote:
: Hi!
: 
: Just something I wonder about...
: 
: Wenn I use the "warm"-boot (alt-ctrl-del), to start up Coh, coh will be
: loaded, but than the system hang up. (even that first information won`t
: come up).
: 
: Only with a "cold"-boot (reset), coh loads fine.
: 
: Normal?

Normal if your BIOS don't switch the CPU back to real mode, like some
older AMI BIOS's do. Always cold-boot you system after usage of
protected mode software like Coherent or Windows.
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From: albani@cadlab.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: ksh functions from crontab
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:41:54 GMT
Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia

ben@bailey.UUCP (Ben Bailey) writes:

:If I have the following line in the crontab for user root:
:30 00 * * * /usr/bin/ksh /usr/local/bin/atest weekly
:
:and in the /usr/local/bin/atest I have:
:======start script /usr/local/bin/atest========
:function afunct {
:print "ksh version $KSH_VERSION"
:print "param is $1"
:}
:
:afunct
:======end script==========================
:The command will fail, generating a error mail message.

Why not use the #! properties?

Put a line like this as FIRST line in your script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

and throw away that /usr/bin/ksh in the crontab entry.

Bye, Lanfranco

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From: patbob@sequent.com ("Patrick White")
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: help with (un)compress
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:05:18 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.


	I've been beating on cu.tar.Z myself.. and get very similar error
messages from tar.  So far, it appears that the files in the tar are
truncated.. and tar dosen't seem to notice or care till it gets to the last
one.
	If I use the command "cat -v cu.tar | less" to look at the file, I see
lots of truncated files (easiest to notice with the source files since close
}'s are missing).
	So far, with cu.tar.Z, I've verified that the copy I have is identical
to the one on raven, but also that MWC has no problems with the file.  I'm
beginning to suspect raven has corrupt copies (from where though?) or that
Coherent has a compress bug (or is missing a compress bug) that allows it to
uncompress the files just fine.  Talking the file to Coherent and trying it is
the project for this weekend.

later,
Pat White (patbob)

In article <01GPEP83V0428Y5FH7@delphi.com> you write:
> > Make sure the above isn't the problem.  If you still have problems,
> > let me know as I might have had others (my current problem is that if I
> > uncompress the files here at work, then try to untar them, they are *all*
> > short).
>    Yeah, this happens to me now, (will the problems ever end?) when
>    i untar them, i havn't tried to take them over to coherent, but they
>    uncompress fine, but there is a problem with the tar, don't know
>    if all the files are there or not, havn't tried to build them, but this
>    is what it shows me when i try to untar them on my internet connection
>    (a sun 4/380 running SunOS).
>$tar -tf unzip.tar
>unzip/
>unzip/Dugal.man
>...
>unzip/Makefile.unx
>tar: read error: unexpected EOF
>
>$tar -tf lander.tar
>lander/
>...
>lander/lander
>tar: directory checksum error (3408 != 22803)
From: markb@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Mark Bower)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: files should equal 2
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:58:51 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta

I have loaded the first two disks of Coherent 4.0 on a 386
and after rebooting and being (subliminally) enticed to
buy more Coherent products....

I receive an error which informs me that "Files equal 1.
Should equal 2. Adjust [y/n]?" I type "y" and promptly
receive the same question. This continues for several rounds
until I realize things are not going as planned.

Anybody know what's wrong?
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: tin help
Date: 25 Sep 92 19:32:42 GMT
Organization: U. Munk's private BBS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

root@tbucks.com (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
: umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: : root@tbucks.com (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
: : >The big question is how come news cannot find the files. What could cause
: : >this?
: : 
: : Hm, my last idea: your /usr/lib/news isn't mode 755 and owner/group news.
: 
: It is, but that wasn't really your _last_ idea, was it , Udo? <grin>

Sorry, but it was. I can't reproduce your problems here, if all permissions
are ok. Where did you get your wnews distribution? Did you made changes
in the .h files?
Has anyone else an idea or problems like this?

: I see your email address changed.

No, I'm using two.
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From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: 'make' errors
Date: 02 Oct 92 10:01
Organization: Magick Shoppe, Gurth City

tbell@n8hsp.ncoast.org (Terry Bell N8HSP) writes:
> 
> On several programs I am trying to compile I get the following error:
> make: do not know how to make <whatever>

Don't know about a Coherent make solution, but these troubles went away
when I switched to GNU make.

--ralf
From: kkress@phent.UUCP (Kenneth R. Kress)
Subject: Re: HELP! Crash! Backup Error!
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Date: 5 Oct 92 03:53:22 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: That's Entertainment BBS -- Glenside, Pa.

>From: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
>Subject: HELP! Crash! Backup Error!
>Keywords: toast crash backup error cpio nasty die lost
>Date: 29 Sep 92 08:59:22 GMT
>
>	 <deleted>			I then restored with
>'cd /;cpio -icvdm < /dev/rfva0' to slurp all the disks back.
>Not only does it tediously OVERWRITE all the files I just installed, but
>it then promptly DIES on the seventh disk!!  It says,
><track:0> <Bad data CRC>

>This is not the first time that coherent disks have gone "bad".  Does it do 
>somthing strange to the disks?  MS-Dos has never detected an error on these d
>disks, and I have over 200 of them.
>Finally, HOW DO I GET MY DATA BACK!?!?!?

	I've had the same experience with ustar and dos under 3.2.1. I
wrote to MWC asking for guidance, but received no answer. I've
kept my "bad" disks, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'll try
them. At this point, I've rebuilt the data manually and can
afford to experiment.
	The dos failure was especially puzzling as I then took
the disk to a machine running DOS 5 and MKS Korn Shell and had no
trouble reading and writing to the disk.
	The disks were formatted with the -v switch.
	The exact error on my disk was: 
fd1:head=0 cyl=1 <Data Error>
<Bad Data CRC>
	I attempted the "Restoring from a Damaged Medium"
explained on p.871 of the Coherent 3 manual ( restor ). I
recovered only one file with this trick.
	This disk had been used for at least eight backups prior
to failure. It was tested with ustar -tvf for at least one of the
backups (typically the first one).
	I am no longer using ustar. I do direct copies to mounted
filesystems -- and I keep my fingers crossed.
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