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From: giacobbe@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Textedit/NEWSPrint leaving behind /tmp/hvtmp* files
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:12:05 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


...And I thought I was the only one with this problem :-)  :-)


Yes, it's the HelpViewer that has a nasty habit of leaving files lying around in /tmp.  The files all begin with hvtmp:

...
796290 Sep 18  1991 hvtmpAAAa21088
796290 Sep 18  1991 hvtmpAAAa21319
796290 Sep 18  1991 hvtmpAAAa21954
...

And yes, they all seem to have that same date, Sep 18.

As a previous poster already stated, these files are left behind when OpenWindows is shut down without first quitting the HelpViewer.  After a few days of "tmp filesystem full" messages on all of our student workstations, I finally just added a crontab entry to trash these things every couple days.

I wish there was a way to delete those hvtmp files as part of the OW shutdown process, but I guess it's really HelpViewer that needs the bug fix (ahem.."feature").


Regards,

Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.questions
From: krus@cs.concordia.ca (Mike Krus)
Subject: OLVWM Key bindings  
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:37:10 GMT

Using the OLVWM on SPARC IPC running SunOS 4.1.1 I have a problem with 
keybings :

The L8 key is by default binded to the past function but I need that key for
an application for which I can't change the key binding.

I tried inserting the following line in the .olvwmrc file but that fails :
	L8 { }

Anybody knows what I should do?

Thanks,


-- 
Michael Krus.					 Email : krus@cs.concordia.ca
Concordia University				Universite d'Orsay - Paris XI
Montreal, Canada					        Paris, France
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From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: xlock equivalent that allows text to be shown?
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:51:48 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

Does anyone have a program like xlock that works under OpenWindows that 
will allow one to display text?

Right now I use xlock, but that just makes designs float around the screen.

I am looking for something that will allow me to make "gone to lunch" or
"in room 301" bounce around my screen when I lock it.

Thanks...

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|   John      jfw@neuro.duke.edu          Duke University Medical Center |
| Whitehead   jfw@well.sf.ca.us           Department of Neurobiology     |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Centralizing Calendar Manager
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:58:01 GMT

A few weeks ago, there were a flurry of articles on configuring a central
server for Calendar Manager.  Of course, I was not interested in that then!

It seems to me that one way would be to only run rpc.cmsd on the server,
and have all the clients use /var/spool/calendar on the server.  Would
that work?  Alternatively, you could export /var/spool/calendar from the
server, and mount it on all the clients.  Would that work?  What problems
am I likely to run into?

-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.unix.admin
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Automounter / Indirect maps / help
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 00:50:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.041248.7446@eng.ufl.edu> ruck@zeta.ee.ufl.edu (John R Ruckstuhl Jr) writes:
>rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
> 
>> This is because the special entry /- matches (sort of) 
>> everything. The automounter won't look at anything after that. 
>
>I believe an "/-" entry in auto.master does not "match everything" for
>Sun's automounter, but rather simply indicates a direct map for the
>automounter.

Yup, you're right, and I was wrong about that. I went back and looked through
Hal Stern's book on NFS and NIS again, and I sure can't figure out where I
picked up that idea ...
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Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: pageview colormap difficulties
Date: 8 Nov 92 20:30:04 GMT
Organization: ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, University of
	Arizona

Hi,

  I would be grateful if somebody could help me with this.  We
have found pageview (the OpenWindows PostScript previewer) to be
a very useful program, but it has one serious flaw:  it seems to
assume that the default colormap is installed when it runs.  As a
result, if any kind of color image is displayed before pageview is
run, the colors are trashed.  Since we regularly need to look at color
plots, this is a terrific nuisance.  Has anybody else managed to find
a way around this difficulty?

  Thanks for any info,

	-- Bill
From: vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: SunSoft software
Keywords: multivendor, license
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:13:56 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Is there any way to buy Sunsoft software without limitations 
which allow, for example, to use it only on XYZ supplied
hardware ?

For example: a server license PASCAL compiler on a multivendor
SPARC environment.. a generic version without vendor tags
would make life much easier!

--
Vesa Halkka                       -O___/ 
University of Helsinki CC:         (  /   	 vhalkka@helsinki.fi 
Centre for scientific computing:  ~~~~~  	 vhalkka@csc.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: ygor@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White  (F2C))
Subject: Re: Openwindows 3.0 and XV problems
Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:37:17 GMT

In article <Bx8v9r.13p@brunel.ac.uk>, cs92bbm@brunel.ac.uk (Benjamin Middleton) writes:
|> I am still in the process of trying to get xv - the picture viewer to
|> work in conjunction with openwindows 3.0 (in particular being able to
|> display an image on the root without the openlook manager crashing).
|> 
|> Any suggestions would be welcome.
|> 
|> TIA - Ben.
|> -- 
|> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|> ~~~ cs92bbm@brunel.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hx-pro ~~~
|> ~~~ ben middleton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bass mechanic ~~~
|> ~~~ drn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pattern avenger ~~~
|> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have been using "xloadimage -onroot ,image.file.name>" with
no problem.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: joel@dseg.ti.com (Joel Quejada)
Subject: Accessing the Serial Ports
Reply-To: joel@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:07:41 GMT

Does anyone have any sample code showing the proper way to write to and
read from the built-in serial ports?

Any response is greatly appreciated!

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|          UNIX Systems Analyst          |    6600 Chase Oaks Blvd.           |
|          joel@dseg.ti.com              |    P.O. Box 869305, MS 8498        |
|          (214) 575-6014                |    Plano, Texas 75086              |
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From: karen@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Karen Sturgeon)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:04:11 GMT
Subject: SoftBench Insight
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps

Greetings SoftBench Insight Receivers:

We hope you are enjoying the premier issue of HP's SoftBench Insights
quarterly newsletter.  For comments or suggestions, please use this
corrected email address:

       softbench_insights@fc.sde.hp.com

Thank you,
Denise Scruggs
Hewlett-Packard
Managing Editor
(303) 229-6773
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman)
Subject: SUMMARY: Calendar Manager font sizes
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:32:27 GMT

A few weeks ago I posted the following request:

>Is it possible to change the font sizes for the various fields displayed 
>by the Calendar Manager? (I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 and Openwindows 3.)

I received no answers from anyone, and the few things I tried didn't work.
I guess I'll just have to get a magnifying glass!

Thanks anyway.

Norm Hoffman 
Monsanto Company
From: egray@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Emmet P. Gray)
Subject: Re: Another PComm/getty question...
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers - Construction Eng Research Lab
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:29:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.084850.17324@u.washington.edu> derry@hardy.u.washington.edu (Derry Lyons) writes:
>At long last I have PComm running, but there is one recurring glitch.  When
>I attempt to dial, sometimes I get a '/dev/cua0 is locked' error message.  I
>know this has something to do with getty being confused, and the problem
>goes away when the machine is rebooted (NOT a good idea....)  Just for
>information, there is a dialin line set for /dev/ttya, and everything functions
>normally except for the glitch.

I'm confused.  You must be running an ancient version of Pcomm.  Pcomm
has run on all Sun platforms without modification for the last few
years.  My "main" machine is now a Sun IPC (soon to be IPX), and I use
it to develop and run Pcomm.

If you have a "modern" version of Pcomm, all you have to do is follow
the instructions in the Readme file, edit the config.h and Makefile,
compile, and presto... you're up and running.

The current version of Pcomm is v2.0.2 (meaning version 2.0 at patch
level 2).

Pcomm v2.0 was sent to the moderator of comp.sources.unix on 20 Jul 92,
but I've given up hope that it will appear there any time soon.  Patches
1 and 2 where posted to comp.sources.bugs.

Unfortunately, my normal archive site is down (and probably won't be
back, at least not for that purpose), so I've placed the code in the
/tmp/pcomm directory on ftp.uu.net.

Emmet P. Gray				US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
...!uunet!uiucuxc!fthood!egray		Attn: AFZF-DE-ENV
fthood!egray@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu		Directorate of Engineering & Housing
					Environmental Management Office
					Fort Hood, TX 76544-5057
From: pete@egh-qc.uucp (Pete Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Optical Character Recognition for Sparcs
Keywords: OCR
Date: 13 Nov 92 14:04:55 GMT
Organization: Surgical Materials Testing Lab (SMTL)


Hi,

we are looking for an OCR system to scan in references from journals
for our laboratory reference filing system.

Are there any Sparc based solutions out there ?  If so, what can we
expect to pay for scanner h/w and OCR software ?

Reply by mail and I will summarise,

Thanks in advance,


Pete Phillips, Surgical Materials Testing Lab, Bridgend, S. Wales.
UUCP   :  uknet!egh-qc!pete            DOMAIN :  pete@egh-qc.co.uk
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Science explains what is happening around us the whole time.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks)
Subject: Re: AnswerBook with X11r5??
Reply-To: mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computer Science
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:01:34 GMT

>>>>> "DS" == Damir Sudar <damir@white.lbl.gov> writes:

  DS> Hi,

  DS> I just installed AnswerBook and found out that it seems to
  DS> require running under OpenWindows 3. I don't like OpenWindows
  DS> and would like to use it under X11r5 with twm. Does anybody know
  DS> a way to make it run that way??

  DS> Thanks,
  DS> - Damir


There have already been several postings explaining one approach.  If
you don't care for the complication of that approach, consider this:
is it OpenWindows per se that you don't like, or just olwm (the window
manager) and the deskset and the OpenLook style?  Because you ccan run
the openwindows server (including the NeWS capability that's needed
for Answer Book) but use TWM as the window manager.  We have a few
users doing that, without too many problems.

Exactly how to do it depends on your setup.  Look at your ~/.xinitrc
file, or the model or sample file in the openwindows area on your
system.  If it calls "olwm" somewhere around the middle, and ends with
"wait", then do this: delete the "olwm" line along with the
immediately preceding "sleep ... pid=$!" line and the immediately
following "wait $pid" line.  Also delete the final "wait".  At the
end, put a line calling twm.  If you start applications directly in
this file, they should all be backgrounded or started by toolwait.
The twm should *not* be backgrounded.

Any startup applications will show up first as naked windows, which
can be unnerving.  But when twm fires up, the windows will blink away,
and come back decorated with TWM borders and titlebars.  You may have
to adjust some font specifications and iron out minor things.  But in
general you can have your cake and eat it too.
--
Mitch Marks    mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu
Any two people may be talking to each other, at any moment, in a
civilized way about something trivial, or even something complex and
delicate.  And inside each of the two there runs a kind of dark river
of unconnected thought, of secret fear, or violence, or bliss --
hoped-for or lost -- which keeps pace with the flow of talk and is
mostly neither seen nor heard.  And then at times one or both of the
two will catch sight or sound of this movement, in himself, or
herself, or, more rarely, in the other.  And it is like the quick slip
of a waterfall into a pool, like a drop into darkness.  The pace
changes, the weight of the air, though the talk may run smoothly
onward without a ripple or quiver.  -- A. S. Byatt

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: dwoo@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Dennis Woo)
Subject: FTP sites for sharewares
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:50:45 GMT

Are there any sharewares available for SUN? If yes, where can I find them?	

Thanx.

Dennis
From: ns2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nicholas Stylianou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: POSTSCRIPT FONTS
Date: 13 Nov 1992 13:31:07 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak29.doc.ic.ac.uk


I'm looking for some postscript fonts, specifically adobe type 1 fonts.
I need the .pfb files AND the .afm files ( I understand that for each
variation and weight of a font, a .pfb and a .afm file exist ).

I have tried using Xarchie to find the above files, but have not had much
success ( I either find just some .pfb files or just some .afm files, but
not matching files for the same fonts ) .

If anyone knows of an anonymous ftp site where I can obtain such files,
I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know.

Many thanks !

Nick Stylianou
Imperial College ( Department of Computing )
email : ns2@doc.ic.ac.uk

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353)
Subject: Wireframe graphics packages
Reply-To: bryant@ced.utah.edu
Organization: Center for Engineering Design
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 20:13:19 GMT

Hello, my name is Bryant Eastham and I work with the University of
Utah. I am looking for packages (both commercial and PD) to do
wireframe rendering of kinematic models - with hooks to allow
real-time modification of positions. Any information will be
appreciated.

Please E-mail, I'll summarize if requested.

Bryant Eastham
System Administrator
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
bryant@ced.utah.edu
From: bmskc!moe!sisul@uunet.UU.NET (Jim Sisul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Textedit header
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:31:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: moe.9211102038.AA05645
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I need to know if there's a way to keep the OpenWindows "textedit"
program from overwriting the base frame header (the window title).  I
would like to use textedit as the default editor on a tool I'm
configuring, but the names of the files it generates for editting are
meaningless; the title it generates and passes to the editor (currently
an xterm window running "vi") would be very valuable.

Is there some application resource which might prevent textedit from
overwriting the title?  Or any other technique?

Please reply directly via e-mail to:

ruhlen@bmskc.PPG.COM
or
uunet!bmskc!ruhlen

Many thanks,

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From: sch@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (R+C Schneider)
Subject: telnetd source code for SUNs
Keywords: telnetd sun
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:36:46 GMT

Where can I get SUN compatible telnetd source code?  Please send 
replies by email.
--
Roland Schneider                          
University of Manitoba Electrical Engineering
Winnipeg, Canada
<sch@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca>
From: dlg47782@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tegid Tathal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: OpenWindows Backgrounds: help
Date: 13 Nov 92 22:47:38 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I have a raster image file and some bit map files that I would like to
use as backgrounds in OpenWindows, instead of the plain color background.
Does anyine know if I can do this, and if so, how I go about it?  Please
e-mail responses.  Thanks,

			Tegid


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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Macintosh Emulation on Suns
Date: 12 Nov 1992 13:37:55 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Distribution: world
Reply-To: km@mathcs.emory.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: km-sl.cc.emory.edu

I know about the Liken emulator. I also recall a lot of press about
another emulator last spring. Did it ever come out?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: mark@e7sa.crd.ge.com (Mark Duening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Another PComm/getty question...
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:53:03 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

I was able to get Pcomm up and running perfectly fine, thanks to the nice
comments Emmet put in his release, as well as the sample Makefile and
config.h he left for other Sun users.  (Thanks)

We do have a problem though in getting the system to allow dialins.  We
set up all the files and such as suggested.  When a call comes in, the
(Zoom V.32) modem answers it, the two modems screech and connect, but
only gibberish seems to end up on the remote end.  This is consistant
for any incoming modem type, at 2400 and 9600 baud.  What gives now?

There have been two exciting, but seemingly random, occasions where we
did get a valid connection (login prompt and all :-) !).  On one of
those occasions, the remote site would get some bogus characters
scattered within the communications.

Line noise does not seem an issue since we can dial out at 9600 to
all sorts of sites with no problems.  Is this a modem setup issue?
What sorts of modem config should we be using?  Could this be a getty
issue?  How successfully does it detect/understand/utilize the auto-
baud mechanism?

We realize this is more of a sys-admin question than a Pcomm question,
but it never hurts to ask the people in the know.  Details below...

Sun 4/110, SunOS 4.1.1, Pcomm 2.0 (no patches yet), Zoom V.32 BIS modem

Mark
mark@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: kovar@world.std.com (David C Kovar)
Subject: Looking for PD BBS software to run on a Sun
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:32:50 GMT

  A friend of mine would like to run a BBS on the Sun at his office to
support their customers. It will run instead of login, handle normal
message services, and allow file transfers to and from the Sun. Any pointers
to any public domain packages would be most appreciated. Thanks, in advance!

-David

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.admin.unix
From: jeff@BofA.COM (Jeff Tate)
Subject: Automounter / the truth at last
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 18:37:06 GMT


And the answer is .....

> What I think you want is to create an auto.master with the indirect
> entries in it as shown above, then start it with
> automounter -f /etc/auto.master
> 
> This will read all the moap listed in the auto.master file
> 
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bob Cotton
> uunet!sergei.mitre.org!bcotton 

I missed it in the manuals, but teh automounter consults the NIS maps FIRST.  Naughty, naught, this breaks the rules, but it is documented and I just did not do enough FRing of the M.

Thanx again to all of you who responded to my plea.

Jeff Tate
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From: kroener@cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Kroener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: z-modem protocol software
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:51:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of the Saarland, Germany

I want to thank all the sun-freaks (and the were a lot) for their
help and information about z-modem-software.

Thanks,
       ---Thomas

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