HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jwe@schoch.che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Trying to build g++ on a DECstation!
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:38:01 GMT
Organization: UT Department of Chemical Engineering

In article <1992Sep28.150027.25539@nlm.nih.gov> neve@nlm.nih.gov
writes:

> (1) I'm not picky about which version of g++ to build. Is there a version
> out there that works for the DECstation 3100? (At one time I downloaded
> gcc 2.2.2 but shied away from it when I read that setting LANGUAGE=c++
> was a "waste of time.")

It is only a waste of time to build the C++ compiler the first time
through since you need to rebuild the compiler with itself.

Get 2.2.2 (or wait a couple of weeks and get a much improved C++
compiler with 2.3) and `make bootstrap'.  Check to see if things
worked with a `make compare', then `make install install-fixincludes'.
Works fine for DECstations.

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From: forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ultrix 4.3 Installation and Performance Reports Wanted
Date: 29 Sep 1992 18:04:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nobozo.cs.berkeley.edu

Given the current wacky state of DEC and Ultrix, I think it's more
important than ever that people post their experiences with installing
and running Ultrix 4.3. I, for one, would encourage people to do
so.

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Anything you read here is my opinion and in no way represents the Univ. of Cal.
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From: boone@psc.edu (Jon Boone)
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 for DECstation (RISC) - when?
Organization: Pittsburgh SuperComputing Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:18:21 GMT

In article <L0WQBSCQ@cc.swarthmore.edu> hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
>pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
>>   We received our distribution tape, etc. today.  Claimed to be an incremental
>>   upgrade.
>
>We got it too.  In the bug fixes section, the release notes didn't mention
>the "named:  accept: Too many open files" bug.  I'm almost afraid to try the
>new named.  I guess I could put it up on a unused machine and do a lot of
>zone transfers to see if it dies.
>

   What about the bugs introduced into egrep in 4.2A?

   (hint: the string listed in the release notes isn't the only one
that causes a core dump!)

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From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Subject: sps v2 for ultrix 4.2A
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:56:06 GMT

Has anyone gotten SPS v2.x to work with Ultrix v4.2A (rev 47)?  I know I
asked this a while ago, but I can not find the responses and need to get
sps working on my DECstations.

Thanks!
--
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of
 realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited
 by the risk of displeasure." - Kingman Brewster
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: List of X11-related bugs in Ultrix 4.2a?
Date: 6 Oct 92 21:07:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: datum.4476
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Oct6.185550.9123@Warren.MENTORG.COM>, tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:

|>Does DEC have a buglist that customers can scan through?  I need to check if
|>some bugs we'd like to report already have patches.

No, there is no publicly available buglist.  The only way to obtain patches
is to report problems, so you might as well report them.

|>Also, what version of X11 (R3 or R4) is in MIPS Ultrix 4.2 and 4.2A?

Both are R4.

					Frank
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From: jch@rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Subject: Re: Server for X11R5 / PX ?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:06:46 GMT

I've got a PX, and 4.3 installed.  xdpyinfo has this to say, which
suggests that this isn't an X11R5 server.  Of course, I may have
installed the wrong thing...


name of display:    unix:0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    DECWINDOWS DigitalEquipmentCorporation UWS4.2LA
vendor release number:    4
maximum request size:  65536 bytes
motion buffer size:  100
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    3
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 86, maximum 251
focus:  window 0x300000d, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions:    9
    Adobe-DPS-Extension
    DPSExtension
    SHAPE
    MIT-SHM
    Shared-Memory Transport
    Multi-Buffering
    XInputExtension
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    DEC-XTRAP

-- 
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Digital				<jch@rdg.dec.com>
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From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Automatic spin-up on power-on for an RZ25...
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:27:31 GMT
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <mellon.718062884@pepper>, mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
|>I need to hook an RZ25 up to a Mac, and in order for that to work, the RZ25
|>needs to spin up on power-on (normally, DEC ships their drives set to not
|>spin up on power on so as to avoid a massive power surge when a system is
|>powered on).   I know that there's a parameter on some SCSI parameter page
|>that you have to tweak to make this happen, but I don't know what parameter
|>it is.   Does anybody have a clue?

On the RZ25, it's a jumper.  Assume you the have drive facing you, on the right
is a set of jumpers (total 8), the 2nd jumper from the front controls spinup.
IN it waits for a spin up, OUT it spins up on power on.
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DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
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From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: swap on more than 2 disks?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:06:11 GMT

In article yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille) writes:
|> 
|> config   vmunix  root on rz0a  swap on rz0b and rz1b and rz4b dumps on rz0b
|> 


Hi  I have a simple question:  :-)

What is the reason for having all swap entries in the config
file and not just /etc/fstab?  

    config  vmunix  swap generic      (some vendors do it)

then I can add as many swap lines to the fstab file.


This helps if I want to share my vmunix among many DS???? machines
with different swap sizes.

Thanks alot!

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From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: xcdplayer for Ultrix 4.2 doesn't like 4.3+SCSI/CAM
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:44:46 GMT


Since upgrading to Ultrix 4.3+SCSI/CAM I can't drive the RRD42 in 'enjoy'
mode. This is seriously impacting my mental health. 

	-George
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                         George Michaelson
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                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
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From: a82@ws100.lrw.uni-bremen.de (Henner Gratz)
Subject: disktab entry for DEC DSP3105 OEM drive
Organization: LRW (Universitaet Bremen) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:12:48 GMT

Hello everybody!

I want to spend my Personal DECstation 5/25 a new drive and think the DEC DSP3105
would be the best choice (for me). But before I spend my last money I have three
questions:

  1. Can ULTRIX 4.2a (or 4.2c) use the disk as the system disc?

  2. I need a disktab-entry for the disk (best with 70-80 Meg. swap partition).
     Does it exist somewhere?

  3. What's the DEC-name (rz???) of the DEC DSP3105?

Thank you very much in advance for any answers!

With best regards

	Henner

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email: a82@lrw.uni-bremen.de  or c13j@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de



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From: torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer)
Subject: Ultrix 4.3 SPD 
Keywords: SPD description release 
Organization: FORUT Informasjonsteknologi as
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:27:23 GMT
Reply-To: torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer)

Could anyone please mail me a Software Product Description for Ultrix 4.3.
Does anyone have knowlege on what versions of dump, syslog, man ... (BSD 4.2/4.3?) being used in 4.3 ???
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From: mcc@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu (George McClintock)
Subject: xdm errors with Xws server
Organization: Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y, New York
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:41:59 GMT

I would like to run xdm instead of the DECwindows SessionManager.  I
have had to abandon xdm, because my error logger grows by
leaps and bounds.  I tried running xdm from my ttys file, without
success.  Running xdm from my rc.local file, everything seems to work,
except I get the following errors.  Do I have an unsolvable
compatibility problem?  Any help will be greatly appreciated, and
please excuse my ignominious ignorance.

george

+++++++++++++++++++++++ ERRORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From my xdm-errors file:

XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
      after 16108 requests (16108 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
      after 2738 requests (2736 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
error (pid 88): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly

From my uerf error logger:

EVENT CLASS                             OPERATIONAL EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  250.     ASCII MSG 
SEQUENCE NUMBER                 72.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Mon Sep 28 15:22:23 1992 EDT
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      inka 
SYSTEM ID                 x82070230     HW REV: x30
                                        FW REV: x2
                                        CPU TYPE: R2000A/R3000 
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KN02-CA 
MESSAGE                                 Fixed up unaligned data access for pid 
                                         _90 (Xws) at pc 0x4d8ac8 

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From: bcd@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Bryan Dunlap)
Subject: Re: dos diskettes on 5000/200
Organization: OSU Physics Dept.
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:09:59 GMT

I have built mtools, and it works quite well.  Thanks to everyone who
responded. 

	==BD
From: paj@paj.Eng.Sun.COM (Philip Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: RZ55
Date: 30 Sep 1992 17:53:26 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: paj@paj.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: paj

In article 3sx@world.std.com, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>
>
>
>Maybe when I run this , the answer will be obvious.... But just in case.
>
>I believe that I can hook up an rz55 to my DS3100 and run 'rzdisk' inorder
>to turn on the bit for spin up , so that I can then put the drive on my
>son's PC....  Can anyone give me some info on this before I try it???
>
>Charlie R.
>
>cmr@world.std.com      cmr@koneko.shr.dec.com
>
>
>P.S. or is anyone interested in purchasing an rz55??
>-- 
>*****************************************************************************
>*  Charles Richmond 	Integrated International Systems Corporation        *
>*  cmr@world.std.com	(Temporary) cmr@chiechan.mro4.dec.com		    *
>*  Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.           *


Works like a charm.  I did it with over 30 disks when I was with DEC.  The only
tricky part is the the spin up question sounds like it is asking the opposite
question from what it really is.  I don't remember the details, but it was like
a 0 meant you wanted it to spin up on power on.  Something like that.  If you 
get the bit set right, you can actually hear the disk spin up and seek.

P.S.  This program will work with some but not all of the RZ drives.  Some actually
require a strap on the drive.  RZ55, RZ56, RZ23L I think could use rzdisk.  RZ57 and
RZ25 required straps.  I don't remember which way the RZ24 went.  If the rzdisk 
programs askes about Power on Spin-up, the disk probably honors it.

								-- Phil
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Opinions expressed are not those of my employer.  They are mine.  
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From: pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski)
Subject: UUCP/LAT/DECserver200 HELP
Organization: Godcorp
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 06:55:53 GMT

I have a DECstation 3100 connected to the DECnet.
I am trying to set up a UUCP connection.  The DECstation rs232 ports
(funny rj11 with latch backwards) do not have cts/rts lines connected
so for UUCP it is no go.

On the DECnet I have a DECserver 200 with the v.42 modem on it.
The handshake between the modem and server is set to CTS and bits to 8 so
it should be ok.  I managed to link the local device node (/dev/tty02) over
LAT to the modem port on this server. I used lcp(1) command:
	lcp -l /dev/tty02:LAT206:PORT_8
According to the ULTRIX manuals (Guide to Ethernet, host initaited connections) one can use open/close/ioctl on this sort of ports.
I started kermit on it and had no problem talking to the modem and connecting
to other systems.
After starting UUCP I can connect but as soon as UUCP goes into packed mode
my system get bad checksum messages. This looks like the LAT connected
port is not passing the 8 bits.

Anybody knows what should I do to get UUCP going?
All help will be much appreciated.

- peter
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From: oivind@itek.norut.no (Oivind Buvang)
Subject: Crash and recovery problems with DECwrite 2.0
Organization: FORUT Information Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:30:43 GMT
Reply-To: oivind@itek.norut.no (Oivind Buvang)

I am running DECwrite 2.0 on my DECstation 5000/20 under Ultrix 4.2A, and
have the following two major problems with it:

1. DECwrite crashes often with no error messages (I have configured 75 MB swap)
2. The recovery function does not work properly, it makes a mess of the original
   document by mixing sections, paragraphs and sentences.

Has anybody out there experienced the same problems, and has anybody a solution on how to get rid of these problems?
When does the next version (2.1?) come on the marked?


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From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: Connecting a DS5200 and a HP LaserJet IIIsi using a HP Ethernet card
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:10:43 GMT

In article Helge Hauglin <helgeha@ifi.uio.no> writes:
|>   I'm trying to connect a HP Laserjet IIIsi to a Decstation 5000/200
|> running Ultrix V4.2.  We've bought an Ethernet card from
|> Hewlett-Packard called "C2059T HP JetDirect Card for Unix".  This
|> card supports HP-UX and SunOS 4.1.1, but not Ultrix.  There are some
|> installation scripts that came with the card, but they are for
|> installing the card on machines running either HP-UX or SunOS 4.1.1.
|> I've tried to install according to SunOS and make the neccesary
|> changes for Ultrix.  I'm stuck with an entry in /etc/bootptab that the
|> script wants to add.  The formats of /etc/bootptab for SunOS 4.1.1 and
|> Ultrix V4.2 are quite different, and I can't see that there is a
|> straightforward mapping between the two formats.
|> 
|>   My question is: has anyone done what I'm trying to do?  I'd be
|> grateful for any hints or tips!


The bootpd under ultrix is old you should use the bootpd (rfc1048)
from CMU.  bp-2.1 .  You can get the source from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu

One thing  if you have any LPS printer that needs to use bootp then
you may have some problems  because they do not understand the
new bootp or I made some mistakes somewhere.  

Anyway I installed the new bootpd on DS3100 running Ultrix 4.2a
and it works great!

Here is the printcap entry:

palm|elm|hippie|hippy|MJH 433 HPIII Si:\
	:mx#0:\
	:rw:\
	:lp=/var/spool/printer/palm/.null:\
	:sd=/var/spool/printer/palm:\
	:lf=/var/spool/printer/palm/log:\
	:af=/var/adm/printer/palm.raw:\
	:of=/usr/local/lib/ts/psof:\
	:if=/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.if.sh:sb:

I had some advice from Tony Knaus <awk@antlia.ece.cmu.edu> too.
Thanks Tony!
								 
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From: Kalle Flodkvist <Kalle.Flodkvist@udac.uu.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: swap on more than 2 disks?
Date: 29 Sep 1992 14:32:11 GMT
Organization: UDAC
Distribution: world
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X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2

I intend to set up swapping on more than one partition. I have a
decstation
with 6 scsi-discs. Is it possible to have a swap area on each of them?
Reading the manuals it looks like only a primary and a secondary swap area
is supported, i.e. only 2 in total.
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From: seaney@engr.wisc.edu
Subject: Users still appear to be logged in
Organization: Univ of Wisconsin Madison
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:03:07 CDT

 
Ever since we upgraded to 4.2A our Decstations have had an annoying habbit. 
Users that log out still appear listed with the 'w' command.  My assumption is
that the utmp file is not getting reset (their processes are all killed).  Is
there a fix to this? Is there a manual way to reset the utmp?

THanks,
Steve
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: More than 2 swap aeras (was Re: "Not enough core"...swap space?)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:01:42 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.190121.18887@sis.uucp> richard@sis.uucp (Richard Baird) writes:
>Are you running Ultrix?? I was under the impression that only 2 swap areas
>could be configured under Ultrix. Can't remember where that came from (It
>might have been a Ultrix management course at DEC ;). I know the "Guide to 
>configuration file maintenance" only shows examples with 1 or 2 swap 
>partitions.
>
We have a DECsystem with 4 swap partitions (on 4 disks). It's been
working fine since Ultrix 4.0.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
From: wayne@jahangir.UUCP (wayne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: dxterm
Keywords: dxmert problem
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:57:12 GMT
Organization: MDC, NYC


      I have a strange problem with dxterm on my machine. If I 
run it as myself it refuses to accept any input whatsoever. If I 
run as root it behaves as expected.
     
      Any ideas?



      wayne wayne@mktdata.com

     
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From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: X11 interactive response degraded on Ultrix 4.3
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:53:30 GMT


Since doing the install of Ultrix 4.3 it is my entirely subjective opinion
that the interactive response to mouse activity has nosedived.

I routinely get 3-15 second lag between keypress and response from twm/xterms
delay paning windows, delay switching focus.

Xws is 5Mb from day #1, I'm doing one-shot starts from xdm, and I run a getty
on the console underneath X to ensure I can login if the beast dies wierdly.

Very depressing. Anybody else seeing this?

Ultrix 4.3, SCSI/CAM no tuneups DECstation 3100 24Mb memory, B&W screen

	-George
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