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From: muller@munnari.OZ.AU (Paul Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: ftp'able binaries
Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:20:29 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: munnari.oz.au
Keywords: ftp, binaries

The binaries kindly archived by Stephen are compiled for an mau.

As I don't have the compiler (bare minimum system) I would like to
be able to run some shrink wrapped binaries, esp sc and tcsh.

Can anyone help?! Is there a way to bypass this without a recompile or the
development tools?

rgds,
pm

Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: ramreddy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ram Reddy)
Subject: Printing to HPIIIDs on an ETHERNET LAN, with UNIX SYSV release 4.0
Keywords:  Ethernet LAN, DIRECT PRINTING, UNIX SYSV R4.0
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:24:36 GMT

I have a widely dispersed LAN with my servers running AT&T UNIX SYSV REL 4.0.
I want the ability to locate my HP IIId printers anywhere on the LAN and 
have the ability to print directly to it.  In the past I used parallel port
extenders - they are very flaky and unreliable to maintain.  I was excited
when I saw a product announcement from HP for a card called LAN DIRECT.  This
card is supposed to fit into the HP IIId optional slot and plug directly into
the LAN.  Unfortunately, this product did not work with UNIX.  

Does any "netter" know of any cards that fit into HP IIIds and work with UNIX
maybe via TCP/IP or something like that ? I researched this to death and
drew a blank when it came to UNIX SYSV R4.0, ethernet, and HP IIIds.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ram Reddy.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano)
Subject: Re: UNIX for 6300+ for sale
Keywords: unix 
Organization: Multidisciplinary Designs Unlimited
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:15:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.215739.23433@bradley.bradley.edu> brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>for sale:
>
>6300+ UNIX SVR2
>C compiler
>UNICALC spreadsheet
>Manuals
>orginal disks
>simultask
>
>you pay shipping, give me an offer......best offer gets them
>( I was about to throw them out).
>-- 
>Bradley Smith			 brad@bradley.edu ---  309-677-2337
>Network & Technical Services @ Bradley University, Peoria, IL
>
>"It's amazing how much scrap metal you get from 4 cans of beer"

And I have one more of the same.  Brand new condition manuals and original
disks.


-- 
Augustine Cano		INTERNET: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org
			UUCP:     ...!{ernest,kadath,hico2}!shibaya!afc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
Subject: What do I have?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:51:11 GMT

I inherited a UNIX PC from my department (saving it from the
trash heap).
I got considerable documentation on the Unix Ver 3.5
that it came with but not much on the hardware.
What in the heck is in this thing?
On bootup, I get Main board P3...P5 or something like that.
Is there someplace to get info on this computer?

Additional info:
  Single case w/ attached monochrome screen.
  40 M hard drive & 360kb floppy.
  Built-in modem and RS232 and 3 expansion slots.

 Thanks for any help.
--
  Michael James   james@falhrd.msd.anl.gov   
                Joel:  Could you state that in the form of adesperatecry
                       toGodtosaveyoufromanunholydeath,Please?
           Tom Servo:  DUCK and COVERRRR!!!!
                                     - MST3K Rocket Attack USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: kemp@andy.bgsu.edu (Leader Deslock)
Subject: ISC and hardware flow cntl.
Keywords: ISC
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:07:12 GMT

Hello all 3B2'ers

	I have a Intelegent Serial card for my 3B2 and I was wondering
can this card do hardware flow control? If so HOW do I set it up to do
that? I would like to use a 14,400 modem on this card if it will do
hardware flow control.


Thanks for any info.


wade
kemp@andy.bgsu.edu

--
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Wednesday, 6 Jan 1993 15:23:49 EST
From: <HOUSER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: System V 3.2, I got some bad diskettes.....

Wile trying to reinstall System V 3.2 on my 3b2 I came to realize
some of my disks were bad. I called AT&T (NCR), and there response
was that they do not have replacements. They suggested I get a
copy from someone who has them.

Well does anyone have the following diskettes that they could copy
for me?
   Basic Networking (1 and 2)from System V r3.2
   IPC UtilitiesSystem V r3.2
   Edit Utilities SV3.2
   Windowing Utilities SV3.2

I explicity asked the AT&T (NCR) rep on the phone if it was o.k.
to copy and use these, she assured me it was, so we won't be
breaking any laws.

I could FTP images, or recieve them as mail, if someone can upload
the images (dd).

Thanks|
Stephen Houser
houser@usm.maine.edu
From: cliff@garnet.berkeley.edu (Cliff Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:39:36 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan12.045826.22845@nuscc.nus.sg>, ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg (Tommy Hor) writes:
|> For those interested, here I enclose my discussion with Cliff at UC
|> Berkeley.

For those interested, Mr Hor has posted comments I sent him privately 
without bothering to discuss it with me first.  Note that it was Mr Hor
who took our conversation to private email in the first place!  It's
been a long time since I've encountered rudeness like that on the net...

For the record, the power supply in the p4200s has not been a problem
for us here (nor in the CNX).

	Cliff Frost
	UC Berkeley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
From: bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes)
Subject: Re: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Organization: ITS, Bond University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:38:03 GMT

cliff@garnet.berkeley.edu (Cliff Frost) writes:

>Hi,
>Our FDDI backbone ring has one p4200, 17 CNX 500s, 4 DEC 5900s, and 1 
> [.....]


We are using only P4200s routing IP for our ring.  At the moment, we're
still pusing ProNET-80 over the fibre.  Has anyone taken the upgrade
path from -80 to FDDI?  Was it fun or a nightmare?  I'm just looking for
feedback before I consaider taking this path.

(To relate to the original topic, I've found our 4200's running 11.d to
be stable.  Very few problems with them in general over the past 4.5
years)



   ___                                 David J. Hughes     bambi@bu.oz.au
  /   \                /  /    /        
 /  __/ __   __   ____/  /    / __          Senior Network Programmer
/    \ /  \ /  \ /   /  /    / /  \  /    Comms Development & Operation
\____/ \__//   / \__/   \___/ /   / /       AUSTRALIA  (+61 75 951450)
From: cliff@garnet.berkeley.edu (Cliff Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 18:06:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan8.062923.16066@nuscc.nus.sg>, ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg (Tommy Hor) writes:
|> Hi Everybody,
|>
|> ... [description of problems with Proteon routers on an FDDI ring] ...

Hi,
Our FDDI backbone ring has one p4200, 17 CNX 500s, 4 DEC 5900s, and 1 
DecStation 5000/133.  All these stations are single-attached to DEC
concentrators, and the concentrators are dual-attached together (in
six different buildings).

Our CNX 500s are running V12.0c and our p4200 is running V11.0d.  We 
route IP only.

We, also,  have had problems with our FDDI ring which we were able to
isolate to the p4200.  The problems have gone away since we moved things
around to reduce the traffic that goes through the p4200.  It appears
that with a reasonably light load the p4200 is stable and happy and so
is our ring.

Since last August, we have seen two FDDI problems with the CNX's, and
Proteon's response has been very good in both cases.  So, we are quite
happy with the performance of the CNX and FDDI so far.

	Cliff Frost
	UC Berkeley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
From: msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Joi L. Ellis)
Subject: Pronet-10 Diagnostic tools
Summary: Need hints debugging a Pronet-10 Lan.
Keywords: Pronet-10 TokenView Analyzers
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:49:32 GMT

I've got network here comprising primarily Pronet-10 but with an Arcnet
area, and connected together over an IBM Token Ring backbone.  Many of
the components of this LAN are over 5 years old and I'm really beginning
to suffer from the flakies.  It's about to the point that the old
trial-and-error method of linking out ports until you find the culprit
isn't working, especially when the failing component (Nim, wirecenter)
is still half working.

I've looked into diagnostic packages, and I even have Lansight, but I've
found it totally useless in many situations, because it assumes the
network is working to begin with. :p

I called Proteon about TokenView last year.  I don't recall the
specifics about the package, and they never did send the literature on
it I asked for.

I need some way to debug a dying lan.  If it is totally dead, I can find
the problems.  I want to be able to walk to a dedicated PC somewhere and
have it tell me which PC is having the most problems transmitting, or
anything that will tell me  where to start looking for the problem.  

The frustrating thing is that all the software that will do this is
either Token-Ring or Ethernet, or even Arcnet.  There is nothing
available for Pronet.  When I talked to Proteon, the tech support guy I
talked to acted like they didn't even have anything in house that would
do that.

Maybe my 4-times-predecessor made a mistake choosing Pronet-10, because
it's becoming a real pain in the neck to deal with.  

Is anyone at Proteon Listening??


-- 
Joi Ellis                      msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Student Residential Programs   Western Illinois University

Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
From: ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg (Tommy Hor)
Subject: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:29:23 GMT

Hi Everybody,

Being one of the first few in setting up a campus-wide FDDI network
using the Proteon router P4200 in about 3 years ago has costed us a
lot, not in terms of dollars but in the time and efforts we have
spent in making the ring stable.

Recently, with the advice from Proteon, we have upgraded to Rev 12.1Z
in all our P4200s and CNXs.  Much to our disappointment, the result was
that our ring keeps on bouncing up and down.  After spending almost 8
hours in trouble-shooting and bearing all our users' complaints, we
decided to revert back to the previous release which is 11.0b for CNXs
and 11.0c (sp 6) for P4200s.  Prior to the upgrade, our P4200s can
reload for no reasons and that is why we have decided to go for Rev 12.1

As usual, our Proteon support personnel gives us the same reply: "Your
problem does not happen in the other sites".  Their preliminary findings
is that our P4200s' hardware might not be compatible with Rev 12.1Z
though they should confirm before advising us to upgrade.

Our configuration is very simple.  We have 14 P4200s and 2 CNXs and
with IP, XNS, AppleTalk and IPX forwarders installed in a pure routing
environment.  There are NO bridging and WAN traffic at all.  Most
important is that our ring contains Proteon routers ONLY !

It is my intention to keep this message short though I have many other
problems to share with you.  I have been following this newsgroup closely
and there has been very few discussion.  I wish I can share your experience.
Any hints to the above problem would be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Tommy Hor, Computer Centre, National Univ. of Singapore, S'pore 0511
Internet: ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg  Phone: (65)7726422  Fax: (65)7780198
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
From: ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg (Tommy Hor)
Subject: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:29:02 GMT

There is another serious problem that we have been tackling with Proteon
for a long time.  The problem is that our P4200s can reload at any time,
thus it kills our users' host connection and hangs their machines for a
while.  One of the possible cause, apart from many others, is power voltage
fluctuation.  However, using a CNX at the same wiring has no problem at
all.  We suspect the P4200 does not fully meet the power requirement or
the power supply unit has some design faults.  It may be too sensitive
working at 230 V power supply.  If somebody can assure me that there is
no interoperability problem over the FDDI in TCP/IP, IPX, XNS and
AppleTalk, we would like to replace all P4200s in phases since it has
given us a lot of problem already.

Any advise would be very much appreicated ?

Thank you.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Tommy Hor, Computer Centre, National Univ. of Singapore, S'pore 0511
Internet: ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg  Phone: (65)7726422  Fax: (65)7780198
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Proteon Preps Router for Central Sites
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:01:12 GMT

The January 4 issue of Communications Week has a front page
story with the above title.  It starts:

Proteon Inc. will announce in March a multi-protocol router that
will double the packet-processing rate of the company's current
multiprotocol router and house twice as many interface cards,
industry sources said.  The new router, called the Communication
Network eXchange 600, will forward a maximum of 50,000 packets per
second and will offer either five or six slots for interface cards,
the sources said.  (If anyone would like a copy of the article,
please, let me know.)

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
From: ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg (Tommy Hor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Date: 12 Jan 93 04:58:26 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

For those interested, here I enclose my discussion with Cliff at UC
Berkeley.

> You may like to try release 12.1Z for the CNXs.  We find out that
> after loading in the new release for one CNXs, the other one got its
> FDDI interface disabled.  Again, this is another problem that Proteon
> cannot answer.

Sounds bad!  I don't think I want to try 12.1Z if that is what happens.

> I am interested to know your problems with the FDDI ring.  What is
> your reasonably light load ?  Our ring has a typical usage of 8%
> and most of our Ethernet subnets have around 20 to 25% of usage.  I
> would consider these as light load.

The problems were:

        1)  We would occassionally see duplicate packets that we
            finally tracked down to the CNX's.  Every now and then
            they would transmit a packet twice.  Proteon sent us
            PROM upgrades for our FDDI interfaces and this fixed the
            problem.

        2)  Some portion of UDP packets were having their last byte
            corrupted.  It is possible that it was happening to other
            types of packets also, but we only saw it with UDP packets.
            Going from 12.0 to 12.0c fixed this problem.

The problem with our p4200 was that it would disable its FDDI interface.
(This p4200 has one FDDI interface and one ProNET-80 interface.)  It
used to be that we had a large part of our campus network on the
ProNET-80 side of the router.  Now we have only one Sun on the ProNET-80,
so there is basically not a lot of traffic for the p4200 to deal with.

We also thought we saw other problems on the FDDI ring that happened
at the same time as the p4200 problems (like CNX interfaces going down),
but never really proved it.

Since the problems have gone away, and since the p4200 is going to go
away soon, we have not pursued these problems any further.

It does sound like your routers are not under heavy load.

> We are totally not happy with Proteon's support.  They can respond
> very fast but unable to provide us solution.

We are hoping that they do much better with the CNX generation of
products.  So far they do seem to be doing well.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Tommy Hor, Computer Centre, National Univ. of Singapore, S'pore 0511
Internet: ccethor@nuscc.nus.sg  Phone: (65)7726422  Fax: (65)7780198
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: cliff@garnet.berkeley.edu (Cliff Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: Stability of Proteon Routers ?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:30:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan11.003803.16722@kirk.bu.oz.au>, bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes) writes:
|> 
|> We are using only P4200s routing IP for our ring.  At the moment, we're
|> still pusing ProNET-80 over the fibre.  Has anyone taken the upgrade
|> path from -80 to FDDI?  Was it fun or a nightmare?  I'm just looking for
|> feedback before I consaider taking this path.

Yes, we have done this for one of our two ProNET-80 rings and are about
to do the second one.

On the whole I'd say it was fun.  Our FDDI gear has been far more plug
and play than the ProNET-80 ever was.  We have experienced some type of
problem with each vendor's equipment, but nothing that doesn't seem
normal if you're used to dealing with large networks.

I suggest that you go with current generation routers (eg the CNX) rather
than buy boards for your existing ones.  The increase in throughput is
impressive.

	Cliff Frost
	UC Berkeley
From: blj@crhc.uiuc.edu (Bob Janssens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: shared virtual memory
Date: 12 Jan 1993 16:40:17 -0600
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: coltrane.crhc.uiuc.edu
Summary: I'd like more information on Stratus' SVM
Keywords: distributed shared virtual memory

I am initiating research in the area of shared virtual memory.  I did not
know Stratus has shared virtual memory.  I'd appreciate any more information
about it.  Is it a completely OS software based way of sharing memory
between processors?  What is it generally used for?  Is it general/fast
enough to support shared-memory based parallel programming?

I would appreciate any information or pointers to publically available
papers or documentation.

Thank You
Bob

Bob Janssens            blj@crhc.uiuc.edu
Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
From: dante@decoy.uucp (25439-dante)
Subject: vi editor for stratus
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 19:31:34 GMT
Keywords: vi

I know this is a silly question, but has anyone done a port of vi to VOS?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: mailing list administrivia
From: shuford@cs.utk.edu
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:47:33 -0500
Reply-To: Info-Stratus@mike.lrc.edu
Organization: Info-Stratus (queries to Info-Stratus-Request@mike.lrc.edu)

The host machine for the Info-Stratus mailing list, MIKE.LRC.EDU, will
undergo some changes in its configuration in the near future.

An attempt will be made this weekend to upgrade the mail-transfer-agent
software.  We shall try to minimize impact on the mailing list and on
the news/mail gateway, but odd behavior may show up anyway.  We believe
that this upgrade will repair the mail-based archive and file servers.

Also, the regional TCP/IP network in North Carolina is undergoing
reconfiguration.  Sometime within the next few weeks, the Internet
Protocol (IP) address of MIKE.LRC.EDU will be changed.  Again, we
shall try to minimize impact on Info-Stratus, but there may be some
finite period of confusion in the various network name servers around
the globe.  It is possible that some Info-Stratus mail could fail to
be delivered during the confusion, and some articles might not be
properly gatewayed to "comp.sys.stratus".  Please bear with us.

Further off is a possible upgrade to the TCP/IP software on MIKE.LRC.EDU.
In theory, such an upgrade will be have no effect on the mailing list or
on the mail/news gateway.  In theory.  :-)

We all owe thanks to David Link, the system manager at LRC, who keeps
the machine healthy.

 ...Richard Shuford
    shuford@cs.utk.edu
    Info-Stratus List Coordinator
From: shuford@cs.utk.edu (Richard Shuford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: vi editor for stratus
Followup-To: comp.sys.stratus
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:44:40 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville--Dept. of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Expires: 26 Feb 1993 22:24:26 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: carlsberg.cs.utk.edu
Summary: did "stevie" port occur?
Keywords: vi, VOS

In article <1993Jan6.193134.12401@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>,
 dante@decoy.uucp (25439-dante) writes:
>
> I know this is a silly question, but has anyone done a port of vi to VOS?
>

The question has been raised before in this forum, back in August.

At that time, one correspondent had investigated porting the freely
available vi-imitating editor "stevie" to run under VOS.  I don't
know what happened with this.  Did the stevie port ever get finished???

All I know for certain is that "vi" is the heart of "EviL".

-- 
 ...Richard S. Shuford  | "If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early
 ...shuford@cs.utk.edu  |  in the morning, it will be taken as a curse."
 ...Info-Stratus Coord. |  Proverbs 27:14  NIV
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: dante@decoy.uucp (25439-dante)
Subject: loss of end-of-file mark problem
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 13:18:33 GMT
Keywords: tps

In the event of a VOS crash, I have heard that it is possible that VOS
can lose a files's end of file mark, thereby corrupting the file and losing
access to the file on reboot. The solution to the problem is to 
Transaction Protect(TP) the file. I was wondering if anyone has heard of
the problem and if so, then to discuss the problem and its possible 
solutions.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: tmm@world.std.com (Tom M Moravansky)
Subject: Thanks
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:05:49 GMT

Thanks to all who responded to my locked memory region question.
I appreciate the quick response and complete explanations.
From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: shared virtual memory
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:56:59 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: redondo.sw.stratus.com
Keywords: distributed shared virtual memory

In article <1ivhchINN1in@coltrane.crhc.uiuc.edu>, blj@crhc.uiuc.edu (Bob Janssens) writes:
> I am initiating research in the area of shared virtual memory.  I did not
> know Stratus has shared virtual memory.  I'd appreciate any more information
> about it.  Is it a completely OS software based way of sharing memory
> between processors?  What is it generally used for?  Is it general/fast
> enough to support shared-memory based parallel programming?
> 
> I would appreciate any information or pointers to publically available
> papers or documentation.

It's basically the same as the Unix mmap system call.  And a number of
applications use it as a high-speed IPC mechanism.


-- 

#include <std_disclaimer.h>

Dan S.