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From: captain@broue.rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:43:31 GMT
Organization: Groupe de Recherche Operationnelle en Telecommunication (ROT)
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phil@news.ccutah.edu (Phillip Neiswanger) writes:
: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
: : terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
: : 
: : >	If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation,
: : >what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the
: : >board isn't documented or is defective?
: : 
: : Yeah, but what video card company (or SCSI card company, or sound card
: : company, or ...) packages technical docs with their product?  None
: : that I've seen...
: :
: : [ remaining text deleted ]
: 
: It's even worse when companies won't give out any information.  My ATI VGA
: Wonder was one of those cards that info. was impossible to get.  I don't know
: if ATI policy has changed, but back when I needed info. about the Wonder
: I ended up buying a book("VGA Programming" I think).  The authors of the book
: even stated they had great difficulty getting info. on the Wonder.
: 
: 				Phil

Actually I have never had any problem getting info on the VGA Wonder.
Out of the box, one of the disks includes a file on how to program
the card, including the extended registers.  
ATI also has a complete programming manual available for the card, cost is
about 40 bucks, with is a little excessive, but it you bend their ear the
right way about wanting to develop new software, etc... you can get one
for free.
As well, I needed some information on the STB card a while back, uses the
TSENG chipset, so I called STB, and a few days later had a HUGE binder
on how to program the card, NOW THAT'S SUPPORT!, especially considering I didn't
even own an STB card, I just wanted to write a driver.

The reason both ATI and TSENG based boards are so popular is no doubt due
in part to good tech support, and information availability.

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From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: framemaker
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:28:59 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:

>jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:

>>You have a real problem on another front.  Corel 3.0 is not available for
>>Unix and I don't hold much hope.  

>Is the available Corel for UNIX then so much different that it can't be used 
>in the meantime? 

I did a lot of work with Corel v2 but v3 made me about 3 times as productive.
Probably the most productive new feature is the ability to edit the full
view screen vs having to go back to the wireframe mode.  I'd go back to v2
before I'd do without but I'll put up with windows right now in order to
have the added features.

>Or how about Island Write, Draw & Paint?

Not familiar with either.

John
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From: aris@unisup1.uucp (Aris Stathakis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCO and their SCSI drivers.
Date: 4 Sep 92 11:13:19 GMT
Organization: Lasernet (pty) Ltd.

In <1992Aug27.013139.10401@homecare.com> jessea@homecare.com (Jesse W. Asher) writes:

>We had problems with the SCSI drivers in SCO ODT 1.1 - especially with
>tape drives.  Does anyone know if the SCSI drivers in SCO ODT 2.0 are
>any better?

Yes, MUCH better.  

The 1542 driver has been enhanced speed wise.  The 1742 is supported in
enhanced mode.  Even the 1522 is supported (who would want to use one?).

I'm running SCO UNIX 3.2.4 with a 1542 and it supports my Maynard DAT
tape just great!  I backup our whole network of unix box's from my 
one machine.

Aris

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From: lang@monolith.hal.com (Tom Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:06:41 GMT
Organization: HAL Computer Systems

In article <1992Sep11.154634.19445@godzilla.quotron.com> sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz) writes:
>In article <BuEvwy.2rt@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>>
>>>> DELL includes the MERGE along with their product (i.e. it is a "nuts and
>>>> bolts complete" release).  
>>
>>
>>At least you have a choice.
>>
>But Larry, if you don't want Merge, you paid for it!
>
This discussion is ignoring some important details.

I formerly was manager of the Unix group at Dell, and I was the one who
decided it was a good idea to bundle stuff like Merge.

When you bundle optional software with the base system, you guarantee a much
higher volume of sales for that option than if it were sold separately. Software
vendors recognize this, and will settle for a *much* lower per copy royalty
for stuff that gets bundled with the base.

Because of this, several options could be included (Merge, X.desktop, Motif)
in Dell Unix without bloating the list price.

The goal for Dell Unix was to create a "complete" package that would sell for
at or below what others were asking for just the base system. This was
achieved. (Since then Dell has raised prices a bit, and other low price
packages have become available).

So, yeah, some people pay for some stuff maybe they don't want, but:
- if the overall price is competitive with a "stripped" product, it's still
	a good deal
- the tradeoff we made was that a larger percentage of customers would be
	pleased to get "useful" options included for much less than buying
	them separately.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ladislas@sobeco.com (Ladislas A.)
Subject: Request for SCO Unix 3.2 FAQs
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:15:33 GMT

Could someone post the FAQs related to SCO Unix 3.2, please?  I'm experiencing
some problems with cron on our PCs running SCO Unix.

Thank you
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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:09:24 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <a1xny5p.harp@netcom.com>, harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
> On my most recent contract I was programming for an Orchid ProDesigner
> IIs.  Orchid was thrilled to death to send me docs.  That's why the
> board I bought to replace my Stealth is a ProDesigner IIs.  A good
> card with good support.

  I've had similar experiences with STB. When I bought a PowerGraph about a
year ago, I needed some technical information. When I called their tech sup-
port, the tech sent me an ET4000 Data Book and the source for their demo
program at no charge.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: can't get ISC and FD SCSI to work
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:17:12 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada



I'm trying to get ISC ver 2.2.1 to work with a Future Domain TMC 885 (6.01 ROMS)
SCSI card.  The manual specifically says it supports this model, so I assume
it should work!  
I have 2 IDE drives as my primary controller, so I configed the FD card
as the secondary controller on IRQ12.  For some reason, when I
configured in the SCSI card, no entry was put in gendev for IRQ 12, so I just
copied the one for the AT controller and changed the IRQ, was that OK?  
Isn't kconfig supposed to put an entry in there for you? 
Anways...I rebuilt the kernel and went to sysadm to add the hard disk.
I assume the SCSI card is controller 1, and the SCSI drive is ID 0, so
I used drive 0.  It says its making the special files, then it comes back
and says that it can't read the drive parameters and to check the controller.

I've tried several things, but it just won't go.  I told the SCSI card that
there is an AT hard disk present.  What did I miss?

Thanks...Charles

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
Organization: American Micro Group, Inc., Ft. Lee NJ
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:20:14 GMT

Simon Langley (slangley@constant.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I have a 486 (ISA) with 20MB installed running ESIX 4.0.3.  When I boot,
: the machine recognises the full 20MB but ESIX only seems to recognise 16MB.
: 
: Does anyone know how to set things up to recognise all the memory?
: 
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From: rolf@saans.north.de (Rolf Nerstheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: SCO support
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:41:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: saans.1992Sep09.184124.3223
Organization: a private node

Hi everybody,

some days ago, I complained about SCO, not accepting my bug-reports via e-mail
and no longer listening to their customers.
Well, I think it's fair to post the following:

A member of their technical staff contacted me and offered to accept 
bug-reports via-email. Sounds ok.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: vg@sai1.stollmann.de (Volkmar Grote)
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards (SCO)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 18:13:39 GMT
Organization: Stollmann GmbH, D-2000 Hamburg 50, Germany

barrie@calvin.demon.co.uk (Barrie Spence) writes:


>I'm currently running SCO unix with a WD 8013 Ethercard Plus (Elite
>16). The network performance isn't wonderful - just ok. I have an
>opertunity to switch to a 3Com Etherlink 16 (3c507) - also supported
>by the LLI drivers EFS. I think the 3Com card is about the same spec
>as the WD (ie 16k ram) - does anyone have experience of both
>cards/recommendations?

I just finished my experience hopefully for good:
although the SMC's performance is good, it continually crashed our system
when you used graphics (TI TIGA, PARADISE PVGA). The 3C503 (not 507, sorry)
works without any conflicts and is as fast as the 8013 (nearly twice as the
3C501).
Summary: I think you won't loose any performace, but gain stability.

	Volkmar

P.S.: The SC&C SMC-compatible card was even worse!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,misc.wanted,misc.forsale.computers
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Second hand UNIX
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:01:12 GMT

Hi --

I have two purposes in making this post:

	1) To determine levels of customer satisfaction with various versions
	   of UNIX. I figure that folks who respond have either tried and not
	   liked the flavor of UNIX which they have, or else have liked it so
	   well that they have upgraded to a newer version and have an older
	   UNEMCUMBERED version of the software about.

	2) To find the cheapest USED version of UNIX that I can which includes
	   the following: 
		1) Must Have TCP/IP and NFS
		2) Must Have Development System
		3) [Desirable  -- DOS MERGE or VP/IX]
		4) [Desirable  -- X-Windows]
		5) [Desirable  -- Can be loaded from 1.2 M floppies]
		6) [Desirable  -- Supports SCSI, RLL, and IDE]
		7) [Desirable  -- Unlimited user license]
		8) [Desirable  -- Has a reasonable upgrade path]
		9) [Desirable  -- Has support for SyQuest removable media]
		10) [Desirable -- Has support for CD-ROM]
		11) [Desirable -- has support for VGA]

If I had the money, I would be thinking of Dell SysVR4. Since I don't, I would
ideally like to find something of that quality at a lower cost [I want a lot,
don't I? :-) ].

BTW, I have SCO XENIX and Microport UNIX that I am looking to decommission if I 
find the above at a good price -- SCO and Microport want more for an upgrade
from what I have to what I want than Dell charges for a whole new system :-(.

If I don't get a newer UNIX soon, I may dump what I have and load OS/2 on my
system -- TCP/IP and NFS can be had for that platform at a very reasonable
price. [So take that, you price-gouging UNIX-vendors :-) ]

orville

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: migieger@delos.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Changing ISC V3.2 2.2.1 boot/install from 5,25" to 3,5"
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:23:46 GMT
Organization: Delos Stuttgart, Germany

Hi,

the subject says it all...
I succeeded converting the boot-diskette (format /dev/rdsk/f0q18dt,
dd the first 30 sectors from the 5,25" disk to the 3,5" disk, then
mkfs on f0q18d, labelit and copy the filesystem from one to the
other disk); i.e. I reach "Insert the Install disk and press <ENTER>".

With no means I could convert the Install disk - The installation
procedure allways drops me to the su-prompt #. No way to reach the
correct screen which lets me chose the keyboard language...

I think it has to do with the protection scheme used by ISC?!
Any help available?

Michael Giegerich
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dbullis@cognos.com (Dave Bullis)
Subject: Installing ISC at the end of disk
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:44:43 GMT

I have disk with 1222 cylinders and I want to use the cylinders past
1023 for ISC Unix.  If I install it above 1023 the install fails
during mkfs.  It installs at 1020 ok, but fails during boot complaining
that it can't load /etc/initprogs/identify.  I suspect the boot is using
the BIOS (which is limited to 1023 cylinders) and since my /root is above
1023 it fails.

So the question is: What has to be below 1023 cylinders for ISC to boot?
I assume the boot record in the partition and /etc/initprogs/identify
How about /unix?

Also, the swap partition comes before the root partition.  Is there any way
to move it after /root?

D

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From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Keywords: Diamond, free-software
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:34:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

>	If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation,
>what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the
>board isn't documented or is defective?

Yeah, but what video card company (or SCSI card company, or sound card
company, or ...) packages technical docs with their product?  None
that I've seen...

When I bought my Stealth VRAM (which is for sale, BTW ;) ) there was
no reason for me to think it wouldn't be supported by more than a half
a dozen (or so) apps.  I had no idea Diamond would be so paranoid
about their products.  The board was very well rated by BYTE (the
fastest S3 board, I believe) and that all I had to go on.  Their
Speedstar Plus was also held in high regard.

Since I was buying a whole system at the time, I didn't have a chance
to wait and see how things turned out.  There was no indication at the
time that I needed to anyway.

On my most recent contract I was programming for an Orchid ProDesigner
IIs.  Orchid was thrilled to death to send me docs.  That's why the
board I bought to replace my Stealth is a ProDesigner IIs.  A good
card with good support.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Keywords: Diamond, free-software
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 18:51:17 GMT

In article <badger.716406960@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
>steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>
>>In <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
>>>The solution for the support of X/Windows in the Freeware arena or
>>>any other arena would be to design a VESA based driver for these
>>
>>The solution, for those of us who care about such things, is to
>>not buy undocumented hardware.  Vote with your wallet.
>
>Yes, but most people (at the time of purchase) don't know if the hardware
>is going to be documented or not, which makes this sort of voting impossible

	I wish *I* had the money to "impulse buy" hardware like that!  Never
buy a piece of hardware that doesn't come with technical manuals (unless you
have previously acquired technical manuals, in which case it's OK if they
aren't packaged together).

	If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation,
what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the
board isn't documented or is defective?


					Terry Lambert
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From: dtri@jerome.az.stratus.com (Dave Trinidad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SAS 2.00 to be released! (Where and When ???)
Keywords: fas,SAS,asy
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:43:18 GMT
Reply-To: dtri@jerome.az.stratus.com (Dave Trinidad)

In article <1992Sep12.144200.1347@r-node.gts.org> marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc  
Fournier - Sys Admin) writes:
> In article <stritzi.716231720@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>  
stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger) writes:
> >roe@Unibase.SK.CA (Roe Peterson) writes:
> >
> >>SASS 2.00 will be released Sunday, September 6th.
> >
> >>I will be posting it to alt.sources, and sending it to comp.sources.misc.
> >
> >Hey, what has happened? I didn't find it in alt.sources or comp.unix.sysv386
> >nor could I anonymous ftp to Unibase.
> >
> 	Ya, I tried the anonymous ftp to Unibase and got informed that
> anonymous doesn't exist :(
> 
Unibase was/is connected to the Net by SLIP and was not reliable anyway ..
However, I express your concern because I looked elsewhere for SAS (using
Archie) and so far no SAS 2.00.

The real question of the day is for somebody to post the story of what is  
exactly happening and what to expect.

I am running Esix SYSV4.0.4 and due to known asy performance problems I look  
forward to a solution.

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From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SASS 2.00 to be released!
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:21:48 GMT
Organization: Demi-Public System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger) writes:
: roe@Unibase.SK.CA (Roe Peterson) writes:
: >SASS 2.00 will be released Sunday, September 6th.
: >I will be posting it to alt.sources, and sending it to comp.sources.misc.
: 
: Hey, what has happened? I didn't find it in alt.sources or comp.unix.sysv386
: nor could I anonymous ftp to Unibase.
: What is the status of SASS 2.0?

Ditto.  Here is an ftpmail response to my pathetic attempt at getting it
from Unibase... (:-)  Looks like anonymous ftp is not set up on that machine.


Orig message-id: <m0mTgRT-000940C@hawkmoon.mn.org>
Orig subject: ls of udevdiv.Unibase.SK.CA
Orig from: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
Orig date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 17:59:51 CDT

--- connecting to udevdiv.unibase.sk.ca...
Connecting to udevdiv.unibase.sk.ca
220 udevdiv FTP server (UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0) ready.
--- logging in as user=anonymous password=ftpmail/det@hawkmoon.mn.org...
---> USER anonymous
530 User anonymous unknown.
!!! Cannot login
---> QUIT
221 Goodbye.
---> (end of ftpmail session)
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From: Frank@mindlink.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: setuid traceroute?
Date: 6 Sep 92 04:07:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

When a non-superuser attempts to run traceroute under SCO Unix the result is:

traceroute: icmp socket: Permission denied

I am considering making this program setuid root.  Are there any side effects I
should consider before doing this?

Frank.
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