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From: sspatter@netcom.com (Samuel Scott Patterson)
Subject: Need OS for SPARC.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 15:18:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

Hello..

     Please please please does anyone out there know where I can
get SunOS for less than a zillion dollars?  Any version of Sun OS,
I dunno, I just need it.  See, being the fool that I am, I loaned
someone my OS tape so he could boot his machine.  That was in
April.  I haven't seen my tape again...  And without it, (At the
time I loaned it, I was just setting up my system and didn't have
a HD) all I have is a veryveryvery expensive Forth Interpreter.
And I am sure that a SPARC-1e is useful for more than that.
*sigh*  At any rate, if anyone has any ideas on how I could get
a UnixLike OS for a Sun SPARC-1e that won't cost me an arm and
a leg, I would really appreciate it. I have a 150M Tape Drive
which can also run 60M tapes.

						-Scott

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From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Help on ELC
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:34:36 GMT
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL

In <1992Jul29.003953.17266@leland.Stanford.EDU> andre@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chang-Li Hung) writes:

>Hi,

>overheating cause the problem. Is there a way to check the fan's
>condition.
>Thanks in advance.


ELC's don't HAVE fans.  It might be that your room is too warm,
but it can't be a fan problem.

Also, ELC and SLC machines have little circuit breakers on the CPU
board rather than the fuses most of the other systems have.  THey
sometimes do blow these and the solution is just to turn them
off for a while till they reset.  I'd guess that's what happened
to your machine.
-- 
Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov
From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: back-up battery worn out?
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:54:53 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn

In article <MHO.92Jul22124219@n021.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp> mho@saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp (Masato Hori) writes:
>The other day, one of our SUN4/390 (SunOS 4.0.3) began to display
>messages saying;
>	synctodr: TOD chip time way off, unable to sync time.
>repeatedly.

The 4/390s mostly had dodgy TOD clocks anyway.
I'd never believe one for a network time service.

>The local sales rep told us that there was something wrong with the
>battery back-up'ed clock. According to him, this is a typical problem
>for SUN4 after five or six years of 24 hours driving.

The 4/390s only appeared slightly less than 3 years ago didn't they?

Cheers,
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Using STTY to change TTY characteristics
Date: 27 Jul 1992 19:45:37 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1392@sousa.ltn.dec.com> tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa) writes:
>In trying to do this I have encountered a strange problem: I cannot seem to set
>the terminal line characteristics with stty.  As far as I can tell, the stty
>call is either having no effect, or something is changing the characteristics
>back as soon as my stty request is complete.

Tty settings revert to their default when no process has the device open.
Therefore, to get the settings to last, you have to keep the device open.
You can either do this by running the program from the same subprocess that
modifies the settings, e.g.

	(stty ...; command) >/dev/ttya

will run "command" with the new tty settings in effect, or by running a
dummy process that keeps the tty open, e.g.

	sleep 86400 > /dev/ttya &
	stty ... >/dev/ttya

The sleep process will cause the settings to remain for a day.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: tanm@seneca.bst.rochester.edu (Martin Tanner)
Subject: info on sparc10?
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 22:02:15 GMT

Hi,

We are thinking of purchasing a sparc10.  Does anyone have
any experience with the sparc10 which they can share with me?
We plan to integrate the sparc10 into a net with sparc1+'s and
sparc2's running SunOS 4.1.1.  WIll there be any problems 
integrating the sparc10 into the net?  will we have to upgrade
the entire net to solaris 1.1?  I should also mention that
there is a sparcprinter on this net, the file server is a
sparc 2, and the disks are wren 7's.  Any pointers to potential
problems will be appreciated.

Thanks
Martin
From: fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu (Ningping Fan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: need information on IPX vs. SPARC2
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:55:00 GMT
Organization: School of Medicine, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
In-reply-to: brown@ftms.UUCP's message of 28 Jul 92 15:47:27 GMT

Does anyone notice that IPX uses a GX on the cpu board, but SS2 uses
a GX S-bus board. If we assume that GX on the cpu board is on the local
bus, then it would be faster than SS2 in graphics?

--
N. Fan, Med. School of UP | fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu
--
--
Ningping Fan, Ph.D.,  |  ning@vms.cis.pitt.edu,
School of Medicine,   |  fan@caroline.ee.pitt.edu
Univ. of Pittsburgh,  |  fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu
Pittsburgh, PA 15213  |
(Tel) 412-647-6992    |  Respect is a virtue of humanity.

  
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From: obi@gumby.ocs.com (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas)
Subject: Re: Macintosh HD on Sun
Reply-To: obi@gumby.ocs.com
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:04:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.124401.119431@cs.cmu.edu>, jch+@cs.cmu.edu
(Jonathan Hardwick) writes:
> tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes
> > 	Has anyone try putting an Macintosh scsi disk drive on a Sun?
> 
> The Sun3/50 I'm typing this on is running off a Quantum 105Mb drive
> designed for a Mac.  No problems whatsoever.  Thank ghod for industry
> standards...

The Quantum 105MB does work, but not all "Mac" SCSI disks do. I used to
have a Rodime 100MB hard disk which I took out of an old Mac and used as
the internal hard disk on a SPARCstation 1+ running 4.0.1. It worked fine
as a /var/spool partition. But when I went to 4.1.1 and synchronous SCSI,
I couldn't boot any longer -- I would get a message complaining that the
disk was not releasing the SCSI bus after some command or the other. I
never did figure out what the problem was -- I just took it out.

Also I believe Syquest removable cartridge disks don't work unless you
have a special driver. Certainly the one I have attached to my Mac does
not work on the Sun (same "not releasing the bus" error at boot).

On the other hand, my DataFrame XP330 (a Micropolis 330MB) disk works
fine on Suns, and like Jonathan, we have successfully used Mac Quantum
105s as well. So before you commit any money, you should probably try out
the disk you want to buy and make sure the system boots and can label the
disk with the format program.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.managers
From: steve@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Stephen R. Czapor)
Subject: Re: IPC Problems
Summary: What's the largest disk supported under 4.1.1?
Keywords: SunOS4.1.1 disk requirements recommendations
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:10:38 GMT

In article <CKD.92Jul21221625@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
|jhall> == HALL  <jhall@nmsu.edu> 
|
| jhall> First I am getting a 1.3 or 1.6 gig disk for my IPC.  I have
| jhall> read about the need for patches for this on the older machines.
| jhall> I am using 4.1.1 but will be going to 4.1.2 soon.  PLease tell
| jhall> me what I will need to get this disk going.
|
|Under 4.1.1 you will need a patch.  This comes with Sun 1.3G drives, and
|you can get it from Sun if you have software support (now that they
|sealed up the support BBS).
|
|4.1.2 supports drives greater than 1G quite nicely (the CD-ROMs with the
|patches that we got with our 1.3G drives had big orange stickers saying
|"DON'T INSTALL THESE ON 4.1.2").  It also has a lot of other bug fixes.
|--

I am now shopping for a disk in the 500M - 1.3G range for a 
SPARCstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.1.  I gather that there would
be trouble with a 1.3G, and since I don't have software support
I might be better off to avoid trouble for now.  This leaves me
wondering: what's the largest disk I can use without patches ?
[I apologize if this is a FAQ, but until quite recently I've
been oblivious to such issues.]

For that matter, I would like to know if anyone out there has
particular recommendations for drives (in the above range of
sizes, for internal installation in a Ss2).

Any information on either point would be much appreciated.
==============================================================
Steve Czapor, Dept. of Math & C.S., Laurentian Univ.
Opinions?  What opinions?  I don't see any opinions.
From: unger@mitem.com (Tom Unger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: panic:  unknown memory error?
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:54:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MITEM Corp

Yesterday, while a user was doing a 'find / -name *awk* -print' my sun
3/60 crashed withthe following:

Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: Memory Error Register d4<INTR,INTENA,CHECK,ERR16> d4<INTR,INTENA,CE_ENA,WBACKERR>
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: DVMA = 1, context = 6, virtual address = ff0e368
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: pme = e20001ff, physical address = 3fe368
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: panic: unknown memory error
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: syncing file systems... [1] 19 [1] 16 [1] 14 [1] 9 [1] 3 [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] give up!
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00113 low-memory static kernel pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00198 additional static and sysmap kernel pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00000 dynamic kernel data pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00029 additional user structure pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00000 segmap kernel pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00000 segvn kernel pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00063 current user process pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00018 user stack pages
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 00421 total pages (421 chunks)
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: dumping to vp f05f77c, offset 34376
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: 421 total pages, dump succeeded
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: rebooting...
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: SunOS Release 4.1.1 (DEER) #1: Fri Jan 3 10:35:29 PST 1992
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: mem = 8192K (0x800000)
Jul 26 19:57:49 mitem vmunix: avail mem = 7176192


Can anyone tell me what this means?  Specifically, does this indicate
a problem with the memory that may cause future crashes?  If so, how
do I find which sim it is on?

Looks like it dumped the kernal.  I just let the system reboot itself. 
Is there any sort of useful debugging that I could do with the dump?
Where would I find it?

Tom Unger
From: steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: alternate keyboards
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Date: 30 Jul 1992 14:20:24 GMT
Organization: Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pacific.csl.uiuc.edu

Are there any sources for keyboards for IPC/ELC/SS2 class machines which have
two keys next to `a' instead of just one big fat key?  I don't really care
what the keys are. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Subject: Trouble with bad block repair on SCSI drive
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 21:59:02 GMT

I'm trying to fix a bad block in the root partition on our Sun 4/330,
so far without success.  The hard drive is a CDC Wren IV, with the MD21
SCSI controller.  Now, the system is sort of limping along; every few
minutes, it will freeze up with messages like:

> sd6a:  read retry, block 6736 (6736 relative)
> sd6a:  read restore, block 6736 (6736 relative)
> sd6a:  write retry, block 6736 (6736 relative)
> sd6a:  hard error, block 6736 (6736 relative)
> sd6a error: sense key(0x4) hardware error, error code(0x9): servo error
> sd6:  rezero failed


in various random permutations.  So, I followed the instructions in the
system administration manual for using 'format' to repair a bad block
while the system is up.  I first tried running a surface analysis, but
the read-only test (the only one that will work on a mounted partition)
couldn't find any bad sectors.  So, I decided to just go ahead and repair
block 6736 with the 'repair' command.  This seemed to succeed, and the
sector was added to the defect list.  However, the error messages keep
on coming.  According to the manual, if the repair operation is supported
by the drive and controller, this is all I should need to do: what am I
missing here?  Do I still need to reformat the drive or something?

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: need information on IPX vs. SPARC2
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:57:36 GMT
Organization: cic

fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu (Ningping Fan) writes:

>Does anyone notice that IPX uses a GX on the cpu board, but SS2 uses
>a GX S-bus board. If we assume that GX on the cpu board is on the local
>bus, then it would be faster than SS2 in graphics?

You're assuming wrong. The IPX does not have a local bus. (This bus
would be the MBus, if any.) All SPARCstations have a lot of on-board
peripherals that are on the SBus. Mostly slot 0 (watch the boot messages).

The IPC and the IPX have also an on-baord SBus "slot" 2. The IPC has
a mono framebuffer "in" this "slot", the IPX uses it for the on-board
GX framebuffer.

The only way to get more interconnect speed would be to put a framebuffer
on the MBus of the 600MP or the SS10.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jeff@cicero.unx.sas.com (Jeff Creech)
Subject: Re: 4MB SIMMs in a 3/80
Originator: jeff@cicero.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:38:03 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1425@lysator.liu.se>, pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
|> Anyone know if it is possible to install 4MB SIMMs in a Sun 3/80?
|> According to the docs I have this shouldn't be possible (or rather, it
|> simply doesn't say anything about it - it just describes how to install
|> 1MB SIMMS) but since the CPU-board design looks pretty modern and the SS1
|> cards can take 4MB SIMMS I was hoping...

I know it's possible to do because I have a 3/80 with 32 MB. I also know
there is a newer motherboard revision that supports this. If you have the
machine under maintenance, then you could probably get them to put the
latest board in and go.

If you can't find anyone else who knows the exact board rev, and you need it
then send me e-mail and I'll find that machine (I *think* it's in a lab
somewhere) and read the board rev off for you.

-- 
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SAS Institute, Open Systems R&D		       MA-BELL: 919-677-8000 ext. 6798
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jiajie Zhang)
Subject: Advice needed on printer purchase
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:54:05 GMT


I need to buy a laser printer for a Sun Sparc 2 (SunOS 4.1.2) and a
Mac Quadra 700 that are both connected to an ethernet.  Which printer
should I buy, Apple LaserWriter IIf, HP LaserJet III, or others?  What
hardware and software do I need?  Any advice will be greatly
appreciated.

------------
Jiajie Zhang
Dept. of Psychology
Ohio State University
jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: cap+@cmu.edu (Chris Paris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Info wanted on Sun's high res mono monitor
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:50:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul29.215009.269791
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

Some time in the next year or so, I would like to acquire a used Sun system with the high resolution (1600x1280 I think) monochrome monitor. I believe the monitor was discontinued about the time the Sparcstation came out, but I imagine I'll be able to find one for sale on the net if I'm patient. I have some questions about this monitor.

Do the newer systems support the high res. monitor? I doubt I'll be able to afford a Sun 4, but just in case, do they work with this monitor? How about the 3/80? Is there anything in the CPU box that must be matched with the monitor, as is the case with color systems? I.e., would it be possible for me to buy, say, a 3/60 with the standard monitor, and a high res. monitor separately, and then connect the high res. monitor to the cpu that came with the standard monitor? Have you ever seen the high res. monit






or for sale used, either with or without a system? If so, approximately when was this and what was the price?

Thank you for any help you can give.

-- 
Chris Paris
cap+@cmu.edu
From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!!
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:41:22 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <1992Jul26.210345.27881@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mike@Turing.ORG (Michael M. Chapman) writes:
<
<I've now gotten it to the point where the sun recognises my SCSI drive, but
<says "Waiting for disk to spin up..."
<"Please start it, if nececary, -OR- press any key to quit."
<
<Any ideas? Why wouldn't the SCSI controller think the disk was spun up?

The jumper is missing from the drive that tells it how to spin up.  There are
two choices.
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From: james@rss.dl.nec.com (James Halbert)
Subject: low-cost modems
Keywords: modems
Organization: NEC America
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:45:16 GMT

Does anyone have any recommendations for low(er)-cost, high-speed
modems? We're looking in the 14.4kbps, v.42bis range. I'm
also interested if there are setup problems experienced, etc.

Thanks in advance
From: bob@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Bob Nutter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Hooking up laser to sun
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:46:04 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Hi,

We're having problems connecting up a Sun 3/60 to a Brother HL8-PS postscript
laser, and wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to wiring the rs232 lead,
and to wiring serial cables for suns in general, I suppose. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!

thanks,

bob 

b.nutter@umist.ac.uk
UMIST Computation
+44 61 200 3343		

(gotta get a sig sorted out...)
From: eer1@midway.uchicago.edu (Paul Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: 360 and the Ethernet  or AUI port
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:55:27 GMT
Reply-To: eer1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Hi All,

I have a 360 with no manuals and I can't get the ethernet port to work.  

Please mail me with the answer.

The ethernet port does not work.  It also has an AUI  that I don't have an  
x-cvr. for.  Is  the Sun looking at the AUI instead of the Ethernet port?
If so how do I make it recognize the port that I want?


Thanks,

Paul-
eer1@midway.uchicago.edu

--



____________________________________
	Paul R. Woods
     University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for Terminal Servers
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:07:51 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.32015.16205@ms.uky.edu>, borders@ms.uky.edu (Johnny Borders) writes:
>Hi all..
>I need some recommendations and specifics on terminal servers to be used with
>a SPARC 2 and/or a SPARC 10. Please mail..
>[..]


This sort of message belongs in comp.dcom.servers, not comp.sys.sun.hardware.

			-John Kalucki
			johnk@gordian.com
From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Texas Sparcs ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:49:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: cic

antsu@polaris.utu.fi (Antti-Pekka Virtanen) writes:

>I would like to know the device numbers (codes) of Texas Instruments Sparc
>processors and support chips. (The local TI rep. didn't know that such exists,
>do they ?)

SuperSPARC				TMS390Z50
SuperSPARC MultiCache Controller	TMS390Z55

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: widman@camis.Stanford.EDU (Lawrence Widman)
Subject: 3.5" floppy drive for SS2
Organization: Stanford School of Medicine
Distribution: USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:23:24 GMT

What is needed to install a 3.5" floppy in a SS2?  I've heard that
a standard IBM AT-type drive will work.  The power connectors look
compatible.  But where is the controller on the motherboard?  Thanks!

-- 
Lawrence E. Widman, widman@sumex-aim.stanford.edu

Member of the League for Programming Freedom
-- write to league@@prep.ai.mit.edu
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From: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help: stty won't set terminal characteristics
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:12:59 GMT
Reply-To: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Distribution: na
Organization: Contract Software Services, Inc.



We are trying to connect an HP LaserJet IIID to a Sparcstation.

In the process of trying to get this going (no luck yet), I have encountered
a problem: I can't seem to set the terminal characteristics of /dev/ttya.

/dev/ttya is set to "OFF" in the ttytab file and, therefore, has an entry
of "02ttya" in the /dev/ttys file.  The following command:

	stty > /dev/ttya

indicates a line speed of 9600 baud.  The version of stty I am using is
coming from /bin/stty (i.e., UCB syntax and not SYSV syntax).

Hence, the command:
	stty 19200 > /dev/ttya

should set the line speed to 19.2K, but there appears to be no change, either
as mortal user or super user.

I have re-read the stty(1v) and tty(4), ttytab(5), but have no clue as
to what the problem could be.  In fact, I am not even sure whether the
problem is the stty command failing, or whether something on the system
is immediately setting the characteristics back to some known default.

Any ideas?

Also, if anyone has a printcap entry for a LaserJet printer that they would be
willing to share, we would appreciate getting a copy.

Thanks,
Greg
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