HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO Yan)
Subject: GL question: problem with cyclemap and multimap
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:09:47 GMT

Has anyone succeeded in using multimap() and cyclemap()?
My goal is to display two images alternatively using multimap
and cyclemap, but so far I have not got it working.
However, using blink() seems to work, which is not our prefered
method.

Our machine is a 4D310 on IRIS3.3. 
(On an old 3000 we can do this with no problem.)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Xiao
<xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann)
Subject: Re: Memory upgrades for R4000 Indigos
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:40:48 GMT

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>In <1992Jul21.004035.27345@donau.et.tudelft.nl> reinoud@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (R. Lamberts) writes:

>| From article <1992Jul17.204254.6599@microunity.com>, by jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein):
>| > 
>| >   The simms used in the R4k indigo are industry standard 36-bit wide
>| > 80ns simms.  The prices quoted me by SGI are $1500 for 16Meg and $3000
>| > for 32Meg.  You should be able to get about half that price from
>| > the usual workstation memory vendors.

>The net result is that we can use standard SIMMs again, and we still
>have very good cpu-memory speeds, although a bit slower than
>crimson (crimson has 4 way memory interleave).

Are the SIMMs the same as used in the new Crimson? How many pins do they
have? Are there any special rules about installing them like having to do
it in pairs?


-- 
Greg Lehmann,
CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology,   Telephone: +61 7 365 3877
c/- Dept. of Mining & Metallurgical Eng.,     Facsimile: +61 7 365 3711
The University of Queensland, QLD 4072.       Internet:  grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: shadow passwords on Indogo NEEDED NOW.
From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:11:03 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

casey@anchovy.wpd.sgi.com (Casey Schaufler) writes:

>Shadow passwords will be available in an upcoming release.
>No dates promised.

Any way we can hurry it along? Write letters, bang drums, pray.... ?

This is my most wanted enhancement to Irix. 


-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: tcpdump ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:07:00 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes:

>Recently, tcpdump was mentioned in this group to be available as version
>from Scott Presnell in a patch, and the full distribution from
>ftp.ee.lbl.gov - just the files which are mentioned in the patch are not in
>the distribution. Same applies to the version from vab02.larc.nasa.gov .
>Please inform me by Mail if you have a working distribution and how to get
>it.

>Regards 
>Reinhard 

I just checked the patch myself, and it seems to be in order.  You will
probably have to use the -p0 option to patch, and start it from the
directory above the source (the .. of tcpdump-2.2.1) in order to
correctly locate the files that are to be patched.  Some files are created
from scratch like timeb.h and pcap-snoop.c

If anyone has further difficulty, I'd be happy to make the full
distribution available (it didn't seem necessary at the time).

	- Scott Presnell
-- 
Scott Presnell				        +1 (415) 476-9890
Pharmaceutical Chemistry, S-926			srp@cgl.ucsf.edu
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0446
From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Status of IRIX 4.0.5?
Keywords: IRIX,
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:56:54 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.

In article <1992Jul21.144510.581@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
mg26101@i1.msi.umn.edu (Ronald Sakaguchi) writes:
|> When is IRIX 4.0.5 scheduled for shipping? I'd like purchase an
|> Indigo
|> Video board, but hear that the utils require 4.0.5? Will some work
|> under 4.0.1?
|> 
|> Thanks for your help.


The IndigoVideo board, Media Mosaic tools, and IRIX 4.0.5
are all now available.  Contact your sales rep.

You must have IRIX 4.0.5 in order to install Media Mosaic
and the IndigoVideo board.

m.

-- 
Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: artibee@noangel.wpd.sgi.com (Mary Artibee)
Subject: Re: whither rpc.rstatd in 4.0.1?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:06:11 GMT

In IRIX 4.0.x, usr/etc/rpc.rstatd is in the nfs.sw.nis subsystem;
rpc.rstatd had been part of nfs.sw.yp (but "yp" is now "nis").

rstatd(1m) man page is part of the nfs.man.nfs subsystem; 
all the man pages on the NFS option are in one subsystem.

/Mary Artibee, artibee@sgi.com
From: guest@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: need help to ..................................
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:57:18 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, NCU, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Hi, everyone:
      Our lab is planning to order a VideoLab for a 320/VGX but we recently
      heard that product can't support the function of capturing single frame
      from input video. It is different from data sheet that we got from
      local distributor and the NEWS RELEASE released by SGI company in which
      "Video can digitized to the screen at real-time video rates or stored on
      disk or in memory as SINGLE IMAGES or SETS OF IMAGES" was reported.
      Could anyone tell me what is the difference or the truth?  Compared to
      VideoFrame and VideoCreator,  what's the improved function of VideoLab ?
      The last	question is why the VideoLab don't provide the video format of
      NTSC or PAL? Is there any method to convert NTSC or PAL to the format
      provided by VideoLab when we must use it?


      Any help will be much appreciated.

      J. R. Liao   engineer@amy.cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: gil@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (Gil Webster)
Subject: Missing comment closure in 4.05 /usr/include/limits.h
Organization: CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics, Sydney
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:29:11 GMT

In our 4.05 installation, line 92 of /usr/include/limits.h is faulty.
The closing comment is missing on this line, thus the next
definition is commented out.

#if (defined(__EXTENSIONS__) && !defined(_POSIX_SOURCE))

#define	ARG_MAX		5120 		/* max length of arguments to exec 
#define	CHILD_MAX	25		/* max # of processes per user id */

           Gil Webster
          (gil@dap.csiro.au)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: grindley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Robin Grindley)
Subject: Can environment redirect Fortran LUN's?
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:01:58 GMT

On VMS it is possible to 

DEF FOR009 mydir:[somewhere]something.dat

and logical unit 9 will by default connect to this file. (The oracles
say Ultrix can do this as well.) Can you set an environment variable
on SGI to do the same?


-- 
robin

 		iNSANITY - It's only a state of mind
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:45:20 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <howarth.712364458@proto> howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
>
>             I am trying to discover if I can start up a lpd daemon to
>print to the same printer that already is being used by lp. The reason is
>that we have lp set up so that NFS can allow us to print remotely to the
>printer through lp from another Iris. However, no PC shareware supports
>lp for printing from a PC to a unix box; only lpr. 

I have a related question. I downloaded pcnfsd from sgi.com because 
I thought is was compiled to work with "lp" and not "lpr". Is this
true? When I try to use my SOSS "lpr" command from a DOS Machine,
it tells me that these no "lpd" printer attached (which is true) on the
host machine, but there is an "lp" printer attached.



Thus, I would like to
>have both lp and lpr directed at the same printing but not crashing on me
>if they fight over it. Is this possible or not?
>                       Jack
>
>
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 whom I am speaking?"   |  Brain Research Laboratory
          --Ernestine   |  The University of Texas at San Antonio
From: robertl@cwi.nl (Robert van Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re : How to link C object with Fortran library
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:14:23 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam


(I tried mailing but the message bounced...)

I saw your posting in comp.sys.sgi on linking C objects with fortran
libraries. 

The undefines you get are due to the zillions of internal
functions the fortran compiler generates when compiling a fortran 
source. Try 'nm sub.o | grep wsle' which shows that these names are 
undefined in your fortran object.

You can solve your problems in two ways :

	1. Let the fortran compiler driver call the UNIX linker; i.e.

		f77 -o main main.o sub.o

	   The fortran compiler driver will call the linker with the
	   appropriate libraries.

	2. Explicitly provide the C compiler driver with the
	   appropriate fortran libraries; i.e.

		cc -o main main.o sub.o -lF77 -lI77 -lU77 -lisam -lm

	   The C compiler driver will call the linker with the
	   appropriate fortran libraries.


Good luck,

-- Robert van Liere



-- 
Robert van Liere, Department of Interactive Systems,
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Kruislaan 413,  1098 SJ  Amsterdam,  The Netherlands
email: robertl@cwi.nl | tel: +31-20-592-4118 | fax: +31-20-592-4199
From: trump@i33s2.ira.uka.de (Wilfried Trump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: QuickPaint or something like that
Date: 27 Jul 1992 07:28:34 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: i33s2.ira.uka.de

Hi,

what can I use instead of QuickPaint for manipulating "snapshots" (adding text,
changing colors ...) ?
Or can I install my old QuickPaint under 4.04 ?

Thanks,

Wilfried
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rblander@math.waterloo.edu (Robyn Landers)
Subject: Re: indigo security
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:56:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.171949.5812@math.waterloo.edu> rblander@math.waterloo.edu (Robyn Landers) writes:
> [...]
>This means that the Indigos have to be in the same room
>as the monitors, leaving them vulnerable to malicious students.
> [...]
>    I've sifted through the IRIX Site Admin's Guide on Security and
>PROM monitor and have seen no way to password-protect the PROM
>monitor, enforce direct uninterruptable boot to multiuser using initstate,
>(unless shut down nicely), or otherwise prevent such a break-in.
>I also haven't seen anything like Sun's "secure" option in
>/etc/ttytab to require root's password when booting single user.
>
>    I really hope I've missed something.
>Can anybody tell me what it is?  Thanks.


    Aackk, of course there *is* a passwd command at the PROM
monitor prompt which restricts access to the other 4 actions
at the system maintenance level.   Okay, so I was blind when
I looked at the result of  >> help

    However it does appear to be undocumented in the Site Admin Guide
chapter on PROM monitor, and of course I'll welcome any other
suggestions on security in this situation.  (We're going to put
an alarm cable on the metal bar that extends through the box,
so the front panel can't be opened exposing the reset button.)


Robyn
MFCF, UofWaterloo
From: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Placing GL apps
Date: 23 Jul 92 10:55:38 GMT


Under 3.3 (and I guess earlier versions) you could
use the command 'prefposition' in the user.ps file
to place things like the mailbox icon and the clock.
X apps I have figured out can usually be placed
with the -geometry option, or something in .Xdefaults,
but what about GL apps?  mailbox and other things don't
support the -geometry option or have an equivalent
option.

---
Fred Phelan
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From: alpha@wyvern.twuug.com (Joe Wright)
Subject: Re: Simple Graph Generation Tool
Organization: Box 68621, Virginia Beach, 23455
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:36:37 GMT

knoxw@bclcl1.im.battelle.org writes:
: 
: 
: I am searching for a public domain, no strings attached, free, totally
: divested plotting package.  All it has to do is grab data from a file and
: generate a plot of it on the screen.  Just a simple tool is all that is
: needed.
: 
: We have both an SGI 4D/70 and an Indigo.  They have different versions of
: the operating system but I don't know right off the top of my head what
: they are.
: 
: Thanx in advance

"A 'simple' tool one you don't have to make yourself."  Me.
-- 
Joe Wright  alpha@wyvern.twuug.com
From: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
Subject: Re: Audio Questions
Reply-To: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
Organization: EAI, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:00:50 GMT

In article <nq81smc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>For the man pages there is apropos, which does a pretty good job
>(after you run /usr/lib/makewhatis).  For the other manuals, I've
>been yelling about *useful* indexs for a while.  The pubs folks have
>the message, and I think things are (slowly) improving as manuals
>are redone.  That still doesn't help if you don't know what manual
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>to look at though.  The online (CD based, although it could be copied
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

My very point.

>to a hard disk) documention product that is being worked on should 
>help for this though (and no, it emphaticaly does *not* replace the
>hard copy manuals, although some of us had to fight for that).

I know about whatis/apropos and about the upcomming cd-rom product,
I'm just saying that one cumulative index (this can be found in that
manual on those pages) for hard-bound manuals would be, well, nice.


C.P.S.:
And thanks to Vernon who reminded me that I use RRN, Retarded Read News.
It likes to autoscale distribution and I forget to change this most of
the time.  I'm going to fix this right now.


Okay,  I'm done with this thread, anyone else who wishes may rave on.


Thanks.

Bryan.


-- 
Bryan Manske  (515) 296-9908        . 
Engineering Animation, Inc.         .         "Programmer terminated
bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu            .           at users request."
#include <caveat_opinion.h>         . 
#include <standard_disclaimer.h>    .                           Dave S.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:43:07 EDT
From: Li-Chung Chang <lcc5@oriya.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: C++ problem with malloc...


Hi, Sirs:

I've use CC on SGI and encountered following situation:

when try to allocate above 5K~6K using "new" operator, I got segmentation
fault. Did anyone have similar problems? Pls advise.

Thanks

Eric Chang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: assiging vme ipl to cpu's on mp systems
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:39:36 GMT

In article <22525@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, lee@luke.rsg.hac.com (C. Lee) writes:
> I remember seeing on our system a few months ago a file (don't
> remember the name) that assigned VME IPL numbers to specific cpu's in
> an mp system, and mentioned that the default for an unassigned IPL
> was cpu 0.
> 
> I *thought* the file was somewhere in "/usr/sysgen/master.d", but
> I've looked thru the files there and in "/usr/sysgen/*" and can't
> find it.  We haven't upgraded since I saw it, but it might have been
> "over modified" or accidently deleted, or I'm overlooking it or
> looking in the wrong places.


/usr/sysgen/system has some such stuff.
/usr/sysgen/master.d/README has other stuff.



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: spec01@solomon.technet.sg (Quak Wan Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: X/Motif
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:23:16 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore


   Thanks, I will ftp it over and take a look.
   On the other hand, I have the CodeVision, can this tool
   detect any of this problem too ?
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: What is "podd"
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:43:48 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

After upgrading to IRIX 4.0.5 (Indigo XS-24), I started getting
error messages in SYSLOG complaining about "podd". In /usr/etc/inedt.conf,
the last line is:

sgi_pod/1   stream  rpc/tcp wait    root    /usr/etc/podd           podd 

however, I can't find podd in /usr/etc or anywhere else for that matter.
Can anyone tell me what's going on? Is this related to Inventor perhaps?

Thanks.
-- 
"Is this the party to   |  David M. Senseman  (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
 whom I am speaking?"   |  Brain Research Laboratory
          --Ernestine   |  The University of Texas at San Antonio
From: wiltzius@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (Dave Wiltzius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Xt Button Events
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:14:12 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.

I'm using Xt event handlers for mouse button press, release and
motion events to generate "echoing" such as rubberbanding.
However, on IRIX 4.0.1 (and 4.0.4) I notice that I occasionally
miss button release events.  This usually occurs when the mouse
is in motion while the button is released.  So, assuming the
mouse is polled say 100 times a second, periodically the mouse
would generate a motion *and* button release event on the single
polling cycle.  Perhaps the software is then erroneously reporting
just the motion event.

My software is not using any of the X event queue manipulation
routines such as XNextEvent.

Any suggestions?  Thanks much.  Please email since our news service
is flakey.

  Dave Wiltzius
  Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
  wiltzius@llnl.gov
From: I_EVERY@vax.acs.open.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: CHYRON CENTAUR video adapter for INDIGOs
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:35:39 GMT


    Has anyone had any experience or pricing/availability information
    for the new CHYRON CENTAUR video adapter for the Indigo?
    
    It apparently consists of two boards which fit in both GIO slots 
    of an iris. It will grab and produce "STUDIO QUALITY" video in many 
    analogue and digital video formats and incorporates a video machine 
    controller and dual frame buffers.  
    I have a technical sheet from Chyron (TEL (516) 845-2031,  
    FAX (516) 845-3895/3896) but no pricing, availability or other details. 
    Can anyone help?
    
    
    Ian Every.
    The Open University.
    England.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: f77 and dbx IRIX 4.0.4
From: raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:04:09 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: f77 symbol table dbx 4.0.4
Summary: f77 -g3 with dbx has no common block symbols

	One of our unhappy customers alarmed at the bug found for NAG used with
f77 in IRIX 4.0.4 also writes:

	What I have encountered is clearly a bug in
either dbx or f77; to the best of what I've found, the ucode optimizer
seems to delete the references to the common blocks, because it does not
happen when normal optimization is done.  Very probably, the -g3 option
of f77 is broken.

	Any assurance that IRIX 4.0.5 f77 fixes this would be appreciated.


	Ray Martin

	Unix Admin

	Auckland University

	New  Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Subject: Re: C++ compiler message
Summary: short object file
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:39:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.000853.18857@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) writes:
> On a C++ compile I had the following message:
> 
> markc++ read only 0 bytes on  
> /u2/people/philip/progs/space.objs/MP3D.objs/MP3D.o at file location 1
> cannot read symbol table header for  
> /u2/people/philip/progs/space.objs/MP3D.objs/MP3D.o
[ ]
> I recompiled and the message went away.

The object file MP3D.o was truncated somehow: the file header
pointed the symbol table header reader to byte 1!  

markc++ was doing a read(2) and could only read 0 bytes there.
Note that if there were a read error, the message would have been
different (would have said something about the errno).

The object file fileheader was clearly corrupted. I don't know why....

[ David B. Anderson             (415)390-1548             davea@sgi.com ]
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Audio Questions
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:17:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Jul26.220045.8227@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:

| In article <nobregg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >In <1992Jul25.163827.22304@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:
| >| Two quick questions about audio for one of our programmers.
| >| 
| >| 1.  How do you set the default audio gain level in hardware on
| >|     a 35 or indigo?  (nvram parameter?)
| >
| >"nvram volume xx" (xx is 0-255) from irix, or "setenv volume xx"
| >in the PROM monitor.
| 
| Been there, done that, didn't work. (nvram: no variable named "volume".)

Oops; I thought we had added that to the kopt table; we certainly
discussed it.  Sorry, but the setenv in the PROM still works.
The other responses made me rethink what you were asking about also.
If you were asking if there is a way to set the volume for programs
under unix without using the apanel, the answer is no, unless you
write a program with libaudio to set it (we didn't provide a command
line interface to apanel).

| Okay, yeah, well, 8 bits per sample per channel then for stereo
| and 16 per sample for monaural.  Is that right?

Nope; 16 bits per channel (and 16 bits mono also).
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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